Ideologies of Gender on Television in India

2002 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Divya C. Mcmillin
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Female Leadership ◽  
Prime Time ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
National Network ◽  
Content Analyses ◽  
The Status

Content analyses of Indian television programmes on the national network Doordarshan in the 1980s have shown that prime-time shows cast women as docile homemakers and as objects of male desire. This paper uses a critical postcolonial theoretical framework and narrative analysis method to detect ideologies of gender from programmes randomly selected from a month's menu of the transnational, national and regional television networks in the country. A broad conclusion is that Indian television in the late 1990s perpetuates, across channels, the 1980s' stereotypical images of women, images that have their roots in Vedic, colonial, and nationalist literature. The status quo is explained through a critical discussion of the framing of 'woman' in colonial and postcolonial nation-building efforts. The paper also points to the emerging genre of hybrid programming, where the greater incidence of female veejays and talk show hosts paves the way for the expression of female leadership and desire, and leads to more positive television portrayals of women in the 21st century.

Institutional work amidst the financial crisis: emerging positions of elite actors

Organization ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suhaib Riaz ◽  
Sean Buchanan ◽  
Hari Bapuji
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Institutional Work ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis

We draw on the institutional work literature to analyse the rhetoric in mainstream media spawned by the global financial crisis. We identify the emerging positions (status quo, neutral and change) of actors on major themes (policy, practices, recovery and regulation) related to the crisis and the rhetorical processes used (appeals to expert authority, finding someone to blame, use of scenarios, and avoidance of critical discussion) to communicate these positions. We find that academics lead the charge for change in policy, relying mostly on rhetorical processes that involve the use of past scenarios and blame, but also often avoid critical discussion through over-generalization. In contrast, banks focus on changes in practices, mostly using future scenarios, finding specific others to blame, and also appealing to expert authority. The US Federal Reserve takes the lead on maintaining the status quo on regulation-related issues, largely through using various scenarios and appeals to expert authority. We also find a large number of neutral positions and interpret this as tacit support for existing institutions. We conclude by charting out a broader research agenda for further investigation of the actors-institutions interplay, particularly within the context of the financial crisis.

Study of Archives Information Development Based on SWOT Analysis

2014 ◽  
Vol 599-601 ◽  
pp. 1720-1723
Author(s):  
Feng Li Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Strategic Analysis ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
The Status

Based on the rapid development of information technology and wide application, using the SWOT analysis method, combined with the status quo of information development in our country, it is done that the strategic analysis of advantage factors, archives information development in the disadvantages, opportunities and threats, and some strategies and suggestions are put forward for the development of our country's archives information.

scholarly journals OPTIONS FOR PRESERVATION OF VILLAGE SPACE IN BAC NINH’S CENTRAL URBAN AREA (WITH REFERENCE TO THE PRESERVATION MODEL OF HAHOE VILLAGE IN KOREA)

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cao Thi Hai Bac
Keyword(s):  
Urban Area ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Public Works ◽  
Local People ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Natural Landscape ◽  
Living Space ◽  
The Status

Using part of data of the study "Preserving village space in the Bac Ninh’s central urban area" conducted by Bac Ninh Institute of Planning and Architecture and other available data sources from books, newspapers, magazines, Internet, combined with many reseach methods such as the percentage analysis method, the comparative method, this article focuses on three issues: (1) Current situation of villages in the central urban area of ​​Bac Ninh province today, (2) Contents to be preserved in villages in the central urban area of ​​Bac Ninh province, (3) Conservation methods of Korea’s Hahoe village and experience for Bac Ninh. Some of the main results obtained from this study are as follows. Firstly, most of the villages in the Bac Ninh’s central urban area still retain clear traditional village forms. Secondly, the main contents that need to be preserved in villages include: natural landscape, cultural characteristics, public works and ancient architectural works. Thirdly, it is possible to flexibly apply Korea’s village conservation models such as preserving and restoring the status quo of traditional residential architectural landscape as well as community living space, promoting the design of practical experience programs that engage both local people and tourists, maximizing the autonomy of the Association for Conservation of Traditional Villages established and managed by the local people.

The Impacts of New Media on Marketing Effectiveness

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 16-28
Author(s):  
Yudi Zhang
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Regional Economy ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Network Marketing ◽  
Healthy Development ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Marketing Effectiveness ◽  
The Status

Tourism shopping is an important part of the tourism industry as well as the regional economy. Tourism souvenirs sales, in most of the developed tourism areas, account for more than 35% of the total tourism revenues, and even in some individual regions the proportion can achieve more than 50%. But in China this proportion is only 20%. In this article, the corresponding analysis method is used to calculate and analyze the status quo of souvenir network marketing of the tourism website in China and Korea. The article describes the advantages and disadvantages of the tourism souvenirs network marketing in China and Korea, finding the deficiencies in China and analyzing the causes and providing the corresponding reference for the healthy development of China's tourism industry.

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the Temple Mount/Haram esh-Sharif (Jerusalem)

2020 ◽  
pp. 125-156
Author(s):  
Yuval Jobani ◽  
Nahshon Perez
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Sacred Sites ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
The Status ◽  
Model Section ◽  
Temple Mount ◽  
The Temple ◽  
The Church

Chapter 5 explores two contested sacred sites—the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the Haram esh-Sharif/Temple Mount—and two models of governance of contested sacred sites—status quo and closure. Section A describes the status quo at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem to facilitate, in section B, a critical discussion of the structure, justifications, advantages, and disadvantages of the status quo model. Section C describes the Temple Mount/Haram esh-Sharif case study with an emphasis on the period of 1967 to the present. Section D defines, explores, and criticizes closure as a model of governance for contested sacred sites.

scholarly journals Mainstream Media and the F-Word: Documentary Coherence and the Exclusion of a Feminist Narrative in The Fifth Estate Coverage of the Ashley Smith Case

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (02) ◽  
pp. 269-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charissa Crépault ◽  
Jennifer M. Kilty
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Mental Health Treatment ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Women Prisoners ◽  
Health Treatment ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
The Status ◽  
Gendered Stereotypes

AbstractThis article offers a narrative analysis of the two CBCFifth Estateinvestigative documentaries about Ashley Smith (“Behind the Wall,” 2010; “Out of Control,” 2010) and juxtaposes the documentary narratives against claims made by feminist criminologists with respect to women’s corrections. Examining the coherent ‘through narrative’ that is constructed in each documentary, we claim thatThe Fifth Estateuses dominant medicalized conceptualizations of mental illness and mental health treatment to frame the Smith case, leaving questions about the gendered nature of her criminalization, imprisonment and mistreatment unasked. Considering the socio-political context of neoliberal and post-feminist individualism, we argue thatThe Fifth Estatepresents the case in a way that maintains the status quo and may resonate with their national audience, but which also reinforces the pathologization of women prisoners and upholds gendered stereotypes.

scholarly journals Ukraine: the Radical Solution of the Nation-Building’s Problem

2015 ◽  
pp. 39-49
Author(s):  
M V Kosmachev
Keyword(s):  
Nation Building ◽  
State Building ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Ethnic Community ◽  
Political Elite ◽  
Ethnic Cleansing ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Coup D'etat ◽  
The Status ◽  
Radical Solution

The article is devoted to the problem of nation building in Ukraine. After 1991 Ukrainian political elite is forced to preserve the status quo and maneuver between the practice of constructing supra-ethnic community in the form of the nation-state or in the form of the empire. The coup d’état proceeded in Ukraine in February 2014 and further confrontation demonstrate a commitment of elite groups to the line of the nation-state building in its radical form. The execution of the chosen line is only possible by force of ethno-nationalism and ethnic cleansing.

scholarly journals THE STATUS QUO OF TEACHER-TRAINING COURSES IN THE IRANIAN EFL CONTEXT: A FOCUS ON MODELS OF PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION AND DYNAMIC ASSESSMENT

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (Special) ◽  
pp. 89 ◽  
Author(s):  
ABBAS A. REZAEE ◽  
MAHSA GHANBARPOUR
Keyword(s):  
Preservice Teachers ◽  
Teacher Training ◽  
Prospective Teachers ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Dynamic Assessment ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Content Analyses ◽  
The Status ◽  
Training Courses

Given that Teacher-Training Courses (TTC’s) have responsibility for assisting prospective teachers with building up a repertoire of technical and pedagogic knowledge, the systematically evaluation of such courses is regarded as seminal (Lynch, 2003 and Peacock, 2009). Therefore, the present study is an attempt to (a) probe into the way professional expertise is acquired by preservice Iranian EFL teachers, (b) analyze the instructional content of TTC’s currently held in Iran, with a focus on teachings on Dynamic Assessment (DA), and (c) examine preservice teachers’ and TTC trainers’ opinions about the TTC’s. To this end, 9 purposefully selected TTC’s were observed, employing participant observation, and content analyses were carried out on their syllabi. Also, 107 TTC participants filled out a questionnaire, and 14 TTC instructors were interviewed; the sampling of the TTC participants and instructors was nonprobability convenient. Results of descriptive statistics showed that accounting for 84.73% of all the instructional attempts, the craft model was the most frequently prevalent model of teacher learning. Content analyses and preservice teacher questionnaire results signified that writing skill was marginalized in all the courses, and none of them included instructions on DA in their syllabi. Open, selective, and axial coding as well as content analyses of the collected data gave rise to eight themes delineating major areas fueling the current research-practice divide in the TTC syllabi. Findings of the study provide an opportunity to examine the status quo, strengths, and weaknesses of the TTC’s. The eight identified impediments to the employment of research in pedagogy could help reach a framework for factors that might induce TTC organizers to disregard the implication of relevant research findings for the courses they run.

A National Police Service: Any Day Now?

2002 ◽  
Vol 75 (4) ◽  
pp. 287-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Donnelly ◽  
Kenneth B. Scott ◽  
Roy Wilkie
Keyword(s):  
Status Quo ◽  
Central Control ◽  
National Service ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Police Service ◽  
National Network ◽  
Regional System ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Uk ◽  
National Police

Policing in the UK is moving towards more central control than ever before in its history, at the expense of a strong tripartite system, which seems to exist in name only. The evolving national network in England and Wales has a statutory foundation, while Scotland has adopted a mainly nonstatutory approach to central control, although this should change with new legislation in 2003. The potential for further centralisation in Scotland remains high because of the nation's size and new devolved constitutional position. The key question for all concerned in the UK, and particularly in Scotland, is what system of policing do we wish to have: a national service; a regional system; or the status quo? The answer can be found only after open public debate takes place.

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