Process Of Deconstruction Research Articles

Collective identity construction in international collaborations

This article explores the dynamic processes of collective identity formation among the participating organizational members in interorganizational collaborations that cross national boundaries. A longitudinal, qualitative multi-case study research approach was adopted in the empirical investigation of collective identity in three international business collaborations that involve a Sino-British strategic partnership, a Sino-Australian, and a Sino-Polish joint venture. Based on the analyses of the data collected from in-depth interviews, participant observation, and archival materials, a theoretical framework of collective identity (re)formation is developed. It suggests that two inseparable elements (states and processes) constitute a cyclic and enduring process of collective identity formation through partners’ orchestrating discursive resources involving a common sense of ‘we-ness’. The shifts between various states are driven by partners’ processes of negotiation, integration, solidification, and reformation of collective identity. A deconstruction process may also emerge, giving rise to the termination of the collaborative relationship. The research presented in this article advances the understanding of collective identity formation in the field of organizational identity by extending the discursive perspective of collective identity into the context of interorganizational collaborations that cross national borders. This research also provides further empirical evidence on the active role played by organizational members in the use of cultural narratives as strategic resources to express their identity beliefs, which differs from the deterministic view of culture in shaping organizational members’ behaviors.

Education as an Instrument of Nation‐Building in Postcolonial Africa

AbstractThe article examines the role of education in nation‐building in postcolonial Africa. The postcolonial African nationalist leaders faced formidable challenges in building new nations out of disparate ethnic, religious, cultural, and linguistic groups, particularly as regards the two intimately related processes of deconstruction and construction. While deconstruction entailed dismantling the structures, institutions, and power relations of the colonial period, construction entailed replacing them with relevant national institutions, structures, authorities, and mechanisms. Education was to advance the process of construction and transformation as a pedagogical instrument for cultivating a national identity by fostering integration and cohesion. One of the nationalist leaders’ biggest mistakes, however, was to adopt a homogenizing strategy of nation‐building. The paper subscribes to the conception of heterogeneity as a nation‐building strategy, where ethnic and civic (sub‐national and national) layers constitute the nation. The overall focus of the article is a conceptual and theoretical analysis of the nexus between education and nation‐building in postcolonial Africa. The central argument is that education plays a decisive role in nation‐building in Africa. Eritrea is selected as an empirical case study to advance this argument.

An experience of cultural transposition of the El’konin-Davydov curriculum

We will present cultural transposition as a particular perspective to frame the use of foreign mathematics education practices as an opportunity for questioning the didactic practices of one’s own cultural context. This requires a process activated by researchers, who deconstruct the cultural layers underpinning the foreign education practice before proposing it to teachers. We discuss the theoretical premises of this approach and, in accordance with them, we propose a transposition process of the El’konin-Davydov curriculum. In particular, we will show how our deconstruction process has affected the design and implementations of particular Professional Development courses (PDs) in Italy. Finally, we will present a case study of a teacher involved in one of these PDs to observe her new educational awareness.

Drawing relationally for an ethnography of practice

ABSTRACT Education ethnographies show that observing bodies, objects and settings can illuminate previously hidden learning practices but the relational characteristics of these practices presents methodological challenges for conventional qualitative analyses. Using an example from an ethnographic study of everyday learning, I show how methods from art (specifically researcher-created drawings) can address some of these challenges. I use the concept of ‘epistemic objects’ to theorise drawings as analysis, and to show that rather than being a process of deconstruction, this analysis is constantly bringing knowledge into being. With original interdisciplinary insights from art/social science, this article problematises art in sociomaterial research and offers direction for relational analyses.

The consumer-based brand equity deconstruction and restoration process: Lessons from unliked brands

This research is motivated by the growing negative consumer sentiment, perceptions and behaviors toward brands, and the increasing need for firms to develop actionable strategies to address this phenomenon. By recognizing the paucity of research on consumer-based brand equity (CBBE) for unliked brands, the aim of this research is to illuminate the CBBE deconstruction and restoration process for consumers’ unfavorable brands. Analyzing relevant consumer survey data by means of fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) identifies self-brand connection and partner quality as the key links for the deconstruction and restoration of CBBE respectively. The paper concludes with a discussion of the theoretical and managerial implications of the findings and directions for future research.

ГРОМАДСЬКІСТЬ МІСТА ЯК КОЛЕКТИВНИЙ СУБ’ЄКТ СОЦІАЛЬНОЇ ДИНАМІКИ


 
 
 The article deals with the phenomenon of urban activism as a manifestation of «grassroots» self-organization of city dwellers. The logic of the emergence of the centers of urban activism in the postmodern cultural situation has been determined, which is marked by the processes of deconstruction of the principles of modernity, in particular the principle of universal rationality. The possibility of conceptual arrangement and cognitive analysis of urban activism through the lens of the study of «new social movements», which is, on the one hand, a catalyst for social change, and on the other, a representation of current trends of postmodernism.
 
 

Deconstructing grief: a sociological analysis of Prolonged Grief Disorder

This article discusses the forthcoming diagnostic classification of Prolonged Grief Disorder in light of sociological perspectives. By placing death and grief at the center of human life and culture, the beginning pathologization of grief may be discussed in regards to contemporary societal transformations. First, it will be discussed how grief can be viewed as an emotion that in many ways is essential for our self-understanding, self-relation and relation to others. Then, through the perspective of Zygmunt Bauman, it is discussed how death, and thereby grief, can be seen as constitutive for society and culture and how medicalization has played an important role in transforming our relationship to death and grief by a process of deconstruction. This perspective is then supplemented with Hartmut Rosa’s discussion of accelerating society to illuminate why grief is now a disorder that requires psychiatric treatment. The article ends with a discussion of why these tendencies are problematic in regards to our conceptualization and understanding of grief.

Influence of chemical pretreatments on plant fiber cell wall and their implications on the appearance of fiber dislocations

AbstractThe cell wall of plant fibers may contain irregular regions called dislocations. This study evaluated the effect of chemical pretreatment as a mechanochemical dislocation initiator in unbleached and bleachedEucalyptussp. fibers. Accordingly, bleached and unbleached pulps of eucalyptus were subjected to chemical pretreatments with sodium hydroxide at concentrations of 5% for 2 h, 10% for 1 h and 10% for 2 h or with hydrogen peroxide. The extent of dislocations was evaluated by polarized light microscopy. Based on the observation, an index of dislocations (ID) expressing their ratio of cell wall as per two-dimensional (2D) imaging and their angle relative to the longitudinal direction of the fiber were estimated. Chemical pretreatments increased the ID for bleached and unbleached fibers as well as increased the changes in the curl of bleached and unbleached fibers for chemical pretreatments. Chemical pretreatment extracted the hemicellulose of the fiber cell wall causing some fiber to curl, which in turn generated new dislocations and modifications in the dislocation angles which may be useful for improving the deconstruction process of the cellulose fibers.

Re-Evaluating Heritage Waste: Sustaining Material Values through Deconstruction and Reuse

ABSTRACT This article explores how heritage values can be productively sustained or transformed by processes of building deconstruction and materials reuse, which address the increasing magnitude of demolition waste, landfill and resource use in urban development. The article starts by examining literature in heritage studies, sustainable building, and discard studies, then presents two examples from Vancouver, a Canadian city under intense development pressure, to help frame questions from project and policy contexts. Building on these questions, it reviews the relationship between heritage values and waste, gaps in deconstruction and salvage policies, the classifications of materials in deconstruction and reuse, and possible expanded uses for heritage inventories. In the Anthropocene, merely conserving designated buildings, or salvaging character-defining elements associated with heritage values, is not only inadequate, it helps to define waste, or that which does not have value. An ethic of conservation is called for that makes place for deconstruction as an acceptable reuse strategy while addressing the fate of all existing buildings and materials.

Ligninolytic Enzymes Mediated Ligninolysis: An Untapped Biocatalytic Potential to Deconstruct Lignocellulosic Molecules in a Sustainable Manner

From the last two decades, white biotechnology, with particular reference to deploying enzyme bio-catalysis, has gained special research interest to valorize the bio-sources lignocellulosic biomass. In this context, ligninolytic enzymes from a white biotechnology background have tremendous potentialities to transform biomass following the green agenda. The enzyme-based white biotechnology is now considered a key endeavor of twenty-first century, as it offers socio-economic and environmental merits over traditional biotechnology, such as eco-friendlier processing conditions, no/limited use of harsh chemicals/reagents, high catalytic turnover, high yield, cost-effective ratio, low energy costs, green alternative of complex synthesis, renewability, reusability, and recyclability. Research efforts are underway, around the globe, to exploit naturally occurring biomass, as a green feedstock and low-cost substrates, to generate value-added bio-products, bio-fuels, and bio-energy. One core problem in developing an eco-friendlier and economical bioprocess is the pre-treatment of lignocellulosic biomass to entirely or partially remove the lignin barrier from cellulose fibers, thereby allowing the enzymes to access the cellulose fibers and generate the products of industrial interests. The entire process requires lignocelluloses deconstruction where ligninolytic enzymes in synergies with redox mediators systems have not explored much. The limited exploitation of ligninolytic enzymes with tremendous catalytic efficiencies has created a massive research gap that we have tried to cover herein. This review further insights the white biotechnology, also termed industrial biotechnology, which uses microorganisms and their unique enzyme system to facilitate the clean and sustainable deconstruction process.

The effect of switchgrass plant cell wall properties on its deconstruction by thermochemical pretreatments coupled with fungal enzymatic hydrolysis orClostridium thermocellumconsolidated bioprocessing

Switchgrass, thermochemically pretreated switchgrass, and corresponding biologically digested residues were characterized to understand the process of lignocelluose deconstruction.

Technological Deconstruction and Reorganization Process of Industrial Design Driven Product Innovation

The work aims at discussing the essence of technology deconstruction and reorganization, and establishing the core value of technical decision-making in product micro-system design, In view of the current reality of neglecting product technology innovation. It clarifies the content of product technology and explores the ways and methods of product technology deconstruction and restructuring in the industrial design process. Industrial design is integration and inclusion, parallel design and collaborative design is the overall trend of its development, product technology design and modeling, man-machine and other design will eventually become unified. The innovation of working principle is the process of replacing the basic elements and modules or optimizing the state of material, information and energy transfer; product structure optimization is the process of mathematically finding the minimum design variables that meet the design requirements; the innovation of modeling material solutions is to solve the decision-making problem of the target multi-scheme; the processing technology improvement is to solve the process route optimization problem under multi-constraint conditions.

PEREMPUAN DAN KEMATIAN: DEKONSTRUKSI DALAM CERPEN APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA KARYA W. S. MAUGHAM

William Somerset Maugham's short story “The Appointment in Samarra” (1933) narrates a theme of how someone cannot avoid death, but the death is represented through a female figure. The research aims to expose a critic toward the representation of death through female character which is a cultivation of patriarchal ideas through literary works. This research used deconstruction framework as a reference to expose the paradox between woman and death. This was a qualitative research with an intertextuality approach. The data were in the form of quotations in the text and the source of the data was William Somerset Maugham’s short story “The Appointment in Samarra”. The data were collected through documentation technique and analysed with interpretation method. The results showed that the representation of death through woman was a patriarchal discourse and, with deconstructive reading, the narrative presented a paradoxical side; on one side, it presented that woman had horrible character, but on the other side, the horrible character implied power. Dismantling of the patriarchal discourse made the decon-structive process in this text became study of feminist deconstruction.

Collaborative teaching and learning of interactive multimodal spoken academic genres for doctoral students

The last teaching-learning stage in the education system is the doctoral programmes, which turn graduatestudents into researchers. This evolution involves writing a dissertation, but also being able to discuss research.However, training on spoken genres has not received much attention, and the interest has been mainly onmonologic prepared speeches. This paper focuses on a genre of interactive speech, the discussion session (DS)that follows the paper presentation, which is particularly challenging for novice researchers. We present alearner-led pedagogy for the teaching-learning of this genre that fosters thinking-based learning and multimodal awareness. It was implemented in a course of academic discourse for doctoral students in order to prove its effectiveness. We propose a process of active and collaborative deconstruction and construction of DSs to identify verbal and non-verbal resources and their interpersonal functions, so that novel researchers reflect on and integrate them in their repertoire.

Budgetary-financial erosion of social rights in the Constitution of 1988.

Throughout the three decades of the Federal Constitution, normative and fiscal redesigns were introduced by the Union in the guarantees of solidary federative organization and of social rights costing, under the pretext of safeguarding the intertemporal sustainability of the Brazilian public debt. In order to equalize the tension between economic stability and the effectiveness of social rights and their repercussion for the indebtedness process, the health and education minimum spending and the social security budget were gradually mitigated, which operated both in the symbolic field and in the pragmatic, as a kind of fiscal balance to the need for allegedly unlimited cost for monetary and cambial policies. Unlink taxes, reduce the scope of minimum spending regimes and restrict the interpretative scope of intergovernmental equalization transfers of federative distortions has become a strategy, assumed - directly or indirectly - by the Union since the early 1990s, of macroeconomic stabilization policy, above all, monetary. Thus, a long and still ongoing process of budgetary and financial deconstruction of social rights has been undertaken, which restricts the structural identity of the FC/1988, under the pretext of increasingly demanding fiscal consolidation of the reduction of the size of the state.

Utility of starchy, lignocellulosics and cellulosics hydrolysates on cellulase production under liquid state fermentation

Starch is one of the most abundant renewable carbohydrate reserves of higher plants. It can be used to produce many valuable food products in the food processing industry. Furthermore, starch is also used as an important feedstock in the fermentation industry to produce value-added products. Lignocellulosic materials such as agriculture and forestry wastes are considered as a renewable feedstock for bioenergy production through a biochemical conversion process. Converting lignocellulosic biomass into fuels and chemicals entail a physicochemical pretreatment of the biomass, followed by enzymatic hydrolysis of the polysaccharide components such as cellulose and hemicellulose into monomeric sugars. These sugars can then be further fermented into other desired compounds of interest. During the deconstruction processes, various inhibitory compounds are released due to the partial over-degradation of lignocellulose biomass, which inhibits the cell growth and metabolic capacity of fermenting strains. Cellulosic materials such as waste paper in large quantities can also be used as potentially cheap feedstock for sustainable production of value-added products. The present investigation is mainly focused on the utility of starchy hydrolysates (wheat, potato, and rice) and lignocellulosics hydrolysates (bagasse and wheat straw) in cellulase production under liquid state fermentation. It also depicts the potential of cellulosic hydrolysate (waste newspaper) in product formation.

Dekonstruksi titik akses diseminasi informasi pada Radio Boekoe

Introduction. Radio Boekoe as a community that affected by the determination of information technology, adapts through the deconstruction process of information dissemination access points by utilizing hybrid media. This study aims to discuss the deconstruction process of information dissemination access points on Radio Boekoe.Research methods. This research used a qualitative method with case study approach. The process of collecting data involved observations, interviews, and documentation studies. The informants are the founder, manager and volunteer of Radio Boekoe.Data Analysis. The research data was analyzed with the stages of reduction, display, and drawing conclusions.Results and Discussion. The deconstruction process of information access points on Radio Boekoe occurred through the use of hybrid media. The deconstruction process of the information access point was expanded to the process of adding information access capacity in the form of Bale Black Box co-working space.Conclusions. The process of deconstruction of information access points on Radio Boekoe occurs through the shifting of local access points in the form of the Gelaran Iboekoe to global hybrid media-based access in the form of internet radio. Furthermore, it is recommended to conduct a research to examine the effectiveness of using hybrid media to expand information access points.

Knitting – (wo)men’s occupation

Does a man who knits demonstrate courage? The question refers to the meanings attributed to knitting, which has traditionally been perceived as a female occupation performed in private space. In this article, referring to the past and the analysis of contemporary craft practice, I describe the process of deconstruction in this area. I am particularly interested in men knitting in public. The aim of my considerations is to analyze the difference between the meaning of what is male and female in knitting, and between hegemonic practice and subversive acts of deconstruction.

Sequential dilute acid and alkali deconstruction of sugarcane bagasse for improved hydrolysis: Insight from small angle neutron scattering (SANS)

Cellulosic bioethanol is a promising renewable and substitute source of energy. To make the bioconversion of LCB to fuels cost effective and energy efficient, it is essential to reduce the recalcitrance of LCB and unravel the process of biomass deconstruction. Present study employed sequential dilute acid-alkali pretreatment of sugarcane bagasse (SCB) for enhancing its bioconversion to ethanol. Box-Behnken and D-optimal designs were used to optimise the process of dilute acid and alkali pretreatments sequentially, resulting in an optimum concentration of 3% (v/v) and 5% (w/v) for H2SO4 and NaOH with solid SCB loadings of 18 and 15% (w/w), respectively, for 30 min at 121 °C. The effectiveness of sequential pretreatment was supported by increased cellulose content (83%), drop in hemicellulose, enhanced delignification and 60% enzymatic hydrolysis of SCB by in-house Trichoderma reesei cellulases at enzyme dose of 20 FPU/g. The favourable multi-length scale ultrastructural changes in SCB induced by pretreatment were confirmed by FT-IR, SEM, EDX, TGA, XRD and small angle neutron scattering (SANS). SANS revealed increase in small pore radii from 11.1 to 18.5 Å, indicating improved biomass porosity after sequential pretreatment. Thus, sequential pretreatment of LCB effectively reduced the recalcitrance and could be more useful in lignocellulosic biorefinery applications.

Getting Closer to Authenticity in the Course of Technical English: Task-Based Instruction and TED Talks

Authentic materials, if appropriate to the learning situation, might turn the classroom environment into a more engaging place, where motivation might be generated through the performance of meaningful tasks. This article describes how a Text-Based Instruction approach can provide the basis for the design of an ESP syllabus based on relevant, varied and engaging tasks to enhance authentic language use among engineering undergraduates. The design of these tasks mainly draws on TED Talks that are specifically technological and connected to engineering undergraduates, as the talks develop novel and thought-provoking ideas which are interesting and personally meaningful and relate to different engineering fields. These tasks are specially designed to enable students to carry out a process of talk deconstruction through the analysis of distinct discourse and linguistic features specific to the spoken genre of TED Talks. This analysis ultimately aims at the eventual construction of students’ oral presentations. Oral presentations can be conceived as an activity that approximates the real world and future workplace of engineering undergraduates, and in consequence, promotes students’ instrumental motivation.