scholarly journals Art, film and political action. Brief historiographic review of the ideas of Bolshevik filmmakers: Dziga Vertov and D’Alexandre Medvedkine.

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (29) ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Adriana Estrada Alvarez ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Action ◽  
October Revolution ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Dziga Vertov ◽  
Art Film

This article is an approach to the experiences of two Bolshevik filmmakers: Dziga Vertov and D’Alexandre Medvedkine. It is a first, historiographic study that is woven, in the first place, with the primary sources of the films and the published testimonies of both filmmakers, to read them from some of the most important references that I located. They are germinal experiences that were forged at the time of the October Revolution of 1917 in Russia, sometimes it is necessary to bring them back to account and review them again, to understand some keys about trends and expressions that are observed in contemporary audiovisual proposals.

scholarly journals ‘The murderous civilisation’: anarchist geographies, ethnography and cultural differences in the works of Élie Reclus

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Federico Ferretti
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
The Political ◽  
Homogeneous Field ◽  
International Literature ◽  
Mutual Aid ◽  
European Culture ◽  
European Science

This article, based on primary sources, addresses the early anarchist ethnography of Élie Reclus (brother of the more famous French geographer Élisée Reclus), placing it in the context of anarchist geographers’ elaboration of the theory of mutual aid, as well as in the construction of a scientific discourse opposed to racism, colonialism and Eurocentrism recently addressed by international literature on this group. Drawing on the double critical frame of present-day anarchist anthropologies and cultural geographies addressing the debates on otherness, postcolonialism and differences, this article analyses an early but radical attempt to build a scientific discourse on empathy and understanding of different cultural standpoints in the political context of an explicit denunciation of colonial crimes by all nations of European culture, as well as scientists’ complicity therein. I argue that European science at the time of imperialism and evolutionism was not a homogeneous field but a battlefield where heterodox and nonconformist thinkers tried to develop different discourses in order to build cultures of solidarity linked to a consistent political action.

scholarly journals Muslim documents from the French archive of Alimardan Topchubashov

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Irina Leonidovna Babich
Keyword(s):  
Russian Empire ◽  
The State ◽  
October Revolution ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Russian History ◽  
The Caucasus ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Revolution

This article analyzes the archival materials of France, which belonged to the Caucasian emigrants (after the October Revolution). Having immigrated to Europe, they took with them the archives, which contained the documents that covered various aspects of history of the Russian Empire. This is the first article in Russia that carries out an analysis of all the documents on the topic. The goal consists in examination of the documents from the archive of the prominent Azerbaijani figure Alimardan Topchubashov (Paris, France), which reflect life of the Russian Muslims prior to the 1917 Revolution. Before the Revolution, Topchubashov i (having a degree in Law) was one of the active supporters of modernization of Islamic life in the Caucasus; therefore, his archive contains the materials on this aspect of life of the citizens of the Russian Empire (deputy to the State Duma in 1906, initiator of creation of the Muslim faction in State Duma, initiator of the Muslim congresses in Russia). The aforementioned documents are analyzed in the Islamic context of the Russian history for the first time. The conclusion is made that the Muslim part of the archive of Alimardan Topchubashov is a unique compilation of primary sources, which give an general outlook on life of the Muslims in the Russian Empire, including Caucasus over the period from 1890 to 1917. The author unites these documents into three groups. The developed by Alimardan Topchubashov program of the fundamental changes in life of the Muslims is described in these documents.

Hezbollah

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aurélie Daher
Keyword(s):  
Political Action ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Main Constituent ◽  
Research Material ◽  
Large Scope ◽  
History Of ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Society Today

Almost thirty years after its foundation, Lebanese Hezbollah is an organization that remains difficult to understand. What exactly is Hezbollah? An Islamist terrorist group dedicated to destroying Israel? The first Arab national resistance to have ever defeated Tel Aviv's troops? A patriotic and respectable party or a fascist network having managed to control all levels of Lebanese political life? How did this organization acquire such an important role in the Middle-Eastern game and in Lebanese politics? This book has three purposes. Firstly, to clearly articulate a definition of Hezbollah, presenting a thorough history of the party, describing its internal structure and the large scope of its social and political action. Secondly, to explain the evolution of the party's mobilization. And finally, to illustrate another path, political but mainly identity-related: that of the Shiite community, the main constituent of Lebanese society today. Through a rigorous and richly documented study, based on primary sources including hundreds of interviews with rank and file members, executives and officials of the party, and research material never examined before, the author unveils brand new aspects of this organization, thus completing our understanding of both the "Hezbollah phenomenon" and Lebanese politics of the last two decades.

The Signatures of Social Structure: Petitioning for the Abolition of the Slave Trade in Manchester

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 625-652 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kinga Makovi
Keyword(s):  
Political Action ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Religious Congregations ◽  
Social Fabric ◽  
Family Ties ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Structural ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Abolition Movement

This article considers the problem of popular, collectively organized political action in the context of the abolition movement of the slave trade (1788–1807). Various primary sources, a petition, a trade directory, church records, and a self-built historic GIS are used to locate petitioners for abolition in the social fabric of Manchester. Through matching and computational experiments the article highlights which social structural forces led individuals to support the abolition movement by signing a petition. Specifically, gathering places that were historically involved in the movement, as well as those that housed traveling merchants from communities with successful abolitionist petitions from preceding campaigns shaped abolitionist petitioning—and the impact of these institutions remained important over and above family ties, active religious congregations, and the occupational groups. The article gives a new understanding of the role that early industrialization played in the abolition movement, building it from the bottom up, forging cohesion within and across communities through local institutions, rather than creating new boundaries and divides through processes of class formation.

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