Dolomite Close-Ups

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Bainbridge
Keyword(s):  
Visual Space ◽  
World Views ◽  
Victorian Period ◽  
Intercultural Exchange ◽  
Cultural World ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Intimate Exchange

Joseph Sanger Davies’s Dolomite Strongholds offers as a distinct way to market the Dolomites as ‘prominent mountains’ in the Victorian period. The chapter reveals how increasingly haptic dimensions of mountaineering complicate the visual space created by a ‘modern’ mountaineer such as Sanger Davies. It explores conflicting and complementary views on the Dolomites offered by English mountaineers and their local guides, describing their encounter as an intimate exchange between two cultural world-views from the very surface of the rock itself. The relationship between Ralph King-Milbanke and his Dolomite guides renders the Dolomite landscape fluid in terms of intercultural exchange whereas Gertrude Bell’s visits to the Dolomites offer up further clues on the portability of landscape through naming peaks.

Islamic Groups and their World-views and Identities: Neo-Traditional Salafis and Progressive Muslims

2007 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 341-363 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adis Duderija
Keyword(s):  
Paper Briefly ◽  
World Views ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThis paper presents a snap-shot discussion on the origins and the world-views behind two global contemporary movements among Muslims, namely Neo-Traditional Salafis and Progressive Muslims. It endeavours to historically situate and position them in relation to the cumulative Islamic historical harvest and delineate their approach to modernity. Additionally the paper briefly examines the concept of the role and the function of women within these respective world-views. Finally, it analyses the implications of the underlying ideology of these movements on the relationship between Muslims and non-Muslims in both Islamicate and non-Islamicate societies.

Historical Mindedness and the World at Large: E. A. Freeman as Public Intellectual

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. S. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Public Life ◽  
Public Intellectual ◽  
Intellectual Life ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Important Thing ◽  
Victorian Period ◽  
The World ◽  
Political Controversy ◽  
The Relationship

E. A. Freeman is best remembered as an historian, but he was also an extensive contributor to the ‘higher journalism’ of the mid-Victorian period. Yet his prolific journalistic output has never attracted sustained attention from historians. This essay analyses the relationship between Freeman’s historical work and his journalism in order to explore his place in Victorian intellectual life. It asks how far his journalism was reliant upon an authority derived from his distinction as an historian. While Freeman drew rather promiscuously on a number of analytically distinct ways of understanding the relationship between history and politics, he responded to accusations of ‘antiquarianism’ and ‘historical-mindedness’ by clarifying what he saw as the role of the historian in public life. Since history, he thought, would inevitably be deployed in political controversy, the important thing was that historical error should be expunged in order to clarify political issues.

Highland Gatherings, Balmorality, and the Glamour of Backwardness

1992 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grant Jarvie
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Victorian Period ◽  
The Relationship

The argument presented here is that cultural studies interventions on sport in British social development are parochial and have grown out of a certain reading of Gramsci’s work. The work of Tom Naim provides the basis for (a) a substantive discussion on the relationship between the Scottish Highland Gatherings, the monarchy, and Highland culture during the Victorian period, and (b) developing a nationalist/socialist reading of Gramsci and consequently a nationalist/socialist critique of cultural studies accounts of sport in Britain.

A Victorian extinction: Alfred Newton and the evolution of animal protection

2012 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 695-714 ◽  
Author(s):  
HENRY M. COWLES
Keyword(s):  
Natural Selection ◽  
Comparative Anatomy ◽  
Comparative Morphology ◽  
Animal Cruelty ◽  
Modern Concept ◽  
Animal Protection ◽  
Victorian Period ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThe modern concept of extinction emerged in the Victorian period, though its chief proponent is seldom remembered today. Alfred Newton, for four decades the professor of zoology and comparative anatomy at Cambridge, was an expert on rare and extinct birds as well as on what he called ‘the exterminating process'. Combining traditional comparative morphology with Darwinian natural selection, Newton developed a particular sense of extinction that helped to shape contemporary, and subsequent, animal protection. Because he understood extinction as a process to be studied scientifically, and because he made that, rather than animal cruelty, the focus of animal protection, Newton provides an important window onto the relationship between science and sentiment in this period. Newton's efforts to bring the two into line around the issue of human-caused extinction reveal an important moment in which the boundaries between science and sentiment, and between those who did and those who did not have the authority to speak for nature, were up for grabs.

scholarly journals An Ecclesiastical Descent: Religion and History in the Work of William Stubbs

2013 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. E. KIRBY
Keyword(s):  
Historical Process ◽  
The Past ◽  
Victorian Period ◽  
High Church ◽  
The Relationship

This article explores the relationship between religion and historiography in the work of the historian and bishop William Stubbs (1825–1901). Previous studies of Stubbs have neglected the High-Church influences which demonstrably pervaded his thought, and shaped his ideas of the English past, of the Christian purposes of history, and of the historical process itself. Recovering the confessional bent of Stubbs's approach to the past challenges assumptions about not only academic professionalisation, but also the prevalence through the Victorian period of a ‘Whig interpretation’ of history.

scholarly journals Aspects of Love: The Effect of Mortality Salience and Attachment Style on Romantic Beliefs

2013 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Smith ◽  
Emma Massey
Keyword(s):  
Attachment Style ◽  
Attachment Styles ◽  
Close Relationships ◽  
Mortality Salience ◽  
Insecure Attachment ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Relationship Assessment ◽  
Cultural World ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Assessment Questionnaire

Two studies are reported which explore romance as a means of terror management for participants with secure and insecure attachment styles. Mikulincer and Florian (2000) have shown that while mortality salience increases the desire for intimacy in securely attached individuals, the insecurely attached use cultural world views rather than close relationships to cope with fear of death. Study 1 used the romantic belief scale to compare the effects of attachment style and mortality salience on the cultural aspects of close relationships and showed that the only the insecurely attached were more romantic following mortality salience. Study 2 replicated this effect and demonstrated that this difference was not simply due to lower self-esteem in the insecurely attached. The additional inclusion of the Relationship assessment questionnaire failed to provide any evidence that the securely attached were affected by the mortality salience manipulation, even on a more interpersonal measure.

Human Rights Rituals: Masking Neoliberalism and Inequality, and Marginalizing Alternative World Views

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (01) ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Larking
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
World Views ◽  
Neoliberal Policies ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract The role played by ritual in the field of human rights has not been widely remarked or analysed. Here I argue that the triumph of human rights as the predominant language for making social justice claims in the international sphere is partly attributable to the power of certain linguistic and embodied rituals. I suggest that these rituals veil the material factors at stake when human rights are invoked internationally, obscuring the relationship between neoliberalism, material inequality, and human rights. I compare the vision of justice propounded through the rituals of human rights with that proposed by the peasants’ movement, Vía Campesina. Vía Campesina’s vision is grounded in material realities and confronts neoliberal policies head on. I consider how it unsettles the rituals of human rights, and whether it can be preserved in the form of a UN Declaration on the rights of peasants.

REINTERPRETING ‘FACTORY POLITICS’ IN BURY, LANCASHIRE, 1868–1880

2008 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. C. BARBARY
Keyword(s):  
Economic Model ◽  
Alternative Explanation ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Empirical Basis ◽  
Political Opinion ◽  
Victorian Period ◽  
Revisionist History ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The Relationship

ABSTRACTUsing Bury as a case study, this article reassesses the mechanism of the formation of political opinion in Lancashire factory towns in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This subject has heretofore been dominated by sociological explanations of the 1970s and early 1980s. A re-examination of the ‘Three Lancashires’ paradigm, the socio-economic model that has underpinned most Lancashire studies for this period, demonstrates that the socio-economics of urban Lancashire were more diverse than previously thought. From this basis, the article challenges the empirical basis of one of the most enduring tenets of Lancashire politics: the deferential ‘factory politics’ model. To provide an alternative explanation, this article reasserts the importance of ‘issues’ to the debate, and underlines the contingent nature of the relationship between representative and constituents. An important strand is whether political activists integrated their plebeian rank and file into new party structures, thus neutralizing threats to status quo. This interpretation has been central to much recent revisionist history; however, this article demonstrates that the ‘rise of party’ during the mid-Victorian period was contingent upon political activists acquiescing to certain requirements of their followers.

No War Pact

2020 ◽  
pp. 99-116
Author(s):  
Pallavi Raghavan
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Domestic Politics ◽  
The Other ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
World Views ◽  
The World ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Jawaharlal Nehru ◽  
The Relationship

The No War Pact correspondence between Jawaharlal Nehru and Liaquat Ali Khan is interesting for several reasons: its timing, the personalities, the possibilities it seemed to offer for the relationship ship, and the glimpses it offered into the world views of India and Pakistan during the 1950s. The Evacuee Property Conferences, as well as the refugee crisis in Bengal formed the immediate context in which Liaquat Ali Khan and Nehru opened negotiations on a possible No War Pact. In many ways, moreover, the correspondence also shows how deeply connected the shaping of foreign policy was with domestic politics—India’s and Pakistan’s international relations were shaped out of the domestic concerns of both nation. One reason that the correspondence was taking place at all was that it could offer the possibility of some movement on the questions of water and evacuee property. The correspondence offered an opportunity for India and Pakistan to clarify their positions internationally as mutually exclusive entities: at the same time, it was also for progress in leading to more accommodative outcomes for talks around the agenda of separation. This chapter shows that the business of going about disentangling oneself from the other did not in fact necessarily mandate international stances that had to be hostile to one another: they could also be built upon an attempt at dialogue.

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