scholarly journals Transnationalism and internationalism: Revival of the terms

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 903-910
Author(s):  
V. V. Babashkin
Keyword(s):  
Transnational Migration ◽  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
Russian Science ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Saint Petersburg ◽  
European University

The article is a review of the book Living in Two Worlds: Rethinking Transnationalism and Translocality (Moscow: NLO; 2020. 259 p.). The book was one of the results of the research project Transnational and translocal aspects of migration in contemporary Russia conducted at the European University of Saint Petersburg in 2015-2017 with the support of the Russian Science Foundation. The review convincingly shows that the authors of this scientific monograph really succeeded in rethinking the complex social phenomena behind the sociological terms transnational migration and translocal migration. The author of the review tries to answer the questions about reasons for the introduction of these terms into the theoretical scientific discourse and about directions the articles suggest for their rethinking.

Anastas Benderev's 1890 Ethnographic Maps

Epohi ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dragomir Yordanov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Balkan Peninsula ◽  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
Ethnic Composition ◽  
The Other ◽  
Historical Documents ◽  
Saint Petersburg ◽  
Military Geography ◽  
Stated Purpose

This article deals with a pair of old ethnographic maps made by a Bulgarian officer (bearing the rank of Captain at the time) named Anastas Benderev (1859–1946). The maps were first published as folding attachments in Benderev’s book Military Geography and Statistics of Macedonia and Its Adjacent Territories on the Balkan Peninsula (Voennaia geografiia i statistika Makedonii i sosednikh s neiu oblastei Balkanskago poluostrova), which itself was published in Russian in Saint Petersburg in 1890. The stated purpose of the maps was to elucidate certain passages from the book, particularly those pertaining to the population’s ethnic composition. One of the maps (Etnograficheskaya karta Balkanskogo poluostrova) depicts the ethnicities across the entire Balkan Peninsula, while the other (Etnograficheskaya karta Makedonii) focuses on those within the confines of the historical and geographical territory of Macedonia. Due to a confluence of events, the maps in question are barely known and hardly ever used nowadays, even though they represent valuable relics from the era. This article aims to reintroduce them into the scientific discourse as historical documents of note.

scholarly journals Sustainable rural learning ecologies- a prolegomenon traversing transcendence of discursive notions of sustainability, social justice, development and food sovereignty

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dipane Hlalele
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
Human Thought ◽  
Learning Practices ◽  
The Social ◽  
Learning Ecologies

This paper contributes, through traversing contested notions of sustainability, social justice, development and food sovereignty, to discourses around creation of sustainable rural learning ecologies. There has always been at least in the realm of scientific discourse, an attempt to dissociate the natural or physical environment from the social and human environment. This trend did not only affect the two spheres of existence only. It is further imbued and spawned fragmented and pervasive terminology, practices and human thought. Drawing from the ‘creating sustainable rural learning ecologies’ research project that commenced in 2011, I challenge and contest the use of such discourses and argue for the transcendence of such. This would, in my opinion, create space for harmonious and fluid co-existence between nature and humanity, such that the contribution of learning practices exudes and expedites sustainability in rural ecologies.

scholarly journals Reflexivity in Qualitative Research: A Journey of Learning

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erlinda Palaganas ◽  
Marian Sanchez ◽  
Ma. Visitacion Molintas ◽  
Ruel Caricativo
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Research Process ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Conducting Research

Conducting research, more so, fieldwork, changes every researcher in many ways. This paper shares the various reflexivities – the journeys of learning – that we underwent as field researchers. Here, we share the changes brought about to ourselves, as a result of the research process, and how these changes have affected the research process. It highlights the journey of discovering how we, as researchers, shaped and how we were shaped by the research process and outputs. All these efforts were done in our attempts to discover and understand various social phenomena and issues such as poverty, development, gender, migration, and ill health in the Philippines. This article includes the challenges encountered in our epistemological stance/s and personal and methodological concerns shown in our reflexivity notes/insights. Indeed, it is when researchers acknowledge these changes, that reflexivity in research constitutes part of the research findings. It is through this consciousness of the relational and reflective nature of being aware of personal and methodological concerns that we honor ourselves, our teammates/co-researchers and all others involved with the research project. As researchers, we need to be cognizant of our contributions to the construction of meanings and of lived experiences throughout the research process. We need to acknowledge that indeed it is impossible to remain “outside of” one's study topic while conducting research.

Bonded Labour in Southeast Asia: Introduction

2010 ◽  
Vol 38 (6) ◽  
pp. 839-852 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annuska Derks
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Transnational Migration ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Economic Developments

AbstractThe introduction of this special issue takes up the questions: Why ‘bonded labour’? What do we mean by it? And, why focus on ‘bonded labour’ now? Answers to these questions require an effort of definition, as well as contextualisation, of a phenomenon that, though long expected to disappear with societal and economic developments, has persisted or re-emerged in the wake of current processes of transnational migration and globalisation. The introduction briefly discusses longstanding theoretical debates on bondage in past and present Asia, as well as new insights derived from a Swiss research project focusing on ‘Contemporary Forms of Bonded Labour in Southeast Asia.’

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