scholarly journals Reframing Entrepreneurship via Identity, Techné, and Material Culture

Humanities ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Victoria E. Ruiz
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Material Objects ◽  
Technology And Innovation ◽  
New Models ◽  
Embodied Practice ◽  
Social Biases ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
English Equivalent

Entrepreneurship is typically understood as capitalist, but new models are emerging; these new models, like Welter et al.’s “everyday-entrepreneur,” can be understood in the tradition of techné, in which entrepreneurship is an embodied practice balancing the sociality of identity politics and the materiality of objects and infrastructures. With no English equivalent, techné is typically understood as either art, skill or craft, but none of the placeholders provide a suitable encapsulation of the term itself (Pender). Examining identity against the backdrop of entrepreneurship illuminates the rhetorical ways entrepreneurs cultivate and innovate the processes of making, especially in terms of the material cultures that this process springs from and operates within. Intersectional issues related to entrepreneurial identity present opportunities for diversification and growth in the existing scholarship. A reframing of entrepreneurial identity and continued development of Welter et al.’s everyday-entrepreneurship is argued for, showing how social biases render gender and objects invisible. The article uses data from an on-going study to demonstrate how reframing entrepreneurial identity uncovers the ways in which systemic biases are embedded in the relationship between identity and everyday things. The case study delves into connections between identity, technology, and innovation illustrating how entrepreneurial identity can be seen as a kind of techné, which helps readers better understand identity in relation to material objects and culture—including the biases at work there.

scholarly journals Relative Deprivation, Identity Politics and the Neo-Biafran Movement in Nigeria: Critical Issues of Nation-Building in a Postcolonial African State

2016 ◽  
Vol 66 ◽  
pp. 73-80
Author(s):  
Remi Chukwudi Okeke
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Relative Deprivation ◽  
African State ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Postcolonial State ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
The Relationship

This study examines the linkages between relative deprivation and identity politics in a postcolonial state. It further investigates the relationship among these variables and nation-building challenges in the postcolony. It is a case study of the Nigerian state in West Africa, which typically harbours the attributes of postcoloniality and indeed, large measures of relative deprivation in her sociopolitical and economic affairs. The study is also an interrogation of the neo-Biafran agitations in Nigeria. It has been attempted in the study to offer distinctive explanations over the problematique of nation-building in the postcolonial African state of Nigeria, using relative deprivation, identity politics and the neo-Biafran movement as variables. In framing the study’s theoretical trajectories and in historicizing the background of the research, ample resort has been made to a significant range of qualitative secondary sources. A particularly salient position of the study is that it will actually be difficult to locate on the planet, any group of people whose subsequent generations (in perpetuity) would wear defeat on the war front, as part of their essential identity. Hence, relative deprivation was found to be more fundamental than identity politics in the neo-Biafran agitations in Nigeria. However, the compelling issues were found to squarely border on nation-building complications in the postcolony.

Reverse tomboy: (Re)definitions of gender fluidity through sensory engagement with material culture

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 149-170
Author(s):  
Charlie Athill
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Subject Position ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Sensory Ethnography ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Cross Dressing ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Embodied Practice

This narrative case study explores how material culture, in the form of dress, grooming and accessories, is utilized to establish a gender-fluid presentation of the self. It focuses on Tim Mustoe, a 42-year-old heterosexual creative living and working in London, whose embodied practice contributes to the problematization of gender normativity through a disruption of culturally established links between appearance, gender and sex. The study considers how a particular form of non-spectacular cross dressing is used to integrate into a work environment and also operate within a non-queer social environment. The study explores the affective power of material culture in the reification of subject position and as a means of resilience and empowerment through everyday practice and also considers its significance on a social, intersubjective level. The methodology used for this case draws on sensory ethnography and includes a queer reflexive turn to consider parallels and contrasts between my own and Tim’s experience and practice. Conceptualizations of subjectivity, sex, gender are considered in relation to those on material culture, and the study draws on scholarship related to cross-dressing in the United Kingdom. Tim identifies as a man, as do I; however, his embodied practice and gender identification proffer a particular response to culturally embedded norms relating to the binaries of sex and gender. Therefore, in relation to male femininity, I propose the notion of feminizing as an amendment to the concept of femaling, which assumes the identification with or transition to a cisgender position. This study explores the phenomenology of dress as an expressive tool of gratification and as a means of integration for which the imperatives of professionalism, age and respectability are key factors.

Managing the Postcolony: Minority Politics in Montpellier,c.1960–c.2010

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
EMILE CHABAL
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
Algerian War ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Fifth Republic ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Minority Politics ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Jewish Populations

AbstractUsing the case study of Montpellier, this article explores the relationship between local political actors and postcolonial minorities since the end of the Algerian War – particularly, the city's pied-noir, harki, Moroccan and Jewish populations. It examines the discourses used to secure the electoral allegiances of these groups and the myriad ways in which they laid claim to certain civic and political spaces. It employs diverse oral, archival and audio-visual sources to demonstrate how postcolonial minorities have gained important concessions from local authorities and how identity politics has developed under the Fifth Republic, despite France's strong republican tradition.

The Value in Things: Folklore and the Anthropological Museum Exhibit

1985 ◽  
Vol 7 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 19-20
Author(s):  
M. Young
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Material Objects ◽  
Museum Exhibit ◽  
Accurate Picture ◽  
Cultural Processes ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

In anthropological museums material objects serve to depict relationships between people, objects, and the physical world. Thus there is an obvious link between the museological side of anthropology and that branch of folklore or folklife studies which focuses on material culture. Both study objects as indices of the minds of their makers. Recently, however, the proponents of both of these subdisciplines have been taken to task for an over-emphasis on the object in and of itself which leads them to ignore or obscure the "environment" within which that object originally existed. Folklorists who wish to discern both the form and meaning of material items and those who recognize the importance of studying all aspects of a multi-faceted event have benefited from the performance-centered approach which extends its focus from the folkloric item to the total context within which that item was generated. It is this approach which enables folklorists to view verbal or visual forms in relationship to various cultural processes and to address topics in ethnoaesthetics, ethics, and education which folklore shares with anthropology and museology. The following is a brief discussion of the way in which concepts from folklore theory can be used in the anthropological museum exhibit to present a more dynamic and accurate picture of the relationship between people and things.

Fashioning culture: Transforming perspectives from Oceania

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-24
Author(s):  
Kalissa Alexeyeff ◽  
Geir Henning Presterudstuen
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Introductory Article ◽  
Clothing Style ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Anthropological Research ◽  
Analytical Category ◽  
Embodied Practice ◽  
The Relationship

In this introductory article we discuss what might be gained from examining more familiar areas of anthropological research such as cloth, dress or material culture through fashion as an analytical category and, in turn, how insights from Pacific clothing cultures can broaden understandings of fashion. Our aim is to unsettle the ethnographic gaze that is often brought to bear on non-western cultures of fashion, cloth, clothing, style and innovation. Fashion, as we conceive of it, spans from the physical production and design of garments and objects to everyday appearances, the desire to be ‘in vogue’ and the consumption of aesthetic objects that are considered popular. From this starting point we move analyses of fashion from the systemic to the experiential, reflecting ethnographic sensitivity to everyday embodied practice and the constant political and creative negotiation of values and norms that takes place in quotidian social relations. We situate these analyses in a region that is often perceived to be at the very edge of the world economy and invite further discussion about the relationship between fashion and the global flow of people, ideas and commodities.

Rethinking emotion and material culture

2010 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver J.T. Harris ◽  
Tim Flohr Sørensen
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Actions ◽  
Mount Pleasant ◽  
Understanding Emotions ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractIn this article, we wish to return to the suggestion made by Sarah Tarlow a decade ago about the importance of understanding emotions in archaeology as a central facet of human being and human actions. We suggest a further expansion of this that focuses exclusively on the relationship between material culture and emotions (as opposed to textually, verbally or iconographically informed approaches), and offer a vocabulary that may better equip archaeologists to incorporate emotions into their interpretations. We attempt to show the implications of such a vocabulary in a specific British Neolithic case study at the henge monument of Mount Pleasant.

scholarly journals The relationship between design, object and memory: the Renato Russo exhibition

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alceu Silva Neto ◽  
Priscila Arantes
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Exhibition Design ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Design Object ◽  
Exhibition Space ◽  
Museum Objects ◽  
Institutional Space ◽  
The Relationship

The objects and their functions are configured depending on how they will be used, assuming they can be used as archives’ tools, material culture inputs, generators of memories or simply perform the function for which they were designed. Thus, it becomes necessary to discuss the functions of museum objects and culture. To this end, the relations created between the items exhibited and the exhibition design in the process of memory elaborating will be identified, considering that both are inserted in an institutional space configured as Theater of Memory. The argument is supported by concepts from Hooper-Greenhill, Meneses and Ramos. As a case study, the exhibition Renato Russo, from the Museu da Imagem e do Som of São Paulo, was elected, including the description of the chosen objects and the dynamics created between the exhibition space, the objects and the visitor.

scholarly journals Examining the Presence of Symmetry within Acheulean Handaxes: A Case Study in the British Palaeolithic

2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 713-732 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Cole
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Large Data ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Large Data Set ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Lower Palaeolithic

This paper examines the relationship between the presence of symmetry and the Acheulean biface within a predominantly British Lower Palaeolithic context. There has been a long-standing notion within Palaeolithic studies that Acheulean handaxes are symmetrical and become increasingly so as time progress as a reflection of increasing hominin cognitive and behavioural complexity. Specifically, the presence of symmetry within Acheulean handaxes is often seen as one of the first examples of material culture being used to mediate social relationships. However, this notion has never been satisfactorily tested against a large data set. This paper seeks to address the issue by conducting an analysis of some 2680 bifaces across a chronological and geographical span. The results from the sample presented here are that symmetrical bifaces do not appear to have a particularly strong presence in any assemblage and do not appear to increase as time progress. These results have significant implications for modern researchers assessing the cognitive and behavioural complexities of Acheulean hominins.

scholarly journals Identity Politics Redux

2014 ◽  
pp. 141-161
Author(s):  
K. Heintzman
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
Unique Case ◽  
Representational Politics ◽  
A Site ◽  
The Relationship

Pornography reappropriated by feminist and queer pornographers is being reimagined as a site of activist productions, be it through the reshaping of desire or engaging with wider discussions of representational politics. Here, I take up Shine Louise Houston’s feature length film, The Wild Search, as a unique case study for addressing the relationship between debates of identity politics and queer activist practice.

Things That Don’t Talk Much and Things That Feel

Nuncius ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 632-659
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Neswald
Keyword(s):  
Blood Glucose ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Material Objects ◽  
Embodied Knowledge ◽  
Culture Study ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract This essay explores whether and how objects that seem pedestrian and anonymous can be made fruitful for material culture study. Using the example of late 20th-century blood glucose monitors for diabetes, it assesses the potential and limitations of common approaches to the study of material objects, when the object itself is unremarkable. It then turns to object- and experiment-oriented work in the history of science and seeks to integrate the concepts of tacit and embodied knowledge to formulate an approach to medical objects based on bodies and practices. Comparisons between monitors show how changes in their material configuration affected these practices and, by extension, changed the relationship between user and object. Finally, it looks to studies on the objects and practices of medicine and healthcare at the intersection of bodies and emotions and asks what insights they can provide for the study of modern medical devises.

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