Martial culture in the lifeways of U.S. servicemembers and veterans: military psychology, ancient mythology, and re-souling service
In: Routledge studies in leadership, work and organizational psychology
In: Routledge studies in leadership, work and organizational psychology
In: Routledge explorations in environmental studies
Introduction: Myth and Environmentalism: Entanglements, Synergies, Openings Esther Sánchez-Pardo -- PART I: Myth, disaster and present-day views on ecological damage -- 1. The afterlife of Chornobyl: apocalyptic mythology and environmentalism in the Exclusion Zone / Haley Laurila -- 2. Myths of wilderness and motherhood in postapocalyptic narratives of the Anthropocene / Hope Jennings and Christine Junker -- PART II: Indigenous and Afro-diasporic myths and ecological knowledge -- 3. Boundless water, boundless ice-Arctic cosmological concepts in times of melting horizons / Sonja Ross -- 4. Revisiting the wild: mythology and ecological wisdom in shalan joudry's Waking Ground Leonor / María Martínez Serrano -- 5. Myth, Afrodiasporic spirituality, and the oceanic archive in independent comics / Paul Humphrey -- PART III: Artistic practices, myth and environmental resilience -- 6. "Giant by Thine Own Nature": Jean-Baptiste Débret and Antônio Parreiras' mythic Brazilian land(scape)s through a transatlantic gaze / Esther Lezra and Esther Sánchez-Pardo -- 7. New cosmogonies of waste negotiated in the art of Mohamed Larbi Rahhali / María Porras Sánchez and Lhoussain Simour -- 8. Death is life is death is life: continual regeneration in myth and the art of Maki Ohkojima / Keijiro Suga -- 9. Coda: a radical evocation of seed / Jeanette Hart-Mann
Blog: Political Science Archives - Yale University Press
Robert D. Kaplan— Tiresias, the old, blind seer, the prophet who knows better than anyone else the will of the gods, is a recurring character in Greek mythology. "Mine is... READ MORE
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In: Politologija, Band 112, Heft 4, S. 44-74
ISSN: 2424-6034
The mythology of the foreign interference into the Russian civil war goes to the heart of the memory politics in Putin's Russia today, most recently in connection with the invasion in Ukraine. In a bid to unite the country against perceived threats from the NATO alliance, the Russian leadership engages Soviet narratives going back to the Allied intervention into North Russia in 1918–1920, as a deterrent against association with the West. During Soviet times multiple memorials were created in the North to the victims of intervention in support of this narrative. Central to it was the Mudyug 'concentration camp' museum, established to demonstrate the atrocities of the intervention forces. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union this museum was branded as propaganda and eventually got decommissioned. Yet after Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014 and subsequent war with Ukraine, the old intervention narratives saw a comeback. Backed by the state, the local memory activists in Arkhangelsk in North Russia took to restoring the Mudyug camp museum as a forepost of patriotic tourism in the region.
In: Izvestiya of Saratov University. Philology. Journalism, Band 24, Heft 1, S. 62-69
ISSN: 2541-898X
One of the most popular novels in late Stalinist USSR, The Bearer of the Golden Star (1947–1948) by Semyon Babayevsky, is seen now as a representative symbol of "grand" or "varnishing" style in literature – to the same measure as the eponymous film (1950) by Yuliy Raizman did for the Soviet cinematic tradition. High official status of both texts guaranteed by Stalin's awards matched the overwhelming success they both enjoyed with general public. The author here makes an attempt to examine the possible reasons of this popularity and offers a look at The Bearer of the Golden Star as at panorama both of a newborn after the World War II privileged social stratum, nomenklatura, and a system of social elevators leading to it – as much demanded by its target audience. The modes of fictional re-interpretation of real bureaucratic procedures are considered as well as the authors' dealing with the key characters representing different nomenklatural positions; and also some «ethnographic» characters used to blur the border between social strata, so that the Soviet "new ruling class" could still be seen as an integral part of "working people". The paper also deals with operational mechanisms of manipulative political metaphors and with those means Semyon Babayevsky and Yuliy Raizman used to ensure the highest possible level of propaganda impact. Special attention is also paid to the figure of Stalin as the key element in the "Grand style" mythology that form a hidden suggestive structer of the text.
"Part history, part memoir, Outliving the White Lie: A Southerner's Historical, Genealogical, and Personal Journey charts conflicting narratives of American and southern identity through a blend of public, family, and deeply personal history. Author James Wiggins, who was raised in rural Mississippi, pairs thorough historical research with his own lived experiences. Outliving the White Lie looks squarely at the many untruths regarding the history and legacy of race that have proliferated among white Americans, from the misrepresentations of Black Confederates to the myth of a "postracial" America. Though the US was ostensibly established to achieve freedom and shrug off an oppressive English monarchy, this mythology of the United States' founding belies a glaring paradox-that this is a country whose foundation depends entirely on coercion and enslavement. How, then, could generations of decent people, people who valued individual liberty and personal autonomy, coexist within and alongside such a paradox? Historians suggest an answer: that these apparently dissonant points of view were reconciled in antebellum America by white citizens learning "to live with slavery by learning to live a lie." The operative lie throughout American history and the lie underpinning the institution of slavery, they argue, has always been the fallacy of race-deliberately propagated tenets asserting skin color as the preeminent marker of identity and value. Wiggins takes accepted delusions to task in this moving reconciliation of southern living"--
"In the vein of The Shock Doctrine and Evil Geniuses, this timely manifesto from an acclaimed journalist illustrates how corporate and political elites have used planned capitalism to advance their own interests at the expense of the rest of us-and how we can take back our economy for all. It's easy to look at the state of the world around us and feel hopeless. We live in an era marked by war, climate crisis, political polarization, and acute inequality-and yet many of us feel powerless to do anything about these profound issues. We've been assured that unfettered capitalism is necessary to ensure our freedom and prosperity, even as we see its corrosive effects proliferating daily. Why, in our age of unchecked corporate power, are most of us living paycheck to paycheck? When the economy falters, why do governments bail out corporations and shareholders but leave everyday people in the dust? Now, economic and political journalist and progressive star on the rise Grace Blakeley exposes the corrupt system that is failing all around us, pulling back the curtain on the free market mythology we have been sold, and showing how, as corporate interests have taken hold, governments have historically been shifting away from competition and democracy and towards monopoly and oligarchy. Tracing over a century of neoliberal planning and backdoor bailouts, Blakeley takes us on a deeply reported tour of the corporate crimes, political maneuvering, and economic manipulation that elites have used to enshrine a global system of "vulture capitalism"-planned capitalist economies that benefit corporations and the uber-wealthy at the expense of the rest of us-at every level, from states to empires. Blakeley exposes the cracks already emerging within capitalism, lighting a path forward for how we can democratize our economy, not just our politics, to ensure true freedom for all"--
"Marion Gibson gelingt etwas Wertvolles: Sie redet nicht über die Opfer, sie lässt sie lebendig werden, sie würdigt sie. Wie nebenbei und dennoch präzise entlarvt sie dabei die Motive der Verfolger. Nach der Lektüre wird man anders auf dieses Thema blicken. Zum ersten Mal vielleicht richtig." Jarka Kubsova, Autorin Von "Marschlande" In 13 Prozessen aus Geschichte und Gegenwart begegnet Marion Gibson Menschen vom Rand der Gesellschaft, meist Frauen, die als böse und gefährlich abgestempelt, als Hexen angeklagt, verurteilt und nicht selten getötet werden. Die Geschichte hat sie zum Schweigen gebracht, Marion Gibson gibt ihnen ihre Stimmen zurück. Sie erforscht die Überschneidungen von Geschlecht und Macht, indigener Spiritualität und kolonialer Herrschaft sowie politischer Verschwörung und individuellem Widerstand - und zeigt, wie in jeder Epoche und an jedem Ort Angst als Waffe gegen unliebsame Menschen eingesetzt werden kann.--
In: Brill's Japanese studies library volume 76
"The first book that deals with the territorial cults of early Japan by focusing on how such cults were founded in ownerless regions. Numerous ancient Japanese myths and legends are discussed to show that the typical founding ritual was a two-phase ritual that turned the territory into a horizontal microcosm, complete with its own 'terrestrial heaven' inhabited by local deities. Reversing Mircea Eliade's popular thesis, the author concludes that the concept of the human-made horizontal microcosm is not a reflection but the source of the religious concept of the macrocosm with gods dwelling high up in the sky. The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation"--
In: The masks of God 1
In: Routledge studies in media, communication, and politics
"This book explores the presidential image of Donald Trump as it is constructed by the media within American national mythology, precisely the frontier myth. By offering an account of three milestones in the development of the frontier mythology in its intersection with presidential imagery, the book shows how the image of Donald Trump fits into the line of "cowboy presidents," together with Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan. It also offers insights into the reasons for making Russian president Vladimir Putin a part of Trump's story and a routinely mentioned figure in American presidential politics. Applying the means of philosophical anthropology to this topical issue at the intersection of politics and the media, this volume will appeal to those working and studying in the areas of media studies, political anthropology, American studies, and myth studies"--
In: George L. Mosse series in the history of European culture, sexuality, and ideas
"Traces the afterlives of things. Natalie Scholz shows that West Germany s consumerist ideology took shape through the reinvention of commodities previously tied to Nazism into symbols of Germany s modernity, economic supremacy, and international prestige."
In: Human affairs: HA ; postdisciplinary humanities & social sciences quarterly, Band 33, Heft 4, S. 403-415
ISSN: 1337-401X
Abstract
The paper aims to investigate the thesis of the so-called Neue Mythologie within the fragment entitled "Das älteste Systemprogramm des deutschen Idealismus" ["The Oldest Systematic Program of German Idealism"]. The latter presents a revolutionary project of social pedagogy linked to the use of the aesthetic character of myth and poetry in the formation of the conscience and the intellect of the people. The program, therefore, formulates a fertile dialogue between the emancipatory potential of the Enlightenment and Jena Romanticism, in that it proposes a re-evaluation of feelings and Sinnlichkeit [sensuousness] in connection to modern rationality and freedom. The links between the rational mythology of the program and Hegelian philosophy will be explored, starting from his early writings, which are strictly concerned with the importance of a popular and sensuous religion (Volksreligion). Secondly, the work will retrace the same sensuous externalization of philosophical ideas within the relationships between art, religion and philosophy in the mature system, addressing the problem of Hegel's change of heart regarding art and mythology between the two phases of his thought. In the end the value of symbolical mediation of concepts and idea will be established.
In: Izvestija Saratovskogo universiteta: Izvestiya of Saratov University. Serija filosofija, psichologija, pedagogika = Philosophy, psychology, pedagogy, Band 23, Heft 3, S. 282-286
ISSN: 2542-1948
Introduction. The article is devoted to philosophical reflection on the role of technique and technology in the existence of a modern man. The authors hypothesize that the technosphere is subject to mythologization to the same extent as other essentially significant human spheres. In this regard, the need to study the process of mythologization of technology is actualized. Theoretical analysis. The analysis of the historical and philosophical basis of the problem has demonstrated that there are two approaches to the connotation of technological innovations – alarmist and progressivist. They determine the further vector of mythologization. Alarmist researchers mythologize technology through negative connotations, while the progressist approach is characterised by a positive attitude towards the technologicalisation of all spheres of human existence. Empirical analysis. A further investigation of the sources of formation of the metaphysical superstructure of technology showed that the reflection of technology involves a sensual-imaginative, irrational perception which is characteristic of mythologization. It is reflected in the artistic creations of a contemporary man that explicate mythological meanings related to the perception of technology. Conclusion. The authors conclude that there is a need to study mythology of technology as an independent field of knowledge in the context of contemporary digital studies. The author's definition of the technological mythology which allows to outline the boundaries of this phenomenon more precisely and comprehensively, is proposed.
In: Izvestija Irkutskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta: The bulletin of Irkutsk State University. Serija Politologija, religiovedenie = Series Political science and religion studies, Band 43, S. 108-115
In this article, the author highlights various elements of modern Polish national mythology in religious context, which are presents in different forms in Polish society and also relate to discussion around Polish national identity. Attention is paid to the difference between their manifestation in the past, and the present. The author points out, that these elements are part of special narrative and ideology constructed today, for the most part, by conservative political forces, based on values formed by a Christian, especially Catholic, tradition.