Transformations of Religion and the Public Sphere: Postsecular Publics. Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series. By Rosi Braidotti, Bolette Blaagaard, Tobijn de Graauw, and Eva Midden. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 281 pp. £65.00 hardcover

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 422-425
Author(s):  
Paula Guzzo Falci
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Politics Of Identity ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere

In and out of Othello

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Poonam Trivedi
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Film Industry ◽  
The State ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Politics Of Identity ◽  
The Public ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Indian Adaptation

Othello has been the play that seems to speak to current issues of racism and sexism for the last couple of decades. Recent Indian productions have stretched its relevancies further, particularly addressing the politics of identity, of individual and state, of belonging and othering. The 2014 award-winning Assamiya film Othello (We Too Have Our Othellos) appropriates and radicalizes the main concerns of the play to embody and critique the movements for self-determination that continue to rage in the state. The article examines this unusual Indian adaptation of Shakespeare that locates the play directly within the public sphere of the politics of the state through its singular focus on Othello as an ‘outsider’ figure paralleled by other such figures of contemporary Assamese society. It will contextualize the discussion of this film, its production and positioning within the film industry of Assam and attempt to define the nature of its adaptation. It will also glance at its similarities with the earlier film In Othello (2003), which too connected Shakespeare and Assam to illustrate the volatile configurations of the outsider/insider status in contemporary India.

scholarly journals Niqab in Indonesia: Identity and Nationalism of the Female Students in Palopo

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-134
Author(s):  
Andul Pirol ◽  
Aswan Aswan
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Politics Of Identity ◽  
The Public ◽  
Life Problems ◽  
Government Role ◽  
Daily Behavior ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Public Sphere

This research discusses the politics of identity that are increasingly strengthening in the public sphere. This phenomenon grows through the religious sentiment circulated massively on social media and is also evident in dress and daily behavior. This article wants to see: (1) the extent to which the identity of female students that wearing niqab influences the national insight, (2) how their perspectives and attitudes in national and state life. As a result, the sentiment of niqab female students' identity grew more vital in the public sphere. It is directly proportional to their low acceptance of government leaders of different religions. The government role is also considered lacking in helping them to overcome the life problems they face. Interestingly, the position of the Pancasila in the group gaining acceptance is relatively high. The primary data of this study through a questionnaire with the techniques of purposive sampling of 30 female students that wearing the niqab from various religious organisations spread across many campuses in the City of Palopo.

Nationalism, religion and community: A. B. Salem, the politics of identity and the disappearance of Cochin Jewry

2008 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Chiriyankandath
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Politics Of Identity ◽  
The Public ◽  
Mass Migration ◽  
Malabar Coast ◽  
Indian Nationalism ◽  
The Public Sphere

AbstractThis article considers how the existence of an ancient community, the Jews of Cochin on India’s Malabar coast, was transformed by the force of two powerful twentieth-century nationalisms – Indian nationalism and Zionism. It does so through telling the story of a remarkable individual, A. B. Salem, a lawyer, politician, Jewish religious reformer, and Indian nationalist, who was instrumental in promoting the Zionist cause and facilitating the mass migration of the Cochin Jews to Israel. Salem’s story illustrates how the prioritization and translation of kinds of identity into the public sphere is fluid and contingent upon a variety of circumstances, personal as well as the outcome of changes in the wider world.

scholarly journals Θρησκεία, δημοκρατία και εκπαίδευση

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Eύη Ζαμπέτα
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Politics Of Identity ◽  
The Public ◽  
Religious Teaching ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Critical Aspects

The aim of this article is to examine some critical aspects of contemporary enquiry regarding the place of religion in the public sphere and its implications for basic individual freedoms and human rights. It particularly focuses on the debate between Critical Theory and Communitarianism. Modern globalized societies are confronted with critical dilemmas stemming from the politics of identity, which in some cases are followed by a peculiar resurgence of religion. These aspects are reflected on political and social practices and impact on political culture and human rights. Finally, in the light of the above dilemmas, the article examines recent education policy on religious teaching in Greek public schools.

The Suffering of the Perpetrators: The Ethics of Traumatic German Historicity in Karen Bass's Young Adult World War II Novels

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-77
Author(s):  
Doris Wolf
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Childhood Studies ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
World War ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Adult World ◽  
The Public Sphere

This paper examines two young adult novels, Run Like Jäger (2008) and Summer of Fire (2009), by Canadian writer Karen Bass, which centre on the experiences of so-called ordinary German teenagers in World War II. Although guilt and perpetration are themes addressed in these books, their focus is primarily on the ways in which Germans suffered at the hands of the Allied forces. These books thus participate in the increasingly widespread but still controversial subject of the suffering of the perpetrators. Bringing work in childhood studies to bear on contemporary representations of German wartime suffering in the public sphere, I explore how Bass's novels, through the liminal figure of the adolescent, participate in a culture of self-victimisation that downplays guilt rather than more ethically contextualises suffering within guilt. These historical narratives are framed by contemporary narratives which centre on troubled teen protagonists who need the stories of the past for their own individualisation in the present. In their evacuation of crucial historical contexts, both Run Like Jäger and Summer of Fire support optimistic and gendered narratives of individualism that ultimately refuse complicated understandings of adolescent agency in the past or present.

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