Migration

2018 ◽  
pp. 441-456
Author(s):  
Audie Klotz
Keyword(s):  
Building Block ◽  
Security Studies ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Nation State ◽  
The World ◽  
Security Concern ◽  
The Way

Migration as a potential security concern should be analyzed through the politics of threat construction. This chapter delineates the salience of migration along three dimensions of security: interstate, societal, and human. For each dimension, it draws upon iconic contributions to the literature and recent scholarly interventions. Along the way, the chapter weaves examples from around the world to underscore that, at a time when the security implications of migration are grabbing headlines around the world, the inclusion of migration within security studies also requires a reassessment of the field’s Eurocentric roots. In particular, the chapter pushes for rethinking the nation state as a building block of our theories.

scholarly journals Cyber Yugoslavia: from the World of Nations to the World of Cyber Countries

2017 ◽  
pp. 73
Author(s):  
Lada Stevanović
Keyword(s):  
Federal Republic ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Nation State ◽  
The World ◽  
State Construction ◽  
The Way

This paper examines Cyber Yugoslavia, a state created on the internet, after the fall of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY). Located in cyberspace, Cyber  Yugoslavia belongs to the corpus of virtual countries appearing as a subversive response to the nationalism and wars that led to the disintegration of the SFRY. The ludic and parodic character of CY makes it a unique example of the way in which it challenges and questions deep structures and ideological mechanisms of nation and nation-state construction. Using parody and laughter, CY deconstructs the concepts that are essential parts in creating the ideology of nation. The very same concepts are the focus of the theoretical approach to nation, wherefore the paper focuses on the intersection of theoretical and IT creative work. Article received: May 5, 2017; Article accepted: May 10, 2017; Published online: September 15, 2017Original scholarly paperHow to cite this article: Stevanović, Lada. "Cyber Yugoslavia: from the World of Nations to the World of Cyber Countries." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 13 (2017): 73-87. doi: 10.25038/am.v0i13.184

The Modernist Picture Book in three Dimensions

2020 ◽  
pp. 165-182
Author(s):  
Katie Trumpener
Keyword(s):  
Building Block ◽  
Picture Books ◽  
Picture Book ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Art Making ◽  
Block Play ◽  
De Stijl ◽  
Art Schools ◽  
The Way ◽  
Child Readers

This chapter explores the way modernist picture books reconceive three-dimensionality, and hence the book as object. Around 1900, a Europe-wide vogue for picture books (Gertrud Caspari, Andre Hellé) in which toys come to life overlapped with new enthusiasm for building block play (H. G. Wells and E. Nesbit advocate the construction of “little worlds”), toy-centered ballets, and the explorations of movement and perspective enabled by the advent first of cinema, and then of cubism. The essay also discusses 1920s and 1930s constructivist, cubist, and De Stijl picture books by Lou Loeber, Nathalie Parain, Alexander Rodchenko, and Varvara Stepanova in relationship to the emergence, in schools and art schools, of new art pedagogies centered on paper crafts, a new sense of the picture book itself as a template for future art-making, and of child readers as fledgling artists in their own right.

scholarly journals Differences That Matter: Canada, the United States and Environmental Policymaking

AmeriQuests ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie R. Alm ◽  
Ross E. Burkhart
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Environmental Policy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Environmental Cooperation ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way

Does the way Canada, as a nation state, approach international environmental policymaking make a difference with respect to solving environmental problems in the Americas? We argue that it does, and it is a difference that matters. Canadian efforts toward multilateralism and toward inclusiveness serve as a counter balance to the growing unilateralism and ever present exceptionalism of the United States, currently the most powerful country in the world, and Canada’s southern neighbor and regional partner in developing environmental policy that affects the northern Americas directly and all of the Americas indirectly. Our argument is made first generally, and then specifically using involvement and reaction to the goals set out by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC), where, along with Mexico, Canada and the United States play leading roles. The basic contention of this paper is that the vision for and goals of the CEC are much more aligned with the way Canada perceives the way international environmental policymaking should be governed, and that by fostering that vision, Canada counters the tendency of the present-day United States administration to go at it alone, and thereby provides a linkage to other countries in the Americas to position themselves for participation in regional environmental policymaking.

scholarly journals Exclaves

2005 ◽  
Vol 18 (43) ◽  
pp. 107-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Honoré M. Catudal
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Nation State ◽  
The World ◽  
Large Populations ◽  
Political Value ◽  
The Way

The problems raised by territorial fragmentation are perhaps nowhere more acute in instances where a portion of one state, completely surrounded by another, is found to exist. For the exclave or enclave — depending upon one's point of view — disturbs the internal functioning of the surrounding country by, as it were, puncturing a hole in its territory and creates difficulties as well for the administering state. Although the existence of exclaves and enclaves is little known, they are not uncommon phenomena. In fact, there are almost twice the number of exclaves (enclaves) in the world as states. For the most part, these extraordinary territories are rather small, and they do not have large populations. They consist to a great extent of single villages and adjacent lands, farm areas and tiny garden plots. All are situated relatively near to the « mother-land ». It is recognized that the very diminutiveness of these disconnected areas and their lack of strategic significance limits their military and political value. Nevertheless, they do point up the problems of territorial fragmentation and the importance of territorial continuity. Moreover, the way in which states treat them has important implications for those scholars who debate whether or not the « territoriality » of the nation-state is bound to vanish.

scholarly journals BHINNEKA TUNGGAL IKA DAN KONFLIK SOSIAL; (KHAZANAH MULTIKULTURAL INDONESIA DI ERA POST TRUTH)

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Masduki Duryat ◽  
H. Moch Sholeh ◽  
Fahmi Arfan ◽  
Muchsin ◽  
Faisal ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Nation State ◽  
The World ◽  
Strategic Role ◽  
Unity In Diversity ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
The Way

Indonesia is one of the largest multicultural countries in the world, this can be seen from the sociocultural and geographical conditions of Indonesia that are so complex, diverse and broad. As a plural and heterogeneous country, Indonesia has the potential for multi-ethnic, multicultural, and multi-religious wealth, all of which are potentials to build a large multicultural nation "multicultural nation-state". This nation-state         multicultural can be double charged; integration or conflict, which must be held together with full wisdom and nuances of tasamuh in the midst of society.   As we understand together, the formation of the State of Indonesia on the basis of its country was formulated with a long and bloody struggle until it was proclaimed on August 17, 1945. The proclamation was also preceded by a long debate about the shape of the country - given the reality of Indonesia's plurality as a nation. as the foundation of the State, with the motto of Unity in Diversity.   The effort for Indonesia to survive as a multicultural country continues to be carried out mainly by strengthening education (religion). Because education is believed to have a strategic role to build and restore the way of thinking and attitudes of students into a level that understands pluralism in society

Becoming Politicized

2017 ◽  
Vol 225 (4) ◽  
pp. 324-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitrios Barkas ◽  
Xenia Chryssochoou
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Political Socialization ◽  
Greek Society ◽  
Economic Vulnerability ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Identity Model ◽  
Beliefs About The Future ◽  
Of Greece ◽  
The Way

Abstract. This research took place just after the end of the protests following the killing of a 16-year-old boy by a policeman in Greece in December 2008. Participants (N = 224) were 16-year-olds in different schools in Attiki. Informed by the Politicized Collective Identity Model ( Simon & Klandermans, 2001 ), a questionnaire measuring grievances, adversarial attributions, emotions, vulnerability, identifications with students and activists, and questions about justice and Greek society in the future, as well as about youngsters’ participation in different actions, was completed. Four profiles of the participants emerged from a cluster analysis using representations of the conflict, emotions, and identifications with activists and students. These profiles differed on beliefs about the future of Greece, participants’ economic vulnerability, and forms of participation. Importantly, the clusters corresponded to students from schools of different socioeconomic areas. The results indicate that the way young people interpret the events and the context, their levels of identification, and the way they represent society are important factors of their political socialization that impacts on their forms of participation. Political socialization seems to be related to youngsters’ position in society which probably constitutes an important anchoring point of their interpretation of the world.

Restrained Airs: The Diegetic Surface and Nondiegetic Depth of British Film Music

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 429-443
Author(s):  
Paul Mazey
Keyword(s):  
Film Music ◽  
The World ◽  
British Cinema ◽  
Film Making ◽  
The Way

This article considers how pre-existing music has been employed in British cinema, paying particular attention to the diegetic/nondiegetic boundary and notions of restraint. It explores the significance of the distinction between diegetic music, which exists in the world of the narrative, and nondiegetic music, which does not. It analyses the use of pre-existing operatic music in two British films of the same era and genre: Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1952), and demonstrates how seemingly subtle variations in the way music is used in these films produce markedly different effects. Specifically, it investigates the meaning of the music in its original context and finds that only when this bears a narrative relevance to the film does it cross from the diegetic to the nondiegetic plane. This reveals that whereas music restricted to the diegetic plane may express the outward projection of the characters' emotions, music also heard on the nondiegetic track may reveal a deeper truth about their feelings. In this way, the meaning of the music varies depending upon how it is used. While these two films may differ in whether or not their pre-existing music occupies a nondiegetic or diegetic position in relation to the narrative, both are characteristic of this era of British film-making in using music in an understated manner which expresses a sense of emotional restraint and which marks the films with a particularly British inflection.

Profilometry. Using Corneo-scleral topography for scleral lens fitting

The Eye ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (128) ◽  
pp. 19-22
Author(s):  
Gregory DeNaeyer
Keyword(s):  
Ocular Surface ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Contact Lenses ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Way

The world-wide use of scleral contact lenses has dramatically increased over the past 10 year and has changed the way that we manage patients with corneal irregularity. Successfully fitting them can be challenging especially for eyes that have significant asymmetries of the cornea or sclera. The future of scleral lens fitting is utilizing corneo-scleral topography to accurately measure the anterior ocular surface and then using software to design lenses that identically match the scleral surface and evenly vault the cornea. This process allows the practitioner to efficiently fit a customized scleral lens that successfully provides the patient with comfortable wear and improved vision.

Security Concern and Countermeasures for Cheating in Visual Cryptography

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (8) ◽  
pp. 277
Author(s):  
Ekta Y
Keyword(s):  
Communication System ◽  
Visual Cryptography ◽  
Detection Methods ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
New Approach ◽  
The World ◽  
Visual Cryptography Scheme ◽  
Prevention Methods ◽  
Security Concern

As IT sector is ruling the world now,confidentiality and security of information has become the most important inseparable aspect in information communication system. Keeping in view the same, a new approach called Visual Cryptography (VC) has been suggested by many researchers but there are some limitations with this scheme and cheating is one of the main problem among them. This paper intends to show the basis of cheating in VC in terms of cheating process, its detection methods and its prevention methods suggested by various researchers along with their merits and demerits. Finally, a good Cheating Immune Visual Cryptography Scheme (CIVCS) has been discussed which states the properties to be adopted by every Visual Cryptography scheme to make it immune to cheating attacks.

Los criterios de textualidad en la hermenéutica de Paul Ricoeur. Un análisis crítico

2008 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrián Bertorello
Keyword(s):  
Structural Analysis ◽  
Reading Strategies ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Material Base ◽  
The World ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
Text Writing ◽  
The Way

RESUMENEl trabajo examina críticamente la afirmación central de la hermenéutica de Paul Ricoeur, a saber, que el soporte material de la escritura es el rasgo determinante para que una secuencia discursiva sea considerada como un texto. La escritura cancela las condiciones fácticas de la enunciación y crea, de este modo, un ámbito de sentido estable en el que se puede validar una concepción de la subjetividad que está implicada en las dos estrategias de lecturas (el análisis estructural y la apropiación), esto es, un sujeto pasivo que se constituye por la idealidad del significado. Asimismo, el trabajo intentará precisar una serie de ambigüedades en el uso que Ricoeur hace del «ser en el mundo» para sostener la referencialidad del discurso.PALABRAS CLAVETEXTO, ESCRITURA, REFERENCIA, SUBJETIVIDAD, MUNDOABSTRACTThis paper critically examines the main assertion of Paul Ricoeur´s hermeneutics, i.e., that the material base of writing is the determining feature to consider a discursive sequence as a text. Writing cancels the factual conditions of enunciation and creates, in this way, a background of stable meaning where it is possible to validate a conception of subjectivity implicated in the two reading strategies (the structural analysis and the appropriation), i.e., a passive subject constituted by the ideality of meaning. Likewise, this paper aims to clarify some ambiguities in the way Ricoeur uses the «beings in the world» to support the discourse referentiality.KEY WORDSTEXT, WRITING, REFERENCE, SUBJECTIVITY, WORLD

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