scholarly journals Genesis and Development of A “Nonpartisan” Political Actor: The Formation of the Jama’ah Islah Malaysia (JIM) and its Roots in Western Europe

2009 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-90
Author(s):  
Sophie Lemiere
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
The Political ◽  
Historical Account ◽  
Political Actor ◽  
Muslim Students ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
Working Through ◽  
Studying Abroad ◽  
Malaysian Politics

This paper looks at the genesis and development of the Jama’ah Islah Malaysia (JIM), a modernist-reformist Islamist organisation that today has played a vital and visible role in the political landscape of Malaysian politics. Little is known about the early genesis of JIM, and how it began in the 1970s and 1980s as a student-based cadre organisation, created by Malaysian Muslim students studying abroad in Europe and North America. JIM’s roots therefore lie in the Islamic Representative Council (IRC) that was a semi-underground student-cadre movement that was created outside Malaysia, and which aimed to bring about the Islamisation of Malaysian society through the process of social and political mobilisation. Working through the archives of JIM today and interviewing the foundermembers of JIM and the IRC, this paper is the first historical account of the formation and development of IRC and JIM to be published.

Where Do New Ideas (About Class) Come From?

2000 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
pp. 53-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Weinstein
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Labor History ◽  
Careful Consideration ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Working Class History ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
American Labor

In my comment I raise two main questions about the Eley/Nield essay. First, I express some doubts about whether the issues discussed in their essay can be unproblematically transposed to historiographical debates in areas beyond Western Europe and North America. Certain themes, such as the need to reemphasize the political, are hardly pressing given the continual emphasis on politics and the state in Latin American labor history. Closely related to this, I question whether the state of gender studies within labor history can be used, in the way these authors seem to be doing, as a barometer of the sophistication and vitality of labor and working-class history. Despite recognizing the tremendous contribution of gendered approaches to labor history, I express doubts about its ability to help us rethink the category of class, and even express some concern that it might occlude careful consideration of class identities. Instead, pointing to two pathbreaking works in Latin American labor history, I argue that the types of questions we ask about class, and primarily about class, can provide the key to innovative scholarship about workers even if questions such as gender or ethnicity go unexamined. Finally, I point out that class will only be a vital category of analysis if it is recognized not simply as “useful,” but as forming a basis for genuinely creative and innovative historical studies.

Associations in Comparative Perspective

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Duncan Hardy
Keyword(s):  
Social Groups ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Actor ◽  
Judicial Affairs ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
Contractual Relationships ◽  
Swiss Confederation ◽  
National Coalition

Throughout the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries every category of political actor in the Empire habitually entered into lateral contractual relationships, which this book calls ‘associations’. The archetypal association was the treaty-based alliance or league, regulating military and judicial affairs between two or more parties. Whereas existing historiography of the German lands characterizes associations as marginal and illegitimate, or else as the preserve of specific social groups, the evidence shows that alliances and leagues were ubiquitous and unavoidable features of the political landscape. Providing the first truly comparative typology of Upper German associations, this chapter examines shorter-term alliances (including sub-types such as peace-associations, knightly societies, and citizen-alliances) and longer-term unions such as the Swabian League and the Swiss Confederation. The latter emerges in this analysis as one end of a continuum of Upper German associative forms based on a universal template, rather than a unique proto-national coalition.

Making Relations, Breaking Relations

2014 ◽  
Vol 41 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 297-329
Author(s):  
Marguerite de Huszar Allen
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Cultural Diplomacy ◽  
Early Years ◽  
The Political ◽  
Cultural Relations ◽  
High Point ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
History Of ◽  
Monthly Journal ◽  
Intellectual Elites

French-Hungarian relations reached a high point in the aftermath of the 1896 Millennium Celebration in Budapest. But by 1910, prospects for rapprochement had faded. The article explores the genesis of the rupture in relations that manifested itself in the Treaty of Trianon. It investigates events from two new perspectives: first, the career of French consul general Viscount de Fontenay before and during his stay in Budapest (1906–1912); second, the founding of the Revue de Hongrie along with its early years of publication. Fontenay began the Revue in March 1908 as a diplomatic initiative supported by the intellectual elites of France and Hungary and their governments. It was a monthly journal written entirely in French with subscriptions from individuals as well as prestigious universities, colleges, and libraries in Europe, North America, Australia, and Asia. This article explores relations between the two countries as reflected in the political landscape and the contents of the Revue. Finally, as a contribution to the previously neglected history of international cultural relations, this article identifies the key issue: there is no pure cultural diplomacy. It strives to use the frequently overlapping terms of this emerging field in such a way that the context in which they appear helps to clarify their meaning.

scholarly journals MODELING THE MIGRATION OF UKRAINIANS TO STUDY ABROAD

10.23856/2801 ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 11-16
Author(s):  
Olesia Totska
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Study Abroad ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Southern Europe ◽  
Studying Abroad ◽  
The World

The dynamics of the number of Ukrainians studying abroad in 2008–2016 has been analyzed. The projected models of these indicators for 2016–2019 for the eight countries of Western Europe, seven of Eastern Europe, five of North Europe, five of Southern Europe, four of partly European, two of North America and one of Australia and Oceania have been constructed. The forecast of the total indicator of Ukrainian students in the 32 countries of the world is forecast.

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