scholarly journals From family planning to population policy: A paradigm shift in Serbian demography at the end of the 20th century

2008 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 181-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rada Drezgic
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Population Policy ◽  
Transition Theory ◽  
Structural Variables ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Late Twentieth Century ◽  
Dominant Paradigm

This paper traces changes in the dominant paradigm of Serbian demography that took palace in the context of major socio-political changes during the late twentieth century. The changes are traced both in the realm of research and social policy. It is argued that demographic transition theory remained the main explanatory model but that its modified version which gives precedence to ideational vs. structural variables gained the dominant status. In the realm of social policy the ideology of family planning was replaced by population policy ideology. It is further argued that alarming discourses and sharp rhetoric about population problems did not result in formulation of a system of specific measures of population policy. Thus, the author claims, demographic discourses that at the time saturated public spaces were constitutive for - gender and national -identity politics and not inconsequential for social policy.

Trashing Identity Politics: Does It Really Get Us Back to Class?

2005 ◽  
Vol 67 ◽  
pp. 42-49
Author(s):  
Nelson Lichtenstein
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
The Us ◽  
Privileged Status ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

Verity Burgmann creates an unnecessary and ahistorical distinction between the politics of class and that of the various identities through which the contemporary working class defines itself. Indeed, her vision of a self-conscious proletariat seems too male and too musty. Racial and gender identities have achieved a privileged status, compared to that of class, but this has less to do with the outlook of the left-wing academy than with the late twentieth-century transformation of law, politics, and social policy, both in the US and other multicultural nations.

Recalibrating Policies for Localism in Australia's Commercially Networked Tv Industry

2003 ◽  
Vol 108 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-144
Author(s):  
Tim Dwyer
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Contextual Data ◽  
International Trends ◽  
Tv News ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Regional Australia ◽  
News Programs ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

This article considers the emergence of policies for localism within the Australian commercially networked TV industry. By historically reflecting on the construction of equalisation policies of the late 1980s, their trajectory is traced through to the ABA's regional TV news inquiry in 2001–2002. Against a background of late twentieth century international trends to deregulation, the reregulation of Australian regional TV is linked with a discussion of possible alternative rules for content distribution. The origins of localism in US commercial TV and comparable recent US developments in TV news are reviewed. It is questioned whether the intended beneficiaries of the equalisation policy — under-served rural and regional TV audience — have in fact had their promise of increased television choices compromised, with the winding back of the key genre of local news programs in some areas. It is further argued that broader contextual data — for example, information arising from economic and social policy research in rural and regional Australia — could appropriately inform the development of localism policies for the longer term.

Major Figures in the Field of Global Studies

2018 ◽  
pp. 50-70
Author(s):  
Paul James
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Global Studies ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Second Shift ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

The field of global studies and the study of globalization are intertwined. This chapter traces the emergence of the study of globalization from isolated elaborations in the 1950s to the bourgeoning of the field of global studies across the turn of the century to the present. The chapter seeks to explain the intermediate context for the explosion of attention to the question of globalization. It argues that two key clusters of social change stand out: the changing nature of globalization across the middle to late twentieth century linked to uneven challenges to the assumed dominance of modernization; and the paradigm shift in social enquiry and intellectual practice, particularly in the ways of understanding theory. This second shift is used to explore a further quandary: Why did the new field of global studies tend to defer questions concerning the “why” of globalization to concentrate on issues concerning “how” and “what”?

scholarly journals The Postcolonial Crescent

1998 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 145-150
Author(s):  
Deonna Kelli
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
The State ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Islamic Identity ◽  
The Many ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

Identity politics has become the catch phrase of the postmodern age. Withconcepts such as "exile," "migrancy," and "hybridity" acquiring unprecedentedcultural significance in the late twentieth century, the postcolonial age givesway to new identities, fractured modes of living, and new conditions of humanity.Literature is a powerful tool to explore such issues in an era where a greatdeal of the world is displaced, and the idea of a homeland becomes a disrupted,remote possibility. The Postcolonial Crescent: Islam's Impact onContemporary Literature, is an attempt to discuss how Muslims negotiateidentity at a time of rapid and spiritually challenging transculturation. The bookuses fiction written by Muslims to critique the effects of colonialism, counteractmodernity, and question the status of Islamic identity in the contemporaryworld. It also can be considered as the primary introduction of contemporaryIslamic literature into the postcolonial genre. Muslim writers have yet to submit a unique and powerful commentary on postcolonial and cultural studies;this work at least softens that absence.The Postcolonial Crescent was conceived as a response to The SatanicVerses controversy. Therefore, it is “intimately involved in the interchangebetween religion and the state, and demonstrates that the roles Islam is playingin postcolonial nation-building is especially contested in the absence of broadlyacceptable models” (p. 4). Conflicting issues of identity are approached byinterrogating the authority to define a “correct” Islamic identity, the role ofindividual rights, and the “variegation of Islamic expression within specificcultural settings, suggesting through the national self-definitions the many concernsthat the Islamic world shares with global postcoloniality” (p. 7) ...

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
pp. 139-152
Author(s):  
Mary Robertson
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
Well Being ◽  
First Century ◽  
Social Justice Movements ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Justice Movements ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

The book concludes with a discussion of the importance of broad-based coalitional organizing that moves beyond over-simplified identity politics. As society evolves away from binary understandings of sexuality and gender, identities that essentialize those binaries will become less and less useful. Further, by acknowledging that as LGBTQ becomes more normal the boundaries between normal and queer get redrawn, adults who are concerned about the well-being of young people would be wise to pay close attention to how bodies are queered beyond simply sexuality and gender. The conclusion points to the Black Lives Matter and transgender movements as examples of twenty-first-century social justice movements that are responding to the ways the identity-based movements of the late twentieth century often failed to protect their most marginalized members.

The Multicultural Cringe

2021 ◽  
pp. 70-113
Author(s):  
Timothy Yu
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
North American ◽  
English Language ◽  
Shared History ◽  
Asian Immigration ◽  
White Writers ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

The category of the “Asian Australian” has emerged only in recent years, as the exclusionary “White Australia” policy gave way in the late-twentieth century to substantial waves of Asian immigration. Journals and anthologies from the mid-2000s onward have employed the idea of “Asian” identification with an eye on North American examples and shared history, but also with a discomfort with US-style “identity politics.” Ouyang Yu, among the first and best-known Asian Australian poets, is harshly critical of Australian multiculturalism, seeing it as a means of continuing to exclude non-white writers from Australian writing; remaining suspicious of any notion of belonging, his work instead presents itself as a kind of “invasion literature” that seeks to disrupt the English language.

Intersectionality and Marxism: A Critical Historiography

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 46-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley Bohrer
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
Complex Dynamics ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
First Century ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Critical Historiography ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

AbstractIn recent years, there has been renewed interest in conceptualising the relationship between oppression and capitalism as well as intense debate over the precise nature of this relationship. No doubt spurred on by the financial crisis, it has become increasingly clear that capitalism, both historically and in the twenty-first century, has had particularly devastating effects for women and people of colour. Intersectionality, which emerged in the late twentieth century as a way of addressing the relationship between race, gender, sexuality and class, has submitted orthodox Marxism to critique for its inattention to the complex dynamics of various social locations; in turn Marxist thinkers in the twenty-first century have engaged with intersectionality, calling attention to the impoverished notion of class and capitalism on which it relies. As intersectionality constitutes perhaps the most common way that contemporary activists and theorists on the left conceive of identity politics, an analysis of intersectionality’s relationship to Marxism is absolutely crucial for historical materialists to understand and consider. This paper looks at the history of intersectionality’s and Marxism’s critiques of one another in order to ground a synthesis of the two frameworks. It argues that in the twenty-first century, we need a robust, Marxist analysis of capitalism, and that the only robust account of capitalism is one articulated intersectionally, one which treats class, race, gender and sexuality as fundamental to capitalist accumulation.

8. Against universalism

2021 ◽  
pp. 110-124
Author(s):  
Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Culture Wars ◽  
Scientific Revolutions ◽  
Structure Of Scientific Revolutions ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Late Twentieth Century ◽  
American Thought

‘Against universalism’ explores the myriad challenges to universalism—in philosophy, social and political theory, and the arts—during the late twentieth century. It opens with a new view of 1960s radicalism, showing how its various quests for liberation radiated out into all arenas of American thought. Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) helped pave the way for the fire and fury of postmodernism, though many of the antiessentialist ideas of postmodernism were already present in early twentieth-century was rooting in dramatic transformations of thought. The 1980s and 1990s gave rise to identity politics and the culture wars, further challenging the notion of unified American ideals and identity.

Language Policy and Identity Politics in the United States. By Ronald Schmidt, Sr. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2000. 250p. $65.50 cloth, $21.95 paper.

2001 ◽  
Vol 95 (1) ◽  
pp. 220-221
Author(s):  
Anna Sampaio
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Immigration Policy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Latino Studies ◽  
Policy Initiatives ◽  
English Only ◽  
Temple University ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

In the late twentieth century, language conflicts became not only a central battle in public policy but also an essential medium for political expression among traditionally margin- alized groups. This is clearly reflected in a host of policy initiatives (from antiimmigrant propositions such as 187 in California, to English-only and antibilingual education move- ments in such states as Arizona, California, Colorado, and Florida) and the proliferation of studies linking language with Latino and Asian American politics (e.g., Antonia Darder and Rodolfo D. Torres, eds., The Latino Studies Reader: Culture, Economy and Society, 1998; and Louis De- Sipio and Rodolfo de la Garza, Making Americans, Remaking America: Immigration and Immigration Policy, 1998).

scholarly journals Representations of female obesity in contemporary cinema

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katie Drummond
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Fat Body ◽  
Hollywood Film ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
Artistic Production ◽  
Hollywood Movies ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

This essay will look at a particular aspect of the ongoing identity politics surrounding the representation of women and how fat females are commonly represented in Hollywood film in the late twentieth century. Although films are constructions that aim to reflect or depict reality, they often provide flattened characterizations of fat people, particularly fat women. Because no artistic production can escape the culture within which it is made, Hollywood movies, as well as independently funded and distributed "art house" films, often embed popular stereotypes or misconceptions in the characterization of marginalized people, including the obese. There are many ways to "represent" fatness in film: through the script, cinematography, plot, and the whether it uses a real fat body or a rubber suit. This paper will investigate how one might negotiate representations of obesity in a society that perceives fat as a social evil and fat individuals as "agents of abhorrence and disgust" (LeBesco, 2004, p. 1). -- Page 7.

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