scholarly journals Portuguese-speaking countries and the challenge of a technological circumnavigation

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 103-117
Author(s):  
Moisés de Lemos Martins
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
The Other ◽  
Financial Globalization ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Digital Repositories ◽  
Human Community ◽  
Virtual Museums ◽  
Colonial Studies

In this article, I propose the assumption that we are making a technological journey, analogous in many respects to European ocean voyages of the 15th and 16th centuries (Martins, 2015a, 2017, 2018a, 2018b). Thus, I confront the technological nature of the current financial globalization and the commercial nature of European maritime expansion. Whereas the first journey resulted in the colonization of peoples and nations, in the second journey we moved, in a century and a half, to that which Edgar Morin called the “colonization of the spirit” of the entire human community (Morin, 1962). Within this context, I took into consideration the consequences, for culture, of the acceleration of the time via technology, which has mobilized human beings, “totally” (Jünger, 1930) and “infinitely” (Sloterdijk, 2010), in view of the urgencies of the present (Martins, 2010). On the other hand, I will use post-colonial studies to situate transnational and transcultural identities, by examining Portuguese-speaking communities within the context of the “battle of languages,” to use an expression coined by Mozambican linguist Armando Jorge Lopes (2004). This is why I will consider “technological circumnavigation” (Martins, 2015a, 2017, 2018a, 2018b), to be undertaken by every Portuguese-speaking country, like a fight for the world’s symbolic ordering (Bourdieu, 1977, 1979, 1982), where we raise hegemony language-related problems and those pertaining to political, scientific, cultural and artistic subordination (Martins, 2015b). This is, therefore an electronic journey, using sites, portals, social media, digital repositories and archives, as well as virtual museums. What’s more, the viewpoint adopted is that which states a great language of cultures and thinking, such as Portuguese, likewise cannot avoid being a great language of human and scientific knowledge.

Intricate relations between Western anthropologists and Eastern ethnologists

Focaal ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 (63) ◽  
pp. 20-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michał Buchowski
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
The Other ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Paradigm Shifts ◽  
Pecking Order ◽  
The West ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Hierarchical Order ◽  
Colonial Studies ◽  
Communist Past

Western representations of the Other are criticized by anthropologists, but similar hegemonic classifications are present in the relationships between anthropologists who are living in the West and working on the (post-socialist) East, and those working and living in the (post-communist) East. In a hierarchical order of scholars and knowledge, post-socialist anthropologists are often perceived as relics of the communist past: folklorists, theoretically backward empiricists, and nationalists. These images replicate Cold War stereotypes, ignore long-lasting paradigm shifts as well as actual practices triggered by the transnationalization of scholarship. Post-socialist academics either approve of such hegemony or contest this pecking order of wisdom, and their reactions range from isolationism to uncritical attempts at “nesting intellectual backwardness“ in the local context (an effect that trickles down and reinforces hierarchies). Deterred communication harms anthropological studies on post-socialism, the prominence of which can hardly be compared to that of post-colonial studies.

scholarly journals Applications of Mathematics to Medical Problems

1925 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 98-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. G. M'Kendrick
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Disease ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Medical Sciences ◽  
Medical Problems ◽  
Human Community

In the majority of the processes with which one is concerned in the study of the medical sciences, one has to deal with assemblages of individuals, be they living or be they dead, which become affected according to some characteristic. They may meet and exchange ideas, the meeting may result in the transference of some infectious disease, and so forth. The life of each individual consists of a train of such incidents, one following the other. From another point of view each member of the human community consists of an assemblage of cells. These cells react and interact amongst each other, and each individual lives a life which may be again considered as a succession of events, one following the other. If one thinks of these individuals, be they human beings or be they cells, as moving in all sorts of dimensions, reversibly or irreversibly, continuously or discontinuously, by unit stages or per saltum, then the method of their movement becomes a study in kinetics, and can be approached by the methods ordinarily adopted in the study of such systems.

scholarly journals Women writing the Americas: literature, ecology, and decolonization

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 122-138
Author(s):  
Roland Walter
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Critical Geography ◽  
Capitalist System ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Colonial Studies ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Ethnicity And Gender ◽  
Multiethnic Women

This essay analyzes how multiethnic women writers of the Americas draw a map of a critical geography by delineating the interrelated brutalization of human beings and the environment at the colonial-decolonial interface. Its theoretical approach is comparative, interdisciplinary, and intersectional and embedded in Cultural/ Post-Colonial Studies and Ecocriticism with the objective to problematize the issue of identity, ethnicity, and gender in correlation with the land qua place and style of life within a capitalist system. The objective is to reveal and examine the decolonial attitude in texts by multiethnic women writers of the Americas: what is decolonization and how is it translated into the narrative structure, style and theme? 

scholarly journals “The Other” and “Othering” in Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium Eater: A Psychological Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 97
Author(s):  
Fadi Butrus K. Habash
Keyword(s):  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Realistic Model ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Human Relationship ◽  
Psychological Study ◽  
Post Colonial

The Other and Otherness (Othering) or Us and Them are one of the most contemporary complex topics which relate to organizing the kind and nature of human relationship besides involving many dangers which could represent a real threat to man's existence. This paper tries to shed some light on this flagrant and shameful literary work of Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater which deals with how discrimination is spread among human beings. At the beginning, a theoretical literary review will establish the fundamental bases of this study, including the psychological and post-colonial concepts. Then, it will study Thomas De Quincey’s  Confessions of an English Opium Eater as a realistic model of embodying such racial discrimination and introducing a huge abhorrent image between superior and inferior relationship and the consequences as estrangement, alienation, un-belonging feelings, etc. Finally, the study ends up with the main findings as well as suggesting a piece of advice and solution for eliminating such humiliating inferior look into the other different human being.

Toward an Epistemology of Clinical Psychoanalysis

1997 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 507-530 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge L. Ahumada
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
The Other ◽  
Empirical Science ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Hard Science ◽  
Unitary Model ◽  
Science Of Mind ◽  
Scientific Endeavor ◽  
Observational Science

Epistemology emerges from the study of the ways knowledge is gained in the different fields of scientific endeavor. Current polemics on the nature of psychoanalytic knowledge involve counterposed misconceptions of the nature of mind. On one side clinical psychoanalysis is under siege from philosophical “hard science” stalwarts who, upholding as the unitary model of scientific knowledge the Galilean model of science built around the “well-behaved” variables of mechanics and cosmology, argue clinical psychoanalysis does not meet empirical criteria for the validation of its claims. On the other side, its empirical character is renounced by hermeneuticists who, agreeing with “hard science” advocates on what science is, dismiss the animal nature of human beings and hold that clinical psychoanalysis is not an empirical science but a “human” interpretive one. Taking Adolf Grünbaum's critique as its referent, this paper examines how, by ignoring the differences between “exact” and observational science, the “hard science” demand for well-behaved variables misconstrues the nature of events in the realm of mind. Criteria for an epistemology fit for the facts of clinical psychoanalysis as an empirical, observational science of mind are then proposed.

scholarly journals Money and sociality: Measuring the unmeasurable money as justice, time and usury

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 938-957
Author(s):  
Zoran Jankovic
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Data ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Western Tradition ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
Human Community ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Future ◽  
Moral Condemnation ◽  
The Relationship

Levinas confirms: a reflection about a money as a social and economical reality is not possible without a serious analysis of empirical data. On the other hand, this reflection always involves something else, so a money is never a merely economical category. In that sense, Levinas proposes an intriguing meditation about some ?dimensions? of a money in the western tradition. Contrary to the traditional moral condemnation of a money - which however remains unquestionable because of the fact that a man always carries a risk of becoming a merchandise - Levinas suggests that money never simply means a reification, but always implies some positive dimensions. Levinas suggests that a money is not something morally bad or simply neutral covering human relationships, but rather a condition of human community. Furthermore, he claims that a money is a fundament of the justice. A money makes possible a community, he explains, because it opens up the dimension of the future, and implies the existence of human beings who give themselves a credit; a credit understood as a time and a confidence. We shall try to address some problems implied by this thesis, particularly the problem of the relationship between time, money and credit. Finally, we are going to ask whether this cred?it - inseparable from the very essence of the money - is not always already a sort of usury.

Towards a post-colonial artefact analysis

2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Astrid Van Oyen
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
The Other ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Colonial Studies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Colonial Archaeology ◽  
Change Of Perspective ◽  
The One

AbstractThis paper argues that material culture should be brought even more to the forefront in post-colonial archaeology. At present, post-colonial analyses start from a baseline of pinned-down, delineated things as processed through artefact analysis, to proceed to interpretations of how these things were used in fluid, multidirectional, ambivalent social and cultural interactions. But what if thingsthemselvescan be fluid rather than bounded? Can we look into the various ways in which things were defined in the past, and the various relations they enabled? Such a change of perspective can also help redress the imbalance within post-colonial studies between, on the one hand, consumption as the field in which meaning is negotiated and, on the other hand, production as offering merely a template for the inscription of that meaning. A case study of so-called pre-sigillata production in southern Gaul articulates the benefit to be gained from considering these issues.

Óscar Romero and the Politics of Sainthood

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 265-291
Author(s):  
Manuel A. Vasquez ◽  
Anna L. Peterson
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Civil War ◽  
El Salvador ◽  
The Other ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Holy See ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Face ◽  
Crisis Of Modernity ◽  
The One

In this article, we explore the debates surrounding the proposed canonization of Archbishop Oscar Romero, an outspoken defender of human rights and the poor during the civil war in El Salvador, who was assassinated in March 1980 by paramilitary death squads while saying Mass. More specifically, we examine the tension between, on the one hand, local and popular understandings of Romero’s life and legacy and, on the other hand, transnational and institutional interpretations. We argue that the reluctance of the Vatican to advance Romero’s canonization process has to do with the need to domesticate and “privatize” his image. This depoliticization of Romero’s work and teachings is a part of a larger agenda of neo-Romanization, an attempt by the Holy See to redeploy a post-colonial and transnational Catholic regime in the face of the crisis of modernity and the advent of postmodern relativism. This redeployment is based on the control of local religious expressions, particularly those that advocate for a more participatory church, which have proliferated with contemporary globalization

THE INFLUENCE OF TRANSCENDENTAL VALUE AS AN EFFORT OF ONLINE TRANSACTION LEGAL PROTECTION IN THE ERA OF DIGITAL ECONOMY

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Rizka Rizka
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Business Opportunity ◽  
Online Transactions ◽  
Consumer Rights ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
Consumptive Behavior ◽  
Online Shops

The digitalization of the economy sector in the industrial revolution 4.0 needs to be approached with a smart attitude so as to not bring loss to both the consumers and the business holders, by transforming the instrument of consumer rights in an updated and a better way. The development of technology has spoiled human beings in all aspects, including in muamalah. like transaction. The society’s rapid consumptive behavior becomes a business opportunity for the investors to invest their capital in the field of trade, which is also rapidly developing. The increasing demand of consumptive products pushes the popularity of online transaction. There exist hundreds of online shops, either official shops or those undergoing transaction through social media. Anyone can be owners of online shops, and the consumers can be adults, teenagers, and even children. This condition causes some problems, such as the misuse of online transaction for deception, offering products which are not the same as the real items, or worse, not sending the products after the consumer has transferred the money. The results show that in online transactions, there are many dishonest sellers who legalize all methods to practice deception, so there needs to be a connection between online transaction and religion with the hope to minimize the chance of harm for both the consumers and the sellers.

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