Commodification

her male relatives as a monetary loss, rather than as an act of physical and emotional violence upon the woman herself. Geoffrey Chaucer, in The Reeve’s Tale, uses ownership, silencing, and fungibility to express this medieval concept of the commodification of women.…

The commodification of worldwide cultures has manifested itself in numerous forms. Expressions of culture have been used to create tourist experiences for external participants, to sell goods, and to legitimize claims for land. In all of these cases, the culture that is being commodified and sold is distinct from the original culture from which the commodities are born. In some cases, the original culture is forced to adapt and become easier to commodify, while in other cases it is simply not…

residents believe Robert is a good person, who never do anything to misguide or harm, which is why many assent to his ideas, are also willing to have confidence that his stances are moral. The good produced by the culture industry is based on commodification, standardization…

this, commodification also offered up an easy avenue for slavers to not only justify their actions, but also to continue their slave trading operations. By constantly and ruthlessly submitting slaves to a valuation process based on appraising prices solely off of their physical attributes and in some cases combining that with their respective history, slave traders and owners were able to almost completely separate the humanity from the slave themselves. This type of callous commodification…

and added a perception of value from slaves’ perspectives. Berry presented to an assortment of students and fans of her work to promote her book and discuss its contents in an informal academic setting. During her lecture, Berry focused on the commodification of deceased slaves and slaves’ ability to access ‘soul value’, or ability to recognize inner worth which couldn’t be valued like money. Because slaves could understand soul value, Dr. Berry expresses that black slaves could take ownership…

Lesson” is a short story that follows a student, Sylvia, her classmates, and teacher in a costly toy shop, F.A.O Schwarz. Within the store, Sylvia’s class reacts in awe to the toys’ prices. By her reaction we learn about conspicuous consumption, commodification, and why people buy expensive items that aren’t much use to them. The reason: to impress others with an item’s sign-exchange value, regardless of its use value. To begin, in the toy shop Sylvia reacts puzzled to the exchange value of…

This concept deals with the taking of ones culture and using it to make a profit. A great aspect of this commodification of culture is the symbol of the Kokopelli. The Kokopelli represents a variety of things within the Native American culture but, perhaps most prominent is that of a fertility god. Despite having this cultural significance, we, be it New Mexicans…

method of harmonization, liberalism, and the “Spirit of Capitalism.” The four institutions offer explanations on how capitalism influences the behavior of economic actors in the Anglo-Saxon Model through its individualistic model. First, the commodification in the factors of production addresses the shift that capitalism took when expanding the market. What had once been a market providing a subsistence routine and specialization of employment…

Super Size Me represents an example of a work that both circumvents and reinforces the tenets of corporate capitalism. Morgan Spurlock uses the grotesque human body in his film in order to address excessive consumption and the facilitation of this consumption by capitalism. However, in doing so, he inevitably uses capitalism as a tool to promote his message, creating a paradox Ross Singer dubs a “commodified form of cinematic dissent” (150). The irony of protesting capitalism through…

that the pleasures of retromania are here to stay’ (ibid p.49). The author also explains when analysing the film Looper (2012) how this film ‘Inadvertently, it also reminds us of the stasis of Western culture and the commodification of nostalgia’ (Sweeny 2015 p.49). The commodification of nostalgia and how film makers use this element to draw in audiences, can be said to be one of the most important matters when discussing nostalgia in film. Teo (2013) furthers this point in his research of…