Public meanings of science and the environment

2015 ◽  
pp. 13-43
Author(s):  
Simon Locke
Keyword(s):  
Public Meanings

Reckoning

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deva R. Woodly
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Effects ◽  
Public Meanings

Reckoning: Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements is an analysis of the emergence of the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL), its organizational structure and culture, and its strategies and tactics, while also laying out and contextualizing the social movement’s unique political philosophy, radical Black feminist pragmatism (RBFM), along with documenting measurable political effects in terms of changing public meanings, public opinion, and policy. Throughout the text, the author interweaves theoretical and empirical observations, rendering both an illustration of this movement and an analysis of the work social movements do in democracy.

scholarly journals Reassembling Heritage after the Disaster: On the Sungnyemun Debate in South Korea

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 3903
Author(s):  
Seunghan Paek ◽  
Dai Whan An
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
The South ◽  
The World ◽  
Public Meanings ◽  
Post Disaster

This article explores the changing values of heritage in an era saturated by an excess of media coverage in various settings and also threatened by either natural or manmade disasters that constantly take place around the world. In doing so, we focus on discussing one specific case: the debate surrounding the identification of Sungnyemun as the number one national treasure in South Korea. Sungnyemun, which was first constructed in 1396 as the south gate of the walled city Seoul, is the country’s most acknowledged cultural heritage that is supposed to represent the national identity in the most authentic way, but its value was suddenly questioned through a nationwide debate after an unexpected fire. While the debate has been silenced after its ostensibly successful restoration conducted by the Cultural Heritage Administration in 2013, this article argues that the incident is a prime example illustrating how the once venerated heritage is reassembled through an entanglement of various agents and their affective engagements. Methodologically speaking, this article aims to read Sungnyemun in reference to the growing scholarship of actor-network theory (ANT) and the studies of heritage in the post-disaster era through which to explore what heritage means to us at the present time. Our synchronic approach to Sungnyemun encourages us to investigate how the once-stable monument becomes a field where material interventions and affective engagements of various agents release its public meanings in new ways.

Social Representations of a Controversial Peace Agreement: Subjective Public Meanings of the GRP-MILF MOA

2011 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-72
Author(s):  
Cristina Jayme Montiel ◽  
Judith M. de Guzman
Keyword(s):  
Social Representations ◽  
Local Level ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Political Elite ◽  
The Political ◽  
Peace Agreement ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Government ◽  
Public Meanings

Using social representations theory, we studied the social meanings of a controversial Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front. In Study One, we describe the discursive content of the social debate by content analyzing articles from newspapers and selected websites. Study Two uses a survey to examine the fit between social representations of the political elite, as found in media, and the nonelite in Mindanao territories where the MOA was hotly contested. Study Three presents the social representations of the MOA at the local level through analysis of key informant interviews and archival data. Discriminant analysis on survey data shows that in general, the debate of political elites in media mirrors the contentions on-the-ground. However, the issue of constitutionality was only taken up by the political elite. Our findings suggest that the political stumble of the GRP-MILF peace process lay in a lack of procedural fairness and an on-the-ground participatory process acceptable to all antagonistic parties. However, the socially represented fair procedure is not about conventional democratic ways like using or not using a constitutional frame, but rather about pragmatic positioning and public consultations.

Technoscience, imagined publics and public imaginations

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kjetil Rommetveit ◽  
Brian Wynne
Keyword(s):  
Human Agency ◽  
Public Issues ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Public Meanings ◽  
Over Time

This essay begins from the intensified entanglements of technoscientific innovation with miscellaneous societal and public fields of interest and action over recent years. This has been accompanied by an apparent decline in the work of purification of discourses of natural and human agency, which Latour observed in 1993. Replacing such previous discursive purifications, we increasingly find technoscientific visions of the imagined-possible as key providers of public meanings and policies. This poses the question of what forms of legitimation are constituted by these sciences, including the ways in which they enter into articulations of public matters. Revisiting historical and contemporary theories of imagination and science, this essay proposes a joint focus on imagination, publics and technoscience and their mutual co-production over time. This focus is then directed towards recent reconfigurations of technosciences with their imagined publics and towards how public issues may become constituted by social actors as active imaginations-exercising agents.

scholarly journals PROFESSIONAL SELF-REALIZATION OF PERSONALITY AS A DETERMINANT OF SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIETY

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (34) ◽  
Author(s):  
M.Y DVOEGLAZOVA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Dialectical Materialism ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Psychological Science ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
Leading Position ◽  
Scientific Technical ◽  
Professional Self ◽  
Public Meanings ◽  
The Individual

In the article, the process of professional self-realization of the individual is interpreted as determinants of the scientific, technical andsocio-economic development of society from the standpoint of dialectical materialism as a theoretical and methodological basis of domestic psychological science. Self-realization is considered as a process of subjects` realization in a professional activity of universally-active abilities, that ensuring the creation of social values which determine the progressive cultural-historical and socio-economic development of society. The basics of the study of the problem of self-realization which began intensively developed in the domestic psychological science since the 1970`s were laid in the works of S.L. Rubinstein, formulated in the 1920`s principle of creative independent activity, in which person creating socially valuable products purposefully manifests and develops his own essential forces, enriches society with cultural results of life activity, contributing to its development. A self-fulfilling person is characterized by an active civic position, manifested in self-determination, initiative, self-discipline, responsibility, independence in activities aimed at creating of public goods, a reflective type of construction of one’s being, different from a reactive type of existence, the main purpose of which is only adaptation to living conditions for implementation own needs without taking into account the needs of society. The scientific, technical and socio-economic development of the country as a priority objective of domestic state policy, the implementation of which will ensure the leading position of the Russian Federation among the scientific, technical and socio-economically highly developed powers of the world, is possible only if the subject of being realized his essential forces as universal activity abilities in labor determined by public meanings. The alienation of person from work determines the alienation of an individual from its essential uniqueness, which in turn causes a violation of the course of human phylogenetic development and the cultural and historical development of civilization.

Civic veterans: the public culture of military associations in inter-war Glasgow

Urban History ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 293-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
ELEANOR K. O'KEEFFE
Keyword(s):  
Urban Form ◽  
Public Culture ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
Civic Identity ◽  
War Memory ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Urban Character ◽  
Public Meanings ◽  
The Great War

ABSTRACTThis article examines the public culture of military associations, and their veteran membership, in inter-war Glasgow. It follows their parades and beery reunions to consider the public meanings of such acts. That these claims to civic recognition were met by a congregation of civic elements allows us to view the inter-war creation of civic identity from a new and enlightening vantage point. But this culture also allows us to encompass the vitality, and distinctly urban character, of the memory of the Great War within inter-war society. Cities provided alternative channels for the veteran associational impulse to the British Legion, which has generally been seen as synonymous with the veterans’ movement in Britain. War memory, too, had a distinct urban form and character that needs to be acknowledged within wider literature. This is the story of the ‘civic veteran’ and the social and cultural contexts that made him.

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