In recent years art is often being criticised from a politically progressive perspective, such as on sexism and racism. Such ethical critique collides with two dogmas of the artistic field: its emphasis on aesthetic evaluations and the autonomy of art. These dogmas, having emerged during the nineteenth century, are often challenged by both (upcoming) members of the artistic field and outsiders. This paper aims to sociologically analyse current debates by exploring the media coverage of two diverse art controversies, in the United States and the Netherlands. It shows that members of artistic fields and allies often defend themselves with arguments drawn from said dogmas, while the critics’ counter-arguments are in line with more recent ideas, developed in the humanities. The essay proposes several explanations of this recent phenomenon, related to changing power relations. It calls on scholarship to more structurally study this presumed trend.
{"title":"Challenging the Autonomy of Art: An Exploration of the Nature and Impact of Progressive Art Critique","authors":"M. van den Haak","doi":"10.20897/jcasc/14927","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20897/jcasc/14927","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years art is often being criticised from a politically progressive perspective, such as on sexism and racism. Such ethical critique collides with two dogmas of the artistic field: its emphasis on aesthetic evaluations and the autonomy of art. These dogmas, having emerged during the nineteenth century, are often challenged by both (upcoming) members of the artistic field and outsiders. This paper aims to sociologically analyse current debates by exploring the media coverage of two diverse art controversies, in the United States and the Netherlands. It shows that members of artistic fields and allies often defend themselves with arguments drawn from said dogmas, while the critics’ counter-arguments are in line with more recent ideas, developed in the humanities. The essay proposes several explanations of this recent phenomenon, related to changing power relations. It calls on scholarship to more structurally study this presumed trend.","PeriodicalId":484269,"journal":{"name":"Journal of cultural analysis and social change","volume":"2 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141923189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism","authors":"Megan Fereday","doi":"10.20897/jcasc/14933","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20897/jcasc/14933","url":null,"abstract":"Review of the book \"Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism\" edited by Robert Chapman.","PeriodicalId":484269,"journal":{"name":"Journal of cultural analysis and social change","volume":"91 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141922051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Intercultural competence is an outcome of the internationalization of higher education institutions, directly impacting international students’ experiences in the receiving country. An exploratory case study was used to investigate the perceptions and experiences of participants of a university-sponsored program designed to integrate and acculturate international students in a Southwest Florida university. The participants were six newly arrived international students and eight student-ambassadors. Multiple data sources were collected and analyzed using content analysis. Findings reveal the importance of student-led initiatives in fostering campus inclusion and community-building, as well as enhancing cross-cultural interactions. Yet, significant challenges persist in sustaining engagement and bridging cultural divides between domestic and international students. Additionally, the study’s findings highlight the importance and challenges of university programs in facilitating meaningful exchanges between these groups, underscoring the need of institutional support in improving the experiences of international students in higher education settings.
{"title":"“We’re Building Our Little International Community”: A University-Sponsored Program for International Students","authors":"Bruno Halpern, Clarisse Halpern, Hasan Aydin","doi":"10.20897/jcasc/14930","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20897/jcasc/14930","url":null,"abstract":"Intercultural competence is an outcome of the internationalization of higher education institutions, directly impacting international students’ experiences in the receiving country. An exploratory case study was used to investigate the perceptions and experiences of participants of a university-sponsored program designed to integrate and acculturate international students in a Southwest Florida university. The participants were six newly arrived international students and eight student-ambassadors. Multiple data sources were collected and analyzed using content analysis. Findings reveal the importance of student-led initiatives in fostering campus inclusion and community-building, as well as enhancing cross-cultural interactions. Yet, significant challenges persist in sustaining engagement and bridging cultural divides between domestic and international students. Additionally, the study’s findings highlight the importance and challenges of university programs in facilitating meaningful exchanges between these groups, underscoring the need of institutional support in improving the experiences of international students in higher education settings.","PeriodicalId":484269,"journal":{"name":"Journal of cultural analysis and social change","volume":"28 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141924903","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What Readers Do: Aesthetic and Moral Practices of a Post-Digital Age","authors":"Christina Williams","doi":"10.20897/jcasc/14931","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20897/jcasc/14931","url":null,"abstract":"Review of the book \"What Readers Do: Aesthetic and Moral Practices of a Post-Digital Age\" by Beth Driscoll.","PeriodicalId":484269,"journal":{"name":"Journal of cultural analysis and social change","volume":"2 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141921489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper explores the idea of professional sport as a form of labour. While research on everything from performance statistics to sports rights and technology had proliferated, what players think about sport as work deserves greater attention. The inequalities and exclusion of sports are evident and we need to understand the drivers of this, but we also need to understand why working in these industries matters to people, how they experience it and what values it has for them. In order to do this, I want to draw on critical cultural labour studies, and the paper argues that applying this lens to work in sport could help develop a notion of what constitutes ‘good work’ for athletes. The aim of the paper is to both to consider the landscape of sports labour research and to propose a future research agenda.
{"title":"Sportswork – Towards a Notion of Good Work for Athletes","authors":"Kate Oakley","doi":"10.20897/jcasc/14928","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20897/jcasc/14928","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores the idea of professional sport as a form of labour. While research on everything from performance statistics to sports rights and technology had proliferated, what players think about sport as work deserves greater attention. The inequalities and exclusion of sports are evident and we need to understand the drivers of this, but we also need to understand why working in these industries matters to people, how they experience it and what values it has for them. In order to do this, I want to draw on critical cultural labour studies, and the paper argues that applying this lens to work in sport could help develop a notion of what constitutes ‘good work’ for athletes. The aim of the paper is to both to consider the landscape of sports labour research and to propose a future research agenda.","PeriodicalId":484269,"journal":{"name":"Journal of cultural analysis and social change","volume":"4 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141921926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"(Un)sighted Archives of Migration","authors":"Kris Nolan, Charlotte Steffen","doi":"10.20897/jcasc/14932","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20897/jcasc/14932","url":null,"abstract":"Review of the book \"(Un)sighted Archives of Migration\" edited by Cathrine Bublatzky and Fiona Siegenthaler.","PeriodicalId":484269,"journal":{"name":"Journal of cultural analysis and social change","volume":"49 50","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141923923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The backdrop of Germany’s ‘refugee crisis’ thrusts matters of deep symbolic relevance into public consciousness, transforming ‘the refugee’ into a potent figure for imagining political community. As the drama of the ‘refugee crisis’ settles into an ‘integration through education’ program, vocational school faculty grapple with incorporating diverse sets of newcomers. Young asylum-seeking students negotiate within this deeply uncertain context, weaving routes to belonging that traverse ambivalent discourses and complex bureaucracies. Qualitative analysis and selective sampling are used to uncover dynamics of mixed-contact that emerge in a vocational school’s project of civic remediation. Research data include interviews with program faculty and students (N=32) and samples of professional materials used in the field site. Data analysis uncovers the rite of civic conversion, a set of dramatic movements through which the construction of social difference is simultaneously concealed, defeated, and rendered legitimate. Though expressed in distinct forms, civic conversion distances refugee students from pathologized aspects of an imagined social past (exit) and induces scenarios for students to rhetorically cast off the presumed pathologies of their past, present, and future (renewal). This rite consecrates a dividing line between those who must ritually distance themselves from an assigned ‘deficiency’ and those who need not. The problems, functions, and implications of this rite are discussed in relation to their macro-sociological consequences.
{"title":"Rites without Passage: The Civic Conversion of Young Refugees in Contemporary Germany","authors":"Carol J. Petty","doi":"10.20897/jcasc/14929","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20897/jcasc/14929","url":null,"abstract":"The backdrop of Germany’s ‘refugee crisis’ thrusts matters of deep symbolic relevance into public consciousness, transforming ‘the refugee’ into a potent figure for imagining political community. As the drama of the ‘refugee crisis’ settles into an ‘integration through education’ program, vocational school faculty grapple with incorporating diverse sets of newcomers. Young asylum-seeking students negotiate within this deeply uncertain context, weaving routes to belonging that traverse ambivalent discourses and complex bureaucracies. Qualitative analysis and selective sampling are used to uncover dynamics of mixed-contact that emerge in a vocational school’s project of civic remediation. Research data include interviews with program faculty and students (N=32) and samples of professional materials used in the field site. Data analysis uncovers the rite of civic conversion, a set of dramatic movements through which the construction of social difference is simultaneously concealed, defeated, and rendered legitimate. Though expressed in distinct forms, civic conversion distances refugee students from pathologized aspects of an imagined social past (exit) and induces scenarios for students to rhetorically cast off the presumed pathologies of their past, present, and future (renewal). This rite consecrates a dividing line between those who must ritually distance themselves from an assigned ‘deficiency’ and those who need not. The problems, functions, and implications of this rite are discussed in relation to their macro-sociological consequences.","PeriodicalId":484269,"journal":{"name":"Journal of cultural analysis and social change","volume":"57 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141923568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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