Maria Cizmic
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199734603
- eISBN:
- 9780199918546
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199734603.003.0001
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western
This chapter discusses history, memory, suffering, and truth as themes that circulated in 1970s USSR. The concern for truth in conjunction with the related concepts of realism and authenticity become ...
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This chapter discusses history, memory, suffering, and truth as themes that circulated in 1970s USSR. The concern for truth in conjunction with the related concepts of realism and authenticity become particularly pertinent to Alfred Schnittke’s Concerto for Piano and Strings. As a work that bears witness to its historical moment, Schnittke’s piece offers a disjointed musical surface marked by many different styles and quotations, typical of his “polystylism” of the 1970s and 80s. This chapter argues that Schnittke’s “truth” does not come from the “documentary” quality of his musical quotations, but from the musical narrative they comprise. Through an analogical analysis, this chapter considers the concerto’s fragmented musical surface, with is references to past musical styles and its varied handling of musical time, in relationship to trauma conceptualized as a “disease of time.” His work performs the break down of linear narrative frequently ascribed to the effects of trauma.Less
This chapter discusses history, memory, suffering, and truth as themes that circulated in 1970s USSR. The concern for truth in conjunction with the related concepts of realism and authenticity become particularly pertinent to Alfred Schnittke’s Concerto for Piano and Strings. As a work that bears witness to its historical moment, Schnittke’s piece offers a disjointed musical surface marked by many different styles and quotations, typical of his “polystylism” of the 1970s and 80s. This chapter argues that Schnittke’s “truth” does not come from the “documentary” quality of his musical quotations, but from the musical narrative they comprise. Through an analogical analysis, this chapter considers the concerto’s fragmented musical surface, with is references to past musical styles and its varied handling of musical time, in relationship to trauma conceptualized as a “disease of time.” His work performs the break down of linear narrative frequently ascribed to the effects of trauma.
J. Hillis Miller
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226527215
- eISBN:
- 9780226527239
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226527239.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter exaimes Imre Kertész’s Fatelessness and its testimony of the Holocaust. Fatelessness being Kertész’s first novel was published some thirty years after his liberation from the ...
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This chapter exaimes Imre Kertész’s Fatelessness and its testimony of the Holocaust. Fatelessness being Kertész’s first novel was published some thirty years after his liberation from the concentration camps. The novel itself is not autobiographical, nor is it perceived by Kertész to even be a novel. Employing sophisticated novelistic techniques, the novel tells the story of a fifteen-year-old boy from Budapest who is transported and survives Auschwitz—bearing some resemblance to Kertész’s own experience. Fatelessness along with Black Dogs and Maus all share the same element of being narrated in the first person. This suggests that writings about the experience of the Holocaust hold more bearing when done in the form of testimony rather than in the third person. Thus the central question of this chapter relates to the possibility of a work of fiction as an illustration bearing witness to the Holocaust.Less
This chapter exaimes Imre Kertész’s Fatelessness and its testimony of the Holocaust. Fatelessness being Kertész’s first novel was published some thirty years after his liberation from the concentration camps. The novel itself is not autobiographical, nor is it perceived by Kertész to even be a novel. Employing sophisticated novelistic techniques, the novel tells the story of a fifteen-year-old boy from Budapest who is transported and survives Auschwitz—bearing some resemblance to Kertész’s own experience. Fatelessness along with Black Dogs and Maus all share the same element of being narrated in the first person. This suggests that writings about the experience of the Holocaust hold more bearing when done in the form of testimony rather than in the third person. Thus the central question of this chapter relates to the possibility of a work of fiction as an illustration bearing witness to the Holocaust.
Rosemary Hennessy
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816647583
- eISBN:
- 9781452948454
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816647583.003.0003
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Movements and Social Change
In this chapter, the author explores what it means to bear witness within the context of labor organizing in the maquiladoras of Mexico. She considers the practice of bearing witness as a way to name ...
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In this chapter, the author explores what it means to bear witness within the context of labor organizing in the maquiladoras of Mexico. She considers the practice of bearing witness as a way to name the political work of representation done by maquiladora worker-organizers and their allies and to link labor organizing with critical practices elsewhere. She proposes a strong understanding of witnessing as a potentially perilous and necessary practice that binds the individual to a collective endeavor and standpoint. After discussing the genres of testimony and ethnography for what they tell us about the passionate politics of bearing witness and the often vexed position of the witness-ally, the author presents stories that capture some of the complicated affective relations that bearing witness entailed for her in her encounters with organizers in maquiladora communities. These stories highlight some of the affective dynamics that shape relations along the chain of bearing witness.Less
In this chapter, the author explores what it means to bear witness within the context of labor organizing in the maquiladoras of Mexico. She considers the practice of bearing witness as a way to name the political work of representation done by maquiladora worker-organizers and their allies and to link labor organizing with critical practices elsewhere. She proposes a strong understanding of witnessing as a potentially perilous and necessary practice that binds the individual to a collective endeavor and standpoint. After discussing the genres of testimony and ethnography for what they tell us about the passionate politics of bearing witness and the often vexed position of the witness-ally, the author presents stories that capture some of the complicated affective relations that bearing witness entailed for her in her encounters with organizers in maquiladora communities. These stories highlight some of the affective dynamics that shape relations along the chain of bearing witness.
Shari Goldberg
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780823254774
- eISBN:
- 9780823261055
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823254774.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, American, 19th Century Literature
Quiet Testimony develops a theory of what it means to bear witness that emerges from the nineteenth century while responding to urgent contemporary questions. It argues that four key figures in ...
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Quiet Testimony develops a theory of what it means to bear witness that emerges from the nineteenth century while responding to urgent contemporary questions. It argues that four key figures in American literature—Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, and Henry James—resist restricting testimony to voiced pronouncements. Instead, they attend to impressions conveyed by inanimate or otherwise speechless entities, such as a vegetable, a silenced slave, a breeze, and a corpse. In imagining how such entities could be conceived as bearing witness, each writer rethinks, and opens up, what qualifies as testimony. The book’s chapters put particular pressure on the assumptions that testimony represents past events, that it relies on the identity of its speaker, that it must be voiced, and that it belongs exclusively to the living. The premise of a “quiet testimony” emerges from the intellectual investments of the nineteenth-century, and the book attends to how mystical inclinations, legal debates, and political suppressions provided various contexts for thinking differently about how testimony works. At the same time, the book positions itself as responsive to recent theoretical writings on testimony, especially those published in the wake of the Shoah and more recent human rights disasters. Quiet Testimony ultimately suggests that Emerson, Douglass, Melville, and James may help us to more acutely approach testimony in the twenty-first century.Less
Quiet Testimony develops a theory of what it means to bear witness that emerges from the nineteenth century while responding to urgent contemporary questions. It argues that four key figures in American literature—Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, and Henry James—resist restricting testimony to voiced pronouncements. Instead, they attend to impressions conveyed by inanimate or otherwise speechless entities, such as a vegetable, a silenced slave, a breeze, and a corpse. In imagining how such entities could be conceived as bearing witness, each writer rethinks, and opens up, what qualifies as testimony. The book’s chapters put particular pressure on the assumptions that testimony represents past events, that it relies on the identity of its speaker, that it must be voiced, and that it belongs exclusively to the living. The premise of a “quiet testimony” emerges from the intellectual investments of the nineteenth-century, and the book attends to how mystical inclinations, legal debates, and political suppressions provided various contexts for thinking differently about how testimony works. At the same time, the book positions itself as responsive to recent theoretical writings on testimony, especially those published in the wake of the Shoah and more recent human rights disasters. Quiet Testimony ultimately suggests that Emerson, Douglass, Melville, and James may help us to more acutely approach testimony in the twenty-first century.
Jessica M. Fishman
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780814770757
- eISBN:
- 9780814724361
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814770757.001.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Television
Because it is impossible to create an unfiltered mirror to reality, the news media selectively rely on particular pictures and words to shape our understanding of world events. The construction of ...
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Because it is impossible to create an unfiltered mirror to reality, the news media selectively rely on particular pictures and words to shape our understanding of world events. The construction of news is never a random process, and photojournalism is far more than a mechanical undertaking. Because photographs literally craft boundaries, systematically hiding one reality while illuminating another, this book extensively examines how pictures represent tragedy, uncovering surprising editorial forces that persistently structure the way the news media cover death. Some deaths are concealed, while others are illustrated in great detail, and this book develops formulas predicting these fates. We see how deep political cleavages, especially those powered by nationalism, create remarkable patterns of visibility and invisibility. The patterns are striking, but they overturn long-held assumptions about which deaths are newsworthy, raising fundamental questions about the role of news images. This behind-the-scenes account shares many photographs, including images that were censored from the news. It also explores in-depth interviews with industry leaders who admit to self-censorship and industry censorship. It engages impassioned controversies over bearing witness, protecting privacy, and other sensitive topics.Less
Because it is impossible to create an unfiltered mirror to reality, the news media selectively rely on particular pictures and words to shape our understanding of world events. The construction of news is never a random process, and photojournalism is far more than a mechanical undertaking. Because photographs literally craft boundaries, systematically hiding one reality while illuminating another, this book extensively examines how pictures represent tragedy, uncovering surprising editorial forces that persistently structure the way the news media cover death. Some deaths are concealed, while others are illustrated in great detail, and this book develops formulas predicting these fates. We see how deep political cleavages, especially those powered by nationalism, create remarkable patterns of visibility and invisibility. The patterns are striking, but they overturn long-held assumptions about which deaths are newsworthy, raising fundamental questions about the role of news images. This behind-the-scenes account shares many photographs, including images that were censored from the news. It also explores in-depth interviews with industry leaders who admit to self-censorship and industry censorship. It engages impassioned controversies over bearing witness, protecting privacy, and other sensitive topics.
Larry E. Morris
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- February 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780190699093
- eISBN:
- 9780190699123
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190699093.003.0011
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity, Religious Studies
The eight witnesses were Christian Whitmer, Jacob Whitmer, Peter Whitmer Jr., John Whitmer, Hiram Page, Joseph Smith Sr., Hyrum Smith, and Samuel Smith. Their statement, titled “The Testimony of ...
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The eight witnesses were Christian Whitmer, Jacob Whitmer, Peter Whitmer Jr., John Whitmer, Hiram Page, Joseph Smith Sr., Hyrum Smith, and Samuel Smith. Their statement, titled “The Testimony of Eight Witnesses,” states, “Joseph Smith Jr., the translator of this work, has shown unto us the plates of which hath been spoken, which have the appearance of gold; and as many of the leaves as the said Smith has translated we did handle with our hands; and we also saw the engravings thereon, all of which has the appearance of ancient work, and of curious workmanship. And this we bear record, with words of soberness, that . . . we have seen and hefted, . . . and we give our names unto the world, . . . and we lie not, God bearing witness of it.”Less
The eight witnesses were Christian Whitmer, Jacob Whitmer, Peter Whitmer Jr., John Whitmer, Hiram Page, Joseph Smith Sr., Hyrum Smith, and Samuel Smith. Their statement, titled “The Testimony of Eight Witnesses,” states, “Joseph Smith Jr., the translator of this work, has shown unto us the plates of which hath been spoken, which have the appearance of gold; and as many of the leaves as the said Smith has translated we did handle with our hands; and we also saw the engravings thereon, all of which has the appearance of ancient work, and of curious workmanship. And this we bear record, with words of soberness, that . . . we have seen and hefted, . . . and we give our names unto the world, . . . and we lie not, God bearing witness of it.”
Carla Bellamy
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520262805
- eISBN:
- 9780520950450
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520262805.003.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Islam
This introductory chapter discusses Husain Tekrī, which is a collection of Muslim saint shrines. It first defines some of the major terms that are used throughout the book, including walī and khwāja. ...
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This introductory chapter discusses Husain Tekrī, which is a collection of Muslim saint shrines. It first defines some of the major terms that are used throughout the book, including walī and khwāja. It then studies the notion of bearing witness, which is part of what all pilgrims recognize as authoritative and powerful about Muslim saints. It uses the Muslim saint shrines in order to study the way pilgrims consider subcontinental Islamic memorial structures as connected and basically interchangeable manifestations of a single type of power. The chapter also studies the dargāh culture, the historical connection of Muslim saint shrines to the Muslim rulers and institutions, and Husain Tekrī's historical relationship with the nawabs of Jaora.Less
This introductory chapter discusses Husain Tekrī, which is a collection of Muslim saint shrines. It first defines some of the major terms that are used throughout the book, including walī and khwāja. It then studies the notion of bearing witness, which is part of what all pilgrims recognize as authoritative and powerful about Muslim saints. It uses the Muslim saint shrines in order to study the way pilgrims consider subcontinental Islamic memorial structures as connected and basically interchangeable manifestations of a single type of power. The chapter also studies the dargāh culture, the historical connection of Muslim saint shrines to the Muslim rulers and institutions, and Husain Tekrī's historical relationship with the nawabs of Jaora.
Jody Lyneé Madeira
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814796108
- eISBN:
- 9780814724545
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814796108.003.0006
- Subject:
- Law, Criminal Law and Criminology
This chapter examines how family members and survivors of the Oklahoma City bombing sought justice and accountability and the ways they negotiated the criminal justice system, along with their views ...
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This chapter examines how family members and survivors of the Oklahoma City bombing sought justice and accountability and the ways they negotiated the criminal justice system, along with their views on participation, appropriate sentences, the desirability of state trials as supplements to federal proceedings, and the necessity of attending trials and Timothy McVeigh's execution. It discusses the role of justice and accountability in reconstructing lives after culturally traumatic events, how law acts as a site of individual and collected memory work, and the importance of legal proceedings in reconstructive behaviors. It also considers how family members and survivors engaged in bearing witness to demand justice and how the trials of McVeigh and his fellow suspect Terry Nichols became struggles for “the privilege of recounting the past.”Less
This chapter examines how family members and survivors of the Oklahoma City bombing sought justice and accountability and the ways they negotiated the criminal justice system, along with their views on participation, appropriate sentences, the desirability of state trials as supplements to federal proceedings, and the necessity of attending trials and Timothy McVeigh's execution. It discusses the role of justice and accountability in reconstructing lives after culturally traumatic events, how law acts as a site of individual and collected memory work, and the importance of legal proceedings in reconstructive behaviors. It also considers how family members and survivors engaged in bearing witness to demand justice and how the trials of McVeigh and his fellow suspect Terry Nichols became struggles for “the privilege of recounting the past.”
Jody Lyneé Madeira
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814796108
- eISBN:
- 9780814724545
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814796108.003.0006
- Subject:
- Law, Criminal Law and Criminology
This chapter examines how family members and survivors of the Oklahoma City bombing sought justice and accountability and the ways they negotiated the criminal justice system, along with their views ...
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This chapter examines how family members and survivors of the Oklahoma City bombing sought justice and accountability and the ways they negotiated the criminal justice system, along with their views on participation, appropriate sentences, the desirability of state trials as supplements to federal proceedings, and the necessity of attending trials and Timothy McVeigh's execution. It discusses the role of justice and accountability in reconstructing lives after culturally traumatic events, how law acts as a site of individual and collected memory work, and the importance of legal proceedings in reconstructive behaviors. It also considers how family members and survivors engaged in bearing witness to demand justice and how the trials of McVeigh and his fellow suspect Terry Nichols became struggles for “the privilege of recounting the past.”
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This chapter examines how family members and survivors of the Oklahoma City bombing sought justice and accountability and the ways they negotiated the criminal justice system, along with their views on participation, appropriate sentences, the desirability of state trials as supplements to federal proceedings, and the necessity of attending trials and Timothy McVeigh's execution. It discusses the role of justice and accountability in reconstructing lives after culturally traumatic events, how law acts as a site of individual and collected memory work, and the importance of legal proceedings in reconstructive behaviors. It also considers how family members and survivors engaged in bearing witness to demand justice and how the trials of McVeigh and his fellow suspect Terry Nichols became struggles for “the privilege of recounting the past.”
Anne Norton
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780823262090
- eISBN:
- 9780823266388
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823262090.003.0006
- Subject:
- Religion, Philosophy of Religion
Derrida’s later work is marked by an apparent hostility to Islam. Derrida claimed that Islam was “the other of democracy.” He supported the coup that forestalled the likely victory of Algerian ...
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Derrida’s later work is marked by an apparent hostility to Islam. Derrida claimed that Islam was “the other of democracy.” He supported the coup that forestalled the likely victory of Algerian Islamists in democratic elections, arguing for the idea of democratic autoimmunity.Though he freely acknowledged his debts to Judaism and Christianity, he insisted on his distance from Islam, the Muslim philosophic tradition, and Arabic. Yet five times a day for the first nineteen years of his life Derrida heard the Muslim call to prayer, the adhan, sound over the city. Derrida is often seen in and through the figure of the Marrano, but what is concealed in his work is not Judaism but Islam.This chapter contends that the concerns recorded and recited in the adhan are inscribed in Derrida’s philosophy, most notably in the imperative to bear witness, and that Derrida’s work obliquely acknowledges the costs of exclusion of the Muslim. Reading Derrida conscious of the hidden Muslim, the phantom friend, re-opens the possibilities of democracy for Muslims, and for all the Abrahamic faiths.Less
Derrida’s later work is marked by an apparent hostility to Islam. Derrida claimed that Islam was “the other of democracy.” He supported the coup that forestalled the likely victory of Algerian Islamists in democratic elections, arguing for the idea of democratic autoimmunity.Though he freely acknowledged his debts to Judaism and Christianity, he insisted on his distance from Islam, the Muslim philosophic tradition, and Arabic. Yet five times a day for the first nineteen years of his life Derrida heard the Muslim call to prayer, the adhan, sound over the city. Derrida is often seen in and through the figure of the Marrano, but what is concealed in his work is not Judaism but Islam.This chapter contends that the concerns recorded and recited in the adhan are inscribed in Derrida’s philosophy, most notably in the imperative to bear witness, and that Derrida’s work obliquely acknowledges the costs of exclusion of the Muslim. Reading Derrida conscious of the hidden Muslim, the phantom friend, re-opens the possibilities of democracy for Muslims, and for all the Abrahamic faiths.
Ala Sirriyeh
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781529200423
- eISBN:
- 9781529200447
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781529200423.003.0004
- Subject:
- Sociology, Migration Studies (including Refugee Studies)
This chapter examines the role of compassion in the phenomenon of witness bearing by telling the tragic story of Alan Kurdi, a three-year-old Syrian boy who drowned on September 2, 2015, along with ...
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This chapter examines the role of compassion in the phenomenon of witness bearing by telling the tragic story of Alan Kurdi, a three-year-old Syrian boy who drowned on September 2, 2015, along with his mother, five-year-old brother, and other Syrian refugees when their boat capsized after leaving Bodrum in Turkey. A series of photographs of Alan taken by photo-journalist Nilüfer Demir have come to symbolise a perceived turning point in the emotional script of refugee reception in Europe. Drawing on the iconic visual testimony of Alan Kurdi's death, this chapter explores how compassion was mobilised in critiques of the restrictive policies and lack of action by the UK during the refugee crisis. It first considers how compassion has been used to mobilise resistance to restrictive government refugee policies before discussing the responses to Alan's death and how they engaged with a discourse of compassion.Less
This chapter examines the role of compassion in the phenomenon of witness bearing by telling the tragic story of Alan Kurdi, a three-year-old Syrian boy who drowned on September 2, 2015, along with his mother, five-year-old brother, and other Syrian refugees when their boat capsized after leaving Bodrum in Turkey. A series of photographs of Alan taken by photo-journalist Nilüfer Demir have come to symbolise a perceived turning point in the emotional script of refugee reception in Europe. Drawing on the iconic visual testimony of Alan Kurdi's death, this chapter explores how compassion was mobilised in critiques of the restrictive policies and lack of action by the UK during the refugee crisis. It first considers how compassion has been used to mobilise resistance to restrictive government refugee policies before discussing the responses to Alan's death and how they engaged with a discourse of compassion.
Alex Zwerdling
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- December 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780198755784
- eISBN:
- 9780191816918
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198755784.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism, Prose (inc. letters, diaries)
Orwell’s early work appeared under a pseudonym, revealing nothing about himself. Orwell sacrificed the power to record the shame of his compromised public life yet not only needed to bear witness but ...
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Orwell’s early work appeared under a pseudonym, revealing nothing about himself. Orwell sacrificed the power to record the shame of his compromised public life yet not only needed to bear witness but to bare his emotional investment. Orwell invented an essay form he called “sketches,” highlighting his complicity in the systems he served—British imperialism, class hierarchy, schooling that used his marginal social status to advance its own agenda. The method produced the groundbreaking essay “Such, Such Were the Joys,” in which the scholarship boy, separated from his family and home at eight, brings glory to his preparatory school by securing entry to Britain’s illustrious public schools, burying the humiliations he endures. This long essay could not be published in Orwell’s lifetime but became a model for a form in which memory is a weapon, revealing the solitude of a childhood deprived of family and the security of home.Less
Orwell’s early work appeared under a pseudonym, revealing nothing about himself. Orwell sacrificed the power to record the shame of his compromised public life yet not only needed to bear witness but to bare his emotional investment. Orwell invented an essay form he called “sketches,” highlighting his complicity in the systems he served—British imperialism, class hierarchy, schooling that used his marginal social status to advance its own agenda. The method produced the groundbreaking essay “Such, Such Were the Joys,” in which the scholarship boy, separated from his family and home at eight, brings glory to his preparatory school by securing entry to Britain’s illustrious public schools, burying the humiliations he endures. This long essay could not be published in Orwell’s lifetime but became a model for a form in which memory is a weapon, revealing the solitude of a childhood deprived of family and the security of home.
Tim Markham
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719085284
- eISBN:
- 9781781702642
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719085284.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
This chapter investigates some of the broader themes that emerge from the interviews, in particular the question of morality and moral authority. In particular, it draws how ethics and morality come ...
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This chapter investigates some of the broader themes that emerge from the interviews, in particular the question of morality and moral authority. In particular, it draws how ethics and morality come to have practical durability and what it tells about authority in war reporting and the field of cultural production generally. Journalistic ethics decreases to the strategic effects of individuals and institutions enacting certain ethics, and the implications of particular ethics achieving effective universality as the dominant principles of differentiation in the journalistic field. The most commonly evoked moral principles in the interviews were selflessness, giving voice, bearing witness, public service and holding power to account. The common theme in disavowals of morality is that acting ‘properly’ in a field is simply a matter of common sense or professionalism. It is noted that morality plays a dual function in war reporting.Less
This chapter investigates some of the broader themes that emerge from the interviews, in particular the question of morality and moral authority. In particular, it draws how ethics and morality come to have practical durability and what it tells about authority in war reporting and the field of cultural production generally. Journalistic ethics decreases to the strategic effects of individuals and institutions enacting certain ethics, and the implications of particular ethics achieving effective universality as the dominant principles of differentiation in the journalistic field. The most commonly evoked moral principles in the interviews were selflessness, giving voice, bearing witness, public service and holding power to account. The common theme in disavowals of morality is that acting ‘properly’ in a field is simply a matter of common sense or professionalism. It is noted that morality plays a dual function in war reporting.
Tim Markham
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719085284
- eISBN:
- 9781781702642
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719085284.003.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
This book addresses the importance of war reporting. The phenomenological premise of this book is that conscious experience of the world is not pre-given but determined by the multiple contexts in ...
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This book addresses the importance of war reporting. The phenomenological premise of this book is that conscious experience of the world is not pre-given but determined by the multiple contexts in which humans are situated—material, economic, historical, social, cultural and mediated. War reporting is traditionally conceived in terms of information retrieval and processing structured according to wider cultural values such as bearing witness, giving voice and holding power to account. Pierre Bourdieu's corpus of work is strongly interdisciplinary, combining qualitative and quantitative research methodology with a theoretical framework that draws on sociology, anthropology, philosophy, political science and the history of ideas. The key concepts of Bourdieu's work are considered. His stated views on journalism are also explained. He defends the idea of esotericism in the cultural sphere. Finally, an overview of the chapters included in this book is shown.Less
This book addresses the importance of war reporting. The phenomenological premise of this book is that conscious experience of the world is not pre-given but determined by the multiple contexts in which humans are situated—material, economic, historical, social, cultural and mediated. War reporting is traditionally conceived in terms of information retrieval and processing structured according to wider cultural values such as bearing witness, giving voice and holding power to account. Pierre Bourdieu's corpus of work is strongly interdisciplinary, combining qualitative and quantitative research methodology with a theoretical framework that draws on sociology, anthropology, philosophy, political science and the history of ideas. The key concepts of Bourdieu's work are considered. His stated views on journalism are also explained. He defends the idea of esotericism in the cultural sphere. Finally, an overview of the chapters included in this book is shown.
Jessica M. Fishman
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780814770757
- eISBN:
- 9780814724361
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814770757.003.0004
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Television
Can bad timing or insufficient access explain why photojournalism rarely bears witness to death? It becomes clear that logistical challenges are not the problem. In fact, major resources are ...
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Can bad timing or insufficient access explain why photojournalism rarely bears witness to death? It becomes clear that logistical challenges are not the problem. In fact, major resources are leveraged successfully to assure that photojournalists achieve ample and immediate access. Ironically, despite the copious resources devoted to granting photojournalists immediate access, they are often willing to turn a blind eye. The missing images reflect an editorial drive among photojournalists and their editors to conceal the corpse. The gaps in the visual record of images are an artefact of choice—an act of self-censorship.Less
Can bad timing or insufficient access explain why photojournalism rarely bears witness to death? It becomes clear that logistical challenges are not the problem. In fact, major resources are leveraged successfully to assure that photojournalists achieve ample and immediate access. Ironically, despite the copious resources devoted to granting photojournalists immediate access, they are often willing to turn a blind eye. The missing images reflect an editorial drive among photojournalists and their editors to conceal the corpse. The gaps in the visual record of images are an artefact of choice—an act of self-censorship.
Ala Sirriyeh
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781529200423
- eISBN:
- 9781529200447
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781529200423.003.0008
- Subject:
- Sociology, Migration Studies (including Refugee Studies)
This chapter examines how a shift from the notion of compassion that is felt at a distance to a practice of compassion as suffering with one another in solidarity has been achieved by the ...
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This chapter examines how a shift from the notion of compassion that is felt at a distance to a practice of compassion as suffering with one another in solidarity has been achieved by the undocumented youth movement in the United States. It begins with an overview of the origins of the undocumented youth movement, followed by a discussion of their campaign for the rights of the country's undocumented young people, their campaign for the passage of the federal Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act, and their response to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) introduced by President Barack Obama. It also considers the movement's use of storytelling as testimony in their DREAM Act campaign and shows how compassion as solidarity and co-suffering can play an important role in enabling witness bearing and the building of a more inclusive and enduring resistance to suffering and social injustice.Less
This chapter examines how a shift from the notion of compassion that is felt at a distance to a practice of compassion as suffering with one another in solidarity has been achieved by the undocumented youth movement in the United States. It begins with an overview of the origins of the undocumented youth movement, followed by a discussion of their campaign for the rights of the country's undocumented young people, their campaign for the passage of the federal Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act, and their response to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) introduced by President Barack Obama. It also considers the movement's use of storytelling as testimony in their DREAM Act campaign and shows how compassion as solidarity and co-suffering can play an important role in enabling witness bearing and the building of a more inclusive and enduring resistance to suffering and social injustice.
