scholarly journals Bourdieu and Genette in Paratext: How Sociology Counts in Linguistic Reasoning

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hisham M. Ali
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Interactive Approach ◽  
Theory Of Practice ◽  
Structure And Agency ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Micro Features

While Bourdieu’s theory of practice provides an ensemble of conceptual tools, which analyze patterns of social life that are irreducible to the limiting view of individuals as free-acting agents, Genette’s paratextual theory offers the metalanguage necessary to account for the microcosm of paratext as a linguistic space. This study takes issue with unidirectional approaches to researching paratexts in terms of linguistic or sociological accounts, and argues for a bidirectional understanding of paratext to unearth the interplay between structure and agency. Drawing on Genette’s paratextual features and Bourdieu’s sociology, this interactive approach is explored in a series of analyses of paratexts enveloping two Arabic translations of Gibran’s The Earth Gods. Through a discussion of the linguistic manifestations and the socio-historical backdrops of paratexts, the paper argues that the preface with its attendant micro features has the potential to exhibit the translation illusion, which epistemologically foregrounds the stakes and investments that motivate the production of translation.

Informal and Nonformal Adult Learning in the Coal Seam Gas Protests: Mobilizing Practices and Building an Environmental Justice Movement for Change

2021 ◽  
pp. 074171362110053
Author(s):  
Tracey Ollis
Keyword(s):  
Adult Learning ◽  
Coal Seam ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Water Supply ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Coal Seam Gas ◽  
The Public ◽  
Theory Of Practice ◽  
The Earth

This case study research examines informal adult learning in the Lock the Gate Alliance, a campaign against mining for coal seam gas in Central Gippsland, Australia. In the field of the campaign, circumstantial activists learn to think critically about the environment, they learn informally and incidentally, through socialization with experienced activists from and through nonformal workshops provided by the Environmental Nongovernment Organization Friends of the Earth. This article uses Bourdieu’s “theory of practice,” to explore the mobilization of activists within the Lock the Gate Alliance field and the practices which generate knowledge and facilitate adult learning. These practices have enabled a diverse movement to educate the public and citizenry about the serious threat fracking poses to the environment, to their land and water supply. The movements successful practices have won a landmark moratorium on fracking for coal seam gas in the State of Victoria.

The ontologist always rings twice: two more stones about structure and agency in reply to Hollis and Smith

1996 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vivienne Jabri ◽  
Stephen Chan
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Causal Relationship ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Structure And Agency ◽  
Theory Of Structuration ◽  
Structure Problem ◽  
Agency And Structure ◽  
International Social

The focus of inquiry for a critical, post-positivist International Relations requires a shift away from concern over universalist epistemological legitimacy and a move towards understanding the ontological underpinnings of international social, political, and economic life. Recent debates over the ‘agency—structure problem’, as represented in the Wendt vs Hollis and Smith debate and more recently in the latter's response to Walter Carlsnaes, have centred around Hollis and Smith's assertion that there are always ‘two stories to tell’, both ontological and epistemological, and that because of an assumed causal relationship between agency and structure, epistemology is as important as ontology, or stands on the same footing. In providing two further stories in our reply to Hollis and Smith, we argue firstly, that an ontological discourse, such as that suggested in Giddens's theory of structuration, must precede substantive epistemological questions, and secondly, that an assumed universalist epistemology negates difference in international social life.

scholarly journals Pedagogical Values of Renaissance Travels

2015 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 185-191
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Katarzyna Gębora
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Educational Development ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
New Model ◽  
Culture Area ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The Social

The time of the Renaissance created the new model of the man-humanist. European patterns stimulated to the cultural or educational development of different fields of the social life. A bloom of the education took place, a thirst for knowledge, an interest in learning, world, travels, getting new experiences. A man educated, being good at foreign languages, opened for changes was appreciated. Geographical discoveries and their effects forever changed the image of the earth. Sixteenth-century peregrinations contributed to the development of states, economic and civilization expansion, and the bloom of culture area. Pedagogic meaning of Renaissance journeys is indisputable. Experience from voyages all over world, extending ranges, the permeation of cultures, the learning of foreign languages, the increase in the knowledge, the development of learning, education and artistic fields bear fruit to this day in the global scale.

Power struggles in the MNC – the contribution of a Bourdieusian perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 341-360
Author(s):  
Kerstin Rego ◽  
Thomas Steger
Keyword(s):  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Supervisory Board ◽  
Organizational Analysis ◽  
Power Struggles ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Theory Of Practice ◽  
Structure And Agency ◽  
Fresh Perspective ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to enhance Bourdieu’s Theory of Practice for the analysis of power in multinational corporations. Therefore, they adopt and apply the Theory of Practice on power struggles within the board as the key field of power within the multinational company (MNC), which is interwoven with power struggles at the intraorganizational and interorganizational level of an MNC and its environment. Design/methodology/approach This paper describes the main elements of Bourdieu’s Theory of Practice and demonstrates their applicability to power struggles in MNCs, particularly through the development of a multi-level framework. This argument is illustrated by the case of a large German MNC’s supervisory board. Findings Extending Bourdieu’s Theory of Practice to the analysis of power in MNCs provides several advantages. Above all, we show the relevance of the board as the key field of power within MNCs that influences and is influenced by power constellations and power struggles throughout the MNC and its environment. Thereby, a more differentiated picture of (key) actors involved in power struggles in MNCs, and a deeper comprehension of the very nature of power in MNCs is achieved. Research limitations/implications Placing the supervisory board at the center implies that our framework is relevant to the study of not only power in MNCs but also boards. In addition, the authors arrive at practical implications for organizational actors and politics. As they concentrate on the presentation and illustration of the conceptual framework, the discussion of its methodological applicability options, as well as the integration of the various, detailed empirical findings of the previous MNC literature remain limited. Originality/value In contrast to earlier studies, this paper introduces a theoretical perspective that is not limited to either the micro-, meso- or macro-level of organizational analysis, but includes them and balances aspects of structure and agency well. The value of this fresh perspective on power in MNCs and its capability to deal with the complexity of this specific type of organization is demonstrated.

Moving in Circles: Kinetic Elite and Kinetic Proletariat in ‘End of the World’ Films

2018 ◽  
pp. 183-198
Author(s):  
Ewa Mazierska
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
End Of History ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
The End Of History ◽  
End Times ◽  
Near Future

This chapter considers two science fiction films, Elysium (2013) by Neill Blomkamp and Snowpiercer (2013) by Joon-ho Bong, which  utilize the motif of journey and take us to the near future. What is specific about them is that the journeys take place on Earth or near the Earth. In the future they present there is no escape from our planet; the Earth appears to be a limit even for the privileged. They convey a sense of the end of history, when there is nothing new to discover or conquer and the conflict is around finding the best place within the existing economic and social structures.  This investigation draws on the concepts of the ‘end times’, and ‘fast and slow lanes of social life’ and ‘kinetic elite’ to examine how mobility reproduces and exacerbates social inequalities caused by the hegemony of neoliberalism.

Working precarity: Urban youth tactics to make livelihoods in instable conditions in Abidjan, Athens, Berlin and Jakarta

2019 ◽  
Vol 67 (6) ◽  
pp. 1333-1349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Schilling ◽  
Talja Blokland ◽  
AbdouMaliq Simone
Keyword(s):  
Urban Youth ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Theory Of Practice ◽  
Empirical Material

Globally, conventional understandings of work no longer have much purchase for the efforts of most people to sustain minimally viable existences. This article critically expands on Bourdieu’s theory of practice by looking at the making of livelihoods of urban youth in as diverse places as Abidjan, Athens, Berlin and Jakarta, affected by transformations of work coined with the term ‘precarity’. This article discusses instability as one aspect of the set of experiences of ‘precarity’. Instability challenges how individuation and sociation work upon each other; what Bourdieu has described with the concept of habitus. Drawing on empirical material from the four cities, we explore practices of accruing value in a context of instability and conceptualize them as ‘detaching’ and ‘gathering’. We suggest that a rethinking of practices in relation to dispositions and habitus may enable us to better grasp the improvisations and more fluid forms of social life that characterize the contemporary urban life of many, and can help to address social inequalities today in a refined way.

scholarly journals Technologization of human of the postmodern age as a challenge to the natural reality of the earth

ScienceRise ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 55-60
Author(s):  
Svitlana Pylypenko
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Research Technology ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Scientific Results ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Transformation Processes ◽  
Human Social Life ◽  
Technological Product

Object of research: technology as a component of human social life in the context of the postmodern era. Investigated problem: determination of the features of the influence of technological processes on a person of the postmodern era, as a result of which the natural is replaced by an artificial one and the images of both man and the Earth change. Main scientific results: the study of the contradictions of the process of technologization in the postmodern era made it possible to determine the transformation processes taking place in the life of a person and society. This defines social reality, represented by various markers, among which technology is gaining in importance. The latter act as a composite, which provides new opportunities for determining the relationship between the elements of the "world - man - culture" system. It is not only about the emergence of new human figures, among which the technological man (Homo Technologicus) occupies a prominent place, but also the emergence of a new image of the Earth, where the natural is replaced by the technological. The scope of practical use of the research results: the research results can be used in teaching normative courses "Philosophical Anthropology", "Ethics", "Sociology" for students and undergraduates, graduate students of humanitarian and natural faculties. Innovative technological product: the plurality of existing technologies (economic, medical, educational, humanitarian, etc.) destroys the new European concept of culture and man, which were provided within the framework of the monoparadigm. The anthropological dimension of technology testifies that the latter are beginning to act as a condition for human expansion. This situation has a significant impact on the existentials of human existence. The scope of using the innovative technological product: the intensive technologization of the last decades not only provokes environmental risks and changes the state of the Earth, the natural reality of the Earth is replaced by an artificial one, which allows to conclude that the Earth is formed by a technological one.

scholarly journals HUMAN IMAGE IN HELLENISTIC SCULPTURE ART

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (48) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Structural Change ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Human Image ◽  
Open The Doors ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Cultural Movement ◽  
The Doors

Helenistic art is a reflection of eclectic culture. We come across Helenism as a period of change in every kind of field. Social and economic difference of the Greek enabled them to turn into multi national structure from a perspective of a political site state run and to unite different nations in the same place. Alexander’s Eastern expedition (battle/fight) made also a cultural movement, This structural change was followed by forming stat-run instutions and wealth in religions, ideal forms in Helenistic sculpture arts made ideals get materialized by leaving its place to a naturalistic perspective. Helenstic artist, by this way, was able to open the doors of unlimited World that he formed in his own mind. The subjects in the sculptures were those from social life. By this way, we enabled us to be able to see the effect of epicurism and stocism which were the philasophical ideas of Helenistic period Therefore, lt can be said that there is a human image in Helenistic art. Helenistic understanding which was based on individual showed its effect also on sculptures. Human characters are reflected in a realistic way. The topics, from that time, were about ordinary people, children, drunk wamen and all segments of society. The impact of Epicurus and Stoa philosophy on the society enabled the art to be oriented to human, and enabled the heavenly art to be on the earth. Helenism which gave a spiritual meanig to the stone, undersigned beautiful work. The new human image which powerful minds explored showed itself in all its dimensions.

scholarly journals TRADISI MENDIRIKAN IMAH GEDE DAN RUMAH WARGA DI KASEPUHAN SINAR RESMI KABUPATEN SUKABUMI

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 97
Author(s):  
Nandang Rusnandar
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Belief System ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Settlement Pattern ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Human And Nature

AbstrakSalah satu komunitas adat Kasepuhan Sinar Resmi yang berada di Kabupaten Sukabumi, banyak melakukan ritual. Dan salah satu ritus yang dilakukannya adalah ritus dalam mendirikan rumah dan rumah adat. Tradisi ritus ini dilakukan dari sejak awal pembangunan hingga selesai mendirikan rumah, sehingga pembangunan dapat terselesaikan dengan baik dan keluarga yang akan menghuni rumah tersebut dapat hidup dengan selamat. Pembangunan sebuah rumah tak lepas dari ritus yang secara adat selalu dipatuhi dan dilaksanakan dengan benar, hal tersebut sangat erat kaitannya dengan sistem kepercayaan yang mereka anut. Hal itu dilaksanakan, karena mereka takut akan melanggar pamali. Demikian pula rumah dan pola perkampungan yang ada di Kasepuhan Sinar Resmi erat hubungannya dengan alam sekitar, sehingga rumah dapat dianalogikan sebagai ‘mikro kosmos’ atau bumi ‘makro-kosmos’ yang berarti alam semesta. Penelitian ini bersifat deskriptif dengan pendekatan kualitatif. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa ritus tradisi mendirikan rumah dan rumah adat merupakan kearifan tradisional yang mampu memberikan keharmonisan antara manusia dengan alamnya dan keharmonisan kehidupan sosialnya. AbstractOne of the indigenous communities of Kasepuhan Sinar Resmi are in Sukabumi performed many ritual. One rite is a rite in setting up homes and custom homes. This tradition carried on since the beginning of construction till finished, so the building can be resolved properly, and the families who will inhabit the house can live safely. Build a house could not be separated from the customary rite which implemented properly, it is very closely related to the belief system that theypossessed. They do that thing because they fear would violate the taboos (pamali). Similarly, the house and the existing settlement pattern in the Kasepuhan Sinar Resmi closely related to the environment, so the house can be analogized as 'micro cosmos' or the earth 'macro-cosmos' which means as a universe. This research is descriptive with qualitative approach. The results showed that the rite tradition and building a custom house is a traditional wisdom that is able to provide harmony between human and nature and the harmony of social life.

scholarly journals Geosocial Formations and the Anthropocene

2017 ◽  
Vol 34 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 3-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nigel Clark ◽  
Kathryn Yusoff
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Earth Science ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Social Thought ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Introductory Article ◽  
Late 18Th Century ◽  
Geological Formations

For at least two centuries most social thought has taken the earth to be the stable platform upon which dynamic social processes play out. Both climate change and the Anthropocene thesis – with their enfolding of dramatic geologic change into the space-time of social life – are now provoking social thinkers into closer engagement with earth science. After revisiting the decisive influence of the late 18th-century notion of geological formations on the idea of social formations, this introductory article turns to more recent and more explicit attempts to open up the categories of social thought to a deeper understanding of earth processes. This includes attempts to consider how social and political agency is both constrained and made possible by the forces of the earth itself. It also involves efforts to think beyond existing dependencies of social worlds upon particular geological strata and to imagine alternative ‘geosocial’ futures.

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