4. The struggle over political language

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Freeden
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
External Source ◽  
Political Language ◽  
Making Sense

Developments in linguistics provided another external source of inspiration for students of ideology. ‘The struggle over political language’ explores the contribution of language to the development of ideology. The meaning of language — in particular the emphasis on grammar and semantics — played a critical role in enabling similar ideologies to be expressed in their own specific terms. Making sense of ideological texts became an increasingly important role for political theorists. From this emerged the four Ps of ideological composition: proximity, priority, permeability, and proportionality. These have provided an important tool for complex comparative analysis of ideologies.

scholarly journals UNPACKING YOUNG PEOPLE’S NARRATIVES ABOUT THEIR ASPIRATIONS: A BOURDIEUSIAN PERSPECTIVE

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 423
Author(s):  
Cara Ng ◽  
Rebecca J Haines-Saah ◽  
Carla T Hilario ◽  
Emily K Jenkins ◽  
Joy L Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Young People ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Font Size ◽  
Future Health ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Specific Capital ◽  
Instrumental Role

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 24pt 36pt;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"><span style="color: #131413; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;">Drawing from Bourdieu’s theories on habitus, capital, and field, this article explores the complex relationship between social context and youth’s aspirations and perceptions of the future. Based on findings from interviews we conducted with young people in two distinct communities in British Columbia, Canada, we undertook a comparative analysis of the ways in which class and place influence young people’s “imagined futures”. Our findings suggest that family plays an instrumental role in shaping youth’s aspirations in both locations. Perceptions regarding opportunity and mobility varied greatly between the communities, and appeared to be influenced by racialized and gendered inequalities. A few youth had aspirations that resided outside of the narrative parameters mapped out by their peers. We explore the implications of these perspectives for community-level strategies aiming to improve young people’s future trajectories, which could have positive impacts on their current and future health and wellbeing. While Bourdieu’s theories do not explicitly consider adolescent-specific capital, we found them to be helpful in making sense of youth’s narratives about their futures.</span></span></p>

Life of a Nation's Text: The Travels and Travails of the Indian Constitution

2021 ◽  
Vol 94 (4) ◽  
pp. 707-718
Author(s):  
Ronojoy Sen
Keyword(s):  
Review Essay ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Indian Constitution ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Landmark Study

This review essay briefly discusses Granville Austin's landmark study of the working of the Indian Constitution and its critics, reviews three recent books on that Constitution, and evaluates the extent to which these new works have been able to take constitutional studies in new directions. All three books shine a light on the critical role of the Constitution and the courts in Indian democracy. While the authors are well aware of contemporary challenges to constitutionalism and have written on them elsewhere, this does not fully come through in their books. Despite this shortcoming, these recent studies are indispensable in making sense of the Constitution and its role in Indian democracy.

Moses and Pharaoh's Magicians: A Discursive Analysis of the Qur'anic Narratives in the Light of Late Antique Texts and Traditions

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew C. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Biblical Narrative ◽  
Discursive Analysis ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Moral Behaviour ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Effective Use ◽  
Relationship Of

This paper provides a comparative analysis of the Qur'anic narratives of Moses and Pharaoh's magicians and the Biblical narrative as transmitted through the targummim and Peshitta, and Jewish and Christian interpretive traditions. This analysis views these narratives as a means of better understanding the discursive development of the earliest Qur'anic community and how they assisted that community in making sense of its world. Viewing how the Qur'an deliberately crafts these narratives gives insights into the circumstances and context of its revelation, particularly as it makes deliberate choices related to textual readings. Such choices, I argue, impacted the discursive norms and attitudes of the community. Presenting the chronological relationship of the narratives illustrates such discursive development. This paper analyses the similarities and differences in the Biblical and Qur'anic narratives, focusing particularly on the narratological roles of Aaron, the nobles, and the magicians, to illustrate the homiletic and exhortatory messages impacting that discourse development. The effective use of these narratives as models for the ethical and moral behaviour of the believing community and its identity formation cannot be understated.

Management learning and the unsettled humanities: Introduction to the special issue

2021 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-143
Author(s):  
Rasmus Johnsen ◽  
Annika Skoglund ◽  
Matt Statler ◽  
William M Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Critical Role ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Critical Inquiry ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Privileged Access ◽  
Management Learning ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Theoretical Issues

This special issue engages with the unsettling of the humanities to further explore its relevance for management learning and education. It explores how themes traditionally belonging to the humanities have spurred critical inquiry and raised theoretical issues within other disciplines, following the crisis of the classical humanist ideal as ‘the measure of all things’. It focuses on how the tensions resulting from this crisis can be constructively thematized in the field of management and organization studies, and how the unsettling of the humanities’ privileged access to studying the ‘especially human’ can be taken into the classroom. In this manner, the special issue engages with questions related to the Anthropocene, posthumanism and transhumanism, and raises issues concerning the human possibilities for knowing, learning and living in entangled ways. Additionally, it helps us understand the critical role of the humanities in making sense of the reciprocities between imagination, information and the human crafting of meaningful knowledge.

scholarly journals REPRODUCTION OF FARMS’ LONG–TERM ASSETS IN LATGALE

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 293
Author(s):  
Artūrs Prauliņš ◽  
Ligita Melece
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
External Source ◽  
Significant Decline ◽  
Agricultural Products ◽  
Agricultural Area ◽  
Structural Reforms ◽  
Fixed Assets

Agriculture is an important integral part of Latvia’s economy. Recently it has suffered a significant decline due to a price disparity, out–of–date technology, and stiff competition with cheap imported agricultural products, inflation and long–lasting unsuccessful structural reforms. At present most farms work with losses or low profitability and therefore can not provide the reproduction of fixed assets which is a vital prerequisite of efficient agricultural production. The comparative analysis of reproduction of farms’ fixed assets in Latgale and in Latvia is performed in the paper. In contrast to the previously done research, the focus is on analysis of various derived indicators such as net investments per European size unit, total utilised agricultural area and livestock unit. Special attention has been paid to the subsidies on investment as a gratis external source of finance and their proportion in gross investments.

Three rationalities for making sense of internal displacement in Ukraine

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greta Lynn Uehling
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Forced Migration ◽  
Internal Displacement ◽  
Territorial Disputes ◽  
Internally Displaced ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Internally Displaced Person ◽  
Forced Migrants

Abstract The territorial disputes between Russian Federation and Ukraine over Crimea and Donbas have led to the forcible internal displacement of at least 1.6 million people. While Although the literature on forced migration and internal displacement have been framed predominantly in terms of trauma and disenfranchisement (IOM 2018; Dunn 2018), this article argues that a fuller range of Internally Displaced Person (IDP) subjectivities can be made intelligible by considering the rationalities organizing IDP survival. Based on a comparative analysis of 155 interviews with IDPs from Crimea and Donbas, the article demonstrates that forced displacement is more heterogenous than has previously been allowed. I theorize this diversity by using analytics of governmentality to examine the logics or ‘rationalities’ used to make sense of forced migration. The conceptual tools offered by studies of governmentality are ideal for this case because they overlap with themes that predominated in data collected during ethnographic fieldwork in Ukraine between 2015 and 2017: agency, responsibility, and freedom. The article contributes a framework for comparing IDP subjectivities that encompasses diversity and provides a new vocabulary for describing the strategic efforts forced migrants exert to mend their lives.

Making Sense of Suffrage Expansion and Electoral Institutions in Latin America: A Comment on Colomer's “Tiger”

2004 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-67
Author(s):  
J. Samuel Valenzuela
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Theoretical Argument ◽  
Electoral Institutions ◽  
Know How ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
The Social ◽  
American Elections ◽  
Comparative Theory

In his article “Taming the Tiger: Voting Rights and Political Instability in Latin America,” Josep Colomer proposes to go beyond the “singlecountry stories… typical… of the existing historiography” on Latin American elections and politics and to develop instead “an explicitly comparative, theory-driven analysis, which is more characteristic of the social sciences literature.” I am all for such comparative analysis, although I would guard myself from belittling the achievements of historians who have examined national experiences in painstaking detail or the merit of a highly analytical comparative history such as that presented in Eduardo Posada-Carbó’s recent work (2000). But theory-driven comparative analysis is difficult to do well. One has to know the historical experiences one is comparing very thoroughly, and one has to know how to develop the concepts that will build the theoretical argument in a dialogue with the evidence. The result should be to provide a better understanding of the evidence in ways that even those who know the histories well will find both useful and illuminating.

scholarly journals Genome-wide identification and comparative analysis of NBS-LRR resistance genes in Brassica napus

2018 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Salman Alamery ◽  
Soodeh Tirnaz ◽  
Philipp Bayer ◽  
Reece Tollenaere ◽  
Boulos Chaloub ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Brassica Napus ◽  
Resistance Genes ◽  
Plant Disease Resistance ◽  
Interleukin 1 ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Coiled Coil ◽  
Genome Wide ◽  
High Level ◽  
Plant Disease Resistance Genes

Plant disease-resistance genes play a critical role in providing resistance against pathogens. The largest family of resistance genes are the nucleotide-binding site (NBS) and leucine-rich repeat (LRR) genes. They are classified into two major subfamilies, toll/interleukin-1 receptor (TIR)-NBS-LRR (TNL) and coiled-coil (CC)-NBS-LRR (CNL) proteins. We have identified and characterised 641 NBS-LRR genes in Brassica napus, 249 in B. rapa and 443 in B. oleracea. A ratio of 1 : 2 of CNL : TNL genes was found in the three species. Domain structure analysis revealed that 57% of the NBS-LRR genes are typical resistance genes and contain all three domains (TIR/CC, NBS, LRR), whereas the remaining genes are partially deleted or truncated. Of the NBS-LRR genes, 59% were found to be physically clustered, and individual genes involved in clusters were more polymorphic than those not clustered. Of the NBS-LRR genes in B. napus, 50% were identified as duplicates, reflecting a high level of genomic duplication and rearrangement. Comparative analysis between B. napus and its progenitor species indicated that >60% of NBS-LRR genes are conserved in B. napus. This study provides a valuable resource for the identification and characterisation of candidate NBS-LRR genes.

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