Re-visioning obscure spaces

Thesis Eleven ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 145 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose Jowel Canuday
Keyword(s):  
Social Spaces ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future

In popular imagery, the littorals of Sulu and Zamboanga conjure visions of pirates, terrorists, and bandits marauding its rough seas, open shores, and rugged mountains. These bleak accounts render the region nothing but a violent and peripheral southern Philippine backdoor inconspicuous to the sophisticated constituencies of the world’s metropolitan centres. Obscured from these imageries are the lasting cosmopolitan traits of openness, flexibility, and reception of local folk to trans-local cultural streams that marked Sulu and Zamboanga as a globalised space across the ages and oceans. The distinctive features of these cosmopolitan sensibilities are strikingly discernible in inter-generationally shared narratives, artefacts, and performances that were continually renewed from the days when Sulu and Zamboanga served as a borderless trading and cultural enclave nestled at the crossroads of the Pacific and the Indian Oceans. These enduring cosmopolitan sensibilities are embodied in the blending, among others, of the time-honoured dance of pangalay and the pop-musical dance genre celebrated on actual, analogue, and digitally-mediated spaces of the contemporary world. Furthermore, these embodied sensibilities are evident in song compositions that proclaim the humanistic themes of hope, peace, and prosperity to their place and the world in ways that exemplify the local people’s broader sense of connections beyond the narrow association of family, community, ethnicity, religion, and identity. This mixed bag of age-old and recent imaginaries and cultural traffic evoke a sociality that link the social spaces of the troubled but once and current globalised region to continuing acts of transcendence in history, memory, and visions of the future. In these marginalized places, we can see an unyielding tradition of cultural re-adaptation and creativity made up of myriad everyday acts that are down-to-earth, pragmatic, interstitial, and practical cosmopolitanism.

scholarly journals Przestrogi dla utopistów. Wizje optimum dóbr w historii idei w książce Andrzeja Waśkiewicza

2021 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-167
Author(s):  
Grzegorz Sokół
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Thought ◽  
New Materialism ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Social Orders

The subject of this essay is Andrzej Waśkiewicz’s book Ludzie – rzeczy – ludzie. O porządkach społecznych, gdzie rzeczy łączą, nie dzielą (People–Things–People: On Social Orders Where Things Connect Rather Than Divide People). The book is the work of a historian of ideas and concerns contemporary searches for alternatives to capitalism: the review presents the book’s overview of visions of society in which the market, property, inequality, or profit do not play significant roles. Such visions reach back to Western utopian social and political thought, from Plato to the nineteenth century. In comparing these ideas with contemporary visions of the world of post-capitalism, the author of the book proposes a general typology of such images. Ultimately, in reference to Simmel, he takes a critical stance toward the proposals, recognizing the exchange of goods to be a fundamental and indispensable element of social life. The author of the review raises two issues that came to mind while reading the book. First, the juxtaposition of texts of a very different nature within the uniform category of “utopia” causes us to question the role and status of reflections regarding the future and of speculative theory in contemporary social thought; second, such a juxtaposition suggests that reflecting on the social “optimal good” requires a much more precise and complex conception of a “thing,” for instance, as is proposed by new materialism or anthropological studies of objects and value as such.

scholarly journals RELIGION AND RELATIONS BETWEEN GENDERS

2008 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-158
Author(s):  
Miroljub Jevtić
Keyword(s):  
Religious Tradition ◽  
Social Construct ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Legal Structure ◽  
Political Relations ◽  
Positive Rights ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Familial Relations

Contemporary world rests on an idea of an inalienable equality regardless of one’s faith, ethnicity or race. An important factor that impacts such inalienable equality is religion. Religions have a well developed view of the world and society that includes detailed arrangements between genders. In some religions, the legal social construct is very much related to the theology. These religions demand that the rules of familial relations acquire the power of positive rights. It is through these channels that religious tradition and practice become part of a legal structure in some parts of the world. The consequences are felt on the social and political relations between genders as well as on relations between religions in those societies.

Dante's New Life of the Book

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Eisner
Keyword(s):  
Literary History ◽  
Poetic Form ◽  
Archival Research ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Printed Books ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Over Time

This study uses the material transmission history of Dante’s innovative first book, the Vita nuova (New Life), to intervene in recent debates about literary history, reconceiving the relationship between the work and its reception, and investigating how different material manifestations and transformations in manuscripts, printed books, translations, and adaptations participate in the work. Just as Dante frames his collection of thirty-one poems surrounded by prose narrative and commentary as an attempt to understand his own experiences through the experimental form of the book, so later scribes, editors, and translators use different material forms to embody their own interpretations of it. Traveling from Boccaccio’s Florence to contemporary Hollywood with stops in Emerson’s Cambridge, Rossetti’s London, Nerval’s Paris, Mandelstam’s Russia, De Campos’s Brazil, and Pamuk’s Istanbul, this study builds on extensive archival research to show how Dante’s strange poetic forms continue to challenge readers. In contrast to a conventional reception history’s chronological march, each chapter analyzes how one of these distinctive features has been treated over time, offering new perspectives on topics such as Dante’s love of Beatrice, his relationship with Guido Cavalcanti, and his attraction to another woman, while highlighting Dante’s concern with the future, as he experiments with new ways to keep Beatrice alive for later readers. Deploying numerous illustrations to show the entanglement of the work’s poetic form and its material survival, Dante’s New Life of the Book offers a fresh reading of Dante’s innovations, demonstrating the value of this philological analysis of the work’s survival in the world.

Paradigm Shift for the Future

2021 ◽  
pp. 173-201
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Political Influence ◽  
Political Events ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
The Way

Through case studies of incidents around the world where the social media platforms have been used and abused for ulterior purposes, Chapter 6 highlights the lessons that can be learned. For good or for ill, the author elaborates on the way social media has been used as an arbiter to inflict various forms of political influence and how we may have become desensitized due to the popularity of the social media platforms themselves. A searching view is provided that there is now a propensity by foreign states to use social media to influence the user base of sovereign countries during key political events. This type of activity now justifies a paradigm shift in relation to our perception and utilization of computerized devices for the future.

4. The enemy within

2014 ◽  
pp. 64-87
Author(s):  
Bill McGuire
Keyword(s):  
Atlantic Ocean ◽  
Canary Islands ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Active Fault ◽  
Industrial Cities ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Earthquake Zone ◽  
Eruption Magnitude

‘The Enemy Within’ begins with volcanic super-eruptions and their devastating consequences such as the 1815 eruption of volcano Tambora in Indonesia, and ancient eruptions in Yellowstone, USA, and Toba, northern Sumatra. Volcanic explositivity index, eruption magnitude, and eruption intensity are explained. Volcanic landslides in Hawaii and the Canary Islands will, in the future, result in giant tsunamis wreaking havoc around the Pacific and Atlantic Ocean rims. But when will they happen? Finally, the fate of industrial cities, such as Tokyo, located near active fault-lines and in earthquake zone, and the resultant effects on the world economy are considered.

Recentering the World: The Quest for ‘Elective’ Centers in a Secularized Universe

1987 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 320-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik Cohen ◽  
Nachman Ben-Yehuda ◽  
Janet Aviad
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Religious Conversion ◽  
Institution Building ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Cultural Conditions ◽  
Comparative Framework ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Individual

The various ‘quests for meaning’ of the ‘decentralized’ contemporary Western youths are interpreted as so many attempts to ‘recenter the world’ around new ‘elective centers’. Rather than being centers of the contemporary world into which the individual is born, such centers are located outside it, and freely chosen by the seekers. Four such elective centers are discussed: (1) traditional religious conversion, (2) the occult, (3) science fiction, and (4) tourism. Each of these elective centers is first briefly described and then analysed in a comparative framework, focused on six principal questions: (a) the social and cultural conditions which engender the contemporary ‘quest for a center’, (b) the nature of elective centers, (c) mechanisms of election and rejection of alternative elective centers, (d) extent of involvement with elective centers, (e) elective centers and the wider social framework, (f) the institution-building potential of the elective centers.

A regional disability tribunal for Asia and the Pacific: changing the conversation to a ‘conversation’?

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 319-333 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terry Carney
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Change Strategies ◽  
Disability Rights ◽  
Culturally Appropriate ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Medium Term ◽  
Policy Choices ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World

AbstractThis article reviews approaches to the needs of disabled people in Asia and the Pacific, the only part of the world currently lacking regional human rights machinery. The article examines some of the social policy choices involved in prioritising different possible approaches to meeting the needs of disabled people in the region, with a focus on a proposed regional disability rights tribunal (DR-TAP). It is argued that this is not the top priority for immediate action; rather it is contended that capacity building and culturally appropriate attitudinal and other change strategies should instead be pursued over the medium-term horizon.

scholarly journals Las estrategias de la inclusión

2014 ◽  
pp. 287
Author(s):  
Juan Soto Ramirez
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Anthropology ◽  
Redes Sociales ◽  
Symbol Systems ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Considerable Research ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World

Categoría: Comunicado Fecha de recepción: 28 de mayo de 2012 Fecha de aprobación: 28 de junio de 2012 Resumen El tema de la exclusión ha sido demasiado discutido en disciplinas como la sociología y la antropología social. Incluso en la psicología social la temática ha nutrido bastantes investigaciones. Como tópico ha dado lugar a innumerables reflexiones de grandes pensadores e intelectuales. Frente a las diversas facetas que ha adquirido la exclusión en el mundo contemporáneo, paulatinamente se han gestado diversos modos de inclusión más allá de la oposición material y simbólica que son dignos de ser analizados y discutidos. En este texto se discuten sólo tres: el mundo de las imitaciones, la conexión multifrénica y el entretenimiento de bajo nivel. Con el afán de apropiarse de una subjetividad que les ha sido negada, los ‘desafiliados’ de diversos sistemas simbólicos han optado por generar estrategias de inclusión en el ámbito de la vida cotidiana y son dignas no sólo de ser analizadas sino de ser discutidas. A lo largo de todo el texto se llama la atención sobre los heurísticos que apuntalan las formas contemporáneas del consumo. Palabras clave: Exclusión, Estrategias, Consumo, Entretenimiento, subjetividad, redes sociales Abstract The issue of exclusion has been overly discussed in disciplines such as sociology and social anthropology. Even in the social psychology, it has drawn considerable research interest. As a topic has led to countless thoughts of great thinkers and intellectuals. Given the different facets that exclusion has acquired the exclusion in the contemporary world, various modes have been increasingly developed beyond the material and symbolic opposition, which are worthy of being analyzed and discussed. In this paper, we discuss only three: the world of imitations, the ‘multifrenica’ connection and low level entertainment. In an attempt to seize a subjectivity that has been denied, the ‘unaffiliated’ from various symbol systems have chosen to generate strategies for inclusion in the scope of everyday life and are worthy not only be analyzed but to be discussed. Throughout all texts, it is emphasized the heuristics that underpin contemporary forms of consumption. Keywords: Exclusion, Strategies, Consumption, Entertainment, subjectivity, Social Networks * Profesor Titular C de Tiempo Completo de la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM), Unidad Iztapalapa, México, D.F. Licenciado en Psicología Social por la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM), Unidad Iztapalapa. Maestro en Psicología Social por la Facultad de Psicología de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Doctor en Antropología Social por la Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia (ENAH), [email protected]

scholarly journals Anarchism in the Web of Transnational Social Movements

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 373-394 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Chase-Dunn ◽  
John Aldecoa ◽  
Ian Breckenridge-Jackson ◽  
Joel S. Herrera
Keyword(s):  
Network Analysis ◽  
Political Values ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Transnational Social Movements ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Formal Network ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Local Levels ◽  
The Web

Anarchists have played a visible and significant role in global civil society since the 19th century and in the New Global Left since it emerged in the 1990s. Horizontalism and social libertarianism have been central components of the contemporary World Revolution and were also important in the world revolutions of 1968 and 1989. Anarchists have participated in the Social Forum process at the global, national and local levels and, in various ways, have influenced the contemporary world revolution far beyond their numbers. We use surveys from Social Forums to examine how self-identified actively involved anarchists are similar or different from other attendees. We also conduct a formal network analysis to examine the links that the anarchists have with other social movement themes. Despite the small number of self-identified anarchists, our findings suggest that anarchist organizational approaches and political values are widely shared among the activists who have been involved in the Social Forum process.

scholarly journals Las estrategias de la inclusión

2014 ◽  
pp. 287
Author(s):  
Juan Soto Ramirez
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Anthropology ◽  
Redes Sociales ◽  
Symbol Systems ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Considerable Research ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World

Categoría: Comunicado Fecha de recepción: 28 de mayo de 2012 Fecha de aprobación: 28 de junio de 2012 Resumen El tema de la exclusión ha sido demasiado discutido en disciplinas como la sociología y la antropología social. Incluso en la psicología social la temática ha nutrido bastantes investigaciones. Como tópico ha dado lugar a innumerables reflexiones de grandes pensadores e intelectuales. Frente a las diversas facetas que ha adquirido la exclusión en el mundo contemporáneo, paulatinamente se han gestado diversos modos de inclusión más allá de la oposición material y simbólica que son dignos de ser analizados y discutidos. En este texto se discuten sólo tres: el mundo de las imitaciones, la conexión multifrénica y el entretenimiento de bajo nivel. Con el afán de apropiarse de una subjetividad que les ha sido negada, los ‘desafiliados’ de diversos sistemas simbólicos han optado por generar estrategias de inclusión en el ámbito de la vida cotidiana y son dignas no sólo de ser analizadas sino de ser discutidas. A lo largo de todo el texto se llama la atención sobre los heurísticos que apuntalan las formas contemporáneas del consumo. Palabras clave: Exclusión, Estrategias, Consumo, Entretenimiento, subjetividad, redes sociales Abstract The issue of exclusion has been overly discussed in disciplines such as sociology and social anthropology. Even in the social psychology, it has drawn considerable research interest. As a topic has led to countless thoughts of great thinkers and intellectuals. Given the different facets that exclusion has acquired the exclusion in the contemporary world, various modes have been increasingly developed beyond the material and symbolic opposition, which are worthy of being analyzed and discussed. In this paper, we discuss only three: the world of imitations, the ‘multifrenica’ connection and low level entertainment. In an attempt to seize a subjectivity that has been denied, the ‘unaffiliated’ from various symbol systems have chosen to generate strategies for inclusion in the scope of everyday life and are worthy not only be analyzed but to be discussed. Throughout all texts, it is emphasized the heuristics that underpin contemporary forms of consumption. Keywords: Exclusion, Strategies, Consumption, Entertainment, subjectivity, Social Networks * Profesor Titular C de Tiempo Completo de la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM), Unidad Iztapalapa, México, D.F. Licenciado en Psicología Social por la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM), Unidad Iztapalapa. Maestro en Psicología Social por la Facultad de Psicología de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Doctor en Antropología Social por la Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia (ENAH), [email protected]

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