Discourse Of Dissent Research Articles

Entangled Discourses of Dissent in Early Modern Spain

Entangled Discourses of Dissent in Early Modern Spain

Lamenting Karbala in Europe: Husayni Liturgy and Discourses of Dissent amongst Diasporic Bahraini and Lebanese Shiis

ABSTRACT The presence of Shii communities in Europe is increasingly felt, especially as they establish independent religious and social infrastructures. Supporters of different Shii–Islamist political parties have established transnational links connecting diasporic communities with their countries of origin. These links have shaped and been shaped by religious, political and social dynamics in the Middle East. This article examines how lamentation poetry performed in Shii ritual gatherings is used to articulate political dissent among diasporic communities. The lachrymal expressions and descriptions that characterize Shii lamentation poetry have the ritualistic function of metaphorically identifying participants with Imam Husayn and his cause. Organizers of these gatherings, however, use lamentation poetry to narrate and give meaning to geopolitical developments in the Middle East, especially since the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq and the toppling of Saddam Hussein in 2003. This article constitutes the first attempt to examine the political contextualization of Shii lamentation poetry, embedded within the political discourses of two Shii Islamist parties, the al-Wefaq Movement in Bahrain and Hizbullah in Lebanon. Unlike other studies on Shii ritual practices, it is informed by a multi-sited ethnographic study of female-only and male-dominated ritual spaces in the United Kingdom, Sweden, Lebanon, Iraq and Bahrain.

Accounts and rebuttals in an Israeli discourse of dissent

ABSTRACTThis study explores the notion of dissent, seen as a form of ‘limited nonconformity’, via a study of some of the discourses produced by the Israeli veterans’ organization Breaking the Silence (BTS), which elicits and circulates soldiers’ testimonies about their experiences of military service in the occupied Palestinian territories. BTS has been criticized widely for its undisguised oppositional stance against the Israeli occupation, regime responding by directing some of its efforts to airing videotaped soldier-witnesses’ personal accounts and formulating organizational rebuttals with an eye to gaining public legitimization for its testimonial project. In these accounts and rebuttals, BTS activists explain their motivations for their oppositional move and respond to accusations that have been leveled against them by politicians and mainstream media. This study addresses BTS members’ personal accounts as well as their organizationally anchored rebuttals. Both are considered locally situated discursive practices of self-legitimation, whose analysis brings out a tension inherent in the notion of dissent between nonconformity and its limits. In so doing, it addresses ways in which these soldier-witnesses discuss their sense of self, their moral dilemmas, their social commitments, and the speech ideology that informs their testimonial activities.

Tensions in the Third Space: Examining the Digital Visual Culture of Teenagers

Abstract The concept of the third space is a broad area of interest for educational researchers, particularly within art education. This realm is often tied closely to elements of popular culture, and may often enter subversive, transgressive, and inane territories. In the 21st century, teenagers are spending vast amounts of time online, engaging in the same informal types of play, socialization, learning, and art making as occur in real life (IRL). Because of these issues, some have responded by exploring the hybrid "third space" between formal and informal learning spaces, both on- and offline. The third space integrates concepts like playful pedagogy into learning, and it is typically seen as a productive co-mingling of teacher and student interests. However, this study traces the third space to its roots as a discourse of dissent and conflict, and examines the unique tensions that arise in this space and their implications for art education. This qualitative case study examines the researcher’s efforts to facilitate a third space for learning in the Digital Arts Workshop (DigArts). This workshop was designed as a third space that intended to facilitate a productive space for tech-savvy teens to meet, work on self-initiated projects, and forge a cooperative community of art makers. This report presents a survey of the digital visual culture of these teenagers, and discusses the various tensions that arise in the third space between teacher and student, formal and informal learning, offline and online.

The Unholy Trinity: Politics, Sex and Mysticism in 'Azīz Al-Sayyid Jāsim's Narratives

This paper attempts to decode the discourse of dissent in the novels of the late Iraqi writer and thinker 'Azīz al-Sayyid Jāsim. His three narratives afford an interesting case of textual combat, wherein politics, sex and mysticism are exploited as tactical maneuvers for critique, subversion and resistance. This paper reads 'Azīz al-Sayyid Jāsim's focus on sexual matters as well as his deep interest in Sufism as a strategy of involvement in and alienation from a corrupt political life. Al-Munādil (The Militant), Al-Maftūn (The Bewitched), and Al-Zahru al-Shaqī (The Suffering primrose) offer instances of mystified politics and/or politicized sex. 'Azīz al-Sayyid Jāsim's narratives present a space of self-interrogation, skepticism and anxiety that make of him a leading mark in Arab writings of conscience.

Mapping underground London: the cultural politics of nature, technology and humanity

An understanding of the geographies of resistance benefits from an exploration of alternative geographical imaginations. A focus on the London based counter-culture of the 1960s illustrates this point. The oppositional geographies of the counter-culture can be mapped using the London underground press as both source and object. In doing so, the underground’s peculiar constructions of the relationships between nature, technology and humanity can be traced. The (‘new’) leftist movements of the 1960s are not of primary interest here. Rather, the less conventional forms of cultural politicking from that period are the focus. Factions who were engaged in a range of activities, from the seemingly esoteric production of light-shows, through the ‘weekend hippy’ up from the home counties, to the editors of radical underground papers, attempted to operationalize a range of contemporaneous social, cultural and media theories in their project to redefine the discourse of dissent. In doing so, claims to primordial naturalness were made on the basis that new electronic technologies were extensions of the natural human self and could, if correctly utilized, reinsert nature into culture and consciousness. This same geographical imagination was used as a tool to avoid appropriation. By focusing upon the discursive aspects of resistance it is possible to draw a more nuanced account of the relationship between power and dissent that renders it less polarized and more symbiotic.

Public and Technical Interdependence: Regulatory Controversy, Out-Law Discourse, and the Messy Case of Olestra

This essay characterizes regulatory controversy through communicative practices that bridge the technical and public spheres of argument. The case of Procter & Gamble's efforts to gain approval and consumers for the fat substitute olestra, opposed by the Center for Science in the Public Interest, serves as a vehicle for exploring the nature of regulatory controversy and the interdependence of public and technical argument. Out-law discourse, a discourse of dissent, ignores conventional standards of argument and is invited in regulatory controversy when extant arenas for argument are not flexible enough to accommodate dissent. This out-law discourse is explored through the tactics of objection and counteranalysis, and the essay concludes that regulatory controversy actually places a greater burden on corporate actors than on their out-law opponents.

Representing the state? School and teacher in post-Sendero Peru

The school and the teacher give rise to different images and sets of meaning. Locating schools is a technique of government and teachers are supposed to act as mediators between state and society. But teachers are also local intellectuals and have actively engaged in discourses of dissent and challenges to the state. This article explores the changing identity, situation and representation of provincial schoolteachers in post-conflict Andean Peru. It draws on material from Tarma province to debate the extent to which the former racist “social order”, upheld by school and teacher, has been destabilised and superseded.

Representing the state? School and teacher in post‐Sendero Peru⋆

AbstractThe school and the teacher give rise to different images and sets of meaning. Locating schools is a technique of government and teachers are supposed to act as mediators between state and society. But teachers are also local intellectuals and have actively engaged in discourses of dissent and challenges to the state. This article explores the changing identity, situation and representation of provincial schoolteachers in post‐conflict Andean Peru. It draws on material from Tarma province to debate the extent to which the former racist “social order”, upheld by school and teacher, has been destabilised and superseded.

Discourse of Resistance: The Parody of Feminine Beauty in Berni, Doni and Firenzuola

During the Renaissance Neoplatonic philosophical doctrine contributed to the affirmation of the concepts of love and beauty. Love was perceived as the effect of beauty on the beholder, and physical beauty the outward manifestation of inner beauty, was rehabilitated and prized as the external visible sign of spiritual perfection and goodness.1 For women, therefore, beauty was the necessary compound of moral virtue. Beautiful women achieved a special status as recipients of Platonic love and were extolled as objects of perfection. In particular, a woman's physical appearance was expected to conform to stylized and conventional images, a cultural construct derived from literary and pictorial representations far removed from the actual appearance of real women of the time.2 In literature, perfect feminine beauty is codified through the model proposed by courtly love poems in Petrarchan style, and by courtesy books and tracts. Around the second half of the sixteenth century, we notice the emergence of a critical discourse which, through the practice of parody, urges a reexamination of the representational models of feminine beauty in literature. Francesco Berni, Anton Francesco Doni and Agnolo Firenzuola, among others, composed paradoxical praises which transgressed the model of representing women's physical perfection as sanctioned by Petrarchan poetry and Neoplatonic treatises.3 In this paper I shall first outline the features of perfect physical beauty as they appeared in Petrarca and in his Renaissance imitators, and then I shall focus on texts by Francesco Berni, Anton Francesco Doni and Agnolo Firenzuola, which parodied the models of feminine perfection canonized in the Petrarchan tradition. By using parody and self-parody these authors carried out a discourse of dissent, which

The Speaking Subject in Russian Poetry and Poetics since 1917

IF FOR THE WESTERN WRITER a baffling abundance of rhetorical frames is discouraging, by contrast what has frustrated the Soviet writer is the difficulty of knocking chunks off a monumental single discourse. We now observe the crackup and dispersion. Soviet writing and literary scholarship begin to join the world. This essay is a narrative of turning points in the making of the postrevolutionary speaking subject. Those points are defined by describing the counterdiscourse that arose to qualify, extend, and contradict Socialist Realism. discourse of dissent was not one but many, but not so many that types and trends cannot be identified. If the narrative is plausible, the logic of an opposition between the speaking subject and discursive frames has been ruled out. Subject and discourse are not in contradiction, if we may define the speaking subject as being literature's propositions of subject in Soviet time, Soviet national tradition. Subject and discourse fit together, precisely because the concept of the speaking subject diversifies and multiplies the traditional human subject, displaces the untenable notion of the unified self without rendering the subject a hollow container for ideologies. In fact, counterdiscourse East and West is always in the process of expressing and resisting what it knows of the language of control. We gain explanatory power when we bring together, in a stereoscopic way, the concepts of speaking subject and of counterdiscourse. What we better explain is the historical momentum and the speech genre of literary resistance to social power. We need not call this resistance imagination, freedom, or self to be able to grant this resistance its own power. Marina Tsvetaeva: The poet takes up her speech from afar.' Far enough to represent other social selves, other rhetorics.

Contemporary Militarism and the Discourse of Dissent

Contemporary Militarism and the Discourse of Dissent