Review of “Prisms of the People: Power & Organizing in Twenty-First-Century America”

Social Forces ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
David S Meyer
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
The People ◽  
Twenty First Century

scholarly journals When the people are not reasonable: Multiculturalism and realistic normative theory in the contemporary era

Ethnicities ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-292
Author(s):  
Phil Parvin
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Political Liberalism ◽  
Normative Theory ◽  
First Century ◽  
Political Reality ◽  
The People ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Feasible Solutions

In this piece, I offer an original and fundamental critique of a range of approaches to multiculturalism that have dominated the field of Anglo-American political theory since first-wave debates conducted in the 1990s/2000s. I suggest that the politics of the early twenty-first century, and especially the widespread rise of anti-immigrant and anti-minority sentiments among citizens of liberal democratic states throughout the world, requires political theorists who seek feasible solutions to real-world political problems to reject these theories. I focus on two approaches in particular: political liberalism and the politics of difference. Neither offers a vision of politics that is tenable in the early twenty-first century, I argue, as they both require citizens to deliberate about political matters in ways that they cannot. In discussing these approaches, and finding them wanting, it is revealed that political theorists face a choice. They can present a theory which is realistic in the sense that it takes account of political reality and offers a strategy which might be used to genuinely inform a process of reform. Alternatively, they can abandon realism and also the desire to produce an operational normative theory which can resolve real problems in actually existing states. I lay out the nature and importance of this choice and explain some of its implications for the discipline and for our current political predicament. I suggest that the choice is unavoidable and that making it requires political theorists to make a more fundamental decision about the purposes of normative political theory itself.

“What in the World Have You Done To Me, My Lover?” Sex, Servitude, and Politics among the Pre-Conquest Nahuas as seen in the Cantares Mexicanos

2006 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 349-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camilla Townsend
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
First Century ◽  
Spanish Conquest ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
First Time ◽  
Warrior Women

The year 13-Reed [1479]. It was at this time that the people of Ame-cameca and the Chalcas Tlalmanalcas came to sing for the first time in Mexico. At that time they performed the song of the women of Chalco, the Chalca Cihuacuicatl. They came to sing for the lord Axayacatzin.The song and the dance were begun in the patio of the palace while Axayacatl was still inside in the house of his women. But in the beginning the song was poorly performed. A noble of Tlalmanalco was playing the music very clumsily, and making the great drum sound in a lazy offbeat way until finally in desperation he leaned down over it, not knowing what else to do.There, however, close to the place of the drums, was a man called Quecholcohuatzin, noble from Amecameca, a great singer and musician as well. When he saw that all was being lost and that the song and the dance were being ruined, he quickly placed himself next to the drum section. He picked up a drum and through his effort he gave new strength to the dance so that it would not be ruined. Thus Quecholcohuatzin made the people sing and dance. . . . Axayacatl who was still inside the palace, when he heard how marvelously Quecholcohuatzin played the music and made the people dance, was surprised, and his heart filled with excitement. He quickly arose and left the house of his women and joined in the dance. As Axayacatl approached the place of the dance his feet began to follow the music and he was overcome with joy as he heard the song and so he too began to dance and spin round and round.When the dance was over, the lord Axayacatl spoke, saying, “Fools, you have brought this fumbler before me, who played and directed the song. Don’t let him do it again.” The people from Chalco answered him, saying, “It is as you wish, supreme lord.” And because Axayacatl had given this command, all the nobles of Chalco became terrified. They stood there looking at each other, and it is said that truly they were very frightened.. . . But the lord Axayacatl was well pleased [with Quecholcohuatzin] and continued to take delight in the “Song of the Women of Chalco,” the Chalca Cihuacuicatl. So it was that once again he had the Chalcas, all of the nobles, return, and he asked them to give him the song and he also asked all those from Amecameca, because the song was theirs, it belonged to the tlailotlaque, the men who had returned. The song was their property, the “Song of the Warrior Women of Chalco.” Chimalpahin, Seventh Relation Ms. Mexicain 74, Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris Folios 174-176The indigenous historian Chimalpahin seemed quite certain that events on a certain day in 1479 had unfolded as he described them, though he wrote over a century later and saw it all through the refracting lens of the intervening Spanish conquest. Posterity has been the more inclined to believe him since there exists a song amongst those collected in the sixteenth century under the auspices of the Franciscans entitled “The Song of the Women of Chalco” (Chalca cihuacuicatl) in which the singer addresses Axayacatl as the conqueror of Chalco and as her own lord and master. But what can we in the twenty-first century make of these two sources? We might pursue a number of interpretive avenues. In this article I will ask specifically what we actually know about the fifteenth-century performance event, and what, if anything, we can glean from the song concerning the lives of the Nahua women in that nearly untranslatable category whom we know in English as “concubines.”

scholarly journals We the People: A Progressive Reading of the Constitution for the Twenty-First Century

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Ross Allan Sempek
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
The Core ◽  
The People ◽  
The Us ◽  
Us Constitution ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
We The People

With government machinations, scandals, and conflict bombarding our American consciousness, it’s easy to overlook the core of our country’s identity: the US Constitution. The first three words of this dearly regarded text remind us that we are the constituents who fulfill the ideals of this document. We the People are the progressive catalyst this country needs to realize the lofty ideals of our Constitution.

scholarly journals Photoblogs: the immediate need to document early twenty-first century photography practices

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Atwood
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Hard Copy ◽  
Digital Cameras ◽  
Collections Management ◽  
Camera Phones ◽  
The People ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
The World ◽  
Twenty First Century

This thesis attempts to suggest ways in which museums might better understand and make informed decisions about acquiring, preserving, and cataloguing photoblogs, which are an early twenty-first century photography practice. Photographers can now use the World Wide Web to show and share their images, because of the advent of digital cameras, camera phones, and cheap, open-source photo-blogging tools available to the general population. This thesis will help museums to better understand and be comfortable in acquiring digital artefacts, such as photoblogs, that will enrich their photographic collections for future generations. Acquisition tools and preservation methods are defined and discussed. The process of cataloguing photoblogs in current collections-management databases is not much different from cataloguing hard-copy photographs. The "People of Walmart" photoblog is used as an example and an illustration to clearly define the difficult technical jargon separating curatorial and collections management departments from information technology departments.

Romantic Portraits and Contemporary Audiences: Report from an Exhibition on the History of Emotions

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-166
Author(s):  
Anna Schram Vejlby
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Emotional Communication ◽  
History Of Emotions ◽  
The People ◽  
History Of ◽  
Complex Emotion ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Historical Methods ◽  
The Given ◽  
Emotional Landscape

This article combines two issues: the actual emotional landscape of Danish portraiture from the first half of the nineteenth century and twenty-first-century audiences' response to these portraits. My research is based on written sources, art historical methods of the interpretation of visual material, and surveys among the audiences of the Hirschsprung Collection in Copenhagen, where the exhibition Keeping up Appearances. Portraits and emotions in the Golden Age takes place in the autumn of 2017. The exhibition is based on previous research that I have conducted into emotion in Danish portraiture and will be an occasion to reevaluate earlier surveys in order to present new conclusions in this article. The article explores the psychological and emotional circumstances that surround examples of some of the finest Danish portraits of the 1800s and how the modern individual can attain a more profound understanding of these images and the range of emotions they embody. The portraits' historical public had no doubts as to the deep and complex emotion embedded in them, but today they often prove more difficult to interpret since a prior understanding of the given period is required in order to fully grasp the people depicted and the different things they may have felt. When audiences see a portrait in the twenty-first century they are often compelled to interpret it in the same way that they would interpret living people. This creates a set of challenges in our relation to and understanding of a person in a portrait through a given time and space. I will use Lisa Feldman Barrett's research on emotional communication in my analyses of the encounter between the portrait and the modern viewer.

6. Parliament: The Best of Times, the Worst of Times?

2019 ◽  
pp. 157-187
Author(s):  
Philip Norton
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
First Century ◽  
House Of Commons ◽  
The Public ◽  
The People ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Over Time

Parliament fulfils functions that are long-standing, but its relationship to government has changed over time. It has been criticized for weakness in scrutinizing legislation, holding government to account, and voicing the concerns of the people. Despite changes in both Houses in the twentieth century, the criticisms have persisted and in some areas Parliament has seen a constriction in its scope for decision-making. The twenty-first century has seen significant steps that have strengthened both Houses in carrying out their functions, the House of Commons in particular acquiring new powers. Members of both Houses have proved willing to challenge government. It remains a policy-influencing legislature, but a stronger one than in the preceding century. While strengthening its position in relation to the executive, it has faced major challenges in its relationship to the public. It has seen a greater openness in contact with citizens, but has had to contend with popular dissatisfaction and declining levels of trust.

David in Perspective—2 Samuel

2019 ◽  
pp. 185-197
Author(s):  
Ellen F. Davis
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The People ◽  
Fatal Flaw ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Book Of Samuel ◽  
2 Samuel

SAUL, AS REPRESENTED in the book of Samuel, is a complex and tragic figure, whose fatal flaw is his inability to emerge from self-absorption and refocus his attention on YHWH and his own commission from YHWH to govern the people (1 Sam 9:17). The corresponding portrait of David in the same book is even richer; no human narrative character in the Bible (not counting Jesus!) is drawn in such depth and detail, and at the same time so variously. The chiaroscuro portrait of David in Samuel is not easily reconciled with the pious portrayal in Chronicles, and there is yet a third “David,” the implied voice speaking through numerous psalms. All three Davids have profoundly touched the imagination of Jews and Christians and shaped religious understandings and practices over centuries and millennia. For twenty-first-century readers, the detailed and realistic account of David in Samuel raises questions that invite consideration of the story from several different perspectives—historical, literary, and theological....

scholarly journals Native Apocalypse in Claire G. Coleman’s The Old Lie

Humanities ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 69
Author(s):  
Iva Polak
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Use Of Space ◽  
Terra Nullius ◽  
The People ◽  
Nuclear Tests ◽  
Lyrical Subject ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Space Opera

Claire G. Coleman’s science fiction novel The Old Lie (2019) evokes the blemished chapters of Australia’s history as the basis of a dystopian futuristic Earth. By using the metaphor of a secular apocalypse (Weaver) wrapped in the form of a space opera, she interrogates historical colonialism on a much larger scale to bring to the fore the distinctive Indigenous experience of Australia’s terra nullius and its horrific offshoots: the Stolen Generations, nuclear tests on Aboriginal land and the treatment of Indigenous war veteran, but this time experienced by the people of the futuristic Earth. Following a brief introduction of the concept of the “Native Apocalypse” (Dillon) in the framework of Indigenous futurism, the paper discusses Coleman’s innovative use of space opera embedded in Wilfred Owen’s famous WWI poem “Dulce et Decorum Est”. The analysis focuses on four allegedly separate stories in the novel which eventually interweave into a single narrative about “the old lie”. In keeping with the twenty-first-century Indigenous futurism, Coleman’s novel does not provide easy answers. Instead, the end brings the reader to the beginning of the novel in the same state of disillusionment as Owen’s lyrical subject.

scholarly journals Populism into the Twenty‐first Century

1997 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Torcuato S. Di Tella
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Extreme Right ◽  
The People ◽  
Western European ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Iron Guard ◽  
Influential Journal

GHIŢA IONESCU'S HOMELAND IS ONE OF THE MOST TROUBLED NATIONS in Europe. Its wounded national feeling has produced the strangest ideological combinations, mixing freely a fascist past with nostalgia for Ceausescu, as is the case with the Vatra Romaneasca (Romanian Homeland) movement, or the editors of the influential journal Romania Mare, adept at denouncing the ‘international Judaeo- Zionist-capitalist’ plot. One of the main theoreticians of corporatism, as is well known, was Mihail Manoilescu, while another Romanian intellectual, Ilie Badescu, created the ‘protocronist’ school of sociology, bent on documenting cultural and scientific findings in Romania which had anticipated later Western European developments. This approach was adopted officially during the Ceausescu regime, and now inspires some extreme right-wing groups which espouse a radical nationalist ideology. One of them, the Party of the National Right, admits to not being democratic, but compensates for this by proclaiming its ‘demophilia’, that is, its love for the people, a concept created by Petre Tutea, an admirer of the Iron Guard interwar fascist movement.

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