Burma: The State of MeditationBurma’s Mass Lay Meditation Movement: Buddhism and the Cultural Construction of Power. By Ingrid  Jordt. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2007.

2008 ◽  
Vol 49 (6) ◽  
pp. 1129-1130
Author(s):  
Alan Klima
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Construction ◽  
The State ◽  
Ohio University

The Cultural Construction of International Relations: The Invention of the State of Nature. By Beate Jahn. New York: Palgrave, 2000. 182p. $65.00. The State and Identity Construction in International Relations. Edited by Sarah Owen Vandersluis. New York: St. Martin's, 2000. 207p. $69.95.

2002 ◽  
Vol 96 (1) ◽  
pp. 266-267
Author(s):  
Cynthia Weber
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Cultural Construction ◽  
The State ◽  
Ir Theory ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The Social ◽  
Conceptual Debate

Conceptualizing the sovereign nation-state remains a core concern in the discipline of international relations (IR). Yet, as the volumes by Sarah Owen Vandersluis and Beate Jahn demonstrate, the theoretical location of this conceptual debate is shifting. Questions of identity, like those regarding sovereign nation-states, were answered in the 1990s with reference to terms like social construction. In the new millennium, “the social” is increasingly joined by “the cultural” as an intellectual marker of how serious IR scholars must pose questions of identity. Why this shift? And what difference does it make to our understandings of sovereign nation-states, not to mention IR theory more generally?

Research on Cultural Management of State-Owned Forestry Enterprises

2011 ◽  
Vol 204-210 ◽  
pp. 852-855
Author(s):  
Yue Fen Wang
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Corporate Culture ◽  
Core Values ◽  
Cultural Construction ◽  
The State ◽  
Assessment System ◽  
Cultural Management ◽  
Culture Model ◽  
The Competitiveness Of Enterprises ◽  
And Training

This paper explores building excellent corporate culture, implement cultural management to enterprises, and enhance the competitiveness of enterprises. According to Denison Organizational Culture Model, Corporate-Culture Measurement and Assessment System of Redetac Consulting and others, this paper diagnoses the current culture of state-owned forestry enterprises. Then, this understands superficiality of the cultural construction of state-owned forestry enterprises, lack of personality on core values, the old concept of leadership, and no institutionalization of learning and training. This paper proposes countermeasures of excellent cultural building of the state-owned forestry enterprises, such as building a unique corporate culture model, condensing core values, nurturing entrepreneurs, and enhancing learning and training.

scholarly journals Ukrainian state of hetman Pavlo Skoropadsky: ideals and realities of the state

2021 ◽  
pp. 19-35
Author(s):  
V. Rumiantsev
Keyword(s):  
Armed Forces ◽  
Cultural Construction ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Regime ◽  
State Process ◽  
Agrarian Policy ◽  
Peculiar Form ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Internal And External Factors ◽  
Relationship Of

The article reflects the main processes of building during the development of the Ukrainian state of Hetman P. Skoropadsky. P. Skoropadsky's views on the Ukrainian nation, the Ukrainian state and its form, the relationship of the then political and national forces, the place of Ukraine in the geopolitical space of that time, the main directions and content of the state process, its achievements and miscalculations are analyzed. The views of P. Skoropadsky on the content of the state process in Ukraine in 1918 are analyzed. First of all, on the form of the Ukrainian state - independent or federal. We are talking about the form of government of the Ukrainian state and its political regime. Internal and external factors that influenced this are analyzed. The content of the main directions of activity of the hetman government is investigated both inside the state (central and local government, judicial system, armed forces, agrarian policy, social and cultural construction) and outside (international recognition, establishment of diplomatic relations). It is concluded that the emergence of the Ukrainian state of Hetman P. Skoropadsky was a continuation of the process of creation during the Ukrainian revolution of 1917-1921. This process took place in difficult conditions of the First World War and this circumstance determined the peculiar form of the Ukrainian state and its activities, sometimes they were contradictory and had disagreements with the ideals of the state, which ultimately led to the decline of the Ukrainian state.

Women's Rights and Society's Needs: Japan's 1931 Suffrage Bill

1986 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 690-714 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon H. Nolte
Keyword(s):  
Political System ◽  
Cultural Construction ◽  
The State ◽  
Women's Suffrage ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
History Of ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
The One ◽  
Gender System ◽  
Women’S Suffrage

The history of women is different from that of men. Women's history is the highlighting of the cultural construction of gender, the ways in which “men” and “women” are defined in considerable autonomy from biological males and females. The culturally constructed gender system interacts with a society's political system in ways that are just beginning to be explored.1 At the same time, scholars also find their definitions of national states to be in flux. Criticizing both Weberian and Marxist traditions of analysis of the state, Charles Bright and Susan Harding have stressed the open-ended, continuous, and contingent interplay between state structures and initiatives on the one hand, and social movements on the other.2 It is an auspicious time to reconsider the relationships between women and the state in cross-cultural perspective. Here I will examine the women's suffrage movement in Japan (1919–31 ) in its political context in order to encourage comparison with other women's suffrage movements, and to re-examine the interwar Japanese state from the viewpoint of one of its least-studied challengers.

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