IS THE EU FIT FOR THE SOCIAL CHALLENGES OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY?

AbstractIn this paper I follow the social life of the Tibetan books belonging to the Younghusband-Waddell collection. I show how books as literary artefacts can transform from ritual objects into loot, into commodities and into academic treasures and how books can have agency over people, creating networks and shaping identities. Exploring connections between books and people, I look at colonial collecting, Orientalist scholarship and imperial visions from an unusual perspective in which the social life and cultural biography of people and things intertwine and mutually define each other. By following the trajectory of these literary artefacts, I show how their traces left in letters, minutes and acquisition documents give insight into the functioning of academic institutions and their relationship to imperial governing structures and individual aspirations. In particular, I outline the lives of a group of scholars who were involved with this collection in different capacities and whose deeds are unevenly known. This adds a new perspective to the study of this period, which has so far been largely focused on the deeds of key individuals and the political and military setting in which they operated. Finally, I show how the books of this collection have continued to exercise their attraction and moral pressure on twenty-first-century scholars, both Tibetan and international, linking them through digital technology and cyberspace.

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Social Policy Review 18

10.46692/9781847429186 ◽

2006 ◽

Keyword(s):

Social Policy ◽

First Century ◽

British Society ◽

Policy Review ◽

The Social ◽

Twenty First Century

A hundred years after its philanthropist founder identified the social evils of his time, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation initiated a major consultation among leading thinkers, activists and commentators, as well as the wider public. This book examines the underlying problems that pose the greatest threat to British society in the twenty-first century.

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Natural Gas in the EU in the Twenty-First Century: A Special Emphasis on LNG

10.1007/978-3-030-80367-4_2 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 21-60

Author(s):

Kari Liuhto

Keyword(s):

Natural Gas ◽

First Century ◽

Twenty First Century ◽

The Eu

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3 The Social, Personal and Health Education Curriculum as an Agent of Inclusion in Twenty-First-Century Ireland

The Inclusion Delusion? ◽

10.3726/978-3-0353-0666-8/13 ◽

2016 ◽

Keyword(s):

Health Education ◽

First Century ◽

Education Curriculum ◽

The Social ◽

Twenty First Century

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No More Playing in the Dark: Twenty-First Century Citizenship, Critical Race Theory, and the Future of the Social Studies Methods Course

Rethinking Social Studies Teacher Education in the Twenty-First Century ◽

10.1007/978-3-319-22939-3_4 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 61-79 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Patricia L. Marshall ◽

Meghan McGlinn Manfra ◽

Crystal G. Simmons

Keyword(s):

Critical Race Theory ◽

Social Studies ◽

First Century ◽

Methods Course ◽

Critical Race ◽

Race Theory ◽

Social Studies Methods ◽

The Social ◽

The Future ◽

Twenty First Century

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Capitalist Social Reproduction

The Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190695545.013.16 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 320-340

Author(s):

Martha E. Gimenez

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Social Reproduction ◽

First Century ◽

Specific Context ◽

Social Scientists ◽

Social Phenomena ◽

Working Classes ◽

The Social ◽

Twenty First Century ◽

Abstract Feature

This entry will look at Marx’s theoretical contributions to social reproduction in relationship to critical assessments of his alleged “neglect” of reproduction and to the development of the social sciences, particularly the “radical” social sciences that emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and continued to develop ever since. Marx, as well as Engels, offered important insights for understanding social reproduction as an abstract feature of human societies that, however, can only be fully understood in its historically specific context (i.e., in the context of the interface between modes of production and social formations). Social reproduction in the twenty-first century is capitalist social reproduction, inherently contradictory, as successful struggles for the reproduction of the working classes, for example, do not necessarily challenge capitalism. Finally, this article argues that radical social scientists, because they identify the capitalist foundations of the social phenomena they study, have made important contributions to the study of capitalist reproduction.

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Tragedy in Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Theatre Production

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198724193.013.33 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Bridget Escolme

Keyword(s):

Psychological Problems ◽

First Century ◽

Human Relations ◽

Tragic Hero ◽

Theatre Architecture ◽

The Social ◽

Theatre Production ◽

The Common ◽

Twenty First Century ◽

The Relationship

This chapter discusses the relationship between actor and scenography in twentieth and twenty-first century productions of Hamlet and King Lear, particularly the common theatrical trope of realist acting on abstract stage sets. It argues that whilst in some productions the notion of tragic hero as common man reduces the plays to a set of psychological problems, in others, contrasts and tensions between acting style and scenography or theatre architecture have created what the author calls a ‘politics of intimacy’. These productions have made it possible for detailed, realist acting on non-naturalistic stage sets to pose potent questions about the social and political meanings of human relations in the plays. They have allowed for an audience experience that involves both psychological intimacy and ideological critique.

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