Dressing up the Monarch Clavé, Elsa
Indonesia and the Malay world,
03/2024, Letnik:
52, Številka:
152
Journal Article
Recenzirano
The present article analyses the strategy used by the sultans of Sulu over two centuries (19th-21st) to affirm their status and authority, from their costumes to the symbols used. By doing so, it ...highlights how tradition makes use of old materials, symbols and rites from the southern Philippines, while it incorporates others which belong to the European heraldic language to extend the symbolic vocabulary of authority and power. The article uses written and visual sources to demonstrate how the royal house adapts to the changing local and international political situations. The comparison cases from the 19th and the 21st centuries shed light on the evolving diplomatic usage and contribute to a better understanding of the political culture of the Sultanate of Sulu.
Bringing together some of the most distinguished scholars in the field including John Ford, Javier García Martín, David Ibbetson, Annamaria Monti, Peter Oestmann, Heikki Pihlajamäki and Alain ...Wijffels, this volume looks at the comparative development of legal practice in the early modern period across Europe. Focusing deliberately on the impact of law courts on substantive law – and not on its systematisation by learned jurists – it studies similarities and differences in the development of the law across different jurisdictions. In doing so it evaluates whether and to what extent it is possible to consider this development as a unitary and truly European phenomenon. This collection re-evaluates current debates surrounding the development of civil law in the early modern period in the context of the grand narratives of European legal history and sets out to challenge current orthodox views about early modern civil law.
One Kensington Gardens is a large nine‐storey luxury apartment building on High Street Kensington. Rarely are there any lights on. The building exemplifies the many buy‐to‐leave homes in Kensington ...and Chelsea, the richest local authority in the UK. Looking at these homes from the perspective of residents and councillors who live and work in the borough, I explore how buy‐to‐leave housing hollows out community, increases the cost of living, sanitises public space, and results in exclusionary and physical displacement. I also identify what role the local authority has in the process of financialising housing in the borough, including how councillors work with developers to make decisions that do not meet the needs of the residents they have been elected to serve. By concentrating on the voice of residents, I show how buy‐to‐leave homes reinforces the super‐gentrification of the borough and becomes another form of gentrification that contributes to displacement.
Fictions, Lies, and the Authority of Law discusses legal, political, and cultural difficulties that arise from the crisis of authority in the modern world.Is there any connection linking some of the ...maladies of modern life-"cancel culture," the climate of mendacity in public and academic life, fierce conflicts over the Constitution, disputes over presidential authority? Fiction, Lies, and the Authority of Law argues that these diverse problems are all a consequence of what Hannah Arendt described as the disappearance of authority in the modern world. In this perceptive study, Steven D. Smith offers a diagnosis explaining how authority today is based in pervasive fictions and how this situation can amount to, as Arendt put it, "the loss of the groundwork of the world."Fictions, Lies, and the Authority of Law considers a variety of problems posed by the paradoxical ubiquity and absence of authority in the modern world. Some of these problems are jurisprudential or philosophical in character; others are more practical and lawyerly-problems of presidential powers and statutory and constitutional interpretation; still others might be called existential. Smith's use of fictions as his purchase for thinking about authority has the potential to bring together the descriptive and the normative and to think about authority as a useful hypothesis that helps us to make sense of the empirical world. This strikingly original book shows that theoretical issues of authority have important practical implications for the kinds of everyday issues confronted by judges, lawyers, and other members of society. The book is aimed at scholars and students of law, political science, and philosophy, but many of the topics it addresses will be of interest to politically engaged citizens.
Biomarkers have the potential to accelerate drug development, as early indicators of improved clinical response, to improve patient safety, and for personalised medicine. However, few have been ...approved through the biomarker qualification pathways of the regulatory agencies. This paper outlines how biomarkers can accelerate drug development, and reviews the lessons learned by the EU IMI2-funded LITMUS consortium, which has had several interactions with regulatory agencies in both the US and EU regarding biomarker qualification in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis. Sharing knowledge of such interactions with the scientific community is of paramount importance to increase the chances of qualification of relevant biomarkers that may accelerate drug development, and thereby help patients, across disease indications. A qualified biomarker enables a decision to be made that all understand and support in a common framework.
The burgeoning geographical literature on the financialisation of urban development has focused predominantly on the growing importance within this sphere of financial markets, motives, and ...institutions. This article starts from the observation that in examining such financialisation, scholars have paid insufficient attention to the details of the financial contexts within which it takes place. Through a consideration of certain high‐profile ongoing transformations in the property strategies of English local authorities, the article argues that we need to put urban financialisation – in this case, state‐led variants thereof – in its financial context: it needs to be understood as a response, at least in part, to specific financial conjunctures. After several decades of effective withdrawal, many local authorities have assumed a resurgent role in urban property ownership and development in recent years, and especially since the global financial crisis. This resurgence is apparent, albeit selectively, in regard to both commercial and residential property. On the one hand, local authorities have been rebuilding portfolios of investment (i.e., non‐operational) commercial property; on the other hand, they have been building new homes, typically not for social rent, through arms‐length housing companies. I argue that understanding these trends requires appreciation of local authorities’ particular financial circumstances in the “post‐crisis” era – their operation at the intersection of devolved austerity, reformed housing finance, and unconventional monetary policy – and of the constraints and opportunities that these circumstances shape.
A conjunctural analysis of financialised, state‐led urban development initiatives in England in the period since the financial crisis.
Social costs derived by fuel poverty are often not considered in policy decision making, leading to the exclusion of vulnerable groups from subsidy and further degradation of old inefficient housing ...stock. Low-income housing renovation may result in unprofitable under conventional methods due to multiple factors such as the low price of energy of subsidised utility tariffs, the below-average energy consumption, and their inability to invest. This paper analyses policy to public housing retrofitting considering the social costs derived by fuel poverty, a situation of vulnerability driven by a combination of low income and poor living conditions regarding energy consumption and thermal comfort. Enhanced comfort conditions positively affect individuals' health and social life, translating into economic relief for the National Healthcare Service. The search to reduce fuel poverty challenges a paradigm shift in investment in public housing renovation. It could receive additional support from the monetisation of the health benefits derived by building retrofitting. The results of this paper offer local authorities the critical analysis and evaluation framework when it comes to an understanding the policy impact of building retrofit on energy consumption, thermal comfort and health, prioritise the renovations of the public housing stock and adequately allocate public funding.
•Unveiling the social costs of fuel poverty in Lisbon public housing.•Social policy housing retrofitting enhanced comfort conditions.•Renovation of low income neighboured must increase.
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