Scheduling tribes

Focaal ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 (65) ◽  
pp. 13-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Townsend Middleton
Keyword(s):  
Affirmative Action ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Human Dimension ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
Action System ◽  
Indian State ◽  
Tribal Recognition ◽  
Inside Out ◽  
Insight Into

Venturing into an ethnography of government anthropologists themselves, this article interrogates the bureaucratic inner workings and actual agents of today's “ethnographic state." By engaging with the civil servants who verify India's Scheduled Tribes, I explore the politics of “tribal“ recognition from the inside out. This perspective lends timely insight into the logistical, political, and epistemological difficulties integral to the functioning-and current crisis-of India's affirmative action system. Weighing the demands of “tribal“ recognition through those that arguably know them best-government anthropologists themselves- this study examines the human dimension (and dilemmas) of the Indian state and its affirmative action system for Scheduled Tribes.

Zakir Naik and His Audiences: A Case Study of Srinagar, Kashmir

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-222
Author(s):  
Raoof Mir
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Jammu And Kashmir ◽  
Or Groups ◽  
Indian State ◽  
Fresh Insight ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Religious Worldviews

Most literature on Mumbai-based Muslim tele-Islamicist Zakir Naik offers an organizational, biographical and ideological profile. This approach has concealed the symbolic significance attached to Naik by his audiences. This paper attempts to explore not only who and what Naik is, but how and where he is located. By incorporating ethnographic and cultural studies approaches, this paper offers fresh insight into Naik and his methods of communicating religion. Taking Srinagar, a city in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, as an ethnographic site, this paper explores how Muslim individuals or groups interpret Naik in relation to their religious worldviews. The articulation of Islam by Zakir Naik through media platforms such as television and social media has contributed to a religious trend in Kashmir, in which people have discovered new ways to think about themselves and to participate in discourses about religion that would have been unthinkable a few decades ago.

Hoe gesprekken een participatieproces maken of breken

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Bleijenberg ◽  
Noëlle Aarts ◽  
Reint Jan Renes
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Comparative Case Study ◽  
Framing Analysis ◽  
Local Participation ◽  
Participatory Processes ◽  
Participation Process ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Discursive Patterns

A comparative case study into the meaning of conversations between citizens and government on the course and outcome of local participation processes Although the importance of conversations for citizen participation is widely recognized, there is still little insight into the meaning of conversations for participatory processes. This comparative case study provides insight into the discursive patterns that characterize the conversations between citizens, civil servants and other stakeholders in two participatory processes in different municipalities. Our framing-analysis shows how different discursive patterns develop in interaction and how these patterns effect the course and outcome in both participation processes. The results provide insight in how experiences of previous events influence the discursive patterns that participants construct in interaction. It is concluded that in both cases not the nature of the issue, but the way it was discussed and how participants framed this was crucial for the course and outcome of the participation process.

scholarly journals PSYCHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF TEACHING ENGLISH TO CIVIL SERVANTS

2020 ◽  
pp. 55-61
Author(s):  
Vira Ponomaryova ◽  
Liudmyla Byrkun ◽  
Lyubov Marymonska
Keyword(s):  
Adult Learners ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Psychological Characteristics ◽  
First Year ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Communicative Skills ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
The Common ◽  
Insight Into

The article deals with outlining the psychological characteristics of teaching English to civil servants of the first year of study as an instrument for optimizing the process of building an FL competence of the adult learners whose level of the English is A2 in accordance with the Common European Framework of Reference, CEFR. The aim of the article is to describe the psychological characteristics of learning an FL by civil servants as well as to reveal difficulties that they come across in mastering speaking with a view to manage the educational process of civil servants effectively and efficiently. The research methodology involves analysis and synthesis of academic literature that gives insight into the problem under study. Additionally, the empirical results and the dynamics of the learning process were analyzed. The conducted research and the analysis of the results of the study enabled us to identify the main types of perception as well as to reveal and classify the problems and difficulties that adult learners face in the process of mastering communicative skills. The conclusion concerning possible ways to overcome these difficulties in the system of continuous education of adult learners were outlined.

scholarly journals Chewing the fat about our children’s health

2010 ◽  
pp. 7-9
Author(s):  
Sinéad Bannon
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Eating Habits ◽  
Children's Health ◽  
Valuable Insight ◽  
Future Health ◽  
Comprehensive Survey ◽  
The Media ◽  
Tv Shows ◽  
Inside Out ◽  
Insight Into

Popular culture is jammed with TV shows about our health and what we eat, whether it’s ‘The Health Squad’ making people healthy from the inside out or Gillian McKeith telling people ‘You Are What You Eat’. Our study, looking extensively at the eating habits of children aged 5-12 years in Ireland, shows us that the extreme picture painted by the media has some basis in fact. Around one in five children are overweight or obese, and many children’s diets are lacking in important nutrients and fibre; it is time to find out why and what implications this may have on their future health. The National Children’s Food Survey was a comprehensive survey carried out by researchers in UCC and UCD, investigating the eating habits of children in Ireland between the ages of 5 and 12 years. The survey has provided a valuable insight into the diets of children in this ...

‘The Lingua Franca of the Bangle'

2021 ◽  
pp. 115-132
Author(s):  
Matt Perry
Keyword(s):  
Contentious Politics ◽  
Causal Link ◽  
Nationalist Movement ◽  
Political Ideas ◽  
British Labour ◽  
Social Mobilisation ◽  
Indian State ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Complex Relationships ◽  
Insight Into

Wilkinson’s approach to imperialism provides significant insight into her political ideas. For much of the interwar period, she perceived a causal link between imperialism—which she understood as a product of late capitalism—and war. This chapter focuses upon her visit to India in autumn 1932 on behalf of the India League. Using the British and Indian press as well as India Office sources, it examines the complex relationships involved in this visit between the delegation, the Indian nationalist movement, the British and Indian state as well as the British Labour movement and the reception of Indian affairs in Britain. In this case, culturalist approaches, stressing the mutual comprehensibility, the prejudices and assumption of superiority underplay the micro-level complexity of transnational contentious politics. Wilkinson used several techniques to overcome the distance between Indian and British workers in her journalism and campaigning for Indian independence regarding the trip. The trip had a lasting significance for her attitude to the possibilities of revolution as well as the misplaced complacency about British immunity to fascism. Indeed, she incorporated her Indian experiences into her campaigning frames for social mobilisation related to women, Jarrow and anti-fascism.

The Anglo-Irish Agreement, 1985

2020 ◽  
pp. 106-207
Author(s):  
John Coakley ◽  
Jennifer Todd
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Negotiation Process ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
The Core ◽  
Irish Government ◽  
Direct Government ◽  
Institutional Architecture ◽  
Two Sides ◽  
Insight Into

The decisive collapse of the Sunningdale initiative delivered a severe blow to the prospects for settlement in Northern Ireland, setting the negotiation process back for almost a decade. The stand-off between the parties was accompanied by continuing violence. Efforts to relaunch a political initiative began in the early 1980s, this time centred on a direct government-to-government axis. The outcome was the Anglo-Irish Agreement of 1985, which established machinery for involving the Irish government in the management of Northern Ireland. This chapter examines the perspective of officials on the two sides in arriving at an accommodation. In particular, it illustrates the manner in which civil servants sought to redefine the character of the new institutional architecture, designed to withstand unionist efforts to bring it down. The witness seminar at the core of the chapter provides a fascinating insight into the effective working relationship between civil servants at the highest levels within the two states, and their success in facilitating accommodation between their political leaders.

Mental Health Social Work Reimagined

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Cummins
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Mental Distress ◽  
Community Care ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
Social Work Values ◽  
Historical Perspectives ◽  
Insight Into

This book argues that mental health social work needs to be located within the wider political and social policy landscape. Wider societal attitudes to mental illness are examined followed by a discussion of the development of community care. The author argues that these historical perspectives provide an insight into the roots of the current crisis in mental health services. The book goes on to analyse a range of contemporary issues and challenges in mental health social work. It argues that social inequality and policies of austerity have increased levels of mental distress. It calls for a rediscovery of core social work values and a rejection of bureaucratic managerialism.

scholarly journals IPTEKS PERHITUNGAN PAJAK PENGHASILAN (PPh) PASAL 21 UNTUK TAMBAHAN PENGHASILAN PEGAWAI NEGERI SIPIL DI DINAS TENAGA KERJA KOTA MANADO

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (02) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ablessy Mumu ◽  
Anatasya Latulola ◽  
Sintje Rondonuwu
Keyword(s):  
Income Tax ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Additional Income ◽  
Insight Into

In improving the quality and performance of civil servants in government agencies, a rule is made regarding the addition of employee income which is income outside of salary which must be subject to income tax  article 21. This research aims to examine the calculation of income tax article 21 for civil servants civil in Dinas Tenaga Kerja Manado society is in accordance with applicable regulations, also aims to add insight into aspects of taxation, especially in calculating income tax article 21. The method used is representative of the quantitative data obtained from the object of service. While the technique of application is to collect quantitative data in the form of numbers and calculations, then based on these data testing is done in order to convince a theory issued.Keywords : Income tax, Additional income

scholarly journals Effectiveness of forbearance measures for Russian commercial banks in the current crisis

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 103-115
Author(s):  
Olga Vinogradova
Keyword(s):  
Commercial Banks ◽  
Banking Industry ◽  
The Other ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
The Public ◽  
Mortgage Interest ◽  
Real Gdp ◽  
Mortgage Interest Rate ◽  
The One ◽  
Insight Into

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, real GDP of Russia is expected to fall by 4-6%. The banking industry provides liquidity to Russian business in times of hardship. On the one hand, the Bank of Russia facilitates lending opportunities for the business and subsidizes the mortgage interest rate for banks and the public in order to prevent business bankruptcies. And on the other hand, it provides liquidity to banks via REPO (repurchase agreement) auctions. Currently, there is not enough demand for REPO transactions from banks, but it might increase after other measures of support begin to be canceled. The article studies the effectiveness of current forbearance measures for Russian banks and provides an insight into the future development of the banking industry after the COVID-19 pandemic.

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