scholarly journals To Visit and to Cut Down: Tourism, Forestry, and the Social Construction of Nature in Twentieth-Century Northeastern Ontario

2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 331-357
Author(s):  
Jocelyn Thorpe
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Native People ◽  
Power Relationships ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Social Nature ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Construction Of Nature ◽  
A Site ◽  
Historical Forest

Abstract This paper relies on the insights of social nature scholarship to trace the historical forest conservationist and tourism discourses through which Temagami, Ontario, became famous as a site of wild forest nature. The discursive practices associated with Temagami tourism and forest conservation in the early twentieth century did not merely reflect a self-evident wilderness, but rather constituted the region as a wild place for non-Native people both to visit and to extract for profit. The social construction of Temagami wilderness came to appear natural through the erasure of the Teme-Augama Anishnabai’s claim to the Temagami region, an erasure that persisted in environmentalists’ struggle to “save” the Temagami wilderness in the late 1980s. Revealing the histories and power relationships embedded in wilderness is part of the struggle toward greater justice.

The comparative constitution of twinship: strategies and paradoxes

Twin Research ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 142-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
EA Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Classification Systems ◽  
Mode Of Reproduction ◽  
Twin Research ◽  
The Social

AbstractIn both traditional and modern societies, twinship, as an unusual mode of reproduction, involves difficulties for social systems in maintaining consistent classification systems. It is proposed that the most prevalent response to twinship involves various ‘strategies of normalisation’ to defuse and contain the potential disruption. This proposition is illustrated and analysed in relation to ethnographic maternal drawn mainly (but not exclusively) from African communities in the twentieth century. Following a discussion of twin infanticide as the most extreme of the normalising strategies, the article concludes by identifying a number of paradoxes in the social construction of twinship. Twin Research (2000) 3, 142–147.

Governing Homelessness through Running

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 88-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryan C Clift
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Body ◽  
Self In Relation ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Development Organizations ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
The Social ◽  
A Site

In the context of social welfare austerity and non-state actors’ interventions into social life, an urban not-for-profit organization in the United States, Back on My Feet, uses the practice of running to engage those recovering from homelessness. Promoting messages of self-sufficiency, the organization centralizes the body as a site of investment and transformation. Doing so calls to the fore the social construction of ‘the homeless body’ and ‘the running body’. Within this ethnographic inquiry, participants in recovery who ran with the organization constructed moralized senses of self in relation to volunteers, organizers, and those who do not run, while in recovery. Their experiences compel consideration of how bodily constructions and practices reproduce morally underpinned, self-oriented associations with homeless and neoliberal discourses that obfuscate systemic causes of homelessness, pose challenges for well-intentioned voluntary or development organizations, and service the relief of the state from social responsibility.

Unionization, Strikes, Threatened Strikes, and Hospitals—The View from Hospital Management

1975 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert K. Match ◽  
Arnold H. Goldstein ◽  
Harold L. Light
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Union Organizing ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Social Nature ◽  
Labor Legislation ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Third Party Reimbursement

The history of union organizing efforts in the hospital field is discussed in this article, along with the factors judged necessary for successful union organizing. The role played by labor legislation in the unionization of hospital workers is shown, and the influences of the National Labor Relations Act, the Taft-Hartley amendments, and labor legislation at the local level are described. Management has largely resisted unionization because of the social nature of hospitals. Competitive market forces do not confront the not-for-profit hospitals, which are dependent upon third-party reimbursement. While strikes are an integral and essential part of collective bargaining in industry, they are, in fact, detrimental to hospitals because of these institutions' concern with human life. Despite laws and assurances from labor leaders that strikes will not occur, strikes have been used as a method for resolving disputes, though they are basically inconsistent with the economic characteristics and objectives of the hospital. The authors conclude that arbitration awards should be made by arbitrators appointed from outside of the local region of the hospital involved, and that, because of the catastrophic effect of strikes upon patients as well as employees, arbitration awards should be required, should be binding upon both parties, and should be federally enforced.

Epilogue

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeehyun Lim
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Cultural Politics ◽  
First Century ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
Conditions Of Possibility ◽  
A Site ◽  
Institutional Actors ◽  
The Relationship

The epilogue reflects on the future of bilingual brokering in the twenty-first century through David Henry Hwang’s bilingual play, Chinglish. While Chinglish seemingly overturns the social construction of bilingual personhood along the terms of possessive individualism by championing interlingual lapses, irregularities, and mistakes, this attempt to free the linguistic subject from the constraints of language as capital is delivered through a careful rendition of English-Mandarin bilingualism, enabled through such institutional actors’ interest in the play as the Chinese state. These conditions of possibility for Hwang’s bilingual play serve as a reminder that while bilingual personhood may recede from cultural significance as a site of examining the relationship between racial subjectivity and capital, bilingualism in cultural politics is still enmeshed in the flows of capital.

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