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Lemonade (2016) is a genre-blending text that imports cultural and fantastical devices in order to revise, interrogate, and re-examine history–specifically, the traumas inherited from enslavement. In its analysis of history, Lemonade immortalizes Afrodiasporic spiritual practices and enshrines Black women-healers and magic-users as folk heroes. This work advances that the Afrodiasporic spiritual practices and gynocentric connections are used to form Black female collectives. It draws largely on Black and Africana feminist and womanist scholarship to frame an expanded discussion of spirituality and Black motherhood in the American South, and to demonstrate how collectives–sacred, transhistorical communities–are critical to Black female healing. It contextualizes Lemonade’s “chapters,” visuals, and wider narrative, and it examines the Southern psychic and epistemological resources that Beyoncé, as protagonist, consults. In doing so, this work ultimately intends to create new intellectual space for readers to revisit questions of collectivity in Lemonade and consider the indispensability of community for Black women and girls. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In his seminal paper, Appadurai (2004) introduced the concept of "capacity to aspire" as a cultural capacity that may open routes out of poverty for the poor. He envisions entering a robust dialogue between his conception and the capability approach. The notion of aspirations is attractive for capability scholars since it seems to answer some shortcomings of the capability approach, namely the lack of any theory of preference or value formation, the missing dynamics, the question of countering adaptive preferences and eliciting information on people's values. I analyse capability literature on aspirations and argue that although they relate to these shortcomings, they fail to eliminate them and to enter the dialogue Appadurai invited. For doing this, the collective nature of the capacity to aspire has to be recognised. I suggest that the capacity to aspire rather than remedying one of the above-mentioned shortcomings is best understood as an example of Sen's concept of agency and how poor people can build up, exercise and sustain agency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ABSTRACT Introduction Aim Methods Results Discussion War has been recognized throughout history for its devastating effects on societies, and these effects have not been limited to physical destruction. In the modern era, even wars in remote regions have profound psychological effects on large masses due to the instant information transfer brought about by globalization and technology.This study aims to examine in depth the effects of exposure to war news on the collective mental health of individuals through a phenomenological approach.In this qualitative study using a phenomenological research design, one of the purposive sampling methods, criterion sampling, was employed. Face‐to‐face in‐depth interviews lasting approximately 35–45 min were conducted with 20 participants. Colaizzi's phenomenological analysis method was used to analyze the obtained data. Data were collected according to COREQ criteria.According to the analysis results, three main categories emerged as follows: echoes of collective anxiety, keys to maintaining spiritual resilience, and navigating the media storm.This research provides important findings on the psychological and social effects of the media by examining the impact of war news on public mental health in depth. It was determined that war news has the potential to spread social anxiety and fear. Participants expressed the negative effects of war news on psychological and physical health and stated that this situation creates a wide wave of anxiety and psychological storms. The constant coverage of war news in the media also affects social empathy, shaping society's ability to support each other in times of crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

AbstractIn recent years, there has been a growing interest in collective psychology ownership in different disciplines. However, and in contrast to a feeling of personal ownership (“mine”), the theoretical thinking about a sense of collective ownership (“ours”) is limited. This article proposes that the social identity perspective (social identity theory and self-categorization theory) provides a coherent framework for understanding and examining collective psychological ownership toward various targets of ownership and in a range of settings. It is argued that research on collective ownership will be enhanced by more fully considering the implications of this perspective, which include (a) the importance of the group self and self-stereotyping, (b) developing ingroup consensus and shared understandings, (c) the role of sociotropic threat and group identification, and (d) the importance of the sociocultural context. These implications have not been fully considered in the literature but indicate that the social identity perspective offers the possibility for theoretically integrating and empirically examining collective psychological ownership. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In contemporary Indonesia, women composers can be considered as the Other. They are outnumbered, forgotten, and excluded in a patriarchal, male dominated music landscape. They are also disconnected from each other, and lost in the long history of Indonesian women composer's music and discourse. In 2021, amidst the darkest isolation as the world reeled from COVID–19, Indonesian women composers started to form a collective movement. This paper tells the stories of how women composers reconnected their ideas of solidarity through various online platforms. It captures an autoethnography of the networking process, one which seeks to follow the trace of musical exploration and resistance—a story of a woman becoming a composer in Indonesia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Fotográfica en Red is a collective network of professionals dedicated to preserving the photographic heritage in Latin America. This group was only possible thanks to online tools that allowed the meeting and parallel work and research between people of different countries. The purpose of this paper is to share our experience as a working group to encourage and reinforce the importance of collective work as a tool for the widespread dissemination of knowledge, validation of methodologies adapted to our reality, and claiming our own narrative as agents of custody of Latin American photographic heritage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Death is among the few certainties of life. Although personal and societal attitudes about death are varied and complex, death can act as a catalyst for action, resulting in a somber, affirmative, and more authentic existence—captured by Heidegger's term "being-toward-death." This article calls for a more proactive engagement with the topic of death vis-à-vis leisure, asserting a greater need to embrace diverse perspectives, philosophies, and worldviews through both empirical and conceptual research. Serving as the introduction to the special issue of Leisure Sciences on "Leisure, Loss and Death," it explores nuanced definitions of death and distinguishes between personal and collective loss. It urges a more affirmative embrace of death in leisure research, presenting death as an existential milieu that can inform human existence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article assesses how the 'collective' and the 'speculative' emerge as intertwined conceptual models for imagining and concretising notions of the 'future' in contemporary African literatures. We argue that contemporary literary production from the continent is engaged in acts of conceptual and linguistic-decentring, or what Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o has developed as a theory of 'globalectics' (2012). Beginning with Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor's channelling of a Pan-African collective consciousness in her keynote address to the European Conference on African Studies (2023), we move on to explore three aspects of African literary futures/isms: first, the idea of historical repair and the notion that the speculative mode often hinges on multidirectional community-making by reconfiguring the past; second, the way speculative ventures establish new material networks and readerships through South–South translation projects that themselves project speculative cartographies of connection and the revival of historical ties; third, how continental African speculative fiction disrupts the binaries between the local and the global by creating new spatial imaginaries invested in cosmological and philosophical materialities. We conclude that such a diverse focus allows us to open out the terms of our discussion to the wider implications of decolonial future-making from the perspective of a de-hierarchical, globalectically oriented view of contemporary African writing. As such, we imagine this article as an act of collaborative co-creation which is in conversation with two contemporary African writers – Novuyo Rosa Tshuma and Wole Talabi – whose works are among those discussed in the piece. Their interviews form the 'Appendix' to this article, and offer new directions for creative and critical re-negotiations of African literary futures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

AbstractAs environmental challenges increase in scope and scale, new conceptualizations for environmental literacy are needed. Specifically, notions of environmental literacy must move from those at the individual level to those at the group, or community, level. However, the concept of community level environmental literacy is underdeveloped. In this paper, we present the results of a Delphi method survey of experts, gathered to both conceptualize community level environmental literacy as well as address considerations for its measurement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We explore the benefits of intimate reflexive encounters with a ‘critical friend’ in the context of a Participatory Action Research (PAR) project. We conceptualize these encounters as an evolving relationship between a kayaker who supports the swim (research) and the swimmer (researcher). Methodologically, we adopt a form of co-constructed autoethnography and contribute to ongoing collective approaches to reflexivity and explorations in co-writing. We demonstrate how through asking clarifying questions, probing assumptions, listening to, and validating emotions, and orienting towards solutions, a ‘critical friend’ can support the researcher in engaging in reflexive sensemaking. Overall, these intimate encounters reveal assumptions, anxieties, challenges, limitations, and a range of emotions involved in conducting PAR. The kayaker and swimmer harness the power of peer support and create spaces of collegiality to resist the growing individualization and ever-increasing pressures of academic work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on Jonathan Safran Foer's "Tree of Codes" as a transformative work that illustrates how the removal of text can create new narratives and meanings. Topics include the relationship between data practices and narrative construction, the metaphor of technology as both a mirror and a monster, and the complexities of privacy and identity in datafied societies influenced by digital surveillance and technological advancements.

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The noun category exhibits diverse dissimilarities, characterised at the semantic (e.g., countable/uncountable) or/and morphosyntactic (e.g., determined/determinerless) level, which may be more or less important depending on languages. In this paper, we would like to discuss those differences, which we named inter-word and inter-process morphosyntactic variations. The Riffian language served us as a reference in our enquiries, before referring to other languages to show how our discoveries could be applied to them. By putting in perspective those aspects, this led us to propose a formal mathematical model denoted as a Template-Based and Modular Cognitive model. The latter is able to predict the nonlinear dynamic mapping of lexical items onto morphological templates. The aims of this article are thus manifold and cover theoretical issues. We demonstrate that nouns are organised and distributed in modular cognitive sets, having their own morphological template and unmarked forms. The extent of these sets and their number as well as the template, are specific to each language. All sorts of markers can compose with the template, but some, namely countability markers, are prevalent among several languages with no relationship. This approach allows us to explain the marking discrepancies existing between different kinds of nouns (borrowed, proper, countable and uncountable nouns) for a given linguistic variety or between languages. The main assumption of this model is that these irregular markings are caused by a template shift, occurring when items undergo a process of word and meaning formation. Our contribution represents an initial stride toward understanding the fundamental patterns of morphosyntax and opens venues for applying this mathematical model with other behavioural and natural phenomena. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Multi-agency collaboration (also termed inter-professional, inter-agency, and multi-sector) between agencies and practitioners has been established as a valuable way of working in safeguarding, to protect people from harm. Whilst multiagency working is mandated in legislation, policy, and guidance, there are challenges in its implementation. Research has not only highlighted many benefits of multi-agency working, for example, sharing resources and expertise, but also key barriers, including uncertainty of agency roles, remits, and responsibilities. Ongoing challenges, such as information sharing in an appropriate and timely manner, are often cited within various serious practice reviews and inspections. However, what is less explored and understood is how we know and evidence if our multi-agency safeguarding arrangements are effective. This article summarizes the multi-agency safeguarding landscape and highlights an urgent need for the development of a framework that identifies key components to evidence effectiveness. This framework should seek to define, identify, monitor, and review factors that enable effective multi-agency partnership working. In doing so, we argue that the evidence of practice needs to build on safeguarding being “everyone’s responsibility” towards establishing a “collective responsibility.” This is the first of the two papers mapping developmental journey of “The Collective Safeguarding Responsibility Model: 12Cs”. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

On November 23, 2022, three original core members of the all‐woman art collective DISBAND—Ilona Granet, Donna Henes, and Martha Wilson—sat down to discuss the therapeutic effects of collaborative performance, the role of comedy in addressing traumatic topics, and the activist potential of feminist collectivizing. Between 1978 and 1982, DISBAND performed in a diverse cultural circuit in downtown New York City where the burgeoning performance art, no wave, and feminist art scenes collided. The multidisciplinary backgrounds of the women in DISBAND matched the hybridity of this cultural circuit; other members included Barbara Kruger, Ingrid Sischy (former editor in chief of Artforum), Diane Torr (performance artist, drag king, and gender activist), Barbara Ess (photographer and member of the no wave band Y Pants), and Daile Kaplan (photographer and drummer of The Gynecologists). The women of DISBAND approached the song format fluidly, combining hymn, anthem, cheer, and protest movement (stomping, chanting, clapping) with rapid‐fire improvisation. DISBAND's songs reflected the members' personal and collective political concerns, often focusing directly on female oppression. The women's use of costumes, role‐playing, and DIY instruments brought levity and playfulness to what they describe as an apocalyptic moment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

High-level synthesis (HLS) has democratized field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) by enabling high-level device programmability and rapid microarchitecture customization through the use of directives. Nevertheless, the manual selection of the appropriate directives, i.e., the annotations included in the high-level source code to instruct the synthesis process, is a difficult task for programmers without a hardware background. In this letter, we present CollectiveHLS, an ultrafast knowledge-based HLS design optimization method that automatically extracts the most promising directive configurations and applies them to the original source code. The proposed optimization scheme is a fully data-driven approach for generalized HLS tuning, as it is not based on quality of result models or meta-heuristics. We design, implement, and evaluate our method with more than 100 applications of Machsuite, Rodinia, and GitHub on a ZCU104 FPGA. We achieve an average geometric mean speedup of x14.1 and x10.5 compared to the unoptimized, i.e., without HLS directives and optimized designs, a high design feasibility score, and an average inference latency of 38 ms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

AbstractTeachers’ Innovative Behavior (TIB) is increasingly important for today’s education. However, available instruments do not meet the complexity of TIB as an individual, collective, planned and unplanned construct. The aim of the present study was to construct a new instrument that meets the requirements of this complexity. We started with a compilation of the most suitable items from 12 existing questionnaires, selected by experts. After determining the most appropriate items, face-validity was investigated by interviewing primary and secondary school teachers concerning essential terminology. Lastly, with a sample of 178 primary and 159 secondary school teachers, we preliminary assessed the dimensionality of the questionnaire by means of an explorative factor analysis (EFA). The results show that the new questionnaire appears face-valid and structurally solid, but still needs to be tested in practice among large groups of teachers, in order to confirm dimensionality and other forms of validity.

Friendship has been predominantly conceptualised as a highly positive and voluntary relationship. This article contributes to recent sociological challenges to these notions by ethnographically examining how conflicting friendship ideals are negotiated in everyday life. It is based on a year-long study of friendship socialisation and friendship between girls in an Israeli elementary school classroom, from the perspectives of both the girls and their teachers. I argue that the teachers promoted two contradictory friendship ideals: one of 'chosen' friendship between specific students, which recognised the children's agency and preferences; and the other, of 'collective' friendship between all the class group members, directed at engendering social cohesion and preventing loneliness. The article delineates how the girls and teachers negotiated relationships between the students under the framework of both friendship ideals – and in doing so, exposed the tensions and entanglements between the two. Moreover, the girls and teachers' friendship discourses and practices shed light on the hefty social demands placed on children's friendship ties in school, and how friendship can incorporate both collective and individual meanings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The accounting principles prevalent in Hollywood are seemingly crafted to mislead creators and investors. Film studios and streaming platforms have been found to use complex strategies to annually divert millions in net profits. Many contracts include audit clauses, but the cost of auditing a billion-dollar system is prohibitive for most creatives with "net profit" deals. However, a resourceful minority have recovered billions in profits and damages. We suggest using Bitcoin's transparent, immutable ledger to eliminate fraudulent accounting and build trust among profit-seeking filmmakers willing to trade maximum income for maximum profit per share. This trust can be spread globally utilizing the Bitcoin network as a transparent and immutable triple-entry accounting system. Our research shows that distributing this decentralized trust is achievable by configuring an ecosystem of existing Bitcoin wallets, applications, and recorded contracts to create a universal source of truth for all parties assisting in the creation of valuable content in the form of movies. This network can form the foundation on which to build a legal blockchain infrastructure that can eventually facilitate the sale of tokenized securities, discretely disseminate recorded financial data, and transparently distribute revenue to a collective of filmmakers indefinitely. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in artist-led collectives with high-profile recognition within contemporary art mega festivals, prizes, and biennials. Yet, these amorphous entities and initiatives tend to be framed either through their politically motivated actions or as a critique of the notion of the single author or 'artist-as-genius' mythology. This article builds upon this discourse to shift the emphasis onto both interpersonal and socio-political relationships that constitute artist-led collectives in order to explore their complex role in convening and placemaking and what this might mean for both policymaking and research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Digitalisation permeates all aspects of organizational life, especially the ways we communicate with each other. Drawing on a case study of an alternative organisation—the German collective Premium, which is almost entirely digitally organised—we seek to explore contextual factors that facilitate or hinder the expression of electronic voice (e‐voice). Based on 20 semi‐structured interviews with different members of the collective, we identified various contextual facilitators and barriers to e‐voice expression: Collective belief in the value of diverse voices, cautious online and complementary face‐to‐face communication facilitate e‐voice, while less formalised structures, power and knowledge asymmetries, and information overload hinder it. These findings demonstrate that despite an alternative organisation's firm intention and self‐reflective efforts to create an inclusive and participatory digital space, tensions arise. Further, our study contributes to employee voice theorising by outlining contextual factors that are specifically relevant to e‐voice practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A simple semi-analytical collective model that takes into account the limitations of the variation interval of the collective variable is suggested to describe the chiral dynamics in triaxial odd-odd nuclei with a fixed particle–hole configuration. The collective Hamiltonian is constructed with the potential energy obtained using the postulated ansatz for the wave function symmetric with respect to chiral transformation. By diagonalizing the collective Hamiltonian the wave functions of the lowest states are obtained and the evolution of the energy splitting of the chiral doublets in transition from chiral vibration to chiral rotation regime is demonstrated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article we share our understandings of relentless hope; what it looks like when it is practiced and what that makes possible for people and communities, through stories that draw upon our clinical and community engagements. These stories provide an opportunity for those in the space of mental health, community engagements, and advocacy to reflect on hope as little actions that are performed in collaboration with others, imagination as a way to create and hold onto hope, and the construction of relentless hope as a collective movement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Indu Jain, Julia Listengarten, Stefanie Gabriele Sachsenmaier, and Kathryn Mederos Syssoyeva were invited to participate in a roundtable discussion on 'Collective Resistance', chaired by Jason Benson, as part of the conference, Borderlines IX: Seeking Solidarity and Wonder Through Performance, which took place at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK, on 30 June and 1 July 2022. The speakers were asked to provide a 5-minute provocation stemming from their own research perspective, and then engaged in conversation stemming from themes, concerns and ideas resulting from those provocations. The provocations precede this article. What follows is the text of the discussion between participants, which was edited by Alissa Clarke and Julia Listengarten with Harriet Curtis. The roundtable discussion considers collective resistance in relation to: 'making strange'; a process-centred approach; making the invisible visible; sharing the space with others; forging solidarity with the audience; amplifying the individual voice within the collective; articulating alternative aggressive forms of solidarity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this time of war – and it is always a time of war – I have found myself thinking a great deal about the relationship between activist theatre collectives and themselves – the experience of a certain kind of theatre-making, perceived from within by its makers, being perhaps more significant than the audience's witness of the performances and other activities the group makes and shares. In what measure is this kind of theatre about the audience it seeks to serve, and in what measure does it constitute an alternative mode of being in the world, a form of semi-separatist cell or sect, in which the 'audience' of makers bears witness to and draws nurturance from their own extra-theatrical performance of resistance? My desire in this short provocation – I hesitate to call it an essay, it is closer to thinking aloud in print – is to tease at a response to that question by reflecting upon three sources: a history, a personal experience, and a shared testimony. This is an expanded version of a provocation prepared for the 'Collective Resistance' roundtable at the Borderlines IX: Seeking Solidarity and Wonder Through Performance conference at De Montfort University in 2022. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we advance a methodological approach for documenting the mathematical progress of learners as an integrated analysis of individual and collective activity. Our approach is grounded in and expands the emergent perspective by integrating four analytic constructs: individual meanings, individual participation, collective mathematical practices, and collective disciplinary practices. Using video data of one small group of four students in an inquiry-oriented differential equations classroom, we analyze a 10 min segment in which one small group reinvent Euler's method, an algorithmic tool for approximating solutions to differential equations. A central intellectual contribution of this work is elaborating and coordinating the four methodological constructs with greater integration, cohesiveness, and coherence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This thesis analyzes the conditions and possibilities of emancipation at work through a study carried out over five years in the oil ports of Fos and Lavera. It is based on an ergological approach to respond to the company's needs and implement a policy of primary prevention of psychosocial risks. Afterwards, by expanding the field of intervention and introducing "dialogue interviews", the thesis argues that emancipation at work is not only possible but is essential for the well-being of workers. Therefore, an alternative perspective to that of suffering and alienation at work is proposed. The results of this research lie at the intersection of methodological, philosophical and political domains. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This thesis analyzes the conditions and possibilities of emancipation at work through a study carried out over five years in the oil ports of Fos and Lavera. It is based on an ergological approach to respond to the company's needs and implement a policy of primary prevention of psychosocial risks. Afterwards, by expanding the field of intervention and introducing "dialogue interviews", the thesis argues that emancipation at work is not only possible but is essential for the well-being of workers. Therefore, an alternative perspective to that of suffering and alienation at work is proposed. The results of this research lie at the intersection of methodological, philosophical and political domains. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author proposes an interpretation of the spirit of our times and the problems of the present, placing them in relation to the demand for analytical training today and the role and function of the analyst. The gaze is predominantly directed at the complexity of the psyche and from this angle the importance of the analyst's personality as a factor in therapy is explored. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This special issue explores the concept of polyphony in writing art history, using it as a methodological lens to examine diverse voices, along with their intricate interactions and contradictions, archival practices, and the collective creation of knowledge. Ranging from dialogic and experimental approaches to academic styles in writing, the authors embrace a spectrum of narratives in their writing to challenge canonical art history. Exploration of themes such as otherness, cross-cultural encounters, and relational aesthetics are also central, enriching the discourse with varied perspectives. Relational approaches to art history writing exemplify efforts in some of the articles to transcend conventional academic boundaries, offering writing nearby artistic practices and merging written with oral narratives. The issue also examines the role of archives, reflecting on racial and gender-based power dynamics and the concepts of living archive and archival rewriting. Several articles explore the implications of this approach, highlighting the need for a multi-dimensional narrative that acknowledges the complexities of the interactions between local and global discourses, transnational, transcultural, and diasporic identities. In summary, this special issue invites the reader to reconsider the traditional frameworks of art history and to embrace a more inclusive, resonant, and interconnected understanding of the field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Madness and collective are two terms that have marched in a disjunct way in history. Its most obvious expression was the construction of the psychiatric asylum, located far from the life of the city. The most current incarnation is that of the individual who lives in the street, within the city, but outside of all ties. These individual lives a new exile without asylum in the collective. From my work as a psychologist in a social center in Paris, I ask myself how to integrate the difference of madness, without erasing it in the name of an ideal, inherent to this - and all - collective. I show that collective and madness are structurally disjunct, but for an institution to be alive, the two terms must be inseparable. The collective must be sufficiently docile, so that everyone can appropriate it as a means of life. If the collective is necessary for every speaking being, it is indispensable for those who cannot find a typical solution to the problems posed by their body and the problems it poses to the social body. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The relationship between the self and the other is complex. This complexity is further magnified in the context of the collective self when observed in the context of culture, ethnicity and nationhood where collective historical events are frequently psychologised and mythologised. In education this has significant implications for the assumptions which underpin national systems and curricula. Here, the collective self is frequently reified, being derived from historical settlements following conflict and, as such, it frequently seeks to maintain an exclusiveness based on the exercise of superiority. As a corollary, the collective self can be seen as provisional in character It follows that the collective self which conventionally suggests stability and (mechanical) solidarity, is tacitly or explicitly employed as a tool of suppression against those who lie outside the boundaries of the collective self. It further follows that the collective self is as much about its othering character as it is about its internal defining features. The construction and dismantling of European nation-states since the mid-19th century illustrate the shifting sands of collective selves and others with the consequence that self and other experienced as a process rather than a product. The assumption of elision of the nation-state with the idea of a collective self was always flawed and was subsequently challenged by boundary changes resulting from war. Moreover, the existence of minority and transnational communities (such as those who might have identified as Roma or Jewish) which morph through history defy the notion of stable collective self with firm boundaries. An alternative – educational – approach to the primacy of the collective self focuses upon viewing the collective self as the collective other with fluid and multiple identifications which change over time and from place to place. Such an approach requires more than empathy; it requires imagination, especially at times of tension, anger, conflict, and war. In this context we invoke the concept of collective agency in an attempt to bridge the apparent gap between self and other. Here, national education systems and curricular processes which are intercultural in orientation may be well placed to engage with the dysfunctional consequences of a focus on the rigid boundary between the self and the other [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Purpose: The aim of the study was to investigate impact of globalization and digitalization on social movements and collective action across different regions and contexts. Methodology: This study adopted a desk methodology. A desk study research design is commonly known as secondary data collection. This is basically collecting data from existing resources preferably because of its low cost advantage as compared to a field research. Our current study looked into already published studies and reports as the data was easily accessed through online journals and libraries. Findings: Globalization and digitalization have profoundly affected social movements and collective action. They enable global connectivity, amplify marginalized voices, and give rise to diverse movements. However, challenges include government control, digital inequality, and the need for new tactics. Activists now use digital platforms to mobilize globally, but also face increased state repression. The digital age has led to innovative strategies and ongoing evolution of the global activist landscape. Unique Contribution to Theory, Practice and Policy: Resource mobilization theory, network theory & transnational activism theory may be used to anchor future studies on impact of globalization and digitalization on social movements and collective action across different regions and contexts. Movements should prioritize digital literacy and security training for their members. Policymakers should address the digital divide by implementing policies and initiatives that ensure equitable access to digital resources, particularly in marginalized regions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper addresses the ways in which the infrastructures that articulate cooperative work in residential buildings make it visible to the various agents involved in collective dwelling. From the ethnographic observation of these infrastructures, it was identified that the collective was a contingent procedure to organize individual, plural and common elements that made up the habitation of each building. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article takes issue with the proposal that dominant accounts of collective intentionality suffer from an individualist bias and that one should instead reverse the order of explanation and give primacy to the we and the community. It discusses different versions of the community first view and argues that they fail because they operate with too simplistic a conception of what it means to be a self and misunderstand what it means to be (part of) a we. In presenting this argument, the article seeks to demonstrate that a thorough investigation of collective intentionality has to address the status and nature of the we, and that doing so will require an analysis of the relation between the we and the I, which in turn will call for a more explicit engagement with the question of selfhood than is customary in contemporary discussions of collective intentionality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper aims to propose a new method for neutralizing contradictions in neural networks. Neural networks exhibit numerous contradictions in the form of contrasts, differences, and errors, making it extremely challenging to find a compromise between them. In this context, neutralization is introduced not to resolve these contradictions, but to weaken them by transforming them into more manageable and concrete forms. In this paper, contradictions are neutralized or weakened through four neutralization methods: comprehensive, nullified, compressive, and collective. Comprehensive neutralization involves increasing the neutrality of all components in a neural network. Nullified neutralization is employed to weaken contradictions among different computational and optimization procedures. Compressive neutralization aims to simplify multi-layered neural networks while preserving the original internal information as much as possible. Collective neutralization is achieved by considering as many final networks as possible under different conditions, inputs, learning steps, and so on. The proposed method was applied to two data sets, one of which consisted of irregular forms resulting from natural language processing. The experimental results demonstrate that comprehensive neutralization could enhance the neutrality of all components and represent features across a broader range of components, thereby improving generalization. Nullified neutralization enabled a compromise between neutrality maximization and error minimization. Through compressive and collective neutralization of a large number of compressed weights, it became possible to interpret compressed and collective weights. In particular, inputs that were considered relatively unimportant by conventional methods emerged as highly significant. Finally, these results were compared with those obtained in the field of the human-centered approach to provide a clearer understanding of the significance of contradiction resolution, applied to neural networks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focusing on the localities within the Southern Oceanic landscapes of Australia, New Zealand (Aotearoa), Asia and the South Pacific (Moana nui a Kiwa), this guest issue takes as its theme the work of the dancer and choreographer in the enriched field of diverse place-based dance practices. Circling around questions of agency, authorship and creative methods, we seek to emphasize experimental, culturally distinct, Indigenous, inclusive and queered practices while accurately reflecting the cultural profile of contemporary dance activity in the region. This Special Issue, collaboratively edited by Dance Research Australia, encourages equitable engagement and contributions of writers attuned to emergent, experimental communities and their contributions to the future direction of the art form. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The future of media accessibility (MA) is defined by collaborative partnerships and mutual understanding (Carroll/Remael 2022). Considering this changing landscape, the body politic offers interesting insights to potentially develop the idea of 'access as a conversation' (Romero-Fresco/Dangerfield 2022) on the basis that a bett er understanding of the relation between individual and collective agency considering human and non-human entities is needed due to the changes in society and the ecological crisis (Latour et al. 2020). In this article, I discuss these ideas in relation to participatory approaches in the field of media accessibility, while using an essay film as a case study to question ocularnormativism and logonormativism in academia, the industry, and wider society by recognising the value of embodied languages and experiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents some aspects of socially engaged art proposals, such as collaborative methods, affective relationships, and the production of the common. Currently, we observe in transdisciplinary projects and collective actions a growing focus on collaborative practices as attempts to go beyond practices strictly engrained in established institutional spaces such as museums, universities, and governmental or private spaces. With the perspective of a certain local activation of collective pieces of knowledge and practices, these artistic proposals aim at the circulation of knowledge, its integration and contamination by unusual places, narratives and methodologies belonging to each daily life. Therefore, we find in socially engaged artistic practices artistic interventions that highlight the power of affects for the production of knowledge managed in communities, making us think about what relationships consist of and how they may or may not give space for the common. We understand that by considering the power of affects and art in their political and social dimensions, we incorporate a discourse of difference that allows for other possible forms of communal living.

On September 21, 2018, an extremely brutal murder took place in the vicinity of Omonia Square, in the center of Athens, Greece. Zak Kostopoulos, aka JackieO, a young queer artist, activist, and prominent member of the local LBGTQI+ communities, was brutally beaten to death in plain sight and broad daylight. For reasons still unclear, Zak was being chased and tried to find “refuge” in a nearby jewelry shop. The shop owner, joined by a group of men, brutally lynched Zak, who was severely injured and clearly incapable of posing any threat. The beating continued after the police arrived at the scene, with their active participation. Zak was declared dead once brought to the hospital, unconscious yet still handcuffed. In presenting the victim as abnormal, marginal, and intoxicated, the subject of collateral damage in a series of “unfortunate events,” the national mass media amplified and normalized the violence. The entire sequence of events was recorded in full detail on cellphone cameras by various passers-by, with plenty of witnesses and evidence on site, however, the police made practically no effort to investigate the murder. The victim’s family and community initiatives have taken it up upon themselves to shed light on the case. A prominent example of extreme systemic violence—racist, patriarchal, repressive, class, and the “intrinsic” violence of the state— Zak/ZackieO’s murder exemplifies the aggression that is deeply rooted in Greek society and the nation-state. Against this backdrop, and among other implications, many artistic responses have stemmed from or were deeply influenced by this event. Whether pursuing accountability, dealing with trauma, or exploring alternatives, such artworks function as “breathing exercises”—gestures of healing, regaining strength, and finding ways to cope with systemic state violence, individually and collectively. They seek to forge aesthetic and social alliances that expose, critique, and look beyond systemic state violence.

The article offers information on a book project titled Politics of Process in Performance. Topics include the potential of performance as a form of collective resistance against societal hierarchies and inequalities, the relevance and role of performance in addressing global challenges such as the climate emergency and rising inequalities, and the exploration of the intersection between performance, process, and politics to understand its impact and potential for enacting constructive change.