scholarly journals Introduction to the Special Issue on Female Migration to ISIS

2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Emilio C. Viano
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
Intervention Strategy ◽  
Military Force ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Female Migration ◽  
The Future ◽  
Analysis Strategy ◽  
History Of

AbstractTerrorism, while not new in the history of humanity, has become a major issue and challenge for contemporary society worldwide. Recently it has become embodied and symbolized by the “Islamic State in Iraq and Syria” (ISIS) in its many permutations in the Middle East, the focus of massive military intervention on the part of major world powers and of study, analysis, strategy and planning. One aspect that has distinguished ISIS from previous terrorist movements is a major migration of women, especially but not limited to Western Europe, joining the jihad proclaimed by the religious leaders of ISIS. This introduction to the special issue on Female Migration to ISIS surveys and identifies the known possible roots of the phenomenon and related issues, summarizes major known points relative to it, and outlines the future agenda of work, not only academic but also practical and strategic, to be followed. Balanced recommendations on how to build a promising intervention strategy not only based on military force are put forth for consideration and discussion. While based on research, this article should be considered more of an editorial, generally introducing the field, summarizing existing work, especially the content of this special issue, and pointing out work needed in the future.

“The World Forgot Us and Europe Doesn’t Want Us”

2020 ◽  
pp. 215-238
Author(s):  
Thomas Schmidinger
Keyword(s):  
Living Conditions ◽  
Military Force ◽  
Internally Displaced Persons ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Religious Minorities ◽  
Small Communities ◽  
Internally Displaced ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

When the so-called “Islamic State” (IS) attacked Iraq’s Nineveh Governorate, the region’s religious minorities became victims of genocide and displacement. This chapter focuses on the region of Sinjar (Kurdish: Şingal) and the displacement of the Yazidi (Kurdish: Êzîdî) along with other religious minorities living there. The displacement of these groups directly resulted from their vulnerability as religious minorities. IS targeted them as religious minorities, and their current problems as internally displaced persons (IDPs) also resulted from their status as relatively small communities without a historically strong political lobby or military force. This chapter analyzes the living conditions and political framework in which these IDPs and refugees must survive and presents their personal perspectives from inside and outside of Iraq. Interviews were centered on the following questions: What conditions prevent Yazidi, Christians, and other groups from returning to Sinjar? What are their perspectives on building a future in the region? What would they need in order to return and rebuild their homes? And how do the displaced adherents of the different religious groups interpret the 2014 genocide within a longer history of perceived genocidal acts against religious minorities in the area?

The Future of Feminism by ISIS is in the Lap of Women

2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 23-31
Author(s):  
Hind Fraihi
Keyword(s):  
Muslim Women ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
Traditional Role ◽  
Girl Power ◽  
Female Migration ◽  
The Future ◽  
Women's Emancipation

AbstractThe phenomenon of female migration to ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) is in fact an undervalued form of revolution for Muslim women. It is, however, a bitter form of striving for women’s emancipation. By transmitting extremist thoughts in the education of children and on the Internet, women empower their position in a patriarchal environment. The women of ISIS use their traditional role of motherhood to participate in the global jihad. By staying in her own tradition, the mother is the first one to create would-be fighters. Hence, the martyr becomes the mother’s creation. They use the mass weapon of education in a reactionary way to demand their place between the men. The process of jihadism amongst women is multidimensional. Herein lies the girl power that can be considered as a manifest aspect. Women recruit potential supporters of ISIS, translate documents, write poems and give Islamic lectures on the Internet. The phenomenon of female migration to IS can also be seen as a romantic urge to return to the golden era of the Moorish caliphate and even to the beginning of Islam in the 7th century. The women of ISIS make efforts to emancipate, however, by making a U-turn.

scholarly journals The Critical Promise of the New History of European Law

2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 457-475 ◽  
Author(s):  
PETER L. LINDSETH
Keyword(s):  
Legal History ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
European Law ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
History Of ◽  
Administrative Governance ◽  
Post War ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
Legal Integration

AbstractThe articles in this special issue test a range of historiographical assumptions – for example, about periodisation (most importantly when legal integration ‘began’) as well as about the definition of the purported object of study (the seemingly ‘constitutional’ character of the process of European legal integration) – which have been central to the interpretative baseline established by legal scholars and political scientists over the last several decades. Building on a similar critique of that baseline, this article argues that integration can profitably be understood, in legal-historical terms, as a denationalised expression of diffuse and fragmented (that is, ‘administrative’) governance. The basic elements of that governance emerged in Western Europe over the course of the inter-war and post-war decades, and these elements have continued to shape EU legal history up to the present.

scholarly journals Circumventing the Cold War: The parallel diplomacy of economic and cultural exchanges between Western Europe and Socialist China in the 1950s and 1960s: An introduction

2016 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANGELA ROMANO ◽  
VALERIA ZANIER
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Conceptual Development ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Close Collaboration ◽  
Cultural Exchanges ◽  
History Of ◽  
Capitalist World ◽  
The Cold War

This special issue brings together historians with expertise on China and Western Europe who have the explicit intent of bridging the existing gap between two parallel strands of scholarship, that is, Europe in the Cold War and the history of Socialist China, and combining the different perspectives and approaches of international, diplomatic, business, and cultural historiographies. The contributors’ lively interaction and close collaboration has been the key to the conceptual development of a broader view of the relations between West European countries and Socialist China in the early decades of the Cold War, as well as of China's policy towards the capitalist world before the Reform and Opening era.

New Directions in Employment Relations Theory: Understanding Fragmentation, Identity, and Legitimacy

ILR Review ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 74 (3) ◽  
pp. 555-579
Author(s):  
Virginia Doellgast ◽  
Matthew Bidwell ◽  
Alexander J. S. Colvin
Keyword(s):  
Theory Development ◽  
Employment Relationship ◽  
Employment Relations ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
New Directions ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of

This article introduces the special issue on New Theories in Employment Relations. The authors summarize the history of employment relations theory and reflect on the implications of recent disruptive changes in the economy and society for new theory development. Three sets of changes are identified: the growing complexity of actors in the employment relationship, an increased emphasis on identity as a basis for organizing and extending labor protections, and the growing importance of norms and legitimacy as both a constraint on employer action and a mobilizing tool. The articles in this special issue advance new frameworks to analyze these changes and their implications for the future of employment relations.

Holy Grand Duke Alexander Nevsky – “who tamed barbarism in the East, who brought down envy in the West”

2021 ◽  
pp. 267-274
Author(s):  
Sergey I. Vasnev
Keyword(s):  
Military Force ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
The West ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
The People ◽  
Russian State ◽  
The Future ◽  
Mass Conversion ◽  
History Of ◽  
Moral Qualities

A comprehensive analysis of the spiritual and moral qualities of the holy blessed Grand Duke Alexander Nevsky, who is rightfully one of the most outstanding personalities in the history of the Russian State and the Russian Orthodox Church, is carried out. Based on the biographical data of the prince, the unique combination of the wisdom of a statesman with personal righteousness is emphasized. Duke Alexander refused to both letters from the Pope, who proposed organizing a mass conversion of Russians to Catholicism. His uncompromising position on the defense of Orthodoxy should be put on a par with military victories on the Neva and Lake Peipus. In relations with the Golden Horde, the prince chose the tactics of negotiations, which became fateful for the future history of Russia. Thus, for Alexander Nevsky, a new stage of service to the Fatherland began, no longer on the battlefield, but in the diplomatic field. It must be said that the Horde was an organized military force, but it was mainly concerned with collecting tribute from the Russians. The tactics chosen by the prince were completely justified, since the Horde khans had no religious goals and did not appoint governors in the occupied lands. With glorious military victories in the West and thoughtful behavior in the East, the holy noble Grand Duke Alexander Nevsky laid the foundation for the future development of the state, which preserved the Orthodox faith as the spiritual and moral support of the people, gradually gaining spiritual and military power, growing in the expanses of the Volga region, Ural, Siberia and became the largest and most powerful power in the world.

Community Service-Learning in Canada: Emerging Conversations

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. i-xiii
Author(s):  
Nancy Van Styvendale ◽  
Jessica McDonald ◽  
Sarah Buhler
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Engaged Scholarship ◽  
Engaged Learning ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Community Service Learning ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Publishing Community ◽  
Current Practices

 This special issue invites engaged learning practitioners and scholars, both established and emerging, to take stock of the history of CSL, assess current practices, and consider how to move forward in the future. Is CSL the biggest thing to hit Canadian campuses since the late 1990s? With approximately fifty CSL programs or units across the country (Dorow et al., 2013), annual gatherings of scholars and practitioners, and a network of individuals who remain devoted to CSL despite challenges in funding and logistics, CSL in Canada has certainly made its mark, embedded in the context of a larger movement of engaged scholarship on campuses across the country—a movement exemplified in this very Engaged Scholar Journal, the first of its kind in Canada to focus on publishing community-engaged work.

scholarly journals INTERSECTIONALITY

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 303-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Devon W. Carbado ◽  
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw ◽  
Vickie M. Mays ◽  
Barbara Tomlinson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
The United States ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Global Engagement ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
National Boundaries ◽  
Do So

Very few theories have generated the kind of interdisciplinary and global engagement that marks the intellectual history of intersectionality. Yet, there has been very little effort to reflect upon precisely how intersectionality has moved across time, disciplines, issues, and geographic and national boundaries. Our failure to attend to intersectionality's movement has limited our ability to see the theory in places in which it is already doing work and to imagine other places to which the theory might be taken. Addressing these questions, this special issue reflects upon the genesis of intersectionality, engages some of the debates about its scope and theoretical capacity, marks some of its disciplinary and global travels, and explores the future trajectory of the theory. To do so, the volume includes academics from across the disciplines and from outside of the United States. Their respective contributions help us to understand how intersectionality has moved and to broaden our sense of where the theory might still go.

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