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The study of the 'Circe' episode of Ulysses has been underserved with regard to one of its most significant sources, the sadomasochistic magazine Bits of Fun, which has never been fully examined. This source is followed more closely by Joyce in the novel's Bella/ Bello scene than has been realized, as well as in the 'Ithaca' episode and Finnegans Wake. The exact issues that Joyce used have not yet been correctly identified, and the 'Circe' notesheets have consequently been misdated. Joyce drew on Bits of Fun not only for his theme of forcedfeminization in this episode, but also for more extreme details of bondage and torture, including even cannibalism and slavery. Based on this source, the text of Joyce's early draft material in both his 'Circe' notesheets and Ulysses notebooks should be emended in several places. Keywords: James Joyce / Ulysses / source criticism / periodicals / textual studies, Tell me something to amuse me, smut or a bloody good ghoststory ... --James Joyce, Ulysses (15.3052-53) Critics do not often comment on the fact that Bloom's sexual fantasies in [...]

Late in his artistic and scholarly career, W.G. Sebald decided to eschew then-emergent modes of computational media in favor of analogue production techniques. Sebald himself often remarked on his encounters with media, both new and old, expressing a consistent interest in the materiality of writing. In his own artistic practice, he preferred the process of handwriting to what he called the tyranny of 'PC Perfectionism.' Scenes of writing, and the technologies of pen, paper, and pencil, appear regularly throughout Sebald's corpus, especially in The Rings of Saturn (1995) and Austerlitz (2001). These elegiac encounters with residual technologies informed Sebald's literary aesthetic. The novel Austerlitz, in particular, foregrounds media history and the evolution of modes of writerly work. In this novel, written in the shadow of new modes of digital writing that were becoming ubiquitous at the end of the twentieth century, Sebald's poetics of media obsolescence emerges as key preoccupation in his aesthetic project. Keywords: W.G. Sebald / media / materiality / writing / digital, It was odd ... but she had the impression that although everything else was in perfect order the writing desk had not been dusted for years. What can be the [...]

"Dickens and Democracy in the Age of Paper: Representing the People" by Carolyn Vellenga Berman is a book that explores the relationship between Charles Dickens's writing and parliamentary representation. The author examines how novels, periodicals, and state publications were used as different forms of representation in Victorian society. The book analyzes specific works by Dickens, such as "David Copperfield," "Oliver Twist," and "Bleak House," to illustrate the reproduction of parliamentary discourse and its connection to social and political issues of the time. The study also highlights the relevance of Dickens's work in understanding contemporary issues of democracy and surveillance. [Extracted from the article]

A brief introduction to the papers presented at a conference held at Vanderbilt University in the Fall of 2023, called "John Lachs and American Philosophy," organized by the Philosophy Department and the College of Arts and Sciences. The symposium includes papers by Herman Saatkamp, John Stuhr, Eric Weber, and Chris Skowroński. It is followed by a response from John Lachs written down by Michael Hodges based on conversations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on the Digitale Edition von Quellen zur habsburgisch-osmanischen Diplomatie 1500-1918 (Qhod), a digital editing project created in 2020 at the Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences to research and digitally edit sources of the diplomatic contacts between Vienna and Istanbul, Turkey beginning in the 1490s. Topics include the launch of the project website, the first group of primary sources and execution of Qhod transcriptions.

This document is an introduction to a special issue of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning focused on research methodologies for studying problem-based and project-based learning (PBL/PjBL). The authors discuss the unique educational ecosystem in which PBL/PjBL is practiced and the importance of selecting effective research methodologies to evaluate its effects on student learning. The special issue contains eight papers representing various quantitative, qualitative, and mixed research methodologies, as well as data representations used in the context of PBL. The papers provide detailed descriptions of the methodologies and include illustrative example studies. [Extracted from the article]

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of celebrating the panayir fair in Istanbul, Turkey.

The paper explores the aesthetics and ethics of Islamic giving. The ethnography focuses on the Mustadafin Foundation's preparation, cooking, and distribution of akhni (local meat and rice dish) to poor families in various neighborhoods in the broader Cape Town area. Mustadafin Foundation is an Islamic philanthropic organization that provides a range of social services for Muslim and non-Muslim people in Cape Town. The discussion unpacks how the ethics of Mustadafin giving is an embodied piety toward God, driven by its caring about the other, a sense of active citizenship, and social commitment. The paper argues that the various ethical dispositions toward God, others, and the social are mutually constitutive of Mustadafin's ethics of giving. Unfolding the ethics involved in the act of Islamic giving offers insight into a synthesis of ethics. However, paying attention to aesthetic experience alludes to a total sensory experience of ethical formations. By foregrounding the question of the ethics of Islamic giving, the paper considers the Mustadafin Foundation as constitutive of a religious moral economy [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reads Kopano Matlwa's debut novel, Coconut , as a critical reflection on the incomplete work of social, economic, and juridical inclusion. It outlines inconclusive episodes in the lives of two young black women: Ofilwe, a member of a rarified upper middle class, and Fikile, ensnared in grinding poverty. Drawing on Denise Ferreira Da Silva and Calvin Warren, the paper shows how Matlwa addresses the uncritical embrace of this racist and historically oppressive discourse among nominally free blacks, both among enduringly destitute slum dwellers and the emergent nouveau riche. In the novel, social death comes in the form of internalized anti-blackness as the two young black women featured in the novel doggedly pursue white identities as a means for successful existence in postapartheid South Africa. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines conflicts between farmers and herders through the lens of conflict escalation theory. The paper focuses on the case of the Asante Akim North Municipality of Ghana. The paper builds on forty-eight semi-structured interviews, two focus group discussions, and archival materials that were analyzed qualitatively through descriptive, thematic, and content analysis. The paper demonstrates how the conflict escalates through a sequence of actions and reactions by multiple actors with varying interests. The conflict travels from a stage of latency where actors employ nonviolent and low-intensity actions to attain their interest, to a stage with violence and increased stakes vested in the conflict. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Firms have harnessed service-dominant logic research to understand and enhance the customer purchase journey. They've innovated by creating and assessing services that meet customer needs and identifying expectation gaps, which inform ongoing service development to sustain customer value. Moreover, they've begun to foster customer loyalty through collaborative competency and digital platforms that engage and empower customers. Healthcare organizations face particular challenges in sustaining value due to the involvement of multiple external partners in value fulfillment and assessment, all within a shifting patient ecosystem. This paper tackles these challenges by advocating for inter-organizational leadership to enhance patient health outcomes, centering on a patient value cycle aimed at specific health improvements. We utilize network theory to develop governance capabilities for collaborative competency and communication theory for resource orchestration, facilitating resource sharing with an integrated digital platform. The paper outlines a framework to create and sustain patient value within a network of health and community actors and considers how these strategies can extend to address long-term patient needs in a primary network. Finally, the paper highlights case studies from this special issue that show inter-organizational leadership in action, delivering patient value through wellness education, preventive screenings, and caregiver support for those with chronic conditions and disabilities. This sets the stage for future research into expanding these models to broader patient care contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the relationship between the past, present, and future in Victorian literature. The author analyzes three papers that explore how nineteenth-century texts, such as Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities and Joseph Conrad's Nostromo, navigate complex temporalities and address themes of violence and historical amnesia. The papers highlight concepts such as foreshadowing, anachronism, amnesia, and bridging to understand how the past influences the present and shapes the future. The author emphasizes the importance of considering these temporal complexities in Victorian scholarship and engaging with the violent past and uncertain future. [Extracted from the article]

Philosophical descriptions of democratic music education frequently rely on "inclusion" and "participation" as the defining features of democratically oriented music programs. Democratic epistemic considerations, such as regulatory ideals of musical quality and excellence, however, are less commonly cited, if not actively avoided. This paper addresses several primary reasons for the paucity of epistemic considerations in democratic music education and problematizes current concerns about epistemic judgements from a democratic perspective. Drawing on Miranda Fricker's influential concept of epistemic injustice, this paper argues that democratic dialogue that respects values of diversity and inclusion cannot legitimately ignore epistemic dimensions because doing so occludes the epistemic dimensions of cultural, racial, and gender diversity in music education classrooms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Eurocentric canon remains the predominant focus of music education often excluding the role of music and experiences of Black individuals and people of color. This singular perspective creates an incomplete and inaccurate understanding of the comprehensive nature of music and the humans who create, perform, and engage with it. In this article, the author shares her experience as a Black music educator and her aspirations for a music profession that incorporates the full range of human music engagement and expression. The paper begins with a reflection on W.E.B. DuBois's double consciousness followed by an exploration of the nuances, complexities, contradictions, and beauty of being a Black educator in a primarily white field. Subsequently, the essay presents four conceptual principles for a reimagined, inclusive music education approach, drawing inspiration from Sylvia Wynter's "new science of the Word." These principles advocate retelling the music education narrative to incorporate historically marginalized voices, reorienting music education to be human-centered, embracing interdisciplinary approaches to view music teaching and learning, and acknowledging the power of music in uplifting the human condition. Finally, this paper proposes a pathway for reconciling diverse identities prevalent in American culture with music education and academia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the fundamental tenets of Plato's philosophy of education, particularly his views on a practice of great educational potential: communal musical participation. According to Plato, music can attune the individual and the community to cosmic harmony and this, in turn, is the only way to form and maintain a community. The paper explores how the concepts of ethos and nomos are utilized to explain music's role in community cohesion. It argues that Plato's understanding of the power of immediate and pre-reflective participation in music can provide valuable insight for contemporary philosophy of music education. The concept of nomos, in particular, allows music educators to take this frame of thought to better understand the role of music in creating communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines Ida B. Wells's work Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases for the purpose of providing an explanation behind how the act of lynching gave birth to the myth or lie, as is it referred to throughout this paper, regarding Black men raping White women. This paper breaks down how Wells's work displays this lie is a form of European cosmology born after the Civil War that Whites utilized to help them maintain control over the Black race. This paper also breaks down how Wells's work highlights the effectsof this lie over the years in addition to performingbrief case studies on four specific events that showcase theseeffects. This paper concludes by pointing out how Wells's work also provides a solution to ending this lie. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Should climate activists be optimistic or pessimistic about the climate crisis and their efforts to confront it? This paper analyses common narratives in the climate movement through the lens of the philosophical traditions of optimism and pessimism, arguing for three points. Firstly, most dominant narratives within the climate movement resemble philosophical optimism through their commitment to political progress and inherent value of climate action. Secondly, optimistic narratives within the climate movement should be rejected, as climate optimism places an overwhelming mental burden on climate activists and drives the climate movement towards bad responses to the inefficacy problem. Finally, the paper sketches pessimism as a better framework that can act as a moral source for climate activists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

COVID-19 has reshaped our lives since March 2020, and it is expected to affect us for decades to come. Children are the least vulnerable to the virus but are not immune to its other effects. This paper attempts to explore the socioeconomic impact of COVID-19 on children based in Egypt. This study employed a desk-based study of academic sources, research institutions, reports, and online data published by international institutions. The paper shows the impact of COVID-19 on children through education, social skills, and physical and mental health. This analysis represents one of the few attempts to examine the costs paid by children during the pandemic and their economic implications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article provides an overview of the topics covered in two texts that explore sustainability from the perspective of the Global South. The first text focuses on the impact of COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine on sustainability efforts, emphasizing the need for a just and interconnected approach to sustainability. The second text examines the concept of sacred land in the Thai Buddhist context and the socio-economic impact of COVID-19 on children in Egypt, highlighting the importance of including children in sustainability research and addressing global inequalities. Both texts call for a shift in consciousness and a more inclusive approach to sustainability. [Extracted from the article]

This paper presents the Swedish history of the legendary documentary Finally Got the News (1970), a collaboration between Newsreel and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers in Detroit. Through an analysis of the re-edited print made by Swedish TV in 1971 and archival research on the League member Glanton Dowdell, who distributed the film in Sweden, the paper sets out to both correct some of the previous research and reveal how racism was a blind spot in Sweden, which at that time appeared to be the model of a politically progressive country that engaged with the American Black Power movement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The outbreak of cholera in Istanbul in the autumn of 1871 has long been considered something of a historical non-event. Although responsible for several thousand deaths, in the historiography of the city it remains almost entirely obscured. Yet the 1871 outbreak briefly highlighted the social tensions in the burgeoning Istanbulite public sphere, and threatened to fracture the formerly "unified" Istanbulite medical establishment along spatial, colonial, and racialized lines. This article examines the reportage of four newspapers which circulated in Istanbul during the outbreak, each of which claimed to speak for a generalized public, albeit through very different methods. Three of these newspapers—the English-language The Levant Herald , the French-language La Turquie , and the Ottoman Turkish Basiret —were dailies with circulations in the thousands. The fourth paper, the French-language Gazette Médicale d'Orient , was instead the press organ of the city's emergent sanitary establishment. The responses of these papers to this sudden crisis revealed the underlying assumptions which animated Istanbulite social and medical discourse in the late Ottoman Empire, and the tensions inherent in claims to speak for public opinion or to act on behalf of global public health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines Philip Roth's most Holocaust-haunted novel: The Plot Against America. Through a comparative intertextual study of Primo Levi's Se questo è un uomo (published in the United States as Survival in Auschwitz), Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl, and Roth's Plot —and through an analysis of the other references to Frank and Levi in Roth's writing—this article argues that The Plot Against America should be read considering the profound impact of these works on Roth. It further argues that Plot is not merely Roth's counterfactual novel about what America would have looked like in the early 1940s had a president who sympathized with the Third Reich assumed control of the United States government. It is Roth's imagined Holocaust memoir, the one which the contingencies of history spared him from having to write as an actual witness, but which he nonetheless chose to write after having been profoundly impacted by his friendship with (and profound esteem and empathy for the works of) Primo Levi. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focusing more on governance and democratic potential than financial potential, this paper explores how pluralism of digital money and polycentric governance may provide an opportunity to embed values that might otherwise be overlooked or not valued in market societies. Digital money affords diverse forms of democratic experimentation with institutional and technological designs to effect distributive and political transformations for marginalized communities. Examining two case studies, including digital fiat currency that has the privacy-preserving features of cash and promotes financial inclusion and digital money built by and for stateless populations utilizing blockchain technology, the paper argues that pluralism of digital currencies using public and notfor-profit institutional architectures to serve diverse publics' interests has more democratic potential than forms of digital money driven by profit and extractive motives. To effectuate this democratic potential, however, attention must be paid to the tensions of digital exclusion and governance by experts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, I situate C.S. Peirce's theory of knowledge and action in comparison to Chinese philosophy. My argument is that the comparison makes it important to understand Peirce's abduction and his maxim as a much more potent force in comparative philosophy. Peirce's priority of practical effects over theory is similar to Confucian conceptions of truth and action. Jon Alan Schmidt has summarized sixty-one formulations of Peirce's maxim, from which I draw the four main expressions of the maxim here. According to Peirce, understanding the meaning of concepts in terms of actual effects is the core element of the maxim. This view can be seen as an echo in Wang Yangming's theory of the unity of knowledge and action. The theory is essentially a moral humanist philosophy. It integrates morality, ethics, and politics. It is similar to Peirce's pragmatic maxim, as James Liszka has explained. Finally, reflecting on the recent studies of Peirce's semiotics in China, I discuss the significance of Peirce's pragmatism in Chinese philosophy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Healthcare organizations have been transforming their operations to reach patient populations by leveraging community partners and technology. Such transformations, however, require the exploration and evaluation of innovative service ideas that are aligned with organizational vision and patient needs. Some of these innovations are institutionalized to support organizational growth, and others are used to build learning capacity. In this paper, we discuss how one non-profit organization (NPO) used its wellness mission to provide for underserved populations and to explore new program ideas. Two innovations were institutionalized: one with the NPO serving as a critical educational partner and the other serving as a leader in using digital technologies to improve collaboration with community partners. As the NPO worked to sustain the programs into the future, it realized a need for the design of an integrated digital platform that supports collaboration with partner organizations and empowers populations/participants in wellness practices. The paper concludes with a discussion of the modular architecture of its operations prior to its acquisition of a digital platform. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

North Central Nigeria has experienced a series of deadly conflicts between Fulani herders and farmers. Contestation over ecological space and natural resources, prompted by climate-induced drought, has promoted a migratory form of pastoralism. The influx of Fulani herders in the region has triggered deadly eco-related conflicts between the host communities and the Fulani herders. Consequently, the RUGA settlement policy was unilaterally introduced to prevent migratory pastoralism, including, among others, to provide an immobile or stationary system of pastoralism in the host communities. This paper explains why and how host communities opposed the RUGA settlement policy in North Central Nigeria. As a significant contribution to the literature, its findings align with some theories that inform the possibility of host communities' resistance to top-down government policies, some of which are highlighted as implementation barriers to the RUGA settlement scheme. The paper acknowledges the relevance of participatory, inclusive, and consensus-based conflict resolution strategies, particularly at local community levels. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper takes as its starting-point observations made by Lindsey Green-Simms in her paper "The Emergent Queer." Following an exploration of the term "emergent," the paper addresses the fact that, as homophobic legislation has become entrenched in the majority of African countries, more and more LGBTQ+-themed writing is emerging from or on the continent. There follows some documentation on the experience of LGBTQ+ writers such as Jude Dibia and Logan February and on the advantages to these writers of expatriation. Turning to the literature itself, coverage of the creative corpus is not comprehensive. The author has not, for example, had a chance to consider the 2013 volume Queer Africa: New and Collected Fiction , edited by Karen Martin and Makhosozana Xaba. But the central task of the paper is not to account for the relevant creative writing, but to focus on the body of critical work that addresses this and on texts that explore the historical and sociological context in which the creative corpus has been produced. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since the country achieved statehood in 1971, the United Arab Emirates' propulsion into modernity has witnessed the steep growth of the third sector (MOCD, 2019). The UAE's global economic outlook has also attracted numerous third sector organizations (TSOs) to establish chapters in the UAE (International Humanitarian City, 2020). While the TSOs established in the UAE serve a wide array of public purposes, a large proportion of them were grounded in charitable work. Although the third sector has been steadily growing in the UAE, literary efforts to document this sector were not found in the literature. This paper aims at presenting a preliminary understanding of the current status of TSOs in the UAE. Taking the contextual factors of the UAE into consideration, this paper explores the process of establishing a TSO across various legal frameworks found in the UAE and identifies the differences between them. This paper also includes a classification of TSOs based on their operational roles and a description of their geographical distribution across the UAE. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Geoffrey Nyarota, a Zimbabwean journalist of note, is renowned for his investigative journalistic skills and numerous conflicts with political authorities. He is probably the most hired and fired newspaper editor in post independence Zimbabwe. In this paper, I put forward the argument that in his memoir, Nyarota uses historical recurrence as a motif and narrative strategy to recreate a personal life story that is fraught with events that keep repeating themselves in his life. By tracing his life story from the colonial period to post independence Zimbabwe, and the near tragic events that continually trouble his life, Nyarota reconstructs a life narrative that is haunted by the curse of historical recurrence in a way that makes a personal curse become the curse of the nation of Zimbabwe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Journal of Education in Muslim Societies is seeking contributions for a special issue on women's scholarship in education in the Arab and Muslim world. The special issue focuses on the role of women in research, publications, and engagement in topics such as educational initiatives, empowerment through education, institutional change, social sciences, educational policies, and gender achievements. The deadline for submissions is August 15, 2024, and the journal welcomes research papers, review essays, practitioner's notes, and book reviews. For more information and guidelines, visit the journal's website. [Extracted from the article]

This paper presents a model of the continuous structure of Cognition based on several theses proposed by Charles S. Peirce in his youth and in his mature period. In this model, cognitions are discontinuous parts on a continuum and a cognitive process becomes "individually-synthetic," as a hypostatic abstraction from discontinuous transformations of informational fluxes in the continuous course of experience. That is, they are salient regions or neighborhoods on a continuum rather than points, and the relations of succession and precession among them are inferential, fluid, time sensitive, and goal-directed. First, this paper will outline the theses found in the young Peirce's work, which inspire a conception of continuous Cognition. Two questions will be raised regarding such a conception: (1) at what point does a particular act of cognition conclude? and (2) how should we characterize individual cognitions? To address these questions, the paper will later introduce the concept of continuity that Peirce developed in his mature years. The synthetic character of the continuum leads to the formulation of the concepts of neighborhood and synthetic individuality. These notions support the conception of a continuous model of Cognition in which the relations of succession and precession between individual finite cognitions are explained. The paper ends with a brief reflection regarding the possibility of developing this model of continuous Cognition as a theory of extended cognition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From 1954 to 1956, tens of thousands of still photographs were taken, reviewed, printed, and circulated to promote Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments (1956). By tracing the conflicts that emerged over their management, this study centers the photographs and their distribution within an ecosystem of public relations, print media, and film production. While studio photographers produced the bulk of the photographs, their role was overshadowed by celebrity photographers, including Yousuf Karsh and Yul Brynner. Changes in the visual media landscape and Hollywood's photographic infrastructure threatened both the still photographers and the ability of studio publicists to shape the narrative. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we discuss the musical work of classical composer Benjamin Britten as a lasting legacy for public music education. Our starting point is the contemporary urgency to rethink both public music education in general, and the public-educational significance of Western classical music in particular, in the face of the dual threats posed by anti-educational tendencies of "functionalization" and "hobbyfication." Relating this situation to concerns already voiced by Britten in his time, we consider in what ways aspects of Britten's musical work can be shown to reveal a highly original, post-critical answer to these threats. While his pedagogical musings remain riddled with ambiguities, which readily invite critical deconstruction, our paper argues for the more affirmative option of reconceptualizing these ambiguities as constitutive tensions of a public-educational love for (classical) music. To gauge the practical implications of such a post-critical music-educational love, we analyze the concrete case of the Aldeburgh Festival, perhaps Britten's most full-fledged effort to reclaim music as a public affair. Thinking about this case, we reflect on how Britten's legacy could lastingly impinge on the publicness of Western classical music, as well as on ongoing and future practices of public music education in general. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mythologies have long reigned supreme in the Jamaican psyche. While there are supernatural stories such as Rivah Mumma, of note to Jamaica's history of resistance to colonialism and enslavement are antiestablishment figures like Nanny and Tacky, then colonial outlaws. More and more popular imagination is consumed by heroics of Hollywood figures such as the legendary outlaws in westerns. Utilizing Cultural Studies textual analysis, this paper explores the transformation of Ivanhoe "Ivan" Martin to Rhygin, from poor country boy to working-class urban dweller to desperate outlaw dying on his own terms. The music and language used in The Harder They Come (dir. Perry Henzell, 1972, Jamaica) will be analyzed to explore this transformation. This paper takes the view that mythmaking was the response to sufferation with fear straddling both sides of the divide—that of the wealthy and powerful whose power the poor fear; and the poor who collectively or individually and legally or illegally rise up against the system that would seek to keep them oppressed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main purpose of these interviews is to explore the development of Muslim philanthropy in Brazil as well as the role of dawah and its relation to philanthropy. The interviews deal with specific terms such as zakat, fitra, sadaqah, and waqf to explore how they are interpreted and applied in Latin American contexts. The interviews were conducted with the person in charge of Centro de Divulgação do Islam para América Latina (CDIAL, Center for the Promotion of Islam in Latin America) and the director of affairs at Al-Madina School in São Bernardo, São Paulo, Brazil. This paper also provides some perspective on how the Brazilian government provides facilities for Islamic institutions, the way Muslim nonprofit organizations spend their zakat, and how they manage to help others in Brazilian civil society. Both through interviews and the author's personal involvement, this paper offers multiple first-person accounts of Muslim philanthropy in Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A brief response to papers presented by Herman Saatkamp, Krzysztof Skowroński, Eric Weber, and John Stuhr on the occasion of John Lachs' retirement from Vanderbilt University. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper argues that the neoliberal (mis)appropriation of artistic creativity that begins to have a serious impact on music education can be seen as the result of a reverse détournement, whereby the very terms that used to play a pivotal role in describing the anti-systemic, anti-commercial, unsettling, emancipatory qualities of artistic creativity are being used to legitimize a thoroughly economized conception of creativity. It is suggested that this reverse détournement shapes a notion of creativity that can be referred to as subsumptive , a term that denotes the thorough instrumentalization of creativity that leads to a managerial approach to creative processes and practices. The paper identifies some of the main terms that have been sacrificed in the process of the neoliberal colonization of creativity, suggesting that we actively resist subsumptive creativity by molding a counter-hegemonic language that offers an alternative conceptual apparatus that might permit a conceptualization of creativity as subversive. Thus, it is suggested that instead of drawing on notions of flexibility and adaptability we explore the notion of nondeterminist plasticity of minds ; instead of emphasizing uncertainty and risk-taking we choose to cultivate fearless exploration ; in the place of notions of collaboration (that easily slips to networking) we emphasize dis-identification ; instead of celebrating independence we engage with the notion of collectivity ; instead of emphasizing learning how to anticipate future needs we choose to explore the merits of (temporary) withdrawal ; instead of celebrating innovation we choose to explore practices of dismeasure ; and instead of seeking ways to boost confidence, we explore the subversive potential of vulnerability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the production of fatwas and pluralism of the Islamic legal perspective on almsgiving (zakat) issued by Muslim civil society organizations in Indonesia and analyzes the goals, methods, and logic of Islamic scholars in formulating their religious judgments (fatwa). Religious teachings have been instrumental in underpinning the spirit of giving and volunteering. Yet, questions about how religious teachings are interpreted through various Islamic legal examinations remain interesting to discuss, partly because the nuances of the fatwa on zakat indicate Muslims' pluralistic and dynamic reception of Islamic teachings. Some Muslim civil society organizations have produced hundreds of fatwas on zakat in response to Muslim communities' questions. This paper argues that efforts to contextualize zakat practices and endeavors to preserve the orthodoxy of the zakat tradition among Indonesian Islamic scholars and fatwa institutions have led to diversity in formulating legal reasoning and in turn resulted in fatwa pluralism and fragmented zakat practices in Indonesia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Canadian Council of Muslim Women (CCMW) is one of the oldest national Muslim organizations in Canada. It was founded in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 1982 by the late Dr. Lila Fahlman and a group of determined Muslim women who sought to channel their passion for faith-centered social justice work and create a more inclusive Canada for all. CCMW promotes Muslim women's identity in the Canadian context and encourages mutual understanding between Canadian Muslim women and women of other faiths. CCMW is a national not-for-profit organization with 17 chapters across Canada comprised of Canadian Muslim women and girls of diverse races, ages, ethnicities, sexualities, and abilities. This paper chronicles the experiences of CCMW to continue its work and thrive on the strengths of its volunteers and commitment to improve the lives of Canadian Muslim women and girls. The need for an organization like CCMW continues to grow as Islamophobia and gender-based violence become more pronounced. Raising funds for causes that focus on issues facing Muslim women has been challenging, yet CCMW has survived while many other Muslim organizations have come and gone. The paper will share CCMW's experiences in seeking and acquiring grants to carry out projects without charitable status and plans for long-term sustainability. Through the case study of CCMW's Lila Fahlman Scholarships as a philanthropic endeavor, the paper will illustrate successes and struggles to raise funds specifically for Muslim women and girls. The paper will share CCMW's journey in applying for charitable status and insights on the application process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]