This study analyzes the research productivity of the University of Jaffna from 2010 to 2024, a period following the end of Sri Lanka's civil war. University of Jaffna was established in 1974 in the Northern region of Sri Lanka and experienced substantial disruptions due to the civil conflict that lasted from 1984 to 2009. Totally, number of 739 publications by the University of Jaffna was indexed with 15,946 Citations in the Web of Science database from 1989-2024. However, our analysis, focusing on post-war growth, covers 616 publications indexed in the Web of Science database from 2010–2024. Using HistCite, Biblioshiny, VOSviewer, and M.S.Excel, this scientometric study assesses key research indicators, including authorship patterns, yearly publication, citation metrics, keyword distributions, highly productive authors and international collaborations. In this study, findings show that the University of Jaffna produced 616 publications, garnering a total of 12,232 citations with an overall h-index of 46. Publication output peaked in 2022 with 85 records (14%), and engineering emerged as the most represented discipline with 105 publications (17%). The most productive author was S. N. Surendran, contributing 55 publications (9%), while K. Vignarooban recorded the highest citation impact with 2,495 citations (20%). The study summarizes that after the civil war of Sri Lanka, research productivity of University of Jaffna increased due to international collaborations and technological advancements. The findings offer valuable insights for governments, academic institutions, librarians, and researchers, contributing to an understanding of regional scholarly growth and supporting future academic planning and development.

Abstract: Social scientists have only recently begun to explore how Erving Goffman’s intellectual trajectory was influenced by his engagement with animal ethology. Even less is known about Goffman’s relationship to the network of scholars working at the intersection of human and animal communication that coalesced in the 1960s and 70s. Relying on over two dozen pieces of correspondence recently made available from the University of Indiana archives, this article examines Goffman’s personal and working relationship with the founder of zoosemiotics, Thomas Sebeok, which lasted more than twenty years and included organizing a major international conference on Interaction Ethology. These materials bolster the case that Goffman was captivated by the postwar growth of animal ethology throughout his career. The documents also reveal Goffman’s broader ambitions to curate a school of human ethology grounded in the naturalistic study of everyday interaction and the inductive discovery of “the rules and practices which organize comingling.” Goffman was at pains to distinguish interaction ethology from sociobiological approaches to human ethology, which ultimately came to dominate the field.

Kaminskyi B.A. MODERNIZATION OF THE HOTEL AND RESTAURANT SECTOR OF UKRAINIAN RESORTS Purpose. The aim of the article is to identify the main directions, barriers and opportunities for modernization of the hotel and restaurant sector of Ukrainian resorts in conditions of war and transformations, taking into account the interaction of local initiatives, state policy, international assistance and structural shifts in the domestic tourism market. Methodology of research. The methods of comparative spatial analysis, regulatory and legal expertise, and content analysis of State Agency for Tourism Development (SATD) data and specialized media for 2023–2024 were used. The work also applied analytical grouping of resort types (sea, mountain, balneological), which made it possible to compare the impact of war, internal population mobility and deferred demand on their transformation. Particular attention is paid to identifying new hybrid functions of hotel and restaurant facilities and the dynamics of adaptation models in a sectoral context. Findings. It was found that the hotel and restaurant sector of Ukraine during the war underwent not only conservation, but also recomposition: in safer regions, establishments changed their functionality, combining accommodation, rehabilitation, evacuation logistics and domestic tourism services. As a result, the spatial core of tourist activity moved from traditional sea resorts to mountain and balneological locations. The main trends of modernization were identified: increased investment in small facilities such as individual entrepreneurs, increased digitalization of services, and the emergence of public and private models of business support in communities. The main barriers to development were analysed, in particular, the personnel crisis, and the lack of institutional capacity, competition from foreign destinations and the risks of underfinancing reconstruction. Current changes were compared with the potential for post-war growth and the dependence of future modernization effectiveness on horizontal interaction between communities, business and donor structures was revealed. Originality. A spatial-institutional approach to the analysis of the modernization of hotel and restaurant infrastructure is proposed, which takes into account the multi-level configuration of decisions in the transition period. For the first time, scenarios of the functioning of resort infrastructure in wartime conditions as mixed-use facilities are systematized. The connection between the hybridization of hotel functions, the evolution of demand and shifts in tourism development policy at the level of territorial communities is substantiated. Practical value. The results can be used by local governments when developing tourism policy strategies, resort business operators when planning investment programs, as well as donors supporting post-war infrastructure reconstruction. Key words: domestic tourism, foreign tourists, war, pent-up demand, sea resorts, health resorts, digitalization.

The article examines the features of modernization and growth in Ukraine’s strategic industrial sectors and identifies promising directions for their development. The authors analyze the consequences of the full-scale invasion for Ukraine’s real economy, which manifested in significant losses of production capacities, destruction of logistics chains, and a reduction in the sector’s share of GDP. The necessity of transitioning from a raw-material-based development model, reliant on resource advantages, to a structural transformation grounded in innovation is substantiated. Based on the analysis of the experience of developed countries (the USA, the EU) and the “Asian Tigers,” the article highlights the importance of state policies aimed at targeted support for a narrow set of strategic sectors (semiconductors, biotechnology, microelectronics) as a key factor for economic growth. It is demonstrated that Ukraine’s attempts to define priorities were too broad, indicating the absence of a clear industrial strategy and leading to underutilization of its resource potential. At the same time, the article emphasizes the pivotal role of digital transformation as a driver of recovery. EU financial instruments (“Digital Europe,” Ukraine Facility, CEF) and national initiatives (“Community 4.0”) are examined as mechanisms supporting Ukraine’s integration into the European digital market, the development of 5G infrastructure, and the strengthening of cybersecurity even under wartime conditions. The study argues that a post-war growth strategy should combine macroeconomic stabilization measures with structural reforms focused on job creation. Priorities include the development of the defense-industrial complex, localization of production, energy security, and technological modernization of industry based on the principles of sustainable development and the circular economy. The article stresses that the success of transformation depends on systematic state policy, institutional maturity, and effective use of international assistance. Keywords: Industrial policy, post-war recovery, structural transformation, strategic sectors, digital transformation, innovative development, defense-industrial complex (DIC), European integration, macroeconomic stabilization.

Full-scale war fundamentally transformed resource management approaches in Ukrainian enterprises. This research analyzes experiences of companies across different economic sectors adapting to prolonged conflict conditions. Metallurgists faced energy collapse when power outages could permanently damage blast furnaces, forcing massive investments in autonomous power generation. After losing plants in Mariupol and Avdiivka, Metinvest redirected production and completely restructured logistics through western borders instead of Black Sea ports. Agricultural holding Kernel reduced operations in dangerous southern regions while expanding land bank in western Ukraine, purchasing mobile equipment for rapid evacuation. Machine builders like Lviv Armored Plant established in-house production of components previously sourced from Kharkiv region suppliers in conflict zones. Kharkiv Turboatom maintained turbine production despite proximity to frontline by implementing multimachine operation and raising salaries 30–40% to retain personnel. Silpo retail network survived energy crisis through massive generator investments, continuing operations during 10–12 hour blackouts when competitors closed. Research reveals universal survival recipes don't exist – each sector requires specific strategies. Industrial enterprises need energy independence and technological process continuity. Agricultural sector requires equipment mobility and land bank diversification. Retail focuses on inventory management and backup power. IT companies proved most flexible through remote work capabilities. Study systematizes critical success factors: reaction speed, flexibility, supplier diversification across regions and countries, reserve capacity availability, and energy supply autonomy. State support programs like eRecovery and Affordable Loans 5-7-9% show effectiveness depends heavily on sectoral specifics. Research provides practical tools for entrepreneurs and informs sectoral policy formation. Results demonstrate that enterprises balancing short-term survival with long-term development investments create foundation for post-war growth.

The article is focused on analysis of identity and its conceptions of the US conservative elite in the 20th and 21st centuries according American scientists. The development of the American conservative elites can be divided into three periods. The fi rst period took place during the post-war growth of the US economic prosperity in the 1950s. At this time, conservative forces also strengthened their positions due to increase of the anti-communist rhetoric. there was a need to study a new structure of society that would effectively explain the mechanisms of activity of conservative elites in the United States.

This essay examines the cultural conditions surrounding The Rocky Horror Picture Show to examine its ties to the LGBTQ+ community by tracing the post-war growth of queer communities in cities like New York and San Francisco to the boiling-point of the Stonewall Riot. The film’s queer themes, aesthetic motifs, and LGBTQ+ representation are detailed to understand what made it a hit amongst working-class queer audiences of the 1970s and 1980s. This paper explores how the film spawned phenomena such as shadowcasting and continues to create space for working-class queer sexual liberation and individuality decades after its release.

In the presented scientific article, on the basis of the complex of studies carried out, the author analyzed the current state and prospects of the post-war growth of international business tourism in the concept of sustainable development of the tourist industry of Ukraine, as one of the leading tools for stimulating the recovery of the state's economy. The conducted author's research made it possible to determine that international tourism in general and its elements in particular, such as business tourism, are an extremely important aspect of the tourism industry of our country in terms of effective management of economic processes and require a corresponding update of approaches to their implementation, provision, development and quality review in relation to their implementation in life precisely in the concept of sustainable development. A study of the international tourism statistics of our country and a comparative analysis of the volumes of outbound and inbound tourism expenditures were carried out, the factors of negative impact on their level were systematized and analyzed. An improved author's understanding of the directions and prospects of the post-war growth of international business tourism in the concept of sustainable development of the tourism industry is provided. Also, the main features and principles of "sustainable tourism" are briefly explored, and the author's vision of this direction in a perspective context is proposed. Tourism has been proven to be one of the world's largest industries and categories of international trade, defined by an impressive network of socio-economic activities and the infrastructure necessary to support it. Based on this, it is shown and proven from the author's point of view that the implementation of international business in the concept of sustainable development in the post-war period will make it possible to: master the latest organizational and economic values and adapt to them; implement the concept of sustainable development in the international business tourism industry based on the definition of the features of its creation, distribution, accumulation and consumption of results; to form a new model of implementation and consumption, taking into account factors of a socio-ethnic nature.

The development of the information and communication sector (ICS) is one of the most crucial components of the creative economy, reaching the goals of sustainable development and post-war economic recovery in Ukraine and its regions. The purpose of this paper is to identify the key trends in the functioning of the ICS in the creative economy and to explore its contribution to sustainable development and post-war reconstruction in Ukraine. The author has examined the key social and economic indicators of the ICS by types of economic activity, compared the dynamics of structural changes in the ICS regionally using the Krugman, Herfindahl, and Theil indices of regional specialisation, and developed a simultaneous model of the functioning of this sector by regions of Ukraine. In 2010–2021, the increase in the contribution of ICS to the fostering of Ukraine’s creative economy, achieving the sustainable development goals concerning economic growth, decent work and innovation was shown by the number of active business entities (% of the total), capital investments (% of the total), turnover of enterprises (% of the total), number of the employed at enterprises (% of the total), and value added at factor costs of enterprises (% of the total). In 2022, the war led to a broad adaptation of business entities in the ICS of Ukraine to operate in unfavourable conditions, and they managed to be profitable. Given the indices of regional specialisation, the transformation of the economic structure of Ukraine’s regions driven by the development of the ICS is insignificant, slow, and gradual due to the relative stability of their industrial specialisation. The simultaneous equations model explaining the functioning of the ICS by region of Ukraine includes four regression equations describing the value added at factors costs of enterprises, the number of active business entities and workers employed by them, and the structure of service exports in this sector. The research findings would be useful to elaborate sectoral national and regional public policy aimed at expanding the post-war growth of Ukraine’s creative economy and achieving the sustainable development goals. Key words: information and communication sector, information and communication technologies, sustainable development, Ukrainian regions, creative economy, post-war recovery, regression analysis and structural equations.

The author identified the main problems and challenges of regional development that occurred in Ukraine due to the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation. The theoretical, methodological and practical aspects of the institutional support for the modernization of the productive forces of the region and the main aspects of the post-war reconstruction of the regional space are indicated. Today, the Ukrainian economy is experiencing an unprecedented shock in history. The massive military invasion of the northern neighbors dealt a heavy blow to all links of the economic system of our country. The production of the main types of products has decreased, in particular those that constitute the export potential of Ukraine. In addition, the ports are blockaded, making them the largest share of foreign trade. The transport and logistics, social, marketing and engineering infrastructure of the entire region is collapsing. Labor outflow and partial displacement temporarily displace hundreds of thousands or even millions of people from active economic life. The development of Ukraine depends on various factors, but the key ones are the sovereignty of the territory, the size and structure of the population, the presence and power of the national economy, and the infrastructure connecting the countries. Based on an objective analysis of the situation, determination of internal strengths and limitations, taking into account possible external risks/threats, the competent authorities of the country formulate and implement policies. Therefore, the development of a new regional development policy requires a comprehensive analysis and assessment of the current situation related to the war and the situation in Ukraine as a whole, regions and territorial communities. Military victory is very difficult, and sustained post-war growth is virtually impossible without a stable economy. Thus, today the domestic economy is increasingly becoming one of the priority fronts that determine the further course of military operations and their ability to successfully rebuild after the end. Ukraine's post-war economic boom is possible only if the country's economic policy measures are implemented in accordance with a clear and consistent strategy aimed at deregulation of the economy and creation of a favorable investment environment.

Labor's End: How the Promise of Automation Degraded Work

Transpacific Exoticisms:Performing Asia Across the U.S. Southern Border Rosanne A. Sia (bio) In 1951, Korean American soprano Florence Ahn stood center stage in an elegant gown at the Trocadero nightclub in Havana, Cuba (Figure 1). She gestured graciously toward the audience, soaking up their applause as she prepared to take her bow. Florence took her place among a group of Cuban rumba dancers costumed in polka-dot sleeves and long shiny dresses. An appreciative audience clad in firs and suits clapped from their seats at tables strewn with the remnants of drinks. The Cuban entertainment magazine Carteles wrote that Florence Ahn's arrival in Havana had been a triumph: "This Chinese girl came, saw, and conquered. She came to Cuba like a shining star."1 In the postwar period, Asian Americans traveled on nightclub circuits that took them across the southern border to perform amid the glitz and glamour of Cuban and Mexican cabaret culture. Many of them had first showcased their artistic talents and "oriental" beauty at famed Asian-themed nightclubs, such as the Forbidden City in San Francisco or the China Doll in New York City.2 They gained visibility during the early Cold War period when American policymakers, journalists, and cultural producers sought to demonstrate the promises of American racial democracy to audiences at home and abroad by promoting "desirable" images of race.3 This led to what Christina Klein has termed "Cold War Orientalism," a blossoming of American middlebrow entertainment about Asia, such as the musicals and films Flower Drum Song, South Pacific, and A Many Splendored Thing.4 As Klein has argued, this middlebrow [End Page 151] culture served the pedagogical function of teaching white Americans "correct" feelings of sympathy toward Asians and Asian Americans, but it also served to conceal war and violence across the Pacific. Along with films and musicals, American GIs brought home a taste for live Asian-themed nightclub shows. This led to the growth of lively audiences in the U.S. South at a time when the region was expanding with the postwar growth of the American military, industry, and tourism. Asian Americans took their shows on the road to entertainment hubs down south. Their travels show how the U.S. South served as what Tara McPherson has called a "hinge point between the Americas."5 Asian American entertainers boarded ferries and planes between Miami, Florida, and Havana, Cuba, or took the bus between the small border towns of McAllen, Texas, and Reynosa, Tamaulipas, before heading to Monterrey and Mexico City. In turn, they criss-crossed entertainers of Asian descent traveling in the opposite direction. Asian Cuban and Asian Mexican entertainers formed part of the stream of Caribbean and Latin American artists moving across the border to cater to the American craze for tropical rumba and dancing Mexican señoritas. They brought with them Cuban fantasies of the national symbol of the mulata, a figure that officially incorporated Blackness and whiteness, but also carried erased histories of racial mixing with the Chinese in Cuba.6 Others brought with them Mexican fantasies of Asia that had origins in the sixteenth century Manila galleon trade, intimate transpacific ties subsequently denied because of Mexico's orientation toward the transatlantic.7 This article draws on archival and oral history research to explore how four entertainers of Asian and mixed-Asian descent, Florence Ahn, Estela, Jadin Wong, and Su Muy Key, navigated the multiple racial and gendered imaginaries of the transpacific that circulated throughout the U.S. South, Mexico, and Cuba in the postwar era. They formed part of a much larger circulation of performers of Asian descent in this interconnected region. I argue that performers of Asian descent occupied culturally and racially ambiguous positions that allowed them to embody multiple transpacific fantasies in nightclub performances that experimented with cultural mixing. This included incorporating new genres global in scope, such as zarzuela, rumba, modern dance, and Mexican revista, developed through cross-cultural encounters during the entertainers' travels. In doing so, they disturbed the Black and white binary in the U.S. South as well as the erasure of the long-standing Asian presence within Latin America and the Caribbean; in some cases, they...

Introduction to the special issue on mobility, climate change, and economic inequality

The main regularities of the post-war recovery and growth of the cargo turnover of the Soviet commercial seaports in 1946-1955 are determined. The analysis of the dynamics of the cargo turnover of the ports of the USSR, the ports of Great Britain, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, France and the USA for 1946-1955, 1928-1955, 1913-1955 is carried out, a quantitative assessment is given of the recovery rate of the cargo turnover of their seaports after the Second World War. A comparison is made of the decrease in the cargo turnover of Soviet ports as a result of the Civil, First and Second World Wars. The dynamics of the volume and cost of transshipment of export and import cargoes in seaports and foreign trade cargo turnover of the USSR has been studied. An analysis was made of the growth rates of the cargo turnover of seaports in comparison with the growth rates of the volume of transportation by rail and inland water transport, the volume of production of industries, the products of which formed the basis of the cargo base of maritime transport. The dynamics of the cargo turnover of ports by sea basins is studied, a quantitative assessment is given of the growth in the cargo turnover of sea basins due to ports in the annexed territories based on the results of the Second World War. The cargo turnover of the largest ports of the Baltic basin in the first half of the 20th century is studied. The dynamics of cargo turnover of seaports by types of cargo has been studied. A decrease in the share of oil transshipment due to the development of a new oil-producing region and the development of pipeline transport has been revealed. The dynamics of port cargo turnover by types of navigation has been studied. An increase in the transshipment of imported cargo due to trophy cargo and war reparations was revealed. There has been analyzed the volume, cost and transportation length of the goods from Germany, Hungary, Romania and Finland on account of reparations.

Scholars have emphasised the role of the colonial state in explaining the development of white settler agriculture in general and the tobacco industry in particular in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Indeed, through a plethora of laws, ordinances and extra-judicial interventions, the colonial state provided both direct and indirect support, mostly to white farmers at the expense of African interests. More recently, studies have broadened this analysis by foregrounding the post-war global economic climate in seeking to understand the rapid growth of the colony’s tobacco industry in the aftermath of the Second World War. However, in underestimating white farmer agency in the remarkable expansion of the Southern Rhodesian tobacco industry during this period, both strands of literature share a common shortcoming, a gap that this article hopes to fill. Drawing mainly on archival material from the National Archives of Zimbabwe, industry magazines and newspapers, the article reinserts white tobacco growers in conversations on the post-war growth of Southern Rhodesia’s flue-cured Virginia tobacco industry beyond the role played by state support.

ABSTRACT This paper demonstrates empirically that Tokyo’s rapid post-war growth coincided with decreasing intra-urban inequalities in the special ward area, both in terms of private and public living standards. This phenomenon has not received much attention to date because Japan’s income inequalities were generally very low during this period. However, megacity growth of this kind is normally associated with growing segregation. This paper develops the narrative of ‘spatial egalitarianism’. It attributes low intra-urban inequalities to Tokyo’s homogenous urban form, equal economic structure of its neighbourhoods, and a redistributive intermediate layer of government that took a hands-off approach to urban planning. The implications are of relevance to today’s developing megacities in Asia and beyond.

ABSTRACT This article views analysis of the influence of capital–labour income distribution on economic growth from a historical perspective, using data from 1900 onwards. We study the three Scandinavian countries of Sweden, Denmark and Norway, where conventional accounts of the postwar growth miracles in these small, open economies have emphasized the role of wage restraint, favouring profits and investment over consumption. Instead, we show that the 1950s and 1960s saw growing wage shares, and use the Bhaduri–Marglin model to econometrically analyse the effects on consumption, investment, exports and imports and the total effects on GDP. Furthermore, we estimate the effects of wage pressure on labour productivity. Growing wage shares have had a small positive effect on GDP growth in Sweden, Denmark and Norway, and the positive effect was larger in the postwar period than in other times. However, the positive growth effects of wage pressure were modest as the demand was only weakly wage-led. In contrast, supply side effects were large. Labour productivity was stimulated by vigorous wage increases, as argued by the Swedish Rehn–Meidner model as well as by post-Keynesian economists. The present investigation opens several further avenues for research on the distribution–growth nexus.

The postwar environment is different from those of active war and established peace, with risks of violence and political volatility existing alongside renewed commitments to stability and development. International aid organizations join governing institutions in guiding policies for postwar growth. Though investments here are risky, I argue that governments can clarify key uncertainties and accelerate the process of recovering FDI by strengthening policy in areas of information transparency, governing accountability, and engagement with international aid. These ideas are tested with a survival analysis of inbound FDI recovery using a worldwide sample of postwar periods from 1970 to 2008. I find that while transparency and accountability accelerate FDI recovery as expected, foreign aid tends to be associated with slower rates of recovery. Rather than encourage postwar FDI with a commitment to development, aid may be an indirect signal that the environment is yet unfit for private sector investment. Policymakers and aid organizations should not rely on aid alone to attract foreign investment in postwar environments. Structures that encourage investment for social responsibility, with a long-term market outlook, may be more successful in these contexts.

The article is devoted to the study of various aspects of daily life of the US Embassy in Czechoslovakia in 1945—1948. The author considers the main areas of its work, major problems and difficulties that American diplomats had to overcome being in difficult conditions of the post-war economic recovery and international tension growth. Special attention is paid to the role of Ambassador L. A. Steinhardt, his methods of leadership, interactions with subordinates, with the Czechoslovak authorities and the State Department. This allows to reveal some new aspects of American diplomacy functioning, as well as to identify poorly explored factors that influenced American politics in Central Europe during the years when the Cold War was brewing and tensions between Moscow and Washington were rising. The article is based on unpublished primary sources from the American archives.

ABSTRACT In standard accounts of the origins of the ISO (International Organization for Standardization), or intermodal, shipping container, including Marc Levinson’s The Box and Alexander Klose’s The Container Principle, the story remains centered in Europe and North America, reflecting the issue emerging on the continent in the prewar era, and the post-war growth of the American trucking industry, associated with the expansion of federal highways. In contrast, this essay moves the focus to East and Southeast Asia, reflecting the significance of the Korean War and the Vietnam War as factors driving the shift from break-bulk shipping to containers, here motivated by military logistics. The post-war 1945 reconfiguration of Japan’s wartime empire, involving the reconstitution of relationships deriving from imperial connections, meant that new sites such as Busan, South Korea (1952) and Cam Ranh Bay, South Vietnam (1965 to early 1970s) became the focal points for vast infusions of war-related materials.