scholarly journals The Unseen Archive of Idi Amin: Making History in a Tight Corner

2021 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-40
Author(s):  
Derek R. Peterson ◽  
Richard Vokes ◽  
Nelson Abiti ◽  
Edgar C. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Political History ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Historical Evidence ◽  
The People

AbstractIn May 2019 we launched a special exhibition at the Uganda Museum in Kampala titled “The Unseen Archive of Idi Amin.” It consisted of 150 images made by government photographers in the 1970s. In this essay we explore how political history has been delimited in the Museum, and how these limitations shaped the exhibition we curated. From the time of its creation, the Museum's disparate and multifarious collections were exhibited as ethnographic specimens, stripped of historical context. Spatially and organizationally, “The Unseen Archive of Idi Amin” turned its back on the ethnographic architecture of the Uganda Museum. The transformation of these vivid, evocative, aesthetically appealing photographs into historical evidence of atrocity was intensely discomfiting. We have been obliged to organize the exhibition around categories that did not correspond with the logic of the photographic archive, with the architecture of the Museum, or with the experiences of the people who lived through the 1970s. The exhibition has made history, but not entirely in ways that we chose.

Reinterpretasi Ayat-ayat “Kekerasan”

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-103
Author(s):  
Lina Aniqoh
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Textual Interpretation ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The People ◽  
Double Movement ◽  
The Face

This paper seeks to elaborate on the textual interpretation of Q.S Muhammad verse 4 and Q.S at Taubah verse 5. These two verses are often employed by the extremist Muslim groups to legitimize their destructive acts carried out on groups considered as being infidels and as such lawfully killed. The interpretation was conducted using the double movement hermeneutics methodology offered by Fazlur Rahman. After reinterpretation, the two verses contain moral values, namely the war ordered by God must be reactive, fulfill the ethics of "violence" and be the last solution. Broadly speaking, the warfare commanded in the Qur'an aims to establish a benefit for humanity on the face of the earth by eliminating every crime that exists. These two verses in the contemporary socio-historical context in Indonesia can be implemented as a basis for combating the issue of hoaxes and destructive acts of extremist Muslim groups. Because both are crimes and have negative implications for the people good and even able to threaten the unity of mankind.

Ezekiel in Its Historical Context

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marvin A. Sweeney
Keyword(s):  
Political History ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Persian Period ◽  
Proper Interpretation

This chapter surveys the historical background for the composition of the book of Ezekiel, covering roughly three centuries—from the reign of Hezekiah until the early Persian period. This background is essential to the book’s proper interpretation, given one of its most characteristic and prevalent features: oracles that are dated. The present chapter not only recounts the rise and fall of successive Assyrian and Babylonian empires, but also shows how the book has addressed the context of that evolving environment. The book’s explicit chronology thus ties this political history to the experience of the Judean exiles in Babylon.

True Church, National Church, Minority Church: Episcopacy and Authority in the Restored Church of Ireland

2016 ◽  
Vol 85 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn Rose Sawyer
Keyword(s):  
First Principles ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
The People ◽  
Church Hierarchy ◽  
The Social ◽  
Church Of Ireland ◽  
The Face ◽  
Political Realities ◽  
The Church

The Church of Ireland in the later seventeenth century faced many challenges. After two decades of war and effective suppression, the church in 1660 had to reestablish itself as the national church of the kingdom of Ireland in the face of opposition from both Catholics and Dissenters, who together made up nearly ninety percent of the island's population. While recent scholarship has illuminated Irish protestantism as a social group during this period, the theology of the established church remains unexamined in its historical context. This article considers the theological arguments used by members of the church hierarchy in sermons and tracts written between 1660 and 1689 as they argued that the Church of Ireland was both a true apostolic church and best suited for the security and salvation of the people of Ireland. Attention to these concerns shows that the social and political realities of being a minority church compelled Irish churchmen to focus on basic arguments for an episcopal national establishment. It suggests that this focus on first principles allowed the church a certain amount of ecclesiological flexibility that helped it survive later turbulence such as the non-jurors controversy of 1689–1690 fairly intact.

scholarly journals Mecanismo de gestão na instituição escolar

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 85
Author(s):  
Rosely de Fátima Morais Barbosa ◽  
Rogério Dos Reis Brito
Keyword(s):  
School Culture ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
School Organization ◽  
Organizational Management ◽  
Wide Scope ◽  
Democratic Management ◽  
The People ◽  
Great Responsibility ◽  
Cultura Escolar ◽  
Management Thinking

A gestão organizacional de uma instituição escolar é o eixo de articulação responsável pelo desencadeamento de toda a estrutura organizacional da escola. A maneira com que ela se caracteriza identifica. Essa pesquisa teve como objetivo apresentar uma visão mais integrada sobre cultura, estrutura e organização escolar. Com isso, perceberam-se as grandes atribuições e mudanças que agregam à gestão pensando a partir desse perfil e do seu contexto social. Os referenciais teóricos tiveram uma grande abrangência no tocante da gestão como um todo, as concepções que emergiram e continuam emergindo dentro do contexto histórico, o confronto entre os diferentes perfis e as pessoas envolvidas na escola e com a cultura escolar, sendo que o alvo dessa gestão, é flexibilidade, exercício da autonomia, inovações, o compartilhar, a participação e adesão ao trabalho coletivo, considerando essa variáveis dentre outros como molas que sustentam  e garantem o exercício da gestão democrática. Com isso chega-se a conclusão de que a gestão participativa tem uma grande responsabilidade em ser um diferencial na educação, por ser caracterizar uma escola em contínua transformação, onde as mudanças são processuais, decorrente de várias competências que caracterizam a gestão. Não podendo esquecer que paralelo a essa gestão, se faz também presente as diversas tendências e estudos relacionados à gestão, caracterizados pela cultura escolar e pela diversidade de conhecimento, valores, crença e experiências.Palavra-chave: Cultura. Mudanças. Organização. Processo. Gestão.ABSTRACTThe organizational management of an academic institution is the articulation axis responsible for the development of every school organizational structure. The way that it is characterized identifies the school. This research has the objective to introduce a more integrated vision about culture, structure and school organization. Thus, it is perceptible the great attributions and changes that add to the management thinking about it from that profile and its social context. The theoretical framework had a wide scope in terms of the management as a whole, the conceptions that emerged and continue to emerge within the historical context, the confrontation between the different profiles and the people involved in school and with the school culture, since the target of this management, is flexibility, exercise of independence, innovations, the sharing, the participation and the adhesion to the aggregate work, considering these variables among others as springs that sustain and assure the exercise of the democratic management. Therefore, it comes to conclusion that a management with communication has a great responsibility of being a differential in education, for its characterization as a school with continuing transformation, where the changes are procedural, due to various   competences that describe the management. Without forgetting that along with this management, there is also the presence of several tendencies and studies related to the management, characterized by the school culture and the diversity of knowledge, values, beliefs and experiencesKeywords: Culture. Changes. Organization. Procedure. Management. 

The Date and Meaning of the Book of Joel

2011 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elie Assis
Keyword(s):  
Great Emphasis ◽  
Divine Presence ◽  
Historical Evidence ◽  
Religious Significance ◽  
The People ◽  
The Temple

AbstractThis paper argues that the Book of Joel is best understood against the background of the exilic period in Judah, after the Destruction but before the Return to Zion, that is, between 587 and 538 BCE. While concrete historical evidence is not decisive, an investigation of the ideology of the Book may determine the Book’s historical setting. The lack of any rebuke in Joel accords with the view that he lived in the exilic period, when it would not have been appropriate to rebuke and criticize the people, who were in a state of deep despair. The Book of Joel places great emphasis on the motif of the Divine presence residing in the midst of Israel. This central message of assurance of the Divine presence is particularly apt if we accept the view that Joel belongs to the period of the Destruction, when the people were in despair and saw in the events their abandonment by God. There are cultic concerns in the book. This is understood if it is accepted that Joel functioned in the exilic period, and aimed at persuading his audience that one can pray to the Lord even when the Temple is in ruins. The prophet’s main purpose was to bring the people to renew their connection with the Lord after the destruction of the Temple, and to focus the people’s attention on the Temple, which, although physically ruined, had not lost its religious significance. Other characteristics of the Book of Joel that point to the same historical setting are discussed in the paper.

The Resurrection Project of Mexican Catholic Chicago: Spiritual Activism and Liberating Praxis

2019 ◽  
pp. 284-303
Author(s):  
Karen Mary Davalos
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
West Side ◽  
Historical Ethnography ◽  
Development Organization ◽  
The People ◽  
Historical Archives ◽  
Oral History Interviews

This chapter offers a historical ethnography of community building in Chicago's historic Pilsen neighborhood on that city's Near West Side. It focuses on the Resurrection Project, a community development organization that predominantly builds and secures housing for Latino residents, and locates the organization within the historical context of mexicano Catholicism in Chicago. Focusing on the organization's first fifteen years, 1990–2005, and inaugural efforts in Pilsen, it uses historical archives, oral history interviews, and ethnographic material to view the programs for housing, community development, and leadership as a strategy to create a life of dignity, as revelation, and as an expression of “the faith of the people.”

The Theory of the State as a Sovereign Juristic Person

1948 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth C. Cole
Keyword(s):  
Political History ◽  
Public Law ◽  
The State ◽  
Popular Sovereignty ◽  
General Conception ◽  
The People ◽  
Democratic System ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Constitutional Morality

The casual student of Western political history encounters sovereignty in a number of guises. In the stage of absolute monarchy, it was a personal endowment of princes; in the stage of democracy, it seems to be a collective endowment of the “nation” or the “people.” In the latter period, moreover, a definition of law as the command of a sovereign becomes increasingly popular.These various contexts for sovereignty will already have suggested the protean possibilities of the general conception, but the student will have had little difficulty in sensing its generally anti-constitutional influence. Even popular sovereignty, which sounds the least dangerous, has had to be offset by opposing institutions in accounting for the relatively high constitutional morality of the democratic system.While, therefore, it is not surprising to find sovereignty again (and in a still different guise) when we examine the leading conceptions of American public law, one well may marvel to find it accorded a key position among them. For, strange to say, the sovereignty of the state is widely accepted as the cornerstone of a legal edifice which the lawyers themselves appear to have laid.

Review Article: Mu?ammad is Not the Father of Any of Your Men: The Making of the Last Prophet, by David S. Powers. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. 376 pp., 7 illus. Hb $55.00/£36.00. ISBN-13: 9780812241785.

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 251-264
Author(s):  
Walid A. Saleh
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
Review Article ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Historical Evidence ◽  
Total Absence ◽  
Early Islam

This review calls into question the entire premise of this work. The paleographic as well as the historical evidence presented by Powers does not hold under scrutiny. The author fails to consider the basic rules of paleography such as haplography as the most evident explanation for the mistake he sees in the Codex Arabe 328a. The total absence of historical context of early Islam is far more troubling aspect of this work. Islam is presented as a literary midrash on Rabbinic texts and not as an independent historically unfolding tradition. The tone of the book is also regrettable; condescending and at times dismissive of serious scholarship, the tone mars the value of this work.

Siberia: Myths and Realities

2015 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 437-440
Author(s):  
N.G.O. Pereira
Keyword(s):  
Political History ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
The Political ◽  
The People ◽  
History Of

Janet Hartley’s Siberia: A History of The People is simultaneously a survey of the history of Siberia and its peoples from the 16th century to the present and a corrective to popular preconceptions. She succeeds on both counts for the most part, but more so for the first objective. Some of her conclusions with regard to the political history in particular are subject to closer scrutiny and possible objection. Nevertheless, the book is an important contribution to Siberian scholarship in English.

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