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The casual vacancy
When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock and the empty seat left by Barry on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen.
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Fictional populists running for the office and parodying elections: Qualitative analysis of the three case studies’ social media communication
This article introduces the novel concept of fictional populism, describing the phenomenon of made-up characters created and performed by real individuals. These imaginary political candidates typically employ fiction, humour (in the forms of parody and satire), and self-scandalization to accentuate their (populist) messages. Building on the concept of celebrity populism that explores the mixture of populism with celebrity culture, this study examines the features of fictional populism. It focuses on two case studies from Croatia and one from Serbia. Qualitative content analysis of case studies’ communication on Facebook during election campaigns is conducted with the aim to understand how they blended elements of celebrity and popular culture to emphasize their populist messages. Moreover, the study explores how these fictional candidates addressed real political issues during campaigns. By employing an iterative approach between theory and analysis, the article offers rich portrayals of each candidate’s performances, illuminating their strategic use of fiction, humour, and self-scandalization to emphasize the populist messages and appeal to the people. The study outlines the broader dimensions and elements that characterize specific communication features of fictional populists.
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The colors of all the cattle
\"When Mma Potokwane suggests to Mma Ramotswe that she run for a seat on the Gaborone City Council, Mma Ramotswe is at first reluctant. But when she learns that developers plan to build the flashy Big Fun Hotel next to a graveyard, she allows herself to be persuaded. Her opponent is none other than Mma Makutsi's old nemesis, Violet Sephotho, who is in the pocket of the hotel developers. Although Violet is intent on using every trick in the book to secure her election, Mma Ramotswe refuses to guarantee anything beyond what she can deliver; hence her slogan: 'I can't promise anything--but I shall do my best.' Meanwhile, Mma Ramotswe has acquired a new client: one of her late father's old friends, who was the victim of a hit-and-run accident. Charlie volunteers to be the lead investigator in the case to prove he's ready to be more than an apprentice, as well as to impress a new girlfriend. With Charlie's inquiries landing him in hot water and Election Day fast approaching, Mma Ramotswe will have to call upon her good humor and generosity of spirit to help the community navigate these thorny issues, and to prove th at honesty and compassion will always carry the day\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Out of Many, One: Practicing Defensive Librarianship
Fifty-two books in Utah’s Alpine School District. Forty-three books in Oklahoma. Thirty books in Kansas. Four hundred sixty five books in Pennsylvania’s Central York School District; 204 books in Florida; 713 books in Texas, with 435 bans in North East Independent School District. Eight hundred books in Texas legislator Matt Krause’s list of books for investigation. The list goes on, the numbers go up, almost all exclusively targeting books by and about people of color and members of the LGBTQIA+ community.While censorship has long been an issue for libraries, this past year has brought a record number of ban requests across the nation—more than fifteen hundred tracked by PEN America between July 2021 and March 2022. Libraries are also becoming sites for protest—against Drag Queen Story Times, appearances by BIPoC and queer authors, Rainbow Clubs for teens, and other inclusive programming.
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Medya ve Siyaset ĠliĢkisinin Tarihsel Bağlamında Siyasal Söylem: 31 Mart 2019 Yerel Seçimleri
Medya, siyasal söylemin topluma aktarılmasındaki en önemli araçlardan biridir. Bu baǧlamda özellikle seçim dönemlerinde, siyasal söylemlerin yoǧun bir şekilde yer aldıǧı haberler gündemi meşgul etmektedir. Bu haberlerin kurgusu ise dönemin medya ve siyaset ilişkisi ekseninde yapılandırılmaktadır. Bu çalışmanın amacı 31 Mart Yerel Seçimleri ile ilgili haberlerde medya ve siyaset ilişkisi ve siyasal söylemin haberlere yansımasını ortaya çıkarmaktır. Eleştirel söylem analizi yönteminin kullanıldıǧı çalış mada, 3031 Mart ile 1 Nisan tarihlerinde örneklem olarak seçilen Sabah, Yeni Şafak, Hürriyet ve Birgün gazetelerinin resmi twitter hesapları üzerinden paylaştıkları haberler incelenmiştir. Çalışma neticesinde, haber metinlerinin anlamsal zenginlikten yoksun ve tek boyutlu bir bakış açısıyla inşa edildiǧi görülmüştür. Gazeteler, yerel siyasal söylemden ziyade genel siyasi söylemi ön plana çıkarar ak, siyasi bilgilenme sürecini manipüle eden bir yayın politikası benimsemiştir. Ayrıca analizlerde siyasilerin kutuplaştırıcı yaklaşımlarının, partizan bir şekilde haberlere de yansıdıǧı tespit edilmiştir.
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Diplomacy in drag and queer IR art: Reflections on the performance, ‘Sipping Toffee with Hamas in Brussels’
This article presents drag performance as a queer method of critique in the field of IR, which contributes to a longstanding move in IR to engage with aesthetics, and a more recent move to engage with performance art. The article discusses the author’s making of a performance piece that revisited the EU’s response to Hamas’s success in the 2006 Palestinian legislative elections. Soft, camp, feminine, and childlike voices; a female body in men’s clothing; and the translocation of bodies in spaces are used in the performance piece to disrupt the coherency of normalised diplomacy. Queer IR theory emphasises the imperative to dismantle logics of normality that prevent creativity in response to political issues. Performative drag practices disrupt anxious attachments to a ritualised discourse of strategic interests that shapes political initiatives. This article comments on other drag moments in politics, such as the anxiety around Jeremy Corbyn’s dress, Barack Obama’s anger translator, and Janelle Monáe’s androgynous articulation of community. The form that research dissemination takes implicates the kind of knowledge that is produced. This article reviews three methodological provocations of drag, an alternative departure point of the ‘what if’, performing a politics of refusal, and a Brechtian technique of estrangement.
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A Seat At The Table: Te Awa Tupua, Te Urewera, Taranaki Maunga and Political Representation
Aotearoa New Zealand acknowledges matauranga Maori in the two Acts and one Memorandum of Understanding recognising the 'personhood' status of three geographical regions–Te Awa Tupua, Te Urewera and Taranaki Maunga. They blend the legal fiction of corporate personhood with the already always understanding of human-nonhuman kinship and entanglement of Maori philosophy, Maori knowledge and wisdom, and Maori epistemology. Through kaitiaki (trustees) these three entities have volition in their ongoing maintenance, development negotiations, and 'land-use', and 'the rights, powers, duties and liabilities of a legal person'. These attributes suggest something more than mere volition in self-management and protection: they suggest agency. This article explores the implications of nonhuman agency as potential for political voice. As representatives of entanglement for all being–animal (including human), vegetable and elemental–and as a matter of justice they are, perhaps, obliged to participate in democracy and the nation is, perhaps, obliged to give them a 'seat at the table'. As political agents with equal status to human and corporate persons Te Awa Tupua, Te Urewera and Taranaki Maunga might unsettle settler politics and challenge the imbalances of the Anthropocene.
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Participatory Government by Journalism: Class Periodicals and the Local State, 1880–1914
This article explores intersections between the local press, class periodicals, and local government by examining local government periodicals. This specialist genre balanced the trade press's generic \"news you can use\" with participatory forms of the New Journalism. By publishing advice columns, local government reports, multi-part series on local government law, and locally sourced fiction and poetry, local government periodicals offered a print sphere in which citizens and local officers could debate and shape governmental practices. I argue that through such participatory reader networks local government periodicals strove to transform Britain's hodgepodge of governing institutions into a politically representative, nationally standardized network of local authorities.
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Business and Politics as Women’s Work: The Australian Colonies and the Mid-Nineteenth-Century Women’s Movement
Female political activism and economic engagement in the Australian colonies are usually located within the last decades of the nineteenth century, yet a reexamination of the 1850s reveals that the twin issues of women’s political rights and activities within the public sphere were raised much earlier. This article shows that as the Australian colonies achieved self-government and manhood suffrage and experienced the upheaval of successive gold rushes around the Pacific, there were heated debates about women’s roles within the public sphere. Evidence drawn from the law, trade directories, passenger lists, newspapers, and contemporary fiction reveals the extent of both women’s work and the debate. The participation of women in business and the articulation of demands for political rights were part of a transnational midcentury phenomenon but had distinctive Australian qualities, preparing the ground for later suffrage success.
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Editor's Notes
Faithful to its academic mission the current issue of the Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies presents outstanding Hungarian and international contributions which cover a variety of scholarship ranging from topics in British art and poetry, the theory and literary representations of urban spaces and identities, Canadian federalism, science fiction, and language policy to Cold War studies, Hungarian-American relations, as well as film studies. With the two essays which inaugurate the issue HJEAS joins the commemoration, thus the academic discourse on the memory of World War I. Eszter Edit Balogh's \"From Heroic Soldiers to Geometric Forms and Suffering Wrecks: The Transformation of the Male Body in the Art of World War I\" offers an engaging study of how mechanized, modern warfare and its experience generated a shift in the formerly hegemonic, traditional representational modes of war in general and the masculine ideal in particular in art, giving way to innovative artistic strategies and thus shaping the Modernist discourse on masculinity. Applying the conventional classification schemes and the analytical framework developed by Richard Ruiz and Terrence G. Wiley, Czeglédi's fine-tuned analysis of the linguistic data concludes that the English language did not yet serve as a \"symbolic and endangered component of American identity at the end of the 18th century,\" the relative degree of ethnolinguistic diversity was viewed as a resource, and \"the 'English-only' strain and the surge of linguistic nativism were still beyond the language policy horizon.\" \"1 Drawing on an extensive body of recently declassified archival material, the essay sheds light on the \"significance of a possible return\" against the background of the normalization of bilateral relations between the United States and Hungary and gives due attention and recognition to the event in the history writing of the Cold War.
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