Women, Wives and the Campaign against Pit Closures in County Durham: Understanding the Vane Tempest Vigil

1998 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean Spence
Keyword(s):  
Political Action ◽  
The Political ◽  
Actual Situation ◽  
Political Campaign ◽  
Mining Communities ◽  
Labour Movement ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Media ◽  
Women's Role ◽  
Political Understanding

The majority of the women who campaigned to save the Vane Tempest Colliery from closure in 1993 were involved because of their political understanding and allegiances rather than as a consequence of their practical involvement in mining life. Even those women who were married to miners did not conform to the stereotypical conception of ‘miner's wife’. However, the supporting labour movement and the media persisted in conceptualizing the Women's Vigil through romantic and masculinist discourses of miners and mining communities which could only locate the women as ‘wives’, which confined the campaign within historical stereotypes no longer appropriate to the actual situation and which persistently set the idea of socialism against that of feminism. This not only situated the women's campaign as secondary and subject to that of the NUM but it also subverted the possibilities of the women fully articulating their own experience and understanding within the campaign. The situation was further complicated by memories of the miners’ strike of 1984–5 in which women played such an important role. One aspect of this role, that of maintaining mining families in the face of hardship, continued to inform understanding of the women's role in the fight to prevent closure, although it was no longer appropriate. The Women's Vigil engaged with a much wider set of concerns and with a wider range of individuals and groups than did that of the miners themselves. There were serious possibilities for broadening the political campaign around the women's slogan of ‘Jobs, community and environment’ which were never fully exploited because of the difficulties of admitting that women could inhabit any position other than that of ‘miners’ wives’. This experience of the Vane Tempest Vigil indicates the significance and the centrality of gender issues within class based political action.

scholarly journals Rumours in a Situation of Political Conflict: Catalonia and Its Referendum of Self-Determination

2021 ◽  
Vol 84 ◽  
pp. 25-48
Author(s):  
Emili Samper ◽  
◽  
Carme Oriol ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Conflict ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
The Political ◽  
Independent State ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Media

Catalonia is in a situation of political conflict with the Spanish State regarding its right to self-determination, a conflict that has been exacerbated in recent years by the growing demand from a part of Catalan society for an independent state. Throughout this situation rumours have appeared in relation to events as they unfold. One of the key moments in the conflict was the referendum on self-determination, which was approved, prepared, and held on 1 October 2017, in the face of continuous opposition from the Spanish State. The tensions, uncertainties, and fears experienced by those in favour of the referendum were fuelled by rumours that in many cases were ultimately proven to be false. The present paper will analyse the rumours that emerged in relation to the referendum and the political atmosphere at that time. The study will analyse the rumours relating to aspects such as the logistics required to hold the referendum, the key figures in the process, the organizations that support it and the actions of the media, among others.

Enquête sur le rapport des journalistes à la démocratie : le rôle de médiateur en question

2012 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 685-710 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne-Marie Gingras
Keyword(s):  
Political System ◽  
Active Role ◽  
The Political ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
Liberal Societies ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Media ◽  
Selection Of

Résumé.Dans ce texte, nous tentons d'évaluer le rôle sociopolitique des journalistes en posant les éléments fondamentaux d'une conceptualisation du rôle des médias en démocratie et en analysant les résultats d'une recherche empirique sur l'engagement des journalistes envers la démocratie menée de l'été 2008 au printemps 2010. Notre étude prend appui sur la dichotomie entre un rôle actif des médias et un rôle instrumental face au système politique, dichotomie que nous faisons porter sur les journalistes. Nous prétendons que les médias et les journalistes jouent le rôle de « médiateurs » dans les sociétés libérales, c'est-à-dire d'agents individuels ou collectifs par qui transitent des messages explicites ou implicites; ces agents ajoutent une couche de sens par diverses méthodes dont la sélection des nouvelles, la hiérarchisation des sujets ou le cadrage de personnes ou d'événements.Abstract.This paper aims to assess the sociopolitical role of journalists through a conceptual approach linking media and democracy and through an analysis of the data resulting from an investigation of journalists' commitment to democracy that was conducted from the summer of 2008 to the spring of 2010. Our study is founded on the dichotomy between an active role for the media and an instrumental one in the face of the political system, and this dichotomy is applied to journalists. We believe that the media and journalists function as “mediators” in liberal societies, that is, as individual or collective agents through whom explicit or implicit messages pass; these agents add a layer of signification by diverse methods, among which are the selection of news, the categorization of issues or the framing of individuals or events.

Cold from Gold: Chinese Miners Face New Realities in Ghana

China Report ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 000944552110667
Author(s):  
Daniel Nkrumah ◽  
Daniel Norris Bekoe
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Local People ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
The Political ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Mining Communities ◽  
Gradual Shift ◽  
The Media ◽  
State Actors

China has maintained strong relationships with many African countries, and Ghana is one such country. While the two countries have normally enjoyed good friendly relations, concerns over the involvement of Chinese citizens in small-scale mining in Ghana threaten the cordial relationship between the two countries. There is evidence of a cultural evolution and a gradual shift from a culture of enthusiastic reception of local people to the Chinese in the area of mining to one of cold reception to Chinese interests in mining communities. There is also evidence that this cold reception to Chinese miners is stimulated by non-state actors led by the media and inspires in Ghana a new paradigm of more rational engagement with China at the political level, although challenges still remain.

The Future of the Panama Canal

1993 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 103-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando Manfredo
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
World War I ◽  
World Trade ◽  
The United States ◽  
Panama Canal ◽  
The Political ◽  
Actual Situation ◽  
World War ◽  
International Shipping ◽  
The Media

Throughout most of its history, the importance of the Panama Canal — to the United States, to Panama, and to the international shipping community — was never questioned. This situation changed when the political confrontation between the United States and the Noriega regime took place in the 1980s, and most of the media began to suggest that the usefulness of the Panama Canal was on the decline and no longer of much importance to world trade. In this regard, the media seriously misrepresented the facts. Let us take a closer look at the Canal in order to gain a better perspective on the actual situation.Prior to World War I, the volume of trade going through the Panama Canal, though a useful transportation artery, was relatively small. In fact, in 1929, its peak pre-War year, the total volume was just 30 million tons.

scholarly journals Strategi Kampanye Joko Widodo dan Ma'ruf Amin dalam Debat Calon Presiden pada Tahun 2019

PERSPEKTIF ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 385-393
Author(s):  
Ribkha Annisa Octovina ◽  
Leo Agustino ◽  
Dede Sri Kartini
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Election ◽  
The Political ◽  
Presidential Candidate ◽  
Political Campaign ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
Campaign Strategies ◽  
Campaign Strategy ◽  
Presidential Candidates ◽  
The Media ◽  
Selection Of

This article aims to describe the political campaign strategy of Joko Widodo and Ma'ruf Amin in the presidential candidate debate in the 2019 presidential election. The problem is focused on the campaign strategy carried out by the PDI-P party to support the political debate agenda against the presidential candidates Joko Widodo and Ma'ruf Amin. In order to approach this problem, Nursal's theoretical reference is used to use the theory of political campaign strategy. The selection of this theory in this study is because it is more suitable to describe the findings of political campaign strategies for the candidate pairs Joko Widodo and Ma'ruf Amin in the 2019 presidential candidate debate that can attract sympathy or gain support as described in the preliminary study. The data were collected through interviews and analyzed qualitatively. This study concludes that in the implementation of the presidential candidate debate in the 2019 presidential election, the political campaign strategy applied by PDI Perjungan to support Joko Widodo and Ma'ruf Amin, one of which is the marketing of political products through the mass media. First, strengthen the material. Second, observing the target and determining the target for the political debate. Third, approach the media throughout the media, including media that are affiliated and unaffiliated.

scholarly journals Change in Power in the Media and Innovative Ways to Do Politics in Mexico

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Ramírez Plascencia
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Campaign ◽  
Digital Activism ◽  
Campaign Strategies ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Political Relationships ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Impact

The advent of internet and other similar technologies has changed the traditional social and political relationships. Since 2015, in Mexico, some election wins have showed that it is possible to win without any support from the mainstream media or, indeed, without being backed by a big political party. Most of the political campaign is then developed through the social networks and digital activism. This article is mainly aimed at understanding the impact of the social networks on the design of campaign strategies, i.e., how to conciliate the interests from different actors and elites in a new hyperconnectivity context.

Rock Nacional in Argentina during the Dictatorship

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Wilson ◽  
Mara Favoretto
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Concentration Camps ◽  
The Political ◽  
Public Speech ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Media ◽  
Metaphorical Expression ◽  
The Military ◽  
Radical Transformation

In the 20th century Argentina experienced a series of dictatorial regimes of varying intensity, but the last dictatorship stands apart. The Process of National Reorganization or Proceso (1976–1983) was not only the most brutally repressive, “disappearing” 30,000 of its own citizens into concentration camps, but also the most ambitious in terms of ideological mission. Its campaign, officially called “the war against subversion,” was committed to the total eradication of leftist ideas from the political landscape of the country by any means necessary. This radical transformation was to be brought about not only in the torture chamber, but in the media as well. The regime planned an Orwellian redefinition of words: the systematic creation of a national vocabulary that would exclude certain ideas and parties. In order to achieve its overt project of the appropriation of language, the junta maintained obsessive control over the media, instituted strict censorship reinforced by terror, and bombarded the airwaves and newspapers with official communiqués. In the face of this repression, most journalists and writers and many artists could not express dissent of any kind. Yet singers of a new Argentine music genre that came to be known as rock nacional developed codified and oblique metaphorical expression in their lyrics that allowed them to evade censorship and to continue to criticize the military regime with relative impunity. Moreover, many Argentine youths found solace in the music and used it to create communities in which they could meet and express themselves. The regime had sought to deny young Argentines a forum for public speech; however, together artists and listeners created a rock nacional culture that provided community for the isolated and lent a voice to the silenced.

scholarly journals EMPATHY POLITICS VERSUS TERRORISM: THE NEW ZEALAND PRIME MINISTER JACINDA ARDERN’S POLITICAL LEADERSHIP COMMUNICATION

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
Andika Hendra Mustaqim
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Political Leadership ◽  
The Political ◽  
Leadership Communication ◽  
Terror Attacks ◽  
Qualitative Approaches ◽  
The Face

This research explores the political communication by New Zealand Prime Minister JacindaArdern in the face of terror attacks of two mosques in Christchurch on March 15, 2019. The emphasis of research is empathy politics in a narrow framework and broader framework, namely the humanitarian framework. The study used the method of analyzing the content of speeches and Ardern statements and case studies with qualitative approaches and critical constructivist paradigms. The results of the study are Prime Minister JacindaArdern using various models and ways to show political communication in handling terror attacks against two mosques in Christchurch. The politics of tears is played as a form of empathy politics. Protection from minorities was also shown by Ardern. Hug is a form of political action to embrace. Ardern often gives greetings typical of Muslims.

The Religion of Progress

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marinos Diamantides ◽  
Anton Schütz
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Political Action ◽  
The Political ◽  
Human Consciousness ◽  
The West ◽  
Knowledge Industry ◽  
The Media ◽  
Politics And Law

Western Christianism has been in the cross hairs of inquiries into the political and social identity of the West for several decades now. It has shaped centuries, at least, of politico-theological interrogations. Even so, it is barely ever considered otherwise than as one more "religion". This attitude – which we explore in more depth in the following chapter – was typical in Christian Western Europe after the French Revolution until the threshold of the 20th century, for the simple reason that during this period Christianism had finally acquired an intra-social outside: society no longer thought of itself as exclusively rooted in religion, but rather in emerging secular fields, such as science and knowledge, industry, trade, rights. Two unintended collateral casualties resulted: First, other religions were conceived as comparable to Christianism (if less enlightened); secondly, and partly explaining the interest in ‘political theology’, deficiently secular human consciousness reacted by ‘deifying’ two function systems, politics and law, just as economy and the media are today 'deified' before, eventually, becoming aware of the religious nature of the preference for politics-led law or/and economy-led deregulation that they stand in for. Taking into account a vast and growing literature, we ask especially how politics replaced religion in the job of preaching the ' gospel of progress' as a prelude to political action, before being replaced in its turn by the supremely fake evangelism of economics.

scholarly journals “Political science searching for new thought”: attractive raise of theme but not indisputable

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 238
Author(s):  
Mikhail Y. Mizulin
Keyword(s):  
Political Thought ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
The Political ◽  
World Knowledge ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
New Thought ◽  
Modern Education ◽  
Political Understanding

This article explains the necessity of putting political thought at the center of political understanding of the world of the political phenomenon. Author says that the formulation and the realization of scientific and educational projects and standards according the scheme «the unknown world - scientist exploring the unknown chaotic world-knowledge as the result of the scientific research of the scientist- publication of the gained knowledge/ introduction of the political discourse- transfer of the gained knowledge to the students and politicians» can work under modern circumstances only with a minimal efficiency or may not work at all. In this particular situation the main and passing subject of the modern political education and scientific research should be political thought and it’s projection into political action and reality. This approach would supply the existing gap in the whole system of competences at which modern education and modern educational bodies should be oriented. In the long-term perspective realization of this kind of program would require the constant methodological verification of basic principles and schemes of thought which were proposed by the representatives of the humanitarian knowledge at least for the last two centuries.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document