Police Archives Before the Police

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-40
Author(s):  
Sal Nicolazzo
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Print Culture ◽  
Legal Theory ◽  
Small Category ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Local Order ◽  
Textual Interpretation ◽  
Practical Life ◽  
Insight Into

This introductory chapter discusses the definitional undefinability of the notion of “police.” This undefinability offers a conundrum when it comes to textual interpretation, but vagrancy offers a generatively loquacious archive of police. In the archive of vagrancy, one sees the making of police through the “minute particulars.” As it was a paradigmatic target of police, vagrancy also remained crucially resistant to definitional certainty, and yet it had a material, practical life as well — many of its “minute particulars” were elaborated in administrative, theoretical, and literary texts, thus generating an archive of police before “the police” had taken institutional form. Through precise attention to the deceptively small category of vagrancy as it traverses legal theory, legal practice, and print culture, one gains crucial insight into the array of practices, theories, modes and purviews of violence, and habits of perception that coalesced as “police” before the establishment of the modern police force. The chapter then considers how vagrancy connected local order-keeping to political economy.

Romantic Capabilities

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike Goode
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Reception Studies ◽  
Ecological Design ◽  
Conflicting Demands ◽  
Contemporary Media

Romantic Capabilities argues that popular new media uses of literary texts often activate and make visible ways the texts were already about their relationship to medium. Devising and modelling a methodology that bridges historicist literary criticism and reception studies with media studies and formalism, it contends that how a literary text behaves when it encounters new media reveals capabilities in media that can transform how we understand the text’s significance for the original historical context in which it was created. Following an introductory chapter that explains and justifies its approach to the archive, the book analyses significant popular “media behaviors” exhibited by three major Romantic British literary corpuses: the viral circulation of William Blake’s pictures and proverbs across contemporary media, the gravitation of Victorian panorama painters and stereoscopic photographers to Walter Scott’s historical fictions, and the ongoing popular practice of writing fanfiction set in the worlds of Jane Austen’s novels and their imaginary country estates. Blake emerges from the study as an important theorist of how viral media can be used to undermine law, someone whose art deregulates through the medium of its audiences’ heterogeneous tastes and conflicting demands for wisdom. Scott’s novels are shown to have fostered a new experience of vision and understanding of frame that helped launch modern immersive media. Finally, Austenian realism is revealed as a mode of ecological design whose project fanfiction grasps and extends.

scholarly journals THE SYMBOLISM OF COLORS IN THE ETHNIC PICTURE OF THE WORLD OF THE ARABS

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-107
Author(s):  
E. V. Kuhareva
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Moral Code ◽  
National Consciousness ◽  
Ethical Values ◽  
Color Palette ◽  
The World ◽  
Symbolic Meanings ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Practical Life

Te article studies symbolic meanings of colors in the Arab on the material of Arabic sacred, literary texts, dictionary editions, and folklore. Tere is considered the place of each element of the color palette in the Arab ethnic picture of the world, which expresses moral and ethical values and worldview of the Arab ethnic group, and the importance and influence of colors on the Arab mentality. Te analysis reveals the similarities and differences in the perception of colors and their symbolic meanings in the Arab and Russian languages. Arabs’ perception of a particular color is based on their fgurative system, in which all the phenomena of the surrounding world appear not in the form of philosophical abstract generalizations, but as a realistic perception of the surrounding reality. Symbolism of their perception is revealed in their practical life, the basis on which national consciousness and national mentality is formed. Color symbolism depends on the place and conditions in which an ethnic group lives. A national picture of the world, however, is not only and not so much a reflection of these conditions, it is a reflection of their moral, ethical and aesthetic conceptualization, fxed in various linguistic forms and transmitted from generation to generation as a moral code allowing people to preserve their national identity.

Introduction

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward D. Mansfield ◽  
Helen V. Milner
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Domestic Politics ◽  
Trade Agreements ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
Central Argument ◽  
Political Conditions ◽  
Preferential Trading Arrangements ◽  
Theoretical Issues

This introductory chapter begins with a discussion of what preferential trading arrangements (PTAs) are and why they are important. It covers the economic effects of PTAs, political and security effects of PTAs, PTAs in historical perspective, and the effects of domestic politics on PTAs. It then sets out the book's central argument, that trade agreements are often motivated by domestic political conditions. The book seeks to explain why leaders choose to enter these agreements. The next section discusses how the present analysis of the domestic sources of PTA formation bears on a host of important theoretical issues in the fields of international relations and political economy. An overview of the subsequent chapters is also presented.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Jennifer A. Delton
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
National Association ◽  
Trade Association ◽  
National Association Of Manufacturers ◽  
Insight Into

This introductory chapter presents new understandings of manufacturing's main lobbyist and trade association, the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM). To understand how a conservative, anti-union organization can also be seen as progressive, the chapter first takes a look at its background as it considers how disorganized and chaotic US capitalism was at the end of the nineteenth century, when NAM was founded. In addition to examining NAM's role in organizing and globalizing capitalism, the chapter explores how it worked, who it represented, and how effective it was as a lobbyist. It also identifies NAM's many internal tensions. Furthermore, the chapter identifies the economic, ideological, and institutional concerns that drove NAM actors, as these offer insight into the evolving political taxonomies of our own day.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Regis M. Fox
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
American Art ◽  
African American Art ◽  
Sherley Anne Williams ◽  
Black Women Writers ◽  
Harriet Wilson ◽  
Anna Julia Cooper ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Insight Into

The introduction examines processes by which nineteenth-century black women writers have been disassociated from legitimate forms of black struggle and defiance. Extending a definition of the liberal problematic, and situating liberal ideology critique as a viable mode of resistance, the introductory chapter specifies methodology and content. It also addresses the ways in which Harriet Wilson, Elizabeth Keckly, and Anna Julia Cooper undermine fundamental liberal and Enlightenment precepts including reason, individualism, and the foregrounding of a transcendental subject. Each of these mix-raced, working, widowed women relies on distinct tropes of embodiment in their writing to contest reigning prescriptions toward objectivity, while making visible the constraints of practices of inclusion. Charting a “becoming together” of earlier thinkers with contemporary African-American art in the vein of Sherley Anne Williams’ novel Dessa Rose, the introduction to Resistance Reimagined offers rich insight into literary perspectives of liberalism.

Introducing Contagious Sympathies

2018 ◽  
pp. 3-49
Author(s):  
Eric Langley
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Theoretical Work ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Michel Serres ◽  
Spreading Disease

In this introductory chapter, the study is situated in relation to contemporary scholarship—demonstrating both points of contact with and departure from key critical interlocutors such as Nancy Selleck and Robert N. Watson, recent writing by James Kuzner and Joe Moshenska, and theoretical work by Teresa Brennan, Michel Serres, and others—while offering an overview of the study’s concerns. It considers the place of sympathy in the early-modern mindset, looking at scientific, theological, philosophical, and literary texts to give a sense of how sympathetic relations are understood as integral to social relations and the operations of the natural world. It seeks to complicate this picture by showing how sympathy is understood as a pathological force, spreading disease.

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