scholarly journals Le portrait dystopique de « la France qui vient » dans Jamais de guerre civile le mardi d’Yves Bourdillon José Domingues de Almeida

2021 ◽  
pp. 56-68
Author(s):  
José Domingues de Almeida
Keyword(s):  
Political Context ◽  
The Public ◽  
Guerre Civile

We propose a fictional reading of the contemporary French socio-political context from the analysis of the prospective novel Jamais de guerre civile le mardiby Yves Bourdillon (2020). It will be a question of reviewing the components of a national malaise caused by the identity upheavals that France has been experiencing for forty years and which leaves the threat of a fantasyorreal conflict, but whose hypothesis is pervasive in the public and media debate.

scholarly journals Making Whiteness Visible and Felt in Fairview

Humanities ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Michael Pearce
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
White Privilege ◽  
Political Context ◽  
White People ◽  
The Public ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
Audience Responses ◽  
The Public Sphere

In this article I analyse how Jackie Sibblies Drury’s play Fairview makes white audience members feel white. As a play that exposes whiteness and calls white people to account for their racism, Fairview speaks to contemporary global antiracist activism efforts. Therefore, I begin by situating Fairview in the transatlantic cultural and political context of Black Lives Matter. I then discuss the theatrical devices Drury employs in Fairview in order to make whiteness felt before going on to analyse a range of white audience responses to the production at London’s Young Vic Theatre in 2019/2020. I reflect on these responses in relation to how white people react to accusations of white privilege and power in the public sphere and identify shared strategies for sustaining whiteness. In conclusion, I consider Fairview as a model of affective antiracist activism.

The Public Festival: Inspiration and interconnectivity at the heart of festivals

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathrin Deventer
Keyword(s):  
Interest Groups ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Political Context ◽  
The Political ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Abstract Theory ◽  
The Public ◽  
Fertile Ground ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Way

Festivals have been around, and will always be around; no matter the political context they are embedded in, supported by, or hindered by. Why? Simply because society develops, it transforms, it is dynamic and it needs space for reflection and inspiration. Festivals are platforms for people to meet, and for artists to present their work, their creations. This gives festivals an enduring, quite independent mission and reason to exist: as long as festivals strive to offer a biotope for artists and audiences alike and point to questions which concern the way we live and want to live, they will be a fertile ground for a meaningful development of society – and an offer for serving the public wellbeing. What are the challenges festivals are facing today? There are a series of very complex questions related to festivals’ positioning us as human beings in an interconnected, global society, our relation to nature and the immediate surroundings, our stories of life so that as many citizens as possible can be part of the societal discourse, can be enriched, can be touched, can be heard, can be moved. Individuals, interest groups, nationalities, countries, even continents are interconnected. What does this mean for a festival? Travelling across Europe for work and pleasure and meeting citizens from all walks of life has taught me that citizens, a term that connects individuals to some larger constructed community, are just people, everyday people, going about their lives. People connect with other humans and their human stories, real life encounters. Abstract theory and jargon are meaningless when they lack real life connections. Meaningful festivals of the future will offer possibilities for new connections among people: they invite people to travel in time and in space; they inspire to connect human stories, enriching them with new, unexpected, colourful stories!

INDIA, POST-IMPERIALISM AND THE ORIGINS OF ENOCH POWELL'S ‘RIVERS OF BLOOD’ SPEECH

2007 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 669-687 ◽  
Author(s):  
PETER BROOKE
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Primary Concern ◽  
The Public ◽  
Post War

ABSTRACTIn January 2003 Enoch Powell's personal archive was opened to the public. The release shed new light on the nature of Powell's thought on immigration, and in particular, his reasons for making the so-called ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech of 1968. Historians have suggested that Powell's primary concern was a post-imperialist desire to sever all links with the New Commonwealth. However, papers written immediately after Powell's time in India (1943–6) reveal that his objections to immigration were established long before he abandoned his fierce love of empire in 1954. These objections were rooted in a seemingly liberal commitment to national homogeneity as a prerequisite for democracy. The imagery, reasoning, and political context of Powell's speeches in 1968 demonstrate a striking continuity with his ideas of 1946. Powell's example suggests that British attitudes to mass immigration may owe more to the experience of empire than to post-war changes in national identity.

Second Generation Reform in Latin America: Reforming the public sector in Uruguay and Mexico

2005 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 667-691 ◽  
Author(s):  
FRANCISCO PANIZZA ◽  
GEORGE PHILIP
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Political Context ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Public ◽  
Reform Legislation ◽  
The Way

Uruguay and Mexico have both passed laws aiming to professionalise the public sector bureaucracy according to what might be considered ‘second generation’ reform principles. They did so under what might initially have seemed to be politically unpropitious circumstances. The reforms might have been vetoed by interests that feared that they would lose out from the changes, but were not. They might have been blocked by conditions of minority presidentialism, but were not. This article seeks to explain the successful passing of this reform legislation. Framing issues played a significant role in reducing opposition. Notably important was the way in which the reforms were presented, and specifically the ability of their proponents to avoid presenting them as market-friendly reforms. The political context also provided the reformers with arguments that in the end proved persuasive.

The Calgary 2026 Olympic Bid Plebiscite as Affective Urbanism

2020 ◽  
pp. 019372352096497
Author(s):  
Harry H. Hiller
Keyword(s):  
Political Context ◽  
The Public ◽  
Binary Nature ◽  
Civic Discourse ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
New Perspective

An analysis of the Calgary 2026 Olympic bid plebiscite/referendum held in 2018 adds a new perspective to the literature on bidding by shifting from the cognitive/organizational elements of the bid to the emotive dynamics within the bid city conceptualized as affective urbanism. The socioeconomic and political context and the binary nature of the plebiscite question provide the framework to explain the negative vote. Using the civic discourse of local residents as data for the study, the public emotions created by confusion, fear, and anger are identified, which resulted in two opposing but competitive affective voting options: affirming affectivity and aversive affectivity. A binary reversal made a negative vote into an instrument of power and a positive affirmation of the city’s future.

scholarly journals On the origins, meaning and influence of Jensen and Meckling’s definition of the firm

2020 ◽  
Vol 72 (4) ◽  
pp. 966-984 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Gindis
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Responsibility ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Corporate Law ◽  
The Public ◽  
Legal Fiction ◽  
Definition Of

Abstract Jensen and Meckling’s 1976 definition of the firm as a legal fiction which serves as a nexus for contracts between individuals sits well with the Coasean narrative on the firm while at the same time being at odds with it. Available interviews with Jensen shed little light on the origins and meaning of this unusual definition. The article shows how the definition captured, and was a response to, the American socio-political context of the early and mid-1970s, and traces how Jensen and Meckling employed it once they themselves became immersed in the public debate about corporate responsibility and regulation in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It also considers Jensen and Meckling’s place in the literature on the economics of corporate law developed mostly in the 1980s.

The Trials

2019 ◽  
pp. 229-242
Author(s):  
Joshua Cole
Keyword(s):  
Political Context ◽  
The Public ◽  
French Colonial

The trials of those charged with murder during the August 1934 riots in Constantine took place in July 1935 and February 1936, in the midst of a rapidly deteriorating political atmosphere in Algeria. I argue that the evidence points to a degree of collusion among the prosecutors and defense lawyers to control the narrative of the riots that emerged in the public accounts of the trials. Mohamed El Maadi appeared briefly in one of the trials as a witness for the prosecution, and the lawyers on all sides reinforced the assumption that the story of the riots was best understood as contrasting “Jewish” and “Muslim” narratives that had little to do with the broader political context of French colonial reforms.

Shock and Containment

2019 ◽  
pp. 148-166
Author(s):  
Joshua Cole
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Jewish Population ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
The Political ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Muslim Population ◽  
The Public ◽  
Early Discussion

In the aftermath of the violence, local authorities moved quickly to assign blame, while the political establishment worked to contain the ensuing political crisis that had emerged from the breakdown of social order. The vulnerability of the Jewish population, visible at the public funeral of the victims the following week, and the embarrassment of the Prefecture at their inability to maintain control, dominated the early discussion of the riot and its immediate consequences. The chapter concludes with an analysis of the report prepared by the official investigating commission appointed by the Governor General’s office, which blamed an atmosphere of primitive religious fanaticism among Algeria’s Muslim population for the outbreak of violence, and refused to recognize the broader political context of the conflict.

‘Guardian of the Solemn Pact’ – The Role of the Constitutional Court in South Africa’s Constitutional Transition

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 355-385
Author(s):  
Brynne Guthrie
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Constitutional Democracy ◽  
Unique Role ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Impact

The Constitutional Court of South Africa has played a unique role in the country’s constitutional transition. This paper starts by detailing the historical and political context of the Interim Constitution which created the Constitutional Court and the constitutional principles. The article describes the approach of the Court in the First Certification Judgment (1996), analysing the impact of the Constitutional Court’s decision on the drafting of the final Constitution and the public more generally, before briefly outlining the role that the Court continues to play in protecting constitutional democracy as a ‘Guardian of the Solemn Pact’.

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