An Ethic of Care: A Valuable Political Tool?

Politics ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janice McLaughlin
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Ethic Of Care ◽  
Group Solidarity ◽  
The Public ◽  
Moral Position ◽  
The Public Sphere

Since Gilligan first interpreted women's moral position as an ethic of care, feminists have wondered what this means for political action. While some view it as a way of introducing forms of understanding and appreciation which are missing in the public sphere, others have worried about the universalisation and romanticization of women's abilities which it appears to contain. This paper argues that interpretations of an ethic of care which are situated in resistance and which conceptualise its abilities as the skills of subordinated groups can hold out visions of group solidarity of benefit to politics.

Patient Publics

2019 ◽  
pp. 143-165
Author(s):  
Nicole Curato
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Democratic Theory ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Political Order ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere

As the attention of spectacular publics wanes, disaster-affected communities begin to feel a sense of abandonment. This causes injuries to their esteem and poses limits on the scope of political action. This chapter narrates how ‘patient publics’ are constructed through the micro-politics of waiting. It argues that patient publics create a vocabulary for both acquiescence and negotiation to a political order that reproduces their subordination. Despite these limitations, however, the chapter argues that deliberative democratic theory can learn from how political claims are made amidst despair. It draws attention to modest achievements of communities that struggle but nevertheless strive to make an appearance in the public sphere.

Publicity, Privacy, and Women's Political Action

1996 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 601-619 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynn A Stacheli
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Women's Activism ◽  
The Public ◽  
Private Spaces ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Relationship

Interpretations of women's activism depend on the ways in which analysts conceptualize the relations between privacy, publicity, and politics, in this paper the relationship between women's standing in the public sphere and their activism is problematized. Women's activism is shaped by strategic, and sometimes opportunistic, choices to locate their activism either in public or in private spaces. These choices point to the importance of reconceptualizing publicity and privacy in ways that separate the content of actions from the spaces in which action is taken. Such a distinction creates the possibility of taking private actions into public spaces and of taking public actions in private spaces. When the content of action is separated from the spaces of action, women's activism is evaluated in terms of the efficacy of various actions in either public or private spaces, rather than in terms of women's presumed lack of access to the public sphere.

scholarly journals O “mensalão/petrolão” e a teologia pública no Brasil

2018 ◽  
Vol 76 (304) ◽  
pp. 820-843
Author(s):  
Nicolau João Bakker
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Political Regime ◽  
Public Theology ◽  
The Public ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Synthetic View ◽  
The Church

Síntese: O presente artigo é fruto de uma preocupação angustiante: para onde irão as Igrejas do Brasil depois do inesperado susto do mensalão e do petrolão? Ao apoiar, ao menos parcialmente, um regime político “da Esquerda”, a Igreja errou ou acertou? Qual o caminho daqui para frente? Uma teologia pública deve limitar-se a discussões de cunho mais acadêmico, ou deve abrir pistas concretas no terreno sempre escorregadio das relações entre Igreja e esfera pública? O artigo inicia tecendo um quadro sintético da atual conjuntura política do país, apresentando, além dos fatos principais, também um ensaio interpretativo. Em seguida, busca no passado da tradição cristã, algumas lições que ainda hoje são significativas para uma teologia pública em fase de elaboração. Finalmente, coloca o respeito à “religiosidade” humana como um fator de primordial importância para justificar a ação política em qualquer uma das esferas públicas.Palavras-chave: Mensalão/Petrolão. Teologia Pública. Esfera pública “religiosa”Abstract: The present article is the result of an agonizing concern: whereto will the brazilian churches go after the unexpected upheavel from the so-called “mensalão/monthly payment” and “petrolão/petrol payment”? In supporting, at least partially, a leftist political regime, did the church make a mistake or did it do well? From now on, which way to go is the issue? A public theology must limit itself to a more academic discussion or open up concrete roads in the slippery relations between church and the public sphere? This article starts by offering a synthetic view of the national political situation at present, indicating not only the most significant facts, but also an iterpretive assay. As a sequence, we look at some lessons in the christian tradition of the past that may be significant nowadays for a public theology still in elaboration. Finally it puts the human religiosity as a factor of primordial importance to justify political action in the public sphere.Keywords: “Mensalão/Petrolão”. Public theology. “Religious” public sphere

scholarly journals Systems and accidents in 20th century magical realist literature: Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's Children" and Sadegh Hedayat's "The blind owl" as critiques of modern nation-making experiments

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-70
Author(s):  
Tadd Graham Fernée
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Political Action ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Public ◽  
Realist Novels ◽  
Midnight's Children ◽  
Modern Self ◽  
The Public Sphere

This article compares two major 20th century magical realist novels - Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children and Sadegh Hedayat’s The Blind Owl – as critiques of modern nation-making practices, in Nehruvian post-independence India and Iran under Reza Shah Pahlavi. The analysis centers the interplay of accidents and systems, in political constructions and contestations of modern self, history and knowledge. The works are assessed in terms of two aesthetic paradigms of modernity: Baudelaire’s vision of modernity as traumatic deracination involving new creative possibilities and freedom, and Cocteau’s vision of modernity as an Infernal Machine where a pre-recorded universe annihilates creative freedom. The political significance of these aesthetics are evaluated against the two distinctive nationalist narratives which the authors set out to contest in their respective novels. Both novels offer important critiques of violence. Yet both reveal a Proustian aesthetic of nostalgia, rejecting organized political action in the public sphere to celebrate imaginative introversion.

scholarly journals De las voces oblicuas a la palabra pública. Una mirada a la esfera pública en contextos de violencia

2011 ◽  
pp. 101-125
Author(s):  
Jorge Ivan Bonilla Vélez
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Public Speech ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere

Este artículo elabora una aproximación a la esfera pública en contextos de violencia. Para estos examina las tensiones que existen entre el discurso público y el discurso oculto en situaciones características por el uso arbitrario del poder. Se sostiene que para pensar en procesos de verdad, justicia y reconstrucción de la memoria colectiva es necesario desatar las voces ocultas y las memorias atrapadas por el miedo y el silencio mediante formas de acción política y cultural que posibiliten la visibilidad en la esfera pública de las voces sujetos y asuntos que fueron obligados a mantener silencio.       From hidden voices to public speech. A look at the public sphere in violence contexts This article attempts to develop an approach to public sphere in contexts of violence. For that it examines the tensions between public speech and hidden speech in situations characterized by the arbitrary use of power. It argues that to think about processes of truth, justice and reconstruction of collective memory it is necessary to unleash the hidden voices and memories trapped by fear and silence through forms of cultural and political action that allow visibility in the public sphere of voices, subjects and issues that were forced to remain silent.    Keywords: Communication, Politics, Public Sphere, Armed Conflict, Violence.

The Outsider as Editor: Three Guineas and the Feminist Periodical

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alyssa Mackenzie
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Political Action ◽  
The Public ◽  
Three Guineas ◽  
Periodical Publication ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Distribution Cost

This chapter discusses Virginia Woolf’s Three Guineas in relation to feminist periodicals of her time. Drawing on Jürgen Habermas’s notion of the public sphere, it considers The Freewoman (edited by Dora Marsden) and Time and Tide (edited by Lady Margaret Rhondda) alongside Woolf’s imagined Outsiders’ Society. The chapter finds numerous shared concerns and strategies between these feminist periodicals and Woolf’s writings in and about Three Guineas, including questions of distribution, cost, allegiance to official movements, and relationship to readers. Critics have often interpreted Three Guineas as advocating a withdrawal from the public sphere; however, this chapter argues that implicit in Woolf’s discussion of women and the potential for political action is a model of feminist periodical publication, oriented towards rather than turning away from a Habermasian public sphere.

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