Globalization, the Human Condition and Sustainable Development in the Twenty-first Century

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Almas Heshmati ◽  
Arno Tausch ◽  
Ulrich Brand
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
First Century ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Human Condition

Some Kinds of Home: Home, Transnationality and Belonging in Noviolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names

2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-95
Author(s):  
Oliver Nyambi ◽  
Rodwell Makombe ◽  
Nonki Motahane
Keyword(s):  
Human Condition ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Transnational Identity ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Human Condition ◽  
At Home

Abstract Over the years, the notion of home has permeated disciplinary, inter- and cross-disciplinary enquiries into the human condition. In recent years, ideas, constructions and perceptions of ‘homes’ have been further complicated by constant shifts in conceptions and practices of transnational mobilities that have informed and disrupted ways of seeing, making and re-making homes at home and away from ‘home’. In this article, we draw from Sara Ahmed’s idea of home as ‘a space within us’ to read the novel We Need New Names (2013) by the transnational Zimbabwean writer NoViolet Bulawayo as a text that interrogates the intertwined and complicated relationship between home, transnational identity and belonging. Focusing on the protagonist’s experiences in both Zimbabwe and America, this article examines the idea of home as it refracts uniquely twenty-first-century experiences, perceptions and notions of transnational spaces, and shapes certain notions of identity, transnationality and belonging in We Need New Names.

Mystified Consciousness

2020 ◽  
pp. 14-21
Author(s):  
Andy Merrifield
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
First Century ◽  
Henri Lefebvre ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Human Condition

The great French Marxist Henri Lefebvre authored sixty-eight books, since translated into thirty languages, making brilliant analyses on dialectics and alienation, everyday life and urbanism, ecology and citizenship. Yet, his La conscience mystifiée(Mystified Consciousness), published in 1936, has seemingly been forgotten in every language, largely ignored everywhere. Though it may well be his most enduring political tract, it was his most prescient thesis for understanding the human condition in the twenty-first century.

Twenty First Century Africa Towards a New Vision of Self-Sustainable Development

1993 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 130
Author(s):  
K. P. Moseley ◽  
Ann Seidman ◽  
Frederick Anang
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
First Century ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
New Vision

Twenty-First-Century Virtue

2021 ◽  
pp. 77-96
Author(s):  
Shannon Vallor
Keyword(s):  
Virtue Ethics ◽  
Contemporary Problem ◽  
Emerging Technologies ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
First Century ◽  
Philosophical Tradition ◽  
Ethical Decisions ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Classical Traditions

This chapter identifies the growing difficulty of making ethical decisions—choices that aim at the “good life”—in our present human condition, one in which the unpredictable, complex, and destabilizing effects of emerging technologies on a global scale make the shape of the human future increasingly opaque and hard to fathom. The chapter suggests that this twenty-first-century challenge for ethics, which we can identify as a state of acute technosocial opacity, is best addressed from a particular philosophical tradition: virtue ethics. It argues that the classical traditions of Aristotelian, Confucian, and Buddhist virtue ethics offer us more resources for managing this contemporary problem than do other, more modern moral theories. The chapter concludes that only the cultivation of distinctly technomoral virtues will preserve humanity’s chances to live well with emerging technologies, and flourish in an increasingly opaque future.

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