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Reproducing-Resisting Race and Gender Difference: Examining India’s Online Tourism Campaign from a Transnational Feminist Perspective
(The University of Chicago, 2011-09) Patil, Vrushali
In this article, I examine the Indian state’s contemporary online tourism promotion campaign from a transnational feminist perspective by discursively considering twenty-four tourism promotion videos posted by the state on YouTube. While transnational feminists seek to examine how racialized, gendered selves are produced within processes of globalization, this work has largely neglected international tourism, which I argue is a key contemporary site of such production. While critical tourism scholarship has explored such issues, this work has nevertheless focused on how powerful Western and neocolonial actors reproduce colonial-era notions of racial and gender difference for other Western tourists, thereby neglecting a number of dimensions, including the critical role of the state. I argue that the state addresses audiences in addition to Western tourists in the global North, including the elite Indian diaspora in the global North and elite domestic Indians. For each audience, the state constructs racial and gender difference in a particular way, perpetuating colonial-era images for some audiences, disrupting them for others, and introducing new images of racial and gender difference for still others. Ultimately, I argue that the postcolonial neoliberal state engages in a complex process of self-racialization and self-sexualization—to both Westerners and domestic Indians—that points to state-sponsored international tourism as a key site of the reproduction of and resistance to racial and gender difference in contemporary globalization.
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From Patriarchy to Intersectionality: A Transnational Feminist Assessment of How Far We've Really Come
(The University of Chicago, 2013-06) Patil, Vrushali
This article examines the general shift in feminist scholarship from the use of the concept of patriarchy to the concept of intersectionality from a transnational feminist perspective. It first reviews some central critiques of patriarchy (the problems of unidimensionality, universality, and tautology) and then examines intersectional scholarship that emerged in response. Reviewing research applications of intersectionality since the year 2000, it argues that these applications constitute an incomplete shift from the concept of patriarchy. That is, it argues that unrecognized problems with the concept of patriarchy continue to haunt contemporary intersectional applications. Specifically, intersectional scholarship tends to suffer from the ongoing legacy of patriarchy’s reification of nation-state borders and its failure to interrogate the significance of cross-border processes for shaping gender relations and identities. Next, in contrast to such conceptualizations of patriarchy, this article examines the empirically specific classic and modern patriarchies of early modern and modern Europe. In doing so, it demonstrates the cross-border dimensions of these patriarchies, particularly their importance for imperial and colonial processes. It also discusses contemporary patriarchies in the anticolonial and postcolonial world in similar transnational perspective. It argues that many of the patriarchies that are today discussed as domestic patriarchies—often in quite complex ways, via the language of intersectionality—are actually embedded within deep transnational histories that must be recognized and interrogated.
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Real-Time Data-Driven Adaptive Lift Regulation in Developing Long-Duration Gusts
(AIAA, 2025-08-10) Delgado, Jhon Manuel Portella; Hrynuk, John T.; Yu, Meilin; Goel, Ankit
UNCREWED aerial vehicles (UAVs) often operate in unstruc-tured, uncertain, and unsteady flow environments, leading tocomplex fluid–structure interactions. These interactions involvetime-varying flowfields around the physical structure, applying highly unsteady loads on the vehicle. In addition to stabilizingand regulating the vehicle dynamics, the flight control system thusmust also compensate for the unmeasured loads created by theseundesirable fluid–structure interactions. The most common mecha-nism by which the unstructured, uncertain, and unsteady nature manifests in the flow environment is gust [1,2]. The harsh flow conditions resulting from gusts negatively affect the performance of UAVs and severely restrict their operating envelopes. To overcomethe negative influence imposed by gust–vehicle interactions, active and passive flow control techniques, based on in situ flow condi-tions, need to be developed. However, designing such a controlsystem for effective gust mitigation is a challenging problem due tothe highly transient, high-dimensional, and nonlinear flow physicsof the gust–vehicle interactions.
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What Infant Research can-and Cannot-Tell us About Human Universals
(2025-08-16) Singh, Leher
The search for human universals is firmly grounded in the study of infancy. Infants are viewed as unconditioned by social experience and therefore a source of insight into the initial state of psychological organization. This paper outlines three constraints on this approach focusing on limited sample diversity, insufficient predictive and convergent validation of methods, and overreliance on single exposures or unreplicated findings. It argues for a shift from an emphasis on universality towards a focus on variation. Large-scale multi-site collaborations, longitudinal designs, and cross-method convergence across culturally diverse settings as key components of this goal. These approaches can advance a more ecologically valid and culturally situated science of infancy.
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Integrating Neurosymbolic AI in Advanced Air Mobility: A Comprehensive Survey
(2025-08-10) Acharya, Kamal; Sharifi, Iman; Lad, Mehul; Sun, Liang; Song, Houbing
Neurosymbolic AI combines neural network adaptability with symbolic reasoning, promising an approach to address the complex regulatory, operational, and safety challenges in Advanced Air Mobility (AAM). This survey reviews its applications across key AAM domains such as demand forecasting, aircraft design, and real-time air traffic management. Our analysis reveals a fragmented research landscape where methodologies, including Neurosymbolic Reinforcement Learning, have shown potential for dynamic optimization but still face hurdles in scalability, robustness, and compliance with aviation standards. We classify current advancements, present relevant case studies, and outline future research directions aimed at integrating these approaches into reliable, transparent AAM systems. By linking advanced AI techniques with AAM's operational demands, this work provides a concise roadmap for researchers and practitioners developing next-generation air mobility solutions.