scholarly journals Disturbing Innocence: Defamiliarizing Narco Violence through Child Protagonists in Fiesta en la madriguera and Prayers for the Stolen

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 449-474
Author(s):  
Joseph Patteson
Keyword(s):  
Drug Trafficking ◽  
Cocaine Abuse ◽  
The World ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
Drug Violence

This article uses a Benjaminian framework to show how the two novels studied, Fiesta en la madriguera, by Juan Pablo Villalobos, and Prayers for the Stolen, by Jennifer Clement, leverage children’s unorthodox ways of perceiving the world in order to upend habitual ways of thinking about drugs and drug violence. Tochtli, a capo’s son, and Ladydi, a poor girl from Guerrero, create disorienting visions that constitute one mode of intoxication that exposes another: the exaltation of the sovereign and autonomous self that accompanies apparently disparate activities like shopping, cocaine abuse, and drug trafficking.

scholarly journals CONCERNING THE COMPLIANCE OF THE LEGISLATION OF UKRAINE ON CRIMINAL LIABILITY IN THE SPHERE OF ILLEGAL DRUG TRAFFICKING WITH INTERNATIONAL REGULATORY LEGAL ACTS

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 95-102
Author(s):  
Andriy Danylevskyi ◽  
◽  
Yuliya Danylevska ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Drug Trafficking ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Illegal Drug ◽  
National Legislation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Psychotropic Substances ◽  
Legal Obligations ◽  
The World ◽  
Criminal Legislation

The public danger of illegal drug trafficking, drug addiction and related phenomena is obvious; therefore the world community is making significant efforts to counter these phenomena, because only through joint efforts it is possible to ensure an effective counteraction to drug trafficking. For this purpose, states adopt a significant number of international normative legal acts. The issues of countering the illegal drug trafficking, psychotropic substances, their analogues and precursors are considered both within the framework of general documents on combating crime, and in special acts. Taking into account the European integration course of Ukraine, the expansion of international cooperation in the sphere of combating the illegal drug trafficking drugs, psychotropic substances, their analogues and precursors, the following issues should be marked as ones of great importance: observance by Ukraine of its international legal obligations; integration into the world system of counteracting drug trafficking; bringing national legislation in line with the provisions of international regulatory legal acts. This article is devoted to the outlined questions. In particular, the provisions of the national legislation in the sphere of illegal drug trafficking, psychotropic substances, their analogues and precursors are analyzed, and the compliance of domestic norms with international regulatory legal acts in the sphere of combating illegal drug trafficking is concluded. The classification of international regulatory legal acts in the sphere of illegal drug trafficking in dependence to the authority that issued them is given. On the basis of the conducted analysis, the author suggests ways to further improvement of the domestic criminal legislation in the sphere of combating drug trafficking. In particular, it is proposed to criminalize the sowing and cultivation of any kind of narcotic drugs, as well as to partially revise the punishment for certain drug crimes.

Mistrust traditions, consider innovations? The Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in southern Scandinavia

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lars Larsson
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Future Research ◽  
New Techniques ◽  
Neolithic Transition ◽  
Prime Concern ◽  
Southern Scandinavia ◽  
The World ◽  
New Material ◽  
Ways Of Thinking

For the individuals participating in the Mesolithic–Neolithic transition, one question must have recurrently emerged as a prime concern: ‘Should I mistrust traditions and consider innovations’? This concern encompassed the introduction of new material culture and new techniques of obtaining food. It also involved new ways of conceiving the world and people's place in it. And it was affected by important – sometimes catastrophic – changes in the physical environment. It must be emphasized that the question of whether to mistrust traditions and consider innovations is not only a matter of concern for prehistoric actors. It is also important for those who are making prehistory today. As is presented in this chapter, the facts presented for south Scandinavia have been variously interpreted as indicating the rapid introduction of a ‘Neolithic’ package with new ways of thinking and acting, as well as reflecting a mixture of traditions and gradually incorporated innovations. Future research into the transition should focus on combining new problem-oriented excavation with fresh ideas about how the transition from the Mesolithic to the Neolithic occurred.

Combating Human Trafficking

2015 ◽  
pp. 286-302
Author(s):  
Michael Pittaro
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Drug Trafficking ◽  
International Communication ◽  
Global Leadership ◽  
Police Leadership ◽  
Collaborative Action ◽  
Police Agencies ◽  
The World ◽  
Trafficking Victims

Human trafficking is one of the fastest and continuously evolving transnational crimes of this century, preceded only slightly by gun and drug trafficking; yet it is projected that human trafficking will soon surpass both unless government and nongovernmental officials throughout the world take immediate, collaborative action to deter and punish traffickers and educate and protect prospective trafficking victims. For that reason, combating human trafficking requires ongoing national and international communication, cooperation, and collaboration, particularly amongst law enforcement leadership across the globe. Only then will law enforcement be able to limit the ability of traffickers to operate freely and help prevent future victims from being trafficked. The primary purpose of drawing international attention to this chapter is in illuminating the challenges of police leadership in combating incidents of transnational human trafficking as well as to propose plausible to assist and support future global leadership and collaboration within and across police agencies.

Combating Human Trafficking

2019 ◽  
pp. 880-897
Author(s):  
Michael Pittaro
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Drug Trafficking ◽  
International Communication ◽  
Global Leadership ◽  
Police Leadership ◽  
Collaborative Action ◽  
Police Agencies ◽  
The World ◽  
Trafficking Victims

Human trafficking is one of the fastest and continuously evolving transnational crimes of this century, preceded only slightly by gun and drug trafficking; yet it is projected that human trafficking will soon surpass both unless government and nongovernmental officials throughout the world take immediate, collaborative action to deter and punish traffickers and educate and protect prospective trafficking victims. For that reason, combating human trafficking requires ongoing national and international communication, cooperation, and collaboration, particularly amongst law enforcement leadership across the globe. Only then will law enforcement be able to limit the ability of traffickers to operate freely and help prevent future victims from being trafficked. The primary purpose of drawing international attention to this chapter is in illuminating the challenges of police leadership in combating incidents of transnational human trafficking as well as to propose plausible to assist and support future global leadership and collaboration within and across police agencies.

Casting a Wide Net

2020 ◽  
pp. 332-373
Author(s):  
Catherine Raeff
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Common Language ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World ◽  
Ways Of Thinking

The goal of this chapter is to further consider how the theoretical framework presented in the book is applicable to so much of what people do, as well as to so many complex human issues and concerns. In this chapter, a wide net is cast to consider how the theoretical framework is applicable to eating, freedom, attitudes, extreme action, and art. By thinking about these topics in terms of action, readers can see how the book’s theoretical framework provides a common language for thinking systematically about a wide range of complex issues. The chapter shows how the book’s action perspective provides ways of thinking systematically about the complexities of action as people go about their lives in all corners of the world.

scholarly journals Time in the Upaniṣads

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 60
Author(s):  
Signe Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Vedic Ritual ◽  
Scholarly Literature ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Cyclical Time ◽  
The World ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
Transitional Time

The Upaniṣads (ca. 800 BCE) were composed during a transitional time period in Hinduism when Vedic ritual and cosmogonic ideas began to give way to new worldviews. The intriguing Upaniṣadic notions of time have received little attention in the scholarly literature compared to the elaborate models of cyclical time that develop in later texts. I propose, however, that the Upaniṣads represent a seminal reorientation in Hindu conceptions of time. We still find an older view of time in the Upaniṣads as something that marks the rhythms of the ritual year, but later Upaniṣadic texts begin to explore entirely new ways of thinking about time. I propose that the movement away from the more integrated view of the material and immaterial as one reality in the Vedas towards a radical dualism between the spiritual and the material in later Hindu thought informs many of the new ideas of time that emerge in the Upaniṣads, including that of time as an abstract construct. The authors of the Upaniṣads investigate—and ultimately reject—the notion of time itself as the cause of the visible world, ponder the idea that time is something that is created by a divine being in order to structure the world, speculate that time may be a mere intellectual construct, and postulate that the highest reality may be situated in a realm that is outside of time altogether.

scholarly journals The globalising effect of commercialisation and commodification in African theological education

2017 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marilyn Naidoo
Keyword(s):  
Theological Education ◽  
The West ◽  
Single Time ◽  
African Identity ◽  
The World ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
Cultural Forms

The reality of globalisation is that it has knitted the world into a single time and place and has introduced the dominant force of consumerism. In adopting this framework, it has frayed the moral fabric of theological education and has short changed students who are configured as consumers to please rather than characters to build. While the demographic centre of faith has shifted southward, its ways of thinking and engaging culture have not yet caught up with that shift. Global interconnectedness and the globalisation of knowledge together with homogenisation forces have shaped African theological education to the extent that it has absorbed the almost irreversible traits of the West. This paper highlights how transnational cultural forms have profoundly impacted the production of theological education and will attempt a response to the homogenising forces by the focus of African identity.

Imagining Otherwise

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 608-619
Author(s):  
Bess Collins Van Asselt
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Youth Of Color ◽  
School Life ◽  
Transgender Youth ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ways Of Thinking

Abstract This article explores the life history of Sam, a queer and transgender youth of color who contests standardized futures in secondary schools. Sam's school life is rife with expectations that seek to confine Sam and their way of being in the world. In response to their school life, Sam forwards new ways of thinking of the future that rely on remaining present, contesting identity politics and questioning the contours of humanity.

Dickens’s Visual Mediations

2018 ◽  
pp. 681-700
Author(s):  
Helen Groth
Keyword(s):  
Visual Media ◽  
Information Networks ◽  
Theoretical Ground ◽  
Global Information ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Bleak House ◽  
The World ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
And Storage

By shifting the theoretical ground from questions of surveillance, adaptation, and illustration to questions of information, mediation, and storage, this chapter generates new ways of thinking about Dickens’s experimental and conceptual engagement with the new visual media such as photography and panoramas that were gradually transforming how people read, saw, and imagined the world around them. Drawing on Hablot Knight Browne’s iconic illustrations for Bleak House, Dombey and Son, and Little Dorrit as exemplary instances of Dickens’s visual conception of the mediation of his writing, this chapter offers a new approach to the ways in which these memorable images circulated, and still do circulate, within complex global information networks.

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