World Crisis Research Articles

ESTEREÓTIPOS CULTURAIS E POVO ROMANI

The Romani people (gypsy people) come from India, have gone through diasporas and due to the misunderstanding of their history, trajectory and cultural habits, they suffer from social determinants that serve as an aggravation to the health conditions of an individual and an entire group, such as prejudice, exclusion, inequities and invisibility. in search of building cultural competence for the health team and students in the health area. A historical record was prepared from official publications and gray literature, as well as publications by their own voices about the cultural stereotypes experienced, even having repercussions on serious sanitary conditions during the world crisis, the SARS-Cov-2 (Covid 19) pandemic. Activities carried out in primary health care, especially psychosocial care for the gypsy population in urban situations in Rio de Janeiro, were listed, based on existing public policies. The relevance of the work of protecting traditional knowledge of gypsy ethnic origin was highlighted as a strategy to promote mental health and rescue the well-being of this population possessing strong and noble socio-moral, environmental and spiritual values, despite being faced with so many technological advances, in what is conventionally called the "digital age", However, it is inexorably perceived that man has not yet advanced as much as he should in terms of respect for nature, because, with the unbridled advance of environmental damage, even so, we understand that it is still possible to stop them and impose on these causes of environmental damage the appropriate legislative mechanisms to put an end to such socio-environmental disorder, for this purpose, in this brief essay, we brought to light a study on the institute of environmental civil liability contained in the Civil Code of 2022, which came into force one year after the law that instituted it, that is: Law No. 10. 406; whose validity of the aforementioned Codex took place from January 11, 2003, therefore, the institute in question completed 21 (twenty-one) years of validity on January 11, 2024, so that it has been a very useful and effective legal tool to combat excesses against nature caused by human action, mitigating the impacts with the application of the guiding environmental principles and corollaries of national environmental law.

WHO OWNS THE US FEDERAL RESERVE?

Today, almost no serious study on global economics and politics can do without taking into account the “Federal Reserve System”. This is the Central Bank of the United States of America, called the “US Federal Reserve System”. The special significance of the American Central Bank is because it issues the US dollar, which is not only a national currency, but also a world currency. The special status of the US dollar was determined eighty years ago, when in 1944 the gold dollar standard was adopted at the international conference in Bretton Woods (USA). It became the basis of the world monetary and financial system after World War II. In the future, this system underwent serious changes, especially after the Jamaica Conference of 1976, where it was decided to cancel the gold dollar standard and replace it with a paper dollar standard. The US dollar then managed to maintain its leading positions in the world monetary and financial system. It is still successful today, despite the fact that the share of the US dollar on the world market is gradually decreasing. Many are concerned about the question: how do American currency resources survive deep world crises? Here, the US Federal Reserve System cannot do without help, but the system's activities are not transparent, because this corporation is private. However, over time, information about the activities of shareholders and the “pitfalls” of the Federal Reserve System has appeared, which is presented in this article.

A Critical Synergy: Race, Decoloniality, and World Crises

A Critical Synergy: Race, Decoloniality, and World Crises

Untangling ideologies in lifelong learning discourse

ABSTRACT This paper contributes to research on lifelong learning (LL) by examining discourses of multilateral organisations through the lens of ‘progressive neoliberalism’, in which contradictory ideologies of social justice movements and capitalism are hybridised (Fraser 2017). LL has been interpreted as a means of upskilling to remain competitive in the global economy or as a device for promoting social cohesion, equality and personal fulfilment. This study locates LL within the context of educating global citizens of all ages to address world crises and aims to understand underlying ideological assumptions in OECD, UNESCO, WB, EU and IB policy texts. A critical discourse analysis reveals the entanglement of largely symbolic progressive language within the confines of neoliberal capitalism. This ambiguous conceptualisation offers an incoherent framework for LL and perpetuates what Gramsci (1971) describes as a hegemonic bloc. Findings suggest that LL discourses mediate contradictions between two diverging ideological orientations, legitimise social hierarchies and power relations, and provide a superficial approach to global injustices and environmental emergencies.

Symposium on Ali Meghji’s A Critical Synergy: Race, Decoloniality, and World Crises

Symposium on Ali Meghji’s A Critical Synergy: Race, Decoloniality, and World Crises

A Feminist Autoethnography of a Family Archive: Affects, Narratives and Practices During Two World Crises: World War II and Covid-19

What happens when we, as researchers, are living through a world crisis such as Covid-19, whilst studying a family epistolary archive produced during World War Two, another world crisis? What epistemological and methodological bridges can be made between the personal experiences of two women (great aunt and great niece) living in two moments of history but who are connected by the process of writing and reading epistolary documents? By conducting a feminist autoethnography of my experience in the Covd-19 pandemic, I reflect upon what it has meant to do feminist historic and archival research of the experience of Trixie Mayer, the first Mexican volunteer to join the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force in Great Britain from 1942 to 1946 and who produced more than 200 personal documents during her war work and afterwards kept them, together with the documents she received form her family in Mexico, for more than 70 years. I analyse how living through a pandemic has helped me understand my great aunt’s crisis experiences from a different perspective, questions, partialities and, at the same time, how these personal and familiar writings have helped me understand and question our current reality and PhD thesis from an alternative perspective.

Hope for leadership: Introduction to the special issue “leadership and the future of humanity”

This is an introduction to the Special Issue ‘Leadership and the Future of Humanity.’ We appraise the concept of leadership in the context of several major world crises, including the rise of populism, an increased number of conflicts, and the climate crisis. In observing the current conflicts in Russia/Ukraine and Israel/Palestine, we define hopeless leadership as the leadership of those who exploit despair and uncertainty to manufacture fear in order to move their followers into action against particular outgroups. We also look at how hope is often born from despair. In adopting Freire’s ontology of hope, we theorise hopeful leadership as the continuous belief in and search for possible and better futures, even if they are imperfect. In this sense, hopeful leadership has a strong element of stewardship towards the future of humanity. The Special Issue contains papers that tap into these themes, and develops them in their own way.

Governing transit and irregular migration: informality and formal policies

ABSTRACT Informality has attracted significant attention in migration studies, yet a fresh look is needed given the succession of world crises over the past 15 years and the increasing use of informality to deal with them. This special issue considers informality as practices of governance that supplement, substitute, replace or operate beyond formal rules. It focuses on dissecting the governance of transit and irregular migration in the liminal space between formal policies and informal practices, and focuses on three major questions: Why and how has migration governance experienced informality’s expansion in policies and practices? What are the drivers, sites, temporalities, and implications of such an expansion? How do power relations among different stakeholders affect such governance compared to normative and institutional logics? This special issue ventures beyond existing constatations that the formal and informal are entangled. A core assertion is that informality can be a deeper structuring force, because informal interactions repeat over time, creating alternative or supplementary forms of governance beyond formal institutions. This collection of articles is original in shedding light on such governance from the perspective of world politics and political regimes, little discussed thus far in systematic ways. It is also at the forefront of theorizing on how stakeholders use mechanisms of power to govern polycentrically, that is from multiple centres related to each other but not hierarchically subordinated. This collection provides novel perspectives on socio-spatial and temporal aspects of informality’s use in such governance. Building on extensive fieldwork and data-driven secondary research, this collection covers Germany, Sweden, and Switzerland, post-socialist countries in Eastern Europe, including Belarus and Russia after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Turkey and Iraq in the Middle East, and Albania in the Balkans, as well as Thailand and Myanmar in Asia.

Lippia multiflora Leaves Extracts Enhance Cefotaxime Bactericidal Effects and Quench the Biofilm Formation in Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 43300.

The emergence of the multidrug-resistant bacteria strain has become a global world crisis. This study was designed to evaluate the antibiofilm and synergistic effects of Lippia multiflora leaf extracts on the activity of cefotaxime against the methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus). The synergistic effect of methanol and dichloromethane extracts on the bactericidal activity of cefotaxime was determined by using the antibiotic susceptibility test on agar medium. The antibiofilm activity of the extracts was measured by using the crystal violet method. The antioxidant potential of the extracts was assessed by using the 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) and Ferric Reduction Activity Potential (FRAP) methods. The main secondary metabolites groups were analyzed by using different standard analytical tests. The total phenolics and total flavonoids were quantified spectrophotometrically. The methanol extract (final concentration of 100 μg/ml) inhibited the formation of bacterial biofilm more than salicylic acid (p<0.05). All extracts combined with cefotaxime (20 μg and 200 μg) showed good synergistic bactericidal effect on S. aureus with inhibitory diameters of up to 40 mm. The methanol extract showed higher total phenolics (462.20±10.90 mg EAG/g) and total flavonoids (26.20±0.20 mg EQ/g) contents than the dichloromethane extract (96.70±1.70 mg EAG/g and 8.00±1.20 mg EQ/g). Moreover, the methanol extract showed a higher FRAP reducing power (353.6±4.17 mmol EQ/g) than the dichloromethane extract (385.3±7.01 mmol EQ/g). Qualitative phytochemical analysis showed the presence of tannins, flavonoids, terpenes and sterols in both extracts. These data showed that L. multiflora leaves contain effective antibacterial phytomolecules for combating bacterial resistance.

The Economic Evolution of the Romanian Defense Market in the Context of the World Crisis (Post-pandemic) and the Imbalance of International Security (Military Conflict in Ukraine)

Abstract The analysis of crisis management shows that any crisis will generate risks and opportunities for certain industrial sectors. The current security crisis overlaps today with other crises (climatic, economic, energy, and medical crises generated by COVID-19). The medical crisis generated by the COVID-19 pandemic has recorded considerable profits for the pharmaceutical industry and companies in the medical equipment manufacturing industry. (John A. Parnel). The defense market and armaments production industry has been steadily growing at national and international levels due to the imbalance in international security caused by Russia's military conflict. An economical inside perspective is provided due to an internal study case based on the evolution of this industry's key sector. As per the analyzed data, the market demand is currently higher than the production capacity, both at European and national levels. The industry cannot meet the requirements of the defense market. Nonetheless, the turnover of the profile companies experienced significant increases with positive effects on the recorded profit rates. After conducting a thorough evaluation of the domestic defense industry, the solution might be to privatize state-owned companies in the security industry, which may involve merging companies with similar activity profiles. Also, financial incentives, such as tax measures like those granted to personnel working in the IT industry, can help overcome the human resources issue that the Romanian defense industry is currently facing.

The World Crises in Hegel’s Dialectic Thinking &amp; the Current Contradictions Confronted Europe

The World Crises in Hegel’s Dialectic Thinking &amp; the Current Contradictions Confronted Europe

Capitalism qua development in an era of planetary crisis

ABSTRACT Ecological crisis, massive inequality and war: our world is at a dangerous tipping point. Yet the present global crisis defies simple description and is difficult to explain. To clarify, it is argued that the character of the world crisis today is triple: ecological, economic and political. Underlying all three dimensions is the capitalist form of world society. The consolidation of this capitalist form was accompanied by the emergence of the concept of development within liberal philosophy. During the 20th century, development came to define geographical regions and legitimate capitalist political economy on a world scale. Capitalism came to be taken as development: I call this ‘capitalism qua development’. Because of the triple crisis, capitalism qua development is beginning to undergo a profound change. In an era of rapid global heating and ecological crisis, the tie between capital and development is straining and likely to give way. Capital is becoming more closely attached to the concept of adaptation. I argue that, in the most likely scenario (‘Climate Leviathan’), capitalism qua development will be recast as adaptation. Some signs of this shift are already apparent. Since this is only a likely prospect, three other possibilities – fates of the concept and practice of development – are proposed.

Production of hydrogen via water oxidation using mesoporous‐assembled SiO2@TiN nanocomposite electrocatalyst

AbstractElectrochemical water splitting is one of the promising approaches for the production of molecular hydrogen as well as to meet the clean and sustainable energy demand of the modern world. However, the key task for the research communities is to design a cost‐effective and efficient electrocatalyst to contribute positively to recent world crises. This study presents a novel SiO2@TiN nanocomposite and utilize it for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) as an electrocatalysts. The different techniques use for the characterization of SiO2@TiN nanocomposite. The electrochemical investigations encompass linear sweep voltammetry (LSV), cyclic voltammetry (CV) and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) which collectively yield critical parameters for assessing electrocatalytic performance. At a current density of 10 mAcm−2 the SiO2@TiN nanocomposite has a substantially lower overpotential of 256 mV compared to pure SiO2 and TiN. The composite also shows smaller tafel slope of 40 mV dec−1 as well as lower overpotential. The SiO2@TiN nanocomposite also demonstrates the enhanced redox activity as a result of its synergistic effect. Consequently, the increased electrical conductivity of TiN facilitates the attachment of metal oxides and more active sites are exposed to improve the OER activity of the fabricated materials.

Education and culture in times of Covid in Ecuador

ABSTRACT The objective of this article is to identify how the current educational system in Ecuador, as well as the world crisis of the Covid-19, propitiated a divergent path to the established traditional education in reference to the need of a distance modality supported by the new information and communication technologies, derived in the so-called online education, and with it, the new trends and formative needs that it demands to the new educational actors, teachers and students, to reach an adequate coupling in the teaching-learning processes mediated by technology. The aspect of cultural development is necessarily grafted in the conditioning factors of the new proposal, as an element of relevant importance that, as a transversal axis, supports the training for an effective insertion of the country's education in the so-called global village, which requires the management of various pedagogical, technical, technological, scientific and social skills in favor of an effective intercultural and global action, in a country that by its own characteristics is multicultural, multiethnic and plurinational.

Destruction Prediction: An attempt to respond with landscape in Kok Bedullah area

The study's overarching goal is to address and adapt to the Kok Bedullah area's topography in a way that minimises negative impacts on the local environment. Environmental degradation in the Kok Bedullah area has causes and effects that are comparable to world crises. When creating this artwork, I used a wide range of materials that I had made specifically. Nature and man-made structures interacting is the primary inspiration for the visual style. This is accompanied by the duality of digital and analogue technical solutions within the artwork.

Multiphrenic Identities and Cultural Theory in Post-Apartheid Literary Adaptations: Reflections on Ramadan Suleiman’s Film Version of Njabulo Simakhale Ndebele’s Fools

In both apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa, literary texts have been important sites of cultural enquiry. They both historicise culture and allow new theoretical frames. However, they are also sites of fragmented, overpopulated, multisensorial memories and the difficulties of their articulation. This article focuses on Ramadan Suleiman’s, Fools, an adaptation of Njabulo Ndebele’s novel by the same title, as an important site for examining cultural theory occurring at the juncture of apartheid literature and post-apartheid literary criticism. We argue that while the film is a figurative cartographical sketch of the apartheid ‘world’ narrated in the novel, its protagonist functions as an avenue of ‘discharging’ specific ideas of identity crisis in the post-apartheid cultural world. It angles towards multiphrenia as a productive frame to theorise the protagonist’s jumbled identity, drawing from the existing critique of both the text and the film. We conclude that, through this overwhelmed identity, Fools offers a sui generis paradigm of new possibilities in post-apartheid cultural criticism that is usable in both literary and film criticism.

Remedial exercise training program (aerobic and brisk walk training) for type II diabetes (T2DM)

Diabetes type 2 Mellitus (T2DM) is a severe world crisis. The Indian population, mostly above forty years’ age group they sick with Diabetes. Most doctors prescribe walking as an endurance activity to improve diabetic patients. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of aerobic exercise, including spot jogging, stepping, jumping exercises and simple dance movements, together with brisk walking on the improvement of type II diabetes. Ten subjects with type II diabetes mellitus (T2DM) were selected as participants for this study. Totally 12 weeks of training was executed for this diabetes group, the training intensity was followed beginning with two minutes of continuous exercises with one-minute rest interval, and it has been progressively increased. The timing and intensity continue to forty minutes with five minutes’ rest intervals to reach to find the improvement in Type II diabetes. Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 21.0 was used to analyze the data. Aerobic exercises and brisk walking significantly reduced the body weight, blood sugar level and showed significant changes in the systolic and diastolic blood pressure of type II diabetes.

The Relevance of Modern Scientific Research in Pedagogy: Ukrainian-Polish Discourse

The article provides a comparative analysis of the scientific investigations of Polish and Ukrainian scientists regarding the subject matter and content of modern pedagogical research. New challenges, the world crisis, a full-scale war in Ukraine - in one way or another influence the choice of research topics, determine their timeliness and expediency. It is noted that a wide interdisciplinary pedagogical approach to solving educational problems is clearly observed in Polish research. According to the thematic direction, scientific investigations have an applied nature, meet the demands of science and society. At the same time, the subject matter of scientific issues of domestic pedagogical research is mainly local in nature and does not fully correlate with modern social demands. It was concluded that it is needed to develop methodological foundations of pedagogy in conditions of instability and transgressivity. A list of pedagogical topics that are relevant for study in these conditions is presented.

LA NECESSARIA EQUAZIONE TRA ETICA, POLITICA ED ECONOMIA NEL MONDO DEL CALCIO

The article contains an in-depth examination of the presentation held on March 6, 2023, at the University of Campania at the congress “Regulation of Football between Theory and Practice”. The author provides a comprehensive overview of the football world in Italy, focusing on the impact that the football industry has on the economy of the Italian social fabric. The article highlights the interconnection between football, the economy, and political choices regarding the development of the system itself. Lastly, the contribution delves into the analysis of the ongoing crisis in the Italian football world and its repercussions, offering operational proposals aimed at attempting to counteract the prevailing trend.

Recent Polish and Ukrainian dramaturgy in the face of modern world crises

Recent Polish and Ukrainian dramaturgy in the face of modern world crises