SCORING THE JOURNEY: LISTENING TO CLAUDIA MOLITOR'S SONORAMA

Tempo ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 76 (299) ◽  
pp. 44-56
Author(s):  
Jonathan Packham
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Scales ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
The Political ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
Sharp Focus ◽  
Specific Composition ◽  
Audio Files ◽  
Graphic Score ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractSonorama is a 2015 sonic artwork by Claudia Molitor, consisting of a number of audio files designed for listening on a train journey between London St Pancras and Margate, and a graphic score based on the composer's own ‘reading’ of this journey. This article analyses the relationship between the sonic and the spatial in the work, exploring how Molitor's site-specific composition interacts with its environment on multiple scales. By drawing on the strategy of ‘situated listening’ developed by Gascia Ouzounian, as well as urbanist language introduced by Richard Sennett, this article seeks to elucidate the relationship between a number of ‘nested’ spaces, present across varying realisations, and the political agenda that energises the work. Written in the midst of summer 2015's European refugee crisis, the work brings into sharp focus themes of British exceptionalism, immigration and inclusion.

Kämpfe um Bergbau und die Möglichkeiten demokratischer Transformation

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (189) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristina Dietz
Keyword(s):  
Direct Democracy ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
The Political ◽  
Liberal Democratic ◽  
Political Effects ◽  
Mining Project ◽  
National Governments ◽  
The Relationship

The article explores the political effects of popular consultations as a means of direct democracy in struggles over mining. Building on concepts from participatory and materialist democracy theory, it shows the transformative potentials of processes of direct democracy towards democratization and emancipation under, and beyond, capitalist and liberal democratic conditions. Empirically the analysis is based on a case study on the protests against the La Colosa gold mining project in Colombia. The analysis reveals that although processes of direct democracy in conflicts over mining cannot transform existing class inequalities and social power relations fundamentally, they can nevertheless alter elements thereof. These are for example the relationship between local and national governments, changes of the political agenda of mining and the opening of new spaces for political participation, where previously there were none. It is here where it’s emancipatory potential can be found.

Europa 2020

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Winfried Böttcher
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
The Political ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Political Issue ◽  
The Past ◽  
Current State

In retrospect, the decade from 2010 to 2020 has provoked a crisis in human progress. In this book, the author proves this thesis using six occurrences, while also paying particular atten-tion to Europe’s role in relation to them: the refugee crisis the conflict in Ukraine Brexit the environment as a political issue nationalism the new coronavirus These six examples, which have had a staggering influence on the past decade, will also de-termine the political agenda in the coming decade. In view of this, the European Union has no future in its current state and thus needs to be reconceived.

Collaboration, confrontation, and controversy: the politics of monument restoration in Georgia and the case of Bagrati Cathedral

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 669-686 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Long
Keyword(s):  
Architectural History ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
The Political ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Sharp Focus ◽  
World Heritage List ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Preservation And Restoration

This paper examines the history of the restoration, or more accurately, reconstruction of Bagrati Cathedral in western Georgia. Constructed in 1003, Bagrati Cathedral is an important cultural monument in the political and architectural history of Georgia. Destroyed by an explosion in 1691, the cathedral was inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List in 1994 in its ruined state. However, the Georgian government under President Mikheil Saakashvili and Georgian Orthodox Church (GOC) officials made the reconstruction and reconsecration of the cathedral a priority. The reconstruction of Bagrati Cathedral, completed in September 2012, brought the differing aims of Georgian politicians, GOC officials, and architectural historians – the major players in the process – into sharp focus. This paper maintains that the rebuilding of Bagrati Cathedral was part of Saakashvili's political agenda, which merged with the interests of the GOC and worked against the objectives of architectural historians and the aims of academic principles of restoration and preservation. The result is that Bagrati has been rebuilt but is under threat of removal from the World Heritage List. The story of Bagrati's reconstruction has implications for the future of monument preservation and restoration in Georgia.

Responses to 'The piety of Afrikaans women'

1995 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 334-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Landman
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Women's Spirituality ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
The Political ◽  
Historical Criticism ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThe book The piety of Afrikaans women is placed in the context of the methodological discussion on religion feminism, that is religion feminism as it was discussed in Western Europe in the early 1990s. It is argued that in South Africa the book was not read against this background but as an onslaught on Afrikanerdom and as a liberal effort to alienate metaphysics from spirituality. Three reactions for and against the contents of the book are discussed. The first refers to local nationalism, the second to the political agenda of women's spirituality and the third to the relationship between spirituality and historical criticism.

scholarly journals Corporations, Democracy, and the Historian

2019 ◽  
Vol 93 (4) ◽  
pp. 805-815 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard R. John
Keyword(s):  
Political Influence ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
The Political ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
American Democracy ◽  
Business Law ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Relationship

What is the relationship between the corporation and American democracy? This provocative and timely question informs the ten essays that Naomi R. Lamoreaux and William J. Novak have assembled in a tightly edited volume that has attracted a good deal of attention from specialists in the history of U.S. public policy. In an age in which the political influence of big business has once again thrust itself onto the political agenda, this collection should also prove to be of great interest to the many historians, legal scholars, and jurists who are trying to understand the long and complex relationship between business, law, and the state.

Naming people on the move according to the political agenda: A study of Belgian media

2021 ◽  
pp. 175048132198984
Author(s):  
Valériane Mistiaen
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Corpus Linguistics ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
The Political ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
French Speaking ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
The Difference

The aim of this article is to study the different denominations used to name people on the move in the Belgian French- and Dutch-speaking press. The so-called ‘refugee crisis’ has received huge media attention in Europe. In Belgium, media landscape is divided amongst Dutch-, French- and much smaller German-speaking communities, all of which harbour different journalistic traditions. The country is then an excellent case study to observe the divergences between the linguistic repertoire of denominations referencing people in the two main linguistic communities. To explore this, an exhaustive corpus composed of press articles was collected between 2015 and 2017. The analysis combines Discourse Analysis and Corpus Linguistics as they complement one another. At first, the repertoire of common nouns in each corpus seems similar, but differences lie in the frequency of denominations used to qualify people on the move and also in the collocations that construct their meaning. In both corpora, the word refugee is strongly collocated with status and administrative terms. One important finding lies in the difference in frequencies of the word migrant, which is used less often in the Dutch-speaking corpus than in the French-speaking one. This article also gives special attention to the terms transmigrant and newcomer.

Justice in and to the Environment: Ethical Uncertainties and Political Practices

1997 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
N P Low ◽  
B J Gleeson
Keyword(s):  
Political Agenda ◽  
The Political ◽  
Environmental Discourse ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Universal Principles ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Ethic Of Justice ◽  
Planetary Environment ◽  
The Relationship

As the world moves towards increasing rather than reducing inequality, the question of justice forces itself on to the political agenda. But that agenda is also shaped today by people's growing fears for the future of the planetary environment. In this paper we explore the connection between just distributions of environmental values—justice in the environment—and the just relationship between humanity and nature—justice to the environment. We discuss current uncertainties about ‘justice’ as an ethical category. We conclude that justice cannot be dispensed with. But, in the face of postmodernist critique of ‘totalising discourse’, how can universal principles be reasserted? There is a continuing and healthy debate about ‘human rights’ which is focused upon all human beings on the planet. The debate is about the principles which apply to this population, and not to any culturally circumscribed space. It is in this sense ‘universal’. Turning to the relationship between humanity and nature we ask whether an ethic of justice applies to this relationship. Early green utopias which suggest authoritarian solutions are rejected as politically unsustainable, but institutional forms based on an ecological rather than a purely anthropocentric perspective are required to ensure future survival. We conclude that, in the interests of justice, a global nexus of institutional forms is required which is capable of reconciling the universal with the particular and which embodies a recovery of the progressive elements in social and environmental discourse.

New Approaches to the Politics of Inequality in Developing Countries

2009 ◽  
Vol 42 (04) ◽  
pp. 629-631 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Echeverri-Gent
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Developing World ◽  
Authoritarian Regimes ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
The Political ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
International Inequality ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
The Relationship

The articles in this symposium present politics as an important intervening variable in the relationship between inequality and development. They highlight the complex and contingent ways in which politics mediates this relationship. The articles examine three key issues: (1) the extent and nature of international inequality and domestic inequality in the developing world; (2) the process through which inequality becomes—or does not become—a salient issue on the political agenda; and (3) the relationship between inequality and development under democratic and authoritarian regimes.

Water as a political good: revisiting the relationship between politics and service provision

Water Policy ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaas Schwartz ◽  
Marco Schouten
Keyword(s):  
Service Provision ◽  
Market Failure ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
The Political ◽  
Water Services ◽  
Services Sector ◽  
Sanitation Services ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Political Realm

Because water services are a private good, a merit good, an economic good and subject to market failure, the provision of water services features prominently on the political agenda in many countries, essentially making it a “political good”. Being a political good, the majority of water supply and sanitation services are still provided by public sector organizations. These public utilities have often provided very poor services and one of the main causes of the failure to provide adequate services is the political involvement in the sector. As a result, many professionals have called for the stringent separation of the political realm from service provision. In this article it is argued that the realities of the water services sector are such that a stringent separation of the political realm from the management of the service provider is unrealistic, if not naive. Moreover, the article seeks to present a more nuanced view of the relationship between politics and service provision by arguing that service providers, who have improved services significantly, have been able to do so because of support from the political realm, which extended well beyond the activities of making policy.

scholarly journals Minority Nationalism and Socialism

2020 ◽  
pp. 70-85
Author(s):  
Matias Tapio Kaihovirta
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
General Level ◽  
The Political ◽  
Labour Movement ◽  
Social Democratic ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Socialist Politics

What has been the relationship between nationalism and socialism in the history of the Finnish social democratic labour movement? This article explores this question by focusing on the Swedish-speaking socialist politician Karl H. Wiik (1883–1946), who was a central figure both in the Swedish-speaking and in the national Finnish labour movement. By examining Wiik’s role as a political and ideological foreground figure of the Swedish-speaking labour movement in Finland, the article discusses the relationship between national issues, class and socialism in the history of the Finnish social democratic labour movement. The article asks how language was connected to ethnic identity. Also, the article examines how both nationalism and ethnic identity was connected to social democracy as well as to socialist politics. On a more general level, the article contributes to the study of nationalism and especially to the study of the engagement of ethnic or linguistic minorities in the history of the labour movement. By focusing on the minorities in the labour movement, it is possible to problematise the historical narratives of the majority. The article links the multinational history of the Finnish labour movement to that of the international labour movement, where the questions about socialism and nationalism have been high on the political agenda.

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