‘Your memorials shall survive the grave’: elegy and remembrance

2018 ◽  
pp. 118-149
Author(s):  
Alison Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Central Feature ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
The Public ◽  
Vernacular Culture ◽  
The Future ◽  
Broadside Ballads ◽  
The Dead ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Way

The sixteen ballads and songs within this section fall into two camps: elegy and remembrance. Whilst a central feature of elegiac poetry is the way in which it remembers or memorialises the dead, the dead a poem which is one of remembrance is not necessarily an elegy. Several of the songs herein use the date of Peterloo as a temporal marker – with an eye both on the contemporaneous reader or audience and the future reader. Included in this section are broadside ballads by Michael Wilson and elegies by Samuel Bamford and Peter Pindar. These songs display a self-awareness in their significance in marking the moment for posterity and in their attempts to reach an audience beyond Manchester and ensure that the public knew what had happened on 16th August as well as preserving the event in English vernacular culture. It is also a quest for ownership of the narrative of the day; the speed with which so many of these songs were written and published not only suggests the ferocity of emotions surrounding events but also the need to exert some control over the way in which they were represented.

The Public Festival: Inspiration and interconnectivity at the heart of festivals

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathrin Deventer
Keyword(s):  
Interest Groups ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Political Context ◽  
The Political ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Abstract Theory ◽  
The Public ◽  
Fertile Ground ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Way

Festivals have been around, and will always be around; no matter the political context they are embedded in, supported by, or hindered by. Why? Simply because society develops, it transforms, it is dynamic and it needs space for reflection and inspiration. Festivals are platforms for people to meet, and for artists to present their work, their creations. This gives festivals an enduring, quite independent mission and reason to exist: as long as festivals strive to offer a biotope for artists and audiences alike and point to questions which concern the way we live and want to live, they will be a fertile ground for a meaningful development of society – and an offer for serving the public wellbeing. What are the challenges festivals are facing today? There are a series of very complex questions related to festivals’ positioning us as human beings in an interconnected, global society, our relation to nature and the immediate surroundings, our stories of life so that as many citizens as possible can be part of the societal discourse, can be enriched, can be touched, can be heard, can be moved. Individuals, interest groups, nationalities, countries, even continents are interconnected. What does this mean for a festival? Travelling across Europe for work and pleasure and meeting citizens from all walks of life has taught me that citizens, a term that connects individuals to some larger constructed community, are just people, everyday people, going about their lives. People connect with other humans and their human stories, real life encounters. Abstract theory and jargon are meaningless when they lack real life connections. Meaningful festivals of the future will offer possibilities for new connections among people: they invite people to travel in time and in space; they inspire to connect human stories, enriching them with new, unexpected, colourful stories!

THE DEAD STILL AMONG US: VICTORIAN SECULAR RELICS, HAIR JEWELRY, AND DEATH CULTURE

2010 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Lutz
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
The Other ◽  
Shared Experience ◽  
The Public ◽  
Look Back ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Death Culture ◽  
The Moment

By the time the nineteenth centuryreached its close, it was already possible to look back at Victorian death culture with nostalgia. With the rise of secularism, the slide toward what Diana Fuss has called the death of death had begun. No longer was it common practice to hold onto the remains of the dead. Rarely would a lock of hair be kept by, to be worn as jewelry, nor did one dwell on the deathbed scene, linger upon the lips of the dying to mark and revere those last words, record the minutiae of slipping away in memorials, diaries, and letters. Rooms of houses were increasingly less likely to hold remains; no one had died in the beds in which the living slept. Walter Benjamin, who wrote often about what was lost in the nineteenth century, sees the turning away from death as going hand in hand with the disappearance of the art of storytelling. Writing in the early 1930s, he called his contemporaries “dry dwellers of eternity” because “today people live in rooms that have never been touched by death” (Illuminations94). Avoiding the sight of the dying, Benjamin argues, one misses the moment when life becomes narrative, when the meaning of life is completed and illuminated in its ending. He privileges the shared moment of death, when relatives, and even the public, gather around the dying to glean final words of wisdom, to know perhaps, in the end, the whole story. Historian of death Philippe Ariès describes a Christian account of the final ordeal of the death bed, when in the moment of death the salvation or damnation of the dying is determined, thus changing or freezing, for good, the meaning of the whole life. Scholars of nineteenth- and twentieth-century death culture tend, on the whole, to agree that towards the end of the century, a process that began earlier reached a completion – that the death of the other not only became less of a shared experience among a community, but last things such as final words and remains were increasingly to be pushed to the back of consciousness and hence to the lumber room of meaning and importance.

The Future of Correction: A Defense Attorney's View

1971 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 266-270
Author(s):  
Michael Meltsner
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Best Interests ◽  
National Program ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Way

The author, former legal director of an organization conducting a national program of test litigation in the correctional area, describes a variety of cases that have led him to take a pessimistic view of the future of correction. He states that (1) a defendant cannot put much faith in a criminal justice system which makes his pretrial freedom dependent on the amount of money he has; (2) considering the lack of resources provided for those in jail but presumably innocent pending trial, one can expect little in the way of correctional resources for convicts; (3) longstanding prison abuses are still widespread; (4) judges and administrators ignore the failures of experimental programs in order that they may continue to require inmates to participate in them; and (5) the correctional process is perhaps most dangerous when it justifies itself as acting in the defendant's best interests. In conclusion, the author suggests that correctional personnel should play a more active role in exposing negative aspects of imprisonment to the public.

The Boy Who Would Live Forever, 1988–2013

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael R. Page
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Dead ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Literary Output ◽  
Old Friends ◽  
The Way

This chapter focuses on Frederik Pohl's literary output during the period 1988–2013, including two novels that would mark a transition in his career: Chernobyl and The Annals of the Heechee. The books that follow Chernobyl and The Annals of the Heechee focus less on the Cold War and more on new, pressing issues facing the contemporary world, such as The Voices of Heaven (1994), Homegoing (1989), Outnumbering the Dead (1990), and Mining the Oort (1992). Another novel, Narabedla Ltd., was a work of lighthearted fun that demonstrated Pohl's love of music. But the work that caps Pohl's career as science fiction's most eminent Swiftian satirist was All the Lives He Led. While completing All the Lives He Led, Pohl began blogging in January 2009 on his Hugo Award–winning website The Way the Future Blogs. In celebration of his ninetieth birthday, his wife Betty prepared a Festschrift anthology, titled Gateways and published by Tor, which included new stories by old friends.

The Politics of Public Education

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen M. Gunter
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Public Education ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Future ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
The Way

At a time when public education and reform agendas are changing the way we approach education, this book critically examines the key issues facing the public with implications for education policy makers, professionals and researchers. Drawing on empirical evidence gathered over 20 years, the book confronts current issues about social justice and segregation. The book uses Arendtian ideas to help the reader to ‘think politically’ about education and how and why public services education can be reimagined for the future.

Conclusion

2020 ◽  
pp. 152-160
Author(s):  
Joseph W. Pearson
Keyword(s):  
Political Party ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Central Issue ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Square ◽  
New States ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The One ◽  
The Way

So what happened to the Whigs? The antebellum political party died a slow death from 1845 to 1854. First, President James K. Polk provoked a morally bankrupt war with Mexico in 1845, annexing Texas, and extending the nation’s borders to California’s Pacific coastline along the way. The addition of so much new territory so quickly drove questions about slavery that moderate Whigs and Democrats alike had dodged for thirty years from the abstract into the public square. On the one hand, many Americans (mostly northern and middle western, mostly Whiggish) argued that slavery should not spread to any new states formed from the territories stolen from Mexico. To the contrary, many other Americans (mostly southern, mostly Democratic) argued that slaves were a legitimate form of constitutionally protected property that could not legally be excluded from territory won using the common treasury and national armies. The discovery of gold in California in 1849 only added fuel to the partisan fire because it inspired so many people to head west in search of fortune, hastening that state’s ability to meet the demographic requirements for admission to the Union, and forcing the country at large to grapple with questions for which it was unprepared. Thus, the contest was joined over the central issue that was to dominate all American political life for the next dozen years, namely, the disposition of the territories. For the moment, moderates who desperately longed for a compromise that might stifle the underlying issue of slavery held the majority. However, it is a truism that happens to be true that, in crises of this sort, extremists grow in power, swallowing up all political space in the conciliatory center....

scholarly journals Transformation of Communist Media Content and Public Space According to the Discourse ‘39Pact: Exiting the “Labyrinth” as an Act of Communication

2020 ◽  
Vol 90 ◽  
pp. 53-79
Author(s):  
Andrius Vaišnys
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Communicative Action ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Underground Press ◽  
The Public ◽  
Information Conflict ◽  
Historical Truth ◽  
The Way

This text is about one of the longest processes of political communication, which, decades on, influences politicians of various generations of the Central, Eastern and Western Europe, contents of media and self-awareness of the audience. The process isn’t over yet, this is obvious not only from the document adopted by the EP but also from an international political rhetoric. Analysis of consequences of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact signed on 1939 in media (D’39Pact) and related national and international decisions is the axis of information conflict between the East and the West concerning thousands of fates. Those thousands of people had and still have different historical narratives – some people justified the Pact and implemented it, others were fighting for the elimination of its consequences, yet others fell victims to it, with a death toll estimated in the millions. But not everybody’s narratives are based on true arguments.Let’s look at the way the system of propaganda collapsed and the public opinion was transformed in countries of Central and Eastern Europe in 1988-1989. Moving from a lie to (hopefully) the historical truth. Review of consequences of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was the main axis of such transformation (protection of environmental and cultural valuables, choice of one’s viewpoint, legislative requirements and other rights were contextual aspects of this axis). During this period in the previously mentioned region the control of public space was on the decline.This view will be based on a single thematic discourse: the provision of consequences of the 1939 Treaty of Non-aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and criticism in communist model media of Lithuania and neighbouring countries. It may be called D’39Pact.D‘39Pact in general has several narratives (it may also be seen from the EP Resolution), but taking into consideration the interpretation of Jurgen Habermas’s Communicative Action, the analysis of transformation of 1988-1989 two of them would suffice, one of which is that of the authorities of the USSR and the other one – that of its opponents. Let’s call opponents USSR dissidents, protestors, underground press (samizdat) and press of public movements which was published legally.Narrative of the USSR authorities: the treaty was the inevitable and no annexes (secret protocols) exist.Narrative of the opponents: based on secret protocols of the treaty, the USSR and Nazi Germany divided the countries and destroyed their political, military, cultural elite and finally – their population of various social layers.Medias, as the main participant of the public space, most clearly disclose the collision of such narratives and transformation in D‘39Pact. The purpose of the article is to discuss the circumstances of transformation of MMPT from the historical perspective and of the public space and come across the factors, which influenced the strongest role of MMPT interpretative accomplishments. Considering the way out of the “labyrinth” regarding the D’39 Pact, we see some similarities with the situation that now exists in Russia.

scholarly journals Serviço público adequado e a cláusula de proibição de retrocesso social

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paulo Ricardo Schier ◽  
Adriana Da Costa Ricardo Schier
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Public Lands ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
Administrative Law ◽  
Conservation Unit ◽  
Ratchet Effect ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Future ◽  
Lock In ◽  
The Way

<p><strong>SERVIÇO PÚBLICO ADEQUADO E A CLÁUSULA DE PROIBIÇÃO DE RETROCESSO SOCIAL </strong></p><p><strong>Resumo:</strong> O objetivo central do estudo é demonstrar que na perspectiva de uma constitucionalização adequada do Direito Administrativo não apenas o serviço público deve ser considerado um direito fundamental, mas também o regime jurídico de sua prestação. Neste sentido defende-se que o regime jurídico do serviço público definido no art. 6º, § 1º, da Lei n.º 8.987/95 é uma garantia que, a despeito de possuir delineamento infraconstitucional, apresenta-se como direito fundamental e, logo, este regime é protegido como cláusula pétrea e, portanto, em relação a ele, atendidos alguns pressupostos, incide a cláusula de proibição de retrocesso social de modo a estar protegido em face de legislação corrosiva futura. Os pressupostos de incidência da vedação de retrocesso social no campo do regime jurídico do serviço público seriam: (i) existência de consenso em relação à relevância do conteúdo disciplinado através da lei, (ii) que a legislação esteja a densificar um direito fundamental e (iii) que a legislação futura, ao revogar a vigente, venha a atingir o núcleo essencial do direito afetado.</p><p><strong>Palavras-chaves:</strong> Serviço Público; Regime Jurídico do Serviço Público; Proibição de Retrocesso Social; Mínimo existencial.</p><p><strong>THE SUITABLE PUBLIC SERVICE AND THE PROHIBITING CLAUSE OF SOCIAL RETROCESSION (RATCHET EFFECT) </strong></p><p><strong>Abstract:</strong> The main purpose of this work is demonstrate that, in the perspective of an adequate constitutionalization of Administrative Law, not only the Public Service must be consider as a fundamental right, but also the juridical regime for its application. In this sense, it is established that the juridical regime of the public service at the 6th article, 1st §, Law n° 8.987/95 is a guarantee that, despite it possesses "infraconstitutional" design, it is presented as fundamental right and since it is, this regime is protect as an irrevocable cause, therefore, in its relation, and once some presupposed points being responded, it claims the prohibiting clause of social retrogression in a way to protect it from a rusty legislation in the future. The pressupose of an incidence of a social retroceding lock in the juridical field on public service would be: (i) the existence of a consensus related to the pertinence of the disciplined purport through the law, (ii) the legislation could be in the way to densify a fundamental right and (iii) that the future legislation, revoking the actual, come to hit the hub of the affected right.</p><p><strong>Keywords:</strong> State intervention; Law 9.985/2000; Public lands; Conservation Unit; Expropriation.</p><p><strong>Data da submissão:</strong> 03/05/2016                   <strong>Data da aprovação:</strong> 12/06/2016</p>

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