Huju

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan P. J. Stock
Keyword(s):  
Social Action ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Emotional Expressivity ◽  
Live Performance ◽  
Chinese Opera ◽  
Music Drama ◽  
Chinese Music ◽  
Communist Revolution ◽  
New Social Order

China has over three hundred distinct styles of music drama, from exorcism theatre to farce, historical romance, and shadow puppetry. This study considers one of the newer operatic forms. Established just two centuries ago, huju (Shanghai opera), is renowned for its portrayal of ordinary people, not the emperors, courtesans, and heroes of older forms. Acting and make-up aim for realism rather than symbolism, and stories deal with contemporaneous themes: the struggles of lovers to marry, women's rights after the Communist revolution (1949), and life under the new social order established by Deng Xiaoping's reforms in the 1980s. Music ranges from local folksong to syncretic adoptions of Western popular music. Adding to his extensive research on Chinese music, the author's eighteen months of fieldwork in Shanghai have allowed him to interweave material from historical reports, sound recordings, live performance, and first-hand accounts of three generations of singers into a study of a unique Chinese opera form seen equally as historical tradition, venue for social action, and forum for musical creativity. Assessing first the roots of huju in local folksong and ballad, he looks at the enduring role of emotional expressivity. The text then focuses on the rise of actresses, laying out a ‘musical’ reading of gendered performance.

Scriptural Battlefields: The Old Testament, Legal Culture, and the Polemics of the Spanish New World Empire, 1492–1821

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra ◽  
Adrian Masters
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Social Order ◽  
New World ◽  
Legal Culture ◽  
Spanish Empire ◽  
Correct Interpretation ◽  
Group Status ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Social Order

Scholars have barely begun to explore the role of the Old Testament in the history of the Spanish New World. And yet this text was central for the Empire’s legal thought, playing a role in its legislation, adjudication, and understandings of group status. Institutions like the Council of the Indies, the Inquisition, and the monarchy itself invited countless parallels to ancient Hebrew justice. Scripture influenced how subjects understood and valued imperial space as well as theories about Paradise or King Solomon’s mines of Ophir. Scripture shaped debates about the nature of the New World past, the legitimacy of the conquest, and the questions of mining, taxation, and other major issues. In the world of privilege and status, conquerors and pessimists could depict the New World and its peoples as the antithesis of Israel and the Israelites, while activists, patriots, and women flipped the script with aplomb. In the readings of Indians, American-born Spaniards, nuns, and others, the correct interpretation of the Old Testament justified a new social order where these groups’ supposed demerits were in reality their virtues. Indeed, vassals and royal officials’ interpretations of the Old Testament are as diverse as the Spanish Empire itself. Scripture even outlasted the Empire. As republicans defeated royalists in the nineteenth century, divergent readings of the book, variously supporting the Israelite monarchy or the Hebrew republic, had their day on the battlefield itself.

scholarly journals Brazilian funk as the herald of a new social order: a semiotic analysis of the internet music video “Beijinho no ombro” and its reception in social media

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-20
Author(s):  
Ricardo Nogueira de Castro Monteiro
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Natural Extension ◽  
Music Video ◽  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
Analytical Treatment ◽  
New Social Order ◽  
Generative Approach

The present article aims to analyze the music video “Beijinho no ombro” – a major Brazilian social media phenomenon that reached more than 9 million Youtube views in 3 months in 2014 –, discussing both the processes by which homologies between categories of expression and content are established – the so called Hjelmslev’s “commutations” – and suspended – the Danish linguist’s concept of “syncretism” (Hjelmslev, 2003) – in the audiovisual text, and the effects of meaning created thereby. The analytical treatment assimilates also some of Éric Landowski’s contributions to the discussions about the intersubjective interactions regimes (Landowski, 1997, 2006) and their impact on the study of the socalled states of soul deeply developed by Greimas and Fontanille in their Sémiotique des passions (Greimas & Fontanille, 1993). The object analysis intends moreover to illustrate a methodological approach proposed by the author and that may be applied to various corpora regarding the audiovisual repertory. Such an approach, a natural extension of Greimas’ treatment of the plane of content and Floch’s developments into the plane of expression (Floch, 1984, 1993), offers as a contribution the proposition of a methodology that, departing from the figures of expression and their homologations and semi-symbolic relations with categories of content, will then detect their projections in each one of the three levels of the generative path. Thus, not only the role of the means of manifestation in the process of generation of effects of meaning can be better evaluated, but also the possibilities of a generative approach that includes the textual structures – rather than the explicit exclusion that appears in the Dictionary of semiotics (Greimas & Courtés, 1991:208) – can be further discussed.

scholarly journals Justice in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Mobility Capital and New Social Order

2021 ◽  
pp. 31-38
Author(s):  
Evgeniy Karchagin
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Spatial Mobility ◽  
State Of Emergency ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Threat ◽  
New Social Order ◽  
Opening Up

The COVID-19 pandemic forces us to reconsider the conceptual boundaries of the world and everyday social order, affecting such pairs of concepts as: natural / artificial; habitual / extraordinary. The author considers one of the aspects of the changes having occured: the transformation of spatial mobility, which is connected with deep social changes. In the first part, the experience of isolation is interpreted on the basis of the theoretical resources of the social theory of mobilities, primarily the concepts of mobility capital and mobility justice. Not all social groups were equally mobile, because they had different mobility capital. The issue of mobility equity has taken in a new context: a natural global threat that has exacerbated the existing inequalities caused by the emergency. The second part of the article deals with the concept of "state of emergency" by G. Agamben and analyzes the issue of transgression of the system of the world social order, including its everyday dimension. The answer to this question is given on the basis of an analysis of the interpretations and forecasts of the leading contemporary European intellectuals (Agamben, Žižek, Latour, Sloterdijk, Fuller). The problems of social distancing, the transformation of higher education, the increase in the powers of the state, associated with medical justifications are considered. Important parameters of the new social order are the environmental factor and the need for sociocritical optics to understand the consequences of the pandemic. Analysis captures the increasing role of digital intermediaries of social interactions, which forms a new context for the problem of justice, opening up perspectives for issues of distance with digital technologies and issues of digital ecology.

LIBERDADE E ECONOMIA NA FILOSOFIA DO DIREITO DE HEGEL

2010 ◽  
Vol 33 (107) ◽  
pp. 413
Author(s):  
Arnaldo Fortes Drummond
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Current Model ◽  
Economic Liberalism ◽  
Thematic Relation ◽  
New Social Order

Este artigo trata da concepção hegeliana de liberdade na sociedade civil. Destaca a parte relativa à liberdade de mercado na qual ficam caracterizados os limites intransponíveis para o exercício da eticidade e, conseqüentemente, de uma combinação real entre ética e economia numa sociedade organizada sob o primado do mercado. Na relação temática entre liberdade e sociedade civil, Hegel formulou de maneira precursora uma Teoria Social de caráter alternativo à experiência de traço liberal. O papel dessa teoria é formular, de maneira integrada, os temas econômico, político e do direito de uma nova ordem social verdadeiramente humanista. Por isso, o paradigma hegeliano de liberdade institui um contraponto radical à concepção de liberdade de mercado com a qual o liberalismo econômico construiu a teoria capitalista de organização de sociedade, incluindo o atual modelo da teoria econômica neoliberal globalizada.Abstract: This article deals with the hegelian conception of freedom in the civil society. It emphasizes the part relative to the freedom of market in which are characterized the insuperable limits for the exercise of the ethicity and, consequently, a real combination between ethics and economy in a society organized under the primate of the market. About the thematic relation between freedom and civil society, Hegel formulated in precursory way a Social Theory of alternative character to the experience of liberal imprint. The role of this theory is to formulate, in comprehensive way, the economic, political and juridical themes of a new social order truly humane. Therefore, the hegelian paradigm of freedom establishes a radical counterpoint to the conception of freedom of market with which economic liberalism has constructed the capitalist theory of society organization, including the current model of the global new-liberal economic theory.

The Missing Religious Factor in Imagined Communities

2011 ◽  
Vol 55 (10) ◽  
pp. 1395-1414 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward A. Tiryakian
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Charismatic Leadership ◽  
Imagined Communities ◽  
Weak States ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Everyday World ◽  
Religious Factor ◽  
New Social Order

Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities has redrawn understanding of the loci and agents of modern nationalism. Whereas standard interpretations had privileged the movements of modernity of Western nation-states, Anderson’s analysis gave priority to the role of peripheral elites in “imagining the nation” beyond the boundaries of the everyday world. What Anderson leaves out altogether in his seminal study is the bearing of the religious factor in various peripheral settings in such regions as sub-Sahara Africa and East Asia. This article, extending Max Weber’s notion of charismatic leadership, proposes that in concrete cases of “colonial situations” in Africa and in two East Asian countries of weak states, religio-political figures arose seeking a new social order that had mass appeal. Their successes and failures should be seen as integral comparative aspects of nationalism and modernity

Denenchōfu: Building the Garden City in Japan

1996 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 140-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ken Tadashi Oshima
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Design Guidelines ◽  
Garden City ◽  
Railway Network ◽  
Garden Cities ◽  
Kanto Earthquake ◽  
Timely Completion ◽  
New Social Order

This article attempts to identify the fundamental physical and ideological elements that shape Japanese urbanism. It examines the development of the suburb of Denenchōfu near Tokyo as an example of Ebenezer Howard's garden city idea and shows how it met the needs of a new social order during the period of modernization. Denenchōfu was planned and developed outside of Tokyo at the beginning of the twentieth century by a group, led by Meiji period developer Eiichi Shibusawa, that was inspired by Howard's urban planning ideas. Like most garden cities. Denenchōfu was transformed over time into a relatively conventional suburb. Nevertheless it became one of the most successful planned developments in Japan. Part of this success stems from its timely completion, which coincided with the huge population exodus from Tokyo following the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 as well as from its prime location on the rapidly developing suburban railway network. Drawing from Japanese sources, this analysis traces the planning process of the project. It also examines the role of design guidelines and continuities with premodern forms in shaping the overall urban plan and individual houses.

scholarly journals The New Social Order: Post-Truth and Discretionary Social Intervention

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
Clara Cruz Santos
Keyword(s):  
Social Action ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Social Intervention ◽  
Political Discourses ◽  
Street Level ◽  
Transformative Potential ◽  
Street Level Bureaucrats ◽  
New Social Order

The Post-Truth Society in this article is understood as the paradigmatic environment of the present Western societies where, in addition to the feeling of risk, there is added indifference to political discourses and social practices that do not correspond to factual truths, giving space for flexible interpretation of policies and for individualization of social action. In this article, we highlight the transformative potential that the street-level bureaucrats have, but also we discuss the liquidity of social intervention, which should be subject of ethical reequation, namely through the imperative of technical supervision.

scholarly journals Efektifitas Media Komunikasi di Tengah Pandemi: Respon Gugus Tugas Percepatan Penanganan Covid-19 Kabupaten Tulungagung

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-178
Author(s):  
Latif Syaipudin
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Communication Media ◽  
Existing Problems ◽  
The Face ◽  
New Social Order ◽  
Selection Of

This study aims to find the significance of messages conveyed through communication media in a pandemic situation. The demands of a pandemic era have crisis dimensions on various fronts, making the choice of communication media more careful. This problem will then have an impact on the misinformation received by the community. Therefore, the selection of mass communication as a strategic media in response to various existing problems can be an alternative as a means of early education that directly targets the wider community effectively and efficiently. The main discussion in this research is related to the important role of mass communication in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. This research uses qualitative methods with the type of field study research. Data collection techniques using observation, interviews, and documentation. To sharpen the data analysis, this study uses the Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann social construction approach. This study found that mass communication has a central role in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. This role forms a new behavior that emerges from a new social order and reconstruction in the face of a social order that is more adaptive to the pandemic situation. To create this situation, it requires close communication between stakeholders and the community in responding to this problem.Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menemukan signifikansi pesan yang disampaikan melalui media komunikasi dalam keadaan pandemi. Tuntutan masa pandemi yang berdimensi krisis dalam berbagai lini, menjadikan pemilihan media komunikasi harus lebih hati-hati. Persoalan ini kemudian akan berdampak pada kesalahan informasi yang diterima oleh masyarakat. Oleh sebab itu, pemilihan komunikasi massa sebagai media yang strategis dalam menanggapi berbagai persoalan yang ada dapat menjadi alternatif sebagai sarana edukasi dini yang langsung menyasar terhadap masyarakat luas dengan efektif dan efisien. Bahasan utama dalam penelitian ini berkaitan dengan peran penting komunikasi massa di tengah pandemi COVID-19. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif dengan jenis penelitian studi lapangan. Teknik pengumpulan data menggunakan observasi, wawancara, dan dokumentasi. Untuk mempertajam analisa data, penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan konstruksi sosial Peter L. Berger dan Thomas Luckmann. Penelitian ini menemukan bahwa komunikasi massa memiliki peranan sentral dalam menanggapi pandemi COVID-19. Peran ini membentuk perilaku baru yang muncul dari tatanan dan rekonstruksi sosial baru dalam menghadapi tatanan sosial yang lebih adaptif dengan keadaan pandemi. untuk menciptakan keadaan ini, diperlukan komunikasi yang erat antara stakeholder dengan masyarakat dalam menanggapi permasalahan ini.

Blackism and Pan-Africanism in Post-Colonial African Literature: A Reading of Femi Osofisan’s Plays

Imbizo ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Clement Olujide Ajidahun
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Black People ◽  
African Literature ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
African Renaissance ◽  
Pan Africanism ◽  
New Social Order

This article is a thematic study of Femi Osofisan’s plays that explicitly capture the essence of blackism, nationalism and pan-Africanism as a depiction of the playwright’s ideology and his total commitment to the evolution of a new social order for black people. The article critically discusses the concepts of blackism and pan-Africanism as impelling revolutionary tools that seek to re-establish and reaffirm the primacy, identity, and personality of black people in Africa and in the diaspora. It also discusses blackism as an African renaissance ideology that campaigns for the total emancipation of black people and a convulsive rejection of all forms of colonialism, neo-colonialism, Eurocentrism, nepotism and ethnic chauvinism, while advocating an acceptance of Afrocentrism, unity and oneness of blacks as indispensable tools needed for the dethronement of all forms of racism, discrimination, oppression and dehumanisation of black people. The article hinges the underdevelopment of the black continent on the deliberate attempt of the imperialists and their black cronies who rule with iron hands to keep blacks in perpetual slavery. It countenances Femi Osofisan’s call for unity and solidarity among all blacks as central to the upliftment of Africans. The article recognises Femi Osofisan as a strong, committed and formidable African playwright who utilises theatre as a veritable and radical platform to fight and advocate for the liberation of black people by arousing their revolutionary consciousness and by calling on them to hold their destinies in their hands if they are to be emancipated from the shackles of oppression.

The Role of Nonprofit Sector Networks as Mechanisms for Immigrant Political Participation

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luisa Veronis
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Multiple Scales ◽  
Nonprofit Sector ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Immigrant Community ◽  
Immigrant Political Incorporation

Issues of immigrant political incorporation and transnational politics have drawn increased interest among migration scholars. This paper contributes to debates in this field by examining the role of networks, partnerships and collaborations of immigrant community organizations as mechanisms for immigrant political participation both locally and transnationally. These issues are addressed through an ethnographic study of the Hispanic Development Council, an umbrella advocacy organization representing settlement agencies serving Latin American immigrants in Toronto, Canada. Analysis of HDC’s three sets of networks (at the community, city and transnational levels) from a geographic and relational approach demonstrates the potentials and limits of nonprofit sector partnerships as mechanisms and concrete spaces for immigrant mobilization, empowerment, and social action in a context of neoliberal governance. It is argued that a combination of partnerships with a range of both state and non-state actors and at multiple scales can be significant in enabling nonprofit organizations to advance the interests of immigrant, minority and disadvantaged communities.

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