Politics are Taking EU-Turkey Relations Hostage: Explaining the Ups and Downs in the Political Dimension of the Relationship

2021 ◽  
pp. 77-102
Author(s):  
Eduard Soler i Lecha ◽  
Melike Sökmen ◽  
Funda Tekin
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Political Dimension ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals Political Theology as Theodicy: The Holy Spirit’s Performance in the Economy of Redemption

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-219
Author(s):  
Martin Grassi
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Political Theology ◽  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
The Political ◽  
Inner Life ◽  
Political Dimension ◽  
Political Performance ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
The Relationship

Although Political Theology examined mainly the political dimension of the relationship between God-Father and God-Son, it is paramount to consider the political performance of the Holy Spirit in the Economy of Redemption. The Holy Spirit has been characterized as the binding cause and the principle of relationality both referring to God’s inner life and to God’s relationship with His creatures. As the personalization of relationality, the Holy Spirit performs a unique task: to bring together what is apart by means of organisation. This power of the Spirit to turn a plurality into a unity is manifested in the Latin translation of oikonomía as disposition, that is, giving a special order to the multiple elements within a certain totality. Within this activity of the Spirit, Theodicy can be regarded as the way to depict God’s arrangement of the world and of history, bringing everything together towards the eschatological Kingdom of God. The paper aims at showing this fundamental activity of the Holy Spirit in Christian Theology, and intends to pose the question on how to think on a theology beyond theodicy, that is, how to think on a Trinitarian God beyond the categories of sovereignty and totalization.

Transhumanism, Nietzsche and Politics: A Commentary on Their Relationship

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-234
Author(s):  
Anna Markopoulou
Keyword(s):  
Transition Point ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Dimension ◽  
The Relationship

The aim of this commentary is to highlight the relationship between Nietzsche and Transhumanism on the occasion of the publication of the Posthuman Studies Reader in 2021, which is edited by Evi D. Sampanikou and Jan Stasienko. More specifically, this commentary focuses on the fact that the Reader promotes Nietzsche as the official forerunner of Transhumanism, since it places humans at a transition point between animal and Overhuman.The analysis of the ten transhumanist texts in the Reader shows that, in essence, Transhumanism is not a transition but an overcoming of the human and, from this point of view, it is not in line with Nietzsche's conception. Moreover, this commentary focuses on the relationship between Transhumanism and politics and shows that the political dimension is entirely absent from most of the Transhumanist texts in the Reader. Thus, transhumanism should re-evaluate its epistemological foundations and its relation to politics. 

scholarly journals The Turnover of Palestinian Governments and its Selected Impacts on the Sustainability of Public Policy

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-34
Author(s):  
Jehad Alaysa ◽  
Hussam Musa
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
The Political ◽  
Government Formation ◽  
Political Dimension ◽  
Political Program ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Depth Interviews

AbstractThe aim of this research is examining governmental turnover and its impact on the sustainability of public policy in the Palestinian context. We argue that the absence of a clear political program of governments and the absence of clear rules in professional and independent civil service allows Palestinian ministers to politicize the ministries they run, in addition to imposing their personal visions on different administrative levels, which makes the frequent turnover of governments and ministerial faces a challenge to the administrative level’s capability to create and implement sustainable public policies. We examined and compared through in-depth interviews the relationship between the political dimension of government formation and its surrounding considerations with the administrative executive dimension in Palestinian conditions. We concluded that professionals from most ministries think that frequent ministerial turnover usually has a negative impact on the sustainability of public policy while only respondents from three ministries stated that turnover could have a positive impact.

scholarly journals The Responsibility of European Archaeologists

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cătălin Nicolae Popa
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
The Political ◽  
European Identity ◽  
Positive Contribution ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Political Dimension ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Deep Crisis

ABSTRACTIn this article I address the relationship between European archaeologists and the European Union and argue that the dominant attitude of non-involvement that archaeologists have embraced over the past decades cannot be justified given recent political developments. The European project finds itself in a state of deep crisis, under siege from populist and far-right leaders within and around Europe. We cannot afford to watch from the sidelines when the future of hundreds of millions of people is at stake. As archaeologists we can make a positive contribution by harnessing the political dimension of our work, which we need to stop seeing in a negative light. We should deploy the past to help tackle the challenges of our society. European archaeologists should particularly focus on developing grand narratives of a shared past in Europe, to act as a foundation for a European identity.

scholarly journals A DISPUTA DE UMA GEOGRAFIA POLÍTICA NO LIVRO DIDÁTICO:

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (20) ◽  
pp. 541-561
Author(s):  
Ludmila Losada da Fonseca ◽  
Ivaine Maria Tonini
Keyword(s):  
Educational Policy ◽  
Political Geography ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Dimension ◽  
Space Transformation ◽  
State Strategy ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Geographical Space

Este artigo versa sobre os atravessamentos políticos no livro didático e a manifestação deles por meio dos conteúdos da Geografia Política. Mais do que uma estratégia estatal, a política educacional – como o Programa Nacional do Livro Didático- é uma regulamentação na esteira de uma racionalidade adotada pelos governos. Os livros didáticos são o lócus para analisar os atravessamentos entre Política e ciência geográfica. Para tanto, esse artigo foi elaborado por meio da análise de duas coleções didáticas: Geografia Geral e do Brasil e Fronteiras da Globalização. A metodologia escolhida foi aquela que coloca em suspenso a informação para estabelecer interrogações sobre o que já está sendo dito. Com este método de análise, depreendemos duas formas distintas de manifestação da relação entre a Política e a Geografia no campo da Geografia Escolar: a Geografia Maior - pensada para e pelo Estado; e as Geografias Menores - manifestam-se pela abordagem de uma outra Geografia Política, pautada em diferentes escalas, permitindo contatos e análises para além do Estado. Conclui-se deste estudo que não há como conceber a ciência geográfica e a Geografia Escolar desconectadas da dimensão política, e que o livro didático é um lugar de disputa de racionalidades e de geografias. Encontramos nas análises elementos de cada uma dessas geografias. E percebemos a potencialidades das Geografias Menores em fomentar no aluno sua atuação na transformação do espaço geográfico. PALAVRAS-CHAVE Livro didático, Geografia política escolar, Geografias maior e menor.   A POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY DISPUTE IN THE TEXTBOOK: major Geographiesandminor Geographies ABSTRACT This article discuss the political crossings in the textbook (LD) and their manifestation through the contents of Political Geography. More than a state strategy, educational policy - like the National Textbook Program - is a regulation in the wake of a rationality path embraced by the governments. The textbooks are the locus for analyzing the crossings between politics and geographic science. Therefore, this article was prepared by analyzing two collections of LD, General and Brazilian Geography and Frontiers of Globalization. The methodology chosen was which puts the information on hold to establish questions about what is already being said. From this analysis, we deduce two different ways of manifesting the relationship between Politics and Geography in the field of Geography in school: the Major Geography – which is thought for and by the State; and the Minor Geographies, manifested by the approach of another Political Geography, based on different scales that enable contacts and analysis apart from the State. It is concluded from this study that there is no possibility to conceive geographic science and school geography disconnected from the political dimension, and that LD is a place of dispute of rationalities and geographies. We found in the analyzed LD elements from each of these geographies. And we considering as possibility in Minor Geographies a way to encourage the student action in geographical space transformation. KEYWORDS Textbook, Political Geography in school, Major and minor Geographies.

Hobbes and Hooker; Politics and Religion: A Note on the Structuring of Leviathan

1987 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-96
Author(s):  
Stephen State
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Dimension ◽  
Politics And Religion ◽  
Scriptural Exegesis ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

AbstractThe article compares the Ecclesiastical Polity of Richard Hooker with Thomas Hobbes's Christian Commonwealth focussing primarily on the political dimension of religious life. The comparison serves to undermine the position—still surprisingly widespread—which sees Hobbes as sacrificing religion to political stability by displaying the extent to which and the way in which Hooker takes religious practice (since Constantine) to be a matter of public policy requiring authoritative determination. Also, a somewhat novel suggestion is elaborated regarding the relationship between the “rational” and “religious” parts of Leviathan. It is suggested that the first part of Leviathan is a kind of conceptual primer—a guide to Scriptural exegesis—and that the parts of Leviathan thus form an integrated whole.

Kontingenz und Natalität

2020 ◽  
Vol 96 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-119
Author(s):  
Stefan Schäfer ◽  
Sebastian Jacobs
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Education ◽  
The Political ◽  
Central Feature ◽  
Political Dimension ◽  
Pedagogical Action ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Contingency and Natality. The Relationship between the Pedagogical and the Political in a World out of Joint Based on theories of political difference and their processing in the context of the philosophy of education, the article addresses the problem of justifying pedagogical action. With the help of Hannah Arendt’s reflections on education in a world out of joint, a perspective is unfolded that focuses on contingency as a central feature of the political dimension of pedagogy, without speaking of a radical postmodern liquefaction that would make institutionalized education impossible. Arendt’s concept of natality can be understood as a productive thought concerning the relation between education and democracy.

Housing sociale: la dimensione politica del progetto

TERRITORIO ◽  
2012 ◽  
pp. 139-146
Author(s):  
Francesca Frigau ◽  
Pietro Pusceddu
Keyword(s):  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Local Area ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
The Political ◽  
Pilot Projects ◽  
Political Dimension ◽  
The Public ◽  
Ethical Property ◽  
The Relationship

In the autumn of 2010, the municipality and Faculty of Architecture of Alghero took part in a "manifestation of interest" for social housing pilot projects held by the Region of Sardinia. The formulation of the proposal constituted an opportunity for research into the relationship between housing policies and urban planning policies and on the role of housing in the construction of the "public town or city". It contained many innovative features, the most important of which was the use of ethical property funds and the involvement of the private sector in the construction of public sector assets. Considerations included the political dimension of the project, that which makes it a tool to acquire knowledge of the local area, a summary of its complexities never subordinate to policies or the mere application of them. The project is a platform capable of generating synergies and economic and social dynamics. In short it is able to trigger urban life processes.

Friendship, politics, and Augustine's consolidation of the self

2009 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-146
Author(s):  
FRANK VANDER VALK
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
Social World ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Political ◽  
Inner Life ◽  
Social Character ◽  
Political Thinking ◽  
Political Dimension ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractFriendship plays a central role in Augustine's thought. It also played a crucial role in structuring the political and social world of the ancient Greeks. Augustine's treatment of friendship, especially in his Confessions, retains some of the terminology that was central to the Greek account, but it simultaneously transforms friendship, and with it the relationship between individual and community. Augustine's formulation of the inner life is reflected in his transformation of friendship, which loses its inherently social character and political dimension even as it sets the stage for the introduction of political thinking based on the primacy of the individual.

scholarly journals Politicizing Muslim Mental Health Toward a Decolonial Framework

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tarek Younis
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Large Body ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Will ◽  
Political Dimension ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Emerging Trends ◽  
Global North ◽  
Muslim Communities ◽  
The Relationship

There is a growing recognition that mental illness should be taken more seriously within Muslim communities. In this are emerging trends to Islamicise psychology or psychologise Islam, whereby the former attempts to adapt contemporary psychological practices for Muslims, while the latter endeavours to indigenise and establish a psychology rooted firmly in Islamic traditions. Yet a large body of interdisciplinary works has argued that Muslims are uniquely positioned vis-à-vis Nation-States across the Global North. There is thus a need to underscore the significance of the political which underpins the relationship between ‘Muslim’ and ‘mental health’. The political will be explored by addressing three paradigms and their particular relationship to Muslim mental health: neoliberalism, nationalism and securitisation. I argue that Muslim mental health, irrespective of approach or discipline, is unique in its ability to serve power and ensure Muslims remain productive, loyal and low-risk citizens of the Nation-State. Emerging Muslim mental health models may succeed in their stated objective—alleviate suffering or raise God consciousness—but they do not address the political dimension underlying mental health practice itself. I argue that a movement towards decolonising mental health must remain in constant dialectical resistance with dominant ideological paradigms and be rooted in an interdisciplinary praxis established upon the Islamic paradigm of trusteeship (waqf). This ensures suffering is neither commodified nor compartmentalised outside of the wider Western Muslim experience.

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