Derek Robbins’ muddle: A brief reply

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 106-108
Author(s):  
Patrick Baert
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
Positioning Theory ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
The Core ◽  
Sociology Of Intellectuals

In this brief essay, Patrick Baert replies to Derek Robbins’ review of his book The Existentialist Moment and of the co-authored book (with Simon Susen) The Sociology of Intellectuals. His main argument is that Robbins’ review is not only longwinded, but also suprisingly muddled, lacking in analytical clarity and precision. The essay also points out two other problems with Robbin’s confusing review. Firstly, Robbins wrongly accuses Baert of not paying attention to the content of ideas, whereas precisely the opposite is the case. Secondly, Robbins misunderstands the core presuppositions of positioning theory in that he erroneously associates the notion of positioning with conscious strategising. Baert is more sympathetic towards Robbins’ argument about the need to distinguish between different fields, but he laments Robbins’ inability to show how a more detailed attempt to draw this distinction would lead to a superior analysis of the specific historical context at the time.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Jeffrey D. Pugh
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
Human Security ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
The Core ◽  
Key Points ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Forced Migrants ◽  
Made In

The introductory chapter previews the main argument and lays out the scope of the book, defines several of the key concepts that will be used throughout the book (including justifying the usage of the term “migrant” and making explicit the interlinking relationship between human security and peace), provides a brief historical context of the case study of Colombian forced migrants in Ecuador, and presents a rationale for the significance of the book. It also previews the remaining chapters and the key points made in them in order to sketch the progression of the core argument that is developed throughout the book.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Harris
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The United States ◽  
Art World ◽  
Dance History ◽  
The Core ◽  
Political Conditions ◽  
Global Art ◽  
Scholarly Attention

The introduction presents the core historiographical problem that Making BalletAmerican aims to correct: the idea that George Balanchine’s neoclassical choreography represents the first successful manifestation of an “American” ballet. While this idea is pervasive in dance history, little scholarly attention has been paid to its construction. The introduction brings to light an alternative, more complex historical context for American neoclassical ballet than has been previously considered. It places Lincoln Kirstein’s 1933 trip to Paris, famous for bringing Balanchine to the United States, within a transnational and interdisciplinary backdrop of modernism, during a time when the global art world was shifting significantly in response to the international rise of fascism. This context reverberates throughout to the book’s examination of American ballet as a form that was embedded in and responsive to a changing set of social, cultural, and political conditions over the period covered, 1933–1963.

scholarly journals Cognitive–behavioural therapy with older people

2007 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ceri Evans
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Effective Treatment ◽  
Psychiatric Disorders ◽  
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Behavioural Therapy ◽  
Age Group ◽  
The Core ◽  
Cognitive Behavioural ◽  
The Individual

Cognitive–behavioural therapy (CBT) is an effective treatment for a number of psychiatric disorders in adults of all ages. With the proportion of the population aged 65 or over increasing steadily, it is important to be aware of how the CBT needs of this age group can be best met. This article provides an overview of CBT and the historical context of using it with older people. Although an understanding of the individual, irrespective of age, is at the core of CBT, potential modifications to the procedure and content aimed at optimising its effectiveness for older people are discussed.

Developing Heterodox Economics Curriculum The case of John Jay College

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Geert L. Dhondt ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Institutional Constraints ◽  
Heterodox Economics ◽  
Global Crisis ◽  
The Core ◽  
The City

This article seeks to be a contribution to heterodox teaching initiatives by focusing on curriculum building and institutional opportunities and constraints at John Jay College, the City University of New York. The article first focuses on the need for alternative curriculums in the context of the global crisis and the crisis of economics as a discipline. Then, after some historical context to John Jay College in which opportunities arose to develop a heterodox program, the focus is on the core of the current economics curriculum and its contrasts with the mainstream. Finally, there is a discussion of institutional constraints.

Teaching Jazz Standards

2019 ◽  
pp. 245-256
Author(s):  
Nick Weiser
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
Skill Level ◽  
The Core ◽  
Multiple Keys ◽  
Development And Evolution

The issue of teaching jazz standards is fraught with questions. What are “standards?” What makes a composition a standard? Why do jazz musicians use them as vehicles for improvisation? How are greater standards distinguished from lesser standards? How does one select particular standards to suit the needs of students? This chapter provides strategies for learning and internalizing the core jazz repertoire. It provides historical context to the development and evolution of the jazz standard canon, looking to the songbook folios of the great American tunesmiths and to original and seminal recordings as sources for the study of this music. Emphasis is given to the practical issues of selecting age- and skill-level-appropriate tunes; memorizing melodies, chord progressions, and lyrics (as applicable) in multiple keys; and devising improvisational exercises specific to individual compositions.

Rights, Not Interests

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
James A. Gross
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Labor Law ◽  
Fine Tuning ◽  
Economic Power ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
The Core ◽  
Law And Policy ◽  
Solid Foundation ◽  
Creative Vision

This book makes four important contributions to our understanding of U.S. labor law and policy. First, given my previous three volume study of the work of the NLRB, this book is able to discuss the Board’s path under Chairmen Gould, Truesdale, Battista and Liebman in historical context. Second, this book demonstrates the consequences of applying different and conflicting values to real world issues of labor law. Third, the book’s inward assessment of U.S. labor law and policy using international human rights principles as standards for judgment constitutes new perspectives on old issues. These new perspectives challenge the commonly held view among practitioners and academics that workers’ organizing and collective bargaining are merely tests of economic power by adversarial interest groups exercising commercial rights not human rights. Finally, rather than joining those writing obituaries for the Act and the NLRB, this book maintains, despite the unrelenting pounding of hostile forces, that the core of the Act remains a solid foundation for the realization of workers’ rights–but calls for a new more creative vision because more is needed than merely fine tuning for marginal adjustments.

A compendium of the histone H1 family of somatic subtypes: An elusive cast of characters and their characteristics

2001 ◽  
Vol 79 (3) ◽  
pp. 289-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Missag H Parseghian ◽  
Barbara A Hamkalo
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
Histone H1 ◽  
General Function ◽  
Linker Histones ◽  
Chromatin Compaction ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Past ◽  
Current State ◽  
Core Histones

The last 35 years has seen a substantial amount of information collected about the somatic H1 subtypes, yet much of this work has been overshadowed by research into highly divergent isoforms of H1, such as H5. Reports from several laboratories in the past few years have begun to call into question some of the traditional views regarding the general function of linker histones and their heterogeneity. Hence, the impression in some circles is that less is known about these ubiquitous nuclear proteins as compared with the core histones. The goal of the following review is to acquaint the reader with the ubiquitous somatic H1s by categorizing them and their characteristics into several classes. The reasons for our current state of misunderstanding is put into a historical context along with recent controversies centering on the role of H1 in the nucleus. Finally, we propose a model that may explain the functional role of H1 heterogeneity in chromatin compaction.Key words: histone H1, linker histones, chromatin organization, chromatin compaction, heat shock.

Towards Automatic Annotation of Anaphoric Links in Corpora

1999 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-280
Author(s):  
Ruslan Mitkov
Keyword(s):  
Success Rate ◽  
Automatic Identification ◽  
Automatic Annotation ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
Pronoun Resolution ◽  
The Core ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Automatic Tagging

The paper proposes a methodology for the semi-automatic annotation of pronoun-antecedent pairs in corpora. The proposal is based on robust, knowledge-poor pronoun resolution followed by post-editing. The paper is structured as follows. The introduction comments on the fact that automatic identification of referential links in corpora has lagged behind in comparison with similar lexical, syntactical, and even semantic tasks. The second section of the paper outlines the author s robust, knowledge-based approach to pronoun resolution which will subsequently be put forward as the core of a larger architecture proposed for the automatic tagging of referential links. Section 3 briefly presents other related knowledge-poor approaches, while Section 4 discusses the limitations and advantages of the knowledge-poor approach outlined in Section 2. The main argument of the paper is to be found in Section 5, which presents the idea of developing a semi-automatic environment for annotating anaphoric links and outlines the components of such a program. Finally, the conclusion looks at the anticipated success rate of the approach.

scholarly journals Challenging Empire

2006 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-133
Author(s):  
Amr G. E. Sabet
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cold War ◽  
United Nations ◽  
The United States ◽  
American People ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
The Core ◽  
Golden Opportunity

The idea for this book emerged from what the author perceives to be theextraordinary post-cold war circumstances associated with the Americanextremists’ push for empire. Its thesis is simple and straightforward:American unilateralism and militarism have spawned a global social movementagainst such eventualities, giving rise to a new kind of internationalism.The components of this internationalism are threefold: people and socialmovements, governments, and the United Nations (UN). Together, ratheroptimistically or perhaps wishfully, they have come to constitute a “secondsuperpower” capable of challenging this imperial drive (pp. 6 and 257).The book is divided into five chapters. The “Introduction” (chapter 1)presents the thesis and framework of the three-part internationalist perspective.Chapter 2 presents the global social movement as the core componentthat defies war and empire and that exhibits peoples’ power as the foundationof such defiance. The main argument here is that the events of September 11,2001, provided a golden opportunity for the George W. Bush administrationto manipulate and exploit the American people’s fears and shock. Fear,according to Bennis, undermines “not only independence of will, but the verycapacity to think” (p. 31). This was the means by which the neo-conservatives,hijacking state power, were able to carry the American people along,allowing for no serious questioning or opposition. Yet if the United States is ...

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