Foreword

10.47908/13/f ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Ryuko Kubota
Keyword(s):  
Language Ideologies ◽  
The World ◽  
Relations Of Power

In this foreword, Kubota shares some portraits which reveal the multiple and diverse stories of eikaiwa learners, which are influenced by broader forces, such as language ideologies and various relations of power. In addition, she draws on her previous research related to the struggles of eikaiwa teachers and suggests that in order to understand the world of eikaiwa more fully, multiple players and structures need to be examined. She ends her chapter by saying "This ground-breaking book illuminates this other side of the eikaiwa world by uncovering the diverse yet hidden voices of eikaiwa teachers. Their stories of marginalities, ambitions, and possibilities help us understand how these teachers pursue their careers as professionals, engage in education, and negotiate challenges" (p. 3).

The sociological canon reconfigured: Empire, colonial critique, and contemporary sociology

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (5) ◽  
pp. 545-557 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anaheed Al-Hardan
Keyword(s):  
Political Change ◽  
Colonial Modernity ◽  
Contemporary Sociology ◽  
The World ◽  
Structural Relations ◽  
Modern Experience ◽  
Relations Of Power ◽  
Important Shift

The essay reviews three books that were published consecutively in the last three years, and argues that they represent an important shift in sociology that could potentially reconfigure the discipline and the discipline’s theoretical canon. This is because these books make the modern experience of European empires, colonialism, and, in many instances, incomplete decolonization central to sociology. They also question the discipline’s origin narratives and these narratives’ implications in colonial modernity. Thus, the books hold up a mirror reflecting back onto the discipline of sociology its own implication in European empires and colonization and demonstrate how sociology’s imperial episteme continues to shape the discipline today. This article reviews these books and focuses on how they engage in the double task of the deconstruction of sociology’s complicity in empire and the construction of a colonial critique-centered sociology. This is a sociology, the essay argues, which is invested in analyzing structural relations of power in view of the legacies of empire and colonialism. It is also one that asks questions relevant to contemporary realities for the purposes of effecting political change in the world.

scholarly journals The Dialectics of Praxis

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Carpenter ◽  
Genevieve Ritchie ◽  
Shahrzad Mojab
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Immigrant Women ◽  
Community Services ◽  
The State ◽  
The World ◽  
Critical Feminist ◽  
Relations Of Power ◽  
The Relationship

This paper takes up the theorization of the dialectical relationships between consciousness, praxis, and contradiction by drawing primarily on the work of critical feminist and anti-racist scholars Roxana Ng and Paula Allman. Beginning with the important Marxist theorizations of the lives of immigrant women, the state, and community services made by Roxana Ng, we move forward with asserting that Roxana’s commitment to making social relations of power and exploitation ‘knowable’ and ‘transformable’ is based on a complex and revolutionary articulation of the relationship between thinking and being. This dialectical conceptualization of praxis is necessary for any potentially coherent revolutionary feminist anti-racist project. The challenge posed by Roxana is two-fold: not only how best to ‘know’ the world, but how to teach this analysis and generate revolutionary practice.

Negotiating Gender, Popular Culture, and Social Justice in Music Education

2015 ◽  
pp. 581-597
Author(s):  
Joseph Abramo
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Music Education ◽  
Popular Music ◽  
Music Videos ◽  
Female Empowerment ◽  
Music Video ◽  
The World ◽  
Relations Of Power

This chapter describes how educators may use Stuart Hall’s encoding/decoding model to create instruction and curricula that challenge students to critically examine popular music. Through this process, students generate dominant, oppositional, and negotiated readings of songs, music videos, and other popular culture texts, and situate these readings within relations of power and privilege. This pedagogical process is illustrated in an analysis of contested notions of “female empowerment” in Beyoncé Knowles’s music video Run the World (Girls). Finally, limitations of the encoding/decoding model are accounted in order to create new aims for social justice in music education, including the exploration of diversity and the exploration of societal power and privilege in the production and reception of popular music.

Insurgent words: challenging the coloniality of language

2021 ◽  
Vol 272 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-126
Author(s):  
Ana Deumert
Keyword(s):  
Language Ideologies ◽  
World System ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Global South ◽  
Political Practice ◽  
Art And Politics ◽  
Scale Resistance ◽  
The World ◽  
Micro Level

Abstract This article explores language ideologies and sociolinguistic scales from the perspective of decolonization. Coloniality is a multi-scalar world system that affects micro-level interactions in multiple locales, both in the metropole and in the former colonies. Not only does coloniality exist on a world scale, resistance to it is scaled up too and engulfs the world. The linguistic tradition that I seek to trace in this article is imaginative, creative and oriented towards alternative decolonial futures. It speaks to the experience of the coloniality of language, of language as alienating and oppressive, and to the corresponding desire, and need, for a different language. It articulates a decolonial philosophy and brings art and politics together to change the world. I show that the global south was, and is, an intellectual-artistic-political vanguard, articulating and shaping discourses about language and revolutionary action. In philosophical, artistic and political practice – stretching from Martinique to Paris, from Cape Town to Kingston – language and revolutionary practice merge into one: language no longer just reflects reality, it can change it.

Towards a Postcolonial Genealogy of International Organizations Law

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 841-869 ◽  
Author(s):  
GUY FITI SINCLAIR
Keyword(s):  
International Organizations ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
World War ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The World ◽  
International Legal System ◽  
Relations Of Power ◽  
Second World

AbstractThis article sketches the contours of a postcolonial genealogy of international organizations law. Contrary to conventional accounts, which remain strongly Eurocentric, the article claims that international organizations law did not emerge until the closing stages of the Second World War, and that its evolution was strongly influenced by the accelerating processes of decolonization that accompanied its birth. More specifically, the article argues that the emergence of international organizations law was spurred by a series of perceived problems regarding the adequacy of the international legal system in the aftermath of the end of formal colonial rule, in which the relations of power constructed through colonialism remained profoundly implicated. The politics of decolonization thus shaped the practice of international organizations, provided the catalyst for many of the foundational cases in international organizations law, and motivated much of its early doctrinal scholarship. Moreover, the article argues that the functionalist logic of international organizations law is deeply embedded in a postcolonial imaginary which, by supporting the division of the world into formally equivalent nation-states, ostensibly cuts against the hegemonic territorialism of colonial governance.

Functional differentiation as ideology of the (neo)colonial society

Thesis Eleven ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 143 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guilherme Leite Gonçalves
Keyword(s):  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Functional Differentiation ◽  
Regional Inequality ◽  
Social Differentiation ◽  
Dominant Position ◽  
Colonial Society ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
The World ◽  
Relations Of Power ◽  
Marxist Tradition

This article discusses the ideological character of the notion of functional differentiation. According to Luhmann, the development of worldwide social differentiation (that is, the rise of the world society) leads to different regional developments and generates, through the inclusion/exclusion code, a division of the world between places where the functional differentiation operates appropriately and inappropriately. This paper argues, however, that functional differentiation is only readable as an ensemble of relations of power and ideological discourses. This subject is developed in light of theoretical approaches from the Marxist tradition and from postcolonial studies. Regarding the first, the functional differentiation is reread as an abstract and generic equality, which permits the material reproduction of regional inequality. This idea provides a background for discussing the ideological features of the functional differentiation which serves the dominant position of Western countries in the international arena since it enables the maintenance of a ruling ideology, according to which the world is differentiated between the ‘civilized’ West (where democracy performs positively) and the ‘uncivilized’ non-West (where democracy performs negatively).

scholarly journals The New Geopolitical Environment of Turkey

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hakkı Çiftçi ◽  
Murat Koç
Keyword(s):  
World Order ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Strategic Decisions ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
End Of History ◽  
The Us ◽  
New Process ◽  
The World ◽  
The End Of History ◽  
Relations Of Power

The World Political Atlas has been reorganized, the direction of this reorganization is determined by shared sovereignty reflexes, and is applied through strategic decisions. Metropolitan and hinterland borders form the backbone of the newly formed world political atlas Various western- (or the US) origin approaches such as “Neo Liberal Colonialism” , The Clashes of Civilizations”, “The End of History”, and Eurasian Sovereignty”, introduced as the application components of the framework of sovereignty, attract particular attention as the primary sources of the newly formed political atlas . Within the embracing scope of the concept of globalization, “The new World Order” formed through a new political atmosphere with such concepts and claims as “postmodernism”, neo-liberalism”, “the end of history”, and “the cashes of civilizations” can neither maintain its validity nor is wholly embracing in its attempt to perceive the political future of the world . Instead of establishing a comprehensive reconciliatory platform, all of these concepts and claims reflect enormous controversy due to their characteristics leading to constant arguments and, therefore, result in new conflicts, new political actors, new relations of power, and new searches for sovereignty. New “geopolitical gaps” constitute the focus of sovereignty and power relations of the new process.

Organismo e Arte na Filosofia de Nietzsche

2007 ◽  
Vol 15 (29) ◽  
pp. 35-47
Author(s):  
Clademir Luís Araldi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Will To Power ◽  
The World ◽  
The Will ◽  
The Creation ◽  
New Interpretation ◽  
Relations Of Power

This article aims at analyzing the relations between art and organism in Nietzsche’s thought, having as its guiding line the attempt to build a new interpretation of the nature, beyond the ancient and modern teleological models. Using Nietzsche’s critique to Kant’s and Espinosas’s models of organism, it is questioned if the creation of artistic matrix expresses the effective relations of power in the world, or if it is a manifestation of the will to power, while being human will for illusion.

Diversity of attitudes to English in non-professional public discourse: A focus on Lithuania

English Today ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 15-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jūratė Ruzaitė
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Language Ideologies ◽  
Public Attitudes ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Ongoing Debate ◽  
The World ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
International Status ◽  
Different Parts

This paper stems from the ongoing debate on the changing role and status of English in different parts of the world, with a special interest in the socio-historical background of a post-Soviet country. The international status of English has given rise to different reactions among speakers, ranging from attraction to resentment (cf. Onysko, 2009: 34). These reactions are expressed in public online discourse, which provides a rich resource of empirical evidence to study public attitudes and language ideologies. Digital media offers an especially important strategic site to disseminate ideologies and shape public opinions. This paper analyses the spectrum of discourses operating within Lithuanian digital media to perpetuate attitudes towards English and the values associated with it.

scholarly journals Emma Dowling: The Care Crisis: What Caused It and How Can We End It?

2021 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 161-168
Author(s):  
Tereza Butková
Keyword(s):  
Social Care ◽  
Cost Of Care ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Monetary Value ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Relations Of Power

What is care and who is paying for it? Valuing care and care work does not simply mean attributing care work more monetary value. To really achieve change, we must go so much further.As the world becomes seemingly more uncaring, the calls for people to be more compassionate and empathetic towards one another—in short, to care more—become ever-more vocal. The Care Crisis challenges the idea that people ever stopped caring, but also that the deep and multi-faceted crises of our time will be solved by simply (re)instilling the virtues of empathy. There is no easy fix.In this groundbreaking book, Emma Dowling charts the multi-faceted nature of care in the modern world, from the mantras of self-care and what they tell us about our anxieties, to the state of the social care system. She examines the relations of power that play profitability and care off in against one another in a myriad of ways, exposing the devastating impact of financialisation and austerity.The Care Crisis enquires into the ways in which the continued off-loading of the cost of care onto the shoulders of underpaid and unpaid realms of society, untangling how this off-loading combines with commodification, marketisation and financialisation to produce the mess we are living in. The Care Crisis charts the current experiments in short-term fixes to the care crisis that are taking place within Britain, with austerity as the backdrop. It maps the economy of abandonment, raising the question: to whom care is afforded? What would it mean to seriously value care?

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