Andrew Miles
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780719090387
- eISBN:
- 9781781707128
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719090387.003.0008
- Subject:
- Sociology, Culture
Andrew Miles offers an empirical study of the cultural practices of Manchester’s contemporary population. His essay is a contribution to continuing debates about the relationship between culture, ...
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Andrew Miles offers an empirical study of the cultural practices of Manchester’s contemporary population. His essay is a contribution to continuing debates about the relationship between culture, class and identity in Britain. His particular interest is in the ‘non-users’ of the city’s more high-profile cultural institutions. He suggests the limited nature of debates among politicians and policy-makers about the nature of cultural participation, and, based on 102 in-depth qualitative interviews, shows that there are many kinds of cultural participation not usually captured by the survey evidence (or by dominant models). His findings serve as important counter to the official model of participation, whose assumptions, processes and technologies obscure – and neglect – the realm of everyday participation and its significance.Less
Andrew Miles offers an empirical study of the cultural practices of Manchester’s contemporary population. His essay is a contribution to continuing debates about the relationship between culture, class and identity in Britain. His particular interest is in the ‘non-users’ of the city’s more high-profile cultural institutions. He suggests the limited nature of debates among politicians and policy-makers about the nature of cultural participation, and, based on 102 in-depth qualitative interviews, shows that there are many kinds of cultural participation not usually captured by the survey evidence (or by dominant models). His findings serve as important counter to the official model of participation, whose assumptions, processes and technologies obscure – and neglect – the realm of everyday participation and its significance.
Christopher P. Hanscom and Dennis Washburn
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824852801
- eISBN:
- 9780824868666
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824852801.003.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
This essay summarizes the theoretical framework of the collection. The modes and policies of imperial systems make race intelligible through the representational logic of ‘differential inclusion’. ...
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This essay summarizes the theoretical framework of the collection. The modes and policies of imperial systems make race intelligible through the representational logic of ‘differential inclusion’. This logic is basic to colonial projects that sought to establish race as a baseline, or naturalized state, that could be used to create and sustain a sense of imperial subject-hood. While such racialist politics may be mirrored in concrete developments such as shifts in state boundaries or policies on language and citizenship, it is equally important to stress just how much the criteria for deciding who was to be included as an imperial subject and who was to be excluded depended for their effectiveness upon the affective power of everyday representations of race. Affect may thus be used as an analytical category that brings together the protean constructability of race with its representational function in an imperial politics of inclusion/exclusion.Less
This essay summarizes the theoretical framework of the collection. The modes and policies of imperial systems make race intelligible through the representational logic of ‘differential inclusion’. This logic is basic to colonial projects that sought to establish race as a baseline, or naturalized state, that could be used to create and sustain a sense of imperial subject-hood. While such racialist politics may be mirrored in concrete developments such as shifts in state boundaries or policies on language and citizenship, it is equally important to stress just how much the criteria for deciding who was to be included as an imperial subject and who was to be excluded depended for their effectiveness upon the affective power of everyday representations of race. Affect may thus be used as an analytical category that brings together the protean constructability of race with its representational function in an imperial politics of inclusion/exclusion.
Christopher P. Hanscom and Dennis Washburn (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824852801
- eISBN:
- 9780824868666
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824852801.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
This collection of essays examines the production of racial difference and its affects in East Asia under Japanese empire and the postwar geo-political order. The contributors turn to materials that ...
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This collection of essays examines the production of racial difference and its affects in East Asia under Japanese empire and the postwar geo-political order. The contributors turn to materials that demonstrate how race becomes visible or audible in the processes of inclusion and exclusion. From travelogues and records of speech to photographs, radio, plastic surgery, tattoos, postcards, fiction, the popular press, film and soundtracks, these explorations of diverse media demonstrate the links between the apprehension of racial difference, the formation of social and political hierarchies, and the experience of everyday culture under an expanding bio-political realm of imperial sovereignty. By demonstrating the ways in which the politics of inclusion and exclusion worked through explicitly racialized modes of representation, this collection sheds light on affective strategies common to the creation and maintenance of subjectivity across imperial formations. It also resituates theoretical and historical discussions of race and empire within an East Asian context, complicating the history of this region in provocative ways.Less
This collection of essays examines the production of racial difference and its affects in East Asia under Japanese empire and the postwar geo-political order. The contributors turn to materials that demonstrate how race becomes visible or audible in the processes of inclusion and exclusion. From travelogues and records of speech to photographs, radio, plastic surgery, tattoos, postcards, fiction, the popular press, film and soundtracks, these explorations of diverse media demonstrate the links between the apprehension of racial difference, the formation of social and political hierarchies, and the experience of everyday culture under an expanding bio-political realm of imperial sovereignty. By demonstrating the ways in which the politics of inclusion and exclusion worked through explicitly racialized modes of representation, this collection sheds light on affective strategies common to the creation and maintenance of subjectivity across imperial formations. It also resituates theoretical and historical discussions of race and empire within an East Asian context, complicating the history of this region in provocative ways.
Hélène Cixous
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748639038
- eISBN:
- 9780748653638
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748639038.003.0011
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter discusses Cixous' trips to America. It narrates her conversation with her taxi driver while on the way to a meeting of her theatre company, and discusses the logic of persecution that is ...
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This chapter discusses Cixous' trips to America. It narrates her conversation with her taxi driver while on the way to a meeting of her theatre company, and discusses the logic of persecution that is evident in Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. It studies the Americans' ignorance and indifference to ‘the rest’ of the world, the American viewpoint, and introduces the concepts of Saddamisation and ground zero. Finally, it describes everyday American culture as a ‘culture of fear’ and the Bushian spirit as a man hunter. The chapter also presents Cixous' reflections on America.Less
This chapter discusses Cixous' trips to America. It narrates her conversation with her taxi driver while on the way to a meeting of her theatre company, and discusses the logic of persecution that is evident in Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. It studies the Americans' ignorance and indifference to ‘the rest’ of the world, the American viewpoint, and introduces the concepts of Saddamisation and ground zero. Finally, it describes everyday American culture as a ‘culture of fear’ and the Bushian spirit as a man hunter. The chapter also presents Cixous' reflections on America.
