Homeland as Echo, Nostalgia as Strategy

Автором предложен проект структурно-содержательного наполнения рабочей программы по латинскому языку для специальности 40.05.04 «Судебная и прокурорская деятельность». Латынь рассматривается в роли ключевой дисциплины общеевропейской традиции, формирующей способность к профессиональной коммуникации и юридической грамотности. Основное внимание уделяется концептуальному осмыслению и систематизации прикладного узуса латинского языка в аспекте компетентностно ориентированного обучения, обеспечивающего статусность, институциональную закрепленность и целостность коммуникативной формации. В статье анализируется новый подход в лингвистической интерпретации правовых концептов, категорий и норм, сформулированных juris prūdens. Предлагается обобщение опыта работы с использованием современных коммуникативных методик, интерактивных практик учебного дискурс-опроса и образовательных технологий занимательного характера. Дана краткая характеристика учебно-методического пособия «Юридическая латынь», подготовленного в соответствии с требованиями Федерального государственного образовательного стандарта высшего образования (утвержденного приказом Министерства образования и науки РФ от 16 февраля 2017 г. № 144).

This issue marks the third year of the current editorial group’s work on Public Culture, and I hope we’ve delivered on our promise to update the journal, both substantively and stylistically, while also preserving its role as an outlet for imaginative social research and theory. We’ve made some significant changes, adding the Forum essays, the Public Culture interviews, and a number of new contributors. We’ve also helped to launch a sister publication, Public Books (www.publicbooks.org), which has already reviewed hundreds of works of fiction, nonfiction, graphic novels, memoirs, children’s books, apps, and more, generating vigorous debates in something close to real time. I’m happy to report that our readership is growing — not only online but, improbably, in print subscriptions, too. Please help us continue expanding the Public Culture project by spreading the word about the journal and website and by letting us know what we can do better. There are more changes to come.It’s no accident that this issue is focused on questions about change and technology. It begins with a pair of Forum essays on new technologies of connection, by two leading thinkers on the topic, Cathy N. Davidson and Zeynep Tufekci. Davidson’s piece, which follows up on themes introduced in her acclaimed book Now You See It, focuses on the role of technology in higher education, while Tufekci’s addresses the vexing question of how new media are remaking social life. The issue also includes interviews with Peter Galison and Ulf Hannerz and a pair of ethnographic articles, by Christina Dunbar-Hester and Daniela K. Rosner, examining the kinds of ethical and political projects involved in repair work. These essays resonate with “Urban Design from Below,” in which Jennifer Mack illustrates how, in one Swedish town, a group of Syriac Christian immigrants gradually transformed the built environment, remaking the city without a master plan. And, in different ways, questions about public participation in the body politic are central to Joseph Massad’s essay, “Love, Fear, and the Arab Spring,” and “Affective Economies and the Politics of Saving Babies’ Lives,” by Mara Buchbinder and Stefan Timmermans.As the editor, I’m proud to publish such extraordinary work from this diverse set of authors. But I know more than anyone that it would be impossible without the help of the editorial board, particularly senior editors John Jackson, Andrew Lakoff, Sharon Marcus, Fred Turner, and Caitlin Zaloom, as well as the editorial office staff: managing editor Plaegian Alexander, associate editor Stephen Twilley, assistant editor Kavita Kulkarni, senior editorial assistant Saniya Ghanoui, and departing editorial assistants Emma Hickey, Khiara Ortiz, and Kathryn Tam. I hope you don’t mind me thanking them here.

In 2015, two groups of right-wing authors and fans – the Sad and Rabid Puppies – flooded the Hugo Awards with literature they deemed “popular” and anti-“message fiction.” These reactionaries mobilized the affects of melancholy, anger, and hatred against the increasing diversification of speculative fiction. Through analyzing the affective economy of “PuppyGate,” this article demonstrates the key role of nostalgia in the affective economies of reactionary movements, paying particular attention to the tension between restorative nostalgia, with its aim to return to an imagined past, and revanchist nostalgia, which strives to destroy the present and punish those who made that destruction necessary.

The phenomenon of plundering former Nazi extermination camps located on Polish territory has for some time now been a matter for both academic inquiry and public, emotionally highly charged debates. Rediscovered in historical research and brought to public attention by the publication of Jan Tomasz Gross's and Irena Grudzińska Gross's Golden Harvest: Events at the Peripheries of the Holocaust (2011), the practice – undertaken by local villagers searching for gold and other valuables allegedly hidden in the mass graves at the sites – has since been surrounded by controversy concerning its meaning and causes. Evolving at the intermediary zone shaped by the events of the last stage of the war and located at the ‘peripheries’ of the Holocaust, the controversial practice was, nevertheless, to date framed almost exclusively as a purely economic undertaking. Moving beyond and critically engaging with the interpretations of the political and affective economies guiding the treatment of mass graves of Holocaust victims provided in recent years by Polish scholars, deeply penetrated by the metaphors and imagery of ‘gold fever’ and ‘gold rush’, the article proposes an alternative reading of the phenomenon of plundering former extermination camps. Framed through the conceptual prism of the ‘politics of human remains’, the looting of Jewish mass graves, shaped by the prewar and wartime regimes of othering, is conceived rather as a practice of alterity and dehumanization.

This study focused on the learning styles and preferences of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) intervention specialists. The specific purposes of this project were to examine AAC interventionists' (a) self-efficacy for AAC intervention, (b) goal achievement orientation, (c) computer technology interest levels, and (d) learning mode preferences regarding AAC. The results revealed that AAC intervention specialists viewed themselves as highly selfconfident (self-efficacious) with regard to their ability to learn new AAC technology and teach it to others. They demonstrated a highly consistent achievement orientation profile with emphasis on mastery of content and skill and on performance to achieve goals. Their interest in computer technology was relatively low, and they preferred individual and small-group learning opportunities compared with direct instruction in new technology.

Agriculture is the backbone of Ethiopian economy. Conventional approaches to agricultural development in Ethiopia have tended to regard innovation as the result of research, and see its dissemination as linear technique limited to researchers, extension staff and farmers. This does not result in increasing agricultural production and productivity and resulted in food insecurity. However, Ethiopian agriculture is characterized by smallholders farming whose access to modern technology and basic education is very limited. This is due to many factors that are limiting sustainable agricultural development coming from loose linkage of researchers with farmers, weak institutional and technical innovation. Therefore, the main objective is to reviewed different challenges that are hindered researchers’ and farmers’ linkages and proposed alternative interventions that are improving the effectiveness linkage between different relevant agricultural actors in agricultural innovations system in Ethiopia. These linkage inhibiting factors knocked active participation of both farmers and researcher in research to bring social learning and innovation. Based on finding results of different literature reviews, six critical dimension factors that are hindering farmers participation from AIS to improve food security of household in Ethiopia. Those dimension challenge includes are researchers’ characteristics, farmers’ characteristics, researchers’ and farmers’ interaction, type of research project, research approach, and researchers’ and farmers’ benefit from interaction. Thus, policy framework that synergizes the relevant actors’ linkage in a sustainable manner should be in place to bring the intended growth and transformation in agriculture through technology and innovation as well as the agricultural extension system of the country should be revised and participating the farmers in all developmental research process. Keywords: Researchers, Farmers, Linkage, Agricultural Innovation system, Challenges, Intervention Options, Ethiopia: DOI: 10.7176/RJFA/13-9-01 Publication date: May 31 st 2022