scholarly journals ANOTHER MODEST PROPOSAL

2005 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 640
Author(s):  
DESMOND MANDERSON
Keyword(s):  
Social Issue ◽  
Social Context ◽  
War On Terror ◽  
Rhetorical Analysis ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Title Page ◽  
Guantanamo Bay ◽  
Modest Proposal ◽  
The Social ◽  
First Time

<div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>[</span><span>In essays first published earlier this year in mainstream Australian media to considerable fanfare, Bagaric and Clarke, two Australian academics, develop a modest proposal for the justification of torture under excep- tional circumstances. This essay rebuts the proposal and defends the abso- lute prohibition against torture. Their attempt to abstract torture from the social context – including the “war on terror” – in which the question of government sanctioned torture is now being raised, is condemned as in- genuous. A rhetorical analysis further demonstrates that the authors them- selves do not believe their argument is either hypothetical or limited. Furthermore, when the actual “defence of torture” is examined, it is shown to be illogical, incoherent, and lacking any sophisticated under- standing of the nature, purpose, or effects of torture. This is not the first time that half-baked reasoning and careless analogies have been devel- oped in order to defend the indefensible. Drawing on Voltaire and Jona- than Swift as well as Guantanamo Bay, this essay puts an important social issue into its immediate and its larger historical context</span><span>.] </span></p></div></div></div>

scholarly journals Reflections of a Capacity Builder: An Autoethnographic Perspective of Capacity Building Methods With a Youth Livelihoods Organization in Vanuatu

2014 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Moore
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Capacity Building ◽  
International Development ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Nongovernmental Organization ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Local Staff ◽  
The Social ◽  
Personal Insight ◽  
Successes And Challenges

Abstract This autoethnographic narrative explores the author’s capacity building experiences, observances, insights, and reflections over a two year period working with a youth livelihoods nongovernmental organization in the South Pacific nation of Vanuatu. Autoethnographies explore the author’s own personal insight and reflection of their own experiences, which in turn may encourage readers to reflect on their own beliefs and practices. The author will define autoethnography and capacity building, briefly outline the historical context of Vanuatu, discuss the successes and challenges of facilitating capacity building, and reflect on her own values, assumptions, and learning within the social context of an international development professional working with local staff in Vanuatu.

scholarly journals ¡No lo haré más!: la sociedad española en El verdugo de Berlanga

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcos Rafael Cañas Pelayo
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
Spanish Society ◽  
The Social

Recientemente, la influencia del director Luis García Berlanga ha sido destacada por crítica y público. Generalmente asociado por su colaboración con el guionista Rafael Azcona, Berlanga fue un cineasta atípico cuyas películas han sido irónicas, pero serios exponentes de la evolución de la sociedad española durante el pasado siglo. En el presente artículo, intentaremos mostrar uno de sus más importantes trabajos, El Verdugo, analizando no solamente sus aspectos sociales, sino incluyendo un estudio del lenguaje cinematográfico empleado para ello y el particular estilo con el que el director abordó algunos de los temas más controvertidos de su tiempo.Abstract:The influential of the director Luis García Berlanga has been recently increased by critics and public. Generally associated with the script-player Rafael Azcona, Berlanga was an unusual artist which films have been and ironical but serious example of the changes and the evolution of the Spanish society during the last century. In the present article, we will try to show the social aspects of one of his most important masterpieces, El verdugo, analyzing not only the historical context, but also including his cinematographically language and particular style for translate to the big screen some controversial realities of their time.Palabras clave:Berlanga; Azcona; contexto social; ironía; El Verdugo.Keywords: Berlanga; Azona; Social Context; Irony; El Verdugo.

scholarly journals The Impact of Socio-Historical Context on Identity: An Analysis of Ngāi Tamarāwaho Identity in the Colonisation Era

Te Kaharoa ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa Derby
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Major Focus ◽  
Common Trends ◽  
The Third ◽  
Indigenous Groups ◽  
The Social ◽  
Waitangi Tribunal ◽  
The Impact

The purpose of this article is to illustrate the influence that socio-historical context has on the identity of a group. The identity of the hapū (tribe) Ngāi Tamarāwaho is examined to demonstrate the impact that specific phenomena associated with colonisation had on hapū identity, and the major focus of this chapter is the interplay between Ngāi Tamarāwaho and the phenomenon of colonisation. This article concentrates specifically on hapū identity during the colonisation era, which, in the context of this article, commenced with the arrival of Pākehā (British) settlers in New Zealand in 1814, and concluded with the establishment of the Waitangi Tribunal in 1975. For comparative purposes, parallels are drawn with other indigenous groups globally to highlight similarities between the colonisation experiences of these groups and those of Ngāi Tamarāwaho, and to illustrate common trends that occur as a result of colonisation and its associated phenomena. The first section in this article discusses the need to consider socio-historical context in research pertaining to identity, and provides examples of research that has been conducted to this effect. The second section establishes the social context of Ngāi Tamarāwaho, and the third section outlines the historical context. Following this is an analyis of the effects of aspects of colonisation on Ngāi Tamarāwaho identity, and this article concludes by discussing ways in which the hapū revived and reasserted their identity

scholarly journals Perspectives on the Future of Burnout in Sport

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Daniel J. Madigan ◽  
Henrik Gustafsson ◽  
Andrew P. Hill ◽  
Kathleen T. Mellano ◽  
Christine E. Pacewicz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Context ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Work ◽  
First Time

The present editorial provides a series of perspectives on the future of burnout in sport. Specifically, for the first time, seven burnout researchers have offered their opinions and suggestions for how, as a field, we can progress our understanding of this important topic. A broad range of ideas are discussed, including the relevance of the social context, the value of theory and collaboration, and the use of public health frameworks in future work. It is hoped that these perspectives will help stimulate debate, reinforce and renew priorities, and guide research in this area over the coming years.

Eazidi Women's Practices of Empowerment and Capital Formation Following Enslavement by ISIS

2020 ◽  
pp. 487-508
Author(s):  
Kaziwa Salih
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Women Survivors ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Capital Formation ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Social Revolution ◽  
Middle Eastern Women ◽  
The Social ◽  
First Time

This chapter begins by surveying the historical context of rape in Iraq through the narrative of Eazidi women who escaped enslavement by ISIS. It then discusses the theology of rape in Islam, which has motivated ISIS to commit rape and legitimized the rape of Eazidi women. The chapter then theorizes the social capital of Middle Eastern women. The chapter argues that, for the first time, the Eazidi community in Iraq is altering the social consequences of rape by developing empowerment methods that amount to a social revolution within the Eazidi community. This empowerment not only protects Eazidi women survivors from experiencing common post-rape consequences but also increases their capital, in all its Bourdieusian forms.

Decoding the Movies

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Maltby
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
Industry Data ◽  
Related Case ◽  
Hollywood Cinema ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
The Social ◽  
Production Distribution ◽  
Hollywood Movies ◽  
First Time ◽  
Classical Hollywood

This book “decodes” 1930s Hollywood movies and explains why they looked and behaved in the way they did. Organized through a series of related case studies, the book exposes Classical Hollywood movies to a detailed analysis of their historical, industrial and cultural contexts. In the process it utilizes industry data, aesthetic analysis and the insights of New Cinema History to explain why and how these movies assumed their familiar forms. The book represents the summation of Richard Maltby’s four decades of scholarship in the field of Hollywood cinema. The essays presented here share an assumption that has increasingly informed the author’s critical method over the years: that any historical understanding of the films of this period requires a deep contextualization in the social circumstances surrounding both their production and consumption. In this way, the book introduces an innovative, overarching research methodology that synthesizes branches of research that are typically employed in isolation, including production, distribution, reception, film aesthetics, and cultural and historical context. Of the book’s nine chapters, three are presented here for the first time, and four have been substantially revised and extended from their original publication.

THE ANXIETIES OF TIME IN THE SOCIAL LYRICS OF KYAZIM MECHIEV

Kavkazologiya ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 181-193
Author(s):  
T.Sh. BITTIROVA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Social Protest ◽  
Political Transformations ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The Social ◽  
First Time

This article aims to determine the place of the topic of social justice in the work of the classic of Karachai-Balkarian literature Kyazim Mechiev and the forms of its artistic embodiment. The scientific novelty lies in the fact that for the first time the poet's social lyrics are viewed in a broad historical context, in relation to the chronotope. The results obtained showed the scale of the poet's thinking, his sensitivity to historical and political transformations in the life of highland society. The work establishes how the events of the early twentieth century are refracted through the author's worldview and what place the theme of social protest occupies in the poetic heritage of the classic of Karachai-Balkarian literature K.B. Mechiev. Analyzed the poems of K. Mechiev, dedicated to the pre-revolutionary and revolutionary events, the civil war, their accordance to historical realities. The article reveals the depth and scale of reflection of the challenges of the time in the poet's work, his pain, despair and hope.

Waiting for the Right One: The Role of Social Proximity and Location in the Decision to Use Cannabis for the First Time

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 625-644 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Bouchard ◽  
Krysta L. Dawson ◽  
Morena Anamali
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Social Contact ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
The Social ◽  
Canadian City ◽  
The Right ◽  
First Time ◽  
Do So

The study examines the social context of a cannabis offer, an outcome rarely examined in research on substance use. Drawing from a survey conducted among 15-year-old students in a mid-sized Canadian city, we examine (a) the differences between three types of users (immediate, late, and nonusers) and (b) the factors associated with accepting a cannabis offer more quickly. The findings show that 40% of the sample received an offer, that 25% of those who accept an offer do so on the first occasion, and that among the others, it takes up to seven offers before accepting. The social context of the offer distinguishes between the types of users, and offers are accepted more quickly when adolescents are first offered by a close social contact, and when the offer occurs in familiar settings. The study also identifies a type of nonuser, those who are exposed to drugs but decide not to participate.

DEKONSTRUKSI HIJAB

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 263-280
Author(s):  
Wardah Nuroniyah
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Controversial Issue ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
Semantic Meaning ◽  
Social Construct ◽  
The Social ◽  
Double Movement ◽  
First Time

Hijab has always been a controversial issue. Some Muslims consider it a mandatory command of God, while others consider it a cultural practice that can change so that the law is not the wearing of hijab itself. This paper examines the meaning of hijab in the Qur'an by using a mechanism commonly referred to as double investigations / double movement, i.e. by examining the context of the first time the hijab was revealed, to whom and how was the social construct of the hijab when the verses of hijab was firstly enforced. The next investigation is the semantic meaning contained in the hijab rhetoric and its sociological implications. In terms of the methodology for this study of hijab, the authors perform a falsification test to find out whether the hijab concept that has existed is still relevant to present reality or not, and to seek the truth that is adapted to the present reality. This paper concludes that the Qur'anic teaching on hijab can adapt to the context of a modern woman as smoothly as it adapted to the early Muslim community 14 centuries ago. This adaptation can be proven if the Qur'anic texts are interpreted by taking into account the social context of Muslim societies with their social changes.

Dekonstruksi Hijab (Kajian Sosio-Historis terhadap Konstruksi Hukum Hijab dalam Islam)

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 263-280
Author(s):  
Wardah Nuroniyah
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Controversial Issue ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
Semantic Meaning ◽  
Social Construct ◽  
The Social ◽  
Double Movement ◽  
First Time

Hijab has always been a controversial issue. Some Muslims consider it a mandatory command of God, while others consider it a cultural practice that can change so that the law is not the wearing of hijab itself. This paper examines the meaning of hijab in the Qur'an by using a mechanism commonly referred to as double investigations / double movement, i.e. by examining the context of the first time the hijab was revealed, to whom and how was the social construct of the hijab when the verses of hijab was firstly enforced. The next investigation is the semantic meaning contained in the hijab rhetoric and its sociological implications. In terms of the methodology for this study of hijab, the authors perform a falsification test to find out whether the hijab concept that has existed is still relevant to present reality or not, and to seek the truth that is adapted to the present reality. This paper concludes that the Qur'anic teaching on hijab can adapt to the context of a modern woman as smoothly as it adapted to the early Muslim community 14 centuries ago. This adaptation can be proven if the Qur'anic texts are interpreted by taking into account the social context of Muslim societies with their social changes.

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