Lez Cooke
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780719086786
- eISBN:
- 9781781706329
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719086786.001.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Television
This pioneering study examines regional British television drama from its beginnings on the BBC and ITV in the 1950s to the arrival of Channel Four in 1982. It discusses the ways in which ...
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This pioneering study examines regional British television drama from its beginnings on the BBC and ITV in the 1950s to the arrival of Channel Four in 1982. It discusses the ways in which regionalism, regional culture and regional identity have been defined historically, outlines the history of regional broadcasting in the UK, and includes two detailed case studies – of Granada Television and BBC English Regions Drama – representing contrasting examples of regional television drama production during what is often described as the ‘golden age’ of British television. The conclusion brings the study up to date by discussing recent developments in regional drama production, and by considering future possibilities. A Sense of Place is based on original research and draws on interviews by the author with writers, producers, directors and executives including John Finch, Denis Forman, Alan Plater, David Rose, Philip Saville and Herbert Wise. It analyses a wide range of television plays, series and serials, including many previously given little attention such as The Younger Generation (1961), The Villains (1964-65), City ’68 (1967-68), Second City Firsts (1973-78), Trinity Tales (1975) and Empire Road (1978-79). Written in a scholarly but accessible style the book uncovers a forgotten history of British television drama that will be of interest to lecturers and students of television, media and cultural studies, as well as the general reader with an interest in the history of British television.Less
This pioneering study examines regional British television drama from its beginnings on the BBC and ITV in the 1950s to the arrival of Channel Four in 1982. It discusses the ways in which regionalism, regional culture and regional identity have been defined historically, outlines the history of regional broadcasting in the UK, and includes two detailed case studies – of Granada Television and BBC English Regions Drama – representing contrasting examples of regional television drama production during what is often described as the ‘golden age’ of British television. The conclusion brings the study up to date by discussing recent developments in regional drama production, and by considering future possibilities. A Sense of Place is based on original research and draws on interviews by the author with writers, producers, directors and executives including John Finch, Denis Forman, Alan Plater, David Rose, Philip Saville and Herbert Wise. It analyses a wide range of television plays, series and serials, including many previously given little attention such as The Younger Generation (1961), The Villains (1964-65), City ’68 (1967-68), Second City Firsts (1973-78), Trinity Tales (1975) and Empire Road (1978-79). Written in a scholarly but accessible style the book uncovers a forgotten history of British television drama that will be of interest to lecturers and students of television, media and cultural studies, as well as the general reader with an interest in the history of British television.
Ben Hillman and Gray Tuttle (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780231169981
- eISBN:
- 9780231540445
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231169981.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Asian Politics
Despite more than a decade of rapid economic development, rising living standards, and large-scale improvements in infrastructure and services, China’s western borderlands are awash in a wave of ...
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Despite more than a decade of rapid economic development, rising living standards, and large-scale improvements in infrastructure and services, China’s western borderlands are awash in a wave of ethnic unrest not seen since the 1950s. Through on-the-ground interviews and firsthand observations, the international experts in this volume create an invaluable record of the conflicts and protests as they have unfolded—the most extensive chronicle of events to date. The authors examine the factors driving the unrest in Tibet and Xinjiang and the political strategies used to suppress them. They also explain why certain areas have seen higher concentrations of ethnic-based violence than others. Essential reading for anyone struggling to understand the origins of unrest in contemporary Tibet and Xinjiang, this volume considers the role of propaganda and education as generators and sources of conflict. It links interethnic strife to economic growth and connects environmental degradation to increased instability. It captures the subtle difference between violence in urban Xinjiang and conflict in rural Tibet, with detailed portraits of everyday individuals caught among the pressures of politics, history, personal interest, and global movements with local resonance.Less
Despite more than a decade of rapid economic development, rising living standards, and large-scale improvements in infrastructure and services, China’s western borderlands are awash in a wave of ethnic unrest not seen since the 1950s. Through on-the-ground interviews and firsthand observations, the international experts in this volume create an invaluable record of the conflicts and protests as they have unfolded—the most extensive chronicle of events to date. The authors examine the factors driving the unrest in Tibet and Xinjiang and the political strategies used to suppress them. They also explain why certain areas have seen higher concentrations of ethnic-based violence than others. Essential reading for anyone struggling to understand the origins of unrest in contemporary Tibet and Xinjiang, this volume considers the role of propaganda and education as generators and sources of conflict. It links interethnic strife to economic growth and connects environmental degradation to increased instability. It captures the subtle difference between violence in urban Xinjiang and conflict in rural Tibet, with detailed portraits of everyday individuals caught among the pressures of politics, history, personal interest, and global movements with local resonance.
John Sturzaker and Alexander Nurse
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781447350774
- eISBN:
- 9781447350828
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447350774.003.0004
- Subject:
- Political Science, Public Policy
This chapter charts the demise of the regional agenda and the shift towards city-regional thinking which has underpinned much of the recent devolution agenda. Considering the similarities to the ...
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This chapter charts the demise of the regional agenda and the shift towards city-regional thinking which has underpinned much of the recent devolution agenda. Considering the similarities to the metropolitan architecture of the 70s and 80s, this discusses the emergence of Local Enterprise Partnerships through to Combined Authorities. This sets the scene for a broader discussion of the Devolution Deals being agreed at the city region level. In doing so, the chapter takes a broader look at how city regions function and, in particular, how districts can cooperate towards collective goals. This draws down recent examples from the emerging devolution deals, including how new metro-mayors are exercising their powers within their city regions, as well as lessons that can be learnt from the now nearly 20-year-old London Mayoral post.Less
This chapter charts the demise of the regional agenda and the shift towards city-regional thinking which has underpinned much of the recent devolution agenda. Considering the similarities to the metropolitan architecture of the 70s and 80s, this discusses the emergence of Local Enterprise Partnerships through to Combined Authorities. This sets the scene for a broader discussion of the Devolution Deals being agreed at the city region level. In doing so, the chapter takes a broader look at how city regions function and, in particular, how districts can cooperate towards collective goals. This draws down recent examples from the emerging devolution deals, including how new metro-mayors are exercising their powers within their city regions, as well as lessons that can be learnt from the now nearly 20-year-old London Mayoral post.
Christopher Dyer
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- January 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780197266724
- eISBN:
- 9780191916052
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197266724.003.0009
- Subject:
- Sociology, Migration Studies (including Refugee Studies)
This chapter surveys research on rural migration in medieval England and investigates the frequency of migration, length of journeys, mechanisms which enabled migration, migrants’ motives for ...
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This chapter surveys research on rural migration in medieval England and investigates the frequency of migration, length of journeys, mechanisms which enabled migration, migrants’ motives for movement, and their reception in their new places of settlement. Evidence comes from tax and manorial record from the West Midlands. Migration seems to have been normal and commonplace, and mostly within 10 miles (15 km), but with a significant range of longer movements. Different types of migrant appear to have had as a common characteristic an aspiration to betterment, and tended to confine journeys to the landscapes with which they were familiar. Movements had positive social results such as exposing villages to external influence. The precise geographical knowledge of people in medieval England probably extended c. 50 miles (80 km), but they did not lead such narrow and ignorant lives as is sometimes imagined.Less
This chapter surveys research on rural migration in medieval England and investigates the frequency of migration, length of journeys, mechanisms which enabled migration, migrants’ motives for movement, and their reception in their new places of settlement. Evidence comes from tax and manorial record from the West Midlands. Migration seems to have been normal and commonplace, and mostly within 10 miles (15 km), but with a significant range of longer movements. Different types of migrant appear to have had as a common characteristic an aspiration to betterment, and tended to confine journeys to the landscapes with which they were familiar. Movements had positive social results such as exposing villages to external influence. The precise geographical knowledge of people in medieval England probably extended c. 50 miles (80 km), but they did not lead such narrow and ignorant lives as is sometimes imagined.
Michaël Tatham
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780198758624
- eISBN:
- 9780191818547
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198758624.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, European Union
Much research has highlighted that sub-state entities (SSEs)—such as the German Länder, the Spanish autonomous communities, or the French regions—mobilize at the European level. This literature, ...
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Much research has highlighted that sub-state entities (SSEs)—such as the German Länder, the Spanish autonomous communities, or the French regions—mobilize at the European level. This literature, however, is silent on how this sub-state activity interacts with that of its own member state. Do SSEs lobby in Brussels with their member state (cooperation), without their member state (non-interaction), or against their member state (conflict)? This book fills this research gap by 1) identifying what the pattern of interaction between state and sub-state EU interest representation corresponds to and by 2) identifying what the determinants of such a pattern are. To achieve this double task, quantitative and qualitative methods are employed. The quantitative section consists of regression analysis on data collected through a survey addressed to heads of regional offices in Brussels (n=104). It highlights that cooperation is the most frequent outcome, followed by non-interaction. Conflicting interest representation is the least frequent outcome. Further analysis reveals that devolution levels do not affect conflict but increase the frequency of cooperation and decrease that of non-interaction. Meanwhile, party political incongruence fails to affect conflict, decreases cooperation, and increases non-interaction. This quantitative work is complemented by a series of in-depth case study analyses of Scotland (UK), Salzburg (Austria), Rhône-Alpes, and Alsace (both France). Based on more than one hundred semi-structured interviews, the case studies confirm the overall findings reached through quantitative means and further suggest that the effect of devolution overrides that of party political incongruence. Additional statistical testing confirms this inductive finding.Less
Much research has highlighted that sub-state entities (SSEs)—such as the German Länder, the Spanish autonomous communities, or the French regions—mobilize at the European level. This literature, however, is silent on how this sub-state activity interacts with that of its own member state. Do SSEs lobby in Brussels with their member state (cooperation), without their member state (non-interaction), or against their member state (conflict)? This book fills this research gap by 1) identifying what the pattern of interaction between state and sub-state EU interest representation corresponds to and by 2) identifying what the determinants of such a pattern are. To achieve this double task, quantitative and qualitative methods are employed. The quantitative section consists of regression analysis on data collected through a survey addressed to heads of regional offices in Brussels (n=104). It highlights that cooperation is the most frequent outcome, followed by non-interaction. Conflicting interest representation is the least frequent outcome. Further analysis reveals that devolution levels do not affect conflict but increase the frequency of cooperation and decrease that of non-interaction. Meanwhile, party political incongruence fails to affect conflict, decreases cooperation, and increases non-interaction. This quantitative work is complemented by a series of in-depth case study analyses of Scotland (UK), Salzburg (Austria), Rhône-Alpes, and Alsace (both France). Based on more than one hundred semi-structured interviews, the case studies confirm the overall findings reached through quantitative means and further suggest that the effect of devolution overrides that of party political incongruence. Additional statistical testing confirms this inductive finding.
Angela K. Bourne
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719067501
- eISBN:
- 9781781701348
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719067501.003.0004
- Subject:
- Political Science, European Union
This chapter takes a look at Basque participation in EU decision bodies, including the European Commission advisory committees and the Committee of the Regions (CoR). It studies the responses of the ...
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This chapter takes a look at Basque participation in EU decision bodies, including the European Commission advisory committees and the Committee of the Regions (CoR). It studies the responses of the EU and the state to the demands in EU decisionmaking and analyses the domestic debates and arrangements that allow Basque and other autonomous communities' involvement in EU bodies.Less
This chapter takes a look at Basque participation in EU decision bodies, including the European Commission advisory committees and the Committee of the Regions (CoR). It studies the responses of the EU and the state to the demands in EU decisionmaking and analyses the domestic debates and arrangements that allow Basque and other autonomous communities' involvement in EU bodies.
Lez Cooke
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780719086786
- eISBN:
- 9781781706329
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719086786.003.0005
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Television
Chapter 4 provides an extensive case study of BBC English Regions Drama, based at BBC Pebble Mill in Birmingham, from its foundation in 1971 to the early 1980s. This chapter explores the model of ...
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Chapter 4 provides an extensive case study of BBC English Regions Drama, based at BBC Pebble Mill in Birmingham, from its foundation in 1971 to the early 1980s. This chapter explores the model of regional drama production offered by this regional BBC department, under the influential leadership of David Rose, and the extent of its achievement, examining in detail the plays, series and serials produced over a ten year period, including the Second City Firsts series of half-hour dramas, plays by regional writers such as Peter Terson, Alan Plater, David Rudkin and Willy Russell, and series such as Philip Martin’s Gangsters, Michael Abbensetts’ Empire Road, and Alan Bleasdale’s Boys from the Blackstuff.Less
Chapter 4 provides an extensive case study of BBC English Regions Drama, based at BBC Pebble Mill in Birmingham, from its foundation in 1971 to the early 1980s. This chapter explores the model of regional drama production offered by this regional BBC department, under the influential leadership of David Rose, and the extent of its achievement, examining in detail the plays, series and serials produced over a ten year period, including the Second City Firsts series of half-hour dramas, plays by regional writers such as Peter Terson, Alan Plater, David Rudkin and Willy Russell, and series such as Philip Martin’s Gangsters, Michael Abbensetts’ Empire Road, and Alan Bleasdale’s Boys from the Blackstuff.
Catherine Tatiana Dunlop
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780226173023
- eISBN:
- 9780226173160
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226173160.003.0007
- Subject:
- Earth Sciences and Geography, Cultural and Historical Geography
This chapter concludes the book with a reflection on the state of map making and map reading in Europe today. It analyses a recent exhibition at the Grand Palais in Paris which presented historical ...
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This chapter concludes the book with a reflection on the state of map making and map reading in Europe today. It analyses a recent exhibition at the Grand Palais in Paris which presented historical relief maps of French border cities from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. The exhibition’s purpose was to serve as a window into the territorial mindset of another time, when Europeans were intent on using maps to visualize and enforce the boundaries that separated them. In contrast, the goal of most new map production in Europe today is to make national borders between countries appear less visible. The chapter reflects on efforts to transform European mentalities toward longstanding national boundaries through maps of Euro-regions and cross-border biking trails.Less
This chapter concludes the book with a reflection on the state of map making and map reading in Europe today. It analyses a recent exhibition at the Grand Palais in Paris which presented historical relief maps of French border cities from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. The exhibition’s purpose was to serve as a window into the territorial mindset of another time, when Europeans were intent on using maps to visualize and enforce the boundaries that separated them. In contrast, the goal of most new map production in Europe today is to make national borders between countries appear less visible. The chapter reflects on efforts to transform European mentalities toward longstanding national boundaries through maps of Euro-regions and cross-border biking trails.
Zhenping Wang
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824836443
- eISBN:
- 9780824870904
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824836443.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
This chapter illustrates that from the very beginning of its relations with China, Tibet positioned itself as a peer state of the Tang, not as a submissive vassal to its Chinese overlord. Fostering ...
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This chapter illustrates that from the very beginning of its relations with China, Tibet positioned itself as a peer state of the Tang, not as a submissive vassal to its Chinese overlord. Fostering territorial ambition beyond their homeland, Tibetan rulers extended their influence over the Kunlun Mountain range. They established power bases in the Qinghai Plateau, threatened and defeated the oasis states in Eastern Turkistan, and challenged Tang presence in the Western Regions. The multi-polar nature of Eastern Turkistan and the Western Regions enabled Tibet to carry out its expansionist activities into this vast area. Amid fierce power struggles, Tibet replaced Tang China as the most formidable force and subjected the Middle Kingdom to military pressures in three directions—the west, the northwest, and the southwest.Less
This chapter illustrates that from the very beginning of its relations with China, Tibet positioned itself as a peer state of the Tang, not as a submissive vassal to its Chinese overlord. Fostering territorial ambition beyond their homeland, Tibetan rulers extended their influence over the Kunlun Mountain range. They established power bases in the Qinghai Plateau, threatened and defeated the oasis states in Eastern Turkistan, and challenged Tang presence in the Western Regions. The multi-polar nature of Eastern Turkistan and the Western Regions enabled Tibet to carry out its expansionist activities into this vast area. Amid fierce power struggles, Tibet replaced Tang China as the most formidable force and subjected the Middle Kingdom to military pressures in three directions—the west, the northwest, and the southwest.
Jenny Ozga and Farah Dubois-Shaik
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780719091858
- eISBN:
- 9781781708415
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719091858.003.0004
- Subject:
- Political Science, European Union
This chapter works with the idea of conceptualising Europe organically and as coming into being through the actions of groups of actors whose interests are socially constructed. The actors in ...
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This chapter works with the idea of conceptualising Europe organically and as coming into being through the actions of groups of actors whose interests are socially constructed. The actors in question are pursuing regional interests, and the work they do in referencing Europe promotes agendas in their ‘home’ contexts of Scotland and canton Zurich. Jenny Ozga and Farah Shaik argue that this potential of Europe is often invisible or overlooked in conventional, hierarchical conceptualisations of territorial relationships. The empirical material presented reveals a complex mix of inward and outward referencing by actors who simultaneously reconcile the ‘re-making’ of the region with the ‘making’ of Europe. In Scotland, actors play both to the exigencies of the global knowledge economy and to local civic tradition in their concern to make education policy both more ‘Scottish’ and more ‘European’; Zurich’s cantonal administration in turn uses references to European-wide indicators to bring about changes in social integration practices in schools. The chapter therefore offers a flexible view of the potential of Europe as an imaginary for categories of political organisation.Less
This chapter works with the idea of conceptualising Europe organically and as coming into being through the actions of groups of actors whose interests are socially constructed. The actors in question are pursuing regional interests, and the work they do in referencing Europe promotes agendas in their ‘home’ contexts of Scotland and canton Zurich. Jenny Ozga and Farah Shaik argue that this potential of Europe is often invisible or overlooked in conventional, hierarchical conceptualisations of territorial relationships. The empirical material presented reveals a complex mix of inward and outward referencing by actors who simultaneously reconcile the ‘re-making’ of the region with the ‘making’ of Europe. In Scotland, actors play both to the exigencies of the global knowledge economy and to local civic tradition in their concern to make education policy both more ‘Scottish’ and more ‘European’; Zurich’s cantonal administration in turn uses references to European-wide indicators to bring about changes in social integration practices in schools. The chapter therefore offers a flexible view of the potential of Europe as an imaginary for categories of political organisation.
Judy Willcocks
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781447330288
- eISBN:
- 9781447330332
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447330288.003.0004
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Theory
This chapter examines the relationship between universities and museums in the UK. By focusing on two case studies, namely, Peckham Cultural Institute and the ‘Local roots/global routes: the legacies ...
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This chapter examines the relationship between universities and museums in the UK. By focusing on two case studies, namely, Peckham Cultural Institute and the ‘Local roots/global routes: the legacies of British slave-ownership’ project, it illustrates some of the challenges and opportunities Share Academy has experienced. The early 21st century brought considerable changes to the way museums and universities were constituted and understood. Initiatives like the UK government-funded Renaissance in the Regions programme encouraged museums to broaden their audiences and think of themselves as lifelong educators, situating learning at the centre of museum practice. However, the chapter shows ongoing funding problems within the museum sector continued to contribute to an erosion of curatorial skills as specialist roles were replaced with more general posts.Less
This chapter examines the relationship between universities and museums in the UK. By focusing on two case studies, namely, Peckham Cultural Institute and the ‘Local roots/global routes: the legacies of British slave-ownership’ project, it illustrates some of the challenges and opportunities Share Academy has experienced. The early 21st century brought considerable changes to the way museums and universities were constituted and understood. Initiatives like the UK government-funded Renaissance in the Regions programme encouraged museums to broaden their audiences and think of themselves as lifelong educators, situating learning at the centre of museum practice. However, the chapter shows ongoing funding problems within the museum sector continued to contribute to an erosion of curatorial skills as specialist roles were replaced with more general posts.
Robert W. Lewis
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781526106247
- eISBN:
- 9781526120816
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9781526106247.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This chapter turns to the ways in which stadia, sport and spectators both in France and elsewhere around the globe helped generate changing place-based communities and identities. French stadia ...
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This chapter turns to the ways in which stadia, sport and spectators both in France and elsewhere around the globe helped generate changing place-based communities and identities. French stadia created discourses about local places through the depiction of spectators within their confines. But stadium spectatorship also helped define the national collective, through literal and imaginary voyages within France and abroad to other stadia around the world. These latter voyages generated a series of comparisons that provided French men and women with convenient benchmarks for monitoring the perceived vitality and social cohesion of France in relation to its rivals on the world stage. These comparisons predominantly reinforced a sense of French inadequacy and decline throughout the interwar period, if not necessarily after the Second World War. At the same time, however, the comparisons with the wider world testified to the global character of sport itself in the first half of the twentieth century, as a mass media complex in Western Europe and North America publicised and promoted sporting competitions that helped create transnational communities of spectators invested in the same sporting events.Less
This chapter turns to the ways in which stadia, sport and spectators both in France and elsewhere around the globe helped generate changing place-based communities and identities. French stadia created discourses about local places through the depiction of spectators within their confines. But stadium spectatorship also helped define the national collective, through literal and imaginary voyages within France and abroad to other stadia around the world. These latter voyages generated a series of comparisons that provided French men and women with convenient benchmarks for monitoring the perceived vitality and social cohesion of France in relation to its rivals on the world stage. These comparisons predominantly reinforced a sense of French inadequacy and decline throughout the interwar period, if not necessarily after the Second World War. At the same time, however, the comparisons with the wider world testified to the global character of sport itself in the first half of the twentieth century, as a mass media complex in Western Europe and North America publicised and promoted sporting competitions that helped create transnational communities of spectators invested in the same sporting events.
Stuart H. Young
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824841201
- eISBN:
- 9780824868598
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824841201.003.0003
- Subject:
- Religion, Buddhism
Chapter 3 discusses how Sui-Tang Buddhist exegetes integrated Aśvaghoṣa, Nāgārjuna, and Āryadeva into broader efforts to redefine China as the epicenter of Buddhist enlightenment. This chapter ...
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Chapter 3 discusses how Sui-Tang Buddhist exegetes integrated Aśvaghoṣa, Nāgārjuna, and Āryadeva into broader efforts to redefine China as the epicenter of Buddhist enlightenment. This chapter illustrates how the paradigms of Buddhist sainthood advanced by Kumārajīva’s associates and in earlier lineage histories were amalgamated in a new idiom that focused especially on the importance of authoring doctrinal treatises. Here scriptural exegesis became the central defining function of the Indian patriarchs in China, particularly as juxtaposed with other means of conveying the Dharma across the Sino-Indian divide. In this way Chinese exegetes advanced a model of Buddhist sainthood through scholarship, but no longer in a benighted China marked by perpetually declining Dharma, which paled in comparison to the brilliance of ancient India. Rather, this model was promoted as part of the broader process of re-locating the means and media of Indian enlightenment within the new Buddhist heartland of latter-day China.Less
Chapter 3 discusses how Sui-Tang Buddhist exegetes integrated Aśvaghoṣa, Nāgārjuna, and Āryadeva into broader efforts to redefine China as the epicenter of Buddhist enlightenment. This chapter illustrates how the paradigms of Buddhist sainthood advanced by Kumārajīva’s associates and in earlier lineage histories were amalgamated in a new idiom that focused especially on the importance of authoring doctrinal treatises. Here scriptural exegesis became the central defining function of the Indian patriarchs in China, particularly as juxtaposed with other means of conveying the Dharma across the Sino-Indian divide. In this way Chinese exegetes advanced a model of Buddhist sainthood through scholarship, but no longer in a benighted China marked by perpetually declining Dharma, which paled in comparison to the brilliance of ancient India. Rather, this model was promoted as part of the broader process of re-locating the means and media of Indian enlightenment within the new Buddhist heartland of latter-day China.
Nancy P. Appelbaum
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781469627441
- eISBN:
- 9781469627465
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469627441.003.0010
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
The conclusion briefly places Colombia in a broader framework, comparing it to other Latin American cases. The conclusion also traces the commission’s problematic long-term legacies for Colombia ...
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The conclusion briefly places Colombia in a broader framework, comparing it to other Latin American cases. The conclusion also traces the commission’s problematic long-term legacies for Colombia itself. The Chorographic Commission’s cartography formed the basis of most maps of Colombia until the early twentieth century. Its descriptions and regional typologies, moreover, were echoed in the works of Colombian and foreign writers and geographers, such as José María Samper, Élisée Reclus, and especialy Francisco Javier Vergara y Velasco, who elaborated a theory of “natural regions.” The commission thus contributed to constructing the nation as a “country of regions.” Rather than unify the nation, the commission portrayed it as fragmented into different and often opposing spaces, inhabited by racially and culturally distinct “types,” some better than others. This geographic hierarchy has persisted. A century and a half after the death of Agustín Codazzi, Colombians still ponder the question of what takes precedence: region or nation. Inhabitants of the highland Andean core, moreover, tend to define themselves as the Colombian norm, implicitly or explicitly white or mestizo. They tend to envision the peoples and landscapes of the rest of the country as violent, inferior, and Other, though also, at times, alluring.Less
The conclusion briefly places Colombia in a broader framework, comparing it to other Latin American cases. The conclusion also traces the commission’s problematic long-term legacies for Colombia itself. The Chorographic Commission’s cartography formed the basis of most maps of Colombia until the early twentieth century. Its descriptions and regional typologies, moreover, were echoed in the works of Colombian and foreign writers and geographers, such as José María Samper, Élisée Reclus, and especialy Francisco Javier Vergara y Velasco, who elaborated a theory of “natural regions.” The commission thus contributed to constructing the nation as a “country of regions.” Rather than unify the nation, the commission portrayed it as fragmented into different and often opposing spaces, inhabited by racially and culturally distinct “types,” some better than others. This geographic hierarchy has persisted. A century and a half after the death of Agustín Codazzi, Colombians still ponder the question of what takes precedence: region or nation. Inhabitants of the highland Andean core, moreover, tend to define themselves as the Colombian norm, implicitly or explicitly white or mestizo. They tend to envision the peoples and landscapes of the rest of the country as violent, inferior, and Other, though also, at times, alluring.
Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- October 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780198766971
- eISBN:
- 9780191821189
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198766971.003.0008
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Economy
This chapter makes five claims about the past and future of regional governance. Each is a building bloc in a postfunctionalist theory of governance: (1) regional governance has undergone a quiet ...
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This chapter makes five claims about the past and future of regional governance. Each is a building bloc in a postfunctionalist theory of governance: (1) regional governance has undergone a quiet revolution; (2) regional governance has become differentiated; (3) regional governance grows with affluence; (4) regional governance is social; and (5) regional governance is democratic.Less
This chapter makes five claims about the past and future of regional governance. Each is a building bloc in a postfunctionalist theory of governance: (1) regional governance has undergone a quiet revolution; (2) regional governance has become differentiated; (3) regional governance grows with affluence; (4) regional governance is social; and (5) regional governance is democratic.
Michèle Finck
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- November 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780198810896
- eISBN:
- 9780191848025
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198810896.003.0002
- Subject:
- Law, EU Law
The present chapter introduces the book’s subject of analysis: subnational authorities (SNAs). It will illustrate the highly variegated nature of local and regional authorities in the various Member ...
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The present chapter introduces the book’s subject of analysis: subnational authorities (SNAs). It will illustrate the highly variegated nature of local and regional authorities in the various Member States, the status and competences of which vary significantly depending on the context at stake. Notwithstanding this diversity, virtually all SNAs share one characteristic: their jurisgenerative capacity. SNAs produce norms that coexist with norms at other levels, including EU law. The chapter subsequently investigates various modes of interaction between SNAs and the European Union, such as SNAs’ participation in the Committee of the Regions. A key mechanism allowing SNAs to exert influence in international relations is their participation in transnational networks.Less
The present chapter introduces the book’s subject of analysis: subnational authorities (SNAs). It will illustrate the highly variegated nature of local and regional authorities in the various Member States, the status and competences of which vary significantly depending on the context at stake. Notwithstanding this diversity, virtually all SNAs share one characteristic: their jurisgenerative capacity. SNAs produce norms that coexist with norms at other levels, including EU law. The chapter subsequently investigates various modes of interaction between SNAs and the European Union, such as SNAs’ participation in the Committee of the Regions. A key mechanism allowing SNAs to exert influence in international relations is their participation in transnational networks.
Klaus Stolz
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- January 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781526145086
- eISBN:
- 9781526155559
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7765/9781526145093.00012
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
This chapter delineates major historical changes in the role that Europe has played in domestic discourse on the territorial order of the United Kingdom. It is argued that Europe has a uniform effect ...
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This chapter delineates major historical changes in the role that Europe has played in domestic discourse on the territorial order of the United Kingdom. It is argued that Europe has a uniform effect neither on this discourse nor on the territorial order itself. Instead, the impact of references to Europe is contingent upon both the state of the European project and the historical domestic context at a particular time. The EU and the European integration project have opened windows of opportunity for political actors in Britain to introduce and advocate particular constitutional notions and models. The Brexit process, as the most recent such window, may very well provide an unmissable opportunity for those who want to break up an already highly fragile United Kingdom.Less
This chapter delineates major historical changes in the role that Europe has played in domestic discourse on the territorial order of the United Kingdom. It is argued that Europe has a uniform effect neither on this discourse nor on the territorial order itself. Instead, the impact of references to Europe is contingent upon both the state of the European project and the historical domestic context at a particular time. The EU and the European integration project have opened windows of opportunity for political actors in Britain to introduce and advocate particular constitutional notions and models. The Brexit process, as the most recent such window, may very well provide an unmissable opportunity for those who want to break up an already highly fragile United Kingdom.
Marcus Klamert
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- March 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780198794561
- eISBN:
- 9780191927874
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198759393.003.454
- Subject:
- Law, EU Law
Article 264 EC The Committee of the Regions shall elect its chairman and officers from among its members for a term of two and a half years.
Article 264 EC The Committee of the Regions shall elect its chairman and officers from among its members for a term of two and a half years.
Marcus Klamert
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- March 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780198794561
- eISBN:
- 9780191927874
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198759393.003.455
- Subject:
- Law, EU Law
Article 265 EC The Committee of the Regions shall be consulted by the European Parliament, by the Council or by the Commission where the Treaties so provide and in all other cases, in particular ...
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Article 265 EC The Committee of the Regions shall be consulted by the European Parliament, by the Council or by the Commission where the Treaties so provide and in all other cases, in particular those which concern cross-border cooperation, in which one of these institutions considers it appropriate.
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Article 265 EC The Committee of the Regions shall be consulted by the European Parliament, by the Council or by the Commission where the Treaties so provide and in all other cases, in particular those which concern cross-border cooperation, in which one of these institutions considers it appropriate.