scholarly journals Questions of Citizenship and the Nature of "The Public"

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-28
Author(s):  
Sarah Schindler
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
The Other ◽  
Prior Work ◽  
Private Space ◽  
The Public ◽  
Urban Citizenship ◽  
Global Age ◽  
Local Citizenship

This essay is taken from a talk given at a symposium discussing Professor Ken Stahl’s book, Local Citizenship in a Global Age.1 It is not a traditional book review, but rather a series of musings inspired by the ideas in the book. Professor Stahl’s new book, Local Citizenship in a Global Age, addresses a number of important issues, many of which have been the focus of my prior work: the existence of boundaries, borders, and the spaces in between; who we include in those boundaries and who we exclude; public space, private space, and the lines between them; spaces of production versus those of consumption; and questions of place and authenticity. Thus, I was excited to participate in a discussion of the book. This essay focuses specifically on Part III of Stahl’s book, which addresses “Race, Space, Place, and Urban Citizenship.” In addition to the topics I mentioned above, Professor Stahl’s book is about citizenship. Indeed, it is primarily about citizenship. But, as Professor Stahl describes various conceptions of citizenship, it is clear that the reader has to grapple with all of the other issues I noted—boundaries, place, exclusion—in order to fully understand citizenship. This essay provides no broad critiques or sweeping analysis. Rather, it will discuss the concepts that struck me in the book and the ideas it made me think about. Thus, what follows are some thoughts, organized generally in the order in which they came to me as I was reading Part III of the book.

scholarly journals PRIVATE ISSUES IN PESAT IN LATE COLONIAL JAVA

2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mutiah Amini
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Political Party ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
The Other ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Private Space ◽  
The Public ◽  
Local Newspaper ◽  
The Media

<p>Pesat was a local newspaper in Semarang published in the 1940s during the late colonial era. The establishment of Pesat could not be separated from the couple of I.M. Sajoeti and S.K. Trimurti, the owners of the newspaper, who were best-known as activitists of Political Party and senior journalists in Semarang at that time. As a local newspaper, the content of this publication differed considerably from the other local newspaper which mostly focused on news and advertisements. Pesat continuously published some information that had not been addressed by the media anywhere before. Pesat published transparently on the problems of family life and household. In particular, Pesat pointed the problems of marriage which placed women in domestic area in which they were not permitted to speak about the problems they were facing to other people in the public domain. This meant that a matter concerning the life of household which was previously considered private space was now published as news available to newspaper readers.</p> <p>Keywords: Pesat, private, colonial, Semarang, Java.</p> <p> </p> <p>Pesat adalah sebuah koran lokal di Semarang yang diterbitkan pada 1940-an selama era kolonial akhir. Pembentukan Pesat tak lepas dari pasangan IM Sajoeti dan SK Trimurti, pemilik surat kabar, yang dikenal sebagai aktifis Partai Politik dan wartawan senior di Semarang pada waktu itu. Sebagai koran lokal, isi dari publikasi ini berbeda jauh dari koran lokal lainnya yang berfokus pada berita dan iklan. Pesat terus menerbitkan beberapa informasi yang belum ditangani oleh media manapun sebelumnya. Dalam publikasi mereka, Pesat dipublikasikan secara transparan pada kehidupan masalah keluarga dalam rumah tangga. Secara khusus, diangkat masalah seputar pernikahan yang menempatkan perempuan dalam ruang domestik dan perempuan tidak diperbolehkan untuk berbicara tentang masalah yang mereka hadapi kepada orang lain dalam domain publik. Ini berarti bahwa masalah yang berkenaan dengan kehidupan rumah tangga yang sebelumnya dianggap ruang pribadi yang ada di luar keluarga diizinkan untuk tahu tentang itu sekarang telah diterbitkan sebagai berita tersedia bagi pembaca surat kabar.</p> <p>Kata kunci: Pesat, pribadi, kolonial, Semarang, Jawa.</p> <p> </p>

scholarly journals Política de la supervivencia / Politics of Survival

2017 ◽  
pp. 249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriel Giorgi
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Heterogeneous Materials ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Public ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Politics Of The Body ◽  
Act Up ◽  
The One

Resumen: Distintas intervenciones desde prácticas activistas y culturales en torno al VIH escenifican poéticas y políticas del resto corporal en las que se juegan, por un lado, una reorganización de los modos en que se dramatiza en umbral entre lo vivo y lo muerto en lo público –redefiniendo así el tejido mismo de lo que llamamos “comunidad”—; y por otro, indican los modos en que estos activismos impulsan una disputa sobre los “marcos de temporalización” desde los cuales lo viviente se vuelve reconocible políticamente y donde la noción de supervivencia adquiere una centralidad decisiva. Combinando materiales heterogéneos el artículo busca iluminar los modos en que los activismos y las culturas en torno al VIH configuran un terreno decisivo para pensar políticas de la supervivencia del presente. Palabras clave: VIH, ACT-UP, Supervivencia, Temporalidades, Biopolítica. Abstract: Different interventions from activist and cultural practices around HIV staged poetics and politics of the body remmant. They implie, on the one hand, a reorganitzation of the dramatization of the threshold between the living and the dead in the public space; and on the other, they indicate the ways in which these activisms mobilize a dispute over the “frames of temporalization” from which the living becomes politically recognizable and where the notion of survival acquires a decisive centrality. Combining heterogeneous materials, the article seeks to illuminate the ways in which activism and cultures on HIV constitute a decisive ground for thinking about the present policies of survival. Keywords: IHV, ACT-UP, Survival, Biopolitics.

scholarly journals Studi Privasi dan Aksesibiltas dalam Rumah Hunian yang Memiliki Pondokan Mahasiswa ditinjau dari Nilai-nilai as Sunnah

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 48
Author(s):  
Nunik Junara ◽  
Tarranita Kusumadewi
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Function Space ◽  
Physical Condition ◽  
Main Concern ◽  
Private Space ◽  
The Public ◽  
Boarding House ◽  
Shift Pattern ◽  
Islamic Values ◽  
Descriptive Method

The existence of boarding house, the process of acculturation and values shift in residence, affect the physical and non-physical condition of the home and its surroundings. Similarly, shifting occurs in the private-public space caused by the interaction between the occupants. In a pluralistic Muslim society, the Islamic values influence the process of shifting the public-private space. Accessibility becomes the main concern in the shift pattern as a consequence of the limited land and increasing space demand. There are two shift patterns, physical shift indicating a change in the function space, and non-physical shift involving a sense of space for those interact in it. Sunnah values are employed to see the aspects are considered in home, especially on privacy and interaction. It used descriptive method through collecting detailed information that depicts the existing symptoms, identifying, making comparisons or evaluations and determining what is done to establish a plan or decision. The result of this study is the suggested design that can synergize with the activities occuring within it.Keberadaan rumah pondokan mahasiswa, terjadinya proses akulturasi budaya dan pergeseran nilai-nilai dalam rumah hunian, mempengaruhi kondisi fisik dan non fisik rumah dan lingkungannya. Begitu pula terjadinya pergeseran ruang privat-publik pada rumah hunian yang disebabkan interaksi antara pemilik rumah dengan penghuni pondokannya. Dalam lingkungan masyarakat muslim yang majemuk terdapat nilai-nilai Islam yang mempengaruhi terjadinya proses pergeseran ruang privat-publik tersebut. Aksesibilitas merupakan hal utama yang harus diperhatikan pada pola pergeseran ruang sebagai konsekuensi sempitnya lahan dan bertambahnya kebutuhan ruang. Terdapat dua pola pergeseran ruang, pertama secara fisik yang mengindikasikan perubahan fungsi ruang, dan kedua secara non fisik, yang melibatkan rasa ruang dari pelaku-pelaku yang berinteraksi didalamnya. Nilai-nilai as Sunnah digunakan untuk mengkaji aspek-aspek yang dipertimbangkan dalam rumah tinggal terutama privasi dan interaksi. Adapun metode yang digunakan adalah deskriptif, dengan mengumpulkan informasi aktual secara rinci yang menggambarkan gejala-gejala yang ada, mengidentifikasi, membuat perbandingan atau evaluasi dan menentukan apa-apa yang dilakukan untuk menetapkan rencana atau keputusan. Hasil dari kajian ini berupa saran rancangan yang dapat bersinergi dengan aktivitas yang terjadi di dalamnya.

The Art of Psychodrama as a Public Space

FORUM ◽  
2009 ◽  
pp. 61-72
Author(s):  
Leif Dag Blomkvist
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Group Psychotherapy ◽  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
The Other ◽  
Private Space ◽  
Ancient Athens ◽  
Psychotherapeutic Practice ◽  
City State ◽  
Reproductive Activities

- This article, inspired by the writings of the philosopher Hannah Arendt, presents the concept of ‘Public Space' and traces its origins to the practice in the Polis (City State) of ancient Athens. The author points out that Public Space is a genuinely human domain, different from goal-oriented, reproductive activities shared with animals. He underlines the importance of distinguishing public from private space. Humans live in both, neither can exist without the other, but as a rule they must be kept separate and differentiated. The author attributes to public space the freedom of diversity and expression without loyalties, to see and to be seen and to act spontaneously in cooperation with others. He recruits Hanna Arendt, Sigmund Freud and J. L. Moreno in an appeal against a rising trend to conformity and ‘recognised' methods in psychotherapeutic practice and puts forward the idea of psychotherapy as an exchange, a public space, between two or more persons with a focus on the encounter between them. These qualities are most easily reached in group psychotherapy and in psychodrama, where spontaneity is the desired instrument.

Public Space, Common Space, and the Spaces In–Between: A Case Study of Philadelphia's LOVE Park

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 676-703
Author(s):  
Luke M. Cianciotto
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
General Public ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Public ◽  
Common Space ◽  
The Common

This study concerns the struggle for Philadelphia's LOVE Park, which involved the general public and its functionaries on one side and skateboarders on the other. This paper argues LOVE Park was one place composed of two distinct spaces: the public space the public engendered and the common space the skateboarders produced. This case demonstrates that public and common space must be understood as distinct, for they entail different understandings of publicly accessible space. Additionally, public and common spaces often exist simultaneously as “public–common spaces,” which emphasizes how they reciprocally shape one another. This sheds light on the emergence of “anti–common public space,” which is evident in LOVE Park's 2016 redesign. This concept considers how common spaces are increasingly negated in public spaces. The introduction of common space to the study of public spaces is significant as it allows for more nuanced understandings of transformations in the urban landscape.

Moral Integrity

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 347-364
Author(s):  
Marianne Thejls Ziegler ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Aspect ◽  
Moral Integrity ◽  
Moral Particularism ◽  
The Public ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Social ◽  
Universal Applicability

This article outlines different attempts to define integrity, and argues, with reference to the theory of moral particularism, that definitions acquire universal applicability at the expense of their informative value. The article then proceeds to more delimitating definitions that emphasise the social aspect, and argues that their ideas of the concept, like courage, require certain situations in order to unfold. Since not every person is challenged to act with integrity, the delimitation requires a distinction between manifest integrity and dormant integrity, or dormant lack of integrity. Persons of influence, like politicians and managers, on the other hand, are challenged on a regular basis because their position requires communication of values in a public space, against which the public can evaluate their actions. A delimitating definition therefore ties the question of integrity to people in leading positions.

scholarly journals Linguistic Landscape of Religious Signboards in Ado Ekiti, Nigeria: Culture, Identity and Globalisation

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 1146
Author(s):  
Blessing T. Inya
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
English Language ◽  
Activity Level ◽  
The Other ◽  
Linguistic Landscape ◽  
The Public ◽  
Islamic Religion ◽  
The Relationship

This paper focuses on the linguistic landscape (LL) of religious signboards in select areas of Ado Ekiti, Nigeria with a view of establishing the relationship between the languages used on these signboards and the implication for identity, globalisation and culture. Fifty-three LL items were photographed for the study. The areas selected were based on activity level and the number of religious signboards they featured. The data were analysed both quantitatively and qualitatively. The findings revealed the dominance and the pervasiveness of the English language over and across the other languages in the public space. The use of Yoruba texts across the items revealed religio-cultural and loyalist reasons while the use of Arabic confirmed the inherent attachment of the language to Islamic religion, and fostered a religion-based collective identity between the sign writer and the sign reader.

scholarly journals TEHERAN

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leif Tøfting Kongsgaard
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Government Control ◽  
Private Space ◽  
The Public ◽  
Positive Feature ◽  
Religion And State ◽  
The City ◽  
Positive Force ◽  
Financial Aspect ◽  
People Today

In this article it is argued that Tehran itself as well as the Iranians’ conception of Tehran is changing. The size of Tehran, the capital of Iran, has within a few decades risen explosively from no more than 300.000 inhabitants in the 1930s to more than 9 million people today. At the same time the city has experienced a radical demographic divide between the lower, warmer, poorer and more traditional South and the richer, more modern North close to the cooler mountains. The conception of Tehran today is that of “a modern part” of Iran; i.e. North Tehran. While everybody agrees that Tehran is modern, the significance of this modernity is vehemently debated. The technological and financial aspect of Tehran’s modernity is unanimously seen as a positive feature, whereas the individualistic aspect of this modernity to some Iranians is seen as a moral threat to society, while others see it as a liberalising and positive force in society. In other words Tehran has become the battlefield of morality where “true Islam” meets “modern corruption”, “true Iranianism” meets “Western decadence” etc. And nowhere is this seen more explicitly than in the parks of Tehran. The urban parks have within the last decade developed into semi-private spaces partly free of government control, neighbours’ gossip and family restrictions. The culture of the private space (the home) has thus been moved into the public space, and at the same time this transformation causes the emergence of the modern, secularised urban individual, which to some extent demands separation of religion and state. This urban individual can no longer be controlled by the local priest and cannot be restricted from receiving news and viewpoints from outside of the national state-controlled media. Tehran has in this way become a physical and symbolical battlefield, where the dialectical and often contradicting moral consequences of modernity are being negotiated, restricted and craved.  

scholarly journals Espaço Público e Shopping Center na Cidade Contemporânea: Novos Significados do North Shopping em Fortaleza - CE

2012 ◽  
pp. 128-155
Author(s):  
Tiago Estevam Gonçalves ◽  
Tatiane Rodrigues Carneiro
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Shopping Mall ◽  
Shopping Center ◽  
Shopping Centers ◽  
Private Space ◽  
The Public ◽  
The North ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
The City

Iniciar uma reflexão acerca da cidade atual nos remete à necessidade de construirmos uma análise sobre os shopping centers como espaços que tem atraído um fluxo considerável da população, ocasionando mudanças na relação dos citadinos com os espaços públicos.  Nesta perspectiva, temos como objetivo analisar o  North Shopping, localizado na cidade de Fortaleza, como um espaço de uso popular onde as camadas de menor poder aquisitivo podem adentrar e usufruir de seus atributos. Imbuídos de tal finalidade nosso aporte teórico fundamentou-se em Pintaudi (1992), Dantas (1995), Silva (1996) Lefebvre (1999), Carlos (2001), Gomes (2002) e Serpa (2007). Conclui-se que na cidade de Fortaleza, o North Shopping é um verdadeiro simulacro da realidade, substituindo as experiências cotidianas dos espaços públicos, configurando-se, assim, a supervalorização do espaço privado que se traveste de público tendo repercussões na nova urbanidade fortalezense.  Public Space and Shopping Mall in the Contemporary City: New Meanings of North Shopping in Fortaleza/CE  Abstract Start a discussion about the current city us the need to build an analysis on malls as spaces that have attracted a considerable  flow of people, causing changes in the relationships of the townspeople with the public spaces. In this perpective, we have to anlyze the North Shopping, located in Fortaleza, as a space where the popular use of lower purchasing power can enter and enjoy its atributes. Imbued with this purpose our theoretival approach was bases on Pintaudi (1992), Dantas (1995), Silva (1996) Lefebvre (1999), Carlos (2001), Gomes (2002) e Serpa (2007).  It’s concluded that in the city of Fortaleza, the North Shopping is a true simulation of reality, replacing the daily experiences of public spaces, becoming  thusovervaluation of private space of public who dresss as having impact on new fortaleza’s urbanity. Espacio Público y Centro Comercial en Ciudad Contemporánea: Nuevos Sentidos del North Shopoing en la Fortaleza/CE ResumenIniciar uma reflexión acerca de la actual ciudad nos recuerda la necesidad de construir um análisis acerca de los centros comerciales como espacios que han atraído um flujo considerable de personas, provocando câmbios en la relación de los habitantes de la ciudad com los espacios públicos. Em esta perspectiva, tenemos que analisar el North Shopping, que se encuentra en Fortaleza, como um espacio de uso popular donde lãs camadas de menor poder adquisitivo pueden entrar y disfrutar de sus atributos. Imbuido de esa finalidad nuestro aporte teórico se fundamento em: Pintaudi (1992), Dantas (1995), Silva (1996) Lefebvre (1999), Carlos (2001), Gomes (2002) y Serpa (2004). Se puede concluir que en la ciudad de Fortaleza el North Shopping es uma  verdadera simulación de la realidad, sustituición de las experiencias diárias de los espacios públicos, convertiéndose, asó, la sobrevaluación del espacio privado que se passa por el público tenendo impactos en la nueva urbanidad de Fortaleza.10.7147/GEO10.1573

scholarly journals “ISLAM” IN THE GLOBAL VILLAGE: POST-TSUNAMI DIALOG AND NEGOTIATION OF ACEH IDENTITY

Al-Albab ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ibnu Mujib Mujib ◽  
Irwan Abdullah ◽  
Heru Nugroho
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Public Space ◽  
The Other ◽  
Modus Operandi ◽  
Global Village ◽  
The Public ◽  
Local Identities ◽  
Negotiation Of Identity ◽  
Global Construction ◽  
Diverse Groups

This paper highlights the perspective of dialog in the negotiation of Aceh identity. If observed, the context of the tsunami followed by the development of Aceh is not without impact at all on the Acehnese entity, but in fact it has triggered a strong clash especially between local identities and influences of global construction. Among the important things offered in this paper is an attempt to reproduce and create “public space” as a productive social capital, that is, a space that is expected to build an atmosphere of openness, egalitarianism, inclusivism of many diverse groups. Therefore, in responding to the wider variety of cultural plurality which penetrates through ethnic clusters, religions, political parties, and all forms of interests, it can be managed through the deliberations of dialog. Therefore, the “public space” that can serve to discuss, hold dialog, and even negotiate the clash of the Acehnese identity forms the modus operandi of the discussion of this article, especially in the context of the development of Aceh that is currently taking place. Keywords: Islam, locality, globality, public space, dialog, negotiation of identity, diversity of Islamic groups, the other.

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