89 research outputs found
Council Democracy: Towards a Democratic Socialist Politics
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis (Routledge) via the DOI in this record.This introductory chapter provides an outline of the main contours of a theory of council democracy and offers a preliminary sketch of council democracy’s relationship with the major strands of democratic theory. Council democracy is a project of deepening democracy which includes the decentralisation of the state, democratisation of the economy and solidarity with similar international struggles for self-government. Council democrats view capitalist market relations as something that not only have to be tamed, but transformed in a manner which alters the underlying relationship between capital and labour and eliminates capitalists’ controlling power over workers and the state
Rediscovering the Hamburg Workers’ and Soldiers’ Councils
No full textThis is the author accepted manusciptThis chapter aims to shed new light on our understanding of the development of council theory through an analysis of the early political experiences of council delegates in Hamburg at a formative stage of revolutionary activity and thought in Germany. We examine the minutes of 76 meetings of the Workers’ and Soldiers’ Council of Hamburg from 6 November 1918 to 24 March 1919 in order to offer a rich portrait of a key moment in the development of council theory. What we observe from the debates is that there is no single official position of council communism, but rather a set of shared underlying concerns and a number of different ways in which these ideas were put to work in different political contexts. The collapse of the legitimacy and authority of the old order and the organisation of councils into a force capable of taking de facto power opened the possibility of radical transformation. Yet attempts to theorise and create a new society were impeded both by ideological hesitation and the practical realities of attempting to govern in a divided and conflict-ridden society. The actions and theories of council delegates reflected a number of pragmatic compromises and competing interpretations over the proper structure and role for the councils
Paul Muldoon: Traduções
No full textThe present paper aims at a snippet within the poetic project of Northern-Irish poet Paul Muldoon: his translations. Since the beginning of his career, the poet showed interest in investigating the process of translation. However, it can be noticed how the thought of what is and what might be a translation for Muldoon has been modified and expanded throughout his career. We call attention to the recurrence of a mechanism used by him to give title to many of his poems – in eight of his twelve books of poetry released so far – that, here, will be called “author: work”. At first, the paper occupies itself in presenting this aspect of the muldoonesque work, as well as investigating in which way the movements made by the poet in the construction of his translational thought operate. Secondly, a reflection on the possible ways of thinking and executing translations for these poems by Muldoon is made, along with a presentation of poetic translations into Portuguese for four of the poems mentioned in the paper.O presente artigo tem como objeto um recorte dentro do projeto poético do poeta norte-irlandês Paul Muldoon: suas traduções. Desde muito cedo, em sua obra, o poeta demonstrou interesse em investigar o processo tradutório. O que se pode notar, no entanto, é como o pensamento a respeito do que é e do que pode ser tradução para Muldoon foi sendo modificado e expandido ao longo de sua carreira. Chama-se a atenção para a recorrência de um mecanismo utilizado para dar título a diversos de seus poemas – em oito de seus doze livros de poesia lançados até o momento – que, aqui, optou-se por nomear como “autor: obra”. Em um primeiro momento, o trabalho se presta a apresentar esse aspecto da obra muldooniana, assim como investigar de que maneira se dão os movimentos realizados pelo poeta na construção do seu pensamento tradutório. Em seguida, é construída uma reflexão quanto às maneiras possíveis de se pensar e realizar traduções para esses poemas de Muldoon, sendo que são apresentadas traduções poéticas para o português de quatro dos poemas mencionados ao longo do artigo
Naïve Narrators: The Voice of the Child in the Poetry of Paul Muldoon
No full textPulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon, author of eleven volumes of poetry and two books of criticism and the recipient of numerous other accolades, is often the subject of literary criticism. A complicated and multi-faceted poet known for his use of dense reference and allusion, clever wordplay, and dazzling technical prowess, Muldoon is often branded a difficult poet. In the face of this difficulty, this project attempts to navigate a new point of entry to Muldoon\u27s work through the identification and study of na1ve narrators, or child speakers, and to study them alongside the larger themes of performance and play within Muldoon\u27s poetry. To do so, the project relies on numerous poems taken from throughout Muldoon\u27s career, as well as the body of scholarship that exists dedicated to the poet\u27s work. Gender theorist Judith Butler\u27s ideas about gender performativity also play an important role, providing an avenue for the performative nature of Muldoon\u27 s narrative voices
There’s Something about Marine: Strategies against the Far Right in the 2017 French Presidential Elections
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript.The Front National (FN) achieved unprecedented success in the 2017 French presidential elections, which poses a significant challenge for how competitors against the far right could counter its appeal. Taking as a starting point the existing literature on mainstream party strategies with regard to the far right, this article develops a novel approach. It draws on the insights of positioning theory to analyse a total of 108 speeches and interviews in which the four main candidates to the French Presidency in the 2017 campaign talk about the far right. We find significant variation in candidates' patterns of discourse, but also establish that these distinct strategies are better understood as complex hybrids of the categories in the literature
Political life writing in the Pacific
No full textThis book aims to reflect on the experiential side of writing political lives in the Pacific region. The collection touches on aspects of the life writing art that are particularly pertinent to political figures: public perception and ideology; identifying important political successes and policy initiatives; grappling with issues like corruption and age-old political science questions about leadership and ‘dirty hands’. These are general themes but they take on a particular significance in the Pacific context and so the contributions explore these themes in relation to patterns of colonisation and the memory of independence; issues elliptically captured by terms like ‘culture’ and ‘tradition’; the nature of ‘self’ presented in Pacific life writing; and the tendency for many of these texts to be written by ‘outsiders’, or at least the increasingly contested nature of what that term means
Review Of Varieties Of Religious Conversion In The Middle Ages Edited By J. Muldoon
No full textThese interesting, informative, and well-written essays shed light on a much-neglected aspect of medieval life and thought. Covering the fourth to the 14th centuries, the contributors not only describe the wide range of religious conversions, from the personal experience of Augustine to the conversion of whole peoples like the Saxons in the eighth century and the Lithuanians in the thirteenth, but also discuss the role of women, missions to China in the 14th century, the conversion of Arian Christians to Catholicism, conversions by force, and the role of shrines in the sacralization of the landscape. Included also are discussions of the spiritual transformation fostered by the monastic life, the low status of Jews even after their adoption of Christianity, and the conversion and reconversion of Muslims, Christians, and Jews during the crusades. This collection is a valuable resource for upper-division undergraduates and beyond. Notes, but no bibliography. Muldoon (history, Camden College of Rutgers Univ.) is author of Popes, Lawyers, and Infidels (CH, Mar\u2780)
For an Integrated Approach to Agent-Based Modeling of Science
No full textThe goal of this paper is to provide a sketch of what an agent-based model of the scientific process could be. It is argued that such a model should be constructed with normative claims in mind: i.e. that it should be useful for scientific policy making. In our tentative model, agents are researchers producing ideas that are points on an epistemic landscape. We are interested in our agents finding the best possible ideas. Our agents are interested in acquiring credit from their peers, which they can do by writing papers that are going to get cited by other scientists. They can also share their ideas with collaborators and students, which will help them eventually get cited. The model is designed to answer questions about the effect that different possible behaviors have on both the individual scientists and the scientific community as a whole.Agent-Based Models, Science Dynamics, Social Networks, Scientometrics, Evolutionary Computation
Building Power to Change the World - The Political Thought of the German Council Movements: Introduction
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Oxford University Press via the link in this recordThis book reconstructs how participants in the German council movements struggled for a democratic socialist society
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