Brochure : The fortress of Niha

Integral definida -Volúmenes -Método del disco

Nature, 1948

Theory and Society, 2024

This paper examines the impact of a shift in focus from political praxis to trauma work in the context of a failed democratisation movement. It investigates the various phenomena which emerge when intellectuals, under the traumatic impact of violence and atrocities, place trauma narration at the core of their interventions. Drawing on document analysis, participant observation and semi-structured interviews with twenty nine exiled Syrian intellectuals in Paris and Berlin who had participated in the revolutionary movement of 2011, the paper suggests that an inversion of the normative power structures pertaining to how intellectuals relate to their publics occurs when they adopt, under conditions of extreme violence and trauma, what we call a radically embedded positionality vis-à-vis 'the people'. This results in the dismantling of previous figurations of the 'militant intellectual' along with praxisfocused notions of the 'responsibility of intellectuals', ultimately undermining their ideational influence upon domestic publics and weakening their political impact and critical role within a revolutionary movement.

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1993

Communications scholars need to become aware of how the field of cultural studies enlarges and enriches the field of the study of culture and communications. Cultural theorists need to become more aware pf how the cultural artifacts are mediated by a system of production and reception and pay more attention to communications research. Cultural studies should include analyses of the production of culture and the ways that dominant systems of production structure and inhibit specific forms, content, and effects in cultural studies. On the other hand, there are reductionist and scientistic communications research approaches to culture and communication that would benefit from broadening their vistas and utilizing the methods of cultural studies. An integrated approach is needed to combine the study of cultural production, analysis of cultural texts, and inquiry into their reception. A productive dialogue between cultural theorists and communications scholars could help overcome the bifurcation in the field that is now causing unnecessary conflict and tensions. Intense focus on the nature and functions of culture and communications can help produce better social theories and the study of culture and communications in turn could benefit from the application of social theories to its subject matter. (Fifteen notes are included. Contains 30 references.) (RS)

2010