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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (2): 252–255.
Published: 01 July 2019
...Kim Allen Against Meritocracy: Culture, Power, and Myths of Mobility , by Littler Jo , Abingdon, UK : Routledge , 2017 , 236 pages, £29.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-1138889552 © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 Meritocracy is a ubiquitous concept. Writ large across...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (1): 15–28.
Published: 01 March 2019
... in the lift; and the first photograph’s later life as a social media meme. Asking how a depiction of glittering luxury can be presented as populist revolt, it discusses how elites draw on discourses of meritocracy, of “traveling up the social ladder,” to validate their actions. That Trump and friends...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (1): 1–14.
Published: 01 March 2019
... and representations; mechanisms and structures; experiences and identities. The empirical and conceptual insights of the contents are then highlighted, with regard to the significance of discourses of legitimacy, namely, those of meritocracy, civility, and luxury; the intersections of race and class that underpin...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (1): 110–129.
Published: 01 March 2016
...; they prefer to “luxuriate” rather than indulge in luxury goods. However, this perception of luxury is connected to hierarchical inequality and a sense of social fatalism that has been reinvigorated through new experiences with competitive inequality, neoliberal pollution, and the false promises of meritocracy...
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in Communicating Graphically: Mimesis, Visual Language, and Commodification as Culture
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Published: 01 March 2017
Figure 4 A Venetian Duke with doge meme text superimposed, 2014. Until 2010, the search term “doge” would result in images of the medieval doge rather than images of shiba inus. volidity-report.blogspot.com/2014/01/venetian-doge.html . Courtesy Herrence Meritocracy
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (1): 85–92.
Published: 01 March 2010
... strength by the amount of waste it generates. But in this case, the equation also runs backwards – the industry is strong because it generates waste. Because this waste – this exclusion – is what defines it as a meritocracy. And what about the people who have to receive this stuff? They are usually...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (1): 29–47.
Published: 01 March 2019
... Carla Liechty Mark , 271 – 99 . Santa Fe, NM : School for Advanced Research Press . Lin Jinghua . 2015 . “ Luxury Is in the Wallet of the Beholder .” China Daily , October 31 . Littler Jo . 2018 . Against Meritocracy: Culture, Power, and Myths of Mobility . London...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (1): 81–100.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Figure 4 A Venetian Duke with doge meme text superimposed, 2014. Until 2010, the search term “doge” would result in images of the medieval doge rather than images of shiba inus. volidity-report.blogspot.com/2014/01/venetian-doge.html . Courtesy Herrence Meritocracy ...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (2): 173–193.
Published: 01 July 2022
... meritocracy, but the stakes are higher than ever, not simply because it is more expensive than ever (or, more accurately, a greater burden of cost is placed on the individual student than on society) but because, as society in general becomes more stratified, there appear fewer other opportunities to “succeed...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (1): 111–125.
Published: 01 March 2015
..., the sector’s move from a subsidized meritocracy to a “user-pays” model over the last four decades has undermined its validity as the ultimate harbinger of new knowledge, instead turning the sector into a mass “pay-per” credentialing system that must, therefore, at least to some extent, play the game...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (1): 95–108.
Published: 01 March 2018
.... For example, in the United States one of the founding rationales for the public school system was that it would suspend this contradiction through the introduction of meritocracy and equal opportunity, and the creation of a citizenry that is viewed in terms of nation and not class. David Labaree thus writes...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (2): 212–227.
Published: 01 July 2021
... can also think of Gilles Deleuze ( 2005 : 152) (among many others), who mentioned how Hollywood actively participated in the mythologization of America as the land of the free, the symbol for independence, and a meritocracy based on the figure of the self-made man. 2. It must be noted...
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (2): 225–244.
Published: 01 July 2006
...”; which in complexity theory simply means it regulates itself. From the beginning, most technical decisions on standards and protocols were made by volunteer committees of users functioning as a meritocracy. Those with the best code decided, and the best code was determined by practice. What worked...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (1): 48–63.
Published: 01 March 2019
... the Rules of Marketing to Build Luxury Brands . London : Kogan Page . Littler Jo . 2017 . Against Meritocracy: Culture, Power, and Myths of Mobility . London : Routledge . LVMH . n.d. “ Arts and Culture .” www.lvmh.com/group/lvmh-commitments/art-culture/ ( Accessed October 23...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (3): 354–371.
Published: 01 November 2018
... ; Nagbot 2016 ; Toupin 2014) . Noting the highly gendered composition of hacker-and makerspaces (and tech culture more generally), feminist commentators have critiqued the notion of meritocracy that drives much hacking and that ignores structural inequalities ( Nafus 2012 ; Nagbot 2016 ), as well...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (1): 44–63.
Published: 01 March 2022
... for Women Caregivers amid Pandemic .” WebMD , September 16 . www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200916/self-care-urged-for-women-caregivers-amid-pandemic . Littler Jo . 2018 . Against Meritocracy: Culture, Power, and Myths of Mobility . Oxford : Routledge . McGee Micki . 2005 . Self Help...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (3): 465–488.
Published: 01 November 2012
... access to the universal ethical-political symbols that might allow them to better understand their actual structural position. They are instead compelled to understand it through the lens of an Anglicized American Dream, which tells them that their society is a demanding but fair meritocracy in which...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 March 2016
... essentially maintains that luxury is not “a legitimate child of illicit love” that “gave birth to capitalism” but an illegitimate producer of sociocultural resignation, aggressive inequity, and dishonest guarantees of meritocracy that were, in part, triggered by neoliberal capitalism ( Harvey 2007...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (2): 171–191.
Published: 01 July 2020
... (and/or meritocracy), progress, and the rule of law (see below for Naval′nyi’s nationalism). Zolotov and his supporters value hierarchy, loyalty, traditional masculinity, physical strength, and standing up for one’s word. For them, evading violent confrontation when the code of conduct calls for it, even if the fight...
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (2): 241–260.
Published: 01 July 2023
... citizens have been forcefully displaced from their land, and over one million people assassinated in a conflict that is hard to disentangle from the war on drugs. This is the supposed meritocracy fostered by capitalism and defended by the Colombian ruling class. Reversing Plato's ontological hierarchy...
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