scholarly journals Performance and the City: Constructing Urban Identities in Contemporary London

2013 ◽  
pp. 157
Author(s):  
Laura Di Michele
Keyword(s):  
Olympic Games ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
The Body ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Opening Ceremony ◽  
London 2012 ◽  
Social Encounters ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
Reyner Banham

The relationship between spectators, performers and spaces is investigated in a critical perspective which aims at further developing the concept of the city as a performance place where precarious urban identities are dynamically and temporarily shaped and reshaped. Even if this essay takes into due account the seminal studies of Barthes (1971), H. Lefebvre (1974), and urban theorists such as Reyner Banham and Kevin Lynch who conceived of the city as a ‘legible’ text, at the same time it argues that textuality and performativity must be perceived as intertwined cultural practices that work together to shape the body of phenomenal, intellectual, psychic, and social encounters that frame a subject’s experience of the city. London 2012 Olympic Games, and in particular the stunning Opening Ceremony directed by Danny Boyle, for which visitors and overseas spectators were invited to transform themselves into a global theatrical audience, can be used as a privileged viewpoint from which to analyse the different ways of perceiving, but also being looked at and performing oneself, in and through spaces which tend at modifying, or at interrogating or destabilizing one’s traditional identity.

TOURISM MOBILITY AT THE SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES RIO 2016

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Cabral ◽  
Carolin Lusby ◽  
Ricardo Uvinha
Keyword(s):  
Olympic Games ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Bus Rapid Transit ◽  
Rapid Transit ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Tourist Attractions ◽  
Official Sources ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

Sports Tourism as a segment is growing exponentially in Brazil. The sports mega-events that occurred in the period from 2007 to 2016 helped strengthen this sector significantly. This article examined tourism mobility during the Summer Olympic Games Rio 2016, hosted by the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This study expands the understanding of the relationship between tourism and city infrastructure, therefore being relevant to academics, professionals of the area and to the whole society due to its multidisciplinary field. The existence of a relationship between means of transportation and the Olympic regions as well as tourist attractions for a possible legacy was observed. Data were collected from official sources, field research and through participant-observation and semi structured interviews. Data were coded and analyzed. The results indicate that the city was overall successful in its execution of sufficient mobility. New means of transportation were added and others updated. BRT's (Bus Rapid Transit) were the main use of mass transport to Olympic sites. However, a lack of public transport access was observed for the touristic sites.

scholarly journals One Guy Named Mo: Race, Nation and the London 2012 Olympic Games

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Burdsey
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Track And Field ◽  
Distance Runner ◽  
The Public ◽  
Diversity And Inclusion ◽  
London 2012 ◽  
Dominant Ideologies ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Relationship

The triumphal track and field performances of British distance runner, Mo Farah, at the London 2012 Olympic Games were lauded both for their athletic endeavor and for their perceived validation of the rhetoric of ethnic and cultural diversity and inclusion in which the Games were ensconced. By analyzing coverage of the athlete’s achievements in mainstream British newspapers, this article presents a more complicated and critical reading of the relationship between Britishness, multiculture, the politics of inclusion and the London Games. Employing a Critical Discourse Analysis approach, the article shows that Farah was constructed and represented by the media using narratives that are familiar, palatable and reassuring to the public; and that sustain hegemonic models of racialised nationhood and dominant ideologies around sport.

scholarly journals Políticas sociais e políticas de cultura: territórios e privatizações cruzadas

2013 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cibele Saliba Rizek
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Social Programs ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Public Health Services ◽  
Eastern Zone ◽  
Place Of Origin ◽  
Culture And Health ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

O artigo se baseia em pesquisa que apontou para novas formas de captação de recursos por meio da promoção de práticas culturais que se interligam à gestão de serviços públicos de saúde na Zona Leste da Cidade de São Paulo, sob a direção de organizações sociais privadas. O cruzamento entre modos de captação, gestão terceirizada da cultura e equipamentos de saúde aponta para uma intersetorialidade inédita dessas práticas, o que configura o que poderia ser identificado como um planejamento social privado, redesenhando formas de atuação e margens do Estado por meio de um conjunto de relações entre os programas sociais e a população em condições de pobreza na maior cidade brasileira. Os bairros da última periferia Leste da cidade de São Paulo conformam assim um terreno de experimentações dessas práticas cruzadas para além das caracterizações clássicas das zonas periféricas das grandes metrópoles brasileiras que apontavam para a precariedade das condições de vida bem como para o nascedouro de movimentos sociais, suas demandas, sujeitos e linguagens de direitos, tal como foram percebidos e enunciados a partir do final dos anos oitenta do século XX. Palavras-chave: políticas sociais; políticas públicas; privatização; periferias urbanas. Abstract: This article is based on research that pointed to new ways of raising funds through the promotion of cultural practices that are interconnected to the management of public health services in the Eastern Zone of the City of São Paulo, under the direction of private social organizations. The cross between fundraising, outsourced management of culture and health equipment points to an unprecedented relationship between the sectors of these practices, which sets up what can be identified as a private social planning. This process redrew the margins of the State redefining the relationship between social programs and policies and poor population in the largest Brazilian city. The peripheral neighborhoods of the Eastern outskirts São Paulo became an experimental field of these practices, more than classical character of precarious forms of life or the place of origin of social movements, demands, subjects, right languages, as they were known specially from the 80´s Brazilian sociological literature. Keywords: social policy; public policies; privatization; urban peripheries.

Traces of a Tango: The Club Invites Me to Dance—a Study of Materiality in Movement

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 417-424
Author(s):  
Paola Vasconcelos Silveira
Keyword(s):  
Performing Arts ◽  
The Body ◽  
Porto Alegre ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
Dance Training ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Master's Thesis ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
Two Bodies

This paper is based on my master's thesis, which was developed in 2013–2014 at the Graduation Program in Performing Arts at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil). This study aimed to reflect on the processes of developing an artistic experiment conducted from the encounter between my body and the club in transient places in the city of Porto Alegre. The starting point emerged from the experience of the artist in the practice of tango from a dialogue bias between peers. The object, in this proposal, becomes a present and active body—a lively piece that will enhance a one-to-one conversation. It is thus intended that the dance results from the relationship between two bodies, and not from the manipulation of one body over another. Therefore, the study finds resonance in the theoretical possibility of thinking of non-human bodies as vibrant matter with the capability to generate relationships and movements. In that way, this meeting would lead to a loss of the self. This study also contributes to a debate on proposals for dance training, as this research has chosen a path of building the danced relationship with the object from the kinesthetic perception of the body in motion. Finally, this study tenses the production of knowledge in the academic field, by assuming that the body produces a kind of knowledge—an embodied knowledge—which must be recognized and legitimized.

scholarly journals Acceso a la vivienda en contextos de gentrificación y turistificación urbana

2019 ◽  
pp. 79
Author(s):  
Mario Arroyo Alba
Keyword(s):  
Social Problems ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Global City ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
Housing Inequality ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

Las principales ciudades de nuestro entorno se están viendo afectadas en la actualidad por tendencias urbanas globales que marcan el ritmo de su desarrollo. Procesos de transformación como la turistificación y la gentrificación están atravesando diferentes territorios, principalmente en los centros urbanos, e incidiendo de forma específica en la forma en que construimos nuestras ciudades. La relación entre problemas sociales como las dificultades en el acceso a la vivienda, la desigualdad y la segregación en el medio urbano y este tipo de transformaciones está siendo ampliamente estudiada por distintas disciplinas y cobrando relevancia en el ámbito académico. El presente artículo recoge los principales resultados y conclusiones de una investigación llevada a cabo con el objetivo de aproximarse al problema del acceso a la vivienda en este tipo de contextos, concretamente en el barrio madrileño de Lavapiés. De esta forma, se ha intentado analizar de forma crítica los procesos de transformación urbana y sus consecuencias en forma de problemas sociales.Major cities in Spain are being affected by global city trends that define the pace of their development. Processes of transformation like touristification and gentrification are crossing different territories, mainly in urban centers, and specifically affecting the way we build our cities. The relationship between social issues, like difficulties accessing housing, inequality, and the segregation of the city, and this type of transformation is being widely studied by a variety of disciplines and gaining more and more relevance in academia. This article presents the main results and conclusions of research carried out on the problem of access to housing in these kinds of contexts, specifically in the Lavapiés neighborhood of Madrid. In this way, the processes transforming the city and their consequences as social problems were analyzed from a critical perspective.

Watched by the Games: Surveillance and security at the Olympics

2012 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 414-429 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Sugden
Keyword(s):  
Olympic Games ◽  
Civil Liberties ◽  
Democratic Values ◽  
Terrorist Threat ◽  
Liberal Democratic ◽  
London 2012 ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City ◽  
The Olympic Games

Every four years the Summer Olympic Games fires the imagination of the largest and most diverse sport spectatorship and entices them in their hundreds of thousands to some of the First World’s most iconic and crowded cities. In addition, the ideological symbolism associated with the Olympic Games is rooted in Western, liberal democratic values and traditions. For those who do not share these ideals the Olympics represent something to stand against and, in extremity, disrupt and violate. In short, in a post-9/11 world, the Olympics provide a mouth-watering target for terrorists. Using themes of surveillance drawn form from Bentham and Foucault, this article analyses the nature of the terrorist threat and scale of the security operation designed to ensure the safety of the London 2012 Olympic Games. It concludes by considering the consequences of these measures on the city of London, particularly in terms of the civil liberties of its citizenry.

The Art of Representation in a Globalized World

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Félix J. Ríos
Keyword(s):  
Performing Arts ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Complex Model ◽  
Scientific Development ◽  
Sporting Events ◽  
Opening Ceremony ◽  
London 2012 ◽  
The Social ◽  
Opening And Closing ◽  
Globalized World

AbstractGlobalization is fast expanding the ways in which the performing arts and entertainment are received around the world. This situation should be analyzed from several perspectives, including technological, economic, artistic, philosophical, historical and social. Given that scientific development does not justify the use and value that has been attributed to the social media that convey artistic information in post-modern societies, the various systems of representation should be described in detail, followed by a critical analysis of social interaction that leads to the performing process. The Olympic Games are among the most viewed sporting events on the planet. Over the years, opening and closing ceremonies have become a complex model of a spectacular show. The opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games is a paradigmatic example.

scholarly journals The body, the house and the city: the territorialities of black women in Brazil

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Maya Manzi ◽  
Maria Edna dos Santos Coroa dos Anjos
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
The Body ◽  
Feminist Movement ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

This article presents a discussion on the relationship between territoriality and intersectionality based on the experience of Black Brazilian women throughout the historical process that has triggered a long trajectory of struggle against racism and sexism. Bibliographical and documentary research has been used in order to discuss the territories of the body, the house and the city, understood as spaces of oppression and resistance. While these analytical categories have received considerable attention, especially within the Black feminist movement itself, few studies have explicitly or thoroughly addressed the relationship between intersectionality and territoriality based on an expanded conception of territory that goes from the body through to the city. Reflecting upon these concepts as a collective unit and through a multi-scalar perspective may help to provide greater visibility to the protagonist spaces of Black Brazilian women in their struggle for reparation, recognition and the right to exist.

scholarly journals HUBUNGAN GAYA HIDUP DAN KEBIASAAN MAKAN DENGAN KADAR HAEMOGLOBIN (Hb) PADA ANAK JALANAN DI KOTA MEDAN

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-126
Author(s):  
Ginta Siahaan
Keyword(s):  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Eating Habits ◽  
Statistical Tests ◽  
Street Children ◽  
Red Light ◽  
The Body ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

According to Law No. 23 The year 2002 about child protection, the rights of the child is part of a compulsory human rights guaranteed, protected and fulfilled by parents, society, government and state.while in Article 4 paragraph 1 mentioned that the children who have no parents are entitled to by the state or the nursery or the body. This research aims to know the relationship between eating habits and Lifestyle with the level of Haemoglobin (Hb) on the Street Children in the City of Medan. This research done in some places where ordinary street children abstain as Simpang Red light Titi Kuning, Aksara, Juanda, Pringgan, Simpang Petisah and Terminal Amplas, and Pinang baris in the city of Medan. Data collection is done for 1 months starting from April 20 s/d 20 May 2013, where the location of this research are expected to represent the community of street children in the city of Medan. The type of this research is cohort studies with cross sectional design (cut bars). The population in this research is the whole street children Simpang Red light Titi Kuning, Aksara, Juanda, Pringgan, Simpang Petisah and Terminal Amplas, and Pinang baris in the city of Medan. estimated 300 people, now samples on the research is part of the population of street children based on the criteria of inclusion where one of the criteria is the street children aged 14 - 24 years. From these criteria get samples as much as 72 people. This research has been approved by the code of conduct research FK USU. Based on the results of research can be concluded that the lifestyle of street children is to have the categories less of 36 people (50%), and eating habits of street children are the most is have less category of 28 people (38.9%) while for the level of haemoglobin (Hb) street children are the most is have low category of 42 people (58%), to see the relationship between the statistical tests with Test Chi-Square, where there is a significant relationship ( p= 0.000 < 0.05 ) between lifestyle with the level of haemoglobin (Hb), whereas there is no significant relationship ( p= 0.096 > 0.05 ) between eating habits with the level of haemoglobin (Hb). The researcher recommends that for an observer of street children should perform routine counseling every month so that the street children can be exposed to about the lifestyle that hygiene, kiebiasaan eat good and orderly pentinhnya eat for street children.

scholarly journals ANALISIS TEKS PADA ANGKUTAN KOTA JALUR 2 (DUA) KOTA KUPANG: SEBUAH KAJIAN WACANA KRITIS (TEXT ANALYSIS ON PUBLIC TRANSPORT LANE 2 (TWO) KUPANG CITY: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE STUDY)

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 163
Author(s):  
Valentina Lovina Tanate ◽  
Feliks Tans ◽  
Agustinus Semiun
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
The Body ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Social Rules ◽  
Production Distribution ◽  
The City

This paper analyzes the texts written on Kupang City public transport Lane 2. The abundant texts in the corners of the city in various forms and messages represent the language dynamics varied from polite to harsh. This paper aims at explaining the form of such texts, analyzing the production, distribution, and consumption of such text and analyzing their socio-cultural practices using critical discourse analysis method of Norman Fairclough’s. The results showed that only 19.15 % of the texts contains positive meanings and 80.85% of them contains negative ones. The textswere made by the drivers, the owners of the transport, and the drivers’ assistants by writing it on the body of the vehicle. The texts are distributed directly through the city transportation media. The texts are about social rules of the community both positive and negative behavior. Texts have power relations and ideology. Ideologies that participate in the practice of such discourse are liberalism, feminism, religion, and capitalism.AbstrakKajian ini menganalisis tulisan di angkutan kota Jalur 2 Kota Kupang. Maraknya tulisan-tulisan di sudut-sudut kota dengan berbagai bentuk dan pesan merupakan contoh nyata dinamika bahasa mulai dari yang santun sampai dengan yang keras. Tujuan kajian adalah untuk menjelaskan bentuk teks pada angkutan kota Jalur 2 di Kota Kupang, menganalisis produksi, penyebaran, dan konsumsi teks, serta menganalisis praktik sosio-budaya dari teks itu menggunakan teori analisis wacana kritis Norman Fairclough. Metode yang digunakan untuk menganalisis teks adalah metode analisis wacana kritis. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa hanya 19,15% teks mengandung pesan positif dan 80,85% mengandung pesan negatif. Teks diproduksi oleh sopir, pemilik angkutan, dan kondektur dengan cara menulis di badan angkutan kota. Teks disebarkan secara langsung melalui media angkutan kota. Teks pada angkutan kota di Kota Kupang tersebut merujuk pada perilaku sosial masyarakat, baik perilaku positif maupun negatif. Teks memiliki relasi kekuasaan dan ideologi. Ideologi yang turut serta di dalam praktik wacana ialah liberalisme,feminisme, agama, dan kapitalisme. 

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