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Liminality in Advertising from the Mad Men Era
Get PDFThis article reflects an evolving anthropologist’s marketing career during the 1970s, before anthropology was truly welcomed as contributor to business strategy. I worked on several accounts mentored by a brilliant but conflicted creative director-guru-boss, an experience resulting in this reflexive advertising narrative punctuated by periods of liminality. I used my agency archives from the 1970s and field notes (or advertising log) as my data set to reflect this period. My field journey traversed the Mad Men era, immortalized in the AMC TV series about the 1960s and beyond, where creative directors freely crossed boundaries of sex, class and gender stereotypes. I discuss several advertising campaigns in which I was involved. The broader narrative reveals an uncomfortable divide between cultural empathy and advertising practice. While creatively stimulating, I describe the conflict in a marketing career that challenged ethical sensitivities
From Australia to Afghanistan: The value of connecting
Get PDFIs there such a thing as global librarianship? Copenhagen-based Australian librarian Alyson Dalby believes there is, and with the creation of International Librarians Network she is working on bringing librarians of the world together. Why? Because great ideas come to life when different perspectives meet, and libraries and people in libraries stand stronger in advocacy, professional ethics and development of librarianship when they are connected
Migration, Regionalism, and the Ethnic Other, 1840-1870
Get PDFThis article shows accounts of Norwegian immigrants and their encounter with various ethnic groups in America including Native Americans, African-Americans, Chinese, Irish, and Yankees in the period between 1840 and 1870. The article presents several regions in the United States, namely the Upper Midwest, Texas, and California. The use of primary source material including newspapers, guidebooks and letters provide good insights into thoughts and attitudes, and not the least prejudice, among this Old immigrant group toward the ethnic “Other.” The Norwegian immigrant group aimed at becoming good citizens through a negotiating process between the group, the dominant native-born American group and other ethnic groups in the United States. By characterizing several other ethnic groups based on race, Norwegian-Americans employed whiteness in a double negotiation, both tied to the creation of a Norwegian-American identity and in finding their place in the social hierarchy in America
The “Right Way”: Moral Capitalism and the Emergence of the Corporate Ethics and Compliance Officer
Get PDFUnder the influence of U.S. government regulations, enforcement of anti-bribery laws and embarrassing corruption scandals, major global corporations have realized that unethical conduct may affect not only their reputations but also their profits. This development has given rise to a new position within the traditional management team: the ethics and compliance officer (who differs from the established corporate social responsibility function). Based on field research in the compliance industry, this article describes how the moralization of firms has led to the emergence of a new corporate function: the ethics and compliance officer. It further describes how ethics and compliance officers learn their craft and how they cope with their role as moral compass of firms that need to compete in a global market where ethics may be viewed as a cost that inhibits profitability
”Du skal virkelig have styr på dig selv” – en analyse af fængselsbetjentes følelsesarbejde
No full textFængselsbetjente er med til at varetage Kriminalforsorgens hovedopgave nemlig at udøve straf og kontrol samt støtte og motivere til en kriminalitetsfri tilværelse. På baggrund af observation af arbejdet og interviews med fængselsbetjente i et dansk lukket fængsel præsenterer artiklen en analyse af følelsesmæssige krav og dilemmaer i fængselsbetjentes arbejde. Artiklen viser, hvordan betjente udtrykker følelser professionaliseret, under de rette omstændigheder og i den rette dosis for at efterleve humane og pønale hensyn. Det fremstår både nødvendigt og farligt at udtrykke både venlighed og vrede, ligesom det er afgørende at kunne undertrykke frygt. Artiklen diskuterer desuden de særlige følelsesmæssige dilemmaer, der udspringer af fængslets dobbelte funktion og selvmodsigende karakter. De modstridende rammer og opgaver betyder, at betjentene må være i stand til at kunne træde ind og ud af forskellige roller og gå ind og ud af forskellige følelser og følelsesudtryk. Betjentene må udvikle relationer til indsatte, som hverken er for fjerne eller for nære, ligesom de hverken må være for rigide eller for fleksible i forhold til regelhåndhævelse. Analysen viser desuden en stærk uformel social kontrol blandt kolleger. Betjente må ikke blot søge at kontrollere det indtryk, de giver indsatte, men også hvordan de virker på deres kolleger. Denne sociale kontrol tydeliggør det følelsesmæssig pres og dilemmaer, som betjente må håndtere for at udføre jobbet på den rette måde.
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Dorte Raaby Andersen: ”You Should Really Get a Hold of Yourself”: An Analysis of Prison Officers’ Emotional Work
This article presents a qualitative analysis of the emotional demands and dilemmas of prison work. Based on fieldwork in a Danish closed prison and interviews with prison officers, I analyze how prison officers manage their own emotions as well as those of prisoners. Emotions are not freely expressed in prisons. Prison officers must express and suppress different emotions as a part of their job to meet organizational norms. The article shows how prison officers must establish a relationship with prisoners to make the prison run smoothly. It shows that they have to balance between contradictory goals and different dilemmas, and that they must take a lot of reservations on a daily basis. They must be friendly, but not too friendly, flexible but not too flexible. Furthermore, the article stresses that prison officers must not only control the impression they give to prisoners, but at the same time they must be aware of how they perform in front of colleagues.
Keywords: prison work, emotions, dilemmas, social control
Foucault Among the Stoics: Oikeiosis and Counter-Conduct
Get PDFThis paper explores the relation of Foucault’s notion of counter-conduct to the Stoic notion of oikeiosis. Initially, oikeisosis is set against Platonic homoiosis, specifically as discussed in the Alcibiades, which provides what Foucault calls the “Platonic model” of conduct. The paper examines what Foucault means by “care of the self” and points to its difference from the Delphic maxim “know yourself” that centered on a principle of homoiosis, or ethical transcendence. Noting how the problematic of care of the self leads to what Foucault calls “the government of conduct,” the paper considers the possibility of “counter-conduct.” Given that Foucault has argued that the autonomy of conduct has been rendered invisible through its “juridification,” this paper proceeds with a genealogy of the codification of morals in natural law theory. This culminates with the sixteenth century return to Stoicism in the person of Grotius. Showing that a certain conception of counter-conduct present in Gerson is transformed in natural law theory into a juridical grounding of the government of conduct, this paper draws out the immanent relation of conduct and counter-conduct in the notion of appropriation. Arguing that Grotius has fundamentally misunderstood the concept of oikeiosis, which he takes from Cicero and which subtends his theory of appropriation, this paper suggests that a return to the early Stoic formulation of oikeiosis allows for a rethinking of the problem of the government of conduct. A certain moralization of action, irreducible to codification that is present in early Stoic thought provides a model of “counter-conduct.” Ultimately, “care of the self,” as it is given in Stoic philosophy, relates the subject of action to the principle of ethical immanence that grounds Foucault’s critique of the subject