This article examines the Cuban mobile cinema campaign in the 1960s as a case study for thinking about the relationship between cinema and mobility. I examine the rhetoric around mobile cinema in Cuban journals such as Cine Cubano, and in the documentary film Por primera vez (For the first time, 1967). I argue that cinema is linked with mobility in two primary ways: as a virtual mobility stimulated by onscreen images, and as a more literal mobility expressed by the transportation of film into remote rural sites of exhibition. These two kinds of mobility reflect the hopes and ambitions of filmmakers and critics energized by the resurgent nationalism of the Cuban revolution, and the excitement of cinema as a “new” technology in rural Cuba.
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Nicholas Balaisis
Political Comedy as Fuel for Populist Rhetoric?
Representations of Politicians and Institutions in the German TV Shows “Eichwald MdB” and “Ellerbeck”
Niko Switek
it uses to disqualify the established political parties and demand more direct democracy in place of representative democracy. This raises some interesting questions: How similar are satirical presentations of politicians to the populist rhetoric of
In German Politics and Society
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- 01 Dec 2021
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From Rhetoric to Practice
A critique of immigration policy in Germany through the lens of Turkish-Muslim women's experiences of migration
Sherran Clarence
The largest group of migrants in Germany is the Turkish people, many of whom have low skills levels, are Muslim, and are slow to integrate themselves into their host communities. German immigration policy has been significantly revised since the early 1990s, and a new Immigration Act came into force in 2005, containing more inclusive stances on citizenship and integration of migrants. There is a strong rhetoric of acceptance and open doors, within certain parameters, but the gap between the rhetoric and practice is still wide enough to allow many migrants, particularly women, to fall through it. Turkish-Muslim women bear the brunt of the difficulties faced once they have arrived in Germany, and many of them are subject to domestic abuse, joblessness and poverty because of their invisibility to the German state, which is the case largely because German immigration policy does not fully realise a role and place for women migrants. The policy also does not sufficiently account for ethnic and cultural identification, or limitations faced by migrants in that while it speaks to integration, it does not fully enable this process to take place effectively. Even though it has made many advances in recent years towards a more open and inclusive immigration policy, Germany is still a 'reluctant' country of immigration, and this reluctance stops it from making any real strides towards integrating migrants fully into German society at large. The German government needs to take a much firmer stance on the roles of migrant women in its society, and the nature of the ethnic and religious identities of Muslim immigrants, in order to both create and implement immigration policy that truly allows immigrants to become full and contributing members to German social and economic life, and to bring it in line with the European Union's common directives on immigration.
Osnat Akirav
needed to adjust to the new challenge, and to adopt new strategies and rhetoric regarding potential political partners. In this article, we explore political parties’ innovations and how they rose to that challenge by seeking partnerships even with those
In Israel Studies Review
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- 01 Dec 2020
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Richard J. Ladle and Paul Jepson
The concept of extinction is at the heart of the modern conservation movement, and massive resources have been spent on developing models and frameworks for quantifying and codifying a phenomenon that has been described by American researcher and naturalist Edward O. Wilson as an obscure and local biological process. Scientists, environmentalists, and politicians have repeatedly used extinction rhetoric as a core justification for a global conservation agenda that seeks to influence a wide range of human activities despite the inherent difficulty and uncertainty involved in estimating current and future rates of extinction, or even in verifying the demise of a particular species. In this article we trace the historical origins of the extinction concept and discuss its power to influence policies, agendas, and behaviors. We argue that conservation needs to develop a more culturally meaningful rhetoric of extinction that aligns scientific evidence, cultural frames, institutional frameworks, and organizational interests.
In Environment and Society
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- 01 Sep 2010
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Laura A. Sparks
of the legal and military maneuvers employed by the Bush Administration to shape policy and practice for its own uses. 10 Rhetoricians have already begun parsing how violence and rhetoric intersect. At the 2012 Conference of the Rhetoric Society of
Populist Rhetoric and Nativist Alarmism
The AfD in Comparative Perspective
Barbara Donovan
conditions on the ground and the imperatives of political leaders. Populism exists on the political right and left, and increasingly populist rhetoric is being used by more mainstream parties as they adopt anti-establishment, anti-elite language to appeal to
In German Politics and Society
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- 01 Mar 2020
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Annina Schneller
Many of the ways in which artifacts appear to or actually do affect us—as elegant, dynamic, comfortable, authentic—are based on the fact that they are designed objects. Design is an effect-oriented process that resorts to design rules linking formal aspects of designed artifacts to specific design effects. Design rhetoric tries to capture these links between design techniques and resulting effects. This article presents design-rhetorical methods of identifying design rules of intersubjective validity. The new approach, developed at Bern University of the Arts, combines rhetorical design analysis with practice-oriented design research, based on the creation and empirical testing of design variants in accordance with effect hypotheses.
In Nature and Culture
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- 01 Dec 2015
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- 333–356 (24 total)
Bryan L. Moore
Early science fiction (SF) is noted for, among other things, its conservatism and lack of interest in ecology. Brian Stableford, a well-known SF writer and critic, writes that "there are very few early stories with ecological themes" (1993, 395). This article shows that, in fact, many early SF works (those written between the Enlightenment and World War II) employ ecological themes, especially as applied to questioning our anthropocentrism. These works suggest that humans are but one species among many, that we are not the end of nature/history, that the natural world may be better off without us, and, in some cases, that humanity is fated to go extinct, the result of its own hubris. Such views are undoubtedly pessimistic, yet these works may also be read as warnings for humans to seek a more humble view of ourselves as members of what Aldo Leopold calls the land community.
In Nature and Culture
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- 01 Mar 2014
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Guillaume Lecomte
. 13 Taking this into account, this article examines the extent to which LVSJ endeavours to be a ‘repetition without replication’ of La Vie , 14 as well as the nature and purpose of its rhetoric of authentication. LVSJ thus appears as a rare
In European Comic Art
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- 01 Mar 2017
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