DSpace Collection:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12323/32592024-03-28T16:32:55Z2024-03-28T16:32:55ZBook review:Tide-table of Liam FoxIsakhanlı, Hamlethttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12323/32662018-11-09T14:07:16Z2015-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Book review:Tide-table of Liam Fox
Authors: Isakhanlı, Hamlet
Abstract: A book normally reflects the world of thoughts of its author. Drop by drop, the author’s life—joy and sadness, anger and love, concerns and wishes—soak into the book. In fiction, the identity of the author is in invisible form, not systemic, or clearly visible in one image; instead it may be distributed among several characters. Even though the author’s identity is allocated a small space in literature, it plays the role of salt to a meal: just a small amount of it melts into the food, but without it, the food is flavorless. In non-fiction, such as history or philosophy, the author analyzes facts and openly states his/her attitude towards them. These types of works, in contrast to literature, reveal the identity of the author throughout the book. If a work is based on serious research, the author tries to downplay his/her identity, to write with objectivity and maintain the principle of seeing everyone through the lens of equality. He/she avoids polarized views of “them” and “us,” as well as sympathy and antipathy; he/she writes with empathy (or rather, tries to do so; after all, authors are also human). However, there is one more type of work or possible author approach. In this case, the author writes to “our own” and tries to explain certain points to them, help them understand what awaits “us” in the future, and to draw lessons and conclusions from historical and current events. Rising Tides by Liam Fox can be placed in this last category. The author uses the word “us” in its narrow sense to mean Great Britain and in its broad sense to include Western democracy.2015-01-01T00:00:00ZThe Ethics of Representation: Documentary Film and IslamAd-deen, Hafidh Shamshttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12323/32652018-11-09T14:07:37Z2015-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: The Ethics of Representation: Documentary Film and Islam
Authors: Ad-deen, Hafidh Shams
Abstract: In the words of Bill Nichols, a documentary film is one of the “discourses of sobriety” that covers numerous topics related to culture, science, economics, politics, and history discourses that lay claim to tell the “truth.” Nonetheless, a documentary film like any other filmic material presents entertainment and knowledge, art and document. Most importantly, a documentary film stands on both sides of fact and fiction. The famously elusive definition of documentary film set by John Grierson is worth mentioning here: a documentary film is the “creative treatment of actuality,” Brian Winston wrote “Surely, no ‘actuality’ (that is, evidence and witness) can remain after all this brilliant interventionist ‘creative treatment’ (that is, artistic and dramatic structuring) has gone on. Grierson’s enterprise was too self-contradictory to sustain any claims on the real, and renders the term ‘documentary’ meaningless” (Qtd. in Breitrose 2002: 9-10). Hence, the very idea of documentary is impossible; objectivity is also impossible, and the ethical responsibility of documentary is undermined and questioned. The acts of framing and editing are acts of selection, and selectivity is necessarily biased. The act of editing alone has made documentary film indefensible. Any documentary film claiming to be factual is but a discourse and all discourses are equally privileged.2015-01-01T00:00:00ZDomestic Violence against Women in Bangladesh: A Review of the Literature and the Gaps to fill-in by Future InterventionsKhan, Anisur Rahmanhttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12323/32642018-11-09T14:07:33Z2015-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Domestic Violence against Women in Bangladesh: A Review of the Literature and the Gaps to fill-in by Future Interventions
Authors: Khan, Anisur Rahman
Abstract: Although domestic violence against women is pervasive worldwide, there is no universally accepted definition or terminology. Unfortunately, domestic violence is a complicated and difficult issue to study and the research findings are inconsistent. There is no truly objective way to think about the issue because values, beliefs, and emotions affect how we see it or if we see it at all (Levy, 2008). For example: although women may feel that violence used against them is painful or wrong, they may not necessarily define it as a crime. On the other hand, many women do not define forced sex by the husband or intimate partner as rape (WHO, 1997). Consequently, the definitions of domestic violence or violence against women also differ in line with various perspectives and orientations, such as, the various theoretical, political, and policy responses of human rights and developmental organisations (Pickup, William & Sweetman, 2001), as well as the various local, national and time-specific perspectives shaping and influencing the definition. In addition, an act that is not treated as violence in one situation or time may be treated as violence in another situation or time (Hearn, 1998).2015-01-01T00:00:00ZTesting Purchasing Power Parity Hypothesis for AzerbaijanAgazade, Seymurhttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12323/32632018-11-09T14:07:26Z2015-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Testing Purchasing Power Parity Hypothesis for Azerbaijan
Authors: Agazade, Seymur
Abstract: The Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) hypothesis predicts that exchange rates are determined by the purchasing power of national currencies. This hypothesis implies equalization or co-movement of foreign and domestic good prices in long-run when prices expressed in the same currency, although there can be short-run deviations. The PPP hypothesis can be seen as international form of the law of one price. Under some assumptions, the law of one price foresees that identical goods must have the same prices in different markets. Transaction cost such as transportation, restrictions on free trade like quotas and custom tariffs, arbitrage preventing constraints can invalidate the PPP hypothesis. As well as price and exchange rate interventions, the presence of nontradable goods, the volume of initially-invested capital and differences between the goods or their weights included in the price indices of countries may cause to the PPP deviations or may cause not to guarantee the PPP hypothesis.2015-01-01T00:00:00Z