Can the Study of Global Governance Be Decentred?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Hurrell
Keyword(s):  
Global Governance ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Extensive List

Western writing on global governance has been all too little aware of the deeply western-centric character of its assumed historical narratives, its allegedly universal theoretical categories, and its political preoccupations. The first section of this chapter reviews the dominant lines of this sort of criticism. The second section asks why this already quite extensive list of critiques is not adequate. The final section looks at how the agenda might move forward, building on the unavoidable imperative to incorporate the power of the global while maintaining a sensitivity to differently situated regional, historian, and cultural contexts.

The European Union and Global Governance

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Christiansen
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
Final Section ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Test Bed ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Global Powers

This chapter discusses whether the European Union has a distinctive take on, and may make a particular contribution to, global governance, as well as the reverse image of the impact that global governance has in the development of integration in Europe. This includes a focus on collective norms and interests as expressed through common institutions, policies, and activities. In doing so, the chapter compares and contrasts the evolution of a supranational order in Europe with the growth of global regimes and the emergence of a multipolar world, and explores the nature of the EU’s relationships with other global powers and regions. In a final section, the chapter asks whether the EU’s relationship with global developments is best seen as a test-bed for new ideas, procedures, and concepts; a construction for the defence of a privileged way of life; or an archaic remnant of a different era.

The Cultural-rootedness of Christian Distinctiveness: James K.A. Smith and Schleiermacher on Theologies of Culture

Ecclesiology ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-119
Author(s):  
Andrew Hayes
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Relational Understanding ◽  
Cultural Contexts

This article argues that all conceptions of Christian distinctiveness are culturally rooted in ways which necessarily determine conceptions of and approaches to formation and discipleship. No argument shall be made for a particular vision of Christian distinctiveness. Rather, the focus is on how distinctiveness itself is understood, constructed and determines accounts which seek to order Christian lives qua Christian. Recent presentations of Christian distinctiveness are summarized via engagement with James K.A. Smith. Schleiermacher’s understanding of Christian distinctiveness, rooted in nineteenth century cultural trends and assumptions, is employed as a juxtaposition demonstrating the culturally rootedness of both approaches to formation and discipleship presenting a clearer picture of the assumptions carried in many contemporary calls for Christian distinctiveness. The final section builds on Kathryn Tanner’s relational understanding of distinctiveness, arguing for an approach that determines Christian distinctiveness collaboratively in recognition of different and multi-layered cultural contexts.

scholarly journals Polska zdekolonizowana? „Pamięć o kobietach” i jej wymiary

2018 ◽  
pp. 51-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eliza Kania
Keyword(s):  
Historical Narratives ◽  
Gender Perspective ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Women's Role

What is the meaning of „herstory” concept? Can gender perspective be useful to discuss the dimensions of historical narratives? The text is an attempt to answer questions concerning the historical and cultural contexts of showing women’s role in history. It also analyses the content of crucial publications due to which the discussion on using gender perspective in historical narratives in Poland has begun.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-40
Author(s):  
Uma Maheswari Bhrugubanda
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Detailed Account ◽  
Ethnographic Methods ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Indian Cinema ◽  
The Third ◽  
Religion And Media ◽  
History Of ◽  
Film Texts

The introduction outlines a genealogy of how cinema and other media created new cultural contexts and new cultural subjects in the twentieth century India, thereby transforming religion and producing the hybrid figure of the citizen–devotee. The first section presents conceptual debates on secularism, citizenship, religion and media, embodiment and affect that frame this study. The second section is a detailed account of the mythological and devotional genres in Indian cinema and the predominant critical frameworks. The third focuses on the history of Telugu cinema tracing the different performative traditions and oral and printed texts that form a basis for these genres. It argues that both cinema technology and new political contexts mediate existing texts and traditions significantly. The final section describes the historical and ethnographic methods adopted in the study and the range of materials—film texts, publicity material, interviews, memoirs, and biographies of film-makers—used.

LOUIS MINK, “POSTMODERNISM”, AND THE VOCATION OF HISTORIOGRAPHY

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
SAMUEL JAMES
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Intellectual Development ◽  
Important Influence ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
Historical Understanding ◽  
Historical Epistemology ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Philosophical Background ◽  
Hayden White ◽  
Epistemological Views

This essay reconstructs the intellectual development of the philosopher of history Louis O. Mink Jr, in order to illuminate the philosophical background to “postmodernism” in American historical epistemology. From around 1970, Mink was a prominent and influential defender of the view that historical narratives were imaginative constructions rather than representations of past actuality. This has since been understood as a characteristically postmodern view. Mink's wider sensibility, however, is better described as modernist than postmodernist. The crucial context for his philosophy was a hostility to “positivism” going back to his graduate years at Yale, and his epistemological views were of a piece with a defence of historical understanding as both distinctive and valuable. In both respects Mink was influenced by the philosophy of R. G. Collingwood, while he was himself an important influence on Hayden White. Mink's case therefore helps bridge the gap between interwar and later twentieth-century versions of Anglophone historical contructivism, while drawing attention to some cultural contexts in which the development of both modernist and postmodernist views of historiography must be understood.

Public Monuments and the Monogrammatic Display of Authority in the Post-Roman World

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ildar Garipzanov
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Sixth Century ◽  
Asia Minor ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Public Monuments ◽  
Roman World ◽  
The North ◽  
Hagia Sophia ◽  
Continued Use

This chapter examines the monogrammatic display of authority in public buildings, and churches in particular—a practice that was established in the sixth century—and sets the three most influential architectural examples of that tradition in Constantinople within their contemporary Byzantine political and cultural contexts, namely St Polyeuktos, Sts Sergius and Bacchus, and Hagia Sophia. The final section of this chapter examines the continued use of personal monograms on capitals, chancel screens, and mosaics by early Byzantine emperors, as well as the appropriation of that imperial practice by early medieval ecclesiastical hierarchs in various parts of the post-Roman world—such as Constantinople and several cities in Asia Minor, Tomis in Romania, Zvart’nots in Armenia, Rome and Ravenna in Italy, as well as Grado, Porec, and Solin in the North Adriatic.

Conclusions

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanns W. Maull
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
Final Section ◽  
International Order ◽  
Interaction Patterns ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
The World ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Over Time

This chapter compares the developments in the nine partial orders surveyed, looking at legitimacy and effectiveness; the incidence of violence; their principles, rules, norms, and institutions; rules enforcement through collective sanctions; dominant actors and interaction patterns; and their evolution over time. It then assesses the roles and performances of the USA and the People’s Republic of China as “ordering powers” and summarizes the characteristics of changes in the international order since 1990. What emerges is a paradox: the world needs more international order and global governance, but recent changes have mostly been in the opposite direction. The final section offers observations about the causes for this paradoxical decline of the post-Cold War order and reflects on the implications of what has been happening for the future of international order.

Introduction

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
DAVID KERR ◽  
LIU FEI
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Grand Strategy ◽  
International Conference ◽  
The Third ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
Security Relationship ◽  
The Eu

An international conference was held in London in April 2006 to examine the different dimensions of the emerging political and security relationship between the EU and China. Organized jointly by a British and a Chinese partner under the guidance of the British Academy's International Relations Department, the conference brought together European, Chinese and international academics, analysts and policymakers. The papers in this volume reflect the diverse discussions at the conference. The first section of this book addresses the important question of strategic identities and behaviour. From considerations of grand strategy, the second section turns to the role of society and governments in the European–Chinese relationship. The third section discusses attempts to approach this question by examining problems and prospects for European–Chinese engagement in regional and global governance. The final section presents different longer-term perspectives on EU–China relations.

From meditation to action – a research agenda for studying informal global rule-making: remarks on ‘Cosmopolitanism, publicity, and the emergence of a “global administrative law”’

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Oliver Westerwinter
Keyword(s):  
Global Governance ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Institutional Design ◽  
Administrative Law ◽  
Democratic Legitimacy ◽  
Institutional Architecture ◽  
Global Law ◽  
Rule Making ◽  
Law Making

Abstract Friedrich Kratochwil engages critically with the emergence of a global administrative law and its consequences for the democratic legitimacy of global governance. While he makes important contributions to our understanding of global governance, he does not sufficiently discuss the differences in the institutional design of new forms of global law-making and their consequences for the effectiveness and legitimacy of global governance. I elaborate on these limitations and outline a comparative research agenda on the emergence, design, and effectiveness of the diverse arrangements that constitute the complex institutional architecture of contemporary global governance.

Errata

2008 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-5
Keyword(s):  
Psychotic Disorders ◽  
Pain Syndrome ◽  
Vestibular Disorders ◽  
Loss Of Function ◽  
Sixth Edition ◽  
Neurologic Disorders ◽  
Upper And Lower Extremities ◽  
Impairment Ratings ◽  
Extensive List ◽  
Mental And Behavioral Disorders

Abstract Although most chapters in the AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment (AMA Guides), Sixth Edition, instruct evaluators to perform impairment ratings by first assigning a diagnosis-based class and then assigning a grade within that class, Chapter 13, The Central and Peripheral Nervous System, continues to use a methodology similar to that of the fifth edition. The latter was criticized for duplicating materials that were presented in other chapters and for producing different ratings, so the revision of Chapter 13 attempts to maintain consistency between this chapter and those that address mental and behavioral disorders, loss of function in upper and lower extremities, loss of bowel control, and bladder and sexual function. A table titled Summary of Chapters Used to Rate Various Neurologic Disorders directs physicians to the relevant chapters (ie, instead of Chapter 13) to consult in rating neurologic disorders; the extensive list of conditions that should be addressed in other chapters includes but is not limited to radiculopathy, plexus injuries and other plexopathies, focal neuropathy, complex regional pain syndrome, visual and vestibular disorders, and a range of primary mood, anxiety, and psychotic disorders. The article comments in detail on sections of this chapter, identifies changes in the sixth edition, and provide guidance regarding use of the new edition, resulting in less duplication and greater consistency.

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