Prophetic Discourses and Power Shift in Ethiopian History

The main intention in this article is to critically analyze the role of prophecy for power shift in Ethiopia in history. Data collected from archives, traveler accounts, and history documents were critically analyzed. Critical historical discourse analysis was used as a framework and methodology of analysis. Interpretation, symbolization and operationalization of dreams, prophecies, and “told spiritual accounts” by prominent mystics and interpreters had been the critical turning-points of Ethiopians in history. Their role was consequential and influential. Royal families used to “invent, disseminate and operationalize” dreams, prophecies, and superstitious practices. Consequently, their instinctive wish for abundant fulfillment and power grant had been gained by “revelations” and “connections” of each interpretation with supernatural powers. To scale up the benefit, ecclesiastical intervention had been badly sought out. The prophetic discourses and ideologies had been very instrumental in Ethiopian theopolitics, sociocultural practices, and power use.

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When People Come First

10.23943/princeton/9780691157382.001.0001 ◽

2013 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Keyword(s):

Global Health ◽

Scale Up ◽

Moral Economy ◽

Health Science ◽

Health It ◽

Left Behind ◽

New Research ◽

Health Enterprise ◽

Conceptual Work

This book critically assesses the expanding field of global health. It brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars to address the medical, social, political, and economic dimensions of the global health enterprise through vivid case studies and bold conceptual work. The book demonstrates the crucial role of ethnography as an empirical lantern in global health, arguing for a more comprehensive, people-centered approach. Topics include the limits of technological quick fixes in disease control, the moral economy of global health science, the unexpected effects of massive treatment rollouts in resource-poor contexts, and how right-to-health activism coalesces with the increased influence of the pharmaceutical industry on health care. The chapters explore the altered landscapes left behind after programs scale up, break down, or move on. We learn that disease is really never just one thing, technology delivery does not equate with care, and biology and technology interact in ways we cannot always predict. The most effective solutions may well be found in people themselves, who consistently exceed the projections of experts and the medical-scientific, political, and humanitarian frameworks in which they are cast. This book sets a new research agenda in global health and social theory and challenges us to rethink the relationships between care, rights, health, and economic futures.

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The Role Of Discourse Analysis In Speech

10.37376/1571-000-041-006 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Hidob Idris Aljibali

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis

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Practice and Technology

10.1093/oso/9780198733249.003.0003 ◽

2018 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Kjeld Schmidt

Keyword(s):

Turning Points ◽

Modern Technology ◽

Cooperative Work ◽

Computer Supported Cooperative Work ◽

Technical Knowledge ◽

Crucial Question

The emergence of practice-centered computing (e.g., Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, or CSCW) raises the crucial question: How can we conceptualize the practices into which the prospective technology is to be integrated? How can we, reasonably, say of two observed activities or events that they are, or are not, instances of the same type? These are crucial questions. This chapter therefore attempts to clarify the concepts of “practice” and “technique.” First, since our ordinary concepts of “practice” and “technique” developed as part of the evolution of modern technology, as tools for practitioners’ and scholars’ reflections on the role of technical knowledge in work, the chapter outlines the major turning points in the evolution of these concepts, from Aristotle (via the scholastics), to enlightenment thinkers such as Diderot and Kant, and finally to Marx and Marxism. The chapter thereafter moves on to analyze the concepts as we use them today in ordinary discourse.

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Trends and Clinico-Epidemiological Features of Human Rabies Cases in Bangladesh, 2006–2018

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology ◽

10.1017/ice.2020.1072 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 41 (S1) ◽

pp. s416-s416

Author(s):

Sumon Ghosh ◽

Md. Sohel Rana ◽

Sukanta Chowdhury

Keyword(s):

Effective Means ◽

Scale Up ◽

Traditional Healers ◽

Human Rabies ◽

Epidemiological Analysis ◽

Increasing Trend ◽

The Mean ◽

Death Cases ◽

Death Data

Background: Vaccinating dogs against rabies is an effective means of reducing human rabies. Methods: We analyzed 1,327 clinically diagnosed human rabies deaths and mass dog vaccination (MDV) data during 2006–2018 to quantify the impacts of MDV on human rabies incidence in Bangladesh and a subset of rabies death data (n = 422) for clinico-epidemiological analysis. Results: We found a positive and increasing trend of dog population vaccination (P = .01 and τ = 0.71) and a negative and declining trend (P < .001 and τ = −0.88) of human rabies cases (correlation coefficient, −0.82). Among 422 human rabies death cases, most victims (78%) sought treatment from traditional healers, and 12% received postexposure prophylaxis (PEP). The mean incubation period of rabies cases with exposure sites on the head and neck (35 days) was shorter than the upper limb (mean, 64 days; P = .02) and lower limb (mean, 89 days; P < .01). MDV is effective for reducing human rabies cases in Bangladesh. Conclusions: Creating awareness among the animal bite victims to stop relying on traditional healers rather seeking PEP, addressing the role of traditional healers through an awareness education program in respect to the treatment of dog bites, ensuring availability of PEP, and continuing to scale up MDV can help prevent human rabies deaths.Funding: NoneDisclosures: None

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Law and contestation in international negotiations

Review of International Studies ◽

10.1017/s0260210520000303 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 46 (5) ◽

pp. 672-690

Author(s):

Kyle Rapp

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

International Relations ◽

International Law ◽

International Criminal Court ◽

International Criminal ◽

Criminal Court ◽

International Negotiations ◽

The Us ◽

Legal Grounds

AbstractWhat is the role of rhetoric and argumentation in international relations? Some argue that it is little more than ‘cheap talk’, while others say that it may play a role in persuasion or coordination. However, why states deploy certain arguments, and why these arguments succeed or fail, is less well understood. I argue that, in international negotiations, certain types of legal frames are particularly useful for creating winning arguments. When a state bases its arguments on constitutive legal claims, opponents are more likely to become trapped by the law: unable to develop sustainable rebuttals or advance their preferred policy. To evaluate this theory, I apply qualitative discourse analysis to the US arguments on the crime of aggression at the Kampala Review Conference of the International Criminal Court – where the US advanced numerous arguments intended to reshape the crime to align with US interests. The analysis supports the theoretical propositions – arguments framed on codified legal grounds had greater success, while arguments framed on more political grounds were less sustainable, failing to achieve the desired outcomes. These findings further develop our understanding of the use of international law in rhetoric, argumentation, and negotiation.

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Embodying the Tragic Father(s): Autobiography and Intertextuality in Aristophanes

Classical Antiquity ◽

10.1525/ca.2010.29.2.278 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 29 (2) ◽

pp. 278-326 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Mario Telò

Keyword(s):

Turning Points ◽

Generation Gap ◽

The Relationship

This paper examines the role of the generation gap in Aristophanes' construction of his persona throughout Wasps, Clouds, and Peace. It contends that in Wasps and Clouds Aristophanes defines the relationship with his audience and his rivals by presenting himself as the figure of a paternal son. The same stance shapes the comic poet's generic self-positioning in the initial scene of Peace, where the parody of Euripides' Aeolus and Bellerophon evinces a corrective attitude in relation not only to the troubled images of fatherhood offered in the two tragic plays, but also to Aristophanes' unsuccessful performances as a paternal son in his earlier comedies. Euripidean intertextuality thus serves as a discursive medium through which Aristophanes dramatizes the turning points of his poetic autobiography.

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Embracing a New Day

Journal of Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities ◽

10.3167/jbsm.2021.020203 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 10-38

Author(s):

Phillip Joy ◽

Matthew Numer ◽

Sara F. L. Kirk ◽

Megan Aston

Keyword(s):

Body Image ◽

Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Queer Theory ◽

Gay Men ◽

Hegemonic Masculinity ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

The City

The construction of masculinities is an important component of the bodies and lives of gay men. The role of gay culture on body standards, body dissatisfaction, and the health of gay men was explored using poststructuralism and queer theory within an arts-based framework. Nine gay men were recruited within the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Participants were asked to photograph their beliefs, values, and practices relating to their bodies and food. Semi-structured interviews were conducted, using the photographs as guides. Data were analyzed by critical discourse analysis and resulted in three overarching threads of discourse including: (1) Muscles: The Bigger the Better, (2) The Silence of Hegemonic Masculinity, and (3) Embracing a New Day. Participants believed that challenging hegemonic masculinity was a way to work through body image tension.

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Separatism: a cross-linguistic corpus-assisted study of word-meaning development in a time of conflict

Corpora ◽

10.3366/cor.2021.0228 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 16 (3) ◽

pp. 379-416

Author(s):

Tatyana Karpenko-Seccombe

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Qualitative Analysis ◽

Historical Context ◽

Word Meaning ◽

Political Context ◽

The Political ◽

Word Usage ◽

Parliamentary Debates ◽

Dominant Ideologies

This paper considers the role of historical context in initiating shifts in word meaning. The study focusses on two words – the translation equivalents separatist and separatism – in the discourses of Russian and Ukrainian parliamentary debates before and during the Russian–Ukrainian conflict which emerged at the beginning of 2014. The paper employs a cross-linguistic corpus-assisted discourse analysis to investigate the way wider socio-political context affects word usage and meaning. To allow a comparison of discourses around separatism between two parliaments, four corpora were compiled covering the debates in both parliaments before and during the conflict. Keywords, collocations and n-grams were studied and compared, and this was followed by qualitative analysis of concordance lines, co-text and the larger context in which these words occurred. The results show how originally close meanings of translation equivalents began to diverge and manifest noticeable changes in their connotative, affective and, to an extent, denotative meanings at a time of conflict in line with the dominant ideologies of the parliaments as well as the political affiliations of individuals.

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