Embodied Masculinity: Sex and Sport in a (Post) Colonial Chinese City

2007 ◽  
Vol 190 ◽  
pp. 432-450 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiantian Zheng
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Masculine Identity ◽  
Japanese Colonialism ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Chinese City ◽  
North East ◽  
Bodily Experiences ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
The One ◽  
The City

AbstractThis article examines the historical formation of local masculine identity in the city of Dalian in north-east China. I argue that the experiences of Dalian-Chinese men under Japanese colonialism (1905–45) established a model of masculine identity based on bodily resistance. The article explores Dalian men's encounter with colonialism by comparing two different forms of bodily experience: military calisthenics in Japanese-run schools for Chinese boys and street soccer. On the one hand, military calisthenics impressed Chinese schoolboys with a sense of subjugation focused on the body. Bodily movements were performed under the strict scrutiny of Japanese drill masters and formed an integral part of everyday rituals of obedience. On the other hand, street soccer emerged as a popular and potentially creative activity among Chinese schoolboys. In contrast with the controlled motions of military calisthenics, soccer offered a sense of freedom in its unrestricted and improvised movements. Matches against Japanese teams even more explicitly infused soccer with a spirit of nationalistic resistance. In conclusion, I argue that these bodily experiences are crucial to understanding the historical reformations of Dalian male gender identity.

scholarly journals Towards a Kenotic Identity Politics: Migration, Transformation and the Eucharist

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 380
Author(s):  
Matthew John Paul Tan
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Body Of Christ ◽  
Eucharistic Theology ◽  
Critical Tradition ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Massive Influx ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
The One

This paper will focus on one element of the pushback against the massive influx of immigrants taken in for humanitarian purposes, namely, an identity-based chauvinism which uses identity as the point of resistance to the perceived dilution of that identity, brought about by the transformation of culture induced by the incorporation of a foreign other. The solution to this perceived dilution is a simultaneous defence of that culture and a demand for a conformity to it. While those in the critical tradition have encouraged a counter-position of revolutionary transformation by the other through ethics, dialogue, or the multitude, such a transformation is arguably impeded by what is ultimately a repetition of the metaphysics of conformity. Drawing on the personalism of Emmanuel Mounier and the Eucharistic theology of Creston Davis and Aaron Riches, this paper submits an alternative identity politics position that completes the revolutionary impulse. Identity here is not the flashpoint of a self-serving conflict, but the launch-point of politics of self-emptying, whose hallmarks include, on the one hand, a never-ending reception of transformation by the other, and on the other hand, an anchoring in the Body of Christ that is at once ever-changing and never-changing.

‘Pillaging Jesus’: healing churches and the villagisation of Kinshasa

Africa ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
pp. 555-586 ◽  
Author(s):  
René Devisch
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Satellite Communication ◽  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
The Body ◽  
Moral Integrity ◽  
Colonial State ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
The City

In Kinshasa thousands of prophetical churches of the Holy Spirit, particularly those in the Koongo area, fill in the ethical gap left, according to the people, by the marginalisation of traditional authority in the city, as well as the failure of civilisationist ‘white’ models, such as the collapse of public health and education sectors, and the dissolution of the State party. Confronted with economic collapse and miserable conditions in urban areas, these charismatic healing churches deconstruct the colonial and missionary heritage that ‘invented Africa’ in a white mirror, and the evolutionist utopia relating to modern progress. The dogmatic use that they make of biblical texts, their immoderate liturgy, and above all their ostentatious healing rituals parody and ridicule people's experience of post-colonial state constraints, the dichotomisation of the society operated by Christian conversion, and postcolonial mirrors opposing modernity and reactionary tradition, Christian values and pagan life. Healing churches deconstruct the daily seduction of the town folk by hedonistic ideals of capitalist consumption and Northern television channels which control the world. The Holy Spirit, as a substitute for the ancestral spirit, expresses itself in an heterodox manner and with multiple voices in the shape of glossolalia, dreams, and trance. During these very intense celebrations these communities, through the spirit, remobilise and, in particular, reinforce interpersonal links woven through the care of the body and from the mother within the matrifocal community or the matri-centered villagisation operating in the city. Here, in the daily quest for survival, people reassert their sense of criticism and community in the face of the fragments of state and tribal structures as well as their desire for moral integrity and sharing. And, above all, in this process of villagisation, healing churches recycle as symbolic capital the so-called forces of western imperialism, and particularly those which come from written material and electronics: the Bible, money, television, and satellite communication.

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF MACRO- AND MICRONUTRIENT PROFILE OF YOUNG MALES IN THE RUSSIAN NORTHEAST

2021 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 13-13
Author(s):  
I.V. Averyanova ◽  
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S.I. Vdovenko ◽  
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◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Eating Habits ◽  
The Body ◽  
Young Males ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Nutritional Deficit ◽  
Micronutrient Intake ◽  
Unbalanced Diet ◽  
The City ◽  
Diet Type

Significance. According to WHO, unbalanced diet is one of the leading causes of chronic diseases. Adolescence should be considered a person’s life most important period in terms of developing eating habits that define the body macro- and micronutrient intake. The purpose of the study was to assess diet type and balance and specify region-related macro- and micronutrient diet profiles among young Caucasian and Aborigine males in the North-East of Russia. Material and method. ASPON-nutrition software program was used to analyze the availability of proteins, fats, carbohydrates, fiber, vitamins, as well as macro- and microelements in diets of young males residing in the Magadan Region and Chukotka Autonomous District (mean age equals to 17-21 years, n = 278). Results. The study has identified a clear imbalance in the diet characterized by a low intake of the protein-lipid component, a shortage of polyunsaturated fatty acids, and a complete lack of fiber intake against the background of the increased share of mono- and disaccharides as well a deficiency of macro-, microelements and vitamins in the diet. The deviations have proved to be typical of people residing in the city of Magadan, primarily of the young indigenous population who experience a 100 percent nutritional deficit for a number of components.

THE AGORA OF GYTHEUM

2014 ◽  
Vol 109 ◽  
pp. 357-378
Author(s):  
Chrysanthos Kanellopoulos ◽  
Eleni Zavvou
Keyword(s):  
The West ◽  
Imperial Cult ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Single Column ◽  
The One ◽  
The City ◽  
Large Compound

The Roman ‘Agora’ of Gytheum appears to be a large compound with an interior peristyle; its width is 52 m and its length at least 61 m. Excavations have revealed the remains of the north-east corner and a portion of the west wing. The extant architectural blocks allow the reconstruction of the colonnades. Column shafts were made of local red limestone and at least some of them were crowned with lotus-and-acanthus capitals. Three different interaxial column spacings are present. A single column must have stood on each corner of the peristyle. The style of the column capital suggests a date after the yearad100. The entablature is almost identical, in both style and dimensions, to the one found on the Captives' Facade at Corinth. The inscription on two epistyles reveals the private dedication of an exedra totheoi Sebastoiand the city. Most probably the exedra was behind the colonnaded space; the mention oftheoi Sebastoimight suggest imperial cult either in the exedra alone or both in the exedra and in the entire colonnaded compound. Quite possibly, and following A. Themos' suggestion, a large part of the colonnaded compound that is conventionally termed the ‘Agora’ can be identified with the Sebasteum/Caesareum of Gytheum; this latter structure is attested in other inscriptions from the city.

Face and the City

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 76-102
Author(s):  
Andrea Mubi Brighenti
Keyword(s):  
Social System ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
The Face ◽  
The One ◽  
The City

This piece sets out an exploration of the relations between the city, the body and the face, seeking to understand in particular how the city and the face could be articulated with reference to an image of the body. It is suggested that the face and the city entertain a kind of privileged affinity. Just as the face unsettles the head and the bodily system to which it belongs, projecting the latter into an intersubjective social system of interaction and signification, so the city unsettles the land where it is located, projecting it into long-distance connections with similar entities scattered across the continent, and beyond. The piece evolves into the twin exploration of, on the one hand, ‘the city of the face’ and, on the other, ‘the face of the city’.

scholarly journals Kroppen och den motsägelsefulla staden

Budkavlen ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 98 ◽  
pp. 9-38
Author(s):  
Kristofer Hansson
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
The Body ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Potential Conflict ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Strong Focus ◽  
Economic Strategies ◽  
The One ◽  
Opening And Closing ◽  
The City

The Body and the Divergent CityCulture analytic perspectives on disability and urban spaces Kristofer Hansson The city is constrained by a variety of strategies and in this article, two such strategies are highlighted: economic strategies and accessibility strategies. These strategies may function in the same urban space, but this article highlights those places where there is a potential conflict between these two. This is done mainly through ethnographic observations following people with disabilities, and focuses on what is hidden or trivialized in practices in the city. It is argued, that already in the spatiality there is often an inherent conflict between, on the one hand, a desire to create an accessible city, and on the other hand, to create a city with a strong focus on market-oriented economic growth. These two strategies create friction, which essentially becomes visible when individuals with a disability must exhibit a certain creativity to deal with obstacles or constraints that arise.What this creativity can thus make visible are the solutions that individuals use to progress and be present in the city. At the same time, it also says something about the limitations and obstacles that exist in the city. Thus, the divergent city does not become an urban space where a multitude of bodies can be on equal terms, but instead a place where cultural and material boundaries arise that control the room by opening and closing in a constantly ongoing process. Through the two strategies the article presents an analysis of practices that can problematize The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities which states the need “to ensure to persons with disabilities access, on an equal basis with others, to the physical environment” (Article 9 – Accessibility).

scholarly journals Enriching Our Understanding of Architecture Through Disability Experience

2013 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-19
Author(s):  
Ann Heylighen ◽  
Caroline Van Doren ◽  
Peter-Willem Vermeersch
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Disabled Persons ◽  
The Body ◽  
Sensory Experiences ◽  
Bodily Experiences ◽  
Museum Design ◽  
The One ◽  
Contemporary Architecture ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between the built environment and the human body is rarely considered explicitly in contemporary architecture. In case architects do take the body into account, they tend to derive mathematical proportions or functional dimensions from it, without explicit attention for the bodily experience of a building. In this article, we analyse the built environment in a way less common in architecture, by attending to how a particular person experiences it. Instead of relating the human body to architecture in a mathematical way, we establish a new relationship between architecture and the body—or a body—by demonstrating that our bodies are more involved in the experience of the built environment than we presume. The article focuses on persons with a sensory or physical impairment as they are able to detect building qualities architects may not be attuned to. By accompanying them during a visit to a museum building, we examine how their experiences relate to the architect's intentions. In attending to the bodily experiences of these disabled persons, we provide evidence that architecture is not only seen, but experienced by all senses, and that aesthetics may acquire a broader meaning. Senses can be disconnected or reinforced by nature. Sensory experiences can be consciously or unconsciously eliminated or emphasized by the museum design and use. Architects can have specific intentions in mind, but users (with an impairment) may not experience them. Attending to the experiences of disabled persons, and combining these with the architect's objectives, provides an interesting view of a building. Our analysis does not intend to criticize the one using the other; rather the combination of both views, each present in the building, makes for a richer understanding of what architecture is.

scholarly journals Features of the content of drinking water in the city of Magadan and population health

2019 ◽  
Vol 95 (3) ◽  
pp. 241-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena A. Lugovaya ◽  
E. M. Stepanova
Keyword(s):  
Trace Elements ◽  
Drinking Water ◽  
Argon Plasma ◽  
Young Male ◽  
Essential Elements ◽  
The Body ◽  
The North ◽  
Hair Samples ◽  
The One ◽  
The City

By methods of atom-emission and mass spectrometry with inductively bonded argon plasma there was determined the content of 25 macro- and trace elements in tap cold drinking water used by the residents of the city of Magadan for food purposes and in hair samples of 30 young male Europeans aged of 17-23 years, who are the residents of the city of Magadan. According to our data the content of 25 elements in drinking water conforms to standards, but that content of such essential elements as Co, Cr, Cu, I, Mn, Na, Se, Zn is shown to be lower than referential indices. After boiling the water the concentration of trace elements is changed. The content of Cd, Cu, K, P, Pb, Zn, Ni becomes lower significantly. In healthy young men aged of 17-23 years, from the number of natives Europeoids, residents of the North there was detected deficit of Co and I (86% and 62%, respectively), lower concentrations of Ca, Mg, Se, Zn (76%, 69%, 24%, 24%, respectively). The constant use by residents of the city of Magadan of ultrafresh brackish drinking water in food aims may be the one of the main reasons of the imbalance of macro- and micronutrients in the body, characterized by features of the so-called "northern" type with a marked deficiency of basic essential elements.

scholarly journals Contribution to flood risk management by the IRIP method at the level of Gareat El Taref catchment, Constantine’s highlands, North-East of Algeria

2018 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-104
Author(s):  
Dali Naouel ◽  
Derradji Zouini ◽  
Pascal Breil
Keyword(s):  
Flood Risk ◽  
Sustainable Management ◽  
Agricultural Practices ◽  
Large Area ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
The One ◽  
And Control ◽  
The City ◽  
Runoff Production

AbstractThe term flooding is often associated with a stream overflow or a marine flood, runoff-floods is rarely considered, and today suffers from a lack of knowledge and control of the phenomenon. This paper, presents a geographic information system iRIP@ – Flooding by Intense Pluvial Runoff (French acronym), which is a new tool to mapping flooding by runoff as a tool for decision-making by mapping runoff flooding in Gareat El Taref catchment (Northeast Algeria), with identifying the area of production, transfer and accumulation of flood.Us results, we have cards represent the potential of a territory to generate the various hydraulic dynamics of runoff: the runoff production card, the runoff transfer, the runoff accumulation card, the runoff-flooding card.A visual simulation on the flood risk card indicates that the areas with an important runoff flood risk are the communes of Khenchela Oum El Bouaghi Ain El Beida and F’kirina. Moreover, the roads that join Khenchela with Ain El Beida and with Oum El Bouaghi.Khenchela city is exposed to a great risk of flooding by runoff, the solution proposed by the authorities and that summarizes by the construction of a canal is not sufficient, because on the one hand the north of the city remains exposed to this risk. On the other hand, a large area of runoff production is located between the canal and the city.It is probably operating to encourage farmers to introduce certain agricultural practices that are part of a sustainable management of flood risk by runoff.

Body image, food behavior and models esthetic in university students

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (S1) ◽  
pp. S452-S452
Author(s):  
A.M. Romero Otalvaro ◽  
M. Munoz-Argel ◽  
C. Aguilar-Aruachan ◽  
G. Padilla-Vargas Gianina
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Eating Behaviors ◽  
The Body ◽  
Excessive Exercise ◽  
Sports Culture ◽  
Social Insecurity ◽  
Competing Interest ◽  
Verbal Messages ◽  
The One ◽  
The City

A growing host is currently evident in young people all about sports culture where interest in body image and a strong cult of the body whose main purpose in many cases prevails is to achieve aesthetic purposes based body models of society, which may be related to an increase in risk eating behaviors and habits of excessive exercise. This research aims to examine the possible presence of three variables: eating behavior, aesthetics models and body image in male college gym users and nonusers. The variables were evaluated by applying Inventory eating disorder EDI 2, which measures the presence of symptoms associated with eating disorders. The Adonis complex Questionnaire which is used to assess the degree of concern about physical appearance and The Questionnaire Body Influences of Aesthetic Model CIMEC-40 which evaluates the internalization of cultural aesthetic ideals. The sample consists of 50 subjects, aged 18 and 24 years, students from the one University of the city of Monteria – Colombia.The results indicate that the user group show greater trend scales obsession with thinness and social insecurity than non-users, like greater influence of verbal messages regarding the cultural aesthetic models, however none of the groups expresses serious or pathological concern about body image.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

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