213 research outputs found
This woman's work: Kate Bush, female fans and practices of distinction
No full textThis thesis proposes a broader understanding of the nature of women’s investments in popular music. Through a case-study of a group of mostly mature, middle class, white and heterosexual female fans for the British performer Kate Bush (1958- ) this thesis asks questions about the way in which gender, age, class, race/ethnicity and sexuality circulate within the field of popular music fandom, a field which has traditionally privileged masculinity and youth.
Studies of popular music consumption have tended to emphasise the notion of resistance to dominant culture, often by young, working class men. This has obscured the investments more mature and middle class women might have in popular music. This thesis shows that these investments are, instead of wholly conservative as is usually implied, both resistant and reactionary. In a similar way, these investments do not necessarily lead to powerful positions for the women (for instance, in a domestic context), but they do empower them to deal with the demands of work and relationships.
The women’s claims to distinction as serious music lovers are often made at the expense of other fans, especially young girls, and as such reinforce existing notions of the undiscriminating and ‘eroticised’ female fan. At the same time, however, their claims to distinction on account of their ‘feminine cultural capital’, enabled by Kate Bush’s blend of a ‘masculine’ musical virtuosity and a ‘feminine’ address, partly challenges the male domination of the popular music field. Furthermore, the women’s articulation of popular music and a mature sensibility challenges the medium’s youth ethos and offers an understanding of the way in which popular music returns its value for listeners through the long term
ESCRAVIDÃO E DIÁSPORA: UMA ANÁLISE DE O CAMINHO DE CASA, DE YAA GYASI
No full textThis article aims to analyze the novel Homegoing (2016), by the Ghanaian author Yaa Gyasi, which focuses on the African diaspora, in order to demonstrate how the author critically revisits the past and promotes a representation of the impact of captivty on the descendants of slaves. We will also approach the representation of the cultural identity of the diasporic individual. For this, we will use the theories of African Diaspora by Kevin Kenny (2013) and Paul Gilroy (2001), and also the concept of diasporic identity by Stuart Hall (2008).Este artigo visa à analise do romance O Caminho de Casa (2016), da autora ganesa Yaa Gyasi, que focaliza a diáspora africana, de modo a demonstrar como a autora revisita criticamente o passado e promove uma representação do impacto do cativeiro nos descendentes de escravos. Abordaremos igualmente a representação da identidade cultural do sujeito diaspórico. Para isso, utilizaremos as teorias de diáspora africana de Kevin Kenny (2013) e Paul Gilroy (2001), bem como o conceito de identidade diaspórica de Stuart Hall (2008).Este artículo tiene como objetivo analizar la novela Volver a Casa (2016), de la escritora de origen ghanés Yaa Gyasi, con enfoque en la diáspora africana, para demostrar cómo el autor revisita críticamente el pasado y promueve una representación del impacto del cautiverio en los descendientes de esclavos. También abordaremos la representación de la identidad cultural del sujeto diaspórico. Para esto, use las teorías de la diáspora africana de Kevin Kenny (2013) y Paul Gilroy (2001), así como el concepto de identidad diaspórica de Stuart Hall (2008)
Retraining displaced workers : what can developing countries learn from OECD nations?
No full textThe governments of most industrial countries provide financial support for adult training programs intended to retrain displaced workers. The author draws lessons from the experience of six industrial countries (Australia, Britain, Canada, Japan, Sweden, and the United States) on how to design and implement such retraining programs in low-income developing nations and middle-income countries. By retraining, the author means both improving job skills and remediating deficiencies in basic education. These are the lessons he emphasizes: Training programs should be independent of the educational system, with its rigid ties to degree requirements and academic schedules; links to employers must be developed and maintained so that trainees have marketable skills on completing the program. Training programs should be designed to minimize trainees'foregone earnings; basic education should be relevant to the jobs the trainees might seek. External providers of education must be made accountable - but with care; the system of accountability should also ensure that the needs of displaced workers most likely to suffer long-term unemployment are met. Not all displaced workers require relatively expansive retraining; some may need only inexpensive job-search assistance services. A permanent, institutionalized training system is preferable to short-term intervention.Labor Standards,Tertiary Education,ICT Policy and Strategies,Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Teaching and Learning
Meeting the information needs of older people: A challenge for local governance
No full textThe challenge of the ageing population is not just to provide more services but to employ new strategies. One of these is the need to rethink the provision of information to older people and their carers. This paper makes four points. First, that information and access to information have become more critical issues. Second, that older people may place a much higher value on information than other citizen groups but their access is poor for a range of reasons. Third, that the processes by which older people seek information may be empowering. Finally, effective partnerships with creative older people can be a catalyst to changing governance cultures which is a vital step in modernising local government. The paper draws upon examples from the author\u27s experience of working alongside older people under the umbrella of the Better Life in Later Life project in Newcastle upon Tyne. \ua9 2005 Taylor & Francis Group Ltd
The winged words of José Eduardo Agualusa
No full textThe Milagrário Pessoal, a novel written by Agualusa, can be considered as one of the literary cases that illustrate the Pauls Gilroy's theory of triangulation, developed in his study the Black Atlantic, expanding it into the specifics concerning transncionalism south atlantic. In this study, we will verify the narrative tecniques that the author uses to set the plural, hybrid and multiple, lusophone universe, open to cross-linguistic and merges intercultural. O romance Milagrário Pessoal do escritor angolano José Eduardo Agualusa (Agualusa, 2010) pode ser considerado como um dos casos literários que melhor ilustram, na atualidade, a teoria da triangulação do estudioso inglês Paul Gilroy, particularmente desenvolvida em The black Atlantic (Gilroy, 1993), expandindo-a para as especificidades relativas aos transnacionalismos do Atlântico Sul. Neste estudo, buscaremos verificar os procedimentos narrativos de que o autor lança mão para configurar um universo lusófono plural, híbrido e múltiplo, aberto às fusões interlinguísticas e interculturais.
Reading acts of narrative appropriation: four instances of fraudulent memoir
No full textPhDThis thesis examines acts of narrative appropriation, the telling of purportedly‘authentic’ life stories by those for whom the stories are not theirs to tell. This
misuse or subversion of genre - the discipline of historical writing and the category
of autobiography - becomes a means for cultural, social and political dissimulation,
and the analysis focuses both on the act: the event, trespass, or ‘theft’ of another’s
life story, and on the cultural meaning that this event reveals. These narrative acts
are approached theoretically through discussions of what it means to be an author, a
reader, and through the consideration of literary and social genre, category and form.
In exploring identities at particular risk of appropriation, this thesis shows how
fraudulent appropriated narratives affect our reading of the world, and in turn
influence our perception of already marginalized social groups. My primary
examples include prostitution ‘narratives’, Native North American ‘memoir,’ and
fraudulent Holocaust survivor ‘testimony,’ with each text providing decoded
evidence of ‘genre-bending’ exhibiting a social and political intent. These works
seek to be read as authentic personal narratives, as autobiography, and that is how
they have been presented to the reader. However, they are imposters – fictional tales
desiring the elevated status of historical authenticity and willing to bend the rules
and contracts of genre to achieve their end. Here the appearance of authenticity is
achieved through the use of cultural and social ‘myth,’ or perceptions of cultural
identity, and as such its fraudulent construction is first and foremost a social act,
with a social and economic motivation. As this thesis concludes, these texts are
most successful when their own political and social ideologies echo and confirm that
of the readership; when their subjects, the fraudulent ‘I’ at the center of the text is
also a performative elaboration of cultural belief
It\u27s nation time! Jazz, race and politics in the writings of Frantz Fanon and Amiri Baraka (1950-1970)
No full textNeste estudo, examino as concepções de jazz e negritude do filósofo martinicano Frantz Fanon e do escritor afro-americano Amiri Baraka. Para isso, mobilizo dados na bibliografia pertinente, em trabalhos acadêmicos relevantes e em estudos biográficos, tendo como aporte teórico-metodológico a noção de Atlântico Negro (GILROY, 2001 [1993]) e também o suporte de Bourdieu (2004; 2015 [1974]) e Koselleck (1992; 2006 [1979]), a fim de analisar os contextos de cada autor para a formulação de suas noções de jazz e negritude, atentando para os fluxos e refluxos em suas trajetórias intelectuais e ainda os diálogos que estabeleceram com os seus pares. Nesse diálogo, problematizo a relação entre Black Music e identidade negra, dando destaque às disputas políticas e estético-ideológicas em torno da definição da noção de negritude no Atlântico.In this study, I examine the conceptions of jazz and negritude by the Martinican philosopher Frantz Fanon and the Afro-American writer Amiri Baraka. For this, I mobilize data in the pertinent bibliography, in relevant academic works and in biographical studies, having as a theoretical-methodological contribution the notion of Black Atlantic (GILROY, 2001 [1993]) and also the support of Bourdieu (2004; 2015 [1974]) and Koselleck (1992; 2006 [1979]), in order to analyze the contexts of each author for the formulation of their notions of jazz and blackness, paying attention to the flows and ebbs in their intellectual trajectories and also the dialogues they established with their peers. In this dialogue, I problematize the relationship between Black Music and black identity, highlighting the political and aesthetic-ideological disputes around the definition of the notion of blackness in the Atlantic
Reontologising race : the machinic geography of phenotype
No full textIn contradistinction to the treatment of race as a problem of epistomology—how is phenotype represented in racial discourse—the author seeks to defend a materialist ontology of race. The creative materiality of race is asserted following the ‘material turn’ in feminism, anthropology, complexity theory, and Deleuze. Race is shown to be an embodied and material event, a ‘machine assemblage’ with a different spatiality than the self/other scheme of Hegel. Taking issue with the calls for the transcendence of race amongst cultural studies scholars such as Paul Gilroy, the author ends the paper by suggesting that the political battle against racial subordination includes a serious engagement with its biological dimensions. Race should not be eliminated, but its energies harnessed through a cosmopolitan ethics which is sensitive to its heterogeneous and dynamic nature
A realização da liberdade no Estado democrático de direito : limites e possibilidades
No full textDissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Ciências Humanas, Departamento de Filosofia, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Filosofia, 2017.O presente trabalho trata da posição da teoria discursiva do Estado democrático de direito de Jürgen Habermas perante as pretensões da teoria crítica da sociedade. Nosso problema envolve o questionamento a respeito do modo como o autor lida com os pressupostos da teoria crítica. Por hipótese, sustentamos que Habermas contraria a pretensão de materialidade de sua teoria discursiva à medida que naturaliza determinada concepção de realização da liberdade e, por esse meio, fecha os olhos para experiências históricas de emancipação que não se deixam traduzir por tal concepção. O caminho de investigação de nossa hipótese envolve o recurso a investigações de Judith Butler, Vladimir Safatle e Paul Gilroy. A naturalização de uma concepção jurídica de liberdade e a sincronização da história a partir da gramática constitucional funcionam como indícios do caráter dogmático da tese habermasiana segundo a qual o projeto constitucional internaliza as tensões sociais da comunidade política.The present work deals with the position of Jürgen Habermas' discursive theory of the democratic State of law before the pretensions of the critical theory of society. Our problem involves the questioning of how the author deals with the assumptions of critical theory. By hypothesis, we argue that Habermas contradicts the pretension of materiality of his discursive theory as he naturalizes a certain conception of the realization of freedom, and thereby closes his eyes to historical experiences of emancipation that are not allowed to be translated by such a conception. The way of investigating our hypothesis involves recourse to investigations by Judith Butler, Vladimir Safatle, and Paul Gilroy. The naturalization of a juridical conception of freedom and the synchronization of history from the perspective of constitutional grammar function as evidence of the dogmatic character of the Habermasian thesis according to which the constitutional project internalizes the social tensions of the political community.Instituto de Ciências Humanas (ICH)Departamento de Filosofia (ICH FIL)Programa de Pós-Graduação em Filosofi
Afrofuturismo como alternativa para a construção de outros currículos de lazer
No full textO presente trabalho representa o cruzamento dos Estudos Culturais com os Estudos do Currículo e do Lazer. Nesse cruzo, discutem-se estratégias de formação curricular e subjetivação no mundo pós-colonial, a partir da relação entre os conceitos de des-locamento e entre-lugares de Stuart Hall e Homi Bhabha. A noção de currículo, segundo Marlucy Paraíso, articulada com a diáspora dos povos africanos, na leitura de Paul Gilroy, pavimentam o estudo que propõe uma aproximação entre experiências pessoais descritas por Hall, Ebony Thomas e o autor deste artigo, para perceber o Afrofuturismo como uma alternativa para a construção de formas de currículo para o Lazer, as quais, ao invés de aprisionar, reativem forças, comprometendo-se com as relações étnico-raciais.The present study represents the cross between Cultural Studies and Curricular and Leisure Studies. At this intersection, strategies for curriculum formation and subjectivity in the postcolonial world are discussed, based on the relationship between the concepts of dis-placement and inter-places of Stuart Hall and Homi Bhabha. The notion of curriculum, according to Marlucy Paraíso, articulated with the diaspora of African people, in the reading of Paul Gilroy, opens the path for the study that proposes an approximation between the personal experiences described by Hall, Ebony Thomas and the author of this article, to perceive Afrofuturism as an alternative for the construction of forms of curriculum for the leisure, which, instead of imprisoning, reactivate forces, committing themselves to ethnic-racial relationships.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
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