Making Way for Impact

2021 ◽  
pp. 78-95
Author(s):  
Linda Essig
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Cultural Impact ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Positive Social Change ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

Current and late-twentieth-century trends in 'social impact art' or 'art for change' have foregrounded the idea that art can catalyze or produce positive social change. Art also has cultural impact more broadly, as well as intrinsic impacts on artists and the individuals who experience their creative work. This essay looks at these practices, what defines them, and how we measure them.

Major Figures in the Field of Global Studies

2018 ◽  
pp. 50-70
Author(s):  
Paul James
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Global Studies ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Second Shift ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

The field of global studies and the study of globalization are intertwined. This chapter traces the emergence of the study of globalization from isolated elaborations in the 1950s to the bourgeoning of the field of global studies across the turn of the century to the present. The chapter seeks to explain the intermediate context for the explosion of attention to the question of globalization. It argues that two key clusters of social change stand out: the changing nature of globalization across the middle to late twentieth century linked to uneven challenges to the assumed dominance of modernization; and the paradigm shift in social enquiry and intellectual practice, particularly in the ways of understanding theory. This second shift is used to explore a further quandary: Why did the new field of global studies tend to defer questions concerning the “why” of globalization to concentrate on issues concerning “how” and “what”?

Of Men and [Mountain]Tops

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-73
Author(s):  
Eboni Marshall Turman ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Black Women ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Martin Luther King ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

This essay asserts freedom as the essence of the prophetic Black Christian tradition that propelled the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Strikes, and largely guided the moral compass of the late-twentieth-century Civil Rights Movement. Sexism, however, is a moral paradox that emerges at the interstices of the prophetic Black Church’s institutional espousal of freedom and its consistently conflicting practices of gender discrimination that bind Black women to politics of silence and invisibility. An exploration of the iconic “I AM a Man” placards worn by strikers during Martin Luther King Jr.’s final campaign in Memphis alongside a contemporary icon of the Black Lives Matter movement illumines how black women continue to be challenged by intracommunal invisibility, even as they are consistently the progenitors, mobilizers, sustainers, and intellectual architects of Black movements for social change.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Ethnic Diversity ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

The introduction outlines the central questions and arguments of the book. It summarizes the main, conflicting interpretations of the role of class in late twentieth-century England: some have suggested that class declined in significance in this period, while others suggest class identities lost little power. Neither interpretation is satisfactory: class remained important to ‘ordinary’ people’s narratives about social change and their own identities throughout the period 1968–2000, but in changed ways. Strict class boundaries were felt by many to have blurred since 1945, a period which saw many significant changes, in particular shifts in gender roles and growing ethnic diversity in England. Furthermore, class snobberies ‘went underground’ in this period. The decline of deference is central to understanding changing class identities and politics in this period.

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