One dimensional man
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01 Dec 2012
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine Los Feminicidios in Ciudad Juarez and the cultural production surrounding them: chronicles, novels, documentaries and films, and stress the importance of creating an approach that considers both viii pathos and logos as a way of understanding the ethos of violence.
Abstract: In Mexico there is an increasing lack of engagement of the Mexican government and its citizens towards resolving violence. In the 20 century alone events such as the Revolution of 1910, La Guerra Cristera, La Guerra Sucia, and most recently Los Feminicidios and Calderón’s War on Drugs are representative of an ethos of violence withstood and inflicted by Mexicans towards women, men, youth, and marginalized groups. This dissertation examines Los Feminicidios in Ciudad Juarez and the cultural production surrounding them: chronicles, novels, documentaries and films. In it I draw on Aristotle’s influential Nicomachean Ethics, Victoria Camps’ El gobierno de las emociones (2011), María Pía Lara’s Narrating Evil (2007), Vittorio Gallese’s and other scientists’ research on neuroscience empathy and neurohumanism, and socio-political essays in order to theorize how a pathos-infused understanding of ethos might engage a reading and viewing public in what has become a discourse about violence determined by a sense of fatalism. Specifically, I argue that literary and film narratives and their interpretations play a significant role in people’s emotional engagement and subsequent cognitive processes. I stress the importance of creating an approach that considers both viii pathos and logos as a way of understanding the ethos of violence. By doing so, we can break through the theoretical impasse, which thus far has resulted in exceptionalisms and has been limited to categorizing as evil the social and political mechanisms that cause this violence.
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TL;DR: In this article, the condition of CDA by analyzing key terms in the 2010 CADAAD conference: ideology, identity, interaction, and identity-identity, identity and interaction.
Abstract: This article reflects on the condition of CDA, by analyzing key terms in the 2010 CADAAD conference: ideology, identity, interaction. It uses ideological-complex theory to emphasize contradiction as key to ideological effects in a highly complex world, source of both dynamism and vulnerability in theory, analysis and action. It argues for a single diverse and inclusive analytic project, including social, cognitive and linguistic lines, studying all media, including verbal, operating across all scales of space and time. Only an inclusive, contradictory CDA can have the impact it deserves.
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TL;DR: The authors argue that economic liberalization in Tunisia under Zine El Abidine Ben Ali allowed for a deeper penetration of state power into society, introducing novel modes of control during a climate of economic uncertainty which, labelled an economic miracle, was to be defended at all costs.
Abstract: Employing a Gramscian framework this analysis argues that economic liberalization in Tunisia under Zine El Abidine Ben Ali allowed for a deeper penetration of state power into society, introducing novel modes of control during a climate of economic uncertainty which, labelled an ‘economic miracle’, was to be defended at all costs. It examines two institutions central to the reform process – the Tunisian Solidarity Bank and the National Solidary Fund – making the argument that, by associating the ‘miracle’ discourse with a variety of pre-existing narratives, the regime ensured compliance, invalidated dissent and prolonged its repressive grip on power.
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...A Gramscian analysis of the exercise of formative and destructive power inevitably includes the concept of a hegemonic narrative, approached here as part of the fictive aspect of power (Marcuse, 2002: 21–58)....
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01 Nov 2018
TL;DR: In this paper, a sociomaterial approach to digital literacies in early childhood is presented, focusing on United Kingdom (UK) preschool children's intra-actions and social practices with television and related media (TV&RM) at home.
Abstract: This thesis is one output of a White Rose Doctoral Training Partnership (WRDTP) Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) studentship, devised by The Universities of Sheffield and Leeds in partnership with CBeebies. Taking a sociomaterial approach (Barad, 2003) to digital literacies in early childhood, this thesis focuses on United Kingdom (UK) preschool children’s intra-actions and social practices (Wohlwend, 2009) with television and related media (TV&RM) at home. It examines how both well-established and new verbal and non-verbal intra-actions constitute children’s unique social practices. Drawing on Bourdieu’s notion of habitus (1977), this thesis asks how social class is implicated in these practices. These inquiries are addressed empirically using a mixed-methods approach. The results of a UK-wide survey of 1,200 parents of preschool children and ethnographic case studies with 6 families in Sheffield, UK are presented.
Several original contributions to empirical, theoretical and methodological knowledge are made in this thesis. Firstly, in their everyday engagements with TV&RM, preschool children amalgamate fragments of media texts with other material and/or immaterial things to constitute synthesised texts (‘synthesised practices’). Secondly, preschool children and their families share habitus in relation to TV&RM (’family media habitus’). Thirdly, preschool children have relationships with narrative media texts without ever having engaged directly with them, via proxies including physical artifacts and social contact (‘proxy media engagement’). Fourthly, family members engage with preschool children’s TV&RM interests in ways which extend their learning in relation to literacies. Middle-class families use their children’s TV&RM interests as the basis for engaging children in school-like literacies learning (‘media practice schoolification’). Working-class families tend to extend their children’s TV&RM interests in terms of operational, critical and cultural digital literacies and embodied literacies. Methodologically, the thesis develops a framework for ‘Sociomaterial Nexus Analysis’ and ‘nexus mapping’.
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...Scholars associated with the Frankfurt School (e.g. Marcuse, 1968) took a particularly pessimistic 29 view, characterising the media as an irrepressible force, ‘duping’ the masses into conformity with prescribed opinions at the cost of original thought....
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...Marsh et al.’s (2017) study noted that parents’ scaffolding of their children’s digital literacies across operational, critical and cultural dimensions was such an integral part of everyday life that parents tended not to notice when teaching took place....
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...Marsh et al.’s (2017) study noted that parents’ scaffolding of their children’s digital literacies across operational, critical and cultural dimensions was such an integral part of everyday life that parents tended not to notice when teaching took place. Posthuman and sociomaterial theories add a further dimension to this debate, prompting consideration of the social role played by material objects. Ash (2010) proposes that digital devices work ‘teleplastically’, preshaping human action....
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TL;DR: The starting point of a radical sociology is not simply a humanistic faith or a utopian vision; the virtue of a sociology as a feature of the struggle for emancipation is that it sets as its goal the development of knowledge as a means of emancipation.
Abstract: A radical sociology takes as its goal human emancipation. By human eman cipation we mean a condition in which each person has the chance to participate consciously in the formulation and direction of the social orga nization affecting him or her-and thereby has the chance to maximize his or her potentialities. In a liberated society each person would be able to freely undertake a range of activities that would be self-expressing and fulfilling, while simultaneously contributing directly and intelligibly to the projects and plans that make social life possible. We therefore understand radical sociology to be a contemporary version of that long line of social thought that assumes the "infinite perfectibility" of humanity, that starts from the premise that "the root is man." But the starting point of a radical sociology is not simply a humanistic faith or a utopian vision; the virtue of a sociology as a feature of the struggle for emancipation is that it sets as its goal the development of knowledge as a means of emancipation. What kind of knowledge is emancipatory? Most fundamentally, it is knowledge that helps persons locate their experiences, discontents, and troubles as aspects of processes that are subject to human
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined accounts of travelers in terms of Erving Goffman's front versus back distinction and found that tourists try to enter back regions of the places they visit because these regions are associated with intimacy of relations and authenticity of experiences.
Abstract: The problem of false consciousness and its relationship to the social structure of tourist establishments is analyzed. Accounts of travelers are examined in terms of Erving Goffman's front versus back distinction. It is found that tourists try to enter back regions of the places they visit because these regions are associated with intimacy of relations and authenticity of experiences. It is also found that tourist settings are arrenged to produce the impression that a back region has been entered even when this is not the case. In tourist settings, between the front and the back there is a series of special spaces designed to accommodate tourists and to support their beliefs in the authenticity of their experiences. Goffman's front-back dichotomy is shown to be ideal poles of a continuum, or a variable.
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TL;DR: Casey as discussed by the authors explored the effects of contemporary practices of work on the self and found that changes currently occuring in the world of work are part of the vast social and cultural changes that are challenging the meta trends of modern industrialism.
Abstract: Despite recent interest in the effects of restructuring and redesigning the work place, the link between individual identity and structural change has usually been asserted rather than demonstrated. Through an extensive review of data from field work in a multi-national corporation Catherine Casey changes this. She knows that changes currently occuring in the world of work are part of the vast social and cultural changes that are challenging the meta trends of modern industrialism. These events affect what people do everyday, and they are altering relations among ourselves and with the physical world. This valuable book is not only a critical analysis of the transformations occurring in the world of work, but an exploration of the effects of contemporary practices of work on the self.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors interpret critical urban theory with reference to four mutually interconnected elements: its theoretical character; its reflexivity; its critique of instrumental reason; and its emphasis on the disjuncture between the actual and the possible.
Abstract: What is critical urban theory? While this phrase is often used in a descriptive sense, to characterize the tradition of post‐1968 leftist or radical urban studies, I argue that it also has determinate social–theoretical content. To this end, building on the work of several Frankfurt School social philosophers, this paper interprets critical theory with reference to four, mutually interconnected elements—its theoretical character; its reflexivity; its critique of instrumental reason; and its emphasis on the disjuncture between the actual and the possible. On this basis, a brief concluding section considers the status of urban questions within critical social theory. In the early 21st century, I argue, each of the four key elements within critical social theory requires sustained engagement with contemporary patterns of capitalist urbanization. Under conditions of increasingly generalized, worldwide urbanization, the project of critical social theory and that of critical urban theory have been intertwined a...
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TL;DR: The authors provide an overview of the key images of identity in organizations found in the research literature, including self-doubters, strugglers, surfers, storytellers, strategists, stencils and soldiers.
Abstract: This article provides an overview of the key images of identity in organizations found in the research literature. Image refers to the overall idea or conceptualization, capturing how researchers relate to — and shape — a phenomenon. Seven images are suggested: self-doubters, strugglers, surfers, storytellers, strategists, stencils and soldiers. These refer to how the individual is metaphorically understood in terms of identity, that is, how the researcher (research text) captures the individual producing a sense of self. The article aims to facilitate orientation — or encourage productive confusion — within the field, encourage reflexivity and sharpen analytic choices through awareness of options for how to conceptualize self-identity constructions.
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