scholarly journals Je suis Shakespeare: The Making of Shared Identities in France and Europe in Crisis

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (34) ◽  
pp. 31-53
Author(s):  
Nicole Fayard
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Shock Waves ◽  
Cultural Politics ◽  
Cultural Authority ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Romeo And Juliet ◽  
Cultural Productions ◽  
The Tempest ◽  
Strongly Connected

This essay investigates the ways in which Shakespearean production speaks to France and wider European crises in 2015 and 2016. The Tempest and Romeo and Juliet were directed by Jérôme Hankins and Eric Ruf respectively in December 2015 and reflected significant contemporaneous issues, including: (1) two Paris terrorist attacks which sent shock waves throughout France and Europe; (2) the belief that shared identities were under threat; (3) concerns over shifting power dynamics in Europe. The portrayal of these issues and their reception bring into question the extent to which cultural productions can help to promote social change or shape perceptions of national and pan-European events. This essay focuses on whether the plays successfully complicate binary narratives around cultural politics in a context of crises by creating alternative representations of difference and mobilities. It concludes that appropriating Shakespeare’s cultural authority encourages some degree of public debate. However, the function of Shakespeare’s drama remains strongly connected to its value as an agent of cultural, political and commercial mobility, ultimately making it difficult radically to challenge ideologies.

Shakespeare's Representation of Weather, Climate and Environment

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophie Chiari
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Free Will ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Early Modern England ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Romeo And Juliet ◽  
Midsummer Night's Dream ◽  
The Tempest ◽  
As You Like It ◽  
Ability To Act

While ecocritical approaches to literary texts receive more and more attention, climate-related issues remain fairly neglected, particularly in the field of Shakespeare studies. This monograph explores the importance of weather and changing skies in early modern England while acknowledging the fact that traditional representations and religious beliefs still fashioned people’s relations to meteorological phenomena. At the same time, a growing number of literati stood against determinism and defended free will, thereby insisting on man’s ability to act upon celestial forces. Yet, in doing so, they began to give precedence to a counter-intuitive approach to Nature. Sophie Chiari argues that Shakespeare reconciles the scholarly views of his time with more popular ideas rooted in superstition and that he promotes a sensitive, pragmatic understanding of climatic events. She pays particular attention to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It, Othello, King Lear, Anthony and Cleopatra, and The Tempest. Taking into account the influence of classical thought, each of the book’s seven chapters emphasises specific issues (e.g. cataclysmic disorders, the dog days’ influence, freezing temperatures, threatening storms) and considers the way climatic events were presented on stage and how they came to shape the production and reception of Shakespeare’s drama.

A Review on Oil and Gas Pipeline Safety

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rakesh Yarlagadda ◽  
M. Affan Badar ◽  
Boris Blyukher
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Shock Waves ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Manufacturing Defects ◽  
Material Defects ◽  
Oil And Natural Gas ◽  
Pipeline Safety ◽  
Day By Day

The safety of oil and gas pipelines has increasingly considered day by day to their vulnerability. Pipelines play a very critical role in the transportation of oil and natural-gas. As they have become the veins of oil industries, the productive design and analysis became more important. This made them more vulnerable to terrorist attacks. Although it is impossible to design pipelines to withstand any conceivable damage due to external (terrorist attacks, seismic effects) and internal effects (design and manufacturing defects), it is possible to improve the performance of pipelines. By understanding the design criteria, it saves lots of money and more over human lives and also protects the product in pipelines, which cannot be recovered and which is more and more scares day by day. This research aims: 1) to understand the different types of pipeline damages, reasons for their occurrence and their effects on the pipelines, such as mechanical damages, material defects, cracks, manufacturing defects, 2) to understand the explosions in pipelines, internal or external explosions and seismic distress, 3) to do research and literature review in analytical and numerical methods which allow researching the influence of shock waves (explosions, seismic), 4) to develop description of experimental research of pipelines subjected to shock waves (explosions, seismic), 5) to establish an effective methodology (develop mathematical model) to study the risk management in pipeline exploitation which can be subjected to such conditions like shock waves (caused by explosions, seismic, as well as mining activities) on pipeline systems (buried, on surface, or underwater), and 6) to establish criteria for risk management. This paper includes a review of the related literature covering the first two goals.

scholarly journals Shakespeare and Botswana Politics in 2014

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-78
Author(s):  
Daniel Koketso
Keyword(s):  
Julius Caesar ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Merchant Of Venice ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
Romeo And Juliet ◽  
New Words ◽  
The Merchant Of Venice ◽  
Political Events ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
General Elections

Shakespeare’s influence cannot be confined by subject, theme, spatial and/or temporal setting. His works transcend disciplines and geographical identity. He is a linguist, a psychiatrist, ecologist and a political, social and economic commentator. Three thousand new words and phrases all first appeared in print in Shakespeare’s plays. Through Shylock’s resolve on three thousand ducats repayment, readers of The Merchant of Venice learn about the dangers of a cash nexus on human relations. The major tragedies and tragicomedies impart knowledge about politics at both national and family levels. Julius Caesar; Macbeth; King Lear; Othello, and Romeo and Juliet each touches on the important aspect of power dynamics in the private and public spheres. This paper considers some of the major political events in the build-up to the 2014 Botswana general elections and compares them to Shakespeare’s political intrigue in Julius Caesar. The paper concludes that there is credibility in Oscar Wilde’s argument in his 1889 essay ‘The Decay of Lying,’ that "Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life" (Wilde, 1889, p. 11).

scholarly journals Rwandan Genocide Conflict Represented in the Novel “Led by Faith”

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (01) ◽  
pp. 21-30
Author(s):  
Marisa Santi Dewi ◽  
Mundi Rahayu
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
World History ◽  
Conflict Theory ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Rwandan Genocide ◽  
Analysis Techniques ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World

This study discusses the ethnic conflict in the Rwandan genocide in the novel Led by Faith: Rising from The Ashes of Rwandan Genocide written by Immaculée Ilibagiza. The novel is set in Rwanda, the country that was known as the place of the fastest killing in the world history, within 100 days killed more than 800.000 people. This novel is based on the author’s experience in surviving from the Rwandan genocide. Therefore, it is interesting to discuss how the author represented the genocide in the novel. This study applied conflict theory by Dahrendorf which focus on four aspect: Two aspects of society (conflict and consensus), power and authority, the groups involved in the conflict, and conflict and social change. The data are taken from the novel Led by Faith by using descriptive analysis techniques. The study reveals that the conflict between Hutu and Tutsi ethnics was represented as the power dynamics among the authorities. The conflict influenced the social change and social structure of the Rwandan society.

scholarly journals Cultural Studies, Critical Theory and Critical Discourse Analysis: Histories, Remembering and Futures

2003 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Terry Threadgold
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Cultural Politics ◽  
The Other ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Local Contexts ◽  
Global And Local

In this paper I have explored some of the histories which inevitably connect, but also differentiate, critical discourse analysis and cultural studies. I have argued that both are strongly influenced by the versions of critical theory which have been characterised as 'postmodernism' and 'poststructuralism' and that both could benefit not only from some serious engagement with the several disciplines from which their interdisciplinarity is derived but also from some further in depth exploration of the critical theory which informs them and which they have often 'translated' or 'co-opted' in reductionist ways. I have also argued that the claims sometimes made for critical discourse analysis are inflated and that without serious ethnographies and attention to the theorisation as well as research of contexts those claims cannot really be sustained. On the other hand 'resignification' or the cultural politics of CDA are important agendas and we need to do much more work on establishing exactly how social change can be effected through the kinds of work CDA could do. My conclusion is that we need to reframe and recontextualise the ways in which we define and perform CDA and that that will involve bringing cultural studies and critical discourse analysis together in productive new ways with other disciplinary and theoretical formations and with proper attention to the new and different global and local contexts in which we work.

scholarly journals Política cultural institucional como medio de transformación. La experiencia en la Comunidad Foral de Navarra = Institutional Cultural Politics as a Means of transformation. An experience in the Comunidad Foral de Navarra

2020 ◽  
pp. 319
Author(s):  
Celia Martín Larumbe ◽  
Roberto Peña León
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Cultural Politics ◽  
Present Situation ◽  
Local Administration ◽  
Gender Perspective ◽  
Course Of Action ◽  
The World ◽  
Current Context ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Opening Up

El actual contexto de cambio social está afectando al sector de la Cultura y, de manera específica, al sistema del arte. Dentro del mismo, la institución «museo» se ha visto afectada de una manera especial por este escenario de transformación. Los debates en el sector (ICOM, OME) permiten introducir propuestas diversas para abordar este escenario. Aparecen así nuevos planteamientos y líneas de abordaje, presentándose la perspectiva de género como la más potente y adecuada para ello. En este artículo se presentan el conjunto de acciones llevadas a cabo en la Comunidad Foral de Navarra desde el aparato institucional en los últimos años, amparados por una legislación diseñada en este sentido y que ya ha empezado a dar resultados, abriendo caminos que prometen ser muy interesantes: reflexión autocrítica, remodelación de la exposición permanente, exposiciones temporales de nuevo cuño, visitas guiadas, etc. La actual situación requiere sistematizar estos medios y procedimientos y mantener la dirección usando las sinergias generadas y apoyándose en las reflexiones ya elaboradas con éxito.AbstractThe current context of social change is affecting the world of Culture, and specifically the Art system. Within this area the «museum» as an institution has been deeply affected  by this transformation scenario. The discussions in this sector (ICOM, OME) allow us to introduce diverse suggestions to deal with this issue. This is how new proposals and approaches have appeared, being the gender perspective the most powerful and accurate tool to achieve that. In this article we present a number of actions carried out in the CFN by the local Administration in the last few years, supported by some laws designed in this direction; actions that have already yielded good results, opening up new paths that can be very interesting: self-criticism reflection, reorganization of the permanent exhibition, temporary exhibitions with a new perspective, guided visits, etc. The present situation demands to structure these tools and procedures, in order to maintain this course of action, using the generated synergies and relying on the successful reflections already accomplished.

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