Amina Weira’s Anger in the Wind: A premonitory tale of intertwined subjectivities

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 275-287
Author(s):  
Sada Niang
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Collective Resistance ◽  
Dignified Life

This article analyses Amina Weira’s Anger in the Wind (2016). It argues that Weira’s documentary tells the story of slowly dying men through an exploration of a failed Anthropocene mediated by subjectivity and memory. Behind an almost casual handling of the camera, Weira casts a keen sympathetic eye on the ‘environmentally embattled’ populations of her native town, Arlit. Anger in the Wind is a documentary of painful, angry, recriminatory words; it tactfully yet pointedly exposes the devastation of the local ecosystems by staging the life stories of men and women who now realize that they were seen as disposable entities, not worthy of a dignified life cycle, fit for sacrifice at the altar of western technological prowess and comfort. As much as a testimony, Anger in the Wind is a Bamako style indictment of a destructive way of inhabiting the earth and a Hyenas’ style call to collective resistance.

Family, Community and Long-Term Socioeconomic Inequality: Evidence from Siblings and Youth Peers

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Bingley ◽  
Lorenzo Cappellari ◽  
Konstantinos Tatsiramos
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Socioeconomic Inequality ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Community Effects ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Sibling Correlation ◽  
Earnings Dynamics ◽  
Sibling Correlations ◽  
Youth Community

Abstract Using administrative data for the population of Danish men and women, we develop an empirical model which accounts for the joint earnings dynamics of siblings and youth community peers. We provide the first decomposition of the sibling correlation of permanent earnings into family and community effects allowing for life cycle dynamics and extending the analysis to consider other outcomes. We find that family is the most important factor influencing sibling correlations of earnings, education and unemployment. Community background matters for shaping the sibling correlation of earnings and unemployment early in the working life, but its importance quickly diminishes.

scholarly journals GHG emissions in KG-CO2 / M2 generated by a House Type INFONAVIT

2019 ◽  
pp. 10-23
Author(s):  
Humberto Aceves-Gutierrez ◽  
Oscar López-Chávez ◽  
Santa Magdalena Mercado-Ibarra ◽  
Cesar Alejandro Contreras-Quintanar
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Urban Growth ◽  
Greenhouse Effect ◽  
Human Population ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Ghg Emissions ◽  
Iso 14040 ◽  
Fundamental Factor ◽  
The Earth

Climate change is one of the main current problems, it concerns the entire human population since its effects are worldwide, especially now we have seen its consequences, according to Menghi (2007), the average global temperatures grew by more than 0.5 ° C in the last century, and the glaciers are disappearing from the earth. The greenhouse effect generated mainly by the gases of the same name (GHG), is the fundamental factor of climate change. Construction is one of the ways in which the human being contaminates in a constant way this due to urban growth and the demand for infrastructure that this generates. This research has the purpose of determining the KG-CO2 / M2 generated by a 44 m2 house of interest type INFONAVIT using the Life Cycle methodology (ACV) of the products or materials, established in ISO 14040, employee an inventory of KG-CO2 emissions from building materials, obtained from various bibliographic sources and databases and using the work volumes required to build the house. The results obtained of 161.57 Kg-CO2 / M2.

Society of the Holy Earth

2019 ◽  
pp. 225-226
Keyword(s):  
Men And Women ◽  
The Earth

This essay calls for a new kind of organization for the betterment of our planet, a sort of grassroots fellowship, one of "few officers and many leaders [...] controlled by a motive rather than by a constitution. [...] Its principle of union will be the love of the Earth, treasured in the hearts of men and women."

Romantic Fantasies in the Big City

2019 ◽  
pp. 11-45
Author(s):  
Tyler Carrington
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Single Women ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Lower Middle Class ◽  
Big City ◽  
Social Scientific

Chapter 1 begins by following the seamstress Frieda Kliem as she moves in 1902 from a rural province to the metropolis of Berlin. As Frieda looks for work, lodging, and acquaintances and then ultimately starts her own business and turns down the matchmaking efforts of a new friend, she personifies the “struggle for existence” that confronted working- and lower-middle-class Berliners, especially single women. After exploring popular cultural and social-scientific perspectives on the plights of men and women in the emerging city alongside the real-life stories that lent them such resonance, this chapter examines Berliners’ fixation on fate and the fortuitous encounter as a path to love. It argues that these imagined rendezvouses, which remained off-limits for respectable Berliners, are best understood as an attempt by Berliners to balance their attraction to the freedoms and possibilities of the modern world with the ever-present awareness of the risks associated with it.

scholarly journals ‘What a Wonderful Change Have I Undergone…So Altered in Stature, Knowledge & Ideas!’: Apprenticeship, Adolescence and Growing Up in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Ulster

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leanne Calvert
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Young People ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Late Nineteenth

Until the late nineteenth century, apprenticeship was the main way in which young people were trained in crafts and trades. Given that most apprenticeship terms lasted approximately seven years, young people could expect to spend a large part of their youth in service to another. Apprenticeship therefore coincided with an important phase in the life cycle of many young men (and women) during this period. A study of apprenticeship not only tells us how young people learned the skills with which they made their future living, it also casts light on the process of ‘growing up’. However, we still know little about the everyday lives of apprentices, their relationships with their masters, and how young people themselves understood the transition from adolescence to adulthood. Drawing largely on the diary of John Tennent (1772–1813), a grocer’s apprentice who kept a record of his time spent in service, this article aims to broaden our understanding of these themes in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Ireland. It demonstrates that, for young middle-class men like Tennent, apprenticeship played a key role in the transition from boy to manhood.

Coping among Dual-Career Men and Women across the Family Life Cycle

1990 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maureen H. Schnittger ◽  
Gloria W. Bird
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Family Life Cycle ◽  
Dual Career ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Family

scholarly journals In search of Islamic view of justice on women testimony

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 281
Author(s):  
Husni Mubarrak
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Religious Discourse ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Mutual Relation ◽  
Women In Islam ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Women Witnesses ◽  
Islamic View

The most current challenges faced by Moslem in terms of Islamic religious discourse are religiousinterpretation on gender equality on position men and women. Among long crucial debate related tothe issue is position of men and women in testimony, when the place of two women witnesses whichare conceived equal to one man. It seems an ambivalent takes place regarding Islamic religious interpretationwhen many verses mentioned in the Quran and some hadiths have declared explicitly the sameshared opportunity and capacity as well as mutual relation between men and women as vicegerents(khalifah) of God on the earth, meanwhile in the practice which inherited over centuries demonstratedinequality of men and women. This contrast, however, ultimately indicates a tension between Islamthat ethically egalitarian and historically determined. This article tries to seek an Islamic view of justice onwomen testimony by arguing the importance of contextualizing interpretation by revitalizing appropriatemaxim of Quran exegetes and up grading maqasid studies in order to find a more equal and justreligious interpretation on women in Islam.

scholarly journals REGULATION OF LAND OWNERSHIP FOR FOREIGN CITIZENS IN INDONESIA FROM AGRARIAN LAW PERSPECTIVE

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (01) ◽  
pp. 69-81
Author(s):  
Nur Hairul Hari Yanto ◽  
Muhammad Nasarudin
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
Land Ownership ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Agrarian Law ◽  
The Right ◽  
Ownership Rights

In the agrarian system, Article 21 paragraph 1 of the Basic Agrarian Law states that only Indonesian citizens have property rights. One of the examples of ownership rights is the right to land ownership or those that may have a relationship with the earth and space without differentiating between men and women as well as fellow Indonesian citizens, both native and descendants.

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