scholarly journals Schottky presentations of positive representations

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Philippe Burelle ◽  
Nicolaus Treib
Keyword(s):  
Positive Representations

scholarly journals Thoughts on the Ageing Body

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesca Ghillani
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Older People ◽  
Active Role ◽  
The Body ◽  
Negative Stereotypes ◽  
Artificial Image ◽  
The Media ◽  
Ageing Body ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Positive Representations

AbstractRecent studies have taken into account the fact that the lives of older people have changed drastically in the past fifty years. Older people today engage more with society and are also expected to maintain an active role in their communities. In order to maintain a positive social status, todays older adults need both to challenge negative stereotypes and also to achieve the “unachievable” positive representations in the media. Society plays a complex game of bodily images: the artificial image of the human body in the media, the image that individuals try to project, and the image that society reflects back to the individual. When the three don’t coincide, the collision creates a distancing effect. To truly understand the lived experiences of older adults in contemporary society we must explore the changing perceptions of the body. This review will illustrate the arguments both classical and contemporary through an exploration of the ageing female body, which remains the focus of most of the literature.

Officers and Gentlemen

2019 ◽  
pp. 14-61
Author(s):  
Noelle Gallagher
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Venereal Disease ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Double Standard ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Medical Texts ◽  
Male Power ◽  
Positive Representations ◽  
Disease Focus ◽  
Sexual Promiscuity

This chapter asks what imaginative representations of venereal disease say about Restoration and eighteenth-century attitudes toward gender and sexuality. It does so by considering the portrayal of venereal infections in men. It is no coincidence that many of the positive representations of the disease focus on male rather than female subjects. It has been suggested that the sexual double standard (whereby men were applauded for sexual promiscuity and women punished for it) played some role in shaping imaginative representations of the infection. However, so too did a culture that linked infection to manliness and male power. While historians working with medical texts from the early modern period have tended to conclude that the disease was seen as originating with, and spread by, women, many eighteenth-century literary and artistic works imagine venereal disease as male—as a condition predominantly experienced by men, caused by male sexual indiscretion, and passed on by philandering husbands to their faithful wives and innocent children.

scholarly journals Representations of the French language / culture among Qatari students enrolled in the minor of French at Qatar University

XLinguae ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 139-154
Author(s):  
Elie Alrabadi
Keyword(s):  
French Language ◽  
Positive Representations

This research is interested in the representations that Qatari students, enrolled in the French minor at Qatar University, have toward the French language/culture. The objective of this research is to analyze these representations as well as their influences on the motivations and attitudes of these students towards learning French. To achieve this goal, we conducted a survey among these students. The results this survey show that French generally receives positive representations, which should develop attitudes favorable to its learning.

scholarly journals Feminist Pedagogy and the South African Curriculum: The case of Women and Food Security

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Teresa Dirsuweit
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
South African ◽  
Food Studies ◽  
Feminist Pedagogy ◽  
Policy Statement ◽  
The South ◽  
Shock Absorbers ◽  
Working Class Women ◽  
Positive Representations

There is a food security crisis in South Africa and black working-class women are the shock absorbers of this crisis. It follows that where food studies are included in the South African curriculum, the relationship between women and food security should be understood and critiqued by learners. Improvements in gender equality have also been identified as one of the primary drivers of improvements in food security. In this paper, the South African curriculum is analysed in terms of food studies, gender studies and the promotion of gender equality. Using the lens of feminist pedagogy, a set of qualitative indicators were developed to assess the content and praxis of the curriculum. While there is content which deals with gender and with food, these are presented separately. In the Geography and Agriculture curricula, there is a marked lack of focus on gender concerns. This article concludes that the curriculum could be reoriented to include an awareness and critique of the nexus of women and food and that more positive representations of women as active and powerful agents are needed in the South African Curriculum Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS).

scholarly journals Personal factors that influence the development of resilience in children aged between 7 and 12 years to develop in extreme poverty

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 98-107
Author(s):  
Hernán Yair Rodríguez Betancourt ◽  
Laura Guzmán Verbel ◽  
Nataly Del Pilar Yela Solano
Keyword(s):  
Training Program ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Personal Factors ◽  
Extreme Poverty ◽  
Resiliency Factors ◽  
Positive Representations ◽  
The City

The following investigation was realized with the objective to characterize the personal factors that influence in the development of resilience in 200 children aged between 7 and 12 years in families linked to the program Red UNIDOS in the city of Ibague, for this was applied the inventory of resiliency factors proposed by Salgado (2005), which evaluate the level of self-esteem, empathy, autonomy, humor and creativity. The results show that the sample is in the middle of the factors evaluated (61%) and that 69% did not face adequately the adversity. We conclude that adult significant training children require psycho-afective formation to enable them to generate environments based on the self awareness of their children. Is proposed to design a training program for parents to incorporate into their speeches and actions positive representations on their children, so that achieving self-assertive and enable them to develop the ability to overcome adversity.

Reading (Readings of) UK Channel 4’s 2012 and 2016 Paralympic Advertisements

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 261-279
Author(s):  
Alex Cockain
Keyword(s):  
Binary Oppositions ◽  
Positive Representations

The article deconstructs UK Channel 4’s 2012 and 2016 Paralympic advertisements, illustrating how the structure and arrangement of signs combine to challenge and reinforce stereotypical attitudes about ability/disability. However, the focus extends beyond taken-for-granted and commonsensical boundaries of a “text” to contemplate how readers’ readings (e.g. on weblogs, in newspapers, journals, books, etc.) in specific contingent contexts combine to produce paratext that authors meanings relating to ability and disability. Both the advertisements and the readings they engender produce ambiguous and complex meanings that seem to resist, or thwart, authorial intentions to produce positive representations and efforts to master, or govern, texts through binary oppositions. Such fragility and undecidability in the representations, readings, and the texts they combine to produce give them double-edged qualities. Although this makes them comparable to the pharmakon, namely a beneficial remedy and/or drug/poison, with regard to their likely impact upon a media landscape containing other portrayals of disability, the undecidability of the texts coincides with the dis/ability and dis/abled identities to which they refer.

Everyday Style

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Detailed Case ◽  
Everyday Aesthetics ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Film Style ◽  
Positive Representations ◽  
Aesthetic Sensibility ◽  
The Way

Where chapter two deals with ordinary moments in extraordinary films, chapter three explores another aspect of the spectrum of the everyday in cinema: the concept of the everyday as a film style, and its relationship to the everyday as subject matter. This chapter examines the way the everyday as film style has been theorised—predominately as an aesthetic sensibility that privileges the undramatic and routine as a conduit to the profound or transcendent. Chapter three asserts that while this scholarship has been useful in illuminating positive representations of the everyday, its attempts to quarantine the everyday from the dramatic are problematic and ultimately reductive. Instead, through detailed case studies of Bresson’s Money (1983) and Haneke’s The Seventh Continent (1989), the chapter presents an alternate approach that allows for a more nuanced appreciation of everyday aesthetics, allowing for films which do not treat the everyday as strictly positive. These films are unsettling precisely for their lack of authorial guidance on how to respond to horrific narrative events; film style is pared back in such a way that moments of violence are afforded the same aesthetic weight as the representation of ordinary and mundane routines.

“Language More Effective than Words”

Graphic News ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 47-84
Author(s):  
Amanda Frisken
Keyword(s):  
Chinese American ◽  
Sexual Predators ◽  
Distorted Version ◽  
Chinese Workers ◽  
Limited Power ◽  
Family Based ◽  
Positive Representations

This chapter explores how, in the late 1870s and early 1880s, the NationalPolice Gazette adapted its racialization of rape to characterize Chinese laborers as sexual predators. While family-based illustrated papers – such as Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, Harper’s Weekly, and the Daily Graphic – Orientalized the Chinese, The Police Gazette amplified rhetoric from anti-Chinese agitators, such as Denis Kearney, about Chinese sexual predators, a new rationale for federal exclusion legislation. Journalist Wong Chin Foo’s efforts to interject a more positive iconography of Chinese workers, in his paper The Chinese-American and other venues, had limited power to challenge the anti-Chinese movement’s pervasive stereotypes. Wong’s positive representations were no match for the mystique of the more sensational – and distorted – version of Chinatown.

The Shame of Which We Shall NeverNow Speak

2021 ◽  
pp. 219-242
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
African Literature ◽  
African Culture ◽  
Positive Representations

The ongoing controversies over homosexuality’s shameful representation in African culture and literature. An analysis of cultural, legal, and literary commentary and “homophobic classics” of African literature as well as more recent, positive representations of homosexuality such as Mariama Barry’s La Petite Peul, Frieda Ekotto’s Chuchote pas trop, Jude Dibia’s Walking with Shadows, and some of Chimamanda Adichie’s short stories.

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