Search results for "debate"

‘Mind the Gap: IR and the challenge of international politics'

2015

The discipline of International Relations (IR) for a long time of its history has developed in the form of Great Debates that involved competing paradigms and schools. More recently, it has been described as a cacophony of voices unable to communicate among themselves, but also incapable to provide keys to understand an ever more complex reality. This collection aims at evaluating the heuristic value of a selection of traditional paradigms (realism and liberalism), schools (constructivism), and subdisciplines (security studies and international political economy) so as to assess the challenges before IR theory today and the ability of the discipline to provide tools to make the changed worl…

Conditions of cultural citizenship: intersections of gender, race and age in public debates on family migration

2015

This article analyses problem framings in public debates on family migration in Finland. The study focuses on the less-examined category of age and how it intersects with gender, race and religion. We examine the discursive context within which parliamentarians and the media negotiate questions of migration policies, belonging and citizenship. Our analysis identifies problem framings by combining frame analysis with the ‘What is the problem represented to be?’ approach, which understands policies as problematizations. We found that the debates held up the rather common notion of vulnerable women and children as groups that tighter family migration policies protect. The debates excluded cert…

Gli ebrei in Italia, il dibattito su Israele e la questione ebraica. Quattro riflessioni recenti

2022

La storia degli ebrei nell'Italia contemporanea è stata molto discussa dalla recente storiografia. In questa nota si prendono in esame quattro libri pubblicati tra il 2018 e il 2020 che affrontano il tema da prospettive differenti come il ruolo politico degli ebrei nell'Italia liberale e negli anni della grande guerra, la storia delle persecuzioni in età fascista, il problematico avvento della Repubblica, la raffigurazione degli ebrei e di Israele nelle sinistre italiane e la più generale percezione di Israele nel mondo politico e culturale italiano.

Debates metodes izmantošana vidusskolas mācīšanas processā

2021

Diplomdarba ietvaros tika aprobēta un izvērtēta debates metode vidusskolas mācīšanas procesā ģeogrāfijas priekšmeta ietvaros. Debates ir lietderīga un skolēniem saistoša alternatīva klasiskajām ģeogrāfijas stundām, kas dažādo mācību pieejas un stilus. Tika izstrādāti mācību stundu plāni debašu organizēšanai, kā arī tika izstrādāti palīgmateriāli, kurus var izmantot, lai iepazīstinātu skolēnus ar debates metodi. Diplomdarbā izklāstīta autora pieredze un apskatīta debašu ietekme uz skolēnu kritiskās domāšanas spējām un prasmi strādāt komandās.

El inmitten como el extremo del término medio

2008

En este trabajo se analiza el debate entre Heidegger y Cassirer en torno a la pregunta kantiana "¿Qué es el hombre?" que tuvo lugar en Davos (1929). En ese respecto se hace un especial hincapié en el protagonismo que adquieren para Heidegger la "facticidad" y la "condición de arrojado" en su reformulación de la filosofía trascendental kantiana frente al neokantismo. Se presta asimismo una especial atención al papel que juega la afectividad en el marco general de la obra de Heidegger y sus consecuencias "políticas", tanto en el famoso debate de Davos como en su diagnóstico de la crisis de 1929.

The problems of ‘competence’ and alternatives from the Scandinavian perspective ofBildung

2015

The paper aims to show how competence as an educational concept for the 21st century is struggling with theoretical problems for which the concept of Bildung in the European tradition can offer alternatives, and to discuss the possibility of developing a sustainable educational concept from the perspectives of competence and Bildung. The method of the study is conceptual analysis of ‘competence’ and Bildung. The paper concludes that (1) competence must be abandoned as an educational concept, as its problems cannot be solved due to the lack of a theory of educational content. With competence, the content aspect of education is obscured and hidden from public debate, and human autonomy is thr…

Belìce Valley: from earthquake to local development perspectives

2019

This paper aims to retrace, through a critic study of the scientific debate, the Belice Valley’s territorial context after the 1968 violent earthquake and to identify the actual development perspectives of the area. By using official dataset and consolidated bibliography we identify the peculiar weakness of the socio-economical structure of Belice Valley, a marginal territory of Sicily (Italy), when the earthquake stroke, but also the start of a local identity building process in the aftermath of the seism. We also recognize, in the LAG—Local Action Group—strategy, a possibility to strenghten, nowadays, the local development of the area through the utilization of its milieu and its own pote…

Belief reports and pragmatic intrusion: the case of null appositives

2008

Coercive metaphors in news headlines :a cognitive-pragmatic approach

2014

This article explores the application of metaphors in news headlines with a view to interrogating their potential for coercion. Coercion in news discourse is understood as a strategic deployment of pragma-linguistic devices, including metaphors, to foreground the representations of socio-political reality that are compatible with the interests of the news outlet rather than those that inform public debate. It is argued that coercion can be exposed through systematic discourse analysis. Methodologically, the study aims to integrate the cognitive and pragmatic approaches to metaphor in regarding it as both a conceptual building block of news representations and a strategic framing device in n…

Convencer mirando a cámara: el minuto de oro de los debates electorales como refugio de condensación retórica

2021

This paper studies the final statements (“golden minutes”) of televised electoral debates in Spain between 1993 and 2019. The methodology is adjusted to the cognitive analysis of discourse, analyzing three pragmatic indicators that could reveal an evolution in three stages of Spanish politics: the bipartisan phase (1993-2011), an adjustment phase (2011-2015) and a multiparty phase (2015- 2019). The discursive spaces dependent on the predicative strategy, the predominant illocutionary force, and the use of superstructures are analyzed. It is concluded that, for the three phases, the variables referring to the use of enunciative persons (which points to the introduction of the ethos of discou…