scholarly journals Social Responsibility

2000 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 131-134
Author(s):  
Sameera Mian
Keyword(s):  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Junior Faculty ◽  
The United States ◽  
Keynote Address ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
Market Driving ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Media ◽  
And Gender

The 2nd Annual AMSS-UK Conference, “Social Responsibility:Challenges for the Future,” took place October 21-22 at the University ofWestminster, London. Scholars from the United Kingdom, Ireland,Malaysia, the United States, Western Europe, and Turkey presented fortytwopapers. Over one hundred participants attended the two-day event. TheConference featured scholars such Malik Badri, Kamal Hassan, MuradHofmann, Abdelwahab El-Affendi, in addition to emerging intellectualssuch as Mashood A. Baderin and Fauzi Ahmad. The vital participation ofgraduate students and junior faculty at the AMSS-UK and the AMSS-USconference in Washington, DC, the prior weekend indicates the growingpresence of Muslims in western academia.Asad Ahmad was master of ceremonies and Yusuf El-Khoie from theKhoie Foundation gave the opening remarks. The keynote address inauguratedthe conference and was followed by a plenary session. Paper sessionscomprised the rest of the event with a “book Iaunch” and final plenary sessionconcluding the program Sunday afternoon.Paper sessions were organized around various subthemes directly relatedto social responsibility and the future. Presenters reflected upon social welfare,the state, social policy and community development, law, health andsocial care, grassroots action, globalization and the media, education, andmethodologies and gender. The direct link between the Conference themeand paper sessions encouraged a lucid and fertile ground for intense discussion,paving the way for an emerging discourse on social responsibilityin Islam.The keynote address was delivered by Kamal Hassan, rector,International Islamic University, Malaysia, and established the importanceof scholars and academics in promoting social responsibility. He reflectedupon the role of universities in promoting social responsibility under globalization.At present, universities are reacting to globalization by adoptinga “corporatization of curriculum” and a “market driving” approach to ...

The Unity of the West and Free Trade: A Report From Washington

Worldview ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 14-16
Author(s):  
Lionel Gelber
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Free Trade ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
The United States ◽  
Common Market ◽  
The West ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Common ◽  
De Gaulle

When the United States fostered the recovery and underwrote the security of Western Europe she had more than sentiment to impel her. That salient zone is a pivotal sector of the world balance, and while she may station fewer of her own troops upon its soil, she can entertain no total disengagement from it. But there is another West European item, the future of the Common Market, which calls for a fresh American scrutiny. The West will be better off if Western Europe acquires more of an ability to stand on its own feet. Gaullism, however, revealed a less modest goal, one that was not confined to France and did not vanish with the departure of General de Gaulle. On the contrary, it may have gained new leverage from his downfall.

Literary Journalism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Lance Keeble
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Essential Elements ◽  
Literary Journalism ◽  
New Journalism ◽  
Tom Wolfe ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
Long Form ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Media ◽  
Women Of Letters

“Literary journalism” is a highly contested term, its essential elements being a constant source of debate. A range of alternative concepts are promoted: the “New Journalism,” “literary non-fiction,” “creative non-fiction,” “narrative non-fiction,” “the literature of fact,” “lyrics in prose,” “gonzo journalism” and, more recently, “long-form journalism,” “slow journalism,” and “multi-platform immersive journalism.” At root, the addition of “literary” to “journalism” might be seen to be dignifying the latter and giving it a modicum of cultural class. Moreover, while the media exert substantial political, ideological, and cultural power in societies, journalism occupies a precarious position within literary culture and the academy. Journalism and literature are often seen as two separate spheres: the first one “low,” the other “high.” And this attitude is reflected among men and women of letters (who often look down on their journalism) and inside the academy (where the study of the journalism has long been marginalized). The seminal moment for the launching of literary journalism as a subject in higher education was the publication in 1973 of The New Journalism, edited by Tom Wolfe and E. W. Johnson. Bringing together the work of 22 literary journalists, Wolfe pronounced the birth of a distinctly new kind of “powerful” reportage in 1960s America that drew its main techniques from the realist novels of Fielding, Smollett, Balzac, Dickens, and Gogol. By the 1980s and 1990s, the study of literary journalism was growing (mainly in the United States and United Kingdom), with some courses opening at universities. In recent years, literary journalism studies have internationalized revealing their historic roots in many societies while another emphasis has been on the work of women writers. Immersive journalism, in which the reporter is embedded with a particular individual, group, community, military unit (or similar) has long been a feature of literary journalism. In recent years it has been redefined as “slow journalism”: the “slowness” allowing for extra attention to the aesthetic, writerly, and experimental aspects of reportage for the journalist and media consumer. And perhaps paradoxically in this age of Twitter and soundbite trivia, long-form/long-read formats (in print and online) have emerged alongside the slow journalism trend. The future for literary journalism is, then, full of challenges: some critics argue that one solution to the definitional wrangles would be to consider all journalism as worthy of critical attention as literature. Most analysis of literary journalism is keen to stress the quality of the techniques deployed, yet greater stress could be placed on the political economy of the media and a consideration of ideological bias. Indeed, while most of the study of literary journalism to date has focused on the corporate media, the future could see more studies of partisan, progressive, alternative media.

scholarly journals From Dialogue to Collaboration

2009 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 153-155
Author(s):  
Philipp Bruckmayr
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
Catholic University ◽  
Secular Education ◽  
The Media

Conferences focusing on the thought of Fethullah Gülen, especially the activitiesof the faith-based movement inspired by it, can nowadays be consideredcommon events. Indeed, by now the organization of such academic conferencescan rightfully be regarded as yet another regular field of activity of themovement, besides its major and relentless endeavors in interreligious dialogue,secular education, welfare, and the media. Whereas the major eventsof the last two years took place in Europe and the United States (London andRotterdam, 2007; Washington DC, 2008; and Potsdam, 2009), the AustralianCatholic University, the Australian Intercultural Society, and Monash Universityput Australia back on the map with this conference. Convened during 15-16 July 2009 at the Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, it was alsomeant to celebrate last year’s establishment of the university’s FethullahGülen Chair for Islamic Studies, held by Prof. Ismail Albayrak ...

scholarly journals ARGENTINA EN EL MUNDO: ¿IDAS Y VUELTAS?

2021 ◽  
pp. 125-135
Author(s):  
Alejandro SIMONOFF
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Institutional Change ◽  
Presidential Elections ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Government ◽  
Policy Agendas

The article seeks to find the reasons why Argentina’s foreign policy is shown to be oscillating, fundamentally thinking about the latest institutional change, and to explore some of the keys aspects of this event. Argentina’s foreign policy has gone through different stages and the last presidential elections have shown potential changes regarding the future of this agenda. The article begins with a brief review of the foreign policy implemented in the government of Mauricio Macri, based on an alignment with the United States, Western Europe and Japan as world powers. The next section presents analytical perspectives for foreign policy agendas. Subsequently, the article presents an analysis of the notable movements of the government of Mauricio Macri in foreign policy.

scholarly journals Corporate Social Responsibility In The United States And Europe: How Important Is It? The Future Of Corporate Social Responsibility

2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 815 ◽  
Author(s):  
Almerinda Forte
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
The United States ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
The Future ◽  
Stakeholder Model ◽  
Corporate Social

Corporate social responsibility plays an important role in a firms life in the U.S.today. It is not enough for companies to generate a profit. U.S. citizens expect them to generate a profit and conduct themselves in an ethical and socially responsible manner. The U.S. Sentencing Commission Guidelines help organizations facilitate this expectation, which is vital for corporate growth and maintaining a competitive edge. Managers who deal with ethical and social responsibility problems often times arent dealing with optimal solutions. Managers often settle forsolutions that suffice or cause the least harm. Managers charged with choosing the ethical or socially responsible path often face problems with no clear solution.Since the formation of the European Union, corporate social responsibility has garnered heightened attention in Europe. This isevidenced by their development of sustainability strategies. The Sustainable Development Strategy for Europe was approved in June 2001. It stated that social cohesion, environmental protection, and economic growth must coexist. This paper compares corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Europe to CSR in the United States. It also examines todays three corporate social responsibility models: the shareholder value model, the stakeholder model and the business ethics model.This paper also addresses Wayne Vissers (2010) five principles which he considers the future of corporate social responsibility, Aras and Crowthers(2011) theory that an organization should be held accountable to the external environment, and the rationale for new paradigms for the future in companies worldwide.

“Can’t You See I’m White?”

differences ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 163-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Ducille
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
The United States ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
White Males ◽  
Conference Theme ◽  
Vassar College ◽  
The Media ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Masses

This essay was originally delivered as the keynote address at a conference on passing held at Vassar College in April of 2019. Titled “Quiet As It’s Kept: Passing Subjects, Contested Identities,” the conference was inspired by the legacy of Vassar’s first African American graduate, Anita Hemmings, who passed for white before being outed by her roommate shortly before graduation in 1897. DuCille maintains that the timeliness and importance of the conference theme are signaled by what both the media and the masses tout as the most diverse slate of candidates ever to vie for the office of president of the United States. Challenging the practical application of theoretical claims of race as a social construction, “Can’t You See I’m White?” explores the ways in which their racial and gender “difference” from the typical roster of white males seeking the presidency has made some of the candidates—most notably Senators Kamala Harris of California and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts—the subjects of unprecedented debates about identity, biology, and culture. These debates, which raise questions not only about who gets to be black or brown or red but also who gets to be American, duCille claims, take on even greater significance in the time of Trump and the rise of white nationalism.

Outsourcing to the Post-Soviet Region and Gender

2010 ◽  
pp. 2231-2236
Author(s):  
Elena Gapova
Keyword(s):  
Information Exchange ◽  
The United States ◽  
Western Hemisphere ◽  
Digital Networks ◽  
World Region ◽  
Software Production ◽  
The Media ◽  
And Gender ◽  
High Level ◽  
Globalized World

The purpose of this article is to analyze the outsourcing of information technology (IT) jobs to a specific world region as a gendered phenomenon. Appadurai (2001) states that the contemporary globalized world is characterized by objects in motion, and these include ideas, people, goods, images, messages, technologies and techniques, and jobs. These flows are a part of “relations of disjuncture” (Appadurai, 2001, p. 5) created by an uneven economic process in different places of the globe and involving fundamental problems of livelihood, equality or justice. Outsourcing of jobs (to faraway countries) is one of such “disjunctive” relationships. Pay difference between the United States (U.S.) and some world regions created a whole new interest in the world beyond American borders. Looking for strategies to lower costs, employers move further geographically; and with digital projects, due to their special characteristics, distribution across different geographical areas can be extremely effective. First, digital networks allow reliable and real-time transfer of digital files (both work in progress and final products), making it possible to work in geographically separated locations. Second, in the presence of adequate mechanisms for coordination through information exchange, different stages of software production (conceptualization, high-level design and low-level analysis, coding) are also separable across space (Kagami, 2002). In the Western hemisphere, the argument for outsourcing is straightforward and powerful. It is believed that if an Indian, Chinese, Russian or Ukrainian software programmer is paid one-tenth of an American salary, a company that develops software elsewhere will save money. And provided that competitors do the same, the price of the software will fall, productivity will rise, the technology will spread, and new jobs will be created to adapt and improve it. But the argument against outsourcing centers on the loss of jobs by American workers. Although there is no statistics on the number of jobs lost to offshore outsourcing, the media write about the outcry of professionals who several years ago considered themselves invulnerable.

Essay Reviews: The Hidden Message in Anti-Violence Public Service Announcements

1995 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 292-299 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Gerbner
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Service ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Service Announcements ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Urban Violence ◽  
Television Programming ◽  
The Media ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Time Warner

In this essay, George Gerbner reviews eight television public service announcements (PSAs) that deal with urban violence and are produced by the media conglomerate HBO/Time Warner. Gerbner couches his critique of the PSAs in terms of the historical tension between the commercial nature of television in the United States and broadcasters' mandated role to serve the public. In creating a framework to understand the anti-violence PSAs, Gerbner broadens the discussion to include both the media industry in the United States and the demand for violence television programming in the international marketplace. Although he acknowledges the high production value of the PSAs, Gerbner contends that the race, age, and gender of the characters, as well as the situations depicted, constitute a hidden message of stereotyped violence. Gerbner argues that the images portrayed in the PSAs reflect the type of violence that is presented by the television industry itself, not the kinds of violence that may actually exists in the United States.

scholarly journals Racialized Rescue Narratives in Public Discourses on Youth Prostitution and Sex Trafficking in the United States

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 773-800
Author(s):  
Carrie N. Baker
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Sex Trafficking ◽  
White Male ◽  
The United States ◽  
Male Dominance ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Sex Trade ◽  
Neoliberal Governance ◽  
The Media ◽  
And Gender

This article presents an analysis of how activists, politicians, and the media framed youth involvement in the sex trade during the 1970s, the 1990s, and the 2000s in the United States. Across these periods of public concern about the issue, similar framing has recurred that has drawn upon gendered and racialized notions of victimization and perpetration. This frame has successfully brought attention to this issue by exploiting public anxieties at historical moments when social change was threatening white male dominance. Using intersectional feminist theory, I argue that mainstream rhetoric opposing the youth sex trade worked largely within neoliberal logics, ignoring histories of dispossession and structural violence and reinforcing individualistic notions of personhood and normative ideas about subjectivity and agency. As part of the ongoing project of racial and gender formation in US society, this discourse has shored up neoliberal governance, particularly the build-up of the prison industrial complex, and it has obscured the state's failure to address the myriad social problems that make youth vulnerable to the sex trade.

The International Veterinary Academy on Disaster Medicine

1987 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 64-66
Author(s):  
Robert R. Shomer
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Nuclear Energy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Disaster Medicine ◽  
Nuclear War ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media ◽  
Physicians For Social Responsibility

The International Veterinary Academy on Disaster Medicine had its genesis in Perth, Australia, when at the World Veterinary Congress in August 1983, Dr. Ole Stalheim extended an invitation to attend a meeting of a group under the label “World Veterinarians Against Nuclear War”. It had an auspicious beginning—we attracted some attention in the media, more indeed, than we had received during our early attempts at formation in the United States. It became apparent, however, that we were in effect replicating activities of other well-established and more financially secure groups—Physicians for Social Responsibility, the Society Against Nuclear Energy (SANE), etc. We needed greater participation to cope with “peace time” problems already confronting us as well, and it was evident that a larger veterinary audience would be reached and our services to the community enhanced if we broadened the commitment.

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