scholarly journals Migration and the critique of ‘state thought’: Abdelmalek Sayad as a political theorist

2021 ◽  
pp. 147488512110419
Author(s):  
Benjamin Boudou
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Political Theorist ◽  
Sociological Work ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Cross Fertilization

This article argues for reading the Algerian-French sociologist Abdelmalek Sayad (1933–1998) as a political theorist of migration. Various contributions have recently called to move away from the court-like assessment of claims by host states and foreigners and to engage more frankly with empirical work more attentive to concrete experiences and power relations. I contend that Sayad’s sociological work constitutes a substantial empirical and normative resource for ethical and political theory of migration, pointing to the persistence of ‘state thought’ and presenting original normative perspectives on emigration, inclusion in democracy, naturalization or postcolonial relationships. Such a reading of Sayad from a political theory perspective would then constitute a prime example of the cross-fertilization of empirical and normative approaches.

scholarly journals Bentham, Not Epicurus: The Relevance of Pleasure to Studies of Drug-Involved Pain

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 118-138
Author(s):  
Scott Jacques
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Drug Users ◽  
Sexual Contact ◽  
Relevant Research ◽  
Resource Transfer ◽  
Methamphetamine Use ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Cross Fertilization

There is a disproportionate focus on pain over pleasure in policy-relevant research on drugs. This is unfortunate because theories of and findings on drug-involved pleasure can be used to inform knowledge of drug-involved pain. The cross-fertilization of theories and findings is bolstered by the availability of a conceptual framework that links drug-involved pain and pleasure in a comprehensive, powerful, simple, and instrumental manner. This article proposes such a framework. It consists of four types of drug-involved pain and pleasure: drug-specific corporal, drug-related corporal, economic, and social. This quaternary scheme is illustrated with findings from four literatures, namely, those on methamphetamine use, alcohol-related sexual contact among college students, resource transfer among drug users and dealers, and relational and communal issues related to drugs. The article concludes with implications for the field.

Approach-Avoidance Motivational Profiles in Early Adolescents to the PACER Fitness Test

2009 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 400-421 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Garn ◽  
Haichun Sun
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Test Performance ◽  
Achievement Goals ◽  
Early Adolescents ◽  
Social Goals ◽  
Fitness Testing ◽  
School Students ◽  
Approach Avoidance ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Cross Fertilization

The use of fitness testing is a practical means for measuring components of health-related fitness, but there is currently substantial debate over the motivating effects of these tests. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine the cross-fertilization of achievement and friendship goal profiles for early adolescents involved in the Progressive Aerobic Cardiovascular Endurance Run (PACER). Participants were 214 middle school students who reported their achievement goals, social goals, and preparation effort toward a PACER test. Performance was also examined. Confirmatory factor analysis supported the six-factor approach–avoidance model. Cluster analysis highlighted three distinct profiles. The high-goals profile group reported significantly higher amounts of effort put forth in preparation for the PACER test. Our findings suggest that the cross-fertilization of approach and avoidance achievement and social goals can provide important information about effort and performance on fitness testing in middle school physical education.

scholarly journals Ways of Seeing China through Isaac Julien's Ten Thousand Waves

Prism ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 174-196
Author(s):  
Yingjin Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Visual Media ◽  
New Techniques ◽  
Ethnic Chinese ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Art Photography ◽  
Political Poetics ◽  
Cross Fertilization ◽  
New Millennium

Abstract This article examines ways of seeing China in Isaac Julien's nine-screen film installation Ten Thousand Waves (2010), which represents a migratory aesthetic based on evocative translocality and mobile spectatorship. As Julien reconstructs the legend of compassionate Mazu (played by Maggie Cheung) and memories of Old and New Shanghai (both enacted by Zhao Tao), his screen images and sounds enter a constant circulation and form an intriguing multidirectional dialogue across a variety of media and genres: cinema, art photography, calligraphy, painting, poetry, and star performance. In addition to evaluating new concepts and new techniques at work in the cross-fertilization of cinema and other visual media in the new millennium, this article complicates Julien's celebrated political poetics by highlighting his problematic reception by ethnic Chinese spectators and by reckoning with the specter of orientalism that refuses to go away despite his previously audacious repudiation of stereotypes and clichés and his professed engagement with cosmopolitanism and globalization.

Pride and Paradox in IG I3 833bis

Mnemosyne ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-205
Author(s):  
Zachary P. Biles
Keyword(s):  
Fifth Century ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Epinician Poetry ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Modes Of Thought ◽  
Cross Fertilization

AbstractBuilding on research in recent years that emphasizes the cross-fertilization of ideas in epinician poetry and epigrammatic dedications, this article examines the poetics of a single victory epigram for a victory with a men’s chorus at Athens in the first quarter of the fifth century BC. The epinikian strategies that contribute to the poet’s self-presentation in this epigram are revealed by comparative evidence from epinician song and ritual dedication. Furthermore, an underlying paradox between agonistic and dedicatory modes of thought is revealed through ambiguities of expression, evidenced also in Homeric and later poetry.

From New Anarchism to Post-anarchism

Kropotkin ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Kinna
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Evolutionary Theory ◽  
Class Struggle ◽  
Political Theorist ◽  
Contemporary Politics ◽  
The 1960S

This chapter examines contemporary anarchist critiques of Kropotkin, especially post-anarchist analysis. It argues that science has become a byword to describe Kropotkin's political theory, providing an exemplar for classical anarchism. This theory is described as teleological, based on a particular concept of human nature and linked to a form of revolutionary utopianism that promises the realisation of anarchy. Post-anarchists dissolve the distance between Kropotkin and Bakunin that advocates of his evolutionary theory invented in the 1960s in order to rescue anarchism from its reputation for violence. This repackaging of historical traditions underpins judgments about the irrelevance of anarchism to contemporary politics and political theory. In response, critics of post-anarchism have sought to defend nineteenth-century revolutionary traditions. The result of this argument is that Kropotkin emerges as a political theorist of class struggle. This defence raises significant questions about the coherence of Kropotkin's position on the war in 1914.

Literature and Decolonization

2017 ◽  
pp. 732-713 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Forsdick
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
Transnational Networks ◽  
The Cross

The recasting of decolonization through the lens of cultural agents demands a recognition that a key element of the process of uncoupling colonizer and colonized involves the imagination (or re-imagination) of postcolonial futures. These practices take place in novels, poetry, and theatre as much as they do in law, philosophy, or political theory. An expanded focus on the cultures of decolonization emphasizes, at the same time, the transnational networks on which colonized cultures depend as they seek to decolonize, highlighting the cross-cultural and often intercontinental exchanges and translations of ideas and representations which make up the literary and cultural dimensions of decolonization. This chapter analyses the ways in which different forms of writing, particularly fiction, provide insights into the critical yet neglected question of how the end of empire was narrated by those who lived through it and who later, in various ways, sought to reconcile themselves to it.

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