Handbook of Cultural Security

Handbook of Cultural Security
Author: Yasushi Watanabe
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 513
Release: 2018
Genre: Culture
ISBN: 1786437740

This Handbook aims to heighten our awareness of the unique and delicate interplay between ‘Culture’ and ‘Society’ in the age of globalization. With particular emphasis on the role of culture in the field of “non-traditional” security, and seeking to define what ‘being secure’ means in different contexts, this Handbook explores the emerging concept of cultural security, providing a platform for future debates in both academic and policy fields.

Cultural Security: Evaluating The Power Of Culture In International Affairs

Cultural Security: Evaluating The Power Of Culture In International Affairs
Author: Erik Nemeth
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2014-11-27
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1783265507

Over the past two centuries, abuse of antiquities and fine art has evolved from the “spoils of war” into a medium for conducting terrorism which strives to erase the cultural heritage of “the other”. At the same time, the growth of the art market over the past fifty years has created opportunities for exploitation of cultural property. Since World War II, there has been maturing international awareness that armed conflict and looting pose a threat to cultural property; but simultaneously, art trafficking and the politics of cultural property create opportunities amidst risks in developed “collecting nations” and emerging “source nations”.This is the first book in the literature that touches on the interrelation of the financial value, politics, and security of cultural property and suggests the implications for the power of culture in global affairs. The intersection of these issues forms the basis for a new field which this book examines — cultural security. As part of the changing significance of cultural property in foreign relations, Cultural Security assesses corresponding security threats and opportunities for diplomacy.This book will take readers through the concepts and issues surrounding cultural property, cultural currency and cultural power, leaving readers with invaluable insights on the political economy of cultural property and the resulting source of “alternative power” in global affairs.

Cultural Norms and National Security

Cultural Norms and National Security
Author: Peter J. Katzenstein
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2018-09-05
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1501731467

Nonviolent state behavior in Japan, this book argues, results from the distinctive breadth with which the Japanese define security policy, making it inseparable from the quest for social stability through economic growth. While much of the literature on contemporary Japan has resisted emphasis on cultural uniqueness, Peter J. Katzenstein seeks to explain particular aspects of Japan's security policy in terms of legal and social norms that are collective, institutionalized, and sometimes the source of intense political conflict and change. Culture, thus specified, is amenable to empirical analysis, suggesting comparisons across policy domains and with other countries. Katzenstein focuses on the traditional core agencies of law enforcement and national defense. The police and the military in postwar Japan are, he finds, reluctant to deploy physical violence to enforce state security. Police agents rarely use repression against domestic opponents of the state, and the Japanese public continues to support, by large majorities, constitutional limits on overseas deployment of the military. Katzenstein traces the relationship between the United States and Japan since 1945 and then compares Japan with postwar Germany. He concludes by suggesting that while we may think of Japan's security policy as highly unusual, it is the definition of security used in the United States that is, in international terms, exceptional.

From Cultural Deprivation to Cultural Security

From Cultural Deprivation to Cultural Security
Author: Dale Allender
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2024-07-24
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1040048129

This important book considers how youth of color and other marginalized youth experience socio-cultural deprivation from the repetition of traumatic socio-historic experiences as well as from the institutions they interact with such as schools, mental health organizations, and social services agencies. Focusing on the importance of connection to cultural heritage, the book shows how young people’s cognitive development can be mediated in educational settings through humanizing and culturally sustaining rituals that build rapport and facilitate learning and healing. The authors define socio-cultural deprivation and locate its origins for marginalized youth in post-traumatic slave syndrome, post-apocalyptic stress syndrome and similar socio-historic trauma, epigenetic trauma, and contemporary trauma. They weave theory and research, autobiography, and professional anecdotes to identify and elaborate upon socio-cultural deprivation and to provide rituals for rapport-building that can be applied to classrooms, group counselling, social work practices, and other human-centred work. Rituals include those acknowledging indigeneity; exploring personal ancestry and alternative forms for those who have no connection to their biological family; healing experiences through yoga, meditation, progressive relaxation, and visualization practices; and explicit relationship-building activities. From Cultural Deprivation to Cultural Security will be a crucial text for training and practising psychologists, educators, social workers, youth workers and counsellors, concerned with the positive development of children, adolescents, and young adults.

Access to Justice and Human Security

Access to Justice and Human Security
Author: Sindiso Mnisi Weeks
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 423
Release: 2017-11-22
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1351669567

For most people in rural South Africa, traditional justice mechanisms provide the only feasible means of accessing any form of justice. These mechanisms are popularly associated with restorative justice, reconciliation and harmony in rural communities. Yet, this ethnographic study grounded in the political economy of rural South Africa reveals how historical conditions and contemporary pressures have strained these mechanisms’ ability to deliver the high normative ideals with which they are notionally linked. In places such as Msinga access to justice is made especially precarious by the reality that human insecurity – a composite of physical, social and material insecurity – is high for both ordinary people and the authorities who staff local justice forums; cooperation is low between traditional justice mechanisms and the criminal and social justice mechanisms the state is meant to provide; and competition from purportedly more effective ‘twilight institutions’, like vigilante associations, is rife. Further contradictions are presented by profoundly gendered social relations premised on delicate social trust that is closely monitored by one’s community and enforced through self-help measures like witchcraft accusations in a context in which violence is, culturally and practically, a highly plausible strategy for dispute management. These contextual considerations compel us to ask what justice we can reasonably speak of access to in such an insecure context and what solutions are viable under such volatile human conditions? The book concludes with a vision for access to justice in rural South Africa that takes seriously ordinary people’s circumstances and traditional authorities’ lived experiences as documented in this detailed study. The author proposes a cooperative governance model that would maximise the resources and capacity of both traditional and state justice apparatus for delivering the legal and social justice – namely, peace and protection from violence as well as mitigation of poverty and destitution – that rural people genuinely need.

Culture and Security

Culture and Security
Author: Michael C. Williams
Publisher: Taylor & Francis US
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: Europe
ISBN: 9780415417037

This book examines the role of culture in contemporary security policies, providing a critical overview of the ways in which culture has been theorized in security studies. Developing a theoretical framework that stresses the relationship between culture, power, security and strategy, the volume argues that cultural practices have been central to transformations in European and US security policy in the wake of the Cold War - including the evolution of NATO and the expansion of the EU. Michael C. Williams maintains that cultural practices continue to play powerful roles in international politics today, where they are essential to grasping the ascendance of neoconservatism in US foreign policy. Investigating the rise in popularity of culture and constructivism in security studies in relation to the structure and exercise of power in post-Cold War security relations, the book contends that this poses significant challenges for considering the connection between analytic and political practices, and the relationship between scholarship and power in the construction of security relations. Culture and Security will be of interest to students and researchers in the fields of international relations, security studies and European politics.

The importances of culture for international security

The importances of culture for international security
Author: Henry Sarennes
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Total Pages: 8
Release: 2013-10-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3656518319

Scientific Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict, Security, grade: 8.6, Sarajevo School of Science and Technology, course: International Security, language: English, abstract: Over the past few decades, political scientists have extensively pondered on the various theories that describe, suggest or reflect the nature of international security. Some are encouraging and ambitious, others firmly pessimistic, and with a few exceptions, all are often too abstract from contemporary and relevant practices and viewpoints. Such theories have too often steered away from the relevant factors needed for the establishment of international peace and security. The rise of certain doctrines, most often in the form of nationalist ideologies, have been met with the suppression of highly important elements that are used to define social groups, culture being one of them. Even though the term 'culture' can be broadly defined, in this context it is a reference to the unavoidable social diversity among the world population in terms of social norms, practices, traditions, ideologies etc. Social theorists such as constructivists would argue that the human factor is very often disregarded when creating and implementing decisions that concern multiple social groups. The issue of uncertainty is an example of the problems posed by the clash of different cultures as well as the limited research and education (social-wise) that plagues such conflicts.

Religious Education

Religious Education
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 548
Release: 1925
Genre: Christian education
ISBN:

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Collective Identity in Japan ́s Security Relations: The Case of the Trilateral Strategic Dialogue

Collective Identity in Japan ́s Security Relations: The Case of the Trilateral Strategic Dialogue
Author: Hauke Klevinghaus
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Total Pages: 99
Release: 2012-11-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3656321248

Diploma Thesis from the year 2010 in the subject South Asian Studies, South-Eastern Asian Studies, grade: 1,3, University of Duisburg-Essen (Institut für Ostasienwissenschaften), language: English, abstract: This study is an exploration and analysis of the ideational drivers of the Trilateral Strategic Dialogue (TSD) that was concluded in March 2006, between Japan, Australia and the United States. Turning away from materialist explanations of security cooperation, the questions of this study are: Can the conclusion of the TSD and its subsequent evolution be accounted for by a perceived collective identity between the three countries? And what is the Japanese Government ́s motivation to expand its alliances architecture? The last decade provides the timeframe for a qualitative analysis. The findings of this study show that the agreement and its following deepening is the result of a strong collective identity constituted by shared norms and democratic values. Moreover, Japan targets with the United States and Australia the establishment of a multilateral community of democratic states in the Asia-Pacific. The results also indicate, however, that collective identity promises peace between liberal states but is hostile towards non-liberal ones.