Crude Aesthetics: The Politics of Oil Documentaries

2012 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 423-439 ◽  
Author(s):  
IMRE SZEMAN
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Documentary Film ◽  
Environmental Movements ◽  
The Real ◽  
Real Price ◽  
The Social ◽  
Made In

How does the problem of oil appear in documentary film? I provide an answer to this question by examining the narrative and aesthetic choices through which the problem of oil is framed in three recent “feature” documentaries: Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack's A Crude Awakening (2006), Joe Berlinger’s Crude: The Real Price of Oil (2009), and Shannon Walsh's H2Oil (2009). My aim is to understand not only the specific politics enacted through the formal and aesthetic choices made in each film, but to map out what these documentaries tell us about the social life of oil today, and the capacity for films such as these to meaningfully intervene in the looming consequences of our dependence on oil. The essay proceeds in three parts. First, by offering readings of the discursive, narrative and aesthetic strategies of these documentaries, I draw out the ways in which each comes to understand the problem of oil. In the second part, I identify the key insights that these films offer regarding the specific social contradictions and political blockages that emerge from their attempt to name and understand oil. Finally, I conclude with an exploration of the insights these films provide for addressing the antinomies that define and separate the anticapitalist and environmental movements.

scholarly journals O uso social das tecnologias de comunicação pelo surdo: limites e possibilidades para o desenvolvimento da linguagem

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (12) ◽  
pp. 470
Author(s):  
Clélia Maria Ignatius Nogueira ◽  
Marília Ignatius Nogueira Carneiro ◽  
Tânia Dos Santos Alvarez da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Digital Communication ◽  
Educational Communication ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Written Language ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Use ◽  
Made In

Resumo: Desde a década de 1990 os surdos vivenciam uma intensa transformação em sua vida social, em função da naturalização da comunicação digital, e educacional, com a mudança de paradigma do oralismo para o bilinguismo. Este artigo apresenta resultados de investigação realizada em três etapas com dez sujeitos surdos, buscando identificar a) a importância atribuída por eles à escrita e a competência na utilização da comunicação digital; b) sua percepção acerca dos equívocos cometidos em suas produções escritas e c) sua competência na interpretação de textos para identificar os limites e as possibilidades de desenvolvimento da língua escrita, pelo uso social das tecnologias de comunicação pelos surdos. Os resultados apontaram a ressignificação do sentido social da escrita do Português para os surdos proporcionada pela comunicação digital, o que poderia ser explorado pela escola.Palavras-chave: Educação de surdos; Comunicação digital; Língua Portuguesa escrita. The social use of communication technologies by the deaf: limits and possibilities for the development of the languageAbstract: From the 1990s the deaf experience an intense transformation in their social life, due to the naturalization of digital and educational communication, with the paradigm shift from oralism to bilingualism. This article presents research carried out through three moments with ten deaf individuals, seeking to identify : a) the importance they attributed to writing and their competence in the use of digital communication; b) their perception about the mistakes made in their written productions and c) their competence in the interpretation of texts and thus identify the limits and possibilities for the development of written language, the social use of communication technologies by the deaf. The results pointed out the re-signification of their social sense of the Portuguese writing for the deaf, provided by the digital communication which could be explored by the school.Keywords: Education of the deaf; Digital communication; Written Portuguese language. 

scholarly journals Filming family and negotiating return in making Haraka Baraka: Movement is a blessing

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 192-208
Author(s):  
Lana Askari
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Documentary Film ◽  
Kurdistan Region ◽  
Social Navigation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
Iraqi Kurdistan ◽  
The Social ◽  
Return Journey ◽  
The Impact

This article focuses on how Kurdish returnees experience the process of returning “home”, how they imagine and (re) negotiate their future, through the discussion of my documentary film, Haraka Baraka: Movement is a Blessing, which tells the story of my parents’ return to Iraqi Kurdistan after living in the Netherlands for more than 20 years.  While over the past decade, the Kurdistan Region has developed into a safe-haven situated within a conflict-laden area, the recent tension around the Islamic State’s (IS) expansion has changed the social and political landscape significantly in the Middle East, leading to new considerations for potential returnees. Based on the fieldwork I conducted through filming my own family during their return journey, I argue that using visual anthropological tools can open a window onto diasporic movements and illuminate social life in times of crisis by challenging the representation of Kurdish migrants and addressing the impact of uncertainty in their lives. Keywords: Kurdish diaspora; social navigation; visual Anthropology.Filmandina malbatê û behsa vegerê di çêkirina Haraka Baraka: Movement is a Blessing de Babeta vê nivîsarê Kurdên vegerayî û serhatiya wan di pêvajoya vegera bo ‘malê’ da ye. Nivîsar bala xwe dide wê yekê ka vegerayî bi çi rengî paşeroja xwe xeyal û ji nû ve guftûgo dikin. Ev mijar bi rêka filma min a belgeyî ya bi navê Haraka Baraka: Movement is a Blessing tê nîqaş kirin, ku çîroka vegera dê û bavên min bo Kurdistana Iraqê ya piştî pitir ji 20 salên jîna li Holendayê vedibêje. Di demekê de ku Herêma Kurdistanê di nav deh salên borî de bûye stargeheke ewle li devereke pir bi şer û pevçûn, kêşe û nerihetiyên vê dawiyê yên ji ber mezinbûna DAEŞê, dîmenê civakî û sîyasî yê li Rojhilata Navîn gelek guhartiye, ku bi vê yekê re hizr û fikarên nû xistine ber wan Kurdên ku niyeta wan a vegerê heye. Li ser bingehê xebata meydanî, ya ku min di qonaxa filmandina rêvingiya malbata xwe ya vegerê da encam da, ez îdia dikim ku bikaranîna amûrên antropolojîk ên dîtinî (vîzuel) dikare pencereyeke nû veke bi ser hereketên diyasporayê de û ronahiyê bixe ser jiyana civakî di demên qeyranê de, ku ji bo çespandina vê yekê ez li dijî temsîlên serdest ên koçberên kurd radibim û her wiha karîgeriya guman û nediyariyê ya li ser jiyana wan nîqaş dikim. فیلم گرتن له‌ بنە ماڵە و باس کردن لە گە ڕانەوە لە کاتی دە رهێنانی "حە‌رە کە بەرەکە:جووڵانەوە خێروبه‌ره‌كه‌ته"‌(Haraka Baraka: Movement is a Blessing) ئە م وتاره، بە یارمەتی باسكردن له بەڵگە فیلمەکەم، "حەرەکە بەرەکە: جووڵانەوە خێروبهرهكهته"، کە چیرۆکی گەڕانەوەی دایکوبابم بۆ کوردستانی ئێراق پاشی بیست ساڵ ژیان لە وڵاتی هۆڵەند دەگێڕێتەوە، تیشک دەخاتە سەر ئەو بابەتە کە ئهو کوردانهی دهگەڕێنهوه بۆ وڵات چۆن پڕۆسەی گەڕانەوە بۆ "ماڵەوە" ئەزموون دەکەن و، چۆنی داهاتووی خۆیان دەهێننە بەر چاو ودهیخهنه بهر لێوردبوونهوه و پێداچوونهوه. لە ماوەی دە ساڵی ڕابردوودا، هەرێمی کوردستان گەشەی سەندووە و بووە بە حەشارگەیەکی بێمەترسیی لە ناودڵی ناوچەیەکی لێوانلێو لە ململانێ و بەیەکداداندا، بهڵام، ئەو شڵەژانەی ئەم دواییانە، لە ئاکامی پەرە سەندنی دەوڵەتی ئیسلامیی(داعش)، بە شێوەیەکی گرینگ دیمەنی کۆمەڵایەتیی وسیاسیی ڕۆژهەڵاتی ناڤینی گۆڕیوە. هەربەم هۆیەوە، ئهوانهی كه تهمای گهڕانهوهیان ههیه دهستیان كردووه به لێوردبوونهوهیهكی نوێ له تهماكهیان.. لە سەر بنەمای ئەم کارە مەیدانییەی کە لە ڕێگەی فیلمگرتن لە بنەماڵەکەی خۆم، لە جەنگەی سەفەری گەڕانەوەیاندا، کردووە، وای بۆ دەچم کە بە کارهێنانی ئامرازگەلی مرۆڤناسانەی دیتنی (visual anthropological tools) دەتوانێت لە ڕێگەی بهرهوڕووبوونهوه له گهڵ شێوهی نواندنی کۆچبەرانی کورد وئاماژە پێدان بە بێتهكلیفی و سهرگهردانی له ژیانیان دا، پهنجهرهیهك  بەرەوڕووی جووڵانهوهی تاراوگەنشینیی بکاتەوە و ژیانی کۆمەڵایەتیی لە کاتی قەیرانەکاندا ڕووناک بكاتهوه.

scholarly journals People and the City: Urban Fragility and the Real Estate-Scape in a Neighborhood of Catania, Italy

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (13) ◽  
pp. 5409 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Rosa Trovato ◽  
Claudia Clienti ◽  
Salvatore Giuffrida
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Real Estate Market ◽  
Market Prices ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Real Estate ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Real Estate Market ◽  
Civil Economy

Urban/social fragility is the main focus of most studies on civil economy involving the commitment of politics in the prospect of integrating and somehow guiding an ordered development of and ordered communities. The contemporary city is strongly influenced by the incommunicability between the social system and environment, the latter more and more, including urban and societal components. This study tries to outline a comparative social-urban profile of Picanello, a popular central neighborhood of Catania, in Sicily, Italy, characterized by the combination of different urban and social life-quality levels, thus expressing a heterogeneous vulnerability/resilience profile. The analysis is placed in the urban planning context and aims to: (1) Denotative a pattern that considers the different fragility/resilience descriptive indices; and (2) connotative a pattern of the human and urban dimensions of the social capital asset. This analysis was performed by implementing a multidimensional pattern allowing us to place the neighborhood in a ranking of the neighborhoods of Catania, thus highlighting strength and weakness under different respects. Furthermore, the monetary measurements of this vulnerability/resilience profile, was carried by means of the structured observation of the real estate market. Fuzzy k-medoids cluster analyses have been comparatively performed—showing and mapping the relationships between urban value density and real estate market prices tensions.

CORPORATIONS, PROFIT MAXIMIZATION AND THE PERSONAL SPHERE

2012 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 311-331 ◽  
Author(s):  
Waheed Hussain
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Fundamental Problem ◽  
Profit Maximization ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Real ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Course Of Action ◽  
The Social ◽  
Personal Interests

The efficiency argument for profit maximization says that corporations and their managers should maximize profits because this is the course of action that will lead to an ‘economically efficient’ or ‘welfare maximizing’ outcome (see e.g. Jensen 2001, 2002). In this paper, I argue that the fundamental problem with this argument is not that markets in the real world are less than perfect, but rather that the argument does not properly acknowledge the personal sphere. Morality allows each of us a sphere in which we are free to pursue our personal interests, even if these are not optimal from the social point of view. But the efficiency argument does not come to terms with this feature of social life.

scholarly journals Persona & Parrhesia: Research notes on the dialectics of the real

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 79
Author(s):  
Matteo Stocchetti
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Social Construction Of Reality ◽  
The Real ◽  
Normative Evaluation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Or Practice ◽  
Preliminary Research ◽  
The Individual

<p>If reality is socially established through practices that, directly or indirectly, depend on communication and therefore on some notion of truth, the idea of a post-truth communicative regime or “age” may seem not only bizarre but also worrying. The dissolution of the real announced by the prophets of postmodernism in the form of either a “perfect crime” or a “liquid reality”, has been interpreted as the effect of the crisis of truth and legitimation that Jean-Françoise Lyotard referred to with his notions of ”performativity” and ”legitimation by force”. In this perspective, reality depends on truth and the possibility of truth depends in turn, by configurations of power that seem too elusive and ephemeral to be effectively engaged with in either theory or practice. In this paper, I mobilize the notions of parrhesia and persona in an effort to establish an alternative standpoint to discuss the epistemological and ontological implications of the postmodern condition and the crisis of truth associated to it. The main point can perhaps be summarized in the idea that, if the new regime of truth (or post-truth) relies on persona expressing the roles/characters compatible with it, the notion of parrhesia may gain a critical relevance for the normative evaluation of these personas and the social implications of their truth. Famously re-introduced by Michel Foucault in his analysis of truth and its discursive conditions, the notion of parrhesia has a heuristic potential that is not fully exploited. While challenging in fundamental ways the social construction of reality on practical grounds, the digitalization of social life presents also theoretical challenges some of which can be addressed by the reconceptualization of parrhesia in relation to the social role of the persona rather than the individual. In my paper, I present some preliminary research notes in this direction.</p>

scholarly journals A housing survey of Columbia, Missouri

1919 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
August Friedolf Larson
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Housing Situation ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
The City ◽  
Made In ◽  
Housing Survey

Text from page 2: "The following thesis is an investigation into one phase of the social life of Columbia, -- the conditions, of housing. The problem of the investigation is whether the people of Columbia are properly housed. A house to house survey was made in typical sections of the city for the purpose of getting the facts. If we shall discover that conditions are not satisfactory, we shall ask the question, why? Also, we shall seek to know what can be done to make conditions better, and what limits must be recognized in the possibilities of improving the housing situation, for there is much difference in advocating an Utopia and advocating something reasonably possible."

FORMATION (CHRISTIAN) AS A PEDAGOGICAL SUPPORT FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A PERSON

2020 ◽  
Vol XI (2(31)) ◽  
pp. 25-38
Author(s):  
Zbigniew Marek
Keyword(s):  
Life Style ◽  
Social Life ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Social ◽  
Integral Development

In discussion upon the tasks of pedagogy it is necessary to underline that pedagogy with its reflection should be included in the integral development of a person. However, the problem is covered by the question concerning the real means for supporting the person that pedagogy possesses. The formation seems to be one of the real and crucial forms of the pedagogical support. We understand it, first of all, as inspiring the person's internal powers and abilities for undertaking an effort in responsible and harmonious functioning in the social life. We claim that the effect of the processes of formation is reflected in the achieved level of the person's spiritual (inner) development called the spirituality that refers to the concrete life style based on the nurtured traditions, promoted values, and attitudes taken in life.

scholarly journals La risa, regulador social de los estados emocionales y la fijación del aprendizaje

TAYACAJA ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Enrique Rojas de la Puente
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationship ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
The Real ◽  
The North ◽  
A Value ◽  
The Social ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Participative Action Research ◽  
North Eastern Part ◽  
Made In

The following “Theoretic proposal called: the laughter as the real emotional regulator,social and fixing of learnings” this study is conclusive in three fundamental principles: thelaughter is an emotional regulator, the laughter is a social regulator, the laughter is a fixinglearning. This was proved with students from the Toribio Rodríguez de Mendoza NationalUniversity of Amazonas – Peru and groups of people in study.The study was ethnographic-qualitative, with IAP or Participative Action Research. Themethodology was based on the transactional method. We used the qualitative method. Withits own qualitative categorizations of the social science. The technique were the observationand analysis. The data about the effect to arrive to those principles were collected withinstruments as the structured interview, a notebook and films. I can deduce that this is acontribution to the different kinds of socio-educative disciplines and others because we getnew principles mentioned in the first lines; which represents a theoretic contribution inteaching and learning.This study is made with a test and posttest design and with fortuitous groups whoseobjective is appreciate the real effect of laugh. This research with a value to education,sociology and others sciences that study the human being. In conclusion: the laugh moderatethe emotions, the laugh moderate the social relationship and finally the laugh is a fixer ofcomplex learning. The following research project was made in the Awajun ethnic inAmazonas region (out in the north-eastern part of Peru).Keywords: didactic technique, laughter, fixation and retention.

A study of 1970s Hakkâri handmade shoes: An ethnography

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 329-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hasan Buğrul
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Economic Power ◽  
Important Place ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Class And Status ◽  
The One ◽  
Made In

This study examines the types of shoes that were worn in the 1970s in Hakkâri – a city and province in Turkey close to the Turkish–Iraqi border – and its surroundings, linking them to social status, choice and taste, as well as economic power and the original cultural heritage of the local community. The findings detailed herein are based on samples taken from fieldwork conducted in 32 localities. Severe winter conditions have an important place among the factors that shape the social life of the local people of Hakkâri. In winter, they used to wear snowshoes called ‘leken’ to walk comfortably on snow of 2 m depth. Unlike various types of shoes worn today, there were three types of shoes worn in Hakkâri and its surroundings in the past in addition to snowshoes. The first is the one made of goat hair called ‘reşik’; the second is called ‘lastik’, which has a tyre sole and has knitted sides made of goat’s hair yarn; the third is a shoe called ‘kalik’, made from cattle skin. The characteristics of these have close relations with the material, colour and shape of shoes and the class and status of the people who wore them as well as with traditions and culture of the community. As well as exploring the material and other features of these shoes, similar examples, redesigned and made in other nearby provinces, are compared and discussed. This study is significant in that these traditional handicrafts are at risk of vanishing, as are other handicrafts in other parts of the world, due to the influence of technology and industrialization. By considering the traditional methods of shoe-making in Hakkâri and contextualizing this amongst the practices of other nearby provinces, this study aims to contribute to the promotion of the culture and art of the region and add to the limited literature in this field.

scholarly journals About Nosir Bukhari (A Poet) And His Literary-Scientific Heritage

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (09) ◽  
pp. 141-145
Author(s):  
Solijon Komilovich Kurbanov ◽  
Akram Akbarovich Khudayberdiev
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Scientific Heritage ◽  
The Social ◽  
Made In

The article provides information on the poet Nosir Bukhari and his literary-scientific heritage, the scope of his work and the ideas made in them. The social life and modernity problems found illustration in this and that form the poet’s works are described by given examples of poems. With the works of Firdavsi, Anwari, Umar Khayyam, Saadi Sherozi, Salman Sovaji, Zahir Faryabi and Nasir Bukhariy’s works by given samples of the harmony of the ideas as well as the themes in poetry are shown.

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