Contesting Identities

Author : Aaron Baker
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0252028163

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Contesting Identities by Aaron Baker Pdf

Publisher's description: Since the earliest days of the silent era, American filmmakers have been drawn to the visual spectacles of sports and their compelling narratives of conflict, triumph, and individual achievement. In Contesting Identities Aaron Baker examines how these cinematic representations of sports and athletes have evolved over time--from The Pinch Hitter and Buster Keaton's College to White Men Can't Jump, Jerry Maguire, and Girlfight. He focuses on how identities have been constructed and transcended in American society since the early twentieth century. Whether depicting team or individual sports, these films return to that most American of themes, the master narrative of self-reliance. Baker shows that even as sports films tackle socially constructed identities such as class, race, ethnicity, sexuality, and gender, they ultimately underscore transcendence of these identities through self-reliance. In addition to discussing the genre's recurring dramatic tropes, from the populist prizefighter to the hot-headed rebel to the "manly" female athlete, Baker also looks at the social and cinematic impacts of real-life sports figures from Jackie Robinson and Babe Didrikson Zaharias to Muhammad Ali and Michael Jordan.

Author : Avtar Brah
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-18
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134808687

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Cartographies of Diaspora by Avtar Brah Pdf

By addressing questions of culture, identity and politics, Cartographies of Diaspora throws new light on discussions about `difference' and `diversity', informed by feminism and post-structuralism. It examines these themes by exploring the intersections of `race', gender, class, sexuality, ethnicity, generation and nationalism in different discourses, practices and political contexts. The first three chapters map the emergence of `Asian' as a racialized category in post-war British popular and political discourse and state practices. It documents Asian cultural and political responses paying particular attention to the role of gender and generation. The remaining six chapters analyse the debate on `difference', `diversity' and `diaspora' across different sites, but mainly within feminism, anti-racism, and post-structuralism.

Author : Steven G. Ellis,Lud'a Klusáková
Publisher : Edizioni Plus
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9788884924667

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Imagining Frontiers, Contesting Identities by Steven G. Ellis,Lud'a Klusáková Pdf

Author : Robert Blackwood
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781472587121

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Negotiating and Contesting Identities in Linguistic Landscapes by Robert Blackwood Pdf

This collection represents contemporary perspectives on important aspects of research into the language in the public space, known as the Linguistic Landscape (LL), with the focus on the negotiation and contestation of identities. From four continents, and examining vital issues across North America, Africa, Europe and Asia, scholars with notable experience in LL research are drawn together in this, the latest collection to be produced by core researchers in this field. Building on the growing published body of research into LL work, the fifteen data chapters test, challenge and advance this sub-field of sociolinguistics through their close examination of languages as they appear on the walls and in the public spaces of sites from South Korea to South Africa, from Italy to Israel, from Addis Ababa to Zanzibar. The geographic coverage is matched by the depth of engagement with developments in this burgeoning field of scholarship. As such, this volume is an up-to-date collection of research chapters, each of which addresses pertinent and important issues within their respective geographic spaces.

Author : Maroussia Hajdukowski-Ahmed,Nazilla Khanlou,Helene Moussa
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0857450263

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Not Born a Refugee Woman by Maroussia Hajdukowski-Ahmed,Nazilla Khanlou,Helene Moussa Pdf

Not Born a Refugee Woman is an in-depth inquiry into the identity construction of refugee women. It challenges and rethinks current identity concepts, policies, and practices in the context of a globalizing environment, and in the increasingly racialized post-September 11th context, from the perspective of refugee women. This collection brings together scholar_practitioners from across a wide range of disciplines. The authors emphasize refugee women’s agency, resilience, and creativity, in the continuum of domestic, civil, and transnational violence and conflicts, whether in flight or in resettlement, during their uprooted journey and beyond. Through the analysis of local examples and international case studies, the authors critically examine gendered and interrelated factors such as location, humanitarian aid, race, cultural norms, and current psycho-social research that affect the identity and well being of refugee women. This volume is destined to a wide audience of scholars, students, policy makers, advocates, and service providers interested in new developments and critical practices in domains related to gender and forced migrations.

Author : Roger Nicholson,Gertrud Szamosi,Claudia Marquis
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443881234

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Contested Identities by Roger Nicholson,Gertrud Szamosi,Claudia Marquis Pdf

This volume brings together essays that, individually and collectively, address the force of the literary text with regard to problematic identities. They work out of shared concerns with literary representations of this issue in different regions, nations and communities that often prove divided; they pursue questions related to textual identity, where the literary text itself is contested internally, or in its generic and historical relations. In sum, these studies actively test identity, as social or literary concept, discovering in difference the very condition of a useful, if paradoxical, sense of personal or textual coherence. What happens to us when we move between different cultures or different societies, defined in geographical or historical terms? What happens to texts and textual practices in these same circumstances? What happens to us when we are obliged to adapt to a new social order? Homi Bhabha speaks of “cultural difference” as calling into play what he calls “cultural translation.” What happens to identity, the narrative that fashions a continued sense of self, in this case? Difference, raised to alterity, demands that we accord functional and philosophical value not just to other aspects, but also to the aspect of the other. At the level of personal or textual agency, however, difference contests and threatens to subvert stable selfhood, composing a scene of conflict. Even so, it often proves to be instrumental in re-charging a sense of the cultural valence of the literary text – not least by virtue of its political implications. In this regard, the border – where difference materialises – has considerable presence in contributions to this volume, prompting appreciation of texts that work on or travel across such borders, however haphazardly and dangerously, but also those that compose “border textualities.”

Author : Andrew J. Fuligni
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007-05-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781610442336

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Contesting Stereotypes and Creating Identities by Andrew J. Fuligni Pdf

Since the end of legal segregation in schools, most research on educational inequality has focused on economic and other structural obstacles to the academic achievement of disadvantaged groups. But in Contesting Stereotypes and Creating Identities, a distinguished group of psychologists and social scientists argue that stereotypes about the academic potential of some minority groups remain a significant barrier to their achievement. This groundbreaking volume examines how low institutional and cultural expectations of minorities hinder their academic success, how these stereotypes are perpetuated, and the ways that minority students attempt to empower themselves by redefining their identities. The contributors to Contesting Stereotypes and Creating Identities explore issues of ethnic identity and educational inequality from a broad range of disciplinary perspectives, drawing on historical analyses, social-psychological experiments, interviews, and observation. Meagan Patterson and Rebecca Bigler show that when teachers label or segregate students according to social categories (even in subtle ways), students are more likely to rank and stereotype one another, so educators must pay attention to the implicit or unintentional ways that they emphasize group differences. Many of the contributors contest John Ogbu’s theory that African Americans have developed an “oppositional culture” that devalues academic effort as a form of “acting white.” Daphna Oyserman and Daniel Brickman, in their study of black and Latino youth, find evidence that strong identification with their ethnic group is actually associated with higher academic motivation among minority youth. Yet, as Julie Garcia and Jennifer Crocker find in a study of African-American female college students, the desire to disprove negative stereotypes about race and gender can lead to anxiety, low self-esteem, and excessive, self-defeating levels of effort, which impede learning and academic success. The authors call for educational institutions to diffuse these threats to minority students’ identities by emphasizing that intelligence is a malleable rather than a fixed trait. Contesting Stereotypes and Creating Identities reveals the many hidden ways that educational opportunities are denied to some social groups. At the same time, this probing and wide-ranging anthology provides a fresh perspective on the creative ways that these groups challenge stereotypes and attempt to participate fully in the educational system.

Author : Thiven Reddy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351778688

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Hegemony and Resistance by Thiven Reddy Pdf

This title was first published in 2000: An original explanation for the importance South Africans attachment to ethnic and racial group categories in everyday speech and practice. The answers emerge by presenting a history of dominant and resistance discourses as they relate to collective identity - a move which breaks with prevailing approaches to South African political history, problematises ethnic group categories and offers new ways of seeing old debates.

Author : B. Eliassi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137282088

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Contesting Kurdish Identities in Sweden by B. Eliassi Pdf

Contesting Kurdish Identities in Sweden sheds light on the day-to-day strategies of accommodation and resistance that Kurdish youth use in the face exclusive narratives and structures of belonging and citizenship regimes in the Middle-East and Sweden.

Author : Timothy P. Barnard
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9971692791

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Contesting Malayness by Timothy P. Barnard Pdf

Contesting Malayness assembles research on the theme of how Malays have identified themselves in time and place, developed by a wide range of scholars. While the authors describe some of the historical and cultural patterns that make up the Malay world, taken as a whole their work demonstrates the impossibility of offering a definition or even a description of "Melayu" that is not rife with omissions and contradictions.

Author : Liz Jackson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000331714

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Contesting Education and Identity in Hong Kong by Liz Jackson Pdf

This text examines the intersection of youth civic engagement, identity, and protest in Hong Kong, through the lens of education. It explores how education and identity have been protested in Hong Kong, historically and today, and the mark that such contestations have left on education. Many people, particularly outside Hong Kong, were astonished by youth participation in the Umbrella Movement of 2013–2014, and the anti-extradition law protests in 2019. These protests have caused people to consider what has changed in Hong Kong over time, and what education has to do with youth civic engagement and political expression. This book provides an academic, theoretically oriented perspective on the intersection of youth identity and education in Hong Kong. Coming from an educational (and philosophical) orientation, Jackson focuses on areas where greater understanding, and greater potential agreement, might be developed, when it comes to education. This book will be of interest to educational policy makers, curriculum specialists, and educational scholars and students in liberal studies, social studies, civic education, comparative and international education, multicultural education, and youth studies.

Author : Gerd Baumann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1996-04-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 052155554X

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Contesting Culture by Gerd Baumann Pdf

A vivid 1996 ethnographic account of an aspect of contemporary British life, and a challenge to the conventional discourse of community studies.

Author : Rebecca Gearhart
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Ethnic groups
ISBN : 1592218989

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Contesting Identities by Rebecca Gearhart Pdf

This volume re-centres perspectives on Kenyan coastal history and society, moving away from the Swahili peoples as central actors and foregrounding other African peoples, particularly the Mijikenda, whose stories have received less emphasis. It explores how these coastal peoples have shaped their identities in conjunction with and in relation to their neighbours, examining the social, economic and political interactions between coastal residents in historical and contemporary contexts. Contributors include a new generation of Mijikenda scholar-activists.

Author : Michael E. Geisler
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1584654376

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National Symbols, Fractured Identities by Michael E. Geisler Pdf

A fascinating look at national symbols worldwide and the important role they play in creating and maintaining individual and collective identity.

Author : Surendra Nath Kaushik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015067816705

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Contesting Identities in Pakistan by Surendra Nath Kaushik Pdf

As The Two-Nation Theory Culminated In The Creation Of Pakistan, The Same Also Became The Ideology Of The State For The Purpose Of Legitimising Political Authority. However, Religion-Based National Identity Could Not Cement The Diverse Socio-Cultural Entities Of Pakistan. The Myth Of Cohesive Islamic Nationhood Was Exploded With The Creation Of Bangladesh In 1971. Although, Pakistan Has Managed To Survive As A Nation-State, Aspiring Multiple Identities Continue To Pose Threats To Its Mono-Religious National Identity. In The Face Of Contesting Multiple Identities, The Domination Of Punjab And Punjabis Still Remains A Defining Core, Alongwith The Islamic Identity. The Present Study Explores, Analyses And Estimates This On-Going Process Of Interface Of Rival Ethno-Sectarian, Linguistic And Regional Identities And Pakistan As A Nation-State.