Forty years of IKEA kitchens and the rise of a neoliberal control of domestic space

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Per Ledin ◽  
David Machin
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Domestic Space ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Domestic Life ◽  
Creative Solutions ◽  
Semiotic Approach ◽  
Life Itself

This article uses a social semiotic approach to look at the representations and designs of kitchens in the IKEA catalogue from 1975 until 2016. The authors find a shift from function to lifestyle of the order observed by scholars of advertising. But using Fairclough’s concepts of ‘technologization’ in Discourse and Social Change (1992) and Van Leeuwen’s New Writing (2006) concept, they are able to dig deeper to show that there are four stages of kitchen that become, they argue, more and more codified, with increasing prescription over the meaning of space and also regarding what takes place there. Such coding aligns with the ideas, values and identities of neoliberalism: ‘flexible’, ‘dynamic’, ‘creative’, ‘solutions’ and ‘self-management’. The authors show how the features of New Writing allow a suppression of actual causalities and context, and permit symbolic and indexical meanings to take over. Domestic life itself becomes technologized, coded and stripped down to a number of symbols and indexical meanings which assemble easily into the requirements of the neoliberal order.

scholarly journals From passionate labour to compassionate work: Cultural co-ops, do what you love and social change

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marisol Sandoval
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Work Ethic ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Work Culture ◽  
Cultural Industries ◽  
Future Of Work ◽  
Interview Research ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Cultural Sector

This article focuses on the relation between work and pleasure in the cultural sector. I first unpack the concept of passionate work, situating it within four possible ways of relating work and pleasure. I argue that the work ethic of do what you love, contrary to what it promises, limits the prospects of loveable work. As part of a neoliberal work culture, do what you love transfers the battleground from society onto the self. It favours self-management over politics. Drawing on findings from interview research with members of worker co-operatives in the UK cultural industries, I then go on to explore the relation between work and pleasure within cultural co-ops. I discuss how cultural co-ops might inspire and contribute to a movement for transforming the future of work by turning the desire for loveable work from a matter of individual transformation and competition into a practice of co-operation and social change.

scholarly journals DIMENSI-DIMENSI MISTIK TAFSIR AL-MIZAN (Studi atas Pemikiran Thabathaba'i dalam Tafsir Al-Mizan)

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yusno Abdullah Otta
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Spiritual Life ◽  
Running Away ◽  
Life Itself

The multidimensional crisis has not yet shown that it will end even causing casualties, not only material victims, but also casualties and the threat of disintegration. So that the assumption and image of most people that Sufism as a teaching that focuses on individual piety and ritual is rejected. Because, Sufism should be an alternative answer to the problematic pluralist society and universal social change. Therefore the research will try to focus on the work of one of the influential figures of Thabathaba Sufism by examining the monumental work of al-Mizan. This research comes from primary and secondary data, the main source of course is al-Mizan's interpretation while indirect work is the work of others about Thabathaba`i thinking. The results of this study are Thabathaba'i who carry out the moderate life of Irfan Tasawuf. For him, spiritual life is not running away from life itself. This expression is addressed to those who practice Irfan radically and conservatively. This phenomenon is emphasized by Thabathaba'i to be reformed. Through some of his works, the interpretation of Al-Mizan, he opened his readers' insight while at the same time straightening out a sad understanding of various things, especially Irfan's life. Keywords:Sufism, al-Mizan, Thabathaba`i, `Irfan, Moderate. Krisis multidimensional belum juga menunjukkan akan berakhir bahkan telah menimbulkan korban, tidak saja korban material, tetapi juga korban jiwa serta ancaman disintegrasi. Sehingga anggapan dan image sebagian besar orang bahwa tasawuf sebagai sebuah ajaran yang menitikberatkan pada kesalehan individual dan ritual tertolak.Sebab, tasawuf seharusnya bisa menjadi jawaban alternatif atas problematika masyarakat yang pluralis dan perubahan sosial secara universal. Oleh karena itu penelitian akan coba fokus membahas karya salah seorang tokoh tasawuf berpengaruh Thabathaba`i dengan mengkaji karya monumentalnya al-Mizan. Penelitian ini bersumber dari data primer dan sekunder, sumber utama tentu tafsir al-Mizan sedangkan karya yang tidak langsung adalah karya orang lain tentang pemikiran Thabathaba`i. Hasil dari penelitian ini adalah Thabathaba`i seorang yang menjalankan kehidupan Irfan Tasawuf yang moderat. Baginya, kehidupan spiritual bukannya melarikan diri dari kehidupan itu sendiri.Ungkapan ini ditujukan kepada mereka yang mempraktekkan Irfan secara radikal dan konservatif.Gejala ini yang ditekankan Thabathaba`i untuk direformasi. Melalui beberapa karyanya, tafsir Al-Mizan, dia membuka wawasan pembacanya sekaligus meluruskan pemahaman yang miris tentang berbagai hal, terutama kehidupan irfan. Kata Kunci:Tasawuf, al-Mizan, Thabathaba`i, `Irfan, Moderat.

scholarly journals Synchronicity of social change and the construct of gender roles: Traditionalism and modernity as contents of mainstream model of female gender roles in women's magazines during the last quarter of 20

2002 ◽  
pp. 267-278
Author(s):  
Isidora Jaric
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Female Gender ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Women's Magazines ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Research Model ◽  
Women's Magazine

The main intention of the research is to retrospectively decode changes in mainstream construct of female gender roles within the period of ''developed self-management socialism'' (1970s), period of structural crisis of socialism (1980s) and post-socialist period of Serbian/Yugoslav society. The mainstream construct of female gender roles will be reconstruct from Serbian women's magazine 'Bazar''. Through the basic presumptions of theoretical framework the research will try to conceptualize theoretical approach which will correspond with co called 'new communicative research model' which will be capable to incorporate contemporary changes within the process of communication among the emitter and recipients in order to better understand the content of the message.

Recreation and collaboration within the Expanded Chronic Care Model: working towards social transformation

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
pp. 1531-1542
Author(s):  
Susan L Hutchinson ◽  
Heidi Lauckner
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Chronic Care Model ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Chronic Conditions ◽  
Chronic Condition ◽  
Chronic Care ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Care Model ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Recreation

Abstract Assisting people to live well with a chronic physical or mental health condition requires the creation of intersectoral community-based supports for chronic condition self-management. One important but underutilized resource for supporting chronic condition self-management in the community is recreation, which refers to relatively self-determined and enjoyable physical, social or expressive everyday activities. The Expanded Chronic Care Model (ECCM) provides a framework for identifying systems-level strategies to support self-management through increased access to community recreation opportunities. In this article, an occupation-based social transformation approach, which involves examining assumptions, considering contexts of daily activities and partnering to create meaningful social change, is used to examine the ECCM. Recommendations related to strengthening social change with a specific focus on collaborations and networks through recreation are provided. Through such collaborations, self-management of chronic conditions in community recreation contexts is advanced. Health providers and community-based recreation services providers are invited to be part of these intersectoral changes that will promote health amongst those living with chronic conditions.

The Second-Wave Sandbox

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Botshon
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Domestic Life ◽  
Consciousness Raising ◽  
Feminist Politics ◽  
Second Wave

This chapter presents a reading of Anne Richardson Roiphe's novel Up the Sandbox! (1970). The novel creates a split narrative for its main character, one of liberation and social change juxtaposed against one of middle-class domestic life, to demonstrate the cultural minefields in place for women who challenge patriarchal norms. Roiphe's ambivalent ending tests traditional notions of the consciousness-raising novel and points to a nuanced view of white liberal motherhood. It is argued that, in her portrayal of the monstrous cleaved self of the mother, Roiphe attempts to wrestle mothering from its patriarchal moorings and set it loose in the playground of feminist politics.

Fugitive Living: Social Mobility and Domestic Space in Julia Frankau’s The Heart of a Child

2020 ◽  
pp. 111-130
Author(s):  
Lisa C. Robertson
Keyword(s):  
Social Mobility ◽  
Domestic Space ◽  
Unmarried Woman ◽  
Domestic Life ◽  
New Models ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Slum Fiction

This chapter examines Julia Frankau’s The Heart of a Child (1908) a novel that documents a poor orphan’s social ascent. Despite the protagonist’s experience of a range of new models of domestic life – including model dwellings, a ‘home for working girls’, and an apartment (based on the Artillery Mansions in Victoria) – she remains circumscribed at each stage by her status as an unmarried woman. This novel’s satirical engagement with slum fiction reveals that all women’s lives are shaped by domestic insecurity – even if they are shaped differently.

scholarly journals Materializing Memory, Mood, and Agency: The Emotional Geographies of the Modern Kitchen

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Meah
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Domestic Space ◽  
Domestic Life ◽  
Emotional Geographies ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
The Uk

Drawing upon narrative and visual ethnographic data collected from households in the UK, this article explores the material and emotional geographies of the domestic kitchen. Acknowledging that emotions are dynamically related and co-constitutive of place, rather than presenting the kitchen as a simple backdrop against which domestic life is played out, the article illustrates how decisions regarding the design and layout of the kitchen and the consumption of material artefacts are central to the negotiation and doing of relationships and accomplishment of domestic life. Based on fieldwork in northern England, the article examines the affective potential of domestic space and its material culture, exploring how individuals are embodied in the fabric and layout of domestic space, and how memories may be materialized in their absence.

Diabetes Identity: A Mechanism of Social Change

2021 ◽  
pp. 104973232098474
Author(s):  
Heather R. Walker ◽  
Michelle L. Litchman
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Online Community ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual

Historically, diabetes identity has been examined at the individual level as it relates to clinical outcomes and self-management practices. Yet, identity is not experienced as an individually isolated phenomenon. The purpose of this study is twofold: (a) examine the social meaning of diabetes identity and (b) formulate a theoretical model of diabetes identity through a sociopolitical lens. Adults living with diabetes engaged in a diabetes online community ( N = 20) participated in a 60-minute semi-structured interview focused on social diabetes experiences and diabetes identity. Seven themes emerged related to illness, individuation, and culture, resulting in a novel theoretical model of diabetes identity: willingness to identify, tales of the un-sick, legends of the responsible, a tradition of change-making, sense of sameness, mystification of difference, and diabetes as a unifying social category. Our study extends previous literature focused on self-management practices and compliance, resulting in a theoretical model of diabetes identity centered around social change.

The Threat of Violence and Social Change

1962 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 865-873 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. L. Nieburg
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Essential Elements ◽  
Democratic Politics ◽  
Democratic Institutions ◽  
Police Power ◽  
Domestic Life ◽  
Self Defense ◽  
Group Violence ◽  
Settlement Of Disputes ◽  
Private Individual

The threat of violence, and the occasional outbreak of real violence—which gives the threat credibility—are essential elements in peaceful social change not only in international, but also in national communities. Individuals and groups, no less than nations, exploit the threat as an everyday matter. This induces flexibility and stability in democratic institutions.I refer not only to the police power of the state and the recognized right of self-defense, but also to private individual or group violence, whether purposive or futile, deliberate or desperate. Violence and the threat of violence, far from being meaningful only in international politics, are underlying, tacit, recognized, and omnipresent facts of domestic life, in the shadow of which democratic politics are carried on. They instil dynamism into the structure and growth of the law, the settlement of disputes, the processes of accomodating interests, and they induce general respect for the verdict of the polls.

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