Ideological Orientation Research Articles

Sol y Luna: An Intellectual Publication of Argentine Catholic Nationalists in 1938—1943

The article is devoted to the history of Sol y Luna, an intellectual journal, which was published in Buenos Aires in the period from 1938 to 1943. The publication was an organ of Argentine Catholic nationalists, covering and analyzing issues of culture, philosophy and art, various aspects of intellectual and spiritual life in Argentina and Iberian America as a whole. The author of this article has studied the composition of the editorial and writing teams of the journal, as well as the peculiarities of its functioning, the structure and content of its issues. Much attention was paid to the clarification of the ideological orientation of Sol y Luna. It is shown that the ideology of the publication was based on the concept of “Hispanidad”, anti-modernism and the vision of a special, messianic role of the Francoist regime in the history of Spain and Latin America of the 20th century.

Формирование медиаобраза политической партии в региональном информационном пространстве (на примере Коми отделения КПРФ)

The purpose of the article is to identify ways to create an image of a regional political party using the example of network media and social media of the Komi Republic for the period from 2020 to 2023. The scientific novelty of the work consists in a comprehensive analysis of regional network resources that form the image of the Communist Party in the Komi Republic, which has not yet been the subject of scientific understanding. As a result, it was determined that, depending on the type, audience and ideological orientation of the network resource, the image of the Communist party chosen for analysis appears in the regional media field in three variants: positive — on the social media pages of the regional branch of the Communist Party itself; mixed — in telegram channels representing the civic journalism of the region; predominantly negative — in the official media of Komi Republic.

The Regionalization of Forms in Architecture – A Use, An Adaptation, A Change, A Repulsion

Architecture as a whole is a peculiar phenomenon. Territories with poly- or mono-ethnic populations have repeatedly been involved in major political conflicts and economic cataclysms over the centuries, alternating with periods of relatively uniform development. This naturally affected the pace of formation and transformation of the environment for life. The specificity of this process was determined by the factors of natural-climatic and engineering-geological conditions of a particular part of the territory having varying degrees of stability, the availability of local or delivered construction materials, the level of development of productive forces, the peculiarities of economic activity, the way of life and worldview of local residents who have different periods of residence in a given area, as well as administrative-territorial divisions of emerging and disintegrating state entities. The combination of these factors gave features of originality to the architecture of each region in different periods. It is the interaction of these factors that defines the concept of regionalism of architectural shaping. The value of accentuating or masking certain features of regionalism is perceived differently in different periods, depending on the dominant ideological orientations in this period. The comprehension and structuring of the process of regional shaping is of particular scientific interest. The adaptation of architectural order themes in the USA and Kazakhstan can serve as an illustration of the uniqueness of the process.

Dynamics of the attitude of Central Asian states towards Russia: analysis of public discourse

The article analyzes a number of aspects of the dynamics of the attitude of the Central Asian states towards Russia in the public discourse of the region from the 2010s to the present. Media materials from Central Asian countries, public speeches of government officials and opinion leaders were analyzed. The main objective of the study in examining public discourse was to understand the attitude of the current forces of certain countries towards the object - Russia, and to identify the general trends in the dynamics of this attitude. In addition to studying modern publications, for the sake of completeness of the study, the author draws attention to the historical background of modern events in the interpretation of political actors. It is concluded that different interpretations of historical facts are the basis of ideological preferences and political decisions. In modern conditions, these parameters are the most important in shaping the perception of a neighboring country, and their analysis is of considerable importance in the context of studying modern processes in the post-Soviet space.

Paraguay: the “cartismo” as a challenge to the political system stability

The April 30, 2023 Paraguay held the General elections, their result revealed a new configuration of political forces in the country. Following the electoral cycle results, the ruling Colorado party strengthened its positions, and the traditional opposition lost votes to populist politicians. However, the confident win of the Colorado party increases the level of intra-party confrontation. The sanctions imposed by the US against the former President O. Cartes reflected decrease of anti-corruption struggle intensity and the deterioration of state institutions functioning in the country. The President Santiago Peña’s tasks include the economic growth accelerating. Maintaining a foreign policy course conditioned by the ideological preferences of the previous era may face the increasing pressure from the agrarian lobby interested in developing relations with China.

Motivated inquiry: ideology shapes responses to the Christian Porter rape allegation

ABSTRACT Objective After learning of the rape allegation against the Attorney-General, Australians were divided in their support for an inquiry. We hypothesised that motivated reasoning on this issue would be associated with ideological preferences. We therefore examined whether perceptions of arguments about the inquiry could be explained by participants’ political orientation, preference for hierarchy (SDO), and motivation to justify the gender status quo (GSJ). Method Three months after the allegation was made public, we recruited a gender-balanced sample of 554 Australians to complete an online survey. Results Participants believed that an article arguing for an inquiry was stronger than an article arguing against an inquiry. However, this effect was weaker among those on the right of the political spectrum and those high on SDO. Political orientation was also associated with differing evaluations of the article’s authors: left-leaning participants found the pro-inquiry author more credible, but right-leaning participants did not. GSJ was not associated with differing evaluations of the articles or their authors. Conclusions These findings suggest that ideological preferences are associated with motivated reasoning when evaluating partisan allegations of sexual misconduct. Evaluations of such allegations appear to vary according to people’s political attitudes and preferences for social equality or hierarchy. KEY POINTS What is already known about this topic: (1) In early 2021, Australians were deeply divided in their support for an inquiry into the rape allegation against Christian Porter. (2) Individuals tend to respond to political sexual misconduct allegations with a partisan bias. (3) Gender system justification (GSJ) and social dominance orientation (SDO) are associated with the denial of injustice towards women, and the maintenance of social hierarchies, respectively. What this topic adds: (1) Ideological preferences can help to explain how people evaluate arguments about the inquiry. (2) Participants on the political left and those low on SDO evaluated a pro-inquiry article as significantly stronger than the anti-inquiry article, but this effect was reduced amongst those on the right and those high on SDO. (3) These findings provide evidence that political orientation and SDO are associated with motivated reasoning when evaluating partisan allegations of sexual misconduct.

Methodological approaches to the study of the problem of applying pedagogical diagnostics of the moral and psychological state of personnel

This article proposes a pedagogical analysis of the application of methodological approaches in the study of the moral and psychological state of personnel. The essence of pedagogical diagnostics of the moral and psychological state, as well as the ideological and value orientations of the worldview are revealed. The potential of methodological approaches in relation to pedagogical diagnostics of the moral and psychological state of personnel is considered. Definitions of the concept and essence of the axiological, personal and competency-based approaches are given. The values that the citizens of Kazakhstan, including the military personnel of the Border Service of the National Security Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan must have, are disclosed in more detail. In the course of revealing the personal approach in the pedagogical process, attention is paid to the concept of personality, which requires the leader to know the individual characteristics and moral and business qualities of military personnel. In the course of studying the competency-based approach within the framework of the moral and psychological support of service and combat activities of the Border Service of Kazakhstan, competencies are revealed that characterize a person as a subject of vital activity. Focus of methodological approaches onto pedagogical diagnostics of the moral and psychological state of personnel is used.

Versions of «Mazepa» by P. Tchaikovsky through the prism of the value theory of culture

Statement of the problem. An important component of every nation’s existence is the cultivation of its own culture, based on an original system of values that defines the processes of creating/perceiving artefacts. In this regard, it is difficult to overestimate the influence of opera. At the same time, opera is an example of how even iconic musical works can lose their relevance, despite the outstanding aesthetic value of their musical component. Opera combines music and the particularly important lyrics, although the verbal component of an opera performance can change. A simple example of such a change is a translation into another language, which makes adjustments to the intonation and metrical organization of the text. The transformation of the lyrics of an opera performance can also be caused by other factors: an attempt to actualize a particular work, a desire to change It`s ideological guidelines. The purpose of this article is a comparative analysis of Tchaikovsky’s versions of “Mazepa” opera through the prism of value theory. Results and conclusion. Hetman Ivan Mazepa is one of the most popular and underrated Ukrainian figures. He had a controversial personality, which partly explains the negative connotations of the works dedicated to him. For instance, Alexander Pushkin portrayed Mazepa as a selfish and cruel villain, which shaped Tchaikovsky’s interpretation of his character in the opera. However, the composer was reproached for significant discrepancies between the opera libretto and historical facts. Despite these criticisms, Tchaikovsky’s opera Mazepa quickly became part of the world’s concert repertoire. This can be partly explained by the popularity of Tchaikovsky’s other works, and partly by the fact that it reflects the version of the history of Hetman’s Ukraine that prevailed in the Soviet Union. Let us try to comprehend how a work like this, whose ideological orientation is obviously at odds with the public perception of the historical facts in it, can be adapted to the prevailing value systems. The simplest thing to do is to translate the libretto into Ukrainian, as was done by the prominent Ukrainian poet Maksym Rylsky. A more difficult task is to change the political emphasis of the work and use the music of a famous composer to promote the ideas of a free Ukraine (libretto by D. Chutra and L. Tsegelsky). This version of the libretto remained unknown in Ukraine for a long time, but in 2017, the Kharkiv M. Lysenko State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre chose it as the basis for a new concept of the opera. The value orientations of Ukrainian society as a whole and the authors of the project led to the need of finding ways to update the work, which determined not only the use of another version of the libretto, but also a number of decisions regarding the design of the stage space. Retelling the story of the reinterpretation of Tchaikovsky’s opera Mazepa allows us to explore how changing value orientations affect art as a form of social life. From accepting a preconceived version of the history of one’s own people, trying to somehow combine two diametrically opposed worldviews, to endowing the author’s work with new meanings that reflect the current understanding of values.

МОВНА ОСОБИСТІCТЬ ІВАНА СВІТЛИЧНОГО КРІЗЬ ПРИЗМУ ЕПІСТОЛЯРІЮ: ПСИХОЛІНГВІСТИЧНІ АСПЕКТИ

The aim of the study. By means of the epistolary, namely through selected pages of correspondence with friends and colleagues in Ukraine and the Diaspora, to describe the fi gure of I. Svitlychny – poet, translator, subtle connoisseur of the word. Research methods. The article describes the descriptive, functional-stylistic method used, a comparative analysis of Ivan Svitlychny’s epistolary text and the memoirs of his associates. The peculiarity of such methods is to perceive the in-tegrity of the text (textual semantics) and to explain the coherence of the material (the meaning of the text), the task of which is to reveal the intrathecal features of the epistolary of a famous dissident. The study of extralinguistic intentions of the represented text of Ivan Svetlichny is involved in the method of discourse analysis, which sheds light on the external factors that infl uence the cognitive component of the verbal picture of the individual style of the writer. Ivan Svitlychny’s epis-tolary creativity concentrates important social, moral, ethical ideals of modernity, reveals depth of thinking, sharpness of worldview, ability to skillfully reveal the inner world of man. The artistic perfection of individual speech, the aesthetic taste are manifested in the choice of lexical means of expression The Dictionary of I. Svitlychnyk’s language contains a considerable amount of expressive vocabulary, which is used as a stylistic attribute of individual style. One of the decisive fac-tors infl uencing the functioning of special forms in epistolary text is the individual author’s style, the general concept and the ideological and aesthetic orientation of the writer’s work. The study of I. Svetlichny’s letters makes it possible to consider the whole use of lexical means as a single stylistic complex, formed not only by objectively defi ned properties of words, but also by their subjective authorial in terpretation, which is an essential aspect in the context analysis. So, analyzing the process of personality formation of I. Svitlychny, we can distinguish the following factors that determined the linguistic and psychological features of the writer and scientist’s linguistic creation: comprehensive erudition, high education, studying at the Kharkiv University, postgraduate studies of the Institute of Literature of NAS of Ukraine; communication with peasants, workers, repressed; long-term edito-rial activity; natural linguistic sense and intuition, individual-language practice in four styles (artistic, scientifi c, journalistic, epistolary); editing and refi ning the Dictionary of Synonyms of the Ukrainian Language; participation in the socio-political dissident current of the Sixties

Super Politicians? Perspectives of Minoritized Citizens on Representation

How do minoritized citizens think about the politicians that represent them? How should they act and be? Drawing on 19 focus group interviews with 98 participants with a migration background in Germany and the Netherlands, we find that citizens’ evaluation of politicians depends on several factors. Politicians should be responsive, accessible, inclusive, and empathetic. Some participants consider empathy an essential quality for non-descriptive politicians in particular, since they do not have a descriptive or experiential connection with ethnically minoritized communities. Whether participants evaluate descriptive political actors positively or negatively depends on their sociopolitical identification, ideological preference, and the representative’s perceived assimilation within the party. Finally, political systems and histories of diversity in representation influence what ethnically minoritized citizens consider to be a good representative. But, the super politicians of their dreams are scarce.

Polemic polyphony

Abstract Bakhtin famously argued that language-as-used is essentially dialogic. One pragmatic implication concerns how dialogicity is established in various contexts. In political discourse, polemic polyphony emerges from the juxtaposition of adversarial voices of political actors: a dialogue in which different voices index different ideological orientations. Polyphonic ensembles establish discoursal scenes and make them recognizable, enabling distinctions such as those between ‘us’ and ‘them’, and between heroes and villains. Overall, they assist speakers in the semiotic mediation of political relations. The corpus includes eighteen speeches delivered during a dissent event that takes place after the Sheikh Jarrah weekly anti-occupation demonstration in East Jerusalem. The speeches are given in Hebrew by a Palestinian neighborhood resident and activist, to a small audience of regular Jewish-Israeli protestors. Through studying noninstitutionalized political discourse, dialogicity and polemic polyphony are illuminated in an on-the-ground, context-rich, and marginalized setting.

Contextual responsiveness in U.S. local government climate policy

AbstractLocal governments have led the way on climate action in the United States. While the federal government has largely stood to the side, local governments have made great efforts to adopt policies aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. A large and robust literature in urban politics has explored the variables that influence local government action on climate change in the United States. Issue severity and resident ideological preferences have been identified as two of the most important factors in local climate action. Governments that are more likely to face major impacts from climate, such as coastal communities, and governments serving more liberal residents have both been found to pursue climate policy at higher rates. In this paper we suggest that these relationships are better understood as conditional. We argue that the effect of issue severity will be moderated by ideology. When residents are liberal, issue severity will matter. When residents are conservative, the impact will be muted. We find strong evidence for this hypothesis. Coastal governments and governments that have experienced drought adopt more climate policies, but this is conditional on the ideology of residents.

ASPECTS OF HISTORICAL ROMANIAN DRAMATURGY DURING THE COMMUNIST TOTALITARIAN REGIME

An insight that can greatly help us in our understanding of Romanian history during the era of the Communist totalitarian regime, is without a doubt provided by the historical dramaturgy of the period. During those years, a large number of historical plays were written and directed. It is for this very reason that historical theatre cannot be ignored by any historian interested in how the social representation of the past was constructed in the context of the four decades in which Romania was held in the grip of Communist ideology. There is an obvious parallel between the evolution of Romanian literature during the period in question (including dramaturgy) and Romanian historiography. In the latter field, changes that occurred during the 1960s and 1970s have been highlighted over the last two decades by Lucian Boia1. An analysis of literary criticism and writings reveals similar characteristics and developments in that field. Moreover, the literary genre of historical theatre can be closely linked to the rise of nationalism within the political discourse of the Communist regime, so it should not come as any surprise that the number of historical themes had been growing steadily since the mid-1960s. In a manner similar to other cultural policies of the time, the ideological twists and turns of Romanian Communism can be found in the evolution of historical theatre. Indeed, the closest comparison that can be made is with the historical cinematography of the time, which was better known and more popular than the dramaturgy of the era, through its themes, subjects and artistic approaches. However, while the historical movies of the era are still available today and indeed are frequently broadcast on Romanian TV, the historical plays of the time are available to the modern researcher only in specialized books in which they had been collected before 1989, in the volumes of literary criticism from the Communist period, or in the collective memory of witnesses. Nevertheless, a study of the impact of theatre under the conditions of communist totalitarianism is essential in order to be able to properly understand the effects of the regime’s propaganda, its evolution in terms of ideological orientation, and how it contributed to the crystallization of social representations of the past. This research study is merely a first step. The themes of the historical plays written and produced during the Communist regime are closely correlated with its historiographical writings. Ideas such as the antiquity of the Romanian nation, its persistency, the permanent nature of the defence of its statehood, and the aspiration toward unity are all now emerging. One theme highlighted during the 1970s is that of ‘heroism’, also present in the propaganda of the time. This theme channels us towards a better understanding of the role and attributes of the leader, thus becoming one of the main themes of Romanian historical dramaturgy within a very short time. While a long line of voivodes and heroes appeared on the stage, and via this medium through history, they became in fact the moving parts of a bigger mechanism that would ultimately become the personality cult of Nicolae Ceaușescu.

Sacred Sounds, Secular Spaces: Transforming Catholicism through the Music of Third-Republic Paris, by Jennifer Walker

<i>Sacred Sounds, Secular Spaces: Transforming Catholicism through the Music of Third-Republic Paris</i>, by Jennifer Walker

Who Consumes Political News through YouTube?: An Application of the OMA Framework to YouTube Use in South Korea

This study analyzes how individual motivations including political interest and media trust and cognitive abilities affect news consumption through YouTube in a high choice media environment of South Korea. In the empirical analysis, we use a nationally representative dataset differentiating respondents in tree types of users concerning YouTube - namely, non-users, non-news consumers, and news consumers. Applying a binary response model with sample selection, we resolve a potential selectin bias and prove that political interest is the strongest motivation leading individuals to consume news through YouTube. In addition, the positive impact of political interest is shown to increases as individuals trust less traditional news media. However, we do not find any evidence that news consumption through YouTube is biased toward a specific party or ideological orientation.

Bohdana Filts’s vocal chamber works of the late-life period: artistic design and performance implementation

The article considers the features of artistic and imaginative thinking of Bohdana Filts (1932-2021) in the vocal chamber work of late-life creativity. The author highlights the performing features of the solos chosen for analysis based on poetic texts by L. Ukrainka, I. Franko, L. Kostenko, and H. Kanych. An attentive and careful attitude to the requirements of performing practice, skilful use of all the possibilities of the voice, and its timbre-expressive palette are prominent in Filts’s solos. The composer masterfully creates the piano accompaniment’s part, which always plays an essential figurative and semantic role. In the analyzed works of the late-life period, there is a direct connection with the vocal chamber compositions of earlier stages of the artist’s work through the ideological and aesthetic orientation of the idea, features of intonation thinking of the composer, her harmonic language, and unique style of vocal writing with characteristic genre preferences.

Myths About Women in the Political Executive—How Gender Stereotypes Shape the Way MPs Assess the Competences of Ministers

This article sheds light on the obstacles that women face as members of the government by answering the questions: How does the sex of ministers shape the way MPs’ assess the quality of their work? And, how does this relationship differ depending on the political ideology of MPs? We argue that legislators assess the competencies of women ministers differently after the activation of gender stereotypes, but that the way they react depends on the ideological orientation of their party. We investigate this topic in a real-word context using a unique survey experiment with German and Austrian MPs. The evidence reveals that, while MPs belonging to right-wing parties perceive women in the executive as less competent than men ministers, their colleagues from left-wing parties actually assess them more favorably. These findings highlight the persistence of old myths about women’s lacking political skills and the emergence of new ones about women’s superior ability to govern.

Export Paintings as Art and Agency

Export paintings that depict local images of one’s country with the purpose of being sold to foreign customers emerged in China and Korea in the late eighteenth and late nineteenth centuries, respectively, when the countries opened their ports to Europe and America. Given this historical context, the conventional understanding of export paintings of the two countries has been twofold at large: 1) commodities that reflect Euro-American customers’ tastes for exotic imageries and 2) ethnographic resources that exhibit unique characteristics of each country’s culture. While these interpretations have a valid ground, they often undermine the artistic qualities of the painting genre, separating it from the existing painting traditions. To broaden this perspective, my paper aims to suggest plural ways of discerning export paintings through cross-cultural comparisons. In doing so, this study highlights the integral roles of export painters in responding to changing social, political, and economic circumstances, posing a critical question for investigation: whether export paintings are images of self-objectification with the instillation of Orientalist ideologies or creative outcomes with an artistic agency. While these two stances are not mutually exclusive nor contradictory to each other, this core question allows one to challenge the linear understanding of the history of “non-western” art.

Multilingualism and Language Contact in Maithili: Trends, Traits and Impact in Sociolinguistic Spaces

This paper presents various trends, traits and impact of language contact in Maithili language spoken in the Kathmandu valley. The data were gathered through survey and key informant interviews with Maithili speakers and focused-language contact observations in the communities in various parts of the Kathmandu valley. Drawing on such data, this paper reports the expanding instances of language contact among the speakers of Maithili. It also illustrates causes and impacts of language contact in the rapidly emerging multilingual sociolinguistic spaces, especially in the Kathmandu valley. The findings showed that the Maithili native speakers living in Kathmandu had higher instances of language contact with Nepali and English, especially in the formal situations. Such practices were influenced and shaped by their ideological orientations towards globalization and willingness to attend to the emerging diverse contexts caused by the growing migration.

우보 민태원 논설 연구

This study aimed to find, organize, and analyze the newspaper article columns of Woobo Min Tae-won. Min Tae-won is famous for his essay “cheongchun-yechan”, but his academic research has not progressed. As a professional journalist and writer, he composed noteworthy works in various fields and this study focused on Min Tae-won’s newspaper article columns. They are a valuable source of information that provide insights about his ideological orientation. All of Min Taewon’s columns were identified and cataloged in this study. Including the newly discovered materials. In this article, his columns are arranged by order of presentation. Significant issues and development patterns were outlined by period, and the characteristics and contents of the columns were classified and analyzed. The results of the analysis are summarized as follows. Min Tae-won exhibited characteristics of a journalist pursuing real interests through his columns. He appeared to consciously aim for a pragmatic line that thoroughly reduced the problematic reality of colonial Joseon to modern individual problems and promoted intelligence and character with expertise. His columns are consistent with a pragmatism closely related to the life of the masses rather than an ideology, in a way that calls out the reading public of Joseon rather than the nation. This is interpreted as choosing to serve within the system at the border of censorship and control. Min Tae-won clearly recognized his limitations, demanded professional expertise throughout his literary activities, and emphasized the modern life of an individual faithful to it. This study cataloged Ubo's column data, arranged translations into modern languages, and collected and analyzed undiscovered data. It will be meaningful as it provides basic data for academic research through a bibliographic approach and empirical analysis of Min Tae-won’s column. Moreover, as a figure who pioneered the press in the early days of modernity, he innovated newspaper editing, and simultaneously provided a meaningful foundation for three-dimensional reconstruction of his activities and achievements, greatly influencing form and editing of later newspapers, such as renewing space and using modern language. It is also meaningful in that it will be a useful foundation for a three-dimensional understanding of his activities and achievements, which greatly influenced the form and editing of later newspapers as a pioneer who shaped the media in the early modern period.