scholarly journals Seeding Controversy: Did Israel Invent the Cherry Tomato?

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Wexler
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Cherry Tomato ◽  
International Media ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Renaissance Period ◽  
Negative Images ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Previous Scholarship

This research brief explores the controversial history of the cherry tomato and analyzes its role in the construction of Israel's national identity. Since 2003, mentions of Israel having “invented” the cherry tomato have appeared in both Israeli and international media. However, such claims have sparked outrage on various blogs and websites, and questions have been raised about the veracity of Israel's claims—as well as about the true origin of the cherry tomato. I explore the history of the cherry tomato, tracing mentions of it from the Renaissance period to modern times. In addition, I clarify the assertions of Israeli scientists credited with the development of the cherry tomato—that their research transformed the cherry tomato into a commodity in the 1980s. Finally, I discuss the cherry tomato claim in light of the Israeli government's hasbara (Hebrew for “explanation”) efforts, which attempt to counter negative images of Israel in the international press. While much previous scholarship on food and nationalism has focused on the relationship between the cultivation, preparation, or consumption of a food and the construction of a national identity, the present work focuses on the relationship between the food's invention narrative and national identity. By transforming the cherry tomato into an embodiment of technological innovation, I argue that hasbara separates the cherry tomato from its essence as a food and co-opts it into a symbol of modernity and progress.

Du Bois and James at Harvard: The Challenges of Fraternal Pairings and Racial Theory

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 352-377 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saladin Ambar
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
William James ◽  
Double Consciousness ◽  
American Political Thought ◽  
Du Bois ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThis article seeks to illuminate the relationship between two of the most important figures in American political thought: the pragmatist philosopher William James, and the pioneering civil rights leader and intellectual, W.E.B. Du Bois. As Harvard's first African American PhD, Du Bois was a critical figure in theorizing about race and identity. His innovative take on double consciousness has often been attributed to his contact with James who was one of Du Bois's most critical graduate professors at Harvard. But beyond the view of the two thinkers as intellectual collaborators, is the fraught history of liberal racial fraternal pairing and its role in shaping national identity. This article examines Du Bois and James's relationship in the context of that history, one marked by troubled associations between friendship and race.

The Littlehampton Libels

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Hilliard
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Criminal Trials ◽  
Legal Proceedings ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
History Of ◽  
Police Detective ◽  
The Relationship

This book reconsiders the workings of literacy and law in everyday life in early twentieth-century Britain. It does so through an analysis of an extraordinary criminal case from the 1920s—a poison-pen mystery that led to a miscarriage of justice and four criminal trials. The case, which unfolded in the coastal Sussex town of Littlehampton, proved as difficult to the police and the lawyers involved as any capital crime. Yet the offence in question was not murder, but libel, a crime involving words. So when a leading Metropolitan Police detective was tasked with solving the case, he questioned the residents of Littlehampton about their neighbours’ vocabularies, how often they wrote letters, what their handwriting was like, whether they swore. He assembled an ethnographic archive of working-class literacy. This book uses the materials generated by the investigation and the legal proceedings to examine, first, the variety of language used in working-class communities, and, second, the ways working-class people engaged with the legal system and vice versa. The four trials illustrate questions of access to justice; the relationship between respectability and credibility as a witness; and the largely forgotten history of criminal libel in modern times.

“A World of Tomorrow”: Trauma, Urbicide, and Documentation in A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City

2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-206
Author(s):  
Sarah E. Cornish
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
National Identity ◽  
English Translation ◽  
Collective Trauma ◽  
World War ◽  
Publication History ◽  
The World ◽  
Red Army ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship

The World War II diary A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City (2005) documents one woman’s story of survival in the spring of 1945 in Berlin, during which upward of 130,000 women were raped by soldiers of the Red Army. First, this essay introduces the politics of recuperating the English translation of the diary within the context of the scant supporting historical documentation and memorialization of Berliner women’s experience during the occupation. Second, it demonstrates how the diary produces a feminist account of survival and a narrative for collective trauma by examining the diarist’s representations of the effects of rape and rubblestrewn Berlin. Third, the essay details the complicated publication history of the diary through a consideration of the relationship between the trauma sustained by the survivors of mass rape and the blows to German national identity that it documents.

Religious Themes in Contemporary Art

2016 ◽  
pp. 188-218
Author(s):  
Codrina Laura Ionita
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
The Political ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Bolshevik Revolution ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
History Of Art ◽  
History Of ◽  
Entire History ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between art and religion, evident throughout the entire history of art, can be deciphered at two levels – that of the essence of art, and that of the actual theme the artist approaches. The mystical view on the essence of art, encountered from Orphic and Pythagorean thinkers to Heidegger and Gadamer, believes that art is a divine gift and the artist – a messenger of heavenly thoughts. But the issue of religious themes' presence in art arises especially since modern times, after the eighteenth century, when religion starts to be constantly and vehemently attacked (from the Enlightenment and the French or the Bolshevik Revolution to the “political correctness” nowadays). Art is no longer just the material transposition of a religious content; instead, religion itself becomes a theme in art, which allows artists to relate to it in different ways – from veneration to disapproval and blasphemy. However, there have always been artists to see art in its genuine meaning, in close connection with the religious sentiment. An case in point is the work of Bill Viola. In Romanian art, a good example is the art group Prolog, but also individual artists like Onisim Colta or Marin Gherasim, who understand art in its true spiritual sense of openness to the absolute.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katie Donington ◽  
Ryan Hanley ◽  
Jessica Moody
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
History And Memory ◽  
Identity Narratives ◽  
History Of ◽  
Current Context ◽  
The Relationship

The Introduction to this volume (Britain’s History and Memory of Transatlantic Slavery) sets out the current context of scholarship on the history of Britain’s involvement in transatlantic slavery and the slave trade and its abolition, and work around the memory of this history. This chapter considers what is ultimately at stake through configuring, reconfiguring and contesting the place of slavery and the slave trade in British national identity narratives, how this has changed in the last thirty years and why examining such relationships through a ‘local’ lens is important for interrogating the relationship between history, memory and identity. The Introduction sets out the structure of the book in its two parts and gives brief overviews of the following chapters.

scholarly journals L’idée de religion universelle des origines au XIXe siècle : entre philologie et herméneutique

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 ◽  
pp. 127-142
Author(s):  
Tomasz Szymański
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
History Of ◽  
Classical Conception ◽  
Xixe Siecle ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Xixe Siècle

The aim of the article is to show the relationship between the classical conception of philology, the origins of hermeneutics and the evolution of the idea of universal religion from Antiquity to the 19th century. Just like in the context of the beginnings of Christianity philology contributed to create the Catholic understanding of this idea, in modern times, the development of philological methods contributed to the fragmentation of the idea in various fields: philosophical, esoteric, naturalistic or humanitarian. Hence, philology appears to be inseparable from hermeneutics and the history of religious ideas, and the latter, as inseparable from philology. In this context, the myth of the Babel Tower and its “confusion of tongues” may gain a new meaning.

La familia en México colonial: Una historia de conflictos cotidianos

1998 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 389-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pilar Gonzalbo Aizpuru
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Family Structure ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Family Studies ◽  
The Public ◽  
Recent Advances ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship

In recent decades scholars have become interested in the nature of daily life and the history of the family. Studies of those subjects in Mexico, although scattered and unsystematic, now constitute an important body of work. Large questions, such as the formation of a national identity, biological and cultural mestizaje, changes in social organization, and the preservation of traditions and ancestral beliefs, can be better understood if considered from the perspective of family structure, manifestations of daily life, and the relationship between the public and the private. This essay seeks to assess the recent advances in these fields.

From Social to Biological Parasites and Back

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 18-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Musolff
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Structure ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Parasites ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Or Groups ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Social Use ◽  
Semantic Transfer ◽  
The Relationship

The categorization of individuals or groups as social parasites has often been treated as an example of semantic transfer from the biological to the social domain. Historically, however, the scientific uses of the term parasite cannot be deemed to be primary, as their emergence in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was preceded by a much older tradition of religious and social terminology. Its social use in modern times, on the other hand, builds on a secondary metaphorization from the scientific source concept. This article charts the history of the term parasite from its etymological origins to the present day, distinguishes its metaphorical and non-metaphorical uses, and discusses the implications of these findings regarding the cognitive understanding of the relationship between (perceived) literal and metaphorical meanings. In conclusion, it is argued that metaphorization needs to be analyzed not only in terms of its conceptual structure but also in its role in discourse history.

COMPUTER-ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING: CONTEXT AND CONCEPTUALIZATION.Michael Levy. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. Pp. xv + 298. $26.00 paper.

1999 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 489-490
Author(s):  
Volker Hegelheimer
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Computer Assisted Language Learning ◽  
Learning Context ◽  
Materials Development ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship

In the book Computer-assisted language learning: Context and conceptualization, Levy sets out in the preface to (a) “circumscribe Computer-Assisted Language Learning [CALL] for the purpose of teaching it” (p. xi), (b) build on previous work rather than being led by technological innovation, and (c) “understand better the relationship between theory and application” (p. xi). Two hundred thirty-two pages later (plus 66 pages of appendices and references), it is clear that the book delivers its promise. The author bases the book on previous work and addresses a perpetual problem in CALL—reinventing the wheel. Moreover, Levy links the history of CALL with the present and combines a very thorough literature review with survey data about CALL materials development.

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