The Moral State: Men, Mining, and Masculinity in the Early GDR

Evans, Jennifer V.

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“…under the leadership of the working class and their Marxist-Leninist party’ (Art.1 of the GDR Constitution). 9 Socialist ideals of working class political culture are epitomised by the person of the miner (Klubock, 1996; Kesküla, 2012 inter alia ) and it was no surprise that the SED régime relied on mining ‘to promote greater discipline, accelerate economic output, and generate wider acceptance of political reorientation’ (Evans, 2005: 355). Surprisingly, perhaps, we find very little commemoration of mining-related referents in Annaberg-Buchholz during GDR times.…”

Section: Challenges and Solutions In The Coding Of Ideological Street Renamingsmentioning

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Ideology in the linguistic landscape: Towards a quantitative approach

Fabiszak

Buchstaller

Brzezińska

et al. 2021

Discourse & Society

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Past approaches to ideological commemorative street naming have taken for granted the concept of ideology, focusing on the policy decisions and the debates surrounding individual and more concerted resemioticisations. In this paper, we demonstrate that the concept of ideology in the context of commemorative street renaming is by no means unequivocal by illustrating how different decisions on what is or is not an ideological street name change influences the shape and the scope of ‘the ideological robe of the city’ (Zieliński, 1994). More specifically, we report on methodological decisions and their implications for representational politics in two towns, Zbąszyń in Poland and Annaberg-Buchholz in Germany, during consecutive waves of regime changes since the First World War. We rely on a complex data-set consisting of maps, town hall documents, street directories, newspapers and interviews with administrative officials. Visualisation of geographical patterns allows us to illustrate the outcomes of different definitions of ideology and explore how these definitions affect our analysis. Our primary aim is to arrive at systematic, and thus supra-locally operationalizable, analytical procedure for distinguishing ideological from non-ideological street naming practices.

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Section: Challenges and Solutions In The Coding Of Ideological Street Renamingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ideology in the linguistic landscape: Towards a quantitative approach

Fabiszak

Buchstaller

Brzezińska

et al. 2021

Discourse & Society

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“…Both academics and environmental activists have contributed to perceptions of extractive activities as an exclusively and essentially male domain. In particular, the male miner has historically and socially been constructed as the prototypical male representative of the working class (Evans 2005;Murphy, 1997). For example, miners who worked in shafts during the early industrial era undertook dangerous, dirty, and risky jobs and were perceived at that time as strange and frightening, and therefore repulsive, but at the same time attractive, because they were masculine and sensual (Lahiri-Dutt 2013).…”

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Gender and natural resource extraction in Latin America: Feminist engagements with geopolitical positionality

Hofmann

Duarte

2021

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This article resituates the debate on approaches to gender in contexts of natural resource extraction in Latin America and, subsequently, outlines an intersectional, feminist proposal focused on geopolitical positionality, which points to the complex and global power relations that (re)position individuals and collectivities residing in spaces that have geopolitical value in a gendered way. This article draws on both empirical and theoretical research in/on extractive contexts, focusing on women, masculinities, and sexual markets. By paying special attention to the diversity of women's experiences and productive activities in extractive contexts, this article visibilizes their agency, as well as generates a more accurate account of how extractivist regimes operate and reconfigure gender relations on a local level. This expands existing approaches, allowing a situated, feminist critique, which helps to refine the study of gender and gendered power relations in their intersection with processes of natural resource extraction.

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“…Moreover, the model accounts for under half of the opening sentences in the sample (92 out of 200). groups of people are said to have 'descended upon Berlin', 99 'devastated the district', 100 'constructed a new . .…”

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How Historians Begin: Openings in Historical Discourse

Dean

2010

History

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Why is the problem of beginning -much discussed in literary scholarship -not dealt with in similar depth by historians? This article attempts an answer to this question, and does so in three ways. First, it examines literary scholarship on textual openings, showing the various ways in which the beginning is given significance. Then, it examines and challenges the common presentation of historical discourse as distinct from fiction. Finally, it examines two sets of data: the openings of 100 historical monographs are analysed for their 'fictionality', and the openings of 200 research articles are analysed for their rhetorical structures.

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The Moral State: Men, Mining, and Masculinity in the Early GDR

Abstract: Wenn wir einen Bürger erziehen, so erziehen wir damit auch das sexuelle Gefühl.(When we educate a citizen, we also educate them in matters of sexual desire.) 1 Anton Makarenko

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Ideology in the linguistic landscape: Towards a quantitative approach

Ideology in the linguistic landscape: Towards a quantitative approach

Gender and natural resource extraction in Latin America: Feminist engagements with geopolitical positionality

How Historians Begin: Openings in Historical Discourse

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