scholarly journals GENERATIONAL SHIFT IN WELLBEING PRIORITIES UNDERSTANDING

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-30
Author(s):  
Marie Mikušová
Keyword(s):  
Generational Shift

scholarly journals The Year 1979 as a Turning Point in Syrian Theatre: From Politicization to Critical Humanism

2020 ◽  
pp. 277-287
Author(s):  
Friederike Pannewick
Keyword(s):  
Turning Point ◽  
Attempted Suicide ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Political Theater ◽  
Peace Treaty ◽  
Political Art ◽  
Generational Shift ◽  
Specific Individual ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Psychological Studies

Abstract This chapter investigates a crucial turning point in the writing of Syrian dramatist Saadallah Wannous (1941–1997) in the late 1970s. This internationally acclaimed author belonged to a generation of Arab intellectuals and artists whose political and artistic identities were strongly shaped by the question of Palestine. After the Camp David Accords of 1978 and the resulting Egypt-Israel peace treaty, signed in 1979, Wannous attempted suicide and stopped writing plays for more than ten years. This chapter shows how the plays he published after this self-imposed silence moved away from a didactic, political theater and towards psychological studies focusing on individuals as well as minority and gender issues. This chapter asks whether the significant aesthetic and conceptual turn in Wannous’s work from the early 1990s onwards might go beyond the concerns of a specific individual artist. To what extent does it mark a generational shift in regard to the meaning and connotations of political art?

Queen’s Gambit Declined: The Gender-Equality Paradox in Chess Participation Across 160 Countries

2022 ◽  
pp. 095679762110348
Author(s):  
Allon Vishkin
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Mediation Analyses ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Generational Shift ◽  
Age Range ◽  
Curvilinear Effect

The gender-equality paradox refers to the puzzling finding that societies with more gender equality demonstrate larger gender differences across a range of phenomena, most notably in the proportion of women who pursue degrees in science, technology, engineering, and math. The present investigation demonstrates across two different measures of gender equality that this paradox extends to chess participation ( N = 803,485 across 160 countries; age range: 3–100 years), specifically that women participate more often in countries with less gender equality. Previous explanations for the paradox fail to account for this finding. Instead, consistent with the notion that gender equality reflects a generational shift, mediation analyses suggest that the gender-equality paradox in chess is driven by the greater participation of younger players in countries with less gender equality. A curvilinear effect of gender equality on the participation of female players was also found, demonstrating that gender differences in chess participation are largest at the highest and lowest ends of the gender-equality spectrum.

“What if it is actually true?”

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 74-100
Author(s):  
Joanna Urbańczyk
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Spiritual Development ◽  
General Characteristic ◽  
Religious Movement ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
New Religious Movements ◽  
Common Elements ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Generational Shift ◽  
Former Soviet Republics

The Siberian community of Vissarion (Last Testament Church) is a new religious movement established at the beginning of 1990s, after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Among its members (estimated at several thousand), who come mainly from Russia and former Soviet republics, there is also a large group of Vissarion’s followers from Eastern Europe. In this article, I present a general characteristic of the movement and four stories from adherents. I indicate common elements in their narratives of coming to and living in the community, such as belief in continuing spiritual development, the importance of living close to nature, the focus on feelings, and concern for future generations. I also point out a “generational shift” among members of the importance of the breakup of the Soviet Union and suggest the need for scholarly consideration of its decreasing significance for adherents of new religious movements in the post-socialist region.

scholarly journals Filial Descent: The African Roots of Postcolonial Literature in Italy

2020 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-77
Author(s):  
Cristina Lombardi-Diop
Keyword(s):  
Strong Influence ◽  
African Descent ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Postcolonial Literature ◽  
African Literature ◽  
Horn Of Africa ◽  
Black African ◽  
Cultural Autonomy ◽  
Generational Shift ◽  
Narrative Forms

Abstract The essay concentrates on two seminal postcolonial novels by authors of African descent: Cristina Ubax Ali Farah’s Madre piccola (2007) (Little Mother: A Novel) and Gabriella Ghermandi’s Regina di fiori e di perle (2007) (Queen of Flowers and Pearls). It argues that these works give expression to an African diasporic urban generation that is changing the literary legacy of the Horn of Africa. The co-presence of multiple genres, with orality appearing as a strong influence on their written narrative forms, places these novels within the larger formation of a black African literary tradition. By looking at these two novels from an Africanist perspective, the essay takes into consideration their plurilingual interventions, the use of glossaries and linguistic borrowings, alongside the presence of Somali and Amharic cultural references. It highlights the authorial perspective as a ‘filial descent’ that addresses the complexity of a postcolonial generational shift in contemporary African literature. By placing these works within an African literary tradition and showing their critical de-centring of this tradition, the essay reconfigures a possible space of cultural autonomy for African postcolonial writing, away from the Italocentric space of discourse that has so far dominated its critical reception in Italy.

scholarly journals Advancing Tacit Knowledge: Malaysian Family SMEs in Manufacturing

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Lee Kean Yew ◽  
Edmund Terence Gomez
Keyword(s):  
Tacit Knowledge ◽  
Family Business ◽  
The Family ◽  
Innovative Management ◽  
Family Smes ◽  
Generational Shift ◽  
History Approach ◽  
Organizational Features ◽  
New Generation

The family business literature in developing countries suggests that their organizational features inhibit innovations that create niche products. In industrializing Malaysia, where family small- and medium-scale enterprises (SMEs) are undergoing a generational shift, there is little research on their capacity to develop the tacit knowledge of the founding generation. This assessment of 29 thriving family SMEs in plastics and food manufacturing evaluates how a new generation has nurtured innovative management, manufacturing, and marketing techniques. By adopting a business history approach that appraises the development of tacit knowledge, this study validates the need for family SMEs to institute organizational reforms to codify knowledge and therefore ensure long-term sustainability.

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