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Dans « Aux États-Unis d'Afrique » (2006), Abdourahman Waberi renverse le monde et instaure de nouveaux rapports de force. L'espace géographique alors renommé Etats-Unis d'Afrique, est une fabrique du pouvoir politique, social et culturel qui domine le Nord géographique des dépossédés. Dans le récit, la mise en place d'un patrimoine culturel africain suggère en premier lieu le dépouillement de ceux associés à d'anciennes puissances coloniales et dans en second lieu, une pratique conjointe de destitution et de restitution du nom. Le Nord de l'envers et les États-Unis d'Afrique de l'endroit sont non seulement les vecteurs de rapports de domination mais tracent plus précisément les contours d'un binarisme: le Sud géographique impose l'hégémonie africaine au reste du monde. Au coeur de cet espace mondial redessiné, Maya/Malaïka (prénom d'adoption), personnage central du récit, est en mouvement; quittant les États-Unis d'Afrique en quête de ses origines, elle se met en route vers le Nord, et prend le chemin du re(/dé)tour dans les dernières pages du récit. S'agirait-il là de la subversion du binarisme géographique, d'une distortion d'un modèle d'espace frontalier figé par le biais du motif de l'errance ? Ainsi, en quoi peut-on déceler dans l'oeuvre de Waberi plusieurs niveaux de déstabilisation de toute proposition binaire, qui atteignent leur culmination avec le motif de l'errance ? Dans quelles mesures, le voyage de Maya tend vers une remise en question des moules identitaires géographiques et culturels, et à quels effets ?

India is a land of massive potential with its abundant natural resources and young, talented workforce, which undoubtedly are the two factors important enough to make the country a manufacturing land, but, most astonishingly, the numbers do not speak greatly about it. Since 1991, the era of post liberalisation, there has been a steady decline in GDP from 15% to 13% between 2010-2013 from manufacturing sector in comparison to service sector. If the growth of the manufacturing sector is to be propelled, then there is a greater need to maintain cost effectiveness and competition. Continuous changes take place in productivity, wages, energy-cost and currency rates with reference to the global standing on cost effectiveness. In this context, to a large extent, India has scored well on cost competitiveness and holding on to it, steadily. The Honourable Prime Minister of India is intensively campaigning to the leading world entrepreneurs to participate in his pet project "Make in India". His visit to several countries, of late, bears testimony to the fact that "Make in India" program is top on his agenda. The Government of India has also partnered with the recently held "Hanover Messe 2015", the largest Industrial fair. These initiatives may be time consuming and resource intensive affairs but are holistically directed to enhance image of India in the global landscape. The crux of these efforts is to make India as one of the manufacturing countries so as to deal with the issues of providing employment and economic progress. This paper seeks to focus primarily on startling truths and certain measures to be factored-in, to ensure "Make in India" aspiration is fully realized, at the same time, it also tries to emphasize on the mutually rewarding benefits to domestic and foreign companies in developing India as a destination for commercialization and commerce.

Optisch ein Pendant zu Hennings "Make Love" (zuletzt ID-A 42/17) sowie "Make more Love" (2014; Tb 2018), bewegt sich der Körper- und Paartherapeut (Jahrgang 1964) befreiend aufklärend und wohltuend behutsam durchs reichlich verstellte Gelände männlicher Sexualität ("Wir bekommen sehr vereinfachte und geschönte Vorstellungen davon vermittelt, wie 'richtiger Sex' aussieht. Und wir versuchen, zumindest in jüngeren Jahren, diesen Bildern zu entsprechen"). Hier geht's nicht um Sex-Stellungen und technische Anleitungen, sondern ums Verstehen von Zusammenhängen zwischen Emotionen und dem Körper, ums Gewordensein zu dem, der mann ist und wie sich aus starren Mustern und alten Botschaften lösen, sich sexuell entfalten lässt. Mein persönlicher Kritikpunkt: Den allen Altersgruppen und Milieus durchweg empfehlenswerten Text unterbrechen auf weit über einem Drittel des Buches Fotostrecken mit überwiegend Tätowierten in allfälliger Magazin-Ästhetik. Was sollen die im Kontext des vom legendären Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957) sowie David Schnarch (zuletzt 2014) inspirierten, anregenden Textes Ungewöhnliches ausdrücken? (2)

Graphic Designers today must operate independently of specific tools and media. Modes of production are democratized, and so it is in the ways we choose to operate within these modes that define the value of the field. Practice Makes Practice is a response to this condition, refocusing attention from the products of design as endpoints of process to visual evidence of persistent questioning by the designer. Through my work I question roles and media, enfolding audience, client, and collaborators into my process. My practice is improvisational, quick, and performative in its response to the specifics of site and circumstance. Through constructing temporary conditions for design, I reformat the everyday and produce in real-time. My thesis traces a trajectory of work demonstrating consistent methods over a wide range of academic and applied projects. I work intuitively to couple learning and making, and through continuous production enact a practice that persists at any scale.

The purpose of this study was to investigate both negative political obstacles and fertile political situations that hampered or facilitated the growth of Wolaita language and its effects on overall identities of the Nation. The subjects used for the current study were 8 elders for interview selected by purposive sampling and other 1000 people selected by availability sampling from four selected Woredas of Wolaita Zone for filling questinnaire and 40 of them for focused group dicussion (FGD). The descriptive survey research design was used to conduct this study by using both quantitative and qualitative methods of data analysis. The result indicated that there were various political factors that facilitated the fro-shift of Wolaita language (from Wolaita to Amharic) in the three successive regimes (Menellik, Hailesilassie and Dergue) which highly threatened the overall identity (history, culture, heritage and indigenous wisdom) of Wolaita Nation. Before conquest of Independent Wolaita by Menelillik and after downfall of Dergue; Wolaita language has got fertile political landscape for growth. However, the practical language growth in the mentioned periods has been too limited. Based on these findings, therefore, different projects of revitalization are recommended for the maintenance of Wolaita language: awareness training on the use of Wolaita language, development of a (creative) writing culture, establishment of school-based language revitalization project, planning of family-based language revitalization project and establishment of series, deep and multifaceted training and research projects that involve linguists and language experts.

More girls are producing media today than at any other point in U.S. history, and they are creating media texts in virtually every format currently possible--magazines, films, musical recordings, and websites. Girls Make Media explores how young female media producers have reclaimed and reconfigured girlhood as a site for radical social, cultural, and political agency. Central to the book is an analysis of Riot Grrrl--a 1990s feminist youth movement from a fusion of punk rock and gender theory-and the girl power movement it inspired. The author also looks at the rise o

"Comprising of new writing and works drawn from, and a part of, Uddoh's 2021 exhibition at Focal Point Gallery, Practice Makes Perfect focuses on themes of radical self-love, inspired by black feminist practice and writing. Through performance, film, installation and sound, Uddoh explores an infatuation with places, objects and celebrities in British popular culture, and the effects of these on self-formation. She is influenced by her architectural background, rooting stories in specific spaces and materials. Co-published by Book Works and Focal Point Gallery as part of our Co-Series, in association with the Bluecoat, and The Bower." -- publisher's description

In the Pauline letters a new rhetorical aspect of body is presented with the imagery of being clothed with a person, with Christ or a new a[nqrwpo" (Gal 3:27; Rom 13:14; Col 3:10; Eph 4:24). While body and clothing imagery was well-known in the ancient Mediterranean world, the picture of putting on a person is new with these passages. Clothing has implications for movement and identification, but there is also interweaving between body, mind and clothing related to how humans present themselves, how they interact socially, how they are empowered morally and politically, and how they produce rhetorical and political discourse. This essay offers a socio-rhetorical interpretation of the texts that speak of being clothed with a person, considering the implications for those who become so clothed. This clothing refashions bodies with new religious, social and political roles. Refashioned bodies become agents of social change. The new clothing makes new persons and a new social reality.