Citoyens, piété et démocratie. Réflexions sur l’occultation des corps croyants, l’intimité et le droit au secret

2018 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 168-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valérie Amiraux
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
General Framework ◽  
Religious Affiliation ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
The Other ◽  
Double Bind ◽  
The Public ◽  
The One

This article is based on ongoing fieldwork conducted in France and Quebec with Muslim women who stopped wearing a headscarf. It offers a puzzle for reflection: what is achieved when a sign of religious affiliation disappears (in this instance, wearing a headscarf)? The first part of the article describes the general framework in which public conversations about the visible piety expressed by Muslim women has been discussed in public spaces. The second part looks at the double bind in which Muslim women have been placed by being asked, on the one hand, to be as discrete as possible when expressing their religiosity and, on the other, to behave in full transparency. How and under which conditions can these women ‘find a place’ in the public space (Joseph, 1995) of secular societies? To conclude, the article invites reflection on the role of secrecy, the impossibility as well as the necessity of the secret in society in order to be able to consider the proper room available for pious female citizens in democratic secular societies.

КРЕСТНЫЕ ХОДЫ ВО ВРЕМЯ ЭПИДЕМИЙ КАК ФОРМА СОЦИАЛЬНОЙ И ДУХОВНОЙ МОБИЛИЗАЦИИ: ОТ ПРОШЛОГО К НАСТОЯЩЕМУ

2021 ◽  
pp. 101-109
Author(s):  
Тамара Вадимовна Царёва
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Public ◽  
Traditional Form ◽  
Religious System ◽  
The One ◽  
The Church

Проведение крестных ходов (как традиционной формы духовного наследия) от «губительного поветрия» актуализировалось в связи с распространением вируса COVID-19. Крестные ходы во время различных «моровых поветрий» являются древней практикой и неотъемлемой частью жизни Церкви: к крестным ходам обращались подчас, как к единственному способу защиты от эпидемий. Пандемия, вызванная вирусом SARS-CoV-2, внесла коррективы во все сферы жизнедеятельности человека, в том числе и в религиозно-обрядовую ее составляющую. Одни, ставшие уже традиционными, крестные ходы отменялись, другие – проводились вопреки запретам санитарных властей, собирая большое количество паломников (как, например, Тутаевский, Коробейниковский или Николо-Великорецкий крестные ходы). С одной стороны, такой вид исповедования веры в общественном пространстве мобилизует и консолидирует верующих, тем самым являя социокультурную роль крестного хода, с другой – вопрос правомерности проведения крестных ходов во время пандемии в 2019–2020 гг. обнажил глубокие противоречия как в среде православного населения, так и стал источником разногласий в обществе вне зависимости от религиозной системы мировосприятия. Пандемия 2019–2020 гг. дала импульс к распространению необычных форм крестных ходов: воздушных и в форме автопробега (с целью минимизации распространения вируса). В данной статье предпринята попытка обобщить имеющиеся данные по крестным ходам во время пандемии, а также, опираясь на архивные источники, рассмотреть в историческом срезе проведение крестных ходов во время различных эпидемий. Carrying out religious processions (as a traditional form of spiritual heritage) to stop the «disastrous epidemic» has become important in connection with the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Processions during various «pestilences» are an ancient practice and an integral part of the life of the Church: processions were sometimes referred to as the only way to get rid of epidemics. The pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus has made adjustments to all spheres of human life, including its religious and ritual component. Some processions, which had already become were canceled, others were carried out despite the prohibitions of the sanitary authorities, gathering a large number of pilgrims (such as the Tutaevsky, Korobeinikovsky or Velikoretsky religious processions). On the one hand, this type of confession of faith in the public space mobilizes and consolidates believers, thereby demonstrating the sociocultural role of the procession, on the other hand, violations or ignoring by the participants of the march of sanitary and epidemiological recommendations aimed at preventing the spread of the virus have become a source of disagreement among society (regardless of the religious system of perception). Pandemic 2019– 2020 gave impetus to the spread of unusual forms of religious processions: air and in the form of a car rally (in order to minimize the spread of the virus). In this article, an attempt is made to summarize the available data on religious processions during a pandemic, and also, relying on archival sources, to consider in a historical context the holding of religious processions during various epidemics.

scholarly journals Théâtre en langue des signes, théâtre de l’altérité ? Sourds, entendants et interculturalité autour de l’International Visual Theatre

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 110-119
Author(s):  
Olivier Schetrit ◽  
Pierre Schmitt
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Sign Language ◽  
Empty Space ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Public ◽  
Visual Music ◽  
Deaf Identity ◽  
Self Discovery ◽  
The One

Fondé en 1976, l’IVT (International Visual Theatre) se définit aujourd’hui comme un carrefour culturel, un espace d’échanges et de découvertes pour les sourds et les entendants. De la recherche d’une culture théâtrale et artistique propre aux sourds à sa diffusion dans l’espace public, de la réception de ses spectacles bilingues à l’entreprise d’enseignement de la langue des signes poursuivie par l’IVT nous proposons ici d’étudier les allers retours complexes entre les altérités croisées que représentent respectivement les identités sourdes et entendantes. Ainsi, à partir du regard d’un chercheur sourd et celui d’un chercheur entendant, nous reviendrons d’une part sur le rôle de l’IVT dans la (re)découverte de l’identité sourde à travers des modes d’expression tels que théâtre, danse et chorégraphie sourds, « chansigne » et « musique visuelle ». D’autre part, nous réfléchirons aux enjeux communs entre la salle de spectacle et les salles de classe, ces deux facettes visant à la promotion de la langue des signes et de la culture sourde auprès des entendants. Il s’agira donc d’analyser et d’exposer comment l’appropriation de « l’espace vide » (Brook, 1968) de la scène par les sourds en a fait un espace (inter)culturel où l’apprentissage d’autres langues et cultures passe par la découverte de soi au travers des autres. Sign Language Theatre, Theatre of the Other? Deaf, hearing and interculturality around the International Visual Theatre Founded in 1976, the IVT (International Visual Theatre) is today defined as a cultural crossroads, a place of exchanges and discoveries for deaf and hearing people. From the search of a theatrical and artistic culture specific to the deaf to its distribution in the public space, from the reception of its bilingual shows to the teaching of sign language pursued by the IVT, we propose here to study the complex back and forth relations between the mirrored otherness that deaf and hearing identities represent to each other. Thus, from the point of views of a deaf researcher and a hearing researcher, on the one hand, we will explore the role of the IVT in the (re)discovery of deaf identity through modes of expression such as deaf theater, dance and choreography, “chansigne” and “visual music”. On the other hand, we will reflect on common issues between the stage and the classroom, these two facets aiming at promoting sign language and deaf culture among the hearing. We will then analyze and explain how the appropriation of the “empty space” (Brook, 1968) provided by the stage has turned it into a (inter) cultural space where learning other languages and cultures implies self-discovery through others.

scholarly journals Política de la supervivencia / Politics of Survival

2017 ◽  
pp. 249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriel Giorgi
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Heterogeneous Materials ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Public ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Politics Of The Body ◽  
Act Up ◽  
The One

Resumen: Distintas intervenciones desde prácticas activistas y culturales en torno al VIH escenifican poéticas y políticas del resto corporal en las que se juegan, por un lado, una reorganización de los modos en que se dramatiza en umbral entre lo vivo y lo muerto en lo público –redefiniendo así el tejido mismo de lo que llamamos “comunidad”—; y por otro, indican los modos en que estos activismos impulsan una disputa sobre los “marcos de temporalización” desde los cuales lo viviente se vuelve reconocible políticamente y donde la noción de supervivencia adquiere una centralidad decisiva. Combinando materiales heterogéneos el artículo busca iluminar los modos en que los activismos y las culturas en torno al VIH configuran un terreno decisivo para pensar políticas de la supervivencia del presente. Palabras clave: VIH, ACT-UP, Supervivencia, Temporalidades, Biopolítica. Abstract: Different interventions from activist and cultural practices around HIV staged poetics and politics of the body remmant. They implie, on the one hand, a reorganitzation of the dramatization of the threshold between the living and the dead in the public space; and on the other, they indicate the ways in which these activisms mobilize a dispute over the “frames of temporalization” from which the living becomes politically recognizable and where the notion of survival acquires a decisive centrality. Combining heterogeneous materials, the article seeks to illuminate the ways in which activism and cultures on HIV constitute a decisive ground for thinking about the present policies of survival. Keywords: IHV, ACT-UP, Survival, Biopolitics.

Public Space, Common Space, and the Spaces In–Between: A Case Study of Philadelphia's LOVE Park

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 676-703
Author(s):  
Luke M. Cianciotto
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
General Public ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Public ◽  
Common Space ◽  
The Common

This study concerns the struggle for Philadelphia's LOVE Park, which involved the general public and its functionaries on one side and skateboarders on the other. This paper argues LOVE Park was one place composed of two distinct spaces: the public space the public engendered and the common space the skateboarders produced. This case demonstrates that public and common space must be understood as distinct, for they entail different understandings of publicly accessible space. Additionally, public and common spaces often exist simultaneously as “public–common spaces,” which emphasizes how they reciprocally shape one another. This sheds light on the emergence of “anti–common public space,” which is evident in LOVE Park's 2016 redesign. This concept considers how common spaces are increasingly negated in public spaces. The introduction of common space to the study of public spaces is significant as it allows for more nuanced understandings of transformations in the urban landscape.

scholarly journals Teología feminista como instancia crítica de las religiones en el espacio público. La propuesta de Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Montserrat Escribano Cárcel
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Feminist Theology ◽  
The Other ◽  
Critical Hermeneutics ◽  
The Public ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Catholic Religion ◽  
Critical Feminist ◽  
The One

RESUMENEste artículo se acerca al papel público que las religiones desempeñan en las democracias. Para ello es necesario que cultiven un doble afán. El primero, que mira hacia el exterior y sitúa a la religión católica entre el resto de esferas que definen nuestras sociedades plurales. El artículo cuestiona la tarea ética que puede ejercer esta tradición religiosa y que ha de reforzar el marco democrático en el que todas estas esferas se incluyen. El segundo, que mira hacia el interior de esta religión y ocupa la mayor parte de este artículo, gira en torno a la teología feminista desarrollada por Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza. Su sentido crítico está transformando la identidad de los y las creyentes, los horizontes comprensivos religiosos y puede ayudar así a reforzar el papel de las democracias.PALABRAS CLAVERELIGIÓN, ESPACIO PÚBLICO, DELIBERACIÓN, HERMENÉUTICA CRÍTICA Y TEOLOGÍA FEMINISTA CRÍTICA.ABSTRACTThis article approaches the public part religions play in democracies. On the one hand, the Catholic religion has to be set amidst the rest of the spheres, which define our plural societies. In this first part, we will try to evaluate how the Catholic religion helps reinforcing the democratic frame in which it evolves. On the other hand, the largest part of this article will be devoted to the Catholic feminist theology developed by Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza not only as a means of changing the identity of believers and their understanding religious horizons, but also as a way of strengthening the role of democracies.KEYWORDSRELIGION, PUBLIC SPHERE, DELIBERATION, CRITICAL HERMENEUTICS AND CRITICAL FEMINIST THEOLOGY

scholarly journals La recuperación del espacio público y la evolución del patrimonio común: prácticas colaborativas a través de la agencia cultural / Restoring the public space and the evolution of common patrimony: collaborative practices via cultural agency

2017 ◽  
pp. 465
Author(s):  
Salvador Leetoy ◽  
Diego Zavala Scherer
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Studies ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Cultural Consumption ◽  
Capital Social ◽  
Collective Identities ◽  
Instrumental Reason ◽  
The Public ◽  
The One ◽  
Cultural Agency

Resumen: Este artículo revisa el uso de prácticas creativas promovidas por agentes culturales que compiten discursivamente con la racionalidad instrumental imperante en las sociedades modernas contemporáneas. Particularmente, los casos que aquí se exploran son acciones colaborativas llevadas a cabo por dos asociaciones de la ciudad mexicana de Guadalajara: el despacho de urbanismo CUADRA y Fundación CEDAT. Se analizan, por un lado, iniciativas de intervención artística a través del grafiti como forma de creación de identidad; y por el otro, la exposición y comunicación realizada a través del documental como herramientas de reactivación y socialización de espacios públicos.Palabras clave: agencia cultural, consumo cultural, capital social, espacio público.Abstract: This article offers a critical route for studying creative practices challenging instrumental reason in contemporary modern societies. Particularly, this article explores a couple of cultural agency strategies undertaken by civic associations in Guadalajara, Mexico: the urban studies agency CUADRA and CEDAT Foundation.  On the one hand, a discussion is held with regard to the revitalization of collective identities through the production of collaborative graffiti paintings. On the other hand, it presents an analysis about the strategic use of video documentaries for communicating participatory civic actions and its function to restore public spaces. Keywords: Cultural Agency, Cultural Consumption, Social Capital, Public Space.

scholarly journals The university, the city and the clown: A theological essay on solidarity, mutuality and prophecy

2015 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan De Beer
Keyword(s):  
Public University ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Public ◽  
The One ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
Liberation Theologian

This essay is informed by five different but interrelated conversations all focusing on the relationship between the city and the university. Suggesting the clown as metaphor, I explore the particular role of the activist scholar, and in particular the liberation theologian that is based at the public university, in his or her engagement with the city. Considering the shackles of the city of capital and its twin, the neoliberal university, on the one hand, and the city of vulnerability on the other, I then propose three clown-like postures of solidarity, mutuality and prophecy to resist the shackles of culture and to imagine and embody daring alternatives.

Taxation and the Public Services

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Kenneth Galbraith
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Interest Rates ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Macroeconomic Policy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Public Expenditures ◽  
The Public ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter examines the role of taxation in the culture of contentment. In the age of contentment, macroeconomic policy has come to center not on tax policy but on monetary policy. Higher interest rates, it is hoped, will curb inflation without posing a threat to people of good fortune. Those with money to lend, the economically well-endowed rentier class, will thus be rewarded. The chapter first considers the role of monetary policy in the entirely plausible and powerfully adverse attitude toward taxation in the community of contentment before discussing the relationship between taxation and public services, and between taxation and public expenditures. It shows that public services and taxation have disparate effects on the Contented Electoral Majority on the one hand, and on the less affluent underclass on the other.

Cooperation, Conflict, and Reaction

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
John T. Cumbler
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
New England ◽  
The Other ◽  
Potential Conflict ◽  
Stream Pollution ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Health Officials ◽  
The One ◽  
The Right

When James Olcott spoke before Connecticut farmers for “anti-stream pollution,” he urged the public to mobilize to stop water pollution by “ignorant or reckless capitalists.” In identifying the “ignorant and reckless capitalists,” Olcott focused the attention of the farmers on industrial waste and the role of manufacturers in their search for profits in causing pollution. Although manufacturers and the courts argued that industrialization brought wealth and prosperity to New England and hence was a general good, Olcott challenged this idea. He saw the issue as a conflict between industrialization and its costs on the one hand and the public good on the other. Concern over industrial pollution and the potential conflict between it and public health had already arisen in Massachusetts. Although the Massachusetts State Board of Health realized that the interests of the “capitalists” and those of the public health officials might be in conflict, in 1872 it hoped that with improved knowledge, “a way will be eventually found to joining them into harmonious relations,” much as Lyman believed science and technology would resolve the conflict between fishers and mill owners. The board's interest in “harmonious relations” also reflected a realization that at least for the last several years, the courts had seen pollution as an inevitable consequence of civilization and had been favorable toward industrialists, especially if no obvious alternative to dumping pollution existed. In 1866, William Merrifield sued Nathan Lombard because Lombard had dumped “Vitriol and other noxious substances” into the stream above Merrifield's factory, “corrupting” the water so badly that it destroyed his boiler. Chief Justice Bigelow ruled that Lombard had invaded Merrifield's rights. “Each riparian owner,” the judge wrote, “has the right to use the water for any reasonable and proper purpose. . . . An injury to the purity or quality of the water to the detriment of the other riparian owners, constitutes in legal effect, a wrong.” In 1872, Merrifield again went to court, claiming the City of Worcester regularly dumped sewage into Mill Brook, by which the waters became greatly corrupted and unfit to use.”

scholarly journals Pioneering urban practices in transition spaces

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paola Pittaluga
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Literature Search ◽  
The Other ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Space Management ◽  
Space Transformation ◽  
Design Requirements ◽  
The One

AbstractThe article suggests a set of design requirements to orient urban practices of transformation and space management when they work on transition spaces, which are difficult to interpret and classify in accordance with traditional dichotomous categories such as centre/periphery, urban/not urban, open/closed, abandoned/lived, public/private. The first part of the article explains how various disciplines describe and characterise this kind of space, which cannot be described precisely through traditional categories. Literature search indicates how transition spaces have a number of attributes that can be translated into requirements to steer design actions. The examples of urban practices, described in the central paragraphs of the article, quickly show how project actions actualize the requirements that can be inferred both from literature and from the examples themselves. The conclusions summarise the design requirements to transform and manage transition spaces, in order to orient “pioneering urban practices”, thus opening the way to different modes of intervention and offering new insights into the role of designers and users in this particular kind of practice. Promising prospects emerge not only for the design methodology of this type of spaces, but also for the possibility of addressing relevant issues in the current disciplinary debate concerning, on the one hand, the liveability and care of urban spaces and therefore the regeneration of public space, at a time in history when its existence is questioned, on the other hand the effectiveness of the involvement and empowerment of local societies in the processes of space transformation.

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