The Black Protests in Poland: An Example of an Anti-pastoral Revolution

Michel Foucault in Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1977-1978 argues, that there has never been such a thing as an anti-pastoral revolution in Western societies. Yes, we have had revolutions against the disciplinary apparatus and legal devices of power (schools, hospitals, prisons) and we have had examples of revolutions against the economic foundations of social inequality, but there has never been a genuine revolution against pastoral power as a power relating to the conduct of individuals (but also entire social groups) and their disposition to “voluntary submission” to the will of external authorities. In my paper, I would like to reflect on this thesis, and taking it quite seriously, to look for examples of such revolutions. One of them is a women’s strike in Poland during the power of the conservative government of “Law and Justice”. Mainly referring to the texts of Silvia Federici and Paul Preciado, I will want to reflect on contemporary practices of reclaiming the body in contemporary capitalism. I will defend the thesis that regaining control over sexuality and reproduction means changing the material conditions of life and modern reproductive technologies.

Loud Protest amidst Silence:Conflicts in Ron Milner's The Ray

This paper makes comments on conflicts in a micro-story of 527 words,The Ray,written by American writer Ron Milner.The story,from a unique perspective of narration,attracts and strikes the reader as a loud protest amidst silence,against human beings' self-destructive abuse of nuclear technology and craziness of arms races during the cold war.The paper,from the historical,cultural,and religious contexts,presents an analysis of the hero's death and of the message the reader can draw from the story.

Understanding Why People Change Their Technology Use in Protests: User Study on Ebonyi State Mobile Telecommunication Subscribers Experiences

The rise in consumers complains against their service/tech providers has empowered government of various nations to set up Consumer Complaint Commissions. Some corporate organizations who wish to handle the complaints of their customers usually set up an in-house/internal customer care centres, a platform through which they attend to their customers’ needs. This research therefore is interested in exploring the reasons for user-protests among the mobile telecommunication subscribers in Ebonyi State, Nigeria against their network service providers. To arrive at this, we designed a research questionnaire to capture the experiences of the subscribers of the 4 major mobile telecommunication network service provider companies operating in the state. The participants were recruited through physical administration of research instrument and social media such as facebook, whatsapp and email platforms with a total of 72 participants feedbacks received. The users responses on the various issues raised on our questionnaire were thematically analyzed and represented using adequate data presentation tools. Our results proved that there are growing numbers of disgruntled customers among subscribers of the various network providers. From our survey, we gathered that 81.90% of the respondents have engaged in protest use at one point or the other against their service providers with MTN network topping the list with 36.50%, followed by GLO network 27%, Airtel network 23.80% and 9 Mobile 12.70%. Finally, we proposed a design prototype named “Komplain” that will serve as rallying system for the protest users to use and prosecute their actions. The system can also recommend actions which the protesters may undertake.

Protestant Pretence in John Donne＇s Poetry

Known as a representative of the English metaphysical poets, John Donne＇s poems are under Protestant pretence. Scepticism, cynicism, anxiety and penitence as well as the employment of numerous religious images construct the unique and profound characteristics of John Donne＇s poetry. The paper focuses on the Protestant pretence in Donne＇s poetry. In order to avoid religious persecution and to realize his ambition, Donne deserted Catholicism and converted into a Protestant. Inner conflicts and struggle are revealed in many of his poems. Scepticism and penitence are also embodiments of Donne＇s Protestant pretence in poetry.

＂Painting with Words＂： ＂Social Justice＂ Protest＇s Narrative in the Israeli＇ s News

This article analyzes the role of the media during the 2011 social protests in Israel, in order to examine why the ＂Social Justice＂ protest proved more effective than any other social protest organized previously in Israel. Scholars have shown that media fi＇aming has a powerful effect on citizen perception and policy debates. The social protests focused on the political-social-economic policy based on a neo-liberal ideology. They signified the beginnings of resistance to the system and became the focus of public and media identification via reports published by leading Israeli newspapers： Yedioth Ahronoth and lsrael Hayom. Using content analysis, the author explore how the media plays an important role to shape the public perception of how to think and act about the protest. Due to the results, we evident the expand media capacity and influence, and that these effects are mediated in presenting positive and supportive coverage, including connotations and metaphors expressed by means of familiar slogans and events in the collective memory of Israeli society. Additionally, the expression ＂social justice＂ that became the protest＇s slogan, offered a broad common basis with which each citizen could identify, including journalists.

Critical Discourse Analysis--The Slogans in the Protests for George Floyd

Critical discourse methodology is an extremely significant and meaningful branch of systemic functional linguistics which pays more attentions in the formation,diffusion,and acceptability of acertain discourse,and also the investigation on social background;meanwhile it is always used to discuss and pin down those familiar perceptions and ideologies that have been overlooked by the public so that new re-examination can be carried out to dig out some other attractive points.In this paper some basic theoretical basis and methodologies will be explained and then,by applying the critical discourse analysis,the slogans in the protests from Minneapolis to the whole America.Racial discrimination has invariably been a severe social problem for more two centuries in the U.S.A.After the Emancipation Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln,157 years has passed;however this kind of serious social issue still haunts among every American people.Countless protests have happened in the development of America;thus by analyzing the different types of slogans in this recent protest,novel discovery and meaningful retrospect would emerge.

Collective Action and Networks in Civil Society： The Case of South Korea＇s Protest Movement

The Free Trade Agreement （FTA） was nearly ratified by United States and South Korea countries＇ administrations and can be described as a network of transnational trade. However, the candlelight protests have been held that network was set between the individuals of the South Korean society as a reaction against the FTA and Korean government, The network was the results of a new method of amassing power which comparing past protest in South Korea, and it was able to deal a severe blow to the ongoing FTA negotiations. In this paper, we will be using the actor-network theory （ANT） set forth by Law （1992） and Latour （2005） to explain Korean candlelight protest situations. A key claim is that ANT must range beyond studies of science and technology to other ＂social＂ subjects because it raises much broader questions about the construction of the social and nature. Therefore, this paper focused more on how the public opinion was aggregate in the social process, rather than the result. And we can see that the role of non-human actors is highly important. Through this attempt the citizen can reveal undisclosed information and get power to have communication with the government.

On Latin American Protests in 2019

A large-scale wave of mass protests broke out in fifteen Latin American countries during 2019.Some protests led to the resignation of the president and the collapse of the government.Others caused social unrest and bloody conflicts.Some protests led to a national"curfew",and the government was forced to cancel major international conferences.For a time,over ten countries were engaged in turbulent and chaotic activities.Accordingly,the 2019 Latin American protests were also dubbed"Latin America’s Turmoil"by the international media.The scale,scope and impact of the protests have been rarely seen over the last forty years.They constituted part of the global chaos of 2019.The cause was not only the anxious response of the Latin American countries facing global changes not seen for a century,but also a concentrated outbreak of political,economic and social contradictions that has been accumulating in certain Latin American countries over a long period of time.Facing unprecedented global change over a century,the Latin American countries will be able to usher in the"Latin American Spring"only if they carry out profound reform with great courage,and achieve significant progress in their political systems,economic structures,and social security systems.

浅谈object、suspect和protest的微妙用法

英语中有些动词的用法对学生来说十分微妙,我们叫它微妙动词(tricky verbs)。这类动词的微妙之处表现在两个方面:一是词义不易用汉语确切地解释清楚,二是由于搭配关系引起误解或造成使用上的困难。现将object、suspect和protest的微妙用法归纳如下: 学生在学习object这个词的时候,往往只记住汉语释义是“反对”,并记住它的后面要跟to,由于这两个意思在脑子里扎根较深,所以往往忽视了。object与宾语从句连用时意义上发生了变化,当它与宾语从句连用时,从句是指“反对的理由”而不是指“反对的内容”。object that…是指出“…作为反对的理由”,而不是“反对或不赞成”。例如:

Canada protests:After police cleared bridge,is this the end?

On Feb 13 morning,the officers arrived by the bus load,carrying long guns,ready to oust the last few protesters blocking the roads leading to the Ambassador Bridge.A week-long stalemate was about to come to an end.About 100 vehicles had been parked along a 2km stretch of the road for days on end.There were pickups,SUVs and even a dog-grooming van,festooned with Canadian flags,anti-vaccination slogans and anti-Trudeau epithets,as well as some heavy commercial trucks.The Freedom Convoy,as it’s been called,began as a protest against a mandate requiring truckers who cross the US-Canada border to be vaccinated against Covid.

Analysis on Discourse Construction of HK Riots between HK Protesters and China's Mainland Media Based on Fairclough’s Three-dimensional Framework of Critical Discourse Analysis

The Critical Discourse Analysis(CDA)is an interdisciplinary tool in various conditions,which aims to provide a better understanding of sociocultural aspects of texts and accounts of the production of internal structure,and overall organization of texts as well as to provide a critical dimension in its theoretical and descriptive accounts of texts.Since June last year,HK protests or HK violence have been frequently reported by worldwide media.In this paper,the author aims to find out how the HK protesters and the Mainland media describe the same event based on the three-dimensional framework of CDA.At last,the author concludes that the mainland media generally describe the event as violence and riot while the HK protesters define themselves as warriors striving for more freedom,justice and democracy.Besides,on this event,the Mainland media mainly accuses some western countries of interference into HK affairs,which is undoubtedly of China’s internal affairs,and the media give full support to the HK police in safeguarding the peace and stability of Hong Kong.But from the perspective of HK protesters,they firmly believe that they are using their actions to protect all the people of HK,and they are defending their values such as freedom,democracy and justice.These are two totally different systems of language,and the author also gives its potential reasons in the paper so as to offer some viewpoints in this aspect in combination with the CDA theory.

Mercury Rising in Anti-American Protests

The recent violent attacks by Islamic fundamentalists on the American embassy in Cairo and on the American Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, were stark reminders of the nature of the conflict spinning off anti-American sentiment in the Middle east and North Africa. The attacks left the U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and three other U.S. consulate staff dead. The violence was sparked by a short video made in the United States, of which

Managing Student Protest in Republican China： Yenching and St. John＇s Compared

Although similar in many respects, the two major Christian universities in Republican China adopted markedly different approaches to the common challenge of student nationalism. Case studies of the May Thirtieth Movement at St. John＇s University and the December Ninth Movement at Yenching University illustrate the consequences of these sharply contrasting experiences. Whereas St. John＇s was crippled by May Thirtieth, Yenching escaped December Ninth relatively unscathed. The explanation for the contrast, this paper suggests, lies not in any fundamental disagreement in the mission of the two universities or the philosophies of their famous and forceful presidents. It must be sought instead in the different campus cultures in which the student protests originated, and in the urban micro-environments in which the two universities were located： treaty-port Shanghai and post-imperial Peking.

Cross-Context News Corpus for Protest Event-Related Knowledge Base Construction

We describe a gold standard corpus of protest events that comprise various local and international English language sources from various countries.The corpus contains document-,sentence-,and token-level annotations.This corpus facilitates creating machine learning models that automatically classify news articles and extract protest event-related information,constructing knowledge bases that enable comparative social and political science studies.For each news source,the annotation starts with random samples of news articles and continues with samples drawn using active learning.Each batch of samples is annotated by two social and political scientists,adjudicated by an annotation supervisor,and improved by identifying annotation errors semi-automatically.We found that the corpus possesses the variety and quality that are necessary to develop and benchmark text classification and event extraction systems in a cross-context setting,contributing to the generalizability and robustness of automated text processing systems.This corpus and the reported results will establish a common foundation in automated protest event collection studies,which is currently lacking in the literature.

Discourse Strategies in President Buhari's Speech on the#EndSARS Protests in Nigeria

This article examines the discursive strategies employed to negotiate power and ideology in President Buhari’s speech on the#EndSARS Protests in Nigeria.The data for the study comprises President Muhammadu Buhari’s speech on the#EndSARS protests.The speech was analysed using both Systemic Functional Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis,and a discussion of how transitivity patterns and modality choices explain the representation of power,ideology and dominance in the speech followed.The findings of the study show that the transitivity and modality systems used by the president revealed his disposition toward the participants involved in the protests,and his perception of himself in relation to the others:whether they take an active or passive role in the discourse.The paper concludes that transitivity patterns and modality structures can be used to highlight social actors who on the surface appear common and natural,when they essentially perpetuate inequality and injustice.

Strong Protests

Koizumi's latest visit to the Yasukuni Shrine predictably triggers a diplomatic uproar On August 15, the anniversary of Japan's defeat in World War II, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi again paid homage at the Yasukuni Shrine, which honors Japan's war dead, including class-A war criminals, immediately provoking a diplomatic furor.

“Spiderman”Scales Skyscraper in War Protest

选注者言:为了抗议美英对伊拉克发动战争,法国的一个“蜘蛛人”顶着强风,在没有任何保护装置的情况下,徒手攀爬上了巴黎的一幢47层高的建筑,以示抗议。文中一句,也许你需要三思:I think it’ll take more than this tomake an impression on Bush and Blair,but it’s good all the same.It makes youthink.

Women Bare All in Australian Anti-War Protest

选注者言:700多名澳大利亚的裸体女性在海滨城市的一小山坡上,头脚相连,排出了两个英语单词:No War。以此举反对澳大利亚政府参与卷入对伊拉克的战争。文章的末尾告诉我们,此举非首创,而是效仿美国纽约女性:The Austral-ian protest echoed a similar one in New York where nude women formed the words“No Bush”to demonstrate against U.S....

Modern Technology Changes Art of Protest

随着网络的发展,以及网络便捷、快速、随时随地传递信息的特点,人们请愿抗议的方式也逐渐由纸上操作转为网上投递。任何人都可以免费在网络上发泄自己的情绪或申明自己的观点,而不必付诸某种实际行动。这是现代技术对人类生活影响的一个侧面。本文就一家网络公司的情况对这一现象提供了一个颇为有趣的实例。