‘I don’t get lucky, I make my own luck’: Masculinities and male bodies in the neo-liberal office space of Suits

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-141
Author(s):  
Amanda Sarah Chin
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
The Self ◽  
Structural Power ◽  
The Third ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
Office Space ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Face ◽  
A Site

Suits’ evocation of masculinity within the neo-liberal office as a site of gender configuration is plural. Although its male protagonists all possess structural power as white, heterosexual, intelligent men (two are wealthy, and eventually the third comes to be), they each reflect varied and occasionally contrasting forms of masculinity. The article explores how, over the seasons, Suits progresses from breadth to depth, with its male characters threading their way through different types of masculine behaviours in order to succeed. In the face of recurrent challenges, their masculinities must be reconfigured. The article examines the manner in which the self becomes a locus of accountability to situate one’s problem-solving ability and subsequent empowerment through performing multiple masculinities.

Theatre and storytelling

2021 ◽  
pp. 171-218
Author(s):  
Steven Brown
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Unique Feature ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Third Person ◽  
Presentation Media ◽  
The Third Person

The narrative arts deal with the presentation of stories via a variety of narrative processes and presentation media. Fictionality is a unique feature of the arts, one that distinguishes the narrative arts from the storytelling of everyday conversation. The plots of stories are grounded in the experientiality of the story’s protagonist in a storyworld, most especially his/her problem-solving dynamics. Literature describes these behaviours in the third person using narration, whereas theatre re-creates these actions in an embodied manner by having actors portray the characters in performance. While role playing is a central part of the presentation of the self in everyday social interactions, actors portray characters who they themselves are not, a re-creative process of impersonation and pretence that comprises the most art-specific feature of the narrative arts.

Epilogue

2019 ◽  
pp. 211-218
Author(s):  
Nancy Shoemaker
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Rockefeller Foundation ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
World War ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Many ◽  
A Site ◽  
The U.S

This epilogue addresses how David Whippy, Mary D. Wallis, and John B. Williams—as they pursued respect in different ways—became party to the many changes taking place in Fiji due to foreign influence. Whippy, Wallis, and Williams were all involved, in one way or another, in the U.S.–Fiji trade. In the twentieth century, new incentives enticed Americans to Fiji. American global activism and private development schemes involved Fiji as much as other places around the world, and medical aid and research sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation and a Carnegie Library at Suva introduced new forms of American influence in the islands. World War II, of course, brought Americans to the islands in droves. However, the main avenue by which Americans would come to Fiji was through the third wave of economic development that succeeded the sugar plantations of colonial Fiji: tourism. Now that the face of Fiji presented to the rest of the world evokes pleasure instead of fear, references to the cannibal isles have become nothing more than a nostalgic nod to Fiji's past. Previously considered a site of American wealth production, the islands have now become a site of American consumption.

The implicit theories approach to the self‐monitoring controversy

1991 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith E. Larkin
Keyword(s):  
Implicit Theories ◽  
The Self ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Self Monitoring ◽  
The Third ◽  
Factor Analytic ◽  
The Face ◽  
Theoretical Issues ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Personality Construct

In the face of uncertainty and disagreement about the meaning and measurement of the self‐monitoring construct, the author proposes an implicit theories approach to shed light on what self‐monitoring scales may be tapping. The first study explored people's notions of what high and low self‐monitors are like, based on the statements in the 18‐item Self‐Monitoring Scale (Gangestad and Snyder, 1985). The second study compared that measure with Lennox and Wolfe's (1984) Revised Self‐Monitoring Scale and examined defensive motivation within the scales. The third study consisted of two experiments to determine whether subjects perceived the items of Gangestad and Snyder's Self‐Monitoring Scale as reflecting a unitary latent entity or separate, contradictory variables. It was concluded that the implicit theories approach appears to be a useful complement to traditional factor analytic studies, providing new ways of looking at a personality construct, clarifying some theoretical issues, and generating hypotheses for future research.

Securing the Border as a Creative Site: Southern Masculinities and the Urge to Tell

2018 ◽  
pp. 82-103
Author(s):  
Mary Weaks-Baxter
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Prejudice ◽  
The Self ◽  
The South ◽  
Success Story ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
New Models ◽  
Narrative Patterns ◽  
Blacks And Whites ◽  
A Site ◽  
Central Claim

This chapter looks at the American success story of the self-made man and how it was reinterpreted in the context of 20th Century Southern masculinity. Focusing on novels by Wolfe, Ellison, Styron, Capote, and Warren, the chapter builds on earlier scholarship that identifies a shift from idealized images of planter and slave to new models of masculinity for blacks and whites. The central claim is that new narrative patterns were embraced that set male characters on journeys outside the South to encounter that world and find success. A mania of sorts evolved around this narrative as portrayed by Wolfe who represented wandering as opportunity for introspection, movement as a means to remake one’s self, and liminal space as a site of creativity for the neophyte writer but also a distinctly masculine zone. The chapter ends with reflections on how this journey is altered when males encounter racial or sexual prejudice.

scholarly journals MODEL-ELICITING ACTIVITIES DALAM MENGANALISIS KREATIVITAS PEMECAHAN MASALAH MATEMATIKA PADA MAHASISWA PENDIDIKAN MATEMATIKA DI PTKIN ACEH

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Budi Azhari ◽  
Ade Irfan
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Third ◽  
Model Eliciting Activities ◽  
New Student ◽  
Reality Principle

This study aimed to know the components of the student creativity in problem solving that can be achieved through Model Eliciting Activities in preservice’s teacher of mathematics education of PTKIN in Aceh. This Research used qualitatif approach, since in this study want to describe the reality on the field namely data about the studets’ creativity in solving maths problem. The result showed that the componentsof flexibility obtained by contruction principle, the reality principle, and the self-just my assesment principle. Even so, there are student who got no flexibility with the third principle of the MEA, but only with the principles, the only reality MEA principle and the effective prototype principle. Mean while, the component of fluency is gained student by analysis of the construct documentation principle. The last component of creativity that is obtained through the construct shareability and reusability and the effective prototype principle. However there are students who do not obtain theses components due to the absence of new student-generated in carrying out problem-solving.

scholarly journals Analisis Kemampuan Pemecahan Masalah Pada Materi Fungsi Melalui Penerapan Model Pendidikan Matematika Realistik

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorothea Novia Ludo Lubur
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Realistic Mathematics Education ◽  
Problem Solving Skills ◽  
The Third ◽  
Material Functions ◽  
Realistic Mathematics ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

This study aims to determine the problem solving skills of IX grade students of SMPK St. Paulus on the material functions with the Realistic Mathematics Education approach. The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative. The subjects in this study consisted of 10 students of class IX. Students' answers are analyzed and classified according to the type of answer. The following student answers consist of 5 different types of answers. Seven students with the first, second and fourth types of answers fulfill four indicators. One student with the third type of answer only reaches two indicators namely the first and second indicators, and one student with the fifth answer type fulfills three indicators namely the first, third and fourth indicators. Based on the results of the analysis it can be concluded that there are 80% of students fulfilling the four indicators of NCTM, 10% of students do not meet the third and fourth indicators and 10% of students do not meet the second indicator

scholarly journals Antycypacja królestwa w ujęciu Franza Rosenzweiga

2018 ◽  
pp. 167-178
Author(s):  
Anna Firla
Keyword(s):  
World Order ◽  
The Self ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
The Third ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Precious Resource ◽  
Human World ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Insight Into

The Star of Redemption, thinker Franz Rosenzweig’s life’s work, has beenanalysed and interpreted across a variety of disciplines and perspectives for almosta hundred years. Future generations will continue to use and appreciate this text for itsenduring variety and multiplicity of ideas. This article aims to provide a hermeneutical insight into Rosenzweig’s idea of the anticipation of the Kingdom. Rosenzweig deriveshis ideas from the Tanakh. Eternity, according to Rosenzweig, is neither an infinite nor an indeterminately long period of time, but ‘a Tomorrow that could as well be Today’. Redemption occurs as eternity projected in time. The author understands time not only as a sequence of moments as occurrence in history. For him history will be newly decided inevery moment of encounter between the Other and the Self. History moves forward only because of the individual, who decides. Rosenzweig therefore considersprayer as the constitutive element of the human world order, which can anticipate and accelerate the coming of the Kingdom. Rosenzweig’s conception of prayer is fully developed in the third part of the Star, especially in the introduction, titled On the Possibility of Soliciting (erbeten) the Kingdom by Prayer. Here the author introduces different types of prayers andasks the most crucial question of the last part of the Star: Can a human being tempt Godsimply by praying? Subsequently, we must recognize the significance of Rosenzweig’scontribution to the interpretation of prayer as the anticipation of the Kingdom. His analysisremains current and a precious resource for further reflection.

Power of Darkness: Narrative and Biographical Reflexivity in A Series of Unfortunate Events

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 200-212
Author(s):  
ELIZABETH BULLEN
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Risk Society ◽  
Project Risk ◽  
Young Readers ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
High Earning ◽  
Textual Culture ◽  
Children’S Exposure ◽  
Central Claim

This paper investigates the high-earning children's series, A Series of Unfortunate Events, in relation to the skills young people require to survive and thrive in what Ulrich Beck calls risk society. Children's textual culture has been traditionally informed by assumptions about childhood happiness and the need to reassure young readers that the world is safe. The genre is consequently vexed by adult anxiety about children's exposure to certain kinds of knowledge. This paper discusses the implications of the representation of adversity in the Lemony Snicket series via its subversions of the conventions of children's fiction and metafictional strategies. Its central claim is that the self-consciousness or self-reflexivity of A Series of Unfortunate Events} models one of the forms of reflexivity children need to be resilient in the face of adversity and to empower them to undertake the biographical project risk society requires of them.

Topoi in der Musik Béla Bartóks

2013 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 289-299
Author(s):  
Jürgen Hunkemöller
Keyword(s):  
Bird Song ◽  
Musical Analysis ◽  
Piano Concerto ◽  
The Third ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Important Means

The recognition of topoi, i.e. traditional formulae, is an important means of musical analysis. To illustrate this, the paper discusses the types of the battaglia and the pastoral in Bach’s Cantata Halt im Gedächtnis Jesum Christ, and briefly enumerates different types of allusions to jazz in 20th-century compositions by Stravinsky, Milhaud, Blacher, Tippet, and Zimmermann. Then it raises the possibility of an analysis of topoi in Bartók’s music in four main categories. It considers Bartók’s musical quotations from Bach to Shostakovich; the chorale as special topos appearing in Mikrokosmos, in the Concerto for Orchestra, in the Adagio religioso of the Third Piano Concerto; the topos-like employment of the tritone; and finally the idea of a Bartókian Arcadia in the Finale of Music for Strings, and the integration of bird song in the Adagio religioso.

The Relationship between Seeker and Spiritual Guide as portrayed in contemporary Western Sufi Autobiographies

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 297-332
Author(s):  
Kate Zebiri
Keyword(s):  
Life Writing ◽  
New Age ◽  
The Self ◽  
Individual Autonomy ◽  
Religious Authority ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Continuity And Discontinuity

This article aims to explore the Shaykh-mur?d (disciple) or teacher-pupil relationship as portrayed in Western Sufi life writing in recent decades, observing elements of continuity and discontinuity with classical Sufism. Additionally, it traces the influence on the texts of certain developments in religiosity in contemporary Western societies, especially New Age understandings of religious authority. Studying these works will provide an insight into the diversity of expressions of contemporary Sufism, while shedding light on a phenomenon which seems to fly in the face of contemporary social and religious trends which deemphasize external authority and promote the authority of the self or individual autonomy.

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