(Re)making spaces and ‘working out ways’: women in the printing industry

Hot Metal ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesse Adams Stein
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Contentious Politics ◽  
Embodied Knowledge ◽  
Printing Industry ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Senior Manager ◽  
Female Workers ◽  
Embodied Practice ◽  
Working Out

This chapter is about the experiences had by women in the printing industry in the second half of the twentieth century. Focusing on the stories of three women – a tablehand, a senior manager and a printing apprentice – the chapter explores how women in the printing industry coped with the shifting challenges of a patriarchal printing environment. One of the threads holding these three stories together is the presence of design and embodied experience; each of these narratives speaks of something made, designed or physically manipulated, be it spatial, environmental or technological. The active making and re-making of things and spaces, and the forming of embodied knowledge about machinery and industrial objects, were strategies that female workers mobilised in order to survive challenging and often discriminatory circumstances. The contentious politics lifting – and associated legal limitations – is evaluated, revealing a disjuncture between workplace rhetoric and actual embodied practice.

Rhythm

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lexi Eikelboom
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
The Social ◽  
Contemporary Philosopher ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Theoretical Category

This book argues that, as a pervasive dimension of human existence with theological implications, rhythm ought to be considered a category of theological significance. Philosophers and theologians have drawn on rhythm—patterned movements of repetition and variation—to describe reality, however, the ways in which rhythm is used and understood differ based on a variety of metaphysical commitments with varying theological implications. This book brings those implications into the open, using resources from phenomenology, prosody, and the social sciences to analyse and evaluate uses of rhythm in metaphysical and theological accounts of reality. The analysis relies on a distinction from prosody between a synchronic approach to rhythm—observing the whole at once and considering how various dimensions of a rhythm hold together harmoniously—and a diachronic approach—focusing on the ways in which time unfolds as the subject experiences it. The text engages with the twentieth-century Jesuit theologian Erich Przywara alongside thinkers as diverse as Augustine and the contemporary philosopher Giorgio Agamben, and proposes an approach to rhythm that serves the concerns of theological conversation. It demonstrates the difference that including rhythm in theological conversation makes to how we think about questions such as “what is creation?” and “what is the nature of the God–creature relationship?” from the perspective of rhythm. As a theoretical category, capable of expressing metaphysical commitments, yet shaped by the cultural rhythms in which those expressing such commitments are embedded, rhythm is particularly significant for theology as a phenomenon through which culture and embodied experience influence doctrine.

Urban service provision: Insights from pragmatism and ethics

2017 ◽  
Vol 49 (12) ◽  
pp. 2800-2812 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn Furlong ◽  
Marie-Noëlle Carré ◽  
Tatiana Acevedo Guerrero
Keyword(s):  
Service Provision ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Careful Consideration ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Everyday Ethics ◽  
Urban Service ◽  
Normative Issues ◽  
Embodied Practice ◽  
Work And Life

In their work and life, urban service providers are continually torn between policies and pressures from higher scales and the realities of the cities they inhabit. The ways in which they negotiate these tensions imply the complex adjudication of a range of normative issues, conditioned by the variety of socio-technical, political, and economic factors that are underscored in the literature. In this way, geographical debates on pragmatism and ethics have an important, yet largely overlooked, contribution to make to the study of urban services. These approaches can promote the careful consideration of how people engaged in service provision manage such complexity – including its normative dimensions – through their long-term embodied experience. Pragmatic and related ethical perspectives necessarily contextualize decision-making, taking us beyond ideology or institutional exigencies to debates about practical reason, everyday ethics and embodied practice.

Communities of Practice

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Harlig
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
World War I ◽  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Youth Culture ◽  
Large Impact ◽  
World War ◽  
Dance History ◽  
Social Dance ◽  
Culture Centered ◽  
Embodied Practice

This chapter considers three moments in early twentieth-century American social dance history in which the popular screen had a particularly large impact, spreading local forms across the country and propelling dance forms from their communities of origin to wider communities of practice. This chapter focuses on Vernon and Irene Castle’s filmed representations of ragtime partner dances pre–World War I, the flapper film and newsreel representations of the Charleston throughout the 1920s, and television dance party shows likeAmerican Bandstandbroadcasting the Twist and other new dances in the 1950s and 60s. This contribution illustrates how these media facilitated the embodiment and consumption of movement and meaning of music, steps, and bodies across racial and social lines by demonstrating how cycles of dissemination, development, and mediation connected geographically and socio-economically disparate groups. The embodied practice of dance and the ritual of watching led to the formation of a consumer-based youth culture centered on music and dance.

scholarly journals Living for creating, painting for staying sane. The complex story-board of Charlotte Salomon

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Articoni
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Expressive Power ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Nazi Germany ◽  
Artistic Development ◽  
Total Work ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Working Out

The talent of Charlotte Salomon, a young Jewish artist from Berlin, takes shape during Nazism. Her artistic development is concentrated in a single work, Life? Or Theatre?, whereby the author retraces her life in a style bringing together painting with comics, cinema, music. A total work of art as it is embodied in and hinged on her own life, and the only Gesamtkunstwerk is one where the work is an extension of her own existence, where everything becomes art.Salomonʼs work is much more than a diary: it is a way of working out grief and mourning, a stratagem for reacting and driving out pain in the madness of Nazi Germany. It is a ‘graphic novelʼ hybridizing codes and languages with an overflowing expressive power, in which each panel is a story in itself, it is staged memory, the private and public twentieth-century obscenity dealt with and thought out by means of words, images and music, with characters, dialogues, breaks, changes in perspective.

scholarly journals Researching embodied relationships with place: rehabilitating the sit-down interview

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanessa May ◽  
Camilla Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Social Reality ◽  
Embodied Knowledge ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Matching Method ◽  
Methodological Innovation ◽  
Research Participants ◽  
Interview Methods ◽  
Embodied Experiences ◽  
Critical Intervention

This article explores the utility of sit-down interviews in researching people’s embodied relationships with place. We offer a critical intervention in the ongoing debates concerning methodological ‘innovation’ by exploring under which circumstances sit-down interviews can produce dynamic and embodied knowledge. We propose that when conducted in situ in an environment well known by both research participants and researchers, and when focused on inherently sensory topics, sit-down interviews can provide rich insights into embodied experiences of place. In addition, we contribute to the literature that compares sit-down interviews and walk-alongs by exploring the aspects of embodied experience that sit-down interviews might be more adept at capturing. Since there is considerable overlap in the kinds of knowledge that different interview methods can produce, we argue that it is impossible to divide social reality into distinct domains of experience, each with its own matching method of enquiry.

scholarly journals Xiuzhen (Immortality Cultivation) Fantasy: Science, Religion, and the Novels of Magic/Superstition in Contemporary China

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Zhange Ni
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Martial Arts ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Homo Economicus ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
Neoliberal Governance ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Martial Arts Fiction ◽  
Organizing Center ◽  
Embodied Practice

In early twenty-first-century China, online fantasy is one of the most popular literary genres. This article studies a subgenre of Chinese fantasy named xiuzhen 修真 (immortality cultivation), which draws on Daoist alchemy in particular and Chinese religion and culture in general, especially that which was negatively labelled “superstitious” in the twentieth century, to tell exciting adventure stories. Xiuzhen fantasy is indebted to wuxia xiaoshuo 武俠小說 (martial arts novels), the first emergence of Chinese fantasy in the early twentieth century after the translation of the modern Western discourses of science, religion, and superstition. Although martial arts fiction was suppressed by the modernizing nation-state because it contained the unwanted elements of magic and supernaturalism, its reemergence in the late twentieth century paved the way for the rise of its successor, xiuzhen fantasy. As a type of magical arts fiction, xiuzhen reinvents Daoist alchemy and other “superstitious” practices to build a cultivation world which does not escape but engages with the dazzling reality of digital technology, neoliberal governance, and global capitalism. In this fantastic world, the divide of magic and science breaks down; religion, defined not by faith but embodied practice, serves as the organizing center of society, economy, and politics. Moreover, the subject of martial arts fiction that challenged the sovereignty of the nation-state has evolved into the neoliberal homo economicus and its non-/anti-capitalist alternatives. Reading four exemplary xiuzhen novels, Journeys into the Ephemeral (Piaomiao zhilv 飄渺之旅), The Buddha Belongs to the Dao (Foben shidao 佛本是道), Spirit Roaming (Shenyou 神遊), and Immortality Cultivation 40K (Xiuzhen siwannian 修真四萬年), this article argues that xiuzhen fantasy provides a platform on which the postsocialist generation seek to orient themselves in the labyrinth of contemporary capitalism by rethinking the modernist triad of religion, science, and superstition.

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