scholarly journals Borders from the Cultural Point of View: An Introduction to Writing at Borders

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 1055-1070 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tuulikki Kurki
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Border Studies ◽  
Border Crossings ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Introductory Article ◽  
Textual Construction ◽  
Gradual Evolution ◽  
History Of ◽  
Anglo American

This introductory article to the special issue Writing at Borders suggests that cultural studies and the humanist point of view have significant explanatory potential concerning various borders and border crossings in multidisciplinary border studies. Cultural and human understandings of borders and border crossings grow from the research of ethnographic particularities on one hand, and of universal and culturally expressed human experiences of borders and border crossings (however culturally expressed) on the other. In this article, this explanatory potential is made visible by examining the history of cultural anthropology, where borders and border crossings have been recognized in research since the late 19th century. The aim of this concise introductory article is to outline through selected examples how territorial, social, and cultural borders and border crossings have been acknowledged and understood conceptually in the history of Anglo-American and European anthropology. The selected examples illustrate the gradual evolution of the conceptualization of the border from a territorially placed boundary and filter, to a semantically constructed, ritualized and performed symbolic border, and finally to a discursive (textual) construction.

scholarly journals Feminist theory in Feminism & Psychology [Part I]: Dealing with differences and negotiating the biological

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 357-377 ◽  
Author(s):  
H Lorraine Radtke
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Psychology ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Critical Scholarship ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Introductory Article ◽  
History Of ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Theoretical Issues

Theory is an important preoccupation of articles published in Feminism & Psychology. This Virtual Special Issue includes 10 of those published since the journal’s inception that have a primary focus on theoretical issues related to two related topics – differences and the biological. The concern with differences includes the socially constructed categories sex and gender, as well as sexuality and social class. Those articles addressing the biological represent critical scholarship that is working to negotiate a place for the biology within feminist psychology and entails moving away from the view that the biological is natural and innate. This introductory article addresses how theory fits within feminist psychology and offers a brief history of debates concerning differences and the biological before offering summaries and observations related to each selected article. The featured articles can be located on the Feminism & Psychology website and are listed in Appendix 1 at the end of this article.

scholarly journals Border closures and the externalization of immigration controls in the Mediterranean: a comparative analysis of Morocco and Turkey

2018 ◽  
Vol 60 ◽  
pp. 179-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayşen Üstübici ◽  
Ahmet İçduygu
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Human Mobility ◽  
Border Studies ◽  
Security Studies ◽  
Border Crossings ◽  
Critical Security Studies ◽  
The Third ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Border Controls

AbstractThis article traces the recent history of border closures in Turkey and Morocco and their impact on human mobility at the two ends of the Mediterranean. Border closures in the Mediterranean have produced new spaces where borders are often fenced, immigration securitized, and border crossings and those facilitating border crossings criminalized. Here, bordering practices are conceptualized as physical bordering practices, border controls, and legal measures. Turkey and Morocco constitute comparable cases for an analysis of border closures insofar as they utilize similar mechanisms of closure, despite having quite different outcomes in terms of numbers. The article’s findings are based on fieldwork conducted at both locations between 2012 and 2014, as well as on analysis of Frontex Risk Assessment Reports from 2010 to 2016. The first part of the article reflects on the concepts of border closure and securitization, together with their implications, and draws for its argument on critical security studies and critical border studies. The second part of the article is an overview of controls over mobility exercised in the Mediterranean from the 1990s onward. Then, in the third and fourth parts, we turn to the particular cases—respectively, Turkey and Morocco—in order to discuss their processes of border closure and the various implications thereof. Through analysis of the two country cases, we show that border closures are neither linear nor irreversible.

scholarly journals A brief history of news making in Russia

Journalism ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 146488492094195
Author(s):  
Ilya Yablokov ◽  
Elisabeth Schimpfössl
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Media Control ◽  
Journalism Studies ◽  
Introductory Article ◽  
The Us ◽  
History Of ◽  
Political Intervention ◽  
The Impact

In this introductory article to our special issue on newsmaking in Russia, we provide a context for how the study of journalism evolved in Russia in contrast to Europe and the US. This brief historical overview helps make sense of the specific trajectory of journalism studies: from normative Cold War perspectives to a highly diverse and vibrant field that considers journalistic agency, the interplay of commercialisation and media control and the complexities of a rapidly changing media environment. The contributions to this special issue present nuanced approaches to self-censorship, the impact of digital technologies and political intervention.

Border closures and the externalization of immigration controls in the Mediterranean: A comparative analysis of Morocco and Turkey – RETRACTED

2018 ◽  
Vol 59 ◽  
pp. 7-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayşen Üstübici ◽  
Ahmet İçduygu
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Human Mobility ◽  
Border Studies ◽  
Security Studies ◽  
Border Crossings ◽  
Critical Security Studies ◽  
The Third ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Border Controls

AbstractThis article traces the recent history of border closures in Turkey and Morocco and their impact on human mobility at the two ends of the Mediterranean. Border closures in the Mediterranean have produced new spaces where borders are often fenced, immigration securitized, and border crossings and those facilitating border crossings criminalized. Here, bordering practices are conceptualized as physical bordering practices, border controls, and legal measures. Turkey and Morocco constitute comparable cases for an analysis of border closures insofar as they utilize similar mechanisms of closure, despite having quite different outcomes in terms of numbers. The article’s findings are based on fieldwork conducted at both locations between 2012 and 2014, as well as on analysis of Frontex Risk Assessment Reports from 2010 to 2016. The first part of the article reflects on the concepts of border closure and securitization, together with their implications, and draws for its argument on critical security studies and critical border studies. The second part of the article is an overview of controls over mobility exercised in the Mediterranean from the 1990s onward. Then, in the third and fourth parts, we turn to the particular cases—respectively, Turkey and Morocco—in order to discuss their processes of border closure and the various implications thereof. Through analysis of the two country cases, we show that border closures are neither linear nor irreversible.

scholarly journals Outdoor education in historical perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Mark Freeman ◽  
Jayson Seaman
Keyword(s):  
Outdoor Education ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Space And Place ◽  
Religion And Spirituality ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Introductory Article ◽  
History Of ◽  
State Of Research ◽  
Education Review

PurposeThe introduction sets out the scope of the special issue and suggests areas for further research.Design/methodology/approachThis introductory article sets out the rationale and contents of the special issue of History of Education Review on “Outdoor Education in Historical Perspective”. It briefly summarizes the existing state of research and introduces the six articles that comprise the issue.FindingsThe introduction identifies four particular themes that arise from the existing literature and from the diverse contributions to this special issue: transculturality; space and place; religion and spirituality; and personality/personalities.Originality/valueThis special issue contains six original contributions to the study of the history of outdoor education, focussing on different locations in Europe and North America.

scholarly journals The Stranger and Others: The Life and Legacy of the Japanese Ethnologist Oka Masao

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-91
Author(s):  
Brigitte Steger
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Occupied Territories ◽  
History Of ◽  
Japanese Studies ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
The Government ◽  
Ethnic Policy ◽  
The University ◽  
The Stranger

Abstract Oka Masao (1898–1982) was a leading figure in the establishment of Japanese ethnology (cultural anthropology) since the 1930s and taught many of the next generation of ethnologists from Japan. He travelled to Vienna in 1929 to learn the methodology for studying the ethnogenesis of his own country, putting forward theories that questioned tennō-ideology of the time and became highly influential. During the war, he pushed for the establishment of an Ethnic Research Institute (Minken) to support the government in their ethnic policy in the occupied territories. Oka was also the founder of Japanese Studies at the University of Vienna in 1938. Despite these important—and at time controversial—roles, he is relatively unknown today. This article introduces recent scholarship on Oka’s life and legacy. It raises important questions about the role of ethnologists in politically sensitive times and counter-balances the Anglo-American narrative of the history of ethnology or social and cultural anthropology of Japan.

Exploring the fringes of psychopathology

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 3-21
Author(s):  
Nicolas Henckes ◽  
Volker Hess ◽  
Marie Reinholdt
Keyword(s):  
Epistemic Uncertainty ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Moral Ambiguity ◽  
The Past ◽  
Introductory Article ◽  
History Of ◽  
Shed Light

This special issue of History of the Humane Sciences intends to shed light on a series of psychopathological entities that do not target well defined conditions and experiences, but rather aim at delimiting zones of uncertainty that defy psychopathology’s order of things: mild diagnoses or subthreshold disorders, borderline conditions, culture bound syndromes, or ideas of dimensions and dimensionality. While these categories have come to play an increasingly central role in psychiatric and psychological thinking during the last 50 years, historians and social scientists have had remarkably little to say about how they have been created, what they have been used for, and what kind of realities they have helped to shape. In this introductory article we propose the concept of ‘psychopathological fringes’ to refer to these categories that are located somewhere at the border of psychopathological classifications and refer to zones of conceptual underdetermination. The notion of fringes serves to highlight both the conceptually and the socially marginal nature of the conditions, personal identities, and worlds delimited by these categories. The fringes of psychopathology are zones of vagueness, of epistemic uncertainty, and moral ambiguity. This introduction proposes a first incursion in these zones. It suggests some of the reason why they might have had attracted little interest in the past and why they may be more salient recently. It follows some analytical clues that might help chart a way through it and proposes a map through the collection of articles included in this issue.

scholarly journals Navigating Contentious Times in Rural Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Jennifer Gallagher ◽  
Benjamin Blaisdell ◽  
Christy Howard ◽  
Janeé Avent Harris
Keyword(s):  
Rural Education ◽  
Education Research ◽  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Current Issue ◽  
Racial Justice ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Theoretical Tool ◽  
Introductory Article ◽  
History Of

In this introductory article to the special issue, the guest editors situate the articles of the issue within the current contentious climate surrounding critical race theory (CRT). They first provide a background and summary of the major tenets of CRT then apply those tenets to current legislation aimed at banning CRT in schools. They then situate the current backlash against CRT within a history of resistance to racial justice efforts in schools. The editors explain their stance on the current issue of CRT and then substantiate their position with evidence from the articles within the special issue. The conclusions they draw are that CRT is a valuable and applicable theoretical tool in schools and education research.

Foreword to the Special Issue on Uralic Languages

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Tommi A Pirinen ◽  
Trond Trosterud ◽  
Francis M. Tyers ◽  
Veronika Vincze ◽  
Eszter Simon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Technology Management ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Current Work ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Systematic Overview ◽  
Language Technology ◽  
History Of

In this introduction we have tried to present concisely the history of language technology for Uralic languages up until today, and a bit of a desiderata from the point of view of why we organised this special issue. It is of course not possible to cover everything that has happened in a short introduction like this. We have attempted to cover the beginnings of the (Uralic) language-technology scene in 1980’s as far as it’s relevant to much of the current work, including the ones presented in this issue. We also go through the Uralic area by the main languages to survey on existing resources, to also form a systematic overview of what is missing. Finally we talk about some possible future directions on the pan-Uralic level of language technology management.

scholarly journals Classics and classicality: JCS after 20 years

2021 ◽  
pp. 1468795X2110349
Author(s):  
Simon Susen ◽  
Bryan S Turner
Keyword(s):  
Publishing Industry ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of ◽  
20Th Anniversary ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Classical Sociology

This article provides an introduction to the 20th Anniversary Special Issue of the Journal of Classical Sociology. It begins with some brief observations on the key developments that have shaped the disciplinary core of sociology over the past decades. It goes on to reflect on the role of classical sociology in Europe and beyond, drawing attention to its continuing presence in British and Anglo-American intellectual circles. Far from existing in a bubble of academic ivory towers, the paradigms emerging from disputes in the social sciences in general and in sociology in particular are profoundly shaped by wider historical trends – notably those influenced by different forms of collective action, as illustrated in the impact of social movements on the university sector in the late 1960s. In light of recent calls for ‘the decolonization of academia’, we ask to what extent sociology can, and should, strive to go beyond the hegemony of the ‘Western’ canon. Having given a succinct overview of the 20-year history of JCS, we elucidate the different formats of the material published in the journal, stressing the importance of editorial flexibility. On a more substantive note, we point out that the thematic scope of the work published in JCS has been wide-ranging and inclusive – not only because of its editors’ broad conception of ‘classics’ and ‘classicality’, but also because of the interdisciplinary spirit permeating the journal. This commitment, as we explain, manifests itself in the wide range of thinkers and topics discussed – from a multiplicity of perspectives – in the journal. We also grapple with noteworthy challenges posed by the academic publishing industry in the early 21st century, including the difficulties arising from peer-review processes. Finally, we express our gratitude to those who have contributed to this 20th Anniversary Special Issue and emphasize the journal’s commitment to defending the legacy of classical sociology.

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