Ethnic Tension of the Bangladeshi Santal

2022 ◽  
pp. 208-226
Author(s):  
Parimal Roy ◽  
Jahid Siraz Chowdhury ◽  
Haris Abd Wahab ◽  
Rashid Bin Mohd. Saad
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Indigenous Community ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Indigenous Research ◽  
Research Paradigm ◽  
Historical Ontology ◽  
Indigenous Groups ◽  
Ethnic Tension

This chapter aims to do a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of ethnic tension in Bangladesh and the constitutional provisions on the Santal Indigenous community in establishing social justice. First, why are Indigenous groups instead ethnic groups in Bangladesh, and how many are groups? This chapter then tries to answer who is justifying whose social justice in ethnic tension, and, essentially, what is the guiding philosophy. This chapter picks education policy and the constitutional provision of state inventions policy on ethnic groups in Bangladesh the Santal's space in it. Along with CDA, the argument leans on bio-politics, historical ontology (Foucault), Indigenous research paradigm. The findings show that this community is historically subjugated under ontological guidance and understanding. So, it recommends adopting Santal Indigenous standpoint for establishing a right-based harmonized society.

With the Best of Intentions: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Physical Education Curriculum Materials

2009 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tony Rossi ◽  
Richard Tinning ◽  
Louise McCuaig ◽  
Karen Sirna ◽  
Lisa Hunter
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Physical Education ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Education Curriculum ◽  
Form Of Government ◽  
Government Education ◽  
Developed World

Much of physical education curriculum in the developed world and specifically in Australia tends to be guided in principle by syllabus documents that represent, in varying degrees, some form of government education priorities. Through the use of critical discourse analysis we analyze one such syllabus example (an official syllabus document of one of the Australian States) to explore the relationships between the emancipatory/social justice expectations presented in the rubric of and introduction to the official syllabus document, and the language details of learning outcomes that indicate how the expectations might be satisfied. Given the complexity and multilevel pathways of message systems/ideologies we question the efficacy of such documents oriented around social justice principles to genuinely deliver more radical agendas which promote social change and encourage a preparedness to engage in social action leading to a betterment of society.

scholarly journals Critical Discourse Analysis of “Canción sin Miedo” by Vivir Quintana

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-60
Author(s):  
Verónica Andrea Escobar Mejía
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
The Body ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Feminist Movement ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Feminist Ideology

The feminist movement in Mexico has recently gained attention due to the diverse manifestations along with the country. The song Canción sin miedo (2020) portrays elements that keep a relationship with the feminist ideology, as well as recent events that are depicted in the lyrics. Critical discourse analysis (CDA) is presented as an approach to examining the song, using Halliday’s systemic functional linguistics (SFL) model and parallelism analysis. The outcomes of this study suggest that the song was produced as a claim for social justice, but it involves elements that generate a sense of identity for some women because their roles and struggles are depicted in the lyrics, principally femicide. Additionally, the parallelism analysis shows three syntactical structures that compose the body of the text. This examination is also a call for noticing the emergence of violence against women in Mexico.

scholarly journals Through eurocentric logics

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-115
Author(s):  
Ernesto Abalo
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Political Violence ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
News Discourse ◽  
Political Rationality ◽  
Foreign News ◽  
Victims Of Violence

This study aims to explore the construction of difference in foreign news discourse on culturally similar but politically different non-Western subjects. Applying critical discourse analysis (CDA) together with a critique of Eurocentrism, the study examines difference in newspaper constructions of government supporters and oppositional groups in Venezuela. Discursive differences are evident in the strategies used for constructing the two groups with regard to political rationality and violence. Government supporters are associated with social justice, Venezuela’s poor, dogmatic behavior, and the use of political violence. The opposition, in contrast, is constructed as following a Western democratic rationale that stresses anti-authoritarianism. This group is primarily associated with victims of violence. While the opposition is conveyed as being compatible with Eurocentric values and practices, government supporters to great extent deviate from these norms. Such constructions serve to legitimize politico-ideological undercurrents of Eurocentrism, as the defense of liberalism.

What gets lost in Twitter ‘cancel culture’ hashtags? Calling out racists reveals some limitations of social justice campaigns

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 307-327
Author(s):  
Gwen Bouvier ◽  
David Machin
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Important Thing ◽  
The Public

Twitter campaigns attacking those who make racist or xenophobic statements are valuable, raising the public profile of opinions that will not tolerate racism in any form. They also indicate how our major institutions are failing to address important matters of social justice. But there is concern that social media, such as Twitter, tends to extremes, moral outrages, lack of nuance and incivility, which shape how issues become represented. In this paper, using Critical Discourse Analysis, we look at three Twitter hashtags calling-out racist behaviour. We ask how racism and anti-racism is represented on these hashtags? We show how these misrepresent fundamental aspects of racism in society, distracting from, what race theorists would argue, is the most important thing these incidents tell us about racism at this present time. The findings have consequences for all such Twitter social justice campaigns.

Social Justice Through BPATC in Bangladesh Under the Shadow of Colonialism

2022 ◽  
pp. 303-319
Author(s):  
Parimal Roy ◽  
Jahid Siraz Chowdhury ◽  
Haris Abd Wahab ◽  
Rashid Saad
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Training Centre ◽  
The Government

This chapter aims to understand how the Bangladesh Public Administration Training Centre (BPATC) can ensure social justice through its apex and unique training manuals. Qualitatively and by critical discourse analysis, this discussion shows that existing training guidelines and policies have a deep and robust lineage with coloniality, predominating the fundamental legal aspects of Bangladesh through Colonially Inherited Acts, Rules, and Regulations as well as practices. Can the government ensure the SDGs and a just and right productive, autonomous, and accountable citizen-oriented public service? The Government of Bangladesh may imply the recommendations in policies to ensure social justice in public administration through BPATC.

Corporatizating Activism Through Sport-Focused Social Justice? Investigating Nike’s Corporate Responsibility Initiatives in Sport for Development and Peace

2016 ◽  
Vol 40 (6) ◽  
pp. 522-544 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lyndsay M. C. Hayhurst ◽  
Courtney Szto
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Indigenous Health ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Sport For Development ◽  
Peace Initiatives ◽  
Media Platform

Inspired by assertions of “creeping commercialization” in issues of social justice, this article seeks to address the entanglement of privatization with sport for development and peace initiatives. We look specifically at Nike’s history of “social responsibility” to situate the N7 initiative, for Indigenous health, within a larger landscape of privatized social justice. Critical discourse analysis was used to unpack Nike’s annual corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports. In addition, a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of the #DeChief movement, which lobbies against the use of “Native” mascotry, was conducted via the social media platform, Twitter. The authors observed public criticism against Nike’s incongruous business practices in supporting Indigenous health on one hand, and financially benefitting from the sale of harmful Indigenous caricatures on the other.

The day after the apology: A critical discourse analysis of President Tsai’s national apology to Taiwan’s indigenous peoples

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-101
Author(s):  
Rong-Xuan Chu ◽  
Chih-Tung Huang
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Transitional Justice ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Supreme Court Justice ◽  
Historical Justice ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
Indigenous Groups ◽  
Land Restitution

In 2016, Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen officially apologised to the island’s indigenous peoples. This national apology not only plays a persuasive role in informing the general public about the historical wrongdoings inflicted on the Taiwanese aborigines, but also constitutes a therapeutic and restorative role in the process of reconciliation with the indigenous victims. This article provides a critical discourse analysis of President Tsai’s apology. In particular, it examines the power and ideology embedded in both the speech and the related ceremony, and is supplemented with extracts from interviews with a cross-section of key stakeholders, such as a former Constitutional/Supreme Court Justice, indigenous/tribal leaders and members/staff/advisers from the Presidential Office Indigenous Historical Justice and Transitional Justice Committee. The analysis reveals that, despite President Tsai’s apology and reconciliation policies, instead of facilitating reconciliation, the apology appears to exacerbate the long-standing latent tension between indigenous and non-indigenous groups. While the apology opens a window for reconciliation, a higher level of commitment is required to promote structural and systemic changes, such as land restitution, before the apology can be deemed adequate.

scholarly journals Problematizing the Educational Messaging on Sex Trafficking in the US “End-demand” Movement: The (Mis)Representation of Victims and Anti-Sex Work Rhetoric

Affilia ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 088610992110588
Author(s):  
Ran Hu
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Sex Work ◽  
Sex Trafficking ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Marginalized Communities ◽  
The Public ◽  
Marginalized Groups ◽  
The Us

This study adopts a critical discourse analysis (CDA) approach to problematize the representation of victims in the online educational messaging on sex trafficking promoted in the US “end-demand” movement. The websites of 20 US anti-trafficking groups are analyzed. While these website-based messages are positioned to educate the public about sex trafficking, they are predominately framed toward problematizing sex work and essentializing women with racialized and marginalized identities in sex work, with no discursive recognition of intersectional structural inequalities (e.g., racism, sexism, poverty, homo/transphobia) that lead to trafficking. These ideologically charged messages, when presented as “facts,” further the anti-sex work sentiment among the public, powerfully (re)produce and sustain the public (mis)perception equating “anti-sex trafficking” with “anti-sex work,” and legitimize the carceral feminist anti-trafficking practice that primarily criminalizes, censors, and oppresses the agency, behaviors, and needs of structurally marginalized communities. This paper calls attention to how injustice may be (re)produced in the way trafficking is represented and how representational injustice may translate into material consequences, further subjecting already marginalized groups to criminalization and surveillance. Through incorporating representational justice into our conceptualization of racial and social justice, we may (re)build an anti-trafficking framework that is structurally competent, rights-inclusive, and centered on humanization.

Social Justice and the Portrayal of Migrants in International Organization for Migration’s World Migration Reports

2020 ◽  
pp. 004728162095337 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saveena (Chakrika) Veeramoothoo
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Technical Communication ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
International Organization ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World

Social justice is a framework that has been at the forefront of technical communication in recent years. While social justice is often applied in participatory studies, it can also feature in studies using quantitative methods. In this study, I use corpus-based critical discourse analysis to investigate the portrayal of migrants in the World Migration Reports, the flagship publication of the International Organization for Migration. I emphasize context to bring in the social justice framework in this analysis. This study finds that the World Migration Reports represent migrants within various topoi, with a particular focus on the topos of advantage and that of danger/threat.

Environment Education in Indian Schools: The Search for a New Language

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 174-189
Author(s):  
Carol D’Souza ◽  
Milind Brahme ◽  
M. Suresh Babu
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Environmental Concerns ◽  
National Council ◽  
Water Crisis ◽  
Indian Schools ◽  
And Training ◽  
Shed Light

This article analyses the National Council of Educational Research and Training textbooks of environmental studies using critical discourse analysis to shed light on questions such as how the environment is dealt with in the text, using what kind of language are environmental concerns framed, how is the current environment crisis contextualized both in terms of ecological and social justice, if at all, and what solutions are suggested in this regard. The article finds that though the content of the textbooks exhibits strong social contextualizing of learners’ surroundings, the thrust is anthropocentric, and the environment figures only as a peripheral concern. Themes such as gender, caste, hygiene, culture, equality and discrimination emerge stronger than those of biodiversity, conservation, pollution, water crisis and global warming. While the in-built thrust on conviviality in the textbooks is necessary and heartening, a better infusion of the current predicament in terms of the environment crisis and how it could be mitigated is recommended.

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