Part 2 Representations 65 Part 2: introduction The chapters in this second section focus on representations of ageing, gender and sexuality. Representations matter because they shape discursive possibilities: what can be imagined and what actions seem possible and viable. All the chapters in this section draw on textual sources. In their chapters, Elizabeth Barry and Maricel Oró Piqueras draw on texts from English literature by authors such as Virginia Woolf, Penelope Lively, Angela Carter and Doris Lessing, while Kinneret Lahad and Karen
global North, focusing predominantly on ‘white, middle-class North American, European and Australasian families’ ( Beardshaw, 2006 : 306). The same could be said for much of the research that focuses on representations of fathers and fatherhood, which have largely been conducted in Western contexts ( Hamad, 2010 , 2013 ; Marshall et al, 2014 ; Leader, 2019 ). At the same time, research has also highlighted the importance of conceptual and contextual specificity when studying specific, local practices of men’s care in relation to notions of equality ( Doucet and
PART II Representations of Queerness in Public Science Communication
249 9 Representations of Play: Pachinko in Popular Media Keiji Amano and Geoffrey Rockwell These silver balls are you. They’re your life itself. (Ikiru, 1952) How is play represented in Japan? For more than 60 years, the most popular leisure activity among the Japanese has been pachinko, so it is no surprise that pachinko has been represented in the arts from cinema to novels. Notable cinematic works include Ozu’s The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (1952) and Kurosawa’s Ikiru (1952). But what do these representations show us about the play in pachinko? Do
9 TWO Homicide and media: ‘realities’ and ‘representations’ This chapter explores criminological insights into homicide and its representation in mainstream media. It is important to explore these realities and representations as they help form the contextual landscape of the cases that are considered in this book. It is tempting to think of perpetrators like Derek Medina, Randy Janzen and Amanda Taylor as aberrations who are fundamentally different from the rest of us. It is also tempting to make sense of their social media posts in relation to the
Cultural criminology explores the cultural context of deviance, law breaking and social control. Cultural criminologists study sub-cultures of resistance, constructions of crime and media representations of criminals by critically examining these phenomena within the social, cultural, political and economic contexts of late capitalism. Cultural criminology sheds light on images of crime, styles of crime, portrayals of crime and the interactions between crime and crime control. Cultural criminology grew out of the British/Birmingham School of Cultural Studies
75 FOUR Representations of age The history of gerontology may accurately be described as the history of the social construction of meaningful images or metaphors of old age. (Hepworth, 2004, p 11) While engaging with people in interviews or other participative activities is essential to gerontological research, this in itself is not sufficient. The analysis of language and image and how they are used to represent age in the wider cultural landscape, is just as important. So the issues I address in this chapter relate to roadside billboards, government
1 Introduction: Representations of poverty This book is about poverty. It is distinctive in two ways: in the case it makes for a relational view of poverty, and in its attempt to draw out common themes relating to developed and developing countries. Poverty is represented in many different ways. Here are some examples from around the world. ‘Many of the world’s poorest people are women who must, as the primary family caretakers and producers of food, shoulder the burden of tilling land, grinding grain, carrying water and cooking. This is no easy burden
67 three the intelligent outsider? official and media representations of Southmead introduction A major theme, an orthodoxy even, is that in the battle of representation that is fought over Southmead there exist very different ‘outsider’ and ‘insider’ knowledges and representations of the area, emanating from standpoints that make this a two-sided battle. The difference between these two standpoints and their representations is used as one of the definitional markers of what Southmead itself is; the idea of ‘out’ and ‘in’ sets up Southmead as a bounded
