An Archaeology of Eurocentrism

2012 ◽  
Vol 77 (4) ◽  
pp. 737-755 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles E. Orser
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Historical Archaeology ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Emotional Understanding

AbstractThe role of Europe and Europeans in the archaeology of post-1500 history has recently been critiqued. Some research has been pejoratively labeled Eurocentrism. This paper addresses the problems with adopting an emotional understanding of Eurocentrism and argues instead for its archaeological examination within the framework of an explicit multiscalar modern-world (historical) archaeology. An example comes from seventeenth-century Dutch settlements located in and around present-day Albany, New York.

Islam and Politics and The Search for Arab Democracy: Discourses and Counter-Discourses

2005 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 1083-1086
Author(s):  
Morris Mottale
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Islam And Politics ◽  
The World ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Middle Eastern Arab ◽  
Modern Perspective

Islam and Politics, Beverly Milton-Edwards, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2004, pp. vii, 217.The Search for Arab Democracy: Discourses and Counter-Discourses, Larbi Sadiki, New York: Columbia University Press, 2004, pp. vii, 409These two books approach Middle Eastern Arab and Islamic politics from a post-modern perspective informed by new European and American scholarship on democracy and gender. Both authors tackle a range of issues that should have been treated as discrete topics. Beverly Milton-Edwards and Larbi Sadiki, the two authors, are trying to define Islam and politics not only in terms of the world after 9/11, but also in terms of the recurring and yet-to-be-solved issue of the role of Islam in the modern world and its relationship to politics.

scholarly journals Implementation of the Norms of International Law on the Legal Status of Refugees into the Legislation of the Russian Federation and the Mechanism for their Implementation

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 106-111
Author(s):  
E. A. Pavelyeva ◽  
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R. Kh. Paytyan ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
International Law ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Migration Policy ◽  
World Order ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Refugee Status ◽  
The Russian Federation

The analysis of the application of the norms of international law in relation to the establishment of the legal status of refugees, their protection, granting of asylum in the Russian legal system is carried out. Conclusions are drawn about the inconsistency of some norms of national law with universal norms. Problems are identified at the term level. The necessity of supplementing the concept of «refugee» with new categories and features, such as armed conflicts in the country of habitual residence, is substantiated. In support of this thesis, an overview of Russian judicial practice is given. It is concluded that from a legal point of view, both at the universal and at the national levels, a very effective system of assistance to refugees has developed. However, in practice, when the need arises to implement such norms, numerous difficulties arise. It is recommended to solve these problems by eliminating the inconsistency of norms at different levels. The 1951 Convention has ceased to meet the needs and realities of the modern world order. The need to revise the entire system of norms in this area, and the implementation of innovations in national laws is revealed. The role of cooperation between the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and the national departments of the Russian Federation is analyzed, and the significant role of the Agency in improving the legislative framework of the Russian Federation is indicated. It is recommended to develop mandatory rules regarding the procedure for granting refugee status. It is proposed to give more legal force to the New York Declaration adopted in 2016, which fully fills the gaps in this area, but at the moment it is only advisory in nature. The tightening of the rules for granting legal status to refugees as a result of the analysis of current trends in the migration policy of Russia is revealed. It is recommended to find a balance of interests in terms of the ratio of the principles of sovereignty and respect for human rights and freedoms.

The Wooster Group’s To You, The Birdie!

2019 ◽  
pp. 143-176
Author(s):  
Emma Cole
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Reception History ◽  
Modern World ◽  
The Political ◽  
Wooster Group ◽  
Theatre Company ◽  
History Of ◽  
Political Dimensions ◽  
Canonical Texts

New York-based theatre company The Wooster Group have a long history of using canonical texts as springboards for devised productions. Their 2002 To You, The Birdie! ostensibly used Racine’s neoclassical Phèdre as a source text; however, the artists also engaged with Euripides’ Hippolytus and included numerous elements from the Greek tragedy and its reception history in their production. Chapter 4 analyses To You, The Birdie! and reveals that within its highly ambiguous, disorienting performance aesthetic lay a complex engagement with the political. It argues that the production was infused with explicit political dimensions surrounding the company’s identity, the form of the production, and the socio-political context in which it was first read, alongside implicit political elements relating to the play’s exploration of gender, class, and its emphasis on the incomplete nature of the classics. Through comparative reference to Sarah Kane’s Phaedra’s Love, the chapter demonstrates how different reinventions of the same myth can substantiate alternate national traditions and, through their similarities and differences, shed further light on the role of tragedy in the modern world.

A Court in Decline? Examining the Regality Court Records of Melrose, Roxburghshire, 1657–84

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Vivienne Dunstan
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Local Area ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Court Records ◽  
Seminal Work

McIntyre, in his seminal work on Scottish franchise courts, argues that these courts were in decline in this period, and of little relevance to their local population. 1 But was that really the case? This paper explores that question, using a particularly rich set of local court records. By analysing the functions and significance of one particular court it assesses the role of this one court within its local area, and considers whether it really was in decline at this time, or if it continued to perform a vital role in its local community. The period studied is the mid to late seventeenth century, a period of considerable upheaval in Scottish life, that has attracted considerable attention from scholars, though often less on the experiences of local communities and people.

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