The Capaciousness of No: Affective Refusals as Literacy Practices

© 2020 The Authors. Reading Research Quarterly published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of International Literacy Association The authors considered the capacious feeling that emerges from saying no to literacy practices, and the affective potential of saying no as a literacy practice. The authors highlight the affective possibilities of saying no to normative understandings of literacy, thinking with a series of vignettes in which children, young people, and teachers refused literacy practices in different ways. The authors use the term capacious to signal possibilities that are as yet unthought: a sense of broadening and opening out through enacting no. The authors examined how attention to affect ruptures humanist logics that inform normative approaches to literacy. Through attention to nonconscious, noncognitive, and transindividual bodily forces and capacities, affect deprivileges the human as the sole agent in an interaction, thus disrupting measurements of who counts as a literate subject and what counts as a literacy event. No is an affective moment. It can signal a pushback, an absence, or a silence. As a theoretical and methodological way of thinking/feeling with literacy, affect proposes problems rather than solutions, countering solution-focused research in which the resistance is to be overcome, co-opted, or solved. Affect operates as a crack or a chink, a tiny ripple, a barely perceivable gesture, that can persist and, in doing so, hold open the possibility for alternative futures

The effect of ion pairing on the nucleophilic reactivity of chloride ion in liquid sulfur dioxide.

Dissertation (Ph.D.)—Boston University, 1966In order to study the effect of ion pairing on nucleophilic reactivity and to help determine the sequence of nucleophilicity of the halide anions, the kinetics of displacement reaction between p-nitrobenzyl bromide and ionophoric chlorides labeled with chlorine-36 was studied in liquid sulfur dioxide at 0 C. Potassium chloride, rubidium chloride, tetramethylammonium chloride and tetraethylammonium chloride were employed asionophores. The concentration of the ionophores except for potassium chloride was varied over a wide range in order to evaluate the kinetic role of ion pairing

The DisHuman child

In this paper we consider the relationship between the human and disability; with specific focus on the lives of disabled children and young people. We begin with an analysis of the close relationship between ‘the disabled’ and ‘the freak’. We demonstrate that the historical markings of disability as object of curiosity and register of fear serve to render disabled children as non-human and monstrous. We then consider how the human has been constituted, particularly in the periods of modernity and the rise of capitalism, reliant upon the naming of disability as antithetical to all that counts as human. In order to find a place for disabled children in a social and cultural context that has historically denied their humanity and cast them as monstrous others, we develop the theoretical notion of the DisHuman: a bifurcated complex that allows us recognise their humanity whilst also celebrating the ways in which disabled children reframe what it means to be human. We suggest that the lives of disabled children and young people demand us to think in ways that affirm the inherent humanness in their lives but also allow us to consider their disruptive potential: this is our DisHuman child. We draw on our research projects to explore three sites where the DisHuman child emerges in moments where sameness and difference, monstrosity/disability and humanity are invoked simultaneously. We explore three locations – (i) DisDevelopment; (ii) DisFamily and (iii) DisSexuality – illuminating the ways in which the DisHuman child seeks nuanced, politicized and complicating forms of humanity

Implementasi Reputation System pada Matangdipohon: E-Marketplace Produk Pertanian dengan Metode Electre

Masalah kepercayaan adalah hal terpenting dalam E-Marketplace, oleh karena itu dibutuhkan Reputation System (Sistem Reputasi). Reputasi sistem itu sendiri merupakan sistem yang dibangun untuk menentukan reputasi user (penjual/pembeli)  dasar aktifitas user tersebut. Sistem ini dirancang sedemikian rupa untuk mengurangi praktik penipuan online karena kurangnya informasi apakah user/member E-Marketplace tersebut benar- benar dapat dipercaya. Dengan adanya suatu reputasi maka penjual atau   pembeli dapat mempertimbangkan  apakah   ingin tetap melanjutkan transaksi   atau membatalkannya. dasar dari permasalahan yang telah diuraikan di atas, maka penulis bermaksud untuk melakukan analisis dan pengembangan lebih lanjut dari penelitian sebelumnya dimana fokus utama dari penelitian yang akan dilakukan adalah membangun reputation system

Nebuliser therapy in the intensive care unit

The relationship between identity, lived experience, sexual practices and the language through which these are conveyed has been widely debated in sexuality literature. For example, ‘coming out’ has famously been conceptualised as a ‘speech act’ (Sedgwick 1990) and as a collective narrative (Plummer 1995), while a growing concern for individuals’ diverse identifications in relations to their sexual and gender practices has produced interesting research focusing on linguistic practices among LGBT-identified individuals (Leap 1995; Kulick 2000; Cameron and Kulick 2006; Farqhar 2000). While an explicit focus on language remains marginal to literature on sexualities (Kulick 2000), issue of language use and translation are seldom explicitly addressed in the growing literature on intersectionality. Yet intersectional perspectives ‘reject the separability of analytical and identity categories’ (McCall 2005:1771), and therefore have an implicit stake in the ‘vernacular’ language of the researched, in the ‘scientific’ language of the researcher and in the relationship of continuity between the two. Drawing on literature within gay and lesbian/queer studies and cross-cultural studies, this chapter revisits debates on sexuality, language and intersectionality. I argue for the importance of giving careful consideration to the language we choose to use as researchers to collectively define the people whose experiences we try to capture. I also propose that language itself can be investigated as a productive way to foreground how individual and collective identifications are discursively constructed, and to unpack the diversity of lived experience. I address intersectional complexity as a methodological issue, where methodology is understood not only as the methods and practicalities of doing research, but more broadly as ‘a coherent set of ideas about the philosophy, methods and data that underlie the research process and the production of knowledge’ (McCall 2005:1774). My points are illustrated with examples drawn from my ethnographic study on ‘lesbian’ identity in urban Russia, interspersed with insights from existing literature. In particular, I aim to show that an explicit focus on language can be a productive way to explore the intersections between the global, the national and the local in cross-cultural research on sexuality, while also addressing issues of positionality and accountability to the communities researched

Excerpt from (Same) Sex Tourism

The impetus behind this project stems from an incident in February 1998 when several gay cruises originating from Europe and the U.S. were refused docking privileges in various parts of the Caribbean, invoking responses from British Prime Minister Tony Blair and U.S. officials, both insisting on the egregious violation of human rights. The on-going dilemma over the docking of gay cruise ships led me to ask questions about the constructions of community created through and against such encounters and the production of a global gay identity that is contested by postcolonial situations. Ironically, the U.S. and British states advocate protection for the cruise ships in the Caribbean while granting no such absolute rights when those very cruisegoers return home

EFEKTIFITAS JARINGAN PERJALANAN DENGAN MENGGUNAKAN TEORI GRAF HAMILTON (STUDI KASUS SIMPANG LIMA-TERMINAL BATOH, BANDA ACEH)

Terminal adalah suatu prasarana transportasi jalan untuk menurunkan dan menaikkan penumpang, yang mengatur kedatangan dan pemberangkatan kendaraan umum. Memperbanyak jaringan jalan dan membuatnya terintegrasi juga merupakan salah satu pertimbangan yang membuat perjalanan menjadi lebih efisien dan lebih efektif, sehingga diperoleh penghematan waktu tempuh dalam pergerakan trayek angkutan umum penumpang dan barang. Berdasarkan latar belakang yang telah dipaparkan di atas, maka dilakukan studi yang bertujuan untuk menentukan jalur terbaik berdasarkan waktu dan rute terpendek dalam sistem jaringan jalan dari Simpang Lima menuju Terminal Batoh Kota Banda Aceh dengan tiga rute alternatif. Pengumpulan data jarak tempuh dan waktu tempuh perjalanan, dilakukan pada jaringan jalan tersebut dengan menggunakan odometer dan stopwatch. Data tersebut kemudian dilakukan perhitungan dengan bantuan Microsoft Excel. Pemodelan menggunakan metode Graf, kemudian dilakukan analisis siklus Hamilton. Hasil yang diperoleh dari perhitungan analisis interaksi kegiatan jaringan pergerakan adalah apabila rute 1 yang beroperasi, maka jumlah pergerakan lalu lintas yang terjadi, yaitu sebesar 5.219 kendaraan/jam dengan waktu tempuh 23,67 menit. Apabila rute 2 yang beroperasi, maka jumlah pergerakan lalu lintas yang terjadi, yaitu sebesar 4.240 kendaraan/jam dengan waktu tempuh 29,14 menit. Apabila rute 3 yang beroperasi, maka jumlah pergerakan lalu lintas yang terjadi, yaitu sebesar 5.598 kendaraan/jam dengan waktu tempuh 22,07 menit. Apabila rute 1 dan rute 2 sama-sama beroperasi, maka jumlah total pergerakan lalu lintas adalah 6.795 kendaraan/jam dengan waktu tempuh 18,18 menit. Apabila rute 1, 2 dan 3 sama-sama beroperasi, maka jumlah total pergerakan lalu lintas adalah 43.895 kendaraan/jam dengan waktu tempuh 2,81 menit. Maka rute kombinasi 1, 2 dan 3 yang efektifitas beroperasi sekaligus, karena semakin banyak pilihan rute atau alternatif jaringan, maka semakin besar pergerakan yang dapat dilakukan dan waktu tempuh yang dihasilkan semakin kecil. Kata kunci: pemilihan jalur alternatif, rute efektif, metode graf hamilton.Banda Ace

Towelheads, Diapers, and Faggots: Reviving the Turban

In the days and weeks following the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks on September 11, there has been a rapid proliferation of mocking images of a turbaned Osama bin Laden, not to mention of the turban itself. In a photo-montage circulating from Stileproject.com, even George Bush has been sporting a bin Laden-esque turban. Another internet favorite is a picture of bin Laden superimposed into a 7-11 convenience store scene as a cashier. Posters that appeared in midtown Manhattan only days after the attacks show a turbaned caricature of bin Laden being anally penetrated by the Empire State building. The legend beneath reads, The Empire Strikes Back or So you like skyscrapers, huh, bitch? Though much humorous commentary on the appropriate punishment for bin Laden focuses on the liberation of Afghan women, this portrayal suggests something further still: American retaliation promises to turn bin Laden into a fag