Potere e spazio nella Roma arcaica

TERRITORIO ◽  
2009 ◽  
pp. 116-128
Author(s):  
Luca Gaeta
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Scientific Basis ◽  
Urban Settlement ◽  
Spatial Control ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

- The relationship between urban and political power in archaic Rome shows that the stratification of three spatial devices for control prepared the way for the passage from the monarchy to the republic, from the virtue of blood to the impersonal nomos of the land. The study starts at the time of the proto-urban settlement by sifting elements relating to practices of spatial control connected with the development of political Roman institutions from accounts of traditions. Whether the archetypal past is always the present scene of decisions and gestures to which modern people return, or whether it is rather a theoretical place visited by researchers to experience sharper visions, in both cases the findings brought to light by the survey provide useful keys for interpreting spatial planning without the embarrassment of its weak scientific basis and is brought back to the practice of control exercised with lines and borders along conflicts between social groups.

Questioning territories and identities in the precolonial (nineteenth-century) Lake Kivu region

Africa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 91 (3) ◽  
pp. 493-515
Author(s):  
Gillian Mathys
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Lake Kivu ◽  
Territorial Claims ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

AbstractThroughout Africa, contemporary boundaries are deemed ‘artificial’ because they were external impositions breaking apart supposedly homogeneous ethnic units. This article argues that the problem with the colonial borders was not only that they arbitrarily dissected African societies with European interests in mind, but also that they profoundly changed the way in which territoriality and authority functioned in this region, and therefore they affected identity. The presumption that territories could be constructed in which ‘culture’ and ‘political power’ neatly coincided was influenced by European ideas about space and identity, and privileged the perceptions and territorial claims of those ruling the most powerful centres in the nineteenth century. Thus, this article questions assumptions that continue to influence contemporary views of the Lake Kivu region. It shows that local understandings of the relationship between space and identity differed fundamentally from state-centred perspectives, whether in precolonial centralized states or colonial states.

scholarly journals Reshaping Mozambican Representative Democracy: Could it be the Way-Out for its Democracy?

2021 ◽  
Vol 04 (09) ◽  
Author(s):  
Savio J. R. Malope ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Participant Observation ◽  
Current Model ◽  
Representative Democracy ◽  
Overwhelming Majority ◽  
Western Model ◽  
The People ◽  
Local Media ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

If there was a referendum in Mozambique today, an overwhelming majority of the people would vote against their government having anything to do with the current model of democracy. They know all too well that there has definitely been a considerable welfare reduction to them as a result of the way this thing called “Representative Democracy” has been being played out in their country during the past decade. There is no doubt that the overwhelming majority of the Mozambican people if not, most African governments would prefer to see fundamental changes in their countries’ relations with this Western model of democracy. There is a virtual consensus among the general public, vocally expressed in the local media, as well as among officials, who naturally prefer putting forth their views in more private settings, that the relationship between citizen and the democratic institutions has been detrimental to the country, that far from helping it to become politically and economically viable, these institutions have been capitalising on, exacerbating and perpetuating Mozambique’s crisis. The research was based on participant observation, and it also involved a bibliographic review of relevant documents in the area of political participation, philosophy and other documents such as the 2004 Constitution of the Republic of Mozambique, Mozambican legislation, reports and research already published by other organizations.

Umweltsoziologie

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cordula Kropp ◽  
Marco Sonnberger
Keyword(s):  
Risk Perceptions ◽  
Environmental Attitudes ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Environmental Sociology ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Sociological Perspective ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

What role do patterns of thinking and consumption, innovations and infrastructures play both in the emergence of environmental problems and in the way society deals with them? How do environmental attitudes and risk perceptions differ between social groups? And how does all this relate to the diagnosis that the relationship to nature in modern societies is not sustainable? Based on these questions, the introduction to environmental sociology explains what the ecological crisis means from a sociological perspective. It introduces the central questions and theories of environmental sociology and discusses what contribution the discipline can make to overcoming the challenges of the Anthropocene.

scholarly journals Media outlets in Vojvodina and Slovenia: Demographic-economic indicators and media pluralism

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 184-193
Author(s):  
Dinko Gruhonjić ◽  
Smiljana Milinkov ◽  
Miloš Katić
Keyword(s):  
Social Groups ◽  
Economic Indicators ◽  
Media Pluralism ◽  
Regional Community ◽  
Effect Relation ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Autonomous Province ◽  
The Relationship

The paper analyzes the relationship between demographic-economic indicators in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina and the Republic of Slovenia. Both societies have relatively organized regulatory and political frameworks for the development of media pluralism. It has been established that there is a clear cause-effect relation between the number of media outlets in certain local self-governments and the average net salary: the municipalities and towns with the highest average salaries also boast the highest number of media outlets. However, our analysis has shown that the criteria and mechanisms for identifying risks to media pluralism are not provided: the variety of population representing different political, ideological, cultural and social groups and the variety of interests and standpoints relevant to the local and regional community.

scholarly journals Republicanismo(s), democracia, poder

2007 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandro Pinzani
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Individual Actions ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Relationship

Partindo da recente renascença da tradição republicana, o presente trabalho aponta para a pluralidade de tal tradição, para em seguida distinguir entre dois tipos de solução que ela oferece aos problemas da salvaguarda da república e do controle dos efeitos negativos das ações dos indivíduos, a saber, a solução internalista e a solução externalista. Ao analisar esta última, serão discutidas questões como: a ficção democrática do “one head, one vote” e a relação entre poder político e poder econômico e social. PALAVRAS-CHAVE – Republicanismo. Democracia. Poder. Madison. ABSTRACT Taking the recent renaissance of the republican tradition as a starting point, this paper points out to the plurality of this tradition and makes a distinction between the two kinds of solution this tradition gives to the problems of saving the republic and of controlling the negative effects of individual actions: the internalist and the externalist solution. Focusing on the latter, we’ll discuss questions such as: the democratic fiction of “one head, one vote” and the relationship between political power and socioeconomic power. KEY WORDS – Republicanism. Democracy. Power. Madison.

scholarly journals Making Sense of Chaos

2019 ◽  
pp. 134-153
Author(s):  
Andrew Stiles
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Political Change ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Roman Society ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Politics And Religion ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Over Time ◽  
The Way

Periods of civil war were greatly disruptive to Roman society, and the populace evidently sought to make sense of these upheavals in different ways, including through narratives involving various types of divination, which were employed to predict and explain the rise and fall of individual leaders and dynasties. This chapter analyses a group of such stories which concern trees acting in peculiar ways, such as dying and miraculously recovering, or springing up in portentous locations. Arboreal portents apparently foretold the victory of Octavian in the wars of the Triumviral period, and later, Vespasian in the conflicts of 68–9 CE, as well as predicting the particular Julio-Claudian and Flavian successors who would follow them. Rather than seeing such tales as simply the product of ‘top-down’ Augustan or Flavian propaganda, it is suggested that they were the product of a wider divinatory worldview, which was built upon a tradition stretching back into the Republic, and was fundamental to the way in which many Romans sought to comprehend social and political change. Such stories could be generated for a range of reasons, and by a range of authors. They often took on a life of their own, and were altered or updated over time. Adopting such a perspective when approaching Roman divination modifies our understanding of the relationship between ‘politics’ and ‘religion’ during the late Republic, Triumviral period, and early Principate.

The Type of Temperament, Mood, and Strategies of Categorization

2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 227-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agata Wytykowska
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Negative Mood ◽  
Cognitive Activity ◽  
Processing Capacity ◽  
Affective Value ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

In Strelau’s theory of temperament (RTT), there are four types of temperament, differentiated according to low vs. high stimulation processing capacity and to the level of their internal harmonization. The type of temperament is considered harmonized when the constellation of all temperamental traits is internally matched to the need for stimulation, which is related to effectiveness of stimulation processing. In nonharmonized temperamental structure, an internal mismatch is observed which is linked to ineffectiveness of stimulation processing. The three studies presented here investigated the relationship between temperamental structures and the strategies of categorization. Results revealed that subjects with harmonized structures efficiently control the level of stimulation stemming from the cognitive activity, independent of the affective value of situation. The pattern of results attained for subjects with nonharmonized structures was more ambiguous: They were as good as subjects with harmonized structures at adjusting the way of information processing to their stimulation processing capacities, but they also proved to be more responsive to the affective character of stimulation (positive or negative mood).

Understanding prescription in language. A corpus-based approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-81
Author(s):  
Douglas A. Kibbee ◽  
Alan Craig
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
French Tradition ◽  
Linguistic Behavior ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

We define prescription as any intervention in the way another person speaks. Long excluded from linguistics as unscientific, prescription is in fact a natural part of linguistic behavior. We seek to understand the logic and method of prescriptivism through the study of usage manuals: their authors, sources and audience; their social context; the categories of “errors” targeted; the justification for correction; the phrasing of prescription; the relationship between demonstrated usage and the usage prescribed; the effect of the prescription. Our corpus is a collection of about 30 usage manuals in the French tradition. Eventually we hope to create a database permitting easy comparison of these features.

Self-Determination and Territorial Integrity: Southern Cameroons and the Republic of Cameroun

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 629-653
Author(s):  
Valerie Muguoh Chiatoh
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Third World ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Territorial Integrity ◽  
Present Issue ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Relationship

African states and institutions believe that the principle of territorial integrity is applicable to sub-state groups and limits their right to self-determination, contrary to international law. The Anglophone Problem in Cameroon has been an ever-present issue of social, political and economic debates in the country, albeit most times in undertones. This changed as the problem metamorphosed into an otherwise preventable devastating armed conflict with external self-determination having become very popular among the Anglophone People. This situation brings to light the drawbacks of irregular decolonisation, third world colonialism and especially the relationship between self-determination and territorial integrity in Africa.

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