Introduction

2006 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-10
Author(s):  
Olivier Zunz ◽  
Françoise Mélonio
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Political Liberty ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Social Equality ◽  
Diverse Backgrounds ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way

Assembled to commemorate the bicentennial of Alexis de Tocqueville's birth, this special issue is more than a circumstantial celebration of a great writer's life and times. What makes it special is not only the anniversary date but the fascination Tocqueville inspires today among so many intellectuals of diverse backgrounds. All contributors to this volume find in Tocqueville a common mentor. They share a special appreciation for the way a young French traveler, after spending only nine months in the United States in 1831-32, brilliantly framed modern history as a continuous struggle between political liberty and social equality and produced a body of work that has helped Americans and others around the world think of themselves and their civil societ).

Re-Constructing the Map: NBC's Geographic Imagination and the Opening Ceremony for the 2012 London Olympics

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Shears ◽  
Emily Fekete
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Screen Time ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Visual Representation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Opening Ceremony ◽  
The World ◽  
London Olympics ◽  
The Way ◽  
The Olympic Games

The 2012 Olympic Games was an event watched on television by billions of viewers worldwide. In the United States, approximately 40 million people viewed a tape-delayed opening ceremony of the games on the NBC network. With such a high viewership, NBC was in a position of power to influence and educate their audience on the various countries across the globe who participated in the Olympic Games and opening ceremony. Drawing on Gregory's notion of a ‘geographic imagination’, we suggest NBC editors put their version of the world on display to the American audience, thus influencing the way in which American viewers may understand the world. In this paper, we have constructed a map to provide a visual representation of NBC's geographic imagination. We find this map, based on total screen time the countries received during the ‘Parade of Nations’ segment of the opening ceremony, to suggest a unique geographic imagination worthy of further study because of its potential wide influence.

International approaches to school-based mental health: Intent of the Special Issue

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 339-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Courtney L. McLaughlin
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Health It ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
School Based ◽  
The World

This article provides an overview of the special issue on international approaches to school-based mental health. It introduces the significance of the issues associated with mental health across the world and introduces the reader to the four articles highlighting different aspects of school-based mental health. Across these four articles, information about school-based mental health (SBMH) from the United States, Canada, Norway, Liberia, Chile, and Ireland are represented. The special issue concludes with an article introducing new methodology for examining mental health from a global perspective.

The Language of Security in Philippine-us Relations

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 121-146
Author(s):  
Charmaine G. Misalucha
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
International Relations ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Language Games ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Way

Abstract There is a need to reformulate the way in which we view international relations. Rather than simply a play at an obscure theater with the same characters reprising their respective roles based on an old script, international relations need to be seen as a play at the world stage whose script is always being reviewed, revised, rewritten, and renegotiated by characters who are actively searching for ways to be accommodated. In this way, the characters and the roles they play are provisional: they become who or what they are because of actions they take, and not necessarily because they are fated to be revered or condemned. To achieve the fluid nature of this script, one must pay attention to language games. These games allow for the participation of both sides of the equation – the Philippines and the United States – in the creation of the structure and direction of their relationship.

scholarly journals Brexiting CMS

Organization ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (5) ◽  
pp. 636-648 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Bristow ◽  
Sarah Robinson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Critical Reflexivity ◽  
New Public ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The World ◽  
Critical Management ◽  
The Uk

Brexit could be seen as the largest popular rebellion against the power elites in the UK modern history. It is also part of a larger phenomenon – the resurgence of nationalism and right-wing politics within Europe, the United States and beyond. Bringing in its wake the worrying manifestations of racism, xenophobia and anti-intellectualism, Brexit and its consequences should be a core concern for Critical Management Studies academics in helping to shape post-Brexit societies, organizations and workplaces, and in fighting and challenging the sinister forces that permeate them. In this article, we consider how CMS can rise to the challenges and possibilities of this ‘phenomenon-in-the-making’. We reflect on the intellectual tools available to CMS researchers and the ways in which they may be suited to this task. In particular, we explore how the key positions of anti-performativity, critical performativity, political performativity and public CMS can be used as a starting point for thinking about the potential relevance of CMS in Brexit and post-Brexit contexts. Our intention is to encourage CMS-ers to contribute positively to the post-Brexit world in academic as well as personal capacities. For this, we argue that a new public CMS is needed, which would (1) be guided by the premise that we have no greater and no lesser right than anyone else to shape the world, (2) entail as much critical reflexivity in relation to our unintended performativities as our intended ones and (3) be underpinned by marginalism as a critical political project.

scholarly journals Estudo cooperativo: uma interessante prática para o sucesso acadêmico

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
João Inácio Moreira Bezerra ◽  
Rejane Pergher
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Collaborative Learning ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Failure Rates ◽  
Integral Calculus ◽  
Psychological Performance ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way

High failure rates in the Differential and Integral Calculus courses and the subsequent dropout caused by them are a reason for concern in many universities around the world, both in developing countries such as Brazil and developed ones such as the United States of America. So, it is not surprising that there is lots of interest in researching about this context, and possible ways of action. This is the focus of this article, to study about the origins of this situation, analyzing the causes of the students’ difficulties and presenting Collaborative Learning as an effective way to change this situation. The article is based on data from several universities that have shown interest in this method. The results demonstrate the effectiveness of this practice, both in academic and psychological performance of the students, thus showing the need for a greater incentive of this technique, as well as an intense study of the way it should be done.

scholarly journals Theological reflections on empire

2009 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Allan A. Boesak
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Justice ◽  
Ecological Responsibility ◽  
The World ◽  
Cultural Domination ◽  
Reformed Churches ◽  
Economics And Politics ◽  
The Way ◽  
Global Economics

Since the meeting of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches in Accra, Ghana (2004), and the adoption of the Accra Declaration, a debate has been raging in the churches about globalisation, socio-economic justice, ecological responsibility, political and cultural domination and globalised war. Central to this debate is the concept of empire and the way the United States is increasingly becoming its embodiment. Is the United States a global empire? This article argues that the United States has indeed become the expression of a modern empire and that this reality has considerable consequences, not just for global economics and politics but for theological refl ection as well.

scholarly journals Differences That Matter: Canada, the United States and Environmental Policymaking

AmeriQuests ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie R. Alm ◽  
Ross E. Burkhart
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Environmental Policy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Environmental Cooperation ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way

Does the way Canada, as a nation state, approach international environmental policymaking make a difference with respect to solving environmental problems in the Americas? We argue that it does, and it is a difference that matters. Canadian efforts toward multilateralism and toward inclusiveness serve as a counter balance to the growing unilateralism and ever present exceptionalism of the United States, currently the most powerful country in the world, and Canada’s southern neighbor and regional partner in developing environmental policy that affects the northern Americas directly and all of the Americas indirectly. Our argument is made first generally, and then specifically using involvement and reaction to the goals set out by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC), where, along with Mexico, Canada and the United States play leading roles. The basic contention of this paper is that the vision for and goals of the CEC are much more aligned with the way Canada perceives the way international environmental policymaking should be governed, and that by fostering that vision, Canada counters the tendency of the present-day United States administration to go at it alone, and thereby provides a linkage to other countries in the Americas to position themselves for participation in regional environmental policymaking.

scholarly journals A Maya Migrant: A Journey of No Return

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gaspar Pedro González
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Spanish Version ◽  
Community Relations ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
The World ◽  
Gaspar Pedro Gonzalez ◽  
The Way ◽  
Community Identities

After years of listening to Maya migrants in the United states and listening to migrants forced back to Guatemala, the novella’s author Gaspar Pedro González created the story of Palas and Malkal, man and wife. The story begins with a discussion of the causes behind migration, and then proceeds to Palas while he arranges his trip with the coyote, makes his goodbyes to his family and community, makes the overland passage through Mexico, and when finally in the United States finds some hopes and plans unobtainable. Palas, and his family left behind in Guatemala, will encounter challenges to their cultural traditions, their personal and community identities, their values and the way they see the world and life, and their personal, family and community relations. The original Spanish version was published in Maya America in Volume 2 Number 2 (2020).

scholarly journals The Entanglement of Nation and Epistemology: Glances into the Backyard of Academic Dignity

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Fox
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Education Research ◽  
German Idealism ◽  
The United States ◽  
The West ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
The World ◽  
Thought Styles ◽  
The Way

This article addresses the phenomenon of ‘national epistemologies’ that areunderstood as particular ways to think about the world, both enabled and restrictedby national(ist) ideologies as cultural thesis about distinct commonality andtogetherness. With regard to methodology, the article describes on a general levelhow these ‘national epistemologies’ can be identified and particularly how theirdevelopment as nationally idiosyncratic ways of conceptualizing and conductingresearch can be explained, taking the academic field of education as an example. Theexistence of such distinct national research thought styles can be detected, at leastin the West: in the United States, in France, in England and in Germany. Thereby,imperial aspirations of these nationally connoted and configured phenomena cometo the fore, indicating their efforts of spreading from epistemologically strongernation(-state)s into weaker ones in the way of ‘travelling ideas’. Starting from thethought style represented by German Idealism, two major reasons or purposes forthese travels can be distinguished: One ‘by invitation’ and one ‘as occupation’, asrepresented by the case of Austria.Key words: Austria; education research; national epistemologies; nationalism;travelling ideas.

scholarly journals Editorial for the Special Issue on “Nanoalloy Electrocatalysts for Electrochemical Devices”

Nanomaterials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 132
Author(s):  
César A. C. Sequeira
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Research And Development ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
The United States ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Materials Synthesis ◽  
Exciting Field ◽  
The World ◽  
Electrochemical Devices ◽  
Nanoscale Science

Nanoscale science and technology dealing with materials synthesis, nanofabrication, nanoprobes, nanostructures, nanoelectronics, nano-optics, nanomechanics, nanodevices, nanobiotechnology, and nanomedicine is an exciting field of research and development in Europe, the United States, and other countries around the world [...]

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