Maroon, race and gender: Palmares material culture and social relations in a runaway settlement

2013 ◽  
pp. 328-347
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
And Gender

Music, Knowledge and the Sociology of Sound

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 48-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martyn Hudson
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Sound Studies ◽  
Sound Art ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Sociology Of Music ◽  
Popular Music Studies ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship

The sociology of music has often concentrated less on analysing and understanding the specificity and meanings of musical material culture as both an object and a process and more about ransacking music for insights into wider social relations like class, race and gender. The social constitution of music and the musical constitution of the social deserve a more sustained attempt at explicating relations and musical forms. This paper looks at the literature on what is specifically sociological about music and why music is important for sociology but also begins to problematize the relationship between social science and material culture by moving beyond popular music studies and the study of music more generally to examine the sociology of sound and sound art. We argue that this raises difficulties for the whole concept of the social as part of a human science and that new sound studies have to have a more nuanced and critical understanding of sociological epistemologies and the objects and processes they seek to explicate at the same time as understanding the material formation of music. Questions of knowledge and meaning are embedded in music and the paper concludes by thinking about knowledge and the materiality of music as knowledge.

scholarly journals Against the Grain: Socially Just Social Science from the Standpoint of Roxana Ng (Review Essay)

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 136-159
Author(s):  
Elaine Coburn
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Review Essay ◽  
The Political ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Relations Of Power ◽  
Varied Work

This contribution seeks to highlight the important scholarship of Roxana Ng, arguably one of Canadian sociology and political economy’s most underappreciated theorists. Like her activism, Ng’s academic work is both wide-ranging yet firmly focused on major, unjust inequalities. Her research particularly concerns the Canadian capitalist political economy but inevitably, given the embeddedness of these social relations within worldwide historical relations, stretches beyond national borders. In particular, Ng sought to unpack the everyday, intertwined – exploitative and unjust – relations of class, race, and gender, and the ways these unjust relations are articulated through migration and citizenship. This contribution situates the reception and uneven uptake of Ng’s varied work before critically analysing her contributions to understanding (1) immigrant women’s labour in Canada, (2) the complex racialized, gendered relations of power in the academy, and (3) the liberatory potential of embodied epistemologies, specifically Qi Gong meditation. In the conclusions, I consider the overall contributions and some contradictions of her work, in moving from the local to the global, and from the personal to the political.

scholarly journals Feminist engagement with restorative justice

2006 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen Daly ◽  
Julie Stubbs
Keyword(s):  
Family Violence ◽  
Restorative Justice ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Feminist Analysis ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Theories Of Justice ◽  
Politics Of Race ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Justice Studies

We analyse five areas of feminist engagement with restorative justice (RJ): theories of justice; the role of retribution in criminal justice; studies of gender (and other social relations) in RJ processes; the appropriateness of RJ for partner, sexual or family violence; and the politics of race and gender in making justice claims. Feminist engagement has focused almost exclusively on the appropriateness of RJ for sexual, partner or family violence, but there is a need to broaden the focus. We identify a wider spectrum of theoretical, political and empirical problems for future feminist analysis of RJ.

scholarly journals Social Ills of (Global) Capitalism under Scrutiny in American Literature Classes: "Teaching to Transgress"

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-38
Author(s):  
Lilijana Burcar
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Critical Literacy ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Systemic Understanding ◽  
Literary Pedagogy

The article foregrounds the importance of honing critical literacy through socially engaged literature. Dealing with literature in an engaged and critical way can help students to develop critical  thinking skills and a systemic understanding of burning social issues that inform their own living realities. Critical literary pedagogy and socially engaged literature play a key role in developing students’ understanding of why and how institutional racism and institutional patriarchy constitute key operating mechanisms of capitalist social relations, which is why constructs of race and gender should never be looked upon as mere add-ons, let alone as a matter of mere culture and hence individual prejudice. In this sense, the article directly challenges the prevailing postmodernist approach in mainstream studies and teachings of literature. It calls instead for the restoration of socially engaged literature to school curricula and for a return to the contextually analytical and systemic (materialist) approach towards literature.

Brand Pollution

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Property Law ◽  
Legal Doctrine ◽  
Intellectual Property Law ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Brand Dilution ◽  
And Gender

Cultural analyses based in semiotics and bureaucratic approaches to intellectual property law tend to treat brands primarily as communications media that relay information from corporations to consumers. Trademark protections are justified largely as measures that protect an efficient transfer of information and in terms of the legal doctrine of “brand dilution.” This chapter questions that framing by analyzing brands as design elements that derive their value and meaning from the contexts of material culture and social practice in which branded goods circulate, drawing evidence from the design and marketing strategies of Maya apparel workshop owners. The chapter involves a critical engagement with the sociology and anthropology of fashion and examines the branding strategies of several fashion firms, especially Abercrombie & Fitch. The chapter argues that the globalization of trademark law is an attempt to concretize and naturalize neocolonial divides along lines of geography, race, and gender that position some populations as rightful creators and consumers and others as mere copycats. The last section describes the efforts of some Maya workshop owners to market their goods using unique brands that reference their indigenous identity, and then explores the political implications and lessons for the anthropology of intellectual property law.

Circulating Emotion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Deidre Pribram
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Genre Studies ◽  
Story Structure ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Social Landscape ◽  
And Gender

Crash (Paul Haggis, 2005) follows a range of diverse but intersecting characters who, in their entirety, are meant to represent a social landscape: modern American urban existence. Through an ensemble cast and a multi-story structure, the film depicts a circuitous society in which one part affects other parts that, in turn, affect all parts. This chapter takes up the complex, multi-discursive world depicted in Crash in order to explore the place—or absence—of emotion in genre studies. Looking specifically at the moments of collision between characters in which the issues of race and gender are inseparable, it considers how anger specifically, and perhaps emotion in general, can be understood to ignite and fuel complex social relations. Such an analysis tells us about the ways in which emotions as cultural phenomena are understood or, equally, overlooked in media and other social representations.

scholarly journals Multiculturalism and the Fetishism of Difference.

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Mooers
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Human Labour ◽  
Immanent Critique ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Multicultural Citizenship ◽  
The Way

This paper charts the internal mediations between the duality of human labour under capitalism, the way in which capitalism embodies its ‘others’ through ideologies of race and gender, and the fetishistic forms of ‘difference’ expressed in liberal notions of multicultural citizenship. Such an immanent critique helps to explain one of the central paradoxes of ‘diversity’: how in the very process of recognizing ethnic and cultural differences, multiculturalism also occludes and distorts capitalism’s concrete social relations. The fetishistic ideology of multicultural citizenship should be understood as a ‘compromise formation’ which both distorts social relations and gestures toward an emancipatory potential beyond itself.

Referral Patterns for Youths Identified at Risk for Suicide by Trained Gatekeepers

Crisis ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael S. Rodi ◽  
Lucas Godoy Garraza ◽  
Christine Walrath ◽  
Robert L. Stephens ◽  
D. Susanne Condron ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Suicide Prevention ◽  
Demographic Characteristics ◽  
Service Access ◽  
Referral Patterns ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Lee Smith ◽  
Prevention Behavior ◽  
Key Variables ◽  
And Gender ◽  
To Receive

Background: In order to better understand the posttraining suicide prevention behavior of gatekeeper trainees, the present article examines the referral and service receipt patterns among gatekeeper-identified youths. Methods: Data for this study were drawn from 26 Garrett Lee Smith grantees funded between October 2005 and October 2009 who submitted data about the number, characteristics, and service access of identified youths. Results: The demographic characteristics of identified youths are not related to referral type or receipt. Furthermore, referral setting does not seem to be predictive of the type of referral. Demographic as well as other (nonrisk) characteristics of the youths are not key variables in determining identification or service receipt. Limitations: These data are not necessarily representative of all youths identified by gatekeepers represented in the dataset. The prevalence of risk among all members of the communities from which these data are drawn is unknown. Furthermore, these data likely disproportionately represent gatekeepers associated with systems that effectively track gatekeepers and youths. Conclusions: Gatekeepers appear to be identifying youth across settings, and those youths are being referred for services without regard for race and gender or the settings in which they are identified. Furthermore, youths that may be at highest risk may be more likely to receive those services.

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