Ceremonies, Athletics and the City: Some Remarks on the Social Imaginary of the Greek City of the Hellenistic Period

2013 ◽  
pp. 311-338 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Imaginary ◽  
Hellenistic Period ◽  
Greek City ◽  
The Social ◽  
The City

Plato’s Phaedrus on Philosophy and the City

2018 ◽  
pp. 101-105
Author(s):  
Brian Elliott
Keyword(s):  
Class Struggle ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Commercial Development ◽  
Territorial Expansion ◽  
Greek City ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
The Social ◽  
City State ◽  
The City

This paper offers an interpretation of the dramatic setting of Plato’s Phaedrus as an allegory of the situation of the philosopher within Plato’s Athens. Following Jean-Pierre Vernant’s work on the place of class struggle and warfare within the ancient Greek city-state in his Myth and Society in Ancient Greece I decipher key passages on the Phaedrus as implicit responses to Plato’s experience of the city. The key themes that emerge are: the relation between the country and the city; the connection between leisure, luxury, and territorial expansion; the prospects for philosophical rule in the city; and the assessment of writing as a product of urban and commercial development. In my concluding paragraphs I suggest that Plato’s dialogues should more generally be regarded as a confrontation with the social conditions of the city-state as Plato experienced them. I also suggest that Platonic writings such as the Phaedrus are best interpreted allegorically as well as literally to ensure that multiple levels of meaning are drawn out through close analysis.

Staging Murders: The Social Imaginary, Film, and the City

Wide Angle ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 85-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norman M. Klein
Keyword(s):  
Social Imaginary ◽  
The Social ◽  
The City

scholarly journals Cultura, Imaginário Social e Representações Sociais: o Corpo na História e no Currículo da Educação Física

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 59
Author(s):  
Felipe Da Silva Triani ◽  
Cristina Novikoff
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Physical Education ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
The Body ◽  
Social Imaginary ◽  
Education Development ◽  
Documentary Analysis ◽  
The Social ◽  
The City

O objetivo foi analisar o currículo do Curso de graduação de licenciatura em Educação Física da cidade de Duque de Caxias para interpretar as representações sociais sobre corpo nele contidas. Para atingir o objetivo pretendido foi realizada uma pesquisa qualitativa, por meio de revisão bibliográfica e análise documental. Os resultados encontrados são de que as mudanças ocorridas no desenvolvimento da Educação Física acerca do corpo são resultado de desenvolvimentos culturais, que implicaram a transformação social dos grupos e que o currículo do curso analisado institui representações de corpo relacionadas com a ideia de saúde.Palavras-chave: Corpo. Representações Sociais. Imaginário Social. Formação de Professores. AbstractThe objective was to analyze the  undergraduate degree curriculum  in Physical Education Course of the city of Duque de Caxias to interpret the social representations about the body contained in it. In order to achieve the intended objective, a qualitative research was carried out through bibliographical review and documentary analysis. The results are that the changes that occurred in the  Physical Education development about the body are results of cultural developments that implied the groups’ social transformation and that the curriculum of the analyzed course establishes representations of body related to the idea of health. Keywords: Body. Social representations. Social imaginary. Teacher’s Training.

scholarly journals Os dispositivos cinematográficos no filme Cidade de Deus / Cinematographic Devices in the Film City of God

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lilian Fontes Moreira
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Social Imaginary ◽  
City Of God ◽  
The Social ◽  
Brazilian Cinema ◽  
History Of ◽  
Communication Practices ◽  
Brazilian Film ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

ABSTRACTIn order to think the current culture, the communication practices, the incidence of interference image in the production of new types of knowledge, in this paper we will approach the relationship between image as cinematic apparatus and its conceptual, historical and technical aspects to analyze its performance as narration. In an era in which it appears that the images intervenes in consciousness and in the contemporary representation and thus is becoming an important device in the revelation of realities and the construction of the social imaginary, the present work analyzes the Brazilian film City of God, conducted by director Fernando Meirelles, in 2002, considered a landmark in Brazilian cinema of the period, by the boldness of the language used to convert to images the history of violent gangs fighting over the control of drug trafficking in a community of the city of Rio de Janeiro. We will try, then, to identify the techniques used by the camera as devices able to create the effects needed to immerse the viewer in the narrative of the film.RESUMOCom a preocupação de pensar a cultura atual, as práticas comunicacionais, a incidência da interferência da imagem na produção de novas formas de saber tentaremos abordar neste trabalho a relação da imagem como dispositivo cinematográfico e seus aspectos conceituais, históricos e técnicos para examinar a sua atuação como narração. Numa era em que se constata que as imagens intervêm na consciência e na representação contemporâneas e, portanto, vêm se impondo como um dispositivo importante na revelação de realidades e na construção do imaginário social, o presente artigo visa analisar o filme brasileiro Cidade de Deus, realizado pelo diretor Fernando Meirelles, em 2002, considerado um marco no cinema brasileiro do período, pela ousadia da linguagem utilizada para converter em imagens a história de gangues violen-tas em disputa pelo controle do tráfico de drogas em uma comunidade da cidade do Rio de Janeiro. Tentaremos, então, identificar as técnicas usadas pela câmera como dispositivos capazes de criar os efeitos necessários para imergir o especta-dor na narrativa do filme.

scholarly journals New research in the Northern necropolis of Hierapolis, Phrygia (Turkey)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Monticolo ◽  
Anna Anguissola ◽  
Silvana Costa
Keyword(s):  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Asia Minor ◽  
Hellenistic Period ◽  
Circulation Patterns ◽  
The Social ◽  
Crucial Information ◽  
New Research ◽  
The City ◽  
Burial Grounds ◽  
Organizing Principles

The poster presents the results of three campaigns (2017-2019) of fieldwork in the Northern necropolis of Hierapolis (ancient Phrygia). There, the preservation of the archaeological context, combined to the chance of a stratigraphic investigation, offers a unique opportunity to examine funerary practices and monuments within the social context of ancient Asia Minor between the Hellenistic period and Late Antiquity. This research has provided crucial information to understand the layout and development of the burial grounds of Hierapolis, in relationship to their topographical conditions, organizing principles, building techniques, access and circulation, patterns of continuity and changes, and the negotiation between the city and its surroundings.

People will enter the downtown – the postwar ruralisation of the proletarian city of Łódź (1945–55)

Rural History ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-86
Author(s):  
Agata Zysiak
Keyword(s):  
Negative Influence ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Social Imaginary ◽  
Postwar Reconstruction ◽  
Mass Migration ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Political Speeches ◽  
The City ◽  
Urban Working

AbstractThis article deals with the postwar confrontation of the rural and the urban in Poland. It sheds light on a time of mass migration to the cities and the postwar reconstruction in Central Europe, heading towards state-socialism, and focuses on official discourses concerning peasants as new social and political subjects and the intelligentsia’s response to rural newcomers. A testing ground for these processes was the Polish city of Łódź, the biggest textile industrial centre.These processes became the subject of both journalistic and academic inquiries framed by political efforts to reshape the ‘social imaginary’ (Taylor) through the state’s ‘socialist modernization’. Along with the scale of migration, there was another unprecedented aspect: peasants were becoming citizens, recognised political subjects, later even as privileged representatives of the People’s Republic. The postwar press and political speeches encouraged them to become a part of the modernisation project. Almost immediately, counter-narratives followed and lamented the newcomers’ ‘improper’ uses of the city. The term ‘ruralisation of the city’ was coined to describe the misuses of urban spaces, a moral decline and even the negative influence of peasants on the urban working class.

Neoliberal Discourses: Toward a Deeper Understanding of a Global Latino Education

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 329-338
Author(s):  
Luis Mirón
Keyword(s):  
Charter Schools ◽  
Hurricane Katrina ◽  
Social Relation ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Latino Education ◽  
Social Imaginary ◽  
Schools Of Choice ◽  
Cultural Experience ◽  
The Social ◽  
The City

This article explores the dynamic discursive interactions between two keenly related concepts, globalization and neoliberalism. Though largely synonymous in the social imaginary, in fact, these ideas are different and analytically distinct. They need unpacking. The notion that both globalization and neoliberalism are empirically verified social realities must be advanced. What’s more as they affect the global-local social relation, varying manifestations such as gentrification, the global emergence of schools of choice (charter schools), and the economic and geographic dislocations of subordinate populations become evident. Relying on empirical studies and everyday lived cultural experience in the rebuilding of the city of New Orleans post-Hurricane Katrina, I finally examine the implications for a Global Latino education and pedagogy.

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