Krokodil’s Hollow Center: The Performance of Affirmation

2019 ◽  
pp. 161-190
Author(s):  
John Etty
Keyword(s):  
Political Leaders ◽  
Apparent Absence ◽  
Visual Discourse ◽  
Space Race ◽  
Graphic Construction ◽  
Soviet Ideology ◽  
Absent Presence ◽  
Positive Character ◽  
Ordinary Citizens ◽  
Character Types

This chapter investigates the reasons for, and implications of, the apparent absence in Krokodil's affirmative cartoons of positive character types, including Soviet political leaders. Without overstating their significance, it traces their "absent presence" by considering how, even when Soviet leaders were physically absent, their presence was still implied. Consequently, since images of those at the centre were so rare, we may describe Krokodil's affirmation of Soviet ideology visual discourse, de-centered. A performative reading of Krokodil's cartoons about ordinary citizens enables us to interpret the journal's own performance of its own acts of engagement with all the dominant popular-official themes of the Thaw era, notably the Space Race. By analyzing the graphic construction of cartoons affirming Soviet ideology from the post-Stalin period, we may understand more fully the magazine's performances of memory and critiquing present and past achievements.

Detroit Futures: Can the City Be Reimagined?

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 106-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Eisinger
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Technology Leadership ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
International Model ◽  
The Future ◽  
Metropolitan Center ◽  
The City ◽  
Poor Population ◽  
Ordinary Citizens

Many Detroit business and political leaders, as well as many ordinary citizens, believe that the city can be restored to vitality. At least four visions of the future city animate their efforts: the city as a great international model for green planning and technology leadership, the city as an entertainment destination, the city as a metropolitan center, and the city as a pioneer destination on the urban frontier. As these visions have simultaneously played out, they have perhaps improved daily life in Detroit in the last decade, but each is finally a partial and inadequate vision. None speaks directly to the interests of the bulk of the city's working class and poor population. Some of the visions lack sufficient scale relative to the city's problems, and some cannot be realized for lack of resources. All of these visions finally represent failures of city–building.

Social cohesion without electoral democracy: The case of China

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (5) ◽  
pp. 553-562
Author(s):  
Wang Pei ◽  
Daniel A. Bell
Keyword(s):  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
National Elections ◽  
Electoral Democracy ◽  
The Government ◽  
Democratic Elections ◽  
Ordinary Citizens

Democratic elections, whatever the flaws, tend to produce a sense of social cohesion as ordinary citizens, treated as equals, gather together to select their country’s political leaders. In China, leaders are not selected by means of democratic elections. How can China secure social cohesion without national elections? We will discuss some responses from the government and from scholars and ‘ordinary people’.

Discussing Sinophobia in Kyrgyzstan

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-82
Author(s):  
Aizat Shailoobek Kyzy
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Immigrants ◽  
Local People ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Chinese Migrants ◽  
Lay People ◽  
Positive Experiences ◽  
Ordinary Citizens

Abstract This paper investigates how Chinese migrants are perceived by different groups in Kyrgyzstan—and in what domains local people turn to Sinophobia. To date, Kyrgyzstani political leaders have tended to be Sinophilic, whereas bazaar traders and ordinary citizens, fearing large inflows of Chinese migrants, are Sinophobic. The article paints a picture of Chinese migrants’ lives in Bishkek and their negative and positive experiences with local people. It concludes by demonstrating that lay people and radical nationalist groups alike deploy Sinophobic rhetoric in relation to China and Chinese immigrants living in Kyrgyzstan.

Aristotle

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
John M. Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Full Measure ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Private Citizens ◽  
Ordinary Citizens ◽  
The Way

This chapter discusses the Aristotelian way of life. For Aristotle, philosophy is not a way of life, as it was for Socrates. It is two distinct ones. Aristotle's contemplatives are, of course, complete philosophers. They lead lives of practical virtue in just the way other private citizens who possess those virtues in full measure do. The contemplative is both a philosopher of human affairs and a theoretical philosopher. Contemplatives live their philosophy in a double way. Still, the life they lead is correctly called a contemplative one, not one of practical virtue. It is one of the two ways that for Aristotle philosophy is a way of life. But for those “philosophers of human affairs”—virtuous political leaders, fully virtuous ordinary citizens—who are not also accomplished theoretical philosophers, philosophy is nonetheless just as much their way of life. The thinking and analysis and systematic argument, and systematically organized understanding, that belong to philosophy as a whole, both practical and theoretical, as its defining and distinctive characteristic, are engaged and expressed in all the thoughts that give rise to and direct all the choices, actions, and activities constituting the whole of their lives.

Parliamentary report. End of British space-race ace faced

IEE Review ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 34 (10) ◽  
pp. 390
Author(s):  
Phillip Oppenheim
Keyword(s):  
Space Race

John Robertson Henderson (1863–1925): Scotland, India and anomuran taxonomy

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-75
Author(s):  
P. G. Moore
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Christian College ◽  
Apparent Absence ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
Marine Station ◽  
The University ◽  
Crustacean Taxonomy

John Robertson Henderson was born in Scotland and educated at the University of Edinburgh, where he qualified as a doctor. His interest in marine natural history was fostered at the Scottish Marine Station for Scientific Research at Granton (near Edinburgh) where his focus on anomuran crustaceans emerged, to the extent that he was eventually invited to compile the anomuran volume of the Challenger expedition reports. He left Scotland for India in autumn 1885 to take up the Chair of Zoology at Madras Christian College, shortly after its establishment. He continued working on crustacean taxonomy, producing substantial contributions to the field; returning to Scotland in retirement in 1919. The apparent absence of communication with Alfred William Alcock, a surgeon-naturalist with overlapping interests in India, is highlighted but not resolved.

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