Violence, Naturally

2021 ◽  
pp. 221-276
Author(s):  
Oren Falk
Keyword(s):  
Natural Hazards ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Social World ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Species Boundaries ◽  
Natural Phenomena ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face

In medieval Iceland, to be human was to be violent, but the converse was equally true: to be violent was to be human. The preceding chapters explore hostilities within communities and between them; this chapter, an excursion into eco-history, carries the examination of Norse violence beyond species boundaries. The sagas, realistic accounts of a society clinging by its fingernails to a volcanic outcrop at the edge of the Arctic, are remarkably reluctant to address the perils posed by the natural environment. To explain this anomaly, this chapter contrasts the sagas’ silence about Nature both with their own fixation on human violence and with the attitudes towards natural phenomena in adjacent genres, mainly hagiography and annals. Representation supplemented practice; humanizing violence in the sagas allowed Icelanders to exercise a measure of control over risks from beyond the social world, risks they could do little about in reality. That such representation flies so boldly in the face of facts highlights the symbiosis between violence and uchronia: forcing their world to make sense required Icelanders to convert real natural hazards into uchronic accounts of human physical nastiness

Europa 51: The Face of the Star in Neorealisms Urban Landscape

Film Studies ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-57
Author(s):  
Ora Gelley
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Difference ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Social World ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Roberto Rossellini ◽  
The Face ◽  
Classical Style

Although Europa 51 (1952) was the most commercially successful of the films Roberto Rossellini made with the Hollywood star, Ingrid Bergman, the reception by the Italian press was largely negative. Many critics focussed on what they saw to be the ‘unreal’ or abstract quality of the films portrayal of the postwar urban milieu and on the Bergman character‘s isolation from the social world. This article looks at how certain structures of seeing that are associated in the classical style with the woman as star or spectacle - e.g., the repetitious return to her fixed image, the resistance to pulling back from the figure of the woman in order to situate her within a determinate location and set of relationships between characters and objects - are no longer restricted to her image but in fact bleed into or “contaminate” the depiction of the world she inhabits. In other words, whereas the compulsive return to the fixed image of the woman tends to be contained or neutralised by the narrative economy and editing patterns (ordered by sexual difference) of the classical style, in Rossellini‘s work this ‘insistent’ even aberrant framing in relation to the woman becomes a part of the (female) characters and the cameras vision of the ‘pathology’ of the urban landscape in the aftermath of the war.

When and How Implicit First Impressions Can Be Updated

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 331-336 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa J. Ferguson ◽  
Thomas C. Mann ◽  
Jeremy Cone ◽  
Xi Shen
Keyword(s):  
Social Cognition ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Social World ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Real People ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face ◽  
Contradictory Evidence ◽  
Implicit And Explicit

Human perceivers continually react to the social world implicitly —that is, spontaneously and rapidly. Earlier research suggested that implicit impressions of other people are slower to change than self-reported impressions in the face of contradictory evidence, often leaving them miscalibrated from what one learns to be true. Recent work, however, has identified conditions under which implicit impressions can be rapidly updated. Here, we review three lines of work showing that implicit impressions are responsive to information that is highly diagnostic, believable, or reframes earlier experience. These findings complement ongoing research on mechanisms of changing implicit impressions in a wider variety of groups, from real people to robots, and provide support for theoretical frameworks that embrace greater unity in the factors that can impact implicit and explicit social cognition.

scholarly journals NATURAL DISASTER: WATER PLAN AND JAI SHANKAR PRASAD'S SUCCESS

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (9SE) ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Neelam Rathi
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disaster ◽  
Natural Hazards ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Normal Process ◽  
Natural Phenomena ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Face ◽  
Biological World ◽  
Natural Outbreak ◽  
Scientific And Technological Development

When the events of graphical nature take extreme form, then the entire biological world including human beings gets into difficulty and a situation of destruction arises. Such incidents are sometimes so quick that it becomes difficult to recover. In the face of these events of nature, man becomes dwarf such as volcanoes, earthquakes and water floats etc. Although such events are born out of the normal process of nature, but some of the human responses to its depth and expansion become helpful, such as the exacerbation of seasonal events from forest destruction. Such disruptive natural phenomena are called natural disasters. Divine disasters caused by environmental imbalances disturb the biotic world. Loss from such outbreaks ever. Sometimes it is so fierce that despite all the scientific and technological development, the human kneels in front of them. These natural outbreaks are directly related to the environment. Those who have been running since time immemorial. But it is also true that due to increase in human numbers and prosperity due to these natural outbreaks, the effects of natural hazards are becoming more harmful. Thus we can say that today with the nature behind the natural outbreak. Human crisis is also associated with it. आलेख श्प्रकृति की घटनाएँ जब चरम रूप ग्रहण कर लेती हैं तो उनसे मानव सहित सम्पूर्ण जैव जगत कठिनाई में पड जाता है और विनाश की स्थिति उत्पन्न हो जाती है। ऐसी घटनाएँ कभी.कभी इतनी त्वरित होती हैं कि संभल पाना कठिन हो जाता है। प्रकृति की इन घटनाओं के सामने मनुष्य बौना हो जाता है जैसे ज्वालामुखीएभूकंप और जल प्लावन आदि। यूं तो ऐसी घटनाएँ प्रकृति की सामान्य प्रक्रिया से जन्म लेती हैंएलेकिन इनकी गहनता और विस्तार के लिए मनुष्य की कुछ अनुक्रियाएं सहायक बन जाती हैंए जैसे वन विनाश से मौसमी घटनाओं की उग्रता। ऐसी विघटनकारी प्राकृतिक घटनाओं को प्राकृतिक आपदाएपर्यावरणीय प्रकोप कहा जाता हैश्1। पर्यावरण असंतुलन से प्रकट होने वाली दैवीय विपत्तियाँ जैव जगत को अस्त व्यस्त कर देती है। ऐसे प्रकोपों से होने वाली हानि कभी. कभी इतनी भयंकर होती है की सारे वैज्ञानिक और तकनीकी विकास के बावजूद मानव इनके सामने घुटने टेक देता है। इन प्राकृतिक प्रकोपों का सीधा संबंध पर्यावरण से है। जिनका सिलसिला अनादिकाल से चला आ रहा है। लेकिन ये भी सच है कि इन प्राकृतिक प्रकोपों से मानव संख्या और समृद्धि में वृद्धि के कारण प्राकृतिक संकटों के प्रभाव अधिक हानिकारक होने लगे हैं। इस प्रकार हम कह सकते हैं कि आज प्राकृतिक प्रकोप के पीछे प्रकृति के साथ . साथ मानव जन्य संकट भी जुड़ा होता है।

scholarly journals Pre-school education teacher in the face of dynamic transformations of the social world

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-192
Author(s):  
Elżbieta Kwiatkowska
Keyword(s):  
Web Application ◽  
Adult Life ◽  
Social World ◽  
Further Education ◽  
School Education ◽  
Application Development ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face ◽  
Diverse World

The considerations in this article stem from the dilemmas faced by reflective teachers of pre-school education.All parties involved in the development of pre-school children must meet numerous, and not always clearly stated, requirements and expectations.The beginning of the 21st century, apart from the subsequent achievements in science, brought the epidemic of multimedia, web application development, which very effectively separated children from nature, depriving them of the possibility of experiencing natural, harmonious development.At the same time, we live in a very diverse world with ongoing cruel wars, with people suffering and dying of hunger, and we, the participants in the Western civilization focus on completely different issues, such as the still progressing globalization. This article is a discussion on the direction of the changes in the world, translating into the needs and challenges of education.The results of the pilot study among teachers of pre-school education in Poland are supported by other considerations. The aim of the study was to define the way today’s pre-school teachers perceive the future of their pupils, both in the context of their further education as well as their entire adult life.

Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tonio Hölscher
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Social World ◽  
Visual Appearance ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Social ◽  
Roman Culture ◽  
The Face ◽  
Fundamental Categories ◽  
High Degree

This book aims to explore the aspects of visuality in Greek and Roman culture, comprising the visual appearance of images as well as the reality of the social world. The face-to-face societies of ancient Greece and Rome were to a high degree based on civic presence and direct, immediate social interaction in which visual appearance and experience of beings and things was of paramount importance. The six chapters of the book are dedicated to action in space, memory over time, the appearance of the person, conceptualization of reality, and, finally, presentification and decor as fundamental categories of art in social practice.

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Natural Hazards Governance

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Natural Hazards ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
International Regimes ◽  
Comprehensive Treatment ◽  
Current State ◽  
Governance Practices ◽  
The Face ◽  
Major Disruption ◽  
Managing Risk

Natural hazards present significant challenges for managing risk and vulnerability. It is crucial to understand how communities, nations, and international regimes and organizations attempt to manage risk and promote resilience in the face of major disruption to the built and natural environment and social systems. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Natural Hazards Governance offers an integrated framework for defining, assessing, and understanding natural hazards governance practices, processes, and dynamics – a framework that is essential for addressing these challenges. Through a collection of over 85 peer-reviewed articles, written by global experts in their fields, it provides a uniquely comprehensive treatment and current state of knowledge of the range of key governance issues. The work addresses key theoretic gaps on hazards governance in general, and clarifies the sometimes disjointed research coverage of hazards governance on different scales, with national, international, local, regional, and comparative perspectives.

scholarly journals Of lice and men: Charles Darwin, Henry Denny and the evidence for the human races as varieties or species

BJHS Themes ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Gregory Radick ◽  
Mark Steadman
Keyword(s):  
Charles Darwin ◽  
Distinct Species ◽  
Social World ◽  
Long Run ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common ◽  
Scientific Collections ◽  
Descent Of Man

Abstract Charles Darwin never doubted the common ancestry of the human races. But he was open-minded about whether the races might nevertheless be so different from each other that they ought to be classified not as varieties of one species but as distinct species. He pondered this varieties-or-species question on and off for decades, from his time aboard the Beagle through to the publication of the Descent of Man. A constant throughout was his concern with something that he first learned on the Beagle voyage and that, on the face of it, seemed to favour the species ranking: the different races, he was told, play host to distinct species of lice. This paper reconstructs the long run of Darwin's reflections and interactions on race, lice and history, using his extended correspondence with Henry Denny – curator of the scientific collections of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, and Britain's leading expert in the natural history of lice – as a window onto the social world whose imprint is everywhere in the pages of the Descent.

Introduction Tourism Studies and Criminology

2010 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social World ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
The Other ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
The Social ◽  
Tourism Studies ◽  
The Face ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
Popular Images ◽  
Literature And Film

The ambition of this book is to begin a project that on the face of it might appear somewhat baffling. Holidays are surrounded by images that convey an escape; a promise of freedom from the pressures and problems of everyday ‘normal’ life. Be it idyllic seascapes, soaring mountains, luxurious therapies, adrenaline-pumping extreme rides, or monumental cultural icons, the images suggest that on holiday we are, primarily, getting away from all those awkward, uncomfortable, damaging and life-threatening bits of human existence that constrain the promised good life. The criminal underworld, on the other hand is the bad life personified. Here the vilified perpetrators of hte worst excess of human depravity dwell. And, despite a a voyeuristic fascination with the criminal world when kept at a safe distance through the mediation of the news, or popularised through literature and film, this dark side of human behaviour is necessarily cordoned-off, regulated, incarcerated or even extinguished from sight. Why then bring these two seemingly oppositional domains of the social world together? It is not that the falsehood of the separation of holidays and crime go unnoticed. Most of us know that the seduction of the holiday bubble bursts when travel inconvenience, marital dispute, frightening encounters with ‘other’ strangers occur, or when unlawful actions maim and kill. We also know that crime is not cordoned off by tourism and can occur anywhere and at any time, but somehow this has yetreflected in the research agendas of tourism studies and criminology. It is as if we have internalised the popular images of holidays and crime and thus closed our collective sociological imaginations to this important interface.

scholarly journals Education for security versus education for sustainable development

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 263-273
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Klimska
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Social Process ◽  
Education For Sustainable Development ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Strong Incentive ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face

The article presents issues related to the practice of sustainable development against the background of selected strategies and models of education. In the face of the ecological crisis, as well as growing threats to the social and natural environment, the need to modify education for sustainable development programmes appears more apparent. It has been proposed that this model of education should be supported by education for security, since security is a need, value, and a dynamic social process, and any actions in its favour, offer a strong incentive for people to be active and adopt new attitudes.

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