Influences of Media and Anxiety in a Psychological and Sociopolitical Context

This chapter analyzes the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), the creation of which was regarded as the culmination of the Caribbean’s long and protracted process toward independence from its former colonizers. Formally, the CCJ was instantaneously empowered to hear cases involving Caribbean Community law (Community law). The CCJ was also empowered to replace the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC) in London—a last court of appeal for civil and criminal cases from the Caribbean and the most visible remnant of the British Empire’s former rule. The CCJ’s unique double jurisdiction—original over Community law and appellate over other civil and criminal matters—underscores the complex sociopolitical context and transformation of which it is a part. Ultimately, the CCJ’s growing authority has increasingly made the Court the institutional intersection for the convergence of these two different paths toward establishing the Caribbean as a legally integrated regional unity.

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The SADC Tribunal

10.1093/oso/9780198795582.003.0006 ◽

2018 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

E. Tendayi Achiume

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Significant Role ◽

Economic History ◽

Southern African Development Community ◽

The Other ◽

Legal Decision ◽

African Development ◽

Sociopolitical Context ◽

Judicial Lawmaking

This chapter uses the trajectory of the Southern African Development Community (“SADC”) Tribunal to chart sociopolitical constraints on international judicial lawmaking. It studies the SADC Tribunal backlash case, which paved the way for a curtailment of the Tribunal’s authority, stripping the Tribunal of both private access and its jurisdiction over human rights. Showing how jurisprudential engagement with sociopolitical context plays a significant role in explaining the Tribunal's loss of authority, the chapter introduces the concept of sociopolitical dissonance. Sociopolitical dissonance is a state that results when a legal decision contradicts or undermines deeply held norms that a given society or community forms on the basis of its social, political, and economic history. Sociopolitical resonance, on the other hand, describes the quality of affirming or according with a given society's norms as informed by its sociopolitical history.

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Opera and the South African Political

The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Imagination, Volume 1 ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190460167.013.14 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 289-311

Author(s):

Christopher Ballantine

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

South African ◽

Singing Voice ◽

The South ◽

Sociopolitical Context ◽

Creating Meaning ◽

Empirical Means

Christopher Ballantine’s focus is on timbre, in particular the timbre of the singing voice, and how this combines with the imagination to create meaning. His investigation is largely philosophical; but the growth in popularity of opera in post-apartheid South Africa provides empirical means for Ballantine to indicate this powerful but analytically neglected way of creating meaning in the performance of music. His case study shows how timbre can produce musical experiences that have a particular, and often surprising, resonance. Through interviews with leading figures in South African opera, Ballantine demonstrates that timbre is a vital wellspring of imagined meaning; it should especially be seen thus if we seek to understand the singing voice in a sociopolitical context such as that of South Africa during and after apartheid.

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A POST-LIBERAL ORDER? HANS ZEHRER AND CONSERVATIVE CONSENSUS BUILDING IN 1950S WEST GERMANY

Modern Intellectual History ◽

10.1017/s147924431200025x ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 9 (3) ◽

pp. 681-698 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

MARCUS M. PAYK

Keyword(s):

Federal Republic ◽

Weimar Republic ◽

Political System ◽

West Germany ◽

New Order ◽

Consensus Building ◽

Right Wing ◽

Federal Republic Of Germany ◽

Specific Mode ◽

Sociopolitical Context

While it is well known that German conservative intellectuals were skeptical or indifferent to the Federal Republic of Germany established in 1949 and to its democratic founding principles, this essay shifts attention to a specific mode of right-wing acceptance of the new order. Focusing on Hans Zehrer, a renowned journalist and notorious opponent of democracy in the Weimar Republic, I will demonstrate how right-wing intellectuals interpreted West Germany's political system as a post-liberal order after the “end of politics”. But this vision of transcending societal and intellectual conflicts in a meta-politics was neither entirely new nor simply raked up from the late 1920s but reshaped to fit the postwar sociopolitical context. The essay illuminates several intellectual connections between Weimar-era neoconservatism and the specific conservative consensus formed after 1949, but it also explores personnel continuities within a network of right-wing journalists as well as continuities in the field of journalistic style.

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Living the stories we tell: The sociopolitical context of enacting teaching stories

Teaching and Teacher Education ◽

10.1016/j.tate.2017.10.005 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 69 ◽

pp. 85-94 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Andrea Bien ◽

Makenzie Selland

Keyword(s):

Sociopolitical Context

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Translate to resist

Translation and Interpreting Studies ◽

10.1075/tis.19059.dur ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Jasmin Esin Duraner

Keyword(s):

Central Position ◽

Counter Narrative ◽

Sociopolitical Context ◽

The Way

Abstract The emergence of the LGBTI+ movement has faced considerable challenges in the Turkish sociopolitical context due to the dominance and oppression of the long-established traditional and conservative institutions such as religion, family, and state. In Turkey, translation occupies a central position in the way knowledge is produced and organized to subvert heteronormativity and homo/transphobia, and struggle for rights. LGBTI News Turkey is the most conspicuous LGBTI+ organization in relation to this, since the platform focuses exclusively on translation. I discuss the role of the activist translators in the representation of LGBTI+ individuals globally by constructing a “narrative” (Baker 2006a) for the LGBTI+ community in Turkey. I also elaborate the concepts of fidelity and invisibility within activist translation, and the methods activist-translators employ to create and disseminate a counter narrative against the dominant public narrative, and question how they position themselves in the LGBTI+ movement.

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The Effects of the Sociopolitical Environment on Developments in Special Education

Australasian Journal of Special Education ◽

10.1017/s1030011200022703 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 17 (1) ◽

pp. 3-13

Author(s):

James M. Kauffman

Keyword(s):

Special Education ◽

Sociopolitical Environment ◽

Sociopolitical Context

The current sociopolitical context of special education is one of dangerous currents. I will give a brief overview of three of these currents and then discuss how we might proceed to avoid their taking us where we don’t want to go.

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Pain Research and Treatment in the Gerontological Context: A Discussion of the Issues

Pain Research and Management ◽

10.1155/1998/347850 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 91-96

Author(s):

Margaret C Gibson ◽

Michael R Thomas ◽

Andrew J Cook

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Elderly People ◽

Pain Treatment ◽

The Elderly ◽

Pain Research ◽

Sociopolitical Context ◽

Pain Experiences ◽

Pain In The Elderly

An appreciation of the context in which gerontological health care occurs is crucial to the successful and ethical collection, interpretation and utilization of data on the pain experiences of elderly people. Important contextual considerations for researchers and clinicians who are addressing pain in the elderly are identified. It is argued that topics that are the focus of current attention in the field of pain and ageing, such as the effect of dementia on memory for pain and the responsiveness of the elderly to psychosocial pain treatment, would be clarified by an understanding of the broader sociopolitical context in which ageing occurs.

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Sudanese Perspectives on Resettlement in Australia

Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology ◽

10.1375/prp.4.1.30 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 30-43 ◽

Cited By ~ 18

Author(s):

Kate E. Murray

Keyword(s):

Snowball Sampling ◽

Host Countries ◽

Diverse Backgrounds ◽

Sociopolitical Context ◽

Quantitative Sample ◽

Bonding And Bridging ◽

Bridging Capital ◽

The Individual ◽

Resettlement Programs ◽

Quantitative And Qualitative Methods

AbstractResettlement programs for people from a refugee background must respond to a variety of concerns as people from diverse backgrounds and often longstanding periods of upheaval and hardship enter their new resettlement communities. Host countries approach the demands of resettlement through varying programs and policies and those differences across countries can profoundly affect the newcomers' experiences. The current study employs quantitative and qualitative methods to examine the individual and contextual factors that influence the resettlement experience for adults from Sudan being resettled in Queensland, Australia. Ninety Sudanese adults were recruited through snowball sampling techniques for the quantitative study, with 10 individuals purposefully selected to complete the semistructured qualitative interview. In the quantitative sample, 25 to 30% of participants reported significant symptoms of psychological distress and frequent experiences of discrimination, and the majority of participants reported integration (identifying with both Australian and Sudanese cultures) as their method of acculturation. Participants reported feeling initially welcomed into Australia, with positive influences including bonding and bridging capital, which helped them in their adaptation, and negative influences including problems with the resettlement programs and experiences of discrimination. The findings underscore the importance of sociopolitical context on refugee experiences of the resettlement process.

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