Testimonies Of Participants Research Articles

“The Aftermath of Historic Chaos”: Trumpism as a Totalist Worldview in the Testimonies of Participants in the January 6 Attacks

Abstract This article explores how the January 6th attack on the Capitol building is represented in the discourse of the participants in the insurrection. We analyze a self-compiled corpus of depositions and interviews with individuals involved in the January 6, 2021, assault, which we have named TruJan. The TruJan corpus was compiled from the GovInfo website. Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC-22) was used for the analysis to extract the most frequent topics discussed by the interviewees during the hearings, along with sentences that showcase the attitudes of the speakers regarding the most salient issues. The second part of the article offers a close reading of the depositions and interviews with movement leaders or founders: Ali Alexander (Stop the Steal), Henry “Enrique” Tarrio (Proud Boys), and Stewart Rhodes (Oath Keepers). We argue that Trumpism’s latent totalist potential was made manifest in the January 6 attacks due to the political setbacks Trump faced when losing the 2020 elections, which was perceived as a state of crisis.

‘카운터 모뉴먼트’의 비물질적 특성과 국내외 사례연구

The purpose of this study is to understand monuments as an expanded form of participatory art projects aimed at healing collective trauma, based on James Young's concept of ‘Counter Monument’. Although the counter monument is a form that deviates from the material and sculptural framework of traditional monuments, it fulfills the original purpose of the monument, which is to ‘represent and preserve memories,’ and at this time, collective trauma brings about formal, media, and expressive changes in the monument. Accordingly, this study explains James Young's concept of counter monuments and the examples he indicates. Furthermore, it will analyze domestic cases that show collective trauma as non-material representations, focusing on interviews with the author and testimonies of participants. These ‘expanded monuments’ are a special way of mourning that seeks to ‘reinterpret within the meaning of the present’ the events that came as a big blow to the Korean society. At the same time, it has a very special meaning with 're-historicizing' those events within a new sense of cultural solidarity.

Problematic Aspects of the Communicative Component of Legal Proceedings

Today, the attention of lawyers is focused more on the issues of digitalization of legal proceedings in general and judicial communication based on the speech activity of participants in the process. The problems of legal proceedings as an independent type of social communication remain in the shadows. Since the testimony of participants in the proceedings is the most common evidence, law enforcement officers need up-to-date information about the specifics of their formation and receipt. Research conducted by psychological scientists in different countries of the world currently calls into question the possibility of using even bona fide participants in the process in evidence without additional verification of the testimony. Law enforcement officers are objectively unable to distinguish false memories from those related to events that actually took place. When checking the information provided by the participants in the proceedings, special knowledge from the field of linguistics, psychology, psychophysiology and related fields should be used. At the same time, the identification by expert means of signs of the participant’s awareness of a legally significant event or distortion of the information reported by him must be distinguished from the procedural evaluation of evidence.

THE IMPACT OF PROFESSIONAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL QUALITIES ON THE PROCEDURE OF CONDUCTING A PHASED TESTIMONY OF CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS’ PARTICIPANTS

This article discusses procedural and tactical foundations of testimony of participants in criminal trials according to the legislation of the Republic of Uzbekistan. In particular, the article debates on the following issues: the purpose and grounds for attracting an individual to participate in criminal trials; specifics of using techniques during testimony; influence of professional and psychological qualities of a judge in soliciting a testimony; and finally, requirements for processing the results of a testimony.

Use of special knowledge in criminal proceedings

Special knowledge is important in the formation of the evidence base in criminal proceedings. With the help of special knowledge, it is possible to establish facts and reproduce events that cannot always be determined through the testimony of participants in the process or through investigative actions. The use of special knowledge is regulated by law, but in practice there are examples of inappropriate compliance with the procedure for attracting specialists and experts as carriers of special knowledge, assigning and conducting examinations and special studies, and correctly assessing the results obtained. In this connection, the purpose of scientific research is to study the procedural requirements for the use of special knowledge in criminal proceedings and to identify problems that arise in law enforcement practice. The authors used methods of comparative analysis, formal logic and documentary control in the research process. As a result, the authors formed their view on the use of special knowledge in criminal proceedings in order to assist specialists in assessing evidence and their sources at the stage of pre-trial proceedings, presented criteria for analyzing the quality of the use of special knowledge (expert and specialist opinions) and the materials of a criminal case that influence their quality, used in the conclusions of experts and specialists in accordance with the requests of legal practice. The value of the study lies in the fact that the authors proposed independent solutions to overcome problems associated with the use of special knowledge in criminal proceedings.

Antisocial Behaviors as Indicators of Latent School Dysfunction in Urban Morocco: a Phenomenology Study

This present research delves into the subjective experiences of EFL high school teachers in Morocco, elucidating their daily encounters with disruptive and anti-social behaviors and the coping mechanisms they employ. Conducted within the theoretical framework of structural functionalism, the study aims at measuring the extent to which schools as socialization institutions serve their designated social roles. A phenomenological methodology is employed, allowing five high school teachers to freely share and reflect on their lived experiences with regard to the topic under investigation. Semi-structured interviews were used to collect the data, which offered ample freedom for informants to voice their perceptions, feelings, sufferings, and to suggest practical solutions. From the testimonies of participants, three primary themes emerged. First, the Moroccan school is now embarking on undeclared roles pertaining to security and social order rather than to education. Second, the immense suffering experienced by teachers has a substantial negative impact on their professional performances, which, in turn, affects students’ academic achievements. Third, informants recognize disruptive behavior as a symptom of school dysfunction, and attribute it to teacher disempowerment, ineffective school legislations, the absence of a collaborative environment, the local authorities, the media and the family.

CRITERIA FOR EVALUATING THE TESTIMONY OF PARTICIPANTS IN CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS AT THE TRIAL STAGE

The publication is devoted to the scientific analysis of the criteria for evaluating the testimony of the participants in criminal proceedings at the trial stage. It has been established that the court is the only subject of evaluation of testimony of participants in criminal proceedings as an element of the proof process in the court of first instance. It was concluded that the evaluation of the evidence, in particular those contained in the testimony, from the point of view of propriety, admissibility, and reliability is carried out in relation to each investigated evidence and as a result creates a holistic perception of the circumstances of the criminal offense based on the entire volume of collected evidence.

MEMCONS: How Contemporaneous Note-Taking Shapes Memory for Conversation.

Written memoranda of conversations, or memcons, provide a near-contemporaneous record of what was said in conversation, and offer important insights into the activities of high-profile individuals. We assess the impact of writing a memcon on memory for conversation. Pairs of participants engaged in conversation and were asked to recall the contents of that conversation 1 week later. One participant in each pair memorialized the content of the interaction in a memcon shortly after the conversation. Participants who generated memcons recalled more details of the conversations than participants who did not, but the content of recall was equally and largely accurate for both participants. Remarkably, only 4.7% of the details of the conversation were recalled by both of the partners after a week delay. Contemporaneous note-taking appears to enhance memory for conversation by increasing the amount of information remembered but not the accuracy of that information. These findings have implications for evaluating the testimony of participants on conversations with major political or legal ramifications.

A qualitative study on sustainable marketing and strategy applied to creation of value according to SDG’s 2030

The main purpose of this research is to highlight the role of sustainable marketing and strategy as business disciplines, oriented to develop solid strategies aimed at meeting the corporate objectives and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2030 of the United Nations. This work, in its initial stages, is focusing on documenting the experiences of entrepreneurs and organizations from various industries in Baja California, Mexico, such as medical, maquila, transportation, electronics, electro domestics, restaurants, quality, entrepreneurship, among other relevant local industries. With this, it ca n be implied that sustainable precepts, according to SDGs 2030, are a parameter of certainty that companies and the private sector can take advantage to rethink their traditional objectives and generate strategies focused on sustainable development. And it is in this balance where the efforts of those companies defined or conceptualized as sustainable are mainly concentrated. To visualize how the companies participating in the study plan to integrate their objectives and strategies into the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (UN), a qualitative study (focus group session) with 11 participants of different industries and corporate concepts is presented with its results. Participants are part of an academic course (Sustainable Business), which is aimed to improve conscience and value of sustainable precepts applied to business. The main results of the focus group establish the testimony of participants, who enhance the strategic planning elements of their companies and their business objectives that can be matched with the United Nations (UN) SDGs 2030. Also, results show the application of these objectives to create innovative strategies of business and marketing with a sustainable approach and orientation.

Sources of evidentiary information to be studied in the investigation of road traffic crimes involving route vehicles

The authors consider the sources of evidentiary information that allow us to form a full-fledged idea of the mechanism of committing traffic crimes in the process of transporting passengers by buses. The article focuses on the need for the subjects of the investigation to operate on the legal and technical aspects of the organization of passenger transportation, the regulations of which are subject to strict compliance and reflected in the relevant accompanying documentation of transport companies. Special attention is paid to the evidentiary value of information obtained from the results of studying the testimony of participants in criminal proceedings, as well as physical evidence (objects and documents). The possibility of creating, on the basis of a set of information obtained from various sources of information, a model of committing a traffic crime, including both elements of the organization of transportation of a particular company, and the direct mechanism of illegal act.

Trăgători și Mistificatori: Contrarevoluția Securității în decembrie 1989

Trăgători și Mistificatori: Contrarevoluția Securității în decembrie 1989

Employing a Dance-Somatic Methodological Approach to VR to Investigate the Sensorial Body across Physical-Virtual Terrains

This article takes a somatic dance standpoint to investigate bodily sensorial encounters with virtual reality technology (VR). Using somatic dance practices as sensory tuning methods, this article investigates the virtuality and corporeality of human and nonhuman bodies across virtual and physical environments and expanded sensory modes of seeing and feeling, using a multiperson interactive VR framework. Predicated on a dance-based sensibility and mode of engagement with VR, workshops crafted for groups of dancer and nondancer participants offer methods for the design and facilitation of VR encounters that expand ideas and expectations of both body and technology. Using autoethnographic writing and participant testimonies, alongside conceptual thinking around participation in VR, I present this methodological approach and demonstrate its potential to address new questions about VR experiences that are centred on the sensorial body.

Establishment of an entrepreneurial studio as a forum for increasing student entrepreneurship interest

Entrepreneurship courses are offered in almost all university majors and study programs. This is a pledge to assist the government in its efforts to minimize the number of unemployed. However, the factual conditions discovered a number of issues, including students' lack of entrepreneurial interest, the lack of a product marketing forum, and inadequate facilities and infrastructure. The aim of this program is to create an entrepreneurial studio that will serve as a venue for students to learn more about entrepreneurship. Preparation for the establishment of a studio and soft launching, as well as an entrepreneurial inspiring speaking (BISA) webinar, are the methods employed in this service. According to participant testimonies, this activity resulted in the creation of an entrepreneurial studio as a forum for students entrepreneurship, as well as an increase in students' interest in entrepreneurship after participating in the Entrepreneurship Inspirational Talk (BISA).

Returning to the Body: Somatic Sensing in Multi-Person Virtual Reality Technology

This article uses a dance-somatic standpoint to explore the complexities of body-technology relations across the virtuality and corporeality of bodies and environments using multi-person Virtual Reality technology (VR). Immersion into a virtual environment (VE) using VR can lead to a sense of presence, of ‘being there’. Dancers move attending to a field of sensation which is felt and tactile, undertaking somatic and sensory practices to de-centre vision so to foreground and thus activate non-visual and somatic senses. From this dancerly standpoint, entering into a VE brings into play the immediate effect of a perceptual tension or ‘gap’ between the visual, virtual environment and the physical, felt environment. Technologists and artists engaging with VR typically find ways to cover-over this perception gap in order to create a reality that is fluidly and synchronously experienced by the participant. This article introduces and discusses two participatory performance projects Figuring (2018) and Soma (2020) which challenge this approach. Drawing on participant responses to Figuring, and the creative development of Soma, the article presents and discusses six themes which unpack and challenge normative notions and expectations around VR technology and how bodies sensorially engage with the technology; and discusses an ‘ethics of care’ which calls for somatic activation and participatory agency in human encounters with technology. Throughout, the article offers a commentary on the tensions between a thematic research approach and an intuitive, practice-led approach in the analysis of participant testimonies and in the creative processes of performance-making. 

The Cutaway to the Toilet: Towards a Visual Grammar of Spatial Stigma in Factual Welfare Television

Editing techniques used in Factual Welfare Television (FWT) in the UK undermine narratives of hardship and structural inequality in representations of the living places of welfare claimants. This research identifies the affects of a televisual syntax – or ‘visual grammar’ – of spatial stigma in FWT. Using original data generated in a study of Channel 5’s documentary series On Benefits (2015–2019), we conduct a visual grammar analysis to argue that cutaway editing, which inserts camera shots of toilets, canine excrement, and fly-tipping into programmes, undermines potentially sympathetic representations of poverty communicated via narrator voiceovers, and/or verbal testimonies of participants. Our findings show that cutaway editing is a significant feature in the production of On Benefits and is oppositional to the articulated narrative. The research concludes that cutaway editing in FWT generates disgust towards the living places of benefits claimants, which is productive of a powerful visual grammar of spatial stigma.

«ОДІССЕЯ» ТИМЧАСОВИХ СТОЛИЦЬ ЗА ДОБИ УКРАЇНСЬКОЇ РЕВОЛЮЦІЇ 1917–1921 рр. Рецензія на книгу Кравчука О. М., Калитка С. Л., Ратушняка І. І. «Директорія УНР у Вінниці у грудні 1918 р.: документи і матеріали. Наукове видання. Вінниця: ТОВ «ТВОРИ», 2020. 268 с.»

The author reviewed the scientific publication of O. Kravchuk, S. Kalytko and I. Ratushnyak, prepared and designed as a collection of documents and materials devoted to the events of the second half of November – December 1918. This was the time of the establishment of the power of the Directory of the Ukrainian People’s Republic in Podillia and its stay in Vinnytsia. The peer-reviewed publication contains documents and materials from archives and regional periodicals, testimonies of participants in the activities of higher and local authorities of the Ukrainian People’s Republic, city self-government in Vinnytsia during the anti-Hetman uprising. It is concluded that this is the first publication of this kind, which through unique sources and materials thoroughly covers the activities of the highest governing body of the UNR in Vinnytsia.

The Recovery Attempts of the So-Called «Red Kurdistan» 1988-1992

The purpose of this article is to highlight the attempts to restore the so-called "Red Kurdistan" in the period 1988-1992. This is a topic worth studying for Armenia and Artsakh, as it refers to the establishment of Kurdish autonomy with Berdzor center on the territory of Artsakh in 1992. The article presents the measures taken by the Kurds in parallel with the collapse of the USSR, which were aimed at establishing Kurdish autonomy. The text of the declaration of independence of "Red Kurdistan" in Armenian translation is partially presented. The article draws attention to the prehistory of “Red Kurdistan”. The historical facts referring to the Kurdistan county, created in 1923-1929 are also presented. The work presents the parallel events taking place in Artsakh and Azerbaijan. The task is to study actions aimed at the establishment of Kurdish autonomy, the contributing factors and consequences. There is not much research on the subject, so we have mostly tried to gather information from the people who took part in the events. The main sources of the study were A. Hakobyan's memories and the book “History of Caucasian Kurdistan” by V. Mustafaev. The research methodology is based on the witness and participant testimonies, memories, historical-comparative and analytical methods. As a result of the study, the conclusion is drawn that although Kurdish autonomy was not established on the territory of Artsakh, it became an occasion for Azerbaijan to create narratives on Armenian-Kurdish relations.

GENRE EXPERIMENTS OF K. TUR-KONOVALOVIN THE FILM-NOVEL «KRUTY 1918»

Film-novel is a specific synthetic genre that appeared at the end of the 30-s of the 20-th century, when silent cinema gave way to sound cinema. This is an experimental form of the novel, which arose as an embodiment of the idea that art should be syncretic. Usually, such work combines the means of cinema and literature and is oriented towards a screen adaptation. K. Tur-Konovalov is a Ukrainian screenwriter and director who managed to transfer his cinematic experience to literature, and his literary experience to the field of cinema. Today, K. Tur-Konovalov is known as the author of the film novels «Rezhyser» («The Film Director») (co-authored with D. Zamriy and O. Lisovykova), «Khudozhnyk» («The Artist») (co-authored with D. Zamriy) and «Kruty 1918». The question of the creative style of K. Tur-Konovalov is relevant and studied insufficiently. The purpose of the article is to analyze the peculiarities of the cinematographic writing of K. Tur-Konovalov in the film novel «Kruty 1918». It was found out that the film novel was created with a conscious focus on certain cinematographic methods of narration: dividing the action into short episodes, laconism of dialogues and author’s explanations, montage nature of episodes, etc. The composition of the work is free, reflecting the presence of three time planes: present, past and future. The main attention is focused on the historical truth modeling in the work, first of all, in the prefaces, which resemble a kind of documentary evidenceі about past long-ago times and explain the role of Ukraine in the international arena, in introductions, which introduce the documentary testimonies of participants and eyewitnesses of the events near Kruty, and in the epilogue, which tells about the further fate of the students who were not shot. The authenticity of the film novel is facilitated by the introduction of well-known personalities (A. Goncharenko, M. Hrushevskyi, S. Petlyura, V. Pypskyi, M. Muravyov and others) into the plot. It is noted that there are no extensive portrait descriptions of the characters in the work, since the author’s main goal was to influence the reader’s imagination by visualizing only individual details in the images of the characters. Only occasionally do we come across the inner thoughts of the characters. The plot is revealed through the actions of the characters, their dialogues. Individual scenes (a kind of film stills) are described succinctly, they are easy to imagine. It is indicated that the events of the novel are concentrated in time and space. The following genre elements are emphasized: the author’s intervention in the course of depicted events (the presence of various types of messages, comments, indents, and biographical references), the simultaneous use of several artistic representation techniques (simultaneity), special colorism. K. Tur-Konovalov’s genre experiments take place on the border between literature and cinema.

Sources of Information about the Speech Situation of Insults When Solving Expert Problems

The article deals with a classification of sources of information about the verbal situation of an insult, which is subject to research during the production of a forensic linguistic examination. The objective side of the crimes established by Articles 319 and 297 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation is verbal aggression, expressed in insulting a representative of the authorities, participants in the trial, and persons involved in the administration of justice. The author examines various ways of fixing the speech situation of an insult and information about it and also puts forward a hypothesis about the possibility of carrying out a linguistic study of a conflict speech event recorded in the testimony of participants in criminal proceedings while observing a certain order of registration of a procedural document

Peaks and Valleys

This qualitative phenomenological study examined how 11 international students experienced learning English within an intensive English immersion program, which used an integrated skills approach for language learning. Participants included seven males and four females from Africa, Asia, Central America, Middle East, and South America. Drawing on sociocultural and sociolinguistic theories, data analysis suggested that the participants experienced a range of competing emotions and relied on instructors for support and guidance throughout the learning process. In addition, participant testimonies demonstrated that successful language learning occurred when instructors met their social needs (e.g., provided a sense of belonging) and respected their cultural mores (e.g., supported a family-orientation in class). Implications from this study offer insights for university-based immersion programs in the United States.