scholarly journals Transnational Lived Citizenship – The Case of the Eritrean Diaspora

2021 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-18
Author(s):  
Tanja R. Müller ◽  
Milena Belloni
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Diaspora Studies ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Key Questions

This special focus section analyses state–diaspora relationships with a focus on the case of Eritrea, a paradigmatic example, as we show in this introduction, to elaborate on the following key questions: What determines loyalty between diaspora and the state? How can we understand the dynamics of co-optation, loyalty, and resistance that characterise many diaspora–state relationships? What is the role of historical events and memory in building alliances as well as divides among different generations and different groups in the diaspora? How do diaspora citizens interpret and enact their citizenship in everyday practices of engagement? By engaging with both citizenship and diaspora studies, this introduction shows the significance of analysing these questions through the lens of “transnational lived citizenship.” This concept enables a look at the intersections between formal aspects of citizenship as well as the emotional and practical aspects related to feelings of belonging, transnational attitudes, and circulation of material cultures.

AatmaNirbhar Bharat Abhiyan: a tool to revive Uttar Pradesh handloom sector

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabiha Khatoon ◽  
Ayesha Iffat
Keyword(s):  
Economic Condition ◽  
Uttar Pradesh ◽  
The State ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact

Purpose The study aims to analyse the challenges faced by the Indian Handloom Sector with a special focus on the state of Uttar Pradesh before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study further explores the benefits of AatmaNirbhar Bharat Abhiyan for the betterment of the livelihood of the COVID-19–hit handloom weavers and allied workers. Design/methodology/approach A total of 400 handloom weavers and allied workers from ten cities of Uttar Pradesh were contacted through telephone. Descriptive statistics were applied to measure the awareness about the government welfare schemes and the benefits of these schemes. Furthermore, satisfaction and opinion of the handloom weavers and allied workers regarding the benefits and sufficiency of the funds received under these schemes have also been measured. Findings Based on the results, the least awareness has been noted about government welfare schemes. However, a small number of weavers and allied workers were found beneficiaries of the schemes. Additionally, the majority of the respondents were found dissatisfied with the benefits. The COVID-19 pandemic is an addendum to the plight of handloom weavers and allied workers. The measures of AatmaNirbhar Bharat Abhiyan could be used to aid weavers and allied workers to restore their lost revenue. Research limitations/implications This study has limitations. Firstly, the research is limited to the handloom industry of Uttar Pradesh. Future researchers could consider the handloom sector of other states like Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh, known for hand-woven clothes. Secondly, this study aims to analyse the role of AatmaNirbhar Bharat Abhiyan in improving the living conditions of handloom weavers and allied workers and not to measure the impact of the Abhiyan on handloom weavers or the handloom sector. Researchers could measure the impact in future studies. Thirdly, the authors have not applied any behavioural theory or marketing models such as the Theory of Reasoned Action or the Blackwell model, which may be applied to study the attitude of handloom weavers towards welfare schemes. This may prove to be a potential direction for future research. Additionally, master weavers and handloom cooperatives societies were excluded while collecting the data. Future researchers could consider them to examine the role of the government’s welfare schemes for uplifting the socio-economic condition of the handloom weavers, allied workers, master weavers and the business of cooperative societies. Finally, due to lockdown and travel ban, the authors were forced to limit their survey to telephone only because of which they could not get the qualitative information in full. Researchers for future studies could visit the handloom concentrated areas personally or take the help of an enumerator for data collection. Practical implications The research holds significance for the young and competent designers, handloom weavers and allied workers. Designers could work with and hire handloom weavers of Uttar Pradesh. If designers and weavers work together, it will help them restore their business and generate revenue that they have lost due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Furthermore, policymakers can collaborate with designers, which will help enhance the socio-economic condition of handloom weavers and allied workers, which has deteriorated due to the COVID-19 crisis. Originality/value The research holds significance from the point of view of exploring the challenges faced by handloom weavers and allied workers of the state of UP before and during the COVID-19 period while examining the role of AatmaNirbhar Bharat Abhiyan in setting off these challenges.

Conclusion

2019 ◽  
pp. 191-202
Author(s):  
Rachel Humphris
Keyword(s):  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Human Life ◽  
The State ◽  
Relational Understanding ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Socially Situated

This book has explored what is at stake when negotiations of political belonging occur directly through everyday practices of belonging in homes. It is based on a relational understanding of the state where the state emerges through the contestation and struggle of differentially positioned and socially situated actors. It has linked state reproduction (processes of political belonging) with social reproduction (the discursive ideology and practices of care necessary to maintain and reproduce human life), paying particular attention to the role of space....

scholarly journals LIBRARIES IN DAILY LIFE OF YENISEI PROVINCE TOWNSPEOPLE IN 1920s

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 749-757
Author(s):  
S. V. Bershadskaya
Keyword(s):  
Urban Population ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
The State ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Positive Side ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Transformation Processes

The problems of transformation processes of the leisure sphere in the conditions of the new society formation on the example of the urban population of the Yenisei province in the 1920s are studied. During the study period, the everyday practices of people, including traditional forms of leisure activities, fell into the focus of attention and regulation of the state. The role and place of libraries in the diversification of leisure practices of citizens is revealed. The mechanisms of emergence of common leisure practices of townspeople, i.e. participation in the work of libraries, which possibilities the state tried to use most effectively in the formation of a new Soviet way of life, are considered. The role of local authorities, mass media, and the townspeople themselves in the formation of a new way of life is noted. The positive side of the changes in the leisure sphere of the urban population of the province is emphasized. The article is based on the text materials of the local periodical “Krasnoyarsk Worker” (Krasnoyarskiy Rabochiy) for the understanding of the local situation in the conditions of the lack of personal origin materials; normative-legal acts and historical sources.

scholarly journals A brief examination of warfare by medieval urban militias in Central and Northern Europe

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 106-150
Author(s):  
Jean Chandler
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Northern Europe ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Strategic Impact ◽  
Selection Of

During the medieval and Early Modern period, the Free cities ofCentral and Northern Europe fielded militias which collectively played animportant role in European warfare. The specific military role of the burgher isnot well known outside of the realm of academic specialists in the Englishspeaking world. In order to highlight this to my fellow layperson, I have chosena selection of significant historical events with a special focus on Lombardy,Flanders, Silesia, Bohemia and Poland, in which urban militias played animportant role. The intention is to allow us to review the effectiveness, tacticsand strategic impact of urban militias and their possible relationship to themartial arts of pre-industrial Europe.

scholarly journals Wartości w orędziach noworocznych polskich, rosyjskich i niemieckich przywódców w latach 2012-2015

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 397-405
Author(s):  
Marta Noińska
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Family And Work ◽  
Selection Of

The aim of the article is to analyze the axiological aspect of the New Year’s addresses of Polish, Russian and German leaders in the context of the sociopolitical situation in recent years. New Year’s messages are abundant with verbal and non-verbal signs that refer to addressee’s values instilled by years of education. The role of homeland, family and work usually underlined. The analyzed speeches evoke patriotic feelings as well as pride in one’s country and encourage cooperation for the good of the state. In the studied material, numerous expressions emphasizing the role of unity are to be found. Despite many similarities, the analyzed New Year’s addresses show some variation in the axiological layer, especially with regard to tolerance and Europeanism. Also, the selection of historical events mentioned by the leaders differs significantly in the studied speeches.

‘We Refuse to be Enemies’: Political Geographies of Violence and Resistance in Palestine

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 25-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Seidel
Keyword(s):  
Economic Geography ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Family Farm ◽  
The West ◽  
Civil Resistance ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Occupied Palestinian Territory ◽  
Palestinian Territory

The political and economic geography of occupied Palestinian territory presents significant constraints to the livelihoods of Palestinian families. And yet the story of many Palestinian families is one not of resignation but of steadfastness and resistance. This article explores this as an important example of civil resistance. It begins by building a theoretical case for giving greater attention to the constitutive role of marginalised people in the production of concepts and practices of civil resistance claiming that this helps us identify overlooked and seemingly everyday practices of colonised groups. Next it explores the case of one Palestinian family farm in the west Bethlehem village of Nahhalin as an example of alternative imagined geographies and communities that present a refusal to Israeli colonial occupation. It argues that this refusal is an expression of civil resistance that constitutes a counter-map that rejects Israel's settler-colonial map of their farmland by refusing to leave, and that rejects the violence of the state and its claims to sovereignty by ‘refusing to be enemies’.

Fear and loathing in the Turkish national imagination

2010 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 215-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny White
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
The State ◽  
The Body ◽  
National Narrative ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
National Imagination ◽  
Perception Of Self

AbstractBlood, sexual honor, and “Muslim-ness” are related discourses that in Turkey produce national subjects in the service of the state. The national narrative brands a subject's perception of self, attributes of the body, and everyday practices with highly resonant markers of belonging. The maintenance of a national identity requires continual vigilance against the threat of forgetting, losing the coherence of the narrative, and disappearing. I will examine the role of purity and boundaries in reproducing Turkish national identity, with particular focus on two key metaphors of threat: the missionary and the headscarf.

‘This pasture is ours since ancient times’: An ethnographic analysis of the reduction in conflicts along the post-1991 Afar-Tigray regional boundary

2014 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lutgart Lenaerts ◽  
Mark Breusers ◽  
Stefaan Dondeyne ◽  
Hans Bauer ◽  
Mitiku Haile ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Border Zone ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
Ethnographic Analysis ◽  
Regional Boundary ◽  
Key Questions

ABSTRACTThe role of post-1991 ethnic-based federalism on conflicts along regional boundaries has been a topic of great dispute in Ethiopianist literature. This article sheds new light on the on-going debate based on original ethnographic material from the Afar-Tigray regional border zone. Contrary to other studies, conflicts appear to have reduced in that area. Two key questions are addressed: how do different groups lay future claims to land; and which role does the post-1991 government play in those claims to land and in reducing conflicts? The case study reveals that people materialise religion to lay future claims to land and that conflicts have reduced with increased involvement of the state over the past two decades, but that this reduction has come at a high cost and may therefore not be sustainable in the long term.

scholarly journals Building a developmental state in Vietnam in the process of integrating into the ASEAN economic community

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 166-175
Author(s):  
Nguyen Hong Nga
Keyword(s):  
Market Failure ◽  
Developmental State ◽  
The State ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Basic Functions ◽  
Asean Economic Community ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Competitive Nature

Vietnam has been exposed to various advantages and challenges since becoming a member of the AEC.This context requires innovation in the state's perception of governing, regulating and operating the country. In the contemporary stage, the developmental state model isof pivotal importance and necessity to the efforts of achieving the national goals ofprosperous people and a strong, democratic, equitable, and civilized country. This paper discusses concepts, roles and basic functions of a state, and analyzes key aspects of the formation ofa developmental state. Special focus is onthe state's market failure correcting role, its non-competitive nature, and the state that does not act for markets. The ultimate goals of the developmental state is to ensure the rights to live, liberties, and wealth of individuals. The concept of the developmental state wasfirst developed by Chalmers Ashby Johnson (1982). The developmental role of the state is centered on improvingits competence to promote market activities by means of ensuring public security, lessening uncertainty in the economy, mitigating asymmetricinformation, reducing transaction costs, etc. for markets. Finally, we suggest a package of seven solutions to the formation of a developmental government in Vietnam.  

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