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The Human Condition.

29 Jun 2017-Academic Psychiatry (Springer International Publishing)-Vol. 41, Iss: 6, pp 771-771
TL;DR: In some religious traditions, the myth of the ‘Fall from the Garden of Eden’ symbolizes the loss of the primordial state through the veiling of higher consciousness.
Abstract: Human beings are described by many spiritual traditions as ‘blind’ or ‘asleep’ or ‘in a dream.’ These terms refers to the limited attenuated state of consciousness of most human beings caught up in patterns of conditioned thought, feeling and perception, which prevent the development of our latent, higher spiritual possibilities. In the words of Idries Shah: “Man, like a sleepwalker who suddenly ‘comes to’ on some lonely road has in general no correct idea as to his origins or his destiny.” In some religious traditions, such as Christianity and Islam, the myth of the ‘Fall from the Garden of Eden’ symbolizes the loss of the primordial state through the veiling of higher consciousness. Other traditions use similar metaphors to describe the spiritual condition of humanity:

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25 Jul 2017-Young
TL;DR: The work in this paper suggests a shift from youth as an experience of progress through time, to youth as a heterogeneous process that unfolds relationally as part of the material and symbolic production of space.
Abstract: The agenda promoted in this special issue suggests a shift from youth as an experience of progress through time, to youth as a heterogeneous process that unfolds relationally as part of the material and symbolic production of space. This special issue is published at a time when young people are at the forefront of changes in the social organization of space, and spatiality is beginning to be recognized as foundational to understanding young people’s lives (Farrugia, 2014; Holloway and Valentine, 2000; Valentine and Skelton, 1998; Worth, 2015). The relationship between youth and spatiality can be seen in the ways that the global mobility of contemporary capital is reshaping youth, exemplified by both the devalourization of young people growing up in the former industrial centres of the global north (Furlong, 2015; MacDonald and Marsh, 2005; Serracant, 2012), and the repositioning of rural Southeast Asian young women as the ideal labour force for contemporary manufacturing (Wolf, 1992). Young people are at the forefront of new modes of urban living in the trans-national networks of ‘global cities’ that Sassen (2012) has identified as constituting the critical economic and networks of the current age (Ball et al., 2000). In addition, contemporary youth cultures demonstrate both a strong investment in the uniqueness of a local scene, as well as the articulation of transnational popular cultural flows made available within the digital spaces of online networking sites (Bennett, 2000; Greener and Hollands, 2006; Skelton and Valentine, 1998). As spatiality is a critical dimension of youth, youth studies is positioned to make critical interventions into the way in which space, place and globalization are theorized and empirically investigated. However, a focus on space upsets some influential intellectual and disciplinary assumptions, which assume that youth is fundamentally about temporality—or progression and change in and through time. The assumption of youth as temporality dates back at least to the colonial era, in which evolutionary discourses described the development of youth as a rehearsal of the development of humanity, and in which young people were positioned alongside racialized categories of colonized peoples as pre-modern (but nevertheless developing) human beings (Lesko, 2001). The assumption of youth as developmental time continues in developmental psychology, in which childhood, youth and adulthood are positioned along a linear developmental trajectory signposted by the individual accomplishment of certain biological, intellectual and social capacities (such as physical maturity and the capacity for rational self-governance). Linear developmental time operates as the fundamental ontological and epistemological category for understanding youth, and thereby provides the basis for normative judgements about youth development in relation to developmental milestones. Editorial

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  • ...The articles demonstrate the spatial dimensions of youth as manifested in global patterns and interrelations, as well as within the micro spaces and the webs of social relations (Arendt, 1958) within which young people form their sense of place, identity and citizenship (Wood, 2016)....

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17 Dec 2019

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  • ...Unlike the “fictional” stories “made” by official authors working within the confines of the social, new political meaning emerges when “real” stories are publicly shared and negotiated between acting beings, thus disclosing the richness and multifarious nature of the human world through action, speech, and, 33 In contrast to Arendt’s notion of the distanced theorist as storyteller, in The Human Condition Arendt places great value on the direct experience of the storyteller....

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  • ...(Arendt, 1998, pp. 176-177) Building from this, if Said encouraged his audience to begin again by crossing the lines of separation sustained by communal filiation into productive relations of affiliation, in 1948 and later Arendt implored her primarily Jewish audience to begin anew by making an…...

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  • ...…and isolated, my participants felt a “mutual aesthetic provocation” (Curtis, 1999, p. 36) to disclose themselves to one another within the boundless and unpredictable “space of appearance” (Arendt, 1998, p. 199) where they experienced togetherness, and thus reality, through speech and action....

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  • ...77 Thus, while some individuals will choose to remain separated from one another by the forces of the social, others will choose to meet within “the space of appearance” (Arendt, 1998, p. 199) where they have the opportunity to experience togetherness, and thus reality, through speech and action....

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  • ...Arendt (1998) declared that “fictional” stories are “made” and strategically employed by “invisible authors”, while “real” stories come into being when individuals courageously “act…speak…[and] insert [themselves] into the world [to] begin a story of [their] own” (p. 186)....

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TL;DR: The notion of historical thinking has in recent years become popular in research on history education, particularly so in North America, the UK and Australia as discussed by the authors, and the aim of this paper is to discuss th...
Abstract: The notion of historical thinking has in recent years become popular in research on history education, particularly so in North America, the UK and Australia. The aim of this paper is to discuss th ...

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TL;DR: In this paper, a semi-structured interview with 10 men who suffered diverse forms of sexual violence during the Bosnian war is presented, focusing on the lives of these men today.
Abstract: While conflict-related sexual violence affects men and women, male survivors are often overlooked or marginalised. The case of Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) is a poignant example. Twenty-two years after the Bosnian war ended, little attention has been given to the men who suffered diverse forms of sexual violence during the conflict. The present article contributes to addressing this gap. Based on semi-structured interviews with 10 men who endured the horrors of the Celopek camp in north-east BiH, it focuses on the lives of these men today. Exploring the men’s silences and the intersection of their trauma with ongoing everyday problems, it goes beyond the commonly made argument that sexual violence against men constitutes an attack on masculinity. Fundamentally, it examines how masculinity norms and expectations have shaped the men’s stories, coping strategies, and current needs. This use of a masculinity lens highlights important gaps within transitional justice, which to date has narrowly focused on ...

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27 Mar 2020

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  • ...“The trouble with modern theories of behaviourism,” Hannah Arendt wrote, “is not that they are wrong but that they could become true, that they actually are the best possible conceptualization of certain obvious trends in modern society” (1958). The trend toward the quantifiable, measurable and accountable in urban design would appear to reflect a return to what Brenner and Schmid describe as “technoscientific urbanism,” where sensing space and analysing behavioural data become the dominant methods for empirically driven urban design aimed at finding solutions for perennial urban problems....

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  • ...“The trouble with modern theories of behaviourism,” Hannah Arendt wrote, “is not that they are wrong but that they could become true, that they actually are the best possible conceptualization of certain obvious trends in modern society” (1958)....

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