Risk and labour in the archives: archival futures from Uganda

AbstractThe history of archival management in Uganda reveals the foundational relationship between austerity and colonial archival institutions. This article discusses how impoverishment and self-interested editing were central to the bureaucratization of colonial archives at their founding. Extreme austerity in the wake of structural adjustment in the 1980s accelerated archival decay while adding new uncertainties to archivists’ work. Postcolonial archivists’ strategies of risk management and repair work have helped to preserve archives from potentially nefarious editing by partisan officials and publics. However, neglect and decay have also constrained the circulation of archives in public life and have reinforced colonial institutional violence. These conditions of postcolonial institutions require continuous hazardous labour from individuals embedded in the margins of state bureaucracy. This article emphasizes the backstage of archival labour and the risks that archivists navigate in preserving – and managing the public life of – relics of contentious pasts.

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The Representation of Religion in Religion Education: Notes from the South African Periphery

Education Sciences ◽

10.3390/educsci8030146 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 8 (3) ◽

pp. 146 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Abdulkader Tayob

Keyword(s):

South African ◽

Public Life ◽

Educational Practice ◽

The South ◽

Policy Document ◽

The Public ◽

Public Representation ◽

History Of ◽

Pluralistic Approach ◽

Religion In Public Life

Scholars of Religion Education (RE) have promoted a non-confessional approach to the teaching of religions that explores and examines the religious history of humankind, with due attention paid to its complexity and plurality. In this promotion, the public representation of religion and its impact on RE has not received sufficient attention. An often hegemonic representation of religion constitutes an important part of religion in public life. Moreover, this article argues that this representation is a phenomenon shared by secular, secularizing, and deeply religious societies. It shows that a Western understanding of secularization has guided dominant RE visions and practices, informed by a particular mode of representation. As an illustration of how education in and representation of religion merges in RE, the article analyses the South African policy document for religion education. While the policy promotes RE as an educational practice, it also makes room for a representation of religion. This article urges that various forms of the representation of religion should be more carefully examined in other contexts, particularly by those who want to promote a non-confessional and pluralistic approach to RE.

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Ukrainian academic lexicography: Achievements and prospects of development

Ukrainska mova ◽

10.15407/ukrmova2021.03.054 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 54-65

Author(s):

Liliia Didun ◽

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Zinaїda Kozyrieva ◽

Keyword(s):

21St Century ◽

Public Life ◽

National Academy Of Sciences ◽

Early 21St Century ◽

The Public ◽

Thirtieth Anniversary ◽

Creative Personality ◽

Different Types ◽

History Of ◽

Academy Of Sciences

This paper offers an overview of dictionaries of Ukrainian complied by lexicographers of the Institute of the Ukrainian Language of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine since the Institute’s foundation; it is devoted to the Institute’s thirtieth anniversary. The article addresses a question as to whether modern Ukrainian academic lexicography is ready to meet the public life needs in independent Ukraine testifying to the devotion to tradition. The Slovnyk Ukraїnsʹkoї Movy (Ukrainian Dictionary, 1970—1980) in 11 volumes served as the basis for both the Slovnyk Ukraїns’koї Movy (Ukrainian Dictionary, 2012) and Slovnyk Ukraїnsʹkoї Movy v 11 Tomakh: Dodatkovyi Tom (Ukrainian Dictionary in 11 Volumes: Additional Volume, 2017) in 2 books, which reflects continuation of tradition of the academic explanatory lexicography. In 1999—2000, the academic edition of the Slovnyk Synonimiv Ukraїnsʹkoї Movy (Ukrainian Dictionary of Synonyms) in 2 volumes was published. It became a valuable reference publication in the national monolingual lexicography. In phraseography, the latest achievements are represented notably by the Frazeolohichnyi Slovnyk Ukraїns’koї Movy in 2 volumes (Ukrainian Phraseological Dictionary, 1993) and the Slovnyk Frazeolohizmiv Ukraїnsʹkoї Movy (Ukrainian Dictionary of Phraseologisms, 2003). The neographic direction is represented by dictionary materials Novi i Aktualizovani Slova ta Znachennia (New and Updated Words and Meanings, 2002-2010), whereas the Rosiisʹko-Ukraїnsʹkyi Slovnyk (Russian-Ukrainian Dictionary, 2011—2014) in 4 volumes covers the field of the translated academic lexicography. The two dictionaries are of great importance to the Ukrainian academic lexicography in general, namely the combined dictionary of the Ukraїnsʹkyi Leksykon Kintsia XVIII — Pochatku XXI Stolittia (Ukrainian Lexicon of the Late 18th — Early 21st Century: Dictionary-Index, 2017) in 3 volumes and Slovnyk Movy Tvorchoї Osobystosti XX — pochatku ХХІ Stolittia (Dictionary of the Language of Creative Personality in 20th — early 21st Century). The latter contains references significant for reflecting the lexical and phraseological structure of Standard Ukrainian. Finally, reestablished in 2003 the annual Lek sy ko hrafichnyi Biuletenʹ (Lexicographic Bulletin) covers issues related to the history of lexicography, making of dictionaries of different types, and the Ukrainian vocabulary, lexicology, and phraseology. Keywords: explanatory lexicography, source basis of lexicography, synonym dictionary, phraseological dictionary, combined dictionary, author’s lexicography, neography, linguopersonology.

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Stanley Melbourne Bruce - Viscount Bruce of Melbourne, 1883-1967

Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society ◽

10.1098/rsbm.1970.0004 ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 16 ◽

pp. 57-62

Keyword(s):

Family Business ◽

Royal Society ◽

Prime Minister ◽

Public Life ◽

Grammar School ◽

Preparatory School ◽

The Public ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

The Family ◽

History Of

The public life of Stanley Melbourne Bruce, Prime Minister of Australia, a Viscount of the United Kingdom, a Fellow of the Royal Society, was one of the most paradoxical in the history of his native country. Bruce was born in Melbourne on 15 April 1883, of a well-to-do mercantile family. 1893 saw the collapse of a great land boom, the failure of some banks and an acute general depression. The family business, Paterson, Laing and Bruce, was in difficulties. Stanley Bruce’s father sold his mansion in the fashionable suburb of Toorak. Stanley himself had to leave his preparatory school—the fees were not available. His father, who appears to have been a singularly determined man, then proceeded to restore the fortunes of the business. In 1896 the young Stanley went to the well-known Melbourne Grammar School, where he was a most successful all-round student. It has been given to few boys at a great school to be not only captain of football, of cricket, of athletics, and of rowing, but also Senior Prefect (i.e. Captain) of the School.

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A Note on Meccan Women in the Fifteenth Century

Hawwa ◽

10.1163/15692086-12341314 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 14 (3) ◽

pp. 239-250

Author(s):

Hatoon Ajwad Al-Fassi

Keyword(s):

Sixteenth Century ◽

Fifteenth Century ◽

Public Life ◽

Multiple Roles ◽

The Public ◽

Women's Lives ◽

History Of ◽

Unexplored Area ◽

The City ◽

Scholarly Attention

The history of women in Arabia is a relatively new and unexplored area of research and the place of women in Mecca (Makkah), Islam’s holiest city, is particularly shrouded in darkness. From the fifteenth century, however, there has been a stream of biographical works (tabaqat) that shed much light on the women of the city. This note turns scholarly attention on such fifteenth and sixteenth century works as Taqi al-Din al-Fassi’s (d. 1429) eight volume Al-‘Iqd al-Thamin fi Tarikh al-Balad al-Amin, which dedicates a volume to women, in an effort to continue the scholarly appraisal of women’s lives in Muslim societies. Reading such important sources shows how women actively participated in the public life of the city, including its intellectual circles, contrary to Orientalist stereotypes. By exploring the multiple roles of Meccan women in the fifteenth century, the hope is to prompt further study of their significance and its historical implications.

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History of Infamy

10.1525/california/9780520292611.001.0001 ◽

2017 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Pablo Piccato

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Public Opinion ◽

Broad Spectrum ◽

Public Life ◽

Social Practices ◽

The State ◽

Common Interest ◽

The Public ◽

Central Focus ◽

History Of

This book examines the construction of crime as a central focus of public life in postrevolutionary Mexico. It does so by exploring cases, stories, and characters that attracted Mexican publics between the 1920s and the 1950s. The problems of learning the truth about criminal events and of adjudicating punishment or forgiveness concerned a broad spectrum of the population. This book looks at narratives, debates, and social practices through which a diversity of actors engaged the state and public opinion around a theme of common interest. Narratives and media about crime and justice that are still in place today developed during the decades of the twentieth century examined in the book: broadly shared ideas about impunity and corruption, extrajudicial punishment and the public meaning of homicide, and the divorce of legal justice and the truth.

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JEMAAH ISLAMIYAH JIHADIST MOVEMENT IN INDONESIA

El-HARAKAH (TERAKREDITASI) ◽

10.18860/el.v9i2.4652 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 135

Author(s):

Raden Cecep Lukman Yasin

Keyword(s):

Public Life ◽

Historical Background ◽

Social Politics ◽

The Public ◽

Local Characteristics ◽

Democratic Practice ◽

The Social ◽

History Of ◽

Radical Movement

Democratic practice in the post-Soeharto era has widely opened and led to euphoria in the public life. Some social and politics activities which were previously banned are now starting to appear openly. The emergence of Islamic radical community along with their terror acts both psychological and physical which attracts people’s attention may be a cause of this openness. One of communities which is seen as the front guard of radical movement is Jemaah Islamiyah. This article explores the historical background of the aforementioned movement and its development for the last two decades. The discussion also includes the intern dispute and its metamorphosis from just being the under-ground community to be the public community. Despite so many opinions which relate the movement with the powerful Islamism influence from Mid-Eastern, this article argues that those opinions ignore the history of Islamic radical movement in the Social Politics landscape. The precise discussion about Jemaah Islamiyah shows that this community has strong local characteristics. Keran demokrasi yang terbuka lebar pasca-kejatuhan rejim Soeharto telah menciptakan euphoria dalam ruang kehidupan publik. Berbagai aktifitas sosial politik yang sebelumnya dibungkam dan disisihkan, kini mulai memadati ruang publik. Kemunculan kelompok radikal Islam yang telah banyak menyedot perhatian publik dengan aksi-aksi mereka yang bemuasa terror, psikologis maupun fisik, tidak bisa dilepaskan dari keterbukaan ini. Di antara kelompok yang dipandang sebagai garda depan gerakan radikal ini adalah Jemaah Islamiyah.Tulisan berikut berusaha menelurusi akar kemunculan gerakan tersebut dan perkembangannya sepanjang dua dekade terakhir, berikut perpecahan internal dan metamorphosis gerakan bawah tanah itu menjadi gerakan terbuka. Sementara banyak kalangan mengaitkan gerakan tersebut dengan pengaruh islamisme yang kuat dari Timur Tengah, tulisan ini menyodorkan argumentasi bahwa pandangan di atas jelas telah mengabaikan sejarah gerakan radikal Islam dalam lanskap sosial politik Indonesia. Kajian yang cermat terhadap Jemaah Islamiyah menunjukkan bahwa gerakan tersebut memiliki karakteristik lokal yang kental.

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A Note on the History of Gender Economics and Feminist Economics

Discrimination and Diversity ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-1933-1.ch001 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 1-11

Author(s):

Giandomenica Becchio

Keyword(s):

Economic Theory ◽

Civil Rights ◽

Labor Migration ◽

Public Life ◽

Austrian Economics ◽

The Public ◽

Feminist Economics ◽

Gender Economics ◽

History Of

The aim of this paper is to show the differences between Gender Economics (GE) and Feminist Economics (FE). The first part will deal with a historical reconstruction of these differences. The central part of this chapter will specifically illustrate Gender Economics, Feminist Economics, Feminine Economics, and the Austrian approaches to gender studies within economics. Gender Economics is an approach mainly focused on the role of gender in social and economic problems of the public life (such as labor, migration, household, laws, civil rights) as well as in a private contest (housekeeping, sexuality, and so on). Feminist Economics, Feminine Economics and Austrian economics develop in different ways a much more challenging perspective: they promote a deep revision of the mainstream economic theory founded on the optimization of an expected utility function that has been shaped into a masculine perspective.

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A Note on the History of Gender Economics and Feminist Economics

Contemporary Global Perspectives on Gender Economics - Advances in Finance, Accounting, and Economics ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-8611-3.ch002 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 28-38

Author(s):

Giandomenica Becchio

Keyword(s):

Economic Theory ◽

Civil Rights ◽

Labor Migration ◽

Public Life ◽

Austrian Economics ◽

The Public ◽

Feminist Economics ◽

Gender Economics ◽

History Of

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UNPUBLISHED LETTER FROM V. A. GORDLEVSKY TO A. Y. KRYMSKY FROM TURKEY (1906)

Chronos Journal ◽

10.31618/2658-7556-2020-41-2-4 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

R.M. Valeev ◽

O.D. Vasilyuk ◽

R.Z. Valeeva ◽

S.A. Kirillina ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Russian Federation ◽

Public Life ◽

Russian Empire ◽

The Public ◽

Arab Muslim ◽

Iranian Studies ◽

Unpublished Letter ◽

History Of ◽

The Russian Empire ◽

Oriental Studies

Academicians A.Y. Krymsky and V. A. Gordlevsky are important figures in the history of Russian classical orientalism and Arab-Muslim studies, in particular the Moscow center of Oriental studies, especially in the field of academic turkology, Ottoman, Arab and Iranian studies, as well as the public life of the Russian Empire and the USSR. They are widely known in the history of humanities in modern Russian Federation and Ukraine. Currently, we are conducting the search, study, systematization and publication of the correspondence by outstanding arabist, semitologist, turkologist, Iranian and Slavic studies scholar A.Y. Krymsky with leading Russian orientalists V.R. Rosen, V.V. Bartold, P.K. Kokovtsov, F.E. Korsch, V.A. Zhukovsky, S.F. Oldenburg, I.Y. Krachkovsky, N.A. Mednikov, V. A. Gordlevsky, B.V. Miller, V.F. Minorsky and other scholars during the period of 1890s to 1930s. The article is devoted to a brief overview of the activities of A. Y. Krymsky (1898 –1918) and V. A. Gordlevsky (1898 –1918) at the Lazarev Institute of Oriental languages and the publication of one extant letter by V. A. Gordlevsky from Konya (Turkey) to A. Y. Krymsky, from the collections of the Institute of Manuscripts of V.I. Vernadsky Scientific Library of Ukraine (Kiev)3 .

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Making History: The State's Intervention in Urban Religious Disputes in the North- Western Provinces in the Early Nineteenth Century

Modern Asian Studies ◽

10.1017/s0026749x00016103 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 27 (1) ◽

pp. 179-203 ◽

Cited By ~ 20

Author(s):

Katherine Prior

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Public Life ◽

Local History ◽

Colonial Administration ◽

Early Nineteenth Century ◽

The Public ◽

The North ◽

History Of ◽

North Western

In the nineteenth century the towns and cities of the North-Western Provinces witnessed a huge expansion in public expressions of Hindu identity: temples mushroomed, new processions graced the streets and the cow attained new prominence as a symbol of Hindu piety. Rarely, if ever, were such activities motivated by anti-Muslim sentiment, but they could provoke ill-will between Hindus and Muslims, especially in the towns where Islamic government, buildings and festivals had previously set the tone for the public life of their inhabitants. The colonial administration was a powerful but ill- informed force, able either to suppress or to protect the new display, and its responses were crucial in determining people's understanding of their rights to public religious expression.For the first half of the nineteenth century the British tried to preserve the balance of religious display in each town and city as they had found it, but this goal required that individual officers piece together a local history from imperfect sources and then invest it with the authority of the new state. It is easy enough to delineate the simplistic and sometimes crass categorizations that the agents of colonialism employed to explain Indians' religious sensibilities. What I want to do here, however, is show how their fundamentally novel reconstructions of a town's history of public religious display could feed back into Indians' own reading of their past and hence their future, even long after the British had abandoned their pursuit of a locality's ‘established usage’.

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