Review of Speaking hatefully: Culture, communication, and political action in Hungary

Semiotica ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 (210) ◽  
pp. 259-265
Author(s):  
Dani Kvam
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Hate Speech ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Cultural Discourse ◽  
The Political ◽  
Potential Utility ◽  
Communication Practice

AbstractThis review discusses the major contributions of David Boromisza-Habashi’s (2013) book, Speaking hatefully: Culture, communication, and political action in Hungary to the study of hate speech, public discourse, and ways in which culture makes both meaningful. In particular, this review describes how Boromisza-Habashi’s book makes novel claims about a commonly employed communication practice, hate speech, by treating the Hungarian political context as a cultural context and the political discourse that populates this context as cultural discourse. Although the book offers many contributions to diverse interests and literatures, this review names the author’s discussion of context, key symbol analysis, and offer of counsel as the book’s most compelling contributions. Additionally, this review offers a brief critique of the book, calling for more details about the “authoring unity” solution proposed to unify opposing parties in the hate speech debates. Ultimately, this review highlights the exceptional quality of the book and its potential utility for EC and public discourse scholars.

What is Happening in the United States? How Social Classes Influence the Political Life of the Country and its Health and Quality of Life

2021 ◽  
pp. 002073142199484
Author(s):  
Vicente Navarro
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
United States ◽  
Access To Health Care ◽  
Universal Access ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Political Life ◽  
The Political ◽  
Race And Gender

This article analyses the political changes that have been occurring in the United States (including the elections for the presidency of the country) and their consequences for the health and quality of life of the population. A major thesis of this article is that there is a need to analyse, besides race and gender, other categories of power - such as social class - in order to understand what happens in the country. While the class structure of the United States is similar to that of major Western European countries, the political context is very different. The U.S. political context has resulted in the very limited power of its working class, which explains the scarcity of labor, political and social rights in the country, such as universal access to health care.

scholarly journals The Nineties: Establishment of Polity

2021 ◽  
Vol 102 (3) ◽  
pp. 40-71
Author(s):  
S. I. Kaspe
Keyword(s):  
Public Discourse ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Political Community ◽  
Political Order ◽  
Stable Set ◽  
The Political ◽  
Freedom Of Association ◽  
The Status ◽  
Territorial Organization

In the 1990s, after the collapse of the USSR, was established the Russian polity, which continues to exist to this day. In this paper polity is understood as a macro-social community, united by a certain political order i.e., by a stable set of institutions and actors, as well as normative standards for organizing their interactions, both formal and informal. Establishment is understood as a series of events that establish these most fundamental frameworks for political action, as well as a repertoire of its scenarios, behavioral stereotypes, strategies, and tactics. The negative myth about the nineties, which has dominated the Russian public discourse in the recent years, describes the 1990s as a time of catastrophe and degradation. It certainly has its reasons, but this myth almost completely ignores the fact that the same decade was also a time of creation. Thus, the current state of Russia cannot be understood without paying attention to the circumstances of its establishment. The article describes some of the key features of the modern Russian polity that emerged in the 1990s — the “main takeaway” of the constituent era. They are the following: the electoral legitimacy of the supreme political power; non-partisan presidency; capitalism as the economic foundation of the political order; federalism as a principle of territorial organization of political space; freedom of association; freedom of religion; open borders. This list is not exhaustive: there are other elements of the design of the Russian polity that can claim the status of constitutive ones. However, a radical change in all these institutions together or in any one of them individually would mean another re-establishment of the political community as a whole.

scholarly journals What Should Be the Objective of an Emancipatory Project?

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 253-263
Author(s):  
Vicente Navarro
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Political Context ◽  
The Political ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Political Traditions ◽  
Health Quality ◽  
Health Quality Of Life ◽  
And Gender

This article covers a very central issue in the discussions of the implications of exploitation for the health, quality of life, and well-being of populations. Essentially, the objective of any emancipatory project should be the elimination of any form of exploitation, whether of class, gender, race, nation, or the environment. This article explores the interrelatedness between different types of exploitation and demonstrates how all forms of exploitation are impacted by the political context within which they exist. It compares the levels of class and gender exploitation (as well as environmental exploitation) in countries governed by different political traditions, underlining the enormous importance this political context has in shaping not only each form of exploitation but how they are related. The article concludes that those countries which have an ideological project that connects all these different projects of liberation have less exploitation of each type of discrimination.

Democracy, Technology, and Human Irresponsibility

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Ikbal Maulana
Keyword(s):  
Public Discourse ◽  
Hate Speech ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Sharing Economy ◽  
Good Time ◽  
Good Decision ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
Search Information

With the current development of information and communication technology, it must be a good time for democracy. Democracy depends on deliberation and good information. Most people of modern society are ubiquitously connected to the Internet through their smartphones, they can anytime engage in public discourse, express their views without the help of any representative, or search information to make a good decision. The technology is supposed to make people more connected with each other and more knowledgeable than their predecessors. However, rather than raising the quality of democracy, the same technology is now considered to have threatened democracy. The technology makes it easy for irresponsible people to spread disinformation and hate speech. And the technology also makes people unable to deal with the abundant irresponsible information. To mitigate the problem, it is necessary for social media platform to be able to trace the true identities of its users, just like what has already been done in ecommerce or “sharing economy” platforms.

2. Contexts

2015 ◽  
pp. 7-24
Author(s):  
R. B. Bernstein
Keyword(s):  
British Empire ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Political Context ◽  
The Political ◽  
Ruling Elite ◽  
Founding Fathers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Landed Gentry

The founding fathers were born into a remarkable variety of families, occupations, religious loyalties, and geographic settings: from landed gentry destined to join the ruling elite, to middling or common sorts who chose the law or medicine as a professional path to distinction, or immigrants from other parts of the British Empire. They lived within and were shaped by three interlocking contexts—the intellectual world of the transatlantic Enlightenment; the political context within which Americans sought to preserve and improve the best of the Anglo-American constitutional heritage; and the social, economic, and cultural context formed as a result of their living on the Atlantic world’s periphery.

scholarly journals Political Participation by Political Bloggers in Hong Kong: A Case Study of the 2014 Umbrella Movement

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-166
Author(s):  
Waikeung Tam
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Political Action ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Blogs ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Websites ◽  
Political Spectrum ◽  
Political Blog

Political blogs have played an increasingly more important role in Hong Kong politics. However, research on this topic remains scarce. This analysis examines how political bloggers in Hong Kong used their blogs to participate in politics through a detailed content analysis of 960 political blog articles published on two major news websites – House News Bloggers and Speak Out HK – during the 2014 Umbrella Movement. This study found that “soapbox” stood out as the most popular function hereof, as political bloggers on both ends of the political spectrum actively used their blogs to influence the legitimacy of the Umbrella Movement in the public discourse. A substantial number of blog articles from House News Bloggers also included the functions of “transmission belt,” “informing readers,” and “mobilising political action.” Finally, only a small proportion of the articles from House News Bloggers and Speak Out HK included the function of “conversation starter.”

Taking the Bait? Lessons from a Hate Speech Prosecution

2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (01) ◽  
pp. 51-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heli Askola
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Hate Speech ◽  
Political Context ◽  
The Political ◽  
Criminal Process ◽  
Public Figure ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Member Of Parliament

AbstractThis article uses one case study to explore the use of criminal hate speech provisions against populist politicians. In a high-profile Finnish case, a populist politician was found guilty of hate speech after a four-year criminal process. Though the prosecution was ultimately successful, the various problems with the case helped boost the political popularity of the accused who was turned into a well-known public figure and member of Parliament. The case might thus be seen to warn against tackling populist politicians by means of criminal law. However, further analysis of the political context and a comparison with the Dutch prosecution against anti-immigration politician Geert Wilders complicate this conclusion. This article examines the consequences of hate speech prosecutions of politicians and sheds light on the conditions under which they can achieve (some of) their aims. The case also has lessons for other jurisdictions about when hate speech prosecutions of politicians are likely to be successful in terms of countering prejudice and disempowering those who spread it for electoral purposes.

The Political Context of Health Service Regulation

1975 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 593-607 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elliott A. Krause
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Service ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Context ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
Regulatory Processes ◽  
Care Field ◽  
Systems Quality

Can regulation work in health services, given the present political context? General issues in the regulatory process are discussed, followed by a consideration of the relevance of these issues to the health care field. Regulatory processes are reviewed for the United States in four areas: credentialling of people, surveillance of delivery systems, quality of materials and technology, and rate-setting or cost control. It is concluded that the process cannot work. Four alternatives are presented and briefly evaluated: tinkering, centralized regulation, national health service, and general nationalization of most major economic sectors.

scholarly journals Pfister's Spill? Narratives of Failure in and around Wilhelm Raabe’s 1883 Eco-novel // ¿El vertido de Pfister? Narrativas del fracaso en y en torno a la eco-novela de 1883 de Wilhelm Raabe

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 176-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnes Kneitz
Keyword(s):  
Political Ecology ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Limited Range ◽  
Literary Form ◽  
Environmental Literature ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Wilhelm Raabe

      This paper explores different aspects and layers of failure in Wilhelm Raabe’s Pfister’s Mill and its cultural context, which is closely related to German discourse on the environment in the second half of the nineteenth century. Raabe sought to draw attention to and inspire solutions for a pressing environmental problem of the day by conveying perceptions of everyday sensual experience in culturally communicable form. His aim was to use the novel as a means of communication about the processes whereby “socio-natural sites” affected by industrial pollution were being transformed. The author’s ultimate inability to realize this aim, the paper argues, should be understood less as a failure of literary form than as a consequence of an inherent feature of the public discourse on political ecology of the time: the tension between popular support for progress and industrial development on the one hand and growing environmental awareness within a limited range of political action on the other. Drawing not only on literary, but also historical sources, the paper seeks to (dis)entangle the complex net of relations around a classic of German environmental literature. Resumen      Este trabajo explora diferentes aspectos y secciones relativas al fracaso en la obra de Wilhelm Raabe Pfister’s Mill y su contexto histórico, el cual está estrechamente relacionado con el discurso alemán sobre el medio ambiente en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX. Raabe trató de llamar la atención y esbozar soluciones respecto a un problema medioambiental de alta importancia para aquellos días, siendo su objetivo transmitir y analizar las percepciones a través de experiencias cotidianas de carácter sensorial que se hacen manifiestas culturalmente mediante la comunicación. Su objetivo es utilizar la novela como un medio de comunicación de los procesos que provocan transformaciones en “enclaves socio-naturales” afectados por contaminación industrial. La incapacidad en última instancia del autor para alcanzar este objetivo hace que el presente ensayo no deba entenderse como un fracaso de la forma literaria, sino como una característica inherente al discurso público sobre la ecología política de la época: que se fundamenta en el cambio de percepción popular del medio ambiente. Se refiere no sólo a documentes literarios, sino también a fuentes históricas, este trabajo pretende desentrañar una compleja red de relaciones en torno una obra clásica de literatura ecológica alemana.

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