scholarly journals Bread, Freedom, Social Justice: The Egyptian Uprising and a Sufi Khidma

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amira Mittermaier
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Structural Transformations ◽  
Individual Responsibility ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future

‘Aīsh, huriyya, ‘adāla igtimā‘iyya (“bread, freedom, social justice”) were key demands of Egyptian protesters in early 2011. Whereas the call for bread evokes immediate need, social justice is often associated with structural transformations and a better tomorrow. In light of this temporal tension, this article calls for a critical rethinking of an orientation toward the future by dwelling on the ethical and political potentials inherent to traditions of giving, sharing, and hospitality that are fundamentally oriented toward the present. Drawing on fieldwork in Cairo during 2010 and 2012, I think about an ethics of immediacy that is embodied in seemingly non-revolutionary everyday practices, but that also emerges from stories about Tahrir as a space of togetherness and solidarity. I argue that such an ethics is obscured in dominant neoliberal concepts of social justice, which foreground individual responsibility, productivity, and economic growth. Concretely, the article places the Tahrir utopia in conversation with a Sufi khidma that provides guests with food, tea, and a place to rest. Both spaces, I suggest, gesture toward modes of being in the world which rupture the state’s monopoly of politics, enable alternative forms of circulation and distribution, and encourage forms of relationality different from capitalism (in both its welfare and neoliberal renditions). By bringing these spaces into conversation, I seek to problematize a pervasive neoliberalization of social justice and to contribute to an anthropology of the otherwise.

scholarly journals The great Chinese transformation: cynicism and the future of the world (article two)

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (3) ◽  
pp. 5-23
Author(s):  
Grzegorz W. Kolodko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Economic Growth ◽  
The United States ◽  
Chinese Economy ◽  
The Past ◽  
Chinese Characteristics ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Right ◽  
Supranational Level

The huge leap made by the Chinese economy over the past four decades as a result of market reforms and openness to the world is causing fear in some and anxiety in others. Questions arise as to whether China’s economic success is solid and whether economic growth will be followed by political expansion. China makes extensive use of globalization and is therefore interested in continuing it. At the same time, China wants to give it new features and specific Chinese characteristics. This is met with reluctance by the current global hegemon, the United States, all the more so as there are fears that China may promote its original political and economic system, "cynicism", abroad. However, the world is still big enough to accommodate us all. Potentially, not necessarily. For this to happen, we need the right policies, which in the future must also include better coordination at the supranational level.

The Spread of Market Values

The 1970s ◽  
2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Borstelmann
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Stock Market ◽  
Standard Of Living ◽  
Human History ◽  
Market Values ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
World Economic

This chapter tracks the economy of the 1970s as it began to decline after the prosperity of previous decades. Economic growth had defined human history for two hundred years, reaching a peak in the generation after 1945 when world economic growth averaged an extraordinary 5–7 percent per year. Americans rode that growth to a higher standard of living than anyone else. But in the 1970s it all seemed to be flowing away. Unemployment, oil shortages, a plunging stock market, recession, and, above all, inflation were apparently ending these golden years of unparalleled prosperity. Inflation hit everyone, and it hit the poor hardest of all. Persistent inflation undercut dreams and hopes for the future. The economic trauma of the 1970s threatened to destabilize Americans' understanding of how the world worked.

Staying out of Place

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-51
Author(s):  
Simon Turner
Keyword(s):  
Refugee Camp ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
To Come ◽  
The City

Based on ethnographic fieldwork among Burundian refugees living clandestinely in Nairobi and living in a refugee camp in Tanzania, the article argues that displacement can be about staying out of place in order to find a place in the world in the future. I suggest that the term displacement describes this sense of not only being out of place but also being en route to a future. Burundians in the camp and the city are doing their best to remain out of place, in transition between a lost past and a future yet to come, and the temporary nature of their sojourn is maintained in everyday practices. Such everyday practices are policed by powerful actors in the camp and are ingrained in practices of self-discipline in Nairobi. Comparing the two settings demonstrates that remaining out of place can take on different forms, according to context.

The Effects of Intergenerational Poverty and Unemployment on South African Township Youth

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Ndwakhulu Stephen Tshishonga
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Young People ◽  
South African ◽  
Third World ◽  
The Other ◽  
Daily Experiences ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
South African Township

Young people throughout the world are an afterthought of policy and program interventions. In Africa, and particularly in third world nations, the irony of sloganizing youth as the cream or the future of the nation exists alongside tendencies and behaviors that impede their development towards being responsible and full citizens which rather aggravates youth underdevelopment and marginalization. It is an undisputed fact that young people have been the vanguard of liberatory struggles that resulted in dismantling colonialism and apartheid. On one hand, the chapter examines strategies adopted to overcome intergenerational poverty by using narratives (daily experiences of youth) of post-apartheid South Africa. On the other hand, the chapter highlights the uncertainties and frustrations of living in a democratic South Africa, with its failure to open up opportunities for their socio-economic growth, the apartheid discriminatory system, and survival.

Postdisciplinarity and the Rise of Intellectual Openness: The Necessity for "Plural Knowability" in Tourism Studies

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 349-361 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith Hollinshead
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Research Practices ◽  
Tourism Research ◽  
Justice Research ◽  
Keynote Presentation ◽  
Social Justice Research ◽  
Tourism Studies ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future

In this article—which is based on my keynote presentation at the "Welcoming Encounters: Tourism Research in a Postdisciplinary Era" 2013 conference at the Institute of Ethnology, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland—I maintain that postdisciplinarity is a form of painstaking (in time and effort) inquiry that makes considered use of academic and nonacademic forms of knowing to trace the plural truths that apply in difficult-to-fathom globalizing/decolonizing/postcolonial settings. In this article, I suggest that open-to-the-future postdisciplinary styles of research are critically valuable where a range or multiplicity of interpretive cultural/cosmological outlooks on the world has been poorly understood, and where important longstanding or emergent en groupe perspectives have been ignored or subjugated by governing powers/agencies. In suggesting that those who work in tourism scenarios regularly have to deal with such difficult contestations of value across the globe—where the poesis or the fantasmatics of local/contesting populations are decidedly different—I draw particularly on Gilroy's work on "diaspora" and on Bhabha's thinking on "emergent/hybrid locations of culture" to highlight the sorts of difficult-to-read ambivalent/protean/transgressive identifications that are readily the stuff of postdisciplinary inquiry. The article closes with the recognition that today, postdisciplinary investigators can harness much from the recent liberation in "social justice research practices" that Denzin and Lincoln (and their myriad of diverse critico-interpretive/qualitative researchers) have advocated, notably the advances in "bricoleurship" recently conceptualized by Kincheloe.

New Visions, Old Crises

2015 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-8
Author(s):  
B. Ruby Rich
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Ford Foundation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Critical Importance ◽  
Documentary Analysis ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The U.S

Editor-in-Chief B. Ruby Rich reports on a new partnership between FQ and the Ford Foundation. Film Quarterly, in partnership with the Ford Foundation’s JustFilms initiative, hereby launches a new effort focused on the future of documentary and its capacity to address issues of social justice, in the United States and globally, on screens of all sorts and sizes. The effort will also encompass the assessment of dramatic films aimed at transformation, whether in the U.S. or elsewhere in the world. JustFilms has already had a powerful impact on the world through its support of filmmakers and filmmaking institutions. With this grant, Ford brings FQ into the conversation. Criticism and analysis are crucial to the development of a medium. This recognition by the Ford Foundation of the critical importance of thinking about representation can encourage writers to think big, to consider documentary strategies with renewed vigor, and to broaden the field for documentary analysis as well as reporting. FQ will be better equipped to report on the field of documentary as well as to play a bigger role in helping to shape it—through publication and participation.

6. Equality and social justice

2019 ◽  
pp. 112-131
Author(s):  
Jonathan Wolff
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Personal Responsibility ◽  
The United States ◽  
Individual Responsibility ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
The Political ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Common Ownership

This chapter addresses equality and social justice. In the 1980s and 1990s, the goal of social justice was challenged both on political and philosophical grounds and was largely supplanted by an emphasis on economic growth and individual responsibility. Although still given little emphasis in the United States, considerations of social justice came back onto the political agenda in the United Kingdom following the election of the new Labour government in 1997. To rehabilitate social justice, it was necessary to decouple it from traditional socialist ideas of common ownership of the means of production. Key debates on social justice concern theories of equality, priority, and sufficiency, and how inequality should be defined and measured. Of particular concern has been the place of personal responsibility for disadvantages causing inequalities. The chapter then considers equality of opportunity and social relations.

The Future of the World Economy: Economic Growth and Structural Change

1990 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 1158
Author(s):  
Miguel D. Ramiyez ◽  
Wilhelm Krelle
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Structural Change ◽  
World Economy ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future

scholarly journals Towards a reflective and multiscale optimism

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. v-vi
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Economic Growth ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Atmospheric Conditions ◽  
Intergovernmental Panel ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Human Capacity ◽  
Global Economic Growth

In any region of the world, in any country, each beginning of the year offers us a scenario for potential changes, purposes, goals and hopes, and 2019 does not have to be the exception. Despite various forecasts of slower global economic growth in the coming year (World Bank, Forbes, Reuters), and despite the latest reports from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on stressful atmospheric conditions, among other environmental discomforts around the planet, we cannot limit our human capacity to see the future with courage and optimism.

scholarly journals Changes of legal forms at professional football ventures

2014 ◽  
pp. 141-146
Author(s):  
Imre Nagy ◽  
Éva Bácsné Bába
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Future Development ◽  
Financial Management ◽  
Professional Football ◽  
Organizational Changes ◽  
Football Clubs ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
German Model ◽  
Legal Forms

Since the ’90s professional football has been going through an unprecedented economic growth. The football ventures are becoming more and more middle-sized companies. In football there are organizational changes, which are reflected in changes of legal forms of professional football clubs, and in using of modern controlling, planning, risk and financial management. In this paper we primarily wish to show the specificities of legal forms in German professional football, because we believe the German model is the best example for the future development of football around the world, and we believe this would be most advantageous towards our future development at home.

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