transformation of the urban landscape links up with the general shift in productive and economic activity that Peru is experiencing, informed by a national narrative that defines progress in a narrow idiom, emphasizing economic growth through extraction of
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Infrastructures of progress and dispossession
Collective responses to shrinking water access among farmers in Arequipa, Peru
Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen
Progress
Nigel Rapport
On 20 June 2006, Andrew Irving and I took a class of students to the Montreal Holocaust Museum. The students were attending Irving’s course, “Deathly Encounters: The Anthropology of Death, Consciousness, and the Body,” at Concordia University. He had arranged for a guided tour of the museum exhibit and for the class to hear the testimony of one of Montreal’s large number of Holocaust survivors.
Progress But Still No Présidente
Women and the 2012 French Presidential Elections
Rainbow Murray
Several women vied to be elected France's new president in 2012. These included Ségolène Royal, former Socialist presidential candidate in 2007, and Martine Aubry, Socialist party leader. Both these women were defeated by Fran?ois Hollande in the Socialist primary. In the main election, Marine le Pen garnered many headlines as the new leader of the controversial far-right party, the Front national. This article considers the campaigns and the media coverage of these women, as well as highlights the impact for women of the scandal surrounding disgraced politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn. The policy proposals of the different candidates are evaluated, before concluding with a discussion of the future prospects for women. There is some evidence of progress for women since the previous election, but women are still far from achieving full political equality in France.
In French Politics, Culture & Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2012
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 45–60 (16 total)
The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum and “The Romance of Technological Progress”
Michael J. Neufeld
In April 1981, the most widely read English language journal in the history of technology, Technology and Culture , published Michal McMahon's “The Romance of Technological Progress: A Critical Review of the National Air and Space Museum.” In his
In Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
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- 01 Mar 2022
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 76–97 (22 total)
Economic Performance, Social Progress and Social Quality
Peter Herrmann
This article concerns challenges arising from the development of economic globalization as the so-called “creator of a new world order“ and its tendency to deteriorate the foundation of a global order in terms of social justice, solidarity, and human dignity. As main point of referral functions, the report of the "Commission Stiglitz, Sen and Fitoussi" on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress that refers to the European Commission's strategy of development, acknowledges the need for these values. On behalf of this reflection, this article is based on the recent outcomes of the exploration of these social quality issues in a recent published book by the Foundation on Social Quality. The article argues that indicators are needed in order to understand the effects of societal changes in response to the current economic globalization, which increases inequality and the fragmentation of the labor market.
In The International Journal of Social Quality
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2012
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 41–55 (15 total)
The Ethos of Progress in a Village in Iran
Reinhold Loeffler
The case of a remote tribal village in southwest Iran demonstrates the circumstances conducive to positive rural development. My research suggests that since the founding of this village around 1880, its people - led by a progressive, literate young chief - successfully defended their realm against incorporation into the neighbouring chiefs' reigns of lawlessness and warfare; introduced and modernised irrigation agriculture and fruit cultivation then unique in the whole region; and embraced formal education. Discussing such adaptive strategies, I argue that a strong ethos of progress and achievement, including civic awareness, motivated local people from the beginning to pursue new ways to improve their livelihood.
In Anthropology of the Middle East
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2011
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- Research Article
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- 1–13 (13 total)
Precarious Provisioning: Three Explorations of Food after Progress
Patrick McEvoy
). Tsing also frames the strivings of matsutake pickers in terms of economic and environmental difficulty and the end of progress. For Tsing they are courageous, embracing the precarity of livelihood in the capitalist ruins of the Anthropocene. But just
Ready for Progress?
Opinion Surveys on Women's Roles and Opportunities in Belle Epoque France
Lenard R. Berlanstein
This essay uses readers' opinion surveys in Femina, a unique, high-circulation fashion magazine that championed women's rights, to study the reception of feminist ideas. The readers were fashion-conscious and well-off provincial bourgeoises, a group that might have had conservative attitudes on gender roles. Yet, the many thousands of responses reveal a profound desire to expand women's identities beyond domesticity. About a third of the readers were even indignant that women lacked the freedoms of men. Most others looked forward to a future when society would offer women more opportunities to utilize their talents while reaffirming the satisfactions of familial roles. The surveys show that Frenchwomen were redefining femininity in a more individualistic direction though national emergencies as 1914 approached would make them hesitant about pressing their cause.
In French Politics, Culture & Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2009
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 1–22 (22 total)
The Second Darwinian Revolution: Steps Toward a New Evolutionary Environmental Sociology
Paul Mclaughlin
Three decades after Catton and Dunlap's (1978, 1980) pioneering work, the promise and potential of environmental sociology remain unrealized. Despite the proliferation of theoretical frameworks and empirical foci, a "new ecological paradigm" capable of theorizing the interactions between social structures, human agency, and biophysical environments has yet to emerge. I explore this impasse by tracing the parallels between the Darwinian revolution and recent shifts in metatheoretical assumptions within environmental and mainstream sociology and related disciplines. These parallels suggest that the social sciences are in the midst of a second Darwinian revolution. A fuller appreciation of this intellectual convergence can provide the first steps toward a new evolutionary environmental sociology.
In Nature and Culture
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2012
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 231–258 (28 total)
Beyond Blank Spaces
Five Tracks to Late Nineteenth-Century Beltana
Samia Khatun
From the 1860s, the colonial settlement of Beltana in the northern deserts of South Australia emerged as a transportation hub atop an existing, cosmopolitan center of Aboriginal trade. Viewing a colonial settlement on Kuyani land through a mobilities paradigm, this article examines intersecting settler and Aboriginal trajectories of movement through Beltana, illuminating their complex entanglements. Challenging the imperial myth of emptiness that shaped how Europeans saw the lands they invaded, this article renders visible the multiple imaginative geographies that existed at every colonial settlement. Examining mobility along Kuyani and Wangkangurru tracks alongside British mobilities, this article makes a methodological argument for writing multiaxial histories of settler colonialism.