Book Reviews: Inventing Our Selves: Psychology, Power and Personhood, Constructing Identities: The Social, The Nonhuman and Change, The State Nobility: Elite Schools in the Field of Power, Cultures of Internet: Virtual Spaces, Real Histories, Living Bodies, Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk: Cultures of Technological Embodiment, Feminism and Criminology, Crimes of Style: Urban Graffiti and the Politics of Criminality, Imagining Cities, Consumer Culture and Modernity, Popular Music in Theory: An Introduction, Football, Nationality and the State, Changing Forms of Employment: Organisations, Skills and Gender, Varieties of Transition: The East European and East German Experience, The Rise and Fall of State Socialism: Industrial Society and the Socialist State, Jean Baudrillard: A Study in Cultural Metaphysics

1997 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 512-547
Author(s):  
Mike Michael ◽  
Steven D. Brown ◽  
John Scott ◽  
James Cornford ◽  
Paul Sweetman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Culture ◽  
The State ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Jean Baudrillard ◽  
East European ◽  
Virtual Spaces ◽  
The Social ◽  
East German ◽  
And Gender

Who’s holding up the sky? On Rymba, a novel by A. Bushkovsky

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 150-158
Author(s):  
A. V. Zhuchkova
Keyword(s):  
Gender Politics ◽  
The State ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Central Question ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Flood Zone ◽  
The Social ◽  
Russian North ◽  
And Gender

The article deals with A. Bushkovsky’s novel Rymba that goes beyond the topics typical of Russian North prose. Rather than limiting himself to admiring nature and Russian character, the author portrays the northern Russian village of Rymba in the larger context of the country’s mentality, history, mythology, and gender politics. In the novel, myth clashes with reality, history with the present day, and an individual with the state. The critic draws a comparison between the novel and the traditions of village prose and Russian North prose. In particular, Bushkovsky’s Rymba is discussed alongside V. Rasputin’s Farewell to Matyora [ Proshchanie s Matyoroy ] and R. Senchin’s The Flood Zone [ Zona zatopleniya ]. The novel’s central question is: what keeps the Russian world afloat? Depicting the Christian faith as such a bulwark, Bushkovsky links atheism with the social and spiritual roles played by contemporary men and women. The critic argues, however, that the reliance on Christianity in the novel verges on an affectation. The book’s main symbol is a drowning hawk: it perishes despite people’s efforts to save it.

Coleridge's Theory of the Church in the Social Order

1934 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 285-299
Author(s):  
Cyril K. Gloyn
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
The State ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Social Stability ◽  
Political Position ◽  
French Writer ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Mind ◽  
The Church

The era of the English Reform Bill of 1832 presented difficulties and dangers to both state and church. For the state it set the task of achieving a social order—of forming a new social mind—in a period when social change had destroyed the basis of custom in English life and thought. The rise and growth of mechanized industry had produced both a new working class separated from the land and the processes of production and with only its labor to sell in return for a meager livelihood, and a new industrial middle class which, finding itself excluded from the rights and privileges of the state, had set about the task of acquiring a political position comparable to its new economic status. Though the latter group secured the passage of the Reform Bill, to secure social stability was a much more difficult task. The industrial society showed itself as a divided society, described by Disraeli as “two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy … as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets,” a society in whose towns a French writer of the period could discover “nothing but masters and operatives.”

scholarly journals East German writers and the state

1982 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 33-35
Author(s):  
Boria Sax
Keyword(s):  
Publishing House ◽  
The State ◽  
The West ◽  
East European ◽  
East German ◽  
The Government

Lutz Rathenow has the dubious distinction of being the first East German writer to have been arrested for the crime of publishing a book abroad. His brief imprisonment in December 1980, under the laws enacted that same year, was based on his publishing a group of stories, Mit dem Schlimmsten wurde schon gerechnet (‘Prepared for the Worst’) with the West German publishing house Ullstein Verlag. The case established a potentially important precedent for the use of the 1980 laws on relations with foreigners, and more generally showed the lengths to which the government would go to harass a single, somewhat troublesome, citizen. In recent years, East European regimes have tended to replace exile and long-term imprisonment with subtler forms of punishment that are more difficult to document or protest against. Dissidents are likely to be imprisoned repeatedly for brief periods, deprived of work, interrogated and followed by government agents. The intent is to gradually wear down resistance by creating a feeling of insecurity, while at the same time avoiding direct confrontations. Although life is made difficult for him, an individual is, so far as possible, deprived of the opportunity to make symbolically meaningful gestures of protest.

Book Reviews

1998 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-134
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Women's Movement ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
The State ◽  
German History ◽  
Political Dissent ◽  
National Community ◽  
German Politics ◽  
And Gender

Robert C. HolubThe Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche edited by Bernd Magnus and Kathleen M. HigginsPeter JelavichThe Ghosts of Berlin: Confronting German History in the Urban Landscape by Brian LaddAndrea WuerthA German Women’s Movement: Class and Gender in Hanover, 1880-1933 by Nancy R. ReaginAnton PelinkaNazism and the Working Class in Austria: Industrial Unrest and Political Dissent in the “National Community” by Timothy KirkBen MeredithMitteleuropa and German Politics 1848 to the Present by Jörg BrechtefeldThomas WelskoppSociety, Culture, and the State in Germany 1870–1930 edited by Geoff Eley

Seasonal Migration from Beed District of Maharashtra: A Livelihood Struggle of Dalit and Adivasi Households

2021 ◽  
pp. 2455328X2110004
Author(s):  
Abdul Jaleel C.P. ◽  
Aparajita Chattopadhay
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Seasonal Migration ◽  
Crop Failure ◽  
Brick Kilns ◽  
Poor Households ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wage Employment ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Income Variability ◽  
Irrigation Infrastructure

Due to the scarcity of water, frequent crop failure and low returns from cultivation, agriculture in the state of Maharashtra is in a distressed condition. With a semi-arid topography, below average rainfall and limited irrigation infrastructure, Beed—a predominantly rural district—subsists through rainfed agriculture and wage employment. Every year, during dry season (November to May), villages in the district are face with severe seasonal unemployment. To tide over the lean season, thousands of small and marginal peasant households migrate to other districts of the state, and even outside the state, to work in sugar factories and brick kilns. The social experience and consequences of migration are far from uniform, but shaped by class, caste and gender. Drawing connections between seasonal migration and rural crisis, our narrative show how seasonal migration compensates for the lack of employment opportunities and reduces seasonal income variability of the poor households in Beed district. At the same time, this article also explains how seasonal migration traps these households in the vicious cycle of economic and social backwardness.

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