Terrorism and the State Response

Pakistan ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 105-123
Author(s):  
Azhar Hassan Nadeem
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
State Response

scholarly journals Vulnerable bodies and invisible work: The Covid-19 pandemic and social reproduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 135822912110313
Author(s):  
Ellen Gordon-Bouvier
Keyword(s):  
Social Reproduction ◽  
The State ◽  
Family Unit ◽  
State Response ◽  
The Past ◽  
Invisible Work ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Liberal Individualism

The restrained state has always sought to devalue socially reproductive work, often consigning it to the private family unit, where it is viewed as a natural part of female relational roles. This marginalisation of social reproduction adversely affects those performing it and reduces their resilience to vulnerability. The pandemic has largely shattered the liberal illusions of autonomous personhood and state restraint. The reality of our universal embodied vulnerability has now become impossible to ignore, and society’s reliance on socially reproductive work has therefore been pushed into public view. However, the pandemic has also exacerbated harms and pressures for those performing paid and unpaid social reproduction, creating a crisis that demands an urgent state response. As it is argued in this paper, the UK response to date has been inadequate, illustrating an unwillingness to abandon familiar principles of liberal individualism. However, the pandemic has also created a climate of exceptionality, which has prompted even the most neoliberal of states to consider measures that in the past would have been dismissed. In this paper, it is imagined how the state can use this opportunity to become more responsive and improve the resilience of social reproduction workers, both inside and outside the home.

scholarly journals Steady State Response of Linear Time Invariant Systems Modeledby Multibond Graphs

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 1717
Author(s):  
Gilberto Gonzalez Avalos ◽  
Noe Barrera Gallegos ◽  
Gerardo Ayala-Jaimes ◽  
Aaron Padilla Garcia
Keyword(s):  
Steady State ◽  
Linear Time ◽  
Direct Determination ◽  
The State ◽  
Steady State Response ◽  
State Variables ◽  
Linear Time Invariant ◽  
State Response ◽  
Time Invariant

The direct determination of the steady state response for linear time invariant (LTI) systems modeled by multibond graphs is presented. Firstly, a multiport junction structure of a multibond graph in an integral causality assignment (MBGI) to get the state space of the system is introduced. By assigning a derivative causality to the multiport storage elements, the multibond graph in a derivative causality (MBGD) is proposed. Based on this MBGD, a theorem to obtain the steady state response is presented. Two case studies to get the steady state of the state variables are applied. Both cases are modeled by multibond graphs, and the symbolic determination of the steady state is obtained. The simulation results using the 20-SIM software are numerically verified.

Narcan as biomedical panic: The war on overdose and the harms of harm reduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 136248062096477
Author(s):  
Philip R Kavanaugh
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Drug Treatment ◽  
Harm Reduction ◽  
Drug Users ◽  
Opioid Addiction ◽  
The State ◽  
Opioid Overdose ◽  
State Response ◽  
Drug Companies ◽  
The Us

As the opioid overdose crisis in the US persists, governments have coordinated with drug companies to propagate the overdose reversal drug naloxone (Narcan) as a ‘kinder/gentler’ state response, deriving from a supposedly progressive harm reduction ethos. Drawing on Derrida’s deconstruction of pharmakon, I show how Narcan is rendered paradoxical and terminal, diverting attention from the structural antecedents of opioid addiction and resources for drug treatment while reproducing corporeal suffering in those revived. I further highlight how Narcan is positioned in a wider array of regressive governing practices that legitimate the state’s punitive drug war and demonization of drug users. Narcan thus provides a useful opening between the state and contemporary biomedicine to theorize how harm reduction and public health unfurl in insidious and corrosive ways.

scholarly journals India’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Frontal Assault on the “Historically Dispossessed”

2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-114
Author(s):  
Malu Mohan ◽  
Sapna Mishra
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Internal Migration ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
The State ◽  
Structural Determinants ◽  
Informal Labor ◽  
State Response ◽  
Migrant Laborers ◽  
International Attention ◽  
Informal Labor Market

During the nationwide lockdown as part of the state response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the predicament of interstate migrant laborers in India, caught in crowded cities without means of livelihood and basic resources needed to sustain life, gained national and international attention. This article explores the context of the current migrant crisis through the historical trajectories and political roots of internal migration in India and its relationship with the urban informal labor market and the structural determinants of precarious employment. We argue that the both the response to the pandemic and the disproportionate impact on migrant laborers are reflections and consequences of an established pattern of neglect and poor accountability of the state toward the employment and living conditions of migrant workers who toil precariously in the informal labor market.

scholarly journals Study on Evaluation of Timber Security in China Based on the PSR Conceptual Model

Forests ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 517
Author(s):  
Qiujuan Li ◽  
Shaozhi Chen ◽  
Rong Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Comprehensive Evaluation ◽  
Entropy Method ◽  
The State ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
State Response ◽  
State Evaluation ◽  
Changing Trend

In case of a shortage of China’s domestic timber, the research of China’s timber security has become increasingly more important. Using the pressure-state–response (PSR) conceptual model and the entropy method, the timber security of China during 1997–2017 was evaluated and analyzed to understand and master the situation of timber security in this paper. The results showed that: (1) The pressure of timber security in China during 1997–2017 was increasing in waves, with the condition of timber imports as the main factor; (2) the state of timber security in China presented a downward-then-upward tendency during 1997–2017, the main influencing factors of which were the domestic timber supply and forest resources condition; (3) responses to ensure the timber security of China almost indicated a steep rising trend, because both the timber industry technical progress index and the waste paper recovery rate improved the safety of timber in China; and (4) the changing trend of the comprehensive evaluation of timber security in China approximately agrees with that of the state evaluation, which showed that state indicators were key factors affecting the timber security of China. The pressures influencing the timber security of China are rising, while the state of timber security and the responses of the high-tech industry have been improving at a higher range than the pressures, which has led to an improvement of China’s timber security.

scholarly journals The State Response toward the Existence of HTI: An Analysis from Social Movement Study Approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hasbi Aswar ◽  
Danial Bin Mohd Yusof ◽  
Rohana Binti Abdul Hamid
Keyword(s):  
Social Movement ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
State Repression ◽  
Indonesian Government ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
State Response ◽  
Political Group ◽  
Change Of State ◽  
Movement Study

Abstract As a global Islamic political group, Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT) has experienced many kinds of state coercive responses due its ideas that considered radical and threatening the existing modern political systems. In many places, this group has been rejected and criminalized by regimes either in Muslim majority states or in the Western states.  The same experience has also been faced by HT in Indonesia that went through the change of state policy from accommodating to repressive approach. This study will focus to elaborate the response of the Indonesian government toward HTI from the lens of social movement studies by using state repression concept. This article uses the explanatory method analysis and collects data mainly from literature. This article argues that the state has used several methods to repress HT such as issuing an extraordinary law in dissolving HTI; intimidating HTI`s supporters and activists and stigmatizing or discrediting HTI image. As the result, in 2017 Indonesian government dissolved HTI, then HTI became one of forbidden organizations in Indonesia.

scholarly journals Endogenous Transmission Mechanism and Spatial Effect of Forest Ecological Security in China

Forests ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 508
Author(s):  
Xiuting Cai ◽  
Bin Zhang ◽  
Jiehua Lyu
Keyword(s):  
Forest Ecosystem ◽  
Spillover Effect ◽  
Correlation Effect ◽  
The State ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Evaluation Index System ◽  
Security Level ◽  
Ecological Security ◽  
State Response ◽  
Pressure State

Forest ecological security is an important component of ecological security and national security, and it is a requirement for the sustainable development of the forestry economy. In this study, based on the pressure–state–response (PSR) model, an evaluation index system of forest ecological security was constructed regarding three aspects: the pressure on the forest ecosystem caused by human activities, the state of the forest ecosystem, and the response measures taken by humans to protect the forest ecosystem. The forest ecological security and its pressure, state, and response in 31 provinces (municipalities and autonomous regions) in China from 2004 to 2018 were evaluated. Furthermore, with the help of a mediating effect model, the Moran index, and a spatial econometric model, the interaction relationship, spatial correlation effect, and spatial spillover effect of the pressure–state–response of forest ecological security were analyzed. The results showed the following: First, during the study period, the forest ecological security of most provinces was at sensitive and critical safety levels, and the forest ecological security level in Northeast and Southwest China was generally higher than that in Northwest and East China. Second, regarding the pressure, state, and response of forest ecological security, the pressure was generally low but with an increasing trend, the state was relatively good with continuous improvement, and the response was clearly insufficient and showed a fluctuating downward trend. Third, there were six different transmission mechanisms between pressure, state, and response of forest ecological security, among which there were significant transmission barriers between pressure and response. Given these findings, we propose suggestions to promote the improvement of forest ecological security in China.

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