The Role of Print Media in Kerala Renaissance

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Chandrabose R
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Print Media ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Colonial Administration ◽  
Christian Missionary

Mass media especially print media, act as a catalyst in the growth and development of modern democratic societies. Several studies has proven the role of printing in the evolution of the idea of the nation state, nationalist ideologies, and standardisation of language, printing and journalism acted as a catalyst in the formation of Kerala public sphere in the surge of the ideologies and activism that resulted in Kerala Renaissance. A diachronic survey of Malayalam print media, which started in the nineteenth century, illustrate the formation of the ideological pathways of the Kerala Renaissance. The survey proves the significant role of the print media in effecting the diverse ideological under currents of colonial administration, indigenous spiritual figures and movements western Christian missionary groups etc. to fashion Kerala modernity. This study focuses on the role of the print media in steering Malayali consciousness towards modernity, enlightenment, humanism and the idea of nation state.

The Role of the Chularajmontri (Shaykh al-IslOEm) in Resolving Ethno-religious Conflict in Southern Thailand

2010 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-53
Author(s):  
Imtiyaz Yusuf
Keyword(s):  
Significant Role ◽  
National Level ◽  
Religious Conflict ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Religious Nationalism ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
Southern Thailand ◽  
New Nation ◽  
Set Up

The century-old conflict in southern Thailand, which began with Siam’s annexation of the former Malay sultanate of Negara Patani in 1909, reemerged viciously in 2004 – with no end in sight. The Thai state expected that its official head of the Muslim community at the national level, the chularajmontri (shaykh al-Islam), whose office was set up in 1945 to integrate all Thai Muslims into the new nation-state of Thailand (formerly called Siam), would lay a significant role in resolving the southern conflict. Thus, this office was entrusted with tackling the issue of ethno-religious nationalism among the southern Muslims, an important factor lying at the root of this conflict. The office was expected to address the Thai nation-state’s political and socio-religious needs via promoting a pro-integration religious interpretation of Islam. This paper contends that its failure to contribute toward the conflict’s resolution lies in the differences in the two parties’ historical, ethnic, and religious interpretations of Islam.

Counter-hegemony in today's Belarus: dissident symbols and the mythological figure of Miron Vitebskii

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 713-730
Author(s):  
Anastasiya Astapova
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Political Development ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Civil State ◽  
Multiple Functions

Tackling the role of state symbols in negotiating national identity and political development, this research focuses on Belarus where the alternative white-red-white flag became instrumental in protests against the dominant political discourse. Since 1995, oppositional mass media have been reporting about cases of this tricolor being erected in hard-to-reach and/or politically sensitive places. These actions were mainly attributed to some “Miron,” whose identity remained concealed and served as a simulacrum of a national superhero in non-conformist discourse. The image of Miron immediately acquired multiple functions: condemning the Soviet colonial past, struggling for the European future, and creating a nation-state rather than the Russian-speaking civil-state of Belarus. Yet, first and foremost, Miron became a means for contesting the authority of the president who has been in power since 1994. Concentrating on the methods employed for the construction of the counter-hegemonic fakelore project of Miron and its aims, this article explores the vernacular response to its creation.

John Robert Seeley and the Political Theology of Empire

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Duncan Bell
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
World Order ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Political ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Famous Book ◽  
Late Nineteenth

This chapter focuses on John Robert Seeley (1834–95), the most prominent imperial thinker in late nineteenth-century Britain. It dissects Seeley's understanding of theology and religion, probes his views on the sacred character of nationality, and shows how he attempted to reconcile particularism and universalism in a so-called “cosmopolitan nationalist” vision. It argues that Seeley's most famous book, The Expansion of England (1883) should be understood as an expression of his basic political-theological commitments. The chapter also makes the case that he conceived of Greater Britain as a global federal nation-state, modeled on the United States. It concludes by discussing the role of India and Ireland in his polychronic, stratified conception of world order.

Mass Communication and the 'Nationalisation' of the Public Sphere in Former Yugoslavia

Res Publica ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 259-270
Author(s):  
Spyros A. Walgrave
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Former Yugoslavia ◽  
Cultural Space ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Peace Movements ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere

Although the quasi-confederal character of Yugoslavia, especially after the introduction of its 1974 constitution did not encourage the development of a genuine Yugoslavian public sphere wherepublic debate could transcend ethnic and republic divisions, it nevertheless allowed the formation of what could be called Yugoslav cultural space, a space within which social and political actors (feminist, peace movements) forged their identities regardless of the ethnic or national diversity that characterised their membership. However, the existence of this 'space' had a limited impact in Yugoslav politics partly due to the breakdown of inter-republic communication and the fragmentation of the Yugoslavian mass media. This paper traces the process of disintegration of the Yugoslav cultural space and the emergence of national 'public spheres' in the republics and provinces of former Yugoslavia and attempts to assess the role of the mass media and cultural institutions in these developments by identifying the key strategies of representation employed in the process of the fragmentation and 'nationalisation' of the public sphere of former Yugoslavia.

Marvels of the Levant: Print Media and the Politics of Wonder in Early Modern Venice

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anastasia Stouraiti
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Print Media ◽  
Empire Building ◽  
Emotional Dimensions ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Heuristic Device ◽  
Early Modern Venice ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract This article uses the strange and marvellous as a heuristic device to study the relationship between emotions, media and politics in early modern Venice. In particular, it examines how printed news about the marvels of the Levant mediated Venice’s encounters with its colonial subjects and imperial rivals, and analyses the role of wonder and imagination in the creation of an imperial community of feelings. The article argues that a focus on the affective politics of the marvellous can shed new light on the emotional dimensions of the early modern Venetian public sphere and its links with war and empire-building.

scholarly journals THE HISTORY OF A CALENDAR AS A CUMULATIVE TEXT OF MASS MEDIA IN THE ETHNIC CULTURE OF GERMANY

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (6) ◽  
pp. 976-981
Author(s):  
U.A. Nebesnyuk
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Social Consciousness ◽  
Literary Genre ◽  
Ethnic Culture ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Original Meaning ◽  
History Of

The article presents the analysis of composition, forms and functions of a calendar as a cumulative text of mass media in the ethnic culture of Germany from the mid-fifteenth until the early nineteenth century. It was revealed that, in connection with the growing role of narrative entertainment part since the 10s of the nineteenth century and the politicization of social consciousness during the great French Revolution, the calendar as a truly national medium of information has been undergone literarization, having lost its original meaning. Calendar stories have formed an independent literary genre which had received the name «Kalendergeschichte» in German tradition.

scholarly journals Role Of Mass Media And Interpersonal Communication In Promoting Awareness About Woman Rights In Pakistan

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 165-176
Author(s):  
Lubna Zaheer ◽  
Amber Mubeen
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Positive Role ◽  
Quantitative Survey ◽  
Women Rights ◽  
One Way Anova

Women rights have always been a debatable issue in almost every society. Being a watchdog, media is expected to give voice to all members of the society regardless of their gender, background and ethnicity. Media can play a vigorous role to educating people about women-rights by addressing their concerns and anxieties. This study aims to investigate the role of mass media (i.e. television, newspapers and social media) and interpersonal communication in promoting awareness about woman rights in Pakistan. Using quantitative survey method with a sample of N=358, results of One-way ANOVA show comparison among various types of media. The study figured out that mass media in Pakistan especially print media, play a positive role in promoting awareness about women rights. However, the role of interpersonal communication has been found more effective as compared to new and old media. The study also expresses that demographics play significant role to attaining the awareness about women rights.

To Reclaim Einfühlung: The Search for a Formula of Radical Empathy in Harun Farocki’s Early Work

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michał Piasecki
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Vietnam War ◽  
The Body ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Critical Attitude ◽  
Critical Tradition ◽  
Radical Empathy ◽  
Alienation Effect

Beginning with a close reading of Harun Farocki's Einfühlung, the author analyzes the formation of this tradition of empathy and the critical attitude towards it, with particular emphasis on the sense of failure and the retrospectiveness of the postulate of regaining the Einfühlung by the critical tradition. The author looks at the role of photographs of suffering bodies in the process of shaping the German public sphere during the Vietnam War. He tries to show the complexity of strategies critical of the mass media by reconstructing Farocki's polemics with terrorist movements. He analyses parodying the use of television aesthetics in Inextinguishable Fire (1969) and includes it into the tradition of fighting the tabloid media. He is interested in the reevaluation of the relation between the body and image, which enables reaching beyond the pattern of empathy by means of identification and the idea of “Einfühlung, which has caused the alienation effect.”

Introduction

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Marina Dekavalla
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Direct Democracy ◽  
Media Framing ◽  
The Public ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
The Mass Media ◽  
The Public Sphere

This chapter discusses the significance of referendum campaigns as an increasingly used form of direct democracy and explores the role of the mass media in determining how referendums are understood in the public sphere. It introduces the idea of media framing and sets out the research questions addressed in this book.

COUNTERING CONSERVATIVE-RADICAL UNDERSTANDING BY MAINSTREAMING MODERAT ISLAM AND THE ROLE OF EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION IN INDONESIA

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Amin Maghfuri
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
The Government

In recent years, the landscape showing a conservative tendency in religion hassignificantly increased. The Islamic Conservatives in Indonesia experienced unexpected and quite surprising growth and development, and perhaps reached its peak in the last 3-5 years. The negative excesses of this conservative tendency are quite worrying and have the potential to disrupt the sustainability of democracy and the integrity of the nation. This research seeks to elaborate efforts to mainstream moderate Islam which is the main agenda of the government (Ministry of Religion) as a step to counter conservative understanding and see how the role of educational institutions there. This research is a qualitative research focusing on the literature study and using a descriptive-analysis approach. The results of this study indicate that in an effort to mainstream moderate Islam, educational institutions play a significant role although not the only determinant. This role can be realized through several aspects such as curriculum and learning processes in educational institutions, supervision and guidance of programs or activities outside the curriculum of educational institutions starting from elementary to high levels, as well as through educational institutions policies.

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