The Margins of Genius: Byron, Nationalism and the Periodical Reviews

2018 ◽  
pp. 186-204
Author(s):  
Josefina Tuominen-Pope
Keyword(s):  
Main Argument ◽  
Romantic Period ◽  
Vast Amount ◽  
Literary Periodicals ◽  
Low Culture

This is a case study of the intricate conflict at the margins of genius and celebrity and the intersection of high and low culture in the Romantic period. The main focus is on accounts of Byron and his relationship with fame and genius in literary periodicals, most prominently Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine and the London Magazine during the period of 1818 to 1824. The main argument of the essay is that the vast amount of attention awarded to the concept of genius, combined with the heightened sense of nationalism in this period, caused critics to view genius as a national property wasted by Byron in his search for celebrity

Community Mobilization in Micro Credit as a Tool of Women Empowerment

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-70
Author(s):  
Nirmal Bhandari
Keyword(s):  
Participant Observation ◽  
Community Mobilization ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Economic Empowerment ◽  
Women Empowerment ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
Credit Programs ◽  
Local Ngo ◽  
Micro Credit

This article is about community mobilization in microcredit as a tool of women empowerment. It argues that women empowerment is a process and community mobilization is a tool for women empowerment process through micro-credit programs. This article is based on the views of selected key informants’ information through participant observation and a case study at Mahadevsthan Village in Dhading. Three local NGO managers and their three beneficiaries were conveniently selected for the sampling purpose. The main argument of the article shows that most of the females who received microcredit finally got socio-economic empowerment through acquiring access to capital, control over resources, self-esteem, confidence, decision-making power.

scholarly journals Sustainability and Resilience of Emerging Cities in Times of COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (16) ◽  
pp. 9480
Author(s):  
Angela Ivette Grijalba Castro ◽  
Leonardo Juan Ramírez López
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
State Of Emergency ◽  
Ecological Footprints ◽  
Scientific Papers ◽  
Considerable Impact ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Meta Analyses

The organization of a territory relies on a group of transformations produced by economic, environmental, and social emergencies, generating disruptions along with history. Furthermore, every new scenario generates a considerable impact, which makes it more difficult to recover from increasing urban ecological footprints. COVID-19-emergence-aware cities face new challenges that will test their resilience. This new outline constitutes a study regarding urban planning from an environmental and resilience perspective within this new pandemic state of emergency. It contains four main topics: emergent cities, natural resources, sustainability, and resilience. The document shows a case study carried out in a Colombian town named Cajicá, where a bibliometric inquiry conducted with PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) adjustments was managed, tested on forty-one scientific papers; all the above were verified by VOSviewer software tools. The study reveals the creation and visualization of several keyword networks and relations retrieved from all the selected articles, along with the use of eight additional documents for all relation analyses. Sustainability and resilience are the main findings, supported as a process of functionality within urban planning. Sustainability findings’ results are prioritized, along with resilience analysis processes, which are both frameworks used during the COVID-19 pandemic; they constitute the main argument within this set of changes, building on alterations of lifestyle and behavioral situations within the main cities.

scholarly journals HR analytics a roadmap for decision making: case study

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 979 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brahim Jabir ◽  
Noureddine Falih ◽  
Khalid Rahmani
Keyword(s):  
Operating System ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Management Model ◽  
Amount Of Information ◽  
Vast Amount ◽  
The People ◽  
The Impact

<p>In the socio-economic world, the human resources are in the most top phase of the enterprise evolution. This evolution began when the arithmetic, statistics are applicable over a vast of opportunities and used to identify problems and support decision. However, analytics has been emerged to provide predictions and understand the people performance based on available data.</p>In light of this vast amount of information, human resources services need to deploy a predictive management model and operating system of analytics that can be an efficient and an instead solution that can respond to the gaps of the traditional existing ones and facilitate the decision making. In this paper, we present a literature review of this HR analytics concept and a case study concerning the impact of interventions using an analytics solution.<p> </p>

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Max Perry Mueller
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Religious History ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
Construction Sites ◽  
European Descent ◽  
Book Of Mormon ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Religious Writings

This chapter introduces the book’s main argument: that the three original American races, “black,” “red,” and, “white,” were constructed first in the written archive before they were read onto human bodies. It argues that because of America’s uniquely religious history, the racial construction sites of Americans of Native, African, and European descent were religious archives. The Mormon people’s relationship with race serves as a case unto itself and a case study of the larger relationship between religious writings and race. During the nineteenth century early Mormons taught a theology of “white universalism,” which held that even non-whites, whom the Bible and the Book of Mormon taught were cursed with dark skin because of their ancestors’ sin against their families, could become “white” through dedication to the restored Mormon gospel. But Mormons eventually abandoned this “white universalism,” and instead taught and practiced a theology of white supremacy.

Broken History and Crumbling Stones: The Romantic Conception of Architectural Preservation

Slavic Review ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 745-765 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Schönle
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Architectural Heritage ◽  
Romantic Period ◽  
Historical Landscape ◽  
The Past ◽  
Architectural Preservation ◽  
Romantic Conception ◽  
The Church ◽  
National Style

In this article Andreas Schönle explores the treatment of ruins in the Romantic period, in particular the propensity toward holistic reconstruction, rather than preservation of architectural heritage. He argues that the Romantic disregard of extant heritage harks back to the Sentimentalist infatuation with the fleetingness of life and dramatization of loss, that this melancholy feeling stoked a sense of national victimization, and that it legitimated an imaginary reinvention of the past and the constructedness of collective memory. The Church of the Tithe in Kiev serves as a case study illustrating that the Romantic commitment to totality has resulted in the significant destruction of architecture. Depictions of its ruins in travel accounts and in the writings of Vadim Passek and Andrei Murav'ev evidence a marked desire to exacerbate the sense of loss rather than to describe and valorize the remains. This disregard of heritage reprises the Sentimentalist infatuation with melancholy prominently deployed by Nikolai Karamzin. A comparison with Eugène Viollet-le-Duc in France and Augustus Pugin in England indicates that in Russia the invention of a national style of architecture required a much more radical imposition upon the historical landscape.

scholarly journals Who Needs Critical Friends? Independent Advisory Groups in the Age of the Police and Crime Commissioner

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 686-697
Author(s):  
Bill Dixon
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Police Force ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
Critical Friends ◽  
Advisory Groups ◽  
Black Teenager ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Police Forces

Abstract In the early 2000s, many police forces in England and Wales set up independent advisory groups (IAGs) following an inquiry into the flawed investigation of the murder of a black teenager, Stephen Lawrence, by London's Metropolitan Police. Members of IAGs were to act as critical friends of the police providing independent advice on policies, procedures and practices, thus ensuring that no section of their local community was disadvantaged through a lack of understanding, ignorance or mistaken beliefs. Based on a case study of an IAG in an English police force, this article reviews the operation of IAGs following the radical changes made to police governance by the introduction of directly elected police and crime commissioners (PCCs). Its main argument is that more thought needs to be given to the role of IAGs in this new landscape and urgent steps taken to clarify their relationships with police forces and PCCs.

“The Last Laugh?” A Multimodal Analysis of Captions in Photojournalism

Pólemos ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mara Logaldo
Keyword(s):  
Poor Quality ◽  
Pop Art ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Multimodal Analysis ◽  
Multimodal Discourse ◽  
Low Culture ◽  
Verbal Discourse ◽  
Selective Process

Abstract It is generally agreed that in photojournalism pictures come first. However, also the short verbal texts that accompany them play a crucial role, as they lead readers among the different signifieds of the image. A multimodal discourse analysis of captions will aptly consider both the linguistic elements that appear within the verbal discourse and the image-text relation. The interconnectedness of captions and pictures has lately been defined as a “loop,” a view which blurs the traditional distinction between anchoring and relaying processes theorized by Barthes. The association of the relaying function with comics, however, seems to establish an interesting point of contact between photojournalism and pop art. Captions actually show the tension between “high” and “low” culture, the former being traditionally identified with the word and the latter with the image. While in the heyday of photojournalism captions were made necessary by the poor quality of the photographs, they soon began to provide an abstractive summary of the story told by the picture. This selective process involves interpretation. For this reason, captions can be ethically misleading and even legally controversial forms of discourse, for instance when they are used instrumentally to convey a specific point of view. In photojournalism dealing with crime cases, in particular, captions may display a sensationalist and populist view of justice, thus articulating the thoughts of public opinion supported by the newspaper’s stand. My case study focuses on the caption that accompanied the photo portraying Perry Smith and Richard Hickock while leaving the courtroom on March 29, 1960. The two murderers – who have become famous after the publication of the documentary novel

scholarly journals Framing, overflowing, and fuzzy logic in educational selection: Zurich as a case study

2018 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Itta Bauer
Keyword(s):  
Fuzzy Logic ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Entrance Examination ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
Educational Discourse ◽  
Examination Procedure ◽  
Local Case

Abstract. This paper uses the concepts of framing and overflowing (Callon, 1998) and fuzzy logic (Zadeh, 2015) to show the application and relevance of critically examining educational selection beyond the particular local context. It examines the empirical example of the central entrance examination procedure to grammar schools in the canton of Zurich. The main argument illuminates the widely neglected grey zones and the fuzzy logic lying at the heart of the selection machinery for higher education. This article elaborates fruitful links between the local case study and international discourses on the geography of education and educational research. It thus shows how a socio-material approach may build bridges not only between international and national educational discourse and local practice but also between academic research and a socio-political engagement that cares about young people's educational realities and futures.

scholarly journals How to Do CSR with Dialogic Meeting Talk: A Conceptual Framework for Managing Change in Cross-Sector Social Partnerships

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christa Thomsen
Keyword(s):  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Strategic Communication ◽  
Theoretical Discussion ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
Managing Change ◽  
External Stakeholders ◽  
Social Partnerships ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Common Understanding

Within the theoretical framework of Cross-Sector Social Partnerships [CSSPs], strategic communication and dialogue and by use of an example drawn from a case study of a CSSP, this article argues that Corporate Social Responsibility [CSR] initiatives are best developed in partnership-wide meetings involving relevant stakeholders. Importantly, it proposes a framework for analysis. Following a theoretical discussion of the interconnectedness of CSSPs, strategic communication and dialogue, the article outlines a framework for analysis. It delineates the potential of the framework through an analysis of a partnership-wide dialogue conducted in a local CSSP at a seminar/meeting dealing with the creation of common understanding for a social inclusion project among internal and external stakeholders. The analytical findings support the main argument and the conceptual endeavor by illustrating how common understanding of the need for social inclusion is constructed through a partnership-wide meeting organized as dialogue.

How Does the Unfair Contract Terms Directive Penetrate National Legal Systems? – A Case Study Based on Mortgage-Secured Loans for Housing Purposes, Indexed or Denominated in CHF in Poland

2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-74
Author(s):  
Aneta Wiewiórowska-Domagalska
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Protection ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Eu Law ◽  
Legal Systems ◽  
Stages Of Development ◽  
Vast Amount ◽  
Governmental Agencies ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Do So

The main aim of this article is to present the process of how the Unfair Contract Terms Directive was accepted into the Polish legal system. In order to do so, it first briefly explains, how the problem that allowed the massive testing of the Unfair Contract Terms Directive, i.e. the vast amount of consumer mortgage-secured loans for housing purposes, indexed or denominated in CHF (further: the CHF loans) came into existence in Poland. The story of the CHF loans also perfectly illustrates how the Polish legal system, which had taken a very liberal turn after 1989, struggles with the EU consumer protection concepts (which might also be representative for other countries of young democracies). It shows how the lack of adequate reactions of the governmental agencies led to burdening the judiciary system with the weight of the CHF loans problem, and how the Polish courts have not been sufficiently prepared for applying EU law. As an example, the article presents three issues that are at different stages of development when it comes to the completeness of the dogmatic construction, and which vary, when it comes to the degree of their intertwining with EU law.

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