Labor Of Love Research Articles

Love's Labour's Regained: The Year in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland

Love's Labour's Regained: The Year in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland

Analysis of the Use of Copia in Shakespeare's Love's Labor's Lost

Analysis of the Use of Copia in Shakespeare's Love's Labor's Lost

Exploring the Hidden Meaning of Care through the Life History of a 53-year-old Woman

This study is based on the story of a woman who has been caring for children and the elderly for a living. As a mother of three children she supported her mother-in-law with Alzheimer's for over 20 years. This paper tried to explore the meaning of care through the life history of a 53-year-old woman and discover its implications for pedagogy. As results, first, the meaning that 'life is a period of vulnerability(Donna J. Haraway)' came to light through the characters surrounding this woman's family history; Second, the fact that the relationship between the caregiver and the person being cared for is the core of a good care relationship became clear; Third, since care is already a relationship in itself, care work is a labor of love and relationships that cannot be standardized or objectified. Finally, the meaning of care work illuminated that self-care and care for others are constantly interacting. The family discord experienced by the participant due to solitary care work gave social, political and economic suggestions that care work was passed entirely on to women. This life history research with a participant K suggested also possibilities of inventing a new viewpoint of humanity and a new mode of human relationship through care work. So this study presented a new task for pedagogy in that care is the knowledge that anyone should and can learn.

Thematic curriculum design of integrating labor education into kindergarten classes

In China, labor education is an important part of the all-round development of the education system and an important part of educational practice activities. The main purpose is to enable students to establish a correct concept of labor, correct their working attitude, love labor and the working people, and develop good working habits. Early childhood education is an important stage in the process of basic education in China. Labor education should be included in its viewing vision and become an important content. It is of great significance to integrate labor education into the theme teaching of large-class children. It can enable children to cultivate good labor literacy, exercise effective practical skills, promote their formation of a sound personality, and promote the development of early childhood education. Through literature research, investigation and interviews, we found that there are some shortcomings in the theme teaching of large classes of children, including that preschool teachers do not pay enough attention to it and do not have a comprehensive understanding; the theme teaching has a single form and the effect is not good;the content tends to be similar, and the evaluation is lagging. In order to effectively solve these problems, preschool teachers should fully focus on the goal of labor education, follow the law of early childhood growth and development, and carry out targeted thematic teaching in combination with children's daily life. These are also effective strategies for integrating labor education into the theme teaching of large-scale children.

Fifty Years of Critical Care Medicine: The Editors' Perspective.

Fifty Years of Critical Care Medicine: The Editors' Perspective.

Developing a user-centred system for long-term elephant monitoring

Originally envisaged as a three-year project, the Amboseli Elephant Research Project (AERP) has proved a labour of love for a small, dedicated team who have followed the life trajectories of more than 3,900 individual elephants over five decades. AERP’s unique knowledge base is derived from tracking individually recognized animals in a small well-protected population studied continuously since 1972, providing an important baseline for a free-ranging elephant population with an intact age structure. This dataset forms the basis of our demographic analyses (Moss 2001; Lee et al. 2013), and through training, research, books and films has contributed to global understanding of elephant reproductive biology and behaviour; musth: (Poole and Moss 1981; Poole 1987: Poole 1989; Hollister-Smith et al. 2007); oestrus: (Moss 1983); mothering and grandmothering: (Lee et al. 2016; Lee et al. 2022), elephant cognition: (McComb et al. 2001; Bates et al. 2008; McComb et al. 2014) and communication: (Poole et al. 1988; McComb et al. 2000; McComb et al. 2003). How can we now, after a half century of effort, make our data accessible and of continued use to the global elephant community? To try to answer this demand, AERP has moved beyond a simple relational database into a data management system that allows users to add, map, inspect, edit, and extract data. Here we share some of the key concepts that drove this process and outline our hopes for making elements of the system available to other projects that may benefit from similar capacities.

Using visual sociology for transnational justice- pedagogical and methodological implications

ABSTRACT In 2019, I created a 60-minute docudrama titled ‘Mira’s Minders’, which examined specific challenges and incentives associated with working as domestic caregivers in West Bengal, India. My research attempt part intentionally and part serendipitously has materialized into the kind of academic practice hooks (1994) recommends- by reconceptualizing knowledge, by taking on a different route than traditional research, highlighting the minority experience from an unusual context, and through bringing in a diverse worldview to the undergraduate and graduate classroom. And yet materializations of such labors of love require thoughtful deliberation. I discuss the methodological and pedagogical implications associated with making a visual project on social justice, which is transnational in scope. For methodology this requires cultivating a thoughtful research design, initiating a timely research conversation with other stakeholders, developing detailed bilingual interview schedules, juggling research protocols with visual documentation, and finally making sense of a rich and complex repository of data. The pedagogical implications include invoking a form of self-actualization, tasks associated with introducing multiculturalism, establishing the close-knit connection between theory and practice, drawing on empathy and finally facilitating learning through the visual process.

Doctrine and Difference: Readings in Classic American Literature by Michael J. Colacurcio

Reviewed by: Doctrine and Difference: Readings in Classic American Literature by Michael J. Colacurcio Jonathan A. Cook Michael J. Colacurcio Doctrine and Difference: Readings in Classic American Literature. New York: Routledge, 2021. xiv + 271 pp. In Doctrine and Difference: Readings in Classic American Literature, Michael J. Colacurcio continues to consolidate his place as a leading contemporary critic of classic American literature, with his main focus on writings of the Puritans and the impact of their beliefs on the American Romantics. Composed of essays published over the last two decades, the volume under review is one of several recent offerings from Colacurcio that bring to fruition a lifetime of teaching, thinking, and writing about the national literature—an output that now includes a capacious new two-volume study of Emerson and Other Minds (2021), and a recently published collection of essays entitled Hawthorne's Histories, Hawthorne's World: From Salem to Somewhere Else (2022), to follow up on his earlier The Province of Piety: Moral History of Hawthorne's Early Tales (1984). Additional evidence of this critic's broad impact on literary studies is the Festschrift of essays assembled by his former students and colleagues for his retirement, A Passion for Getting It Right (2015). Such a steadily growing roster of publication puts Colacurcio in a special class of historicist scholars, starting with the transformative figure of Perry Miller, whose foundational understanding of Puritan religious history and doctrine has provided productive insights into the larger development of American literature, particularly in that perennially appealing era known as the American Renaissance. While always rewarding in terms of breadth of comprehension and generosity of analysis, reading Colacurcio can sometimes be a labor of love, given the writer's embrace of a deliberately improvisatory style that at times resembles scat singing in its unpredictable assemblage of insights, strung together on extended fragments and elliptical aperçus. For Colacurcio is seemingly as much a postmodern performance artist engaged in a perpetual play of signifiers as a methodical expounder of ideas, and it occasionally takes some habituation to his style in order to appreciate the remarkable erudition that underlies his analyses. While some readers may be put off by the more gratuitous flippancies [End Page 101] and aporias, Colacurcio's passionate engagement with his subjects always provides productive grounds for thought, making the reader eager to reexamine the works under discussion to test his arguments. In the dozen essays contained in the current volume, Colacurcio examines a wide range of subjects: the tension between religious faith and emotional attachment in the poetry of Anne Bradstreet (Chapter 1); the paradoxical combination of cosmopolitan reading and provincial subject matter in Hawthorne's fiction (Chapter 2); the comparable literary aesthetics of Hawthorne and Poe (Chapter 3); the play of skepticism and subjectivity of Emerson's "Experience" (Chapter 4); the Melvillean idea of the "power of blackness" in Hawthorne's tales, notably "The Bosom Serpent" and "The Christmas Banquet" (Chapter 5); an anatomy of the use of genre in Melville's Polynesian narratives (Chapter 6); the suggestive relationship of Hawthorne's "Ethan Brand" to related scenes in Moby-Dick (Chapter 7); the attenuated liberal Christian ideas of original sin dramatized in The House of the Seven Gables (Chapter 8); the religious and political dynamics in three works of Melville's short fiction (Chapter 9); winter as the implicit seasonal climax of Walden (Chapter 10); the shadowy skeptical world of Emerson's "Illusions" from the otherwise pragmatic Conduct of Life essays (Chapter 11); and, in a rare foray into postbellum American fiction, a study of manners and morals in Howells's The Rise of Silas Lapham and James's The American (Chapter 12). Given this heterogeneous mix of contents, I will focus here on the three chapters devoted to Melville's fiction, examining what they offer the reader and the value of their approaches. In "The South Seas in Melville: Genre, Myth (and Sex) in Typee, Omoo, and Mardi," Colacurcio provides an overview of generic affiliations for Melville's first three narratives set in Polynesia, which he identifies as "first, captivity narrative well disguised as travel report, next, political critique masquerading as strolling island adventure, then, comparative mythology dressed in the...

Trevor J. Dadson (1947–2020)

Trevor J. Dadson (1947–2020)

Marcia Tucker’s Domestic Politics: Art and Craft in the 1990s

While today process-driven work affiliated with craft, outsider art, and folk art is increasingly considered a viable politicized or conceptual practice, this essay focuses on the 1996 New Museum exhibition, A Labor of Love, in order to examine Marcia Tucker’s unconventional use of “domestic” politics to promote and activate objects often read as bound to their materiality. This article offers an analysis of the exhibition as a challenge to the politics of value that supports established aesthetic categories within the museum to enact a broader renegotiation of those values that extend beyond the museum’s walls. Marcia Tucker took craft’s conventionally domestic station as license to theorize ways in which quotidian strategies (both those undertaken by the artists, and those deployed by Tucker) could prompt controversy and debate. By featuring connections among artifacts based on questions of labor, the exhibition highlighted process as an issue infused with political meaning and potential. The aesthetic hybrids on display were, moreover, complemented with domestic structures for viewing and interaction; the introduction of music, home furnishings, and a domestic format enacted persistent references to private spaces. In this way, A Labor of Love aligned the museum within the larger framework of lived experience, forging a complex dialogue with agency and care as practiced outside the museum.

Love of Empire by Dissociations

Love of Empire by Dissociations Chien-ting Lin (bio) In the past two years, as the whole world has been deeply mired in the COVID-19 pandemic, we may have observed neoliberal capitalism's crisis of care: exposed and exacerbated by the global pandemic, made explicit alongside examples such as the collapsing of health systems, the shortage of care labor and overwork of nurses, the serious outbreaks in aged care facilities, the increased burden of domestic labor and care work due to school closures, and the worldwide rise of domestic abuse. In this short essay, I situate neoliberalism's care problems as a displaced process of imperial racialization in long-standing feminist debates over the "labor of love," returned to us by COVID in the form of crisis. Specifically, I reflect on the political discourses of love vis-à-vis war and militarism during the pandemic. The goal is to consider the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic mediates our relationship to geohistorical formations of laboring for love, while understanding this labor as care and sex work embedded in the racial structures of nation and empire. It is through this critical reflection on the questions of love, militarism, and geopolitics that I juxtapose the stigmatization of sexual laborers due to community spread in Taiwan's Wanhua teahouses with the Atlanta shooting that killed eight people, including six Asian women. As articulated and debated since second-wave feminism, the labor of love could be expansively understood in relation to the social conditions under which unpaid care services provided primarily by women within the household are utilized to resolve the contradictions of capitalist world order.1 Following the lead of Micki McGee's discussion about capitalism's care problem, a gender-only feminist perspective sees the unpaid labor of love within the household as the patriarchal exploitation of women. Feminist calls for economic independence for (mostly middle-class) women to work for equal pay as men certainly do not resolve the care problem but, instead, further obscure colonial divisions of labor under which the racialized labor mostly from formerly colonized nations is made to fill up the gap.2 I consider the discursive formations of love as a point of departure to review how the global pandemic bears on our everyday practices of intimacy. Pandemic-mediated effects on domestic intimacy, for [End Page 700] example, are often mistaken as simply a social problem about gender divisions of labor within individualized households when it is deeply implicated in the global imperial process. I argue that the impacts on domestic care during the pandemic are intimately connected with colonial divisions of labor when outsourced surrogate intimacies are vicariously performed by racialized third world labor. The historical effects of racialized displacement can be seen as consisting of three sets of often-dissociated social relations during the pandemic crisis: archetypical angel-heroines in white (nurses), angels in the house (housewife and mother), and fallen angels (prostitutes).3 During the pandemic, many of us constantly experience fears about the health systems being overwhelmed, even while we express growing appreciation for the essential care provided by health workers. In the meantime, we have come to witness a political discourse of love that occupies a space of primary importance in the popular glorification of professional care providers such as doctors and nurses on the frontline of the anti-epidemic battle. In Taiwan's context, the creation of these new heroines comes at the expense of racialized and devalued, if not entirely demonized, migrant sexual laborers now perceived as "the breach of infection control."4 After having kept the pandemic at bay for quite some time, Taiwan experienced a COVID-19 spike in April 2021. The drastic surge in locally transmitted cases was linked to the China Airlines and Novotel quarantine hotel at Taoyuan International Airport. The virus eventually spread to the teahouses of Taipei's Wanhua neighborhood—also known as an adult entertainment red-light district in Taipei. Since Wanhua was reported as the center of a major cluster, the workers in the sexual venues, in particular, became a singularized target of public criticism. Not only were the hostesses held accountable for the worst outbreak in Taiwan since the...

Uniting Music and Poetry in Twentieth-Century Spain by Nelson R. Orringer

Reviewed by: Uniting Music and Poetry in Twentieth-Century Spain by Nelson R. Orringer Daniel Ferreras Savoye Orringer, Nelson R. Uniting Music and Poetry in Twentieth-Century Spain. Lexington Books, 2021. Pp. 254. ISBN 978-1793630483. Nelson R. Orringer’s new book is doubtlessly a labor of love and of great erudition that inspires admiration and respect, for it displays not only a profound knowledge of poetry and poetics, but also a very solid musicological foundation, both classical and modern, which remains quite rare in the field of literary studies. The goal of Uniting Music and Poetry in Twentieth-Century Spain is indeed an ambitious one, for it aims to study the dialectical relationship between poetry and music through the works of the most significant composers of twentieth-century Spain, from Falla to Halffter. It is divided into nine chapters, each of them devoted to specific musical adaptations of poetic works, such as those by Góngora, Bécquer and Alberti among others. Chapters 1 and 2 discuss two very different aspects of Manuel de Falla’s treatment of poetry in music, the first consisting in an analysis of four earlier songs, including two of Bécquer’s Rimas (LI and LXXIII) while the second presents his adaptation of Góngora’s sonnet “A Córdoba,” a resolutely more mature work. Chapter 3 is devoted to Manuel de Falla’s contemporary and friend, Joaquín Turina, and to his musical adaptations of a saeta, (Saeta en forma de salve, by Serafín y Joaquín Álvarez) and of some of Lope de Vega’s most well-known dialogs in his Homenaje a Lope de Vega. Chapter 4 studies Frederic Mompou’s important Combat del somni, a musical adaptation of five sonnets by Catalan poet Josep Janés, which is considered as Mompou’s most significant vocal work; chapter 6 presents Joaquin Rodrigo’s paradoxical composition, Ausencias de Dulcinea, which seems to adopt a similar parodic intent to that of Cervantes’ masterwork in order to suggest an all-encompassing vision of music and literature; chapter 8 explores Xavier Montsalvatge’s musical Africanism in his Cinco canciones Negras, which include Rafael Alberti’s Cuba dentro de un piano, Néstor Luján y Fernández’s Punto de Habanera, Nicolás Guillén’s Chévere and Canto negro, and Ildefonso Pereda Valdés’s Canción de cuna para dormir un negrito; finally, chapter 9 introduces Rodolfo Halffter’s cycle of five songs based upon Rafael Alberti’s prizewinning book, Canciones sobre marinero en tierra, taking into account the considerable chronological gap which separates the first song, composed in 1925, from the other four, which were composed no less than thirty-five years later, in 1960. Orringer has confronted the very serious challenge of establishing what Umberto Eco named semiotic functions between two different artistic media—words and music—, which [End Page 463] implies the use of two very distinct methodologies working concurrently in order to serve what is by necessity a constantly dual interpretive effort. Orringer’s vast knowledge and profound understanding of the historical and structural particularities of his corpus of study allow him to elaborate a convincing analysis, not only exposing but explaining as well the subtle semiotic differences and intents that can be observed as lyrical poetry becomes vocal music; his discussion of the Africanism paradox at the beginning of chapter 8, for instance, which contrasts Caucasian musical conception with non-Caucasian inspiration in order to introduce Montsalvatge’s Cinco canciones negras (165–68) displays an acute historical sense not only of music and literature, but of contemporary Occidental art as well. Naturally, Orringer’s study prompts implicitly questions of a canonical nature, for it could be argued that music in twentieth-century Spain is not only to be found within the works of so-called classical composers, especially in the vocal music category. Although it is undeniable that Falla, Turina, Mompou and Rodrigo are consecrated figures of the Spanish official canon of classical music, Monsalvatge and Halffter remain, on the other hand, somehow less celebrated composers, whose vocal music doubtlessly deserves further attention and should not be readily perceived as classical per se: when it comes...

How I Learned to Stop Worrying about Heavy Metal and Love Labor Journalism

How I Learned to Stop Worrying about Heavy Metal and Love Labor Journalism

REVIEW: A skilful weaving of Teaiwa’s creative legacy

Sweat and Salt Water: Selected Works: Teresia Kieuea Teaiwa, compiled and edited by Katerina Teaiwa, April K. Henderson and Terence Wesley-Smith. Pacific Islands Monograph Series. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. 2021, 286 words. ISBN 9780824890285.
 Sweat and Salt Water: Selected Works is a collection of texts written by Banaban, I-Kiribati, and African-American Pacific studies scholar and educator Teresia Kieuea Teaiwa, which were put together by her sister Katerina Teaiwa and friends and colleagues April K. Henderson and Terence Wesley-Smith. Described by Katerina as '[a] true labour of love and occasional, intense grief', the book was published posthumously. While, as the editors note, ‘it is impossible to contain or present the dazzling spectrum of Teresia’s published work in just one volume’ (p. xvii), the selected texts were originally published between 1992 and 2017 and as such provide an idea of the variety of Teaiwa’s intellectual and creative writing across her career.

“It’s Okay to be Slow:” Witnessing the Articulation of Connected Practices by Creative Collectives in Indonesia and Malaysia

This article focuses on the everyday responses of the local creatives in dealing with the problematic single narrative of creative cities. Aiming to understand the everyday creative and media practices of individuals in the creative collectives that are situated in emerging creative cities in Southeast Asia, the research specifically addresses key contemporary debates within the field of urban media and communication studies. The article gives priority to the voices of the city dwellers from a bottom-up approach, looking at the material and embodied practices in their everyday life. Empirically, this article seeks the alternative voices raised by the members of selected creative collectives - four collectives in Bandung, Indonesia, and four others in George Town, Malaysia - in articulating the meaning of creativity, the media practices involved within, and the organic ways of organizing urban collectives. Drawing insights from the notion of articulation and media practice, and by employing both ethnographic and visual methodology approaches, in particular the use of the photo-documentation method, there are three key thematic findings elaborated here. These themes are (1) social settings in media-related practices, (2) material objects and sensitive affection, and (3) the labor of love. The ways in which these are discussed, using a combination of ethnographic vignettes and photo collages, foreground the importance of cultural identity articulation practiced by the creative collectives in both cities. Thus, the interlinkage between mediated experiences, spatial practices, and visual contexts is also a key significant aspect in the analysis of these bottom-up, organic urban creativities.

Close-Reading: A Couplet from Love’s Labour’s Lost

ABSTRACT This close reading examines the ways – metrical, stylistic, syntactic, dictional – in which Berowne fails to turn over a new leaf in the couplet at 5.2.414–5 of Love's Labour's Lost.

Harbin: A Cross-Cultural Biography by Mark Gamsa

Reviewed by: Harbin: A Cross-Cultural Biography by Mark Gamsa Cathy McAteer Harbin: A Cross-Cultural Biography. By Mark Gamsa. Toronto and London: Toronto University Press. 2020. x+383 pp. $67.50. ISBN 978–1–4875–0628–5. Mark Gamsa's latest monograph differs from his many previous works on Sino-Russian relations in that it derives from his Ph.D. thesis on Manchuria, and was composed (in thought and deed) over a twenty-year period. Over this time, he confesses to having reflected on many approaches to writing history. The result is a labour of love very different, as he states, in both form and focus from his other publications, one which demonstrates in its complex parallel structure an experimental [End Page 522] approach to writing Harbin's history. Gamsa's monograph is an alternating, intertwining biography of both the city—described as the 'epicentre of Russian–Chinese relations in Manchuria [. . .] after the completion of the Chinese Eastern Railway (CER) in 1903' (p. 3), an engineering project that enabled Harbin to become a world centre of post-revolutionary Russian emigration attracting 185,000 Russians at its peak—and of the book's protagonist, the Baltic-born Russian émigré Baron Roger Budberg (1867–1926: no relation of the suspected double agent Moura Budberg, once lover of Robert Bruce Lockhart, Maksim Gorʹkii, and H. G. Wells). The structure of this monograph devotes equal attention to tracing the city's developments on the macro and micro scales. Half of the chapters document the ebb and flow of Harbin's inhabitants and the legacies of their complicated relations. Gamsa guides the reader from the earliest Chinese and Russian settlers (the latter attracted to the area by the Trans-Siberian rail project) to the pro-Tsarist Cossacks and the cross-culturally devastating Boxer uprising of 1900. He examines the region's historical links with the Japanese, the White Russians (who fled there after the 1917 Revolution), and finally the Soviet army, who reclaimed Harbin in 1945 and handed it back to the People's Republic of China. In alternating chapters, Gamsa interpolates this political context with analysis of Budberg's local significance in Manchuria as a Sinophile, a critic of Russia, a physician, and a memoirist. Trained as an obstetrician and gynaecologist, Budberg was deemed 'of little use on the battlefield' (p. 53) during the Russo-Japanese war. Permitted instead to explore China, Budberg settled in Harbin, immersing himself in Chinese culture, learning the language, and marrying a fourteen-year-old Chinese woman with whom he had a daughter. In 1907 the CER appointed him director of a hospital for prostitutes. Budberg's contribution to medical research and Gamsa's dedication to tracking down primary resources result in a remarkably timely revelation. One of his public-health pamphlets from 1911 offers the following insight into minimizing deaths during a plague epidemic: 'when in the presence of infected persons, never expose yourself directly to their breath, protect clothes and hands from contact with suspect objects, and do not touch your face' (p. 115). Visionary that he apparently was, Budberg also recommended the wearing of head bandages as effective face masks. Gamsa's final chapter zooms out from both storylines in order to assess the broader 'outcome and legacy of [. . .] Russian and Chinese societies in Harbin' (p. 201). The thoroughness of Gamsa's research permeates not just chapter content (the sheer density of detail risks making the book appear pot-bound) but paratextual material too, the latter providing an essential toolkit for readers unfamiliar with his field. The Introduction supplies a historical overview of Russian activities in Harbin, illustrated by maps of the region dating from 1905 and 2011 respectively. It explains the provenance of Gamsa's primary research material (letters, rare publications with interesting histories, and archived photographs, some of which are included as illustrations) and the aims of the book, and summarizes Gamsa's methodologies. Readers might, additionally, have appreciated the provision of a family tree for the extensive Budberg clan and a timeline of events, useful for a book that determinedly eschews obvious chronological structure. Concluding paratexts include an [End Page 523] Epilogue for the many peripheral figures who feature...

Special Issue: Similar Challenges in a Different Setting: Racism and Higher Education in Prison

This Special Issue is a labor of love from activists, professors, practitioners, and community organizers committed to addressing racial inequity in higher education in prison. Amid an ongoing pandemic, people across the globe wrote, read, and revised thought-provoking pieces in hopes that they would transform one’s thoughts. This Special Issue predominately features articles authored by individuals impacted by incarceration to provide those closest to the issues with a platform to recommend solutions.

Edith Wharton in France

Edith Wharton in France

After the Labour of Love: the incomplete revolution of open access and open science in the humanities and creative social sciences

After the Labour of Love: the incomplete revolution of open access and open science in the humanities and creative social sciences