Ideological Significance Research Articles

Understanding the role of grievance and fixation in lone actor violence.

In pursuit of public discourse, there is a risk of a simple polarity in thinking, meaning acts of public/mass violence, or those where there is a risk of public violence are categorized as terrorist acts or not. The reliance on categorization, and the pursuit of assigning ideology, diminishes the complexity of factors contributing to these forms of offending. This approach misses a critical opportunity to understand the pathways to violence and reduces the significance of comorbid or co-occurring factors that give rise to the violence. Lone Actor Grievance Fueled Violence (LAGFV) is a recently utilized term based on mounting evidence that those who seek to perpetrate acts of lone actor violence, whether this be those where a terrorist motivation can be assigned, a school attacks, workplace attack, or an attack in a public place, are commonly fueled by grievance and fixation. LAGFV at this juncture is a blurry construct without definitive rules and boundaries, and instead provides a guiding conceptualization of a diverse group of offenders who commit targeted violence towards others. The current review contends that LAGFV emerges through the perceived thwarting of psychological needs and the central task for clinicians and other professional services lies in understanding the unique pathways and contributing factors that give rise to violence for each specific individual/case. The review contends that is not fit to determine whether an act is of ideological significance, or constituting terrorism, without understanding the psychosocial and circumstantial factors contributing to the violence.

Принцип материального единства мира в мире плюрализма

This paper dwells on the principle of material unity of the world in the aspects of substantial, substrate, attributive, and functional unity of the world and in the aspect of unity of the world’s natural process. A substantial connection of this principle with the development of science, primarily, natural sciences, is determined. A historical nature of philosophical interpretations of the principle of material unity of the world is identified and a comparison is drawn between the monistic expression of this principle based on classical scientific rationality and its interpretations based on non-classical scientific rationality. A conclusion is made about the impact of methodological pluralism of modern scientific cognition on various substantive aspects of the principle of material unity of the world. Points of contradiction are identified between the modern scientific methodologies and the philosophical content of the principle under study. In terms of the ideological significance of the principle of material unity of the world, the author points out complete exclusion of the ontological meaning of any religious views and ideas by the regulatory action of this principle. In the modern picture of worldview pluralism (dominated by religious and religious-like beliefs, value orientations and views) a worldview based on the principle of material unity of the world is elitist and is very poorly represented. In scientists’ worldview, orientation towards this principle explicitly (reflexively) or implicitly performs the function of an epistemological basis for extrapolating knowledge obtained in local areas of research to the entire subject area of the relevant sciences. Therefore, at least within the scientific community, the principle of material unity of the world retains its monistic significance, both in methodological and ideological terms.

Nilometer from Graeco-Roman Thmouis

In 2010, a construction project for a new water pumping station on the west side of Tell Timai (Egyptian Delta) encountered a limestone structure. This discovery triggered a salvage excavation that exposed a rare example of a well-preserved Delta nilometer. The architectural features of the nilometer reveal some specific and even unique adaptations consonant with the hydrological situation of the Graeco-Roman city of Thmouis. Unlike other examples of nilometers, an aqueduct runs from the north, spilling into the stairwell leading down into the stilling well. A dam stone in the aqueduct appears to have regulated the release of water. The nilometer was also articulated with an adjacent hill by a staircase. Folk tradition memorialised the stair and nilometer location in local fertility and healing rituals performed during Nile flood-related festivals; this tradition preserved the sacred space long after the nilometer and its associated architecture were buried and forgotten. The multifaceted role of the Thmouis nilometer in the cultural and economic life of the city and nome carries wider implications for the political organisation of the nome and the dynamic between syncretic forces and imperial appropriation in Graeco-Roman Egypt. Here we review the shape, function, archaeological context, ideological significance and hydrography of the nilometer and consider the implications of the nilometer for the history of the Mendesian nome and its sacred relationship with the Nile River.

The battle for 5Pointz and signifying regimes: desirable subjects, hierarchies of value, and legitimizing state power

ABSTRACT This article offers an analysis of semiotic regimes that accompanied the redevelopment of 5Pointz and the ensuing civil lawsuits. Located in Queens, New York, 5Pointz was a building owned by GM Realty, who allowed Jonathan Cohen to curate graffiti works on its exterior and interior walls from 2002 through to 2013. I identify the ideological significance of three semiotic regimes generated by the 5Pointz saga. First, I treat “landed capital” (property development, growth machines) and “cultural commodification” (the art world) as observing systems that were central to constructing the meaning of the 5Pointz closure and litigation. These observational vantage points relied on a dichotomous logic involving desirable and undesirable subjectivity, but located key actors in distinct ways. Second, the legal outcome was often construed as a “major victory for artists.” However, portraying the damages awarded as an unequivocal victory normalizes hegemonic constructions of value wherein the activities of capitalism’s major players are accorded more worth than any other human activity. Finally, I focus on portraying the conflict between graffiti writers and landed capital as a “David and Goliath” battle. Signifying the conflict in such a manner (mis)construes the sovereign state as an impartial actor that adjudicates between competing rights claims.

통행본 『문자(文子)』의 도가 사상과 그 의미

This paper tried to illuminate the meaning of the Taoist philosophy and ideology contained in it by analyzing the ''Wen-tzu''. This paper analyzed the ''Wen-tzu''. Examining the “道原”, “道德”, and “自然” sections, it was revealed that the Doctrine of the ''Wen-tzu'' is the principle of creation of all things, and that ‘聖人’ is a person of inaction. Subsequently, this paper also revealed how virtue, benevolence, righteousness, and etiquette are defined in the ''Wen-tzu''. The ''Wen-tzu'' does not completely deny benevolence, righteousness, and courtesy, but on the contrary, it is defined as an ethical value lower than virtue. The nine rules were presented in the ‘九守’ section and the ‘符言’ section, and on the other hand, the true meaning of Taoism was flexibly presented through various proverbs. The ''Wen-tzu'' contains traces of Huang-Lao School that have absorbed the influence of Confucianism as well as including the rule of the monarch, centering on the theory of human cultivation and nature. It will be necessary to understand the philosophy of the Taoist philosophy and its ideological significance in the context of philosophical and ideological history.

Validation of the Dietarian Identity Questionnaire (DIQ): A case study in Italy

An increasing number of consumers are trying to reduce and control their meat consumption and are shifting toward vegetarian, vegan, or flexitarian diets. While these diet categories are often grouped together, different psychological drivers may lead to the decision to follow a certain dietary pattern. The Dietarian Identity Questionnaire (DIQ) (Rosenfeld & Burrow, 2018) assesses how people think, feel, and behave with respect to consuming or avoiding animal products and allows us to explain the underlying psychological motivations of food choices. Considering that the psychology of eating behavior is strictly connected to the cultural context, this study (N = 678) aimed to (i) evaluate the mismatch between dietarian categorization obtained by food consumption and self-categorization; (ii) validate the Italian version of the DIQ (DIQ-I); and (iii) evaluate whether the results of the DIQ-I dimensions vary with categorization. Mismatches were evaluated using cross-tabulation and χ-square analysis, while DIQ-I was validated using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). Finally, multiple one-way ANOVAs were conducted on groups of dieters defined by the respondents’ self-categorizations and according to self-reported meat consumption.The overall findings suggest that the DIQ-I can satisfactorily depict the ideological significance of following certain diets in the Italian population. Moreover, the self-categorization results revealed that consumers’ perceptions of their own diets often differ from scholars’ definitions, which might imply a systematic bias in food surveys and consumers’ research practices.

Проблемы законодательного воплощения разыскных начал современного уголовного судопроизводства

The article discusses the issues of normative consolidation of investigative principles that are inherent in the modern criminal process of Russia. Criminal procedure law should recognize the right to life of the investigative ideology and its key idea of inquisitiveness. This idea should be spelled out in the text of the law in norms of ideological significance.

Neoliberal consensus and Nigerian party politics

ABSTRACT This paper examines the role and significance of ideology for party politics in twenty-first century neoliberal Nigeria. The question it sets out to answer is: Has the market economy’s dominance led to the convergence of conservative and progressive/liberal ideologies in twenty-first century Nigerian political party contests? The importance of ideology for party politics in Nigeria seems to have declined with the market economy’s dominance over other systems. The deployment of neoliberalism as an ideology in the last three decades through common-sense rhetoric about the goodness of the free market, aided by international lending institutions, has led to a dilution of individual party ideologies.

A Child Is Being Eaten: Maternal Cannibalism and the Hebrew Bible in the Company of Fairy Tales

Abstract The Hebrew Bible contains multiple texts in which mothers eat their children. Deuteronomy 28, Lam 2 and 4, and 2 Kgs 6 all offer variations on the theme of maternal cannibalism. While these passages are often written off as gruesome, exceptional, or motivated by extreme necessity (such as starvation), such approaches miss the literary and ideological significance of maternal cannibalism. This study, in contrast, approaches the biblical accounts through another body of literature with its own rich assembly of cannibalistic mothers: the classic fairy tales. Reading with fairy tales surfaces four important points: (1) starvation is insufficient to explain cannibalism; (2) cooking children, as much as eating them, is narratively significant and should be analyzed as such; (3) some mothers are indeed Bad Mothers, even as (4) cannibalism does not preclude affection and love—including at least some mothers who cannibalize their children. Taken together, these principles challenge the assumed norms of maternity, while offering new ways of reading and responding to the cannibal mothers of the Hebrew Bible.

The Colour of Eco-Crime

AbstractIn taking up the mantle of ‘green,’ criminologists concerned with environmental harm have succeeded in shifting criminology away from its anthropocentric focus on crime and harms committed to and by humans. While this framework has generated a large body of scholarship, it has also occluded important discussions about the significance of race and racial ideologies in the ongoing construction of crime, even—and especially—when depictions of crime do not explicitly reference humans. This article employs semiotic analysis of media images of eco-crime to demonstrate that the ways in which we see eco-crime—like ways of seeing crime more generally—construct images of race and contribute to the establishment of racialized relations. By placing eco-crime in a visual context and deconstructing the implicit and explicit racial imagery of eco-crime, I prompt criminologists to consider more critically issues of race and racialization in green criminology.

The role of cartographic culture in the development of cognitive, scientific, communicative and creative human activity

The article is devoted to the study of the role of cartographic culture in the development of cognitive, scientific, communicative and creative human activity. Geographical maps are considered as a phenomenon of world culture and their significant role in many spheres of human life and activity is highlighted. The concept of cartographic culture is revealed. The research is based on literary, cartographic sources, materials of museum expositions and modern cartographic exhibitions, a collection of maps of the authors' personal archive, significant experience in teaching cartographic and geographical disciplines at university and school. The methods of visual and system-structural analysis, comparison, historical and logical are used in the research. The scientific novelty of the research consists in the systematization and generalization of multiple diverse information characterizing the manifestations of cartographic culture, the conditions of its formation, the components of this culture, in proving by examples the importance of cartographic culture in the life of a modern person. The main conclusions of the study: cartographic culture encompasses the ability of a person to understand, know, read maps; have a developed cartographic thinking and a formed cartographic worldview; an idea of the richness and diversity of cartographic works; the ability to create at least at an elementary level thematic cartographic schemes, perceive and recreate cartographic images. The main component of cartographic culture is mastering the language of geographical maps as one of the most important means of communication, having great cognitive, ideological, ideological significance, having visibility, accessibility, information capacity, understandable at the international level.

Праворадикальный дискурс этничности в ультрарадикальных украинских сообществах Рунета: прогнозы и оценка угроз

The article is devoted to right-wing radical traditions in the Internet space as a source of political, ideological, racial, national or religious xenophobia, as well as hostility towards any social or ethnic group. Right-wing radical political traditions are a powerful ideological concept that, hidden within the framework of social practices, lays the motives for potentially possible or realizable conflicts. These practices are implemented in the Internet space. The author shows Internet as a global social and communication network that provides new tools for both constructive and destructive influence on users. Social networks are a platform for various kinds of ultra-radical organizations that use information warfare technologies primarily against young people in the virtual space. The paper determines the theoretical and ideological significance of the phenomenon of political right-wing radicalism in Russian socio-political practices in the virtual space.

We-Narratives: Collective Storytelling in Contemporary Fiction

We-Narratives: Collective Storytelling in Contemporary Fiction

Integrating the biophilia physiognomies in the context of Neom smart city in Saudi Arabia

Motives: As the number of research studies of people in urban areas grows in terms of the criteria impacting the health and effectiveness of individuals, the detrimental effects caused by living apart from natural elements become more visible. There is inadequate data for a program that integrates both biophilic design and smart cities tactics. Smart city concerned about energy and resource utilization and utilize digital technologies to adjust resource consumption. It seldom discusses environmental sustainability. However, the biophilic design seeks to provide people with better life quality through a functional interconnection with nature. Digital expertise may prompt biophilic retorts via simulated methods. Aim: The study reconnoiters the significance of the biophilic ideologies to the city’s development. It integrates biophilic urban design in Neom city to overcome gaps in ecosystems’ health associated with traditional urban design. Result: The study proposes integrating biophilic elements at small and large scales. It explains each element within proposed projects and examples of Neom city’s design schemes to incubate these elements.

A Critical Discourse Analysis of Women’s Silence amongst the Banyakitara

The Banyakitara cultures today bring together the Banyankore, Bakiga, Banyoro, and Batooro people of Western Uganda. These are modern era Bantu remnants of the ancient Bunyoro-Kitara kingdom which at the height of its expansion, extended from the Karagwe area in Tanzania to the northern shores of Lake Kyoga. Among the Banyakitara, the women were typically assigned a subordinate status in the home and they in turn were inclined to use their silence for expressing submission, consent, indifference, and objection according to each situation. Based on the foregoing, the overall objective of this qualitative study which is based on conversational interviews was to interpret women’s silence among the Banyakitara, with a focus on the Banyankore- Bakiga. This overall objective was supported by specific ones aimed at investigating the linguistic, cultural, and ideological significance of women’s silence using the Critical Discourse Analysis approach. In the final part, the researcher also applied the African Feminist Framework to gauge whether women’s silence is a projection of the muting of their voices and whether public silence has private outlets within the power relations framing gendered discourse among the Banyakitara

Philip Roth

Philip Roth

Telecosteño: Constructing a linguistic imaginary in popular Colombian soap operas

Linguistically, Colombia is divided into two macrovarieties of Spanish: cachaco (interior of the country) and costeño (from the coastal regions). This linguistic dichotomy can also be extended to the cultural ambit, with costeño varieties being negatively perceived in the Colombian sociolinguistic imaginary, which is in turn reflected in popular folk discourse on language. Thus, the present article explores how authenticity of the costeño macrodialect is constructed in Colombian telenovelas ‘soap operas’, examining the significance of the language ideologies behind these constructions.Data is presented from a corpus of popular telenovelas, with findings showing that the depiction of this diverse macro-variety is often ‘exaggerated’ or ‘inauthentic’, supporting popular suggestions of misrepresentation, as well as previous findings on a cachaco narration of the Other. Importantly, this reflects wider sentiment toward costeño varieties in terms of how deeply engrained language ideologies are manifested within the country, shedding light on the social structures behind these ideologies, contributing to studies on the role of popular media in constructing and perpetuating ideologies on variation.

How is the translation of English fairy tales born in the aspect of intercultural communication

The relevance of the research topic is due to the increased interest in fairy tales within various directions and approaches, which is associated with the loss of low-quality stigma in children's literature compared to works intended for adults. Within the framework of translation theory, the main attention is paid to the peculiarities of the transfer of linguistic and stylistic features of children's literature and other translation difficulties. The purpose of the study is to identify patterns of transmission of national and cultural identity in the translation of fairy tales. Fairy tales from the collections "Pack from the Magic Hills" and "Gifts of fairies" by R. Kipling are considered. A linguistic and cultural analysis is carried out, the used translation transformations are highlighted.The subject of the study is the general trends in the treatment of elements of foreign culture when translating English fairy tales into Russian. В The scientific novelty lies in the analysis of translation from the position of adaptation of culturally colored elements for children. It is revealed that cultural adaptation is often made, which is not required for adult works. The results of the study demonstrate that in the process of translating English fairy tales, a balance is being sought between introducing children to another culture and the need to adapt the material for ease of perception by the audience. When translating for children, translation transformations are actively used, bringing culturally colored elements closer to familiar ones or simplifying their understanding, which is not always required for an adult audience. The way of handling labeled elements depends on their plot and ideological significance, cultural value and level of fame, the context of use, the chosen translation strategy and other factors.

The Ideological Foundations of Eurasian Economic Integration

The article analyzes the significance of Eurasian ideology for modern economic integration, the reasons for its limited use in the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), and the possibilities and prospects of adapting Eurasianism for the purposes of economic development and integration. Many international economic integration associations (e.g., the EU, USMCA, ASEAN) have a common or similar ideological and value-based foundation, which ensures stronger integration. The EAEU was initially established without a common, integrating ideological basis, although the first president of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, suggested using Eurasianism as the ideology of integration. Sergey Glazyev also wrote about the importance of integrative ideology for the development of the EAEU. However, these attempts to introduce Eurasian ideology for a stronger integration were not supported by the rest of the EAEU countries. This was largely because most EAEU members, including Russia, were driven by short-term economic interests, forgetting about more important long-term, strategic goals. Moreover, there are important ideological divisions in society and in the political elites of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia, and Kyrgyzstan - primarily the division between adherents of the ideology and practices of Western liberalism, oriented toward EU integration, and supporters of an ideology close to Eurasianism and defense of traditional values, oriented toward the development of integration in the Eurasian space. The reproduction of such divisions in the EAEU countries, as well as the absence or weak development of an integrative ideology, largely determines the inconsistent and not always effective integration in the EAEU. Eurasianism can become an integrative ideology, which, if developed and adapted to modern realities, can ensure a stronger economic integration. This requires overcoming illusions about the possibility of integration of Russia and other post-Soviet countries into the EU, pursuing an active information policy in the Eurasian countries, showing the commonality of geopolitical and economic interests of EAEU countries and the opposition of these interests to those of the USA. Eurasianism can effectively counter the threat of ethnic nationalism in the EAEU countries by emphasizing Eurasian integration as a necessary condition for preserving the sovereignty of Eurasian countries, their traditional values, and the combination of tradition and innovation.

Spiritual and Ideological Directions of the Politics of the Ottoman Empire in Central Asia (early XX c.)

The culmination of world imperialism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. led to a change in the foreign policy of the great powers. Each empire, on the way to solving its foreign policy problems, developed international integration in every possible way, established close ties with other states. One of them was the foreign policy of the Ottoman Empire in Central Asia, which was distinguished by its spiritual and ideological content. XIX-XX centuries the idea of the unity of the Turkic peoples prevailed, the spirituality and culture of which was considered one, had not only spiritual and cul- tural, but also political and ideological significance. The article examines the spiritual and ideological content of the policy of the Ottoman Empire in Central Asia at the beginning of the 20th century. The political significance of the spiritual and cultural unity of the Turkic peoples is revealed. The history of political ties based on the ideology of Islamic unity and Pan-Turkism on the part of the Ottoman Empire is investigated. One of the main tasks of the article is to consider the political aspect of the spiritual and cultural association, which is the beginning of the ideological trend known in world his- toriography as “Pan-Turkism”. It also analyzes the Pan-Islamic policy of the Ottoman Empire among the Muslim peoples of Central Asia. Key words: Central Asia, Turkestan, Ottoman Empire, Pan-Turkism, Pan-Islamism, Foreign policy, Political processes