scholarly journals Gurinder Chadha’s Viceroy House (2017) and Other Evictions: Transnational Connections of Past and Present Crises in Cinema

2021 ◽  
pp. 173-187
Author(s):  
Elena Oliete-Aldea ◽  
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Past ◽  
Hybrid Nature ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Transnational Connections ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Global And Local

Crisis is the word that seems to best characterize the twenty-first century conjuncture. The bleakness and instability of an uncertain and troubled present often encourages the proliferation of nostalgic images of past times, which become sweetened scenarios for escapist memories. On the other hand, the local and global current economic, social and political divisions have also brought to light the need to revisit certain aspects of the past from other perspectives. This is the case of Gurinder Chadha’s films, which frequently advocate for the crossing of cultural borders by showing the hybrid nature of communities and their heritage. Following Robert Stam’s cultural and filmic methodology which includes a transdisciplinary, transmediatic, transtextual, transregional, and transartistic approach (2019), I aim to analyze Chadha’s Viceroy’s House as a film that proposes a revision of India’s Partition while offering a critical transnational and intersectional connection of contemporary global and local scenarios.

The dialectic between global and local perspectives in archaeological theory, heritage and publications

2008 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristian Kristiansen
Keyword(s):  
Annual Meeting ◽  
The Other ◽  
Archaeological Theory ◽  
Common Trends ◽  
Archaeological Practice ◽  
The Past ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Legislative Framework ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
Local Perspectives

When I agreed to present the article as a vehicle for discussion at a session at the EAA's annual meeting in Zadar, Croatia, I decided to approach the question of a European archaeology from what I considered to be the three organizing pillars of archaeological practice: heritage, theory and publications. Heritage is the dominant organizational/legislative framework for archaeological practice, and it is where most of the money is spent. Theory, on the other hand, organizes most of our interpretations of the past, while publications are still the most common way of presenting the results of both heritage work (mostly excavations) and interpretations of that work. In this way I hoped to have encircled the dominant parameters for a diagnosis of the archaeological landscapes in Europe. I assumed that there might be some correlation between the three, and that such observed common trends within two or more variables would strengthen the argument, to paraphrase processual jargon.

scholarly journals DANTES LITTERÆRE ATMOSFÆROLOGI

1970 ◽  
Vol 41 (116) ◽  
pp. 33-48
Author(s):  
Dennis Meyhoff Brink
Keyword(s):  
Divine Comedy ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Peter Sloterdijk ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The One ◽  
Atmospheric Phenomena ◽  
Lauren Berlant

DANTE’S LITERARY ATMOSPHEROLOGY | The article argues that recent theories on affect and atmosphere by, for instance, Teresa Brennan, Lauren Berlant, and Peter Sloterdijk, can enter into an extraordinarily fruitful interchange with Dante’s Divine Comedy. On the one hand, these theories can direct our attention to the hitherto overlooked atmospheric phenomena that occur ubiquitously in Dante’s Comedy and provide us with concepts that render them legible as products of human emissions. On the other hand, the numerous descriptions of different atmospheres in Dante’s Comedy can contribute to overcoming the lack of linguistic specifications and distinctions which – according to theorists such as Brian Massumi and Peter Sloterdijk – characterizes today’s Western understanding of affective atmospheres and impedes its ongoing theorization. Based on readings of a selected number of atmospheres in Dante’s Comedy, the article argues that the Comedy not only anticipated insights that were not articulated theoretically until the twentieth and twenty-first century, butalso makes up an exceptional encyclopedia of affective atmospheres that have not yet been examined, neither by Dante researchers, nor by theorists of affects and atmospheres. Therefore, both camps have much to learn from Dante’s literary atmospherology, which the article aims to make explicit.

The Standard of Taste Debate

Food Fights ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 100-123
Author(s):  
Charles C. Ludington
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Tribal Identity ◽  
Political Beliefs ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Class Status ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Standard Of Taste ◽  
The One

On the one hand people like to say that “there is no accounting for taste.” On the other hand, people constantly make judgments about their own and other people’s taste (gustatory and aesthetic). Charles Ludington examines the taste for wine in eighteenth-century England and Scotland, and the taste for beer in twenty-first century America, to argue that taste can in fact be accounted for because it is a reflection of custom, “tribal” identity, gender, political beliefs, and conceptions of authenticity, which are mostly but not entirely conditioned by class status and aspirations. And rightly or wrongly, we judge other people’s taste because taste positions us in society.

The Global Religious Configuration. Realities and Forecasts

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-178
Author(s):  
Gabriel-Viorel Gârdan
Keyword(s):  
Religious Affiliation ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Past ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Future ◽  
Religious Image ◽  
The Church ◽  
Global Population

"Based on recent research, we aim to present the current global religious configu-ration, the religious demographic evolution during the twentieth century, and the main trends for the first half of the twenty-first century. From a methodological point of view, we chose to present only those religions that register a share of 1% of the global population, among which we paid increased attention only to Christiani-ty and Islam. The only exception to this rule is Judaism, the reason for advancing this exception being the desire to compare the evolution of the three religions of the Book: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The purpose of this presentation is to provide a more nuanced picture of the geographical distribution of each religion and, on the other hand, to illustrate the global religious diversity. From a chronological point of view, the landmarks are the years 1910, 1970, 2000, 2010, 2014, 2030, and 2050. The data collected for the years 1910–2014 is the basis of the forecasts for the years 2030 and 2050. The former ones describe the religious realities, while the latter two open up perspectives on the trends in religious demography. We would like to draw attention to the potential of religious demography in deciphering the religious image of the world in which we live. On the other hand, we consider that exploring the global religious profile and the way it evolves, as well as the factors that bring forth change, is not only an opportunity generated by the organic development of religious demography research but also a necessity for rethinking the pastoral and missionary strategies of the church. Religious demographics provide valuable data about the past together with nuanced knowledge of the present, helping us anticipate and even influence the future. The church, at any time, assumes the past, manages the present, and prepares the future. From this perspective, we believe that a strategic pastoral thinking, regardless of religion or denomination, can be organically outlined, starting from the data provided through the means available to religious demography. While religious demography provides specific data, it does not explain the phenomena behind this data; it notes and invites questions, debates, and explanations about religious affiliation, religiosity, and religious behaviour. Keywords: religious, demography, agnostics, atheists, Christians, Muslims."

Asymmetrical decentralization in Spain – implications for politics and political system/ Decentralizacja niesymetryczna w Hiszpanii – implikacje polityczne i ustrojowe

2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wioletta Husar
Keyword(s):  
Political System ◽  
State System ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
System Transformation ◽  
Dynamic Changes ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Innovative Solutions ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Main Determinants

AbstractGlobalization processes, weakening position of national states, integration processes, society changes and democratization of systems are just a few of the main determinants of dynamic changes taking place in the twentieth and twenty-first century. Their effects become revealed by, for example, an increasing independece tendencies among nations without their own countries. Spain, for centuries forming a heterogeneous state system, after the fall of the Francoist regime and facing the need for system transformation, has implemented many innovative solutions, especially in the field of territorial decentralization. The intensification of secession demands from the part of autonomous Spanish communities, seems to make introduction of reforms inevitable, reforms that would have to maintain the unity of the monarchy, and on the other hand, to live up to the expectations of the regions.

Realigning Philosophy and Wisdom in the 21st Century

2020 ◽  
Vol 112 (3) ◽  
pp. 325-340
Author(s):  
Victoria S. Harrison
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Good Life ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Securing a future for philosophy and wisdom in the professionalized and specialized context of twenty-first century academia is the challenge taken up by this article. If the conception of philosophy as the love of wisdom expects too much of philosophers, the construal of philosophy as the study of wisdom expects too little. To attempt to rehabilitate the relationship between philosophy and wisdom by claiming that philosophy is the study of wisdom unreasonably limits the scope of the current vibrant and expansive discipline, leaving it unclear how the more theoretical dimensions of philosophy might fit into it. Moreover, to exclude from consideration the possibility that a person might be improved by philosophy, and his or her life enhanced, is to denature the discipline. The model of philosophy as encouraging friendship with wisdom, on the other hand, does not underestimate philosophy’s potential for helping someone to become the kind of person who could make the choices likely to contribute to the living of a good life. By providing a way of thinking about the relationship between philosophy and wisdom that is appropriate to our age, the idea that philosophers are friends of wisdom can contribute to our evolving practice and understanding of the discipline, while at the same time allowing philosophy and philosophers to remain vitally connected to their heritage.

Fantasy football – the penalty shootout: The god squad v humanists united

Think ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 5 (13) ◽  
pp. 81-87
Author(s):  
Jon Cape
Keyword(s):  
Thomas Aquinas ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Bertrand Russell ◽  
Half Time ◽  
Fantasy Football ◽  
The Past ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Team Captains

As the Fantasy Football Philosopher's League heads for its climax, we join one of the key matches, The God Squad v Humanists United. The God Squad led at half time, but the Humanists made a strong showing in the second half and after 25 minutes injury time, the score is equal and we move to the penalty shootout. In this league, the penalty shootout is held between the two team captains — each in goal against the other. The games take place in the twenty first century and team captains have been able to watch all the past matches they may have missed. Team captains are Thomas Aquinas and Bertrand Russell. You, the reader, keep the score.

scholarly journals Targeted Sanctions and Deterrence in the Twenty-first Century

2020 ◽  
pp. 349-363
Author(s):  
Francesco Giumelli
Keyword(s):  
Moral Hazard ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Past ◽  
Moral Hazard Problem ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Potential Impact ◽  
Target States ◽  
State Actors ◽  
The One

AbstractThe use of sanctions is often associated with coercion and deterrence. The former implies that sanctions contribute to changing the behaviour of targets, while the latter suggests that the damage threatened by sanctions should discourage actors from embarking on certain policies. However, sanctions have evolved substantially over the last twenty years, thus this chapter discusses whether the emergence of targeted sanctions was enough to change the classical deterrence/sanctions relation. This chapter argues that while there are similarities with the past, there are elements of change that need to be carefully considered. On the one hand the imposition of a cost to certain policy actions, the existence of an audience and the potential impact on the wider society remain central problems for both comprehensive and targeted sanctions. On the other hand, targeted sanctions present unique features that directly interact with the concept of deterrence. First, sanctions do not target states and governments only, but also individuals and non-state actors. Second, targeted sanctions are designed to reduce their impact not only on innocent civilians, but there are clear boundaries of damage that can be inflicted on targets. Third, targeted sanctions can have a moral hazard problem, so that their imposition creates an incentive for actors to embark on the very actions that sanctions aim to deter.

scholarly journals Izquierda, software e internet: una agenda invisible

2018 ◽  
pp. 289-308
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
New Social Movements ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The One ◽  
Activist Groups ◽  
Los Grupos ◽  
Movimientos Sociales

Resumen: El objetivo de estas páginas consiste en analizar las inscripciones políticas alrededor de ciertas discusiones en curso sobre software e internet. Específicamente: este artículo trata sobre los modos en que distintos grupos activistas abocados a los problemas políticos producto del uso masivo de servicios digitales fuertemente centralizados inscriben su lucha dentro de la tradición cultural de las izquierdas. Si, por un lado, la bibliografía destinada a pensar la izquierda del siglo XXI parece desconocer las propuestas concretas de los grupos activistas, por otro lado, estos mismos apelan a diferentes elementos tanto de la tradición marxista como libertaria. Se trata de discusiones que en buena medida también caen fuera de los estudios político-sociales contemporáneos y los activistas que las llevan a cabo han logrado plantear tanto una desconocida agenda de discusión sobre estos problemas como las coordenadas políticas para pensarlos. A continuación este texto pretende lograr su objetivo a través de tres de estos ejes de discusión: (I) sobre privacidad y criptografía, (II) sobre el uso de software libre y (III) sobre la importancia de utilizar redes descentralizadas. Finalmente, las inscripciones activistas y académicas de estas intervenciones permiten observar cómo se reconfiguran actualmente nuevas prácticas de militancia en relación a otras luchas sociales tradicionales dentro de la izquierda. Palabras clave:Izquierdas, Software libre, Encriptación, P2P, nuevos movimientos sociales Left Thought, Software and Internet: an Invisible Agenda Abstract:The aim of this article is to analyze the activists’ political inscriptions around the discussions connected with software and internet. On the one hand, the literature intended to think the left of the twenty-first century seems to ignore the concrete proposals of these activist groups. Where as, on the other hand, the activists dedicated the digital fights usually appeal to elements of the Marxist and anarchist traditions. Most of these activists have an academic inscription, but, in fact, they raise an unknown agenda of discussion and some concepts to think about it. Therefore, this text aims to achieve its objective through three of these axes of discussion: (I) cryptography and privacy, (II) software libre and left thought, and (III) importance of digital decentralized services. Finally, the activist and academic inscriptions of these interventions might lead us to an analysis of these new militant practices in relation with other traditional struggles of the left culture. Keywords: Left Thought, Software Libre, Cryptography, P2P, New Social Movements

‘Newness which never perishes’? Schoenberg’s ambivalent reception of Haydn

2010 ◽  
Vol 51 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 215-224
Author(s):  
Alexander Carpenter
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Major Influence ◽  
Musical Style ◽  
The Past ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Future ◽  
Music Tradition

This paper explores Arnold Schoenberg’s curious ambivalence towards Haydn. Schoenberg recognized Haydn as an important figure in the German serious music tradition, but never closely examined or clearly articulated Haydn’s influence and import on his own musical style and ethos, as he did with many other major composers. This paper argues that Schoenberg failed to explicitly recognize Haydn as a major influence because he saw Haydn as he saw himself, namely as a somewhat ungainly, paradoxical figure, with one foot in the past and one in the future. In his voluminous writings on music, Haydn is mentioned by Schoenberg far less frequently than Bach, Mozart, or Beethoven, and his music appears rarely as examples in Schoenberg’s theoretical texts. When Schoenberg does talk about Haydn’s music, he invokes — with tacit negativity — its accessibility, counterpoising it with more recondite music, such as Beethoven’s, or his own. On the other hand, Schoenberg also praises Haydn for his complex, irregular phrasing and harmonic exploration. Haydn thus appears in Schoenberg’s writings as a figure invested with ambivalence: a key member of the First Viennese triumvirate, but at the same time he is curiously phantasmal, and is accorded a peripheral place in Schoenberg’s version of the canon and his own musical genealogy.

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