scholarly journals Reflections of a Capacity Builder: An Autoethnographic Perspective of Capacity Building Methods With a Youth Livelihoods Organization in Vanuatu

2014 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Moore
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Capacity Building ◽  
International Development ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Nongovernmental Organization ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Local Staff ◽  
The Social ◽  
Personal Insight ◽  
Successes And Challenges

Abstract This autoethnographic narrative explores the author’s capacity building experiences, observances, insights, and reflections over a two year period working with a youth livelihoods nongovernmental organization in the South Pacific nation of Vanuatu. Autoethnographies explore the author’s own personal insight and reflection of their own experiences, which in turn may encourage readers to reflect on their own beliefs and practices. The author will define autoethnography and capacity building, briefly outline the historical context of Vanuatu, discuss the successes and challenges of facilitating capacity building, and reflect on her own values, assumptions, and learning within the social context of an international development professional working with local staff in Vanuatu.

scholarly journals ¡No lo haré más!: la sociedad española en El verdugo de Berlanga

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcos Rafael Cañas Pelayo
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
Spanish Society ◽  
The Social

Recientemente, la influencia del director Luis García Berlanga ha sido destacada por crítica y público. Generalmente asociado por su colaboración con el guionista Rafael Azcona, Berlanga fue un cineasta atípico cuyas películas han sido irónicas, pero serios exponentes de la evolución de la sociedad española durante el pasado siglo. En el presente artículo, intentaremos mostrar uno de sus más importantes trabajos, El Verdugo, analizando no solamente sus aspectos sociales, sino incluyendo un estudio del lenguaje cinematográfico empleado para ello y el particular estilo con el que el director abordó algunos de los temas más controvertidos de su tiempo.Abstract:The influential of the director Luis García Berlanga has been recently increased by critics and public. Generally associated with the script-player Rafael Azcona, Berlanga was an unusual artist which films have been and ironical but serious example of the changes and the evolution of the Spanish society during the last century. In the present article, we will try to show the social aspects of one of his most important masterpieces, El verdugo, analyzing not only the historical context, but also including his cinematographically language and particular style for translate to the big screen some controversial realities of their time.Palabras clave:Berlanga; Azcona; contexto social; ironía; El Verdugo.Keywords: Berlanga; Azona; Social Context; Irony; El Verdugo.

scholarly journals The Impact of Socio-Historical Context on Identity: An Analysis of Ngāi Tamarāwaho Identity in the Colonisation Era

Te Kaharoa ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa Derby
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Major Focus ◽  
Common Trends ◽  
The Third ◽  
Indigenous Groups ◽  
The Social ◽  
Waitangi Tribunal ◽  
The Impact

The purpose of this article is to illustrate the influence that socio-historical context has on the identity of a group. The identity of the hapū (tribe) Ngāi Tamarāwaho is examined to demonstrate the impact that specific phenomena associated with colonisation had on hapū identity, and the major focus of this chapter is the interplay between Ngāi Tamarāwaho and the phenomenon of colonisation. This article concentrates specifically on hapū identity during the colonisation era, which, in the context of this article, commenced with the arrival of Pākehā (British) settlers in New Zealand in 1814, and concluded with the establishment of the Waitangi Tribunal in 1975. For comparative purposes, parallels are drawn with other indigenous groups globally to highlight similarities between the colonisation experiences of these groups and those of Ngāi Tamarāwaho, and to illustrate common trends that occur as a result of colonisation and its associated phenomena. The first section in this article discusses the need to consider socio-historical context in research pertaining to identity, and provides examples of research that has been conducted to this effect. The second section establishes the social context of Ngāi Tamarāwaho, and the third section outlines the historical context. Following this is an analyis of the effects of aspects of colonisation on Ngāi Tamarāwaho identity, and this article concludes by discussing ways in which the hapū revived and reasserted their identity

scholarly journals La reorganización de las Panateneas en el s.VI a.C.: el agon gymnicus y los hoplitas = The reorganization of the Panathenaic games in the 6th century BC: the agon gymnicus and the Hoplites

2018 ◽  
pp. 69
Author(s):  
Miriam Valdés Guía
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Cultural Construction ◽  
Sixth Century ◽  
Social Basis ◽  
The Social

Resumen: En este artículo nos adentramos en la reorganización de las Panateneas desde el 566 hasta finales del s.VI, centrándonos especialmente en algunas pruebas atléticas de carácter “militar”, así como en el imaginario de la fiesta en relación con los gigantes y Atenea Promachos de las ánforas panatenaicas. La impronta “guerrera” de la fiesta puede ponerse en relación, desde nuestra perspectiva, con un contexto social de desarrollo de un grupo de ciudadanos con capacidad para costearse el armamento (los zeugitai solonianos) que participan de la fiesta y se sienten representados ideológicamente y posiblemente también en la práctica de las competiciones; en este sentido analizaremos la base social de la transferencia de unos determinados valores aristocráticos a una parte del demos y la construcción cultural de este colectivo a través de las Panateneas en el contexto histórico de la Atenas del s.VI.Abstract: In this article we study the reorganization of the Panathenaia from 566 until the end of the Sixth century BC, focusing especially on some athletic contests with military character, as well as exploring the imaginary of the festival in relation to the giants and the Athena Promachos of Panatenaic amphoras. The "warrior" stamp of the festival can be related, from our perspective, with a social context of development of a group of citizens who could afford the armament (the solonian zeugitai); they participate in the feast and feel represented ideologically in it and possibly also in the practice of the games. In this sense we will analyze the social basis of the transfer of certain aristocratic values to a part of the demos and the cultural construction of this collective through the panathenaic celebration in the historical context of Sixth Century Athens.Palabras clave: hoplitodromos, danza pírrica, carrera de antorchas, apobates, gigantomaquia, hoplitas.Key words: hoplitodromos, pyrrhic danza, torch race, apobates, gigantomachy, hoplites.

scholarly journals The Generational Pedigree of Chinese Directors and the Contextual Features of their Works

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaowen Liao
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
System Reform ◽  
Market System ◽  
Chinese Film ◽  
Contextual Features ◽  
The Social ◽  
Film Directors ◽  
Context Characteristics

The intergenerational division of Chinese film directors is the product of the formation of specific historical context. For a period of time, the intergenerational division of directors has become the academic category of film scholars. The intergenerational division is not only from the age of the work and the age of the director, but also from the social context of the film works and the development process of market system reform. This paper attempts to clarify the intergenerational context characteristics of Chinese directors' works from their genealogical development.

THE SACRED MOUNTAIN IN SOCIAL CONTEXT. SYMBOLISM AND HISTORY IN MAYA ARCHITECTURE: TEMPLE 22 AT COPAN, HONDURAS

2011 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 271-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer von Schwerin
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Ancient Maya ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Historical Factors ◽  
The Social ◽  
Maya Architecture ◽  
Sacred Mountain

AbstractDid Mesoamerican temples really symbolize sacred mountains? If so, what accounts for their varying forms across space and time? Through a socio-historical and iconographic approach, it is now becoming possible to explain the social and historical factors for why design in ancient Maya temples varied. Using these methods, this paper reconstructs and reinterprets one famous “sacred mountain” in the Maya region: Temple 22, at Copan, Honduras, dedicated by king Waxaklajuun Ub'aah K'awiil ina.d.715. Since 1998, the author has led a project to conserve, document, analyze, and hypothetically reconstruct thousands of sculptures from the building's collapsed façades. In design and symbolism, the building probably represented not just a mountain, but the Maya universe. In its more specific historical context, Temple 22 was designed as royal rhetoric to affirm order at a disorderly moment, and used both traditional and innovative forms to assert Copan's leading role on the boundary of the Maya world.

scholarly journals Negotiating Soundscape: Practice and Regulation of Adzan in Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-84
Author(s):  
Siti Aliyuna Pratisti
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Social Aspect ◽  
Current Development ◽  
Government Regulations ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
The Social

This article explores the historical context of practice and regulation of Adzan in Indonesia. As historical underpinnings, this article will follow a structural timeline of post-independence Indonesia to the current development of the state’s regulations of Adzan. To understand the social context of Adzan, Schafer’s conception of Soundmark and Hirschkind’s ethical soundscapes will be employed as theoretical framework to analyze how Indonesian (government and civil society) negotiates social tension caused by the use of loudspeaker in Indonesian mosques. Government regulations will be used as primary sources, while newspaper, journal and websites, provide additional information on the practice and regulations of Adzan in Indonesia. This article, however, will limit its study to the historical and social aspect of Adzan. Discussion on the theological aspect will not be covered by this article.

Individuals as Social Relationships: 18 Ways that Acting Alone can be thought of as Social Behavior

2001 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 406-428 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard Guerin
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Social Behavior ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The Social ◽  
Body Shapes

This article argues to replace individualistic explanations of behavior with descriptions of social and historical context. Eighteen ways are outlined that playing a guitar alone in a room can be thought of as socially controlled rather than dispositionally controlled. Despite having a skin containing a body, a “person” for the social sciences is a conglomerate of social relationships or interactions that spans space and time. Thinking of people and causes as within a body shapes individualistic biases in our explanations and interventions. Rather than propose a new philosophy, this article reviews 18 concrete ways to begin thinking about people as social interactions and not agentic individuals. This changes the interventions we propose, alters how we view cultural practices, prevents some perennial problems of psychology, and leads the way to integrate psychology in the social sciences. Moving from dispositional explanations to study the historical and social context of social relationships also requires that psychology seriously adapt some of the more intensive research methods from other social sciences.

scholarly journals ANOTHER MODEST PROPOSAL

2005 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 640
Author(s):  
DESMOND MANDERSON
Keyword(s):  
Social Issue ◽  
Social Context ◽  
War On Terror ◽  
Rhetorical Analysis ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Title Page ◽  
Guantanamo Bay ◽  
Modest Proposal ◽  
The Social ◽  
First Time

<div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>[</span><span>In essays first published earlier this year in mainstream Australian media to considerable fanfare, Bagaric and Clarke, two Australian academics, develop a modest proposal for the justification of torture under excep- tional circumstances. This essay rebuts the proposal and defends the abso- lute prohibition against torture. Their attempt to abstract torture from the social context – including the “war on terror” – in which the question of government sanctioned torture is now being raised, is condemned as in- genuous. A rhetorical analysis further demonstrates that the authors them- selves do not believe their argument is either hypothetical or limited. Furthermore, when the actual “defence of torture” is examined, it is shown to be illogical, incoherent, and lacking any sophisticated under- standing of the nature, purpose, or effects of torture. This is not the first time that half-baked reasoning and careless analogies have been devel- oped in order to defend the indefensible. Drawing on Voltaire and Jona- than Swift as well as Guantanamo Bay, this essay puts an important social issue into its immediate and its larger historical context</span><span>.] </span></p></div></div></div>

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