Ideological Power Research Articles

Identifying Political Global Ideology in Prime Minster of Pakistan Imran Khan’s Speech at United Nations General Assembly

Language, power and ideology are prominent hallmarks of political discourse those interact to code and decode ideologies on global and national level. His speech in UNGA reflects the diplomatic political ideas to tackle the sensitive sentimental and historical issue between nuclear powers in a strategic rational mode. This investigation attempts to explore the real political global philosophy, the actional vs. relational elements in the speech and its role in the construction of Pakistan’s image around the globe. This is significant as it reveals the role of language in the construction of world views. It also reflects the hyperbolic, sentimental and active element in it by western print media. Hodge and Kress (1996) Syntagmatic Model has been used as a theoretical framework. Qualitative method is used to identify the syntagmatic hallmarks and ideology in the political discourse. Data has been collected through purposive sampling technique. The findings of this study shows that Mr. Khan performs the actional transactive role as a dynamic responsible political leader and casts positive impact on cognition of UN and confronting power. He propagates the global political ideology which is anti-war and co-operation for the creation of peace. Similarly, he highlights the power ideology through the use of language as both countries are nuclear powers and use of power in reaction to the over use of authority in Kashmir by Indian government will lead to the dead end. Consequently, he uses deep, sentimental, rational and actional words as represented by WPM to influence the cognition, perception and consciousness of the other leader and nations. So that he can lead the historical challenging Kashmir issue on the way to solution and constructs the positive image of Pakistan. Briefly, this research will help the future researchers to investigate the interpersonal meta-functions and critical stylistic analysis of this political discourse.

Bonds of time and space: Divination and the psychiatric encounter.

This essay examines the intersections between divination and psychiatry in the context of modern Chinese history. Throughout the 20th century, subsequent political regimes attempted to drive an ontological wedge between psychiatry, which was deemed scientific, and divination, which was deemed superstitious. While the dichotomy between science and superstition remains a powerful ideology today, it belies the use of divination as a psychotherapeutic tool. Occult practices such as fortune telling and shamanism complement the application of technical psychiatric skills by serving a crucial moral and interpersonal function, one that has important implications for the practice of mental healthcare both within and beyond Asia.

From ‘the people’ to the crowd: The push for independence in Catalonia

This article examines the sociological value of Elias Canetti’s work on crowds and power. It explores crowd action and imagery in the push for Catalan independence through the analysis of materials published on Twitter by Tsunami Democràtic, which emerged to coordinate the response to the sentencing of Catalan political leaders after the unilateral declaration of independence. It then goes on to discuss how a crowd-based approach offers a supplementary perspective to contemporary studies of populism, on the one hand, and to accounts that primarily focus on the role of social media in organizing political protest movements, on the other. An analysis of crowds not only avoids both methodological holism and methodological individualism. It also helps to understand why so many people were mobilized beyond the power of concepts, ideologies and discourse.

Kaupapa Māori Assessment: Reclaiming, Reframing and Realising Māori Ways of Knowing and Being Within Early Childhood Education Assessment Theory and Practice

The history of schooling for Māori has been one of cultural dislocation, deprivation and subjugation. Māori children were viewed as outside the norms of development suffering from “intellectual retardation” which was attributed to disabilities related to acculturation. Traditional western assessment served to further these Eurocentric power ideologies that marginalise non-European peoples and cultures, such as Māori, as backward, inferior and deviant. Kaupapa (philosophical) Māori assessment can be viewed as an assessment approach that is derived from the Māori world, from a Māori epistemological perspective that assumes the normalcy of Māori values, understandings and behaviours. The validity and legitimacy of Māori language, cultural capital, values and knowledge are a given. Kaupapa Māori assessment works to challenge, critique and transform dominant educational perceptions of the Māori child, the nature of learning, pedagogy, and culturally valued learning. This article explores ways that kaupapa Māori assessment builds upon Māori philosophical and epistemological understandings to express Māori understandings of knowledge, knowers and knowings, in order to reclaim, reframe and realise Māori ways of knowing and being within early childhood and assessment theory and practice.

ANALISIS WACANA KRITIS MODEL TEUN A. VAN DIJK TERHADAP LIRIK LAGU ANAK KARYA AT MAHMUD

This article aims to analyze the lyrics of children's song composed by AT. Mahmud to find out the relationship between the text and factors beyond the text. A critical discourse analysis (CDA) approach from Teun A. Van Dijk model is use as the tool of analysis. The results showed that in the macro structure as the analysis text, the song lyrics have the theme of the environment and the harmony of life. Superstructure, the arrangement of verse by stanza of interrelated lyrics. Microstructure contains detailed elements such as lexicon and metaphor, while social cognition discusses the poet's personal situation regarding his assessment of the environment and the harmony of daily life to support development of the country. Finally, social analysis refers to the practice of ideological power built by the New Order, which tends to be agrarian and worships harmony and stability in life.

Towns, Plots, Crafts and Fertility - Traces of a Power Ideology

Change is always related to past experience. In this article it is argued that the spatial organization of the earliest towns in Scandinavia, in spite of their novelty, reflected old concepts and beliefs. The hypothesis is that the placing of buildings, the parcelling out of plots etc. in a Viking Age town such as Birka, referred to still vital concepts of fertility, creativity and wealth —and the power over these things. One aspect of the argument is that there existed a metaphorical relationship between the fertile field in the countryside and the productive town plot, where skilful smiths created valuable things.

“But Could You Persuade Us, If We Won't Listen?”

“But Could You Persuade Us, If We Won't Listen?”

Prospective for Yemen’s violent contradictions

AbstractThis article aims to provide an analysis of the military capacity, ideological power, war strategies, and class interests of the different parties in the current Yemeni war. On one level, this article aims to unveil the strengths of the different players in Yemen as well as their interactions in order to show the current balance of power that appears to be in favor of the Houthis. On another level, it aims to show that even though the Houthis are “winning” or might have even “won” the war already, the overall class tensions are creating structural misery in Yemen (through bombings, state failure, widespread famine, and more). The severity and deep political meaning of these class tensions overdetermined by imperialism reveal a gloomy prospect for Yemen. Indeed, because of the nature of the overlapping contradictions, the Houthis will stay dominant nationally, but the war will go on under different forms.

Alexander the Great in the Roman Empire, 150 BC to AD 600

Alexander the Great in the Roman Empire, 150 BC to AD 600

Immigration Challenges the Meritocratic Ideology: Between Criminalization and Justice

My own life story is bound up with African class struggles against social imagination, reproduction of whiteness and colonial ideologies of power. Based upon his experience, the paper will argue that criminalization is not just restricted to the border context but occurs even after migrants cross the border. Therefore, this article will pay close attention to the disruptive articulation between the rule of law and the meritocracy system’s rhetoric of merit, challenging both the assumption that race is an equal starting point for all runners and the ideal of socioeconomic equality between races. As Manning Marabel (2000) stresses, when we talk about race, we do not mean a biological or genetic category, but rather, a way of interpreting differences between people which creates or reinforces inequalities among them. Racism means that we are not in a meritocratic race since some runners are disadvantaged.

The visual and rhetorical styles of Atomwaffen Division and their implications

ABSTRACT Atomwaffen Division (AWD) was an American neo-nazi extremist organization active between 2015 and 2020. Even after its disbanding, AWD’s influence can be felt in the symbols and media produced by other organizations in the white power space. This paper contributes to the ongoing study of violent extremism and media by categorizing, defining, and analysing AWD’s official video releases and visual/audio style. First, we explore the history and significance of AWD’s video media output, noting how AWD took advantage of existing internet aesthetics to connect their messaging to its target audience. Then, we analyse AWD’s official video releases, showing how they express white power ideology in ways which have continued to be influential after the group’s dissolution, along with ongoing implications.

Heterarchical political ecology: Commoner and elite (meta)physical access to water at the ancient Maya city of Aventura, Belize

Humans engage both material and immaterial qualities of the environment to achieve political ends. Water is necessary for biophysical existence, but also holds symbolic and ideological power. Physically controlling access to water sources and communing with deities to control rainfall are both ways ancient Maya rulers exerted power over commoner populations. In some Classic Period (250–900 CE) city-centers governed by divine rulership, hierarchical control of water during episodes of drought led commoners to “vote with their feet” and abandon these cities. While many larger cities in the Maya area were undergoing vast sociopolitical reorganization and large-scale depopulation towards the end of the Classic Period, the medium-sized city of Aventura was thriving. In contrast to the hierarchical control of water seen at these other cities, in this article I demonstrate that commoners and elite alike at Aventura were able to access important water resources, and the city flourished. I argue that heterarchy is an appropriate model for the political ecology of Aventura because although there was inequality, people of all socioeconomic statuses had access to water, even in times of scarcity. Access to water resources cut across hierarchical lines, contributing to Aventura’s success at the end of the Classic Period.

Social indexology, neoliberalism and racialised metrics: legitimising the ‘inferiority’ of Global South countries

The article critically examines how the neoliberal ethos has influenced the racialised ranking of countries using indexes, or what I propose to call social indexology (SI). SI refers to the use of quantitative metrics to measure the performance of countries based on selected indicators, often drawn from a pool of Western and neoliberal variables associated with governance, corruption, development and other value-loaded concepts. The article critically examines the methodological, ideological and cultural shortcomings of SI and how it reinforces existing racial stereotypes about the presumed natural differences between ‘advanced’ European societies and ‘backward’ Global South countries. These racialised imageries have continued since the time of Enlightenment, colonialism and slavery and persist even under global neoliberal hegemony today. The use of SI metrics for the purpose of quantified measurement and ranking gives it the appearance of being ‘scientific’ and as such has the implicit ideological power of making the racialised inequality of peoples and countries much more acceptable and natural.

Yeni Medya ve İdeoloji: Netflix Yapımı Dizilere Althusser’ci Bir Yaklaşım

The concept of ideology, which is generally defined over negative meanings such as 'biased/false consciousness' and 'distorted communication', is directly associated with the power domain. Ruling owners actively use the media to reproduce their own ideology. In other words, if the power cannot represent itself in ideological fields, it cannot guarantee its existence. The media is considered one of the important devices spreading the ideology of power through society. For this reason, those who own the means of production reproduce their ideologies through the media. In the rapidly digitalizing world, the power strives to have a presence in the new media environment as in the traditional media. New media, which has an interaction-based, user-oriented structure, increases its influence every day all over the world in line with the rapid development and dissemination of technology and draws attention with its feature of being an area where individual and social participation is concentrated. The aim of this study which focuses on the relationship between power, ideology and media is to unearth the implicit meaning of Netflix's original content, the global digital streaming platform, which is an ISA from Althusser's point of view. In this context, the concept of ideology and Althusser's theses on ideology were emphasized in this study, and the structure and strategy of Netflix were presented. In line with the purpose of the study, the original Netflix production 'Designated Survivor' and 'Messiah' series, which have a high IMDB score, have a close theme, present an ideological plot, and are the subject of controversy in the media in this respect, were selected. The first episodes of the series at hand were examined by the method of the critical discourse analysis method. In the study, it was observed that the ideology of America and current political issues were re-produced with the established discourses through Netflix, which is the global digital broadcasting platform. It has been determined that American values are glorified in both series examined in this context and that 'enemy' and 'terrorist' representations come forth through Islamophobic discourses.

The Construction of Geography by Nationalism: Homeland, Motherland, Fatherland

In this study, the relationship between space and geography in the composition of nationalism is examined. As a modern ideology, nationalism has been the most powerful ideology for the last two centuries that have shaped the world map, constructing identities and influencing people’s worlds of meaning. Understanding the content of nationalism, which is such a powerful ideology, is essential in understanding today’s events. Therefore, in the present study, the relationship between nationalism and geography is explained through the concept of space, which is one of the two components of identity phenomena. This statement, what is the effect of geography on the composition of nationalism? The answer to the question is made around. It is necessary to understand the conceptual and methodological frameworks of the study to answer this question. The literature review constitutes the methodological framework of the study. The literature on nationalism has been analyzed in this manner. The conceptual framework, on the other hand, constitutes nationalism, nationalism-nation, and nationalism-geography relations. French, German and Turkish nationalisms explain the concepts of homeland, motherland, and fatherland. Consequently, it can be said that in addition to the role of geography in understanding nationalism, it also determines the forms of nationalism concerning the concepts of homeland, motherland, and fatherland.

The Role Of Zoroastrianism In The Formation Of The First Statehood

In this article, the religion of Zoroastrianism was formed in a certain period of time on the basis of certain procedures. The emergence of religion, its formation on the basis of a special system, will be necessary to gain the trust of the people in society and to strengthen the ideological and political power. According to Democritus and Epicurus, there will be no gods and goddesses in society. Man irrigates his mind with spiritual help only in order to overcome the obstacles that appear in front of him. Faith is central to religion. Without faith, there is no question of religion or its form.

Euphoric defiance: The role of positive emotions in the British Eurosceptic discourse

Ever since Britain voted to leave the European Union, emotions have dominated the public debate. How negative emotions, such as anger, have impacted the Brexit vote, has been widely researched. Less attention has been focused on the role positive emotions played in debating Britain’s relationship to the EU. Using critical discourse analysis and drawing on appraisal theory to investigate the representation of emotions in six sample texts from a corpus of so-called ‘Euromyths’ ( N = 334), this study argues that positive emotions were used to create a myth in Roland Barthes’ sense to naturalise a Eurosceptic ideology of British defiance and power.

Neoliberal discourse, actor power, and the politics of nutrition policy: A qualitative analysis of informal challenges to nutrition labelling regulations at the World Trade Organization, 2007-2019.

Unhealthy diets are increasing contributors to poor health and mortality in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Government interventions targeting the structural drivers of unhealthy diets are needed to prevent these illnesses, including nutrition labelling regulations that create healthier food environments. Yet, implementation remains slow and uneven. One explanation for slow implementation highlights the role of politics, including powerful ideological discourse and its strategic deployment by economically powerful actors. In this article, we advance research on the politics of nutrition policies by analysing political discourse on nutrition labelling regulations within an influential and under-studied global institution: the World Trade Organization (WTO). We identified WTO Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) Committee meeting minutes with reference to nutrition labelling policies proposed by Thailand, Chile, Indonesia, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Uruguay (2007-2019; n=47). We analysed the frames, narratives, and normative claims that feature in inter-country discourse within TBT meetings and examined how actors mobilize ideological and material sources of power via these statements. We find that informal government challenges to nutrition labelling proposals within the Committee featured a narrative that individualized the causes of and solutions to poor diet, downplayed harms from industrialised food products, and framed state regulation as harmful and unjust. These non-technical claims mobilised neoliberal ideology and rhetoric to contest the normative legitimacy of members' proposals and to de-socialize and de-politicize poor diets. Furthermore, high-income countries (HICs) re-framed policy goals to focus on individual determinants of poor nutrition whilst calling for their preferred policies to be adopted. Patterns of discourse within TBT meetings also had striking similarities with arguments raised by multi-national food corporations elsewhere. Our findings suggest that non-technical and ideological arguments raised during TBT meetings serve as inconspicuous tools through which nutrition labelling policies in LMICs are undermined by HICs, industry, and the powerful ideology of neoliberalism.

Explaining Homegrown Western Jihadists: The Importance of Western Foreign Policy

In both the United States and Europe, explanations of homegrown radicalization emphasize the power of Salafi-jihadist ideology and Muslim experiences of discrimination and socioeconomic deprivation in Western countries. Polls of U.S. and European Muslims, and case histories of jihadist plots for attacks in the United States, indicate that another source of homegrown radicalization is Western foreign policy, especially Western interventions in predominantly Muslim countries. Poll results support a two-factor model in which seeing the war on terrorism as a war on Islam is predicted by both perceived discrimination and grievance related to Western foreign policy. Consistent with this model, UK practitioners in counter-radicalization programs find it useful to recognize Muslim grievances related to Western foreign policy in order to argue that violence does not reduce Muslim suffering. These observations indicate that Muslim grievances relating to Western foreign policy are important for under - standing and countering support for jihadist violence in Western countries.

Fair’s fair: psychological contracts and power in platform work

Platform work can be understood as a particularly acute instance of the individualization of economic risk. Responding to the broader trends of labour commodification and decline of the standard employment relationship, psychological contract theory emerged as a way to conceptualize fairness in individualized work arrangements. In this paper, we draw out the critical potential of psychological contract theory by mobilizing Lukes’ theory of power. We apply this lens to 12 semi-structured interviews with platform-mediated food delivery couriers, supplemented by both online and offline participant observation, to identify ways in which platform firms use decision-making, nondecision-making and ideological power to encourage the acceptance of platform work as fair: through the unilateral modification of exchange terms, through the nondecisions of communication and technology design, and through the ideological power of neoliberalism and tribalism. In so doing, we also identify coping strategies deployed by couriers in response to violations by platform firms of perceived exchange terms, variously resistant to and reinforcing of these forms of platform power. In this way, we uncover mechanisms by which firms present risk individualization as a fair exchange of worker security for worker autonomy, as well as more and less effective ways workers can resist this framing.