Spaces of Consumption in American Literary Realism

2019 ◽  
pp. 391-410
Author(s):  
Gary Totten
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Culture ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Literary Realism ◽  
Natural Environments ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
New Strategies

This chapter discusses how consumer culture affects the depiction and meaning of the natural world in the work of American realist writers. These writers illuminate the relationship between natural environments and the social expectations of consumer culture and reveal how such expectations transform natural space into what Henri Lefebvre terms “social space” implicated in the processes and power dynamics of production and consumption. The representation of nature as social space in realist works demonstrates the range of consequences such space holds for characters. Such space can both empower and oppress individuals, and rejecting or embracing it can deepen moral resolve, prompt a crisis of self, or result in one’s death. Characters’ attempts to escape social space and consumer culture also provide readers with new strategies for coping with their effects.

Healing the Civic Body: Darren O’Donnell’s Social Acupuncture

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Wray
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Diving Reflex ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
Political Perspective ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
To Come ◽  
Artistic Director ◽  
The Relationship

Darren O’Donnell (b. 1965) is a writer, director, actor, playwright, and designer, and the artistic director of the highly decorated Mammalian Diving Reflex. My study is focused on his work in social acupuncture, outlined in his Social Acupuncture: A guide to suicide, performance, and utopia (2006). Social acupuncture is a style of theatre/performance art that “blurs the line between art and life,”impelling people to come together in unusual ways and tap into the power of the social sphere. With social acupuncture, O’Donnell and Mammalian Diving Reflex are striving to create an aesthetic of civic engagement: an avenue through which social edifices like public space, schools, and the media can be used as the armature for the mounting of work that “takes modest glances at simple power dynamics and, for a moment, provides a glimpse of other possibilities.” Mammalian Diving Reflex began their exploration of the form in the summer of 2003 with The Talking Creature, and since then have devised and performed almost two‐ dozen similar “needles” worldwide.Social acupuncture warrants examination not only from a socio‐ political perspective, but through a theatrical lens, as well. It probes the relationship between audience and performer, raises questions about theatre’s ability to keep up with other media in the digital age, and offers tremendous insight into the potential for positive, fruitful intersections between art and civil society.  My project will include theoretical examination of O’Donnell’s work, as well as practical exploration of the form’s potential.

Distinction recapped: Digital news repertoires in the class structure

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (8) ◽  
pp. 3029-3049 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johan Lindell
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Digital Inequality ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Statistical Representation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Digital News ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Class Habitus

This article mobilizes Pierre Bourdieu’s full theory-method to study how class shapes our news orientations in a digital, high-choice media environment. An online survey ( N = 3850) was used to create a statistical representation of the contemporary Swedish social space with variables measuring access to economic, cultural, social, and cosmopolitan capital. A range of digital news preferences and practices were then given co-ordinates in that space. Results highlight the importance of class habitus for the formation of digital news repertoires. Since different groups form altogether different news repertoires—and distaste the preferences of the groups most different to themselves (in terms of access to capitals)—news practices and preferences solidify the positions of groups in the social structure. The study sheds light on the relationship between social and digital inequality and challenges the psychological and individualistic bias in contemporary research on news media use.

The Integration of Modern Packaging Design and the Environment

2014 ◽  
Vol 926-930 ◽  
pp. 4390-4393
Author(s):  
Lu Han
Keyword(s):  
Critical Role ◽  
Ecological Environment ◽  
Product Packaging ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Packaging Design ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
The Social ◽  
Form Design ◽  
Correct Understanding ◽  
The Relationship

With the development of science and technology as well as the transformation of the social culture, the packaging forms turn to be more and more diversified, the packaging materials become more and more abundant, and the packaging processes are more and more improved. However, along with it, some problems brought by product packaging come out gradually and play a critical role which cannot be neglected on the products, consumers, natural environment and so on. To have a correct understanding of the relationship between packaging and environment is conducive to guiding people to pay high attention to the environmental protection when developing packages, insist on the principle to synchronize packaging development and ecological environment protection, and reduce the pollution of packaging to environment to the lowest degree. It should start from the angle of the sustainable development of ecological environment, to study the materials and form design of packaging, thus finally realizing the integration of design and production, production and consumption, packaging and environment, as well as life and ecology.

Advances in Early Communication and Language Intervention

2011 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 298-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann P. Kaiser ◽  
Megan Y. Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Spoken Language ◽  
Language Intervention ◽  
Developmental Task ◽  
Natural Environments ◽  
Early Communication ◽  
Effective Interventions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Language Interventions ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Made In

Learning to communicate using speech and language is a primary developmental task for young children. Delays in the acquisition of language are one of the earliest indicators of developmental deficits that may affect academic and social outcomes for individuals across the life span. In the period since the passage of PL 99-457, significant progress in research related to language intervention has been made in five areas: (a) the social, symbolic, and prelinguistic foundations to spoken language; (b) parent-implemented language interventions; (c) the language foundations for literacy; (d) the relationship between language and social behavior; and (e) the use of augmented and alternative modes of communication. Although there are indications of important advances in the knowledge base of early identification as well as comprehensive and continuous intervention, preparing professionals to provide effective interventions in natural environments continues to be a challenge for the field.

scholarly journals Between Tradition and Modernity: Determining Spatial Systems of Privacy in the Domestic Architecture of Contemporary Iraq

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-81
Author(s):  
Ali Al-Thahab ◽  
Sabah Mushatat ◽  
Mohammed Gamal Abdelmonem
Keyword(s):  
Social Space ◽  
Primary Role ◽  
Social Spaces ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
Spatial Systems ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

The notion of privacy represents a central criterion for both indoor and outdoor social spaces in most traditional Arab settlements. This paper investigates privacy and everyday life as determinants of the physical properties and patterns of the built and urban fabric and will study their impact on traditional settlements and architecture of the home in the contemporary Iraqi city. It illustrates the relationship between socio-cultural aspects of public and private realms using the notion of the social sphere as an investigative tool of the concept of social space in Iraqi houses and local communities (Mahalla). This paper reports that in spite of the impact of other factors in articulating built forms, privacy embodies the primary role under the effects of Islamic rules, principles and culture. The crucial problem is the underestimation of traditional inherited values through opening social spaces to the outside that giving unlimited accesses to the indoor social environment creating many problems with regard to privacy and communal social integration.

scholarly journals A Retórica da Morte na Narrativa de Tito Lívio (Século I a.C.) * The Rhetoric of Death in Livy´s Narrative (First-Century B.C.)

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 94
Author(s):  
LUCIANE MUNHOZ DE OMENA ◽  
SUIANY BUENO SILVA
Keyword(s):  
Social Space ◽  
First Century ◽  
Historical Discourse ◽  
Political Role ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ab Urbe Condita ◽  
The Relationship

<p><strong>Resumo:</strong> O artigo aborda algumas questões conceituais e políticas da relação entre morte e retórica na <em>Ab Urbe Condita</em> de Tito Lívio. Traçaremos algumas reflexões acerca da morte voluntária da aristocrata Lucrécia e, dessa forma, compreenderemos a relevância de seu papel político no discurso histórico a partir dos aparatos da memória, que se vinculam à arte do convencimento, e de suas interferências no espaço social durante o século I a.C.</p><p><strong>Palavras-chave:</strong> Morte – Retórica – Memória – História e Política.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Abstract:</strong> The article discusses some conceptual issues and policies of the relationship between death and rhetoric in <em>Ab</em><em> Urbe Condita</em> by Livy. We are going to describe some reflections on the voluntary death of the aristocrat Lucrezia and thus understand the relevance of its political role in historical discourse from the memory apparatus, which are linked to the art of persuasion, and their interference in the social space during the first century B.C.</p><p><strong>Keywords:</strong> Death – Rhetoric – Memory – History and Politics.</p>

“Colleague postgraduate supervision” and the production of space in higher education: a duoethnographic analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nomanesi Madikizela-Madiya ◽  
John Mushomi Atwebembeire
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Spatial Constraints ◽  
Production Of Space ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Relationship

PurposeIn this paper we contribute knowledge to the postgraduate supervision discourses by reflecting on our socio-spatial experiences of being supervised by colleagues, a process that we refer to as colleague postgraduate supervision (CPS).Design/methodology/approachWe followed a duoethnographic research design by dialogically presenting and exploring our lived experiences of CPS and critiquing and questioning the meanings we give to those experiences. The experiences shared arose from two different contexts: a contact university and an open distance learning university.FindingsThe reflection suggests that social values of trust, compassion and care in CPS can outrun the spatial constraints for the benefit of the supervisees in the relationship. However, the colleagues in the CPS can also experience some subtle power dynamics and tensions that produce a constraining space, if the CPS process is not well communicated.Originality/valueWhile CPS is a common practice in some universities, there is limited research that pays attention to its socio-spatiality, that is, the interaction between the social and the spatial aspects of this practice.

Apologies, Redemption, and Repair

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica M. Emerich
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Culture ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Social World ◽  
Late Capitalism ◽  
Holistic Model ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Real Work

This chapter deals with the healed self, contextualized as united with the natural world, moving toward its reconciliation with the third arm of the holistic model of health—the social world. First, there are apologies and confessions to be made by industrialists and consumers who have recognized the “Consequences of Modernity”and their own roles in those results. LOHAS is a capitalist endeavor but also attempts to position itself as resistant to those processes, and as such it must articulate “LOHASians” as ultimately powerful in themselves to change the course of late capitalism and consumer culture. There are instructions on how to say you're sorry and move on to the real work of mopping up the mess. As part of this, LOHAS narratives tell us to remain positive, but also that older notions of desire and ideals of happiness afloat in the culture were off course. By situating individual consumers and producers as capable of bringing about sweeping social transformation, LOHAS not only sustains consumer culture, but also contextualizes it as the locus for the healing of the world.

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