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Anthony S Wan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the theatre of punishment case studies in the Political Function of corporal and capital punishment
Social Science Research Network, 2015Co-Authors: Bryan H Druzin, Anthony S WanAbstract:Michel Foucault famously argued that punishment was an expression of power - a way for the State to shore up and legitimize its Political authority. Foucault attributed the historical shift away from public torture and corporal punishment, which occurred during the 19th century, to the availability of new techniques of social control; however, corporal and capital punishment (what we term “shock punishment”) persists in many penal systems to this day, suggesting that these countries have for some reason not fully undergone this penal evolution. Using the experiences of Hong Kong and Singapore as case studies, we attempt to explain why this is the case. We argue that, while a range of factors contribute to why countries employ shock punishment, retention is often linked to the Political stability of a government’s rule. Punishment, as a visceral expression of power, makes shock punishment particularly appealing to States grappling with Political insecurity. In the post-war period, Hong Kong’s colonial government did not feel their rule challenged to the same extent as the newly independent government in Singapore. The result is two radically divergent stories with regards to corporal punishment, with Hong Kong abolishing the practice altogether in 1991 and Singapore not only retaining it, but greatly expanding its usage. As further support for our thesis, we offer empirical data regarding the use of shock punishment and the Political freedom of the societies that retain it. We identify a fairly robust, positive correlation between the use of shock punishment and authoritarian and semi-authoritarian governments desperate to legitimize their rule. The final conclusion we reach is that, while many factors undoubtedly contribute to the retention of shock punishment, its expressive power plays a significant role in why many States continue to employ it.
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the theatre of punishment case studies in the Political Function of corporal and capital punishment
Washington University Global Studies Law Review, 2015Co-Authors: Bryan H Druzin, Anthony S WanAbstract:Michel Foucault famously argued that punishment was an expression of power—a way for the State to shore up and legitimize its Political authority. Foucault attributed the historical shift away from public torture and corporal punishment, which occurred during the 19th century, to the availability of new techniques of social control; however, corporal and capital punishment (what we term “shock punishment”) persists in many penal systems to this day, suggesting that these countries have for some reason not fully undergone this penal evolution. Using the experiences of Hong Kong and Singapore as case studies, we attempt to explain why this is the case. We argue that, while a range of factors contribute to why countries employ shock punishment, retention is often linked to the Political stability of a government’s rule. Punishment, as a visceral expression of power, makes shock punishment particularly appealing to States grappling with Political insecurity. In the post-war period, Hong Kong’s colonial government did not feel their rule challenged to the same extent as the newly independent government in Singapore. The result is two radically divergent stories with regards to corporal punishment, with Hong Kong abolishing the practice altogether in 1991 and Singapore not only Assistant Professor of Law, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. B.A., JD, trainee solicitor at Gall Solicitors, LLP. 358 WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY GLOBAL STUDIES LAW REVIEW [VOL. 14:357 retaining it, but greatly expanding its usage. As further support for our thesis, we offer empirical data regarding the use of shock punishment and the Political freedom of the societies that retain it. We identify a fairly robust, positive correlation between the use of shock punishment and authoritarian and semi-authoritarian governments desperate to legitimize their rule. The final conclusion we reach is that, while many factors undoubtedly contribute to the retention of shock punishment, its expressive power plays a significant role in why many States continue to employ it.
Ondřej Štaud - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Internal and external Political Function of sport
Journal of Human Sport and Exercise, 2014Co-Authors: Ondřej ŠtaudAbstract:Work is based on two pairs of case studies; the first pair is focused on an analysis of the internal Political Function of sport and the second pair is focused on the external Political Function of sport. All of the case studies will be applied to national teams as well as club sports. In the first two cases, we will analyze the internal role of sport in two different situations; in former Yugoslavia in the early nineties and also in Spain. We will analyze their separatist crises and the various possibilities of solving these crises through sport. In the other two cases we will present two situations, which will demonstrate the Political effect of sport from an international point of view. In the first case we will examine the fate of the Czechoslovakian athletes in the late sixties and their attitudes toward competition with the former Soviet Union. The second case will be devote to the former Soviet states that through sport either gradually gained prestige in the international sphere or vice versa incurred losses, as was the case for Russia. The aim of this work is to show how sport can shape the Political situation both outside of the borders as well as within a country. The primary method used was historical analysis of sports as well as analysis of the internal Political situation in countries described and their international position in the given geoPolitical situation. In the first example of the former Yugoslavia it is clearly visible how clubs sports as well as national-level sports started the whole process of disintegration of the country and helped establish the newly formed country. The second case takes us into a completely different situation in Spain where sport is supposed to be instrumental in keeping together this multinational kingdom. The second part outlines the issue of the Political Function of sport internationally. The first case is Czechoslovakia, where hockey fights with the Soviet Union became a powerful ventilation of resistance to the usurper, despite the ruling communist elite. In the second example analyzes the example of Russia and its retreat from the sporting glory after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the need for rebirth of sporting achievements as a Political promotion of the country. The results are mainly a description of the structure of sporting events and their subsequent impacts on the happenings both inside and outside of a country and its appearance in front of other states
Giuditta Fontana - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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religious education after conflicts promoting social cohesion or entrenching existing cleavages
Compare, 2016Co-Authors: Giuditta FontanaAbstract:This article considers initiatives to reform religious education after violent identity-based conflicts in Lebanon, Northern Ireland and Macedonia. The Taif Agreement, the Belfast Agreement and the Ohrid Agreement mapped extensive education reforms and established consociational power-sharing in the three jurisdictions, altering state identity and inter-communal hierarchies. The existing literature generates two hypotheses on the Political Function of religious education after violent conflicts: (1) religious education tends to entrench existing ethnic, national and Political cleavages or (2) religious education helps further mutual knowledge, integration and social cohesion after violent conflicts. This comparative research employs original interviews and documents to evaluate initiatives to reform religious education (as a curricular subject) in post-conflict Lebanon, Northern Ireland and Macedonia. It suggests that the first hypothesis reflects more accurately the Political Function of education: relig...
Kathryn Gillespie - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Witnessing Animal Others: Bearing Witness, Grief, and the Political Function of Emotion
Hypatia, 2016Co-Authors: Kathryn GillespieAbstract:This article theorizes the politics of witnessing and grief in the context of the embodied experience of cows raised for dairy in the Pacific Northwestern United States. Bearing witness to the mundane features of dairy production and their impact on cows' physical and emotional worlds enables us to understand the violence of commodification and the Political dimensions of witnessing the suffering of an Other. I argue that greater attention should be paid to the uneven hierarchies of power in the act of bearing witness. Centering the animal as a subject of witnessing allows us to see with particular clarity the ethical ambiguities at work in witnessing while at the same time attending to the importance of witnessing-as-politics. My project here is to lay bare moments of emotional and physical turmoil not seen as such—the lives that are rendered ungrievable—and examine how we can and should respond to them. Thus, this article contributes to feminist conversations about witnessing, grief, and the Political Function of emotion.
Bryan H Druzin - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the theatre of punishment case studies in the Political Function of corporal and capital punishment
Social Science Research Network, 2015Co-Authors: Bryan H Druzin, Anthony S WanAbstract:Michel Foucault famously argued that punishment was an expression of power - a way for the State to shore up and legitimize its Political authority. Foucault attributed the historical shift away from public torture and corporal punishment, which occurred during the 19th century, to the availability of new techniques of social control; however, corporal and capital punishment (what we term “shock punishment”) persists in many penal systems to this day, suggesting that these countries have for some reason not fully undergone this penal evolution. Using the experiences of Hong Kong and Singapore as case studies, we attempt to explain why this is the case. We argue that, while a range of factors contribute to why countries employ shock punishment, retention is often linked to the Political stability of a government’s rule. Punishment, as a visceral expression of power, makes shock punishment particularly appealing to States grappling with Political insecurity. In the post-war period, Hong Kong’s colonial government did not feel their rule challenged to the same extent as the newly independent government in Singapore. The result is two radically divergent stories with regards to corporal punishment, with Hong Kong abolishing the practice altogether in 1991 and Singapore not only retaining it, but greatly expanding its usage. As further support for our thesis, we offer empirical data regarding the use of shock punishment and the Political freedom of the societies that retain it. We identify a fairly robust, positive correlation between the use of shock punishment and authoritarian and semi-authoritarian governments desperate to legitimize their rule. The final conclusion we reach is that, while many factors undoubtedly contribute to the retention of shock punishment, its expressive power plays a significant role in why many States continue to employ it.
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the theatre of punishment case studies in the Political Function of corporal and capital punishment
Washington University Global Studies Law Review, 2015Co-Authors: Bryan H Druzin, Anthony S WanAbstract:Michel Foucault famously argued that punishment was an expression of power—a way for the State to shore up and legitimize its Political authority. Foucault attributed the historical shift away from public torture and corporal punishment, which occurred during the 19th century, to the availability of new techniques of social control; however, corporal and capital punishment (what we term “shock punishment”) persists in many penal systems to this day, suggesting that these countries have for some reason not fully undergone this penal evolution. Using the experiences of Hong Kong and Singapore as case studies, we attempt to explain why this is the case. We argue that, while a range of factors contribute to why countries employ shock punishment, retention is often linked to the Political stability of a government’s rule. Punishment, as a visceral expression of power, makes shock punishment particularly appealing to States grappling with Political insecurity. In the post-war period, Hong Kong’s colonial government did not feel their rule challenged to the same extent as the newly independent government in Singapore. The result is two radically divergent stories with regards to corporal punishment, with Hong Kong abolishing the practice altogether in 1991 and Singapore not only Assistant Professor of Law, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. B.A., JD, trainee solicitor at Gall Solicitors, LLP. 358 WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY GLOBAL STUDIES LAW REVIEW [VOL. 14:357 retaining it, but greatly expanding its usage. As further support for our thesis, we offer empirical data regarding the use of shock punishment and the Political freedom of the societies that retain it. We identify a fairly robust, positive correlation between the use of shock punishment and authoritarian and semi-authoritarian governments desperate to legitimize their rule. The final conclusion we reach is that, while many factors undoubtedly contribute to the retention of shock punishment, its expressive power plays a significant role in why many States continue to employ it.