Humanitarian Emotions through History

2019 ◽  
pp. 219-241
Author(s):  
Emma Hutchison
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Media Images ◽  
Political Transformations ◽  
Distant Suffering ◽  
Emotional Dimensions ◽  
Contemporary Media

This chapter explores how the emotional dimensions of witnessing human hardship play a key role in shaping humanitarian practices. While images of suffering have evoked a range of emotions, contemporary commentators lament that a “politics of pity” fuels Western humanitarian practices. Even if it could seem a recent phenomenon, these emotions have a history. This chapter examines the emergence of humanitarian emotions by linking early modern depictions of suffering with contemporary media images of crises. Furthermore, it analyses how representing distant suffering has led to a “politics of pity.” Exposing the contingency of such emotions, this chapter concludes by emphasizing how feelings hold immanent possibilities for political transformations.

Marvels of the Levant: Print Media and the Politics of Wonder in Early Modern Venice

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anastasia Stouraiti
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Print Media ◽  
Empire Building ◽  
Emotional Dimensions ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Heuristic Device ◽  
Early Modern Venice ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract This article uses the strange and marvellous as a heuristic device to study the relationship between emotions, media and politics in early modern Venice. In particular, it examines how printed news about the marvels of the Levant mediated Venice’s encounters with its colonial subjects and imperial rivals, and analyses the role of wonder and imagination in the creation of an imperial community of feelings. The article argues that a focus on the affective politics of the marvellous can shed new light on the emotional dimensions of the early modern Venetian public sphere and its links with war and empire-building.

scholarly journals Transmedialne losy wybranych fragmentów XVI- i XVII-wiecznej poezji i prozy Johna Donne’a jako ilustracja społecznej użyteczności śmiechu

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (XXII) ◽  
pp. 113-126
Author(s):  
Dorota Gładkowska
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Early Modern Literature ◽  
Trans Position ◽  
Popular Entertainment ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Specific Manner ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
Philosophical Texts

This article indicates the specific manner in which early modern literature is exploited in contemporary media. It focuses on the interaction involving the trans-position of philosophical texts to the domain of laughter embedded in the everyday life of the modern recipient. Selected passages of John Donne’s (1572-1631) prose and poetry serve to illustrate how an old literary work encourages new creativity, how it transcends the boundaries set by a given epoch, culture and form, to undergo a specific thematic and structural transformation. What seems particularly interesting in this process is the conversion of philosophical sadness into a useful joke incorporated in, inter alia, the transition from meditation to motivation, from inspiration to action. In other words, this article examines laughter provoked at the interface between a profound philo-sophical message and popular entertainment which combines images and words and activates the intellect as well as the senses and emotions. Such foundations give rise to a transmedia message being socially functional – not only as comic relief, but also as a didactic tool for shaping attitudes.

scholarly journals “The Wayfarer” (“The Pedlar”) by Hieronymus Bosch as an Archetypal Image of an ‘Other-Stranger’

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 46-61
Author(s):  
Przemysław Kisiel
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Media Images ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Hieronymus Bosch ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
And Behaviors ◽  
Migration Crisis ◽  
The One ◽  
Symbolic Content

One of the most important contemporary experiences of European societies is undoubtedly the migration crisis. The resulting social fears of ‘strangers,’ which have been activated, show how important the archetypical ‘other-stranger’ pattern still is, and that it can be treated as an example of an ‘anthropological constant.’ The aim of the article is to try to look at the painting “The Wayfarer” by Hieronymus Bosch as an illustration of the archetypical ‘other-stranger’ pattern. It seems that such a reading of this work, rich in symbolic content, on the one hand perfectly justifies the thesis of the archetypical sources of contemporary attitudes towards ‘strangers’ and, on the other hand, allows one to better understand and explain the current reactions and behaviors of Europeans. This becomes particularly evident when juxtaposing the image of Hieronymus Bosch with the contemporary media images of migrants.

State Formation and Comparative Area Studies – Between Globalization and Territorialization

2011 ◽  
Vol 70 (4) ◽  
pp. 965-970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn Cartier
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
State Formation ◽  
Social Formation ◽  
Area Studies ◽  
Political Transformations ◽  
International Scholarship ◽  
To Come ◽  
Modern Era

In his review of Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, 1450–1860: Expansion and Crisis, Victor Lieberman plied the margins of Anthony Reid's (1995) portrayal of early modern Southeast Asia and objected with purpose: “critical cultural and political transformations on the mainland without close archipelagic analogy receive little or no attention” (Lieberman 1995, 799). Where connections and crossings characterize historic social formation in insular Southeast Asia, Lieberman focused on a different shore – territorial consolidation of kingdoms in mainland Southeast Asia, from over 20 in the pre-modern era to only three major empires, Burma, Thailand and Vietnam, by the end of the seventeenth century. Yet Reid's two-volume work was exquisitely timed with the theoretical pulses of globalization and their keywords of crossings – diasporas, flows, linkages, mobilities, networks, routes and travels. Closely related to the poststructural theoretical shift, these themes have guided new area studies and are likely to prevail in international scholarship for some time to come.

Are Contemporary Media Images Which Seem to Display Women as Sexually Empowered Actually Harmful to Women?

2011 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Halliwell ◽  
Helen Malson ◽  
Irmgard Tischner
Keyword(s):  
Media Images ◽  
Contemporary Media
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