scholarly journals Monuments and Monumentality in a Changing Socio-Political Landscape: A View from Udaypura

Histories ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 289-296
Author(s):  
Rafia Khan
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
Political Change ◽  
Political Agency ◽  
Indian History ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
Fertile Ground ◽  
Historical Periods

This work intends to explore the nature of socio-political change in historical periods usually referred to as interregnal which, for the purposes of this paper, is defined as a period of discontinuity or gap in political and social organization. It traces the survival of a historical monument through two interregnal centuries of medieval Indian sub-continental history (11th–12th and 14th) to argue that modern historiographical templates which study these periods as precursors or remnants of succeeding and preceding centuries, respectively, do not sufficiently explore the socio-political possibilities innate in these periods of distributed political agency. In the context of Indian history, while historians have focused on the confrontational aspect of Hindu-Muslim polities or communities in interregnal centuries, I suggest that these periods provided fertile ground for political innovation and negotiation, thus breaking the confrontational stasis usually associated with regnal centuries.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Florin Leonte
Keyword(s):  
Interest Groups ◽  
Political Change ◽  
Political Agency ◽  
Prolific Author ◽  
Imperial Authority ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
Written Sources

This book is equally about people and their texts. It seeks to explore how a Byzantine emperor negotiated his authority in the troubled waters of late Byzantium where churchmen and court-based interest groups vied for the attention of wider audiences. And it is about the construction of discursive strategies by adapting the rules of rhetorical genres to historical circumstances. The focus of the book is Manuel II Palaiologos, both emperor of Byzantium (r. 1391–1425) and prolific author of a range of oratorical and theological texts. The argument is that the emperor maintained his position of authority not only by direct political agency but also by rhetorically advertising his ideas about the imperial office. Throughout his reign, Manuel II created a parallel literary court where he presided over a group of peer literati who supported his position and did not contest his imperial prerogatives. It was within this group that his texts were copied and subsequently disseminated in order to promote a renewed version of the idea of imperial authority. His ideological commitments valued education and the use of rhetorical skills as instruments of social and political change. His vision evolved and changed according to the opportunities and conditions of his reign. In order to understand it one needs to attend not only to his texts but to other contemporary written sources. This will allow us to further scrutinise the late Byzantine understanding(s) of the imperial office as well as the extent to which Manuel II’s writings mirrored or obliterated contemporary concerns....

scholarly journals Narratives of Murder and Knowledge: Pellegrino Artusi and Dante Alighieri as Sleuths

2017 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-72
Author(s):  
Mirna Cicioni
Keyword(s):  
Dante Alighieri ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Crime Fiction ◽  
Fertile Ground ◽  
Historical Periods ◽  
Language Issues

Using McHale’s notions of “epistemological” and “ontological” dominants, this article analyzes three historical crime novels that have real historical characters as their protagonist: Marco Malvaldi’s Odore di chiuso (2011), featuring Pellegrino Artusi as the detective, and Giulio Leoni’s I delitti del mosaico (2004) and La crociata delle tenebre (2007), with Dante Alighieri as the sleuth. The article shows how the hybridization of crime fiction, history, and biography may be a fertile ground for the representation of the different ways of “knowing” in their respective historical periods and the construction of a dialogue between past and present constructed around depictions of social and political diversity, language issues, and ideas of “Italy.”

New Zimbabwe opposition will face uphill battle

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
Fertile Ground ◽  
Presidential Succession ◽  
White Farmers

Subject Outlook for Zimbabwe's political parties. Significance President Robert Mugabe's ousted deputy, Joice Mujuru, last month launched a formal opposition manifesto, the strongest sign yet that she seeks to challenge Mugabe in 2018 elections. This adds a new dimension to a political landscape already unsettled over presidential succession within the ruling ZANU-PF. Impacts Mining firms may use a recently proposed additional tax, coupled with power cuts, as reasons to slow or even halt certain operations. The issue of compensation to white farmers over land invasions in the 2000s remains unresolved and could stymie a detente with donors. High inputs costs for firms and deflation will dampen growth and raise unemployment, providing fertile ground for the opposition.

scholarly journals COSSACK LITERATURE AS A CULTURAL PHENOMENON

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 122-138
Author(s):  
Sumei Yang ◽  
◽  
Nataliya V. Lukiyanchikova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
Special Interest ◽  
Russian Empire ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
Regional Features ◽  
Regional Component ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
Revolutionary Period ◽  
Historical Periods

In the article, the authors attempt to characterize the specifics and follow the dynamics of literature devoted to the history and culture of the Russian Cossacks, to describe the stages of the development of Cossack literature as a special cultural phenomenon. The article considers in detail that the way of life, the nature of social organization, life and culture, the morals and folklore of Cossacks have always been specific and thereby were of special interest of scientists, in connection with which a large number of scientific studies appeared on various aspects of this phenomenon. Special attention in the proposed work is paid to the regional features of Cossack culture and the multifaceted, internally rich images of Cossacks created by Russian writers (both classics and authors of the XX-XXI centuries), the article explains how the regional component is presented in Cossack folklore and literature, analyzes works devoted to Cossacks as a special socio-ethnic phenomenon. Cossack literature is considered by the authors of literature in the context of three historical periods: Cossack literature of the Russian Empire (before the 1917 Revolution), Cossack literature related to the era of the Soviet state (1917–1991), the latest Cossack literature (from 1991 to the present), it is noted that each era imposes its own imprint on the problems and system of images of works: the heroization of the Cossacks, who fulfill the historical mission of protecting their native land and developing new spaces, in the literature of the pre-revolutionary period, the tragic concept of the Cossacks in the literature of the Soviet era and the image of the process of reviving the spirit of the Cossacks in modern literature.

scholarly journals The Economic and Political Ramifications of Inequality in Post-Apartheid South Africa

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (9) ◽  
pp. 690-699
Author(s):  
Molefi Solomon Mohautse
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Political Conflict ◽  
Developmental Trajectory ◽  
The Political ◽  
Racial Groups ◽  
South Africans ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
The World ◽  
Fertile Ground

South Africa is regarded as one of the most unequal societies in the world. Apartheid engineered a population with vast inequalities across racial groups. The nature of this inequality was primarily racially based. The political and economic trajectory of the last twenty years has somewhat changed the nature and composition of this kind of inequality but fundamental continuity of deep inequality is still somehow maintained. The post-apartheid distributional regime continues to divide South Africans into insiders and outsiders. Although the political pattern is still largely racially based, a new political landscape is beginning to emerge which is based on the complexity of class and race entanglements. The rising inequality within the black community is becoming a cause for concern for the continuation of the present developmental trajectory. It has created a fertile ground for the rise of populist movements and demagogues that will seek to take advantage of those neglected by the state machinery. This paper will seek to explore the links between inequality and economic growth and political conflict by tracing the origins of income inequality in South Africa, its evolution after the democratic transition in 1994; and its economic and political implications.

Moral Imperatives: South Korean Studenthood and April 19th

2012 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 399-422
Author(s):  
Charles R. Kim
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Full Advantage ◽  
The State ◽  
Protest Movement ◽  
Nationalist Discourse ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
Privileged Position ◽  
Global Sixties

An oft-overlooked part of the Global Sixties, the seminal event of April 19th (1960) set the foundation for South Korea's combative, youth-driven democratization struggles between the years 1960 and 1987. This article turns to the eve of the eight-week protest movement in order to examine the production of students as a nationwide social organization of youths well-versed in nationalist discourse and conversant in patriotic practices. Throughout the heady weeks of February, March, and April 1960, youthful protestors drew on elements of this ideological training in an unlikely fashion to employ them in protests against the state. Taking full advantage of the privileged position of students in nationalist discourse, the protestors of April 19th cemented the importance of the upright student demonstration in South Korea's emerging postcolonial, Cold War political landscape.

scholarly journals Households and the Emergence of Cities in Ancient Mesopotamia

2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Ur
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Alternative Model ◽  
State Level ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
The State ◽  
Creative Transformation ◽  
Ancient Mesopotamia ◽  
Metaphorical Extension ◽  
Historical Periods

The world's first cities emerged on the plains of Mesopotamia (modern Iraq and Syria) in the fourth millennium bc. Attempts to understand this settlement process have assumed revolutionary social change, the disappearance of kinship as a structuring principle, and the appearance of a rational bureaucracy. Most assume cities and state-level social organization were deliberate functional adaptations to meet the goals of elite members of society, or society as a whole. This study proposes an alternative model. By reviewing indigenous terminology from later historical periods, it proposes that urbanism evolved in the context of a metaphorical extension of the household that represented a creative transformation of a familiar structure. The first cities were unintended consequences of this transformation, which may seem ‘revolutionary’ to archaeologists but did not to their inhabitants. This alternative model calls into question the applicability of terms like ‘urbanism’ and ‘the state’ for early Mesopotamian society.

scholarly journals Regime-Building through Controlled Opening

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luca Anceschi
Keyword(s):  
Political Change ◽  
Political Landscape

This article aims to locate the version of authoritarianism developing in post-Karimov Uzbekistan to current debates on the emergence of new forms of authoritarian governance within and beyond post-Soviet Eurasia. To this end, the article re-evaluates Shavkat Mirziyoyev’s policies in light of authoritarian modernisation theory, revealing how the ultimate end of the process of political change currently at play in Uzbekistan is connected with an upgrading of local authoritarian practices rather than to the liberalisation of the domestic political landscape.

scholarly journals La desigualdad como ventaja comparativa: fronteras, asimetrías territoriales y extractivismo agrícola; Apuntes desde el caso de Honduras / Inequality as a Comparative Advantage: Borders, Territorial Asymmetries and Agricultural Extractivism; Notes of the case of Honduras

Revista Trace ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 200
Author(s):  
Delphine Prunier
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Analysis ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Central America ◽  
North Coast ◽  
Rural Studies ◽  
Know How ◽  
The North ◽  
The Social ◽  
Fertile Ground ◽  
Productive Systems

Al cruce entre estudios migratorios y estudios rurales, el artículo explora las condiciones de la construcción de un terreno fértil para la expulsión migratoria en Centroamérica. Para comprender mejor las situaciones de desigualdades y exclusión que caracterizan actualmente los espacios rurales en la región, propone convocar un análisis histórico y espacial de las múltiples capas de fronteras que atraviesan las sociedades marginalizadas, tanto social como territorialmente, en el caso de Honduras. Se trata de evidenciar que los sistemas productivos globales extractivos y el capitalismo en su fase contemporánea de globalización se basan en procesos de diferenciación, contraste y heterogeneidad en los que se saben apoyar. Se observan en particular las diferentes etapas de reformas agrarias, la expansión del cultivo de palma africana en el litoral norte y las lógicas de dominación y organización social de las cadenas productivas. La contribución se dedica a explorar dos aceptaciones de la noción de frontera —la agrícola y la social—, desde el enfoque de la discontinuidad, las relaciones de poder y las asimetrías territoriales que explican en parte el fenómeno actual de expulsión migratoria en Honduras.Abstract: At the crossroads between migratory studies and rural studies, the article explores the conditions for the construction of a fertile ground for migratory expulsion in Central America. To better understand the situations of inequalities and exclusion that currently characterize rural spaces in the region, it proposes to convene a historical and spatial analysis of the multiple layers of frontiers that cross marginalized societies, both socially and territorially, in the case of Honduras. It is about demonstrating that the global extractive productive systems and capitalism in its contemporary phase of globalization are based on processes of differentiation, contrast and heterogeneity on which they know how to support. The different stages of agrarian reforms, the expansion of the cultivation of African palm in the north coast and the logics of domination and social organization of the productive chains are observed in particular. The contri-bution is dedicated to exploring two acceptances of the notion of frontier —the agricultural and the social— from the perspective of discontinuity, power relations and territorial asymmetries that partly explain the current phenomenon of migratory expulsion in Honduras.Keywords: agricultural extractivism; African palm; frontiers; migration; Honduras.Résumé : À la croisée des études migratoires et des études rurales, l’article explore les conditions de construction d’un terrain propice à l’expulsion migratoire en Amérique centrale. Pour mieux comprendre les situations d’inégalités et d’exclusion qui caractérisent actuellement les espaces ruraux de la région, il propose de convoquer une analyse historique et spatiale des multiples couches de frontières qui traversent les sociétés marginalisées, du point de vue social et territorial, dans le cas du Honduras. Il s’agit de démontrer que les systèmes productifs extractifs mondiaux et le capitalisme dans sa phase contemporaine de mondialisation reposent sur des processus de différenciation, de contraste et d’hétérogénéité sur lesquels ils savent s’appuyer. On observe en particulier les différentes étapes des réformes agraires, l’expansion de la culture de la palme africaine sur la côte nord et les logiques de domination et d’organisation sociale des chaînes productives. La contribution cherche à explorer deux acceptations de la notion de frontière — agricole et sociale —, du point de vue de la discontinuité, des relations de pouvoir et des asymétries territoriales qui expliquent en partie le phénomène actuel d’expulsion migratoire au Honduras.Mots-clés: extractivisme agricole ; palme africaine ; frontières ; migration ; Honduras. 

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