scholarly journals Made for China: Localizations of International Architecture in China, 2001-2018

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Parker
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
The Other ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
American Firm ◽  
Architectural Production ◽  
The World

To date, the story of architectural production in 21st century China has focused on institutions and actors in an ever-globalizing system of practice [1–4]. This worthy approach nevertheless obscures opposite yet equally significant trends, namely the localization of architectural products. Architectural practices are indeed becoming moreglobal,andyettheirworkis—withnotableexceptions—morefrequentlyconvicted of a necessity for localization, such that two buildings designed by an American firm, one in California and the other in Shanghai, should not be indistinguishable from each other. Thus, a more complete telling of this story demands an investigation of how the local and the national are represented materially in work that is, structurally, international. Through a close reading of several iconic buildings in China designed by international architects, this contribution proposes a framework for categorizing localization strategies. In addition, it investigates the origins of the localization imperative both in general and specific to China. These findings amplify architecture’s cross-cultural vocabulary and improve the ability of architectural practices to consider the cultural sited-ness of their work not only in China but around the world.

The image of a modern shaman. A literary example of Ida Brzezińska

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-134
Author(s):  
Angelika Moskal
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Popular Literature ◽  
The Other ◽  
The World ◽  
Evil Spirits ◽  
The Dead ◽  
The Way

Abstract: The shaman figure is most often associated with primitive communities, inhabiting, among others Siberia. The shaman plays one of the most important roles in them - he is an intermediary between the world of people and the world of spirits. Responds to, among others for the safe passage of souls to the other side and protects her from evil spirits. However, is there room for representatives of this institution in contemporary Polish popular literature? How would they find themselves in the 21st century? The article aims to show the interpretation of the shaman on the example of Ida Brzezińska, the heroine of the books of Martyna Raduchowska. I intend to introduce the role and functions of the „shaman from the dead”, juxtaposing the way Ida works (including reading sleepy margins from a rather unusual dream catcher, carrying out souls and the consequences that await in the event of failure or making contact with the dead) with the methods described by scholars shamans. The purpose of the work is to show how much Raduchowska tried to adapt shamanism in her work by modernizing it, and how many elements she added from herself to make the story more attractive.

scholarly journals Psychiatry in 21st century: The road ahead

2014 ◽  
Vol 05 (04) ◽  
pp. 426-427
Author(s):  
Sayantanava Mitra ◽  
Anjana Rao Kavoor
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Mental Illnesses ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Road ◽  
Gender Empowerment ◽  
The World ◽  
Advance Care ◽  
And Gender

ABSTRACTIn spite of becoming more humane in its approach with improvements in understanding of mental illnesses over last century, psychiatry still has a long way to go. At this point in time, on one hand the world faces issues like terrorism, wars and global warming; while on the other it is witnessing economic and gender empowerment like never before. With technology providing us with immense opportunities to advance care for the mentally ill, we are closer than ever to finding the holy-grail of psychiatry, and overcoming daunting challenges.

Demokratie im 21. Jahrhundert

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Political System ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
State And Society ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
The One

Whereas democracy still seemed to be triumphantly sweeping the world before the turn of the century, today it finds itself under immense pressure, not only as a viable political system, but also as a theoretical and normative concept. The coronavirus crisis has underlined and accelerated these developments. There are manifold reasons for this, above all the fundamental changes the state and society have undergone in the face of globalisation, digitalisation, migration, climate change and not least the current pandemic, to name the most significant of them. This volume analyses the changes to democracy in the 21st century and the crises it has experienced. In doing so, the book identifies where action is needed, on the one hand, and investigates appropriate, up-to-date reforms and the prospects for politics, political communication and political education, on the other. With contributions by Ulrich von Alemann, Bernd Becker, Frank Brettschneider, Frank Decker, Claudio Franzius, Georg Paul Hefty, Andreas Kalina, Helmut Klages, Uwe Kranenpohl, Pola Lehmann, Linus Leiten, Dirk Lüddecke, Thomas Metz, Ursula Münch, Ursula Alexandra Ohliger, Veronika Ohliger, Rainer-Olaf Schultze, Peter Seyferth, Hans Vorländer, Uwe Wagschal, Thomas Waldvogel and Samuel Weishaupt

The Rise of

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Gannagé
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Negative Theology ◽  
The World ◽  
The One ◽  
First Philosophy

On First Philosophy is the most emblematic work of Abū Yūsuf Ya‛qūb b. Isḥāq al-Kindī’s (ca. 801–ca. 870) surviving treatises. Aiming primarily to prove the oneness of God, the surviving part of the treatise consists of four chapters that form a consistent unit. The chapter provides a close reading of and commentary on the four chapters and shows how the texts unfold by following a very tight argument leading to the thesis toward which the whole treatise seems to aim: the true One, who is the principle of unity and hence the principle of existence of all beings, on the one hand, and the absolutely transcendent God, which can be approached only through a negative theology, on the other, are one and the same principle. In the meantime, al-Kindī would have demonstrated the noneternity of the world and shown the impossibility of finding sheer unity in the sensible world.

scholarly journals “Black Balts” Abroad: White Racism, Homosexuality and (Non-)Tolerance in Lithuanian and Latvian Emigration Narratives

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 290-308
Author(s):  
Laura Laurušaitė
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
21St Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
White Racism ◽  
Migration Literature ◽  
Negative Images ◽  
The World

The present article will use the method of literary imagology in order to study the 21st-century Lithuanian and Latvian (e)migration literature and experiences in the context of racial, sexual, and cultural otherness. It will discusses marriage to a foreigner as something more than an official legitimation of one’s love for a person of other ethnicity, the introduction of foreignness into the world of one’s own culture, and the ideological penetration of the other into that which is inherited, ordinary and familiar. Provinciality, intolerance, and inability to admit and accept the Other or perceive oneself as a sexual Other remain an important part of Lithuanian and Latvian identity. In turn, emigrants in the host communities are a minority with counter-negative images, especially social ones.

scholarly journals Terrorism and the power of the state intelligence

2013 ◽  
pp. 277-292
Author(s):  
Milan Mijalkovski ◽  
Veselin Konatar
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
The World ◽  
National Power ◽  
The One ◽  
Power And Powerlessness

The world has always been an arena where various conflicts, visible and invisible have been happening and unfortunately happen nowadays. The most frequent conflict is (was) the conflict of sovereign subjects (states), while the first decade of the 21st century was mostly marked by many asymmetrical conflicts, between a state (or states) on the one side and not sovereign terrorist subjects on the other side. Every imperilled state, as in any other conflict, has realistic prospects to successfully defend itself and win only when it is adequately informed about the aggressor which, in this particular case, implies terrorist collectivity. Guided by that knowledge, a state endeavours to develop adequate intelligence as an inseparable component of national power, whose success against aggressor, proven in practice, could be optimal, partially successful or weak (inadequate, unsuccessful etc). Accordingly, some aspects of national intelligence power and powerlessness against terrorism are considered in this work.

What, Then, for 21st-Century Places?

2021 ◽  
pp. 161-216
Author(s):  
Jonathan Reades ◽  
Martin Crookston
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Employment Growth ◽  
The Other ◽  
World Cities ◽  
Service Centre ◽  
Remote Workers ◽  
The World ◽  
Push And Pull ◽  
Continued Employment

We draw together from Chapters 2–6 many of the factors that will push and pull activities and people to and from our cities over the next few decades. For the great World Cities, the future looks like continued employment growth overall, but reduced dependence on large floorplates and serried ranks of desks. Digitisation will bite ever deeper, and give greater flexibility to support home- and remote-workers, but the wider benefits of agglomeration and clustering will still work in favour of these cities. For other places, the challenges are even greater: ranging down from the other major conurbations to freestanding market towns, medium-sized former industrial towns, places in the hinterlands of the World Cities, and University Towns as a particular form of advanced service centre. All will need careful understanding of scale, location and interrelationships in creating effective public policy for cities and regions - with implications for developers, investors and policymakers alike.

Ideas of Poetics and the Close Reading of Poetry

CounterText ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-97
Author(s):  
Jonathan Locke Hart
Keyword(s):  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Great Benefit ◽  
The Other ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Western Literature ◽  
Rhetorical Tradition ◽  
The World ◽  
The One ◽  
Aristotelian Tradition

Ranjan Ghosh and J. Hillis Miller provide different but productive ways to think about poetics and to read poetry closely and with attention. As a poet, reader and critic of poetry, I welcome their thoughts on the theory and practice of poetry. Whereas Miller sees the reading of poems as subjective and selective, Ghosh views it as universal and shared. Both readers help us in the drama of meaning, the tension between them. As convivial and suggestive as that difference between Miller and Ghosh may be, it allows us to experience the different sides of poetry and the philosophy of poetry, if we think about, say the Socratic, Platonic, and Aristotelian tradition of thinking about poetry and even Philip Sidney's response on the one hand and the rhetorical tradition of reading poetry on the other. Ghosh, although having mastered Western literature and poetry, as Miller has, also provides us with Eastern views, and this is also of great benefit to the reader of Thinking Literature Across Continents ( 2016 ). One of the great centres of literature is language and poetry is compressed and memorable language that forms the heart of literature: it is a key to thinking about Ghosh and Miller thinking literature across the various parts of the world.

Islamophobia and the Ethics of Media: A Cross-Cultural Study

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Soma Patnaik
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
The Other ◽  
Terror Attacks ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Cross Cultural Study ◽  
Cultural Boundaries ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media ◽  
Globalising World

The paper seeks to understand how media in the globalising world has contributed to the creation, advocacy as well as reactions to Islamophobic sentiments, resulting cultural boundaries and stereotypes across the world. Functionally, Islamophobia is a shorthand term referring to the “dread or hatred of Islam” and therefore a “fear and dislike of Muslims”. The paper systematically reveals how “Islamophobia” which is itself an irrational attitude, is socially constructed with the aid of the media. While on one hand the media erects the supporting walls of Islamophobia, on the other, it also provides a platform for its criticism and reactions. The paper also sheds light on how media representations of terror attacks serves in “educating” populations of different countries and in creating a “global” sentiment. Yet, such a global sentiment, as the paper shall reveal, does not integrate the cultures; rather it widens the gap. However, if media persons instead choose to take up the issue as a moral responsibility, they can even bridge this gap and help in applying a curative balm on the global sentiment.

Prospects for the 21st Century—The Global Challenge: Tasks for the 21st Century

1993 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 251-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas G. Whiston
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
21St Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Transfer Of Knowledge ◽  
Social Instability ◽  
Global Sustainability ◽  
Global Challenge ◽  
The World ◽  
North And South

The most pressing problems facing the world in the 21st century are considered to be population growth together with depletion of the world's resources, social instability, poverty in developing countries, consumerism and the division between North and South, None is held solely responsible, for all these factors interact, and all will contribute to the global challenge facing the next generation. The removal of barriers between North and South is called for, enabling a transfer of knowledge and technology from one to the other, Systems are required that do not squander materials and energy, and that provide for collaboration and cooperation between North and South in technical research and economic development, Only then will the ultimate goal of global sustainability be achieved.

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