scholarly journals ‘Down with communism – Power to the people’: The legacies of 1989 and beyond

2020 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 407-424
Author(s):  
Larry Ray ◽  
Veronika Stoyanova
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
State Socialism ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The People ◽  
Thirtieth Anniversary ◽  
The World ◽  
Emancipatory Politics

This special issue brings together reflections on the thirtieth anniversary of the revolutions of 1989 and considers their consequences for our understandings of European and global society. What seemed for some at least the surprising and rapid collapse of Eastern European state socialism prompted rethinking in social theory about the potential for emancipatory politics and new modes of social and political organization. At the same time, there was increased reflection on the nature of varieties of capitalism and the meaning of socialism beyond the failure of at least its etatist and autarkic mode. The five articles here and the editors’ introduction address themes such as utopian hopes, civil society, the transformation of Europe, the world beyond 1989, and new configurations of power and conflict.

Homo sapiens and Criminality

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-230
Author(s):  
Shanta Balgobind Singh ◽  
Marion Pluskota
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Behavior Management ◽  
Homo Sapiens ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The People ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Parts

History has shown that primitive societies, with their well-developed value and norm systems, were self-governing. Needs of the people led to the development of mechanisms for survival. As primitive societies became more complex, a need arose for knowledge of the nature and structure of the communities in which they lived. Moral laws and rules, which governed primitive communities, were organized around the family and tribal environment. Even in the 21st century, forms of human behavior management center on tribal authority systems in different parts of the world. Crime is a social construction that has been widely theorized by historians, sociologists, anthropologists, and, of course, criminologists. Researchers have long tried to answer the questions as to why crime exists, how it is defined, how it can be controlled, and what makes it more prevalent in certain communities than in others. This special issue addresses many of these questions and reflects on contemporary research in the criminological field. The authors are at the forefront of the research on crime and shed new light on our societies’ ability to identify, reduce, or cope with criminality.

Foreword to Social Theory After Strathern

2014 ◽  
Vol 31 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 3-6
Author(s):  
Paul Rabinow
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Contemporary Problem ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The World ◽  
Way Of Thinking

Today, somewhat counter-intuitively, we no longer have an obvious venue for thinking-in-the world about our actuality. Despite, or because of, the endless conferences, seminars, mobility, publication outlets, new media and the like in which it is easier and easier to be connected, it is increasingly difficult to avoid the diagnostic that it is harder and harder to relate. This Foreword to the special issue ‘Social Theory After Strathern’ considers the contemporary problem of the inversion of connectedness and relatedness in the light of Marilyn Strathern’s oeuvre. Proceeding from a discussion of the three kinds of friendship distinguished by Aristotle, Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of conceptual persona is invoked as a way of thinking through conceptual friendship and the forms of relationality that an engagement with Strathern’s work requires and sustains.

scholarly journals Local loops and micro-mobilities of care: Rethinking care in egalitarian contexts

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (5) ◽  
pp. 593-599
Author(s):  
Lise Widding Isaksen ◽  
Lena Näre
Keyword(s):  
Eastern European ◽  
Care Provision ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Gender Ideologies ◽  
Organization Of Care ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Local Complexity ◽  
The World ◽  
Eastern European Countries ◽  
Local Loops

This introduction to the Special Issue Local loops and micro-mobilities of care: Rethinking care in egalitarian contexts argues for the importance of analysing local organizations of care. This is a necessary addition to current scholarship which has focused on the globalization of care. Yet, in many parts of the world, such as the Northern and Eastern European countries, on which this issue focuses, care provision continues to be mainly local and migrant care workers are complementary. Nevertheless, the daily organization of care can be as complex as in the global care chains. To address this local complexity, we propose two concepts: the notion of local care loops and care as patchwork. The concept of local care loops is a sensitizing one that emphasizes routine, daily practices and micro-mobilities of care that create loops around daily practices of care. Patchwork refers to practices that are simultaneously routinized activities but that are also changing from day to day, depending on the available resources and constraints (of time, money, and caregivers), as well as the local geographies and distances that need to be connected in the loops. The introduction also presents the six articles that make up this Special Issue. The articles identify similarities and differences in processes related to the commodification of childcare and transforming gender ideologies in post-socialist and social-democratic welfare societies.

scholarly journals Central and Eastern European Special Issue

2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 355-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
Levente Littvay ◽  
Julia Métneki ◽  
Ádám D. Tárnoki ◽  
Dávid L. Tárnoki
Keyword(s):  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Human Genetics ◽  
Eastern European Country ◽  
Twin Studies ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
World Congress ◽  
Twin Research ◽  
The World ◽  
First Time

From November 16–19, 2014, twin researchers of the world will descend on the lovely city of Budapest, Hungary for the 3rd World Congress on Twin Pregnancy, held in conjunction with the 15th Congress of the International Society of Twin Studies (ISTS). It is the first time a Central and Eastern European country will host the congress. On this occasion, we were honored by the request from the editor of Twin Research and Human Genetics, Nick Martin, to put together a special issue highlighting twin research conducted in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).

scholarly journals Impact of Development on Democracy and Human Rights in Iraq

2020 ◽  
pp. 42-59
Author(s):  
طارق زيدان خلف
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Human Consciousness ◽  
Restraining Orders ◽  
The People ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
The World ◽  
New Institutions

There is no doubt that research in development, democracy and human rights are important topics at present, and the researcher can not ignore any of the titles mentioned, because they are interrelated with each other, Democracy as a principle is based on the idea of human rights. As rights grow under democracy, their role in sustainable development, Democracy is a state of great human consciousness that contributes to the development of human society, and it is an experience of making peoples and nations of the world Democracy is not limited to a particular people or nation, but values, culture, practices and new institutions on us, need details and disclosures coupled with openness It is based on freedom of opinion and opinion, free from oppression, arbitrariness and intellectual terrorism,It must be civil and peaceful and is a welcome area to express opinion and trade-offs between good and then resort to the people, which is not restraining orders and dictatorship arbitrariness and superiority at the expense of the principles and values and the rights of people in civil society

scholarly journals ULFA’s Xhunor Axom1 and Negation of the State

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bitasta Das
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Cross Sections ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
Civilian Population ◽  
The People ◽  
Human Rights Violation

The people of Assam have been the worst sufferers as a result of the ongoing conflicts. Three decades of widespread human rights violation in the form of arrests, detention, killings and at times genocide have made life miserable for the democratic civilian population. As a result, over the years, various political and non-political organization, intellectuals and various cross sections of the civil society have been demanding for a political solution for the long standing arm conflict known as ―Indo Assam Conflict‖. (Borbora 2008:3).The people of Assam have been the worst sufferers as a result of the ongoing conflicts. Three decades of widespread human rights violation in the form of arrests, detention, killings and at times genocide have made life miserable for the democratic civilian population. As a result, over the years, various political and non-political organization, intellectuals and various cross sections of the civil society have been demanding for a political solution for the long standing arm conflict known as ―Indo Assam Conflict‖. (Borbora 2008:3).

scholarly journals Workers of the World? A British Liberal-Pluralist Critique of Marcel van der Linden’s Global Labour History

2017 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Ackers
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
State Socialism ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
Methodological Nationalism ◽  
The World ◽  
Working People ◽  
Labour History ◽  
Conceptual Foundations ◽  
National Approach

AbstractMarcel van der Linden has championed Global Labour History (GLH) as a solution to the decline of Labour History as an academic field. His 2008Workers of the World(and other writing) strives to transcend methodological nationalism and provides a new global framework to study labour through the ages. This British liberal-pluralist critique argues that Van der Linden’s version of GLH is essentially a re-packaging of Marxism that narrows the conceptual foundations of the field and overlooks both the full political crisis of state-socialism and its limited historical appeal to working people. The article concludes by defending a national approach centred on civil society institutions, as represented in the 2016 collection edited by P. Ackers and A.J. Reid,Alternatives to State-Socialism in Britain: Other Worlds of Labour in the Twentieth Century.

Afterword: Struck Dumb? Marilyn Strathern and Social Science

2014 ◽  
Vol 31 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 283-288
Author(s):  
Nigel Thrift
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Theory Theory ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Social ◽  
Knowledge Theory ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Spatial View

Marilyn Strathern has produced a remarkable body of work that not only demonstrates range and tenacity but also has produced a host of inspirations that have made their way into the world. This Afterword to the special issue ‘Social Theory After Strathern’ dwells on the subject of the modesty of what Strathern is proposing and how it relates to space, noting that her work enables us to forge new practico-theoretical combinations and works of diplomacy between incompatibles which show up the limitations of each party even as they forge new understandings – an approach that chimes with a move towards a more spatial view of knowledge. Theory, to echo Strathern’s gardening metaphor, needs to leave room not just to prune but to grow, the two being inter-related, as she points out. This Afterword also proposes that the extraordinary ability of anthropology to be inside and outside at once might serve as a model for what the social sciences need to become if they are to stay relevant in a world which cannot be reduced to a cipher for theory but still needs to learn from theory – theory which is precarious but spreadable, theory which establishes a rapport, but a rapport with friction built into it.

scholarly journals Vocational Education in Indonesia Facing ASEAN Economic Community

2019 ◽  
pp. 168-176
Author(s):  
KASIM YAHIJI ◽  
CHOIRUL MAHFUD ◽  
MUHAMMAD ARFAN MU'AMMAR
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Vocational Education ◽  
Civil Society Organizations ◽  
Educational Policies ◽  
Economic Community ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government ◽  
Asean Economic Community ◽  
Future Direction

Nowadays, vocational education and the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) are an interesting topic to discuss for contributing to the ASEAN future. This article explores the vocational education in Indonesia facing ASEAN Economic Community.  Vocational education is clearly significant not only to help the government but also to determine the future direction of the people and the nation. This article describes the condition of vocational education in facing ASEAN Economic Community. Also, this article explores the strategic roles in the development of vocational education in the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) era for the benefit of the nation which is expected by all, especially for society, nation, and the world through reviewing references and literature books, news, journals and opinions in mass media and various related publications and sources. The article discusses the contributions from all stakeholders of education from civil society organizations in Indonesia that are very significant for facing AEC. Implications for educational policies on vocational education are also presented.

Getting pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to the people: opportunities, challenges and examples of successful health service models of PrEP implementation

Sexual Health ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 481 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iryna B. Zablotska ◽  
Jared M. Baeten ◽  
Nittaya Phanuphak ◽  
Sheena McCormack ◽  
Jason Ong
Keyword(s):  
Health Service ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Effective Strategies ◽  
Health Service Providers ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Service Models ◽  
Prep Implementation ◽  
Exposure Prophylaxis

Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) with antiretrovirals could prevent millions of infections, yet effective strategies to get PrEP delivered are just being defined. This editorial introduces a series of 17 articles which form a special issue of Sexual Health focused on the opportunities and challenges for health service providers engaged in PrEP prescribing. All pieces presented here share useful lessons from PrEP pioneers; more than that, they should serve as catalysts to accelerate PrEP implementation around the world.

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