Diplomacy and Revolution

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noé Cornago
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
World Order ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Historical Change ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
International Theory ◽  
Global Exploitation ◽  
World Systems Analysis ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between diplomacy and revolution is often intertwined with the broader issue of the international dimensions of revolution. Diplomacy can offer important insights into both the historical evolution of world order and its evolving functional and normative needs. In other words, the most important dimension of diplomacy, beyond its concrete symbolic and pragmatic operational value, is its very existence as raison de système. A number of scholarly works that explore the link between revolution and the international arena have given rise to a minority subfield of scholarly research and debate which is particularly vibrant and plural. Three basic lines of research can be identified: case studies undertaken by historians and area studies scholars that focus on the international dimensions surrounding particular revolutions; comparative political studies that address the international implications of revolutions by departing from a more comprehensive theoretical framework but still based in comprehensive case studies; and more theoretically comprehensive literature which, in addition to careful case studies, aims to provide a general and far-reaching explanatory theoretical framework on the relationship between revolution and long-term historical change from different perspectives: English school international theory, neorealism, world systems analysis, postmarxism, or constructivism. In a context of growing inequality and global exploitation, the international dimension of revolutions is receiving renewed attention from scholars using innovative critical theoretical approaches.

Accessibility and Controllability of Flexible Robotic Manipulators

1992 ◽  
Vol 114 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabri Tosunoglu ◽  
Shyng-Her Lin ◽  
Delbert Tesar
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
System Performance ◽  
Robotic Manipulators ◽  
Joint Space ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Robotic Systems ◽  
Full System ◽  
Distinct Concept ◽  
Robot Configurations ◽  
The Relationship

Although serial manipulator arms modeled with rigid links show full system controllability in the joint space, this condition does not necessarily hold for flexible robotic systems. In particular, in certain robot configurations, called inaccessible robot positions, one or more of the flexibilities may not be accessed directly by the actuators. This condition may significantly deteriorate system performance as reported earlier by the authors (Tosunoglu et al., 1988, 1989). The present study addresses the relationship between the accessibility and controllability concepts and establishes accessibility as a distinct concept from controllability. Although the theoretical framework is developed for general n-link, spatial manipulators modeled with m oscillation components, example case studies demonstrate the concepts on one- and two-link arms for brevity. Specifically, it is shown that although inaccessibility and uncontrollability may coincide in certain instances (as shown on a one-link arm), counter examples may be found where an arm in an inaccessible position can simultaneously demonstrate full system controllability (as shown on a two-link arm).

Out of Time

2020 ◽  
pp. 76-114
Author(s):  
George Oppitz-Trotman
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Historical Change ◽  
History Writing ◽  
Constitutional Evolution ◽  
Financial Losses ◽  
Local Cultures

The arrival of travelling professional actors in many Imperial cities disrupted festive schedules protected for more than a century. Focusing on two case studies—Nuremberg and Ulm—this chapter examines how the performances of the English Comedians interacted with civic cultures and changed them. It shows how the difficulty in accommodating itinerant theatre and the perception that it inflicted financial losses on urban polities led directly to the establishment of permanent theatre-houses. The travelling players are registered in cultural histories of these cities largely as an absence or negligible detail because those histories have generally subserved accounts of political and constitutional evolution. Yet the players’ introduction of commercial festivity assisted in the suppression of festive traditions and the long-term absorption of local cultures into larger political entities. The English Comedians were therefore important midwives of historical change. Urban governors struggled to recognize and place them: that struggle persisted within later history writing because their activities pose serious challenges to habits of chronologization and localization.

Analysis of Developed Countries’ Evolution: Methodology of Study

2012 ◽  
pp. 25-35
Author(s):  
H. Ostrovskaya
Keyword(s):  
General Theory ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Synthesis System ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
Points Of View

The article deals with the main theoretical approaches that interpret the development as a long-term (centuries-long) economic movement and that explain its principles. An attempt is made to choose concepts capable to serve as a general theory of development. The author examines a variety of points of view on the problem of development; substantiates the choice of the theoretical framework of analysis and synthesis system as a method of analysis that is necessary to avoid the economic and any other-determinism. An interpretation of the economy as a system object is proposed.

Confronting the hype

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 616-632 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Brandusescu ◽  
Renée E Sieber ◽  
Sylvie Jochems
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Community Organization ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Actual Cost ◽  
Crisis Mapping ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Crisis mapping has emerged as a method of connecting and empowering citizens during emergencies. This article explores the hyperbole behind crisis mapping as it extends into more long-term or ‘chronic’ community development practices. We critically examined developer issues and participant (i.e. community organization) usage within the context of local communities. We repurposed the predominant crisis mapping platform Crowdmap for three cases of community development in Canadian anglophone and francophone. Our case studies show mixed results about the actual cost of deployment, the results of disintermediation, and local context with the mapping application. Lastly, we discuss the relationship of hype, temporality, and community development as expressed in our cases.

scholarly journals Relationship marketing strategies: when buyer and supplier follow different strategies to achieve performance

2005 ◽  
Vol 9 (spe2) ◽  
pp. 18-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danny Pimentel Claro ◽  
Priscila Borin de Oliveira Claro ◽  
Decio Zylbersztajn
Keyword(s):  
Relationship Marketing ◽  
Joint Action ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Marketing Strategies ◽  
Social Approach ◽  
Specific Investments ◽  
Potted Plant ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Relationship

Relationship marketing is essential for success in business. The need to understand better the differences in the strategies buyers and suppliers follow is what has motivated this study. We drew on emerging perspectives on inter-firm governance and networks to develop a theoretical framework to understand the success of long-term relationships. We tested the framework using data from 67 merchant distributors (buyers) and 174 suppliers of theirs in the Dutch potted plant and flower industry. While the most successful distributors tend to take the "hard", tangible strategy using transaction specific investments and fostering joint action, the successful suppliers take the "soft", social approach by emphasizing trust and the norm of flexibility in the relationship.

scholarly journals Theatre Photography as a Counterfactual Representation of Aesthetic Reality

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-73
Author(s):  
Olga Grzelak
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Art Forms ◽  
Theatre Studies ◽  
Narrative Forms ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Made In ◽  
Prime Form

Summary The article is an attempt at applying the concept of counterfactuality, typically employed with reference to narrative forms, to the analysis of visual culture, particularly to theatre photography. The material for case studies is provided by the works of Polish photographers who redefine the function of this form of photography. Typically, photography is seen by theatre historians as the prime form of theatre documentation, and therefore treated as subservient to the needs of theatre studies as an academic discipline. Contrary to that, the photographic projects analysed in the present paper (particularly those of Ryszard Kornecki and Magda Hueckel), although made in theatre during performances, have been produced and distributed as autonomous art forms which neither represent nor document theatre productions. In the analysis of these projects, I employ Margaret Olin’s concept of “performative index”, which describes the relationship between the image and the viewer as a dynamic creation of meaning. With reference to this theoretical framework, I argue that counterfactuality of theatre photography is a strategy of turning this medium into an autonomous form of art.

scholarly journals Bridging the parallax gap: settler-colonialism and the relationship between Indigenous peoples and racialized migrants in Canada

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesse Root
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Important Work ◽  
Migrant Communities ◽  
The Relationship

I intend to expand the idea of the immigrants as settler, and establish on a theoretical basis that 'settlerism' is about an ideology of neo-colonialism, not about movement to a place that is not your own. In this way, there can be migrants who are allies with Indigenous peoples, who reject settler and neo-colonial ideologies at the same time, as there can be migrants who adopt consciously, or unconsciously, these oppressive ideologies. After establishing this theoretical framework, the remainder of this MRP presents case studies which profile some of the important work being done by organizations to build bridges between Indigenous and migrant communities in Canada and to decolonize relations among these groups which make up much of Canada's population. A brief discussion about the policies and other stat tools used to separate these two communities with an analysis of why this is the case will also be included.

scholarly journals Bridging the parallax gap: settler-colonialism and the relationship between Indigenous peoples and racialized migrants in Canada

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesse Root
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Important Work ◽  
Migrant Communities ◽  
The Relationship

I intend to expand the idea of the immigrants as settler, and establish on a theoretical basis that 'settlerism' is about an ideology of neo-colonialism, not about movement to a place that is not your own. In this way, there can be migrants who are allies with Indigenous peoples, who reject settler and neo-colonial ideologies at the same time, as there can be migrants who adopt consciously, or unconsciously, these oppressive ideologies. After establishing this theoretical framework, the remainder of this MRP presents case studies which profile some of the important work being done by organizations to build bridges between Indigenous and migrant communities in Canada and to decolonize relations among these groups which make up much of Canada's population. A brief discussion about the policies and other stat tools used to separate these two communities with an analysis of why this is the case will also be included.

Memory objects and boarding school trauma

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 214-226
Author(s):  
Christine Trimingham Jack ◽  
Linda Devereux
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Material Objects ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Loss And Grief ◽  
Broad Theory ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide language and meaning to open up silence around traumatic boarding school memories through the symbolic aura (Nora 1989) surrounding key memory objects. The secondary aim is to illustrate to historians the importance of paying attention to interviewees’ discussion of material objects as clues to uncovering deeper, unexplored memories. Design/methodology/approach The approach draws on Vamik Volkan’s (2006) understanding of “linking objects” – significant objects preserved or created by traumatised people. Traumatic emotions become linked with loss and grief associated with the object, turning it into a tightly packed symbol whose significance is “bound up in the conscious and unconscious nuances of the relationship that preceded the loss” (Volkan, 2006, p. 255). The experiences of the two authors are examined as exemplars in this process. Findings The exemplars illustrate how complicated and long term the process of remembering and understanding is for those who experience boarding school trauma and the power of “linking objects” to open up memory surrounding it. The case studies also alert educational historians to how emotionally fraught revealing what happened can be and how long it may take to confront the events. Originality/value Linking objects have not previously been used in relationship to surfacing boarding school trauma. The paper is also unique in offering deep analysis of boarding school trauma undertaken by skilled educational researchers who incorporate reflections from their own experience informed by broad theory and pertinent psychological research.

scholarly journals Accountability in Translation Within and Beyond the Sentence as the Key Functional UT: Three Case Studies

2005 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 312-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chunshen Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Functional Status ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Thematic Structure ◽  
Information Presentation ◽  
Linear Mode ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract The article is a sequel to Zhu (1999). It provides three case studies of translation from English into Chinese, which are designed to substantiate the theoretical framework established therein. It discusses the relationship between a sentence’s internal linear mode of information presentation and its textual potential, the relationship between a sentence’s thematic structure and its functional status in the text, and the necessity and possibility to align sentential speech acts with the textual speech act through appropriate syntactic management. The three case studies, independent as they may seem, are correlated and have been arranged in a progressive order. This article is intended to replace the second part of Zhu (1996a).

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