Queer artist-led response to the archive at Holocaust Centre North

ObjectivesThe aim of this article is to answer the question of whether the lockdowns introduced in 2020 and 2021 during the Covid-19 pandemic had an impact on intergenerational family ties in the area of social support in European societies. If so, was the impact positive or negative? Was it more concerned with the support provided to parents or children living separately?Material and methodsThe analysis used data from representative SHARE Corona Survey 1 and SHARE Corona Survey 2, conducted among respondents aged 50 and over, between June and August 2020 and between June and August 2021.ResultsThe results of the analysis indicate that during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, the frequency of providing assistance in dealing with necessary matters to parents increased in almost all European countries, while assistance provided to children decreased. A similar situation occurred in the case of personal care. During the next spring lockdown in 2021, it was noticeable that there was a greater decrease in both care and frequency of support given to children than to parents.ConclusionsThe Covid-19 pandemic has undoubtedly had an impact on the frequency of social support provided. In the case of support provided to children, we see a negative impact. However, in the case of parental support, the situation was different. It should be remembered that the respondents are aged 50 and over, and therefore their parents are elderly people who often struggle with health problems and, in many cases, with dependency. This leads to the conclusion that in the case of people requiring support (elderly parents) in the form of assistance in dealing with necessary matters and personal care, the Covid-19 pandemic did not have a negative impact on the strength of intergenerational family ties.

The present study aimed to explain archival research and demonstrate its relevance as a distinct research method to include in sport management research methods course instruction. The current essay implicitly shows how archival research can complement other research methods and possibly improve upon their limitations. Furthermore, the study demonstrates that training in archival research can offer skills to students who might pursue employment in the sport industry. The review outlines what archival research is. Next, the various limitations and considerations to aid course instructors and subsequently researcher or practitioner comprehension are provided. Finally, the paper offers a guide for approaching physical archives and outlines expectations for archival research. Techniques necessary for analyzing information gleaned from archival research are presented and explained along with sample course assignments that are available to not only research methods classes but also potentially other coursework.

Reviewed by: Brown Boys and Rice Queens: Spell-Binding Performance in The Asias by Eng-Beng Lim Arnab Banerji Brown Boys and Rice Queens: Spell-Binding Performance in The Asias. By Eng-Beng Lim. Sexual Cultures series. New York: NYU Press, 2013; pp. 256. Kecak, the Ramayana-inspired trance-dance, is a regular and important feature of tourist attractions in Bali and is performed to full houses in palaces and temple complexes in Ubud. Tourists watch mesmerized as semi-naked men chant, dance, scream, and prostrate themselves in front of them. The queer colonial encounter that led to the creation of this homoerotic spectacle is seldom mentioned before, during, or after the performance. Cut to Singapore, the wealthiest city-state in Southeast Asia. The island nation is often touted as the gay capital of the region, and yet conversations about homosexuality have to happen behind closed doors and administrative clampdowns on queer people follow the retention of the antiquarian article 377A in the country’s constitution, which criminalizes homosexuality. Sex and sexuality, in other words, continue to be contested and under-written discourses when it comes to conversations about the colonial encounter in Asia, the homogeneous category of “Asia” in the Western imagination, and in the context of contemporary Asian performance. Eng-Beng Lim’s Brown Boys and Rice Queens: Spellbinding Performance in the Asias problematizes this aspect of the colonial encounter by productively inquiring into this murky territory. Lim’s exploration is based on what he calls the “colonial dyad”: the relationship between the white man and the native brown boy. Lim writes that “an understanding of Asian encounters . . . is not merely incomplete but lacking in its central substance if it does not take account of queer couplings, exemplified by the white man/native boy’s conceptual, historical, and sexual couplings” (8). Lim notes that extant scholarship has often looked at the perspective of the white man while relegating the native boy “as a superfluous character, a neglected critical trope, or simply missing from the archives” (9). For Lim, the native boy takes the center stage because “understanding the native boy in multiple contexts is . . . crucial to the erotohistoriography of performance traditions in the Asias” (12). The first chapter is the tour de force section of the book and explores the origins of the kecak dance, now considered an iconic sample of Bali’s cultural heritage. The chapter finds the perfect middle ground between archival research, personal anecdotes, and a rigorous historiographical and queer reading of colonial histories. We are introduced to Walter Spies, the German artist, musician, and adventurer who made Bali his home and played [End Page 159] an important role in promoting Bali as a “tropical paradise” to Western travelers, artists, and scholars. Lim unearths a cache of photographs to expose how Spies staged and orchestrated the encounters between his “cultured” guests and the “unharmed” cultures of Bali. He digs through extant archives and exposes Spies’s role behind the narrative that emerges at the turn of the twentieth century about Bali in films, ethnographic accounts, and tourist books. The chapter concludes with the fascinating account of the way in which kecak was conceived and choreographed by Spies for the 1931 orientalist film Island of Demons by Victor von Plessen and Friedrich Dahlsheim. Lim highlights the fact that the idea of the exotic that was imposed on Bali has perpetuated and is today used as the basis for the tourism and art industries that form the backbone of the island’s economy. Lim’s engrossing study helps us in reading and evaluating the mélange of Balinese exotica through a queer lens and as a result of a queer colonial encounter. The second chapter of the book, although not as rigorous as the first, is nonetheless an engaging study of Singapore as the gay “mecca” of Southeast Asia. Lim explores the city-state’s status as a gay haven vis-à-vis its stringent antiquarian laws that criminalize any non-peno-vaginal sexual act. These antiquarian laws are a British legacy and can be found in several former colonies, including India and Sri Lanka. Lim studies the evolution and growth of the burgeoning “pink-dollar economy” in...

Cohabitation has been spreading in the population during the last thirty years, and this is one of the most striking aspects of wider social changes that have taken place throughout the industrialized world. However, this change did not take place uniformly across Europe. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the current debate around the compatibility of cohabitation experiences with the Italian cultural context. Using an individual-level diffusion approach we obtain results that are consistent with the crucial role that family ties play in the choice of cohabitation in place of (or before) marriage. 1. Introduction Cohabitation has been spreading in industrial societies during the last thirty years, and this is one of the most striking aspects of general social changes that have taken place throughout these countries. The sudden gain in the popularity of cohabitation at the beginning of the 1970s as an informal way of starting a union can be explained by several factors. Cultural elements, such as rising individualism and secularism (Lesthaeghe and van de Kaa 1986), as well as economic aspects, such as changes brought by industrialization, changes in gender roles, and rising female labor-market participation, may have contributed to its increase (for a review, see Smock 2000). At the same time, the sexual revolution helped in removing the stigma surrounding premarital sex (Bumpass 1990). However, this change did not take place uniformly across Europe, one large exception being the Southern European countries. In the mid-1990s, about one in three women aged 25-29 in Sweden and Denmark was cohabiting; this compares to more than one woman in four in France, about one woman in six in Germany and the Netherlands, and less than one woman in 20 in Italy (Kiernan 1999). Demographers disagree on whether the country differences in the prevalence of cohabitation are likely to disappear over time or whether they will persist, as there are fundamental structural and cultural differences between the societies (Bernhardt 2004). Recent results from an analysis on the adoption of cohabitation among young Italian and German women (Nazio and Blossfeld 2003) seem to support researchers who do not see the differences disappearing over time, claiming that the diffusion of cohabitation among broad groups of the population in Italy is blocked. This differs from the empirical evidence presented in other recent studies (Rosina 2002, Rosina and Billari 2003, Rosina et al. 2003, Barbagli 1997, Barbagli et al. 2003, Rosina and Micheli 2006). They show that cohabitation starts to spread also in Italy and they argue that mechanisms related to the relationship between generations - and specifically between Italian parents and their children - are at the basis of the adoption or rejection of new behaviors (Rosina and Fraboni 2004). The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the current debate around the compatibility of cohabitation experiences with the Italian cultural context. We show that in Italy, this relationship is not influenced solely by the characteristics of the country's young adults but also by some of their parents' characteristics. The strong ties between parents and children and a welfare state that provides very limited direct help to youth are at the basis of the relatively scarce diffusion of non-marital cohabitation in Italy (Rosina and Fraboni 2004). Using an individual level diffusion model, we obtain results that are consistent with the crucial role that family ties play in the choice of cohabitation instead of (or be-fore) marriage. The paper is organized as follows: The next section presents the theoretical back ground and argues that the study of cohabitation in Italy needs to consider the role of family ties. To test our hypothesis, we use an approach proposed by Nazio and Blossfeld (2003), and slightly modify it in order to catch adequately the specificity of the Italian context, as will be highlighted in Section 3. …

Although previous research theorizes that cross-national variation in the relationship between family ties and health is due to nation-level differences in culture and policy/economics, no study has examined this theorization empirically. Using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), this study uses multilevel modeling to analyze individual-, nation-, and cross-level effects for 30,291 older adults in 14 nations. Family ties to spouses/partners and parents are associated with better health, but ties to coresident children are associated with poorer health in certain contexts. Familistic culture and public pension spending have a weak but statistically significant moderating effect on the relationship between intergenerational family ties and health. This article underscores the complexity of family and highlights the need for continued theorization and measurement at the nation level to promote older adults' health in diverse contexts.

PurposeThis paper aims to analyze the governance-related and financial determinants and consequences of corporate social responsibility assurance (CSRA).Design/methodology/approachBased on a legitimacy theoretical framework and on the business case argument, the author conducts a structured literature review and includes 66 quantitative peer-reviewed empirical (archival) studies on key CSRA proxies (CSRA adoption, choice of CSR assuror and CSRA quality).FindingsIn line with the business case for CSRA, the literature review indicates that internal corporate governance, country-related governance and specific financial determinants as reporting, firm size and industry (sensitivity) have a positive impact on CSRA adoption.Research limitations/implicationsA detailed analysis of CSRA proxies is needed in future archival research to differentiate between symbolic and substantive use of CSRA. In view of the current regulatory initiatives on CSR reporting and their decision usefulness, future research should also analyze in greater depth CSRA proxies as moderator and mediator variables.Practical implicationsWith regard to the increased stakeholder demand on CSRA after the financial crisis of 2008–2009, firms should be aware of the value-added of CSRA to increase the decision usefulness of their CSR reports and firm reputation.Originality/valueThe analysis makes useful contributions to prior literature by focussing on empirical quantitative (archival) research method, structuring research on the business case for CSRA with respect to its governance and financial determinants and consequences for firms and stressing moderator analysis in archival CSRA research.

Cohabitation has been spreading in the population during the last thirty years, and this is one of the most striking aspects of wider social changes that have taken place throughout the industrialized world. However, this change did not take place uniformly across Europe. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the current debate around the compatibility of cohabitation experiences with the Italian cultural context. Using an individual-level diffusion approach we obtain results that are consistent with the crucial role that family ties play in the choice of cohabitation in place of (or before) marriage.

The aim of the essay is to discuss an intergenerational transmission of family history and its impact on the process of becoming a Black woman in a racist society. The example chosen for analysis is the autobiography of bell hooks, Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood (1996), which is a story about girlhood. (B)ell hooks is a pen name of Gloria Jean Watkins, an African-American scholar and writer whose childhood and adolescence were during the period of racial segregation and desegregation in the 1960s of the twentieth century. (B)ell hooks writes Bone Black to reflect on being a Black girl growing up in racially segregated American society in the 60s of the twentieth century. She shows the historical and political contexts of her growing up, however, it is the local community and intergenerational family ties that she places at the center of her process of becoming the woman: bell hooks. Relationships with women, particularly a relationship between grandmother and granddaughter are of great significance in this process. The essay begins with a brief summary of the biography of bell hooks and a description of Bone Black, with particular emphasis put on the author’s interand intragenerational relationships with women. Next, I will move on to discuss the intergenerational transmissions of family history and their impact on the process of becoming a woman. For this purpose, I will refer to the life story concept introduced by Daniel Bertaux (2016), and the notion of subjective resources created by Catherine Delcroix (1999, 2014), in order to discuss the importance of intergenerational transmission of life stories in the process of becoming the woman knowns as “bell hooks.”

There is limited analysis of how migration has affected the experience of ageing and intergenerational relationships within transnational families. Older people are often portrayed as constrained to their geographically close support networks. Drawing on biographical, ethnographic and network analytical case studies of older Italian migrants in Perth, Australia, this chapter explores ageing and care within migrant families. The chapter traces relational networking of two elderly women who migrated from Italy to Australia five decades before, tracking the outreach of their social network and how information and communication technologies facilitated maintenance of contact with relatives in their home country. The presented case studies show a disembedding from the local neighbourhood through decreased physical mobility and the move to an aged care home and an intensified orientation towards the collective context of the family and a belonging linked to the country of origin. Furthermore, imaginary and virtual forms of mobility compensated for loss of physical mobility in old age. The research findings challenge the prevailing perception of older people as immobile, passive recipients of care and call for a transnational and life history perspective in the analysis of older migrants’ social embedding.KeywordsTransnational ageingOlder migrantsTransnational careBiographical researchInformation and communication technologyQualitative social network analysisEmbeddingAgeing in place

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This paper explores the dominant issues in intergenerational ties in Arab countries with a view to highlighting patterns, trends and challenges as well as policy implications. The data were drawn from a review of scholarly work and published literature in Arab countries and from a regional mapping of ageing policies and programmes in 2012. Social and health ageing policies in the region have been set with the premise that the family represents the core safety net for older Arabs. Yet demographic, sociocultural and economic transitions, as well as political conflict in the Arab world, are bringing profound changes to familial structures. This review feeds into efforts to promote health and social reforms that approach intergenerational solidarity from several fronts: providing equitable old-age income security, fostering cross-generational interactions, embracing caregivers and home-based care, promoting age-responsive actions in emergencies and conflicts, and prioritizing context- and country-specific research on the levels, types and trends in intergenerational and familial support.

This article examines how families are theorized at the complex crossroads of age, sexuality, and gender, and explores theoretical innovations derived from analyses embedded in the families of LGBTQ older adults, who have lived outside the embrace of heteronormativity. To address the extent of theorizing, we conducted a content analysis of 36 studies from 2010 to 2019. The articles revealed a social justice orientation that contextualized the marginalization and resilience in the social‐historical framing of LGBTQ older adults' family life. Most articles used theory explicitly or implicitly, including life course, minority stress, and intersectionality theories, and demonstrated the intimate connection of theory and research. Future theorizing about the families of LGBTQ older adults requires more diverse samples, contextualization of LGBTQ older adults' families through critical approaches such as queer theory, and the opportunity to study new avenues into intra‐ and intergenerational family ties in this pioneering population.

Embodiment, Time, and the Life Review in Jeff Lemire’s Ghost Stories Katie Mullins (bio) Jeff lemire’s graphic novel trilogy, Essex County (2009), has received much critical attention: the trilogy won the Joe Shuster Award and awards from the American Library Association and was also one of Canada Reads’ top five selections in 2010. It has also been nominated for two Eisner Awards, an Ignatz, and a Harvey Award. Perhaps surprisingly, however, little to nothing has been written about the trilogy in the way of scholarly study. Divided into three interconnected books, the trilogy explores the history, personal hardships, and intergenerational family ties that bind a collection of characters in a small rural community in Essex County, Ontario. Although I address aspects of the trilogy as a complete work, I focus on Book Two, Ghost Stories, and its representation of the aging body in connection with memory. Ghost Stories focuses on Lou Lebeuf, a once successful hockey player, who finds himself alone in old age and estranged from his younger brother Vince, with whom he once shared a close relationship. Elderly, deaf, and suffering from alcoholism and dementia, Lou attempts to tell his story as he recalls his earlier life in fragments of memory that emerge sometimes from triggers (photographs or places, for example) and sometimes spontaneously. The visual juxtaposition of youthful and aging bodies highlights [End Page 29] the effects of time on the body and foregrounds Lou’s struggle to maintain a sense of his identity in old age. In addressing Lou’s process of remembering, I explore how the narrative’s visual rhetoric and complex spatial configuration of time work to express Lou’s recourse to memory and his relationship to the past, as well as the vital role of the body within the process of remembering and storytelling. Ghost Stories presents Lou’s experience of isolation and alienation as a central issue in the narrative. Yet, while the narrative depicts the traumas of aging, it also shows how Lou’s body enables him to remember and tell his story; how, for instance, physically being in a certain place or adopting a particular posture aids his memory of a past event. Lou’s body also allows him to experience fleeting but positive moments of engagement with his present embodied experience and the external world. In other words, Lou’s embodied, sensory experiences (sight, vision, smell, and touch) often pull him out of his solitary reflections on the past and into an appreciation of his experiences in the present time. I argue that Essex County presents a model of aging that ascribes significance to the aging body by suggesting the ways in which embodied experiences are inseparable from processes of remembering. I also argue that, although Lou frequently dissociates from his aging body, his embodied experiences in the narrative’s present time allow him to experience fleeting, but life-affirming, moments of connectedness to others and to the external world, which counter his sense of isolation. My reasons for examining these issues with reference to a graphic novel are twofold. I am interested in probing the ways that experiences of the body and remembering are visually recorded but also in the medium’s ability to convey moments of time—past, present, and future—on the same page and the recursive effects that result from such (almost) concurrent temporality.1 In an interview with comics scholar Hilary Chute, comics artist and theorist Scott McCloud states that “comics is the only form in which past, present, and future are visible simultaneously” (“Scott McCloud”). In her own work on trauma and autobiographical comics, [End Page 30] Chute suggests that the effect of this simultaneity is to cause the reader to “look, and then look again” and thus the work “builds a productive recursivity into its narrative scaffolding” (Graphic Women 8). The interaction between text and image, which requires the reader to read back and forth between both, also works to this effect. Such recursivity becomes crucial to the work of confronting issues of subjectivity and selfhood and thus to my focus on the body in relation to time and remembering/storytelling, as it avoids reducing embodied experience to a...

Chapter 13 - Intergenerational transfers of time and money over the life course

Using data from the Fragile Families and Child Well being Study (N= 2,656), we examined the association between intergenerational relationships and parents' union stability five years after a baby's birth. Results showed that more amiable relationships between parents and each partner's parents, and more time children spent with paternal grandparents, were associated with increased odds that parents were co-residing by the time their focal child was age five. More time that children spent with maternal grandparents reduced union stability, although this result was not robust to methods that better address selection. These findings underscore the importance of the broader social contexts affecting couple stability. Findings further suggest that even amidst changing demographic conditions, intergenerational family ties are important for couples-and by extension-their children.