Cultural Studies

EVERYDAY FEMINIST RESEARCH PRAXIS. Doing Gender in the Netherlands

Everyday Feminist Research Praxis: Doing Gender in The Netherlands offers a selection of previously unpublished work presented during the 2011, 2012 and 2013 Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies (NOG) conferences. Reflecting the wide spectrum of interdisciplinary gender studies, this volume is organised into four sections along four conceptual knots. These thematic entry-points are space/time, affectivity, public/private, and technological mediation. The central emphasis of this volume is twofold: first, the everyday is approached as a concretely grounded site of micro-political power struggles. Second, the contributors make explicit connections between theory and their everyday feminist research practices. They provide a reflexive account of their research, and put into words what drives them.
    The relation between theory and practice has been a key concern of feminist research in recent decades. The two domains are here not considered as oppositional, but rather contributors chart their interconnections and entanglements. The authors cover a wide topical area that includes, amongst others, digital representations of women movements; European homonationalism; fashion modelling and labour; sexual identities; child-birthing discourses; digital documentaries; fan fiction; and the post-human. As a whole, the interventions show how feminist research praxis remains crucial in critically disentangling naturalized routines of daily life, which in turn enables the scrutiny of, for example, the arbitrariness of entrenched power relations and the revealing of contradictory and layered, personal and collective, everyday trajectories. Everyday feminist research praxis, thus, energises possibilities for new forms of recognition, representation and redistribution of power.

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ISBN-13: 978-1-4438-6011-6
ISBN-10: 1-4438-6011-5
Date of Publication: 01/08/2014

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This conference was part of the golden jubilee celebrations of the Center for the Study of Developing Societies and was organized by The Sarai Programme to commemorate 100 years of Indian cinema. The conference sought to draw on the diverse heritage of Indian cinema to highlight the importance of cinema studies in the wider architecture of disciplinary engagements. This was with a view to bringing cinema into the academy as subject matter that required not only specialist analysis, but also as something which offered fresh perspectives, methods and materials to the human sciences.

Material relating to the conference, a booklet, programme brochure, and conference report by Harmanpreet Kaur, Abhija Ghosh and Debjani Dutta is available for download from the sarai website

This Sarai Reader brings together a range of critical thinking on urban life and the contemporary, marked by spreading media cultures, new social conflict and globalisation. Scholars, media practitioners, critics and activists use a flow of images, memories and hidden realities to create a fascinating array of original interventions in thinking about cities today. In the context of India, where a large part of this reader has been edited, this is significant, given the frugality of writing on city life in this part of the world.

With essays, images, analyses, and manifestoes The Cities of Everyday Life reflects on the contemporary urban condition, detours into the back alleys of the global city, takes on media representations of terror and war, examines the politics of information, anticipates the futures of digital urbanism, registers the details of media flows, explores representations of the city, and looks at globalisation from below.

BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies is a blind peer-reviewed journal, published biannually. It encourages theoretical and empirical research both on located screen practices and wider networks, linkages, and patterns of circulation. This involves research into the historical, regional, and virtual spaces of screen cultures, including globalized and multi-sited conditions of production and circulation.

باتوجه به اهميت فزايندۀ هويت و مصرف در جامعه شناسي معاصر و نيز ارتباط ميان اين دو،
مقالۀ حاضر درصدد بررسي رابطۀ ميان هويت اجتماعي و مصرف كالاهاي فرهنگي غيرمجاز
در شهر تهران برآمد است. دليل انتخاب كالاهاي فرهنگي، آن است كه مصرف در اين حوز ،
بيش از ساير حوز ها از قيد ضرورت هاي اقتصادي رها شد و بهتر مي تواند روند تغييرات
رخ داد و گرو بندي هاي هويتي را بازنمايي كند. در مباني نظري، از ديدگا هاي بورديو و
گيدنز استفاد شد است. تحقيق به روش پيمايش و در ميان جوانان شهر تهران، با حجم نمونۀ
۲28 نفر صورت گرفته است. نتايج تحقيق نشان مي دهند كه بين سطح مخالفت فرهنگي و
مصرف كالاهاي فرهنگي غيرمجاز، رابطۀ مستقيم و بين متغير ايدئولوژي خانوادۀ سنتي و
مصرف كالاهاي غيرمجاز، رابطه اي معكوس وجود دارد. همچنين، رابطۀ ميزان سرمايۀ فرهنگي
با مصرف ماهوار ، مستقيم و مصرف سي دي و دي وي دي هاي غيرمجاز، معكوس است.
كلیدواژگان
هويت، مصرف فرهنگي، كالاي فرهنگي غيرمجاز، سرمايۀ فرهنگي، مخالفت فرهنگي.

تحولات اجتماعي- فرهنگي در جوامع معاصر، و به موازات آن تحولات نظري
جامعه شناسي، مصرف را به يكي از مهم ترين موضوعات پژوهشي در جامعه شناسي تبديل
كرده اند. در اين ميان به نظر مي رسد كه مصرف كالاهاي فرهنگي و هنري به سبب عموميت و
قابليت دسترسي بيشتر از اهميت خاصي در مطالعه تمايزات اجتماعي و تحولات فرهنگي
برخوردار باشد . اين مقاله درصدد بررسي توزيع سليق ه هاي هنري در ميان اقشار و گروه هاي
متفاوت مردم شهر تهران است . در بخ ش مباني نظري، از ديدگاه هاي پي ير بورديو و
نظريه پردازان پست مدرن استفاده شده است . تحقيق با روش پيمايش و با استفاده از ابزار
پرسش نامه و به شيوه نمونه گيري خوشه اي چند مرحل ه اي در ميان 410 نفر از افراد 15 تا 45
ساله شهر تهران انجام گرفته است . طبق يافته هاي تحقيق، سليقه هاي هنري افراد رابطه
معني داري با متغيرهايي چون سن، جنسيت، قوميت و شغل نشان نمي دهند. از طرفي، نوعي
درهم آميختگي و التقاطي شدن نيز در ميان الگوهاي مصرف كالاهاي فرهنگي و هنري در
جمعيت مورد مطالعه قابل مشاهده است.
واژه گان اصلي: مصرف، سليقه هاي هنري، سرمايه فرهنگي، خويشاوندي ساختاري، بخشي شدن

Gracias a los avances realizados en la investigación de la historia de la tecnología en la ciudad de Cieza se está recuperando un importante legado cultural, científico y tecnológico que se ha traducido en diferentes artículos en la revista Andelma, del Centro de Estudios Históricos Fray Pasqual Salmerón, constituyendo la historia de la tecnología una sección fija en dicha revista a partir del nº 8. Por tanto, se está produciendo la difusión continuada del trabajo de inventores locales y regionales, inédito para la mayoría de la población, con resultados enriquecedores por sus contenidos y por el impacto en la vida cultural de nuestra ciudad, destapando un patrimonio material e inmaterial que permanecía oculto en archivos privados y en la memoria de las familias que gustosamente se están animando a compartir.
En el Departamento de Tecnología del Instituto de Enseñanza Secundaria Diego Tortosa de Cieza somos conscientes de la pobre inclusión de la historia de la tecnología en el currículo actual de secundaria que permanece como contenido específico sólo en la materia optativa de tecnología de 4º ESO y teniendo en cuenta la importancia que el desarrollo tecnológico ha tenido para la mejora de nuestra sociedad y la aportación que la historia de la tecnología puede realizar al desarrollo integral de la persona, hemos aprovechado la colaboración con el Centro de estudios Históricos Fray Pasqual Salmerón para realizar diferentes actividades culturales. Dicha colaboración se ha materializado en unidades didácticas y conferencias como “Mujeres inventoras, a pesar de Voltaire” y “Del fuego de los dioses a la microbótica” dentro de la Semana Cultural del IES Diego Tortosa cuya experiencia ha resultado motivadora para nuevas actividades.
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Thanks to the progress made in the investigation of the history of technology in Cieza's city an important cultural, scientific and technological legacy is being recovered which has resulted in several articles in the magazine Andelma, of the Center of Historical Studies Fray Pasqual Salmerón, being the history of technology a fixed section in the magazine since number 8. Consequently the work of local and regional inventors, which were unknown to the majority of the population, is being performed continuously the divulgation of enlightening results for its contents and the impact on the cultural life of our city. For our surprise a tangible and intangible heritage hidden in private archives and in the memories of families are being discovered and encouraged to share.
The Department of Technology of the Secondary School Diego Tortosa of Cieza is aware of the poor inclusion of the history of technology in the current curriculum of secondary education only remains specific content vocational technology in 4th ESO. Taking into account the importance that technological development has had on the improvement of our society and the contribution that the history of technology can have in the development of the whole person, we have taken advantage of the collaboration with the Centre for Historical Studies Fray Pasqual Salmerón for various cultural activities. This collaboration has resulted in teaching units and conferences as "Women Inventors, despite Voltaire" and "From fire of gods to microbotics" within the Cultural Week IES Diego Tortosa whose experience was motivating for new activities.