James Mayall
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- April 2004
- ISBN:
- 9780199267217
- eISBN:
- 9780191601118
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199267219.003.0007
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
After the end of the Cold War, many in the West viewed Africa as a testing ground for the solidarist argument that sovereignty was no longer an absolute principle and that the international community ...
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After the end of the Cold War, many in the West viewed Africa as a testing ground for the solidarist argument that sovereignty was no longer an absolute principle and that the international community could intervene to protect individual from human rights violations. This argument seems particularly challenging in the African context, given the continental leadership’s historic commitment to territorial integrity and non-intervention. However, as the author shows, African leaders from 1945 to 1990 were largely upholding the pluralist international norms of the time. In other words, the case for humanitarian intervention – and the problems posed by the practice – are not region-specific. The early 1990s, during which the United Nations intervened in Somalia, seemed to confirm the solidarist position. However, the failure to intervene in Rwanda in 1994, and the more recent experience of interventions in Sierra Leone, present a more mixed picture. Humanitarian intervention remains a controversial practice because of its coercive means, and its tendency to attribute blame or responsibility in what are often very complex civil conflicts.Less
After the end of the Cold War, many in the West viewed Africa as a testing ground for the solidarist argument that sovereignty was no longer an absolute principle and that the international community could intervene to protect individual from human rights violations. This argument seems particularly challenging in the African context, given the continental leadership’s historic commitment to territorial integrity and non-intervention. However, as the author shows, African leaders from 1945 to 1990 were largely upholding the pluralist international norms of the time. In other words, the case for humanitarian intervention – and the problems posed by the practice – are not region-specific. The early 1990s, during which the United Nations intervened in Somalia, seemed to confirm the solidarist position. However, the failure to intervene in Rwanda in 1994, and the more recent experience of interventions in Sierra Leone, present a more mixed picture. Humanitarian intervention remains a controversial practice because of its coercive means, and its tendency to attribute blame or responsibility in what are often very complex civil conflicts.
Albert O. Hirschman
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691159904
- eISBN:
- 9781400848409
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691159904.003.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Theory
This chapter contains the introduction to Hirschman's collection of essays on development at the close of the 1960s, A Bias for Hope: Essays on Development in Latin America. Here, Hirschman points to ...
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This chapter contains the introduction to Hirschman's collection of essays on development at the close of the 1960s, A Bias for Hope: Essays on Development in Latin America. Here, Hirschman points to the importance of the interplay between economic and political forces: not just the economic theories of politics, nor simply the political dimensions of economic phenomena, but the interactions between two fields that can open up spaces for alternatives. Hence, this chapter urges more flexibility and realism and less reliance on general laws to explain social phenomena. Freedom and creativity—in short, “a passion for the possible”—were Hirschman's watchwords in this piece.Less
This chapter contains the introduction to Hirschman's collection of essays on development at the close of the 1960s, A Bias for Hope: Essays on Development in Latin America. Here, Hirschman points to the importance of the interplay between economic and political forces: not just the economic theories of politics, nor simply the political dimensions of economic phenomena, but the interactions between two fields that can open up spaces for alternatives. Hence, this chapter urges more flexibility and realism and less reliance on general laws to explain social phenomena. Freedom and creativity—in short, “a passion for the possible”—were Hirschman's watchwords in this piece.
Harriet P. Lefley
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195340495
- eISBN:
- 9780199863792
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195340495.003.0009
- Subject:
- Social Work, Health and Mental Health, Children and Families
Family education (FE) shares uniformities of content with FPE but differs in length, format, target group, and expected outcomes. Ranging from six to twelve weeks, FE is group education targeted to ...
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Family education (FE) shares uniformities of content with FPE but differs in length, format, target group, and expected outcomes. Ranging from six to twelve weeks, FE is group education targeted to families and friends of people with mental illness. Expected outcomes are greater knowledge of illness management and reduced distress and burden of caregivers. Most programs use internal evaluations, but only a few have research findings. FE programs have largely been developed by the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and Mental Heath America (MHA). Two NAMI programs, taught by well-trained family members, have been manualized and evaluated in randomized research designs: Journey of Hope (JOH) and Family-to-Family Education Program (FFEP). Together these eight- to twelve-week programs have reached over 100,000 families. The Training and Education Network (TEC), an MHA Southeastern Pennsylvania program, is also manualized with research findings. A sampling of other FE programs is also described, with their manuals and other publications cited in the Appendix.Less
Family education (FE) shares uniformities of content with FPE but differs in length, format, target group, and expected outcomes. Ranging from six to twelve weeks, FE is group education targeted to families and friends of people with mental illness. Expected outcomes are greater knowledge of illness management and reduced distress and burden of caregivers. Most programs use internal evaluations, but only a few have research findings. FE programs have largely been developed by the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and Mental Heath America (MHA). Two NAMI programs, taught by well-trained family members, have been manualized and evaluated in randomized research designs: Journey of Hope (JOH) and Family-to-Family Education Program (FFEP). Together these eight- to twelve-week programs have reached over 100,000 families. The Training and Education Network (TEC), an MHA Southeastern Pennsylvania program, is also manualized with research findings. A sampling of other FE programs is also described, with their manuals and other publications cited in the Appendix.
Charles Hope
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780197262788
- eISBN:
- 9780191754210
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197262788.003.0011
- Subject:
- History, Historiography
Publication of Patrons and Painters (1963), which dealt with art in 17th-century Rome and 18th-century Venice, established Francis Haskell as one of the leading art historians of his generation. He ...
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Publication of Patrons and Painters (1963), which dealt with art in 17th-century Rome and 18th-century Venice, established Francis Haskell as one of the leading art historians of his generation. He held posts at King's College Cambridge and was then appointed Professor of the History of Art at Oxford University with a Fellowship at Trinity College. Haskell turned to studying French painting of the 19th century. Rediscoveries in Art: Some Aspects of Taste, Fashion and Collecting in England and France (1976) won the Mitchell Prize for Art History. Haskell was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1971. Obituary by Charles Hope.Less
Publication of Patrons and Painters (1963), which dealt with art in 17th-century Rome and 18th-century Venice, established Francis Haskell as one of the leading art historians of his generation. He held posts at King's College Cambridge and was then appointed Professor of the History of Art at Oxford University with a Fellowship at Trinity College. Haskell turned to studying French painting of the 19th century. Rediscoveries in Art: Some Aspects of Taste, Fashion and Collecting in England and France (1976) won the Mitchell Prize for Art History. Haskell was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1971. Obituary by Charles Hope.
Williams Martin
- Published in print:
- 1993
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195083491
- eISBN:
- 9780199853205
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195083491.003.0007
- Subject:
- Music, Popular
John Lewis was an American jazz pianist and composer most famous for being the musical director of the Modern Jazz Quartet. The Modern Jazz Quartet, in its quarter of a century history, had risen to ...
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John Lewis was an American jazz pianist and composer most famous for being the musical director of the Modern Jazz Quartet. The Modern Jazz Quartet, in its quarter of a century history, had risen to prominence as the most renowned, most critically acclaimed, and most durable small ensemble in the history of jazz. It is one of the greatest ensembles ever to have existd, that is other than the Duke Ellington orchestra. Lewis also provided the musical score to the documentary “De I'eau et de I'espoir” (Of Water and Hope), which tackles the assistance of American in Morocco's water conservation.Less
John Lewis was an American jazz pianist and composer most famous for being the musical director of the Modern Jazz Quartet. The Modern Jazz Quartet, in its quarter of a century history, had risen to prominence as the most renowned, most critically acclaimed, and most durable small ensemble in the history of jazz. It is one of the greatest ensembles ever to have existd, that is other than the Duke Ellington orchestra. Lewis also provided the musical score to the documentary “De I'eau et de I'espoir” (Of Water and Hope), which tackles the assistance of American in Morocco's water conservation.
Zvi Ben‐Dor Benite
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195307337
- eISBN:
- 9780199867868
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195307337.003.0007
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism
This chapter discusses the political and theological role the ten tribes played in English imagination since the 17th century. It centers around the “Hope of Israel,” the most important book on the ...
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This chapter discusses the political and theological role the ten tribes played in English imagination since the 17th century. It centers around the “Hope of Israel,” the most important book on the ten tribes and their geography written by Manasseh Ben‐Israel, a rabbi from Amsterdam with strong connections to millenarian circles in England wishing to hasten the end of time through finding the ten tribes. The chapter describes the significance of the tribes in English political and theological thinking against the backdrop of political upheavals in England and the English colonization of America. The chapter shows how English theologians developed new programs to convert the Native Americans through using the story of the Ten Tribes. The chapter also presents the rise of two new religious sects: Mormonism and British‐Israelism as a direct result of the earlier theologies.Less
This chapter discusses the political and theological role the ten tribes played in English imagination since the 17th century. It centers around the “Hope of Israel,” the most important book on the ten tribes and their geography written by Manasseh Ben‐Israel, a rabbi from Amsterdam with strong connections to millenarian circles in England wishing to hasten the end of time through finding the ten tribes. The chapter describes the significance of the tribes in English political and theological thinking against the backdrop of political upheavals in England and the English colonization of America. The chapter shows how English theologians developed new programs to convert the Native Americans through using the story of the Ten Tribes. The chapter also presents the rise of two new religious sects: Mormonism and British‐Israelism as a direct result of the earlier theologies.
Mushirul Hasan
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- October 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780198063117
- eISBN:
- 9780199080199
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198063117.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, Indian History
After he and his companions had weighed anchor, their course was south-west. When they neared the Cape of Good Hope, they were unable to weather it on account of an adverse wind, and retrograded five ...
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After he and his companions had weighed anchor, their course was south-west. When they neared the Cape of Good Hope, they were unable to weather it on account of an adverse wind, and retrograded five hundred coss. For twenty-five days, the wind blew from the same quarter. When it abated a little, the author and his group doubled the Cape with great difficulty. For two weeks, they lay at anchor at Cape (town). The Ascension Island is situated to the north-west of the Cape, and they arrived there after a month's voyage. The Dutch purchase men, women, and children in Bengal. The author visited some of these slaves, and although they had forgotten the Hindee and Bengali languages, they were able to converse with the author through signs. The author also describes what he saw in the ocean, namely, the flying fish, the sea mugur, and the mermaid.Less
After he and his companions had weighed anchor, their course was south-west. When they neared the Cape of Good Hope, they were unable to weather it on account of an adverse wind, and retrograded five hundred coss. For twenty-five days, the wind blew from the same quarter. When it abated a little, the author and his group doubled the Cape with great difficulty. For two weeks, they lay at anchor at Cape (town). The Ascension Island is situated to the north-west of the Cape, and they arrived there after a month's voyage. The Dutch purchase men, women, and children in Bengal. The author visited some of these slaves, and although they had forgotten the Hindee and Bengali languages, they were able to converse with the author through signs. The author also describes what he saw in the ocean, namely, the flying fish, the sea mugur, and the mermaid.
Tanya Erzen
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195167962
- eISBN:
- 9780199850150
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195167962.003.0017
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
New Hope Night is one of the most dramatic events of the year for the ex-gay men who have come to heal their homosexuality at New Hope Ministries. It is the first time they testify about their ...
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New Hope Night is one of the most dramatic events of the year for the ex-gay men who have come to heal their homosexuality at New Hope Ministries. It is the first time they testify about their personal struggles with homosexuality in front of the other members at the Church of the Open Door, the ex-gay-affiliated church based in California. The ex-gay movement, of which New Hope Ministries is a part, is a product of the confluence of religion and therapeutic culture. It draws heavily from the self-help and recovery movements' notion of twelve steps to conceptualize healing homosexuality. In their rhetoric and practices, men and women at New Hope have replaced the concept of sexual orientation change with the idea that homosexuality can be healed through religious belief and therapeutic means. As part of the twelve-step model, the ex-gay movement focuses on sexual addictions that stem from homosexuality. Personal testimony is central to healing sexual addictions, and people are urged to constantly confess sexual lapses to one another in small accountability groups and more public forums.Less
New Hope Night is one of the most dramatic events of the year for the ex-gay men who have come to heal their homosexuality at New Hope Ministries. It is the first time they testify about their personal struggles with homosexuality in front of the other members at the Church of the Open Door, the ex-gay-affiliated church based in California. The ex-gay movement, of which New Hope Ministries is a part, is a product of the confluence of religion and therapeutic culture. It draws heavily from the self-help and recovery movements' notion of twelve steps to conceptualize healing homosexuality. In their rhetoric and practices, men and women at New Hope have replaced the concept of sexual orientation change with the idea that homosexuality can be healed through religious belief and therapeutic means. As part of the twelve-step model, the ex-gay movement focuses on sexual addictions that stem from homosexuality. Personal testimony is central to healing sexual addictions, and people are urged to constantly confess sexual lapses to one another in small accountability groups and more public forums.
Simon Mussell
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781526105707
- eISBN:
- 9781526132253
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9781526105707.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Political Philosophy
The book provides a new perspective on the early work of the Frankfurt School, by focusing on the vital role that affect and feeling play in the development of critical theory. Building on ...
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The book provides a new perspective on the early work of the Frankfurt School, by focusing on the vital role that affect and feeling play in the development of critical theory. Building on contemporary theories of affect, the author argues that any renewal of critical theory today must have an affective politics at its core. If one’s aim is to effectively theorize, criticize, and ultimately transform existing social relations, then a strictly rationalist model of political thought remains inadequate. In many respects, this flies in the face of predominant forms of political philosophy, which have long upheld reason and rationality as sole proprietors of political legitimacy. Critical theory and feeling shows how the work of the early Frankfurt School offers a dynamic and necessary corrective to the excesses of formalized reason. Studying a range of themes – from melancholia, unhappiness, and hope, to mimesis, affect, and objects – this book provides a radical rethinking of critical theory for our times.Less
The book provides a new perspective on the early work of the Frankfurt School, by focusing on the vital role that affect and feeling play in the development of critical theory. Building on contemporary theories of affect, the author argues that any renewal of critical theory today must have an affective politics at its core. If one’s aim is to effectively theorize, criticize, and ultimately transform existing social relations, then a strictly rationalist model of political thought remains inadequate. In many respects, this flies in the face of predominant forms of political philosophy, which have long upheld reason and rationality as sole proprietors of political legitimacy. Critical theory and feeling shows how the work of the early Frankfurt School offers a dynamic and necessary corrective to the excesses of formalized reason. Studying a range of themes – from melancholia, unhappiness, and hope, to mimesis, affect, and objects – this book provides a radical rethinking of critical theory for our times.
Heather Murray Elkins and David Wood
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- March 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823227457
- eISBN:
- 9780823236626
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fso/9780823227457.003.0029
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology
This chapter presents the story about a community's ritual life as it relates to organic and architectural structures. This particular narrative of tree blessings begins ...
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This chapter presents the story about a community's ritual life as it relates to organic and architectural structures. This particular narrative of tree blessings begins the year before the Ground of Hope conference is held at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey.Less
This chapter presents the story about a community's ritual life as it relates to organic and architectural structures. This particular narrative of tree blessings begins the year before the Ground of Hope conference is held at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey.
Amy Levine
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780719090493
- eISBN:
- 9781526109613
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719090493.001.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
How does civil society come together and disperse inside a rapidly industrialised and democratised nation? South Korean civil movement organisations is an ethnographic study of the social movements ...
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How does civil society come together and disperse inside a rapidly industrialised and democratised nation? South Korean civil movement organisations is an ethnographic study of the social movements and advocacy organisations inside South Korea as well as practical methods in democratic transition more generally. The book is based on two years of fieldwork inside a handful of NGOs, NPOs, and think tanks in Seoul as the ‘386 generation’ came to lead during the Roh Moo Hyun presidency (2003-8). It is a rich exploration of the many crises, hopes, practical projects and pragmatic theories that animated South Korean activists, coordinators, lawyers, politicians, ‘social designers’ and academics of various stripes. From the Citizens’ Alliance for the 2000 General Elections (CAGE) to the 2002 World Cup co-hosted by Japan and South Korea, this book tells the stories of consequence to freshly render South Korean politics relevant to many Asian, European, Middle Eastern, and North as well as South American contexts. At the same time, it uniquely frames the theoretical and methodological moments for new ethnographies through the shared, yet disparate experiences of pragmatism, (social) design, and (democratic) transition.Less
How does civil society come together and disperse inside a rapidly industrialised and democratised nation? South Korean civil movement organisations is an ethnographic study of the social movements and advocacy organisations inside South Korea as well as practical methods in democratic transition more generally. The book is based on two years of fieldwork inside a handful of NGOs, NPOs, and think tanks in Seoul as the ‘386 generation’ came to lead during the Roh Moo Hyun presidency (2003-8). It is a rich exploration of the many crises, hopes, practical projects and pragmatic theories that animated South Korean activists, coordinators, lawyers, politicians, ‘social designers’ and academics of various stripes. From the Citizens’ Alliance for the 2000 General Elections (CAGE) to the 2002 World Cup co-hosted by Japan and South Korea, this book tells the stories of consequence to freshly render South Korean politics relevant to many Asian, European, Middle Eastern, and North as well as South American contexts. At the same time, it uniquely frames the theoretical and methodological moments for new ethnographies through the shared, yet disparate experiences of pragmatism, (social) design, and (democratic) transition.
Burnis R. Morris
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781496814074
- eISBN:
- 9781496814111
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496814074.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
Evidence of Carter G. Woodson’s influence is abundant. At the opening ceremony for the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., on September 24, 2016, Congressman ...
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Evidence of Carter G. Woodson’s influence is abundant. At the opening ceremony for the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., on September 24, 2016, Congressman John Lewis, the civil rights icon, recalled his study of Woodson’s work for inspiration as a young man. A New York Times article published in concert with the museum’s opening linked struggles for respect in black history to Woodson’s cause, as well as the contributions of George Washington Williams and John Hope Franklin. However, what little attention Woodson occasionally receives from the media today comes largely from black-oriented media. For instance, The Afro-American has been among the sponsors of the annual observance of Woodson’s birthday at Shiloh Baptist Church in Washington, and other black newspapers for a number of years following his death ran articles reciting Woodson’s work.Less
Evidence of Carter G. Woodson’s influence is abundant. At the opening ceremony for the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., on September 24, 2016, Congressman John Lewis, the civil rights icon, recalled his study of Woodson’s work for inspiration as a young man. A New York Times article published in concert with the museum’s opening linked struggles for respect in black history to Woodson’s cause, as well as the contributions of George Washington Williams and John Hope Franklin. However, what little attention Woodson occasionally receives from the media today comes largely from black-oriented media. For instance, The Afro-American has been among the sponsors of the annual observance of Woodson’s birthday at Shiloh Baptist Church in Washington, and other black newspapers for a number of years following his death ran articles reciting Woodson’s work.
Giorgio Agamben
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780262037594
- eISBN:
- 9780262345231
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262037594.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy
This book charts a journey that ranges from poems of chivalry to philosophy, from Yvain to Hegel, from Beatrice to Heidegger. An ancient legend identifies Demon, Chance, Love, and Necessity as the ...
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This book charts a journey that ranges from poems of chivalry to philosophy, from Yvain to Hegel, from Beatrice to Heidegger. An ancient legend identifies Demon, Chance, Love, and Necessity as the four gods who preside over the birth of every human being. We must all pay tribute to these deities and should not try to elude or dupe them. To accept them, the book suggests, is to live one's life as an adventure—not in the trivial sense of the term, with lightness and disenchantment, but with the understanding that adventure, as a specific way of being, is the most profound experience in our human existence. The four gods of legend are joined at the end by a goddess, the most elusive and mysterious of all: Elpis, Hope. In Greek mythology, Hope remains in Pandora's box, not because it postpones its fulfillment to an invisible beyond but because somehow it has always been already satisfied. Here, the book presents Hope as the ultimate gift of the human adventure on Earth.Less
This book charts a journey that ranges from poems of chivalry to philosophy, from Yvain to Hegel, from Beatrice to Heidegger. An ancient legend identifies Demon, Chance, Love, and Necessity as the four gods who preside over the birth of every human being. We must all pay tribute to these deities and should not try to elude or dupe them. To accept them, the book suggests, is to live one's life as an adventure—not in the trivial sense of the term, with lightness and disenchantment, but with the understanding that adventure, as a specific way of being, is the most profound experience in our human existence. The four gods of legend are joined at the end by a goddess, the most elusive and mysterious of all: Elpis, Hope. In Greek mythology, Hope remains in Pandora's box, not because it postpones its fulfillment to an invisible beyond but because somehow it has always been already satisfied. Here, the book presents Hope as the ultimate gift of the human adventure on Earth.
Steve Bruce
- Published in print:
- 1998
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198293927
- eISBN:
- 9780191685019
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198293927.003.0002
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics
This chapter explores the history of two primary cases of religio-ethnic Protestantism and the role that religion has played in those two settings. At first, it traces the historic struggle of ...
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This chapter explores the history of two primary cases of religio-ethnic Protestantism and the role that religion has played in those two settings. At first, it traces the historic struggle of Ireland between three religio-ethnic groups: the Catholic Gaelic-speaking Irish, the Anglo-Irish, and the Scots-Irish. Then, it examines the first Afrikaners and the conflict between the Boers and the British as the main power in the Cape of Good Hope. The chapter suggests that the key point for the later development of the Afrikaners is the 1948 election, where they were able to maintain and increase the domination of whites over blacks. The Irish case shows a similar increase in the power and influence of the heirs of the Scots settlers through a different set of changes. Lastly, this chapter concludes that the histories of Ireland and South Africa would have been very different had the Scotts and Dutch settlers not been Calvinist Presbyterians.Less
This chapter explores the history of two primary cases of religio-ethnic Protestantism and the role that religion has played in those two settings. At first, it traces the historic struggle of Ireland between three religio-ethnic groups: the Catholic Gaelic-speaking Irish, the Anglo-Irish, and the Scots-Irish. Then, it examines the first Afrikaners and the conflict between the Boers and the British as the main power in the Cape of Good Hope. The chapter suggests that the key point for the later development of the Afrikaners is the 1948 election, where they were able to maintain and increase the domination of whites over blacks. The Irish case shows a similar increase in the power and influence of the heirs of the Scots settlers through a different set of changes. Lastly, this chapter concludes that the histories of Ireland and South Africa would have been very different had the Scotts and Dutch settlers not been Calvinist Presbyterians.
I.S. Glass
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199668403
- eISBN:
- 9780191749315
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199668403.003.0001
- Subject:
- Physics, History of Physics
La Caille helped to spread Newton's gravitational theory in France. Improved instruments and observational techniques had shown the inadequacy of Kepler's laws in describing planetary orbits. La ...
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La Caille helped to spread Newton's gravitational theory in France. Improved instruments and observational techniques had shown the inadequacy of Kepler's laws in describing planetary orbits. La Caille was an indefatigable calculator of planetary tables (ephemerides) and a zealous observer of stellar and planetary positions. His trip to the Cape of Good Hope was of central importance to his life's work. There he made a sky survey and defined new constellations including Mons Mensa, named after Table Mountain. His success was partly due to his friendship with the Dutch governor and certain colonists. His expedition was extremely fruitful and enhanced his reputation. His incessant labour probably shortened his life.Less
La Caille helped to spread Newton's gravitational theory in France. Improved instruments and observational techniques had shown the inadequacy of Kepler's laws in describing planetary orbits. La Caille was an indefatigable calculator of planetary tables (ephemerides) and a zealous observer of stellar and planetary positions. His trip to the Cape of Good Hope was of central importance to his life's work. There he made a sky survey and defined new constellations including Mons Mensa, named after Table Mountain. His success was partly due to his friendship with the Dutch governor and certain colonists. His expedition was extremely fruitful and enhanced his reputation. His incessant labour probably shortened his life.
GILLIAN RUSSELL
- Published in print:
- 1995
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198122630
- eISBN:
- 9780191671500
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198122630.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, Drama
Although Tate Wilkinson was found to be one of the most respected and successful people in provincial theatre, his thoughts regarding the performance of The Fair Penitent demonstrate that he had to ...
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Although Tate Wilkinson was found to be one of the most respected and successful people in provincial theatre, his thoughts regarding the performance of The Fair Penitent demonstrate that he had to experience struggles so that his personal and professional respectability became recognized. The façade of the dominant theatrical culture in Britain, exhibited through the various patent houses in the provinces and in London, hides a different kind of rural theatre which involves staging performances in fairground booths, in barns, and in the open-air. In 1788, a change in the law classified all actors, regardless of their status, as craftsmen, yet acting was still associated with criminality and immorality. In this chapter, the author considers looking into the American War of Independence, the British administration of the Cape of Good Hope, and the War of 1812 to analyse the significance of amateur theatricals.Less
Although Tate Wilkinson was found to be one of the most respected and successful people in provincial theatre, his thoughts regarding the performance of The Fair Penitent demonstrate that he had to experience struggles so that his personal and professional respectability became recognized. The façade of the dominant theatrical culture in Britain, exhibited through the various patent houses in the provinces and in London, hides a different kind of rural theatre which involves staging performances in fairground booths, in barns, and in the open-air. In 1788, a change in the law classified all actors, regardless of their status, as craftsmen, yet acting was still associated with criminality and immorality. In this chapter, the author considers looking into the American War of Independence, the British administration of the Cape of Good Hope, and the War of 1812 to analyse the significance of amateur theatricals.
Mary Farrell Bednarowski
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195167962
- eISBN:
- 9780199850150
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195167962.003.0012
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
St. Joseph's Hope Community, an enterprise in Minneapolis, Minnesota that began as a homeless women's shelter, is a compelling example of some of the new forms that healing is taking in ...
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St. Joseph's Hope Community, an enterprise in Minneapolis, Minnesota that began as a homeless women's shelter, is a compelling example of some of the new forms that healing is taking in cities—healing, particularly, of neighborhoods whose earlier capacity to sustain a good, if not affluent, life for its residents has declined to a state that is not only lacking in basic necessities but dangerous. Overall, one of the main points of interest in the story of Hope as a generator of healing in the inner city is its constant attention to matters of self-understanding, public identity, and motivation. The community's essential strength is its capacity for candid self-critique that does not deteriorate into paralyzing self-denigration. Staff and neighbors alike are always willing to reassess and go in new directions. Hope wants to heal the traumas and divisions that cause so much suffering by offering hope in the urban core. Hope wants to do all these things for the sake of justice.Less
St. Joseph's Hope Community, an enterprise in Minneapolis, Minnesota that began as a homeless women's shelter, is a compelling example of some of the new forms that healing is taking in cities—healing, particularly, of neighborhoods whose earlier capacity to sustain a good, if not affluent, life for its residents has declined to a state that is not only lacking in basic necessities but dangerous. Overall, one of the main points of interest in the story of Hope as a generator of healing in the inner city is its constant attention to matters of self-understanding, public identity, and motivation. The community's essential strength is its capacity for candid self-critique that does not deteriorate into paralyzing self-denigration. Staff and neighbors alike are always willing to reassess and go in new directions. Hope wants to heal the traumas and divisions that cause so much suffering by offering hope in the urban core. Hope wants to do all these things for the sake of justice.
Morton D. Paley
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198186854
- eISBN:
- 9780191674570
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198186854.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century Literature and Romanticism
Representation of the self had always been important to Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The purpose of self-representation in the later poetry is dramatic rather than analytic. This persona is intimately ...
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Representation of the self had always been important to Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The purpose of self-representation in the later poetry is dramatic rather than analytic. This persona is intimately related to Coleridge's actual life situation, yet it is important to emphasise that it is a persona; certain aspects of his existence have been screened out and others emphasised in order to make the poetry possible. This can be seen in five poems of the 1820s: ‘Youth and Age’, ‘Work without Hope’, ‘Lines Suggested by the Last Words of Berengarius’, ‘The Improvisatore’, and ‘The Garden of Boccaccio’. All five involve the interplay of the past and the present and of Coleridge's own past and present as they would have been known to his readers through his poetry, as part of a process of self-definition.Less
Representation of the self had always been important to Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The purpose of self-representation in the later poetry is dramatic rather than analytic. This persona is intimately related to Coleridge's actual life situation, yet it is important to emphasise that it is a persona; certain aspects of his existence have been screened out and others emphasised in order to make the poetry possible. This can be seen in five poems of the 1820s: ‘Youth and Age’, ‘Work without Hope’, ‘Lines Suggested by the Last Words of Berengarius’, ‘The Improvisatore’, and ‘The Garden of Boccaccio’. All five involve the interplay of the past and the present and of Coleridge's own past and present as they would have been known to his readers through his poetry, as part of a process of self-definition.
Sharon Deykin Baris
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781496814531
- eISBN:
- 9781496814579
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496814531.003.0031
- Subject:
- Literature, American, 20th Century Literature
This essay leads today’s student to heed Welty’s response to financial and social crises in the mid-1930s. Two expressions, “Hope Chest” and “Fiji,” accompany our first view of Lily. A student now ...
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This essay leads today’s student to heed Welty’s response to financial and social crises in the mid-1930s. Two expressions, “Hope Chest” and “Fiji,” accompany our first view of Lily. A student now using Google and other research tools fathoms these terms’ valence in advertisements and essays in Time or National Geographic. Classroom discussion recognizes a tendency toward safekeeping or distant hopes in avoidance of trouble. When the Ladies pack off Lily toward a far asylum, but then decide to keep her home, students reconsider Lily’s nod upon return. They see it not only as acknowledgment of conformist presumptions, but awareness of other experiences which, like the hat in midair, have been shared at home. Anthropologists in the 1930s sought recognition of “relativity of cultures” as a benefit for our troubled world; students now hear Welty’s words as the expression of “hope not despair” in town.Less
This essay leads today’s student to heed Welty’s response to financial and social crises in the mid-1930s. Two expressions, “Hope Chest” and “Fiji,” accompany our first view of Lily. A student now using Google and other research tools fathoms these terms’ valence in advertisements and essays in Time or National Geographic. Classroom discussion recognizes a tendency toward safekeeping or distant hopes in avoidance of trouble. When the Ladies pack off Lily toward a far asylum, but then decide to keep her home, students reconsider Lily’s nod upon return. They see it not only as acknowledgment of conformist presumptions, but awareness of other experiences which, like the hat in midair, have been shared at home. Anthropologists in the 1930s sought recognition of “relativity of cultures” as a benefit for our troubled world; students now hear Welty’s words as the expression of “hope not despair” in town.
Michael Wright, David Clark, and Jennifer Hunt
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- November 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199206803
- eISBN:
- 9780191730474
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199206803.003.0017
- Subject:
- Palliative Care, Patient Care and End-of-Life Decision Making, Palliative Medicine Research
The Kingdom of Swaziland (population 1, 069, 000) is a small landlocked country in Southern Africa covering an area of 17, 364 km2 between South Africa and Mozambique. Four NGOs provide six ...
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The Kingdom of Swaziland (population 1, 069, 000) is a small landlocked country in Southern Africa covering an area of 17, 364 km2 between South Africa and Mozambique. Four NGOs provide six hospice-palliative care services in Swaziland: Hope House; Swaziland Hospice at Home; Parish Nursing; and the Salvation Army. In addition, several community-based church organizations provide supportive care to terminally ill patients. All the hospice services are charities and rely heavily on donations for their income. Yet, funds come from a variety of sources. At a meeting of palliative care providers held in June 2003, a commitment was made to form a national palliative care association. The palliative care coverage and the palliative care workforce capacity of these services are reviewed. The chapter then outlines the history and development of hospice-palliative care in Swaziland.Less
The Kingdom of Swaziland (population 1, 069, 000) is a small landlocked country in Southern Africa covering an area of 17, 364 km2 between South Africa and Mozambique. Four NGOs provide six hospice-palliative care services in Swaziland: Hope House; Swaziland Hospice at Home; Parish Nursing; and the Salvation Army. In addition, several community-based church organizations provide supportive care to terminally ill patients. All the hospice services are charities and rely heavily on donations for their income. Yet, funds come from a variety of sources. At a meeting of palliative care providers held in June 2003, a commitment was made to form a national palliative care association. The palliative care coverage and the palliative care workforce capacity of these services are reviewed. The chapter then outlines the history and development of hospice-palliative care in Swaziland.
