Commodification

Sandy, born into slavery and collected as a commodity providing profit as labour, is unable to escape slavery; he is harvested as a static tree, unable to do anything to stop the consumption and violent commodification of his body once again. Already stripped of their freedom and identity as slaves, their transformation into non-humans compounds their objectification and suffering. In his tree form, Sandy’s flesh falls victim to violence in the form of a woodpecker…

association to the inferiority of women, such as noted by Garland-Thompson. ii) Relates not only to women, but also those with “undesirable” bodies—such as those with physical disabilities. b) Objectification i) Degradation down to an object. c) Commodification i) Appears to be a result of objectifcation, where the constant degradation leads one to view someone as a mere object. d) Commification and objectification together leads to the dismemberment of women. 2) Beauty “Ideals” Can Make…

Though women are universally exploited by the media, North American advertisements depict women differently based on race. Women of colour are more sexualized in the society based on their bodies; they have historically been stereotyped as having bigger butts, hips, breast, and lips. They are often captured in graphic positions such as with their legs open, posing on all fours or in an aggressive manner that conversely extends a deviant solicitation of their body, and, therefore, are…

stories and experiences only with each other, many American’s either do not understand or do not care about the plight of the laborers, which is effectively how they are desocialized and erased. In addition to desocialization, erasure also causes commodification of the body, which Professor of Medical Anthropology, Nancy Scheper-Hughes, defines as: Encompassing all capitalized economic relations between humans in which human bodies are the token of economic exchanges that are often masked as…

Shiva contends that “society and economy are not insulated from each other,” (Shiva 34.) The fundamental misunderstanding of this concept is what leads to the commodification of everything, men and especially women. There is no way to separate neoliberal capitalism and the society that lives within it when everyone is counted by how much they produce. Zirin shines sinister light on that misunderstanding when he recounts…

Practice, Politics, the chapters highlight the place of music in society by engaging Marxist theories on society. The book provides “music-directed approaches to Marx,” which express the issues of musical thinking and theorizing as it relates to commodification, the control of musical form by capitalism, the connection between music-making and economic processes, and the issues of Marxist state policies as they relate to musical practices (xv). Qureshi began this work as a collection of…

values such as emotions into something concrete. It can be used as an ‘exchange and consumption’ (Bowman, 1998, p.319) in the cultural industry. Mainstream music emcompasses this logic of reification to further hornswoggle masses into fetish commodification. Portrayal is made by emphasis on emotions, such as love and melancholy in modern-day music. The culture industry commodifies these unreal values into a material which can be sold and bought to masses. Taylor Swift and Adele are…

culturally. (Townsend, 1979) However, measuring poverty is hard as the concept and the standard of poverty is differ in individuals or societies. ・de-commodification - “the degree to which individuals, or families, can uphold a socially acceptable standard of living independently of market participation” (Esping-Ander-sen, 1990: 37). De-commodification is usually operated by the state through providing welfare to protect its citizens, especially aimed to protect the middle class and working…

Ethics in business is of crucial importance in the decision making of reputable companies in the United States and abroad. It's regarded as, "a significant factor which has an influence on both the success and profits of modern companies" (Sroka & Lorinczy, 2015, p. 156). The G2Q case study is one such entity. From inception, the South Pacific business venture appears to be tainted with injustices. There are many layers of inequities in favor of monetary gain in the form of profit sharing and…

A microaggression is a statement that is generally directed toward people of color and women that is both stunning and sudden that can either happen with or without conscious awareness. However, most of the time microaggressions occur without the individual consciously recognizing them. Due to the fact that most of the time these statements go unrecognized and unaddressed, they continue to persist in our society. Recently, I experienced a situation in which a microaggression was directed…