Amanda Ciafone
Biographic Data
| ID | 1479771 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amanda Ciafone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amanda |
| FAMILY NAME | Ciafone |
| SIGNATURE | CIAFONE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1897-0334 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
"The Industrial Scrap Heap": Technological Unemployment, Obsolescence and Older Workers in the Early Twentieth Century US
Early 20th century workers, organisers, and social advocates argued that technological imposition by industry and its associated impact on older workers led to both the need and possibility to socialise old age economic security in the United States. This article explores how discourses of technological unemployment and human obsolescence influenced the push for old age pensions and Social Security. By analysing the intersection of technology, la…
Old Age and Radical History
This essay introduces readers to key themes in critical gerontology and age studies and asserts their centrality to contemporary history and politics. Age scholars and critical gerontologists push back against perspectives that individualize and medicalize old age as a natural or universal stage in a singular life course explained solely by biology, psychology, or personal choices. Instead, they challenge us to see contemporary life stages and ev…
Counter-Cola: A Multinational History of the Global Corporation
Counter-Cola charts the history of one of the world's most influential and widely known corporations, The Coca-Cola Company. Over the past 130 years, the corporation has sought to make its products, brands, and business central to daily life in over 200 countries. Amanda Ciafone uses this example of global capitalism to reveal the pursuit of corporate power within the key economic transformations-liberal, developmentalist, neoliberal-of the twent…
The Gray Panthers are watching: Gray women’s media activism in the 1970s and 80s
Armed with the recently coined term “ageism” and experience organizing in both the old and new lefts, in the 1970s and 80s the women of the radical movement, the Gray Panthers, set out to intervene in the representation of old age in U.S. media. Mobilizing through their Media Watch Task Force and local committees, they monitored media for examples of ageism, conducted media literacy campaigns, and even produced their own media content to construc…
Selling Local Modernization through the Global Corporation: Coca-Cola Bottling in Colombia, 1927-1944
The Coca-Cola Company ofreció a distintas embotelladoras alrededor del mundo sus concentrados de bebidas gaseosas y sus marcas registradas, para que estas produjeran y vendieran sus bebidas en zonas específicas. Colombia fue incluida en esta iniciativa a partir de 1927. Este sistema de franquicia permitió la expansión internacional de la compañía sin que esta tuviera un gran crecimiento corporativo y sin que debiera recurrir al empleo local direc…
If “ Thanda Matlab Coca-Cola” Then “Cold Drink Means Toilet Cleaner: Environmentalism of the Dispossessed in Liberalizing India
With the sudden, almost ubiquitous reentry of The Coca-Cola Company to India during economic liberalization, the branded commodity became a sign of both aspirational global consumer-citizenship for India's urban middle class and of corporate enclosure for those dispossessed of material and symbolic resources to fuel this consumption. Village communities around several of Coca-Cola's rural plants, including in Mehdiganj, Uttar Pradesh, organized a…
If “ Thanda Matlab Coca-Cola” Then “Cold Drink Means Toilet Cleaner: Environmentalism of the Dispossessed in Liberalizing India
With the sudden, almost ubiquitous reentry of The Coca-Cola Company to India during economic liberalization, the branded commodity became a sign of both aspirational global consumer-citizenship for India's urban middle class and of corporate enclosure for those dispossessed of material and symbolic resources to fuel this consumption. Village communities around several of Coca-Cola's rural plants, including in Mehdiganj, Uttar Pradesh, organized a…
Old Age and Radical History
This essay introduces readers to key themes in critical gerontology and age studies and asserts their centrality to contemporary history and politics. Age scholars and critical gerontologists push back against perspectives that individualize and medicalize old age as a natural or universal stage in a singular life course explained solely by biology, psychology, or personal choices. Instead, they challenge us to see contemporary life stages and ev…
The Gray Panthers are watching: Gray women’s media activism in the 1970s and 80s
Armed with the recently coined term “ageism” and experience organizing in both the old and new lefts, in the 1970s and 80s the women of the radical movement, the Gray Panthers, set out to intervene in the representation of old age in U.S. media. Mobilizing through their Media Watch Task Force and local committees, they monitored media for examples of ageism, conducted media literacy campaigns, and even produced their own media content to construc…
If “ Thanda Matlab Coca-Cola” Then “Cold Drink Means Toilet Cleaner: Environmentalism of the Dispossessed in Liberalizing India
With the sudden, almost ubiquitous reentry of The Coca-Cola Company to India during economic liberalization, the branded commodity became a sign of both aspirational global consumer-citizenship for India's urban middle class and of corporate enclosure for those dispossessed of material and symbolic resources to fuel this consumption. Village communities around several of Coca-Cola's rural plants, including in Mehdiganj, Uttar Pradesh, organized a…
Selling Local Modernization through the Global Corporation: Coca-Cola Bottling in Colombia, 1927-1944
The Coca-Cola Company ofreció a distintas embotelladoras alrededor del mundo sus concentrados de bebidas gaseosas y sus marcas registradas, para que estas produjeran y vendieran sus bebidas en zonas específicas. Colombia fue incluida en esta iniciativa a partir de 1927. Este sistema de franquicia permitió la expansión internacional de la compañía sin que esta tuviera un gran crecimiento corporativo y sin que debiera recurrir al empleo local direc…
Counter-Cola: A Multinational History of the Global Corporation
Counter-Cola charts the history of one of the world's most influential and widely known corporations, The Coca-Cola Company. Over the past 130 years, the corporation has sought to make its products, brands, and business central to daily life in over 200 countries. Amanda Ciafone uses this example of global capitalism to reveal the pursuit of corporate power within the key economic transformations-liberal, developmentalist, neoliberal-of the twent…
The Gray Panthers are watching: Gray women’s media activism in the 1970s and 80s
Armed with the recently coined term “ageism” and experience organizing in both the old and new lefts, in the 1970s and 80s the women of the radical movement, the Gray Panthers, set out to intervene in the representation of old age in U.S. media. Mobilizing through their Media Watch Task Force and local committees, they monitored media for examples of ageism, conducted media literacy campaigns, and even produced their own media content to construc…
Old Age and Radical History
This essay introduces readers to key themes in critical gerontology and age studies and asserts their centrality to contemporary history and politics. Age scholars and critical gerontologists push back against perspectives that individualize and medicalize old age as a natural or universal stage in a singular life course explained solely by biology, psychology, or personal choices. Instead, they challenge us to see contemporary life stages and ev…
"The Industrial Scrap Heap": Technological Unemployment, Obsolescence and Older Workers in the Early Twentieth Century US
Early 20th century workers, organisers, and social advocates argued that technological imposition by industry and its associated impact on older workers led to both the need and possibility to socialise old age economic security in the United States. This article explores how discourses of technological unemployment and human obsolescence influenced the push for old age pensions and Social Security. By analysing the intersection of technology, la…
Advertising (3 works) · Business (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aging and Gerontology Research (2 works) · Architecture, Design, and Social History (2 works) · Coca cola (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works)