scholarly journals Thrift Television: Narratives of Enduring, Saving, and Living Well. A Thematic Introduction

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 421-442
Author(s):  
Alexa Faerber ◽  
Aneta Podkalicka
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Living Well ◽  
The Status ◽  
Post War ◽  
Popular Television

Concepts of thrift and dwelling are central to how societies live together. Thrift refers to a complex and morally-loaded set of economic practices that people engage with out of necessity, choice, or both. Whilst home-making or dwelling refers to social integration and self-representation. The ways in which social realms of thrift and dwelling relate to each other are historically and culturally specific, and media representations are an important intersection for reflecting and putting forward specific ‘imaginaries’ of thrift and dwelling. In this special issue, depictions of thrift in popular television are treated inclusively and span makeover reality TV, comedy-drama and documentaries, and target different national and international audiences. Contributions by researchers from the US, France, Germany and Australia examine how ‘appropriate’ ways of dwelling, involving thrift are negotiated in situations marked by material scarcity, precarity and aspirational lifestyles. These include: negotiating the harsh realities of housing in expensive cities such as New York in Insecure or Broad City (Perkins; Kanai & Dobson), make-over through decluttering and controlling debt in Tidying Up with Marie Kondo (Ouellette); Life or Debt; Raus aus den Schulden (Meyer), and are linked to specific historical and social circumstances in different national contexts. Suburban areas of post-war France are represented in 1967-1981 TV documentaries (Overney); gentrified British rural areas in Midsomer Murders (Zahlmann) and post-recessional New York City after the 2007-8 Global Financial Crisis (GFC) in Broad City. Drawing on recent thrift scholarship and analyses of televised thrift in this special issue, we demonstrate how thrift and dwelling are articulated largely as a middle-class concern and a disciplining discourse and apparatus. Positive incidents of thrift are also revealed for example, in the comedy form and female voice in French post-war women’s documentaries. In other discussions there is much scepticism over the possibilities for protagonists to self-fashion themselves within the system of television series. This raises the question of whether alternative forms of imagining subjectivities and social relations in neo-liberal economies of dwelling can occur in entertainment television, or whether thrift imagined as what we call ‘televised endurance’ merely serves to reproduce the status quo as an irreversible condition.

scholarly journals Making do on not much: High Energy Striving, Femininity and Friendship in Broad City

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 517-533
Author(s):  
Akane Kanai ◽  
Amy Dobson
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Reality Television ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
Normative Relation ◽  
Women's Friendship ◽  
Women’S Friendship

In the years following the 2008 global financial crisis (“GFC”), feminist media scholarship has drawn attention to the gendered calls in Western media culture to remake subjectivity in line with imperatives of thrift required in conditions of austerity. In the shared symbolic environments that “gender the recession” (Negra & Tasker, 2014), media ranging from news, reality television, and film have placed further, intensified demands on women’s domestic, affective, paid and unpaid labour, requiring attitudinal orientations combining future-oriented enthusiasm, positivity, entrepreneurialism, a continued faith in (budget-conscious) consumption and investment in the home and the family. This article considers the US comedy Broad City as an articulation of how young women are critically grappling with such shifts in gendered social relations and labour markets in the cosmopolitan setting of New York City. We suggest, in the depiction of the central female friendship between Abbi Abrams (Abbi Jacobson) and Ilana Wexler (Ilana Glazer) in Broad City, the show foregrounds the necessity of young women’s “high energy striving” but produces an alternative configuration of the normative relation between femininity and labour. In the show, contra the “retreatism” Negra and Tasker document idealising women’s work in the home as a means of combatting an austere future, the thrifty fun, care, support, and love Abbi and Ilana strive to create together spills across public spaces, spanning the streets of the city, outdoors in parks and on stoops. Abbi and Ilana are continually depicted labouring in some way, though such labour does not generally result in financial or career-based reward, but rather, produces psychic and emotional sustenance for the women’s friendship and a means of affectively investing in each other. Thus, in Broad City’s acknowledgement of the high energy striving required to survive, the show critically questions the relation of such feminine striving to the promise of career, financial success, and the idealised direction of such striving towards the domestic and hetero-patriarchal family. Instead, the show emphasises the material importance of such striving in relation to the bonds of women’s friendship in conditions of material and social hardship, suggesting a different orientation to women’s work and its place in recessional culture.

scholarly journals Tourism as a part of the national economy of Ukraine

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 66-71
Author(s):  
S. Mosiiuk ◽  
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I. Mosiiuk ◽  
V. Mosiiuk ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
National Economy ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
The State ◽  
Relevant Today ◽  
The Status ◽  
A Priority ◽  
Marketing Information

Problems of increasing of the efficiency of tourist activity enterprises, assessment of tourism resources potential in Ukraine and development international tourist activity is relevant today. The article analyzes and substantiates the development of the tourism business in Ukraine as a priority component of the national economy, is illuminated by the real and potential resource potential for recreational and tourism development spheres in Ukraine, detailed measures for the country's entry into the world tourist market. The tourism industry in Ukraine is gaining momentum. The tourism business is becoming one of the leading and profitable areas of social and economic development. The economy of the tourism business is a set of social relations that arise in the implementation of tourist activity, namely in the production, distribution, exchange and consumption of tourist services (tourist product). The tourism business economy is an integral part of the national economic complex as a catalyst for economic growth. The tourist business will help to increase budget revenues, promote employment growth, including in rural areas terrain, and because of its attractive tourist potential in Ukraine becomes possible for investments. For all this needs marketing, information and advertising support for tourism and recreation potential of the country to be improved. In terms of globalization, Ukraine should take this industry in the consideraration as one of the most promising and innovative sectors of the economy. The state should contribute to the development of the tourism industry and comply with the quality of the services provided. The integration process will be to implement European norms and standards in education and tourism and the dissemination of cultural, scientific achievements. 2020 is recognized to be the year of tourism development in Ukraine. It gives the “green ligh” tourist business. Therefore, analyzing the status and prospects of tourism business development in Ukraine it should be noted, that this industry is becoming a priority branch of the state economy. Historical, cultural-ethnographic, gastronomic, sanatorium-resort potentials of the country at creation favorable conditions for investment and proper marketing will bring country into world leaders in the tourism industry.

scholarly journals Complicating Social Order in the Rural Areas of Akwa Ibom State Nigeria

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-127
Author(s):  
Moses I. Peters ◽  
Aniekan E. Bassey
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Youth Groups ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Community Interest ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status

In a typical traditional society in Nigeria laws, rules, norms, and taboos were used by community elders to enforce social order and curtail practices, behaviours, values and beliefs that were counter to the stability of the social structure. However, the contemporary rural communities have witnessed a shift within the social structures and institutions, in behaviours, cultural aspects which affect social relations, social interaction and the maintenance of the status quo by the traditional rulers. This qualitative study examined the roles of traditional rulers in complicating social order in Ikot Annang and Ikot Abasi communities in Akwa Ibom State, South-South Nigeria. In-depth interviews and participant observation were used to collect data on the subject under study. Ethnomethodology by Garfinkel was adopted as theoretical guide for the study. Findings of the study show that betrayal of community interest, mismanagement of community generated revenue, neglect of traditions, abuses of traditional power by some community elders, and youth groups are contributing to upheaval in some rural communities in Akwa Ibom State. Researchers concluded that the decisions by some of the rural community elders and youth groups to adopt western customs over their traditional customs have distorted the state of stability and consensus that existed in the traditional rural areas, thereby bringing about a shift that disrupts social order. Among other, the researchers recommended the need for culture check and rite of passage for youth groups in line with customs and traditions.

Inhabiting Cultures as a Way to Other Worlds

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (04) ◽  
pp. 982-990
Author(s):  
GEORGE LIPSITZ
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
New World ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Frantz Fanon ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Expressive Culture ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The People ◽  
The Status ◽  
Political Form

In a powerful but frequently overlooked passage in The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon describes expressive culture as a register of incipient social relations. He maintains that long before liberation struggles assume organized political form, perceptive observers will detect the emergence of unusual kinds of expression popping up to summon the people to view the status quo as both unreal and unacceptable.1 The essays in this special issue dedicated to the theme of Inhabiting Cultures display precisely this evidence of incipient critique and transformation. They demonstrate that tomorrow is today; that the reigning cultural forms authored and authorized by domination, exclusion and oppression have become exhausted and obsolete; and that the stirrings of a new world in the making are already here.

scholarly journals Četrnaest arhitektonskih i urbanističkih vizija povijesne jezgre Zadra nastalih 1953. godine

Ars Adriatica ◽  
2015 ◽  
pp. 163
Author(s):  
Antonija Mlikota
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Area ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Urban Plan ◽  
The Status ◽  
Miroslav Krleza ◽  
Historic Centre ◽  
Post War ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

The article describes the situation in Zadar after the Second World War as one of the worst damaged towns in Yugoslavia, which was the main reason for the creation of the first post-war urban planning initiative and for the involvement of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts, with Miroslav Krleža at the helm, in the rebuilding of Zadar. A number of factors hindered the renovation of the historic centre of Zadar. The slow progress and inefficiency were caused by its reputation as an ‘Italian’ town, the exodus of the pre-war urban population and the influx of a large number of people from the rural areas and the islands as well as the fact that Zadar remained officially Italian until 1947 and the overall political and social situation. The earliest planning proposal for the rebuilding of Zadar was made in the Ministry of Buildings of the People’s Government of Croatia: the proposal in 1945 and the final plan in 1946. The architects of the new plan were Milovan Kovačević, Božidar Rašica and Zdenko Strižić. The plan was rejected in 1948 and therefore not applied. Since Zadar did not receive the status of a liberated zone, it had no access to the special federal grants for rebuilding and so, having no urban plan in place, it was left to deteriorate. Also in 1948, Miroslav Krleža, a well-known Croatian writer, politician and the then deputy president of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts, visited Zadar. Having seen how serious the situation was, Krleža decided to have the buildings of the nunnery of St Mary renovated and used by the Institute of Historic Research of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts. Although the project was not carried out, it drew attention to the restoration of Zadar and encouraged the Academy to begin producing a draft plan for the entire urban area of Zadar as a foundation for the Invitation to Tender Bids for the Regulatory Planning Basis for Zadar in order to direct the development of the town to the areas outside the historic centre in an organized way. Due to a lack of funds and a lack of support for the experts working in the field, in May 1952, it was decided to advertise the call for bids without a general draft plan and, sadly, without a regulatory framework for the wider urban area. The Invitation to Tender Bids for the Regulatory Basis of Urban Planning in Zadar Peninsula and Architectural Proposals for the Historic Centre was advertised and stipulated that all the bids be submitted anonymously. The jury received fourteen designs, each with a unique code, three of which were selected as prize winners, further three were recommended for purchase, and two designs were rejected. This paper presents all fourteen designs and explains what happened with the urban plan that was created by architect Bruno Milić, one of the three prize winners, after the end of the process in 1955. This is the first time in more than sixty years that all of the fourteen designs are presented together; after the tender was closed they were displayed at the subsequent exhibitions in Zadar and Zagreb in 1954. The article also analyzes the jury’s assessment of the proposals such as their perceived positive and negative aspects mentioned in the reports and the reasons why two proposals were rejected. It also examines the jury’s decision not to award the first prize because, in their opinion, none of the architects fulfilled the specification criteria in full. The proposals present interesting architectural and urban visions of the historic centre of Zadar from 1953.

scholarly journals Special Issue. The Social Protection of Women and Girls: Links to Crime and Justice at CSW63. Guest Editors' Introduction

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Sheetal Ranjan ◽  
Rosemary Barberet ◽  
Dawn Beichner ◽  
Elaine Arnull
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
Selection Of

We are pleased to introduce this special issue of the International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, titled ‘The Social Protection of Women and Girls: Links to Crime and Justice at CSW63’. This issue contains a selection of articles from presentations at a series of parallel and side events held at the Commission on the Status of Women’s 63rd session (CSW63) at the UN Headquarters in New York City, United States.

Strangers in the Land: Social Relations in the Status Gap

1958 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 253-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irwin D. Rinder
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
The Status

International Financial Centres after the Global Financial Crisis and Brexit

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Important Change ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Financial Technology

This book gathers leading economic historians, geographers, and social scientists to focus on the developments in key international financial centres following the 2008 Global Financial Crisis and to consider the likely effects of Brexit on these centres. Eleven centres in eight countries are taken into consideration: New York, London, Frankfurt, Paris, Zurich/Geneva, Hong Kong/Shanghai/Beijing, Tokyo, and Singapore. The book addresses three main issues. The first is the hierarchy of international financial centres, in particular whether Asian financial centres have taken advantage of the crisis in the West. The second is the medium-term effects of the crisis, with respect to the volume of business activity (including employment), and the level of regulation, with concerns regarding the risks of regulatory overkill. And the third is the rise of new technology, known as fintech, possibly the most important change in the decade following the crisis, with questions as to whether it will render financial centres, as we know them, unnecessary for the functioning of the global economy, and which cities are likely to emerge as hubs of new financial technology. Finally, the book discusses the likely effects of Brexit on international financial centres, in particular London, Paris, and Frankfurt. The book takes a decidedly interdisciplinary approach, with a general introduction providing a global overview from a historical perspective, and a general conclusion providing a global overview from a geographical perspective. Its focus on the implications for global financial centres is unique among books about the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis.

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