The wizard, the witch, the world and us: Global networking for a global agenda

1982 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Mische
Keyword(s):  
The World ◽  
The Witch ◽  
Global Agenda

THE WORLD BANK ABOUT SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT: THE EVOLUTION OF APPROACHES

2021 ◽  
pp. 97-109
Author(s):  
Olga Pryazhnikova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Social Development ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
Global Agenda

The World Bank has made an important contribution to shaping the global agenda for reducing poverty, increasing prosperity and promoting sustainable development. The review examines the main milestones in changes of the World Bank’s activities in the field of social development. The evolution of the organization’s approaches to solving the problem of poverty reduction as one of the key obstacles to socio-economic development is outlined.

Philosophical reimaginings of educational places and policy: Through the metaphor of a wardrobe

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 460-473 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Alerby ◽  
Sonja Arndt ◽  
Susanne Westman
Keyword(s):  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Structural Approach ◽  
Comprehensive Understanding ◽  
Life World ◽  
Basic Assumptions ◽  
Chronicles Of Narnia ◽  
Educational Spaces ◽  
The World ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
The Witch

The aim of this paper is to challenge the physical and conceptual boundaries of educational places and spaces with the use of metaphor: the story of Professor Kirke’s magic wardrobe in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the first book in The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis (1950) . By explicating and theorising the concerns that arise, we provoke diverse ways of thinking about the complexities of shifting, expanding, constantly evolving educational spaces and places. In our theorisations, we draw on the philosophy of the life-world through Maurice Merleau-Ponty, on a post-structural approach through Julia Kristeva’s work, and on the new-materialist perspective of Gilles Deleuze. As these three philosophical perspectives draw upon different basic assumptions about humans and the world, they also illuminate different aspects of a variety of phenomena and concepts, which we elaborate on in this paper to reach a more comprehensive understanding of educational spaces and places. Our argument arises from philosophical engagements with the story of the Pevensie siblings’ transformation – and transportation – to Narnia through the wardrobe, with notions of educational openings and opportunities, to explore possibilities for reimagining the conceptions and realities of places and spaces in education. To conclude, citizens of today, including children, students, teachers, politicians and researchers, need to discuss basic assumptions for education and policy to reimagine the entangled complexities of educational spaces and places.

The Yoruba Image of the Witch

1961 ◽  
Vol 107 (449) ◽  
pp. 795-805 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond Prince
Keyword(s):  
West Coast ◽  
Western Society ◽  
Or Education ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
The Witch ◽  
Social Level

Witchcraft, the extra-natural interference in the welfare of the community by women, has long since ceased to be a source of major concern in Western society. In many other areas of the world, however, the witch remains a very active and vital image in the consciousness of the people, This is certainly true for the Yoruba*—a negro group occupying large areas of Nigeria, Dahomey and Togoland along the north-west coast of Africa. With the Yoruba (irrespective of his social level, religion or education), belief in the witch and in her powers is all but universal.

scholarly journals Political Problems and Angles of View on Security: Present State and Prospects

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-145
Author(s):  
Yu. N. Sayamov
Keyword(s):  
Present State ◽  
Human Security ◽  
Scientific Discussion ◽  
Safety Assurance ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
The World ◽  
Security Problem ◽  
Club Of Rome ◽  
Global Agenda ◽  
Current Paradigm

The article considers political problems and current angles of views on the state and prospects of security. Human security is highlighted as a global problem. Its importance was confirmed by the COVID-19 pandemic that broke out in the world. The author pointed out the growing world’s complexity and the human lag in its understanding. It has led to the inclusion in the global agenda of the question how to bridge this “human gap”. Attention is drawn to the fact that the current paradigm of safety assurance, is not able to cope with the emerging threats to the existence of the contemporary civilization. It is suggested that the task of ensuring human security should be considered as an integral part of the global development agenda. The author analyzes Eurasian vector of development in the context of the global security problem. It is proposed to direct the efforts of scientists to the scientific discussion of this problem, including the scientific events held in this regard in Russia in cooperation with UNESCO, the World Academy of Art and Science and the Club of Rome.

scholarly journals Radikalisme, Anti-Amerikanisme, dan Islamofobia

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 134-147
Author(s):  
Vicky Izza El Rahma
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
Community Members ◽  
The World ◽  
State Governance ◽  
East And West ◽  
Global Agenda ◽  
Inter State

Abtrack: Radicalism, anti-Americanism, and Islamophobia are three ‘-ism’s that are being the motive of action for one another. Therefore, the project to tackle all three must be a global agenda that not only involves inter-State governance in the East and West, but also demands the active role of community members, civil society institutions, religious institutions, and media times in each Country. In this paper will be outlined the global paradigm that the world scholars of the world are contemplating in order to overcome all three.

scholarly journals Pengembangan Pengelolaan Pariwisata oleh Badan Usaha Milik Desa di Jambi

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 182-192
Author(s):  
Maratun Saadah ◽  
M. Norma Sampoerno ◽  
Zuhri Triansyah ◽  
Fransisko Chaniago
Keyword(s):  
Sampling Method ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Purposive Sampling ◽  
Tourism Management ◽  
The World ◽  
Institutional Aspects ◽  
Tourism Potential ◽  
Global Agenda

Village-owned Enterprises (BUMDes) are an important instrument in realizing dignified village autonomy. The existence of BUMDes is expected to be one of the main pillars of increasing village income so that it can provide higher quality public services. The management of local tourism potential is one of the prospective business alternatives for Village-Owned Enterprises. The involvement of BUMDes in tourism management is not only for economic purposes. BUMDes role in tourism is also mean to allow the preservation and development of local wisdom values in tourism. This article analyzes the pattern of localcharacter tourism development by BUMDes in three villages. Those are Mumpun Baru Village, Tanjung Lanjut Village, and Pendung Talang Genting Village in Jambi Province. The articles are written based on the research results conducted qualitatively in the Muaro Jambi, Kerinci, and Merangin areas with a purposive sampling method. The analysis shows that several things characterize the development of tourism through BUMDes, namely, tourism products, innovation or novelty in the development of tourism products, the preservation of local wisdom values, the institutional aspects of BUMDes, the contribution of tourism to the community's economy. In addition, managing tourism with BUMDes is key in supportingthe achievement of sustainable tourism which is the global agenda of countries around the world.

The Collective Conscience

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica M. Emerich
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Culture ◽  
Community Building ◽  
The Other ◽  
Communication Process ◽  
The World ◽  
Truth Claims ◽  
The One ◽  
Economic Imperialism ◽  
Global Agenda

This chapter deals with LOHAS in the context of “community-building” and the formation of a collective conscience. LOHAS is ultimately a narrative about how to change the world using consumer culture. The lens of globalization is used to examine how LOHAS attempts, on the one hand, to overcome a legacy of anthropocentrism, Eurocentrism, cultural and economic imperialism, and Westernization in capitalism, while, on the other hand, self-consciously reinforcing the capitalist imperative to sell more and different things to more people. As a market-based movement and as a claim to a reformatory effort, LOHAS is only as successful as the quantity of consumers and producers that support its premises. With its sweeping global agenda, LOHAS texts try to position the concept as a nonpartisan movement, one based on commonalities rather than differences. This chapter is a study of the rise of community and collectivity in LOHAS culture, which is chiefly occurring through mediated means, particularly through social media. It historicizes LOHAS within social movements, examining the importance of media and the central role of communication in democratic efforts. This sets the stage for a closer look at the ways in which media and market enable and disable participation in the communication process. An important part of this is the working of ideology in the construction of truth claims.

The Architecture of Evil: H. P. Lovecraft's ‘The Dreams in the Witch House’ and Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House

CounterText ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 406-423
Author(s):  
Ljubica Matek
Keyword(s):  
Literary Canon ◽  
Traditional Architecture ◽  
Use Of Space ◽  
The World ◽  
Concentric Circles ◽  
The Witch ◽  
The Hill

This paper proposes that H. P. Lovecraft's ‘The Dreams in the Witch House’ (1932) and Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House (1959) embody the Gothic idea of subversion through their use of space. Specifically, both texts are set in a house that is shaped according to a scale unknown and repulsive to humans, suggesting that the architecture of evil is out of scale literally and metaphorically. Walter Gilman's room in the Witch House is strangely shaped and represents a passage into a parallel world which Gilman, a mathematician firmly set into the world of scale, first believes to exist only in dreams. Similarly, the interior of the Hill House is off centre and disjointed. People get physically lost as the rooms are set in strange concentric circles which defy traditional architecture; more importantly, characters’ subjectivity is consumed and appropriated by the house. By depicting protagonists as scientists deeply invested in the research of the occult, both Jackson and Lovecraft juxtapose science, which is marked by taxonomies, systems, and scales, with entities and rituals that transcend scalable knowledge. As their projects fail, the perceived harmony and knowability of life is revealed as false. The collapse of scale in both texts unsettles the reader, as it suggests that evil refuses to comply and be contained within a specific human-designed system of measurement or value. With this, the texts confirm the Gothic genre's countercultural position within the literary canon.

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