Enforcing Silence

Author : David Landy,Ronit Lentin,Conor McCarthy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786996527

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Enforcing Silence by David Landy,Ronit Lentin,Conor McCarthy Pdf

Academic freedom is under siege, as our universities become the sites of increasingly fraught battles over freedom of speech. While much of the public debate has focussed on 'no platforming' by students, this overlooks the far graver threat posed by concerted efforts to silence the critical voices of both academics and students, through the use of bureaucracy, legal threats and online harassment. Such tactics have conspicuously been used, with particularly virulent effect, in an attempt to silence academic criticism of Israel. This collection uses the controversies surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a means of exploring the limits placed on academic freedom in a variety of different national contexts. It looks at how the increased neoliberalisation of higher education has shaped the current climate, and considers how academics and their universities should respond to these new threats. Bringing together new and established scholars from Palestine and the wider Middle East as well as the US and Europe, Enforcing Silence shows us how we can and must defend our universities as places for critical thinking and free expression.

Author : Jessica Rose Corey
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030810665

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Materializing Silence in Feminist Activism by Jessica Rose Corey Pdf

This book examines how rhetorically effective uses of silence and materiality mediate feminist activism and discusses the implications of these dynamics for pedagogy. Specifically, the text establishes a theoretical foundation for what the author terms “psychosocial composing,” or “the metaphorical composing and revising of individual participants and society, and the contribution of written and visual texts as an input and output of the relationships between individuals and social culture.” This idea is examined through primary research on the Clothesline Project, an international event that invites ​people who have experienced gender violence (directly or indirectly) to decorate tee shirts that get hung on clotheslines in public places. Through looking at values and roles of silence in global cultures and the use ​of material arts in activist efforts, the author argues for the unique value of silence and materiality in individual and collective spaces. The manuscript includes discussion questions and sample teaching materials. Overall, making connections among composition and rhetoric, psychology, sociology, politics, women’s studies, art and design, pedagogy, and history, this book further demonstrates the potential interdisciplinary approaches to rhetoric and communication.

Author : Aidan Russell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351141109

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Truth, Silence and Violence in Emerging States by Aidan Russell Pdf

Around the world in the twentieth century, political violence in emerging states gave rise to different kinds of silence within their societies. This book explores the histories of these silences, how they were made, maintained, evaded, and transformed. This book gives a comprehensive view of the ongoing evolutions and multiple faces of silence as a common strand in the struggles of state-building. It begins with chapters that examine the construction of "regimes of silence" as an act of power, and it continues through explorations of the ambiguous limits of speech within communities marked by this violence. It highlights national and transnational attempts to combat state silences, before concluding with a series of considerations of how these regimes of silence continue to be extrapolated in the gaps of records and written history. This volume explores histories of the composed silences of political violence across the emerging states of the late twentieth century, not solely as a present concern of aftermath or retrospection but as a diachronic social and political dimension of violence itself. This book makes a major original contribution to international history, as well as to the study of political terror, human rights violations, social recovery, and historical memory.

Author : Benjamin Eldon Stevens
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299296636

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Silence in Catullus by Benjamin Eldon Stevens Pdf

Both passionate and artful, learned and bawdy, Catullus is one of the best-known and critically significant poets from classical antiquity. An intriguing aspect of his poetry that has been neglected by scholars is his interest in silence, from the pauses that shape everyday conversation to linguistic taboos and cultural suppressions and the absolute silence of death. In Silence in Catullus, Benjamin Eldon Stevens offers fresh readings of this Roman poet's most important works, focusing on his purposeful evocations of silence. This deep and varied "poetics of silence" takes on many forms in Catullus's poetic corpus: underscoring the lyricism of his poetry; highlighting themes of desire, immortality-in-culture, and decay; accenting its structures and rhythms; and, Stevens suggests, even articulating underlying philosophies. Combining classical philological methods, contemporary approaches to silence in modern literature, and the most recent Catullan scholarship, this imaginative examination of Catullus offers a new interpretation of one of the ancient world's most influential and inimitable voices.

Author : Ebenezer Obadare
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9781580465519

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Humor, Silence, and Civil Society in Nigeria by Ebenezer Obadare Pdf

This work is an important contribution to the civil society debate in Africa and to the global literature on dissent.

Author : Lennard J. Davis
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781784780012

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Enforcing Normalcy by Lennard J. Davis Pdf

In this highly original study of the cultural assumptions governing our conception of people with disabilities, Lennard J. Davis argues forcefully against "ableist" discourse and for a complete recasting of the category of disability itself. Enforcing Normalcy surveys the emergence of a cluster of concepts around the term "normal" as these matured in western Europe and the United States over the past 250 years. Linking such notions to the concurrent emergence of discourses about the nation, Davis shows how the modern nation-state constructed its identity on the backs not only of colonized subjects, but of its physically disabled minority. In a fascinating chapter on contemporary cultural theory, Davis explores the pitfalls of privileging the figure of sight in conceptualizing the nature of textuality. And in a treatment of nudes and fragmented bodies in Western art, he shows how the ideal of physical wholeness is both demanded and denied in the classical aesthetics of representation. Enforcing Normalcy redraws the boundaries of political and cultural discourse. By insisting that disability be added to the familiar triad of race, class and gender, the book challenges progressives to expand the limits of their thinking about human oppression.

Author : J. Logan Smilges
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452968063

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Queer Silence by J. Logan Smilges Pdf

Championing the liberatory potential of silence to address the fraught disability politics of queerness In queer culture, silence has been equated with voicelessness, complicity, and even death. Queer Silence insists, however, that silence can be a generative and empowering mode of survival. Triangulating insights from queer studies, disability studies, and rhetorical studies, J. Logan Smilges explores what silence can mean for people whose bodyminds signify more powerfully than their words. Queer Silence begins by historicizing silence’s negative reputation, beginning with the ways homophile activists rejected medical models pathologizing homosexuality as a disability, resulting in the silencing of disability itself. This silencing was redoubled by HIV/AIDS activism’s demand for “out, loud, and proud” rhetorical activities that saw silence as capitulation. Reading a range of cultural artifacts whose relative silence has failed to attract queer attachment, from anonymous profiles on Grindr to ex-gays to belated gender transitions to disability performance art, Smilges argues for silence’s critical role in serving the needs of queers who are never named as such. Queer Silence urges queer activists and queer studies scholars to reconcile with their own ableism by acknowledging the liberatory potential of silence, a mode of engagement that disattached queers use every day for resistance, sociality, and survival. Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and/or extended descriptions. Cover alt text: Background detail of a painting on canvas shows a partial view of the upper body and face of a figure, bearded and naked; title in painted script.

Author : Edward A. Roberts
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 954 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Spanish language
ISBN : 9781493191130

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A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots by Edward A. Roberts Pdf

This work traces the etymologies of the entries to their earliest sources, shows their kinship to both Spanish and English, and organizes them into families of words in an Appendix of Indo-European roots. Entries are based on those of the Diccionario de la lengua española de la Real Academia Española.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Methodist Church
ISBN : CORNELL:31924057698361

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Methodist Magazine and Quarterly Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 822 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Methodist Church
ISBN : WISC:89067563098

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The Methodist Quarterly Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Stefanos Nachmias,Valerie Caven
Publisher : Springer
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030116477

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Inequality and Organizational Practice by Stefanos Nachmias,Valerie Caven Pdf

Bringing together international authors, this edited collection addresses the need for greater inclusivity within organizational policy and practice, in order to tackle both visible and invisible inequalities amongst employees. Volume II reflects the shift in thinking around organizations’ responsibility to recognize and value diversity and equality, and examines the wider implications for employment relations and working conditions. Providing strategic insight into diversity management, the authors aim to advance our understanding of informal discrimination in the workplace, offering practical suggestions for better leadership and allocation of resources. A useful guide for practitioners, policy-makers and scholars of HRM and organization, this book presents solutions to inequality issues in the workplace, with the goal to building stronger employment relations.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1324 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1835
Category : Prisoners
ISBN : MINN:31951T000853195

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Report from the Select Committee of the House of Lords Appointed to Inquire Into the Present State of the Several Gaols and Houses of Correction in England and Wales by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mary M. Reda
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780791493717

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Between Speaking and Silence by Mary M. Reda Pdf

Why are students silent? Using written reflections and interviews, Mary M. Reda examines students' perceptions of speaking and being silent in a first-year composition classroom, and explores how their teachers, classroom relationships, and their own sense of identity shape their decisions to speak or be silent. By challenging many firmly held beliefs about those quiet students in the back of the classroom, Between Speaking and Silence offers the new vision that silence is not necessarily problematic.

Author : John Furniss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600086456

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The Sunday School Or Catechism by John Furniss Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1078 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Theology
ISBN : OXFORD:590391834

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The Free Churchman and Christian Spectator by Anonim Pdf