Modernity's Disavowal: Women, the City and the Department Store

Nava, Mica

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“…The department store is regarded as an icon of consumer culture (Finkelstein, 1991;Nava, 1995). It was responsible for introducing many of the marketing techniques with which the contemporary consumer is intimately familiar.…”

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“…Stores actively cultivated a culture of consumption by housing their wares in opulent emporia and providing a lavish range of customer services from in-house cafes to fashion shows (Leach, 1993). For the female shopper of the nineteenth century, the department store offered one of the few havens in which women could publicly meet and socialise on their own (Nava, 1997).…”

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Accounting and everyday life: towards a cultural context for accounting research

Jeacle

2009

Qualitative Research in Accounting &Amp; Management

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to set out a research agenda for the study of accounting and everyday life. Reiterating Hopwood's seminal call, the paper aims to stress the importance of the everyday for furthering not only an understanding of accounting practice, but also culture more generally. For example, the study of the everyday may shed light on the calculative technologies at play in significant cultural shifts and transformations.Design/methodology/approachThe paper draws on secondary literature to illustrate the potential of adopting a cultural context in accounting research. In addition, it also suggests new research sites firmly embedded in the everyday.FindingsThe paper is structured around three sections, each of which examines a particular aspect of everyday culture. In consumerism, the role of an overhead allocation technique in the creation of garment standardised sizing systems is explored. The potential role of accounting within the contemporary fashion industry is also suggested in this section. In the home section, the impact of standard costing practices in the dissemination of a classically inspired style of interior design and exterior architecture is discussed. In the final section, the significance of leisure and entertainment in everyday life is considered and some suggestions made regarding sites for future research in this field.Originality/valueThe paper's value arises from highlighting the potential of the everyday as a site for furthering an understating of accounting. In particular, it calls on researchers to recognise the significance of the everyday and to broaden the cultural context of their studies to encompass everyday activities.

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Accounting and everyday life: towards a cultural context for accounting research

Jeacle

2009

Qualitative Research in Accounting &Amp; Management

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“…Nevertheless, despite the looseness of the term, some versions (eg Berman, 1983) provide a useful starting point for a study of the modern history of a cosmopolitan structure of feeling insofar as they emphasise the fluidity and excitement of modern urban life, physical mobility and encounters with strangers, transformations in culture and public space, and above all the advent of a new modern consciousness: a psychic, social and visceral readiness to engage with the new, with difference. This was the broad conceptual frame for my earlier work on the cultures of commerce and the associated expansion of the social, economic and imaginative horizons of women (Nava, 1996) which in turn alerted me to the significance of cosmopolitanism as one aspect of modernity. In this irregular configuration in English culture, transnational identifications and an interest in abroad and cultural difference ---the allure of elsewhere and others ---increasingly became part of the way of making sense of and embracing the modern world (Nava, 1998).…”

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Cosmopolitan Modernity: Everyday Imaginaries and the Register of Difference

Nava¹

2002

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“…Several commentators have speculated that the rise of the department store allowed for the emergence of the flâneuse (eg., Wolff, 1985;Nava, 1995) and for Anne Friedberg (1994) the cinema similarly allowed women to maintain respectability while appearing in a public space. However, as my later argument will demonstrate, the association of flânerie with the city understood as wilderness re-asserts a gendered reading in which a masculine flâneur is provided with the means, the attitude, leisure and motivation to penetrate the mysteries of what becomes, in effect, virgin territory.…”

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Streets for Cyborgs

Shaw

2014

Space and Culture

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This article separates the city and the street in order to examine them as concepts which order our experience of both cyberspatial worlds and the “posturban” city. The extraordinary persistence of the flâneur and his successor, the cyberflâneur, despite both having been pronounced “dead” can be attributed to the need to reconcile these concepts in the continued reproduction of urban subjectivities under the terms of global capitalism. However, there is a tension between the understanding of embodiment which the practice of flânerie mandates and new ontological concepts emerging from the way that the biological sciences now write the body. I will argue that new practices of spatial production which subvert the conceptual cartography of contemporary urban space can emerge from an understanding of the street as responsive to a posthuman performance of embodiment.

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Modernity's Disavowal: Women, the City and the Department Store

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Accounting and everyday life: towards a cultural context for accounting research

Accounting and everyday life: towards a cultural context for accounting research

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