scholarly journals Travelling Europe, Travelling through Crisis: Disintegrated Journeys in Dorota Masłowska’s A Couple of Poor, Polish-Speaking Romanians and Zinnie Harris’s How To Hold Your Breath

Porównania ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 119-135
Author(s):  
Michal Lachman
Keyword(s):  
Drug Abuse ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
The State ◽  
European Continent ◽  
Common Cause ◽  
Private Space ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Common

The article reflects on the issues of European social, political and ethical disintegration by looking at two plays which represent both geographic and mental migration of European citizens. Zinnie Harris’s play dramatizes a journey by an energetic businesswoman from the state of seeming success to the condition of collapse of the entire continent. Masłowska’s drama tells the story of a couple who have lost their geographic but also existential bearings after a prolonged bout of drug abuse and partying. The article aims at presenting the European continent as a space of alienated social and personal experience, as a community of people in permanent exile from both the private space and the public ideologies. The two plays offer a reflection on the condition of pre-Brexit Europe with the power of capturing representative lives of those individuals who have lost the sense of the common cause.

Plurality: the idea and reality of choice

2018 ◽  
pp. 47-68
Author(s):  
Helen M. Gunter
Keyword(s):  
Education Policy ◽  
The State ◽  
Parental Choice ◽  
Demand Side ◽  
Public System ◽  
The Public ◽  
Good School ◽  
The Common

This chapter considers the continued dominance of the private over the common purposes of education. It focuses on access to a school and examines what this means for plurality. Notably, through the deployment of the Education Policy Knowledgeable Polity, it gives prime attention to the demand side and how deregulation by the state means that parents have been offered ‘choice’ in the public system through schemes such as vouchers. The practices involved in offering and responding to the exercise of a preference for a ‘good’ school place is enabled through a form of depoliticisation by colonisation of globally networked market ideologies. Instinctively it seems that vouchers are enabling of plurality, but the chapter show how parental choice mechanisms are primarily rhetorical, by facilitating and strengthening segregation as a form of biopolitical distinctiveness.

Incipient “commoning” in defense of the public?

Focaal ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (79) ◽  
pp. 54-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Morgen ◽  
Jennifer Erickson
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Public Services ◽  
The State ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Ballot Initiative ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Sector Unions ◽  
The Commons ◽  
The Common

This article examines the development of competing forms of fiscal citizenship in Oregon tax-related ballot initiative campaigns between 1970 and 2010. Antitax advocates constructed a “taxpayer identity politics” that positioned a privatized “taxpayer” against representatives of the state, recipients of public services, and public sector unions. In response, a progressive coalition produced an alternative citizen—the “Oregonian,” a socially responsible taxpayer/citizen who supports and defends public services and values a “common good.” “Incipient commoning” emerges as support for “the common good” through discourse about community and belonging that is more and other than, though in relation to, the state. Attention to how “publics” conceive of themselves suggests that concepts like the “the commons” already circulate in the imaginaries and vocabularies of advocates resisting neoliberal policies.

scholarly journals Utopia as Topos of Boundaries Erosion between Private & Public Sphere

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yulia Malykhina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Public Life ◽  
The State ◽  
Private Sphere ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Individual

The article covers ideas of public life in ancient Greek philosophy having given rise to discussion on the necessity of separation and rapprochement of public and private spheres. This study rests upon the analysis of ‘publicness’ and ‘privacy’ in the philosophical conceptions of such authors as J. Habermas who deems ‘publicness’ as communication, and H. Arendt who refers to ‘publicness’ as the polis-based worldview. Plato’s dialogue ‘The State’, which can be deemed as the first-ever example of a utopian text, provides us with the most detailed and consistent instance of criticism of the private sphere, the necessity to merge it into public life to create society. Only in this way could society become a model of an ideal polis leading to the common good. The utopism of Plato’s pattern determines characteristics of the entire utopian genre arising from the idea of the individual merging with the state, and the private sphere merging into the public sphere. Plato’s ideal polis is contrasted with the concepts of the state formed by Modern Age liberal thought, which have largely determined modern views on the division of these spheres, leading to a revision of the utopian projects and a change in the relationship between the private and the public therein. A comparison of various utopian texts results in finding out that the utopian idea of the refusal of the private sphere of life in favour of serving the common good contradicts the modern ideal of freedom, which is the reason for its criticism and for the increasing number of texts with an anti-utopian character.

Irrenhülfsvereine, ihre Leistungen und Entwicklung [Associations for the Help of the Insane]. Von Dr. Brosius, in Sayn

1901 ◽  
Vol 47 (198) ◽  
pp. 582-583
Author(s):  
William W. Ireland
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Common Object ◽  
The Public ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
The Common ◽  
Work Done

In these sheets, reprinted from the Irrenfreund, Nos. 11, 12, 1898, Dr. Brosius gives us some account of the associations for the assistance of the insane which have been formed in German-speaking lands. The first of these was founded in Nassau, but was given up on the death of Lindpaintner in 1829. There is one in Vienna which has now lasted half a century, and one in Styria founded thirty-two years ago. There are now nine in the different cantons of Switzerland, some of which are well supported. Dr. Brosius mentions as many in Germany. The Westphalian Association of St. John founded in 1881 the institution for idiots at Marsberg, which now gives shelter to 329 inmates. The common object of these associations is to help dismissed lunatics, and to give succour to the families of those who have lost their breadwinners through their being sent to asylums. Some of them also give assistance to epileptics who are not insane. Dr. Brosius mentions that Dr. Jules Morel, the physician of the State asylum at Mons, has exerted himself to found a similar society in Belgium, and Dr. Bourneville has done the same in France. Dr. Brosius observes that, besides the charitable work done by these praiseworthy associations, they have formed a useful intermediary between the asylums and the public, and have helped to dispel the distrust with which asylums are regarded by the ignorant.

California Proposition 63: Language Attitudes Reflected in the Public Debate

1990 ◽  
Vol 508 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
SUSANNAH D.A. MacKAYE
Keyword(s):  
Language Ideology ◽  
Language Attitudes ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Common Language ◽  
Official Language ◽  
Letters To The Editor ◽  
The Public ◽  
State Constitution ◽  
The Common

In the November 1988 elections, three states—Colorado, Arizona, and Florida—passed measures making English the official language of those states. These victories were foreshadowed by the passage, in 1986, of Position 63 in California. Proposition 63 amended the state constitution to declare English the official language of California and charged the legislature and state officials with the preservation and enhancement of English as the common language of the state. The appearance of Proposition 63 on the political horizon brought language into public parlance, allowing us the opportunity to explore American language ideology. Preelection editorials and letters to the editor in California newspapers speculating on the need for and effects of Proposition 63 reveal the language attitudes of the writers. Certain themes that regularly appeared on both sides of the issue may be taken as elements of current American ideology.

Intimacy, Privacy and Publicity

2003 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernesto Garzón Valdés
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
The State ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Private Sphere ◽  
Conceptual Level ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Careful Distinction

AbstractThe article analyses the distinction between the private and the public sphere from a conceptual and from a normative point of view. On the conceptual level, it is argued that the common dichotomous view is incomplete, giving rise to conceptual confusions which can be overcome by a careful distinction between the intimate and the private sphere. While the boundary between the private and the public is a conventional matter, the sphere of intimacy, including thoughts as well as a certain type of actions, is empirically delimited. On the normative level, a number of arguments for or against the extension or restriction of the private sphere as well as for or against the intervention of the state in its citizens’ spheres of intimacy is discussed from a liberal point of view.

scholarly journals An Analysis of Principle of Erga Omnes Partes with Special Reference to the Case of Belgium v. Senegal, 2012

2018 ◽  
pp. 193-198
Author(s):  
Prajwol Bickram Rana
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
The State ◽  
Common Interest ◽  
International Court Of Justice ◽  
Public International Law ◽  
The Public ◽  
International Court ◽  
Convention Against Torture ◽  
The Common ◽  
Legal Consequences

In the Questions relating to the Obligation to Prosecute or Extradite (Belgium v. Senegal case), the International Court of Justice for the very fi rst time declared the country's standing before the court on the basis of erga omnes partes as admissible. The court found that Belgium had the standing to claim the responsibility of Senegal for the alleged breach under the Convention against Torture on the basis of being a party of the same convention. The court described erga omnes partes as the obligation that the state party has to all the other state parties of the convention, the court further stated that it arises due to the common interest of the state parties of a convention. Many sitting judges of the court rejected the reasoning of the majority decision and some gave a dissenting opinion. The present paper assesses the concept of erga omnes partes in the public international law and the legal consequences of erga omnes partes in the future development of public international law. The scope of the present paper is limited within the issue of admissibility of the case with the specifi c focus on the concept of erga omnes partes and does not deal with the merits or other issues raised before the court.

A Duty to Kill: John of Salisbury's Theory of Tyrannicide

1988 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 365-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cary J. Nederman
Keyword(s):  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Public Welfare ◽  
Philosophical Foundation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Benefit ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Many

This article examines the doctrine of tyrannicide in John of Salisbury's mid-twelfth century political treatise, the Policraticus, in light of recent scholarly skepticism that John never meant to advocate a theoretical defense of slaying the tyrant. It is argued that John's conception of tyrannicide in fact possesses a philosophical foundation derived from his idea of the state as a political organism in which all the members cooperate actively in the realization of the common utility and justice. When the ruler of this body politic behaves tyrannically, failing to perform his characteristic responsibilities, the other limbs and organs are bound by their duty to the public welfare and God to correct and, ultimately, to slay the tyrant. John illustrates this position by reference to the many historical and scriptural instances of tyrants who have legitimately been killed. Thus, John not only proposes a theory of tyrannicide, but also roots it in a strong positive obligation to raise the sword against tyrannical rulers in the name of public benefit and justice.

Проблема конфликта в прагматической социологии

2014 ◽  
pp. 32
Author(s):  
Е. И. Наумова
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Private Space ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Common ◽  
Pragmatic Sociology ◽  
Definition Of

The article is about the analysis of the problem of conflict in the context of pragmatic sociology. Pragmatic sociology based on the observation and description of the conflicts and the ways of justification used by conflicting parties. Oppose to classic sociology of class of P. Bourdieu pragmatic sociology dealing with the situation of conflict which reveal the real practices of classification. The tradition of pragmatic sociology proposes new definition of classification as a conflict emerges as a result of the collision of justification of the vision of social reality each of the parties. The conception of sociology of «cite» of Thevenot and Boltanski is exposed as a model of conflict’s solution and achievement of agreement in the public space. The methodology of «regimes of engagement» of Thevenot elaborates the ways of the overcoming the conflict in the private space through the establishment of the relations between things and people. The «regimes of engagement» form the materialistic conception of conflict when through the building the space of the common things it becomes possible to overcome the conflict and build res public of things and people as the infrastructure of freedom.

scholarly journals Legal remedies for land rights affected by acquisition to the construction of permanent housing fulfilling the need for post-earthquake shelter in Palu

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. e59810616552
Author(s):  
. Suwardi ◽  
Auriga Pradipta
Keyword(s):  
Land Rights ◽  
The State ◽  
Common Interest ◽  
Land Acquisition ◽  
The Public ◽  
Permanent Housing ◽  
Legal Remedies ◽  
The People ◽  
The Common ◽  
Housing Needs

Basically, the state has the authority to regulate the use of land rights in the territory of Indonesia. However, the problem that often occurs is the disagreement between the Land Acquisition Committee and the holders of land rights in determining the amount of compensation, resulting in problems such as what happened in Palu after the earthquake which flattened housing buildings and required a plot of land for housing construction. Therefore, the aim of this research is to explore legal efforts for land rights that are affected by the acquisition for the construction of permanent housing to meet housing needs after the earthquake in Palu. The research method that used is legal research, while the approach that used in this research is statute approach. The results of data analysis shows the legal action of land rights holders that are affected by land acquisition for the construction of permanent housing by means of certificate cancellation, the cancellation of the certificate is based on law. Land acquisition for the public interest, including the interests of the nation and the State as well as the common interest of the people, can revoke land rights by giving compensation.

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