scholarly journals Diluted Blood: Identity and the Other in Three Novels by Doeschka Meijsing

Werkwinkel ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-89
Author(s):  
Christina Lammer
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Main Character ◽  
The Core ◽  
German Family ◽  
Construction Of Identity ◽  
History Of ◽  
Fragmented Identity ◽  
As If

Abstract Two hypotheses on identity lay at the core of this paper. (1) Doeschka Meijsing presents identity as unstable and as a construct of one’s own in three novels. (2) Meijsing uses memory discourses and cultural phenomena to display how characters struggle when (re-)constructing their identities. Pip (Over de liefde, 2008), has to deal with the secret affair of her female lover who has got pregnant. She refuses to be the ‘left one’ everyone feels pity for. As a result, she has to create a new identity that doesn’t fit the expectations of others. In 100% Chemie (2002), an unnamed daughter of a German migrant and Dutch father grew up in the Netherlands. As she doesn’t identify with any nationality she seeks to stabilize her fragmented identity. Investigating the history of her German family she tries to create her own identity. Robert Martin, main character of De tweede man (2000), struggles with the legacy of his brother Alexander who has passed away. Robert has not only inherited his brother’s fortune but also his friends. They want Robert to replace Alexander. Robert has to create a new identity which fits their lifestyle. Meijsing’s characters feel as if they have ‘lost’ their identities, as far as they ‘owned’ ones. As a result, their stories stress views on identity: do they have fixed identities, which can be destroyed? Is identity a construction and if so, how can it be created? I discuss how cultural memory, especially counter-memory which questions memory discourses, impacts the construction of identity. Furthermore, I show how intersections of identity categories trouble Meijsing’s characters.

scholarly journals Sustainable Consumer Behavior in Purchasing, Using and Disposing of Clothes

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (15) ◽  
pp. 8333
Author(s):  
Mirella Soyer ◽  
Koen Dittrich
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Behavior ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Multiple Regression ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Social Motivation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Evaluation ◽  
Sustainable Practices ◽  
Usage Phase ◽  
The Core

In this study we investigate how consumers in The Netherlands can be persuaded to adopt sustainable practices when purchasing, using and disposing of clothes. This study investigates the attitude-behavior gap for the sustainable choices for purchase, use and disposing of clothes. For each consumption phase we ran a two-step multiple regression. The findings showed that the importance of the factors vary in the three consumption phases. For purchasing and disposal decisions, the core motivator social motivation predicts sustainable practices best, while it has no role in the usage phase. The factor ability appeared to have a significant role in the disposal phase, but not in the other phases. Finally, the trigger appears to lower the consumers’ ability in the purchasing phase, while it enhances the core motivator social evaluation in the disposal phase.

The police invention of humanity: Notes on the “thin blue line”

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 319-336 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tyler Wall
Keyword(s):  
Human Existence ◽  
Police Power ◽  
Human Species ◽  
The Core ◽  
History Of ◽  
Racialized Violence ◽  
Blue Line ◽  
Security Property ◽  
As If ◽  
Sylvia Wynter

This article unpacks the idea of police as a “thin blue line” as narrating a story about the police invention of the human through a civilizing and exterminating war against beasts. To speak in the name of the “thin blue line,” then, is to articulate the police as the primary force which secures, or makes possible, all the things said to be at the core of “human” existence: liberty, security, property, sociality, accumulation, law, civility, and even happiness. The current project is less a history of the thin blue line slogan than a more conceptually grounded sketch, and abolitionist critique, of its most basic premises: the idea at the heart of thin blue line is that the most routine mode of violent state prerogative—the police power—is imagined as always a defense of civilization, which at once means the “human species.” In other words, thin blue line, to use a formulation from Sylvia Wynter, is best understood as a defense of a particular genre of the human, or “Man,” that “overrepresents itself as if it were the human itself.” But importantly, thin blue line articulates this police project of inventing the human as always incomplete, insecure, and unstable. Of course, it must always be incomplete, because it is through its inability to fully eradicate the bestial trace that police claim a license to endless war in the name of humanity. As a discourse of ordinary emergency, thin blue line becomes an expression of what Diren Valayden outlines as “racial feralization,” or the colonial bourgeois anxiety that humanity will regress back into a violent nature. A critique of the thin blue line encourages a consideration of how fantasies and failures of becoming human animate all things police, including the racialized violence at the heart of the police project.

scholarly journals Agile Methodology and War Strategies

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (8) ◽  
pp. 95-112
Author(s):  
Cătălin Tudose
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Business Value ◽  
The Other ◽  
Art Of War ◽  
Agile Methodology ◽  
The Core ◽  
Business Goals ◽  
History Of ◽  
Weak Points ◽  
Managing Complexity

The history of humankind offers lots of remarkable ideas and innovations in strategy and tactics. There is no area where people have shown more inventiveness than defending themselves or attacking and conquering others. On the other hand, the Agile methodology emerged from software development, where it tried to provide support for the successful organization of delivery projects, that have to fight and conquer the complexity. This article evidences similarities between the Agile methodology and attacking and war strategies, making extended references to one of the most renowned military treaties: Sun Tzu's The Art of War. Making inter-disciplinary analogies, comparing and contrasting the concepts from different disciplines are at the core of this article. We'll investigate what things as initial estimations, attack by stratagem, tactical dispositions, energy, weak points, and strong points, maneuvering, variation in tactics, the army on the march, terrain, arriving on unknown ground, concrete situations on the ground, the use of spies, or what the attack by fire may mean in software development. We'll analyze how these war strategy concepts transpose to Agile concepts like adding business value, getting to the business goals, managing complexity, conducting the work the incremental and non-incremental way.

“The Temple of the Incredulous”: Ottoman Sultanic Mosques and the Principle of Legality

2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 179-207
Author(s):  
Samet Budak
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Holy War ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Accounts ◽  
Principle Of Legality ◽  
The Temple ◽  
As If

Abstract This article traces the history of an Ottoman legal custom related to the construction of sultanic (imperial) mosques. According to conventional narratives, the victory over non-Muslims was the essential requisite for constructing a sultanic mosque. Only after having emerged victorious should a sultan use the funds resulting from holy war to build his own mosque. This article argues that this custom emerged only after the late sixteenth century in tandem with rising complaints about the Ottoman decline and with the ḳānūn-consciousness of the Ottoman elite, although historical accounts present it as if it existed from the beginning of Ottoman rule. It rapidly gained importance, so much so that the Sultan Ahmed Mosque was dubbed “the unbeliever’s mosque” by contemporary ulema. After having examined details of the custom’s canonization, the article deals with how it left its imprint in construction activities (struggles and workarounds), historical sources, literature, and cultural memory, up to the nineteenth century.

Writing, High School

1984 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard lebovitz
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
The Other ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Hill ◽  
Over The Top ◽  
As If

While riding down the beach one day, my friend and I ran across some trails which led back into the dunes. That same night we went down the trails in a truck. Back in the dunes near the surf was a hill about 35 or 40 feet high. We drove up the trail and parked the truck. While getting out we noticed that the roar of the ocean was very loud and very clear. We went back to the truck and got a flashlight and started walking back towards the sound of the surf. My friend was carrying the flashlight and was about 10 or 12 feet to my left. As the light shone over the top of the hill, the other side seemed to disappear as if it were cut straight off. But before the thought crossed my mind, I fell—about 25 feet straight off the side of a dune! After making my landing I looked, and there, about a foot in front of me, lay the great Atlantic.—Richard Quidley Another testament to the water came in the form of a story by Terri Midgett. Its matter-of-fact voice reveals his closeness to the practice of rescuing, which has dominated the history of his family for generations. It was in the winter of ‘76. The Sound had had a layer of ice on it for at least a week. Now it was slowly beginning to melt. I went to the edge of the creek. As I walked on the ice my boots seemed to want to slip out from under me. I slowed down just enough to where I thought I wouldn’t fall, and about, that time, BAM! I’d slipped, falling hard on the ice, its wetness cold to my face. I stood up, my face numbed from the cold. Looking ahead, I saw three figures waving at me. It looked as though they needed help. I ran toward them, falling several times before reaching them. One of the boys had fallen through the ice. He was wet and cold and wanted to lie down, but I knew if he did, it would only be a matter of minutes before he’d die.

The heart as an image of deification in mystical writing

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magda Kučerková
Keyword(s):  
Mystical Experience ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Core ◽  
God's Love ◽  
Long Time ◽  
History Of ◽  
Theological Concept

The paper explores two phenomena powerful in life and interpretive terms: the heart and deification. One is understood as deeply human, the other as metaphysically appealing. It is a connection present in the history of Christian thinking for a long time, since the heart is perceived as an inner space where God meets man, in the most intimate form, which can only acquire the character of unification. Deification, as the experience of Christian mystics and mystics shows, basically means the deepest unification with God and activation of the change in God’s love. The issue examined in the paper is presented in the form of a brief guide to the theological concept of deification, and also the convergence of the historical and biblical views of the heart. The core of thinking about the topic is the interpretation of the heart as an inner image the (heart as the center, exchange of hearts) and the interpretation of the phenomenality of deification in the context of written mystical experience.

scholarly journals XIII.—On certain Salts and Products of Decomposition of Comenic Acid

1853 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-245
Author(s):  
Henry How
Keyword(s):  
Organic Chemistry ◽  
Organic Acids ◽  
General Formula ◽  
The Other ◽  
Comenic Acid ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Field Of Inquiry ◽  
As If

The study of the organic acids appears scarcely to have advanced of late years pari passu with the other branches of organic chemistry. It seems, indeed, as if the development of each of the different departments of the science had been, to a certain extent, periodical; each engrossing the labours of investigators to the temporary exclusion of the others, themselves to be renewed when some new experiments should reawaken an interest in them.However this may be, the subject of the natural and artificial bases has proved so productive of interesting results as to have recently become the chosen and almost exclusive field of inquiry, notwithstanding several investigations which have thrown much light on one class of organic acids, namely, that represented by the general formula Cn Hn O4. With the exception of this section, the history of the organic acids remains very imperfect, and in many cases we have but a meagre account of a few of their salts.

The Formation of an Ottoamn Egyptian Elite in the 18th Century

1990 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 275-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriel Piterberg
Keyword(s):  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Asia Minor ◽  
Southeast Europe ◽  
The Core ◽  
History Of ◽  
Islamic Civilization

The conquest of the Mamluk sultanate by the Ottoman Empire brought into confrontation two centers in the history of Islamic civilization. One, Asia Minor and southeast Europe, was the center of the Ottoman Empire. The other, Egypt, had been the core of the Mamluk sultanate for 2½ centuries (1250–1517). Both states were dominated by Turkish-speaking elites based on the institution of military slavery. In both cases this slave-recruited manpower was the backbone of the army, and, to a lesser extent, of the administration.

scholarly journals Identity and Cultural Memory in Cvit razgovora naroda i jezika iliričkoga aliti rvackoga [The Flower of Conversation of Illyrian or Croatian People and Language] (1747) by Filip Grabovac

2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-183
Author(s):  
Goranka Šutalo ◽  
Josipa Tomašić
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Reference Points ◽  
Eastern Orthodox ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
Construction Of Identity ◽  
Textual Construction ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Culture ◽  
Sociohistorical Context ◽  
History Of Literature

This article deals with the textual construction of identity and the strategy of remembrance in Cvit razgovora naroda i jezika iliričkoga aliti rvackoga [The Flower of Conversation of Illyrian or Croatian people and language] (1747) by Filip Grabovac. Using the imagological analytical apparatus, the phenomenon of constituting confessional (Catholic) identity and (dominant Eastern Orthodox) alterity is discussed. The analysis focuses on textual construction or representation of confessional identities, or alterities, wherein numerous value-charged expressions are present. Given the importance of the sociohistorical context in imagological research, the paper takes into account not only the history of literature, but also the history of culture. In addition to imagological treatment, Grabovac’s text is also examined within the framework of cultural memory; discursive strategies of remembrance which maintain the constructed identity are analysed, firm reference points of memory and symbolic figures to which memory adheres are identified.

Libertarianism

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Mack
Keyword(s):  
Hard Core ◽  
The Other ◽  
Voluntary Agreements ◽  
Robert Nozick ◽  
Ayn Rand ◽  
The Core ◽  
Herbert Spencer ◽  
History Of ◽  
Moral Claims ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries

The core prescriptive postulate of libertarianism is that individuals have strong moral claims to the peaceful enjoyment of their own persons and their own legitimate extra-personal possessions along with similarly strong claims to the fulfillment of their voluntary agreements with others. All (non-pacifist) libertarians take these moral claims to be so strong and salient that force and the threat of force may permissibly be employed to defend against and to rectify their infringement. On the other hand, only infringements of these core claims trigger the permissible use or threat of force. Other deployments of force or the threat of force are taken themselves to be violations of the moral claims asserted by the prescriptive postulate. This article presents a brief history of libertarian political philosophy, focusing on six hard-core libertarian theorists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: Herbert Spencer, Lysander Spooner, Gustav de Molinari, Ayn Rand, Murray Rothbard, and Robert Nozick.

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