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 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 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 The COVID-19 Pandemic and our Heroes

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-6
Author(s):  
Renuka Yadav
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Law Enforcement Officers ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
The World ◽  
Short Commentary ◽  
The Way

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected millions of people across the globe and an equal number of people are at risk of contracting this disease. It has brought life to a standstill with people closing their businesses and adopting social distancing measures. Many countries/cities are under lockdown to contain the disease. To control this situation, the world has come together to combat this disease and return life back to normalcy. While many people are at their homes practicing social distancing, there are a few heroes which include healthcare professionals, law enforcement officers, volunteers etc. This short commentary focuses on the way COVID-19 has shaped the world and salutes its true heroes.

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.

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.

Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown on Digital Banking

2021 ◽  
pp. 160-176
Author(s):  
Narinder Kumar Bhasin ◽  
Anupama Rajesh
Keyword(s):  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Restricted Movement ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Infected People ◽  
Commercial Activities ◽  
Work From Home ◽  
Essential Services ◽  
The World ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Way

The COVID-19 outbreak has drastically changed the life of every person and has infected people in 185 countries. Since no vaccine has been developed for this disease so far, lockdown, work from home, and social distancing and only a few essential services were allowed to open. Lockdown and restricted movement of people was the only solution to control this crisis. These steps taken by all the countries have stopped all the commercial activities which left all businesses, banks, and financial institutions to count losses and cost. The big question which has emerged that whether e-collaboration between banks and technology continues to be the key to success for finding solutions to the problems in this new environment which COVID-19 has created. This chapter examines the way the digital banking collaboration between banks and Fintech can resolve the problems provided by the COVID-19 pandemic and control the impending economic fallout in India and across the world.

scholarly journals Large-scale Social Restrictions: What's Next?

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-214
Author(s):  
Namira Ivanka
Keyword(s):  
Mortality Rate ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Corona Virus ◽  
Rapid Spread ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Way

In the middle of the COvid-19 Pandemic, in addition to social distancing, the government is intensively preventing the spread of the corona virus, as we know that the corona virus is a very scary virus for many people. The virus has spread more and more every day and the way it is spread is very easy and can attack anyone and does not thicken the ages ranging from toddlers to the elderly can be exposed to this Covid-19 virus. Although this virus has a relatively low mortality rate. But who would have thought the spread was faster than other viruses. Until now the world is still racing to find a cure for this corona virus. Therefore, the government issued a policy so that it could immediately break the chain of the spread of the virus by means of large-scale social restrictions. And when large-scale social restrictions are implemented in an area to stop the spread of the corona virus (Covid-19), all activities are restricted. The enactment of large-scale social restrictions aims to fulfill the criteria for disease situations in the form of a significant increase in the number of cases and / or deaths from disease, rapid spread of cases to several regions, and there are epidemiological links with similar events in other regions or countries. 

Constitution transformation

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-255
Author(s):  
Cheryl Saunders
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Constitutional Law ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
First Century ◽  
Paradigm Change ◽  
Global Effect ◽  
Generic Concept ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Constitutionalism ◽  
The Way

AbstractThis article explores the extent to which (if at all) the concept of a constitution is undergoing change in the conditions of globalization that characterize the early decades of the twenty-first century, to an extent that might be described as transformation. The question is prompted both by familiar manifestations of the interdependence of domestic constitutional and international law and practice, and by the interpretation placed on them by some of the literature on global constitutionalism. Some – although by no means all – of the literature and the experience on which it draws relate to the extent of transnational influence on the way in which constitutions now are made or changed: constitution transformation in the narrow, or more particular, sense. The article seeks to answer this question with reference to global constitutional experience, including – critically – experience in Asia, as one of the largest and most diverse regions of the world, too often omitted from studies of this kind. To this end, the article considers whether the concept of a constitution can be regarded as having been globally shared in any event; examines the phenomena associated with globalization that might suggest a paradigm change; and considers the arguments that mitigate against change, at least on a global scale. In exploring these factors, it necessarily considers the extent to which states in different regions of the world diverge in their experiences of the internationalization of constitutional law. The article concludes that, on balance, it is not plausible to argue that the generic concept of a constitution has changed, with global effect. It does, however, acknowledge that current conditions of globalization present a series of challenges for national constitutions. Responding to them might itself be regarded as an exercise in global constitutionalism.

scholarly journals Pentecostal Ecumenism: The Legacy of David Du Plessis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr. Kelebogile Thomas Resane
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
World Council Of Churches ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
American Citizen ◽  
The World ◽  
World Council ◽  
Mainline Protestantism ◽  
The Way

This article retrieves the historical ecumenical endeavours of David Du Plessis – the South African who ended being an American citizen and the Assemblies of God credentialed minister. From the Afrikaans community of the Apostolic Faith Mission to the World Pentecostal Fellowship, Du Plessis laboured extensively for the acceptance of the Pentecostal and Charismatic faith into the world ecumenical formations such as World Council of Churches, mainline Protestantism and the Catholic Church. Rejected by his own denomination for ecumenical engagement, he blazed the way for the current Pentecostal ecumenical participation and ecumenism. He built the legacy that has enhanced Pentecostal and Charismatic experience and made it accommodated and understood in different ecumenical formations. The legacy he left behind includes opening doors for dialogues between Pentecostals and other Christian formations, demystifying Pentecostal fears of Christian brotherhood on a global scale, and creating some synergy between Pentecostals and nonPentecostals as the fulfilment of Christ’s desire that ‘They might be One.’ Although not a theologian, Du Plessis paved the way for theology of dialogue as a way of enforcing Christian fraternity especially in impacting communities with the love of Christ.

scholarly journals The Bonds of Freedom: Heidegger and Hochschild on Affective Life and Affective Labour

PhaenEx ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-48
Author(s):  
KAREN ROBERTSON
Keyword(s):  
Sociological Analysis ◽  
Social Character ◽  
Meaningful Involvement ◽  
Communicative Interactions ◽  
The World ◽  
State Of Mind ◽  
The Way

The purpose of this paper is three-fold: first, to argue that Martin Heidegger’s account of Dasein’s state-of-mind (Befindlichkeit) has implications for a Heideggarian understanding of social atmosphere or “mood,” itself understood as the domain in which we realize our meaningful attachment to the world; second, to link Heidegger’s account of Dasein  to sociologist Arlie Hochschild’s analysis of affective labour in order to underscore Hochschild’s critique of affective labour by showing it to occur at the very site of our free and meaningful involvement in the world; third, to demonstrate the relevance of Heidegger’s analysis to concrete sociological analysis. I begin by arguing that Heidegger’s existential account of affective life reveals affective life as: (a) an accomplished attachment to worldly specificities, (b) grounded on socially constituted significance, and (c) our responsibility. Second, showing Hochschild’s account of emotions to be compatible with Heidegger’s work, I consider Hochschild’s analysis of airline stewardesses, clarifying how the affective lives of individuals and the shared, public dimension of affective life are both undermined by affective labour, specifically in terms of the way that communicative interactions are manipulated in commercial settings. Resulting from the manipulation of affective life by companies are various challenges to our freedom: an inability to find meaningful projects; a lack of substantial measures in terms of which to choose our projects; and the inability to recognize such choices as constitutive of affective life and as our responsibility. Connecting these consequences to the three aspects of affective life noted above, it is concluded that affective labour threatens the inherently social character of freedom and also suppresses and inhibits the existential involvement in the world through which we realize meaningfully our freedom.

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