Emergent and Adaptive Spiritualities in the Twentieth Century

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andy Lord
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Church Life ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Uk

This chapter points to the ‘pluralization of the lifeworld’ involved in globalization as a key context for changing dissenting spiritualities through the twentieth century. These have included a remarkable upsurge in Spirit-movements that fall under categories such as Pentecostal, charismatic, neo-charismatic, ‘renewalist’, and indigenous Churches. Spirit language is not only adaptive to globalized settings, but brings with it eschatological assumptions. New spiritualities emerge to disrupt existing assumptions with prophetic and often critical voices that condemn aspects of the existing culture, state, and church life. This chapter outlines this process of disruption of the mainstream in case studies drawn from the USA, the UK, India, Africa, and Indonesia, where charismaticized Christianity has emerged and grown strongly in often quite resistant broader cultures.

scholarly journals 'Academic literacies approaches to genre'?

2010 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 347-361 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Street
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Student Writing ◽  
Academic Literacies ◽  
Literacy Studies ◽  
New Literacy ◽  
New Literacy Studies ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The University

I provide an overview of approaches to writing referred to as 'academic literacies' building on broader traditions, such as New Literacy Studies, and I draw out the relevance of such traditions for the ways in which lecturers provide support to their students with regard to the writing requirements of the University. I offer three case studies of the application of academic literacies approaches to programmes concerned with supporting student writing, in the UK and the USA. I briefly conclude by asking how far these accounts and this work can be seen to bring together many of the themes raised at SIGET conferences - including academic literacies and its relation to genre theories - and express the hope that it opens up trajectories for future research and collaboration of the kind they were founded to develop.

scholarly journals Model Based Covid-19 Case Studies in the UK, the USA and India

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Santanu Basu
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Model ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Time Dependent ◽  
Model Based ◽  
Model Predictions ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Near Term ◽  
The Uk

ABSTRACTTime dependent spread of Covid-19 among the population of the UK, the USA and India is analyzed using a recently developed mathematical model [1-3]. Results of model predictions of case growth in these countries during the next six weeks are also presented. The model is applicable to case studies and near term predictions for other countries and regions.

scholarly journals The ‘modern’ management of rats: British agricultural science in farm and field during the twentieth century

BJHS Themes ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 235-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
KAREN SAYER
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Hot Springs ◽  
Agricultural Science ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
The Usa ◽  
American Research ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Policy And Science ◽  
Rats And Mice ◽  
British Research

AbstractDuring the period from 1919 to 1970, rat killing was ‘modernized’: official, scientific, commercial, agricultural and county advisers sought ‘rat control’. Scientific expertise on rat parasites and rat control circulated internationally. The risks posed to human health through plague, as traced by researchers who were already expert on the third pandemic, led in the UK to the Rats and Mice (Destruction) Act 1919; and the United Nations Conference on Food and Agriculture, at Hot Springs, Virginia, USA, 1943 informed its replacement, the Prevention of Damage by Pests Act 1949. Anticoagulants such as Warfarin developed in the USA at first sold widely in the UK, then later British research on resistance informed subsequent American research. This UK application of international policy and science paralleled the emergence of an official case at Parliamentary level for the national, multidisciplinary and multi-agency approach to rats. Within the UK, animal ecologists under Charles Elton mapped rats in the emergent field of population studies; and new forms of economic costing at MAFF quantified the damage done to farm buildings and machinery and the consumption, soiling and contamination of food, seed and fodder in store. Yet nineteenth-century rat catchers already had an excellent and long-established grasp of rat behaviour, a necessity in either taking or executing their subjects. Though characterized as inefficient, picturesque and craft-based, that vernacular knowledge was reproduced and formalized in the twentieth century through empirical research and evidence-based practice, shaped by experiences at the intersection of human demand, the interests of the (wild and domesticated) animals that humans have preferred, and the endeavours of the rat.

The Way of Hilton: Esprit de Corps in the UK and the USA in the Twentieth Century

Ensemblance ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 194-229
Author(s):  
Luis de Miranda
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
English Version ◽  
Trade Unionism ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Team Spirit ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Way

This chapter shows how and why English uses of the idiom ‘esprit de corps’ in the twentieth century were not only increasingly frequent, but also dominantly laudative. The English version of the phrase tended to forget the pejorative political meaning invented by the Philosophes in the eighteenth century. If esprit de corps continued to thrive in several discourses (military, political, intellectual and theoretical, corporate, sports...), it was with a meaning that was increasingly generic and standard, often close to the idea of team spirit with a bellicose and enthusiastic twist. American managerial discourse reinvented esprit de corps in the twentieth century as an anthem of what the author proposes to call regimental capitalism,an alternative to trade-unionism The chapter also narrates the case of Conrad Hilton, the founder of the international chain of hotels, who explicitly transplanted his experience of military esprit de corps in France during WWI into his philosophy and practice of management.

‘There are no Secular Events’

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather D. Curtis
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
American Exceptionalism ◽  
The United States ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Innovative Strategies ◽  
The World ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Novel Approaches ◽  
The Uk

This chapter explores how American Evangelicals have employed popular media to maintain and augment their vitality in the United States during a supposedly secular age. By focusing on the story of the Christian Herald, an evangelical newspaper that greatly expanded its circulation and influence during the 1890s, it elucidates the innovative strategies publishers adopted to attract and retain the attention of a significant segment of the American Protestant public. By embracing ground-breaking printing and photographic technologies, novel approaches to popular journalism, and modern advertising techniques, the Christian Herald became the most successful religious newspaper in the world within a decade, a position it held throughout most of the twentieth century. Analysing these enterprising methods alongside the distinctive messages about American exceptionalism that the Christian Herald communicated in its columns also helps to explain why evangelicalism has continued to flourish in the USA in comparison to the UK or Europe.

Realism Redux: Staging ‘Billy Budd’ in the Age of Television

2019 ◽  
Vol 100 (3) ◽  
pp. 447-480
Author(s):  
Danielle Ward-Griffin
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Performance History ◽  
Television Version ◽  
Billy Budd ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Opera Productions

Abstract Although the term ‘realism’ is frequently deployed in discussing opera productions, its meanings are far from self-evident. Examining four stage and screen productions of Benjamin Britten’s Billy Budd (1951–66), this article traces how this mode was reworked through television in the mid-twentieth century. Linking theatrical and televisual developments in the UK and the USA, I demonstrate how television’s concerns for intimacy and immediacy guided both the 1951 premiere and the condensed 1952 NBC television version. I then show how challenges to the status quo, particularly the ‘angry young men’ of British theatre and the backlash against naturalism on television, spurred the development of a revamped ‘realistic’ style in the 1964 stage and 1966 BBC productions of Billy Budd. Beyond Billy Budd, this article explores how the meanings of realism changed during the 1950s and 1960s, and how they continue to influence our study of opera performance history.

The role of citizens in DRR planning exercises: when to inform or consult

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (02) ◽  
pp. 209-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Kornakova ◽  
Alan March
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Hurricane Katrina ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Community Involvement ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Participation Styles ◽  
The Uk

Purpose The purpose of this research paper is to explore the role and effectiveness of particular participation styles that affect the effectiveness of urban planning being integrated with disaster risk reduction (DRR) practices. Design/methodology/approach This research was conducted using a heuristic approach to the examination of urban planning and DRR practices focussing particularly upon citizens’ participation in four case studies internationally: the UK floods in 2007; Hurricane Katrina in the USA in 2005; wildfires of 2009 in Victoria, Australia; and Swiss avalanche prevention and preparedness. Desktop research was conducted to analyse cases and identify key findings, confirmed and augmented by interviews with relevant specialists in each country through semi-structured interviews. Findings The research reveals some similarities across all four cases studied. It appears that urban planning and DRR approaches, particularly those with a regulatory outcome and based on highly technical tests, are common. Further, it is apparent in the cases studied that circumstances where deeper technical knowledge and/or self-interest are strong factors, that informing and sometimes consulting styles are the most appropriate. While the scope of the paper means that this principle cannot be widely applied, there is a need to investigate these issues further. Research limitations/implications The heuristic and inductive nature of this research limits the potential for in-depth analyses of the case studies, but rather provides a base for future research in this area, which currently has limited literature. Originality/value This study provides a wide base for future research and partially addresses the gap in the literature on the topic of integration of urban planning and DRR with a focus on the community involvement in it.

scholarly journals What we do, is (still) secret? Collection, care and accessibility of zines in UK collections

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 72-76
Author(s):  
Siobhan Britton
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
British Library ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Library And Information Studies ◽  
Information Studies ◽  
University College ◽  
The Usa ◽  
University College London ◽  
The Uk

In 2013, as the dissertation component of an MA Library and Information Studies course at University College London, I carried out a selective study of UK zine libraries and collections. Case studies of both ‘institutional’ collections that were part of established libraries like London College of Communication Library (University of the Arts London) and the British Library, and ‘independent’ collections such as Salford Zine Library, 56a Infoshop and the Edinburgh Fanzine archive were carried out to draw attention to issues around collection, care and accessibility of zine collections. As much of the literature around zine collections in libraries at that time was focused on the USA, it was important to draw attention to what was happening in the UK. This article summarizes the findings of my dissertation, and the developments in zine libraries and librarianship since I wrote it, as zine collections have become more popular and a growing field in the UK.

38. Punishment in the community: evolution, expansion, and moderation

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gwen Robinson ◽  
Fergus McNeill
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Unpaid Work ◽  
Community Supervision ◽  
International Evidence ◽  
Probation And Parole ◽  
Community Evolution ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Community Sanctions ◽  
Work Treatment

This chapter examines the development and expansion of community sanctions and measures in the UK since the introduction of probation and parole in the early twentieth century. After introducing the main types of punishment in the community (supervision; unpaid work; treatment and other activities; restrictions and prohibitions), it considers their evolution in relation to four main rationales: rehabilitation, reparation, management, and punitiveness. The chapter then reviews some key sociological perspectives on punishment in the community, focusing on work inspired by Foucault, Durkheim, and Marx. Finally, it provides an introduction to recent research on punishment in the community in other jurisdictions, particularly Europe and the USA. The chapter presents two main conclusions: firstly, that there is now substantial international evidence to suggest that the expansion of punishment in the community has failed to deliver reductions in the use of imprisonment; and secondly, that arguments for penal moderation should take into account the ‘painful’ character of community sanctions and measures.

Trajectories of Solidarity: Changing Union-Party Linkages in the UK and the USA

2002 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 222-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Ludlam ◽  
Matthew Bodah ◽  
David Coates
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Democratic Party ◽  
Labour Movement ◽  
The Us ◽  
National Movements ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Uk

This article analyses the linkage between trade unions and the US Democratic Party and the UK Labour Party in the twentieth century. A typology suited to longitudinal analysis of labour movement union-party linkages is proposed to help characterise and explain historical development of these two national movements through earlier types of linkage, into ‘New Labour’ and ‘New Democratic’ forms. The paper suggests that, from similar starting points, differences through time in the range of types of linkage in the two movements can be explained by a combination of factors of political economy and electoral strategy, a combination that today points towards weaker relationships.

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