There is a call for papers for a 2009 special issue on 'men and masculinities' (edited by Robinson & Meah). They're casting wide. Submissions close this December.
Hague & Bridge look over a Cheshire domestic violence coordinated community response project (CCR). Combining stats-processing, education, training, and outreach - and placing police interventions in a network of support and advocacy (basically joining the dots between various do-good services) - the CCR gets a good review (and the numbers are fairly impressive). Give them some more money already...
Monk-Turner & Co. are checking on advertisers' use of sex. Nearly 300 ads were coded, with startling results: 99% featured alluring behavior, 82% provocative clothing, and 46% were objectifying (the subject was explicitly gazed at). There's a further breakdown if you're interested... Who still buys magazines anyway?
Francis goes theory on us. There's a critical walk through Halberstam, leaving us with two problems: the necessary import of our stubborn meat bodies and the related costs of one's behavior diverging from wider meat-signaled expectations. This feels like it should be the introduction to something more substantial.
There was a romance-novel boom at the start of Franco's Spain, and Puente wants you to admit they were a little bit subversive. Despite conforming to the broad strokes of the generalissimo's ideology (if you can even call it that), and contemporary gender norms, there is some notable discursive wiggle-room in the protagonists' determination and success in overcoming difficulties (what sort of a depressing failure-riddled romance novel was she supposed to be writing?).
Wijk & Finchilescu covers the introduction of unisex South African navy ships. We're talking rituals (initiations... girl-excluding sports days), artefacts (impractical uniforms for women) and metaphors ('man's world'... crew as family... female officers as 'sir'). There's some definite ambivalence here, but at least in the meantime the women got proper uniforms.
Showing posts with label Routledge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Routledge. Show all posts
7/9/08
Economy and Society. August, 37(3)
An E+S special issue devoted to GVC governance (global value chains to you and me). As Gibbon & co. explain, that means we're talking about the organisation of global business (how things get done... decisions made... networks managed...). This is all fairly tough fare.
Bair opens by disentangling various network theories (not epistemologies) employed in global economic analyses. They all start with G. Our star - GVC - seems to be the outlier. This can serve as something of an introduction.
Gibbon & Ponte focus in on expert knowledge's (trade journals and such) role in manufacturing supply-chains. The (US) purchasers' discipline is observed via governmentality. The finding: expert theories and tools were rarely implemented - and then with little success - raising questions about the importance and efficacy of Foucault-friendly administrative techniques.
Suppliers and workers at the bottom (women in poor countries for instance) are being let down by current commodity chain governance (and its analysis). Palpacuer traces the real-world shift (financialization), and suggests bringing more broad institutional and political elements back into the analytic mix.
Milberg talks financialization again, linking it to offshoring (US-China). The sustainability of upping shareholder pay-outs by squeezing ever more distributed supply networks is addressed (thank the loop of China-held US shares). As for the future...
Hess closes things up by going meta: Have networks become a clumsy catch-all metaphor? (Perhaps, but not for us). And how to deal with power? (There's three ways. We'll work something out.)
Bair opens by disentangling various network theories (not epistemologies) employed in global economic analyses. They all start with G. Our star - GVC - seems to be the outlier. This can serve as something of an introduction.
Gibbon & Ponte focus in on expert knowledge's (trade journals and such) role in manufacturing supply-chains. The (US) purchasers' discipline is observed via governmentality. The finding: expert theories and tools were rarely implemented - and then with little success - raising questions about the importance and efficacy of Foucault-friendly administrative techniques.
Suppliers and workers at the bottom (women in poor countries for instance) are being let down by current commodity chain governance (and its analysis). Palpacuer traces the real-world shift (financialization), and suggests bringing more broad institutional and political elements back into the analytic mix.
Milberg talks financialization again, linking it to offshoring (US-China). The sustainability of upping shareholder pay-outs by squeezing ever more distributed supply networks is addressed (thank the loop of China-held US shares). As for the future...
Hess closes things up by going meta: Have networks become a clumsy catch-all metaphor? (Perhaps, but not for us). And how to deal with power? (There's three ways. We'll work something out.)
7/6/08
Leisure Studies. July 2008, 27(3)
Carter takes on ' phantasmal Cubans' (read: eroticised exotics in general, or sex-workers and associated black-market staffers servicing tourists; the focus shifts awkwardly). Surprisingly the scene is tawdry, fake and riddled with hypocrisy. The state has a stake (in the 'conjuration', that is) but the relation is a mess of ideological, legal and economic contradictions. This is all over the place, and I feel none the wiser.
We're observing the Amsterdam World Cup with Burdsey. Dutch multi-cultural integration policies come together with amateur football and the results are mixed (a welcome attempt hampered by bland official policy, fleeting and shallow inter-group interactions, patriarchy...).
Lindsey attempts to clarify 'sustainability' in sports policy (NOPES provides the example). A framework from health lit is used - and found occasionally wanting (naturally, more research is required). This is severely wonkish stuff.
Waring offers 'workstyle' as a tag for career focused urban professionals' use of premiere health and fitness clubs. There's both symbolic and practical work-leisure links here, with identity and leisure influenced by professional (and class) demands.
'Jenny' and 'Carrie' talk dance in Atencio's piece. Identities and subjectivities shift with dance styles, and self-expression is empowering ('resistance' also hovers about anxiously). Is that city really in the NE?
Jordan & Atchison note that female tourists get hit on and stared at - especially when travelling alone - and that this often makes them uncomfortable and self-conscious in public places. At least two jerky foreign men are identified. Foucault, and various riffs on the gaze are mobilised.
We're observing the Amsterdam World Cup with Burdsey. Dutch multi-cultural integration policies come together with amateur football and the results are mixed (a welcome attempt hampered by bland official policy, fleeting and shallow inter-group interactions, patriarchy...).
Lindsey attempts to clarify 'sustainability' in sports policy (NOPES provides the example). A framework from health lit is used - and found occasionally wanting (naturally, more research is required). This is severely wonkish stuff.
Waring offers 'workstyle' as a tag for career focused urban professionals' use of premiere health and fitness clubs. There's both symbolic and practical work-leisure links here, with identity and leisure influenced by professional (and class) demands.
'Jenny' and 'Carrie' talk dance in Atencio's piece. Identities and subjectivities shift with dance styles, and self-expression is empowering ('resistance' also hovers about anxiously). Is that city really in the NE?
Jordan & Atchison note that female tourists get hit on and stared at - especially when travelling alone - and that this often makes them uncomfortable and self-conscious in public places. At least two jerky foreign men are identified. Foucault, and various riffs on the gaze are mobilised.
6/29/08
Patterns of Prejudice. July 2008, 42(3)
Stoetzler covers late nineteenth century German anti-semitism with an eye to current western anxieties around multi-culturalism (read Muslims), and the 'intrinsic contradictions of modern liberalism' (read, apparently, the English nation-state - there are confluences here in need of arguments).
Eugenics are mobilised by pre-WW2 Turkish modernisers in Ergin's piece. The (seemingly contradictory) use of western racial talk in building a republican Turkish identity is emphasised.
Sommer observes the German extreme right's forays into anti-capitalist and anti-globalization activism. What's the story? There are obvious precedents, and they're sincere (their nationalism makes them more consistently anti-global than the left org's who's paths they now cross). However, the stance has different sources - anxiety about the Volksgemeinschaft more than economic security. (How much these anxieties actually overlap in the hard left and right... well...)
Eugenics are mobilised by pre-WW2 Turkish modernisers in Ergin's piece. The (seemingly contradictory) use of western racial talk in building a republican Turkish identity is emphasised.
Sommer observes the German extreme right's forays into anti-capitalist and anti-globalization activism. What's the story? There are obvious precedents, and they're sincere (their nationalism makes them more consistently anti-global than the left org's who's paths they now cross). However, the stance has different sources - anxiety about the Volksgemeinschaft more than economic security. (How much these anxieties actually overlap in the hard left and right... well...)
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