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This essay is an attempt to think 'mobile peoples' as a political concept. I consider mobile peoples as a norm rather than an exception and as political subjects rather than subject peoples. After discussing the tension between 'mobile' and 'peoples', I draw on Ian Hacking's historical ontology for understanding how a people comes to be. For understanding how the people comes to be, or rather, how the tension between a people that constitutes itself as a whole and those peoples that remain as residual parts, I draw on Giorgio Agamben, Jacques Rancière, and Ernesto Laclau as authors who identified this tension as a fundamental problem of 'Western' political thought. Yet, their inattention to territory draws me to James Scott whose work on early states challenges how we have come to understand the people as sedentary in the first place. His account of how 'barbarians' (mobile peoples) came to be seen as a threat to sedentary peoples enables us to understand that tension. Then a path opens toward thinking about mobile peoples as a political concept. ; Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarship

This article proposes the concept of anticipated affordances as an analytical supplement to affordance theory. 'Anticipated affordances' refers to how actors anticipate or speculate on a technology's affordances before they have any direct use experience with it. To demonstrate the consequences of such speculation on the social life of new technologies, the article analyses why teachers in Norwegian schools have expressed scepticism towards AV1: a telepresence robot meant to reconnect 'homebound' children with their school. Drawing on qualitative interviews, the article finds that teachers anticipated three undesirable affordances from having AV1 in their classrooms: peeping, broadcasting, and parental auditing. The article also discusses how these anticipations intersected with issues of domestication, gatekeeping and experiences of AV1's actual affordances. In sum, the article advances anticipated affordances as a central topic of inquiry for new media studies, which can complement existing analytical foci and shed new light on the (non)adoption of technology.

Electricity is an important resource for an economy and its demand for the last decade have witness a significant increase. This work has as aim to study the impact of electricity insecurity on the performance of small and medium scale businesses in Cameroon within the period of 1980 to 2018. The study made use of time series data within the period of the study and uses two methodological approaches; the time series data are analyze using a multiple linear regression for the first method of the work with statistical package SPSS, STATA for treatment. The work also made use of a survey analyzes which helps in the collection of field data which are treated using the statistical package SPSS version 27. The result showed that electricity consumption and petroleum consumption which both constitute elements of energy have a positive relationship with Gross domestic product (GDP) in Cameroon. Survey result from this study also showed that small and medium scale businesses in Cameroon perceive insufficient electricity supply from the energy company which render their business activities difficult. Based on findings from this work, it is suggested and recommended that, the government of Cameroon with the energy company should expand the source of energy to meet up the high electricity demand. A move to the renewable sources such as solar and wind energy will help to boost the energy sector and improve on the economic growth of the country. Key words: Electricity insecurity, SMEs performance, Electricity consumption, GDP

Sejak tumbangnya rezim otoritarian Orde Baru yang kemudian dilanjutkan denganmunculnya semangat reformasi dengan membuka keran demokratisasi secara lebih luas,konflik dan kekerasan yang bernuansa ethnic dan keagamaan seolah tidak ada hentinyadialami oleh bangsa ini. Data dari sejumlah penelitian menunjukkan bahwa Jawa Baratmerupakan provinsi yang tingkat intoleransi dalam kehidupan beragama masih tinggi.Pemandangan yang berbeda ditemukan di desa Sindang Jaya, Cianjur. Masyarakat di desaini, meskipun memiliki populasi penduduk yang beragama Kristen cukup tinggi, tidakpernah terjadi konflik social keagamaan yang serius. Oleh karena itu, desa ini menarikuntuk diteliti. Penelitian bertujuan untuk mengetahui kegiatan kehidupan keberagamaanmasyarakat , interaksi sosial- keagamaan antar umat Islam dan Kristiani serta faktorfaktor yang melatarbelakanginya. Dilihat dari cara data atau informasi yang dihimpun,penelitian ini bisa disebut mixed method atau gabungan kualitatif dan kuantitatif. Dataatau informasi diperoleh melalui observasi, wawancara terbuka, angket serta studi teks.Seluruh data yang diperoleh melalui observasi, wawancara, dideskripsikan dan dianalisissecara kualitatif sedangkan data atau informasi yang diperoleh melalui pertanyaantertutup (angket) dianalisis secara kuantitatif. Penelitian ini menemukan bahwa kegiatankehidupan keberagamaan masyarakat Desa Sindang Jaya Kecamatan CiranjangKabupaten Cianjur merupakan kehidupan keagamaan yang rukun dan toleran. Interaksisosial-keagamaan antar ummat Muslim dan Kristiani di Desa Sindang Jaya KecamatanCiranjang Kabupaten Cianjur tergolong intensif. Banyak faktor pendukung yang melatarbelakangi landasan interaksi social keagamaan antar ummat Muslim dan Kristiani dalam melestarikan toleransi dan kerukunan hidup dalam sebuah pluralitas agama di DesaSindang Jaya Kecamatan Ciranjang Kabupaten Cianjur. Yang terpenting diantaranyaadalah : a) Faktor Historis b) Faktor Teologis c) Faktor Sosiologis c) Faktor Politis.Faktor historis disebabkan kedatangan orang Kristen di desa Sindangjaya yang sudahlebih dari satu abad yakni sejak tahun 1903 sehingga mereka sudah terbiasa hidup berbaurantara Muslim dan Kristiani sejak dari nenek moyang mereka. Faktor teologis, karenamereka pada umumnya memiliki pandangan teologi yang inklusif dan toleran. Faktorsosiologis , karena masyarakat desa Sindangjaya , tergolong masyarakat paguyuban.Faktor politis, karena dalam masyarakat di desa Sindangjaya ,tidak dijumpai pandangandan sikap politik yang berlawanan dengan kebijakan pemerintah dan negara. Merekasemuanya setuju dan siap mengikuti paraturan perundangan yang berlaku di Indonesia,termasuk perundangan yang mengatur kehidupan beragama. Penelitian ini jugamenemukan bahwa interaksi sosial keagamaan yang dipraktekkan di desa ini termasukinteraksi sosial keagamaan yang inklusif, toleran dan humanis.

Public clients are generally expected to consider health and safety (H&S) in the project procurement process. However, there is evidence that in many developing countries, public clients do not adequately consider H&S in the procurement of public projects. This study therefore sought to understand this issue by exploring the constraints that hinder public clients from adequately promoting H&S in public works procurement. Using both qualitative and quantitative methods, semi-structured interviews were conducted with public clients and contractors, and a survey was conducted with public clients, contractors, and consultants. The interview data was analysed using inductive thematic analysis, while the survey data was subjected to descriptive and inferential statistics. Nine themes of constraints including regulatory; budgetary; human resource constraints; lack of management commitment; lack of H&S knowledge and education; unethical procurement practices; political influence; absence of guidance materials; and poor attitude towards H&S were identified. Based on the findings, this study recommended strategic interventions to promote the consideration of H&S in public procurement. This study contributes to the broader research on H&S management by focusing specifically on public clients in developing countries and providing an in-depth understanding of the issues which have implications for both developing and developed countries.

In this thesis, the researcher focuses on discussing the coup in The Lion King film directed by John Favreau in 2019. This research is based on the model proposed by Antonio Gramsci's hegemony of power, this theory covers the causes of the normal practice of overthrowing power and the relationship of consent using the power structure. The purpose of this research is to find out and understand the relationship between the conflict between the main characters causing the coup d'etat represented in film literature; especially in examining the similarities in the causes of the coup d'etat from the perspective of the Hegemony of Power, the three aspects that caused the coup d'etat; Obsession, Discrimination, and Betrayal. To find out the truth, the researcher focuses on examining the hegemony of power that is applied in The Lion King Film. Hegemony is applied in the form of driving bad opinions to achieve the desired result, namely becoming a king. The results of this study indicate that there are 3 reasons for the application of the hegemony of power contained in The Lion King Film, obsession, driving bad opinion, cunning.Keywords : Coup, research, The Lion King film, overthrowing of power, government.

This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Routledge via the DOI in this record ; This commentary reflects on what has been learnt from government and public health responses to COVID-19, suggesting a tension between 'business as usual' forms of public health in the face of crisis, and the possibilities for a step-change towards a 'healthy publics' approach. We set out a range of ways that diverse, multiple publics have been implicated or brought into being during the COVID-19 pandemic, and we argue that these have generally been ignored or erased by agents or agencies of public health, keen to preserve certainty in their messaging and public confidence in their authority. We conclude with five principles for re-organising pandemic responses around a richer, more context-dependent and diverse account of 'the public'.

Traditionally, extra high voltage (EHV) transmission systems consist exclusively of overhead lines (OHL) but in the recent years the utilization of high voltage AC (HVAC) power cables is increasing due to environmental, political and operational aspects. To study the impact of HVAC power cables on temporary overvoltages and slow front transients, a simulation model of the large-scale network is required. Guidelines concerning the modeling detail for the surrounding network need to be established to ensure sufficient accurate results. Existing guidelines for purely OHL transmission networks may not be adequate since the integration of HVAC power cables shift the harmonic impedance of the network to lower frequencies and that can affect the extent of the needed simulation model. Much effort can be saved from obtaining detailed data for an extensive but proper model, but a less detailed model might not describe the network behavior with sufficient accuracy. In this study, simplification options are considered, for which the time to construct and analyze a simulation model can be reduced. The simplification options are compared with the reference model (full detail), and judged based on three indicators for the level of accuracy: frequency and amplitude of the main resonance, and maximum over-voltage. As a result, guidelines on the extent of the simulated network and in which detail the model has to be built are proposed. The inverse approach, i.e. increasing level of detail until simulation results hardly change leads to similar results, but requires equivalent short-circuit networks for the rest of the grid. The method is tested for the Dutch 380 kV grid where an underground cable connection of 10.8 km length is introduced in 2013 and a second connection is planned for 2017.