Oktober 24, 2017, 1:51 pm, DAVID QUENTIN, LIAM CAMPLING, Allgemein.
The global value chain (GVC) analytic, as currently conceived in the literature on global production, tracks ‘value added’ along commodity chains but does not interrogate where value comes from and where it goes. This tends to deflect narratives that relate to systemic inequalities and the mechanisms by which those inequalities are reproduced. We seek to remedy that defect in two ways. First, we demonstrate that assumptions in GVC analysis about the distribution of value creation along the chain, which are generally adopted to support value chain ‘upgrading’ as a policy prescription, may be unreliable. Second, we combine the analytic with the emerging ‘global wealth chain’ analytic regarding tax outcomes, for this will enable us to map contestation over value capture between capital, labour and the state along the chain. We call this synthetic analytic the ‘global inequality chain’ (GIC). While we deploy Marxian value theory to provide a framework for this schematic mapping exercise, we emphasize that the GIC is amenable to other value-theoretical frameworks (provided such frameworks are objective rather than empirically reliant on realization in the form of prices). We illustrate the utility of the GIC by applying it to the topics of global gender inequality and corporate tax reform.
Oktober 24, 2017, 1:51 pm, LESLIE BUTT, Allgemein.
This article introduces the concept of the absent child, and shows its importance for understanding experiences of contemporary transnational families. The article moves beyond a dominant scholarly focus on split families of working migrant parents and stay-behind children in home communities. Instead, it draws out the power of absence in mobile families, focusing on the signs, meanings, imaginations and practices around children who may be hidden, deceased, imagined, abandoned or in other ways not present. It provides an introduction to four accompanying articles based on original research with families from Indonesia and the Philippines. These articles focus on the absent child as prosthesis for families, on the subtleties of affect around absence, and on the impact of normative regulatory practices on child absence.
Oktober 24, 2017, 1:50 pm, NICOLE CONSTABLE, Allgemein.
Drawing from stories told by migrant women in Hong Kong, this article builds on previous studies of ‘left-behind children’ and calls for greater attention to the spectrum of sorts of absent children and to the formation of queer or less normative forms of migratory families. Taking a two-pronged approach, I present an on-the-ground ethnographic and affective approach through several vignettes, and consider key elements of a more mid-range and distanced ‘global assemblage’ approach to the institutions and expert knowledge that shape the experiences and practices of migrant mothers, migratory families, and the spectrum of absent children. This article posits that one’s biological children, perhaps the most familial of kin, can become familiar or even unfamiliar strangers through contemporary processes, technologies and practices of migration and separation, and that the process of migration makes and unmakes conventional and unconventional sorts of families. While affective and assemblage approaches are independently valuable, combined they offer richer understandings of the complex interplay of factors – at various levels – that shape normative and queer families and different types of children’s absences.
Oktober 20, 2017, 2:24 pm, der rechte rand,
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Endlich: Die menschenverachtende Mission «Defend Europe« hat ein Ende gefunden.
Der Beitrag Das Scheitern der Mission »Defend Europe« erschien zuerst auf der rechte rand.
Oktober 19, 2017, 9:04 pm, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies current issue, Allgemein.
Quelle: http://jmems.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/short/47/3/657?rss=1
Oktober 19, 2017, 9:04 pm, Cheely, D., Allgemein.
The Reformers‘ campaign to purge bibles of marginal glosses, finally achieved in the Authorized Version of 1611, was first achieved in the authenticated version of Latin Catholicism—the Sixtine Vulgate of 1590. Its sola scriptura format, however…
Oktober 19, 2017, 9:04 pm, Mandelbrote, S., Allgemein.
This article discusses an illuminated copy of the fourth printed edition of the Latin Vulgate (Mainz, 1462), or 48-line Bible, which is now in the Perne Library at Peterhouse, Cambridge. It considers the history of the book in the late sixteenth centu…
Oktober 19, 2017, 9:04 pm, Fleck, A., Allgemein.
Aemilia Lanyer refers extensively to the Gospels in writing her poem on the Passion, Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum. Alluding to the events of Christ’s final day, she incorporates details from each of the Gospel accounts of the Crucifixion. Focusing on spec…
Oktober 19, 2017, 9:04 pm, Hooks, A. G., Allgemein.
Attempting to reconstruct the history of an early modern bible enables us to better understand its place at the intersection of sacred and secular culture. A copy of the second folio edition of the Bishops‘ Bible (1572) in the University of Iowa Speci…
Oktober 19, 2017, 9:04 pm, Miller, J. A., Allgemein.
The part played by the Geneva Bible in the composition of the King James Version (1611) has been a vexed issue from the very commissioning of the King James translation in 1604. This essay sheds new light on the issue by focusing in detail on two exta…