scholarly journals Examining Mother Teresa’s narrative as prophetic: A case study

Res Rhetorica ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristen Majocha
Keyword(s):  
Social Action ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Body Language ◽  
Narrative Coherence ◽  
Social Calls ◽  
Case Mother

This paper examines a rhetorical case - Mother Teresa's narrative - for evidence of prophetic qualities, including social calls to action. Mother Teresa's story is considered through established methods of investigating prophecy, such as themes of announcements of judgment and reason and the Messenger formula. Her rhetoric is also examined through the theoretical lens of Walter Fisher's narrative coherence for evidence of biblical ideals and body language. Her lived experiences are also considered evidence of her prophetic nature. Mother Teresa's narrative is read and better valued as part of a wider context of social action consistent with prophecy.

Aspects of the Relationships between the Community of Sheikh Abd al-Qurna and Ancient Egyptian Monuments

2020 ◽  
pp. 507-522
Author(s):  
Andrew Bednarski ◽  
Gemma Tully
Keyword(s):  
Social Action ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Social Awareness ◽  
Single Case Study ◽  
Local Populations ◽  
Ancient Egyptian ◽  
Complex Relationships

Epigraphers and archaeologists working in Egypt must navigate a host of complex relationships both on and off site. This chapter explores the multifaceted nature of local Egyptian peoples’ relationships with nearby monuments through the lens of a single case study: the site of Sheikh Abd al-Qurna and its local population, the Qurnawi. Egyptologists have not traditionally sought to incorporate formally the stories and histories of local populations in their studies of pharaonic sites. An increasing blend of social awareness and the desire for social action on the part of both foreign professionals and local activists, however, is pushing Egyptologists to re-evaluate their practices, which, in turn, is moving the discipline in new and positive directions.

scholarly journals The Failure of Implementation Broadcasting Regulations in Indonesia-Malaysia Border Region: Case Study on Free-to-air Television in Meranti Regency, Riau Province - Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-106
Author(s):  
Harry Setiawan ◽  
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Siti Karlinah ◽  
Dadang Rahmat Hidayat ◽  
Yuliandre Darwis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Action ◽  
Choice Model ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Analytical Tool ◽  
Border Region ◽  
Cultural Expression ◽  
Border Regions ◽  
Broadcasting Regulation ◽  
Cultural Preference

Border residents in Meranti Regency still love Malaysian free to air television broadcasts. The broadcasting regulation stipulates that broadcasters must provide free to air access to foster a love of Indonesian television broadcasts and a spirit of nationalism for all levels of society. However, the reality in the field is inversely proportional. An important point that questioned in this research is how the implementation of broadcasting regulations governing equality of access to information and containers of cultural expression in free to air broadcasts for all Indonesian people, especially in border areas. This study aims to reveal the extent of the application of broadcasting regulations in the border region in the context of free to air broadcasts and cultural expression containers in free to air broadcasts. Social action media studies used as an analytical tool to reveal that access and broadcasting infrastructure are a necessity for reaching viewers. The program of the choice model is another analytical tool in uncovering the motives for selecting free to air broadcasts that are loved by border society. The case study method used to find data from the field of a single case that is the implementation of free to air broadcasting regulations in the Indonesian border region of Malaysia. As a result, broadcasting regulations are considered unsuccessful in the context of free to air in the border regions, and the expression of Malay culture has no place on Indonesian television, which in turn, the Malay cultural preference filled with free to air Malaysian broadcasts. Keyword: Broadcasting, free-to-air, audience, border society, culture.

scholarly journals Navigating Digital Borderscapes: A Case Study from Rohingya Refugee Settlements in Bangladesh

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 190-210
Author(s):  
Faheem Hussain ◽  
Yenn Lee
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Community Leaders ◽  
Digital Rights ◽  
Digital Devices ◽  
Refugee Community ◽  
Hybrid Solutions ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Host Government

Abstract Based on a case study of the lived experiences of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh between 2017 and 2019, this article focuses on displaced people’s digital needs and innovative efforts to navigate the challenges in their situation. The article first discusses the major barriers faced by Rohingya refugees in using various digital devices and platforms and how these obstacles adversely affect them in obtaining necessary information and humanitarian services. Our findings from the field highlight the uniquely important role that mobile repair shops in the camps play in providing online-offline hybrid solutions to circumvent restrictions imposed on the refugee community by the host government. The findings also show that different types of community leaders have emerged and that Rohingya women use digital means to push back against double discrimination. The article concludes with policy considerations related to the geopolitically transcendent issues of displacement, democracy, and digital rights.

scholarly journals Marginal memories of Lebanon�s civil war: challenging hegemonic narratives in a small town in North Metn

2021 ◽  
Vol 9s3 ◽  
pp. 11-27
Author(s):  
Carmen Hassoun Abou Jaoude ◽  
Daniele Rugo
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Small Town ◽  
Public Culture ◽  
Lebanese Civil War ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Violent Conflicts ◽  
Ordinary Citizens

This article focuses on the �hidden public culture� formed by individual memories of violent conflicts, with particular reference to the Lebanese Civil War (1975�90). Taking memory as a terrain through which individuals can contest authoritarian governance and repressive memory scripts, the article argues that personal memories of ordinary citizens can contribute to illuminate the power relations that structure war memorialisations. Through a series of interviews, the article analyses militia practices in a small town in North Metn to challenge the idea that militias were merely defending a territory from external enemies. Militia abuses against the populations they were meant to defend during the Civil War are also used as a starting point to reflect on Lebanon�s present. This case study is then used as a starting point to advocate for the use of personal memories in the research of violent conflicts as a way to broaden our understanding of conflict�s lived experiences.

The Mothers of Tiananmen: Curating Social Justice

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 230-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenna C. Ashton
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Women Artists ◽  
International Collaboration ◽  
Tiananmen Square ◽  
Chinese Populations ◽  
Creative Resistance ◽  
Participatory Arts ◽  
The City

Focusing on the activist exhibition The Mothers of Tiananmen (2019), this article examines my methodology of curating for social action and justice using international collaboration and participatory arts-as-research. The exhibition responded to the ongoing campaign for justice for the victims and survivors of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, as well as sought to support women’s creative resistance and voice. The Mothers of Tiananmen was co-created with artist Mei Yuk Wong, the 64 Museum (Hong Kong), and artists participating in the Centre for International Women Artists (Manchester). The context for the exhibition is the city of Manchester, which has one of the highest Chinese populations in England, along with a diverse international demographic with over 200 languages spoken. Through this case study, curating is presented as a creative and critical tool by which to respond to the range of justice and activist concerns of international and diasporic communities.

scholarly journals Work hard, fit in, and applaud her: Women developers blogging about their lived experiences

2020 ◽  
pp. 136787792094102
Author(s):  
Annika Richterich
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Individual Responsibility ◽  
It Industry ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Who Code

Women are under-represented in information technology (IT) professions, globally. It is widely discussed that there is an urgent need to tackle this issue by bringing more women into the IT industry. However, the spotlight is less often put on women currently working as developers in male-dominated environments. How do these women experience their work and deal with problems? International non-profit initiatives such as Women who Code (WwC) aim not only at supporting women in training for and entering IT professions: they also advise them in their daily lives and struggles as developers. Using this network and its blog as a case study, I show that the WwC bloggers are faced with contradictory work norms and experiences. They tend to resort to pragmatic advice, focused on DIY problem solving, and shouldered individual responsibility rather than highlighting systemic failures. This tendency shows similarities to neoliberal feminist rationales and speaks to the need for (re)emphasizing the need for structural changes within the broader discourse concerning women developers.

Constructing Tanzanian Enterpreneurial Subjects: Neoliberal Development Through Local Governance

10.4335/253 ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-156
Author(s):  
Jernej Pikalo ◽  
Marinko Banjac
Keyword(s):  
Development Strategy ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Local Governance ◽  
Homo Oeconomicus ◽  
Collège De France ◽  
Neoliberal Development ◽  
Moral Dimensions ◽  
The Government ◽  
Development Incentives

This paper examines how the simultaneous enhancement of local governance and capacity building as a development strategy advances the idea not only of the self-help and self-responsibility of communities but, above all, how this strategy of neoliberal development is a form of production of subjectivity through which individuals are constituted as homo oeconomicus, or, more precisely, as entrepreneurial subjects. Employing Foucault’s insights from two series of lectures, given at the Collège de France, titled Security, Territory, Population and The Birth of Biopolitics, the article examines neoliberal development incentives and policies as an effect closely related to the government of individuals as a part of a specific community or locality. These insights are reflected through the specific case study of the Tanzanian Social Action Fund. The case of TASAF shows, when analysed on two diverse but complementary levels, of delineation (descriptive) and implementation (through concrete practices), how governmental (neoliberal) strategy, by employing moral dimensions, shapes individuals into entrepreneurial subjects who act with economically rational and are at the same time convinced that improvement of their own lives depends predominantly on themselves.

Overruling rules?

1996 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 347-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Yovel
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Direct Action ◽  
Rule Based ◽  
Present Discussion ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Normative Discourse

This paper discusses issues relating to the normativity of prescriptive rules: what does it mean for a rule to be able to direct action, and what are the implications for the desirability of rule-based decision-making? It is argued that: (a) cognitively, one must allow for more than a single answer to the first question (the two interpretations of rules discussed here are based alternately on the concepts of exclusion and presumption); and (b) normatively, these different structures typically serve for different purposes in allocation of power and discretion. The next issue is the connection between rule-based decision-making and semantic theories of language. On a meta-discursive level, the paper makes a twofold claim: that normative discourse is possible only on the basis of a sound cognitive inquiry, while cognitive inquiry alone is not sufficient to explain social action and interaction, lacking tools to deal with the contingent normative demands from decision-making systems, such as adjudication. The discussion of prescriptive rules serves as a case-study for this claim. These and related topics have been dealt with by Frederick Schauer(1991a, 1991b). His model of rules as entrenched generalizations and mediators between "justifications " and action is the starting point of the present discussion, which, on most of the issues mentioned above, results in conclusions quite different from Schauer's.

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