Other Cosmopolitans

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Haiping
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Living Together

Yan Haiping explores Kang Youwei’s Book of Great Harmony, a utopian portrait of the peoples of the earth living together without racial, national, or cultural divides that emerged, almost miraculously, at the height of Chinese resistance to the Japanese invasion of the 1930s. Placing the book into its tormented historical context, Yan Haiping takes his cue from Calhoun’s observation that “statements of cosmopolitanism as universalism echo rather than transcend nationalism.” Arguing that figures previously conceived as nationalist can also be thought of as cosmopolitans, he lays out a tradition of cosmopolitanism that is both Chinese and cross-cultural.

Reinterpretasi Ayat-ayat “Kekerasan”

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-103
Author(s):  
Lina Aniqoh
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Textual Interpretation ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The People ◽  
Double Movement ◽  
The Face

This paper seeks to elaborate on the textual interpretation of Q.S Muhammad verse 4 and Q.S at Taubah verse 5. These two verses are often employed by the extremist Muslim groups to legitimize their destructive acts carried out on groups considered as being infidels and as such lawfully killed. The interpretation was conducted using the double movement hermeneutics methodology offered by Fazlur Rahman. After reinterpretation, the two verses contain moral values, namely the war ordered by God must be reactive, fulfill the ethics of "violence" and be the last solution. Broadly speaking, the warfare commanded in the Qur'an aims to establish a benefit for humanity on the face of the earth by eliminating every crime that exists. These two verses in the contemporary socio-historical context in Indonesia can be implemented as a basis for combating the issue of hoaxes and destructive acts of extremist Muslim groups. Because both are crimes and have negative implications for the people good and even able to threaten the unity of mankind.

scholarly journals Policing the Imperial Periphery: The Philippine-American War and the Origins of U.S. Global Surveillance

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-26
Author(s):  
Alfred William McCoy
Keyword(s):  
Data Management ◽  
Vietnam War ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Information Infrastructure ◽  
Internal Security ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Digital Surveillance ◽  
Global Power ◽  
Current Controversy ◽  
The U.S

Using a methodology that inserts the current controversy over NSA surveillance into its historical context, this essay traces the origins of U.S. internal security back to America’s emergence as a global power circa 1898. In the succeeding century, Washington’s information infrastructure advanced through three technological regimes: first, the manual during the Philippine War (1898–1907); next, the computerized in the Vietnam War (1963–75); and, recently, the robotic in Afghanistan and Iraq (2001–14). While these military missions have skirted defeat if not disaster, the information infrastructure, as if driven by some in-built engineering, has advanced to higher levels of data management and coercive capacity. With costs for conventional military occupations now becoming prohibitive, the U.S. will likely deploy, circa 2020, its evolving robotic regime—with a triple-canopy aerospace shield, advanced cyberwarfare, and digital surveillance—to envelop the earth in an electronic grid capable of blinding entire armies on the battlefield or atomizing a single insurgent in field or favela.

Patrick Grainville's Black African World: Dismantling or Bolstering Cultural Binarisms?

2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-101
Author(s):  
Dauda Yillah
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Difference ◽  
African State ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Black African ◽  
Cultural Assumptions ◽  
Cultural Perception ◽  
French Author ◽  
Cultural Self

This article examines the cross-cultural perspective offered by the metropolitan French author Patrick Grainville in his novels Les Flamboyants and Le Tyran éternel, set each in a fictional post-1960 independent black African state. In doing so, it identifies an inherent contradiction in the vision and argues that, while setting out to celebrate cultural difference, Grainville ends up paradoxically, if perhaps unwittingly, reasserting the supremacy of the cultural self. The article does not seek to discredit entirely Grainville's cross-cultural endeavour, but does not attempt to overrate it either. Rather it shows how, writing in a post-imperial European historical context of the mid-1970s and the late 1990s, Grainville breaks with colonial modes of cross-cultural perception but only to restate in certain respects the cultural assumptions that tend to underpin those modes of apprehending cultural difference.

Art Critics, Connoisseurs, and Collectors in the Southeast Asian Rain Forest: A Study in Cross-Cultural Art Theory

1983 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 400-408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanley J. O'Connor
Keyword(s):  
Rain Forest ◽  
Joseph Conrad ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Eastern Coast ◽  
Art Theory ◽  
Round Trip ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Difficult Part ◽  
Art Critics

When Joseph Conrad sailed on the Vidar from Singapore harbour tothe small coastal trading stations on the eastern coast of Borneo, the round trip took three weeks. The most difficult part of the journey occurred at the estuary of the Berau River where the Vidar would have run in, past the shifting bar and mud flats, and followed slowly up the mangrove-lined banks of the main branch to a settlement almost forty miles inland. It was here in 1887 that Conrad encountered the trader Charles Olmeyer whose existence in this remote place provided such an enduring focus for Conrad's imagination. In his first novel, Almayer's Folly, Conrad drew a portrait of Almayer (Olmeyer) as an exile, living on the banks of the Berau River in a sullen recoil both from the wilderness that gripped the settlement in its green immensity, and from the customs and values of those with whom he shared almost the entire course of his adult existence. Drawn to the outermost reaches of the earth by greed, Almayer's life, as conceived by Conrad, was the very symbol of rootlessness and alienation.

Blessing on the Move: The Outpouring of God’s Blessing through the Migrant Abraham

2013 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarita D. Gallagher
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Character Traits ◽  
Prior History ◽  
Biblical Text ◽  
Cultural Encounters ◽  
Religious Background ◽  
Mission Of God ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Strategic Implementation ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract In this article, I explore the relationship between the mission of God and Abraham’s life as a foreign migrant. In the narrative of Genesis, Abraham enters as a nomadic foreigner called by God as a representative of the nations for the nations. The biblical text is remarkably silent on Abraham’s prior history listing no personal achievements, no remarkable character traits, and no religious background. Yet it is through this unknown migrant that God chose to proclaim his greatest blessing declaring that, “in [Abraham] all the nations of the earth will be blessed” (Gen 12:3). The missiological exploration of the person of Abraham usually ends with this divine proclamation, however this is simply the beginning of the outworking of God’s missional promise during Abraham’s lifetime. It is in analyzing Abraham’s cross-cultural encounters as a migrant that the full importance of the fulfillment of Genesis 12:3 emerges in addition to God’s strategic implementation of mission from the periphery.

scholarly journals Utopia in Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle

2014 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Mahtab Entezam ◽  
Pyeaam Abbasi
Keyword(s):  
Fundamental Question ◽  
San Lorenzo ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Living Together

Utopia is a universal concept, as manifested by the fact that it has attracted readers of five centuries and has influenced numerous writers. It is obvious that people, recognizing the abundant stupidities, corruptions, and injustice prevalent in their society, should attempt to plan a better system for living together. Whether they can reach such a society or not is the fundamental question found in most Vonnegut’s works. The utopian schemes in Vonnegut’s works such as the settlement of San Lorenzo in Cat’s Cradle, almost always backfire, often bringing about more problems than they promise to solve. Therefore, in this paper, it is aimed to emphasize Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle regarding the concepts of utopia and dystopia as well as apocalyptical notions. Apocalypse can be investigated in Cat’s Cradle and it gives a serious quality to Vonnegut’s work. The emptiness of mere survival is painfully described in Cat's Cradle, in which the earth is locked in frozen death.

scholarly journals On the Cultural Selection of Hua Chun: A Chinese Japanese Female Writer

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (7) ◽  
pp. 86
Author(s):  
Jirong Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Third Space ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Japanese Culture ◽  
Cultural Experience ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Japanese Female ◽  
The One ◽  
Selection Of

Hua Chun, a Chinese Japanese female writer, embodies cross-border and cross-cultural characteristics in her creation. She pays attention to the ecological environment, chooses the theme of environmental protection, and chooses the “Earth Man” perspective to narrate. She shuttles between Japanese and Chinese cultures, transcends the embarrassment of personal and national sentiments and faces human nature directly. On the one hand, she actively integrates Japanese culture. On the other hand, she mourns the traditional Chinese culture. She creates a third space with mixed culture in her works through the cultural experience of crossing the border.

scholarly journals Occultation of Planets by the Moon in European Narrative Medieval Sources

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 192-220
Author(s):  
María José Martínez Usó ◽  
Francisco J. Marco Castillo
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Narrative Texts ◽  
Astronomical Observations ◽  
Calculation Of Parameters ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Medieval Europe ◽  
The World ◽  
Rotation Of The Earth ◽  
Shed Light

Existing research dealing with astronomical observations from medieval Europe have extensively covered topics such as solar and lunar eclipses and sightings of comets and meteors, but no compilation of occultations of planets by the Moon has been carried out and, till now, the data have remained scattered in different publications. The main reasons for this are the small number of observations that has reached us, their limited use for calculation of parameters associated with the rotation of the Earth, and the fact that between the fifth and fifteenth centuries, the period that we consider, almost none of these observations were made scientifically, since they usually appear in narrative texts, be they chronicles or annals. Our purpose is to make a compilation of these phenomena, trying to shed light on some of the most controversial observations after examining them in their historical context. We will examine European sources, but, occasionally, we will also consider reports from other parts of the world to make comparisons, when necessary.

Cross-Cultural Communication Differences in Online Learning

2019 ◽  
pp. 159-171
Author(s):  
Tasha Peart
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Cultural Communication ◽  
Cross Cultural Communication ◽  
Cross Cultural Differences ◽  
The World ◽  
Communication Differences

This chapter discusses and evaluates research on cross-cultural communication differences in online learning at the university level. It starts out by discussing the growth of online education in recent years and the historical context of online education. The chapter then evaluates research on differences in cross-cultural online learning primarily between university students from the Western part of the world compared to students from the East. Barriers in cross-cultural online education cited in the literature include language, technology, and instructional design. Future research on Western-based online education should assess cross-cultural differences for students from other parts of the world including Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America.

Conclusion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Gough ◽  
Peggy Seeger
Keyword(s):  
New Deal ◽  
American West ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
White Men ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Music Program ◽  
Women Poor ◽  
General Welfare ◽  
Federal Music Project ◽  
The New Deal

This chapter argues that while the Federal Music Project (FMP) and WPA Music Program in the American West reflected many of the societal prejudices of the day, it was the New Deal emphasis on inclusion that distinguishes the musical productions within a historical context. Indeed, participation bridged many previous barriers and included black as well as white; men as well as women; poor and not; conservative, liberal, and radical; symphonic orchestras and orquestas tipicas; African American spirituals; folksong; satirical political revues; and the range of musical expression. These cross-cultural presentations most often found origin as grassroots ventures and were encouraged by a presidential administration that enthusiastically embraced its constitutionally mandated responsibility to “promote the general welfare” within a society where each citizen is assured of his or her own pursuit of happiness.

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