Extending Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan in the 21st Century

2022 ◽  
pp. 295-312
Author(s):  
Bharat Mehra
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
South Asian ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Social Equity ◽  
World Order ◽  
East Indian ◽  
Real Change

This chapter traces the actualities and possibilities of representing social justice and social equity concerns in LIS via extending Ranganathan's five laws of librarianship within today's contemporary neoliberal and geopolitical realities. Blinders in librarianship are identified in its resistance to intentional, systematic, action-oriented, community-engaged, and impact-driven strategies of social justice and real change owing to its White-IST (white + elitist) roots. These are speculated in relation to the profession's undervaluing of Ranganathan's contributions because of his South Asian (i.e., East Indian) origins as a result of the pedestalizing of its Anglo/Eurocentric components within the legacies of a colonized and imperialistic world order. A manifesto of social justice laws of librarianship is proposed to address past and recent lapses in LIS.

The World of Uncertainty: Is America Losing Its Leverage Towards a Looming New China–Russia Alliance?

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (04) ◽  
pp. 92-106
Author(s):  
Vitaly KOZYREV
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
21St Century ◽  
World Order ◽  
The United States ◽  
Great Power ◽  
Window Of Opportunity ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Alliance Building

The recent deterioration of US–China and US–Russia relations has stumbled the formation of a better world order in the 21st century. Washington’s concerns of the “great power realignment”, as well as its Manichean battle against China’s and Russia’s “illiberal regimes” have resulted in the activated alliance-building efforts between Beijing and Moscow, prompting the Biden administration to consider some wedging strategies. Despite their coordinated preparation to deter the US power, the Chinese and Russian leaderships seek to avert a conflict with Washington by diplomatic means, and the characteristic of their partnership is still leaving a “window of opportunity” for the United States to lever against the establishment of a formal Sino–Russian alliance.

scholarly journals GERAKAN ANTI GLOBALISASI

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (02) ◽  
pp. 18-34
Author(s):  
Sonny Sudiar ◽  
Aisyah Aisyah ◽  
Muhammad Nizar Hidayat
Keyword(s):  
Economic Integration ◽  
21St Century ◽  
World Order ◽  
Interesting Topic ◽  
The World

Globalization as a phenomenon that has been closely associated with 21st century is an interesting topic of discussion among academics and practitioners alike. The term is closely related with neo-liberalism paradigm in which it refers to an economic integration governed by the priciples of liberalization and openness. Even so, globalization did not occurr without resistance. Inequality resulted from the process of globalization has made some people struggle to resist it especially in the terms of economy. This article aimed to describe how globalization reshapes the world order and how it resulted to the anti-globalization movement that struggle to resist the inequality from the process of globalization.

FL Teaching and Learning as a Gateway for Democracy in the 21st Century

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiara Fabbian
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
The Core ◽  
Information Media ◽  
Multicultural Citizenship ◽  
Media And Technology ◽  
The University ◽  
Career Skills

Responding to the conflicting public perspectives about pedagogical approaches to, and purposes for, language teaching and learning, the authors suggest ways to reconceptualize foreign language (FL) teaching and learning as a springboard toward multicultural citizenship and social justice. The authors propose an approach to FL teaching that aims to develop learners’ information, media, and technology literacies as well as life and career skills, which are vital to succeed in a 21st-century global environment, and to empower them to become engaged citizens and agents of social change in their communities. By reframing FL and culture instruction within a social justice perspective, we devise new and creative ways to make the teaching of FL relevant to collegiate education and at the core of the university mission.

Regime Capability and Relational Stakes in the Emerging World Order

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-36
Author(s):  
Anand Aditya
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
New World ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
World Order ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
New World Order ◽  
Conceptual Frame

Against the background of an emerging new world order in the 21st century, this paper offers a conceptual frame on the critical role that regime capability can play in modulating the relational stakes of a country. The text in that context offers the case of Nepal as also a few other countries to assess and explain the role and impact of political stability in enhancing relational dividend as well as the pace of democratisation and development. A three-fold typology of governance regimes-survival, subsistential and self-sustaining-is also presented to validate the arguments. The methodology used here is broadly comparative and empirical using ideas conceptualised to facilitate comparison, explanation and elaboration of the arguments forwarded in the course of discussion.

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