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This study theorises hybridity in consumer research by focusing on the phenomenon of hobbyhorsing. This sport took shape 20 years ago and is rapidly spreading among young women with both offline and online activities. We develop an interpretative analysis of how the human, the material and the animal combine in hobbyhorsing. Our findings highlight the forms of hybridity these consumers display. Further, we identify how others perceive hobbyhorsists' hybridity through either attraction or repulsion. The paper contributes to interpretive consumer research by going beyond conceptualisations of hybridity as metaphor or as the convergence of consumers' online and offline lives. The hobbyhorsists' augmented hybridity challenges the anthropocentric view of consumers in the field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses on the present mixed-race Anglo-Indians (a minority community of India) and their ancestrally derived culinary culture. The Anglo-Indians as a race were historically formed at the contact zone of European colonizers and ‘native’ Indians. The hybrid nature of their culinary culture, vis-à-vis their sociocultural identity, is the prime focus of the research. To this end, I investigate 19 Anglo-Indian family recipe diaries (currently in use) from various regions of India. I read them as markers of the syncretic cultural character of the community. The hybrid identity of the culture, as reflected in their culinary culture, negotiates cultural differences and affiliations and engages with issues of identity and representations, adapts and appropriates colonial legacies, and subverts any homogeneous notion of ‘national food culture’. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the transformation of Australian EAL/D (English as an additional language/dialect) classrooms, transitioning from a monolingual focus on Standard Australian English (SAE) to embracing plurilingual and intercultural approaches in English language and literacy teaching and learning. Employing hermeneutic phenomenological and narrative analyses, the study reflects on the lived experiences of 16 English teachers who learned English as an additional language and migrated to Australia. The research highlights the significance of fluid affective processes, cultural responsiveness, plurilingualism, and intercultural identity development in language and literacy classrooms. Findings emphasise the central role of affect in EAL teaching and its implications for cultural responsiveness and linguistic diversity. The lived experiences of these teachers underscore the transformative potential of diverse teaching strategies that resonate with students on affective and cultural levels. Implications include fostering plurilingual literacy and identity development, promoting global identity, and cultivating intercultural capabilities among learners and educators. Ultimately, the article highlights the paradigm-shifting power of English language and literacy education when enriched with empathy, creativity, and a commitment to linguistic and cultural diversity. This approach not only enhances EAL/D education but also offers valuable insights and implications for other areas of the curriculum and pedagogical practices, promoting a more inclusive and responsive educational environment across disciplines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This analysis explores Rudyard Kipling's view of the limitations of Western universalist philosophy through three train scenes in Kim (1901). Each scene develops Kim's Bildung in relation to the culturally hybrid spaces of colonized India, and each contrasts the experience of hybridity against European Enlightenment concepts of the material world. There are two distinct types of enlightenment involved: Kim's western education is associated with scientific objectivity, instrumental rationality, and progressive conceptions of civilization; his eastern education involves spiritual clarity, the interdependence of all entities, and transcendence of materialism and its related suffering. Such concepts are challenged by the novel's modernization of Bildungsroman, which emphasizes networks of relations, rather than independence and autonomy. A comparative reading of two panoramic views-from the Grand Trunk Road and from the lama's enlightened perspective-illustrates Kipling's rejection of a unified theory of enlightenment, further complicating the implications ofWestern Enlightenment for unreconciled hybridity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Chica lit was spawned in 2003 with Cuban American Alisa Valdes Rodriguez's novel The Dirty Girls Social Club. Featuring young upwardly mobile Latinas, the genre provides an interesting counterbalance to the predominant currents of recent Latinx literature which have focused on prejudice faced by Latinos. Contrastingly, chica lit celebrates aspirational heroines and rejects the struggling Latina stereotype. In this novel it promotes assimilation to North American consumer culture, while integrating non-threatening aspects of Latina identity. In an original approach to the novel, a critical framework of segmented- and selective-assimilationist models is applied, where meaningful investment in Latinx culture and history are sidelined in favour of becoming all-American consumer citizens. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Hybrid organizations must deal with institutional complexity and find ways to manage conflicting demands in their organizational environment to engage in their required, day‐to‐day activities. The objective of this qualitative research is to elaborate on the mechanisms that hybrid organizations use to mitigate the destabilizing effects of such institutional logic multiplicity in their value creation processes. By combining value configuration analyses and the hybrid organizing concept as a theoretical background, the authors conduct a case study with 14 nonprofit microfinance organizations (MFOs) that illustrates the importance of an integrative organizational culture as a core foundation that can align and integrate social and economic demands. Successful nonprofit MFOs align competing institutional logics in a hierarchy of goals, explicitly defining their means and objectives. Independent of the type of logic multiplicity they face, they use the hierarchy to define their organizational identity and transfer it to a corresponding organizational culture that can balance diverse institutional demands. From a theoretical perspective, this study advances institutional logic approaches; it also identifies effective mechanisms hybrid organizations can use to cope with logic multiplicity by applying a value configuration perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Authenticity is a longstanding concern in Khoisan Studies. Most scholarship has examined how stereotypical, essentialist and static notions of "authentic" Khoisan identity and culture are habitually reproduced and demanded of the Khoisan for economic or political gain. Recent work instead emphasises agency, hybridity and dynamism, and increasingly draws attention to interlocutors' own views on authenticity. I make a contribution to this literature by drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Cape Town between 2014 and 2022 among "Khoisan revivalists", whose authenticity as urban-based and newly identifying indigenous people rarely goes unquestioned. My non-exhaustive examples of Khoisan revivalist aesthetics demonstrate the intermittent rejection, reinforcement and ignoring of dominant representations and notions of accuracy in pursuit of authenticity. This critique of authenticity sheds new light on how indigenous peoples reclaim their heritage. In addition, as an example of theorising from below, it prompts consideration of the politics of anthropological writing on the subject. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since the end of the twentieth century, there have been a large number of Africans in Guangzhou occupying multiple emplacements and engaging in diverse activities so that a whole zone of the urban area is designated 'Little Africa.' The article investigates the linguistic landscape in the African living areas of Guangzhou from a multimodality perspective, focusing on how street sign translation becomes an important means of cross-cultural communication and a symbol of 'low-end glocalization' and 'grassroots cosmopolitanism'. The translation landscape in the present study was investigated through an ethnographic process of photographing the translations and examining them within their contexts and spaces. The prevalence of bilingual, multilingual, and monolingual English signs in multifarious modes in the African inhabited area of Guangzhou deviates itself from other places of the city to create a translational and transnational space for people of heterogeneous ethnicities to develop social supporting networks and maintain structures of solidarity. The unusually diversified, multimodal translations, on the one hand, reflect the 'glocalized' nature of this African enclave while, on the other hand, demonstrating a 'transient' sense of belonging for foreigners. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The focus of this article is contemporary documentary film culture in Lithuania. Through the case study of the Vilnius Documentary Film Festival (VDFF), I would like to argue that documentary culture has been going through a process of hybridisation in recent years. Firstly, I will outline the context of the global situation of documentary cinema, then I will show the origin and importance of VDFF in that context. I will use postcolonial studies and decoloniality to explain the process of contemporary documentary film culture in Lithuania. My research is contextualised in the new field of film festivals research in film studies. The article is based on a few semi-structured interviews, detailed analyses of catalogues of few events in Lithuania before VDFF and catalogues of VDFF, and an analysis of international festivals' research texts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

News satire has proliferated worldwide and has emerged as a valid site for public discourse. What we see today is a spectrum of news satire formats ranging from the predominantly absurd and comedic to more overtly journalistic satirical deconstructions of current affairs. This maturation of news satire as an alternative form of journalism thus underlines the necessity for further research into the journalistic roles that certain news satire formats carry out. This study assesses the journalistic roles in three international news satire formats i.e., the United States' Last Week Tonight, the Swedish Svenska Nyheter, and the Dutch Zondag met Lubach and presents the findings of a content analysis of 150 satirical segments having aired from October 2020 to April 2023. We conclude that Western news satire displays a fairly united execution of journalistic role performances with high scores for the Advocate, Watchdog and Civic Educator roles, yet low scores for Reporter and Loyalist roles. Furthermore, we present the Comedic Interlocutor role, and discuss its place in alternative conceptions of professional journalism today. This study empirically validates that humor and entertainment are not irreconcilable with a factual, civically engaged, critical kind of journalistic coverage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although the simultaneous presence of multiple ambitions is inherent in hybrid venturing, pursuing social and/or environmental missions while securing commercial viability can generate ambivalence among stakeholders. In this study, we draw on the notion of "holism" to show how venture founders both embrace tensioned ambitions and sustain hybridity during critical venture development phases. Based on 6 years of data on The People's Supermarket in the United Kingdom, we identify three distinct practices— fantasizing, bartering, and conjuring —used by founders to harness tensions productively, without compromising their venture's multiple ambitions. These practices demonstrate the founders' ability to maintain a venture's hybrid nature throughout the ideation, organizational, and scale-up phases, thereby shedding light on the application of "holism" within the realm of hybrid venturing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Hanan Al-Shaykh's, "I Sweep the Sun off Rooftops", calls for cross-cultural dialogue between different cultures. The text explores the cultural tensions that shape an individual's identity within the postcolonial context. This article examines an encounter in the text between the Moroccan protagonist and her English boyfriend, his sister and his friends in London. Engaging in dialogue between multiple postcolonial theories such as Frantz Fanon's concept of "absolute depersonalization", Edward Said's Orientalism and "contrapuntal consciousness" – Mary Louise Pratt's theory of transculturation and Homi Bhabha's notion of "hybridity", this research studies how the processes of transculturation and hybridity can act to transcend cultural clashes and East–West divisions. The author resorts to using colonial tropes or Orientalist stereotypes to eventually subvert these problems but, at times, this causes ambiguity and contradictions in her text. The female protagonist follows a non-linear trajectory, experiencing various stages before she reaches a hybrid state; these stages involve a fascination with London, cultural clashes, self-assertion and integration, incorporating cultural crossing and hybridity. The female protagonist slips back and forth from one stage to another with all her experiences contributing towards the attainment of cultural dialogue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite the fact that organisational values play a pivotal role within organisations and allow for a broad differentiation between universities, little is known about the organisational values universities select to pursue, and the factors impacting the selection of specific values. Therefore, we aim in this study to explore what type of organisational values universities express in their identity claims, and whether the institutional control (public vs private) affects value selection. We analysed the mission statements (i.e., identity narratives) of 169 Turkish universities using an a priori coding approach. The results indicate that public and private universities express similar value profiles and address different pressures from stakeholders by communicating a hybrid set of values. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Microfinance institutions (MFIs) operate in diverse institutional contexts and serve as the backbone for microenterprises typically excluded from traditional financial markets. At the same time, MFIs and the microenterprises they support solve tangible social problems, such as alleviating hunger, lifting people out of poverty and creating more sustainable communities. When appealing for resources, MFIs work with microenterprises to create rhetoric that communicates both the financial needs and the social good that supporting them can do. Building on previous research concerning the hybrid rhetoric of microenterprises and the literature rooted in organisational legitimacy, we take a multi-level approach and assess whether country stability and MFI financial performance influence the hybrid rhetoric of microenterprises. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article examines multivocal, intersubjective explorations of ambivalent identity in two literary works centring female descendants of harkis (Algerian auxiliary soldiers enlisted in the French army during the Algerian War). Zahia Rahmani’s France: récit d’une enfance (2006) and Alice Zeniter’s L’Art de perdre (2017) document their protagonists’ struggles to reconstruct, and simultaneously reconfigure or subvert, complex memories and identities fragmented by colonial history and its afterlives. Plural, often transgressive, forms of speech, dialogue, and storytelling are shown to facilitate explorations of ambivalent intergenerational and intercultural affect, also emerging as forces of critique, resistance, and interpellation. In their navigation of conflictual, ambiguous histories that place diverse memories and identities in productive tension, both texts complicate notions of belonging and inheritance. Their layered, dialogic narrative quests treat subjectivity, memory, and temporality as plural, fluid, and contingent, resisting straightforward identification with a singular identity marker, whether harki, Algerian, Amazigh (Berber), French, or otherwise. Crucially, through the real and imagined landscapes they traverse, they also turn outwards in their questioning of broader oppressive, traumatogenic structures and reductive narratives. ‘Pre-written’ narratives, whether involving colonial or contemporary Algeria, the experiences of the harkis or those of rural French communities, are thus deconstructed and rewritten. Drawing on theorizations and interrogations of postcolonial hybridity and witnessing, this article argues that these narrative (re)constructions privilege neither unified subjectivity nor potentially essentialized forms of fragmentary identity. Citing yet interrogating institutionalized narratives of memorialization, reconciliation, and reparation, Rahmani and Zeniter present ambivalent, fractured intergenerational transmission as a shifting locus of encounter, exchange, and contestation.

This article examines narratives and practices of post-conflict recovery in Bougainville and Solomon Islands respectively, with particular emphasis on the governance of justice and security. The original visions and pathways to recovery differed markedly in each case. Drawing on local strengths, including traditional leadership and customary practices of reconciliation, was integral to Bougainville’s aspirations for peacebuilding and the shaping of its post-conflict social and political order. Under the auspices of a major Australian-led regional intervention, Solomon Islands followed a more conventional state building approach that made few concessions to the significance of local non-state social institutions and actors in relation to justice and security. Despite these initial divergences, recent years have seen growing areas of convergence in both places, notably around acknowledging the importance of practical hybridity between state and non-state forms of justice and security governance.

The article discusses the application of mediation to conflict involving sorcery and sorcery-related violence in Papua New Guinea (PNG) villages and remote Australian Indigenous communities. The article proposes that a Hybrid Mediation Approach to managing this form of conflict can be effective. This approach re-imagines the stages of mediation not as fixed or rigid steps but as design parameters that empower the parties through incorporating local values and traditions into the dispute management process. The hybrid element of the approach refers to the incorporation of local values and traditions into the mediation design. The article makes reference to specific examples of sorcery-related conflict at the remote Australian community of Aurukun and a village in PNG to provide a background to this discussion of effective mediation techniques.

This research paper sheds the light on the meaning of the term 'Hybridity' according to Young as shown in the OED and during the nineteenth century which is dominated by colonialism. The spread of the British imperial powers across the different countries lead to the mixing of the various races together. So, Young discusses the prominent ideas that lead to the emergence of racial hybridity such as immigration, diaspora, displacement and others. He also focuses on the debates of the nineteenth century that highlight the theme of racial hybridity in order to determine the specific race of the English nation as it consists of hybrid races. A close reading to Young's analysis to these arguments reveals themes grounded in racism and class distinction. Young in this study resists against the racist theories that are set against the colonized countries during the nineteenth century.This research paper sheds the light on the meaning of the term 'Hybridity' according to Young as shown in the OED and during the nineteenth century which is dominated by colonialism. The spread of the British imperial powers across the different countries lead to the mixing of the various races together.

The article is devoted to an urgent and controversial topic – the spontaneous formation of regulators for managing the behavior of subjects in the virtual world in the context of digital transformation and hybrid social space and the impact of these processes on the social order. The diversity of subjects (multi-subjects) is represented both by traditional subjects of society in the virtual space (representatives of government bodies, citizens and their associations included in digital communications), The diversity of subjects (multi-subjects ) is represented both by traditional subjects of society in the virtual space (representatives of government bodies, citizens and their associations included in digital communications), the transformed form virtual reality, that is the actor of virtual reality with a high level of anonymity; and by techno-subjects (products with built-in artificial intelligence algorithms (chatbots, neural networks, digital twins, etc.) showing some elements of subjectivity (the possibility of influencing the behavior of communication participants, the possession of technosubjects by a social body (according to V. Tikhonov). Soft governance is considered as a democratic style of subject-subject management through influencing culture, con-sciousness, behavior with the transfer of necessary powers to participants and the use of informal communication methods. The regulatives of programmed society have high risks of blatant manipulation by authorities or anonymous power contenders. The regulatives of Soft governance have a dual basis: the establishment of laws, rules and instructions for all types of subjects, regulations for coordinating the interests of partners in participatory interactions, the development of a resistant reaction to manipulative influences, technical and technological services in ecosystems and digital platforms. But soft governance regulatives have signs of a latent and manipulative nature also. It is concluded that it is necessary to include all these aspects in the problems of the scientific discipline "Sociology of Management".

Our paper critiques the native speaker fallacy underpinning state-mandated policies requiring teachers who speak languages other than English to use it as the medium of instruction. Using a centre-based Funds of Knowledge (FoK) lens, we examine how Kazakhstani biology teachers navigate Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) through English Medium Instruction (EMI). A qualitative analysis of teacher reflections, observations, narratives, and focus groups revealed their hybrid epistemic stance discernible in their shift between knowledge transmission and knowledge construction and their flexible linguistic stance when leveraging their students’ Russian and Kazakh linguistic repertoires to contribute to science understanding and learning in EMI. In highlighting CLIL as a travelling policy, our results revealed the complexities of integrating Western educational models into a post-Soviet system, challenging the theory-practice divide, because a centre-based FoK lens redirected our focus from Western standards to the recognition of teachers’ professional identities and EMI pedagogies as both contextually relevant and locally grounded. Hence, our results call for more inclusive and social justice theoretical lenses to bridge and engage with the pedagogical nexus when different linguistic, cultural and epistemological ways of being merge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article critically engages with central tenets of decolonial thought. While sympathetic to decolonial thought's anti-colonialism and critique of Eurocentric universalism, the article argues that decolonial thought's understanding(s) of knowledge relies on an essentialising centralisation of origins and roots. Against decolonial thought's assertion that a knowledge's relevance for anti-colonial struggle results from its position of exteriority vis-á-vis colonial systems of domination, the article suggests that we need to look at the dialectical and hybrid processes through which bodies of knowledge are made agentic in relation to concrete contexts of political conflict. To discern a body of knowledge's meaning and relevance for anti-colonial struggles, we need to understand that it is continually shaped and reshaped from recurrent practices of reading, dissemination and re-articulation, through which the theory or knowledge body becomes hybridised and reformulated in relation to incessantly evolving contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The rise of K-pop cover dancers worldwide reveals how artists creatively adapt and transform this genre to suit local priorities. This ethnographic analysis examines two K-pop cover dancer influencers in Bali to illuminate their curation of authenticities through local events and social media. One dancer generates a version of K-pop in Bali as a cosmopolitan, upper-class elite judge and modern dancer; the other exhibits the flow of K-pop from Bali to Seoul as a diasporic, queerish waacking dancer. This study foregrounds the disjunctive flow of glocalization as K-pop's cultural capital extends beyond Korea for artistic, educational, and entrepreneurial benefits. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The issue of rangeland governance and tenure in pastoral China has sparked significant controversy and discussion. Several models have been suggested, encompassing private, state and common property systems. However, what does the practical implementation of rangeland governance entail? A review of the history of rangeland governance and policy in Amdo, Tibet tells how land governance is constructed by pastoralists adapting existing norms, formulating rules in various contexts, and negotiating with various groups such as the monastery, religious organisations, and governmental authorities. The governance of rangeland in Amdo, Tibet is characterised by constant negotiations and contestations, including resistance from below, and is shaped by various processes in the real‐world context. Through the notion of assemblage, which involves bringing together an array of agents and objectives to intervene in social processes to produce desired outcomes and avert undesired ones, this paper adds to the existing body of research on land governance by examining how institutions are formed in the case of a hydroelectric dam on the land of the pastoralists. Consequently, the question arises: What does this mean for policy and practice for the rangelands of China? If hybrid rangeland governance is to be considered the prevailing practice, then what implications would this have for the framing of policies and their implementation? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the application of mediation to conflict involving sorcery and sorcery-related violence in Papua New Guinea (PNG) villages and remote Australian Indigenous communities. The article proposes that a Hybrid Mediation Approach to managing this form of conflict can be effective. This approach re-imagines the stages of mediation not as fixed or rigid steps but as design parameters that empower the parties through incorporating local values and traditions into the dispute management process. The hybrid element of the approach refers to the incorporation of local values and traditions into the mediation design. The article makes reference to specific examples of sorcery-related conflict at the remote Australian community of Aurukun and a village in PNG to provide a background to this discussion of effective mediation techniques. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines narratives and practices of post-conflict recovery in Bougainville and Solomon Islands respectively, with particular emphasis on the governance of justice and security. The original visions and pathways to recovery differed markedly in each case. Drawing on local strengths, including traditional leadership and customary practices of reconciliation, was integral to Bougainville's aspirations for peacebuilding and the shaping of its post-conflict social and political order. Under the auspices of a major Australian-led regional intervention, Solomon Islands followed a more conventional state building approach that made few concessions to the significance of local non-state social institutions and actors in relation to justice and security. Despite these initial divergences, recent years have seen growing areas of convergence in both places, notably around acknowledging the importance of practical hybridity between state and non-state forms of justice and security governance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The local turn in Peace Studies has raised important practical and normative questions around the 'liberal peace' approach that defines post-Cold War international peacebuilding. However, recent critical interventions reveal the limits of the local turn's engagement with themes including race, gender, class, and colonialism. Engaging Indigenous authors who ground diverse conceptualizations of peace in the restitution of Indigenous land, the following discussion shows how the local turn's theoretical framing of indigeneity risks erasing decolonial accounts of Indigenous peacebuilding in settler-colonial societies through its conceptual reliance on international intervention and normative prioritization of hybrid peace outcomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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AbstractNon-profit housing providers have faced ongoing pressure from neoliberal restructuring policies since the late twentieth century. In reaction to funding cuts and policies requiring them to become more business-like, housing organisations have become more hybrid, incorporating entrepreneurial logics and practices from the real estate sector. We expand on the concept of hybridity to argue that under certain institutional contexts, non-profits can apply real estate entrepreneurialism towards their social housing missions. Analysing development and acquisition practices of 13 non-profit housing providers in the Greater Toronto Area, we explore how non-profits balance entrepreneurial practices with their commitment to de-commodified housing. Three types of hybrid organisations are identified: large economy-of-scale organisations that prioritise growth and real estate professionalisation; service-focused organisations whose mission statement limits their growth aspirations; and newcomers, whose forays into housing development face both internal capacity limits and criticism from veteran organisations. The variances in hybridisation processes across and within institutional contexts, we find, require a more nuanced theorisation of the longer-term implications of neoliberalisation on social housing. Learning from Toronto’s budding social purpose real estate sector, we identify key resources for entrepreneurial housing non-profits: building sectoral assets, knowledge sharing, risk management, and a balance between organisational diversity and scale. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Afropolitanism has become a very contentious keyword in the lexicon of current African cultural and literary studies. This is evident in several essays written on it which emerged in the 21st century. Two streams of Afropolitanism serve as take-off points for the debate and essays on the concept. The first is the perspective on the New African diaspora of Selasi. The second is Africa's rhizomatic cultural 'unity-in-diversity' in the continent from Achille Mbembe. Both streams share commonalities in terms of transnational human mobility, socio-cultural pluralism and Africanised hybridity they espouse. Critical responses to the concept of Afropolitanism are also divergent. They border on what is Afropolitanism and what it is not. Thus, drawing from the foregoing, this paper within a descriptive and analytical approach mediates on the debates on Afropolitanism by reviewing its extant literature. It mapped the possible kinship and differences which Afropolitanism shares with Afropolitan, cosmopolitanism, and Afrocentrism. It closed with a brief commentary on notable Afropolitan literature and a modest suggestion towards the need for what it calls 'Critical Afropolitanism'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This study aims to show two memoirs by Joy Harjo, Crazy Brave (2012) and Richard Wright, Uncle Tom‟s Children (1938). These works of folklore revival are important contributions to our literary repertoire. They allow readers to connect with the customs, beliefs, and art of previous generations by preserving traditions that might otherwise be lost. The study used Michel Foucault's theory of power and Bill Ashcroft's views to illustrate the process of White hegemony over indigenes in the context of folklore revival texts. Folklore texts are essential in reclaiming cultural heritage and preserving traditions, but it is crucial to examine them critically through a postcolonial lens. Resistance in literature has remained a powerful strategy that helped their literature survive the colonial experience and maintain their cultural identity. The study highlights the importance of critically examining folklore revival texts through a postcolonial lens to understand how White hegemony has influenced traditional cultural heritage. This critical examination of texts can help indigenes resist and maintain their cultural identity through literature as a powerful strategy. A lot of studies have been conducted on Black African American Literature but very little dealt with folklore particularly in Joy Harjo and Richard Wright. However, the current study argues that the literature written those have other hidden motives seen in the light of post-colonial theory through the concepts of resistance, hegemony, and hybridity. Joy Harjo and Richard Wright's literature reflect the revival of folklore and cultural traditions that were almost lost due to colonization. This study aims to shed light on the essential role of folklore in African American literature, specifically in works by Joy Harjo and Richard Wright. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper interrogates the enigmatic postcolonial subjectivity of Nirad C. Chaudhuri, whose literary oeuvre resists facile categorizations of colonial mimicry or Anglophilic complicity. By engaging with Elleke Boehmer's critical framework--centered on notions of "colonial complicity," "cultured hybridity," and the performative dynamics of language--this study reconceptualizes Chaudhuri's works as a sophisticated site of subversion and resistance within colonial and postcolonial discourses. Chaudhuri's texts, such as The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian and The Continent of Circe, subvert dominant paradigms by deploying a dual-voiced strategy that simultaneously appropriates and destabilizes colonial narratives. The paper argues that his apparent reverence for British culture constitutes a form of subversive mimicry, a nuanced negotiation that disrupts both the colonial authority and postcolonial nationalist orthodoxies. Through intertextual dialogue with other key theorists, such as Homi K. Bhabha's concept of mimicry, Edward Said's critique of Orientalism, and Gayatri Spivak's articulation of the subaltern voice, this study reveals how Chaudhuri reclaims the linguistic and cultural tools of the colonizer as a means of reinscribing a complex, bifurcated identity. Ultimately, Chaudhuri's writings emerge as a critical discourse that interrogates and redefines the cultural and intellectual legacies of colonialism and the intricate processes of postcolonial identity formation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to present and study a video training approach that focuses on the finegrained observation of verbal and non-verbal interactions in the workplace. This approach is part of an in-service training program implemented in the context of early childhood education. How can the semiotic resources mobilised during video-based analysis sessions support a transformation in the ways professional practices are perceived? How can the hybridity of work practices and training processes be observed in the analytical approach adopted? To answer these questions, the article first discusses the notion of hybridity and presents the empirical context of in-service training, before explaining the theoretical and methodological perspective of interaction analysis. The empirical section focuses on a case study presenting excerpts from a training session based on audio-video data. It examines how the statement "you can't see everything" emerges in discussions between educators to refer alternatively to aspects of work and training. The conclusions discuss how the emerging hybrid nature of a video-based analysis of interactions at work offers opportunities for the learning and professional development of educators and their understanding of work in training experiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Leucaena is a versatile legume shrub/tree used as tropical livestock forage and in timber industries, but it is considered a high environmental weed risk due to its prolific seed production and broad environmental adaptation. Interspecific crossings between Leucaena species have been used to create non-flowering or sterile triploids that can display reduced weediness and other desirable traits for broad use in forest and agricultural settings. However, assessing the success of the hybridisation process before evaluating the sterility of putative hybrids in the target environment is advisable. Here, RNA sequencing was used to develop breeding markers for hybrid parental identification in Leucaena. RNA-seq was carried out on 20 diploid and one tetraploid Leucaena taxa, and transcriptome-wide unique genetic variants were identified relative to a L. trichandra draft genome. Over 16 million single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and 0.8 million insertions and deletions (indels) were mapped. These sequence variations can differentiate all species of Leucaena from one another, and a core set of about 75,000 variants can be genetically mapped and transformed into genotyping arrays/chips for the conduction of population genetics, diversity assessment, and genome-wide association studies in Leucaena. For genetic fingerprinting, more than 1500 variants with even allele frequencies (0.4–0.6) among all species were filtered out for marker development and testing in planta. Notably, SNPs were preferable for future testing as they were more accurate and displayed higher transferability within the genus than indels. Hybridity testing of ca. 3300 putative progenies using SNP markers was also more reliable and highly consistent with the field observations. The developed markers pave the way for rapid, accurate, and cost-effective diversity assessments, variety identification and breeding selection in Leucaena. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this essay, I explore the emergence of mestizaje (mixedness) as a Latin American racial ideology that emerged in the early twentieth century. I begin by exploring the work of Mexican theorist José Vasconcelos and especially his work La Raza Cósmica , which emerged at the end of the Mexican Revolution that foresaw the emergence of a "cosmic race" that would render obsolete African and Indigenous races. From there, I explore Vasconcelos's influence on Mexican-American theologies and especially the doctrine of Christology in the work of Virgilio Elizondo. Finally, I explore the problems and possibilities of mestizaje for people whose Blackness plays an integral part of their mixedness—namely, "Blaxicans." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Different public-private partnerships may exhibit various characteristics, yet we understand little about the impact of imbalanced power dynamics among partners on the success or failure of partnerships. This study focuses on the private actor, an incumbent bank coerced into a collaborative governance configuration aimed at addressing the wicked problem of fighting financial crime. We investigate the response strategies of organizational members to examine the impact of when hybridity is enforced, meaning that organizations are driven by a multiplicity of values and objectives. We organize these strategies in two narratives: first, organizational members respond with a strategy of separation in resisting the integration of public values; second, organizational members respond with a strategy of transcendence by aiming to resistors to adopt their belief system. The ongoing struggle with the enforced hybridity reveals the dark side of public-private partnerships as members grapple with involuntary changes that threaten the private and commercial objectives of the bank. Our key message is that when private and public actors are involved in forced collaborations, the guise of a reputable, collaborative relationship may be used to conceal negative aspects and power imbalances, which helps to overcome resistance and elicit compliance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Implementing new value systems in municipal organizations to add societal value is extremely challenging. Value tensions emerge inside public organizations when the traditional (TPA) and market (NPM) value systems are confronted with new collaborative value systems (NPG). A multi-level case study, based on interviews, observations and documents, was conducted in two large Dutch municipalities to analyze implementation challenges that civil servants encounter due to the implementation of NPG. By integrating a governance mechanisms-based approach with a value tension approach, the paper contributes to the understanding of internal hybridity in municipal organizations, and the wickedness of organizing public administration when implementing NPG, by identifying both vertical - formalization, flexibilization, and misalignment in top-down and bottom-up governance - and horizontal - different organizational pillars, professions, and value interpretations - implementation challenges. The paper concludes that in the paradoxical situation of complex policy arenas, values elements of TPA and NPG governance models associated with "doing it right" remained dominant in the trade-offs with new values of NPG modes associated with "doing the right thing". Value conflicts hinder civil servants in 'doing the right thing right'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Social Entrepreneurs address 'wicked' societal problems and achieve social impact using innovative practices. This study contributes to the analysis of the role of government in the ecosystem of Dutch social entrepreneurs by looking at the support initiatives that the Amsterdam municipality offers. Our paper reveals how municipal officials and social entrepreneurs position themselves in this ecosystem and how they make sense of their collaboration. We think that these issues are important to dwell on to be able see the limits of collaborative governance approaches in the Dutch Social Entrepreneurship eco-system. The results of qualitative interviews conducted with municipality officials, social entrepreneurs and members of network organizations show that the ties between the municipality of Amsterdam and social entrepreneurs are not strong enough to overcome the institutional barriers and that the relationship between them is disrupted by the different logics used. Social entrepreneurs operate from both a social as well as a commercial logic. Social entrepreneurs see themselves as running noble social enterprises that put impact first, but the municipality values a commercial logic when granting subsidies. This means that the social enterprises do not always fit within the frameworks offered by the municipality because their commercial logic is seen as less legitimate when it comes to support. The results of this study confirm that in the governance of wicked problems, there is an ongoing actor positioning process where, in this case, social enterprises and municipalities, hold on to their actor-based understanding of the nature of issues and collaboration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we argue that e-participation research is at a crossroads as its theories and empirical scope are increasingly detached from the contemporary relationship between information technology and political participation. We illustrate this challenge through two developments: (1) the dissolving boundaries between online and offline spheres of political participation and (2) the growing dissociation between ICTs and democracy. In light of these developments, we present a potential path forward for the field, inspired by the so-called "systemic turn" in research on deliberative democracy and democratic innovations. We argue for a perspective that emphasises the relationship between e-participation and the political system in which it is enacted. This allows us, in our conclusion, In our conclusion, this allows us to present alternative potential directions for future research within the field.