With Our Backs Against the Wall

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-38
Author(s):  
Jeffrey K. Hass
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Valence ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Collective Identities ◽  
Social Fields ◽  
Police Reports ◽  
Symbolic Meanings ◽  
Symbolic Distance

Chapter 1 sets up general themes: individual versus collective identities and survival; power and tragic, compelled agency; and change versus reproduction of practices and relations. After a brief discussion of historiography, the chapter developed its theoretical framework, building on Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of habitus and fields. First, perception and sensation are the foundation of social fields, which are structured signals of practice and authority. Second, fields have topographies of social and symbolic distance that shape perceptions and practices. Empathy is particularly important. Third, a crucial facet of fields is anchors, entities of symbolic and emotional valence that link individuals to fields through personal and symbolic meanings. Finally, groups of fields and actors crystalize into “economies” of contexts and rules of worth. The chapter closes with a discussion of power and compelled, tragic agency, and with a discussion of data: Blockade diaries, state and Party records (NKVD and police reports, Party documents, etc.), and interviews (during the Blockade, in the late 1970s, after 1991).

Neoliberalism, Neocorporatism, and Worker Representation

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Preminger
Keyword(s):  
Balance Of Power ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Political Community ◽  
The Political ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
Theoretical Terms ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Chapter 1 lays out the book’s theoretical framework. Accepting the claim that Israel is a neoliberalizing society, it asserts labor’s agency and its potential to thwart neoliberalism as part of a struggle taking place on the ideological or symbolic level too. It then proposes neocorporatism as a useful conceptual approach, and links this to union revitalization and concepts of power. These theoretical terms and concepts are used to anchor the three “spheres” of union activity which structure the book: union democracy, or workers’ relationship to their representative organization; the balance of power between labor and capital, and the way the potential clash of interests between them is viewed and played out; and the relationship of labor to the political establishment and wider political community. Finally, a short coda explains the research process and approach that led to the book.

The Fragility of Dignity

2020 ◽  
pp. 39-71
Author(s):  
Suzy Killmister
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Personal Standards ◽  
Recognition Respect ◽  
Personal Dignity ◽  
Community Standards ◽  
In Virtue Of

This chapter utilizes the theoretical framework developed in Chapter 1 to explain how dignity can be violated, frustrated, or destroyed. For personal dignity, violations involve forcing a person to transgress her own dignitarian standards, making her less respect-worthy in her own eyes, while frustrations involve preventing a person from upholding her own dignitarian standards, blocking an avenue for increased self-regard. Social dignity takes the same form, but with community standards taking the place of personal standards. Status dignity, by contrast, is violated when an agent is treated in ways that contravene the recognition respect she is owed in virtue of her membership in a social class, and is frustrated when she is denied access to sites where recognition respect is offered.

Poetry and Matter in the English Renaissance

2019 ◽  
pp. 27-52
Author(s):  
Wendy Beth Hyman
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
English Renaissance ◽  
Poetic Form ◽  
Physical Practice ◽  
Erotic Poetry ◽  
The Face ◽  
Carpe Diem

Chapter 1, “Poetry and Matter in the English Renaissance” traces the crucial relationship between poetics and philosophical materialism in the early modern period, explaining why erotic verse so readily lent itself to confronting questions about the nature of being and of knowledge. This chapter shows that for Renaissance poets—informed by Lucretius’ great analogy between atoms and alphabetic letters—there is poetic form in elemental matter. The writing of poetry was therefore often understood as a physical practice, while poetry itself was understood as ontologically complex and efficacious. As terms such as “figuration” reveal, poetic making has both metaphorical and literal elements, which come especially to the fore in the ubiquitous blazons depicting the face of the beloved. Within the syntax of materialist poetics, foretelling the decay of the love object is therefore tantamount to a kind of deconstruction or unmaking—making poetry actually “do” the work of time. Multiple traditions, from Aristotelian hylomorphism to idealizing Petrarchism, had prepared the way for the female body to function as a proxy for embodied matter which poets could “figure,” “make,” or “undo.” This chapter presents the object of erotic poetry becoming just that: a fictional construct subjected to the recombinatory shaping of the godlike poet. As later chapters will develop, the paradoxical loneliness of the carpe diem invitation emerges from this troubling strategy, for it is an invitational form addressed to an entity it has forever exiled as metaphysically other. This chapter thus provides both a theoretical framework and historical background for the project’s larger claims.

Women in Combat

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Ayelet Harel-Shalev ◽  
Shir Daphna-Tekoah
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Security Studies ◽  
Women Soldiers ◽  
Women's Voices ◽  
Research Framework ◽  
Military Studies ◽  
Personal Stories ◽  
War And Conflict

The book focuses on the importance of the study of women combat soldiers and veterans in the fields of Security Studies and International Relations. The chapter addresses this issue by bringing women’s voices and silences to the forefront of research in these domains and by presenting women soldiers as narrators of war and conflict through their alternative and very personal stories. The pivotal motif that runs through the book is the theoretical framework it provides for understanding the process of integration of women soldiers into combat and combat-support roles and the challenges they face. The research seeks to explore narratives of women as violent actors rather than as women struggling for peace. The book prompts scholars to be critical of widely accepted knowledge and binary conceptions in military studies. Chapter 1 outlines the book’s rationale, the research framework, the context of the research, and the contents of the subsequent chapters.

De Turkse alevieten: een niet-erkende minderheid

2008 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 299-310
Author(s):  
Nico Landman
Keyword(s):  
Religious Identity ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Collective Identities ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Right

This article explores the conflict potential in the relation between Sunnis and Alevis in Turkey. Using the theoretical framework that Schuyt proposes to analyze conflicts, the author argues that the risk of a violent confrontation between the two groups is relatively low. This argument is based, among other, on the complexity of the individual and collective identities of the members of both groups. There is, however, a risk that attempts of the Turkish religious authorities to assimilate the Alevis and to deny them the right to develop a separate religious identity will increase the existing tensions between the two groups.

Setting the Stage

2019 ◽  
pp. 133-140
Author(s):  
Harry Brighouse
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Education System ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Careful Consideration ◽  
Educational Opportunities ◽  
Market Reforms ◽  
Theoretical Argument ◽  
The Way

Chapter 1 will set out the assumptions behind the argument, and the theoretical framework within which it is made. Chapter 2 will set out and argue for a set of aims for an education system. Chapter 3 will outline the extent to which markets already, and unavoidably, play a role in the way educational opportunities are created and allocated. Chapter 4 provides first a theoretical argument that a fully marketized system is unlikely to further the aims outlined in chapter 2, and then an argument, grounded in careful consideration of the existing empirical research, that recent market reforms have not, in fact, furthered those aims. Chapter 5 outlines a sketch of some more promising reforms.

Complex and Empathic Understanding

2020 ◽  
pp. 374-398
Author(s):  
Catherine Raeff
Keyword(s):  
Human Action ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Openness To Change ◽  
Empathic Understanding

This chapter ties varied strands of the book together by first considering how the theoretical framework can be used to address the complexities of human action identified in Chapter 1 (i.e., holism, dynamics, variability, multicausality, and individuality). The chapter also offers guidelines for using the theoretical framework to think systematically about what people do in varied circumstances. The book ends by considering the complex and empathic image of and vision for humanity that the theoretical framework reflects and hopefully promotes and promulgates. In doing so, the chapter raises varied issues regarding diversity and commonality, as well as openness to change.

Predicaments, Presumptions, and Procedures

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Geoff Childs ◽  
Namgyal Choedup
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Family Size ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Unit Of Analysis ◽  
Cumulative Causation ◽  
Anthropological Demography ◽  
Educational Migration ◽  
The Village

Chapter 1 introduces the topic of educational migration and foreshadows its consequences through the case of a mother who struggles to subsist alone in the village while her only son lives far away in a monastery. Following a brief description of Nubri, the fieldwork area in the highlands of Nepal, the chapter outlines a theoretical framework that includes migration as a means to manage family size and composition, social networks that facilitate migration, and cumulative causation that increases the intensity of migration. It concludes by discussing the methods of anthropological demography utilized in this study and the rational for adopting the household as the main unit of analysis.

scholarly journals Wall and Tower

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 20-35
Author(s):  
Mor Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Jewish Literature ◽  
Collective Identities ◽  
Political Sciences

This article focuses on three artistic and activist practices in Israel in which notions of home and land are central concepts and working materials. It inhabits the symbolic field of re-constructing collective identities in relation to nationalism and its historical and biblical connections. It is about using language as a way to affix narratives until they seem as unmovable as facts or inherent beliefs. It is also about the use of language to challenge and reshape these fixed perceptions. It first presents case studies to discuss the nature of the tactics. Second, it offers a description of the context to which the case studies respond. My theoretical framework is derived from social and political sciences. It is also connected to Jewish literature and practices referencing characteristic of tactics. The last section is an analysis of the ways in which the case studies provides an alternative observation on the Israeli-Palestinian space.

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