The Power of the Powerless: Citizens Against the State in Central Eastern Europe

Havel, Václav; Keane, John

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“…Una interpretación de todo esto es que algunos científicos realizaron una forma de oposición en clave, una forma de "vivir en la verdad" que ha sido observada en otras sociedades autocráticas del siglo XX (Havel y Keane, 1985). Denuncias parecidas, poco destacadas y de baja intensidad, constituían uno de los canales más característicos para expresar la inquietud políti-ca en la primera época del franquismo.…”

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Activismo medioambiental en la época tardofranquista. El caso de El Saler

Hamilton

2017

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Resumen: Este artículo traza la evolución de las ideas y el discurso ambientalista durante las últimas décadas del régimen de Franco, entre 1950de Franco, entre y 1975. A lo largo de este período, un grupo de naturalistas y científicos naturales colaboraron con oficiales del régimen y una red conservacionista internacional para proteger espacios concretos de especial valor ecológico. A fines de la década de 1960, a medida que el régimen se debilitaba y el descontento social crecía, apareció un nuevo grupo de activistas que veían la protección ambiental como inseparable de los problemas de justicia social. A través del análisis de la campaña antidesarrollista a propósito de los alrededores de la Albufera en Valencia, este artículo estudia las tensiones entre estas corrientes que convivieron en los orígenes del movimiento medioambiental en España así como el papel del activismo medioambiental en la erosión de la legitimidad política del régimen.

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Activismo medioambiental en la época tardofranquista. El caso de El Saler

Hamilton

2017

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“…For Havel (1985), this has become a question of a concern, of a discourse. While these traditional terms -perceiving communism as a dictatorship, as a total sum of totalitarian practices, is what and why they detract from the meaning of power relations, as they focus only on a description of the traditional form of a dictatorship.…”

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“…In the post-totalitarian system, living within a lie is woven together with living within the truth; and if a citizen -human subject decides to move from the private sphere into the public to begin living within the truth, he disturbs the peace of the public lie. For Havel (1985), the tension between the post-totalitarian power structures and living within the truth is not experienced through a real, institutionalized, quantifiable power struggle, but on the level of human conscience, on the spiritual, moral and existential level: in the post-totalitarian system, citizens encounter implicit power and influence each other. Somehow in such a system, perhaps not so dissimilar to the postmodern era, it is necessary to carefully tease out how truth is located in the thresholds crossed between public and private spheres.…”

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Carnevalesque Postmodern Provocations from Boris Groy’s Argument

Tesař

2017

Dialogic Pedagogy Journal

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MarekTesar is a senior lecturer in childhood studies and early childhood education at the University of Auckland. He is Editor-in-Chief of Policy Futures in Education published by SAGE, and is engaged in different editorial capacities with a number of other journals and book series. His focus is on childhood, philosophy of education, policy and methodology.Boris Groys' essay "Between Stalin and Dionysus: Bakhtin's Theory of the Carnival" is an important contribution to the interpretation of Bakhtin's scholarship and to the growing number of positionings of Bakhtin's work in relation to the power, ideology and constitution of the human subject. Groys' genealogical, and largely provocative thinking, processes what we could mean, and understand, as postmodern, in relation to the human subject. Groys' thinking about the discipline provides grounding for other thoughts, for other types of thinking. My contribution to ponder through these questions is by introducing Havel into the mix, to both understand and elevate what may be seen as the complex characteristic of creative thinking within the whirlpool of ideology, in order to contribute to the colourful polyphony of discourses.For the Czech thinker Havel, substantial changes in the power relations within any ideologically driven society, but particularly society that is determined and subjugated by the communist regime, is to justify the shift from the traditional terminology associated with communism in the Eastern Bloc, such as totalitarianism or a dictatorship. For Havel (1985), this has become a question of a concern, of a discourse. While these traditional terms -perceiving communism as a dictatorship, as a total sum of totalitarian practices, is what and why they detract from the meaning of power relations, as they focus only on a description of the traditional form of a dictatorship. These dictatorship-like models of governance are usually connected with the cult of leaders, local lives, cultures and experiences, and are not dependent on any particular ideology, and are well depicted in the Stalinist era. On the other hand, Havel's term post-totalitarianism is bound by an extremely multifaceted "network of manipulatory instruments" (p. 24) that is supported by a "precise, logical, structured, generally comprehensible and, in essence, extremely flexible ideology" (p. 25), that responds to the scientific model of post-totalitarian society that is more cunningly structured. As Havel explains, the post-totalitarian system "… offers a ready answer to any question whatsoever; it can scarcely be accepted only in part, and accepting it has profound implications for human life. In an era when metaphysical and existential certainties are in a state of crisis, when people are being uprooted and alienated and are losing their sense of what this world

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“…He explained convincingly that they were all "living a lie" (Havel 1985;Hann 1991:13-14;Holy 1996:16). But until the socialist government lost power, its spokespersons staked out moral authority and legitimacy" in terms of how well its citizens were provided for (though the quality of living conditions was always criticized).…”

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Restating the Family: Kinship and Care in the Czech Republic

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nThis dissertation explores competing meanings of the Czech family. The project is framed by social and political transformations that took place in the Czech lands during two periods: that of socialist rule and that of postsocialist reform (1989)(1990)(1991)(1992)(1993)(1994)(1995)(1996)(1997)(1998)(1999)(2000). Although many families embraced increased opportunities for self-realization emerging since the end of socialist rule in 1989, memories of family life during the socialist era served as a standard for family behavior in the postsocialist era. The ability to depend upon kin was, moreover, critical to definitions of self-reliance as the state reconfigured the terms of public care for Czech families. Kin networks shaped class in the postsocialist era much as they determined relations with the state during the socialist period.The author introduces the concepts of "productive" and "unproductive" dependency. The productive dependent leaned on a range of public provisions for families, but was conceived of as deserving them. Unproductive dependents were those who Czechs called socially weaker, and they were perceived of as unable, or unwilling, to care for their own and as entirely dependent on the state. These categories operated during the socialist and postsocialist eras. This project is dedicated in loving memory to my grandparents

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The Power of the Powerless: Citizens Against the State in Central Eastern Europe

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Activismo medioambiental en la época tardofranquista. El caso de El Saler

Activismo medioambiental en la época tardofranquista. El caso de El Saler

Carnevalesque Postmodern Provocations from Boris Groy’s Argument

Restating the Family: Kinship and Care in the Czech Republic

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