scholarly journals Young Adult Crisis Heterotopias and Feminist Revisions in Colleen Gleason’s Stoker and Holmes Series

Humanities ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Sonya Sawyer Fritz ◽  
Sara K. Day
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
First Century ◽  
Cultural Critique ◽  
Female Protagonists ◽  
Twenty First Century

In this article, we investigate neo-Victorian YA fiction’s efforts to mirror twenty-first-century feminist ideals in nineteenth-century spaces through examining the role of heterotopia in Colleen Gleason’s Stoker and Holmes series (2013–2019). We first consider how the novels’ steampunk elements figure in Gleason’s feminist framing of neo-Victorian London, particularly in terms of common heterotopias—primarily the garden and the museum—that the protagonists briefly navigate over the course of the series. Second, we explore how the series’ three female protagonists each occupy spaces that function as pseudo—“heterotopias of crisis”—that is, while each of them claims space within which to subvert expectations of women, these spaces and the activities they support are themselves fundamentally insular and yield no socio-cultural critique. Finally, we consider how the spaces created and occupied by the books’ villain, known as the Ankh, serve as heterotopias. We find that the fact that the only truly heterotopic spaces in the novels belong to the villain, whose transgressive deviance the series frames as a bridge too far, illustrates how disappointingly limited neo-Victorian YA can be in its ability to offer subversive mirrors to twenty-first-century feminism.

scholarly journals Thomas Piketty in America

2015 ◽  
Vol 70 (01) ◽  
pp. 111-119
Author(s):  
Nicolas Barreyre
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Feedback Loop ◽  
First Century ◽  
Us History ◽  
Modern Capitalism ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Nineteenth Century United States ◽  
Thomas Piketty

Abstract This essay proposes a reading of Capital in the Twenty-First Century from a perspective rooted in the nineteenth-century United States. It explores some of the ways that Piketty’s book and its American reception could lead to a reconceptualization of US history. In a feedback loop, this exploration in turn suggests elements that extend and qualify some of Piketty’s conclusions, especially regarding the role of politics in the processes responsible for the growth of inequality under modern capitalism.

scholarly journals The Feminine in the “Reporter Book”: An Epistemological View on Gender and Journalistic Practices

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-53
Author(s):  
Márcia Veiga Da Silva ◽  
Beatriz Marocco
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
First Century ◽  
Professional Practices ◽  
Doctoral Study ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Exploratory Movement ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Siglo Xix

This article is part of an exploratory movement from a post-doctoral study. Statements taken from interviews with Eliane Brum, Fabiana Moraes and Alexandra Lucas Coelho, authors of reporter books who integrate the role of subjects and the research corpus, revealed actions of resistance towards the form of journalistic objectification. Journalism was observed through the prism of gender, focusing on discourses from reporters on professional practices that subvert the dominant masculine logic and elaborate an interpretation of journalistic knowledge. A set of practices emerge, identified as feminine, which are inhibited and diminished in the hierarchies of journalistic values. It provides a more complex lens for observing reality and subjects; it demonstrates the inability of journalistic objectification, forged in the nineteenth century, for reading in the twenty-first century world. It suggests thinking about new and necessary eyes through which to see journalistic practices and the criticism of journalism. Este artigo é parte dos movimentos exploratórios de pesquisa de pós-doutorado. A partir dos depoimentos das jornalistas Eliane Brum, Fabiana Moraes e Alexandra Lucas Coelho, autoras de livros de repórter que integram o rol dos sujeitos e o corpus de pesquisa, encontramos pistas das ações de resistência ao modo de objetivação jornalística. Neste exercício reflexivo, o jornalismo é observado pelo prisma de gênero focalizando nos discursos das repórteres sobre as práticas profissionais que subvertem as lógicas masculinistas dominantes e elaboram uma exegese do saber jornalístico. Um conjunto de práticas foi identificado como fazendo emergir o feminino interditado e inferiorizado nas hierarquias de valores do jornalismo. Sugere lentes mais complexas pelas quais a realidade e os sujeitos podem ser observados; demonstra a incapacidade da objetivação jornalística, forjada no século XIX, para uma leitura do mundo no século XXI. Dá fôlego para que se pense os novos e necessários óculos a serem utilizados nas práticas jornalísticas e para a crítica do jornalismo.Este artículo hace parte de los movimientos exploratorios de una investigación postdoctoral. A partir de los depoimentos de las periodistas Eliane Brum, Fabiana Moraes y Alexandra Lucas Coelho, auctoras de libros de reportero, que forman parte del elenco de sujetos y el corpus de investigación, encontramos pistas de las acciones de resistencia al modo de objectivación periodística. En este ejencicio reflexivo, el periodismo es observado por el  viés de género poniendo en relieve los discursos de las repórteras-auctoras sobre las prácticas profissionales que subverten las lógicas masculinistas dominantes y elaboran una exegesis del saber periodístico. Un conjunto de prácticas fué identificado como responsable por la emergencia del femenino interditado e inferior en las hierarquias de valores del periodismo. Indica lentes más complejas a traves de las cuales la realidad y los sujeios pueden ser observados; demuestra la incapacidad de la objetivación periodística, forjada en el siglo XIX, para una lectura del mundo en el siglo XXI. Sugere que se piense las nuevas y necessarias lentes para las prácticas periodísticas y para la crítica del periodismo.

The state and awqāf (charitable endowments) in the twenty-first century: from tutelage to partnership

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 503-514 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tarak Abdallah
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
The State ◽  
First Century ◽  
Modern State ◽  
State Strategy ◽  
Twenty First Century

This article aims to highlight the nature of the relation established over centuries between state and waqf (Islamic endowment). After setting the context of the historical framework that shaped this relation, the article goes on to explore the effects on modern state strategy, originating at the end of the nineteenth century, of administering the awqaf sector, and its consequences for the socioeconomic role of waqf.

Rethinking Mahler

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Structural Analysis ◽  
First Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Temporal Experience ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Literature History ◽  
Historical Past

Gustav Mahler’s anniversary years (2010–11) have provided an opportunity to rethink the composer’s position within the musical, cultural and multi-disciplinary landscapes of the twenty-first century, as well as to reassess his relationship with the historical traditions of his own time. Comprising a collection of essays by leading and emerging scholars in the field, Rethinking Mahler in part counterbalances common scholarly assumptions and preferences which predominantly configure Mahler as proto-modernist, with hitherto somewhat neglected consideration of his debt to, and his re-imagining of, the legacies of his own historical past. It reassesses his engagement both with the immediate creative and cultural present of the late nineteenth century, and with the weight of a creative and cultural past that was the inheritance of artists living and working at that time. From a variety of disciplinary perspectives the contributors pursue ideas of nostalgia, historicism and ‘pastness’ in relation to an emergent pluralist modernity and subsequent musical-cultural developments. Mahler’s relationship with music, media and ideas past, present, and future is explored in three themed sections, addressing among them issues in structural analysis; cultural contexts; aesthetics; reception; performance, genres of stage, screen and literature; history/historiography; and temporal experience.

History of Recording Demotic Epigraphy

2020 ◽  
pp. 491-507
Author(s):  
Jan Moje
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Seventh Century ◽  
First Century ◽  
Third Century ◽  
Late Period ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
Rosetta Stone ◽  
Roman Egypt ◽  
History Of ◽  
Twenty First Century

This chapter gives an overview of the history of recording and publishing epigraphic sources in Demotic language and script from the Late Period to Greco-Roman Egypt (seventh century bce to third century ce), for example, on stelae, offering tables, coffins, or votive gifts. The history of editing such texts and objects spans over two hundred years. Here, the important steps and pioneering publications on Demotic epigraphy are examined. They start from the beginning of the nineteenth century, when Napoleon’s expedition to Egypt found the Rosetta stone, until the twenty-first century.

American Custom, Ritual, and Holidays

2018 ◽  
pp. 255-276
Author(s):  
Jack Santino
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Life Course ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Political ◽  
Public Events ◽  
Close Study ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
Comprehensive Study

Since the nineteenth century, attention in folklore and folklife studies has shifted from viewing certain customary symbolic actions such as “calendar customs” and rituals of the life course to a more inclusive performance-oriented perspective on holidays and customs. Folklorists recognize the multiplicity of events that people may consider ritual and festival, and the porous nature of these categories. The concept of the “sacred” has expanded to include realms other than the strictly religious, so as to include the political and other domains, both official and unofficial. A comprehensive study of ritual and festival incorporates a close study of folk and popular actions as well as institutional ceremony. In the twenty-first century, approaching events as both carnivalesque and ritualesque allows folklorists to describe purpose and intention in public events, and to account for political, commemorative, celebratory, and festive elements in any particular event.

scholarly journals Corporate headquarters in the twenty-first century: an organization design perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sven Kunisch ◽  
Markus Menz ◽  
David Collis
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Organization Design ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
First Century ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Corporate Headquarters ◽  
Special Collection ◽  
Design Perspective ◽  
Twenty First Century

Abstract The corporate headquarters (CHQ) of the multi-business enterprise, which emerged as the dominant organizational form for the conduct of business in the twentieth century, has attracted considerable scholarly attention. As the business environment undergoes a fundamental transition in the twenty-first century, we believe that understanding the evolving role of the CHQ from an organization design perspective will offer unique insights into the nature of business activity in the future. The purpose of this article, in keeping with the theme of the Journal of Organization Design Special Collection, is thus to invigorate research into the CHQ. We begin by explicating four canonical questions related to the design of the CHQ. We then survey fundamental changes in the business environment occurring in the twenty-first century, and discuss their potential implications for CHQ design. When suitable here we also refer to the contributions published in our Special Collection. Finally, we put forward recommendations for advancements and new directions for future research to foster a deeper and broader understanding of the topic. We believe that we are on the cusp of a change in the CHQ as radical as that which saw its initial emergence in the late nineteenth/early twentieth century. Exactly what form that change will take remains for practitioners and researchers to inform.

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