scholarly journals Claire Weeda, 'Cleanliness, Civility, and the City in Medieval Ideals and Scripts'

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Weeda
Keyword(s):  
Physical Health ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
The Body ◽  
Conduct Manuals ◽  
Concepts Of Health ◽  
The City ◽  
The Ideal

Latin and vernacular urban panegyrics, describing the ideal city and its residents, mushroomed in the twelfth century. Painting a utopian view of the city that mirrors the heavenly Jerusalem, they rhetorically conveyed ideals of urbanity for aspiring members of the body politic to emulate. This chapter explores the ways in which the cityscape constructed in these texts, and residents’ behaviour (as influenced by conduct manuals and regimes of health), appear embedded in a natural environment reflected through the lens of Galenic medicine. Evoking the benefits of cleanliness and beauty, these concepts of health and hygiene accorded closely with issues of social status. The disciplined quest for moderation and balance offered spiritual and physical health, as well as enhanced personal repute.

To belong or not to belong: the Roma, state violence and the new Europe in the House of Lords

Legal Studies ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 569-593 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Fraser
Keyword(s):  
Body Politic ◽  
State Violence ◽  
The Body ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Refugee Status ◽  
House Of Lords ◽  
Legal Controls ◽  
New Britain ◽  
Political Decisions ◽  
The Ideal

Issues of national sovereignty and membership in the body politic are central to many current political and legal debates surrounding ‘New Britain’ and Europe. Traditional understandings of citizenship and belonging are grounded in the ideal of a territorially limited and defined nation state. In this article, I explore a series of judicial and political decisions surrounding the fate of Roma or Gypsies, both as claimants to refugee status in Britain, or as subjects of domestic legal controls. I argue that these decisions construct this nomadic Other as a fundamental danger and challenge to the coherence of the legally protected body politic of the nation state ‘Britain’. I argue that the deconstructive excess found in the construction of the Roma as dangerous nomads, without allegiance to a fixed and geographically delimited nation state, might contain the kernel for a possible re-imagining of the basis of our understandings of citizenship and belonging.

"En fullkomlig man"

2021 ◽  
Vol 51 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 120-128
Author(s):  
Alfred Sjödin
Keyword(s):  
Division Of Labor ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Of Christ ◽  
Central Theme ◽  
Bourgeois Society ◽  
Moral Crisis ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
The Ideal

“The Complete Man”: Body and Society in Viktor Rydberg The article treats the place of the body in the cultural criticism of Viktor Rydberg, not only as a central theme but also as an image with the potential to figuratively describe societal and even cosmic relationships. Rydberg’s ideal of the symmetrical and athletic body is seen in the perspective of his dependence on German neo-humanism and the gymnastic movement. The ideal of bodily symmetry figures as an image of universal man who defies the division of labor, while the deformed body inversely figures as an image of the lack of wholeness in a stratified bourgeois society. This is further elucidated by an analysis of Rydberg’s view of Darwinism and his fear of degeneration. In the final section, special attention is given to Rydberg’s broodings on the “Future of the White Race”. In this text, the body is a figure of the collectivity (the body politic) and its diseases signify political and moral crisis, while the remedy for this state of affairs lies in recognizing the unity of the living, the dead and the unborn in the body of Christ. 

‘The Party with God’: Michel Foucault, the Gay Left and the Work of Theory

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 122-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Maynard
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Social Constructionism ◽  
Historical Materialism ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
The Body ◽  
Political Practice ◽  
Socialist Feminism ◽  
History Of ◽  
Sexual Theory ◽  
The City

Revisiting Foucault's month-long stay in Toronto in June 1982, this article explores the reception and appropriation of the first volume of The History of Sexuality by activist-intellectuals associated with the Toronto-based publication, The Body Politic, and some of their fellow travelers. Reading Foucault's introductory volume through the intersecting frameworks of social constructionism, historical materialism, and socialist feminism, gay-left activists forged a distinctive relationship between sexual theory and political practice. If Foucault had a significant impact on activists in the city, Toronto also left its mark on Foucault. Based on the recently rediscovered and unedited transcript of a well-known interview with Foucault in Toronto, along with an interview with one of Foucault's interlocutors, the article concludes with Foucault's forays into Toronto's sexual and political scenes, particularly in relation to ‘bodies and pleasures’ and resistance to the sex police.

Diseases of the Body Politic: White Slavery in Jane Addams' A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil and Selected Short Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

1999 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
JANET BEER ◽  
KATHERINE JOSLIN
Keyword(s):  
Body Politic ◽  
The Body ◽  
Charlotte Perkins Gilman ◽  
White Slavery ◽  
Social Pathology ◽  
Jane Addams ◽  
Nature And Culture ◽  
North Side ◽  
Hull House ◽  
The City

Charlotte Perkins Gilman travelled from California to Chicago in 1896, spending three months at Hull House with her friend Jane Addams. Their discussions that summer resulted in a curious cross-pollination, each woman borrowing from the other, although neither, as it turns out, finding the exchange quite comfortable. Gilman, gratified by the intellectual audience at Hull House, was repelled by the day-to-day visceral contact with the poor. When Addams arranged for her to run a settlement on Chicago's North Side, known as “Little Hell,” Gilman eyed the grim prospect: “The loathly river flowed sluggishly near by, thick and ill-smelling; Goose Island lay black in the slow stream. Everywhere a heavy dinginess; low, dark brick factories and gloomy wooden dwellings often below the level of the street; foul plank sidewalks, rotten and full of holes; black mud underfoot, damp soot drifting steadily down over everything.” Poverty, in her description, infects both nature and culture, fouling the city and infesting it with literal and metaphorical disease. She soon handed her job over to Helen Campbell and moved on to write her theoretical analysis of the disease of middle-class marriage, Women and Economics (1899); “my interest was in all humanity, not merely the under side of it,” she mused, “in sociology, not social pathology.”

August 9 — the day of the Great Martyr Panteleimon, the holy healer

2021 ◽  
pp. 78-80
Author(s):  
Oksana Aleksandrovna Rybachok
Keyword(s):  
Twelfth Century ◽  
The Body ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Young Doctor ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
Orthodox Christian ◽  
Christian Churches ◽  
The Family ◽  
The City

On August 9, Orthodox Christian churches celebrate the day of remembrance of one of the most revered saints - the Great Martyr Panteleimon. Panteleimon the healer - under this name we know the saint who provides all kinds of support to doctors and contributes to the recovery of the sick. His veneration in the Russian Orthodox Church dates back to the twelfth century, when Prince Izyaslav placed the image of Panteleimon on his battle helmet. Born into the family of a noble pagan, the young man lost his mother early and was raised by his father, who decided to teach his son the art of healing. Having met the Christian Ermolai, who was in exile and guarded the secret of his religion, the young doctor was baptized. This happened after seeing the body of a dead boy bitten by a snake on the street of the city, whom Panteleimon was able to bring back to life by the power of prayer.

Gender, Movement, and History: Social and Spatial Transformations in 20th Century Maradi, Niger

1997 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara M Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
The Body ◽  
Spatial Position ◽  
Active Movement ◽  
Gender Ideologies ◽  
Spatial Practices ◽  
Spatial Transformations ◽  
Urban Terrain ◽  
The City

Analyses of gender and space have been brought short by our awareness of the sterility of the familiar public-private binary, our difficulty gaining purchase upon local spatial practices through feminist abstractions insisting upon the importance of global ‘location’, and our growing realization that women are often implicated in the very gender ideologies that constrain them. In this paper, focusing upon historical changes in Muslim women's access to and occupation of different kinds of space in the Sahelian city of Maradi, Niger, the author shifts attention away from the spaces themselves and towards women's active movement through and transformation of the spaces of the body, the home, and the city. Women define themselves, their social status, and their economic possibilities by acquiring and transforming what the author calls ‘internal spaces’ and by entering into previously inaccessible ‘external spaces’. More concretely, they locate themselves socially and economically through the decoration of their rooms in their marital homes, through the acquisition of urban property, and through the adoption of veiling. By renegotiating their spatial position women reconfigure their economic and social options. In so doing they subtly and unconsciously alter the character of the urban terrain, the nature of local marriage, and the configuration of local gender relations. Women's attempts to reposition themselves have had complex and contradictory implications. They nevertheless make clear that gender analyses fixing upon reified spaces or scales are inadequate and that common Western assumptions about Muslim women's experience of internal spaces and veiling need to be rethought.

scholarly journals Phenotypic variability of natural and cultivated populations of Oreochromis niloticus from Haut Sassandra region (Côte d'Ivoire)

2019 ◽  
Vol 41.3 ◽  
pp. 7029-7041
Author(s):  
Ahou Nicole YOBOUE ◽  
Koffi Charles BOUSSOU ◽  
Kouassi Sylvain KONAN ◽  
Koffi Félix KONAN ◽  
Abouo Béatrice ADEPO-GOURENE
Keyword(s):  
Natural Environment ◽  
Oreochromis Niloticus ◽  
Phenotypic Variability ◽  
Hierarchical Classification ◽  
The Body ◽  
Phenotypic Characterization ◽  
Fish Farms ◽  
Meristic Characters ◽  
Morphometric Characters ◽  
The City

1 ABSTRACT The phenotypic characterization of four populations of Oreochromis niloticus (Linnaeus, 1758) from the Haut-Sassandra region was carried out using 147 specimens. Among them, 39 were from the natural environment (Sassandra River) and 108 from three fish farms in the town of Daloa. The body weight, sixteen (16) metric characters and fifteen (15) meristic characters recorded on each individual made it possible to analyze the phenotypic variability of the four populations. Twenty-eight (28) on the 31 morphometric characters studied differentiated populations (P <0.001). Based on these 28 characters, Principal Correspondence Analysis (PCA) and Hierarchical Classification Analysis (HCA) grouped the individuals into two groups, a group consisting of Guessabo and PK 12(Kilometer 12 fish farm located at the end of the city of Daloa) specimens and the other group consisting of APDRACI and Quartier Manioc (two fish farms in the city) individuals. Six morphometric characters (PrAL. IOD. LDF. DAL. AFL and SsL) were the most relevant in the discrimination of these two groups. Discriminant factor analysis (DFA) has also classified these populations into two clusters identical to those of the PCA and the HCA. The brood stocks of PK 12 farm is morphologically identical to specimens of the natural environment (Guessabo). The waters of the PK 12 farm have similar characteristics to the natural environment. The PK 12 farm compared to the others (APDRACI and Quartier Manioc) would be better managed.

Ethnicity and the city: the Kurdish quarter of Damascus between Ottoman and French rule, c. 1724–1946

Urban History ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 206-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
NELIDA FUCCARO
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Spatial Organization ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
The Body ◽  
Public Action ◽  
Historical Processes ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

This article concentrates on the Kurdish quarter of Damascus and investigates the relationship between communal/ethnic identity, spatial organization and the socio-political structures of the city. It challenges the notion of quarter as an ‘ethnic cluster’ by examining historical processes of integration of the Kurdish community in the body politic of Damascus. In the colonial period the emergence of new arenas of public action for the Kurdish community are analysed with reference to the emergence of new ideas of class and community.

All for the Union

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clifton Hood
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
The Body ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
The Social ◽  
Democratic Nation ◽  
The City

For all the social chaos that phenomenal economic growth and heavy immigration had produced earlier in the century, upper-class New Yorkers had generally been optimistic that hoi polloi possessed enough self-control and independence to take direction from their betters and accept their proper place in the body politic. But the New York City draft riots of 1863 – the worse urban disorder in American history – seemed to show that entire communities lacked the self-discipline and orderliness required of the citizenry of a democratic nation and instead were prone to a savagery that had ripped the city apart. Drawing on their memories of the draft riots and on Victorian cultural values, the upper class utilized the Civil War to counter the blurring of class boundaries and social credentials caused by urban growth of the first half of the century. They came to classify came to classify many workers and immigrants as dangerous classes that threatened the social order- and themselves as a community of heritage and feeling that provided leadership in government, the economy, and society. At bottom these representations involved social control, and upper-class people used them to help harden class lines and gain an understanding of themselves and the rest of urban society that was coherent and compelling.

Butchering the Body Politic

2020 ◽  
pp. 53-76
Author(s):  
Brian Walters
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
The State ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self

Chapter 3 explores images of wounding, dismemberment, and violence against the state in republican oratory. Cicero’s speeches of the 50s are sometimes argued to be unusually gruesome in their claims about violence to the body politic. Cataloguing references to the republic’s mutilation and trauma in surviving oratory, this chapter puts the images of these speeches in context and reveals that such violent imagery is in fact prevalent in all periods. Violent imagery is shown to have been persuasive for tapping into anxieties about disability, social status, and liberty. Cicero’s references to the body politic’s wounds in the speeches of the 50s are remarkable only insofar as they refer to the orator’s exile, a fact which highlights the self-serving character of such imagery in general.

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