"Shopping" for the Future: Culture Change, Border Crossings, and Identity Options of Jewish Teenagers from the C.I.S.

Ethos ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 350-373 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fran Markowitz
Keyword(s):  
Culture Change ◽  
Border Crossings ◽  
The Future

Conversion or Acculturation? A Study of Culture Change and Its Effect on Evangelism in Mindanao Indigenous Societies

1994 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-176
Author(s):  
Richard E. Elkins
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Culture Change ◽  
The Future ◽  
People Movement

Rapid culture change among tribal groups in Mindanao, Philippines, has produced a generation of young people who are eager to seek a new, more prestigious identity. Western missionaries, influenced by their society's obsession with the future and with youth, run counter to tribal worldviews when they consider young people the most effective target for evangelism. Targeting the youth can often prevent a tribal society's most effective communicators from a realistic hearing of the gospel and block a valid people movement. This article describes certain processes and problems of rapid culture change and urges some serious rethinking about strategies for evangelism in this area.

scholarly journals SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPE'S TOURISM IN TIME AND SPACE RETROSPECTIVE - AN INSIDER'S VIEW

2015 ◽  
pp. 25-40
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Border Crossings ◽  
East European ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The Future ◽  
South Eastern Europe ◽  
European Periphery

South-Eastern Europe was, at the beginning of the modern-day tourism, in the 1960’s, a well-defined area of states. With the exception of Greece, all had communistic governments. Yugoslavia decided to open borders, invite tourists and enrich their hard currency income. According to UNWTO Yugoslavia was in 1980’s listed among the 10 most visited countries of the world. Through the eyes and experiences of a tour operator and academician, the paper will elaborate on tourism characteristics in three time-frames: 1.) in the historically unified space; 2.) in the contemporary fragmented space and 3.) in the post-industrial globalized space. Personal impressions will be enriched with results of own research and from young scientists’ mentorship. The Fall of the Iron Curtain, the strive for national/ethnic sovereignty, the inclusion of most of the East-European periphery into the EU, the uprising of the middle class in some Euro-Asian and Latin American countries, the change of the air travel mode, the growing cruising industry, the experience thirsty and adrenalin searching population and the health- and environment conscious social groups have again made the tourist destination South-Eastern Europe a territory worth to discover. The fragmented space of the former Yugoslavia is divided into 7 nation-states, crisscrossed by approximately 6326 km of semi-open, often not defined borders where on approximately 252 border crossings tourist must identify himself and declare custom goods. Despite it, will most countries in 2015 of the region report best economic results of the tourism industry ever. In addition to the pull-effect for the Europeans – namely the warm waters of the Mediterranean - sightseeing tourism of Asians is enriching outstanding features of cultures and nature. Historical capitols and towns, countries’ outstanding natural specifics, and dominant cultural sites register Asian visitors near the top of the foreign nation’s tourist list. The future of the region for the tourism industry lies in the promotion of cross-border development and in the increase of the awareness of sustainable development of tourism industries’ complexity. Tourism development can only be tolerated to an extent where it would not kill the inviting nature, the authentic culture and itself. Regulating millions of visitors in protected sites of nature and UNESCO heritage places is the task for tourism developers of the future.

Representation, Accountability, and Collaborative Border Crossings

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richa Nagar
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Uttar Pradesh ◽  
The United States ◽  
Muslim Woman ◽  
Border Crossings ◽  
The Future ◽  
Collaborative Efforts

This chapter is a revised version of an article originally written between 2002 and 2003 in consultation with Farah Ali (an alias) and what was then called the Sangtin Samooh, or Sangtin women's collective, of Sitapur District in India. It argues for a postcolonial and transnational feminist praxis that focuses on (a) conceptualizing and implementing collaborative efforts that insist on crossing difficult borders; (b) the sites, strategies, and skills deployed to produce such collaborations; and (c) the specific processes through which such collaborations might find their form, content, and meaning. To ground this discussion, it draws on two collaborative initiatives that the author undertook in Uttar Pradesh—the first with “Farah Ali,” a Muslim woman who shared her life story in the aftermath of 9/11 with an explicit aim of reentering the United States with her daughter; the second with members of the Mahila Samakhya Programme in Sitapur, who were beginning to imagine the future of the organization, Sangtin. The chapter ends with a poem that confronts the limits of critique that academics undertake.

scholarly journals Bordering the Future? The ‘Male Gaze’ in the Blade Runner Films and Originating Novel

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-28
Author(s):  
Kathleen Staudt
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Border Studies ◽  
Border Crossing ◽  
Border Crossings ◽  
Male Gaze ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Blade Runner ◽  
The Future ◽  
Sentient Beings ◽  
The U.S

Philip K. Dick (1928-1982), author of numerous science fiction narratives from the 1950s-1980s, some of which Hollywood made into films, grappled with the nature of reality, the meaning of humanness, and border crossing between humans and androids (called ‘replicants’ in the films). The socially constructed female and male protagonists in these narratives have yet to be analyzed with a gender gaze that draws on border studies. This paper analyzes two Blade Runner films, compares them to the Philip K. Dick (PKD) narrative, and applies gender, feminist, and border concepts, particularly border crossings from human to sentient beings and androids. In this paper, I argue that the men who wrote and directed the films established and crossed multiple metaphoric borders, but wore gender blinders that thereby reinforced gendered borders as visualized and viewed in the U.S. and global film markets yet never addressed the profoundly radical border crossing notions from PKD.

scholarly journals Where We're Going, We'll Need Roads! Building the Bridge to the Future

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-285
Author(s):  
Jessica R. Lesnau
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
International Trade ◽  
North American ◽  
The United States ◽  
Border Crossing ◽  
Border Crossings ◽  
Government Ownership ◽  
Detroit River ◽  
The Future ◽  
International Border

In a world where global economies are increasingly interdependent, the United States, and its North American counterparts, Canada and Mexico, are booming sources of international trade. Now, more than ever, global competitiveness necessitates developments in U.S. infrastructure, especially at major border crossings where congestion and poor infrastructure create bottlenecks interfering with the free movement of goods. Questions pertaining to international border crossings circle the debate at the most crucial international border crossing in North America: the Ambassador Bridge, which spans the Detroit River between Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Ontario. A legal battle rages over the proposed construction of a new publicly owned bridge that will compete with the eighty-six-year-old privately owned bridge. Many questions surround this topic, including whether the United States may allow the construction of a bridge that competes with a private individual’s livelihood. Is there a compelling case for a government taking in favor of public infrastructure? Should a private individual be able to own a major international border crossing? Additionally, in anticipation of construction of a new bridge, what will be the implications for the community that must give up its property to make way for the construction? This Comment will focus on the conflict over the construction of the New International Trade Crossing (NITC), also known as the “Bridge to the Future,” in competition with the Ambassador Bridge and its relevance to the conversation of border infrastructure. It will further demonstrate some of the pitfalls in the private ownership of an international border crossing—as well as some that inhere in government ownership—arguing for a new infrastructure model that promotes collaboration between the public and private sectors. Ultimately, this Article will argue that, like the NITC, future border infrastructure projects should be developed through the use of public-private partnerships (hereinafter “P3s”) to promote North American trade development.

scholarly journals The Future of Data Management Planning: Tools, Policies, and Players

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Simms ◽  
Marisa Strong ◽  
Sarah Jones ◽  
Marta Ribeiro
Keyword(s):  
Data Management ◽  
International Collaboration ◽  
Culture Change ◽  
Science And Society ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
User Communities ◽  
The Future ◽  
Planning Tools ◽  
Management Plans ◽  
The Creation

DMPonline and the DMPTool are well-established tools for data management planning. As the software of each matures and the user communities grow, we turn our attention to issues of sustainability, culture change, and international collaboration. Here we outline strategies for addressing these issues. We propose to build a new, global framework for data management planning that links plans to researchers, funders, publications, data, and other components of the research lifecycle. By refocusing our efforts from promoting the creation of data management plans (DMPs) to comply with funder requirements to supporting the creation of good DMPs that can be implemented, we seek to further enable the open scholarship revolution, advancing science and society.

scholarly journals Border Crossings, Pathfinders and New Visions:The Role of Sámi Literature in Contemporary Society

Nordlit ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rauna Kuokkanen
Keyword(s):  
Border Crossings ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future

In this article, I will consider some of the current issues and concerns in contemporary Sámi literature. I view them as border crossings particularly because it seems that at least in certain ways, Sámi literature is on crossroads faced with some tough and serious issues. I suggest that we need to perceive Sámi writers as pathfinders who can, through their writing, guide us in considering what are the paths that the Sámi need to take today in order to have an active cultural connection in the future. Moreover, what is urgently needed in Sámi society is reclaiming Sámi values and vision for contemporary contexts in a meaningful way. In this process, Sámi writers have also a central role as they are the ones who constantly weave the past, present and future into a fabric that gives us the meanings we need to stay grounded in who we are.

Can We Survive? A Case of Culture Change and Learning

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Genice Daniels ◽  
Ramkrishnan V. Tenkasi
Keyword(s):  
Learning Organization ◽  
Culture Change ◽  
Fortune 500 ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Business Survival ◽  
Executive Team ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Fierce Competition ◽  
Customer Demands

In an effort towards business survival, an executive team considers progressive options for the future of their organization. The external business environment continues to change with fierce competition, a battle for talent, budget pressures and changing customer demands. What does it take for a large multinational Fortune 500 ‘logistics’ organization based in the USA to modify the culture and become an acclaimed learning organization? A decision to conduct employee ‘culture’ surveys in combination with other efforts was implemented. The authors share the experience of an organization’s odyssey to a learning organization through a change of culture.

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