scholarly journals Sustainable development from an East-West integrative perspective: Eastern culture meets Western complexity theory

2022 ◽  
pp. 36-41
Author(s):  
Rosita Dellios
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Complexity Theory ◽  
Eastern Culture ◽  
East West

Techno Fantasies of East and West

2021 ◽  
pp. 197-213
Author(s):  
Onur O. Akşit ◽  
Azra K. Nazlı
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Eastern Culture ◽  
Transformative Potential ◽  
East And West ◽  
East West ◽  
The U.S

In this chapter, the science fiction anime that takes its source from Masamune Shirow's manga with the same name, Kōkaku Kidōtai (攻殻機動隊, Ghost in the Shell), is examined and compared with the U.S. adaptation film Ghost in the Shell (2017) within the framework of techno-orientalism. The study aims a comparative critique through anime and film, which both allow explaining the transformative potential-effects of technology in a socio-cultural context in the east-west axis, through dissociations, convergences, and integration. It is to review the representations of traditional Western-centered thought that is deconstructed with the narrative which maintains focus on technology axis; it is aimed to reveal with the analysis that takes the 2017 film to the center. In this way, Ghost in the Shell offers possibilities of representation in the axis of futuristic Eastern culture with the female-cyborg character that presents the cyber-society environment, the deconstruction of the idea that puts focus on anthropocentrism, especially the ‘Western man'.

The Holistic Urban Planning Approach of Urban Sustainable Development

2011 ◽  
Vol 280 ◽  
pp. 58-61
Author(s):  
Hong Xu
Keyword(s):  
Complex System ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Complexity Theory ◽  
Harmonious Society ◽  
Development Patterns ◽  
Urban Sustainable Development ◽  
Planning Approach ◽  
Holistic Analysis ◽  
The City

The lacking of holistic analysis in urban planning is urgent in China. This paper start from complexity theory to analyze and study the urban development patterns in urban planning of China cities. This paper analyzes the need of holistic analysis in the process of urban planning. This need is very important for the current process of urban modernization and the building of harmonious society in China. As discussed in this paper, we must make an effort to improve urban planning by virtue of choosing a very clear direction according to the nature of urban planning. From the perspective of different disciplines to understand the city and urban planning, we can able to make a complex system of our city and complex understanding of things deviation reduced, and finally effectively promote the development of the city.

DIGITAL SOCIETY IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA: NEW OPPORTUNITIES

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (10) ◽  
pp. 190-196
Author(s):  
Maria V. Melanina ◽  
◽  
Viktoria S. Ponomareva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Middle East ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Regional Cooperation ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
East West

The article examines the features of the formation of the information society in the countries of the Arab East (West Asia and North Africa), justifies the need for the development of digitalization from the point of view of the long-term tasks facing these states in the field of sustainable development, including the need to diversify the economy, production and exports. It is established that the countries of the Arab world have intensified regional cooperation in this direction, and are currently at the stage of forming Arab digital content.

Foreign Aid to Africa

2020 ◽  
pp. 385-395
Author(s):  
Sultan Juma Kakuba
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Foreign Aid ◽  
Complexity Theory ◽  
Political Development ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
The State ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Important Resource ◽  
Good Intention

The main objective of this chapter is to provide evidence that foreign Aid to African countries is a barricade to their sustainable development. Both modernisation and Dependency theorists' suggestions have failed to spawn socio-economic and political development in African countries. Complexity theory may provide a better understanding of the linkage between foreign aid and the socio-economic and political underdevelopment. The current foreign aid given to African sovereign states by donor or developed countries seems to perpetuate underdevelopment. In fact, Foreign Aid to most of African countries has not adequately addressed its problems; rather it has succeeded in keeping most of African countries dependent on foreign aid and in the state of underdevelopment. Using both quantitative and qualitative document analysis of records on foreign Aid to Africa reveals that foreign Aid in and out of itself is not a bad thing, it is among those many important resource inputs, which operate in many African countries which if paved with good intention could bring about sustainable socio-economic and political development in Africa.

Foreign Aid to Africa

2016 ◽  
pp. 114-124
Author(s):  
Sultan Juma Kakuba
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Foreign Aid ◽  
Complexity Theory ◽  
Political Development ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
The State ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Important Resource ◽  
Good Intention

The main objective of this chapter is to provide evidence that foreign Aid to African countries is a barricade to their sustainable development. Both modernisation and Dependency theorists' suggestions have failed to spawn socio-economic and political development in African countries. Complexity theory may provide a better understanding of the linkage between foreign aid and the socio-economic and political underdevelopment. The current foreign aid given to African sovereign states by donor or developed countries seems to perpetuate underdevelopment. In fact, Foreign Aid to most of African countries has not adequately addressed its problems; rather it has succeeded in keeping most of African countries dependent on foreign aid and in the state of underdevelopment. Using both quantitative and qualitative document analysis of records on foreign Aid to Africa reveals that foreign Aid in and out of itself is not a bad thing, it is among those many important resource inputs, which operate in many African countries which if paved with good intention could bring about sustainable socio-economic and political development in Africa.

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