Like the Sound of a Drum: Aboriginal Cultural Politics in Denendeh and Nunavut

2007 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 783-784
Author(s):  
Gary N. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Northwest Territories ◽  
Cultural Politics ◽  
Local Politics ◽  
Community Politics ◽  
Territorial Politics ◽  
University Of Manitoba ◽  
Political Economic

Like the Sound of a Drum: Aboriginal Cultural Politics in Denendeh and Nunavut, Peter Kulchyski, Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2005, pp. xi, 305.Much of the existing literature on politics in the Northwest Territories (Denendeh) and Nunavut focuses on the dynamics of political, economic and social change at the territorial level of government. This is especially true if one considers the case of Nunavut. In recent years, a number of books and articles have deepened our understanding of territorial politics and the evolving relationship between the territories and other levels of government in Canada. Very few studies, however, have examined political developments in the territories from the perspective of community politics. Like the Sound of a Drum: Aboriginal Cultural Politics in Denendeh and Nunavut, by Peter Kulchyski, makes an important contribution to this growing literature by exploring grassroots local politics in several communities in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.

Everyday Crafting of the Bolivarian State

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 159-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iselin Åsedotter Strønen
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Cultural Politics ◽  
State Policies ◽  
The State ◽  
Popular Participation ◽  
Community Politics ◽  
Everyday Work ◽  
State Employees ◽  
Poor Communities

Venezuela’s communal councils are legally sanctioned organs for popular participation implemented mostly in poor communities since 2006. The promotores integrales, lower-level state employees who assist the communal councils in their everyday work, serve as mediators between state policies and community politics, and study of their roles and perspectives provides important insights into the complexities of implementing policies of popular participation and transforming state practices in the context of radical social change. While the cultural politics and knowledges of the popular sectors have become imprinted on the Venezuelan state, attempts to change the state in accordance with Bolivarian ideology are subject to intense contestation and struggle. Los consejos comunales de Venezuela son órganos para la participación popular establecidos legalmente y puestos en práctica mayormente en comunidades pobres desde 2006. Los promotores integrales –empleados estatales de menor rango que ayudan a los consejos comunales en su trabajo diario –sirven como mediadores entre las políticas del estado y la política comunitaria. El estudio de sus roles y perspectivas nos ofrece importantes claves para comprender la complejidad de implementar políticas de participación popular y transformar las prácticas del estado en el contexto de un cambio social radical. Mientras que las políticas culturales y los saberes de los sectores populares han quedado grabados en el estado venezolano, los esfuerzos para cambiar al estado de acuerdo con la ideología bolivariana están sujetos a una intensa impugnación y luchas constantes.

3D-printed Futures of Manufacturing, Social Change and Technological Innovation in China and Singapore: The Ghost of a Massless Future?

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 254-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luke Heemsbergen ◽  
Angela Daly ◽  
Jiajie Lu ◽  
Thomas Birtchnell
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
3D Printing ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
First Century ◽  
Global Knowledge ◽  
Law And Technology ◽  
3D Printed ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Political Economic

This article outlines preliminary findings from a futures forecasting exercise where participants in Shenzhen and Singapore considered the socio-technological construction of 3D printing in terms of work and social change. We offered participants ideal political-economic futures across local–global knowledge and capital–commons dimensions, and then had them backcast the contextual waypoints across markets, culture, policy, law and technology dimensions that help guide towards each future. Their discussion identified various contextually sensitive points, but also tended to dismiss the farthest reaches of each proposed ideal, often reverting to familiar contextual signifiers. Here, we offer discussion on how participants saw culture and industry shaping futures for pertinent political economic concerns in the twenty-first century.

Arctic Revolution: Social Change in the Northwest Territories 1935-1994

1997 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 295
Author(s):  
Donald B. Smith ◽  
John David Hamilton
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Northwest Territories

Experiments with Khomeini's Revolution in Kargil: Contemporary Shi‘a networks between India and West Asia

2014 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 370-398 ◽  
Author(s):  
RADHIKA GUPTA
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Local Politics ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Reform Movement ◽  
Financial Flows ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Colonial India ◽  
Religious Networks ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractShi‘i scholars from India have been a sizeable presence in seminaries in Iran and Iraq, both historically and today. Yet there is a dearth of scholarship on Shi‘i linkages between India and West Asia, with the exception of historical work on the patronage of shrine cities in Iraq by centres of Shi‘ism in India. Departing from this geographical and historical focus, this paper lends insight into contemporary religious networks between India and West Asia, using the example of the Twelver Shi‘a in Kargil, a region located on India's ‘border’ with Pakistan in the province of Kashmir. Kargili scholars travelled overland via Afghanistan or by sea from Bombay to Basra to study in seminaries in Iraq and Iran from the nineteenth century onwards. Increasing fluency in Urdu in post-colonial India enabled them to connect with Shi‘i institutions in other parts of India, which mediate religious, cultural, and financial flows from a transnational Shi‘ite realm. These networks ofreligiouslearning are not only conduits for the transmission of textual, doctrinal knowledge, but also for politico-religious ideologies that are selectively harnessed, and often exaggerated, to effect significant social and political changes in micro-locales. While local conflicts are over-determined by the evocation of transnational links, they also reflect, even if only through rhetorical and partial reproduction, doctrinal and politico-religious schisms among Shi‘i leaders in West Asia. This is illustrated by an ethnographic account of the activities undertaken and contestations provoked by the Imam Khomeini Memorial Trust in Kargil, a modernist reform movement that has selectively appropriated Khomeini's revolutionary ideologies to instigate social change and shape local politics and religious practice in Kargil.

Utopia, Labor, and Informational Capitalism

2015 ◽  
pp. 49-68
Author(s):  
Marco Briziarelli
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
User Generated Content ◽  
Economic Approach ◽  
Informational Capitalism ◽  
The Social ◽  
Liberal Ideology ◽  
Political Economic

Through the lens of a political economic approach, I consider the question whether or not social media can promote social change. I claim that whereas media have consistently channeled technological utopia/dystopia, thus be constantly linked to aspirations and fear of social change, the answer to that question does not depend on their specific nature but on historically specific social relations in which media operate. In the case here considered, it requires examining the social relations re-producing and produced by informational capitalism. More specifically, I examine how the productive relations that support user generated content practices of Facebook users affect social media in their capability to reproduce and transform existing social contexts. Drawing on Fuchs and Sevignani's (2013) distinction between “work” and “labor” I claim that social media reflect the ambivalent nature of current capitalist mode of production: a contest in which exploitative/emancipatory as well as reproductive/transformative aspects are articulated by liberal ideology.

Mediating Social Media's Ambivalences in the Context of Informational Capitalism

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Marco Briziarelli ◽  
Eric Karikari
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
User Generated Content ◽  
Capitalist Mode ◽  
Informational Capitalism ◽  
Liberal Ideology ◽  
Transformative Function ◽  
Political Economic

This essay explores the dialectics of media, by considering the socially reproductive and transformative function of social media from a political economic perspective. The authors claim that while media have consistently generated aspirations and fear of social change, their powerful capability of shaping societies depend on the historically specific social relations in which media operate. They engage such an argument by examining how the productive relations that support user generated content practices such as the ones of Facebook users affect social media in their capability to reproduce and transform existing social contexts. In the end, the authors maintain that the most prominent mediation of social media consists of the ambivalent nature of current capitalist mode of production: a contest in which exploitative/emancipatory as well as reproductive/transformative aspects are articulated by liberal ideology.

Development Journalism

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yvonne T. Chua
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Third World ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
New Journalism ◽  
Cultural Variations ◽  
Cherry Picking ◽  
Bright Side ◽  
Political Economic

The term “development journalism” is five decades old. But if the volume of academic research was the lone measure of its reach and impact, then one may erroneously conclude that this field of journalism has hardly had any reach and impact at all. There is a paucity of scholarly studies for a genre that has proliferated across three continents and was once touted as the new journalism for Third World countries. Existing literature points to two main patterns. One sees scholars pitted against each other on what development journalism is and ought to be. The reason: diverse, even opposing, variations of this genre of journalism have emerged according to social, political, economic, and cultural variations in a country or region. The original ideals of development journalism, which requires independent, critical evaluation of the process of development, have been replaced by justifications for a state-controlled media in authoritarian states being passed off as development journalism. That explains the second pattern: studies tend to diverge rather than converge on the concept of development journalism. Over the years, calls have been made to standardize the notion of development journalism or, failing that, to revamp the entire concept. Until that happens, scholars embarking on the study of development journalism need to bear in mind the different approaches and practices, and avoid cherry-picking components that will distort findings. The approaches range from development journalists as willing partners of government (statist) to watchdogs (investigative) and from interventionist (participatory or emancipatory) to guardians of transparency. Within the range are more variants or combinations. The bright side is that there is agreement on some of the essentials for development journalism: emphasis on the process of development to bring about social change (communitarian).

scholarly journals Cultural Studies, Critical Theory and Critical Discourse Analysis: Histories, Remembering and Futures

2003 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Terry Threadgold
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Cultural Politics ◽  
The Other ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Local Contexts ◽  
Global And Local

In this paper I have explored some of the histories which inevitably connect, but also differentiate, critical discourse analysis and cultural studies. I have argued that both are strongly influenced by the versions of critical theory which have been characterised as 'postmodernism' and 'poststructuralism' and that both could benefit not only from some serious engagement with the several disciplines from which their interdisciplinarity is derived but also from some further in depth exploration of the critical theory which informs them and which they have often 'translated' or 'co-opted' in reductionist ways. I have also argued that the claims sometimes made for critical discourse analysis are inflated and that without serious ethnographies and attention to the theorisation as well as research of contexts those claims cannot really be sustained. On the other hand 'resignification' or the cultural politics of CDA are important agendas and we need to do much more work on establishing exactly how social change can be effected through the kinds of work CDA could do. My conclusion is that we need to reframe and recontextualise the ways in which we define and perform CDA and that that will involve bringing cultural studies and critical discourse analysis together in productive new ways with other disciplinary and theoretical formations and with proper attention to the new and different global and local contexts in which we work.

scholarly journals Política cultural institucional como medio de transformación. La experiencia en la Comunidad Foral de Navarra = Institutional Cultural Politics as a Means of transformation. An experience in the Comunidad Foral de Navarra

2020 ◽  
pp. 319
Author(s):  
Celia Martín Larumbe ◽  
Roberto Peña León
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Cultural Politics ◽  
Present Situation ◽  
Local Administration ◽  
Gender Perspective ◽  
Course Of Action ◽  
The World ◽  
Current Context ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Opening Up

El actual contexto de cambio social está afectando al sector de la Cultura y, de manera específica, al sistema del arte. Dentro del mismo, la institución «museo» se ha visto afectada de una manera especial por este escenario de transformación. Los debates en el sector (ICOM, OME) permiten introducir propuestas diversas para abordar este escenario. Aparecen así nuevos planteamientos y líneas de abordaje, presentándose la perspectiva de género como la más potente y adecuada para ello. En este artículo se presentan el conjunto de acciones llevadas a cabo en la Comunidad Foral de Navarra desde el aparato institucional en los últimos años, amparados por una legislación diseñada en este sentido y que ya ha empezado a dar resultados, abriendo caminos que prometen ser muy interesantes: reflexión autocrítica, remodelación de la exposición permanente, exposiciones temporales de nuevo cuño, visitas guiadas, etc. La actual situación requiere sistematizar estos medios y procedimientos y mantener la dirección usando las sinergias generadas y apoyándose en las reflexiones ya elaboradas con éxito.AbstractThe current context of social change is affecting the world of Culture, and specifically the Art system. Within this area the «museum» as an institution has been deeply affected  by this transformation scenario. The discussions in this sector (ICOM, OME) allow us to introduce diverse suggestions to deal with this issue. This is how new proposals and approaches have appeared, being the gender perspective the most powerful and accurate tool to achieve that. In this article we present a number of actions carried out in the CFN by the local Administration in the last few years, supported by some laws designed in this direction; actions that have already yielded good results, opening up new paths that can be very interesting: self-criticism reflection, reorganization of the permanent exhibition, temporary exhibitions with a new perspective, guided visits, etc. The present situation demands to structure these tools and procedures, in order to maintain this course of action, using the generated synergies and relying on the successful reflections already accomplished.

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