Silence and Catastrophe: New Reasons Why Politics Matters in the Early Years of the Twenty-first Century

2012 ◽  
Vol 83 (4) ◽  
pp. 660-668 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN KEANE
Keyword(s):  
Early Years ◽  
First Century ◽  
Twenty First Century

scholarly journals Body Surrogates: Mannequins, Life-Size Dolls, and Avatars

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Francesco Spampinato
Keyword(s):  
Early Years ◽  
First Century ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Material Conditions

One of the tropes of these early years of the twenty-first century is that of the avatar, a virtual representation of a human being used for entertainment, educational, technical, or scientific purposes. The avatar is a product of digital culture, but its origins are coeval with those of the human being and its evolution is affected by material conditions and the level of technology currently achieved by a given society. The origin of the word “avatar” has a spiritual connotation: It was associated with Hinduism and used to describe a deity who took a terrestrial form. More generally, however, whether in terms of religion or computing, we could define the avatar as a surrogate, a body—real or virtual—that replaces another.

Introduction: The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Anatolia

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory McMahon ◽  
Sharon Steadman
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Early Years ◽  
First Century ◽  
Current Understanding ◽  
Alexander The Great ◽  
Human Occupation ◽  
Group Language ◽  
Introductory Article ◽  
Twenty First Century

This introductory article presents an overview of the current book. The early years of the twenty-first century mark roughly a century of serious scholarly study of ancient Anatolia, and this book represents a synthesis of current understanding at the end of this century of scholarship. It documents close to ten millennia of human occupation in Anatolia, from the earliest Neolithic to the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BCE. The book is also defined geographically, rather than by a culture, ethnic group, language, or polity. A brief description of its five parts is presented.

scholarly journals Ride Like the Wind

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 447-464
Author(s):  
Rod E. Wetsel ◽  
Steven K. DeWolf
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Early Years ◽  
First Century ◽  
New Era ◽  
Twenty First Century

The large-scale wind industry arrived in Texas in the early years of the twenty-first century with the intensity of a spring tornado. It was a welcome relief to farmers and ranchers beset by years of no rain and falling prices, and they lined up in droves to hear about and sign new wind leases. It was a new dawn for energy lawyers too. Gone were the days of one-on-one representation in the leasing of land. The new era required landowner attorneys to represent dozens or perhaps hundreds of people at a time. This is the story of the issues and challenges brought by the concurrent rise of wind development and multi-party wind lease negotiations in Texas.

Fate, Choice and the Birth of Risk

Futureproof ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 19-41
Author(s):  
Jon Coaffee
Keyword(s):  
Early Years ◽  
First Century ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Scientific Explanations ◽  
The Past ◽  
Historical Processes ◽  
The Future ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Way

This chapter tells the story of how ideas of resilience emerged as the go-to futureproofing idea in the early years of the twenty-first century. It has a long history dating back to pre-modern times and extends through the advancement of associated ideas of ‘risk’. Tracing the deeper development of changes in the way hazards and disasters have been historically viewed, and vulnerability felt, by human civilisations of the past, is vital to understanding the roots of contemporary dilemmas and the growing influence of ideas of resilience in the twenty-first century. There are long-term historical processes that have defined the contours of society and the slowly evolving structures that collectively symbolise how the need to be able to account for hazards and disasters has reshaped our world. As such, this is a story of religious versus scientific explanations, and of enhancing the ability to control the future through better knowledge about what is in store and the likelihood of certain events occurring.

Mappila literature as a paradigm for countercultures: Reading Moinkutty Vaidyar in context

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-39
Author(s):  
Abdullah Abdul Hameed
Keyword(s):  
Literary History ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Early Years ◽  
First Century ◽  
Social Reformer ◽  
Creative Genius ◽  
Twenty First Century

Abstract Recent studies on Mappila literature revisit Mappila culture in an attempt to understand the 'Mappila Muslim' beyond earlier representations by colonial and nationalist scholarship. Mappila literature is studied as a paradigm for understanding traditions of dissent and resistance by indigenous communities in colonized contexts. This article positions Mappila poet Moinkutty Vaidyar in a lineage of Mappila writings of resistance in Arabic, Arabimalayalam and Malayalam, and studies Vaidyar's works as a continuum of Mappila counterculture while also placing him as a link between two distinct eras in Kerala's literary history through synchronic and diachronic reading of Malayalam literary history. It critically explores the reasons behind marginalization of Mappila literature by mainstream academic studies until the early years of twenty-first century. While considering Moinkutty Vaidyar as a continuum of the Mappila counterculture, this research also presents a case for Vaidyar as an anti-orthodox social reformer, a secular thinker, a successor of the pāttu and bhakti traditions, a harbinger of romanticism and modernism in Kerala's literature and finally as the creative genius who created a new linguistic and literary landscape for Mappila society.

scholarly journals If Indonesia is Too Hard to Understand, Let�s Start with Bali

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graeme MacRae
Keyword(s):  
Early Years ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Media ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
The Way

Stereotypical representations, especially those by the media, are for most outsideobservers, the means and an obstacle to understanding Indonesia. One way aroundsuch stereotypes is to look at the way Indonesians themselves understand Indonesia. This essay reports and re?ects on Balinese understandings of Indonesia in the wake of the political, economic and terrorist upheavals of the early years of the twenty-first century. It concludes with an epilogue and update, arguing that the real issues for understanding Indonesia are now environmental.

scholarly journals A Historical Approach to Social Studies Laboratory Method

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
James Mauch ◽  
Bulent Tarman
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Laboratory Method ◽  
Early Years ◽  
First Century ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Past Century ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Studies Teacher ◽  
Twenty First Century

In the early years of Social Studies education, great attention was given to "Social Studies Laboratories" and a teaching and learning pedagogy called "The Laboratory Method"  This study examines historical documents about the development of the social studies laboratory. The researchers examined certain periodicals published in the US such as Education, The Historical Outlook and The History Teacher's Magazine along with the non-experimental historical research methodology. In an age of inquiry-based projects and "hands-on" approaches to the learning of Social Studies, a brief historical overview of the foundations of such approaches in the Social Studies seems appropriate from US perspective.  Parallels are drawn by using comparative approach, and suggestions made, for a twenty-first century approach to a Social Studies Laboratory and a Laboratory Method of teaching the many disciplines that define the Social Studies. The findings of this study indicate that despite the social studies classroom, method and laboratory may have changed a great deal over the past century, the goals of the social studies teacher have not changed.  The social studies teacher still works to keep his or her students actively engaged in learning, still works to help them learn new concepts and skills, and still works to help each and every student succeed.  Above all, the social studies teacher still looks for strategies and tools to help students prepare for life outside of the classroom.  In conclusion, a valuable lesson is to be learned from the early development of the social studies laboratory: the room, the technology and the innovative ideas are meaningless unless accompanied by a commitment to move toward student-centered activities and learning, a twenty-first century version of the "laboratory method".  It is when technological access becomes inexorably entwined with teaching strategies that empower students to use, develop and critique the technology that substantive learning takes place in the social studies classroom.

Conclusion

2020 ◽  
pp. 269-280
Author(s):  
Arnold Michael
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Early Years ◽  
First Century ◽  
Technology Appropriation ◽  
Household Relations ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Domestic Lives ◽  
Media And Communication

The conclusion returns to the book’s key concerns and themes: the particular, the contextual, and the messiness of household media ecologies, as demonstrated through the various stages of technology appropriation, maintenance, negotiation, non-use, and displacement that have unfolded and mutated in the early years of the twenty-first century. It considers the broad range of ways in which people embrace digital media in their daily domestic lives; reflects on the ongoing changes in domestic media and communication technologies, platforms, and infrastructures; and addresses the broader implications of digital media materialities for contemporary household relations, economics, and environments.

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