scholarly journals Anti-gypsyism, racial knowledge and colonial amnesia

2020 ◽  
pp. 228-236
Author(s):  
Giovanni Picker
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Racial Segregation ◽  
Historical Sociology ◽  
The Core ◽  
Critical Theories ◽  
Political Intervention ◽  
Racial Knowledge

This intervention brings together insights from race critical theories and historical sociology to provide a framework for understanding the longstanding racism against Romani people across Europe. It directly draws on Picker's 2017 monograph Racial Cities , and argues that in order to understand the racial segregation of Romani people in Europe, racial knowledge and colonial amnesia should be squarely placed at the core of analytical scrutiny and political intervention. The reason for this is that when looking at several cases of urban authorities' actions on Romani people in 21st-century Europe, key similarities can be detected with colonial authories's actions on "natives" in the cities of European empires. This intervention brings together insights from race critical theories and historical sociology to provide a framework for understanding the longstanding racism against Romani people across Europe. It directly draws on Picker's 2017 monograph Racial Cities , and argues that in order to understand the racial segregation of Romani people in Europe, racial knowledge and colonial amnesia should be squarely placed at the core of analytical scrutiny and political intervention. The reason for this is that when looking at several cases of urban authorities' actions on Romani people in 21st-century Europe, key similarities can be detected with colonial authories's actions on "natives" in the cities of European empires.

The Obligation to Tear Through the Veil: An Analysis and Transformation of Mankind’s Insufficient Complacency Through the Novels of Jenny Offill

Meliora ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maggie Toole
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Evolutionary Theory ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Clear Picture ◽  
Modern World ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Veil ◽  
Evolutionary Aspects

This thesis explores the ways in which we as humans are alienated by the fundamental social structures of our world and how the novels of Jenny Offill offer a possible remedy. With a specific focus on the psychological and evolutionary aspects of womanhood and motherhood, this text attempts to illustrate the ways in which these novels address the imposing weight of such fundamental structures in the 21st century. Through an analysis of the nuclear family, this thesis examines the debilitating and profound existence of women, and more specifically, mothers. Offill’s novels present a profoundly clear picture of the modern world as it depicts the reality and ramifications of psychoanalytic and evolutionary theory. This work demonstrates how Offill’s texts attempt to remedy the core dissonance of our binary-laden human existence with clarity and realization rather than acceptance of an oversimplified past and a debilitating future.

scholarly journals Practical Precision Electrical Impedance Measurement for the 21st Century – EMPIR Project 17RPT04 VersICal

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver Power ◽  
Adam Ziolek ◽  
Andreas Elmholdt Christensen ◽  
Andrei Pokatilov ◽  
Anca Nestor ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Electrical Impedance ◽  
Impedance Measurement ◽  
Research Project ◽  
The Core ◽  
First Results ◽  
Electrical Impedance Measurement ◽  
Measurement Infrastructure

The core objective of EMPIR project 17RPT04 VersICaL is to improve the European measurement infrastructure for electrical impedance, with particular emphasis on the capabilities of developing NMIs and calibration centres. The project will seek to exploit the results of existing research on digital impedance bridges (DIBs) by designing, constructing and validating simple, affordable versions suitable to realise the impedance scale in the range 1 nF to 10 μF and 1 mH to 10 H with relative uncertainties in the range 10-5 to 10-6. The first results of the research project, including the bridge designs and details of a polyphase digitally synthesized multichannel source capable of providing voltage outputs of precise ratio and phase are presented.

scholarly journals Dominant work motives of Russian employees in the second decade of the 21st century

2021 ◽  
pp. 91-97
Author(s):  
M.V. Prokhorova ◽  
◽  
V.S. Kravchenko ◽  
A.E. Barankina ◽  
O.S. Shamina
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Work Motivation ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
The Core ◽  
Negative Work ◽  
Work Motives ◽  
Low Wages ◽  
Non Parametric

Revealed are dominant work motives of Russian employees in the second decade of the 21st century. The authors are based on a two-modal concept of work motivation, the foundations of which were laid by F. Herzberg, highlighting positive and negative labor motivation as independent structures. It was elicited that the core of positive labor motivation is the following: high wages, interesting work, stable and reliable work. In the structure of negative labor motivation, the dominant motive is low wages, the second and third levels are formed by unstable and unreliable work, poor working environment. The study, which was attended by 759 respondents, had being conducted from 2012 to 2020. The questionnaire “Ranking of positive and negative work motives” (RPOM) was applied to collect data. Their processing was carried out using methods of descriptive statistics, non-parametric U test, Mann-Whitney, as well as qualitative analysis.

FL Teaching and Learning as a Gateway for Democracy in the 21st Century

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiara Fabbian
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
The Core ◽  
Information Media ◽  
Multicultural Citizenship ◽  
Media And Technology ◽  
The University ◽  
Career Skills

Responding to the conflicting public perspectives about pedagogical approaches to, and purposes for, language teaching and learning, the authors suggest ways to reconceptualize foreign language (FL) teaching and learning as a springboard toward multicultural citizenship and social justice. The authors propose an approach to FL teaching that aims to develop learners’ information, media, and technology literacies as well as life and career skills, which are vital to succeed in a 21st-century global environment, and to empower them to become engaged citizens and agents of social change in their communities. By reframing FL and culture instruction within a social justice perspective, we devise new and creative ways to make the teaching of FL relevant to collegiate education and at the core of the university mission.

7. Into the 21st century

2018 ◽  
pp. 112-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Burns
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Virtual Reality ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Mental Illnesses ◽  
New Science ◽  
The Core ◽  
New Treatment ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Manage Mental

‘Into the 21st century’ explains how there is an increased focus on how our body, and not just the brain, influences our mental health. Rapidly advancing computer technology, including artificial intelligence and virtual reality, is beginning to provide new treatment possibilities, not just support and simplify the old ones. The development of sophisticated imaging has supercharged the area of neurosciences and the increased understanding of genetics and the new science of epigenetics provide psychiatry with greater tools to identify and manage mental illnesses. A paradox with our increasingly technological and scientific advances is that the core dilemmas of psychiatry appear not to be diminishing. Psychiatry will survive the 21st century, but certainly it is changing.

A Profitable Education

2020 ◽  
pp. 359-381
Author(s):  
Rohit Mehta ◽  
Edwin Creely ◽  
Danah Henriksen
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
21St Century Skills ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Political Influences ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Social

In this chapter, the authors take a multifaceted critical approach to understanding and deconstructing the term 21st century skills, especially in regard to technology and the role of corporations in the discourses about education. They also consider a range of cultural and political influences in our exploration of the social and academic meanings of the term, including its history and politics. The application of the term in present-day educational contexts is considered as well as possible futures implied through the term. The goal in this chapter is to counter ideas that might diminish a humanized educational practice. Specifically, the authors offer a critique of neoliberal discourses in education, particularly the neoliberal and corporate narrative around 21st century teaching and learning. They raise concerns about what an undue emphasis on industry-oriented educational systems can mean for the core purposes of education.

Future Ready Universities

2020 ◽  
pp. 54-66
Author(s):  
Prema Ponnudurai ◽  
Logendra Stanley Ponniah
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Curriculum Content ◽  
Unemployment Rates ◽  
The Core ◽  
Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽  
Industrial Age ◽  
Curriculum Framework ◽  
Institutional Challenges

The sands of education are constantly shifting, and in order to stay significant, higher educational institutions (HEIs) need to reinvent themselves in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. With high global unemployment rates of fresh graduates and internal institutional challenges, future conscious HEIs understand the importance of the need to redesigned curriculum, content, and assessments to prepare graduates for employment. Through a detailed evaluation of the newly developed Taylor's curriculum framework (TCF), this chapter will elaborate on the core purposes of this curriculum framework and the governing principles in redesigning a curriculum that focuses on the 21st century needs. By shifting the focus from teaching to learning and by redirecting the focus of assessment from knowledge base to skills base, HEI graduates will be equipped meet the needs of industry, the Fourth Industrial Age and beyond.

Managing Dilemmas Embodied in 21st Century Engineering

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Salman Ahmed ◽  
Minting Xiao ◽  
Jitesh H. Panchal ◽  
Janet K. Allen ◽  
Farrokh Mistree
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
Collaborative Group ◽  
Group Setting ◽  
The Core ◽  
Development Of Competencies ◽  
Personal Competencies ◽  
Core Characteristics

In this session we describe in four parts the pedagogy and out-comes of a course Designing for Open Innovation designed to empower 21st century engineering students to develop competencies associated with innovating in an inter-connected technologically flat world: 1. Competencies for Innovating in the 21st Century, [1]. 2. Developing Competencies In The 21st Century Engineer, [2]. 3. Identifying Dilemmas Embodied in 21st Century Engineering, [3]. 4. Managing Dilemmas Embodied in 21st Century Engineering - this paper. In the first paper we describe the core characteristics of the engineering in an interconnected world and identify the key competencies and meta-competencies that 21st century engineers will need to innovate and negotiate solutions to issues associated with the realization of systems. In the second paper, we describe our approach to fostering learning and the development of competencies by an individual in a group setting. We focus on empowering the students to learn how to learn as individuals in a geographically distanced, collaborative group setting. We assert that two of the core competencies required for success in the dynamically changing workplace are the competencies to first identify and then to manage dilemmas. In the third paper, we illustrate how students have gone about identifying dilemmas and in the fourth paper how they have attempted to manage dilemmas. In papers three and four students have briefly described the challenges that they faced and their takeaways in the form of team learning and individual learning. In this the last of four papers in this session, we focus on how students learned to manage dilemmas associated with the realization of complex, sustainable, socio-techno-eco systems, namely, energy policy design. The example involves the identification of a bridging fuel that balances environmental, economic and socio-cultural concerns. The principal outcome is clearly not the result attained but a student’s ability to learn how to learn as illustrated through the development of personal competencies in a collaborative learning framework and environment.

Historical Sociology

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
John M. Hobson ◽  
George Lawson ◽  
Justin Rosenberg
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Historical Sociology ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Past ◽  
Modern System ◽  
Constitutive Properties ◽  
International Systems ◽  
Second Wave ◽  
Core Features

Over the past 20 years, historical sociology in international relations (HSIR) has contributed to a number of debates, ranging from examination of the origins of the modern states system to unraveling the core features and relative novelty of the contemporary historical period. By the late 1980s and 1990s, a small number of IR scholars drew explicitly on historical sociological insights in order to counter the direction that the discipline was taking under the auspices of the neo-neo debate. Later scholars moved away from examining the specific interconnections between international geopolitics and domestic social change. A further difference that marked this second wave from the first was that it was driven principally by IR scholars working within IR. To date, HSIR has sought to reveal not only the different forms that international systems have taken in the past, but also the ways in which the modern system cannot be treated as an ontological given. Historical sociologists in IR are unanimous in asserting that rethinking the constitutive properties and dynamics of the contemporary system can be successfully achieved only by applying what amounts to a more sensitive “nontempocentric” historical sociological lens. At the same time, by tracing the historical sociological origins of the present international order, HSIR scholars are able to reveal some of the continuities between the past and the present, thereby dispensing with the dangers of chronofetishism.

scholarly journals A portable magneto-optical trap with prospects for atom interferometry in civil engineering

2017 ◽  
Vol 375 (2099) ◽  
pp. 20160238 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Hinton ◽  
M. Perea-Ortiz ◽  
J. Winch ◽  
J. Briggs ◽  
S. Freer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Precision ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Optical Trap ◽  
Atom Interferometry ◽  
Magneto Optical Trap ◽  
Gravity Gradiometry ◽  
The Core ◽  
Commercial Market ◽  
Push Forward ◽  
Quantum Technology

The high precision and scalable technology offered by atom interferometry has the opportunity to profoundly affect gravity surveys, enabling the detection of features of either smaller size or greater depth. While such systems are already starting to enter into the commercial market, significant reductions are required in order to reach the size, weight and power of conventional devices. In this article, the potential for atom interferometry based gravimetry is assessed, suggesting that the key opportunity resides within the development of gravity gradiometry sensors to enable drastic improvements in measurement time. To push forward in realizing more compact systems, techniques have been pursued to realize a highly portable magneto-optical trap system, which represents the core package of an atom interferometry system. This can create clouds of 10 7 atoms within a system package of 20 l and 10 kg, consuming 80 W of power. This article is part of the themed issue ‘Quantum technology for the 21st century’.

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