Cities, citizenship, contested cultures: Berlin's Palace of the Republic and the politics of the public sphere

2009 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 309-327 ◽  
Author(s):  
Uta Staiger
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Public Sphere

Conclusion

2020 ◽  
pp. 224-228
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Taïeb
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
State Violence ◽  
Self Control ◽  
The Public ◽  
Civilizing Process ◽  
Key Points ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Public Executions ◽  
Historical Moment

This concluding chapter summarizes the key points of the book. The year 1939, when executions moved behind prison walls and thus definitively exited the public stage, marked the beginning of remote governance, a new stage in the transformation of the public sphere: power no longer had to manifest itself directly, but could instead use various media platforms to assert itself. The disappearance of public executions also signaled the advent of the civilizing process, which sought to conceal anything that might provoke anxiety or negative emotions. The criticism levied at, and the final disappearance of, public executions illustrates a historical moment when a technology of power was gradually modified, eliminated, and concealed thanks to the efforts of the elites as well as, most likely, to the efforts of executionary spectators, because the emotions that executions unleashed were in contradiction with society's desire to reject violence. The elimination of publicity did not resolve the problem of violence in the Republic nor immediately solve the issue of the death penalty, which would drag on for another four decades, but it did demonstrate that people were no longer willing to tolerate a certain kind of state violence. It also revealed a phase in the evolution of the psychological landscape in which self-control came to be determined by the authorities and their instruments.

scholarly journals Taking Modernity's Wager: Tocqueville, Social Capital, and the American Civil War

2011 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 591-618
Author(s):  
Johann N. Neem
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Alexis De Tocqueville ◽  
Bonding Social Capital ◽  
The Public ◽  
Bridging Social Capital ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
American Society

Alexis de Tocqueville watched with horror as American society and politics changed in the two decades following the publication of Democracy in America. During the 1840s and 1850s, the factors that Tocqueville had earlier identified as sustaining the republic—its land and location, its laws, and its mores—had begun to undermine it. Recent work on civil society, the public sphere, and social capital is congruent with a Tocquevillian analysis of the causes of the Civil War. The associational networks that had once functioned as bridging social capital fractured under the stress of slavery, becoming sources of divisive regional, bonding social capital.

scholarly journals An Article Valued More Than a Book?!? On the Destruction of the Interpretative Sovereignty of Serbian Society

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 899
Author(s):  
Ivan Kovačević ◽  
Miloš Milenković
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
The Public ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Logical Fallacies

The article analyzes the consequences of the reductionist application of criteria typical of the natural, mainly laboratory sciences, in the process of evaluation of the results of the work of researchers and institutions in all the other scientific disciplines, mainly in the field of social sciences and humanities, in the Republic of Serbia. As an example of this trend, the analysis focuses on the absurd criteria, currently in effect, for the conducting of PhD studies in the field of social sciences and humanities, which exclude the scientific books written by lecturers and only value articles published in journals. After this, the ignorance, misapprehensions, logical fallacies and interests which might be behind these criteria are analyzed. Special attention in the analysis is given to the reduction of global to fundamental. It is concluded that the application of the criteria currently in effect leads to the loss of interpretative sovereignty, which occurs when institutions, authors, referees and editors who are highly competent experts in regional and national issues are sacrificed in favor of foreign owners, institutions, authors, referees and editors that, by and large, possess less competence and expertise in regional and national issues, and have non-scientific interests and loyalties which don’t necessarily coincide with the interests of Serbian citizens. Finally, the consequences of the ongoing ethnocidal renunciation of scientific interpretative sovereignty are considered, especially the relinquishing of interpretations of history, identity and interconnected cultural issues and social problems to nonscientific discourses in Serbian society. Discourses which inevitably fill the empty room left in the public sphere by the ever-faster extinguishing of journals and publications in Serbian and the languages of ethnic minorities.

scholarly journals Art, Power and Knowledge: Claiming Public Space in Tunisia

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 250-274
Author(s):  
Charles Tripp
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Street Art ◽  
Political Dissent ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Artistic Interventions ◽  
The Public Sphere

Charles Tripp argues that through artistic interventions – graffiti, visual street art, performances, demonstrations, banners, slogans – citizens have appropriated the public sphere. Despite the monitoring of political dissent through persuasion or coercion, an activist public has created highly visible public spaces, assisted and encouraged by citizen artists. They have generated debates and have helped to give substance to competing visions of the republic.

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