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    Figures of Speech Are Not For Women: Metonymy, Rhetorical Questions, and Simile in The Calf That Frolicked in the Hall
    (2024-03-23) Sivakumar, Kalyani
    Language reflects the broader systems of oppression that cultivate it. These structures extend beyond institutions and into the interpersonal realm, shaping discourse itself. Ambai complicates this distinction by illustrating how her female protagonist remains an outsider despite mirroring the figurative speech of her male peers. Her innate inability to conform to masculine literary devices excludes her yet allows her to succeed in the long-term. In The Calf That Frolicked in the Hall, Ambai utilizes metonymy, rhetorical questions, and similes as a language of agency for women, while the male characters–particularly Udayan and Kadir–use the same figures of speech in ways that reflect not only patriarchal exclusion, but also the melancholia of a generation confronting the failure of its revolutionary ideals.
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    Emotionally Unavailable by Design: An Analysis of Narrator Reliability in Nevada and The Yellow Wallpaper
    (2025-04-08) Sivakumar, Kalyani
    What readers consider a “reliable” narrator often reveals more about their assumptions than about the narrator’s truthfulness. Imogen Binnie’s Nevada and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper prompt readers to critically examine their internalized biases regarding narrative reliability. Each text achieves this through distinct approaches to narrative structure, perspective, and the portrayal of emotional vulnerability. Nevada employs third-person indirect discourse to follow Maria on a road trip, while The Yellow Wallpaper unfolds through the first-person epistolary format of an unnamed narrator. Despite the immersive intimacy of the first-person voice, Gilman’s narrator remains unnamed. By contrast, Maria is named early, with her gender and social context made clear. Yet the narrative structure flattens her personhood through emotional detachment and stereotyping. The narrator of The Yellow Wallpaper appears more emotionally accessible and credible to readers, despite lacking the most basic marker of personhood—a name. Meanwhile, Maria is difficult to empathize with, due to the narrative distance mirroring her dissociation. This disparity raises important questions about whose pain is believed, and which ways of expressing that pain are accepted as valid or deserving of empathy in literature.
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    Bridging Knowledge Mobilization and Inclusion by Developing a Community of Practice DEI Action Plan
    (Emerald, 2025-09-09) Waariyo , Bissy; Tang, Connie; Phipps, David
    Purpose: This Viewpoint article presents the intersection of knowledge mobilization and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) from the perspective of knowledge mobilization practitioners. We represent the Knowledge Mobilization Unit at York University (Toronto, Canada) and Research Impact Canada (RIC), Canada’s knowledge mobilization network. We reflect on building and animating a Community of Practice (CoP) with the Future Skills Centre (FSC) and outline the DEI Action Plan we developed for that knowledge mobilization mechanism. We provide recommendations for researchers and research organizations to strengthen the role of DEI in knowledge mobilization. Design/Methodology/Approach: We provide critical inquiry into our knowledge mobilization practices through self-reflection, comparison to the literature, and testing against the lived and living experiences of knowledge mobilization and DEI practitioners. Findings: We outline the steps taken to build the CoP and develop and implement the DEI Action Plan to support peer exchange and learning, collaboration, and capacity building. We also conclude that knowledge mobilization and DEI are mutually reinforcing. Both seek excellence in diverse forms. Both seek to maximize access to research programs, outputs, and evidence. Both are common features in the Canadian research landscape. Originality: The intersections of knowledge mobilization and DEI are only starting to be explored. As a Viewpoint article, we have written from our perspective of knowledge mobilization practitioners who bring diverse personal and professional DEI perspectives to our work. This complements the literature review conducted by Cornelius-Hernandez and Clark (2024) with recommendations derived from our practice.
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    The Shifting Fortunes of Corporate Psychedelia
    (2025) Hager, Sandy Brian
    This article traces the shifting fortunes of for-profit psychedelic medicine through two phases: a boom from 2016 to late 2021, followed by a bust that continued through late 2024. It argues that the forces driving this cycle are best understood through the concept of capitalization, which links present valuations to investor expectations about future earnings. Engaging the capital-as-power framework, the article situates psychedelic companies within the broader biopharmaceutical sector, showing how the volatility of drug development is intensified by the unruliness of these substances as capitalized assets. This unruliness stems from a range of factors, including murky intellectual property claims, unpredictable and intense subjective experiences, and lingering cultural stigma. During the boom, firms attracted significant interest from venture capital and other investors by promising revolutionary breakthroughs in mental health treatment. As expectations rose, so did valuations. But disappointing results from clinical trials, regulatory setbacks, and deepening doubts about the ability to control and standardize psychedelic therapies led to sharp declines in investor confidence. Analyzing financial performance alongside investor narratives, the article underscores the tensions involved in subjecting these unruly substances to the logic of capitalist power.
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    BOOK - DYA PROD UPG with contributor, subjects, & sponsor
    (2025) Leong, Jack Hang-tat
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