scholarly journals All in a day's work

2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (s3) ◽  
pp. 88-110
Author(s):  
Michael Iantorno ◽  
Courtney Blamey ◽  
Lyne Dwyer ◽  
Mia Consalvo
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
White Collar ◽  
Fire Fighter ◽  
Taxi Driver ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Face ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender

Abstract Class depictions in videogames are prevalent, yet understudied. In this article, we analyse how the working class – particularly working-class men – have been depicted in videogames over the past 30 years. In doing so, we bring together a class- and gender-based analysis to study how narratives, representations, gameplay, and game systems construct the “working-class hero” as a central protagonist. This is done by examining eight paired examples of videogames that feature working-class characters in central roles, including janitor, fire-fighter, taxi driver, and bartender. Our analysis finds that some roles are glorified (such as firefighters), positioning their protagonists in direct conflict with white-collar settings and antagonists. However, many other roles task players with “doing their job” in the face of repetitive (and sometimes outlandish) working conditions. Through these examples, we document the portrayal of working-class videogame heroes, noting how videogames can both reinforce and subvert common media tropes.

scholarly journals Mercado de trabajo en el deporte y género: un estudio comparativo entre las condiciones de trabajo de las tituladas y los titulados en Ciencias de la Actividad Física y el Deporte por las universidades catalanas = Sport labor market and gender: a comparative study on working conditions of Physical Activity and Sport Science graduates by Catalan universities

2018 ◽  
pp. 195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Pérez-Villalba ◽  
Anna Vilanova ◽  
Susanna Soler Prat
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
University Graduates ◽  
Sport Science ◽  
Direct Discrimination ◽  
Indirect Discrimination ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender

Resumen: El presente artículo tiene como objetivo analizar los yacimientos de inserción profesional y las condiciones laborales de las tituladas y los titulados en Ciencias de la Actividad Física y el Deporte (CAFyD) a través de un estudio comparativo entre sexos. Para ello, en el año 2013, se administró un cuestionario a un total de 1.000 personas egresadas en CAFyD por las universidades catalanes. Los resultados indican que no existe una discriminación directa en las condiciones de trabajo, para un mismo cargo mujeres y hombres presentan condiciones similares. En cambio, sí que se ha detectado una discriminación indirecta fruto de la carga social y cultural que afecta a las preferencias de las mujeres a la hora de escoger un determinado yacimiento de inserción.Abstract: This paper aims to analyse the sources of employment for university graduates in Physical Activity and Sport Science through a gender-based comparative study. With this objective, in 2013, a questionnaire was administered to total of 1,000 university graduates in Physical Activity and Sport Science from Catalan universities. The results indicate that there is no direct discrimination in working conditions, for a same position women and men share similar conditions. However, an indirect discrimination has been detected as a result of the social and cultural burden that affects the preferences of women when accessing and choosing a particular insertion field.

scholarly journals Sol, sombra, y media luz

Pragmatics ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter C. Haney
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
American Identity ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Cancion Ranchera ◽  
Mexican American Identity

This paper analyzes a parody of the tango “A media luz” that was performed by Rodolfo Garcia, a Mexican American comedian who worked in his family’s tent show, the Carpa Garcia, in the early 1940s. I argue that by juxtaposing the generic conventions of the tango with those of the canción ranchera and by introducing carnivalesque humor, Mr. Garcia’s parody articulated a distinctly local Mexican American identity which was strongly linked to a sense of working-class masculinity. In this way, the parody highlights the class- and gender-based contradictions that were inherent in ongoing processes of Mexican American identity fonnation at mid-century.

Deporting black radicalism: Claudia Jones' deportation and policing blackness in the cold war

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (18) ◽  
pp. 39-63
Author(s):  
Denise Lynn
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Social Control ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Elites ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Cold War

This article looks at the relationship between Claudia Jones, the pioneering black Marxist feminist, and the border regime of the United States. The article makes the case that Jones' denial of citizenship, legal harassment, and later expulsion was not merely a product of the transgression of the restrictive Cold War limitation of freedom of speech but instead concretely related to her Blackness. Jones is placed as a key figure in challenging the economic determinism within party thought, placing emphasis on her as a trailblazer in position racial oppression as a form of racialised social control which transcended a purely-economic basis. This was a form of social control that political and economic elites exploited to control working-class and minority populations and prevent working-class unity. Her involuntary bordercrossing experiences are shown to reveal how anticommunism, white supremacy, and gender-based oppression cohered in post-war America, shaping Jones' ideas which would challenge fellow communists on both sides of the Atlantic.

““The Days of Old, the Days of Gold, the Days of '49””: Identity, History, and Memory at the California Midwinter International Exposition, 1894

2003 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 25-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
BARBARA BERGLUND
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
White Male ◽  
Male Dominance ◽  
History And Memory ◽  
The Past ◽  
International Exposition ◽  
Columbian Exposition ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The City

Following on the heels of Chicago's Columbian Exposition, San Francisco's Midwinter Fair generated representations of identities, histories, and memories that promoted a vision of social order that spoke to the hopes and fears of both the city and the nation. The version of history articulated at the Fair's '49 Mining Camp exhibit looked back to the past with nostalgia to construct meaningful identities for the present. Through that gauzy lens, it fashioned masculine historical identities that sought to assuage race, class, and gender-based anxieties in the present by emphasizing white male dominance and downplaying the economic dislocations associated with the expansion of industrial capitalism.

scholarly journals Biologism and Gender-based Violence in Contemporary Africa: Articulating a Panacea from Traditional Yorùbá Sexuality

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-60
Author(s):  
Babajide Olugbenga Dasaolu
Keyword(s):  
Gender Relations ◽  
Gender Construction ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Western Tradition ◽  
The Face ◽  
Critical Scrutiny ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender

Biologism is a theoretical conjecture which renders the ‘nature’ of persons in bodily processes and physical manifestations. Whilst dauntless scholarly contentions in the Western tradition have served sharply to indicate the flaws and limits of biologism, it is disturbing that biologism has become a dominant framework for the articulation of gender relations among contemporary Africans. This outlook derives perhaps, from the overwhelming influence wielded by Christianity and Islam on the minds of the contemporary African. However, a critical scrutiny of these religions reveals that not only do they endorse biologism but that they are replete with instances and verses in their scriptures that promote gender-based violence and patriarchy. In the face of these propositions, this research portends to revive the traditional Yorùbá account of gender relations as a plausible instance of ideas that are originally African, and capable of use for surmounting contemporary challenges. As a consequence, the study contextualizes the discourse within traditional Yorùbá culture relying on the Ifá corpus. It affirms that biologism had no apologists among the traditional Yorùbá. It further avers that gender construction among the traditional people is neither antagonistic nor hegemonic but flexible and complimentary. Hence, the recommendation that this indigenous perception be reinvigorated in contemporaneous times to check the discrimination and subordination of women and homosexuals in Africa is the onus of this drudgery

Gender, Free Will, and Woman-to-Woman Sexual Assault in Service Provider Discourses

Affilia ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-68
Author(s):  
KelleyAnne Malinen
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Free Will ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Service Provider ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Situational Analysis ◽  
The Past ◽  
Sociopolitical Context ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender

Although still less recognized than man-to-woman sexual assault, awareness of woman-to-woman sexual assault has grown sufficiently over the past three decades that we should no longer speak of its discursive emergence as the breaking of hitherto uninterrupted silence. This article begins the project of exploring and comparing discourses used to frame this phenomenon. Based on a situational analysis of interviews with service providers who had experience supporting survivors of woman-to-woman sexual assault, this text presents three discourses used to think about this form of violence: all violence is men’s violence, violence is a choice, and nonviolence is learned. Each discourse is characterized by a specific relationship between sexual violence, free will/determinism, and gender and by attendant rules for what can and cannot be said. As such, each communicates ideological commitments, which reflect and sustain specific approaches to antisexual violence work. Each seeks to negotiate a sociopolitical context of gender-based oppression and sexuality-based oppression that includes the risks and realities of silencing and recuperation of survivor speech. The objective of this article is to enable service provider reflection about the implications of diverse discourses used to frame woman-to-woman sexual assault and to discourage naturalization of any given approach.

scholarly journals Identifying Gender from Images of Face

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (VI) ◽  
pp. 4583-4587
Author(s):  
A. Gayathri
Keyword(s):  
Face Detection ◽  
Facial Features ◽  
Gender Classification ◽  
Machine Learning Technique ◽  
Learning Technique ◽  
The Face ◽  
Face Contour ◽  
Recognition Systems ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender

The main objective of this project is to classify the gender based on different facial features such as eyes, nose, mouth, overall features such as face contour, head shape, hair line etc. The gender classification algorithm uses machine learning technique (supervised learning). In this case the algorithm is trained on a set of male and female faces and then used to classify new data. In this project, face detection and gender classification methods are combined. The face detection acts as a pre-processing operation to the gender classifier that determines the gender.There are multiple methods in which facial recognition systems work, but in general, they work by comparing selected facial features from a given image with faces within a database. It is also described as a Biometric Artificial Intelligence based application that can uniquely identify a person by analyzing patterns based on the person's facial textures and shape.Automated gender recognition plays an important role in many application areas such as human computer interaction,biometric, surveillance, demographic statistics etc.

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Jobson
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Political Development ◽  
Labour Party ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
Future Developments ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face ◽  
Late Nineteenth

This chapter argues that nostalgia has shaped Labour’s political development since 1951 in a number of fundamental ways. Labour’s nostalgia-identity has revolved around positively idealised memories of a late nineteenth and early twentieth century heroic male traditional industrial working class. This nostalgia has proven to be problematic in the face of the social and economic changes that have taken place in Britain. It has limited the extent to which modernising agendas could be pursued, defined the parameters within which senior Labour figures could operate and determined the options available to the party. At certain times, Labour has also actively sought to reinstate and restore nostalgic visions of the past in the present. This chapter explores the significance of this book’s findings for the contemporary Labour Party and it outlines and problematizes potential future developments.

scholarly journals Dutiful citizen or a pragmatic professional? Voluntary retirement of Icelandic local councillors

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 169
Author(s):  
Eva Marín Hlynsdóttir
Keyword(s):  
Population Size ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
The Past ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
New Recruits ◽  
Local Councillors ◽  
Very High

This article explores the working conditions of Icelandic local councillors in relation to voluntary retirement from the council. In the past three elections, the turnover in councils has been very high, with approximately six out of every 10 council members being new recruits at the beginning of each term. The turnover has also highlighted possible gender issues, as more women than men (proportionally) leave the council after their first term. The findings reveal a significant difference between the councillors who plan to stay and those who opt to leave. This is in relation to the local authorities’ population size, satisfaction with remuneration, and seniority in the council. Thus, councillors in larger municipalities or councillors satisfied with their remuneration are more likely to run for council versus councillors from smaller municipalities and those less happy with their remuneration. Seniority is also a decisive factor, as the majority of all councillors leave after the first term. Significant differences were not found between the female and male councillors in relation to voluntary retirement. However, gendered differences were found in relation to institutional position and working conditions, suggesting a gender-based division of labour in local councils.

scholarly journals Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Ordinary People; A Social Distancing Challenge

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fahim Aslam
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
The Past ◽  
Technological Adaptation ◽  
The Common ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Novel Coronavirus

COVID-19 has become a part of everyone's day-to-day life, since the outbreak in 2019 the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has caused more than 4.5 million deaths with over 200 million cases reported globally. Currently, the number of infections and deaths are gradually lowering in different countries however the underlying challenges still exist. COVID-19 threatens human life, social functioning and development. Although numerous studies have been carried out in the past to highlight the key challenges very limited studies have been conducted from an ordinary person's viewpoint. In the fight against COVID-19, humanity has been pushed to a level which cannot be accepted where establishing that balance is a priority. This study focuses on highlighting the common issues faced by the ordinary public in the current era. Five key areas were identified to be the most essential; education, technological adaptation, transportation, mental health and gender-based violence (GBV).

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