The 'angelification' of girls: Winx Club as a neo-liberal Catholic project

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-41
Author(s):  
Nicoletta Marini-Maio ◽  
Ellen Nerenberg
Keyword(s):  
Economic Model ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
The Other ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Television Series ◽  
Amusement Park ◽  
The One ◽  
Regional Character ◽  
Television Formats ◽  
Social Catholicism

Abstract This article examines and contextualizes the socio-economic model and values system from which the transmedial, transnational text that we call the Winx Project derives and in which it is produced. The Winx Project centres on an animated television series for girls and tweens, Winx Club, produced in Italy and distributed in 150 countries worldwide, but includes spin-off television formats, films, live and interactive entertainments, an amusement park and merchandising and fashion to compose a multifaceted, multiple 'text'. This plural text is employed to measure the functionality of the Winx Club within a global and transnationalized discourse of neo-liberal economics on the one hand and, on the other, a local context that reaches deep into the regional character of Social Catholicism to purvey on a global scale its ethics and values system.

scholarly journals The Invasive Niche, a Multidisciplinary Concept Illustrated by Gorse (Ulex Europaeus)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Atlan ◽  
Nathalie Udo
Keyword(s):  
Social Factors ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
The Other ◽  
Ulex Europaeus ◽  
Explanatory Variables ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Invasive Status ◽  
Noxious Weed ◽  
The One ◽  
The Web

This study analyzes the natural and social factors influencing the emergence and publicization of the invasive status of a fast growing bush, gorse (Ulex europaeus), by comparison between countries on a global scale. We used documents collected on the web in a standardized way. The results show that in all the countries studied, there are several public statuses attributed to gorse. The invasive status is the one that is most shared. The other most frequently encountered status are those of noxious weed, and of economically useful. The invasive status is publicized in nearly all countries, including those where gorse is almost absent. We quantified the publicization of the invasive gorse status of gorse by an indicator with 5 levels, and then performed a multivariate analysis that combines natural and social explanatory variables. The results lead us to propose the concept of invasive niche: the set of natural and social parameters that allow a species to be considered invasive in a given socio-ecosystem.

Fiscal Reforms in a Country's Competitiveness Development

2018 ◽  
pp. 265-287
Author(s):  
Mária Janošková ◽  
Adriana Csikósová ◽  
Katarína Čulková
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Economic Model ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
State Budget ◽  
Public Finances ◽  
Political Ideas ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Fiscal Reforms ◽  
The One

The chapter attention is given to fiscal reforms in Slovakia. Reform measurements and their impact on the state budget have been investigated in selected areas of the economy. Reforms are always lively discussed issue. On the one hand, they are reasoned by expert arguments, but also by political ideas and emotions. On the other hand, we must see that the reforms affect all citizens, mainly children, students, workers, unemployed and pensioners. The chapter contains a brief overview of the most important reforms in the years 2002-2006 as well as preliminary impacts on the economy, inhabitants and public finances. The aim of this chapter is to describe the fiscal reforms in Slovakia, to bring close principles that were behind the changes and to evaluate their influence on the country's competitiveness. The aim is to show how economic policy and reforms have changed the socio-economic model in Slovakia and what results it has brought.

The Coronavirus as a Revenge Effect: The Pandemic from the Perspective of Philosophy of Technique

2021 ◽  
pp. 016224392110085
Author(s):  
Manuel Carabantes
Keyword(s):  
Opposite Effect ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mobility Limitations ◽  
Liberal Democracies ◽  
Modern Technique ◽  
The One

The 2020 coronavirus pandemic is a phenomenon of great interest from the point of view of philosophy of technique. In this paper, we propose an interpretation of its causes and its current and foreseeable effects through a dual theoretical framework. On the one hand, we will use Edward Tenner’s concept of the revenge effect, which refers to the phenomenon by which a technique produces unexpected consequences that cancel its objective. In this case, modern mobility techniques, by spreading the disease on a global scale, have produced the opposite effect, that is, the mobility limitations of lockdowns. On the other hand, we will embrace Jacques Ellul’s philosophy of technique, which shows how many problems produced by modern technique, such as the current pandemic, have an ultimate tendency toward the establishment of a centralized and authoritarian organization of humanity not compatible with the fundamental rights of liberal democracies. The conclusion drawn from these elements will be that the way the pandemic has been tackled supports Ellul’s prediction about the establishment of such an organization.

scholarly journals Decolonising the COVID-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-131
Author(s):  
Rebecca Duncan ◽  
Johan Höglund
Keyword(s):  
Global Scale ◽  
The Other ◽  
The World ◽  
Gendered Power ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship

At its inception, the COVID-19 pandemic was described as something inherently new, capable of crossing and erasing the economic, racial, gendered, and religious divides that stratify societies around the world. However, the ongoing pandemic is not new or egalitarian, but fuelled by, and fuelling, crises already under way on a global scale. In this article we examine on the one hand the relationship between the pandemic and still-active formations of racialised and gendered power, and on the other the pandemic's inextricability from a dispersed and uneven planetary emergency. As the environmental historian Jason W. Moore notes, this emergency disproportionately affects ‘women, people of colour and (neo)colonial populations’ (2019: 54), and the effects of COVID-19 are similarly unevenly allocated.

scholarly journals The theoretical aspect of transhumanism within the framework of historiosophical discourse

2021 ◽  
pp. 38-42
Author(s):  
V. V. Okorokova
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Theoretical Aspect ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
The Other ◽  
Transitional Stage ◽  
Human Race ◽  
Innovative Biotechnologies ◽  
The Future ◽  
The One ◽  
Physical Type

The article is devoted to the consideration of theoretical aspects of transhumanism in the course of historiosophical discourse. Emphasis is placed on the digitalization of society, which feeds the main issues of transhumanism, especially in the anthropological sphere. In this sense, transhumanism is the theoretical approach that proposes a futurological digression into the future of man, so to speak, from the man of the present physical type to the posthuman. Man is understood here as an object of experimentation to apply to him innovative biotechnologies aimed at artificially improving his physical capabilities. It is about solving one of the main problems – immortalism (immortality). The article presents the opinions of scientists from two poles of transhumanism research – positive and debatable. In particular, based on the works of wellknown ideologues of this scientific trend (N. Bostrom, R. Kurzweil, J. Huxley) points to a pronounced projective feature of transhumanism, which in turn contributed to the debate among scientists about the impossibility or danger of implementing a transhumanist program of transformation. The article reveals the origins of transhumanism, and most importantly the views of scholars on this issue.There was some bipolarity in the study of transhumanism in relation to humanism and postmodernism. On the one hand, transhumanism is seen as the embodiment of some humanistic and postmodernist elements. On the other hand, there are fundamental differences, such as the understanding of the human race is not the end of our evolution, but its beginning. Hence such concepts as “transhuman” and “posthuman”, where the first type is understood as a transitional stage to the decisive stage – post-human. Anthropotechnological factor permeates transhumanism, creating a futurological program of transformation of all spheres of life, taking into account the cosmic level. The article notes that these theoretical characteristics of transhumanism lead some scholars (A. Shcherbina) to the idea of its propensity for utopia, and a utopia of global scale.

The Organizacional Management as Instrument to Overcome the Resistance to the Innovative Process

2012 ◽  
pp. 223-238
Author(s):  
Zamira Acosta ◽  
Jaime Febles
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Change ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Organizational Management ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
The Other ◽  
Influential Factor ◽  
Decision Criteria ◽  
Innovative Process ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The One

Changes in economic activity on a global scale affect organizations due to modifications on their decision criteria, but also for the permanent character of the change. This situation implies an increase of the competition and also the appearance of new markets and opportunities. On the other hand the innovation not only offers major possibilities to guarantee the organization’s survival but also it allows to increase their competitive capacity; even turning into a generating element of the change and vice versa. But it will be the organization that inserts appropriately the above mentioned innovation, or that uses it better, the one that will be more competitive. The management of the organizational change, in this sense, turns into an influential factor in the creation of future and in the promotion of the available possibilities. This paper analyzes organizational management more adapted to the innovative processes of the Canary companies, as well as the underlying differences in the types of compared enterprises.

scholarly journals Problems of definition and classification of fantasy: Western European and Slavonic perspectives

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 ◽  
pp. 04009
Author(s):  
Olga Ryzhchenko
Keyword(s):  
Popular Literature ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
The Other ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Literary Genre ◽  
Lord Of The Rings ◽  
Historical Basis ◽  
Western European ◽  
The One

The article deals with the problem of definition and classification of literary works marked as fantasy. Being quite a modern genre, fantasy, on the one hand, has become quite a popular literature among groups of people of different ages and occupations that leads to the rising attention of theorists of literature and literary critics. But, on the other hand, this literary genre is still not studied and described well enough. Therefore, literary studies do not have conventional definition or classification of the genre. Examining famous fantasy works by J. Tolkien (“The Lord of the Rings”), J. Martin (“The Song of Ice and Flame”) and M. and S. Dyachenko (“Wanderers”), we managed to accentuate typical featured of the genre and define it. Comparing Western European and Slavonic fantasy, we came to a conclusion that this genre combines such necessary features as mythological basis, adventure intrigue, the division of the heroes into possessing superpowers and not possessing such ones, the presence of magical artefacts, opposition to the evil on a global scale. Speaking about classification of the genre we can point out two subgroups such as leaning towards the mythological basis and folklore and leaning towards the historical basis.

scholarly journals Political Movement By Apolitical Activist: Gezi Park Protests

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ferihan Polat ◽  
Ozlem Ozdesim Subay
Keyword(s):  
Political Action ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Political Conflict ◽  
The Other ◽  
Political Movement ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Party Government ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One

Gezi Park Protests leaving its mark in the June of 2015, is understood from so many perspectives by national and international academicians. On the one hand, some social scientists recognize this movement as apolitical action by analyzing the identity of activist, on the other hand, some of them claims that this movement is a political one by pointing out that the aim of the movement is against the Ak Party Government especially Erdoğan himself. This study aiming to understand Gezi Park Protests puts forward that having apolitical identity of activists is not enough to recognize the movement as apolitical one and also claiming that having political action cannot be explained by the idea that the movement is just against the Ak Party Government. This study justifying that this movement cannot be explained by the idea of domestic political conflict and separation as Turkey is a part of global capitalist order, focuses on dimensions of crossing national borders. Beyond the evaluation of Gezi Park Protests as an international conspiracy, interpretation of this movement as a part of the growing public protests against the system on a global scale is a more plausible perspective to understand the multidimensional social reality.

scholarly journals The St. Petersburg Media in Transformation

2005 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svetlana Pasti
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Soviet Society ◽  
The Political ◽  
Common Trends ◽  
The Public ◽  
Russian Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
The One ◽  
Depth Interviews

Abstract The article describes the transformation of contemporary Russian media in the dual framework of common trends initiated and set to a great extent from the centre of power in Moscow, on the one hand, and specifics pertaining in the regions, on the other. As common trends characterising the post-Soviet society and media we note capitalization, westernization, commercialization and corruption. Their specific character was formed by the political and economic conditions pertaining in St. Petersburg from the end of the 1990s to the beginning the 2000s. The article is based on an empirical study of St. Petersburg media conducted 1998-2001. The data consist of pilot interviews with eleven experts in 1998, in-depth interviews with thirty journalists in the editorial offices of the eight basic media in 1999, and a survey of eleven experts in 2001. Asking in what ways the common trends dovetail into the local context, the article describes the conditions for journalism and its emerging characteristics. On the one hand, the study reveals crucial changes after the decade of reforms, such as the intensive development of informational and advertising services in society and commercialization of media and journalist’s labour. On the other hand, the study notes the forces of continuity deriving from the fact that the media and journalists formerly served the interests of the political and economic groups rather than the interests of the public.

scholarly journals Hrvatski problem s regionalizmom

2021 ◽  
pp. 37-49
Author(s):  
Krystyna Pieniążek-Marković
Keyword(s):  
Opposite Direction ◽  
Cultural Geography ◽  
The Other ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Space Region ◽  
Literary Research ◽  
Representation Of Space ◽  
Cultural Texts ◽  
Literature Culture ◽  
The One

Due to its geographic position and historical circumstances, Croatia is a country of deep regional differences. In this paper I try to remind the reader, on the one hand, of the inevitability of the regional perspective in approaching certain periods and, on the other hand, to find the answer to why regionalism can appear as an unpleasant methodology (and a fact?). I will refer to the terms related to regional narrative: geopoetics, regiopoetics, locality, glocality, homeland, boundaries, and so on, as well as the interrelationship of regional discourse with a discourse of memory and identity. The new regionalism (seems to me ‒ insufficiently present in Croatian literary research) as a part of cultural geography and cultural-anthropological research in cultural texts, explores the record of spatial experience and representation of space (region), as well as traces of action in the opposite direction: how a text of literature/culture influences the local context.

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