Thursday 12 April 2012 at 14:00 - 15:30


MEDIA, CULTURE AND CONSUMPTION CONFERENCE AUDITORIUM 1 Muniz, B.


London School of Economics Law, Media and Artistic Creativity in 'Baile Funk' Music


When someone says 'funk', people in Brazil instead of remembering R&B or soul music, they will immediately assume you are talking about the electronic genre developed in the slums of Rio de Janeiro during the last decades. On October 18th, 1992, many youngsters performed violent scenes on Ipanema beach, stealing beachgoers while running through the sand band. Those were called 'funkeiros' by one of biggest local newspapers, linking 'funk' music to violence.


Last year, MCs accused of crime incitation were illegally arrested. The action clearly sought media attention, once funk is a highly controversial issue. The relationship between Rio de Janeiro's State Security Department and the media plays an important role in the whole state security policy (based in the UPPs - Unities of Pacifying Police, that seeks to occupy territories before dominated by the traffic).


The arrest also triggered a counter-action led by one local organization putting together a network that includes: MCs, lawyers, journalists, producers, State government, police, neighborhood associations and non-governmental organizations. The concept of performativity serves well the discussion, once many different agents fight to reiterate social norms and identities, stimulated by the law and other governmental acts. However, agents are never able to reproduce the identity completely, the concept of desidentification is used to discuss this impossibility. This work relies on articles published in brazilian newspapers and laws related to the production of funk music, altogether with interviews conducted with music agents in Rio de Janeiro.


Carrigan, M. Becoming Who We Are: Theorising Personal Morphogenesis


In this presentation I draw on data from the first year of my three year longitudinal study into the practice of reflexivity amongst students at a British university. My project utilises the recent work of Margaret Archer on the internal conversation to explore how structural, cultural and personal factors interact through the practice of reflexivity in shaping the unfolding psychobiographical trajectories of late adolescents. The research proceeds through an in depth interview in each term of the participants undergraduate degree over three years.


Through analysis of my first year of data, I will illustrate how realist theory stands uniquely placed both to theorise psychobiography in the abstract and methodologically guide empirical research. I argue that studying processes of personal stasis and personal change (personal morphostasis / personal morphogenesis) raises unavoidable questions about the ontology of the person, as well as the kinds of causal processes which obtain between different emergent strata in the composition of the person and their tangled interrelationship with their structural and cultural environment. I attempt to map out the contours of these processes (change and stasis in the emotions, habitual dispositions, practice of reflexivity and the person as a whole) through engagement with my interview data and, through doing so, sketch out an initial theory of personal morphogenesis ('becoming who we are') which will serve as the starting point for the main theoretical chapter of my thesis.


Wilson, J., Prior, L., Donnelly, M. Mapping the Evolution of the Well-being Concept in Public Policy


Background: Despite declining economic growth coupled with financial cut-backs, the concept of ‘well-being’ reigns high on government agendas. Yet a lack of agreement as to what constitutes well-being is hindering its implementation as a useful political objective. This project expounds the key words and phrases conceptually related to ‘well-being’. It is part of a larger scoping review which explores how meanings of well-being have evolved within public policy and the key drivers underpinning these changes. The research is funded by the ESRC and the IPH in Ireland.


Method: A scoping exercise focussed on eight databases was conducted across five time spans (90-94, 95-99, 00- 04, 05-09, 10+). Databases and their taxonomies were explicitly searched for the ‘well-being’ concept, its variants and conceptually related terms.


Results: Findings revealed no MeSH heading for well-being implying that the current literature is being subsumed into existing taxonomies. Where subheadings were identified (e.g. CINAHL), these were connected to top level categories, which were unrelated to the topic under investigation. Findings also illustrated that interest in the well- being concept within the context of public policy has risen exponentially, from 11 articles between 1990-1994 to one hundred and thirty seven articles in 2010+. While early conceptualisations focused on well-being dimensions


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