scholarly journals Adaptive Reuse of Sport Stadiums and Collective Memories: Rexall Place as a Site for the Continuation of the Oilers Dynasty and Civic Pride

INvoke ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
SUSA Submissions ◽  
Alec Skillings
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Adaptive Reuse ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Technological Advancement ◽  
Sports Fans ◽  
Collective Memories ◽  
Cultural Attitudes ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
The Social ◽  
A Site

Sports stadiums work to shape the identity of cities and reflect their cultural attitudes. From the Luzhniki Sports Complex’s material representation of Soviet Russia’s political leanings and ideologies to the Houston Astrodome’s display of technological advancement, stadia architecture has strong connections to regional zeitgeists. In this paper, I explain the importance of stadia architecture and how it is embedded in the collective memories of sports fans and citizens. As well, I explain how stadia architecture carries political and social consequences. Adaptive reuse or demolition of abandoned stadia also carries social and political consequences as stadia have the ability to embody the social history and civic imagination of their cities. I then present the case of Edmonton's Rexall Place arena, and provide an account of why it is important to repurpose the structure as a place for hockey. Ultimately Edmonton's collective memories and identity are held within the cement walls of Rexall Place, and the demolition of the structure would be detrimental to the hockey-centric civic identity and history.

scholarly journals The Sonic Intra-Face of a Noisy Feminist Social Kitchen

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliana España Keller
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Social History ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Local Politics ◽  
Social Geography ◽  
The Body ◽  
Ethical Practices ◽  
The Social ◽  
A Site

This paper asks what is the value of transforming the kitchen into a sonic performative work and public site for art and social practice. A Public Kitchen is formed by recreating the private and domestic space of a kitchen into a public space through a sonic performance artwork. The kitchen table is a platform for exploring, repositioning and amplifying kitchen tools as material phenomena through electronic and manual manipulation into an immersive sonic performance installation. This platform becomes a collaborative social space, where somatic movement and sensory, sonic power of the repositioned kitchen tools are built on a relational architecture of iterative sound performances that position the art historical and the sociopolitical, transforming disciplinary interpretations of the body and technology as something that is not specifically exclusively human but post-human. A Public Kitchen represents a pedagogical strategy for organizing and responding collectively to the local, operating as an independent nomadic event that speaks through a creative practice that is an unfolding process. (Re)imagining the social in a Public Kitchen produces noisy affects in a sonic intra-face that can contribute to transforming our social imaginations, forming daring dissonant narratives that feed post-human ethical practices and feminist genealogies. This paper reveals what matters—a feminist struggle invaluable in channeling the intra-personal; through the entanglement of the self, where language, meaning and subjectivity are relational to human difference and to what is felt from the social, what informs from a multi-cultural nomadic existence and diffractive perspective. The labored body is entangled with post-human contingencies of food preparation, family and social history, ritual, tradition, social geography, local politics, and women’s oppression; and is resonant and communicates as a site where new sonic techniques of existence are created and experiences shared.

scholarly journals Of Modernity and Public Sociology: Reflections on a Career So Far

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-35
Author(s):  
Claude S. Fischer
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Public Sociology ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
History Of Technology ◽  
Personal Networks ◽  
Middle Range ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

My research so far has followed an interest in the classic concern about the social consequences of modernization, which led me to study urbanism, personal networks, the history of technology, and most extensively, American social history. A commitment to public sociology led me to a book on inequality, Contexts magazine, contributions to general media, a blog, and badgering sociologists about their writing. Some consistent themes include trying to address big questions with middle-range empirical work, focusing on ordinary lives and living, insisting on rigorous evidence whatever the method, and communicating with as wide an audience as lucidly as possible. The article closes with a few lessons learned.

Some Thoughts on the Social Structure After a Bombing Disaster

1956 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 206-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack Hirshleifer
Keyword(s):  
Social Consequences ◽  
Economic Power ◽  
Historical Knowledge ◽  
Social Decision ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
Extreme Stress ◽  
The Social ◽  
Limited Degree ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Impact

While much is known about the impact of bombing on an economy's material ability to produce—in terms of the physical survival of resources—comparatively little thought has been devoted to the broader social consequences of truly major bombing. The social and political consequences, however, may well dominate the material or more narrowly economic ones; resources potentially of value may either remain unutilized or may be improperly or anti-socially employed, as a result of the impairment or collapse of our accepted processes of social decision. Our purpose here is to attempt to explore the social consequences of a major bombing disaster by an examination of the effects of bombing upon the organization of society, upon the distribution of political and economic power, and upon institutions relevant to the effective functioning of society. Needless to say, we can only make preliminary or tentative conjectures (or, rather, speculations), in view of the complexity of the subject and the limited degree of historical knowledge of the functioning of human societies under conditions of extreme stress. Nevertheless, it seems desirable to explore these questions—since the answers may have important implications for prewar planning designed to promote the ability of our society to cope with such disasters.

The Archival Afterlives of Prison Officers in Idi Amin’s Uganda: Writing Social Histories of the Postcolonial State

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 245-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Bruce-Lockhart
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
Postcolonial State ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
A Site ◽  
Official Records

Abstract:Africans historians have recently paid more attention to postcolonial archives, trying to locate these elusive collections as well as thinking more critically about how to use them. Uganda, in particular, has been an important site for reconsidering the role of postcolonial archives in historical research. Using the archives of Uganda Prisons Service as a case study, this article explores how official records can illuminate the social histories of public servants and the postcolonial state. Along with surveying the state of Uganda’s official archives – particularly those of the Uganda Prisons Service – it explores how these documents provide insight into the everyday experiences and concerns of prison officers after independence. Beyond its bureaucratic functions, paperwork served as a site in which officers could negotiate their responsibilities and relationships. Through the archives of the Uganda Prisons Service, we learn about the social worlds of prison officers within and beyond the prison walls, thus better understanding their experience of public service beyond narratives of corruption and brutality. Ultimately, this article demonstrates the ways in which official archives can be used to study the postcolonial state from a social history perspective.

The Political Consequences of Distrust

2020 ◽  
pp. 23-49
Author(s):  
Hannah L. Walker
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
The Political ◽  
Carceral State ◽  
Loved One ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
The Social

Over 50% of Blacks and Latinos and nearly 30% of Whites have proximal contact with the criminal justice system. This group of people experience the consequences of the carceral state vicariously via a loved one, but do not face such extraordinary resource and efficacy barriers to civic and political engagement as do their custodial counterparts. Diminished trust in government that results from negative proximal encounters with the carceral state can be leveraged into increased political action. This is true for all three racial subgroups, but race structures the narratives by which individuals make sense of their experiences with injustice. Chapter 2 defines personal and proximal contact, identifies the social consequences of contact, and develops a theory by which contact can politically mobilize.

The Dangers of Poetry

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin M. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
High Culture ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Acts ◽  
History Of

Poetry has long dominated the cultural landscape of modern Iraq, simultaneously representing the literary pinnacle of high culture and giving voice to the popular discourses of mass culture. As the favored genre of culture expression for religious clerics, nationalist politicians, leftist dissidents, and avant-garde intellectuals, poetry critically shaped the social, political, and cultural debates that consumed the Iraqi public sphere in the twentieth century. The popularity of poetry in modern Iraq, however, made it a dangerous practice that carried serious political consequences and grave risks to dissident poets. The Dangers of Poetry is the first book to narrate the social history of poetry in the modern Middle East. Moving beyond the analysis of poems as literary and intellectual texts, Kevin Jones shows how poems functioned as social acts that critically shaped the cultural politics of revolutionary Iraq. He narrates the history of three generations of Iraqi poets who navigated the fraught relationship between culture and politics in pursuit of their own ambitions and agendas. Through this historical analysis of thousands of poems published in newspapers, recited in popular demonstrations, and disseminated in secret whispers, this book reveals the overlooked contribution of these poets to the spirit of rebellion in modern Iraq.

The Chivalric Turn

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Crouch
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social History ◽  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Many ◽  
First Time ◽  
History Book

This is a book about the medieval obsession with defining and practising superior conduct and the social consequences that followed from it. It is also a book about how historians since the seventeenth century have understood medieval conduct, because in many ways we still see it through the eyes of the writers of the Enlightenment. This is nowhere more so in its defining of superior conduct on the figure of the knight, and categorizing it as Chivalry. Using for the first time the full range of the considerable twelfth- and thirteenth-century literature on conduct in the European vernaculars and in Latin, the book describes and defines what superior lay conduct was in European society before Chivalry, and maps how Chivalry emerged and redefined superior conduct in the last generation of the twelfth century, and suggests how and why it did. The emergence of Chivalry was, however, only one part of a major social change, because it also made necessary a new and narrower definition and understanding of what Nobility was, which had consequences for the medieval understanding of gender, social class, violence, and the limits of law. The book tackles social change on a European scale and in the emerging understanding that twelfth- and thirteenth-century elite society was a predominantly literate one. Indeed, the majority of the many male and female writers on conduct used here (mostly for the first time in a social history book) were not churchmen, but lay people giving their opinion on their own society and its problems.

scholarly journals Cooperativism in a credit crisis: lessons from the Argentine worker takeovers

2020 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 505-521
Author(s):  
Dania Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
Credit Markets ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
The Political ◽  
Credit Crisis ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
The Social ◽  
Debt Default ◽  
Political Spectrum

Contemporary visions of cooperativism – as a political project to limit the social consequences of selfregulating credit markets – inform regulatory debates across the political spectrum. Based on historical examples where similar visions of cooperativism and self-regulation have failed, this article explores the mechanisms by which cooperatives can successfully negotiate the failure of credit markets. It is in this context that lessons can be learned from recent worker takeovers that followed the Argentine debt default in 2001. In 2001, Argentine workers took over the factories that employed them and proceeded to successfully negotiate their way through the credit crisis triggered by the Argentine debt default as cooperatives. The workers resumed – and in some cases sustained – production in factories where they were formerly employed. Most of the takeovers were organised (and subsequently legally recognised) as cooperatives and some continue to hold the factories as such. Their success – albeit for limited periods for most – is premised on a fundamental restructuring of the property rights that underpinned pre-default, credit markets. In the case of Argentina, the debt default and the fundamental restructuring this entailed had political consequences in so far as its reliance on self-regulating credit markets had to be renegotiated. This article concludes by showing that self-regulating credit markets engender forms of corporatism and this is – in the absence of a similar political renegotiation – inimical to contemporary visions of cooperativism.

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