scholarly journals A Cultural Interpretation of the Bodies of Marginalized People in Welty’s - A Curtain of Green and Other Stories

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 72
Author(s):  
Liu Liu ◽  
Yu Sun
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Black People ◽  
The Body ◽  
Eudora Welty ◽  
Cultural Interpretation ◽  
Body Culture ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Physically Disabled People ◽  
Curtain Of Green

A Curtain of Green and Other Stories is a collection of short stories written by Southern American writer Eudora Welty. In the story collection, Welty portrays life and people in Mississippi in the first half of the 20th century, including quite a few marginalized people. Being a photographer as well, Welty has a unique vision for body expression. This essay tries to make an analysis of the body narration of two types of marginalized people in A Curtain of Green and Other Stories, including physically disabled people and black people. By analyzing the body culture in Welty’s works, this essay tries to give a vivid picture of Southern marginalized people’s daily existence, probe into the social circumstances of Southern America in early 20th century, and find a new perspective to interpret Southern American culture.

The Body in Theory

1998 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 387-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felicity J Callard
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Industrial Capitalism ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
The Social ◽  
Theoretical Investigations ◽  
The One ◽  
Do So

Geographers are now taking the problematic of corporeality seriously. ‘The body’ is becoming a preoccupation in the geographical literature, and is a central figure around which to base political demands, social analyses, and theoretical investigations. In this paper I describe some of the trajectories through which the body has been installed in academia and claim that this installation has necessitated the uptake of certain theoretical legacies and the disavowal or forgetting of others. In particular, I trace two related developments. First, I point to the sometimes haphazard agglomeration of disparate theoretical interventions that lie under the name of postmodernism and observe how this has led to the foregrounding of bodily tropes of fragmentation, fluidity, and ‘the cyborg‘. Second, I examine the treatment of the body as a conduit which enables political agency to be thought of in terms of transgression and resistance. I stage my argument by looking at how on the one hand Marxist and on the other queer theory have commonly conceived of the body, and propose that the legacies of materialist modes of analysis have much to offer current work focusing on how bodies are shaped by their encapsulation within the sphere of the social. I conclude by examining the presentation of corporeality that appears in the first volume of Marx's Capital. I do so to suggest that geographers working on questions of subjectivity could profit from thinking further about the relation between so-called ‘new’ and ‘fluid’ configurations of bodies, technologies, and subjectivities in the late 20th-century world, and the corporeal configurations of industrial capitalism lying behind and before them.

scholarly journals O CORPO E O CONTROLE DA NATUREZA NA CONTEMPORÂNEIDADE: POSSÍVEIS IMPLICAÇÕES PARA A FORMAÇÃO DOCENTE EM EDUCAÇÃO FÍSICA

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Guenther Carlos Feitosa De Almeida
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
The Body ◽  
Sociological Analysis ◽  
Body Culture ◽  
The Social ◽  
Professional Field ◽  
Biological Aspects ◽  
The Relationship

The body becomes the object of intense study and investigations with the modernity. But he was not the object of indifference. Even with the denial of the bodily pleasures that the average age undertook, the body was object of attention and normalization, being understood in a double meaning, the sacred and the profane. The relation body and nature gains different contours with the birth of modern science, giving rise to new dualities, between matter and spirit or psyche. Such dualities have produced enduring and persistent meanings in bodily practices and body conceptions. Physical Education as an area of knowledge and intervention that has in the body culture its privileged object, inherits and re-signifies such conceptions, reproducing or breaking with dualistic practices and understandings of the relation body and nature. This essay seeks to discuss the relationships between body and nature as well as its implications for the formation of the academic and professional field of Physical Education. We seek to reflect on the social-historical constructions on the body, especially those centered on biological aspects. We understand that the relationship body nature is an important point of understanding the uniqueness and continuities on the conceptions of body. In this way we undertake a qualitative, historical and sociological analysis centered on authors who elucidate these questions, such as: Corbin, Courtine e Vigarello (2010), Gélis (2010), Suassuna et al. (2005), Vaz (1999), Csordas (2008) and Le Breton (2003). Based on the elements discussed by the authors, we identify ruptures and continuities in relation to conceptions and practices with the body, remaining a desire for the split between body and spirit/mind.

A Feminist Poststructuralist View on Student Bodies in Physical Education: Sites of Compliance, Resistance, and Transformation

2006 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 200-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Azzarito ◽  
Melinda A. Solmon
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Physical Education ◽  
Critical Pedagogy ◽  
The Body ◽  
School Students ◽  
Body Culture ◽  
Physical Education Students ◽  
The Social ◽  
Activity Choices ◽  
Feminist Poststructuralist

The study of the social construction of the body has become crucial to contemporary academic discourses in education and physical education. Employing feminist poststructuralist theory and a qualitative ethnographic design, this study investigated how high school students identified themselves with images of bodies drawn from fitness and sports magazines, and how their body narratives were linked to their participation in physical education. Students’ body narratives reflected notions of comfortable, bad, and borderland bodies that influenced students’ physical activity choices and engagement in physical education. Girls’ narratives of their physicality were found to be significantly less comfortable than boys’. Critical pedagogy to destabilize gendered dominant discourses of mass media body culture and to develop positive, meaningful, and empowering student physicality is discussed.

scholarly journals Can Biological Markers Partially Explain the Link Between the Social Environment and Oral Health?

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 10-15
Author(s):  
Cristina Barboza Solís MSc, PhD
Keyword(s):  
Oral Health ◽  
Health Inequalities ◽  
Biological Markers ◽  
Allostatic Load ◽  
Public Health Research ◽  
The Body ◽  
Adult Health ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wear And Tear ◽  
New Perspective

Understanding how the social world affects humans´ health by “getting under the skin” and penetrating the cells, organs and physiological systems of the body is a key tenet in public health research. Here, we propose the idea that socioeconomic position (SEP) can be biologically embodied, potentially leading to the production of health inequalities in oral health across population groups. Recent studies show that being exposed to chronic stress across the life course could impact our health. Allostatic load (AL) is a composite biological measure of overall physiological wear-and-tear that could allow a better understanding of the potential biological pathways playing a role in the construction of the social gradient in adult health. However, to use biological measures to better understand the mechanisms that construct health inequalities in oral health has not been tested systematically. The purposes of this New Perspective is to discuss the value of using composite biological markers, such as AL, to analyze oral health. This can allow a better understanding of the mechanisms leading to health inequalities in oral health, and add some valuable information for implementing health interventions.

The trend of “the misty poetry” in the Chinese literature in the second half of the 20th century

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (8) ◽  
pp. 3-9
Author(s):  
Chanh Nguyen Thị Mai
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
Chinese Literature ◽  
New Age ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Perspective

After 10 years of the chaotic Great Cultural Revolution, Chinese literature transited to a “new age”, which was characterized by tremendous efforts into seeking an artistic breakthrough. The Misty Poetry is not randomly regarded as “the trumpet blast” of the new-age literature. The Misty Poetry did not only disrupt conservative literary principles and express novel perspectives on the social history through individual compositions but also offered a comprehensive reflection of contemporary people’ spirits. However, evaluations on “the Misty Poetry” have varied for years. This paper will help to re-evaluate undeniable values of this unique poetry trend and contribute a new perspective on the mentioned ongoing argument.

scholarly journals Can Biological Markers Partially Explain the Link Between the Social Environment and Oral Health?

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 10-15
Author(s):  
Cristina Barboza Solís MSc, PhD
Keyword(s):  
Oral Health ◽  
Health Inequalities ◽  
Biological Markers ◽  
Allostatic Load ◽  
Public Health Research ◽  
The Body ◽  
Adult Health ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wear And Tear ◽  
New Perspective

Understanding how the social world affects humans´ health by “getting under the skin” and penetrating the cells, organs and physiological systems of the body is a key tenet in public health research. Here, we propose the idea that socioeconomic position (SEP) can be biologically embodied, potentially leading to the production of health inequalities in oral health across population groups. Recent studies show that being exposed to chronic stress across the life course could impact our health. Allostatic load (AL) is a composite biological measure of overall physiological wear-and-tear that could allow a better understanding of the potential biological pathways playing a role in the construction of the social gradient in adult health. However, to use biological measures to better understand the mechanisms that construct health inequalities in oral health has not been tested systematically. The purposes of this New Perspective is to discuss the value of using composite biological markers, such as AL, to analyze oral health. This can allow a better understanding of the mechanisms leading to health inequalities in oral health, and add some valuable information for implementing health interventions.

The space of the body schema: putting the schema in movement

2021 ◽  
pp. 18-32
Author(s):  
David Morris
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Philosophy Of Mind ◽  
Body Schema ◽  
Movement Control ◽  
The Body ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Mind And Body ◽  
New Perspective

This chapter contributes to conceptual debates about the body schema and body image by studying the body schema’s role in shaping our sense of lived space. Contra ‘body-in-brain’ or representational views of the body schema as a centralized controller, the chapter supports ‘body-in-world’ views by showing how the body schema is itself of space, founded and actualized in schematizing movements of a body in the world. This suggests that capacities for, and divergences between, a body schema versus a body image emerge when body-schematizing activity runs into resistances or demands from environmental supports, including other perceiving bodies and the social sphere, over various timescales, e.g., of evolution, development, skill, and habit acquisition, as well as cultural formations. The chapter draws on phenomenological and psychological results concerning our sense of space in cases of directly touching and moving with things, but also in cases where movements coupled with surroundings through light (via our eyes or technological devices) yield a sense of distal things. These are complemented by conceptual insights from recent evolutionary-comparative approaches to the philosophy of mind and body, which give a new perspective on just where movement control arises in bodies.

scholarly journals Born in the body of beasts. Animals and the social order in didactic Buddhist literature of Buryat-Mongols (XIX- beg. XX century)

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayur Zhanaev
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Social Order ◽  
The Body ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Species Relationships ◽  
Buddhist Literature ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
The Social ◽  
Universal Order ◽  
Insight Into

This paper engages with current discussions concerning the ways in which human cultures construct the sphere labelled as “social” against that of the broadly defined environment. I contribute to these discussions with an analysis of the didactic Buddhist literature of Buryat-Mongols (19th–beg. 20th century), focusing on the image of non-human animals and their position in the social/universal order. With the emergence of environmentalist trends in the humanities, pre-modern/“non-Western” inter-species relationships have often served as counter-alternatives to the problematic “Western” nature-culture dichotomy. While expecting to see the human being described as a part of “nature” in the analyzed texts, I found a different picture: the anthropocentric social sphere is clearly distinguished from animals, and in some fragments, the idioms used with regard to animals are reminiscent of European evolutionist discourse. Through an exhaustive analysis of Buryat attitudes towards animals is beyond the scope of this study, this literature gives insight into a particular cultural discourse as represented in reputed sources of the period. 

scholarly journals Facing the Soprano: Uncovering a Feminist Performative “I” Through Autoethnography

2021 ◽  
pp. 113-135
Author(s):  
Runa Hestad Jenssen
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
The Body ◽  
Social Culture ◽  
The Social ◽  
Embodied Experiences ◽  
Actual Contribution ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Inside Out

This article unpacks three auto-narratives drawn from my embodied experiences journeying from soprano to researcher. A feminist theoretical performative “I” is created through the use of performative autoethnography, a position of situated knowledge and Judith Butler’s thinking of gender as performative. I explore the query: How is a singer’s feminist performative I created through autoethnography? By unpacking my lived experiences I establish a connection between the I and the context I live in, referred to as “the Other”. This connection then illuminates how my voice has been constructed and disciplined to that of a normative feminine soprano by attaining and repeating actions from the social-culture context of singing. I also leverage off Butler’s thinking and how it may foreclose the attention to the materiality of the body, and lean into a performative embodied, new perspective. Embracing both the soprano and researcher role I create a position that brings me into a “liminal space”. I do this to better understand the intersection of music education and gender, the becoming of a researcher, researching with the “inside out”, and to embrace the material body’s actual contribution in (to) the web of meanings in the sociocultural context of singing. By carving out a connection between being a soprano and moving into my researcher voice, I offer this article as an expanded way of knowing – a knowing through being. In turn, such insights offer epistemological and ontological ways of thinking for those experiencing similar encounters.

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