scholarly journals Hardship in the headlines: global poverty and neocolonialism in western news media

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (29) ◽  
pp. 191-200
Author(s):  
Laura Fox
Keyword(s):  
Compassion Fatigue ◽  
News Media ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Global Poverty ◽  
Daily Experience ◽  
The Status ◽  
Underlying Causes ◽  
Issue Attention ◽  
Political Economic

Poverty is one of the most significant issues facing the world today. Although Western news media often report on the manifestations of poverty—famine, overcrowding, epidemics, or natural disasters—they rarely reflect the political, economic, and ideological structures that have directly caused and continue to exacerbate it on a global scale. This article argues that Western news media communicate global poverty, as a pressing issue, but ultimately fail to point out underlying causes or suggest any changes to the status quo. This fosters an understanding of poverty as a series of events, rather than the lived daily experience of many. This article, therefore, investigates the structures of neocolonial capitalism and neoliberal ideologies that gained momentum in the 20th century and continue to frame the content of news media today. Discussing the concepts of ‘compassion fatigue’ and Anthony Downs’ ‘issue-attention cycle’, this article is a normative analysis of news media, exploring new ways to educate citizens on the global political economy. Drawing on the work of Lauren Berlant and Robert McChesney, this article ultimately discusses new ways of communicating poverty, which will require an acknowledgement of neocolonialism and a rethinking of crisis as lived daily experience.

scholarly journals Narrating technonatures: discourses of biotechnology in a neoliberal era

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 186
Author(s):  
Myles Carroll
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
The Political ◽  
Effective Strategy ◽  
Economic Implications ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
The Status ◽  
Political Economic

This article considers the role played by discourses of nature in structuring the cultural politics of anti-GMO activism. It argues that such discourses have been successful rhetorical tools for activists because they mobilize widely resonant nature-culture dualisms that separate the natural and human worlds. However, these discourses hold dubious political implications. In valorizing the natural as a source of essential truth, natural purity discourses fail to challenge how naturalizations have been used to legitimize sexist, racist and colonial systems of injustice and oppression. Rather, they revitalize the discursive purchase of appeals to nature as a justification for the status quo, indirectly reinforcing existing power relations. Moreover, these discourses fail to challenge the critical though contingent reality of GMOs' location within the wider framework of neoliberal social relations. Fortunately, appeals to natural purity have not been the only effective strategy for opposing GMOs. Activist campaigns that directly target the political economic implications of GMOs within the context of neoliberalism have also had successes without resorting to appeals to the purity of nature. The successes of these campaigns suggest that while nature-culture dualisms remain politically effective normative groundings, concerns over equity, farmers' rights, and democracy retain potential as ideological terrains in the struggle for social justice.

Long-term Trends in China-Taiwan Relations: Implications for U.S. Taiwan Policy

Asian Survey ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 45 (6) ◽  
pp. 970-991 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phillip C. Saunders
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Security Environment ◽  
The Status ◽  
Long Term Trends ◽  
The One ◽  
The Taiwan Strait ◽  
Political Economic

Long-term political, economic, and military trends are reshaping the security environment in the Taiwan Strait in potentially destabilizing ways and undermining the ““one China”” framework. The United States has become more deeply involved in cross-strait relations to maintain stability and preserve the status quo, but this approach may not be sustainable.

scholarly journals Strategies for Establishing Astronomy in Developing Countries

1998 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 888-889
Author(s):  
Mazlan Othman
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Developing World ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Developing Nations ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Political Commitment ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Political Economic

Developing countries have their own particular political, economic and cultural circumstances. There are, therefore, no unique solutions. However there are some factors which are common to all or most of them, namely the lack of human and financial resources and in most cases an absence of a political commitment to the advancement of science. Such situations are in a sense not peculiar to developing nations because in some developed countries astronomy has a ‘developing’ status. Even in countries where astronomy is well established, the commitment and allocations required to maintain the status quo need to be continuously addressed. Hence strategies for fighting this “constant battle” are relevant to all astronomers of the world, while being especially vital to those in the developing world.

Towards a Just World

1979 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajni Kothari
Keyword(s):  
Model Building ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Human Intervention ◽  
Just World ◽  
The West ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
Existing Structures ◽  
The Status ◽  
Correct Understanding ◽  
Political Economic

If about 200 years ago history took a new turn (leading to the global domination - political, economic, cultural and ideological - of the West), it is now again ripe for a new turn (as the result of its unfolding). But the turn cannot be taken without human intervention any more than it was taken 200 years ago. Indeed, intervention is being actively made through various strategems by the beneficiaries, and therefore guardians, of the status quo. To counter this, the paper proposes the kind of intervention that will demolish the existing structures of in-built violence, inequity, domination and insensate exploitation both of vast sections of humanity and of nature, and pave the way for the emergence of a world that is humane and just, peaceful and secure, and one that ensures to all human entities no less than to individuals a livable life of dignity and freedom. A strategy for such intervention must needs be based on a correct understanding of the dialectic of the historical process to avoid the pitfall of utopian model-building, identify the forces wanting or needing and working for change, fuse them into a strong global coalition, and identify the points where interventions can be successfully made to bring about the desired change.

scholarly journals Romanian Prime Minister Gheorghe Tătărescu in the Capitals of the Little Entente: Belgrade (1936) and Prague (1937)

2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (4/2019) ◽  
pp. 5-23
Author(s):  
Marusia Cîrstea
Keyword(s):  
Prime Minister ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Great Powers ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
International Context ◽  
Bilateral Relations ◽  
The Press ◽  
Fourth Decade ◽  
The Status ◽  
Political Economic

The present article presents certain aspects of the relations between Romania, the Czech Republic and Yugoslavia in the interwar period. The fourth decade of the last century in particular was extremely rich in political, diplomatic and military events. Within this international context, Romanian Prime Minister Gheorghe Tătărescu (1934-1937) sought to establish bilateral contacts – with the great powers of Europe, but mainly with the members of the Little Entente – meant to both strengthen bilateral relations and clarify the states’ perspective on the events in progress. During his visits to Belgrade and Prague – as emerges from the press of the time – Gheorghe Tătărescu permanently advocated maintaining the status-quo and the political, economic and military cooperation between the states of the Little Entente.

Peace in an Age of Transformation

1983 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-200
Author(s):  
Rajni Kothari
Keyword(s):  
Status Quo ◽  
Just World ◽  
Human Species ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
Total Destruction ◽  
Actual Use ◽  
The Status ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Entire Network

This article seeks to cope with the fundamental problematique of our time which cuts across all the specific crises and challenges-Survival. It posits the thesis that human history is today poised on the threshold of yet another mutation, spanning the entire network of arrangement of human affairs-political, economic, social, cultural, ethnic, religious, ways of thinking and styles of living - right from the global to the grass-roots levels. It sees in the all-too-plain aborted promise of a bygone era for a continuously rising prosperity for all, in the quick succession of crises in both international and national affairs (each more severe and more intractable than the last), in the deep divisions and sharp polarizations (both between and within nations), in the ceaseless preparations for - and frequent eruptions of - war, and in the perpetually haunting fear of total destruction - symptoms of a sickness in the existing arrangements that can no longer be made to respond to analgesics and palliatives. On the other side, it sees in the pervasive discontent and unrest, in the endemic turbulences and turmoil, and in the slow but sustained initiatives for creating a just world - signals of a surge towards a fundamental transformation of the status quo, even though the signals are sporadic and episodic, and the surge inchoate and neither well conceived, well directed nor well coordinated. The greatest irony of the situation, the article notes, is that while the surge for transformation emanates from the peripheries, from societies believed to be traditional and doggedly resistant to change, and from people believed to have been suppressed into quiescence and passivity for good, the opposition to change (by various strategems, not excluding the threat of use, or actual use, of naked force) comes precisely from those who once prided themselves on their role as the powerful dynamo of change unprecedented in history. The article traces the developments leading to the present state of affairs in the historical perspective, and discusses the issue of peace and security in this context of emerging transformation. It sees peace neither as a function of the balance of terror and of mutual assured destruction put forward by nuclear strategists, nor as a consequence of proposals for disarmament put out by peace researchers, but as emerging out of struggles at creating structures that are, and are seen and felt to be, just and equitable, and that ensure the security of peoples and the survival of the human species, and of creation as a whole. It also attempts to provide a new pedagogy and methodology for such an approach to peace and survival.

A Structural-Institutional Explanation of the Eurozone Crisis

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Torben Iversen ◽  
David Soskice
Keyword(s):  
Growth Models ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Southern Europe ◽  
Eurozone Crisis ◽  
Macroeconomic Policies ◽  
Political Incentives ◽  
Public Sector Unions ◽  
The Status ◽  
Political Cost ◽  
Political Economic

This chapter presents an argument about the underlying reasons for the persistent economic troubles in the Eurozone based on the two different and divergent growth models in the Eurozone’s member states: the export-oriented, skill-intensive, coordinated model of the northern and continental welfare economies and the demand-driven model with strong public sector unions in southern Europe. The chapter then argues that the interactions between macroeconomic policies and national institutions render policies that are appropriate for southern Europe dysfunctional for northern Europe, and vice versa. Is goes on to discuss different reform scenarios for the Eurozone, emphasizing that all reforms come at a considerable political cost, as the same political-economic institutions that would have to be reformed have strong stakes in the status quo in both political economy models. As there are no political incentives for structural change in either model, crises will persist.

scholarly journals Four Scenarios of Malaysia-Indonesia Migration: From the Status Quo to the Wild Card Scenarios

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Suyatno Ladiqi ◽  
Reevany Bustami ◽  
Ellisha Nasruddin
Keyword(s):  
Status Quo ◽  
The Political ◽  
Future Scenarios ◽  
Critical Events ◽  
Irregular Migrants ◽  
Wild Card ◽  
The Status ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Blind Spots

In the context of ASEAN, the number of migrants from Indonesia and Malaysia is the largest. Combining the regular and the irregular migrants, the estimates range from 1.8 million to 3 million people. It is incontrovertible that movement of such magnitude has its impacts, probably both positive and negative. This article aims at providing an analysis based on future scenarios. The purpose is not to make predictions but rather to chart possible paths of critical events that would lead to different scenarios which have different implications to the political, economic and socio-cultural realities. Within this analysis, it is hoped that certain taken-for-granted blind-spots, due to conventional assumptions and mainstream paradigms, will be exposed and examined.

scholarly journals Caste conflict in Nigeria: The Osu/diala experience in Igboland, 1900-2017

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-85
Author(s):  
Nneka Sophie Amalu ◽  
Yusuf Abdullahi ◽  
Ekong Demson
Keyword(s):  
Status Quo ◽  
Caste System ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
The Status ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Religious Sects ◽  
Caste Conflict ◽  
Political Economic

The paper seeks to examine caste conflict in Nigeria with particular focus on the Osu/Diala experience. In Nigeria every day we experience conflicts ranging from ethnic to religious, sects to caste conflicts, while so much attention is paid to other types of conflict, little attention has been paid to the conflicts between caste group. This could be the reason for paucity of literature on caste conflicts in Nigeria. The frustration-aggression theory is used as framework of analysis with qualitative descriptive research design and a multi-disciplinary approach of historical study as methodology. The Igbo since time immemorial have been divided majorly along lines of caste with the Diala perceived to be the superior and the Osu the inferior. This division comes with some political, economic, social and cultural restrictions for the Osu caste in communities where the system is practiced. Consequently, these restrictions breed anger, hatred, anxiety, tension, frustration and aggression as the Osu continually demand equality while the Diala on the other hand want to maintain the status quo. Ultimately, conflict becomes inevitable with attendant negative consequences on the community and greater implications for the entire Igbo nationality. The paper proffers solution on how such conflict can be managed as well how the caste system can be eliminated in its entirety.

scholarly journals HYPER REALITAS SIMULAKRA TAGAR #2019GANTIPRESIDEN DALAM PEMILIHAN PRESIDEN INDONESIA 2019

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 249
Author(s):  
Dani Fadillah
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Mass Movement ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
The Political ◽  
Literary Sources ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Masses

This paper is aim to describe how a hashtag appearing in the dynamics of communication on social media is capable of creating a very massive mass movement in the real world. As well as troublesome rulers and authorities to set it up Because it considered a political charge that is in the hashtag could potentially provide a surge of turmoil that is great for the holder of the status quo of the political power of the homeland. By the election of the President of the Republic of Indonesia 2019 was presented with a viral hashtag on social media, the hashtags that were first administered twitted by prosperous Justice Party (Partai Keadilan Sejahtera) politician Mardani Ali Sera, raised the spirit of the masses The number is not minimal not to elect the general election which took place in April 2019. Even until the polls have done, the hashtag still has strong political magic to unite the opposition forces because the reunited was elected to become President of the Republic of Indonesia until 2022. This paper contains the results of qualitative research by making the idea of Jean Baudrillad about Simulacra, simulation, and artificial Phenomenon as his analysis knife. Here the author collects various literary sources in the different news media coverage of the hashtag #2019GantiPresiden then conduct a study of the messages that have a variety of information given to the hashtag Using the turbulent analytical knife of Jean Baudrillad above. Finally, the conclusion of this paper is necessary to fight massive efforts to resist the enormous surge of hashtags #2019GantiPresiden in the homeland in a variety of ways so that the focus is not more significant and to discuss the interests of Political authorities.

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