Danish Privilege and Responsibility in the Work of Susanne Bier

2018 ◽  
pp. 243-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meryl Shriver-Rice
Keyword(s):  
White Male ◽  
Geographic Location ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
The World

Meryl Shriver-Rice interprets Brothers, After the Wedding, and In a Better World in terms of the shared trope of the white male sojourner who travels from Denmark to locations that feature non-white, non-Western citizens. This chapter situates the Bier/Jensen trilogy within a wider trend of contemporary Scandinavian narratives of guilt. In assessing potential critiques of the trilogy on postcolonial grounds, Shriver-Rice argues that the “elsewheres” of these films do not ignore geographic location specifics and cultural contexts in order to assert a universalizing morality. Instead, the ethical trajectories of these films are not universal, and the idea that universalist ethics will inevitably fail takes precedence. Shriver-Rice argues that Bier’s drawing from non-industrialized non-Western space has more to do with speaking to the privileged-world guilt in the Danish viewer, and reminding him or her of the world at large beyond Western space.

Puccini's La Bohème

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Music Drama ◽  
Political Debates ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
La Boheme ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Many ◽  
The City

La bohème is one of the most frequently performed operas in the world. But how did it come to be so adored? Drawing on an extremely broad range of sources, Alexandra Wilson traces the opera’s rise to global fame. Although the work has been subjected to many hostile critiques, it swiftly achieved popular success through stage performances, recordings, and filmed versions. Wilson demonstrates how La bohème acquired even greater cultural influence as its music and dramatic themes began to be incorporated into pop songs, film soundtracks, musicals, and more. In this cultural history of Puccini’s opera, Wilson offers a fresh reading of a familiar work. La bohème was strikingly modern for the 1890s, she argues, in its approach to musical and dramatic realism and in flouting many of the conventions of the Italian operatic tradition. Considering the work within the context of the aesthetic, social, and political debates of its time, Wilson explores Puccini’s treatment of themes including gender, poverty, and nostalgia. She pays particular attention to La bohème’s representation of Paris, arguing that the opera was not only influenced by romantic mythologies surrounding the city but also helped shape them. Wilson concludes with a consideration of the many and varied approaches directors have taken to the staging of Puccini’s opera, including some that have reinvented the opera for a new age. This book is essential reading for anyone who has seen La bohème and wants to know more about its music, drama, and cultural contexts.

scholarly journals The Construction of Transnational Remembrance in the War Cemeteries of the Twentieth Century

2018 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-169
Author(s):  
Kate Clarke Lemay
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
World War ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
War Memory ◽  
Construction Design ◽  
Memory Work ◽  
The World

In the anniversary years of 2018 and 2019, it is important to take a close look at the war cemeteries commemorating the world war conflicts. These sites are crucial places for sustaining and even creating transnational, collective memory. By studying the memory work the war cemeteries accomplish, scholars have increased their knowledge of and understanding about these driving, foundational power structures. The following essays focus on the construction, design and reception of war cemeteries, and together the essays reveal complex layering of social, political and cultural contexts of these crucial sites of war memory.

scholarly journals Design Education for Local Development

Artifact ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Pernille Askerud ◽  
Barbara Adler
Keyword(s):  
Design Education ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Material Objects ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
The World ◽  
Training Activities ◽  
Typical Design

In the western part of the world, the concept of design is increasingly perceived as a central means of how we organize the world and imbue it with (cultural) meaning, rather than a quality attached to material objects. In this article we are interested in what concept of design is implied in typical design training activities in different cultural contexts (Morocco, India, Thailand, Mexico, and Singapore).Inspired by the questions that have arisen in connection with project experience and research done by the authors in many countries, this survey outlines approaches and efforts to establish design competence with a particular paradigm to the fostering of sustainable economic and cultural development in local communities. Having worked with development projects involving various aspects of design, we have chosen to study projects with clear design goals as examples of how diverse the interpretation of the concept of design can be.  These observations may stimulate an awareness of the important impact of notions of design in terms of innovation and cultural diversity and may even give rise to more research into these issues.

scholarly journals The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Hogg
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Moral Law ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
The World ◽  
The Devil

‘We have heard much of the rage of fanaticism in former days, but nothing to this.’ A wretched young man, ‘an outcast in the world’, tells the story of his upbringing by a heretical Calvinist minister who leads him to believe that he is one of the elect, predestined for salvation and thus above the moral law. Falling under the spell of a mysterious stranger who bears an uncanny likeness to himself, he embarks on a career as a serial murderer. Robert Wringhim's Memoirs are presented by an editor whose attempts to explain the story only succeed in intensifying its more baffling and bizarre aspects. Is Wringhim the victim of a psychotic delusion, or has he been tempted by the devil to wage war against God's enemies? Hogg's sardonic and terrifying novel, too perverse for nineteenth-century taste, is now recognized as one of the masterpieces of Romantic fiction. The first edition text of 1824 has been freshly considered for this new edition. A critical introduction explores the remarkable career of the novel's author and its historical, theological, and cultural contexts.

White Man’s IR: An Intellectual Confession

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 1112-1122 ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. Lake
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Life Experience ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
White Male ◽  
Professional Practices ◽  
Good Work ◽  
The World

Drawing largely on my own career in academia, I elaborate on the need for greater gender, racial and other forms of diversity in International Relations. Although theories are thought to be “objective,” what goes into those theories and, in turn, their explanatory power is ultimately shaped by subjective, lived experiences. Different individuals with different life stories will develop different intuitions about how the world “works,” and thus will write different theories to capture those intuitions and, in turn, larger patterns of politics. I explain here how my life experience as a privileged white male has shaped the intellectual contours of my work on international hierarchy. Building from this foundation, I then explore how professional practices elevate as gatekeepers individuals with generally similar life experiences and, thus, intuitions about what constitutes “good” work in the field, which in turn reinforces those professional practices and priorities. The final section focuses on problems of eroding the disciplinary hierarchy and broadening the pipeline into the profession.

Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on pilgrim city: A case of Haridwar, Uttarakhand, India

2021 ◽  
pp. 91-96
Author(s):  
Shreya Giri
Keyword(s):  
Geographic Location ◽  
State Level ◽  
Family Welfare ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The World ◽  
Recent Outbreak ◽  
River Ganga ◽  
The Government ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
Pilgrimage Tourism

India has one of the largest pilgrim traffic in the world as it has large number of sacred and holy sites of different religions. Besides tourism has been a rising industry in India during last few decades thus providing excellent opportunities for pilgrimage tourism until the outbreak of Novel Coronavirus hit the Pilgrim industry. The Covid-19 global pandemic has led to fatal situation and is inextricably affecting the economy of the nation. One such case is of Haridwar “The Gateway to the abode of Gods” in the Uttarakhand state of India. Every year lakhs of devotees visit Haridwar to take bath in the holy river Ganga in order to attain virtue. Haridwar is a famous religious city for the Hindus and it is also attractive to other domestic and foreign tourists because of its marvellous geographic location and physio-cultural tourist resources. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has raised awareness about the recent outbreak and the Government is taking several measures and formulating various concord at both central and state level to prevent the adversities of COVID-19. In this paper, an attempt has been made to highlight how the pandemic has left the pilgrimage industry gasping. The paper also suggests certain measures to cope up the Covid-19 outbreak thus consequently moving the economy of the region.

The Process of Wellbeing

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iza Kavedžija
Keyword(s):  
Anthropological Perspective ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Ongoing Process ◽  
The World ◽  
Anthropological Research ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Do So

The Process of Wellbeing develops an anthropological perspective on wellbeing as an intersubjective process that can be approached through the prism of three complementary conceptual framings: conviviality; care; and creativity. Drawing on ethnographic discussions of these themes in a range of cultural contexts around the world, it shows how anthropological research can help to enlarge and refine understandings of wellbeing, through dialogue with different perspectives and understandings of what it means to live well with others and the skills required to do so. Rather than a state or achievement, wellbeing comes into view here as an ongoing process that involves human and nonhuman others. It does not pertain to the individual alone, but plays out within the relations of care that constitute people, moving and thriving in circulation through affective environments.

A STUDY OF CLINICALAND MYCOLOGICAL PROFILE OF TINEA INFECTIONS

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Thappeta Deepak Tony Raj ◽  
Vennapusa Sravan Kumar Reddy ◽  
Chappidi Bhargavi
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Presentation ◽  
Skin Diseases ◽  
Fungal Infections ◽  
Geographic Location ◽  
Common Symptom ◽  
General Physical Examination ◽  
Direct Microscopic Examination ◽  
The World ◽  
General Physical ◽  
Dermatophyte Infection

INTRODUCTION: Dermatophytic infections, also known as ringworm, is one of the most common fungal infections of the skin around the world. The most common symptom seen with dermatophyte infection is pruritis. The varied presentation of tinea is often confusing with other skin diseases. It may be due to the irrational application of broad-spectrum steroid ointments and creams, leading to misdiagnosis and mismanagement. This study was begun to know the prevalence, clinical, and mycological prole of various dermatophytes OBJECTIVES OFTHE STUDY: 1.To study the prevalence of tinea infections. 2.To study the clinical presentation of patients with tinea infections. 3.To study the mycological prole of various tinea infections. METHODS: Clinical assessment was done, which include a detailed history, general physical examination, and examination of the lesion. After a complete review, the evaluation took place. Direct Microscopic Examination. Culture helps in the identication of species. CONCLUSION: To conclude, dermatophytosis is very common in India. It has been registered all over the world but with a different distribution, incidence, and epidemiology from location to location. Geographic location, climate, overcrowding, health care, immigration, personal and environmental hygiene, culture, and socioeconomic status have been attributed as major risk factors for these variations

Extreme Heat

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Heat Wave ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Geographic Location ◽  
Weather Conditions ◽  
The United States ◽  
Extreme Heat ◽  
Local Climate ◽  
Extreme Heat Events ◽  
The World ◽  
Heat Events

Extreme heat events (EHEs) are periods of high temperatures and humidity that are considered to be unusual for a specific geographic location. For example, in 1995 an extended heat wave in Chicago, Illinois, in the United States was blamed for the deaths of 550 citizens. Most of the dead were elderly, poor individuals who may not have realized that heat could kill, or who had no means of mitigating the rising temperatures in their homes or any way to escape to a cooler environment. In 2003, Europe was subjected to an EHE that is estimated to have resulted in the deaths of 70,000, with 15,000 of those deaths in Paris, France. “Extreme heat” is a relative term. Individuals adapt to their local climate, so it is difficult to use an absolute number to describe the conditions meteorologists consider a relative change from past conditions. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) defines extreme heat as “summertime temperatures that are substantially hotter and/or more humid than average for location at that time of year.” According to the Public Health Institute’s Center for Climate Change, the state of California defines extreme heat days as those days above the 98th percentile of maximum temperatures based on 1961–1990 data for a specific location. Crucial to understanding extreme heat events is the collection of data about temperature and humidity. The US Global Change Research Program provides heat wave data spanning 1961 to 2018. The site links to a variety of programs related to global climate modeling. The National Resources Defense Council is a nongovernmental organization that has excellent maps which show change over time in the frequency of extreme heat events that overlay the human impact of these events. The National Centers for Environmental Information provides graphic data of current weather conditions along with lists of significant climate anomalies. The site has links to weather records and tools. All of these sites rely on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for their data. There are equivalent agencies all over the world. The World Meteorological Organization, part of the United Nations, is also a valuable resource for data.

Problematizing Interaction

Ethical Life ◽  
2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Webb Keane
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
The World ◽  
Universal Feature ◽  
Basic Features

This chapter looks at a variety of ethnographic cases to show how recognition and intentionality are elaborated and brought into focus in different cultural contexts. It studies the concept of dewa, which seems to thematize the role that other people play in one's own sense of self. This concept, however, is not simply just one way of describing a universal feature of interaction. Once crystallized as an object of reflections, something that Sumbanese consciously know about the world and can connect to other things they know about their world, it also guides them as they purposefully undertake ethical actions. Indeed, the chapter argues that if recognition and intentionality are basic features of all social interaction anywhere, they also serve as affordances for dealing with, or reflecting on, particular ethical questions that concern a given community.

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