Representing the ‘other’: a discursive analysis of prejudice and moral exclusion in talk about Romanies

2006 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristian Tileagă
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Discursive Analysis ◽  
Moral Exclusion

The Politics and Symbolism of the #ThisFlag in Zimbabwe

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tinashe Mawere
Keyword(s):  
State Power ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Productive Capacity ◽  
Discursive Analysis ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Symbolic Meanings ◽  
Dominant Discourses ◽  
National Flag ◽  
Cultural Tools

In the context of the hashtag movement #ThisFlag, this paper examines the sensual affects drawn from flag symbolism and why the Zimbabwean flag is policed by the state. It uses the symbolism and politics of the hashtag movements by focusing on Evan Mawarire’s national lament and the Zimbabwean flag. It employs a literary and discursive analysis of Mawarire’s lament using desktop research on the contestations surrounding the flag. It shows that in dominant nationalist discourses, the flag is imaged as the land/nation and feminised to warrant it utmost respect, protection, sanctity and re/productive capacity. On the other hand, the #ThisFlag has made use of the flag to resist and subvert grand and naturalised dominant discourses of nationalism and citizenship to foster new imagi/nations of the nation. The use of the flag by the movement provoked ZANU-PF’s ownership of the national flag, which is quite similar to and has been drawn from the flag of the party, hence the movement was challenging the identity of the party, its ownership and its relevance. The paper shows the fluidity of symbols and symbolic meanings and why #ThisFlag had symbolic radical power and the possibilities of using the state’s and ZANU-PF’s cultural tools to challenge ZANU-PF’s hold on national knowledge and power. It contributes to our understanding of both state-power retention and how subaltern voices can uncover the agency of subjects within the very instruments of control incessantly used by dominant regimes.

Lorsque le katechon permet de repenser le politique. Discussion critique d'une thèse de Georgio Agamben en regard de la discursivité de 2 Th 2.1–17

2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 406-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alain Gignac
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
Discursive Analysis ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Law ◽  
The One

This article compares a discursive analysis of 2 Thess 2 and Giorgio Agamben's use of the same passage in his political philosophy (in at least three of his books). On the one hand, 2 Thess 2 is a complex and detailed eschatological scenario, but ultimately elliptical – with a self-referential enunciative device centred on a ‘super blank’, the κατέχον/κατέχων, which it is preferable not to identify. On the other hand, despite some shortcuts, Agamben aligns with the main intuitions of 2 Thess 2, which finally returns the reader to his/her own present where a conflict is played out between, on one front, the Messiah and his community, and, on the other front, the anti-messiah and his anti-messianic community. According to Agamben, the κατέχον/κατέχων is a negative figure, the legal facade that prevents unmasking the anomie of current political systems and delays the establishment of a messianic community beyond the law.

‘The Boys Can Kill’

Film Studies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Zoë Wallin ◽  
Nicholas Godfrey
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Discursive Analysis ◽  
New Hollywood ◽  
Western Films ◽  
Nuanced Understanding

In the late 1960s, Hollywood had the youth demographic in its sights. In 1969 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid proved that Westerns could appeal to this market, and sparked a cycle of youth Westerns. The cycle framework provides a new lens to refocus this group of Westerns. When the films are situated alongside the other production trends and cycles of the period, as they were in the contemporary trade discourses, they emerge as part of a short-lived strategy for financing Western films that targeted the youth market. An industrial and discursive analysis of the marketing and reception of the youth Western cycle contributes to a more nuanced understanding of the New Hollywood period.

Intergroup Contact in Settings of Protracted Ethnopolitical Conflict

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ifat Maoz
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Moral Responsibility ◽  
Intergroup Contact ◽  
The Other ◽  
Asymmetric Conflict ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Moral Exclusion ◽  
Ethnopolitical Conflict ◽  
Intergroup Encounters

Intergroup contact, encounters, and dialogues are pervasively used in settings of protracted, ethnopolitical conflict as a device for improving relations between the sides and promoting conflict resolution and reconciliation. This chapter reviews the theoretical underpinnings of such efforts and discusses different models and modes of planned intergroup contact in conflict, as well as the potential of the intergroup encounters to bring about change, while focusing on the ethical implications and consequences of the encounter with the other and its narrative in the setting of protracted ethnopolitical conflict. Specifically, it focuses on the case study of the violent protracted asymmetric conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. In this context it discusses the extent to which different modes and models of organized intergroups can overcome moral exclusion, extend the boundaries of moral responsibility for the other, and increase support for more socially just and equitable relations.

scholarly journals STUDENTS' POSITIONING AND EMOTIONS IN LEARNING GEOMETRIC DEFINITION

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-134
Author(s):  
Wajeeh Daher
Keyword(s):  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
The Other ◽  
Analysis Framework ◽  
Group Leaders ◽  
Discursive Analysis ◽  
Geometric Definition ◽  
Action Initiation

The purpose of the present paper is to study the positions and emotions of grade 7 students who work with technology to learn geometry. This consideration of students’ emotions is socially based, which makes it necessary to use a socially-based theoretical framework in order to study them. One such theory is the discursive analysis framework suggested by Evans, Morgan, and Tsatsarony, which is utilized in the present paper to analyze the positioning and emotions of fifteen groups of grade seven students who utilized technology to investigate the circle topic. The findings show that the group leaders took their positions through knowledge, action, initiation, persistence and meta-processes, while the followers of directions took their positions by accepting the group leader's requests. What most distinguished the collaborator was the communication with the other members of the group. Furthermore, the insiders used pronouns that indicated their inclusion. The results show that technology nurtured students' positive emotions as a result of nurturing their positioning throughout the investigation of the circle topic.

Blood Transfusion, Generation, and Anemia

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian P. Sorace
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Blood Transfusion ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Economic Performance ◽  
The Other ◽  
Discursive Analysis ◽  
Party Ideology ◽  
The One ◽  
Dominant Paradigm ◽  
Earthquake Reconstruction

This chapter examines China's political economy based on an interpretation of Chinese Communist Party ideology and discourse, challenging the notion that there is a mythical switch that can be flipped between politics and ideology on the one side, and economy and development on the other. Adopting a two-step approach, it considers the premises of the dominant paradigm of economic performance legitimacy and concludes with a discursive analysis of China's post-2008 Sichuan earthquake reconstruction plans. In the context of post-earthquake reconstruction, the chapter investigates how the metaphor of “blood transfusion” and “blood generation” established the coordinates for the Party's reconstruction plan to economically develop the Sichuan countryside. In place of a robust, self-reliant, and blood-generating economy engineered by the mobilization of Party spirit, the disaster zones had a lifeless and anemic economy.

Celebrity Global Motherhood

2020 ◽  
pp. 233-251
Author(s):  
Annika Bergman Rosamond
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Moral Reasoning ◽  
Care Ethics ◽  
The Other ◽  
Refugee Policy ◽  
Discursive Analysis ◽  
High Commissioner ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Angelina Jolie ◽  
Other Regarding

This chapter centers on global motherhood, a conceptual label that defines the ethical underpinnings of female celebrities’ undertakings beyond borders. The analysis of global motherhood is located within the ethics of care, noting that global expressions of care ethics are useful for thinking through celebrities’ maternal practices beyond borders. The research focuses on the maternal practices and discourses of Cate Blanchett (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees [UNHCR] Goodwill Ambassador since 2016) and Angelina Jolie (UNHCR Special Envoy since 2012), in particular their tendency to relate to refugees through their personal experiences as mothers, their sense of cosmopolitan obligation, and the racial implications of their global engagements. The chapter advances the argument that cosmopolitan thought is abstract, is gendered, and prioritizes men’s moral reasoning rather than women’s ethical stories and experiences. Nonetheless, cosmopolitanism can provide fertile ground for studying celebrity humanitarianism because celebrities themselves resort to cosmopolitan-inflected language in describing their activism. Moreover, the study of the other-regarding acts of individual celebrities can reduce the abstraction inherent in cosmopolitanism. These arguments are sustained through a discursive analysis of texts that center on celebrity global motherhood, as performed by Angelina Jolie and Cate Blanchett in the area of refugee policy.

Laïcité du système scolaire français en Tunisie: autonomie cultuelle ou abstention religieuse?

2011 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-259
Author(s):  
Émilie Pontanier
Keyword(s):  
Educational System ◽  
School System ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Discursive Analysis ◽  
Legal Implications ◽  
The Face ◽  
The One ◽  
The Right

The author discusses the political and legal implications of French secularism in an Islamic context. To this purpose, she focuses on the French educational system in Tunisia, which allows the distinction between public and private spheres to be emphasized. By way of a discursive analysis of conversations with parents who school their children there, the author shows that the school system strengthens, on the one hand, the religious autonomy of families and, on the other hand, religious abstention. Secularism is therefore analyzed as a vector of religious resistance in the face of the transformation of Tunisian society in that it promotes a modern or “moderate” Islam and recognizes the right to be atheist.

scholarly journals Constructional, performance and social characteristics of contemporary Slovenian wedding dress

2017 ◽  
Vol 68 (01) ◽  
pp. 17-21
Author(s):  
FUNDUK IRENA ◽  
PAVKO-ČUDEN ALENKA
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Quantitative Approach ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Characteristics ◽  
Mixed Methods Approach ◽  
Discursive Analysis ◽  
Symbolic Meanings

The white wedding dress is still very popular among today’s brides from many cultures and societies. It is still presented as a magical manifestation of all that is sacred. On the other hand, popular white wedding ideals are strongly advertised and constantly presented in numerous movies and reality shows, magazines and commercials. Contemporary bridal culture and fashions in Slovenia are created in wedding salons with their rental collections, which follow the globally popular trend of Western white weddings. The purpose of the research was to study the symbolic meanings of the white wedding dress in Slovenia, and to explore and identify its constructional, performance and social characteristics. The mixed methods approach was used. First, critical discursive analysis (CDA) was used to identify the symbolic meanings of the white wedding dress in the context of gender relations. Additionally, a quantitative approach was conducted with an aim to evaluate the presence and strength of previously identified elements. In the qualitative research, symbolic elements of the contemporary white wedding dress: entrapment, dependency, slenderness, inauthenticity and exaggerated attributes of brides bodies were identified. The results of the quantitative research proved that all identified symbolic elements are very strongly present in contemporary Slovenian bridal fashion

scholarly journals THE PRODUCTION OF THE FRANCOPHONE A DISCURSIVE CONSTRUCTION

Gragoatá ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (54) ◽  
pp. 51-73
Author(s):  
Jean-Marie Klinkenberg
Keyword(s):  
Strong Convergence ◽  
The Other ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Discursive Analysis ◽  
French Speaking ◽  
The One

The present research proceeds with a discursive analysis of the major phases in the evolution of discourse on the French-speaking world on the one hand and the French-speaking person on the other: when these two objects are being constituted, a strong convergence between them appears, followed by a spectacular divergence; a divergence that will produce ambiguities and confusions whose effects on representations, positions and actions will be studied. The study concludes that it is necessary to take into account the specific characteristics of each of the cultural areas of the Francophonie.

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