Themes Of Exploitation Research Articles

The Human Condition in the 21st Century: Body and Architectural Space in Contemporary Art

Architectural practices that sustain economic power structures often overlook the complexity of place, prioritizing rationality and utility for funding while perpetuating issues like climate crises and income inequality. In contrast, art offers critical perspectives unconstrained by immediate practicality. This research examines how contemporary artists understand and create space to reach a spatial design approach that activates subjects and fosters new connections between humans and non-humans. In the scope of this research, seven contemporary artists who produce artworks related to either the body or space have been chosen. The discourses of artists exploring the body-space relationships serve as primary sources. Two methods are employed: logical argumentation and analysis by analogy. The latter involves visualizing the analysis of textual discourses through messy word maps to extract insights from artists’ concepts and tactics. “Artist topographies” contribute to a collective “cognitive topography,” revealing commonalities around themes of exploitation, oppression, profit, borders, otherness, agency, and complexity. The conclusion presents suggestions for an alternative spatial design approach based on the discourses and cognitive topography.

(Pragmatic) collaboration for progress or threat to autonomy? African news discourses about Chinese technology in Nigeria and Ghana

This study explores how African news media frame China’s role in digital technology. China’s engagement in Africa is portrayed as an ambiguous trend by Western media, which point to risks of Chinese influence. Themes of exploitation and support for autocratic regimes are common in media narratives about Chinese-African collaborations. Yet claims that China pursues a neo-colonial project in Africa seem exaggerated. While Chinese geopolitical ambitions drive its foreign policy decisions, African actors often appear absent from these discussions. African perceptions and assessments of China are nuanced, indicating a complex relationship. They point to benefits and risks with China as an economic, political, and cultural partner. It is crucial to analyze local contexts where stakeholders “get to speak” about China and technology, offering interpretative frameworks and engaging with opposing perspectives. News media are vital sites where technology narratives are conceived and circulated. The present study analyses Nigerian and Ghanaian news media as examples. Both countries share a complex history of development collaboration with China. Using a news framing approach linked to sociotechnical imageries, the study focuses on how African media discourses give meaning to digital technology and assess it in relation to foreign partners, including geopolitical implications in the Global South.

Bengali Dalits Speak: A Critical Study of Jatin Bala’s A Verse as a Sharpened Weapon

Dalit literature in India emerged as a movement of Ambedkarite ideology to challenge caste discrimination. Poetry as a popular genre has been adopted by Dalit writers to disseminate revolutionary ideas to bring about a change in society. They significantly unmask how the upper caste Hindus hold the supreme power to ostracize the Namashudras (Dalits) in the name of religion and caste. A Bengali Dalit poet Jatin Bala with a liberal vision and mission, used his words to protest, revolt and negotiate with the domineering ideology. His poetry A Verse as a Sharpened Weapon not only breaks the myth that West Bengal is a casteless society but also carries a note of dissent against the upper caste hegemony. He has successfully constructed the poetic device with aesthetic values to showcase the domination and oppression that Dalits face in Bengal. As a revolutionary poet, Bala breaks the chain of age-old caste oppression and reverberates the message of liberty, equality and fraternity through his verse. The present article examines Jatin Bala’s poetry to explore the theme of exploitation and protest. It also shows how Bala’s poetry becomes the voice of resistance, liberation and emancipation of his community from bondage.

Mahasweta Devi's Draupadi: Resonances of Patriarchy, Crime and Confrontation

The present paper aims to capture the position of a woman in male dominated culture and how she is owned as property in Mahasweta Devi's short story "Draupadi". In this story she raises her voice against the Indian feudalism and talks about the ingratitude of government. There are three stories in Breast stories translated by Gayatri Chakravarty Spivak named "Draupadi", "Breast Giver" And "Behind the Bodice." All these stories have a theme of exploitation and patriarchy. In Draupadi, Devi speaks about the violence faced by its protagonist Dopdi Mejhen.

Contesting Narratives of Victimization in Migration to the Arab Gulf States: A Reading of Mia Alvar’s In the Country

The experiences of migrant workers in the Arab Gulf States tend to be understood through narratives of victimization. This article aims to problematize such narratives through an analysis of three short stories set in the Gulf by Filipina-American writer Mia Alvar from her debut collection In the Country (2015). Mapping out ways in which these stories depart from narratives that revolve around themes of exploitation and exclusion, the article demonstrates that fiction can critically engage with the tension between the need to represent and make visible the reality of migrant experiences in the Gulf, and the need to question the essentialism and inflexibility through which they tend to be framed. Using the insights of recent anthropological and ethnographic research on the Gulf’s non-citizen population, I argue that Alvar’s stories both expose the structural inequality that facilitates victimization and pave the way for a more nuanced understanding of migrant experiences in the Gulf.

The Utility of Assessing Nonverbal Communication in the Psychiatric Evaluation

The Utility of Assessing Nonverbal Communication in the Psychiatric Evaluation

A new hybrid parallel genetic algorithm for the job‐shop scheduling problem

AbstractThe job‐shop scheduling problem (JSSP) is considered one of the most difficult NP‐hard problems. Numerous studies in the past have shown that as exact methods for the problem solution are intractable, even for small problem sizes, efficient heuristic algorithms must achieve a good balance between the well‐known themes of exploitation and exploration of the vast search space. In this paper, we propose a new hybrid parallel genetic algorithm with specialized crossover and mutation operators utilizing path‐relinking concepts from combinatorial optimization approaches and tabu search in particular. The new scheme relies also on the recently introduced concepts of solution backbones for the JSSP in order to intensify the search in promising regions. We compare the resulting algorithm with a number of state‐of‐the‐art approaches for the JSSP on a number of well‐known test‐beds; the results indicate that our proposed genetic algorithm compares fairly well with some of the best‐performing genetic algorithms for the problem.

Free Adult Internet Web Sites: How Prevalent Are Degrading Acts?

Russell (Dangerous relationships: Pornography, misogyny, and rape, 1988) argued that essential features of pornography were the inclusion of more female than male nakedness and the portrayal of men in dominant roles. Utilizing a sample of 45 Internet adult web sites, a content analysis was conducted to see if free and easily available Internet adult videos may generally be described as pornography in line with Russell’s (1988) work. A majority of videos in our sample portrayed more female than male nakedness as well as much higher representations of men in sexually dominant positions. The prevalence of violence in this sample of video and the presence of various acts (name calling, ejaculating on the face, submission, and eagerness to participate in any sex act) were also content analyzed and used to establish prevalent themes. We found a significant difference in the likelihood of a video having a theme of exploitation or domination and whether or not the video portrayed one of these acts. If the video had a theme of exploitation or domination, 92% of the videos also included a minimum of one of these acts while those videos that had themes of reciprocity or autoeroticism were significantly less likely to contain such acts. This study contributes to the literature on gender and pornography by examining issues of degradation and power relations within the context of a rapidly expanding cybersex industry.

Entre actos: Dialogos sobre teatro espanol entre siglos

Entre actos: ditlogos sobre teatro espanol entre siglos. Eds. Martha T. Halsey and Phyllis Zatlin. U Park, PA Estreno, 1999. 398 pages. Entre actos consists of 42 papers presented at the International Symposium on Spanish Theatre held at Penn State University in September, 1997. The first of five sections begins with essays by five distinguished Spanish playwrights. Luis Araujo, for example, explores 6 of his own works illustrate how selection of the right form of play best brings out its content. Also analyzing his own theatre, Benet y Jornet expresses his hopes of giving his audience small measure of inspiration carry on in the face of life's vicissitudes, while Lopez Mozo offers useful history of avant garde writers in the post-Franco era. We discover more of the human side of Paloma Pedrero as she talks of her struggles overcome the handicaps of being woman in man's world. Rodriguez Mendez illustrates how his plays closely reflect the history of post-Civil War Spain and how he was personally involved in that history. Women playwrights are the subject of the second section. In plays by Teresa Garcia and Lourdes Ortiz, Wendy-Lyn Zaza discusses the courage of women characters condemned post-war concentration camps and later, their disillusionment with the failure of the Spanish socialist government implement promised reforms. Carolyn Harris in politically correct interpretation of Concha Romero's Juego de reinas, sees Juana la Loca's choice of love over duty as refusal to accept the values of the patriarchal order and the reason for her being declared insane. Possibly anachronistic in Romero's play, is Juana's defense of the Jews, Moors and Gypsies who were expelled from Spain by her mother Isabel la Cat6lica. Thus, Juana says, they were denied the right to think, pray or love in freedom. Iride Martina-Lens' study of Female Rage is the most optimistic in this section. After analyzing three American films (Thelma and Louise, Waiting Exhale, and First Wives Club) in which wives in their forties and fifties are abandoned by their boomer husbands, Martina-Lens points out that the only good coming out of their rage is bonding among the women. In contrast, Ana Diosdado's Camino de plata and Pedrero's Locus de amar, portray women victims who are able reconstruct their lives, gain insight into themselves and find a balance between love and independence. In the third section, under the title Estudios generates, Francisca Vilches de Frutos seeks define the Generacion Simbolista, and then describes the trials of these writers in the post-Civil War period and their comeback in the nineties. Ursula Aszyk of the University of Warsaw offers an analysis of the Vanguard theatre in the transition period and shows how European Vanguard writers and directors including Brecht, Stanislavski, Artaud and Grotowski influenced Spanish theatre. There are essays on Postmodernism by Wilfred Floeck and by Peter Podol who also treats metatheatre and the theme of exploitation in the contemporary theatre. Three studies on Buero Vallejo conclude this section: Victor Dixon sees Buero's La Fundacion as re-creation of La vida es sueno. …

Adam Ferguson and the Theme of Exploitation

Adam Ferguson and the Theme of Exploitation

Exploitation at the Foot of Mt. Iwaki

It is after the end of the Great World War II that exploitation of land had been remarkably carried out at the bottoms of volcanic mountains where extensive plain spread out at their skirts. Generally speaking, there is more belated in land exploitation than other districts owing to its geographic figure, climates and soils. However hither to unavailed left as deserted place for a long time, it is considered on the other side that it has an important significance for the village life serving as the sphere of meadow land and felling of firewood and charcoals. Or it might be rather taken for a requisite area for the village life. Moreover, considering together of the fact some parts of it had been scheduled as the object of exploitation of the Shinden (newly reclaimed field), it is to be putted in mind that we should not neglect the histrico-geographical studies concerning the bottom area of volcanic mountain. From this point of view, the author here deals with the theme of exploitation at the foot of Mt. Iwaki as well as at the area of river Iwaki. In its proceeding it will be touched upon the backwardness in land exploitation at the bottom area of volcanic mountain. However, in that case, I think that it should be treated, not as a separate study on the subject of the utility of forest and lands at the skirt of the volcanic mountains, but as a systematic comprehension of these two coordinated areas with reference to the alluvial plain where exploitation of the Shinden had been energetically forwarded.This is summimg up:1) In the Hirosaki clan they had actively exploded the Shinden at the district centering the Tsugaru plain. In the era of Bunroku and Kan'ei (1592/1596-1624/1643) exploitation was developed according to the system of vassalage (ko-chigyo-ha dachi) in making irrigation from the middle-river of Iwaki by constructing weirs at its plain and watering from reservoirs at Tsugaru hilly country as well as from those which were built alongside of northern foot of Mt. Iwaki.2) In the eras of Kanbun and Genbun (1611/1672-1736/1740) the Shinden exploitation was furthered at the low swamps land of the Iwaki lower stream after the “Okura-hadachi” system in setting up of reservoirs and drainages on a large scale.3) From the era of Genbun to the era of Bunsei (1736/1740-1827/1829) the exploitation front reached Lake Juhsan.4) In the Tsugaru district there often turned out bad harvest, “failure of crops” as they called it, due to cold weather and innundations. It brought about devastation of many fields. Therefore, special care was also payed to countermeasure against them at the exploitation of Shinden. Types of Shinden are following: Shinden exploitated by retainers (Vassalage), “Shinden constructed by the clan” (Okura-hadachi) and “Shinden operated by the clan” (Kirizoe-shinden) etc.5) The output of Shinden crops increased from 230, 400 US bushels (45, 000 goku) in the era of Bunroku 1st (1577) to 1, 626, 280 US bushels (317, 633 goku) in the era of Keio 4th (1868). But this is only the nominal yield recorded in the village register. In the Hirosaki clan there must have been a considerably more yield which were kept out of the village register. They say that it was surmised 2, 560, 000 US bushels (500, 000 goku) in the era of Enpoh 4th (1676), 4, 710, 400 US bushels (920, 000 goku) in the era of An'ei 6th (1771), 3, 686, 400 US bushels (720, 000 goku) in the era of Ansei 1st (1854). That may be why there were many veiled fields not enumerated in the village register.6) With the advance of the Shinden exploitation there could not be found any phenomena of devastation of old fields. We think that this was caused from the fact that there were less percentage of the registered yield than that of the unregistered in the total yield.