The Purist Campaign as Metadiscursive Regime in China’s Tibet

Abstract Tibetans in twenty-first-century China have engaged in an increasingly high-profile campaign to promote language purity. In this purity campaign, Tibetan comedians and rappers have encouraged their audiences to speak pure Tibetan, and a host of neologisms have been coined to help people speak Tibetan even in modern contexts. Although coining new terms involves tremendous innovation, Tibetans almost uniformly view purism in this fashion as promoting traditional knowledge and practices considered to be under threat. This paper examines Tibetan media discourses on language purity to understand the development of new metadiscursive regimes in Tibet that link otherwise contemporary values like language purity with the preservation of Tibetan traditions.

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Part II Analytical Approaches, Ch.13 Ethical Considerations

10.1093/law/9780198849155.003.0013 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Gillespie Alexander

Keyword(s):

Large Range ◽

Environmental Law ◽

First Century ◽

International Regimes ◽

Ethical Considerations ◽

International Environmental Law ◽

High Profile ◽

The Core ◽

Twenty First Century ◽

Analytical Approaches

This chapter focuses on the dominant philosophical values currently operating within international environmental law. Collectively, international environmental law operates in a maze of anthropocentric and non-anthropocentric values. Often these values overlap both within and between regimes, and conflicts are relatively rare. Although anthropocentric values are more common than non-anthropocentric ones, there is no one dominant philosophical value that towers above others in international environmental law. Non-anthropocentric values are also becoming particularly noticeable across a large range of topics. However, what is obvious in international environmental law is that the debates about the philosophical value of the environment are not novel. In the space of twenty years, debates which were once the exclusive province of philosophy journals have moved to the core of many of the most high-profile international regimes which are seeking to resolve some of the most pressing difficulties of the twenty-first century.

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‘Panoramas’ and ‘Living Pictures’: Dr Barnardo’s Annual Meetings

Funding Philanthropy ◽

10.5949/liverpool/9781781381397.003.0006 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 213-236

Author(s):

Susan Ash

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Social Change ◽

Social Welfare ◽

Close Relation ◽

First Century ◽

Annual General ◽

The Real ◽

High Profile ◽

Welfare Work ◽

Twenty First Century

This chapter analyses how Barnardo created spectacle from the massed exhibition of child bodies in the annual general meetings and fêtes held in Barnardo’s homes and in high-profile public venues such as the Royal Albert Hall. It focuses on spectacle as integral to the philanthropic agenda, such as scale, the boundaries between the real and performed, and the capacity to ‘move’ an audience in a context of amplified emotionality. Barnardo used spectacle to create capital and to represent social change to his supporters. The close relation of spectacle with disaster is crucial; the orchestrated spectacles conveyed both the underlying potential for, and the spectator’s vulnerability to, unleashed catastrophe should they choose not to contribute. Although Barnardo repudiated theatre and associated performance, he nevertheless devised spectacles that presented his brand in highly positive terms as another form of coherent narrative about child reform in the nineteenth century, and the organization’s social welfare work into the twenty-first century.

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Contemporary British Horror Cinema

10.3366/edinburgh/9780748689736.001.0001 ◽

2015 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Johnny Walker

Keyword(s):

Textual Analysis ◽

Industrial Research ◽

First Century ◽

Horror Film ◽

Film Production ◽

Cherry Tree ◽

High Profile ◽

The Past ◽

The Dead ◽

Twenty First Century

Combining industrial research and primary interview material with detailed textual analysis, Contemporary British Horror Cinema looks beyond the dominant paradigms which have explained away British horror in the past, and sheds light on one of the most dynamic and distinctive – yet scarcely talked about – areas of contemporary British film production. Considering high-profile theatrical releases, including The Descent, Shaun of the Dead and The Woman in Black, as well as more obscure films such as The Devil’s Chair, Resurrecting the Street Walker and Cherry Tree Lane, Contemporary British Horror Cinema provides a thorough examination of British horror film production in the twenty-first century.

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Thinking the Unthinkable

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474450140.003.0003 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 36-55

Author(s):

Ian Ward

Keyword(s):

War On Terror ◽

Prime Minister ◽

War Crimes ◽

First Century ◽

Political Issues ◽

Tony Blair ◽

The Public ◽

High Profile ◽

History Of ◽

Twenty First Century

This chapter concentrates on the legal and political issues that arose during the so-called ‘war on terror’ in the first decades of the twenty-first century. Issues that were addressed, very directly, in a series of ‘verbatim’ plays written and produced in that moment. Amongst the most renowned were the so-called ‘Tribunal’ plays written by Richard Norton-Taylor. The genre, as the nomenclature suggests, sought to re-present various high-profile cases and judicial inquiries on the public stage. Whilst the chapter considers a number of different ‘verbatim’ plays, it focusses more closely on Norton-Taylor’s Called to Account. This play is unusual in that it presents a ‘virtual’ history of a fictitious trial, on war crimes charges, of the former Prime Minister, Tony Blair. In so doing, it challenges the defining pretence of the ‘verbatim’ genre; that the simple presentation of legal and quasi-legal transcript confirms the veracity of the text.

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