scholarly journals Secreto de Estado = State Secret

2020 ◽  
pp. 258
Author(s):  
José Antonio Sendín Mateos
Keyword(s):  
Critical Examination ◽  
Control Mechanisms ◽  
Spanish Law ◽  
State Secret ◽  
Jurisdictional Control ◽  
Democratic Systems ◽  
State Secrets ◽  
The Way ◽  
Chamber Of Deputies

 Resumen: En este trabajo me ocuparé de los problemas que plantea el recurso a los secretos de Estado en los sistemas democráticos, prestando especial atención a la forma como se regulan en el derecho español. Tras una breve aproximación al concepto, realizaré un examen crítico de los mecanismos de control y, en especial, del control jurisdiccional. El tema de los secretos de Estado es de máxima actualidad en España, debido a que el Grupo Parlamentario Vasco (EAJ-PNV) en el Congreso de los Diputados ha puesto en marcha un proceso de reforma de la Ley de secretos oficiales de 1968, que a día de hoy aún sigue vigente.Palabras clave: Secreto de Estado, publicidad, transparencia, actos políticos, actos discrecionales.Abstract: In this research I will deal with the problems posed by state secrets in democratic systems, paying special attention to the way in which they are regulated in Spanish law. After a brief approach to this concept, I will carry out a critical examination of the control mechanisms, and especially of the jurisdictional control. The issue of state secrets is a highly topical subject in Spain, because the Basque Parliamentary Group (EAJ-PNV) in the Chamber of Deputies has launched a process to reform the Official Secrets Act of 1968, which to this day it is currently valid. Keywords: State secret, publicity, transparency, political acts, discretionary acts.

scholarly journals Same but Different: Chaos and TV Drama Narratives

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Alison McLachlan
Keyword(s):  
Building Blocks ◽  
Narrative Form ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Fundamental Level ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Basic Level ◽  
Mathematics And Science ◽  
The Way

<p>Complexity is a term that is now commonly used when discussing TV serial dramas and the way that, in recent years, creators and producers of this narrative form have embraced innovative and challenging strategies to tell their stories. As a result, it is also often argued that all TV serial dramas are strikingly different from one another; one of the few things that contemporary TV serial dramas have in common is their employment of complex narrative strategies. However, in this thesis, I argue that—while serial dramas are different from one another in many ways—they are also all the same at a fundamental level.  In order to examine the fundamental narrative components that all serial dramas employ, I use chaos as a framework. Chaos is a branch of mathematics and science which examines systems that display unpredictable behaviour that is actually determined by deep structures of order and stability. At its most basic level, chaos corresponds with the way in which serial dramas are both complex and simple at the same time; beneath the complexity of serial dramas are fundamental building blocks that are used to generate innovative, challenging and unpredictable narratives.  I apply the findings from my critical examination of chaos and TV drama narratives to the creation of my own TV projects, which employ the inherent structures and patterns of TV drama narratives in a way that produces innovative and complex stories. In doing so, I intend to highlight the potential of serial dramas to be endlessly creative yet consistently the same.</p>

scholarly journals 7th ICSDAP Conference in Bangladesh: Some Experiences and Reflections for the Way Forward

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 273-282
Author(s):  
Asok Kumar Sarkar ◽  
Mamunur Rahman ◽  
Manohar Pawar
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Capacity Building ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
The Way

In the light of the unique experiences of the 7th ICSDAP Conference, this article includes a brief background, details of activities, challenges and opportunities, and outputs and outcomes. Our experiences and reflections suggest that organising international conferences to bring social development scholars together to deliberate on mutual areas of research and practice interests undoubtedly contributes to critical examination and dissemination of knowledge, at least to some extent. In addition, what is equally important, the process and experience of organising conferences appear to enhance our and host organisation’s learning and capacity-building, yielding benefit for everyone to build a better future by overcoming all the odds.

Negotiating ownership and agency in social media: Community reactions to Amazon’s acquisition of Goodreads

First Monday ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne-Mette Bech Albrechtslund
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Social Spaces ◽  
Social Network Site ◽  
Network Site ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Way

This paper presents an in-depth study and a discussion of Goodreads users’ reactions to the acquisition of the popular social network site for readers by Amazon in 2013. The purpose is to provide an empirical and critical examination of the negotiations over agency and ownership evident in the discussions ensuing the acquisition. The boundaries and norms of Goodreads are negotiated by its users, and the threats to withdraw their active contributions in the wake of the Amazon acquisition are seen as a way to negotiate a definition of what the site should be. Goodreads is shown to be an example of the way online social spaces become contested because of different interpretations of their purpose and functions, and it is argued that its success is ultimately dependent on users’ self-understanding as a community.

Limitations of Fundamental Human Rights and Freedoms in International Law and Novations in the Russian Criminal Legislation

10.12737/1209 ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (11) ◽  
pp. 75-84
Author(s):  
Юрий Ромашев ◽  
YUriy Romashyev
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
National Security ◽  
International Law ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Public Order ◽  
European Court ◽  
State Secret ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Criminal Legislation ◽  
State Secrets

The author analyses new amendments related to state secrets protection: amendments to Article 275 ‘High Treason’, Article 276 ‘Espionage’, Article 283 ‘Disclosure of a State Secret’, and adopted Article 283.1 ‘Illegal Receipt of Information Constituting a State Secret’ of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation in respect to their conformity with acceptable restrictions of fundamental human rights and freedoms. Special attention is paid to theoretical and action-oriented aspects of restrictions of fundamental human rights and freedoms. The author investigates relevant provisions of international documents, practice of the European Court of Human Rights, doctrines of leading experts in this sphere. The author notes that the criteria for restricting fundamental human rights and freedoms should be established entirely under the law and be indispensable and applicable in a democratic society, be aimed at the protection of national security and public order. The author draws the conclusion on the urgent character and timeliness of introducing the abovementioned novations into the Russian criminal legislation, and their conformity with generally recognized principles and rules of international law.

scholarly journals Legislation’s Influence on Judiciarization: Examining the Effects of Statutory Structure and Language on Rates of Court Use in Child Welfare Contexts

2008 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 354
Author(s):  
Angela Campbell ◽  
Mairi Springate ◽  
Nico Trocmé
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Child Welfare Workers ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Child Protection Workers ◽  
Professional Responsibilities ◽  
Protection De L’Enfance ◽  
Welfare Workers ◽  
The Way

This paper investigates the extent to which legislation influences decisions of child welfare workers regarding the referral of cases to court. It studies three Canadian jurisdictions: Quebec, Ontario, and Alberta, each of which takes a different legislative approach to the issue of court involvement in child protection. A critical examination of child welfare statutes in these provinces led to the prediction that rates of court use – or ‘judiciarization’ – would be highest in Quebec, followed by Ontario, and then Alberta. These predictions were then compared with data reflecting actual judiciarization rates in these three provinces for the year 2006. This data contradicted our initial predictions, in that Ontario’s rate of court use for child welfare cases was the highest of the three provinces, followed by Alberta, and then Quebec. Our research results thus suggest that legislation alone does not drive judiciarization in the child welfare context. As such, this paper illuminates the need for further study of the way in which child protection workers understand legislation as influencing their professional responsibilities and choices. Moreover, it indicates that further consideration is needed into how the use of judicial versus extra-judicial institutions might affect child welfare outcomes.Cet article examine la mesure dans laquelle la législation influence les décisions des travailleurs et travailleuses du bien-être de l’enfance quant à soumettre des cas aux tribunaux. On étudie trois territoires canadiens : le Québec, l’Ontario et l’Alberta, dont chacun prend une approche législative différente à la question de la participation des tribunaux dans la protection de l’enfance. Un examen critique des lois sur la protection de l’enfance dans ces provinces a amené à prédire que le taux d’utilisation des tribunaux – ou la «judiciarisation» - serait le plus élevé au Québec, suivi de l’Ontario puis de l’Alberta. Puis on a comparé ces prédictions aux données indiquant le taux réel de judiciarisation dans ces trois provinces pour l’année 2006. Ces données ont contredit nos prédictions initiales, le taux d’utilisation des tribunaux pour les cas de protection de l’enfance ayant été le plus élevé des trois provinces en Ontario, suivi de l’Alberta puis du Québec. Les résultats de notre recherche suggèrent donc que la législation à elle seule ne pousse pas à la judiciarisation dans le contexte de la protection de l’enfance. Ainsi, cet article fait voir le besoin d’étude additionnelle sur comment les travailleurs et travailleuses de la protection de l’enfance voient la façon dont la législation influence leurs responsabilités et leurs choix professionnels. De plus, il indique qu’il faut examiner davantage comment l’utilisation d’institutions judiciaires versus les institutions extrajudiciaires peuvent influencer les résultats de cas de bien-être de l’enfance.

scholarly journals O pravnom poretku Petra I Petrovića Njegoša

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2/2020) ◽  
pp. 62-91
Author(s):  
Matija Stojanović
Keyword(s):  
Legal Theory ◽  
Legal Order ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Main Question ◽  
Historical Evidence ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
Other Regarding ◽  
Original Interpretation ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
The Way

A lot has been written about the legal order of Petar I Petrović Njegoš; this question has puzzled legal historians and theoreticians ever since the 19th century, the main question being, whether such an order ever came to be. The problem is not whether any legal norms at the time had been proclaimed, but rather whether these norms, once they were proclaimed, had ever been systematically implemented in a manner that would enable us to state that they formed a legal order. Therefore, this question includes two components – one regarding historical evidence, the other regarding the way this evidence can be valued within legal theory. This work will provide a critical examination of the historical timeline concerning this problem, and the way it has been treated in literature so far – providing the reader with an original interpretation of both.

scholarly journals Peculiarities of State Experts Activity on Secret Issues of the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine

2020 ◽  
Vol 76 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-117
Author(s):  
D. Y. Denischuk
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
The State ◽  
State Secret ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Qualitative Structure ◽  
The Impact ◽  
State Secrets

The study is focused on the protection of state secrets in the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine (SPS). The subject matter of scientific work is the features of state experts on secret issues, whose activities play a key role in classifying information as a state secret. The paper is aimed at analyzing the impact of numerous reforms of the SPS system on the composition and characteristics of the relevant state experts. During the research, the author has carried out the analysis of laws and bylaws, where special attention was paid to the List of officials entrusted with the functions of state experts on secret issues, and the Code of Information Constituting State Secrets. The research emphasizes that the relevance of the analysis is related not only to the already implemented changes in the system of the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine, but also to the expectation of no less important reforms that significantly affect the structure, subordination and forms of activity of SPS agencies. As a result of the conducted analysis the author has provided characteristics to the features of quantitative and qualitative structure of the state experts which were caused by structural changes of SPS agencies. The peculiarities of the activity of state experts of SPS are characterized, such important requirements to their qualification as the corresponding experience and deep possession of the maintenance and essence of daily needs of SPS system are allocated. The obtained results substantiate the expediency of expanding the composition of state experts on secret issues in the field related to SPS of Ukraine. Based on the findings of the study, the author has offered the position of the Head of the Department for the Execution of Criminal Punishments to be included in the List of officials entrusted to perform the functions of state experts on secret issues.

Death cults in Gothic ‘Lost World’ fiction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Cameron Hartley
Keyword(s):  
New Woman ◽  
Belief Systems ◽  
Popular Fiction ◽  
Fear Of Death ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Colonial Power ◽  
British Imperialism ◽  
Capitalist Economy ◽  
Copper Cylinder ◽  
The Way

This chapter examines the ‘Lost World’ genre, a staple of late-Victorian popular fiction, exemplified by H. Rider Haggard’s stories featuring Allan Quatermain, and Ayesha, known as She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed. These fin-de-siècle tales, while ostensibly celebrating British Imperialism and the continuation of colonial power, reveal layers of anxiety concerning degeneration, the collapse of civilisation, the rise of the Victorian ‘new woman’, and perhaps most potently the fear of death. Canadian writer James De Mille, in his book A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder, inverted Victorian values to satirise the capitalist economy, and the glorification of war, by creating the Lost World of the Kosekin where wealth is a burden and death worshipped. The presentation of the Lost World as a Gothic Space allows for a critical examination of the way that Victorian cultural certainties were challenged, by divergent belief systems, and the mystery and terror of death.

Caste Patriarchy and the Dehumanization of Dalit Women in Indian Society: Phoole–Ambedkarite Perspective

2021 ◽  
pp. 2455328X2110393
Author(s):  
Nibedita Priyadarsini ◽  
Satya Swaroop Panda
Keyword(s):  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Critical Consciousness ◽  
Academic Discourse ◽  
Caste System ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Dalit Women ◽  
The Way

Indian society is entrenched in graded inequality with the continuity of Brahminical order among the Hindu caste. The Ambedkarite perspective of graded inequality paves the way towards the possibility of a critical examination of the discourse based on a prospective theorization of the caste patriarchy having its epistemological origin in the ideas propounded by Mahatma Jyoti Rao Phoole and Dr B. R. Ambedkar. The article seeks to explore the potential of such a theorization emerging from the predominant practices in Indian caste society that are pervasive across the communities with respect to the dehumanization of Dalit women in their everyday life. The article also focuses upon the strength of such a stand-point which would not only form the basis of an alternate academic discourse but also contribute towards the agenda of Dalit women collective in envisaging their role in terms of self-identity embedded with critical consciousness. The multiplicity of vulnerabilities of being a Dalit and a woman reflects the way the Dalit women get dehumanized in a number of cases, and they are often considered a gateway to the caste system. There is an emerging need of such theorization based on experiential learning along with the realization of its importance in defining the base of a radical sociopolitical alternative championing the ideological principles of a Phoole–Ambedkarite perspective.

Dangerous Memories and Reason in History

KronoScope ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Ostovich
Keyword(s):  
Critical Examination ◽  
Neutral Medium ◽  
Historical Understanding ◽  
New Model ◽  
The Past ◽  
Fusion Of Horizons ◽  
Narrative Control ◽  
The Way

AbstractA critical examination of "dangerous memories" illuminates the shortcomings of attempts to master the past when history is understood as a neutral medium for revealing the integrative forces of reason; an empty vessel to be filled with the facts of the way things were; or the product of an interpretive fusion of horizons between past and present. The disruptive potential of memory resists narrative control. A new model of historical understanding is needed wherein thinking is not a flight into transcendental categories but a form of critical responding that makes judgment possible.

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