Argentine New Theatre: The Coming of Age of Popular Tradition

1989 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Kaiser-Lenoir
Keyword(s):  
Mass Culture ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Social Sector ◽  
Central Question ◽  
The Social ◽  
Dynamic Links ◽  
The Way ◽  
Popular Drama

In order to assess Argentine New Theatre and traditional popular drama as comprising a phenomenon of convergence and continuity, one needs first to examine both forms in their relationship to hegemonic culture. Culture is viewed here not in monolithic terms, but rather as defined by its organic ties to a specific socio-political context. Consequently, the central question to be addressed is the way those ties become explicit in the artistic products themselves and, most importantly, in their functionality within the social sector they are inserted in. That functionality defines the ideological line between popular and mass culture, and determines the dynamic links between the New Theatre and traditional dramatic forms, in spite of obvious differences in discourse.

Random or Retributive?

2016 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 677-712 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emil Aslan Souleimanov ◽  
David S. Siroky
Keyword(s):  
Political Context ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Important Distinction ◽  
The Social ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Village Communities ◽  
Forms Of Violence ◽  
The Way

This article provides a critical examination of the current theoretical debate concerning the effects of indiscriminate violence. It argues that indiscriminate violence has been treated as an essentially random counterinsurgency tactic, but that the important distinction between itsrandomandretributivevariations has been overlooked, along with critical issues of timing and location, which has made it difficult to evaluate its efficacy in quelling rebel violence. Prior research has shown that both random and retributive violence reduced insurgent activity in the targeted locations and in the short term, but it does not necessarily follow that indiscriminate violence is effective. This article uses microlevel ethnographic evidence from Chechen villages during the period from 2001 to 2005 to show that indiscriminate violence deployed retributively against village communities generated insurgent activity in other areas because local avengers and rebels from the targeted populations sought to avoid further retributive violence against their village communities. Moreover, the insurgent activity occurred at least nine months after the initial act of retributive violence. Indiscriminate violence deployed randomly against village communities generated insurgent activity within the same targeted area, since the insurgents did not fear retributive violence in retaliation, and occurred with a delay of at least six months. As a result, the rebel reaction to indiscriminate violence is not observed immediately or, in the case of retributive violence, in the same location. This finding has crucial implications for evaluating the efficacy of indiscriminate violence in counterinsurgency operations, and underscores the importance of understanding how the social and political context can shape the way populations react to different forms of violence.

Transitivities

10.1068/d212t ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Law
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Repair Work ◽  
The Social ◽  
Puzzle Solving ◽  
Small Things ◽  
The Way

In this paper I describe the explosion of an aeroengine, the Olympus 22R, and the consequences of that explosion. Empirically, I explore both the puzzle-solving of the engineers as they tried to ascertain what had gone wrong, and the way in which this led to substantial delay in a major aircraft project, and consequent large-scale political and economic repercussions. Theoretically, I use these events to reflect on and denaturalise notions of scale and size. Instead of social and technical phenomena being seen as intrinsically different in size (a Euclidean notion), scale and size are considered to be relational effects. The aeroengine explosion is thus treated as disrupting a mathematically transitive series which was producing scale and size—and the social and technical repair work is treated as an attempt to remake scale relations so that ‘small things’, such as pieces of metal in the interior of aeroengines, were again rendered smaller than ‘large things’, such as economic and political context.

Return to the Age of Wonder: John Barnes’s A Million Open Doors

1998 ◽  
pp. 161-167
Author(s):  
Gwyneth Jones
Keyword(s):  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Political Context ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Social ◽  
Art Forms

In this review Jones provides a commentary on John Barnes’s A Million Open Doors, addressing its involvement in the coming of age genre and its status as a humanist novel. Jones focuses her review on the social and political context both surrounding the novel and present within it, drawing on the characterisation and art forms put forward in the narrative.

scholarly journals Training Elites and Structuring the Medico-Social Sector in Guadeloupe (1967–1980). The Role of the 1967 Generation

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 60
Author(s):  
Sylvain Ferez ◽  
Sébastien Ruffié ◽  
Gaël Villoing
Keyword(s):  
Political Context ◽  
Social Sector ◽  
Political Union ◽  
Union Commitment ◽  
The Social

Guadeloupe left its status as a colony to become a French department with the “assimilation” law of 19 March 1946. Twenty years later, the promise of republican equality associated with this change is largely disappointed. Affected by the events of “May ‘67”, when the French state violently repressed demonstrations in Pointe-à-Pitre, the generation at the origin of the medico-social sector left to study in France in a tense political context. An analysis of the educational and professionalization paths of this generation, in connection with its political-union commitment, sheds light on the social and identity issues involved in the structuring of this sector.

Television audience enjoyment and theLascia o raddoppia?phenomenon

Modern Italy ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 227-243
Author(s):  
Emma Barron
Keyword(s):  
Mass Culture ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Television Show ◽  
Economic Miracle ◽  
Cultural Transformations ◽  
Mass Audience ◽  
The Social ◽  
Audience Responses ◽  
Television Audience ◽  
The Way

From the end of 1955 to the middle of 1959, the quiz programmeLascia o raddoppia?transformed the way that Italians watched television, attracting a mass audience and appealing to viewers of different class backgrounds and levels of education. The quiz, watched by 15 million Italians at its peak, was more than Italy’s first successful television show:Lascia o raddoppia?also reflected the social and cultural transformations of Italy’s economic ‘miracle’, and confirmed the growing importance of mass culture and education in modern Italy. Yet, the role and response of the viewer in this television phenomenon has been largely overlooked. Viewers, if discussed at all, are often represented as an ‘Everyman’, mediocre, or the victims of Americanisation. This article examines the audience responses to the quiz by connecting the Radiotelevisione Italiana (RAI) broadcaster’s audience enjoyment ratings to the programme transcripts, specific contestants and media coverage. The audience data, when linked to individual programmes and contestants, reflects important changes in society and education and challenges the myth of the passive viewer, demonstrating even that 1950s television audiences were not as malleable or as conservative as contemporary commentators and many histories suggest.

scholarly journals Adam Bede, Realism, the Past, and Readers in 1859

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gail Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Publishing Industry ◽  
Political Context ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Past ◽  
Adam Bede ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Form ◽  
The Way

This article gives an account of the immediate publication context of George Eliot’s first novel, Adam Bede, in terms of competing opportunities for leisure, anxieties about the reading of fiction, the publishing industry, and the social and political context of February 1859. It examines the way in which the novel engages with its first readers, specifically through its treatment of the experience of reading fiction, and the ways in which Adam Bede differs from readers’ previous experiences. The article argues that the novel’s impact is determined by its engagement with the past of its setting, and by the ways it which it encourages a historically-nuanced appreciation in its readers, and that these factors are integral to Eliot’s articulating a new form of realist fiction.

scholarly journals New Year’s Initiation Processions of Teenagers: The Case of “Young Gegides” of Emporio, Eordaia

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-98
Author(s):  
Karepidis K. Ioakeim
Keyword(s):  
Social Issue ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Social ◽  
Traditional Societies ◽  
New Form ◽  
Triggering Events ◽  
Conceptual Core ◽  
The Way

Abstract The social coming of age is an issue in many - if not in all - cultures through the procedures of initiations. Such ceremonies have always existed since in the traditional societies the biological adulthood happens through the society - community. The fact that these ceremonies are old is proven through totem worships that have survived until today. Obviously in our era the conceptual core of these ceremonies has transformed since the adulthood is no longer a social issue but a legal one. So these processions have a new form adjusted to the social - historical and cultural circumstances. This article deals with this adjustment observing the ancient issue of initiation processions of teenagers (agermos) through a modern point of view. Specifically, with the excuse of the custom “Young Gegides” of Emporio, Eordaia, that takes place on New Year’s Day, the article studies the way that these processions happen now in this community, their functionality and the meaning that is attributed to them not only by those who take part but also by the community. It also studies the reasons - the triggering events that led through time to these changes and finally to the adjustments and the way that these innovations became assimilated in the local community.

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