Rebirth of the Sacred : Science, Religion, and the New Environmental Ethos

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Nadeau
Keyword(s):  
Political Ideology ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Cultural Narratives ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The World ◽  
Economic Reality ◽  
The One ◽  
National Economies ◽  
Sacred Science

In the dream of earth, Thomas Berry makes the following comment about the environmental crisis: “It’s all a question of story. We are in trouble now because we do not have a good story. We are in between stories. The old story, the account of how the world came to be and how we fit into it, is no longer effective.” The intent in this book is to tell the new story that could greatly enhance the prospect of resolving the environmental crisis. One of the frame tales for this story is science. On the most obvious level, scientific knowledge has gifted us with an understanding of the causes of this crisis and how it can be resolved. What is not so obvious is that this knowledge has also revealed that the old stories about political and economic reality are badly in need of revision. The old story is imaged on the conventional globes that sit in classrooms, government offices, libraries, and home offices like the one in which I am writing this book. On these globes, boundaries between nation-states are marked with dark lines, and the regions or territories governed by these states are painted different primary colors. The parts (nation-states) are separate and discrete entities, the whole (planet earth) is static, and the sum of the parts constitutes the whole. In the geopolitical reality imaged on these globes, seven billion people live within the borders of sovereign nation-states and construct their identities based on diverse cultural narratives about nationalism, ethnicity, political ideology, and religious beliefs and practices. The only source of political power in this reality is the sovereign nation-state, and these states endlessly compete with one another for the capital and scarce natural resources needed to sustain and grow their national economies. The new story is imaged in the digital photographs and videos taken by earth-orbiting satellites that environmental scientists use to study the complex web of interactions between human and environmental systems.

Time and the ancestors: landscape survey in the Andrantsay region of Madagascar

Antiquity ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 75 (290) ◽  
pp. 825-836 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoë Crossland
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Relationship ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The World ◽  
Everyday World ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Central Highlands ◽  
Landscape Survey ◽  
The One

The landscapes of the central highlands of Madagascar are inhabited by the spirits of the dead as well as by the living. The ancestors are a forceful presence in the everyday world, and the archaeology of the central highlands is intimately entwined with them. This is made manifest both in the on-the-ground experiences encountered during fieldwork, and in archaeological narratives, such as the one presented here. Tombs are a traditional focus of archaeological research, and those that dot the hills of the central highlands are part of a network of beliefs and practices which engage with the landscape as a whole and through which social identity is constructed and maintained. In the central highlands, and indeed elsewhere in Madagascar, there is an intimate relationship between peoples’ understandings of their social and physical location in the world and their understanding of their relationship to the dead.

Coronacrisis in the Mechanisms of Cyclic Development of the World and Russian Economies

2021 ◽  
pp. 03-33
Author(s):  
Sergey Gennadievich Kapkanshchikov
Keyword(s):  
World Economy ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Demand Shock ◽  
Root Cause ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Supply Shock ◽  
The World ◽  
Balance Of Forces ◽  
The Government ◽  
National Economies

Based on the theory of the cyclical nature of capitalist reproduction in its various (including modern) variations, the author of the article defends the thesis that the pandemic of the new coronavirus was not the root cause of the crisis in the world economy in 2020, but only a factor of its approach in time. Excessive, in the spirit of modern radical liberalism, marketization (commercialization) of country health systems and the desire of a number of nation states to use a large-scale epidemic as a powerful bioengineering weapon are classified as the most significant direct determinants of the global coronacrisis. The mechanism of the influence of the coronavirus epidemic on the state of the world economy is revealed. An attempt is made to compare the coronavirus crisis and the global financial and economic crisis of 2008–2009 with an assessment of the change in the balance of forces between the leading powers in the course of the deployment of these crises. As a «visiting card», the specifics of the current global crisis is characterized by a negative combination of supply shock and demand shock, which radically complicates the construction of an adequate system of anti-crisis regulation of the world and national economies. The place of coronacrisis shocks in the mechanism of the deepening of the Russian autonomous recession is revealed. The effectiveness of the anti-crisis activities of the Government and the Bank of Russia is constructively and critically assessed.

scholarly journals The Fate of Nationalism in the New States: Southeast Asia in Comparative Historical Perspective

2012 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 114-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
John T. Sidel
Keyword(s):  
Historical Perspective ◽  
World Politics ◽  
Standard Of Living ◽  
Early Assessment ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Clifford Geertz ◽  
The World ◽  
New States ◽  
Civil Politics ◽  
The One

In two landmark essays published in 1973, the eminent anthropologist Clifford Geertz offered an early assessment of what he termed “The Fate of Nationalism in the New States,” referring to the newly independent nation-states of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Ranging with characteristic ease and flair across Burma, India, Indonesia, Lebanon, Malaysia, Morocco, and Nigeria, Geertz argued that an “Integrative Revolution” was under way, but one complicated and compromised by the inherent tension between “essentialism” and “epochalism,” between “Primordial Sentiments and Civil Politics in the New States.” Geertz argued:The peoples of the new states are simultaneously animated by two powerful, thoroughly interdependent, yet distinct and often actually opposed motives—the desire to be recognized as responsible agents whose wishes, acts, hopes, and opinions “matter,” and the desire to build an efficient, dynamic modern state. The one aim is to be noticed: it is a search for identity, and a demand that the identity be publicly acknowledged as having import, a social assertion of the self as “being somebody in the world.” The other aim is practical: it is a demand for progress, for a rising standard of living, more effective political order, greater social justice, and beyond that of “playing a part in the larger arena of world politics,” of “exercising influence among the nations.”

scholarly journals PROCESSES OF GLOBALIZATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS-ENVIRONMENT ARE IN MODERN REALITIES

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (2(64)) ◽  
pp. 32-36
Author(s):  
A.I. Boiarchuk
Keyword(s):  
World Economy ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Legal Information ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The World ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Right ◽  
National Economies ◽  
The Impact

In the article the influence of globalist processes, widely developing in nowadays world, are analyzed. Because of that the art becomes to be a tool of reach countries to have the right of domination in a world space. Authors argue about positive and negative sides of globalization in this text. The main objective of this paper to analyze in detail the impact of globalization on the world economy. The paper presents the analysis of the nature of the process of globalization in the modern world. Globalization has been analyzed in the following interdependent aspects: economic, territorial. Here are main reasons of globalization. The paper presents two main directions to define of globalization in terms of the behavior of nation-states in the global geopolitical environment. The paper presents the positive and negative influences of globalization on the world economy and national economies in the world. Special attention is paid to the problems associated with globalization for the different states. Globalisation is an incessant process, which lasts a lot of years, but problems, associated with it. Autor dispute among themselves about globalisation and can't create a single definition of this process. Autor argue about positive and negative sides of globalisation in this text. Necessity of formation of uniform economic, legal, information and technological space for realization of free and effective enterprise activity of all subjects of managing has led the Ukrainian economy to to transformation of integration economic processes in a new system condition - globalization of economic communications.

scholarly journals Bridging Hmong/Miao, Extending Miaojiang: Divided Space, Translocal Contacts, and the Imagination of Hmongland

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Weidong Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Southwest China ◽  
Close Contact ◽  
The Other ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
The Past ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The World ◽  
The One ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Southeast Asian Countries

AbstractOver the past several decades, the Hmong communities scattered around the world and their co-ethnic Miao ethnic group in China came into close contact. This paper explores the nature and dynamics of this encounter as well as the connections and ties that have been rediscovered and reestablished between the Hmong in diaspora and the Miao in China, two groups long separated by time and distance, and the impact and implications this entails. Based on three-month fieldwork in the Hmong/Miao communities across Southwest China and Southeast Asia, this paper examines the ever increasing movement of people and materials, as well as symbolic flows on the one hand, and connections and linkages between different localities on the other hand. It discusses how this new fast-changing development contributes to a new translocal imagination of Hmong community, re-territorialization of a new continuous Hmong space, a Hmongland encompassing Southwest provinces of China and northern part of Southeast Asian countries, and what it means to the Hmong/Miao people in the region. It further discusses how the emerging translocal imagination of the Hmong/Miao community will produce unique translocal subjects and how it interacts with the nation-states they belong to.

scholarly journals New crime reality as a result of the new socio-economic conditions of development of Russia

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 168-174
Author(s):  
A L Sitkovsky ◽  
Y V Latov
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
National Economic ◽  
Systemic Transformation ◽  
The World ◽  
Economic Reality ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
National Economic Development ◽  
The One

General characteristics of long-term changes of the criminal situation in Russia, 2000-2010-ies. By analogy with the concept of«new economic reality» used to describe the current conditions of national economic development, proposed the concept of «new criminalreality». It is, on the one hand, the completion of overcoming the catastrophic consequences of the transformational crisis of the 1990s (thereturn of criminal homicide to the level of the 1980s, the decline of threats of terrorism), and on the other hand, the growth of the valuesof the new criminal challenges and threats. Most important among these new challenges and threats - cybercrime, the crime of migrantsand institutional corruption. Stressed economic determinism new criminal threats and challenges, the growth of which is associated notso much with the failures of the Ministry of internal Affairs, as with the systemic transformation of socio-economic institutions in Russiaand around the world. The article used data from the departmental statistics of the MVD of Russia.

scholarly journals Vereinheitlichung und Fraktionierung in der Weltgesellschaft. Kritik des globalen Institutionalimus

1993 ◽  
Vol 23 (91) ◽  
pp. 327-341 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Bonder ◽  
Bernd Röttger ◽  
Gilbert Ziebura
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
World Order ◽  
Basic Structure ◽  
New World Order ◽  
High Expectations ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common ◽  
The One ◽  
North And South

While the ideology of the new-world order suggesls that the universalization of the western capitalist model is in progress, in fact globalization is plagued by a dialectic of globalization and fractionalization. The ideological positivism of the common wisdom of 'international relations' is based on a policy in which the establishment of global rules of behavior within the OECD have been stylized as the world model. The rea!ity, however, is that massive tendencies towards fractionalization are present and indeed arise from within the world of the OECD. On the one hand, the horizontal divisions in the global community (differences in development between north and south or east and west) are solidifying. On the other hand, an increasing vertical polarization between rich and poor is developing within the nation states' social formations. If the high expectations of a New World Orderare to be rnet, a transforrnation of the basic structure of capitalism is necessary - not a universalization of the ancien regime.

scholarly journals Polacy w słowackiej publicystyce i polityce od lat 30. do 60. XIX wieku

2020 ◽  
Vol 147 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-225
Author(s):  
Dušan Škvarna
Keyword(s):  
Political Ideology ◽  
New School ◽  
Imperial Russia ◽  
National Movement ◽  
Nation States ◽  
General Weakness ◽  
Polish People ◽  
Social Opinions ◽  
The One ◽  
Hungarian State

Poles in Slovak journalism and politics from the 1830s to the 1860s This paper sheds light on the perception of the Polish people, Polish politics, and their issues in Slovak journalism between 1830 and 1872. On the whole, the views were limited by the social opinions voiced by Slovak nationalists as well as by their interests and the general weakness of their National Movement. Slovak nationalists refused to accept political concepts that, on the one hand, supported the creation of nation states (by “large”nations such as Poland), and on the other hand, called for the assimilation of “small”nations living within them. This would spell the end of the Slavs and Romanians settled in Hungary, as Hungary would reform into one single national Hungarian state. Among all Austro-Slavs, the fear of “Magyarisation”contributed to the most intense and widespread Slavic solidarity and Russophilia in the Slovak-speaking environment. It also determined the difficult approach to the Polish issues. The Slovak nationalists sympathised with the Polish fate, however, at the same time, they had difficulties with accepting the Poland-Russia conflict. That is why we can find quite varied opinions of Poles and Polish issues. Idealising the Poles, Polonophilia, sympathising with Poles as regards their problems, careful and neutral views of those problems, efforts to limit the Poland-Russia conflict, and critical views of Poles were all entwined. For example, pro-Polish sympathies dominated in the Slovak National Movement in the 1830s, whereas in the 1840s the sympathies shifted towards Russia, despite the fact that some nationalists supported the Poles and their Uprising in Halych. The real Slovak-Polish co-operation can be seen particularly during the revolution in 1848–1849. Out of the Slovak political ideology emerged the Pan-Slavic work Slovanstvo a svet budúcnosti [Slavdom and the world of the future] by Ľ. Štúr, which combined the Slav perspective with the connections to Russia. The Polish issues were mainly present in the 1860s. During that time, the more conservative political wing, “Stará škola”[The Old School], was looking for support in the imperial Vienna, showing strong Russophilism and critical attitude to the Polish uprising. In contrast, the more liberal political line, “Nová škola”[The New School], striving for co-operation with Hungarian political parties, showed understanding for the Polish aversion and was critical of the imperial Russia. After the Austro-Hungarian Compromise, the Slovak politics and culture considerably weakened. The interest in glossing over the problems of the northern neighbour also declined. The Polish issues re-entered Slovak journalism again after the 1890s in connection with analysing new geo-political affairs on the continent and polarisation of the European superpowers.

Performing a Renunciative Unity

2020 ◽  
pp. 70-105
Author(s):  
Nathan S. French
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Global System ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Peter Berger ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The World ◽  
Theories Of Religion ◽  
Muslim Majority ◽  
Muslim Communities

For Jihadi-Salafi jurists and authors, the contemporary global system of nation-states and those Muslim-majority governments and nations supporting its continuance bear responsibility for the suffering and oppression faced by contemporary Muslim communities. This chapter argues that Jihadi-Salafi debates on creed (ʿaqīda) and methodology (minhāj) provide an interpretation of the causes of suffering and evil in the world—a theodicy—and contend that these are best addressed through a mode of self-renunciation patterned on the beliefs and practices of the earliest communities of Muslim faith (the Salaf). Traditions of self-renunciation (zuhd) are not unique to Jihadi-Salafis and have long been present in discussions of jihad—dating to the Kitab al-Jihad of ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Mubarak (d. 797). Framing this discussion are the anthropological, sociological, and philosophical theories of religion offered by Richard Valantasis, Peter Berger, Michel Foucault, and Gavin Flood.

Psychology from Egyptian, Arab, and Islamic Perspectives

1997 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 356-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fouad A-L.H. Abou-Hatab
Keyword(s):  
Professional Identity ◽  
21St Century ◽  
The West ◽  
Islamic Perspective ◽  
National Heritage ◽  
Western Psychology ◽  
The World ◽  
The One

This paper presents the case of psychology from a perspective not widely recognized by the West, namely, the Egyptian, Arab, and Islamic perspective. It discusses the introduction and development of psychology in this part of the world. Whenever such efforts are evaluated, six problems become apparent: (1) the one-way interaction with Western psychology; (2) the intellectual dependency; (3) the remote relationship with national heritage; (4) its irrelevance to cultural and social realities; (5) the inhibition of creativity; and (6) the loss of professional identity. Nevertheless, some major achievements are emphasized, and a four-facet look into the 21st century is proposed.

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