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Intellectual Debates (intellectual + debate)

Distribution by Scientific Domains
Humanities and Social Sciences80%

Selected Abstracts

Type 1 diabetes intervention trials

PEDIATRIC DIABETES, Issue 1 2001
Massimo Pietropaolo
This and the following article address the current controversies for the application of studies to predict and prevent type 1 diabetes, based on currently available methodologies. This article outlines the position of the proponent; the following article outlines the position of the opponent. The intent is to illuminate by intellectual debate. [source]

Globalisation, Security and International Order After 11 September

AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICS AND HISTORY, Issue 3 2003
Mark Beeson
This article advances the discussion of the contentious question of links between global inequalities of power and violent responses, focussing on globalisation and non-inclusive forms of governance. Drawing on international political economy, the article criticises the "nationstate-centrism" in much political discourse, suggesting that both authority and security need to be reconsidered , to account for less plausible national borders and controls. It suggests that "human security" (including issues of development and equality) ought to replace "national security" as the primary focus of public policy. It draws attention to the intractability of difference, insisting that the terrorism of 2001 has complex transnational antecedents. Realist approaches to international order have become part of a problem to be overcome through further intellectual debate. [source]

Re-reading Castells: Indifference or Irrelevance Twenty Years On?

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF URBAN AND REGIONAL RESEARCH, Issue 1 2006
LYNN A. STAEHELI
This essay considers the relevance of The City and the Grassroots to contemporary debates within critical urban analysis. It argues that the book addresses many of the same empirical topics as more recent scholarship, but that shifts in the kinds of questions asked about those topics may make the book seem less relevant to contemporary debates. In particular, Castells' attempt to abstract from local experience to understand the process of political and social change in something specifically ,urban' may be at odds with the goals of contemporary research and of researchers outside Europe, many of whom attempt to provide a differentiated analysis attuned to context and the positionality of agents within social movements. So, while the book makes important contributions to theoretical and empirical arguments because of its deep and rich comparative analysis, intellectual debates and approaches over the past 20 years may have shifted focus. [source]

Nation on the move: the construction of cultural identities in Puerto Rico and the diaspora

AMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST, Issue 1 2000
Jorge Duany
In this article, I analyze recent intellectual debates on the Puerto Rican nation and its persistent colonial relation with the United States. First, I trace the development of a nationalist discourse on the Island, primarily among intellectuals, writers, and artists during the 20th century. I identify several problems with this discourse, especially the exclusion of ethnic and racial others from its definition of the nation. Then I argue that any serious reconceptualization of Puerto Rican identity must include the diaspora in the United States. I focus on the increasingly bilateral flow of people between the Island and the U.S. mainland,what has come to be known as circular, commuter, or revolving door migration. The Spanish folk term for this back-and-forth movement is extremely suggestive: el vaiveYi (literally meaning fluctuation). La nacion en vaiven, the nation on the move, might serve as an apt metaphor for the fluid and hybrid identities of Puerto Ricans on both sides of the Atlantic. My thesis is that massive migration,both to and from the Island,has undermined conventional definitions of the nation based exclusively on territorial, linguistic, or juridical criteria, [cultural identity, diaspora, nationalism, transnationalism, circular migration, Puerto Ricans] [source]

Chinese Nationalism and Sino,Japanese Relations

PACIFIC FOCUS, Issue 2 2008
Jing-Dong Yuan
Contemporary Chinese nationalism has its roots in the country's nation-building and identity-forming movements in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that sought to establish China's place in the community of nations. Today, nationalism in China can be characterized as falling into two major categories. On the one hand, there is nationalism embedded in patriotism with great pride in China's civilization, major achievements, and confidence in the country's future in embracing and meeting the challenges of globalization. On the other hand, there is the sentimental nationalism that reacts to what is perceived as injustice and insult done to China and has a strong victim mentality. The domestic discourse of nationalism can be influenced by government propaganda, intellectual debates, populous display of emotion and repulsion, or a mixture of all three. As China continues to grow in economic power and political influence, how nationalism is handled can have a significant impact on relations with its neighbors and beyond. [source]