scholarly journals Everything You Do: Young Adult Fiction and Surveillance in an Age of Security

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerry Mallan
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Young People ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Young Adult Fiction ◽  
Hunger Games ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Terror Attacks ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Article 5

Espionage, surveillance and clandestine operations by secret agencies and governments were something of an East–West obsession in the second half of the twentieth century, a fact reflected in literature and film. In the twenty-first century, concerns of the Cold War and the threat of Communism have been rearticulated in the wake of 9/11. Under the rubric of ‘terror’ attacks, the discourses of security and surveillance are now framed within an increasingly global context. As this article illustrates, surveillance fiction written for young people engages with the cultural and political tropes that reflect a new social order that is different from the Cold War era, with its emphasis on spies, counter espionage, brainwashing and psychological warfare. While these tropes are still evident in much recent literature, advances in technology have transformed the means of tracking, profiling and accumulating data on individuals’ daily activities. Little Brother, The Hunger Games and Article 5 reflect the complex relationship between the real and the imaginary in the world of surveillance and, as this paper discusses, raise moral and ethical issues that are important questions for young people in our age of security.

scholarly journals Saints on Stage: Popular Hagiography in Post-WWII Italy

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 216
Author(s):  
Daniela Cavallaro
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Young People ◽  
Educational Goal ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Lives Of The Saints

This article brings to light several examples of the hagiographic plays staged in Italy during the 1950s and early 1960s in parishes, schools, and oratories. The article begins with a brief introduction to the continued tradition of staging the lives of the saints for educational purposes, which focuses on the origins, aims, and main characteristics of theatre for young people of the Salesians, the order founded by Don Bosco in 1859. Next, it offers a brief panorama of the pervasive presence of the lives of the saints in post-WWII Italy. The main discussion of the article concerns the hagiographic plays created for the Salesian educational stages in the years between 1950 and 1965, especially those regarding the lives of young saints Agnes and Domenico Savio. The article concludes that the Salesian plays on the lives of the saints, far from constituting a mere exercise in hagiography, had a definite educational goal which applied to both performers and audiences in the specific times of Italy’s reconstruction and the cold war.

Social critique as a scientific virtue: an external scientific ethos in the making

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-82
Author(s):  
Ilya Kasavin
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
The State ◽  
Arms Race ◽  
Social Critique ◽  
Distributed Knowledge ◽  
Ethics Of Science ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Scientific Ethos

The article discusses the possibility of using the external ethics of science to formulate a new social contract between science and the state (society). To do this, it is necessary to re-think the value thesaurus inherited from the cold war and the arms race, when the state gave scientists a social order, concentrated resources and allowed the scientists them-selves to distribute them on the basis of anonymous (secret) expert reviewing and refereeing. The resulting model of relationships within the scientific community can be called Pareto-competition, in which the winner re-ceives everything and the vanquished are screened to the periphery. The current situation of Big Science and Distributed Knowledge puts on the agenda the question of transition to a different relationship in the style of Pare-to-collaboration. In it, both victory and defeat are common cause, each group is prescribed its share of obligations and advantages, and all scientists have a chance to move in the sys-tem of epistemic virtues and sins. The new state of the scientific community, described by the term “full constituency” (S. Fuller), not only leads to internal democratic consensus, but also allows for social criticism. Its desirable result is such a restructuring of the whole society, in which cognitive and moral values come to the fore.

From Subversion to Liberation: Homosexuals and the Immigration Act 1952–1977.

1987 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 1-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Girard
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Sex Roles ◽  
Political Dissent ◽  
Traditional Gender Roles ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Cold War

Historians of the Cold War have tended to focus on the repression of political dissidents during that period, but only recently has attention been shifted to the simultaneous suppression of other types of non-conformity, such as sexual variance and non-traditional gender roles. Parallel to the repression of internal political dissent which accompanied the international Cold War, another, more subtle, campaign was proceeding. This was the attempt to re-establish the social order, based on family life and traditional sex roles, which the war had tended to undermine.

scholarly journals Could be a socalist US President: Bernie Sanders case

2016 ◽  
pp. 161-175
Author(s):  
Jurij Latysh
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Young People ◽  
Democratic Party ◽  
The United States ◽  
Good Person ◽  
The Past ◽  
Economic Program ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Cold War

The article deals with the campaign of Senator B. Sanders for the nomination for the post of President of the United States Democratic Party, analyzes the causes of the rapid growth in popularity of socialist ideas among young people and Democrats, highlights the challenges faced by the only senator-socialist. With the departure of the past stereotypes of the Cold War in the United States there has been a change of attitude towards socialism. Among young people aged 18-29 support socialism than capitalism support. The basis of his election program Sanders put the request “political revolution” in the US. It offers a choice between his progressive economic program that creates jobs, increases wages, protects the environment and provides medical care for all, and the conversion to US economic and political oligarchy. Despite a significant increase Sanders rating so far inferior to Clinton, who enjoys the support of the party establishment, party donors and “superdelegates”. However, in competition with Trump Sanders has a much better chance through an excellent reputation. Despite high ratings, the majority of voters do not believe Clinton Trump reliable and honest candidates. Sanders – one of the candidates who most respondents think good person.

Prophets of Postmodern Provocation

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond A. Patton
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Pop Art ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sex Pistols ◽  
Mutual Interest ◽  
Cold War Era ◽  
The Cold War

This chapter situates the rise of punk in the avant-garde artistic networks that spanned the First, Second, and Third Worlds of the Cold War era. It examines the roles of UK punk impresario Malcolm McLaren, who launched the Sex Pistols, and Polish punk impresario Henryk Gajewski, and the mutual interest between burgeoning punks and international art circles involved in avant-garde art movements such as Pop Art and Fluxus. It shows how punk evolved in dialogue with the wider phenomenon of postmodernism, challenging conventional metanarratives structuring the social order, blurring genres, and striking down the boundaries between art and everyday life.

From the Cold War to the Clash of Civilizations

2019 ◽  
pp. 122-155
Author(s):  
Joan Wallach Scott
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Clash Of Civilizations ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter argues that, in the second half of the twentieth century, the old public/private distinction was dissolved in the realms of both religion and sexuality. This put into place concepts that prepared a new discourse of secularism in Western Europe and the Anglo-American world—one in which Islam took the place of Soviet communism as a threat to social order. Secularism as a political discourse was eclipsed by the Cold War, although its traces and effects were not. The relationship of the state to religion was reformulated as the Soviet Union came to represent, not the embodiment of secularism as it had been defined in the nineteenth-century anticlerical campaigns but the home of what was derided as godless atheism. In this new discourse, the secular and the Christian were increasingly considered synonymous, and women's sexual emancipation became the primary indicator of gender equality.

scholarly journals The city as a mediating device and as a symbol in Finnish poetry of the 1960s

2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (3/4) ◽  
pp. 514-528
Author(s):  
Harri Veivo
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Urban Society ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Political Reality ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
The City

In Finnish poetry of the 1960s, the city, and above all the capital Helsinki, is the scene where the metamorphosis of Finland from an agrarian into an urban society is staged, analysed and commented. It is also a symbol that serves to situate the country in the global context, with all the contradictions that were characteristic of the position of Finland in the cold war system. Writing about the city was a means to reflect on the transformations of social and political reality and of the physical environment, a means to represent the confusion these transformations produced or to work towards understanding them. The article analyses the city in texts belonging to the "new poetry" of the 1960s, as well as in texts representing the modernist poetics of the 1950s, arguing that the very co-existence of two contrasting poetic discourses was crucial for the semiotic development of Finnish culture in the period of time in question.

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