scholarly journals Fragile Visions of the Social: Rethinking Solidarity with the Performance Piece Faust and the TV-series Skam

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Schumann
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Late Capitalism ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
The Social ◽  
Venice Biennale ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
The Way

AbstractThe paper explores the portrayal of social relations among youth in the popular Norwegian TV-series Skam and places this analysis in relation to Anne Imhof’s award-winning performance piece Faust, which received the Golden Lion at the 2017 Venice Biennale for the German Pavilion. As expressions of how today’s youth experience social relations under the conditions of late capitalism, I examine the way in which the TV-series and the performance work respectively explore when and how ‘we’ is shaped. I argue that they provide particular insight into the limits and possibilities for the formation of relations of solidarity today.

scholarly journals Analysis of spatial patterns in buildings (access analysis) as an insight into social structure: examples from the Scottish Atlantic Iron Age

Antiquity ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 63 (238) ◽  
pp. 40-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally M. Foster
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Spatial Patterns ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Geometrical Method ◽  
The Social ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
The Way

Clearly the pattern of space in buildings can be expected to relate to the way that buildings are used to structure and reproduce social relations. As an archaeologist, wishing to infer social structure by its reflection in the building pattern, one may hope the relation may be reasonably direct. Here the formal geometrical method of access analysis is used to elucidate the pattern in a distinctive kind of prehistoric settlement form, and thence to elucidate the social structure which both produced it and was structured by it.

Citizenship Across the Life Course

2018 ◽  
pp. 33-50
Author(s):  
Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Political Community ◽  
Mainland Chinese ◽  
Chinese Migrants ◽  
International Borders ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
The Way

Analyzing emigration, immigration, and re-migration concurrently, under the framework of contemporaneous migration, directs us toward evaluating what it means to stake claims to different components of citizenship in more than one political community across a migrant’s life course. This chapter examines the way the Mainland Chinese migrants negotiate social reproduction concerns that extend across international borders, their multiple national affiliations, and aspirations for recognition and rights as they journey between China and Canada across the life course. Patterns of re-migration are transforming the social relations of citizenship, re-spatializing rights, obligations, and belonging. Source and destination countries are also reversed during repeated re-migration or transnational sojourning. Transnational sojourning forges citizenship constellations that interlink how migrants understand and experience citizenship across different migration sites.

‘Book-Ends’: Statius Silvae 2.1 and 2.7

Ramus ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-77
Author(s):  
Carole Newlands
Keyword(s):  
Valuable Insight ◽  
Proper Understanding ◽  
The Social ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Critical Literature ◽  
The Way

My purpose in this article is straightforward, to counter some misconceptions about two of Statius' poems,Silu.2.1, his consolatory poem for the death of the twelve-year old Glaucias, andSilu.2.7, his consolatory poem for the death of the poet Lucan. These are the first and last poems of Book 2. Poems of lament and consolation constitute the majority of the poems of Statius'Siluae. Yet these poems have been generally dismissed as wearisomely rhetorical and have been largely overlooked in the critical literature aboutconsolationesas they endorse lamentation, elaborate upon it, and thus run counter to philosophical strictures against overt grief. Issues of class also surely play a role in their dismissal as trivial poems. Unlike Augustan poems of lament—for instance Ovid's poem on the death of Tibullus—two of the poems in Book 2 mourn a child of low birth and a young slave (Silu.2.1 andSilu.2.6). A proper understanding of the social occasions and circumstances in whichSilu.2.1 andSilu.2.7 are embedded, however, will show that they can offer valuable insight into contemporary Flavian society. Such an understanding moreover can point the way to a freshliteraryappreciation of these poems, although that is not the chief aim of this article.

Performing place promotion—On implaced identity in marketized geographies

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 321-342
Author(s):  
Mikael Andéhn ◽  
Joel Hietanen ◽  
Andrea Lucarelli
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Place Branding ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
Late Capitalism ◽  
Geographical Knowledge ◽  
The Social ◽  
Self Construal ◽  
The World ◽  
Place Promotion ◽  
Origin Effect

In the period that has become known as late capitalism, processes of commercialization are continuously taking on new forms. These tendencies enact an influence on how people understand themselves, the social relations they engage in, and the world around them. Geographical knowledge is no exception and has become increasingly shrouded in the language, symbolism, and tropes of marketing. Following the work of Judith Butler, we explore how these tendencies have profound implications on our self-construal, making discursive “implacement” an expedient factor in the marketization of identity. Further, we examine how two interrelated marketing discourses deal with places as commercial entities: the country-of-origin effect and place branding. In their commercial vernacular, they provide salient examples of subtle yet inescapable effects on the understanding of self-construal. In presenting this sensitizing diagnostic, we hope to further advance issues of stakeholdership as it pertains to the place-world and to offer new trajectories of critical inquiry into the commercial relevance of place.

scholarly journals New Perspectives on Retranslation: The Case of Iran

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-46
Author(s):  
Samira Saeedi
Keyword(s):  
Early Career ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
The Social ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Animal Farm ◽  
Multiple Translations ◽  
Insight Into

This paper examines the social aspects of retranslation in contemporary Iran. Foreign classics and award-winning literary books have attracted multiple translations into Persian within a short period of time. For instance, George Orwell’s novella, Animal Farm, has received more than one hundred retranslations in the last 40 years. The aim of this paper is to investigate possible reasons for such an unusually high number of retranslations. By analysing sixteen interviews with Iranian translators and publishers and performing paratextual analysis of four retranslations of George Orwell’s Animal Farm, this paper sheds light on the perceived advantages and disadvantages of retranslation. It does so by drawing on the trust-based approach to the study of translation proposed by Rizzi, Lang, and Pym, and by offering sociological insight into retranslation in contemporary Iran. Four groups of translators are identified: amateur, early career, mid-career, and senior translators. Retranslation for the former two groups is viewed as profitable trade in literary translation market. For the latter two, retranslation is the process of reinforcing trustworthiness at the institutional level that means trust in professionalism of certain Iranian translators and publishers.

Entrepreneurship as Networking

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Elfring ◽  
Kim Klyver ◽  
Elco van Burg
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Nascent Entrepreneurs ◽  
Action Orientation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Dominant Individual ◽  
One Step ◽  
Entrepreneurial Action ◽  
New Research ◽  
Insight Into

This book presents entrepreneurship as networking as a perspective. Persistent problems around the dominant “individual-opportunity” approach in the entrepreneurship field motivated the authors to focus on the social-interactive aspects and action orientation of entrepreneurship. The work promises to address the challenge of providing a more integrated account in which the entrepreneur’s agency is combined with a greater emphasis on the social environment. The importance of social relations and the associated interactions between entrepreneurs and their environment give insight into key entrepreneurial processes. The authors address the guiding questions of what a viable network is for (nascent) entrepreneurs and how networking activities affect their entrepreneurial endeavors. Therefore, they first create a synthesis of key network mechanisms and networking dynamics. This allows them (a) to shed new light on the origins of opportunities and improve understanding of how entrepreneurs access resources and subsequently mobilize and deploy them, and (b) to explain how entrepreneurs build legitimacy, facilitating them to act on perceived new combinations and thereby exploit their potential. Thus, this book highlights how networking is a central constitutive force in entrepreneurship. Previous work showed how networks can or will lead to entrepreneurial action as a facilitator. Going one step further, the authors posit that networking is entrepreneurial action, and entrepreneurial action is networking, thereby opening an entirely new research agenda.

Wantok and Lain ‐ a look at two Melanesian cultural concepts in two Tok Pisin texts

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-156
Author(s):  
Paweł Kornacki
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
World View ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Cultural Concepts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Anthropological Literature ◽  
Bride Price ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Group Family

Abstract This article looks at salient interpersonal uses and meanings of two prominent Tok Pisin social relations nouns ‐ wantok ('friend', 'same language speaker') and lain ('group', 'family', 'clan') ‐ which it is proposed exemplify key cultural Melanesian concepts in some anthropological literature of the area. Whereas certain aspects of language use in Tok Pisin were identified as potentially divisive and socially harmful, some scholars endeavoured to identify a group of concepts indicative of culturally specific Melanesian values. For example, the words wantok and lain were claimed to jointly represent 'the value of the clan' across Melanesian societies, while embodying and supporting a distinct world-view of the Melanesian peoples. This article studies two Tok Pisin texts which focus on the cultural significance of concepts of wantok and lain in their rural/traditional environment. While the first text offers a native speaker's insight into the social significance of the cultural expression wantok sistem ('system favouring friends'), the other one details the roles of lain in the passage of a bride-price ceremony. Given that both texts presuppose the cultural background of rural Tok Pisin, a brief look at some characteristic usage of the two words in electronic media suggests that certain aspects of traditional uses and meanings of these words may be extended and employed to conceptualize new social and political phenomena.

Sport, modernity and nation building: The Indonesian National Games of 1951 and 1953

2008 ◽  
Vol 164 (4) ◽  
pp. 431-449 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Brown
Keyword(s):  
British Empire ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Colonial Experience ◽  
History Of ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Inherent Part ◽  
The Way

The study of sport – its social, political, cultural and economic aspects – is a well-established academic field, scholars widely acknowledging its significance in understanding how a society is organized and understood. As Perkin (1992:211) puts it: The history of societies is reflected more vividly in the way they spend their leisure than in their politics or their work […] the history of sport gives a unique insight into the way a society changes and impacts on other societies it comes into contact with and, conversely, the way those societies react back to it. Sport has a particular resonance in considerations of the emergence of modern nation-states out of colonialism, given the connections between the diffusion of modern sports around the world and the colonial experience. Although virtually all societies played games of various kinds, competitive, rule-based sports are essentially modern, western phenomena, dating back no further than the nineteenth century. Their spread through the world coincided with, and in many respects was an inherent part of, the expansion of western colonialism. In the British Empire in particular, sport was seen as reflecting the essential values and characteristics of the British race which justified the existence of colonialism. Wherever the British went, they took their sports with them, together with the social mores they represented.

On the Subject of Far-Right-Wing Politics

2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 763-777 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola Short
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
World War ◽  
Far Right ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Second World ◽  
Insight Into

This paper explores how to consider the far right in historical-material and psychoanalytic perspective in the current conjuncture. Since the early post-Second World War interventions in this register, both the social relations of capitalism and psychoanalytic theory have evolved, while the problematic of the far-right had been somewhat marginalized as an object of research. This discussion revisits these broad concerns with attention to developments in the characterization of contemporary character structures and social relations. It examines two psychoanalytic approaches – drawn from Kohut and Lacan – that have been mobilized to examine the dominant character structures of late capitalism to consider their complementarity (and differences) with respect to certain psychological functions – defenses, affect and identification – that may offer insight into the far-right in the contemporary moment.

scholarly journals TERRITÓRIO, CULTURA E IDENTIDADE nas vozes femininas da obra “Quilombolas do Tocantins – Palavras e Olhares”

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 114-128
Author(s):  
Rose Dayanne Santana Nogueira
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
The Social ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
The Way

O artigo proposto se constrói a partir do interesse nas vozes que ecoam das narrativas dos poemas concebidos por mulheres quilombolas, publicados no livro Quilombolas do Tocantins: Palavras e Olhares, da Defensoria Pública do Estado do Tocantins, e a forma como expressam traços do território, cultura e identidade, e as relações sociais de gênero estabelecidas nesse diálogo. A pesquisa possui uma abordagem qualitativa e utilizou o método da análise de conteúdo e de narrativas. Dos 17 poetas com trabalhos classificados para o livro, 11 são mulheres. Em seus versos, ao escreverem sobre a temática proposta, “Ser Quilombola”, as mulheres narram as relações que estabelecem com a cultura e com os territórios, papéis que desempenham nestes espaços, expressando assim suas identidades quilombolas.   PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Território; Cultura, Identidade; Mulheres Quilombolas.     ABSTRACT The proposed article builds on the interest in the voices that echo the narratives of the poems conceived by “quilombola” women, published in the book Quilombolas do Tocantins: Palavras e Olhares, by the Defensoria Pública do Estado do Tocantins, and the way they express traits of the territory, culture and identity, and the social relations of gender established in this dialogue. The research has a qualitative approach and used the method of content analysis and narratives. Of the 17 poets with classified papers for the book, 11 are women. In their verses, when writing about the proposed theme, "Being Quilombola", women narrate the relationships they establish with culture and with the territories, roles they play in these spaces, thus expressing their quilombola identities.   KEYWORDS: Territory; Culture; Identity; Quilombolas Women.     RESUMEN Analiza los titulares de la sección internacional en las portadas de los periódicos O Estado El artículo propuesto se construye a partir del interés en las voces que resuenan de las narrativas de los poemas concebidos por mujeres quilombolas, publicados en el libro “Quilombolas de Tocantins: Palavras e Olhares”, de la Defensoria Pública do Estado do Tocantins, y la forma como expresan rasgos del territorio, cultura e identidad, y las relaciones sociales de género establecidas en ese diálogo. La investigación tiene un enfoque cualitativo y utilizó el método del análisis de contenido y de narrativas. De los 17 poetas con trabajos clasificados para el libro, 11 son mujeres. En sus versos, al escribir sobre la temática propuesta, "Ser Quilombola" las mujeres narran las relaciones que establecen con la cultura y con los territorios, papeles que desempeñan en estos espacios, expresando así sus identidades quilombolas.   PALABRAS CLAVE: Territorio; Cultura, Identidad; Mujeres Quilombolas.      

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