Houses of Horror

Dead Pledges ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annie McClanahan
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Horror Films ◽  
Housing Crisis ◽  
Social Force ◽  
Caveat Emptor ◽  
The Social ◽  
Mother’S Day ◽  
Credit Contracts ◽  
The Relationship

Chapter 4 begins by noting that contemporary discourse on the economic crisis is profoundly shaped by the language of horror and fear. To understand why, this chapter turns to four post-crisis horror films that explicitly link fear, foreclosure, and financialized credit: Drag Me to Hell (dir. Sam Raimi), Dream Home (dir. Pang Ho-cheung), Mother’s Day (dir. Darren Lynn Bousman), and Crawlspace (dir. Josh Stolberg). All four films take up real estate lending, mortgage speculation, and foreclosure risk and locate horror in the “dead pledge” of the mortgage. Using horror and the home-invasion genre to explore the shifting understandings of ownership consequent to the housing crisis, these films frighteningly literalize the doctrine of caveat emptor. Exploring the relationship between “paying back” and “payback,” they suggest that introduction of speculative risk has shifted the social force of credit contracts from the promise of trust to the threat of revenge.

‘Employment suitable for capabilities’

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 242-252
Author(s):  
Michele Sammicheli ◽  
Marcella Scaglione
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Disabled Persons ◽  
Careful Examination ◽  
Job Retention ◽  
Work Activity ◽  
Medical Issues ◽  
Italian Law ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Relationship

The authors1 trace the evolution of the social security concept of capability for work in ‘employment suitable for skills’. This principle emerged at the end of the 1930s during the Fascist period, and it is the foundation for the current Italian law (no. 222 of 1984) relating to social security insured sickness. Having described the concept and its historical evolution, they highlight the developments that have had to take place in the last decade, due to changes in working conditions and the growing economic crisis that has affected all of Europe. They then analyse three cases to confirm that the recent economic crisis in the Italian and European labour markets has had an impact on the medical-legal assessment of a work activity as suitable for the capabilities. A careful examination of the relationship between sickness, disability and capacity for work in other EU and non-EU countries is undertaken to highlight the delicate social and medical issues surrounding job retention and the return of disabled persons to work.

scholarly journals Trade Unions, Migrant Workers, and Racial Discrimination in Italy in Times of Economic Crisis

Two Homelands ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Della Puppa
Keyword(s):  
Social Integration ◽  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Relationship

Trade unions have a crucial role in the social integration processes of migrants. Nevertheless, some aspects of this relationship are still relatively unexplored, particularly that of the relationship between trade unions and racism and that of the trade unions’ fight against racial discrimination. This paper aims to investigate the still partially unexplored link between Italian trade unions and racial discrimination within the framework of the 2008 economic crisis. Through the narratives of stakeholders, trade unions, and migrant workers, the author provides an in-depth look at the efforts of Italian trade unions to fight discrimination and examines the main barriers that prevent migrants from being involved in unions.

scholarly journals Conflicto territorial y cambios en la cultura política: Cataluña-España

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordi Bonet-Martí ◽  
Gemma Ubasart-González
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Party System ◽  
Secular Trends ◽  
Territorial Conflict ◽  
The Social ◽  
Historical Series ◽  
The Relationship

The aim of this article is to explore the relationship between the changes that have occurred in political culture and the social and territorial crisis that has developed in Spain since 2011. For this, we will focus on the analysis of the evolution of the historical series of traditional indicators of political culture, in order to show how, coinciding with the outbreak of the economic crisis, secular trends were altered and how these changes could have influenced the double process of rupture. Finally, it will be discussed how this rupture was channeled in Spain through the transformation of the party system, while in Catalonia it took the form of territorial conflict.

scholarly journals ELEMENTOS SUPERESTRUTURAIS NA PRODUÇÃO DO ESPAÇO SUBURBANO

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-131
Author(s):  
Francisco Clébio Rodrigues Lopes
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Real Estate ◽  
Production Of Space ◽  
The Social ◽  
Real Estate Developers ◽  
The Relationship

Este artigo analisa aspectos superestruturais na produção do espaço a partir da relação entre ideologia e suburbanização. Em termos teórico-metodológicos, conta com uma revisão de componentes da superestrutura marxista cruzados com textos publicitários de incorporadoras imobiliárias. Conclui que a moradia suburbana de classe média é a materialização da ideologia, pois a forma segregada é produto de um sistema de ideias que se corporificou ao interferir no espaço social.Palavras-chave: Urbanização. Representação e ideologia. ABSTRACTThis paper examines superstructural aspects in the production of space from the relationship between ideology and suburbanization. In theoretical and methodological terms, it includes a review of components of Marxist superstructure crossed with advertising copies of real estate developers. It concludes that the suburban housing middle class is the materialization of ideology, because the segregated form is the product of a system of ideas that is embodied by interfering in the social space.Keywords: urbanization, representation and ideology. RESUMENEste artículo analiza aspectos superestructurales en la producción del espacio a partir de la relación entre ideología y suburbanización. En términos teórico-metodológicos, cuenta con una revisión de componentes de la superestructura marxista cruzados con textos publicitarios de incorporadoras inmobiliarias. Concluye que la vivienda suburbana de clase media es la materialización de la ideología, pues la forma aislada es producto de un sistema de ideas que se ha concretado al interferir en el espacio social.Palabras clave: urbanización; representación; ideología.

scholarly journals Pedestrian Arching Mechanism at Bottleneck in Subway Transit Hub

Information ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 164
Author(s):  
Wei Luo ◽  
Pengpeng Jiao ◽  
Yi Wang
Keyword(s):  
Simulation Experiment ◽  
Dynamic Evolution ◽  
Width Ratio ◽  
Force Model ◽  
Pedestrian Flow ◽  
Social Force ◽  
Social Force Model ◽  
Unidirectional Flow ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Relationship

Under the massive pedestrian flow, pedestrians arching phenomenon forms easily at bottleneck in subway hubs, which might stampede and crush. To explore pedestrian arching mechanism at bottleneck in subway transit hub, this paper conducts a series of simulation experiment. Firstly, movement preference characteristic in subway transit hubs was introduced into the social force model which considers multiple force. Then, after setting basic experiment scenario, unidirectional flow at different bottlenecks were simulated. Finally, the mechanism of pedestrian arching phenomenon at bottleneck was quantitative analyzed with the help of experimental data. Some main conclusions are summarized. Pedestrian arching phenomenon could be divided into four stages: Free, arching formation, arching stabilization and arching dissipation. In addition, the relationship between bottleneck scenario and passing time could be built to a function model. With the different of bottleneck width ratio, passing time presents positive correlation. The research results could give some helps for understanding the dynamic evolution process of unidirectional flow at bottleneck, improving the pedestrian efficiency at bottleneck and optimizing pedestrian facilities in subway transit hub.

scholarly journals ECONOMIA E COVID-19: EDUCAÇÃO FINANCEIRA NO BRASIL

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. R - p. 06-R - p. 06
Author(s):  
Laura Stephanie OLIVEIRA ◽  
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Marcelo PESSOA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Isolation ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Financial Education ◽  
Financial Knowledge ◽  
Financial Condition ◽  
Use Of Data ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Relationship

The article deals with the economic crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic in Brazil, and how Brazilians were surprised by the fact, which clearly affected the financial condition of part of the population. The objective here is to present the relationship and influence of the social and cultural symptoms of the pandemic as catalysts for changes in the financial conduct of the population. The methodology used was the use of data collected digitally from the research made by Xpeed, made available by the Locomotive Institute. It justifies conducting a study like this, the oscillation of the Brazilian's financial conduct, which has been widely reported in the media during social isolation. The partial results show that, although financial knowledge is limited, 90% of Brazilians said they were interested in learning more about investments and financial education. The main bibliographic contribution used derives from the referenced material, taken from the InfoMoney website.

The Evolution of Self-Organized Social Solidarity (SoSS) Initiatives in Greece and Their Relationship to Online Media

2018 ◽  
pp. 168-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleni-Revekka Staiou ◽  
Dimitris Gouscos
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Longitudinal Research ◽  
Social Solidarity ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Grocery Stores ◽  
Practical Solution ◽  
Self Organized ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Relationship

Since the beginning of the economic crisis in Greece, the first impacts were felt on standards of everyday living. Citizens felt the urge to self-organize and take action based on their own strengths as the only practical solution to fill in the gaps left by the state's absence of intervention. Rooted in the country's economic crisis, Greek citizens' self-organized social solidarity (SoSS) initiatives have been focused on acting and innovating rather than protesting. Examples of such initiatives are social grocery stores, alternative currencies, time banks, neighborhood groups for sanitation and general caretaking, assistance to students in primary/secondary education to name a few. The main objective of this chapter is to show the evolution of SoSS initiatives through a longitudinal research for the period 2014-2016. Α second objective is to present the relationship between these initiatives and the online media: How did they use the internet and the social media for their communication for the same period of time? Finally, the authors will attempt an assessment of their operation so far, with data obtained from updating the platform Organosi 2.0, in the summer of 2017.

scholarly journals Political and Economic Factors Influencing Strike Activity during the Recent Economic Crisis: A Study of the Spanish Case between 2002 and 2013

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Pohl
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Strike Activity ◽  
The Public ◽  
Manpower Supply ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Relationship

PolThe Great Recession and the upsurge of widespread social movements in various crisis-ridden countries have given new impetus to the debate on the relationship between economic breakdown and the occurrence of collective action. I revisit the issue by examining strike activity in Spain between 2002 and 2013. For a better understanding of the continuities and changes, I contrast two sets of literature on industrial conflict. The first deals with economic factors influencing strikes or, in other words, with the question of whether and how fluctuations in manpower supply and demand account for continuities and changes in strike activity. The second advocates for a look beyond the economy, towards the political exchange that takes place between unions and state actors and which, depending on its positive or negative nature, leads to shifts of the distributional struggle away from the marketplace towards the public arena or vice versa. The findings reveal that, rather than exclusive, the two perspectives prove to be mutually conducive and are most significant when they are combined. The political exchange model is helpful for understanding the rather stable or even declining strike frequency prior to the economic crisis but also the three nationwide general strikes in 2010 and 2012, which represented a rupture in the social consensus. If the general strikes are left aside, the economic variables come into play: an increased strike frequency during the economic crisis is in fact accompanied by a shift towards smaller strikes related to a single workplace, and to so-called “defensive” strikes. This indicates that an actual decrease in workers’ bargaining power was overcompensated by a growing number of circumstances in which the recourse to strike action became a means of last resort.

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