scholarly journals House on Fire: a political and collaborative art case

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 149-163
Author(s):  
Teresa Mora
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Data ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Art ◽  
European Network ◽  
Collaborative Model ◽  
Collaborative Practices ◽  
The Social ◽  
Art Practices ◽  
Collaborative Art ◽  
Social Scientific

In this article, political art is perceived at the confluence of four trends in artistic practices today: the social turn, the reality urgency, the utopian impulse, and the collaborative practices. This confluence is articulated on the assumption that political art practices are, at least to a certain point, enhancing the transition to a collaborative model between artistic culture and social scientific and philosophical culture. Framed by this double perspective on art – political and collaborative –, this article is drawn from a major study about the House on Fire European network of festivals and theatres. The qualitative data that support this research consists of House on Fire’s activity plans and programmes from 2012 to 2015. The qualitative data was also analysed by resorting to research notes taken by the researcher in the position of spectator. This study is guided by the following aims: to explore the political agency position of House on Fire; to identify the focus of society criticism in the House on Fire’s programmes; and to construct an exploratory typology of collaborative modalities between artistic culture and social-scientific and philosophical culture.

Collaborative challenges: Negotiating the complicities of socially engaged art within an era of neoliberal urbanism

2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 273-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cecilie Sachs Olsen
Keyword(s):  
Urban Politics ◽  
Institutional Constraints ◽  
Social Functions ◽  
Transformative Experiences ◽  
Socially Engaged Art ◽  
Neoliberal Urbanism ◽  
The Social ◽  
Art Practices ◽  
Collaborative Art ◽  
Urban Contexts

This article provides a close and practice-led investigation into the complexities and complicities of politicised collaborative art within an era of neoliberal urbanism. In addressing these complicities from a practice-led perspective, the paper provides a nuanced account of the social functions of art based on critical perspectives relating to issues of urban politics as well as politics of collaboration, participation and representation. Reflecting on experiences with facilitating socially engaged artistic projects in Basel, Monthey and London, I demonstrate the challenges faced when struggling to adhere to the artistic aims of providing transformative experiences, while at the same time working within various neoliberal and institutional constraints and expectations. Rather than succumbing into totalising narratives about how art practices are inevitably instrumentalised as they become part of neoliberal structures, logics and ambitions, the paper emphasises the need to think more carefully about the politics of this practice in terms of how it constantly negotiates and reflects the subtle power relations that exist between artists and their collaborators in urban contexts.

Economie des changements climatiques et structuration du champ de l’économie

2017 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pauline Huet
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Research Area ◽  
The Political ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Political Field ◽  
The Social ◽  
Peripheral Areas ◽  
Changements Climatiques

This article deals with the Economics of Climate Change (ECC). This research area emerged in the mid-1970s and has grown exponentially since the mid-2000s. This paper is based on Richard Whitley’s characterisation of the general economic field as a ‘partitioned bureaucracy’, which makes a distinction between the centre and peripheral areas. We use bibliometric data to highlight the structure of the ECC and measure to what extent Whitley’s category helps to understand this field better. To complete these quantitative data we use qualitative data, collected via survey and interviews, and we analyse scientific publications. With the help of this combination of data, we are able to provide some explanation of the structuration of the ECC, as well as the role of interdisciplinarity and links with the political field in this process. We also provide insights about the rise of climate change and global warming in the social hierarchy of objects in economics.

A Survey of the Discipline of Political Science in Iran

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-127
Author(s):  
Maryam Rutner
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
The Political ◽  
Science Students ◽  
Limited Extent ◽  
The Social ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
University Curricula

AbstractThis survey examines the content and purpose of the political science discipline in respect to seven prominent universities in Iran and its significance for the Iranian society. It is based on quantitative and qualitative data including personal interviews and survey results, as well as theses conducted by political science students, academic articles written by scholars in the field, and university curricula. The survey suggests that Iranian political science after the 1979 revolution addresses contemporary political problems and challenges related to Iran only to a limited extent, and is predominantly theoretical and “borrowed” in nature, despite the goal during the Cultural Revolution to indigenize and Islamicize the social sciences.

Prostituted Girls and the Grown-up Gaze

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 302-313
Author(s):  
Ummni Khan
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Sexual Exploitation ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Sex Trade ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Textual Content ◽  
Socio Economic Factors

This article examines the representation of under-age girls in the sex trade through a comparative analysis of the social scientific monograph Gangs and Girls: understanding juvenile prostitution and the fictional novel, Lullabies for Little Criminals. Through a semiotic examination of the book covers, and a discursive deconstruction of the fairy-tale conventions of the textual content, the author considers how the ‘grown up gaze’ is both gratified and sometimes challenged. She further demonstrate that ironically, the fictional account in Lullabies offers a more nuanced consideration of the socio-economic factors that contribute to the abuse and sexual exploitation of children than the expert account in Gangs. The article concludes by suggesting ‘grown ups' must be cognizant of the voyeuristic tendencies and the political pitfalls of adult renderings of girl prostitutes.

“On the Social-Economic Front”: The Polemics of Shtetl Research during the Stalin Revolution

2007 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Yalen
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Old Regime ◽  
International Debate ◽  
Statistical Knowledge ◽  
Small Market ◽  
Jewish Settlement ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Socioeconomic Data ◽  
The Relationship

ArgumentThis article explores the relationship between ideology and statistical knowledge in Soviet Yiddish scholarship during the first Five-Year Plan and Cultural Revolution. Specifically, it examines the political status of Yiddish-language socioeconomic research as a tool of state building in the shtetls (small market towns) of the former Pale of Jewish Settlement. Historically, many Jewish inhabitants of the shtetl worked as economic middlemen between city and countryside, a function that became politically untenable after 1917. The Soviet regime sponsored Yiddish socioeconomic data collection in order to monitor its efforts to transform the occupational structure of shtetl Jewry. Accordingly, this data was expected to demonstrate the steady self-disintegration of the shtetl as an obsolete artifact of the old regime. In fact, these Soviet Yiddish narratives inadvertently highlighted the endurance of the shtetl in Soviet life at both the concrete and discursive levels. A close reading of these sources provides insight into how a segment of the Soviet Jewish intelligentsia attempted to align itself within the new state's scientific establishment by fusing modern Jewish social scientific knowledge with Marxist-Leninist principles. In the polemics of the “shtetl problem” we find an example of how Soviet yidishe visnshaft registered the constantly shifting perceptions of ideological orthodoxy and deviation among Jewish Communists, and provoked international debate among Jewish demographers and economists as to the political use and abuse of statistics.

Artistic Research on Life Forms: Exploring the Intersections of Science, Art and Life in the Context of Globalization

Leonardo ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 41 (5) ◽  
pp. 468-477 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mojca Puncer
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Complex Structure ◽  
Life Forms ◽  
The Political ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Critical Commentary ◽  
The Social ◽  
Art Practices ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Everyday Reality

Contemporary art practices are characterized by the transformation of completed or finalized objects into open works, fluid spatial situations and relations in the social field. Art processes raise the question: Can the complex structure of artworks provide an analogy and methodology that art researchers can use to co-design our culture from anthropological, philosophical, aesthetic and sociopolitical perspectives? This paper addresses this question through an examination of the artistic use of, and critical commentary on, media and available technologies, and of the artistic treatment of life forms found in the work of the younger generation of Slovenian artists (Tratnik, Berlot, Peljhan, Lovšin and others). The strategies these artists employ in their projects significantly strengthen the case for a re-articulation of the aesthetic, the ethical and the political, through a transition in various territories: art, (biotechnological) science, technology, new media and everyday reality.

Partisans and Nationalists

2003 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-196
Author(s):  
Patrick Hossay
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Change ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
The Political ◽  
Critical Response ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Forces ◽  
Popular Appeal ◽  
Political Conditions ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Political Scene

The author provides a critical response to the social scientific literature that cast political interest and cleavages as the projection of sociocultural dynamics onto the political scene. Sociopolitical cleavages in general, and nationalism in particular, are thus viewed as having taken form outside the partisan arena, and only subsequent to their societal formation do they take on political importance. Through a comparison of the development of political nationalism in interwar Scotland and Flanders, the author argues for the importance of political forces in defining and shaping the political and social meaning and significance of nationalism. In Scotland, despite the potential popular appeal of nationalism, it does not emerge as a significant and autonomous political cleavage, principally due to configurations of partisan programs and alliances, and a politically unfavorable “demographic geometry.” In Flanders, on the other hand, markedly different political conditions fostered the development and societal significance of nationalism. Hence, political nationalism did not emerge as a necessary concomitant to societal and cultural change; it was in part the result of political conditions and institutions that could foster or constrain the sociopolitical significance and meaning of nationalism.

scholarly journals Professionalism and the Millbank Tendency: The Political Sociology of New Labour's Employees

Politics ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Webb ◽  
Justin Fisher
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
The Political ◽  
Sociology Of Professions ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Outcomes ◽  
Core Characteristics ◽  
Shed Light

This article analyses party employees, one of the most under-researched subjects in the study of British political parties. We draw on a blend of quantitative and qualitative data in order to shed light on the social and political profiles of Labour Party staff, and on the question of their professionalisation. The latter theme is developed through a model derived from the sociology of professions. While a relatively limited proportion of party employees conform to the pure ideal-type of professionalism, a considerably greater number manifest enough of the core characteristics of specialisation, commitment, mobility, autonomy and self-regulation to be reasonably described as ‘professionals in pursuit of political outcomes’.

Transnational Turkey: the everyday transnationalism and diversity of Turkish populations in Europe

2019 ◽  
pp. 225-254
Author(s):  
Deniz Neriman Duru ◽  
Adrian Favell ◽  
Albert Varela
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Linear Models ◽  
Religion And Politics ◽  
The Political ◽  
Guest Worker ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Eu

This chapter surveys the social transnationalism of the hugely diverse Turkish populations to be found in five of the EU member states in the EUCROSS study. It provides a portrait of a nationality well recognised as the most transnational in the continent, despite not enjoying the privilege of EU citizenship. The chapter stresses the internal heterogeneity of the population: Turkish nationals in different locations need careful distinguishing in terms of ethnicity – notably our samples of ethnic Turks and Kurds – socioeconomic status, religion and politics. Older stereotypes based on low-end ‘guest worker migration’ and linear models of immigration and integration no longer apply easily to the Turkish in Europe. Combining quantitative and qualitative data, the chapter surveys the social transnationalism which anchors Turkey in Europe, and then goes on to explore the political transnationalism of Turks revealed by their varying stances towards the Gezi Park protests of 2013, which took place as fieldwork was being conducted.

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