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Papers by judith adler
Artists’ Cockaigne
Routledge eBooks, Sep 8, 2017
Revolutionary art and the art of revolution
Semiotics of Tourism
Annals of Tourism Research, 1989
Founding Fathers and Seed Money
Conclusion: End of Utopia
Models and Mirrors: Towards an Anthropology of Public Events
Canadian Journal of Sociology, 1991
First published in 1990 by Cambridge University Press Published in 1998 by Berghahn Books Editori... more First published in 1990 by Cambridge University Press Published in 1998 by Berghahn Books Editorial offices: 55 John Street, 3rd floor, New York, NY 10038, USA 3, NewTec Place, Magdalen Road, Oxford, OX 4 IRE, UK ©1990, 1998 Don Handelman All rights reserved. No part of ...
Artists in Offices: An Ethnography of an Academic Art Scene
Social Forces, Dec 1, 1980
... Page 4. Page 5. ARTISTS IN OFFICES An Ethnography of an Academic Art Scene Judith E. Adler © ... more ... Page 4. Page 5. ARTISTS IN OFFICES An Ethnography of an Academic Art Scene Judith E. Adler © Transaction Publishers New Brunswick (USA) and London (UK) Page 6. First paperback printing 2003 Copyright © 1979 by Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, New Jersey. ...
The Foul and the Fragrant: Odor and the French Social Imagination
Canadian Journal of Sociology, 1988
In a book whose insight and originality have already had a dazzling impact in France, Alain Corbi... more In a book whose insight and originality have already had a dazzling impact in France, Alain Corbin has put the sense of smell on the historical map. He conjures up the dominion that the combined forces of smells--from the seductress's civet to the ubiquitous excremental ...
A Black Social Theorist? Reading The Right to Be Lazy by Paul Lafargue
Society
Artists in Offices: An Ethnography of an Academic Art Scene
Contemporary Sociology, 1981
... Page 4. Page 5. ARTISTS IN OFFICES An Ethnography of an Academic Art Scene Judith E. Adler © ... more ... Page 4. Page 5. ARTISTS IN OFFICES An Ethnography of an Academic Art Scene Judith E. Adler © Transaction Publishers New Brunswick (USA) and London (UK) Page 6. First paperback printing 2003 Copyright © 1979 by Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, New Jersey. ...
Comparative Studies in Society and History, 2006
VOICES IN THE WILDERNESS The first essay responds to our call for articles on deep histories of t... more VOICES IN THE WILDERNESS The first essay responds to our call for articles on deep histories of the present, wide-angle lenses “combining past and present as a unitary field of vision” (CSSH 2005: 233).Judith Adler shows the lineage connecting themes of current wilderness debates with fourth-century Christian ascetic movements. Such movements idealized empty spaces as the most fitting habitat for ascetics, by virtue of whose existence the world and human life was preserved, a revaluation of wilderness propagated more widely by the Christianization of Rome. The tradition of ascetic primitivism has its origins in practical forms of early philosophical anthropology and speculative psychology, and is perpetuated in tropes of wilderness as a book of nature, an educator superior to schools, a space whose purity is necessary for the survival of the world, and a wild space that humans are called upon to protect or transform. As millennial traditions of narrative continually offer themselves...
Countercultural Communes: A Sociological Perspective
Contemporary Sociology, 1985
American Anthropologist, 1991
Society
This introduction to four previously untranslated papers of Victor Zaslavsky draws attention to s... more This introduction to four previously untranslated papers of Victor Zaslavsky draws attention to shocks to understandings of the past in times of crisis, and to the light these papers cast upon the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It suggests the need for a long-term perspective on enduring patterns of Russian political culture, censorship, policing, and social psychology that neither originated nor ended with Soviet Communism. Keywords Russian`longue durée`. Russian disinformation campaigns. Russian fascism. Russian nationalities policy. Russian schooling. Social psychology of terror "The axe is right where it always was. The axe will survive the master." Russian proverb "It's difficult to predict the past." Soviet-era joke We are living a moment in which Faulkner's dictum-"The past is never dead. It is not even past."-echoes from all sides. With respect to the Russian invasion of Ukraine in particular, there is incredulity that a nineteenth-century land war, refugee numbers not seen since World War II, forced deportations, and the killing, plunder, and rape of civilians by soldiers of an invading army are taking place in twentyfirst-century Europe! Proclaiming that history is being sent into reverse, some journalists and experts invoke a "Stalinization of Russia" or a "return of the Cold War" or of Czarist imperial wars (Economist 2022:7; Schlögel 2018). Commentary regularly refers to the new Churchill, while seeking to establish who are the true contemporary "Nazis", "fascists", and "liberators" (Snyder 2022). Statesmen, advisors, and citizens scrutinize the past for lessons, hoping to avoid mistakes (of appeasement, open dissent, missed or mistimed flight) that in retrospect proved fatal. Facing the uncertainties of a new war, it is reassuring to compare it to a past one, already rendered into myth, in which the identity of the enemy, righteousness of the cause, and victorious outcome are not subject to question. But efforts to re-establish lost bearings through reference to an ostensibly known past founder as, subject to contemporary conflict, the past itself, or rather the human grasp of it, is destabilized. As cultures of memory, representations of nations, historical calvaries, heroes, and villains are reforged for battle, people scramble to assume new positions and alignments. 1 Fresh actors are cast in familiar roles, and language itself reveals its remarkable propensity for semantic warping and displacements of reference. When we hear from multiple sources that the past is not dead, we have been put on notice that, revivified, it is entering a phase of transformative challenge and change. In the context of tectonic quakes in international legal, diplomatic, military, and economic orders calling paradigmatic understandings of the past and predictions of the future into question, several writings of the late Soviet émigré political sociologist, Victor Zaslavsky, published here for the first time in English, take on fresh interest. Provocative of historically informed insight into times their author did not live to see, affording material for comparative assessments of institutional duration and change, they give rise to questions we can no longer ask him, questions he would have been less prodded than we to entertain. But this-the very test and definition of living work-is as it should be.
REVIEWS The Cultural Wealth of Nations, edited by
of cultural economics pioneered by scholars such as Viviana Zelizer, that explores the inseparabi... more of cultural economics pioneered by scholars such as Viviana Zelizer, that explores the inseparability of economic and cultural domains and more specifically, the creation of economic value through symbolic repre-sentations, ritual, and narrative. The editors compiled a number of case studies that illu-mine the manner in which cultural resources (cultural ‘‘heritage,’ ’ narratives about arti-facts and places, images shaping the percep-tion of products and peoples) are transmuted into economic wealth. The book examines historical processes, institutions, and agents that have effected such transformations, the social actors best positioned to recoup the
The holy man as traveler and travel attraction: early Christian asceticism and the moral problematic of modernity
Feux et Signaux de Brume
We are told that Virginia Woolf was reading Proust when she was writing To the Lighthouse. Indeed... more We are told that Virginia Woolf was reading Proust when she was writing To the Lighthouse. Indeed, she entitled the second part of her novel “Time Passes.” To measure the passage of time she needed a clock; she used a house. The way an abandoned country house grows old is something everyone has seen and understands. Little airs pry their way in; water leaks through widening cracks; rats invade; spiders stubbornly weave their webs; dust thickens on floor boards beginning to shrink apart—until that brief moment when the balance is tipped by something as light as a feather, the roof caves in, and the house suddenly collapses. Lovers then seek shelter in its ruins, and campers make their beds among the invading brambles. Just as the faces and hands of old men become wrinkled, so the rooftop and walls of the house come to bear the marks of bad weather and passing weeks, that is, of tempests and time. Tomorrow we will go to the Lighthouse if the weather is fine. No, we will not, the wind ...
Tocqueville Mortal and Immortal
The Anthem Companion to Alexis de Tocqueville, 2019
Artists’ Cockaigne
Routledge eBooks, Sep 8, 2017
Revolutionary art and the art of revolution
Semiotics of Tourism
Annals of Tourism Research, 1989
Founding Fathers and Seed Money
Conclusion: End of Utopia
Models and Mirrors: Towards an Anthropology of Public Events
Canadian Journal of Sociology, 1991
First published in 1990 by Cambridge University Press Published in 1998 by Berghahn Books Editori... more First published in 1990 by Cambridge University Press Published in 1998 by Berghahn Books Editorial offices: 55 John Street, 3rd floor, New York, NY 10038, USA 3, NewTec Place, Magdalen Road, Oxford, OX 4 IRE, UK ©1990, 1998 Don Handelman All rights reserved. No part of ...
Artists in Offices: An Ethnography of an Academic Art Scene
Social Forces, Dec 1, 1980
... Page 4. Page 5. ARTISTS IN OFFICES An Ethnography of an Academic Art Scene Judith E. Adler © ... more ... Page 4. Page 5. ARTISTS IN OFFICES An Ethnography of an Academic Art Scene Judith E. Adler © Transaction Publishers New Brunswick (USA) and London (UK) Page 6. First paperback printing 2003 Copyright © 1979 by Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, New Jersey. ...
The Foul and the Fragrant: Odor and the French Social Imagination
Canadian Journal of Sociology, 1988
In a book whose insight and originality have already had a dazzling impact in France, Alain Corbi... more In a book whose insight and originality have already had a dazzling impact in France, Alain Corbin has put the sense of smell on the historical map. He conjures up the dominion that the combined forces of smells--from the seductress's civet to the ubiquitous excremental ...
A Black Social Theorist? Reading The Right to Be Lazy by Paul Lafargue
Society
Artists in Offices: An Ethnography of an Academic Art Scene
Contemporary Sociology, 1981
... Page 4. Page 5. ARTISTS IN OFFICES An Ethnography of an Academic Art Scene Judith E. Adler © ... more ... Page 4. Page 5. ARTISTS IN OFFICES An Ethnography of an Academic Art Scene Judith E. Adler © Transaction Publishers New Brunswick (USA) and London (UK) Page 6. First paperback printing 2003 Copyright © 1979 by Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, New Jersey. ...
Comparative Studies in Society and History, 2006
VOICES IN THE WILDERNESS The first essay responds to our call for articles on deep histories of t... more VOICES IN THE WILDERNESS The first essay responds to our call for articles on deep histories of the present, wide-angle lenses “combining past and present as a unitary field of vision” (CSSH 2005: 233).Judith Adler shows the lineage connecting themes of current wilderness debates with fourth-century Christian ascetic movements. Such movements idealized empty spaces as the most fitting habitat for ascetics, by virtue of whose existence the world and human life was preserved, a revaluation of wilderness propagated more widely by the Christianization of Rome. The tradition of ascetic primitivism has its origins in practical forms of early philosophical anthropology and speculative psychology, and is perpetuated in tropes of wilderness as a book of nature, an educator superior to schools, a space whose purity is necessary for the survival of the world, and a wild space that humans are called upon to protect or transform. As millennial traditions of narrative continually offer themselves...
Countercultural Communes: A Sociological Perspective
Contemporary Sociology, 1985
American Anthropologist, 1991
Society
This introduction to four previously untranslated papers of Victor Zaslavsky draws attention to s... more This introduction to four previously untranslated papers of Victor Zaslavsky draws attention to shocks to understandings of the past in times of crisis, and to the light these papers cast upon the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It suggests the need for a long-term perspective on enduring patterns of Russian political culture, censorship, policing, and social psychology that neither originated nor ended with Soviet Communism. Keywords Russian`longue durée`. Russian disinformation campaigns. Russian fascism. Russian nationalities policy. Russian schooling. Social psychology of terror "The axe is right where it always was. The axe will survive the master." Russian proverb "It's difficult to predict the past." Soviet-era joke We are living a moment in which Faulkner's dictum-"The past is never dead. It is not even past."-echoes from all sides. With respect to the Russian invasion of Ukraine in particular, there is incredulity that a nineteenth-century land war, refugee numbers not seen since World War II, forced deportations, and the killing, plunder, and rape of civilians by soldiers of an invading army are taking place in twentyfirst-century Europe! Proclaiming that history is being sent into reverse, some journalists and experts invoke a "Stalinization of Russia" or a "return of the Cold War" or of Czarist imperial wars (Economist 2022:7; Schlögel 2018). Commentary regularly refers to the new Churchill, while seeking to establish who are the true contemporary "Nazis", "fascists", and "liberators" (Snyder 2022). Statesmen, advisors, and citizens scrutinize the past for lessons, hoping to avoid mistakes (of appeasement, open dissent, missed or mistimed flight) that in retrospect proved fatal. Facing the uncertainties of a new war, it is reassuring to compare it to a past one, already rendered into myth, in which the identity of the enemy, righteousness of the cause, and victorious outcome are not subject to question. But efforts to re-establish lost bearings through reference to an ostensibly known past founder as, subject to contemporary conflict, the past itself, or rather the human grasp of it, is destabilized. As cultures of memory, representations of nations, historical calvaries, heroes, and villains are reforged for battle, people scramble to assume new positions and alignments. 1 Fresh actors are cast in familiar roles, and language itself reveals its remarkable propensity for semantic warping and displacements of reference. When we hear from multiple sources that the past is not dead, we have been put on notice that, revivified, it is entering a phase of transformative challenge and change. In the context of tectonic quakes in international legal, diplomatic, military, and economic orders calling paradigmatic understandings of the past and predictions of the future into question, several writings of the late Soviet émigré political sociologist, Victor Zaslavsky, published here for the first time in English, take on fresh interest. Provocative of historically informed insight into times their author did not live to see, affording material for comparative assessments of institutional duration and change, they give rise to questions we can no longer ask him, questions he would have been less prodded than we to entertain. But this-the very test and definition of living work-is as it should be.
REVIEWS The Cultural Wealth of Nations, edited by
of cultural economics pioneered by scholars such as Viviana Zelizer, that explores the inseparabi... more of cultural economics pioneered by scholars such as Viviana Zelizer, that explores the inseparability of economic and cultural domains and more specifically, the creation of economic value through symbolic repre-sentations, ritual, and narrative. The editors compiled a number of case studies that illu-mine the manner in which cultural resources (cultural ‘‘heritage,’ ’ narratives about arti-facts and places, images shaping the percep-tion of products and peoples) are transmuted into economic wealth. The book examines historical processes, institutions, and agents that have effected such transformations, the social actors best positioned to recoup the
The holy man as traveler and travel attraction: early Christian asceticism and the moral problematic of modernity
Feux et Signaux de Brume
We are told that Virginia Woolf was reading Proust when she was writing To the Lighthouse. Indeed... more We are told that Virginia Woolf was reading Proust when she was writing To the Lighthouse. Indeed, she entitled the second part of her novel “Time Passes.” To measure the passage of time she needed a clock; she used a house. The way an abandoned country house grows old is something everyone has seen and understands. Little airs pry their way in; water leaks through widening cracks; rats invade; spiders stubbornly weave their webs; dust thickens on floor boards beginning to shrink apart—until that brief moment when the balance is tipped by something as light as a feather, the roof caves in, and the house suddenly collapses. Lovers then seek shelter in its ruins, and campers make their beds among the invading brambles. Just as the faces and hands of old men become wrinkled, so the rooftop and walls of the house come to bear the marks of bad weather and passing weeks, that is, of tempests and time. Tomorrow we will go to the Lighthouse if the weather is fine. No, we will not, the wind ...
Tocqueville Mortal and Immortal
The Anthem Companion to Alexis de Tocqueville, 2019