Laboratory lives

2020 ◽  
pp. 37-72
Author(s):  
Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
National Development ◽  
Indian Science ◽  
Key Sites ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The first chapter examines the representation of scientific laboratories in Indian science fiction of the non-aligned era. Such laboratories were seen as key sites for an acceleration of national ‘development’ in the decades following the country’s independence. But in science fiction laboratories were often treated critically, where key assumptions regarding the relationship of science, truth and progress were rigorously interrogated and revised.

Commentary on the New Charity Undertakings Law

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 273-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larry Catá Backer
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
National Development ◽  
The Political ◽  
Unique Contribution ◽  
Political Policy ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Theoretical Considerations

Abstract China’s new Charity Law represents the culmination of over a decade of planning for the appropriate development of the productive forces of the charity sector in aid of socialist modernization. Together with the related Foreign ngo Management Law, it represents an important advance in the organization of the civil society sector within emerging structures of Socialist Rule of Law principles. While both Charity and Foreign ngo Management Laws could profitably be considered as parts of a whole, each merits discussion for its own unique contribution to national development. Moreover, while analysis tends to focus on legal conformity of the Charity Law to the state constitution, little work has been done to analyze the relationship of the Charity Law to the political constitution of China. This essay seeks to fill that gap by considering the role of the Charity Law through the lens of the Constitution of the Communist Party of China. More specifically, the essay examines the extent to which the provisions of the Charity Law, and its underlying policies, contribute to the implementation and realization of the Chinese Communist Party (ccp) Basic Line and in the context of the overall political policy of “socialist modernization which has served as the core of the political line of the ccp since the last decades of the 20th century. The essay is organized as follows: Section ii considers the specific provisions of the Charity Law, with some reference to changes between the first draft and the final version of the Charity Law. Section iii then considers some of the more theoretical considerations that suggest a framework for understanding the great contribution of the Charity Law as well as the challenges that remain for the development of the productive forces of the civil society sector at this historical stage of China’s development.

Introduction

Hard Reading ◽  
2016 ◽  
pp. 182-184
Author(s):  
Tom Shippey
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Religious Belief ◽  
Anthropological Theory ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship of science fiction to anthropological theory is further exemplified, in this chapter, by the work of Ursula K. Le Guin, herself the daughter of two famous anthropologists, Alfred and Theodora Kroeber. The first three volumes of Le Guin’s “Earthsea” trilogy once again place magic within the framework of her parents’ discipline. Her work moreover considers the relationship of magic to ancient myth, and also (as in Frazer’s Golden Bough) to religious belief and ritual, all of these considered with a mixture of criticism and sympathy. Le Guin manages the difficult feat of being at once iconoclastic and mythopoeic.

The relationship of science fiction reading to reasoning abilities

1965 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 293-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward K. Weaver ◽  
Eldred Black
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Reasoning Abilities ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Educational Change and National Economic Development

1981 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela Barnhouse Walters
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Educational Development ◽  
National Development ◽  
Educational Expansion ◽  
Dependency Theory ◽  
Beneficial Effects ◽  
National Economic ◽  
National Economic Development ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Pamela Barnhouse Walters examines empirically the relationship of educational development to economic growth in developing countries. Basing her argument on dependency theory, she presents data suggesting that educational expansion has not advanced economic growth. She concludes that while educational reform is not, in and of itself, an effective strategy for promoting such growth, it may have beneficial effects on other aspects of national development.

Reading “New” Religious Movements Historically

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 29-46
Author(s):  
Douglas FitzHenry Jones
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Social Isolation ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
New Religious Movements ◽  
The Past ◽  
Retrospective Account ◽  
Heaven's Gate ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This article surveys the relationship of the Heaven's Gate movement to the cultural context of science fiction while also engaging broader issues in the retrospective account of violence in new religious movements. Against theories that see violence as the consequence of social isolation and the escalating confusion of representation and reality, I argue that members of Heaven's Gate were not only “tapped in” to the reality outside the group but were markedly self-conscious about their engagement with that reality through the medium of science fiction. Using Heaven's Gate as an example, I propose that we read the concepts espoused by new religious movements in the past not in light of their fate but rather as imbedded in the historical realities in which they originally functioned in a meaningful and deliberate fashion.

Online incivility, hate speech and political violence in Zambia: Examining the role of online political campaign messages

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory Gondwe
Keyword(s):  
Political Violence ◽  
Hate Speech ◽  
National Development ◽  
Political Elite ◽  
Campaign Messages ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Data Points ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The aim of this study was to explore the relationship of online incivility and political violence in Zambia. The study used the 2018 Chilanga Constituency by-election campaign messages and those of the 2019 Sesheke constituency to examine the problem. The study drew from the simulation effects (that communication with dissimilar others can encourage incivility and hate online) to assert that political elite campaign messages contribute to incivility/hate and subsequent violence during elections in Zambia. This assumption was tested using 5844 data points collected from various social media platforms owned or purported to be owned by either the Patriotic Front (PF) or the United Party for National Development (UPND) party. The findings support the paper’s hypotheses, and additional analyses suggest that men are more likely to practice incivility online than women. Second, findings suggest that while the PF party’s online platforms exhibit higher trends of partisanship, the UPND tend to privilege tribal affiliations.

Final Frontiers

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Indian Science ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Alternative Pathways ◽  
Fiction Writers ◽  
Jawaharlal Nehru ◽  
The Relationship

This is the first book-length study of the relationship between science fiction, the techno-scientific policies of independent India, and the global non-aligned movement that emerged as a response to Cold War and decolonization. Today, science-fiction writers are often used as government advisors on techno-scientific and defence policies. Such relationships between literature, policy and geo-politics have a long and complex history. Glimpses of this history can be seen in the case of the first generation of post-colonial Indian science fiction writers and their critical entanglements with both techno-scientific policies and the strategy of international non-alignment pursued by India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. This investigation reveals the surprisingly long and relatively unknown life of Indian science fiction, as well as the genre’s capacity to imagine alternative pathways to techno-scientific and geo-political developments that dominate our lives today.

scholarly journals Investment development path: the applicability of measurement criteria and further development

2021 ◽  
Vol 275 ◽  
pp. 01023
Author(s):  
Ke Dai
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
National Development ◽  
Important Relationship ◽  
Reform And Opening Up ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Opening Up

With China’s reform and opening up, the relationship between foreign direct investment and economic development gradually attracts attention. Professor Dunning first developed this theory, which describes the division of net outward direct investment into four distinct stages of a country’s economic development, and later increased it to five. The theory has been developed for 40 years, and whether it can survive and still play a guiding role in national development is the focus of people’s concern. Based on the previous studies of scholars, this paper conducts an empirical study on “individual” countries. Thus it is concluded that the theory in its net foreign direct investment and economic development of the important relationship of the original is still valid, but from the cross section, the measures to be improved, and the theory of the fifth stage of the development of a new understanding

scholarly journals Reading the Simultaneous Motion and Reality Bending Concepts through Doctor Strange

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-38
Author(s):  
Gülşah Uner ◽  
Ebru Erdogan
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Special Effects ◽  
The Future ◽  
Computer Environment ◽  
Science Fiction Films ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Real Places

In order to exemplify the interaction between architecture and science fiction films, Doctor Strange (2016), one of today's cinema examples, was chosen because of that the special effects created in computer environment by transferring the dreams to the film have a surrealist effect on the film; of the fantastic spaces that arise with the deformation of real places become the main character of the film; of foreseeing a different future in terms of architecture. Within the scope of the study, the film was read through the changes of time and space of the concepts of “reality bending” and “simultaneous motion”. As a result of the readings on these concepts, the relationship of cinema with architecture has gained a different dimension, and it has been seen that this film can create a fantastic perspective and inspiration to the designers about the future deconstructivist buildings.  

The relationship of the scleractinian corals to the rugose corals

Paleobiology ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 6 (02) ◽  
pp. 146-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
William A. Oliver
Keyword(s):  
Critical Points ◽  
Scleractinian Corals ◽  
Convincing Evidence ◽  
Early Triassic ◽  
Rugose Corals ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Biologic Factors

The Mesozoic-Cenozoic coral Order Scleractinia has been suggested to have originated or evolved (1) by direct descent from the Paleozoic Order Rugosa or (2) by the development of a skeleton in members of one of the anemone groups that probably have existed throughout Phanerozoic time. In spite of much work on the subject, advocates of the direct descent hypothesis have failed to find convincing evidence of this relationship. Critical points are:(1) Rugosan septal insertion is serial; Scleractinian insertion is cyclic; no intermediate stages have been demonstrated. Apparent intermediates are Scleractinia having bilateral cyclic insertion or teratological Rugosa.(2) There is convincing evidence that the skeletons of many Rugosa were calcitic and none are known to be or to have been aragonitic. In contrast, the skeletons of all living Scleractinia are aragonitic and there is evidence that fossil Scleractinia were aragonitic also. The mineralogic difference is almost certainly due to intrinsic biologic factors.(3) No early Triassic corals of either group are known. This fact is not compelling (by itself) but is important in connection with points 1 and 2, because, given direct descent, both changes took place during this only stage in the history of the two groups in which there are no known corals.

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