Art in global context: An evolutionary/functionalist perspective for the 21st century

2003 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 245-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dissanayake Ellen
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Global Context

Gladness and sympathetic joy: Gospel witness and the four noble truths in dialogue

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 235-250
Author(s):  
Amos Yong
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Tibetan Buddhist ◽  
Christian Mission ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Buddhist Tradition ◽  
Monastic Community ◽  
Christian Witness ◽  
Desmond Tutu

Several years ago, His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu published together, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World (2016). If the famed Lama was calling on notions of joy developed in and through his own Tibetan Buddhist tradition to suggest a way forward for a fraught 21st-century world, the almost equally famous South African social activist and Anglican bishop was drawing from even more ancient Christian sources regarding rapturous and jubilational delight in order to propose engaging with the complexities of a globalizing third millennium. This article seeks to dig deeper into the scriptural tributaries feeding these contemporary proposals, focusing first on the 5th-century CE Indian Buddhist thinker Buddhaghosa, in particular his teachings regarding the role of joyful equanimity for the salvation of the monastic community found in the classic text Visuddhimagga, and on the appropriation of these ideas by contemporary Buddhist practitioners, and second on the apostolic writings of St. Luke, for whom joyful prayer and worship were central expressions of a Spirit-empowered proclamation of the gospel by the earliest followers of Jesus in their sojourn to the ends of the earth that has galvanized Christian mission historically. We will find that both traditions can learn something important in this dialogical process which can, in turn, also nurture in the present age a more humble and also, paradoxically, more potent Christian witness in Buddhist environments in the present 21st-century global context.

The lasting charm of Media Events

2017 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 122-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Sonnevend
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Media Events

This essay analyzes the power, charm and limitations of Daniel Dayan’s and Elihu Katz’s Media Events: The Live Broadcasting of History (Harvard, 1992). It argues that the book presented a uniquely compelling and alluring concept, but has three limitations: Media Events has a present-centric view of events, a constrained understanding of conflicting narratives in the global context, and it is inattentive to how media events travel across multiple platforms. But overall, this essay concludes that ceremonial media events as described by the canonic book of Dayan and Katz are still important in the 21st century, and will survive the passing of time and media.

scholarly journals The Location of the Philippines within Spanish Official Frameworks

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Miguel Díaz Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Shared History ◽  
Hispanic Studies ◽  
A Priority

This article explores several notions of location in relation to the Philippines. Contrasting Filipino studies which problematise conceptions of the Philippines as Asian, this essay focuses on Spanish perceptions of the archipelago in official political and economic plans regarding Spain’s presence in Asia in the 21st century. The Philippines plays an important role in these plans, as it is listed as a priority country for Spanish actions in this region, mostly due to the shared colonial links. Despite this shared history, there are several Spanish ambivalent perceptions that locate the Philippines as a country connected to Spain and, at the same time, in the periphery of countries with a Hispanic heritage, which is evident in the location of Fil-Hispanic studies within Hispanic scholarship. Furthermore, Spanish official perceptions are often politically motivated, in relation to the practical uses that the location of the Philippines can have for Spain as a gateway to Asia, in particular, the neoliberal focus of certain Spanish policies, which re-establish a centre-periphery dynamics in a neo-colonial global context.

Elite Schools and 21st-Century Class-Making

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Kenway ◽  
Diana Langmead
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
National State ◽  
Elite Schools ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
State Context

Whatever else it involves, elite schools’ core work is to help to make and remake class through education. Here, we provide an overview of their everyday practices of class-making and present ways of categorizing them: the spatialization of their social imaginations, their mobilization of feelings, and their class-based disavowals. These practices are well established in the local (national/state) context, and we devote the first part of the article to these. In the second part, we shift the angle of scrutiny and outline such schools’ class-making practices in the contemporary global context.

An Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Verna Knight ◽  
Sandra P.A. Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Effective Delivery ◽  
Empowering Teachers ◽  
Education Today

Teachers are an indispensable part of the debate on the development of critical thinking skills. Much research has centered on examining teachers' critical thinking skills, and on empowering teachers for more effective delivery of critical thinking in instruction (Perkins, 2014; Gardener, 2011; Duron et al, 2006; Abrami et al, 2008, Choy & Cheah, 2009). This chapter examines one of the key forces impacting the global context for critical thinking, teachers and teacher education today: an international mandate for critical thinking as a vital 21st century skill for the effective preparation of citizens and workers for life and work in today's society. The chapter begins with an exploration of the meaning and conceptualization of critical thinking. It then deliberates on how the international mandate for schools and teachers engenders a context for critical thinking in teacher education and considers the need for increased pedagogical support for educators. As a final point, the chapter points to some implications for classroom practitioners and teacher educators of delivering on the demands for critical and reflective workers in 21st century society.

Shock Jocks and their Legacy

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joy Elizabeth Hayes ◽  
Sharon Zechowski
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Mainstream Culture

This is an introduction to a symposium of four articles on shock radio and its legacies for US media culture in the 21st century. It provides historical and global context for the rise of shock radio, and introduces four articles. These articles argue that while the shock radio format seems to have declined since its peak in the 1990s, it continues to flourish in a new ‘‘political shock’’ format and in the broader sexualization or ‘‘Sternification’’ of mainstream culture. Articles by Joy Elizabeth Hayes, Dana Gravesen, and Sharon Zechowski focus on shock jock Howard Stern, while articles by Zack Stiegler and Michael R. Kramer examine the cases of Michael Savage and Don Imus respectively.

Asian Migrants of the Middle in Local and Global Context

2021 ◽  
pp. 49-76
Author(s):  
Shanthi Robertson
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Spatial Mobility ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Research Participants ◽  
Empirical Context ◽  
Asian Migration ◽  
Opening Up

This chapter establishes the empirical context of migration from Asia to Australia in the 21st century and makes a set of arguments around the empirical value of studying these middling forms of migration. It explores the wider contexts of 21st-century, middle-class Asian migration, as well as establishes the use of the term 'middling mobility' to describe the experiences of the research participants. It argues that an analysis of more 'middling' forms of mobility can be useful in drawing out some of the paradoxes and tensions of mobile lives in which friction and fluidity, hypermobility and immobility, and precarity and security, often coexist and intertwine at different stages and in different ways. It seeks to show that researching migrant lives 'in the middle' can usefully highlight often hidden nuances around the interrelationships of temporality and mobility, and of spatial mobility and social mobility, by opening up analysis of the uneven experiences that exist between the liminality of the migrant precariat and the fluidity of the mobile elite.

The Global Context of Counseling in the 21st Century

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Courtland C. Lee ◽  
◽  
Go Eun Na
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Global Context

Gangs and Globalization

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alistair Fraser ◽  
Elke Van Hellemont
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Human Mobility ◽  
The United States ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Cultural Dynamics ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Global Era ◽  
Illicit Markets ◽  
Urban Contexts ◽  
Empirical Foundation

It has been a century since Frederic Thrasher researched his pioneering text on youth gangs in Chicago. In it he depicts gangs as a street-based phenomenon that emerged from the combined forces of urbanization, migration, and industrialization—with new migrant groups seeking to find a toehold on the American Dream. Gangs were discrete and highly localized, drawing on names from popular culture and the neighborhood, seeking ways to survive and thrive amid the disorganization of the emerging city. In the 21st century, street gangs have been identified in urban contexts all over the world and have become increasingly viewed as a transnational phenomenon that is qualitatively different from Thrasher’s neighborhood groups. Processes of globalization have created a degree of flow and connectedness to urban life that is unlike any other stage in human history. Yet a close reading of Thrasher shows that some of the key themes in the study of gangs in a global context—urban exclusion, grey economies, human mobility, and cultural flow—were presaged in Thrasher’s work. In a global era, however, these processes have intensified, amplified, and extended in ways that could not have been predicted. We elaborate the spatial, economic, social, cultural, and technological implications of globalization for gangs across five principle areas: (1) Gangs in the Global City; (2) Gangs, Illicit Markets, and the Global Criminal Economy; (3) Mobility, Crimmigration, and the “Transnational Gang”; (4) Gangs and Glocalization; and (5) The Gang Mediascape. Taken together, these themes seek to offer both a conceptual vocabulary and empirical foundation for new and innovative studies of gangs and globalization. Empirical evidences from Europe, the United States, and beyond, emphasize the uneven impacts of globalization and the ways in which national and cultural dynamics are implicated in the study of gangs in the 21st century.

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