scholarly journals Divergent memories and visions of the future in conflicts over mining development

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 898-916
Author(s):  
Erik Kojola
Keyword(s):  
Outdoor Recreation ◽  
Resource Extraction ◽  
Environmental Groups ◽  
Collective Memories ◽  
Iron Range ◽  
The Past ◽  
Industrial Landscape ◽  
The Future ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Resource Politics

Conflicts over extractive development often center around predicting future profits and economic growth, and estimating industrial pollution. How these projections are understood and seen as legitimate and trustworthy depends on social actors' environmental imaginaries and timescapes. Thus, I examine the temporal and cultural dynamics of natural resource politics, particularly how affective connections to the past and future mobilize support and opposition to new mining. I use the case of proposed copper mines in the rural Minnesota Iron Range region to explore the different environmental imaginaries and timescapes that mining opponents and proponents use to understand the potential socio-environmental impacts, and to legitimate their positions. Proponents, including long-time and working class Iron Range residents and mining corporations, view the region as an industrial landscape built by mining and hope new proposals will renew the past to create a prosperous future. Meanwhile, environmental groups who oppose mining view the region through an environmental imaginary based on outdoor recreation, and draw on collective memories of family and youth trips to understand new extractive projects as a rupture to their vision of the future. I show that resource extraction is understood through temporalities that differ across intersections of class and region, and that emotional meanings of the past and visions of the future animate contemporary political action.Keywords: Resource extraction, mining, environmental imaginaries, timescapes, collective memory, environmental politics, emotions

scholarly journals Luister na die storie van die kerk: Riglyne vanuit ’n narratief-hermeneutiese perspektief

2003 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yolanda Dreyer
Keyword(s):  
Social Constructionist ◽  
Collective Memories ◽  
Narrative Strategy ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
Near Future ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church ◽  
Narrative Hermeneutics

Listening to the story of the church: Guidelines from a narrative hermeneutical perspectiveA church as a denominational entity cannot but contemplate where it would like to be in the near future. Reasons for this are the losses of the past, the issues of the present and the uncertainties of the future. In the article this matter is approached from a narrative hermeneutical perspective within the framework of a social constructionist model. The focus is on: collective memories, the different emphases of narratology and narrative hermeneutics, the dialectic between foundational myths and everyday stories of people’s lives, the recollection of memories within a temporal framework, grand narratives and contra narratives, as well as the relationship between fiction and history. The aim of the article is to show how narrative strategy pertains to engaged hermeneutics and enhances self-actualization.

scholarly journals Ethical Dimension of Time in Plato’s Apology of Socrates

2018 ◽  
pp. 123-138
Author(s):  
Artur Pacewicz
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Ethical Dimension ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Long Time

The aim of the present article is to analyse the Apology in its aspect of time. When defending himself against the charges, Socrates appeals to the past, the present and the future. Furthermore, the philosopher stresses the meaning of the duration of time. Thus, the seems to suggest that all really important activities demand a long time to benefit, since they are almost invariably connected with greater efforts. While the dialogue proves thereby to be an ethical one, the various time expressions also gain an ethical dimension.

Conclusion: Satisfactions and Regrets of a Life in Revolution

2020 ◽  
pp. 181-186
Author(s):  
Jeff Horn
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
New World ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Revolution

Alexandre Rousselin, comte de Saint-Albin, never escaped the past. In retirement, further evidence of his activities during the Terror were published. Some continued to vilify him even long after his death in 1847. He remained committed to the ideals of the Revolution, but recognized that they would take a long time to fulfill. Obsessed with his legacy, he focused ever more on family. His hopes for the future centered on making sure that his actions did not prevent them from being incorporated into the French elite. If the Revolution was about making a new world, the governments of the nineteenth century saw some of the “new men” of the Revolution achieve social mobility, like Rousselin and his descendants.

scholarly journals CONFLICT OF A MEMORY CULTURE IN WESTERN BALKANS

STED JOURNAL ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Đorđe Vuković
Keyword(s):  
National Culture ◽  
Western Balkans ◽  
Collective Memories ◽  
Unsuccessful Attempt ◽  
The Past ◽  
Social Narratives ◽  
Memory Culture ◽  
Balkan Countries ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Single State

Cultures of remembrance that are officially affirmed by national elites in the Western Balkan countries, that is in the former Yugoslavia, are a source of ongoing conflict. Various collective memories and mutually antagonized interpretations of the past, show that Croats, Serbs, Bosnians, Macedonians, Montenegrins and others who lived together for centuries and decades within a single state, after all interpret and remember their common history in completely different ways. Their social narratives about the past and dominant cultures of memory are predominantly selective, one-sided, intolerant, exclusive. After a long time, they lived together members of different ethnic, religious and national backgrounds and their historically unfinished and unsuccessful attempt to form a common Yugoslav culture and unique Yugoslav identity, a difficult civil war occurred, ethno-nationalism escalated, and people who were very close and very similar to one another, tried to create as much difference and distance between themselves through violence. All national communities that participated in the wars of the 1990s, emphasized defending national culture as one of their main tasks. The warring parties sought to destroy everything that reminded them that different people, their neighbors and friends of a different religion were living there. Today, three decades after these conflicts, they are still prisoners of their attitude to history. The culture nevertheless brings them together and inspires them to understand themselves more and to cooperate better.

‘The past is the future of the present’: Learning from long-time series of marine monitoring

2016 ◽  
Vol 566-567 ◽  
pp. 698-711 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ángel Borja ◽  
Guillem Chust ◽  
José G. Rodríguez ◽  
Juan Bald ◽  
Mª. Jesús Belzunce-Segarra ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Marine Monitoring ◽  
The Past ◽  
Long Time Series ◽  
The Future ◽  
Long Time

Prophets and losses: the predictive impulse

2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-51
Author(s):  
Richard J. Pech
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
Business World ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Past ◽  
Anomalous Event ◽  
The Future ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Modern Business ◽  
Multiple Alternative ◽  
Alternative Responses

Purpose – The topic of forecasting and our (in)ability to predict the future should be regularly revisited as our memories seem incredibly short and forgiving of inaccurate and false predictions, as well as our failure to predict what should have been obvious. Forecasting is a critical stage of the strategizing process. Why are we still getting it wrong? Design/methodology/approach – Using a conceptual approach, this paper warns against placing too much faith in our predictive (in)abilities and attempts to address the question of why we continue to seek out and trust a flawed industry that profits from false prophecy. Findings – Humans have always found comfort in soothsayers and mystics. Where once they came in the guise of tribal witch doctors, today many appear as economists, strategists, and consultants. Our need for security is readily exploited by people claiming to know the future. We receive pleasure from the act of cooperation and therefore prefer to believe rather than disbelieve. We place faith in myths rather than facts, and we fail to see what in hindsight should have been obvious. Originality/value – This paper acts as a warning. Forecasting is about identifying patterns and themes and designing multiple response scenarios. Myths and magic have no place in the modern business world, and those who claim to “know” the future are really only speculating or lying – no one can “see” the future. Strategists can only reflect on the past, speculate in an informed manner, and design multiple alternative responses. The anomalous event, the pattern breaker, the surprise, will always be with us. The best we can do is to prepare for what might occur, and operate on the basis that just because something has been with us for a long time, it may not be with us forever.

scholarly journals Diaspora Identity and a New Generation: Armenian Diaspora Youth on the Genocide and the Karabakh War

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (5) ◽  
pp. 915-930
Author(s):  
Dmitry Chernobrov ◽  
Leila Wilmers
Keyword(s):  
Digital Communication ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Collective Memories ◽  
The Past ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Armenian Diaspora ◽  
Long Time ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Shed Light

AbstractIn this article, we explore the role of the early 20th-century Armenian genocide and the unresolved Karabakh conflict of the 1990s in identity shaping among the new generation of Armenian diaspora—those who grew up after the establishment of the independent Armenian state in 1991. We draw on original interviews with diasporic youth in France, the United Kingdom, and Russia—diasporas that were largely built in the aftermath of the genocide and the Karabakh war. Diaspora youth relate to these events through transmitted collective memories, but also reconnect with the distant homeland’s past and present in new ways as they engage with new possibilities of transnational digital communication and mobility. Their experiences of identity shed light on how the new generation of diasporic Armenians defines itself in relation to the past; how this past is (re)made present in their interpretations of the Karabakh conflict and in everyday behaviors; and how diasporic youth experience the dilemmas of “moving on” from traumatic narratives that for a long time have been seen as foundational to their identity.

Strategic Parity and Beyond: Soviet Perspectives

1971 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 431-451 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roman Kolkowicz
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Do So ◽  
Weapons Systems

The strategic relations between the two superpowers have for a long time been influenced by the strategically superior position of the United States. This strategic imbalance has recently been rectified through a massive Soviet program of developing weapons systems that in effect created superpower parity. However, the concepts of strategic superiority and parity in the nuclear context are rather ambiguous. It is the purpose of this study to examine the influence of strategic parity as well as several related factors that have in the past shaped Soviet strategic doctrine and policy, and that are likely to continue to do so in the future.

scholarly journals The Changing Landscape of the Team Uniform Sales Market

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Matthew Y.H. Smith ◽  
Timothy Kellison ◽  
Brandon Pottebaum ◽  
Beth A Cianfrone
Keyword(s):  
Apparel Industry ◽  
Sales Representatives ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Market Conditions ◽  
Profound Change ◽  
The Past ◽  
Long Run ◽  
The Future ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Sales Industry

The amateur team uniform sales market, long run through small, local shops and sales representatives, is undergoing profound change. The rise of customization and ecommerce may be leading long-time retailers to weigh the benefits of adopting new tactics versus maintaining traditional sales strategies. To gain insight on the team uniform sales market, semi-structured interviews were conducted with six professionals with histories working in the sporting apparel industry. In sum, the participants had more than 40 years of experience. Based on the interviews, several themes emerged that capture the amateur team uniform sales market, including the current market conditions, changes in the market landscape over the past decade, and forecasts for the future of the uniform sales market. The results of the study indicate the amateur team uniform sales industry is rapidly changing, and that the large number of independent dealers and the rise of consolidation is leading to a more crowded and competitive marketplace.

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