A counter-narrative to the accepted ‘Kolding Pyramid 9th Wonder of the World’ narrative with some antenarrative process inquiries

2020 ◽  
pp. 58-69
Author(s):  
David M. Boje
Keyword(s):  
Counter Narrative ◽  
The World

scholarly journals Emancipating the Image: The Beijing Olympics, Regeneration, and the Power of Performance

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Mei Barker
Keyword(s):  
Olympic Games ◽  
Public Image ◽  
Beijing Olympics ◽  
The Public ◽  
Susan Sontag ◽  
Counter Narrative ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government ◽  
Rapid Transformation

“In China, what makes an image true is that it is good for people to see it.” - Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1971 The Olympic Games gave the world an opportunity to read Beijing’s powerful image-text following thirty years of rapid transformation. David Harvey argues that this transformation has turned Beijing from “a closed backwater, to an open centre of capitalist dynamism.” However, in the creation of this image-text, another subtler and altogether very different image-text has been deliberately erased from the public gaze. This more concealed image-text offers a significant counter narrative on the city’s public image and criticises the simulacrum constructed for the 2008 Olympics, both implicitly and explicitly. It is the ‘everyday’ image-text of a disappearing city still in the process of being bulldozed to make way for the neoliberal world’s next megalopolis. It exists most prominently as a filmic image text; in film documentaries about a ‘real’ hidden Beijing just below the surface of the government sponsored ‘optical artefact.’ Film has thus become a key medium through which to understand and preserve a physical city on the verge of erasure.

scholarly journals ECHO CHAMBERS DI DUNIA MAYA: TANTANGAN BARU KOMUNIKASI ANTAR UMAT BERAGAMA

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 141
Author(s):  
Yuangga Kurnia Yahya ◽  
Umi Mahmudah
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Communication Theory ◽  
Communication Behavior ◽  
Melting Pot ◽  
Counter Narrative ◽  
The World ◽  
Echo Chambers ◽  
And Function ◽  
Role And Function

This article tries to see a phenomenon called Echo Chambers through the perspective of Stella Ting-Toomey’s Intercultural Communication Theory. This study shows that the development of social media was also followed by the shadow of Echo Chambers. The tendency to isolate oneself and associate with those who understand one another will create separate spaces between one religion and another. As a result, communication which is an effort to eliminate the polarization of the differences between "Us" and "The Others" is precisely the way to form an exclusivism in cyberspace. Among the efforts to anticipate the emergence of a gap is to create melting-pot spaces in the real world. Counter narrative also needs to be built to open these exclusive barriers. Muslim scholars sought to introduce the importance of communication in achieving the harmony in community. Some Ulama have also explained the role and function of communication in achieving the goals of the ummah, as well as trying to provide an Islamic perspective regarding communication behavior. More important, is to create a person who is a wise, open user of social media and uses epoche in looking at the world outside.

scholarly journals Ideological Counter-Narrative as a Response to Fundamentalist Ideology in Europe and South Asia. An Analysis of Selected Cases in Their Cultural Context and an Outline of Recommended Activities

2021 ◽  
pp. 87-107
Author(s):  
Piotr Kłodkowski ◽  
Anna Siewierska-Chmaj
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Political Environment ◽  
Islamic Fundamentalism ◽  
Counter Narrative ◽  
Present Complex ◽  
The World ◽  
Sayyid Qutb ◽  
Muslim Communities ◽  
Complex Phenomena

The article discusses the issues of religious radicalisation and de-radicalisation in contemporary Islam. Its authors present complex phenomena of ideological, historical, cultural and political contexts of radicalisation processes, investigate the distribution of radical propagandist materials among various Muslim communities around the world and analyse the consequences of ideological transformation of Islamic fundamentalism in selected European countries. The authors conclude that radicalisation propaganda has a global appeal due to the fact it has adopted a carefully selected group of globally recognised ideologues (Ibn Abd al-Wahhab, Abul A’la Maududi, Sayyid Qutb), but the recommended de-radicalisation processes should be rooted locally or regionally. The article proposes a constructive theoretical framework, a working hypothesis that should be constantly revised and modified in the changing socio-political environment.

scholarly journals U-6 An analytical study of Ibn-e-Hazam’s Confrontation on the Suspicions Ahadith about Sadd-ul-Zarai

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-90
Author(s):  
Fakharud Din ◽  
Muhammad Imran
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Study ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Counter Narrative ◽  
The World ◽  
Made In

It is only the comprehension of Islamic in the legislation in the world that it encompasses the change, evolution or developments being made in different areas of life to accommodate the changes   inegislation or to address the changes, Islamic jurists laid down different principles of fiqah.one of these principle is sad u-zaraey which is known as the “prohibition of evasive legal devices”. As difference in opinion is also existing in all the areas of life, similarly difference of opinions is existing among the Islamic jurists in describing this principle as well. One of the jurists who are possessing the counter narrative of sad u-zaraey is ibn e hazam. In this article research has been made in order to elaborate the ibn e hazam,s point of view about sadd u zaraey and also the vice versa opinion of other jusrists. It is also discussed with example that how the principle of sad u-zaraey is important in Islamic legislation.

“Who should we hate today?”: Notes from an illiberal laboratory

Maska ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (201-202) ◽  
pp. 148-157
Author(s):  
Zsolt Miklósvölgyi ◽  
Márió Z. Nemes
Keyword(s):  
Outer Space ◽  
Conspiracy Theory ◽  
Star System ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Alternative Concept ◽  
The Core ◽  
Minority Identity ◽  
Slavoj Žižek ◽  
Counter Narrative ◽  
The World

Similarly to other ethnofuturistic movements (e.g. Afrofuturism, Blaccelerationism, Sinofuturism, Gulf-Futurism, Baltic Ethnofuturism) Hungarofuturism is an experiment in identity-poetical imagination, based on a radically ironic exaggeration of minority identity. As opposed to notions of Hungarianness currently hegemonic in Hungary, this is an alternative concept of what it means to be Hungarian, the discovery of a post-Hungarianism. The Hungarofuturist reprogramming of the hegemonic “nation-machine” does not create organic knowledge and narratives, but anachronisms, phantom-like events in which the incompatibility of the various elements hybridizes history and the cosmos until the very moment of “overidentification” (Slavoj Žižek). One of the primary examples of Hungarofuturist “overidentification” is best demonstrated in the example of hijacking and appropriating the most common pseudo-myth of the esoteric subcultures of the Hungarian far-right: Hungarians—as the so-called “chosen ones”—originating from outer space, namely from the Sirius star system. One of the primary aims of this article is to decipher, hijack, and deweaponize the core of this conspiracy theory, thus demonstrating how Hungarofuturist’s ways of (counter-) narrative-making are capable of deconstructing the phantoms of 1 This essay is partially based on our following previous texts: “Hungarofuturist Manifesto”, in Technologie und das Unheimliche, 2017; “Terraforming PostHungarianness”, WUK, 2020; “Parapolitik der Außerirdischen Interessen”, Kunst und Kirche, 2021. ethnographic authenticity promoted not only by FIDESZ, but by contemporary nationalist political agendas all over the world.

scholarly journals Laid-Back Approach and Strategic Deception: Russia’s Dual Strategy in Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 373
Author(s):  
Radityo Dharmaputra
Keyword(s):  
Global Level ◽  
Russian Government ◽  
Delegation Of Authority ◽  
Counter Narrative ◽  
Dual Strategy ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government ◽  
Cover Up ◽  
Regional Governments

Tulisan ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan secara singkat respons awal pemerintahan Rusia, di bawah pemerintahan Putin, terhadap krisis pandemi Covid-19 sejak awal Januari sampai dengan awal September ketika Rusia meluncurkan vaksin Sputnik V. Penulis berargumen bahwa respons Rusia memiliki karakteristik khas: dualitas antara pendekatan santai disertai dengan segala bentuk disinformasi serta kontranarasi dalam kerangka muslihat strategis untuk mencapai tujuan. Pola respons yang santai sejak awal telah ditampilkan oleh pemerintahan Rusia, ditandai dengan keengganan menetapkan situasi darurat sejak awal dan upaya menutupi informasi mengenai kasus positif. Pola ini lantas berlanjut dalam bentuk langkah strategis yang diambil yaitu pendelegasian kewenangan kepada pemerintah lokal dan regional. Strategi yang menurunkan resiko bagi pemerintah ini ternyata mendorong turunnya legitimasi dari rezim, sehingga pemerintah melakukan upaya tambahan dengan melakukan muslihat strategis: disinformasi dan propaganda domestik serta upaya memunculkan kontranarasi di level global demi amannya legitimasi internal rezim dan tercapainya posisi Rusia sebagai pemimpin alternatif di dunia.  Kata-kata kunci: COVID-19, Rusia, rezim Putin, pendekatan santai, muslihat strategis This paper aims to describe the initial responses of the Russian government, under Putin’s administration, to the Covid-19 pandemic from early January to early September 2020 when Russia launched the Sputnik V vaccine. The author argues that Russia’s responses have distinctive characteristics: a duality between laid-back approaches accompanied by all forms of disinformation and counter-narrative in the framework of strategic deception. The Russian government has displayed a laid-back pattern of responses from the start, marked by a reluctance to establish emergencies and the efforts to cover up information regarding positive cases. This pattern then continues in the form of strategic steps taken, which is the delegation of authority to local and regional governments. This strategy, while lowering the risks for the government, precipitated the decline of the legitimacy of the regime. The government then makes additional efforts by committing strategic deception: disinformation and domestic propaganda as well as efforts to generate counter-narrative at the global level in order to secure the regime’s internal legitimacy and achieve Russia’s position as an alternative leader in the world. Keywords: COVID-19, Russia, Putin’s regime, laid-back approach, strategic deception

The undeniable reality of the ‘War on Terror’, radicalization, and sanity

2021 ◽  
pp. 25-40
Author(s):  
Shamila Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
War On Terror ◽  
Health Agency ◽  
Emotional Resilience ◽  
Counter Narrative ◽  
The World ◽  
Form Part ◽  
Need For Support ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter explores the relationship between structure, mental health (agency–emotions–trauma) and radicalization. It uses Cohen’s States of Denial as a Freudian meta narrative to explore how denial operates to protect individual’s sanity against the atrocities and suffering in the world. It demonstrates how the denials of injustice, suffering, and erosion of human rights in the ‘War on Terror’ are exposed by Islamists and form part of their counter-narrative to the ‘War on Terror’. The chapter contends that this exposure of harmful realities leads to overwhelming emotions that individuals struggle to regulate, and it is the need for support, understanding, and compassion in dealing with such emotions that leads individuals to seek out extremist groups. It is argued that public services must support emotional resilience, and the absence of these services represents a continuing academic and policy neglect of how societal structures and institutions impact individuals’ beliefs and emotions, and form part of their experience of victimization.

Hitler Darkens the Waters

2018 ◽  
pp. 249-271
Author(s):  
Barbara Lounsberry
Keyword(s):  
European History ◽  
Water Mixing ◽  
World State ◽  
Human Voice ◽  
Three Guineas ◽  
Counter Narrative ◽  
Dirty Water ◽  
The World ◽  
Between The Acts

By 1938, Hitler “had taken over and was dictating the narrative of European history,” Rosenfeld notes. Virginia Woolf's books—including her diary—offer a counter narrative. In March, as Hitler marches into Austria, Woolf finishes Three Guineas. Through her acute sensitivity, she captures the precise world state with a haunting diary image: Hitler and Stalin are “like drops of dirty water mixing” (D 5: 129). Her challenge from 1938 onwards becomes how to keep moving—how to escape being drawn into the mud. In August, as the world waits, suspended, as Hitler pauses at Czechoslovakia’s door, she takes heart from the newly found Diary of the Reverend Francis Kilvert, the Victorian vicar (and poet) from the river Wye. His diary's “gipsy beauty” lives again in the character Mrs. Manresa in Woolf's final novel Between the Acts—as do his amusing cows. Kilvert gives Woolf a lush natural human voice amid the welter of war.

scholarly journals Analisis Framing Kontra Narasi Terorisme dan Radikalisme di Media Sosial (Studi Kasus pada Akun @dutadamaijabar)

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 134-153
Author(s):  
Ridwan Rustandi ◽  
◽  
Khoiruddin Muchtar ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Framing Analysis ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
The Core ◽  
Counter Narrative ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media

The spread of terrorism and radicalism is carried out in new ways through digital technology media such as the internet. One of the most used virtual social relations spaces in the world is social media. Based on data, until 2020, active social media users in the world reach 3.5 billion people, while in Indonesia, it reaches 132 million people. This research is focused on exploring the counter-narrative of terrorism and radicalism carried out by the West Java Regional Peaceful World Maya Ambassador through the @dutadamaijabar Instagram account. The research was conducted with a qualitative approach through framing analysis. The Gamson and Modigliani models were selected to describe the media packaging kits produced by @dutadamaijabar. Data collection was carried out through observation, interviews, documentation techniques, and literature study. The results of the study concluded that the counter-narrative orientation of terrorism and radicalism @dutadamaijabar includes two forms, namely online and offline. The content production process involves three main areas, namely the blogger team, DKV, and IT. The core frame is built on three main issues, namely the nationalism-oriented narrative, a narrative of peace based on religious moderation, and a humanitarian narrative by reinforcing tolerance. Meanwhile, condensing symbols are formed by linking text, video, audio, images, and other forms by the counter-narrative core framing. Framing of media content is carried out by following the framework of framing devices and reasoning devices. Research has implications for the process of mapping and producing social media content in the context of counter-narrative terrorism and radicalism in cyberspace.

scholarly journals ONE NOSTALGIC COUNTER-NARRATIVE:THANK YOU EVER SO MUCHBY MARKO VIDOJKOVIĆ

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 262-277
Author(s):  
Mirjana M. Bečejski ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Theory ◽  
First Person ◽  
Shared History ◽  
Counter Narrative ◽  
The World ◽  
Parallel Universes ◽  
The Universe ◽  
The Ideal

Relying on the virtual narrative theory and the theory ofpossible worlds as a basis for interpreting narrative multiverses, this paper focuses on Marko Vidojković’s Thank You Ever So Much as a nostalgic counter-narrative in which the idea of nostos is realized by creating an alternative history. The events thatthe hero narrates/ writes in the first person take place in two parallel universes, “upward” (the world of the ideal SFRY, from which he comes) and “downward” (the world modelled after is the existential reality of the divided Yugoslav states) namely in the narrative present. At the diachronic level, the time axes, depicted in the form of the hero’s memories or dialogue, multiply backwards only until June 3, 1989, when the splitting of the universe(s) occurred. Further regressing introduces a motif of shared history and, through a wealth of details, reveals the position of the Yugo-nostalgic author of the narrative (Mirko Šipka or Marko Vidojković?), who avoids pathos with the help of irony, parody and vulgarisms while narrating us his anguish over all losthistorical possibilities to create the best country in the world, and his inability to return to his desired homeland.

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