scholarly journals Hvordan går det med idrætten, kulturarven og visionen om et idrætsmuseum?

2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Else Trangbæk
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Strange Story ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status

How’s it with sport and cultural heritage and the vision of a sports museum?The question in the headline is not simple to answer. In many ways it is a sad but also a strange story with many paradoxes. Since the mid-1980s there have been many initiatives to make research, collect and register materiel and disseminate knowledge about the social role and meanings of sports. Several initiatives around a sports museum have been taken, but nothing has happened. The initiatives have met many good intentions but until now no finansiel support at all. The article will through three case studies illustrate the first initiatives since the mid -1980s in order to reflect the status concerning the preservation of sport heritage, creating a sports museum and historical research about sports.

The Social Life of Heritage-Making

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florence Graezer Bideau
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Cultural Meanings ◽  
Anthropological Perspective ◽  
Member States ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
The Social ◽  
Underlying Processes

This chapter adopts an anthropological perspective to explore the role played by institutions in the social and historical construction of heritage. Since member states ratified the UNESCO Conventions, national inventories have been collated so that candidacies can be submitted to international lists for recognition and, in turn, return the benefits of this cultural showcase to the nation. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in China and Switzerland, this chapter focuses on the logic underlying processes of selection, which involves both political and administrative bodies. How cultural heritage is interpreted by various stakeholders will be outlined, along with an analysis of practices and narratives that almost inevitably produces friction. The case studies presented here highlight the complexity of cultural meanings and frictions among stakeholders at all levels who claim their ‘rights to cultural heritage’.

scholarly journals Characteristics of Transformational Adaptation in Climate-Land-Society Interactions

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 356 ◽  
Author(s):  
Koko Warner ◽  
Zinta Zommers ◽  
Anita Wreford ◽  
Margot Hurlbert ◽  
David Viner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Transformational Change ◽  
Water Runoff ◽  
Storm Water Runoff ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Face ◽  
Land Systems

Countries across the world aspire towards climate resilient sustainable development. The interacting processes of climate change, land change, and unprecedented social and technological change pose significant obstacles to these aspirations. The pace, intensity, and scale of these sizeable risks and vulnerabilities affect the central issues in sustainable development: how and where people live and work, access to essential resources and ecosystem services needed to sustain people in given locations, and the social and economic means to improve human wellbeing in the face of disruptions. This paper addresses the question: What are the characteristics of transformational adaptation and development in the context of profound changes in land and climate? To explore this question, this paper contains four case studies: managing storm water runoff related to the conversion of rural land to urban land in Indonesia; using a basket of interventions to manage social impacts of flooding in Nepal; combining a national glacier protection law with water rights management in Argentina; and community-based relocation in response to permafrost thaw and coastal erosion in Alaska. These case studies contribute to understanding characteristics of adaptation which is commensurate to sizeable risks and vulnerabilities to society in changing climate and land systems. Transformational adaptation is often perceived as a major large-scale intervention. In practice, the case studies in this article reveal that transformational adaptation is more likely to involve a bundle of adaptation interventions that are aimed at flexibly adjusting to change rather than reinforcing the status quo in ways of doing things. As a global mosaic, transformational change at a grand scale will occur through an inestimable number of smaller steps to adjust the central elements of human systems proportionate to the changes in climate and land systems. Understanding the characteristics of transformational adaptation will be essential to design and implement adaptation that keeps society in step with reconfiguring climate and land systems as they depart from current states.

Les religions au Chili entre l'aliénation et la prise de conscience

1974 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Lalive d'Epinay ◽  
Jacques Zylberberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Role ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Social Protest ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
Multiple Forms ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
Complex Relationships

The multiple forms of the religious phenomenon and its cosmologies have often been pointed out. The social role of a religion can never be defined once and for all. The role played by religion as an agent for social protest and awareness or as a factor of the status quo must be made explicit for each historical period and specific social group. How are the religions in Chili situated between these functions of alienation and awareness ? The authors of this article examine the positions of Indian animism, Catholicism and Protestantism and outline the complex relationships exist ing between the nation, classes, social groups, and religious behavior in Chili.

scholarly journals Understanding the Limits to Ethnic Change: Lessons from Uganda's “Lost Counties”

2008 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 473-485 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elliott D. Green
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Ethnic Identities ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status

The historically constructed nature of ethnicity has become a widely accepted paradigm in the social sciences. Scholars have especially have focused on the ways modern states have been able to create and change ethnic identities, with perhaps the strongest case studies coming from colonial Africa, where the gap between strong states and weak societies has been most apparent. I suggest, however, that in order to better understand how and when ethnic change occurs it is important to examine case studies where state-directed ethnic change has failed. To rectify this oversight I examine the case of the “lost counties” of Uganda, which were transferred from the Bunyoro kingdom to the Buganda kingdom at the onset of colonial rule. I show that British attempts to assimilate the Banyoro residents in two of the lost counties were an unmitigated failure, while attempts in the other five counties were successful. I claim that the reason for these differing outcomes lies in the status of the two lost counties as part of the historic Bunyoro homeland, whereas the other five counties were both geographically and symbolically peripheral to Bunyoro. The evidence here thus suggests that varying ethnic attachments to territory can lead to differing outcomes in situations of state-directed assimilation and ethnic change.

scholarly journals REASSESSING THE ZIMBABWEAN CHIPENDANI

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 40-66
Author(s):  
Jennifer Kyker
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Adult Men ◽  
The Social ◽  
Child's Play ◽  
The Status

The Shona chipendani (pl. zvipendani) is among dozens of musical bows found throughout southern Africa. An understanding of where the chipendani fits into the larger space of Zimbabwe’s musical and social life is markedly thin. Other than Brenner’s observation that the chipendani may occasionally be played by adult men while socializing over beer, descriptions of the chipendani seldom go further than remarking on theinstrument’s associations with cattle herding, and reducing it to the status of child’s play. In this article, I argue that conceptions of the musical and social identity of the chipendani must be expanded beyond its conventional portrayal as a herdboy instrument, since other groups of people have been actively involved in performing the instrument. I further maintain that the social role of the chipendani extends beyond providing accompaniment for a singular activity—that of cattle herding—into other contexts. By challenging Tracey’s conception of solo bow playing as “self-delectative,” my account of chipendani music opens up space for new readings of other musical bows throughout southern Africa.

The activities of the IAPG - International Association for Promoting Geoethics: status and future perspectives

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Di Capua ◽  
Silvia Peppoloni
Keyword(s):  
International Organizations ◽  
Social Role ◽  
International Association ◽  
Future Perspectives ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Real Process ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cultural Implications ◽  
The Status

<p>The IAPG (https://www.geoethics.org) was founded in August 2012 with the aim to increase the awareness of the geoscientific community on ethical, social and cultural implications of geoscience knowledge, research, practice, education, and communication.<br>In this perspective, geoethics has been initially developed in the context of geosciences, as a rediscovery by geoscientists, and in some cases as a real process of consciousness-raising, of the social role that they can and should play in support of society to face global anthropogenic changes.<br>Currently the IAPG can count on more than 2600 geoscientists (belonging to 130 countries) and its IAPG network includes also 32 national sections, working to develop geoethics by focusing on local specific issues of each country, and 3 task groups. Many international organizations recognize, appreciate and support results achieved by the association, through affiliations, agreements of cooperation and partnerships.<br>The IAPG has coordinated numerous publications, both books and articles, supports a book series on geoethics and a new scientific, open-access, not-for-profit, peer-reviewed journal on geoethics and social geosciences, and promotes a school on geoethics.<br>This presentation provides an update on the status of IAPG activities, and on future perspectives.</p>

scholarly journals Political Affiliation of Canadian Professors

2008 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 873-898 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reza Nakhaie ◽  
Barry Adam
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
Political Orientation ◽  
Political Affiliation ◽  
Liberal Party ◽  
University Professors ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status

The social role of universities has been subject to a lengthy debate as to whether those who teach in the academy are system legitimizing conservatives or radicals helping to generate critical thinking and challenge to the status quo. Despite this controversy, neoconservatives in the U.S. have used the evidence of professors’ strong support for the Democratic candidates as an indication of universities being dominated by left-leaning radicals. The aim of this paper is to evaluate political affiliations of Canadian university professors, based on a national survey conducted in 2000. The study shows that Canadian professors’ political affiliation can be identified as left and/or right depending on how we conceptualize the political orientation of political parties. Although, university professors tended to vote to the Liberal Party more than other parties, they themselves are more likely to view this party as a centrist party. Moreover, the study highlights a complex and non-monolithic picture of the Canadian academy. University professors are not politically homogenous but that their party vote depends on the prestige of their university, their discipline, gender, ethnicity, marital status, generation and extent of their own liberalism. Résumé. Le rôle social des universités fait depuis longtemps l’objet d’un débat sur l’orientation politique des professeurs : sont-ils des conservateurs qui légitiment le statu quo, ou des radicaux qui aident à créer une pensée critique qui le conteste? Le but du présent article est d’évaluer les affiliations politiques des professeurs canadiens telles qu’elles se dégagent d’un sondage national effectué en 2000. L’étude montre que leur affiliation politique peut être décrite comme de gauche ou de droite, selon la conception qu’on a de l’orientation des partis politiques. Ils votent plus souvent pour les Libéraux que pour d’autres partis, les voyant comme un parti du centre. D’ailleurs, l’étude donne des universités canadiennes un tableau complexe et nullement monolithique. Les professeurs n’ont pas de vues homogènes, ils votent en partie selon le prestige de leur université, leur discipline, leur sexe, leurs antécédents ethniques, leur situation de famille, leur âge et leur attitude envers le libéralisme.

Tracking the social media tourist

2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (10) ◽  
pp. 18-20
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Reading Time ◽  
Cutting Edge ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose – This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach – This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings – Conversation has changed. Not the art of conversation, which changed sometime in the mid-1970s if our parents are to be believed, but the status of conversation itself. Discussion, argument, discourse and verbal jousting are no longer deemed real enough to matter very much. Unless, of course, they occur online and are witnessed by thousands of people. Practical implications – The paper provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world’s leading organizations. Originality/value – The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

scholarly journals SHORT REVIEW OF THE SOCIOLINGUISTIC STUDY OF GLOBAL ENGLISH

2019 ◽  
pp. 34-41
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Short Review ◽  
State University ◽  
Global English ◽  
University Of Berlin ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
Global Language ◽  
Pragmatic Aspects

The aim of the paper is to analyze the study of the spread of the English language as global language, its place in communicative relations in various socio-economic spheres, sociolinguistic and pragmatic status of English. The article addresses the study of sociolinguistic and pragmatic features of internationalization of the English language. Various interpretations are expressed in the scientific schools of world linguistics about the social role of the English language, which managed to get the status of an international language, but in these interpretations they remain spiritualized, being reflected in the philosophical ideas and points of view of different authors. However, the distinctive aspects of the social status of a language on the territories of different countries and their linguistic indicators are overlooked. It becomes more difficult to comment on the factors that ensure the interrelation of the language, as a phenomenon developing in an objective way and under the control of synergetic patterns, with thinking. Scientific research on sociolinguistic and pragmatic aspects of the English language is being elaborated in the leading scientific centers and higher educational institutions of the world, including: Cambridge University (England); Oxford University (England);University of Illinois (USA), Free University of Berlin (Germany); University of Warsaw (Poland), Aoyama Gakuin University (Japan), Moscow State University (Russia), Linguistic Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia).

scholarly journals Online Artistic Activism: Case-Study of Hungarian-Romanian Intercultural Communication

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-58
Author(s):  
Gizela Horváth ◽  
Rozália Klára Bakó
Keyword(s):  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Research Question ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Interactive Spaces ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
Social Messages

Technical reproduction in general, and photography in particular have changed the status and practices of art. Similarly, the expansion of Web 2.0 interactive spaces presents opportunities and challenges to artistic communities. Present study focuses on artistic activism: socially sensitive artists publish their creation on the internet on its most interactive space – social media. These artworks carry both artistic and social messages. Such practices force us to reinterpret some elements of the classical art paradigm: its autonomy, authorship, uniqueness (as opposed to copies and series), and the social role of art. The analysis is aimed at Hungarian and Romanian online artistic projects from Transylvania region of Romania, relevant as intercultural communication endeavours. Our research question is the way they differ from the traditional artistic paradigm.

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