scholarly journals Urban Informality as a Site of Critical Analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola Banks ◽  
Melanie Lombard ◽  
Diana Mitlin
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Urban Informality ◽  
A Site

Fragments of the Holocaust

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Duindam
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Museum Studies ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
World War ◽  
Holocaust Memory ◽  
Holocaust Memorial ◽  
Memorial Museum ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
A Site

Why do we attach so much value to sites of Holocaust memory, if all we ever encounter are fragments of a past that can never be fully comprehended? David Duindam examines how the Hollandsche Schouwburg, a former theater in Amsterdam used for the registration and deportation of nearly 50,000 Jews, fell into disrepair after World War II before it became the first Holocaust memorial museum of the Netherlands. Fragments of the Holocaust: The Amsterdam Hollandsche Schouwburg as a Site of Memory combines a detailed historical study of the postwar period of this site with a critical analysis of its contemporary presentation by placing it within international debates concerning memory, emotionally fraught heritage and museum studies. A case is made for the continued importance of the Hollandsche Schouwburg and other comparable sites, arguing that these will remain important in the future as indexical fragments where new generations can engage with the memory of the Holocaust on a personal and affective level.

Possessing Nature: The Mexican Pavilion as a Site of Critical Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Sol González Rueda
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Experimental Approach ◽  
Project Coordinator ◽  
Active Research ◽  
A Site ◽  
Venice Biennale

This article examines the complexities of sustaining a critical curatorial approach in the context of the national pavilions at the Venice Biennale. It discusses Possessing Nature, the 2015 Mexican pavilion, from the author’s insider perspective as Project Coordinator. Curated by Karla Jasso, the exhibition presented an installation by Tania Candiani and Luis Felipe Ortega, and was conceived as a site of critical analysis focused on Venice’s and Mexico City’s environmental crises. This case study sheds light on the contradictory politics of the Biennale by exploring the challenges of introducing an experimental approach to mediation and of constructing the exhibition as a site of active research.

Palestinian Oral Tradtions and the ‘Sanctity’ of Damascus: A Critical Analysis of a Palestinian Seventeenth-Century Manuscript

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-221
Author(s):  
Ghaleb Anabseh ◽  
Nader Masarwah
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Oral Traditions ◽  
Holy Land ◽  
Islamic Thought ◽  
A Site ◽  
Local Traditions ◽  
String Of Pearls

This article explores the concept of the ‘Holy Land’ as reflected in a Palestinian seventeenth-century manuscript: A String of Pearls in Praise of al-Sham, by Muhammad Habib, and in light of the considerable output of works on the ‘virtues of the Holy Land’ by Muslim writers in Palestine and Syria. Although these writers composed their works using materials from traditional sources (religious, historical, geographical), the key issue explored here is the use of Palestinian oral and local traditions which were not always consistent with official or orthodox Islamic thought and thus local traditions which remained outside the bounds of official hadith compilations. This study explore the role played by local or oral traditions in highlighting the sanctity of a city or a site in Palestine and Syria.

Eating to become ‘good’ citizens: exploring the visceral biopolitics of eating in Singapore

2021 ◽  
pp. 147447402110650
Author(s):  
Siew Ying Shee
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Political Action ◽  
The Body ◽  
Effect Change ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Consumer Agency ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
A Site ◽  
Self Formation ◽  
Embodied Agency

This paper develops a more-than-representational approach to consumer agency in food biopolitics that is sensitive to people’s everyday eating experiences. In recent years, studies of food biopolitics have engaged with questions of agency by examining how socially constructed ideas of ‘good’ eating and citizenship are engaged on the ground. Yet, there remain opportunities to depart from the evaluative mind as a dominant site of ethical self-formation, and engage with the body as a site of political action and agency. In this paper, I argue that people’s sense of citizen selves has long been, and continue to be, organised across the interplay of material, discursive, and visceral spaces of eating. I develop this argument by drawing on a critical analysis of historical and contemporary news forums related to public eating in Singapore. For many consumers, their disdain for certain food—ranging from the erstwhile state-vaunted meal plans to leftover food on public dining tables—express an embodied agency in negotiating the technocratic designs of citizenship. In developing a visceral biopolitics of eating, this paper aims to expand understandings of consumers’ capacity in negotiating the ethical tensions between hegemonic imaginings of ‘good’ citizens and the everyday pleasures of eating. Approaching consumer agency this way orientates critical yet oft-overlooked attention to the body’s capacity to act, and possibly effect change, within the broader workings of dietary bio-power.

scholarly journals The New Face of Abuse?: Questioning the Fall of the Father and Assessing the Child Exploitation in Deborah Moggach’s Porky

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Poulomi Modak ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Child Sexual Abuse ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Sexual Exploitation ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Child Exploitation ◽  
A Site

In contemporaneous world child sexual abuse is possibly the most heinous kind of child exploitation; therefore, continuous dialogue and discourse regarding the child sexual abuse should be given the primordial prominence in order to be well aware about and thereby engage with possible measures against this monster in the closet. It is in this context that the paper attempts through a detailed and critical analysis of Deborah Moggach’s controversial novel Porky to make a reading of the narratives of pain, sufferings, and trauma inflicted upon the ‘abject’ body. Further, the novelist has incorporated the havoc of non-consensual incest which concomitantly attributes the novel as a site for insightful discussion. The proposed article, therefore, interrogates family as a possible locus of sexual exploitation of the children. This reorientation of family as a disintegrated entity eventually brings forth the question of victim’s rehabilitation. Extending this, the paper finally argues any possible healing of the oppressed body.

Militarization of childhood(s) in Donbas: ‘Growing together with the Republic’

2021 ◽  
pp. 001083672110369
Author(s):  
Iuliia Hoban
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
Profound Impact ◽  
Local Populations ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The Republic ◽  
A Site ◽  
School Curricula

This essay critically examines how the militarization of childhood(s) takes place in the Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics. The intensification of hostilities in Eastern Ukraine in mid-2014 has had a profound impact on local populations, particularly children. While no systematic recruitment and participation of children in conflict has been reported, childhood has become what Agathangelou and Killian would characterize as a ‘site for displacement and maneuvering for militarization.’ Drawing on feminist methodologies, I examine processes of the militarization of children’s everyday lives. This article investigates a range of ways in which authorities of proto-states in the Donbas region address children as participants and potential collaborators in the processes of militarization. In my analysis, I examine how war and preparation for it are simultaneously co-constituted by the geopolitical—legitimation of new proto-states—and everyday practices, such as engaging with school curricula, visiting museums, and (re)inventing historical narratives. Understanding of mechanisms that militarize childhood and how children become subjects and objects of militarization allows for a critical analysis that reveals spaces of everyday violence. This article, therefore, enhances our understanding about the intersections of childhood, militarism, and security.

"Hot-for-Teacher"

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-116
Author(s):  
Shara Crookston
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Adolescent Girl ◽  
Romantic Relationship ◽  
English Teacher ◽  
Adult Males ◽  
Television Shows ◽  
A Site

In this article I explore the highly problematic but wildly acclaimed romantic relationship between Aria Montgomery, a high school junior, and her English teacher Ezra Fitz in the television series Pretty Little Liars. This partnership normalizes gendered power imbalances often common to heterosexual partnerships, yet fervent fans have supported the duo enthusiastically, dubbing the couple #Ezria in blogs and social media. As we know, much research shows that along with unintended pregnancy, young girls who are victims of child sexual abuse by adult males suffer from depression. These outcomes are not shown in Pretty Little Liars: the series ends with Aria marrying her teacher in an example of a happily-ever- after ending, thereby reinforcing postfeminist ideas that Aria’s self-efficacy has never been compromised. I argue that in the era of #Metoo, the exploration of power in heterosexual romantic relationships on television shows aimed at adolescent girl audiences is a site for critical analysis.

Simply more than swiping left: A critical analysis of toxic masculine performances on Tinder Nightmares

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 1085-1102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron Hess ◽  
Carlos Flores
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Online Dating ◽  
Hooking Up ◽  
Location Aware ◽  
The World ◽  
Hookup Culture ◽  
A Site

Launching in September 2012, Tinder has become a popular phenomenon in the world of online dating and hookup culture. Simultaneously, it carries notorious reputation for being home to hypersexual and toxic masculine expressions. This analysis examines Tinder Nightmares, an Instagram page featuring failed attempts at hooking up, as a site that promotes counter-disciplining the deliberate toxic masculine performances on Tinder. Through a Foucauldian lens, we argue that this page delimits the toxic masculine performances through the outward display of crude performances, the showcasing of witty responses from Tinder users, and the extension of counter-discipline through digital circulation practices on the page. Given that Tinder is a location-aware app, the discipline offered through Tinder Nightmares surfaces in interpersonal, physical, and networked spaces, as Tinder users become multiply implicated public subjects of shame across media platforms.

scholarly journals Atheneum Architektury XXI wieku. Rio de Janeiro

2020 ◽  
pp. 99-109
Author(s):  
Magdalena Jagiełło-Kowalczyk ◽  
Stanislav Avsec ◽  
Maja Leszczyńska
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
First Century ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
A Site

Artykuł przedstawia efekt badań dotyczących potencjału współczesnego Rio de Janeiro jako miejsca dla projektu XXI wieku. Analiza architektury miasta w kontekście uwarunkowań społecznych, przestrzennych i przyrodniczych oraz analiza istniejących tam najważniejszych miejsc kulturotwórczych stały się punktem wyjścia do określenia ideowych wytycznych do projektu konkursowego Atheneum Architektury w Rio de Joneiro, który został przedstawiony w publikacji. Badania prowadzono w oparciu o metodę analizy krytycznej literatury oraz badania in citu. Athenaeum of twenty-first-century architecture: Rio de Janeiro This paper presents the outcomes of a study on the potential of contemporary Rio de Janeiro to act as a site for a twenty-first century project. An analysis of the city’s architecture in the context of social, spatial and wildlife-related determinants and an analysis of extant major culture-forming places became the starting point for determining conceptual guidelines for the competition design of the Architecture Athenaeum in Rio de Janeiro, which has been presented in the paper. The research was based on critical analysis of the literature and on-site studies.

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