scholarly journals The Construction of the Great Synagogue in Stockholm, 1860–1870: A Space for Jewish and Swedish-Christian Dialogues

Arts ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 22
Author(s):  
Maja Hultman
Keyword(s):  
Lay Leadership ◽  
Construction Process ◽  
National Narrative ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
The Public ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Physical Product ◽  
Historical Figures ◽  
Christian Society

The construction of the Great Synagogue in Stockholm during the 1860s initiated Jewish communal debates on the position and public presence of Jews in the Swedish pre-emancipatory society. An investigation into the construction process not only reveals various Jewish opinions on the sacred building, but also the pivotal role of Swedish-Christian actors in shaping the synagogue’s location, architecture, and the way it was presented in the public narrative. The Jewish community’s conceptualization and the Swedish society’s reception of the new synagogue turned it into a space on the ‘frontier.’ Conceptually situated in-between the Jewish community and the Swedish-Christian society, it encouraged cross-border interactions and became a physical product of the Jewish and Swedish-Christian entangled relationship. Non-Jewish architect Fredrik Wilhelm Scholander, historical figures prominent in the Swedish national narrative, and local and national newspapers were incorporated by the Jewish lay leadership into the creative process, and they influenced and circulated the community’s self-understanding as both Swedish citizens and Jews of a modern religion. The construction process and final product strategically communicated Jewish belonging to the Swedish nation during the last decade of social and legal inequality, thus adding to the contemporary political debate on Jewish emancipation.

scholarly journals Street Users in Drug Policy: On the Underestimated Role of Welfare Institutions

2021 ◽  
pp. 211-237
Author(s):  
Nicolay B. Johansen
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Drug Policy ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
The Public ◽  
Welfare Institutions ◽  
Nordic Welfare State

In Norway, the public and political debate is moving in the direction of treatment. This is in line with the tradition of the Nordic welfare state. However, it is argued, a treatment or welfare state approach to drugs can be as controlling as a policy based on legal punishments.

scholarly journals The far-right’s influence on Twitter during the 2018 Andalusian elections: an approach through political leaders

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-242
Author(s):  
Rubén Rivas-de-Roca ◽  
Mar García-Gordillo ◽  
Ofa Bezunartea-Valencia
Keyword(s):  
Political Communication ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Great Expectation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Regional Elections ◽  
First Time

New technologies allow politicians to spread their messages omitting the role of mediators. In this context, the Internet has also promoted the emergence of a new actor, digital opinion leaders, who go beyond traditional politics and seek to set the public agenda. One of the main questions nowadays is whether social media, and in particular Twitter as a consolidated tool for political communication, is only used as a sounding board for their political statements, spurring the messages of populist forces. With this in mind, the main objective of this research is to explore the influence of the far-right in the public debate of political leaders on Twitter, analyzing the specific case of the Andalusian regional elections held in December 2018. These elections can be considered a political turning point, with an extreme right party winning seats in a Spanish regional election for the first time in 35 years. In this paper we analyze if Vox used a differentiated strategy via this social network compared to the candidates of the traditional parties: PSOE, PP, Ciudadanos, and Adelante Andalucía. Using content analysis on Twitter as a method, this research determines how Vox candidates worked as influencers of the digital political debate, despite being extra-parliamentary. Vox marked the agenda for the rest of the leaders, while generating great expectation among the audience.

Staging Laughter and Tears: Libanius, Chrysostom and the Riot of the Statues

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan R. Stenger
Keyword(s):  
Urban Society ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Emotional Expressions ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
The Public ◽  
John Chrysostom ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City ◽  
Christian Society

The Riot of the Statues in 387 CE was a decisive moment in the history of Antioch in Syria. After the revolt, tears and public lamentations took over, as the inhabitants awaited imperial punishment. In the course of the crisis the rhetorician Libanius and the preacher John Chrysostom each tried to negotiate a settlement of the dispute between the authorities and the city. Their speeches depict dramatic scenes of collective weeping and lamentation and thus reflect not only emotional states but also the public use of tears. In doing so, they shine light on the theatrical qualities of emotional responses in social interaction. The analysis of the purposes for which both authors exploit the themes of laughing and wailing reveals two contrasting attitudes to urban society and oratory. While both recognise the vital role of laughter and tears in managing social relationships, Libanius’ representation of emotional expressions aims to eulogise the virtues of an imperial officer and maintain the traditional order of society. Chrysostom, by contrast, teaches his audience which emotions are acceptable in a Christian society and which are not. His aim is to implement an emotion management that is oriented towards the heavenly realm.

scholarly journals The philosopher as engaged citizen: Habermas on the role of the public intellectual in the modern democratic public sphere

2021 ◽  
pp. 136843102110031
Author(s):  
Peter J. Verovšek
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Public Intellectual ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Public Intellectuals ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
Direct Role ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Relationship

Realists and supporters of ‘democratic underlabouring’ have recently challenged the traditional separation between political theory and practice. Although both attack Jürgen Habermas for being an idealist whose philosophy is too removed from politics, I argue that this interpretation is inaccurate. While Habermas’s social and political theory is indeed oriented to truth and understanding, he has sought realize his communicative conception of democracy by increasing the quality of political debate as a public intellectual. Building on his approach, I argue that giving the theorist a direct role in public policy undermines theory as an enterprise oriented towards truth while overlooking the contingency, participatory nature and complicated internal logics of social and political practice. My basic thesis is that Habermas’s understanding of the relationship between theory and practice overcomes these difficulties by providing an account of theory that is independent but simultaneously also allows philosophers to participate in politics as public intellectuals.

scholarly journals SUPERVISION OF MUSEUM ACTIVITY

Muzealnictwo ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 62 ◽  
pp. 208-213
Author(s):  
Rafał Golat
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Construction Process ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
The Public ◽  
Basic Meaning ◽  
National Heritage ◽  
Historic Monuments ◽  
Public Museums ◽  
Internal Supervision

Supervision of museums should be perceived taking into account both specific regulations: addressed directly to museums, particularly in the Act on Museums, as well as general regulations assuming supervision mechanisms in different respects, e.g., construction process or HR. This complex perspective: systemic and normative, is essential not only with respect to the supervision in a narrow basic meaning of the term, associated in the first place with an inspection of the supervised entity and application of respective executive actions, e.g., undertaken in the form of administrative decisions, but also the supervision in a broader perspective, understood as a whole range of support provided to a museum, including issuing recommendations, evaluations, and opinions important for its operation. In the context of ‘external’ supervision implemented by appropriate organs and entities, the following are of basic importance: the museum’s organiser (founder) supervision, constituting one of the organiser’s basic statutory responsibilities, as well as the supervision of the minister responsible for culture and preservation of national heritage, with respect to e.g., the preservation and care of historic monuments and museum operations; additionally, it is the matter of conservation supervision performed by Voivodeship Conservators of Historic Monuments as organs specialized in the preservation and care of historic monuments, the latter constituting, e.g., museum collections. As for the ‘internal’ supervision aspects, the role of museum councils, obligatory in public museums (state ones or organised by local governments), needs to be emphasized. Their statutory responsibility is to e.g., supervise how museums fulfil their responsibilities with respect to the collection and the public, in particular how they fulfil the goals as specified in Art.1 of the Act on Museums. The questions of supervision are also important for non-public museums (their founders) which in the event of violating either the Act’s provisions or their own charter have to be prepared that supervisory activities might be applied to them, up to the ban on their further operations.

Popularization and Consilience

2021 ◽  
pp. 212-232
Author(s):  
Matt Grossmann
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
The Public ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Opening Up ◽  
Public Concerns

Social science makes its way into public debate, raising concerns about publicity-seeking scholarship but also opening up potential benefits for engagement across disciplines and society. Social science debates are no longer, if they ever were, confined to universities and obscure journals; they are now central parts of popular media and political debate. Associated scholarly motivations for public influence drive research, then popular discussion of research findings feeds back into scholarship. The increasing role of media attention, popular nonfiction, and think tanks changes the incentives and the practices of social scientists. Popularized scholarship not only (mis)informs the public and policymakers, but also shapes interdisciplinary debates. This enables integration by concentrating diverse minds on public concerns. Sociobiology shows that scholars with very different views of human nature have put forward popular accounts, responded to one another, and created an ongoing space for advancing knowledge.

scholarly journals Municipal Websites in the Local Public Debate

2007 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marte Winsvold
Keyword(s):  
Digital Communication ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
The Public ◽  
Local Media ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Media ◽  
Source Of Information

Abstract The proliferation of digital communication spaces is expected to have the paradoxical effect of both enhancing pluralism as well as causing a fragmentation of the public political debate. The question addressed in this paper concerns the position of one such space of communication in the local public debate - municipal websites. Four Norwegian municipalities are studied, and the role of their websites is assessed by evaluating the visibility and the extent to which the contents of these websites affect the agenda of the local media. The study indicates that even though the municipal websites are not particularly visible to the citizens, they still influence the public political agenda by being a source of information to the press. As the communication taking place on the municipal websites spills over to the media and thereby reaches the majority of the citizens, the websites can not be said to lead to a fragmentation of the public debate. Whether or not the websites contribute to the pluralism of the public debate is however uncertain.

scholarly journals Mobile science museums and centres and their history in the public communication of science

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (03) ◽  
pp. A04 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Norberto Rocha ◽  
Martha Marandino
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Science Museum ◽  
Public Communication ◽  
Construction Process ◽  
Science Museums ◽  
The Public ◽  
Museum Exhibitions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Science Exhibitions

In this paper, we identify some milestones in the construction process for mobile science museums and centres in Brazil. As background for presenting the Brazilian context, we initially address the records found on the earliest travelling museum exhibitions and mobile museums in Europe and North America. We then introduce the role of UNESCO in the promotion and implementation of travelling science exhibitions and museums in several countries. Finally, we document important events in the history of mobile science museum and centres in Brazil and outline three general and inter-related challenges currently faced by them.

scholarly journals Pedagogia Universitária e Prática Didática: um Relato de Experiência

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 118
Author(s):  
Samuel José Amaral De Jesus
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Primary Role ◽  
Direct Connection ◽  
Construction Process ◽  
Teaching Innovation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Evaluation ◽  
Methodological Procedures

A Universidade é um espaço que alia conhecimentos, competências e atitudes, em uma conexão direta com a identidade do sujeito. Nesta, o docente tem o papel primordial de mediar a sistematização de conhecimentos, permitindo assim a sua troca e contribuindo para um aprendizado significativo. No entanto, este contexto é marcado por diversas barreiras, principalmente, no que diz respeito às práticas pedagógicas. Com o objetivo de discutir o processo de construção da didática universitária e a importância da inovação, este relato de experiência foi construído a partir de uma microaula ministrada durante o componente curricular Didática do Ensino Superior. Para tal, foi realizada a elaboração da aula, que ocorreu por meio da construção de um plano específico e orientado, o qual culminou na explanação do conteúdo, com práticas condizentes ao tema e o emprego de elementos inovadores. Após a apresentação, foi aberto um espaço para a avaliação do público, que se realizou pela exposição de críticas (ou de análises) sobre os diversos pontos observados. Em suma, a microaula foi uma oportunidade para vivenciar como se planeja e atua no Ensino Superior. Por outro lado, também contribuiu de uma forma significativa para a construção enquanto docente, em relação aos procedimentos metodológicos. Palavras-chave: Docência. Inovação. Didática. AbstractThe university is a space that combines knowledge, skills and attitudes, in a direct connection with the subject’s  identity . In it, the professor has the primary role of mediating the  knowledge systematization, thus allowing its exchange and contributing to meaningful learning. However, this context is marked by several barriers, especially regarding pedagogical practices. With the objective of discussing the construction process of university didactics and the importance of innovation, this experience report was constructed from a micro class taught during the curricular component Didactics of Higher Education. For this, the lesson was elaborated, which was done by means of the construction of a specific and oriented plan, which culminated in the content explanation, with practices consistent with the theme and the use of innovative elements. After the presentation, a space was opened for the public evaluation, which was the exposure of criticism (or analysis) on the various observed points. In short, the  micro class was an opportunity to experience how to plan and act in higher education. On the other hand, it also contributed significantly to the construction as a professor, in relation to the methodological procedures. Keywords: Teaching. Innovation. Didactics. 

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