scholarly journals SKOLOMBO AND THEIR CONTINUED EXISTENCE: REVISITING LOST HUMANISM AND PARENTIFICATION IMPULSE

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 75-96
Author(s):  
CHINYERE L. OKAM
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
State Government ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Family Intervention ◽  
Street Child ◽  
Girl Child ◽  
Youth Delinquency ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government

This paper examines the Skolombo-street children of Calabar. It also investigates the reason for their continued existence, the derivatives in form of social and economic insecurity, inequality and other monstrosities visible in their presence. It questions the oblivious role of the institutions responsible for the care of the child, and parentification impulse as well as the lost humanism which existed in high premium in traditional African society resisted and reflected by text and language. The study is anchored upon Theo Van Leeuwen’s perspective on Critical Discourse Analysis which primarily studies the way social-power abuse and inequality are enacted, reproduced, legitimized, and resisted by text and talk in the social and political context. The study is a qualitative research conducted with the eclectic research methodologies such as biography, Participant Observation and Conversation. Among other findings, this study reveals that the Cross river state government has not provided enough fair ground to fully tackle the social and economic needs of the street child, that the desired comfort has not been provided for the girl child and that they have not been able to fully integrate the Skolombo into the echelon of the privileged. Conclusively, this has created spaces for youth delinquency, thievery, moral laxity and decadence. In the light of the findings, it is recommended that the government needs to put alternative and effective measures to play with the aim to curbing the menace of Skolombo and the street child culture. There ought to be an implementation of the child right boy and girl child. Stringent punishment should be meted on parents, religious leadact in the global space in order to reduce the molestation and marginalization of the ers and guardians who subject children to unnecessary molestation. Religious leaders and parents should be sensitized about the need to integrate their children within the family, intervention should be made compulsory.

scholarly journals WASH Financial and Social Investment Dynamics in a Conflict-Arid District of Jariban in Somalia

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 4836
Author(s):  
Wonder Mafuta ◽  
Jethro Zuwarimwe ◽  
Marizvikuru Mwale
Keyword(s):  
State Government ◽  
Random Number Generator ◽  
Limited Resource ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Sanitation Services ◽  
The Social ◽  
Access To Water ◽  
Infrastructure Investments ◽  
The Government

The paper investigated the social and financial resources’ interface in WASH programmes for vulnerable communities. Nineteen villages were randomly selected from the Jariban district in Somalia using the random number generator based on the village list. Data was collected in a sequential methodology that started with transect walks to observe and record the WASH infrastructure. Thirty-eight focus group discussions and desktop reviews triangulated transact walk recordings. The findings indicate minimum to zero investments towards WASH infrastructure in Jariban from the state government, with more dependency on the donor community. The study revealed that resources for the construction of latrines and water sources come from the following sources, NGOs (54.3%), diaspora community (34.5%) and community contributions (11.2%). The findings revealed a backlog in the WASH infrastructure, resulting in low access to water supply and sanitation services. The results demonstrate limited resource allocation by both the government and community, affecting the WASH infrastructure’s sustainability and further development. Due to the backlog in investments, particularly on improved latrines, it is concluded that their usage is low and a hindrance to having access to sanitation, hygiene and water as per the SDG goals, of leaving no one behind. While investment towards WASH in Jariban demonstrates multiple potential sources, there is a need to strengthen domestic resource mobilisation and explore governments’ role and capacity to secure WASH infrastructure investments. It is also recommended to explore how to tax the remittances to fund WASH infrastructure development and the private sector’s role in WASH infrastructure investment.

DEMOCRATIC CHALLENGES OF INDONESIA IN THE SOCIAL MEDIA ERA

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 349
Author(s):  
Nunik Nurhayati ◽  
Rohmad Suryadi
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Political Influence ◽  
Political Support ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Democratic Life ◽  
The Impact

The era of social media today bring significant change to democracy in Indonesia. Social media can to bring the expansion of the public space in cyberspace, citizens can directly deliver aspirations regarding the state policy. However, on the other side, social media vulnerable to abuse because of many the anonymous account, which acts as the buzzer political influence public perceptions and to get political support but is not elegant way. This shows, social media provides a challenge to democracy, including Indonesia as a third largest country that has access to the social media in the world's. Based on it’s the problems, this research aims to identify the impact of the social media on democratic life, and how the challenges of democracy in Indonesia ahead in the social media today.This Research using qualitative methods. Data collection through the study of literature. Then analyzed with a critical discourse analysis. The results of the study showed that the impact of social media in Indonesia has brought problems such as hoax, which is currently a serious concern of the government. Attempts were made through the campaign against hoax and make regulation, Information and Electronic Transactions Law (ITE Law), which aims to regulate the use of social media and to prevent hoaxes. The life of democracy in Indonesia receive significant challenges,but of the repressive laws against users of social media may actually weaken the democratic life in Indonesia.

scholarly journals A Critical Discourse Analysis Of The Ontario Government's Dissemination Of The FDK Program

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Willetts
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Social Citizenship ◽  
Social Investment ◽  
The Public ◽  
Full Day Kindergarten ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government ◽  
Full Day

This major research paper applies a critical discourse analysis (CDA) to examine the Ontario government’s rationalization of full day kindergarten to the public and the underlying discursive representation of social citizenship that the government sets forth. A content analysis of nineteen textual documents identified twelve rationales for FDK. A social investment discourse was identified as the dominant discourse underlying these rationales, while a social justice discourse and a combination of both discourses was also present. A CDA of three textual documents indicated that the Ontario government employed nominalization, modality and interdiscursivity to perpetuate the social investment discursive representation of FDK. The prevalence of social investment discourse in the Ontario government’s rationalization of FDK holds important implications for advancing just and caring early childhood policy for all children and families.

scholarly journals Covid-19 and the Social Construction of Reality in Jordan

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 718-740
Author(s):  
Mohammed Abdel Karim Al Hourani
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Social Construction Of Reality ◽  
Bonding Social Capital ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government ◽  
Powerful Explanation ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Coercive Intervention

Abstract Almost all nations are struggling to slow down the transmission of Covid-19 by restricting large gatherings and close social interactions. However, it is not expected that people will stop all social gatherings and interactions voluntarily. This situation requires the construction of a new social reality that compels people to abandon their traditional practices, particularly in countries such as Jordan that have a traditional social order and strong bonding social capital. Nevertheless, Jordan had the lowest rates of Covid-19 in the Middle East during the first four months of the pandemic, because its government used its power to impose restrictions and new regulations. However, the situation has become one of the worst cases in the entire world after the government eased its restrictions. The example of Jordan provides strong evidence that the social construction of reality sometimes requires coercive intervention. Thus, this article reconsiders and extends Berger and Luckmann’s theory of social construction by examining it in the realm of social power. The theory includes three significant processes of social construction: externalization, objectivation, and internalization that should consider the concept of social power to extend the range of its powerful explanation.

scholarly journals A Critical Discourse Analysis Of The Ontario Government's Dissemination Of The FDK Program

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Willetts
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Social Citizenship ◽  
Social Investment ◽  
The Public ◽  
Full Day Kindergarten ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government ◽  
Full Day

This major research paper applies a critical discourse analysis (CDA) to examine the Ontario government’s rationalization of full day kindergarten to the public and the underlying discursive representation of social citizenship that the government sets forth. A content analysis of nineteen textual documents identified twelve rationales for FDK. A social investment discourse was identified as the dominant discourse underlying these rationales, while a social justice discourse and a combination of both discourses was also present. A CDA of three textual documents indicated that the Ontario government employed nominalization, modality and interdiscursivity to perpetuate the social investment discursive representation of FDK. The prevalence of social investment discourse in the Ontario government’s rationalization of FDK holds important implications for advancing just and caring early childhood policy for all children and families.

scholarly journals An Analysis of the Media’s Role in the 2008 Economic Recession

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sadia Kamran
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Public Perception ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Economic Recession ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Mortgage Market ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social

The purpose of this Major Research Paper (MRP) is to explore the 2008 economic recession and the unprecedented collapse of the American economy triggered by the mortgage market that affected individuals and corporations. One of the objectives of this work is to identify the key actors who prompted the economic crisis and how they influenced the public perception of investing in the housing that led to bankruptcy for millions. Another objective is to identify the media’s role in the recession and some of the key lessons learned in how they could have mitigated the crisis. This MRP will undertake a critical discourse analysis built on the seminal work of theorists (e.g., Van Dijk (1977), and Fairclough (1985) to analyze media communications during the recession. Critical discourse analysis would be used as a theory given it examines the interaction between the abuse of social power, dominance and inequality perpetuated by institutions through text and conversation in the social and political context (Wodok and Myers, 2001).

scholarly journals Fighting Islamic Radicalism Through Religious Moderatism in Indonesia: An Analysis of Religious Movement

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kunawi Basyir
Keyword(s):  
Participant Observation ◽  
Religious Movement ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
Islamic Movements ◽  
Indonesian Government ◽  
Observation Methods ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
The Government

A few years after the reformation era, Indonesia was faced with complex problems, especially the social and religious life that was less conducive. It’s at least marked by a lot of social conflicts arising as a result of turmoil and political interest. The turmoil and political interests are in the form of religious ideological movements opposing the attitude of radicalism. Such a condition or situation certainly adds up to the number of conflicts, and the escalation of conflict is prolonged. As a result, the religious movements don’t suit with Pancasila and the 1945 Constitution, or undermine the Indonesian government must be banned.  Observing this phenomenon, the author tries to examine the Radical Islamic movements in Indonesia. In this study, the author used participant observation methods to obtain data and clear factual images in line with the phenomenon being studied. So, the author can provide appropriate and beneficial solutions for the Indonesian government in coping with the radical Islamic movements. The results of this study indicated that to minimize the presence of radical Islamic movements, the government must return these radical Islamic movements back to the local culture being packaged in the concept of religious moderation, referring to the concept of Wassatiyah Islam, or more popularly known as Islam Nusantara.

scholarly journals CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS ON KOMPAS.COM NEWS: 'GERAKAN #2019GANTIPRESIDEN'

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
Hendri Pitrio Putra ◽  
Sulis Triyono
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Positive Image ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government

This article is a result of critical discourse analysis (CDA) to the news entitled Gerakan #2019GantiPresiden di Antara Ambiguitas Hukum dan Syahwat Politik at Kompas.com. The approach employed in this research is the three-dimensional CDA developed by Norman Fairclough. The purposes of this research are to describe the micro, mezzo, and macro as well as the social, political and cultural situation from the linguistic aspects in Gerakan #2019GantiPresiden di Antara Ambiguitas Hukum dan Syahwat Politik text. The results show that there are linguistic aspects in the form of diction in the direct sentences that are used by Kompas.com with the theme #2019GantiPresiden. This movement is considered as a constitutional movement indicated as a rebellion because it is supported by political interests towards their current government rival. This is closely related to the background of Kompas.com as a pro-government online mass media. It is also acceptable if Kompas.com creates a positive image of the current government. The main point of information that is conveyed in the news of #2019GantiPresiden is that this movement possibly threats the government of Jokowi Widodo who will run again for the presidential election in 2019.

scholarly journals ANALISIS WACANA KRITIS TERHADAP BERITA SENANDUNG PILU ‘KARTINI KENDENG’ MENOLAK PABRIK SEMEN DALAM MEDIA ONLINE KOMPAS

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eka Susylowati
Keyword(s):  
Social Cognition ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Cement Plant ◽  
Cement Factory ◽  
The Social ◽  
Pros And Cons ◽  
The Government

Abstract          There have been pros and cons to the establishment of a cement plant in the Kendeng Mountains, Rembang which will be built by PT. Semen Indonesia. News about the establishment of the cement factory was busy talking in the mass media, especially in cyberspace. The purpose of this study was to describe the structure of the text in the news humming Pilu Kartini Kendeng rejecting the cement factory, describing social cognition, and the social context in the news humming Pilu Kartini Kendeng rejecting the cement factory. The source of the data in this study is the text contained in Kompas online media on April 14, 2016. Data collection techniques were carried out with literature studies, techniques refer to and note. Data was analyzed based on AWK with the Teun A. Van Dijk model. From the results of the study it can be shown that the structure of the text in the Pilgrimage "Kartini Kendeng" Refusing the Cement Plant in Kompas online media portrays the government as a ruler in a positive and negative manner to the farmers as a critic of the establishment of a cement plant in the Kendeng Mountains. The social cognition depicted in the news regarding the refusal of the cement factory can be seen from the types of cultural knowledge and group knowledge. While the analysis of the social context of the government still has power and access and there are pros and cons from the community that support the government's decision to establish a cement plant in the Kendeng Mountains. Keywords: critical discourse analysis. news, online media AbstrakTerjadi pro dan kontra terhadap pendirian pabrik semen di Pegunungan Kendeng, Rembang yang akan dibangun oleh PT. Semen Indonesia. Berita mengenai pendirian pabrik semen tersebut ramai dibicarakan di media massa, terutama di dunia maya.  Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mendeskripsikan mengenai struktur teks dalam berita senandung pilu kartini kendeng menolak pabrik semen, mendeskripsikan kognisi sosial, dan konteks sosial dalam berita senandung pilu kartini kendeng menolak pabrik semen. Sumber data dalam penelitian ini adalah teks yang terdapat dalam media online kompas pada tanggal 14 April 2016. Teknik pengumpulan data dilakukan dengan studi pustaka, teknik simak dan catat. Data dianalisis berdasarkan AWK dengan model Teun A. Van Dijk. Dari hasil penelitian dapat ditunjukkan bahwa struktur teks dalam Senandung Pilu “Kartini Kendeng” Menolak Pabrik Semen dalam media online kompas menggambarkan  pemerintah sebagai penguasa secara positif dan menggambarkan secara negatif kepada para petani sebagai pihak yang mengkritik terhadap pendirian pabrik semen di Pegunungan Kendeng. Kognisi sosial yang digambarkan dalam berita mengenai penolakan pabrik semen dapat diketahui dari jenis pengetahuan kebudayaan dan pengetahuan kelompok. Sedangkan analisis konteks sosial pemerintah masih memiliki kekuasaan dan akses serta terdapat pro dan kontra dari masyarakat yang mendukung keputusan pemerintah untuk mendirikan pabrik semen di Pegunungan Kendeng.

scholarly journals Resistensi Masyarakat Terhadap Dominasi Kekuasaan Dalam Novel Tanah Tabu Karya Aninditya S. Thyaf

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 127-133
Author(s):  
Lulu Farhatul Ummah Madroin ◽  
Kastam Syamsi
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Analysis Model ◽  
The Social ◽  
Linguistic Aspect ◽  
Discourse Practice

Social problems within the social reality have become problems that cannot be fully resolved, especially when they are concerned with the domination of power. This research seeks to describe various kinds of resistance of the Papuans against the domination of power which includes domination of patriarchal social power, domination of economic power, and domination of political power in a novel entitled Tanah Tabu by Anindita S. Thyaf. This research implemented a descriptive qualitative method with Norman Fairclough's critical discourse analysis model, including three dimensions of the text, discourse practice, and socio-cultural practice. The research results revealed that: (1) from the perspective of text dimension, the linguistic aspect showed resistance by the local community through the vocabulary used by the author, (2) from the perspective of discourse practice, it voiced injustice and violence due to domination of power, (3) from the perspective of socio-cultural practice, the socio-cultural context influenced the emergence of the text.

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