scholarly journals Adaptation against Myth: Gary Owen’s Iphigenia in Splott and the Violence of Austerity

2021 ◽  
pp. 119
Author(s):  
Rebeca Gualberto
Keyword(s):  
Social Economic ◽  
Greek Myth ◽  
Dramatic Monologue ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Slam Poetry ◽  
Classical Myth ◽  
Political Myth ◽  
The Sacrifice ◽  
Myth Criticism ◽  
Looking Back

This article explores, from the standpoint of socio-political myth-criticism, the processes of revision and adaptation carried out in Gary Owen’s 2015 play Iphigenia in Splott. The play, a dramatic monologue composed in the rhythms of slam poetry, rewrites the classical Greek myth of Iphigenia in order to denounce the profound injustice of the sacrifices demanded by austerity policies in Europe—and more specifically, in Britain—in the recession following the financial crash of 2008. Reassessing contemporary social, economic and political issues that have resulted in the marginalisation and dehumanisation of the British working class, this study probes the dramatic and mythical artefacts in Owen’s harrowing monologue by looking back to Euripides’s Iphigenia in Aulis, the classical play which inspires the title of Owen’s piece and which serves as the mythical and literary background for the story of Effie. The aim is to demonstrate how Owen’s innovative adaptation of the sacrifice of Iphigenia, slurred out in verse, resentful and agonising, speaks out a desperate plea against myth, that is, against a dominant social ethos that legitimises its own violence against the most vulnerable—those who, as in the classical myth, suffer the losses that keep our boats afloat.

scholarly journals Women and Ijtihad: Towards a New Islamic Discourse

2019 ◽  
pp. 12-33
Author(s):  
Heba Raouf Ezzat
Keyword(s):  
Social Economic ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The Other ◽  
Women's Issues ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Islamic World ◽  
Contested Terrain ◽  
The One

A phenomenon of extreme polarization between the Islamist and the secular camps characterizes the intellectual scene regarding social, economic, and political issues in the Arab-Islamic world. This is especially true with respect to women’s issues, which are a very hotly contested terrain. Understanding this reality clearly requires a historic overview to comprehend how this polarization occurred and map the debate between supporters of “modernity and contemporality” (al-hadatha wa-l-mu‘asara) on the one hand, and supporters of “tradition and authenticity” (al-turath wal-asala) on the other. Though this is not at the heart of our research, framing it in its historical context enables us to better understand the roots and origins of the problem, in order to map the debates and foresee future courses more clearly.

scholarly journals Global Projections of Populational Ageing

2014 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 106-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason L. Powell
Keyword(s):  
Social Care ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Research Needs ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Global Ageing ◽  
Ageing Populations

This article forecasts quite dramatic increases in the general population of the globe, which will also be reflected in increasing ageing populations. This paper explores how globalization and its structural economic and social forces throws into flux the policies and practices of individual nation states to address social, economic and political issues for older people focusing on empirical data on pensions and health and social care. The paper will examine specific empirical areas of populational projections across the world before we discuss some of the key challenges and consequences of global ageing for the study of ageing populations. It highlights how empirical research needs to move from being state centred to one of which acknowledges global forces and the impact of populational ageing.

Performative Morality: Godey's Match Plates, Nineteenth-Century Stage Practice, and Social/Political/Economic Commentary in America's Popular Ladies’ Magazine

2014 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 613-637
Author(s):  
CYNTHIA LEE PATTERSON
Keyword(s):  
Social Economic ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Economic Issues ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Social ◽  
Tableaux Vivants ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Mystery Novels ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
The City

Recirculating the assertion of magazine historian Frank Luther Mott, subsequent generations of scholars maintained that Godey's Lady's Magazine eschewed content treating the social, political, and economic issues of the day. This article challenges that nearly universal reading of Godey's by arguing for the importance of a close reading of the “match plates” commissioned by Godey for his magazine. Appearing between 1840 and 1860, these plates, many engraved from pendant paintings created expressly for Godey, draw on the popularity of stage melodrama, dramatic tableau, and tableaux vivants to enact a performative morality addressing major social, economic, and political issues. Early match plates contrast virtue and vice, capitalizing on the enormous popularity of William Hogarth's engraving series Industry and Idleness. Match plates appear also in the popular fashion plates of the magazine – echoing the city mystery novels, plays, and prints first popularized by Eugene Sue – in Christmas for the Rich/Christmas for the Poor and Dress the Maker/Dress the Wearer. By 1860, even the magazine's “useful” contents, such as the pattern work prized by Godey's readers, echo the popularity of match plates: hence Fruit for Working/Flowers for Working. Closer attention to Godey's engravings calls for a reassessment of Mott's assertion.

scholarly journals Relocating Aborigines in Sally Morgan’s My Place

2019 ◽  
pp. 15-22
Keyword(s):  
Social Economic ◽  
Social Injustice ◽  
Aboriginal Woman ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Lost Generation ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Contemporary Status

Sally Morgan’s novel My Place explicitly portrays the resistance of Aborigines subalterns against the prevailing social, economic, cultural and political issues. Focusing on identity, hybridity, ethnicity, and racism, the paper argues how Aborigines undergo social injustice, racial distortion, class disparity and adversarial displacement by Neo-colonialism. Investigating the Aborigines’ academic endeavours, genealogical suppressive destitutions, groundbreaking reattachment, matrilineal links, it is hypothesized that My Place foregrounds the contemporary status of modern Aboriginal Woman. Illustrating the Aborigines’ altruistic patriotism and excruciating their sufferings during Neo-colonialism in the novel, it is spotlighted how lost generation and stolen generation and extortive afflictions imposed on the Aborigines by the Whites in Australia have shaped the formers’ collective socio-cultural and political consciousnes

RUSSIAN YOUTH IN THE FIELD OF MODERN POLITICS. BETWEEN TRADITIONALISM AND OPPOSITION

2020 ◽  
pp. 57-68
Author(s):  
Nataliya M. Velikaya ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Political Behavior ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Research Data ◽  
The Political ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
Low Level ◽  
High Degree

Specifics of perception of political issues by Russian Youth and value grounds for their political behavior are analyzed in this article. The analysis is based on the sociological research data of 2018 and 2019. It is shown that political culture demonstrates the presence of mutually exclusive positions for a number of reasons. Low level of trust to the power practically do not correlate with evaluation of social-economic and political situation in Russia, do not provoke new forms of civil activity , what allows to make a conclusion about high degree of the political culture continuity, where group of nominal oppositionists demonstrating low level of trust to the power is not significant.

SUBSTANCE AND SEMANTICS IN THE AUDITOR'S STANDARD REPORT

1991 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stevan K. Olson ◽  
Charles W. Wootton
Keyword(s):  
Social Economic ◽  
Recent Effort ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
The Social ◽  
Standard Report

The most recent effort at restating the auditor's standard report, SAS 58, is the most comprehensive statement of the auditor's role that has ever been adopted. It is an acknowledgment that the previous report had become an ineffective communication of the audit function and was perhaps too cautious in circumscribing the auditor's public responsibilities. This paper compares and analyzes the terminology of the standard report throughout the professions's history with particular emphasis on the recent years leading up to SAS 58. An exhibit compares the parallel terminology and the social, economic and political issues that resulted in each revision. Additionally, some assessment of the potential future changes to the report are presented.

Relocating Aborigines in Sally Morgan’s My Place

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Economic ◽  
Social Injustice ◽  
Aboriginal Woman ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Political Consciousness ◽  
Lost Generation ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Contemporary Status

Sally Morgan’ s novel My Place explicitly portrays the resistance of Aborigines subalterns against the prevailing social, economic, cultural and political issues. Focusing on identity, hybridity, ethnicity, and racism, the paper argues how Aborigines undergo social injustice, racial distortion, class disparity and adversarial displacement by Neo-colonialism. Investigating the Aborigines’ academic endeavours, genealogical suppressive destitutions, groundbreaking reattachment, matrilineal links, it is hypothesized that My Place foregrounds the contemporary status of modern Aboriginal Woman. Illustrating the Aborigines’ altruistic patriotism and excruciating their sufferings during Neo-colonialism in the novel, it is spotlighted how lost generation and stolen generation and extortive afflictions imposed on the Aborigines by the Whites in Australia have shaped the formers’ collective socio-cultural and political consciousness.

Special Issue on Trends in Inequality: Social, Economic and Political

2019 ◽  
pp. 3-4
Author(s):  
Pier Giorgo Ardeni
Keyword(s):  
Income Distribution ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Selection Of

In this issue of the Journal of Income Distribution, a very specific selection of those papers is presented. The papers are a significant sample of the contributions presented at the conference held on November 2-4, 2017  in Bologna, Italy, organized by the Cattaneo Institute Research Foundation, entitled Trends in inequality: social, economic and political issues.

Endocrine function and emergency contraception: physiology and society.

1998 ◽  
Vol 274 (6) ◽  
pp. S46
Author(s):  
M Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Menstrual Cycle ◽  
Emergency Contraception ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Endocrine System ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Literature Survey ◽  
Endocrine Function ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
The World

Relating emergency contraception, commonly referred to as "the morning-after pill," to the menstrual cycle can be used both to teach endocrine function and to show how physiology relates to the world outside the undergraduate classroom. The menstrual cycle is an excellent topic for teaching many features of the physiology of the human endocrine system. Relating emergency contraception to the menstrual cycle makes this topic relevant to both male and female students, provides opportunities for discussions that require the students' understanding of endocrine functions, and illustrates how physiology is connected to social economic, and political issues. The overview of emergency contraception and literature survey provided here are meant to be adapted for use in a variety of teaching contexts. The depth of coverage and the extent of consideration of issues beyond physiology would depend on many factors including the level fo the course and the size of enrollment.

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