scholarly journals Discursive framing and the reproduction of integration in the public sphere: A comparative analysis of France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Germany

Ethnicities ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maarten Koomen ◽  
Jean Tillie ◽  
Anja van Heelsum ◽  
Sjef van Stiphout
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
The Public ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Public Sphere

Empire and Eugenics

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 445-454
Author(s):  
Ezra Horbury ◽  
Christine “Xine” Yao
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
British Empire ◽  
Gender Recognition ◽  
The Public ◽  
Radical Feminist ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Trans Studies ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Uk

Abstract This essay offers an overview of trans studies in the United Kingdom in the current climate of transphobia in both academia and the public sphere. This report outlines how trans-exclusionary radical feminist scholars have co-opted the language of victimization and academic freedom following proposed changes to the Gender Recognition Act in 2018. The production of ignorance about trans issues and trans studies is a deliberate project abetted by the UK media even on the left. In response, the authors organized an interdisciplinary trans symposium to affirm trans lives and trans studies for students, scholars, and the wider community. The authors reflect on the successes and failures of the event in light of their institution's past as the origin of eugenics founded by Frances Galton and the broader scope of the legacies of the British empire.

scholarly journals The Contribution of Religiosity to Ideology: Empirical Evidences From Five Continents

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (5) ◽  
pp. 524-541 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gian Vittorio Caprara ◽  
Michele Vecchione ◽  
Shalom H. Schwartz ◽  
Harald Schoen ◽  
Paul G. Bain ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Unique Contribution ◽  
The Public ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Basic Personal Values

The current study examines the extent to which religiosity account for ideological orientations in 16 countries from five continents (Australia, Brazil, Chile, Germany, Greece, Finland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and the United States). Results showed that religiosity was consistently related to right and conservative ideologies in all countries, except Australia. This relation held across different religions, and did not vary across participant’s demographic conditions (i.e., gender, age, income, and education). After controlling for basic personal values, the contribution of religiosity on ideology was still significant. However, the effect was substantial only in countries where religion has played a prominent role in the public sphere, such as Spain, Poland, Greece, Italy, Slovakia, and Turkey. In the other countries, the unique contribution of religiosity was marginal or small.

Secular–Religious Competition and the Exclusion of Islam from the Public Sphere: Islamic Welfare in Western Europe

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 433-456 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias Kortmann
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Equal Treatment ◽  
The Public ◽  
Social Service Delivery ◽  
Religious Competition ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Islamic Organizations

AbstractThis paper deals in a qualitative discourse analysis with the role of Islamic organizations in welfare delivery in Germany and the Netherlands. Referring to Jonathan Fox's “secular–religious competition perspective”, the paper argues that similar trends of exclusion of Islamic organizations from public social service delivery can be explained with discourses on Islam in these two countries. The analysis, first, shows that in the national competitions between religious and secular ideologies on the public role of religion, different views are dominant (i.e., the support for the Christian majority in Germany and equal treatment of all religions in the Netherlands) which can be traced back to the respective regimes of religious governance. However, and second, when it comes to Islam in particular, in the Netherlands, the perspective of restricting all religions from public sphere prevails which leads to the rather exclusivist view on Islamic welfare that dominates in Germany, too.

scholarly journals Imaginary Controversists: Abraham Gómez Silveyra and the Theologians of the Huguenot Exile

Sefarad ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 81 (2) ◽  
pp. 449-475
Author(s):  
Carsten L. Wilke
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Cultural Participation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Refugee Community ◽  
Christian Thought ◽  
The Public Sphere

In the Huguenot refugee community in The Netherlands, known as a hotbed of the early Enlightenment, literary interest in Judaism was ubiquitous, yet actual Dutch Jews were relegated to a marginal position in the exchange of ideas. It is this paradoxical experience of cultural participation and social exclusion that a major unpublished source allows to depict. The ex-converso Abraham Gómez Silveyra (1651–1741), a merchant endowed with rabbinic education and proficiency in French, composed eight manuscript volumes of theological reflections in Spanish literary prose and poetry. This huge clandestine series, which survives in three copies, shows the author’s insatiable curiosity for Christian thought. While rebutting Isaac Jacquelot’s missionary activity, he fraternizes with Pierre Jurieu’s millenarianism, Jacques Basnage’s historiography, and Pierre Bayle’s plea for religious freedom. Gómez Silveyra, however, being painfully aware of his voicelessness in the public sphere, enacts Bayle’s utopian project as a closed performance for a Jewish audience.

scholarly journals On the Public Discourse of Religion: An Analysis of Christianity in the United Kingdom

2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 420-443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Kettell
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Initial Step ◽  
Large Degree ◽  
Moral Authority ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
The Public ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Religious Issues ◽  
The Public Sphere

AbstractDebates over the involvement of religion in the public sphere look set to be one of the defining themes of the 21st century. But while religious issues have attracted a large degree of scholarly attention, the public discourse of religion itself, in terms of the effort to assert and legitimize a role for faith in the public realm, has remained notably under-researched. This article marks an initial step to address this deficiency by deconstructing the public discourse of Christianity in the United Kingdom. It argues that, while appealing for representation on the grounds of liberal equality, the overall goal of this discourse is to establish a role for itself as a principal source of moral authority, and to exempt itself from the evidentially-based standards and criteria that govern public life.

scholarly journals A comparative analysis of the requirements for the use of data in biobanks based in Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and the United Kingdom

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 187-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Briceño Moraia ◽  
Jane Kaye ◽  
Anne Marie Tasse ◽  
Bartha M. Knoppers ◽  
Colin Mitchell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Use Of Data ◽  
The United Kingdom

scholarly journals Responding to Richard: Celebrity and (mis)representation of science

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 535-549 ◽  
Author(s):  
David R. Johnson ◽  
Elaine Howard Ecklund ◽  
Di Di ◽  
Kirstin R.W. Matthews
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Science And Religion ◽  
The Public ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Practice Of Science

Drawing on 48 in-depth interviews conducted with biologists and physicists at universities in the United Kingdom, this study examines scientists’ perceptions of the role celebrity scientists play in socially contentious public debates. We examine Richard Dawkins’ involvement in public debates related to the relationship between science and religion as a case to analyze scientists’ perceptions of the role celebrity scientists play in the public sphere and the implications of celebrity science for the practice of science communication. Findings show that Dawkins’ proponents view the celebrity scientist as a provocateur who asserts the cultural authority of science in the public sphere. Critics, who include both religious and nonreligious scientists, argue that Dawkins misrepresents science and scientists and reject his approach to public engagement. Scientists emphasize promotion of science over the scientist, diplomacy over derision, and dialogue over ideological extremism.

Communist daughters : In the vanguard of feminism

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 339-355
Author(s):  
Elke Weesjes
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Private Sphere ◽  
Traditional Practices ◽  
The Public ◽  
Changing Roles ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Cold War

Abstract This article explores communists’ attitudes towards gender roles and sexuality in Britain and the Netherlands during the Cold War (ca. 1948‐1970). It looks at the changing roles of women in the communist movement in the public sphere, as well as the changes in practices of gender relations in the communist home—that is, the private sphere. This article, which is based on interviews with Dutch and British individuals raised in communist families, argues that communist children who were taught progressive theories while simultaneously witnessing traditional practices in the home were spurred to feminist thinking and so joined the movement in its early stages. In light of these findings, this article makes the case for the inclusion of communists in the vanguard of feminism in Britain and the Netherlands.

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