Curating and Re-Curating the American Wars in Vietnam and Iraq

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Sylvester
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
American History ◽  
Vietnam Veterans ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Vietnam Veterans Memorial ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
War Dead

Who is an authority on the American wars in Vietnam and Iraq? The Pentagon? Leading politicians? Allies? Academic specialists? The media? American soldiers? Vietnamese and Iraqis? Protesters? Families of war dead? Curators of war exhibitions? War novelists? This book considers locations of war knowledge that are often overlooked by scholars in the social sciences and also by civilians who have an interest in understanding these wars. It takes readers to a permanent exhibition of war at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and its traveling facsimile, to Section 60 of the Arlington National Cemetery where military killed in Iraq are buried, and to well-regarded novels and memoirs about these wars. Across vastly different sites of war knowledge, the book considers whose war appears where, how it is curated, and whether some sites re-curate commonplace understandings of these wars by highlighting experiences war experts can neglect.

American History and the Social Sciences.

1966 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 93
Author(s):  
Daniel H. Calhoun ◽  
Edward N. Saveth
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
American History ◽  
The Social

Technology, Political Economy, and Professionalization: Central Themes of the Organizational Synthesis

1983 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 471-493 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis Galambos
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Organizational Behavior ◽  
American History ◽  
Moral Judgments ◽  
Business History ◽  
Historical Scholarship ◽  
Rich Diversity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Previous Scholarship

In this suggestive essay, Professor Galambos surveys the large number of books and articles, published since 1970, that together point toward a new “organizational synthesis” in American history. Expanding upon an earlier, more tentative essay on the same subject published in the Autumn 1970 issue of the Business History Review, he contrasts the widely disparate postures adopted in recent years by historians studying organizational behavior. His survey reveals a rich diversity of opinion, less reliant than was previous scholarship upon abstractions drawn from the social sciences. This diversity of opinion, Galambos concludes, provides the organizational synthesis with much of its continued vitality, and makes possible “the kind of moral judgments that have always characterized the best historical scholarship.”

scholarly journals Technology and Narratives of Continuity in Transgender Experiences

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Billingsley
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Fundamental Change ◽  
Trans People ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media

This essay examines narratives of fundamental change, which portray a break in the continuity between a pre-transition and post-transition transgender subject, in accounts of transgender transitions. Narratives of fundamental change highlight the various changes that occur during transition and its disruptive effects upon a trans subject’s continuous identity. First, this essay considers the historical appearance of fundamental change narratives in the social sciences, the media, and their use by families of trans people, partners of trans people, and trans people themselves. After this is a consideration of Mark Johnson’s account of narrative as a meaning-making activity that occurs in the context of social norms. Johnson’s account is then applied to narratives of fundamental change to explain why these narratives occur, especially in relation to social norms and lived experience. The essay concludes by considering the trajectory of fundamental change narratives, looking at emerging transgender narratives, which stress a more integrated, complex account of transgender lives.

scholarly journals The Global Trust Deficit Disorder: A Communications Perspective on Trust in the Time of Global Pandemics

2021 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-186
Author(s):  
Terry Flew
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
News Media ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
The Social ◽  
Media Institutions ◽  
The Media ◽  
Micro Level

Abstract There has been much discussion worldwide about the crisis of trust, with evidence of declining trust in social, economic, political and media institutions. The rise of populism, and the differing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic between nations, has been drawing attention to wider implications of pervasive distrust, including distrust of the media. In this article, I develop three propositions. First, I identify trust studies as a rich interdisciplinary field, linking communication to other branches of the social sciences and humanities. Second, I argue that we lack a comprehensive account of how trust has been understood in communication, and that doing so requires integrating macro-societal approaches with the “meso” level of institutions, and the “micro” level of interpersonal communication. Third, I propose that a focus upon trust would open up new perspectives on two important topics—the future of news media and journalism, and the global rise of populism.

France – RFA (Séville, 1982) : l’évènement footballistique

2021 ◽  
pp. 095715582110044
Author(s):  
Louis Violette
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Long Term Memory ◽  
World Cup ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
Term Memory ◽  
Input And Output ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
Original Reading

This contribution offers an original reading of the representations surrounding the semi-final of the Football World Cup between France and Germany on 8 July 1982 in Seville. Input and output of the historical process by its status of socio-cultural rupture, this sporting fact postulates to be categorized as a symbolic event. In order to measure its social impacts, the challenge for academic sciences is to objectify its nature. Through a combined analysis of its manifestation, its future and its normalization, this study demonstrates the event-driven dimension of the Seville drama. In fact, captured and relayed by the media in a mythological way, it sees the emergence of a long-term memory movement. The social sciences make the football process of identification intelligible but they have so far failed to explain this still present past.

‘Trust no one’: Modernization, paranoia and conspiracy culture

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stef Aupers
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Swine Flu ◽  
The West ◽  
Cultural Logic ◽  
Conspiracy Theories ◽  
Flu Vaccination ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
Knowledge Claims

Popular conspiracy theories, like those about JFK, the attacks of 9/11, the death of Princess Diana or the swine flu vaccination, are generally depicted in the social sciences as pathological, irrational and, essentially, anti-modern. In this contribution it is instead argued that conspiracy culture is a radical and generalized manifestation of distrust that is embedded in the cultural logic of modernity and, ultimately, produced by processes of modernization. In particular, epistemological doubts about the validity of scientific knowledge claims, ontological insecurity about rationalized social systems like the state, multinationals and the media; and a relentless ‘will to believe’ in a disenchanted world – already acknowledged by Adorno, Durkheim, Marx and Weber – nowadays motivate a massive turn to conspiracy culture in the West.

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