LITERATURE AS SOCIAL KNOWLEDGE: MIKHAIL BAKHTIN AND THE REEMERGENCE OF THE HUMAN SCIENCE

Two aspects of the problem of corruption are discussed in the article. The first one concerns the evaluation of the level of corruption. The method of measuring the size of business corruption market is described. The specifics of its estimation as well as its relation with the main macroeconomic indexes are discussed. The second aspect regards the strategies of corruption reduction. The importance of establishing external control over the bureaucracy is noted. The failure of institutions transplantation as the main method of economic transformations is pointed out. The gaps in social knowledge are discussed, which decrease effectiveness of institutional borrowings.

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The Alluring Nature of Children's Culture: Fairy Tales, the Carnival and the World Wide Web

International Research in Children s Literature ◽

10.3366/ircl.2015.0166 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

pp. 169-184

Author(s):

Željka Flegar

Keyword(s):

Children's Literature ◽

Fairy Tales ◽

Fairy Tale ◽

Mikhail Bakhtin ◽

Children’S Literature ◽

Social Construct ◽

Time Out ◽

The Social ◽

Children's Culture ◽

Language And Ideology

This article discusses the implied ‘vulgarity’ and playfulness of children's literature within the broader concept of the carnivalesque as defined by Mikhail Bakhtin in Rabelais and His World (1965) and further contextualised by John Stephens in Language and Ideology in Children's Fiction (1992). Carnivalesque adaptations of fairy tales are examined by situating them within Cristina Bacchilega's contemporary construct of the ‘fairy-tale web’, focusing on the arenas of parody and intertextuality for the purpose of detecting crucial changes in children's culture in relation to the social construct and ideology of adulthood from the Golden Age of children's literature onward. The analysis is primarily concerned with Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes (1982) and J. K. Rowling's The Tales of Beedle the Bard (2007/2008) as representative examples of the historically conditioned empowerment of the child consumer. Marked by ambivalent laughter, mockery and the degradation of ‘high culture’, the interrogative, subversive and ‘time out’ nature of the carnivalesque adaptations of fairy tales reveals the striking allure of contemporary children's culture, which not only accommodates children's needs and preferences, but also is evidently desirable to everybody.

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How Dialogical Are We Really? Insights Gleaned from Un-Dialogical Moments

Departures in Critical Qualitative Research ◽

10.1525/dcqr.2017.6.4.47 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 6 (4) ◽

pp. 47-69 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Dongjing Kang ◽

Chigozirim Utah Sodeke

Keyword(s):

Mikhail Bakhtin ◽

Research Process ◽

Martin Buber ◽

Crucial Step ◽

Research Reporting

This essay emphasizes the writing of dialogical research as a crucial step in the dialogical research process. Dialogical research accounts should not suppress the ongoing struggles that accompany a genuine desire to engage dialogically in research contexts. Thus, we advocate and model evocative retellings of these struggles. Questioning our own fieldwork based on the work of Martin Buber and Mikhail Bakhtin, we highlight principles of dialogue that also serve as guidelines for dialogical research reporting: unfinalizability, engaging paradoxes, and creative (critical) transformation.

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