scholarly journals Stuck in the Colonial Past?

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-111
Author(s):  
Samantha S. Sithole ◽  
Marianna Fernandes ◽  
Olivier Hymas ◽  
Kavita Sharma ◽  
Gretchen Walters
Keyword(s):  
European Association ◽  
Local People ◽  
Short Article ◽  
Narrow View ◽  
The Relationship

This contribution challenges representations of landscapes and communities within zoos in Europe that may amplify colonial narratives of local people through a racialised and often static lens. Instead of a holistic portrayal of the relationship between humans and nature that the EAZA (European Association of Zoos and Aquaria) stipulates within its guidelines, some European zoos continue to perpetuate a narrow view of foreign landscapes within their exhibits. Utilising the concept of representation, this short article argues that Zoo Zürich reinforces colonial narratives through its new Lewa exhibit, an exhibit based on a Kenyan conservancy. This piece is based on an improvised visit to the zoo to see the new African exhibit. It highlights discrepancies between the Lewa exhibit, guidelines of the EAZA and the Lewa Conservancy in Kenya. In this light, we propose recommendations for European zoos to decolonise their institutions and exhibits based on an understanding that is not only scientific, but also historical, critically reflective, and inclusive of non-Western perspectives.

scholarly journals Music, Politics, and History: An Introduction

2021 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 362-374
Author(s):  
David Kennerley
Keyword(s):  
Sound Studies ◽  
The Body ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Short Article ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Music And Politics ◽  
Introductory Article ◽  
History Of ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractMusic has been steadily rising up the historical agenda, a product of the emergence of sound studies, the history of the senses, and a mood of interdisciplinary curiosity. This introductory article offers a critical review of how the relationship between music and politics has featured in extant historical writing, from classic works of political history to the most recent scholarship. It begins by evaluating different approaches that historians have taken to music, summarizes the important shifts in method that have recently taken place, and advocates for a performance-centered, contextualized framework that is attentive to the distinctive features of music as a medium. The second half examines avenues for future research into the historical connections between music and politics, focusing on four thematic areas—the body, emotions, space, and memory—and closes with some overarching reflections on music's use as a tool of power, as well as a challenge to it. Although for reasons of cohesion, this short article focuses primarily on scholarship on Britain and Ireland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, its discussion of theory and methods is intended to be applicable to the study of music and political culture across a broad range of periods and geographies.

A Political Geography of Deities: Space and the Pantheon in Sinhalese Buddhism

1984 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 273-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Winslow
Keyword(s):  
Political Geography ◽  
Political Authority ◽  
Local People ◽  
Political Integration ◽  
Administrative Units ◽  
Sinhalese Buddhism ◽  
Administrative Structures ◽  
Territorial Integration ◽  
The Relationship

The author of this article examines the role of Sinhalese Buddhist deities within the long Sinhalese tradition of using Buddhism to support political authority. Extensive contemporary information on deity territories suggests that because state political integration involves territorial integration localized deities have both reflected and been used to bring about an integration of local people into state administrative structures. However, this integration is not brought about by having the territories of the deities parallel administrative units (which they do not); it is brought about by having people think that they do, think that the territories of the gods correspond level by level to the administrative villages, districts, and provinces. As the relationship between these levels and the state has changed historically, that is, when center-hinterland integration has gone from strong to weak to strong again, people's understanding of the pantheon appears to have changed as well.

Clarifying the Contributions of Research Within NCTM

1997 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 396-397
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Mathematics Education Research ◽  
National Council ◽  
Short Article ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
The Relationship

Our purpose in this short article is to discuss two recent developments that bear directly on the relationship between the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) and the mathematics education research community. The first concerns the realignment of the duties of the Director of Research within the revised NCTM staff structure, and the second concerns the Research Advisory Committee's (RAC's) changing role within NCTM.

Customer Strategy: Observations from the Trenches

2005 ◽  
Vol 69 (4) ◽  
pp. 262-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martha Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Customer Relationship Management ◽  
Relationship Management ◽  
Customer Equity ◽  
Customer Relationship ◽  
Short Article ◽  
Enterprise Value ◽  
Rate Of Increase ◽  
The Relationship

This short article traces the evolution of customer relationship management from the perspective of an author who has written, researched, and worked in the field since the beginning of the relationship revolution in the early 1990s. Additional topics for research are suggested, especially in the area of understanding how companies can increase enterprise value by managing the rate of increase in customer equity.

scholarly journals Interaction of Wildlife and People Residing near National Park Area

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 100-104
Author(s):  
Devendra Dhakal
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Local People ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Qualitative Approaches ◽  
Adjoining Area ◽  
Cross Sectional Design ◽  
Park Area ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Interview Questionnaire

Interaction is the relationship between organisms for food, shelter and other needs. It may be positive or negative. There is strong interaction between wildlife and local people particularly at the national park and its adjoining area. Local people are responsible for a number of problems related to protected area management. The objective of this study was to assess the causes of interactions and find out the ways for park-people management. This study has been designed to reveal the intricate relationship among the wildlife and local people. The study applied cross-sectional design and used quantitative and qualitative approaches to collect data. Research instruments namely interview, questionnaire and observation were applied for this study. In any National Park in Nepalese context relation between wildlife and local people is positive and negative. Wildlife helps in promoting and maintaining greenery. It also helps in promoting tourism in the area. Journal of Advanced Academic Research, Vol. 3, No. 3, 2016, Page :100-104

scholarly journals Locust problem in the ottoman empire in world war one

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 2125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ümmügülsüm Candeğer
Keyword(s):  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Local People ◽  
World War ◽  
World War One ◽  
Balance Of Nature ◽  
Crop Fields ◽  
Major Disaster ◽  
The World ◽  
Xix Century ◽  
The Relationship

Humankind has faced many disasters since the beginning. It is evident that some of the disasters have occurred because of natural reasons but some others happen because of man who destroyed the balance of nature. Humankind has been in an endless struggle with the nature. Fighting with the disasters like earthquake, flood, fire, plaque, famine and locust outbreaks can be in two ways; The first way of struggling such disasters is prevention and the second one is recovering the loss after the incident. The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between the war known as the disaster created by humankind and locust plaque as the natural disaster.Locust invasion was one of frequent problems that occurred repeatedly in Ottoman Empire. Affecting Western and Southern Anatolia and Arab Provinces, it made life miserable for people living there especially in the period between the last quarter of XIX. Century and the first quarter of XX. Century and it turned into a major disaster. Locust disaster caused material and non-material damage to either local people or to the state. Swarms of locust which devoured farmlands of thousands acres damaged the crops in the area destroying the livelihoods of local people. Therefore, people whose crop fields were devastated faced famine. Considering the fact that the country was involved in the World War One, the disaster became worse. When the parliament records of the period were examined, it is seen that the First Turkish Parliament held congress over the issue and heated debates took place.In the first part of the study, we will be focusing on the dangers of locusts in terms of agriculture. The effects of locust plaque in Western and Southern Anatolia and the treatments local people applied to solve the problem will be discussed by examining the archival files. In the second part of the research, examining the archives of the first parliament, the debates about the locust plaque in the parliament, the decisions made after the debates or enacted laws and enforcement of these laws will be examined.

scholarly journals The Judicial System in the Digital Age: Revisiting the Relationship between Privacy and Accessibility in the Cyber Context

2011 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 289-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Eltis
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Court System ◽  
Judicial Process ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Open Court ◽  
Narrow View ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Current Preference

Despite technology’s reach into all parts of social life, its effects on the judiciary have been under-theorized. The “Digital Age”, and unfettered usage and access to digital information, will have untold effects on core values of judicial independence, impartiality and the delicate balance between privacy and the “open court” principle. Technology—as well as the dramatically increased availability of information of all kinds and quality—is distorting the judicial process and its outcomes. It is of primary importance, therefore, to identify the broad issues that emerge from the growing use of technology, and to provide a theoretical basis for adjudicating the ongoing tension between privacy and transparency in the judicial setting. Too often the judiciary pits privacy against the “open court” principle and accepts a culturally narrow view of what constitutes privacy and how it affects the judicial process. In particular, this article investigates the effects of online court documents to establish why, despite the current preference for openness and transparency, a contextualized understanding of privacy is desirable. Indeed, if we rethink privacy within the cyber context, it can be considered an ally of openness in the court system.

scholarly journals TENAGA KERJA INDONESIA (TKI) DAN HUBUNGAN INDONESIA-MALAYSIA ERA JOKOWI

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 01
Author(s):  
Ali Maksum
Keyword(s):  
National Economy ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
The Other ◽  
Local People ◽  
Leadership Succession ◽  
Indonesian Government ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Relationship

Following the leadership succession in the post Presidential Election in 2014 from the 6th Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to the 7th Indonesian President Joko Widodo (Jokowi), the Indonesian migrant workers became one of the priorities of the new government. The reason is simple, there are still many Indonesian workers especially in Malaysia who are involved in various problems and cases. The issue of protection of Indonesian citizens abroad became the primary agenda of Jokowi’s administration including protection on migrant workers. To be sure, the various issues of migrant workers eventually impact on the relationship between the two brotherhod countries, Indonesia and Malaysia. On the other hand, both countries were obviously gained so many advantages from the influx of Indonesian migrant workers in Malaysia. For Indonesian government for instance, the migrant workers is one of the largest revenue contributors from their remittance. As for Malaysia, the presence of Indonesian migrant workers were highly contributed to the national economy amid of the local people are lack of interested to such kind of dirty jobs. Therefore, this article would like to invite readers into a deep discussion comprehensively on the issues of migrant workers and their implications on the Indonesia-Malaysia relations especially in the first half of Jokowi’s tenure of presidency.

scholarly journals Constitution Making in Asia

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheryl Saunders
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Short Article ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way ◽  
Constitution Making

Abstract This short article is an introduction to a Symposium on Constitution Making in Asia and the Pacific. It seeks to place constitution making in Asia in the context of the broader global debate. In doing so, it develops the theme of the relationship between the local and the global in constitution-making projects. It suggests four sets of factors that deserve consideration in examining the relationship between local and global influences: ownership, implementation, accountability, and legitimacy. A final section reflects on the experiences of constitution making in Asia and the Pacific and the way in which these factors play out in the various case studies.

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