scholarly journals Fragmentary narrative reasoning. On the enthymematic structure of journalistic storytelling

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Zampa ◽  
Daniel Perrin
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Social Categories ◽  
Italian Language ◽  
Narrative Patterns ◽  
Narrative Mode

Journalists worldwide conceive of their work mostly as writing stories, because the narrative mode is extremely effective in delivering information to all social categories. Nonetheless, journalists hardly ever tell a whole story that complies with the criteria contemplated by narratology. Instead, they tell parts of a story and let the audience supply the rest, an operation made possible by the fact that narrative patterns are culturally shared by newswriters and their audiences. In this paper, we investigate some examples of fragmentary narratives as well as the journalists’ strategic reasons for using them, combining approaches to storytelling and to argumentation. The case studies are taken from Corriere del Ticino, the main Italian-language newspaper in Switzerland.

Interdependencies, caring, and commoning: The case of herders in Ethiopia and Germany

2021 ◽  
pp. 251484862110220
Author(s):  
Jill P Blau
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Social Categories

This paper examines commoning and practices of care from a feminist lens, here implying a focus on interdependencies of various spheres of life as well as social categories of difference. Through examples from two case studies of herders as commoners (the Nyangatom in Ethiopia and the Rechtler_innen in Germany), I establish connections between everyday that are inseparable when it comes to sustaining life and commons, while also highlighting conceptual challenges for feminist commons analysis.

Dance Music and Signification in Handel’s Opera Seria

2020 ◽  
pp. 131-162
Author(s):  
Gregory J. Decker
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Dance Music ◽  
Italian Language ◽  
Opera Seria ◽  
Modern Analytical ◽  
Historical Thought

This chapter makes a case for the interpretive significance of Baroque topics by examining historical thought and modern analytical precedent, detailing the types of significations these topics might convey, and presenting case studies that demonstrate the efficacy of musical topics in the analysis of opera seria. These case studies are drawn from the Italian-language operas of G. F. Handel and focus on his uses of the minuet and the gigue. The strategic use of dance topics in the late Baroque was likely meaningful to Handel’s audiences and can still be useful for interpretation today.

scholarly journals Interrogating Trans and Sexual Identities through the Conceptual Lens of Translocational Positionality

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michaela Rogers ◽  
Anya Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Social Location ◽  
Social Categories ◽  
Subject Positions ◽  
Sexual Identities ◽  
Structure And Agency ◽  
Original Contribution ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Do So

This article explores the confluence of trans identity and sexuality drawing on the concept of translocational positionality. In this discussion, a broad spectrum of gendered positionalities incorporates trans identity which, in turn, acknowledges normative male and female identities as well as non-binary ones. It is also recognised, however, that trans identity overlaps with other positionalities (pertaining to sexuality, for example) to shape social location. In seeking to understand subject positions, a translocational lens acknowledges the contextuality and temporality of social categories to offer an analysis which recognises the overlaps and differentials of co-existing positionalities. This approach enables an analysis which explores how macro, or structural, contexts shape agency (at the micro-level) and also how both are mediated by trans people's multiple and shifting positionalities. In this framing, positionality represents a meso layer between structure and agency. Four case studies are presented using data from a qualitative study which explored trans people's experiences of family, intimacy and domestic abuse. We offer an original contribution to the emerging knowledge-base on trans sexuality by presenting data from four case studies. We do so whilst innovatively applying the conceptual lens of translocational positionality to an analysis which considers macro, meso and micro levels of influence.

scholarly journals Constructing the Identities of ‘Responsible Mothers, Invisible Men’ in Child Protection Practice

2002 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather D'Cruz
Keyword(s):  
Child Maltreatment ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Social Constructionism ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Social Categories ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
The Social

Social constructionism offers valuable insights into the study of social problems for example, poverty, homelessness, crime and delinquency, including how social phenomena ‘become’ social problems, through social processes of interaction and interpretation. The social construction of child maltreatment has recently emerged as a site of scholarly inquiry and critique. This paper explores through three case studies how ‘responsibility for child maltreatment’ is constructed in child protection practice, with a specific focus on how ‘responsibility’ may also be gendered. In particular, how is gender associated with responsibility, such that the identity-pair, ‘responsible mothers, invisible men’, is a highly likely outcome as claimed in feminist literature? What other assumptions about ‘identities of risk’ or ‘dangerousness’ articulate with patriarchy and influence how responsibility is constructed? The case studies explore normally invisible processes by which social categories become ‘fact’, ‘knowledge’ and ‘truth’. Furthermore, the social construction of ‘responsibility for child maltreatment’ is extended by a reflexive analysis of my own constructionist practices, as researcher/writer in claims making. The analysis offers an insight into the dynamic and dialectical relationship between professional and organisational knowledge and practice, allowing for a critique of knowledge itself, the basis for the claims made and possible alternative ways of knowing.

scholarly journals Revisiting Borders and Boundaries: Exploring Migrant Inclusion and Exclusion from Intersectional Perspectives

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 477-485
Author(s):  
Carolin Fischer ◽  
Christin Achermann ◽  
Janine Dahinden
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Boundary Work ◽  
The Other ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Social Categories ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
The One

In recent years, scholarly interest in boundaries and boundary work, on the one hand, and borders and bordering, on the other, has flourished across disciplines. Notwithstanding the close relationship between the two concepts, “borders” and “boundaries” have largely been subject to separate scholarly debates, or sometimes treated as synonymous. These trends point to an important lack of conceptual and analytical clarity as to what borders and boundaries are and are not, what distinguishes them from each other and how they relate to each other. This Special Issue tackles this conceptual gap by bringing the two fields of studies together: we argue that boundaries/boundary work and borders/bordering should be treated as interrelated rather than distinct phenomena. Boundaries produce similarities and differences that affect the enforcement, performance and materialisation of borders, which themselves contribute to the reproduction of boundaries. Borders and boundaries are entangled, but they promote different forms and experiences of inclusion and exclusion. In this introduction, we elaborate the two concepts separately before examining possible ways to link them theoretically. Finally, we argue that an intersectional perspective makes it possible to establish how the interplay of different social categories affects the articulations and repercussions of borders and boundaries. The contributions in this Special Issue address this issue from multiple perspectives that reflect a variety of disciplines and theoretical backgrounds and are informed by different case studies in Europe and beyond.

scholarly journals An (Un)Marked Foreigner

Lateral ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shayna Silverstein ◽  
Darci Sprengel
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
International Security ◽  
German Society ◽  
Social Categories ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Social Construct ◽  
Critical Tension ◽  
Independent Musicians

This essay negotiates the critical tension between race as an analytic and social construct by examining how race becomes socialized in and through the production and presentation of Arab culture in two ethnographic case studies: how Syrian musicians negotiate musical multiculturalism as they integrate into German society and how independent musicians in Egypt navigate the racialized entanglements of national and international security logics that privilege Western foreigners. Both these case studies center the “foreigner” subject as one who embodies proximity to white power and delimits the boundaries of such power. We argue that the category of foreigner is thus a racialized construct that not only complicates the Black–white binary of race relations but strategically evades explicit discourses and practices of racecraft that are violent, discriminatory, and exclusionary. By provincializing critical race theory through the particularities of Arab lived experience, we illustrate how local social categories are entangled with historic legacies of empire and contemporary global logics of racialized difference while remaining sensitive to how conceptions of difference exceed Euro-American categories of race. Our work therefore directs attention towards alternative enactments of racialization within the Global South.

Italian Language and Literature

PMLA ◽  
1935 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 1299-1302
Author(s):  
J. E. Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Italian Language ◽  
Language And Literature

Corporate Sustainability: Challenge to Managerial Orthodoxies

2003 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dexter Dunphy
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Corporate Sustainability ◽  
Central Place ◽  
Marked Contrast ◽  
Sustainability Management

ABSTRACTThis paper addresses the issue of corporate sustainability. It examines why achieving sustainability is becoming an increasingly vital issue for society and organisations, defines sustainability and then outlines a set of phases through which organisations can move to achieve increasing levels of sustainability. Case studies are presented of organisations at various phases indicating the benefits, for the organisation and its stakeholders, which can be made at each phase. Finally the paper argues that there is a marked contrast between the two competing philosophies of neo-conservatism (economic rationalism) and the emerging philosophy of sustainability. Management schools have been strongly influenced by economic rationalism, which underpins the traditional orthodoxies presented in such schools. Sustainability represents an urgent challenge for management schools to rethink these traditional orthodoxies and give sustainability a central place in the curriculum.

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