96 Elizabeth Birr Moje This month’s issue of the Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy adds an audio dimension to the online experience. Visit the JAAL home page and click on the current issue. Accompanying the Commentary is a podcast in which the author, Elizabeth Birr Moje, pursues the question of Disciplinary Literacy based on her extensive research and experience in the field. Both the art...

While various scholars have investigated the role of citizens in generating scientific data after Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster under labels citizen science and sensing, this essay draws on media ecology explores its potential theoretical usefulness for enhancing our understanding post-Fukushima practices. Taking Marshall McLuhan’s perspective technology as a medium, creates framework fore...

This article assembles feminist articulations scattered across art histories and theories of Eastern Central Europe, in order to reveal their potential, not only for foregrounding postsocialist perspectives, but also enriching the vocabulary expanding temporal geographies transnational debates. By attending intuitive, latent, reluctant, proto-, para-, unofficial soft feminisms, this establishes...

Persona Dolls are fabric dolls that used as part of a specific approach (The Doll approach) with young children to encourage inclusion and challenge inequality discrimination. Whilst have been celebrated for foregrounding children’s voices in research, previous scholarship has not considered the potential evade insider/outsider researcher status dichotomy, facilitating position ‘inbetweenness’....

Abstract This article investigates Irene Vallejo’s 2015 novel El silbido del arquero , a narrative in the Virgilian tradition mostly inspired by Book IV of Aeneid . We show how Vallejo reinterprets Dido and Aeneas’s tragic love story foregrounding minor characters, developing setting, integrating popular subgenres exploring communicative anxieties gender issues. It is argued that patterns dissa...

This study of domestic workers and employers in Kolkata (India) examines the significance workplace humiliation as an important yet neglected concept for organization studies. It identifies practices symbolic, sexual physical that shape corporeality subjectivity such a way feel inferior, fearful docile. Practices serve purpose social reproduction by stabilizing existing skewed power relations b...