‘What was it all for?’1 John McGahern’s critique of Irish republican nationalism: an ethical reading

John McGahern ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ciaran Ross
Keyword(s):  
Political Violence ◽  
Local Community ◽  
The Other ◽  
War Of Independence ◽  
1 John

John McGahern’s work reflects profound scepticism concerning 1916 and the legacy of the Irish War of Independence, as well as a subversive attitude towards the original spirit of revolution. The early novels – The Barracks, and Amongst Women, with their post-revolutionary figures represented by characters like Reegan and Moran, might be said to be still in the throes of the founding revolutionary event, while in That They May Face the Rising Sun, McGahern’s last novel, the critique of republicanism focuses on the ‘new’ modern day republican activist, depicted by the character of Jimmy Joe McKiernan. Using Levinas, who defines ethics as critique, the primacy of ethics being the experience of the encounter with the Other, this chapter examines the tensions surrounding McKiernan’s place in the local community where political violence is seen to be both tolerated and condemned.

scholarly journals GAME CENTER: WAHANA PERMAINAN BERBASIS TRADISIONAL DAN DIGITAL

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Sari Wahyuni ◽  
M Ridha Alhamdani ◽  
Jawas Dwijo Putro
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
The Other ◽  
High Demand ◽  
Central Function ◽  
Main Building ◽  
Static Data ◽  
External Sources ◽  
Communal Space ◽  
Space Requirements ◽  
Over Time

Over time, everyone grows up with what he remembers during our lifetime. Game Center is the place for the memory gathering. This has an impact on the interest of both young and old players which will continue to grow every year. Currently Pontianak does not have this game center. Meanwhile, game enthusiasts, especially in terms of audio-visual, are getting higher. From the static data in Statista, it states that the high demand and activity from games. Therefore, it is necessary to design a Game Center. The Game Center design is designed not only as a mere function of a game center, but also as a place for traditional games of the local community as well as a communal space that fills social activities. This game center design is done by analyzing internal and external sources and literature as well as standard references in existing game centers. The space requirements of the actors' activities also need to be analyzed to find the spatial program in the game center. Function, layout, circulation and utility are prioritized to produce a Game Center with communal functions. The building is designed to have three separate building masses. One mass building in the middle as the main building with a central function. The other two masses of the building are placed around the main building.

scholarly journals Repenser Le Rôle Des Institutions De Conservation De La Nature À L’ère De La Globalisation En Afrique: À Propos Du Parc National De La Salonga (RDC)

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 92
Author(s):  
Mampeta Wabasa Salomon
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
National Park ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Central Africa ◽  
The Other ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Republic Of The Congo ◽  
Contemporary Management

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the protectionist conservatism influenced by colonialism, which exploited African countries for the prosperity of the colonizing countries, still has a high visibility in the Salonga National Park (PNS). If, in theory, the Central Africans seem to free themselves from the colonial powers on their land, in practice they are still there. The hostility of settlers who have become neo-colonists to the development of Central Africa remains intact, he adds (Ndinga, 2003). This reflects a "logic from above" that has disregarded local values. Yet, in the era of sustainable development and globalization, African protected areas appear to be essential tools for States to reposition themselves in a complex set of actors with the aim of capturing and using the new environmental rent (Giraut, Guyot, & Houssay-Holzschuch, 2003). This is a "bottom-up logic", placing people at the heart of all activities and aiming to reorganize their long-term relationships with the environment. From these two logics, a third "logic from the other side" emerges, reflecting a collective awareness of the fragility of the planet. The restoration of the rights of Africans in the various national frameworks constitutes a major challenge for the contemporary management of African protected areas. Because the protected areas inherited from the different colonial systems must accompany the change in management methods and the redefinition of their functions in order to better serve the local community in the long-term.

Religion, Violence, and the State

2018 ◽  
pp. 226-262
Author(s):  
Muhammad Qasim Zaman
Keyword(s):  
Political Violence ◽  
War On Terror ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Islamic Tradition ◽  
State And Society ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
The Military ◽  
Subsequent Rise

This chapter focuses on religio-political violence, whose widespread incidence—after Pakistan's realignment in the US-led War on Terror in the aftermath of September 11, 2001, and the subsequent rise of a new, Pakistani Taliban—has threatened the very fabric of state and society. It examines the violence in question from two broad and intertwined perspectives, one relating to the state, and the other to Islam and those speaking in its terms. Part of the concern in this chapter is to contribute to an understanding of how the governing elite and the military have often fostered the conditions in which the resort to religiously inflected violence has been justified. It also suggests that the nonstate actors—ideologues and militants—have had an agency of their own, which is not reducible to the machinations of the state. Their resort to relevant facets of the Islamic tradition also needs to be taken seriously in order to properly understand their view of the world and such appeal as they have had in particular circles.

Merchants of Fortune: Negotiating Spanish Neutrality in the American War of Independence

2020 ◽  
pp. 85-100
Author(s):  
Anna Brinkman
Keyword(s):  
West Indies ◽  
The Other ◽  
The West ◽  
Regional Powers ◽  
Fine Line ◽  
War Of Independence ◽  
War Aims ◽  
Economic Warfare ◽  
Bilateral Treaties ◽  
Crucial Part

Economic warfare, in the form of commerce predation, was a crucial part of Britain's strategy in the West Indies during the American War of Independence. The rebels relied on a flow of goods provided by Spanish, French, Dutch and British merchants which British warships and privateers tried to stem. Britain's peaceful relations with the other three powers in the region depended greatly on being perceived to justly conduct economic warfare without breaking maritime law or bilateral treaties. British strategy during the war, therefore, was a fine line between crippling the rebels through aggressive commerce predation without giving cause for grievance to the other regional powers. The war opened several commercial opportunities in the form of smuggling and privateering. Merchants intentionally blurred the boundaries between enemies and allies to suit a given commercial venture. These blurred boundaries in the Americas were problematic for British ministers and Admiralty officials entrusted with prosecuting the war. Maritime treaties and international law were constantly reinterpreted in an attempt to avoid ruptures with other colonial powers, achieve Britain's war aims, and lend credence to British policy.

scholarly journals IMPLEMENTASI PRINSIP PARIWISATA BERBASIS KOMUNITAS DI DESA WISATA NGLINGGO YOGYAKARTA

2018 ◽  
pp. 129
Author(s):  
Rosdiana Pakpahan
Keyword(s):  
Community Involvement ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Rural Tourism ◽  
The Other ◽  
Local People ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
Management Commitment

This study is carried out in Nglinggo rural tourism destination located in Pagerharjo village, Samigaluh sub-district, Kulon Progo regency in Yogyakarta. This research is aimed at revealing the application CBT principles implemented in the management of the rural tourism attraction as well as finding supporting factors and obstacles on the application of the CBT principles. This study also traces why such factors and obstacles occur. This research applies both qualitative and quantitative techniques in obtaining primary and secondary data. The primary data is collected by questionnaires, in- depth interview and observation, while the secondary data is obtained mainly from local authority’s website of Office of Tourism of Kulon Progo Regency.This study suggests that local people are aware on the importance of involvement in managing their village as an attraction. Meanwhile, supporting factors of the application of CBT principles are natural resources, local people cohesion, contribution to local people, local community involvement, existence of supporting institution, management commitment, and local authority’s support. On the other hand, obstacle found in the application of the CBT principles are education and people readiness.

Where is the tantric mainstream? Discussions with a Bengali Brahmin god-maker in Kolkata

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 172-200
Author(s):  
James Samuel Bradbury
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Religious Culture ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Family ◽  
Ritual Practices

Abstract The idea of Hindu Tantra as an esoteric, transgressive, or otherwise fringe practice has been revised to account for a ‘tantric mainstream’ in Indian religious life. However, this tantric mainstream has been faintly reflected in the ethnographic record, which would be otherwise well--suited to explore how religious categories are formed in broader social contexts. The religious world of the Bhattacharyas, a Śākta Brahmin family from East Bengal that now lives in suburban Kolkata, evinces some of the challenges in identifying ‘the tantric’ while suggesting alternative framings of ritual practices. Tapan Bhattacharya, a member of the family in his sixties, not only conducted pūjās to the tantric goddess Dakṣiṇā Kālī in their household shrine; he also sculpted the clay statues of deities (pratimā) that were used in local community rituals. Tapan’s nephew, Souvik, drew upon tantric classifications to explain the relations between mainstream household and community pūjās on one hand, and transgressive rituals on the other. Tantra, as understood by members of this household, encompassed a much wider set of relations than conventional binaries of tantra/not-tantra have allowed for. Taking their cue, I locate mainstream Śākta Tantra within the broader contexts of their religious world and the categories that make sense therein, while ultimately recognising that this family’s framings of contemporary religious culture will be matched by other, competing perspectives.

Digitalisierung und Nachbarschaft

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Social ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship

There has hardly been any other development that has changed our everyday lives as significantly as digitalisation, and there is hardly anything as commonplace as neighbourship. Despite the links between these two concepts growing, they have been neglected in social science research in Germany so far. The prevailing sentiment is that the Internet and social media sites have no connection to the real world, but there are countless neighbourship groups on Facebook, Twitter hashtags named after neighbourhoods or entire websites, such as ‘nebenan.de’, which endeavour to strengthen local community bonds through digital means. In short, the social developments in this respect are already considerably more advanced than the knowledge that exists about it. This anthology makes a fundamental contribution to the sociological debate on digitalisation and neighbourship by aiming to provide an overview of the relationship between digitalisation and neighbourship on the one hand, and open up avenues for further research on the other. It therefore examines and systematises attempts to strengthen local community bonds using digital media from different perspectives.

Analysis on Microclimate and Construction of the Vernacular Architecture in Minangkabau of Sumatra, Indonesia

2012 ◽  
Vol 518-523 ◽  
pp. 4455-4460 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teow Ngak Ng ◽  
Hsien Te Lin
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Vernacular Architecture ◽  
The Other ◽  
Natural Material ◽  
Temperature And Humidity ◽  
Efficient Resource ◽  
Successful Prevention ◽  
Interior Environment

Minangkabau architecture is one of the most identical vernacular architectures in Austronesian world. This research aims to compare and analyze the microclimate of two Minangkabau vernacular houses in villages of Balimbing of Bukittinggi, Sumatra, Indonesia. One of them is covered with palm-sheath roof, and the other is covered with zinc roof. After investigation and a series of measuring assessment, we discover that as human residence, the interior environment of the house with the palm-roof is more comfortable than the zinc-roofed house. Due to a more successful prevention and reduction to high temperature and humidity of the inner space, the palm-roof is recognized as the better housing model to be pursued and using natural material as the efficient resource for the local community.

German Political Violence and the Border Plebiscite in Upper Silesia, 1919–1921

1988 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Hunt Tooley
Keyword(s):  
Political Violence ◽  
The Other ◽  
Historical Drama ◽  
Upper Silesia ◽  
Remarkable Event ◽  
The Face

The fixing of the disputed Polish-German border in Upper Silesia by referendum in 1921 has generally stood in a second rank behind other dramatic and difficult episodes of peacemaking and stabilization. Set in calmer times, the phenomenon of 1.2 million voters deciding whether their region would belong to one state or the other might reasonably rate as a remarkable event. Indeed, the German plebiscite victory in the face of an actual majority of “ethnic” Poles, the ensuing paramilitary war (May to July 1921), and the eventual partition of the province provide ample historical drama.

Native Troops in Colonial Armies: A Research Note on an Incident during the Bengal Army Mutiny of 1857-1858

Itinerario ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 92-95
Author(s):  
Roger N. Buckley
Keyword(s):  
Research Methodology ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
World War ◽  
World War One ◽  
Nationalist Movement ◽  
War Of Independence ◽  
British Rule ◽  
Indian Nation ◽  
The Hill

In an article published in this journal (V (1981), 1), I argued that we will not be able to fully understand the political significance (if any) of the widespread eruption in John Company's Bengal Army in 1857, unless we hear from the “other side of the hill,” from the alienated sepoy officer and rank and file. In the interim we have heard principally from several senior British writers. And because of, for instance, a much flawed research methodology, they have reached unanimity in their analysis of the shock to British rule in India: it was simply a mutiny, one absolutely void of any organized political aims or expressions. The work of Thomas Spear is typical. He has this to say in his India: A Modern History concerning the question of the mutiny as a nationalist movement, a war of independence: “The view that the mutiny was a concerted movement against the British, a violent predecessor of Mahatma Gandhi's campaigns, overlooks the fact that there was then no Indian nation.” He adds: “The new classes with ideas of nationalism were then very few in numbers and they were wholly opposed to the movement.” Philip Mason added the weight of his distinguished reputation to this chorus of disbelievers, who appeared to cringe in retrospective horror at the thought that the good and faithful sepoy could harbor such hideous–and ungrateful–thoughts as freedom from (what was) alien tyranny. After all, Mason muses, did not every British writer up to the mutiny repeat the belief that the Indian soldier had no sense of nationalism? No, he concludes smugly, the Indian soldier had no national feeling until long after World War One. The sepoy was, then, nothing more than a mindless mercenary-child-robot. The mutiny, however, and the other disturbances among the native soldiery prior to 1857, would indicate that the British, then and now, never fully understood their Indian auxiliaries.

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