scholarly journals Making Homes in Limbo? A Conceptual Framework

Refuge ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cathrine Brun ◽  
Anita Fábos
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Academic Work ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Global Order ◽  
The Past ◽  
Holistic Perspective ◽  
Forced Migrants ◽  
Policies And Practices

This article aims to conceptualize home and homemaking for people in protracted displacement. The article serves three purposes: to present an overview of the area of inquiry; to develop an analytical framework for under- standing home and homemaking for forced migrants in protracted displacement; and to introduce the special issue. It explores how protracted displacement has been defined—from policy definitions to people’s experiences of protractedness, including “waiting” and “the permanence of temporariness.” The article identifies the ambivalence embedded in experiences and practices of homemaking in long-term displacement, demonstrating how static notions of home and displacement might be unsettled. It achieves this through examining relationships between mobility and stasis, the material and symbolic, between the past, present, and future, and multiple places and scales. The article proposes a conceptual framework—a triadic constellation of home—that enables an analysis of home in different contexts of protracted displacement. The framework helps to explore home both as an idea and a practice, distinguishing among three elements: “home” as the day-to-day practices of homemaking, “Home” as representing values, traditions, memories, and feelings of home, and the broader political and historical contexts in which “HOME” is understood in the current global order and embedded in institutions. In conclusion, the article argues that a feminist and dynamic understanding of home-Home-HOME provides a more holistic perspective of making home in protracted displacement that promotes a more extensive and more sophisticated academic work, policies, and practices.

Genocide Prevention in the New Global Architecture

2005 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 469-484 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amitai Etzioni
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Humanitarian Intervention ◽  
Global Order ◽  
The Past ◽  
Humanitarian Interventions ◽  
Short And Long Term

Where do future humanitarian interventions fit into the evolving post-9/11 new global architecture? To answer this question I ask: what are the main features of this architecture? In what directions is it propelled? Could these expected developments accommodate more forthcoming and more effective humanitarian interventions than we have seen in the past? And, in what ways would these future humanitarian interventions differ from past ones, so that they would both find a home in the new global architecture and be more effective? To proceed, the article first explores short and long-term developments in the role legitimacy plays in international relations; it then examines the new global order and its quest for enhanced legitimacy; and it then places humanitarian intervention within this changing context.

History Eats Its Young

2018 ◽  
pp. 120-141
Author(s):  
Sandra Swart
Keyword(s):  
Human Impact ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
First Nation ◽  
Global Order ◽  
The Past ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
Longue Duree ◽  
Growing Economy ◽  
Short Termism

Africa is a vast and diverse continent, with a rapidly growing economy, and a significant role to play in the contemporary and future global order. This chapter argues that Africa’s deep past matters too, especially the continent’s socio-environmental longue durée. It shows why the neglect of a deep past and the idea of unchanging nature and people in nature is political. It focuses on the first nation (San/Bushmen) to illustrate the pernicious dangers of short-termism and argues that a long-term view of the past shatters the myth of discrete ethnicities and disrupts notions of human homogeneity. Deep history makes the story of human impact on the climate and environment more nuanced and complex. All this makes one reconsider much more than just Africa in history: but the very idea of beginnings and endings, the non-linear movements of people and effects of nature, the ways early peoples remade ecologies right down to the present day.

scholarly journals Slash youth in China: From precarious strugglers to successful exemplars

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 423-437
Author(s):  
Ning Wei
Keyword(s):  
Life Expectancy ◽  
Full Employment ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Short Life ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
The Past ◽  
Labor Flexibilization ◽  
Major Factors ◽  
Short Life Expectancy

Slash has become a new phenomenon and practice as a growing number of youth, no longer in long-term employment with clear future security, create a contingent combination of careers. Its recent prevalence in China marks a visible consequence of the national restructuring policy of labor flexibilization over the past decades. Dismantling of the historical norm of full employment, encouragement of flexible digital economy, short-life expectancy of new businesses, and generalized insecurity due to intense competition at individual level, are the major factors contributing to the emergence and expansion of slash youth. Based on empirical and ethnographic evidences, this article identifies the complexity, diversity, and creativity embodied in individual slash experiences, suggesting that slash youth are stratified and they demonstrate differentiated ability to translate uncertainties into opportunities under the condition of individualization. This article is part of the special issue Creative Labour in East Asia.

scholarly journals Introduction: The Making of Sámi Religion in Contemporary Society

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 547
Author(s):  
Trude Fonneland ◽  
Tiina Äikäs
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Past ◽  
Museum Displays ◽  
Revival Movement ◽  
The 19Th Century

This Special Issue of Religions approaches “Sámi religion” from a long-term perspective seeing both the past religious practices and contemporary religious expressions as aspects of the same phenomena. This does not refer, however, to a focus on continuity or to a static or uniform understanding of Sámi religion. Sámi religion is an ambiguous concept that has to be understood as a pluralistic phenomenon consisting of multiple applications and associations and widely differing interpretations, and that highlights the complexities of processes of religion-making. In a historical perspective and in many contemporary contexts (such as museum displays, media stories, as well as educational programs) the term Sámi religion is mostly used as a reference to Sámi pre-Christian religious practices, to Laestadianism, a Lutheran revival movement that spread among the Sámi during the 19th Century, and last but not least to shamanism. In this issue, we particularly aim to look into contemporary contexts where Sámi religion is expressed, consumed, and promoted. We ask what role it plays in identity politics and heritagization processes, and how different actors connect with distant local religious pasts—in other words, in which contexts is Sámi religion activated, by whom, and for what?

scholarly journals Creative Mitigation: Alternative Strategies for Resources, Stakeholders, and the Public

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 213-219
Author(s):  
John G. Douglass ◽  
Shelby A. Manney
Keyword(s):  
Adverse Effects ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Data Recovery ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Alternative Strategies ◽  
Mitigation Options ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Artifact Analysis

ABSTRACTStandard mitigation treatment for adverse effects to significant cultural resources has historically been a combination of data recovery excavation along with artifact analysis, reporting, and curation, whose purpose is to move the undertaking forward. Over the past several decades, there has been increased interest and understanding of alternative, or creative, mitigation options in these situations, which may, in the end, be the best option for the resource and more meaningful to both project stakeholders and the public. This article, the first in this special issue on creative mitigation, introduces the regulatory and conceptual framework for creative mitigation and weaves themes introduced in subsequent articles in this issue.

scholarly journals Editorial

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 259-259
Author(s):  
Jenny Fleming ◽  
Grahame Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Guest Editorial ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
40Th Anniversary ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Founding Member ◽  
The Past ◽  
Look Ahead

This issue of Brain Impairment celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Australasian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment through an invited Guest editorial by Dr Jan Ewing. Dr Ewing was a founding member of ASSBI, authored the first president's address to be published in Brain Impairment (Volume 1, Issue 1), and is the long-term chair of the ASSBI Publications Committee. Dr Ewing draws upon her long experience to address the theme ‘looking behind to look ahead’ in the Guest Editorial. A poem composed by Dr Ewing, titled Reminiscence, celebrates the past 40 years of ASSBI and is reproduced in this special issue. The remainder of this issue consists of five original research papers addressing stroke, followed by the presidential address and the usual other elements of each year's final issue including the abstracts from the 2017 ASSBI conference.

scholarly journals Long-Term Climate Variability in the Mediterranean Region

Atmosphere ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 1172
Author(s):  
M. Carmen Alvarez-Castro ◽  
Pedro Ribera
Keyword(s):  
Climate Variability ◽  
Mediterranean Region ◽  
Future Climate ◽  
Climate Projections ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Past Climate ◽  
The Past ◽  
Climate Evolution ◽  
The Mediterranean

The Mediterranean region is an area where prediction at different timescales (subseasonal to decadal or even longer) is challenging. In order to help constrain future projections, the study of past climate is crucial. By improving our knowledge about the past and current climate, our confidence in understanding the future climate will be improved. In this Special Issue, information about long-term climate variability in the Mediterranean region is assessed, including in particular historical climatology and model applications to assess past climate variability, present climate evolution, and future climate projections. The seven articles included in this Special Issue explore observations, proxies, re-analyses, and models for assessing the main characteristics, processes, and variability of the Mediterranean climate. The temporal range of these articles not only covers a wide period going from the present day to as far back as 25 centuries into the past but also covers projections of future climate over the next century.

scholarly journals The Study of Term Limits in Sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons on Democratisation and Autocratisation

2020 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 215-227
Author(s):  
Julia Grauvogel ◽  
Charlotte Heyl
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Term Limits ◽  
Authoritarian Regimes ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Authoritarian Rule ◽  
The Past ◽  
Institutional Landscape ◽  
Sub Saharan

Studies on term limits in Africa have proliferated over the past two decades. This introduction to the special issue on the struggle over term limits contributes to advancing the research agenda with novel empirical evidence and a rigorous conceptual framework. Moreover, we propose complementing existing work on term limits and democratisation with a more explicit focus on their repercussions for authoritarian rule. Drawing on the comparative lessons of the special issue, we outline how term limits can be theorised as part of the institutional landscape in authoritarian regimes and how third-term bids can be understood as a tool of autocratisation.

EDITORIAL: Migration and competitiveness: Japan and the United States

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-124
Author(s):  
Philip L. Martin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Variable Cost ◽  
Fixed Cost ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
The Past ◽  
Past Half Century ◽  
Key Sectors ◽  
Past Half

Japan and the United States, the world’s largest economies for most of the past half century, have very different immigration policies. Japan is the G7 economy most closed to immigrants, while the United States is the large economy most open to immigrants. Both Japan and the United States are debating how immigrants are and can con-tribute to the competitiveness of their economies in the 21st centuries. The papers in this special issue review the employment of and impacts of immigrants in some of the key sectors of the Japanese and US economies, including agriculture, health care, science and engineering, and construction and manufacturing. For example, in Japanese agriculture migrant trainees are a fixed cost to farmers during the three years they are in Japan, while US farmers who hire mostly unauthorized migrants hire and lay off workers as needed, making labour a variable cost.

Five Years and Count(er)ing: Memoir after Memoir

CounterText ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-32
Author(s):  
Norbert Bugeja
Keyword(s):  
Guest Editor ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Terror Attack ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Past ◽  
Personal Perspectives ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Ongoing Project

In this retrospective piece, the Guest Editor of the first number of CounterText (a special issue titled Postcolonial Springs) looks back at the past five years from various scholarly and personal perspectives. He places particular focus on an event that took place mid-way between the 2011 uprisings across a number of Arab countries and the moment of writing: the March 2015 terror attack on the Bardo National Museum in Tunis, which killed twenty-two people and had a profound effect on Tunisian popular consciousness and that of the post-2011 Arab nations. In this context, the author argues for a renewed perspective on memoir as at once a memorial practice and a political gesture in writing, one that exceeds concerns of genre and form to encompass an ongoing project of political re-cognition following events that continue to remap the agenda for the region. The piece makes a brief final pitch for Europe's need to re-cognise, within those modes of ‘articulacy-in-difficulty’ active on its southern borders, specific answers to its own present quandaries.

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