The Power of Protest Music: Exploring the Role of Songs in Social Change

This chapter argues that accounts of ‘the reading public’ are always fundamentally historical, usually involving stories of ‘growth’ or ‘decline’. It examines Q. D. Leavis’s Fiction and the Reading Public, which builds a relentlessly pessimistic critique of the debased standards of the present out of a highly selective account of literature and its publics since the Elizabethan period. It goes on to exhibit the complicated analysis of the role of previous publics in F. R. Leavis’s revisionist literary history, including his ambivalent admiration for the great Victorian periodicals. And it shows how Richard Hoggart’s The Uses of Literacy carries an almost buried interpretation of social change from the nineteenth century onwards, constantly contrasting the vibrant and healthy forms of entertainment built up in old working-class communities with the slick, commercialized reading matter introduced by post-1945 prosperity.

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The Perils and Promises of Disability Biography

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190234959.013.2 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Kim E. Nielsen

Keyword(s):

Social Change ◽

Historical Narratives ◽

Disabled People ◽

Cultural Discourses ◽

The Past ◽

Helen Keller ◽

Rigorous Study ◽

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Biographical scholarship provides a means by which to understand the past. Disability biography writes disabled people into historical narratives and cultural discourses, acknowledging power, action, and consequence. Disability biography also analyzes the role of ableism in shaping relationships, systems of power, and societal ideals. When written with skilled storytelling, rigorous study, nuance, and insight, disability biography enriches analyses of people living in the past. Disability biography makes clear the multiple ways by which individuals and communities labor, make kinship, persevere, and both resist and create social change. When using a disability analysis, biographies of disabled people (particularly people famous for their disability, such as Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Helen Keller) reveal the relationality and historically embedded nature of disability. In an ableist world, such acts can be revolutionary.

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The NGOization of Space: Dilemmas of Social Change, Planning Policy, and the Israeli Public Sphere

Environment and Planning D Society and Space ◽

10.1068/d459t ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 25 (4) ◽

pp. 745-758 ◽

Cited By ~ 27

Author(s):

Haim Yacobi

Keyword(s):

Social Change ◽

Public Sphere ◽

Critical Analysis ◽

Critical Reading ◽

Production Of Space ◽

The Public ◽

Planning Policy ◽

Strategic Goals ◽

The Public Sphere

This paper offers a critical analysis of the role of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that deal with planning policy in general and in Israel in particular. The inherent dilemmas of the different NGOs' tactics and strategies in reshaping the public sphere are examined, based on a critical reading of Habermas's conceptualization of the public sphere. The main objective of this paper is to investigate to what extent, and under which conditions, the NGOization of space—that is, the growing number of nongovernmental actors that deal with the production of space both politically and tangibly—has been able to achieve strategic goals which may lead towards social change.

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Capital Switching and the Role of Ground Rent: 1 Theoretical Problems

Environment and Planning A Economy and Space ◽

10.1068/a210445 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 21 (4) ◽

pp. 445-462 ◽

Cited By ~ 33

Author(s):

R J King

Keyword(s):

Social Change ◽

Housing Market ◽

Capital Accumulation ◽

The State ◽

Social Conditions ◽

Rent Extraction ◽

Economic Sectors ◽

Speculative Investment ◽

Capital Switching

The flow of both productive and speculative investment into housing relates to the state of capital accumulation in other economic sectors, as hypothesised in the ‘circuits of capital’ argument, but it also relates to the incentive to ‘switch’ investment into and out of housing, and therefore to expectations of ground rent and the (changing) social conditions that enable ground rent extraction. This is the first of three papers in which the relationships involved in these processes are explored. A series of theoretical problems arising from the argument are dealt with, principally relating to its seeming economic determinism and to an inappropriately narrow treatment of crisis and social change. In the subsequent papers, in this journal, these various ideas will be used to reflect on housing market and related social change in Melbourne from the 1930s to the 1980s.

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Intellectuals, Social Change and Foreign Policy in Inter-War Japan

The Tocqueville Review/La revue Tocqueville ◽

10.3138/ttr.16.2.59 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 16 (2) ◽

pp. 59-78

Author(s):

Marius B. Jansen

Keyword(s):

Foreign Policy ◽

Social Change ◽

Japanese Foreign Policy

The pages that follow discuss the place and role of intellectuals in inter-war Japan with particular reference to their relevance to the development of Japanese foreign policy.

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INTEGRASI KEILMUAN LEMBAGA PENDIDIKAN ISLAM

10.31219/osf.io/nc6ry ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Muhamad Fatih Rusydi Syadzili

Keyword(s):

Social Change ◽

Islamic Education ◽

Positive Transformation ◽

Scientific Integration

In this chapter explains the role of Islamic education as an agent of civilization and social change. Islamic education is expected to be able to make significant changes in the atmosphere of modernization and globalization, because in the globalization era, Islamic education is demanded to be more dynamic and proactive. This is what makes Islamic education continue to innovate and break new ground in making significant contributions and positive transformation. Thus Islamic education is expected to continue to make improvements in the form of scientific integration, it is intended that the progress of Muslims can be better in terms of theoretical and practical intellectual.

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