scholarly journals Toward More-Than-Human Understandings of Sport and the Environment: A New Materialist Analysis of Everyday Fitness Practices

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie E. Brice ◽  
Holly Thorpe
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Literature ◽  
Sporting Events ◽  
Ethical Practices ◽  
Sport Equipment ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
New Materialisms ◽  
Consumption Practices ◽  
Feminist New Materialisms ◽  
Complex Relationships ◽  
Harmful Effects

Sport and fitness have long been linked with healthy lifestyles, yet most sporting events and consumption practices are highly detrimental to the environment. While academics have examined the harmful effects of sporting mega-events and the production and consumption of sport equipment and clothing, there has been less engagement with the “mundane,” everyday activities of consuming, laundering, and recycling of fitness objects. In this paper, we explore the potential in feminist new materialisms for rethinking the complex relationships between sport, fitness, and the environment. In particular, we explain how our engagement with Karen Barad's theory of agential realism led us to rethink women's habitual fitness practices as connected to environmental degradation. Working with Barad's concept of entanglement, we came to notice new human-clothing-environment relationships, focusing on how athleisure clothing itself is an active, vital force that intra-acts with other non-human (and human) matter within the environment. Adopting a diffractive methodology that included reading interviews with women about their activewear practices, our own experiences, new materialist theory, and environmental literature through each other, we focus on two examples that emerged through this process: laundering and disposal practices. Through these examples, we demonstrate the ways in which new materialisms encouraged us to move toward non-anthropocentric understandings of the sport-environment relationship and toward new ethical practices in our everyday fitness lifestyles.

Minimum-wage Connoisseurship and Everyday Boundary Maintenance: Brewing Inequality in Third Wave Coffee

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 469-491
Author(s):  
Brian Ott
Keyword(s):  
Minimum Wage ◽  
The United States ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
Niche Markets ◽  
Sensory Experiences ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Boundary Maintenance ◽  
Consumption Practices ◽  
Specialty Coffee ◽  
Additional Payment

The shift from Fordism to post-Fordism in the United States introduced vast changes to production and consumption practices. In contrast to the commercial enterprises of Fordism, the post-Fordist economy relies on fast-changing tastes and small, niche markets along with new cultural forms for inducing consumption and anchoring identities. This article focuses on the specialty (or “third wave”) coffee industry, where coffee is treated similarly to wine, which I argue is emblematic of a post-Fordist economy. Relying on data collected from over a year of ethnographic fieldwork, I argue that the specialty coffee industry represents a qualitative shift in the coffee industry, one that produces a new niche market and consumer base that commoditizes sensory experiences as embodied class dispositions. I argue that baristas perform a kind of labor that I term “minimum-wage connoisseurship,” where they receive minimum wage (and tips) along with additional payment in cultural and social capital that elevates their status as well as manufacture’s consent for dedicating their time, in and outside of work, and their bodies to the organization.

scholarly journals SUSTAINABILITY AND THE CONCEPT OF SHARED VALUE AND THE 4TH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF TWO SCIENTIFIC NETWORKS

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-32
Author(s):  
Inge de Wet ◽  
de Kock Imke
Keyword(s):  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Shared Value ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Consumption Practices ◽  
Scientific Networks ◽  
Environmentally Friendly Production

The role of the technologies, concepts, and philosophies associated with the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) has been argued to hold significant value in the quest for sustainability. Furthermore, the concept of ‘shared value’ has been put forward as an approach that holds significant value when aiming to bring about socially just, economically fair, and environmentally friendly production and consumption practices. The importance of the link between the concept of shared value and 4IR is explored in this paper using bibliometric analysis, and we expose the different structures of these fields, including keywords, key authors, and the coherence of these two scientific networks in order to uncover areas of integration between them. The findings of this analysis indicate that a clear gap in integration exists; and the opportunity for research in this field could further contribute to the debate on using innovative, contemporary technologies — such as those associated with 4IR — to support approaches to ensure increasingly sustainable business practices, such as shared value.

Cultural Life

2020 ◽  
pp. 168-200
Author(s):  
Anna Hájková
Keyword(s):  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
Social Hierarchy ◽  
Sporting Events ◽  
Secondary Importance ◽  
High Culture ◽  
Artistic Production ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Social Elite ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
The Social

Theresienstadt is famous as the “cultural ghetto.” Rather than following the traditional interpretation of cultural activities as resistance, this chapter explores how in Theresienstadt, as in other camps, artistic production and consumption were prestigious activities linked to symbolic capital. The social elite in the ghetto redefined “high culture” and marked as particularly valuable those works that were considered the most Czech. Inmates’ positions in the social hierarchy dictated who had access to which productions, and “wealthy” prisoners such as cooks acted as patrons for artists or could play soccer, a much-loved sport in Theresienstadt. The enthusiasm for the key cultural and sporting events demonstrates that the ideological divisions among Czech prisoners, Zionists, and Czecho-Jews were of secondary importance to Czech belonging.

scholarly journals Ni vencedores ni vencidos. Zonas grises y resistencia(s) en ámbito de la cultura literaria durante el Primer Franquismo = Neither Winners nor Losers. Gray Areas and Resistance(s) in the Field of Literary Culture during the First Francoism

2019 ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Gabriela De Lima Grecco
Keyword(s):  
Recent Literature ◽  
Literary Culture ◽  
Social Attitudes ◽  
Postwar Period ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cultural Project ◽  
Complex Relationships ◽  
Gray Areas

El surgimiento de una reciente literatura sobre actitudes sociales refleja una nueva sensibilidad por parte de los investigadores e investigadoras sobre los múltiples vectores de actividad de resistencia que siempre existen en cualquier sociedad. Este artículo tiene como objetivo desarrollar el concepto de resistencia y complejizar su uso a través de algunas categorías como «resistencia endógena» y «exógena». Para llevar a cabo este estudio, se pretende analizar las actitudes sociales de la gente corriente en ámbito de la producción y de consumo de textos. Las actitudes sociales de los españoles durante la postguerra revelan las complejas relaciones construidas a lo largo del primer franquismo en ámbito cultural y literario. Así, las interacciones entre los ciudadanos y el régimen fueron variables y ambiguas, y las referencias a las parejas antitéticas entre víctimas y verdugos deben ser matizadas. A través del examen de las políticas del libro, se busca señalar las actitudes de la gente corriente, cuyas prácticas cotidianas de indisciplina se mostraron a menudo una barrera para el desarrollo del proyecto cultural de la dictadura.AbstractThe emergence of a recent literature on social attitudes reflects a new sensitivity on the part of researchers on the multiple vectors of resistance activity that always exist in any society. The aim of this article is to develop the concept of resistance and to make its use more complex through some categories, such as «endogenous resistance» and «exogenous resistance». To carry out this study, it is intended to analyze the social attitudes of ordinary people in the field of production and consumption of texts. The social attitudes of Spaniards during the postwar period reveal the complex relationships built up during the first Franco period in the cultural and literary fields. Thus, the interactions between citizens and the regime were variable and ambiguous, and antithesis references, such as victims and executioners, must be questioned. Through the examination of the book’s policies, this article aims to point out the attitudes of ordinary people, whose daily practices of indiscipline were often a barrier to the development of the cultural project of the dictatorship.

scholarly journals Metabolising Risk: Food Scares and the Un/Re-Making of Belgian Beef

10.1068/a3513 ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 449-462 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre Stassart ◽  
Sarah J Whatmore
Keyword(s):  
Meat Products ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Consumption Practices ◽  
Knowledge Claims

In this paper we explore the event of foodscares as an example of what Callon calls ‘hot situations’, in which the landscape of competing knowledge claims is at its most molten, and alternative production and consumption practices galvanise new modes of sense-making against the market and state-sanctioned rationalities of industrialisation. Through a case study of the Belgian cooperative Coprosain and its meat products, we examine the ‘stuff’ of food as a ready messenger of connectedness and affectivity in which ‘risk’ is transacted as a property both of the growing distance between the spaces of production and consumption and of the enduring metabolic intimacies between human and nonhuman bodies.

Materialisms

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Wingrove
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Historical Materialist ◽  
Theoretical Inquiry ◽  
New Materialisms ◽  
The World ◽  
Feminist New Materialisms ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Interpretive Frameworks

This chapter explores the diverse, sometimes discordant ways in which commitments to materialism have shaped feminist theoretical inquiry. Focusing on two alternative interpretive frameworks—historical materialist feminisms (HMF) and feminist new materialisms (FNM)—the chapter considers how distinct understandings of “materiality” sustain alternative accounts of agency, power, and difference. The chapter aims to highlight how these appeals to markedly different notions of a material “real” lead to markedly different interpretive grammars: one (HMF) emphasizing systematicity and the durability of structured relations, the other (FNM) emphasizing indeterminacy, flux, and the “messiness” of the world. Among the stakes identified in these interpretive differences are how physical bodies, processes of embodiment, and nature figure in feminist analyses; how the relationship between matter and representational systems is conceptualized; and whether oppression should serve as a central or secondary locus of analytic concern.

scholarly journals Feminist affect and children's embodied trauma

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Anna Hickey-Moody ◽  
Marissa Willcox
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Intergenerational Trauma ◽  
The Body ◽  
Refugee Children ◽  
Feminist Scholarship ◽  
Bodily Experience ◽  
Theoretical Tool ◽  
New Materialisms ◽  
Bodily Feelings ◽  
Feminist New Materialisms

Feminist new materialisms account for the agency of the body and the ways it is entangled with, in and through its environment. Similarly, affect scholars have putwords to the bodily feelings and attunements that we can’t describe. In this paper, we provide a brief survey of feminist thought that established the scholarly landscape and appetite for the turn to affect and offer this as a theoretical tool for thinking through the child body. Feminist affect is used here as a resource for understanding embodied change in children who are living with intergenerational trauma. Through analysing data from the Interfaith Childhoods project, we explore art as a way to affectively rework trauma in three case studies with refugee children from our Australian fieldwork sites. Our new materialist arts based approaches map embodied changes in children that speak to how bodies inherit and are affected by things that often can’tbe described. Specifically, in relation to their religious, cultural and refugee histories (Van der Kolk 2014, Menakem 2017), we offer the analysis in this paper as a routetowards understanding children’s bodily experience and expression, in ways that havebeen made possible by affective lines of inquiry pioneered by feminist scholarship.

scholarly journals Addressing Sustainability within Public Procurement of Food: A Systematic Literature Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (23) ◽  
pp. 13395
Author(s):  
Elvira Molin ◽  
Michael Martin ◽  
Anna Björklund
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
Public Procurement ◽  
Geographic Location ◽  
Dominant Focus ◽  
Large Share ◽  
Organic Foods ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Consumption Practices ◽  
And Performance

Public procurement has been recognized as a tool to promote more sustainable production and consumption practices. As such, an increasing body of literature has become available in recent years focusing on the sustainable public procurement of food. This article reviews the literature on the sustainable public procurement of food with the aim to analyze how sustainability is framed. This is done by analyzing what aspects of sustainability are emphasized and what practices are identified as sustainable. A systematic literature review was conducted between the years 2000 and 2020, identifying 103 articles. Results from the literature review indicate that the focus has primarily been on studies to evaluate and explore policy and good practices for procuring sustainable foods. A dominant focus on specific foods types and origins, e.g., those locally sourced and organic foods, is highlighted by a large share of the literature to address all three sustainability pillars. We observed that most articles focus on all three pillars of sustainability (environmental, social, and economic), addressing different aspects and types of foods, although the focus varied depending upon geographic location. Despite many studies identifying opportunities and potential, few articles assess the sustainability or outcomes of procurement processes through quantitative or qualitative methods or how actors in the procurement process can improve procurement toward more sustainable foods. This indicates a need for further case studies and guidelines to measure the development, progress, and performance of public food procurement.

scholarly journals Understanding with Water: Hydro-art in Osieki (1973)

2021 ◽  
pp. 356-374
Author(s):  
Karolina Majewska-Güde
Keyword(s):  
Art History ◽  
Land Art ◽  
Environmental Humanities ◽  
Active Participant ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Art Practices ◽  
New Materialisms ◽  
Water Surfaces ◽  
History Of ◽  
Feminist New Materialisms

The paper is located at the intersection of the art history of the Polish neo-avant-garde and the environmental humanities informed by feminist new materialisms. It proposes an interpretation of performative works in which artists used aqueous matter as an object of interaction, a source of artistic transcription, and as an active participant in artistic scenarios. It concentrates on works that were realized during the open-air art meetings in socialist Poland and in particular at the Osieki meeting in 1973 with the title The Art of Water Surfaces [Plastyka obszarów wodnych]. Based on the analyzed works, it offers a speculative reflection on Hydroart, which is defined as region-specific development parallel to land art practices.

scholarly journals Transformações da metrópole contemporânea: novas dinâmicas espaciais, esfera da vida pública e sistema de espaços livres

2010 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Denio M. Benfatti ◽  
Eugenio F. Queiroga ◽  
Jonathas M. P. Silva
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Space Systems ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Metropolitan Growth ◽  
Consumption Practices ◽  
Flexible Schedules ◽  
The One

O trabalho reflete sobre as novas formas de expansão e crescimento metropolitano, associando-as a transformações igualmente importantes na esfera da vida pública. A expressão cotidiana desse processo de expansão e crescimento se deixa transparecer a partir de dois movimentos complementares. De um lado, o aumento em número e extensão dos deslocamentos cotidianos de uma comunidade a outra em um mesmo ambiente metropolitano. De outro, reflete as transformações resultantes do modo de vida metropolitano: horários variáveis e flexíveis, individualização das práticas de produção e consumo. Temos como objeto desta reflexão a Metrópole de Campinas como parte do território metropolitanizado que ocorre no entorno da capital paulista. Nossa hipótese é que essas transformações não se restringem anovas denominações de um processo ampliado de urbanização, mas que essas transformações têm engendrado novos padrões e espaços de sociabilidade e, mais do que isso, um modo de vida e produção específicos. Nesta reflexão, interessa-nos mostrar como essa nova dinâmica afeta a esfera da vida pública e a definição e constituição dos sistemas de espaços livres. Palavras-chave: megalópole; urbanização fragmentada; esfera da vida pública; espaço público; sistema de espaços livres. Abstract: The paper reflects on new forms of metropolitan growth and expansion, associating them with equally significant changes in the sphere of public life. The daily expression of this process of expansion and growth can be perceived through two complementary movements. On the one hand, the growth in number and extent of daily displacements between communities within the same metropolitan area. On the other, reflecting changes in the metropolitan way of life, flexible schedules and individualization of production and consumption practices. Our focus is the metropolis of Campinas as part of the metropolization process that occurs in the vicinity of the capital – São Paulo. Our hypothesis is that these transformations are not restricted to new names for an extended process of urbanization, but that they have generated new patterns and spaces of sociability, and more than that, they have generated a specific ways of life and production. In this reflection, we are interested in showing how this new dynamic affects the sphere of public life and in discussing the definition and constitution of open space systems. Keywords: megalopolis; fragmented urbanization; public life sphere; public space; open space system.

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