Secular Communion in the Coalfields: The Populist Aesthetic and Practice of Roadside Theater

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 16-43
Author(s):  
Ben Fink
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Community Organizing ◽  
Culture Wars ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Theatre Production ◽  
Theatre Company ◽  
Shared Power

Roadside Theater is a populist theatre company. Refusing liberal elitism, activist vanguardism, and the authoritarian pseudo-populism of Donald Trump, Roadside works in grassroots partnerships that cross racial, political, and rural-urban lines. Combining theatre production, community organizing, and economic development, this work creates the conditions for residents of the Appalachian coalfields and neighbors nationwide to confront exploitative power structures and divisive culture wars, tell their own stories, build shared power and wealth, and create a future where “We Own What We Make.”

Comparative analysis of the trade policy of Barack Obama and Donald Trump

2020 ◽  
pp. 59-71
Author(s):  
V. Iordanova ◽  
A. Ananev
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Trade Policy ◽  
World Economy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Barack Obama ◽  
Scientific Article ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Entire World

The authors of this scientific article conducted a comparative analysis of the trade policy of US presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump. The article states that the tightening of trade policy by the current President is counterproductive and has a serious impact not only on the economic development of the United States, but also on the entire world economy as a whole.

The Anthropocene blues: Notes from Mississippi

2021 ◽  
pp. 205301962110015
Author(s):  
Jason Ludwig
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Environmental Change ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Black Studies ◽  
Political Practice ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Ecological Degradation ◽  
Intellectual Traditions ◽  
Racial Injustice ◽  
Black Political Thought

This article argues for the importance of integrating histories of enslaved Africans and their descendants—including histories of resistance to racialized power structures—within narratives about the Anthropocene. It suggests that the Black Studies Scholar Clyde Wood’s concept of the “blues epistemology” offers conceptual tools for considering how Black political and intellectual traditions have strived to imagine and create a more livable world amid the entangled crises of racial injustice and ecological degradation. I argue that locating Black political thought within broader narratives of environmental change and economic development illuminates the racial dimensions of current global ecological crises and orients scholarship and political practice toward the spaces in which such thought is being animated today in response to the challenges of the Anthropocene.

Legal Systems and Economic Development

2019 ◽  
pp. 537-541
Author(s):  
Katharina Pistor
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Causal Relation ◽  
Economic Change ◽  
Economic Outcomes ◽  
Wishful Thinking ◽  
Systemic Effects ◽  
Legal Systems ◽  
Power Structures

Legal systems and economic development stand in a complex, interdependent relation to one another. Attempts to identify a causal relation from law to economic outcomes have mostly failed, because they don’t take into account the effect of legal and economic change on power structures, and more broadly, on social relations. In part this can be attributed to the conceptual blindness of certain disciplines that focus on micro-constellations and largely ignore systemic effects; in part, it is the result of wishful thinking in policymaking institutions that have time and again tried to use law as an instrument for engineering economic change.

scholarly journals Thinking the ‘Culture Wars’ and the Present Political Crisis with the Young Marx (and Friends)

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 707-716
Author(s):  
Ben Whitham
Keyword(s):  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
Culture Wars ◽  
Frantz Fanon ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
Antonio Gramsci ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Liberal State ◽  
Bell Hooks ◽  
Historical Moment ◽  
Do So

We stand at a key juncture: a Western political crisis arose in 2016-17 to match the deep economic crisis of the preceding decade. Events and new social movements of recent years seem to hail the collapse of the project of liberal democracy, though it is hard to see what will replace it. Among the conceptual and analytic tools bequeathed by Marx are those necessary to better understand and anticipate the direction of this key historical moment – from Donald Trump, Brexit and the so-called ‘culture wars’ to the horizon of liberal democracy itself. In this reflection, I suggest some ways in which Marx’s early thoughts on the liberal state and civil society can and should help us to better understand and explain our present predicament. To say that the Young Marx can help us today with what he called ‘the ruthless critique of everything existing’ is not to say that he can do so alone. It is precisely the issues overlooked or ‘fudged’ by Marx and Marxism – gender, sexuality, and race/racism for example – that now sit at the centre of our ‘culture wars’, alongside but never reducible to the contradictions and crises of capitalism. I conclude that it is only with the help of other writers of the 20th and 21st centuries, from Antonio Gramsci to Frantz Fanon and bell hooks, that we can usefully mobilise the Young Marx today, to critique the world as we find it and especially – the very ‘point’ of theory according to Marx – to change it.

The Kushner Plan: Keeping Israeli-Palestinian Peace out of Reach

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 113-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul R. Pillar
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
State Solution ◽  
The Political ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
The Right ◽  
Current Arrangement ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Israeli Occupation

The U.S. administration's Israeli-Palestinian “peace plan,” under President Donald Trump, has so far yielded only an inconclusive talkfest about economic development. The underlying rationale of the plan—that economics must come before any addressing of core political issues—is fundamentally flawed for several reasons. The biggest impediments to Palestinian economic development stem from aspects of the Israeli occupation that would continue under the plan, which rejects a two-state solution and is a slightly revised and renamed version of the current arrangement of limited Palestinian autonomy under Israeli domination. The plan flows directly from the Trump administration's policy of acquiescing in the preferences of the right-wing government of Israel. Accordingly, the political portion of the plan is indefinitely delayed and might never be announced. Keeping the full plan under wraps serves the Israeli government's purpose of holding out the promise of—but never delivering—peace with the Palestinians, while more facts are created on the ground.

scholarly journals Small Hands, Nasty Women, and Bad Hombres: Hegemonic Masculinity and Humor in the 2016 Presidential Election

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 237802311774938 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Smirnova
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Election ◽  
Hegemonic Masculinity ◽  
Hillary Clinton ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
National Politics ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Cultural Scripts ◽  
Political Humor ◽  
Small Hands ◽  
Patriarchal Power

Given that the president is thought to be the national representative, presidential campaigns often reflect the efforts to define a national identity and collective values. Political humor provides a unique lens through which to explore how identity figures into national politics given that the critique of an intended target is often made through popular cultural scripts that often inadvertently reify the very power structures they seek to subvert. In conducting an analysis of 240 tweets, memes, and political cartoons from the 2016 U.S. presidential election targeting the two frontrunners, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, we see how popular political humor often reaffirmed heteronormative assumptions of gender, sexuality, and race and equated scripts of hegemonic masculinity with presidential ability. In doing so, these discourses reified a patriarchal power structure.

Community Economic Development

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Sherrard Sherraden ◽  
Lisa Reyes Mason
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Leadership Development ◽  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Community Organizing ◽  
Service Management ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Community Economic Development ◽  
Investment Strategies ◽  
For Profit

Community economic development (CED) is an integrated and community-driven approach to development aimed at generating wealth, capabilities, and empowerment in low-income and low-wealth communities. Nonprofit organizations partner with public and for-profit interests to develop social and economic investment strategies for community economic renewal and revitalization. Social workers in CED engage in interdisciplinary work in community organizing, leadership development, program development and implementation, social-service management, and policy advocacy. To achieve large and sustainable success, CED requires solidarity with and investment in poor communities by society as a whole.

scholarly journals PROBLEMS AND WAYS OF ENSURING BALANCED DEVELOPMENT SPATIAL SOCIO-ECONOMIC SYSTEMS

2019 ◽  
pp. 24-30
Author(s):  
Aigum Dzhalaludinovich Aigumov ◽  
Albina Ziyautdinovna Osmanova ◽  
Olesya Viktorovna Fedorova
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Effective Interaction ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Balanced Development ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
Regional Strategic Planning ◽  
High Level

The article highlights the problems of heterogeneity and dissociation of the economic space of Russia, the lack of effective interaction of territorially localized systems. The solution of these problems is possible on the basis of constructing the activity of planning subjects within spatial social and economic systems considering influence of factors of environment uncertainty, their quality, complexity and high dynamism. Strategic planning of the development of spatial socio-economic systems involves the study of the external environment to identify opportunities and threats, define their strengths and weaknesses and competitive advantages, formulate the mission and development goals, and choose a strategy to achieve them based on the analysis of alternatives. Algorithms for working out a program for regional socio-economic development and a program for socio-economic development of the municipality have been proposed. The organization of the process of creating the regional socio-economic development program in accordance with the proposed algorithm will significantly increase the efficiency of planning, interaction between authorities and society; it will allow a sufficiently high level of detail, excluding contradictions, to coordinate the priorities of balanced and sustainable development of individual regions and the region as a whole. The inclusion in the planning processes the spatial and socio-economic development of the region and its municipalities allows to ensure compliance with the principle of the unity of spatial and socio-economic planning, which is an undoubted advantage of the algorithms proposed. The analysis of the existing regulatory framework on the problems of strategic planning of spatial and socio-economic development of the Astrakhan region has been given. It is recommended to make certain adjustments to the law on regional strategic planning of the Astrakhan region. It has been inferred that synchronization of the process of strategic planning of spatial and socio-economic development of spatial socio-economic systems can be organized by eliminating the inconsistency of actions of power structures, local self-government and economic entities; improving the efficiency of management decisions of regional power structures and local self-government.

scholarly journals Institutional imperatives for sustainable socio-ecological and economic development

2021 ◽  
Vol 284 ◽  
pp. 07013
Author(s):  
Marina Kandrokova ◽  
Salima Makhosheva ◽  
Aslizhan Efendiev ◽  
Halimat Uyanaeva ◽  
Batraz Dzgoev
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Institutional Environment ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
The State ◽  
Sustainable Growth ◽  
Local Power ◽  
Moral Norms ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Commercial Activity ◽  
The Impact

The sustainable growth of the modern economy is based on socio-ecological and economic development. One of the key development trends on a global scale is the formation of an innovative type of economy, and, as a consequence, in the process of economic development of most countries, including Russia, the need to create an institutional environment corresponding to a new type of economic growth comes to the fore. Accordingly, the need to create an adequate, adaptive to regional characteristics, assessment of the institutional environment of the region, to create mechanisms for its measurement, to establish indicators of efficiency increases. Firstly, indicators of the effectiveness of institutions will make it possible to visualize the process of development of the region and thereby increase its investment attractiveness. These indicators will stimulate the interest of business representatives and, first of all, those who are ready to invest their funds and are looking for territories that satisfy them according to all the criteria necessary for successful commercial activity and profit in the future. Secondly, measuring the effectiveness of regional institutions allows federal authorities, the public, and even various international financial organizations and aid funds that provide loans and multifaceted support, including admission to clubs in the developed world, to adequately assess the activities of local power structures, for which the growth of institutional indicators in the region is one of the key intentions contributing to the increase of their authority and the attractiveness of the territory as a whole. Thirdly, the assessment of the institutional environment allows specialists, on the basis of available indicators, to determine both the advantages and advantageous competitive positions of the economic system as a whole and its vulnerabilities, make sound economic forecasts for the near future and analyze the impact of such factors as the state politics, social structure, traditions, moral norms, history, geography, and natural resources on the state of the institutional environment.

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