scholarly journals ‘We’re all in this together’: Perspectives from within the Gulf Cooperation Council Women’s Games

2021 ◽  
pp. 101269022199980
Author(s):  
Hussa K Al-Khalifa ◽  
Dwa Al-Khalifa
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
Arabian Gulf ◽  
Gulf Cooperation Council ◽  
Social Goals ◽  
Shared Identity

Sport has often been advocated as a tool to achieve various social development (SD) goals. It has also been used as a way of expanding soft power (SP) influence. Combining both concepts provides an opportunity to understand how SP and SD may interrelate through the use of domestic SP strategies in sport. In this paper, we discuss the identified themes of unity, pride, and collective identity that arise from a regional women’s sporting competition in the Arabian Gulf among the Gulf Cooperation Council members, as factors that strengthened the prominence of athletes’ shared identity and connectedness. Using the perspectives of the authors who were immersed in the sporting competition, we argue that this information is important for sports organisers to use as bases for SP strategies to achieve inwards-focused social goals.

scholarly journals Zheng He’s Soft Power Discourse in Indonesia: Identity in Power Relation

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. p64
Author(s):  
Siti Aliyuna Pratisti ◽  
Deasy Silvya Sari ◽  
Taufik Hidayat
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Ming Dynasty ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
State Level ◽  
Peaceful Rise ◽  
Economic Diplomacy ◽  
Shared Identity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This article proposes an identity turn in the ongoing discourse of China’s peaceful rise. While economic diplomacy remains as China’s leading trade, a robust social relation has been deliberately promoted in maintaining the relationship between states. To symbolize the peaceful relation, China does not need to look further as Zheng He, an ancient sea admiral of the Ming dynasty, posed as a powerful figure for peaceful diplomacy. The social constructivist approach to soft power will be used in analyzing the concept of collective identity and power relations. To illustrate this approach, a specific case study on China-Indonesia Muslim’s connection that exists since Zheng He’s era, will be highlighted as a landscape where the shared identity meet. The qualitative method will be applied to interpret shared values between the two societies. Despite the fact that the state level of analysis is generally used in depicting soft power discourse, this article tries to step beyond the boundaries of states by emphasizing the relationship of soft power in society level.

What Does It Mean to Be Social? Defining the Social Landscape for Children With Childhood Apraxia of Speech

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 843-852 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Tarshis ◽  
Michelle Garcia Winner ◽  
Pamela Crooke
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Social Goals ◽  
Apraxia Of Speech ◽  
Childhood Apraxia Of Speech ◽  
Social Competencies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Landscape ◽  
Communication Challenges ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
Speech Motor

Purpose What does it mean to be social? In addition, how is that different from behaving socially appropriately? The purpose of this clinical focus article is to tackle these two questions along with taking a deeper look into how communication challenges in childhood apraxia of speech impact social competencies for young children. Through the lens of early social development and social competency, this clinical focus article will explore how speech motor challenges can impact social development and what happens when young learners miss early opportunities to grow socially. While not the primary focus, the clinical focus article will touch upon lingering issues for individuals diagnosed with childhood apraxia of speech as they enter the school-aged years. Conclusion Finally, it will address some foundational aspects of intervention and offer ideas and suggestions for structuring therapy to address both speech and social goals.

Studying Palestinian-Israeli Relations at the Vanderbilt Television News Archive (VTNA)

2000 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-40
Author(s):  
Deborah L. Wheeler
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Television News ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
The Past ◽  
Shared Identity ◽  
P 16 ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Words And Images

For the Past Five Decades, media texts, broadcast over television air waves, have created a shared identity among viewing audiences. John B. Thompson notes that if culture is understood as “the ways in which meaningful expressions of various kinds are produced, constructed and received by individuals”, then mass media can be understood as central to the creation and maintenance of culture (pp. 122-23). The words and images that construct a media culture are the very building blocks of collective identity. As Michael Schudson observes, “news is part of the background through which and with which people think” (p. 16).

Resilience and the Mobility of Identity: Belonging and Change among Turkana Herders in Northern Kenya

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 226-252
Author(s):  
Greta Semplici
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
External Support ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Northern Kenya ◽  
Shared Identity ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Economic Transformations ◽  
Political Category

Ideas of resilience are not new; they have travelled across several disciplines, stretching their original meanings to a considerable degree, turning into a 'key political category of our time' (Neocleous 2013). For the case of pastoralist groups, discussions about resilience predominantly concern the state of pastoralism as a unitary and fixed entity and its prospects for survival in a world in turmoil (climate change, diseases and epidemics, conflicts, socio-economic transformations). In this context, references to resilience generally allude to local vulnerability, purporting the need for external support. These accounts tend to ignore local voices and perceptions and neglect the role of identity, culture and change in self-presentation and everyday life. Based on fourteen months of fieldwork in the northern Kenyan drylands, this article flips dominant perspectives on pastoralism and resilience, following the herders' self-definition, their construction of a shared identity and their, at times contradictory, positioning as part of a broader society. It argues that part of their resilience rests in the feeling of belonging and solidarity around a collective identity, built in opposition to urbanities along symbolic boundaries. The article however shows how such identity remains nonetheless flexible and responsive to change, disrupting dichotomies and weaving different social worlds, such as rural and urban, together. Such flexibility is also an important element of resilience for the capacity to change, stay attentive, and mobile.

scholarly journals Association of infections with multiple sclerosis in Gulf Cooperation Council countries: a review

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 030006051988415
Author(s):  
O Al Wutayd
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Sclerosis ◽  
Arabian Gulf ◽  
Human Herpesvirus ◽  
Epidemiological Studies ◽  
Gulf Cooperation Council ◽  
Gulf Region ◽  
Varicella Zoster ◽  
Barr Virus ◽  
Serological Studies ◽  
Epstein Barr

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease that affects the central nervous system, causing inflammation, demyelination, and neurodegeneration. Infection can play a role in its etiology. Herein, a review is presented of studies that have reported an association between infection and MS risk in countries of the Arabian Gulf region. Searches of the PubMed, Google Scholar, and Science Direct databases were carried out using various search terms, and relevant studies published through January 2019 on the epidemiology of MS in Gulf Cooperation Council countries identified. MS has been found to be associated with measles in Saudi Arabia and Epstein–Barr virus in Kuwait whereas no association has been identified between risk of MS and varicella-zoster virus, mumps, or human herpesvirus-6. However, few epidemiological studies on this topic have been conducted in countries of the Gulf region. Longitudinal and serological studies to establish robust evidence between infection and risk of MS are highly recommended, and a regional MS registry is needed.

Alarming High Prevalence of Falls Among Older Adults in The Arabian Gulf Cooperation Council Countries

2019 ◽  
Vol 100 (10) ◽  
pp. e148-e149
Author(s):  
Aqeel Alenazi ◽  
Bader Alqahtani ◽  
Jeffrey Hoover ◽  
Mohammed Alshehri
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Arabian Gulf ◽  
Gulf Cooperation Council ◽  
High Prevalence

Beyond rentierism: the United Arab Emirates’ exceptionalism in a turbulent region

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 522-536
Author(s):  
Osman Antwi-Boateng ◽  
Mohammed Binhuwaidin
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
Gulf Cooperation Council ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
Energy Resources ◽  
Turbulent Region ◽  
Arab Muslim ◽  
Rentier States ◽  
Political Economic

The Arab-Muslim world is often described negatively as undemocratic, intolerant and economically backward. Rare positive commentary about the region is usually reserved for the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states based on the belief that their status as rentier states coupled with immense energy resources has enabled them to escape the failures of the larger region. However, this research posits a United Arab Emirates (UAE) exceptionalism attributed to its internalization of key political, economic and social norms, and the promotion of such norms as a norm entrepreneur. The attractiveness of the UAE's accomplishments in the region has made it worthy of emulation and, thus, a soft power.

Identity and Social Reconciliation in a Postconflict Korea: What Role for the Church?

2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-151
Author(s):  
Sarah A. Son
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Political Transition ◽  
Primary Task ◽  
The Past ◽  
Shared Identity ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Church ◽  
National Solidarity

One of the greatest tragedies of the inter-Korean conflict is the loss of shared identity between the two peoples. If the situation arises that the two nations have the opportunity to become one again, building a shared sense of collective identity will be the primary task of a unified administration. As the experiences of other countries show, navigating a political transition involves both dealing with the past and building a vision for the future that provides a sense of national solidarity and hope; the church has a key role to play in facilitating reconciliation and long-term peace.

Identity Formation in Street Demonstrations

2019 ◽  
pp. 309-327
Author(s):  
Bert Klandermans ◽  
Jacquelien van Stekelenburg
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Union Member ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Category Membership ◽  
Central Mechanism ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Shared Identity ◽  
The World ◽  
Group Members

Every day, somewhere in the world, citizens take to the streets to vent their anger about grievances they share. A central mechanism in our understanding of protest behavior is identity formation. To experience shared grievances and emotions, a shared identity must develop. We address the question with whom protesters identify. Rather than examine whether dynamics of identification determine mobilization and participation, we will assess whether dynamics of mobilization and participation foster identification. We distinguish deductive and inductive identity formation. Taking the deductive route, people deduce a shared identity from a higher-order category membership they share; for example, being a union member. Taking the inductive route, a collective identity emerges as group members interact. Hypotheses derived from this conceptualization are tested. We present data on identification from a study of 81 demonstrations and 16,597 participants in eight European countries. We find that inductive and deductive identity formation have different antecedents.

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