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Dystopia
About: Dystopia is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2146 publications have been published within this topic receiving 15163 citations. The topic is also known as: cacotopia.
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TL;DR: This article analyzed the linguistic characterization of the lead female character, Dolores Abernathy, and found that the series features a misappropriation of female empowerment and liberation since Dolores presents a masculinization of her fictional identity which mirrors patriarchal practices and attitudes against women.
Abstract: This paper explores how the identity of victim-survivors of sexual violence is portrayed in the dystopian TV series Westworld (2016-present) by analyzing the linguistic characterization of the lead female character, Dolores Abernathy. To do so, this paper adopts a mixed methodology which combines corpus stylistics and Appraisal Theory with a feminist critical reading of the results in order to examine the textual cues in Dolores’ dialogue which characterize her journey from being a victim to becoming an empowered being. The results of the analysis show that the series features a misappropriation of female empowerment and liberation since Dolores presents a masculinization of her fictional identity which mirrors patriarchal practices and attitudes against women.
TL;DR: The play Dogs of Europe as discussed by the authors imagines a dystopian future in which Russia's imperial expansion swallows up swathes of eastern Europe to create a 'Russian Reich' and the authors use performance techniques to offer an affecting and intimate geopolitics, with the aspiration of motivating audiences towards an activist stance.
Abstract: On 12 March 2022, I attended Dogs of Europe, a performance by Belarus Free Theatre (BFT) at London’s Barbican Theatre. Adapted from the novel by Belarusian writer Alhierd Bacharevič, the play imagines a dystopian future in which Russia’s imperial expansion swallows up swathes of eastern Europe to create a ‘Russian Reich’. The timing of the work is uncanny and unsettling – it unintentionally (but astutely) coincided with the horrifying Russian invasion of Ukraine. The novel and stage adaptation depict a Europe that has become a fragmented European League of States with little unifying purpose or moral compass (‘people in Europe no longer read’, as one character announces). My encounter with Dogs of Europe considers how the BFT uses performance techniques to offer an affecting and intimate geopolitics, with the aspiration of motivating audiences towards an activist stance.
TL;DR: In this article , an adapted use of Utopia as Method in a module on an early childhood degree is presented. Among other issues the authors evaluate the intersection between social pedagogy, utopia and the future of early childhood.
Abstract: Those who choose to engage with the academic world of early childhood are frequently caught between encouraging students to advocate for children and contribute to the construction of a good life and navigating the regulatory frameworks that shape future practice. In short, we must prepare students for the highly skilled work of supporting people who live their lives in day-to-day actions that are underpaid, under-resourced and overlooked. Those who prepare students for this reality are tasked with developing programmes that both instil hope and pragmatism that will sustain them when faced with these everyday realities. This article outlines how the authors addressed this through an adapted use of Utopia as Method in a module on an early childhood degree. By following its distinct modes, students are guided to position themselves not as passive observants of a childhood that is socially constructed around them, but as social and political actors engaged with making human beings human. Among other issues the article evaluates the intersection between social pedagogy, utopia and the future of early childhood. Based on explorations undertaken for this article, we argue that the imaginative reconstruction of childhood through higher education is at ease with the values and purpose of social pedagogy. We reflect that, while the method employed as part of a module was useful in terms of personal development and future-oriented practice, the need to include children’s voices is yet to be developed.
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors proposed a method to solve the problem of the lack of resources in the South Korean market by using the concept of "social media" as a "social network".
Abstract: 세계는 혼란에 빠져 있고, 심각한 전염병으로 더해진 통치 실책과 불안정의 실존적 문제에 직면해 있다. 그리고 나이지리아는 이러한 디스토피아적 비극을 면하지 못했는데, 이는 ''혁명적''인 소코토 칼리파테에 대한 현지 사례 연구가 디스토피아와 유토피아를 모두 조사하는데 적절해 보이는 이유이다. 칼리프 국가 수립의 중심 인물이었던 술탄 무하마두 벨로(1817-1837)도 ''국가 건설''과 비슷한 실존적 문제에 직면했다. 그는 기근, 전쟁, 그리고 지역 폭군들과 그들의 학구적인 동맹들의 반란, 그리고 아프리카 내륙으로의 발판을 마련하고자 하는 외국 요소들의 정찰 상륙에 직면했다. 그의 해결책은 공격과 보복, 동맹과 통합, 특히 두려움과 희망의 담론을 포함하는 다층적인 것이었다. 본 논문은 술탄 무하마두 벨로의 생애와 그가 유토피아적 통치(윤리적) 틀로 디스토피아적 불확실성에 맞닥뜨린 과정을 탐구한다. 그리고 이 역사적 서사를 ''민족문제’로 특징지어져 온, 오늘날 나이지리아가 직면한 정체성의 위기와 연결시킨다. 이러한 문제들을 탐구하는 과정에서, 국가를 마비시키고 있는 현재의 난국을 타개하기 위한 방법의 일부로서 윤리적 틀을 배치하기 위한 잠정적인 대안을 제시한다.
TL;DR: This paper used a contextual cultural studies approach, which reads film as embedded in cultural politics, and a "monsterology" which captures capital as a specter within the film, to make the case that films targeted at students and young adults are important sites of pedagogy that contribute to an understanding of how capital alienates us from ourselves, each other, and social democratic structures.
Abstract: Through the use of horror movie motifs like zombies and mad doctors, The Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015) stands in drastic contrast to other young adult dystopian properties like The Hunger Games (2012), for example, in that Scorch Trials uses allegory as a means to comment on neoliberalism, alienated labor, and commodity fetishism essentially functioning as a Marxist critique of capital. However, this reading only occurs subtextually. By using a contextual cultural studies approach, which reads film as embedded in cultural politics, and a “monsterology,” which captures capital as a specter within the film, this essay will serve as an intervention surrounding discourse on The Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials. In doing so, this analysis will make the case that films targeted at students and young adults are important sites of pedagogy that contribute to an understanding of how capital alienates us from ourselves, each other, and social democratic structures.