scholarly journals Unspeakable Love: Gay and Lesbian Life in the Middle East

1970 ◽  
pp. 122-124
Author(s):  
Kevin Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
The State ◽  
Gay And Lesbian ◽  
The Past ◽  
Gays And Lesbians ◽  
The Guardian ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Broad Overview

In the past several years, the state of gays and lesbians in the Middle East has been increasingly covered by scholars and journalists. While articles and formal research give varying pictures of specific situations, Brian Whitaker attempts to give a broad overview of the experiences of local gays and lesbians in this groundbreaking work. Whitaker, the Middle East editor for The Guardian newspaper, conducted an impressive amount of research in order to examine the familial, social, religious, and legal situations of gays and lesbians in the region. The result is a compelling read that conveys a balanced and thorough insight into regional gay life.

FUNDAMENTALISM, BUREAUCRATIZATION, AND THE STATE'S CO-OPTATION OF RELIGION: A JORDANIAN CASE STUDY

2006 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 369-393 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard T. Antoun
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Middle East ◽  
The State ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Half Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
Equal Duration ◽  
Past Half Century ◽  
Past Half

In the Middle East over the past half-century, three religious processes have grown together. One, the growth of fundamentalism, has received worldwide attention both by academics and journalists. The others, the bureaucratization of religion and the state co-optation of religion, of equal duration but no less importance, have received much less attention. The bureaucratization of religion focuses on the hierarchicalization of religious specialists and state co-optation of religion focuses on their neutralization as political opponents. Few commentators link the three processes. In Jordan, fundamentalism, the bureaucratization of religion (BOR), and state co-optation of religion (SCR) have become entwined sometimes in mutually supportive and sometimes in antagonistic relations. The following case study will describe and analyze the implications of this mutual entanglement for the relations of state and civil society and for the human beings simultaneously bureaucratized and “fundamentalized.”

Conclusion

2019 ◽  
pp. 217-228
Author(s):  
Richard Togman
Keyword(s):  
Population Growth ◽  
The State ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Insight Into

Chapter 11 concludes the book and reflects on the lessons that can be learned from a holistic overview of the past three hundred years of governments’ attempts to manipulate the fertility of their populations. Reiterating the fundamentally discursive nature of the meaning of birth, fertility, and population growth to our societies allows for reflective insight into the nature of state attempts to manipulate the decision by millions of individuals about whether to reproduce. The global comparative perspective in both time and space, the identification and typologization of the five main discursive frames, and the rooting of the analysis in the discursive terrain allow the major questions of who, what, when, where, and why regarding government efforts to control the reproductive powers of the population and the creation of a sexual duty to the state to be answered.

Archives as Fields of Heritage-Making in Istanbul's Historic Peninsula

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 361-387
Author(s):  
Pinar Aykaç
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Archival Research ◽  
Significant Component ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
The Past ◽  
State Actors ◽  
State Archives ◽  
Heritage Discourse ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract Heritage-making is a process of valorization carried out using complex exchanges, contestations, and negotiations between various actors. State actors attempt, through various strategies, to employ heritage-making in order to construct a unified heritage discourse and avoid multivocality. One of these strategies is the control of state archives, an approach that seeks to dictate what is accessible and inaccessible and thus to dominate conceptualizations of heritage. This paper discusses how research in state archives sheds light on heritage-making in Istanbul's historic peninsula and how the state's tendency to restrain access reflects the contested nature of Istanbul's heritage. The restriction or denial of archival access becomes a significant component of heritage-making in Turkey, shaped not only by the past but also by the present. Therefore, archives and the practice of archival research become both a tool for the researcher and at the same time a subject worthy of research in and of itself. This paper argues that the attitudes of state institutions and the discourses they adopt in restraining access to archives are in fact objects of enquiry in the understanding of the precise boundaries of their scope of authority and, as such, can provide further insight into the fragmented nature of the state and state archives.

Resisting the Silence: The Use of Tolerance and Equality Arguments by Gay and Lesbian Activist Groups in Russia 1

2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (03) ◽  
pp. 403-424 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Kondakov
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Gay Men ◽  
The State ◽  
Gay And Lesbian ◽  
Original Research ◽  
The Law ◽  
Gays And Lesbians ◽  
Soviet Russia ◽  
Activist Groups

Abstract In the new, post-Soviet Russia, some people have been excluded from the possibility of possessing human rights based on different identity claims. Lesbians and gay men are among those who are excluded. Though in some states the mechanism of this is manifestly inscribed in the law, in Russia the mechanism is hidden in the field of silence: the field of discourse on homosexuality is full of lacunas. While the most productive speakers are certainly LGBT activists, the most passive ones are the state officials. These forces come into discursive play where rights are at stake. The purpose of this paper, based on original research on the emerging activism of gays and lesbians in Russia, is to uncover the regulative features of silence in the Russian discourse on homosexuality.

scholarly journals Hydroformylation

ChemTexts ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Baoxin Zhang ◽  
Dilver Peña Fuentes ◽  
Armin Börner
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
The State ◽  
Organic Ligands ◽  
Fine Chemicals ◽  
Fischer Tropsch ◽  
The Past ◽  
Bulk Chemicals ◽  
Catalyzed Reactions ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractHydroformylation is one of the most important homogeneously catalyzed reactions on an industrial scale. The manufacture of bulk chemicals clearly dominates. Large cobalt- and rhodium-based processes are mature technologies that have been developed over the past 80 years. Meanwhile, the potential of hydroformylation for the production of fine chemicals (perfumes, pharmaceuticals) has also been recognized. This review gives insight into the state-of-the-art of the reaction and its development. It commences with some remarks on the accidental discovery by the German chemist Otto Roelen within the historical and personal framework of the Fischer–Tropsch process, followed by the mechanistic basics of the catalytic cycle, metals used for the catalyst as well as their organic ligands. In addition, the stability of ligands and catalysts is addressed. The huge potential of this transformation is demonstrated using a variety of substrates. Finally, the use of some surrogates for syngas is discussed.

scholarly journals "Euroslam" - is it ridda or time consuming?

2005 ◽  
pp. 22-39
Author(s):  
T. Hazyr-Ogly
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
East Asia ◽  
North Africa ◽  
The State ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Monitoring Center ◽  
Muslim Communities

Islam is now professed by the population of many countries in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Europe. According to the World Islamic League, as of 2004, there were 1.2 billion Islamic followers in different countries (around 120 countries). In 35 countries, Muslims now make up 95-99 percent of the population, in 17 countries Islam is the state religion, and in 25 states, Muslims are an influential minority. Muslim communities are overwhelmed in Asia and North Africa. But they are also present in Europe, the US and Japan. According to statistics from the European Monitoring Center and Xenophobia (EUMC), Islam is the only religious religion in the world over the past 100 years, from 13 to 19.5 percent.

"Eyes, Ears, and Wheels"

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Colona ◽  
Tessa Diphoorn
Keyword(s):  
Community Policing ◽  
Private Security ◽  
The State ◽  
Community Initiatives ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
The Past ◽  
Private Security Companies ◽  
State Police ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Security Companies

Research on policing in Africa has provided tremendous insight into how non-state actors, such as gangs, vigilantes, private security companies, and community initiatives, increasingly provide security for urban dwellers across the continent. Consequently, the state has been categorized as one order among many whose authority is co-constituted through relations with other actors. Drawing on our ethnographic fieldwork in the past two years, we highlight how the state police dominates security arrangements in Nairobi and asserts itself not just as one order among many. We show how, in various policing partnerships between police, private security companies, and residents’ associations, the state police acts as a coagulating agent of such practices. In order to elucidate this relationship, we utilize the “junior partner” model from the criminology literature and expand based on the community policing initiatives that in Nairobi act as the “eyes, ears, and wheels” of the police.

The Present Chance for Mideast Peace

Worldview ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 11-13
Author(s):  
Nahum Goldmann
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
The State ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Usa ◽  
State Of Israel ◽  
Political Scene

AbstractSince the proclamation of the State of Israel thirty-one years ago, the Middle East has been in permanent crisis, more or less violent, with one war following another. It is no exaggeration to say, however, that no crisis in the past was as menancing as the present one. Some of my Israeli friends know more about the details of the situation from the Israeli point of view than I—inflation going beyond 100 per cent, the growing abyss between a small, rich minority that is getting richer and the vast majority getting poorer, the growing polarization of the inner political scene and, internationally, the total isolation of Israel, supported only by the USA, primarily for internal political reasons, especially in view of the approaching presidential election.

scholarly journals Foreign Languages and Internationalisation at a University of Education in Germany

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Dines
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
The State ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
The Past ◽  
Language Studies ◽  
The Government ◽  
The University ◽  
And Training ◽  
Insight Into

As my title suggests, the aim of this article is to give interested readers an insight into the ways in which advanced foreign language studies are taught at Ludwigsburg University of Education (LUE), Baden-Württemberg, Germany and how this links up with the policy of internationalisation which has been developed by the university over the past 15 years or so. It is my hope that our attempts to address the challenges of teacher education and training maybe of some use to readers of this journal and possibly lead to a discussion of the issues at hand with interested parties – a discussion to which we at Ludwigsburg are more than willing to engage in, especially in view of the changes to the system of teacher education currently being prepared by the government of the state of Baden-Württemberg

scholarly journals State of Democracy in Poland versus Environmental Protection

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (55) ◽  
pp. 219-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Markowska
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
The State ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
The Past ◽  
Structural Impact ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract The paper starts with a review of literature focusing on links between democracy and environmental protection, pointing out a fair weight of scientific evidence that democratic societies on average enjoy a higher level of environmental quality than autocracies. It subsequently provides a quick insight into the recent trends in the state of democracy and the rule of law in Poland as well as a few examples of measures taken concerning environmental policy that have been undertaken after 2015. The paper concludes by expressing concern about certain negative patterns in the Polish environmental policy in the past few years, which seem to be connected to the deficiencies in the rule of law and democracy as observed in Poland. The shrinking space for civil society to participate in democratic governance concerning environmental issues and the excessive appetite of the current government for large infrastructural investments seem to be in contradiction with the European and global strive for sustainable development and tackling climate change. It remains to be seen if the recent negative trends in the Polish environmental policy will have a structural impact on the state of environment in Poland.

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