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The Spiral of 'anti-other Rhetoric'
How do media inform our representations of the Other and how does this influence intercultural / international relations? While officially dialogues between different national societies are conducted by diplomats in bilateral and multilateral settings, in practice journalists also participate every day in such dialogues through the phenomenon of the international media echo in which they report on each others societies. Until now, media have only been investigated for their potential role in the foreign policy of specific states. In a case study involving media in three national cultures and languages (French, American and Russian), this book presents an interdisciplinary framework that combines quantitative and qualitative analyses for the study of the international media echo in an intercultural / international relations perspective. In particular, the fundamental functioning of spirals of anti-Other rhetoric, i.e. media wars, is examined in a Critical Discourse Analysis approach completed with Social Identity Theory and International Relations theories.
Photography Performing Humor
New perspectives on humor within photography Despite the ubiquitous presence of photographic humor in art and popular media, the phenomenon has as yet received very little scholarly attention. Focusing on staged humor rather than on comic effects of snapshot photography, this volume brings together leading scholars in the field addressing humor performed in front of the camera, often specifically created for the camera, and the performative joke-work done by the medium itself. A first section explores how photography, due to its “shattering” qualities, turns into a privileged medium for eliciting humorous effects and how humor can be discerned within the photographic event. A second section discusses the toolbox of photographic trickery (photomontage, double exposure and cinematic movement) that allows photography to mock itself. The book closes with a section on photographic wit in conceptual art, both in canonized and more locally distinct practices. With artists’ pages from Paulien Oltheten, Lieven Segers and David Helbich
Hannah Arendt's Theory of Political Action
This book presents an account of Hannah Arendt’s performative and non-sovereign theory of freedom and political action, with special focus on action’s disclosure of the unique ‘who’ of each agent. It aims to illuminate Arendt’s critique of sovereign rule, totalitarianism, and world-alienation, her defense of a distinct political sphere for engaged citizen action and judgment, her conception of the ‘right to have rights,’ and her rejection of teleological philosophies of history. Arendt proposes that in modern, pluralistic, secular public spheres, no one metaphysical or religious idea can authoritatively validate political actions or opinions absolutely. At the same time, she se...
Editorials and the Power of Media
Editorials define at a given time how media construct their socio-cultural environment and where they position themselves in it. In this sense, they are snapshots of media socio-cultural identities whose study is crucial for the understanding of media actions and interactions on the political stage. This book contributes to the study of media roles in politics with a methodological discursive communication identity framework and its application to a corpus of editorials. This allows for the definition of editorials as a genre, and it reveals that, thanks to a very adroit interweaving of their socio-cultural identities, news media can play a much more active role on the political stage than studies on framing and agenda setting have hitherto shown. The place of media in political communication models might therefore need to be reviewed. This book is intended for all those interested in media and politics whatever their academic specializations."
Transferts des savoirs, savoirs des pratiques
Issu d’un colloque organisé au Campus Saint-Jean (Université de l’Alberta) par le Groupe de recherche sur l’inter/transculturalité (GRITI), le présent ouvrage regroupe une série de textes conjuguant savoirs théoriques et savoirs pratiques dans une réflexion approfondie sur l’immigration et la cohabitation des cultures. Signés tant par des universitaires que des praticiens de terrain, ces textes montrent que le dialogue entre les producteurs de savoirs théoriques et de savoirs pratiques est non seulement fécond, mais aussi indispensable au fondement d’une société inclusive. La recherche se doit d’alimenter le travail de terrain et, inversement, celui-ci doit inspirer la réflexion des chercheurs. Structuré autour de trois thèmes majeurs (confluence des savoirs ; pratiques et expériences communautaires ; enfin, savoirs et pratiques en éducation), l’ouvrage cherche à stimuler la réflexion, l’échange et l’engagement de tous les acteurs confrontés, dans des contextes variétés, aux défis et aux opportunités de la diversité.
On Jean-Jacques Rousseau
In order to grasp what it means to call Rousseau an "author" of the Revolution, as so many revolutionaries did, it is necessary to take full measure of the difficulties of literary interpretation to which Rousseau's work gives rise, particularly around such a charged term as "author." On Jean-Jacques Rousseau shows that Rousseau's texts consistently generate a division in their own reading, a division both designated and masked by the fiction of authorship. These divisions can occur successivelyas in the narrative reversals and discontinuities characteristic of Rousseau's fictional and autobiographical worksor simultaneously, in the form of incompatible attempts to apply the lessons of a...
Le devenir des nations
Les travaux du professeur Gagnon ont outillé toute une génération de spécialistes sur les questions liées au pluralisme. Afin d'en maximiser la portée intellectuelle et analytique, 3 monographies marquantes de Gagnon ont été rassemblées en seul volume, véritable somme qui pose un regard lucide et critique sur les rouages et les défis qui guettent les sociétés plurinationales.
De constitutionnalisme et de diversité.
L’objectif principal de cet ouvrage est d’offrir certaines clés interprétatives pour mieux comprendre et critiquer les conditions dans lesquelles les communautés nationales minoritaires du Québec, de la Catalogne, de la Flandre et dut Tyrol du Sud sont traitées dans le cadre de l’architecture constitutionnelle de l’État souverain où elles évoluent.
La Nation et son double
Contrairement à la plupart des écoles de pensée sur le nationalisme, les auteurs adoptent comme thèse l’idée que la compétition des discours constitue l’axe essentiel des nations. Cette thèse repose sur les refus d’instaurer une césure entre des peuples ou des sociétés jugées traditionnelles ou modernes sans que des enjeux souvent peu visibles, et pourtant structurants, soient globalement considérés. Dans le contexte canadien, intégrer ces aspects dans la compréhension de la relation Canada britannique-Canada francophone amène à s’arrêter sur un discours, celui de la britannicité et de ses conséquences ( orientalisme, colonialisme ), et sur le modèle postcolonial...
The Ground of the Image
The renowned philosopher provides “noteworthy contributions to themes connected with images, imagination, representation, aesthetics, and . . . religion.” —Journal of American Academy of Religion What is this power that lies in the depths and recesses of an image—which is always only an impenetrable surface? What secrets are concealed in the ground or in the figures of an image—which never does anything but show just exactly what it is and nothing else? How does the immanence of images open onto their unimaginable others, their imageless origin? In this collection of writings on images and visual art, Jean-Luc Nancy explores such questions through an extraordinary range of referenc...
