Cultural Identity Theory and Education

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Urrieta
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Sexual Identity ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
The Political ◽  
Subject Formation ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Political Dimensions ◽  
Definition Of

This chapter presents a selective overview of the study of identity. Identity is defined broadly as self-understandings, especially those with strong emotional resonances, and often marked with socially constructed raced, gendered, classed, and sexual identity labels. The definition of identity is based on two assumptions: (a) the study of identity is the study of subject formation and (b) identity is about power. The chapter then proceeds to address two aspects of cultural identity as a concept: first, the power that cultural identity has for identity politics, followed by the political dimensions of cultural identity as used by oppressed and minoritized groups in social movements and activism, especially those related to education. The chapter then focuses on the relevance of identity to address difference in education and concludes with asserting the importance of qualitative research in the study of identity.

From the Streets to the Net? The Political Use of the Internet by Social Movements

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorenzo Mosca
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Global Justice ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Global Justice Movement ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
Definition Of

This article focuses on the political use of the Internet by the Italian Global Justice Movement (GJM) considering both the organizations and the individuals involved in the movement. First, a definition of the concept ‘political use of the Internet’ and its operationalization is provided. Second, light is shed on how the Internet is used politically by participants in social movements taking into account their organizational and participatory experiences. Data were gathered with quantitative and qualitative instruments during different researches: a survey of participants in a demonstration against the ‘Bolkestein’ directive and a series of interviews with representatives of different organizational sectors of the Italian GJM, complemented by a qualitative website analysis of the same organizations. While quantitative data allows for controlling relations among variables concerning the political use of the Internet by individuals, qualitative data provides more detailed information on Internet use in the everyday life of activists and organizations.

scholarly journals Politik Identitas dalam Sejarah Pembentukan Negara Israel

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (01) ◽  
pp. 84
Author(s):  
Elpeni Fitrah
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Cultural Politics ◽  
State Formation ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Political Identity ◽  
The Political ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
Political Movement ◽  
The World

This paper discusses how the political identity becomes a motive of Israel state formation. Identitypolitics is a part of cultural politics which consisted by race, religion, ethnic and culture. TheAuthor identified identity politics as a concept or political movement which focusing into diversity.The main argument of this paper is Israel has succeed utilize its cultural identity narrative to unitethe perception of the Jewish around the world to reproduce as a historical justification as well asthe tools of politics for the sake of the embodiment of national ideals in establishing their ownnation state. Keywords: Identity Politics, Narrative, Perception, Israel

The Politics of Slavery

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Brace
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
The Political ◽  
History Of Political Thought ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
History Of ◽  
Political Dimensions ◽  
Definition Of

This book asks what it means to describe someone as a slave and explores the political dimensions of that question. It argues against the search for a transhistorical and timeless definition of slavery, and offers a critical interrogation of the dominant liberal discourse on slavery from the Enlightenment to the present. It pays particular attention to the meanings of the slavery / freedom binary and to the connections between the past and the present in understanding ‘old’ and ‘new’ slavery. The book is about what it means to think about slavery as a historical process and as a political relation, both in the history of political thought and in present debates about trafficking and incarceration. It argues that we need to bring the concept of slavery back into our understandings of freedom, labour and belonging, and unravel the assumptions behind the meanings we ascribe to personhood, sub-personhood and humanity. From Aristotle and the idea of natural slavery, through Locke’s conception of civil society, Hegel’s master-slave dialectic and J.S. Mill’s analogy of slavery and marriage to the discourse of modern abolition and the idea of trafficking as slavery, the book interrogates what it means to think about the idea of freedom as the opposite of slavery, and draws attention to the significance of the tensions, ambiguities and silences that surround that conception.

Derrida's Justice and Foucault's Freedom: Ethics, History, and Social Movements

1999 ◽  
Vol 24 (03) ◽  
pp. 655-676 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariana Valverde
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
The Political ◽  
Ethical Life ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
Additional Site ◽  
Historical Specificity ◽  
Frame Work ◽  
Ethical Reflections ◽  
Pluralistic World

In thinking about justice in a pluralistic world, there are a number of potential theoretical resources. Derrida's thoughts on justice provide some tools with which to support social movements while avoiding the political and theoretical problems of identity politics, I argue; but the antihistorical frame-work of the philosophical ethics used and refined by Derrida is unhelpful to anyone working in social movements. By contrast, Foucault's later work on the ethics of freedom offers tools useful for thinking about embodiment, desire, and the historical specificity of ethical life. And yet, by remaining focused almost solely on liberté–backgrounding égalité, fraternité, and solidarité–Foucault's ethical reflections also remain open to supplementation. Thus, both thinkers'reflections on justice, freedom, and history have elements that are potentially very useful to those social movements that are unhappy with essentialist identities; but along the way we will have to invent our own additional, site-specific tools, in particular insofar as we are interested in building networks of solidarity.

Bulgarian LGBTQI movement: Generations, identifications, and tendencies

Sexualities ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 136346072110002
Author(s):  
Shaban Darakchi
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Sexual Identity ◽  
Social Resources ◽  
The Political ◽  
New Social Movements ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Cultural Conditions ◽  
Economic Transformations ◽  
Social Entities ◽  
Depth Interviews

Based on 27 in-depth interviews, web platforms analysis, and participatory observations this study investigates (a) the emergence and the development of the Bulgarian lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning and intersex (LGBTQI) movement; and (b) the activists' motivation for engagement with the movement. Challenging the new social movements’ theories the data from the study suggest that (a) the LGBTQI movement in Bulgaria emerged within the political and the economic transformations marked by anti-communist rhetoric, rather than collective sexual identity; (b) most of the diverse activist communities and the incorporation of “bottom-up” approach did not emerge spontaneously but were established by funded and professionalized project activities; (c) an increasing number of younger activists use left-oriented intersectional approaches in their activism emphasizing on the economic rather than the cultural conditions: (d) the stable financial and social resources of the anti-gender campaigns require reconsideration of the resources and the structure of the LGBTQI movements seen primarily as social entities, often neglecting the economic and the political structures.

scholarly journals The Origin of the Work of Art

MANUSYA ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 40-62
Author(s):  
Freeland Charles
Keyword(s):  
National Socialism ◽  
The Political ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
Death Of God ◽  
New Beginning ◽  
Static Object ◽  
European Experience ◽  
Political Dimensions ◽  
Concept Of Truth ◽  
Definition Of

The following was presented at the Fourth Collegium in the Humanities held at Thammasat University on January 4 and 5, 2001. The paper is intended as an introduction to Heidegger’s important essay, "The Origin of the Work of Art". In the course of the paper, I discuss the following themes:Heidegger’s questioning of the concept of truth in terms of Aletheia, the self disclosing and concealing of Being, as the setting for a radical revaluation of techne, (the Greek word for art, as a practical, productive knowledge (Wissen)), in which techne will now be conceived as not only a way of kno wing that stands alongside theoria, but even more, as a decisive site for the disclosure of Being. The actuality of art, its "thingly" character, will not be seen as a static object, therefore, but as energeia, activity or "being-at-work". Techne will be thought as event, an event of Being, the site for the happening of Truth (Aletheia) This culminates in Heidegger’s delimitation, or definition, of art as the site or place (topos, Orter; in the German word Heidegger uses) of truth’s setting-itself-to- work. This is art’s "activity", its "actuality". Finally, the significance of this is.in the way it opens a new questioning of the European experience of nihilism as the "death of God", or withdrawal of gods, and the related triumph of knowledge in the form of scientific technicity, the calculative thinking of a techne that demands, challenges, provokes, and sets up Being as an object and conceives of earth , for example, as a "natural resource" to be exploited. The work of art, as the techne in which "truth (Aletheia) sets itself to work", what Heidegger might call "great art", is then to be seen as a possible way of overcoming (Verwindung) of nihilism and of questioning the essence of technology and calculative thinking. Through a questioning of the origin of the work of art, philosophical thinking will go beyond a mere "aesthetics" toward the more fundamental questioning of the "end of metaphysics". Through a return to an archaic Greek world opened in and by the temple, and through a thinking of all that is still yet to be thought, or that is still held in reserve in that experience, Heidegger seeks the possibility of a new beginning for the European, especially the Germanic, historical destiny. No doubt the revaluation of techne, not only in terms of the work of art, but in terms of the political and the founding of a nation and the opening of the destiny of a people, which is Heidegger’s way of thinking the actuality of the work of techne, are all crucial and deeply related themes. But, due to limitations of time and space in this paper, both the links of thi s with Heidegger’s meditations on the poetry of Holderlin, and the political dimensions of this work and Heidegger’s relation to National socialism during the 1930s, are not considered.

Emerging Islamic-Confucian Axis in the Virtual Ummah: Connectivity and Constraint in the Contemporary China

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 137-155
Author(s):  
Wai-Yip Ho
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
Sovereign Power ◽  
The West ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
State Surveillance ◽  
The One

The key concept of this article is that while the predominant focus of the rise of cyber Islamic environments (CIEs) has been on the Middle East and the West, there exists a neglected but emerging trend of the Chinese-speaking Islamic websites in the midst of growing autonomy of civil social movements as well as the state surveillance. Among the ten Muslim nationalities in China, I first surveys the general situations of the cyber environments in China, in which the Hui Islamic websites embedded, and then go on to explore the development and features of some representative Hui Islamic websites. This article illustrates the challenge for Chinese CIEs is to resolve the identity politics, on the one hand demonstrating the political loyalty to the sovereign power of People’s Republic of China (PRC) and identifying the global ummah in terms of transborder religious solidarity on the other hand.

scholarly journals DINAMIKA ARSITEKTUR INDONESIA DAN REPRESENTASI ‘POLITIK IDENTITAS’ PASCA REFORMASI

NALARs ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Kemas Ridwan Kurniawan
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Time History ◽  
Politics Of Identity ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
The One ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Impact

ABSTRAK. Menguatnya politik identitas di Indonesia pasca reformasi telah melahirkan formasi arsitektur baru yang tersebar di berbagai daerah di Indonesia. Identitas budaya terkait indigenitas menjadi bagian dari politik identitas yang menurut sebagian pengamat politik disinyalir dimanfaatkan para elit dan penguasa untuk kepentingan politik kekuasaan. Ironisnya, dalam bidang arsitektur, definisi tentang identitas ini justru semakin tidak jelas. Definisi-definisi ini berputar pada debat tentang pencarian jati diri yang tidak pernah selesai dan sering diasosiasikan dengan proses untuk memunculkan jati diri kebudayaan sebagai jawaban atas tantangan universalitas arsitektur modern, globalisasi dan kemajuan teknologi. Makalah ini mencoba mengambil dari sudut pandang yang berbeda yaitu politik identitas dalam silangannya dengan arsitektur (‘space’), waktu (sejarah) dan aspek sosial-politik. Isu yang muncul adalah bagaimana politik identitas perlahan-lahan melanjutkan pengaruhnya dalam formasi arsitektur di Indonesia pasca reformasi, di balik kesalah-pahaman tentang definisi ‘identitas’ dalam debat-debat arsitektur di Indonesia. Hal ini terjadi karena banyak arsitek atau teoretikus arsitektur di Indonesia membatasi dirinya hanya dalam lingkup arsitektur, dan gagal berinteraksi secara lebih luas dengan isu-isu sosio politik. Konsekuensinya, di satu sisi, istilah ‘identitas’ kehilangan pengaruh sosio-politiknya dan direduksi kepada masalah-masalah estetika visual semata, yang mengaburkan identitas arsitektur sebagai suatu konsep sosial budaya. Sementara itu, di sisi lain pemanfaatan identitas sebagai bagian dari komoditas politik juga melanjutkan dinamika yang terjadi di daerah (regional) yaitu warna kekuasaan (power) dalam formasi arsitektur di Indonesia sebagai imbas dari Desentralisasi. Makalah ini mengkritisi perilaku politik identitas yang cenderung berubah menjadi ‘regime’ dalam formasi identitas arsitektur saat ini, dan kurang terangkatnya isu identitas arsitektur dengan dinamika sosio-politik dan keseharian (‘everyday-life’) masyarakat. Kata Kunci: subjektivitas, hibrid, indigenitas, pasca-nasionalisme ABSTRACT. Straighthening the politics of identity in Indonesia after the 1997 political reformation has increased the formation of new architecture which are scattered in various regions in Indonesia. The cultural identity on indigeneity and become part of identity politics. It was exploited by elites and rulers for the sake of power politics. Ironically, in the field of architecture, the definition of this identity is even more unclear. These definitions spin on the debate about the search for identity that was never finished and is often associated with the process to bring a cultural identity as a response to the challenges of modern architecture such as universality, globalization and technological progress. This paper tried to look at architecture (space) in the intersection with time (history) and socio-political aspects. The issue that arises is how the politics of identity is slowly continuing influence in the formation of architecture in Indonesia after the 1997 political reform, under misconceptions about the definition of 'identity' in debates of architecture in Indonesia. This happens because many architects or architectural theorists in Indonesia restricts itself only in the sphere of architecture, and failed to interact more broadly with social and political issues. Consequently, on the one hand, the term 'identity' loss of the socio-political influences and are reduced to a visual aesthetic problems alone, which obscure the identity of architecture as a socio-cultural concept. Meanwhile, on the other hand the use of identity as part of a political commodity also continue the dynamics that occur in the area (regional) is the color of power (power) in the formation of architecture in Indonesia as the impact of decentralization. The paper criticized the behavior of identity politics that tends to turn into a 'regime' in the current architectural identity formation, and less lifting of architecture with issues of identity and everyday social and political dynamics ( 'everyday-life') of community. Keywords: subjectivity, hybrid, indigeneity, post-nationalism

Pedagang Kaki Lima, Profil Entrepreneurship Sejati, Pelaku Ekonomi Kerakyatan, Ciptakan Jiwa Kewirausahaan Mandiri

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-35
Author(s):  
Agus Prasetya
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Data Display ◽  
Job Seekers ◽  
Street Vendor ◽  
Street Vendors ◽  
The Social ◽  
Collection Data ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Depth Interviews

This article is motivated by the fact that the existence of the Street Vendor (PKL) profession is a manifestation of the difficulty of work and the lack of jobs. The scarcity of employment due to the consideration of the number of jobs with unbalanced workforce, economically this has an impact on the number of street vendors (PKL) exploding ... The purpose of being a street vendor is, as a livelihood, making a living, looking for a bite of rice for family, because of the lack of employment, this caused the number of traders to increase. The scarcity of jobs, causes informal sector migration job seekers to create an independent spirit, entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship, with capital, managed by traders who are true populist economic actors. The problems in street vendors are: (1) how to organize, regulate, empower street vendors in the cities (2) how to foster, educate street vendors, and (3) how to help, find capital for street vendors (4) ) how to describe grief as a Five-Foot Trader. This paper aims to find a solution to the problem of street vendors, so that cases of conflict, cases of disputes, clashes of street vendors with Satpol PP can be avoided. For this reason, the following solutions must be sought: (1) understanding the causes of the explosions of street vendors (2) understanding the problems of street vendors. (3) what is the solution to solving street vendors in big cities. (4) describe Street Vendors as actors of the people's economy. This article is qualitative research, the social paradigm is the definition of social, the method of retrieving observational data, in-depth interviews, documentation. Data analysis uses Interactive Miles and Huberman theory, with stages, Collection Data, Display Data, Data Reduction and Vervying or conclusions.

Archias the Good Immigrant

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 382-410
Author(s):  
Hannah Čulík-Baird
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
The Political ◽  
Roman Poet ◽  
Bona Fide ◽  
Cultural Tensions

Cicero's Pro Archia has historically been taken as a bona fide expression of humanism. In this article, I demonstrate how this reading of the Pro Archia has allowed the political and cultural tensions in the speech to remain hidden. Cicero's vision of Archias as an idealized amalgam sanitizes both the poetic and the cultural identity of his Syrian client in favour of a projection which combined generic “Greekness” with a politicized invocation of the Roman poet, Q. Ennius. Contextualizing the Pro Archia within its contemporary political moment reveals that Cicero is consciously constructing a narrative of Archias as a “good immigrant.”

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