Teaching Islam at a home school: Muslim women and critical thinking in Uzbekistan

In this article I describe and analyse non-institutionalized religious education among local women in Uzbekistan. I argue that while exhibiting vestiges of ‘traditional’ objectives, methods of teaching, and models of knowledge transmission, and incorporating elements of educational reforms advocated by the Central Asian reformers in the early 1900s, and of Soviet pedagogy, the dynamics of such education foster students' critical thinking. By enabling students to think critically about their lives and social environment, the non-institutionalized religious education does not have one predetermined outcome, but ensures social change that starts on an individual level, whereby a student can, but does not have to, engage politically with the state, which systematically intervenes in shaping its citizens' religious lives.     

Crises and critical junctures in authoritarian regimes: addressing uprisings’ temporalities and discontinuities

Abstract

In this article, we aim at sharpening common understandings of the notion of political crisis to better explain the trajectories of authoritarian transformations during popular uprisings. We make three major claims. First, we propose a definition of crisis as brief moments of institutional fluidity and openness in which a process can take different directions. We delineate the crisis concept from the concept of critical junctures and outline how our approach contributes to the methodological debate on ‘near misses’. Second, we indicate how the de-institutionalisation processes leading up to a crisis are to be analytically distinguished from within-crisis moments. We argue in favour of a discontinuity approach that takes into account the different temporalities of gradual lead-up processes and rapid within-crisis dynamics. Finally, we illustrate our theoretical and analytical reasoning with concrete cases from the authoritarian crises of the Arab uprisings, whilst suggesting that our argument can travel to other areas of research in which crisis narratives have gained prominence.     

Pulses from the multitude: virtuosity and black feminist discourse

Using a dialogic format this conversation between two authors uses political theorist Paolo Virno's conception of the “multitude” to examine and compare two different arenas of black feminist protest that took place on social media in the latter half of 2013. As a performative article, it offers historical and theoretical background to the terms “multitude,” “public intellect,” and “virtuosic labor” in racialized capitalist formations, situating them to provide an alternative to the power of the State – an alternative that unlike the State does not claim to confer rights. The article looks at the Facebook response to a call from the Crunk Feminist Collective to white feminists to speak out on the verdict exonerating Trayvon Martin’s killer and offer counter images to those that describe Martin's killing as justified. It then looks at the public dialogue around the applicability of the term “feminism” to Beyoncé's self-titled “visual album.” Through aesthetic inquiry, the authors look at the form these examples of protest take to situate and propose the active viewing of these aesthetic forms by others on social media, as well as by the authors of this article, as a kind of virtuosic labor. The article concludes with a series of poems created using the “cut-up” technique designed to transmit feeling through subjective action and a task manifesto for white feminists to use as a guide.     

‘Pedagogies of resistance’ and critical peace education praxis

This paper explores ‘pedagogies of resistance’ – or critical and democratic educational models utilized by social movements – and how global examples of engaged educational praxis may inform peace education. The central inquiry of this article is ‘How can educational projects that resist larger social, political and economic inequalities offer understandings about how we learn, teach, and act for peace in diverse settings?’ Drawing upon literature from various fields, ideas and insights are offered about how the field of peace education can better respond to multiple and diverse realities, particularly those facing marginalized communities. The article provides an overview of key tenets of peace education and ideas central to ‘critical peace education;’ offers a framing of ‘pedagogies of resistance;’ and, lastly, details what directions emerge by putting these two educational forms in conversation.     

Politics and culture in a Diva's diversion: The body of Astrid Hadad in performance

Performance

Song of Lawino. Directed by Valeria Vazilevski and choreographed by Ja‐wole Willa Jo Zollar. Aaron Davis Hall, City University of New York, New York, January 5–8, 1989.

Abingdon Square. Directed by Irene Fornes. American Place Theatre, New York, 1988.

The Kathy &; Mo Show: Parallel Lives. Written and produced by Kathy Najimy and Mo Gaffney. Westside Arts Theatre, 1989.

Annulla, An Autobiography. Written and Directed by Emily Mann, performed by Linda Hunt. TNT (The New Theatre of Brooklyn), New York, October‐November, 1988.

The Warrior Ant. Written and directed by Lee Breuer; music composed by Bob Telson. Brooklyn Academy of Music, Next Wave Festival, October 19–30, 1988.

Go Between Gettysburg. Written, directed and designed by Linda Mussmann, in collaboration with Claudia Bruce and composer Semih Firincioglu. Theatre of the Riverside Church, New York City, November 10–20, 1988.

Mary Surratt. Written, directed, and designed by Linda Mussmann, in collaboration with Claudia Bruce; music by Semih Firincioglu. Time &; Space Limited production. New York, 1988.

Elizabeth Streb. Dance Chance series, Dance Theatre Workshop, New York, January 4–8 and 11–13, 1989.

Books

Dance, Sex and Gender: Signs of ‘Identity, Dominance, Defiance and Desire, by Judith Lynne Hanna. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988 ($15.95 paper).

The public forum

Sexist Images in Women's Performance. Performances by Jerri Allyn, Ellen Fisher and Dancenoise, and Panel moderated by Peggy Shaw. Movement Research, New York, December 19, 1988.

The Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Edinburgh, Scotland, 1988.

Plenty Money, by Pat Kaufman; Men, Women and Margaret Fuller, by Laurie James; “An Evening of Dance: Karen Bernard, Jean Churchill and Joanna Zubaty”; “Readings by Sonia Taitz,” Women &; Performance Events Series, produced by Katheryn Kovalcik‐White. Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, June‐December, 1988.     

“It's here,it's that time:” Race,queer futurity,and the temporality of violence in Born in Flames

This paper uses the film Born in Flames to engage questions around hope and the future that have been central to queer studies in the last decade. As the author understands it, the film's critique of the time of reform and progress holds profound implications for how we think about the future. By demonstrating the repetitions of racialized and gendered violence over time, the film produces a theory of the future where the continuation of the present as it is means the future will not come. If the state organizes populations, institutions, and forms of knowledge through a regulatory imagination and disciplined vision, it also determines the future in the same manner. The state ensures that the future can be extrapolated from the present by managing, contorting, and eradicating the future before it arrives. It uses preemptive action (war, assassination, incarceration, policing, administrative violence, and surveillance) to make its “imagined future come to pass.” The author argues that by showing the continuity between the racialized and gendered violence of the past, present, and future, the film constructs an anticipatory queer politics of urgency and presentism.     

诉前自行鉴定行为的法律分析——从建设工程合同欠款纠纷中一方当事人诉前自行委托审计谈起

近年来,在建筑行业的工程建设合同欠款纠纷层出不断.在此类案件中,一方当事人自行委托造价咨询单位对工程竣工结算进行审计的情况时有发生,对于这种诉前自行委托而产生的审计报告在诉讼或仲裁过程中应当如何对待,一直是实务界争议不断的问题.本文从一方当事人诉前自行委托工程造价单位进行审计这一行为的定性入手,进而分析了诉前自行鉴定的结论在诉讼中的法律地位,并对仲裁程序中出现的有关问题进行了讨论.     

干生物基质点微样技术及其在法医毒物学中的应用

干生物基质点(Dried Matrix Spot,DMS)微样技术是通过将微量生物液体(如血液、尿液和唾液等)收集于卡纸上并干燥后形成的样本采集和储存形式.干生物基质点微样技术较传统的采样方法有明显的优势:取样量小,样品处理简单,储存运输方便,目前已应用于流行病学调查、毒药物监测、药代动力学研究和毒代动力学研究等领域....     

科学决策的思维模式——略论决策内容与不同特点思维的对应关系

科学决策过程是科学思维过程。笔者经过多年研究发现 ,决策程序的每一个环节、每一种决策技术、决策的每一种类型 ,都有特定的思维方式与之对应。本文即是对这种一一对应关系的专门研究     

响应面分析法优化马兰总黄酮提取工艺研究

目的 应用响应面分析法优化马兰总黄酮的提取工艺。方法 以单因素研究为基础,以总黄酮提取量为响应值,以4因素3水平的响应面分析法优化马兰总黄酮的提取工艺。结果 马兰总黄酮的最优提取工艺条件为：乙醇浓度为40%,液料比为〖DK(〗16.5∶1,〖DK)〗提取时间为2 h,提取次数3次,在该条件下,马兰总黄酮提取量预测值为162.538 mg,实际验证值为156.867 mg,并得出各因素对马兰总黄酮提取量的影响大小依次为乙醇浓度、液料比、提取次数、提取时间。结论 响应面分析法可用于优化马兰总黄酮的提取工艺,实验验证值与模型预测值基本相符。