The Social-Political Context of Christian-Muslim Encounter in Northern Nigeria

1997 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-137
Author(s):  
Yusufu Turaki
Keyword(s):  
Political Context ◽  
Northern Nigeria ◽  
The Social

scholarly journals Art during tough times: reflections from an art-based health promotion initiative during the COVID-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
pp. 175797592199863
Author(s):  
Ilhan Abdullahi ◽  
Navneet Kaur Chana ◽  
Marco Zenone ◽  
Paola Ardiles
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Health Inequities ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Art Museum ◽  
Political Context ◽  
The Social ◽  
Promotion Strategies ◽  
Health Promotion Initiative

With the current COVID-19 pandemic impacting communities across the globe, diverse health promotion strategies are required to address the wide-ranging challenges we face. Art is a highly engaging tool that promotes positive well-being and increases community engagement and participation. The ‘Create Hope Mural’ campaign emerged as an arts-based health promotion response to inspire dialogue on why hope is so important for Canadians during these challenging times. This initiative is a partnership between a health promotion network based in Vancouver and an ‘open air’ art museum based in Toronto. Families were invited to submit artwork online that represents the concept of hope. This paper discusses the reflections of organizers of this arts-based health promotion initiative during the early months of the pandemic in Canada. Our findings reveal the importance of decolonizing practices, centring the voices of those impacted by crisis, while being attentive to the social and political context. These learnings can be adopted by prospective health promoters attempting to use arts-based methods to address social and health inequities.

Argentine New Theatre: The Coming of Age of Popular Tradition

1989 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Kaiser-Lenoir
Keyword(s):  
Mass Culture ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Social Sector ◽  
Central Question ◽  
The Social ◽  
Dynamic Links ◽  
The Way ◽  
Popular Drama

In order to assess Argentine New Theatre and traditional popular drama as comprising a phenomenon of convergence and continuity, one needs first to examine both forms in their relationship to hegemonic culture. Culture is viewed here not in monolithic terms, but rather as defined by its organic ties to a specific socio-political context. Consequently, the central question to be addressed is the way those ties become explicit in the artistic products themselves and, most importantly, in their functionality within the social sector they are inserted in. That functionality defines the ideological line between popular and mass culture, and determines the dynamic links between the New Theatre and traditional dramatic forms, in spite of obvious differences in discourse.

scholarly journals Genealogy of a Mission

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 60-65
Author(s):  
Kirsten Hebert
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public History ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
Historical Society ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Social ◽  
American Heritage

The Optometric HIstorical Society (OHS) was one of many similar public history organizations created during the third wave of the preservation movement in the United States. This article traces the genealogy of the OHS mission through American heritage resource law and delineates the social and political context that lead to its passage.

Het uiteenvallen van de Volksunie en het ontstaan van de N-VA en Spirit : Een chronologisch en morfologisch overzicht (juni 1999 - juli 2002)

Res Publica ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 44 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 397-471
Author(s):  
Jo Noppe ◽  
Bram Wauters
Keyword(s):  
Political Context ◽  
First Year ◽  
Party Member ◽  
New Parties ◽  
Parliamentary Elections ◽  
Nationalist Party ◽  
The Social ◽  
Morphological Picture ◽  
The Future ◽  
Party Members

At the Belgian parliamentary elections in June 1999, the Flemish nationalist party 'Volksunie' (VU) which formed an alliance with the social-liberal ID21 progressed slightly.  On July 10, 1999, the party decided to participate in the purple-green-yellow Flemish government, but at the same time they decided to stay out of the federal Belgian government. Two years later, the VU-Party Bureau decided that due to deep divisions within the party it had become impossible for the party to continue. The 15.000 party members were asked to judge about the future of the party. Because no party project managed to obtain a 50 %-majority in the party member referendum, the VU dissappeared. Two new parties - the 'Nieuw-Vlaamse Alliantie' (N-VA) and 'Spirit' - emerged from the ruins of the VU.  The collapse of the VU can be seen as the most far-reaching change in the Flemish party political context of the last decade.  This article focusses on the last two and a half years of the VU and on the first year of the N-VA and Spirit (from June 1999 until July 2002). In a first part, achronological overview is build up. This part provides an overview «from day to day» of the events that played a role in the collapse of the VU and the creation of the N-VA and Spirit. The second part of the article draws amore morphological picture of the VU, the N-VA and Spirit: data are presented about the internal organisation of these parties (info about party meetings, the composition and competences of the leading party structures, internal elections, party mandates, the party employees and numbers of party members). By offering an extensive overview of facts and figures, it is the intention of the authors to provide a solid guidelinefor further investigation.

COVID-19 Infodemic

Glimpse ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-130
Author(s):  
Sarah Lwahas ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Northern Nigeria ◽  
The Social ◽  
Media Services ◽  
The Media ◽  
Setting Theory ◽  
Fact Checking ◽  
Managerial Positions ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

Journalism like many other professions is facing a crucial phase with the emergence of Coronavirus pandemic. The impact of Coronavirus phenomenon is enormous on social and cultural relationships of many communities who depend on the media for information to connect with each other and participate in governance freely. Journalists globally are facing enormous crisis of managing the infodemic of the pandemic streaming particularly from social media; as well as controversies of the media perpetuating disinfodemic or disinformation and distrust in the society. Besides arrests and restrictions of movement, journalists are also under intense threats of losing their jobs, and exacerbated psychological and physical pressures owing to the devastating effects of COVID-19. Using the Social Responsibility theory, that emphasises improved standards of journalism, safeguarding the interests of journalism and journalists among others, and the Agenda setting theory, that controls access to news, information, and entertainment; this research interrogates how journalists from selected states in Northern Nigeria are responding to the challenges of reportage of COVID-19. This research sampled the views of journalists using structured questionnaire administered online and interviewed seven senior journalists holding managerial positions. Findings revealed that journalists are embracing fact checking of the avalanche of information even within familiar sources to verify reports on COVID-19. Similarly, they are deploying digital and multimedia strategies to provide a continuum of media services and sensitive reporting to engage this new infodemic of COVID-19, now globally considered the “new normal”. This research recommends that, since COVID-19 is a novel disease, professionals across countries need to talk with each other, and journalists particularly from Africa and indeed Nigeria; need to put some structure and some science in place, especially in the performance of their jobs, so that professionalism can be sustained without compromising the future of the journalism.

‘A man embedded in society’

2020 ◽  
pp. 177-202
Author(s):  
David Medalie
Keyword(s):  
Political Context ◽  
Swimming Pool ◽  
Homosexual Men ◽  
Social Fabric ◽  
The Social

This chapter explores the ways in which E. M. Forster’s Maurice and Alan Hollinghurst’s The Swimming-Pool Library (1988), while criticizing the oppression of homosexual men, both offer trenchant criticisms of aspects of the ‘social fabric’, including contemporary constructions of masculinity. They locate aberrance and even criminality within the texture and deep structures of society itself rather than in the homosexual men whom society abjures. Unlike Maurice, The Swimming-Pool Library – a novel imbued with Forsterian echoes – was able to engage more openly with its social and political context; unlike the repressed Maurice Hall, its protagonist, Will Beckwith, enjoys what seems to be a sexually liberated lifestyle. However, Hollinghurst shows that, despite this, there has been very little progress where the inclusion or ‘embedding’ of these men in the ‘social fabric’ is concerned. Reading the two works together suggests that unpredictability and reversals may lie within ostensibly straightforward literary lineages.

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