The concept of politics of location refers to the idea that one’s social and political location affects their perception and understanding of their world and society (Naiman, 2012). Naiman (2012) illustrates this idea by using Robert Mankoff’s fishpond analogy. She explains that in the analogy, three fishes of different sizes see the world differently based on their size and place on the food chain. Naiman (2012) explains that structured inequality is viewed differently depending on whether the fish is and eater or eatee – the biggest fish, an eater, sees the world and these inequalities as just, the middle fish who is both and eatee and eater sees the world has having some justice, and the small fish, who is an eatee sees the world as unjust.
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The culture or consumerism and narcissism leads us to consume while being increasingly isolated from the social and political world, with an increasing preoccupation with oneself and a lack of empathy (Naiman, 2012). This is embodied in the movie by the people from the capitol who see the Games as entertainment and cause for joy and celebration (Jacobson, Kilik and Ross, 2012). In the movie, the tributes are paraded, washed and dressed for the enjoyment of the people from capitol who have the ability to be a participate in the process by sponsoring the tributes, then can sit back, watch them kill each other. The capitol is also the only district in Panem that does not send tributes to the games, allowing for a degree of separation (Jacobson, Kilik and Ross, 2012). The people from the capitol are not thinking about the meaning of the Games, beyond what they mean for their own enjoyment. This lack of sociological imagination is shown several times throughout the movie in the movie, notably when the people watching Katniss’s practice stop paying attention to her when she misses the target, and by having several characters remind us, the viewers, that the tributes need to put on a good show in order to stay alive (Jacobson, Kilik and Ross,
The culture or consumerism and narcissism leads us to consume while being increasingly isolated from the social and political world, with an increasing preoccupation with oneself and a lack of empathy (Naiman, 2012). This is embodied in the movie by the people from the capitol who see the Games as entertainment and cause for joy and celebration (Jacobson, Kilik and Ross, 2012). In the movie, the tributes are paraded, washed and dressed for the enjoyment of the people from capitol who have the ability to be a participate in the process by sponsoring the tributes, then can sit back, watch them kill each other. The capitol is also the only district in Panem that does not send tributes to the games, allowing for a degree of separation (Jacobson, Kilik and Ross, 2012). The people from the capitol are not thinking about the meaning of the Games, beyond what they mean for their own enjoyment. This lack of sociological imagination is shown several times throughout the movie in the movie, notably when the people watching Katniss’s practice stop paying attention to her when she misses the target, and by having several characters remind us, the viewers, that the tributes need to put on a good show in order to stay alive (Jacobson, Kilik and Ross,