scholarly journals The Vagaries of the In-Between: Labor Citizenship in the Persian Gulf

2020 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 765-770
Author(s):  
Zahra R. Babar
Keyword(s):  
Persian Gulf ◽  
The Other ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Deep Blue ◽  
Rolling Stone ◽  
The Persian Gulf ◽  
Stay Behind ◽  
The Devil ◽  
Hard Place ◽  
English Equivalent

There is no precise English equivalent to this Hindustani proverb. A rolling stone gathers no moss, between the devil and the deep blue sea, between a rock and a hard place, torn between two masters—none of these really fit. The dhobi ka kuta is the dog who figuratively and literally runs every day between two places, two obligations, and two choices. Does he stay behind to guard the master's house or does he guard his master as he washes clothes by the river? There will be a trade-off either way. The phrase does not conjure up vagabond restlessness or nomadic liberation. It evokes the anxiety of rootlessness, and the lack of certainty about choice and loyalty. It is about the doubt cast your way for not picking one thing over the other. It is about being stuck in the vagaries of the in-between.

Taming the Hyperpower: The 1990s

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard F. Kuisel
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Persian Gulf ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Downward Spiral ◽  
The Persian Gulf

This chapter discusses the confluence of events that shaped relations between France and the United States in the 1990s. These include the war in the Persian Gulf, which had barely subsided when a downward spiral into ethnic strife seized the inhabitants of Yugoslavia. At the same time the United States and France engaged in diplomatic brinkmanship over trade and waged a contest over reform of the Atlantic Alliance. Transatlantic sparring often occurred on many fronts and one struggle tended to complicate the other. The discussion in this chapter will be thematic rather than chronological, beginning with war, and then security, followed by trade, the “indispensable nation,” and more war, and concluding with the topic of the hyperpower.

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: The Christian Paravas: A ‘Client Community’ in Seventeenth-Century Southeast India

Itinerario ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 64-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus P.M. Vink
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Deep Blue ◽  
Long Time ◽  
To Receive ◽  
The Devil ◽  
Southeast India

[T] he Paravas [are] a maritime people, seated on this Pearle Coast, whose greatest livelihood is Natures bounty, which she in that kind annually bestowes and which art qualifies them in like manner to receive… This nation about one hundred and thirty yeares agoe was a limb of heathenisme, out of which roughquarry it was hewen by papall industry and so became a Jewell of the Triple Crown. The Jesuites, who at first converted them, for a long time after govern'd them in a way both ecclestiasticall andcivill. This latter yoake weares of and delivers up civill concernments into the hands of the civill power, the corruption of one kindof government being the generation of the other. In this state matters rested when, about five yeares agoe (the Portugall greatnesse being then far declin'd from its zenith) the Dutch possesse[d] themselves of this coast, which ever since, they have govern'd by way of judicature and awed by their power. This gave occasion for the persons above mentioned [certaine persons of quality, natives of Tutticorrim and heads of their nation] to recede [into the interior]… This [loss of Cochin in early 1663] involves them in fresh cares, and those send them in great quest of other props to stay themselves upon… Their desires therefore are that themselves, together with their adherents, may be taken into the protection of the English; that they with their padre (who is the hinge whereon they turne) may have their dwellings at Cale Velha [Palaiyakkayal], the seate of our factorie, free from violence; and their boates, by virtue of our passeports, to navigate the seas void of all disturbances.

scholarly journals Ground-truthing the ground-truth: reply to Garibaldi et al.'s comment on “Managing fisheries from space: Google Earth improves estimates of distant fish catches”

2014 ◽  
Vol 71 (7) ◽  
pp. 1927-1931 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dalal Al-Abdulrazzak ◽  
Daniel Pauly
Keyword(s):  
Fisheries Management ◽  
Persian Gulf ◽  
Ground Truth ◽  
Google Earth ◽  
The Other ◽  
Fishing Gear ◽  
Marine Science ◽  
Anchoring System ◽  
Ground Truthing ◽  
The Persian Gulf

There has been a growing interest in the potential of Google Earth for scientific inquiries, and our previous paper (Al-Abdulrazzak and Pauly, 2014. Managing fisheries from space: Google Earth improves estimates of distant fish catches. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 71: 450–454) on weirs and their catch in the Persian Gulf is a case in point. Garibaldi et al. (2014. Comment on: “Managing fisheries from space: Google Earth improves estimates of distant fish catchs” by Al-Abdulrazzak and Pauly. ICES Journal of Marine Science), while agreeing in principle with using Google Earth for fisheries-related purposes, criticized the assumptions, data, methodology, and results of this paper. Here, we refute their criticisms, notably by showing that the “derelict weirs” that they thought they had “ground-truthed” are not weirs at all, but another type of fishing gear in one case, and debris from a boat anchoring system in the other. We develop the theme that ground-truthing requires local knowledge, and provide recommendations for using Google Earth images in fisheries management.

scholarly journals From Scarcity to Abundance: The New Geopolitics of Energy

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 181
Author(s):  
Michael Klare
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Natural Gas ◽  
Hydraulic Fracturing ◽  
Persian Gulf ◽  
American Foreign Policy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Shale Formations ◽  
Oil And Natural Gas ◽  
The Persian Gulf

For most of the Petroleum Age, and even as recently as ten years ago, the politics of energy were largely governed by perceptions of scarcity: the assumption that global supplies of most primary fuels were finite and would eventually prove insufficient to satisfy rising worldwide demand, resulting in intense competition over what remained.  The enduring prevalence of this view led many oil-importing nations to establish close ties with their major foreign suppliers and to employ force on occasion to ensure the safety of overseas supply lines.  This outlook guided American foreign policy for over half a century, resulting in several U.S. interventions in the Persian Gulf area.  Recently, however, a combination of technological and political considerations – the introduction of hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) to extract oil and natural gas from previously inaccessible shale formations on one hand and rising concern over climate change on the other – has largely extinguished the perception of scarcity, introducing entirely new dynamics into the geopolitics of energy.

The Inscription from Kythera

1939 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernst F. Weidner ◽  
Helen Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Persian Gulf ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Third ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Western Asia ◽  
Correct Reading ◽  
Place Of Origin ◽  
Third Line ◽  
The Persian Gulf ◽  
Shed Light

The inscription from Kythera (Fig. 1) to which Miss Thomas drew attention in the last part of the JHS (lviii, p. 256), is an early Babylonian cuneiform inscription which has already been the object of considerable study on the part of Assyriologists. It was first discussed by Hugo Winckler (SB Preuss. Akad. Wiss. 1897, 262–4) as part of an article by Ulrich Kohler (Ueber Probleme der gr. Vorzeit, l.e., 258–274). Winckler successfully deciphered lines 4 and 5, and established the correct reading of some of the signs in the first lines. He thought the inscription dated between 1500 and 1200 b.c., and thus, as Köhler added, from the finest period of Mycenean culture. Köhler (p. 265) further said that the cuneiform tablet might have been brought to Kythera at that time with other oriental bric-á-brac, like the Egyptian scarabs found in Rhodes and in the plain of Argos.Many years later the study of this inscription was again taken up by Eckhard Unger (Reallexikon der Vorgeschichte xiii (1929) p. 313, pl. 58A), who went beyond Winckler and succeeded in reading the third line as well. On the other hand, his deciphering of the first two lines, his restoration of the third and fourth, his assertions on its place of origin (according to him Tilmun in the region of the Persian Gulf), and the date he gives it are not proof against criticism. For this, however, he is hardly to blame, since it is only very recently that the American excavations in Western Asia have shed light upon the author of this inscription.

Family in the Arabian Peninsula

Hawwa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 5-25
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Wanucha
Keyword(s):  
Persian Gulf ◽  
Arabian Peninsula ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cultural Maintenance ◽  
Arab States ◽  
Arab Societies ◽  
The Persian Gulf ◽  
Internal Pressures ◽  
Interesting Area ◽  
Area Of Study

AbstractThough in many ways the demographics and other characteristics of the Arab states of the Persian Gulf follow the proscribed pathways to modernity, the Arab societies in the region have not completely abandoned their traditional characteristics in the wake of modernization and globalization forces. These societies have found a way to consolidate the external and internal pressures and exist somewhere on a four-way spectrum between “modern traditionalism” and “traditional modernism” on one axis, and between “global traditionalism” and “traditionalized globalization” on the other. The Arab societies of the Persian Gulf fit neither into the “cultural maintenance” nor “modernization” category, but exist and thrive in some space in between, making it an interesting area of study in need of more research.

scholarly journals Ronchamp in the spotlight. The feature of a shocking building in the 50s journals

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco Javier Casas Cobo
Keyword(s):  
Turning Point ◽  
Le Corbusier ◽  
Modern Architecture ◽  
The Other ◽  
Deep Blue ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
International Reputation ◽  
Look Back ◽  
The Devil

Abstract: Although currently it is largely accepted that Chapelle Notre-Dame du Haut at Ronchamp is one of the milestones in Le Corbusier’s works, there is no less agreement in saying that it was one of the most controversial of his works and one turning point in modern architecture, not only in terms of digging a grave for functionalism but to opening a window to a wide bunch of architects and works that would have been excluded from history and maybe forever otherwise. In order to recall its importance, we must look back to how architectural journals featured Ronchamp in the mid fifties as, on one hand, Le Corbusier was not a young architect but a very well known and respected one with an international reputation and therefore, it was not easy to criticize his works and, on the other hand, Ronchamp was such a shocking building for many colleagues who had no choice but writing about it that somehow they were between the Devil and the deep blue sea.  Keywords: Ronchamp; debate; journals; historiography, contemporary; criticism. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/LC2015.2015.942

A ‘Persian Gulf’ Seal from Lothal

Antiquity ◽  
1963 ◽  
Vol 37 (146) ◽  
pp. 96-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. R. Rao
Keyword(s):  
West Coast ◽  
Persian Gulf ◽  
The Other ◽  
Indus Civilization ◽  
The West ◽  
West Coast Of India ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Gulf Islands ◽  
Trade Route ◽  
The Persian Gulf

Lothal is an important harbour-town of the Indus Civilization at the head of the Gulf of Cambay on the west coast of India (FIG. 1). During the recent excavations there, a circular steatite seal has been found which is neither wholly Indian nor Sumerian in workmanship (PL. IX). On the other hand, it closely resembles the seals from the Persian Gulf islands found by the Danish expedition led by Professor Glob and Dr Bibby. Sir Mortimer Wheeler has named them 'Persian Gulf' seals which, according to him, 'appear to have been made at the various entrepôts (such as Bahrain itself) of a cosmopolitan Persian Gulf trade of the kind which has been analyzed by A. L. Oppenheim from Larsa tablets' (note I). Commenting on these seals, the late Col. D. H. Gordon wrote: 'The problem of Bahrain is a very interesting and important one, and it is possible that these seals may help to solve it. Some day such seals may come to light in India, but so far they have not; Bahrain may have been Dilmun and it was almost certainly an entrepôt on the trade route to India, and so it is possible that seals of this kind were carried on to the Indus or to ports in Kathiawad and will some day be found in those localities, though this will not necessarily make them Indian or even of Indian style' (note 2). The hope expressed by Gordon has now been fulfilled by the discovery of a 'Persian Gulf' seal at Lothal, thus providing the first real evidence of trade contacts between India and the Persian Gulf.

scholarly journals Excavations in Persia

1915 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-93
Author(s):  
John P. Peters
Keyword(s):  
Great Plains ◽  
Persian Gulf ◽  
Single Channel ◽  
The Other ◽  
The World ◽  
The One ◽  
The Persian Gulf

From the head of the Persian Gulf extend two great plains, the one stretching northwestward along the Tigris and Euphrates, the other northeastward along the Karoun. These two plains constitute Turkish and Persian Arabistan respectively. They were the seat of one of the earliest and most highly developed civilizations of the world, or perhaps rather of two competing and rival civilizations. Once the region teemed with a vast population. Now it is largely desert. Both plains depend for their fertility not upon the rain, but upon the rivers which flow down from the mountains. When these were diked and dammed and carried every-whither by irrigating canals, the Babylonian plain and the steppe of Persian Arabistan were immensely fertile, capable of sustaining by their own products an enormous population. Now dikes and dams are broken and canals choked and the life-creating water runs to waste, part of the year causing inundations and turning vast regions into lakes and swamps, and the remainder of the time moving seaward through a single channel, shrunk far below its banks.

scholarly journals Geo-Strategic Significance of Kandahar for Mughal Empire

2016 ◽  
Vol I (II) ◽  
pp. 18-29
Author(s):  
Anwar Zahid ◽  
Sumaira ◽  
Riaz Sadia
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Persian Gulf ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mughal Empire ◽  
Important Region ◽  
Strategic Location ◽  
The Persian Gulf ◽  
Strong Control

Kandahar is one of the most significant and important region of Afghanistan. It had been ruled by the great dynasties like Greece, Muryans, Kushans, Hindu Shahis, Mongols and the Mughals etc. Because of its significant location, Kandahar remained the bone of contention between different Empires and dynasties. When the Mughal occupied India, it became necessary for them to make a strong hold on Kandahar because of its strategic location that connects Persia with India. Kandahar was a gateway to India from Persia and for the safety of India and Kabul the Mughals were struggling to have strong control over the area. It connects South Asian subcontinent with Central Asia, Middle East and the Persian Gulf. On the other side Persia considered Kandahar as her integral part particularly from the reign of Shah Tahmasp and always remained busy in taking its control from the Mughals. It was necessary for them to take control of Kandahar for accomplishing the Safavid expansion policy. Thus, Kandahar remained a sandwich between two great Empires.

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