Deconstruction Theory Research Articles

Deconstructing Radiant Inventory: Christopher Dewdney's Representations of the Natural World in Radiant Inventory

This article presents an analysis of Christopher Dewdney’s “Radiant Inventory” using the literary theory of deconstruction. The purpose is to try and understand the poem through Jacques Derrida’s deconstruction. The article will further examine how the deconstruction of the poem can bring the traditional notion of reading a text into application and how the perception of reality can be challenged to show multiple perspectives using language and imagery. The analysis sheds light on the poem’s questioning of the relationship between object and identity and the role of language in shaping our understanding of reality. It will strictly adhere to Jacques Derrida’s deconstruction. The purpose is to demonstrate how the deconstructive approach can offer a deeper understanding of the complexities and nuances present in the poem.

The Legitimacy of Traditional Village Levies and the Authorities of Traditional Villages in Bali Reviewed from the Accountability of Financial Management

The theoretical issues surrounding the Balinese Traditional Village levy (stand) arise when compared to Article 23A of the 1945 Constitution of Indonesia, which mandates that taxes and levies for state needs must be regulated by law. However, Traditional Village levies, based on perarem and Article 18B paragraph (2), are fees rooted in local customary law. Deconstruction theory suggests that the legal text and context of these levies can be reconstructed to meet community needs, promoting justice and legitimizing Balinese Traditional Villages. The clarity and constitutionality of Bali Regional Regulation No. 4/2019 are crucial in ensuring that these levies are recognized as legitimate and not deemed extortion, as long as they are conducted in accordance with customary law.

Subverting Gender Bias: "The Manly Woman" in Ahdaf Soueif's The Map of Love

This paper examines the representations of the white woman in cross-cultural marriage in Ahdaf Soueif's The Map of Love in a contemporary deconstructive theory. The paper applies Judith Butler's revolutionary theory of gender and identity constructivism and performativity to clarify how the protagonist fights the gender norms and performances by having masculinity codes as a revolting means for emancipation. The paper tends to explore how colonial hegemony can create a cultural distance which is forced against the white woman by this marriage. It investigates the sociopolitical spatial divisions through the eye of the white woman who struggles because she chooses an ethnic husband. The paper applies a feminist theoretical framework to describe the prejudice and bias that appear after this marriage. "The manly woman" is the white woman who wears masculine features to subvert and oppose the gender bias which applies to her femininity.

Ukraine in Soviet Narratives about the October Revolution: A Case Study of Ihor Savchenko’s Film Ballad About Cossack Holota (1937)

Ukraine’s social, political, and cultural history has become a controversial issue since the 1990s. Dominant until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, the discourse about the Soviet brotherly nations has since been contested by depictions of Ukraine as politically and ideologically divided over the course of its 20th-century history. Russia-Ukraine war that began with the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 Feb 2022 has had a dramatic impact on the process of replacing the formerly standard version of Ukraine’s past with new interpretations. At the same time, Russia’s war on Ukraine has also demonstrated that Soviet-era collective memory about the key events in Soviet history has outlived the Soviet state and has been mobilized for political use. When in pain of heart a Ukrainian politician says that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has cancelled a shared past of Ukraine and Russia, he refers to a familiar discourse about these nations’ familial ties (Tkach). With this discourse now shattered, the question of particular salience is: How was the idea of brotherhood between Ukraine and other Soviet nations expressed and sustained? How did it evolve? In light of Russia-Ukraine war, the stories that were building blocks of the Soviet foundational narrative about Ukraine and Russia as fraternal nations are worth revisiting. An analysis of such stories reveals the mechanism of making Ukraine’s part an integral part of Soviet culture. In this paper, I discuss the issue of the evolution of the Soviet discourse about ‘eternal friendship of Ukrainian and Russian peoples’ in the example of Igor Savchenko’s film Ballad About Cossack Holota ( Duma pro kozaka Golotu, 1937), released by the Gorkii Film Studio as part of the celebrations of the twentieth anniversary of the October Revolution. Igor Savchenko (Ihor Savchenko in 24 | WEEReview 13 | 2024 Ukraine in Soviet Narratives about the October Revolution Ukrainian) was a Ukrainian Soviet film director who made films both in Russian and Ukrainian film studios; his work played an important role in promoting the idea of familial ties between Ukraine and Russia. Ballad About Cossak Holota is based on Arkadii Gaidar’s novella for children R.V.S. (1925) that is set during the Civil War in Ukraine, following the October Revolution. Savchenko’s film is especially interesting in how he reworks Gaidar’s story; he depicts events of the Civil War in the context of Ukraine’s 17th-18th-century history, drawing on Ukrainian folklore. Cossack Holota, a character from Ukrainian folklore, becomes a symbol of the revolutionary liberation of Ukraine, a promise of a just social and political order. Drawing on memory studies, post-colonial theory, and theory of deconstruction, I discuss the artistic means that Savchenko used in order to integrate Ukraine’s experience of the revolution and the Civil War into the Soviet discourse about the fight for Soviet power. Savchenko constructs Ukraine’s response to the revolution by making use of tropes of a big family, Biblical imagery, elements of folk culture, conventions of the adventure film. The study of Savchenko’s film contributes to our understanding of the debates about Soviet-era and presentday collective memory about the October Revolution and the Civil War in Ukraine and Russia. As the discourse about the biggest Soviet nations’ familial unity is yet another casualty of Russia-Ukraine war, it is important to consider how the idea of brotherhood between Ukraine and other Soviet nations was expressed in Soviet cinema. Such analysis explains why Ukrainian’s common emotional response to the start of the war was that of a feeling of shock and betrayal.

Decentering Narratives: A Deconstructive Exploration of Contingent Identities and Ruptured Realities

The ongoing study examines the concept of contingent identities and the fragmented reality in Exit West (2017) through the deconstructive lens. The deconstruction theory holds that language and power structures generate meaning rather than being intrinsic. Employing this paradigm, the research will examine how Hamid depicts people whose identities are in flux, owning to migration, conflict, and the mythical aspect of magical doors, such as Nadia and Saeed. Examining the ruptured realities people encounter as they cross geographical lines and explore imaginative novel settings will further highlight the deconstruction of established identities. The study's objective is to present a powerful lens for understanding the fragmented identities of expatriates in foreign lands. It also reveals the inflictions of fixed identities and exposes the significant confluence of migration on our perceptions.

The Theory of Deconstruction and Its Significance in Developing the Reading Skills

The Theory of Deconstruction and Its Significance in Developing the Reading Skills

Analysing the Correlation between Derridian Deconstruction and Absurdist Philosophy through 'Being and Nothingness' by Jean Paul Sartre, 'The Trial' by Franz Kafka, and 'Insects are Just Like You and Me Except Some of Them Have Wings' by Kuzhali Manickavel

This paper expands upon the interconnectedness between the theory of Deconstruction and the philosophy of Absurdism, in corroboration with 'Being and Nothingness' by Jean Paul Sartre, 'Insects are just like you and I except some of them have wings' by Kuzhali Manickavel and 'The Trial' by Franz Kafka; elaborating upon how one is in congruence to the other and how both schools of thought can be applied to social, political and personal spheres.

“But his sense of justice turned him into a brigand and a murderer.” On Gunther Teubner’s “Self-subversive Justice: Contingency or Transcendence Formula of Law?”

Abstract Teubner’s article on self-subversive justice is an inspiring example of the way in which he tries to move forward Luhmann’s sociological endeavour of understanding law in terms of how it understands itself. Moving Luhmann’s autopoietic systems theory forward is something that Teubner significantly does in many of his writings. Here he contrasts various social and legal philosophical accounts with a potential sociological account of justice that utilises the contrasting versions of both Luhmann’s autopoietic systems theory and Derrida’s deconstruction theory. To appreciate how justice operates self-subversively is to appreciate how law cannot avoid striving to overcome itself, and how justice both in its many universal and alterity forms enables this. Teubner gets close to marrying not only Luhmann and Derrida, but also sociological theory and literary or poetic theory; also marrying judicial creativity with that of other creative arts. Law constantly looks to justice within its own practices, but at the same time beyond those practices and thereby challengingly confronting itself and its search for justice in doing so.

Analysis of the Possibility of Application of Deconstructive Strategy in Theological Studies

The article attempts to analyze the possibility of applying deconstructive strategy in theological research. For this purpose, the author firstly defines the specificity of the deconstructive strategy of thinking, which consists in the researcher’s aspiration to catch the trace left by the author in the original unwritten proto-text by means of revealing oppositions and their loosening, up to their complete splitting, contributing to the disclosure of new meanings in the text. Then, on the basis of the analysis of modern Russian studies concerning the critical comprehension of Jacques Derrida’s theory of deconstruction, a systematization of very contradictory remarks and objections is carried out, as a result of which three critically minded groups are revealed: researchers of Postmodernism and Poststructuralism, accusing deconstruction of debunking stable notions; the scholars of neo-Marxist direction, emphasizing its excessive Theology; theologians of various branches of Christian thought, revealing an atheological and even atheistic character in the deconstructive thinking strategy. The author of the paper further analyses the work of an Arabian scholar ‘Ali Zawwari Ahmad on the criticism of Arab modernists who use western deconstructive methodology in dealing with religious texts, thus revealing that in the contemporary Muslim world there are two opposing views on the use of deconstructive strategies in theological studies, which are according to the traditional Muslim community, faithfully defend the inviolability of religious traditions, including in the field of Theological Methodology.

Elegy as Self-Eulogy: A Deconstructive Analysis of Nana Asma’u’s “Elegy for Bello”

This paper offers a deconstructive reading of Nana Asma’u’s “Elegy for Bello” as the reflection of her own personal life. The virtues she extols for the deceased on the surface meaning of the text turn to be interpreted as self-admiration of her own personal characters and qualities. Derrida’s Deconstructive theory, then, provides other perspectives upon which to interpret the poem. An Elegy in this sense then turns to be read as a Semi-Autobiography; the persona does celebrate her personal values and establish her identity to the reader. People interpret themselves simply through mirroring themselves by eulogizing other people. Whatever one says about others returns to claim their position in them.

A Deconstructive Analysis of Postmodern Themes in Selected John Ashbery Poems

This paper utilizes the deconstruction theory of Jacques Derrida to perform an extremely close reading of some chosen poems by John Ashbery, where the poets portrays the postmodern concepts. It provides a thorough overview of how Ashbery talked about fantasy through the language that later became his signature. By means of the use of Derrida’s approach, it is shown that in the middle are the myriad zones of obscurity, contradiction, and also many interpretations. This poetry, through critical scrutiny of the lingual pattern and the concept/allusion system, enlightens how the principle of Ashbery’s works confuses the approach to traditional thoughts and also perverts semantic stability. This analysis of Ashbery portrayed his questioning wanderings in the sphere of the unattainable notions of the sense in the post-modern context that extend the interpretations of the philosophical basis of postmodern literature.

Dekonstruksi Mitos Manyucuak Rantiang di Bukik Lontiak pada Masyarakat Sumpur Kudus

The manyucuak rantiang tradition is a unique tradition that is only found in Sumpur Kudus, Sijunjung Regency. This tradition applies to immigrants, which is done by sticking a tree branch in Bukik Lontiak. The people of Sumpur Kudus believe that disaster will befall them if immigrants do not carry out this tradition. This research is qualitative research conducted in the Sumpur Kudus area, Sijunjung Regency, with data collection methods consisting of observation, interviews, and documentation. The author carries out analysis using cultural theory and deconstruction theory. The research results show that the manyucuak rantiang tradition has existed in the Sumpur Kudus area since the arrival of Islam in the 16th century AD, which was first brought by Sheikh Ibrahim. This tradition began with the habit of Sheikh Ibrahim who always stuck his buffalo palacuik in Bukik Lontiak, and the people who saw it imitated this habit so that manyucuak rantiang grew and became the culture of the Sumpur Kudus people. This tradition has undergone such changes from ancient times to the present, giving rise to pros and cons among the people of Sumpur Kudus. The Manyucuak Rantiang tradition is dismantled from the perspective of deconstruction theory. It has several new texts that deconstruct old texts that have been developing, namely: 1). As a form of respect for Sheikh Ibrahim, 2). As a way of communicating, 3). As a political strategy.

Beyond the Liberal Subject: Susan N. Kiguli and the Lyric Poem in 1990s Uganda

This essay is concerned with the ways in which lyric poetry, as a certain kind of literary practice, reconfigures and reimagines dominant constructions of the liberal subject. In so doing, it focuses on the work of Susan N. Kiguli, a Ugandan poet whose 1998 collection, The African Saga, was published in the wake of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) government’s attempts to improve the position of women in Ugandan society. Although these (neo)liberal reforms were successful in bringing more women into the orbit of national politics and the economy, they relied on a process of recognition that, when analyzed using the work of Kelly Oliver, appears to do little to change patriarchal structures. This essay argues that four poems in The African Saga – “I am Tired of Talking in Metaphors,” “Where am I?”, “Deconstructing You,” and “The Swing” – constitute an attempt to move beyond the version of the female liberal subject implied in the government’s rhetoric. Through a sustained manipulation of personal pronouns and syntax, the poet articulates a lyric subjectivity that is characterized by movement, constant change, and a redeployment of the desire for recognition that is central to liberalism. This subjectivity, which is highly adaptable yet firmly embodied, therefore cannot be “recognized” within the government’s liberal politics. It is also articulated against deconstructive theories of subjectivity which, according to Kiguli, would construe it as an entity that is entirely relational in its construction. The essay concludes by considering how, in the case of Kiguli, the lyric poem does a certain kind of subjective-political work that is out of the reach of novels written in Uganda during this period.

Lord Krishna as a Deconstructionist Teacher in the Bhagavadgita

The Gita, a classic of Hinduism, has been studied over different periods and perspectives. In this study, the Gita was studied as a pedagogical text and analyzed founded on the theory of deconstruction vis-à-vis postmethod pedagogy. It was discovered that, as a teacher, Lord Krishna used deconstruction in his pedagogy, so he was identified as a deconstructionist teacher. Then, this role of a teacher was further discussed with reference to the role of a teacher in postmethod pedagogy and concluded that deconstructionist is the most significant role of a teacher in postmethod pedagogy. Thus, this study claims that if teachers play the role of a deconstructionist teacher in pedagogy, quality in education can be ascertained.

Creating authority and autonomy: Necessary dialectical tensions in public sector project management

This study investigates the nuanced relationship between public sector project managers and their adherence to organizational project management protocols, as defined by reference documents such as PRINCE2 and PMBOK® Guide. It investigates why these project managers frequently deviate from these protocols. The study investigates the practical relevance yet perceived redundancy of these documents through interviews and a focus group with nine experienced project managers in the Australian public sector. Using thematic analysis and a Derridean perspective, we show how these documents create a project manager's their authority and autonomy. The study concludes with the proposal of a deconstructive theory of public sector project management, emphasising pragmatism over rigid adherence to established project management ideologies.

The Education Meaning of Cockfighting Cartoons in Nusa Bali Newspapers

The purpose of the publication of this article is to reveal the educational meaning of the cockfighting cartoon in the Nusa Bali newspaper. Usually, the Nusa Bali Cartoon raises public or political issues with satire, jokes, or humor. In contrast to the Nusa Bali cartoon with an education theme, it features cockfighting, which only contains satire on public issues. Problems that arise: 1) What is the meaning of the cockfighting cartoon in the Nusa Bali on June 5, 2021 ?; 2) Is the cockfighting cartoon in the Nusa Bali newspaper dated June 5, 2021, educational? The problem of this article has been solved by using a qualitative method. Primary data was collected through newspaper observations and interviews with informants. Secondary data was obtained by applying a literature study. All qualitative data was analyzed using a semiotic approach with the help of symbol theory and deconstruction theory. The results showed that: 1) The connotative and denotative meanings of the Nusa Bali cockfighting cartoon; 2) The Nusa Bali cockfighting myth depicts the chances of success without work. The educational meaning of the Nusa Bali cartoon is represented by an explanation of the disadvantages of cockfighting, the state's prohibition on gambling for Indonesian citizens, and the prohibition on Hindu scriptures and literacy for Hindus.

생태윤리 시각에서 본 한국의 4대강 보 해체 분석

This study examines the progress of Korea's four major rivers weir dismantlement project and points out that the argument for dismantling the Four Major Rivers Weirs overlooks the issue of ‘time’ that guarantees sustainability, based on an ecological ethics perspective. The purpose is to suggest ways to resolve long-term conflicts. In order to achieve this research purpose, we review the theory of individualistic environmental ethics as a critique of the deconstruction theory and a new logic of deconstruction. In addition, we looked at various controversies related to the dismantling of weirs and presented new solutions from the perspective of ecological ethics. In conclusion, the dismantling of the Four Major Rivers weirs needs to be carried out gradually, with time to spare and while ensuring sustainability, from the perspective of ecological ethics. To this end, a progressive alternative was presented by additionally reflecting the elements of recovery time and gradualness in the existing environmental impact assessment items.

The “Integrated Curriculum” for Primary Schools in Lesotho: Where Is the ‘Integration’?

In the era of reforms, the text of curriculum policy and its supporting documents provide a blueprint that drives the teaching and learning processes in the new directions envisaged by policymakers. One dominant narrative within new curriculum policies is ‘integration.’ However, education systems have embraced this narrative without much unpacking of what it means for the agents and their extant practices. The dominant narrative in Lesotho’s ‘new’ curriculum suggests that it was designed to foster integration in the country’s primary schools. This study sought to uncover evidence of integration and or lack thereof through the deconstruction of this narrative and by unpacking the curriculum discourse and its implications for practice. The paper uses Derrida’s deconstruction theory to read and engage with the discourse on curriculum integration in these documents: Curriculum and Assessment Policy (2009), Guide to Continuous Assessment and Integrated Curriculum (Grade 1-7 syllabi). By deconstructing the integration narrative in these policy documents, the study's findings reveal contradictory messages about integration within the curriculum policy and its supporting documents. The policy advocates for a ‘holistic view and treatment of issues', yet the syllabi promote compartmentalisation of subjects. The policy also espouses different integration models within the new curriculum. Therefore, this paper argues that the contradictory messages and the unclear integration model followed can lead to multiple interpretations by the implementing agents, which ultimately cripples the implementation at the classroom level. This deconstruction and unpacking of discourse may contribute to scholarship, curriculum evaluation and policy implementation during educational reforms.

Stereotipype Tokoh Ayah dalam Cerpen Guru Karya Putu Wijaya: Kajian Dekonstruksi Derrida

Abstract This research aims to describe stereotype The father figure in the short story Guru by Putu Wijaya is in accordance with Derrida's theory. The research method uses a deconstruction approach to Derrida's theoretical literary works. Deconstruction of literary works is able to analyze short stories from the language that has various meanings in a text. The data in this research is in the form of text documents containing fragments of characters, plot, caritas background in short stories. The data source comes from Jawa Pos, 05/08/2016 edition of teacher's short stories by Putu Wijaya. The data collection technique uses heuristic techniques, namely reading the initial stages by analyzing the elements contained in the story such as characters. The data analysis technique uses the hermeneutic technique of in-depth reading of literary works in the form of the social environment in the story and analyzing it in depth in accordance with deconstruction theory. Research result stereotype The character of the father can be shown based on dialogue or the character's speech, such as the environment, the character's reactions to other characters. It is known that the character of the father does not depict the attitude of a parent who is firm, wise and unemotional. And the meaning of opposition which shows my father's bad thoughts towards teachers is a form of criticism of the government.

Monsters in Mirrors: Duality, Triangulation, and Multiplicity in Two Adaptations of Jekyll and Hyde

Jacques Derrida’s theory of deconstruction provides an ideal means of appreciating and interrogating the duality central to both Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and its adaptations. Moreover, because deconstruction exposes binary oppositions as artificial and constrictive, it enables us to advance beyond them toward multiplicity, a term used by Gilles Deleuze for a complex, ever-changing, multipart structure that transcends unity. Roy Ward Baker’s Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971) and episodes of Showtime’s Penny Dreadful (2014–2016) offer fresh ways to think about—and beyond—the duality of culture’s most famously divided pair. The binary oppositions that organize each text are innovative, as are the ways in which these oppositions are reversed and conflated. Ultimately, these adaptations employ triangulation to deconstruct themselves, thereby demonstrating the limitations and instability of duality, as well as the possibilities of multiplicity.