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    Assessing The Issues of Honour and Violence Against Women: A Human Rights Discourse Framework for The Detection of Violence Against Women

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    The term 'Honour Killing' is conventionally used to denote a specific category of extralegal killings where the act of murder is seen to have been motivated by pre-modern affiliations/sentiments of some sort. Acts of violence committed against people for marrying outside of caste/religion/ethnicity or other similar infringements where they are seen by their actions to have besmirched the honour of the family and the larger community come under the broad rubric of honour crime. Implicit in using the term are assumptions that mark it as different from other crimes. Honour is defined in terms of women assigned sexual and familial roles as dictated by traditional family ideology. Thus, adultery, premarital relationships (which may or may not include sexual relations), rape, and falling in love with an "inappropriate" person may constitute violations of family honour. 'Crimes of honour' as a form of violence against women does not imply that men also are not subjected to such crimes. In cases of forced marriage or interference with the right of choice and whom to marry, pressure from older family members over younger members will apply to men as well as to women. However, women remain the victims and survivors of 'crimes of honour' and have fewer available remedies

    Displacement and the Humanities: Manifestos from the Ancient to the Present

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    This is the final version. Available on open access from MDPI via the DOI in this recordThis is a reprint of articles from the Special Issue published online in the open access journal Humanities (ISSN 2076-0787) (available at: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/humanities/special_issues/Manifestos Ancient Present)This volume brings together the work of practitioners, communities, artists and other researchers from multiple disciplines. Seeking to provoke a discourse around displacement within and beyond the field of Humanities, it positions historical cases and debates, some reaching into the ancient past, within diverse geo-chronological contexts and current world urgencies. In adopting an innovative dialogic structure, between practitioners on the ground - from architects and urban planners to artists - and academics working across subject areas, the volume is a proposition to: remap priorities for current research agendas; open up disciplines, critically analysing their approaches; address the socio-political responsibilities that we have as scholars and practitioners; and provide an alternative site of discourse for contemporary concerns about displacement. Ultimately, this volume aims to provoke future work and collaborations - hence, manifestos - not only in the historical and literary fields, but wider research concerned with human mobility and the challenges confronting people who are out of place of rights, protection and belonging

    Searching for Dead Sea Scribes:a study on using Artificial Intelligence and palaeography for writer identification in correlation with spelling and scribal practices, codicology, handwriting quality, and literary classification systems for Dead Sea Scrolls

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    My study explores the Dead Sea Scrolls through the lens of individual scribes. Specifically, the practices of individual scribes responsible for penningtwo or more of the Oumran manuscripts. It utilises innovative digital palaeographic methods alongside traditional palaeographic approaches for scribalidentification. It gathers previously un-gathered data on the handwriting, spelling practices, codicological features and literary content of individual scribes. The study explores how this data on scribes both supports and challenges various aspects of theories in the field of Dead Sea Scroll studies, which accept a a sectarian origin for the Qumran manuscripts

    Scared Straight? Threat and Assimilation of Refugees in Germany

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    This paper studies the effects of local threat on cultural and economic assimilation of refugees, exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in their allocation across German regions between 2013 and 2016. We combine novel survey data on cultural preferences and economic outcomes of refugees with corresponding information on German respondents, and construct a threat index that integrates contemporaneous and historical variables. On average, refugees assimilate both culturally and economically. However, while refugees assigned to more hostile regions converge to German culture more quickly, they do not exhibit faster economic assimilation. Our evidence suggests that refugees exert more assimilation effort in response to local threat, but that higher discrimination prevents them from integrating more quickly in more hostile regions

    Practices of Belonging: Identity Among Polish Tatars

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    The recent success of right-wing parties in countries around the world, including Hungary, the US and Poland, has brought renewed attempts to understand how forms of identity have been politicized as a way to navigate a world that is portrayed as increasingly variegated and uncertain. Through research among the historic Muslim Polish Tatar community in the politically conservative Podlasie region, I attempt to unpack how group identity and boundary formation occurs. My work focuses on how conceptions of (be)longing are reproduced and/or tactically contested in affective and bodily ways, such as through emotionally replete communal gatherings for Ramadan Bajram, food practices that both uphold and contest Islamic dietary prohibitions, and dance practices which fuse Polish, Turkish and Tatar traditions. In my research I attempt to unpack how narratives of origins, blood, and rooted-ness do not foreclose possibilities of movement, but rather connect peoples across paths which allow for multiple, conflicting lens of belonging. Building on existing literature on religious communities and group formation, I am interested in where tensions and slippages occur between idealized narratives of group membership based on religion and ethnicity, and how individual identities are actually practiced and performed. My research attempts to foreground the affective capabilities and motility of the body to understand how belonging differentially flows and sticks to individuals at the nexus of gender, community, and religious positionalities

    Navigating Families, Negotiating Identities: Asian-White Mixed Family Experiences

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    This dissertation examines how White and second-generation Asian American heterosexual couples negotiate race, ethnicity, and gender as they come together and form families. While Asian-White intermarriage is often theorized as an endpoint of assimilation, this research concerns itself with the ways in which race plays a central role in shaping various domains of family life among mixed couples. Drawing on 62 semi-structured interviews with White and second-generation Asian American individuals, I find that race and gender jointly shape how the couples navigate household divisions of labor, in-law relationships, naming decisions, and transmitting ethnicity to children. By revealing the ongoing processes of racialization within mixed families, this study challenges the popular imagination of intermarriage as a symbol of racial transcendence. Instead, it argues that Asian-White mixed families are an important site to interrogate intersectional inequalities

    Media, Religion, Citizenship: Transnational Alevi Media and Its Audience

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    Media, Religion, Citizenship explores Alevi media and the ways in which it has generated a particular form of citizenship for Alevis in Turkey and across Europe. Alevis are a vibrant, transnational community across Europe whose claim for recognition has been denied. Drawing on an ethnographic study of the community, interviews with media workers, and analysis of television programmes, Emre demonstrates how Alevi media has paved the way for transversal imaginaries and rights claims that include different localities. Media, Religion, Citizenship also contributes to the decolonising of media studies by situating Alevi media within the history of Alevi movement and engaging critically with Eurocentric accounts of media and citizenship

    Evolution of research on prison library: A bibliometric study

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    The primary objective of the article is to present the historical evolution and current state of research in the field of prison libraries: what has been published, when, where, how and by whom it was published, the topic covered, etc. The study is based on the results obtained from the bibliographic databases LISA (ProQuest) and LISTA (EBSCO Publishing) up to early 2023. Entries were manually checked for irrelevant publications, and filters and specific tools, such as OpenRefine, followed by a final manual check, were used to remove duplicate entries. The same mechanisms were used for detecting duplicated entries regarding author, country, journal title, topic, etc. The analysis shows a prevailing publication profile of scarce scientific relevance, with a predominance of the description and the speculation rather than empirical statements. To overcome these limitations, it is proposed the use of scientific methods and techniques that enhance the rigour of results; to progress from the simple description of services, programs, activities, collaborations, etc., to an evaluation of them; and to work with other professionals, both from the library sector and from other disciplines

    Jacob, the Torah, and the Abrahamic Promise : Studies on the Use and Interpretation of the Jacob Story in the Book of Jubilees

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    I denna avhandling forskar jag i den tidiga judiska receptionshistorian av Genesis (Första Moseboken). Fokus ligger pa Jubileerboken (c. 170–150 f.Kr.), ett verk som har ofta kallats ett parallelexempel pĂ„ fenomenet ”omskriven bibel” (”Rewritten Bible”). Det handlar mest om ett antikt (och modernt) fenomen dĂ€r man berĂ€ttar och skriver om bibliska berĂ€ttelser med hjĂ€lp av olika tolkningstraditioner som Ă€r anknutna till den bibliska texten. Genom att undersöka Jubileerboken och jĂ€mföra den med Genesis kan man avslöja hur berĂ€ttelserna i Genesis har anvĂ€nts och tolkats under det andra Ă„rhundradet f.Kr. Eftersom patriark Jakob stĂ„r i fokus i Jubileerboken, har jag fokuserat pĂ„ honom som huvudgestalt och undersökt hur JakobberĂ€ttelsen har tolkats och anvĂ€nts. Avhandlingen bestĂ„r av fyra delar. I det första kapitlet inleder jag studiet genom att diskutera Jubileerbokens mĂ„ngfacetterade texthistoria. Den etiopiska texttraditionen har bevarat hela texten, sĂ„ dĂ€rför stĂ„r den i fokus. Den Ă€r ocksa tillrĂ€ckligt tillförlitlig för att sĂ€ga nĂ„got om den tidiga judendomen i andra Ă„rh. f.Kr. trots att manuskriptevidensen hĂ€rstammar frĂ„n medeltiden. DĂ€rutöver diskuterar jag olika möjliga redaktioner som boken kan ha haft och kommer till den slutsatsen att den ursprungligen varit en helhet som dock kan ha redigerats mer i Qumrankretsen, Ă„tminstone för delen Jub 1:15b–25. SjĂ€lva avhandlingen innehĂ„ller tre studier, av vilka tva (kap. 2 och 3) handlar om förhĂ„llandet mellan Jakob och Toran, och ett (kap. 4) handlar om förhĂ„llandet mellan Jakob och Abrahamslöftet. Med Abrahamslöftet menas i detta studium de löften som Gud gav Ă„t Abraham i Genesis 12:1–3 och paralleltexter, nĂ€mligen (1) land, (2) sĂ€d/avkomlingar, (3) stort namn samt (4) vĂ€lsignelsen. I det andra kapitlet behandlar jag hur psalm 78 har tolkats i Jubileerboken. Som utgĂ„ngspunkt har jag Ps 78:5 dĂ€r det stĂ„r att Gud har ”placerat sitt testimonium i Jakob, och satt sin Tora i Israel.” Jubileerbokens författare har tolkat versen att tyda pĂ„ att patriark Jakob har fĂ„tt lagen. SjĂ€lva termerna ”testimonium” (ŚȘŚąŚ•Ś“Ś” /ŚąŚ“Ś•ŚȘ ) och ”Tora” (ŚȘŚ•ŚšŚ” ) Ă€r viktiga för författaren, som hela tiden hĂ€nvisar till ”testimoniet” som har skrivits pĂ„ himmelska tavlor. Av allt att döma har författaren anvĂ€nt det tidiga gezera shava -tolkningssĂ€ttet, dĂ€r ovanliga ord och uttryck i olika texter tolkas i ljuset av varandra. Nu har författaren anvĂ€nt Ps 78:5 och kombinerat den med Jes 8:16, 20 och Rut 4:7 och kommit till den slutsatsen att Jakob har fĂ„tt Toran som helhet, och att uppenbarelsen angĂ„ende lagen eller halakha har fullbordats i Jakobs tid. Jakob ger budskapet vidare till sin son Levi, som ska förkunna det för Israels folk (Jub 45:16). Denna transmittering av materialet som Jakob gör med Levi Ă€r annorlunda Ă€n det som sker med patriarkerna före Jakob, men sjĂ€lva traditionsförmedlingen Ă€r nĂ„got som ocksĂ„ Ps 78:5–8 betonar och som Ă€r viktigt för författaren till Jubileerboken. Tredje kapitlet handlar om hur författaren har kombinerat patriark Jakob med Deuteronomium (Femte Moseboken). Deuteronomium har skrivits som tilltal till Israel. I tilltalet förekommer andra person singularis och pluralis vĂ€xelvis. I studien lyfter jag fram Jub 30–32 (jfr. Gen 34–35) som utgĂ„ngspunkt och visar hur författaren har kombinerat deuteronomiska bud med Jakobs liv. Jakob heter ocksa Israel. I den omskrivna versionen av Jubileerboken Ă€r Jakob en perfekt israelit, som uppfyller de deuteronomiska lagarna in i minsta detalj och som redan fĂ„tt alla lagar. NĂ€r det under författarens tid förekom risken att man trodde att patriarkerna inte kĂ€nde Toran, sĂ„ anser författaren tvĂ€rtom. De kĂ€nde dem, och uppfyllde dem sĂ„ bra som möjligt. Under Jakobs=Israels tid blev allt klart, och dĂ€rför ska alla följa författarens lagtolkning. FjĂ€rde kapitlet Ă€r ett studium om Abrahamslöftet och dess reception i Jubileerboken. Det visade sig att löftet spelar en vĂ€ldig stor roll i Jubileerboken. Löftet tolkas pa konditionellt sĂ€tt: Redan frĂ„n början (Jub 12) Ă€r Abraham den aktiva parten som tar första initiativet, och patriarkernas aktiva roll betonas i hela boken. Författaren har ocksĂ„ lagt in flera betydelsefulla tillĂ€gg som inte har nĂ„gon parallel i Gen. Dessa inkluderar Abrahams tal till Rebecka (Jub 19), hans testament till sina söner (Jub 20), till Isak (Jub 21), Jakob (Jub 22), Rebeckas tilltal till Jakob (Jub 25) samt Rebecka och Isaks testamente till Jakob och Esau (Jub 35–36). Gen 18:18–19 fungerar som hermeneutisk nyckel till löftet. BĂ„de de omskrivna delarna och de tillĂ€gg, av vilka nĂ„gra vĂ€l kan hĂ€rstamma frĂ„n tidigare tolkningstraditioner, visar att löftet om Abrahams sĂ€d har tolkats att hĂ€nvisa till Jakob. Jakob repsenterar sĂ„ledes en typos, förebild av en ideal israelit, som följer Toran enligt författarens halakha. Samtidigt har denna tolkning kombinerats med tanken pa Jakob som ”helig sĂ€d” och representant av ”resten” som Ă€r ocksa viktiga termer i Jes och Esra-Neh. Inte alla etniska judar hör till Jakob/Israel, utan Esau fungerar ocksĂ„ som typos av en apostat som inte Ă€rver löftet. Löftet om landet har tolkats pĂ„ tvĂ„ olika sĂ€tt: Ă„ ena sidan handlar det Ă€nnu om det utlovade landet, men Ă„ andra sidan har det ocksĂ„ tolkats som att gĂ€lla hela vĂ€rlden. Detta kan systematiseras pĂ„ sĂ„dant sĂ€tt att det lovade landet stĂ„r som högkvarteret till Israels hegemoni, som sedan sprids Ă„t hela vĂ€rlden. Levi som typos till leviter/prĂ€ster samt Juda som typos till (messiansk) kung Ă€r huvudaktörer i det hur hegemonin blir realitet. Genom dessa tvĂ„ söner och de institutioner och individer som de representerar blir ocksĂ„ Abrahams namn stort, sĂ„som löftet om stort namn lovade. NĂ€r Jakob/Israel följer lagen enligt författarens halakha, sĂ„ blir de ocksa vĂ€lsignade. Denna vĂ€lsignelse har bĂ„de partikularistiska och universalistiska drag. Å ena sidan kan andra folk endast begĂ€ra samma slags vĂ€lsingelse (Jub 20:9, en tolkning av nif’al/hitpa’el-formen av Ś‘ŚšŚš “vĂ€lsigna” i Gen 12:3 par.), Ă„ andra sidan reparerar dessa vĂ€lsignelser vĂ€rlden (Jub 19:25). Patriark Jakob stĂ„r sĂ„ledes som ett exempel pĂ„ hur alla sanna israeliter ska bete sig. De ska uppfylla lagen. NĂ€r lagen Ă€r uppfylld, kan de ocksa Ă€rva de löften som gavs Ă„t Abraham. I slutet av avhandlingen visar jag att Jubileerboken kan fungera som viktigt parallelmaterial bl.a. för forskare av Nya testamentet och sĂ€rskilt i Paulusforskning, eftersom Pauli syn pĂ„ bĂ„de Abrahamslöftet och Toran stĂ„r i motsats till den som finns i Jubileerboken. Patriark Jakob har ocksĂ„ kopplats intimt ihop med Deuteronomium i senare rabbinska tolkningstraditioner (t.ex. Sifre Deuteronomium), men sjĂ€lva tolkningstraditionen Ă€r mycket Ă€ldre Ă€n vad forskarna har tidigare trott

    “You drowned me in tears, where did you go?” Narratives of Reproductive Loss and Grief in Middle-Class India

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    This study is an analysis of middle-class couples’ experiences of reproductive loss, the ensuing grief, and their relentless struggles in order to achieve reproductive success in Kolkata, India. Based on ethnographic engagements, the study explains how the increasingly biomedicalised setting and middle-class ethos of 21st century, urban India shape such profoundly disruptive reproductive experiences. In doing so, the study illustrates how the couple’s experiences of loss and grief were constituted by multiple and intricately entangled enactments of gender roles, gendered emotions, entities, and normative concepts. Finally, the study pays attention to the processual utilisation of constrained agency by the actors, particularly, by the women, in order to show how they coped with their loss as well as their disrupted conjugal lives
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