The Euro Is Doomed

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Brigitte Granville
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Union ◽  
Great Care ◽  
European Project ◽  
Polite Society ◽  
The Future

As dismantling the monetary union may collapse the European project, doubts about the future of the euro are often unwelcome in polite society. Those expressing such views must proceed with great care.

scholarly journals Linguistic impoliteness in a polite society

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Haruko Minegishi Cook ◽  
Momoko Nakamura
Keyword(s):  
Polite Society

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The Battle of Torquay: The Late Victorian Resort as Social Experiment

2018 ◽  
pp. 79-97
Author(s):  
James Kneale
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Public Works ◽  
Salvation Army ◽  
Social Experiment ◽  
Polite Society ◽  
A Site

This chapter considers drink and temperance in Victorian ports and resorts. Where there was drink there would invariably be temperance; the visibility of drunkenness in the major British ports made them the focus of temperance reform. Temperance also figured in smaller towns, becoming one aspect of polite society in fashionable resorts and even financing public works. But was there anything specific about drink and temperance on the coast? Rob Shields once suggested that such ‘places on the margin’ might allow heterotopic reworkings of social order. The ‘Battle of Torquay’ between well-heeled Torquay society and working-class Salvation Army members suggests the coast as a site of transformation, but also that social control could be turned on abstainers as well as drinkers, producing less progressive places on the coast as well as more liberal ones.

Candyman and the Return of the Repressed

Candyman ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 59-94
Author(s):  
Jon Towlson
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
American History ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Housing Authority ◽  
White Girl ◽  
Going Concern ◽  
Polite Society ◽  
The University

This chapter presents a textual analysis of Candyman (1992). The film at first appears to be a product of white liberal guilt at the plight of poor African-Americans; Helen Lyle lives in an expensive apartment originally built as another part of the projects but later sold by the housing authority as a going concern and turned into designer condos. Likewise, Helen is seen working on her research at the University, while black menial workers toil as cleaners in the background well aware of the legend of the Candyman. However, Bernard Rose consciously invokes American history and the oppression of ethnic minorities in his backstory for Tony Todd's Candyman character: the origin of the Candyman is based on a public lynching and plays on the fear of retribution for the historical ill-treatment of African-Americans. Candyman/Daniel Robitaille was the son of a slave, a free man who came into money, schooled, and brought up in polite society. His crime was that of miscegenation: he fell in love with a white girl, whom he made pregnant; his punishment was a horrible death.

scholarly journals Ladies, Gentlemen and Guys: The Gender Politics of Politeness

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 56
Author(s):  
Sonam Pelden ◽  
Elizabeth Reid Boyd ◽  
Madalena Grobbelaar ◽  
Kwadwo Adusei-Asante ◽  
Lucy Hopkins
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Social Ethics ◽  
Gender Politics ◽  
Western World ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Polite Society ◽  
Conservative Post ◽  
Second Wave ◽  
Race And Culture

Are there ladies and gentlemen in the 21st century? Do we need them? In the 20th century, lady became particularly unpopular with second wave feminists, who preferred ‘woman’. Gentleman was seen as similarly politically incorrect: class, race and culture bound. Following previous research on the word lady, we explore here some current evocations and debates around these words. We consider how the more casual, etymologically gendered term ‘guy’ has been utilized for men and women, and how it functions to reflect and obscure gender. While the return of the lady might be considered a consumer fad, a neo-conservative post-feminist backlash, or nostalgia for an elite ‘polite society’, it also offers an opportunity for a deeper discussion about civility as part of a broader conversation that is gaining impetus in the Western world. Politeness is personal and political. Whilst evidence for a comeback of the gentleman is limited, we critically consider the re-emergence of the lady as reflecting a deeper desire for applied sexual and social ethics. Such gender ethics have global, social and cultural ramifications that we ought not to underestimate. The desire for a culture of civility is gaining momentum as we are increasingly confronted with the violent consequences of a culture without it.

Celebrating the annus mirabilis

Antiquity ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 83 (320) ◽  
pp. 458-461
Author(s):  
Christopher Evans
Keyword(s):  
Charles Darwin ◽  
History Of Archaeology ◽  
Origin Of Species ◽  
150Th Anniversary ◽  
Polite Society ◽  
History Of ◽  
Annus Mirabilis ◽  
First Time

AbstractWe are grateful to Chris Evans for convening and introducing this imaginative archaeological tribute to the work of Charles Darwin, 150 years after the publication of his On the origin of species – the inspiration for an evolutionary concept of history in so many fields. June 2009 is also the 150th anniversary of a yet more momentous event in the history of archaeology, the endorsement of the antiquity of human tool-making by observations in the Somme gravels. Clive Gamble and Robert Kruszynski reconstruct the occasion and publish the famous axe for the first time. Chris Evans returns to present us with the bitter-sweet spectacle of the Darwin family as excavators and Tim Murray rediscovers a suite of pictures made for John Lubbock which show how prehistoric life was envisaged in polite society at the time. Lastly we are grateful to Colin Renfrew for his own reflections on the anniversary.

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