Corporate Representation Research Articles

Representation of Male and Female Corporality in Different Religions

The article, based on the material of world religions and new religious movements, examines the forms of representation of male and female corporeality. Gender, in turn, fixes the body and sex in a social framework and determines the initial parity of male and female, the hierarchical position of which is established not by the body itself in which a person was born, but by the actions of this body, or rather its owner. From the illustration of the Fall of Adam and Eve, which predetermined corporeality by reducing the body to desiring/sinful flesh, we observe a strict normalization of bodily practices in religious contexts. However, contemporarily offers us various cases that seem to violate established norms. In the article we turn to cases of the Hare Krishnas and Raelites, who in the realities of the 21st century practice parity of bodily principles. The masculine and feminine of given roles and statuses turn into one of many factors that can fix the Self. Or, conversely, they still remain a predetermined role in some contexts.

Liken God to the (Disabled) Servant

When Isaiah 40:18 asks “To whom might you liken God? What likeness might you set up for him?” readers of Isaiah 40-55 encounter potent rhetoric that invites analysis. Recognizing that corporeality is key to the rhetoric of Isaiah 40-55, spatial theory and disabilities studies offer promising hermeneutical approaches to analyze the bodies of Isaiah 40-55. By synthesizing these approaches, this study establishes a mixed-methods approach which it then applies to representations of corporeality in Isaiah 40-55. This mixed-methods analysis reveals an underlying corporeal spatial rhetoric throughout Isaiah 40-55. Characters portrayed with only a single reference to their body tend to remain insignificant. Characters with two or three references to their body typically appear in weak (straw man) arguments. Characters represented with greater corporeal complexity (i.e., more than three body parts) prove to be rhetorically complex figures. Identifying comparable complexity in God’s body and the body of the Servant, the conclusion emerges: liken God to the (disabled) Servant.

Human/Nature Dualism in Khan’s The Geometry of God: An Eco-feminist Study

This research proposes a comparative eco-feminist approach to challenge corporate narratives regarding women's associations with nature. The analysis is centred on Uzma Aslam Khan's (2008) novel, The Geometry of God, aiming to gain insights into Val Plumwood's (2002) contemporary critique of the ‘human/ nature dualism’. This research argues social constructivism and socialist eco-feminism to explore the differences in how language is employed to understand the eco-feminist assumptions concerning women and their relationship with nature. Eco-feminism, a movement that emerged in the 1990s, posits that the domination and degradation of women and the environment are the results of patriarchal and capitalist systems (Molyneux et al., 1995). This research argues the compelling issues concerning corporate representations and misrepresentations of women and their connections to their surrounding environment. The portrayals of the relationship between brown women and nature highlight the discursive reconfiguration of brown women's identity, examining how female novelists in Pakistani patriarchal societies redefine the narratives that deconstruct the eternal images of women imposed by the patriarchal academia (Mehmood, 2019).

Corporeal Representations of Lenin in Post‑Soviet Ideological Games

This article discusses the significance of the study of Lenin's corporeality in the context of mass and elite culture of the post-Soviet space. The author highlights the importance of understanding the role of Lenin's images in the ideological and political context and suggests analyzing them using theoretical tools. The article also shows that interest in Lenin's images persists in contemporary mass and elite culture, being realized in such strategies of representation of Lenin's bodily aspects as phantasmagoric mystification, “skomoroshchestvo”, annihilation and dehumanization.
 The phantasmagoric strategy of representing the leader of the world proletariat includes attempts to depict Lenin in unusual and paradoxical bodily images, often with elements of fantasy and mystification. The strategy of “skomoroshchestvo” allows researchers and artists to play with Lenin's image and reinterpret it in a comical and absurd way. The strategy of annihilation emphasizes the contrasting views and emotions associated with Lenin's image in the contemporary world and provokes discussions about the boundaries of art, symbolism and respect for historical figures. The strategy of dehumanizing Lenin in the representation of his corporeal image is expressed in transformations that take him away from his human historical context and reduce him to an object of irony, satire and symbolic associations.

Representation of Corporeality in Mo Yan’s novel “Pow!”

Representation of Corporeality in Mo Yan’s novel “Pow!”

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Increasing industry involvement in international tuna fishery negotiations

<h2>Summary</h2> The private sector can play a prominent role in global ocean governance. Yet, industry stakeholders are diverse, and how specific companies engage with policymakers remains poorly understood. Here, we focus on Western and Central Pacific tuna fisheries, which provide ∼60% of global tuna catch and a critical source of income for developing island states. We identified relationships between companies and governments in international fishery negotiations from 2005 to 2018. Relative industry attendance nearly doubled during this time, and 15 of 158 companies have dominated corporate representation since 2014. Further, industry members outnumbered government policymakers on half of the ten largest delegations, and 70% of island state delegations included foreign companies. Meeting attendees corroborated the influence of industry stakeholders, but this differed across countries. During our study period, management of tuna fisheries improved overall, suggesting that company involvement does not hinder sustainability outcomes and could play a supportive role when agendas are aligned.

THE PHENOMENON OF LOBBYING: INTERPRETATION OF THE NATURE AND MODELS OF THE ORGANIZATION OF ACTIVITIES

The article examines the phenomenon of lobbying as actual practice in a pluralistic society, as a complex, modern institution of the political system, which provides a mechanism and tools for the influence of interested groups on decision-making by power structures. Competition between groups in lobbying interests is represented by a condition that ensures freedom and justice without recourse to the concepts of "social interest", "public interest" or "common good". With the help of theoretical and conceptual studies focused on the mechanisms of collective actions of interested groups and interest groups, it is shown that political decisions in modern public systems are no longer the prerogative of official institutions of power, but are the result of a compromise of groups. Lobbying has acquired indicators that are characteristic of institutions that are involved in the decision-making process, and the structures of the organization of lobbying activities reflect the current structure of political interest. It is shown that the historical development of lobbying activities and forms of interpretation of lobbying practices in various socio-political systems developed in the context of the logic of the formation of the socio-political system. The analysis of current regional models of lobbying activity, formed in different socio-political conditions, reflects the nature of the interaction between interest groups in society and demonstrates dependence on the structures of political interest, providing information about who and how transforms it into political decisions and actions. The British-American model of individualized lobbying, formed as a result of the symbiosis of political activity and business, is presented; the continental European model of corporate representation, formed as a result of changes in the rules of the game between business and the state; the Eastern European model of institutionally controlled lobbying with elements of "clientelism". The center of gravity in matters of regulation of lobbying practices has certain options. If in the British model the regulatory process concerns, first of all, politicians (the object of lobbying), then in the American model the lobbyists themselves and the market for lobbying services are subject to state regulation. It is emphasized that the normative indicator of the intensity and effectiveness of lobbying activity is the ability of the political system to solve systemic challenges, which is understood as the number and quality of access points available in it, using which interest groups can join the decision-making process of state authorities

Workers before the Court: Conflicts and Labor Justice in the Context of the 1964 Coup d'Etat in Brazil

Workers before the Court: Conflicts and Labor Justice in the Context of the 1964 Coup d'Etat in Brazil

“Zero Emission, Zero Compromises”: An Intersectional, Qualitative Exploration of Masculinities in Tesla’s Consumer Stories

In light of gendered dynamics complicating masculine adoption of self-driving and electric vehicles (EV), we examine how Tesla’s video consumer stories envision masculinities within sociotechnical systems of automobility, exploring how corporate representations co-construct drivers and vehicles in gendered ways. Using multimodal critical discourse analysis, we show how the driver-car appropriates movement as a work of raced, gendered, age-dependent, and classed culture: EVs validate energy-soaked lifestyles in an age of climate change, enabling “green” enactments of fast, aggressive, and reckless styles of hegemonic driving performed by ecomodern masculinities; over-masculinized dynamics of techno-eroticism forge automated vehicles (AV) as technologically-advanced devices, crystallizing fantasies of men’s hegemonic love for technology within drivers’ mobility patterns. Tesla’s narratives sketch a future of mobility dominated by gendered sociotechnical adjustments, where neither energy-based nor technology-based reconfigurations of automobility spark critical conversations around reconfigurations of “behind-the-wheel” masculinities, leaving unquestioned what it means for them to demand space, speed, and comfort.

Navigating intimate trans citizenship while incarcerated in Australia and the United States.

Trans women incarcerated throughout the world have been described as "vulnerable populations" due to significant victimization, mistreatment, lack of gender-affirming care, and human rights violations, which confers greater risk of trauma, self-harm, and suicide compared with the general incarcerated population. Most incarceration settings around the world are segregated by the person's sex characteristics (i.e., male or female) and governed by strong cis and gender normative paradigms. This analysis seeks to better understand and appreciate how the "instructions" and the "authorities" that regulate trans women's corporeal representation, housing options and sense of self-determination implicate and affect their agency and actions in handling intimacies related to their personal life. Drawing upon lived incarcerated experiences of 24 trans women in Australia and the United States, and employing Ken Plummer's notion of intimate citizenship, this analysis explores how trans women navigate choices and ways "to do" gender, identities, bodies, emotions, desires and relationships while incarcerated in men's prisons and governed by cis and gender normative paradigms. This critical analysis contributes to understanding how incarcerated trans women through grit, resilience, and ingenuity still navigate ways to embody, express and enact their intimate citizenship in innovative and unique ways.

From Animality to Immortality

In the light of the novel The City and the Stars (Arthur C. Clarke, 1956), this paper discusses the impacts of new technologies—namely, cybernetics, computer networks, and Artificial Intelligence advent—on representations of corporeality, its limits, and transmutations. At first, it will briefly highlight how techniques of the body are mostly concerned with enhancing human biology (until getting rid of it) to circumvent vulnerabilities of the flesh, especially death. Then, Clarke’s novel will be used as an analytical lens, as it anticipates philosophical implications arising from “technological immortality,” expressed in the mind-upload theory and its ideal body transcendence—a singular junction between metaphysics and computer sciences.

ФАЛЛОС, ФАЛЛИЦИЗМ И ФАЛЛИЧЕСКИЙ КУЛЬТ В СОВРЕМЕННОЙ СИЦИЛИИ

The article studies the ideas about the human body in one of the most culturally conservative regions of Europe – Sicily; the focus is on the image of the phallus in the local culture and worldview. Basing on the ethnographic material collected in 2017–2020 and data from various sources, the author analyzes the current state of widespread phallic symbols, primarily in the folk environment, as well as behavioral norms, habits, customs associated with the phallus, many of which date back to the oldest, mainly ancient Greek phallic cults, which got a rebirth in the depths of the folk carnival culture of the Middle Ages. The wide prevalence of phallic themes and connotations in verbal language (exclamations, invectives, subcultural vocabulary, for example, gastronomic), in non-verbal means of communication (facial expressions, kinesics), iconography, artifacts, traditions, in everyday life is analyzed. The author comes to the conclusion that one can talk about the presence of a kind of phallicism in Sicily – an extremely important and widespread set of ideas, rituals and customs in local society, which flourishes despite the ethical norms of Catholicism. The bodily, corporeal representations and practices of Sicily, and primarily in the popular environment, are marked by the spirit of phallocentricity (Jacques Derrida’s term), patriarchy and gender dominance of men, and the phallus as a “sex sign” is surrounded by priority attention here

Fragmentations, phantom limbs, re-memberings: Negotiating bodies, representation, and subjectivity in Caribbean British writing

ABSTRACT This article examines representations of corporeality in Caribbean British writing and focuses on two novels in particular: George Lamming’s The Emigrants (1954) and David Dabydeen’s The Intended (1991). After outlining relevant insights from the field of body studies and discourses of the body in Caribbean literature, it argues that the novels focus on the body to voice similar concerns about writing, representation, and knowledge. The novel aspect of this article lies in its rereading of the texts’ foregrounding of issues of corporeality. Where corporeal imagery in postcolonial literatures has mostly been conceived as a symptom of the racialization and feminization of the “other” body as a legacy of colonialism, this article shifts the focus towards seeing the novels’ employment of the body as a negotiation of discourses of representation and subjectivity. In probing and problematizing constructivist and materialist conceptions, they furthermore negotiate important shifts in approaching “matter” in literary theory.

Self-Supervised Prototype Representation Learning for Event-Based Corporate Profiling

Event-based corporate profiling aims to assess the evolving operational status of the corresponding corporate from its event sequence. Existing studies on corporate profiling have partially addressed the problem via (i) case-by-case empirical analysis by leveraging traditional financial methods, or (ii) the automatic profile inference by reformulating the problem into a supervised learning task. However, both approaches heavily rely on domain knowledge and are labor-intensive. More importantly, the task-specific nature of both approaches prevents the obtained corporate profiles from being applied to diversified downstream applications. To this end, in this paper, we propose a Self-Supervised Prototype Representation Learning (SePaL) framework for dynamic corporate profiling. By exploiting the topological information of an event graph and exploring self-supervised learning techniques, SePaL can obtain unified corporate representations that are robust to event noises and can be easily fine-tuned to benefit various down-stream applications with only a few annotated data. Specifically, we first infer the initial cluster distribution of noise-resistant event prototypes based on latent representations of events. Then, we construct four permutation-invariant self-supervision signals to guide the representation learning of the event prototype. In terms of applications, we exploit the learned time-evolving corporate representations for both stock price spike prediction and corporate default risk evaluation. Experimental results on two real-world corporate event datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of SePaL for these two applications.

The excremental postapartheid imaginary: Niq Mhlongo’s Dog Eat Dog

ABSTRACT Niq Mhlongo’s use of scatology in Dog Eat Dog foregrounds his exploration of the temporal affects of disillusionment and disappointment. Drawing together critical and theoretical writing on affect, scatology, the postcolony, and abjection, this article contends that corporeality is symbolically and politically significant in the postapartheid imaginary. This significance is evident throughout Dog Eat Dog, especially in two episodes set in university toilets, which explore through corporeal imagery the topics of racial abjection, vulnerability, and exclusion in postapartheid South Africa. The article draws attention to the affective and political aspects of Mhlongo’s excremental postapartheid vision, a feature of his (and others’) writing which should not be dismissed, for example, as extraneous or merely comic detail. Implicit in the argument is the call for nuanced readings in postapartheid literature of the body and its processes; these representations of corporeality often signal political inequality and exclusion within the social body itself.

Out of the Cage by Fernanda García Lao

0 school; a boy entertains the childlike avatar of Krishna before his parents abandon him to an apprenticeship with an abusive quasisculptor who lives in squalor; a woman leads numerous, disparate lives marked by violence, Christmas trees, and a mysterious manual; and a man has a love affair with a beautiful and unattainable woman who is as ephemeral as a noontime shadow. These short, interrupting stories furnish the characters with histories that reflect the Argentine culture and climate of 2008. In this way, The Divorce is a cautionary palimpsest of Aira’s Argentine contemporaneity—it is an overwriting of reality with fiction, with memory, and with fantasy. Aira laments Argentina’s thencomplacency with its newfound prosperity, and The Divorce figures and refigures the consequences of Time and the pursuit of eternity. The narrator muses that “because of the sense of impermanence that followed the divorce, I had gone in search of some kind of eternity.” It is this duality— the impermanent and the eternal—that is imbued into the lives of the characters and onto the pages of the novel. Ultimately, The Divorce is a masterful demonstration of focused imagination. Aira chronicles overlapping coincidences, layering memory with temporality and injecting magic into the mundane to create a kaleidoscopic tale of serendipitous meetings that rumbles like an avalanche down a mountain, gathering speed and power as the novel progresses. With lightness and verve, Aira twirls the macro with the micro to create a singular novel whose story turns and turns again until it comes full circle, like “that ‘little steel fairy,’ the bicycle, from whose spinning stories are born.” Alex Crayon University of Oklahoma Fernanda García Lao Out of the Cage Trans. Will Vanderhyden. Dallas. Deep Vellum. 2021. 168 pages. . IT IS ALWAYS cause for excitement and anticipation when a foreign writer is translated , into any language, but especially into English, where the number of translated books is woefully low. Those emotions are heightened when the translator is one whose work you admire. This is the case with Argentine author Fernanda García Lao’s Out of the Cage, translated by Will Vanderhyden. Writing in the newspaper Página/12, Silvina Friera called García Lao “Argentine literature’s strangest writer,” adding, “No one narrates the absurd like her. There’d never been, there is no one now, and there will never be anyone like her.” As you will see, this is in no way an exaggeration. The novel begins: “The day of my death everyone was there. Winter had paused and spun on itself like a tornado. It was a national holiday, I don’t remember which one, but we were exultant. [. . .] Somehow, an LP, careening through the air like a demented boomerang, had severed my jugular. And I didn’t understand who or what had thrown it. Maybe the bloody poetics of the line had become embodied in my throat. [. . .] My death was so unexpected and exquisite that, for a moment, nobody noticed it. Not even me.” What follows is a bizarre family saga, narrated in first person by the disembodied (corporeal representation is central to the novel) Aurora Berro (more about her name later). García Lao’s prose is unpresuming; one might even say boring. The sentences are repetitively linear: often containing little more than a subject and predicate. There is no excess. The novel’s excess lies elsewhere: in its absurd, at times contrived, conceits (a protagonist-narrator named Aurora who is killed by a flying LP while her family sings a hymn to the Argentine flag, which, not coincidentally, is known as “Aurora”); grotesque characters that border on the ridiculous (a bicephalic child named Manfredo); and absurdist plot lines (a husband who engineers a sex robot to look like Lana Turner). On the surface, Out of the Cage (in the same interview with Página/12, the author declares that “it’s necessary to free oneself from physical and mental cages,” hence the novel’s title) is the story of a family and a menagerie of sideshowesque characters ; it can also be read as an allegory of mid-twentieth-century Argentine political history, revolving around three key years, which also provide the novel’s...

ПОЕТИКА ТІЛЕСНОСТІ В РОМАНІ ГАБРІЕЛІ ЗАПОЛЬСЬКОЇ «КАСЬКА КАРІАТИДА»

The article attempts to analyze the novel of a polish writer Gabriela Zapolska “Cathy the Caryatid” from the perspective of corporeality - feminine and masculine. The article indicates the main aspects of the interpretation of the concept of corporeality - gender and sociocultural, which are important for understanding the artistic specifics of the representation of human corporeality in the novel. In the novel, female corporeality is represented by two perspectives: personal bodily experience and the objectification of the female body by men in patriarchal culture. The main character of the novel tried to preserve her innocence, considering it the greatest treasure. At the beginning of the novel, a young, healthy girl of twenty with exaggerated physical characteristics and idealized moral qualities appears before the reader. When the girl came to get a job, her body was viewed as a commodity that could be purchased and exploited at work. The main character dreams of getting married, so she strives to keep herself “pure”, because this is one of the conditions under which a decent man can marry her. G. Zapolska portrays the body of the heroine as a kind of “bargaining chip”: a girl can choose two ways - to preserve her innocence in order to “exchange” chastity for a legal marriage and a happy future, or to take the path of debauchery. The loss of virginity is a turning point in the novel by G. Zapolska. Rape inflicted a great psychological trauma on the girl, because until now virginity was her only chance for a happy future. The article analyzes how the patriarchal apparatus implements the objectification of women, as well as sexual objectification. Male dominance in society includes control over female corporeality, women are interpreted as objects that can be owned and changed at will. The value of an object, as a rule, depends primarily on physical data - beauty, health, fertility, etc., while the spiritual development and education of women are often secondary. The protagonist Jan Viebig is the personification of a typical masculine man who cannot contain his physiological desire and understand the girl’s refusal. A man is guided by instincts, raping a girl, using her body for pleasure, and then rejecting her and his promises. The main characteristics of the naturalistic style of the writer are presented, consisting in the depiction of ugly and sometimes disgusting details of the surrounding world, which were parts of reality, in particular, descriptions of rape, death and posthumous decomposition of the body. Attention is focused on the themes of morality and exemplary morality, female virginity, rape, illegitimate pregnancy, images of the human body in art, nudity for art.

The Participation of Senior Citizens in Policy-Making: Patterning Initiatives in Europe.

Worldwide, active aging policy calls for greater participation of senior citizens in the social, economic, and political realms. Despite emerging evidence of initiatives engaging senior citizens in social activities, little is known about the use of participatory approaches in the design and/or implementation of policies that matter to older citizens. This article identifies initiatives facilitating the civic participation of older people in policy-making in European Union member and associate states, drawing on a review of the literature, consultation of national policy experts, and exemplary case studies. Four main patterns of senior civic participation are identified: adopting consultative or co-decisional participatory approaches in policy design or policy implementation. The four are represented to varying degrees at different geographical levels (national, regional, local), with different actor configurations (appointed, elected/nominated, corporate representation), and with varying degree of institutionalization (temporary/permanent). Case studies illustrate approaches taken to enhance the quality and effectiveness of public services for senior citizens. Future research should strengthen this line of enquiry to cast further light on conditions facilitating the civic participation of senior citizens.

Blinded by the slide show: Ignorance and the commodification of expertise

This article investigates how commodification operates with reference to expertise, rather than material objects. By drawing on the work of German management consultants, it highlights three forms of ignorance that arise as part of commodifying expertise. These are here described as ignorance due to profit, ignorance due to rhetoric and ignorance due to strong assumptions. These forms of ignorance render invisible the wider socio-economic effects of consulting, hide the degree to which corporate representations may not reflect the world they purport to describe, and postulate specific yet highly skewed understandings of freedom regarding human subjects. Taken together, they point out that a distinguishing feature of the commodification of expertise, vis-à-vis that of material objects, is that it provides greater scope for the creation and use of ignorance, as it blurs the boundaries between commodity and context.