Necessary Compromises: A Defense of Sympathetic Readings and Progressive Potential in Oliver Twist

2021 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 241
Author(s):  
Long
Keyword(s):  
Progressive Potential

scholarly journals PLURALISM, THE PEOPLE, AND TIME IN LABOUR PARTY HISTORY, 1931–1964

2013 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 729-756 ◽  
Author(s):  
JEREMY NUTTALL
Keyword(s):  
Labour Party ◽  
Social Progress ◽  
Multiple Time ◽  
The People ◽  
Negative Perceptions ◽  
Slow Moving ◽  
Progressive Potential ◽  
Time Frames ◽  
Pluralist Approach

ABSTRACTObserving the increasing, yet still partial exploration of pluralism, complexity and multiplicity in recent Labour party historiography, this article pursues a pluralist approach to Labour on two central, related themes of its middle-century evolution. First, it probes the plurality of Labour's different conceptions of time, specifically how it lived with the ambiguity of simultaneously viewing social progress as both immediate and rapidly achievable, yet also long term and strewn with constraints. This co-existence of multiple time-frames highlights the party's uncertainty and ideological multi-dimensionality, especially in its focus both on relatively rapid economic or structural transformation, and on much more slow-moving cultural, ethical, and educational change. It also complicates neat characterizations of particular phases in the party's history, challenging straightforwardly declinist views of the post-1945–51 period. Secondly, time connects to Labour's view of the people. Whilst historians have debated between positive and negative perceptions of the people, here the plural, split mind of Labour about the progressive potential of the citizenry is stressed, one closely intertwined with its multiple outlook on how long socialism would take. Contrasts are also suggested between the time-frames and expectations under which Labour and the Conservatives operated.

The Myth of Science as a Source of Progress

2021 ◽  
pp. 76-82
Author(s):  
Ilya T. Kasavina ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
World View ◽  
Scientific Progress ◽  
Social Institution ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Social Progress ◽  
Alternative View ◽  
The World ◽  
Progressive Potential ◽  
Scientific Research Program

In the philosophy of science and technology, scientific progress has been usually considered in a logical-methodological way, namely, from the point of view of the capacity to solve problems, the theoretical and empirical success of a certain theory or scientific research program. These are the concepts of K. Popper, I. Lakatos, and L. Laudan. They are opposed by historical and sociological ap­proaches to the development of science by T. Kuhn, S. Toulmin, and P. Feyer­abend. The article proposes a variant of the second approach – socio-epistemo­logical and, in particular, value interpretation of scientific progress shifting the focus of the discourse on scientific progress to the world-view and ideological circumstances of the development of science not only as knowledge, but as a form of culture and social institution. There is a polemic with the thesis by A.L. Nikiforov about the dominant pragmatic need for science and the primacy of its applied results, as ifthe modern achievement of which science has al­legedly fulfilled as well as the purpose prescribed to it by F. Bacon, and even ex­hausted its progressive potential. Criticism of the position by A.L. Nikiforov is based on an alternative view on science, which follows from a different interpre­tation of the New Times scientific revolution and the purpose of science in gen­eral. Scientific progress is seen in the creation by science of a new image of the world, new ways of communication, new moral guidelines, the design of new ways of social order. Such a science does not fit into the narrow, logical-method­ological criteria of scientific rationality. However, it is precisely this culture-forming, socio-cultural function of science that allows us to talk about science as an enterprise that contributes to social progress and, if progressive, it is precisely because of this circumstance.

The Kailyard Comes to London: The Progressive Potential of Romantic Convention in Annie S. Swan’s A Victory Won

2020 ◽  
pp. 95-110
Author(s):  
Lisa C. Robertson
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Domestic Space ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Progressive Potential

This chapter examines Annie S. Swan’s novel A Victory Won (1895) in the context of the generic conventions of the kailyard genre. Despite the novel’s romantic representation of the fictional ‘Barker Street Chambers’, which is based on the Chenies Street Chambers, it explores the value of the new social relationships that could emerge in such spaces. The novel focuses on a mutually supportive and egalitarian relationship between two women who share domestic space, and in so doing elaborates on the possibilities – rather than the drawbacks – of gender-segregated housing.

scholarly journals Beyond the Binary: Towards a Third Sex Category in Germany?

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 627-648 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Dunne ◽  
Jule Mulder
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Case Note ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Legal Recognition ◽  
The Future ◽  
German Constitutional Court ◽  
Progressive Potential ◽  
Domestic Law

This Case Note discusses the recent judgment of the German Constitutional Court (1 BvR 2019/16) requiring either the legal recognition of sex categories beyond male or female, or the aboltion of sex registration requirements. The Note considers the Court's decision within the broader constitutional case law on gender identity, and explores both the progressive potential, and the future—perhaps unforeseen—consequences, of the ruling. The Case Note proceeds in three sections. Section A introduces the facts of the constitutional challenge, and sets out both the submissions of the complainant, as well as the reasoning of the Constitutional Court. In Section B, the Case Note explores the domestic law novelty of the decision, placing particular emphasis on the application of a constitutional equality framework to persons who experience intersex variance. Finally, in Section C, the Case Note contextualizes the judgment, situating the reasoning of the Constitutional Court within wider movements for transgender—otherwise known as trans—and intersex rights.

DEATH BECOMES HER: ON THE PROGRESSIVE POTENTIAL OF VICTORIAN MOURNING

2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 595-620
Author(s):  
Rebecca N. Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social History ◽  
First Century ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
Fashion History ◽  
Sexual Liberation ◽  
Queen Victoria ◽  
Golden Jubilee ◽  
Progressive Potential ◽  
Black Rectangle

On the occasion of her Golden Jubilee, Queen Victoria was depicted in a woodcut by William Nicholson that was to become extremely popular (Figure 1). So stout that her proportions approach those of a cube, the Queen is dressed from top to toe in her usual black mourning attire, the white of her gloved hands punctuating the otherwise nearly solid black rectangle of her body. Less than thirty years later, another simple image of a woman in black would prove to be equally iconic: the lithe, narrow column of Chanel's black dress (Figure 2). Comparing the dresses depicted in the two images – the first a visual reminder of the desexualized stolidity of Victorian fidelity, the second image an example of women's burgeoning social and sexual liberation – might lead one to conclude that the only thing they have in common is the color black. And yet, twentieth- and twenty-first-century fashion historians suggest that Victorian mourning is the direct antecedent of the sexier fashions that followed. Jill Fields writes, for example, that “the move to vamp black became possible because the growing presence of black outerwear for women in the nineteenth century due to extensive mourning rituals merged with the growing sensibility that dressing in black was fashionable” (144). Valerie Mendes is more direct: “Traditional mourning attire blazed a trail for the march of fashionable black and the little black dress” (9). These are provocative claims given that most scholarly accounts of Victorian mourning attire – whether from the perspective of literary analysis, fashion history or theory, or social history or theory – offer no indication that such progressive possibilities were inherent in widows’ weeds. Instead, those accounts focus almost exclusively on chasteness and piety, qualities required of the sorrowful widow, as the only message communicated by her attire: “Widows’ mourning clothes announced the ongoing bonds of fidelity, dependence, and grieving that were expected to tie women to their dead husbands for at least a year” (Bradbury 289). The disparity in the two accounts raises the question: how could staid, cumbersome black Victorian mourning attire lead to dresses understood to embrace sexuality and mobility?

The EU in the world: The progressive potential

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 621-630
Author(s):  
Daniela Huber
Keyword(s):  
The World ◽  
Progressive Potential ◽  
The Eu

Acting Locally: What is the Progressive Potential?

1999 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fran Klodawsky ◽  
Caroline Andrew
Keyword(s):  
Progressive Potential

Health Planning as a Regulatory Strategy: A Discussion of its History and Current Uses

1980 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis Tannen
Keyword(s):  
Planning Process ◽  
Health Planning ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Party Control ◽  
Regulatory Strategy ◽  
American Medicine ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Progressive Potential

Federally mandated health planning is one of the most significant responses to the cost crisis of American medicine. Portrayed as an objective and rational mechanism of determining the future, planning is a socially acceptable means of exerting third-party control over a sector of the economy long able to escape meaningful controls on its growth and development. However, far from being the neutral science which it is heralded to be, the planning process serves the interests that are able to control its use. Health planning agencies must be studied in the context of the current emphasis on cost containment and reorganization of health services. Supported and enfranchised largely by major third-party payors, planning smooths the implementation of changes in the health sector. Despite its progressive potential, planning serves the interests of these third-party payors by masking their attempts to control the future development of the health system.

scholarly journals Recalibrating Human Rights-Based Approaches to Development: Are they Progressive and Transformational?

2021 ◽  
pp. 49-64
Author(s):  
George Jotham Kondowe
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Human Person ◽  
Development Interventions ◽  
Legal Obligations ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Progressive Potential ◽  
Local Levels ◽  
Development Practice

This paper argues that notwithstanding criticisms levelled against Human Rights-Based Approaches (HRBAs) to development, such approaches are progressive and transformational because they provide a framework of standards on which development should be grounded. Further, HRBAs provide an analytic and institutional resource for articulating a wide range of justice concerns in order to challenge power relations and structural impediments in development processes. The paper is not blind to other contributions which have focused on the progressive potential of HRBAs and the attention that has been given to the challenges and pitfalls of implementing such approaches. Therefore, the paper builds on existing literature to advance its main thesis that HRBAs, which flow from human rights that are the subject of binding international legal obligations, are progressive and transformational because they provide a human rights language that can be vernacularised at national and local levels when development interventions are properly contextualised. The paper concludes with the position that despite concerns raised against HRBAs, such approaches offer a principled approach to development that puts a human person at the centre. Thus, concerns against HRBAs do not necessarily erode or invalidate the legitimacy of the transformative and progressive nature of such approaches in development practice.

Part V Rights and Freedoms, B Rights and Freedoms under the Charter, Ch.37 Section 7: The Right to Life, Liberty, and Security of the Person

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Young Margot
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
First Century ◽  
Canadian Society ◽  
Right To Life ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
State Action ◽  
Private Action ◽  
Positive Rights ◽  
The Right ◽  
Progressive Potential

Section 7 jurisprudence shows strong application of the rights to life, liberty, and security of the person to a range of state action and actors. However, courts have significantly limited the progressive potential of these rights through two doctrinal concerns: the negative/positive rights distinction and causation issues. The result is a bounded jurisprudence reflecting both the strengths and weakness of liberal legalism. In particular, claims targeting the twenty-first century crises of Canadian society—social and economic inequality, as well as environmental degradation—while meaningfully apiece with the values of life, liberty, and security of the person, are unlikely to succeed under section 7 without critical and pointed judicial movement beyond liberalism’s divide between public and private action.

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