Punitiveness and the Criminalisation of the Other: State Wards, Unlawful Non-citizens and Indigenous Youth

Somatechnics ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerry Carrington
Keyword(s):  
Internal Controls ◽  
Australian Population ◽  
Indigenous Youth ◽  
Social Body ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
Problem Child ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
State Interventions

This paper explores the genealogies of bio-power that cut across punitive state interventions aimed at regulating or normalising several distinctive ‘problem’ or ‘suspect’ deviant populations, such as state wards, non-lawful citizens and Indigenous youth. It begins by making some general comments about the theoretical approach to bio-power taken in this paper. It then outlines the distinctive features of bio-power in Australia and how these intersected with the emergence of penal welfarism to govern the unruly, unchaste, unlawful, and the primitive. The paper draws on three examples to illustrate the argument – the gargantuan criminalisation rates of Aboriginal youth, the history of incarcerating state wards in state institutions, and the mandatory detention of unlawful non-citizens and their children. The construction of Indigenous people as a dangerous presence, alongside the construction of the unruly neglected children of the colony — the larrikin descendants of convicts as necessitating special regimes of internal controls and institutions, found a counterpart in the racial and other exclusionary criteria operating through immigration controls for much of the twentieth century. In each case the problem child or population was expelled from the social body through forms of bio-power, rationalised as strengthening, protecting or purifying the Australian population.

Artisans, Artists and Hegel's History of Art

2013 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allen Speight
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Recent Discussion ◽  
Important Distinction ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of Art ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Continuum

This article examines Hegel's use of the distinction between ‘artist’ (Künstler) and ‘artisan’ (Werkmeister) in light of recent discussion about the ‘end’ of art and the distinction betweeen art and craft that, as some have argued, has been central to the concept of the fine arts since the eighteenth century. Hegel does employ an important distinction between artist and artisan, but he does so within a larger account of the continuum of forms of human making that can take into consideration the importance of the artisan's work as well as the artist's. Hegel's account involves two distinctive features not always at issue in the artist/artisan distinction: the stress on the social changes required for new forms of art to emerge and an embrace of the human being as the essentially retrospective and interpretive animal in whom the decisive intersection of content and form finally makes art what it is.

scholarly journals UMA GRANDE FAMÍLIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (33) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Monique de Saint Martin
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Capital Social ◽  
Dense Network ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Kinship Networks ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
École Polytechnique ◽  
The Military

Portador de um dos mais prestigiosos títulos e nomes, herdeiro de uma grande família da nobreza militar que “serviu a França por 500 anos”, ex-aluno da Ecole Polytechnique, diretor-presidente de uma das filiais da Schneider, o décimo segundo duque de Brissac, que se casou com May Schneider, uma descendente de uma das maiores famílias de industriais, é a realização do aristocrata perfeito, possuindo um notável conjunto de qualidades e características distintivas. O capital social herdado de sua família e que ele jamais deixou de manter e valorizar, ao mesmo tempo em que sabia, ocasionalmente, reconvertê-lo, está, sem dúvida, na raiz desta concentração de riquezas. Centro de uma rede de relações com uma extensão e densidade excepcionais, o duque de Brissac adquiriu desde a infância, nos estabelecimentos de ensino secundáriode “boa companhia” que frequentou, a arte e o gosto de cultivar as relações herdadas, e de as ampliar. A análise das memórias do duque de Brissac e de várias obras escritas por outros membros de sua família permitiu reconstruir a história desse empreendimento de acumulação e gestão de capital social.Palavras-chave: Capital social. Redes de relações. História. Brissac.A GREAT FAMILYThe bearer of one of the most prestigious titles and names, the heir to a great family of the military nobility in which “they have servedFrance for 500 years”, a former pupil of the Ecole Polytechnique, managing-director of one of the sister-companies of the SchneiderCorporation, the Twelfth Duke of Brissac, who married May Schneider, a descendant of one of the greatest ironmasters families, is therealisation of the perfect aristocrat, possessing a remarkable aggregate of qualities and distinctive features. The social assets handed down to him by his family which he has constantly built up, maintained and exploited while knowing, whenever the occasion demanded, how to reconvert it, are, without doubt at the root of this concentration of riches. At the focal point of an exceptionally widespread and dense network of relations, the Duke of Brissac has acquired, from infancy and later in “well-bred” High Schools, a taste for cultivating and extending the kinship networks devolved on him through inheritance. The analysis of the memoirs of the Duke of Brissac and of several works written by other members of his family has enabled the author to trace the history of this pursuit of the accumulation and management of social assets.Keywords: Social capital. Networks. Family. History. Brissac.

scholarly journals Heke Mai Ki Ahau Nei E! Roka Paora's Contributions To Tukunga Iho A Te Whānau-a-Apanui And Te Reo O Te Whānau-a-Apanui

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Parehau Richards
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
The Social ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Core Elements ◽  
Kaupapa Māori ◽  
History Of ◽  
Selection Of

<p>Throughout the twentieth century Te Whānau-a-Apanui scholars continued to assert distinctive features of Te Whānau-a-Apanui identity through both literary and non-literary texts. Roka Pahewa Paora contributed to this important work by producing Māori texts for Māori language students and the community. Those texts became well-known in the field of Māori education for asserting distinctive features of te reo o Te Whānau-a-Apanui. This thesis explores a selection of tukunga iho a Te Whānau-a-Apanui, kōrero tuku iho and taonga tuku iho, to illustrate how Roka and other Te Whānau-a-Apanui scholars before and after her have embraced and passed down tukunga iho a Te Whānau-a-Apanui by renewing or extending core elements, otherwise referred to in this thesis as the iho, of earlier tukunga iho a Te Whānau-a-Apanui.   Specifically, this thesis examines Roka’s published writings ‘Ka Haere a Hata Mā Ki te Hī Moki’ (Paora, 1971) and ‘He Kōrero Mō te Mahi Wēra i Te Whānau-a-Apanui’ (Paora in Moorfield, 1992) as extensions of earlier tukunga iho a Te Whānau-a-Apanui about moki and whales. My analysis focuses on how Roka applied the knowledge, language and history of earlier tukunga iho a Te Whānau-a-Apanui to her writings to assert te reo o Te Whānau-a-Apanui. Therefore, this thesis uses a tukunga iho framework to illustrate familial and intellectual connections between and across a selection of tukunga iho a Te Whānau-a-Apanui and the tribal scholars that produced them. Roka’s writings and archive are repositories of important tukunga iho and provide connections to tribal, Māori and non-Māori scholars who offer insights and interpretations of mātauranga Māori that have been applied to Māori studies paradigms and kaupapa Māori. This wider range of knowledge, language and historical sources also help me to show how tukunga iho a Te Whānau-a-Apanui contain important insights into the social, cultural and economic contexts in which my ancestors embraced, extended and passed down tukunga iho a Te Whānau-a-Apanui. Overall, this thesis offers twenty-first century interpretations of tukunga iho a Te Whānau-a-Apanui and how they assert te reo o Te Whānau-a-Apanui.</p>

scholarly journals Monsters, Disaster, and Organic Balance: Digesting History Through Oral Traditions

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-81
Author(s):  
Thierry Veyrié
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Great Basin ◽  
Social Experiences ◽  
The Body ◽  
Oral Traditions ◽  
Western United States ◽  
Social Body ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

Abstract This paper examines “Coyote, Whirlwind, and Ravine,” a long tale told in the Northern Paiute language by McDermitt storyteller Pete Snapp and recorded by folklorist Sven Liljeblad in the early 1960’s. It weaves in traditional episodes of western Numic folklore to narrate the history of the Fort McDermitt Paiute-Shoshone community as witnessed by an elder born shortly after the beginning of the colonization of this area of the Northwestern Great Basin in the western United States. This paper explores how the bodies of certain characters who emanate from landscape, mainly monsters, are tools for the narrative expression of social change, for the telling of history, and the expression of Indigenous spiritual frameworks. It places the experience of the Indigenous social body, embodied by Coyote, through the grinds of the ultra-material Ravine and confronts it to ethereal nefarious powers. Poetics of materiality applied to the body of Coyote operate a structural transformation. Mythical turmoil expresses social experiences and change in the colonial context, but also makes manifest the transformation of the social body that result in the contemporary form of the Fort McDermitt Paiute-Shoshone community.

Wave Theory ~ Social Theory

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 287-326
Author(s):  
Stefan Helmreich
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Wave Theory ◽  
Social Revolution ◽  
Social Body ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
Social Agencies ◽  
Sociological Explanation

This article offers a history of the wave metaphor in social theory, examining how waves became rhetorical forms through which to think about the shape of social change. The wave analytic—“waves of democratization,” “waves of immigration,” “waves of resistance”—wavers between high theory and popular model, between objectivist sociological explanation and hand-waving sociobabble, between vanguardist predictions of social revolution and conservative prognoses of political inevitability, between accountings of formal change and claims about material transubstantiation. The article examines usages in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, arguing that techniques of inscription—graphical, numerical, diagrammatic—have produced formal claims about rising and falling tendencies in the social body. It argues, too, that in such deployments, waves are either (1) overpowering forces of social structuration or (2) signs of the animating effects of world-transforming collective social agencies. The “wave” thus generates questions—and uncertainties—about the relation of structure to agency.

Rock-Art and the History of Puritjarra Rock Shelter, Cleland Hills, Central Australia

2002 ◽  
Vol 68 ◽  
pp. 103-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Rosenfeld ◽  
M. A. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Rock Art ◽  
Social Geography ◽  
Graphic Art ◽  
Rock Shelter ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Temporal And Spatial Variability ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Central Australia

Elaborate, religiously sanctioned relationships between people and place are one of the most distinctive features of Aboriginal Australia. In the Australian desert, rock paintings and engravings provide a tangible link to the totemic geography and allow us to examine both changes in the role of individual places and also the development of this system of relationships to land. In this paper we use rock-art to examine the changing history of Puritjarra rock shelter in western central Australia. The production of pigment art and engravings at the shelter appears to have begun by c. 13,000 BP and indicates a growing concern by people with using graphic art to record their relationship with the site. Over the last millennium changes in the surviving frieze of paintings at Puritjarra record fundamental changes in graphic vocabulary, style, and composition of the paintings. These coincide with other evidence for changes in the geographic linkages of the site. As Puritjarra's place in the social geography changed, the motifs appropriate for the site also changed. The history of this rock shelter shows that detailed site histories will be required if we are to disentangle the development of central Australian graphic systems from the temporal and spatial variability inherent in the expression of these systems.

A Place by the Fire

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Constance Classen
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Social Body ◽  
Domestic Spaces ◽  
City Life ◽  
Farm Work ◽  
Sensory Effects ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Individual

This chapter embarks on a tactile history of the Middle Ages. It considers the sensory effects of different areas in the medieval milieu: the social body, heat, city walls, work routines, and bodily comforts. Alongside the strength of the social body (the identification of the individual within the group), the chapter also explores the ways in which the common touch can uphold or destroy the medieval social order. Next, the chapter turns to the role of heat and warmth in intimate domestic spaces before moving on to the larger domain of city life as well as the rigors of farm work and agricultural cycles. Capping off this discussion of daily medieval life, the chapter delves into the rites of pleasure, where the hardness of work is contrasted with the softness of comfort.

scholarly journals Heke Mai Ki Ahau Nei E! Roka Paora's Contributions To Tukunga Iho A Te Whānau-a-Apanui And Te Reo O Te Whānau-a-Apanui

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Parehau Richards
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
The Social ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Core Elements ◽  
Kaupapa Māori ◽  
History Of ◽  
Selection Of

<p>Throughout the twentieth century Te Whānau-a-Apanui scholars continued to assert distinctive features of Te Whānau-a-Apanui identity through both literary and non-literary texts. Roka Pahewa Paora contributed to this important work by producing Māori texts for Māori language students and the community. Those texts became well-known in the field of Māori education for asserting distinctive features of te reo o Te Whānau-a-Apanui. This thesis explores a selection of tukunga iho a Te Whānau-a-Apanui, kōrero tuku iho and taonga tuku iho, to illustrate how Roka and other Te Whānau-a-Apanui scholars before and after her have embraced and passed down tukunga iho a Te Whānau-a-Apanui by renewing or extending core elements, otherwise referred to in this thesis as the iho, of earlier tukunga iho a Te Whānau-a-Apanui.   Specifically, this thesis examines Roka’s published writings ‘Ka Haere a Hata Mā Ki te Hī Moki’ (Paora, 1971) and ‘He Kōrero Mō te Mahi Wēra i Te Whānau-a-Apanui’ (Paora in Moorfield, 1992) as extensions of earlier tukunga iho a Te Whānau-a-Apanui about moki and whales. My analysis focuses on how Roka applied the knowledge, language and history of earlier tukunga iho a Te Whānau-a-Apanui to her writings to assert te reo o Te Whānau-a-Apanui. Therefore, this thesis uses a tukunga iho framework to illustrate familial and intellectual connections between and across a selection of tukunga iho a Te Whānau-a-Apanui and the tribal scholars that produced them. Roka’s writings and archive are repositories of important tukunga iho and provide connections to tribal, Māori and non-Māori scholars who offer insights and interpretations of mātauranga Māori that have been applied to Māori studies paradigms and kaupapa Māori. This wider range of knowledge, language and historical sources also help me to show how tukunga iho a Te Whānau-a-Apanui contain important insights into the social, cultural and economic contexts in which my ancestors embraced, extended and passed down tukunga iho a Te Whānau-a-Apanui. Overall, this thesis offers twenty-first century interpretations of tukunga iho a Te Whānau-a-Apanui and how they assert te reo o Te Whānau-a-Apanui.</p>

scholarly journals Stigma Mutation: Tracking Lineage, Variation and Strength in Emerging COVID-19 Stigma

2021 ◽  
pp. 136078042110315
Author(s):  
Hannah Farrimond
Keyword(s):  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
High Status ◽  
Public Disclosure ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Social Body ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
Lineage Variation

In this article, I propose a novel theoretical framework for conceptualizing pandemic stigma using the metaphor of ‘mutation’. This metaphor highlights that stigma is not a static or fixed state but is enacted through processes of continuity and change. The following three orienting concepts are identified: (a) lineage (i.e. origin narratives and initial manifestations are created in relation to existing stigmas, stereotypes, and outgroups), (b) variation (i.e. stigma changes over time in response to new content and contexts), and (c) strength (i.e. stigma can be amplified or weakened through counter- or de-stigmatizing forces). I go on to use this metaphor to offer an analysis of the emergence of COVID-19 stigma. The lineage of COVID-19 stigma includes a long history of contagious disease, resonant with fears of contamination and death. Origin narratives have stigmatized Asian/Chinese groups as virus carriers, leading to socio-political manifestations of discrimination. Newer ‘risky’ groups have emerged in relation to old age, race and ethnicity, poverty, and weight, whose designation as ‘vulnerable’ simultaneously identifies them as victims in need of protection but also as a risk to the social body. Counter-stigmatizing trends are also visible. Public disclosure of having COVID-19 by high-status individuals such as the actor Tom Hanks has, in some instances, converted ‘testing positive’ into shared rather than shamed behaviour in the West. As discourses concerning risk, controllability, and blame unfold, so COVID-19 stigma will further mutate. In conclusion, the metaphor of mutation, and its three concepts of lineage, variation, and strength, offers a vocabulary through which to articulate emergent and ongoing stigma processes. Furthermore, the concept of stigma mutation identifies a clear role for social scientists and public health in terms of process engagement; to disrupt stigma, remaking it in less deadly forms or even to prevent its emergence altogether.

Locations of God

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark G. Brett
Keyword(s):  
Political Theology ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Social Body ◽  
Biblical Literature ◽  
Political Sovereignty ◽  
The Social ◽  
National Imaginary ◽  
Global Christianity ◽  
History Of ◽  
Key Topics

Political theology includes critical reflection on the intersections of religious, political, and economic life, and in the Hebrew Bible, it is articulated in many different ways. Examining a range of key topics—sovereignty, leadership, law, peoplehood, hospitality, redemption, creation, and eschatology—this book focuses in particular on conceptions of nationhood and empire, showing how they have figured in the forming and re-forming of ancient Israel’s social body in a number of geographical settings. The argument suggests that the national imaginary and its imperial alternatives were woven into the biblical traditions by authors who enjoyed very little in the way of political sovereignty. Eight different political theologies are outlined, articulated in the diverse genres of historiography, law, prophecy, and wisdom. The classic biblical literature has shaped the social imaginations of many peoples from ancient Canaan to global Christianity today, so attention is also given to key developments in the history of the Bible’s reception, particularly in the rise of modern polities, and in a variety of colonial projects. Understanding the inner-biblical debates and their later interpretations will continue to be relevant for those who still live within the Bible’s history of reception.

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