Power, Culture, and Control over Immigrants' Life Chances on European Labor Markets : Structu... more Power, Culture, and Control over Immigrants' Life Chances on European Labor Markets : Structural Patterns in Eight Countries
1. Introduction: Methods of Exploring Emotions, Helena Flam Part 1: Emotions - A legitimate objec... more 1. Introduction: Methods of Exploring Emotions, Helena Flam Part 1: Emotions - A legitimate object of study 2. Using Fiction as Sociology: How to analyze emotions with the help of novels, Helmut Kuzmics 3. "It's all in the Plot" - Narrative explorations of work-related emotions, Yiannis Gabriel and Eda Ulus 4. "Studying Up" - Emotions and finance decisions, Jocelyn Pixley 5. Exploring Emotion Discourse, Tamar Katriel 6. The Rhetoric of Emotions, Barbara Czarniawska Part 2: Eliciting Emotions Through Interviews 7. Researching Dark Emotions: Eliciting Stories of Envy, Ishan Jalan 8. Emotional Expertise: Emotions and the expert interview, Jochen Kleres 9. Dialogic Introspection - A method for exploring emotions in everyday-life and experimental contexts, Thomas Burkart and Jenny Weggen Part 3: Observing Emotions in Self and Others 10. How Do We Know What They Feel?, Asa Wettergren 11. Emotional Insights in the Field, Stina Bergman Blix 12. Emotions: The discovery of an object and the development of a method, Denise Van Dam and Jean Nizet 13. Emotional Alliances in Bureaucratic Encounters, Alberto Martin Perez 14. Can You Feel Your Research Results? How to deal with and gain insights from emotions generated during oral history interviews, Benno Gammerl 15. When Your Data Make You Cry, Deborah Gould 16. Funerary Emotions: Categorizing Data From a Fieldwork Diary, Julien Bernard 17. Researching "Emotional Geographies" in Schools: The value of critical ethnography, Michalinos Zembylas Part 4: Speaking Emotions 18. Linguistic Affect as Methodological Lens: The micro and macro of finding affect in language, H. Julia Eksner 19. Emotion and Conceptual Metaphor, Cristina Soriano 20. The Intensification and Commodification of Emotion: Declarations of intimacy and bonding in college fieldtrips to the global south, Gada Mahrouse Part 5: Emotions in Visuals 21. Visuals and Emotions in Social Movements, Helena Flam and Nicole Doerr 22. Evoking Emotions. The visual construction of fear and compassion, Francesca Falk Part 6: Documented Emotions 23. "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" - Emotion and narration in early modern self-narratives, Claudia Jarzebowski 24. How to Detect Emotions? The cancer taboo and its challenge to a history of emotions, Bettina Hitzer 25. The Geography and Temporality of Emotions, Helena Flam Part 7: Surveying Emotions 26. Triangulation as Data Integration in Emotion Research, Sylvia Terpe 27. Missing Values: Surveying Protest Emotions, Dunya van Troost
Central European University Press eBooks, Dec 1, 1998
... These presses created their own 'star system'on which the official pressesat least... more ... These presses created their own 'star system'on which the official pressesat least for a while profitably drew. In Poland, the largest samizdat movement in the Soviet bloc de-veloped, mostlybut not exclusivelyunder the auspices of, first, KOR and then KSS KOR'(Skilling ...
Helena Flam and Brigitte Beauzamy’s ‘Symbolic Violence’ is the first chapter within the third and... more Helena Flam and Brigitte Beauzamy’s ‘Symbolic Violence’ is the first chapter within the third and final section of the book, titled ‘Cases of Belonging and Exclusion’. It assesses the relevance of the concept of symbolic violence, now perhaps primarily associated with Pierre Bourdieu, for understanding the ‘everyday’ forms of discrimination faced by migrants in Europe.
This text draws on archival data and interviews conducted with communists, dissidents and by-stan... more This text draws on archival data and interviews conducted with communists, dissidents and by-standers in Poland and East Germany. Helena Flam grounds the interviews in knowledge of the Soviet systems which evolved in contrasting ways in the two countries. She concludes by placing the research results in a wider context of east European transitions to democracy and post-transition effects, and provides comparative data on repression.
Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, 2012
The Spectacular State explores the production of national identity in post-Soviet Uzbekistan. The... more The Spectacular State explores the production of national identity in post-Soviet Uzbekistan. The main protagonists are the cultural elites involved in the elaboration of new state-sponsored mass-spectacle national holidays: Navro’z (Zoroastrian New Year) and Independence Day. The overall argument is that despite their aspirations to reinvigorate national identity, mass spectacle creators in Uzbekistan have reproduced much of the Soviet cultural production. National identity has been one of the most fraught questions in Central Asia, where nationality was a contradictory and complicated product of the Soviet rule. Although the category of nationality was initiated, produced, and imposed by the Soviet state in the 1920s, it eventually became a source of power and authority for local elites, including cultural producers. The collapse of the Soviet Union opened up possibilities for revising and reversing many understandings manufactured by the socialist regime. Yet, upon her arrival in Tashkent to conduct her research on the renegotiation of national identity in 1995, Laura Adams discovered that instead of embracing newly-found freedom to recover a more authentic history, most Uzbek intellectuals, especially cultural producers working with the state, avoided probing too far in this direction. Rather than entirely discarding the Soviet colonial legacies, they revised their history selectively. Whereas the ideological content of their cultural production shifted from socialism to nationalism, many of the previous cultural ‘‘forms’’ have remained. Similarly, the Uzbek government continued to employ cultural elites to implement the task of reinforcing its nation-building program, thus following the Soviet model of cultural production. The book consists of four chapters. The first chapter delineates the broad themes of national identity building, and the remaining chapters explore mass spectacle creation by distinguishing between three elements: form (Chapter Two), content (Chapter Three), and the mode of production (Chapter Four). The study is based on content analysis of two Olympic Games-style national holidays, interviews with cultural producers, and participation observation of festivals and behind-the-scenes preparation meetings. Although Adams provides a few references to viewers and their attitude toward the public holiday performances, her book does not offer an extended engagement with reception and consumption of these holidays. The comprehensive and multi-layered overview of the process of revising national identity in Uzbekistan is one of the book’s major accomplishments. For Adams, the production of national identity is not a selfevident and seamless production forced by the state but instead a dynamic, complex, and dialogical process of negotiation between various parties (intellectual factions, state officials, mass spectacle producers, etc.). Her account reveals the messy and often contradictory nature of national identity production and thus moves away from the tendency to reify the state and its policies. The book makes a significant contribution to studies of nationalism by suggesting that the production of national identity in Uzbekistan was centrally constituted by the consideration of the ‘‘international audience.’’ Although public holidays, studied by Adams, aimed at fostering national identification, the forms in which these celebrations are performed (including national dances and music) indicate the aspiration of cultural producers to be part of the international community. This kind of national production self-consciously oriented toward the international viewer has been the legacy of the Soviet nationalities policy where all cultural producers had to produce art ‘‘socialist in content, national in form.’’ Notwithstanding the difference in generations or genres,
Artykuł traktuje o kobiecych, reformatorskich środowiskach i stowarzyszeniach prawniczych oraz śl... more Artykuł traktuje o kobiecych, reformatorskich środowiskach i stowarzyszeniach prawniczych oraz śledzi ich rozwój od czasów Republiki Weimarskiej do lat 50-tych XX-wieku. Autorka omawia działania kobiet-prawniczek wykształconych w Niemczech i tworzonych przez nie zrzeszeń na rzecz równouprawnienia kobiet. Choć uniwersytety w Niemczech dopiero na początku XX wieku zaczęły przyjmować kobiety na studia prawnicze, a do 1922 roku (z wyjątkiem kilku landów) nie mogły one składać egzaminów i pracować w zawodzie, nie przeszkadzało im to założyć swojego zrzeszenia i działać na rzecz zmian prowadzących do równego wykształcenia, zatrudnienia, praw wyborczych, rodzinnych i cywilnych dla mężczyzn i kobiet. Kres ich staraniom położyła II wojna światowa. Jednakże zyskane doświadczenie w działalności publicznej zaowocowało podczas mobilizacji kobiet w czasie konfliktu o tekst artykułu 3 Konstytucji Republiki Federalnej Niemiec.
Power, Culture, and Control over Immigrants' Life Chances on European Labor Markets : Structu... more Power, Culture, and Control over Immigrants' Life Chances on European Labor Markets : Structural Patterns in Eight Countries
1. Introduction: Methods of Exploring Emotions, Helena Flam Part 1: Emotions - A legitimate objec... more 1. Introduction: Methods of Exploring Emotions, Helena Flam Part 1: Emotions - A legitimate object of study 2. Using Fiction as Sociology: How to analyze emotions with the help of novels, Helmut Kuzmics 3. "It's all in the Plot" - Narrative explorations of work-related emotions, Yiannis Gabriel and Eda Ulus 4. "Studying Up" - Emotions and finance decisions, Jocelyn Pixley 5. Exploring Emotion Discourse, Tamar Katriel 6. The Rhetoric of Emotions, Barbara Czarniawska Part 2: Eliciting Emotions Through Interviews 7. Researching Dark Emotions: Eliciting Stories of Envy, Ishan Jalan 8. Emotional Expertise: Emotions and the expert interview, Jochen Kleres 9. Dialogic Introspection - A method for exploring emotions in everyday-life and experimental contexts, Thomas Burkart and Jenny Weggen Part 3: Observing Emotions in Self and Others 10. How Do We Know What They Feel?, Asa Wettergren 11. Emotional Insights in the Field, Stina Bergman Blix 12. Emotions: The discovery of an object and the development of a method, Denise Van Dam and Jean Nizet 13. Emotional Alliances in Bureaucratic Encounters, Alberto Martin Perez 14. Can You Feel Your Research Results? How to deal with and gain insights from emotions generated during oral history interviews, Benno Gammerl 15. When Your Data Make You Cry, Deborah Gould 16. Funerary Emotions: Categorizing Data From a Fieldwork Diary, Julien Bernard 17. Researching "Emotional Geographies" in Schools: The value of critical ethnography, Michalinos Zembylas Part 4: Speaking Emotions 18. Linguistic Affect as Methodological Lens: The micro and macro of finding affect in language, H. Julia Eksner 19. Emotion and Conceptual Metaphor, Cristina Soriano 20. The Intensification and Commodification of Emotion: Declarations of intimacy and bonding in college fieldtrips to the global south, Gada Mahrouse Part 5: Emotions in Visuals 21. Visuals and Emotions in Social Movements, Helena Flam and Nicole Doerr 22. Evoking Emotions. The visual construction of fear and compassion, Francesca Falk Part 6: Documented Emotions 23. "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" - Emotion and narration in early modern self-narratives, Claudia Jarzebowski 24. How to Detect Emotions? The cancer taboo and its challenge to a history of emotions, Bettina Hitzer 25. The Geography and Temporality of Emotions, Helena Flam Part 7: Surveying Emotions 26. Triangulation as Data Integration in Emotion Research, Sylvia Terpe 27. Missing Values: Surveying Protest Emotions, Dunya van Troost
Central European University Press eBooks, Dec 1, 1998
... These presses created their own 'star system'on which the official pressesat least... more ... These presses created their own 'star system'on which the official pressesat least for a while profitably drew. In Poland, the largest samizdat movement in the Soviet bloc de-veloped, mostlybut not exclusivelyunder the auspices of, first, KOR and then KSS KOR'(Skilling ...
Helena Flam and Brigitte Beauzamy’s ‘Symbolic Violence’ is the first chapter within the third and... more Helena Flam and Brigitte Beauzamy’s ‘Symbolic Violence’ is the first chapter within the third and final section of the book, titled ‘Cases of Belonging and Exclusion’. It assesses the relevance of the concept of symbolic violence, now perhaps primarily associated with Pierre Bourdieu, for understanding the ‘everyday’ forms of discrimination faced by migrants in Europe.
This text draws on archival data and interviews conducted with communists, dissidents and by-stan... more This text draws on archival data and interviews conducted with communists, dissidents and by-standers in Poland and East Germany. Helena Flam grounds the interviews in knowledge of the Soviet systems which evolved in contrasting ways in the two countries. She concludes by placing the research results in a wider context of east European transitions to democracy and post-transition effects, and provides comparative data on repression.
Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, 2012
The Spectacular State explores the production of national identity in post-Soviet Uzbekistan. The... more The Spectacular State explores the production of national identity in post-Soviet Uzbekistan. The main protagonists are the cultural elites involved in the elaboration of new state-sponsored mass-spectacle national holidays: Navro’z (Zoroastrian New Year) and Independence Day. The overall argument is that despite their aspirations to reinvigorate national identity, mass spectacle creators in Uzbekistan have reproduced much of the Soviet cultural production. National identity has been one of the most fraught questions in Central Asia, where nationality was a contradictory and complicated product of the Soviet rule. Although the category of nationality was initiated, produced, and imposed by the Soviet state in the 1920s, it eventually became a source of power and authority for local elites, including cultural producers. The collapse of the Soviet Union opened up possibilities for revising and reversing many understandings manufactured by the socialist regime. Yet, upon her arrival in Tashkent to conduct her research on the renegotiation of national identity in 1995, Laura Adams discovered that instead of embracing newly-found freedom to recover a more authentic history, most Uzbek intellectuals, especially cultural producers working with the state, avoided probing too far in this direction. Rather than entirely discarding the Soviet colonial legacies, they revised their history selectively. Whereas the ideological content of their cultural production shifted from socialism to nationalism, many of the previous cultural ‘‘forms’’ have remained. Similarly, the Uzbek government continued to employ cultural elites to implement the task of reinforcing its nation-building program, thus following the Soviet model of cultural production. The book consists of four chapters. The first chapter delineates the broad themes of national identity building, and the remaining chapters explore mass spectacle creation by distinguishing between three elements: form (Chapter Two), content (Chapter Three), and the mode of production (Chapter Four). The study is based on content analysis of two Olympic Games-style national holidays, interviews with cultural producers, and participation observation of festivals and behind-the-scenes preparation meetings. Although Adams provides a few references to viewers and their attitude toward the public holiday performances, her book does not offer an extended engagement with reception and consumption of these holidays. The comprehensive and multi-layered overview of the process of revising national identity in Uzbekistan is one of the book’s major accomplishments. For Adams, the production of national identity is not a selfevident and seamless production forced by the state but instead a dynamic, complex, and dialogical process of negotiation between various parties (intellectual factions, state officials, mass spectacle producers, etc.). Her account reveals the messy and often contradictory nature of national identity production and thus moves away from the tendency to reify the state and its policies. The book makes a significant contribution to studies of nationalism by suggesting that the production of national identity in Uzbekistan was centrally constituted by the consideration of the ‘‘international audience.’’ Although public holidays, studied by Adams, aimed at fostering national identification, the forms in which these celebrations are performed (including national dances and music) indicate the aspiration of cultural producers to be part of the international community. This kind of national production self-consciously oriented toward the international viewer has been the legacy of the Soviet nationalities policy where all cultural producers had to produce art ‘‘socialist in content, national in form.’’ Notwithstanding the difference in generations or genres,
Artykuł traktuje o kobiecych, reformatorskich środowiskach i stowarzyszeniach prawniczych oraz śl... more Artykuł traktuje o kobiecych, reformatorskich środowiskach i stowarzyszeniach prawniczych oraz śledzi ich rozwój od czasów Republiki Weimarskiej do lat 50-tych XX-wieku. Autorka omawia działania kobiet-prawniczek wykształconych w Niemczech i tworzonych przez nie zrzeszeń na rzecz równouprawnienia kobiet. Choć uniwersytety w Niemczech dopiero na początku XX wieku zaczęły przyjmować kobiety na studia prawnicze, a do 1922 roku (z wyjątkiem kilku landów) nie mogły one składać egzaminów i pracować w zawodzie, nie przeszkadzało im to założyć swojego zrzeszenia i działać na rzecz zmian prowadzących do równego wykształcenia, zatrudnienia, praw wyborczych, rodzinnych i cywilnych dla mężczyzn i kobiet. Kres ich staraniom położyła II wojna światowa. Jednakże zyskane doświadczenie w działalności publicznej zaowocowało podczas mobilizacji kobiet w czasie konfliktu o tekst artykułu 3 Konstytucji Republiki Federalnej Niemiec.
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