The Confédération paysanne can be described as a marginal farmers' union that represents the vested interests of a tiny minority and that seems to swim against a tide of socio-economic change. At a time when France is increasingly integrated into a global economy, it calls for greater protectionism, a massive increase in state subsidies, and a closure of borders to trade. Yet, far from being dismissed as marginal or anachronistic, the Confédération, at the height of its influence, was hailed as a symbol of the “general interest” and gained the enthusiastic support of a majority of French citizens. In this essay, the author suggests that the success of the Confédération had little to do with conventional political or institutional patterns but was derived instead from its “symbolic power” and its capacity to transform its own cause into a metaphor for opposition to globalization. At a time of profound crisis, the Confédération was able to capture one of the nation's most enduring myths, laying claim to a whole symbolic universe linked to peasant farming. Whilst such symbolism is hardly new in the French context, the Confédération's particular skill was to counterpose this against a dominant image of neo-liberal globalization. It posited peasant farming as an antidote to all the evils of a globalizing world, one in which identity is reaffirmed, tradition is preserved and social bonds are restored.
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Globalization, the Confédération Paysanne, and Symbolic Power
Sarah Waters
In French Politics, Culture & Society
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- 01 Jun 2010
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The Limits of Metaphor
Ideology and Representation in the Zen Garden
Allen S. Weiss
It is impossible to separate the semiological from the mytho- logical, the poetic from the historical, the aesthetic from the ideo- logical. Since, as the phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty insisted, any entity can be taken as an emblem of Being, one must be attentive to the symbolic power and semiotic valences of every word, object, and image. This article is an attempt to sketch out the role of the rock in Zen-inspired Japanese gardens and, consequently, to offer a new inter- pretation of one of the most famous gardens in the world, Ryōan-ji.
In Social Analysis
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- 01 Jun 2010
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- 116–129 (14 total)
Chants of Re-enchantment
Chamorro Spiritual Resistance to Colonial Domination
D. S. Farrer and James D. Sellmann
The Chamorro people inhabit an archipelago known as the Mariana Islands located in the western Pacific Ocean. Seventeenth-century Chamorros took ancestral skulls into warfare against the Spanish in the period of the Spanish conquest. The possession of such skulls manifested profound symbolic power. In the aftermath of the war, the survivors converted to Catholicism, amalgamating their ancient religious practices with that faith. Resistance through the centuries against Spanish, Japanese, and American colonial power has been anchored in Chamorro cultural continuity, albeit in an ostensibly fragmented and augmented form. A site of strategic US military bases, Guam now anticipates further military build-up. War magic and warrior religion are lenses that enable the study of colonial domination where the battle lines fault across military, economic, and political frames toward cultural fronts.
In Social Analysis
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- 01 Mar 2014
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- 127–148 (22 total)
Are There Jewish Answers to Europe's Questions?
Diana Pinto
Unwillingly and unwittingly, Jews have become 'icons' in Europe's new commemorative pluralist democracies. They have now set the standard for national commemoration of specific historical wrongs, for victimhood, for public visibility, for community organisation, for the right to multiple loyalties, and for a position that one can call selective national belonging; in brief, for real but also highly symbolic power. The main challenge Jews will be facing in the future will be that of making sure these 'iconic' rights are spread more globally in a setting of greater collective justice. But Jews, more than any other group, can also set the limits to too strong an identity pursuit. I believe there is an urgent need to recast a common belonging inside our respective countries and societies. The pendulum has swung too far in the direction of sanctified specific identities. The time has come to move it back toward a more moderate centre. Commemoration should lead to reconciliation, overcoming of the past, and healing, not to exacerbated identities. And Jews, precisely because of their iconic quality, now hold the keys to such a swing back. Otherwise we should not be surprised if Europe's Muslims follow the Jews in the path of declared victimhood, selective belonging, even disintegration through an implicitly hostile reading of the larger society outside.
In European Judaism
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- 01 Sep 2006
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- 47–57 (10 total)
Miley, What’s Good?
Nicki Minaj’s Anaconda, Instagram Reproductions, and Viral Memetic Violence
Aria S. Halliday
viral value. Put another way, the more bizarre an image, the more likely it is that it will be circulated for consumptive enjoyment whether in disgust, humor, or in some assemblage of these. Thus, symbolic power not only illustrates which images become
In Girlhood Studies
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- 01 Dec 2018
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- 67–83 (17 total)
Bodies That Cannot Listen
Livia Jiménez Sedano
.), Grammars of Identity/Alterity ( New York : Berghahn ), 18 – 50 . Bourdieu , P. ( 1989 ), ‘ Social Space and Symbolic Power ’ Sociological Theory 7 , no. 1 : 14 – 25 . Browning , B. ( 1995 ), Samba: Resistance in Motion ( Oxford
In Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
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- 01 Jun 2019
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- 73–77 (5 total)
Introduction
Indigenous Resurgence, Decolonization, and Movements for Environmental Justice
Jaskiran Dhillon
identity. Moving to a critical analysis of symbolic power within the mainstream environmental justice movement, Rebekah Sinclair’s “Righting Names: The Importance of Native American Philosophies of Naming for Environmental Justice” explores the politics and
In Environment and Society
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- 01 Sep 2018
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- Introduction
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- 1–5 (5 total)
Language and a Continent in Flux
Twenty-First Century Tensions of Inclusion and Exclusion
Philip McDermott and Sarah McMonagle
. References Anderson , B. [ 1983 ] ( 2006 ), Imagined Communities ( London : Verso ). Bourdieu , P. ( 1982 ), Language and Symbolic Power ( Cambridge : Polity Press ). Hobsbawm , E. ( 1990 ), Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme
In Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
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- 01 Sep 2019
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- 66–71 (6 total)
On Violence, Race, and Social Theory
Thinking with Wacquant and Du Bois
Ali Meghji
violence is legitimated as a defining feature of the global color line but simultaneously not recognized as necessarily being violence. Given his prior work, I imagine that Wacquant might engage with the concept of symbolic power ( Wacquant and Akçaoğlu
The Palestinian Flag Is Back
Arab Soccer in a Jewish State Revisited
Tamir Sorek
symbolic power, and is therefore a sphere where political resources are readily available ( Allison 1986 ). On the other hand, as clearly illustrated by the changes in Arab soccer since the mid-2000s, sports in itself is not stamped by any particular value
In Israel Studies Review
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- 01 Dec 2019
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- 83–99 (17 total)