Who's in Charge? Some Recent Works on the Historical Evolution of Power Structure in Urban America

1987 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-92
Author(s):  
Mark S. Foster
Keyword(s):  
Power Structure ◽  
Historical Evolution ◽  
Urban America

scholarly journals The Contemporary Dystopian Reality of Slavery and Modern Capitalism in Octavia Butler’s Parable Novels

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cr Patricia Mary Hodge ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Process ◽  
Power Structure ◽  
Historical Event ◽  
Historical Evolution ◽  
Market System ◽  
Modern Capitalism ◽  
Historical Specificity ◽  
Contemporary Reality ◽  
Historical Trajectory ◽  
Critical Dystopia

Critical dystopia as an analytic category for historical enquiry explores contemporary reality and its specificities in time and space. It functions as anagnorisis or recognition of the dystopian realities in the present through its generic mode of familiarising the heightened dystopian elements of the text as possible evolutions of current oppressions. This paper suggests that this anagnorisis through comparison and extrapolation is limited and needs to consider how the text ironically reveals the absence of historical specificity through its comparison of the contemporary present and the imagined future. Instead, specificity is replaced with a linear historical trajectory where dystopia occurs cyclically in metamorphosed forms within a fixed, yet evolving power-structure. This projects the nature of the dystopia in the text part of an evolutionary process, not a product of its historically specific period. Through the interrogation of how the legally abolished system of slavery is historically shifted into the future hyper-capitalist market system in Octavia Butler’s Parable novels, this paper will reveal how the anagnorisis of the novels functions to locate dystopia as present and evolving in a historical trajectory of cyclical structural repetition. This familiarisation of the historical event of slavery in the novels posits the dystopian text’s anagnorisis as not simply the recognition of dystopian elements specifically in the present but broadens it to the recognition of the historical evolution of those same human atrocities that appear to ‘resurge’ in dystopia.

WACANA, KUASA DAN AGAMA DALAM KONTESTASI PILGUB JAKARTA

ALQALAM ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
Joko Priyanto
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Mass Movement ◽  
Power Structure ◽  
Hegemonic Discourse ◽  
Islamic Society

Religion Blasphemy addressed to Jakarta Governor who is also a candidate for Jakarta Governor Election 2017 is the beginning of a series of polemic along process of Jakarta Governor Election 2017. This case triggers friction between Islamic society as a civil society and government as authority. This research explored this case by using theory of power relations Foucault. The result shows that the mass movement of Islamic society is power from Islamic society knowledge. Power structure tries to discipline this movement by hegemony in form of discourse. However, hegemonic discourse from civil society (Islamic society) also tries to challenge. The fight of hegemonic in form of discourse becomes so viral in all media, element and institution. This research shows that the discourse of Leader and Diversity is a signifier empty which be contestation of giving meaning.   Keywords: knowledge, power, Foucoult, religion.

Unreconciled Strivings of ‘Exilic Consciousness’: Critical Praxis of Resistance in Susan Abulhawa's Mornings in Jenin

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-120
Author(s):  
Ayman Abu-Shomar
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Power Structure ◽  
Resistance Literature ◽  
Political Narratives ◽  
Arab Israeli Conflict

This article discusses how Susan Abulhawa's Mornings in Jenin, its thematic concerns and aesthetics, are developed in tandem with the discourse of diaspora and exilic consciousness leading to critical praxis. It traces the interactions between exilic consciousness and identity construction in the context of resistance literature. These interactions exhibit the author's ability to be inside and outside discourses of struggle producing a model in which exile challenges bigoted struggles, hence the evolution of critical praxis. In the context of the Arab-Israeli conflict, Abulhawa represents another humanistic voice that resists dominant political narratives by dismantling their hegemonic power structure.

Political Islam in an Ethnic Jewish State: Historical Evolution, Contemporary Challenges and Future Prospects

2004 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nohad ‘Ali
Keyword(s):  
Historical Evolution ◽  
Jewish State ◽  
Islamic Revival ◽  
Islamic Movement ◽  
Revival Movements ◽  
Phases Of Development ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
The One ◽  
Five Phases ◽  
Islamic Revivalism

This paper argues that, although the shared and universal ideology of the Islamic revival movements was adopted by the Islamic movement in Israel, the movement has been trying to embody it in diverse and distinctive ways. In principle there is a conflict between commitment to the principle of Islamic revivalism on the one hand, and being so committed in the specific context of the ethnic Jewish state, on the other. The Jewish context of the State of Israel continues to bedevil the development of the Islamic movement in Israel. Since the 1930s, Islamic revivalism in Palestine has undergone five phases of development: the Egyptian, Israeli, Palestinian, and the two phases of ‘adaptation’ and ‘post-adaptation’. These phases reflect ideological developments, rather than simply a historical evolution. They are also the outcome of three sets of constraints: structural, ideological and domestic.

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