Independent Scholar
Biographic Data
| ID | 4554326 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Independent Scholar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Independent |
| FAMILY NAME | Scholar |
| SIGNATURE | SCHOLAR I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dirección de Investigación y Desarrollo |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
“To Be Honest, I Just Sort of Stumbled In: ” Class, Society, and the Outsider Perspective in The Bellwether Revivals
With social class seemingly an ever-present theme in British literature, this article examines its role and importance in The Bellwether Revivals, a 2012 psychological novel by Benjamin Wood. Set in Cambridge, Oscar, the principal protagonist, comes from a suburban working-class family and works in a care home in the storied university city. By sheer chance, however, he becomes involved in the privileged lives of the two Bellwether siblings, Iris…
The Pedigree of D. Felipe/Philip V of Spain (1700-46) in the Ó Cléirigh Book of Genealogies: A Jacobite Statement
Medieval and early modern genealogies are rarely simple records of biological descent, but rather are ideological statements used to establish political and cultural connections, create hierarchy, and order society. Ireland possessed one of the most developed aristocratic genealogical traditions in medieval Europe, which reached its culmination in the middle of the seventeenth century in manuscripts like the Ó Cléirigh Book of Genealogies (Royal …
Reconsidering the Saint-Gilles Shrine and its Description in the Pilgrim’s Guide
Although the twelfth-century gold shrine containing the relics of Saint Giles from the abbey of Saint-Gilles in Southern France no longer exists, the lengthy description of it found in Book V, the Pilgrim’s Guide, of the Liber sancti Jacobi allows for its reconstruction. A comparison of both the appearance and use of the Giles shrine to medieval comparanda, including liturgical objects and furniture from Santiago de Compostela described in the Pi…
Revisiting the Dating of the First and Oldest Protestant Church in Siam
This article reconsiders one of the key dates in Asian Christian history, the supposed 1837 founding of today’s Maitrichit Church, Bangkok, usually considered the first and oldest Protestant church in Siam. It examines three potential dates: (1) the founding of the first Baptist Chinese immigrant de facto church in 1833; (2) the formal establishment of that church led by a visiting representative of the American Baptist Foreign Missionary Society…
Alix Aymé: Exposition au Musée national de Luang Prabang
Agency in contemporary European art (2017–2023) in the context of social and cultural trends: Manifestations and effects
“Agency” or active transformative behavior of individuals in relation to the social world remains one of the central concepts of discussion and research for both the social and the political sciences, and for practice in the field of education, economics, culture, and social policy. The current state of societal processes, de-structuration, makes individual agency especially important for both individual and collective well-being. The contributio…
Singularity Instead of a Human: The Essay on Political and Philosophical Understanding of the Shinsekai Yori Anime Series
Sci-fi anime does not surprise anyone, but political and philosophical one is a completely different matter. Anime that illustrates the key concepts of such classics as Plato, Thomas Hobbes, Friedrich Nietzsche. And after them, that puts up a thought experiment, designed into a work of art, in which a human, as a biological species, completely disappears, partially evolving into another creature. How this can happen, what is accompanied and what …
Cooperation Between Russia and Indonesia: A Cybersecurity Perspective
Восточный вектор российского внешнеполитического и экономического развития приобретает особенно выразительные очертания c 2022 г. Помимо прочих направлений, он предполагает поиск партнерств и для совместного решения проблем обеспечения безопасности в Азиатско-Тихоокеанском регионе. Одной из основ национальной безопасности в глобальном информационном обществе является безопасность цифрового пространства, или кибербезопасность. Сотрудничество в ее …
Right to be forgotten: Ethical and political aspects
Modernity is marked by the advent of technologies capable of storing data almost indefinitely. On the other hand, the data collection takes place without the conscious permission of the users. The storage and collection of personal data is a potential problem, since the digital footprint of a person on the Internet has an impact on the social and political representation of the individual, its perception by other actors. Compromising the conten…
Capitalism in Language, and the Digital Era
This paper examines salient features of linguistic capitalism in the digital era, focusing on the dimensions of space, speed, and marketplace. We attempt to reconstruct the linguistic and economic connections of computation and algorithmic or cybernetic capitalism that reinforces global industrialization. We draw on work that discusses the keystone of Google’s success, which is built on three algorithms, PageRank, Adwords, and auto-completion. Au…
Periodization of Anti-Cultism in Post-Soviet Russia
The article deals with post-Soviet Russian anti-cultism (anti-cult or Countercult movement) and presents its periodization regarding the impact of anti-cultism on the formation of state-confessional relations in the Russian Federation. The dynamic growing of anti-cultism in Russian politics shows that it brings xenophobia towards religious minorities, causes denominational splits and conflicts, marginalizes and discriminates the followers of the …
Identification of Muslim burial sites at the Zehrensdorf prisoner of war cemetery
More than 400 mostly Muslim soldiers of the tsarist army who had been taken prisoner by the Germans during the First World War are buried in the Zehrensdorf prisoner of war cemetery south of Berlin. The cemetery is an important testimony to the entangled history of the colonial empires in the First World War and to the European confrontation with Islam in the early 20th century. When the Zehrensdorf cemetery was restored in the early 2000s, it wa…
Imagining Utopia through Communities in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West
Mohsin Hamid’s novel, Exit West (2017) takes place in a world where magical doorways allow refugees passage between countries. Following the couple Saeed and Nadia – refugees from an unnamed city undergoing fundamentalist insurrection – the novel explores their grappling amid different political tensions. While commentators have discussed the way Hamid re-frames migration as form of connectivity, and the portals as utopian forms of escape, this a…
Shells of Sea Molluscs From the Burials of the Nomads of Asian Sarmatia in the Context of Trade in Exotic Materials in Eurasia
. . - .
Tales of the Horrors of War: Analysing Select Indian Fictions on World War I
Conscription of Indian men from different states and ethnicities were recruited to fight in the First World War for the British in foreign lands, while Indian resources kept the Allies going. The discursive reduction of it quantified India to merely numbers, of soldiers given, soldiers lost, tons of food sent, and money spent. The Indian Movement for Independence as an act of political negotiation with the British masters had warranted the cultur…
Between a Rock and Reclaimed Land: A Structural Comparison between Singaporean and Mauritian Petrifaction Myths
This paper investigates the folktale motif, “transformation of human into stone,” i.e., petrifaction, in two narratives of different oral cultures; the Mauritian myth of the Pieter Both mountain and the Singaporean Malay iteration of Si-Tanggang. While both stories feature a character petrified as punishment for his misdeeds, the Singaporean retelling of Si-Tanggang makes no mention of a specific location nor geographical feature, unlike the Maur…
New Tools for Old Tasks: A Digital Approach to the Investigation of the Malay Language
Digital tools designed for linguistic analysis offer new ways of approaching old tasks, and they now routinely enable tasks which were formerly impossible. The work for this paper is based on MaLex, which is a collection of data tables and procedures designed to represent the intuitive knowledge of speakers of Malay, and provides the infrastructure for the solution of problems in linguistic analysis. This paper reports the use of the MaLex parser…
Precursors, the Environment and the West in Seamus Heaney’s “Postscript”
Dennis O’Driscoll refers in passing to Seamus Heaney’s poem “Postscript” as “sublime” and “one of his very best poems” (Troubled Thoughts 144). Medbh McGuckian writes that features of it “astound” and she finds herself almost reluctant to “dissect its music” (34). As the final poem in Heaney’s 1996 collection The Spirit Level, “Postscript” is situated
“Stories Like the Light of Stars”: Folklore and Narrative Strategies in the Fiction of Éilís Ní Dhuibhne
Éilís Ní Dhuibhne is a multifaceted writer, who moves between fiction, drama and scholarship, between English and Irish, and also between different names. She has used the pseudonym of Elizabeth O’Hara for her children’s books and for her early and only venture in popular fiction, in the novel Singles (1994); she is known as Éilís
The Place of Carnival in the Context of Mikhail Bakhtin’s Philosophy
1(091) + 82.0 87.3(2)6 + 83
Narrative Structures in Burmese Folk Tales
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
Narrative Structures in Burmese Folk Tales
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
The Place of Carnival in the Context of Mikhail Bakhtin’s Philosophy
1(091) + 82.0 87.3(2)6 + 83
Narrative Structures in Burmese Folk Tales
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
“Stories Like the Light of Stars”: Folklore and Narrative Strategies in the Fiction of Éilís Ní Dhuibhne
Éilís Ní Dhuibhne is a multifaceted writer, who moves between fiction, drama and scholarship, between English and Irish, and also between different names. She has used the pseudonym of Elizabeth O’Hara for her children’s books and for her early and only venture in popular fiction, in the novel Singles (1994); she is known as Éilís
Precursors, the Environment and the West in Seamus Heaney’s “Postscript”
Dennis O’Driscoll refers in passing to Seamus Heaney’s poem “Postscript” as “sublime” and “one of his very best poems” (Troubled Thoughts 144). Medbh McGuckian writes that features of it “astound” and she finds herself almost reluctant to “dissect its music” (34). As the final poem in Heaney’s 1996 collection The Spirit Level, “Postscript” is situated
New Tools for Old Tasks: A Digital Approach to the Investigation of the Malay Language
Digital tools designed for linguistic analysis offer new ways of approaching old tasks, and they now routinely enable tasks which were formerly impossible. The work for this paper is based on MaLex, which is a collection of data tables and procedures designed to represent the intuitive knowledge of speakers of Malay, and provides the infrastructure for the solution of problems in linguistic analysis. This paper reports the use of the MaLex parser…
Shells of Sea Molluscs From the Burials of the Nomads of Asian Sarmatia in the Context of Trade in Exotic Materials in Eurasia
. . - .
Tales of the Horrors of War: Analysing Select Indian Fictions on World War I
Conscription of Indian men from different states and ethnicities were recruited to fight in the First World War for the British in foreign lands, while Indian resources kept the Allies going. The discursive reduction of it quantified India to merely numbers, of soldiers given, soldiers lost, tons of food sent, and money spent. The Indian Movement for Independence as an act of political negotiation with the British masters had warranted the cultur…
Between a Rock and Reclaimed Land: A Structural Comparison between Singaporean and Mauritian Petrifaction Myths
This paper investigates the folktale motif, “transformation of human into stone,” i.e., petrifaction, in two narratives of different oral cultures; the Mauritian myth of the Pieter Both mountain and the Singaporean Malay iteration of Si-Tanggang. While both stories feature a character petrified as punishment for his misdeeds, the Singaporean retelling of Si-Tanggang makes no mention of a specific location nor geographical feature, unlike the Maur…
Periodization of Anti-Cultism in Post-Soviet Russia
The article deals with post-Soviet Russian anti-cultism (anti-cult or Countercult movement) and presents its periodization regarding the impact of anti-cultism on the formation of state-confessional relations in the Russian Federation. The dynamic growing of anti-cultism in Russian politics shows that it brings xenophobia towards religious minorities, causes denominational splits and conflicts, marginalizes and discriminates the followers of the …
Identification of Muslim burial sites at the Zehrensdorf prisoner of war cemetery
More than 400 mostly Muslim soldiers of the tsarist army who had been taken prisoner by the Germans during the First World War are buried in the Zehrensdorf prisoner of war cemetery south of Berlin. The cemetery is an important testimony to the entangled history of the colonial empires in the First World War and to the European confrontation with Islam in the early 20th century. When the Zehrensdorf cemetery was restored in the early 2000s, it wa…
Imagining Utopia through Communities in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West
Mohsin Hamid’s novel, Exit West (2017) takes place in a world where magical doorways allow refugees passage between countries. Following the couple Saeed and Nadia – refugees from an unnamed city undergoing fundamentalist insurrection – the novel explores their grappling amid different political tensions. While commentators have discussed the way Hamid re-frames migration as form of connectivity, and the portals as utopian forms of escape, this a…
Cooperation Between Russia and Indonesia: A Cybersecurity Perspective
Восточный вектор российского внешнеполитического и экономического развития приобретает особенно выразительные очертания c 2022 г. Помимо прочих направлений, он предполагает поиск партнерств и для совместного решения проблем обеспечения безопасности в Азиатско-Тихоокеанском регионе. Одной из основ национальной безопасности в глобальном информационном обществе является безопасность цифрового пространства, или кибербезопасность. Сотрудничество в ее …
Right to be forgotten: Ethical and political aspects
Modernity is marked by the advent of technologies capable of storing data almost indefinitely. On the other hand, the data collection takes place without the conscious permission of the users. The storage and collection of personal data is a potential problem, since the digital footprint of a person on the Internet has an impact on the social and political representation of the individual, its perception by other actors. Compromising the conten…
Capitalism in Language, and the Digital Era
This paper examines salient features of linguistic capitalism in the digital era, focusing on the dimensions of space, speed, and marketplace. We attempt to reconstruct the linguistic and economic connections of computation and algorithmic or cybernetic capitalism that reinforces global industrialization. We draw on work that discusses the keystone of Google’s success, which is built on three algorithms, PageRank, Adwords, and auto-completion. Au…
Agency in contemporary European art (2017–2023) in the context of social and cultural trends: Manifestations and effects
“Agency” or active transformative behavior of individuals in relation to the social world remains one of the central concepts of discussion and research for both the social and the political sciences, and for practice in the field of education, economics, culture, and social policy. The current state of societal processes, de-structuration, makes individual agency especially important for both individual and collective well-being. The contributio…
Singularity Instead of a Human: The Essay on Political and Philosophical Understanding of the Shinsekai Yori Anime Series
Sci-fi anime does not surprise anyone, but political and philosophical one is a completely different matter. Anime that illustrates the key concepts of such classics as Plato, Thomas Hobbes, Friedrich Nietzsche. And after them, that puts up a thought experiment, designed into a work of art, in which a human, as a biological species, completely disappears, partially evolving into another creature. How this can happen, what is accompanied and what …
“To Be Honest, I Just Sort of Stumbled In: ” Class, Society, and the Outsider Perspective in The Bellwether Revivals
With social class seemingly an ever-present theme in British literature, this article examines its role and importance in The Bellwether Revivals, a 2012 psychological novel by Benjamin Wood. Set in Cambridge, Oscar, the principal protagonist, comes from a suburban working-class family and works in a care home in the storied university city. By sheer chance, however, he becomes involved in the privileged lives of the two Bellwether siblings, Iris…
The Pedigree of D. Felipe/Philip V of Spain (1700-46) in the Ó Cléirigh Book of Genealogies: A Jacobite Statement
Medieval and early modern genealogies are rarely simple records of biological descent, but rather are ideological statements used to establish political and cultural connections, create hierarchy, and order society. Ireland possessed one of the most developed aristocratic genealogical traditions in medieval Europe, which reached its culmination in the middle of the seventeenth century in manuscripts like the Ó Cléirigh Book of Genealogies (Royal …
Reconsidering the Saint-Gilles Shrine and its Description in the Pilgrim’s Guide
Although the twelfth-century gold shrine containing the relics of Saint Giles from the abbey of Saint-Gilles in Southern France no longer exists, the lengthy description of it found in Book V, the Pilgrim’s Guide, of the Liber sancti Jacobi allows for its reconstruction. A comparison of both the appearance and use of the Giles shrine to medieval comparanda, including liturgical objects and furniture from Santiago de Compostela described in the Pi…
Revisiting the Dating of the First and Oldest Protestant Church in Siam
This article reconsiders one of the key dates in Asian Christian history, the supposed 1837 founding of today’s Maitrichit Church, Bangkok, usually considered the first and oldest Protestant church in Siam. It examines three potential dates: (1) the founding of the first Baptist Chinese immigrant de facto church in 1833; (2) the formal establishment of that church led by a visiting representative of the American Baptist Foreign Missionary Society…
Alix Aymé: Exposition au Musée national de Luang Prabang
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