scholarly journals Biohacking, Bodies and Do-It-Yourself

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mirjam Grewe-Salfeld
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Home Health ◽  
Cultural Narratives ◽  
Biological Particles ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Do It Yourself ◽  
Ambiguous Position

From self-help books and nootropics, to self-tracking and home health tests, to the tinkering with technology and biological particles - biohacking brings biology, medicine, and the material foundation of life into the sphere of »do-it-yourself«. This trend has the potential to fundamentally change people's relationship with their bodies and biology but it also creates new cultural narratives of responsibility, authority, and differentiation. Covering a broad range of examples, this book explores practices and representations of biohacking in popular culture, discussing their ambiguous position between empowerment and requirement, promise and prescription.

A Year of Bad Choices

Affilia ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 292-307 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather L. Storer
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Personal Responsibility ◽  
Teen Dating Violence ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Cultural Narratives ◽  
Analysis Methodology ◽  
Self Help ◽  
The Media ◽  
Societal Level ◽  
Teen Dating

Teen dating violence (TDV) is a significant social justice issue. The prevention of TDV requires interventions across ecological systems levels including the macro-level. The media has been implicated as influencing societal-level narratives about TDV. Using critical discourse analysis methodology, the purpose of this study is to unpack the dominant cultural narratives about TDV in young adult (YA) literature, a media genre that is marketed to adolescents. Data include YA novels with a central focus on TDV ( n = 8). Through these novels, the language of gender inequality was supplanted by a postfeminist rhetoric of choice, personal responsibility, and self-help.

“We’re Doing It Ourselves”

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 162-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suleiman Osman
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Community Gardens ◽  
Tree Planting ◽  
Budget Cuts ◽  
Parks And Recreation ◽  
Self Help ◽  
New Public ◽  
History Of ◽  
Left And Right ◽  
Do It Yourself

While the privatization of parks has been controversial since the 1980s, the origins of public–private parks in New York City were complex. During the 1970s fiscal crisis, the Parks and Recreation Department suffered severe budget cuts and was forced to reduce services drastically. Faced with parks that were falling apart, thousands of volunteers in block associations and community groups began to maintain parks on their own. They pioneered radical forms of “do-it-yourself” urbanism with guerrilla horticulture, community gardens, children-fashioned adventure playgrounds, tree-planting drives, makeshift ambulances, and volunteer patrols. By the early 1980s, these “self-help” efforts coalesced into new public–private parks. The history of public–private parks is thus one of privatizations in the plural and points to an array of antistatist impulses that emerged on both the left and right in the 1970s.

Economic Self-Help: How and Why

Worldview ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 24 (9) ◽  
pp. 17-19
Author(s):  
Sudhir Sen
Keyword(s):  
Life And Death ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Economic Stagnation ◽  
Do It Yourself ◽  
Industrial Societies ◽  
Double Digit

In recent years much has been said and written about the economics of small units and the virtues of individual or cooperative self-help. This trend has been spurred by several factors. The soaring cost of oil underscored the need to conserve energy and eliminate waste by every conceivable srneans. The spiraling cost of food, even in America; has made kitchen gardening more rewarding. The outbreak of double-digit inflation has forced many families to undertake more do-it-yourself jobs. The persistence of economic stagnation in industrial societies with stubbornly high rates of unemployment has impelled more people to create work for themselves. And there is the appalling case of poor nations, burdened with burgeoning populations, where the search for food and jobs has become a matter of life and death.

scholarly journals Political Potential: The Women of Instagram Poetry

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimia Rashidisisan
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Social Media Platform ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
Media Platform

Introduction The historical canon of poetry is predominantly male. The historical domain of policy making and politics is predominantly male. In the digital age, however, where the means to share or publish one’s thoughts and views is available to almost anyone, the strict gatekeeping of literature and political discourse is no longer upheld. The phenomenon of instapoetry, poetry published to Instagram, is an example of a social media platform being used by women to bring poetry into popular culture, and, by that means, address political issues surrounding womanhood. By addressing issues of female oppression, sexual assault, and race through poetry, female instapoets wield political power by raising awareness about these issues and influencing and mobilizing their young and female demographic to instigate social change. Rupi Kaur, a famous Canadian-Indian instapoet with 4 million Instagram followers, is an exemplar of the intersection of poetry, social media, and politics. Kaur’s female-centred content reaches millions of people and speaks to healing by way of self-help. Through her words and illustrations, readers are encouraged to think about the politics of being a woman today.

Performance Versus Safety: Understanding the Logics of Cultural Narratives Influencing Concussion Reporting Behaviors

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 529-548 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott W. Ruston ◽  
Jessica K. Kamrath ◽  
Alaina C. Zanin ◽  
Karlee Posteher ◽  
Steven R. Corman
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
National Collegiate Athletic Association ◽  
Cultural Narratives ◽  
Brain Health ◽  
Sports Media ◽  
Head Impacts ◽  
Reporting Behaviors ◽  
Reporting Decisions ◽  
Injury Reporting

Athlete safety and concussion injury have garnered considerable attention recently, and appropriate evaluation of athletes following head impacts depends, in part, on athletes’ self-reporting of the symptoms. The National Collegiate Athletic Association has focused primarily on concussion injury education to encourage self-reporting; however, such efforts have not been especially effective and many potential injuries continue to go unreported. This research investigates cultural narratives, derived from sports media and popular culture, and how their narrative logics contribute to the context in which student-athletes make head injury reporting decisions and how these narratives offer templates for understanding potential consequences. We argue that performance-oriented narratives are more prevalent and showcase pathways to more immediate satisfaction of desires or goals. Ultimately, we argue that not only does analysis of prevailing cultural narratives illuminate the context in which athletes make reporting decisions but also that such understanding could inform narrative-based interventions in order to emphasize and model recommended behaviors, such as injury reporting, and values, such as long-term brain health and player wellness.

‘Lessons in Humanity’

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-257
Author(s):  
Renana Keydar
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
International Criminal ◽  
Law And Society ◽  
Cultural Narratives ◽  
International Criminal Tribunals ◽  
Collective Response ◽  
International Military Tribunal ◽  
Military Tribunal ◽  
State Practice ◽  
The Impact

Abstract A narrative of progressive evolution of law and society has been dominating international legal discourse for some time now. This is evident in both practice and scholarship. This progress narrative provocatively mocked as ‘lessons in humanity’ in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, has been created through a rejection of revenge as a possible individual as well as collective response to mass atrocities and human rights violations. However, through an analysis of counter terrorism measures and cultural narratives of the post 9/11 era, this article argues that international criminal law’s anti-revenge narrative proves increasingly incommensurable with contemporary zeitgeist and undermines international law’s relevance to today’s reality. The article traces the origins of the anti-revenge narrative to the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal and analyses the impact of its idea of progressive retribution on contemporary international criminal tribunals. It examines the growing divide between the progress narrative of the law and the reemergence of state revenge in response to threats of terror in the post 9/11 era, in contemporary military practices and popular culture. The article shows that while international legal narrative treats the rejection of revenge as a settled question, state practice and cultural outputs suggest a ‘return of the repressed’ and that in fact the question is far from resolved.

scholarly journals Etyka w społeczeństwie skomputeryzowanym. Problem izolacji komunikacji współczesnej

Etyka ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 205-228
Author(s):  
Peter Kemp
Keyword(s):  
Communication Systems ◽  
Interpersonal Relations ◽  
Ethical Criticism ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Working At Home ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Third ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Jean Paul ◽  
Do It Yourself

This paper deals with an important aspect of ethics in computer society: isolation in communication systems. In the first part the author analyses the notion of self-help intimated by the computer’s many possibilities for “do-it-yourself” and working at home. Some experiments (from Denmark and Japan) concerning “the electronic cottage” prove that modern electronic communication entails the risk of being isolated and perverted by the narcissistic love of privacy. The second part focuses on some moral philosophers (especially Jean-Paul Sartre in his posthumous ethics) in order to define an ethics of help in interpersonal relations. This ethics is opposed to the ethics of self-help and may constitute a foundation for an ethical criticism of computer society. In the third part the limits of the personalist ethics of help are recognized: this ethics stresses face-to-face relations, but today it is necessary to take new considerations into account regarding responsibility at long distance in the space and time of electronic society.

scholarly journals Self-Help Housing in Indonesia

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
hendro muliarto
Keyword(s):  
Housing Policy ◽  
Urban Housing ◽  
General Information ◽  
The Self ◽  
Urban Village ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Low Incomes ◽  
Do It Yourself ◽  
The City ◽  
Urban Villages

The urgency of the problem of urban housing, presents the concept of self-help housing (self-help and do-it-yourself) who today continue to be expanded as new housing policy that is pro-poor to actively support the citizens to build housing initiative itself and reduce the burden of government in the provision of housing. Indonesia's self-help housing is often associated with urban village. Self-help housing means build house your own self without government help and the urban village is a village located in the city inhabited by natives and immigrants with low incomes. This urban village itself is often associated with the legality status of land, disorder and squalor than the forerunner of strong housing. In some cases urban villages deemed to have disturbing demolished and cause various conflicts between citizens and government. This paper wants to show the self-help housing formations in Indonesia in addition to get general information of self-help housing and to know about the sustainability of self-help housing in Indonesia.

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