“Yes, we camp!”: Democracy in the Age Occupy

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 537-557 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ziga Vodovnik ◽  
Andrej Grubacic
Keyword(s):  
Local Communities ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
Occupy Movement ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
Mass Assembly ◽  
Concepts Of Democracy ◽  
Scholarly Attention ◽  
Political Membership

This article explores the global mass assembly movement, focusing on its redefinitions of democracy and political membership, where one of the most interesting and promising aspects is reaffirmation of spatiality. In a way, the so-called Occupy Movement imagined new concepts of democracy and political membership worked out on a more manageable scale, that is to say, within local communities. We build on the recent scholarly attention given to the notion of nonstate spaces, which we chose to call exilic spaces because they are populated by communities that voluntarily or involuntarily attempt escape from both state regulation and capitalist accumulation.

scholarly journals Cezarov posjet Iliriku 57. /56. g. pr. Kr. / Caesar’s visit to Illyricum in 57/56 B.C.

2018 ◽  
pp. 61-82
Author(s):  
Siniša Bilić-Dujmušić ◽  
Feđa Milivojević
Keyword(s):  
Local Communities ◽  
The Political ◽  
Julius Caesar ◽  
The Third ◽  
Political Events ◽  
Satisfactory Analysis ◽  
New Interpretation ◽  
Gallic Wars ◽  
Scholarly Attention ◽  
Short Episode

This article is dealing with the chronology and subject of Caesar’s first visit to Illyricum. Namely, at the beginning of winter in 57 B.C. Gaius Julius Caesar, the governor of Illyricum and the two Gauls, set off to Illyricum with the intent to visit the local communities and to acquaint himself with the area. However, in Gaul suddenly broke out the rebellion of the Veneti and their allies. Caesar’s subordinate  commander in the area, Publius Licinius Crassus, informed Caesar about these  events. As he was quite distant, Caesar ordered military ships to be built on the  river that flows in the Atlantic Ocean (Liger fl.) and told Crassus he will proceed  to the army cum primum per anni tempus potuit. This seemingly short episode during Caesar’s governorship of Illyricum is attested with only a few words in the third  book of Commentarii de Bello Gallico (bell. Gall. III, VII – IX). Although noticed  in modern historiography, to date no significant scholarly attention or satisfactory  analysis has been paid to it. In modern historiography it is mentioned exclusively  in the works dealing with a far wider context. There is only an overview, with a prevailing opinion that due to the war with the Veneti Caesar had to adjourn his  short visit to Illyricum or that he did not even arrive there. Yet with the analysis  of general historical circumstances, specific chronology of the period and Caesar’s  work on Gallic wars, an exactly different conclusion is to be made. Here the authors  give new interpretation of Caesar’s words and contemporary information on the  political events in Rome. Thus proving not only that Caesar’s departure to war with  the Veneti cannot be chronologically associated with his departure to Illyricum, but  that Caesar indeed visited Illyricum; that his visit lasted much longer than it has  been considered so far; and that his reasons for the visit stemmed from the significance of the province in Caesar’s plans for future engagements.

Youth Entrepreneurship in India

2017 ◽  
pp. 1511-1534
Author(s):  
Neeta Baporikar
Keyword(s):  
Regional Growth ◽  
Job Creation ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Policy Debate ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Adequate Understanding ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Youth Entrepreneurship ◽  
Unemployed Youth ◽  
Scholarly Attention

Governments and local communities globally have recognized that key to building prosperity and stimulating regional growth is fostering entrepreneurship - mainly youth entrepreneurship. India is no exception, with so many educated yet unemployed youth; continuous policies are being drawn and attempts made for promoting youth entrepreneurship. Unemployment for educated youth has become particularly acute since the education explosion in early 2000's. Though the promotion of entrepreneurship as a possible source of job creation, empowerment and resources dynamism has attracted increasing policy and scholarly attention, yet there is no systematic attempt to look at it from a youth angle. This has resulted in lack of an adequate understanding of the potential benefits of youth entrepreneurship (YE). Through grounded research and in-depth analysis, the aim of this chapter is to stimulate policy debate, portray the outlook and understand the obstacle for youth entrepreneurship in India. Attempt is also made to suggest strategies that can be initiated for enhancing youth entrepreneurship.

Why international space collaborations should be anticolonial

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandra Marino ◽  
Gabriella Ghermandi
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
International Space ◽  
Ethical Frameworks ◽  
Space Projects ◽  
Global North ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Space Infrastructure ◽  
Competing Priorities ◽  
Scholarly Attention

<p>This paper synthesises and presents evidence from existing literature on how space projects and infrastructures built in the Global South have had – often unintended – negative impacts on local and Indigenous communities (Redfield 2000). The example of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) in South Africa demonstrates that there are often competing priorities at play within space projects and that equitable practices must be at the heart of all space initiatives that aim to foster inclusive and just outcomes (Walker, Chinigo’ 2019). While dispossession due to space infrastructure has received recent scholarly attention, the ways in which the methods of scientific research reframe relationships and the sites of space research often remain invisible. This paper touches upon three areas where more equitable practices are needed to address historically crystallised asymmetries of power: 1) partnerships; 2) fieldwork; 3) approaches to science. I use Harding’s decolonial philosophies of science (2017) to instigate a dialogue with other disciplines and propose a change of practice in science. Fieldwork in analogue environments in Africa is used as an example of fostering collaborations and scientific endeavours that are actively anticolonial and combat the ways in which the Global North can be extractive in its approach to space projects on our planet. Can ethical frameworks be useful tools to appropriately consider the potential impacts of space projects and collaborations on local communities?</p> <p> </p>

scholarly journals The “Invisible” Local Communities: Foreign Investor Obligations, Inclusiveness, and the International Investment Regime

AJIL Unbound ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 113 ◽  
pp. 16-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolás M. Perrone
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Investment ◽  
Dispute Settlement ◽  
Blind Spot ◽  
International Investment ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
Regulatory Relationship ◽  
International Investment Law ◽  
Investment Projects ◽  
Investment Law

International investment law is relational. It is about how we define and govern the relationship between the actors involved in and affected by foreign investment projects. Most international investment law literature confirms the relational nature of this field. The scholarship has analyzed the resolution of specific disputes and the regulatory relationship between foreign investors and host states. As could be expected, some of the key issues that have emerged include states’ right to regulate, the risk of regulatory chill, and how to review state regulation. There is, however, an important blind spot in this relational approach. A look at many foreign investment disputes, particularly in the natural resource extraction sector, shows that local communities are also central protagonists of foreign investment projects. These communities have a lot at stake but have remained almost invisible to the international investment regime. Apart from the ability to submit amicus curiae briefs, they have neither rights nor remedies in this regime. This essay discusses international investment law from an inclusive relational perspective, and shows how, contrary to this perspective, recent awards in investor-state dispute settlement continue to render invisible local communities and their rightful aspirations.

scholarly journals Rune Stones as Material Relations in Late Pagan and Early Christian Scandinavia

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Julie Lund
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Viking Age ◽  
Medieval Period ◽  
Use Of Space ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Early Medieval Period ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
Surrounding Landscape ◽  
Scholarly Attention

In this article, the material qualities and the use of space on rune stone and its links to the landscape during the Viking Age and in the Early Medieval Period in South Scandinavia are explored and related to acts of commemoration and changing spatial perceptions. The 11th century rune stones from Denmark and Scania without iconography have previously received less scholarly attention by the archaeologists, but here they form the main focus. Whereas the commemorative aspects of the rune stones have been noticed by a number of scholars, less emphasis has been on their material qualities and the spatial aspects of the inscription on the stones; the spatial references in the rune stones to the surrounding landscape; and the bodily effect they had for the readers of the runes. The rune stones are studied as expressions of social relations between living, deceased and places in late pagan and early Christian Scandinavia. Three phenomena are explored: the rune stones at bridges and the role of the bridge in paganism and Christianity; the use of the surface and shape of the stones to separate diverging beings; and the shape of the inscription and its relation to the new concepts of afterworld in terms of heaven above, while simultaneously creating links to near and distant pasts. Further, the process of creating relations to distant pasts in the Early Christian period is explored.

Smart Tourism and Local Heritage

2021 ◽  
pp. 206-232
Author(s):  
Claudete Oliveira Moreira ◽  
Rui Ferreira ◽  
Tiago Santos
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Tourism Resources ◽  
Smart Tourism

Contemporary society is sustained by a growing digitalization of social processes, with exponential growth in the uses of ICT, which opened up new interaction possibilities with objects and places. In the field of tourism, these technological developments have given rise to the emergence of new concepts: smart tourism, smart destinations, smart experiences, and smart heritage. These concepts and their implications for the success of tourist activities are discussed first, and then the focus of analysis is shifted to the local tourism resources and characteristics. The case study focuses on the municipality of São Pedro do Sul, an area located in the Viseu Dão Lafões subregion, within the Central Region of Portugal. Several low-cost digital strategies are proposed to enrich tourism activities based on endogenous cultural and natural resources and empower route tourism as a relevant strategy for diversifying tourism and support the sustainable development of local communities based on a digital application that aims to integrate storytelling in the territorial context under study.

Youth Entrepreneurship in India

2016 ◽  
pp. 308-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neeta Baporikar
Keyword(s):  
Regional Growth ◽  
Job Creation ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Policy Debate ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Adequate Understanding ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Youth Entrepreneurship ◽  
Unemployed Youth ◽  
Scholarly Attention

Governments and local communities globally have recognized that key to building prosperity and stimulating regional growth is fostering entrepreneurship - mainly youth entrepreneurship. India is no exception, with so many educated yet unemployed youth; continuous policies are being drawn and attempts made for promoting youth entrepreneurship. Unemployment for educated youth has become particularly acute since the education explosion in early 2000's. Though the promotion of entrepreneurship as a possible source of job creation, empowerment and resources dynamism has attracted increasing policy and scholarly attention, yet there is no systematic attempt to look at it from a youth angle. This has resulted in lack of an adequate understanding of the potential benefits of youth entrepreneurship (YE). Through grounded research and in-depth analysis, the aim of this chapter is to stimulate policy debate, portray the outlook and understand the obstacle for youth entrepreneurship in India. Attempt is also made to suggest strategies that can be initiated for enhancing youth entrepreneurship.

scholarly journals Dziecko jako byt pogranicza. Romantyczne ujęcie dziecka w kontekście edukacji

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominika Gruntkowska ◽  
Oskar Szwabowski
Keyword(s):  
Homo Sacer ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
Concepts Of Democracy

W artykule stawiamy tezę, że romantyczne ujęcie dziecka jest bliższe nowym koncepcjom demokracji i podmiotowości (Negri, Baridotti, Lewis) niż ujęcie dziecka w dyskursie obywatelskim. Wskazujemy, że dziecko romantyczne stanowi podmiot monstrualny, usytuowany pomiędzy światami. Dziecko jako monstrum, homo sacer (Agamben), stanowi specyficzny splot władzy i opozycji wobec niej. Jest uprzywilejowanym miejscem, w którym możliwe jest konstruowanie zewnętrza, exodus, będący praktyką exopedagogiczną (Lewis, Kahn). In this article we argue that the romantic notion of a child is closer to the new concepts of democracy and subjectivity (Negri, Baridotti, Lewis) than a child included in the discourse of citizenship. We show that a child is a romantic monstrous entity, situated between the worlds. The child as a monster, homo sacer (Agamben), it is a specific entanglement of the power and the opposition to it. The monster is the privileged place in which it is possible to construct the exterior – exodus – which is the practice of exopedagogy (Lewis, Kahn).

“Listen, Marxist!”: On the Forgotten Past of Self-Management and the Contemporary Orgasms of History

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-194
Author(s):  
Žiga Vodovnik
Keyword(s):  
Democratic Theory ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
Self Management ◽  
State Spaces ◽  
The Core ◽  
Liberal Democratic ◽  
Original Meaning ◽  
Mass Assembly ◽  
Political Form ◽  
Anarchist Theory

AbstractIn this article, we argue that self-management should not be understood only as an economic project, but rather as a political form based on the transformation of the core principles of modern capitalist societies. We start from the supposition that self-management does not imply an economic, but primarily a political recomposition of society, which is why it is necessary to draw attention to the economic reductionism in the discussions on self-management. The purpose of this article is three-fold: first, we recover the original meaning of self-management, its forgotten, anarchist (pre)history, and elaborate on the anarchist theory of organisation that has dynamised the idea/practice of self-management throughout history. Second, we analyse Yugoslav self-management through the categories and concepts of Praxis philosophy, which leads us to the conclusion that the Yugoslav model of self-management was above all a non-political form that remained in the framework of liberal democratic theory. Finally, we explore the global mass assembly movement Occupy, building on the recent academic attention devoted to the notion of non-state spaces. We analyse the encampments and occupied squares as self-managed exilic spaces in which protesters (in)voluntarily escaped from both state regulation and capitalist accumulation.

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