Religion in the Public Sphere: A Comparative Analysis of German, Israeli, American and International Law

2007 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
International Law ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere

Law of Nations Theory and the Native Sovereignty Debates in Colonial India

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 373-407
Author(s):  
Zak Leonard
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
International Law ◽  
East India Company ◽  
Concerted Effort ◽  
Colonial India ◽  
The Public ◽  
High Ranking ◽  
Native Sovereignty ◽  
Law Of Nations ◽  
The Public Sphere

Beginning in the 1840s, high-ranking officials within the East India Company began a concerted effort to confiscate and annex princely states, citing misrule or a default of blood heirs. In response, metropolitan reformers and their Indian allies orchestrated a sustained legalistic defense of native sovereignty in the public sphere and emerged as vocal opponents of colonial expansionism. Adapting concepts put forth by both law of nations theorists and contemporary jurists, they sought to preserve longstanding treaties and defend the princes' exercise of internal sovereignty. The colonial government's failure to adequately define the basis of its modern “paramountcy” invited such creative maneuvering. Reformist opposition to the annexation of Awadh, the dispossession of the Nawab of the Carnatic, and the confiscation of Mysore demonstrates that international law did not simply function as a Eurocentric tool of subordination, but could also provide a bulwark against colonial depredations.

The Catholic and the Communist Women's Press in Post-War Italy—An Analysis of Cronache and Noi Donne

Modern Italy ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 285-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina Rothenberg
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Feminist Movement ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Women's Press ◽  
Gradual Development ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Post War ◽  
Women's Role

This article aims to provide a systematic, comparative analysis of two of the main women's mass publications in order to trace continuities and changes in the development of women's role in the public sphere in Italy. The analysis begins with an elaboration of the social and political context, which is crucial for the understanding of media texts in general. It shows how the existence of only limited political spaces in post-war Italian society due to the polarisation of Catholicism and communism delayed both an open political discourse on women's conditions and the gradual development of an autonomous and lay feminist movement. Noi Donne of Union Donne Italiene (UDI) was closely aligned with and financed by the Italian Communist Party (PCI) and lacked any substantial autonomy until the early 1970s, while Cronache of the Catholic women's organisation Centro Italiano Femminile (CIF) was a faithful instrument for the propagation of those Catholic concepts of femininity that were redefined and reinforced by the Vatican in the Catholic publication Civiltà Cattolica.

Between Faith and State

2019 ◽  
pp. 23-42
Author(s):  
Kathleen A. Cavanaugh
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
International Law ◽  
Mena Region ◽  
Faith And Reason ◽  
The Public ◽  
Political Transformations ◽  
Legal Discourses ◽  
The Public Sphere

This chapter examines the politics of law that are mapped out in the various trends of analysis within both Islamic and international law. Disrupting the notion of a "fixedness" in these legal discourses and reimagining each in their political self is a critical first step in addressing the challenge--one that preoccupies much of the literature that looks at Islam and rights--as to how to open a space in the human rights project where faith and reason can be accommodated. In undertaking this task, the chapter discusses how the human rights project engages with religion in the public sphere before turning to how these concepts have been engaged where Islam and human rights intersect generally, and then specifically when applied to states in the Middle East. The second part of the chapter focuses on the plural readings of Islamic formulations of law and details the trends of analysis within political transformations that have unfolded (and continue to unfold) across the MENA region in the wake of the so-called Arab Spring.

scholarly journals PRIVATE AND PUBLIC IN SOCIO-PHILOSOPHICAL TRADITIONAND FEMINIST THEORY: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 28-32
Author(s):  
T. A Kostritskaia
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Philosophical Tradition ◽  
The Public ◽  
Insufficient Attention ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Gender Aspect

The article is devoted to the consideration of the public/private dichotomy in the socio-philosophical tradition and feminist theory. It is shown that the socio-philosophical tradition, exploring it without taking into account the gender aspect, is unable, as a result, to detect some key elements of this dichotomy. At the same time, the feminist theory, which does not pay enough attention to the public sphere, mixes its economic and political aspects. Besides, the insufficient attention of the feminist theory to the concepts of publicity and privacy leads to their status as unconscious research prerequisites. It is concluded that the study of the problem of private and public requires combining the considered traditions in a single theoretical field.

scholarly journals The intellectual engagé of the social movements

1970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pilar Damião De Medeiros
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Public Sphere

By taking into account the social, historic, political and cultural continuities and discontinuities,aswell as the permanent metamorphosis of the public sphere, this articleaims at a comparative analysis of the multidimensional impact of the intellectual critiqueof the 60’s and 70’s and that of the first decade of the 2000’s. This article therefore aspiresat understanding if some of the nuances of the intellectuals’ engagement of the60’s and 70’s social movements still persist today as regards the role of the contemporaryintellectual when facing the emerging cultural, social, political and economic crisis,which — although caused by different publics, interests and contexts — tend tohave some characteristics and contours in common. Thiswork aims at understanding(1) if intellectuals have reclaimed their voice, so far silent, in the public sphere, (2) ifthey have been contributing with social, cultural and political alternatives and even (3)if they have been fostering communication forums with the objective of instigating alternativesto the alternative imposed by the system.

Toward a Feeling of Animacy

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 66-90
Author(s):  
Brianne Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Climate Justice ◽  
Ho Chi Minh City ◽  
Moving Image ◽  
The Public ◽  
Northern Vietnam ◽  
Exhaust Fumes ◽  
The Public Sphere

This essay offers a comparative analysis of two moving-image artworks, UuDam Tran Nguyen's Serpents' Tails (2015) and Tuaấn Mami's In One's Breath—Nothing Stands Still (2018), in order to address questions of contemporary artmaking, ecological devastation, and the public sphere in Vietnam. Set in Ho Chi Minh City, Serpents' Tails hails a question of air pollution, depicting a thrilling dance between humans and “serpents' tails” created from plastic, throwaway bags, and the exhaust fumes of motorbikes. In contrast, the slower-paced In One's Breath—Nothing Stands Still critiques extractive limestone mining in rural northern Vietnam, a process that smothers the land in a kind of white, powdery haze and slow death grip. Both works highlight a question of inequitable breathability in relation to the airscape. In comparing these two artworks, this essay aims to parse out intertwined ecological concerns in urban and rural Vietnam, represented by expressions of breathability, in relation to sociopolitical questions of speakability and animacy. Matters of more-than-human animacy cannot be divorced from pressing issues of coloniality, indigeneity, gender, sex, race, and climate justice. When “voice” and “agency” are structurally oppressed in linguistic form, eliminating a grammar of animacy (Robin Wall Kimmerer) that would convey the vitality of “nonliving” beings, then I argue that one may recuperate a feeling of animacy through the visual realm. With emotional charge, Serpents' Tails and In One's Breath—Nothing Stands Still engender a sense of nonhumans' mutual animacy, attempting to re-instill a feeling of respect for, and reciprocity with, the living land.

Queering the Public Sphere in Mexico and Brazil: Sexual Rights Movements in Emerging Democracies. By Rafael de la Dehesa. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010. 320p. $84.95 cloth, $23.95 paper.

2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 399-401
Author(s):  
Deborah B. Gould
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
The State ◽  
Sexual Rights ◽  
Emerging Democracies ◽  
The Public ◽  
Economic Forces ◽  
Bisexual And Transgender ◽  
Duke University ◽  
The Public Sphere

Rafael de la Dehesa has written an empirically rich and analytically nuanced book that explores the rise and development of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) activist engagements with the state in Brazil and Mexico. The two cases are ideal for comparative analysis: Movements in both countries emerged under semiauthoritarian regimes and operated as their countries transitioned to democracy, but the paths they took show striking differences, allowing de la Dehesa to argue forcefully for the importance of the local and the contingent as activists navigate the national and transnational fields in which they are embedded. As the concept of embeddedness warrants, even while pointing toward the importance of the particular and the agentic, de la Dehesa carefully shows as well how constrained, and enabled, activists were by the multiple fields in which they operated. Queering the Public Sphere in Mexico and Brazil, then, successfully charts an analytical course that recognizes the powerful but nontotalizing nature of institutions, economic forces, and discourses.

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