scholarly journals The tragedy of conservation

FACETS ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 195-214
Author(s):  
Raymond A. Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Conservation Strategies ◽  
Ethical Challenge ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Strategic Integration ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Commons ◽  
Critical Literature ◽  
The Way

A central contention of this paper is that conservation strategies are failing because they have become increasingly integrated into, and share the assumptions of, the structures of capitalism. As a result, conservation is becoming a strategic specialty within capitalism, rather than an ethical challenge to its basic assumptions. The paper examines this integration by analysing the way Hardin’s argument in the “tragedy of the commons” metaphor was taken up by policy makers in Canada’s East Coast fishery and a case is made that, as seen in the case of the fishery, this strategic integration limited the analytical capability of conservation to highlight the causes of environmental degradation. The critical literature on Hardin’s model points to the failure to recognize the importance of social relations and local institutional arrangements in combatting environmental failure. This paper contributes to the importance of “the social” in conservation debates by emphasizing Polanyi’s contrasting definitions of formal and substantive economics and the way they relate to contrasting conceptions of tragedy, as set out by Hardin (formal tragedy from above) and Goldmann’s conception of a historically specific tragedy that can be described as substantive tragedy from below. The analytical failure associated with Hardin’s metaphor can serve as a cautionary tale for current strategic and specific conservation strategies that tend to downplay the importance of ethical and social issues.

scholarly journals A new myth regarding the Great Trek: Reinvention of identity in Die pad na skuilhoek [The path toSkuilhoek] by Hans du Plessis.

Literator ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marlies Taljard
Keyword(s):  
Social Issues ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Historical Novels ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Historical Interpretation ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Myth ◽  
The Way

This article aims to illustrate how Hans du Plessis, in his novel Die pad na Skuilhoek [The path to Skuilhoek] (a place of shelter), subverts the way in which history had been presented in historical novels in the past by addressing social issues that contemporary readers find relevant. The first part of the article deals with the social codes that shape the identities of the main characters and how these identities are relevant in terms of the social framework within which the novel is received. In the second place the focus will shift towards Du Plessis’s representation of cultural and national identities. The question: ‘Who were the Afrikaners at the time of the Great Trek?’ will be answered with reference to these identities. In conclusion it will be pointed out how Du Plessis avoids dated practices of historical interpretation by choosing ecocrticism as the ideological framework for his novel and is, in this way, constructing a new social myth about the Great Trek.

scholarly journals Fragile Visions of the Social: Rethinking Solidarity with the Performance Piece Faust and the TV-series Skam

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Schumann
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Late Capitalism ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
The Social ◽  
Venice Biennale ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
The Way

AbstractThe paper explores the portrayal of social relations among youth in the popular Norwegian TV-series Skam and places this analysis in relation to Anne Imhof’s award-winning performance piece Faust, which received the Golden Lion at the 2017 Venice Biennale for the German Pavilion. As expressions of how today’s youth experience social relations under the conditions of late capitalism, I examine the way in which the TV-series and the performance work respectively explore when and how ‘we’ is shaped. I argue that they provide particular insight into the limits and possibilities for the formation of relations of solidarity today.

Citizenship Across the Life Course

2018 ◽  
pp. 33-50
Author(s):  
Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Political Community ◽  
Mainland Chinese ◽  
Chinese Migrants ◽  
International Borders ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
The Way

Analyzing emigration, immigration, and re-migration concurrently, under the framework of contemporaneous migration, directs us toward evaluating what it means to stake claims to different components of citizenship in more than one political community across a migrant’s life course. This chapter examines the way the Mainland Chinese migrants negotiate social reproduction concerns that extend across international borders, their multiple national affiliations, and aspirations for recognition and rights as they journey between China and Canada across the life course. Patterns of re-migration are transforming the social relations of citizenship, re-spatializing rights, obligations, and belonging. Source and destination countries are also reversed during repeated re-migration or transnational sojourning. Transnational sojourning forges citizenship constellations that interlink how migrants understand and experience citizenship across different migration sites.

‘Book-Ends’: Statius Silvae 2.1 and 2.7

Ramus ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-77
Author(s):  
Carole Newlands
Keyword(s):  
Valuable Insight ◽  
Proper Understanding ◽  
The Social ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Critical Literature ◽  
The Way

My purpose in this article is straightforward, to counter some misconceptions about two of Statius' poems,Silu.2.1, his consolatory poem for the death of the twelve-year old Glaucias, andSilu.2.7, his consolatory poem for the death of the poet Lucan. These are the first and last poems of Book 2. Poems of lament and consolation constitute the majority of the poems of Statius'Siluae. Yet these poems have been generally dismissed as wearisomely rhetorical and have been largely overlooked in the critical literature aboutconsolationesas they endorse lamentation, elaborate upon it, and thus run counter to philosophical strictures against overt grief. Issues of class also surely play a role in their dismissal as trivial poems. Unlike Augustan poems of lament—for instance Ovid's poem on the death of Tibullus—two of the poems in Book 2 mourn a child of low birth and a young slave (Silu.2.1 andSilu.2.6). A proper understanding of the social occasions and circumstances in whichSilu.2.1 andSilu.2.7 are embedded, however, will show that they can offer valuable insight into contemporary Flavian society. Such an understanding moreover can point the way to a freshliteraryappreciation of these poems, although that is not the chief aim of this article.

Situating Open Data: Global Trends in Local Contexts

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danny Lämmerhirt ◽  
Ana Brandusescu ◽  
Natalia Domagala ◽  
Patrick Enaholo
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
Data Practices ◽  
Information Infrastructures ◽  
Open Government Data ◽  
The Social ◽  
Government Data

Open data and its effects on society are always woven into infrastructural legacies, social relations, and the political economy. This raises questions about how our understanding and engagement with open data shifts when we focus on its situated use. To shed a light on these questions, Situating Open Data provides several empirical accounts of open data practices, the local implementation of global initiatives, and the development of new open data ecosystems. Drawing on case studies in different countries and contexts, the chapters demonstrate the practices and actors involved in open government data initiatives unfolding within different socio-political settings. The book proposes three recommendations for researchers, policy-makers and practitioners. First, beyond upskilling through data literacy programmes, open data initiatives should be specified through the kinds of data practices and effects they generate. Second, global visions of open data implementation require more studies of the resonances and tensions created in localised initiatives. And third, research into open data ecosystems requires more attention to the histories and legacies of information infrastructures and how these shape who benefits from open data flows. As such, this volume departs from the framing of data as a resource to be deployed. Instead, it proposes a prism of different data practices in different contexts through which to study the social relations, capacities, infrastructural histories and power structures affecting open data initiatives. It is hoped that the contributions collected in Situating Open Data will spark critical reflection about the way open data is locally practiced and implemented. The contributions should be of interest to open data researchers, advocates, and those in or advising government administrations designing and rolling out effective open data initiatives.

Natural Capital

1994 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
pp. 169-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Holland
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Environmental Concern ◽  
Natural Capital ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Scientific Approach ◽  
Policy Community ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
The Way

Interest in the concept of natural capital stems from the key role which this concept plays in certain attempts to elucidate the goal of sustainable development—a goal which currently preoccupies environmental policy-makers. My purpose in this paper is to examine the viability of what, adapting an expression of Bryan Norton's, may be termed the ‘social scientific approach’ to natural capital (Norton, 1992, p. 97). This approach largely determines the way in which environmental concern is currently being represented in the environmental policy community.

scholarly journals TERRITÓRIO, CULTURA E IDENTIDADE nas vozes femininas da obra “Quilombolas do Tocantins – Palavras e Olhares”

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 114-128
Author(s):  
Rose Dayanne Santana Nogueira
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
The Social ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
The Way

O artigo proposto se constrói a partir do interesse nas vozes que ecoam das narrativas dos poemas concebidos por mulheres quilombolas, publicados no livro Quilombolas do Tocantins: Palavras e Olhares, da Defensoria Pública do Estado do Tocantins, e a forma como expressam traços do território, cultura e identidade, e as relações sociais de gênero estabelecidas nesse diálogo. A pesquisa possui uma abordagem qualitativa e utilizou o método da análise de conteúdo e de narrativas. Dos 17 poetas com trabalhos classificados para o livro, 11 são mulheres. Em seus versos, ao escreverem sobre a temática proposta, “Ser Quilombola”, as mulheres narram as relações que estabelecem com a cultura e com os territórios, papéis que desempenham nestes espaços, expressando assim suas identidades quilombolas.   PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Território; Cultura, Identidade; Mulheres Quilombolas.     ABSTRACT The proposed article builds on the interest in the voices that echo the narratives of the poems conceived by “quilombola” women, published in the book Quilombolas do Tocantins: Palavras e Olhares, by the Defensoria Pública do Estado do Tocantins, and the way they express traits of the territory, culture and identity, and the social relations of gender established in this dialogue. The research has a qualitative approach and used the method of content analysis and narratives. Of the 17 poets with classified papers for the book, 11 are women. In their verses, when writing about the proposed theme, "Being Quilombola", women narrate the relationships they establish with culture and with the territories, roles they play in these spaces, thus expressing their quilombola identities.   KEYWORDS: Territory; Culture; Identity; Quilombolas Women.     RESUMEN Analiza los titulares de la sección internacional en las portadas de los periódicos O Estado El artículo propuesto se construye a partir del interés en las voces que resuenan de las narrativas de los poemas concebidos por mujeres quilombolas, publicados en el libro “Quilombolas de Tocantins: Palavras e Olhares”, de la Defensoria Pública do Estado do Tocantins, y la forma como expresan rasgos del territorio, cultura e identidad, y las relaciones sociales de género establecidas en ese diálogo. La investigación tiene un enfoque cualitativo y utilizó el método del análisis de contenido y de narrativas. De los 17 poetas con trabajos clasificados para el libro, 11 son mujeres. En sus versos, al escribir sobre la temática propuesta, "Ser Quilombola" las mujeres narran las relaciones que establecen con la cultura y con los territorios, papeles que desempeñan en estos espacios, expresando así sus identidades quilombolas.   PALABRAS CLAVE: Territorio; Cultura, Identidad; Mujeres Quilombolas.      

scholarly journals Attachment to Mobile Phones across Social Contexts

2015 ◽  
pp. 222-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Burçe Çelik ◽  
Fırat Erdoğmuş
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Acceptance ◽  
Cultural Landscapes ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Social ◽  
Critical Literature

This article presents a critical literature review of the major works on mobile phone culture, which examine the whys and wherefores of this technology's popularity in different socio-economic and cultural landscapes. Thus, it focuses particularly on how these multiplicities and varieties have been discussed, analyzed and researched in the existing mobile phone literature. There are different lines of research which can be categorized as following: the major works (mostly empirical studies whose findings are based on fieldwork) that demonstrate the mobile phone's use and instrumental value for people who are physically mobile and need instantaneous and spontaneous connections with others; the works that focus on the social promise of the mobile phone such as providing a means of social acceptance, through implying social status and particular lifestyles to polish one's face and gain recognition in social relations; and finally the studies that emphasize the sensing, affecting and affected, and fantasies of the body and the collective in contemplating the bond between body and mobile phone.

A Comment on: “ State Capacity, Reciprocity, and the Social Contract” by Timothy Besley

Econometrica ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 88 (4) ◽  
pp. 1337-1343 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Bowles
Keyword(s):  
Social Contract ◽  
State Capacity ◽  
The State ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Policy Choices ◽  
Modeling Approaches ◽  
The Social ◽  
Historical Fact ◽  
The Way

Treating civic preferences as endogenous and government policies and tax capacities as both an influence on and a consequence of their evolution is an important new strand of thinking to which Besley has contributed. I ask: Does his model provide a convincing explanation of the way that civic cultures and the expansion of the state evolved as a matter of historical fact? And I suggest a number of alternative modeling approaches that both would recognize that policy makers take account of the effects of their policy choices on preferences and, consistent with empirical observations, would support equilibria with culturally heterogeneous rather than homogeneous populations.

Scripting Politics

2020 ◽  
pp. 229-264
Author(s):  
Laurens E. Tacoma
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
City Council ◽  
Central Position ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
The Social ◽  
Elite Identity ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

This chapter analyses the seventh characteristic of Roman political culture. The way that political institutions were functioning was based on the claim that they were central to society. Reality was different, and this produced ambiguities in the way elites positioned themselves. These can be analysed on the basis of the Ravenna papyri, which contain a number of reports of meetings of the city council of Ravenna and some other Italian cities. They show how a number of developments coalesced. First, the city council still formed a place to foster elite identity, but it did so in a society in which the traditional markers of elite identity were no longer adhered to by all, in which the church took over some of the social and economic roles, and in which some persons outside the council quite likely enjoyed a significantly higher level of wealth and status than the councillors themselves. Second, it shows what functions the remaining councils could perform, both at a practical and a symbolic level. By authenticating documents in accordance with the requirements of late-antique law, they performed an important practical notarial function. At a symbolic level, the elaborate procedures meant that social relations were enacted during the transactions. The council could assume—if only briefly—the central position in society that it still claimed. Third, it also shows the scripted quality of the proceedings. As the functions of the council and its role in society were reduced, role playing took over. Politics became literally scripted.

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