scholarly journals Diálogos a partir de Walter Benjamim: a figura de Maiakovski como elo de ligação entre o cubofuturismo e o formalismo russo

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 51
Author(s):  
Carolina Izabela Dutra de Miranda
Keyword(s):  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
The Political ◽  
Vladimir Mayakovsky ◽  
Russian Formalism ◽  
Literary Movement ◽  
The Social ◽  
Russian Futurism ◽  
Critical Movement

Resumo: O presente trabalho aborda as especificidades do futurismo russo, nomeado cubofuturismo, a partir das colocações de Walter Benjamim, presentes nos textos “A nova literatura Russa” (1927) e “O agrupamento político dos escritores na União Soviética” (1927). Embasando-se na discussão desses textos, pretende-se esclarecer a relação deles com o formalismo russo, importante movimento crítico que ocorreu contemporaneamente ao cubofuturismo. Para tanto, pretende-se explicitar como a figura de Vladimir Maiakovski estabeleceu um elo de ligação entre esses dois movimentos – o crítico e o literário – e de que forma o poeta tornou-se importante marco para ocubofuturismo russo e para engajamento político social do movimento literário. Este trabalho pretende expandir as informações e as visões apresentadas por Benjamim em seus textos, sobretudo em relação à atualização acerca do progresso destes movimentos literários e à importância deles, que dificilmente poderiam ser antevistos pelo teórico alemão no momento de produção de seus escritos.Palavras-chave: Cubofuturismo; Futurismo; Formalismo russo; Maiakovski.Abstract: This study aims to deal with the singularities of Russian futurism, named Cubo-Futurism, based on the writings of Walter Benjamin, exposed in the texts “New Russian Literature” (1927) and “The Political Groupings of Russian Writers” (1927). Based on the discussion of these texts, it is intended to clarify their relationship with Russian formalism, an important critical movement which happened contemporaneously with Cubo-Futurism. For this purpose, it aims to explain how the figure of Vladimir Mayakovsky established a connecting link between these two movements – the critic and the literary – and how the poet became an important symbol for Russian Cubo-Futurism and also for the social and political engagement of the literary movement. This study intends to expand the information and the aspects exposed by Benjamin in his texts, especially in relation to the update on the progress of these literary movements and the importance of them, which could hardly be foreseen by the German theorist at the time of his writings.Keywords: Cubo-Futurism; Futurism; Russian formalism; Mayakovsky.

Questioning health security: Insecurity and domination in world politics

2014 ◽  
Vol 40 (5) ◽  
pp. 939-960 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOÃO NUNES
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
World Politics ◽  
The Political ◽  
Health Security ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social

AbstractIt has become common to speak of health security, but the meaning of the latter is often taken for granted. Existing engagements with this notion have been constrained by an excessive focus on national security and on the securitising efforts of elites. This has led to an increasingly sceptical outlook on the potentialities of security for making sense of, and helping to tackle, health problems. Inspired by the idea of security as emancipation, this article reconsiders the notion of health security. It takes as its starting point the concrete insecurities experienced by individuals, and engages with them by way of an analytical framework centred on the notion of domination. Domination deepens analysis by connecting individual experiences of insecurity, the social interactions through which these are given meaning, and the structures that make them possible. Domination also broadens the remit of analysis, shedding light on the multifaceted nature of insecurity. The analytical benefits of this framework are demonstrated by two examples: HIV/AIDS; and water and sanitation. The lens of domination is also shown to bring benefits for the political engagement with global health problems.

The Political Consequences of Distrust

2020 ◽  
pp. 23-49
Author(s):  
Hannah L. Walker
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
The Political ◽  
Carceral State ◽  
Loved One ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
The Social

Over 50% of Blacks and Latinos and nearly 30% of Whites have proximal contact with the criminal justice system. This group of people experience the consequences of the carceral state vicariously via a loved one, but do not face such extraordinary resource and efficacy barriers to civic and political engagement as do their custodial counterparts. Diminished trust in government that results from negative proximal encounters with the carceral state can be leveraged into increased political action. This is true for all three racial subgroups, but race structures the narratives by which individuals make sense of their experiences with injustice. Chapter 2 defines personal and proximal contact, identifies the social consequences of contact, and develops a theory by which contact can politically mobilize.

Politainment social audience and political engagement: Analysing Twitter conversations in Spain

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-42
Author(s):  
Salomé Berrocal Gonzalo ◽  
Rocío Zamora Medina ◽  
Marta Rebolledo de la Calle
Keyword(s):  
Political Communication ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
The Political ◽  
Common Pattern ◽  
Visual Elements ◽  
Online Engagement ◽  
Democratic Quality ◽  
The Social

Politainment is a phenomenon that deals with the political communication of entertainment regarding its production, diffusion and intake in its different formats. It entails consequences regarding the dynamics of communication such as political informative decline, along with the loss of democratic quality giving prominence to a post-truth communication environment and promoting the celebritization of politicians. The academic basis upholds that, in the politainment environment, social networks play an important role acting as instruments that help promote information exchange, both horizontally and vertically, from an active, connected, empowered social audience which evidences participation, contribution, production and collaboration. This research is pioneer in identifying the kind of contents of politainment programmes that promote a greater engagement among the social audience. Therefore, it includes an empirical analysis from a quantitative and qualitative approach of the contents of tweets and comments with the highest level of interaction among prosumers from the profiles of the three most representative politainment programmes in Spain: El Objetivo, El programa de Ana Rosa and El Intermedio. The results achieved from this comparative analysis include significant differences regarding the politainment content promoted by these programmes and also in relation to the level of online engagement. Although the limited interaction from the social audience was a common pattern, the results show that tweets with hashtags, visual elements and the ones using the attribute of responsibility frame achieved a higher engagement level than the rest of them.

scholarly journals Citizen participation in Europe: A comparative analysis from the sociopolitical contexts

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 235
Author(s):  
Ernesto Ganuza Fernández ◽  
Francisco José Francés García
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Political Influence ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Over Time

Questioning the social spiral deriving from participation has flared up the debate regarding the place it occupies in contemporary democracies. It does not seem possible to deny the evidence that many studies have pointed to regarding the political attitudes associated with institutionalised participation (associations). But we question in this study the fact that the whole participation phenomenon is equated with that type of participation. Our paper compares different ways of participation in a sample of European countries to, first, analyse the activities that can be linked to each form of participation and whether it can be held that they are different from the point of view of the individual. Second, we analyse the attitudes that lead individuals to choose one option over the other. We conclude that for individuals the different forms of participation are different forms of political engagement. Our study shows an evolution in non-institutional forms of participation over time that is difficult to ignore, from being expressions bordering illegality to taking them as normalised tools for citizens. We could now start to consider them from the point of view of the implications they have for democracy as a different way to exercise political influence.

Mobilizing the Young: The Role of Social Networks

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 861-880
Author(s):  
Cameron D. Anderson ◽  
Laura B. Stephenson
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Young People ◽  
Differential Effect ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Social ◽  
Single Dataset

AbstractDisaffection of youth from politics is a well-documented phenomenon in many countries. In this article, we consider whether the social networks of young people have the same influence on political engagement as they have been found to have for older adults. We use a single dataset to test the effects of discussion and disagreement on the political engagement of young people (30 and under) and older adults. We find that social network discussion has a stronger effect on the engagement of young people but that disagreement has no clear differential effect.

scholarly journals NEOLIBERALISM, A CULT WITHOUT DOGMA. NOTES ON MONEY, RELIGION AND DEMOCRACY

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-84
Author(s):  
Micaela Cuesta
Keyword(s):  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
The Political ◽  
Neoliberal Capitalism ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Effects ◽  
The Moment ◽  
And Inversion ◽  
Religion And Democracy ◽  
Society Today

Every thought that wants to be considered ас materialist begins with the characterization of its circumstances, aiming to abstract them and produce its critique. Our intention is not far from this expectation and, at the moment of defining the present, it shares Mario Tronti’s position that indicates that we are living in the “society of money”. Which are the consequences of these statements? Throughout this article, following some suggestions made by Walter Benjamin, we will investigate the cultic character that signs practices under the logic of neoliberal capitalism. We will try to identify some of his more relevant ideological operations: homogenization and inversion, supremacy of present, immanence and management dominance. The objective is to reflect on the political effects they produce on the configuration of the social bond and the democratic forms of life in our society today.

Resisting Fortress Europe

Focaal ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 2008 (51) ◽  
pp. 13-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabetta Zontini
Keyword(s):  
Political Institutions ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
The Political ◽  
Southern Europe ◽  
Citizenship Rights ◽  
Filipino Women ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Fields ◽  
Fortress Europe ◽  
Definition Of

This article considers the political engagement used by Moroccan and Filipino women in Southern Europe. It argues that immigrant women should be seen as active subjects rather than passive victims who accept subordinate roles both in their families and in the societies where they have settled. In order to appreciate the kind of political agency migrant women deploy, the article suggests two preliminary steps: extending the definition of the political so as to incorporate power and inequalities beyond political institutions, and adopting a transnational perspective so as to include the social fields encompassing more than one country in which these women operate. The article goes on to describe the different ways in which the two groups of women negotiate their citizenship rights in Southern Europe, focusing especially on how they negotiate entrance and rights to settle and how they try to improve their living and working conditions.

The Social Origins and Provenance of the English Bishops during the Reign of Edward II

1959 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 51-79
Author(s):  
K. Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Social Background ◽  
Early Career ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Origins ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
Edward Ii ◽  
The Social ◽  
Complete Study ◽  
History Of

During the last twenty or twenty-five years medieval historians have been much interested in the composition of the English episcopate. A number of studies of it have been published on periods ranging from the eleventh to the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. A further paper might well seem superfluous. My reason for offering one is that most previous writers have concentrated on analysing the professional circles from which the bishops were drawn, and suggesting the influences which their early careers as royal clerks, university masters and students, secular or regular clergy, may have had on their later work as bishops. They have shown comparatively little interest in their social background and provenance, except for those bishops who belonged to magnate families. Some years ago, when working on the political activities of Edward II's bishops, it seemed to me that social origins, family connexions and provenance might in a number of cases have had at least as much influence on a bishop's attitude to politics as his early career. I there fore collected information about the origins and provenance of these bishops. I now think that a rather more careful and complete study of this subject might throw further light not only on the political history of the reign, but on other problems connected with the character and work of the English episcopate. There is a general impression that in England in the later middle ages the bishops' ties with their dioceses were becoming less close, and that they were normally spending less time in diocesan work than their predecessors in the thirteenth century.

Women in Power and Decision making Positions : Conditions and Restraints

1970 ◽  
pp. 53-57
Author(s):  
Azza Charara Baydoun
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Political Life ◽  
The Political ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Policies And Procedures ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
Slow Progress

Women today are considered to be outside the political and administrative power structures and their participation in the decision-making process is non-existent. As far as their participation in the political life is concerned they are still on the margins. The existence of patriarchal society in Lebanon as well as the absence of governmental policies and procedures that aim at helping women and enhancing their political participation has made it very difficult for women to be accepted as leaders and to be granted votes in elections (UNIFEM, 2002).This above quote is taken from a report that was prepared to assess the progress made regarding the status of Lebanese women both on the social and governmental levels in light of the Beijing Platform for Action – the name given to the provisions of the Fourth Conference on Women held in Beijing in 1995. The above quote describes the slow progress achieved by Lebanese women in view of the ambitious goal that requires that the proportion of women occupying administrative or political positions in Lebanon should reach 30 percent of thetotal by the year 2005!

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