Toward A Multicultural Society?

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
William A. Barbieri
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Diversity ◽  
German Society ◽  
First Century ◽  
Multicultural Society ◽  
World Cup ◽  
Political Forces ◽  
The World ◽  
Angela Merkel ◽  
Publicity Campaign ◽  
To Come

This article traces the multicultural German society that gradually came over after the reunification. In hosting the World Cup of 2006, Germany presented a new face to the world. The widely circulated image of the Afro-German footballer Gerald Asamoah in the publicity campaign ‘Du bist Deutschland’ advertised a Germany comfortable with its diversity and optimistic about its future prospects. The new German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, declared it time to relinquish the failed utopian dream of the multicultural society. These two snapshots reflect some of the divergent sensibilities and political forces in play as German society kicked off the twenty-first century amidst controversies over how best to come to terms with the ethnic diversity bequeathed by the ‘guest worker’ policies and various other migrations of the previous fifty years. This article further elaborates upon the conceptions of multiculturalism and the ideal and dialectics of the multicultural German society.

Qoheleth and the Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch

2008 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias Henze
Keyword(s):  
Human Condition ◽  
First Century ◽  
Present Essay ◽  
Ancient Israel ◽  
The World ◽  
To Come ◽  
Wisdom Tradition ◽  
The Impact

AbstractThe roots of early Jewish apocalypticism are diverse. Within the realm of ancient Israel, one of the main contributory streams is the wisdom tradition. The present essay examines the impact of Israel's sapiential tradition, and specifically of that of the book of Qoheleth, on the Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch, a Jewish apocalypse of the late first century C.E. My thesis is that, while both authors agree in their assessment of the present human condition, they draw dramatically different conclusions. Qoheleth persistently points to the limits and fallibility of this world and advises his readers to enjoy life before they die, whereas the author of 2 Baruch looks to the world to come and, in the meantime, calls on his readers to live their lives in compliance with the Mosaic Torah.

scholarly journals Niemiecka wizja miejsca Rosji w multipolarnym świecie

2017 ◽  
pp. 19-37
Author(s):  
Piotr Madajczyk
Keyword(s):  
German Society ◽  
First Century ◽  
Global Policy ◽  
Euro Zone ◽  
The World ◽  
Recent Debate ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Hybrid War ◽  
The One

The commonly held truth is that the attitude of German society and the German elite to Russia is different to the attitude of Poland. This is not entirely true because due to Russian policy, the Germans have become more critical of Russia in the twenty-first century than before. Germany, however, pursues a more global policy than Poland. As Russia and Germany are of great significance in Polish politics, it is important to question the German vision of Russia’s place in today’s multipolar world. This is all the more important given that Germany, as the strongest country in Europe and the one that stabilized the euro zone, has difficulty in defining its role in the international arena. It is only as a result of the recent debate about the hybrid war, that Germany has overcome its unilateral geo-economic perception of the world. It is clear that the Germans are facing a new challenge, which they have not been prepared for.

scholarly journals “It’s a big world in here”: Contemporary Voyage Drama and the Politics of Mobility

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fiona Wilkie
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Travel Narratives ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Political ◽  
Solo Performance ◽  
The World ◽  
To Come ◽  
Restoration England ◽  
To Receive

AbstractIn Renaissance and Restoration England, many popular plays functioned as “voyage dramas,” offering opportunities for vicarious tourism to their audiences (McInnis 2012). The theatre became one site in which to receive and negotiate information about elsewhere, at a time before mass access to travel was available. The tagline of London’s Young Vic theatre – “It’s a big world in here” – suggests that something of this spirit survives in twenty-first-century performance. It is a sentiment that we find also in the festival director Mark Ball’s assertion that “theatre is my map of the world.” But the version of the world created here is necessarily skewed by a politics of mobility (Cresswell 2010): the uneven frictions, routes, speeds, levels of comfort, and power relations affecting how theatre-makers and productions move around the world. And contemporary audiences are themselves likely to come to the theatre with multiple and unequal experiences of travel. This article asks what function contemporary voyage dramas serve in a context of the widespread mobility of people, finance, goods and ideas, and what might be the political challenges of representing travel in the theatre. It investigates the claim to authenticity, the negotiation of privilege and remoteness, and the role of the performer as mediator in theatrical travel narratives. In particular, it focuses on Simon McBurney’s solo performance

ASSESSMENT OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL PREPARATION OF THE NATIONAL TEAM OF THE FEDERAL PENITENTIARY SERVICE BEFORE THE WORLD CUP

2021 ◽  
pp. 119-124
Author(s):  
Иван Владимирович Сильдушкин ◽  
Мария Александровна Козлова
Keyword(s):  
Emotional State ◽  
First Century ◽  
Psychological State ◽  
Physical Aspect ◽  
World Cup ◽  
Psychological Preparation ◽  
National Team ◽  
Psychological Injuries ◽  
The World ◽  
State Motivation

В XXI в. проблема подготовки спортсменов к соревнованиям выходит на новый уровень. Если раньше внимание уделялось только физическому аспекту, то сегодня учитывается и психологическое состояние спортсмена. Тревожность, эмоциональное состояние, мотивация, предстартовый мандраж, «олимпийское спокойствие», состояние потока - это термины, которые используют при работе со спортсменами, и спортивный психолог важен так же, как тренер или врач. Совместная продуктивная работа этих специалистов - залог успешного выступления на соревнованиях. Сбой работы одного ставит под угрозу всю подготовку в целом. Так, психологические барьеры, которые спортсмен не в состоянии преодолеть самостоятельно, ведут к ухудшению результатов, а иногда и к психологическим травмам. Нередко восстановление психического здоровья спортсмена занимает даже больше времени, чем физического. К сожалению, некоторые тренеры и сами атлеты не уделяют должного внимания психологической составляющей тренировочного процесса, особенно в России. В статье сделана попытка рассмотреть уровень психологической подготовки спортсменов сборной команды ФСИН России в период проведения учебно-тренировочных сборов перед чемпионатом мира и доказать, что эмоциональное состояние также важно, как и физическая подготовка. In the twenty-first century, the problem of preparing athletes for competitions is reaching a new level. If earlier attention was paid only to the physical aspect, today, the psychological state of the athlete becomes on a par with the prepared body. Anxiety, emotional state, motivation, pre-start jitters, Olympic calm, state of flow - these are terms that are used when working with athletes, and a sports psychologist is as important as a coach or doctor. All these three components together are the key to successful performance in competitions. The failure of one puts the entire training at risk. Very often this happens because of problems in the head. Psychological barriers that the athlete is not able to overcome on their own lead to poor results, and sometimes to psychological injuries. The recovery of an athlete's mental health may take even longer than the physical one. Unfortunately, some coaches and athletes themselves do not pay enough attention to sports psychology, especially in Russia. The article attempts to examine the level of psychological preparation of athletes of the Russian Federal penitentiary service team during the training camp before the world Cup and prove that emotional state is as important as physical training.

How French is ‘French’ Sport?

2015 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 253-268
Author(s):  
Philip Dine
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
The State ◽  
Multicultural Society ◽  
World Cup ◽  
The World ◽  
National Model ◽  
The Media ◽  
Multiple Challenges

This article explores how sports in France have responded to the challenges of globalization, and also to the opportunities of an increasingly multicultural society. Two case studies are offered in which a distinctive national model may be seen to have been exposed to powerful transnational forces between 1985 and 2015, a period which also corresponds to sport's digital age. The sports primarily targeted are football and athletics, the most visibly international of modern games, as highlighted by their quadrennial showcases: the World Cup and the Olympic Games. The resulting case studies are intended to suggest some of the ways in which the state, the media and the relevant federations have responded to the multiple challenges of the corporate-financed and electronically mediated ‘global sporting system’. Featured athletes include Zinedine Zidane, Lilian Thuram, Marie-José Pérec and Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad.

scholarly journals Patricipation of international organizations and national states in solving the modern migration crisis

2020 ◽  
pp. 13-31
Author(s):  
Vira Burdiak
Keyword(s):  
International Organizations ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Migration Policy ◽  
Potential Effect ◽  
Global Migration ◽  
World Community ◽  
Political Forces ◽  
The World ◽  
Migration Crisis ◽  
To Come

The article analyzes the essence of decisions and activities of leading international organizations in resolving the current migration crisis, as well as the perception of the world community of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular migration, which was developed under the auspices of the UN and adopted by the member countries of this organization on December 10, 2018 in Marrakesh (Morocco). This was the first international compromise agreement between the donor- and recipient-countries. More than 160 States have signed the Compact, believing that it is long overdue for the international community to come to a more realistic understanding of global migration. Some countries refused to sign the Compact, including seven EU States and Ukraine. The content of the Compact is aimed at liberalizing the migration regime, which explains why it was rejected by many governments and political forces. Non-acceptance of the Compact by a number of countries that have accepted migrants reduces the potential effect of its application. However, it can be useful for improving the efficiency of legal migration, regulating the employment of skilled labour, which is of interest to the recipientcountries. The crisis in the migration policy of some countries has shown that the low level of harmonization of national legislation on refugee shelter has significantly contributed to the spread of the disaster and the increase in the number of asylum seekers that the countries had to accept on their territory.

The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition'

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Cook ◽  
Nu'aym b. Hammad al-Marwazi
Keyword(s):  
Civil Wars ◽  
The World ◽  
End Of The World ◽  
To Come

“The Book of Tribulations by Nu`aym b. Hammad al-Marwazi (d. 844) is the earliest Muslim apocalyptic work to come down to us. Its contents focus upon the cataclysmic events to happen before the end of the world, the wars against the Byzantines, and the Turks, and the Muslim civil wars. There is extensive material about the Mahdi (messianic figure), the Muslim Antichrist and the return of Jesus, as well as descriptions of Gog and Magog. Much of the material in Nu`aym today is utilized by Salafi-jihadi groups fighting in Syria and Iraq.

Slavery and the Trumpocene: It's Not the End of the World

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-50
Author(s):  
Claire Colebrook
Keyword(s):  
Living System ◽  
Racial Violence ◽  
First Century ◽  
The West ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
End Of The World ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Geological Period

There is something more catastrophic than the end of the world, especially when ‘world’ is understood as the horizon of meaning and expectation that has composed the West. If the Anthropocene is the geological period marking the point at which the earth as a living system has been altered by ‘anthropos,’ the Trumpocene marks the twenty-first-century recognition that the destruction of the planet has occurred by way of racial violence, slavery and annihilation. Rather than saving the world, recognizing the Trumpocene demands that we think about destroying the barbarism that has marked the earth.

Music and Memory: The Tlatelolco Refrain

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Josh Kun
Keyword(s):  
State Violence ◽  
First Century ◽  
Student Movements ◽  
Octavio Paz ◽  
Mexican History ◽  
The Past ◽  
Rock Bands ◽  
To Come ◽  
Musical Memory ◽  
A Current

Ever since the 1968 student movements and the events surrounding the Tlatelolco massacre, Mexico City rock bands have openly engaged with the intersection of music and memory. Their songs offer audiences a medium through which to come to terms with the events of the past as a means of praising a broken world, to borrow the poet Adam Zagajewski’s phrase. Contemporary songs such as Saúl Hernández’s “Fuerte” are a twenty-first-century voicing of the ceaseless revolutionary spirit that John Gibler has called “Mexico unconquered,” a current of rebellion and social hunger for justice that runs in the veins of Mexican history. They are the latest additions to what we might think about as “the Mexico unconquered songbook”: musical critiques of impunity and state violence that are rooted in the weaponry of memory, refusing to focus solely on the present and instead making connections with the political past. What Octavio Paz described as a “swash of blood” that swept across “the international subculture of the young” during the events in Tlatelolco Plaza on October 2, 1968, now becomes a refrain of musical memory and political consciousness that extends across eras and generations. That famous phrase of Paz’s is a reminder that these most recent Mexican musical interventions, these most recent formations of a Mexican subculture of the young, maintain a historically tested relationship to blood, death, loss, and violence.

LINGUACULTURAL ASPECT OF TEMPORAL NOMINATIONS

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (30) ◽  
pp. 200-213
Author(s):  
Anna Shapoval
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Experimental Analysis ◽  
Information Resource ◽  
Basic System ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Lunar Calendar ◽  
Temporal System ◽  
The World ◽  
To Come

Analysis of linguocultural aspect of temporal nominations is impossible without involving the problems of hrononymic lexics. Chrononyms is an important information resource of a certain linguaculture, some distinctive peculiarities of conceptual picture of the world. The aim of the experimental analysis is a complex examination of the linguacultural aspect of temporal nominations that function in Chinese and Turkish languages reflecting the concepts of the world. The research was based on the material of the novels “Imperial woman” by Pearl Buck and “Roxolana” by Pavlo Zagrebelniy. The analysis of recent scientific publications allowed us to come to the conclusion that the investigation of hrononymic lexics can involve different theoretical and practical principles. Being guided by the existing classifications of chrononyms (N. Podolskaya, M. Torchinsky, S. Remmer) the linguocultural features of the following types of temporal chrononymic lexical units were identified and studied in the research: georthonyms, dynastic chrononyms, tumultonyms, parsonyms and mensonyms. The results of the research demonstrate that not all lexical units of temporal denotation chosen from the above mentioned novels refer to the class of chrononyms. The group under investigation includes the following lexemes: nominations of the lunar calendar, nominations of the solar calendar, nominations of mixed calendar and temporal slots denoting day and night. The basic system of chronology in the linguiacultures under analysis is the dominance of the lunar calendar nominations (Chinese picture of the world — 51,0 %, Turkish — 40,4 %). In the analyzed works the nominations of the solar calendar are used less often in the Chinese picture of the world; the usage of this unit reaches 20 %, and this phenomenon is historically conditioned. Mixed calendar nominations (21 % of temporal units) are rather common, solar calendar nominations are refined by the monthly calendar; it can be explained by the fact that the Chinese mind is conservative towards the new temporal system. In the Turkish picture of the world 45 % of temporal vocabulary belongs to the solar calendar since in the sixteenth century only a lunar calendar operated in the Ottoman Empire. It should be mentioned that significant place in the temporal vocabulary of “Roxolana” is conditioned by the influence of the linguistic personality of the author, who was a Ukrainian.

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