This article uses James Paul Gee’s distinction between acquisition and learning to consider the context of GED tutoring in a correctional facility. It draws on the notion of performance, as defined in Judith Butler’s work and in queer theory, to consider the ways that literacy and identity are performed in the space of the prison. Arguing that Butler’s broader definition of performance, while h...

This article (part of a special section on South Asian border studies) is an exploration multi-religious ethnic group in the borderland district Poonch Jammu and Kashmir, India. The work focuses Pahari ethnicity looks at how prominent religious identities within this have been continuously aligning themselves along lines post-partition era. Partition Indian subcontinent 1947 acted as major disr...

Twenty-five years since the end of Tajikistan’s civil war in 1997, dreams and aspirations international development cross-border mobility country’s Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province, colloquially called “the Pamirs,” have evaporated. Once mountainous region was envisaged to a prosperous postwar future ahead it, with emerging trade links China Afghanistan, substantial funding from nongovernme...

This study aimed to find the personality development of main character in Alice Borderland TV series, Ryohei Arisu. research objective can further be detailed into explaining Arisu’s experiences that affect his personality, analyzing specific goals which lead develop, how develops from beginning until end and showing Arisu's changes after he is transported Borderland. Hurlock’s (1974) Theory Pe...

BACKGROUND Historical ethnobotanical studies are useful starting points for further diachronic analysis. The aim of this contribution is to present archival data from the Polish-Lithuanian-Belarusian borderland, which were collected by Adam Fischer, a Polish ethnographer from Lviv, in the 1930s. These data were originally gathered for publication in the first part of the Lexicon of Slavic belie...