The political and social basis of regional variation in land occupations in Brazil

1998 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 124-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Petras
Keyword(s):  
Regional Variation ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Basis

Contentious Land Narratives and the Nonescalation of Election Violence: Evidence from Kenya’s Coast Region

2017 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen Klaus
Keyword(s):  
Rift Valley ◽  
Regional Variation ◽  
Land Rights ◽  
The Political ◽  
Electoral Violence ◽  
Electoral Outcomes ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Election Violence ◽  
Coast Region

Abstract:This article examines the puzzle of the nonescalation of electoral violence. Drawing on evidence from Kenya’s Coast and Rift Valley regions, the article argues that land narratives along the coast create few motives for people to participate in electoral violence because residents do not link their land rights with electoral outcomes. Politicians thus have far less power to use land narratives to organize violence. Two factors help account for this regional variation between the Rift Valley and the Coast: the strength of the political patron and the proportion of “outsiders” relative to “insiders.”

Individuals and Aggregates

1980 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-250
Author(s):  
Paul F. Bourke ◽  
Donald A. DeBats
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social History ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Electoral Behavior ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Basis ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
The Social ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Vexing Question

After more than a decade's impressive achievement in the “new” social history and the “new” political history, two distinct though related problems require us to reconsider the data appropriate to these inquiries. First, recent commentators (Foner, 1974; Formi-sano, 1976) have pointed to the relative failure of research in these areas to converge, a failure made more obvious in the light of the programmatic optimism of the 1960s which held out the prospect of an integrated approach to the social basis of politics and to the political implications of social structure. Second, there has been in recent years some acknowledgment by historians (see below) of the vexing question of inferences across levels of data, a matter central to other social sciences and particularly pressing for historians of electoral behavior.

Indian films and Nigerian lovers: media and the creation of parallel modernities

Africa ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 406-440 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Larkin
Keyword(s):  
North Africa ◽  
Third World ◽  
The Political ◽  
The West ◽  
Love Stories ◽  
Transnational Media ◽  
Social Basis ◽  
Contemporary Life ◽  
Media Flows ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractThis article discusses the significance of Indian films in revealing a relatively ignored aspect of the transnational flow of culture. The intra-Third World circulation of Indian film offers Hausa viewers a way of imaginatively engaging with forms of tradition different from their own at the same time as conceiving of a modernity that comes without the political and ideological significance of that of the West. After discussing reasons for the popularity of Indian films in a Hausa context, it accounts for this imaginative investment of viewers by looking at narrative as a mode of social enquiry. Hausa youth explore the limits of accepted Hausa attitudes to love and sexuality through the narratives of Indian film and Hausa love stories (soyayya). This exploration has occasioned intense public debate, as soyayya authors are accused of corrupting Hausa youth by borrowing foreign modes of love and sexual relations. The article argues that this controversy indexes wider concerns about the shape and direction of contemporary Nigerian culture. Analysing soyayya books and Indian films gives insight into the local reworking and indigenising of transnational media flows that take place within and between Third World countries, disrupting the dichotomies between West and non-West, coloniser and colonised, modernity and tradition, in order to see how media create parallel modernities. Through spectacle and fantasy, romance and sexuality, Indian films provide arenas for considering what it means to be modern and what may be the place of Hausa society within that modernity. For northern Nigerians, who respond to a number of different centres, whether politically to the Nigerian state, religiously to the Middle East and North Africa, economically to the West, or culturally to the cinematic dominance of India, Indian films are just one part of the heterogeneity of everyday life. They provide a parallel modernity, a way of imaginatively engaging with the changing social basis of contemporary life that is an alternative to the pervasive influence of a secular West.

Public Opinion on Healthcare

2021 ◽  
pp. 49-68
Author(s):  
Diana Burlacu ◽  
Andra Roescu
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Regional Variation ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Healthcare Systems ◽  
The Political ◽  
Public Healthcare ◽  
Healthcare Provision ◽  
Health Policy Reform ◽  
Large Scale Survey ◽  
New Research

This chapter explores public opinion on healthcare from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. It critically reviews the literature surrounding public opinion on healthcare, teasing out the main concepts used—support for public healthcare provision/spending, overall evaluations of the healthcare systems, and the political salience of healthcare—while also discussing implications, gaps, and potential new research avenues. The chapter examines the operationalization of these key measures in large-scale survey items and compares trends in Europe over time. While Europeans mostly agree that it is the government’s responsibility to ensure adequate healthcare, there is much more regional variation when it comes to satisfaction with healthcare systems, and their political salience. The chapter concludes by arguing for the need to further examine the link between these key public opinion measures and their impact on health policy reform.

Nation Versus Region in Kenya: a Note on Political Learning

1974 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Court ◽  
Kenneth Prewitt
Keyword(s):  
Regional Variation ◽  
Regional Disparities ◽  
Regional Inequality ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Stress Growth ◽  
Political Learning ◽  
Versus Region ◽  
The Will

In the literature on new nations, much attention has been given to the threat to nationhood posed by cultural and linguistic variations, rather less to the political repercussions of the regional inequality with which such variations are often associated. Regional disparities in resources and services inherited at independence tend to be compounded by policies which stress growth rather than equity. Given that such imbalances are not easily or speedily corrected by means of compensatory economic policies – even if the will exists – the political vulnerability of governments to regional disaffection is bound up with the question of whether it is possible for a common national outlook to be superimposed upon regional variation. The purpose of this brief Note is to test two hypotheses which relate to this question against Kenyan data and experience.

Lithic Tool Industries

2020 ◽  
pp. 141-195
Author(s):  
Christina M. Friberg
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Regional Variation ◽  
Lithic Analysis ◽  
Illinois River ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Exchange Networks ◽  
Lithic Assemblage ◽  
Lithic Assemblages ◽  
Economic Control

This chapter addresses whether the Lower Illinois River Valley’s proximity to Cahokia enabled access to craft exchange networks vital to the political economy of Greater Cahokia. This issue requires a detailed lithic analysis of the Audrey site’s lithic assemblage, examining both the craft production and/or exchange of Mill Creek hoes, basalt celts, and microlithic chert drills for marine shell bead manufacture, and the consumption of local Burlington chert. A comparative analysis with data from the Greater Cahokia and northern hinterland areas assesses the extent of Cahokian economic control, the organization of Mississippian lithic tool industries, and regional variation in the nature of economic activities. Finally, an analysis of exotic cherts within lithic assemblages suggests interregional exchange and interaction among northern groups.

Space and nation

2020 ◽  
pp. 95-108
Author(s):  
Raf Van Rooy
Keyword(s):  
Diagnostic Criteria ◽  
Regional Variation ◽  
Circumstantial Evidence ◽  
The Political

In Chapter 7, two interpretations of the language / dialect distinction with roots in Greek antiquity take centre stage. Firstly, the chapter outlines how the spatial conception of dialect established itself after 1550. More circumstantial evidence for the spread of this geographical interpretation is also briefly treated. Humanists, moreover, soon recognized the universality of regional variation. Even though the geographical interpretation implied that language covered a larger area than dialect, some scholars believed that good language had its seat only in a state’s capital. Secondly, this chapter surveys the emergence of the idea that dialect was particular to a tribe, implying that language was a kind of ethnically overarching phenomenon. There was, however, an unresolved tension with a competing view, associating language with the nation in the political sense. Although widespread, the spatial and ethnic conceptions of dialect as a variety of a language were never used as diagnostic criteria in language / dialect decisions.

The Campaign for Nuclear Power in Japan before and after 2011

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tobias Weiss
Keyword(s):  
Significant Influence ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Political Influence ◽  
Nuclear Accident ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Basis ◽  
Political Impact ◽  
Before And After

In the chapter I analyse the emergence of a countermovement in reaction to the rise of the movement against nuclear power in Japan since the 1970s. I trace the emergence of the countermovement in historical perspective, and analyse the organizational and social basis, the mobilization processes, the framing, and political influence of the groups involved. I then analyse the political impact of the Fukushima 2011 nuclear accident on the movement. I show how the countermovement was able survive a period of intense contestation preserving its resource basis and retaining significant influence on the policymaking process due to support from parts of the national bureaucracy and conservative politicians.

Regional Variation in the Pottery of Late Helladic IIIB

1980 ◽  
Vol 75 ◽  
pp. 175-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. S. Sherratt
Keyword(s):  
Regional Variation ◽  
Local Development ◽  
The Political ◽  
Homogeneous Product ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
As If

The pottery of the LH IIIB period has frequently been treated as if it were a homogeneous product, uniform throughout the Mycenaean area; and LH IIIB has been envisaged, by several scholars, as the period above all of the Mycenaean Koine Furumark, however, who considered the pottery of LH IIIA2 rather than LH IIIB to be “the Koine style par preference”, emphasised the degree of local development during LH IIIB in certain parts of the Mycenaean world, particularly in Cyprus and in Rhodes. Nevertheless, he regarded LH IIIB as “the period of the greatest Mycenaean expansion”, with the Argolid as the “political and cultural centre of the Aegean world”, and on the Mainland, where LH IIIB settlement material was scarce, particularly in areas other than the Argolid, a blanket definition of the pottery of this period was drawn mainly from tombs, over half of which were Argive. While recognising that some of his LH IIIB groups were stylistically later than others, Furumark left the period chronologically undivided.

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