scholarly journals The Madness of Jodh Singh: Patriotism and Paranoia in the Ghadar Archives

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Rohit Chopra
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
The Self ◽  
Mental Condition ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
British Government ◽  
Revolutionary Movement ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
American Society ◽  
The Relationship

My paper focuses on Jodh Singh, a marginal figure in the archives of the Ghadar Party, who was arrested for High Treason against the United States for his role in the “Hindu Conspiracy” plots aimed at the British government of India. Incarcerated in a California prison, Singh was moved to a sanatarium on displaying symptoms of insanity. Through a close reading of a web of archival documents and scholarly reflections—at the center of which lies the report of a commission appointed to inquire into his mental condition—I examine the account of the madness of Jodh Singh as a statement about patriotism and paranoia. In engagement with the work of Foucault, Guha, and scholars of the Ghadar movement, I describe how the record of Singh’s experiences indicts the juridical-legal-medical framework of American society as operating on a distinction between legtimate and illegitimate madness. I also examine how Jodh Singh points to the glimmers of a critique of the self-image of the Ghadar Party as a revolutionary movement committed to egalitarian principles. I conclude with a reflection on what Jodh Singh might tell us about the relationship between madness, political aspiration, and the yearning for solidarity.

ROOSEVELT'S MAN IN EUROPE

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-59
Author(s):  
Kenneth Weisbrode
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The United States ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Writing Style ◽  
World War ◽  
Literature And Politics ◽  
Self Image ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Second World

Lewis Einstein (1877–1967) was a little-known diplomat who became one of Theodore Roosevelt's closest advisers on European affairs. Roosevelt's attraction to Einstein derived not only from a keen writing style and considerable fluency in European history, literature and politics, but also from his instinct for anticipating the future of European rivalries and for the important role the United States could play there in preserving peace. The two men shared a perspective on the twentieth century that saw the United States as a central arbiter and enforcer of international order—a position the majority of Americans would accept and promote only after the Second World War. The relationship between Roosevelt and Einstein sheds light on the rising status of American diplomacy and diplomats and their self-image vis-à-vis Europe at the turn of the twentieth century.

Reinventing the Self in Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-38
Author(s):  
Radha Devi Sharma
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Identity Crisis ◽  
Interdisciplinary Studies ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Central Question ◽  
Female Protagonist ◽  
Foreign Land ◽  
American Society

Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine is a story of a young Punjabi woman named Jasmine whose life takes her from India to the United States, where she goes through many different destinies with her effort to reinvent her coherent self. Searching for and defining a new identity is a central question for immigrants living in a foreign land. The confusion of identity and cultural conflict pushes the immigrants into an identity crisis. The novel exposes how Jasmine, the female protagonist, as an outsider, strives to shape her identity to fit in the mainstream American society. Fortunately, she encounters confirmations of her shifting identity in different stages of her life. Instead of rejecting these identities and names in various phases, she seeks to create a harmonious relationship with those identities. In this context, this paper tries to explore on how she struggles throughout her life to reinvent the coherent self by her constant effort to assimilate to the alien culture and setting.Crossing the Border: International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies Vol.4(1) 2016: 29-38

‘Le petit coq gaullois’ or ‘the global diplomat’?

2011 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Hellman
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
International System ◽  
The United States ◽  
Us Foreign Policy ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Image ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Intellectual Elites ◽  
Over Time

•The aim of this article is to explore the extent to which the self-image of France expressed in relation to the United States has changed with changes in US foreign policy and paradigmatic changes in the international system. The article explores how the French political and intellectual elites related to the USA in the discourse of Le Monde and Le Figaro in 1984, 1994, 2004 and 2009. The analysis indicates that France’s self-image is connected to multilateralism, liberalism and cultural protectionism. The stabilizing effect of political culture is suggested as an explanation for the fact that the press represented France’s self-image in a more or less similar manner while different roles were ascribed to the USA over time. •

scholarly journals Fantasy, Mysticism, and Eroticism in Raja Alem’s Fatma

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-55
Author(s):  
Ghadir Zannoun K.
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabian ◽  
The Self ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Feminist Politics ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
Self Discovery ◽  
Alternate Reality ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Erotic

This paper is a close reading of Raja Alem’s 2005 novel, Fatma: A Novel of Arabia. I argue that Alem depicts the erotic in ways similar to Audre Lorde’s definition – as a doorway to self-fulfillment and in honor of the “fullness” of the erotic’s depth of feelings. The Saudi Arabian writer employs the fantastic, which has been used by writers to express feminist politics, to give textual embodiment to the relationship between the erotic, self-actualization, and women’s empowerment, central to which is self-knowledge and self-discovery. Alem suggests that a deeper knowledge of the self can open women to unlimited possibilities of being and perception, including a closer relationship to the natural and the supernatural worlds. Alem thus presents a female mythology that creates an alternate reality and undermines the binaries of patriarchal thinking, such as the corporeal/transcendent, the human/nonhuman, man/woman, and nature/culture.

Authority in Church and Society: Latin American Models

1978 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 517-544 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel H. Levine
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Church And Society ◽  
Patterns Of Behavior ◽  
American Society ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church ◽  
Latin American Society ◽  
Adequate Analysis

This article examines the relationship between the Catholic Church's self- image and the way its leaders and organizations perceive the world around them and act within it. By focusing on the development of central religious concepts, (most notably ‘authority’ and ‘the Church’) and their changing expression in organizational structures and patterns of behavior, a first step is taken toward a more complete and adequate analysis of the Church's evolving role in Latin American society and politics.

scholarly journals Impact of Consumers’ Self-Image and Demographics on Preference for Healthy Labeled Foods

SAGE Open ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 215824401667732 ◽  
Author(s):  
Savita Hanspal ◽  
P. Raj Devasagayam
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Preferences ◽  
The Self ◽  
Healthy Foods ◽  
Health Food ◽  
Health Consciousness ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Five Factors ◽  
Gender Education ◽  
Strategy Design ◽  
The Relationship

Consumers are becoming more health conscious. Increasingly, products that are labeled “healthy” are being marketed as new retailers and new brands vie for the consumers’ share of wallet. This research identifies the self-image factors that constitute a health conscious image of the self and examines how self-image impacts consumer buying of foods that are labeled healthy. It also makes an effort to find out whether specific self-image factors are significantly associated with demographics. This study employs a scale consisting of 15 statements that included four statements from the Health Consciousness scale developed by Gould. The psychometric properties of the scale used in the study are reported. The study uses factor analysis to identify five factors of consumer self-image as they relate to health consciousness. Furthermore, the study explores the relationship between demographics such as age, gender, education, and relationship status with the self-image factors and reports results for consumer preferences for choosing healthy foods when hungry. This research has important implications for marketers in the health food industry and for such other companies that might use consumer health consciousness as a basis for market segmentation and strategy design.

scholarly journals Rolul stimei de sine în formarea imaginii de sine la adolescenți

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-95
Author(s):  
Alina Zaharia
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Psychosocial Aspects ◽  
The Self ◽  
Social Contacts ◽  
Self Image ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Relationship

The main objective of this research consists in studying psychosocial aspects of the relationship that is established between the level of the quality of self image and self-esteem in adolescents. Self-esteem play an important role in the self image of teenagers and young people. Teenagers with a high level of self-esteem have clear and stable views about themselves, talk about them in a consistent, positive way. Teenagers with a low self-esteem have the feeling that they do not know too well each other and talk about them in a unreliable and ambiguous way. They are also pretty reserved in initiating social contacts.

The relationship between the self and the ingroup: When having a common conception helps 1The authors wish to thank Anne Maass, Luigi Castelli, Luciano Arcuri and Jeff Kiesner for their helpful comments on an earlier draft of this article.

1999 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 226-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Rosaria Cadinu ◽  
Leyla De Amicis
Keyword(s):  
Reaction Times ◽  
The Self ◽  
Balance Theory ◽  
Self Image ◽  
The Relationship

Consistent with balance theory, it was predicted that a balance is reached when the self and the ingroup are perceived in a similar way, leading participants to more rapid judgments and fewer errors judging the self and the ingroup. The goal of this study was to replicate and extend the results obtained by Smith and Henry (1996) who concluded that ingroup attributes become part of the self-image, thus facilitating the accessibility of self-information. In the present study, we included a condition measuring reaction times for ingroup ratings (as opposed to self-ratings) and found that both ingroup and self-ratings were facilitated when the self- and the ingroup descriptions matched. Therefore it is proposed that a common self-ingroup representation facilitates the access to both the self and the ingroup.

STOICS WHO SING: LESSONS IN CITIZENSHIP FROM EARLY MODERN LUCCA

2001 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 313-339 ◽  
Author(s):  
PETER N. MILLER
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
The Self ◽  
Roman History ◽  
The Political ◽  
Musical Culture ◽  
Political Literature ◽  
Political Ideas ◽  
Self Image ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

Lucca was the smallest and least important of the three Italian republics that survived the Renaissance. Venice and Genoa still command the attention of historians. But in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, for all that it might seem out-of-the-way, Lucca developed an extraordinary political literature. The regular election of senators was marked by the musical performance of a text, generally drawn from Roman history, that illustrated the way citizens of a republic were to behave. The poet and composer were natives and the event was a lesson in citizenship. A close look at the content of these serenades, or operas, makes clear that the republic's motto might have been Libertas but its teaching emphasized constantia. The themes and the heroes of Lucca's political literature were those we associate with neo-Stoicism. The relationship between neo-Stoicism and citizenship in early modern Lucca is the focus of this article. These texts present us with the self-image of an early modern republic and its understanding of what it meant to be a citizen. They are an important source for anyone interested in early modern debates about citizenship and in the political ideas that are conveyed in the commonplaces of baroque visual and musical culture.

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