scholarly journals The European Crisis of Politics: Ethnoreligious Pluralism and the Rise of Radical Populism and Far-Right in Europe

2018 ◽  
pp. 19-25
Author(s):  
Cristina Astier ◽  
Ander Errasti
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Basic Structure ◽  
Western World ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Far Right ◽  
The Public ◽  
European Crisis ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Welfare State

It is not highly contentious to claim that the 2008 global economic crisis may be also understood as a failure of the welfare state in European countries. The rise of economic inequalities in Europe, as a major sequel of the 2008 economic crisis and the increase of migrant flows, has fostered and become a breeding ground for racial, religious, or ideological hatred in the western world. However, compared to previous periods in recent history when tensions arose, citizens can now channel their feelings, thoughts, and political ideals through the institutions of the state’s basic structure. Thus, citizens are having a say by channelling their claims through democratic means and different forms of political participation. One relevant articulation has been new expressions of radical populism, nativism, and far-right ideologies which have burst into the public sphere, at the local, regional, and European levels. This combination has turned the economic and refugee crisis into what is mainly a crisis of European politics.Published online: 31 October 2018

scholarly journals Poetics of Refraction

2021 ◽  
Vol 74 (3) ◽  
pp. 35-45
Author(s):  
Christian Rossipal
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Face ◽  
Experimental Approaches ◽  
European Refugee Crisis ◽  
The Public Sphere

Reduced to temporary guests, victims, threats, or enemies, those who are forced to seek refuge have to navigate a political minefield. To seek recognition in the public sphere is an especially treacherous endeavor under these conditions. Faced with a range of imposed identities–including the refugee label itself–the quest for “more visibility” through documentary images is fraught with contradictions for the displaced. This article considers the ways in which filmmakers and artists with experience of displacement work with documentary methods and forms in the face of these extreme difficulties. As they challenge and seek alternatives to conventional forms of documentary, a range of new expressions and tendencies can be discerned in the wake of “The European Refugee Crisis,” from so-called participatory documentary to essayistic and more experimental approaches. The article discusses, among other films, Purple Sea (2020), Midnight Traveler (2019), and My New European Life (2019).

Precarity Talk: A Virtual Roundtable with Lauren Berlant, Judith Butler, Bojana Cvejić, Isabell Lorey, Jasbir Puar, and Ana Vujanović

2012 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 163-177 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
Labor Politics ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Lauren Berlant

With reference to the ongoing economic “crisis,” several European and American scholars discuss the concept and politics of precarity. As their conversation shows, precarity is inextricable from our ever-shifting understandings of bodies, labor, politics, the public sphere, space, life, the human, and what it means to live with others.

Gender, Metaphor and the State

1996 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 118-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marian Sawer
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
The State ◽  
Social Regulation ◽  
Private Sphere ◽  
The Public ◽  
Self Reliance ◽  
Social Liberalism ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Welfare State

The neo-liberal upsurge of the last twenty years and the neo-liberal case against the welfare state has gained much of its emotional force from a sub-text which is highly gendered. Whereas social liberalism had contained the promise of more autonomy within the private sphere and more caring values in the public sphere, neo-liberalism depicts the results of social liberalism as a loss of self reliance – through ‘over-protection’ by the state in the public sphere and usurpation of male roles in the private sphere. The identification of the welfare state as female (the ‘nanny state’) helps fuel resentment on the part of those already confused by rapidly changing gender roles. This paper tracks the sex change which took place in the image of the liberal state as it evolved out of the night watchman state – the link between the women's suffrage movement and social regulation, maternal principles of distribution and demands for the public organization of caring. It examines the neo-liberal rejection of the breast and neo-liberal claims that the maternal state is incompatible with ‘self-reliance’ and a barrier to competitiveness in the world market.

Pliuvium’s Unholy Trinity: Russian Nationhood, Anti-Semitism, and the Public Sphere after 1905

Experiment ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-116
Author(s):  
Stephen M. Norris
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Far Right ◽  
The Public ◽  
Imperial Culture ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Right

Abstract This article focuses on anti-Semitic cartoons published in the right-wing, satirical, illustrated newspaper Pliuvium, which appeared in Russia after the 1905 Revolution. The illustrated journal represented one of the new, far-right media outlets in the wake of the events of 1905 and its editors sought to redefine Russia as a traditional monarchy, home to ethnic Russians. To accomplish this aim, Pliuvium employed caricaturists who drew contrasts between Russians and Jews, turning the latter into the antithesis of the nation. Through close readings of several anti-Semitic images from the newspaper, the author seeks to reveal the broader historical forces contained within them. In the end, these cartoons help us understand the “unholy trinity” comprising the ugly side of Russian nationhood, racism in Russian imperial culture, and the emergence of far-right publics by 1905.

Coming to Terms with the State: Maternalist Politics and the Development of the Welfare State in Weimar Germany

1997 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christiane Eifert
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
The State ◽  
Women's Movements ◽  
The Public ◽  
Weimar Germany ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Political Persuasion ◽  
The Welfare State

For some time now, maternalism has been recognized as “one of women's chief avenues into the public sphere.” It has dominated the politics of women's movements in different countries, regardless of political persuasion, since at least the 1850s. The term maternalism has been used to describe “ideologies and discourses that exalted women's capacity to mother and applied to society as a whole the values they attached to that role: care, nurturance, and morality.”

scholarly journals Religion and the Public Sphere in Premodern India

2018 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-176
Author(s):  
Christian Lee Novetzke
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Western World ◽  
Social Difference ◽  
13Th Century ◽  
The Public ◽  
Liberal Democratic ◽  
Full Shift ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Key Aspects

Abstract When in 1962 Habermas formulated his theory of the public sphere as “a society engaged in critical debate” he sought to describe something he felt was unique to the modern liberal democratic Western world. Yet the creation of discursive spheres where people across lines of social difference debate questions of the common good, mutual interest, and forms of equality long predates the modern era and flourished well outside the “Western” world. This essay adapts Habermas’ influential concept to highlight the emergence of a nascent public sphere at the earliest layers of Marathi literary creation in 13th century India. At this inaugural stage of a regional language’s full shift to writing, we see traces of a debate in the language of everyday life that struggled over the ethics of social difference, a public deliberation that might presage key aspects of Indian modernity and democracy today.

The term ‘Populism’ as a combat-concept and a catchword

2019 ◽  
Vol 45 (9-10) ◽  
pp. 1144-1156
Author(s):  
María Pía Lara
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Previous Article ◽  
Present Moment ◽  
Liberal Politics ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Political Economic

Following a previous article where I defined how a concept becomes a weapon of ideological wars, this article seeks to clarify why there are semantic connections of the actual concept of ‘populism’ with the semantics of the concept of crisis (illness, destruction of democracy, salvation or condemnation). My key argument is to focus on how actors use the concept of populism on the public sphere with the goal to inspire fear instead of allowing citizens and theorists to understand what is behind our present political–economic crisis. In my view, both theorists and politicians should be aware how a concept that lacks any precision does not help us to understand our present moment of crisis. We must use other tools and the help of historians to understand why has neo-liberal politics unleashed this present crisis.

scholarly journals Flashmobs as Performance and the Re-emergence of Creative Communities

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-27
Author(s):  
Aristita Ioana Albacan
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Cultural Economy ◽  
Western World ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere

ABSTRACT In spite of their very brief history - the first modern flashmob took place at Macy's in NY, on the evening of 17th of June 2003 - flashmobs have rapidly spread throughout the Western world, developing in recent years into a particularly novel mode of performance that stimulates the re-emergence - even if temporary and fleeting - of creative communities, whilst responding to a range of topics of societal currency: political, cultural, artistic, everyday life etc. Flashmobs become visible within the public sphere via short, exciting performative acts perceived as playful and liberating. In processual terms, flashmobs as performances pertaining to a globalized, neo-liberal cultural economy, hybridize conventions and practices from live, online, and mobile media in novel, unprecedented ways.

scholarly journals Rechtspopulismus als Krisenbearbeitung

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (186) ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Opratko
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
The Public ◽  
Right Wing Populism ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Modes Of Engagement

The article discusses the rise of right-wing populism in Europe in the context of neoliberal capitalism’s „crisis of hegemony“. The cases of the Austrian FPÖ and Germany’s AfD are analyzed as instances of an „autoritarian populism“, intervening into this crisis and offering subjective modes of engagement with it. Three dimensions of the crisis of hegemony are considered in particular: A crisis of political representation, a crisis of the public sphere, and an economic crisis.

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