Class issues: pedagogy, cultural studies, and the public sphere

1998 ◽  
Vol 35 (09) ◽  
pp. 35-5201-35-5201
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere

scholarly journals INFERIORITAS PEREMPUAN DALAM BAHASA IKLAN BANNER SAFETY RIDING

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Fedi Bhakti Patria
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Left Lane

Women are still often imaged positively by the authorities in the public sphere. This can be seen from some of the elements contained in the images, including in the text "Dear Sweet Wife / Mother wearing the left lane" on banner safety riding ads. The prominence of the term 'WIFE' and the term 'MOM' instead shows the passive position of women who are only positioned as 'silent' subjects to wait for their partner to return. But in this case, the rules of traffic order become the representation of the symbolic phallus. This study uses a qualitative method which in the study of cultural studies is described by Paul Willis as a model of reflexive methodology, where the emphasis lies in theoretical awareness and interest, to reach the depth of 'reality'. The results emphasize that the image of women remains served as a passive subject and tend to be obedient to all transcendent rules. So, it is not excessive if in the end, this image also represents an inferiority in women. However, it really directs, herds, and encourages its viewers to always bring their own narcissistic desires. The woman in the image has been mythical, and soon she becomes part of the banality in the spaces of society. 

Between Cultural Studies and Critical Sociology

1998 ◽  
Vol 88 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Jones
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Critical Sociology ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere

This essay reviews John Hartley's Popular Reality: Journalism, Modernity, Popular Culture. The significance of this text is that it provides one of the most developed engagements with the public sphere literatures from an author within cultural studies. The article necessarily addresses the considerable weaknesses in Hartley's understanding of the public sphere case. However, the aim is not to dismiss Popular Reality out of hand. Rather, the critique highlights the methodological and ethical differences between analyses based in cultural studies and ‘critical sociology’. Hartley does partially recognise the significance of recent feminist critiques to the much-needed critical reconstruction of the public sphere thesis. The article acknowledges this insight and then moves to a discussion of the ways in which a reconstructed conception of the public sphere thesis might not only be of value to media studies but also to a settlement between cultural studies and ‘critical sociology’.

The Suffering of the Perpetrators: The Ethics of Traumatic German Historicity in Karen Bass's Young Adult World War II Novels

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-77
Author(s):  
Doris Wolf
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Childhood Studies ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
World War ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Adult World ◽  
The Public Sphere

This paper examines two young adult novels, Run Like Jäger (2008) and Summer of Fire (2009), by Canadian writer Karen Bass, which centre on the experiences of so-called ordinary German teenagers in World War II. Although guilt and perpetration are themes addressed in these books, their focus is primarily on the ways in which Germans suffered at the hands of the Allied forces. These books thus participate in the increasingly widespread but still controversial subject of the suffering of the perpetrators. Bringing work in childhood studies to bear on contemporary representations of German wartime suffering in the public sphere, I explore how Bass's novels, through the liminal figure of the adolescent, participate in a culture of self-victimisation that downplays guilt rather than more ethically contextualises suffering within guilt. These historical narratives are framed by contemporary narratives which centre on troubled teen protagonists who need the stories of the past for their own individualisation in the present. In their evacuation of crucial historical contexts, both Run Like Jäger and Summer of Fire support optimistic and gendered narratives of individualism that ultimately refuse complicated understandings of adolescent agency in the past or present.

Habermas, Cultural Hegemony, and the Educational Public Sphere

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 43-62
Author(s):  
Wisam Kh. Abdul-Jabbar
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Cultural Hegemony ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Arabic Speaking

This study explores Habermas’s work in terms of the relevance of his theory of the public sphere to the politics and poetics of the Arab oral tradition and its pedagogical practices. In what ways and forms does Arab heritage inform a public sphere of resistance or dissent? How does Habermas’s notion of the public space help or hinder a better understanding of the Arab oral tradition within the sociopolitical and educational landscape of the Arabic-speaking world? This study also explores the pedagogical implications of teaching Arab orality within the context of the public sphere as a contested site that informs a mode of resistance against social inequality and sociopolitical exclusions.

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