The Sanctuary, the Marae and the Earth-Goddess; Standing Her Ground in the Evolution of the Political and Cultural Identities of Contemporary Māori and Archaic Greek Society

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Māmari Stephens
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identities ◽  
The Political ◽  
Greek Society ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Earth Goddess

Hate as a ‘hook’: The political and affective economy of ‘hate journalism’

Journalism ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 146488492098572
Author(s):  
Eugenia Siapera ◽  
Lambrini Papadopoulou
Keyword(s):  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Debt Crisis ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
The Political ◽  
Greek Society

The article looks to identify and contextualise the shift of journalism towards emotion in terms of broader socio-political shifts. It focuses on ‘hate journalism’, a term we use to describe a new kind of journalism that emerged in Greece during the debt crisis years and is ideologically close to neo-fascist, and ethnonationalist political positions. We understand hate as an action oriented socio-cultural practice and examine the conditions of production and deployment of hate through focusing on Makeleio, the most successful example of this kind of journalism. Within this context, hate is produced and circulated as a ‘hook’ to attract and entice users, by mirroring their emotions; it further constitutes a means of producing and diffusing ideology by helping readers manage uncertainty through putting forward authoritarian solutions. In doing so, hate journalism is involved in social reproduction processes by which (Greek) society produces and sustains itself as ethnically pure, culturally Christian, and gendered as masculine and virile. Readers are invited to recognise themselves and their practices and vernacular, to be consoled and offered solace and comfort within an unmoored world. They, in turn, offer support to this journalism through consuming it.

scholarly journals Eurasianists geopolitical ideas in the cultural her­itage of the Roerich family

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 119-133
Author(s):  
Andrey V. Ivanov ◽  
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Irina V. Fotieva ◽  
Irina A. Gerasimova ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Special Importance ◽  
Mountain Regions ◽  
Global Crisis ◽  
Economic Problems ◽  
World Crisis ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Solid Foundation ◽  
The Ideal

The article is devoted to the heritage of the Roerich family – Nikolai Konstantinovich, Elena Ivanovna, Yuri Nikolaevich, Svyatoslav Nikolaevich, and its role in the current sit­uation of world crisis, especially for the Eurasian geopolitical space. The authors substan­tiate the thesis that the political and cultural views of the Roerich family matured parallel to the movement of the Eurasians and in a number of aspects specify many their ideas. The authors reveal and explore the relevance and predictability of the key principles held by the Roerich family concerning the perspectives of Russia and the areas of Eurasian co­operation. In the legacy of the Roerich family, the main features of the impending global crisis are described in a visionary way. They saw a way out of the crisis in establishing the primacy of culture over economy, the primacy of the spiritual over the material. The Roerichs warned of the dangers of a barbaric relationship with nature, robotization and decomposition of consciousness. Their warnings about the dangers of a mechanical civilization are confirmed in the work of modern analysts. According to Roerichs, the ideal of cooperation and cooperation should become the basis of relations between peoples. The Roerichs emphasized the special importance of the Russian-Mongolian and Russian-Indian ties forming a geopolitical and spiritual “middle cross” of Eurasia. The commonality of the environmental, cultural and economic problems of the two great mountain regions of the Earth is a solid foundation for future cooperation between scien­tists in the space of Eurasia.

Nothing Absolute

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Theology ◽  
German Idealism ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
Theological Perspective ◽  
Traditional Approaches ◽  
First Time ◽  
Point Of Reference

Staging for the first time in extant scholarship a rigorous encounter between German thought from Kant to Marx and new forms of political theology, this ground-breaking volume puts forward a distinct and powerful framework for understanding the continuing relevance of political theology today as well as the conceptual and genealogical importance of German Idealism for its present and future. Against traditional approaches that view German Idealism as essentially a secularizing movement, this volume approaches it as the first speculative articulation of the political-theological problematic in the aftermath of the Enlightenment and the advent of secularity. Via a set of innovative readings and critiques, the volume investigates anew such concepts as immanence, utopia, sovereignty, mediation, indifference, the earth, the absolute, or the world, bringing German Idealism and Romanticism into dialogue with contemporary investigations of the (Christian-)modern forms of transcendence, domination, exclusion, and world-justification. Over the course of the volume, post-Kantian German thought emerges as a crucial phase in the genealogy of political theology and an important point of reference for the ongoing reassessment of modernity and secularity. As a result, this volume not only rethinks the philosophical trajectory of German Idealism and its aftermath from a political-theological perspective, but also demonstrates what can be done with (or against) German Idealism using the conceptual resources of political theology today.

De Moluccis insulis. Un resoconto propagandistico ante-litteram

2021 ◽  
pp. 85-102
Author(s):  
Letizia Vezzosi
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Earth

The image of Magellan as a modern hero who strongly wanted and tried at any price to complete the circumnavigation of the earth, but whom death prevented from doing so partly arose as soon as the first reports of the journey following the arrival of the only ship, Victoria, with 18 survivors were issued. Among these, there is the account Maximilianus Transylvanus gave on the basis of the information obtained interviewing a group of survivors, including Captain Elcano. He immediately understood the political relevance and the propaganda potential of the success of Magellan’s enterprise. In this article we will analyze De Moluccis insulis, highlighting the content and linguistic choices that contribute to creating an image of the expedition, of Magellan and of the role of Spain in the new world.

Economic Transition in Africa

1964 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 329-349
Author(s):  
Surendra J. Patel
Keyword(s):  
Land Surface ◽  
Economic Transition ◽  
Political Transition ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Popular Pressure ◽  
Transition To Independence ◽  
Lack Of Knowledge

Africa is a vast continent. It embraces nearly one-fourth of the land surface of the earth. The last decade has witnessed a profound transformation of its political landscape. Thirty-four countries have attained their independence. The rest of the continent will soon be governed by its people. The broad sweep of the surge towards independence has belied those predictions of only a decade ago that the political transition to independence in Africa would take a long time. This has already come about. But the continent yet remains mostly ill-fed, ill-clad, ill-housed, and illiterate. The popular pressure to overcome the age-old afflictions of mankind—poverty, disease, and lack of knowledge—is mounting. The new African governments are beginning their first faltering steps towards the economic transition from poverty to relative affluence.

The Light of the Flame

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleni Bintsi
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identities ◽  
Social Differentiation ◽  
Social Discourse ◽  
Oral Literature ◽  
Greek Language ◽  
Orthodox Christian ◽  
Modern Greek ◽  
Greek Society ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way

This chapter presents a study of light, in particular light produced by flame, by investigating the most representative lighting devices used in preindustrial Greece. The symbolism of lighting devices in traditional Greek society, used either out of necessity or in ritual ceremonies and customs as well as in representations in art and in social discourse, is examined to reveal aspects of that society, its common beliefs, and its social differentiation. The oral literature, the myths and sayings still in use in Greek language, are studied as cognitive instruments, as forms of thought, to understand the way people interpret the world and act within it. Finally, the oil lamp, and its ceremonial use in Modern Greek society, which is closely connected to the Orthodox Christian rituals, is interpreted as a symbol that represents national and cultural identities.

scholarly journals You defend what you feel: ‘Presencing’ nature as ‘experiential knowing’

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gioel Gioacchino
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Youth Participation ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Will ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Rich Description ◽  
People’S Attitudes ◽  
Environmental Work

This article reflects on a youth-led action research process on climate change adaptation carried out in Cuba between 2013 and 2015. The research explored the question: ‘How are Cuban youth engaging with climate change adaptation challenges and what can we learn from it?’. The objectives of the research were to understand young people's attitudes towards climate change and environmental work while connecting a youth network in Cuba and encourage collaboration. This article contributes to PAR with a rich description of a research process in which the group of co-researchers was able to collectively shift their awareness of and personal relationship with nature. Proposing a conversation between Heron and Reason's extended epistemology (1997) and Scharmer's TheoryU (2016, 2018), I argue that experiential knowledge in climate change and environmental work looks like entering an intimate state of co-presencing with the aliveness of the earth. Second of all, the research contributes to the literature on youth participation highlighting that in Cuba there is a gap between the political will and attention towards climate change adaptation, which is remarkable, and young people's ability to meaningfully take leadership in such efforts.

The Development and Formation of International Law

1912 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernest Nys
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
The Political ◽  
Human Reason ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The People ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Civil Laws

“Law in general,” says Montesquieu, “is human reason so far as it controls all the people of the earth, and the political and civil laws of each nation can only be considered as individual cases in which this human reason is applied.” Reason was held by the Romans to constitute one of the fundamental elements of law. Cicero announced the existence of “a veritable law, true reason (recta ratio), in conformity with nature, universal, immutable and eternal, the commands of which constitute a call to duty and the prohibitions of which avert evil.”It is at present unnecessary to consider what influence the Stoic, Academic and Epicurean doctrines had on Roman jurisprudence, and it would be risky to support as absolutely final any view which might be expressed on the subject. During the last phases of the Republic there had already come to exist in the world’s capital a fusion of the different schools of philosophy; and traces of the Platonic teachings constantly appear in the expression of the great orator’s lofty thought.

Church, State, and Hellenism

2020 ◽  
pp. 85-100
Author(s):  
Paschalis M. Kitromilides
Keyword(s):  
Canon Law ◽  
State Building ◽  
Political Life ◽  
The Political ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Building Projects ◽  
Greek Society ◽  
State Relations ◽  
Of Greece

The chapter examines the formation of a Greek national Church and its role in the political life of the country. The emergence of an independent (autocephalous) Orthodox Church in the kingdom of Greece is considered in connection with the issue of autocephaly in canon law and the debates it provoked. It is pointed out that Greek autocephaly set a precedent for the subsequent emergence of other autocephalous churches in the Orthodox communion as part of the nation- and state-building projects of the respective national societies. The multiplicity of ecclesiastical jurisdictions in the Greek state are discussed as a record bearing the traces of the unification and national integration of Greece. Penultimately, the role of the Orthodox Church of Greece as national Church and the interplay of ecclesiastical and secular politics is examined. The close connection of Church and politics in Greek society is illustrated by pointing out that periods of political instability and subversion of constitutional government in twentieth-century Greece have provoked ‘archiepiscopal questions’ in ecclesiastical life. Lastly, the main issues in Church–State relations in post-1974 Greece are surveyed and appraised.

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