Beyond Master Narratives: Local Sources and Global Perspectives on Sport, Apartheid, and Liberation

The Concept of Palestine is deeply rooted in the collective consciousness of the indigenous people of Palestine and the multicultural ancient past. The name Palestine is the most commonly used from the Late Bronze Age (from 1300 BCE) onwards. The name Palestine is evident in countless histories, inscriptions, maps and coins from antiquity, medieval and modern Palestine. From the Late Bronze Age onwards the names used for the region, such as Djahi, Retenu and Cana'an, all gave way to the name Palestine. Throughout Classical Antiquity the name Palestine remained the most common and during the Roman, Byzantine and Islamic periods the concept and political geography of Palestine acquired official administrative status. This article sets out to explain the historical origins of the concept of Palestine and the evolving political geography of the country. It will seek to demonstrate how the name ‘Palestine’ (rather than the term ‘Cana'an’) was most commonly and formally used in ancient history. It argues that the legend of the ‘Israelites’ conquest of Cana'an’ and other master narratives of the Bible evolved across many centuries; they are myth-narratives, not evidence-based accurate history. It further argues that academic and school history curricula should be based on historical facts/empirical evidence/archaeological discoveries – not on master narratives or Old Testament sacred-history and religio-ideological constructs.

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PERIMBANGAN KEUANGAN ANTARA PEMERINTAH PUSAT DENGAN PEMERINTAH DAERAH DALAM PENGELOLAAN KEUANGAN DAERAH

Jurnal Ilmu Pemerintahan Widya Praja ◽

10.33701/jipwp.v42i1.137 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 42 (1) ◽

pp. 1

Author(s):

Edward Hutagalung

Keyword(s):

Local Government ◽

Central Government ◽

Local Authorities ◽

Fiscal Capacity ◽

Regional Autonomy ◽

The Public ◽

Delegation Of Authority ◽

Regional Authority ◽

Local Sources ◽

Tax Sharing

The ﬁ nancial relationship between central and local government can be deﬁ ned as a system that regulates how some funds were divided among various levels of government as well as how to ﬁ ndsources of local empowerment to support the activities of the public sector.Fiscal decentralization is the delegation of authority granted by the central government to theregions to make policy in the area of ﬁ nancial management.One of the main pillars of regional autonomy is a regional authority to independently manage theﬁ nancial area. State of Indonesia as a unitary state of Indonesia adheres to a combination of elementsof recognition for local authorities to independently manage ﬁ nances combined with the element oftransferring ﬁ scal authority and supervision of the ﬁ scal policy area.General Allocation Fund an area allocated on the basis of the ﬁ scal gap and basic allocation whilethe ﬁ scal gap is reduced by the ﬁ scal needs of local ﬁ scal capacity. Fiscal capacity of local sources offunding that comes from the area of regional revenue and Tax Sharing Funds outside the ReforestationFund.The results showed that the strengthening of local ﬁ scal capacity is in line with regional autonomy.

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Environmental Engagement and Cultural Value: Global Perspectives for Protecting the Natural World

10.3389/978-2-88963-444-6 ◽

2020 ◽

Keyword(s):

Natural World ◽

Cultural Value ◽

Global Perspectives ◽

Environmental Engagement

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Narrating Society: Enacting ‘Immigrant’ Characters through Negotiating, Naturalization, and Forgetting

Global Perspectives ◽

10.1525/gp.2020.12623 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Sanne Boersma

Keyword(s):

Scientific Work ◽

Immigrant Integration ◽

European Countries ◽

Special Issue ◽

Global Perspectives ◽

Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽

Scientific Institutions ◽

The Social ◽

Social Scientific ◽

Media And Communication

This article scrutinizes how ‘immigrant’ characters of perpetual arrival are enacted in the social scientific work of immigrant integration monitoring. Immigrant integration research produces narratives in which characters—classified in highly specific, contingent ways as ‘immigrants’—are portrayed as arriving and never as having arrived. On the basis of ethnographic fieldwork at social scientific institutions and networks in four Western European countries, this article analyzes three practices that enact the characters of arrival narratives: negotiating, naturalizing, and forgetting. First, it shows how negotiating constitutes objects of research while at the same time a process of hybridization is observed among negotiating scientific and governmental actors. Second, a naturalization process is analyzed in which slippery categories become fixed and self-evident. Third, the practice of forgetting involves the fading away of contingent and historical circumstances of the research and specifically a dispensation of ‘native’ or ‘autochthonous’ populations. Consequently, the article states how some people are considered rightful occupants of ‘society’ and others are enacted to travel an infinite road toward an occupied societal space. Moreover, it shows how enactments of arriving ‘immigrant’ characters have performative effects in racially differentiating national populations and hence in narrating society. This article is part of the Global Perspectives, Media and Communication special issue on “Media, Migration, and Nationalism,” guest-edited by Koen Leurs and Tomohisa Hirata.

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GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES

Perfect Beat ◽

10.1558/prbt.v4i1.28732 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 106-111

Author(s):

WILL STRAW

Keyword(s):

Global Perspectives

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