The Melancholy Subject of History

2019 ◽  
pp. 173-202
Author(s):  
Gustavo Procopio Furtado
Keyword(s):  
Second Generation ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Subject Positions ◽  
Private And Public

The memory of political militancy and of the dictatorship (1964–1985) is a frequent topic in recent Brazilian films. This chapter maps out the historical context for these films and offers ways to understand the significance of these works, which deal with the transfer from communicative and embodied forms of remembering to durable memory formats, as well as with the transfer of memory from one generation to another. The chapter discusses films by former political militants, such as João Batista de Andrade, Silvio Da-Rin, and Lúcia Murat, but focuses especially on outstanding new works by the daughters of political militants, such as Petra Costa, Flávia Castro, and Maria Clara Escobar. While the work of former militants emphasizes testimonial memory and indexical records, second-generation works emphasize the fragmentary inheritance of memory and deploy an abundance of familial tropes and forms of filiation and affiliation to negotiate their subject positions vis-à-vis private and public pasts.

Michael Gluzman. The Politics of Canonicity: Lines of Resistance in Modernist Hebrew Poetry. Contraversions: Jews and Other Differences. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. xiv, 250 pp.

AJS Review ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 179-181
Author(s):  
Chanita Goodblatt
Keyword(s):  
Full Range ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Hebrew Literature ◽  
Primary Interest ◽  
Hebrew Poetry ◽  
Modern Hebrew ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Leah Goldberg

In his epilogue to The Politics of Canonicity, Michael Gluzman has aptly delineated the parameters of this book, by writing that it “originates from the American debate on canon formation and cultural wars that predominated academic discourse during my years at University of California, Berkeley” (p. 181). This statement firmly sets its author within a critical context that auspiciously brings a wider literary discourse, such as that sustained by Chana Kronfeld and Hannan Hever, into the realm of modern Hebrew poetry. In particular, The Politics of Canonicity is identified by its publication in the series entitled Contraversions: Jews and Other Differences, which has a primary interest in the ongoing redefinition of Jewish identity and culture, specifically involving issues of gender, modernity, and politics. The Politics of Canonicity is effectively divided into two parts. In the first, comprising Chapters 1 and 2, Gluzman provides the intellectual and historical context for the interwoven formation of national identity and the literary canon in modern Hebrew literature. In particular, in Chapter 1 he relates the story of the 1896–1897 debate between Ahad Ha'am and Mikha Yosef Berdichevsky, arguing that it produced a dominant and regulative paradigm of Hebrew literature that integrates the private and public, the aesthetic and the national. In the second chapter, Gluzman discusses the way in which Hebrew modernism created a counterpoint to international modernism's glorification of exile. He discusses a full range of premodernist and modernist Hebrew poets—Shaul Tchernichovsky, Avigdor Hameiri, Avraham Shlonsky, Noach Stern, and Leah Goldberg—in order to underline their resistance to “the idea of exile as a literary privilege or as an inherently Jewish vocation” (p. 37), a resistance which Gluzman determines as calling into question “the critical tendency to read modernist practices as essentially antinationalist” (p. 37).

scholarly journals Wicked problems, wicked play

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dulmini Perera
Keyword(s):  
Second Generation ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Wicked Problems ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Design Methods ◽  
Wicked Problem ◽  
Problem Situations

Design methods need to reconsider ways to avoid othering messiness (or what appears to be contradictory or nonsensical) within wicked problem situations, particularly crisis sites. As such, this paper suggests that play frames (defined as Fun Machines) can be utilised as situated strategies that designers can apply to address paradoxes and contradictions. The paper presents the theoretical framework for a Fun Machine by focusing on second-generation design methods and how they facilitate conversation, while simultaneously exploring an often-neglected playful aspect of conversation that is usually found in fun-making. The applications of a Fun Machine are discussed in the historical context (Cedric Price’s Fun Palace) and with a pilot project conducted at a contemporary crisis site (Dessau).  

scholarly journals 'Much exertion of the voice and great application of the mind': Teacher Education within the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Toronto, Canada, 1851-1920

1994 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Smyth
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Documentary Analysis ◽  
Working Lives ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
History Of ◽  
Recent Collection ◽  
The Mind

In the introduction to their recent collection of essays on the experience of women teachers in North America, Britain, and Australia, Prentice and Theobald comment on the complexities involved in documenting and analyzing the histori cal experience of women who taught in both private and public schools. The research reported in their collection substantiates the opening statement: the history of women who taught is indeed a complex one. The editors' candid observations about what is known and what remains unknown about the working lives of women who taught and their call for ongoing research likewise validate the opening quotation. This article concerns a doubly marginalized group of teachers: women religious who taught in both the private and public schools of Ontario. It begins to address Prentice and Theobald's challenge that these teachers need to be 'rescued from the hagiographic historical tradition in which they are customarily presented' by providing a case study of the evolution of teacher education within one community of teaching sisters in English Canada: the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph in the Archdiocese of Toronto. Utilizing a framework of documentary analysis, the article sets both a theoretical and historical context against which to examine communities of teaching sisters. It concludes by suggesting further avenues for research which, in themselves, indicate the com plexity of analyzing the historical experience of women who taught in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Sharad S. Marathe. Regulation and Development: India's Policy Experience of Controls over Industry. New Delhi: Sage Publications India Pvt. Ud., 1989. 338 pp.Price Rs 95.00 (Softbound Edition).

1990 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 184-185
Author(s):  
Sarfarz K. Qureshi
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Dominant Role ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Regulatory System ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Insightful Analysis

This book deals with an important but relatively little discussed aspect of industrial development in the context of a developing economy. The subject-matter chosen for analysis is that of the efficacy of controls over industry in India. The author provides a detailed and insightful analysis of the issue in its historical context, particularly since India's independence in 1947. Based on an insider's experience, the book makes an important contribution to the often neglected field of industrial policy. The central thesis advanced by the author is that the State has played a dominant role in industrial development by way of ownership and/or management of some of the key industries, the granting of industrial incentives, and an elaborate and complicated regulatory system. There have been shifts in emphasis between these three main instruments of state intervention in industrial development over time. Nonetheless, it is argued that currently Indian industry is overregulated, public sector industries are mismanaged, and the economic environment for the working of both private and public sector industries is inimical to their efficient working and growth. The broad approach adopted provides for a discussion of objectives, policy instruments, and the intended and unintended impact of different instruments of state intervention in industrial development. The wide discrepancy between the objectives and the results is shown to be a major failing of the past industrial policies in the context of the Indian development experience.

The Project Management Office: it’s just not what it used to be

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 282-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric John Darling ◽  
Stephen Jonathan Whitty
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Project Management Office ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Academic Knowledge ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
History Of

Purpose – The Project Management Office (PMO) phenomenon is a dynamic and regularly evolving feature of the project landscape. The functions and practices expected of the PMO differ as widely as the industries and organisations, which host them. By uncovering the documented and undocumented history of the PMO and its practices the authors see how PMOs have developed to current times, how PMOs develop their ideas, how useful PMOs are, and what associated activities they partake in. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – In this paper, the authors conduct an extensive literature review of the academic and non-academic literature. The first phase involved searching academic journals and published theses. The second, deep searches with Google Scholar and Books using a variety of parameters to capture the changing nomenclature of the PMO over many years. These searches discovered lost academic literature within university libraries, examples of very early essays on the project office and numerous government reports on PMO and project office undertakings. Findings – This research reveals how the form and use of the structure we now call the PMO has evolved and adapted over time. In recent history the PMO has evolved to be the central repository for tools and methodologies for this non-operational work. The PMO has become an asset, a commodity to be traded upon and a badge to be worn to attain certain privileges. Research limitations/implications – This research identifies a number of deficiencies in existing literature. Particularly highlighting that many practices, methods and PMO typologies exist, frequently their custodians tout these as “best practice”. Although some research has been conducted by academics on PMOs vast gaps exist in PMO literature. Practical implications – This research identifies a number of assumptions in practitioner literature and professional practice. Organisations both private and public are investing enormous resources in the pursuit of enhancing project management outcomes often turning to the PMO concept to resolve their problems. However there is limited evidence to suggest PMOs create a favourable return. If the authors were to use medicine as an example, prior to a scientific approach in medicine the field relied on potions and magic, however medicine changed to evidence-based practice this has lead to enhanced life prospects. An evolution in project management doctrine may enhance outcomes. Originality/value – This review of the PMO which possesses archaeological attributes in it’s historical context adds a rich understanding to organisational knowledge by considering the history of the PMO and the dramatic shifts in its purpose over a prolonged period of time. The discussion draws out the critical PMO topics to be addressed and includes a critique of practitioner and academic knowledge.

Popular imaginary and cultural constructions of the Nonya in Peranakan Chinese culture of the Straits Settlements

Ethnicities ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-48
Author(s):  
David HJ Neo ◽  
Sheau-Shi Ngo ◽  
Jenny Gek Koon Heng
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Cultural Meanings ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The World ◽  
Diasporic Community ◽  
Hybrid Culture ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Gendered Patterns ◽  
Cultural Constructions

The Peranakan Chinese is a Chinese diasporic community with a unique hybrid culture of Chinese, Malay, and European influences concentrated in the Straits Settlements (Malacca, Penang, and Singapore) of Malaya (before the independence of Singapore). It has inherited the Chinese patrilineal system but Nonyas within the Peranakan Chinese (also known as Baba-Nonya) culture fill an interesting space in Chinese patriarchy. This article explores the world of the Nonyas and identifies three cultural constructions of the Nonya: garang/li hai (feisty/crafty and manipulative), poonsu (resourceful), and toh tiap (victimized), specifically drawn out from the television serial, The Little Nonya; but these constructions have also been widely represented and documented in the arts and cultural expressions, particularly through the existing literature and portrayal of Nonyas in popular culture. We explore the cultural meanings of the Nonya through gendered patterns and identities which come out of a specific historical context of the Straits Settlements at the turn of the 20th century—the Peranakan Golden Age, where colonialism, wealth, and education shaped its matrifocal Peranakan culture. We employ Sylvia Walby’s theoretical framework of private and public patriarchy, specifically through the structures of household production and culture to analyze the situation of the Nonyas, arguing that Nonyas were not so much oppressed by men but by women; and yet, they were also privileged and valued in the Peranakan culture. Their privileged position allowed them to negotiate and challenge Chinese patriarchy.

Transnationalism in the Aftermath of the Haiti Earthquake: Reinforcing Ties and Second-Generation Identity

2011 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Garvey Lundy
Keyword(s):  
Second Generation ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Essential Elements ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
The Public ◽  
Transnational Ties ◽  
Haitian Diaspora ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
The Impact

This article examines, first, the response of the Haitian Diaspora to the earthquake of January 12, 2010. This research operates within the theoretical framework of transnationalism, and Haitians living outside their country of origin are shown to make use of political, economic, and communication ties to assist loved ones back home and to begin the process of rebuilding their nation. Transnational ties facilitated by corporate entities, the state, and individuals are viewed as essential elements in forging what is often referred to as long-distance nationalism. Second, the article investigates the impact of the earthquake on the identity of members of the second generation—a group susceptible to the vicissitudes of the public portrayal of Haiti in the popular media and the historical context of Haitian immigrant reception. Results indicate that Haitian identity among the second generation is resilient and, indeed, the earthquake did not diminish identification with Haiti but rather increased it.

scholarly journals Legal thinking and delegitimization of law

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 104-108
Author(s):  
VLadislav V. Denisenko
Keyword(s):  
Legal System ◽  
Mutual Recognition ◽  
Practical Importance ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Law System ◽  
Legal Rules ◽  
Legal Science ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Legal Thinking

In this article the analysis of the category legal thinking as a legal science term is carried out. Legal thinking is characterized as a phenomenon caused by socio-historical context. The author of this article points to paradigm dependency of legal thinking. Law paradigm causes the specific of the doctrinal legal thinking in national law system. The author states the presence of several paradigms in the legal thinking of domestic scientists. The analysis of modern law concepts gives the reasons to refer mentioned works to the paradigms of beingness, consciousness and the linguistic paradigm. Axel Honneth`s concept of mutual recognition based on linguistic paradigm can be considered as a methodological basis of doctrinal reflection and cognition of modern law. The practical importance of legal thinking concept can be shown using the legitimization and delegitimization of legal rules topic. In the article the main approaches to the problem of delegitimization of legal rules are investigated. The author justifies the approach to delegitimization in the legal thinking context. The explicit and implicit legitimization should be identified in the legal science. The level of legitimation decreases in case of absence of recognition of citizens as the legal communication subjects. The legal thinking of the professional legal community becomes more closed as the legal system develops. It can lead to delegitimization of law. Legal system loses the legitimacy quality because of using of exceptions in law which become the basic rules in legal system in some cases. Delegitimization of law arises when the number of normative-legal material increases and the demand for law decreases at the same time. The necessary condition of prevention of delegitimization of law in the conditions of growth of number of legal acts is the principle of deliberation in private and public law.

Introducing the Study

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Baron ◽  
John Hassard ◽  
Fiona Cheetham ◽  
Sudi Sharifi
Keyword(s):  
Death And Dying ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
Social Institution ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Work Organizations ◽  
Organizational Life ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Relationship

The chapter explains how the main aim of this book is to examine the culture of a ‘compassionate organization’—an English hospice—through the eyes of its members. The investigation is related to its social and historical context and, from these data, some conclusions are suggested about the relationship between organizational culture, identity, and image. Many previous studies have examined these fundamental elements within formal (frequently private and public sector) work organizations, but none has done so within the singular (third sector) setting of a hospice—which deals with issues of care and compassion, death and dying on a daily basis. The examination of these aspects of organizational life within such a unique social institution has allowed the authors to analyse the many and varied relationships between the case Hospice and its stakeholders, including staff and volunteers, those within the wider healthcare community, and members of the general public.

scholarly journals A Good Death – On the Evolution of Social Acceptable Ways to Die

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
Todor Kuljić
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
Good Death ◽  
The Political ◽  
Historical Overview ◽  
The Real ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The One ◽  
The Given

Socially acceptable ways to die have been historically variable. The paper gives a historical overview of what was considered a good death in Europe. The difference between the traditional, the modern and the postmodern view of a good death is highlighted. The real conditions of dying on average have undergone fundamental changes, thus the image of a normal death has shifted as well. The conditions and meaning of living have imposed a vision of its desirable ending. Earlier, a good death was prepared and one would die in the presence of a priest, afterwards dying took place in hospitals, and today death is even more isolated. The death of private and public persons has changed as well, along with ways of mourning. In politics, a good death was always the one which was endowed with symbolic capital. Traditionally, in many cultures the heroic death has been reserved for those sacrificing themselves in war, while today heroic dying is more inclusive. The political utilization of death was always dependent on the hegemonic pattern of a good death in the given historical context. The utilization of the symbolic capital of death hasn’t stopped; rather, it was adopted in accordance with new social complexity, along with the image of the socially acceptable death.

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