Cultures of Cosmopolitanism

2002 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 455-481 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bronislaw Szerszynskiand ◽  
John Urry
Keyword(s):  
Common Property ◽  
World Market ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Focus Group Research ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
The World ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Uk

This paper is concerned with whether a ‘culture of cosmopolitanism’ is currently emerging out of massively wide-ranging ‘global’ processes. The authors develop certain theoretical components of such a culture, they consider ongoing research concerned with belongingness to different geographical entities including the ‘world as a whole’, and they present their own empirical research findings. From their media research they show that there is something that could be called a ‘banal globalism’, from focus group research they show that there is a wide awareness of the ‘global’ but that this is combined in complex ways with notions of the local and grounded, and from media interviews they demonstrate that there is a reflexive awareness of a culture of the cosmopolitan. On the basis of their data from the UK, they conclude that a ‘publicly screened’ cosmopolitan culture is emergent and likely to orchestrate much of social and political life in future decades. The need for a constantly changing market chases the bourgeoisie over the whole surface of the globe. It must settle everywhere, establish connexions everywhere … the bourgeoisie has through its exploitation of the world market give a cosmopolitan character to production and consumption in every country … The individual creations of individual nations become common property. National one-sidedness and narrow-mindedness become more and more impossible (Marx and Engels, [1848] 1952: 46–7; emphasis added)

Cultures of Cosmopolitanism

2002 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 461-481 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bronislaw Szerszynski ◽  
John Urry
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Focus Group Research ◽  
Group Research ◽  
The World ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Media Research ◽  
The Uk

This paper is concerned with whether a culture of cosmopolitanism is currently emerging out of massively wide-ranging global processes. The authors develop certain theoretical components of such a culture they consider ongoing research concerned with belongingness to different geographical entities including the world as a whole, and they present their own empirical research findings. From their media research they show that there is something that could be called a banal globalism. From focus group research they show that there is a wide awareness of the global but they this is combined in complex ways with notions of the local and grounded and from media interviews they demonstrate that there is a reflexive awareness of a cultures of the cosmopolitan. On the basis of their data from the UK, they conclude that a publicly screened cosmopolitan culture is emergent and likely to orehestrate much of social and political life in future decades.

Englishness

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ailsa Henderson ◽  
Richard Wyn Jones
Keyword(s):  
Public Attitudes ◽  
Political Life ◽  
British Politics ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
The World ◽  
The Uk ◽  
English Nationalism ◽  
Opinion Polls ◽  
Different Parts

For a topic that until recently was presumed not to exist, English nationalism has transformed into an apparently obvious explanation for the Brexit result in England. Subsequent opinion polls have also raised doubts about the extent of continuing English commitment to the union of the United Kingdom itself. Yet, even as Englishness is apparently reshaping Britain’s place in the world and—perhaps—the state itself, it remains poorly understood, in part because of its unfamiliarity. It has long been assumed that nationalism is a feature of political life in the state’s periphery—Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland—but not its English core. Another barrier to understanding bas been the relative lack of public attitudes data with which to explore the nature of English nationalist sentiment.This book draws on data from a survey vehicle—the Future of England Survey—specially established in 2011 to facilitate the exploration of patterns of national identity in England and their political implications. On the basis of these data, Englishness offers new arguments about the nature and effect of English nationalism on British politics, as well as how Britishness operates in different parts of Britain. Crucially, it demonstrates that English nationalism is emphatically not a rejection of Britain and Britishness. Rather, English nationalism combines a sense of grievance about England’s place within the UK with a fierce commitment to a particular vision of Britain’s past, present, and future. Understanding its Janus-faced nature—both England and Britain, as it were—is key not only to understanding English nationalism, but also to understanding the ways in which it is transforming British politics.

Covid-19 as a Tool of Information Influence in the «Post-Truth» Epoch

2020 ◽  
pp. 72-85
Author(s):  
Nataliia Nechaieva-Yuriichuk
Keyword(s):  
Information Technologies ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Social Activism ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Prevention Measures ◽  
Remarkable Feature ◽  
World Community ◽  
The World ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Uk

he emergence of new information technologies has changed the course of human life – both modernizing and speeding its pace. A remarkable feature of the current socio-political situation is, in our opinion, is the (de) humanization of social communication. It is a question of actual change of a communication paradigm on horizontal and vertical levels. Virtualization as the basis of modern professional and personal life acquires more perfect forms. At the same time, according to the author, it is causing the destruction of the individual as such. The XXI century entered into the history of world civilization as an era of post-truth: in 2016, the Oxford Dictionary chose the term «post-truth» as the word of the year. In the last year of the second decade of the XXI century, Covid-19 became a top news not only in the field of health care, but also in other spheres of life of the world community, including the political sphere. The Covid-19 pandemic has become an instrument of informational influence, which in the post-truth era is one of the most effective in the context of transforming the individual and the mass consciousness in a «convenient» or «necessary» direction for a particular political actor. Since the beginning of the pandemic, disinformation about the origin of the coronavirus, ways of its spread, prevention measures, etc. has been actively spread. In addition, we observe purposeful activities to form an atmosphere of fear and panic among the masses; and in each region certain cases and features of the mentality are taken into account. Among the nations of the world, the United Kingdom has linked social activism to misinformation spread and the activity of various bots and trolls on networks. In March 2020, the UK government set up a special anti-disinformation unit. Dissemination of misinformation about the coronavirus is, in our opinion, one of the important tools to influence the world community in the context of changing worldviews and visions of national, regional and global development prospects. And a clear understanding of the purpose of these actions is a key for developing adequate mechanisms for protection against information violence, which in the post-truth era turns us into hostages to information flows.

Olive Oil and the Potential for Olive Cultivation in India

1994 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 207-211
Author(s):  
B.V. Subbiah
Keyword(s):  
Olive Oil ◽  
Foreign Exchange ◽  
Oil Production ◽  
World Market ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Edible Oil ◽  
Marginal Lands ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
The World ◽  
Olive Cultivation

The big gap between the production and consumption of edible oil in India is met by imports of more than a million tonnes annually, which have become a heavy drain on the country's slender foreign exchange resources. It is an urgent necessity to augment edible oil production, without prejudice to the cultivation of other agriculturally important crops. The olive offers an edible oil very much valued in the world market, and efforts to introduce its cultivation are desirable. The special properties of this oil and the soil and climatic conditions required for olive cultivation are described and the possibilities are discussed for its introduction in the marginal lands of India, particularly Rajasthan and adjoining areas.

scholarly journals Criminal Law Protection of Human Life and Prevention of Murder in Uzbekistan (On the Example of Women)

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 1085-1093
Author(s):  
Khurshida Mirziyatovna Abzalova
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Practical Importance ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
The World ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Criminal Legislation

In the world, protection of the rights and interests of the individual is one of the priority areas for improving legislation. In this process, a special role is played by criminal legislation, which is designed to ensure the protection of human life as the most valuable object of criminal law protection. The fight against crimes against life, in particular murder, is the highest priority for judicial and law enforcement agencies. In this regard, the adoption of effective measures to counter deliberate killings, the study of the causes and conditions that contribute to their Commission, as well as the identity of the killer are of great scientific and practical importance. According to statistics provided in the UN Global Study on Homicide report for 2019, the number of murders per 100,000 people in El Salvador is 61.8, in Brazil-30.5, in Russia-10.82, in Switzerland-5.35, in Uzbekistan-3, Finland-1.42, in the UK-1.2[1]. All this indicates the need to pay special attention to effective criminal law protection of human life.

scholarly journals ‘A Fact in the History of the World’: The Vegetarian Advocate (1848‒50) and the Serialization of Life

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Liam Young
Keyword(s):  
Vegetarian Diet ◽  
Dietary Regimen ◽  
Important Message ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The World ◽  
Official Organ ◽  
History Of ◽  
Print Materials ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Uk

This essay examines the Vegetarian Advocate, a British monthly periodical that ran from 1848 to 1850, and it argues that the periodical’s serial form shaped its representation of vegetarianism. As the first official organ of the UK Vegetarian Society, the Vegetarian Advocate carried different messages to different audiences. For members of the Society, it circulated information on the organization’s publications, annual meetings, membership statistics, and finances, subjects that would be of interest only to insiders. For outsiders and the uninitiated, it published articles explaining vegetarian principles, using arguments drawn from physiology, chemistry, natural history, economics, and ethics to persuade curious readers to experiment with a vegetarian diet. However, drawing on press scholarship and Michel Foucault’s techniques of the self, this essay argues that the serial form of the periodical itself carried an important message on the vegetarians’ ‘serialization of life’, their belief that life be lived serially or, in other words, that forward progress and self-improvement come through repetition, attention to routine, and the everyday training of oneself. Specifically, this essay claims that the seriality of the Vegetarian Advocate allowed the Vegetarian Society to represent its dietary regimen as serial — that is, as a repetitive yet progressive, sequential system of self-transformation in which all forms of activity (from eating to exercising to socializing) accrued meaning sequentially, serially, and relationally, orientating vegetarianism and vegetarians towards a teleological objective, or what Foucault calls the ‘telos of the ethical subject’. Serialization, it claims, was integral to both the practice and concept of vegetarianism: vegetarian print materials were published serially while the practice itself was conceptualized as a progressive step in the development of the individual and the species.

Learning Processes and ITC

2009 ◽  
pp. 518-525
Author(s):  
Manuela Gallerani
Keyword(s):  
Personal Development ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
World Market ◽  
White Paper ◽  
The Other ◽  
Knowledge Resources ◽  
The World ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Symbolic World

Confronting with the educational emergences defined— in the white paper presented in 1995 by the European commission with the title “Teaching and Learning. Towards a Society of Knowledge”—the Commission identifies three main factors of upheaval: information society, internationalization and the world market, scientific and technological knowledge. These factors involve a modification of the systems of knowledge and work, and, as a consequence, also of educational politics which must promote a personal development of citizens through the development of the necessary competences in dealing with these factors. The consequences that emerge are the reported in the next section. First of all, the society of knowledge is linked with a condition of uncertainty and risk of social exclusion, which determines a great disorientation for the individual. The individua is exposed to infinite cognitive potentialities on one side, but also to a cognitive weakening on the other side. Among these risks, the first is a disorganized and confused fruition of the knowledge resources offered by the symbolic world in which the individual is plunged in. He/she is irreparably depressed when plunged in an infinite net of knowledge which the individual can not reach in a critical way, being also bombarded by pervasive—usually persuasive—information of mass-media pushing him/her toward homologation.

Developments in the EU and world sugar markets in 2009

2010 ◽  
pp. 29-36
Author(s):  
Stephan Nolte ◽  
Harald Grethe
Keyword(s):  
World Market Price ◽  
Market Price ◽  
World Market ◽  
Current Season ◽  
Implementation Phase ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Determining Factors ◽  
The World ◽  
Sugar Market ◽  
The Eu

The article reviews the developments on the sugar market in 2009. After the introduction, it starts with an overview of production and consumption in all world regions. Production shortfalls in major producing countries led to an increase of the world market price to a 28 year high. For the current season, a further deficit is expected. The next chapter informs about developments on the EU market, where the implementation phase of the 2006 reform ended and a new regulation for sugar imports from ACP countries entered into force. The last chapter discusses model based forecasts of the world sugar market over the coming decade and determining factors of the medium term development of production and consumption of sugar.

scholarly journals Rural tourism

2008 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-127
Author(s):  
Slavica Tomic
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
World Market ◽  
Rural Tourism ◽  
Global Changes ◽  
Mass Tourism ◽  
Sea Sand ◽  
The World ◽  
The Individual

Global changes in the tourist market are characterized by an increasing representation of tourist forms differentiating from those for which the system 3S is valid (sun, sea, sand). The contemporary trend of moving from the concept of mass tourism to the individual forms of tourism opens to rural tourism the position in the world market of the 21th century. Rural tourism has no characteristics of massiveness and it is compatible with the aspects of sustainable tourism.

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