scholarly journals From the “Greta Thunberg Effect” to Green Conversion of Universities: The Reconstructive Praxis of Discursive Mobilizations

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-139
Author(s):  
Jonathan Michael Feldman
Keyword(s):  
New Deal ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Historical Time ◽  
Mutual Aid ◽  
Protest Movements ◽  
Ecological Footprints ◽  
Supporting Material ◽  
Ecological Reconstruction

Abstract This paper investigates how one could envision a discursive mobilization process to transform protest movements into agents that help reconstruct the universities as agents supporting material mobilizations leading to ecological reconstruction. After reviewing universities’ ecological footprints, the author shows how theories of mobilization and conjunctures could contribute to understanding how this transformation could occur. Discursive mobilizations advance values or ideas but stop short of innovation and production system changes. Material mobilizations affect deployment of human, technological, industrial and financial resources. Conjunctures involve linkages of political activity to spaces implicated in both kinds of mobilizations in a given historical time frame. The study shows many nations having both extensive climate activism and concentrations of university students creating a possibility for greening education centers based on various models for doing so. Yet, two key problems emerge. First, some nations lag in climate activism. Second, interest in a Green Deal or Green New Deal does not always match the level of attention to leading activist Greta Thunberg. The paper illustrates how such problems can be addressed by university-based campaigns linking activist cohorts, mobilization supporting green conversion of higher education and solidaristic, mutual aid exchanges among regions.

The Green New Deal

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert C. Hockett
Keyword(s):  
New Deal ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Public Investment ◽  
Climate Science ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
White Paper ◽  
Good News ◽  
Carbon Neutrality ◽  
The One ◽  
In Virtue Of

This white paper lays out the guiding vision behind the Green New Deal Resolution proposed to the U.S. Congress by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Bill Markey in February of 2019. It explains the senses in which the Green New Deal is 'green' on the one hand, and a new 'New Deal' on the other hand. It also 'makes the case' for a shamelessly ambitious, not a low-ball or slow-walked, Green New Deal agenda. At the core of the paper's argument lies the observation that only a true national mobilization on the scale of those associated with the original New Deal and the Second World War will be up to the task of comprehensively revitalizing the nation's economy, justly growing our middle class, and expeditiously achieving carbon-neutrality within the twelve-year time-frame that climate science tells us we have before reaching an environmental 'tipping point.' But this is actually good news, the paper argues. For, paradoxically, an ambitious Green New Deal also will be the most 'affordable' Green New Deal, in virtue of the enormous productivity, widespread prosperity, and attendant public revenue benefits that large-scale public investment will bring. In effect, the Green New Deal will amount to that very transformative stimulus which the nation has awaited since the crash of 2008 and its debt-deflationary sequel.

PUNCTUATED EQUILIBRIUM: A VIEW FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE THEORY OF SELF-ORGANIZED CRITICALITY

METOD ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 416-442
Author(s):  
Dmitriy Zhukov
Keyword(s):  
Social Systems ◽  
Punctuated Equilibrium ◽  
Computer Experiments ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
Pink Noise ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
Protest Movements ◽  
Self Organized ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Self Organized Criticality

Punctuated equilibrium is regarded as the state of natural and social systems manifested in occasional intense, quick bursts of activity. Within the framework of the theory of self-organized criticality (SOC), punctuated equilibrium can be formalized as pink noise. SOC theory, having been developed by the end of 1980s, was originally intended to explain natural science phenomena. However, soon after its presentation, it began to spread across the social and humanitarian field of knowledge. Critical state is one on the brink of a bifurcation point. It turns out that some systems can stay in a state of permanent choice for a fairly long time. The author presents the examples of punctuated equilibrium revealed in computer experiments with artificial societies, as well as through empirical observation (particularly, in the dynamics of voting patterns, internet activity, and protest movements in the past and present). The key concepts of SOC theory and tools for pink noise identification are laid out. The sandpile model has been given special attention. Certain papers have been analyzed in which SOC theory was applied to gain some political science knowledge. According to SOC, in certain cases, there is no need to search for some significant extraordinary factor to shed light on explosive social transformations (including revolutions and other bursts of social and political activity). Social transformations can be induced by quite ordinary - and thus undistinguished - properties of systems, micro-level pro- cesses, and local impulses. SOC theory, therefore, refocuses the attention of researchers from the search for direct causes of events to the identification of states of the subject that generates these events.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Matthew J. Lacombe
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Political Action ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
The Political ◽  
National Rifle Association ◽  
Gun Policy ◽  
Competitive Shooting ◽  
Military Preparedness

This chapter focuses on the political power of the National Rifle Association (NRA), and asks the questions: What is the source of its power? How does it operate? How has it shaped gun policy and the broader political system? It looks beyond the NRA's use of financial resources and turns instead to what the chapter describes as ideational resources: the identity and ideology it cultivates among its members, which have enabled it to build an active, engaged, and powerful constituency. The chapter contends that the NRA has played a central role in driving the political outlooks and political activity of its supporters — activity that has had both direct and indirect influence on federal gun policy in the United States. Even from its earliest days as a relatively small organization dedicated to marksmanship, competitive shooting, and military preparedness, the NRA cultivated a distinct worldview around guns — framing gun ownership as an identity that was tied to a broader, gun-centric political ideology — and mobilized its members into political action on behalf of its agenda. The chapter analyzes how a group can construct an identity and an ideology, and what happens when it aligns these behind a single party.

The Group Experience in Camping

Not Just Play ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 105-116
Author(s):  
William Schwartz ◽  
Lawrence Shulman
Keyword(s):  
Social Worker ◽  
Group Work ◽  
Group Interaction ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Mutual Aid ◽  
Interactional Model ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Group Experience

“The Group Experience in Camping: Observations from Schwartz and Shulman” pairs an April 1960 article by social worker William Schwartz with commentary by Lawrence Shulman, who has continued to enhance Schwartz’s Mutual Aid or Interactional model of group work. Schwartz explores some factors inherent in the resident camp setting as a unique group experience: the compressed time frame, the rapid demand for intimacy, being away from home and “insulated” from the outside world. All these aspects produce intense cabin-group interaction. Schwartz discusses several implications related to the camp milieu that impact the individual camper. Shulman introduces the article by providing a snapshot of Schwartz’s perspective and follows the article with an analysis proposing that Schwartz’s 1960 article represents a way-station en route to the model he elaborated in 1961.

Political Implications of Gender Roles: A Review of the Literature

1974 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 1706-1723 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wilma Rule Krauss
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Political Behavior ◽  
Contemporary Literature ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Protest Movements ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Contemporary Writing

This essay introduces the reader to the contemporary literature on gender roles and feminine behavior, including the major concepts, empirical findings, and social thought which have implications for political behavior and research. Gender roles as they relate to the psychology and activity of men and women, and their systemic cultural, economic, and legal ramifications provide an explanation and a basis for understanding political behavior, including recurrent women's protest movements. Contemporary writing contributes to building a non-androcentric and accurate body of knowledge regarding political woman, and it calls into question the ideology of the biological determinism of political activity. The literature surveyed has potential usefulness for public policy: an expansion of democracy is viable with the discernment and removal of barriers which hinder substantial proportions of women from achieving political leadership and hence participating in authoritative decision making and value allocation. A bibliography of major references is appended.

scholarly journals Historical Improvement in Speed Skating Economy

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dionne A. Noordhof ◽  
Elmy van Tok ◽  
Florentine S.J.G.M. Joosten ◽  
Florentina J. Hettinga ◽  
Marco J.M. Hoozemans ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Literature Search ◽  
Linear Regression Analysis ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
The Other ◽  
Technological Innovations ◽  
Historical Time ◽  
The Past ◽  
Speed Skating ◽  
Historic Data ◽  
World Records

Half the improvement in 1500-m speed-skating world records can be explained by technological innovations and the other half by athletic improvement. It is hypothesized that improved skating economy is accountable for much of the athletic improvement. Purpose: To determine skating economy in contemporary athletes and to evaluate the change in economy over the years. Methods: Contemporary skaters of the Dutch national junior team (n = 8) skated 3 bouts of 6 laps at submaximal velocity, from which skating economy was calculated (in mL O2 ・ kg–1 ・ km–1). A literature search provided historic data on skating velocity and submaximal V̇O2 (in mL ・ kg–1 ・ min–1), from which skating economy was determined. The association between year and skating economy was determined using linear-regression analysis. Correcting the change in economy for technological innovations resulted in an estimate of the association between year and economy due to athletic improvement. Results: A mean (± SD) skating economy of 73.4 ± 6.4 mL O2 ・ kg–1 ・ km–1 was found in contemporary athletes. Skating economy improved significantly over the historical time frame (–0.57 mL O2 ・ kg–1 ・ km–1 ・ y–1, 95% confidence interval [–0.84, –0.31]). In the final regression model for the klapskate era, with altitude as confounder, skating economy improved with a nonsignificant –0.58 mL O2 ・ kg–1 ・ km–1 ・ y–1 ([–1.19, 0.035]). Conclusions: Skating economy was 73.4 ± 6.4 mL O2 ・ kg–1 ・ km–1 in contemporary athletes and improved over the past ~50 y. The association between year and skating economy due to athletic improvement, for the klapskate era, approached significance, suggesting a possible improvement in economy over these years.

scholarly journals U-17 An Analytical study of the financial resources of mutual cooperation in the light of the Qur'an and Hadith

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 270-285
Author(s):  
Tanveer Akhtar ◽  
Muhammad Imran ◽  
Muhammad Usman Khalid
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Study ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Mutual Aid ◽  
Mutual Trust ◽  
Mutual Cooperation ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Universe

This research paper analyzes the economical resources of mutual cooperation in the light of Quran and Ahadith. The basics of the economical cooperation like Nafqat, Sadqat ( Alms), Zakat, the Wasiat (Wills), Waqf, Hibah, Aariat etc are  discussed briefly with their essential detail. Actually, Islam emphasizes the establishment of a society that is safe from all kinds of calamities, based on mutual trust, cooperation and justice, and based on love, compassion and self-sacrifice. In each case, they have seized it, despite obstacles we can scarcely imagine. " Because mutual aid and cooperation is the only source of development and survival of the universe. Islam emphasizes that a person's relationship of cooperation and empathy with another person should be very strong and deep.

scholarly journals La evolución de las técnicas de patada en taekwondo

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 117
Author(s):  
Udo Moenig
Keyword(s):  
Time Frame ◽  
Historical Time ◽  
Full Contact ◽  
The 1960S

The purpose of the study is to explain the evolution of kicking techniques of taekwondo and to provide a historical time frame for this process. This study analyzes early karate and taekwondo literature, including diverse and varied Korean sources. In addition, some interviews were conducted with relevant persons of the period researched. Taekwondo and karate training and techniques had been very similar until the 1960s. However, taekwondo diverged from karate techniques with the introduction of full-contact competitions during the 1960s.

scholarly journals The Political Activity in the Network Environment

2015 ◽  
pp. 71-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Y Pavlyutenkova
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Wide Distribution ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
The Political ◽  
Deep Penetration ◽  
Main Role ◽  
Protest Movements

The rapid development and deep penetration into all areas of modern society of information and communication technologies significantly increase the role of network interactions. Network structures represented primarily social networks, embedded in the public policy process and became one of the key political actors. Online communities take the form of public policy, where the formation of public opinion and political decision-making plays the main role. Networking environment opens up new opportunities for the opposition and protest movements, civic participation, and control of public policy in general. The article gives an insight on the political aspects of social networking, concludes on the trend formation and network's strengthening of the political activity in a wide distribution of e-networking and e-communications.

Social Aspects of the Planning State

1934 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-22
Author(s):  
Lewis L. Lorwin
Keyword(s):  
New Deal ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Western Society ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
Middle Classes ◽  
The One ◽  
The New Deal

We are witnessing today in both Europe and America the breakdown of what may be called the nineteenth-century equilibrium, and at the same time the effort to work out a new equilibrium as a basis of life for the twentieth century. The New Deal is the American phase of this movement. We can understand it better if we view it with the search-light of the movements in other countries, and if we make clear to ourselves what is driving them, how they are being driven, and what problems are in their path.The key to recent social developments seems to me to lie in the resurgence of the middle classes. This is a development of the last decade or so, and is largely the result of the failure of the two other major social groups—the capitalists and the workers—to give Western society, especially Western European society, leadership and direction. On the one hand, the capitalistic groups, while concentrating industrial and financial resources, showed a sad incapacity to establish a leadership based on social needs and moral values.

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