HAPPY AUGUST!
New Contributor:
First and foremost, Sociological Images is pleased to welcome Marty Hart-Landsberg to our team of Contributors! Marty is a professor of Economics at Lewis and Clark College. He’s been blogging, excellently, at Reports from the Economic Front, and he brings much needed expertise and insight into economic issues. We’re so pleased that he’s joined us!
New Publications and Appearances:
Catch contributor Caroline Heldman talking about the debt ceiling debate on Fox Business Channel’s Follow the Money tonight at 10 p.m. EST. Heldman appeared on The Factor, Neil Cavuto’s Show, The Hannity Show, Freedomwatch, Bulls & Bears, and Follow the Money 14 times last month.
I’m very excited to have a new publication out in the journal Ethnography. My first using ethnographic methods, the paper is an analysis of lindy hop (a social dance from the 1930s and ’40s) with which I argue that the habitus has liberating as well as conservative potential: The Emancipatory Promise of the Habitus: Lindy Hop, the Body, and Social Change. And there’re pictures!
I also wrote about 500 words on hook up culture on college campuses for the Canadian website, The Mark. I argue that hook up culture isn’t bad, it’s just-as-bad and no worse than the rest of society.
Gwen and I will both be guest blogging at Scientopia for the next two weeks. You can catch all the same material here, but check out Scientopia if you’re interested in
Finally, SocImages showed up on TIME and BoingBoing this week. Always a good time…
New Pages:
We’ve added an “Editors’ Pick” tab to our menu. Gwen and I will be slowly culling our favorite posts from the last four years and adding them. We’re excited to be able to highlight our best and most well-received stuff.
We’ve also added a “For Instructors” tab. We’ve got some stuff for you there already, but are also asking for volunteers to help make the site more useful to instructors. We’re especially excited about the possibility of putting together Course Guides that collect the best posts for common sociology courses. Check it out!
Party in Las Vegas:
The American Sociological Association is having its annual conference in Las Vegas this year. We invite all of you to the Blogger Party at 4:30pm on Sunday, August 21st at the Seahorse Lounge at Caesar’s Palace. Come by and say “hello”!
Social Media ‘n’ Stuff:
This is your monthly reminder that SocImages is on Twitter and Facebook. Learn more about your editors at my website and Gwen’s. And a bunch of us are on twitter @lisadwade, @gwensharpnv, @familyunequal, @carolineheldman, and @jaylivingston.
Comments 8
Cocojams Jambalayah — August 1, 2011
Lisa, after reading your very interesting hyperlinked journal article about the Lindy hop, I re-visited your recent blog post about that dance:
http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2011/07/05/race-appropriation-lindy-hop-how-to-honor-our-heroes/
I found that there were some recent comments posted to that post, and I also added another comment, in part as a response to a recent commenter, and in part as a comment about your journal article.
Selene — August 1, 2011
Thanks for the link to your article, I really enjoyed it, a good read on Bourdieu's birthday!
Fetchinhero — August 2, 2011
The Facebook link doesn't work for me. It just leads me to my inbox. I can't find a page for Sociological Images.
Esther — August 2, 2011
Excellent article! I took a lindy hop class at a music conference last year, and couldn't follow to save my life. I'm glad to hear that the community isn't quite as... offensive to the way I lead my life as I had imagined.
Karin Norgard — August 2, 2011
Excellent paper, Lisa! I dance mostly tango, but started out with salsa and have done some swing and Lindy as well. I love how you analyze the negotiation of power in the partnership in that last section; the descriptions of leading and following and how the line between the two becomes blurred to the point of near-nonexistence is absolutely spot-on. There have been a lot of tango bloggers recently debating both sides of this issue, and the dance has an added fascination of being of Argentine origin with Buenos Aires often seen as a mecca of sorts and therefore being argued (for and against) as the ultimate source of wisdom concerning gender relations in the dance. So fascinating - I just love it!
Thank you again for this paper and your other articles on race, gender, and Lindy hop. I will definitely be pondering these issues for a while, especially as I am a female dancer who enjoys both leading and following. Happy writing and dancing!
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