Barbara Sieben and Åsa Wettergren, Emotionalizing Organizations and Organizing Emotions. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2010. 295 pp. $US 105.00 hardcover (978-0-230-25025-4)
Sociologists have recently shown great interest in emotions, passions, sentiments, and feelings, evinced by the publication of numerous books, articles, and edited volumes. Emotionalizing Organizations and Organizing Emotions contributes to this growing body of literature. Sociological interest in emotions follows a considerable period of time during which emotions were assumed to be of scholarly interest to psychologists alone. Read more
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Saturday, February 19, 2011
Review: Matthias Gross on Young & Matthews, The Aquaculture Controversy in Canada
Nathan Young and Ralph Matthews. The Aquaculture Controversy in Canada: Activism, Policy, and Contested Science. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2010, 312 pp. $34.95 paper (978-0-7748-1811-7), $85.00 hardcover (978-0-7748-1810-0)
Does cultivating freshwater and saltwater fish populations under controlled conditions instead of harvesting wild fish make practices of aquaculture or aquafarming part of the solution to the decline of global wild fisheries? Or does the farming of fish, shrimp, oysters or algacultures foster overfishing and pose unacceptable risks to ecological integrity and human health? In their engaging book, The Aquaculture Controversy in Canada: Activism, Policy, and Contested Science, Nathan Young and Ralph Matthews analyze a classical clash between proponents of a novel technique and the critical stance that points to its unintended (mainly negative) side effects. Read more
Does cultivating freshwater and saltwater fish populations under controlled conditions instead of harvesting wild fish make practices of aquaculture or aquafarming part of the solution to the decline of global wild fisheries? Or does the farming of fish, shrimp, oysters or algacultures foster overfishing and pose unacceptable risks to ecological integrity and human health? In their engaging book, The Aquaculture Controversy in Canada: Activism, Policy, and Contested Science, Nathan Young and Ralph Matthews analyze a classical clash between proponents of a novel technique and the critical stance that points to its unintended (mainly negative) side effects. Read more
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Compte rendu: Jonathan Roberge sur Nathalie Heinich
Nathalie Heinich. Guerre culturelle et art contemporain. Une comparaison franco-américaine.
Paris: Hermann, 2010, 179 pp. 26 € paper (978 2 7056 7063)
Les travaux de Nathalie Heinich sont aujourd’hui connus par un cercle qui dépasse de beaucoup celui des initiés à la sociologie de l’art. … Pour le dire succinctement, Nathalie Heinich apparaît maintenant comme une incontournable de la sociologie française, sinon mondiale. Dans ce dernier opus, elle expose les résultats d’une enquête menée aux États-Unis il y a une quinzaine d’années, mais dont l’auteure assure qu’ils ont gardé toute leur actualité — aussi parce que ces résultats sont comparés avec d’autres issus du contexte français. La question au cœur de l’ouvrage est alors la suivante : pourquoi et comment l’art se voit-il rejeter de part et d’autre de l’Atlantique; qu’en est-il, autrement dit, des « grammaires axiologiques partagées par les acteurs d’une même culture » face aux défis représentés par l’art au sein de la cité. Lire plus
Paris: Hermann, 2010, 179 pp. 26 € paper (978 2 7056 7063)
Les travaux de Nathalie Heinich sont aujourd’hui connus par un cercle qui dépasse de beaucoup celui des initiés à la sociologie de l’art. … Pour le dire succinctement, Nathalie Heinich apparaît maintenant comme une incontournable de la sociologie française, sinon mondiale. Dans ce dernier opus, elle expose les résultats d’une enquête menée aux États-Unis il y a une quinzaine d’années, mais dont l’auteure assure qu’ils ont gardé toute leur actualité — aussi parce que ces résultats sont comparés avec d’autres issus du contexte français. La question au cœur de l’ouvrage est alors la suivante : pourquoi et comment l’art se voit-il rejeter de part et d’autre de l’Atlantique; qu’en est-il, autrement dit, des « grammaires axiologiques partagées par les acteurs d’une même culture » face aux défis représentés par l’art au sein de la cité. Lire plus
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Comment: A Public Health Perspective On HPV Vaccination
A Public Health Perspective On HPV Vaccination: Response To The HPV Vaccination Campaign: A Project Of Moral Regulation In An Era Of Biopolitics
Liane Macdonald, Shelley Deeks, Carolyn Doyle
CJS 35, 4 (2010): 627-632
Abstract
Connell and Hunt’s critique (2010) raises important questions and concerns about human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination in Canada. We offer a public health perspective on several key issues, including the merits of implementing population-based HPV vaccination programs in Canada; the time-sensitivity of HPV vaccination; and, the non-judgmental approach to sexual health promotion for youth championed by Canadian public health organizations.
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Liane Macdonald, Shelley Deeks, Carolyn Doyle
CJS 35, 4 (2010): 627-632
Abstract
Connell and Hunt’s critique (2010) raises important questions and concerns about human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination in Canada. We offer a public health perspective on several key issues, including the merits of implementing population-based HPV vaccination programs in Canada; the time-sensitivity of HPV vaccination; and, the non-judgmental approach to sexual health promotion for youth championed by Canadian public health organizations.
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Article: Gendered Practices in the Online Pro-Eating-Disorder Community
Hunger Hurts But Starving Works: A Case Study of Gendered Practices in the Online Pro-Eating-Disorder Community
Krista Whitehead
CJS 35, 4 (2010): 595-626
Abstract
This paper investigates collective identity-work of Pro-eating disorder (Pro-ED) groups on the Internet. Using an adaptation of face-to-face ethnographic methods to investigate online communication (Mann and Stewart 2000), the author analyzes five collective organizing practices in Pro-ED groups that reveal a highly gendered character: 1) promoting surreptitiousness, 2) organizing in and around the realm of domesticity, 3) equating beauty with self-worth, 4) relying on friendship as a chief organizing principle, and 5) using fandom as a method of attracting and maintaining members. In spite of exceptional resistance to their activities, women in the Pro-ED community are able to achieve a collective Pro-ED identity wherein they maintain eating-disordered lifestyles. The case study presented here interrupts popular sociological understandings of collective identity mobilization as having categorically positive consequences for its members.
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Krista Whitehead
CJS 35, 4 (2010): 595-626
Abstract
This paper investigates collective identity-work of Pro-eating disorder (Pro-ED) groups on the Internet. Using an adaptation of face-to-face ethnographic methods to investigate online communication (Mann and Stewart 2000), the author analyzes five collective organizing practices in Pro-ED groups that reveal a highly gendered character: 1) promoting surreptitiousness, 2) organizing in and around the realm of domesticity, 3) equating beauty with self-worth, 4) relying on friendship as a chief organizing principle, and 5) using fandom as a method of attracting and maintaining members. In spite of exceptional resistance to their activities, women in the Pro-ED community are able to achieve a collective Pro-ED identity wherein they maintain eating-disordered lifestyles. The case study presented here interrupts popular sociological understandings of collective identity mobilization as having categorically positive consequences for its members.
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Article: Income and area effects on voluntary association membership
Income and Area Effects on Voluntary Association Membership In Canada
Laura Jane Duncan
CJS 35, 4 (2010): 573-594
Abstract
Applying multi-level modelling techniques to 2003 Canadian General Social Survey and 2001 Census Profile data , this study investigates the influence of individual income, contextual poverty and income inequality on voluntary association membership in Canada. Both individual and contextual effects on membership are uncovered, in addition to a significant cross-level interaction between individual income and area level income inequality. As individual income increases so do the odds of voluntary association membership, an effect that is fairly consistent between areas. Increases in area level poverty are associated with decreases in the odds of membership. While no main effect is found for area level income inequality, cross-level interactions indicate that the relationship between individual income and membership is moderated by area income inequality. The study findings support claims about the negative social effects of individual and contextual economic disadvantage and confirms the importance of examining contextual influences on social outcomes.
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Laura Jane Duncan
CJS 35, 4 (2010): 573-594
Abstract
Applying multi-level modelling techniques to 2003 Canadian General Social Survey and 2001 Census Profile data , this study investigates the influence of individual income, contextual poverty and income inequality on voluntary association membership in Canada. Both individual and contextual effects on membership are uncovered, in addition to a significant cross-level interaction between individual income and area level income inequality. As individual income increases so do the odds of voluntary association membership, an effect that is fairly consistent between areas. Increases in area level poverty are associated with decreases in the odds of membership. While no main effect is found for area level income inequality, cross-level interactions indicate that the relationship between individual income and membership is moderated by area income inequality. The study findings support claims about the negative social effects of individual and contextual economic disadvantage and confirms the importance of examining contextual influences on social outcomes.
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Article: Women's Environmental Work as Cultural Change
Relational Activism: Re-Imagining Women's Environmental Work as Cultural Change
Sara O'Shaughnessy, Emily Huddart Kennedy
CJS 35, 4 (2010): 551-572
Abstract
We introduce the term “relational activism” to call attention to the way that relationship-building work contributes to conventional activism (re-activism) and constitutes activism in and of itself. In so doing, we unravel Mohai’s paradox – a long-standing “ironic contrast” that notes that women’s environmental concern is not reflected in greater contributions to activism than men’s. We position relational activism as a bridging concept between re-activism and social capital. Relational activism differs from re-activism in four key areas: the role of the individual, effectiveness, motivating values, and temporal scale. To support these claims, we draw upon 26 ethnographic interviews conducted with families in Edmonton, Alberta, who strive to reduce their environmental impact.
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