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Summer Camp and Globalization
Throughout my case study research and writing, I have found that American summer camp as both a cultural institution and practice fits well into multiple theories. However, when it camp to synthesizing these theories with a broader conclusion about the … Continue reading
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The Interestings on Summer Camp
After using a lot of historical examples of summer camping practices and rituals for my case study paper, I turned to a more modern text on summer camp to help me think about and process my ideas. I recently … Continue reading
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Putting Campers in Their Place
While brainstorming how interpellation functions at summer camp, I began to reflect on my own experiences as a camper, but especially as a camp leader myself. How do we put campers “in their place”? Also, how can interpellation function both … Continue reading
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A Short History of Summer Camp
Why is American summer camp a cultural practice worth studying? To tackle this question I did some extensive research on he history of summer camps in the US. The tradition of sending children to permanent summer camps was established at … Continue reading
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Summer Camp & Social Reproduction
Before doing much research at all on my case study project, the first applicable theorist was Althusser and his views on social reproduction and interpellation. As a longtime camper and counselor, I will admit that I have been a shameless … Continue reading
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Images of Orientalism
A major theme of interest that arose in our class discussion of Edward Said’s “Orientalism” was Said’s argument that Western perceptions of “The Other” or the “Oriental” in fact reveal more about the West than they do about The Orient. … Continue reading
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Decoding Denotation & Discourse
PAMM here, we’re back with another blog post, this time we’re focused on denotative and connotative meanings within discourses as well as exploring encoding and decoding. During class, we had talked about the near impossibility of something that only has … Continue reading
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Interpellating Twitter
Phil, Ally, Megan, and Max (otherwise known as PAMM) are back this week for our Café Discussion Group. The topic was social media, more specifically Twitter. We thought it would be interesting and informative. Thus, we set out to explore … Continue reading
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Home Bases & Civic (Super) Structures
Let’s be real here – one likes to reflect on his or her charming hometown as an engine of Marxist theory. But yesterday, in their café discussion group (always pushing the envelope) Max, Phil, Megan, and Ally did. It wasn’t … Continue reading
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