golden dollar, pound, euro, and yen. It’s that idolatrous cow that is capital and material gain that trumps all. Merkel: I see things from the position of democratic government. Governments are, so to say, elected to fulfill their promised programs and
The Making of a Capital
Jerusalem on Israeli Banknotes
Na'ama Sheffi and Anat First
decision was made without lengthy discussion. We wish to emphasize that the broad agreement on the role of Jerusalem as the Israeli capital—divided or unified—eased the reception of consensual decisions. Therefore, some of our interpretations are based on
Asma Abbas
that we, who have always known how to grieve better and more consistently than our murderers, take a chance on each other and decolonize our complaints while we do so. Why not seize the moment and call the bloody bluff of capital and colony in crisis
Social Capital and Health
Research Findings and Questions on a Modern Public Health Perspective
Ota de Leonardis
This article aims at contributing to the discussion on the features of public health systems consistent with the broader definition of health – broader than the strictly bio-medical one – which is currently accepted in the related literature. The questions it raises are on how social capital influences well-being, and on whether and how it can be recognized and cultivated as a basic resource for health, and integrated into the health systems. In the first part, research literature on the ways health conditions are correlated with both poverty and social capital is briefly discussed. In the second part, several cases on health prevention and rehabilitation programs are analysed in some detail, as they appear to improve the health conditions of a community by investing in its 'social capital'. The main insights are on how to combine social protection with individual agency.
In European Journal of Social Quality
- Published (Print):
- 01 Nov 2006
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 19–51
Icelandic Resource Landscapes and the State
Experiments in Energy, Capital, and Aluminium
James Maguire
early 2000s as vast capital flows enter the country. Making Liveability: Thermal Heat The view from the sixth floor of Reykjavík Energy's geologically inspired head office 8 is impressive as snow stretches towards the horizon, stencilling out
In Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 20–41
Temperature and Capital
Measuring the Future with Quantified Heat
Scott W. Schwartz
My iPhone tells me the temperature this Saturday will be 99°F. Is this appliance of mine making a benign assertion about sensible heat, or reifying the hypothetical future of capital by suppressing uncertainty? Both, perhaps, but the latter is far
Clarifying Liquidity
Keynes and Marx, Merchants, and Poets
Rolf Hugoson
. Second, maintaining an interest in capital, we move over to the conceptual history of financial liquidity, including, third, giving a short overview of how money came to flow, and fourth, taking the economist John Maynard Keynes's more theoretical
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2019
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 46–66
John Drakakis
commodity ‘has a two-fold aspect – use-value and exchange-value ’. 1 Aristotle, who was concerned with the political organization of the Republic also made this distinction, although his concern was not primarily with what we might term the ‘capital’ to
Constructing a Public Sphere
Materiality and Ideology
Judith Kapferer
The changing cultural and social significance of central city space generates and structures the social formations of capital today. Buildings and landmarks within the city of London are examined here as crucibles for the expression, symbolization, formation, and re-formation of the social orders of the city and the state. Here, the cultural power of state apparatuses to control and order the image and substance of capital and state is challenged by the arts of architecture and cityscape. The relation between public space and private practice is interrogated in locations such as the Square Mile, Trafalgar Square, and Hyde Park, which symbolize and concretize the social relations of the marketplace, the state, and the people. The experience of these places is iconic of the social formations of contemporary society.
Worst Conceivable Form
Race, Global Capital, and The Making of the English Working Class
Zach Sell
W. E. B. Du Bois noted that the nineteenth-century US slave plantation corresponded with the factory in its worst conceivable form. This article expands upon Du Bois's insight to consider the emergence of the English working class in correspondence with American settler slavery and colonial projects within the British Empire. From above, elites theorized about the exploitation of labor as a world historical project to compare the enslaved, the colonized, and the English worker against one another. From below, proletarian intellectuals imagined the freedom of English laborers through the condition of the enslaved in the American South and Jamaica and the colonized in South Asia. By placing these histories from above and below together, this article argues that it is impossible to conceive of the English working class making itself and being made at remove from the enslaving and colonizing projects of global capital.
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2015
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 54–69