Professor Renzo De Felice and the Fascist Phenomenon

1978 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 433-449 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. James Gregor
Keyword(s):  
Critical Issue ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Italian Fascism

Renzo De Felice's most recent publications, Mussolini il duce and Fascism: An Informal Introduction to Its Theory and Practice, have caused considerable consternation among both the lay and academic public. De Felice has suggested that generic fascism, and particularly Italian Fascism, may have displayed some progressive and revolutionary features. He goes on to suggest that Italian Fascism shared some affinities with the traditional “left.” Most of these contentions are well supported in the specialized literature; while they may cause some political discomfort, they should generate little intellectual resistance. The discussion concerning sensitive political issues has caused scholars to neglect some important methodological theses which De Felice is prepared to defend. The most critical issue turns on the role and legitimacy of generalizing over an ill-defined generic fascism. De Felice has attempted to restrict the characterization “fascist” to one or two strictly European regimes. The article concludes that there are no methodological grounds for such a restriction.

scholarly journals Tanah Papua, Asia-Pacific news blind spots and citizen media: From the ‘Act of Free Choice’ betrayal to a social media revolution

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-178
Author(s):  
David Robie
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Free Choice ◽  
Critical Issue ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Mariana Islands ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
West Papua ◽  
Foreign Correspondence ◽  
Post War

For five decades Tanah Papua, or the West Papua half of the island of New Guinea on the intersection of Asia and the Pacific, has been a critical issue for the region with a majority of the Melanesian population supporting self-determination, and ultimately independence. While being prepared for eventual post-war independence by the Dutch colonial authorities, Indonesian paratroopers and marines invaded the territory in 1962 in an ill-fated military expedition dubbed Operation Trikora (‘People’s Triple Command’). However, this eventually led to the so-called Act of Free Choice in 1969 under the auspices of the United Nations in a sham referendum dubbed by critics as an ‘Act of No Choice’ which has been disputed ever since as a legal basis for Indonesian colonialism. A low-level insurgency waged by the OPM (Free West Papua Movement) has also continued and Jakarta maintains its control through the politics of oppression and internal migration. For more than five decades, the legacy media in New Zealand have largely ignored this issue on their doorstep, preferring to give attention to Fiji and a so-called coup culture instead. In the past five years, social media have contributed to a dramatic upsurge of global awareness about West Papua but still the New Zealand legacy media have failed to take heed. This article also briefly introduces other Asia-Pacific political issues—such as Kanaky, Timor-Leste, Papua New Guinean university student unrest, the militarisation of the Mariana Islands and the Pacific’s Nuclear Zero lawsuit against the nine nuclear powers—ignored by a New Zealand media that has no serious tradition of independent foreign correspondence.

Costs for Rescheduling Actions: A Critical Issue for Reducing the Gap between Scheduling Theory and Practice

2008 ◽  
Vol 47 (22) ◽  
pp. 8785-8795 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georgios M. Kopanos ◽  
Elisabet Capón-García ◽  
Antonio Espuña, ◽  
Luis Puigjaner
Keyword(s):  
Critical Issue ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Scheduling Theory

scholarly journals Public Policies Between Theory and Practice

Ánfora ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (46) ◽  
pp. 111-120
Author(s):  
Rubén Darío Gómez Arias
Keyword(s):  
Public Policies ◽  
Social Benefit ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Public Interests ◽  
Good Opportunity ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Intangible Resources ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
The Social ◽  
Theoretical Issues

Objective: this Reflection paper intends to question some theoretical issues that cloud the practice and whose improvement could increase the social benefit of management. Methodology: an interpretative and critical reflection was made on the social phenomenon of Public Policies (PP); thus, the analysis of some issues from the fundamental theoretical perspectives on the subject were taken into account such as the cited original sources. This reflection was particularly focused on five issues to help understand the rationality of PP and their performance: the formal issues, the actors, the contexts, the processes, and the results. Results: It was found that in many social scenarios, including academic, the PPs are introduced as technocratic options that political leaders assume neutrally and rationally for the benefit of people. Although this concept is very interesting, it is ideological and far from reality. The PPs are political devices that were developed in late modernity to control the tangible and intangible resources of society, and, as such, they are administered by different subgroups in defense of their own interests. Unlike the aim of the official discourse, the PPs are not always decisions made in favor of public interests, rather they are changeable expressions of social conflicts between antagonistic groups fighting for their own benefit. Conclusions: beyond technical matters, the PPs are political issues whose main characteristic comes from the particular interests of their defenders. The PPs have become a good opportunity to face and solve priority public problems.

scholarly journals Surgery during COVID-19 crisis conditions: can we protect our ethical integrity against the odds?

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (8) ◽  
pp. 505-507 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack Macleod ◽  
Sermed Mezher ◽  
Ragheb Hasan
Keyword(s):  
Operative Management ◽  
Critical Issue ◽  
Careful Consideration ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Ethical Frameworks ◽  
Unknown Risk ◽  
Moral Duties ◽  
Crisis Conditions ◽  
Long Term Impact

COVID-19 is reducing the ability to perform surgical procedures worldwide, giving rise to a multitude of ethical, practical and medical dilemmas. Adapting to crisis conditions requires a rethink of traditional best practices in surgical management, delving into an area of unknown risk profiles. Key challenging areas include cancelling elective operations, modifying procedures to adapt local services and updating the consenting process. We aim to provide an ethical rationale to support change in practice and guide future decision-making. Using the four principles approach as a structure, Medline was searched for existing ethical frameworks aimed at resolving conflicting moral duties. Where insufficient data were available, best guidance was sought from educational institutions: National Health Service England and The Royal College of Surgeons. Multiple papers presenting high-quality, reasoned, ethical theory and practice guidance were collected. Using this as a basis to assess current practice, multiple requirements were generated to ensure preservation of ethical integrity when making management decisions. Careful consideration of ethical principles must guide production of local guidance ensuring consistent patient selection thus preserving equality as well as quality of clinical services. A critical issue is balancing the benefit of surgery against the unknown risk of developing COVID-19 and its associated complications. As such, the need for surgery must be sufficiently pressing to proceed with conventional or non-conventional operative management; otherwise, delaying intervention is justified. For delayed operations, it is our duty to quantify the long-term impact on patients’ outcome within the constraints of pandemic management and its long-term outlook.

LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING PROBLEMS IN THE LATEST ISSUES OF THE “JOURNAL OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE”

2020 ◽  
pp. 341-345
Author(s):  
Владимир Михайлович Чекмарёв
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Landscape Architecture ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Compact City ◽  
European Continent ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Analytical Review ◽  
Modern Landscape ◽  
City Plan

Статья представляет собой аналитический обзор последних трех выпусков «Журнала ландшафтной архитектуры» (Journal of Lanscape Architecture), каждый из которых был посвящен определенной теме. Первый выпуск 2019 г. освещает тему так называемого компактного города, второй посвящен проблеме взаимодействия специалистов разного профиля в области ландшафтной архитектуры и садово-паркового дизайна, наконец, статьи третьего номера журнала рассматривают феномен современной ландшафтной архитектуры в свете актуальной социополитической проблематики. Автор останавливается на наиболее интересных, с его точки зрения, примерах интерпретации данных тем в статьях, освещающих опыт садовых мастеров и ландшафтных архитекторов, работающих в разных концах европейского континента, а также Америки и азиатского региона. Так, проблема компактного города нашла отражение в статье Р. Хаутамэки о Хельсинкском городском плане 2016 г. и исследовании Б. Маркес, Ж. Мак Интош, У. Хэттона и Д. Шэнона «Бикультурные ландшафты и экологическая реставрация в компактном городе: случай Зеландии как устойчивой экосистемы». Тему взаимодействия специалистов разных отраслей в области ландшафтного дизайна поднимают Б. Миллигэен в статье «Создание ландшафта: геодезия, дроны и медиаэкология» и Ж.-Ф. де Више в исследовании, посвященном террилям Шарлеруа. Роль социополитического аспекта в развитии ландшафтной архитектуры отмечена в статьях К. Даннеелс «Наступление природы: социобиологическая теория и практика Луи ван дер Свельмена» и Н. Гулсруд, посвятившего свое исследование открывшемуся в 2009 г. нью-йоркскому парку Хай Лайн. This analytical review concerns the last three issues of the “Journal of Landscape Architecture”. Each of them was dedicated to a specific topic. The 1st issue for 2019 covers the topic of the so-called compact city, the 2nd concerns the problem of interaction of different specialists in the field of landscape architecture and garden design, and finally, the articles of the 3rd issue consider the phenomenon of modern landscape architecture in the light of the socio-political issues of today. The author focuses on the most interesting, from his point of view, examples of interpretation of these topics in articles covering the experience of garden masters and landscape architects working in different parts of the European continent, as well as America and the Asian region. Thus, the problem of a “compact city” is reflected in the article by R. Hautameki on the Helsinki city plan 2016 and the study by B. Marquez, J. Mac Intosh, W. Hatton and D. Shannon “Bicultural landscapes and ecological restoration in a compact city: the case of Zealand as a sustainable ecosystem”. The topic of interaction between specialists from different industries in the field of landscape design is raised by B. Milligaen in the article “Creating a landscape: geodesy, drones and media ecology” and J.-F. de Viche in a study on the Charleroi terrilles. The role of the sociopolitical aspect in the development of landscape architecture is noted in the articles by K. Daneels “The Onset of nature: the sociobiological theory and practice of Louis van der Svelmen” and N. Gulsrud, who devoted his research to the New York High Line Park, which was opened in 2009.

scholarly journals Genesis of the Study of War as a Political Phenomenon in Pre-Revolutionary Russia

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 190-200
Author(s):  
Vasily Belozerov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Institutions ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Political Realism ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Military Science ◽  
Political Ideas ◽  
Political Perceptions ◽  
The 19Th Century

Introduction. The article explores the conceptualization of war as a political phenomenon in prerevolutionary Russia and presents its results for theory and practice. For this purpose, the article studies and interprets the origins of political ideas about war, the occurrence of political content in its scientific understanding, the emergence and development of various paradigms for its understanding as a political phenomenon and the conceptualization of Russia’s superior strategy. Methods and methodology. The research methodology is based on political realism and the recognition of war as an actual phenomenon. The choice of works for analysis stems from the connection of their content with political issues. The article studies political situations and processes that caused the enhancement of research into war as a political phenomenon. Analysis. The first political perceptions of the phenomenon of war began taking shape in Russia in the second half of the 17th century and they reveal an understanding of the link between war and politics. The formation of the knowledge system about war and military activities took place without political understanding and contained a significant element of borrowing from outside. In relation to the formation of the science of war, there was also a theoretical understanding of its political content. In the second third of the 19th century scientific discussions began, in which two approaches based on the decision to recognize the political content of war were formed. Eventually, an approach that essentially negates the primacy of political institutions prevailed in military science and in the education of military personnel, which had negative consequences for theory and practice. Results. The study of war as a political phenomenon in pre-revolutionary Russia formed dialectical and metaphysical approaches with the latter dominating and being followed by representatives of official military science. It can be stated that there is a problem of method in the study of war, which is manifested in modern conditions.

We’ve all got skin in the game: National Diversity Working Group: Power, Privilege and Position

2021 ◽  
pp. 053331642110084
Author(s):  
Anthea Benjamin ◽  
Sarah Tucker
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Change ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Working Group ◽  
Group Analysis ◽  
Group Processes ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Leadership Role ◽  
Institutional Racism ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
The Uk

This article describes the thinking and processes involved in initiating the National Diversity Working Group: Power, Privilege and Position (PPP) at the Institute of Group Analysis (IGA) in the UK. It argues that while group analysis is in theory distinguished by a commitment to engaging in power differences and wider socio-political issues, this theory has not hitherto been deeply reflected in practice in the institutional culture of the IGA, reflecting a disconnect between theory and practice. This article suggests that in practice there has been lived experience of a culture of various institutional prejudices. In this context there was an increasingly urgent need to take action to address the intransigent culture around power and difference at the IGA. The PPP was needed as a response to the entrenched anti-group processes at work in maintaining institutional prejudices. Positive responses to addressing institutional racism have created opportunities for organizational change. The article explores how the PPP working group’s responses to addressing institutional racism worked to support organizational change and how this work has been instituted throughout the wider community. The article emphasizes how in response to the Black Lives Matter movement (BLM), issues concerning race have recently become focal in the PPP’s life and therefore form the focus of the article. Drawing on Brown’s notion of the ‘Monitor of Justice’ it argues that in setting up the PPP there was a harnessing of hitherto marginalized but pro-social group norms in the IGA culture in the face of anti-social institutional prejudice. In this context the article contains a detailed reflection of the lived experience of a black group analyst taking on a key leadership role in the organization by becoming the Chair of the PPP. It describes how under this leadership, working collaboratively with colleagues, PPP has become a highly innovative and creative centrifugal force in the IGA within two years. It tracks the process of culture change and how creating a safe space for experiences of marginalization within organizations can lead to wider system changes that increase inclusivity. When institutions can remain open and not become defensive about these experiences, this can lead to the wider culture being able to integrate these important experiences and adapt.

Political (self-)education and the neo-republican perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 136-150
Author(s):  
Dorota Pietrzyk-Reeves
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Political Education ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Civic Involvement ◽  
Political Awareness ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Arbitrary Power ◽  
Political Theories ◽  
Civic Intelligence

In recent years, political theory has benefited from a neo-republican perspective that brought to the fore the conception of a ‘republican democracy’ which assumes a robust public sphere, civic involvement, and vigilance, as well as a neo-Roman conception of liberty understood as the absence of arbitrary power. Neo-republicanism, however, has not engaged much in a wider consideration of the importance of political education in democratic societies. This article presents an approach to political education that can be inspiring for both substantive and instrumental neo-republican political theories as well as democratic theory and practice. It considers political education as primarily self-education, a process of learning that aims at greater political awareness, empowerment, and better judgment on political issues. As such, political (self-)education can be seen as liberating and as a necessary condition of active political involvement, community service, citizenship, civic intelligence and political liberty.

Political and Cultural Issues in Digital Public Administration

2017 ◽  
pp. 2068-2099
Author(s):  
Fuat Alican
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Emerging Trends ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
Information And Communication

Political and cultural aspects of digital public undertakings in developing countries are often neglected as more emphasis is placed on the technological components. The mutual impact between political or cultural issues and emerging trends such as cloud computing and social networks exacerbate the problem. This chapter analyzes political and cultural issues which have a significant impact on digital public administration and e-government initiatives in developing countries, also taking into consideration the emerging tendencies and technologies. It combines theory and practice, including studies that demonstrate different political or cultural issues involved in the digital undertakings in these countries, examples from different contexts and nations, and a case study from Turkey. The chapter starts with examples of different political issues, analyzing and summarizing some of the most relevant of these issues, including existing literature related to each subject. It continues with cultural issues. The subsequent section contains a discussion of how political and cultural issues relate to the tendencies of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) sector, and why this context is important for digital initiatives in developing countries, as an initial guide to existing and future challenges. The chapter ends with the case of Turkey, which demonstrates political and cultural issues faced on both national and regional levels, in the context of digital public administration and emerging trends in ICTs.

Political and Cultural Issues in Digital Public Administration

2013 ◽  
pp. 43-73
Author(s):  
Fuat Alican
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Emerging Trends ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
Information And Communication

Political and cultural aspects of digital public undertakings in developing countries are often neglected as more emphasis is placed on the technological components. The mutual impact between political or cultural issues and emerging trends such as cloud computing and social networks exacerbate the problem. This chapter analyzes political and cultural issues which have a significant impact on digital public administration and e-government initiatives in developing countries, also taking into consideration the emerging tendencies and technologies. It combines theory and practice, including studies that demonstrate different political or cultural issues involved in the digital undertakings in these countries, examples from different contexts and nations, and a case study from Turkey. The chapter starts with examples of different political issues, analyzing and summarizing some of the most relevant of these issues, including existing literature related to each subject. It continues with cultural issues. The subsequent section contains a discussion of how political and cultural issues relate to the tendencies of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) sector, and why this context is important for digital initiatives in developing countries, as an initial guide to existing and future challenges. The chapter ends with the case of Turkey, which demonstrates political and cultural issues faced on both national and regional levels, in the context of digital public administration and emerging trends in ICTs.

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