Transformation or Assimilation? Examining Identity and Organizational Tensions at Full Figured Fashion Week

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 29-45
Author(s):  
Joy Cox ◽  
Bernadette M. Gailliard ◽  
Shardé M. Davis
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Safe Space ◽  
Fashion Industry ◽  
The Us ◽  
Body Positive ◽  
Fat Bodies ◽  
Organizational Tensions

Full Figured Fashion Week (FFFWeek) is a week-long event envisioned to be a countervailing force that challenges traditional body standards in the US fashion industry, showcasing plus-sized models and offering a safe space for fat bodies to commune and patronize plus size vendors. However, two years of participant observations with a critical lens has revealed how FFFWeek employed organizational decisions that demonstrate the complicated context of fashion and fatness, along with the ongoing struggle between body positive and fat accepting discourses, and the inner workings of capitalism and hegemony as an attempt to create social change.

The Ruse of Repair

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Stuelke
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Queer Studies ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Reading Practices ◽  
Structural Racism ◽  
Neoliberal Capitalism ◽  
Neoliberal Governance ◽  
The Us ◽  
Us Government

Since the 1990s, literary and queer studies scholars have eschewed Marxist and Foucauldian critique and hailed the reparative mode of criticism as a more humane and humble way of approaching literature and culture. The reparative turn has traveled far beyond the academy, influencing how people imagine justice, solidarity, and social change. In The Ruse of Repair, Patricia Stuelke locates the reparative turn's hidden history in the failed struggle against US empire and neoliberal capitalism in the 1970s and 1980s. She shows how feminist, antiracist, and anti-imperialist liberation movements' visions of connection across difference, practices of self care, and other reparative modes of artistic and cultural production have unintentionally reinforced forms of neoliberal governance. At the same time, the US government and military, universities, and other institutions have appropriated and depoliticized these same techniques to sidestep addressing structural racism and imperialism in more substantive ways. In tracing the reparative turn's complicated and fraught genealogy, Stuelke questions reparative criticism's efficacy in ways that will prompt critics to reevaluate their own reading practices.

Changing minds via collective action: Exposure to the 2017 Women’s March predicts decrease in (some) men’s gender system justification over time

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 678-689 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamar Saguy ◽  
Hanna Szekeres
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
System Justification ◽  
Gender Identification ◽  
High Exposure ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Us ◽  
Gender System ◽  
Over Time

Even though social change efforts are largely aimed at impacting upon public opinion, there is an overwhelming scarcity of research on the potential consequences of collective action. We aimed to fill this gap by capitalizing on the widespread 2017 Women’s March that developed across the US and worldwide in response to Donald Trump’s inauguration. We assessed changes in gender system justification of men and women over time—before and right after the Women’s March ( N = 344). We further considered participants’ level of gender identification and reported levels of exposure to the march as predictors of change. Results showed that gender system justification decreased over time, but only among low-identified men with relatively high exposure to the protests. For men highly identified with their gender, gender system justification actually increased with greater exposure to the protests. For women, we did not observe changes in gender system justification. Implications for collective action and for gender relations are discussed.

A Phenomenological Study of Female and Feminist Identities Among Iranian Muslim Immigrant Women

2021 ◽  
pp. 39-60
Author(s):  
Mozhgan Malekan
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Immigrant Women ◽  
Religious Identities ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Gender Consciousness ◽  
Self Image ◽  
The Us ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Definition Of

Little is known about Iranian Muslim immigrant women in the US with respect to their female and feminist identities and the interconnections with Islam and immigration. The aim in the current study was to provide detailed answers to the research questions using diagrammatic elicitation, semi-structured individual interviews, and observation as the primary tools for collecting data. Two themes—immigration and experiencing more freedom and autonomy and immigration and different conditions—emerged through diagrammatic elicitation. Five themes emerged during the interviews. These themes included experiencing social change and a new definition of the situation, experiencing different values, empowerment and emancipation, fulfillment of needs, and self-image. Three themes appeared from observation of the participants in the group meetings: gender identity versus national and religious identities, America the land of opportunities, and to be or not be is the question. The current study suggests that the participants are experiencing a sort of gender consciousness and agency.

Examining Change

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Whitney Sanford
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Raw Milk ◽  
Intentional Communities ◽  
Historical Overview ◽  
Risk Regulation ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Us ◽  
Social Tensions ◽  
Community Ties

Examining change explores some of the social tensions around aging, food, and consumerism that contemporary intentional communities address. The chapter offers a brief historical overview of social change in the US, but focuses on contemporary anxieties that have motivated the formation of more recent intentional communities. While independence is a critical American value, many people crave stronger community ties, especially as they age. Similarly, a newly food-aware U.S. public wants the freedom to experiment with foods such as raw milk, but demands the safety that accompanies regulated foods, demonstrating tensions between risk, regulation, and authority. This chapter outlines why some people want change and how intentional communities are testing solutions to social problems.

‘Agitate! Agitate! Agitate!’: Sport as a site for political activism and social change

Organization ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 952-968
Author(s):  
Kwame J. A. Agyemang ◽  
John N. Singer ◽  
Anthony J. Weems
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
Political Protest ◽  
Race And Racism ◽  
High Profile ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
A Site ◽  
Coffee Shops

Is sport an appropriate forum for activists to engage in political protest? In recent years, this question has been the subject of conversations in households, public spaces such as barbershops and coffee shops, and social media and newsrooms, as various high-profile athletes have used their sport platforms to call attention to various social injustices existing within the US society. The purpose of the following interview is to provide further insight into this intersection between sport and politics and the use of sport as a site for political resistance and social change. Dave Zirin, a critical sports journalist, is the sports editor for The Nation and author of several books on the politics of sport. This interview with Dave Zirin offers a nuanced understanding on the recent occurrences involving athlete activism and the overall use of sport as a site for political activism and social change. Topics covered include race and racism in America, social responsibility, and social movements, among others.

Campus sustainability in the US: Environmental management and social change since 1970

2018 ◽  
Vol 196 ◽  
pp. 564-575 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camille Washington-Ottombre ◽  
Garrett L. Washington ◽  
Julie Newman
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Campus Sustainability ◽  
The Us

Gatekeeping Stories of Dissent and Mobility

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 155-168
Author(s):  
Rafael Pérez-Torres
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Upward Mobility ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Ethnic Identification ◽  
Class Mobility ◽  
The Us ◽  
Upward Social Mobility ◽  
And Control

Abstract Three recent studies meditate on the significance of narratives by and about racial subjects and exiled radicals in an age of increased social surveillance and control. Elda María Román in Race and Upward Mobility (2017) analyzes popular stories about racially or ethnically identified characters who, seeking upward social mobility, face a quandary. They try to sustain an empowering sense of racial affiliation while seeking to gain upward social and class mobility. Permissible Narratives (2017) by Christopher González analyzes how the form taken by narratives about racial and class affiliation serves to mark ethnic identification. Latinx literary texts that do not follow prescribed forms deliberately undo aesthetic norms and thus enact a kind of transgressive Latinidad. Where the US forms the sociocultural parameters of these two books, Teresa V. Longo’s Visible Dissent (2018) considers the sociocultural interchanges between the US and Latin American writers who articulate a literature of opposition, resistance, and dissent against repressive forms of social and political control. Each study weighs a hope for transformative social change against the power of the efficient, impersonal, even brutal management that comprises modernity.

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