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Journal articles on the topic "Books on subculture"
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Bilgi, Irem. "Lowbrow Art Movement as a Subculture Art and its Effects on Visual Design." New Trends and Issues Proceedings on Humanities and Social Sciences 4, no. 11 (2017): 232–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.18844/prosoc.v4i11.2879.
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Beginning in Los Angeles, California, in the 1970s, and also known as pop surrealism, the Lowbrow art movement was born as a part of punk music, comic books, street and skateboard cultures and is seen in all fields of art. This study is the reflection of the Lowbrow art movement on visual design fields such as illustration graphic design and typography, animation and designer toys. Lowbrow artists were difficult to be adopted in the arts and design fields in the first years of the movement, because they did not have a diploma in fine arts and came from the street culture. But in recent years, Lowbrow artists have proved themselves and have begun to produce art and design works that are exhibited in different fields. The aim of this study is to emphasise the importance of Lowbrow art, which is seen as a subculture today. Keywords: Lowbrow, pop surrealism, street art, illustration, designer toy, subculture, visual design.
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Drdová, Lucie, and Steven Saxonberg. "Dilemmas of a subculture: An analysis of BDSM blogs about Fifty Shades of Grey." Sexualities 23, no. 5-6 (2019): 987–1008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460719876813.
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Recently, much has been written in the mass media about the novel and film Fifty Shades of Grey. It was widely portrayed as an example of BDSM (a common abbreviation for the terms bondage, discipline, dominance, submissivity, sadism and masochism) subculture and used as a symbol of sadomasochistic identity. But is this public view based on the self image of BDSM subcultural members or is it a figment of the imagination of writers and journalists? This article presents the voice of BDSM activists, who are silenced and excluded from the public debate. Using a virtual ethnographic method, we analyse the BDSM blogosphere as a platform for subcultural expressions of opinion. We combine this with a documentary analysis. In doing so, we examine how BDSM subculture members perceive themselves in contrast to the mainstream view of them pictured in the book Fifty Shades of Grey. This article investigates to what extent the subcultural conception of BDSM corresponds to the book's depiction and where it differs fundamentally.
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Fischer, Rachel K. "The Alert Collector: The Gothic Aesthetic: From the Ancient Germanic Tribes to the Contemporary Goth Subculture." Reference & User Services Quarterly 58, no. 3 (2019): 143. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/rusq.58.3.7040.
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Goths. How did we get from warlike Germanic tribes sacking Rome, to an aesthetic or subculture imbued with “the dark and melancholy, a hint of horror tinged with romance.” This column will show you how widely this aesthetic is represented in art, architecture, film, literature and more, and along the way you will undoubtedly find some great resources to add to your collections, from music CD, to academic journals, reference works and the usual popular and academic books. Rachel Fischer has ably put together an excellent resource for anyone wanting to build a collection from the ground-up, or add some new and interesting resources.—Editor
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Smirnova, E. O. "Modern children’s sub-culture." Консультативная психология и психотерапия 23, no. 4 (2015): 25–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.17759/cpp.2015230403.
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The article presents an attempt to identify the main characteristics of children’s information environment and show their influence on the psychology of modern children. In the analysis of modern market of toys, books and movies, the author states some of the paradoxes of modern socio-cultural situation. One of them is the fact that the ma¬jority of information products for children are not designed for the age peculiarities of its destination. Other paradox is that increased demands on cognitive development of children combined with overly caring attitude to their physical security and autonomy. The desire to make the life of their children easier, to protect them from any risk, effort and hardship is the dominant trend of modern education. As a result, children are setting on consumption, which is amplified by the expansion of modern media and video production for children. In the second part of the article discusses the problems of modern children due to the characteristics of children’s subculture. Among them, the underdevelopment of the motive sphere, disorders of speech development, lack of imagination, communication difficulties, lack of autonomy and self-organization. The author concludes that mordern children’s subculture inhibits the development of personality of the child and leads to deficiency of motivation.
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Karyanto, Puji. "Tanggap Wacana Dialek Suroboyoan: Komposisi, Transmisi, dan Performance." ATAVISME 11, no. 1 (2008): 73–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.24257/atavisme.v11i1.326.73-82.
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The aim of this research is to identify the composruon, transmission. and performance of Tanggap Wacana Suroboyoan. In conducting the research. the writer uses descriptive-qua I ital ive method. The resu It of this research indicates that Tanggap Wacana Suroboyoan, presented in reception nuptials of Java subculture society. lapped over in a very flexible composition. There is no consistency and equality of composition among different pamedar sabda since they studied the Wacana Suroboyoan through few different methods, such as: autodidact, learning in courses institute. or learning from available books. In performance, pamedar sabda is trying to come up by using kromo inggil style of Surakarta Javanese. Nevertheless, they often fail to string up existing vocabularies between Indonesian dictions and Javanese ngoko from local dialect.
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Katz, Nathan. "Undead Self and Society." Contexts 20, no. 3 (2021): 70–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/15365042211035347.
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Mayer, Gerhard A. "Anthropology and Cryptozoology: Exploring Encounters with Mysterious Creatures edited by Samantha Hurn and Chris Wilbert (in the series Multispecies Encounters)." Journal of Scientific Exploration 34, no. 1 (2020): 146–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.31275/20201737.
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Show me a Sasquatch body. (Michael Shermer, 2009, p. 35)
 Anthropology and anatomy professor Jeff Meldrum gave a lecture at the 2016 PA/SSE conference entitled “Sasquatch and Other Wildmen: The Search for Relict Hominoids” (Meldrum, 2016). As one of the few established academics interested in cryptozoological topics, he spoke about footprints of different provenance, their evaluation and anatomical classification. He mentioned the reactions of his colleagues to this field of research and the placement of his books in bookstores for economic reasons—booksellers put them on the esoteric shelves, where sales are expected to be higher for such topics. With reference to the skeptic Michael Shermer, he says the attitude of his colleagues toward the subject area of cryptozoology can be characterized by the sentence “The science starts once you have a body.”This aptly shows the problematic situation in which cryptozoology finds itself. The first sentence of the article “Cryptozoology” in the English Wikipedia asserts: “Cryptozoology is a pseudoscience and subculture that aims to prove the existence of entities from the folklore record, such as Bigfoot, the chupacabra, or Mokele-mbembe.”1 As is often the case with anomalies research, a general judgment is made about the field of research and the people who are actively interested in it. Without a discriminating perspective, critics equate the former with the latter (“pseudoscience and subculture”). The volume Anthropology and Cryptozoology: Exploring Encounters with Mysterious Creatures shows that there are other ways to look at this field. This high-priced book, edited by anthropologist Samantha Hurn, was published in 2017 by the scientific publisher Routledge. The combination of anthropology and cryptozoology in its title shows a shift in academic approach to this topic from zoology and biological anthropology to ethnology and social sciences, evidenced in the book blurb:
 Cryptozoology is best understood as the study of animals which, in the eyes of Western science, are extinct, unclassified, or unrecognised. In consequence, and in part because of its selective methods and lack of epistemological rigour, cryptozoology is often dismissed as a pseudo-science. However, there is a growing recognition that social science can benefit from engaging with it, for as social scientists are very well aware, ‘scientific’ categorisation and explanation represents just one of myriad systems used by humans to enable them to classify and make sense of the world around them.
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Zuhriy, M. Syaifuddien. "BUDAYA PESANTREN DAN PENDIDIKAN KARAKTER PADA PONDOK PESANTREN SALAF." Walisongo: Jurnal Penelitian Sosial Keagamaan 19, no. 2 (2011): 287. http://dx.doi.org/10.21580/ws.2011.19.2.159.
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<p class="IIABSBARU1">As part of the community, pesantren with typical of the main elements such as kiai, santri, mosque, cottage and classical instruction books (kitab kuning), has become its own subculture. Therefore, despite modernization and globalization invaded, pesantren can still maintain its existence. Furthermore, many stakeholders indicated that the pesantren are educational institutions that can serve as a model of character education in Indonesia. How the strategies and patterns of character education by pesantren so as to create culture? What are these cultures? These are the two main questions are answered through qualitative research is in pesantren Langitan, Tuban and pesantren Ihyaul Ulum, Gilang.</p><p class="IKa-ABSTRAK">***</p>Sebagai bagian dari komunitas, pesantren dengan unsur utama nya yaitu kiai, santri, masjid, pondok, dan kitab kuning telah menjadi sub-kultur tersendiri. Oleh karena itu, meskipun adanya modernisasi dan globalisasi, pesantren masih tetap bertahan. Selain itu, banyak stakeholder yang menyatakan bahwa pesantren adalah institusi pendidikan yang dapat berperan sebagai model pendidikan karakter di Indonesia. Dua pertanyaan yang akan dijawab dalam tulisan ini adalah bagaimana strategi dan pola pendidikan karakter yang diterapkan oleh pesantren untuk membentuk sub kultur dan bagaimana bentuk sub kultur tersebut. Kajian ini memfokuskan perhatiannya di PesantrenLangitan Tuban dan Pesantren Ihyaul Ulum Gilang dengan menggunakan penelitian kualitatif.
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Maroshi, V. V. "With an Icon and a Knife: About the Semio-Aesthetic Causes of А. Balashov’s Vandalism". Critique and Semiotics 38, № 1 (2020): 279–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.25205/2307-1737-2020-1-279-291.
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The article deals with semiotics of the vandal action of Abram Balashov in Tretyakov gallery aimed at the damaging Iliya Repin’s painting “Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on 14 November 1581”. We compared two acts of Russian vandals who attacked the canvas on 1913 and on 2018. There is considerable difference between Igor Podporin’s reckless ideological action and Balashov’s actions which were carefully planned. Balashov was an icon painter, but wanted to be a painter. Like M. Voloshin we insist that his mental disorder is caused by provocative Repin’s painting. The shocking effect of this artwork caused a similar reaction of Russian viewers on 1885 disgusted and amazed by naturalism and expression of the painting. Repin’s work was inspired by his own bleeding trauma experienced in childhood, by the European paintings of the bleeding Christ, by Russian antimonarchist radicalism, by N. Karamsin’s gothic version of tsar Ivan activity, finally by «le genre féroce» of the modern French painting. Repin added to visual look of Ivan the Terrible some demonic features and to his son figure some Christ features. Balashov belonged to subculture of Russian Old Believers in turn was inspired by hagiography of Old Believer martyr Morozova and by icon like painting “Boiarynia Morozova” of Surikov. Balashov’s vandal act is a typical Russian «fool for Christ» gesture. Probably he followed the tradition of damaging devil's faces in books and on icons.
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Gürbüz, Temmuz Süreyya. "Punk aesthetics of Pedro Almodóvar’s Pepi, Luci, Bom: Self-reflexivity, subcultural formations and queer temporalities." Journal of European Popular Culture 11, no. 1 (2020): 37–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jepc_00011_1.
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Tracing the direct and indirect influences and cultural connections between earlier counter-cultures and avant-garde art has been a useful method to historicize the aesthetics that is created by subcultures. Drawing from this approach, this article seeks to contribute to the study of the aesthetics and counter-cultures via analysing a specific cinematic self-reflexivity that is born out of the interconnectedness of low-budget material conditions and the subcultural environments. The contention is that Pedro Almodóvar’s first feature film Pepi, Luci, Bom y otras chicas del montón (1980), embodies such punk aesthetics and queer temporalities, through the temporary disruptions in narrative progression, the abundance of queer parody, the combination of camp, TV ads, musical performance and the non-diegetic insertions of comic book-style textuality. In this collage, the politics of realistic representation are thrown out of the picture via a deliberate coupling of artificiality and spontaneity. This article argues that the embeddedness of Pepi, Luci, Bom in Madrid’s subcultural movement, la movida madrileña, demonstrates perfectly how subcultural experience gives way to an aesthetic coping mechanism that transforms low-budget restrictions into self-reflexivity. The disparate narrative vantage points in the film that rupture linearity and how the subcultural environment prompted disruptive entrances through which the film’s satire emerged are taken as critical-aesthetic offerings of queer temporalities that exude through the experiential knowledge of exclusion and oppression.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Books on subculture"
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Frail, James H. "Powers and abilities far behind those of mortal men an examination of the comic book industry and subculture through a feminist sociological perspective /." Huntington, WV : [Marshall University Libraries], 2004. http://www.marshall.edu/etd/descript.asp?ref=424.
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Stedman, Barbara A. "The word become fiction : textual voices from the evangelical subculture." Virtual Press, 1994. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/917838.
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Between 1979 and 1994, conservative, Protestant Christian fiction, or simply "evangelical fiction," has burgeoned into a powerful literary representative of America's modern evangelical subculture. This study examines that phenomenon by combining: (a) close textual analysis of the novels, particularly novels written by two important evangelical novelists--Janette Oke, romance writer, and Frank Peretti, author of supernatural thrillers; (b) analysis of the reading habits and tastes of 218 readers of evangelical fiction in the Muncie, Indiana, area by way of questionnaire responses and also follow-up interviews with 75 of those respondents; and (c) careful investigation of the cultural context in which these novels are written, published, and read.One particular issue investigated is whether readers read these novels primarily for entertainment or for spiritual edification. On one hand, these novels fit into the category of "popular" fiction and therefore meet readers' needs for entertainment, albeit entertainment that is consistent with evangelicals' theology, lifestyle, and world view. On the other hand, these novels fill readers' needs for edification, for overt religious support and teaching, for perpetuation of what evangelicals already believe. They are, in Roland Barthes' words, examples of doxa, i.e., history transformed into nature.Another special issue investigated is the role that these novels play in the battle against mainstream secular culture. In particular, Oke's novels function as cultural preservers, particularly of nineteenth-century models for the family, morality, and unworldliness; and Peretti's novels function as cultural combatants, actively naming and attacking secular enemies, especially the New Age movement and abortion industry.The study concludes that evangelical fiction not only reflects evangelical subculture, but also affects it; that the genre has undergone dramatic changes from 1979 to 1994 and that publishers, writers, and readers are calling for more sophisticated fiction. However, evangelical fiction, as a cultural expression, falls within what is sometimes called the "evangelical ghetto" and, since evangelicalism is a religious orthodoxy, the fiction will have difficulty emerging from that ghetto.<br>Department of English
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O'Brien, Amy Ann. "Boys' Love and Female Friendships: The Subculture of Yaoi as a Social Bond between Women." unrestricted, 2008. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-11202008-150110/.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2008.<br>Title from file title page. Jennifer Patico, committee chair; Emanuela Guano, Megan Sinnott, committee members. Description based on contents viewed Sept. 10, 2009. Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-147).
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Mok, Ka-lai Cynthia, and 莫嘉麗. "The sociolinguistics of written Chinese in local comic booksubculture: stigmatised language varieties inHong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1998. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31221488.
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Covich, Anna-Maria Ruth. "Alter/Ego: Superhero Comic Book Readers, Gender and Identities." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Social and Political Sciences, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/7262.
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The academic study of comic books - especially superhero comic books - has predominantly focused on the analysis of these books as texts, as teaching and learning resources, or on children as comic book readers. Very little has been written about adult superhero comic fans and their responses to superhero comics. This thesis explores how adult comic book readers in New Zealand engage with superhero comics. Individual interviews and group conversations, both online and face-to-face, provide insights into their responses to the comics and the characters as well as the relationships among fans. Analysis of fans’ talk about superhero comics includes their reflections on how masculinities are represented in these comics and the complex ways in which they identify with superheroes, including their alter egos.
The thesis examines how superhero comic book readers present themselves in their interactions with other readers. Comics ‘geekdom’, fans’ interactions with one another and their negotiation of gendered norms of masculinity are discussed. The contrast between the fan body and the superhero body is an important theme. Readers’ discursive constitution and management of superheroes’ bodies, and their engagement with representations of superheroes are related to analyses of multiplicity in individual identities and current theories of audience reception and identification.
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Kahler, Eric. ""Tell Me, Where am I From?": A Study of the Performance of Geek Identity at Comic Book Conventions." Scholar Commons, 2015. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5514.
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The performance of identity is an often studied subject matter. One identity, Geek, and the larger subculture to which it is attached (Geek culture) has become a growing field of study in since the turn of the millennium, mirroring the growth of the subculture itself. The question then is how do Geek's perform this identity and create an idea of what a Geek is? If there is a place to examine this performance then it is the growing event of comic book conventions. At these events thousands of individuals gather to celebrate, interact with, purchase and play with the commodities of Geek; comic books, video games, anime, manga and film. In this space, as I will discuss, the spectrum of performance as outline by Richard Schechner in Performance Theory occurs in simultaneous forms inside the convention. While there is ritual, there is also play, and theater, and all three may be occurring at any one time through any one individual. This is partially brought on by the presence of cosplayers, convention attendees who dress up as fictional characters, and perform a separate role that also speaks to their own identity. Furthermore, the presence of what Victor Turner terms social dramas in the space of the panel discussion complicate and re-form not only individual identities, but also Geek culture identity as well.
Underlying the interaction of identity with space/place is the, as Marc Agé terms it, non-place nature of the convention center itself. That the convention center does not bear the trappings of a typical anthropological place (such as history or tradition) influences the impact of the performance and the identity created therein. Consequently, the identity held will be challenged by the temporary nature, not just of the event, but also the place which contains it. I attended two comic book conventions in the state of Florida to examine this phenomena using my own experience as part of the study, as well as interviewing other convention attendees and people within my group. I will move through the space of the conventions exploring my personal relation to the identity of Geek and how others perform the identity while trying to explore what does it mean to be Geek?
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Hong, Laura. "Twitter and the comic book fan community: Building identities and relationships in 140 characters." Scholarly Commons, 2015. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/201.
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The following study examined identity construction and community formation within the comic book fan community on the social media website, Twitter It had three objectives It investigated how comic book fans constructed their respective identities on Twitter, explored how fans came to identify with the comic book community and why it formed, and aimed to discover how the community was maintained and expanded The study applied an ethnographic method that relied on the analysis of dialogue Ten comic book fans (five males, five females) that frequently used Twitter to communicate with other fans were video interviewed It was found that comic book fans constructed their identities using their Twitter biography and profile picture and they all believed they were communicating their true and genuine selves The biography, profile picture, and tweets reinforced the rhetoric of what it meant to be a comic book fan It was this visual and written rhetoric that enabled comic book fans to identify with one another and bring the community into being Without this rhetoric, there is no community The community maintained itself through the continued reinforcement of this rhetoric It expanded itself by bringing comic book fans from different backgrounds, locations, and nationalities together online around a shared interest The study also found that the relationships formed within the community could develop into real friendships, the same caliber of friendship that individuals would normally have with those they knew and met in real life.
Books on the topic "Books on subculture"
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author, Calderwood Jessica, ed. Wet Moon 5: Where all stars fail to burn. Oni Press, Incorporated, 2017.
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author, Calderwood Jessica, ed. Wet Moon 4: Drowned in Evil. Oni Press, Incorporated, 2017.
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Perry, Samuel L. "Introduction." In Addicted to Lust. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190844219.003.0001.
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The book’s introduction begins by describing the growing use and acceptance of pornography in the United States in order to frame the dilemma confronting conservative Protestants. Conservative Protestants’ connections to modern media and technology leave them vulnerable to the allure of pornography. Today, Christian leaders lament that many young Christian men (and increasingly women) are being ravaged by porn use, with devastating consequences for their spiritual lives, service to the church, and families. The introduction also explains how the book advances research on pornography’s effects by focusing on how culture links sexual practices like porn use with human identity and relationships. Conservative Protestantism provides a prime example of a subculture with a relatively coherent and salient approach to pornography use that can be contrasted with what is becoming a more coherent, secular approach. The introduction defines several subcultural distinctives of conservative Protestantism that shape their experiences of pornography in unique ways.
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Miller-Idriss, Cynthia. "Trying on Extremism." In The Extreme Gone Mainstream. Princeton University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691196152.003.0002.
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This chapter situates the empirical base of this book within theories of culture, nationalism, iconography, and youth extremist subcultures. It begins by describing two prevailing notions of how culture “works”—one that presents culture as a coherent meaning system and the other that characterizes it as a “tool kit” of actions and strategies. The chapter also addresses theories of extremism and youth subcultures, arguing that previous research on nationalism and extremism has paid more attention to political dimensions than cultural ones. Finally, it links far right commercial symbols to recent scholarship on visual symbols, arguing that attention to the aesthetic dimensions of far right subculture is particularly overdue in light of the recent “iconic” turn in the social sciences. As the chapter points out, sociologists' ongoing attention to Marxist understanding of economic objects and their relationship to class-based exploitation has led many scholars to overlook the potential for economic objects to have constitutive power for individuals' lives, identities, sense of belonging, or—in this case—the extremist participation of consumers.
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Burke, Kyle. "Private Wars in Central America." In Revolutionaries for the Right. University of North Carolina Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469640730.003.0006.
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Growing more confident, John Singlaub and other retired covert warriors launched a series of paramilitary campaigns in Central America in the 1980s. As the Reagan administration faced stiff resistance about its wars in Nicaragua and El Salvador from Congress and the American public, many on the right concluded that the private sector was best suited to channel money, weapons, supplies, and advisors to embattled paramilitary groups. Starting in 1981, Singlaub and his allies organized rallies, sponsored television and radio programs, and published books, pamphlets, and articles to raise millions of dollars in private donations from wealthy individuals and businesses, international groups, and grassroots organizations. Then they used these funds to establish private military aid programs that they hoped would not only fill in for the United States military and intelligence services but also do a better job for less money. This struggle against foreign enemies, made possible by will and weapons, simultaneously legitimized a growing paramilitary subculture in the United States. For it presented a vision of combat in which ordinary citizens took up arms to fight communism.
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Stroumsa, Sarah. "Intellectual Elites." In Andalus and Sefarad. Princeton University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691176437.003.0004.
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This chapter focuses on Andalusian philosophers. Philosophers, in al-Andalus as elsewhere in the medieval Islamicate world, were committed to what can be called “the philosopher's life,” namely, the unremitting effort to attain human perfection. At the same time, as intellectuals integrated into their own societies, they could significantly shape their communities' cultural, communal, and even political profiles. Philosophers in al-Andalus truly shared a common philosophical tradition. Jews and Muslims alike read scientific and philosophical works translated from Greek into Arabic, as well as books by earlier Muslim and Christian thinkers. Being a small minority within their respective religious communities, and sharing the same education, interests, concerns, and ideals, philosophers constituted, in some ways, a subculture of their own. While they lived fully within their own religious community and adhered to the boundaries between it and other religious groups, they were acutely aware of the commonality of philosophy. The chapter then evaluates the philosophical curriculum which guided the advancement of students to become philosophers, as well as the friendships formed between philosophers. It illustrates the inherently elitist nature of the philosophers' life qua philosophers.
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Pabón-Colón, Jessica Nydia. "Conclusion." In Graffiti Grrlz. NYU Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479806157.003.0007.
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This chapter summarizes how the book has created the space for graffiti grrlz’ stories to emerge, demonstrating how they negotiate their belonging to, and visibility in, a hetero/sexist male-dominated subculture embedded in a patriarchal world. It traces how graffiti grrlz perform a different kind of standpoint epistemology, one structured less by knowing and claiming a location on the grid of identification and more by doing something that feels revolutionary. The conclusion states that by offering an analysis of how graff grrlz have made substantial, quantifiable, and qualitative changes in the subculture on a transnational scale, scholars and practitioners have a new way of looking at graffiti subculture. In one last intervention, the conclusion closes with a list of messages from the graffiti grrlz in the book to aspiring graffiti grrlz reading the book. The Hip Hop gesture of “passing the mic” amplifies the words and works of the grrlz taking public space across the diaspora.
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Pabón-Colón, Jessica Nydia. "Introduction." In Graffiti Grrlz. NYU Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479806157.003.0001.
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This chapter introduces the stakes of the book by narrating two stories that illustrate how the dynamics of gender difference affect belonging for women who write graffiti on both an individual and a structural level. Briefly surveying the current state of Graffiti Studies, the introduction argues that without accounting for the dynamics of gender difference within graffiti subculture, graffiti grrlz (and the ways they develop strategies of resistance in order to thrive) remain invisible. The introduction then breaks into four sections: Writing Grrlz describes the interdisciplinary ethnographic method and major interventions to the fields of Graffiti Studies and Hip Hop Studies; Digital Ups introduces the importance of digital media as a mode for grrlz to connect across geographical borders, language barriers, and time zones; Hip Hop Graffiti Diaspora frames the book’s utilization of diaspora and performance to account for the multiracial, multiethnic reality of transnational graffiti subculture; and Performing Feminism “Like a Grrl” explains how and why these strategies are framed as feminist performance.
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Wershler, Darren, Kalervo Sinervo, and Shannon Tien. "Unauthorized Comic Book Scanners." In Advances in Social Networking and Online Communities. IGI Global, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-5206-4.ch019.
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This chapter uses theories of circulation, subculture, and materiality to discuss the activities of unauthorized comic book scanners or “pirates,” and the mechanisms by which they structure their community. The discussion is drawn from a body of quantitative data collected by observing the circulation of unauthorized comic scans through several BitTorrent Websites between 2005 and 2012. The authors also examine the public discourse of scanners themselves—showcased through various anonymous interviews—as part of an investigation into the scanners’ identification with a system of ethics that validates their dissemination of unauthorized content in the name of preservation or “digital archiving.” Lastly, the authors propose a methodology for the study of digital media as “space-biased” and circulatory rather than archival. Though comic book scanners may identify themselves as digital archivists, they are somewhat unreliable for actual preservation. However, the ongoing existence of their community, despite the illegal, anonymous, and ephemeral nature of their work, invites one to consider the merits of a knowledge propagation model based on dissemination over preservation.
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Dirks, Rita. "Freedom to Know Me: The Conflict between Identity and Mennonite Culture in Miriam Toews’ A Complicated Kindness." In Narratives Crossing Borders: The Dynamics of Cultural Interaction. Stockholm University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.16993/bbj.b.
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In Miriam Toews’s A Complicated Kindness (2004; Giller Prize finalist; winner of Canada's Governor General's Award) Nomi Nickel, a sixteen-year-old Mennonite girl from southern Manitoba, Canada, tells the story of her short life before her excommunication from the closed community of the fictional East Village. East Village is based on a real town in southern Manitoba called Steinbach (where Toews was born), where Mennonite culture remains segregated from the rest of the world to protect its distinctive Anabaptist Protestantism and to keep its language, Mennonite Low German or Plattdeutsch, a living language, one which is both linguistically demotic yet ethnically hieratic because of its role in Mennonite faith. Since the Reformation, and more precisely the work of Menno Simons after whom this ethno-religious group was christened, Mennonites have used their particular brand of Low German to separate themselves from the rest of humankind. Toews constructs her novel as a multilingual narrative, to represent the cultural and religious tensions within. Set in the early 1980s, A Complicated Kindness details the events that lead up to Nomi’s excommunication, or shunning; Nomi’s exclusion is partly due to her embracing of the “English” culture through popular, mostly 1970s, music and books such as J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye. Insofar as Toews’s novel presents the conflict between the teenaged narrator and the patriarchal, conservative Mennonite culture, the books stands at the crossroads of negative and positive freedom. Put succinctly, since the beginnings of the Protestant Reformation, Mennonites have sought negative freedom, or freedom from persecution, yet its own tenets foreclose on the positive freedom of its individual members. This problem reaches its most intense expression in contemporary Mennonitism, both in Canada and in the EU, for Mennonite culture returns constantly to its founding precepts, even through the passage of time, coupled with diasporic history. Toews presents this conflict between this early modern religious subculture and postmodern liberal democracy through the eyes of a sarcastic, satirical Nomi, who, in this Bildungsroman, must solve the dialectic of her very identity: literally, the negative freedom of No Me or positive freedom of Know Me. As Mennonite writing in Canada is a relatively new phenomenon, about 50 years old, the question for those who call themselves Mennonite writers arises in terms of deciding between new, migrant, separate-group writing and writing as English-speaking Canadians.
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Perry, Samuel L. "Introduction." In Growing God's Family. NYU Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479800384.003.0001.
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The introductory chapter states the central argument of the book, that while certain aspects of the evangelical subculture may stimulate flurries of social engagement, the very same cultural elements inhibit their strategic effectiveness. To frame the remainder of the book, the chapter introduces the sociological terminology that will be used throughout, specifically that of “cultural schemas” prevalent among American evangelicals. The chapter briefly describes the concepts of pietistic idealism, individualism/anti-structuralism, relationalism, and populism. It then provides an overview of the history of evangelical adoption and orphan care and introduces the contemporary evangelical orphan care movement. Finally, the introductory chapter discusses the importance of adoption and foster care within the orphan care movement and concludes by outlining the chapters for the book.
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Dugan, Katherine. "#MishLife." In Millennial Missionaries. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190875961.003.0001.
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This chapter introduces the socio-cultural milieu of millennial-generation Catholic missionaries in the United States. It describes the twenty-first century college culture that missionaries know well and the Catholic subculture that surrounds FOCUS. Missionaries are also situated on a US Catholic landscape still wrestling with interpretations of the Second Vatican Council (Vatican II, 1962–65). Demographically, these missionaries are predominantly white millennials and from the middle class. They are also “emerging adults” in the midst of a transition-filled stage of life. This introduction previews how missionaries’ prayer practices shape their Catholicism and concludes with a survey of the research methods used and the book’s historically informed ethnographic approach to Catholicism in the United States.
Conference papers on the topic "Books on subculture"
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Prieto Sanz, Helena. "Impact of Text Discussions on the Professional Identity of Higher Education Students." In Seventh International Conference on Higher Education Advances. Universitat Politècnica de València, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/head21.2021.12983.
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Comprehension of academic literature is a key element in the immersion of university students in the academic subcultures of each discipline (Chanock, 2001; Estienne &amp; Carlino, 2004; Gottschalk &amp; Hjortshoj, 2004). To do so, universities opt for the implementation of text discussion such as book clubs (Hartley, 2002; Long, 2003), dialogic literary gatherings (Flecha, 2000; Mirceva &amp; Larena, 2010). or literary circles (Daniels, 2002; Duncan, 2012).This case study, essentially qualitative, seeks to know the impact of text discussions on the professional identity of the students of Teacher Education and Computer Science at the University of Andorra (UdA). Results are obtained by student focus groups, the Likert test Motivational Survey on Academic Reading, teacher interviews and taking notes in situ throughout the discussions.The main results indicate that the text discussions have a positive impact on students as (1) it increases the reflection, understanding and critique of the professional world, (2) they apply evidence-based content in professional contexts and (3) it improves the justification of informed professional decisions.