scholarly journals Rethinking 3.11's Mediascape through Japan Sinks 2020

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 92-120
Author(s):  
Yaochong Yang
Keyword(s):  
Counter Narratives ◽  
The Face ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
International Status

This paper examines Science SARU's Netflix show, Japan Sinks 2020, notably its departure from the general apocalyptic ideology of previous primary Japan Sinks texts. By reframing it through the disaster lens of 3.11, Japan Sinks 2020 sheds light on significant inequalities between global and regional images. As the first internationally aired Japan Sinks media, Japan Sinks 2020 leverages contemporary streaming practices to propose ongoing counter-narratives of the Japanese state, its actors, and the urban-rural divides which have preceded – and continue – in the face of 3.11. Drawing upon Komatsu's last words on the international status of the 3.11 disaster, Japan Sinks 2020 is a post-3.11 text addressing aspects of Japanese disaster fiction mainly ignored by previous Japan Sinks texts and simultaneously reignites less-discussed challenges associated with the 3.11 mediascape.

scholarly journals Niqab –as a Symbol of Resistance: Muslim Women’s Experiences With the Face Veil

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sadia Jamal
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Counter Narratives ◽  
The Face

Niqab, the practice of veiling the face, is adopted by a small percentage of Muslim women in Canada, yet it is the most controversial piece of clothing. Such a practice is stereotypically seen as ‘backwards’, unwarranted, and forced. Some will even go as far as declaring the religious practice as “un-Canadian”– demanding a public ban. But for Muslim women, the Niqab means so much more and it can be defined in many ways. This MRP is a narrative analysis of three Niqabi experiences of this Islamic practice. With Islam as the worldview or lens for this research, these three stories serve as ‘counter narratives’, showing Niqab as a symbol of resistance, power and choice. They also serve as education for those seeking to better support and understand Niqab. In the words of one scholar thinking about this moment during COVID-19, of veiling the face, it might be that “We are all Niqabis now.” Key Words: Niqab, face veil, face-veil, Burqa, Hijab, Muslim, Muslim women, Islam, resiliency, resilient, niqab ban, burqa ban, COVID-19, Coronavirus, pandemic, Islamophobia, 9/11

scholarly journals Niqab –as a Symbol of Resistance: Muslim Women’s Experiences With the Face Veil

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sadia Jamal
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Counter Narratives ◽  
The Face

Niqab, the practice of veiling the face, is adopted by a small percentage of Muslim women in Canada, yet it is the most controversial piece of clothing. Such a practice is stereotypically seen as ‘backwards’, unwarranted, and forced. Some will even go as far as declaring the religious practice as “un-Canadian”– demanding a public ban. But for Muslim women, the Niqab means so much more and it can be defined in many ways. This MRP is a narrative analysis of three Niqabi experiences of this Islamic practice. With Islam as the worldview or lens for this research, these three stories serve as ‘counter narratives’, showing Niqab as a symbol of resistance, power and choice. They also serve as education for those seeking to better support and understand Niqab. In the words of one scholar thinking about this moment during COVID-19, of veiling the face, it might be that “We are all Niqabis now.” Key Words: Niqab, face veil, face-veil, Burqa, Hijab, Muslim, Muslim women, Islam, resiliency, resilient, niqab ban, burqa ban, COVID-19, Coronavirus, pandemic, Islamophobia, 9/11

The International Status of Migrant Workers

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-60
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Christopher
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
50Th Anniversary ◽  
Workforce Diversity ◽  
Economic Competition ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Uk ◽  
International Status

April 2018 marked the 50th anniversary month in the UK of Enoch Powell's “rivers of blood” speech, widely condemned for its anti-immigrant, racist rhetoric. Time has shown how wrong Powell was; and over the decades Britain has become more, not less, tolerant. The concept of workforce diversity has gained enormous support, due in part to international politics of economic competition, technological progress, increasing emphasis on the importance of human rights; and immigration. The article discusses answers to the question: in the face of this consensus, why are xenophobic arguments (communicated worldwide through mass media) increasingly allowed to foster global climates of fear of, and resistance to, immigrant labour? Answers seem to lie in political and social pressures on governments that constrain them to discriminate against migrants and refugees seeking immigration. Reasons for this are discussed and - since consensus is so strong on the benefits of workforce diversity - possible remedies are suggested.

The International Status of Migrant Workers

2019 ◽  
pp. 8-30
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Mary Christopher
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
50Th Anniversary ◽  
Workforce Diversity ◽  
Economic Competition ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Uk ◽  
International Status

April 2018 marked the 50th anniversary month in the UK of Enoch Powell's “rivers of blood” speech, widely condemned for its anti-immigrant, racist rhetoric. Time has shown how wrong Powell was; and over the decades Britain has become more, not less, tolerant. The concept of workforce diversity has gained enormous support, due in part to international politics of economic competition, technological progress, increasing emphasis on the importance of human rights; and immigration. The article discusses answers to the question: in the face of this consensus, why are xenophobic arguments (communicated worldwide through mass media) increasingly allowed to foster global climates of fear of, and resistance to, immigrant labour? Answers seem to lie in political and social pressures on governments that constrain them to discriminate against migrants and refugees seeking immigration. Reasons for this are discussed and - since consensus is so strong on the benefits of workforce diversity - possible remedies are suggested.

Hungry for Change: Urban Bias and Autocratic Sovereign Default

2016 ◽  
Vol 70 (2) ◽  
pp. 313-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cameron Ballard-Rosa
Keyword(s):  
Sovereign Debt ◽  
Food Prices ◽  
Sovereign Default ◽  
Term Survival ◽  
Urban Bias ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Debt Default ◽  
The Face ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
Food Imports

AbstractWhat drives autocrats to default on their sovereign debt? This article develops the first theory of sovereign debt default in autocracies that explicitly investigates survival incentives of political actors in nondemocracies. Self-interested elites, fearful of threats to their tenure because of urban unrest, may be willing to endure the long-term borrowing costs that defaulting creates rather than risk the short-term survival costs of removing cheap food policies for urban consumers. I test my main claims that both urbanization and food imports should be associated with greater likelihood of autocratic default using panel data covering forty-three countries over fifty years, finding that autocracies that are more reliant on imported food and that are more urbanized are significantly more likely to be in default on their external sovereign debt. I emphasize the regime-contingent nature of these effects by demonstrating that they are reversed when considering democratic sovereign default. I also substantiate the mechanisms put forward in my theory through illustrative historical cases of sovereign debt default in Zambia and Peru, in which I demonstrate that fear of urban unrest in the face of rapidly increasing food prices did indeed drive autocratic elites to default on international debt obligations. In addition to providing the first political theory of debt default in autocracies, the article introduces two robust predictors of autocratic default that have been overlooked in previous work, and highlights the importance of urban-rural dynamics in nondemocratic regimes.

scholarly journals Near Future Teaching: Practice, policy and digital education futures

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 607-625
Author(s):  
Sian Bayne ◽  
Michael Gallagher
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Policy Initiative ◽  
Digital Education ◽  
Counter Narratives ◽  
Technology In Teaching ◽  
Alternative Future ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
University Communities ◽  
The Face ◽  
Near Future

When considering digital futures for universities it is the instrumentalising narratives developed by corporate ‘ed-tech’ which often drive the debate. These are narratives which, aligning tightly to marketisation, unbundling and other dominant ideological trends, describe a highly technologised, datafied and surveillant future for teaching. This future is often framed as an imperative, leaving university communities with the sense that a future is being designed for them over which they have relatively little control. This paper describes the theory, methods and outcomes of a project which set out to counter this tendency, using participative, co-design methods within a ‘top down’ policy initiative to envision an alternative future for digital education within our own institution. Our starting point was that universities need to get better at crafting their own, compelling counter-narratives concerning the future of technology in teaching, in order to assert the agency and presence of the academic and student bodies in the face of technological change. In working toward this, we drew on recent thinking in anticipation studies in education and developed an original methodology for participative futures work within universities. The paper reports on the outcomes of this project, and its implications for the sector more generally, arguing that university communities can work to define their own digital futures through an emphasis on collectivity, participation and hope.

scholarly journals ‘ISIS is not Islam’: Epistemic Injustice, Everyday Religion, and Young Muslims’ Narrative Resistance

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sveinung Sandberg ◽  
Sarah Colvin
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Religious Community ◽  
Epistemic Injustice ◽  
Counter Narratives ◽  
Religious Extremism ◽  
The Face ◽  
Everyday Religion

Abstract Powerful narratives that invoke religious concepts—jihad, Sharia, shahid, Caliphate, kuffar, and al-Qiyāmah—have accompanied jihadi violence but also inspired robust counter-narratives from Muslims. Taking a narrative criminological approach, we explore the rejection of religious extremism that emerges in everyday interactions in a religious community under intense pressure in Western societies. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 90 young Muslims in Norway, we argue that young Muslims suffer epistemic injustice in their narrative exclusion from the mainstream and assess the narrative credibility they try to maintain in the face of marginalization. We suggest that young Muslims’ religious narratives reject a mainstream characterization of Islam as essentially a religion of aggression and simultaneously join forces with that mainstream in seeking the narrative exclusion of the jihadi extremists.

“They Got Rid of the Naps, That’s All They Did”

2018 ◽  
pp. 133-160
Author(s):  
Ralina L. Joseph
Keyword(s):  
Young Women ◽  
Code Switching ◽  
Television Program ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Audience Reception ◽  
Strategic Ambiguity ◽  
Counter Narratives ◽  
The Face ◽  
Favorite Television

Chapter 5 is the second of the two audience reception chapters in the books, which continues documenting a group of young women flow of commentary before, during, and after watching a full season of their favorite television program, America’s Next Top Model. These young women claimed agency in the face of what they interpreted to be racist and sexist media representations, and they subsequently produced counter-narratives to strategic ambiguity. This chapter looks at how the young women flouted the corporate notion of the management of difference in their viewing community by flouting respectability politics, calling out colorism, rejecting code-switching, and, overall, rejecting postrace.

Study on the Equalization and Differentiation Configuration of County Infrastructure — Taking the Urban-Rural Integration Planning in Xunyi County as an Example

2011 ◽  
Vol 368-373 ◽  
pp. 1714-1718
Author(s):  
Xiao Hu Wu ◽  
Guo Hui Miao
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Environment ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Western Region ◽  
Public Facilities ◽  
Development Direction ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Face ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
Integration Planning ◽  
Train Of Thought

For a long time, the Chinese development direction of emphasizing urban area but despising rural area results in the great differences in configuration standard of regional facilities, large gap between urban and rural facilities and low level of urbanization, and limits the materialization of equalization between urban and rural public facilities, which is especially obvious in the western region of China. Western cities and countryside are always of poor ecological environment, small scale of towns, decentralized layout, comparatively backward economy and limited construction capital, therefore, posing great challenge in the face of urban-rural integration, in particular the infrastructure. Directed towards this, this paper takes the practice of urban-rural integration planning in Xunyi County as an example, and brings forth new train of thought for advancing the implementation of infrastructure equalization in counties.

scholarly journals Co-Productive Tools for Transcending the Divide: Building Urban–Rural Partnerships in the Spirit of the New Leipzig Charter

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 894
Author(s):  
David Simon
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Real World ◽  
Space And Place ◽  
Empirical Reality ◽  
Institutional Barriers ◽  
Considerable Potential ◽  
The Face ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
Urban Futures ◽  
New Research

The outdated and discredited notion of a binary urban–rural divide remains stubbornly widely used. However, it both sets up and reflects oppositional politics and processes between the two supposedly mutually exclusive categories of space and place, which hamper urban–rural partnerships. Empirical reality on the ground is far more complex. Just as more appropriate conceptualisations and approaches have evolved, so new research methods and tools have been developed to overcome the different institutional barriers and stakeholder priorities in the face of contemporary real-world complexities and the urgency of tackling the ‘wicked’ challenges of sustainability, which also underpin the New Leipzig Charter. The focus here is on co-production and related methods, which can be considered as representing the top-most rungs of Arnstein’s (1969) Ladder of Participation. The relevance and application of these methods are exemplified from the work of Mistra Urban Futures in relation to transcending conventional European urban–rural divisions and forming partnerships, with due attention to problems and limitations. Such methods have considerable potential, including for addressing unequal power relations, but are time-consuming and require careful adaptation to each situation.

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