Deconstructing the BRICS: Bargaining Coalition, Imagined Community, or Geopolitical Fad?

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 299-327 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Brutsch ◽  
M. Papa
Keyword(s):  
Imagined Community ◽  
Community Or

On the Problematic of Sectarianism

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-36
Author(s):  
Azmi Bishara
Keyword(s):  
Reference Point ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Imagined Communities ◽  
Imagined Community ◽  
Community Or ◽  
The Difference

This chapter presents the problematic of sectarianism, discussing how identities have often overlapped and intermingled despite the periodic dominance of one or another under specific historical circumstances. The problem addressed in this chapter is that modern sectarianism is, in real terms, producing imagined sects by transforming religious and confessional affiliations into imagined communities that form a political reference point for the individuals that belong to them. This chapter contends that political sectarianism generally aims to treat religious affiliations as communities whose members share fixed inherited traits, regardless of whether they are believers or not. It also finds that the difference between a sect as a local community and an imagined ta’ifa produced by sectarianism is precisely that sectarianism delineates the borders and in doing so produces a community or group—an imagined community.

scholarly journals Między tożsamością narodową a europejską. Głos sceptyka

2011 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 77-92
Author(s):  
Miroslav Hroch
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Group Identity ◽  
Political Community ◽  
The Other ◽  
European Identity ◽  
Cultural Dimension ◽  
Imagined Community ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
European State ◽  
Community Or

The Author starts with a question whether a nation is a counterbalance to a unified Europe. In order to find the answer, the notion of group identity is evoked. The Author argues that the notion of European identity — which is just being coined — does not have any roots in ethnic or linguistic communities — contrary to national identity which has been shaped through ages. Neither territorial community, or political community or economic interests constitute equally strong a bond as cultural dimension — a heritage that has evolved from common roots and strong mutual interactions within an imagined community. National identity is of historical character and is based on the memory of past years of a nation’s existence. “European identity” is a rather weak equivalent to national identity. In order to build an European identity, one would have to ponder which variant of Europe’s history to choose. So far European identity cannot refer to any continuum. Its dimensions are not as variable as that of national identity. And its power of influence is rather week. This is why, despite the fact that both identities are relatively compatible, i.e. they do not exclude each other, and one cannot replace the other. Thus, the author concludes that any and all fears of a nation’s “dilution” within a uniform “European state” are groundless.

Abstinence treatments for opiate addicts: Therapeutic community or naltrexone?

1984 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabelle Arndt ◽  
A. Thomas McLellan ◽  
Charles P. O'Brien
Keyword(s):  
Therapeutic Community ◽  
Community Or ◽  
Opiate Addicts

Tracing New Genealogies

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer J. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Country Of Origin ◽  
American Family ◽  
Community Or ◽  
Immigration Laws ◽  
Shared Experiences ◽  
Biological Relationships

Chapter four turns to a more intimate form of affiliation than either nation or community: family. The period from the 1970s onward has produced the greatest concentration of cycles since modernism, because writers embraced the cycle to express the contingency of being ethnic and American. Family, rather than community or time, is the dominant linking structure for many of these cycles, reflecting how immigration laws placed family and education above country of origin. This chapter focuses on the role of family in the production and reception of Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club (1989), Julie Alvarez’s How the García Girls Lost Their Accents (1991), and Jhumpa Lahiri’s Unaccustomed Earth (2008). These cycles argue that subjectivity—and by extension gender and ethnic attachments—derives not only from biological relationships but also from “formative kinship,” which originates in shared experiences that the characters choose to value.

The Treaty of Northampton (1290): A Scottish Charter of Liberties?

2007 ◽  
Vol 86 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendy B. Stevenson
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Written Expression ◽  
Traditional Practice ◽  
Detailed Consideration ◽  
Constituent Part ◽  
Community Or ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Edward I

Although little detailed consideration has been given to the Treaty of Northampton of 1290 by Scottish historians, it seems to have been implicitly accepted as the sort of treaty which might have been expected in connection with the marriage of two independent rulers at that time. This is in spite of the fact that throughout the twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth centuries the traditional practice of the rulers of the Angevin and Plantagenet dominions was to rule each constituent part according to its own law and customs. This article examines the reasons why the Scots were not prepared to rely on tradition but insisted on a written promise from Edward I that Scotland would remain independent of England. It also suggests that the treaty is more than a written expression of traditional practice. It has a number of specific clauses which, it is argued, give the treaty the character of a charter of liberties. These were intended to prevent the imposition on the Scots of particular aspects of Plantagenet rule in England which burdened its subjects much more severely than the rule of Scottish kings had burdened the Scots. The Scots' wish to remain independent after the proposed union of the crowns and their struggle to maintain that independence after the death of the Maid are generally seen as manifestations of a sense of community or regnal solidarity. The terms of the Treaty of 1290 suggest that it was not just from a desire to be a separate political entity per se that the Scots fought during the so-called Wars of Independence but also because the Scots were anxious to avoid the more oppressive aspects of Plantagenet rule even before they had experience of this after Edward I's conquest of 1296.

Challenges of Academic Assessment in the Community or Region Where I Work

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 60
Author(s):  
Phd.Can Elsa Vula
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Teaching Approaches ◽  
Academic Assessment ◽  
Community Or ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Theoretical Part ◽  
Reliable Assessment ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Speaking Skill

Challenges of assessment might come up from different reasons or circumstances which generate huge obstacles and dissatisfactions for teachers and students in the same time. Meanwhile, teachers of foreign languages see them as barriers or complications due to an effective and reliable assessment. Firstly, this paper elaborates on theoretical part of assessment, as a crucial tool to measure students’ performance of speaking, as a significant English skill, and then it is presented the elaboration of challenge and its sub-challenges during my work as an English assistant at my tutorial classes on a specific course such as “Integrated English Skill III”, particularly focusing on speaking skill. After it, there is an expansion of others’ research done on this issue, supported by different teaching approaches, and relying on others’ work related to such issue. And at the end of this paper it can be found the summary and recommendations, which wereconducted from the empirical research.

Strategi Humas Partai Gerindra dalam Membangun Citra Partai pada Pemilu 2014

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rialdo Rezeky ◽  
Muhammad Saefullah
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Media Relations ◽  
Executive Board ◽  
The Public ◽  
Community Or ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Main Components ◽  
The Right ◽  
Participatory Observation

The approach of this research is qualitative and descriptive. In this study those who become the subject of research is an informant (key figure). The subject of this study is divided into two main components, consisting of internal public and external public that is from the Board of the Central Executive Board of Gerindra Party, Party Cadres, Observers and Journalists. The object of this research is the behavior, activities and opinions of Gerindra Party Public Relation Team. In this study used data collection techniques with interviews, participatory observation, and triangulation of data. The results of this study indicate that the Public Relations Gerindra has implemented strategies through various public relations programs and establish good media relations with the reporters so that socialization goes well. So also with the evaluation that is done related to the strategy of the party. The success of Gerindra Party in maintaining the party’s image in Election 2014 as a result of the running of PR strategy and communication and sharing the right type of program according to the characteristics of the voting community or its constituents.Keywords: PR Strategy, Gerindra Party, Election 2014

Crowd Sourcing – A New Management Mantra

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Devi Premnath ◽  
Dr. C. Nateson
Keyword(s):  
Online Community ◽  
Crowd Sourcing ◽  
Community Or ◽  
Realistic Approach ◽  
The Future

“Crowd sourcing” is a brand new concept which has started to make wave in the field of management'. It refers to the process of outsourcing of activities to an online community or crowd in the form of an open call. Any member of the crowd can complete the assignment who will then be paid for his efforts. This phenomenon is increasingly noticed in the field of advertising where companies have started generating ideas and strategies of advertisement from crowd, for a better realistic approach. The process is speedy and is less expensive in terms of time and money. This paper is an attempt to put light on the various nuances of “crowd sourcing”, the methodologies involved and its impacts related to competitive segment of business. The success mantra of crowd sourcing is the power of crowd that drives the future of management.

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