scholarly journals Australia’s Pursuit of Place in the World

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caitlin Byrne
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
British Empire ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Key Points ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Power And Powerlessness ◽  
Material Power ◽  
Central Claim

Australia’s place on the world stage has evolved dramatically over the past century. Although no longer preoccupied with isolation from the British Empire, Australia grapples with the challenges of its proximity at the apex of a diverse and dynamic Indo-Pacific. While holding out the aspirations of regional power with global interests, the island continent continues to be plagued by anxiety in its pursuit of place in a contested world. This chapter explores the contours of Australia’s contemporary place-making project. Recognizing the complexity of the subject matter, in which dimensions of history, memory, geography, economics, and culture collide, the chapter draws on the nation’s diplomatic practice as a lens through which to view the competing forces of change and continuity at play. It begins by noting that the theoretical underpinnings of Australian diplomacy raise interrelated concerns about material power and powerlessness, national security, and broad cultural values, all of which contribute to Australia’s evolving sense of place over key points in time. Despite claims that Australia’s approach to the outside world is gripped by repetitive impulses to ‘engage or retreat’, this chapter finds that ultimately, the nation’s place-making project tends towards openness over insularity, engagement over isolation, and activism over passivity. The central claim is that Australia’s constructive, yet pragmatic style of diplomacy—in its many forms—plays a critical though undervalued role in positioning the nation on the global and regional stage.

Sociocultural Foundations of Communication in Contemporary Society

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. 12-16
Author(s):  
Родин ◽  
A. Rodin
Keyword(s):  
Communication Networks ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
Life Strategy ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Key Points ◽  
Need For Approval ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Communication Practices

The problem of communication is considered as a phenomenon existing in the context of the interrelationship between the similarities and differences. The differences are connected with legitimation of interest in the subject of communication practices within the socio-cultural society (the similarities). It is revealed that the communication society culture exists as a unity of closely interrelated aspects — subjective and personal. The need for approval of the communicative model of personality as a multicultural entity creates prerequisites for radical changes in life strategy, the key points that make up the skills to be included in the growing complexity of communication networks, including the ability to create a new system of relationships (self-organization). All this does not only make the differences in culture explicit, but also stimulates the next stage of the socio-cultural development. It is concluded that the position of the subject, which has new communicative consciousness, may be changed. The basis for the mechanism of personal comprehension of the world is an innovative activity of the multicultural subject.

“I have called you friends”: Toward a pedagogy of friendship in the classroom

2020 ◽  
pp. 193979092095190
Author(s):  
Noel Forlini Burt
Keyword(s):  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
12Th Century ◽  
Spiritual Friendship ◽  
Contemporary Christian ◽  
The World ◽  
Primary Means ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Paul Griffiths ◽  
Central Claim

Aelred of Rievaulx, a 12th-century Cistercian abbot, penned a powerful dialogue about the complexity of friendship titled Spiritual Friendship. Aelred’s central claim is that friendship is the primary means through which Christ’s love enters the world. In this article, I apply Aelred’s insights on spiritual friendship to argue that Christ is the Friend at the center of the classroom. In particular, I suggest pedagogical practices that facilitate friendship as a Christian virtue, compelling learners to befriend one another, to befriend the subject, and to befriend God. Aelred does not suggest that everyone whom we love is to be a spiritual friend. Rather, those whom we choose to befriend are to be tested caringly and critically for their adherence to virtue. With the help of my ancient, theologian friends (Aelred, Augustine) and my friends who are leading voices in contemporary Christian pedagogy (David Smith, James K. A. Smith, Paul Griffiths), I aim to teach students to empathize with authors (and other learners) with whom they disagree, even to befriend them, even as they test whether those ideas are to be drawn into friendship.

scholarly journals LOCAL WISDOM IN CLASSICAL PERSIAN TEXT

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bastian Zulyeno
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Human Power ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Mind

The literary work of every nation is our window to witness the spirit of the nation. There are many ways in which various nations of the world share their taste, feelings, desires and wishes, one of them is especially through literary works. These are conveyed in theater, tragedy, comedy, and also through the medium of stories and fairy tales, as well as poetry. The Persians chose poetry as the best medium to explore the taste of their inner nature. Local wisdom, also called hereditary cultural heritage, is formed by nature and habitus in the arena of oral and written culture. Word "wisdom" implies a kind of firmness and conviction, and applies to anything solid and impenetrable, whether material or spiritual. Wisdom also is the science in which the facts of things are discussed, as they are in the soul of al-Amr as much as human power and ability. The subject of wisdom is matter of things outside and in the mind, its usefulness is the attainment of perfection in life, salvation and goodness. Knowing the local wisdom of other nations can make us feel the cultural values of the nation. This paper there are several examples of poetry and prose from Persian classical writers those contain the meaning of local wisdom. The purpose of this research is to assess and reveal the local wisdom in classical Persia literary works with qualitative approach and method obtaining data based on library methodology.

Afterword

2020 ◽  
pp. 104-108
Author(s):  
Kirsten A. Greer
Keyword(s):  
British Empire ◽  
Migratory Birds ◽  
Historical Geography ◽  
Lower Class ◽  
Migratory Bird ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Colonial Culture ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
British Colonial

While the subject of birds might seem benign in comparison with the more overt acts of colonial violence of slavery and famine, this afterword reflects on the importance of a self-awareness and sensitivity of one’s position in the world as a result of the institutions, practices, and identities that emerged from the British Empire is still needed in order to deconstruct and challenge the “colonial amnesia” of cultures of nature in particular places, such as in Malta. The annual presence of British “moral” birdwatchers as a means to combat the “savage” Maltese pothunter will not resolve the migratory bird hunting issue in Malta—it only repeats a stereotype and enlivens old tensions within a British colonial culture of nature that marginalized lower-class Maltese in the nineteenth century. As this book demonstrates, the stereotype of the colonial Maltese pothunter continues to circulate in Europe. A critical historical geography of empire can help to trace some of the genealogies of colonial cultures of nature in particular places such as the Mediterranean, and to contextualize tensions among different actants in conservation efforts dedicated to migratory birds.

American Folk Dance and Movement

2018 ◽  
pp. 323-343
Author(s):  
Eric César Morales
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Folk Dance ◽  
Cultural Group ◽  
Oral Storytelling ◽  
Moving Body ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Cross Cultural Analysis

This chapter examines the moving body as a performance site for cultural values and histories in America. It encourages cross-cultural analysis of structured movement systems that include both dance and nondance, while also examining historical approaches to dance and how dance can serve practical and aesthetic purposes. Dance is a powerful vehicle for understanding folklore since populations around the world transmit their folktales, mythologies, and histories physically—in conjunction with or in lieu of oral storytelling. Attempts to define folk dance and the forms of movement that are included in relation to tradition, mostly from anthropology, are covered and the suggestion is made to develop folkloristic approaches to the subject. This essay locates current conceptualizations of folk, ethnic, and American dance, and it suggests that folkloristics can better analyze dance, specifically narrative dance, through the metaframework of choreopoetics. This is an approach grounded in methexis rather than mimesis that engages with the community-centered aspects of narrative dance, analyzing it as a holistic unit and taking into account the staging, movement, costuming, music, and unseen layers deemed important by a cultural group.

scholarly journals Трансформация культурных ценностей в России. Зарисовка проблематики

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 35-49
Author(s):  
Mikołaj Mazuś
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Eastern Orthodox ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
Literature And Politics ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Definition Of

The transformation of cultural values in Russia. An outline of the issue of culture in the broadest sense of the world is the entirety of various manifestations of human life. Therefore it is one of the most commonly used concepts in humanistic works. One can refer to culture by raising a number of topics – arts, literature and human mind. When there is a need for a precise definition of culture, certain problems occur. Polish scholar Bronisław Malinowski points out that culture can be understood as human activity in general, including ideas, religious and spiritual issues, art, literature, and politics. Such an approach to culture can lead to the neglection of the historical process. The subject of the present study are selected religious pieces from the period of tsar Peter I.Key words: Russia; Peter I; history vs. literature; Eastern Orthodox Church;

scholarly journals The Sociology of Civilisations: Ibn Khaldun and a Multi-Civilisational World Order

2008 ◽  
Vol 36 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 516-546
Author(s):  
Ali Nizamuddin ◽  
Recep Şentürk
Keyword(s):  
World Order ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Ibn Khaldun ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
The One ◽  
Societal Relations

AbstractDue to advancements in telecommunications and transportation over the past century, the world is shrinking and physical boundaries are being eroded. The advent of globalization has facilitated the flow of ideas, values, goods, and people from one part of the world to another. This hyperbolic human activity has altered the structure of inter-civilizational relations and has spawned a spirited debate on how to create a multi-civilizational world order. This paper is critical of contemporary approaches on the subject that envisage the primacy of one civilization on the one hand and a clash among civilizations on the other. By examining Ibn Khaldun's theory of 'Umrān and the discipline of Fiqh, it argues that these concepts remain relevant for our understanding of the human condition today. While the theory of Umrān analyzes political and economic relations at the macro-level, Fiqh tries to arrange societal relations at the micro-level. This paper also studies the Ottoman legacy since the Ottoman state was founded on Fiqh and the Millet system. It proved to be successful in preserving pluralistic communities based on principles of autonomy and mutual coexistence. Even though Ibn Khaldun was one of the pioneers in the field of civilizational studies, his seminal work is largely neglected in scholarly circles today, both Muslim and non-Muslim alike. The present inquiry seeks to address this shortcoming.

scholarly journals Clearing the Smoke to See the Screen: Ideological Manipulation in Audiovisual Translation

2013 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 279-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge Díaz Cintas
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Audiovisual Translation ◽  
Ideological Manipulation ◽  
Special Case ◽  
Cultural Turn

In this article, a critical and methodological approach is offered concerning the subject of manipulation and translation in the realm of the audiovisual. Taking the potentialities unleashed by the cultural turn in Translation Studies as a starting point, the paper first provides an overview of the main hurdles and issues at stake when adopting a line of enquiry centred around the realisation that the way in which cultural values are translated depends not only on linguistic asymmetries between languages but also on fundamental decisions based on power, dominance, and ideology. As part of a debate that could prove fruitful in the world of audiovisual translation (AVT), the concept of manipulation is discussed in detail and a distinction between technical and ideological manipulation is put forward. After considering the special case of censorship and some of the new developments in the use of subtitling as a tool for local empowerment, it is suggested that the boundaries of research into AVT should be pushed beyond its traditionally parochial linguistic sphere by focussing more on unmasking the rationale behind ideologically motivated changes and by contextualising them within a wider socio-cultural environment.

Alignment

2016 ◽  
pp. 33-50
Author(s):  
Pier Giuseppe Rossi
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Enactive Approach ◽  
The World ◽  
Strategic Role ◽  
Education Today ◽  
Current Context ◽  
The Subject

The subject of alignment is not new to the world of education. Today however, it has come to mean different things and to have a heuristic value in education according to research in different areas, not least for neuroscience, and to attention to skills and to the alternation framework.This paper, after looking at the classic references that already attributed an important role to alignment in education processes, looks at the strategic role of alignment in the current context, outlining the shared construction processes and focusing on some of the ways in which this is put into effect.Alignment is part of a participatory, enactive approach that gives a central role to the interaction between teaching and learning, avoiding the limits of behaviourism, which has a greater bias towards teaching, and cognitivism/constructivism, which focus their attention on learning and in any case, on that which separates a teacher preparing the environment and a student working in it.

Power of Darkness: Narrative and Biographical Reflexivity in A Series of Unfortunate Events

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 200-212
Author(s):  
ELIZABETH BULLEN
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Risk Society ◽  
Project Risk ◽  
Young Readers ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
High Earning ◽  
Textual Culture ◽  
Children’S Exposure ◽  
Central Claim

This paper investigates the high-earning children's series, A Series of Unfortunate Events, in relation to the skills young people require to survive and thrive in what Ulrich Beck calls risk society. Children's textual culture has been traditionally informed by assumptions about childhood happiness and the need to reassure young readers that the world is safe. The genre is consequently vexed by adult anxiety about children's exposure to certain kinds of knowledge. This paper discusses the implications of the representation of adversity in the Lemony Snicket series via its subversions of the conventions of children's fiction and metafictional strategies. Its central claim is that the self-consciousness or self-reflexivity of A Series of Unfortunate Events} models one of the forms of reflexivity children need to be resilient in the face of adversity and to empower them to undertake the biographical project risk society requires of them.

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