#MirandaMustGo: Contesting a settler colonial obsession with lost-in-the-bush myths through public and socially engaged art

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-234
Author(s):  
Amy Spiers
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
General Public ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
Indigenous Australians ◽  
The Public ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
Central Victoria ◽  
Socially Engaged Art ◽  
Critical Methodology ◽  
Do So

In January 2017, settler Australian artist, Amy Spiers, launched a creative campaign to contest habitual associations at the site of Hanging Rock in Central Victoria with a white vanishing myth. Entitled #MirandaMustGo, the campaign’s objective was to provoke thought and unease about why the missing white schoolgirls of Joan Lindsay’s fictional novel, Picnic at Hanging Rock, prompted more attention and feeling in the general public than the actual losses of lives, land and culture experienced by Indigenous people in the region as a consequence of rapid and violent colonial occupation. The campaign incited significant media attention, substantial public debate and some reconsideration of the stories told at Hanging Rock. In this article, Spiers will describe how she conceptualized the artwork/campaign as a propositional counter-memorial action that attempted to conceive ways in which non-Indigenous Australians can acknowledge, and take responsibility for, the denial of colonization’s impact on Indigenous people. She will do so by discussing the critical methodology that underpinned this socially engaged artwork and continue by analysing the public reception and dissensus the campaign provoked. She will conclude in presenting some thoughts about what #MirandaMustGo produced: a rupture of the public secret of Australia’s violent colonial past, a marked shift to the discourse concerning Hanging Rock and an ongoing, unresolved agitation stimulated by Picnic at Hanging Rock’s persistent reproducibility.

FROM DIFĀʿ AL-NISĀʾ TO MASʾALAT AL-NISĀʾ IN GREATER SYRIA: READERS AND WRITERS DEBATE WOMEN AND THEIR RIGHTS, 1858–1900

2009 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 615-633 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fruma Zachs ◽  
Sharon Halevi
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
Woman Question ◽  
The Public ◽  
Peripheral Areas ◽  
Do So

In this article we present a threefold argument—chronological, geographical, and sociocultural—in order to demonstrate that interest in the woman question and the lively and at times charged debate that it stimulated began in Greater Syria in the earlynahḍa(awakening) period and persisted throughout, drawing into its orbit leading intellectuals as well as members of the general public and permeating even peripheral areas of Greater Syria. We do so by examining the public reflection of this debate in the earlynahḍapress, mainly privately published Beirut journals and newspapers.

scholarly journals Trauma, Shared Recognition and Indigenous Resistance on Social media

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bronwyn Lee Carlson ◽  
Lani V Jones ◽  
Michelle Harris ◽  
Nelia Quezada ◽  
Ryan Frazer
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Traumatic Events ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Indigenous Australians ◽  
Collective Trauma ◽  
Indigenous Resistance ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Four Corners

This paper investigates the ways in which Indigenous Australians respond individually, and collectively, to racial vilification by means of social media sites. Introducing the concept of “shared recognition” this paper describes the collective sense of anger and frustration experienced by Indigenous people when traumatic events in the public domain act as reminders of ongoing colonialism. Three examples are explored to demonstrate collective trauma as a result of racist and discriminatory acts that are made public, and the ways in which social media is utilised by Indigenous Australians to make sense of and cope with trauma. Firstly, the Four Corners program on ABC television entitled ‘Australia’s Shame’. Secondly, a cartoon produced by the editorial cartoonist for The Australian newspaper, Bill Leak depicting Indigenous fathers as neglectful. Finally, the social media movement, #IndigenousDads, that emerged in response to these events and demonstrates ongoing resistance to colonial narratives. Drawing on Sara Ahmed’s (2004) notion of “affective economies” this paper unpacks the politics of pain, shame and pride in the aftermath of both the Four Corners program and the Bill Leak cartoon.

scholarly journals In Defense of Moderate Inclusivism: Revisiting Rawls and Habermas on Religion in the Public Sphere

2018 ◽  
pp. 143-157
Author(s):  
Jonas Jakobsen ◽  
Kjersti Fjørtoft
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Deliberative Democracy ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Public Reason ◽  
Political Liberalism ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Religious Reasons ◽  
Do So

The paper discusses Rawls’ and Habermas’ theories of deliberative democracy, focusing on the question of religious reasons in political discourse. Whereas Rawls as well as Habermas defend a fully inclusivist position on the use of religious reasons in the ‘background culture’ (Rawls) or ‘informal public sphere’ (Habermas), we defend a moderately inclusivist position. Moderate inclusivism welcomes religiously inspired contributions to public debate, but it also makes normative demands on public argumentation beyond the ‘public forum’ (Rawls) or ‘formal public sphere’ (Habermas). In particular, moderate inclusivism implies what we call a ‘conversational translation proviso’ according to which citizens have a duty to supplement religious with proper political arguments if – but only if – they are asked to do so by their co-discussants. This position, we argue, is more in line with the deeper intuitions behind Rawls’ political liberalism and Habermas’ deliberative model than is the fully inclusivist alternative. Keywords: conversational translation proviso, deliberative democracy, ethics of citizenship, Habermas, moderate inclusivism, public reason, Rawls

scholarly journals Sacrifício e quase-acontecimento: apontamentos sobre a visibilidade da luta pela terra dos povos indígenas Guarani e Kaiowa (Sacrifice and quasi event: notes on the visibility of the indigenous people Guarani and Kaiowa struggle over land)

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (26) ◽  
pp. 114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luciana De Oliveira ◽  
Tonico Benites ◽  
Rui De Oliveira Neto
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
Participatory Culture ◽  
The Public ◽  
Catalytic Mechanisms ◽  
Land Struggle ◽  
Political Disputes

<p>Este artigo tem como objetivo discutir os entrecruzamentos entre o conceito de quase-acontecimento, a lógica do sacrifício e a constituição de disputas políticas no seio de uma cultura  participativa. Toma como ponto de partida empírico o caso da visibilidade da luta pela terra conquistada pelos povos Guarani e Kaiowa em 2012, buscando identificar os mecanismos acionadores do debate público para uma análise sobre sua configuração e saldos políticos.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p>This article aims to discuss the intersections between the concept of quasi event, the sacrifice's logic and the constitution of political disputes within participatory culture. Starting from the case of  the visibility of Guarani and Kaiowa's land struggle conquered in 2012, it seeks to identify the public debate's catalytic mechanisms in order to analyses its configuration and political results.</p><p><strong>Keywords</strong>:<strong> </strong>Quasi event. Sacrifice. Public debate. Participatory culture. Guarani e Kaiowa.</p>

scholarly journals Secrets, Trauma, and the Memory Market (or the return of the repressed in recent Argentine post-dictatorship cultural production)

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 62-71
Author(s):  
Silvia R Tandeciarz
Keyword(s):  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
Global Memory ◽  
The Public ◽  
State Terrorism ◽  
Healthy Body ◽  
Do So

Since the end of the last Argentine Dictatorship (1976-1983), a number of feature-length films have engaged in the public debate over the legacies of state terrorism. El secreto de sus ojos (2009), Argentina's most recent Oscar winner, is the latest to do so, exploring the effects of more than a decade of impunity on those who lost their loved ones. Suggesting that restoration of a justice system that works can lead to the restoration of full civic engagement in a healthy body politic, the film raises important questions about citizenship and belonging in a post-national era. This essay explores the film's phenomenal success in the global memory market to illuminate what remains at stake in contemporary narratives of reconciliation.

The Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Couples—The French Perspective

2002 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 305-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudina Richards
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
Nordic Countries ◽  
The Political ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Legal Recognition ◽  
The Public ◽  
Same Sex Couples ◽  
Gay Pride ◽  
Legislative Reforms

Legislative reforms have been introduced in several European states to tackle the question of the legal recognition of same-sex relations, with the Nordic countries taking the lead.1 Changes in the attitude of the general public towards gays and lesbians, as demonstrated by the publicity and popularity of Gay Pride marches throughout Europe, has brought the issue to the fore of the political and legal arenas. France has been no exception, with the public debate on the recognition of same-sex couples culminating in the recent adoption of the law relating to the Pacte Civil de Solidarité (PACS) which provides for the registration of a couple's partnership regardless of sex.

Sources and their frames

2018 ◽  
pp. 61-83
Author(s):  
Marina Dekavalla
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Public ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
Civil Society Organisations ◽  
The Media ◽  
Communication Campaigns

Chapter 4 focuses on the key actors who ran communication campaigns during the referendum, aiming to attract media attention for their views. It focuses particularly on the main Yes and No campaigns and the political parties that comprised them, as well as civil society organisations that did not support either outcome but still communicated to the media about issues they felt were significant in the debate. The chapter discusses the frames these participant actors promoted in the public debate. It is based on interviews with communication directors on both sides of the argument and representatives from impartial civil society organisations. It explores how different actors understood and defined what the referendum was about and how these understandings may be organized conceptually into different frames. It looks at similarities, differences and interactions between the frames that different actors proposed and explores whether different sides of the argument had ‘ownership’ over certain frames.

C=f(P): The trust, ‘general public utility’, and charity as a function of profit in India

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 132-162
Author(s):  
RITU BIRLA
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Public Utility ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Public ◽  
Legal Criterion ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Legal Mechanism ◽  
Do So

AbstractWith an interest in historicizing contemporary philanthropic formations such as corporate social responsibility, this article outlines the modern Indian governmental coding of charity as a function of profit. To do so, it charts a trajectory of legal-fiscal policy on charitable tax exemption in India, especially since the 1940s. Informed by the study of vernacular capitalism, research on economization and on epistemologies of calculation, the analysis maps juridical trajectories on the idea of charity, its relationship with trade, and, more specifically, profit-making. It demonstrates how the legal mechanism of the public trust, which serves in the late nineteenth century to institutionalize a strict distinction and separation between charity and profit-making, later reconfigures and connects them by buttressing the main legal criterion for charity in India, that is, ‘general public utility’. This legal story is deployed to draw attention to philanthropy more broadly as a key terrain for research on processes of economization and neoliberal governing. At the same time, the argument also works against the grain of palimpsests in contemporary public discourse which stage a continuous and direct line from pre-colonial vernacular practices to Indian philanthropy today.

scholarly journals «That’s just my opinion»: The principle of expression and the public debate

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ida Andersen
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Public Rhetoric ◽  
The Public ◽  
Informal Setting ◽  
Do So

Public debate is commonly understood as deliberation; as the weighing of arguments for and against choices of future action. A principle of deliberation entails that interlocutors approach one another through argumentation in favour and against a given point of view. In this article, I outline a competing debate ideal, the principle of expression, and demonstrate its pervasiveness in contemporary public rhetoric. According to this communicative ideal, public debate is understood not as an exchange of opinion but rather a display of opinions. The beliefs and opinions voiced in the public debate should, moreover, be seen as purely expressive: They arise out of the individual’s inviolable interiority and individuality. As such, argumentation is neither required nor legitimate. In the article, I outline the principle of expression and discuss its implications for the democratic public debate. I do so, by drawing on a case study of public debate in social media, as well as recent utterances spoken by political leaders. In moving between the utterances of ordinary people engaged in public debate in the informal setting of social media and the utterances of political leaders in formal settings, I demonstrate the pervasiveness of the principle of expression in contemporary public rhetoric.

scholarly journals Toward an assessment of marginality in democratic systems: The Charlie Hebdo debate in the United Kingdom

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 497-517 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Felicetti ◽  
Pietro Castelli Gattinara
Keyword(s):  
Minority Groups ◽  
Analytical Data ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
The Public ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Maximin Principle ◽  
Democratic Systems ◽  
The Guardian ◽  
Do So ◽  
Charlie Hebdo

This article offers a theoretical and empirical investigation of marginality of actors and ideas in democratic systems. We do so with respect to the extensive public debate that ensued from the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attacks of January 2015. Using content analytical data retrieved from The Guardian, we assess the degree and nature of marginality as indicated by the presence of different types of intervention in the public debate. Our findings show that women have very limited visibility; religious and minority groups—particularly Muslims—are sidestepped; and actors challenging the dominant securitisation narrative are systematically neglected by those holding dominant positions. We argue for greater attention to the problem of marginality and introduce the Maximin principle of marginality as a means to address this issue in analyses of democratic systems.

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