An Invitation to Rhetoric: A Generative Dialogue on Performance, Possibility, and Feminist Potentialities in Invitational Rhetoric

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryant Keith Alexander ◽  
Michele Hammers
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Writing ◽  
The Political ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
25Th Anniversary ◽  
Collaborative Project ◽  
Gender Culture ◽  
Hierarchical Relationship ◽  
Invitational Rhetoric ◽  
Embodied Experiences ◽  
Sonja Foss

This performative essay uses the anticipated 25th anniversary of Sonja Foss and Cindy Griffin’s essay, “Beyond Persuasion: A Proposal for an Invitational Rhetoric,” as a pivot point to explore the notion of invitational rhetoric applied variously and processed through the embodied experiences of the two authors: A Black gay identified male and a White queer identified woman in what some might construct as a hierarchical relationship as academic dean and faculty. This is important for the reader to know—relative to a particular performed academic/administrative/intellectual/collaborative project that penetrates the political and power structures of academic relationality—modeling an aspect of invitational rhetoric in which both authors maintain immanent value and an openness to each other as collaborator and audience invoking possibility and potentiality within, across, and beyond the categorical distinctions of their persons that have historically both divided and conjoined them. In addition, the essay embodies a version of assemblage/collaborative writing to explore issues of performance, race, gender, culture, and violence in academic and everyday contexts.

Women in Power and Decision making Positions : Conditions and Restraints

1970 ◽  
pp. 53-57
Author(s):  
Azza Charara Baydoun
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Political Life ◽  
The Political ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Policies And Procedures ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
Slow Progress

Women today are considered to be outside the political and administrative power structures and their participation in the decision-making process is non-existent. As far as their participation in the political life is concerned they are still on the margins. The existence of patriarchal society in Lebanon as well as the absence of governmental policies and procedures that aim at helping women and enhancing their political participation has made it very difficult for women to be accepted as leaders and to be granted votes in elections (UNIFEM, 2002).This above quote is taken from a report that was prepared to assess the progress made regarding the status of Lebanese women both on the social and governmental levels in light of the Beijing Platform for Action – the name given to the provisions of the Fourth Conference on Women held in Beijing in 1995. The above quote describes the slow progress achieved by Lebanese women in view of the ambitious goal that requires that the proportion of women occupying administrative or political positions in Lebanon should reach 30 percent of thetotal by the year 2005!

scholarly journals Nemzetközi kitekintés az első szakképzési törvény korszakáról

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
István Lükő
Keyword(s):  
Legal Regulation ◽  
The Political ◽  
Training Centre ◽  
25Th Anniversary ◽  
International Dimension ◽  
Political Events ◽  
New Directions ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Government ◽  
The One

A cikk a szakképzési törvény megjelenésének 25. évfordulója alkalmából rendezett „25 éves a szakképzési törvény - Korszakos változások - új irányok” című konferencia előadása alapján készült, amelyet a szerző vezette Az első szakképzési törvény gazdasági- társadalmi környezete nemzetközi kitekintésbe című Panel keretében tartott.Ez a negyedszázados esemény a társadalmi-gazdasági szinten zajló rendszerváltás fontos része volt a másik két oktatási alrendszer törvényi szabályozásával együtt.Az írás ezt a korszakot, illetve a törvényhez kapcsolódó gazdasági-társadalmi környezetet mutatja be nemzetközi kontextusban.A téma elvi-elméleti felvezetéseként a szerző áttekinti a különböző szempontok és léptékek szerinti szakképzési modelleket, amelyek a világban fellelhetők. The government formed after the political events in 1989 considered the comprehensive transformation of the educational system, primarily by legal regulation, as one of their main tasks. After years of preparation, the three acts on education were passed in 1993, including the Act on VET. Several documents, e.g. the National Qualification Registry, are connected to this law; in this article I have undertaken to examine these connections and to make comparisons to other countries. On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the law taking effect, on May 5th 2018 the Hungarian Association for Pedagogy and the Teacher Training Centre of the BME organized a monumental conference titled The Law on VET becomes 25 years old – Epochal changes – new directions in Budapest at the BME. After the plenary sessions, five panels were held – I was the moderator of the one titled: The socio-economic environment of the first VET act in an international dimension, and I held a short lecture here with a similar title. 

scholarly journals Political opportunities in the Tuzla region before agresia on Republic Bosnia and Herzegovina

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 285-300
Author(s):  
Sead Omerbegović ◽  
◽  
Izet Hadžić ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
The Political ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
Political Conflicts ◽  
Political Opportunities

Political circumstances are the result of the action of political factors, the power structures in one space. In this paper, we look at the political situation in one region - a smaller area that is affected by political conflicts in the wider region. More precisely, the paper presents political options, generators of political circumstances in the Tuzla region until the beginning of the aggression on Bosnia and Herzegovina in April 1992.

A Froward Woman Beloved of God

2021 ◽  
pp. 219-230
Author(s):  
Marilyn J. Westerkamp
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Gender Politics ◽  
The Political ◽  
Religious Women ◽  
Gender Culture ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Social Threats

This chapter argues the importance of gender culture in seventeenth-century spirituality and gender politics in the response of the magistrates to Hutchinson in particular, and strong religious women in general. The chapter begins with a reconsideration of the patriarchal nature of this society and the political and social threats represented by nonconforming women. The chapter returns to witchcraft and midwifery in connection with conversion mysticism: three female identities very similar in themselves and, apparently, equally threatening. Finally, the chapter returns to the beginning point: the growing Puritan concentration upon rational religion in comparison with the experiential, spirit mysticism that characterized the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In its reconstruction of a female religiosity, the argument connects the historically constructed nature of women with the Puritan construction of a masculine God and a feminine soul, and the sexual nature of Puritan spirituality.

Women in Rebellion

2018 ◽  
pp. 488-500
Author(s):  
Zoe Marks
Keyword(s):  
Sierra Leone ◽  
The Political ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Rebel Groups ◽  
Political Entrepreneurship ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Intimate Partnerships ◽  
Experiences Of Women ◽  
Insight Into

A key objective for the women, peace, and security agenda going forward is to disaggregate the experiences of women as a group, and to understand how gender functions in conflict contexts. This chapter focuses on the diverse roles of female combatants in rebel groups to gain insight into how power is distributed, not only between men and women, or combatants and civilians, but within groups. Rebel groups are characterized by military and political apparatuses that are built side by side and often entangled. Organizational power structures are often dominated by men, but not exclusively so. Using interviews and archival data from the Sierra Leone Civil War case study, this chapter delivers an analysis of women’s experiences in rebel movements. It explores the individual trajectories of mobilization and victimization in Sierra Leone. Next, it examines the unique experiences of female combatants, before situating them in the broader political context. Finally, the chapter considers cases of sexual violence, intimate partnerships, conflict among women, and the political entrepreneurship of elite women to understand female participation in rebellion in its entirety.

scholarly journals Performing, Translating, Fashioning: Spectatorship in the Surveillant World

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 168-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Hogue
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Disciplinary Power ◽  
Political Effect ◽  
Alternative Meaning ◽  
Apparent Resistance ◽  
A Performance ◽  
Artistic Performance

Despite the disciplinary power of surveillance, I argue artistic performances may also provide a space of resistance and self-fashioning. Discussions on artistic performance emphasize the ambivalence and uncertainty of art to resist existing power structures and create alternative meaning. However, how concretely, and when, do artistic performances challenge these structures often remains uncertain. Their popularity does not guarantee the depth of their engagement with surveillance practices, and apparent resistance may hide unconscious cooptation and blatant reproduction of existing inequalities and power structures. To understand the political effect of artistic performances, I argue one needs to look at how they participate to the redefinition of individual and collective selves. This must include attention to spectatorship as a different category from state and corporate surveillance. Spectators engage with performers, reinforce or deny their claim to self-fashioning. By looking at spectators one can better understand how a performance can be (or fail to be) self-fashioning not only for the performer but also collectively for the spectators.

scholarly journals Leading education beyond what works

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 375-385 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorunn Møller
Keyword(s):  
Public Education ◽  
School Leadership ◽  
Educational Research ◽  
School Reforms ◽  
The Political ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Critical Studies ◽  
What Works ◽  
National Boundaries ◽  
Successful School

Currently, the issue of inequality is one of the most pressing concerns in education and educational research. Factors such as increased socio-economic inequality, movement of people across national boundaries and refugees create major challenges for local communities and schools. Therefore, it is crucial to ensure that teaching and leadership are informed by the best available knowledge to meet these challenges. This article, which is based on research on successful school leadership and school reforms, aims to explore what type of knowledge is used and, given priority, when politicians and administrators make decisions about improving education. The article also discusses what we need to know to address equity-relevant progress and improvement. In the analysis, the role the OECD has in setting the agenda in educational research is problematized and methodological shortcomings within research traditions focusing on successful school leadership are discussed. A main argument is that our thinking about educational leadership must be complemented and informed by research which focuses on recent changes in the political economy that have challenged public education severely. To lead education beyond the agenda of what works, we need different approaches to research, including critical studies addressing the power structures.

The Development of Scottish Border Lordship, 1332–58

1997 ◽  
Vol 70 (171) ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. H. Bown
Keyword(s):  
Effective Leadership ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Society ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Regional Power ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Royal Authority ◽  
Existing Structures ◽  
The Creation

Abstract This article examines the effect of sustained warfare on the political society of southern Scotland. Using contemporary sources it discusses the disintegration of existing structures of lordship in the thirteen‐thirties and the exercise of effective leadership by minor landowners and their followers. This process is considered in the context of similar changes in the regional power structures elsewhere in the British Isles. The new limitations placed on royal authority in the Scottish Marches continued beyond the period of major war and culminated in the formalization of personal and military lordship with the creation of the earldom of Douglas in 1358.

scholarly journals Взаимодействие науки и власти: наука на службе у власти?

2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 130-140
Author(s):  
Ю.В. Черновицкая
Keyword(s):  
Political Development ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
The Political ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Present Stage ◽  
Individual Scientist ◽  
Intellectual Resource ◽  
Moral Assessment ◽  
The Relationship

Взаимоотношения науки как важнейшего интеллектуального ресурса и власти являются необходимым звеном политического развития и модернизации общества. На современном этапе выделяются такие формы власти, как биовласть, власть стандартов и инфраструктур, нетократия и др. В статье рассматривается вопрос о том, как наука соотносится с новыми формами власти и как ее достижения могут использоваться властными структурами для контроля над жизнью человека и общества. Автор доказывает необходимость моральной оценки деятельности как властных структур, так и отдельного ученого для преодоления кризиса доверия к современной науке и выстраивания деятельностных отношений на благо человечества. Ключевые слова: наука, власть, биовласть, стандарты, нетократия, кризис ответственности, дегуманизация The relationship between science as the most important intellectual resource and power structures is a necessary link in the political development and modernization of society. At the present stage, we can identify such forms of power as biopower, the power of standards and infrastructures, netocracy, etc. The article seeks to answer the question of how science relates to these new forms of power and how its achievements can be used by power structures to control the life of a person and society. The author proves the need for a moral assessment of the activities of both power structures and individual scientist in order to overcome the credibility crisis of modern science and build activity relationships for the benefit of humanity. Keywords: science, government, biopower, standards, netocracy, crisis of responsibility, dehumanization

Toward a Critical Literacy of the Citizen Marketer Approach

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel Penney
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Critical Literacy ◽  
Peer To Peer ◽  
Political Polarization ◽  
The Political ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Digital Inequality ◽  
Symbolic Action ◽  
The Media ◽  
Political Realities

This concluding chapter addresses the controversy of “slacktivism” and argues that mediated symbolic action does not necessarily become a substitute for other forms of political participation. However, it does present several notable risks: in addition to potentially exacerbating political polarization and partisanship, it may also attenuate the connection between symbolic victories in the media and complex political realities on the ground. The challenge, then, for those who adopt these practices is to work to retain and strengthen connections between style and substance, which requires introspection about the political content they spread to others and what they hope to achieve by doing so. In addition, a critical literacy of citizen marketing must also include an enhanced awareness of the broader power structures that bear upon it, from elite attempts to shape peer-to-peer political messaging flows to serve institutional agendas to gaps in technological access and skills that reproduce digital inequality.

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