Showing papers on "Emancipation published in 2021"
TL;DR: This paper examined the long-run economic consequences of Russian serfdom and found that a 25% increase in the number of serf suicides occurred after emancipation in 1861, compared to the year before.
Abstract: This paper examines the long-run economic consequences of Russian serfdom. Employing data on the intensity of labor coercion just prior to emancipation in 1861, we document that a 25 percentage poi...
45 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a systematic theoretical analysis of the main visions of the concept of scientific literacy developed in the last 20 years, and describe a transition from a transmissive educational vision of science literacy to a transformative vision (Vision-III), with a stronger engagement with social participation and emancipation.
Abstract: The paper provides a systematic theoretical analysis of the main visions of the concept of scientific literacy developed in the last 20 years. It is described as a transition from a transmissive educational vision of scientific literacy (Vision-I) to a transformative vision (Vision-III), with a stronger engagement with social participation and emancipation. Using conceptual tools from sociology and the philosophy of education, the notions of science participation and emancipation associated with transformative Vision-III are critically analyzed in order to draw attention to the growing need to define them with greater accuracy as key conceptual components of scientific literacy. Without such an approach, it will be difficult for science education to materialize and consolidate educational actions that are pedagogically sound, culturally and socially sensitive, and coherent with the social transformation of the diverse conditions of oppression. It is concluded that Vision-III should include both a broad conception of participation, which makes visible the invisible and informal acts performed by diverse groups to build society, and an alternative notion of emancipation committed to liberation.
32 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that despite the extreme constraints of working in stigmatized domains, entrepreneurs work not only in socially accepted and valued domains but also in highly contested, stigmatized industries.
Abstract: Entrepreneurs work not only in socially accepted and valued domains but also in highly contested, stigmatized industries. Despite the extreme constraints of working in stigmatized domains, entrepre...
25 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore peasant territories as an emancipatory alternative in the context of authoritarian populism and neo-liberalism by focusing on two agroecological peasant territories in Brazil.
Abstract: We explore peasant territories as an emancipatory alternative in the context of authoritarian populism and neo-liberalism by focusing on two agroecological peasant territories in Brazil. We argue t...
25 citations
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Abstract: This chapter investigates the long-standing myth of Jewish ritual murder from a perspective that combines the sociology of knowledge and historical contextualization. It proceeds from a consideration of the paradigms produced in medieval Christian societies regarding Jewish guilt and criminality and balances these images against concrete social interactions of Jews and Christians in specific settings and in the context of changing social, political, and historical circumstances. Prominent blood libel cases, stretching from twelfth-and thirteenth-century England and France, and reaching into twentieth-century Central Europe and Russia, reveal that the accusation in fact comprised a discontinuous phenomenon. The surprising number of ritual murder trials that took place in Europe at the turn of the twentieth century, for example, functioned as a rhetorical assault on the recently completed emancipation of Jews. They constituted not so much a return to “medieval superstition” as prosecutions that could only be articulated through the language and procedures of modern, forensic science.
23 citations
TL;DR: This article explored slavery and emancipation through the work of the painter Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), the "father of Impressionism" and the "slave painter" of the French Revolution.
Abstract: This study explores slavery and emancipation through the work of the painter Camille Pissarro (1830-1903). Sometimes called the “Father of Impressionism,” Pissarro, a Caribbean native of Sephardic ...
18 citations
TL;DR: Prefigurative mobilizations replace protest with direct action, means and ends becoming ideally one and the same as mentioned in this paper, and this entails a two-step movement: first, subtraction (withdrawal) from...
Abstract: Prefigurative mobilizations replace protest with direct action, means and ends becoming ideally one and the same. Analytically this entails a two-step movement: first, subtraction (withdrawal) from...
17 citations
TL;DR: This paper contextualized the Gibbon Wakefield's plan of systematic colonisation of Australia within the social and political economic debates surrounding the process of slave emancipation in the early 19th century.
Abstract: This essay contextualizes Edward Gibbon Wakefield’s plan of systematic colonization of Australia within the social and political economic debates surrounding the process of slave emancipation in th...
17 citations
TL;DR: The ideal of emancipation has been traditionally grounded on the premise that human activity is not restrained by external boundaries as mentioned in this paper, and thus the realisation of values such as autonomy or recognition.
Abstract: The ideal of emancipation has been traditionally grounded on the premise that human activity is not restrained by external boundaries. Thus the realisation of values such as autonomy or recognition...
16 citations
TL;DR: The main trust of this article unfolds around the impasse of democratic politics today, marked by the fading belief in the presumably superior architecture of liberal democratic institutions to nur....
Abstract: The main trust of this article unfolds around the impasse of democratic politics today, marked by the fading belief in the presumably superior architecture of liberal democratic institutions to nur...
16 citations
TL;DR: The authors address the ways in which debates in liberal, post-post)Marxist and post-modernist social theory have remoulded readings of emancipation and how these reformulations have affected reading of emancipation.
Abstract: In this article, I address the ways in which debates in liberal, (post)Marxist and postmodernist social theory have remoulded readings of emancipation – and how these reformulations have affected t...
05 May 2021
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the evolution of the concept of political communication is presented, where the authors show the need for higher levels of exchange and consensus between the political and citizen spheres, concerning the messages, symbols, and opinions that, through political communication, build digital public opinion.
Abstract: This article proposes, from an extensive bibliographic review, to reflect on the concept of Political Communication and on the impact that the digital environment has had on the role of the three actors involved in it —politicians, the media, and citizenship—. Through a review of the evolution of the concept, we position political communication in a fourth phase characterized by detachment and discredit towards political and media bodies, demassification, media diversification, disintermediation, and the emancipation of digital citizenship. The phenomenon of political communication is addressed from its linkage to the classic concepts of Public Space and Public Opinion, which are extrapolated to the context of cyber democracy to question whether the interaction processes that develop in it, lead to a model of deliberative democracy. In response, this study shows the need for higher levels of exchange and consensus, especially between the political and citizen spheres, concerning the messages, symbols, and opinions that, through political communication, build digital public opinion. The possibility of deliberative democracy is a distant glimpse. The discursive confrontation typical of traditional political communication is transferred to the online environment, with the only caveat that, now and for now; it is more equated between the three elements involved there.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore some of the fundamental notions that connect the narrative of feminist emancipation to the experience of motherhood, and elucidate any inherent contradictions, appraise the inherent contradictions.
Abstract: This article aims to explore some of the fundamental notions that connect the narrative of feminist emancipation to the experience of motherhood. It elucidates any inherent contradictions, appraise...
TL;DR: The modern outlook on emancipation has made its quest inseparable from a quest for endless enhancement, based on an ever-more intensive exploitation of the biophysical world as discussed by the authors, which accounts for how...
Abstract: The modern outlook on emancipation has made its quest inseparable from a quest for endless enhancement, based on an ever-more intensive exploitation of the biophysical world. This accounts for how ...
TL;DR: In this article, the authors aim to contribute toward transcending the dichotomy between deconstruction and reconstruction in critical security studies, by reviewing dominant (western/liberal) logi...
Abstract: This article aims to contribute toward transcending the dichotomy between deconstruction and reconstruction in critical security studies. In the first part, I review dominant (Western/liberal) logi...
25 Feb 2021
TL;DR: In moments of weakness, how I had sighed, and even shed tears of compassion and anger, at the damnable cruelties which I saw inflicted upon Blacks at the Cape of Good Hope! And yet, in spite of my reason and every better feeling of my nature, I brought myself to find excuses for the Spaniards, Americans, and Dutch; aye, even to think that a few thousand Negroes would be a great acquisition to New South Wales! So they would; and they would conduce to the wealth, and deny it who will even to the civilization
Abstract: In moments of weakness, how I had sighed, and even shed tears of compassion and anger, at the damnable cruelties which I saw inflicted upon Blacks at the Cape of Good Hope! And yet, in spite of my reason and every better feeling of my nature, I brought myself to find excuses for the Spaniards, Americans, and Dutch; aye, even to think that a few thousand Negroes would be a great acquisition to New South Wales! So they would; and they would conduce to the wealth, and – deny it who will – even to the civilization of these colonial landowners. What made Lord – a rich, well-educated, and agreeable gentleman? – The sweat, and blood, and tears of his and his father’s slaves in Jamaica! We have a right to presume that slavery will flourish in America and South Africa, until there shall be no more land to be obtained for next to nothing; and that the inhabitants of Australasia must, for hundreds of years to come, secretly long for a trade in human flesh. . . . if Australasia should become independent to-morrow, these people would find some means of establishing slavery in spite of all the saints. Edward Gibbon Wakefield, Letter from Sydney, 1829, p. 42.
TL;DR: Career Guidance for Emancipation as discussed by the authors is an edited collection of work produced by Tristram Hooley, Ronald Sultana and Rie Thomsen.
Abstract: Career Guidance for Emancipation is an edited collection of work produced by Tristram Hooley, Ronald Sultana and Rie Thomsen. It follows on from their 2018 publication ‘Career Guidance for Social J...
04 May 2021
TL;DR: Fally Kebbeh and Mamadi Kumba as discussed by the authors were two slave descendants born in rural Gambia in the 1910s and migrated to Bathurst, Australia during World War II.
Abstract: Fally Kebbeh and Mamadi Kumba were two slave descendants born in rural Gambia in the 1910s. By following their migration in the period before the outbreak of World War II to Bathurst, the capital o...
TL;DR: Emancipatory politics and the very idea of emancipation have come under pressure. Feminist and post-colonial critiques, the appropriation of emancipatory ideals by right-wing populists and the cris...
Abstract: Emancipatory politics and the very idea of emancipation have come under pressure. Feminist and post-colonial critiques, the appropriation of emancipatory ideals by right-wing populists and the cris...
TL;DR: The post-secular condition, characterised by deep religious pluralism, the resurgence of right-wing populism, as well as... as discussed by the authors has been discussed in recent debates in liberal political theory.
Abstract: Recent debates in liberal political theory have sought to come to terms with the post-secular condition, characterised by deep religious pluralism, the resurgence of right-wing populism, as well as...
TL;DR: McGowan is professor of film studies at the University of Vermont and author of The Impossible David Lynch (2007) and Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets (2016) as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Todd McGowan is professor of film studies at the University of Vermont and author of The Impossible David Lynch (2007) and Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets (2016) This most
TL;DR: The Faure report as discussed by the authors has been used to argue for the emancipation of education in the world of today, arguing that the right to education has, over time, been transformed into a duty to learn, and that this duty has been strongly tied to economic purposes.
Abstract: Fifty years after UNESCO’s publication of Learning to be: The world of education today and tomorrow, the author of this article provides an assessment of this seminal report, commonly known as “the Faure report”. He characterises the educational vision of the report as humanistic and democratic and highlights its emphasis on the need for educational provision throughout the life-course. He demonstrates how the right to education has, over time, been transformed into a duty to learn, Moreover, this duty has been strongly tied to economic purposes, particularly the individual’s duty to remain employable in a fast-changing labour market. Rather than suggesting that Edgar Faure and his International Commission on the Development of Education set a particular agenda for education that has, over time, been replaced by an altogether different agenda, the author suggests a reading of the report which understands it as making a case for a particular relationship between education and society, namely one in which the integrity of education itself is acknowledged and education is not reduced to a mere instrument for delivering particular agendas. Looking back at the report five decades later, he argues that it provides a strong argument for the emancipation of education itself, and that this argument is still needed in the world of today.
TL;DR: The authors argue that students' lives, both in and out of school, are full of different forms of value, including financial capital; their fit to hegemonic social practices; excellent h...
Abstract: Students’ lives, both in and out of school, are full of different forms of value. Wealthy students enjoy value in the form of financial capital; their fit to hegemonic social practices; excellent h...
TL;DR: The authors reviewed longstanding debates about the relationship between power over and power to, often posed as the tension between domination and emancipation, and then turned to several framework-based approaches to understand the relationship.
Abstract: This article reviews longstanding debates about the relationship between power over and power to – often posed as the tension between domination and emancipation. It then turns to several framework...
30 Jun 2021
TL;DR: A Canadian Muslim Reformist, Irshad Manji, has strived to introduce her thoughts concerning the emancipation of LGBT-Q rights around the world as discussed by the authors, and she offered a "reformed interpretation" of The Qur'an to reveal alternatives of theological understanding regarding some verses about LGBTQ.
Abstract: A Canadian Muslim Reformist, Irshad Manji, has strived to introduce her thoughts concerning the emancipation of LGBT-Q rights around the world. Accordingly, She offered a ‘reformed interpretation’ of The Qur’an to reveal alternatives of theological understanding regarding some verses about LGBT-Q. This paper will enquire Manji’s fundamental idea and the method in commenting and interpreting LGBT-Q verses in the Qur’an, as her endeavor was considered closely similar to Hermeneutics, a method of interpretation developed in the Catholic-Christian World. This paper found the domination of Hermeneutics on Manji’s attempt in understanding the Qur’an constructing her argumentation about LGBT-Q. In the perspective of Science of Qur’an and Tafsir, Manji has manipulated Qur’anic verses to support her campaign emancipating LGBT-Q rights in the whole domains, especially in their sexual expression.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose to reconceptualise emancipation in critically theorizing International Relations (IR) by developing "thin" and "thick" versions of normativity and applying them as conditions for equality.
Abstract: This article seeks to reconceptualise emancipation in critically theorising International Relations (IR) by developing ‘thin’ and ‘thick’ versions of normativity and applying them as conditions for...
TL;DR: The figure of the "uneducated" has been brought into glaring view, from Trump's 'love' of the 'poorly educated' to analyses suggesting a supposed 'uneducated populous' is responsib...
Abstract: Contemporary politics has brought the figure of the ‘uneducated’ into glaring view, from Trump’s ‘love’ of the ‘poorly educated’ to analyses suggesting a supposed ‘uneducated populous’ is responsib...
04 Aug 2021
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the process of women entrepreneurship in India from a social perspective using the concept of entrepreneurship as emancipation and investigate the social process through which a women entrepreneur passes through after taking the decision to start a business venture.
Abstract:
Purpose
This study aims to explore the process of women entrepreneurship in India from a social perspective using the concept of entrepreneurship as emancipation.
Design/methodology/approach
An interpretive approach is applied to address the study objectives, and based on an inductive method, the non-economic antecedents that led women to start entrepreneurship ventures are explored using 33 in-depth interviews. The study explores beyond the motivations and investigates the social process through which a women entrepreneur passes through after taking the decision to start a business venture.
Findings
Major findings indicate entrepreneurship as a change process where changes in both the entrepreneur and her social surroundings are observed with time. More detailed analysis reveal opposing (the entrepreneur) social forces in the initiation phase but more supportive social set up in the later phases of the entrepreneurship. The results support the process of entrepreneurship as emancipation (with stages such as seeking autonomy, authoring and declaring).
Research limitations/implications
The present study supports the concept of entrepreneurship as an emancipation process, and how it unfolds as a gendered process in a society where women (in general) are still not treated as equals.
Practical implications
The study has practical implications for entrepreneurs and their stakeholder networks.
Social implications
The findings have novel social implications on how a broader social structure has an influence on the entrepreneurship journey of a woman.
Originality/value
To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first study to explore the phenomenon of entrepreneurship as an emancipation for women entrepreneurs of elite families in a developing nation who have started their business from non-economic needs.
TL;DR: French lithographer Adolphe Duperly created three remarkable prints in 1833, between Jamaica's last slave revolt (1831-1832) and Emancipation (1834) as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: French lithographer Adolphe Duperly created three remarkable prints in 1833, between Jamaica's last slave revolt (1831–1832) and Emancipation (1834). He appropriated images from James Hakewill's Pi...
TL;DR: In this article, a critical social theory may join in, by not only observing the world but by also taking sides in it, to judge between legitimate and illegitimate claims to autonomy.
Abstract: Emancipation serves not only as a midwife for progressive agendas such as greater equality and sustainability but also as their gravedigger. This diagnosis underpins Ingolfur Bluhdorn’s ‘dialectic of emancipation’, which depicts a dilemma but offers no perspective on how to deal with it. By drawing on Foucault, this article suggests conceiving of emancipation as a task moderns are confronted with even if a given emancipatory project has come to devour its children. Claiming autonomy from given social constellations is key to this task; key also is judging between legitimate and illegitimate claims to autonomy. In late modernity, the criteria for such judgement are no longer universally given. Instead of regarding the latter as entry into mere subjectivism (Bluhdorn), this article presents judgement as a key political, ‘world building’-activity (Arendt), a critical social theory may join in, by not only observing the world but by also taking sides in it.