scholarly journals The Role of Akashvani Kozhikode in the Radio Broadcasting History of Kerala with Emphasis on the Contributions of Khan Kavil

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (Special Issue) ◽  
pp. 21-30
Author(s):  
Fida Yasmin
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Radio Broadcasting ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

The study examines the history of radio broadcasting in Kerala from the 1940s to the 21st century, focusing on the contributions of Akashvani Kozhikode. An attempt is made to search the social and cultural history of Akashvani Kozhikode and find out the contemporary relevance of Kozhikode station. The study's primary aim is to delve into the life history of Khan Kavil, who was an anchor, drama writer, actor, drama director, and broadcasting artist. Khan Kavil, born in a small village named Kavumthara in Kerala, was a voice artist who worked in Akashvani Kozhikode from 1978 to 1997 and carved a niche with his dynamic voice in the realm of radio broadcasting in Kerala. The study is trying to identify his contributions to the Akashvani Kozhikode and society. His life and contributions are recollected through popular memories, and an attempt is made to write a local and oral history based on this data gathered through the conversations with the eminent personalities of Khan Kavil's time who admired him and his colleagues. Further, the paper attempts to trace out why radio broadcasting still has a significant impact on ordinary people despite the advent of new forms of media. Magazines, newspapers, brochures, and interviews are used as the primary sources of this study.

Officers’ contributions to Britain’s anti-slavery culture

2019 ◽  
pp. 167-190
Author(s):  
Mary Wills
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
West African ◽  
Royal Navy ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Press ◽  
History Of ◽  
Naval Officers

This chapter examines officers’ contributions to the metropolitan discourses about slavery and abolition taking place in Britain in the early to mid-nineteenth century. Furthering the theme of naval officers playing an important part in the social and cultural history of the West African campaign, it uncovers connections between the Royal Navy and domestic anti-slavery networks, and the extent to which abolitionist societies and interest groups operating in Britain during the first half of the nineteenth century forged relationships with naval officers in the field. Officers contributed to this ever-evolving anti-slavery culture: through support of societies and by providing key testimonies and evidence about the unrelenting transatlantic slave trade. Their representations of the slave trade were used to champion the abolitionist cause, as well as the role of the Royal Navy, in parliament, the press and other public arenas.

Promoting and marketing a revolutionary cooking appliance in the 1840s Stanislas Sorel’s portable stove “Le Cordon Bleu” (1834–1849)

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-59
Author(s):  
Dirk HR Spennemann
Keyword(s):  
Primary Sources ◽  
Early Form ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Family Dinner ◽  
Scientific World ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Insight Into

Purpose This paper aims to describe the nature and significance of Sorel’s cooking appliance and to examine the promotion and marketing options used by Sorel to make it an appliance that was “widely used in private residences and by small eating houses.” It will highlight the role of the individual and will demonstrate that marketing and promotion strategies that are modulated by the social ambitions of the manufacturer. Design/methodology/approach The basis of this research is extensive quantitative and qualitative analysis of primary sources, mainly the advertisements placed by Sorel, supported by information in contemporary newspapers and journals. Findings Stanislas Sorel’s invention of an early form of thermostat allowed him to develop a stove that could cook a four-course family dinner largely unsupervised, an invention which was poised to revolutionise the lives of many households. Sorel was primarily an inventor striving for acceptance in the scientific world, with limited skills in the commercialisation of his inventions. His promotion and marketing efforts reflect both the social realities of the time and his own ambitions. Originality/value There has been very little research into the way small French inventors and manufacturers approached the marketing of their products. The paper provides a unique insight into the promotion techniques of a mid-nineteenth-century French inventor-cum-entrepreneur and highlights the role of the individual and how actions are constrained by ambition and opportunity. The paper provides an example of how research into how specific individuals can inform the larger history of marketing.

scholarly journals Understanding the Cinemagoing Experience in Cultural Life

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
Daniela Treveri Gennari
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Leisure Activity ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Italian Cinema ◽  
Research Project ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Approach

The new cinema history approach asserts the importance of investigating the historical reception of films. In the past two decades, empirical research on film audiences has significantly developed methodologies and questions related to film and memory. Some of these studies concentrate on a period of time in which cinema was an essential leisure activity for millions, before the arrival of television, multiplexes, videos and home cinema. Combining ethnographic audience study with cultural and cinema history has allowed new insights into the historical reception of films and confirmed the vital role of oral history for a better understanding of cinema audiences. Italian Cinema Audiences (2013–2016) – an AHRC-funded inter-institutional research project – sits precisely within this new body of research and responds to the urge of using a bottom-up approach to shed new light on the cultural history of a country in a particular historical moment. This article will make use of the findings of the Italian Cinema Audiences research project to explore the role of oral history in the process of understanding cinemagoing as a cultural practice and to better comprehend how this type of research can enrich our understanding of the cinemagoing experience in particular and film cultures more broadly. It will also reflect on the process of remembering what I will define as ‘memories of pleasure’.

scholarly journals Listening to “The human without a soul” - outline for an audience-centred history of broadcasting in communist Albania

Muzikologija ◽  
2016 ◽  
pp. 141-155
Author(s):  
Eckehard Pistrick
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Social Effects ◽  
Eastern Bloc ◽  
Institutional History ◽  
Audience Studies ◽  
Radio History ◽  
Radio Broadcasting ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

The paper proposes a study of broadcasting in one of the most tightly isolated regimes of the communist Eastern Bloc, beyond the paradigms of radio as a pure propaganda medium and of radio history as pure institutional history. Instead of a macro-history from above, this contribution proposes an ethnographically grounded micro-perspective alongside the lines of ?audience studies?, informed by ?oral history? methods. It proposes focusing on the social effects of radio listening and, in a broader perspective, on how radio broadcasting was embedded into larger modernization agendas of the regime of Enver Hoxha.

scholarly journals The Burden of the Empire and the Vocation of Russia: George Fedotov’s Philosophy of History

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 44-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. V. Klepikova
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Russian Empire ◽  
Peter The Great ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Ivan The Terrible ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
Creative Role

The paper discusses the philosophical and historical doctrine of the Russian philosopher and historian George Petrovich Fedotov. The author focuses on the analysis of imperial issues in the works of G.P. Fedotov, especially of his views on the cultural history of the Russian empire and the essence of imperial project in Russia. Fedotov reconsiders the historical experience and revolutionary catastrophe of Russia and searches for the foundations of the social and cultural processes determining the events of Russian history. Fedotov’s works offer a variety of interpretations of the political and cultural phenomenon of empire. This reflects his evolution as a philosopher of history: the focus of his vision shifts from the Medieval Rus to the Empire of Peter the Great, then to the collapsed empire of Nicholas II and finally to the USSR (the latter was also an empire according to him). Fedotov’s concept of Empire evolves into a timeless cultural-philosophical phenomenon but originates from the historical description of the centralization of power in the feudal monarchy of Ivan the Terrible. The evolution of the philosophical and historical views of Fedotov is influenced by the changes of his attitude to the historical conception of Klyuchevsky. In the 1940s Fedotov considers the empire as a universal idea. The concept of empire proposed by Fedotov gives an understanding of the Russian historical development, especially the causes of the decline and fall of the Russian Empire. Fedotov associates the cause of the salvation of Russia with the study of ancient Russian culture, in which he founds a moral and political ideal of the “Republic of Saint Sophia.” The paper shows heuristic potential of Fedotov’s cultural and philosophical ideas on the vocation of spiritual elite and the creative role of personality in the process of nation-building.

scholarly journals Everyone Has One’s Own Siberia. Oral History in the Study of Everyday Life of Kalmyks in Exile

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 208-213
Author(s):  
E.-B. M. Guchinova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Local Population ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Goals And Objectives ◽  
Positive Work

This publication is devoted to an important period in the history of Kalmykia, but not yet sufficiently studied by anthropologists and sociologists - the deportation of the people to Siberia (1943–1956), and the memory of this. The goals and objectives of the publication are to show the role of the oral history method in the study of the daily survival practices of Kalmyks in Siberia, as well as the specifics of the Kalmyk narrative of deportation, which reflects the social dynamics of relations between repressed Kalmyks and the local population, from the first meeting, part of the traumatic one to subsequent friendships. The author shows examples of positive work with a traumatic past that is reflected in the Trains of Memory and focuses the work of a grateful memory.

The Uruk Phenomenon

2020 ◽  
pp. 163-244
Author(s):  
Gebhard J. Selz
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Formative Period ◽  
Transitional Period ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
Trade Routes ◽  
Western Asia ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Cultural Features

The city of Uruk in southern Iraq was the main force for urbanization and state formation in Mesopotamia during the Uruk period (ca. 3800–3300 BC), which takes its name from this “first city.” This chapter discusses this formative period for the social, political, and cultural history of Mesopotamia and beyond, as well as the ensuing transitional period (Uruk III/Jemdet Nasr period; ca. 3300–3000 BC). The focus lies on the key elements of Uruk culture and its spread across Western Asia, including Syria, Anatolia, and Iran; the invention of cuneiform writing; and aspects of social, religious, and political organization of this emergent state. Contextualized in climatic, demographic, and geographic observations, the chapter evaluates key cultural features, stressing the role of population growth intertwined with technological, agricultural, and administrative improvements. These cultural features’ dissemination along trade routes to the Levant, Anatolia, and Iran is linked to the establishment of strongholds that secured the exchange of goods, with the south of Mesopotamia serving as the commercial hub. While the available sources—both textual and iconographic—provide no unequivocal evidence for the alleged monocratic governance of Uruk-period society, the identifiable political structures were strongly intertwined with religious functions, indicating great societal complexity. The alleged collapse of the Uruk culture was predominantly the breakdown of the Uruk (trade) network. Culturally, however, many features of the Uruk phenomenon provided the founding charter for Mesopotamian social structures in subsequent periods.

scholarly journals Análise dos laços e redes de sociabilidade entre os professores da Escola Técnica de Comércio do Colégio Farroupilha de Porto Alegre/RS

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 222
Author(s):  
Eduardo Cristiano Hass da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Social Ties ◽  
Technical Education ◽  
History Of Education ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Porto Alegre ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Cultura Escolar

Este artigo apresenta parte dos resultados da pesquisa de mestrado desenvolvida pelo autor nos anos de 2015 a 2017, na qual analisou os laços de sociabilidade existentes entre os diferentes sujeitos que frequentavam a Escola Técnica Comercial (ETC) do Colégio Farroupilha de Porto Alegre/RS. O objetivo principal desta pesquisa é demonstrar como os professores que compunham o quadro docente desta instituição criaram laços sociais que permitiram a sua perpetuação. As metodologias empregadas consistem na História Oral e na análise de redes de sociabilidade. Os referenciais teóricos empregados perpassam a Nova História Cultural, História da Educação e Cultura Escolar e História das Instituições Escolares. Os resultados demonstram a existência de diferentes formas de criação e manutenção de laços que aglutinam e moldam os sujeitos que compõem a escola.Analysis of the ties and sociability networks between the teachers of Escola Técnica do Comércio do Colégio Farroupilha de Porto Alegre/RS. This paper presents part of the results of a master's research developed by the author between 2015 and 2017, which analyzed the social ties existing among the different subjects who attended the Escola Técnica Comercial (ETC) of Colégio Farroupilha from Porto Alegre-RS. The central aim of this research is to demonstrate how the teachers who had become members of the institution’s teaching staff created social ties that allowed its perpetuation. The applied methodologies were Oral History and the analysis of sociability networks. The theoretical references used permeate the New Cultural History, History of Education and School Culture and History of School Institutions. The results show the existence of different forms of creation and maintenance of ties that agglutinate and shape the subjects that make up the school. Keywords: Sociability ties; Ties among teaches; History of Education; Commercial Technical Education; Oral History.

Say there’s no future: The queer potential of Wicked’s Fiyero

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 305-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Greenwood
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Gay Men ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Musical Theatre ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Broadway Musicals

This article demonstrates the queer potential and pleasure produced by the character Fiyero in Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman’s Wicked (2003). I mobilize two primary frameworks to examine Fiyero’s queerness; the first half of the article views Fiyero in the context of queer theories of temporality and utopia, while the second half is interested in the deep cultural history of gay men’s relationships with Broadway musicals. This analysis produces both theoretical and historical implications of Fiyero’s character as I explore how his representation disrupts heteronormative rituals and aspects of the social order, as well as how he produces a valuable figure for the communities of gay men that have historically developed around musical theatre. The queer possibility of Wicked’s women has been examined extensively in past scholarship – particularly through the insights of Stacy Wolf – and this article expands upon this previous work to account for the role of Fiyero in the musical and the queer possibilities he produces.

3. Encountering the Counter-Reformation

2006 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 706-720 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Laven
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Social History ◽  
Early Modern Catholicism ◽  
The People ◽  
Local Case ◽  
The Social ◽  
Counter Reformation ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
History Of

While the Reformation has, from the very beginning, been seen as a drama which drew its cast from every sphere of society, the Counter-Reformation was until recently considered the project of elites. Even those who sought to write the social history of the Catholic reform movement allocated to “the people” the role of resisting the course of change rather than contributing to the transformation of early modern Catholicism. Swimming against this tide, a succession of local case studies, focusing in particular on rituals and objects, has demonstrated the manifold ways in which men and women of all social backgrounds participated in the reinvention of Roman Catholicism. This paper considers new emphases in the social and cultural history of the Counter-Reformation, and asks whether there remains a place for thinking about the age of reform in terms of discipline and confessionalization.

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