scholarly journals Between the real and the imaginary: the construction of the symbolic in the attack on New York.

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 26-39
Author(s):  
José Maurício Álvarez
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
September 11 ◽  
The Political ◽  
Unexpected Events ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
The North ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

This article examines the political participation of mythology and the imaginary and the role of the history of unexpected events. It demonstrates how the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on September 11, 2001, determined contextualization of the event and 'resymbolization.' Working with the concept of the state of cinema, this article explores the possibilities of constructing modern culture which, based on the action of images and the movies. We analyze the North American imperial discourse, and the fabrication of a picture of the world based on a cinematographic, symbolic, and media process was - in the duel against the bad guy, and the American hero.

The Role of Religious Force in the Wukan Incident

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 155-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hou Yuxin
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
The Political ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
Social Management ◽  
The Village

Abstract The Wukan Incident attracted extensive attention both in China and around the world, and has been interpreted from many different perspectives. In both the media and academia, the focus has very much been on the temporal level of the Incident. The political and legal dimensions, as well as the implications of the Incident in terms of human rights have all been pored over. However, what all of these discussions have overlooked is the role played by religious force during the Incident. The village of Wukan has a history of over four hundred years, and is deeply influenced by the religious beliefs of its people. Within both the system of religious beliefs and in everyday life in the village, the divine immortal Zhenxiu Xianweng and the religious rite of casting shengbei have a powerful influence. In times of peace, Xianweng and casting shengbei work to bestow good fortune, wealth and longevity on both the village itself, and the individuals who live there. During the Wukan Incident, they had a harmonizing influence, and helped to unify and protect the people. Looking at the specific roles played by religion throughout the Wukan Incident will not only enable us to develop a more meaningful understanding of the cultural nature and the complexity of the Incident itself, it will also enrich our understanding, on a divine level, of innovations in social management.

History, Politics, Law

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cross Section ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
International Institutions ◽  
The Political ◽  
Global Order ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Many

Historians of political thought and international lawyers have both expanded their interest in the formation of the present global order. History, Politics, Law is the first express encounter between the two disciplines, juxtaposing their perspectives on questions of method and substance. The essays throw light on their approaches to the role of politics and the political in the history of the world beyond the single polity. They discuss the contrast between practice and theory as well as the role of conceptual and contextual analyses in both fields. Specific themes raised for both disciplines include statehood, empires and the role of international institutions, as well as the roles of economics, innovation and gender. The result is a vibrant cross-section of contrasts and parallels between the methods and practices of the two disciplines, demonstrating the many ways in which both can learn from each other.

Staging Integration

2019 ◽  
pp. 32-71
Author(s):  
Rebekah J. Kowal
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Natural History ◽  
York City ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Educational Outreach ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

Between 1943 and 1952, the American Museum of Natural History sponsored a dance program called Around the World with Dance and Song. Chapter 1 focuses on the history of this program as evidence of the museum’s efforts to stage globalism. Drawing on extensive archival materials, the chapter documents the role of director Hazel Lockwood Muller to develop the program as part of the museum’s larger educational outreach activities. The chapter details how over the course of its history the program met growing cultural expectations that public institutions such as museums serve the public good. Serving in this capacity, the museum become a de facto concert dance venue, elevating the profile of international dance performance in New York City and for the nation and heightening a globalist consciousness among its audiences. Even so, the museum’s performances and the challenges the museum faced in sustaining them manifested the difficulties of putting globalism into practice. While the program was successful in elevating values of ethnic self-definition in embodied dance practices, it promoted an ideology of cultural integrationism that maintained dominant universalist assumptions about Western cultural superiority.

scholarly journals The First Major Grammars of English and Romanian: A Comparative Approach

Linguaculture ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-62
Author(s):  
Daniela Doboș
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
English Language ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
The Political ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
English Grammar ◽  
The North ◽  
History Of ◽  
North Western

If the history of the English language is the story of its written texts, the same holds true for the history of the Romanian language, and in both cases the first grammars played a major part in the shaping up of the respective vernaculars. The paper proposes a comparative approach to the beginnings of codified grammars in English and Romanian, with a focus on those that are deemed to be the first major works– Robert Lowth’s A Short Introduction to English Grammar (1762) and Samuil Micu and Gheorghe Şincai’s Elementa linguae daco-romanae sive valachicae (1780). This approach considers topics such as why grammars might have been desirable in the eighteenth century (the political factor), and the functions of ‘grammars’, which are relevant in both cases; what language was actually codified, as well as the role of Latin in this enterprise, since it is worth noting that while English and Romanian belong in different language families, Latin was a formative element in both, ever since the territories of the two respective countries marked the North-Western and South-Eastern borders of the Roman Empire.

The Wooster Group’s To You, The Birdie!

2019 ◽  
pp. 143-176
Author(s):  
Emma Cole
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Reception History ◽  
Modern World ◽  
The Political ◽  
Wooster Group ◽  
Theatre Company ◽  
History Of ◽  
Political Dimensions ◽  
Canonical Texts

New York-based theatre company The Wooster Group have a long history of using canonical texts as springboards for devised productions. Their 2002 To You, The Birdie! ostensibly used Racine’s neoclassical Phèdre as a source text; however, the artists also engaged with Euripides’ Hippolytus and included numerous elements from the Greek tragedy and its reception history in their production. Chapter 4 analyses To You, The Birdie! and reveals that within its highly ambiguous, disorienting performance aesthetic lay a complex engagement with the political. It argues that the production was infused with explicit political dimensions surrounding the company’s identity, the form of the production, and the socio-political context in which it was first read, alongside implicit political elements relating to the play’s exploration of gender, class, and its emphasis on the incomplete nature of the classics. Through comparative reference to Sarah Kane’s Phaedra’s Love, the chapter demonstrates how different reinventions of the same myth can substantiate alternate national traditions and, through their similarities and differences, shed further light on the role of tragedy in the modern world.

scholarly journals “CHORNA RADA” BY PANTELEIMON KULISH IN YURIY LAVRINENKO’S RADIO JOURNALISM “LITERARY WORLD”

2020 ◽  
pp. 70-81
Author(s):  
M. M. Kononchuk
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
The Political ◽  
Literary Critic ◽  
Interesting Phenomenon ◽  
Political Position ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Journalism ◽  
Radio Programs

The article deals with the forbidden in the Soviet times novel of the Ukrainian classical writer Panteleymon Kulish (1819–1897) “Chorna Rada” to which the series of radio broadcasts by renowned cultural scientist and literary critic Yuriy Lavrinenko (1905–1987) in the “Literary World” project on the radio “Svoboda” (Liberty) in New York in the 60th of the XX century was dedicated. The journalistic heritage of Yuri Lavrinenko is an interesting phenomenon in the history of journalism of the Ukrainian diaspora. In his radio programs, he spoke about many Ukrainian writers – the 19th and 20th centuries, such as Ivan Franko, Lesia Ukrayinka, Panas Myrny, Vasyl Stefanyk, Stepan Vasylchenko, Pavlo Tychyna, Mykola Vorony, Mykola Kulish, Mykola Khvyliovy, Andriy Malyshko, Dmytro Pavlychko, Vasyl Symonenko, Lina Kostenko, Vasyl Stus, Svitlana Yovenko, Valery Shevchuk and others. He spoke about the peculiarities of artistic texts and the political position of the authors. These programs were very valuable because they carried the truth into the world about Ukraine, Ukrainian culture and Ukrainians. Yuri Lavrinenko prepared many programs about Taras Shevchenko – a great citizen of Ukraine, famous poet and artist. After him, Yuri Lavrinenko devoted most of his radio programs about Panteleimon Kulish. These programs draw attention to the severity of the problems and the courage to be open and to solve them.

scholarly journals The phenomena of power and freedom in the political worldview of A. S. Pushkin

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 ◽  
pp. 04003
Author(s):  
Marina Shirokova
Keyword(s):  
Political Thought ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
The Political ◽  
Ideal Model ◽  
Moral Ideal ◽  
Literature And Philosophy ◽  
Political Views ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

The article discusses the place and role of A. S. Pushkin in the history of Russian culture and political thought. Such a feature of the Russian picture of the world as “literary-centrism”, which is the primacy of the word, confidence in the word. Like other Russian writers, Pushkin’s works present a moral ideal, but he does not try to teach something, does not construct an ideal model, but simply shows an ideal in the unity of form and content. Further, the article traces the main stages of the evolution of the great poet’s political views: the Lyceum-Petersburg period; the period of the southern exile; the period of exile in Mikhailovsky; and the period of creative maturity in the last decade of his life. The ideological evolution of Pushkin is a transition from liberalism and revolutionism to conservatism and monarchism, combined with the idea of personal freedom. The author concludes that the political worldview of Pushkin organically combined the phenomena of power and freedom. The poet managed to “remove” the dialectical contradiction between them, which later became one of the main problems of Russian literature and philosophy.

THE PHENOMENON OF ANTI-ART AND POSSIBLE TRENDS IN ITS DEVELOPMENT

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-44
Author(s):  
Angela Maloshenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Modern Art ◽  
World Market ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
World Community ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Real Picture

The article contains a discussion about the role of anti-art in modern culture, its paradoxical nature in connection with the rethinking of the concept of «art», as well as its significance in the world market today. Trends and prospects of its development and its role in the history of the world community. All conclusions and conclusions are made on the basis of observations and articles presented in this work, and are their logical generalization, which allows us to present a real picture of the development of modern art.

The problem of periodization of the history of religion

1997 ◽  
pp. 3-8
Author(s):  
Borys Lobovyk
Keyword(s):  
Religious Studies ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Religious Development ◽  
History Of Religion ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Role Of Religion

An important problem of religious studies, the history of religion as a branch of knowledge is the periodization process of the development of religious phenomenon. It is precisely here, as in focus, that the question of the essence and meaning of the religious development of the human being of the world, the origin of beliefs and cult, the reasons for the changes in them, the place and role of religion in the social and spiritual process, etc., are converging.

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