Mapping a Global Phenomenon

2019 ◽  
pp. 39-86
Author(s):  
Janny H.C. Leung
Keyword(s):  
Language Policy ◽  
Sociopolitical Development ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Detailed History ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Colonial Legacy ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Global Data

Having explored how official multilingualism has emerged as a product of historical and sociopolitical development, this chapter moves on to survey the extent of the phenomenon in the contemporary world. The data set offers a panoramic view of jurisdictions around the world that are officially bilingual or multilingual. Although there is not enough room to provide a detailed history of any particular jurisdiction, the chapter annotates the data and makes a number of generalized observations. The global data provide a sense of scale that speaks for itself and allow one to observe patterns and trends that help make sense of the phenomenon. Although linguistic demographics and the ideology of linguistic nationalism have a role to play, they are insufficient to explain the data. Official multilingualism is largely a post-colonial legacy, but there is also an emergent trend that official language policy responds to market forces under late capitalism.

The Oxford History of the Novel in English

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
English Language ◽  
Book History ◽  
World Order ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Novel ◽  
History Of The Novel ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

Volume Nine of this series traces the development of the ‘world novel’, that is, English-language novels written throughout the world, beyond Britain, Ireland, and the United States. Focusing on the period up to 1950, the volume contains survey chapters and chapters on major writers, as well as chapters on book history, publishing, and the critical contexts of the work discussed. The text covers periods from renaissance literary imaginings of exotic parts of the world like Oceania, through fiction embodying the ideology and conventions of empire, to the emergence of settler nationalist and Indigenous movements and, finally, the assimilations of modernism at the beginnings of the post-imperial world order. The book, then, contains chapters on the development of the non-metropolitan novel throughout the British world from the eighteenth to the mid twentieth centuries. This is the period of empire and resistance to empire, of settler confidence giving way to doubt, and of the rise of indigenous and post-colonial nationalisms that would shape the world after World War II.

A Cultural History of Objects in the Modern Age

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Global Changes ◽  
New Materials ◽  
The West ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Everyday Objects ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

A Cultural History of Objects in the Modern Age covers the period 1900 to today, a time marked by massive global changes in production, transportation, and information-sharing in a post-colonial world. New materials and inventions – from plastics to the digital to biotechnology – have created unprecedented scales of disruption, shifting and blurring the categories and meanings of the object. If the 20th Century demonstrated that humans can be treated like things whilst things can become ever more human, where will the 21st Century take us? The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Objects examines how objects have been created, used, interpreted and set loose in the world over the last 2500 years. Over this time, the West has developed particular attitudes to the material world, at the centre of which is the idea of the object. The themes covered in each volume are objecthood; technology; economic objects; everyday objects; art; architecture; bodily objects; object worlds.

Richard William Southern 1912–2001

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Murray
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Practical Action ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common ◽  
Deep Thought ◽  
Life Work ◽  
Made In ◽  
Do So

People with a logical turn of mind say that the history of the world can be summarised in a sentence. A précis of mediaval historian Richard William Southern's work made in that spirit would identify two characteristics, one housed inside the other, and both quite apart from the question of its quality as a work of art. The first is his sympathy for a particular kind of medieval churchman, a kind who combined deep thought about faith with practical action. This characteristic fits inside another, touching Southern's historical vision as a whole. Its genesis is traceable to those few seconds in his teens when he ‘quarrelled’ with his father about the Renaissance. The intuition that moved him to do so became a historical fides quaerens intellectum. Reflection on Southern's life work leaves us with an example of the service an historian can perform for his contemporary world, as a truer self-perception seeps into the common consciousness by way of a lifetime of teaching and writing, spreading out through the world (all Southern's books were translated into one or more foreign language).

Level Playing Fields: The Post-Colonial State, Democracy, Courts and Citizenship in India

2008 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 343-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Subrata K. Mitra
Keyword(s):  
Social Values ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
General Category ◽  
Effective Management ◽  
Colonial State ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
The World ◽  
Playing Fields ◽  
Contemporary Context

This article analyses the legal, political and moral basis of citizenship in the contemporary world. India is analyzed here as a case in point of a general category of ‘changing societies’ emerging from colonial or communist rule. Citizenship, which used to be considered a part of the general problem of nation-building, has increasingly acquired the character of a salient problem in its own right. This change in perspective has come about as a consequence of globalization and the world-wide diffusion of basic norms of human rights. In the contemporary context, with regard to the problems of endangered minorities whose lives, dignity and welfare are at risk – be it in Kashmir or Kosovo – the world at large considers itself morally bound to intervene, if not militarily, then at least in terms of the invocation of law and good conduct. As such, from the point of view of the post-colonial state, both its national sovereignty and legitimacy are contingent on its success with turning its whole population into citizens. This, the article argues, is contingent on the ability of the post-colonial state to gear its laws, courts and administration towards effective management of identity and the constitutional incorporation of core social values (see Figure 2 below). With regard to ‘making citizens out of subjects’, the Indian ‘experiment’ holds important lessons for other states, ensconced in multi-cultural societies.

Precarity, self-organization and the life of artists

Maska ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (200s3) ◽  
pp. 120-131
Author(s):  
Bojana Kunst
Keyword(s):  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Continuous Development ◽  
Feminist History ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Poetic Imagination ◽  
History Of

Abstract In the text I examine how can the feminist history of addressing the social reproduction add to the discussions about the contemporary precarity of artists. It can help us to disclose another notion of the life of the artist, which is a multiple, dependent life, embodied, situated, and disproportionate, deeply entangled with the social reproduction of life. The art field is full of symptoms of contemporary world and is therefore a field of inequality, power dynamics, subjugated to the economy of growth and continuous development. In this sense, the discourse on precarity has to be more situated and entangled with the situations of working, living, speaking, and imagining. Here, intersectional feminist approaches are very good examples of the situated ethical relationality. Such relationality opens art as a mode of living and an inhabiting of the world, where equality, existence, and survival are part of the bodily and poetic imagination.

scholarly journals Special Section Editorial: Toward a Geographical Software Studies

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan Burns ◽  
Nick Lally
Keyword(s):  
Special Section ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Digital Maps ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Software Studies ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Object Of Study

Geographic concepts have always been implicated in calls to study software as a political, cultural, or social phenomena, even if they have not always been named as such. “Software structures and makes possible much of the contemporary world” writes Matthew Fuller in the introduction to Software studies: a lexicon1—a succinct summary of the central problem guiding software studies, gesturing towards the spatial implications of software. So too in the insistence on the materiality of software do we find software studies bringing forth software as material thing that exists in and through space, in sites and scales as diverse as voltage differences in circuits, nation states, digital maps, and networks of computers. As geographic theory has long insisted, space is not just a container for software, but is actively produced by software in its various material, situated, and socio-technical contexts. Influenced in part by the exciting work that has developed in software studies in addition to geography’s own rich history of engagement with technology, a growing number of geographers have turned to software as an object of study, producing theories and methods to understand the relationship between computation and space.This special section emerged from our effort to bring together a group of scholars working on geographical approaches to software studies at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) in 2016. Spanning four sessions, presenters expressed a variety of orientations towards software, with diverse theoretical and methodological approaches to understanding how software has come to structure the world. This introduction is a brief summary of some of those approaches, but more importantly, it suggests some of the ways that software studies and geography might productively learn from and build upon each other. These cross-disciplinary discussions are important as we come to terms with the growing power of software in our everyday lives and attempt to build critical practices that not only study, but also build other ways of knowing the world through computation. Ultimately, we frame the discussions that follow in ways we hope will encourage software studies scholars to grapple with the spatial implications of software.

Singapore bilingual education

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 90-114
Author(s):  
Cher Leng Lee ◽  
Chiew Pheng Phua
Keyword(s):  
Bilingual Education ◽  
Language Policy ◽  
Education System ◽  
Chinese Language ◽  
Language Policy And Planning ◽  
Education Systems ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Education Today ◽  
Policy And Planning

Abstract Bilingualism has always been emphasized in Singapore’s education system. Since 1959, Singapore government leaders have repeatedly stressed that bilingualism is the cornerstone of Singapore’s language policy. Scholars researching language policy and planning in Singapore have also assumed that Singapore has always maintained a consistent stand on bilingualism. This paper cites the case of Chinese language (Mandarin) education as evidence to show how “bilingual” education has undergone significant changes in Singapore by tracing the historical changes and examining how bilingual education has evolved since its implementation. The findings show that the once-compulsory bilingual requirements gave way to differentiated ones in the history of Singapore’s bilingual policy. This finding will help researchers have a better understanding of Singapore’s “bilingual education” today and its position compared to other bilingual education systems in the world.

The Bible: A Very Short Introduction

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Riches
Keyword(s):  
Art Music ◽  
Religious History ◽  
Western Civilization ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Biblical Language

The Bible: A Very Short Introduction explore the material, cultural, and religious history of the Bible. The Bible is both one of the most read and the most influential books in the world. Its stories form the heart of Western civilization, while biblical language is interwoven into literature and everyday speech. As a source of shared Abrahamic beliefs, it has both drawn communities together and given them new life and fuelled bitter disputes. This VSI examines how the books of the Bible have been read and interpreted by different communities across the centuries, including post-colonial and feminist readings of the Bible. It also surveys the Bible’s role in art, music, poetry, and politics.

scholarly journals CHOREOGRAPHIC PERFORMANCE, GENERATIONS AND THE ART OF LIFE IN POST-COLONIAL DAKAR

Africa ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 84 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hélène Neveu Kringelbach
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Social Spaces ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Social ◽  
Decent Life ◽  
The World ◽  
Urban Africa ◽  
History Of ◽  
Art Of Life

ABSTRACTThis article looks at three generations of choreographic performers in urban Senegal to examine the creative ways in which people develop their bodily skills, not only for the pleasure of innovation, but also to ‘make their way into the world’. In so doing, they produce new social spaces and engage with a multiplicity of existing ones. I suggest that this multiple engagement characterizes contemporary urban Africa, where social mobility is conceived of as multiplying the possibilities of building a decent life in spite of economic hardship. In West Africa, this is in continuity with a long history of social mobility achieved through travel and the acquisition of new skills. Through a multiple engagement with different genres, performers also experiment with new ways of producing choreographic work. At every juncture, the social spaces thus produced either intensify or reduce the connections with global spaces already laid out by previous generations.

scholarly journals History of Early Colonization and Displacement of the Aboriginals: Oscar and Lucinda

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-40
Author(s):  
Ashok Kumar Pathania ◽  
◽  
Dr. Anshu Raj Purohit ◽  
Dr. Subhash Verma ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Historical Fiction ◽  
Main Stream ◽  
Colonial Literature ◽  
Truth Telling ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Past ◽  
British Colonization ◽  
The World ◽  
Ruling Elites ◽  
History Of

The post colonial literature questions the legitimacy and completeness of history written in form of the chronicles of kings, princes, privileged ruling elites and the colonial and imperial ways of ruling the weaker territories across the world. Such power based narratives of the rulers, also termed as ‘mainstream history’, offer, either less space, for the indigenous, ‘subalterns’ or the conquered, or misrepresented them as the black, inferiors, uncivilized or aboriginals. The mainstreaming of history in this sense is the authoritative completeness or truth telling of the past. It is propagated as a matter of telling the story of past which can never be available as undistorted or pure. The novels of Peter Carey, the famous Australian novelist, re-evaluate the intricacies of history written by mainstream historians through their writings. In the historical fiction of Carey the convicts, rebellions, historical legends, systematic suppression and colonization of Aboriginals find justifiable records of their voices which could find place in the main stream version of history. The present paper is an attempt to analyse Peter Carey’s Oscar and Lucinda (1988) as purely a historical projection of nineteenth century Australia that portrays the early phase of British colonization of the continent particularly when the British administrators and historians were writing the saga of discovering and settling a newly occupied landmass. It unravels the process of spreading the Christianity in the newly occupied land which was one of the main strategies of British colonization across its colonies.

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