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Szymańska, Aleksandra. "Tyran i rządy tyrańskie w ujęciu Bartolusa de Saxoferrato." Studia nad Autorytaryzmem i Totalitaryzmem 43, no. 4 (December 31, 2021): 215–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/2300-7249.43.4.17.
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The famous 14th-century jurist Bartolus de Saxoferrato addressed the issues of tyranny at various points in his prolific scientific career, both in his commentary to the Corpus iuris civilis and in the public law treatises De regimine civitatis and De Guelfis et Gebellinis, where the theme of resistance against a tyrant was developed, whereas the legal theory of tyranny was comprehensively presented by him in the treatise De tyranno. The subject of the article is the analysis of the concepts of tyrant and tyrannical rule in Bartolus’ works.
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Foot, M. R. D. "Resistance to Tyranny." Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry 4, no. 1 (January 1989): 457–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/polin.1989.4.457.
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Maughan-Brown, Frances. "Without Authority: Kierkegaard’s Resistance to Patriarchy." Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook 26, no. 1 (August 11, 2021): 301–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/kierke-2021-0013.
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Abstract The phrase, “Without Authority,” is used so frequently by Kierkegaard that it becomes a kind of signature; yet it remains little understood. I argue that the phrase works to resist patriarchal, top-down, institutionally sanctioned authority: the authority of “direct” communication. Kierkegaard is not alone in contesting the tyranny of patriarchy: another tyranny—of anonymity, of the crowd—threatens to do away with patriarchal authority too, and with it all authority, all communication. Kierkegaard’s “without authority” defies patriarchy and does so at the risk of this wild-fire destruction, for the sake of a different communication that might yet be possible.
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Rudolph, Julia. "Rape and Resistance: Women and Consent in Seventeenth-Century English Legal and Political Thought." Journal of British Studies 39, no. 2 (April 2000): 157–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/386215.
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During the Exclusion crisis, the figure of a tyrant rapist, a ruler undone by his own lust and cruelty, briefly appeared on the London stage. Early in December 1680, Nathaniel Lee's Lucius Junius Brutus was performed by the Duke's Company in the Dorset Garden Theater. Lee's play recounted the tale of the rape of Lucretia and the subsequent actions taken by Brutus in resistance to this act of tyranny. This theatrical production was by all accounts a success, yet the play was banned from the stage after only six days; the order of the Lord Chamberlain stated objections to its “very Scandalous Expressions & Reflections upon ye Government.” Lee's Brutus was, however, soon available in print, published by Richard and Jacob Tonson in June of 1681. Like other Exclusion publications, Brutus offered a powerful argument against tyranny and arbitrary government, and the play was evidently construed as an attack on the Stuart monarchy. Many modern commentators have specifically noted the anti-Catholic overtones of Lee's drama and have read it within the context of the Popish Plot scare. Yet the central theme of Lee's play is, of course, the association between tyranny and rape: it is the tyrant's violation of woman (not of religion) that justifies resistance. In Lee's drama, just as in Livy's history, the chaste and honorable Roman matron Lucretia is raped by “the lustful bloody Sextus,” a prince of the proud and tyrannical house of Tarquin. In both stories, Lucretia's rape and her subsequent suicide set off a train of revolutionary events: Brutus seizes the bloody knife from Lucretia's twice-violated body and, holding it to his lips, vows with his fellow Romans never to suffer Tarquin “nor any other king to reign in Rome.”
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De Baets, Antoon. "Historians Resisting Tyranny: A Preliminary Evaluation." Hungarian Historical Review 13, no. 1 (2024): 39–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.38145/2024.1.39.
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Since time immemorial, dictators have censored the writing of history and persecuted its practitioners. This policy of history censorship has had many effects, some of which were unintended, such as the development of strategies to counter the distortion of history. This essay therefore opens with a summary overview of the intended and unintended effects of the censorship of the science of history. Against this backdrop, the essay then focuses on one unintended effect of this censorship: resistance to the distortion of history. A tableau is given of the repertoires of available types of resistance under dictatorships and, for comparative purposes, in democracies. The essay uses these repertoires to analyze the resistance of the historians under dictatorships from four perspectives: actors (historians and others); conduct (acts and omissions), motives (ethical, moral, professional, and political), and impact (short-term and long-term). The essay is intended as a tribute, both to historians who once resisted tyrannical power and to historians who retell their stories as an inspiration for present and future battles.
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Mészáros, István László. "Az ellenállási jog értelmezése és gyakorlata a Vetus Testamentumban és a Novum Testamentumban." DÍKÉ 7, no. 2 (May 28, 2024): 118–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.15170/dike.2023.07.02.09.
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This study shows that the right to resist tyranny has deep biblical roots. It derives directly from the biblical principle of the primacy and supremacy of divine and natural law, reflecting universal divine eternal order and justice. From the fact that even public authority is subject to these laws and that, in the event of a conflict with such laws, man-made laws and authority cannot claim obedience. In this case, resistance to them is not only a right but also a conscientious duty. This paper provides a broad outline of the biblical principles that underpin resistance to tyranny. It then describes some of the cases of resistance in the books of the Old and New Testaments which, among many others, have been recurring in the works of the leading authors on the right of resistance throughout European history.
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Nethery IV, H. A. "Book Review: Drew Dalton, The Ethics of Resistance: Tyranny of the Absolute (London, U.K.: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018), pp. 154." Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy 27, no. 1 (July 19, 2019): 100–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/jffp.2019.878.
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Yom, Sean. "Modern History and Politics: The Middle East Crisis Factory: Tyranny, Resilience and Resistance, by Iyad El-Baghdadi and Ahmed Gatnash (book review)." Middle East Journal 76, no. 1 (May 15, 2022): 136. http://dx.doi.org/10.3751/76.1.312.
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Breidenbach, Michael D., and William McCormick. "Aquinas on Tyranny, Resistance, and the End of Politics." Perspectives on Political Science 44, no. 1 (December 16, 2014): 10–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10457097.2014.921488.
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Young, Elijah. "Christianity, Democracy, and Suffering in Burma." International Bulletin of Mission Research 48, no. 2 (April 2024): 180–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23969393231165248.
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This article explores why and how Burmese Christians have intensely resisted the return of military tyranny, documents the disastrous ramifications of the deepening political crisis and rising violence for Christians, and presents how churches have cared for one another and helped each other to survive. In terms of number, size, and magnitude, this national catastrophe is historically unprecedented. With other Burmese, Christians have resisted the junta, primarily because, after enduring over half a century of viciousness under military rule, they cannot think of a future without democracy and freedom. This crisis also reveals that nonviolent resistance has failed and armed resistance becomes indispensable if the Burmese want a future without military tyranny. It is, however, not the Burmese that have changed, but the context in which they have found themselves.
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Yudin, Greg. "Against the Tyranny of Truth." Sotsiologicheskoe Obozrenie / Russian Sociological Review 22, no. 1 (2023): 9–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.17323/1728-192x-2023-1-9-28.
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The place of truth in the public sphere and public politics has recently been shattered, as evidenced by the rise of concepts like “post-truth”. Severe concerns about truth being defenseless in the face of the masses embracing lies gave rise to the fears that unchained democracy together with the newest communication technologies threatens the destruction of the rational public sphere. This paper proposes a distinctly political approach to the challenges that truth is facing. It draws on Gabriel Tarde’s idea of publics as crowds to direct the attention towards political experiences sustaining the prevalence of different sorts of lying and truth-denial in the public sphere. Hannah Arendt’s observations on the inherent tensions between truth and politics are employed to demonstrate that the imposition of truth can be tyrannical and trigger its rejection as a properly political rebellious response. The paper proposes to differentiate between two distinct political-emotional experiences behind anti-truth politics, those of truth-rejection and truth-hostility, the latter resulting from a massive depoliticization and filled with cynicism and nihilism. It is argued that attempts to protect truth by extra-political means misapprehend the causes of resistance against truth, and are likely to result in the more destructive reactions. The paper hints at the need for re-establishing the political legitimacy of truth.
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Kırlı, Cengiz. "Tyranny illustrated: from petition to rebellion in Ottoman Vranje." New Perspectives on Turkey 53 (November 2015): 3–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/npt.2015.17.
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AbstractThis article traces the struggle of the people of Vranje to unseat their governor, Hüseyin Pasha, in the 1840s. It situates this struggle within the context of the Tanzimat reforms, one primary objective of which was to use financial and legal means to bring powerful local governors under the control of the central government. The case of Vranje, this article shows, provides a particularly colorful example to observe the disrupting effects of the center’s intervention in the provinces, to investigate the various dynamics and difficulties the center confronted in its attempt to control the periphery, and to understand the ways in which the new political discourse of the Tanzimat shaped local resistance. This article also traces the stages of political mobilization and dissent through the various strategies the people of Vranje employed, from petitioning to armed resistance, in order to fight perceived injustices.
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Hall, Edith. "To Fall from High or Low Estate? Tragedy and Social Class in Historical Perspective." Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 129, no. 4 (October 2014): 773–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2014.129.4.773.
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In a famous essay, the agnostic bertrand russell hailed tragedy as the highest instantiation of human freedom. tragedy results from human beings' persistence in the conscious, imaginative representation of the plight of humanity in the inhumane universe. Tragedy “builds its shining citadel in the very centre of the enemy's country, on the very summit of his highest mountain; … within its walls the free life continues, while the legions of Death and Pain and Despair, and all the servile captains of tyrant Fate, afford the burghers of that dauntless city new spectacles of beauty” (53-54). Russell's “servile captains of tyrant Fate” are the instruments by which metaphysical compulsion tortures humans—Death and Pain and Despair. Man, instead of allowing himself to be terrorized as “the slave of Fate,” creates tragedy “to preserve a mind free from the wanton tyranny that rules his outward life” (57). By transforming the human condition into tragic art, humans create their own world of resistance, in which they can be the truly free “burghers” of a dauntless new city-state of the mind.
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Friedeburg, Robert von. "“Confusion” around the Magdeburg Confession and the Making of “Revolutionary Early Modern Resistance Theory”." Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte - Archive for Reformation History 97, no. 1 (December 1, 2006): 307–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.14315/arg-2006-0116.
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ZUSAMMENFASSUNG Der Beitrag antwortet auf den im Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte 96 (2005) erschienen Aufsatz von David M. Whitford über “From Speyer to Magdeburg: The Development and Maturation of a Hybrid Theory of Resistance to Tyranny”. Dabei werden einzelne Punkte der Argumentation diskutiert und kommentiert sowie am Schluß ein Forschungsausblick geboten. Besonderer Nachdruck wird dabei auf die mittelalterlichen und spätmittelalterlichen Hintergründe der Diskussionen der 1520er bis 1550er Jahre gelegt, ohne welche die gesamte Debatte zum Widerstandsrecht nicht verstanden werden kann.
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Tsui, Sit, Erebus Wong, Lau Kin Chi, and Wen Tiejun. "The Tyranny of Monopoly-Finance Capital: A Chinese Perspective." Monthly Review 68, no. 9 (February 4, 2017): 29. http://dx.doi.org/10.14452/mr-068-09-2017-02_4.
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Since the 1980s, economic growth in the core capitalist countries has been driven by an enormous expansion of financial capital, accompanied by steady deindustrialization. In recent years, the monopoly power of this financial capital has displayed increasingly tyrannical characteristics: it depends for its continued growth on ever-increasing indebtedness and dependence in developing nations, widening the divide between rich and poor and ultimately fostering state violence that serves to suppress popular resistance.… [Today,] military and monetary strength work together to profit from inequality and instability in emerging economies.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.
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Mirza, Mahan. "Between Tyranny and Anarchy: Islam, COVID-19, and Public Policy." Religions 14, no. 6 (June 2, 2023): 737. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel14060737.
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Research on the causes for vaccine resistance among Nigerian Muslims reveals what the philosopher Žižek terms a “heaven in disorder:” lack of trust in public institutions, conspiracy theories, ignorance of basic science, individual apathy, and faith in “Allah as the only protector.” Other social contexts demonstrate far greater compliance. How can governments improve outcomes in vaccine resistant communities amidst such complexity, especially in instances where theology provides a right to dissent? Alongside a right to dissent, “obedience to authority” for the sake of social and political harmony is also an important principle of Islamic thought. It has the ability to enhance widespread compliance to public health guidelines by obligating the setting aside of private convictions in favor of collective cooperation. Religious literacy is an important element for responding effectively to pandemics, and by extension, other global emergencies. While policymakers must tailor their outreach to incommensurable worldviews in society, the human family must also imagine effective political models for cooperation despite divergence in worldviews. Otherwise, societies may need to choose between tyranny and anarchy. This article adds to efforts already underway which aim to demonstrate that engagement with religious norms, rather than their dismissal, represents the most promising path towards tackling vaccine resistance, especially in communities in which religious authority significantly informs social practice.
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Tulejski, Tomasz. "Problem tyranii w radykalnej myśli prezbiteriańskiej. Przypadek Samuela Rutherforda." Studia Europaea Gnesnensia, no. 19 (June 15, 2019): 31–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/seg.2019.19.2.
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The article delves into the principles of the right to resistance in radical Presbyterian thought. As an example, the author discusses Samuel Rutherford’s political theology, which represents a consummation of the earlier concepts of tyranny and right to disobey that had been formulated largely within the Calvinistic camp. The theology in question became one of the chief arguments in support of the Puritan Revolution in England.
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Bano, Shamenaz. "Ghassan Kanafani: The Palestinian Voice of Resistance." Angloamericanae Journal (AAJ) 3, no. 1 (July 30, 2018): 12–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.58885/aaj.v3i1.12.sb.
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Ghassan Kanafani is a Palestinian writer who is has raised his voice against injustice and tyranny of Zionist regime in his writings. He is the voice of subaltern or voice of voiceless and through his writings one can easily trace out the struggle which he has undergone throughout his life but has been firm in his resolution to speak against any kind of injustice done against his countrymen. Kanafani have tried to highlight issues related to humanity through his writings. So in depiction about issues related with humanity his perspective is to raise his voice against all kinds of racism, imperialism and atrocities. In his works he has depicted characters who are trying to uplift themselves from all kinds of colonial encounters. Characters who are trying to assert their autonomy in adverse situations, who are trying to liberate themselves from various kinds of exploitation, oppression, persecution and inhuman activities, are part of their writings.
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Quirici, Marion. "15Disability Studies." Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory 27, no. 1 (2019): 282–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ywcct/mbz015.
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Abstract This chapter reviews three books published in 2018 centering on disability and resistance. It is organized into five sections. The first, ‘Resistance, Disability, and Democracy’, summarizes debates about the political obligations of disability studies, and outlines how disability justice is replacing the former emphasis on rights. The second section, ‘Academic Perspectives’, reviews the provocative collection Manifestos for the Future of Critical Disability Studies, volume 1, identifying areas of contention and raising questions about the field’s current direction. The third section, ‘Activist Perspectives’, reviews Alice Wong’s collection Resistance and Hope: Essays by Disabled People. The fourth section, ‘Beyond Identity’, reviews Robert McRuer’s Crip Times: Disability, Globalization, and Resistance. The concluding section, ‘An Abbreviated Manifesto’, asserts the vital role of disability justice in establishing alternatives to neoliberalism, resisting tyranny, and achieving democracy.
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RAATH, ANDRIES, and SHAUN DE FREITAS. "REBELLION, RESISTANCE, AND A SWISS BRUTUS?" Historical Journal 48, no. 1 (March 2005): 1–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x04004200.
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Early sixteenth-century Germany and Switzerland witnessed, amongst their peasants, a growing dissatisfaction with economic exploitation and the increasing power of political rulers. The Protestant Reformation at the time had a profound influence on the moulding of this dissatisfaction into a right to demand the enforcement of divine justice. The Swiss reformer, Huldrych Zwingli, provided parallels for the demands of the peasants, while the German reformers, Martin Luther and Philip Melanchthon, criticized the rebellious methods of the peasantry. Against this background the young Swiss reformer, Heinrich Bullinger, responded more positively towards the claims of the peasants by opposing the views of the Lutheran reformers in his play ‘Lucretia and Brutus’. In this drama, Bullinger propounds the first steps towards the development of his federal theory of politics by advancing the idea of oath-taking as the mechanism for transforming the monarchy into a Christian republic. The idea of oath-taking was destined to become a most important device in early modern politics, used to combat tyranny and to promote the idea of republicanism.
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Phuyal, Komal Prasad. "Rebel as/in Creative Annihilator: Resistance in Nazrul Islam and Bairagi Kainla." Nepal Journal of Multidisciplinary Research 7, no. 4 (December 30, 2024): 132–47. https://doi.org/10.3126/njmr.v7i4.72062.
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Background: Bangladeshi poet Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899-1976) and modern Nepali poet Bairagi Kainla (1939-) invent their unique position to envision the contour of the rebel in “The Rebel” (1922) and “Drunk Man’s Speech to the Street after Midnight” (1960) respectively: their rebels voice for complete annihilation of the old order in search of the new one. Methods: Using Marxist dialectics as implied in later Foucault and David Jeffer’s concept of resistance, this study examines the modes of resistance that enable creative writers to uphold the contour of the rebellious self-seeking of the space of creative anarchy. Results: The rebellious self recognizes the space akin to the primordial universe which both the poets assert sets the ground for an entirely new order. As nonconformist poets, Islam and Kainla delve into the structure until they uncover the last remnant of the oppressive order to expose the inequalities such structures promote in each society. Conclusion: The mode of resistance that the poetic persona adopts to view the existing social order presents a novel way of responding to the tyranny of their contemporary time. Islam’s rebel takes up the form of anarchist, debunking the firm structure of the British Raj. On the other hand, Kainla’s persona poetically gets intoxicated to issue an order to the intellectuals to walk out on the street in search of change. Kainla knows that the society is well-prepared to ward off the ghost of the existing tyranny of King Mahendra. In both cases, the revolting self emerges larger than the political order. Novelty: Approaching the poetic texts from the perspective of resistance helps understand the attempts and vision of creative genius to fight against the oppressive power structure of their times.
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Whitford, David M. "Buchbesprechung – Diskussion / Review – Discussion: Rejoinder to Robert von Friedeburg." Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte - Archive for Reformation History 98, no. 1 (December 1, 2007): 301–3. http://dx.doi.org/10.14315/arg-2007-0116.
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ZUSAMMENFASSUNG In seiner Antwort auf Robert von Friedeburg argumentiert David M. Whitford, von Friedeburg habe seinen Beitrag über “From Speyer to Magdeburg: The Development and Maturation of a Hybrid Theory of Resistance to Tyranny” im Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte 96 (2005) falsch interpretiert. Dies führe zu einer Verfälschung der Argumentation des Aufsatzes. Whitford beschäftigt sich mit zwei der Friedeburgschen Kritikpunkte, um zu zeigen, daß von Friedeburg seines Erachtens den Aufsatz nicht angemessen würdigt, um in eine inhaltliche Diskussion eintreten zu können.
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Ogle, Tanner. "Republicans Resurrected: Memories of the English Civil War and Peaceful Transatlantic Resistance in the Beginning Of The American Revolution (1762–1765)." Journal of Religious History, Literature and Culture 6, no. 1 (June 1, 2020): 50–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.16922/jrhlc.6.1.3.
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At the inception of the American Revolution a transatlantic network of Real Whig Dissenters worked tirelessly to prevent what they understood to be the resurgence of seventeenth-century tyranny. For this group, religion and politics were so intertwined that a threat to one posed a threat to the other. However, recent scholarship has underestimated the importance of religion as a leading cause of the American Revolution by diminishing the civil significance of the Bishop Controversy and downplaying the religious implications of civil policies such as the Sugar and Stamp Acts. Drawing from a rich collection of manuscripts from this transatlantic network, this paper not only shows that the Bishop Controversy had civil significance, but that Dissenters viewed imperial fiscal policy through a religious lens. This transatlantic group included John Adams, Jonathan Mayhew, and William Allen in the American colonies and Thomas Hollis, Catharine Macaulay, Micaiah Towgood, and William Harris in Great Britain. They mobilized memories of religious oppression in the seventeenth-century to forge a common identity for British subjects, and some even attempted to influence public opinion by writing histories of England. Appropriating memories of the battles Britons fought to secure religious and political rights in the seventeenth-century, Real Whig Dissenters argued that the Bishop Controversy and the Sugar Act marked the beginning of a new age of a transatlantic imperial tyranny that must be resisted at all costs.
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Ward, Allyna. "'Whosoever Resisteth Shall Get to Themselfes Dampnacioun': Tyranny and Resistance in Cambises and Horestes." Yearbook of English Studies 38, no. 1-2 (2008): 150–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/yes.2008.0045.
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Dawson, Jane E. A. "‘Satan's bludy clawses’: how religious persecution, exile and radicalisation moulded British Protestant identities." Scottish Journal of Theology 71, no. 3 (August 2018): 267–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0036930618000327.
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AbstractThe study examines the radicalisation experienced by one group of religious exiles in the middle of the sixteenth century. The English-speaking congregation in Geneva formed in 1555 produced a Bible, metrical psalter and order of worship that shaped the Anglophone Reformed tradition. Study of the congregation's output shows how watching the martyrdoms in England generated a dynamic anger and fresh interpretations of persecution, tyranny and resistance. Conveyed by the worship texts, this radical legacy passed into the identities of Reformed Protestants in the British Isles, the Atlantic world and subsequently across the globe.
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Acosta, Melanie M. "“EDG 6931 Writes Back!” Black Studies as Emancipatory Resistance to Neoliberal Tyranny in Teacher Education." Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies 17, no. 3 (April 30, 2017): 269–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1532708617706116.
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Academics have a responsibility to raise human consciousness and make connections to those elements of power and politics often hidden from public view, yet the strong arm of neoliberalism has tightened its grip on the structure, and scope of higher education and this includes the moral rigor of teacher education courses. Therefore, emancipatory learning spaces are critical to the development of competent and conscious educators. This article presents one example of the transformative possibilities in learning to teach that emerges from the emancipatory pedagogy of Critical Studyin’. The article includes student work from one course assignment as an example of Critical Studyin’ in action to highlight the kinds of critical knowledge students can acquire when learning to teach is situated as a morally engaged endeavor. The article concludes with implications for teaching and learning to teach in neoliberal times.
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Baysal, Kübra. "Dystopias of Tyranny and Misogyny: The Handmaid’s Tale and The Carhullan Army." Anaphora: Journal of Language, Literary, and Cultural Studies 5, no. 2 (December 30, 2022): 214–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.30996/anaphora.v5i2.7657.
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Displaying the probable future and the doom of humanity and the Earth, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) and Sarah Hall’s The Carhullan Army (2007) are two dystopian novels that present the terrible state of women along with the degradation of the society and the nonhuman environment. Atwood’s the Republic of Gilead and Hall’s the Authority enforce an extremely oppressive, exploitative, and misogynist order on women, which corrupts the natural flow of daily life and destroys the human and nonhuman spheres. Depicting the resistance of women against tyranny through female protagonists, these novels picture dystopian worlds of chaos and destruction ruled by anthropocentric and patriarchal dictate. With this perspective, this article aims to discuss the problem of patriarchal oppression on women in dystopian societies as portrayed in The Handmaid’s Tale and The Carhullan Army from the perspectives of the feminist and ecofeminist theories.
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Wang, Xinyue. "Responses of Centralised and Decentralised Countries to COVID-19." Groundings Undergraduate 15 (May 15, 2024): 231–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.36399/groundingsug.15.140.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly impacted global public health systems and economic frameworks. Many researchers have delved into these effects and widely discussed the ramifications. Building upon existing literature, this paper comparatively analyses the strategies adopted by France and Sweden in responding to the COVID-19 outbreak, emphasising the effectiveness and implications of the approaches undertaken by countries with centralised versus decentralised political systems to overcome COVID-19. Through comprehensive review of literature, news reports, and other sources, this study reveals psychological resistance and disdain towards COVID-19 vaccination among the populace under France’s centralised government system, alongside significant issues of “Tyranny of Experts” within Sweden’s decentralised governance framework.
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JONES, COLIN, and SIMON MACDONALD. "ROBESPIERRE, THE DUKE OF YORK, AND PISISTRATUS DURING THE FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY TERROR." Historical Journal 61, no. 3 (December 18, 2017): 643–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x17000267.
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AbstractMaximilien Robespierre was deposed on 27 July 1794/9 Thermidor Year II when the charge that he was a tyrant burst spectacularly into open political discussion in France. This article examines key aspects of how that charge had developed, and been discussed in veiled terms, over the preceding months. First, it analyses a war of words which unfolded between Robespierre and the duke of York, the commander of the British forces on the northern front. This involved allegations that Robespierre had used an assassination attempt against him in late May as a pretext for scapegoating the British – including the orchestration of a notorious government decree of 7 Prairial/26 May 1794 which banned the taking of British and Hanoverian prisoners of war. Second, the article explores how these developments fitted within a larger view of Robespierre as aiming for supreme power. In particular, they meshed closely with a reading of French politics which likened Robespierre to the ancient Athenian leader Pisistratus, a figure who had subverted the city's constitution – including posing as a victim of violent attacks – in order to establish his tyranny. Pisistratus's story, we argue, offered a powerful script for interpreting Robespierre's actions, and a cue for resistance.
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Whitford, David M. "From Speyer to Magdeburg: The Development and Maturation of a Hybrid Theory of Resistance to Tyranny." Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte - Archive for Reformation History 96, no. 1 (December 1, 2005): 57–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.14315/arg-2005-0104.
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ZUSAMMENFASSUNNG Der vorliegende Aufsatz befaßt sich mit der Bedeutung des Magdeburger Bekenntnisses für die Entwicklung einer protestantischen Widerstandslehre. Es wird gezeigt, wie das Magdeburger Bekenntnis verschiedene Ausformungen des Widerstandsgedankens vereinigte und sie zu einer Neuinterpretation von Römer 13 kombinierte. Das beflügelte nicht nur die Theorie, sondern auch die Praxis des protestantischen Widerstands.
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Nacheva, Venesa. ""Grupa B". Współpraca polsko-bułgarska podczas drugiej wojny światowej." Bibliotekarz Podlaski Ogólnopolskie Naukowe Pismo Bibliotekoznawcze i Bibliologiczne 62, no. 1 (June 24, 2024): 83–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.36770/bp.880.
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The article by Violeta Nacheva discusses Polish-Bulgarian cooperation during World War II, specifically focusing on the activities of Group B, which was part of the Polish section within the Bulgarian resistance movement. The author recounts the history of the Polish diaspora in Bulgaria, starting from the pre-war period when Poles were actively involved in Bulgarian social life. After the Nazi invasion of Poland, the Polish community became key participants in the resistance movement in Bulgaria, and Group B was established as a response to the Nazi occupation. The article examines the relationship between the Polish section and the Bulgarian Communist Party, describing their joint activities and challenges faced in their fight against the Nazis. Nacheva emphasizes the importance of international solidarity in the struggle against tyranny and the role of Poles in the resistance, highlighting the difficulties they had to face amid persecution. The author concludes the article by pointing out the significant impact that Group B had on subsequent Polish-Bulgarian relations and on shaping the historical memory of both nations.
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Cahyawati, Erna. "THE SPIRIT OF FREEDOM AGAINST DEHUMANIZATION IN FREDERICK DOUGLASS’ THE NARRATIVE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS, AN AMERICAN SLAVE." SEMIOTIKA: Jurnal Ilmu Sastra dan Linguistik 21, no. 1 (January 5, 2020): 10. http://dx.doi.org/10.19184/semiotika.v21i1.15658.
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American romanticism is a literary movement in the 19th century that upholds individualism, and freedom from all forms of confinement of convention, oppression or tyranny. This study focuses on abolitionism or the anti-slavery movement found in Frederick Douglass's autobiographical novel entitled The Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave. This study explores American romantic literature's characteristics in the book by capturing the dehumanization experienced by black American slaves and their spirit of resistance to the white oppression. The method used is the inductive method and descriptive method. The results showed that black people could gain confidence in striving for equality and freedom from white oppression by learning to read and write.
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Deiter, Kristen. "Building Opposition at the Early Tudor Tower of London: Thomas More’s Dialogue of Comfort." Renaissance and Reformation 38, no. 1 (June 13, 2015): 27–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.33137/rr.v38i1.22781.
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Medieval and early modern English monarchs constructed the Tower of London’s iconography to symbolize royal power, creating a self-promoting royal ideology of the Tower. However, the Tower’s cultural significance turned sharply when Thomas More wrote A Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation (1534) as a Tower prisoner, laying the foundation for an early modern tradition of literary and cultural representations of the Tower as oppositional to the Crown. In the Dialogue, through four progressive transgressions against Henry VIII, More defies the royal ideology of the Tower and refashions the Tower itself as a symbol of resistance to royal tyranny.
Les monarques anglais du Moyen Âge et de la Renaissance ont représenté la Tour de Londres comme un symbole du pouvoir royal, mettant ainsi en place une idéologie de la Tour promouvant la royauté. Toutefois, la signification culturelle de la Tour a subi un retournement rapide lorsque Thomas More a écrit A Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation (1534), alors prisonnier à la Tour ; l’ouvrage a en effet posé les fondations d’une tradition littéraire et culturelle présentant la Tour comme un lieu d’opposition à la couronne. Dans le Dialogue, à travers quatre étapes progressives de contestations à l’égard d’Henri VIII, More remet en question l’idéologie royale de la Tour, et la redéfinit comme un symbole de résistance à la tyrannie royale.
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Kaiser, Nahid. "Resistance to Paterfamilias in Purabi Basus two short stories: Radha Will Not Cook Today and Salehas Desire." Stamford Journal of English 6 (February 22, 2013): 177–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/sje.v6i0.13912.
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Female writers have always been vocal against the tyranny of the overwhelming demon of patriarchy. Some of the writings of contemporary Bangladeshi female writers like Selina Hossain and Purabi Basu, exhibit a strong sense of resistance to the overpowering hegemony of paterfamilias. The aim of this paper is to focus on the tendency of de-centering the masculine logocentricism as shown in two of the short stories of Purabi Basu, Radha Will Not Cook Today and Salehas Desire. In these texts, we will find two resistant female protagonists, Radha and Saleha, who stand in their own way against societal expectations and break away with the roles the society has imposed on them. Their weapons are either silence or indifference or even violence. Moreover, their resistance may not lead to any positive conclusion. Yet, they are to be celebrated because of their power to oppose the oppressive or suppressive power. Stamford Journal of English; Volume 6; Page 177-185 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/sje.v6i0.13912
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Pontuso, James F. "The Greengrocer and Compassion in Time of War." East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures 32, no. 2 (April 23, 2018): 310–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0888325417742489.
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This is a personal reflection on the effects of The Power of the Powerless on students living in post-tyrannical societies—the Czech Republic in 1993 and Iraq in 2010. Czech students read the essay as an indictment of Marxist ideology, one-party rule, bureaucratic stagnation, and their former educational system. Havel was a symbol of resistance, human rights, and courage. Iraqi students found a different lesson. The Power of the Powerless does not excuse tyranny, but it does explain the way people trying to live a normal life rationalize their compliance with repression. Havel’s essay made Iraqi students comprehend how complicated choices are under difficult circumstances. Perhaps, as its author intended, the essay proved upon reflection to be a source of compassion.
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Siemens, H. W. "Nietzsche's Critique of Democracy (1870—1886)." Journal of Nietzsche Studies 38, no. 1 (2009): 20–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/20717973.
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Abstract This article reconstructs Nietzsche's shifting views on democracy in the period 1870—86 with reference to his enduring preoccupation with tyrannical concentrations of power and the conviction that radical pluralism offers the only effective form of resistance. As long as he identifies democracy with pluralism (Human, All Too Human), he sympathizes with it as a site of resistance and emancipation. From around 1880 on, however, Nietzsche increasingly links it with tyranny, in the form of popular sovereignty, and with the promotion of uniformity, to the exclusion of genuine pluralism. Democracy's emancipatory claims are reinterpreted as “misarchism,” or hatred of authority, and Nietzsche looks to the “exceptional beings” excluded by democracy for sources of resistance to the “autonomous herd” and “mob rule.” Against elitist readings of this move, it is argued that Nietzsche opposes the domination of the herd type under democracy from a standpoint in human diversity and a generic concern with the future of humankind. Exceptional individuals are conceived in pluralistic, agonal terms, as a community of legislators engaged in a process of transvaluation that serves the interests not of one or a few but of all of us: “the self-overcoming of the human.”
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Siemens, H. W. "Nietzsche's Critique of Democracy (1870—1886)." Journal of Nietzsche Studies 38, no. 1 (2009): 20–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/jnietstud.38.2009.0020.
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Abstract This article reconstructs Nietzsche's shifting views on democracy in the period 1870—86 with reference to his enduring preoccupation with tyrannical concentrations of power and the conviction that radical pluralism offers the only effective form of resistance. As long as he identifies democracy with pluralism (Human, All Too Human), he sympathizes with it as a site of resistance and emancipation. From around 1880 on, however, Nietzsche increasingly links it with tyranny, in the form of popular sovereignty, and with the promotion of uniformity, to the exclusion of genuine pluralism. Democracy's emancipatory claims are reinterpreted as “misarchism,” or hatred of authority, and Nietzsche looks to the “exceptional beings” excluded by democracy for sources of resistance to the “autonomous herd” and “mob rule.” Against elitist readings of this move, it is argued that Nietzsche opposes the domination of the herd type under democracy from a standpoint in human diversity and a generic concern with the future of humankind. Exceptional individuals are conceived in pluralistic, agonal terms, as a community of legislators engaged in a process of transvaluation that serves the interests not of one or a few but of all of us: “the self-overcoming of the human.”
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Henderson, John. "On getting rid of kings: Horace, Satire 1.7." Classical Quarterly 44, no. 1 (May 1994): 146–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0009838800017274.
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This satire has often been accounted a poor poem, repetitive, irrelevant and self-indulgent. Rather than recover one more cultured display of refinement as disguise, this essay explores instead the fall-out that radiates from a classic text's play with the ‘loose talk’ of plebeian gossip. The proposal here is that Horace and his intimates could, and can, easily share a view of the view of ‘their’ populace, but at the price of surrendering control over the import of their intervention. This claim turns on the figure ‘Brutus’, which noises a republican politics of resistance to tyranny through what linguists term nonphonation: as we shall find, Horace both tells a dummy tale about ‘przemilczenie’ (῾not speaking about something, ‘failing to mention something’) and at the same time performs a dumbshow of his own.
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Doyle, Laura. "At World's Edge: Post/Coloniality, Charles Maturin, and the Gothic Wanderer." Nineteenth-Century Literature 65, no. 4 (March 1, 2011): 513–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ncl.2011.65.4.513.
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Laura Doyle, “At World's Edge: Post/Coloniality, Charles Maturin, and the Gothic Wanderer” (pp. 513–547) The Gothic text has been shown to represent colonialism's crimes through its literary tropes of imprisonment, terror, rape, and tyranny. This essay takes a further step to propose that Gothic texts also register the historical resistance to colonialism's crimes. That is, they refer to anti-colonial insurgency—in Ireland, India, the Caribbean, and elsewhere—in the process evincing ambivalent anxieties about global, imperial instability. After reviewing the Gothic‘s entanglement with discourses of both liberation and barbarism, reflective of its contradictory political investments, the essay focuses on Charles Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) to demonstrate the ways in which Gothic texts are structured against insurgency even as, in their “wandering,” haunted figures, they unveil a world in turmoil.
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Mondal, Md Sohel. "Mechanism of Resistance to British Imperialism in the Literature of Kazi Nazrul Islam." Journal of Language and Linguistics in Society, no. 34 (June 6, 2023): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.55529/jlls.34.1.11.
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Literature has always been an effective medium of presentation. Whenever the groaning sound of people with the increasing tyranny of colonial rule raised high, literature played a pivotal role to draw it in a pragmatically artistic touch. The Bidrohi Kabi Kazi Nazrul Islam, National Poet of Bangladesh, made a unique place in the journey of Bengali literature resistance of the early twentieth century. He inextricably applied diverse literary genres and thematic mechanisms of resistance in his literature which undoubtedly bore the motive-inciting words of love and fire against any form of injustice whether of British Empire or societal customs and continued the thread of awakening in the Bengal Renaissance. The Rebel Poet was the figurehead of the allied Hindu-Muslim struggle of undivided India against the imperialistic British rule. However, miserably the discourse on Nazrul Resistance Literature is limited only in Bengali corridors with mere poetic contributions. With this viewpoint, the research delves into exploring the dimensional works of the poet and tries to establish him as a versatile writer of prose and poetry. In addition, the work makes a sincere effort to elucidate various thematic decorations of his literary outcomes and their universal acceptability. Ultimately, Nazrul Studies are yet to be expounded further ahead to bring out more research works on this Bengali poet of love and resistance overlooking the cross-country borders.
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Hanley, Keith. "Shakespeare and the Resistance: The Earl of Southampton, the Essex Rebellion, and the Poems that Challenged Tudor Tyranny." Chesterton Review 45, no. 1 (2019): 148–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/chesterton2019451/221.
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Davida, Dena, Sandeep Bhagwati, Tawny Andersen, Victoria Carrasco, Barbara Scales, and Yves Sheriff. "Editorial." TURBA 2, no. 2 (September 1, 2023): vii—x. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/turba.2023.020201.
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In recent decades we have experienced a resurgence of authoritarianism in previously democratic societies that have given way, once again, to populist movements, and in so many corners of the world that have been affected by social revolutions. The freedoms of progressive-minded people, live artists and curators are increasingly constrained not only by practicalities and aesthetics but also by political meddling and institutional censorship. A consequence of their convictions and positions of resistance is that their personal safety has been threatened. These are conditions that have been dire realities for curators living in many countries. Within the pages of this issue, they offer differing visions for imagining a radical curatorship in the face of tyranny by designing and defining innovative strategies that break down traditional ways of being and doing. And they model themselves as artivist community organizers and socio-political reformers.
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Romański, Mirosław. "Sabotaż w Polsce 1944/1945–1956." Przegląd Nauk Historycznych 13, no. 1 (January 1, 2014): 187–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/1644-857x.13.01.07.
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The article presents the subject of resistance of the sabotage nature which was not so much known in Poland. Apart from the information about the range of the sabotage phenomenon, the Polish legislation on repression matter for these types of acts and the structure being involved in combating that phenomenon has been discussed. The article is a monograph on the development of that interesting issue. Its chronological frames include the years 1944/1945–1956 and are in accordance with the widely accepted chronological division in the latest history. The year 1956 was a turning point in a policy of the Polish authorities. Assuming power by Gomułka, liberalization of social life, stopping the Stalinist tyranny and practices and reorganization of security services caused that the sabotage during these times was perceived in a lenient way. It was limited, although other forms of resistance were more intensive, for example anonymous letters, leaflets or strikes. The basis of the preliminary sources of that article are materials prepared by the Ministry of Public Security and Ministry of the Interior, deposited in the Institute of National Remembrance Archive in Warsaw.
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Ullah, Irfan, Liaqat Iqbal, and Ayaz Ahmad. "Pakistani Identity and Kamila Shamsies Novels: An Analysis in Stylistics (Thematic Parallelism)." Global Regional Review IV, no. II (June 30, 2019): 301–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/grr.2019(iv-ii).32.
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This paper explored thematic parallelism in Kamila five of Shamsies novels i.e. Salt and Saffron, Cartography, Broken Verses, Burnt Shadows, and Home Fire. The paper identify here conflicts, depressions, identity fluctuations and a relentless machination of transformations by the powerful and resisting quarters of the region. The repetitive rule of military in Pakistan, the negative fallouts of engagement in Afghanistans resistance against the Soviets, the alienation of Muhajirs, the national and international catastrophe of 9/11 emerge as the strings that reflect the dilemma of the nomadism of modern times. The tyranny of destructive forces is amply reflected in the parallel desolation of places, characters and cultures. Karachi in its violence is parallel to Tokyo and New York. These parallels sublimate each other in conveying the poignancy of uprootedness and loss of identity. The lexical and syntactic parallels identifiable through corpus tools helped in identifying such parallels.
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Lotman, Maria-Kristiina, Līva Bodniece, and Jovita Dikmonienė. "Reception of Sophocles’ Antigone in the Baltic States." Literatūra 64, no. 4 (December 30, 2022): 20–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/litera.2022.64.4.13.
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This paper analyzes the translations of Antigone by Sophocles and later authors and the performances based on them in the theaters of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. It investigates the necessity to translate the Antigone dramas by Sophocles, Jean Anouilh and Janusz Głowacki into national languages and stage them in theaters. The article analyzes how these works are related to the history of the Baltic countries. This paper is divided into three subparts that match the historical periods from the end of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twenty-first century. The most important performances of Antigone in the Baltic countries are analyzed, highlighting the individual style of each director and their attention to the form and expression of the performances. The main themes revealed by the artists of the Baltic countries are conscious self-sacrifice for one’s neighbor and individual resistance to conformity and tyranny.
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Angus, Sonny. "Veneration and Mockery: Images of Gentlemen Leaders within the Material Culture of Scottish Radical Procession 1832–1884." Journal of Scottish Historical Studies 43, no. 2 (November 2023): 112–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/jshs.2023.0368.
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Drawing on extensive newspaper accounts of reform processions this article seeks to analyse the portraits, caricatures and other representations of political leaders carried on such occasions. By emphasising the respectability of their leaders through formal portraits, radicals lent a respectable air to proceedings, as if their public actions were sanctioned by these respected men. These portraits also created connections between the marchers and parliament, with captions below portraits cementing the national focus of these local activities. Equally, though, these formal portrayals of political leaders were drawn into wider ideologies of freedom, unity, and resistance to tyranny. Consistent through each of these representations was an attempt to draw upon the gentleman leader for legitimacy, relating local acts to a unified national political movement. Less formal images in the form of cartoons also drew political leaders into these ideologies, placing them in sometimes quite elaborate and highly symbolic situations.
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Yasin, Muhammad Khurram, Dr Waqar Saleem Rana, and Dr Ghulam Mustafa Farooq. "Numberdar Ka Neela: A Study of Postcolonial Context & Anti-Colonialism." Noor e Tahqeeq 7, no. 03 (September 30, 2023): 56–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.54692/nooretahqeeq.2023.07032032.
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Syed Ashraf's novel, "Numberdar Ka Neela," serves as a potent critique of the post-colonial condition. It illustrates how oppression and exploitation persist even after country gains independence. The author delves into issues like power concentration, power abuse, and resistance to oppression, set in the early 1950s post-colonial context. The central character, Thakur Odal Singh, embodies power, exploitation, and tyranny. He symbolizes the forces struggling to retain their dominance in a changing society. Thakur's authority is epitomized by his blue bull, ‘Neela’, representing the violent and destructive consequences of concentrated power. Despite Neela's sacred status in Hindu religion, the villagers gradually realize it is merely a tool of oppression wielded by Thakur to maintain control. The novel culminates with the villagers finally rebelling against this cruelty, resulting in Neela's defeat and disappearance, as well as the demise of Thakur and his two sons. This article critically analyzes the symbolism and postcolonial context of "Neela" in "Numberdar Ka Neela."
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Moore, Peter N. "An Enslaver's Guide to Slavery Reform: William Dunlop's 1690 Proposals to Christianize Slaves in the British Atlantic." Church History 91, no. 2 (June 2022): 264–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0009640722001366.
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When it was first brought to light in 2010, an anonymously authored, unpublished document from 1690, Proposals for the propagating of the Christian Religion, and Converting of Slaves whether Negroes or Indians in the English plantations, appeared to support claims for an emerging humanitarian sensibility among Christian antislavery reformers in seventeenth-century England. This article argues that Scottish Covenanter, colonizer, and enslaver William Dunlop was the author of these proposals. Dunlop's authorship casts them in a new light, showing the complex ways Christianity and slavery were entangled in this period and the challenges Reformed Protestants faced in their attempts to disentangle them. Dunlop's Reformed background and experience in the Presbyterian resistance movement during the “killing times” of the early 1680s led him to view slavery as anti-Christian tyranny and liberty as the will of God. But during his time in Carolina he was deeply implicated in enslaving illegally seized Christian Indian captives, African chattel slaves, white indentured servants seeking freedom in Spanish Catholic Florida, and even fellow Covenanters banished to the plantations for their resistance to episcopacy. Dunlop's proposals emerged from these dual contexts. They tried and failed to imagine a form of Christian slavery that gave enough freedom to enslaved people to lead authentic Christian lives, showing instead that Christianity and slavery were incompatible and offering reformers only a stark choice: not Christian slavery, but Christianity or slavery.
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Anderson, Elizabeth, Marsha Bellamy, and Nikki Douglas. "But that's not right, is it Miss? Colonization and conscientious objection through drama." Applied Theatre Research 7, no. 2 (December 1, 2019): 251–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/atr_00019_1.
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Abstract This article presents an account of a short research project in which two primary school teachers and the researcher collaborated to design drama work to help their students navigate challenging journeys. A short case study of practice over four to six months, it was documented and considered reflectively in order for the practice to be of use to other teachers. From safe New Zealand classrooms, the two teachers, one with Year 6 students, the other with Year 8, used drama to look at the tyranny of colonization and at resistance by conscientious objection. The research followed a case study process over four to six months, in two schools. The two teachers in this study let their students imagine colonization and resistance, and helped them see with new eyes. The students were challenged to question different perspectives on right and wrong and to navigate their own direction with critical thought and empathy. In the class that explored the rights of others in another age through literature heightened their awareness and responsibility for their own work, and in turn deepened their responses to ideas. In the other class, while colonization had been the original commendable theme, the students made their own connections to their own lives and community, and revealed a degree of perception and insight that holds promise for the way those students will participate and balance their responsibilities as citizens.
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Baxter, Jamie Reid. "Elizabeth Melville, Lady Culross: new light from Fife." Innes Review 68, no. 1 (May 2017): 38–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/inr.2017.0129.
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The largest single manuscript collection of the spiritual poetry of Elizabeth Melville, Lady Culross (fl. 1599–1631) is anonymous and undated. Its contents give every sign of being carefully ordered, and open with a sonnet incorporating the name Issobell Cor as the anagram SOB SILLE COR, followed by a dixain on the acrostic ISABELL COR. This article overturns earlier interpretations of these technical devices by identifying the addressee of the poems as the hitherto unnoticed Isobell Cor, wife of Robert Lumsden, laird of Airdrie in the East Neuk of Fife. Isobell Cor's background and her personal circumstances in the period 1605–1609 provide a raison d’être for the existence of the anonymous verse collection and further reinforce the existing case for Elizabeth Melville's authorship of the 3000 lines concerned. Significant new light is also thrown on the poet's early adult years, on the richness of the spirituality practised by the ‘Melvillian’ presbyterians of the East Neuk of Fife and on the struggles in which the steely resolve of seventeenth-century presbyterian resistance to Crown ‘tyranny’ was forged.