Space Of Liberty Research Articles

Building a Virtual Community: Confession Magazines in French Canada

ABSTRACT This article considers confessional magazines as “virtual communities.” Published from 1943 to 1957, Histoires vraies was a low-brow magazine that replicated True Story's success in French Canada. Like Bernarr Macfadden's True Story, Histoires vraies was entirely or mostly composed of short sentimental stories generated by its readers. Overall, our article sheds light on how, in 1950s Quebec, a virtual community was created to help readers cope with profound social change, offering both a space of liberty and empowerment and an institution of social control.

LESSON LEARNED FOR ASEAN FROM THE INTEGRATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE EUROPEAN UNION (THE EU)

Human rights are one of the EU’s tools to integrate its member states as well as its citizens. The integration of human rights into EU law and policy build the concept of “the new EU” which is to establish “economic space” together with the space of liberty, justice and security which is implemented in the third pillar of the Maastricht Treaty .EU experience shows that the integration of human rights into their law and policy not only enhance the protection of human rights and democratic legitimacy but also economic, social welfare and peaceful life. Integration of human rights demonstrates the possibility of a plural nation which have a background of century-old conflicts to become one strong institution. The EU and ASEAN follow a similar path of regional integration. The success of the EU integration includes human rights integration and has made the EU a model for ASEAN integration. Despite, their differences, the ASEAN can learn the positive contribution of integrating human rights in the EU as the ASEAN is moving from economic cooperation to other related areas including human rights through ASEAN Community in 2015.

What do they talk about when they talk about Europe? Euro-ambivalence in far right ideology

ABSTRACT Euroscepticism is frequently presented as a key ideological feature of far right parties, however, this definition masks important variations between them. This paper argues that far right positions on Europe are characterized by long-standing ambivalence rather than straightforward opposition. While far right parties frequently oppose the EU, ideological flexibility, the malleability of European integration and the protean nature of Europe also lead them to display support towards certain aspects of it and towards Europe as a civilization. The argument is illustrated through a qualitative analysis of the party literature of the Movimento Sociale Italiano and the Front National. The analysis shows that these parties conceived of Europe as an identity, a space of liberty, an endangered heritage and a construction where national interests must be defended. In each theme, they offered ambivalent readings of Europe, oscillating between opposition and support depending on how Europe and the EU were defined.

Maritime Fantasies and Gender Space in Three Shakespearean Comedies

Abstract Laden with sea images, Shakespeare‘s plays dramatise the maritime fantasies of his time. This paper discusses the representation of maritime elements in Twelfth Night, The Tempest and The Merchant of Venice by relating them to gender and space issues. It focuses on Shakespeare‘s creation of maritime space as space of liberty for his female characters.

El Arte como objeto de apropiación común: Redefiniendo las bases del derecho moderno

La relación entre derecho y arte ha sido siempre una relación de tensión dinámica. Por unlado, el arte se presente como un espacio de libertad, de emancipación y de comunalidad, frente a ladominación, regulación y atomización, centrada en la función de resguardo de la propiedad privada, quecaracterizan al derecho capitalista moderno. De tal forma que en el presente trabajo se propone abordar elanálisis del arte como un momento de emancipación frente al derecho moderno, como un momento quebusca avanzar hacia un derecho de lo común.

OBJECIÓN DE CONCIENCIA, LA MUERTE Y EL MORIR EN ENFERMEDADES EN ETAPA TERMINAL

This paper carries on a critical analysis of the figure of conscientious objection as an expression of the achievement of new spaces of liberty in societies in continuous evolution, that however, are still somewhat behind the times, specifically in the area of health. In addition, it links conscientious objection with aspects of the end of life and the tanatological process, in the ethical puzzles that modern technology presents by changing drastically the way we die.

The “Peculiar Light” of Blakean Vision: Reorganizing Enlightenment Discourse and Opening the Exemptive Sublime

This article argues that there is a direct connection between Blake’s rejection of conventional Enlightenment aesthetics—namely, of tropes pertaining to light and darkness and void and chaos—and a space of liberty that is opened for the reader. This space, which I term the “exemptive sublime,” is free from interpretive mandates and even orthodox assumptions. To illustrate the affiliation between Blake’s radical aesthetics and the radical space of liberty that is created for the reader, I first briefly consider how even in some of his earliest works, such as “The Little Black Boy” and The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Blake is already complicating notions of light, darkness, and void. I then turn my analysis to the verbal and visual designs of the opening plates in The [First] Book ofUrizen to demonstrate how Blake boldly reorganizes Enlightenment epistemological and ontological discourse so that places of void and darkness become places of productive insight. In its characteristic emphasis on the importance of inspired Vision over empirical sight, Blake’s composite art opens not just a space of liberty in which to question hegemonic doctrine, but also a space for ethical reflection.

Spaces of Liberty: Battling the New Soft Bigotry of NCLB

N HIS speech accepting the Republican nomination in 2000, George W Bush spoke of the Csoft bigotry of low expecta tions.' His No Child Left Be hind (NCLB) initiative has since become a far-reaching piece of national legislation intended to raise those low expectations and give equal learning opportunities to all children. What we now know from research conducted in various states is that the curriculum emerg ing in response to NCLB's testing mandates lowers, rather than raises, expectations.2 Teachers have become deliverers of a standard curriculum, geared toward the tests, with a pac ing schedule designed to finish the material in time for the tests. How ever, to offer real educational equi ty, teachers need to employ dif ferentiated instructional practices that can help children develop the cognitive processes, the skill sets, and the social capi tal that give rise to successful engagement in our so ciety. Research on learning tells us that students reach a deep understanding of fundamental concepts incremen tally as teachers assess and respond to their perceptions in real time, which is why curriculum needs to be con textualized and not standardized. Sadly, today's educa tional mandates are not based on today's understand ing of how people learn. -S a,

Contra-império, éxodo y ciudadanía global: Sobre Negri e Hardt

Com base no contraste desenvolvido por Negri e Hardt entre o Império como "não lugar" e a reivindicação da cidadania global como construção de urn "novo lugar" como espaço de liberdade da multidão reconstroem-se temas básicos do livro Empire com especial referência às condições latino-americanas.

L'histoire sociale et l'historiographie est-Allemande des années 1980

Social history and the East German historiography of the 1980s, Georg G. Iggers. In the GDR, history was official, openly Stalinist and entirely in the service of the party. Only a few historians were able to occupy the few spaces of liberty that the regime tolerated. What was new in historiography in the 1980s came from rare contagion with the methods of ethnology or economics, through an opening to local history and an attempt to reread the Prussian or Nazi past. The previous passivity of the East German historians now puts them in the throes of a very difficult transition.