Claims Of Authenticity Research Articles

Cultural appreciation and appropriation in the crafting of the new Peruvian cuisine

Elite craftspeople, as specialist producers with privileged access and resources, can elevate the perceived status of craft elements such as materials, traditions, and techniques regarded as lowbrow due to their association with marginalized groups. While they strive to emphasize cultural appreciation, they often face accusations of cultural appropriation, which, if unaddressed, can undermine the perceptions of authenticity crucial for achieving higher cultural status. However, this tension between appreciation and appropriation overlooks the complex interplay of authenticity types that can structure the actions of elite craftspeople. Drawing on a qualitative study of new Peruvian cuisine, we examine how local elite chefs elevate marginalized craft elements through authenticity claims and develop a dual process model of cultural appreciation and appropriation. In doing so we identify how the elevation of marginalized craft elements involves, and even necessitates, aspects of appreciation and appropriation, especially when power dynamics are at play. We provide insights into the interplay between authenticity as connection and conformity, the agency in neo-craftwork, and claims of craftwashing.

Keeping it real: A signaling theory perspective on authentic claims of gang membership made on social media

The advent of social media has transformed the landscape of street gang dynamics. Although existing research has documented gang members’ use of social media—including identity performance, rival taunting, promoting gang culture, and conflict de-escalation—it often lacks a theoretical foundation and process-oriented view of these digital interactions. This study advances a signaling timeline approach to fill this gap. We apply it to a case study of Chicago Latino gangs and qualitative content analysis performed on 2849 posts and thousands more replies and comments web-scraped from a public Facebook page. Our theoretical framework decodes the intricate language of gang communications on social media to uncover the mechanisms behind interpretations and perceptions of gang members’ authenticity and the reasons behind the public nature of what might otherwise be considered clandestine activities. Ultimately this research contributes to understanding the digital negotiation of gang dynamics, highlighting the strategic use of communication in cyberspace.

'Secret' Teachings of a Transnational Yoga and Tantra School

This article will present a pilot study on the Romanian school of yoga and tantra, MISA. MISA, or the Movement for Spiritual Integration into the Absolute, has gained reputation as a controversial organization through the last decades as its leader, Gregorian Bivolaru, has been accused of sexual misconduct and human trafficking on several occasions and is currently wanted by Interpol. Yet his influence is spreading through European yoga studios as people enter MISA (often unknowingly of the organization’s problematic past), expecting esoteric and authentic teachings on yoga and tantra. This article will use a textual analysis of the material handed out during two year-long MISA yoga and tantra-courses, to examine the foundational teachings of a transnational yoga school in constant expansion, and how they relate to a broader religious-historical context of modern yoga and tantra, taking into special consideration the use of secrecy, claims of authenticity and the construction of gender. The article shows that, on the surface, MISA resembles many other contemporary schools of yoga and tantra, while a closer look reveals an emphasis on sexual continence that stands out, assuring the continuous reputation of the organization as both provocative and tantalizing.

Toward a Genealogy of Certification

For about 25 years now, I’ve been researching the shape, style and function of graphic signs connected with the production and reproduction of printed money. The research grew out of my visual arts practice and despite being consolidated as a university doctorate, it has mostly been pursued outside or across established academic disciplines, never having found easy accommodation in any one of them. Among other things this has resulted in a hybrid terminology defining its aims and scope. What began as an etymology of monetary signification (an early attempt to tie it to the field of linguistics and semiotics) now seems better expressed as a genealogy of certification, which represents a much broader field of investigation and reduces the risk of it being seen as a strictly numismatic study. The following paper summarises this genealogy and describes how monetary designs are adapted for different purposes and contexts, while showing some examples of their foundation in experimental and creative invention. I should firstly mention that the designs themselves communicate all kinds of meanings beyond the monetary: not just claims of authority and authenticity usually associated with banknotes, but also declarations of contractual certainty, social obligation, affection, prestige, satire, accreditation and so on. Even so, printed money remains at the heart of this research as an exemplary graphic statement articulated from within the nexus of mechanisation, global economics and modernist abstraction.

Prahara Digital Labor dalam Bingkai Penafsiran Logika Waktu Pendek dan Kapitalisme Luwes

<p align="justify"><em>When the COVID-19 pandemic gradually subsided, digital disruption was considered a game changer for today's work, such as work from home (WFH). The prevalence of digital disruption in contemporary work has triggered the birth of a digital labor class, which broadly impacts intra- and inter-organizational communication, especially in dealing with work-related risks in an increasingly insecure labor market. In a macro context like this, digital labor within neoliberal higher education institutions became an interesting phenomenon, especially given the worsening conditions of intellectual workers and changes in academic behavior and practices. A recent study showed many practices violating academic integrity in Indonesian higher education institutions, such as plagiarism, data fabrication, improper claims of authorship, contract-cheating, and other violations of professional codes of ethics. To address these problems, the author employed a critical method of the political economy of communication and the sociology of work to analyze 'short-time logic' as an operational mechanism in flexible capitalism, commoditizing workers' time by blurring the boundaries between productive and leisure time and turning the illusion of worker autonomy into a 'sustained contestation.' The 'short time logic' of flexible capitalism deformed intellectual workers in higher education in Indonesia into digital labor because they were constantly conditioned to produce intellectual products with highly competitive metrics but lacking reflection and meaningfulness, which sharpened the gaps in competency-based inequalities and created a new hierarchy of social classes in higher education. </em><strong></strong></p>

Organizational authenticity: How craft‐based ventures manage authentic identities and audience appeal

AbstractResearch SummaryCommercial success in craft‐based industries requires projecting authentic identities but direct claims of authenticity can backfire and raise suspicions of pecuniary motivation, an antithesis to authenticity. Managing authentic identities is thus central to the success of craft‐based ventures. We argue that organizations can shape their audience's perceptions of authenticity and appeal by tacitly and indirectly conveying a resonantidentity meaningwithvisibilityandcredibility. Our empirical analysis, set in the US craft beer industry, reveals strong support for the idea that craft ventures can raise authenticity and appeal through managing the content/meaning, visibility, and credibility of their identity claims. We discuss the implications of our theory and findings for the role of organizations in the social construction of authenticity and appeal.Managerial SummaryManagers of craft ventures in identity‐driven markets face a strategic challenge in managing growth—how to maintain the authentic identity of their firm as its scale of operations expands. In modern‐day craft industries, consumers covet offerings from firms that they deem authentic but overt claims of authenticity by producers are ineffective. Our study of the craft beer market suggests that managers can leverage strategic assets like organizational resources (ownership structure), capabilities (investment in technology and product variety) and position (third‐party endorsements) to effectively communicate their firm's identity meaning with credibility and visibility. This holds significant practical implications for how managers can successfully navigate the growth process and their firms can continue to be viewed as authentic craft producers even as they increasingly benefit from scale.

Andersonville, the Story of Wilson's Raiders

The concluding American Civil War spectacle-drama, announced and widely publicised as Andersonville, The Story of Wilson's Raiders (1905) , was abruptly retitled The Raiders as the New York Hippodrome's management removed the scene depicting the Confederate prison on the pretext of avoiding partisan sensibilities linked to the war, but more likely to shorten the evening's programme by a half-hour. This essay describes the drama as it was written and rehearsed beginning with a West Point graduation and commissioning ceremony as the announcement of war divides the graduates and separates couples whose romance has spanned northern and southern states. The five-scene drama concludes with a fierce cavalry battle utilising the ‘Thompson and Dundy plunging horses’ in the Hippodrome's flooded arenas. The drama enacts the graduation and commissioning of a young Union officer, his enforced separation from his Southern sweetheart, his capture by Confederate forces, and imprisonment in the notorious and filthy Andersonville prison. We witness his ingenious escape, his reunion with his sweetheart, and his return to battle leading a cavalry detachment. This essay documents the effects created in each scene of the entertainment, which concludes with an imagined re-enactment of a conflict fought by mounted Union and Confederate cavalrymen in the Hippodrome's two arenas, now a vast tank, flooded before the audience's eyes as a part of the overall spectacle. The essay also notes the frequent unsubstantiated claims of historical authenticity made by Fred Thompson and Elmer ‘Skip’ Dundy and, where necessary, corrects them.

The Silent Enemy (1930) and n’Daki Menan: Reclaiming Mise-en-Scène as Authorial Expression

Paramount Pictures’ The Silent Enemy, released in 1930, is a fascinating cultural artifact made and released during the transition from silent to sound film. One of the last silent feature films made by the studio, this critically acclaimed film took three years to make and was shot in large part on location on n’Daki Menan, the traditional territory of the Teme Augama Anishnabai in northern Ontario. Like other silent films made in Indigenous communities during this period such as Curtis’ In the Land of the Head Hunters (1914) and Myles’ The Daughter of Dawn (1920), The Silent Enemy employed local Indigenous actors and drew on their knowledge and traditions to construct its vision of pre-contact Anishinaabe life. While the exact location and community are never mentioned in The Silent Enemy itself, local Anishinaabe people were hired to act in the film and make the costumes and sets according to pre-contact standards, all elements of the film form that added greatly to the production’s claims of authenticity. This cultural labour went uncredited and unacknowledged. While the film recycles the prominent ethnographic narrative of the dying “Indian” culture, it does feature ironic moments of Indigenous survivance, such as an introductory sequence with Chief Yellow Robe shot in synchronized sound, naturalistic performances, material culture designed by locals that continue to captivate community members, and over-the-top colonial takes on pre-contact life. Until now, most readings of this silent feature focused on the celebrity image of Chief Long Lance and his “outing” as an African American and its use of Native American actors in leading roles, but for far too long, the story of its long-lasting influence as both a personal and a public historical artifact for the Teme Augama Anishnabai has not been told. The authors’ method for telling this story will alternate between oral storytelling and scholarly analysis of the film’s formal and thematic elements. The authors hope that by drawing on oral and traditional storytelling approaches, Indigenous ways of knowing will be foregrounded.

The Amanuensis Hypothesis in New Testament Scholarship: Its Origin, Evidential Basis, and Application

For centuries, the authorship claims of certain New Testament epistles have been defended by postulating the use of a secretary. According to the amanuensis hypothesis, secretaries in the Greco-Roman world were afforded varying degrees of compositional freedom during the letter-writing process. Proponents of this view maintain that such a consideration invalidates the practice of making authenticity judgments based on the style or even content of a given letter. To better understand the merits and limitations of the amanuensis hypothesis, this article outlines its earliest formulations, traces the development of its evidential basis, and examines the various ways it has been applied within modern authorship debates.

Exploring Social and Environmental Accounting Reporting Through Jurgen Habermas's Critical Theory

The objective of this research is to uncover how accounting practices related to social and environmental aspects in the Bakaru hydropower plant are carried out. The informants in this study consisted of employees and local communities around the company. They have a good understanding of the issues under study. Data is collected through observation and recording of documentation in various situations in the field. The collected data were analyzed using a qualitative approach using the theory of critical communicative action from Jürgen Habermas. This approach is used to examine the real practice of social and environmental accounting. The results showed that the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program at the Bakaru hydropower plant is in line with the view of how natural relationships should be carried out, in accordance with the concept of truth proposed by Jurgen Habermas. That is, companies are responsible for the impact of their operations, and this is based on the expectations of various interested parties. The company has also achieved a level of compliance in this regard, by implementing CSR through disclosure to the public. However, there is a problem in the budget allocation for CSR programs every year, because the implementation of these programs does not run effectively. In this case, the Bakaru hydropower plant does not fully meet claims of authenticity or honesty, and most of the programs carried out are still assistance and do not have a focus on sustainability in terms of reporting, prevention, and maintenance of environmental activities.

“Rede hit sofft”: John Audelay's Practice of Care

“Rede hit sofft”: John Audelay's Practice of Care

‘Authentic’ Language as a Contested Concept in Brittany

The question of authenticity in language has been approached from a number of theoretical standpoints. A significant type of feature which may bestow authenticity and legitimacy is the linguistic. Linguistic performance can be viewed in terms of either the unreflectingly fluent and competent use by the ideal native speaker or, in opposition, the inauthenticity of the non-native language learner. As pointed out by Martin Gill in his paper “Exclusive Boundaries, Contested Claims: Authenticity, Language and Ideology”, authentic speech is romanticised as “native, spoken, verbatim, unrehearsed, off-the-record, sincere, vernacular and non-standard”. Such a definition is easily understandable by the wider public outside of academia. However, it begs the question: who has the authority to make this distinction and who can validate these authenticity claims? Mary Bucholtz proposes instead the concept of authentication, or the outcome of constantly negotiated social and linguistic practices. Debates over what constitutes ‘authentic’ language in minority language settings are particularly noticeable, given the processes of revitalisation many of them are going through. This paper aims to move the discussion away from the purely linguistic when considering what authenticity means, and investigate the concept from a more speaker-centred perspective. The example of Breton in Brittany is taken as the case study here – what it means to speak Breton ‘authentically’, according to whom, and to which norms. In particular, attention is paid to the authentication process of negotiation and how different actors approach and manage this dynamic.

The Creative Labor of 2D-to-3D Conversion as a Reformatting Practice

In cinema and media studies, research on stereoscopic cinema has largely focused on aesthetic and phenomenological questions that position 3D as a distinct medium. However, an analysis of 3D cinema through the lens of production and media industry studies allows for new approaches to stereoscopy, often in ways that resist or complicate the very notion of medium specificity. This article closely examines the London-based 3D conversion company DNEG and its predecessors, Prime Focus World and Gener8. By focusing on the self-statements of DNEG professionals in publicity materials and original interviews, this article explores how these practitioners describe the creative labor of converting 2D movies into 3D. In addition to deepening our understanding of 3D cinema, the complexities of these practitioner discourses suggest how further research can critically engage with similarly adaptive textual practices of “reformatting,” such as the pan-and-scan of widescreen films and the colorization of black-and-white films. Ultimately, this article argues that a critical interrogation of industrial authorship claims opens up a space to conceptualize the reformatting of movies as an act of creative interpretation.

A Time to Gather: Archives and the Control of Jewish Culture

A Time to Gather: Archives and the Control of Jewish Culture

The moral significance of intellectual property regulation

Fundamental ethical principles provide guidance for the protection and wider use of intellectual achievements. As regarding established rules for claims of authorship in scientific publications, use of intellectual property is not a matter of providing an open unregulated access but to honor the intellectual achievements while providing an avenue to wide application for promotion of innovation to the benefit of society. This is done through a balancing of different interests. In this article I examine some of the basic principles for this balancing task. A special concern in the discussion about intellectual property regulation has been the need to fit new scientific and technical innovations within the changing moral landscapes of different countries. Innovations must not offend what is considered "public order". I put this claim into perspective by demonstrating that this value laden concept needs to be adjusted in accordance to changing moral landscapes that often follow when new innovations become part of main stream technology and provide significant benefits.

The Expression of Concern “Evaluation of the antimicrobial potential of partially purified proteins/peptides of Yellow Scorpion Buthus sindicus against Carbapenem-Resistant Acinetobactor baumannii & Pseudomonas aeruginosa” [IJEHSR 9(2) (2021) 238-247

This expression of concern related to the above-mentioned publication highlights the authorship dispute brought to our attention by third parties, which they further transformed into a data authorization claim against the first author (Corresponding Author).
 It was informed that third parties (Author’s Institution) formed a committee for evaluation, as per their inquiry the manuscript was submitted by the corresponding author without information to the other co-authors. Moreover, the committee has recommended the official retraction of the article due to an authorship claim by a co-supervisor who was not given due credit for his contribution to the work published.
 The authorship and data authorization issues were raised to the corresponding author and the institution involved for clarifications and investigations. The concern and this note will remain appended to the above-mentioned article, unless the Journal Ethical Committee, Author(s), and Third Party reach a suitable solution to the dispute and proof of misconduct.

Decolonizing Authenticity

In this review, we critically examine the concept of authenticity by reorienting scholarly attention to the South and historical structures of power. Existing accounts follow a Northern- and agency-centric line of reasoning that present a sanitized version of authenticity. This needs to be criticized due to its dangerous potential to simplify the social complexity of the South. To do so, we review 29 articles across leading business and management journals following a problematization methodology. We identified four current underlying assumptions: authenticity is socially constructed, it has a recursive relationship with institutions, it provides organizational benefits, and its examination is guided by an instrumental logic. Drawing on Critical Management Studies, we propose four new assumptions for former Western European colonies in the South: authenticity is orchestrated by local elites, it has a recursive relationship with dominant ideologies, it is a tool for indigenous oppression, and it is guided by a decolonizing logic. From this, we make two main contributions to the literature: we reveal that claims of authenticity made by local elites can act as carriers of coloniality and, on a positive note, we suggest the potential of authenticity claims as a resource to enable the agency of oppressed groups and challenge dominant ideologies that inform coloniality. Taken together, these contributions inform the concept of decolonizing authenticity.

Language, Social Media and Ideologies: Translingual Englishes, Facebook and Authenticities

Language, Social Media and Ideologies: Translingual Englishes, Facebook and Authenticities

The Rise and Fall of Homegrown Concepts in Global IR: The Anatomy of ‘Strategic Depth’ in Turkish IR

Asymmetry of knowledge production in global international relations manifests itself in a variety of forms. Concept cultivation is a foundational form that conditions the epistemic hierarchies prevalent in scholarly encounters, exchanges, and productions. The core represents the seemingly natural ecology of concept cultivation, while the periphery appropriates the cultivated concepts, relinquishing any claim of authenticity and indigeneity in the process. Nonetheless, there have been cases of intellectual undertakings in the periphery to conceive, formulate, and articulate conceptual frames of knowledge production. This paper, first, discusses the fluctuating fortunes of homegrown concepts in the peripheral epistemic ecologies. Second, it introduces the concept of ‘strategic depth’ as articulated by the Turkish scholar Ahmet Davutoğlu and reviews its significance for the formulation and implementation of recent Turkish foreign policy. Third, it examines the causes of its recognition and acclaim in the local and global IR communities subsequent to its inception. The paper contends that there have been three fundamental sets of causes for the initial ascendancy of the concept. These are categorized as contemplative causes, implementative causes, and evaluative causes. Fourth, it traces the sources of its fall from scholarly grace. The paper further asserts that the three fundamental sets of causes were also operational in the eventual conceptual insolvency of strategic depth. The paper concludes by addressing remedial measures to vivify concept cultivation in the periphery and to conserve the cultivated concepts.

Country Music and the Problem of Authenticity

AbstractIn the small but growing literature on the philosophy of country music, the question of how we ought to understand the genre’s notion of authenticity has emerged as one of the central questions. Many country music scholars argue that authenticity claims track attributions of cultural standing or artistic self-expression. However, careful attention to the history of the genre reveals that these claims are simply factually wrong. On the basis of this, we have grounds for dismissing these attributions. Here, I argue for an alternative model of authenticity in which we take claims about the relative authenticity of country music to be evidence of ‘country’ being a dual-character concept in the same way that it has been suggested of punk rock and hip-hop. Authentic country music is country music that embodies the core value commitments of the genre. These values form the basis of country artists’ and audiences’ practical identities. Part of country music’s aesthetic practice is that audiences reconnect with, reify, and revise this common practical identity through identification with artists and works that manifest these values. We should then think of authenticity discourse within country music as a kind of game within the genre’s practice of shaping and maintaining this practical identity.