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2022
Israel is located in a semi-arid climatic zone and its natural water sources are severely limited. Nevertheless, in the first decades following its establishment in 1948, Israel succeeded in establishing a reliable and technologically advanced water supply system using appropriate methods like inclusive legislatures, strict enforcement, and new age technologies. The country, being a water deficient one, relied on desalination and technological interventions to cater to the growing water needs.
Chiikigaku Kenkyu (Studies in Regional Science), 2006
Albert Newen According to Interaction Theory (IT), neither Theory Theory (TT) nor Simulation Theory (ST) give an adequate account of how we understand others. Their shared defect, it is claimed, is that both focus on third-person observation of the other, and neglect the role of social interaction. While interaction theory is made to account for the latter, it has problems doing justice to explicit attributions of propositional attitudes, especially from an observational stance. The latter received a new explanation by the Narrative Practice Hypothesis (NPH) which focuses on story-based explanations and tends to underestimate the relevance of nonlinguistic intuitive understanding. In this paper, I first try to do justice to what is plausible about each of the four approaches by accepting that each account introduces one plausible epistemic strategy for understanding others, which leads us to a multiplicity view about the epistemic strategies for understanding others. But it will then be argued that an adequate theory of understanding others needs further adjustment and correction because we need to account for the fact that we usually understand others on the basis of specific background knowledge that becomes more enriched during our life; I thus propose Person Model Theory (PMT) as a fruitful alternative. On my account, understanding turns on developing "person models" of ourselves, of other individuals, and of groups. These person models are the basis on which we register and evaluate persons as having mental as well as physical properties. I argue that person models can be either implicitly represented or explicitly available. This is accounted for by describing two kinds of person model, corresponding to the two ways of understanding others; very early in life we develop implicit person schemata, where a person schema is an implicitlyrepresented unity of sensory-motor abilities and basic mental phenomena related to one human being (or a group of humans); and we also develop person images, where a person image is a unity of explicitly-registered mental and physical phenomena related to one human being (or a group). I argue that the person model theory has more explanatory power than the other candidates.
Ambient sound is a standard term used by sound practitioners to denote the site-specific background sound component that provides locational atmosphere and spatial information. In this paper the specific role of ambient sound to create the context for the spatial experience in film and media art has been thoroughly examined in the light of sound studies. The paper investigates the capacity of ambient sounds to sculpt the presence of the site by producing an embodied experience. The paper brings in a much-needed focus on the complex relationship between sound and site by examining the spatial environments constructed by the sound practice. Guided by the production studies of sound, the paper draws on the theories of diegesis, mimesis and presence to reformulate the notion of the soundscape, while keeping a conceptual base in phenomenology of sound in analyzing the spatial and atmospheric listening experience. The paper cites examples from representative Indian films and sound-based media artworks as case studies to make critical listening and reflective analysis of the processes through which ambient sound practice enhances the spatial and atmospheric sensations. The paper draws insights from prominent sound practitioners, such as sound designers, mixing engineers, and recording artists in the form of long interviews and in-depth conversations conducted by the author over several years. The practice-led inputs make the empirical basis of the paper shedding light on the production process providing links between certain techniques available to specific phases of sound production and aesthetic principles shaped by the respective phases of practice with ambient sounds. The paper locates a distinct shift occurring through these trajectories of sound practice, and relates this shift to the recent “spatial turn” in Sound Studies, making valuable contributions to the field of Sound Studies interested to inquire about the emerging spatiality as the embodied experience of the site.
Journal of Social Science Education, 2020
Purpose: In this study, we explore students’ views and experiences in relation to education about, through, and forhuman rights, peace, and sustainability in the global north and south. We investigate what students after nine years of schooling see as central issues and productive actions linked to key elements of global citizenship education (GCE) to better understand the complexity of GCE in theory and practice. Design: We use a survey designed in line with theories of global citizenship education. Using a mixed methods approach, we analyse responses from 672 upper secondary school students, aged 16–19, in England, India, New Zealand, South Africa, and Sweden. Findings: We find that students in different contexts may experience global citizenship education very differently, even if they are all part of a global community with guidelines from UNESCO. Dimensions of human rights education, peace education, and education for sustainable development are evident in both the global north...
Website Utrecht University, 2024
De rol van religie in de oorlog tussen Israël en de Palestijnen "Religie speelt in deze oorlog een minder grote rol dan mensen denken" © iStockphoto.com/Stadtratte In het Israëlisch-Palestijns conflict spelen nationalisme, geloof en identiteit een belangrijke rol. Religiewetenschappers Joas Wagemakers, Eric Ottenheijm en 28-05-2024, 21:38 "Religie speelt in deze oorlog een minder grote rol dan mensen denken"-Achtergrond-Universiteit Utrecht https://www.uu.nl/achtergrond/religie-speelt-in-deze-oorlog-een-minder-grote-rol-dan-mensen-denken 1/7
Counterpunch, Jun, 2014
It is clear that the new Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in New Delhi is unapologetically devoted to corporate interests and promises to bring the wonders of Modi’s Gujarat ‘model’ to the rest of India. With a secure majority of its own in the Lok Sabha, the party can do so is unhampered by even the minimal resistance the stroppy regional satraps that were its coalition partners offered between 1998 and 2004.
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