Reimagining the Nation : Mass Media and Collective Identities in Europe

Res Publica ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-203
Author(s):  
Jan Servaes
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Collective Identities ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Anthony Giddens ◽  
Benedict Anderson ◽  
Point Of Intersection

The interrelationschip of culture, nation and communication is one of the key themes in the study of collective identities and nationalism. In this opening article to this special issue this interrelationship is being assessed. The article aims to contribute to a discussion ofthe assumptions on which the above interrelationship is built.It is argued that nationhood is at the point of intersection with a plurality of discourses related to geography, history, culture, polities, ideology, ethnicity, religion, matriality, economics, and the social. The discourse of nationhood can best be understood in relation to boundedness, continuities and discontinuities, unnity and plurality, the authority of the past, and the imperative of the present.Contributions of a number of contemporary thinkers (Benedict Anderson, Wimal Dissanayake, Ernest Gellner, Sutart Hall, Eric Hosbawm, anthony Giddens, among others) are incorporated in this article in order to underline the complex and contested discursive terrain that nationhood undoubtedly is. It is concluded that various cultures also manifest different and fragmented identities.

scholarly journals Play! A Special Issue

Sexualities ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 136346072110136
Author(s):  
Caroline Bem ◽  
Susanna Paasonen
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Sexual Pleasure ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Sexuality Studies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Sexual Representation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sexual Play ◽  
Sex Toys

Sexuality, as it relates to video games in particular, has received increasing attention over the past decade in studies of games and play, even as the notion of play remains relatively underexplored within sexuality studies. This special issue asks what shift is effected when sexual representation, networked forms of connecting and relating, and the experimentation with sexual likes are approached through the notion of play. Bringing together the notions of sex and play, it both foregrounds the role of experimentation and improvisation in sexual pleasure practices and inquires after the rules and norms that these are embedded in. Contributors to this special issue combine the study of sexuality with diverse theoretical conceptions of play in order to explore the entanglements of affect, cognition, and the somatic in sexual lives, broadening current understandings of how these are lived through repetitive routines and improvisational sprees alike. In so doing, they focus on the specific sites and scenes where sexual play unfolds (from constantly morphing online pornographic archives to on- and offline party spaces, dungeons, and saunas), while also attending to the props and objects of play (from sex toys and orgasmic vocalizations to sensation-enhancing chemicals and pornographic imageries), as well as the social and technological settings where these activities occur. This introduction offers a brief overview of the rationale of thinking sex in and as play, before presenting the articles that make up this special issue.

scholarly journals “Cognitive Linguistics: Looking back, looking forward”

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 447-463 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dagmar Divjak ◽  
Natalia Levshina ◽  
Jane Klavan
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Past ◽  
European Data ◽  
Time Space ◽  
The Social ◽  
Theory Of Language ◽  
Looking Back ◽  
West European

AbstractSince its conception, Cognitive Linguistics as a theory of language has been enjoying ever increasing success worldwide. With quantitative growth has come qualitative diversification, and within a now heterogeneous field, different – and at times opposing – views on theoretical and methodological matters have emerged. The historical “prototype” of Cognitive Linguistics may be described as predominantly of mentalist persuasion, based on introspection, specialized in analysing language from a synchronic point of view, focused on West-European data (English in particular), and showing limited interest in the social and multimodal aspects of communication. Over the past years, many promising extensions from this prototype have emerged. The contributions selected for the Special Issue take stock of these extensions along the cognitive, social and methodological axes that expand the cognitive linguistic object of inquiry across time, space and modality.

scholarly journals Reflections, Anxieties, Developments & Quality

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. i-xi
Author(s):  
Gareth J Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Past ◽  
Research Journal ◽  
Communication Environment ◽  
The Social ◽  
Spectrum Disorders

This is the editorial for the twelfth issue of Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal, published spring 2019. This issue contains a number of articles including: examinations of autism spectrum disorders, Indonesian education policy, image processing for viral recognition, international students' interpersonal communication, and postgraduate event organisation. The issue also includes a full author and article index to the first six volumes of the journal. The editorial itself takes a reflective look back over the past year of development of the journal and the scholarly communication environment, drawing on some of the social media posts by the Editor-in-chief. It concludes with a call for papers on the theme of 'in-between spaces', and highlights some exciting special issue developments coming over the next 18 months.

Social Issues in Management: Comments on the Past and Future

2016 ◽  
Vol 58 (7) ◽  
pp. 1406-1412 ◽  
Author(s):  
Archie B. Carroll
Keyword(s):  
Social Issues ◽  
International Association ◽  
The Other ◽  
Business And Society ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Name Change ◽  
The Past ◽  
Program Chair ◽  
The Social ◽  
Intellectual Level

This essay comments on the past and the future of the Social Issues in Management (SIM) Division of the Academy of Management (AOM). The essay addresses the two major questions posed to the commentators on this special issue: First, does the past of the SIM Division provide any clues as to its future? Second, where is the SIM Division going or where should it be going? The author has been a member of SIM since 1971 and served as program chair in 1975 and division chair in 1976 to 1977. SIM is certainly a field at the community and administrative levels, and you could argue that SIM is a discipline, though we are interdisciplinary. It is not as certain that we are unique or distinctive at the intellectual level because we are not always that different in kind or quality from what is being done elsewhere in AOM, and there are more and more scholars in other divisions now working on topics that we once worked on exclusively. However, it is equally unlikely that many of the other AOM divisions could meet a test of intellectual uniqueness. The essay emphasizes some ideas that might help improve the intellectual rigor of the SIM meetings, and the value of alliances with Society for Business Ethics (SBE) and International Association for Business and Society (IABS). A division name change, even if desirable, is not a compelling issue.

scholarly journals Curriculum history and new agenda for research: A national and international landscape

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Mariano Gonzalez Delgado ◽  
Christine Woyshner
Keyword(s):  
Primary Sources ◽  
Voluntary Organizations ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Curriculum History ◽  
The Past ◽  
School Subjects ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Forces ◽  
New Directions

In the Introduction to this special issue, the editors review the field of curriculum history to date and present new ways of investigating the past of the course of study. Relying on the notion that curriculum is comprised of the discursive practices in educational settings that transcend location and time, they discuss research on the social and political forces that shaped school subjects and how researchers rely on textbooks as primary sources. After an overview of each essay, the editors reveal that new directions in curriculum history are focusing on transnational influences and curriculum as enacted outside of schools in such places as voluntary organizations and prisons.

scholarly journals Introduction: Yeats and Mass Communications

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
David Dwan ◽  
Emilie Morin
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Mass Communications ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Special Volume ◽  
Print Journalism ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Radio Broadcasting ◽  
The Social ◽  
Critical Approaches

W. B. Yeats’s pursuit of an audience led him into the world of mass media—a landscape populated first by newspapers and later by radios, which he learned to navigate with shrewdness and skill. The purpose of this special issue is to examine Yeats’s various ventures in mass communication. Enlisting a broad range of critical approaches, contributors to this volume show how the demands of print journalism and radio broadcasting informed Yeats’s poetics, his thinking about the social vocation of art, and his ideas about how literature might be best received and structured. The essays also examine the reception and legacies of Yeats’s experiments with mass media, showing how he was at once self-consciously archaic and exultantly avant-garde. This article provides an introduction to this special volume of International Yeats Studies and attendant critical concerns.

The intimate workings of culture: An introduction

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 141-150
Author(s):  
Christopher D Berk ◽  
Joshua B Friedman
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Collective Identities ◽  
Cultural Dynamics ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Indigenous Australia ◽  
The Social

This Cultural Dynamics Special Issue on “The Intimate Workings of Culture” examines the complex ways power, audience, and imagination are implicated in the social practices and politics of cultural intimacy. First theorized by Michael Herzfeld in 1997, cultural intimacy has proven to be a productive lens through which to explore the dialectic between the construction and contestation of collective identities. The contributors—Joshua Friedman, Jamie Shenton, Christopher Berk, and Tamar Shirinian—expand the concept’s geographical and contextual scope by applying it to Indigenous Australia, post-soviet states, American ethnic identity politics, and social media. The contributors’ shared emphasis on the emergent and indeterminate interrelationships between audience, imagination, power, and politics within the intimate workings of culture provides valuable templates for new arenas of analysis and inquiry.

Virtual Theme Collection: Body Politics: Making Black Lives Matter

2020 ◽  
pp. 002193472097007
Author(s):  
Molefi Kete Asante
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Black Studies ◽  
Body Politics ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
The Past ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
The Social

Few journals in the social sciences have published as much over the past twenty years on the reality of racial, cultural, and social inequality in law and practice as the Journal of Black Studies. In this special issue edited in the 50th year of the journal we have initiated a series related to the evolution of human relations that considers where we have been and what we need to arrive at the place where we should be. In this issue we look at the presence of violence against African descended people, the mediations of people, laws, and processes intervening in the nature of our interactions in order to establish a more humane future. This issue should allow teachers, scholars and students to re-evaluate and re-examine their own set of assumptions, actions, and potentialities in regard to humanity.

scholarly journals Care for the Other: Lessons from the streets of Athens

2020 ◽  
pp. 135050682092370
Author(s):  
Angie Voela
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identities ◽  
National Narratives ◽  
Social Body ◽  
Public Spheres ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Politics And Culture ◽  
The Future ◽  
Social Turmoil

Austerity in Greece resulted in poverty, political and social turmoil and intense debates about collective identities, citizenship and the future. One of the main arguments has been that the Greeks should re-evaluate their relationship with the past and their over-reliance on national narratives. The task of re-evaluation can only be accomplished in the public spheres of politics and culture, where individual and collective voices gradually transform the imaginary significations that animate the social body. One such voice is Rhea Galanaki, a novelist with a long and distinguished presence in Greek and European literature. The present article draws on her 2015 novel I Akra Tapeinosi (The Utter Humiliation) in order to flesh out a feminist political vision for the future. This vision draws inspiration from women’s struggles against patriarchy in past decades, and resonates with the concepts of vulnerability and care, contributing to thinking a compassionate alternative to the politics of despair within and beyond the Greek borders.

Stalking the Forest Coeval Fieldwork at the Site of Clashing Social Imaginaries

2001 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 29-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Hufford
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Social Imaginary ◽  
Reflexive Modernization ◽  
Environmental Decision Making ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Anthony Giddens

Over the past decade the concept of the social imaginary has gained considerable purchase in the social sciences, and in environmental studies as well, where the term "environmental imaginary" has begun appearing in the literature. (See R. Peet and M. Watts, Liberation Ecologies, London: Routledge 1996) The phenomenological study of how multiple collectively-wrought worlds may be anchored in the same physical space offers a way of retrieving the cultural and political aspects of ecological crisis that are typically bracketed out in environmental decision-making. This approach is one way of undertaking a critical task for the social sciences, which is, as Scott Lash puts it, "to lay bare the ontological foundations of communal being in the world" and to point, in the process, to "a grounded set of substantive goods as the basis of any sort of communal ethics" (Ulrich Beck, Anthony Giddens, and Scott Lash, Reflexive Modernization Stanford: Stanford University Press 1994).

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