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Thanatourism and Cinematic Representations of Risk: Screening the End of Tourism (Routledge Advances in Sociology)
by Rodanthi TzanelliIn today’s world, the need to eliminate natural and human-made disasters has been at the forefront of national and international socio-political agendas. The management of risks such as terrorism, labour strikes, protests and environmental degradation has become pivotal for countries that depend on their economy’s tourist sector. Indeed, there is fear that that ‘the end of tourism’ might be nigh due to inadequate institutional foresight. Yet, in designing relevant policies to tackle this, arts such as that of filmmaking have yet to receive due consideration. This book adopts an unorthodox approach to debates about ‘the end of tourism’. Through twenty-first century cinematic narratives of symbolically interconnected ‘risks’ it considers how art envisages the future of humanity’s well-being. These ‘risks’ include: migration as an infectious disease; alien incursions as racialized labour mobilities; cyborg rebellion as the fear of post-colonial otherness; and zombie anthropophagy as the replacement of rooted identities by nomadic lifestyles. Such filmic scenarios articulate the futuristic survival of community as the triumph of the technological human over otherness, and provide a means to debate societal risks that weave identity politics into unequal mobilities. This book will appeal to researchers and students interested in mobilities theory, tourism and travel theory, film studies and aesthetics, globalisation studies, race, labour and migration.
Thanks for Everything (Now Get Out): Can We Restore Neighborhoods without Destroying Them?
by Joseph MarguliesWhen a distressed urban neighborhood gentrifies, all the ratios change: poor to rich; Black and Brown to white; unskilled to professional; vulnerable to secure. Vacant lots and toxic dumps become condos and parks. Upscale restaurants open and pawn shops close. But the low-income residents who held on when the neighborhood was at its worst, who worked so hard to make it better, are gradually driven out. For them, the neighborhood hasn’t been restored so much as destroyed. Tracing the history of Olneyville, a neighborhood in Providence, Rhode Island, that has traveled the long arc from urban decay to the cusp of gentrification, Joseph Margulies asks the most important question facing cities today: Can we restore distressed neighborhoods without setting the stage for their destruction? Is failure the inevitable cost of success? Based on years of interviews and on-the-ground observation, Margulies argues that to save Olneyville and thousands of neighborhoods like it, we need to empower low-income residents by giving them ownership and control of neighborhood assets. His model for a new form of neighborhood organization—the “neighborhood trust”—is already gaining traction nationwide and promises to give the poor what they have never had in this country: the power to control their future.
That Behaviour Book: The simple truth about teaching children
by Stephen BakerWhat kind of teacher are you? What values, beliefs and principles do successful teachers have and how do they sustain these in the face of challenging pupil behaviour?In this timely book, Stephen Baker contends that rigid punishment systems weaponize young people's defiance against them and that punishment doesn't work. He believes that teachers need to take responsibility for behaviour and to lead it, not just 'manage' it, that we need to love the kids (even if we don't like them), that children are people, thatweare an event intheirlives, and that teaching is a relationship-based activity.With each chapter followed by engaging 'takeaway tasks',That Behaviour Bookwill allow teachers to rapidly improve both their practice and their relationships with pupils and classes. The book looks at the values that will sustain you as a teacher, how routines will help you teach better and what 'positive expectations' really mean, making child-centred relational practice easy to apply in the classroom. Teachers will have a more realistic appreciation of their own situation and of the context in which they teach. In short, this book will help teachers learn how to get the very best out of their pupils.That Behaviour Bookis an essential guide for both the beginner and the more experienced teacher. Its unique tone makes it an indispensable companion for the busy teacher, providing a sense of connection, challenge and reassurance all at once. Stephen Baker's anecdotes, drawn from his years as a pupil, teacher and trainer pack an emotional punch and are often hilarious.Suitable for all teachers.
That Complex Whole: Culture And The Evolution Of Human Behavior
by Lee CronkOur understanding of the evolution of human behavior has grown enormously over the past few decades, and an increasing number of behavioral and social scientists are making use of evolutionary theory in their work to shed light on issues ranging from marriage and parenting to the study of mental illness. The success of this research program is thre
That Complex Whole: Culture And The Evolution Of Human Behavior
by Lee CronkOur understanding of the evolution of human behavior has grown enormously over the past few decades, and an increasing number of behavioral and social scientists are making use of evolutionary theory in their work to shed light on issues ranging from marriage and parenting to the study of mental illness. The success of this research program is thre
That Sinking Feeling: On the Emotional Experience of Inferiority in Germany's Neoliberal Education System
by Stefan WellgrafEmotions, especially those of impoverished migrant families, has long been underrepresented in German social and cultural studies. That Sinking Feeling raises the visibility of the emotional dimensions of exclusion processes and locates students in current social transformations. Drawing from a year of ethnographic fieldwork with grade ten students, Stefan Wellgraf’s study on an array of both classic emotions and affectively charged phenomena reveals a culture of devaluation and self-assertion of the youthful, post-migrant urban underclass in neoliberal times.
That Sinking Feeling: On the Emotional Experience of Inferiority in Germany's Neoliberal Education System
by Stefan WellgrafEmotions, especially those of impoverished migrant families, has long been underrepresented in German social and cultural studies. That Sinking Feeling raises the visibility of the emotional dimensions of exclusion processes and locates students in current social transformations. Drawing from a year of ethnographic fieldwork with grade ten students, Stefan Wellgraf’s study on an array of both classic emotions and affectively charged phenomena reveals a culture of devaluation and self-assertion of the youthful, post-migrant urban underclass in neoliberal times.
That Sinking Feeling: On the Emotional Experience of Inferiority in Germany's Neoliberal Education System
by Stefan WellgrafEmotions, especially those of impoverished migrant families, have long been underrepresented in German social and cultural studies. That Sinking Feeling raises the visibility of the emotional dimensions of exclusion processes and locates students in current social transformations. Drawing from a year of ethnographic fieldwork with grade ten students, Stefan Wellgraf’s study on an array of both classic emotions and affectively charged phenomena reveals a culture of devaluation and self-assertion of the youthful, post-migrant urban underclass in neoliberal times.
That the People Might Live: Native American Literatures and Native American Community
by Jace WeaverLoyalty to the community is the highest value in Native American cultures, argues Jace Weaver. In That the People Might Live, he explores a wide range of Native American literature from 1768 to the present, taking this sense of community as both a starting point and a lens. Weaver considers some of the best known Native American writers, such as Leslie Marmon Silko, Gerald Vizenor, and Vine Deloria, as well as many others who are receiving critical attention here for the first time. He contends that the single thing that most defines these authors' writings, and makes them deserving of study as a literature separate from the national literature of the United States, is their commitment to Native community and its survival. He terms this commitment "communitism"--a fusion of "community" and "activism." The Native American authors are engaged in an ongoing quest for community and write out of a passionate commitment to it. They write, literally, "that the People might live." Drawing upon the best Native and non-Native scholarship (including the emerging postcolonial discourse), as well as a close reading of the writings themselves, Weaver adds his own provocative insights to help readers to a richer understanding of these too often neglected texts. A scholar of religion, he also sets this literature in the context of Native cultures and religious traditions, and explores the tensions between these traditions and Christianity.
That Used To Be Us: What Went Wrong with America - and How It Can Come Back
by Thomas Friedman Michael MandelbaumAmerica has a huge problem. It faces four major challenges, on which its future depends, and it is failing to meet them. In What's Wrong with America?, Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum analyze those challenges - globalization, the revolution in information technology, the nation's chronic deficits, and its pattern of energy consumption - and spell out what needs to be done now to rediscover America's power and prowess.They explain how the end of the cold war blinded the nation to the need to address these issues seriously. They show how America's history, when properly understood, provides the key to coping successfully and explain how the paralysis of the US political system and the erosion of key American values have made it impossible to carry out the policies the country needs. What's Wrong with America? is both a searching exploration of the American condition today and a rousing manifesto for American renewal.
Thatcher and After: Margaret Thatcher and Her Afterlife in Contemporary Culture
by Elizabeth HoThe first substantial interdisciplinary, cross-genre critique of Margaret Thatcher and her cultural 'afterlife', exploring Thatcher's legacy across a range of areas including public policy, broadcast media, film, poetry, architectural design, political cartoons and literature.
Thatcher's Grandchildren?: Politics and Childhood in the Twenty-First Century (Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood)
by Jane Pilcher Stephen WaggThatcher's Grandchildren explores sociological and political issues about childhood that have that have become increasingly significant in the twenty first century within a political landscape framed by neo-liberalism. Issues addressed include child protection and abuse, the media, education and schooling, and poverty.
That's Not How We Do It Here!: A Story About How Organizations Rise, Fall – and Can Rise Again
by John Kotter Holger RathgeberA new business parable from John Kotter - the leading authority on leadership and change, and bestselling author of Our Iceberg is MeltingThat's Not How We Do It Here is the story of a clan of meerkats who live in the Kalahari. Well organised and efficient, the colony enjoys many years of successful growth, until it suddenly comes under threat from a new form of predator and is forced to rethink its organizational structure. John Kotter uses this charming parable to explore why organizations often struggle no matter their past success, and why they fall. Kotter shows that by embracing reliability, efficiency, speed and agility, and building passion, discipline and personal growth, organizations can once again prosper, fulfil their mission, create great jobs and services and generate wealth.
The: Zygmunt Bauman and Education for an Ambivalent World (Routledge Research in the Sociology of Education)
by Eric FerrisThis book critically interrogates the function of schooling in the United States of America using the writings of sociologist Zygmunt Bauman. Asking whether the function is to produce citizens, workers, a combination of the two, or something altogether different, it argues that the designs of schooling are part of a carefully crafted ordering, illustrated via an analysis of the ways in which schooling introduces students to various forms of coercion and seduction that socialize students in particular ways: ways that support an order. By engaging with the prolific and insightful works of one of the most prominent social thinkers of the 21st century, this book considers schooling and its contributions to order. Be they solid or liquid modern ordering mechanisms, ordering through repression and seduction, or supporting ordering through the creation of boundaries separating an “orderly inside” from its “disorderly outside”; schools imperfectly support the construction of order and in doing so, privilege some representations and individuals over others. To order is to harness ambivalence and steer it in directions that privilege the “in” group at the expense of the “out” group; and schools, from the curriculum they teach to the values and ideas they promote, are desirable captive marketplaces instrumental in steering this ambivalence. The author ultimately suggests that the function of schools, whether recognized or not, are not so much to educate students to be free thinkers, but rather to be orderly cogs in a particular functional social machine. As such, it will be of interest to faculty, scholars and postgraduate-level students with interests in the sociology of education, schooling, sociology, and social theory.
The: Zygmunt Bauman and Education for an Ambivalent World (Routledge Research in the Sociology of Education)
by Eric FerrisThis book critically interrogates the function of schooling in the United States of America using the writings of sociologist Zygmunt Bauman. Asking whether the function is to produce citizens, workers, a combination of the two, or something altogether different, it argues that the designs of schooling are part of a carefully crafted ordering, illustrated via an analysis of the ways in which schooling introduces students to various forms of coercion and seduction that socialize students in particular ways: ways that support an order. By engaging with the prolific and insightful works of one of the most prominent social thinkers of the 21st century, this book considers schooling and its contributions to order. Be they solid or liquid modern ordering mechanisms, ordering through repression and seduction, or supporting ordering through the creation of boundaries separating an “orderly inside” from its “disorderly outside”; schools imperfectly support the construction of order and in doing so, privilege some representations and individuals over others. To order is to harness ambivalence and steer it in directions that privilege the “in” group at the expense of the “out” group; and schools, from the curriculum they teach to the values and ideas they promote, are desirable captive marketplaces instrumental in steering this ambivalence. The author ultimately suggests that the function of schools, whether recognized or not, are not so much to educate students to be free thinkers, but rather to be orderly cogs in a particular functional social machine. As such, it will be of interest to faculty, scholars and postgraduate-level students with interests in the sociology of education, schooling, sociology, and social theory.
The: Labor Activism and Passivity in China (Palgrave Debates in Business History)
by Elly LeungThis book engages with Foucault’s theoretical works to understand the (re-) making of the working-class in China. In so doing, the author applies Foucault’s genealogical (historicalization) method to explore the ways the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) develop Chinese governmentality (or government of mentalities) among everyday workers in its thought management system. Through the investigation of the key events in Chinese history, she presents how China’s stable political party is sustained through the CCP’s ability to retain, update and incorporate many Confucian discourses into its contemporary form of thought management system using social networks, such as families and schools, to continuously (re-) shape workers’ consciousness into one that maintains their docility. This book will bring a new voice to the debate of Chinese working-class politics and labour movements. It will serve as a gateway to comprehensive knowledge about China for students and academics with interests in Chinese employment relations, Chinese politics, labourist activist culture, and social movements.
Theater des Konsums: Vorstudien für eine Soziologie der Verbraucherbühnen (Konsumsoziologie und Massenkultur)
by Kai-Uwe HellmannDiese Aufsatzsammlung beschäftigt sich vornehmlich mit der Frage, unter welchen Bedingungen die Erfahrung gemacht wird, dass typische Verbraucherrollen, ob Käufer-, Kunden- oder Konsumentenrolle, in kommerziell organisierten Kauf- oder Konsumsituationen unangefochten ausgespielt werden können und den Interaktionsverlauf strukturell wie prozessual wesentlich bestimmen. Denn keineswegs überall, wo Kauf- oder Verbrauchsakte empirisch stattfinden, definieren diese die jeweilige Situation auch in Gänze, so dass nahezu sämtliche Aufmerksamkeit durch die damit verbundenen, kommerziell orientierten Erlebnisse und Handlungen physisch, psychisch und sozial okkupiert wird, bei weitgehender Neutralisierung aller sonstigen Rollenverpflichtungen. Immerhin müssen sich Verbraucherrollen angesichts einer funktional differenzierten Gesellschaft, in der das ständige Management einer Vielzahl von Publikumsrollen unausweichlich ist, die knapp bemessene Aufmerksamkeitsspanne mit zahlreichen weiteren Publikumsrollen teilen. Im Kern geht es bei diesem Konzept darum, kommerziell organisierte Settings zu identifizieren, die wie Gerichte, Kirchen, Klöster, Krankenhäuser, Schulen, Sportstadien usw., bei denen die jeweiligen Inklusionseffekte eine temporäre Transformation der Personen in Folge der Übernahme entsprechender Publikumsrollen auslösen können – nicht zu vergessen temporäre Transformationseffekte im Zuge der aktiven Partizipation an Zeugenvernehmungen, Gottesdiensten, Fastenritualen, Krankenbehandlungen, Unterrichtseinheiten, Sportwettbewerben usw. – funktional Äquivalentes bei der Ausübung von Verbraucherrollen bewerkstelligen. Als prototypisch für solche kommerziell organisierten Settings, hier verkürzt als ‚Verbraucherbühnen‘ bezeichnet, werden in der Konsum- und Serviceforschung übrigens die Freizeitparks der Walt Disney Company behandelt. Dabei erfordert die Erforschung solcher Verbraucherbühnen eine Kombination von Rollen-, Organisations- und Interaktionsanalysen, zudem eine kultur- und mediensoziologische Perspektive, wie sie für das Studium von Verbraucherleitbildern empfehlenswert erscheint. Denn wie schon die soziologische Rollentheorie festgestellt hatte, orientieren sich Rollenspiele immer an gewissen Images, Rationalitätsfiktionen, Stereotypen, d. h. Normen des Rollenverhaltens, die Richtung und Reichweite typischen Rollenverhaltens vorschreiben und anleiten.
Theater, Krise und Reform: Eine Kritik des deutschen Theatersystems
by Thomas SchmidtTheater, Krise und Reform gibt einen Überblick über die aktuelle Situation der deutschen Theater, ihrer Krisen und Entwicklungsoptionen. Es beschreibt den Übergang vom hierarchisch organisierten Intendantenmodell zu einem Ensemblemodell mit einer modernisierten Unternehmenskultur und einer festen Einbindung der Ensembles in alle wichtigen Entscheidungen. Im ersten Teil wird das öffentlich finanzierte Theatersystem mit seinen chronischen Ungleichgewichten untersucht: Überproduktion, Finanzierungskrise, sinkende Legitimation und hierarchische Strukturen, mit dem Intendanten als Emblem eines veralteten Organisationsprinzips. Auf Basis von Veränderungspotentialen werden Reformen in der Leitung (Direktorium), Organisation (Matrix) und im Produktions- und Spielbetrieb entwickelt und vorgeschlagen.
Theater of Disorder: Patients, Doctors, and the Construction of Illness
by Brant WenegratThere are certain phenomena, such as hypnosis, hysteria, multiple personality disorder, recovered memory syndrome, claims of satanic ritual abuse, alien abduction syndrome, and culture-specific disorders that, although common, are difficult to explain completely. The purpose of this volume is to apply a model of social relations to these phenomena in order to provide a different explanation for them. Wenegrat argues that they are socially constructed illness roles or purposive behavior patterns into which patients fall while receiving either unintentional or intentional cues during interactions with caretakers and authority figures. The application of the social-relations model raises some important, yet previously overlooked, questions about these phenomena. It also illustrates some important aspects of human nature and consciousness, places illness behaviors in their larger, cultural context, and shows the way to a new and different view of mental life.
Theaterdisposition: Die Kunst des Kunstermöglichens: ein Leitfaden für Theorie und Praxis (Kunst- und Kulturmanagement)
by Oliver GrafDas vorliegende praxisorientierte Buch erörtert die Grundlagen der Theaterdisposition mit Blick auf die für diese Tätigkeit unabdingbaren rechtlichen und tariflichen Voraussetzungen und auf die schließlich in der Praxis angewandte Umsetzung. Der Ablauf der einzelnen Produktionen, der strukturelle Aufbau der Theaterdisposition, ihre Entstehung und das Zusammenspiel der äußeren Einflüsse werden detailliert erläutert. Die relevanten Gesetzestexte, von denen jede_r Disponent_in Kenntnis haben sollte, die aktuellen Tarifverträge, Interessensverbände und mögliche Software-Lösungen werden vorgestellt. Anhand von konkreten Beispielen wird die Entwicklung einer Theaterdisposition exemplarisch und logisch nachvollziehbar dargestellt. Praxiserfahrungen von Theaterdisponent_innen und Einblicke in den Alltag eines künstlerischen Betriebsbüros gewähren einen Blick hinter die Kulissen. Ein Wörterverzeichnis gibt eine Übersicht über die momentan gebräuchlichen Fachausdrücke der zu disponierenden Inhalte, während eine Auflistung und Auswertung der für die Theaterdisposition grundlegenden Paragrafen aus Tarifverträgen und Gesetzestexten das Buch abrundet. Das Buch richtet sich an Kulturmanager_innen, Theaterdisponent_innen, Künstler_innen und Beschäftigte an Theatern, es richtet sich sowohl an Profis als auch an Studierende, Auszubildende und an theateraffines Publikum.
Theatermanagement: Eine Einführung (Kunst- und Kulturmanagement)
by Thomas SchmidtDas Lehrbuch Theatermanagement gibt eine Einführung in den Theaterbetrieb, seine Strukturen und Prozesse und die wesentlichen Grundlagen des Managements in den Bereichen Finanzen, Personal, Marketing und Vertrieb, Planung, Organisation und Kommunikation. Anhand von Fallbeispielen werden aktuelle Entwicklungen in der deutschen Theaterlandschaft und ihre Reformpotentiale vor dem Hintergrund der sich verändernden Rahmenbedingungen analysiert. Der Autor geht davon aus, dass der Managementbegriff grundsätzlich auf den Theaterbetrieb anwendbar ist, wenn eine Symbiose zwischen künstlerischen und wirtschaftlich-organisatorischen Aspekten hergestellt wird. Die wesentliche Zielstellung dabei ist es, die Zukunftsfähigkeit des einzelnen Theaterbetriebs wie des deutschen Theatersystems in seiner Gesamtheit durch Transformationsprozesse wieder herzustellen.
Theaters of War: America’s Perceptions of World War II
by V. CasaregolaHistorian Vincent Casaregola examines the portrayal of WWII in popular culture and how that protrayal has changed over time. By examining WWII films, literature, theatre and art from the Cold War era, the Vietnam War, the Reagan years, and present day, he seeks to understnad the part played by current politics, events and conflicts.
Theatralisierung der Gesellschaft: Band 2: Medientheatralität und Medientheatralisierung
by Herbert WillemsDie in den beiden Bänden dieses Sammelwerks repräsentierten Beiträge zielen auf Wandlungen und Entwicklungstendenzen der Gegenwartsgesellschaft, die in neueren sozial- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Diskursen zunehmend mit Begriffen wie Inszenierung, Performanz/Performance, Image, Event oder visual culture belegt werden. Unter dem Titel Theatralisierung geht es hier um nicht weniger als um die Behauptung eines charakteristischen Bündels von sozio-kulturellen Formationen und Transformationen, die alle gesellschaftlichen Ordnungsebenen, Bereiche und Daseinsaspekte umfassen. Andererseits gilt es, sozio-kulturellen Tatsachen Rechnung zu tragen, die eher den Gegenbegriff der Enttheatralisierung nahezulegen scheinen. Die hier zugrunde liegende zentrale Leitidee/Leitthese (Theatralisierung) wird im 1. Band vor allem auf die Lebenswelt(en) jedermanns, auf spezielle (Gruppen-)Kulturen sowie auf soziale Felder im Sinne Pierre Bourdieus bezogen: Politik, Sport, Religion, Wissenschaft, Medizin/Psychotherapie, Kunst, Wirtschaft u.s.w. Der 2. Band fokussiert das ‚Super-Theater’ der Massenmedien. Gegenstand der Untersuchung ist zudem das Internet als Raum von Theatralität und als Moment und Faktor von (Medien-)Theatralisierungen.
Theatralisierung der Gesellschaft: Band 1: Soziologische Theorie und Zeitdiagnose
by Herbert WillemsDie in den beiden Bänden dieses Sammelwerks repräsentierten Beiträge zielen auf Wandlungen und Entwicklungstendenzen der Gegenwartsgesellschaft, die in neueren sozial- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Diskursen zunehmend mit Begriffen wie Inszenierung, Performanz/Performance, Image, Event oder visual culture belegt werden. Unter dem Titel Theatralisierung geht es hier um nicht weniger als um die Behauptung eines charakteristischen Bündels von sozio-kulturellen Formationen und Transformationen, die alle gesellschaftlichen Ordnungsebenen, Bereiche und Daseinsaspekte umfassen. Andererseits gilt es, sozio-kulturellen Tatsachen Rechnung zu tragen, die eher den Gegenbegriff der Enttheatralisierung nahezulegen scheinen. Die hier zugrunde liegende zentrale Leitidee/Leitthese (Theatralisierung) wird im 1. Band vor allem auf die Lebenswelt(en) jedermanns, auf spezielle (Gruppen-)Kulturen sowie auf soziale Felder im Sinne Pierre Bourdieus bezogen: Politik, Sport, Religion, Wissenschaft, Medizin/Psychotherapie, Kunst, Wirtschaft u.s.w. Der 2. Band fokussiert das ‚Super-Theater’ der Massenmedien. Gegenstand der Untersuchung ist zudem das Internet als Raum von Theatralität und als Moment und Faktor von (Medien-)Theatralisierungen.
