Atmospheric Noise: The Indefinite Urbanism of Los Angeles

Public ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (63) ◽  
pp. 134-135
Author(s):  
Andrew Merrill
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
Urban Political Economy ◽  
Atmospheric Noise ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ecology And Environment ◽  
The City

This article reviews Mariana Peterson’s Atmospheric Noise, which draws jarring, cacophonous resonances between the science and engineering of acoustics, urban political economy, governmentality, the metaphysics of sound and the social construction of ecology and environment in the city of Los Angeles.

Prophets and Profits of Racial Science

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruha Benjamin
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Precision Medicine ◽  
Group Differences ◽  
Racial Science ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Racial Ethnic

In this response to Terence Keel and John Hartigan’s debate over the social construction of race, I aim to push the discussion beyond the terrain of epistemology and ideology to examine the contested value of racial science in a broader political economy. I build upon Keel’s concern that even science motivated by progressive aims may reproduce racist thinking and Hartigan’s proposition that a critique of racial science cannot rest on the beliefs and intentions of scientists. In examining the value of racial-ethnic classifications in pharmacogenomics and precision medicine, I propose that analysts should attend to the relationship between prophets of racial science (those who produce forecasts about inherent group differences) and profits of racial science (the material-semiotic benefits of such forecasts). Throughout, I draw upon the idiom of speculation—as a narrative, predictive, and financial practice—to explain how the fiction of race is made factual, again and again. 

The semiotics of the deictic field: Reckoning language and experience in East Los Angeles

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-49
Author(s):  
Dana Osborne
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Mexican Americans ◽  
Critical Time ◽  
East Los Angeles ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Single Speaker ◽  
Symbolic Value ◽  
Formative Experiences ◽  
The City

AbstractThis analysis examines the ways in which a single speaker, Ana, born in mid-century East Los Angeles, organizes and reflects upon her experiences of the city through language. Ana’s story is one that sheds light on the experiences of many Mexican Americans who came of age at a critical time in a transitioning L.A., and the slow move of people who had been up until mid-century relegated largely in and around racially and socioeconomically segregated parts of L.A. These formative experiences are demonstrated to have informed the ways that speakers parse the social and geographical landscape along several dimensions, and this analysis interrogates the symbolic value of a special category of everyday language, deixis, to reveal the intersection between language and social experience in the cityscape of L.A. In this way, it is analytically possible to not only approach the habituation and reproduction of specific deictic fields as indexical of the ways that speakers parse the city, but also to demonstrate the ways in which key moments in the history of the city have shaped the emergence and meaning of those fields.

Soil and Water Conservation Society and the Construction of Ecological Civilization City

2014 ◽  
Vol 977 ◽  
pp. 290-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhi Qiang Yu ◽  
Qiang Gao ◽  
Wen Feng Ding
Keyword(s):  
Soil Erosion ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Water Loss ◽  
Water Conservation ◽  
Soil And Water Conservation ◽  
Ecological Civilization ◽  
Soil And Water Loss ◽  
The Social ◽  
The City ◽  
Soil And Water

In recent years , with the acceleration of the process of China's modernization cities , soil erosion and lead to many more serious environmental problems . This paper describes the harm to the social construction of ecological civilization city soil and water loss,analyzed the causes of soil erosion,and finally illustrates the importance of soil and water conservation of the city and puts forward some suggestions for the construction of soil and water conservation.

scholarly journals An Allegory of Good Government: A Comparison of Gothic Siena and Modern Los Angeles

1995 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Figura Lange ◽  
◽  
Sandra Davis Lakeman ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Teenage Pregnancy ◽  
Service Organizations ◽  
Social Service Organizations ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
Urban Core ◽  
The Social ◽  
Good Government ◽  
American Cities ◽  
The City

As our American cities struggle with the problems of growth and development, the human initiated disasters of crime and violence threaten the very existence of the urban core ofmost large cities. Los Angeles dominates the American crime scene with its gangs and drug dealers, where violent crime will strike one in every three Angelenos in their lifetime. The city is a leading example of environmental disintegration preceding rampant crime. In fact, environmental decay, drug use and crime continue to rise apparently in collaboration with each other. Additionally, the social service organizations are overwhelmed by the influx of immigrants, teenage pregnancy, and AIDS.

scholarly journals Surabaya Dalam Antologi Puisi Siti Surabaya Dan Kisah Para Pendatang

ATAVISME ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-74
Author(s):  
Suryadi Kusniawan
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
Suburban Community ◽  
City Construction ◽  
Construction Pattern ◽  
The City

Antologi puisi Siti Surabaya dan Kisah Para Pendatang hadir dalam kapasitasnya untuk merepresentasikan kota Surabaya. Kota Surabaya dihadirkan sebagai latar peristiwa, melalui ru­ang-­ruang yang merujuk pada keberadaan kota, sebagai tawaran yang menghadirkan konstruksi sosial Surabaya. Konstruksi sosial Surabaya dalam Siti Surabaya dan Kisah Para Pendatang meru­pakan decentering yang mengarah pada pola konstruksi dengan titik tolak masyarakat pinggiran kota Surabaya. Decentering yang mengindikasikan upaya penghilangan konstruksi kota sebagai pusat kemajuan, digeser oleh keberadaan masyarakat pinggiran dengan segala kompleksitas pe­ ristiwa yang dilekatkan pada penghadiran tersebut, kemiskinan dan penggusuran. Pola decentering yang dilakukan oleh antologi puisi Siti Surabaya dan Kisah Para Pendatang merupakan pertarungan untuk melihat kembali hierarki antara konsep rural dengan konsep urban. Abstract: Anthology of poetry Siti Surabaya dan Kisah Para Pendatang is present in its capacity to represent the city of Surabaya. Surabaya city was presented as the background of events, through the spaces referring to the existence of the city, as an offer presenting the social construction of Su­rabaya. The social construction of Surabaya in Siti Surabaya dan Kisah Para Pendatang is a decentering leading to the construction pattern with a starting point of the suburban community of the city of Surabaya. Decentering indicating the efforts of removing the city construction as the central of progress is moved by the presence of the suburban with all the complexity of events em­ bedded in the representation, poverty and eviction. The decentering pattern made by the anthology of poetry Siti Surabaya dan Kisah Para Pendatang was a battle to see again the hierarchy between the rural and urban concept. Key Words: representation, Surabaya, deconstruction, rural, urban, suburban, decentering.

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