scholarly journals Colonialism and the Role of the Local Show: A Case Study of the Gympie District Show, 1877–1940

2009 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 29-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Regional Australia ◽  
Scholarly Attention

Agricultural shows are important events in rural and regional Australia. For over a century, they have often been the main annual festival on any given town's calendar. This importance makes the lack of scholarly attention to rural and regional shows puzzling. Recently, Australian exhibitions and agricultural shows have come in for some very welcome scholarly attention, although very little has been written about rural and regional events. Scholars such as Kate Darian-Smith and Sara Wills, Joanne Scott and Ross Laurie, Judith McKay, and Kay Anderson have all written on exhibitions and shows – although, of this group, only Darian-Smith and Wills have written on rural shows, the rest focusing more on inter-colonial and metropolitan Australian shows. Even Richard Waterhouse's groundbreaking study of rural Australian cultural history, The Vision Splendid, provides little detail on agricultural shows and their role in rural cultural life, although the show's importance is recognised.

Training Local Elected Officials: Professionalization Amid Tensions Between

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-51
Author(s):  
Anne Mevellec ◽  
Félix Grenier
Keyword(s):  
Training Program ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Elected Officials ◽  
Training Activities ◽  
Democratic Election ◽  
Scholarly Attention

Over the last few decades, several administrations in Canada have organized programs for training local elected officials (LEOs). While improving LEOs’ competences is beneficial, this trend is developing amidst a persisting tension between democratic and technocratic approaches to governance. Indeed, training - and the professionalization it entails - disrupts the enduring principle holding that everyone is equally authorized to govern following the democratic election. Despite the significance of these transformations, training activities for LEOs have received limited scholarly attention until now. In this paper, we detail our conceptualization of the professionalization process and the role of training programs within it. We then review the existing Canadian training programs for LEOs. We also examine one case study: the main introductory training program for LEOs in Québec (Canada) since 2011. Accordingly, we advance our understanding of training’s effects on elected officials by emphasizing how they contribute to a long-term process of professionalization.

scholarly journals Nanban Art and its Globality: A Case Study of the New Spanish Mural The Great Martyrdom of Japan in 1597

2019 ◽  
pp. 21-56
Author(s):  
Rie Arimura
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Spanish America ◽  
Society Of Jesus ◽  
Japanese Art ◽  
The World ◽  
Epistemological Understanding ◽  
Simple Product

Traditionally, nanban art has been seen as a simple product of exchanges between Japan, Portugal and Spain. The historiography tends to solely focus on artistic contributions of the Society of Jesus due to the foundation of a painting school in Japan. Thereby, the relevance of the Indo-Portuguese route in the cross-cultural history has been emphasized. However, the research advances of the last decades identify that nanban works consist of artistic inheritances from diverse regions of the world which were connected through the Portuguese and Spanish transoceanic routes. Similarly, Japanese nanban art influenced the artistic productions on the other side of the world. In summary, nanban art cannot be understood without taking into account its global implications. This paper clarifies the changes in epistemological understanding of nanban art, and its redefinitions through a historiographical review. This work also shows the important role of Spanish America in the artistic exchange mechanisms; these interactions occurred reciprocally. Therefore, the New World was one of the regions where Japanese art significantly influenced local productions. To exemplify this phenomenon, we address the influence of nanban art on the mural painting The great martyrdom of Japan in 1597 in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.

scholarly journals History, violence and collective memory: Implications for mental health in Ecuador

2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuel Capella ◽  
Sushrut Jadhav ◽  
Joanna Moncrieff
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Historical Trauma ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Mental Health Literature

National histories of violence shape experiences of suffering and the ways that mental health professionals respond to them. In Ecuador, mental health literature addressing this crucial issue is scarce and little debated. In contrast, local psychiatrists and psychologists within the country face contemporary challenges that are deeply rooted in a violent colonial past and the perpetuation of its fundamental ethos. This paper critically reviews relevant literature on collective memory and historical trauma, and focuses on Ecuador as a case study on how to incorporate history into modern mental health challenges. The discussion poses key questions and outlines possible ways for Ecuador to address the link between history and mental health, including insights from countries that have struggled with their violent pasts. This paper contributes to ongoing international debate on the role of cultural history in mental health with implications for social scientists and practising clinicians in former colonised nations.

scholarly journals Nature, the past and the English town: a counter-cultural history

Urban History ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
PETER BORSAY
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Urban Culture ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Town

ABSTRACTIn investigating urban culture, historians have understandably tended to focus on the man-made and the modern, and have paid less attention to the role of nature and the past, which seem the opposite of what the town stands for. This survey, which takes as its case-study England, argues that nature and the past have always been part of urban life, but as urbanization gathered pace, particularly from the eighteenth century, they became if anything an even more important element in city and town culture.

The Interplay of Entrepreneurial and Network Activities in the Entrepreneurial Process

2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katja Pellinen
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Entrepreneurial Process ◽  
Technology Incubator ◽  
Scholarly Attention

Research on the entrepreneurial process has focused on either structural or agency-related aspects from the point of view of an individual entrepreneurial actor, while the concrete activities and their relationality have gained less scholarly attention. This study analyses the interplay between entrepreneurial and network activities in the entrepreneurial process through a case study of technology incubator firms. The study shows how entrepreneurial actors' understanding of their resources and positions varies and develops during the process, and how they use networks and relationships in various ways. The results help to explain the variety inherent in entrepreneurial processes and highlight the multifaceted role of networks in those processes.

scholarly journals The democratic king: The role of ritualized flattery in political discourse

2021 ◽  
pp. 095792652110232
Author(s):  
Roni Danziger
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Case Study ◽  
The Political ◽  
Epideictic Rhetoric ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
Differences Of Opinion ◽  
Political Legitimation ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Scholarly Attention

Research has shown that personality cults are a strategy to further political legitimation. They function to secure a leader’s position in the absence of democratic legitimation methods by using excessive flattery towards the leader. Habitual public flattery towards democratic leaders has not received scholarly attention, even though it can provide insight into the danger authoritarian discursive rituals can have on democratic processes. By applying a ritual perspective to a comparative case study analysis, this paper illustrates how political flattery is not just an instrumental means for self-promotion in the political order, but also a manipulative and antidemocratic exploitation of epideictic rhetoric. Furthermore, the implicit requirement for ritualized flattery hinders accountability and deliberative decision-making, and the process of integrating differences of opinion or interest towards a collective and impartial political practice. Leaders who surround themselves with sycophants encourage opinion- and action-conformity to whatever pleases that specific leader.

Returning and Leaving

2021 ◽  
pp. 105-116
Author(s):  
Tina Frühauf
Keyword(s):  
Federal Republic ◽  
Jewish Community ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Postwar Period ◽  
Frankfurt Am Main ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
German Jewry ◽  
Cultural Mobility

Starting with the reinauguration of Westend Synagogue with organ, choir, and cantor, the Jewish community of Frankfurt am Main and its music practices during the 1950s serve as a case study to show a continuous dialectic between cultural change and persistence, which marked Jewish life in the Federal Republic at large during the postwar period. As such, the community provides an example of the threefold process of returning, rebuilding, and redefining which affected the establishment of its cultural life. This can be observed in several areas of musical practice. In synagogue service it pertained to the role of the cantor, choir, and the organ as an artifact most closely associated with liberal German Jewry. Outside of service, it concerned musical programs in the context of communal events and to a lesser extent commemoration. Each uniquely embodies and exemplifies facets of cultural mobility and its others.

The role of multiplicity in a cult: A case study

1987 ◽  
Author(s):  
William A. Worrall ◽  
Ann W. Stockman
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