Preaching the Name: the influence of a sermon on the Holy Name of Christ

This article discusses a unique fifteenth-century sermon which provides important evidence for the development and transmission of the cult of the Holy Name and the place of Rollean mysticism within it. The author of the sermon was an Augustinian canon who sought to bring monastic ideals to an urban and knightly audience. His sermon offers guidance on the contemplative life, echoing the mysticism of Richard Rolle and promoting a personified Holy Name of Christ as an active agent of salvation. There are martial elements to the sermon which suggest an imagined audience including, but not limited to, the knightly class.     

潮州古城旅游社区主客活动秩序研究

个体日常活动行为的时空特征及秩序反映出个体对空间利用的时空需求。本文选取潮州古城作为案例地，以周末为典型日，采用日常活动地图收集居民与游客活动数据，基于活动分析法及ArcGIS空间分析从流动、分布与状态三个方面探究大型旅游社区的主客活动秩序。研究结果表明：古城的空间功能在原有的生活功能基础上演化出旅游功能，并保持着主客活动的秩序性，但其流动模式由于交通管制条例的约束及主客的共同占用，暗藏潜在矛盾；由于主客活动意图的不同，决定了活动安排上时间与空间的错位，在时空资源配置上表现出“分时共地”、“共时异地”的嵌合特征；“共时共地”之时，由于古城的空间足以容纳主客的活动，加之“商业性好客”的驱使，使得主客活动仍能保持秩序化。由于潮州古城具有着相对独立的社区结构，社区旅游发展成为社区秩序重构的重要机遇，合理的规划内容和途径能有效促进旅游社区生活功能与旅游功能的协调，在利益主体的协商与适应中构建了主客活动的新秩序。     

Generational order: troubles with a ‘travelling concept’

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This brief comment on Samantha Punch's paper first recalls the theoretical context in which the notions ‘generational order’ and ‘generationing’ emerged. It is then suggested that their uneven use both in childhood research and elsewhere is centrally related to inadequate consideration of ontological and methodological issues involved in cross-theory and cross-context adaption of ‘travelling concepts’.     

Nation-building and Canada's national symbolic order, 1993–2015

This article examines the symbolic construction of Canadian national identity by the 1993–2006 Liberal governments and the 2006–2015 Conservative governments. To do so, it employs the concept of a ‘national symbolic order’, which refers to the complex set of public symbols that invoke, transport, and define claims to a shared national identity. Within Canada's national symbolic order, we focus on the state's use of national symbols across two domains: Speeches from the Throne and banknotes. Our analysis shows that Canada's recent Conservative government has used both of these domains to reshape Canadian national identity in ways that accord with neo-conservative values and ideology, and that it has done so in a coherent, consistent, and comprehensive fashion. This analysis highlights the symbolic strategies employed by state actors in linking particular ideologies to their nation-building projects; these strategies span multiple political and policy spaces.     

A sociotechnical order for the umma: connecting Islam and technology in Suharto’s Indonesia

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This article explores narratives connecting Islam and technology that arose in Indonesia during the New Order period (1965–1998). These public discussions defined technological work, especially work in high technology, as a vital spiritual and economic arena for Indonesian Muslims. By asserting technology as a site for spiritual action, Indonesian Islamic activists offered a redefinition of economic development intended to alter both its goals and the character of participation in the development enterprise. In doing so, they framed technological activity as a crucial form of moral agency. Embracing the postsecular turn in historical scholarship which emphasizes attention to the ongoing social processes which define religiosity and secularity, this article investigates how religion and technology are entangled in contemporary Indonesia.     

Black Rod and the Office of Usher of the Parliament Chamber

The gentleman usher of the black rod has long been acknowledged as an officer of the house of lords. Yet he was in origin an officer of the order of the Garter with no necessary connection with parliament. This note aims to throw light on the process whereby this association came about. By 1509, the house of lords had the services of an usher of the parliament chamber, a post always held in conjunction with an office in the royal household. By 1558, this post was being exercised by one of the gentlemen ushers daily waiters, who had been granted the office of black rod as an additional perquisite in 1554. From this point it became customary for the offices of black rod, daily waiter and usher of the parliament chamber to be held by one man. This association was broken in 1620, when the then usher relinquished the office of daily waiter but retained his parliamentary functions together with the office of black rod. In 1631, a decree was promulgated annexing the office of black rod to that of one of the gentlemen ushers daily waiters but it was only from 1660 that this became fully effective.     

Imperial Projections & Crisis: The Liberal International Order as a ‘Pseudo-Empire’

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This article proposes that empire serves as a suitable framework for understanding how and why the liberal international order is exhibiting symptoms of ‘imperial overstretch’. Noting that many of its critics and opponents subscribe to a simplistic and yet powerful narrative that views liberal internationalism as a pseudo-imperial project, it shows that detractors tend to perceive democracy promotion and globalisation as the two main instruments of an order-building endeavour that is remoulding international structures along imperial lines to reflect liberal values and institutions. Within the transatlantic community, critics from the left resent liberal internationalism for its corporate greed, its imperialistic tendencies, wars of intervention, and the veneer of humanitarianism that disguises its ideology of a ‘civilising mission’. Critics from the right fear the erosion of national boundaries and the subversion of the nation-state as a result of mass migration, the dilution of national identities, and the constant meddling of supra-national organisations. Externally, the order is under attack by revisionist states, competitors, and violent non-state actors. Ideological incompatibility and differences in motives notwithstanding, these hostile forces are increasingly united in their struggle against the liberal order – with the risks of its possible disintegration all too familiar to the students of empire.     

秩序与生产:新区土改中的政策表达

随着革命胜利和新中国的建立,发展生产力和工业化成为战略目标,由此新区土改的重心体现了从"翻身"到"秩序"和"生产"的转向。针对新区农村地权分配和阶级划分的复杂情况,党和政府对于相关政策进行了认真的调查,作出了周密的规定和详细的阐释,各地政府还根据中央的法令对土改政策作了灵活的、符合实际的调整,稳定了社会秩序,促进了农业生产。     

Why have generational orderings been marginalised in the social sciences including childhood studies?

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This paper considers why age and generation tend not to be recognised as social variables in the same way that gender, ethnicity and class are mainstreamed within Social Science disciplines. It questions why the concept of the generational order is not always integral to either Childhood Studies or the related sub-disciplines, such as Children’s Geographies. It begins from a starting point that Childhood Studies is generally a multi-disciplinary field but seems stuck from moving forward conceptually. The politics of Childhood Studies can result in sub-disciplinary silos rather than working in a more interdisciplinary way. The politics of childhood in society have progressed in terms of children’s rights and participation yet the theoretical development of children’s agency has been stuck. The paper discusses the lack of extensive empirical investigation of the generational order, suggesting that ‘generational orderings’ may be a more dynamic way to engage with processes of generationing.