Commodification

treated differently from the moment they are born, they are told to appreciate their working fathers and use their money to buy nice things. Essentially, men are investing money in their daughters and wives in order to impress others, also known as commodification and objectification. Because women are being conditioned to be reliant on men, it makes it extremely difficult for women to achieve independence. Furthermore, women have been taught to shun other women who disrupt the patriarchal…

accepted as the current economic system used in countries such as Canada and the United States. Thus, what is the relationship between capitalism and nature? As it turns out, capitalist systems such as the carbon market is an example of ‘proxy commodification’ which alleges green developments and projects while in actuality, leads to social, economic, and environmental inequality (Böhm et al. 1630). Despite the overwhelming large consensus of capitalism’s negative impact on the environment and…

1. Hands Up, Daye Jack ft. Killer Mike, 2015. Hands Up, by Daye Jack belongs in this playlist about police violence and police brutality towards Black America, as this is the songs focus. Daye Jack focuses on Black injustice in America revolving specifically around police brutality. This connects to our course themes, with lecture 8 and Maynard’s article, Arrested (In)Justice, as both relate with the rise of police murders towards Black youth in poor urban communities and its relation to the…

America’s “fear of crime” has led to today’s warehouse prisons, entrusted to enclose underclass minority groups, systematically caught in a symbiosis of the ghetto and prison; both, institutions of forced confinement designed to neutralize the threat outcasts pose to society (Wacquant, 2010). This, then, has developed a state, whereas the symbiotic relationship between the ghetto and the criminal justice system are the instruments by which the elite control the poor. Largely, due to…

This research aims to explore how neoliberalism specifically impacts women. I will explore the tensions within neoliberal economics and ideology. These tensions compel women into certain iterations of success while limiting to what extent they can achieve this success. Neoliberalism offers an illusion of choice while actively restricting the scope of choice. The prominence of the ‘entrepreneurial self’ has salient ramifications for women. In this essay I will address three topics in the context…

The Piano: Excavating National Cinema’s “Desire” The concept of a national cinema is one that speaks to a discourse of a particular state or nation. However, the definition of what the constructs of this cinema is inherently problematic. Andrew Higson (1989:52) discusses the implications of the terminology asserting that “... the parameters of a national cinema should be drawn at the site of consumption as much as at the site of production of films”. Higson attempts to underline and further…

departments under economic pressure to reorganize. Generally speaking, the Birmingham school focused on the processes shaping post-war British society: the rise of mass communications, the increase in consumerism and resulting commodification of more domains of life, and racial and national forms of oppression. Some of this research is linked…

In this essay I will explore why female poets should be included in the Romantic canon. I will firstly look at Charlotte Smith who, arguably, began the Romanticism tradition since she predates and influenced William Wordsworth. By looking at Smith’s ‘Written in the Church-Yard at Middleton in Sussex,’ from Elegiac Sonnets, and Beachy Head, I hope to express the connection between Smith’s poetry and Wordsworth’s. Anna Letitia Barbauld was another influence upon the male canonical writers.…

One of the most distinctive features between animals and people is speaking and telling what they want. Since human beings have been starting to life, they also have started to talk and interact with each other. To cooperate betwixt people provides the emergence of social concepts and improvement of these notions. Social notions found direction owing to people. They appeared by means of presence of human beings. Humans are building block of social concepts and social order. It is almost…

Writing an object biography means looking at the object 's history, from the moment it was made to the moment it disappeared, or to the present if the object still exists. Object biographies are passive narratives, because objects are inherently inanimate. An object biography will consequently not look at what the object 'accomplished ' during its lifetime, but rather, how the surroundings of the object transformed it through time. A biography can thus concentrate on several themes, or several…