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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Post-Fordism"”.
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Strategies of Resistance in Post-Fordism: A Feminist Performance Perspective, Over-identification with Benign Evil
… the current economic and political conditions of post-Fordist production, in which an increased precarity of the workforce is accompanied by a shrinking autonomous political sphere and regressive gender politics, led by ‘sexual decoys’ (Eisenstein, 2007). In my practice, I perform and record …
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An assessment of a quick response case study in an apparel textile pipeline in the Western Cape
… moved towards flexible specialisation and post-Fordism or a neo-Fordist method of production. I also determined whether these companies implemented Quick Response according to the theory or to suit their environment. Manufacturing 6 Fordism or mass production became the most important …
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Radical Turns From Gramsci To Negri. Life, Biopolitics And Social Change In Italy
… the Factory Councils faced the introduction of Fordism; 1968 and Marxist neo-feminism that of Fordism in its advanced phase of automation of production; the multitude of the Anti-Globalization Movement that of post-Fordism with its emphasis on immaterial production. If the biopolitical is today …
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Reading the Culture Wars in the New Academic Novel, 1984-Present
… transition away from its place within the post-WWII welfare state to the corporate university of today. Drawing out the connections between the university specific events (the collapse of the academic job market in the humanities, the casualization of academic labour, and the privatization …
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Making change: The role of rhetoric in the politicization of consumption
… consumption influences and is influenced by U.S. post-Fordist capitalism. Analyzing a variety of texts using Marxist dialectical inquiry as a theoretical framework and the concept of post-Fordism as a historical framework reveals the role of rhetoric in social and cultural production and …
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Political Discourses of Idealised Masculinity: The Risk Management of Male Prisoners through Work, Education and Family Transitions
… and Neo-Marxist theorising around Post-Fordism, idealised masculinity represent a form of governance that the state employs to inform its programme of managing the risks posed by offenders. This is evident through two particular pathways to reduce re-offending. Namely Pathway Two …
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The lives of film: heritage, restoration, and the materialism of cinema
… and film restoration, and in the context of post-Fordism, that is, the post-industrialization of the global economy. I argue that this materialism, which centers on the conservation of celluloid as the material artifact of a fading era, points to significant new forms and functions of cinema. …
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Artistic practices & democratic politics: towards the markers of uncertainty: from counter-hegemonic positions to plural hegemonies
… political order can they aspire to, given the ‘post-utopian’ nature of the human condition? How do we approach the tortuous question of the destiny of both the project of modern democracy and that of aesthetic modernity? There is no agreement on this issue. We are told that there is no …
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Global Extraction and Cultural Production: An Investigation of Forms of Extraction Through the Production of Artist-Video
This research is a practice-based, theory-led, examination of forms of extraction under capitalism. The thesis addresses the question of where and how does extraction take place, both in and outside of the wage relationship. Directly employing Marx’s concept of surplus extraction, but further …
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Pocket Monsters And Pirate Treasure: Fantasy And Social Platforms In The 21st Century
POCKET MONSTERS AND PIRATE TREASURE: FANTASY AND SOCIAL PLATFORMS IN THE 21ST CENTURY is an anthropology project examining media, fantasy, ideology, and social groups in order to build a better foundation for the ways in which economic and social changes influence social networking, popular media, …
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Work in Motion: Labour and Aesthetic Production in the Animated Film Industry
… filmmaking. This chapter investigates Pixar’s post-Fordist labour history to ask how this labour history intersects with the broader turn towards the immaterial labours of creativity— labours which the studio uses to underwrite its reputation as ‘Creativity, Inc.’ Through a critique of its …