Indirect Subjects

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew H. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Television Programs ◽  
Culture Industries ◽  
Screen Media ◽  
African People ◽  
Local Practices ◽  
Global Power ◽  
Liberal Capitalism ◽  
Nigerian Film ◽  
Indirect Rule

In Indirect Subjects, Matthew H. Brown analyzes the content of the prolific Nigerian film industry's mostly direct-to-video movies alongside local practices of production and circulation to show how screen media play spatial roles in global power relations. Scrutinizing the deep structural and aesthetic relationship between Nollywood, as the industry is known, and Nigerian state television, Brown tracks how several Nollywood films, in ways similar to both state television programs and colonial cinema productions, invite local spectators to experience liberal capitalism not only as a form of exploitation but as a set of expectations about the future. This mode of address, which Brown refers to as “periliberalism,” sustains global power imbalances by locating viewers within liberalism but distancing them from its processes and benefits. Locating the wellspring of this hypocrisy in the British Empire's practice of indirect rule, Brown contends that culture industries like Nollywood can sustain capitalism by isolating ordinary African people, whose labor and consumption fuel it, from its exclusive privileges.

scholarly journals Putting (social) science in its place(s)

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leandro Rodriguez Medina
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
Global Power ◽  
The Social

Book review ofHeilbron, Johan, Sorá, Gustavo, and Boncourt, Thibaud (eds). 2018. The Social and Human Sciences in Global Power Relations. London: Palgrave. 371 pp.ISBN 978-3-319-73298-5Price: €128,39

scholarly journals Distant places in children’s everyday activities: Multiple worlds in an Australian preschool

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zsuzsa Millei
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Everyday Activities ◽  
Global Flows ◽  
Multiple Worlds ◽  
Global Power ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Critical Pedagogies ◽  
Ethnographic Data

Abstract Global flows and their geopolitical power relations powerfully shape the environments in which children lead their everyday lives. Children’s images, imaginations and ideas of distant places are part of these global flows and the everyday activities children perform in preschool. Research explores how through curricula young children are moulded into global and cosmopolitan citizens and how children make sense of distant places through globally circulating ideas, images and imaginations. How these ideas, images and imaginations form an unproblematised part of young children’s everyday preschool activities and identity formation has been much less explored, if at all. I use Massey’s (2005) concept of a ‘global sense of place’ in my analysis of ethnographic data collected in an Australian preschool to explore how children produce global qualities of preschool places and form and perform identities by relating to distant places. I pay special attention to how place, objects and children become entangled, and to the sensory aspects of their emplaced experiences, as distant spatialities embed in and as children’s bodies inhabit the preschool place. To conclude, I call for critical pedagogies to engage with children’s use of these constructions to draw similarities or contrast aspects of distant places and self, potentially reproducing global power relations by fixing representations of places and through uncritically enacting stereotypes.

scholarly journals Discursive Legitimation of Human Values: Local-global Power Relations in Global Media Discourse

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (01) ◽  
pp. 171-187
Author(s):  
Abduljalil Nasar Hazaea ◽  
Noraini Ibrahim ◽  
Nor Fariza Mohd Nor
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Human Values ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Global Media ◽  
Global Power

scholarly journals Power, Knowledge, and Epistemic Delinking

2017 ◽  
pp. 105
Author(s):  
Aneta Stojnić
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Global Power ◽  
Epistemic Violence ◽  
Central Argument

In this paper I shall argue that radical epistemic delinking has a key role in liberation from the Colonial Matrix of Power as well as the change in the existing global power relations which are based in the colonialism and maintained through exploitation, expropriation and construction of the (racial) Other. Those power relations render certain bodies and spaces as (epistemologically) irrelevant. In order to discuss possible models of struggle against such condition, firstly I have addressed the relation between de-colonial theories and postcolonial studies, arguing that decolonial positions are both historicising and re-politicising the postcolonial theory. In my central argument I have focused on the epistemic delinking and political implications of decolonial turn. With reference to Grada Killomba I have argued for the struggle against epistemic violence through decolonising knowledge. Decolonising knowledge requires delinking form Eurocentric model of knowledge production and radical dismantling the existing hierarchies among different knowledge. It requires recognition of the ‘Other epistemologies’ and ‘Other knowledge’ as well as liberation from Western disciplinary and methodological limitations. One of the main goals of decolonial project is deinking from the Colonial Matrix of Power. However, delinking is not required only in the areas of economy and politics but also in the field of epistemology. Article received: June 15, 2017; Article accepted: June 26, 2017; Published online: October 15, 2017; Original scholarly paperHow to cite this article: Stojnić, Aneta. "Power, Knowledge, and Epistemic Delinking." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 14 (2017): 105-111. doi: 10.25038/am.v0i14.218

Notes on Culture Jamming

2001 ◽  
Vol 98 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Cox
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Corporate Sector ◽  
Global Networks ◽  
Corporate Power ◽  
Culture Jamming ◽  
Society Of The Spectacle ◽  
Global Power ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media

Arguably, the media today represent the central means by which global power is mediated. The rise of global networks has consolidated the reach of corporate power such that it now rivals — and probably surpasses — that of government. People are finding innovative and alternative ways to communicate using the very means the corporate sector itself uses, to different ends. This is the world of the culture jammer, who turns the message back on the sender, the better to expose the unequal power relations at work in what Guy Debord called ‘The Society of the Spectacle’.

scholarly journals Der globale Bildungsmarkt

2004 ◽  
Vol 34 (137) ◽  
pp. 565-585 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Hartmann
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Institutional Setting ◽  
Service Economy ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
The Core ◽  
Global Power ◽  
Class Fraction

The regional and international initiatives on quality assurance, accreditation and recognition can be seen as part of current efforts to create a global service economy. While the Neo-Grarnscian approach offers a thorough analysis of the current restructuring of global power relations, its conceptual wealmess becomes evident when one looks at the institutional setting of the current changes in general, and the international initiatives on quality assurance in particular. Ail these initiatives are taking place outside the international organizations that are described by the Neo-Grarnscians as the core of the new constitutionalism. However, the initiatives can hardly be tal<en as an indication of an emerging counter-hegemony directed against the hegemony of the transnational class fraction. The main argument of the article is that these initiatives are in fact crucial for sustaining the global hegemony of this fraction.

scholarly journals The Rising Powers and Globalization: Structural Change to the Global System Between 1965 and 2005

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 373-403 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsay Marie Jacobs ◽  
Ronan Van Rossem
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
The Political ◽  
Rising Powers ◽  
Vast Number ◽  
Global System ◽  
Global Power ◽  
The World ◽  
Military Networks ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Significant Attention

This article sets out to critically assess the increasingly prevalent claims of rapidly changing global power relations under influence of the ‘rising powers’ and ‘globalization’. Our main contention is that current analyses of countries’ degree of global power (especially for the BRICS) has been dominated by the control over resources approach that, though gauging power potential, insufficiently takes into account how this potential is converted into actual global might. By drawing on a unique and extensive dataset comprising of a wide array of political, economic and military networks for a vast number of countries between 1965 and 2005, we aim to 1) reassess alleged changes in the structure of the world-system since 1965 and 2) to analyze whether these changes can be attributed to ‘globalization’. Significant attention is paid to the trajectories of the BRICS and to the possibly divergent structural evolutions of the political and economic dimensions that constitute the system. Our results show that despite a certain degree of power convergence between countries at the sub-top of the system, overall, divergence continues to take place between the most and least powerful, and stratification is reproduced. Globalization is further shown to exacerbate this trend, though its effect differs on the political and economic dimensions of the system. Overall, though the traditional ‘core powers’ might have to share their power with newcomer China in the future, this hardly heralds a new age in which the global system of power relations are converging to the extent that stratification is being undermined.

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