Herrschaftslegitimation im Diskurs

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-79
Author(s):  
Florian Hartmann
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
The Other ◽  
Urban Elites ◽  
Ars Dictaminis ◽  
Communal Institutions ◽  
Demographic Growth

Abstract In the course of the 11th century, the economic and demographic growth within the Italian cities and its consequential social problems led to an increasing tension between the aristocratic vassal milieu comprising the bishop on one side and the urban elites on the other. Amongst others, one consequence was the takeover of domination by communal institutions resulting in an independent political participation of the citizens. However, these new communes suffered from a lack of legitimacy. The contemporaries were well aware of the contingency of the communes. The communal discourse as taught in the rhetoric system of the ars dictaminis reveals how domination was conceptualized in the 12th century.

scholarly journals Gender Representation In Public Schools Textbooks Of Balochistan

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rana Saba Sultan ◽  
Nadil Shah ◽  
Ambreen Fazal
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
The Other ◽  
Antonio Gramsci ◽  
Cultural Hegemony ◽  
Job Opportunities ◽  
Gender Presentation ◽  
Power And Energy

Gender became the attention of contemporary scholarships when women were found in domestic issues as well as gender inequality in terms of job opportunities, education, health, political participation etc. Many studies have been carried out regarding women issues and provided policies and laws to provide opportunities for women to contribute in the society. So, gender presentation in school textbooks is newly emerging field of study in the academia. The present study focuses on women presentation in school textbooks of Balochistan. The English Books for Class I, to V were taken as sample for present study. These books were selected through purposive sampling. All conversations, texts and images related to women misrepresentation were taken from selected books. These data were analysed by the help of Michal Foucault’s theory of power/Knowledge and Discourse Analysis and also Cultural Hegemony by Antonio Gramsci. The findings of the present study suggest that textbooks of Balochistan are clearly misrepresenting women and promoting the male hegemony. The women are shown in domestic works and teaching jobs which are considered soft works. On the other hand, men are shown in school administrations, public domains, ownerships and in those jobs which need more power and energy. So, it is clear that schools textbooks promote the gender biased approach because men are shown in powerful, prestigious, well reputed and respectable jobs and women are shown in less respected and less valued positions.

Explaining Ethnic Political Participation

1979 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 365-388 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nelson Kasfir
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Cultural Pluralism ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
The Other ◽  
Coup D'etat ◽  
Relative Ease ◽  
Political Analysis ◽  
Sudden Rise ◽  
Ethnic Category ◽  
The One

Most concepts of ethnicity are unsuitable for political analysis because they ignore either subjective or objective aspects, and because they ignore the fluid and situational nature of ethnicity. The approach flowing from the concept proposed here permits the observer to examine empirical variations that tend to be treated as rigid assumptions by modernization analysts on the one hand and class analysts on the other. The concept is applied to a study of the Nubians of Uganda because of the intermixture of class and ethnic features involved in their fall from status at the beginning of the colonial period and their subsequent sudden rise following the 1071 coup d'état of Idi Amin. The fairly recent creation of the Nubians as an ethnic category and the relative ease with which others can become members illustrate other features of the proposed concept of ethnicity. Finally, this concept is used to examine and criticize overly restrictive notions of ethnicity found in theories based upon both cultural pluralism and consociationalism.

Reformulating Government-Citizen Relations in a Digitally Connected World

2016 ◽  
pp. 75-93
Author(s):  
Helin Alagöz Gessler
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Government Intervention ◽  
The Other ◽  
Security Dilemma ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
New Type ◽  
The One

This chapter analyses the effects of social media on political communication and the role they play in government-citizen relations by focusing on the Twitter ban phenomenon in Turkey in March 2014. The chapter asks the reasons of government intervention in social media, particularly Twitter. It argues that Twitter makes, on the one hand, a significant contribution to the evolution of political participation as it diversifies the process and methods of political communication. On the other hand, it introduces a new type of security dilemma which encourages governments to consider taking measures against social media to protect their authority.

Race and Ethnicity

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge J.E. Gracia
Keyword(s):  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
The Other ◽  
Viable Alternative ◽  
Proper Understanding

Discussions of race are often entangled with ethnicity and vice versa. Indeed, some of the most difficult epistemic and social problems they each raise rely on solutions that involve the other. None of the views that propose solutions that involve the elimination of race or ethnicity, their reduction to each other or something else, or that neglect the constructive and realist elements in these phenomena provides a viable alternative that can serve as basis for solving the critical epistemic and social problems that race and ethnicity raise. The concepts of race and ethnicity, and the distinction between them, can be preserved through their proper understanding.

The Self and the Other: An Emerging Field of Social Problems

1957 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 200-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francis E. Merrill
Keyword(s):  
Social Problems ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other

Village Elections and Redistribution of Political Power and Collective Property

2009 ◽  
Vol 197 ◽  
pp. 126-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yusheng Yao
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Salient Feature ◽  
Northern China ◽  
The Other ◽  
Village Elections ◽  
Collective Property ◽  
Political Office ◽  
The One ◽  
The Village

AbstractThis study of competitive elections in a northern China village identifies two contradictions: one between villagers and village officials, the other between village elite and those seeking power. The one between villagers and the old leadership in the village focuses on the latter's corruption and bad governance, which had led to serious erosion and unfair distribution of the collective property. The one between villagers and the new leadership lies in the latter's failure to address the problems left by the old leadership. Both led to popular discontent and fuelled political participation. The contradiction between elite members focuses on competing for political office, which has resulted in the formation of factions and factionalism in both election and post-election politics and has become a salient feature of the village politics. The investigation of this village with governing problems found that free elections have brought about a radical redistribution of political power, but little satisfaction to villagers because their deep-seated desire for a fair redistribution of the collective property remains unfulfilled.

Grand Coalition Government: The Case of Lebanon

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Badran
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
Grand Coalition ◽  
Power Sharing ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
Coalition Government ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Government ◽  
Council Of Ministers

AbstractTo maintain political stability and to preserve the plurality and the diversity that characterise its societies, consociational democracies require, more than other states, a grand coalition government. In this type of democracy, the grand coalition is not a model that is used in exceptional cases, as in majoritarian democracies. It is a deliberate and permanent political choice. In Lebanon, following the modifications implemented by the 1989 Ṭā’if Accord, the Constitution instituted a collegial power-sharing within the executive that implies the establishment of a grand coalition which enables the political participation of the main Lebanese religious confessions in the government. On the other hand, the formation of the Lebanese Council of ministers since the spring of 2005 has become increasingly difficult and coalitions are often less stable than in the past. These laborious negotiations for unstable governmental coalitions are especially problematic in what may be called the perversion of the constitutional procedure by leaders of the parliamentary blocs.

A NATION OF BUREAUCRATS: POLITICAL PARTICIPATION AND ECONOMIC DIVERSIFICATION IN KUWAIT AND THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

2009 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 375-395 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Herb
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Labor Markets ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Diversification ◽  
Political Liberalization ◽  
Rentier States ◽  
High Level

Not long ago, two safe generalizations could be made about the Gulf monarchies: ruling families dominated their politics, and oil dominated their economies. In recent years that has begun to change. In Kuwait the parliament challenges the political predominance of the ruling family. Meanwhile, Dubai and, increasingly, the other emirates of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have made real progress in diversifying their economies away from oil—at least until the recent economic crisis. Yet political liberalization and economic diversification have not gone hand in hand: Kuwait's economy remains dependent on oil, and the United Arab Emirates remains resolutely authoritarian. This is no accident. Kuwait's high level of political participation encourages its dependence on oil while the UAE's economic diversification requires a lack of political participation by citizens. The reasons for this are specific to the peculiar political economy of these labor markets: in these richest of rentier-states, there is little need for the class compromise between capitalists and workers on which capitalist democracy usually rests.

scholarly journals Political Participation Today: A Radical Shift, But with a Positive or Negative Outcome?

European View ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 303-311
Author(s):  
Florian Hartleb
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
The Other ◽  
Civic Culture ◽  
Fake News ◽  
The Future ◽  
Traditional Institutions ◽  
Radical Shift ◽  
Negative Outcome

Political participation can be regarded as a basic need in democracies. After a worrying 2016, a year of populism and post-truth politics, two different narratives for the future have emerged: one optimistic, the other pessimistic. The former refers to a growing pro-European spirit and the arrival of a new civic culture, epitomised by movements such as Pulse of Europe. The latter sees the worrying growth of fake news and the decline of traditional institutions, as well as the rise of authoritarian tendencies, which seems to indicate that political engagement is seen as old-fashioned. In any case, today's reality in this age of new technology requires a project- and network-based approach.

Towards an Asian Multitextual Theology

Exchange ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-131
Author(s):  
Joas Adiprasetya
Keyword(s):  
Social Problems ◽  
Blind Spot ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The One

Abstract The article criticizes some shortcomings of Asian contextual and liberation theologies that methodologically employ ‘hermeneutical circle’. The method focuses on experience as the starting point of doing theology. Despite its powerful insights that enable theologians to engage with concrete human and social problems, the method can easily preserve a theologian’s blind spot that hinders her/him from perspectives other than his or her own. I also criticize such an experience-based method as being too linear which can easily result in a methodological imperialism. In response to the weakness, I propose a multitextual theology, which on the one hand acknowledges the importance of perspectivism in any theology but also, on the other hand, celebrates theological freedom in viewing reality from ‘manywheres’. Since reality provides plurality of texts, a multitextual theology can begin simultaneously from any text, without being trapped into a procedural rigidity as clearly demonstrated in contextual and liberation theologies.

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