scholarly journals Selected Issues Illustrating Duality in Relation to Lakota Identity

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-132
Author(s):  
Klára Perlíková
Keyword(s):  
Global Scale ◽  
Dual Structure ◽  
Global Issue ◽  
Tribal Museums ◽  
The World ◽  
General Meaning ◽  
Perception Of Time ◽  
Mind Set ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
The Way

Abstract The article deals with selected issues which - as we perceive it - can provide an insight into what the Lakota consider essential and generic for their self-identification with their culture (What does it mean to be Lakota?). The study is based on observations gained during fieldwork research, and issues in the text reflect data collected within this period. As a result, we examine the following issues: tribal museums in Lakota reservations, Native perception of time, selected issues of Lakota religion, and Lakota relation to the land and environment they live in and to the world on a global scale. We believe that in all these issues we can also recognize an underlying dual structure which - in its most general meaning - could be understood as a dichotomy of Native and Western/Euro-American worldview and mind-set. The question was how non-Native elements distort or affect the system of Lakota culture. In the section on tribal museums and perception of time we have shown that circular way of thinking about the course of the world which is, according to Donald Fixico (FIXICO 2009), characteristic of all Native cultures affects the way tribal museums organize and present their exhibitions. In this case, the influence of the Native/Euro-American dualism does not have to be necessarily negative. The same can be said about another example where the dichotomy projects itself - in the issue of Lakota relation to the land or Unci Maka (Grandmother Earth): Though Lakota religion and identity is regionally bound (BUCKO 2008), their concern for this integral part of their Native-self can surprisingly well fit into the global issue of protection of environment. On the case of Lakota struggle to stop construction of a KXL pipeline1 we demonstrate how the same (Native/Euro-American) duality interacts and through which the Lakota (Native, regionallybound) voice is strengthened by its non-Native counterpart and vice versa.

scholarly journals Haka and Hula Representations in Tourism

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Acushla Deanne O'Carroll
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Cultural Representations ◽  
The World ◽  
Art Forms ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
The Way

<p>Haka and hula performances tell stories that represent histories, traditions, protocols and customs of the Maori and Hawai'ian people and give insight into their lives and the way that they see the world. The way that haka and hula performances are represented is being tested, as the dynamics of the tourism industry impact upon and influence the art forms. If allowed, these impacts and influences can affect the performances and thus manipulate or change the way that haka and hula are represented. Through an understanding of the impacts and influences of tourism on haka and hula performances, as well as an exploration of the cultures' values, cultural representations effective existence within the tourism industry can be investigated. This thesis will incorporate the perspectives of haka and hula practitioners and discuss the impacts and influences on haka and hula performances in tourism. The research will also explore and discuss the ways in which cultural values and representations can effectively co-exist within tourism.</p>

scholarly journals Deliberating Our Frames: How Members of Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives Use Shared Frames to Tackle Within-Frame Conflicts Over Sustainability Issues

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angelika Zimmermann ◽  
Nora Albers ◽  
Jasper O. Kenter
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Environmental Valuation ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
The World ◽  
Joint Decisions ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Multi Stakeholder ◽  
Carbon Retention ◽  
The Way

Abstract Multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs) have been praised as vehicles for tackling complex sustainability issues, but their success relies on the reconciliation of stakeholders’ divergent perspectives. We yet lack a thorough understanding of the micro-level mechanisms by which stakeholders can deal with these differences. To develop such understanding, we examine what frames—i.e., mental schemata for making sense of the world—members of MSIs use during their discussions on sustainability questions and how these frames are deliberated through social interactions. Whilst prior framing research has focussed on between-frame conflicts, we offer a different perspective by examining how and under what conditions actors use shared frames to tackle ‘within-frame conflicts’ on views that stand in the way of joint decisions. Observations of a deliberative environmental valuation workshop and interviews in an MSI on the protection of peatlands—ecosystems that contribute to carbon retention on a global scale—demonstrated how the application and deliberation of shared frames during micro-level interactions resulted in increased salience, elaboration, and adjustment of shared frames. We interpret our findings to identify characteristics of deliberation mechanisms in the case of within-frame conflicts where shared frames dominate the discussions, and to delineate conditions for such dominance. Our findings contribute to an understanding of collaborations in MSIs and other organisational settings by demonstrating the utility of shared frames for dealing with conflicting views and suggesting how shared frames can be activated, fostered and strengthened.

scholarly journals Market Volatility, Digital Transformation and Innovation changed the way of competition

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amal Wijenayaka
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Market Volatility ◽  
Sustainable Competitive Advantage ◽  
Traditional Methods ◽  
Future Success ◽  
The World ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Huge Challenge ◽  
The Way

The world is rapidly changing. As a result, organizations have to find new ways to compete with close competitors. It is challenging to use traditional methods and ways. Advertising and price war are not gaining sustainable competitive advantage further. Most past researches mentioned that Innovation is the key to future success. Furthermore, it is required to transform to digitalization. It provides new insight into the organization. Market volatility is a huge challenge to the organization. However, it can be managed with digitalization and Innovation.

Sport, modernity and nation building: The Indonesian National Games of 1951 and 1953

2008 ◽  
Vol 164 (4) ◽  
pp. 431-449 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Brown
Keyword(s):  
British Empire ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Colonial Experience ◽  
History Of ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Inherent Part ◽  
The Way

The study of sport – its social, political, cultural and economic aspects – is a well-established academic field, scholars widely acknowledging its significance in understanding how a society is organized and understood. As Perkin (1992:211) puts it: The history of societies is reflected more vividly in the way they spend their leisure than in their politics or their work […] the history of sport gives a unique insight into the way a society changes and impacts on other societies it comes into contact with and, conversely, the way those societies react back to it. Sport has a particular resonance in considerations of the emergence of modern nation-states out of colonialism, given the connections between the diffusion of modern sports around the world and the colonial experience. Although virtually all societies played games of various kinds, competitive, rule-based sports are essentially modern, western phenomena, dating back no further than the nineteenth century. Their spread through the world coincided with, and in many respects was an inherent part of, the expansion of western colonialism. In the British Empire in particular, sport was seen as reflecting the essential values and characteristics of the British race which justified the existence of colonialism. Wherever the British went, they took their sports with them, together with the social mores they represented.

Dante on the Evil of Treachery

Evil ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 252-257
Author(s):  
Eleonore Stump
Keyword(s):  
Near Neighbor ◽  
Divine Comedy ◽  
Seven Deadly Sins ◽  
The World ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
The Way

Dante is a superb Thomist; and, in his Divine Comedy, he puts flesh on Aquinas’s sophisticated philosophical and theological views by means of an allegory with novelistic elements. In the Inferno, Dante the traveler exemplifies the way in which to do well what the sinner in hell did horribly. The punishment of the sinner shows the ugliness of a particular evil, and the actions of Dante the traveler show something powerfully good that is the alternative, the near neighbor, of the evil. By this twinned means, the nature of the seven deadly sins is vividly exposed, and true goodness and love, opposed to all the seven deadly sins, is illuminated and poignantly depicted. Furthermore, Dante is not only a superb Thomist and an insightful philosopher in his own right, but he incarnates the philosophy in narrative; and that makes all the difference in the world to his ability to give us insight into evil.

Islamicated China: China’s Participation in the Islamicate Book Culture during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 36-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dror Weil
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Intellectual Engagement ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Form ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
The Way ◽  
Book Culture

By the seventeenth century, Arabo-Persian scholarship in China had adopted elements from Muslim and Chinese book cultures and synthesized them into a new form of scholarship, attested by the hundreds of Arabo-Persian manuscripts extant in repositories in China and around the world and the hundred of copies of printed Chinese works on Islamic themes. This article surveys the history of Chinese participation in Muslim book culture, beginning with a review of the history and general features of texts, in terms of their language and period of composition. The second part of the article provides a more nuanced analysis of texts that circulated in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries throughout China, on the study of Arabo-Persian languages. These linguistic aids and primers of Arabic and Persian highlight the way in which these texts were read and interpreted, in turn, providing meaningful insight into the foundation of China’s intellectual engagement with the Islamicate world.

scholarly journals Masked mimicry: The way of neo-culturalism

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-51
Author(s):  
Sarra Samra Benharrats
Keyword(s):  
Global Scale ◽  
Sociological Analysis ◽  
Social Crisis ◽  
Facial Mimicry ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Negotiation Strategies ◽  
Honest Signals ◽  
The World ◽  
Social Dynamic ◽  
The Way

Currently, the world is in the grip of a new health and social crisis linked to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. In this article, we opt for a descriptive and analytical sociological analysis of behaviours and reactions resulting from the introduction of barrier measures, imposed for the prevention of COVID-19 disease, in particular wearing of a mask, while focusing our interest on the Algerian society. The reactions are multiple and inform us about the issues and negotiation strategies for the integration of this new behaviour qualified as preventive to contain the pandemic: a societal phenomenon on a global scale which has triggered a process of normalisation through the integration of neo-culturalism of the Proxemic type with a pandemic character. According to the recommendations of the study, a Proxemic neo-culturalism is in the process of spreading in a pandemic manner, to establish an interactional balance through the emergence of a new social dynamic made concrete by the adaptation of ‘honest signals’.   Keywords: Facial mimicry, mask, COVID-19, protection, social distancing, neo-culturalism.

scholarly journals In search of the contours of the post-COVID Sustainable Development Goals: The case of BRICS

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-51
Author(s):  
S. N. Bobylev ◽  
L. M. Grigoriev ◽  
M. Yu. Beletskaya
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Brics Countries ◽  
The World ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Catch Up ◽  
Key Indicators ◽  
The Way

The global COVID-19 pandemic and an unexpected recession of dangerous proportions have provided strong reasons to look at the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) from three perspectives: The SDGs as a victim of the 2020 recession; the SDGs as an opportunity for better coordination on the way out of the recession; and the SDGs as an object of modernization for better adaptation to the realities "on the world stage". The BRICS countries are interested in developing and implementing the SDGs on a global scale as a way to catch up. The authors propose a "pandemic protocol", as well as a change in the methodology for including indicators in the SDGs: the introduction of new indicators that are important for sustainability and the incorporation of cross-cutting key indicators for the SDGs, both new and existing.

Heidegger’s Ontology of Art (2005)

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Work Of Art ◽  
Cultural Paradigm ◽  
The World ◽  
Ontology Of Art ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
The Way

Dreyfus explains Heidegger’s account of art in terms of performing three ontological functions: manifesting, articulating, or reconfiguring the style of a culture from within the world of the culture. The work of art, on this view, functions as a cultural paradigm that can attract its receivers to a new way of being in the world. The work of art, when viewed in this way, gives us insight into the way background practices work by embodying a style that opens up a disclosive space. The work of art allows us to notice and take a stand on our world by illuminating and glamorizing the world’s style.

Little magazine, worldwide network

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Bulson
Keyword(s):  
Global Scale ◽  
Little Magazines ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Worldwide Network ◽  
The Way

The first chapter tackles the seemingly straightforward question: where was the little magazine network? As a way to get started, I examine some of the diagrams and maps created by little magazine makers in Spain, France, and Poland to try and figure out where their magazines were going in the world. In doing so, I explain that this “worldwide network of periodicals,” a term first used by the Polish Constructivist Henri Berlewi in 1922, did not rely for its effects on actual connectivity. In fact, these early attempts to visualize “the worldwide network” reveal how much disconnection, both voluntary and involuntary, played a formative role in the way that little magazines could begin to imagine where they were and with whom. Emphasizing the effects of disconnection enables us to think about the geography and history of the little magazine on a global scale, looking less for the circulation of texts and authors and more for the causes behind bouts of isolation and the formation of alternative, and very often non-Western, routes of exchange.

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