‘Good-for-nothing’

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Dezeuze
Keyword(s):  
West Coast ◽  
Work Ethic ◽  
Cultural Model ◽  
The West ◽  
Art Of Living ◽  
Daily Experiences ◽  
Good For ◽  
The 1960S

Introduced by the ‘junk’ and beat aesthetics in the late 1950s, the figure of the dropout or slacker served as a counter-cultural model for artists concerned with precariousness, and took on various forms later in that decade. Celebrating leisure and laziness as a challenge to the capitalist work ethic, artists such as Tom Marioni, as well as groups such as Fluxus or ‘funk’ artists on the West Coast, appeared as concerned with their daily experiences as with creating any specific artwork, thus pursuing an ‘art of living’, as Fluxus artist Robert Filliou called it. Other artists in the 1960s questioned the value of work by developing what Allan Kaprow called ‘useless work’ — types of labour that involve effort, but yield no lasting product or outcome. While such ‘good-for-nothing’ figures pursued the Zen ideal of wu-shih or ‘nothing special’ that had inspired both junk practices and ‘borderline’ art in the early 1960s, other artists looked for inspiration to the ‘adversity’ of some of the poorest members of society (in the case of Hélio Oiticica).

From Sufism to Universal Vision: Murat Yagan and the Teaching of Kebzeh

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-92
Author(s):  
Chen Bram ◽  
Meir Hatina
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Exchange ◽  
The United States ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The West ◽  
Art Of Living ◽  
The Caucasus ◽  
Caucasus Mountains ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
First Time

This article examines aspects of cultural exchange between the Middle East and the West in which Sufism, Christianity, the traditions of the Circassians and New Age concepts played a central role. It focuses on the teaching of Murat Yagan, of Abkhaz-Circassian origin who grew up in Turkey and immigrated to Canada in the 1960s, where he developed his philosophy, Ahmsta Kebzeh (“the knowledge of the art of living”). The Kebzeh way of life emphasizes modesty, mutual responsibility and compassion. Yagan linked these values to the ancient ethos of the Caucasus Mountains which he sought to revive as the basis of a universal vision. The nature of Kebzeh was influenced by the cosmopolitan environment in which Yagan was educated in Turkey; by his enrollment with Sufi circles in North America; and by the multicultural Canadian atmosphere. These diverse influences enabled him to devise an ecumenical model of dialogue between cultures. The article provides a first-time survey and analysis of Kebzeh ideological and communal features. It sheds new light on the role of ethnicity and cultural heritage in immigrant societies in the context of the evolution of spirituality in Canada, a relatively unexplored milieu in comparison to the United States and Europe.

Transcultural San Francisco

2016 ◽  
Vol 85 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-109
Author(s):  
Christopher M. Sterba
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
West Coast ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
Political Consciousness ◽  
The West ◽  
Innovative Methods ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Labor Leaders

Andrew Furuseth and Olaf Tveitmoe, both immigrants from Norway, were two of the most powerful labor leaders on the West Coast in the early twentieth century. Their perspectives and experiences as Scandinavians, as immigrants, and as San Franciscans helped to forge an approach to political activism that has long been overshadowed by the far more famous events of the 1960s and 1970s. Working with innovative methods in the field of transcultural biography, this article argues that the contradictory, transcultural nature of each man’s career, which included both anti-Asian racism and a profound opposition to war and militarism, had a major impact on San Francisco’s political consciousness that is still felt today.

An Historical Sketch of Physical Oceanography in Canada

1976 ◽  
Vol 33 (10) ◽  
pp. 2155-2167
Author(s):  
Neil J. Campbell
Keyword(s):  
West Coast ◽  
Inland Waters ◽  
Physical Oceanography ◽  
The West ◽  
Ocean Sciences ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Under Construction ◽  
Historical Sketch

The history of Canadian oceanography is outlined through the contributions of individual scientists and the organization or programs they were associated with from 1890 to the early 1970s. The period up to 1960 reflects not only the scientific and personal efforts of H. B. Hachey, J. P. Tully, W. M. Cameron, and G. L. Pickard, but also their work in establishing oceanography as a science in Canada. The organizational developments which took place in the 1960s and their culmination in the building of the Bedford Institute of Oceanography, the Canada Centre for Inland Waters, and the Institute of Ocean Sciences now under construction on the west coast are described.

scholarly journals Populationsutveckling hos svarthakad buskskvätta Saxicola rubicola under expansionens inledningsskede i Västsverige

Ornis Svecica ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reino Andersson
Keyword(s):  
West Coast ◽  
High Probability ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Southern Sweden ◽  
The West ◽  
Coastal Heath ◽  
The Future ◽  
Bird Fauna ◽  
Good For ◽  
One Year

With its 25 confirmed breeding records between 2000 and 2015, the European Stonechat Saxicola rubicola is historically a rare bird in Sweden. The first breeding in the West Coast was found in 2014. Censuses performed in 2017 and 2018 revealed 28 and 30 breedings respectively. Out of 83 investigated territories, most were found in coastal heath-lands in Halland. The arrival occurred in the turn of the month March–April and the majority of the males consisted of one year old birds (2Y). Fledgling date for 68 clutches were distributed from May to August. Second clutches were observed for ten out of 32 investigated breedings. The Swedish expansion should be seen in the context of Danish immigration in combination with a large-scale advance via the German Schleswig-Holstein area. The European Stonechat belongs to those advancing species that are expected to increase according to predictions regarding the future bird fauna. Due to warmer climate, plenty of appropriate biotopes and high probability of reproduction, the conditions are good for a continued expansion in southern Sweden.

Negotiation, Trade and the Rituals of Encounter: An Examination of the Slave-Trading Voyage of De Zon, 1775–1776

Itinerario ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 39-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Alexander
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
West Coast ◽  
English Language ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
The West ◽  
Historical Experience ◽  
Daily Experiences ◽  
Slave Traders

AbstractThe intention of this paper is to fill a gap in a rich yet underrepresented aspect of Indian Ocean slave history. I have elected to found this study on a close reading of a journal from a slave-trading vessel that sought slaves for the Cape in Madagascar in the mid-1770s. This vessel, De Zon, conducted a slave-trading operation on behalf of the VOC along the west coast of Madagascar from May 1775 to January 1776. I have undertaken a close reading of the journal maintained by the merchant of De Zon, so as to write a history sensitive to the daily experiences of the slave traders in Madagascar, as well as to the codes and discourse through which this experience was filtered.This paper is primarily concerned with the experience of negotiation and trading as it was recorded by the VOC merchants on the vessels, and is drawn predominantly from the first trading encounter of the crew of De Zon when they arrived in Madagascar in 1775. In contrast to the surveys that comprise the majority of the English-language scholarship on slave trading in Madagascar, this paper is founded on a close reading of particular episodes; it thus represents an attempt at a micronarrative that illustrates and details the historical experience of VOC slave trading on the island at a particular juncture.

Radical Measures

Lyric Cousins ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fiona Sampson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
West Coast ◽  
Physical Object ◽  
The United States ◽  
Art Practice ◽  
The West ◽  
Communicative Function ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Language Poets

This chapter examines the radical nature of the Language poets. Strongly associated since the 1960s with the West Coast in the United States and with Cambridge in the United Kingdom, the Language poets create work that foregrounds uncertainty in a number of ways. Among the terms that practitioners use for their techniques are ‘innovative’ and the slightly more credible ‘postmodern’. Yet both terms understate the radicalism of what the Language poets had accomplished. Uncoupling language — and verse — from its communicative function is not merely an innovation within the artform, but contributes to a whole other genre — the tradition of the text as physical object — which is particularly strong in visual art practice.

scholarly journals Work Ethic of Butonese Women in The West Coast of Seram Island, Maluku

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nur aisa hamid Hamid ◽  
Dwia Pulubuhu ◽  
Hasbi Hasbi
Keyword(s):  
West Coast ◽  
Work Ethic ◽  
Economic Condition ◽  
Coastal Communities ◽  
The West ◽  
Work Ethics ◽  
Library Research ◽  
Business Opportunities ◽  
Fishery Products

The article aims to explain Butonese women work ethics focusing on three factors, namely the development of work ethics, the aspects, and the challenges in developing their businesses. The research is a qualitative research with case study. The study is conducted in four villages in Luhu Hoamual District and West Seram District in Maluku Province, including Temi, Tapinalo, Mangge-mangge, and Eli. The informants were the Butonese women whose professions are traders. The methods used in this research are observation, interview and library research. The data analysis was done through reduction, presentation and concluding processes. This study found that the work ethic of Butonese women is not due to a religious calling as Weber said, but as a rational choice following Coleman ideas of surviving from the nature challenges, business opportunities, and family’s economic condition. In this process, two professions with different orientations were born. The pajibujibu sell their agricultural and plantation products from the west coast of Seram in Ambon city, meanwhile, the papalele sell fishery products on the west coast of Seram and the Hitu peninsula. If papalele is easy to get access to capital for business development, pajibujibu finds challenges to get it. Therefore, pajibujibu finds difficult to develop the business in compared to papalele. Nevertheless, both play important roles as actors in the economy of coastal communities.

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