Wild Publics and Grotesque Symposiums: Habermas and Bakhtin on Dialogue, Everyday Life and the Public Sphere

2004 ◽  
Vol 52 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 28-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael E Gardiner
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere

scholarly journals Politics and everyday life in Serbia in 2005: Views of politics, change of social system, the public sphere

2005 ◽  
pp. 45-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivana Spasic
Keyword(s):  
Social Learning ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social System ◽  
The Political ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Political Scene

The paper offers an analysis of the interview data collected in the project "Politics and everyday life: Three years later" in terms of three main topics: attitudes to the political sphere, change of social system, and the democratic public sphere. The analysis focuses on ambivalences expressed in the responses which, under the surface of overall disappointment and discontent, may contain preserved results of the previously achieved "social learning" and their positive potentials. The main objective was to examine to what extent the processes of political maturation of citizens, identified in the 2002 study, have continued. After pointing to a number of shifts in people?s views of politics which generally do not contradict the tendencies outlined in 2002 (such as deemotionalization and depersonalization of politics, insistence on efficiency of public officials and on a clearer articulation of positions on the political scene), it is argued that the process of rationalization of political culture has not stopped, but it manifests itself differently in changed circumstances. The republican euphoria of 2002 has been replaced by resignation, with a stronger individualist orientation and a commitment to professional achievement.

scholarly journals Suppresion of women in modern society – socio-economic aspects

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dragana Vilić
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Economic Aspects ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere

Along with creating the conditions for progress and emancipation of womenin society, they developed the instruments and methods of preventing theexercise of these conditions. Although it is evident legally equating womenwith men in all spheres of life in modern society there are various forms ofself-suppression of women (psychological, economic, cultural, acceptance ofwomen “without rebellion” of values and rules that are set by men and thelike.). Th e increasing presence of women in the public sphere, their subjugation,discrimination and subordination are moved from private to publicsphere - (in) ability to access public services, employment, wage levels andthe like. Th e causes of this suppression are, usually, in the character of socialrelations - are still rooted in the patriarchal patterns - the imposition of“masculine” principles and rules of everyday life which suppress women fromimportant segments of social relations.

Surplus Histories, Excess Memories

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-144
Author(s):  
Harry Harootunian
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Historical Consciousness ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Central Position ◽  
World War ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Historical Practice

In the reckoning of historian Enzo Traverso, the accumulative inventory of the past’s crimes has exceeded the ‘frontiers of historical research’ and colonised the public sphere to ‘interpellate our present’. The quarrel over the crisis of historicism before World War ii has been superseded by postwar debates that have now spilled over into everyday life that demand recognition as instances of the continuing collision of claims of a past that refuses to pass and the formation of a new historical consciousness in which collective memory of the crimes occupies a central position. Traverso’s purpose has been to repair this emergent dichotomy between historical practice and memoration, event and experience, as well as to overcome attending binary couplings like subjective and objective, individual and group in order to avoid falling into an unbridgeable antinomy that risks collapsing into contradiction.

Experiencing diversity in London: Social relations in a rapidly changing neighbourhood

Divercities ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 47-68
Author(s):  
Jamie Kesten ◽  
Tatiana Moreira de Souza
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Private Sphere ◽  
London Borough ◽  
The Public ◽  
Socioeconomic Diversity ◽  
The Public Sphere

This chapter discusses how residents of the London Borough of Haringey perceive the ethnic and socioeconomic diversity of their local neighbourhood. The positive perceptions of neighbourhood diversity of Haringey residents revolve mainly around the opportunities for new experiences and greater levels of tolerance, understanding, and comfort, and access to more diverse places of consumption. The chapter then assesses the extent to which positive perceptions of diversity translate into meaningful and sustained practice across lines of difference. For the majority of the Haringey residents, relations with their neighbours are ‘pleasantly minimal’, and they choose to visit spaces run or attended by people with similar characteristics. Neighbourhood diversity is a natural part of everyday life for the residents, but this typically only extends as far as the public sphere. In the private sphere, the networks and activities of most residents are far more insular than perhaps their perceptions of diversity would suggest.

The Vernacular Millennium and the Quotidian Revolution

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Lee Novetzke
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Narrow Band ◽  
Social Equality ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Public Sphere

Reflects on the quotidian politics of vernacularization in the centuries that followed the narrow band of decades that consumes the majority of the book. From the fourteenth century onwards, Jnandev’s sonic equality was transformed into a vision of social equality and a champion of the figure of the everyday life. Conversely, I discuss how the Mahanubhavs receded into obscurity in the centuries after their founding, precisely because they increasingly rejected the quotidian world to become a secretive and secluded ascetical sect, a kind of antivernacularization. The book ends with a reflection on how these ideas, formulated with materials from the thirteenth century, might accompany an analysis of the vernacularization of democracy and of the public sphere in India today.

Resisting With Art

2021 ◽  
pp. 440-459
Author(s):  
Nihal Kocabay-Sener
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Social Awareness ◽  
The Public ◽  
Surveillance Camera ◽  
Activist Art ◽  
Surveillance Cameras ◽  
Cctv Surveillance ◽  
The Public Sphere

Surveillance has become an element of everyday life. Modern society is used to surveillance. It has become inconspicuous. But art makes surveillance apparent. In this chapter, the notion of surveillance art was debated, and surveillance art was evaluated as activist art. In surveillance art, there are artworks created by singular artists or art groups. In this chapter, two groups were analyzed: Surveillance Camera Players and Manifesto for CCTV Filmmakers. The two art groups focused on CCTV. Surveillance Camera Players tried to take attention by playing in front of the CCTV in the public sphere. Surveillance Camera Players created awareness for surveillance cameras that normalized in everyday life. Manifesto for CCTV Filmmakers also invited to make a film via CCTV footage. The manifesto noticed to determine with the act. Consequently, surveillance art creates social awareness, and it is a way to resist surveillance.

scholarly journals Flashmobs as Performance and the Re-emergence of Creative Communities

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-27
Author(s):  
Aristita Ioana Albacan
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Cultural Economy ◽  
Western World ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere

ABSTRACT In spite of their very brief history - the first modern flashmob took place at Macy's in NY, on the evening of 17th of June 2003 - flashmobs have rapidly spread throughout the Western world, developing in recent years into a particularly novel mode of performance that stimulates the re-emergence - even if temporary and fleeting - of creative communities, whilst responding to a range of topics of societal currency: political, cultural, artistic, everyday life etc. Flashmobs become visible within the public sphere via short, exciting performative acts perceived as playful and liberating. In processual terms, flashmobs as performances pertaining to a globalized, neo-liberal cultural economy, hybridize conventions and practices from live, online, and mobile media in novel, unprecedented ways.

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