Political Manifestations Research Articles

Masterminded Choreographies

Austrian political culture is rooted in counter-reformation, in a specific Catholic-baroque theatricality. With its marches, parades, pageants, Dionysian art and populist politics, a very distinctive form of showmanship or staging already characterised the last decades of the Habsburg Monarchy. After 1918, the new republic picked up this thread—with less of the ‘Dionysian’ at the fore than the more sublime and solemn. From the mid-1920s onwards, all political camps focused on involving masses in their political manifestations, thus the structured amorphous crowds involved participants marching in rank and file and in military attire and unified mass bodies engaged in choreographed movement, forming images (and messages). However, the authors and organisers of such events often seemed to be more impressed by these performances than the audience or even the participants themselves. Although the ‘mass’ in contemporary phrasing was a ‘feeling’, an ‘experience’, or an ‘emotion’, it still had to be controlled: stadiums and arenas became architectural means of social control, accompanied by a plethora of security and policing measures. But with the advent of new media, the crowd organised itself differently and anew. As a result, both the social democratic, pan-German and Christian-conservative mass festivals in the late 1920s and early 1930s and the staged Austrofascist ‘Tributes to the Youth’ after 1934 quickly lost their appeal, while their audiovisual reproduction in radio or newsreels had no effect either. Even enormous logistical efforts and bureaucratic pressure could not prevent the mass stagings from becoming outdated.

Региональные аспекты политической коррупции: методы и технологии

The purpose of the article is to analyze modern methods and techniques for implementing political corruption. To achieve this goal, the authors rely on a neo-institutional methodological approach. The negative consequences of corruption are observed in various spheres of public life. Corruption is especially destructive for political and socio-economic systems. When analyzing the political manifestations of corruption, it is necessary to take into account the economic and geopolitical situation. Thus, in conditions of partial international isolation of Russia, external threats to economic security are significantly increasing, the volume of shadow entrepreneurship is increasing, which can negatively affect the economic security of the region, the country and national security in general. This article examines the possibility of the presence of objective needs of subjects of management decisions in the processes of institutionalization of corruption relationships. Problems of integration of political corruption into the managerial and political-legal subsystems are addressed, which, according to the authors, leads to multiple functional distortions in the system of state institutions in the interests of latent structures. The authors note that real achievements in the fight against corruption become possible only through the interaction of civil society with the bodies and institutions of state power, the actualization of the values of civil activism in the sociopolitical participation of citizens.

Analysis Politeness And Impoliteness Youtube Chanel"Prabowo Subianto Bicara Gagasan Mata Najwa

Politeness and impoliteness are integral aspects of pragmatics, deeply embedded in the fabric of social interaction. This study aims to analyze the manifestations of politeness and impoliteness in the live verbal interactions featured on the YouTube channel "Mata Najwa." Specifically, the focus is on the episode titled "Prabowo Subianto Bicara Gagasan Mata Najwa." By examining the discourse in this episode, the study seeks to elucidate how conversational strategies either adhere to or deviate from societal norms of politeness. Such an analysis is pivotal for understanding the dynamics of communication and the implicit power relations within social interactions. The findings can provide valuable insights into the mechanisms of face-saving and face-threatening acts, contributing to the broader field of pragmatics and its application to real-life media interactions. This investigation underscores the relevance of politeness theory in contemporary digital communication platforms.

Tapping on Collective National Trauma

Tapping on Collective National Trauma

Which is the larger issue in Indonesia: waste exports or imports? Interests in politics, economics, or the environment?

The current situation in the worldwide society is paradoxical, as it is characterized by a scarcity in addressing the demand for food. Hence, the garbage predicament in Indonesia remains an environmental concern that necessitates resolution, in conjunction with the challenge of importing waste from industrialized nations to Indonesia. This practice came into existence. Habits of Indonesian individuals who continue to dispose of garbage negligently. This practice of mishandling waste will lead to the emergence of other issues. The issue of waste importation is further compounded by the unreliability of Indonesian waste sorting as a supply source. As one of the developing nations in Southeast Asia that receives waste imports, Indonesia experiences substantial consequences due to this phenomenon. Hence, this paper seeks to examine the issue of trash imports in Indonesia from a political-ecological standpoint, encompassing the social and economic dimensions and the environmental consequences. Furthermore, the article above, which examined the issue of trash imports in Indonesia, has also been conducted. Further investigation is required to explore political ecology, social and economic dimensions, and environmental ramifications. In addition, this article provides an overview of the relevant legislative requirements for the trash importation process in Indonesia. This paper employed the literature review approach to gather research material about waste imports and policies in Indonesia during the past five years. The research information was sourced from multiple studies utilizing the SLR 7P technique. The study findings indicate that trash imports in Indonesia can be understood as a manifestation of ecological politics, wherein the environmental issues are significantly shaped by political factors (namely ego-sectoral features) and economic components within them. The primary objective of the environmental interests outlined in the Basel Convention, which was subsequently translated into laws and regulations in Indonesia, has yet to safeguard environmental and human well-being from the adverse effects of imported trash. In addition, it is essential to comprehensively evaluate Indonesia's trash import policy to clarify its requirements. Furthermore, the issue of enforcing laws effectively in cases of infractions will also be addressed.

The Contested Symbolism of the "Cursed Soldiers": Hegemony, Memory and the Politics of Fear in Poland

Abstract: This article has two related goals: theoretical and empirical. First, it develops the theory of hegemony by integrating it with the concept of the collective emotional field in the context of nationalist memory politics. It then draws on the concept of hegemony to analyze the commemoration of the postwar anticommunist underground in Poland after 1989 and its grassroots reception. The article shows how memory politics work not only on the symbolic but also on the emotional level as a manifestation of a nationalist exclusionary affective politics of citizenship that creates a collective emotional field of pride but also of fear and threat.

Unravelling the constitutional settlement: devolution, democracy and patronage in eastern Sri Lanka

ABSTRACT Like other conflict-torn societies, Sri Lankans have long sought to build peace through constitutional re-design with devolution of power and minority protections. However, the preoccupation with legal norms and institutions runs counter to the widely-held conviction that politicians routinely transgress norms and twist institutions. It is thus imperative to study the lived political realities of power-sharing arrangements, rather than their intended design. The 1987 Thirteenth Amendment devolved state power to the provinces to assuage Tamil separatism. The limited academic work that exists on the Provincial Council system outlines its shortcomings and failures, but there is little scholarship of the councils as a political arena in their own right. This article discusses the politics around the Eastern Provincial Council, especially the brief but unique period between 2015 and 2017 when it was run by Tamil and Muslim parties. More specifically, the empirical material pivots on three Sinhala, Tamil and Muslim Ministers in the Eastern Province and two lower-ranking Muslim politicians. The Provincial Council has very different meaning, legitimacy and utility to these diverse political figures. I argue that we must consider these diverse ethno-nationalist manifestations of provincial politics to understand what the Provincial Council system entails in Sri Lanka.

Arendt’s conception of love and anti-fascist education

Recent scholarship on anti-fascist education has stressed the role of everyday manifestations of power and oppression as the locus of molecular or microfascism, a term coined by Deleuze and Guattari. While identifying the ways in which power structures operate at the quotidian level is undoubtedly an important educational task, this paper argues that an anti-fascist educational approach must also account for the ways in which such structures are connected to concrete political manifestations of fascism. To this end, it explores the potential contributions and challenges of an Arendtian conception of love in the context of anti-fascist education. Drawing on Arendt’s polemical interactions about love with Israeli scholar Gershom Scholem, this paper suggests that Arendt’s conception of love as belonging outside the realm of the political, and her rejection of a love for the nation and for collectivities in general, can serve as important pedagogical tools in uncovering and critiquing specific affective appeals characteristic of fascist and neo-fascist rhetoric. While in Arendt’s own work love is not explicitly associated with an analysis of fascism, her thinking about love brings us back to questions about the very meaning of politics, questions that are foundational to any meaningful attempt to establish an anti-fascist pedagogy.[AQ]

Mediação Cultural à Contrapelo: la acción de la Comunidad Cultural Quilombaque en el ámbito del Patrimonio Cultural

The article presents an interpretation of the actions for valorisation of cultural heritage mobilized by the political‐cultural collective Comunidade Cultural Quilombaque. Active in the neighborhood of Perus, in the northwestern area of the Municipality of São Paulo, since 2005, Quilombaque shows itself to be a pole of agglutination of various artistic and political manifestations and of other groups in the territory. In the field of Cultural Heritage, through the consolidation of the Territorial Museum Tekoa Jopo’i and the Queixadas Agency, they have developed a trail of trails that go through the heritage of the people of the neighborhood. In relation specifically to their work in the field of Memory, it is posited that the Museum and the territory are confused, as they transform the territory itself into a museum, while the Agency’s tourism is carried out under the sign of resistance. The symbolic mediation promoted by the Museum’s educators brings out narratives of struggle eclipsed by official cultural heritage policies.

Manifestations and Strategies to Deal with Politics Science Adulteration in Community Engagement Healthcare Research

Community and Public Engagement (CPE) is increasingly acknowledged as an appropriate approach in healthcare and other policy related research. However, it is also becoming clear that community engagement necessarily involves and is significantly affected by politics. This paper illuminates the manifestations of politics in community engagement research drawing examples from a community-level study that was carried out in Kasulu, a rural district in Tanzania. Specifically, the paper starts by providing some conceptual highlights on community engagement and politics, then it proceeds to show the different forms and shapes that politics can take in community-level research. Further, it argues that community engagement is by its nature a defacto victim of politics. Finally, it suggests workable strategies and tactics that could be considered by community engagement researchers to remedy scientific research from being adulterated by politics. Four strategies that were employed in our project namely creating cognitively aware communities, preparing and orienting stakeholders to engagement guidelines, the use of Community Advisory Committees, and ensuring diversity in all engagement platforms are described and exemplified. If effectively used, these measures can potentially improve the uptake and sustainability of the solutions that community-level healthcare engagement research partnerships tend to generate.

“We are a territory, a territory of struggles”: Community and Resistance Tourism in a Territorial Museum on the Outskirts of São Paulo

Summary The case presents an interpretation of the actions of valorization of cultural heritage mobilized by the political-cultural collective Comunidade Cultural Quilombaque. Active in the neighborhood of Perus, in the north-western part of the municipality of São Paulo, since 2005, Quilombaque shows itself to be a pole of agglutination of several artistic and political manifestations and other groups in the territory. From the consolidation of the Territorial Museum Tekoa Jopo’i and the Queixadas Agency, they have elaborated a path of trails that go through the neighborhood’s heritage that is marginalized by public preservation policies. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with central agents of the movement, in addition to participant observation on community tourism trails. The symbolic mediation promoted by the Museum educators brings out narratives of struggle eclipsed by the official policies of cultural heritage. The keys of solidarity and sharing operate by allowing a horizontal use of the riches organized by the Territorial Museum. The action of the Quilombaque Cultural Community transits in a fleeting limit between tourism and resistance, its tourism shows not only the resistance of the territory but is also organized with the community in such a way as to resist the tendencies of predatory tourism. On the one hand, the visits amplify voices silenced by hegemonic narratives. On the other hand, the very conception and organization of the trails are done in opposition to other models of tourism and predatory development. Information © The Authors 2023

Expressive illocutionary acts and politeness in managerial responses to online hotel reviews

This paper explores expressive illocutionary acts in responses to hotel guests' reviews posted on Tripadvisor and aims to compare their occurrences and realizations in 320 managerial responses in English from English and Serbian hotels, with manifestations of linguistic politeness a focus of analysis. Drawing largely on Leech's (2014) framework, it has attempted to determine whether the acts which tend to come in the form of formulaic, routinized expressions occurring in the responses written by hotel representatives with different backgrounds exhibit some differences as a reflection of culture-specific politeness values. The analysis has revealed considerable similarity between the two data sets in the lexico-grammatical realization of expressives and the use of resources for politeness. However, some noteworthy points of dissimilarity have emerged which correlate closely with the differences in cultural value preferences of the two countries in Hofstede et al.'s (2010) dimensions of power distance and of individualism.

A Frame Analysis of President Uhuru Kenyatta’s Madaraka, Mashujaa and Jamhuri Day Speeches

Almost every country in the world observes a national holiday in honour of an important event in the historical life of the nation. Notably, national holiday discourses reveal fundamental aspects of a nation and its attributes. Consequently, national holiday speeches by Presidents and other political leaders emerge as a valuable site for linguistic analysis. This paper, through the Voyant tool, a digital humanity text analysis method complemented by Fairhurst and Sarr’s framing techniques theory, presents a linguistic examination of three of President Uhuru Kenyatta’s speeches in the year 2020 during three Kenyan national holidays. These national holidays (Madaraka Day, Mashujaa Day, and Jamhuri Day) are significant in Kenyan history and provide an opportunity to reflect on the social attributes of Kenyans as a people. Further, they guide the young generation about the values and messages associated with these days. These three speeches were made in the year 2020, which was characterized by the coronavirus pandemic and the year when the President was coming close to the end of his final term and was, therefore, concerned about his legacy. These two aspects (pandemic and legacy) imbued the speeches with particular qualities. The paper postulates that Uhuru Kenyatta’s speeches are a manifestation of political, economic, and constitutive frames narrated in an episodic way. Further, the narration is a rich linguistic ground for understanding the government’s agenda. The President was found to utilize different framing strategies such as metaphors, comparison, spin, and slogans in his narration”

A systemic crisis: political consequences of the 1989 Tiananmen square events

The article attempts to revise the understanding of the nature of China’s 1989 Tiananmen Square crisis and its consequences in the context of comparison with Soviet/Russian history of 1980-1990s. Several dozens of studies and op-ed pieces focused on the problem earlier (especially in Russian-language literature) but these papers lacked Chinese sources, intended to liken the Tiananmen Square crisis to the Russian agenda, and simplified complicated cause-effects relations of the Chinese historical process. As a result, the conclusions are limited to the question of the necessity of a decisive crackdown on any turmoil or political manifestation as a sole tool to protect one nation’s stability and prosperity. China’s stability and prosperity after the Tiananmen Square Crisis should not be seen as a result of crackdowns. Paradoxically, despite the conservatives’ victory in 1989, China got back to the path of reforms several years after the Tiananmen Square events. It can be attributed to the complex set of internal and external factors, and the freezing of China’s political reforms was just one of them. Moreover, the process was facilitated not only by overcoming its political crisis but also by observing the revolutions of 1989 in Eastern Europe. Faced with the threat of being ousted from power, China’s elites consolidated – a factor that became crucial for the implementation of systemic market reforms in the 1990s. The author concludes that a similar situation was observed in post-Soviet Russia in 1998-2000: the Russian financial crisis and several events including Second Chechnya Campaign became the ‘backbone crisis’ of Vladimir Putin’s presidency.

Activist, relational, and embodied: rethinking sexual citizenship in neoliberal capitalism

ABSTRACT Considering the neoliberal commercialization of sexual politics, this article argues for a reconfiguration of sexual citizenship as activist, relational, and embodied. By doing so it aims to challenge the contemporary de-politicization, individualization, and hegemonic normalization of sexual citizenship. While the activist and relational dimension consider how the dominant manifestation of sexual politics may be disrupted, the notion of embodied sexual citizenship draws attention to the ways in which the ability of doing so is materially conditioned. This article proposes a framework through which sexual citizenship can be re-politicized as a collective and accountable project, moving beyond the need of self-production through consumption.

“The messiah waits for you!”: agency and Zionism in the German-Jewish reception of a Talmudic tale

ABSTRACT This article presents the unique reception of the Talmudic tale about the messiah at the gates of Rome (BT, Sanhedrin 98a) among German-Jewish intellectuals in the early twentieth century. Thereby, the article offers a new perspective on the relations between messianism, Zionism, and human agency in German-Jewish thought. In tractate Sanhedrin, Yehoshua ben Levi asks the messiah about the date of his arrival, and the redeemer answers, “Today.” However, as redemption fails to arrive, the prophet Elijah explains the redeemer’s words as “Today, if you will listen to my voice.” The tale raises the possibility that people have an agency to act and hasten the redemption. Nevertheless, the “correct” nature of redemptive actions is missing. I argue that by repeatedly interpreting the Aggadah, German-Jewish intellectuals position themselves within the political-theological conversation about Zionism and negotiate the tension between the ethical and the political manifestations of messianic agency. On the one hand, Zionists like Martin Buber, Chaim Arlosoroff, and Arnold Zweig change the content of the tale and charge it with political potency. On the other hand, Franz Rosenzweig returns to the traditional tale to offer a counter-reading supporting an ethical mode of agency instead of a Zionist form of activity.

Populist Response to the Social Crisis in Denmark – How Iliberal-Authoritarian Populism Can Influence Newcomers?

The multiple crises facing liberal democracies have given rise to political manifestations designed to annihilate any form of freedom and individuality by exposing the general public to populist danger. The EU refugee crisis of 2016 revealed a dramatic shift in social and political attitudes across the Scandinavian political spectrum, with ideological force catalyzing distinct social action and a change in the dynamics of the social composite. Based on the political and social study of populism and the effects that this ideology and philosophy have on Danish society, our study aims to reveal how the social anxiety of newcomers manifests itself interpersonally and interculturally. At the same time, we will try to determine the argumentative profile of the populist manifestation at the social and political level in order to observe the dynamics of the behavioural influence of the resident population of foreign origin and how populism and illiberalism attract these individuals. Such research is necessary in light of Denmark‘s political and social situation, especially after populist and Eurosceptic movements have consolidated their presence in national and regional political life. Our paper examines how the concepts of inequality and social exclusion have developed in the Danish political context and has a thesis on the interconnection between this development and populism and anti-establishment support in the black and Muslim communities. It is extremely important to investigate how populism influences social behaviour to anticipate possible countermeasures to anti-democratic and anti-liberal movements in the context of the perpetual development of the populist era.

Radical nationalism

ABSTRACT Radical nationalism is a political ideology centred on tying an imagined people to a bordered territory. It grows from nationalism’s root system into a diversity of political manifestations aimed at sealing the people-territory bond. By theorizing radical nationalism, this article outlines a political-ideological approach that opens new pathways for studying the so-called far right. The article draws on Michael Freeden’s conceptual-morphological theory and delineates how nationalism’s thin-centred conceptual core – people and territory – can thicken into a full-bodied political ideology: from football and flags to systemic discrimination, deportations, and mass violence. In response to the empirical observation that radical nationalism nurtures historical and contemporary actors across the left-right spectrum, the article offers a political-ideological lens for transhistorical analyses of various political manifestations that sprout and flourish from the exclusionary roots of the modern nation-state.

Caste and politics in (West) Bengal: in conversation with Sekhar Bandyopadhyay

ABSTRACT Although many commentators believed that caste did not matter in West Bengal, in recent years it has emerged as a significant factor in electoral politics. The decline of the Left and the rise of the centrist-incumbent have fanned identity politics and the resurgence of caste-based political mobilisation. In this conversation, Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, a well-known expert in the history and politics of caste in Bengal, illuminates the complexities, uniqueness and dynamics of caste politics in colonial Bengal and contemporary West Bengal. The interview explores the evolution of the caste-system in colonial Bengal, its differences with the rest of India and the multiple manifestations of caste-based politics in contemporary West Bengal. Bandyopadhyay reflects on the intersection of caste with other categories of class and religion, the lower-castes’ involvement, appropriation and neglect in the political spectrum, and the future of caste and politics in West Bengal.

Manifestations of politeness and power in problem-solving business telephone calls

Manifestations of politeness and power in problem-solving business telephone calls