Feminist Politics, Domestic Violence and the State

1995 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 617-640 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nickie Charles
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Practice ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Feminist Politics ◽  
Permanent Housing ◽  
Distribution Of Resources ◽  
Important Object ◽  
The Relationship

This paper explores the relationship between feminist politics and the state around the issue of domestic violence. Its focus is the refuge movement in Wales. Feminist analyses of the state and feminist political practice identify the state as an important object of struggle. A particular form of feminist politics, the refuge movement, has engaged with the state while retaining its autonomy. It has been instrumental in effecting legal changes which bestow certain rights on women threatened with domestic violence, and in increasing women's access to resources in the form of temporary refuge and permanent housing. Feminist political practice can affect the distribution of resources through engaging with the state, thereby enabling women to challenge the gendered power relations which structure their daily lives.

scholarly journals The Discourse on the Relationship of Power between the State and the People in Indonesian Indie Band Song

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Bahiroh Adilah
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
The State ◽  
Main Concern ◽  
The People ◽  
Group Band ◽  
State Apparatus ◽  
Song Lyric ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This research focuses on analyzing the discourse of the power relation between the state and the people in Indonesia in the lyrics of the songs "Kami Belum Tentu" and "Padi Milik Rakyat" by Feast (group band). Intolerance became Indonesia main concern in 2018 especially Surabaya’s church bombing, which then elaborated on other issues related to the socio- economic and political phenomena in Indonesia. The two songs were chosen because they adequately describe the socio-economic and political conditions in Indonesia and related to various sectors of government.This study uses Normal Fairclough's critical discourse analysis method to read the discourse on power relations between the state and the people which is articulated in the lyrics of the two songs. The results of this study conclude that the discourse on power relations with the form of Governmentality is spread in various areas of government, including in the leadership of a democratic country, the education system in Indonesia, the law constitution of UU ITE, towards farm workers through Reforma Agraria, and also in the management of tax money in Indonesia. The people will always be in a repressive state power system and the state uses its political power to carry out hegemonic submissions that are detrimental to the people structurally and economically through the ISA (Ideological State Apparatus) and RSA (Repressive State Apparatus) which critized in Indonesian indie song lyric.

A Necessary but Impossible Political Practice: Althusser between Machiavelli and Marx

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-113
Author(s):  
Fabio Bruschi
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Practice ◽  
The People ◽  
Theory Of History ◽  
The Masses ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Althusser’s Machiavelli and Us has often been considered as the French Marxist’s first step on the path beyond Marxism. This article opposes this interpretation by showing that, while Machiavelli helps Althusser to renounce any attempt to deduce a communist political practice from the necessity portrayed by a theory of history, Althusser was mindful not to identify the relationship between the communist party and the masses with the relationship between the Prince and the people. From a Marxist perspective, a communist political practice must further the autonomous political initiatives of the masses that delineate a tendency towards the withering-away of the state and cannot merge with a practice of governing the people. This is why Marxism must not forsake its theory of history but employ it in the process of the subtraction of the party to its becoming-state by detecting the conditions of impossibility of the duration of a communist political practice.

The State at the Margins

In Harm's Way ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier Auyero ◽  
María Fernanda Berti
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
The State ◽  
Police Brutality ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Local Police ◽  
People’S Daily ◽  
People's Daily ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

This chapter examines the relationship between the state's presence at the urban margins and the depacification of poor people's daily lives in Arquitecto Tucci, focusing in particular on the role of the local police in the neighborhood and the way it partakes in the crime it is supposed to be controlling. It first considers the ways in which the local police see the area and its residents, showing that police agents understand the origins and character of violence as “cultural.” It then presents a series of vignettes to depict the particular presence of the repressive arm of the state in Arquitecto Tucci before discussing police brutality and the highly selective nature of law enforcement when it comes to incarceration of offenders. It argues that law enforcement in Arquitecto Tucci is intermittent, selective, and contradictory.

Marital and Sexual Morality in Medieval Rajasthan

2019 ◽  
pp. 205-250
Author(s):  
Sabita Singh
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
The State ◽  
Sexual Morality ◽  
Religious Philosophy ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Extramarital Sex ◽  
Married Men ◽  
Marital Disputes ◽  
The Relationship

In this, it is shown how sexuality is defined by society and culture. An attempt has been made to see if there is any religious philosophy which marriage in medieval Rajasthan sought to convey. The existence of any moral or textual injunction that the State or religion upheld for married men and women has been explored. What was the relationship between law and social practice, the ideal and the aberrant? How were the marital disputes settled at the time, the legal and other devices available, the extent to which it was resorted to have all been looked into. The notions of sexuality, marital and extramarital sex, and notions of shame and honour have been examined. Besides the case of fidelity between husband and wife, cases of domestic violence, rape and incest and the reaction of the State in each case and the form of punishment meted out is laid out in this chapter.

scholarly journals The Discourse on the Relationship of Power between the State and the People in Indonesian Indie Band Song

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 68
Author(s):  
Bahiroh Adilah
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
The State ◽  
Main Concern ◽  
The People ◽  
Group Band ◽  
State Apparatus ◽  
Song Lyric ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This research focuses on analyzing the discourse of the power relation between the state and the people in Indonesia in the lyrics of the songs "Kami Belum Tentu" and "Padi Milik Rakyat" by Feast (group band). Intolerance became Indonesia main concern in 2018 especially Surabaya’s church bombing, which then elaborated on other issues related to the socio- economic and political phenomena in Indonesia. The two songs were chosen because they adequately describe the socio-economic and political conditions in Indonesia and related to various sectors of government.This study uses Normal Fairclough's critical discourse analysis method to read the discourse on power relations between the state and the people which is articulated in the lyrics of the two songs. The results of this study conclude that the discourse on power relations with the form of Governmentality is spread in various areas of government, including in the leadership of a democratic country, the education system in Indonesia, the law constitution of UU ITE, towards farm workers through Reforma Agraria, and also in the management of tax money in Indonesia. The people will always be in a repressive state power system and the state uses its political power to carry out hegemonic submissions that are detrimental to the people structurally and economically through the ISA (Ideological State Apparatus) and RSA (Repressive State Apparatus) which critized in Indonesian indie song lyric.

The Precious Seed of Christian Virtue: Charity, Disability, and Belonging in Guatemala, 1871–1947

2021 ◽  
Vol 101 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-295
Author(s):  
Heather Vrana
Keyword(s):  
General Hospital ◽  
The State ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Access To Resources ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Democratic Revolution ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Gain Access

Abstract This article addresses the role of disability and disabled people in the construction of citizenship and nation through the ideologies and practices of charity from the 1870s through the 1940s. These periods of Guatemalan history are generally thought of as distinct: the Liberal triumph over Conservatives, Liberal dictatorship, and democratic revolution. To the contrary, practices of charity reveal the continuity of these political forms. This article explains the three models of charity that characterized modern Guatemala—caridad, beneficencia, and asistencia social—and outlines how they reflected understandings of the relationship between individuals and the state. It also provides a window into the daily lives of patients at the nation's insane asylum, leprosarium, and general hospital, who were not merely objects of charity but also political subjects who engaged charity models to gain access to resources, people, and mobility. In sum, this article integrates disability into broader historical narratives.

scholarly journals Governing for and through harmonious community: The emergence of moral clinics in China

Urban Studies ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 004209802094064 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaoying Zhang ◽  
Derek McGhee
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Medicine ◽  
Structural Design ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
The State ◽  
Chinese Traditional Medicine ◽  
Community Governance ◽  
Moral Problems ◽  
New Form ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Harmonious Community

In this article, we advocate the adoption of ‘more temporal and processual characters’ to understand contemporary community governance in China. We show that communities in China are seen both as producing moral problems and as being the solutions to these problems. Furthermore, we argue that the establishment of the moral clinic provides an alternative to neoliberal ways of self-governance. In the article, we present moral clinics as a new form of community self-governance whose aim is to achieve a complex balance between various conflicts in the context of China’s unprecedented urbanisation in the name of governing for and through community harmony. Through examining the establishment of moral clinics, we expose how the relationship between the moral ‘hospitalisation’ of society and the socialisation of individuals can be understood in new ways. We argue that the institutionalisation of this ‘moral work’ is a strategy based on old techniques of Chinese traditional medicine that are being enhanced by modern organisational settings. In addition, we examine the micropolitics of the moral clinic through exposing the power relations behind its structural design, and especially its links with the state.

scholarly journals The Flexible Governance of Water in Cairo’s Informal Areas

Water ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 1644
Author(s):  
Deena Khalil
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
The State ◽  
Public Water Supply ◽  
Water Infrastructure ◽  
Water Usage ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Underlying Causes ◽  
The Relationship

This article explores the relationship between informality and water infrastructure in informal areas in Egypt. I apply three concepts drawn from the wider literatures on state power and governance: Topological power, flexible governing, and the “statization” of urban space. I find that infrastructure has functioned as one of the main instruments through which the state is produced or “effected” in the daily lives of residents. Due to this, examining the governance of water infrastructure in informal areas exposes the Egyptian state’s “flexibility” and the uneven nature of its power. I argue that this flexibility is a result of the ad hoc nature of power in governance and the uneven quality of the state’s authority and reach. This flexibility creates a waterscape constituted by overlapping infrastructures, practices, and actors, making traditional binaries such as public–private and formal–informal meaningless. However, I find that in Egypt’s post-Arab-Spring era, the state has been seeking ways to effect its presence more strongly within informal areas, and one of the ways in which it has been doing so is by incorporating “informal” users into the “formal” public water supply and allowing/forcing them to pay for water. I argue that this accommodation of informality is a way to increase the statization of informal areas, while also charging them for water usage. In this way, I find that the state’s flexibility allows it to benefit from informality without having to actually “formalise” the neighbourhoods themselves or address the underlying causes of why they are labelled as informal.

THE HELLENISATION OF JUDAEO-CHRISTIAN FAITH OR THE CHRISTIANISATION OF HELLENIC THOUGHT?'

2005 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
LUTHER H. MARTIN
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
The State ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Western Society ◽  
Faith And Reason ◽  
Conventional View ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract<title> Abstract </title>In this article I explore the relationship between faith and reason among the early Christianities. The approach here favours the perspective of social history whereby the establishment of claims to a universal and absolute monotheism in Western society is viewed as an outcome of power relations - or an increasingly close alliance among certain of the early Christianities and between these and the state. In this sense, my thesis is that rather than understanding a Judaeo-Christian faith that became Hellenised, we might better speak of a tradition of Hellenic thought that increasingly became theologised under the dominant sway of Christian power. I explicate this thesis from the point of views or theories proposed by Max Weber and supported by Michel Foucault. As such, what follows is an overview of the conventional view of Christianity, an examination of Weber's view, which is followed by my critique of it, and some concluding remarks.

scholarly journals WORKPLACE WELLBEING AND BURNOUT SYNDROME: OPPOSITE FACES IN PENITENTIARY WORK

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
JONATHAN S. CORRÊA ◽  
LUIS F. D. LOPES ◽  
DAMIANA M. ALMEIDA ◽  
MARIA E. CAMARGO
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Survey Design ◽  
Correctional Officers ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
The State ◽  
Burnout Syndrome ◽  
Rio Grande Do Sul ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Descriptive Survey ◽  
The Relationship

ABSTRACT Purpose: The objective of this study was to analyze the perspectives of correctional officers of the State of Rio Grande do Sul to understand the relationship between the components of workplace wellbeing and the incidence of Burnout Syndrome. Originality/value: Professionals in the area of public safety live daily with a plurality of feelings since they carry out social services in conditions assumed to produce high levels of stress. We recruited participants the Superintendency of Penitentiary Services of the State of Rio Grande do Sul (Susepe), a work environment, chosen to investigate the opposing faces of workplace wellbeing and Burnout Syndrome in the daily lives of penitentiary workers. Design/methodology/approach: We combined a descriptive survey design with a quantitative analytic approach. The sample was non-probabilistic, comprised of 433 respondents. Findings: The results indicated that workplace wellbeing is partially present in the daily life of the penitentiary workers, being that no work stress and Burnout Syndrome were evidenced. As for the correlations between the constructs, they all proved to be significant. The results revealed four significant associations between the levels of the workplace wellbeing and indicators of Burnout Syndrome.

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