Cultural Hegemony in J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Series

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
Shalih Dzakiyyah Farda
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
Harry Potter ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Cultural Hegemony ◽  
The People

This article discusses the issue of politics and hegemony in Harry Potter, a fantasy series by British author J. K. Rowling. The work is apparently coded with class systems and hierarchy in its society, and how it can be seen as a reflection of real-life society. It explores how the ruling group tries to keep the power only on the hands of the few by inserting their views and ideologies to their people, and thus resulting into a certain status quo that the ruling group finds desirable. The seven novels of Harry Potter are analysed through Marxist perspective using Antonio Gramsci’s theory of Cultural Hegemony, in which the people in power impose and spread their ideas to those below them as a way to control them. It is concluded that the series also involves criticisms on class domination, corruption on power, and rebellion.

Mitos Dalam Film Si Kabayan Berjudul "TARUHAN" Karya Didi Petet

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (02) ◽  
pp. 43-53
Author(s):  
Iwan Muhammad Ridwan
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
The People ◽  
Semiotic Approach

The research entitled "Myths in the Si Kabayan Film Titled Didi Petet's Betting" aims to uncover a number of myths that actually occur in Sundanese society and analyze them about Roland Barthes's semiotic approach to the meaning of denotation and connotation. In the film Si Kabayan: Bet there are a number of myths which are a blend of myths that have lived in society and myths that were created by Si Kabayan's ingenuity. Si Kabayan's figure is always identified with the character of silly, lazy, but a lot of sense that can often defeat the antagonist he faces. Likewise, this film was produced in 1991. The Kabayan can fool the characters who become antagonists for himself with a number of myths he made. Even so, interpreting the myths that are found in the film Si Kabayan: Bets are needed interpretations from the people who live in Si Kabayan's living environment, because a number of these myths are mostly special myths that are rarely heard in real life. Some myths can also be broken by Si Kabayan himself.

KEARIFAN LOKAL (LOCAL GENIUS) SEBAGAI SOKO GURU MENATA PERADABAN BANGSA YANG BERKARAKTER NUSANTARA (REFLEKSI KARYA KI DALANG TANGSUB)

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
I Made Suarta
Keyword(s):  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Local Knowledge ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Care Environment ◽  
Mental Attitude ◽  
Early 19Th Century ◽  
The People ◽  
The Many ◽  
Written Traditions

Local knowledge (local genius) is the quintessence of our ancestors thinking either oral or written traditions which we have received to date. Thought that, in the context of real archipelago has the same thread, which has a valuable values and universal to strengthen the integrity of the Unitary Republic of Indonesia. Through our founding genius thought that we should be able to implement it in real life to be able to reach people who "Gemah ripah loh jinawi", no less clothing, food, and shelter!Some of the many concepts of mind for the people of Bali are reflected in the work of puppeteer Ki Dalang Tangsub contributed to the development of Indonesia and has a universal value is the concept of maintaining the environment, save money, and humble. Through mental attitude has not always feel pretty; like not smart enough, not skilled enough, and not mature enough experience, make us always learn and practice. Learn and continue lifelong learning will make a man more mature and a lot of experience. Thus, the challenges in life will be easy to overcome. All that will be achieved, in addition to the hard work is also based on the mental attitude of inferiority is not proud, haughty, arrogant and other negative attitudes. Thought care environment, managing finances, and humble as described above, in Bali has been formulated through a literature shaped geguritan, namely Geguritan I Gedé Basur Dalang Tangsub works, one of the great authors in the early 19th century.  Keywords: Local knowledge, a cornerstone of, the character of the archipelago

A "ingovernabilidade" do Rio de Janeiro: algumas páginas sobre conceitos, fatos e preconceitos

1997 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 39-53
Author(s):  
Marcelo Lopes de Souza
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Strict Sense ◽  
Political Status ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Difference

Governability is quite ofien used as an "umbrella concept", under which both the capacity of governance (manner in which power is exercised in the management of a territory) and the governability in the strict sense of the word (acceptation of the social and political status quo by the people) are subsumed. The first part of this article underlies the difference between these two concepts The second part examines facts in relation to governance and governability problems in Rio de Janeiro, and discusses some ideologically generated current exaggerations about the governability crisis in this metropolis, as suggested by the experience of the 1980s and 1990s.

scholarly journals How Law Student Prepare Their Life to Survive?

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-38
Author(s):  
Aprila Niravita ◽  
Benny Sumardiana ◽  
Bayangsari Wedhatami ◽  
Syukron Salam ◽  
Ubaidillah Kamal ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Character Education ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Law Students ◽  
State University ◽  
Student Activists ◽  
The People ◽  
Law Student ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Short Time

Character education is an important element in the effort to prepare superior Indonesian human resources, it is of particular concern to be applied especially among students, there is a need for character education because the attitudes and behavior of the people and people of Indonesia now tend to ignore the noble values ​​of Pancasila which are highly respected and should be rooted in everyday attitudes and behaviors, values ​​such as honesty, politeness, togetherness and religious, gradually eroded by foreign cultures that tend to be hedonistic, materialistic, and individualistic, so that the noble character values ​​are ignored in the future if students and young people are not equipped with character education. Law students have their own challenges, especially in the era of globalization. This paper analyzes and illustrates the character strengthening program for law student activists in Semarang State University through several programs, namely public speaking, strengthening student idealism, strengthening advocacy capacitation and human rights assistance and self-motivation. This research is a field research with the object of research as activists of law students who are members of student organizations. This research confirms that the programs for strengthening the character of students experience several obstacles, one of which is the model used and a relatively short time. However, character education for student activists helps students to survive in real life as part of community members.

Dumbledore’s army: civil disobedience in “Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix”

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 177-198
Author(s):  
Arthur Emanuel Leal Abreu ◽  
Alexandre de Castro Coura
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
Civil Disobedience ◽  
School Community ◽  
Harry Potter ◽  
Law And Literature ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Persuasive Strategies ◽  
Law In Literature ◽  
The Phoenix ◽  
Do So

This paper explores the connection between law and literature, considering the concept of civil disobedience as developed in the plot of the novel “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”. To do so, this research uses the approach of law in literature, by linking the actions of Dumbledore’s Army to the theory of civil disobedience by Dworkin. Also, the narrative is compared to the conception of civil disobedience as a fundamental right, based on the conflict between facticity and validity, as described by Habermas. Thus, the analysis identifies, in the novel, two categories of civil disobedience proposed by Dworkin, and discusses, in real life, the overlapping of disobedience based on justice and on politics, in order to identify the conditions that justify actions of civil disobedience. Besides that, this paper analyzes the tension between legality and legitimacy, considering the decisions of the Ministry of Magic and its educational decrees, which sets the school community apart from the official political power. In conclusion, the research examines the use of persuasive and non-persuasive strategies and the reach of civil disobedience’s purposes based on the actions of Harry Potter and of Dumbledore’s Army.

Let the People In! Lessons from a Modern Viking Saga

2020 ◽  
pp. 152-179
Author(s):  
Hélène Landemore
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
The Real ◽  
The People ◽  
Online Comments ◽  
Electoral Democracy ◽  
The Way

This chapter assesses the real-life case study of Iceland to illustrate some of the principles of open democracy. It closely examines the 2010–13 Icelandic constitutional process from which many of the ideas behind this book originally stem. Despite its apparent failure — the constitutional proposal has yet to be turned into law — the Icelandic constitutional process created a precedent for both new ways of writing a constitution and envisioning democracy. The process departed from representative, electoral democracy as we know it in the way it allowed citizens to set the agenda upstream of the process, write the constitutional proposal or at least causally affect it via online comments, and observe most of the steps involved. The chapter also shows that the procedure was not simply inclusive and democratic but also successful in one crucial respect — it produced a good constitutional proposal. This democratically written proposal indeed compares favorably to both the 1944 constitution it was meant to replace and competing proposals written by experts at about the same time.

Priorities at the Bedside

2019 ◽  
pp. 31-44
Author(s):  
Ingrid Miljeteig ◽  
Addisu Melkie ◽  
Frehiwot Berhane Defaye ◽  
Ermias Dessie ◽  
Kristine Husøy Onarheim
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Health Expenditure ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
The People ◽  
Catastrophic Health Expenditures ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
Financial Burdens ◽  
Allocation Decisions

Out-of-pocket health expenditure is a barrier to accessing basic health care. It imposes major financial burdens, which may drive patients and their families into poverty, which again can aggravate their health conditions. This chapter offers a glimpse into real-life dilemmas and decisions by presenting Ethiopian families’ and health workers’ narratives and experiences of catastrophic health expenditures. The aim is to provide a nuanced understanding of the lived experiences of the people behind the numbers. The chapter draws on material from multiple fieldwork experiences in Ethiopia, from the authors’ experiences as health workers in Ethiopia, and from a national survey of Ethiopian physicians. This material shows how overarching global and national priorities influences families’ and health workers’ allocation decisions. Bringing out the actual dilemmas people face can supplement and inform our understanding of the more theoretical and methodological chapters in this book.

Three Social Choice Rules

2017 ◽  
pp. 54-71
Author(s):  
Andrei Marius Vlăducu
Keyword(s):  
Social Choice ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Choice Rule ◽  
Borda Count ◽  
Social Choice Rule ◽  
Status Quo Bias ◽  
Approval Voting ◽  
The People ◽  
Viable Solution ◽  
Social Choice Rules

The authors analyze three social choice rules (plurality voting, approval voting and Borda count) from a behavioral economics perspective aiming three objectives: 1) if it is a viable solution to use these procedures during mass elections; 2) why individuals prefer a specific social choice rule and not another; 3) how status quo bias and framing effect influence the preference of individuals for a certain social choice rule. The research is conducted with 87 participants to a lab experiment and data suggest that for using approval voting and Borda count during mass elections is necessary to increase the people level of information about their benefits. When making a decision in a political or economic context seem that people tend to prefer simple plurality rule do to its availability and maybe because of its strong reliance with status quo bias.

scholarly journals Unsettling Theology: Sunday school children reading the text of the Bible in the age of recolonisation

2016 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nico Botha
Keyword(s):  
School Children ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Sunday School ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Blood Disease ◽  
Reformed Church ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The People ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Women Abuse

During Women’s month in South Africa (August), a group of Sunday school children from the rural congregation of the Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa (URCSA), Middelburg- Nasaret, got together to read the narratives of the resurrection of the daughter of Jairus and the healing of the woman suffering from a blood disease. The exercise which appears to be quite innocent is in a sense subversive in its hidden script. In the Reformed tradition, the pulpit as a centre of reading and preaching the Word has become the ‘holy of holiest’ which nobody, leave alone children, except the ordained minister could occupy. This is of course contrary to the intention of the Reformation to return the Bible to the people and have the people return to the Bible. The reading exercise of this article goes beyond all exegetical and theological presuppositions, unsettling conventional interpretations of Scripture. The children allow their real life experiences in the township of having witnessed, among others, child and women abuse to inform their reading of Mark 5:21–43. In the process they avoid a linear reading of the Bible which is based on the explication-application scheme of matters. Put differently, instead of doing a deductive reading of the portion, i.e. trying to explain or exegete the text clinically and then applying it to their context, they read it inductively, resulting in a hope sharing and hope giving understanding of the rising from the dead of the 12-year-old girl and the healing of the woman with a blood disease. A major spin-off of such reading of the Bible by children is the unlocking of refreshingly new avenues of reading the Bible and interpreting the text.

‘The show of the people’ against the cultural elites: Populism, media and popular culture in Turkey

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 942-957 ◽  
Author(s):  
Burak Özçetin
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
The Political ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Cultural Products ◽  
Cultural Artifact ◽  
Justice And Development Party ◽  
The People ◽  
Party Elites ◽  
The Relationship

This article explores the relationship between populism, media and popular culture in Turkey by focusing on a phenomenal historical television series, Diriliş: Ertuğrul, and the discursive spaces opened by the show. The author relies on a symptomatic analysis of populism which conceptualizes the term as an anti-status quo discourse that simplifies the political space by symbolically dividing the society between ‘the people’ and its other, more specifically ‘the elites’. Diriliş is promoted by the Justice and Development Party ( Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi) elite and pro-government media as ‘the show of the people’, and as a cultural artifact belonging to the people. The show has been embraced as an alternative to morally degenerate cultural products of alienated Westernist/Kemalist cultural elites. The Justice and Development Party elites used every opportunity to incorporate the series into its populist political program. The article focuses on a specific crisis moment, ‘The Golden Butterfly Awards 2016’, and the ensuing debates to show how media discourse can resonate with the populist political discourse of a political party.

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