This article analyses Sunil Sigdel’s painting “Peace Owners II,” a portrayal of three major political leaders our time; Donald J. Trump, Vladimir Putin, and Kim Jong Un, from the holistic level structure, meaning, discourse. To interpret painting, it utilizes Erwin Panofsky’s “art interpretation theory,” which examines visual art in pre-iconographical, iconographical, iconological description, ...

This article takes its title from Annalise Acorn’s critique of restorative justice entitled Compulsory Compassion , in which she deconstructs rhetorics and narratives of restorative justice. After considering the meanings of restorative justice, the first part of this article argues that if something like compassion is a restorative justice value, then restorative processes seek to secure it by...

The rapid development of tablet applications targeting pre-school children presents us with challenging questions concerning how this age group engages with the applications. We performed a study with a tablet game designed to teach pre-school children about emotions, studying their mode of engagement and their understanding of the game. The purpose of the study was to provide insights into wha...

724 women candidates from India campaigned for their parties in the lead up to parliamentary elections of 2019, and yet none them were appraised oratorical skills. The absence attention on how what say during political campaigns is keeping with a widespread apathy towards women’s rhetoric public discourses India. Could that be reason why electoral participation alarmingly low uninspiring? This ...

Geography education can facilitate learners’ critical thinking and argumentation skills to make well-reasoned decisions on social environmental issues. This study reports a geography course consisting of 18 lessons, each them 75 min, designed afford intensive practice in upper secondary school students (n = 21) following the dramatic arc. The produces examples different developmental pathways s...

Abstract This paper draws on archival research to trace the techniques used by scientists and government officials involved with palm oil at turn of twentieth century. For them, mundane practices “carefulness” were paramount as they worked collecting, identifying, marketing, improving palm. But also applied this so-called care people: was thought presuppose “native,” providing a correction for ...

The various rhetorics of ‘agile’, ‘agility’, and ‘agile working’ (AW) set an agenda for new ways working have recently gained traction in popular management discourse, particularly the wake COVID-19 pandemic. Yet conceptually, these rhetorical varieties ‘agile’ are underdeveloped academic literature. In this article we examine stream AW as being a influential rhetoric. is critically evaluated b...

The Greek photovoltaic program was launched in 2006 and rebranded in 2011 as a way to repay debt and decrease national deficit. The scheme promotes new livelihood opportunities on all levels, from micro-scale home installations to macro-scale solar parks producing energy for international export. Offering potential economic stability to a nation at the fore of global neoliberal crisis, solar en...