scholarly journals Theatrical Milieu: Investigating Drama and Theatre in tandem with Socio-Political Landscape of Pakistan

sjesr ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 278-287
Author(s):  
Fareeha Zaheer
Keyword(s):  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
Theatrical Performances ◽  
Commercial Theatre ◽  
Formation And Evolution ◽  
Political Conditions

This study is an attempt to trace the impacts of socio-political conditions in the formation and evolution of drama and theatre traditions in Pakistan. It provides the genesis of theatre and drama in Pakistan intertwining it with the past and present situations of this genre of literature. It also ventures at the inert position of drama and theatre in English in Pakistan. Qualitative textual analysis is conducted to analyze and highlight the major available critical acumen in the genre of Pakistani drama and theatre. The methodology adopted is interpretive of the theatrical performances by major theatre groups, and the contributions of key playwrights in cementing the foundation of drama and theatre traditions. The major findings are related to the socio-political situations prevalent since the inception of Pakistan and their significance in shaping both dramas in writing and drama in performance. It also examines the role of pioneer theatrical groups and their projects that carved a niche in the theatrical landscape of Pakistan. As compared to fiction theatre and drama remained sporadic and lackluster affair in Pakistan, it is vital to have a deeper understanding and clarity of the socio-political issues that shaped resistance &political theatres and later commercial theatre groups.

scholarly journals Bloody Women: How Female Authors Have Transformed the Scottish Contemporary Crime Fiction Genre

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-71
Author(s):  
Lorna Hill
Keyword(s):  
Social Issues ◽  
Crime Fiction ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
The Past ◽  
Female Authors ◽  
Crime Novel ◽  
Practice Based Research ◽  
Changing Attitudes

Abstract This study will explore the role of female authors in contemporary Scottish crime fiction. Over the past thirty years, women writers have overhauled the traditionally male dominated genre of crime fiction by writing about strong female characters who drive the plot and solve the crimes. Authors including Val McDermid, Denise Mina and Lin Anderson are just a few of the women who have challenged the expectation of gender and genre. By setting their novels in contemporary society they reflect a range of social and political issues through the lens of a female protagonist. By closely examining the female characters, both journalists, in Val McDermid’s Lindsay Gordon series and Denise Mina’s Paddy Meehan series, I wish to explore the issue of gender through these writers’ perspectives. This essay documents the influence of these writers on my own practice-based research which involves writing a crime novel set in a post referendum Scotland. I examine a progressive and contemporary Scottish society, where women hold many senior positions in public life, and investigate whether this has an effect on the outcome of crimes. Through this narrative, my main character will focus on the current and largely hidden crimes of human trafficking and domestic abuse. By doing this I examine the ways in which the modern crime novel has evolved to cross genre boundaries. In addition to focusing on a crime, the victims and witnesses, today’s crime novels are tackling social issues to reflect society’s changing attitudes and values.

scholarly journals Approaching the past: a tangled interplay of memory, political choices and historical science. With examples from the Nordic and Baltic countries and Romania

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-68
Author(s):  
Jardar Seim
Keyword(s):  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Historical Science ◽  
Politics Of Memory ◽  
The Past ◽  
Baltic Countries ◽  
Political Choices ◽  
Political Conditions

A discussion of topics connected with “historical memory” and “politics of memory” presupposes that we consider how and why we are approaching the past. In this paper I shall point to some ways the past is being approached by individuals, social groups and political authorities – and some reasons for such approaches. But I shall also consider the opposite choice, that of not wanting to get closer to the past, preferring instead to keep a safe distance or even to ignore it, at least painful parts of it. Memories in different forms are important in our approaches to the past. The same is true for scientific history. The interplay between memory and historical science is complicated in itself. The existence of political guidance or explicit political provisions concerning the past makes it even more complicated to understand how our relations with the past are shaped and what their functions are in a given society. In my opinion, it is impossible to generalize about such problems. But comparisons may be fruitful, for instance presentations of wars in school textbooks from different countries, or how succeeding political regimes in one country try to charge the urban landscape with a new (or old) political meaning that legitimizes the present regime or demonize another one, by changing street names, erecting or destroying monuments etc. National anthems are another field that is suited for meaningful comparisons. And even communal or personal memories that are studied without a comparison or generalization in mind may provide ideas and perspectives for dealing with quite different memories under other political conditions. Finally, the role of the presumed scientific historian ought to be examined a little. Is he or she just a rational and neutral judge of the past – compared to ordinary people with undocumented and emotional memories, or to politicians with ideological motives for approaching the past?

Afterword

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Johnston
Keyword(s):  
Good Governance ◽  
The Political ◽  
Technological Innovations ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
End Of History ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
The World ◽  
Self Assessments

The afterword to this volume argues that seeking a triumph of anticorruption smacks of rosy self-assessments that situate us at the end of history. It continues to explain that there are at least two other major fallacies in the ways we commonly understand corruption problems. One is to assume that the standards against which we judge political actors are more or less permanent aspects of the political landscape. The second fallacy is to assume that thanks to modern conceptions of “good governance” and the role of the “neutral” state and technological innovations we have now got anticorruption figured out. The afterword concludes by emphasizing that we would be well-served if we were to look to the past, as well as to other parts of the world, with the more modest goal of learning how to ask, and seek answers for, better questions.

Diffusing gender equality norms in the midst of a feminicide pandemic: The case of AMEXCID and decentralized Mexican South-South cooperation

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ninna Nyberg Sørensen
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
Dual Function ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Structural Inequality ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
Promote Gender Equality ◽  
Gender Based

Mexican development policy is guided by the country’s dual function as both a recipient and a provider of international cooperation. Over the past 17 years, the country has taken several initiatives to promote gender equality nationally, and today gender equality norms cut across Mexican priorities in foreign policy and South-South cooperation activities. Paradoxically, the gains achieved at policy formulating tables have been accompanied by a rise in gender-based violence. To approach this paradox, this article engages with gender equality norms to show how they have been introduced, developed and transformed in the context of a national security crisis and extreme violence directed at women. The analysis points to the important role of Mexican feminists and anti-feminicide activists in the promotion of gender equality norms, as well as to the existence of a political landscape in which structural inequality persists and such norms remain highly contested.

scholarly journals تحديات شرط الواقف في استخدام الوقف لمواجهة الجائحة العالمية كوفيد-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-136
Author(s):  
Habeebullah Zakariyah ◽  
Habeebullah Hassan Bature
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Strong Connection ◽  
The Past ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The Social ◽  
Negative Effect

Abstract in English: Waqf (Islamic Endowment) has played a vital role in solving the social problems throughout the history.  This paper aims at discussing the role of waqf in tackling the current global pandemic i.e., COVID -19.  The paper discusses the possibility of using waqf as a mechanism for mitigating the negative effect of the COVID-19 pandemic.  Considering the strong connection between waqf and the stipulated conditions by the waqif (donor), the paper analyses the views of the past and contemporary jurists on the extent of the permissibility of overriding the conditions of the donor (shart al-waqif) by the waqf management.  This paper adopts qualitative methodology, and the textual analysis is being used by reviewing the literature and previous studies related to the issue.  The paper reaches some conclusions, the most important of which are: the confirmation of the vital role of waqf in alleviating the severity of COVID-19 pandemic.  Likewise, waqf management is permitted to breach the conditions of the waqif if the need is warranted and the objective of waqf is being considered.  To avoid the challenges of shart al-waqif (conditions of the waqif), the paper proposes the establishment of waqf, which will be looking after the interest and affairs of the victims of crises “waqf for azamat”.  Besides, the paper recommends to the researchers and waqf managements reviewing of the structure of the Crises-Waqf.   Abstract in Arabic: مشروع الوقف الإسلامي من الوسائل المهمة في تحقيق التنمية الاجتماعية وله دور عظيم في المشكلات التي تواجه المجتمع.  الهدف من هذه الدراسة الوقوف على الأدوار يمكن أن يلعبه الوقف الإسلامي في مواجهة فيروس كورونا ما يسمى ب" كوفيد-19 " . تمت مناقشة مدى جواز توظيف الوقف الإسلامي كوسيلة لتقليل الآثار السلبية التي نجمت من هذا الفيروس. ولا شك أن للوقف الإسلامي علاقة وطيدة بشرط الواقفين لذلك حاولت الدراسة الوقوف على آراء الفقهاء قديما وحديثا، ومن ثم تحليلها لمعرفة مدى إمكانية خروج المؤسسات الوقفية عن شرط الواقفين. تم توظيف منهج البحث النوعي التحليلي من خلال مراجعة الأدبيات والدراسات السابقة المتعلقة بهذه المسألة. توصلت هذه الدراسة إلى جملة من النتائج، من أهمها: أن للوقف الإسلامي دوراً كبيرا في التنمية الاجتماعية ويمكن استخدامه في مواجهة فيروس كورونا- كوفيد-19، كما أظهرت نتائج البحث أنه يجوز لناظر الوقف أو المؤسسات الوقفية الخروج من شرط الواقفين إذا دعت الحاجة إلى ذلك، مع مراعاة مصلحة الوقف. وخروجاً من مشكلة شرط الواقف، تقترح هذه الدراسة للمؤسسات الوقفية إنشاء وقف إسلامي يهتم برعاية شؤون المتضررين من الأزمات "وقف الأزمات"، كما توصي الورقة المؤسّسات الوقفية والباحثين بالعمل في إنشاء "وقف الأزمات".

scholarly journals The Lebanese Blogosphere

2008 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-49
Author(s):  
Elisheva Yun
Keyword(s):  
Political System ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
The Political ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Guiding Principle ◽  
Lebanese Civil War ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
Significant Conflict

Over a decade after the close of the fifteen-year Lebanese Civil War, the cultural and political landscape of sectarianism has shifted significantly in Lebanon. Circumstances of uncertainty and upheaval in the past couple of years—Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri’s assassination in 2005, the subsequent Cedar Revolution that spurred Syria’s withdrawal from Lebanese territory, a string of assassinations of anti-Syrian politicians, the Israel-Hizbullah War of 2006, anti-government protests and Hizbullah’s seizure of sections of Beirut in May 2008—have both fed into and arose from tensions between religious groups. Recent events suggest the centrality of sectarianism to questions about Lebanon’s stability. The momentous political changes that Lebanon has witnessed have raised questions as to the changing nature of sectarianism as well. In particular, given that sectarianism has fed into significant conflict, is it appropriate or productive to maintain sectarianism as the guiding principle for the political system? How have new avenues of discussion influenced Lebanon’s experience of sectarianism? Blogs, collectively referred to as the blogosphere, have provided an increasingly popular means of expression in Lebanon. Blogging has become more prominent through moments of conflict, namely the Cedar Revolution in 2005 and the Israel-Hizbullah conflict in the summer of 2006. As the Lebanese blogosphere virulently debates the unfolding events and the role of sectarianism in Lebanon, blogs offer an illuminating lens as to whether the Lebanese population deems sectarianism to be an appropriate organizing principle for its government.

Living history? Reenacting the past and promoting “tradition” in the Dalmatian hinterland

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 198-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michaela Schauble
Keyword(s):  
Virgin Mary ◽  
Living History ◽  
Tourist Destination ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Divine Intervention ◽  
The Past ◽  
Sports Events ◽  
Political Conditions ◽  
Media Formats

In August 2015 the municipality of Sinj, located in the Dalmatian hinterland, celebrated the 300-year anniversary of a historic victory against the troops of the Ottoman Empire, one that is legendarily attributed to the divine intervention of the Virgin Mary. The Sinj Tourist Board launched an unprecedented campaign in organizing and advertising the various events - ranging from historical re-enactments, film and music productions, folkloristic performances, sports events, exhibitions, and fashion shows, to religious processions and conferences. Using a variety of media formats, these efforts were aimed at creating a new national epic, expanding the meaning of the miraculous battle of 1715 from a local narrative to a nation-wide symbol, representing Croatia in a European and global context. This article focuses on various theatrical re-enactments of the historic battle and the alleged Marian apparition, assessing the role of nostalgia and authenticity in contemporary living history performances. While one of the underlying motifs in the case of Sinj is to enhance the region’s attraction as a tourist destination, the article also theorizes the re-enactment’s epistemological and political claims by proposing that these interactive engagements with history take an active stance in promoting and/or re-inventing heroic olden times to advance socio-political conditions in the present (Gegenwartsbewaltigung).

Salafism(s) in Tanzania: Theological Roots and Political Subtext of the Ansār Sunna

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 30-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Søren Gilsaa
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Fast Growing ◽  
The Past ◽  
Contemporary Politics ◽  
Local Actors ◽  
Political Conditions

Over the past three decades, the role of Salafism has grown considerably in Tanzania, causing clashes and discord between Muslims, Christians and the state and among Muslims themselves. This article traces the roots of the Ansār Sunna, the “defenders of the Sunna”, which is the most conspicuously purist and fast-growing group of Salafi organizations in Tanzania at present. The article discusses the Ansār Sunna local and foreign impetuses and situates the Ansār’s defense of “pure Sunna” in Tanzania’s historical and contemporary politics. The analysis highlights the particularities of individual Ansār organizations and the significance of local actors and changing political conditions for the shaping of Salafi ideas, practices, and identities. Situating the production of Salafi expressions and identities in the ongoing Muslim dialogue within specific environments, the article suggests an inherent diversity, malleability and localizing nature of Salafism.

On Future Directions in Pathology

1982 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 274-277
Author(s):  
Benjamin F. Trump ◽  
Irene K. Berezesky ◽  
Raymond T. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Transmission Electron Microscopy ◽  
Clinical Pathology ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Diagnostic Pathology ◽  
The Past ◽  
Transmission Electron ◽  
Organ Systems ◽  
The Many

The role of electron microscopy and associated techniques is assured in diagnostic pathology. At the present time, most of the progress has been made on tissues examined by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and correlated with light microscopy (LM) and by cytochemistry using both plastic and paraffin-embedded materials. As mentioned elsewhere in this symposium, this has revolutionized many fields of pathology including diagnostic, anatomic and clinical pathology. It began with the kidney; however, it has now been extended to most other organ systems and to tumor diagnosis in general. The results of the past few years tend to indicate the future directions and needs of this expanding field. Now, in addition to routine EM, pathologists have access to the many newly developed methods and instruments mentioned below which should aid considerably not only in diagnostic pathology but in investigative pathology as well.

A literature review on firms' internationalisation through e-commerce

2019 ◽  
pp. 121-143
Author(s):  
Riccardo Resciniti ◽  
Federica De Vanna
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
International Business ◽  
Decision Process ◽  
Foreign Markets ◽  
New Markets ◽  
Integrative Framework ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Relationship

The rise of e-commerce has brought considerable changes to the relationship between firms and consumers, especially within international business. Hence, understanding the use of such means for entering foreign markets has become critical for companies. However, the research on this issue is new and so it is important to evaluate what has been studied in the past. In this study, we conduct a systematic review of e-commerce and internationalisation studies to explicate how firms use e-commerce to enter new markets and to export. The studies are classified by theories and methods used in the literature. Moreover, we draw upon the internationalisation decision process (antecedents-modalities-consequences) to propose an integrative framework for understanding the role of e-commerce in internationalisation

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