Author : Kathryn Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:755676115
Generations of denial
Kathryn Taylor
Generations Of Denial
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Generations of Denial
Kathryn Taylor
Author : Kathryn Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Minorities
ISBN : OCLC:488403479
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In Denial
Robert Manne
Author : Robert Manne
Publisher : Quarterly Essay
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2001-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781921825002
In Denial by Robert Manne Pdf
In this national bestseller Robert Mane attacks the right-wing campaign against the Bringing them home report that revealed how thousands of Aborigines had been taken from their parents. What was the role of Paddy McGuinness as editor of Quadrant? How reliable was the evidence that led newspaper columnists from Piers Akerman in the Sydney Daily Telegraph to Andrew Bolt in the Melbourne Herald Sun to deny the gravity of the injustice done? In a powerful indictment of past government policies towards the Aborigines, Robert Manne has written a brilliant polemical essay which doubles as a succinct history of how Aborigines were mistreated and an exposure of the ignorance of those who want to deny that history. "In Denial is not a book of history. It is a political intervention. By holding an influential section of the Right to account-Manne was exercising the kind of responsibility often demanded of public intellectuals." —Raimond Gaita "In complex intellectual conflicts, there will always be argument about whether the antagonists are committed to finding the truth or to winning the battle. This essay tells us that Robert Manne is intent on finding the truth." —Morag Fraser "In Denial is a work of both the head and the heart. It is carefully researched and powerfully expressed. It needs to be widely read." —The Hon. P.J Keating 6 April 2001 "Robert Manne has made an important contribution to the continuing debate and in doing so has helped launch a new and important venture." —Henry Reynolds
States of Denial
Stanley Cohen
Author : Stanley Cohen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745656786
States of Denial by Stanley Cohen Pdf
Blocking out, turning a blind eye, shutting off, not wanting to know, wearing blinkers, seeing what we want to see ... these are all expressions of 'denial'. Alcoholics who refuse to recognize their condition, people who brush aside suspicions of their partner's infidelity, the wife who doesn't notice that her husband is abusing their daughter - are supposedly 'in denial'. Governments deny their responsibility for atrocities, and plan them to achieve 'maximum deniability'. Truth Commissions try to overcome the suppression and denial of past horrors. Bystander nations deny their responsibility to intervene. Do these phenomena have anything in common? When we deny, are we aware of what we are doing or is this an unconscious defence mechanism to protect us from unwelcome truths? Can there be cultures of denial? How do organizations like Amnesty and Oxfam try to overcome the public's apparent indifference to distant suffering and cruelty? Is denial always so bad - or do we need positive illusions to retain our sanity? States of Denial is the first comprehensive study of both the personal and political ways in which uncomfortable realities are avoided and evaded. It ranges from clinical studies of depression, to media images of suffering, to explanations of the 'passive bystander' and 'compassion fatigue'. The book shows how organized atrocities - the Holocaust and other genocides, torture, and political massacres - are denied by perpetrators and by bystanders, those who stand by and do nothing.
Climate Change Denial
Haydn Washington,John Cook
Author : Haydn Washington,John Cook
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136530050
Climate Change Denial by Haydn Washington,John Cook Pdf
Humans have always used denial. When we are afraid, guilty, confused, or when something interferes with our self-image, we tend to deny it. Yet denial is a delusion. When it impacts on the health of oneself, or society, or the world it becomes a pathology. Climate change denial is such a case. Paradoxically, as the climate science has become more certain, denial about the issue has increased. The paradox lies in the denial. There is a denial industry funded by the fossil fuel companies that literally denies the science, and seeks to confuse the public. There is denial within governments, where spin-doctors use 'weasel words' to pretend they are taking action. However there is also denial within most of us, the citizenry. We let denial prosper and we resist the science. It also explains the social science behind denial. It contains a detailed examination of the principal climate change denial arguments, from attacks on the integrity of scientists, to impossible expectations of proof and certainty to the cherry picking of data. Climate change can be solved - but only when we cease to deny that it exists. This book shows how we can break through denial, accept reality, and thus solve the climate crisis. It will engage scientists, university students, climate change activists as well as the general public seeking to roll back denial and act.
TOXIC POSITIVITY FROM SOCIAL MEDIA
Janice Debora Freely, Sukendra, dkk.
Author : Janice Debora Freely, Sukendra, dkk.
Publisher : Stiletto Book
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9786234090260
TOXIC POSITIVITY FROM SOCIAL MEDIA by Janice Debora Freely, Sukendra, dkk. Pdf
When we always try to have a positive mindset, it turns out to be negativity, usually called toxic positivity and that possibly can happen in the way we do or what we see on social media. Even though the problem above arises from the goodness of small statements, which is one of the factors of social media activity, who knows the goodness will negatively impact teenagers and adults, even pregnant moms. But, there’s some way for avoiding and prevent; and how it all works?
Denial of Violence
Fatma Müge Göçek
Author : Fatma Müge Göçek
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 681 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190624583
Denial of Violence by Fatma Müge Göçek Pdf
While much of the international community regards the forced deportation of Armenian subjects of the Ottoman Empire in 1915, where approximately 800,000 to 1.5 million Armenians perished, as genocide, the Turkish state still officially denies it. In Denial of Violence, Fatma Müge Göçek seeks to decipher the roots of this disavowal. To capture the negotiation of meaning that leads to denial, Göçek undertook a qualitative analysis of 315 memoirs published in Turkey from 1789 to 2009 in addition to numerous secondary sources, journals, and newspapers. She argues that denial is a multi-layered, historical process with four distinct yet overlapping components: the structural elements of collective violence and situated modernity on one side, and the emotional elements of collective emotions and legitimating events on the other. In the Turkish case, denial emerged through four stages: (i) the initial imperial denial of the origins of the collective violence committed against the Armenians commenced in 1789 and continued until 1907; (ii) the Young Turk denial of the act of violence lasted for a decade from 1908 to 1918; (iii) early republican denial of the actors of violence took place from 1919 to 1973; and (iv) the late republican denial of the responsibility for the collective violence started in 1974 and continues today. Denial of Violence develops a novel theoretical, historical and methodological framework to understanding what happened and why the denial of collective violence against Armenians still persists within Turkish state and society.
Denial
Ajit Varki,Danny Brower
Author : Ajit Varki,Danny Brower
Publisher : Twelve
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781455511921
Denial by Ajit Varki,Danny Brower Pdf
The history of science abounds with momentous theories that disrupted conventional wisdom and yet were eventually proven true. Ajit Varki and Danny Brower's "Mind over Reality" theory is poised to be one such idea-a concept that runs counter to commonly-held notions about human evolution but that may hold the key to understanding why humans evolved as we did, leaving all other related species far behind. At a chance meeting in 2005, Brower, a geneticist, posed an unusual idea to Varki that he believed could explain the origins of human uniqueness among the world's species: Why is there no humanlike elephant or humanlike dolphin, despite millions of years of evolutionary opportunity? Why is it that humans alone can understand the minds of others? Haunted by their encounter, Varki tried years later to contact Brower only to discover that he had died unexpectedly. Inspired by an incomplete manuscript Brower left behind, Denial presents a radical new theory on the origins of our species. It was not, the authors argue, a biological leap that set humanity apart from other species, but a psychological one: namely, the uniquely human ability to deny reality in the face of inarguable evidence-including the willful ignorance of our own inevitable deaths. The awareness of our own mortality could have caused anxieties that resulted in our avoiding the risks of competing to procreate-an evolutionary dead-end. Humans therefore needed to evolve a mechanism for overcoming this hurdle: the denial of reality. As a consequence of this evolutionary quirk we now deny any aspects of reality that are not to our liking-we smoke cigarettes, eat unhealthy foods, and avoid exercise, knowing these habits are a prescription for an early death. And so what has worked to establish our species could be our undoing if we continue to deny the consequences of unrealistic approaches to everything from personal health to financial risk-taking to climate change. On the other hand reality-denial affords us many valuable attributes, such as optimism, confidence, and courage in the face of long odds. Presented in homage to Brower's original thinking, Denial offers a powerful warning about the dangers inherent in our remarkable ability to ignore reality-a gift that will either lead to our downfall, or continue to be our greatest asset.
Children of Light, Children of Denial
Lynn Buess
Author : Lynn Buess
Publisher : Light Technology Publishing
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1997-06-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781622337156
Children of Light, Children of Denial by Lynn Buess Pdf
Lynn Buess has received prior acknowledgement for his three innovative books about symbolism and psychotherapeutic methods for healing practitioners. With this fourth volume, he introduces new insights and deeply penetrative perspectives upon the issues of abuse, alcoholism, co-dependency, and the shame-based dysfunctional behaviors in today's society. Lynn displays an intriguing combination of expanded universal overview along with therapeutic insights acquired from over twenty years of practice. These merge dynamically herein to provide a deeply profound and simple grasp of the afflictions which are receiving national and international attention in our times. Hopefully, this volume will contribute to the demise of the deep and destructive behavior which occurs when people individually and collectively insist upon ignoring the shadow side of being human.
Germany's Leaders Against Holocaust Denial and Anti-Semitism
Moshe Iofis
Author : Moshe Iofis
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469119939
Germany's Leaders Against Holocaust Denial and Anti-Semitism by Moshe Iofis Pdf
The author, together with other Holocaust survivors from the Silicon Valley, CA, maintains that the current leaders of the Federal Republic of Germany deserve to be nominated for 2012 Noble Peace Prize for their active fight against Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism.
A Companion to Hong Kong Cinema
Esther M. K. Cheung,Gina Marchetti,Esther C. M. Yau
Author : Esther M. K. Cheung,Gina Marchetti,Esther C. M. Yau
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 639 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780470659281
A Companion to Hong Kong Cinema by Esther M. K. Cheung,Gina Marchetti,Esther C. M. Yau Pdf
A Companion to Hong Kong Cinema provides the first comprehensive scholarly exploration of this unique global cinema. By embracing the interdisciplinary approach of contemporary film and cultural studies, this collection navigates theoretical debates while charting a new course for future research in Hong Kong film. Examines Hong Kong cinema within an interdisciplinary context, drawing connections between media, gender, and Asian studies, Asian regional studies, Chinese language and cultural studies, global studies, and critical theory Highlights the often contentious debates that shape current thinking about film as a medium and its possible future Investigates how changing research on gender, the body, and sexual orientation alter the ways in which we analyze sexual difference in Hong Kong cinema Charts how developments in theories of colonialism, postcolonialism, globalization, neoliberalism, Orientalism, and nationalism transform our understanding of the economics and politics of the Hong Kong film industry Explores how the concepts of diaspora, nostalgia, exile, and trauma offer opportunities to rethink accepted ways of understanding Hong Kong’s popular cinematic genres and stars
iGen
Jean M. Twenge
Author : Jean M. Twenge
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781501152023
iGen by Jean M. Twenge Pdf
As seen in Time, USA TODAY, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, and on CBS This Morning, BBC, PBS, CNN, and NPR, iGen is crucial reading to understand how the children, teens, and young adults born in the mid-1990s and later are vastly different from their Millennial predecessors, and from any other generation. With generational divides wider than ever, parents, educators, and employers have an urgent need to understand today’s rising generation of teens and young adults. Born in the mid-1990s up to the mid-2000s, iGen is the first generation to spend their entire adolescence in the age of the smartphone. With social media and texting replacing other activities, iGen spends less time with their friends in person—perhaps contributing to their unprecedented levels of anxiety, depression, and loneliness. But technology is not the only thing that makes iGen distinct from every generation before them; they are also different in how they spend their time, how they behave, and in their attitudes toward religion, sexuality, and politics. They socialize in completely new ways, reject once sacred social taboos, and want different things from their lives and careers. More than previous generations, they are obsessed with safety, focused on tolerance, and have no patience for inequality. With the first members of iGen just graduating from college, we all need to understand them: friends and family need to look out for them; businesses must figure out how to recruit them and sell to them; colleges and universities must know how to educate and guide them. And members of iGen also need to understand themselves as they communicate with their elders and explain their views to their older peers. Because where iGen goes, so goes our nation—and the world.
Denial of Justice in International Law
Jan Paulsson
Author : Jan Paulsson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005-10-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781139448284
Denial of Justice in International Law by Jan Paulsson Pdf
Denial of justice is one of the oldest bases of liability in international law and the modern understanding of denial of justice is examined by Paulsson in this book, which was originally published in 2005. The possibilities for prosecuting the offence of denial of justice have evolved in fundamental ways and it is now settled law that States cannot disavow international responsibility by arguing that their courts are independent of the government. Even more importantly, the doors of international tribunals have swung wide open to admit claimants other than states: non-governmental organisations, corporations and individuals, and Paulsson examines several recent cases of great importance in his book.
Teleology, First Principles, and Scientific Method in Aristotle's Biology
Allan Gotthelf
Author : Allan Gotthelf
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191629167
Teleology, First Principles, and Scientific Method in Aristotle's Biology by Allan Gotthelf Pdf
This volume presents an interconnected set of sixteen essays, four of which are previously unpublished, by Allan Gotthelf—one of the leading experts in the study of Aristotle's biological writings. Gotthelf addresses three main topics across Aristotle's three main biological treatises. Starting with his own ground-breaking study of Aristotle's natural teleology and its illuminating relationship with the Generation of Animals, Gotthelf proceeds to the axiomatic structure of biological explanation (and the first principles such explanation proceeds from) in the Parts of Animals. After an exploration of the implications of these two treatises for our understanding of Aristotle's metaphysics, Gotthelf examines important aspects of the method by which Aristotle organizes his data in the History of Animals to make possible such a systematic, explanatory study of animals, offering a new view of the place of classification in that enterprise. In a concluding section on 'Aristotle as Theoretical Biologist', Gotthelf explores the basis of Charles Darwin's great praise of Aristotle and, in the first printing of a lecture delivered worldwide, provides an overview of Aristotle as a philosophically-oriented scientist, and 'a proper verdict' on his greatness as scientist.
The Banality of Denial
Yair Auron
Author : Yair Auron
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781412817844
