Confessing to Leviathan: The Mass Practice of Writing Autobiographies in the USSR

Slavic Review ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 76 (4) ◽  
pp. 1027-1047
Author(s):  
Yury Zaretskiy
Keyword(s):  
Major Part ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Records Management ◽  
Soviet State ◽  
Management Protocol ◽  
The 1950S

Yury Zaretskiy's article examines the mass practice of composing formal autobiographies by Soviet citizens. The major part of the study covers the period from the 1950s to the 1980s when the Soviet records management protocol requested this type of document from individuals belonging to different social groups and to different occupations. Zaretskiy reviews the concrete social circumstances in which the narrative structure of formal autobiographies was fashioned before moving on to argue that their final addressee was the Soviet state, that their content changed in line with political and ideological changes in the USSR, that the practice of writing them had much in common with Christian confession, and that the spread of this practice among millions of people functioned as a mechanism of subjectification aimed at “making them Soviet.”

Countercultural Listening in Malick’s Badlands (1973)

2021 ◽  
pp. 270-292
Author(s):  
Julie Hubbert
Keyword(s):  
Classical Music ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
New Hollywood ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Carl Orff ◽  
Picture Show ◽  
Erik Satie

Terrence Malick’s Badlands has long been appreciated as an important contribution to New Hollywood filmmaking. Its disaffected characters and unconventional narrative structure challenged classical studio filmmaking paradigms and quickly garnered Malick a reputation as a countercultural or auteur filmmaker. For all the scholarship that this film has generated, however, comparatively very little has been said about the film’s equally transgressive soundtrack. Malick engaged the services of a composer but severely limited his duties, choosing instead to score most of the film himself with pre-existing recordings. Where nostalgic films from the period like American Graffiti and The Last Picture Show used compilations of rock and popular, Malick used a strikingly eclectic compilation of pop and classical music, from Nat King Cole to Carl Orff and Erik Satie. Although this range of styles is at odds with the 1950s world of the film, the soundtrack closely reflects the radical changes happening to listening practices among counterculture youth in the late 1960s.

Early Mississippian in the North Carolina Piedmont

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edmond A. Boudreaux
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Multiple Scales ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Domestic Architecture ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
The North ◽  
Town Creek ◽  
North Carolina Piedmont ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The Town

The topic of Mississippian origins in the North Carolina Piedmont has received very little attention from archaeologists since the 1950s. This chapter pulls together information from multiple sites, especially the extensively excavated Town Creek site, to present an overview of Early Mississippian in the North Carolina Piedmont. The presence of Mississippian lifeways in the region is indicated by the appearance of complicated-stamped ceramics by around A.D. 1150-1200. Associated social changes include the appearance of archaeologically visible households and the development of a civic-ceremonial center at the Town Creek site. Public and domestic architecture as well as evidence for ritual activities suggests that social groups interacted and were integrated at multiple scales within the Early Mississippian community at Town Creek.

scholarly journals ‘[B]etween power and the people’: Journalist-Investigators in Nordic Crime Fiction

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-78
Author(s):  
Minna Vuohelainen
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Crime Fiction ◽  
Social Injustice ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
The Public ◽  
The People ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Welfare State

Recent Nordic crime fiction contains numerous amateur detectives who are professional journalists. Their presence is partly explained by the shared roots and formal affinities of crime reportage and crime fiction, and by the journalistic backgrounds of many Nordic crime writers. However, the rise of the journalist-investigator as a rival to traditional police detectives is also a mark of growing distrust in the competence of the Nordic welfare state and its officials. Nordic journalist-investigators are typically crusading reporters motivated by a desire to uncover and prevent social injustice, including the neglect and abuse of vulnerable social groups by absent, incompetent or corrupt public officials. In acting as moral guardians of social justice, journalist-investigators carry out the principle of the press as a fourth estate, designed to check state power by publicising abuses of authority, and signal a possible shift from the welfare state towards a civil society. However, this role is also compromised by the ethical dilemmas journalist-investigators face between the demands of uncovering information, protecting vulnerable witnesses, informing the public, preventing crime and meeting commercial imperatives. These conflicts spotlight troubling tendencies within crime fiction and crime reportage: both kinds of writing are underpinned by a narrative structure of anticipation, suspense and dramatic revelation and premised upon the reader's voyeuristic investment in sensational subjects.

MANAGING CHURCH RECORDS RELATING TO INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES AT THE ANGLICAN DIOCESE OF NATAL

Mousaion ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 23-35
Author(s):  
Ken Chisa ◽  
Ruth Hoskins
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Records Management ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Management Protocol ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Many

The Anglican Diocese of Natal in South Africa (hereafter the Diocese) is part of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa. It covers the western part of the KwaZulu-Natal province, west and south of the Tugela and Buffalo rivers. The Episcopal leader of the diocese is the Bishop of Natal. This study aimed to examine the current records management framework at the Archives of the Anglican Diocese of Natal (hereafter the Archives), especially with regard to records relating to indigenous laity within the Diocese. The study identified the strengths and weaknesses of this framework and recommends an effective and efficient records management protocol for the future. The study was based on a literature review and the personal experiences and observations of one of the researchers who worked at the Diocese at the time of the study. The study concludes that the Diocese does not have a clear records management programme to deliberately guide the management of indigenous related records. It recommends the need to embrace information and communication technologies (ICTs) and other innovative changes in in order to create an enabling environment to facilitate records location, accessibility, retrieval and the timely utilisation of information.The paper argues that a reconfiguration of policy and methods needs to take place in order to acknowledge the many faceted relationships that exist between indigenous peoples and records, and to recognise the rights of indigenous communities to participate in the process of decision making about records management and practices. The paper considers these issues by examining challenges that are presented in managing existing indigenous collections in church repositories in South Africa, followed by a discussion about the challenges and opportunities that exist in the digital domain for rich and diverse collections to be created that allow for multiple perspectives.

scholarly journals The Incorporation of the School Age Group of 16-18 Years Old in Gambling

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 351
Author(s):  
MSc. Alfred Nela
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Major Part ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Sports Betting ◽  
School Age ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Group 16

The scientific research of this paper focuses on the involvement of the school age group 16-18 years old in sports betting games impacted by beliefs on luck and social groups. For the collection of data literature is utilized, questionnaires are distributed and also focus groups were conducted. The assumptions of the assignment are: a) The involvement of school age group 16-18 years in sports betting games are manners learned from their comrades, b) The school age group 16-18 years old attribute to fate the participation in sports betting games. Over 64% of responses manifest that they have learned the rules from their companions. The revelations and questionnaire responses argue that over 45% of students in their classes play sports bets, and 34% think that the phenomena of sports betting depends on luck. The major part of this age group do not practice and believe in fortunate rituals or activities. The acquired data reflect that the extent of involvement of this age group is in substantial dimensions. We suggest that the decision-making bodies and service providers should develop strategies in order to reduce the phenomenon.

scholarly journals From Private to Religious Patriarchy: Gendered Consequences of Faith-Based Welfare Provision in Germany

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 515-542 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josef Hien
Keyword(s):  
Social Groups ◽  
Labor Law ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Employment Practices ◽  
Welfare Provision ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
Conservative Ideology ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Society Research ◽  
Church Doctrine

AbstractOver one million people work for a faith-based welfare provider in Germany. Caritas and Diakonie, the largest faith-based providers in Germany enjoy prerogatives that do not exist in other countries. This particular group of faith-based organizations is exempt from federal labor law and discrimination clauses, which results in arbitrary, and in other cases, institutional, forms of discrimination against particular social groups in society. Research has focused on the institutional regulation of faith-based practice in Germany. Much less attention has been devoted to the faith component within faith-based welfare provision. This study traces the evolution of church doctrine and its impact on the care and employment practices of faith-based welfare providers in Germany from the 1950s to the present. It argues that the conservative ideology of these welfare providers amplifies the negative effects of gendered occupational regimes.

“Regional” Cinema or Products of Bricolage? An Introduction to Malayalam Studio Film of the Early 1950s

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenson Joseph
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Cultural Considerations ◽  
Indian Cinema ◽  
South Indian ◽  
The Family ◽  
Stage Performances ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Cultural Pressures

This article offers an overview of the exhibition and distribution sectors in Kerala between the late 1920s and the 1940s, and the economic and cultural considerations behind the initiatives to set up production centers within this region by the late 1940s. The incipient industry identified the “family social” as a convenient format to negotiate with the industrial and aesthetic terms set by South Indian cinema, mainly based in Madras, and the cultural demands placed on it by linguistic constituencies and elite patronage in the 1950s. The industrial constraints of small budgets and a narrow linguistic market necessitated an aesthetic that could cater to a socially and regionally mixed audience. Strategies of adapting existing popular genres like mythologicals, and subordinating these to the overarching narrative structure privileging an aesthetic of contemporaneity, enabled the early studio films to negotiate commercial and cultural pressures. Jeevithanouka (The Boat of Life; Vembu, 1951 ) is discussed as an instance where elements from popular mythologicals and stage performances were appropriated to privilege rationalist values.

Chasing Respectability

2021 ◽  
pp. 64-81
Author(s):  
Peter Martin
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Developing World ◽  
Korean War ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
The West ◽  
The World ◽  
The Korean War ◽  
United Front ◽  
The 1950S

After the end of the Korean War, China sent its diplomats out on a charm offensive to win over global opinion, including sending delegations to the Geneva and Bandung Conferences, where its performance won plaudits in the West and across the developing world. During this period, China also deployed distinctively communist techniques in its diplomacy, including the use of “united front” tactics to charm influential social groups in countries where China didn’t yet have formal diplomatic ties. Many of the tools Chinese diplomats practiced during the 1950s are taking on renewed prominence in its foreign policy today as China seeks to increase its influence around the world.

scholarly journals FORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF STATE RECORDS MANAGEMENT IN THE SOVIET PERIOD

2018 ◽  
pp. 369-380
Author(s):  
Ekaterina V. Zaitseva
Keyword(s):  
Historical Analysis ◽  
The State ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Records Management ◽  
Soviet State ◽  
State Administration ◽  
State Apparatus ◽  
History Of ◽  
Rational Management ◽  
State Records

Introduction. The article is devoted to the study of the formation of state records management in the Soviet era. Modernization of records management during this period is connected with the processes of creating and strengthening the Soviet state, namely, the state apparatus of government, the formation of which began after the victory of the Great Russian Revolution of 1917. Modernization of the system of Soviet records management is directly dependent on the speed of modernization of the state administration of the USSR. From the level of development of records management and the development of the regulatory framework, the effectiveness of the work of the state apparatus and individual institutions depends on the formation of a documentary base on the history of society in the form of historical written sources. Materials and Methods. The author applied a historical analysis of the development and reform of the system of records management and workflow the Soviet period. The work was carried out on a significant number of both theoretical sources and the regulatory and methodological base of documentation support for administrative activities; this made it possible to consider the development of records management in the specified period. Results. The study showed that the system of records management, being secondary to the administrative apparatus, reflected not only the level of development of managerial and office culture, but also the modernizing system of government in the country. Discussion and Conclusion. In the process of modernizing the Soviet state records management, rules for drafting and executing documents were developed, rules for the rational management of records management were developed and introduced, the principles of unification, stencilling and standardization were implemented, and methodological support of records management was perfected. The author analyzes the main events in the process of formation and development of state records management and gives a description of the legislation on records management in the Soviet era, which is reflected in government decisions, legislative acts, regulations, etc. Keywords: document, records management in the Soviet period, unification, standardization, state records management, state apparatus

scholarly journals Tense Harmony: Thai Cinema and Popular Music

Plaridel ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-66
Author(s):  
Gerhard Jaiser
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Rural Poor ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Thai Cinema ◽  
Musical Styles

This paper follows the development of the special connection between Thai cinema and Thai popular music from the 1920s onward. The main argument is that the two dominant musical styles of luk krung and luk thung have become representative of different social groups within Thailand and that this diversification can also be found in Thai cinema. Luk thung, identified with the rural poor, was mostly rejected by producers and audience during the 1950s and 1960s. Only from the 1970s onward did a cinematic style that represented this sector of Thai society and culture develop. In this sense, one can view Thai cinema as an archive of Thai popular music.

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