Prospectus for International Colloquium on Tradition and the Working Class

1992 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 1-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise Tilly ◽  
Noëlle Gérôme
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
International Colloquium ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Social Tradition ◽  
Cultural Discontinuities ◽  
Influence Behavior

Tradition is understood as a subset of a central historical concern: social and cultural discontinuities in time and space. The historical study of social tradition is an important contribution to knowledge; it seeks to understand the ways in which groups (states, classes, communities, families) formalize, symbolize, and interpret the past—and how such visions shape the ways in which people interpret, accept, or resist present conditions and influence behavior in the future.

Remembering the Past/Anticipating the Future: A Professor From the White Working Class Talks With a Survivor of the Holocaust About Our Troubled World

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 323-337 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn Ellis ◽  
Jerry Rawicki
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Collaborative Writing ◽  
Political Climate ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
The Future ◽  
White Working Class ◽  
Shed Light

This article extends the research of Jerry Rawicki and Carolyn Ellis who have collaborated for more than eight years on memories and consequences of the Holocaust. Focusing on Jerry’s memories of his experience during the Holocaust, they present dialogues that took place during five recorded interviews and follow-up conversations that reflect on the similarity of Hitler’s seizing of power in the 1930s to the meteoric rise of Donald Trump. Noting how issues of class and race were taking an increasingly prominent role in their conversations and collaborative writing, they also begin to examine discontent in the rural, White working class and Carolyn’s socialization within that community. These dialogues and reflections seek to shed light on the current political climate in America as Carolyn and Jerry struggle to cope with their fears and envision a hopeful path forward for their country.

Time and space problems in the text of epos

2020 ◽  
Vol 60 (11) ◽  
pp. 143-146
Author(s):  
Parvana Ismayil Pashayeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Time Pass ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Physical Time ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Time Changes

The article deals with the problems of introducing of time, time changes and the time-place relations as well. Artistic time is distinguished by belonging of an artistic time to the past in the artistic text, and in epos texts as well. In such kinds of texts one can meet with the changing of situations and various forms of substitutions of grammatical time. Speech moment can be used in defining of criteria for the present, past and the future times in epos texts. And speech moment is being connected with the physical time. Grammatical time comes into effect as a result of time pass components of physical time changings of course. Key words: time, place, epos, artistic time, grammatical time

Trump’s All Too Familiar Strategy and Its Future in the GOP

The Forum ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoltan Hajnal ◽  
Marisa Abrajano
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Party Politics ◽  
Electoral Success ◽  
Half Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
Past Half Century ◽  
White Voters ◽  
The Future ◽  
Past Half

AbstractAlthough many observers have been surprised both by the racial explicit nature of Donald Trump’s campaign and the subsequent success of that campaign, we contend that Trump’s tactics and their success are far from new. We describe how for the past half century Republicans have used race and increasingly immigration to attract white voters – especially working class whites. All of this has led to an increasingly racially polarized polity and for the most part Republican electoral success. We conclude with some expectations about the future of race, immigration, and party politics.

scholarly journals The Dynamics of Time and Space in Sociological Theory

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
patrick john burnett
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
The Past ◽  
Time Horizons ◽  
Sociological Inquiry ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Mind

To date, there has been much emphasis on, and critical inquiry into, the variety of ways sociological theories examine social life, social organization, and human conduct within and between the past and present time horizons. Under the auspice that no authentic anticipation of what we may 'have to be' (future) is possible without borrowing from the resources of what we already 'have been' (past) and 'currently are' (present), sociological inquiry has been primarily focused on the relationship of an experiencing person (or persons) within the complexities of past events and present circumstances as a means to reveal insights toward the future of social organization. The reasons for this focus on investigations into past and present time horizons are because they are facilitated by the presence of an observable and material reality consisting of identifiable documents and tangible objects that can be identified, observed, interpreted and measured. Whereas, investigations into the future are working within a different reality status all together, one that does not contain identifiable material and empirically accessible facts, thus making it much more difficult to study in that it is focused on a reality that does not yet exist. Given that only materialized processes of the past and present have the status of factual reality (what is real is observable), conclusions and predictions about future events, which are essentially beyond the realm of the material and observable, remain at the level of the senses, as an aspect of the mind, and are seen as belonging to the realm of the 'ideal' and the 'not the real'. This paper walks through these considerations in detail and examines how a focus on time and space can help us better understand the ways in which social beings act.

The Unreality of Time: A Critical Analysis

Ensemble ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 57-64
Author(s):  
Sadiya Afrin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
External World ◽  
Present Moment ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Absolute Time ◽  
The Past ◽  
Experience Of Time ◽  
The Future ◽  
Metaphysics Of Time ◽  
Zeno's Paradox

The problem of the metaphysics of time is whether the time is real or unreal. This paper will introduce some of the major positions and arguments concerning the unreality of time. We all know the external world is constantly changing. ‘Change is the only constant in life’. We get trapped in the illusion of time and space. But in reality, the past isn’t here anymore, the future yet to be seen, only the present moment seems to be real. But present time also flies or passes away very rapidly. Whenever we try to grasp it, it slips away. Before discussing the unreality of time, it is necessary to mention that we will deal with the ‘experience of time’ in this chapter. The mathematical or physicist concept of absolute time would not be discussed here. Firstly, ‘Motion is impossible’ would be discussed from Zeno’s paradox, followed by an effort to connect it with McTaggert’s argument on ‘Unreality of Time’. Then presentism and eternalism would be discussed in reference to the unreality of time.

YUGONOSTALGIA: RESTORATIVE AND REFLECTIVE NOSTALGIA IN FORMER YUGOSLAVIA

2005 ◽  
Vol 32 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 227-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Lindstrom
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Fixed Time ◽  
Former Yugoslavia ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Alternative Futures ◽  
Ideal Types ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Multi Media

Drawing on Svetlana Boym's distinction between "restorative" and "reflective" nostalgia, the essay maps two broad, and often overlapping, ideal types of Yugonostalgia expressed in and through contemporary former Yugoslav film, popular music, and multi-media. The first expresses reeonstructive longing for an essential Yugoslav past; the second offers self-consciously ambivalent and critical frames in indulging fantasies of this past. What different forms of Yugonostalgia share in common is challenging symbolic geographies of disunity that have dominated political discourse in former Yugoslavia for the last two decades. The two types can be differenciated by their stance toward the presentpast and the future: while both of them are based on fantasies of the past, thc "restorative" Yugonostalgic looks backward towards a seemingly fixed time and space while "reflective" nostalgic restlessly grapples with the dislocation so palpable in the former Yugoslavia to imagine alternative futures.

scholarly journals CANADIAN GHOSTS AND THE WILL TO TRUTH: READING MARLENE NORBESE PHILIPS’ LOOKING FOR LIVINGSTONE

eTopia ◽  
2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Concetta Principe
Keyword(s):  
Critical Approach ◽  
Future Time ◽  
International Colloquium ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Will ◽  
Bear Witness

While the ghost may be a device for resolving past issues in literature, its presence in the archive is central to Derrida’s critical approach in Archive Fever. Presenting this paper at an international colloquium “Memory: The Question of the Archives” at Freud’s own archive, Derrida considers Yerushalmi’s dialogue with the ghosted Freud as the desire that drives the archive: “… hauntedness is not only haunted by this or that ghost,… but by the spectre of the truth which has thus been suppressed” (Derrida 1998: 87). For Derrida, truth is a trace as elusive as “ash,” untouchable but always recognizable in its absence, enforcing the Freudian trust in memory as true in part, the search for which, Derrida claims, inspires a sort of illness; thus, the fever of the archive. Derrida recognizes that remembering and repeating are central to the archive as an injunction to bear witness to the past which, according to Derrida, is a responsibility not to those who have passed,but for those who will read in the future.1 Nietzsche’s understanding of the will to truth as that which perpetuates the assumption that truth exists can be understood as implicit to the endlessly repeated aporia of Derrida’s ghost (Nietzsche 1956: 288). This spectre is made visible by the will to truth of a witness for specific future time and place.

Indology and the Future of Our Past

2018 ◽  
pp. 281-301
Author(s):  
L.M. Singhvi
Keyword(s):  
Indian Society ◽  
Future Tense ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future

Indian society retains its vitality and is keen to comprehend and nurture its identity for identity finds its anchors in time and space and Indology is the key to our identity in time and space. He asserts that there is no reason to believe that Indian antiquity will be pushed into oblivion or be discarded and cast away for the past lasts much longer than the time in which it was and the time in which we reflect upon it. Nor is Indology entirely of the past. It is also the past as we perceive it and therefore it is the past in the present and future tense, and today is the yesterday of tomorrow and tomorrow is the yesterday of day after.

scholarly journals From a Digital Bottle: A Message to Ourselves in 2039

10.2196/16274 ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (11) ◽  
pp. e16274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandro R Jadad ◽  
Tamen M Jadad Garcia
Keyword(s):  
Digital Tools ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Dear Reader

We are fully aware that we could have wasted our time writing this message, as nobody might read it. Even those who read it might ignore it, and those who read and care about it might be unable to do anything. It may simply be too late. Nevertheless, this message describes the hopes we had back in 1999, imagining how the incredible digital tools whose birth we were witnessing, could change the world for the better. In 2019, when we wrote these words, we were saddened to realize that most of what we had imagined and proposed in the past 20 years could have been written the day before, without losing an iota of relevance. Whoever or whatever you might be, dear reader—a human, a sentient machine, or a hybrid—we would like you to understand that, rather than an attempt to predict the future, which probably continues to be an impossible endeavor, this message was meant to act as an invitation, regardless of when or where it is found, to engage in a conversation that has already transcended time and space, even if the issues it contains have become irrelevant.

scholarly journals Turgenev’s Anniversaries in the Memorial Culture of the Soviet Era

2018 ◽  
pp. 109-123
Author(s):  
Irina Koznova
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Main Role ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Working People ◽  
Supporting Structures

The memory of the past is one of the supporting structures of society. Contributing orientation in time and space to society, the memory acts as a connection between the present and the future. With the help of memory, society maintains its identity. What society remembers or forgets is the cultural core of its values and meanings. Being the representation of the past, versatile and selective memory is undergone to constant reorganization in the society in accordance with the demands of the present. The Soviet project, aimed at forming of a new society and a person, offered also its own project of the past, created its culture of memory. Ideas about the past changed along with the change of the Soviet present and the vision of its future. An important component of the culture of memory are the commemorations. Anniversaries of signifcant events and historical fgures allow to organize the work of the past in the present, to enter them into the current cultural space. The anniversary reading of the classic authors of Russian literature in the Soviet period was associated with the idea of mastering the cultural heritage of the past by the working people. The methods and forms of their memorialization, aimed at mass perception and appropriation, corresponded to the heroic matrix, which played the main role in the institutionalization of the Soviet collective whole. This matrix, based on the class-party principle, had two successive profles: revolutionary-international and nationalpatriotic. In the Soviet period there were several important dates in memory of Ivan Turgenev. Honorings of the writer complied with a certain canon. Turgenev’s works were primarily understood from the point of view of their social signifcance, in the context of both the Turgenev era and the Soviet era. Its multivalent potential was mainly considered from two aspects: the service to the revolution and the service toRussia.

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