Blurring Boundaries

Author : B. J. Hollars
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781496210128

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Blurring the Boundaries by B. J. Hollars Pdf

Contemporary discussions on nonfiction are often riddled with questions about the boundaries between truth and memory, honesty and artifice, facts and lies. Just how much truth is in nonfiction? How much is a lie? Blurring the Boundaries sets out to answer such questions while simultaneously exploring the limits of the form. This collection features twenty genre-bending essays from today's most renowned teachers and writers--including original work from Michael Martone, Marcia Aldrich, Dinty W. Moore, Lia Purpura, and Robin Hemley, among others. These essays experiment with structure, style, and subject matter, and each is accompanied by the writer's personal reflection on the work itself, illuminating his or her struggles along the way. As these innovative writers stretch the limits of genre, they take us with them, offering readers a front-row seat to an ever-evolving form. Readers also receive a practical approach to craft thanks to the unique writing exercises provided by the writers themselves. Part groundbreaking nonfiction collection, part writing reference, Blurring the Boundaries serves as the ideal book for literary lovers and practitioners of the craft.

Author : Jack Levin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135135126

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Blurring The Boundaries by Jack Levin Pdf

Over the decades, the lines separating young- middle-aged-, and older adults have blurred, as indicated by a broadening of the appropriate years for making life decisions. Not only are many people marrying later, but some are marrying earlier than ever. Overall, women giving birth later, but some are having children earlier in their lives. Older people are retiring later, but some are retiring at a younger age. The spread or variability (standard deviation) of age-based decisions has increased substantially, giving adults greater freedom from the traditional constraints of age. With these relaxed age norms has come a host of related social problems. The relaxation of age norms for adult decision-making has inadvertently blurred the boundaries between adults and teenagers, between teenagers and children. This generalization of the phenomenon throughout the life cycle is responsible for the adultification of childhood. Eight year old girls are, to an increasing extent, being treated as sexual objects; bullying peaks in the 6th grade; larger numbers of girls are having oral sex or sexual intercourse by the age of 15; the pregnancy rate for girls 13-15 is on the rise; we are in the process of dismantling the juvenile justice system in favor of adult forms of punishment; and more and more children are left without adult supervision in the afternoons, as though they were miniature adults who are capable of raising themselves. Jack Levin is the American Sociological Association’s 2009 Winner of the “Public Understanding of Sociology” Award. This short book communicates the power and importance of sociological thinking to major, worldwide social trends. Ideal for use in undergraduate courses such as introductory sociology, social problems, and social change as well as more advanced courses in population, or sociology of aging.

Author : Sandra Lapage
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781304813060

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Blurring Boundaries by Sandra Lapage Pdf

This book is about the fundamental meaning of my practice: the impossibility of defining boundaries in contemporary times in terms of language as idiom or artistic media, or in terms of nationality or identity, which remain especially relevant issues for those who migrate for family, work, religious, ethnic or political reasons. My work deals with the construction of heteroclite figures, residues of diverse personal experiences, represented on one hand by appropriation - which I do not treat as a conceptual practice, but instead as a sort of safe way to work between the diverse environments in which I am a foreigner - and, on the other hand, by a syncretic coexistence of diverse lines of thought and practices with which I build my identity and culture.

Author : Bill Nichols
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0253209005

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Blurred Boundaries by Bill Nichols Pdf

Blurred Boundaries explores decisive moments when the traditional boundaries of fiction/nonfiction, truth and falsehood blur. Nichols argues that a history of social representation in film, television and video requires an understanding of the fate of both contemporary and older work. Traditionally, film history and cultural studies sought to place films in a historical context. Nichols proposes a new goal: to examine how specific works, old and new, promote or suppress a sense of historical consciousness. Examining work from Eisenstein's Strike to the Rodney King videotape, Nichols interrelates issues of formal structure, viewer response and historical consciousness. Simultaneously, Blurred Boundaries radically alters the interpretive frameworks offered by neo-formalism and psychoanalysis: Comprehension itself becomes a social act of transformative understanding rather than an abstract mental process while the use of psychoanalytic terms like desire, lack, or paranoia to make social points metaphorically yields to a vocabulary designed expressly for historical interpretation such as project, intentionality and the social imaginary. An important departure from prevailing trends in many fields, Blurred Boundaries offers new directions for the study of visual culture.

Author : María-Cruz Negreira-Rey
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031439261

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Blurring Boundaries of Journalism in Digital Media by María-Cruz Negreira-Rey Pdf

Author : Stefan Salomon,Lisa Heschl,Gerd Oberleitner,Wolfgang Benedek
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004326873

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Blurring Boundaries: Human Security and Forced Migration by Stefan Salomon,Lisa Heschl,Gerd Oberleitner,Wolfgang Benedek Pdf

In Blurring Boundaries scholars from law and social sciences offer a critical account of the main topics of forced migration and advance a much-needed fresh view on forced migration through the lens of human security.

Author : Dorothee Beck,Adriano José Habed,Annette Henninger
Publisher : Verlag Barbara Budrich
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783847418573

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Blurring Boundaries – ‘Anti-Gender’ Ideology Meets Feminist and LGBTIQ+ Discourses by Dorothee Beck,Adriano José Habed,Annette Henninger Pdf

In politischen Auseinandersetzungen wird “Gender” als Sammelbegriff für Themen wie Frauen- und LGBTIQ + -Rechte, Gleichstellung der Geschlechter, sexuelle Bildung, feministisches Wissen und Geschlechterforschung verwendet. Während sich bisherige Veröffentlichungen auf die anti-gender Gruppen selbst oder feministische und queere Reaktionen auf diese konzentrieren, beleuchtet dieser Band die verschwimmenden Grenzen zwischen beiden Lagern. Im Fokus steht die Frage, inwieweit “Anti-Gender”-Behauptungen mit bestimmten Spielarten in der feministischen und LGBTIQ+-Politik interagieren und so Diskursbrücken zu liberalen und progressiven Teilen der Gesellschaft bauen. Anders als der „Sammelbegriff“ Gender vermuten lässt, ist das feministische und LGBTIQ+-Lager von politischen Konflikten, Meinungsverschiedenheiten und divergierenden Interessen durchzogen. Daher analysieren die Autor*innen die Verbindungen zwischen einigen dieser umstrittenen Positionen und dem “Anti-Gender”-Diskurs.

Author : Hugh Marlais Davies,Ronald J. Onorato,Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art, Modern
ISBN : UOM:39015060585513

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Blurring the Boundaries by Hugh Marlais Davies,Ronald J. Onorato,Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego Pdf

Far from being the latest movement or a new development in contemporary art, installation art, one could argue, is only the most recent manifestation of the oldest tradition in art, going as far back as the prehistoric paintings on cave walls at Lascaux. Fundamental to this work are its habitation and incorporation of a physical site, a connection to real conditions - be they visual, historical, or social - and often, a bridging of traditional art boundaries. The aesthetic power of installation art does not reside in the singular, commodified object but rather in the artwork's ability to become, not merely represent, the continuum of real experience. Blurring the Boundaries examines the subject of installation art through the permanent collection and exhibition record of the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, an institution with a unique heritage in support of such art dating back to the 1960s.

Author : Glen A. Mazis
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791475565

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Humans, Animals, Machines by Glen A. Mazis Pdf

Examines the overlap and blurring of boundaries among humans, animals, and machines.

Author : Harish Naraindas,Johannes Quack,William S. Sax
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781782383093

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Asymmetrical Conversations by Harish Naraindas,Johannes Quack,William S. Sax Pdf

Ideas about health are reinforced by institutions and their corresponding practices, such as donning a patient's gown in a hospital or prostrating before a healing shrine. Even though we are socialized into regarding such ideologies as "natural" and unproblematic, we sometimes seek to bypass, circumvent, or even transcend the dominant ideologies of our cultures as they are manifested in the institutions of health care. The contributors to this volume describe such contestations and circumventions of health ideologies, and the blurring of therapeutic boundaries, on the basis of case studies from India, the South Asian Diaspora, and Europe, focusing on relations between body, mind, and spirit in a variety of situations. The result is not always the "live and let live" medical pluralism that is described in the literature.

Author : Carolyn Noble,, Helle Strauss,Brian Littlechild
Publisher : Sydney University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781743324042

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Global social work by Carolyn Noble,, Helle Strauss,Brian Littlechild Pdf

Global social work: crossing borders, blurring boundaries is a collection of ideas, debates and reflections on key issues concerning social work as a global profession, such as its theory, its curricula, its practice, its professional identity; its concern with human rights and social activism, and its future directions. Apart from emphasising the complexities of working and talking about social work across borders and cultures, the volume focuses on the curricula of social work programs from as many regions as possible to showcase what is being taught in various cultural, sociopolitical and regional contexts. Exploring the similarities and differences in social work education across many countries of the Americas, Asia, Europe and the Pacific, the book provides a reference point for moving the current social work discourse towards understanding the local and global context in its broader significance.

Author : Rainer Bauböck,John Rundell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429861321

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Blurred Boundaries by Rainer Bauböck,John Rundell Pdf

First published in 1999, this volume examines new forms of cultural diversity which result from migration and globalization. Historically, most liberal democracies have developed on the basis of national cultures – either a single one, or a dominant one, or a federation of several ones. However, political and economic developments have upset traditional patterns and have blurred established boundaries. Ongoing immigration from diverse origins has inserted new ethnic minorities into formerly homogenous populations. Democratic liberties and rights provided opportunities for old and new marginalized minorities to resist assimilation and to assert identities. The resulting pattern of multiculturalism is different from earlier ones. Often cultural boundaries are neither clearly defined nor do they simply dissolve by assimilation into a dominant group – they have become fuzzy and a constant source of real or imagined hostility and anxiety. A proliferation of mixed identities goes together with stronger claims for cultural rights and escalating hostilities between ethnic minorities and national majorities. In many countries multiculturalism is today perceived as a challenge rather than as an enrichment. The book focuses on the question how institution and policies of liberal democracies can cope with these trends. The book addresses two tasks: 1) To compare different national contexts and types of ethnic groups (immigrant and indigenous, linguistic and religious minorities) and to discuss how policies of multicultural integration have to be adapted in order to cope with such differences. 2) To evaluate the impact of common rends of globalization which link societies and encourage convergence between national models of multicultural integration.

Author : Onno Oerlemans
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780231547420

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Poetry and Animals by Onno Oerlemans Pdf

Why do poets write about animals? What can poetry do for animals and what can animals do for poetry? In some cases, poetry inscribes meaning on animals, turning them into symbols or caricatures and bringing them into the confines of human culture. It also reveals and revels in the complexity of animals. Poetry, through its great variety and its inherently experimental nature, has embraced the multifaceted nature of animals to cross, blur, and reimagine the boundaries between human and animal. In Poetry and Animals, Onno Oerlemans explores a broad range of English-language poetry about animals from the Middle Ages to the contemporary world. He presents a taxonomy of kinds of animal poems, breaking down the categories and binary oppositions at the root of human thinking about animals. The book considers several different types of poetry: allegorical poems, poems about “the animal” broadly conceived, poems about species of animal, poems about individual animals or the animal as individual, and poems about hybrids and hybridity. Through careful readings of dozens of poems that reveal generous and often sympathetic approaches to recognizing and valuing animals’ difference and similarity, Oerlemans demonstrates how the forms and modes of poetry can sensitize us to the moral standing of animals and give us new ways to think through the problems of the human-animal divide.

Author : Karen J. Pittman
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003-04-16
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015059969611

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When, Where, What, and How Youth Learn: Blurring School and Community Boundaries by Karen J. Pittman Pdf

Explore ways to connect learning experiences that happen inside and outside school buildings and during and after the school day. This volume presents new structures and arrangements that are helping to meet the needs of vulnerable urban adolescents, and an innovative program to bring together schools, community organizations, policy makers and the general public to create learning-centered communities. It explores programs that are community-based-such as Chicago's After School Matters program, and programs for stimulating out-of-school free-choice learning to accomplish educational goals-as well as school-based programs.

Author : A. Nicholls,A. Murdock
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 023028017X

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Social Innovation by A. Nicholls,A. Murdock Pdf

Focusing on social innovation broadly conceived in the context of social entrepreneurship and social enterprise in their global context this book is organised to address three of the most important themes in social innovation: strategies and logics, performance measurement and governance, and finally, sustainability and the environment.