Sir Andrew Gourlay Clow

2019 ◽  
pp. 41-88
Author(s):  
Colin R. Alexander
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Colonial India ◽  
Key Events

This chapter seeks to position Clow’s experiences in colonial India against the backdrop of wider issues and trends during the period of his service. The chapter discusses Clow’s recruitment into the ICS, his marriage to Ariadne, and his life after the ICS. What is of interest here is not necessarily the events themselves but the temperament of the man and his attitude to the situations that were before him. Moreover, understanding the historical and social context of Clow’s career allows us to draw stronger conclusions when analysing the key events in the later chapters.

The Establishment Strikes Back? The Life and Times of Takafumi Horie

2007 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 261-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorraine Warren
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Significant Change ◽  
Key Events ◽  
Newspaper Articles

This paper uses newspaper articles to construct an account of the meteoric rise and eventual fall from grace of Takafumi Horie, a Japanese Internet entrepreneur. This trajectory is explored through a qualitative methodology that analyses the content of articles in international newspapers reporting key events in Horie's story. Tracking the representation of Horie as the story develops uncovers the ambiguous nature of the concept of entrepreneurship in Japan, where the enactment of entrepreneurship takes place within and at times against the mainstream of significant change in the nature of work in Japan. The paper concludes by linking Horie's story to the temporal construction of the entrepreneur in a social context in which bureaucratic challenge leads eventually to entrepreneurial marginalization through the likelihood of a jail term. Overall, the paper adds to the literature concerning the mutable and contested nature of the term ‘entrepreneur’.

Revolution, culture and society

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fred Powell
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Women's Movement ◽  
Land Ownership ◽  
The Political ◽  
Labour Movement ◽  
Contested Space ◽  
State And Society ◽  
Irish Revolution ◽  
Religion And Nationalism ◽  
Key Events

The chapter critically assesses the representation of the Irish revolution and its social context. It contrasts the modernist influences of both the labour movement and the women's movement with the growing ascendancy of nationalism in both its cultural and political forms. Ultimately, the political set the revolutionary agenda, producing a conservative state and society, shaped by capitalism (mainly based on land ownership), religion, and nationalism. However, other key events in the Irish revolution point to a much more complex narrative. These include the 1913 Lockout of unionised workers in Dublin, the Limerick Soviet in 1919, and the organisation of the women's movement in a variety of forms. The Irish revolutionary narrative was undoubtedly a contested space, even if its memorialisation has largely focused on the 1916 Rising and the nationalist narrative. The chapter argues that there were competing narratives of the Irish revolution that need to be fully acknowledged in its analysis and memorialisation.

Trajectories of Resistance and Shifting Forms of Workers’ Activism in Iran

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
M. Stella Morgana
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Antonio Gramsci ◽  
Islamic Republic ◽  
Labor Activism ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Key Events ◽  
Over Time

Abstract This article navigates ruptures and transformations in the processes of resistance performed by Iranian workers between two key events of the history of contemporary Iran: the 1979 Revolution and the 2009 Green Movement. It explores how labor activism emerged in the Islamic Republic, and illustrates how it managed to survive. Drawing from the concepts of resistance, collective awareness and counter-conduct as its theoretical basis – between Antonio Gramsci and Michel Foucault – the article details the changing strategies that workers adopted over time and space to cope with the absence of trade unions, monitoring activities, and repression in the workplace. It demonstrates that workers' agency was never fully blocked by the Islamic Republic. However, it tests the limits imposed by the social context to discourage activism, beyond state coercive measures and policies.

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