Perspectives

2019 ◽  
pp. 217-236
Author(s):  
Colin R. Alexander
Keyword(s):  
Political Violence ◽  
The Future

This smaller but well-formed chapter concludes the book by discussing Clow’s contribution to discussions about the future of India. In an advisory capacity, Clow articulated his visions for India, particularly the future of Assam and the frontier territories, through a series of essays, none of which have been published before. Some, but not all, of these recommendations were taken forward with the British plans with the consequences of those decisions still being felt today in the form of non-state political violence.

Fictions of Migration and Refuge from the Anthropocene

2019 ◽  
pp. 175-217
Author(s):  
John Patrick Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disaster ◽  
Political Violence ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
The Future ◽  
Cast Doubt ◽  
Shared Humanity ◽  
Scientific Debates ◽  
Key Questions

The chapter treats a set of writers, Louis-Philippe Dalembert, Gary Victor, and Néhémy Pierre-Dahomey, whose fictions imagine experiences of migration and refuge in the wake of political and natural disaster. Their texts are meditations on the stakes of social and political institutions that support life in common in an age of ecological reckoning. The first part of the chapter returns to key questions of the Anthropocene, raised in the introduction, in order to demonstrate the ways that Caribbean thinkers have long anticipated scientific debates about the links between political violence and the future of the planet. Literary eco-archives contribute to these debates with stories about social worlds migrating and colliding. The chapter argues that Dalembert’s Ballade d’un amour inachevé, Victor’s Maudite éducation and its sequel L’Escalier de mes désillusions, and Pierre-Dahomey’s Rapatriés cast doubt on the future of a shared humanity with portraits of Haitian lives that foreground an ethics of vulnerability amidst widespread inequality. Through poetic representations of time and space, each writer ponders the ephemeral beauty of the present, always in flux between past and present, and each imagines the frailty of human lives in increasingly inhospitable climes.

Geographical Approaches in the Study of Terrorism

2019 ◽  
pp. 237-250
Author(s):  
Megan M. Farrell ◽  
Michael G. Findley ◽  
Joseph Young
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Political Violence ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
National Study ◽  
Approaches To Studying ◽  
The Future ◽  
New Research ◽  
Cross National Study ◽  
Research Frontiers ◽  
Cross National

With the rise of quantitative approaches to studying terrorism, which has largely occurred in the post-9/11 period, scholarship on the cross-national study of terrorism has begun to incorporate high-resolution geographic information. A rise in both method and application of geographic tools has led to new research approaches, which are still not fully exploited. Indeed, substantial scope for opening new research frontiers now exists. We describe the use of geographic tools—both their strengths and weaknesses—and some ideas about the future of their use in the study of political violence and terrorism.

Whither the “Children of the Stone”? An Entire Life under Occupation

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian K. Barber ◽  
Clea McNeely ◽  
Chenoa Allen ◽  
Rita Giacaman ◽  
Cairo Arafat ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Political Violence ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Gaza Strip ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
The West ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Gaza Strip ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
East Jerusalem ◽  
Large Representative

This article summarizes a uniquely thorough study of the first generation of Palestinians to have lived the whole of their lives under occupation. Findings from group interviews and large, representative surveys of men and women from the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip in 2011 draw a complex portrait of day-to-day life both currently and historically, including: widespread political activism that they continue to prize; high levels of exposure to often demeaning political violence and restriction of movement; limited access to basic resources, low employment stability and poverty; high levels of social cohesion, but also of lack of safety, political instability, fear for the future, stress, and feeling broken. Most were not optimistic in 2011 about the peace process but remained, confident in their ability to manage what the future brings. The findings also show that each of the three territories has unique types and levels of challenges.

scholarly journals Comparative Fascist Studies and the Transnational Turn: First comfas Convention

Fascism ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-113
Author(s):  
Nick Warmuth
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Political Violence ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
International Association ◽  
Political Community ◽  
Original Idea ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
The Future ◽  
Community Of Researchers

Between 27 and 29 April 2018, approximately seventy academics from all over Europe met in Budapest to discuss fascism at the first comfas convention. The theme for this inaugural convention was ‘Comparative Fascist Studies and the Transnational Turn’. The International Association for Comparative Fascist Studies (comfas) was originally conceived in 2015 with the idea of creating a nonprofit and non-political community of researchers, ranging from graduate students to established professors. Not restricting itself exclusively to the narrow topic of European fascism of the mid-twentieth century, the organization would aspire to facilitate an interdisciplinary and collaborative scholarly-network that includes the whole spectrum of right-of-center politics and related social issues, including ultra-nationalism, authoritarianism, political violence, racism, genocide, and the Holocaust. Three years later, the original idea was finally put into action. The conference incorporated an overwhelming amount of presentation panels, public lectures, open debates, and would culminate in a reflection discussion on how the association could grow and improve in the future.

Four Conclusions about Violence of the Left

1979 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ted Honderich
Keyword(s):  
Political Violence ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Moral Question ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future

It is a terrible fact of this time, not much lessened by there having been similar facts in the past, or by the likelihood of there being more in the future, that men make uses of destructive force against persons and things, force condemned by ordinary law but directed to changing societies in certain ways. Certain of these changes in societies, although typically they are sought for themselves, may be taken to make for progress toward a certain goal, well-being for all persons without exception, all persons in whatever societies. The uses of force related in this way to the goal of well-being are of a general course political violence of the Left. My purpose in this essay is to say some things in advocacy of a certain response, in good part a sceptical one, to the general moral question of what is to be said against such violence, and what for it.

International determination of the total motion of the pole

1961 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 29-41
Author(s):  
Wm. Markowitz
Keyword(s):  
Secular Motion ◽  
The Future

A symposium on the future of the International Latitude Service (I. L. S.) is to be held in Helsinki in July 1960. My report for the symposium consists of two parts. Part I, denoded (Mk I) was published [1] earlier in 1960 under the title “Latitude and Longitude, and the Secular Motion of the Pole”. Part II is the present paper, denoded (Mk II).

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