represented a sharp break from this traditional constitutional tactic and that it impeded social cooperation between Israel's political factions and the protection of human rights ( Segev 2007: 468–477, 2013: 235 ). In this article, I attempt to shed light on
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The 2023 Judicial Reform That Wasn't
From Non-decision Constitution-Making to Decision and Back
Joshua Segev
In Israel Studies Review
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2024
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 38–65 (28 total)
Slowness as a Mode of Attention and Resistance
Playing with Time in Documentary Cinema and Disturbing the Rhythms of the Neoliberal University
Domitilla Olivieri
university and at what it would mean to “slow down.” Slowing down is offered as a tactic to resist the fast pace of the neoliberal university and a lens to look at the (im)possibilities of being a scholar who is actively involved in activism and who
“China gives and China takes”
African traders and the nondocumenting states
Shanshan Lan
words, nonrecording is a practical tactic pursued by both the central and local states in order to balance multiple and conflicting interests at the regional, national, and international scales. As one of the first provinces benefiting from China’s open
Touch and Go
The Politics of Hapticity, Affect, and Embodiment
Andrew J. Ball
This issue of Screen Bodies features articles that contribute to a group of closely related critical concerns, namely, the existential and political significance of tacticity, feeling, and the representation of embodied experience. In her
Rhythming Volatilities
Gleaning from and Salvaging for Capitalists
Sandro Simon
maximisation and notions of ‘survival’ or subsistence; it is distinct, yet entwined with capitalist principles. 4 I consider such gleaning as a ‘minor tactic’ (cf. De Certeau 2002 [1980]; Deleuze and Guattari 1986 [1975] ) that both confirms and decentres
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2023
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 134–153 (20 total)
Sexuality, Interruption, and Nancy Drew
Michael G. Cornelius
In the Nancy Drew mystery series, whenever the subject of marriage arises, Nancy interrupts the conversation or changes it altogether. Rather than discuss or confront issues of sexuality, Nancy forestalls any mention of marriage and the ensuing responsibilities (and identity shifts) that it—and mid-century womanhood in general—implies. Interruption, as both a conversational tactic and a social act, can be used by women to assert agency. Thus for Nancy, interruption is a means of holding off her impending womanhood and extending the enviable position she now maintains—that of girl sleuth.
In Girlhood Studies
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2015
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 21–37 (17 total)
When Food Waste Goes to Work
A New Flavour for the EU's Circular Economy 1
Kelly Alexander
Abstract
Food waste is embroiled in a wide array of social efforts and actions in the contemporary EU. This article considers one site in the EU's capital where surplus supermarket food that is no longer sellable but is still edible is being used to fuel a job training programme. It argues that, rather than understanding the state's role in this process as a purely neoliberal tactic or as a capitalist profit-driven action, the repurposing of discarded food in order to create job opportunities and feed new populations has moral contours and enables specific forms of care.
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2022
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 106–125 (20 total)
Civil Disobedience and Terrorism
Testing the Limits of Deliberative Democracy
Michael Allen
This article explores the boundaries of the commitment of deliberative democrats to communication and persuasion over threats and intimidation through examining the hard cases of civil disobedience and terrorism. The case of civil disobedience is challenging as deliberative democrats typically support this tactic under certain conditions, yet such a move threatens to blur the Habermasian distinction between instrumental and communicative action that informs many accounts of deliberative democracy. However, noting that civil disobedience is deemed acceptable to many deliberative democrats so long as it remains 'relevantly tied to the objective of communicative action', Allen holds that certain kinds of terrorism cannot be ruled out either. Whilst acknowledging that the deliberative democrat cannot really justify taking life as a tactic to induce deliberation, as 'dead people cannot deliberate', Allen notes that this does not rule out terrorism per se, the object of which is not death so much as generating overwhelming fear. Further, while a permanent condition of fear would set limits on deliberation, limited and temporary physical harm to persons need not. This implies that deliberative democrats must explain why intentionally causing some physical harm to property or persons is always an illegitimate form of communication.
The reciprocity of perspectives
Roy Wagner
As a tactic of cognitive self‐awareness, the reciprocity of perspectives is not so much a subjective metric for intercultural comparison as it is an internalised property of human sentience, which I label as a subject/object shift: the transposition of ends and means. Understood most broadly as a universal application of the double proportional comparison, made famous by Claude Lévi‐Strauss as the canonical formula for myth, the reciprocity of perspectives, instead of opposing the innate and the artificial (e.g. ‘nature’ and ‘culture’) to one another, presupposes a reciprocal, self‐contradiction between the two. I examine the self‐transformative and tactical character of the reciprocity of perspectives and its effects on language itself, which ceases to be an instrument of communication and takes on the role of communicator or persuader – that of the user rather than the tool.
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
- Published (Print):
- 01 Nov 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 502–510 (8 total)
PEDESTRIAN ART
Susanne Österlund-Pötzsch
Our walking as tourists is in many respects different from our “non-tourist” or everyday walking. Building on John Urry’s well-known concept of the “tourist gaze”, I suggest the coinage of the “tourist gait” for describing a type of walking characterized, among other things, by a heightened awareness of sensory impressions and an active involvement with one’s surroundings. In this article, I explore how the tourist gait can be employed as a tactic for claiming and experiencing space in our home environs. By comparing tourist gait practices with the phenomenon of flânerie, the performance element contained in everyday pedestrianism emerges. Quotidian walking can demonstrate great creativity and is definitively much more than just a means of transportation.
In Ethnologia Europaea
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2010
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 14–28 (14 total)