Search results for "Political action"
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The impurity of praxis : Arendt and Agamben
2023
AbstractIf politics is understood as a foundational and open-ended activity, a general problem that arises from such a framing concerns the question of how to sustain the possibility of continuous openings without converting action into permanence and closure. In this article, we approach this problematic by treating Hannah Arendt as an exemplary figure in the current of political thought that emphasizes the indeterminate nature of action. We focus more specifically on how Arendt addressed the question of sustaining action by exploring the role of forgiveness, promises, divided power, and principles of action in her thought. While we show that the task of sustaining the indeterminacy of act…
Democracy as Action in Concert and Social State’s Future
2015
This article departs from the analysis of the two possible and opposing visions of politics that distinguishes Arendt: politics as a way of dominion and politics as action in concert. It presents the problem of the necessity to regenerate democracy on the basis of a greater political commitment of all citizens, going deep into the conditions under which democracies can effectively become channels for political action in the noblest sense of the term: as the ability of a group to act in concert, to pursue common objectives, to work for the general interest and the justice of institutions. These conditions for a civic democracy would be mainly: social cohesion, participation and inclusion
The nested games of the UK’s EU referendum: ruptures, reconfigurations and lessons for Europe
2021
The 2016 decision by the United Kingdom to withdraw from the European Union was a seminal one for both parties. In this special issue, we consider the extent to which the inter-penetration of the national and the European arenas produced significant opportunities for recasting political action. The nesting of these two levels matters firstly in allowing for the politicisation and mobilisation of domestic actors around European issues and secondly in explaining why seemingly sub-optimal or counter-productive actions are taken. The tensions this generated reached a critical juncture with the referendum, a rupture that highlights the extent to which a nominally second-order vote can have funda…
Public opinion, media and activism: the differentiating role of media use and perceptions of public opinion on political behaviour
2021
To what extent do perceptions of public opinion effect individual support and political participation in political action? To what extent might media use moderate the role of public opinion in pred...
La identidad Neozapatista como proceso comunicativo
2018
International audience; This article studies the speech and the political action of the Zapatista movement,considering both as a communicative practice that is articulated among a plurality of uses and“cultural matrices” (Martín Barbero, 1987) in what has constituted the Neozapatista social subject.Firstly, the discursive aspects of the Zapatista statements are reviewed, with their narrativestrategies, key representations and conditions of reproduction. Secondly, an emphasis is made onthe systematic study of its political-media trajectory throughout its already long history, analyzingthe conventions, the encounters and other Zapatista actions and political initiatives. The resultsoffer an o…
El Activismo de ABC y El Debate frente a la educación en la II República
2013
El presente trabajo analiza la acción social desarrollada por los diarios católicos Abc y El Debate durante la II República española a propósito de las reformas aprobadas en el campo de la enseñanza. Para ello, se analizan las estrategias de enmarcado dominantes a partir del examen de 355 documentos, publicados entre 1931 y 1933. Los resultados muestran que el discurso de estos periódicos buscó promover la movilización social. This paper analyzes the social action developed by the Catholic newspapers Abc and El Debate during the Second Republic with regard to the reforms adopted in the field of education. With this aim, we analyze the dominant framing strategies by means of the examination …
Traducción y género: el estado de la cuestión en España
2011
Todo proceso experimenta periodos de avance e involución. Ahora que el feminismo resulta relevante en tantas esferas de la acción política en el mundo, ya sean locales o internacionales, y que la traducción es, más que nunca, reconocida y valorada como un instrumento en las relaciones políticas, este parece ser un buen momento para reflexionar sobre el estado de la cuestión en torno al feminismo dentro del mundo de la traducción, donde es ya innegable que se entrelazan la política y el lenguaje. Son muchas las preguntas que cabría formularse: ¿sigue siendo la traducción feminista un campo de investigación interesante en España? ¿Han avanzado al mismo ritmo la teoría y la práctica? ¿Han alte…
Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Politics: An Interpretation
2018
Bourdieu’s theory of politics can be divided into three components: a general analysis of the social aspects of the political (le politique), a more specific analysis of politics (la politique), and his political practices. The author analyzes Bourdieu’s conception of social domination through topics such as political judgment and delegation and then his theory of the political field. In Bourdieu’s structuralist framework, the struggle for domination takes place between the dominant and the dominated. The second component restricts political action to a more specific social location, the political field. For Bourdieu, the division of society into social classes forms the explanatory basis f…
Understanding Debate as Politics
2017
The book’s core idea is to present and explain how different actual and virtual debates can be understood and analysed as political actions. We want to provide tools and ways for grasping the complex phenomenon of politics by concentrating on debate, including debates carried out in, or reflected by, documents. The approach proposed allows for a nuanced and detailed understanding of politics, as it does justice to the aims of political actors, taking into account their actions, interests, moves and strategies, and situating them in relation to the different contexts in which their contributions make a difference. The first chapter presents the theoretical and methodological background by an…
L’exemplum del Dinomenide Gelone tra memoria civica e storiografica
2015
La storia della Sicilia greca è scandita, nei suoi momenti chiave, dalla persistente presenza dell’immagine del Dinomenide Gelone. Questo lavoro analizza le valenze paradigmatiche assunte dalla sua figura nella memoria civica siracusana e nella produzione storiografica; inoltre ricostruisce le dinamiche politiche che hanno spinto i principali tiranni siracusani (da Dionisio I a Ierone II) a stabilire un confronto con Gelone. Il suo exemplum è utilizzato per legittimare azioni politiche e impegno antipunico; particolare attenzione è posta alla Biblioteca storica di Diodoro Siculo e al ruolo che in essa assume la figura del Dinomenide; in relazione a questi aspetti l’opera dell’Agirinense sem…