Chapter 6. Language and power in an Italian crownland of the Habsburg Empire: The ideological dimension of diglossia in Lombardy

This article critically examines South Korea and China’s COVID-19 tracking apps by bridging surveillance studies with feminist technoscience’s understanding of the “politics of care”. Conducting critical readings of the apps and textual analysis of discursive materials, we demonstrate how the ideological, relational, and material practices of the apps strategically deployed “care” to normalize a particular form of pandemic technogovernance in these two countries. In the ideological dimension, media and state discourse utilized a combination of vilifying and nationalist rhetoric that framed one’s acquiescence to surveillance as a demonstration of national belonging. Meanwhile, the apps also performed ambivalent roles in facilitating essential care services and mobilizing self-tracking activities, which contributed to the manufacturing of pseudonormality in these societies. In the end, we argue that the Chinese and South Korean governments managed to frame their aggressive surveillance infrastructure during COVID-19 as a form of paternalistic care by finessing the blurred boundaries between care and control.

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Whose Landscape Is It? Remapping Memory and History in Interwar Central Europe

Austrian History Yearbook ◽

10.1017/s0067237821000102 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-26

Author(s):

Nóra Veszprémi

Keyword(s):

Visual Culture ◽

Interwar Period ◽

Historical Memory ◽

Political Agenda ◽

Mental Maps ◽

Habsburg Empire ◽

Cultural Traditions ◽

Place Memory ◽

Insight Into

Abstract After the collapse of the Habsburg Empire and the sanctioning of new national borders in 1920, the successor states faced the controversial task of reconceptualizing the idea of national territory. Images of historically significant landscapes played a crucial role in this process. Employing the concept of mental maps, this article explores how such images shaped the connections between place, memory, and landscape in Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Hungarian revisionist publications demonstrate how Hungarian nationalists visualized the organic integrity of “Greater Hungary,” while also implicitly adapting historical memory to the new geopolitical situation. As a counterpoint, images of the Váh region produced in interwar Czechoslovakia reveal how an opposing political agenda gave rise to a different imagery, while drawing on shared cultural traditions from the imperial past. Finally, the case study of Dévény/Devín/Theben shows how the idea of being positioned “between East and West” lived on in overlapping but politically opposed mental maps in the interwar period. By examining the cracks and continuities in the picturesque landscape tradition after 1918, the article offers new insight into the similarities and differences of nation-building processes from the perspective of visual culture.

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The Break-up of the Habsburg Empire, 1914–1918: A Study in National and Social Revolution. By Z. A. B. Zeman. (New York: Oxford University Press. 1961. Pp. xvi, 274. $4.80.)

The American Historical Review ◽

10.1086/ahr/67.4.1033 ◽

1962 ◽

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Social Revolution ◽

Habsburg Empire ◽

Oxford University ◽

Break Up ◽

Oxford University Press

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The Ideological Dimensionality in the Middle Eastern and North African Constitutions: A New Era in the Evolution of Islamic Constitutionalism

Political Studies Review ◽

10.1177/1478929920912943 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 147892992091294

Author(s):

Berna Öney

Keyword(s):

Middle Eastern ◽

Political Regime ◽

North African ◽

New Era ◽

Regime Changes ◽

Political Debates ◽

Before And After ◽

Popular Movements ◽

Ideological Dimension

The popular movements in 2011 led to many regime changes that resulted in amended or new constitutions in the Middle East and North Africa region. The constitutional debates concentrated mainly on the functions of the constitutions in authoritarian regimes, constitution-making processes, and the role of Islam during and after the uprisings. However, no research has analyzed the ideological dimensionality of the Middle Eastern and North African constitutions. By analyzing 19 newly enacted, drafted, and amended constitutions before and after the popular movements in the region, this article shows that the single ideological dimension in the constitutions can be defined by the openness of a state for liberal and modern values. This ideological dimension encompasses all the regional political debates on the political regime dynamics, the inclusion of rights and liberties, and the role of Islam. Besides offering an alternative typology for the constitutions in the region, this article also provides evidence for the beginning of the fourth phase of Islamic constitutionalism that merges the ideas of rule of law, which originates from democratic notions, and Islamic norms.

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Prophecy and Politics in Istanbul: Charles V, Sultan Suleyman, and the Habsburg Embassy of 1533-1534

Journal of Early Modern History ◽

10.1163/157006598x00072 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 1-31 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Robert Finlay

Keyword(s):

Sixteenth Century ◽

Ottoman Empire ◽

Reciprocal Relationship ◽

Habsburg Empire ◽

Political Actors ◽

Charles V

AbstractThree prophecies current in Istanbul in the summer of 1533 pointed toward the imminent destruction of the Ottoman empire by Christian powers. One of the predictions stated that Alvise Gritti, the bastard son of the doge of Venice, would bring about the ruin of the Ottomans. A confidant of Sultan Srlcyman and the grand vizier, Gritti was deeply involved in the war of the Ottomans against Charles V of the Spanish-Habsburg empire, as a commander of Ottoman troops, advisor on Western affairs, and governor-general of the Hungarian kingdom. Widely detested by Ottoman officials, however, Gritti felt that his power was waning in 1534. In response, he perhaps was inspired to play out his prophetic role, for he told an ambassador of Charles V that he would help the emperor's forces capture Istanbul while Sultan Süleyman was away at war. Millenarian speculation was widespread in the early sixteenth century, but sometimes it had direct consequences inasmuch as it came to figure in the calculations of political actors. Examination of the prophecies of 1533 within the context of the time nicely illustrates how prophecy and politics could have a reciprocal relationship, with the former being tailored to the occasion and the latter responding to apocalyptic foreboding.

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