What do women want? A critical mapping of future directions for Arab Feminisms

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mervat Hatem
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Political Islam ◽  
Arab Women ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Critical Overview ◽  
Shed Light

This paper was the Keynote Address to the conference organized by the Lebanese Women Researchers in October 2009 whose theme was ‘Arab Feminism: A Critical Perspective’. The conference held in Beirut, Lebanon, was attended by many scholars and activists interested in Arab feminism. It offered a critical overview of the literature, discourses and the agendas used to explore and analyse the history of Arab feminism available in Arabic and in English, the two languages with which the author is familiar. A conscious effort was made to be inclusive by making reference to as many of the works and authors available in this field as possible to shed light on the lessons to be learned from the gender struggles in different Arab states. Intellectually, the paper critically examined the founding myths of the modern history of Arab women, especially the role that men played in it, as well as the contributions that modernization and nationalism made to their roles and rights. It also addressed how the state emerged as an important agent in the definition of, response to and the appropriation of the agendas of women following decolonization. Finally, it assessed the rise of political Islam and how it contributed to new discursive and political divisions among middle-class women whose activism was historically identified with the development of Arab feminism.

Conclusion

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Geographical Distribution ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Late Modernity ◽  
History Of ◽  
Definition Of

This chapter extends the book’s insights about nature, technology, and nation to the larger history of the modern period. While the modern nation loses its grip as a locus of identity and analysis, attempts to understand the operation, disruption, and collapse of continental and global infrastructures continue to mix the natural and the machinic in ways that define them both. Those vulnerabilities emphasize large-scale catastrophe; historiographically, they mask the crucial role of small-scale failures in the experience and culture of late modernity, including its definition of nature. Historical actors turned the uneven geographical distribution of small-scale failures into a marker of distinctive local natures and an element of regional and national identity. Attending to those failures helps not only situate cold-war technologies in the larger modern history of natural and machinic orders; it helps provincialize the superpowers by casting problematic “other” natures as central and primary.

A Brief History of the Banjo

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Jones-Bamman
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Morphological Features ◽  
Design Parameters ◽  
Historical Overview ◽  
Tone Production ◽  
History Of ◽  
Definition Of

This chapter provides a short historical overview of the banjo, from its origins among enslaved populations up through the so-called golden era of its development and manufacture in the late 19th century. It begins with a definition of the instrument based on specific morphological features, taking into account various African antecedents that remain hallmarks of its design and distinctive tone production. This is followed by a discussion of the gradual emergence of mass produced banjos created for the burgeoning middle-class parlor market in the 1880s and 1890s, and the roll these same instruments have played in determining the design parameters commonly employed by contemporary makers creating open-back banjos for the old-time musical community.

New Moral Worlds

2020 ◽  
pp. 171-200
Author(s):  
Robert Colls
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Day School ◽  
Modern School ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Playing Fields

Chapter 6 brings the history of modern sport and the modern school together. In the Uppingham School Archives there’s a photograph of the school cricket team gathered round its ambitious and reforming headmaster Rev. Edward Thring. At this moment (1858) Thring was involved in painful disputes with these boys, trivial struggles that confirmed in his mind if not theirs the need to build a network of powerful schools committed to reforming the character of elite young men. He and his brother headmasters spent their lives reinventing these so called ‘public’ schools as new moral worlds. Chapter 6 looks also at the Girls Public Day School Company (1872) and its work towards the proper education of middle-class young women. Sport and gender was vital to both campaigns although how vital rather depended on the extent to which girls won a new independent voice and the boys retained their old one. Public schools were seen by their inventors as new moral worlds but they could be new immoral worlds as well. Or, to put it another way, the schools were reconfigured as closed institutions deliberately designed to influence the character and behaviour of the young. By the beginning of the twentieth century the leading public schools were seen as uniquely successful enterprises, obsessed with the athletic body, significant and forceful in the definition of what a ‘school’ should be, stately and beautiful, and surrounded almost by definition by playing fields. A new set of national icons had been created.

Future of Classification in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

2012 ◽  
pp. 53-66
Author(s):  
Terence M. Keane ◽  
Mark W. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder ◽  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Stress Disorder ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Statistical Manual ◽  
Diagnostic And Statistical Manual ◽  
Dsm 5 ◽  
The Status ◽  
History Of ◽  
Definition Of

This chapter reviews the status of modifications to the definition of PTSD and proposed changes for DSM-5. We include a brief history of the diagnosis and trace its evolution in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). We discuss some of the current controversies related to the definition of PTSD including its location among the anxiety disorders, the utility of Criterion A and its subcomponents, and the factor structure of the symptoms. We review the rationale for the addition of new symptoms and modifications to existing criteria now and conclude with comments on future directions for research on PTSD.

Pensée 3: The Modernity of the Arabs

2009 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fred Halliday
Keyword(s):  
Social Groups ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
Strong Tendency ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Normative Claim ◽  
Arab Nationalism ◽  
Political Force ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Definition Of

The study of Arab nationalism, and indeed of all nationalisms, is beset with particular problems. One is the imprecision of the main concepts involved, starting with the definition of nation. Another is the confusion, inherent in the very word “nationalism,” between two quite different objects of study—nationalism as a movement, as a social and political force, and nationalism as an ideology. The first allows objective, historical analyses of how a particular movement arose and developed in such and such a country, of the social groups that supported and/or opposed it, and, not least, of how states have sought to define and utilize it. The second is an aspiration, an ideological and normative claim, one with a strong tendency to control public debate; it has an inherent tendency to distort the history of the supposed “nation.” The special claims nationalists make for their particular nation cause a third problem: although modern history has yielded hundreds of cases of nationalism, as movement and ideology, nationalism occasions analysis that is singular, treating the nation in question as unique and avoiding comparison.

scholarly journals AL-FARABI’S PHILOSOPHY OF MUSIC

Al-Farabi ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 3-17
Author(s):  
Nurysheva Gulzhikhan ◽  
◽  
Tercan Nurfer ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Method ◽  
Multidisciplinary Approach ◽  
Scientific Practice ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Emotional Reactions ◽  
Philosophy Of Music ◽  
History Of ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Intellectual Climate

Scientists propose to understand the effect of music on the human psyche, knowledge about the soul, science, metaphysics, and spheres. At the center of all these discussions, we assume researchers are not focusing on how music triggers emotions. In this century we live in, most writers agree that this is the most crucial issue. Today’s researchers want to know why music creates strong emotional reactions in people with scientific explanations. Our study aims to find answers to today’s questions between the 9th and 10th centuries, indicated as the golden age of Islamic culture. We aimed to shed light on the answers to the questions of today’s researchers about the effect of music on the human soul. This article focuses on the second teacher’s approach to cosmology and how the various sciences contribute to the study of the heavens. After a survey of the sources available to Al Farabi, which helps to contextualise his work in light of the Greek legacy and the Arabic intellectual climate of his day, authors define his conception of the scientific method and to show the relation between scientific practice and theory. With a multidisciplinary approach to the history of philosophy and astronomy, Al Farabi’s philosophy of music contributes to physics, metaphysics and astronomy. As a result, our article contains the formulation of innovative, philosophical musical ideas. It is an effort that emerged in the formulation of Al Farabi’s Ptolemaic astronomy. The guiding subject of our research provided a holistic approach to the Aristotelian and Neoplatonic theories that complement each other. Adopting this perspective allows for a broader study of music within a particular culture or situation. The article examines ‘Kitab Al Musiqa’ research in the light of a definition of music that embraces the diversity of music using universal methods. Music is a significant and integral dimension of human improvement.

scholarly journals An Analysis Of The Legal Framework Of International Refugee Protection System

2019 ◽  
Vol IV (I) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Muhammad Zubair ◽  
Muhammad Aqeel Khan ◽  
Muzamil Shah
Keyword(s):  
Legal Protection ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Protection System ◽  
Initial Moment ◽  
International Level ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Refugee Convention ◽  
Refugee Protection ◽  
History Of ◽  
Definition Of

The article aims to investigate the legal framework of refugee protection system at regional and international level, which starts with the modern history of refugee system that when fleeing people from one region to another were considered as refugees. It further explores steps that were taken at the initial moment and how such system developed at the international level. The legal protection along with internationally accepted definition of refugees was achieved with the passage of time. The 1951 Refugee Convention is considered as the main foundation upon which the whole refugee system is based, was further augmented with the adoption of the 1967 Protocol, which removed the two main objections i.e. the temporal and geographical limitations from the Convention. The article explains the refugee definition, protections available under various instruments at regional and international level to refugees.

scholarly journals Collections coloniales?

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 24-38
Author(s):  
Claire Brizon
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
Global History ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Shed Light

Based on three case studies of artifacts from 18th century collections preserved in Swiss cultural institutions, I attempt to rethink the use of the word "colonial" before the 19th century, and to apply it to describe collections from the modern period. I attempt to shed light on how these collections could be exhibited to provide critical perspective on these artefacts and the stories they are allowed to tell, in view of the upcoming exhibition entitled Exotic Switzerland? A Global History of the Enlightenment to open in 2020 at the Palais de Rumine in Lausanne.

Bodies, Objects, and the Significance of Things in Early Middle English Reclusion: An Introduction

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Michelle M. Sauer ◽  
Jenny C. Bledsoe
Keyword(s):  
Middle English ◽  
Sensory Input ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
Medieval Studies ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Ancrene Wisse ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Medieval Christianity

This essay traces the history of the “materialist movement” in medieval studies, working chronologically and thematically to provide a full context for the coedited volume as a whole. Having established the tradition, Bledsoe and Sauer tackle an expanded definition of materiality, one that includes voice and embodiment and sensory input, thereby centering not only objects, but also the many interactions of bodies and objects. This more complete vocabulary of materiality is applied to medieval Christianity, particularly reclusion and monasticism. Also providing an overview of the anchoritic vocation and major texts under consideration, including Ancrene Wisse, Bledsoe and Sauer engage with the principles underpinning their collected volume of essays and outline its connected themes and methodologies. Finally, the authors suggest several future directions for studies, including other possible extensions of materiality as well as additional geographical and cultural dimensions.

Conclusion

2021 ◽  
pp. 245-252
Author(s):  
Guy G. Stroumsa
Keyword(s):  
Family Resemblance ◽  
Major Theme ◽  
Modern History ◽  
History Of Religion ◽  
Systematic Survey ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
Shed Light

Guided by the leading thread of the idea of Semitic monotheism, we have charted many storylines in the chapters of this book. In order to follow the trajectory of this scholarly idea, it was imperative to consider the historical, cultural, and religious contexts in which it was born, grew, and eventually waned. Rather than seeking to study a whole field, I have focused here on one major theme. No systematic survey of other problems encountered was attempted, nor any review of the methods developed by the modern history of religion in its most dynamic period. My aim was rather more modest: to shed light, from different angles, on the study of the monotheistic religions, in a century which saw the collapse of the old paradigm emphasizing the “family resemblance” ([...

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