scholarly journals New forms of oppositional politics in Erdoğan’s Turkey

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tezcan Gümüş ◽  
Iain MacGillivray
Keyword(s):  
Oppositional Politics

scholarly journals “The Mic Is My Piece”: Canadian Rap, the Gendered “Cool Pose,” and Music Industry Racialization and Regulation

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 255-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesca D’Amico
Keyword(s):  
Music Industry ◽  
Black Music ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Cultural Intervention ◽  
Exclusionary Practices ◽  
Counter Narratives ◽  
National Imagination ◽  
Black Canadian ◽  
Cool Pose ◽  
Oppositional Politics

Over the course of the 1980s and 1990s, Black Canadian Rap artists, many of whom are the children of Caribbean-born immigrants to Canada, employed the hyper-racialized and hyper-gendered “Cool Pose” as oppositional politics to intervene in a conversation about citizenship, space, and anti-blackness. Drawing from local and trans-local imaginings and practices, Black Canadian rappers created counter-narratives intended to confront their own sense of exclusion from a nation that has consistently imagined itself as White and rendered the Black presence hyper-(in)visible. Despite a nationwide policy of sameness (multiculturalism), Black Canadian musicians have used Rap as a discursive and dialogical space to disrupt the project of Black Canadian erasure from the national imagination. These efforts provided Black youth with the critically important platform to critique the limitations of multiculturalism, write Black Canadian stories into the larger framework of the nation state, and remind audiences of the deeply masculinized and racialized nature of Canadian iconography. And yet, even as they engaged in these oppositional politics, rappers have consistently encountered exclusionary practices at the hands of the state that have made it increasingly difficult to sustain a Black music infrastructure and spotlight Canadian Rap’s political and cultural intervention.

Mood work and political spaces: A consideration of the relationship between affect and political collectivity in grassroots urban activism

2020 ◽  
pp. 136754942091989
Author(s):  
Jacob Mukherjee
Keyword(s):  
Class Politics ◽  
Public Events ◽  
Activist Group ◽  
Urban Activism ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Oppositional Politics

This essay, based on a ‘militant ethnography’ of the small radical grassroots activist group Our London,1 outlines the importance of mood in developing political collectivity in oppositional politics. Applying Gilbert’s notion of affect as key to sociality, Highmore’s discussion of mood and mood work and Dean’s concept of affective infrastructure, I develop an account of Our London’s activities, and in particular its organisation of public events, that argues for the production of mood in political spaces as key to mobilising political collectivity. The significance of this work is in showing how oppositional political practices, as opposed to mere rhetoric or discourse, can develop forms of political collectivity and action; this is also a study of how forms of class politics can be performed and practised despite the difficulty of articulating such politics discursively – or even conceptualising society in class terms – in the context of a fragmented, neoliberal, post-Fordist city like London.

Introduction: Cultural Practices in the Making of Oppositional Politics

2007 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 619-625 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Pierre Reed ◽  
Lorraine Bayard de Volo
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Oppositional Politics

Editors' Reviews

1995 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-119
Author(s):  
Pepi Leistyna ◽  
Arlie Woodrum ◽  
Paula Szulc
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Critical Pedagogy ◽  
State University ◽  
Exceptional Child ◽  
The Family ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Peter Mclaren ◽  
Oppositional Politics

Pepi Leistyna: Critical Pedagogy and Predatory Culture: Oppositional Politics in a Postmodern EraBy Peter McLaren New York: Routledge, 1995. 285 pp. 16.00 (paper). Arlie Woodrum: Visions of Entitlement: The Care and Education of America's Childrenedited by Mary A. Jensen and Stacie G. Goffin Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993. 292 pp. 59.50, 19.95 (paper). Paula M. Szulc: Media, Children, and the Family: Social Scientific, Psychodynamic, and Clinical PerspectivesEdited by Dolf Zillman, Jennings Bryant, and Aletha Huston. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1994. 339 pp. 79.95, 34.50 (paper). Television and the Exceptional Child: A Forgotten AudienceBy Joyce Sprafkin, Kenneth Gadow, and Robert Abelman. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1992. 171 pp. 49.95, 24.50 (paper).

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