Cultural Objects as Objects: Materiality, Urban Space, and the Interpretation of AIDS Campaigns in Accra, Ghana

McDonnell, Terence E.

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“…They each make "a group 'groupy'" (Hogg et al 2007:136) and put "meaning into form" (McDonnell 2010).…”

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“…Anchor institutions ground the material culture (Miller 1987;Mukerji 1994) of a group to a specific urban place, despite the realities of residential drift, and they seal the area's character and collective identity in the local imagination. Anchor institutions put "meaning into form" (McDonnell 2010). Commemorations, such as the tax-funded rainbow color pylons that city officials installed in Chicago's gayborhood, are a second analytic device that scholars also can use to measure culture.…”

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Measuring urban sexual cultures

Ghaziani

2014

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Gay neighborhoods across the United States are de-concentrating in today's so-called "post-gay" era as sexual minorities assimilate into the mainstream and disperse across the city. This context creates a problem of measurement. If by "culture" we mean to say a particular way of life of a group or subgroup of people like sexual minorities, and if that way of life is blending with other aspects of the metropolis, then how can we detect distinct urban sexual cultures? In this article, I use 125 interviews with Chicago residents to propose a two-pronged strategy. First, gay neighborhoods continue to house anchor institutions, despite ongoing residential out-migrations. These are the primary engines of community building, and they locate the material culture of a group in a specific place. Commemorations serve as a second indicator for a culture, and they too put meanings into form. Although it is a fact of city life that all neighborhoods change, anchors and commemorations are analytic devices that scholars can use to observe urban sexual cultures. More generally, they provide a framework for how to measure the shifting geographic profile of a historically stigmatized group as it experiences positive change in public opinion.

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“…They each make "a group 'groupy'" (Hogg et al 2007:136) and put "meaning into form" (McDonnell 2010).…”

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Measuring urban sexual cultures

Ghaziani

2014

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“…In suggesting the possibility of these effects, I bring together scholarship on measurement and classification, 82 in science and technology studies with scholarship on the materiality of cultural objects 83 and the cultural and political work that objects do 84 through studies of the relationship between law, courts, and collective memory formation. 85 While proponents of criminal trials and Truth Commissions point to their potential to create a historical record of atrocities, hold perpetrators accountable, and promote respect for human rights, 86 advocates of these approaches also recognize that legal procedures and evidentiary requirements of criminal trials may impede a full accounting of events.…”

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Documenting Mass Rape: Medical Evidence Collection Techniques as Humanitarian Technology

Morse¹

2014

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Abstract.Aim: Emerging global networks of human rights activists, doctors, and nurses have advocated for increased collection of medical evidence in conflict-affected countries to corroborate allegations of sexual violence and facilitate prosecution in international and domestic courts. Such initiatives are part of broader shifts in human rights advocacy to document human rights violations using rigorous, standardized methodologies. In this paper, I consider three principal forms of medical evidence to document sexual violence and their use in these settings: the patient medical record, the medical certificate, and the sexual assault medical forensic exam (commonly known as the "rape kit"). Methods

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“…Teachers demonstrate the bounds around signal and noise by ignoring or engaging particular sounds from the orientations of the room. COGNITION: Meaning is made through sensory interactions with stuff in the environment (Griswold, Mangione, and McDonnell 2013;Harvey 2010;McDonnell 2010). For example, When people interpret sound objects, they generally associate sounds with familiar, mechanical causes (Dibben 2001).…”

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Variations in Music Education Curriculum and the Organization of Listening

Klett¹

2018

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Sociologists argue that we learn evaluative skills, such as those to distinguish qualities of music, through practical knowledge. Yet sociologists have not asked how we understand those sonic events as musical in the first place. Through nine months of semi-structured observations in six elementary school music classrooms, I examine how music education draws symbolic boundaries around musical sound. I find that variations in curriculum produce different organizational practices in the classroom. These practices develop what is a basic sensory skill -listening -in very different ways. I identify four dimensions of teacher performance that support these differences: authorized sound-makers, constrained movement, enforced perspectives, and selected attention. These variations in music education produce contrasting performances for recognizing musical sound.

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Cultural Objects as Objects: Materiality, Urban Space, and the Interpretation of AIDS Campaigns in Accra, Ghana

Cited by 115 publications

References 52 publications

Measuring urban sexual cultures

Measuring urban sexual cultures

Documenting Mass Rape: Medical Evidence Collection Techniques as Humanitarian Technology

Variations in Music Education Curriculum and the Organization of Listening

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