791 resultados para cultural studies
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Este novedoso y original trabajo de investigacin pretende asentar una primera base que permita el examen riguroso de la construccin de un personaje en concreto. Este estudio aborda la presentacin sobre la actual Reina de Espaa, Letizia Ortiz, a partir de la produccin de noticias por parte de los periodistas y de los medios de comunicacin, que realizan los peridicos ABC y El Pas, adems de la revista semanal Hola, en un determinado periodo, que abarca desde septiembre a diciembre del 2014. Todo ello, elaborando un modelo que debiera combinar los enfoques de la economa poltica, desde la visin estructural, y de los estudios culturales, en un marco analtico textual. El objetivo es desentraar el esquema de un poliedro, teniendo en cuenta en el proceso, tanto la produccin como la importancia del canal, es decir, del mensaje y su soporte.
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Basado en la evidencia proporcionada por 9 grupos de discusin, este trabajo aborda la semntica social de la crisis en el marco de la hiptesis propuesta por Janet Roitman. En consecuencia propone retratar distintas estrategias narrativas que permiten dar cuenta de la experiencia de la crisis segn cuatro ejes de contraposiciones: agencia/paciencia, moralizacin/poder, coyuntura/cronicidad, destruccin/creacin. En su parte final, propone fijar los rasgos fundamentales de los sujetos que aparecen en seno de las tramas narrativas propuestas.
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This paper deals with the conceptions of the different school actors about the meaning and the implications of mediation in their schools, drawing on data from a qualitative approach carried out as part of a wider project to map mediation perspectives and practices in Catalonia. The authors analyze the scope of the situations regarded as suitable or unsuitable for the introduction of restorative practices, as well as the resistance to change in the practice of conflict resolutions and in the democratization of school culture.
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El artculo identifica y analiza el discurso predominante que poseen 12 nios y 7 nias de 7 y 8 ao bsico pertenecientes a 4 establecimientos educacionales en la ciudad de Talca en Chile, en torno a la transgresin de las identidades tradicionales de la mujer en los videojuegos. Para ello durante el 1 semestre del ao 2014 al interior de un programa de formacin de profesores/as en Artes Visuales se implementa una estrategia didctica centrada en la expresin grfica denominada Crea tu propia personaje para videojuego. Haciendo partcipes a nios y nias junto a profesionales en formacin de una propuesta metodolgica basada en la Investigacin-Accin enmarcada en las prcticas profesionales. Concluyendo tras el anlisis semntico de dibujos y relatos, que las imgenes representativas de la mujer en los videojuegos transgreden las identidades tradicionales de gnero al interior de un marco androcntrico predominante.
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Tsar Peter the Great ruled Russia between 1689 and 1725. Its domains, stretching from the Baltic Sea in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east. From north to south, its empire stretching from the Arctic Ocean to the borders with China and India. Tsar Peter I tried to extend the geographical knowledge of his government and the rest of the world. He was also interested in the expansion of trade in Russia and in the control of trade routes. Feodor Luzhin and Ivan Yeverinov explored the eastern border of the Russian Empire, the trip between 1719 and 1721 and reported to the Tsar. They had crossed the peninsula of Kamchatka, from west to east and had traveled from the west coast of Kamchatka to the Kuril Islands. The information collected led to the first map of Kamchatka and the Kuril Islands. Tsar Peter ordered Bering surf the Russian Pacific coast, build ships and sail the seas north along the coast to regions of America. The second expedition found equal to those of the previous explorers difficulties. Two ships were eventually thrown away in Okhotsk in 1740. The explorers spent the winter of 1740-1741 stockpiling supplies and then navigate to Petropavlovsk. The two ships sailed eastward and did together until June 20, then separated by fog. After searching Chirikov and his boat for several days, Bering ordered the San Pedro continue to the northeast. There the Russian sailors first sighted Alaska. According to the log, "At 12:30 (pm July 17) in sight of snow-capped mountains and between them a high volcano." This finding came the day of St. Elijah and so named the mountain.
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Este estudo analiza como Manuel Rivas aproveita a ambigidade do concepto de estereotipo para crear una identidade cultural galega. En Unha espa no Reino de Galicia (2004), Rivas propn que a imaxe pardica do galego e o conxunto de trazos estereotipados que se lle asignan non son un elemento alleo a cultura galega, senn que un trazo integral da dialctica da sa identidade nacional. Desta maneira, feito diferencial galego, ademais da lingua, a unidade territorial, o celtismo, ou a emigracin, habera que engadir a capacidade do galego de parodiar o seu propio discurso nacional.
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Following and contributing to the ongoing shift from more structuralist, system-oriented to more pragmatic, socio-cultural oriented anglicism research, this paper verifies to what extent the global spread of English affects naming patterns in Flanders. To this end, a diachronic database of first names is constructed, containing the top 75 most popular boy and girl names from 2005 until 2014. In a first step, the etymological background of these names is documented and the evolution in popularity of the English names in the database is tracked. Results reveal no notable surge in the preference for English names. This paper complements these database-driven results with an experimental study, aiming to show how associations through referents are in this case more telling than associations through phonological form (here based on etymology). Focusing on the socio-cultural background of first names in general and of Anglo-American pop culture in particular, the second part of the study specifically reports on results from a survey where participants are asked to name the first three celebrities that leap to mind when hearing a certain first name (e.g. Lana, triggering the response Del Rey). Very clear associations are found between certain first names and specific celebrities from Anglo-American pop culture. Linking back to marketing research and the social turn in onomastics, we will discuss how these celebrities might function as referees, and how social stereotypes surrounding these referees are metonymically attached to their first names. Similar to the country-of-origin-effect in marketing, these metonymical links could very well be the reason why parents select specific celebrity names. Although further attitudinal research is needed, this paper supports the importance of including socio-cultural parameters when conducting onomastic research.
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El artculo analiza la figura del prosumidor desde los estudios visuales a partir de la combinacin de la teora de los actos de habla y los nuevos medios. El objetivo es evaluar si la distincin entre productores y consumidores, estrategias y tcticas de Michel de Certeau contina siendo operativa en las interfaces grficas de la cultura global de la informacin de Scott Lash. Para ello distingue dos tipos de performatividad de los actos de habla: la performatividad top-down del software, y la bottom-up de los juegos del lenguaje y las formas de vida. Estos tipos se aplican al anlisis del discurso de los eslganes que aparecen en los sitios web de las iniciativas open y de economa colaborativa, ya que las primeras estn dedicadas a la produccin de bienes inmateriales y las segundas a la produccin de bienes materiales. El desarrollo muestra cmo los dos tipos de performatividad transforman el anlisis textual de los estudios literarios y cinematogrficos en una metodologa capaz de investigar acciones materiales, humanas y no humanas. Las conclusiones describen el surgimiento de nuevas convenciones narrativas de poder y control ajenas a la ficcin que apuntan a una DIY society.
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Expanding on the growing movement to take academic and other erudite subjugated knowledges and distill them into some graphic form, this cartoon is a recounting of the authors 2014 article, Big Data, Actionable Information, Scientific Knowledge and the Goal of Control, Teknokultura, Vol. 11/no. 3, pp. 529-54. It is an analysis of the idea of Big Data and an argument that its power relies on its instrumentalist specificity and not its extent. Mind control research in general and optogenetics in particular are the case study. Noir seems an appropriate aesthetic for this analysis, so direct quotes from the article are illustrated by publically available screen shots from iconic and unknown films of the 20th century. The only addition to the original article is a framing insight from the admirable activist network CrimethInc.
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In Marxist frameworks distributive justice depends on extracting value through a centralized state. Many new social movementspeer to peer economy, maker activism, community agriculture, queer ecology, etc.take the opposite approach, keeping value in its unalienated form and allowing it to freely circulate from the bottom up. Unlike Marxism, there is no general theory for bottom-up, unalienated value circulation. This paper examines the concept of generative justice through an historical contrast between Marxs writings and the indigenous cultures that he drew upon. Marx erroneously concluded that while indigenous cultures had unalienated forms of production, only centralized value extraction could allow the productivity needed for a high quality of life. To the contrary, indigenous cultures now provide a robust model for the gift economy that underpins open source technological production, agroecology, and restorative approaches to civil rights. Expanding Marxs concept of unalienated labor value to include unalienated ecological (nonhuman) value, as well as the domain of freedom in speech, sexual orientation, spirituality and other forms of expressive value, we arrive at an historically informed perspective for generative justice.
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The Borg, a collective of humanoid cyborgs linked together in a hive-mind and modeled on the earthly superorganisms of ant colonies and beehives, has been the most feared alien race in the Star Trek universe. The formidable success of the Borg in assimilating their foes corresponds to the astounding success of superorganisms in our own biosphere. Yet the Borg also serves as a metaphor for another collective of biological entities known as the corporation. In the Anthropocene epoch, corporations have become the most powerful force on the planet; their influence on the social world and the environment exceeds any government and may determine the continued sustainability of human life. Corporations have been described as people and as machines, but neither metaphor accurately describes their essence or contributes to an understanding that might resist their power. This paper reframes our understanding of the corporation by examining the metaphors that are used to describe it, and by suggesting an entirely new metaphor viewing the Borg and the corporation through the lens of sociobiology. I will argue that the corporation is a new form of superorganism that has become the dominant species on the planet and that the immense, intractable power of a globalized, corporate hive-mind has become the principal obstacle to addressing the planetary emergency of climate change. Reframing our metaphoric understanding of corporations as biological entities in the planetary biosphere may enable us to imagine ways to resist their increasing dominance and create a sustainable future.
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This essay reviews the 35th anniversary edition of Policing the Crisis, the jointly-authored investigation into race, immigration, mugging and the crisis in hegemony of 1970s Britain. The new edition is demonstrative of the book's enduring influence, including amongst historians increasingly turning their attention towards the roots, development and reach of Thatcherism. This essay places the remarkably prescient conceptual interventions made in Policing in the context of the conditions in which it was produced. Drawing on the author's wider work on the history of the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studieswhere the authors of Policing were basedit argues the book should also be read for the insight it provides into the development of cultural studies as a fledging field of inquiry. A broader re-engagement with the work of the so-called Birmingham school, it is suggested, offers one way of historians developing accounts of 1970s and 1980s Britain that are not overdetermined by the arrival of Thatcherism.
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We present here our findings from the qualitative study commissioned by the Scottish Government (Justice Analytical Services) to provide an understanding of the nature of sectarianism in a range of communities across Scotland, including those where it may be most visibly prevalent. The team of academics commissioned to carry out this research were drawn from the disciplines of law, music, social geography, cultural studies, and communication and media studies. The study was commissioned on 14 March 2014, to conclude in spring 2015.
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This article will discuss notions and concepts of remembering in the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo attacks. Much has been written about the immediate response to the attacks, both commending the collective spirit of unity that defined the marche rpublicaine of 11 January 2015, and criticising the alleged hypocrisy and cynicism of, most notably, the political figures that took to the streets that day, hand in hand. I will consider a selection of the memory practices that have emerged since then, notably on the anniversary of the event. This demonstration of memory provides key insights into the form and manner of remembering within a particular cultural group, but also reflects how the present moment is integral to our understanding of memory. The purpose of this article is to consider how official and non-official remembering of Charlie Hebdo can intertwine as well as pull in separate directions. A focus on the politics, the language, the aesthetics and the geography of commemorative activities in this article will enable an appreciation of the multidirectional character of remembering Charlie Hebdo.
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I september 2014 bytte Leeds Metropolitan University, trots studentprotester, namn till Leeds Beckett University; universitetets frsta colleges lg i Beckett Park, vilken i sin tur ftt namn efter bankiren och konservative parlamentsledamoten Ernest Beckett, 2nd Baron Grimthorpe (18561917), vars alma mater faktiskt var Trinity College, Cambridge. Leeds-studenternas motstnd hade sin grund i att namnndringen berknades kosta en kvarts miljon pund, alltmedan inte minst universitetets idrottsanlggningar tilltits frfalla. Vi vet inte hur universitetets personal stllde sig till namnfrndringen, och srskilt nyfikna r vi ju p vad professorn i Leisure Studies (fritidsforskning, fritidsvetenskap) vid Leeds Beckett University, Karl Spracklen, tyckte om frndringen. Detta r dock blott "idle curiosity"; Spracklen r aktuell av ett helt annat, och viktigare, skl, nmligen fr sin bok Leisure, Sports & Society (Palgrave Macmillan). Spracklen, som r sociolog och vars forskningsintresse ocks inkluderar "metal music" (som sekreterare fr International Society for Metal Music Studies och redaktr fr Metal Music Studies) och "whiskey tourism" (som drivande i British Sociological Associations Alcohol Study Group) r en centralfigur inom det brittiska fritidsforskningsetablissemanget han har bland annat varit ordfrande i viktiga LSA, Leisure Studies Association frn 2009 till 2013. Han har drtill en lng rad publikationer bakom sig, bcker, antologibidrag och vetenskapliga artiklar inom idrotts- och fritidsforskning i vid mening. Den nya boken ges hr en grundlig recension av Erik Backman, som ju vet ett och annat om fritidsforskning, Spracklen bottnar teoretiskt i Habermas, i sig ovanligt bland brittiska forskare, men ocks i Marx, Weber och Bourdieu, bland andra, i sin utforskning av sambandet mellan fritid, fysisk aktivitet och sport ur ett tvrvetenskapligt perspektiv som innefattar idrottsvetenskap, sociologi, cultural studies, historia, filosofi och psykologi. Och vr recensent r imponerad ver bredden, djupet och ambitionsnivn ven om det kan bli lite tjatigt frn och till.