scholarly journals The Object-Oriented Politics of Stadium Sustainability: A Case Study of SC Freiburg

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (23) ◽  
pp. 6712 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyle S. Bunds ◽  
Christopher M. McLeod ◽  
Martin Barrett ◽  
Joshua I. Newman ◽  
Joerg Koenigstorfer
Keyword(s):  
Political Process ◽  
Object Oriented ◽  
Environmental Cost ◽  
The Political ◽  
Construction Process ◽  
Carbon Neutral ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Facility Construction ◽  
Key Informant Interview

Sport stadia are political objects that carry an environmental cost. The purpose of this research is to add to previous literature by theorizing the political process of stadium construction in a way that accounts for how environmental issues are introduced into the political process and, therefore, offers a more accurate lens through which to interpret how sustainable stadia are constructed. We conducted a case study of SC Freiburg’s carbon-neutral stadium construction process to theorize the object-oriented politics of sport facility construction. SC Freiburg is a German football club, playing in the Bundesliga. To examine the case, we employed a key informant interview and document analysis using Nexis Uni searches, local newspaper articles, official city documents, and social media websites. The case study of SC Freiburg’s carbon neutral stadium construction process showed that environmental concerns were included through a political process that incorporated the interests of a diverse public of human and nonhuman actors (while excluding some actors whose interests could not be reconciled) to produce a sustainable matter of fact. Additionally, we propose a pragmatic definition of stadium sustainability and suggest that environmental activists should make sure that both human and nonhuman actors with sustainability concerns are included in the stadium’s material public.

Language Movement and Civil War in West Africa

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ericka A. Albaugh
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Sierra Leone ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Political Process ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
Language Spread ◽  
The 1960S

This chapter examines how civil war can influence the spread of language. Specifically, it takes Sierra Leone as a case study to demonstrate how Krio grew from being primarily a language of urban areas in the 1960s to one spoken by most of the population in the 2000s. While some of this was due to “normal” factors such as population movement and growing urbanization, the civil war from 1991 to 2002 certainly catalyzed the process of language spread in the 1990s. Using census documents and surveys, the chapter tests the hypothesis at the national, regional, and individual levels. The spread of a language has political consequences, as it allows for citizen participation in the political process. It is an example of political scientists’ approach to uncovering the mechanisms for and evidence of language movement in Africa.

scholarly journals The political economy of peacebuilding: The case of women's cooperatives in Nepal

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Smita Ramnarain
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Everyday Activities ◽  
Peace Processes ◽  
Sustainable Peace ◽  
Credit Cooperatives ◽  
Peace Initiatives ◽  
Definition Of

Critiques of liberal, top-down approaches to peacebuilding have motivated a discussion of alternative, locally-led, and community-based approaches to achieving and maintaining sustainable peace. This article uses a case study of women's savings and credit cooperatives in post-violence Nepal to examine the ways in which grassroots-based, locally-led peace initiatives can counter top-down approaches. The article presents ethnographic evidence from fieldwork in Nepal on how cooperatives expand through their everyday activities the definition of peace to include not only the absence of violence (negative peace) but transformatory goals such as social justice (positive peace). By focusing on ongoing root causes of structural violence, cooperatives problematize the postconflict period where pre-war normalcy is presumed to have returned. They emphasize local agency and ownership over formal peace processes. The findings suggest ongoing struggles that cooperatives face due to their existence within larger, liberal paradigms of international postconflict aid and reconstruction assistance. Their uneasy relationship with liberal economic structures limit their scale and scope of effectiveness even as they provide local alternatives for peacebuilding.

Disrupting polarized discourses: Can we get out of the ruts of environmental conflicts?

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (6) ◽  
pp. 987-1005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chloe Lucas ◽  
Russell Warman
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Social Study ◽  
Recent Attempt ◽  
Social Constructs ◽  
Environmental Conflicts ◽  
Australian State ◽  
Traditional Authorities ◽  
Definition Of

Polarization in environmental conflicts obstructs decision making at all scales. The Australian state of Tasmania has a history of intense polarization around environmental issues. This article uses a social study of citizens of the capital, Hobart, and a case study of a recent attempt to disrupt polarization about forestry in Tasmania, to develop a novel conceptualization of ‘ruts’ in environmental conflicts. Ruts are formed when polarizing social constructs gain a momentum that perpetuates entrenched discourse coalitions and storylines into subsequent issues. This is evidenced in attitudinal survey results, and in interviews that show how storylines from the forestry debate frame people’s responses to climate change. The case study describes negotiations in the forestry conflict that had some success in disrupting these polarized discourses. After the long-term failure of the traditional authorities of government and science to resolve conflict over Tasmania’s forests, a sub-political process emerged to directly renegotiate a shared definition of risk. The study shows that new coalitions of players from outside traditional systems of authority have the potential to disrupt polarized discourses, through the creation of shared storylines. The challenge is to be prepared to acknowledge the legitimacy of divergent values, and to seek framings that sidestep, rather than confront strongly held conflicting values. Insights from this article are likely to be of value for other environmental conflicts, including climate change.

scholarly journals Electoral Politics in Pakistan (Elections 2013): A Case Study of District Muzaffar Garh

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 79
Author(s):  
Fariha Khalid Khan ◽  
Razia Musarrat
Keyword(s):  
Political Institutions ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Electoral Politics ◽  
Third Party ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Awareness ◽  
Public Issues ◽  
Election Process ◽  
And Behavior

Elections make a fundamental contribution to democratic governance. In democracies political decisions are made directly by the citizens of the country. Elections serve as forum for the discussion of public issues and facilitate the expression of public opinion. Electoral politics is a figurative form of political participation. Success and failure of political institutions depends upon the political awareness of people and the process of electoral politics is the subject of free, fair and transparent elections. Like her counterparts Pakistan has election process defined by constitution. The electoral process in Pakistan was not regular and transparent but last three elections 2002, 2008 and 2013 were held according to the constitution.  In Pakistan elections and political process are dominated by the political personalities. Although there are multiparty system but people mostly preferred two main parties like PPP and PML-N but it is positive that third party PTI was emerged in country as third largest party of Pakistan. The study focuses on the 2013 elections and behavior of people of district Muzaffar Garh of Punjab. The purpose of this study is to observe the electoral politics at micro level in Pakistan.

New Media and Democratic Citizenship

2011 ◽  
pp. 1250-1254 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. W. Hardy ◽  
D. A. Scheufele
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Online Information ◽  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
Definition Of

The issue of the civic potential of the Internet has been at the forefront of much scholarly discussion over the last 10 to 15 years. Before providing a comprehensive overview of the different schools of thought currently dominating this debate, it is necessary to briefly describe how researchers have defined the terms citizenship and new media. Across different literatures, two ways of examining citizenship emerge. The first approach examines citizenship broadly as citizen involvement in the political process. Scheufele and Nisbet (2002), for example, identified three dimensions of citizenship: feelings of efficacy, levels of information, and participation in the political process. The second approach taps citizenship much more narrowly as social capital (i.e., the more emotional and informal ties among citizens in a community) (Shah, Kwak, & Holbert, 2001). Depending on which definition of citizenship they followed, researchers also have been interested in different types of new media use with a primary focus on the Internet. Some have examined the Internet as a medium that functions in a top-down fashion similar to traditional mass media. These scholars mostly are concerned with how online information gathering differs from traditional media use, such as newspaper readership or TV viewing. More recently, scholars have begun to examine different dimensions of Internet use, including chatting online about politics, e-mail exchanges with candidates and other citizens, and online donations to campaigns.

Networking the political: On the dynamic interrelations that create publics in the digital age

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 124-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mette Marie Roslyng ◽  
Bolette B Blaagaard
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
The Political ◽  
Relational View ◽  
Minority Culture ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
Public Spheres ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Definition Of

This article argues that the definition of the political and its role in on- and offline public spheres calls for a conceptualization that takes into account the networked connections established between lay and professional political actors, mass media and mobile media. While acknowledging the importance of popular and mass media’s impact on participatory and democratic processes, this article focuses on the cultural citizen and proposes that a rethinking of publics affords a new understanding of the idea of networks as a series of connection points fostering a dynamic and relational view on the political. We illustrate this conceptualization through a case study mapping the agonistic and antagonistic frontiers in communication in a variety of publics and counter-publics in the context of Danish minority culture and politics.

scholarly journals Biocentrism as one of the main categories of everyday biopolitical discourse

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (7) ◽  
pp. 5-10
Author(s):  
А. Y. Kravets
Keyword(s):  
Political Behavior ◽  
Homo Sapiens ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Biological Species ◽  
Social Adaptation ◽  
The Political ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Political Sphere ◽  
Definition Of

The main aim of the article is the conceptualization of the categorical apparatus of biopolitics. The focus is on biocentrism as one of the main categories of modern biopolitical discourse. It is stated that biopolitics today offers a variety of research directions and a specific categorical apparatus, while fluctuations in the interpretations of the main terms and categories should be noted. The main terms are considered: «biopolitics», «political man», biopower and biocentrism. The definition of the above terms in the biopolitics is systematized and proposed author’s definitions. «Homo Politicus» as a phenomenon was a complicated and problematic subject of scientific conceptualization. Proposed particulars of the biopolitical view on «Homo Politicus»: «Homo Politicus» is genetically related with another biological species and this definitely has influence to his behaviour in social and political sphere. For instance, any human being as any social primates has genetic inclination to adaptation, domination, subjugation. In case with «Homo Sapiens» this has a form of genetic and social adaptation, political domination and subjugation. The inclination to the domination from one side to the subjugation to another side is genetically «imprinted» in to the nature of the «Homo Politicus». However it is important to be mentioned that nevertheless the «Homo Sapiens» shares inclination of social primates for hierarchical social organization, at the same time he developed capabilities which are unique in animal world, such as: language, culture and morale. Thus, ideas and values created by the human being commenced changing of his behavior in social and political sphere. Author’s definitions: «Political man» as an individual with innate properties of the brain and the psyche that affects his social and political behavior can be adjusted in the process of socialization and education and change in accordance with the challenges of the twenty-first century. Biopolitics as a new evolutionary paradigm of contemporary political science that explores the «political man» as a biological species with an emphasis on psycho-physiological mechanisms of political behavior and their influence on the political process. Biopower as a new model of power relations, enshrined at the legislative level, designed to protect life in all its forms and manifestations. Biocentrism is aimed at protecting life in all spheres, understanding that a person is only part of the overall biodiversity, and therefore has no right to destroy the biosphere guided by economic benefits.

scholarly journals German Expellee Organizations between “Homeland” and “At Home”: A Case Study of the Politics of Belonging

Refuge ◽  
2001 ◽  
pp. 52-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Wolff
Keyword(s):  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
The Political ◽  
World War ◽  
Cultural Organizations ◽  
Ethnic Germans ◽  
Second World

Since the expulsion of more than ten million ethnic Germans from Central and Eastern Europe after the end of the Second World War, the political and cultural organizations of the expellees have advocated the interests of this segment of the Federal Republic’s population. The article examines the various ways in which activists in the expellee organizations have used the ambiguity of homeland and belonging in the political process in Germany and increasingly in Europe to further a political agenda that, while it has undergone major changes, remains deeply problematic in some of its objectives and many of its implications.

scholarly journals Restrukturisasi Organisasi Perangkat Daerah Kecamatan di Kabupaten Kolaka Utara

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Taufik Hidayat
Keyword(s):  
Formation Process ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Institutional Arrangement ◽  
The Political ◽  
Organizational Restructuring ◽  
Efficient Manner ◽  
District Government ◽  
Method Approach

This study aims to analyze the process of organizational restructuring of regional devices in the scope of North Kolaka District Government (Case Study of Tiwu and Lasusua Sub-districts) and analysis of typology and size of the organization of the Kecamatan. This research was conducted in North Kolaka Regency using mix method approach. The research shows that the process of restructuring of regional apparatus organization in North Kolaka district especially in Tiwu District and Lasusua sub-district institutional redesign has not been through the stages and process of effective and efficient institutional arrangement, the formation process of the formulation team, the political process of policy determination, the process of determining type and magnitude of sub-district organization, organizational structure and working procedures, duties and sub-district functions that overlap one affair with other affairs, and the lack of socialization of institutional arrangement policy so that the process of organizational restructuring of sub-district has not been rational, effective and efficient as well as determination of tipelogi and the size of Tiwu and Lasusua sub-district organizations have not been based on analysis of the main workload of government affairs in general variables and technical variables in a rational, effective and efficient manner. Penelitian ini bertujuan menganalisis proses restrukturisasi organisasi perangkat daerah di lingkup Pemerintah Kabupaten Kolaka Utara (Studi Kasus Kecamatan Tiwu dan Kecamatan Lasusua) dan analisis tipelogi dan besaran organisasi Kecamatan tersebut. Penelitian ini dilaksanakan di Kabupaten Kolaka Utara dengan menggunakan pendekatan mix method. Penelitian menunjukkan proses restrukturisasi organisasi perangkat daerah di Kabupaten Kolaka Utara khususnya dalam redesain kelembagaan Kecamatan Tiwu dan Kecamatan Lasusua, belum melalui tahapan-tahapan dan proses penataan kelembagaan yang efektif dan efisien, proses pembentukan tim perumus (kepanitiaan), proses politik penetapan kebijakan, proses penentuan tipe dan besaran organisasi Kecamatan, Struktur Organisasi dan Tata Kerja, Tugas Pokok dan Fungsi Kecamatan yang tumpang tindih antara satu urusan dengan urusan yang lain, serta kurangnya sosialisasi kebijakan penataan kelembagaan sehingga belum terwujudnya proses restrukturisasi organisasi Kecamatan yang rasional, efektif dan efisien serta penentuan tipelogi dan besaran organisasi Kecamatan Tiwu dan Kecamatan Lasusua belum berdasarkan analisis beban kerja utama urusan pemerintahan dalam variabel umum dan variabel teknis secara rasional, efektif dan efisien.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Livnat Holtzman
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Rhetorical Devices ◽  
Political Events ◽  
Standing Up ◽  
Definition Of

This chapter introduces the corpus of aḥādīth al-ṣifāt and its role in shaping the traditionalistic definition of anthropomorphism through the case-study of an anthropomorphic tradition attributed to Mujahid, one of the earliest Quran exegetes. According to this tradition, the ‘honourable station’ (maqām maḥmūd) which is mentioned in Quran 17:79, denotes that the Prophet Muhammad will sit on the heavenly throne with God. This marginal tradition which was rejected by the majority of the traditionalists became an iconic text due the relentless efforts of the Baghdadian Hanbalites of the ninth and tenth centuries. The Hanbalites toiled to prove the antiquity and the authenticity of the text, while using an array of rhetorical devices to promote this text and sanctify it. Thus, Abu Bakr al-Marwazi (d. 888), who was Ahmad ibn Hanbal’s (d. 855) foremost disciple, used to illustrate Muhammad’s sitting on the throne by standing up and sitting down. This gesture conveyed the Hanbalite creed that Muhammad’s sitting on the throne was actual rather than metaphoric. The political events that accompanied this anthropomorphic text are also surveyed in this chapter.

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