scholarly journals Science and the City: The role of women in the science city: London 1650–1800

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (15) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Desborough ◽  
Gloria Clifton
Keyword(s):  
Science City ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
The City

scholarly journals Estratégia de Inventar a Vida na Perspectiva de Gênero: um olhar para mulheres taxistas

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 24
Author(s):  
Carmem Lígia Iochins Grisci ◽  
Roberta Cristina Sawitzki ◽  
Anelise D’Arisbo ◽  
Carla Dos Santos Feijó
Keyword(s):  
Modern Society ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Porto Alegre ◽  
Taxi Drivers ◽  
Constant Change ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
The City

ResumoA sociedade líquido-moderna, na perspectiva de Bauman (2007), é caracterizada pela fluidez, transitoriedade, individualismo, velocidade, diversificação e mudança constante. O papel da mulher se modificou quando ela passou a desenvolver estratégias de inventar a vida para responder a essa sociedade. Menos dependentes financeira e psiquicamente, elas inseriram-se profissionalmente em diversos ramos de atuação, inclusive em profissões antes exclusivamente masculinas, como a de motorista de táxi. Assim, neste trabalho buscamos verificar e analisar, na perspectiva do gênero, estratégias de inventar a vida de mulheres taxistas, público de estudo pouco explorado no Brasil. Para atingir o objetivo proposto realizamos uma pesquisa exploratória de cunho qualitativo, com coleta de dados por meio de entrevista semiestruturada com 15 mulheres taxistas porto-alegrenses. Foi efetuada análise de conteúdo e resultados indicam estratégias de inventar a vida para as mulheres pesquisadas.Palavras-chave: mulheres taxistas; sociedade líquido-moderna; estratégias de inventar a vida.***A Strategy for Inventing Life Under the Perspective of Gender:  a look at female taxi driversAbstractThe liquid modern society on Bauman’s (2007) perspective, is characterized by fluidity, transience, individualism, speed, diversification, and constant change. The role of women shifted when they started developing strategies for inventing life in order to respond to this society. Less financially and psychically dependent, they became professionally integrated into several lines of business, including those which were previously exclusively masculine, such as driving taxis. Thus, in this article we seek to verify and analize, under the perspective of gender, the strategies for inventing life of female taxi drivers, an understudied community in Brazil. In order to achieve the proposed goal, we undertook a qualitative exploratory research, collecting data by semistructured interviews with 15 female taxi drivers in the city of Porto Alegre. The analysis of the content showed results that indicate strategies for inventing life for the women surveyed.Keywords: female taxi drivers; liquid modern society; strategies for inventing life.***Estrategia de Inventar la Vida en la Perspectiva de Género: Una Mirada Para Las Mujeres Conductores De TaxiResumenLa sociedad líquida-moderna en la perspectiva de Bauman (2007), se caracteriza por la fluidez, fugacidad, el individualismo, la velocidad, la diversidad y el cambio constante. El papel de la mujer cambió cuando empezó a desarrollar estrategias para inventar la vida dar respuesta a esta sociedad. Menos dependientes en el aspecto económico y psíquico, ellas se insertaron profissionalmente en distintos campos de trabajo, incluso en profesiones sólo para hombres, así como de el conductor del taxi. En este trabajo tratamos de verificar y analizar la perspectiva de género, las estrategias para inventar la vida de las mujeres taxistas, um publico poco explorado en Brasil. Para lograr el objetivo propuesto se realizó un investigación exploratoria de naturaleza cualitativa con la recopilación de datos a través de entrevistas semiestructuradas com 15 mujeres taxistas de ciudad de Porto Alegre. El análisis de contenido se realizó y los resultados indican algunas estrategias para inventar la vida de las mujeres encuestadas.Palabras clave: las mujeres taxistas; sociedad líquido-moderna; estrategias de inventar la vida.

« Quand on parlait le berbère à la cour de Grenade » : quelques réflexions sur la berbérité de la taifa ziride (al-Andalus, xie siècle)

Arabica ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 63 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 235-260
Author(s):  
Bilal Sarr
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
The State ◽  
North African ◽  
Administrative Structure ◽  
African Identity ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The City ◽  
Written Sources

Using data provided by the written sources and the archaeology, this article aims at analysing the Zirid Taifa of Granada, studying its different elements (administration, organisation of the state, the succession to power and material culture) in order to discover its authentic Berber aspects. The Zirides, recently arrived in al-Andalus, offer us a unique opportunity to draw comparisons between the process of Islamisation in the Maghreb and in al-Andalus. The decisive power of the tribal ǧamāʿa, the important role of women, the persistence of a Berber onomastics and the use of Berber language are features of a group that maintains a North African identity. Other areas, such as the evolution of the city, the pottery and the administrative structure of the state are clearly borrowed from the Arab-Andalusian tradition. À partir des données fournies par les sources écrites et l’archéologie, cet article se propose d’analyser la taifa ziride de Grenade, en étudiant ses différents éléments (l’organisation de l’État, la désignation des émirs et la culture matérielle) afin de révéler leurs aspects authentiquement berbères. Les Zirides, récemment arrivés en al-Andalus, nous offrent une occasion unique d’établir des parallèles entre le processus d’arabo-islamisation au Maghreb et celui d’al-Andalus. Le pouvoir de décision important de la ǧamāʿa tribale, le rôle de la femme, la persistance d’une onomastique berbère et l’utilisation de la langue berbère sont caractéristiques d’un groupe qui conserve une identité nord-africaine. D’autres domaines comme l’évolution de la ville, le mobilier céramique et la structure administrative de l’État ont en revanche nettement emprunté à la tradition arabo-andalouse. This article is in French

scholarly journals VISION OF WOMEN IN CONTEXT APPEARANCES AND FUNCTIONING OF THE PYPHAGORIAN SCHOOL

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 54-57
Author(s):  
Vitalii Turenko
Keyword(s):  
Geographical Region ◽  
Philosophical Tradition ◽  
High Status ◽  
Political Role ◽  
Philosophical School ◽  
Political Conditions ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
The City ◽  
Status Of Women

The article, based on classical ancient sources and the most modern fundamental scientific works, explores and reveals the specifics of the existence of women in the early Greek philosophical school, founded by Pythagoras. There are three key reasons that led to the full existence of women along with men in the Pythagorean tradition: socio-political, doctrinal and vital. Accordingly, such a high status of women for the Pythagoreans is due not only to certain socio-political conditions of Greater Greece, or rather even the city of Croton, but also to the fact that the founder of this school, Pythagoras, unlike other early Greek thinkers, received philosophical knowledge from a woman, the Delphic Pythia Themistoclea. The doctrinal reason has been shown to be that Pythagoras himself preached the equality of women. If he had preached the opposite of the socio-political role of women in a given geographical region, he would not only not have been accepted, but even expelled. It is substantiated that the presence of women in this philosophical tradition is not a late Hellenistic fiction, but a real fact, based on the available sources of Aristotle's disciples – Dicaearchus and Aristoxenus, which testify to a rather ramified system of attracting women to the functioning of Pythagoreanism The proposed author's dichotomy of the representatives of this philosophical school known to us: pseudo-epigraphic and agraphic. Accordingly, the agraphic ones are known to us only by mentioning in certain ancient sources, while we know about the pseudo-epigraphic ones not only the names, but also preserved works and letters that are attributed to the Pythagorean thinkers.

scholarly journals "The dream of making a living from the land": Amazon settler women as change agents

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karin Marita Naase
Keyword(s):  
Social Environment ◽  
Rural Women ◽  
Land Reform ◽  
Change Agents ◽  
Brazilian Society ◽  
Reform Project ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
Landless Workers Movement ◽  
The City

The purpose of this paper is to determine the role of women in the so called caminhada (march) to a land reform project in the State of Pará, Brazil. When a woman decides to join the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST) (Landless Workers' Movement) she may enter into conflict with her social environment. In the light of the changes happening due to her militancy, I want to elucidate the reasons for her involvement, examine female contributions during the settlement process and the changes this process may cause in their lives. The analysis is based upon a fieldwork conducted in a land reform hamlet near the city of Castanhal in northeastern Pará. Three case studies of female militancy are examined. Some of the outcomes of this analysis are that the role of women in this process is prominent because they are its most important support; they are assuming pioneer functions, organizing domestic and public tasks in the settlement and play the role of articulators between the different households. Due to their militancy poor urban and rural women are able to step out of their invisibility, often suffered in Brazilian society, and make an important contribution to the construction of a new life.

scholarly journals THE UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE. STRATEGIES FOR INTEGRATING YOUNG SCIENTISTS FROM THE REGIONS INTO SCIENTIFIC CAREERS AND SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITIES IN THE CONTEXT OF THE VUCA WORLD

2021 ◽  
pp. 117-129
Author(s):  
Elena N. Rassolova ◽  
◽  
Konstantin A. Galkin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Large City ◽  
Horizontal Integration ◽  
Scientific Communities ◽  
Total Uncertainty ◽  
Scientific Careers ◽  
Science City ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Favorable Period ◽  
The City

The article examines the key characteristics of young scientists’ integration into scientific communities in the context of the new prospects offered by the VUCA world. We see the VUCA world as a time of opportunities and a favorable period for young scientists to take initiatives, and also a world of total uncertainty, where impetuosity and uncertainty, as well as the constant search for and change of various strategies, become a key to successful career building and advancement. The empirical base of the analysis consists of 30 biographical interviews with young scientists from a city of regional significance, a young science city, a large city and a city of federal significance. The article puts forward a hypothesis about the importance of horizontal integration of young scientists into scientific communities in young cities and innovative cities, as well as in a large city and in a city of federal significance. The paper also discusses the role of the city as an actor that forms scientific communities and strategies for interaction and integration of young scientists with scientific communities. Special attention is paid to the meanings of scientific careers and the individual role of scientific communities in the careers of young scientists and also to the strategies for integrating young scientists into scientific careers. The authors consider changes in the configurations of strategies for both building a scientific career and integration into scientific communities at the local, national and global levels as new opportunities that arise for scientists in the VUCA world. The main conclusion of the article is that the integration and career building strategies in science are influenced by both the city and the orientation of the city, the local scientific community, which may differ depending on particular scientific disciplines. A successful strategy that allows one to use the potential and resources of the VUCA world to the maximum extent possible is the horizontal integration of young scientists.

The Role of Women in Pursuing Scottish Criminal Actions, 1580–1650

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 232-250
Author(s):  
Stephanie Dropuljic
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Legal History ◽  
Criminal Court ◽  
Current Understanding ◽  
The Law ◽  
Role Of Women

This article examines the role of women in raising criminal actions of homicide before the central criminal court, in early modern Scotland. In doing so, it highlights the two main forms of standing women held; pursing an action for homicide alone and as part of a wider group of kin and family. The evidence presented therein challenges our current understanding of the role of women in the pursuit of crime and contributes to an under-researched area of Scots criminal legal history, gender and the law.

PROBLEMS OF STRAY ANIMALS IN NOVOSIBIRSK

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-91
Author(s):  
Elena E. Rinchinova ◽  
Diyara A. Takumova ◽  
Irina I. Bochkareva
Keyword(s):  
Urban Population ◽  
Domestic Animals ◽  
Legal Documents ◽  
Quantitative Indicators ◽  
The City

The article discusses main issues of organizing activities for the treatment of stray and street animals in the city of Novosibirsk. The important role of successful solving the problem of stray animals in ensuring environmental comfort and safety of the urban population is noted. Definitions of the concepts “stray animals” and “street animals” are given, the differences between them are emphasized. The main regulatory and legal documents governing the handling of stray and street animals are listed. The ways in which domestic animals get into a stray state are described briefly. The results of the collection and analysis of information on the activities of shelters for stray animals in Novosibirsk are described. The information on the quantitative indicators of the shelters are given. Conclusions on how to solve the problem of stray animals, relying on the latest regulations are drawn.

Crossing the Pomerium

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Koortbojian
Keyword(s):  
Social Practices ◽  
Civic Life ◽  
Public Monuments ◽  
Religion And Law ◽  
Mediterranean World ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
The Military ◽  
The City

The ancient Romans famously distinguished between civic life in Rome and military matters outside the city—a division marked by the pomerium, an abstract religious and legal boundary that was central to the myth of the city's foundation. This book explores, by means of images and texts, how the Romans used social practices and public monuments to assert their capital's distinction from its growing empire, to delimit the proper realms of religion and law from those of war and conquest, and to establish and disseminate so many fundamental Roman institutions across three centuries of imperial rule. The book probes such topics as the appearance in the city of Romans in armor, whether in representation or in life, the role of religious rites on the battlefield, and the military image of Constantine on the arch built in his name. Throughout, the book reveals how, in these instances and others, the ancient ideology of crossing the pomerium reflects the efforts of Romans not only to live up to the ideals they had inherited, but also to reconceive their past and to validate contemporary practices during a time when Rome enjoyed growing dominance in the Mediterranean world. The book explores a problem faced by generations of Romans—how to leave and return to hallowed city ground in the course of building an empire.

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