Quelle: http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/ngs.2013.7.issue-3/ngs-2013-023/ngs-2013-023.xml
Quelle: http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/ngs.2013.7.issue-3/ngs-2013-024/ngs-2013-024.xml
Michaela Pfadenhauer
Institut für Soziologie, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, E-Mail: michaela.pfadenhauer@kit.edu
In present pluralistic society consumptive sociality is one possibility of ‘re-embedding’ for individualised people. An as reciprocal assumed awareness of belonging arises from specific competencies and collective practices of consumption. The branded product is the connective element as it is realised as an emblem, icon and a symbol of sense. By that, products are a culture building force.
Sociology of Consumption, posttraditional communities
Michaela Pfadenhauer “Konsumtive Sozialität,” Journal of New Frontiers in Spatial Concepts, ISSN 1868-6648, vol. 5 (2013), 99 – 102, Article ID http://ejournal.uvka.de/spatialconcepts/archives/1772, Pages: 4
Quelle: http://ejournal.uvka.de/spatialconcepts/archives/1772
This article based on primary research including collections from the Alan Lomax Collection from the Library of Congress’s American Folklife Center, The Chicago Historical Society, The Pullman Company Papers from the Newberry Library, and the recently discovered Michael van Isveldt Collection from Amsterdam, Netherlands, argues that within Chicago’s rapidly developing Black Metropolis between World War I and II, Chicago bluesman Big Bill Broonzy treaded lightly between a world of black and white "Old Settler" ideas and those brought from the South by migrant "New Settlers." By doing so, he helped establish a new dimension of the Great Migrations to Chicago’s Black Metropolis that centered on black creativity and a new kind of entrepreneurialism. This new dimension, moreover, nurtured a new identity in the emerging black urban consciousness that involved, in equal parts, southern cultural pathways and new ones created by city life. Scholarship on the development of Chicago’s Black Metropolis and the Great Migrations to the Windy City has viewed the development of race and class dynamics in terms of power negotiations between Old Settlers, African Americans who arrived to Chicago before World War I, and New Settlers, who arrived after. Each group’s respective approaches to community development, class formation, and racial respectability often clashed. To many scholars of the Black Metropolis, most African Americans fell into one of these two camps and many of the studies on these intercommunity dynamics place the problem in a negative light. An examination of Broonzy’s life in Chicago, however, demonstrates that the lines of power and personal politics in the city of Chicago were fluid and he learned to navigate the city by pushing the boundaries of race, class, and public respectability. By pushing these boundaries, moreover, Broonzy developed an identity based on his blues persona that exemplifies African American community and identity development within an urban environment that moved beyond migrants’ industrial labor purists. Broonzy and probably many others straddled both sides of the Old Settler–New Settler paradigm. A laborer by day and musician by night, Broonzy navigated these two spheres with ease, and he, therefore, reveals an entirely new component of community development within the Black Metropolis.
Quelle: http://juh.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/40/1/116?rss=1
Chronicle literature in early twentieth-century Rio de Janeiro developed in tandem with the urban modernization that followed the abolition of slavery in 1888. Writers-flâneurs strolled city streets to observe human behavior in the new post-abolition urban environment. The street vendor, a fellow traveler within the city, was quickly identified by chroniclers as an integral component of the modern city. Ruling elites, however, viewed street commerce as a blot on the modern urban landscape and sought to prohibit vending through a series of policies that vendors often contested. Chroniclers and newspapers’ embrace of vendors therefore reveals the ambivalence that marked the effort to define modernity. Although connected to the city’s slave past, street vendors came to represent a modern urban membership unique to the Brazilian capital. The practice of street commerce and the intellectual culture surrounding it reflects how "walking the city" carved an alternative urban citizenship and sense of belonging.
Quelle: http://juh.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/40/1/97?rss=1
Buddhist spaces in Bangkok and Rangoon both had long common traditions prior to nineteenth- and early twentieth-century colonial incursions. Top–down central city planning with European designs transformed both cities. While Siamese kings personally initiated civic change that began to widen economic and social interaction of different classes, British models segregated European, Burmese, Indian, and Chinese populations to exacerbate social differences. In addition, the Siamese rulers maintained and enhanced civic spaces of religious compounds while the British occupied the Shwedagon pagoda for military purposes and created spacious gardens for their own use. The article underlines the disparity in the provision of urban forms in central city planning between the royal vision of nation-building developed by King Chulalongkorn and his successor King Vajiravudh and the new capital of Rangoon laid out by colonial engineers where the traditional ritual spaces became the staging ground for nationalist movements. In both cities, urban forms and civic spaces were essential in legitimizing political authority. The article demonstrates the manner in which spatial and visual systems colored the production of civic space to initiate social integration in Bangkok and preamble disintegration in colonial Rangoon.
Quelle: http://juh.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/40/1/158?rss=1
Gender played an important role in framing arguments for and against modernizing San Francisco’s transit system by replacing cable cars with motor coaches. During the late 1940s and early 1950s, appeals for public support from cable car preservationists and advocates of buses were saturated with gendered representations of the vehicles themselves, their intended ridership, and the areas of the city that they served. To counteract male-dominated discourses about transit progress, which stressed the benefits of greater efficiency and cost savings, a coalition of women’s civic organizations emphasized a romantic attachment to the city’s past and promoted the cable cars as a centerpiece of the city’s tourism economy. The "cable car war" demonstrates how the cultural politics of transit modernization in postwar San Francisco was refracted through competing visions of the gender of modernity.
Quelle: http://juh.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/40/1/65?rss=1
An analysis of the roles of corporate capital, home owners, and racialized groups in the three case studies presented in this special section of "The New Metropolitan History."
Quelle: http://juh.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/40/1/3?rss=1
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