Mario Domenichelli’s Lugemalé: Heart of Darknesss revisited in Post-colonial Italy

2012 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 173-188
Author(s):  
Franco Manai
Keyword(s):  
Status Quo ◽  
Development Cooperation ◽  
Capitalist Society ◽  
Colonial Power ◽  
Ruling Class ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Cooperative Development ◽  
The Status ◽  
The University

AbstractMario Domenichelli’s novel Lugemalé is set in the late 1980s and early 2000s, between Rome and Somalia. The book follows the narrator,Valerio, as he reads, in the early 2000s in Rome, the typescript of a novel written by a friend, Tomas, before his mysterious death in Mogadishu. Tomas’ novel describes the events which took place in 1989 at the end of the Siad Barre regime, when Italy was still committed to fulfilling its responsibilities as an ex-colonial power, through major projects of cooperative development. Both Valerio and Tomas were employed by the Italian government’s Development Cooperation Agency as lecturers at the University of Mogadishu. In his narration, Tomas merges his own experiences with Valerio’s, through the main characters of Gigi and Marco. In a complex play of mirrors (a novel within a novel, a reading of a tale within the tale of a reading) that reveals the ambiguities and contradictions of both characters, Lugemalé is merciless in its judgment of the generation of Europeans who became the ruling class of the 1980s. Such a post-colonial adventure offers a powerfully alienating perspective for the representation, post res perditas, of the vanishing of that class’s commitment to changing the status quo and breaking with a capitalist society based on the most depraved and egoistic consumerism.

scholarly journals BOOK REVIEW: MATINYA EPIDEMIOLOG: EKSPANSI MODAL DAN ASAL-USUL COVID-19 (DEAD OF EPIDEMIOLOGY: CAPITAL EXPANSION AND ORIGIN OF COVID-19)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Febianti Nurul Adha ◽  
Moses Glorino Rumambo Pandin
Keyword(s):  
Radical Change ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
The Political ◽  
Main Question ◽  
Global Studies ◽  
Ruling Class ◽  
The Status ◽  
Many Sources ◽  
The University

The book entitled "The Death of Epidemiologists: Capital Expansion and the Origin of Covid19" has a total of 258 pages with very dense content and many sources of writing. This book waswritten by Rob Wallace in 2020, then translated by A. Faricha Mantika, and published by IndependentPublishers the following year. Rob Wallace is an evolutionary biologist and public healthphylogeography currently working as a researcher at the Institute for Global Studies at the University ofMinnesota. Rob Wallace is also the author of Big Farms Make Big Flu, Dead Epidemiologist, and thesoon-to-be-published Revolution Space, all three published by the Monthly Review Press. Based on thetable of contents, the book contains 12 chapters, two of which are chapters 1 and 4 containinginterviews conducted by Rob Wallace. The purpose of writing the book is an attempt by the author to answer the main question,namely, how did the origin of covid-19? Furthermore, the writing of this book also aims to describehow the economic system causes the death of epidemiologists. Why is the denial and justification of thevirus their way of the ruling class to exist? And why is it impossible for the ruling class to play a role instopping this radical change and the virus? Therefore, the purpose of writing the book is to explain howthe origin of the covid-19 virus and how epidemiologists submit and die by the expansion of capitalbelonging to the ruling class, as well as explain the political tools of "justification and denial" by theruling class to maintain the status quo.

‘Suitable lodgings for students’: modern space, colonial development and decolonization in Nigeria

Urban History ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 664-685 ◽  
Author(s):  
TIM LIVSEY
Keyword(s):  
West African ◽  
Colonial Power ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
University College ◽  
University Buildings ◽  
Colonial Institutions ◽  
The University ◽  
Forms Of Knowledge

ABSTRACTThis article argues that development and modernity have had spatial manifestations. It considers understandings of modern space in colonial and post-colonial Nigeria through the study of University College Ibadan, the country's first university institution founded in 1948. It contends that the university was shaped by existing West African conceptions of modern space and university buildings took on new meanings with the shifting politics of decolonization. The article also suggests that colonial development involved a range of groups and forms of knowledge. It seeks to recognize the strength of colonial institutions and cultures but also the limits to and contingencies in late colonial power.

scholarly journals Emerging Visions for Sustainable Urbanization

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-36
Author(s):  
John C. Stallmeyer ◽  
Lynne M. Dearborn
Keyword(s):  
Status Quo ◽  
Design Studio ◽  
Urbanization Process ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
Sustainable Urbanization ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Urban Futures ◽  
The University ◽  
Mainstream Culture

Harsh critiques of the utopian visions of modernist architects have led many of today’s designers to seek to fit their constructed responses into the mainstream culture (Schneekloth, 1998). While undoubtedly the works of most designers are grounded in the intention of making the world a better and more beautiful place, the underlying desire to fit in with the mainstream leads implicitly to confirming the status quo of the built environment. We believe that if designers are to move toward envisioning and creating more sustainable urban futures they must eschew the desire to fit in and carefully and methodically reconsider what is possible. To that end, in this paper we explore the motivations, methods and outcomes of five students in their penultimate design studio of the Masters of Architecture program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Using three measures, motivations, methods, and outcomes, as evidence we seek to understand how future designers, as they complete their education and embark on careers in the design professions, comprehend and envision an urbanization process that results in a sustainable urban future.

scholarly journals Proceduralism, Predisposing, Poesis: Forms of Institutionality, In the Making

Lateral ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jodi Melamed
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Gender Studies ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Racial Capitalism ◽  
The Status ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The University

A response to the forum, “Emergent Critical Analytics for Alternative Humanities,” edited by Chris A. Eng and Amy K. King. Jodi Melamed reassesses the analytic of institutionality, which has largely been theorized as a dominant tool of the university in incorporating the emergent and muting the oppositional. In particular, scholars in American and cultural studies have noted how universities responded to the revolutionary calls of radical social movements by institutionalizing ethnic and gender studies into compartmentalized sets of knowledge production. In so doing, the university worked to manage minority difference through flat notions of representation rather than redistribution. The interdisciplines of ethnic and gender studies then became additives to the humanities, upholding the status quo rather than compelling a radical re-envisioning of these academic structures altogether. On an even more macro level, Melamed identifies dominant discussions of institutionality that see global neoliberalism as a new, all-totalizing force. In problematizing how these theorizations elide considerations of the historical conditions of racial capitalism that make possible the ‘global,’ Melamed also excavates a genealogy of radical resistance that might allow us to rethink institutionality toward collective solidarity.

Stockholm Agreement—Past, Present, Future (Part 1)

2002 ◽  
Vol 39 (03) ◽  
pp. 137-158
Author(s):  
Dracos Vassalos ◽  
Apostolos Papanikolaou
Keyword(s):  
Status Quo ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
New Developments ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
The Status ◽  
Potential Impact ◽  
The University ◽  
North And South ◽  
South Of Europe

April 1, 2001 marked the fourth anniversary of the Stockholm Agreement (SA), a period during which almost 80% of the roll-on/roll-off (Ro-Ro) fleet in North West Europe have been subjected to calculations, model testing and numerical simulations in the struggle to meet these demanding new requirements. The experience gained has been invaluable in understanding better the problem at hand and is being utilized to shape new developments likely to lead to more meaningful requirements. The North-South divide, however, continues to cause unrest, particularly at the European level. Efforts to assess the status quo in North West Europe, and to use the information amassed so far as a means to predict the potential impact of introducing the SA in the South, led to a dedicated call by the Commission and to a contract being awarded to two closely collaborating teams, one at the Ship Stability Research Centre of the University of Strathclyde under the leadership of Professor Vassalos and one at the Ship Design Laboratory of the National Technical University of Athens, under the leadership of Professor Papanikolaou, representing the North and South of Europe, respectively. This background provided the incentive for an introspective look at the SA, with a view to ascertaining its status before embarking into future projections. This forms Part 1 of the SA related research with Part 2 aiming to cover the results of the Commission study itself.

Morality in aversion?: Meditations on slum tourism and the politics of sight

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-172
Author(s):  
Jacob Henry
Keyword(s):  
Social Theory ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Capitalist Society ◽  
The Real ◽  
Western Development ◽  
The Status ◽  
Slum Tourism

Abstract Despite fairly widespread popularity, slum tourism is enmeshed in moralizing debate. Supporters acknowledge that slum tourism may sometimes be problematic, but also may potentially be an important pedagogical experience which reveals the horrors of capitalism to westerners. Plus, supporters argue, there is no morality in aversion ‐ we should never turn away from slums and poverty. However, social theory on the politics of sight and opacity suggests that the promise of transparency ‐ showing the real poverty ‐ may lead to a violence of seeing and knowing rooted in western development epistemologies. I argue that morality can be found in aversion and turning away from slum tourism in many instances. I suggest that wealthy, western and usually white bodies of slum tourists represent the violence of the status quo which seeks to make legible a periphery and to partially re-integrate into capital those who have been expelled from it. This paper contributes to a growing literature which deploys social theory to understand and critique slum tourism and its relationship with capitalist society.

Learning in the time of COVID-19: capitalizing on the opportunity presented by the pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (3/4) ◽  
pp. 351-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher E. Trombly
Keyword(s):  
School Setting ◽  
Educational Status ◽  
Professional Associations ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Current Disruption ◽  
The Status ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

PurposeThis paper addresses the current disruption in the educational status quo ante that has been caused by the worldwide outbreak of COVID-19. Its purpose is to suggest how practicing educators, their professional associations and the university-based researchers with whom they partner might capitalize on the unanticipated opportunity to impact education policy that the pandemic presents.Design/methodology/approachThe author draws upon his own preparation and experiences – first as a long-time practitioner in the elementary and secondary school setting, then as a university professor – to offer insights and suggestions to practicing educators, their professional associations and the university-based researchers with whom they partner.FindingsDespite the unexpected challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic has presented to educators – challenges to which educators around the globe have risen admirably – the current crisis also affords practicing educators, their professional associations and the university-based researchers with whom they partner to change the status quo ante for the better.Originality/valueThe particular value of this piece is twofold: its analysis of the impact of this unanticipated crisis upon education by an author who has served both in the elementary/secondary setting and at the university level, and its assertion that educators must avail themselves of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to change the educational status quo ante for the better.

Maintaining the Status Quo: An Analysis of Social Space in Post-Colonial Rabat

Urban Studies ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allan Findlay ◽  
Anne Findlay ◽  
Ronan Paddison
Keyword(s):  
Social Space ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Status

scholarly journals PO-059 The External Characteristics, Theme Hotspots And Evolution Of International Physical Activity Research During Pregnancy ——Documentation and Visualization Analysis Based on VOS viewer

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanjun Niu ◽  
Yucheng Qiao
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Obstetrics And Gynecology ◽  
Vos Viewer ◽  
The Status ◽  
Measurement And Evaluation ◽  
The University ◽  
Exercise During Pregnancy ◽  
Research Hotspots

Objective To understand the status quo, characteristics, research hotspots and evolution of international physical activity during pregnancy. Methods Search all relevant literature between the data records and June 30, 2018 with the “Pregnancy Exercise” and “Physical Activity During Pregnancy” keywords in the Web of Science core database. According to the basic principles of bibliometrics, based on keyword co-occurrence, citation analysis, co-citation analysis and other measurement methods, the knowledge map is drawn by VOS viewer 1.68 software, and the external features and hotspots of international physical activity research during pregnancy are presented through visual maps. Results  (1) The study of physical activity during pregnancy started earlier, 30 years ago, and culminated 20 years ago; the subject areas are broad, including: obstetrics, gynaecology, etiology, epidemiology and nutrition, sports science Behind; the journal "American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology" ranked first, "Obstetrics and Gynecology" second, "Medicine and Science In Sports and Exercise" third; the core authors work closely; Harvard University, North Carolina The University of Adelaide and the University of Adelaide have made outstanding contributions, and universities have become the main force in this field of research. (2) The hotspots of international physical activity research during pregnancy are mainly distributed in six major areas: 1 the impact of physical activity during pregnancy on maternal health and the risk of complications; 2 the relationship between physical activity and pregnancy outcome during pregnancy; 3 the physical activity of pregnant women during pregnancy and fetal development and Long-term health effects of offspring; 4 factors influencing physical activity during pregnancy; 5 recommended criteria for physical activity during pregnancy, appropriate exercise and exercise during pregnancy, safety and precautions during exercise and exercise; 6 scientific measurement of physical activity during pregnancy Evaluation. (3) In the past 30 years, the research on physical activity and health promotion in the international pregnancy has been increasing year by year. The research hotspots have always evolved around the main line of “physical activity”, “pregnancy”, “fetus”, “health” and “safety”. In addition, its research hotspots also show periodic characteristics that change with the year. Before 1999, the focus of attention was on the “status quo”, “pros and cons” and “safety” of physical activity during pregnancy. In 1999-2006, the focus was on "pregnancy outcomes" and "complications." In 2007-2013, the focus was on “chronic illness” and “exercise prescription”. After 2014, “lifestyle”, “scientific measurement and evaluation” and “epigenetic” gradually became hot spots. Conclusions "Physical activity during pregnancy", "sports exercise during pregnancy", "chronic disease", "safety", "pregnancy outcome", "parental fetal health", "measurement and evaluation" will continue to be the main hotspots in the study of physical activity during international pregnancy in the future; The “built environment”, “mental health”, “epigenetic”, “children’s long-term health”, “preferred physical activity recommendation” and “wearable equipment”, “monitoring method” and “regulatory mechanism” embodying health and happiness, people-oriented development strategy "Glucose and lipid metabolism" and so on will also become the focus of research on physical activity during pregnancy in the next period.

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