scholarly journals New crops, new landscapes and new socio-political relationships in the cañada de Yosotiche (Mixteca region, Oaxaca, Mexico), 16th-18th centuries

2018 ◽  
Vol 75 ◽  
pp. 33-68
Author(s):  
Marta Martín-Gabaldón ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Structures ◽  
The Political ◽  
Historical Documents ◽  
Labour Relations ◽  
New Crops ◽  
Archaeological Data ◽  
Political Relationships ◽  
Political Relations ◽  
Insight Into

Our aim is to determine continuities and changes in the cañada of Yosotiche environment since the introduction by Spanish conquerors and settlers of new crops, especially sugarcane. A study of the biolog ical modifications of a particular ecosystem allows inferences on changes and continuities in socio-political relations. This particular case study contributes to a discussion of the general model of Mixtec political territoriality. The methodology applied here involves a convergence that integ rates the analysis of historical documents, archaeological data, fieldwork and anthropological information, along with discoveries made by earlier research. It offers insight into occupational dynamics and their ties to the political, administrative, economic and social structures within the cañada dur ing colonial times. The introduction of foreign crops produced changes in the ecolog ical complementarity system practiced by the villages that possessed lands in the cañada, consequently modifying the labour relations of the inhabitants. An analysis of this situation reveals the singular status of the lands owned by Tlaxiaco, which seemingly fit the regulations dictated by the Laws of the Indies but, in essence, meant the continuity of pre-Hispanic traditions.

Taiwan–Myanmar Relations within the Framework of the New Southbound Policy

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-31
Author(s):  
Kristina Kironska
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Transformation ◽  
Military Rule ◽  
Political Relations ◽  
Trade War ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract This article combines the study of Taiwan’s New Southbound Policy with a case study of Taiwan–Myanmar relations from a perspective of political relations, economic cooperation, and Taiwan’s (un)recognisability in Myanmar—i.e. Taiwan’s soft power in Myanmar. The first part of the paper introduces the policy and compares it with the previous ones, and sheds light on Taiwan’s motivation to engage with Myanmar. It considers the ongoing trade war between the United States and China, due to which investment relocation from China is expected to sharply increase. The second part of the paper provides an insight into the relationship between Taiwan and Myanmar after Myanmar’s state-led political transformation from military rule and economic liberalisation since approximately 2010. It explains the main aspects and determinants of the relationship between two countries that share a neighbouring potential hegemon which they both wish to balance against.

Women in Rebellion

2018 ◽  
pp. 488-500
Author(s):  
Zoe Marks
Keyword(s):  
Sierra Leone ◽  
The Political ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Rebel Groups ◽  
Political Entrepreneurship ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Intimate Partnerships ◽  
Experiences Of Women ◽  
Insight Into

A key objective for the women, peace, and security agenda going forward is to disaggregate the experiences of women as a group, and to understand how gender functions in conflict contexts. This chapter focuses on the diverse roles of female combatants in rebel groups to gain insight into how power is distributed, not only between men and women, or combatants and civilians, but within groups. Rebel groups are characterized by military and political apparatuses that are built side by side and often entangled. Organizational power structures are often dominated by men, but not exclusively so. Using interviews and archival data from the Sierra Leone Civil War case study, this chapter delivers an analysis of women’s experiences in rebel movements. It explores the individual trajectories of mobilization and victimization in Sierra Leone. Next, it examines the unique experiences of female combatants, before situating them in the broader political context. Finally, the chapter considers cases of sexual violence, intimate partnerships, conflict among women, and the political entrepreneurship of elite women to understand female participation in rebellion in its entirety.

Urban City Planning in the Eighth Century: A Case Study of Recent Excavations at Tel Gezer (Reading between the Lines: Uzziah's Expansion and Tel Gezer)

2009 ◽  
Vol 106 (3) ◽  
pp. 361-381 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven M. Ortiz
Keyword(s):  
Regional Development ◽  
City Planning ◽  
Biblical Interpretation ◽  
Eighth Century ◽  
The Political ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Archaeological Data ◽  
Urban City

This article presents a case study in how archaeological data assists in biblical interpretation. The author uses the recent excavations of Tel Gezer, along with recent archaeological research on the Shephelah in the eighth century BCE to reconstruct the political and historical period of Uzziah. The first part of the article reviews the current excavations of Beth Shemesh and Tel es-Safi along with recent articles on the eighth-century destructions in the Shephelah. An overview of city-planning in the eighth century is provided. The second part of the article is a presentation of the results of the recently renewed excavations of Gezer (2006–2009). The author proposes that Judah experienced greater city-planning and regional development under King Uzziah than the latter period of Hezekiah.

The Initial British Impact on India: A Case Study of the Benares Region

1960 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 418-431 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard S. Cohn
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Impact

The British administrative frontier in India had widely differing effects on the political and social structures of the regions into which it moved from the middle of the eighteenth century until the middle of the nineteenth century. It is impossible to generalize on the impact of the administration, because the regions into which it moved differed in their political and social structures, and because British administration and ideas about administration, both in India and in Great Britain, changed markedly throughout this hundred year period.

scholarly journals ПОЛИТИЧКИ ЖИВОТ У БОСАНСКОМ ЕЈАЛЕТУ (1815–1822) – СРПСКО И АУСТРИЈСКО ТУМАЧЕЊЕ POLITICAL LIFE IN THE BOSNIA EYALET (1815–1822) – SERBIAN AND AUSTRIAN INTERPRETATION

2020 ◽  
pp. 275-302
Author(s):  
Братислав Теиновић
Keyword(s):  
Political Life ◽  
The Political ◽  
Archival Material ◽  
Political Relations ◽  
Insight Into

У раду, који се у свом највећем делу темељи на извештајима аустријског конзула у Травнику барона Симбшена, приказан је седмогодишњи политички живот у Босанском ејалету за време везировања: Али-паше Даренделија, Хуршид Ахмед-паше, Сулејман-паше Скопљака, Морали Бећир-паше, Дервиш Мустафа-паше Макранеџија, Мехмеда Ружди-паше и Али Џелалуддин-паше. Консултована архивска грађа из Архива Србије у Београду допринела је бољем сагледавању политичких односа између босанских везира са контроверзним српским кнезом Милошем. The paper, which largely relies on the reports of Austrian consul in Travnik baron Simbshen, outlines the political life in the Bosnia Eyalet over the seven-year period of viziership of Ali Pasha Darendeli, Hurshid Ahmed Pasha, Suleiman Pasha of Uskoplje, Morali Becir Pasha, Dervish Mustafa Pasha Makranedzi, Mehmed Rushdi Pasha and Ali Dzhelaluddin Pasha. The consulted archival material from the Archive of Serbia in Belgrade helped gain a deeper insight into the political relations between Bosnian viziers with the controversial Serbian prince Miloš.

A border baron and the Tudor state: the rise and fall of Lord Dacre of the North

1992 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven G. Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Traditional Approach ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
The Political ◽  
Politics And Government ◽  
The North ◽  
Management Policies ◽  
Estate Management ◽  
A Minor

AbstractCrown policy towards the nobles and the rule of the provinces under the early Tudors reflected the values and social structures of ‘civil society’ in lowland England. Using as a case-study the Dacres, a minor peerage family who were wardens of the Anglo-Scottish marches, this paper explores the strains and tensions which were created by the application of these norms to the ‘peripheral’ parts of the Tudor state. The paper outlines the political ambitions, resources, and estate-management policies of a border baron, and argues that Henry VIII's policies for the rule of the borders and his expectations of his officials there were unrealistic. It also suggests that the traditional approach of historians to the problems of Tudor politics and government reflects too much a view of events as seen from ‘the centre’ and needs to be balanced by a more sensitive treatment of the problems of the ‘periphery’.

Talmudic Self-Refutation (Interpersonality I)

Other Others ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 59-76
Author(s):  
Sergey Dolgopolski
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Political Theology ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Ontology ◽  
Individual Subject ◽  
Political Relationships ◽  
The Subject

The chapter works through the emerging and disappearing notion of the political in the Talmud, with the notion and practice of refuting, and the underlying notion of interpersonality rather than intersubjectivity at the center. The analysis in the chapter advances through a case study of a particular notion of refuting in the Talmud, the notion of self-refuting or proving that an argument of one’s conversant is refuting itself. The chapter argues how neither political theology of Schmitt nor political ontology of Rancière suffice to account for interpersonal political relationships in self-refuting. In that venue, the notion of interpersonality emerges as essential for articulating the Talmudic political. That notion emerges by contrast with the intersubjectivity as the foundation of thinking the political in the modern political theory, implying as it does a fundamental loneliness of the subject, both of an individual subject and of a nation as a subject, as well.

scholarly journals The democratic king: The role of ritualized flattery in political discourse

2021 ◽  
pp. 095792652110232
Author(s):  
Roni Danziger
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Case Study ◽  
The Political ◽  
Epideictic Rhetoric ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
Differences Of Opinion ◽  
Political Legitimation ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Scholarly Attention

Research has shown that personality cults are a strategy to further political legitimation. They function to secure a leader’s position in the absence of democratic legitimation methods by using excessive flattery towards the leader. Habitual public flattery towards democratic leaders has not received scholarly attention, even though it can provide insight into the danger authoritarian discursive rituals can have on democratic processes. By applying a ritual perspective to a comparative case study analysis, this paper illustrates how political flattery is not just an instrumental means for self-promotion in the political order, but also a manipulative and antidemocratic exploitation of epideictic rhetoric. Furthermore, the implicit requirement for ritualized flattery hinders accountability and deliberative decision-making, and the process of integrating differences of opinion or interest towards a collective and impartial political practice. Leaders who surround themselves with sycophants encourage opinion- and action-conformity to whatever pleases that specific leader.

scholarly journals Pop Culture, Twitter, and Study Abroad: Estonia as a Case Study

2013 ◽  
Vol 47 (01) ◽  
pp. 204-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph M. Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Study Abroad ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
The Political ◽  
Study Abroad Programs ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Lead Study

AbstractThis article highlights a number of different pedagogical practices that can be used with study abroad programs, both classroom methods and out-of-class techniques. In this particular class—which focused on Estonia's Singing Revolution and included a 10-day trip abroad to Estonia—social media platforms like Twitter and Tumblr were frequently used to create collaboration among students. In addition, Estonian music and pop culture were studied, giving students a unique insight into a culture very foreign from their own. Although Estonia was the focus of this particular class, the results of these methods are generalizable to help others who lead study abroad programs and develop creative ways to foster interaction. This article also demonstrates why social media platforms are helpful to political scientists and the political science discipline more generally.

scholarly journals Equalization, Regional Development, and Political Trust: The Section 36/Atlantic Accords Controversy

2011 ◽  
Vol 17 (1, 2 & 3) ◽  
pp. 2008
Author(s):  
James Bickerton
Keyword(s):  
Nova Scotia ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Political Trust ◽  
The Political ◽  
Initial Stimulus ◽  
Canadian Federalism ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Critical Literature

The controversy generated by the federal government’s unilateral alteration of the Atlan- tic Accords,1 and the subsequent bitter political standoff between the federal government and the provinces of Nova Scotia and Newfound- land and Labrador, was the initial stimulus for this article. The agreements, the alleged breach of trust involved in their unilateral alteration, and the political fallout, manoeuvrings, and ne- gotiations that followed, raise a number of is- sues about the mechanisms and pathologies of executive federalism in Canada. This episode also provides some insight into a continuing source of misunderstanding and grievance that persists in centre-periphery relations in Canada — the issues of equalization and regional devel- opment. The purpose of this article is to use the controversy as a case study to inquire into these issues, with a view to making an incremental contribution to the critical literature on the in- stitutions of Canadian federalism.

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