Global Solidarity Research Articles

Under the Red-and-White Flag: elective Chineseness and socialist realism in Hei Ying's Jakarta

ABSTRACT Hei Ying’s 1950 novella Under the Red-and-White Flag concerns the Chinese-speaking institutions and community in Jakarta as they respond to the establishment of the People's Republic of China. Far from the sultry exoticism of his earlier Nanyang (South Seas) texts, this work turned towards a socialist realism broadly in line with the policies of the Chinese Communist Party and prepared Hei Ying for his subsequent career as a “returned Overseas Chinese” (guiqiao) man of letters. Hei Ying's political and literary shift emblematises a larger dynamic: the subordination of some Sinophone Southeast Asian subjects, often voluntarily, to new and starker dichotomies of Chinese political identity, as the foundation of new states in the emerging Cold War foreclosed on flexible Sinophone Southeast Asian cultural and political identities. Sinophone groups like those represented by Hei Ying could and did support Indonesia's National Revolution and striving for prosperity in the name of global solidarity; however, the individual's belonging was for them ethnically defined, and ethnic and political identity were irreducibly linked in works such as this novella. Due to the hardening of political boundaries in the early Cold War, decolonising Asia rendered cultural hybridity increasingly politically suspect as new states defined themselves by autochthony. If the place of ethnic Chinese was to build New China, political duties granted no licence to cultural hybridity, much as they also restricted experimental and effusive veins of literary modernism.

Leveraging the positives from the pandemic to strengthen infectious disease care in low-income and middle-income countries

Leveraging the positives from the pandemic to strengthen infectious disease care in low-income and middle-income countries

Kristen Ghodsee, Second World, Second Sex: socialist women’s activism and global solidarity during the Cold War

Kristen Ghodsee, Second World, Second Sex: socialist women’s activism and global solidarity during the Cold War

Health outcomes of the G7 Hiroshima Summit: breaking the cycle of panic and neglect and achieving UHC

Health outcomes of the G7 Hiroshima Summit: breaking the cycle of panic and neglect and achieving UHC

DISCURSIVE OPPORTUNITIES AND THE MOTIVATIONAL FRAMING OF HUMAN-RIGHTS ACTIVISM FOR EAST TIMOR: A CROSSNATIONAL ANALYSIS

Drawing from previously untapped archival data, our research undertakes a crossnational analysis to understand how critical organizations within the global solidarity movement for East Timor in Canada, the United States, and Australia adapted their human-rights claims and rhetorical interventions to their specific national contexts to produce politically and culturally resonant motivational frames aligned with their states’ discourses of national identity and foreign policy to support humanitarian intervention in East Timor. We identify crossnational differences in the framing of their political discourse: (1) Canadian groups mobilized a humanitarian-peacekeeping frame, (2) U.S. solidarity groups tapped into a democratic-exceptionalist frame, and (3) Australian activists drew from a remembrance-moral debt frame. We conclude by underscoring the importance of discursive opportunities and national historical contexts for studying the mobilization of human rights and crossnational variations in motivational framing.

Effective multilateralism for an intergenerational covenant: Via universal rights or national interests?

For more than three decades, scholars and global policy making circles have been discussing intra- and intergenerational global solidarity, and the need for an institution to ensure a voice for future generations in contemporary global policy making. With the announced 2024 Summit for Future Generations expected to adopt a Pact for Future Generations and create the position of a UN Envoy for Future Generations, these efforts seem finally close to fruition. This article discusses these recent evolutions in a theoretical international legal perspective, noting that an international constitutionalist perspective permeating the Our Common Future (1987) but especially the Intergenerational Solidarity and the Needs of Future Generations (2013) report of the Secretary General seems to have been replaced with a more nuanced approach, with an implicit positivist underpinning, in Our Common Agenda (2021). After explaining why positivism works better then constitutionalism in the intergenerational project, the article proposes that under the positivist paradigm, the announced 2024 Pact does not have to be the end of the road in operationalising intergenerational justice. National constitutional and institutional advancements may in the end lead to an intergenerational covenant, a concept also sketched out in this article.

New Dimensions of Soft Power in the 21st Century

Joseph S. Nye, who is considered one of the most influential scholars on the US politics, has attracted a great attention with his concept of “soft power” in the 1980s. Since then, the term of “soft power” has been used by many academics and politicians with different emphasis. Based on the claim that hard power elements are insufficient alone to reach the goals in modern age, the soft power theory needs to be reinterpreted with the addition of new dimensions in the 21st century. Now it is possible to discuss the use of soft power as a necessity, rather than just a preference for influencing different societies by creating admiration. The 21st century has brought up many new problems and practices to the international agenda. Although the pandemic Covid-19 is the most striking among them, the intertwining of regional wars and cooperations, global warming, environmental issues, migrations and terrorism have both changed the traditional ways of establishing relations between states and created global areas of struggle outside the states. Now the international community and the world public opinion have started to determine their admirable preferences based on the extent of support given to global cooperation and solidarity rather than strong armies or good movies. Using a literature review, this paper aims to draw attention to the new dimensions of soft power in the changing image of the 21st century.
 
 Received: 05 May 2022 / Accepted: 16 May 2023 / Published: 20 May 2023

Race, Religion, and Global Solidarities: W. E. B. Du Bois and “The Black Church” as a Contested Category

AbstractW.E.B. Du Bois was thoroughly ambivalent about the political significance of American Black churches regarding their role in challenging racial inequality. He saw them as integral to Black social life, but also as failing to live up to their potential as drivers of liberation. And, while he focused primarily on Black churches within the United States, Du Bois was also committed to Black liberation on a global level. This suggests great potential for applying DuBois’ analyses of Black religion to the question of transnational religious and racial solidarities and the global political salience of “the Black Church” as a category. In this context, this article explores the significance of DuBois’ work for analyzing the category of “the Black Church.” It does so through a comparative case study of African American Christian engagement with the issue of Israel and Palestine, with four case studies ranging from African American Christian Zionists to Palestinian solidarity activists. Across these cases, the analysis highlights the ways that the history, identity, and mission of “the Black Church” are invoked in the context of Palestine and Israel. It argues that “the Black Church” is best understood as a contested category of collective religious and racial identity.

The PEN-Plus Partnership: addressing severe chronic non-communicable diseases among the poorest billion

The number of people living in extreme material poverty (around 1 billion) has remained remarkably persistent over the past two centuries. 1 World BankPoverty and shared prosperity 2022: correcting course. World Bank, Washington, DC2022 Crossref Google Scholar During the period of the Millennium Development Goals (2000–15), world leaders were focused on improving the lives of this population and treating infectious diseases associated with poverty was seen as one of the most effective ways to promote health and economic progress. Unfortunately, non-infectious diseases, even severe ones, were left out of calls for global solidarity and development financing.

Print Internationalism's Uneasy Adjacencies

Print Internationalism's Uneasy Adjacencies

IMPACT OF INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE POLICY ON MIGRATIONS

The aim of the paper is to determine the impact of international climate policy on international migrations of population. The authors will present the main assumptions of the climate policy, including the strategy of the European Green Deal, the goals of sustainable development in the context of climate change affecting population migration. The article also addresses the issue of the correlation between climate change and political stability and the risk of conflicts. An important issue raised in this publication is the question of global solidarity in the fight against the negative effects of climate change and the possibility of implementing in practice such mechanisms as loss and damage fund. Keywords: climate policy, migration policy, climate change, European Union climate policy, population migrations.

Cyclopeptide self-assembly simulated epidemic sequential and synchronous complexity

Background: Epidemic growth curve was one of the epidemiological characteristics, which included sequential and synchronous and their complexity Objectives: Decoding the sequential and synchronous complexities of epidemic outbreaks will help guide the scientific response to the epidemic. Here, the complexities of epidemic sequential and synchronous were simulated from the perspective and method of cyclopeptide self-assembly, and the process of cyclopeptide self-assembly was observed by molecular fluorescence and morphological changes, reflecting the characteristics of the epidemic changes. Results: The results showed that the cyclopeptide, namely cyclo (FWWYYF), self-assembly process took different forms under different concentrations and solvents. At lower concentrations, cyclopeptide molecules simulated the complexity of epidemic sequential and synchronous, while at higher concentrations, cyclopeptide molecules self-assembly also behaves as a non-sequential and non-synchronous composite multimodal model. Conclusions: These results indicated that the complexity of the epidemic outbreaks was not only the complexity of sequential and synchronous, but also the emergence of non-sequential and non-synchronous complex multimodal models. Molecular simulations elucidated why the global pandemic required global solidarity and synchronization.

Association between Exposure to Domestic Violence during Childhood and Depressive Symptoms in Middle and Older Age: A Longitudinal Analysis in China

Exposure to domestic violence (EDV) is a constant threat to social stability and global solidarity and may be associated with an increased risk of depression in later life. This study assessed the association between EDV during childhood and depressive symptoms in middle and older age. A total of 10,521 respondents obtained from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study were enrolled in our analysis. Depressive symptoms were measured using the 10-item form of the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression (CES-D) scale, and EDV included parental conflict and corporal punishment. A random-effects linear regression was used to assess associations. The results showed positive relationships between "not very often" (β = 0.862; 95% CI:0.512 to 1.211; p < 0.001), "sometimes" (β = 1.692; 95% CI:1.227 to 2.158; p < 0.001) and "often" (β = 2.143; 95% CI:1.299 to 2.987; p < 0.001) in parental conflict and the CES-D scores, compared with that of those reported "never" in parental conflict. Similarly, positive relationships between "sometimes" (β = 0.389; 95% CI:0.091 to 0.687; p = 0.011) and "often" (β = 1.892; 95% CI:1.372 to 2.413; p < 0.001) in corporal punishment and the CES-D scores were observed. EDV is associated with an increased risk of depression in later life. Future research could develop interventions that target EDV and explore the mechanisms in China to further decrease lifetime depression risk and improve the population's mental health.

The Global Health Architecture: Governance and International Institutions to Advance Population Health Worldwide.

Policy Points Global health institutions and instruments should be reformed to fully incorporate the principles of good health governance: the right to health, equity, inclusive participation, transparency, accountability, and global solidarity. New legal instruments, like International Health Regulations amendments and the pandemic treaty, should be grounded in these principles of sound governance. Equity should be embedded into the prevention of, preparedness for, response to, and recovery from catastrophic health threats, within and across nations and sectors. This includes the extant model of charitable contributions for access to medical resources giving way to a new model that empowers low- and middle-income countries to create and produce their own diagnostics, vaccines, and therapeutics-such as through regional messenger RNA vaccine manufacturing hubs. Robust and sustainable funding of key institutions, national health systems, and civil society will ensure more effective and just responses to health emergencies, including the daily toll of avoidable death and disease disproportionately experienced by poorer and more marginalized populations.

Promote global solidarity to advance health-system resilience: proposals for the G7 meetings in Japan

Promote global solidarity to advance health-system resilience: proposals for the G7 meetings in Japan

Sites and sights of tension: cultural memory of gender and colonial power in East Asia*

Taking the sculpture entitled Statue of Peace (2011) by South Korean artists Kim Seo-kyung and Kim Eun-sung as a focus point, the article explores issues of gender and colonial power in the East Asian region related to the cultural memory of “comfort women” of Korean origin. Analyses of the sculpture and its context show how geographical locations and visual representation are related to atrocities and colonial violence. It shows how the sculpture becomes both a weapon and object of violence in global solidarity.

Interview: Kari Tikkinen

Interview: Kari Tikkinen

Media representations of China amid COVID-19: a corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis

Although there has been an increasing number of studies investigating media representations of the COVID-19 outbreak around the world, less international attention has been given to Chinese media outlets’ coverage of the COVID-19 outbreak than that of their western counterparts. This study employs corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis to investigate how China is linguistically represented in a state-run English-language news media. The analysis reveals that China is respectively represented as a victim, a fighter, and a cooperative/supportive country with ideological implications for global solidarity and humanitarianism. This study sheds light on the effective use of discursive strategies in promoting international cooperation and building a national image amid a global health crisis. The value of using corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis to examine national image is also highlighted.

Social media as a means for students to become global citizens

The development of information technology, especially social media, has paved the way for the theory and concept of global citizenship. Integration and connection allow everyone to convey citizens' opinions, ideas, criticism, and actions. Based on the literature and previous studies, social media is analyzed in terms of benefits and disadvantages. This study aims to emphasize the use of social media among students, especially as a means of becoming global citizens. This research was conducted using qualitative methods by analyzing various literature and sources, which were then described. The study results a show that student activity in social media contributes to a new media ecology called global citizen solidarity in social media. Student solidarity in viewing various problems that occur led to civic action. Student actions on social media in various fields and issues on global issues such as politics, religion, economy, environment, health, philanthropy, and human rights reinforce the concept of being global citizens. The transformation regarding the use of social media by students into a theoretical framework for global citizen practice. It is important to re-describe the concept of global citizenship or cosmopolitanism through social media to create world citizen solidarity as a sense of responsibility in dealing with global problems and promoting world peace.

Women, Life, Freedom; Reading the Reflection of Iranian Women Movement through Social Media

What is happening in Iran evokes the injustices and discriminations that has happened everywhere in the world. National and international reflections of the 2022 Iranian movement indicate that it would not be limited to fundamental changes in Iran. Fundamental changes go beyond geographical and political boundaries to bring the human family closer and to be mindful of their share destiny of human rights. Women from diverse backgrounds will take more responsibility for their crucial role in creating peace, security, equality, and justice within the human family. This article investigates the ongoing women’s movement in Iran through the photo and camera records on Instagram and Facebook published by Iranians worldwide. It maps an historical glimpse of the women’s movement in Iran after the Islamic revolution and describes the forms of civil disobedience portrayed. It signifies the reconceptualization of global solidarity, diversity in political representation, and decision-making among observers, academics, and social activists. This article describes a transition from individual salvation to collective maturity for fundamental changes in human relationship