Political Concepts Research Articles

Red vs blue hubris: Clarifying the relationship between partisanship and (anti)intellectualism

Recent research advancing our understanding of partisan cognitive differences finds symmetrical partisan routes to epistemic hubris: intellectual identity and anti-intellectual affect. These researchers conclude that epistemic hubris is largely due to intellectual identity among Democrats and anti-intellectual affect among Republicans. I investigate whether these relationships are purely due to a greater prevalence of intellectual identity among Democrats and anti-intellectual affect among Republicans or if these constructs are particularly potent in producing epistemic hubris among those who identify with their associated parties. I present observational evidence that partisanship conditions the influence of anti-intellectual affect on epistemic hubris but do not find that partisanship conditions the influence of intellectual identity. Based on these findings, we can expect Red America’s increasing anti-intellectualism to contribute to increasing epistemic hubris. More broadly, I provide empirical support for understanding intellectual identity and anti-intellectualism as distinct concepts based on their differing relationships with other fundamental political concepts.

Forensic psychiatric examination of terrorist-related criminal cases: clinical and social characteristics of the sub-experts, analysis of the expert case

In recent years, due to changes in the socio-political situation, including at the international level, the number of terrorism-related criminal cases has increased, and, therefore, the number of forensic psychiatric examinations conducted in this category of cases has risen. To date, there is a lack of any scientific studies or analytical reviews devoted to the problem of forensic examination of suspects and the accused involved in such criminal cases. The article presents the results of a review of cases of outpatient complex forensic psychological and psychiatric examinations in terrorism-related criminal cases conducted on the basis of the Department of Forensic Psychiatric Examination, Psychiatric Clinical Hospital in Moscow, from 2020 to 2023. In total, 25 cases were described and analyzed, clinical and social characteristics were studied, and an overview of expert solutions was given. An analysis of one expert case was carried out. During the examinations, 56 % of the examinees did not show symptoms of mental illness when committing the incriminated criminal act, while 36 % of the examinees in the sample were diagnosed with a mental disorder. The diagnoses included mild cognitive disorder, various types of personality disorders (emotionally unstable, schizoid, with mixed features), alcohol abuse, as well as paranoid and undifferentiated forms of schizophrenia. Based on the conducted research, it is concluded that no confessional model of religious or other consciousness in itself is a source of terrorism, including its political form. Predisposition to terrorist manifestations is a multi-level phenomenon and enters an active phase due to certain «triggers» that operate at the individual, group or mass level, which depends, among other things, on psychopathological factors.

Decolonizing bodies and the ethics of care: On the significance of embodied vulnerability as the future of cultural studies

In the contemporary moment, systemic failures – from climate change to pandemics to political repression – have created embodied vulnerabilities worldwide. I argue here that the increasing precaritization of individual bodies is an index of the political formations that create and condition vulnerabilities among certain populations. Recognizing this, analyses of the conditions of embodied vulnerability are crucial to cultural studies in that they contribute to understanding and challenging neocolonial and patriarchal power and injustice. Feminist materialism and theories of post- and neo-colonialism reveal the processes of embodiment as complex modes of epistemic violence. To reorient cultural studies theoretically and methodologically, I propose the feminist ethics of care as a working framework for mapping, challenging, and changing the processes of materialization at work in unjust and asymmetric embodied vulnerabilities.

Implementasi Kebijakan Simantri dan Sipadu dalam Kajian Green Politics

The empowerment of the agricultural sector in accelerating technology transfer through the SIMANTRI program in Bali has been ongoing for over ten years and has been further developed into the SIPADU program, which has been fully handed over to the Gapoktan as the implementer. Field facts indicate that there are still challenges in optimizing the program, such as undernourished breeding cows, suboptimal processing of cattle waste into solid and liquid organic fertilizers, conflicts of interest among other agricultural institutions, and the failure of Gapoktan to maintain its existence. The research objective is to analyze the extent to which the implementation of Gapoktan 356 Sari Buana aligns with the SIMANTRI and SIPADU policies in the context of green politics, as well as the impact on the traditional subak organization. This research adopts a descriptive qualitative approach. The analysis process utilizes John Barry's Green Politics theory, focusing on aspects of distributive justice, democratization process, and ecological sustainability. The study is conducted in Antapan Village, Baturiti District, Bali. The research participants consist of 9 individuals selected through purposive sampling. Data collection techniques include interviews, observations, and documentation. The research analysis reveals that, theoretically, the SIMANTRI and SIPADU program policies have implemented the concepts of Green Politics, aiming towards sustainable agricultural development in Bali. However, in the program implementation phase, the analysis of Gapoktan 356 Sari Buana, in terms of distributive justice, democratization process, and ecological sustainability, cannot be deemed successful as it has not fulfilled the elements of sustainable societies and a symbiotic moral relationship with the environment. The presence of Gapoktan 356 Sari Buana has demonstrated a positive impact on the subak institution.

Thought Communities and Pre‐conditions for Polity Formation in the European Union: Evidence From Six EU Member States

AbstractHow do citizens in European Union (EU) member states think about the EU? And what are the implications of different ‘thinking styles’ for citizens' preferences regarding formation of policies, politics and polity in the EU? The current article uses relational class analysis (RCA) and analyses perceptions of the EU as a political order by citizens in six selected member states. These are France, Germany, Italy, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia – three founding/large member states and three members of the Visegrád group (two of which represent the most notorious examples of the ongoing ‘sovereignist’ backlash). Using RCA, we identify two thought communities in the selected EU member states: statists and pragmatists. These are the communities of citizens sharing thinking styles that would suggest their support for particular polity types in the EU.

The concept and the essence of political cartoon in the modern world

The paper is dedicated to the analysis of the theoretical component of political cartoon, its essence and concept. Attention is focused on the importance of political cartoons in modern political and legal reality with the rapid development of information systems and technologies. The author notes that the topic of political cartoons in the modern world is relevant and requires comprehensive research. A political cartoon is an important element of state, political and legal processes, since it acts as a vivid expression of public opinion regarding certain important situations in the global and intrastate field. The significance of a political caricature necessitates an in-depth approach to the analysis of the doctrinal foundations of the phenomenon under study, and therefore the paper represents the review of various approaches to understanding the concept and essence of a political caricature. In conclusion, the author notes that despite the widespread prevalence of political cartoons and the presence of a large number of studies on this topic, the problem of the place of political cartoons in the system of the humanities remains significant, as well as the lack of uniformity in the understanding of this phenomenon.

Mock impoliteness in Spanish: evidence from the VALESCO.HUMOR corpus

Abstract Mock impoliteness is defined as a specific form of politeness, one in which participants in a conversation perceive acts such as jocular mockery, insults and banter as non-impolite (Haugh, Michael & Derek Bousfield. 2012. Mock impoliteness in interactions amongst Australian and British speakers of English. Journal of Pragmatics 44. 1099–1114). Following the model of the third wave of politeness and Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2019. Conversational humour and (im) politeness: A pragmatic analysis of social interaction. Amsterdam: John Benjamins), the aim of this paper is twofold. First, it seeks to contribute to a better understanding of the phenomenon in colloquial conversation. Second, it illustrates this in a language other than English, specifically Peninsular Spanish, using data on informal interactions. The database is composed of 148 humorous sequences from the VALESCO.HUMOR corpus (http://www.observahumor.com/corpus_valesco). 25.67 % of these were identified and analyzed as mock impoliteness, using a tentative procedure for exploring humor negotiation in mock impoliteness through the assessment of a number of elements. These included the issue of which linguistic and paralinguistic elements are used by participants, and the interpretation of the initial aggressive style focused on the target, be it the recipient in a conversation or an absent third party (Béal, Christine & Kerry Mullan. 2017. The pragmatics of conversational humour in social visits: French and Australian English. Language & Communication 55. 24–40). Finally, we considered the question of whether or not the humor introduced by mock impoliteness was sustained throughout a sequence. When a target is oriented to a recipient in the exchange, the data shows a trend towards strengthening social bonds with the group and sustaining humor across the sequence. In other cases, however, the recipient might feel offended or insulted and hence respond in a serious mode, the main effect of the humor then being to create social distance within the participant group. When the target is oriented to an absent third party, humor tends to serve to reinforce cohesiveness between the group at the expense of others.

Young people (de)politicizing youth cultures: agency, well-being, and claims for change

ABSTRACT This paper investigates unauthorized practices of sticker art that usually understood by scholars as political acts and yet narrated as apolitical by the sticker artists themselves. In order to analytically explore this contradiction, the article examines how and why representatives of youth culture (de)politicize their practices and present themselves as (non)political subject. The concept of (de)politicization is utilized as a tool enabling researchers to analyze what actions and intentions actors wish to present as claims for social change and what not, and the rationale for this. Using ethnographic data on the sticker artists’ community in St. Petersburg, Russia collected in 2016-2021, I scrutinized the nexus of the ethics, esthetics, and politics of youth culture in order to reveal how certain combinations of ethics and its visual manifestations are connected to the young people’s (de)politicization of practices in a given socio-political environment. Through the example of sticker artists, the paper discusses the alternative types of claims that do not follow the logic of resistance and shows young people’s complex work of politicization and depoliticization, which contributes to their liberation from subordination and provides them with an opportunity to live a meaningful life in their own manner.

Shifting Contours of the Outlaw in Urban Haiti

In what follows, I discuss some initial empirical findings and theoretical insights from my recent work on transnational resettlement of crime-based deportees from the US to Haiti. Haitian baz, or street organizations, are increasingly taking on the trappings of the urban gang to maintain relevance and control of their zones. Simultaneously, gangs are deploying the dressings of the baz to attain authority throughout neighborhoods in Haiti. The increasing presence of criminal deportees in Haiti has complicated the political landscape to blend local and foreign categorizations of the criminal, potentially foreshadowing the end of the Haitian baz as a coherent political formation. The impact of these dynamics is discussed in the context of recent work in post-human scholarship and criminal deportation.

Cultural politics and public intellectuals in the age of emerging fascism*

ABSTRACT .Giroux argues that an upgraded form of fascism with its rabid nativism and hatred of racial mixing is at the center of United States politics. Traditional liberal values of equality, social justice, dissent, and freedom are now considered a threat to a Republican Party supportive of staggering levels of inequality, white Christian nationalism, and racial purity. Giroux examines America’s slide into a fascist politics and argues for academics to develop a revitalized understanding of the historical moment in which we find ourselves, along with a systemic critical analysis of the new political formations that mark this period.

Exploration of ideological and political education reform in the course of database principles and applications based on OBE concept

Curriculum ideological and political education is an important means to achieve the goal of cultivating morality and nurturing talents. Through the investigation of students' rational identification, emotional cognition, and behavioral tendencies in the early stage of ideological and political education in the course of "Database Principles and Applications", it was found that there are three main problems: weak ideological and political concepts in the course and insufficient value cognition of students; Lack of correlation between curriculum and ideological and political education, and insufficient emotional stimulation of students; The teaching method is single, and the effectiveness of ideological and political education in the curriculum is poor. This article mainly explores the use of OBE education philosophy to enhance teachers' ability to teach ideological and political education through the establishment of curriculum ideological and political concepts; Digging deep into ideological and political elements and reconstructing teaching content; Innovate ideological and political teaching methods and carry out effective teaching; Innovate the evaluation system for ideological and political education in courses, improve the effectiveness of ideological and political education in courses, and achieve educational goals.

Cultural aspects of the development of international water routes

This article will focus on the forms of politeness in German, Kyrgyz. The forms of politeness expression in this case studied from the point of view of intercultural communication. As you know, politeness is one of the key maxims in relationships, especially in intercultural communication plays an important role. Transport routes, which are the basis for the socio-economic development of populated areas, have a special impact on intercultural communications. The category of politeness is a complex ethnolinguistic category that covers various areas of language, is one of the key aspects of linguoculturology. Forms of politeness are one of the levers of economic development. Since competition leads to the use of polite language in all areas of communication. The level of development of the category of politeness in German, as well as in Kyrgyz culture, is different, although values such as trust, cordiality, closeness, human warmth are of great importance in both languages. The decisive factor here is the specific situation, within the framework of a certain speech act. The concept of politeness is universal for all cultures and peoples, while the forms of its expression are different.

"Censor It Out": The Missing Chapters of Operation Shylock

Abstract: This essay considers how specific instances of censorship and self-censorship may have influenced Roth's choice of a "missing chapter" as a powerful ending for Operation Shylock: A Confession (1993). By drawing from recently disclosed archive material at the Philip Roth Personal Library, I provide evidence of the author responding to the contemporary debate over free speech and reconstruct how his references to recent occurrences of textual suppression shaped his "unfinished" novel. I focus primarily on three sources that Roth read for research during the composition of Operation Shylock : The Sanctity of Speech (1986) by Yisroel Kolman Krohn and Yisroel Meir Shain, On Clowns (1992) by Norman Manea, and "Truth Whereby Nations Live" (1988) by Peretz Kidron—all in Roth's Personal Library at the Newark Public Library. A comparison with selected passages from these and other nonfictional texts reveals Roth's career-long interest in how different forms of political, social, and textual repression have been working in the context of Jewish writing and across Jewish institutions, in the US and abroad. It also underscores that the novel—far from being merely self-referential—was meant to represent censorship as accurately as in the historical examples one could easily find outside the book, in the political events of the late twentieth century.

«Пламенный голос из-за края». К вопросу о взаимодействии поэзии и политики

In contemporary critical literature, there are various perspectives on the relationship be­tween the political and the poetic. Some view poetry as a form of politics, encapsulated in the aphorism ‘the word is a weapon’, while others argue that politics itself should embody the qualities of poetry, as suggested by Andy Merrifield's assertion that "politics should be like poetry." This article seeks to explore the poetic dimensions that underpin the political necessi­ty for poetry, namely, the attributes of poetry that establish a connection with the political sphere. The focus of this exploration is the concept of poetic defamiliarization and its interac­tion with the political within Jacques Rancière's theoretical framework. Rancière posits that the political function of poetry, and art more broadly, lies in its ability to disrupt the estab­lished order of sensory perception, challenging the prevailing system of unquestioned percep­tual facts. This disruptive quality of poetry contrasts with what has been termed "police aes­thetics" by Vatulescu, which reflects the conformity and uniformity inherent in consumer society. The article contends that, within the contemporary cultural landscape, the transform­ative potential of poetic expression risks being co-opted by aestheticizing practices prevalent in consumer culture. As a result, the subversive nature of poetic utterance is somewhat dilut­ed, as it becomes assimilated into commodifying forces. However, the article also suggests that poetry retains the capacity to resist such commodification by transcending the limitations imposed by conventional boundaries, thereby offering a means of resisting capture by com­mercial interests

The impact of suppliers' CSR controversies on buyers' market value: The moderating role of social capital

A firm's CSR controversies can affect not only the firm itself but also its supply chain partners. However, existing studies have predominantly focused on the influence of a firm's own CSR controversies; the spillover effect along supply chains has received insufficient attention. This study examines the impact of suppliers' CSR controversies on buyers' market value, as well as the moderating role of buyers' social capital. Using data from 462 buyer-supplier dyads of Chinese listed firms from 2008 to 2019, we find that suppliers' CSR controversies are significantly negatively related to buyers' market value, and that environmental controversies have a stronger negative effect than social controversies. This negative association can be alleviated by buyers' social capital in the forms of political, business, and financial capital. Our study has significant implications for both research and practice in the increasingly important domain of CSR management in supply chains.

Ennahda’s Muslim democracy in post-Arab spring Tunisia: Synthesizing political thought and practice

This article explores the interplay between political thought and practice within Tunisia?s Ennahda party, first during its period in opposition, then after it took power in 2011, and finally in the aftermath of the 2021 coup. We trace the genealogy of political thought within the party from the point of its foundation. In doing so, we explore the gradual evolution of party ideology, from a da?wa-based belief system between 1969 and 1981, to Islamic democracy between 1981 and 2011, to ?Muslim democracy? after the 2011 uprising. We examine this ideological evolution through the framework of three key elements: (i) Islam, (ii) Tunisia?s changing socio-political context, and (iii) the broader universal episteme. As we show, a significant turning point came in 2016, with the separation of the da?wa from party politics, which revealed a burgeoning state/party conceptualization of politics. However, the 2021 coup challenged Ennahda?s concept of Muslim democracy, as well as all aspects of the party?s own sense of continuity as a significant socio-political actor, such as its institutional structure, leadership, membership, social base, political strategy, and ideology. Ennahda is now confronted by an authoritarian resurgence, which aims at containing the party, and at delegitimizing its participation within nation-state structures. Empirical evidence, based on content-analytical evaluations of personal interviews as well as the media?s coverage of Ennahda, shows that the party?s representatives are increasingly focusing on organizational reform in order to deal with the ramifications of the 2021 coup. Their aim seems to be to democratize both Ennahda and the Tunisian state itself.

Conceptual Flipsiding in/and Illiberal Imagination: Towards a Discourse-Conceptual Analysis

This article highlights the increasingly prevalent process of so-called “conceptual flipsiding”: that is, of strategic reversal of notions once closely associated with liberal democracy, and of its key values of freedom, equality, tolerance, and the like, for the pronouncedly illiberal gains. Viewing the said process as part and parcel of the wider normalization of an illiberal imagination through strategic discourses and practices in and beyond the field of politics, the article contends that conceptual flipsiding increasingly allows recontextualizing and eventually normalizing a deeply illiberal understanding of polity, society, and community. Seeing these as increasingly redefined in recent years in many formerly liberal-democratic contexts by, especially, the far right and its numerous affiliates in politics, media, and/or un-civil society, the article argues for theoretical and analytical elaboration of conceptual flipsiding in order to depict its wider exploratory usability in grasping the current illiberal conceptual and discursive fluidity. The article emphasizes that, following the discourse-conceptual logic behind the conceptual flipsiding dynamics, one is able to deconstruct the ongoing infusion of key social and political concepts and discourses with new and often deeply illiberal understandings.

Exploration and Practice of Ideological and Political Education in Vocational Education Curriculum Based on Learning as the Center

Anti mold technology in aviation material storage is an important foundational course for aviation material management majors. In order to effectively play the role of the main channel for classroom education, curriculum ideological and political reform has been carried out in the course of curriculum teaching, effectively integrating curriculum ideological and political concepts into professional classrooms. Based on learning as the center, curriculum ideological and political goals have been established, curriculum ideological and political elements have been explored, and the entire process of education mode has been explored. Implementation precautions have been proposed, and ideological and political education has been implicitly embedded in various stages of the teaching process. Through students’ independent participation and self-awareness, ideological and political internalization has been achieved, providing reference and inspiration for the ideological and political reform of other courses.

Телевизиядағы әлеуметтік-мәдени бейнекөріністердің көрерменге психологиялық-коммуникациялық әсері

Currently, media, technology and scientific research allow us to expand and more effectively use communication channels. This, in turn, causes the formation and change of sociocultural and political concepts in everyday life. This urgent problem required the development of new approaches with an interdisciplinary approach to reconstruct universities and educational institutions. In addition, this problem has led to the emergence of research aimed at studying psychology, sociology, patterns of political behaviour and the influence of the media on the audience. In this context, individuals specializing in the relationship between media and psychology were in demand not only in educational institutions, but also in areas such as politics, architecture, commerce, design and engineering. As a result of the use of media content (both new and traditional), psychology plays an important role. For example, studying the influence of the media, from television to newspapers, from social media channels to billboards, has made it possible to understand new global trends and cultural changes In this context, the main purpose of this research article is to determine theoretical conclusions in the study of psychological aspects in media and communication; to observe the psychological impact of viewers of different ages in media communication; to expand the scope of new approaches and methods in the field of medical psychology. The scientific conclusion of the study involves examining the psychological impact of sociocultural video presentations on a person through television, identifying the positive or negative impact of socio-cultural manifestations, examining the influence of spiritual and cognitive video presentations and programmes promoting violence, and a comprehensive analysis

Discourse of contemporary chinese ideological and political education: Development directions and teaching methods

The aim of this research is to evaluate educational approaches and teaching methods in ideological and political education in China by assessing students' perceptions of ideological and political concepts and their participation in socio-political life. The study is based on the model of the International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS) and the longitudinal approach to civic education research. The results are moderate and demonstrate that the teaching methods do not promote youth participation in socio-political activities. Among the types of socio-political activities, students are most active in those encouraged by the university (student elections, volunteering), with the main motivation for political activity being additional points and recommendations for job searches. The theoretical contribution lies in the development of theoretical approaches to the thematic analysis of ideological and political education. The practical contribution is a simple and replicable approach for evaluating the methods and outcomes of ideological and political education. The empirical results enable the formation of more successful practices and the implementation of effective modern teaching methods in ideological and political education.