scholarly journals Resisting the commodification of intimate life? Paternal love, emotional bordering and narratives of ambivalent family consumerism from Scottish and Romanian fathers

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 303-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Macht
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Romantic Love ◽  
Father’S Role ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Ambivalent Relationship ◽  
Media Discourses ◽  
Emotional Value ◽  
Provider Role ◽  
Intimate Life

Romantic love has been conceptualised as an emotional resource that promotes consumerism, by deeply affecting the creation of the modern self (Illouz, 2012). Simultaneously, both research and media discourses present the modern ‘good’ father’s role as one of enhanced intimacy (Dermott, 2008), and one in which fathers’ experiences of paternal love are routinely overlooked. I argue that paternal love as a different form of love than romantic love can resist commodification to a certain extent. Based on data from 47 qualitative interviews with Scottish and Romanian fathers, I argue that involved fathers have an ambivalent relationship to consumerism. Far from uniformly adopting it, data reveal that fathers resist it by focusing on the emotional value of gifts and developing their children’s warmth and confidence (încredere in sine).1 This happens in a social context where fathers shift emotionally between love and stoicism as they flexibly adopt either an intimate or provider role according to different contexts. Exploring paternal love is important in understanding how fathers, in relation to their children, not only participate but can also resist the commodification of their intimate lives, and can contest the general discourse of the commodification of love.

Safe Spaces: Gay-Straight Alliances in High School

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tina Fetner ◽  
Athena Elafros ◽  
Sandra Bortolin ◽  
Coralee Drechsler
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
High School ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
High Schools ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Safe Space ◽  
Safe Spaces ◽  
Complex Concept ◽  
The People

In activists' circles as in sociology, the concept "safe space" has beenapplied to all sorts of programs, organizations, and practices. However,few studies have specified clearly what safe spaces are and how theysupport the people who occupy them. In this paper, we examine one sociallocation typically understood to be a safe space: gay-straight alliancegroups in high schools. Using qualitative interviews with young adults inthe United States and Canada who have participated in gay-straightalliances, we examine the experiences of safe spaces in these groups. Weunpack this complex concept to consider some of the dimensions along whichsafe spaces might vary. Participants identified several types of safespace, and from their observations we derive three inter-related dimensionsof safe space: social context, membership and activity.

Women writing on language

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helena Sanson
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Traditional Approach ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Women Writing ◽  
The Way

This chapter looks at how women finally made their first appearance in the field of linguistic codification, bringing out works on Italian grammar and on language etiquette in a changed political and social context. In their contribution to the creation of a national form of entertainment in the years when radio and television were still far away, women writers took a less traditional approach to the language of their works in order to overcome the fact that discussions on the Questione had come to a standstill. Their first, scattered remarks on the topic show less preoccupation with form and a more generous approach to and understanding of their audience's needs. The language they used, imperfect as it may have been, did not stop women of all classes from being caught up by the fate of young heroines and sharing their passions and misfortunes. Women writers bent language to fit their own requirements, refusing to let it stand in the way of their long-awaited right to express their full imaginative drive.

scholarly journals One Small World: On Writing Independent History

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 46-53
Author(s):  
Sue Castrique
Keyword(s):  
Regional Development ◽  
Public History ◽  
Small World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Ambivalent Relationship ◽  
Urban And Regional Development ◽  
History Of Place ◽  
Community Centre

One Small World: the history of the Addison Road Community Centre was independently written and funded through a series of grants. While conceived as a history of place, it is also a history of the organisation that presently occupies the site, the Addison Road Community Centre (ARCCO). The Centre has had an ambivalent relationship to its past. After 60 years as an army depot, in 1976 it became a community centre. The strict discipline of the army was replaced by a very different ethos and political outlook; in fact, its antithesis. As a consequence, the Centre had an uneasy relationship to the history of the site, particularly its army past, which was underappreciated and little valued. ARCCO has recently re-engaged with its public history, but in the process it veered off into mythology. The paper explores the ANZAAC Centenary celebration at Addison Road of horses in war in 2015, and the part funding played in creating myth rather than history. It then considers the role of the Department of Urban and Regional Development in the creation of the Centre in 1975-76 and ARCCO’s attachment to its story of radical origins. KEYWORDSAddison Road Community Centre; Department of Urban and Regional Development; ANZAC Centenary; army; Marrickville; multiculturalism

scholarly journals KREATIVITAS DALAM PEMIKIRAN CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aditya Ali
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Art And Design ◽  
The World ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Creative Artists

Creativity is a term that has much to do with one's ability to create new ideas. This term was originally born in the world of psychology, because it is seen as part of human nature. But in its development, this term is actually widely used in the field of art and design. New phrases such as creative artists and creative designers emerge as a requirement for someone who wrestles the field. As a term inherent in art and design, a concept of a creative thinker has emerged as a humanistic psychologist, Csikszentmihalyi. The model and theory he developed was "Social Context of Creativity". That he thinks creativity is a system built from: person (individual), field (domain), and domain (community). According to Csikszentmihalyi these three things always exist, complement each other, build each other, and need each other in the creation of a creativity.   Keywords: creativity, art and design, social context.

scholarly journals A model of service design elements to understand innovative service processes

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison RIEPLE ◽  
Sirpa LASSILA ◽  
Caroline ENNIS
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Data ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Service Innovation ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Service Design ◽  
Design Processes ◽  
Design Elements ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Design Logic

This paper aims to provide an understanding of innovative service design processes by comparing service design logic with the entrepreneurial logics of causation, effectuation and bricolage (CEB). The paper draws upon empirical data to show how both service design logic and entrepreneurship logics may help us to create more innovative service design outcomes. In this process, we hope to understand how the creation of value enters into the service innovation process through co-creation between customers, organisations, ecosystem members and society. Data used within this paper includes deep qualitative interviews with key stakeholders, written documents and participative observation. From our analysis, we develop a model of service innovation design that shows how design logics and entrepreneurial logics influence the development of new and innovative services.

scholarly journals Is Romantic Love a Linking Emotion?

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 176-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Swen Seebach ◽  
Francesc Núñez-Mosteo
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Romantic Love ◽  
Focus Group Discussions ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Bottom Up

This article aims to provide a contribution to the debate about concepts that describe the empirically rich phenomenon ‘romantic love’. The great variety of different facets of romantic love that exist and that we encountered in over 100 qualitative interviews and 4 focus group discussions carried out in Spain (Barcelona) and Germany (Leipzig) have inspired us to rethink existing definitions of romantic love. Rather than emotion or bond, the concept ‘linking emotion’ might help to capture usually rather unconsidered dimensions of romantic love. In order to discuss the value of defining love as linking emotion, this article will point at the 4 most important dimensions of love that we encountered in the analysis of our interviews. Results of our analysis will be compared with existing definitions of love, the usefulness of different concepts in order to define love will be questioned. Our empirically driven bottom-up approach will allow to discuss the usefulness of defining love as linking emotion.

scholarly journals Thoughts on an Algorithmic Practice

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Warren Burt
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Social Contact ◽  
Music Video ◽  
Economic Sustainability ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Creation

In this chapter, the composer of algorithmic compositions discusses in detail the creation and application of a range of nondeterministic processes to his own music, video, and verbal composition. In particular, the chapter discusses the more intuitive use of these processes over the last decade or so, and its relation to increasing involvement with improvisation. After considering three particular works and the resources chosen for them (some of music, some of text and some of procedures or formulations with overpowering diversity), the chapter concludes with a discussion of the social context of a contemporary algorithmic musician, and its lack of direct social contact and of economic sustainability.

scholarly journals Austerity urbanism and Olympic counter-legacies: Gendering, defending and expanding the urban commons in East London

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (5) ◽  
pp. 812-830 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Gillespie ◽  
Kate Hardy ◽  
Paul Watt
Keyword(s):  
Single Mothers ◽  
Social Housing ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Auto Ethnography ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Reproductive Activities ◽  
Urban Commons ◽  
The City

This article reflects on an occupation led by single mothers to contest the destruction of social housing in post-Olympics East London. In the process, it argues for a more gendered theorisation of the urban commons. Drawing on auto-ethnography, participant observation and qualitative interviews, the article argues three central points: First, that the occupation demonstrates the gendered nature of the urban commons and the leadership of women in defending them from enclosure; second that the defence of an existing urban commons enabled the creation of a new temporary commons characterised by the collectivisation of gendered socially reproductive activities; and third that this commoning has had a lasting impact on housing activism at the city scale and beyond. This impact is conceptualised as an ‘Olympic counter-legacy’ that is characterised by the forging of new relationships and affinities, the strengthening of networked activism and circulation of tactics between campaign groups.

The Art of Transition: After Haydn Year 2009

2010 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Melanie Lowe
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Breaking Work

Haydn Year 2009 spanned the globe, encompassing live performances, festivals, and conferences in addition to numerous scholarly articles and Haydn-related books. Now that the anniversary year has passed, its significance as a moment of transition may be appreciated. For if a modern phase of Haydn studies arose in the mid twentieth century (marked by path-breaking work on authenticity, chronology, and sources), to be followed by yet another era in the last decade of the twentieth century (focused largely on aesthetics, historiography, and notions of music as a rhetorical art), then this latest, transitional wave of scholarly energy has led to fresh questions about Haydn's life, music, and milieux (including matters of politics, aesthetics, genre, social context, and much more) that could hardly have been imagined a generation ago. The three essays in this special issue of the Journal of Musicology exemplify the newly broadened range of Haydn scholarship as they explore the composer's expressive ambivalence (w. Dean Sutcliffe), the significance of his polyphonic craft (James Grier), and the early reception of his monumental late oratorio, The Creation (Deirdre loughridge). Together, these studies attest to the capacity for Haydn scholarship——like Haydn's art itself——to thrive in the midst of transition.

scholarly journals Musical Taste and the Creation of Place-Dependent Capital: Manchester and the Indie Music Field

Sociology ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 124-141
Author(s):  
Alexandros Skandalis ◽  
Emma Banister ◽  
John Byrom
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Theoretical Tool ◽  
Musical Taste ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Indie Music

Drawing on qualitative interviews with indie music fans in Manchester, UK, we explore how experiences in the indie music field inform spatial and place-specific understandings of musical taste. Inspired by Bourdieu’s sociology of taste, the concept of place-dependent capital incorporates the interplay of the experiential dimensions of taste, and the overall structures in which they are embedded. We develop our findings into three themes, which allow us to highlight the diversity of ways in which our participants create place-dependent capital: exploring the taste of place; dwelling in place; and creating a sense of place. We propose the usefulness of place-dependent capital as an alternative theoretical tool, which acknowledges both structural and experiential dimensions of musical taste, allowing us to demonstrate the situatedness of indie music fans’ tastes.

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