Enslaved People in an Ancient Syrian City

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 68-91
Author(s):  
Luigi Turri
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Late Bronze Age ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Modern City ◽  
The Public ◽  
Amount Of Information ◽  
A Site

Abstract The cuneiform documents found at Tell Atchana, a site on the River Orontes not far from modern city of Antakya, are of pivotal importance for our knowledge of western Syrian society during the Middle and Late Bronze Age. These tablets from ancient Alalakh provide data relating to the city’s daily life and its social structure and administration. Compared to the large amount of information regarding free citizens, the material concerning slave laborers and menial workers—which is the topic of this article—is scanty and not always easy to interpret, for both the public and private sectors.

Placing the Nation: The Politics of Spatial Production at Auckland Airport and Wellington Airport

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Rachael Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Relations ◽  
Social Institution ◽  
Promotional Material ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Stories ◽  
International Airport ◽  
Spatial Production ◽  
A Site ◽  
The Relationship

<p>The airport is a site that blurs spatial boundaries. While primarily functioning to move aircraft and passengers between land and air, the airport is simultaneously a complex social institution that mediates the relationship between the local and global, the public and private, and national and international space. This thesis discusses the changing nature of Auckland International Airport and Wellington International Airport as spaces that are produced through a number of historical, economic and political contexts. Using spatial, cultural and critical theory along with concepts from human geography and mobilities research, this study examines each airport as a dynamic, ongoing process of spatial relations. Central to this analysis is the understanding that space, subjectivity and technologies of power produce and reproduce each other on different scales. Drawing upon news stories, promotional material, institutional representations and popular representations of Auckland and Wellington airports, the following thesis will explore the ways in which their spaces have been imagined, produced and used over time.</p>

Placing the Nation: The Politics of Spatial Production at Auckland Airport and Wellington Airport

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Rachael Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Relations ◽  
Social Institution ◽  
Promotional Material ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Stories ◽  
International Airport ◽  
Spatial Production ◽  
A Site ◽  
The Relationship

<p>The airport is a site that blurs spatial boundaries. While primarily functioning to move aircraft and passengers between land and air, the airport is simultaneously a complex social institution that mediates the relationship between the local and global, the public and private, and national and international space. This thesis discusses the changing nature of Auckland International Airport and Wellington International Airport as spaces that are produced through a number of historical, economic and political contexts. Using spatial, cultural and critical theory along with concepts from human geography and mobilities research, this study examines each airport as a dynamic, ongoing process of spatial relations. Central to this analysis is the understanding that space, subjectivity and technologies of power produce and reproduce each other on different scales. Drawing upon news stories, promotional material, institutional representations and popular representations of Auckland and Wellington airports, the following thesis will explore the ways in which their spaces have been imagined, produced and used over time.</p>

scholarly journals ‘Gifts for the gods’: lake-dwellers' macabre remedies against floods in the Central European Bronze Age

Antiquity ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 88 (340) ◽  
pp. 456-469 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Menotti ◽  
Benjamin Jennings ◽  
Hartmut Gollnisch-Moos
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Change ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Lake Level ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Alpine Region ◽  
Rich Source ◽  
Late Bronze Age ◽  
Central European

The lake-dwellings of the Circum-Alpine region have long been a rich source of detailed information about daily life in Bronze Age Europe, but their location made them vulnerable to changes in climate and lake level. At several Late Bronze Age examples, skulls of children were found at the edge of the lake settlement, close to the encircling palisade. Several of the children had suffered violent deaths, through blows to the head from axes or blunt instruments. They do not appear to have been human sacrifices, but the skulls may nonetheless have been offerings to the gods by communities faced with the threat of environmental change.

Archaeology and Material Culture of Ammon and the Ammonites

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig W. Tyson
Keyword(s):  
International Trade ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Local System ◽  
Late Bronze Age ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Modern City ◽  
Iron Age Ii

The Ammonites (literally, “sons of Ammon”) were a tribal group with a core territory in and around the modern city of Amman, Jordan. This core area could also be referred to as Ammon; the name of the modern city is also derived from this designation. Though they are known best for their role as kin and enemy to Israel in the Bible, archaeological work has revealed much about the indigenous cultural traditions of the region. The earliest possible evidence naming the Ammonites is from the 9th century bce, but there is little doubt that they inhabited the region before that, though how much before that is difficult to say. Regardless of their date of origin, it is helpful to chart their appearance on the stage of history in the Iron Age II by including some chronological depth. Beginning with the Late Bronze Age (c. 1550–1150 bce), the region around Amman was sparsely settled with a few fortified towns and evidence for participation in international trade. New Kingdom Egypt appears to have had at least one garrison on the Plateau, probably to help control trade. The Iron Age I–IIA (c. 1150–850 bce) saw a drop in international trade associated with the disruption of the international order at the end of the Late Bronze Age. At the same time, there was an uptick in the number of sites showing occupation. In addition to bringing the first contemporary textual references to the Ammonites, the Iron Age IIB–IIC (c. 850–500 bce) was an era of increased sociopolitical complexity and economic intensification stimulated by the pressures and opportunities presented by the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian empires. These changes are visible in the development of an indigenous tradition of writing, an unparalleled sculptural tradition, an increase in the number and variety of imports, and a significant increase in the number of small agriculturally oriented sites across the landscape. The independent polity of Ammon was turned into a province sometime in the 6th century—probably under Babylonian hegemony. The archaeological remains indicate a continuation of agricultural production and participation in long-distance trade networks, and an eventual replacement of the local system of writing with the Aramaic used by the Persians. Note on transliterations: A variety of systems exist for transliterating ancient and modern place names in Semitic languages. A simplified version of the most common transliterations is used here.

scholarly journals Bring Back Bentham: "Open Courts," "Terror Trials," and Public Sphere(s)

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Resnik
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Public Welfare ◽  
The Political ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Application Of Law ◽  
Private Providers ◽  
Private Power ◽  
A Site

The identification of courts as “open” and “public” institutions is commonplace in national and transnational conventions. But even as those attributes are taken for granted, the privatization of adjudication is underway. This Article explores how—during the last few centuries—public procedures came to be one of the attributes defining certain decision-making institutions as “courts.” The political and theoretical predicates for such practices can be found in the work of Jeremy Bentham, a major proponent of what he termed “publicity,” a practice he commended by detailing the architecture for various entities—from the Panopticon for prisoners to the Parliament for legislators and courts for judges. Bentham argued the utility of publicity in enhancing accuracy, public education, and judicial discipline.Moving forward in time, I examine various contemporary techniques in several jurisdictions that shift the processes of adjudication toward privatization. Included are the devolving adjudication to less-public government entities such as administrative agencies; outsourcing to private providers; and reconfiguring the processes of courts to render them more oriented toward settlement.For those appreciative of the role courts play in developing and protecting human rights, these new practices are problematic because adjudication can itself be a site offering opportunities to engage in democratic practices. The odd etiquette entailed in public adjudication under democratic legal regimes imposes obligations on government and disputants to treat each other—before an observant and often times critical public—as equals. Public and private power can be constrained by such performative requirements. When decision making takes place in public, the application of law to fact can engender normative contestation predicated on popular input. This claim of public adjudication’s democratic potential and utilities is, however, not an argument that the judgments provided and the norms developed will necessarily advance a shared view of the public welfare. Hence, while eager to re-engage Bentham, I offer different claims for publicity and less optimism about its consequences.

Beyond the Shadow State: The Public–Private Food Assistance System as Networked Governance

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (5) ◽  
pp. 1433-1455 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Rosenthal ◽  
Kathe Newman
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
Food Assistance ◽  
Assistance System ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Networked Governance ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Food Needs ◽  
A Site

The public–private food assistance system (PPFAS) emerged during the 1970s to address “emergency” food needs and has since grown into a regularized social welfare system of grocery and meal provision and related program delivery, realized through the collective efforts of organizations and individuals. We explore the context, history, and organization of the PPFAS to better understand how and why public and private actors work together to provide for the social welfare of poor people. We find that the PPFAS is organized as a multiactor, multiscalar network within which the relations between state, market, and civil society are continuously negotiated. The PPFAS may seem like the quintessential example of privatized governance with its attendant movement of decision making outside of the public sphere Rather than consider the PPFAS as a neoliberal fait accompli, we view the PPFAS as a site of contestation about how social welfare and, more broadly, democratic governance is organized.

scholarly journals A SOCIAL ECONOMY AND SUSTAINABILITY: IS THERE POTENTIAL FOR AN INTERFACE?

Obiter ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rochelle le Roux
Keyword(s):  
Service Sector ◽  
Structural Transition ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Social Economy ◽  
Solidarity Economy ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Formal Economy ◽  
The Social ◽  
A Site

South Africa is plagued by high unemployment, extreme poverty and a worrying skills deficit. Job creation strategies focus on the formal economy, but some argue that the focus should shift to policies that would help with the expansion and development of the social (or solidarity) economy that exists alongside the public and private sectors. This sector is driven mainly by a concern to better the interests of their members, or to fulfil a public benefit, rather than to maximize profits. It has been argued that cooperatives provide a suitable vehicle for organizing workers in this sphere. Jackson (Prosperity Without Growth, 2011), in advancing the idea of a sustainable economy, calls for macro-economic interventions that, inter alia, include a structural transition to service-based activities and working-time policies aimed at thefacilitation of shared work. The former strategy (structural transition to service-based activities), although developed in a completely different context, shares many synergies with the underlying notions associated with the development of a social economy. It evolves around business models providing services which are resource-light, but which are not the same as the service sector development which,worldwide, is associated with a concomitant decline in the primary and secondary sectors.The article explores, first, the potential of the social economy as a site for the creation of decent jobs and the possible role in this regard of structures such as cooperatives and, second, whether any meaningful lessons can be drawn in this regard from the research that has be done on the “greening” of economic growth.

scholarly journals Traje e imaginário nos universos da moda e Festa de Dois de Julho: consonâncias entre ambos no processo de socialização nos espaços público e privado

Visualidades ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
ISABEL CATARINA SUZART ARGOLO
Keyword(s):  
Daily Life ◽  
Shared Experience ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Factors Of Influence

ResumoA concepção do traje como forma de comunicação (BARNARD, 2003) é apresentada sob um dos espectros da moda e do traje concebido para a festa cívica do Dois de Julho, em Salvador, Bahia. Propõe-se analisar a influência de suas distintas matrizes inspiradoras – o imaginário subjetivo (de quem cria a própria moda) e o repertório sígnico e simbólico (de quem constrói uma cosmética com os elementos da festa) – na experiência socialmente compartilhada no cotidiano das zonas públicas (SCHÜTZ, 2012; MAFFESOLI, 1989) e privadas (na criação de moda) e no circuito da Festa do Dois de Julho. Por sua vez, espaço e tempo são apresentados como fatores de influência neste processo de socialização e como agentes propulsores da imagética expressa no traje (BARNARD, 2003; WILSON, 1989). para a realização da pesquisa de campo.Abstract The design of the costume as a form of communication (Barnard, 2003) is presented under one of the fashion spectra and costume designed for the civic Festival of Dois de Julho in Salvador, Bahia (Brazil). It is analyzed the influence of its different inspirational matrices – the subjective imaginary (of those who creates the fashion itself) and the sign and symbolic repertoire (of who builds a cosmetic with the elements of the party) in the socially shared experience in the daily life of the public and private areas (in fashion creation) and in the circuit of the Festival of Dois de Julho. In turn, space and time are presented as factors of influence in this process of socialization and as agents propelling the imagery expressed in the costume.ResumenLa concepción del traje como forma de comunicación (BARNARD, 2003) se presenta en la gama de la moda y del traje diseñado para la fiesta cívica del Dois de Julho, en Salvador de Bahía. Se propone analizar la influencia de sus matrices inspiradoras – el imaginario subjetivo (de quien crea la propia moda) y los repertorios sígnico y simbólico (de quien construye una cosmética con los elementos de la fiesta), en la experiencia socialmente compartida en lo cotidiano de las zonas públicas y privadas (en la creación de moda) y en el circuito de la fiesta del Dois de Julho. Asimismo, el espacio y el tiempo son presentados como factores de influencia en el proceso de socialización y como agentes propulsores de la imagen expresada en el traje.

Border Tuner and Teeter-Totter Wall: Two works of participatory public pedagogy

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather G. Kaplan
Keyword(s):  
Public Pedagogy ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
The Public ◽  
Socially Engaged Art ◽  
National Debate ◽  
The Us ◽  
Mexico Border ◽  
A Site ◽  
Dominant Narratives

This article looks at two socially engaged art works, Teeter-Totter Wall by Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello and Border Tuner by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer that challenge dualistic notions of self and other, public and private, and national and multinational. Each work proffers a perspective of the US-Mexico border that counters those communicated through national political rhetoric and common in popular media reporting. This article not only recognizes these works as art but also as public pedagogy, or works accessible to the broader public and community that function to teach us something or to reframe or expand our understanding and to question or resist dominant narratives. In addition to questioning totalizing narratives, this article considers intersecting notions of the public on the border. Recognizing that the border occupies simultaneous and varied notions of the public in terms of being a site of local culture, a symbol of national debate, a firestorm of divisive rhetoric and an international marker of global politics and economics, this article considers how differing sites of public pedagogy function.

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