The Right to Water, Law and Municipal Practice: Case Studies from India

Recognition of the right to water in Indian courts has had little impact on the ground. This paper explores the seeming disjuncture between what happens in the court and the everyday reality of living with a less-than-perfect claim on city water services in India’s urban slums. The paper seeks to understand and contextualise a court ruling which looks like it declares a right to water for people in urban slums, but in effect gives them little beyond what they already had. The paper also looks at the ‘everyday reality’ of municipal administration and the provision of drinking water in slums through in-house connections and community taps. In both case studies, the author looks to understand how the practice relates to frameworks of law and policy that shape the rationality and scope of action of the actors concerned, both judges and municipal officials. She found that the issue of land was the main stumbling block in both places, but it was conceptualized a little differently in each situation. These case studies underscore the critical importance of making the local interface between poor people and the state more empowering in order for rights to become local and meaningful.

Sustentabilidade e Reciclagem na Educação Infantil / Sustainability and Recycling in Early Childhood Education

Resumo: É um estudo que se justifica pela premente necessidade de abordar o tema sustentabilidade e reciclagem cada vez mais cedo no âmbito escolar, aproximando os pequenos estudantes de sua responsabilidade para com a Natureza e o Planeta Terra. O objetivo geral deste estudo é discutir o tema em pauta para aproximá-lo da realidade cotidiana da sala de aula, não só na Educação Infantil, como é a proposta, mas de todos os níveis educacionais. Quanto aos objetivos específicos lista-se: conceituar sustentabilidade e reciclagem, estudar a história da educação ambiental e analisar as forma lúdicas de ensino-aprendizagem. Traz como problema da pesquisa: De que forma aproximar as crianças da Educação Infantil da questão da sustentabilidade e da reciclagem. Sendo uma das hipóteses, despertá-las por meio de uma educação lúdica e atrativa. Em termos metodológicos trata-se de uma pesquisa bibliográfica, qualitativa, elaborada a partir de livros, artigos, periódicos e demais materiais em meio físico e eletrônico. Considera-se ao concluir o estudo que não há dúvida quanto a importância de se abordar o tema em pauta já no início da vida escolar das crianças, pois desta forma se formará cidadãos e cidadãs cônscios de suas responsabilidades e deveres para com o meio ambiente. Palavras-Chave: Sustentabilidade. Reciclagem. Meio Ambiente. Educação Infantil. Abstract: It is a study that is justified by the pressing need to address the issue of sustainability and recycling at an earlier age in the school environment, bringing young students closer to their responsibility towards Nature and Planet Earth. The general objective of this study is to discuss the topic at hand to bring it closer to the everyday reality of the classroom, not only in Early Childhood Education, as proposed, but at all educational levels. As for the specific objectives listed conceptualize sustainability and recycling, study the history of environmental education and analyze the playful forms of teaching-learning. It brings as a research problem: How to bring children in Early Childhood Education closer to the issue of sustainability and recycling. One of the hypotheses is to awaken them through a playful and attractive education. In methodological terms, it is a bibliographical, qualitative research, elaborated from books, articles, periodicals and other materials in physical and electronic media. When concluding the study, it is considered that there is no doubt about the importance of addressing the topic in question at the beginning of the children's school life, as this will form citizens aware of their responsibilities and duties towards the environment. Keywords: Sustainability. Recycling. Environment. Child education.

Everyday life information means while reflecting in the individual consciousness on postmodern reality background

The purpose of the article is a detailed analysis of information means of reflecting objective reality,in an individual consciousness in a postmodern society. The methodology is based on the use of activity,systemic, socio-cultural approaches, as well as methods of comparative and terminological analysis. Thescientific novelty of work is that the means of reflecting everyday reality in the individual consciousness areinvestigated. Mechanisms of influence of information technologies of mass communication on social identity,lifestyle, and culture, in general, are analyzed. It has been proved that social and cultural phenomena such aspost-folklore, ritualization, mythology, enigmatic narratives play an important role in the process of awarenessof objective reality. It is justified that the consciousness of the individual is in a total space created by masscommunication, and therefore the perception of everyday reality occurs under the influence of informationtechnologies. A significant role in modern society is played by the processes of demassification of everydaylife, which generate pluralism and a variety of thoughts; entertainment and humor are the main factors inthe manipulation of individual and social consciousness. Conclusions. Postmodern reality determines theemergence and development of such phenomena of everyday life, which turn into an important means ofinfluencing the social, and especially the individual consciousness. Everyday life through means of masscommunication is reflected as an image of reality in the individual’s brain, is realized and reproduced as asubjective reality. Scientific exploration in this area will always be relevant since everyday life in modernpostmodern society is an important specific source of society development, the meeting space of philosophy,psychology, social communications, and culture. In our further research, we plan to study in more detail theimpact of post-folklore on the consciousness of the individual in postmodern reality.Keywords: subjective reality, everyday life, enigmatic narratives, mythologization, ritualization, postfolklore, postmodernism, demassification.

Poetizing Everyday Life in the Works by Wilhelm Genazino

Increased interest in everyday life and routine explains a new and relevant perception of the creative agenda of contemporary German writer Wilhelm Genazino (1943-2018), known as “poetizing everyday life”. The article, thus, aims to offer a comprehensive view into the poetics of the German novelist to identify ways in which everyday life is poetized, which is an example of linguistic mastery, narrative skill, and philosophical generalization. A close reading method is used to analyze specific scenes from the novels (An Umbrella for One Day, Happiness in Unhappy Times, The Foolishness of Love, If We Were Animals), in which the characters actively practice the “extended gaze”, theoretically validated in W. Genazino’s essay, to reveal a system of special ties important to their inner world behind the routine situations and worn clothes. The writer believes that in such a way, characters experience an epiphany, which provokes further musing about art and the mystery of everyday life. In this connection, it is established that Genazino’s characters manage to avoid the negative influences of society by distancing from it via self-invented aesthetic processes. They are constantly searching for individual vision. It is also noted that the writer focuses on prolonged disappearance scenes, works with time accumulated in objects, and projects distancing from one’s own self to clothes. The extended gaze which the protagonists use to watch their own portrayals helps them overcome identity crisis and generate art, which promises salvation, through simple observance. It is concluded that W. Genazino talks about the aesthetic link between the subject and object perceived as individual “cultural significance”. It enables the protagonists to discard the routine and enter a space outside the limits they have themselves created. Everyday objects and familiar situations have the capacity to stimulate memories and boost creative perception. Their fleeting nature provides for compensatory narration, which means dropping the inessential and petty and is, consequently, perceived as a productive narration. Everyday reality emerges as something that may be perceived as visible existence, which upon some consideration may reveal unique dimensions and gain particular significance based on intermediary space between what is perceived by the eye and the invisible, actualized by the inner vision. Such reflexive vision transcends the limits of things, transforming them and constituting new reality. Such is the underlying principle that the writer used to recreate everyday life in his works.

DESTROYING THE STEROTYPES OF THE EVERYDAY: YOUNG GENERATION’S CHALLENGE (THE NOVEL «ON THE COME UP» BY ANGIE THOMAS)

The collapse of traditional values caused by the dramatic changes of the last decades of the 20th century greatly affected all spheres of life and art including literature. The newest multi-media, various networks, etc. have led to the growing gap between people who are locked down in different forms of self-isolation and mundane practices. Everyday reality as it is presented in the novel «On the Come Up» by the young African American writer Angie Thomas reminds of the continuation of the struggle with racism and discrimination – in spite of the transformations that have taken place in US social and political life. The 16-year- protagonist of the novel challenges the stereotypes, phobias and prejudice and is on the way to success as a rapper whose song «On the Come Up» becomes her creed in life and inspires hope.

Overdetermination and subjective revision in Dong Kena's "Small Grass on the Kunlun Mountain"

Unfairness of the world appears nearly everywhere. It can be said as daily in our life. All this unfairness comes from discrimination. For many people, discrimination is an everyday reality. Discrimination is the unfair and prejudicial treatment that people and groups receive based on characteristics. Discrimination is based upon the primary requirement of difference. Only when difference appear over a group of people, discrimination shows its place. Discrimination comes from natural gifts that people are born with. Gender is the different for everyone. Every human is born with a gender assigned to. It’s whether, man or woman. Nevertheless, women are proven physically weaker than men. Science has proven their bodies to anatomically difference in return. Women are not only weaker in physical strength, but also are spiritually weaker. Eve was targeted by the serpent simply because she was the weaker vessel spiritually. With the different brain function, women are easily deceived, fantasists, and more emotional. These terms can especially drop atop love. Empty words, imagine, dreaming, and expression of emotions. Walking on a different branch of emotion, women are mentally weaker. The bible says women are the weaker vessels for a reason, we are also fragile mentally, and we are to be treated with great care and love to avoid breaking. Containing these natural discriminations, women receive unfair treatments from the world and the society.

Coloniality and Solitude in García Márquez’s Public Speeches and Newspaper Articles

Gabriel García Márquez’s magical realist narrative mode has been criticized by some scholars and by younger Latin American writers of resorting to a certain tropicalism that exoticizes Latin America as a region where violence and sensuality dominate every aspect of daily life, thus selling a magical Third World underdevelopment full of superstitions, mythical legends, popular folklore, and distortions of time for the Global North’s reading markets that is quite different from everyday reality in the region. Yet whether or not one agrees with this assessment, there is undoubtedly a different image of Latin America when one reads García Márquez’s journalism and public speeches. This article contrasts the author’s novelistic, magical realist image of Latin America in some of his works with the typically more realistic one (there are some exceptions) presented in his speeches collected in the volume I’m Not Here to Give a Speech (2010). Thus, in his 1982 speech “The Solitude of Latin America,” given during his Nobel Prize in Literature acceptance, as well as in his 1995 speeches “Latin America Exists” and “Dreams for the Twenty-First Century,” one finds an anti-Eurocentric stance, in which he demands that Europe try to conceive of Latin America in a different, less paternalistic way. He demands that non-Eurocentric, Latin American worldviews and ways of being in the world be respected in equal terms. Moreover, a sober, realistic denunciation of injustice, infant mortality, disappearance, genocide, imperialism, the abundance of forced exiles and refugees, and other social evils pervades many of these speeches.

Consideration of breakthrough technologies in the field of genomic research and artificial intelligence in healthcare

The article is devoted to the analysis of technologies in the field of genomic research and artificial intelligence and their reflection in the accounting of healthcare institutions. Less than a quarter of the 21st century has passed, and during this time humanity has made a huge number of technological breakthroughs, both in the field of genomic research and in the field of artificial intelligence. Artificial organs and prosthetics that allow a person to live longer and more comfortably; the creation of mobile Internet, social networks and messengers that have accelerated and simplified the transfer of information between people; electric cars that are eco-friendly, maneuverable and do not require fossil resources, which sooner or later may end; self-driving cars that free up time that a person can devote to important things than driving a car; virtual and augmented reality, in which a person can safely and with pleasure move for a certain time, have become our everyday reality. The level of development of healthcare and education, the rationality of public administration and business efficiency, the speed of making space breakthroughs in other areas of human life depend on genomic research and achievements in the field of artificial intelligence.