scholarly journals Anima animus

2012 ◽  
pp. 97-115
Author(s):  
Ian Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Social Order ◽  
The Self ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Performance Style ◽  
The Social ◽  
Alternative Masculinities ◽  
Biological Gender ◽  
Female Masochism

This essay explores Jennifer Jason Leigh’s portrayal of the young prostitute Tralala in Last Exit to Brooklyn (Uli Edel, 1989) as a case study in performance style that can be usefully understood as bisexual. Drawing firstly upon Joan Riviere’s concept of womanliness as a masquerade, it examines how Tralala’s feminine performativity masks a confused, neurotic and androgynous gender identity and a raging bid for phallic power. As played by Leigh, Tralala’s snarling speech and undulating swagger evokes the wounded rage, rebellion and alienation of 1950s Method “bad boy” stars such as Marlon Brando, James Dean and Montgomery Clift, and the result is a performance style that oscillates freely between male and female subjectivities. Reading the male Method stars in terms of alternative masculinities that transgress the social order, the article argues that Tralala’s essential masochism is fuelled by a similar disavowal of her biological gender. In this regard, she demonstrates a desire to annihilate the self that has less to do with standard screen representations of female masochism than with the explosive psychic processes of classic Method masculinity.

scholarly journals Sons of Lilith: The Portrayal and Characterization of Women in the Apocryphal Comics of Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore, and Grant Morrison

Corpus Mundi ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 88-121
Author(s):  
Kwasu Tembo
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
The Self ◽  
Neil Gaiman ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Alan Moore

This paper examines the treatment and characterization of women, sex, identity, and gender in the lesser known or studied comics of Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, and Grant Morrison in order to discern what such an analysis tells us about each author's engagement with the issues and debates surrounding these sociopolitical and cultural phenomena. The purpose of this study is to discern how three of the most influential writers of contemporary comics books engage with themes of gender, identity, sexuality, and trauma and, in this way, set precedents that have come to be debated and critiqued in contemporary comics scholarship and fandom. It reveals that all three writers ostensibly engage with progressive imaginings of the self, sexuality, identity, and gender as mercurial, de-centred, and subject to play and change in each of the chosen case study characters. It finds that while ostensibly progressive, all three writers simultaneously recirculate certain conceptualizations of the relationships between identity, trauma, and sexuality by taking the histories in which they emerged as assumed.

scholarly journals Anatomy of Place-Making in the Context of the Communication Processes: A Story of one Community and one Square in a Post-Socialist City

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacek Kotus ◽  
Tomasz Sowada ◽  
Michał Rzeszewski ◽  
Patrycja Mańkowska
Keyword(s):  
Social Communication ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Social Attitudes ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Social Mechanisms ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Communication Processes ◽  
The Social

Abstract The article presents a discussion on the anatomy of place-making within the framework of the communication processes against the background of social order in a post-socialist city. The main aim of the text is to look at the social mechanisms of place-making processes “under the microscope”. The place-making activities are very often associated with planning and urban design. However, behind that planning veil is the social world of urban neighbourhood communities. In the article we propose, the social communication and participation processes are among the key factors responsible for creating urban spaces. We are presenting a place-making case study, using the example of Asnyk Square in Poznań. In this context, we are analysing social attitudes and social communication, which took place in the course of the place-making processes and influenced urban planning activities. The discussed case is complicated and provides no easy solutions.

scholarly journals Destruction as Deviant Leisure in EVE Online

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelly Bergstrom
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Game Studies ◽  
Online Game ◽  
Leisure Studies ◽  
Massively Multiplayer Online Game ◽  
The Social ◽  
Multiplayer Online Game ◽  
Massively Multiplayer

In this article, I argue for the inclusion of ‘deviant leisure’—a concept borrowed from the neighboring field of Leisure Studies—to provide Game Studies with a more robust theoretical toolkit to examine negative player-to-player interactions within online gameworlds. As a means of adding additional vocabulary to describe norms violating behavior, this article uses the Massively Multiplayer Online Game EVE Online as a case study to demonstrate how deviant leisure can be an effective framework for unpacking some of the behaviors observed within gameworlds that don’t quite fit into other commonly used categories such as dark play, griefing, trolling, or toxicity. Of particular value for Game Studies, deviant leisure has within it an embedded critique of the social order. In this article, I argue that what is happening in EVE is a rejection of games being coopted by society into becoming an activity that must be productive, and instead via the lens of deviant leisure we can recast these events as a struggle for gameplay to return to leisure for leisure’s sake.

Decentering Responsibilization: Towards a Nomos of Governmentality in Mexico

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
R Guy Emerson
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Codes Of Conduct ◽  
The Self ◽  
Civic Responsibility ◽  
Care Of The Self ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Institutional Power ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Individual Participation

Abstract This paper charts the mechanics of civic responsibility in preventing violence. Attention centers on divergent practices of responsibilization in Puebla, Mexico, which emanate from both state rationales associated with citizen security initiatives and from community-based measures that confound such official logics. Situated in the workings of governmentality beyond advanced liberalism, the paper proposes a decentering of responsibilization. This requires two steps. First, analysis returns to governmentality as the intersection of technologies of domination and the self but locates the former in relation to nomos rather than logos. That is, responsibilization occurs not exclusively in relation to codes of conduct consistent with official determinations (logos) but also as a socially developed order that exceeds the political, economic, and rational dimensions of government (nomos). Second, it positions technologies of the self amid Michel Foucault's work on the empiricohistorical construction of care of the self. This is a situated care, wherein a responsible individual emerges from the constituent complexity of the social order and her interdependence with other living forms. Far from an art of government wherein individual participation becomes the corollary to the withdrawal of the state, civic responsibility in Puebla is socially embedded and, therefore, need not align with institutional power.

Resource Exchange in Urban Governance

2007 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caelesta Poppelaars
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Urban Governance ◽  
Immigrant Integration ◽  
Group Interactions ◽  
Effective Implementation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Immigrant Organizations ◽  
Broad Variety

An explanatory framework based on the classic resource dependency perspective is used to explain a broad variety of urban government-interest group interactions that are not fully explained by current urban governance theories. A case study of Dutch urban immigrant integration shows that one must combine considerations of information and intermediation capacity to explain why Dutch urban governments interact with immigrant organizations, in addition to common findings about institutional heritage. Their information and intermediation capacity allows local governments to get in touch quickly with immigrant groups during periods that potentially threaten the social order and public safety and creates incentives to maintain grants and keep in touch, whereas contributions of such groups to effective implementation are at least doubted.

An Anthropological Case Study on the Relation of Space, Language, and Social Order: The Bisa of Burkina Faso

10.1068/a345 ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 33 (12) ◽  
pp. 2189-2203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Dafinger
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
West African ◽  
African Society ◽  
Spatial Order ◽  
Linguistic Research ◽  
Order Language ◽  
The Social ◽  
Anthropological Research ◽  
Theoretical Frame

This paper outlines certain benefits that spatial analysis offers to anthropological research, and shows how anthropology and related linguistic research may in turn contribute to the understanding of the social determinants of spatial order. It presents a case study of spatial order in a rural West African society. Although the examples are from a particular setting, the theoretical frame is a general one: the analysis will focus on the connections between social order, language, and the perception of space.

Self-Disclosure In Finding Dating Partners Among Users of Online Game Application

2021 ◽  
Vol 04 (03) ◽  
Author(s):  
Trufi Murdiani ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
The Self ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Online Game ◽  
Case Study Method ◽  
Self Disclosure ◽  
Social Penetration Theory ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Penetration

Nowadays, starting acquaintance to looking for dates through online media is very common. HAGO, an online game application that is currently popular and widely used by Indonesians, has turned out to be a medium for finding dating partners for some people. This study was conducted to determine the self-disclosure process carried out by users of the HAGO online game application in finding dating partners. Researchers applied the Social Penetration Theory by Alman and Taylor. There are 4 stages described in the Social Penetration Theory to achieve intimacy, namely the orientation stage, exploratory affective stage, affective exchange stage and stable exchange stage. This was a qualitative study using a case study method. Researchers took 4 informants who were users of the HAGO online game application who had or were dating and had a relationship with someone he knew through the HAGO online game application. The result of this study showed that self-disclosure process carried out by the informants was in accordance with the stages in the social penetration theory. Informants sequentially went through the self-disclosure stage from the orientation stage until the stable exchange stage.

Mothers, whores and spells: Tradition and change in Portuguese sexuality

Ethnography ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 445-465 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Machado Pais
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Northern Portugal ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Town

This article presents a case study looking at the social upheavals generated by the presence of young Brazilian women in a town in northern Portugal (Bragança) with strong traditionalist traits. Due to their situation as prostitutes, seducers and immigrants, these women were regarded as disturbing the social order. A number of women of the town, calling themselves the Mothers of Bragança, organized themselves into a social movement to drive the Brazilian women out of the town, accusing them of bewitching their husbands with charms and magic. Focusing on issues of social change, the research takes up the challenge of interpreting the mothers’ movement, the stereotypes associated with this movement and the Brazilian incomers, and also certain dilemmas of masculinity.

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