Framing the societal value of community interpreting

After presenting the concept of communicative autonomy and how it can help professionals with ethical decision-making (micro), I draw on two different visual examples to analyze framing strategies for the profession by society at large (macro). One strategy relies on experiences of identity and belonging, while the other moves away from considerations of identity. I discuss what their respective advantages and disadvantages might be. I connect these strategies to the concept of “identity politics” and its counterpart “identity override”. For the final step of this article, I resort to some examples of groups that have made progress in the political agenda with their civil rights claims. It helps me make the case for a bi-faceted strategy for the advancement of community interpreting that both leverages identity group dynamics and is simultaneously able to appeal to the overarching concept of communicative autonomy.

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The Limits of Equality The Intersectionality of Gender and Sexuality in Spanish Policy Making

Kvinder Køn & Forskning ◽

10.7146/kkf.v0i1.27937 ◽

2007 ◽

Author(s):

Raquel Platero Méndez

Keyword(s):

Civil Rights ◽

Case Studies ◽

Policy Making ◽

Gender And Sexuality ◽

Political Agenda ◽

The Political ◽

Political Strategy ◽

Political Intersectionality ◽

Definition Of ◽

Law Texts

In the course of less than forty years, the Spanish political and cultural scenario has changed drastically, particularly in relation to civil rights. Social movements, especially feminist and LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) organizations, have been successful in putting demands on the political agenda that have translated into gender equality, same-sex and transgender laws. Looking at definitions of equality, this article explores the implications of some postmodern theories that promote the analysis of political intersectionality for some of the recent laws that are presented as progressive and transformative in Spanish policy making. The analysis will explore two case studies: samesex marriage and equality policy law texts, discussing the conception of intersectionality and equality. In addition, the definition of the feminist political strategy in which these policies are framed is addressed. Both case studies show that the policies are conceptualized within a liberal and assimilationist framework, since neither the male norm nor the sexual order is profoundly questioned.

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Rhetorical strategies and identity politics in the discourse of colonial withdrawal

Journal of Language and Politics ◽

10.1075/jlp.1.1.09flo ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 149-180 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

John Flowerdew

Keyword(s):

Identity Politics ◽

Political Rhetoric ◽

Political Agenda ◽

The Political ◽

Discursive Construction ◽

Rhetorical Strategies ◽

Political Leaders ◽

British Colonial ◽

Rhetorical Tropes ◽

Political Oratory

Skilful use of the rhetorical tropes which typify the language of serious political occasions — described here as “rhetorical weight” — is closely associated with charismatic political leaders. This paper studies the political rhetoric of a skilled exponent of the art, Chris Patten, the last British colonial governor of Hong Kong, and shows how he used rhetorical weight to promote his political agenda. Detailed analysis of four segments of Patten’s political oratory, spread over the period of his five-year term of office, highlights his heavy use of the tropes of metaphor, antithesis, parallelism, actualisation, and the unities of time, place and action. The paper demonstrates how the use of these tropes related to Patten’s overall political goals and their manipulative nature within the context of his discursive construction of Britain’s imperial/national history and identity.

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Identity Politics, Citizenship and the Soft State in Indonesia: an Essay

Journal of Indonesian Social Sciences and Humanities ◽

10.14203/jissh.v1i1.1 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Henk Schulte Nordholt

Keyword(s):

Identity Politics ◽

Rule Of Law ◽

Political Agenda ◽

The Political ◽

Regional Autonomy ◽

The Rule Of Law ◽

Religious Conflicts ◽

Soft State ◽

Electoral Democracy ◽

Exclusive Group

Since 1998, administrative decentralisation, regional autonomy and ethnic and religious conflicts in areas outside Java have put identity politics high on the political agenda in Indonesia. This paper examines various expressions of these new identity politics and how they are related to, and derived from, older colonial concepts and categories. Examples from Riau and Bali illustrate how ethnic and religious repertoires are used to express political ambitions and mobilise popular support. Since 1998 Indonesia also witnessed a successful transition to electoral democracy. Whether democracy will take root in a more substantial way depends on the extent to which a notion of citizenship can be reinforced. It is argued that this notion of citizenship can only be maintained through the strengthening of the rule of law. In this respect it is also important to focus on the uneasy relationship between electoral democracy and ethnic and religious sentiments that tend to give far more attention to exclusive group interests while excluding a shared sense of citizenship. The paper concludes that democracy and citizenship, which are based on the rule of law, can only be achieved by strengthening the administrative and law-enforcing capacity of the state.

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Visible Religion and Populism: An Explosive Cocktail

Religions ◽

10.3390/rel11080401 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 11 (8) ◽

pp. 401

Author(s):

Walter Lesch

Keyword(s):

Identity Politics ◽

Diversity Management ◽

Well Being ◽

Political Agenda ◽

The Political ◽

The Public ◽

Political Ideologies ◽

The People ◽

Positive Identity ◽

The Public Sphere

Populism frequently uses the visibility of religious majorities and minorities as polemically charged references in the political controversy about cultural identity. Visible signs are evoked as positive identity markers and representations of the fiction of a homogenous society. The visibility of religions coming from an immigration background is more likely to be attacked as an invasion of foreigners who do not fit in the frame of an imagined authentic model of cultural unity. As the debates on the construction of mosques and minarets in European cities show, Islam becomes a synonym of differences perceived as problematic. Depending on the political agenda, invisible and quiet religions are preferred to the visible and politically more demanding ones. However, the opinions for or against a high degree of visibility are not necessarily shared within the religious communities. Their members can ask for discrete individual practices or for a strong collective presence in the public sphere. Populist discourses try to argue against manifestations of ostentatious visibility and use this fight as a platform for identity-driven propaganda that is interested in the exclusion of those who are considered as the threat to the well-being of the “people”. The visibility of religion thesis has to be dealt with carefully in the context of right-wing populism because of the toxic effects of all kinds of identity politics in the political as well as in the religious sphere. The conventional implications of the public–private split must be rearticulated in a context in which secularism is challenged by the return of visible religion and by the emergence of political ideologies playing with the fire of strong and exclusivist identity claims that are in conflict with ideals of tolerance, pluralism, and diversity management.

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Liberalism Transformed

Racial Realignment ◽

10.23943/princeton/9780691153872.003.0004 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Eric Schickler

Keyword(s):

African American ◽

World War Ii ◽

Civil Rights ◽

Political Agenda ◽

The Political ◽

Congress Of Industrial Organizations ◽

Political Work ◽

Industrial Organizations ◽

Fair Employment ◽

The Military

This chapter explores the deepening and consolidation of ideological changes as support for civil rights became a defining commitment of a more robust liberal coalition in the 1940s. African American movement activists capitalized on the World War II crisis to force new civil rights issues onto the political agenda—such as fair employment practices and discrimination in the military—and to forge a much broader civil rights coalition. After the war, continued movement activism laid the groundwork for the dramatic fight over the Democratic platform at the convention in 1948. Ultimately, the political work by African American groups, in cooperation with the Congress of Industrial Organizations and other urban liberals, fostered a new understanding of “liberalism” in which support for civil rights was a key marker of one's identity as a liberal.

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Religion and the Politics of Spirituality/Sexuality

Fieldwork in Religion ◽

10.1558/firn.v1i3.271 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 1 (3) ◽

pp. 271-289 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Andrew K.T. Yip

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Identity Politics ◽

Religious Discourse ◽

The Political ◽

Sexual Citizenship ◽

Ontological Security ◽

Advantages And Disadvantages ◽

Theoretical Literature ◽

Cultural Specificity ◽

Spirituality And Sexuality

Drawing upon my research on British LGB Christians and Muslims, and theoretical literature on ?identity?, ?identity politics?, and ?sexual citizenship?, I begin by discussing some advantages and disadvantages of merging the personal and the professional in research. I then argue that in order to understand why some LGB people stay in seemingly homophobic institutional religion, we need to understand the connection between spirituality and sexuality that not only offers ontological security, but also underpins the politics of spirituality/sexuality. This politics is personally and socially transformative. The merger of the counter religious discourse, that this politics underpins, with the secular discourse of human rights and sexual citizenship offers LGB believers cause for optimism. Nonetheless, I also contest the ideological and cultural specificity of contemporary religious and secular LGB identity politics. Highlighting the political, religious, social-cultural, and ethnic issues with which LGB Muslims need to engage, I argue for the broadening of current discourse of identity in general, and LGB identity in particular.

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