Let the Games Begin

Author(s):  
Emily L. Hiltz

This essay examines Suzanne Collins’s monstrous “mutts” in her phenomenally popular series The Hunger Games. Hiltz is especially interested in Collins’s characterization of human-animal hybrids, investigating the relationship between the political commentary at work in the novels and these “monsters,” from the half-wolf, half-humans that nearly overtake Katniss at the Cornucopia in the first novel to the lizard-humans whispering her name throughout the viaducts beneath the city in the last. Hiltz focuses on the mutts as abject creatures, demonstrating the ways in which these uncanny monsters, quite literally making the familiar strange, are at once metaphors for the political control exerted by the Capitol, the rebels’ resistance to the Capitol’s power, and the disruption of natural order. She also concentrates on Katniss and Peeta muttations, each of them reformed by warring entities in service of “the greater good.” Most importantly, Hiltz emphasizes that Collins’s mutts are designed to demonstrate the fine and wavering line between good and evil, calling into question the nature of monstrosity, especially as it relates to human behavior. Her location of monstrosity in the protagonists themselves especially offers a new way of thinking about teen dystopic novels that engage horror as a means of conveying identities assaulted by external forces.

Author(s):  
Aled Davies

This book is a study of the political economy of Britain’s chief financial centre, the City of London, in the two decades prior to the election of Margaret Thatcher’s first Conservative government in 1979. The primary purpose of the book is to evaluate the relationship between the financial sector based in the City, and the economic strategy of social democracy in post-war Britain. In particular, it focuses on how the financial system related to the social democratic pursuit of national industrial development and modernization, and on how the norms of social democratic economic policy were challenged by a variety of fundamental changes to the City that took place during the period....


1998 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johan Dambruyne

This article investigates the relationship between social mobility and status in guilds and the political situation in sixteenth-century Ghent. First, it argues that Ghent guilds showed neither a static picture of upward mobility nor a rectilinear and one-way evolution. It demonstrates that the opportunities for social promotion within the guild system were, to a great extent, determined by the successive political regimes of the city. Second, the article proves that the guild boards in the sixteenth century had neither a typically oligarchic nor a typically democratic character. Third, the investigation of the houses in which master craftsmen lived shows that guild masters should not be depicted as a monolithic social bloc, but that significant differences in status and wealth existed. The article concludes that there was no linear positive connection between the duration of a master craftsman's career and his wealth and social position.


2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 193-219
Author(s):  
Fiammetta Bonfigli ◽  
Germano Andre Doederlein Schwartz ◽  
Fabricio Pontin

This work is part of the research project developed by the Observatory on New Social Movements and Law in Brazil at La Salle University, focusing in the city of Porto Alegre and on the occupation of the City Council on July of 2013, which is placed in the context of the protests against the increase of bus fares and for free fare, attempting to understand the relationship between the political organization of the Bloco de Lutas pelo Transporte Publico and its legal group during the eight days of City Council occupation. We conducted semi-structured interviews with members of the occupation in order to clarify the dynamics in the movement and its understanding of the relationship between law and social movements, highlighting the deferment of the eviction order and the elaboration of two Bills as fundamental moments of the relationship between the collective organization of the occupation and its legal team. Este artículo forma parte de un proyecto de investigación desarrollado por el Observatorio de Nuevos Movimientos Sociales y Derecho de la Universidad La Salle de Brasil. Nos centramos en la ciudad de Porto Alegre y en la ocupación de su ayuntamiento en julio de 2013, en el contexto de las protestas contra el aumento de las tarifas de autobús y a favor del transporte gratuito. Intentamos comprender la relación entre la organización política del Bloco de Lutas pelo Transporte Publico y su grupo jurídico durante los ocho días que duró la ocupación. Realizamos entrevistas semiestructuradas con miembros de la ocupación para aclarar las dinámicas del movimiento y cómo entendía la relación entre derecho y movimientos sociales, destacando el aplazamiento de la orden de desalojo y la elaboración de dos leyes como momentos fundamentales de la relación entre la organización colectiva de la ocupación y su equipo jurídico.


2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 494-499
Author(s):  
Destin Jenkins

This essay revisits Making the Second Ghetto to consider what Arnold Hirsch argued about the relationship between race, money, and the ghetto. It explores how Hirsch’s analysis of this relationship was at once consistent with those penned by other urban historians and distinct from those interested in the political economy of the ghetto. Although moneymaking was hardly the main focus, Hirsch’s engagement with “Vampire” rental agencies and panic peddlers laid the groundwork for an analysis that treats the post–World War II metropolis as a crucial node in the history of racial capitalism. Finally, this essay offers a way to connect local forms of violence to the kinds of constraints imposed by financiers far removed from the city itself.


HUMANIS ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 604
Author(s):  
Ayu Putu Fridayanti ◽  
Ni Wayan Sukarini ◽  
Putu Weddha Savitri

Communication can be made by using two kinds of mode; they are verbal and visual communication modes. Nowadays, people tend to focus on the verbal communication and ignore the visual communication itself, even though they have the same important part of communication by using language. This study entitled “Verbal and Visual Communication in the Movie The Hunger Games” is trying to reveal and find out the sentence forms of the characters’ verbal utterances, the visual signs of the scene among the characters and the relationship between those communications. In the study, The Hunger Games movie is used as the data source. It tells about a death game that was held by a capitol city which was inhabited by people of the upper class and the people of the lower class who live in the districts as the tribute of the game. The method used to analyze the movie is Qualitative method. The main theory used is proposed by Dyer (1986) with his Verbal and Visual Communication theory and helped by using a theory from Timothy Shopen (2007) describing the types of sentence in form of verbal utterance. Based on the analysis, all of the sentence types as the verbal communication analysis and almost all of the visual sign elements in the movie were found, except for the national and racial element in appearance category. The verbal and visual communications represented in the movie supports each other to convey the meaning. It shows the differences between two different social classes; they are upper and lower classes. How the characters of the upper class speak, act, and look, tend to be more polite, prestigious, classy, colorful, and more educated than the characters of the lower class. It shows the relationship of visual and verbal communication itself. 


2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alisson Cesar Da Cunha Souza ◽  
Márcio Luiz Da Silva

A identificação e mapeamento dos solos servem como subsidio para planejamentos agrícolas, levantamentos do uso da terra, estudos de terras para irrigação, estudos de preservação, análise e recuperação ambientais, predição de desastres naturais como o monitoramento de processos erosivos, dentre outros. Nesse sentido, os levantamentos e avaliações de solo, para fins agrícolas ou não, ganham importância, pois através deles é possível conhecer as propriedades desse recurso natural, permitindo sua utilização de forma consciente e adequada. O uso de sistemas de informações geográficas tem introduzido novos métodos para o levantamento e mapeamento de solos, por meio de modelagens, a partir da utilização de mapas temáticos básicos e modelos numéricos de terreno ou modelos digitais de elevação, que possibilitam, principalmente, a compreensão das relações entre a paisagem e as classes de solo. Assim, o objetivo deste trabalho foi a realização do levantamento e mapeamento dos solos do município de Inconfidentes - MG, utilizando técnicas de geoprocessamento, e a classificação pedológica até o quarto nível categórico através da generalização, a partir da descrição morfológica e determinações analíticas de perfis de solos representativos. Foi realizada a caracterização da área de estudos, a aquisição e tratamento de dados cartográficos. A descrição morfológica dos perfis foi realizada em pontos previamente definidos, representativos das distintas classes de solo do município. As análises físico-químicas foram realizadas em todas as amostras dos horizontes dos perfis de solos coletados em campo. A generalização do levantamento de solos foi elaborada através do processamento dos dados cartográficos e obtidos em campo, com a utilização do software ArGIS 9.3. O mapeamento pedológico do município foi então o resultado da integração e correlação dos dados altimétricos, da declividade, da rede de drenagem, do canal fluvial, do relevo e da litologia, associados com a caracterização feita em campo e as determinações analíticas. Como resultado, foi possível mapear as áreas de ocorrência de Latossolos, Gleissolos e Cambissolos, as três ordens de solos mais representativos do município, classificando-os até o quarto nível categórico. O uso das ferramentas de geotecnologia se mostrou muito útil para a caracterização das classes pedológicas e posterior generalização, uma vez que através delas foi possível inferir as condições ambientais de formação dos solos e integrá-los com dados de campo e análises laboratoriais.  ABSTRACT The identification and mapping of soils serve as subsidy for agricultural planning, land use surveys, land studies for irrigation, preservation studies, environmental analysis and recovery, prediction of natural disasters such as monitoring erosion, among others. In this sense, soil surveys and assessments, for agricultural purposes or not, become important because through them you can know the properties of this natural resource, allowing its use consciously and appropriately. The use of geographic information systems has introduced new methods to survey and soil mapping, through modeling, from the use of basic thematic maps and numerical terrain models and digital elevation models, which enable, especially, understanding the relationship between the landscape and the soil classes. The objective of this work was the completion of the survey and mapping of soils of city of Inconfidentes - MG, using geoprocessing techniques, and the pedological classification until the fourth categorical level by generalising from the morphological description and analytical profiles determinations representative soil. It was carried out to characterize their field of study, the acquisition and processing of cartographic data. The morphological description of the profiles was held in fixed locations, representative of the different soil classes of the municipality. The physicochemical analyzes were performed on all samples from the horizons of soil profiles collected in the field. Widespread soil survey was prepared by processing the cartographic data obtained in the field and, with the use of ArGIS 9.3 software. The pedological mapping of the municipality was then the result of the integration and correlation of altimetry data, the slope, the drainage network, the river channel, relief and lithology associated with the characterization made in the field and the analytical determinations. As a result, it was possible to map the areas of occurrence of Ferrasols, Cambisols and Gleysols, the three most representative soils of the municipality orders, sorting them until the fourth categorical level. The use of geotechnology tools proved very useful for the characterization of soil classes and subsequent generalization, since through them it was possible to infer the environmental conditions of soil formation and integrate them with field data and laboratory analysis. Keywords: Cambisols, Gleysols, Ferrasols, classification, hillslope.


2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 241
Author(s):  
Anastasio García-Roca ◽  
José Manuel de Amo

In this work we analyse the evolution of fanfictions related to four of the most popular current fandom series: Harry Potter, Twilight, The Hunger Games and Divergent. This is a descriptive investigation wherein the temporal evolution of fanfic production is studied. The research focuses mainly on the relationship between the periods of greatest creative fanfiction activity and the publishing of the different books of the respective series, their transmedia expansion and film adaptations, among others. The study has allowed us to observe that these fan communities are generally ephemeral, although strongly united by ties of affinity, as well as being creative and active. The results obtained suggest that these vernacular literary practices are the source not only of motivation, but also of a formative process of reading and writing that can be planned and developed in formal learning contexts


2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlo Fanelli

This article explores how the politics and economics of austerity has influenced collective bargaining between the CUPE Locals 79/416 and the city of Toronto. I explore the relationship between neoliberalism and workplace precarity, drawing attention to the importance of the municipal public sector to trade unionism and the political potential of urbanized Left-labour radicalism. Following this, I provide an overview of the repeated attempts by City Council to extract concessions from unionized workers with a focus on the concession-filled 2012 round of bargaining and its relationship to earlier rounds. In what follows I discuss the implications of austerity bargaining for Locals 79 and 416 members, drawing attention to the repercussions this may have for other public sector workers. To conclude, I propose an alternative political strategy for municipal public sector unions, stressing the importance of a radicalized labour approach. It is my contention that this requires the development of both alternative policies and an alternative politics rooted in demands for workplace democracy and social justice.


2019 ◽  
pp. 263-284
Author(s):  
Robert Rahman Raman

This essay examines the interaction between different sections of Bombay’s working population and the Indian National Congress during the first two years of the Civil Disobedience movement. It looks at this engagement primarily through the vernacular archives, and explores the divergent, sometimes conflicting, trends in the articulations of nationalism in the Civil Disobedience movement and the Congress. This essay draws upon Masselos’ work and focuses on the spatial templates of the Civil Disobedience movement. It maps the relationship between the functioning of the local units of the Congress and the political infrastructure of the city’s mill districts. It argues that there was a co-relation between their mobilization practices in the city’s working-class neighborhoods and their attempt to appropriate social spaces.


2018 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 195
Author(s):  
Luiz Antonio Gloger Maroneze ◽  
Jamile Cezar de Moraes ◽  
Mary Sandra Guerra Ashton

O objetivo desse artigo é analisar os projetos culturais Clic Fotográfico Turístico e Caminhos da Memória e suas contribuições para a discussão da cidadania em Caxias do Sul, RS. Quanto à metodologia, foram utilizadas a pesquisa bibliográfica e a documental para a constituição da base conceitual e a caracterização dos dois projetos respectivamente. Além da observação participante ao projeto Caminhos da Memória, aplicação de questionários e realização de entrevistas. Como resultados, verificou-se que as duas atividades propõem reflexões a respeito do patrimônio cultural caxiense, bem como da relação entre os residentes e a cidade por meio de uma visão voltada à cidadania. Tanto o conceito turista cidadão como a metodologia da educação patrimonial estão inseridas nas políticas públicas municipais, a fim de motivar a sociedade a participar ativamente na valorização da cultura, da identidade local e da memória para o desenvolvimento de Caxias do Sul.Palavras-chave: Turismo. Projetos culturais. Caxias do Sul/RS.ABSTRACTThis article aims at analyzing the cultural projects Clic Fotográfico Turístico and Caminhos da Memória and their contributions to the discussion on citizenship in Caxias do Sul/RS. With regard to the methodology, bibliographic and documentary researches have been carried out to build up the conceptual basis and the characterization of both projects, respectively. Besides participant observations in the project Caminhos da Memória, further investigation took place through questionnaires and interviews. As a result, the projects offer reflections on the cultural heritage from Caxias do Sul/RS, as well as on the relationship between residents and the city, through a citizenship perspective. Likewise, the citizen tourist concept and the heritage education methodology are inserted in the local public policies in order to motivate the society to actively participate in the enhancement of the local culture, identity and memory, for the development of Caxias do Sul.Keywords: Tourism. Cultural projects. Caxias do Sul/RS.


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