The “Voice of Religion” in the Public Sphere: A Review Essay

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Ina ter Avest
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Review Essay ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Voice

Voicing the Subaltern in the Public Sphere

2015 ◽  
pp. 307-322
Author(s):  
Dalya Yafa Markovich
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Jewish Community ◽  
The Public ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Disadvantaged School

The voice of the subaltern is barely ever heard in the traditional historical-ethnological museum. Aiming to break the constraints and limitations of the traditional museum sphere, Alemu Eshetie, an Israeli based artist of Ethiopian origin, has created a museum dedicated to the Ethiopian Jewish community that functions as a traveling “public sphere”. Through these strategies the Museum wishes to establish a “dialogical methodology” that will voice the ‘Ethiopian' subaltern and thus foster his empowerment. By using ethnographic fieldwork that followed the activities held by the Museum in the 4th grade at a multiethnic and disadvantaged school in Israel, this chapter examined the ways in which students of Ethiopian origin chose to voice themselves in the public sphere created by the Museum, and the social and educational meanings attached to their voice. Hence findings suggest that the social construction of the subalterns' personal voice within the public sphere can expose racial and social inferior position and thus work against the aims it means to achieve.

Conclusion: Whither Dalit Politics?

2019 ◽  
pp. 192-210
Author(s):  
Amit Ahuja
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Ethnic Politics ◽  
The Public ◽  
Marginalized Groups ◽  
Electoral Choice ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Voice

This chapter summarizes the key arguments related to the mobilization of the marginalized. It considers how the experience of Dalit mobilization informs a larger research agenda on democratic mobilization of marginalized groups, ethnic politics, social movements, and political parties. Dalit parties, the chapter reiterates, represent the voice of the marginalized; however, the voice comes at a price: electoral choice. The chapter goes on to argue that the presence or absence of Dalit parties in legislatures is increasingly an incomplete indicator of the vibrancy of Dalit politics, because Dalit politics is taking root in new dimensions of the public sphere: organizations in new sectors, an online Dalit public sphere, and a Dalit diaspora.

Post-secularism in multiple modernities

2017 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 822-835 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Possamai
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
The Public ◽  
Multiple Modernities ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Religious Actors

‘Post-secularism’ is a term that has emerged in various disciplines, including sociology, to reflect religion’s move back into the public sphere and the need to take into account the voice of religious actors in any contemporary analysis of society. This article argues that post-secularism is, in fact, a specific type of secularism that deals with the neoliberal management of religion in the public sphere. To unpack this argument, the article will first explore what is meant by post-secularism, and then, via a case study of Shari’a in Australia, it will move to the theory of multiple modernities in order to underline the relativeness of such a term. It will then be proposed that what is meant by post-secularism is, in fact, a type of secularism (perhaps ‘late’ rather than ‘post’) in neoliberal societies.

scholarly journals Gendering Memory: Intersectional Aspects of the Polish Politics of Memory

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-118
Author(s):  
Inga B. Kuźma ◽  
Edyta Pietrzak
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Politics Of Memory ◽  
The Public ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
Local Case ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The City ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Core Problem

The article is devoted to the process of gendering memory as a counterpoint to the politicization of memory observed in the Polish context. The core problem of the paper is a description of a local case of this type of gender ‘memory practising’ in the area of the public urban sphere, specifically one created by the Łódź Women’s Heritage Trail Foundation (https://www.facebook.com/ŁódźkiSzlakKobiet) – a gender-profiled female grass-roots initiative that is concerned with the city’s past. The article consists of three main parts referring to, respectively, the functioning of memory in the urban public sphere as a form of dialogue (hemerneutic-interpretative anthropology with Jurgen Habermas’ and Seyla Benhabib’s theories is the theoretical foundation here), the process of gendering memory (appearing alongside the narrative phrase and feminist proposals for the interpretation of memory as a form of its pluralization), and the presentation of the activities within the Łódź Women’s HeritageTrail Foundation’s particular initiative – namely ‘Women Routes in Łódź’ – as a kind of case study for the city as a landscape of memory. The paper deals with the tension observed between the politics of memory and the political practice, and the alternative memories that arise from the idea of multiplicity and polyphony, including the voice of women. The authors raise the issue of the genderization of memory in the context of an inquiry into how the pluralism of collective memory and the diversification of the public sphere develops as a result of the discourses and operation of the alternative memory, including gender-focused memory.

Ideologies in Law Time: The Oxford History of the Laws of England

2013 ◽  
Vol 38 (03) ◽  
pp. 746-764
Author(s):  
Janet McLean
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Review Essay ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Internal Point ◽  
The Public ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Public Sphere

In the introduction to the newOxford History of the Laws of England 1820–1914, the authors suggest that their task is to tell the “history of the law itself.” This review essay examines what can be learned from a history told from law's internal point of view rather than through the perspectives of other disciplines, such as economics or philosophy. It considers whether and how the common law responded to industrialization and laissez-faire ideology, the influence of salient philosophical movements—such as utilitarianism—on statutory change, and how all history is an exercise in ideology. In considering the public sphere, it suggests that this work should form the inspiration for further inquiry.

Review essay: Studies in the public sphere

1997 ◽  
Vol 83 (3) ◽  
pp. 351-370 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Thomas Goodnight ◽  
David B. Hingstman
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Review Essay ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere
Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document