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Special issue: Language for Specific Purposes – Trends and Perspectives

This special journal issue comprises articles in the field of Language for Specific Purposes (LSP), most of which were presented at the Language for Specific Purposes: Trends and Perspectives International Conference held on 17-18 September 2021 in Budva, Montenegro. The conference was organised as part of the Erasmus+ ReFLAME project (Reforming Foreign Languages in Academia in Montenegro). ReFLAME is a CBHE project, the aim of which is to strengthen the capacities of Montenegrin universities to offer modern, market-oriented foreign language education for non-philology students, in response to the growing demand for foreign language skills in most work positions. The project is coordinated by the Faculty of Philology of the University of Montenegro, in partnership with the University of Donja Gorica, and Mediterranean University from Montenegro, and the University for Foreigners of Perugia, the University of Warsaw and the University of Zagreb as EU partners. The LSP conference provided an international forum for sharing experience, knowledge and results related to the theory, methodology and practice of teaching languages for specific purposes. It brought together over 100 researchers and practitioners from various countries who were focused on modern LSP concepts and approaches, establishing links with the needs of both academia and the labour market. The conference participants presented their research results, projects and experience, showing significant advances and demonstrating good practice in different areas of LSP. The current journal issue includes 19 articles that revolve around seven thematic issues related to the LSP field: LSP and Higher Education, LSP and Eteaching and E-learning, ESP Coursebook Design and Materials Development, Corpus-based Research in ESP, the Pragmatic Aspects of LSP discourse, ESP and Literature, and ESP and Translation

Australian Journal of Career Development: Introduction to 30-year special issue

This special issue of the Australian Journal of Career Development marks the milestone of its 30th year of publication. Under the leadership of its editors, the Journal has made a major contribution to Australian career development practitioners, theorists, and researchers as well as international readers. This special issue documents its history, overviews its theoretical contributions, and evidences the firm foundation on which its future will be built.

Editorial for the the special issue of WWW journal on Computational Aspects of Network Science (CAoNS)

Editorial for the the special issue of WWW journal on Computational Aspects of Network Science (CAoNS)

Logic in the Religions of South Asia

This special issue of Journal of Indian Philosophy results from a thematic session on “Logic in the Religions of South Asia”, a separate section of the 2nd World Congress on Logic and Religion (held at the University of Warsaw, Poland, June 18–22 June, 2017). The papers address questions, discussed in philosophical thought in classical India, such as how religious practice could shape philosophical reflection on the relation between language and reality, whether there are necessary truths and whether a priori knowledge is possible, the nature of some arguments for the existence of God, especially the argument from the causality of the universe, the problem of the validity of religious authority, the relation between logic and religious belief as well as language-related topics such as a theory of interrogatives expressing doubts and of declaratives expressing certitudes, both regarded as the verbal expression of cognitions.

The impact of COVID-19 on speech-language and hearing professions in low- and middle-income countries: Challenges and opportunities explored.

BackgroundSince the advent of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the speech–language and hearing (SLH) professions globally have been confronted with novel and unexpected challenges.ObjectiveThe aim of this article was to explore the impact of COVID-19 on SLH professions in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) as presented in the Special Issue of the South African Journal of Communication Disorders in the year 2022.MethodDivergent from the standard editorial writing style, this editorial adopted a research approach where a qualitative, descriptive scoping review design was conducted to meet the objectives of the study. Three specific objectives were targeted: (1) exploring the challenges to SLH research, teaching and practice; (2) establishing evidence-based solutions available for these challenges that can be used to improve the professions’ response in the post-pandemic era; and (3) determining the areas that require further investigation, alternative solutions and innovation for improved readiness for future pandemics. A total of 21 manuscripts were reviewed that covered three predetermined themes – research, teaching and practice – that were constructed through a deductive approach as part of the call for papers for the special issue. These manuscripts were from academics, researchers and clinicians from various institutions in LMICs. The review is presented using thematic analysis.ResultsThe review raised important challenges, presented under various subthemes, to the three key themes. These challenges reflect on the impact of COVID-19 on the SLH professions in terms of research, teaching, service provision and ethical challenges, as well as its impact on speech language, hearing, swallowing and balance functions. The review also advanced solutions and future directions during and beyond COVID-19.ConclusionThese findings raise global implications for research, teaching and practice that are not only relevant to the SLH professions.

Editorial: Participatory Evaluation and Impact Assessment in Citizen Science

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Introduction to the special issue on theorizing families, anti‐racism, and social justice

AbstractThis article introduces JFTR's contributions to the collaborative, three journal special issue on “Transformative family scholarship: Theory, practice, and research at the intersection of families, anti‐racism, and social justice.” We provide a brief perspective on the context from which this collaboration emerged, situate ourselves as Co‐Guest Editors in relation to our commitments to anti‐racism and social justice, and briefly describe the contributions of articles included in this volume. We conclude by offering a couple of directions for the future.

Reading Readers Reading: A Brief Reply to my Interlocutors

Reading Readers Reading: A Brief Reply to my Interlocutors

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of IEEE Journal of the Electron Devices Society on "Materials, processing and integration for neuromorphic devices and in-memory computing"

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of IEEE Journal of the Electron Devices Society on "Materials, processing and integration for neuromorphic devices and in-memory computing"

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of IEEE Journal of the Electron Devices Society on "Materials, processing and integration for neuromorphic devices and in-memory computing"

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of IEEE Journal of the Electron Devices Society on "Materials, processing and integration for neuromorphic devices and in-memory computing"

Notes on Contributors

Elizabeth Allen is professor and chair of English at the University of California, Irvine. Her book Uncertain Refuge: Sanctuary in Medieval English Literature was published in October 2021. Her essays have appeared in JMEMS, New Medieval Literatures, Speculum, Studies in the Age of Chaucer, and elsewhere.Katra Byram is associate professor in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the Ohio State University. Her research centers on narrative theory and German literature from the late nineteenth century to the present, seeking to understand how historically and culturally marked identities and experiences take shape in particular linguistic and narrative forms. Her publications include a book, Ethics and the Dynamic Observer Narrator: Reckoning with Past and Present in German Literature (2015), and recent articles on gender, genre, and post–World War II memory culture in Germany and on tiny house blogs and the Bildungsroman.Sabine Gross is Griebsch Bascom Professor of German at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her research areas include textual materiality, the reading process, Bertolt Brecht, the detective genre, narratology and stylistics, image-text relations, the human experience of time, theater and performance, and perception and synesthesia. She has published over fifty articles and a number of edited and authored volumes. The most recent are Herausforderung der Literaturwissenschaft: Droste-Hülshoffs ‘Judenbuche’ (coauthored with Ulrich Gaier, 2018) and “Rhythm,” a special issue of Monatshefte coedited with Hannah Eldridge (2021).Dr. JuEunhae Knox recently completed her PhD thesis at the University of Glasgow, pioneering a comparison of digital and traditional poetry in light of new labor capitalism and consumerism through the lens of literary naturalism. Her thesis is the first of its kind to examine Instapoetry in correlation with poe(t/m)-tagging on a visually commodified branding platform such as Instagram, with reference to new labor issues in the context of post-Marxian capitalism. She is collaborating with Dr. James Mackay on the world's first collection of critical Instapoetry essays published by Bloomsbury. They are also writing a special issue of the European Journal of English Studies on international Instapoetry, having led the inaugural global conference #Reading Instapoetry in July 2020, the first of its kind on this subject. This completely online conference won both the Chancellor's Fund Grant and the Community PGR Reward for its innovation and relevance, and has paved the way for multiple panels and conference roundtables with the American Literature Association, Poetics and Linguistics Association, and British Association of American Studies, where she has now served as both peer editor and article contributor. Dr. Knox also created the WorthaThousand Instapoetry Project with the Hunterian and the University of Glasgow Archives and Special Collections.Susan S. Lanser is professor emerita of comparative literature, English, and women's, gender, and sexuality studies at Brandeis University. Her book publications include The Narrative Act, Fictions of Authority, The Sexuality of History, and the coedited (with Robyn Warhol) Narrative Theory Unbound. Lanser is past president of the International Society for the Study of Narrative and the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. She received the Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award in 2020.Ignasi Ribó is assistant professor of comparative literature at the School of Liberal Arts, Mae Fah Luang University (Chiang Rai, Thailand). His research deals with issues in the environmental humanities, bridging across the interdisciplinary fields of ecosemiotics, ecocriticism, and human ecology. He is the author of Habitat: The Ecopolitical Nation (2012) and a contributor to the edited collection Southeast Asian Ecocriticism: Theories, Practices, Prospects (2017). He has also published the textbook Prose Fiction: An Introduction to the Semiotics of Narrative (2019), as well as five novels and several academic essays in various international journals.Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan is professor emerita of English and comparative literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Her book publications include The Concept of Ambiguity—The Example of James (1977), Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics (1983; rev. ed. 2002), and A Glance beyond Doubt (1996). She is the 2019 recipient of the Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for the Study of Narrative.Peter Smyth is a PhD candidate in the history of art at the Ohio State University. The focus of his research is the relationship between comics, literature, and painting.

Commemoration, Pedagogy, and Action

Commemoration, Pedagogy, and Action Charlene A. Carruthers (bio) On April 2, 2022, nearly four hundred people gathered to commemorate the life of Black feminist scholar, activist, and educator bell hooks (née Gloria Jean Watkins) in her hometown of Hopkinsville, Kentucky. hooks died at the age of sixty-nine of renal failure in her home on December 15, 2021. She was a prolific writer and incisive cultural critic. The commemoration generated a space for collective mourning and celebration of a poet who published more than forty books. Commemorators shared memories about their experiences and remarked on her cultural and intellectual legacy. Images of hooks alongside quotes from her works, interviews, and speeches spread widely across social media channels. I joined the chorus as a mourner whose own thinking is shaped by her calls for love, communion, and radicalism in education. The duality of celebration and mourning is characteristic of feminist pedagogy that draws from archives of struggles for liberation throughout the modern era. Archives are geographies of the past, the ongoing, and the future. They exist withing many places, including formal academic and government institutions, community centers, churches, civic organizations, and our homes. Scholars, artists, and movement workers pull from archives to make sense of their own experiences and ideas. Drawing from these archives as a feminist Black studies scholar and educator means that I traverse various histories of enslavement, genocide, and war. It also means that I cross through insurrection, mass mobilization, and institution-building amid white supremacist and patriarchal terror. This crossing back and forth, in between, and through is not linear. One song, class session, or text can cover the events and emotional toll of several hours or several hundreds of years. [End Page 19] The impetus for WSQ’s creation, the journal’s contributions to intellectual thought and political action and future, is undeniably dependent on its contributors and editorial team’s commitment to transgressive education. hooks makes this charge clear in Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. For hooks, transgressive education calls educators to do even more than what is often considered critical or feminist pedagogy. Unlike critical and feminist pedagogies, well-being matters in transgressive pedagogy. This approach to education can and should be pleasurable. hooks explains that “the pleasure of teaching is an act of resistance” (1994, 10). This resistance counters “the overwhelming boredom, uninterest, and apathy that so often characterize the way professors and students feel about teaching” (10). What becomes possible if everyone who is committed to feminist education organizes collectively to change how education is shaped and experienced? There is much to be learned from many sites of education, be it inside of an academic institution or in a community organizing setting. hooks urges us to connect the ideas learned in the academy with those learned outside of the academy. Doing so inevitably leaves educators who are also committed to anticolonial, feminist, and anticapitalist praxis vulnerable. Consequently, committing to transgressive education is a choice one has to make repeatedly, all the while weighing the risks and rewards of doing so. The emotional journey as an educator can contribute to our collective freedom. hooks writes that “to educate as a practice of freedom is a way of teaching that anyone can learn” (1994, 13). It is not limited to people who are primarily trained and located in the academy. However, the opportunity to learn how to educate as a practice of freedom is not readily available to everyone. As laws are introduced and passed in state legislatures to restrict the use of materials and ideas that examine racism, white supremacy, and the mere presence of LGBTQIA+ people in the United States, access to the archives or content needed to engage students is increasingly threatened and restricted. Still, as Black educators have consistently engaged, under the threat of criminalization and violence, in what education historian Jarvis Givens (2021) calls fugitive pedagogies, I am confident that transgressive pedagogy will survive this current historical conjuncture. It will survive through storytelling, shared experiences, and curious researchers who ask questions and consult archives. Commemoration does not require a special journal issue—it can happen in our everyday lives. Commemoration allows us to connect...

Working for an Algorithm: Studying Gig Workers’ Career Experiences

A new and rapidly developing phenomenon in the labor market is gig work. Gig work refers to short-term work or a ‘gig’ that sees intermediary platforms match workers with requesters/consumers via an app (Kuhn et al., 2021). Such work sees platform or gig organizations manage workers via algorithms causing a reconfiguration of the traditional employment relationship (Duggan et al., 2020; Kellogg et al., 2020). Although research in this domain is increasing exponentially as evidenced by published papers, special journal issues, books and conference presentations and symposia/workshops, knowledge is still in its infancy, particularly related to micro-level phenomena. In that vein, we propose this symposium to further refine and broaden the understanding of gig workers’ experiences, and in so doing help advance gig work theorization along with offering insights that may make improvements to practice. To achieve this goal, the symposium features four papers. The first one explores the social exchanges in the gig economy ecosystem (Paper 1). The following two studies also focus on the employment relationship between the algorithm and the worker, delineating this relationship in a conceptual piece (Paper 2), and investigating how a more human centered approach of the algorithmic management potentially enhances the sustainability of gig workers’ experiences (Paper 3). The fourth paper examines the challenging environment of gig workers as potentially impeding living a calling (Paper 4). Taken together, this symposium will provide important insights for scholars and practitioners across interrelated disciplines such as careers, human resource management (HRM), and organizational behavior (OB). Tough Love in the Ecosystem of the Gig Economy: An Ethnographic Study on Social Exchange Experiences Presenter: Jana Retkowsky; Vrije U. Amsterdam Presenter: Jos Akkermans; Vrije U. Amsterdam Presenter: Sanne Nijs; Human Resource Studies, Tilburg U. Presenter: Paul G W Jansen; Vrije U. Amsterdam Psychological Contracts in the Age of the Algorithm: A Gig Work Perspective Presenter: Ultan Sherman; Cork U. Business School Presenter: Ronan Carbery; Cork U. Business School Presenter: Anthony McDonnell; U. College Cork Presenter: Michael J. Morley; U. of Limerick Between Utopia and Pragmatism: Balancing Relationships Related to Algorithmic Management Presenter: Chloé Brassart; U. of Liège Presenter: Francois Pichault; U. of Liege Gig Work Challenges and Work Alienation: Hindering Factors for Living a Calling? Presenter: Lorenz Affolter; - Presenter: Daniel Spurk; U. of Bern Presenter: Caroline Straub; Bern U. of Applied Sciences

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of IEEE Journal of the Electron Devices Society on "Materials, Processing and Integration for Neuromorphic Devices and In-Memory Computing"

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of IEEE Journal of the Electron Devices Society on "Materials, Processing and Integration for Neuromorphic Devices and In-Memory Computing"

Challenging the status quo of sport injury psychology to advance theory, research, and applied practice: An epilogue to a special issue

In this epilogue to the Special Issue of Journal of Applied Sport Psychology on sport injury psychology, we consider how the five papers presented within have advanced this field of research in three meaningful ways: (a) moving beyond models (theoretical diversification); (b) working “with” rather than “on” participants (research diversification); and (c) moving beyond the “usual suspects” (applied diversification). We hope the next wave of research on sport injury psychology builds upon these studies to keep pushing the boundaries of our understanding of sport injury. Lay summary: In this epilogue to the Special Issue, we consider how the papers presented within extend our understanding of sport injury and push the boundaries of the field of sport injury psychology. A shift toward more diverse scholarship to extend theory, research, and practice is encouraged.

EDITORIAL: RESEARCH ON DATA SCIENCE EDUCATION

A very warm welcome to this Special Issue of the Statistics Education Research Journal (SERJ) on data science education. Our hope is to give an overview of selected theoretical thoughts and empirical studies on data science education from a statistics education research perspective. Data science education is rapidly developing but research into data science education is still in its infancy. The current issue presents a snapshot of this developing field.

The new generation: Contemporary Chinese art in the diaspora

This Special Issue of Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art focuses on the social significance and political relevance of diaspora Chinese art in the contemporary era. Although artists and authors may hold different stances towards Chinese and diaspora identities, their works and discussions showcase the importance of identity and identity-inflected art in contemporary times; they also demonstrate the productivity of treating Chinese diaspora art as a valuable subject of study in researching contemporary Chinese art. This editorial essay outlines the social and scholarly contexts related to a new generation of contemporary Chinese diaspora art and artists; it also introduces the structure and content of the Special Issue. The text is arranged in the following order: it first clarifies key words such as ‘diaspora’ and ‘Chinese diaspora’ and introduces scholarly debates surrounding these terms; it then briefly maps the study of contemporary Chinese art in a transnational and diasporic context to articulate the significance and scholarly contribution of the current issue. The essay ends with a mapping of the key topics and themes covered in this issue – which have implications for the study of Chinese diaspora art overall – and a brief outline of the key content and argument of each article.

Guest Editorial: Special issue from 9th IET Renewable Power Generation Conference

The 9th IET Renewable Power Generation Conference took place online in March 2021, having originally been intended to take place in Dublin, Ireland some months earlier. A major motivation for the conference was the recognition of the challenges and possibilities arising from increasing renewable shares in many countries, and the critical need for cost-effective, reliable, and robust solutions as part of the ongoing transformation of our power and energy systems. Despite the restrictions of the pandemic, approximately 70 papers were successfully presented at the conference across 15 oral and poster sessions, covering a wide range of themes including low inertia power systems, wind power plant modelling and control, renewable energy forecasting, distribution network operation and long-term planning, power system protection, electricity markets and system services etc. Subsequent to the conference, a number of the authors of the presented papers were invited to submit an extended version of their papers to a special issue of the IET RPG journal. Ultimately, after a thorough peer review process, 16 papers were accepted for the special issue, which have been grouped here under five main themes: electrical network operation and planning; power electronic converter control systems; flexibility/frequency support measures and electricity markets; power system security, protection and monitoring; and tidal stream energy.

Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors

More than Medals: A History of the Paralympics and Disability Sports in Postwar Japan by Dennis J. Frost

Reviewed by: More than Medals: A History of the Paralympics and Disability Sports in Postwar Japan by Dennis J. Frost Franziska Seraphim (bio) More than Medals: A History of the Paralympics and Disability Sports in Postwar Japan. By Dennis J. Frost. Cornell University Press, 2020. xiii, 311 pages. $39.95, cloth; $25.99, E-book. The Olympic Games are an unusually rich site for exploring the complex nature of our interconnected world from historical and interdisciplinary perspectives. Few icons of cultural internationalism reflect the changing interplay of geopolitical, economic, and sociocultural norms with so much affect, in large part because individual human bodies and souls bear out these dynamics. The rise of Asia as a locus in this historically Eurocentric internationalism—key moments being Tokyo 1964, Seoul 1988, Beijing 2008, Tokyo 2020, and Beijing 2022—has inspired a body of scholarly work on the value of sporting mega-events as diplomatic tools to renegotiate a range of power-political relations, domestic as well as international. The Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics served as a wonderful opportunity to read China's claims to international power through spectacle and the media more generally, as Tokyo 1964 once did for Japan.1 Since then, several edited volumes have taken an explicitly comparative approach to the Asian Olympics, still focused on narratives of nation in regional and international frames.2 But [End Page 445] as Tokyo 2020 took shape and then shifted to 2021 amidst the pandemic, academic research and public media combined in potent ways to place "health" at the center of a world more global than international: the mental health of athletes, public health in a time of pandemic, the environmental health of our planet. Taking seriously Tokyo's official motto "diversity and inclusion" and predating the pandemic, two special issues in the Asia-Pacific Journal in 2020 and the German Institute for Japanese Studies' timely edited volume Japan Through the Lens of the Tokyo Olympics, shift the focus to critical social, urban, and regional studies.3 From this vantage point, the history of the Olympics, and Tokyo 2020 in particular, reads like a century-long decline into unsustainability, with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as its alarmingly reticent flagbearer. Dennis Frost has unearthed a parallel history of the Olympic movement that tells a surprisingly different story. Reading More Than Medals is to realize the astonishing disconnect between the Paralympics and the "ablebodied" Olympics, despite concerted efforts made recently to think the two together, for example in Routledge's 2020 Handbook of the Olympic and Paralympic Games.4 The story of the Paralympics is rooted not in cultural internationalism through elite competitive sports but in local efforts to address the medical and social challenges of rehabilitating and reintegrating an army of injured war veterans in societies recovering from World War II. In England as in Japan, medical doctors directing government rehabilitation programs at leading hospitals for people with severe spinal injuries innovated treatment through movement and activity and quickly recognized the power of competition. Ludwig Guttmann (1899–1980), director of the National Spinal Injuries Unit at the Ministry of Pensions Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Buckinghamshire, was instrumental in organizing the first Stoke Mandeville Games in 1948 and taking them to an international stage. The ninth International Stoke Mandeville Games borrowed the time and place of the 1960 Rome Olympics and is retrospectively recognized as the first Paralympic Games. His counterpart in Japan was Nakamura Yutaka [End Page 446] (1927–84), dean of the Orthopedic Department at Beppu National Hospital, ōita Prefecture, Kyushu, a wartime center of military training that had transitioned into a major center of veteran medical rehabilitation around its famous hot springs.5 Nakamura was a central figure in bringing about the first Paralympics organized as such, in Tokyo 1964, the Far East and South Pacific Games for the Disabled in 1975, and the annual International Wheelchair Marathon held in his native Ōita since 1981. Frost begins his Japan-centered history of international disability sports competitions with the question why Japan of all countries, where disability was safely kept out of sight and mind in the 1960s, ended up hosting the Paralympics in 1964 and went on to become an international...