Folk Dance and the Renovation of Class in Social History

Walkowitz, Daniel J.

doi:10.1353/jsh.2006.0022

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“…As an explicit analytical category class has seldom featured in the corpus of recent empiricist accounting history in AAAJ, or elsewhere. In the context of the class dealignments of the postindustrial present historians operating in other sub-fields have noticed the disappearance of class from their literatures(Walkowitz, 2006). However, like race and gender, class represents a fundamental basis of social stratification, exploitation and identity in the past -it merits attention by accounting historians.Social and cultural histories of accounting are not without controversy.…”

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Innovation, convergence and argument without end in accounting history

Walker

2008

Accounting, Auditing &Amp; Accountability Journal

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Purpose-The paper seeks to review the accounting history content of Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal (AAAJ) over the last 20 years and to identify distinctive research themes therein. Observations and suggestions are offered in relation to future accounting history research. Design/methodology/approach-The study comprises an analysis of the content of AAAJ and related literature. Findings-Histories appearing in AAAJ have focussed on technical issues, accounting in business organisations, cost and management accounting, accounting historiography, professionalisation, and socio-cultural studies of accounting. The journal has been an important medium for the pursuit of interdisciplinarity, the promotion and practical application of new research methods, methodological pluralism, and searches for convergence in historical debates. Research limitations/implications-The paper discusses the potential for advancing established research agendas in accounting history and identifies some new subjects for investigation by accounting historians. Originality/value-It is suggested that while methodological innovation and plurality are to be applauded the sustained application of new approaches should also receive greater encouragement. Searches for rapprochement in accounting history debate run the risk of stultifying historical controversy. It is argued that histories of management accounting, gender, class, professionalisation are far from 'complete' and should be reignited through the adoption of broader theoretical, temporal and spatial parameters. An emphasis on the performative aspects of accounting in socio-cultural histories is encouraged as is clearer recognition of significance of contemporary understandings of the boundaries of accounting. Also emphasised is the desirability of more indigenously sensitised histories of the profession, greater engagement with the 'literary turn', and a renewed commitment to interdisciplinarity.

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Innovation, convergence and argument without end in accounting history

Walker

2008

Accounting, Auditing &Amp; Accountability Journal

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“…Some have constructed representations of dancing in relation to identity politics. Doane (2006), Hancock (2005), and Walkowits (2006) have drawn from Bourdieu's theory of practice to accomplish this. Doane shows how members of punk subculture undergo identity transformation as they become swing dancers.…”

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The Dance Floor

Matsinhe

2009

Space and Culture

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This article is based on a study of dance floors of Whyte Avenue in the city of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. As extended cases, the life processes on the floors are interpreted as manifestations of Canada's emotional history in the form of multiculturalism. Building on observations combined with informal and casual conversations, the study focuses on arousal and expression of emotions through bodily movements on the dance floors. The readings of these spaces along with their life processes are informed by the theoretical concepts of the "carnival" and the "grotesque" (Bakhtin), "liminality" (Turner), and the "civilizing process" and "informalization" (Elias and Wouters). In this theoretical framework, the particular emotional life processes that occur on the dance floors are rendered orderable as historically contingent phenomena that incarnate the wave of multiculturalization that shaped and has continued to shape the cultural, geographic, political, social, and psychological (emotional) landscapes of Canada since the 1960s.This essay is an extended case study of dance floor culture as a microcosm of historical emotional transformation of Canada within the greater context of the civilizing process in Western societies. This emotional transformation manifests itself through interrelated changes in cultural, social, and psychological texture between and within space and culture vol. 12 no.

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“…And in substantially more intentional ways, there are now large bodies of evidence in a wide range of social science and humanities disciplines (e.g., psychology, law, criminology) which point to particular knowledge convergences across fields and state institutions directed towards the reconciliation Á primarily through ideas about young people as symbolic repositories of the qualities of the nation Á of rising moral fears over social order and national prosperity. For example, as Walkowitz (2006), Arendt (1968) and Connell (2007) remind us, in the first half of the twentieth century, alongside the continued growth of modern science, we witness close affiliations between the rise of the bounded state and affiliated territories and the study of history (see, for example, Foucault's lectures on Security andTerritory, 1977/2007;Geertz, 2000;Walkowitz, 2006) and, to greater or lesser degrees, sociology. The category of youth as homologous with identity Á as a form of classification and as a historical typology Á was a notion which grew out of such a history and science of sociology, and might be seen as a key moment in the individualization of modernity itself.…”

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History and the making of young people and the late modern youth researcher: time, narrative, and change

Dillabough

2009

Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education

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Folk Dance and the Renovation of Class in Social History

Cited by 39 publications

References 37 publications

Innovation, convergence and argument without end in accounting history

Innovation, convergence and argument without end in accounting history

The Dance Floor

History and the making of young people and the late modern youth researcher: time, narrative, and change

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