scholarly journals Authentic Expertise: Andrej Babiš and the Technocratic Populist Performance During the COVID-19 Crisis

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilana Hartikainen
Keyword(s):  
Prime Minister ◽  
Visual Performance ◽  
The People ◽  
Democratic Societies ◽  
Dramaturgical Analysis ◽  
Insight Into

This article studies how a technocratic populist can visually perform the authenticity and connection to ‘the low’ that is key to a populist performance while also maintaining the performance of expertise that is central to technocratic populist success. It relies on the case study of Czech prime minister Andrej Babiš and uses Facebook data from his profile in March and September–October 2020, the two peak moments of the crisis in the first and second waves of the COVID-19 pandemic. After offering a timeline of the Czech COVID-19 epidemic in 2020, it applies a dramaturgical analysis to four representative photos from Babiš’ Facebook page. It finds that Babiš was able to simultaneously articulate both expertise and authenticity, thereby both creating a connection to ‘the people’ while also articulating himself as an expert capable of handling the pandemic. He articulated expertise through a technocratic bodily performance, presenting himself as a cosmopolitan leader with international symbols of power like neutral-colored suits and elegant surroundings. At the same time, he also articulated himself as an authentic politician by showing his Facebook followers backstage imagery like a disorganized table and by showing himself as a busy man and an exceptionally hard worker. By illuminating the visual performance of technocratic populism, it offers insight into how technocratic populists constitute the expertise that their success rests on and that can also pose a threat to democratic societies, especially in a time of crisis.

Unleashing the Hidden Value of a Pipeline Through the Use of Visual Communications

1996 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul B. Connor
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The People ◽  
Construction Techniques ◽  
History Of ◽  
Aboriginal History ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Insight Into

How does the communication of information affect the pipeline industry? People are becoming more aware of the pipeline industry and how it may affect individuals and landowners in the future. Corporations are producing commuications tools to alleviate the lack of knowledge and the hidden value of energy pipelines. This case study examines two projects: “Passing through Edson” examines a winter pipeline construction job in Edson, Alberta. The story is told by the people on the job. We examine the environmental issues, economic impact, Native employment, and winter construction techniques. The “Boy Chief” video examines the impact of an archaeological dig on the prairies. In this program we have insight into the aboriginal history of the area and how the pipeline company is helping people learn more about the Native way of life. The paper examine how communication tools like these, allow employees access to information when communicating to stakeholders.

scholarly journals Case Studies and their Epistemological Potential in Design-Based Research – A Practice Illustration

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tina Emmler ◽  
Petra Frehe-Halliwell
Keyword(s):  
Vocational Education ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Deep Understanding ◽  
The Other ◽  
Vocational Education And Training ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
The People ◽  
Other World ◽  
Insight Into

Researchers in DBR projects create various text products, such as interview transcripts, scientific reports and sometimes a case study[1]. Usually, case studies are only considered to be by-products created during the DBR to give the stakeholders of the project, including university students of vocational education and training, an insight into the development process and the underlying practical challenges. In this context, case studies mainly fulfil a didactic function for the stakeholders. However, we believe that case studies do not only serve as an instrument for communicating project content to others (outside the scientific community), but are a medium for the researchers themselves to ascertain their own learning processes that takes place in the exploration of the field of research. That way, we are emphasizing a process-orientated perspective on DBR. We assume that the process of creating a case study has an epistemological value on its own. As we will show and try to illustrate with practical examples, creating a case study applies to very different criteria in contrast to creating scientific text products. For instance, the researcher creating a case study has to pay attention to details, the use of language and ways of communication as well as trying to capture the overall atmosphere of the organization, social groups etc. We consider this a ‘creative act’ and see many parallels to Walter Benjamin’s theory of translation[2]: In DBR it is the world of science on the one hand and the field of practice on the other that make a translation necessary: the languages applied in both fields differ, although the people working there might all belong to one and the same nationality which might allow them to communicate with the people from the other “world”. However, this does not mean that researchers understand the practice and the emerging phenomena per se. A translation between the worlds is necessary. For this, the case study is the first step. We are convinced that this approach opens up a different perspective on the DBR project and focussed research interests. Developing a case study can be helpful for an overall and deep understanding of practice – which is one of the main goals for DBR conducted in the tradition of a paradigm consistent to the humanities. This (additional) paper aims to illustrate how a case study can derive from the background of a DBR context. We would like to provide insight into the concrete usage of a case study approach in a DBR-project. In order to structure the case study description, we use the criteria of Reetz (1988), a German professional in vocational education training whose ideas on case studies fit to Benjamin’s idea of writing narratives.  

scholarly journals One word to rule them all: ‘Civic-mindedness’ and Danish Prime Minister Frederiksen’s Nationalist Covid-19 rhetoric

2021 ◽  
Vol 06 (02) ◽  
pp. 229-248
Author(s):  
Lisa Villadsen
Keyword(s):  
Prime Minister ◽  
Rhetorical Criticism ◽  
Response Analysis ◽  
Rhetorical Strategy ◽  
The People ◽  
National Response ◽  
Civic Mindedness ◽  
Rhetorical Leadership

The essay is a case study critically engaging the Danish Prime Minister’s rhetorical leadership during the early phase of the COVID-19 crisis. Through conceptually oriented rhetorical criticism of a series of press conference speeches given by the PM, the essay demonstrates how her rhetorical leadership in the early stages of the corona crisis relied on communitarian appeals couched in nationalistic terms whereby contributing to stopping the spread of the virus gradually became inscribed in a Social Democratic narrative about community and solidarity and which eventually was presented as part and parcel of an essential ‘Danishness.’ The argument is that the PM’s speeches successfully framed the national response to the epidemic as just that, a national or even nationalistic response. Analysis of the salient phrases ‘standing together by keeping apart’, ‘civic-mindedness,’ and ‘taking care of Denmark’ inform the characterization of the PM’s rhetorical strategy and its ideological underpinnings. The term ‘civic-mindedness,’ specifically, was used as a short-hand referent for all the government’s instructions, advice, and admonitions to change the public’s behavior, and functioned as a guideline for the people in Denmark regarding their understanding of and reactions to the corona epidemic. One word to capture many words, and one word to guide, even rule, a people.

Dramaturgical Challenges of Parkinson's Disease

2003 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen Doyle Lyons ◽  
Linda Tickle-Degnen
Keyword(s):  
Parkinson’S Disease ◽  
Parkinson's Disease ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Collective Case Study ◽  
Case Study Design ◽  
Dramaturgical Analysis ◽  
Insight Into

Being able to engage in satisfying and effective interpersonal interactions is an important component of health. Parkinson's disease (PD) is an example of a chronic illness that can make social interactions difficult and awkward. The aim of this study was to explore the nature of the challenges people with PD face during social occupations. Following a collective case study design, two men and one woman each participated in two qualitative interviews. Dramaturgical analysis of the interview data was conducted to offer insight into why some interactions are problematic. Elements seen in the stories of problematic encounters included a dramaturgical challenge created by PD symptoms, resulting discomfort or confusion, and the adoption of an attitude or action to surmount the challenge. Using dramaturgical analysis to explore the occupational form of social interactions can develop knowledge about the facilitation of social well-being.

scholarly journals Religion and Populism in the Global South: Islamist Civilisationism of Pakistan’s Imran Khan

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 777
Author(s):  
Kainat Shakil ◽  
Ihsan Yilmaz
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Global South ◽  
Significant Issue ◽  
The People ◽  
The Way

The fusion of religion and populism has paved the way for civilisationism. However, this significant issue is still unresearched. This paper attempts to address this gap by investigating the Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Islamist populism and civilisationism as an empirical case study. While Islamism has been explored in the context of Pakistan, this paper goes beyond and investigates the amalgamation of Islamist ideals with populism. Using discourse analysis, the paper traces the horizontal and vertical dimensions of Imran Khan’s religious populism. The paper provides an understanding of how “the people”, “the elite”, and “the others” are defined at present in Pakistan from an antagonistic and anti-Western civilisationist perspective. The paper finds that “New Pakistan” is indeed a “homeland” or an idolized society defined by Islamist civilisationism to which extreme emotions, sentimentality and victimhood are attached.

scholarly journals The Illegal Town Plan: Anecdotal Speculation for Coastal Futures

2020 ◽  
pp. 90-113
Author(s):  
Matt Ward ◽  
Jimmy Loizeau
Keyword(s):  
Design Practice ◽  
Economic Prosperity ◽  
Community Based ◽  
The People ◽  
North Wales ◽  
Practice Based Research ◽  
Research And Education ◽  
Speculative Design ◽  
Insight Into

The Illegal Town Plan aims to understand and develop community- based futures for economic and social development. This case study describes and analyses an ongoing practice-based research project that began in 2015. The project, ambitious in its scope, has engaged with communities that have been stripped of power to develop and present new visions of their hometown. Located in Rhyl, North Wales, the design team has developed strategies, ideas, and possibilities with the people who rejected a European future. This project proposes a form of economic, architectural, and design speculation that aims to reimagine regeneration in a post-BREXIT Britain. The case study questions how we, as designers, evolve and develop processes and practices, popularised through the evolution of Critical and Speculative Design (CSD), to think through alternative social, political, and economic futures. The project utilises open, interdisciplinary, and diverse dialogues with the intention of building a heightened notion of engagement and agency. We hope to demonstrate practices that allow speculation to become democratised away from the gallery and into the world. Through conversation with two politicians, the authors were confronted by a growing realisation that there was a deep problem at the heart of regional development. There was a gap, a schism, between the community and those tasked with the future of their economic prosperity. For the last four years, we’ve been trying to support the people of Rhyl to bridge this gap. As a form of participatory speculation, this project aims to build a new language and discourse of speculation in which underrepresented voices become key to the ambitions of a small town and where the outlier is valued for opening alternatives. There have been many criticisms of critical and speculative design approaches in recent years. This project builds on nearly two decades of CSD experience (in both research and education) to imagine the evolution of the approach. Through a process of anecdotalisation, this case study gives four semi-fictional accounts of extraordinary moments that aim to give insight into the unseen process of an experimental design practice.

Margins and Modernity: A Geocritical Approach to Anna Seward's Llangollen Vale

Romanticism ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-80
Author(s):  
Ruth Knezevich
Keyword(s):  
Analytic Approach ◽  
Romantic Era ◽  
Insight Into

The genre of annotated verse represents an under-explored form of transporting romanticism. In annotated, locodescriptive poems like those in Anna Seward's Llangollen Vale, readers are invited to read not only the spatiality of the landscapes depicted in the verse but also the landscape of the page itself. Seward's poems, with their focus on understanding geographical, political, and historical spaces both real and imaginary, provide geocritical insight into poetic productions of the early Romantic era. Likewise, geocriticism offers a fresh and useful – even necessary – analytic approach to such poems. I adopt Anna Seward as a case study in annotated verse and argue that attending to the materiality and paratextuality of her work allows us to access the complexities of her poetry and prose as well as her position within the wider framework of transporting Romanticism.

Transformative Encounters and Uncanny Intimacies: Biotechnology and Contemporary Art – A Practitioner's Approach and Perspective

Somatechnics ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 263-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svenja J. Kratz
Keyword(s):  
Tissue Culture ◽  
Human Skin ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Skin Equivalent ◽  
Biomedical Innovation ◽  
Equivalent Models ◽  
Science Projects ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Human Skin Equivalent

Abstract: Presented from an ArtScience practitioner's perspective, this paper provides an overview of Svenja Kratz's experience working as an artist within the area of cell and tissue culture at QUT's Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation (IHBI). Using The Absence of Alice, a multi-medium exhibition based on the experience of culturing cells, as a case study, the paper gives insight into the artist's approach to working across art and science and how ideas, processes, and languages from each discipline can intermesh and extend the possibilities of each system. The paper also provides an overview of her most recent artwork, The Human Skin Equivalent/Experience Project, which involves the creation of personal jewellery items incorporating human skin equivalent models grown from the artist's skin and participant cells. Referencing this project, and other contemporary bioart works, the value of ArtScience is discussed, focusing in particular on the way in which cross-art-science projects enable an alternative voice to enter into scientific dialogues and have the potential to yield outcomes valuable to both disciplines.

The Local Government of Kulon Progo Regency Innovation in Subduing Capitalism through Community Empowerment

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 229
Author(s):  
Muhammad Eko Atmojo ◽  
Helen Dian Fridayani
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
Case Study Approach ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
District Government ◽  
The Government

Kulon Progo Regency is one of the districts that has many innovations, one of which is community empowerment in collaboration with a modern shop abbreviated as the shop name owned by the people (tomira). This research was motivated by the achievements of the Kulon Progo district government in carrying out development and innovation in the development of the Kulon Progo region by fully involving the Kulon Progo district community through community empowerment. This initiative was taken by the government of Kulon Progo Regency to improve community empowerment and protect the people of Kulon Progo Regency from various economic threats. Considering that in the past few years many modern shops have mushroomed in each district/city, so this is what makes Kulon Progo Regency move quickly to empower the community by collaborating between MSMEs or cooperative with modern shops. This study uses a qualitative method which case study approach. With the empowerment that has been done, the original products of Kulon Progo Regency or local products can be traded in modern stores so that local products in Kulon Progo Regency can compete with national products in these modern stores. The existence of such cooperation will indirectly improve the image of Kulon Progo Regency and lift the original products of Kulon Progo Regency. The lifting of the original products of Kulon Progo Regency will have a positive impact on the community, where indirectly the economy of the community will increase so that there will be prosperity for the community. Kabupaten Kulon Progo adalah salah satu kabupaten yang memiliki banyak inovasi, salah satunya adalah pemberdayaan masyarakat bekerja sama dengan toko modern disingkat nama toko yang dimiliki oleh masyarakat (tomira). Penelitian ini dilatarbelakangi oleh pencapaian pemerintah kabupaten Kulon Progo dalam melakukan pengembangan dan inovasi dalam pengembangan wilayah Kulon Progo dengan melibatkan sepenuhnya masyarakat kabupaten Kulon Progo melalui pemberdayaan masyarakat. Inisiatif ini diambil oleh pemerintah Kabupaten Kulon Progo untuk meningkatkan pemberdayaan masyarakat dan melindungi masyarakat Kabupaten Kulon Progo dari berbagai ancaman ekonomi. Menimbang bahwa dalam beberapa tahun terakhir banyak toko-toko modern telah menjamur di setiap kabupaten/kota, jadi inilah yang membuat Kabupaten Kulon Progo bergerak cepat untuk memberdayakan masyarakat dengan berkolaborasi antara UMKM atau bekerjasama dengan toko-toko modern. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode penelitian kualitatif dengan pendekatan studi kasus, dengan metode yang digunakan adalah dokumentasi. Dengan pemberdayaan yang telah dilakukan, produk asli Kabupaten Kulon Progo atau produk lokal dapat diperdagangkan di toko modern sehingga produk lokal di Kabupaten Kulon Progo dapat bersaing dengan produk nasional di toko modern ini. Adanya kerjasama tersebut secara tidak langsung akan meningkatkan citra Kabupaten Kulon Progo dan mengangkat produk asli Kabupaten Kulon Progo. Pencabutan produk asli Kabupaten Kulon Progo akan berdampak positif bagi masyarakat, di mana secara tidak langsung perekonomian masyarakat akan meningkat sehingga akan ada kesejahteraan bagi masyarakat.

A Novel Integrated Reliability Test System for BEOL TDDB Study

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jifeng Chen ◽  
Peilin Song ◽  
Thomas M. Shaw ◽  
Franco Stellari ◽  
Lynne Gignac ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Preliminary Analysis ◽  
Dielectric Breakdown ◽  
Test System ◽  
Accurate Information ◽  
Reliability Test ◽  
Electrical Measurements ◽  
Time Dependent Dielectric Breakdown ◽  
Microscopy Images ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract In this paper, we propose a new methodology and test system to enable the early detection and precise localization of Time-Dependent-Dielectric-Breakdown (TDDB) occurrence in Back-End-of-Line (BEOL) interconnection. The methodology is implemented as a novel Integrated Reliability Test System (IRTS). In particular, through our methodology and test system, we can easily synchronize electrical measurements and emission microscopy images to gather more accurate information and thereby gain insight into the nature of the defects and their relationship to chip manufacturing steps and materials, so that we can ultimately better engineer these steps for higher reliable systems. The details of our IRTS will be presented along with a case study and preliminary analysis results.

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