Exploring the cultural legitimacy of backpacker ideology and identity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francis Farrelly
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Legitimacy

Contested Illegality

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annette Hübschle
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Economic Exchange ◽  
Political Decision ◽  
Market Participants ◽  
Effective Implementation ◽  
Cultural Legitimacy ◽  
The Way

This chapter shows that the illegalization of an economic exchange is not a straightforward political decision with fixed goalposts, but a protracted process that may encounter unexpected hurdles along the way to effective implementation and enforcement. While political considerations informed the decision to ban trade in rhino horn initially, diffusion of the prohibition has been uneven and lacks social and cultural legitimacy among key actors along the supply chain. Moreover, some market actors justify their participation in illegal rhino horn markets based on the perceived illegitimacy of the rhino horn prohibition. The concept of “contested illegality” captures an important legitimization device of market participants who do not accept the trade ban.

scholarly journals Thieves, Fools, Fraudsters, and Gamblers? The Ambivalence of Moral Criticism in the Credit Crunch of 2008

2015 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sascha Münnich
Keyword(s):  
Market Model ◽  
Credit Crunch ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Moral Criticism ◽  
Cultural Legitimacy ◽  
Lehman Brothers ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
Client Relations ◽  
Financial Capitalism

AbstractThis article examines public debates on the legitimacy of banking profits in the 2008 credit crunch. A content analysis of 957 newspaper articles published in Germany and the UK in the early weeks after the Lehman Brothers collapse examines critical statements directed at illegitimate forms of financial profit in order to identify the cultural legitimacy of financial capitalism. The conceptual framework provided by the French sociology of justification points to the role of shared orders of value as a normative reference for public discourses. In both national debates, four important boundaries for legitimate profits were drawn that concerned the problems of ownership, risk-management capacities of traders, fraudulent client relations, and speculative gambling. The meaning of this classical moral criticism of banks was transformed in the context of the 2008 crisis: a line between “normal” and “excessive” financial profits was drawn, defining an area of legitimate profit-seeking that hewed to the basic assumptions of the market model. Economic theory was used as a scheme of public economic morality. The seemingly harsh critical debate effectively reproduced a legitimate image of a functioning financial market, deflecting public attention away from the structural ambivalences of financial profit-seeking and granting legitimacy to the institutional status quo of financial capitalism.

The Spanish Tebeo

2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viviane Alary
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Mass Medium ◽  
Special Kind ◽  
Comic Strip ◽  
Spanish Translation ◽  
Spanish Society ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
Bande Dessinee ◽  
Cultural Legitimacy ◽  
Comic Art

It seems difficult to speak about comic art in Spain without considering what tebeos mean to Spaniards. This term is not simply a Spanish translation of bande dessinée. It refers to a special kind of comic strip aimed at children, which appeared in the late 1920s. Tebeos were the only available mass medium in Spain after the Civil War (1936-1939). In this contribution we want to analyse tebeos as an editorial, social and cultural phenomenon, with the aim of demonstrating that 'tebeo-culture' survived even after the collapse of the 'tebeo-industry' in the 1970s and 1980s. In addition, we will examine the question of the cultural legitimacy of comic art in Spanish society.

Politically Incorrect, Visually Incorrect

2018 ◽  
pp. 75-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yetta Howard
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Affective States ◽  
Opting Out ◽  
Visual Aesthetics ◽  
Cultural Legitimacy ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Lap Dancing ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

This chapter moves to an analysis of comix—a contemporary example of primitivism that continues to have a vexed relationship with cultural legitimacy. Ugliness in this chapter is recognizable as the visual aesthetics of underground comix and, as conceptual, nihilistic, and disempowering perspectives outlined as the mechanisms that restrict opting out of stigmatizing political and representational logics. Focusing on the depictions of such restrictions, this chapter explores the limits of allowable and expressible queer identities in the late twentieth century. Examining what affective states such as queer anger in Roberta Gregory’s Bitchy Butch (1991–1999) and ethnic anxiety in Erika Lopez’s Lap Dancing for Mommy (1997) look like, this chapter reads visual discrepancies and identificatory impossibilities as specific issues of depicting nonnormatively gendered and non-white bodies.

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