Clan, Village, Tribe, and Naga Nation

2018 ◽  
pp. 38-80
Author(s):  
Jelle J.P. Wouters
Keyword(s):  
Political Context ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Social

Naga identity, akin to all modern identities, is historically contingent, constructed, and continually debated. This chapter offers an ethnographic view of local processes of identity and identification among Nagas by highlighting the social binds and divides that emerge from the structuring, foundational, and affective realities of clan, village, and tribe. The author shows how Naga clans, villages, and tribes variously connect and disconnect with projections of a unified Naga nation and the nationalistic politics of Naga insurgency. In the upshot, the author argues that the form and functioning of the Naga nation is best approached, not as a single ethnic rubric, but as a ‘tribal confederation’ in which connected yet self-directed tribes fissure and fuse according to the political context and circumstances.

Is Impartiality Politics?

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre Rosanvallon
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Political Community ◽  
Political Order ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ways Of Thinking

This chapter examines conceptions of impartiality and looks at how impartiality itself is approached in a political context. In doing so the chapter asks if the shift from positive to negative generality reflects a decline in the democratic–republican ideal and a greater role for law. From here, the chapter turns to the idea of a democratic impartiality—an active impartiality whose intervention helps to build a political community. Impartiality has established itself in the political order as the vector of aspirations to construct a more deliberative and transparent public space. It is also a key to understanding new ways of thinking about the social.

2. Contexts

2015 ◽  
pp. 7-24
Author(s):  
R. B. Bernstein
Keyword(s):  
British Empire ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Political Context ◽  
The Political ◽  
Ruling Elite ◽  
Founding Fathers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Landed Gentry

The founding fathers were born into a remarkable variety of families, occupations, religious loyalties, and geographic settings: from landed gentry destined to join the ruling elite, to middling or common sorts who chose the law or medicine as a professional path to distinction, or immigrants from other parts of the British Empire. They lived within and were shaped by three interlocking contexts—the intellectual world of the transatlantic Enlightenment; the political context within which Americans sought to preserve and improve the best of the Anglo-American constitutional heritage; and the social, economic, and cultural context formed as a result of their living on the Atlantic world’s periphery.

Justin Martyr Invents Judaism

2001 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 427-461 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Boyarin
Keyword(s):  
Social Practices ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Rabbinic Literature ◽  
The Political ◽  
History Of Christianity ◽  
Historical Information ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Traditional Patterns ◽  
And Behavior

The historiography of Judaism in the rabbinic period (together with its implications for the history of Christianity) had been, until quite recently, founded on the assumption that the kind of historical information that rabbinic legends could yield was somehow directly related to the narrative contents that they displayed, which were understood as more or less reliable depending on the critical sensibility of the scholar. This scholarship was not, of course, generally naïve or pious in its aims or methods. A recurring question within such research had to do with the question of the credibility of a given text or passage of rabbinic literature or the recovery of its “historical kernel.” For the method or approach that I take up, all texts are by definition equally credible, for the object of research is the motives of the construction of the narrative itself, that is taken to attest to the political context of its telling or retellingrather than to the context of the narrative's content. All texts inscribe the social practices within which they originate, and many also seek to locate the genealogy of those social practices in a narrative of origins, producing a reversal of cause and effect. This reversal is a mode of narration that is particularly germane to the project of replacing traditional patterns of belief and behavior (“We have always done it this way”) with new ones that wish nevertheless to claim the authority, necessarily, of hoary antiquity—in short, to the invention of orthodoxies.

scholarly journals For Dignity, Against Racism: The Struggles of Asylum Seekers in Italy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martina Pasqualetto ◽  
Fabio Perocco
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Political Context ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World

In Italy, over the last years in the world of social struggles asylum seekers have been in the spotlight several times, having led several episodes of mobilisations and protests. They emerged as political subjects, with their own claims and situations; parallel to the issue of reception, they expressed themselves in the public space as asylum seekers, with campaigns, pickets, and marches, with which the respect for their rights and dignity is advocated. This study analyses the causes, forms and repercussions of the struggles of asylum seekers in the last decade. After the analysis of the experience of immigrants’ struggles over the last three decades, the article examines the social roots and the features of the struggles of asylum seekers between 2011 to 2019, and considers their meaning in the political context.

scholarly journals Polityka wyznaniowa w myśli austriackiej Partii Chrześcijańsko-Społecznej w latach 1918−1934

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 35-51
Author(s):  
Piotr Bukowczyk
Keyword(s):  
Political Thought ◽  
Political Context ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Religious Policy ◽  
Italian Fascism ◽  
The Social ◽  
First Republic ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Impact

Religious policy in the thought of the Austrian Christian Social Party 1918−1934In the paper I present the vision of a relation between the state and religious denominations and the status of atheists and free-thinkers delineated in the political thought of the Christian Social Party Christlichsoziale Partei, active in Austria-Hungary and the First Republic of Austria, Christian-democratic, after 1931 influenced by Italian fascism and inclining towards authoritarianism. I infer it from its propaganda materials books, brochures, press articles, leaflets, posters and legislation enacted under its governmentI also show the impact of the social, cultural and political context on the postulates of the Christian Social Party with regard to religious policy.

scholarly journals La evaluación de los egresados de formación profesional en México: Reflejo de la implementación de la política de competitividad en la educación superior

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 48 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Alfonso Jiménez Moreno
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Political Context ◽  
The Political ◽  
Exit Examination ◽  
Social Demand ◽  
External Regulation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Professional Degrees ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of this paper is to describe the academic-political use of the evaluation of school exit for undergraduate in Mexico. Through a documentary review of Mexican higher education's emphasis on competitiveness and accountability, as well as through the analysis of the regulations of several Mexican universities, the political context in which this evaluation was generated and the institutional uses related with their results are described. It concludes the relationship between the evaluation of school exit examination for undergraduate and the social demand for competitiveness, its use as a way of an external regulation for the obtaining of professional degrees, as well as the need of studies from the perspective of higher education institutions.

The Gilets Jaunes

2020 ◽  
Vol 119 (4) ◽  
pp. 866-876
Author(s):  
Marta Camell Galí ◽  
Matteo Polleri ◽  
Federico Puletti
Keyword(s):  
Direct Contact ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
The Social ◽  
Work Done

This contribution is dedicated to an in-depth look at the cycle of the Gilets Jaunes protests that marked the French and European political landscape between November 2018 and the beginning of 2020. An unexpected social and political phenomenon, this movement accompanied the presidency of Emmanuel Macron and influenced his political agenda. Through “co-research” work done in direct contact with the movement, the essay analyzes the social and geographical composition of the participants, the political context in which it emerged, and its forms of organization and struggle. It argues that by subverting the frustration of social and geographical declassing, the Gilets Jaunes managed to constitute an unprecedented case of democratic counter-power.

„Teraz nic nie wiadomo”. Apokalipsa niespełniona w Stacji Abbesses Stefanii Zahorskiej

2017 ◽  
pp. 81-90
Author(s):  
Jakub Osiński
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
New World ◽  
Atomic Bomb ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Social Consciousness ◽  
The Political ◽  
Nuclear Threat ◽  
The Social ◽  
Post War ◽  
Social Views

The article undertakes the analysis of social views on an atomic bomb in Stacja Abbesses by Stefania Zahorska. The author refers to the political context and proves that the forgotten short story is a literary voice of reason in the post-war discussion held in exile on the possibility of the outbreak of a new world conflict. However, this is also a fascinating record of the post-war state of the social consciousness of the nuclear threat, its course, effects etc., which can be regarded as the second thesis of the article.

scholarly journals Studying the Community of Trump Supporters on Twitter during the 2020 US Presidential Election via Hashtags #maga and #trump2020

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 709-731
Author(s):  
Huu Dat Tran
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Social Network Analysis ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Political ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
The Social ◽  
Us Presidential Election

(1) The study investigated the social network surrounding the hashtags #maga (Make America Great Again, the campaign slogan popularized by Donald Trump during his 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns) and #trump2020 on Twitter to better understand Donald Trump, his community of supporters, and their political discourse and activities in the political context of the 2020 US presidential election. (2) Social network analysis of a sample of 220,336 tweets from 96,820 unique users, posted between 27 October and 2 November 2020 (i.e., one week before the general election day) was conducted. (3) The most active and influential users within the #maga and #trump2020 network, the likelihood of those users being spamming bots, and their tweets’ content were revealed. (4) The study then discussed the hierarchy of Donald Trump and the problematic nature of spamming bot detection, while also providing suggestions for future research.

On the construction of identities: An autoethnography from Turkey

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 600-612
Author(s):  
Funda Gençoğlu
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Political Context ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Identities ◽  
Gender Regime ◽  
The Social ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Turkish Politics ◽  
Constant State

In this article I analyze, on the basis of my personal experience, the discontents of contemporary Turkish politics; more specifically, neoliberal conservative hegemony, and its three manifestations: stability of instability; a religio-conservative gender regime; and anti-intellectualism. I illustrate how these manifestations are intertwined in the process of identity construction: how an individual’s identity as a citizen, as a woman, as an academic is being constantly constructed/de-constructed/reconstructed in a manner integral to the social and political context. The contribution of this article is threefold: it shows how personal experiences are a legitimate source of knowledge; it enables an understanding of how political identities are in a constant state of making; it challenges dominant conceptions of politics and the political through challenging binaries such as individual/social, personal/political, and emotional/rational.

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