Fetishism in International Development

2020 ◽  
pp. 123-146
Author(s):  
Ilan Kapoor
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Subject ◽  
A Site ◽  
As If

This chapter discusses fetishism. As a substitute for fundamental trauma, the fetish is a site of disavowal, allowing the subject to better master their world by ridding it of difference. Additionally, by behaving single-mindedly toward the fetish object as if it possesses a sublime quality, the fetishist forecloses other possible worthy objects or sociopolitical goals. Mastery, disavowal, and foreclosure thus become the hallmarks of fetishism. The chapter applies these psychoanalytic insights to international development — particularly its dominant modernization variant — by focusing on two of the latter's top fetishes: growth and technology. It examines how to each fetish is ascribed extraordinary powers, with several important socioenvironmental implications: the domination of the Other; the disavowal of social inequalities and environmental degradation; and the foreclosure of politics.

The Universalist Dimensions of Antagonism

2020 ◽  
pp. 59-74
Author(s):  
Ilan Kapoor
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
The Other ◽  
Global Politics ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Slavoj Zizek ◽  
Slavoj Žižek ◽  
The Subject ◽  
European Refugee Crisis ◽  
The One

This chapter focuses on two recent controversies in which Slavoj Žižek has been embroiled — the European refugee crisis and the issue of Eurocentrism — to illustrate the two universalist dimensions of antagonism. The two controversies are, of course, directly pertinent to international development, since the one (the refugee crisis) is closely entwined with North–South relations and the global politics of inequality, while the other (Eurocentrism) is a key cause of concern for those (postcolonial, decolonial) development theorists and practitioners focusing on continuing patterns of Western domination. Žižek's stand on both issues has been the subject of notable disapproval, if not denunciation. Critics reproach him for being Eurocentric and even racist, charges which he has repeatedly countered. The chapter examines the differing theoretical and political positions in these debates, underlining what Žižek's critics miss or misunderstand about the key notion of antagonism.

Controllability of Motor Imagery and Transformation of Visual Imagery

1994 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
pp. 479-487 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eiichi Naito
Keyword(s):  
Mental Rotation ◽  
Motor Imagery ◽  
Recognition Test ◽  
Visual Imagery ◽  
Test Score ◽  
Processing Time ◽  
The Other ◽  
Two Measures ◽  
The Subject ◽  
As If

This study examined the relation between control of motor imagery and generation and transformation of visual imagery by testing 54 subjects. We used two measures of the Controllability of Motor Imagery test to evaluate the ability to control motor imagery. One was a recognition test on which the subject imagines as if one sees another's movement, and the other was a regeneration test on which one imagines as if one moves one's own body. The former test score was related to processing time of a mental rotation task and the latter one was not but would reflect sport experience. It was concluded that two meanings of the test could reflect different aspects such as observational motor imagery and body-centered motor imagery.

scholarly journals XIII.—On certain Salts and Products of Decomposition of Comenic Acid

1853 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-245
Author(s):  
Henry How
Keyword(s):  
Organic Chemistry ◽  
Organic Acids ◽  
General Formula ◽  
The Other ◽  
Comenic Acid ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Field Of Inquiry ◽  
As If

The study of the organic acids appears scarcely to have advanced of late years pari passu with the other branches of organic chemistry. It seems, indeed, as if the development of each of the different departments of the science had been, to a certain extent, periodical; each engrossing the labours of investigators to the temporary exclusion of the others, themselves to be renewed when some new experiments should reawaken an interest in them.However this may be, the subject of the natural and artificial bases has proved so productive of interesting results as to have recently become the chosen and almost exclusive field of inquiry, notwithstanding several investigations which have thrown much light on one class of organic acids, namely, that represented by the general formula Cn Hn O4. With the exception of this section, the history of the organic acids remains very imperfect, and in many cases we have but a meagre account of a few of their salts.

scholarly journals The Feminine, The Poetic, And The Sacred In BPNichol's The Martyrology And Journal

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalya Androsova
Keyword(s):  
Human Experience ◽  
The Other ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Poetic Language ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Poetic Practice ◽  
Mode Of Being ◽  
A Site

My goal is not to analyse the sacred – to analyse it is to kill it. The objective is only to explore different ways of approaching the sacred through looking deeply at the nature of poetic language. In our contemporary society, the sacred is the other. And so is the feminine. Our culture often rejects these modes of experience, but poetic practice gives them both a time and a space. My overall argument is that poetic practice creates an approach, a site and a possibility for the sacred to manifest itself phenomenologically by breaking through from the other realm into human experience. Poetic practice holds an intention, creates a direction, a dimension, a state that can approach the experience of the sacred and honour it, be open to it, invite it and allow the subject to suspend the habitual control and instead adopt a surrender mode. Thus, poetic practice itself becomes a sacred activity that teaches us about different kinds of knowledge, experience and insight and invites us to experience a different mode of being in the world, in language, with ourselves, and with each other. Instead of detachment and alienation that permeate our culture, instead of separation from and the resulting objectification of nature, poetic consciousness offers us a more primal mode of being that pre-modern man used to call sacred.

scholarly journals On Some Forms of “Out-Group” Intolerance and “Unlimited” Tolerance in Linguoculture

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1 (19)) ◽  
pp. 130-140
Author(s):  
Narine Harutyunyan
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Group ◽  
English Language ◽  
The Other ◽  
Local People ◽  
Value System ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
National Community ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
The Subject ◽  
As If

The subject of the research is ethnic intolerance as a form of relationship between “we” and “other”, manifested in various modifications of the hostility towards others. There are several main types of ethno-intolerant relations: ethnocentrism; xenophobia, migrant phobia, etc. The author’s definitions of such concepts as “intercultural whirlpool”, “ethnocentric craters” and “xenophobic craters”, “emotional turbulence of communication” are presented. The negative, discreditable signs of ethnicity of a particular national community are represented in the lexical units of English in such a way as if the “other” ethnic group has the shortcomings that are not in the “we” group. The problem of “unlimited” tolerance is considered when “strangers” – immigrants, seek to impose “their own” religious and cultural traditions, worldview and psychological dominant on local people. The article deals with the problems of intolerance and “unlimited” tolerance not only as complex socio-psychological, but also as linguocultural phenomena that are actualized in the linguistic consciousness of the ethnic group (English-speaking groups, in particular). The article also deals with the problem of “aggressive” expansion of the English language, which destroys the nation’s value system, distorts its language habits and perception of the surrounding reality, and creates discriminatory dominance of a certain linguoculture.

scholarly journals Movement of “Natural Parenting” as (as if) a Confrontation with a Consumer Society

2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (31) ◽  
pp. 270-282
Author(s):  
Alla Diomidova ◽  
Viktoria Makarova
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Consumer Society ◽  
Imagined Community ◽  
Educational Discourse ◽  
Consumer Values ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Advertising Discourse ◽  
The Right ◽  
As If

The article describes the movement of natural parenting and its confrontational ideology. The authors sought to provide a general understanding of the movement natural parenting and describe its confrontational ideology. Speaking in terms of sociology, sling parents form the imagined community and this particular ideology is the focus of the presents study. The hypothesis of the study lies in the assumption that discourse analysis of natural parenting is to discover traits of propaganda discourse. The subject of the analyzed discourse is set critically in relation to the modern practice of consumption, declares the personal position free from stereotypes and willingness to confront the dictatorial influence of consumer values on the style of parenting. The subject is prone to reflection and the generation of ideological texts. Despite the fact that natural parenting has positioned itself as anti-consumer-orientated, it creates a consumer niche of the “right” products for children. Being against some commodities, natural parenting creates demand for the other ones. Sling clothing for Moms (sling jackets), accessories and the like become the accompanying sling commodities. Natural parenting has positioned itself as focused on the child’s needs. The traditional educational discourse is marked as providing the convenience for a mother who does not love her child. Many of the arguments of the sling discourse are based on fear to fail to meet a child’s needs (or to cause harm to his\her health, to threaten his\her life), which relates it with the mainstream advertising discourse.

The Political Standing of Delos

1924 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. W. Tarn
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Third Century ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Subject ◽  
A Site ◽  
Holy Place

In this paper I am considering two things; the position of Delos as a ‘holy place,’ and the rules of the practice among Greek cities with regard to the grant of a τόπος or site for a stele. From these it follows automatically that the somewhat fashionable dogma of the ‘neutrality’ of Delos is not only (on our present materials) untrue, but is impossible,—it has no chance whatever of being true. It is strange that it should have gained the acceptance it has without any examination of its foundations ever having been made; however, this is so, and it presents rather a striking instance of the effect of mere repetition. Its importance, of course, consists in this, that, if it were true, then the festivals, etc., at Delos can never have any political meaning and we lose our only sure basis for the chronology of the middle of the third century. If this were necessary, one would naturally accept the consequences; the necessity, however, is in fact the other way. I am not going through what others have written; but I have borne in mind Professor Kolbe's argument for Delian neutrality in his drastic reconstruction of this period, a reconstruction which is ingenious, but is unfortunately based on other unsound hypotheses beside the Delian; and I shall notice in their place the four inscriptions with regard to the grant of a site on which he relied as exceptional, but which are really simple illustrations of well-established practice. I am dealing with that practice at some length, as I hope it may possess some interest of its own apart from the theme of this paper, seeing that the rules have never been formulated; but I was glad to find that Professor Wilhelm, who has done so much to elucidate the machinery of setting up decrees, in the two pages which he has incidentally given to the subject, at once noticed what I take to be the important matter, viz. that a question of interstate courtesy is involved.

scholarly journals THE USAGE OF YOUTUBE VIDEO IN TEACHING ENGLISH FOR YOUNG LEARNER (TEYL) FOR SIXTH SEMESTER STUDENTS OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Nurna Ningsih ◽  
Arin Arianti
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Video Recording ◽  
The Other ◽  
English Department ◽  
Note Taking ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Young Learner ◽  
As If ◽  
The Way

The objective of the research is to know the student’s mastery in using YouTube as teaching media while the students learn to be a peer teacher in TEYL. TEYL is Teaching English for Young Learner is one of the subjects that is taught for sixth semester students of English Department in Veteran Bangun Nusantara University of Sukoharjo. Students learnt to teach their friends as if their friends were young learner students by using many kinds of teaching Medias. Youtube video is the most favorite teaching media because it is easy to get by downloading it or just see it. Qualitative method was used in the study. The subject of the study was 6th semester students of English Department. The collecting data of the study were used observation, interview, and documentation. The observation was used in order to know students’ teaching mastery about YouTube as a teaching media. The interview used to know the students feel, inspiration of using YouTube, and the application of YouTube in class. The documentation itself were divided into three. First was video recording, second was note taking and third was pictures. While the data of the research was the script based on the video recording. Based on the research, the students used YouTube as teaching media with different treatment. 1. Collecting some videos in a PowerPoint the way to serve it to the other students, 2. YouTube video was combined with some written explanation in a PowerPoint, 3. the other students only used a video then played it as a teaching medium, 4. Students downloaded songs video from YouTube but it does not play in class but the students use the song by changing the lyric. Then the students sang it with the variation lyric they already made.

Emerging Rural Centers, Territorial Projects, Regional Development Players and Prospects. The Case of the Province of Zagora (Morocco)

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 170-183
Author(s):  
Abdelaaziz El-Araby ◽  
Ali Faleh
Keyword(s):  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
The Other ◽  
Territorial Development ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Rural Exodus ◽  
Local Levels

AbstractThe articulation between the national, regional and local levels is one of the main thrusts that decision-makers and stakeholders are increasingly involved in when designing and implementing development visions and strategies. Indeed, the descending approach gives way gradually to the ascending approach; the revision of legislation relating to the management of public affairs (municipal charter, law on the region...), the creation of a number of support institutions (development agencies) and the project of “advanced regionalization”, are aspects of these evolutions. On the other hand, if these efforts are aimed at reducing dysfunctions between regional and intra-regional areas, the reality is that the national territory still suffers from an imbalance between the favored and other disadvantaged regions. In addition, rural exodus and urban growth have profoundly modified territorial relations: social inequalities are widening and imbalances between the rural and the urban are increasing. The present communication seeks to raise some avenues that will ensure a good structuring of the territory of a fragile zone such as the province of Zagora. This is a case study of the role of the Emerging Rural Centers, as intermediate spaces, in the articulation, revitalization and territorial development of the Drâa Tafilalet region. In fact, this new less studied terminology has been the subject of a theoretical framing concerning its definition as well as an outline of criteria for the identification and ranking of the Emerging Rural Centers applicable to the other territories. The roles of the actors in rural development and the place assigned to the CRE for the articulation of the territory of the province of Zagora.

Crepitus from the Fingers of Alcoholics (Quinquaud's Sign) [Il Crepitio delle Falangi negli Alcoolisti (Segno di Quinquaud)]. (Riv. di Patol. Nerv. e Ment., vol. x, fasc. II.) Perazzolo, S.

1906 ◽  
Vol 52 (218) ◽  
pp. 596-597
Author(s):  
A. I. Eades
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Alcoholism ◽  
The Other ◽  
Tactile Sensation ◽  
Steady Pressure ◽  
Interesting Paper ◽  
The Subject ◽  
As If

Quinquaud's sign, which is said to be idiopathic of chronic alcoholism, was the subject of a short and interesting paper by Aubry in the Archives de Neurologie (deuxième sérieto, me xi, 1901). It is elicited as follows: The physician fully extends his hand, palm upwards. The hand of the subject of the examination is held parallel to and above this, dorsum upwards. The patient is directed to flex his three middle fingers and press them perpendicularly against the physician's palm. The three fingers should be separated, the middle one slightly behind the other two; steady pressure should be made. After a moment or two there is a crackling sensation conveyed to the examiner's palm from the patient's fingers as if crepitus were present. This tactile sensation is perhaps best to be compared to the rub experienced in pleurisy or dry arthritis.

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