On the Cross of Sant'Andrea: The Response to the Tragedy of San Giuliano di Puglia following the 2002 Molise, Italy, Earthquake

2004 ◽  
Vol 20 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 341-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randolph Langenbach ◽  
Alberto Dusi
Keyword(s):  
Recovery Process ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Severe Damage ◽  
Building Stock ◽  
Initial Decision ◽  
The People ◽  
The One ◽  
Molise Earthquake ◽  
Town Center ◽  
The Town

This paper reviews the recovery process in San Giuliano di Puglia, the one town in the Molise earthquake to suffer both extensive fatalities and widespread severe damage to its building stock. It focuses on three issues related to the recovery process: (1) the initial decision to close the central part of the town and to relocate most of the townspeople into temporary housing, (2) the location and design of the temporary “new village,” (3) the demolition rather than repair of many damaged buildings, and (4) the ongoing planning for the permanent relocation of the town center to a new area away from what had been the town's “main street.” The paper discusses the inspection, shoring and demolition process. Connecting all these issues is the question of how relief aid should be managed to best assist in recovery on all levels, including the psychological well-being of the people and the community.

Marxism, Morality and Ideology the Marxist Moral Paradox and the Struggle for Social Justice

1999 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-239
Author(s):  
Mokgethi B.G. Mothlabi
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Moral Issue ◽  
Main Concern ◽  
Social Critique ◽  
The People ◽  
Property Owners ◽  
Working People ◽  
The Status ◽  
The One

AbstractThere is a certain paradox inherent in Marx's criticism of morality. On the one hand, he rejects morality as a form of bourgeois ideology which serves mainly to justify the status quo. The status quo in question is one which is mainly detrimental to ordinary working people, while favouring property owners as well as owners of the means of production. In this sense Marx's condemnation of morality resembles his condemnation of religion, which he saw as the opium of the people. On the other hand, Marx employs morally significant language to challenge what he regards as the evils of capitalism and their destructive effects on the working class. It becomes clear from all this that capitalism cannot be seen as purely an economic matter. Insofar as it affects the lives and well-being of people, it is also a moral issue and deserves to be judged accordingly. How Marx steers between his seeming rejection of morality and, at the same time, using it to criticise capitalism is the main concern of this article. In the process, Marx's concept of ideology is explained while the focus and motivation of his social critique is also briefly considered.

scholarly journals Invisible Desires in Ghana and Kenya: Same-Sex Erotic Experiences in Cross-Sex Oriented Lives

Sexualities ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 883-898 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Spronk
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Significant Proportion ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Sexual Practices ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Sexual Diversity ◽  
The People ◽  
Theoretical Investigations ◽  
Binary Oppositions ◽  
The One

This article explores the tension between same-sex sexual practices and eroticism, on the one hand, and theoretical investigations on sexual diversity, on the other. The author’s analysis is based on research in Ghana and Kenya over the last two decades. A significant proportion of the people she met have (had) experience with same-sex sexual practices at some point in their life. Their choice to start and continue with it and in what form differed considerably per person and over their life course. These diverse possibilities throw an interesting light on the question of sexual diversity, which tends to be locked in a Western paradigm based on binary oppositions of female vs male, homosexual vs heterosexual and non-Western vs Western. While this paradigm has been criticized, theory on sexual diversity nevertheless inclines towards focusing on difference from the norm as its standpoint and therefore always implies non-heterosexuality. The author argues that African contemporary realities suggest innovative analytical directions of global heuristic value. Rather than focusing on self-realization based on notions of individualization, she explores the notion of well-being as put forward by Michael Jackson in Life within Limits: Well-Being in a World of Want (2011). She explores how realizing gendered and sexual well-being is a constant struggle rather than a linear path, and how diversity comes into being as erotic practices that are generated through phases in life course.

The People Beyond the Tag

2019 ◽  
pp. 61-97
Author(s):  
Shareen Hertel
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Stakeholder Consultation ◽  
Subjective Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Business And Human Rights ◽  
The People ◽  
Grassroots Level ◽  
The Town

Chapter 4 analyzes the receptivity of local community members in the town of Villa Altagracia (Dominican Republic) toward the practice of stakeholder consultation. It draws on original qualitative interviews with residents of this manufacturing community where collegiate apparel is produced (i.e., clothing with college logos) and workers at one company (Alta Gracia Apparel) are paid triple the prevailing minimum wage. The chapter introduces the concept of “subjective socioeconomic status,” which enables us to compare how different respondents rate their own well-being compared to that of other people in their community. Villa Altagracia has a significant unemployment problem, and the surveys convey the challenges experienced by people beyond the factory’s employees. Listening to people at the grassroots level illuminates the limits of business and human rights promotion strategies, the structural roots of poverty, and the inherent complexity of poor communities central to global supply chains.

CRIMINAL LIABILITY OF LEGAL PERSONS IN R. OF MACEDONIA

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (6) ◽  
pp. 1947-1952
Author(s):  
Alban Kadriu
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The State ◽  
Legal Person ◽  
Legal Entity ◽  
The People ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The One

Otherwise the subject of justice of a person with whom a person earns from his birth, a legal person is a product of the written law. In general, a legal entity is usually an organization that has ownership, economic activity, operational management, property and liability of its obligations with that property. Legal persons have their own will, their property they own and are responsible for their actions, which allows not being confused with the property of the people who founded it, nor of the will of all the people who work in it. Legal persons have an important role in everyday life. They are present and active in every field, because the legal system recognizes them as subjects of law.As an artificial creation created by law, a legal person also serves to create different collective goals and interests in society. However, it is important to note that all organizations, associations, institutions, etc., which exist today in the Republic of Macedonia, which have the property and organization of people working there, are not considered as legal entities. For this, the organization, company or the status of a legal person or the same should be foreseen in the state legal order. Criminal law in a country must, above all, serve the citizens, namely to assure their personal security and respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, with proper functioning and due respect, above all of state bodies, but also of others. to enable citizens a peaceful life on the one hand, and on the other hand, the state will provide opportunities and a range of tools for maintaining the peace and well-being of citizens.From this we can conclude that if the offense is committed outside of the authority given to a natural person in this case the legal person can not be held responsible, but if the same case and despite being carried out outside the authorization is carried out in favor of the person legal entity in this case the legal person appears as an accomplice in the crime and to decide on his responsibility is the sufficient fact that the benefits he takes for himself or shares with his bailiff, noting the fact that the legal person and the person in charge of the person are collaborators of crime.From the criminal liability, the only excluded is the country by simple reason which would be illogical or with other words the state only accounts for themselves and their actions, while local governments are responsible only for offenses committed outside their public powers.

Sixteenth-Century Reading in the Indies

1957 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Torre Revello
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
New World ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Spanish Empire ◽  
American Continent ◽  
The People ◽  
The Many ◽  
The One

Among the many books destined for children, the one preferred in America during the colonial period was the Fables attributed to the Phrygian slave, Aesop. Translated into Spanish, it was found in the hands of travelers and colonists throughout the Spanish empire. The simplicity of the tales and the morals which they point out made them the delight not only of children but also of adults, who explained the precepts with purposeful wit.Aesop was one of the authors most read in the New World, according to what we can deduce by consulting the numerous lists of books which were sent to various parts of the American continent. His fables were also circulated in Latin and Greek, surely for pedagogical purposes. In Spain there was no lack of poets who devoted part of their work to fables, such as the Archpriest of Hita with his Enxiemplos, up to the culmination in the eighteenth century with Félix María Samaniego and Tomás de Iriarte, whose works it is logical to suppose were brought to the New World with many others of various kinds. By that time the shores of America were being swept by other ideas, distinct from those of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, which brought unrest to the minds of the people, ideas foreign to the calm and well-being of the two previous centuries.

scholarly journals Modern Burkhanism through the History in the Ritual Life of the Altai People

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 31-40
Author(s):  
N. A. Tadina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Scientific Conference ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Ritual Practice ◽  
Altai Republic ◽  
The People ◽  
Sacred Objects ◽  
The World ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
The One

The article is devoted to the urgent problem of the revived Burkhanism formation in the Altai Republic. The authors came to the conclusion that the historical path of Burkhanism from the ban to the post-Soviet rehabilitation led it to the ambiguous comprehension. The main theories about Burkhanism given in the reports of the scientific conference held in the year of its one hundredth anniversary are highlighted. It is noted that modern Burkhanism is supported by the southern Altai people, namely the Altai-Kizhi that live in the Burkhanism places of the Ongudai and Ust-Kan regions of the Altai Republic. Against the background of the revival of the Oyrot heritage, the post of Zaisan as head of a clan, the confrontation between the adherents of Altai jan (Altai faith), that represent a mixture of “old” Burkhanism and Shamanism, and a group of Altai Buddhists, who interpret Burkhanism as the periphery of Lamaism, appeared. Based on the ethnographic data the ritual practice of «feeding» the fire of the hearth, sprinkling sacred objects with milk and cleansing by fumigation with juniper are represented, which expresses the key idea of Burkhanism ‒ the reverence of the upper heavenly world that gives life to man, the well-being to his family and his clan. It was revealed that Burkhanism consolidated the people spiritually and ethnically; therefore, observance of ritual symbolism in everyday life contributes to the preservation of the life values: peace, grace, happiness, luck. In ritual life, Burkhanism symbols and attributes are observed spatially and temporarily. The period of the young moon and sunrise, as well as the time of the birth of the sun (day), are considered the most “favorable” time to initiate ceremonies in honor of the living. Ritual actions are performed according to the sun and an even number of times. Everything connected with the “world of the living” honoring ritual should be white. The very existence of the world depends on proper observance. According to the norms of modern Burkhanism, it is considered that the one who observes the ritual symbolism approved by Burkhanism is one of the «True» Altaians and this certain standard of “Altai” based on the traditional worldview.

The 2002 Molise, Italy, Earthquake: Geological and Geomorphological Data on the San Giuliano di Puglia Area

2004 ◽  
Vol 20 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 53-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emilio Casciello ◽  
Massimo Cesarano ◽  
Giuseppe Naso ◽  
Gerardo Pappone ◽  
Carmen Rosskopf
Keyword(s):  
Seismic Hazard ◽  
Drill Hole ◽  
Seismic Microzonation ◽  
Earthquake Sequence ◽  
Large Set ◽  
Civil Protection ◽  
Severe Damage ◽  
Geomorphological Mapping ◽  
Molise Earthquake ◽  
The Town

The small village of San Giuliano di Puglia sustained the most severe damage from the Molise earthquake sequence of 2002. This study involved detailed geological and geomorphological mapping and is supported by a large set of geotechnical, geophysical and drill-hole data available from existing studies. These data were used to compile a seismic microzonation map of the San Giuliano di Puglia area as part of a study officially commissioned by the Department of Civil Protection. The map provides seismic hazard information that will be useful in the repair and reconstruction of the town.

Shinjo Matsuri: Community Revitalization through the Construction and Circulation of Decorated Floats

Paragrana ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 180-194
Author(s):  
Izumi Kuroishi
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Young People ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Local Identity ◽  
Community Revitalization ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cultural Properties ◽  
The City ◽  
The Town

Abstract Shinjo Matsuri in Yamagata prefecture is a 250-year old summer festival recognized as one of the nationally designated Important Folk and Cultural Properties. Besides the procession of a mikoshi from Tenman shrine, 20 decorated floats circulate through the city for two days, by collaboration between the people in the town and farm areas. Characteristically, as the local lord Tozawa allowed people to design the float as they liked at the beginning of the festival, groups of young people in each area still design, finance and construct the float by themselves without any institution’s nor profession’s help. This paper aims to explain how the construction and the spatial assignment of the float work to sustain the community bond between generations and define its local identity in the whole city. Especially, I would like to discuss how people interpret the idea of furyu in enhancing their well-being in the community by creating the extraordinary socio-symbolical space, and by accommodating the festival to the social change.

scholarly journals जागतिकीकरण आणि दलित समाज

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
RAKSHIT MADAN BAGDE
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Economic Prosperity ◽  
The People ◽  
Agriculture Industry ◽  
The World ◽  
Time Distance ◽  
The Subject ◽  
To Come ◽  
The One ◽  
Economic Well Being

It is unknown at this time what he will do after leaving the post. If the aim is to develop the country's agriculture, industry, and services, then India's dream of economic well-being will not take long to come true. But if this free policy is to protect the welfare of a handful of people, it will have a far-reaching effect on the future of other people in the country. This will make the India-India conflict inevitable. Globalization is considered from the perspective of three important dimensions of time, distance, and value. That is why "globalization is a mixed concept and its impact is far-reaching." This is not surprising, but many psychological speculations have been made. The subject is fresh in politics, globalization is being used by the people of the world to achieve economic prosperity. On the one hand, it is blamed on the fact that it raises a lot of new questions. "

Damages caused by Polish cavalry in Tyszowce starosty in 17th-18th century

2013 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Janusz Adam Frykowski
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
Financial Capacity ◽  
The People ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Town ◽  
Crown Lands ◽  
Negative Phenomena

SUMMARYNon-city starosty of Tyszowce was located in the province of Belz and received the status of royal land in 1462. Its territory included the town of Tyszowce and villages: Mikulin, Perespa, Klatwy and Przewale. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the starosty suffered from a significant increase of various negative phenomena. The crown lands had bitterly tasted devastating fires, epidemics, contributions, requisitions, robberies and field devastations. All these disasters were caused mainly by war and military activities. Marches of soldiers and quartering of troops greatly contributed to the situation and were usually associated with the need of maintaining the soldiers. The requisitions of food, alcohol, cattle, horses and poultry were particularly burdensome for the people. The greatest economic devastation as regards the resources of the starosty and its people was caused by monetary contributions, usually several times higher than the financial capacity of the town and its inhabitants. This work focuses on damages to the starosty caused by the royal cavalry. According to the literature, it is clear that the behavior of the troops in Tyszowce Starosty was not different from the behavior of soldiers in other areas of Poland. It must be admitted that the reprehensible behavior of the army was influenced by many conditions, from the recruitment of people from backgrounds often involving conflict with law, as well as foreigners, to the accommodation system under which the soldiers were forced to supply themselves “on their own.”

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