Identity Assimilation: Sustaining the Identity, or Sustaining the Aspiration

the crisis of identity in jhumpa lahiris fiction: interpreter of maladies and the namesake

شکل گیری هویت(identity) مقوله مهمی در ادبیات پراکنده مردم(diasporan literature) می باشد. آثار جومپا لاهیری(jhumpa lahiri) ، نویسنده هندی آمریکایی، در سالهای اخیر تحسین منتقدین را به خود معطوف کرده است. وی در این آثار زندگی مهاجران و تلاش آنان برای پیدا کردن جایگاهشان در یک فرهنگ بیگانه را به تصویر کشیده است. این تجربه همواره با احساساتی نظیر دلتنگی برای گذشته، بیگانگی و دوری همراه است. با این ح...

The paradox of the ‘green’ prison: Sustaining the environment or sustaining the penal complex?

This article examines the ways in which sustainability discourses intersect with carceral policies. Building new prisons to ‘green’ industry standards; making existing prison buildings less environmentally harmful; incorporating processes such as renewable energy initiatives; offering ‘green-collar’ work and training to prisoners; and providing ‘green care’ in an effort to reduce recidivism are...

Saving lives or sustaining the public's health?

Sustaining Local Identity, Control and Ownership While Integrating Technology into School Learning

Empowering Minds (EM) is a project that has deeply integrated technologically expressive materials—including robotics and presentation and programming software—into the educational practices of teachers at more than a dozen primary schools across Ireland. Here, we present Empowering Minds as a model of constructionist learning and teacher professional development. As the project continues to gr...

An Identity-Based Theory of Information Technology Design for Sustaining Virtual Communities

A variety of information technology artifacts, such as those supporting reputation management and digital archives of past interactions, are commonly deployed to support virtual communities. Despite the ubiquity of these artifacts, research on the impact of various IT-based features on virtual community communication is still limited. Without such research, the mechanisms through which informat...