scholarly journals RUANG PUBLIK DAN AGAMA MASA DEPAN

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Muhammad Farid
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere

Globalisasi tidak memberikan kesempatan bagi entitas apapun untuk bersembunyi  dari ranah publik. Dalam konteks keagamaan, maka tak satupun agama dapat menutupi dirinya dari perhatian publik. Globalisasi dengan demikian sekaligus membuka pintu perjumpaan antaragama dalam satu?rumah-global?. Hal inimenghadirkankonsekwensi pelik; persinggungan antar claim of truth yang makin tak terhindarkan! Dalam kondisi demikian, paham Sekularisme dan Pluralisme bersemai perlahan dalam relung-relung kehidupan umat beragama. Menawarkan netralitas sikap dan kesatuan pandangan bagi masa depan bersama. Namun tentu saja penerimaan kedua paham masih menjadi diskursus panjang dan berliku, bahkan diantara pemeluk agama sendiri. Bagai simalakama; menerima tawaran sekularisme dan pluralisme dapat menjebak keber-agamaan kedalam jurang nihilism, sementara berpegang teguh pada keyakinan rigid hanya akan menjerumuskan kedalam lubang hitam absolutisme, keduanya merupakan kutub yang sama berbahaya. Tantangan globalisasi juga akan merubah ?wajah? agama-modern yang sangat jauh berbeda dengan agama-tradisional sebelumnya; dimana agama tidak lagi ?berwibawa‘, solid dalam satu kesatuan (umat), melainkan terfragmentasi kedalam individu-individu yang beragam. Ini tentu bukan pertanda agama akan terpinggirkan di ranah privat-individual, melainkan justru tampil mengemuka di ranah publik, melalui figur pribadi-pribadi yang tidak kalah saleh-nya  dengan otoritas ulama-pendeta formal. Religiusitas-modern masa depan ditandai dengan tampilnya pribadi-pribadi layaknya ?mullah?, imam, yang sibuk mencerdaskan keber- agamaan dirinya di ruang publik. Dan akhirnya, ruang publik (public sphere) sendiri mengalami perubahan signifikan, yang bahkan pergi jauh meninggalkan idealisme sang penggagasnya, Habermas. Dimana tak mungkin lagi ada ruang yang mengandaikan kesepahaman bersama, sebab ruang yang tersisa hanyalah bagi individu-individu yang sangat   beragam,   yang   sangat   toleran   akan   perbedaan,   bahkan   tidak   sedikit  yang ?mengecam‘ kesepahaman.

The Theatrical Public Sphere

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher B. Balme
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere

The Suffering of the Perpetrators: The Ethics of Traumatic German Historicity in Karen Bass's Young Adult World War II Novels

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-77
Author(s):  
Doris Wolf
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Childhood Studies ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
World War ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Adult World ◽  
The Public Sphere

This paper examines two young adult novels, Run Like Jäger (2008) and Summer of Fire (2009), by Canadian writer Karen Bass, which centre on the experiences of so-called ordinary German teenagers in World War II. Although guilt and perpetration are themes addressed in these books, their focus is primarily on the ways in which Germans suffered at the hands of the Allied forces. These books thus participate in the increasingly widespread but still controversial subject of the suffering of the perpetrators. Bringing work in childhood studies to bear on contemporary representations of German wartime suffering in the public sphere, I explore how Bass's novels, through the liminal figure of the adolescent, participate in a culture of self-victimisation that downplays guilt rather than more ethically contextualises suffering within guilt. These historical narratives are framed by contemporary narratives which centre on troubled teen protagonists who need the stories of the past for their own individualisation in the present. In their evacuation of crucial historical contexts, both Run Like Jäger and Summer of Fire support optimistic and gendered narratives of individualism that ultimately refuse complicated understandings of adolescent agency in the past or present.

Habermas, Cultural Hegemony, and the Educational Public Sphere

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 43-62
Author(s):  
Wisam Kh. Abdul-Jabbar
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Cultural Hegemony ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Arabic Speaking

This study explores Habermas’s work in terms of the relevance of his theory of the public sphere to the politics and poetics of the Arab oral tradition and its pedagogical practices. In what ways and forms does Arab heritage inform a public sphere of resistance or dissent? How does Habermas’s notion of the public space help or hinder a better understanding of the Arab oral tradition within the sociopolitical and educational landscape of the Arabic-speaking world? This study also explores the pedagogical implications of teaching Arab orality within the context of the public sphere as a contested site that informs a mode of resistance against social inequality and sociopolitical exclusions.

The Dynamics of Egypt’s “Semi-opposition,” 2004–11

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 83-103
Author(s):  
Mai Mogib Mosad
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Political System ◽  
Muslim Brotherhood ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Muslim Brotherhood ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Relationship

This paper maps the basic opposition groups that influenced the Egyptian political system in the last years of Hosni Mubarak’s rule. It approaches the nature of the relationship between the system and the opposition through use of the concept of “semi-opposition.” An examination and evaluation of the opposition groups shows the extent to which the regime—in order to appear that it was opening the public sphere to the opposition—had channels of communication with the Muslim Brotherhood. The paper also shows the system’s relations with other groups, such as “Kifaya” and “April 6”; it then explains the reasons behind the success of the Muslim Brotherhood at seizing power after the ousting of President Mubarak.

I Think We’re Alone Now

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 183-210
Author(s):  
Erin Nunoda
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Digital Images ◽  
Empty Space ◽  
The Public ◽  
Youtube Videos ◽  
The Public Sphere

This article examines YouTube videos (primarily distributed by a user named Cecil Robert) that document so-called dead malls: unpopulated, unproductive, but not necessarily demolished consumerist sites that have proliferated in the wake of the 2008 recession. These works link digital images of mall interiors with pop-song remixes so as to re-create the experience of hearing a track while standing within the empty space; manipulating the songs’ audio frequencies heightens echo effects and fosters an impression of ghostly dislocation. This article argues that these videos locate a potentiality in abandoned mall spaces for the exploration of queer (non)relations. It suggests that the videos’ emphasis on lonely, unconsummated intimacies questions circuitous visions of the public sphere, participatory dynamics online, and the presumably conservative biopolitics (both at its height and in its memorialization) of mall architecture.

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