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Longing for a past that never was
Pauline Hunt and Ronald Frankenberg wrote an academic analysis about Disneyland titled “It’s a Small World” several decades ago, before Disneyland became the multibillion dollar company it is now....
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Ten is the new 21
Perceptions about childhood and innocence tend to go hand in hand. People generally believe that young children are innocent and deserving of a worry-free childhood. Unfortunately, children in...
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THERE IWAS UNDER M YROCK
Earlier this year, New York’s iconic Scholastic store in SoHo permanently closed. I never visited the store while it was open, but I got a glimpse of its history while visiting the small exhibit that...
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What is Neglect, and Who is Responsible?
Last December, here at Zeteo, I questioned the naturalistic theory that stress induces African-American parents to abuse their children at greater rates than do European-Americans (even when...
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Narcissism in children
Narcissistic individuals feel superior to others, fantasize about personal successes, and believe they deserve special treatment. When they feel humiliated, they often lash out aggressively or even...
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Jane Jacobs: Intuition vs. Evidence
After having read countless authors who cite Jane Jacobs’ The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and having intuitively come to many Jane Jacobs-esque conclusions on my own over the years, I...
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Halloween as Social Movement
In Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy (Holt Paperbacks, 2007), Barbara Ehrenreich writes about the evolution of carnivals; from tribal societies masking and dancing to manufacture...
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Fun, Football, and Carnality before Paris
♦ ♦ ♦ This post was largely finished before the Paris terror attacks. I criticized costumes that mock and mimic violence. These outfits “cut too close to the bone.” Those words of mid-week...
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Glory, Surprise, Salman Rushdie
Five mysteries hold the keys to the unseen: the act of love, and the birth of a baby, and the contemplation of great art, and being in the presence of death or disaster, and hearing the human voice...
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Olive Pierce: Children, Cambridge, Iraq
By您好, yangyang Geng Memory heals the scars of time. Photography documents the wounds. — Michael Ignatieff[1] It requires constant vigilance to see people as they are. — Olive Pierce The Portraits...
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