Asymmetries of Spatial Contestations

Contention ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tareq Sydiq
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future

Based on fieldwork carried out from 2017 and 2018, this article examines various attempts to both organize publicly and disrupt such attempts during the Iranian protests during that time. It argues that interference with spatial realities influenced the social coalitions built during the protests, impacting the capacity of actors to build such coalitions. The post-2009 adaptation of the state inhibited cross-class coalitions despite being challenged, while actors used spatial phrasing indicating they perceived spatial divisions to emulate political ones. Meanwhile, in the immediate aftermath of the December 2017 protests, further attempts to control protest actions impacted not only those who would be able to participate in such events in the future, but also those who felt represented by them and who would be likely to sympathize with them. Based on the spatial conditions under which coalitions form, I argue that asymmetrical contestations of spatiality determined the outcome of the December 2017 protests and may contribute to an understanding of how alliances in Iran will form in the future.

scholarly journals Elaborating a Crosswalk Between Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) and Encoded Archival Description (EAD) for an Emerging Data Archive Service Provider

2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Benjamin Peuch
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Service Provider ◽  
The State ◽  
Archival Description ◽  
Data Archive ◽  
Science Data ◽  
Metadata Standard ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
State Archives

Belgium has recently decided to integrate the Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA). The Social Sciences Data Archive (SODA) project aims at tackling the different challenges entailed by the setting up of a new research infrastructure in the form of a data archive. The SODA project involves an archival institution, the State Archives of Belgium, which, like most other large archival repositories around the world, work with Encoded Archival Description (EAD) for managing their metadata. There exists at the State Archives a large pipeline of programs and procedures that processes EAD documents and channels their content through different applications, such as the online catalog of the institution. Because there is a chance that the future Belgian data archive will be part of the State Archives and because DDI is the most widespread metadata standard in the social sciences as well as a requirement for joining CESSDA, the State Archives have developed a DDI-to-EAD crosswalk in order to re-use the State Archives' infrastructure for the needs of the future Belgian service provider. Technical illustrations highlight the conceptual differences between DDI and EAD and how these can be reconciled or escaped for the purpose of a data archive for the social sciences.

The Sociological Idea of the State: Legal Education, Austrian Multinationalism, and the Future of Continental Empire, 1880–1914

2020 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 327-358
Author(s):  
Thomas R. Prendergast
Keyword(s):  
Science Curriculum ◽  
World Order ◽  
The State ◽  
Habsburg Monarchy ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The Social ◽  
The First World War ◽  
The Future ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
The Stability

AbstractIf historians now recognize that the Habsburg Monarchy was developing into a strong, cohesive state in the decades before the First World War, they have yet to fully examine contemporaneous European debates about Austria's legitimacy and place in the future world order. As the intertwined fields of law and social science began during this period to elaborate a binary distinction between “modern” nation-states and “archaic” multinational “empires,” Austria, like other composite monarchies, found itself searching for a legally and scientifically valid justification for its continued existence. This article argues that Austrian sociology provided such a justification and was used to articulate a defense of the Habsburg Monarchy and other supposedly “abnormal” multinational states. While the birth of the social sciences is typically associated with Germany and France, a turn to sociology also occurred in the late Habsburg Monarchy, spurred by legal scholars who feared that the increasingly hegemonic idea of nation-based sovereignty threatened the stability of the pluralistic Austrian state. Proponents of the “sociological idea of the state,” notably the sociologist, politician, and later president of Czechoslovakia Tomáš Masaryk and the Polish-Jewish sociologist and jurist Ludwig Gumplowicz, challenged the concept of statehood advanced by mainstream Western European legal philosophy and called for a reform of Austria's law and political science curriculum. I reveal how, more than a century before the “imperial turn,” Habsburg actors came to reject the emerging scholarly distinction between “nations” and “empires” and fought, with considerable success, to institutionalize an alternative to nationalist social scientific discourse.

Environmental scientists, advocacy, and the future of Earth

1999 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 245-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
BRENDAN G. MACKEY
Keyword(s):  
Public Debate ◽  
The State ◽  
Social Responsibilities ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
State Of The Environment

Norman Myers recently challenged scientists to consider the social responsibilities that derive from their expertise and knowledge (Myers 1999). He raised important questions regarding how pro-active scientists can or should be in leading public debate about the state of the environment. This article is a response to that call, and hopefully will serve to stimulate further debate on the topic.

scholarly journals CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES IN MODERN RUSSIA

2020 ◽  
pp. 188-192
Author(s):  
R. M. Sadykov ◽  
N. L. Bolshakova
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
The State ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
Positive Image ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
Charitable Activities

Сharitable organizations and charitable activities in Russia and their role in modern conditions have been considered. Charity in Russia today is a significant and important institution that continues the social policy of the state. The reasons, forms and types of charity have been presented. The innovative forms of charity have been identifed: SMS donations, using charity portals and donation services, purchasing a product or service in favor of charity, charity events, and volunteering. A promising form of charitable activity is volunteering. According to the results of a sociological study, charity is popular among the population: 89.5% of respondents have ever been involved in charity. In general, the respondents have a positive image of charity in Russia. Most of the respondents in one way or another have ever taken part in charity and noted the possibility of participation in the future.

scholarly journals The optimality of the option of abolishing serfdom in Russia, implemented in 1861

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (46) ◽  
pp. 20-31
Author(s):  
Vitaly Yu. Zakharov ◽  
Vladimir A. Volkov ◽  
Anna N. Ivanova ◽  
Irina N. Velmozhko ◽  
Olga B. Chirikova
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Reference Point ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
The State ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Controversial Issues ◽  
Final Version ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
Main Thing

The article discusses the controversial issues related to the abolition of serfdom in Russia in 1861: its causes, features of preparation and implementation. The authors focus on the question of whether the implemented version of the abolition of serfdom in Russia was optimal. For this purpose, a comparative analysis of the abolition of serfdom in Russia is carried out with similar reforms in European countries, which could serve as a reference point, primarily in Austria and Prussia. It is concluded that the peasant reform in Russia in 1861 (in the final version) was carried out primarily in the interests of the state and not of individual social groups (landowners and peasants). It is the state that has benefited most from the implementation of this particular version of the reform, both financially and politically. Among the losers there were both peasants (to a greater extent) and landowners (to a lesser extent). The main thing was that the reform provoked the problem of the lack of land of the majority of peasants, which in the future became one of the main reasons for the social explosion and revolutions at the beginning of the XX century.

scholarly journals W cieniu fabryki. Wizja katastrofy Zakładów Azotowych w Mościcach w pomniku Wilhelma Sasnala

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 325-346
Author(s):  
Marcin Laberschek
Keyword(s):  
Social Environment ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
The State ◽  
The Past ◽  
Research Material ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Fear ◽  
The Future ◽  
Nitrogen Plant

In the Shadow of the Factory. A Vision of the Nitrogen Plant Disaster in Mościce at the Monument of Wilhelm Sasnal The article concerns the shadow phenomenon understood as the state of anxiety of people who create the social environment of an organization. This phenomenon was discussed on the example of Zakłady Azotowe in Mościce and the Wilhelm Sasnal monument, using research material from indepth interviews with the creator of the monument and with Dawid Radziszewski, artistic curator. Information from existing sources and the results of the visual analysis of the monument were also used. The result of the analysis is that: (1) shadow is a kind of social fear of threats from the organization (e.g., failures); (2) its source is the organization itself; (3) shadow is rooted in the past (4) and projected for the future; (5) shadow organizes social life in the environment of the organization and manifests itself in stories, myths and art.

scholarly journals Social myth as a factor in constructing images of the future

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 372-376
Author(s):  
Andrey G. Ivanov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Wide Audience ◽  
A Value ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Masses ◽  
Images Of The Future ◽  
Modern Myth ◽  
Social Myth

The article defines the contemporary social myth as a value-laden phenomenon with the potential and significance, but which is used in different ways by actors – an indwelling by a myth, a creator of a myth and a critic of a myth. The process of myth-making is considered as launching the so-called work on myth, which includes both the activity of myth-makers and the functioning of the myth in the masses. The appeal to the project function of the social myth and the consideration of the degree of awareness of the myth by individual groups actualize the question of the myth as a factor in constructing images of the future. Taking into account the ideas of R. Barthes and C. Bottici, the author concludes that the myth already contains significant images that allow the future to become more concrete. Using the example of the state as the main generator of myths for a wide audience, it is suggested that all the trajectories of creating potential images of the future are confined to the myth of the hero. Conclusions are drawn about the demand for such images of the future, which are built around the figure of a leader correlated with a mythological hero, that the scale of the state is a suitable level for reasoning about the spread and limits of the influence of modern myth-making, and that the constructive potential of the myth is involved in creating images of the future.

scholarly journals Where Are We? The State of Education

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-135
Author(s):  
Sharon Rich
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Public Education ◽  
The State ◽  
Young Learners ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future

Today the questions that should be asked about schools and schooling are those that take into account the social context in which we live. We need to attend to the world outside of the closed context of the "system" and recognize the ways in which the world is interrelated. We need to understand that each and every student comes to the classroom with a biography and a way of being in the world. For today’s young learners that world is a wired one in which social interaction can be conducted anywhere, any place, or anytime. A key challenge for educators is to adapt the institutions in which they work to meet the emerging reality of the connected environment. If we do not manage to make this adaptation, then the future of public education is bleak.

Current Postvention Research and Priorities for the Future

Crisis ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 202-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl Andriessen ◽  
Dolores Angela Castelli Dransart ◽  
Julie Cerel ◽  
Myfanwy Maple
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Research Priorities ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Intercultural Collaboration ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
Suicide Bereavement ◽  
Ethical Approval

Abstract. Background: Suicide can have a lasting impact on the social life as well as the physical and mental health of the bereaved. Targeted research is needed to better understand the nature of suicide bereavement and the effectiveness of support. Aims: To take stock of ongoing studies, and to inquire about future research priorities regarding suicide bereavement and postvention. Method: In March 2015, an online survey was widely disseminated in the suicidology community. Results: The questionnaire was accessed 77 times, and 22 records were included in the analysis. The respondents provided valuable information regarding current research projects and recommendations for the future. Limitations: Bearing in mind the modest number of replies, all from respondents in Westernized countries, it is not known how representative the findings are. Conclusion: The survey generated three strategies for future postvention research: increase intercultural collaboration, increase theory-driven research, and build bonds between research and practice. Future surveys should include experiences with obtaining research grants and ethical approval for postvention studies.

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