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.
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The Ethos of Progress in a Village in Iran
Reinhold Loeffler
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)
Too much time
Changing conceptions of boredom, progress, and the future among young men in urban Ethiopia, 2003–2015
Daniel Mains
contrasted with the Amharic term lout. Lout generally refers to change, but there are many different types of change. Young men often used lout to imply qualitative improvement over time in a way that is best captured by the concept of progress. “Living
Progress and the Practico-Inert; Tom Flynn on Sartre’s “dialectical nominalism” and the “mediating third”; Two Core Concepts of Sartre’s Later Philosophy: Responses to Gyllenhammer and Baugh
Paul Gyllenhammer, Bruce Baugh, and Thomas R. Flynn
The articles in this section deal with two concepts from Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason analyzed in the work of Tom Flynn. The first is the practico-inert, the materialized result of human activity that can turn that activity against itself, but which can also take on a positive and progressive role in history. It is this progressive role that Paul Gyllenhammer analyzes. Bruce Baugh’s article looks at Flynn’s analyses of how, in the Critique, the “third” mediates group praxis in such a way that it moves from passivity to activity but without fusing into a hyperorganism, and how this decisive shift accounts for “the revolutionary moment.”
In Sartre Studies International
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2015
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- Research Article
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- 2–32 (31 total)
Infrastructures of progress and dispossession
Collective responses to shrinking water access among farmers in Arequipa, Peru
Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen
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
Temporalization of Concepts
Reflections on the Concept of Unnati (Progress) in Hindi (1870–1900)
Mohinder Singh
This article analyzes the historical semantics of the concept of unnati in the nationalist discourse in Hindi between 1870 and 1900. The article first outlines the basic features of the Enlightenment concept of progress using Koselleck's analysis. It then goes on to discuss the place of the concept of progress in the colonial ideology of a “civilizing mission,“ and concludes by taking up the analysis of the usage of the term unnati in the nationalist discourse in North India.
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Jun 2012
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- Research Article
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- 51–71 (21 total)
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
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- 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
- Published (Print):
- 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)
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