scholarly journals RECONCILING THE LIVING LANDSCAPE WITH OUR LIVING CULTURE

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Brian Goodey
Keyword(s):  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Environmental Response ◽  
Shared Meanings ◽  
Hard Time ◽  
Mental Context ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Living Culture ◽  
Political Events ◽  
Thinking Differently ◽  
Package Holiday

Conservation townscape ideas and understandings move with generations and innovations (Fallowwell et.al, 2010). As new generations respond to an electronic and globalised world, daily life and public policy seem to respond to events, often leaving the settings to take care of themselves. Often the only environmental response is to ensure basic facilities, or to enhance for the benefit of an essentially tourist market. The historic context of many decisions is having a hard time. One is not to compliment oneself on a job well done, nor does society often understand what one is doing. It is seen as a desirable commodity for those who can afford it, a significant factor in Western planning perhaps, but modest when faced with community protest for basic facilities. It is somewhat of a luxury, and it is treated as such. Culturally and politically one relies on the shared meanings and understandings behind current public life, and therefore on the landscape, both the green landscape and built settings provide a mental context for one's actions. So when London is mentioned a particular image of London comes to mind. That image might be a complex overlay of television images, personal visits, narrations from relatives, or political events. They all come together and everyone has a different image. The next decision about London, will be based on a combination of those images. The big question remains as to how, and to what degree, should these contexts be conserved, maintained and promoted in contemporary cultural life? The argument in this paper is around the fact that these past remnants are not just for the package holiday visitor, but their presentation serves as an essential, visible text to remind citizens of the origin of their current beliefs and aspirations. They are markers of where one has been. Urban squares, buildings, and routes, and the arrangement of rural land provide the textbook for what is to be retained, retrieved or rejected in the future, they are part of personal encyclopedias. They are often more eloquent and universal in their language than the modern polemic, and ways must be found for re-incorporating them into the thought process of a contemporary population. It is 'thinking differently' by the current generations, as well as the generations that are to follow, that is both interesting as well as very disturbing. Electronic media should be used to learn about place, but it also means that a lot of older ideas need to be re-evaluated with a big task at hand for teachers. The challenge for those who choose to conserve and understand such places is how to integrate them with the current ways of knowing. Keywords: Heritage, Urban Meanings, Culture, Landscape

scholarly journals (Un)settling Methodology: Walking the City of Memphis with Transcorporeality in a More-than-Human World

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-61
Author(s):  
Wesam M. Salem
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Body Movement ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Space Time ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Muslim American ◽  
Human World ◽  
Thinking Differently ◽  
The City

In this paper, I explain how I engaged with walking as a sensory and relational inquiry that provoked thinking differently and intra-actively of research, and the entanglement (Barad, 2007) of our bodies with the space and matter. As I walked the city of Memphis, assemblages of my emplaced body movement, subjectivities, senses, feelings, and interactions with the materiality of the space deconstructed and interrogated the neoliberal normalized narratives of othering and belonging. Situating the walks within transcorporeality (Alaimo, 2012), transmateriality (Springgay & Truman, 2017a), and the spactimematter entanglement (Haraway, 2015), I share how these walks generated three lines of flight (Deleuze & Guattari,1987) that transformed my thinking of research methods and opened up spaces for new ways of knowing beyond the linear and the prescribed. The three lines of flight, I discuss in this paper, informed and shaped my thinking of: my research methods with respect to interviewing Muslim American youth, the embodied experience of walking within the entanglement of space time matter in a more-than-human world, and the concept of (dis)placed bodies within the postcolonial thought.

scholarly journals Bernd Henningsen: Die Politik des Einzelnen. Ludvig Holberg, Søren Kierkegaard, N. F. S. Grundtvig.

1977 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 296-298
Author(s):  
Viggo Mortensen
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Soren Kierkegaard ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Political Events ◽  
Social Critical ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Political Understanding ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
The Relationship

 Bernd Henningsen: Die Politik des Einzelnen. Studien zur Genese der Skandinavischen Ziviltheologie. Ludvig Holberg. Søren Kierkegaard. N. F. S. Grundtvig. Studien zur Theologie und Geistesgeschichte des Neunzehnten Jahrhunderts Bd. 26. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1977. Reviewed by Viggo Mortensen.The author of this doctorate, defended in Munich, sets out to track down the Danish, and thereby in his opinion, the Scandinavian national character. The problem for him as a politologist is why the great political upheavals, not to mention revolutions are absent from Scandinavian history. He looks for the spiritual background to this in the way the 19th century understood politics.That is, he wishes to analyse the relationship between the political events and the philosophical-historical tradition. What are the causes of this ‘immunity*, which in Scandinavia has prevented ideologies from becoming mass phenomena? Henningsen has found important contributions to an understanding of this problem in Holberg, Kierkegaard and Grundtvig. He characterises this political understanding with a concept from antiquity - ‘civil theology* - and with the English concept of ‘common sense’. The framework for his conception is constructed of various aspects of Danish social history and historical consciousness from the Danish Law (1683) to the ’Liberal Kulturkamp’ of the 1930’s, and Holberg is regarded as the father of Danish civil theology. Since it is the doctorate’s argument that continuity is a characteristic feature of Scandinavian civil theology, Kierkegaard is also included, his anti-clerical campaign being seen as a result of his awareness of his social-critical responsibility. But it is not really made clear what Kierkegaard’s contribution to Danish civil theology is, apart from his criticism of Hegel and his demand for an agreement between theory and practice.Grundtvig’s inclusion on the other hand is a matter of course. But he is given less room and treated more superficially than both Holberg and Kierkegaard. The writer quite rightly sees that Grundtvig is the clearest representative of the specifically Scandinavian attitude to the life of the spirit (’Geisteshaltung*). In particular, emphasis is placed on Grundtvig’s ideas of ’folkelighed’ (national spirit) and ’danskhed’ (Danishness). As Henningsen defines ’folkelighed’ as the sum total of a nation’s values, norms and behaviour, this concept becomes a definition of what is denoted by the key concept, civil theology - and thus becomes the key to our resistance to ideology. This point of view could and should have been developed and supported with more evidence. The main impression the book leaves is that Holberg is treated congenially, Kierkegaard with uncritical admiration, and Grundtvig with unacceptable brevity.However, the writer demonstrates wide reading and a close acquaintance with Danish cultural life. He believes that scholars who do not speak Danish must set about learning it, if they wish to be taken seriously as, for example, Kierkegaard scholars. This reviewer considers that the book reveals contexts and suggests lines of continuity that will provoke much thought.

scholarly journals Geçmiş ve Gelecek Arasında Irak’lı Türkmenler: Politik Uygulamaların Tarihsel Eleştirisi

2020 ◽  
pp. 66-75
Author(s):  
Heersh Hasan Mahmood
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Fundamental Problem ◽  
Complex Structure ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
East Region ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Political Events ◽  
Middle East Region

Turkmens live in many parts of the world, especially in the Middle East. Iraq, one of the countries with the most complex structure of the Middle East region, hosts a large Turkmen population within its territories. Turkmens who have been living in Iraqi lands for centuries are, and have been, one of the most important elements of the ethnic structure of the country in question. Because these ethnic groups are more dependent on their own traditions and history compared to other ethnic groups living in the country, it is seen that the Iraqi Turkmens have a unique place from a social point of view. For this reason, it is crucial to state that the Iraqi Turkmens are always subjected to pressure and violence by the central authority. The study focuses on two basic elements that are thought to be highly interconnected. The socio-cultural life of the Turkmens, the political events they encountered throughout history and the policies implemented on Turkmens by different Iraqi regimes will be evaluated and discussed. The fundamental problem is that the Turkmens are not considered an essential element in the Iraqi social structure and that they are considered as a minority.

Das Ende der Postdemokratie, den Pessimismus überwinden.

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (188) ◽  
pp. 487-494
Author(s):  
Daniel Mullis
Keyword(s):  
Political Thought ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
The Other ◽  
Economic Decline ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Windows Of Opportunity ◽  
Political Events ◽  
Political Struggles ◽  
The One

In recent years, political and social conditions have changed dramatically. Many analyses help to capture these dynamics. However, they produce political pessimism: on the one hand there is the image of regression and on the other, a direct link is made between socio-economic decline and the rise of the far-right. To counter these aspects, this article argues that current political events are to be understood less as ‘regression’ but rather as a moment of movement and the return of deep political struggles. Referring to Jacques Ranciere’s political thought, the current conditions can be captured as the ‘end of post-democracy’. This approach changes the perspective on current social dynamics in a productive way. It allows for an emphasis on movement and the recognition of the windows of opportunity for emancipatory struggles.

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