scholarly journals The Politics of Contemporary Education

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul A. Crutcher
Keyword(s):  
Contentious Politics ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Contemporary Education

Call for submissions for a CPI Special Issue exploring central aspects and impacts of the contentious politics of contemporary education.

scholarly journals The Politics of Contemporary Education

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cecille DePass
Keyword(s):  
Contentious Politics ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Contemporary Education

Call for Submissions: Special Issue: The Politics of Contemporary Education.Through scholarly and creative work, this proposed CPI special issue explores central aspects and impacts of the contentious politics of contemporary education.

scholarly journals Call for Submissions: Special Issue, Cultural and Pedagogical Inquiry (CPI)

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cecille DePass
Keyword(s):  
Guest Editor ◽  
Contentious Politics ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
University Of Arkansas ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Single Word ◽  
Little Rock ◽  
Contemporary Education

The Politics of Contemporary Education with Guest Editor: Paul A. Crutcher (University of Arkansas - Little Rock)Through scholarly and creative work, this proposed CPI Special Issue explores central aspects and impacts of the contentious politics of contemporary education. Potential contributors to this Special Issue should submit a proposal to Dr. Paul A. Crutcher ([email protected]) by December 15, 2017.  Proposals should be single Word or PDF files that include:  (a) a title of up to 150 characters, (b) an abstract of up to 150 words, and (c) a description of the proposed paper or creative work of up to 500 words. 

Ethnographic Approaches to Contentious Politics: The What, How, and Why

2021 ◽  
pp. 001041402110255
Author(s):  
Diana Fu ◽  
Erica S. Simmons
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Politics ◽  
The United States ◽  
Contentious Politics ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Ethnographic Methods ◽  
Political Ethnography ◽  
Units Of Analysis ◽  
Social Meanings ◽  
Methodological Tool ◽  
Why Questions

How should we study contentious politics in an era rife with new forms of contention, both in the United States and abroad? The introduction to this special issue draws attention to one particularly crucial methodological tool in the study of contention: political ethnography. It showcases the ways in which ethnographic approaches can contribute to the study of contentious politics. Specifically, it argues that “what,” “how,” and “why” questions are central to the study of contention and that ethnographic methods are particularly well-suited to answering them. It also demonstrates how ethnographic methods push scholars to both expand the objects of inquiry and rethink what the relevant units of analysis might be. By uncovering hidden processes, exploring social meanings, and giving voice to unheard stories, ethnography and “ethnography-plus” approaches contribute to the study of contention and to comparative politics, writ large.

Space And Contentious Politics

2003 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Martin ◽  
Byron Miller
Keyword(s):  
Contentious Politics ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Spatial Processes ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Spatial Perspective ◽  
Political Contention

Drawing upon the work of McAdam, Tarrow, and Tilly, Lefebvre, and others, we argue that analysis of political contention dynamics can benefit from attention to the spatial constitution and context of social, political, and economic processes, and the ways in which these processes are spatially experienced and contested. We contend that spatial processes are inseparable from, and constitutive of, social processes. Starting from the central geographic concepts of space, place, and scale, we discuss how a spatial perspective can produce more illuminating understandings of how people perceive, shape, and act upon grievances and opportunities. We demonstrate the utility of a spatial perspective through an examination of ways in which space is implicated in the operation of several mechanisms identified by McAdam, Tarrow, and Tilly. Finally, we introduce the papers included in this special issue on space and contentious politics, discussing the ways each author finds place, space, and scale to be bound up in the dynamics of political contention.

scholarly journals Conceptualising backlash politics: Introduction to a special issue on backlash politics in comparison

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 563-584 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen J Alter ◽  
Michael Zürn
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Comparative Politics ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Contentious Politics ◽  
World Politics ◽  
Threshold Condition ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Emotional Appeals ◽  
Distinct Category

Despite the widespread sense that backlash is an important feature of contemporary national and world politics, there is remarkably little scholarly work on the politics of backlash. This special issue conceptualises backlash politics as a distinct form of contentious politics. Backlash politics includes the following three necessary elements: (1) a retrograde objective of returning to a prior social condition, (2) extraordinary goals and tactics that challenge dominant scripts, and (3) a threshold condition of entering mainstream public discourse. When backlash politics combines with frequent companion accelerants – nostalgia, emotional appeals, taboo breaking and institutional reshaping – the results can be unpredictable, contagious, transformative and enduring. Contributions to this special issue engage this definition to advance our understanding of backlash politics. The special issue’s conclusion draws insights about the causes and dynamics of backlash politics that lead to the following three potential outcomes: a petering out of the politics, the construction of new cleavages, or a retrograde transformation. Creating a distinct category of backlash politics brings debates in American politics, comparative politics, and international relations together with studies of specific topics, facilitating comparisons across time, space, and issue areas and generating new questions that can hopefully promote lesson drawing.

Introduction to a Special Issue on Political Violence and Terrorism: Political Violence as Contentious Politics

2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeff Goodwin
Keyword(s):  
Political Violence ◽  
Contentious Politics ◽  
Conflict Situation ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Strategic Choices ◽  
Unit Of Analysis

Five lessons for future research on political violence may be drawn from the articles in this special issue. Researchers should (1) analyze political violence not as a sui generis phenomenon but as one form among others that contentious politics sometimes takes; (2) attempt to determine actors' own reasons for their choice (or rejection) of violent strategies; (3) take the "conflict situation" that encompasses the interactions of all the relevant actors (not single states, movements, or networks) as the unit of analysis for explaining collective strategic choices; (4) take the networks in which individuals interact (not single individuals) as the unit of analysis for explaining individuals' strategic choices; and (5) examine actors' decisions to eschew violence as well as their decisions to employ it in order to avoid overgeneralized explanations for the latter.

scholarly journals Conflitti urbani nei percorsi di cittadinanza degli immigrati. Una introduzione

2013 ◽  
pp. 5-20
Author(s):  
Tommaso Vitale
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Party Systems ◽  
Contentious Politics ◽  
Theory Of Action ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Political Dynamics ◽  
Urban Level ◽  
Action Taking ◽  
Normative Constraints

Immigration is a main political topic. In Western Europe social conflicts, party systems and political parties have been restructured around an emerging cleavage between integration and demarcation. At the urban level, conflict among immigrant groups and native ones and contention between immigrants and the local authorities are major political dynamics. Main literature has explained why do we observe clashes between immigrants and natives in some locations, but not in others; and what accounts for change in immigrant conflict within locales over time. Not a lot has been written about the outcomes of these conflicts and their impact on citizenship. An emerging literature is measuring important effects in terms of political inclusion, but other effects on civic and social citizenships remain partially unexplored. Empirical researches collected for this special issue stress the dimension of agency of immigrant contentious politics, and show the heuristic value of new approaches in the theory of action, taking into account recognition as well as institutional and normative constraints.

scholarly journals Theorising backlash politics: Conclusion to a special issue on backlash politics in comparison

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 739-752
Author(s):  
Karen J Alter ◽  
Michael Zürn
Keyword(s):  
Public Discourse ◽  
Threshold Level ◽  
Contentious Politics ◽  
Special Issue

This conclusion to a special issue on backlash politics develops a proto-theory of backlash politics. The special issue’s introduction defined backlash politics as a particular form of political contestation with a retrograde objective as well as extraordinary goals or tactics that has reached the threshold level of entering mainstream public discourse. While a sub-category of contentious politics, we argue that backlash politics is distinct and should not be understood as ‘regressive contentious politics’. Drawing from the contributions to this special issue, we discuss the causes of backlash politics, yet we argue that the greatest theoretical advances may come from studying backlash dynamics and how these dynamics contribute to different outcomes. We develop a proto-theory of backlash politics that considers causes for the rise of backlash movements, how frequent companions to backlash politics – emotive politics, nostalgia, taboo breaking, and institution reshaping – intensify backlash dynamics and make it more likely that backlash politics generate consequential outcomes.

Religion, Resistance, and Contentious Politics in China (中国的宗教、抵抗与抗争政治)

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-166
Author(s):  
André Laliberté
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Contentious Politics ◽  
The State ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Communist Party Of China ◽  
Religious Background

In this essay, I present the concepts of religious resistance and contentious politics, in which religions represent a source of inspiration, before moving to the issue of how these concepts apply to China. I note that there is little literature on this particular subject, which is always politically sensitive. As the Communist Party of China has increasingly recognized the relevance of religion in contemporary society, it has tried to keep it in check and thereby ensure that independent associations with a religious background will not become involved in contentious politics. This article then briefly introduces the four case studies in this special issue on the theme of religion and contentious politics in China: two cases of persecution of Christians and Catholics during the period of Mao, and two articles about Buddhism, which has a more complex relationship with the state.本文首先阐述了宗教抵抗与抗争政治的概念—其中宗教发挥了启发鼓舞的作用而后将之用于分析中国经验。由于政治敏感性，有关此议题的文献很少。因为逐渐意识到宗教在当代社会中的重要性，中国共产党试图管控宗教防止具有宗教背景的独立团体参与抗争政治。本文最后介绍本期中有关中国宗教与抗争政治的四篇个案研究：两篇文章讨论毛泽东时期对基督徒和天主教徒的压迫，另外两篇是关于佛教及其与国家的复杂关系。

scholarly journals Language in Educational Contexts

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Natalie Keefer ◽  
Michelle Haj-Broussard
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Language Ideology ◽  
Funds Of Knowledge ◽  
Decisive Factor ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Educational Funding ◽  
Contemporary Education

The purpose of this special issue is to provide a space for scholars to disseminate theory and research about the influence of language in educational contexts. In this issue, we curated articles that address topics related to how language serves as a defining or decisive factor in education and schooling. In our introduction to this special issue, we provide an interpretive overview of the articles and offer an explanation of their relevance for understanding the complex nature of contemporary education. Salient topics include: critical analysis of discourse, linguistic landscapes, Natural Semantic Metalanguage, language ideology, politics and educational funding, funds of knowledge/identity, and definitional caveats related to language learning pedagogies in divergent contexts.

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