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Liberal Education, 2018
Впервые рассматриваются особенности освещения отечественными и зарубежными исследователями перепи... more Впервые рассматриваются особенности освещения отечественными и зарубежными исследователями переписки японских военнопленных, размещенных в лагерях НКВД-МВД СССР (1945-1956 гг.). Статья содержит историографический анализ работ историков России, Казахстана, Швейцарии, Японии, опубликованных в период с 1992 по 2017 годы, в которых в той или иной степени освещалась переписка японских военнопленных. Выявлены и проанализированы сведения о различных аспектах данной темы, содержащиеся в диссертациях и монографиях, научных статьях российских и зарубежных исследователей. Автор выявил, что к настоящему времени, несмотря на большое количество научных работ о японских военнопленных, не издано ни одной работы, посвященной переписке японских военнопленных, размещенных в лагерях на территории СССР. Тем не менее вопрос нашел отражение в диссертациях, монографиях, научных статьях, посвященных иностранным военнопленным второй мировой войны в СССР. Однако анализ особенностей освещения историками переписки японских военнопленных с родными и близкими предпринят в данной статье впервые. Определены как достижения, так и недостаточно изученные аспекты проблемы. Выявлен целый ряд вопросов и перспективных направлений, требующих дальнейшего изучения. Ключевые слова: японские военнопленные в СССР; ГУПВИ; лагеря НКВД-МВД СССР; переписка военнопленных; цензура; отечественная историография; зарубежная историография.
Healthcare Informatics for Fighting COVID-19 and Future Epidemics, 2021
The rapid spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic poses a threat to human civi... more The rapid spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic poses a threat to human civilization. This infectious outbreak induced a global menace, resulting in day-to-day community and social services standstill. Countries like China and Italy are positioned at an alarming stage of this pandemic, and India is also testifying a rapid outbreak of the COVID-19.This unprecedented scenario warrants the formulation of a robust mechanism to estimate the misfortunes of this pandemic in these three countries to assist governments in countermeasuring the COVID-19 catastrophe. In the light of fast varying fatality data rendered by the World Health Organization (WHO), a spectrum of case-based fatality assessments for the COVID-19 is presented that differs considerably in measurements. This publication elucidates the scope of the curve-fitting methods in terms of the goodness-of-fit statistics and support vector machine-based regression (SVR) in estimating the misfortunes of COVID-19 i...
cultural geographies, 2013
television as the key purveyor of white supremacy, and urges us to be vigilant and discriminating... more television as the key purveyor of white supremacy, and urges us to be vigilant and discriminating in our viewing. Influenced by work on intersectionality, the overarching aim of the book is to name, dismantle and deconstruct what hooks repeatedly terms ‘imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy’ (original emphasis, p. 4). The means by which we can do this, apparently, is love. While I’d be the last person to decry the transformative abilities of love, the hippy idealism of the 1960s only went so far in engendering greater equality. The text is emphatically US centred and with few references, historical or empirical material to draw upon, it feels lightweight. It is made up of personal anecdotes, biography and an extended conversation with film-maker Gilda L. Sheppard which, stretching over two chapters, explores the representation of race in books and film such as The Help, Crash and Precious. While I would largely agree with most of the dialogic interpretations, it is a type of media analysis that is devoid of any real method and based on personal viewpoint. The sentiments are often ambiguous. Organized into 18 short essays, the chapter titles capture the schizophrenic elements of hooks’ writing. The pseudo-therapeutic titles ‘Moving Past Blame’, ‘Spiritual Conversion’, ‘A Community of Caring’ and ‘The Practice of Love’, sit uneasily next to ‘A Pornography of Violence’, ‘Black Self Determination’ and ‘Everyday Resistance: Saying No to White Supremacy’. An example of these stark contradictions is seen in a section, ‘bonding across boundaries’ where hooks advocates the value of crossing race borders. Here, she talks of how she befriended Eugene – ‘a white “redneck”’ (p. 147) who built her house in the Kentucky hills – through ‘our mutual obsession with houses and fast cars’ (p. 151). Having previously criticized white women who thought the black maids they employed were close family friends, there is no reflection on the underlying monetary aspect of her friendship with Eugene and the exchange of human sweat for capital, nor how her ‘obsession’ is figured through the very capitalist consumerist aesthetics she otherwise derides. While hooks seems to endorse multicultural interactions at the beginning, later on she takes a different stance:
International Journal of Education the Arts, Sep 6, 2013
In an era of expanding global capital, our role as educators remains one in which we must confron... more In an era of expanding global capital, our role as educators remains one in which we must confront the ever growing discrepancy between the North and South, including the South within the North. Through my experiences teaching a course called "Art as Social Justice," I begin to situate my classroom labor within an emancipatory framework that prefigures a more just and equitable world, as well as a classroom that challenges inequality. Employing thick description, this essay investigates "Art as Social Justice" as a case study that employs specific pedagogical tactics to challenge hegemonic social relations, not only in the classroom, but outside it as well. As the essay explores, visual art enables different ways of dealing with issues inaccessible to political science, history, sociology, or even literature.
Liberal Education, 2018
Впервые рассматриваются особенности освещения отечественными и зарубежными исследователями перепи... more Впервые рассматриваются особенности освещения отечественными и зарубежными исследователями переписки японских военнопленных, размещенных в лагерях НКВД-МВД СССР (1945-1956 гг.). Статья содержит историографический анализ работ историков России, Казахстана, Швейцарии, Японии, опубликованных в период с 1992 по 2017 годы, в которых в той или иной степени освещалась переписка японских военнопленных. Выявлены и проанализированы сведения о различных аспектах данной темы, содержащиеся в диссертациях и монографиях, научных статьях российских и зарубежных исследователей. Автор выявил, что к настоящему времени, несмотря на большое количество научных работ о японских военнопленных, не издано ни одной работы, посвященной переписке японских военнопленных, размещенных в лагерях на территории СССР. Тем не менее вопрос нашел отражение в диссертациях, монографиях, научных статьях, посвященных иностранным военнопленным второй мировой войны в СССР. Однако анализ особенностей освещения историками переписки японских военнопленных с родными и близкими предпринят в данной статье впервые. Определены как достижения, так и недостаточно изученные аспекты проблемы. Выявлен целый ряд вопросов и перспективных направлений, требующих дальнейшего изучения. Ключевые слова: японские военнопленные в СССР; ГУПВИ; лагеря НКВД-МВД СССР; переписка военнопленных; цензура; отечественная историография; зарубежная историография.
Healthcare Informatics for Fighting COVID-19 and Future Epidemics, 2021
The rapid spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic poses a threat to human civi... more The rapid spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic poses a threat to human civilization. This infectious outbreak induced a global menace, resulting in day-to-day community and social services standstill. Countries like China and Italy are positioned at an alarming stage of this pandemic, and India is also testifying a rapid outbreak of the COVID-19.This unprecedented scenario warrants the formulation of a robust mechanism to estimate the misfortunes of this pandemic in these three countries to assist governments in countermeasuring the COVID-19 catastrophe. In the light of fast varying fatality data rendered by the World Health Organization (WHO), a spectrum of case-based fatality assessments for the COVID-19 is presented that differs considerably in measurements. This publication elucidates the scope of the curve-fitting methods in terms of the goodness-of-fit statistics and support vector machine-based regression (SVR) in estimating the misfortunes of COVID-19 i...
cultural geographies, 2013
television as the key purveyor of white supremacy, and urges us to be vigilant and discriminating... more television as the key purveyor of white supremacy, and urges us to be vigilant and discriminating in our viewing. Influenced by work on intersectionality, the overarching aim of the book is to name, dismantle and deconstruct what hooks repeatedly terms ‘imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy’ (original emphasis, p. 4). The means by which we can do this, apparently, is love. While I’d be the last person to decry the transformative abilities of love, the hippy idealism of the 1960s only went so far in engendering greater equality. The text is emphatically US centred and with few references, historical or empirical material to draw upon, it feels lightweight. It is made up of personal anecdotes, biography and an extended conversation with film-maker Gilda L. Sheppard which, stretching over two chapters, explores the representation of race in books and film such as The Help, Crash and Precious. While I would largely agree with most of the dialogic interpretations, it is a type of media analysis that is devoid of any real method and based on personal viewpoint. The sentiments are often ambiguous. Organized into 18 short essays, the chapter titles capture the schizophrenic elements of hooks’ writing. The pseudo-therapeutic titles ‘Moving Past Blame’, ‘Spiritual Conversion’, ‘A Community of Caring’ and ‘The Practice of Love’, sit uneasily next to ‘A Pornography of Violence’, ‘Black Self Determination’ and ‘Everyday Resistance: Saying No to White Supremacy’. An example of these stark contradictions is seen in a section, ‘bonding across boundaries’ where hooks advocates the value of crossing race borders. Here, she talks of how she befriended Eugene – ‘a white “redneck”’ (p. 147) who built her house in the Kentucky hills – through ‘our mutual obsession with houses and fast cars’ (p. 151). Having previously criticized white women who thought the black maids they employed were close family friends, there is no reflection on the underlying monetary aspect of her friendship with Eugene and the exchange of human sweat for capital, nor how her ‘obsession’ is figured through the very capitalist consumerist aesthetics she otherwise derides. While hooks seems to endorse multicultural interactions at the beginning, later on she takes a different stance:
International Journal of Education the Arts, Sep 6, 2013
In an era of expanding global capital, our role as educators remains one in which we must confron... more In an era of expanding global capital, our role as educators remains one in which we must confront the ever growing discrepancy between the North and South, including the South within the North. Through my experiences teaching a course called "Art as Social Justice," I begin to situate my classroom labor within an emancipatory framework that prefigures a more just and equitable world, as well as a classroom that challenges inequality. Employing thick description, this essay investigates "Art as Social Justice" as a case study that employs specific pedagogical tactics to challenge hegemonic social relations, not only in the classroom, but outside it as well. As the essay explores, visual art enables different ways of dealing with issues inaccessible to political science, history, sociology, or even literature.