Luxury Lines

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Mooney Nickel
Keyword(s):  
Social Consciousness ◽  
Temporal Relation ◽  
Everyday Practice ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Material Practice ◽  
False Sense ◽  
Material Goods ◽  
The Impact

In its materialization of regard and disregard, the 2015 introduction of the Starbucks luxury line prompts new questions about the impact of an emergent app ascetic on the everyday practice of order. In this article, I build on previous studies of time and power, while simultaneously exploring the material practice of luxury narrated by, but practiced in contrast to, promises of community and social consciousness. I argue that time is made luxurious through the power to redistribute how one is positioned in relation to others and that this materialization reveals the role of disregard in luxury relations more generally. I examine how the formation of luxury lines that involve inserting oneself in spatial and temporal relation to others exposes the underlying disregard involved in the practice of ordering and consuming in time and space. I then explore the ways in which this practice exposes how consumption of luxury lines of material goods—particularly those goods produced by companies that make a claim to benevolence—has involved a false sense of accord narrated by tales of community-producing luxury that purport to be practicing regard for others in the practice of rewarding oneself.

1. Introduction to the study of contract law

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Macdonald ◽  
Ruth Atkins ◽  
Jens Krebs
Keyword(s):  
Bargaining Power ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Contract Law ◽  
Freedom Of Contract ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Eu

This chapter introduces some of the key ideas that will be encountered in the rest of the book, such as what is required for a contract. It touches upon the everyday role of contract, and that, although the book is heavily concerned with case law, contract disputes are often resolved without resort to the courts. It also introduces the idea of the evolution of contract law with the changing nature of society: the limitations placed on the use of an idea, such as ‘freedom of contract’, through recognition of the impact of inequality of bargaining power. Additionally, it alerts the reader to the impact of the EU.

scholarly journals Cooking up an injustice: A critical examination of the role of cooking programs in reducing health inequalities

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-77
Author(s):  
Rosa Van Kesteren
Keyword(s):  
Healthy Eating ◽  
Eating Habits ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Embodied Learning ◽  
Dietary Behaviours ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Cooking Classes ◽  
The Impact

The way we eat is one of the biggest causes of preventable illness and death, particularly for those living in more deprived areas. Public health interventions often include courses teaching cooking ‘from scratch’ as an affordable means of dietary improvement, but this paper questions the effectiveness of such programs. Using an in-depth case study of a leading healthy cooking programme, including ethnographic observations of seven cooking classes and interviews with 35 participants and three members of staff, we show that the impact of this programme was limited by its adherence to conventional ‘nutrient-focused’ framings of healthy eating. Teaching based on this framing created confusion by separating nutrients from foods, hampered embodied learning of skills and ultimately failed to address how learnings could be integrated into the everyday lives of participants Unable to engage with inequities in access, preparation time, food environments or other sociocultural influences on eating habits, courses built on similarly nutricentric foundations will never be able to address the major barriers to healthy eating faced by their target participants. As an alternative, we propose that cooking courses grounded in a more ‘practice-based’ understanding of healthy eating would be more effective at changing dietary behaviours, especially in areas of higher deprivation.

scholarly journals Doing and mediating critique: An invitation to practice companionship

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Luke Austin ◽  
Rocco Bellanova ◽  
Mareile Kaufmann
Keyword(s):  
Political Engagement ◽  
Feedback Loops ◽  
Security Studies ◽  
Everyday Practice ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Critical Security Studies ◽  
Research Designs ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Support Research

What does it mean to study security from a critical perspective? This question continues to haunt critical security studies. Conversations about normative stances, political engagement, and the role of critique are mainstays of the discipline. This article argues that these conversations tend to revolve around a too disembodied image of research, where the everyday practice of researchers is sidelined. But researchers do do research: they work materially, socially, and cognitively. They mediate between various feedback loops or fields of critique. In doing so, they actively build and exercise critique. Recognizing that fact, this article resists growing suggestions to abandon critique by, first, returning to the practice of critique through the notion of companionship. This permits us to reinvigorate our attention to the objects, persons, and phenomena through which critique gains inspiration and purpose, and that literally accompany our relationship to critique. Second, we explore what happens when our companions disagree, when critique faces controversies and (a) symmetries. Here, we support research designs of tracing credibility and establishing symmetries in order to move away from critique as denouncing positions we disagree with. Third, we discuss the relation between companionship, critique, reflexivity, and style. Here, the rhetorical practices of critical inquiry are laid out, and possibilities for its articulation in different and less silencing voices are proposed.

scholarly journals Latin, Teaching and COVID-19: Reflections and Suggestions

EL LE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Balbo
Keyword(s):  
Distance Teaching ◽  
Future Perspectives ◽  
Teaching Activities ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Legal Problems ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
First Results ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Impact

This article aims to discuss the regulatory and legal problems caused to teaching activities by the COVID-19 pandemic in the Italian schools and it focuses on the first results of the impact of COVID-19 on Latin teaching activities, highlighting some good practices that might be used in future in the everyday life of students and teachers. In particular, it focuses on the role of online open access resources, underlying the difference between digital teaching and distance learning and teaching. At the end, the article discusses also the future perspectives of teaching classics in a context where distance teaching seems still far from being abandoned.

Deterritorialising the Jungle: Understanding the Calais camp through its orderings

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (5) ◽  
pp. 885-901
Author(s):  
Francesca Ansaloni
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Refugee Camps ◽  
Political Space ◽  
Border Zones ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Opening Up ◽  
Political Matter

Research on refugee camps and camp-like institutions has gained momentum over the last few decades, as camps have been spreading everywhere in Europe under the impact of the massive increase of migrants stuck at border zones. While early conceptualisations are based on the paradigm of the exception, some scholars have recently posited camps as socio-political spaces which are negotiated and reproduced by the everyday entanglements of the multiple bodies that contribute to their making. This article aims to make a contribution to this strand of literature by understanding camps as the temporary result of spatial and material processes of ordering. By grounding my reasoning on fieldwork in Calais, I explore the countless negotiations and the attunement of multiple rhythms that organised and segmented the Jungle. I focus on the territories built by aid groups, the state and stuff, namely the supplies that flew into the encampment, how their assembling produced orderings and control, and how those orderings shaped the political space of the camp. This territorial account aims to stress the role of the affective and the material in mediating encounters that may produce new orderings while opening up to lines of flight and the configuration of political matter.

Ethical Issues in General Pediatric Practice

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan R. Fleischman
Keyword(s):  
Child Abuse ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Child Abuse And Neglect ◽  
Conscientious Objection ◽  
Everyday Practice ◽  
Pediatric Practice ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Abuse And Neglect ◽  
Private And Public

This chapter describes several ethical issues that occur in the everyday practice of pediatrics, including: parent refusal of immunizations, suspected child abuse and neglect, conscientious objection to providing specific treatments, and parental requests for tests and treatments that are not medically indicated. The role of religious preferences of parents and child are covered. What can the clinical practitioner do to convince parents that vaccinations are not harmful and that vaccinations are important to the health of the child and also to the population as a whole? Is firing the patient an option? What other options do clinicians have? The chapter addresses those questions, as well as the ethical issues that arise in the relationships of physicians to their employers, to private and public insurers, and to industry.

scholarly journals The role of administrative borders in determining regional identity: The case of Podlasie, Poland

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-70
Author(s):  
Michał Konopski
Keyword(s):  
Regional Identity ◽  
Social Consciousness ◽  
Administrative Reform ◽  
Territorial Identity ◽  
North East ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Administrative Division ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Local Levels

Abstract The borders of voivodships in Poland today are not consistent with those of historical regions. The current administrative division is largely based upon imposed boundaries, dividing initial regions. This research topic arises from the dichotomy between the toponymy applied to voivodships because of the administrative reform of 1999 – and the names of historical regions. Implementing such a toponomy, although detached from historical and cultural contexts, has contributed to establishing attachments with current administrative regions, which surpasses identification with historical units. This paper presents the results of empirical research employing a questionnaire survey of the inhabitants of 71 communes (LAU 2 units) in north-eastern Poland. The main objective was to examine the impact of recent administrative reform on territorial identity, with particular emphasis placed on the region of Podlasie. The surveyed communities are to the highest extent attached to national and local levels than to the region, which was only ranked third in the hierarchy of identification with a given area. The regional identity of the population living in north-east Poland is related primarily to the contemporary administrative borders. There are, however, explicit differences in perceptions of the region of Podlasie depending upon respondents’ place of residence, which is an indication that relict borders persist in the residents’ social consciousness.

scholarly journals Social Consciousness in the Realities of IT-Civilization

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 25-35
Author(s):  
Fatenkov Aleksey N. ◽  
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Grekhov Aleksandr V. ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Social Theory ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Consciousness ◽  
Critical Social Theory ◽  
Consumer Society ◽  
Human Psyche ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Given

Mental peculiarities of man of IT-civilization are being theoretically reconstructed in the article. The relevance of the topic is determined by the impact (which is apparently controversial and frequently even causing concern) of newest technologies on people’s psyche and somatic features, their private and social life. In methodology the authors rely on non-idealistic dialectics that is correlated with the content of critical social theory. In the stated methodological paradigm, priority is given to a positive non-classical dialectics which is being distinguished from both a classical dialectics and a negative one. The paper is primarily focused on specificity of social consciousness which categorical status is mostly related to Marxist intellectual tradition. The latter is chosen as a paradigm in the given text. Along with that, Marxist problematization of consciousness and its neighboring realities – ontological, epistemological, social ones – is interpreted with historically actual objective and subjective circumstances in mind. In this regard, the role of socio-cultural templates of modernity, modernism and postmodernity is being highlighted. We specify the content of conceptually significant concepts: social consciousness, information, ideology, propaganda, and consumer society. Consumer society itself is identified as capitalism of new technological and mental mode. The negative character of information and computer technologies’ influence on human psyche is being accentuated and elaborated. On the basis of adduced arguments, it is stated: consciousness of digital society’s man is prone to destruction, eclecticism and is susceptible to being manipulated which is fraught with totalitarian outcome. The resistance strategy is being defined. Its important component is an ability to detect innovative forms of exploitation and control concealed behind technological novelties.

Multi-media theme repertoires in the everyday identity practices of young adults

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Katharina Kleinen-von Königslöw ◽  
Kati Förster
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Identity Work ◽  
Sports Fans ◽  
Identity Style ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Media ◽  
Multi Media ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Media Practices

AbstractWhile the role of the media in the identity work of children, adolescents, migrants or fans of particular genres and formats has seen much research, little attention has been paid to the impact of everyday media practices on the general identity work of young adults. To address this gap, we conducted an explorative study based on four-week media diaries of 59 students. These were used to identify four different types of multi-media theme repertoires and the ways in which they are employed for different identity practices. While drama-lovers and sports-fans differ strongly in their thematic interests, they share a similar identity style, relying mostly on practices of identification and of expressing their affiliation to certain in-groups via media content. In contrast, the identity style of news-aficionados and intense-media-users is mainly based on practices of distinction.

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