Greek migrant jokes online

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Argiris Archakis ◽  
Villy Tsakona
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Humor Studies ◽  
Sociopolitical Context ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
Critical Humor

Abstract This study adheres to critical humor studies investigating how humor targeting the migrant ‘Other’ may reproduce social inequalities in the form of racist stereotypes. We examine two datasets of online migrant-targeting jokes from two different time periods in Greece. Our first collection of jokes comes from the period 1990–2010, i.e., when Greece, enjoying financial prosperity, received mostly Albanian migrants, while the second one comes from 2014 onwards, i.e., when Greece, facing a severe financial crisis, received mostly Muslim migrants. Our analysis shows that the local sociopolitical context plays a significant role in shaping the ways migrants are humorously represented and targeted: the incongruities identified in the first dataset are different from those of the second. In both cases, however, migrant-targeting jokes seem to reinforce national homogenization by circulating racist stereotypes for migrants in a light-hearted manner and by naturalizing the latter’s marginalization and/or assimilation.

The SADC Tribunal

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Tendayi Achiume
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Southern African Development Community ◽  
The Other ◽  
Legal Decision ◽  
African Development ◽  
Sociopolitical Context ◽  
Judicial Lawmaking

This chapter uses the trajectory of the Southern African Development Community (“SADC”) Tribunal to chart sociopolitical constraints on international judicial lawmaking. It studies the SADC Tribunal backlash case, which paved the way for a curtailment of the Tribunal’s authority, stripping the Tribunal of both private access and its jurisdiction over human rights. Showing how jurisprudential engagement with sociopolitical context plays a significant role in explaining the Tribunal's loss of authority, the chapter introduces the concept of sociopolitical dissonance. Sociopolitical dissonance is a state that results when a legal decision contradicts or undermines deeply held norms that a given society or community forms on the basis of its social, political, and economic history. Sociopolitical resonance, on the other hand, describes the quality of affirming or according with a given society's norms as informed by its sociopolitical history.

Islamic Banking in GCC

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Eda Orhun
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Performance Comparison ◽  
Islamic Banking ◽  
Islamic Banks ◽  
Financial Products ◽  
Gcc Countries ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
Conventional Banks

This chapter offers a literature review discussing the origin, history, and the growth of Islamic Banking, especially in the GCC countries. It provides detailed information regarding how Islamic Banking evolved throughout the years and what are the current Islamic financial products. Another interesting topic covered in this literature review is the performance comparison of Islamic and conventional banks during different time periods. Accordingly, the chapter explores how the financial standing of Islamic banks altered in comparison to conventional banks before and after the financial crisis of 2008 by presenting earlier studies from various countries. It is concluded that some potential challenges and future opportunities of the Islamic Banking are yet to be explored.

The Welfare Consequences of Income-Induced Expenditure Switching

2018 ◽  
Vol 108 ◽  
pp. 547-551
Author(s):  
Rudolfs Bems ◽  
Julian Di Giovanni
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Expenditure Switching ◽  
Welfare Consequences ◽  
Percent Contribution ◽  
External Sector ◽  
Historical Decomposition

Bems and di Giovanni (2016) establish that income-induced expenditure switching (IIES) from foreign goods to cheaper domestic substitutes played a significant role in external rebalancing during the 2008-2009 financial crisis in Latvia. In this paper, we examine the welfare consequences of IIES under different external sector rebalancing scenarios. We find that IIES reduced the negative welfare consequences that accompany external rebalancing by between 12-17 percent. We also show, using a historical decomposition, that IIES accounted for 18 percent of the 2008-2009 collapse in imports, which is greater than the 14 percent contribution due to the conventional price-induced expenditure switching channel.

scholarly journals Analisis Efektivitas G20 Dalam Menangani Krisis Finansial Tahun 2008

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (02) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Arum Tri Utami
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Economic Governance ◽  
Challenging Problem ◽  
Fiscal Stimulus ◽  
Global Economic Governance

AbstrakKrisis finansial 2008 menjadi sebuah permasalahan yang sulit dan menantang untuk diselesaikan, yang membawa pada pentingnya reformasi artsitektur tata kelola ekonomi global. G20 muncul sebagai sebuah tata kelola ekonomi global yang signfikan. Kedua puluh negara anggota G20 dapat mengambil peran yang signifikan dalam ekonomi glob-al. Berbagai upaya dikeluarkan oleh G20 dalam menyelesaikan krisis finansial 2008. Salah satu upayanya adalah dengan pemberian stimulus fiskal sebesar 2% dari PDB negara anggota G20. Kebijakan lainnya terus didorong oleh G20 untuk membuat aturan dan pengawasan yang efektif serta berbagai kebijakan sektor finansial lainnya. Efektivitas G20 dalam menyelesaikan krisis finansial G20 menjadi penting untuk dianalisa untuk membuat tata kelola ekonomi global yang lebih baik.Kata-Kata Kunci : G20, krisis finansial 2008, efektivitas, KTT G20 AbstractFinancial crisis 2008 posed a serious of deeper and more challenging problem, that led to calls for urgent reform of the architecture of global economic governance. G20 emerged as a significant global economic governance. The twenty members of G20 can take a significant role in economic global. Various efforts were made by G20 through policies resulted from the Summit. Those efforts include providing fiscal stimulus in the amount of 2% from GDP the member of G20. Other policies have been pushed by G20 to make an effective regulatory, supervisory and other financial sec-tor policies. The effectiveness of G20 in handling financial crisis 2008 was important to be analyzed to make a global economic governance will be better.Keywords : G20, financial crisis 2008, effectiveness, G20�s summit.

Introducing Ismaili Apocalypses

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jamel A. Velji
Keyword(s):  
Significant Role ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Time Periods

This is a book about apocalypticism, a mode of religiosity so powerful and generative that it has been implicated in a variety of major events across geographies and time periods. Apocalypticism played a significant role in the rise of major religious traditions such as Christianity...

scholarly journals History periodization of Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 96-101
Author(s):  
Vladimir Rudolfovich Avetisyan
Keyword(s):  
Significant Role ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Basic Element ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Historical Event ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Revolutionary Period ◽  
Chronological Time

The problem of periodization of historical events or phenomena is always debatable. Sometimes it is difficult to find a consensus on the definition of chronological time frame of a particular event. The problem of the history periodization of Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages is not an exception. Lazarev Institute has a rich and sometimes complicated history, so the same historical event of the institution can be interpreted in different ways. Researchers in different periods (in the pre-revolutionary period - A. Zinoviev, during the Soviet period - A.P.Baziyants, M.Nersisyan, A.T.Amirkhanyan and modern history - A.V. Torkunov, V.V. Vasilenko) developed different variants of periodization: they divided the time periods into smaller ones or united closely intertwined events into a larger period. The basic element of each periodization is a historians principle by which he describes a historical event. The authors variant of periodization presented in the paper makes it possible to consider the problem in a new way, as it includes the chronological framework of the period preceding the beginning of teaching at the institute. This period played a significant role not only for the opening, but also in the formation of the foundations and principles of the educational institution during the time of its existence.

scholarly journals Competition law

2012 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 991-1005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Lane
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Competition Policy ◽  
Competition Law ◽  
Director General ◽  
Competition Rules ◽  
To Come ◽  
Union Competition

The period under review (January 2010 – June 2012) has been a time of consolidation (or exhaustion) for the Union generally, as the Lisbon changes are allowed to bed in. The competition sphere is no exception. There has been limited initiative, certainly nothing ambitious to come out of the Commission over the period. At the same time a new Commission took up office—three months late, and by a little-remarked constitutional sleight of hand1—in 2010, and with it came a new Commissioner for Competition (Mr Almunia) and with him a new Director-General of DG Competition (Mr Italianer—Dutch notwithstanding the name), which event sometimes, but not always, marks a reorientation of Union competition policy. Both are economists which, again, may or may not influence the direction of policy. At the same time the Union has been buffeted by a financial crisis not wholly of its own making in which the competition rules must have a significant role to play.

scholarly journals Slogans about happiness in China

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 101-108
Author(s):  
A. A. Voytsekhovich ◽  
Van Furs Tszyi
Keyword(s):  
Significant Role ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Chinese People ◽  
Chinese Leadership ◽  
The World ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
Different Content

Slogans have a thousand-year history and have always played a significant role in the life of the Chinese people. Many slogans have become precedent symbols of certain historical eras, not only do they reflect important moments in the country’s political life, but also the linguistic picture of the world. Perceived subconsciously, the content of slogans becomes a guideline for people’s conduct. In slogans you can see traditions and customs of the Chinese, as well as understand the realities of the time in which they appeared, history and culture of the country.Slogans, used by the Chinese leadership to broadcast the main political installations, are one of the means of propaganda. They still remain in China one of the most popular means of disseminating information. Written in different styles, with different content, slogans do not lose their relevance and remain an important element of Chinese culture. At present, when coding of knowledge has to a greater extent a rationalistic basis, slogans play a more significant role.The article considers slogans about happiness in different time periods, which allows you to find out how the Chinese’s perception of happiness was changing in the course of time.

scholarly journals A review of operational risk in banks and its role in the financial crisis

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 364-382 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erika De Jongh ◽  
Riaan De Jongh ◽  
Dawie De Jongh ◽  
Gary Van Vuuren
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Operational Risk ◽  
Credit Crisis ◽  
2008 Financial Crisis

The role of operational risk in the 2007/2008 financial crisis is explored. The factors that gave rise to the crisis are examined and it is found that although the event is largely regarded as a credit crisis, operational risk factors played a significant role in fuelling its duration and severity. It is concluded that, from an operational risk perspective, 2008 was the worst on record. Considering the extensive role of operational risk in global financial calamities, suggestions are made to improve the management of this risk type. 

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