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Criticizing Female Genital Mutilation Practice from Feminist Standpoint Theory: A View from Communication Science Perspective
Full text linkThis conceptual review examines Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) practice in Indonesia viewed from Feminist Standpoint Theory (FST). The current study uses a literature review to build an argumentative contribution from communication science perspective. FGM is a global phenomenon locally and culturally practiced in more than 29 countries, including Indonesia. Despite many state regulations and international treaties forbidding the practice because of its harmful consequences, FGM practice is persistently maintained by religion, culture, tradition, and other factors. The author proposes FST as a theoretical base to criticize FGM because it does not represent the lived experience of women, marginalizes women further to the brink of ideal democratic participation, and does not contribute towards the positive construction of female selfhood. The author will elaborate on these three objections using the communication science perspective within the Indonesian cultural context. The author proposes more action-oriented theorizing to overcome FST's practical deficiency by providing insights from critical intercultural communication. Women's collective agency based on situated knowledge will empower their communicative skills as enablers of transformation to eradicate FGM
Covid-19 dan Krisis Industri Kreatif dalam Kapitalisme Digital: Komodifi kasi Pekerja Media Digital dalam Kerangka Data as Labor
Full text linkEntering 2020, the Covid-19 epidemic struck the lives of all people across borders of nation-states mercilessly and this triggered a global economic recession. Pandemic brought various unforeseen crises, including for Creative Industry workers. Although the last two decades show a positive trend of Creative Industry’s financial contribution for Indonesia's GDP, but, long before the outbreak of the Pandemic, the seeds of the crisis of the Creative Industries have been around for a long time, starting from the transition phase of the era of Industrial Capitalism to Digital Capitalism. Using the approach of the Analysis of Political Economy of the Media, the author will show the genealogy of the crisis by outlining the conceptual dimension of 'structural violence' refering to the Structural Theory of Galtung's Cultural Imperialism (1971). A brief history of the term Digital Capitalism is also discussed in order to obtain a more comprehensive understanding of the crisis. Furthermore, a number of political economy issues that emerged in Digital Capitalism were identified to indicate the locus problematicus of the ongoing crisis. The core argument of this paper will show why the problems of political economy concerning the dualism of Data as Capital and Data as Labor are serious problems in Digital Capitalism, which escapes the attention of the public. The Author offers solution by combining a more equitable pro-Structural input from Galtung analysis, Marxist perspectives, and the collective pro-agency approach from Arrieta-Ibarra, et al. (2018). Analysis of the problem of commodification of Digital Media Workers in the framework of Data as Labor is expected to increase the reader's awareness that the relationship of inequality and exploitation of workers in the era of Industrial Capitalism actually continues in Digital Capitalism when Big Data becomes the logic of new capital accumulation (within the framework of Data as Capital) with The Big Five Internet Corporations as the responsible actors. When Covid-19 hit, material conditions and the survival of creative industry workers as free labor were made even worse.Memasuki tahun 2020, wabah Covid-19 menghantam perikehidupan seluruh manusia lintas negara dan bangsa tanpa ampun dan memicu resesi Ekonomi secara global. Pandemi membawa aneka krisis tak terperi, termasuk bagi para pekerja Industri Kreatif. Meskipun dua dekade terakhir menunjukkan tren positif dari kontribusi Industri Kreatif bagi PDB Indonesia, tetapi, jauh sebelum pecahnya Pandemi, benih-benih krisis Industri Kreatif ternyata sudah ada sejak lama, mulai dari fase transisi Era Kapitalisme Industrial menuju Kapitalisme Digital. Dengan menggunakan pendekatan Analisis Ekonomi Politik Media, penulis akan menunjukkan awal mula terjadinya krisis dengan menguraikan dimensi konseptual dari ‘kekerasan struktural’ yang merujuk pada Teori Struktural dari Imperialisme Budaya versi Galtung (1971). Sejarah singkat peristilahan Kapitalisme Digital juga dibahas agar diperoleh benang merah pemahaman yang lebih komprehensif tentang krisis. Selanjutnya, sejumlah persoalan ekonomi politik yang mengemuka dalam Kapitalisme Digital diidentifikasi untuk menunjukkan locus problematicus Krisis yang terus berlanjut. Argumen inti makalah ini akan menunjukkan mengapa persoalan ekonomi politik yang menyangkut dualisme Data as Capital dan Data as Labor merupakan masalah serius dalam Kapitalisme Digital, yang luput dari perhatian khalayak. Solusi yang ditawarkan penulis menggabungkan masukan pro-Struktur yang lebih berkeadilan dari analisis Galtung, perspektif Marxis, dan pendekatan pro-agensi kolektif dari Arrieta-Ibarra, dkk. (2018). Analisis atas persoalan komodifikasi Pekerja Media Digital dalam Kerangka Data as Labor diharapkan meningkatkan kesadaran pembaca bahwa relasi ketimpangan dan eksploitasi terhadap kaum buruh pada era Kapitalisme Industrial ternyata terus berlanjut dalam Kapitalisme Digital ketika Big Data menjadi logika akumulasi kapital yang baru (dalam kerangka Data as Capital) dengan pelaku utamanya The Big Five. Ketika Covid-19 menghantam, kondisi-kondisi material dan kelangsungan hidup para pekerja industri kreatif sebagai free labor justru semakin diperparah
Dekonstruksi Kematian sebagai Sebuah Obsesi Modernitas: Refleksi atas Pemikiran Zygmunt Bauman
No full textFacing death is never an easy task to accomplish, not even for modernity which claims to master and understand all things under the sun. Many philosophers and thinkers ponder upon “death” as both a mystery and a problem, grand in scope and unfathomable in depth. Nevertheless, only a few thinkers relate death with modernity. Zygmunt Bauman is one of the living legends in this respect. With him, one is challenged to be unsettled on the case of thinking about the phenomenon of death and its implications within the framework of modernity’s project, obsession, critique, and power struggle. Deconstructing mortality is arguably one of modernity’s persistent obsessions. By applying hermeneutical approach, Bauman envisions three ways of modernity’s reading on the issue of mortality as well as three strategies to deal with it, namely degeneration, hygiene and immigrant. However, these three readings and strategies, though convincing and relevant in interpreting modernity’s attitude toward death, are lacking in prediction and predilection of the future. Hans Jonas’ way of dealing with mortality issue is discussed at the end of this paper to complete the philosophical reflection on death by Bauman
Humor Sebagai Pengalaman Estetis Penerapannya dalam Studi Kasus Stand-Up Comedy Indonesia (SUCI)
No full textHumor, as a praxis, is already practiced in Indonesian society, by and large. Nevertheless, it is rarely discussed amongst academician or analyzed in serious academic fashion or published in credible academic journals in Indonesia. This paper is an initial attempt to bridge such gap, first of all by reintroducing three big theories of humor already discussed and debated in western academic (philosophy, linguistic, psychology) circles. Secondly, by highlighting and analyzing the term aesthetic experience. Afterward, by combining theories of humor with theory ofaesthetic experience, it will be shown two things:(1) how humor could be perceived as aesthetic experience, and (2) how humor can be classified as aesthetic and non-aesthetic humor. Thus combined, it becomes an analytical tool for dissecting a case study of recent phenomenon of stand-up comedy in Indonesia. With careful observation, I will argue that in some cases of stand-up comedy (such as stand-up comedy programs aired by Kompas TVand Metro TV), aesthetic experience is no longer experienced as a” l’art pour l’art,” but rather, a mixture ofaesthetic with utilitarianfunction andfinancial motif
Mencari, Menemukan, dan Mengomunikasikan Nilai-Nilai Bermain dalam Konteks pendidikan
No full textPlay is an indispensable dimension to successful and integral education. Nevertheless, our culture today tends to neglect play as its constitutive element. There are several reasons behind the negligence of play within our educational realm. This writing would refresh the way we think about play its anthropological and philosophical signifance, and its important role in shaping child’s character in positive and substantial ways before embarking into mature years as an adult. We also look at why and how we should communicate values of play to students (within the context of the classroom) and to larger audience (within the context of daily life). Some examples taken as role models of play in local context (Laskar Pelangi) and in educational realm would strengthen the main argument of the writing
Etika Belaian Sebagai Sebuah Model Etika Pasca-Modern
No full textPost-modernism offers new and unprecedented challenges in the light of morality issues. Some of the big issues faced by post-modern way is how to respond to ambivalence and how to treat “the Other” in a more fair and dignified way. Here, these issues are “answered” by post-modern ethics as articulated by Polish-British thinker, Zygmunt Bauman. Arguably, the role-model of post-modern ethics is an ethic of care since it highlights and prioritizes the act of care and responsibility toward others in a (more) flexible way while at the same time recognizing the differences. Nevertheless, an ethics of care is a sufficient but not necessary response to the moral issues of our times because of some inherent flaws
Daya Komunikasi Paham Multikulturalisme Kritis di Ranah Politik Daring dalam Konteks Indonesia
No full textIndonesia is a fertile ground for flourishing respect towards differences as well as nurturing diversity, considering its unique history and genealogy of its formation. Despite the progress of information and communication technology for the last two decades, added with the emergence of informational politics or online politics after the reformation era 1998, there arose several radical groups and extreme social organization threatening the very foundation of multiculturalism in Indonesia, namely the freedom of religion/belief. Through analyzing and synthesizing the framework of critical multiculturalism and online politics, this research results in producing four parameters (accessibility, interactivity, criticality, solidarity) to measure the level of pro and anti-multiculturalism within certain websites. Here, the role and influence of sympathetic communication power is highly important because online politics depend more on the soft power rather than hard power, rational persuasion in communicative action framework rather than physical violence and politics-by-mass movement. Critical multiculturalism is properly needed in an era of information proliferation and easy access to various power relations. For the sake of a better future, critical multiculturalism should participate further and deeper in the context of emancipation, empowerment, and struggle for justice, especially justice for “those who have no voice, those who toil, those who live unappreciated, and those who die in silence.
PENGAJARAN PANCASILA UNTUK MAHASISWA DENGAN METODE PARTISIPATORIS BERBASIS IMAJINASI REKONSTRUKTIF
No full textThe method of teaching Pancasila for university students should be made more interesting, relevant, creative and non-indoctrinative today, more than ever. During New Order era, the teaching of Pancasila largely emphasized on the method of memorizing and reciting and also heavily imbued with thick formality. The goal of this (new) approach is not to make university students feel alienated and detached from Pancasila who some people would still call ‘a relic of the past,’but rather, a participatory approach. A reading and close reflection of Nuova Scienza from Giambattista Vico yields to ‘reconstructive imagination’as a necessary tool and capacity for understanding historical knowledge, such as Pancasila, in a participatory way. By promoting this ‘reconstructive imagination’-based participatory approach, the internalization of Pancasila values and its re-actualization in daily lives of Indonesian citizens is facilitated. Having accumulated five years experience of teaching Pancasila and Citizenship at Multimedia Nusantara University, Tangerang, the writer has tried to introduce this ‘reconstructive imagination’approach in explaining some teaching materials such as The Historical Birth of Pancasila, Pancasila as Philosophy and Ideology. The students’ participative activities in doing various assignments also strengthen the case argued
Menyoal Perubahan Paradigma dari Kosmogoni ke Kosmologi
No full textKesadaran manusia tentang asal-usul dirinya dan alam semesta yang melingkupinya sudah selalu berarti kisah transformasi cara pandang. Diawali kisah penciptaan dunia (kosmogoni) yang di dalamnya manusia belum menjadi subjek penentu, bergeser ke ilmu tentang tatanan atau keteraturan semesta (kosmologi) yang di dalamnya manusia sudah ikut ambil bagian sebagai subjek penentu dirinya. Belajar melalui kosmogoni dan kosmologi dari sejarah Yunani kuno prasokratik, manusia sekarang dapat merefleksikan status ontologis singularitas dirinya maupun pluralitas alam semesta (multiverse) dan relasi di antara keduanya. Dilema pengembaraan intelektual manusia untuk memahami diri dan alam semesta sudah selalu meletak dalam tegangan antara keterbatasan kultur, epos sejarah, dan ruangwaktu mengada, di satu sisi, sekaligus upayanya untuk melampaui batas-batas yang ia ciptakan atau yang mengondisikan dirinya, di sisi lain. Enigma dilematis ini tampaknya lebih tepat ditanggapi dengan nalar yang memuisi yang menjangkau bukan hanya fakultas akal-budi untuk memahami (understand) namun juga fakultas imajinasi untuk melampaui kedirian (self) dan pendirian (stand)
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