Lakshmi Srinivas
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780226361420
- eISBN:
- 9780226361734
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226361734.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Culture
Popular Indian cinema provides entertainment for people from all walks of life but equally importantly, cinema provides collective experience and a common referent in a country of mind-boggling ...
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Popular Indian cinema provides entertainment for people from all walks of life but equally importantly, cinema provides collective experience and a common referent in a country of mind-boggling diversities. Drawing on in-depth, multi-year ethnography in the South Indian city of Bangalore and involving participant observation on film sets, watching films in stratified cinema halls, accompanying habituated audiences to the cinema and conversations with moviegoers, exhibitors, distributors, ushers, fans and filmmakers, House Full makes a case for a total perspective on cinema film. It argues that the magic of motion pictures in India cannot be understood without addressing the liveness of cinema, its social existence and cultural ramifications, and most importantly, its audiences. Indeed by exploring the concept of cinema as a participatory and collaborative making that includes audiences and their aesthetic and social practices, the book offers new analytical approaches and new ways to think about cinema film.Less
Popular Indian cinema provides entertainment for people from all walks of life but equally importantly, cinema provides collective experience and a common referent in a country of mind-boggling diversities. Drawing on in-depth, multi-year ethnography in the South Indian city of Bangalore and involving participant observation on film sets, watching films in stratified cinema halls, accompanying habituated audiences to the cinema and conversations with moviegoers, exhibitors, distributors, ushers, fans and filmmakers, House Full makes a case for a total perspective on cinema film. It argues that the magic of motion pictures in India cannot be understood without addressing the liveness of cinema, its social existence and cultural ramifications, and most importantly, its audiences. Indeed by exploring the concept of cinema as a participatory and collaborative making that includes audiences and their aesthetic and social practices, the book offers new analytical approaches and new ways to think about cinema film.
David Brody
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780226389097
- eISBN:
- 9780226389264
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226389264.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Occupations, Professions, and Work
In this book, author David Brody asserts that hotel workers, and by extension all workers, need to be considered as more than just facilitators of the consumer experience and need to be integrated ...
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In this book, author David Brody asserts that hotel workers, and by extension all workers, need to be considered as more than just facilitators of the consumer experience and need to be integrated into the design process. Brody describes how service workers’ labor can make or break a guest’s stay at a hotel, but when management disregards employees’ needs, the ramifications on individual workers’ lives and bodies can become catastrophic and the impact on business can lead to unintended disadvantages. Brody argues that if hotel service employees had more say about design, the industry would change for the better, instances of labor strife would be less frequent, the physical consequences of hotel work would be less harmful, and hotels would become even more cost effective for their owners. To further this argument, Brody incorporates elements of theory, historical sources, examples from hotel management pedagogy, instances of hotels implementing sustainability practices, and portrayals of hotels in popular culture, as well as his own interviews with housekeeping workers at the Hyatt Regency Chicago and at various Starwood properties in Hawaii. Brody explores the many ways in which hotel service workers are often overlooked or overshadowed, especially in terms of design and management decisions. In this examination of the hidden world of hotel service work, Brody sheds light on wide-reaching issues and offers co-design as a potential solution.Less
In this book, author David Brody asserts that hotel workers, and by extension all workers, need to be considered as more than just facilitators of the consumer experience and need to be integrated into the design process. Brody describes how service workers’ labor can make or break a guest’s stay at a hotel, but when management disregards employees’ needs, the ramifications on individual workers’ lives and bodies can become catastrophic and the impact on business can lead to unintended disadvantages. Brody argues that if hotel service employees had more say about design, the industry would change for the better, instances of labor strife would be less frequent, the physical consequences of hotel work would be less harmful, and hotels would become even more cost effective for their owners. To further this argument, Brody incorporates elements of theory, historical sources, examples from hotel management pedagogy, instances of hotels implementing sustainability practices, and portrayals of hotels in popular culture, as well as his own interviews with housekeeping workers at the Hyatt Regency Chicago and at various Starwood properties in Hawaii. Brody explores the many ways in which hotel service workers are often overlooked or overshadowed, especially in terms of design and management decisions. In this examination of the hidden world of hotel service work, Brody sheds light on wide-reaching issues and offers co-design as a potential solution.
Douglas Hartmann
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780226374840
- eISBN:
- 9780226375038
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226375038.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
This book is about the late night basketball leagues organized in dozens of American cities in the late 1980s and early 1990s for purposes of social intervention, risk prevention, and crime reduction ...
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This book is about the late night basketball leagues organized in dozens of American cities in the late 1980s and early 1990s for purposes of social intervention, risk prevention, and crime reduction among African American youth and young men. The first chapters trace the historical origins and evolution of these programs set in the context of the social policy transformations of the era. As the chapters unfold, the book also analyzes the racial ideologies, cultures of sport, and policy debates that midnight basketball reveals and that endowed it with larger symbolic significance and political import. Ethnographic fieldwork is used in the final chapters to bring the actual, on-the-ground practices of midnight basketball programs and the young men they were intended to serve to life. Throughout, Midnight Basketball offers a nuanced understanding of the complicated and consequential ways in which sports, race, and risk intersect in contemporary American culture.Less
This book is about the late night basketball leagues organized in dozens of American cities in the late 1980s and early 1990s for purposes of social intervention, risk prevention, and crime reduction among African American youth and young men. The first chapters trace the historical origins and evolution of these programs set in the context of the social policy transformations of the era. As the chapters unfold, the book also analyzes the racial ideologies, cultures of sport, and policy debates that midnight basketball reveals and that endowed it with larger symbolic significance and political import. Ethnographic fieldwork is used in the final chapters to bring the actual, on-the-ground practices of midnight basketball programs and the young men they were intended to serve to life. Throughout, Midnight Basketball offers a nuanced understanding of the complicated and consequential ways in which sports, race, and risk intersect in contemporary American culture.
Rob Reich, Chiara Cordelli, and Lucy Bernholz (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780226335506
- eISBN:
- 9780226335780
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226335780.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Economic Sociology
This book provides an integrated and multi-disciplinary examination of the growing role and legitimacy of philanthropy in democratic societies. Contributors probe the relationship between ...
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This book provides an integrated and multi-disciplinary examination of the growing role and legitimacy of philanthropy in democratic societies. Contributors probe the relationship between philanthropy and democracy from an empirical approach – what role has philanthropy actually played? – and from a normative approach – what role should philanthropy play? Divided into three sections on historical origins, institutional forms, and moral grounds and limits, the book bridges normative and empirical perspectives. The authors move philanthropy from the margins to the center of scholarly inquiry, providing a fresh look at philanthropy as a hybrid and ever-changing form of public and private power. Doing so permits an understanding of the evolution between public and private, identifying the public dimensions of private wealth and power, and recognizing when private action supports or, alternatively, threatens the public interest. Collectively, the essays open up powerful analytical vistas or conceptual possibilities for understanding shifts in the pursuit of the public interest and under what circumstances private action and the public interest are aligned. Authors are at once appreciative and critical in outlook, motivated by the idea that the broadest understanding of democratic life requires an engagement with the historical development, institutional embodiments, and moral grounds and limits of philanthropy.Less
This book provides an integrated and multi-disciplinary examination of the growing role and legitimacy of philanthropy in democratic societies. Contributors probe the relationship between philanthropy and democracy from an empirical approach – what role has philanthropy actually played? – and from a normative approach – what role should philanthropy play? Divided into three sections on historical origins, institutional forms, and moral grounds and limits, the book bridges normative and empirical perspectives. The authors move philanthropy from the margins to the center of scholarly inquiry, providing a fresh look at philanthropy as a hybrid and ever-changing form of public and private power. Doing so permits an understanding of the evolution between public and private, identifying the public dimensions of private wealth and power, and recognizing when private action supports or, alternatively, threatens the public interest. Collectively, the essays open up powerful analytical vistas or conceptual possibilities for understanding shifts in the pursuit of the public interest and under what circumstances private action and the public interest are aligned. Authors are at once appreciative and critical in outlook, motivated by the idea that the broadest understanding of democratic life requires an engagement with the historical development, institutional embodiments, and moral grounds and limits of philanthropy.
Daniel Aaron Silver and Terry Nichols Clark
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780226356853
- eISBN:
- 9780226357041
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226357041.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
Cities and neighborhoods are production sites, residential habitats, and political arenas; they are also scenes of expression and meaning. Profound global and historical transformations set the stage ...
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Cities and neighborhoods are production sites, residential habitats, and political arenas; they are also scenes of expression and meaning. Profound global and historical transformations set the stage for new processes. Scenescapes examines patterns and consequences of the various styles of life embedded in the amenities that define the character of our streets and strips. The book articulates core dimensions of meaning supported by local scenes, such as theatricality, authenticity, and legitimacy, and uses inter-national data on hundreds of local amenities – cafes, churches, restaurants, parks, galleries, bowling alleys, and more—to measure specific aspects of these dimensions, such as glamorous theatricality, traditional legitimacy, and local authenticity. Scenes not only reimagines cities in cultural terms; it demonstrates the impacts scenes have on economic development, residential patterns, and political attitudes and actions. Scenes feed into production, add meaning and drama to neighborhoods, and are focal points for political action and organization. They can also be targets for policy. Scenescapes suggests how to add scenic ideas to social science theories and the policy-makers toolkit.Less
Cities and neighborhoods are production sites, residential habitats, and political arenas; they are also scenes of expression and meaning. Profound global and historical transformations set the stage for new processes. Scenescapes examines patterns and consequences of the various styles of life embedded in the amenities that define the character of our streets and strips. The book articulates core dimensions of meaning supported by local scenes, such as theatricality, authenticity, and legitimacy, and uses inter-national data on hundreds of local amenities – cafes, churches, restaurants, parks, galleries, bowling alleys, and more—to measure specific aspects of these dimensions, such as glamorous theatricality, traditional legitimacy, and local authenticity. Scenes not only reimagines cities in cultural terms; it demonstrates the impacts scenes have on economic development, residential patterns, and political attitudes and actions. Scenes feed into production, add meaning and drama to neighborhoods, and are focal points for political action and organization. They can also be targets for policy. Scenescapes suggests how to add scenic ideas to social science theories and the policy-makers toolkit.
Gary T. Marx
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780226285887
- eISBN:
- 9780226286075
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226286075.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Law, Crime and Deviance
Queen Elizabeth (1503-1633) did not want “to make windows into men’s hearts and secret thoughts.” Yet as ruler she needed information about her subjects. Today’s surveillance society brings the same ...
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Queen Elizabeth (1503-1633) did not want “to make windows into men’s hearts and secret thoughts.” Yet as ruler she needed information about her subjects. Today’s surveillance society brings the same paradox. This book illustrates how and why surveillance is neither good nor bad, but context and comportment make it so. Explanation and evaluation require a common language and a map for the identification and measurement of surveillance's fundamental properties and contexts. The empirical richness of watching and being watched is disentangled and parsed into basic categories and dimensions. Terms such as surveillance, privacy, secrecy, confidentiality, anonymity, and personal borders are illustrated as well as the basic structures, processes, goals and cultures of surveillance. The book provides a way of conceptualizing and analyzing the new surveillance and draws on Marx’ several decades of empirical and theoretical studies on topics such as covert policing, computer matching and profiling, work monitoring, drug testing, location monitoring, Caller-ID, communication manners and surveillance in art and music. Normative chapters on the ethics of surveillance and techno-fallacies of the information age develop the implications for public policy. Through satirical fiction four distinct contexts of surveillance are illustrated: coercion (government and security), contracts (work), care (children) and that of unprotected “publicly” available data. The ironies, paradoxes, trade-offs and value conflicts which limit the best laid plans and which make the topic so interesting and challenging are identified.Less
Queen Elizabeth (1503-1633) did not want “to make windows into men’s hearts and secret thoughts.” Yet as ruler she needed information about her subjects. Today’s surveillance society brings the same paradox. This book illustrates how and why surveillance is neither good nor bad, but context and comportment make it so. Explanation and evaluation require a common language and a map for the identification and measurement of surveillance's fundamental properties and contexts. The empirical richness of watching and being watched is disentangled and parsed into basic categories and dimensions. Terms such as surveillance, privacy, secrecy, confidentiality, anonymity, and personal borders are illustrated as well as the basic structures, processes, goals and cultures of surveillance. The book provides a way of conceptualizing and analyzing the new surveillance and draws on Marx’ several decades of empirical and theoretical studies on topics such as covert policing, computer matching and profiling, work monitoring, drug testing, location monitoring, Caller-ID, communication manners and surveillance in art and music. Normative chapters on the ethics of surveillance and techno-fallacies of the information age develop the implications for public policy. Through satirical fiction four distinct contexts of surveillance are illustrated: coercion (government and security), contracts (work), care (children) and that of unprotected “publicly” available data. The ironies, paradoxes, trade-offs and value conflicts which limit the best laid plans and which make the topic so interesting and challenging are identified.
Lineages of Despotism and Development
Citizens, Cops, and Power
The Institutional Context of Population Change
The Italian Way
News at Work
Authors of the Storm
Politics and Partnerships
The Renewal of Generosity
Franchising Dreams
