Crossing Borders Drawing Boundaries

Author : Barbara Couture,Patti Wojahn
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781607324034

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Crossing Borders, Drawing Boundaries by Barbara Couture,Patti Wojahn Pdf

With growing anxiety about American identity fueling debates about the nation’s borders, ethnicities, and languages, Crossing Borders, Drawing Boundaries provides a timely and important rhetorical exploration of divisionary bounds that divide an Us from a Them. The concept of “border” calls for attention, and the authors in this collection respond by describing it, challenging it, confounding it, and, at times, erasing it. Motivating us to see anew the many lines that unite, divide, and define us, the essays in this volume highlight how discourse at borders and boundaries can create or thwart conditions for establishing identity and admitting difference. Each chapter analyzes how public discourse at the site of physical or metaphorical borders presents or confounds these conditions and, consequently, effective participation—a key criterion for a modern democracy. The settings are various, encompassing vast public spaces such as cities and areas within them; the rhetorical spaces of history books, museum displays, activist events, and media outlets; and the intimate settings of community and classroom conversations. Crossing Borders, Drawing Boundaries shows how rich communication can be when diverse cultures intersect and create new opportunities for human connection, even while different populations, cultures, age groups, and political parties adopt irreconcilable positions. It will be of interest to scholars in rhetoric and literacy studies and students in rhetorical analysis and public discourse. Contributors include Andrea Alden, Cori Brewster, Robert Brooke, Randolph Cauthen, Jennifer Clifton, Barbara Couture, Vanessa Cozza, Anita C. Hernández, Roberta J. Herter, Judy Holiday, Elenore Long, José A. Montelongo, Karen P. Peirce, Jonathan P. Rossing, Susan A. Schiller, Christopher Schroeder, Tricia C. Serviss, Mónica Torres, Kathryn Valentine, Victor Villanueva, and Patti Wojahn.

Author : Carolyn Noble,, Helle Strauss,Brian Littlechild
Publisher : Sydney University Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 43,7 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 : Reiko Maekawa,Darwin Stapleton,Roberta Wollons
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789004435506

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Crossing Cultural Boundaries in East Asia and Beyond by Reiko Maekawa,Darwin Stapleton,Roberta Wollons Pdf

The studies in this volume reveal the personal complexities and ambiguities of crossing borders and boundaries, with a focus on modern East Asia. The authors transcend geography-bound border and migration studies by moving beyond the barriers of national borders.

Author : Frank Furedi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1191807961

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Why Borders Matter by Frank Furedi Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004364950

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Crossing Borders: Boundaries and Margins in Medieval and Early Modern Britain by Anonim Pdf

The twelve essays in Crossing Borders: Boundaries and Margins in Medieval and Early Modern Britain examine marches and margins as jurisdictional, legal, and social expressions of power, building upon the scholarship of Professor Cynthia J. Neville.

Author : John Renard
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520962903

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Crossing Confessional Boundaries by John Renard Pdf

Arguably the single most important element in Abrahamic cross-confessional relations has been an ongoing mutual interest in perennial spiritual and ethical exemplars of one another’s communities. Ranging from Late Antiquity through the Middle Ages, Crossing Confessional Boundaries explores the complex roles played by saints, sages, and Friends of God in the communal and intercommunal lives of Christians, Muslims, and Jews across the Mediterranean world, from Spain and North Africa to the Middle East to the Balkans. By examining these stories in their broad institutional, social, and cultural contexts, Crossing Confessional Boundaries reveals unique theological insights into the interlocking histories of the Abrahamic faiths.

Author : Hein Viljoen
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789401209083

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Crossing Borders, Dissolving Boundaries by Hein Viljoen Pdf

Borders separate but also connect self and other, and literary texts not only enact these bordering processes, but form part of such processes. This book gestures towards a borderless world, stepping, as it were, with thousand-mile boots from south to north (even across the Atlantic), from South Africa to Scandinavia. It also shows how literary texts model and remodel borders and bordering processes in rich and meaningful local contexts. The essays assembled here analyse the crossing and negotiation of borders and boundaries in works by Nadine Gordimer, Ingrid Winterbach, Deneys Reitz, Janet Suzman, Marlene van Niekerk, A.S. Byatt, Thomas Harris, Frank A. Jenssen, Eben Venter, Antjie Krog, and others under different signs or conceptual points of attraction. These signs include a spiritual turn, eventfulness, self-understanding, ethnic and linguistic mobilization, performative chronotopes, the grotesque, the carceral, the rhetorical, and the interstitial. Contributors: Ileana Dimitriu, Heilna du Plooy, John Gouws, Anne Heith, Lida Krüger, Susan Meyer, Adéle Nel, Ellen Rees, Johan Schimanski, Tony Ullyatt, Phil van Schalkwyk, Hein Viljoen.

Author : Frank Furedi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000080162

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Why Borders Matter by Frank Furedi Pdf

Western society has become estranged from the borders and social boundaries that have for centuries given meaning to human experience. This book argues that the controversy surrounding mass migration and physical borders runs in parallel and is closely connected to the debates surrounding the symbolic boundaries people need to guide on the issues of everyday life. Numerous commentators claim that borders have become irrelevant in the age of mass migration and globalisation. Some go so far as to argue for ‘No Borders’. And it is not merely the boundaries that divide nations that are under attack! The traditional boundaries that separate adults from children, or men from women, or humans from animals, or citizens and non-citizens, or the private from the public sphere are often condemned as arbitrary, unnatural, and even unjust. Paradoxically, the attempt to alter or abolish conventional boundaries coexists with the imperative of constructing new ones. No-Border campaigners call for safe spaces. Opponents of cultural appropriation demand the policing of language and advocates of identity politics are busy building boundaries to keep out would-be encroachers on their identity. Furedi argues that the key driver of the confusion surrounding borders and boundaries is the difficulty that society has in endowing experience with meaning. The most striking symptom of this trend is the cultural devaluation of the act of judgment, which has led to a loss of clarity about the moral boundaries in everyday life. The infantilisation of adults that runs in tandem with the adultification of children offers a striking example of the consequence of non-judgmentalism. Written in a clear and direct style, this book will appeal to students and scholars in cultural sociology, sociology of knowledge, philosophy, political theory, and cultural studies.

Author : John Davis,Jennifer A. Greenhill,Jason D. LaFountain
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 663 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780470671023

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A Companion to American Art by John Davis,Jennifer A. Greenhill,Jason D. LaFountain Pdf

A Companion to American Art presents 35 newly-commissioned essays by leading scholars that explore the methodology, historiography, and current state of the field of American art history. Features contributions from a balance of established and emerging scholars, art and architectural historians, and other specialists Includes several paired essays to emphasize dialogue and debate between scholars on important contemporary issues in American art history Examines topics such as the methodological stakes in the writing of American art history, changing ideas about what constitutes “Americanness,” and the relationship of art to public culture Offers a fascinating portrait of the evolution and current state of the field of American art history and suggests future directions of scholarship

Author : Larry Jones
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2001-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1571813063

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Crossing Boundaries by Larry Jones Pdf

Jones (history, Canisius College, Buffalo, NY) introduces "crossing borders" as a metaphor for challenging racial, geo-political, and disciplinary divides. In 13 papers originally delivered at a namesake 1998 U. of Buffalo conference honoring German-Jewish refugee historian G. Iggers, US and German academics explore the leitmotifs of migration, ethnicity, and minorities in public policy in Germany and the US; the struggle for civil rights in both countries; new perspectives on the experiences of Jewish refugees from Germany; and reflections on difference and equality in historiography, with a contribution by Iggers. Lacks an index. c. Book News Inc.

Author : Dr. August Höglinger
Publisher : Verlag August Höglinger
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-19
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9783902410320

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Setting boundaries for adults by Dr. August Höglinger Pdf

Set a boundary today! This book is about boundaries and territories for adults regarding the private and professional areas of daily cohabitation and collaboration. It should help people who do not know how to set boundaries and to say NO. Furthermore, several suggestions and exercises to solve problems with boundaries and territories of others are being offered. As the 29 stories in the book deal with real-life stories, one can easily identify with the particular problems.

Author : Lili Hernández
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527556720

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Crossing Cultural Boundaries by Lili Hernández Pdf

To cross boundaries, to go beyond borders: an evocative idea, but what are the implications and consequences of transgression? How are boundaries challenged, redefined and overcome within the intricacies of taboos, bodies and identities? Crossing Cultural Boundaries: Taboos, Bodies and Identities brings together a range of articles that address this theme using different frameworks of interpretation. As in the case of taboo, boundaries are often internalised and may function as regulators for a society. Their existence becomes visible the moment they are violated. The essays in this book explore voluntary and accidental encounters with boundaries not only from theoretical perspectives but also from the experience of those who are part of transitions on a regular basis in their everyday lives. The notion of otherness is central to the articles in this book. The definition and interpretation of cultural others become part and parcel of the process of negotiation of bodies and identities. While ‘the other’ is marked by outward bodily signs, spaces, taboos and cultural practices, the self is empowered by resisting submission to dominant modes and descriptions. Deconstructing boundaries becomes part of the project of redefining the self. This book will appeal to academics and researchers in communications, cultural studies, sociology, health sciences, anthropology, literature, and applied linguistics.

Author : Sanatan Bhowal,Sukanta Das,Sisodhara Syangbo
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781527510760

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Border, Globalization and Identity by Sanatan Bhowal,Sukanta Das,Sisodhara Syangbo Pdf

This collection investigates the complex and myriad relations between identity and borders in an increasingly globalized world. The movement towards a borderless world, bolstered by an unprecedented development in information and communication technology, forces us to rethink traditional notions of singular identity, and directs us towards the need for engaging and negotiating with the world in multiple ways. Employing a wide range of critical approaches to works that examine and explore the contested terrain of globalization and the hotly disputed arena of borders, the essays brought together here offer innovative perspectives through which issues of borders, globalization and identity can be negotiated. Straddling various genres, this collection represents an investigation of the conflicting relationship between identity and borders in the contemporary globalized world.

Author : Thomas Tinnefeld
Publisher : htw saar
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783942949743

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Bridging Language Boundaries - Explorations in Communication across Borders by Thomas Tinnefeld Pdf

In an increasingly interconnected world, where distances dwindle and cultures interweave, the role of communication gains renewed significance. Language, our primary form of expression and comprehension, acts both as a border and a bridge for ideas, knowledge, and experiences. Amidst this complex linguistic interplay, this volume finds its purpose. Chapters herein delve into communication surpassing geographic and linguistic boundaries. As language professionals, educators, and researchers, we navigate the challenges of this landscape where languages blend and merge. These chapters analyse and inspire queries that arise whenever linguistic borders are crossed. From exploring the functions of intercomprehension to examining the impact of digital tools on borderless language education, each chapter reveals a facet of the theme. Topics span language methodologies, language acquisition, linguistic landscapes, and the growing importance of technology in teaching, to name but a few. Readers are invited to join us in exploring how communication shapes and is shaped by diverse linguistic environments. Together, we illuminate the threads that determine global interaction, delivering insight into the functioning of language in our interconnected world.

Author : Helmut Eberhart
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Cultural relations
ISBN : 3631590032

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Networking Across Borders and Frontiers by Helmut Eberhart Pdf

This volume presents the proceedings of a Coimbra Group conference on networking across borders and frontiers in European culture and society that took place at the University of Graz in September 2007. Organised by the Task Force on Culture, Arts and Humanities it brought together researches from ten different European countries and an array of disciplines across the Humanities and Social Sciences spectrum, from Cultural Anthropology, European Ethnology, History, Literary Studies and Fine Arts to Peace Studies, Sociology and Political Sciences. It explores the capacity of the frontier-network binary for describing and analysing historical, cultural and political processes in the formation of European cultures and societies past and present, and across national and disciplinary boundaries.