Light in the Queen's Garden

Mapping Intimacies ◽

10.21313/hawaii/9780824866440.001.0001 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Sandra E. Bonura

Keyword(s):

Future Generations ◽

Political Turmoil ◽

Hawaiian Women ◽

Changing World

Light in the Queen’s Garden chronicles the life of Ida Pope, a transformational type of leader in any era, who was handpicked to establish the Kamehameha School for Girls. This institution was established in 1894 by the estate of Princess Pauahi, the last of the royal Kamehameha line, and dedicated to the education of girls of Hawaiian ancestry. When twenty-eight-year-old Ida left Ohio to accept a “temporary” teaching assignment in Honolulu, she couldn’t have imagined it would become a lifelong career of service to Hawaiian women. Nor could she have envisioned she would become closely involved in the greatest political turmoil the Hawaiians had ever experienced. Ida Pope’s firsthand account of the years that brought her pupils into womanhood during the annexation of their kingdom tells an important story about the Hawaiians and a rapidly changing world. As she worked with forces like Queen Liliuokalani and Charles Bishop, Ida in turn became a force shaping society for future generations of Hawaiian women.

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Sustainability

Human Development in an Unequal World ◽

10.1093/oso/9780199490240.003.0009 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 270-304

Author(s):

K. Seeta Prabhu ◽

Sandhya S. Iyer

Keyword(s):

Environmental Economic ◽

Social Inequalities ◽

Point Of View ◽

Future Generations ◽

Social Dimensions ◽

Economic Shocks ◽

Environmental Rights ◽

Strong Sustainability ◽

Sustainable Human Development ◽

Political Turmoil

This chapter explains the importance of broadening the purview of sustainability to include environmental, economic, and social dimensions. The rationale for this more comprehensive view lies in the fact that people face multiple vulnerabilities due to disaster-related risks, macro-economic shocks, political turmoil, and ever-expanding social inequalities. Therefore, this chapter argues for the need to anchor all actions in the pathway of strong sustainability as sustaining ecosystems and their services and ensuring environmental rights for present and future generations are important from the point of view of intergenerational equity. This can be achieved through adopting an ‘institutionally integrated view’ of a freedom-centred approach that strengthens the foundations of sustainable human development through promotion of basic capabilities, collective freedoms, and social cohesion.

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How to manage a revolution: Isaac Newton in the early twentieth century

Notes and Records the Royal Society journal of the history of science ◽

10.1098/rsnr.2014.0030 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 68 (4) ◽

pp. 323-337 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Imogen Clarke

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Quantum Physics ◽

Relativity Theory ◽

Political Environment ◽

World War ◽

Isaac Newton ◽

Art And Literature ◽

Early Twentieth Century ◽

Political Turmoil ◽

Changing World

In the first half of the twentieth century, dramatic developments in physics came to be viewed as revolutionary, apparently requiring a complete overthrow of previous theories. British physicists were keen to promote quantum physics and relativity theory as exciting and new, but the rhetoric of revolution threatened science's claim to stability and its prestigious connections with Isaac Newton. This was particularly problematic in the first decades of the twentieth century, within the broader context of political turmoil, world war, and the emergence of modernist art and literature. This article examines how physicists responded to their cultural and political environment and worked to maintain disciplinary connections with Isaac Newton, emphasizing the importance of both the old and the new. In doing so they attempted to make the physics ‘revolution’ more palatable to a British public seeking a sense of permanence in a rapidly changing world.

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