scholarly journals Unequal discursivities and the symbolic capital of Malaysian Indian scholarship

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (267-268) ◽  
pp. 241-251
Author(s):  
Shanthini Pillai
Keyword(s):  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
Indian Community ◽  
Indian Identity ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Point Of Reference

Abstract This paper engages with the aspects of discursive hegemony in terms of both Metropolitan and disciplinary position and privilege, using the sociology of the language that has been produced on Malaysian Indian identity as my point of reference. It contends that these observations and articulations are able to rise to the surface more easily when they are securely located within disciplinary domains often related to determinacy. I argue that viewed as a whole, it becomes apparent that these discourses are coloured by the subjective desire of the accumulation of knowledge on the subject matters of their writings. As such, they are as much stories that are told of the Malaysian Indian community as those found in literary narratives and can ultimately lead to unequal discursivities.

Locating the Tawa’if Courtesan-Dancer: Cinematic Constructions of Religion and Nation

2021 ◽  
pp. e20200014
Author(s):  
Sitara Thobani
Keyword(s):  
National Identities ◽  
Indian Culture ◽  
Dance Performance ◽  
Specific Focus ◽  
Indian Identity ◽  
Indian Nation ◽  
Cinematic Narratives ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Artistic Performance

The development of the Hindi/Urdu cinema is intimately connected to the history of artistic performance in India in two important ways. Not only did hereditary music and dance practitioners play key roles in building this cinema, representations of these performers and their practices have been, and continue to be, the subject of Indian film narratives, genres, and tropes. I begin with this history in order to explore the Muslim religio-cultural and artistic inheritance that informs Hindi/Urdu cinema, as well as examine how this heritage has been incorporated into the cinematic narratives that help construct distinct gendered, religious, and national identities. My specific focus is on the figure of the tawa’if dancer, often equated with North Indian culture and nautch dance performance. Analyzing the ways in which traces of the tawa’if appear in two recent films, Dedh Ishqiya and Begum Jaan, I show how this figure is placed in a larger representational regime that sustains nationalist formations of contemporary Indian identity. As I demonstrate, even in the most blatant attempts to define the Indian nation as “Hindu,” the “Muslimness” of the tawa’if—and by extension the cinema she informed in ways both real and representational—is far from relinquished.

scholarly journals Gestão do Judiciário e gestão da qualidade: uma questão de princípios - Judiciary management and quality management: a question of principles

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Pizzio Da Silva ◽  
José Eudacy Feijó Paiva
Keyword(s):  
Quality Management ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Management System ◽  
Quality Management System ◽  
Iso 9001 ◽  
The Public ◽  
Constitutional Principle ◽  
Judicial Administration ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Point Of Reference

<p>O objetivo deste artigo é contribuir ao debate acerca da gestão do Poder Judiciário tendo como referência o princípio constitucional da eficiência na administração pública e os princípios da gestão da qualidade. Sob esse enfoque são abordados os temas da crise na administração pública e na administração judiciária. Através de uma revisão bibliográfica em livros e artigos levantou-se as contribuições de autores sobre o tema em análise. Uma correlação entre os princípios da qualidade e a realidade encontrada na administração de unidades judiciárias, através das fontes analisadas para o estudo, é realizada com o fim de demonstrar a validade da aplicação dos princípios para nortear as mudanças necessárias para a melhoria da prestação jurisdicional e a aumentar a satisfação da sociedade. O artigo apresenta a aplicabilidade de um sistema de gestão da qualidade, conforme o modelo da norma ABNT NBR ISO 9001:2015, como uma alternativa eficaz para que o Poder Judiciário apresente a resposta mais adequada para a necessidade de melhoria na eficiência da gestão do Poder Judiciário.</p><p> </p><p>The purpose of this article is to contribute to the debate about the management of the Judiciary having as point of reference the constitutional principle of efficiency in the Public Administration and the principles of quality management. This approach addresses the issues of crisis in the public administration and judicial administration. Through a bibliographical review in books and articles the contributions of authors on the subject under analysis were compiled. A correlation between the principles of quality and the reality found in the management of judicial units, through the sources analyzed for the study, is established in order to demonstrate the validity of the application of the principles to guide the changes necessary to improve the jurisdictional performance and to increase the satisfaction of society. The article presents the applicability of a quality management system, according to the model of ABNT NBR ISO 9001: 2015, as an effective alternative for the Judiciary to provide the most appropriate response to the need of improving the efficiency of the Judiciary management.</p><p> </p>

Bulgarian Ritual Kinship (Kumstvo)

2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-87
Author(s):  
Petko Hristov
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
Gift Exchange ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
New Family ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
The Family ◽  
Kinship Relations ◽  
The Subject ◽  
New Generation

Among the Orthodox Christians on the Balkans, the rituals of Christian baptism and marriage traditionally give rise to ritual kinship relationships, not only among individuals but also among family groups that were until then unrelated. Only among Bulgarians, Serbians, and Macedonians, these relationships are carried on hereditarily and are constructed according to the patrilineal kinship model. The godfather’s role ( kumstvo) is inherited as symbolic capital by the family-kin groups of both the godparents and the godchildren. These are relations of symbolic inequality and have a ritual character: both the calendar feast cycle and the lifecycle rituals are marked by symbolic rights and obligations, which are still observed until the present day in most Bulgarian families, for example, mandatory gift exchange. The belief in the power of the godparent’s curse is still alive today in a number of regions in Bulgaria. On the other hand, the godparent tradition among Bulgarians acquired new meaning and new dimensions during the decades of socialism and postsocialist transition. During the last two or three decades, the godparent relationship has become a way of building new social networks, often of a clientelist nature. More and more often, ritual kinship relations are used for benefits and hierarchical ascent, similarly to nepotism. This process leads to the reformation of social networks—it still functions as social capital, but to each new generation. Every new family chooses different godparents, thus creating new social networks. Research about godparent relations among Bulgarians and, more generally, on the Balkans, is based on both existing studies on the subject and on the author’s personal fieldwork research in Bulgaria.

scholarly journals The Humanities as Contradiction: Against the New Enclosures

Humanities ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 70
Author(s):  
Christopher Breu
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
First Century ◽  
Dialectical Tension ◽  
Level Of Knowledge ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Twenty First Century

This essay begins by surveying our current moment in the humanities, diagnosing the language of crisis that frames much of the discourse about them. It argues that the crisis is a manufactured economic one not a symbolic one. The problems with many recent proposals—such as the new aestheticism, surface reading, and postcritique—is that they attempt to solve an economic crisis on the level of symbolic capital. They try to save the humanities by redisciplining them and making them mirror various forms amateur inquiry. I describe these approaches as the new enclosures, attempts at returning the humanities to disciplinarity with the hopes that administrative and neoliberal forces will find what we do more palatable. Instead of attempting to appease such forces by being pliant and apolitical, we need a new workerist militancy (daring to be “bad workers” from the point of view of neoliberal managerial rhetorics) to combat the economic crisis produced by neoliberalism. Meanwhile, on the level of knowledge production, the humanities need to resist the demand to shrink the scope of their inquiry to the disciplinary. The humanities, at their best, have been interdisciplinary. They have foregrounded both the subject of the human and all the complex forces that shape, limit, and exist in relationship and contradiction with the human. The essay concludes by arguing that the humanities, to resist neoliberal symbolic logics, need to embrace both a critical humanism, and the crucial challenges to this humanism that go by the name of antihumanism and posthumanism. It is only by putting these three discourses in negative dialectical tension with each other that we can begin to imagine a reinvigorated humanities that can address the challenges of the twenty-first century.

scholarly journals Podstawowe założenia chrystocentryczno-humanistycznego modelu wychowania w ujęciu prawosławnym

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 107-112
Author(s):  
Artur Aleksiejuk ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Person ◽  
Pedagogical Issues ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Educational Strategies ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
The Road ◽  
Thought Patterns ◽  
Human Reality ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Point Of Reference

Pedagogical issues for ages have inspired teachers to create new theories, searching for ways and means which would allow them to attain the maximum results in the process of obtaining a complete personal maturity by the pupil. The great number of new pedagogical systems demonstrates beyond a doubt the fundamental importance of education. Education is integrally linked to the existence of human beings and co-creates the whole of human reality. A person sees himself and improves himself through interactions with his neighbours and acquaintances. The process of education is the road for the attainment of the fullness of individual life and cannot take place in a vacuum.In the classically accepted methodology of knowledge, the way to the goal, or the method, for the most part must be defined by the actual subject of research. Therefore, if we want to make the Christian model of education the subject of reflection, we must start with the human person who is in need of formulating his thought patterns, vocabulary and his frame of mind in all the aspects of his existence. Before we ask ourselves how and what it means to educate a human being, we must answer the question „What vision of man is connected to the basis of the Christian model of upbringing ?”. The purpose of this article is a short explication of the basic principles of the christocentric-humanistic model of upbringing that could be the point of reference in creating concrete educational strategies.

scholarly journals Collectivist Logic in Comparative Genocide Studies and in the Battles for Memory

2020 ◽  
pp. 39-60
Author(s):  
Lech M. Nijakowski
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Animal Rights ◽  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
Collective Guilt ◽  
Politics Of Memory ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Genocide Studies ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Historical Comparative ◽  
The Relationship

The article aims to present the mechanisms of collectivist logic as it functions in three areas: (1) in the historical comparative analysis of genocides – the basic method of genocidestudies; (2) in the activities of the organizations of victims and survivors, as well as in actions undertaken by animal rights activists; (3) in nationalist discourses and in the politics of memory. Collectivist logic is a set of operations that address human communities – groups of individuals linked together by significant social bonds and interests, and perceived as culturally distinctive – as the subject of history. As a result of the application of such logic, we may think about collective guilt and collective merit. The article discusses the advantages and disadvantages of historical comparative analysis as an essential methodological tool of genocide studies. The argument further focuses upon the use of the symbolic capital attributed to the term “genocide” in studies involving analyses comparing other crimes – as well as the industrial exploitation of animals – to genocides. Finally, the author describes the relationship between the state policy of memory, nationalist discourses, and the academic integrity of genocide scholars.

Theoretical and Historical Sketches of Guyana and Trinidad

2018 ◽  
pp. 21-48
Author(s):  
Dave Ramsaran ◽  
Linden F. Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Total Population ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Indian Culture ◽  
Gendered Spaces ◽  
Indian Community ◽  
Indian Identity ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Caribbean Populations

This chapter presents theoretical and historical sketches of Guyana and Trinidad. Both countries share a similar colonial history and ethnic makeup, with people of Indian descent representing 39.3 percent of the total population in Guyana and 35 percent in Trinidad. The focus on Trinidad and Guyana, then, stems from the social and political significance of the Indian communities in these countries. The problematic coexistence of the dominant African creole culture and Indian culture in the Caribbean is central to explaining the location of Indo-Caribbean populations within their particular socioeconomic, political, and gendered spaces. In addressing the notion of “Indian identity,” both Indo-Trinidadians and Indo-Guyanese ask whether their respective identities reflect the “purity” of their Indian ancestry. In both spaces, the Indian community must determine the extent to which they want to associate their “Indianness” with India, or with the nation-state in which they were born.

THE HYAKUMANTŌ DARANI AND THE ORIGINS OF PRINTING IN EIGHTH-CENTURY JAPAN

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Kornicki
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Eighth Century ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
The World ◽  
Lively Debate ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Point Of Reference

The origins of printing in East Asia have been the subject of lively debate over the last twenty years, and a constant point of reference has been the first recorded act of printing in Japan, which took place in the 760s. The term Hyakumantō Darani 百万塔陀羅尼 (hereafter HD) is commonly used in Japan to refer to this episode, and it denotes the Buddhist dhāraṇī or spells which are thought to have been printed in Nara and then inserted into wooden miniature pagodas, and which have for a century been regarded as the oldest printed texts in the world.1 They were printed, so the evidence suggests, in the closing years of the reign of Shōtoku 稱德 (718–770, r. 764–770), who was the last woman on the Japanese throne for nearly one thousand years and who had had an earlier reign under the name Kōken 孝謙 (r. 749–758).2In this article I shall first examine the evidence relating to the HD and the origins of printing, since the whole question has long been clouded by hypotheses masquerading as fact. Second, I shall explore the origins of the practice of producing miniature pagodas and its transmission to Japan. Third, I shall argue that the established views on the motivation for the HD are inadequate, and shall identify the factors that demand a new explanation, particularly the pagodas themselves. Finally, I turn to the ideological and political factors underlying these events and suggest a new explanation. This new explanation focuses on the politics of Shōtoku's situation and the connection with empress Wu (Wu Zetian 武則天; 624–705, r. 690–705), and it goes some way towards explaining why printing was not resorted to again in Japan for several centuries.

Episcopal Visitation of Cathedrals in the Church of England

2006 ◽  
Vol 8 (38) ◽  
pp. 266-288
Author(s):  
Philip Barrett
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Canon Law ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University ◽  
The Church ◽  
Point Of Reference

In December 1994 the Revd Philip LS Barrett BD MA FRHistS FSA, Rector of Compton and Otterbourne in the Diocese of Winchester, successfully submitted a dissertation to the University of Wales College of Cardiff for the degree of LLM in Canon Law, entitled ‘Episcopal Visitation of Cathedrals in the Church of England’. Philip Barrett, best known for his magisterial study, Barchester: English Cathedral Life in the Nineteenth Century (SPCK1993), died in 1998. The subject matter of this dissertation is of enduring importance and interest to those engaged in the life and work of cathedrals, and the Editor invited Canon Peter Atkinson, Chancellor of Chichester Cathedral, to repare it for publication in this Journal, so that the author's work might receive a wider circulation, but at a manageable length. In 1999 a new Cathedrals Measure was enacted, following upon the recommendations of the Howe Commission, published in the report Heritage and Renewal (Church House Publishing 1994). The author was able to refer to the report, but not to the Measure, or to the revision of each set of cathedral Statutes consequent upon that Measure. While this limits the usefulness of the author's work as a point of reference for the present law of cathedral visitations, its value as an historical introduction remains.

The Lex Agraria of 111 B.C. and Procedure in Legislative Assemblies

Antichthon ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 45-50
Author(s):  
R. Develin
Keyword(s):  
Second Law ◽  
Land Distribution ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Third Law ◽  
The Law ◽  
Land Holdings ◽  
Point Of Reference

Agrarian legislation in the immediate aftermath of the Gracchi is the subject of continuing debate. Appian (BC i 27) records three laws, the last two of which are specified as being tribunician: the first removed the inalienability of land holdings; the second was perhaps the measure of Sp. Thorius, mentioned also by Cicero, which stopped land distribution, confirmed possession rights on the land and imposed a rent, the proceeds of which were to help the poor; the third abolished this rent. Appian provides chronological clues of a sort: the first measure came ‘not long after’ the death of C. Gracchus, the third ‘not long after’ Thorius’ law, and the whole business was perhaps finished within fifteen years άπò τῆς Γράκχου νομοϑεσίας. I say ‘perhaps’ because it remains arguable whether the point of reference for these fifteen years is Tiberius or Gaius Gracchus. I intend to argue elsewhere that Tiberius is meant, but as such an argument cannot be regarded as conclusive, there is still a point in this respect in examining the lex agraria which is the inscription CIL i2 585. The law is naturally important in its own right. It is dated internally to 111 B.C. and attempts have been made to equate it with either the second or third of Appian’s laws. If it was the second, this allows a retention of the fifteen years and the placing of the third law in 109 or 108. But if Appian has accurately reported the second law, it imposed a rent, while the first part of the inscriptional law talks of removing rent.

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