Precarious Identities

Author : Vassiliki Markidou,Afroditi-Maria Panaghis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315521114

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Precarious Identities by Vassiliki Markidou,Afroditi-Maria Panaghis Pdf

This book investigates the construction of identity and the precarity of the self in the work of the Calvinist Fulke Greville (1554–1628) and the Jesuit Robert Southwell (1561–1595). For the first time, a collection of original essays unites them with the aim to explore their literary production. The essays collected here define these authors’ efforts to forge themselves as literary, religious, and political subjects amid a shifting politico-religious landscape. They highlight the authors’ criticism of the court and underscore similarities and differences in thought, themes, and style. Altogether, the essays in this volume demonstrate the developments in cosmology, theology, literary conventions, political ideas, and religious dogmas, and trace their influence in the oeuvre of Greville and Southwell.

Author : Eva Ries
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110767520

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Precarious Flânerie and the Ethics of the Self in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction by Eva Ries Pdf

Even though the literary trope of the flâneur has been proclaimed ‘dead’ on several occasions, it still proves particularly lively in contemporary Anglophone fiction. This study investigates how flânerie takes a belated ‘ethical turn’ in its more recent manifestations by negotiating models of ethical subjectivity. Drawing on Michel Foucault’s writings on the ‘aesthetics of existence’ as well as Judith Butler’s notion of precariousness as conditio humana, it establishes a link between post-sovereign models of subject formation and a paradoxical constellation of flânerie, which surfaces most prominently in the work of Walter Benjamin. By means of detailed readings of Ian McEwan’s Saturday, Siri Hustvedt’s The Blindfold, Teju Cole’s Open City, Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For and Robin Robertson’s The Long Take, Or a Way to Lose More Slowly, this book traces how the ambivalence of flânerie and its textual representation produces ethical norms while at the same time propagating the value of difference by means of disrupting societal norms of sameness. Precarious Flânerie and the Ethics of the Self in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction thus shows that the flânerie text becomes a medium of ethical critique in post-postmodern times.

Author : Tanya Fitzgerald,Helen M. Gunter,Jon Nixon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781350291812

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Intellectual Leadership, Higher Education and Precarious Times by Tanya Fitzgerald,Helen M. Gunter,Jon Nixon Pdf

This book draws on interdisciplinary social science and philosophical frameworks to offer new dimensions to debate about intellectual leadership and higher education. The chapters are focused on provoking readers to think critically about intellectual leadership in precarious times. The contributors frame critical questions about the unevenness, ambivalences, and disruptions that now mark everyday life and interactions. Rather than thinking about 'freedom from precarious times and precarity' they consider 'freedom from within' and how the sovereignty and autonomy of the individual to think and speak within the public realm might be retained, if not reclaimed. In the precarious present and in times of precarity, what has changed and why? What might now be the new social reality within which we work? Each of the contributors have been invited to take up their own perspective on what is precarious, and to examine the impacts on intellectual leadership. What does it mean to do intellectual work and be an intellectual leader? What are the implications for intellectual work and leadership if the academy itself is in precarious times?

Author : Heidi Egginton,Zoë Thomas
Publisher : University of London Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1912702592

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Precarious Professionals by Heidi Egginton,Zoë Thomas Pdf

Author : Irina Catrinel Crăciun
Publisher : Springer
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030142551

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Positive Aging and Precarity by Irina Catrinel Crăciun Pdf

This book explores positive aging through the lens of precarity, aiming to ground positive aging theories in current social contexts. In recent years, research on aging has been branded by growing disagreements between supporters of the successful aging model and critical gerontologists who highlight the widening inequalities, disadvantages and precarity that characterize old age. This book comes to fill a gap in knowledge by offering an alternative view on positive aging, informed by precarity and its impact on projections concerning aging. The first part of the book places aging in broader theoretical and empirical context, exploring the complex links between views on aging, successful aging theories, policy and social reality. The second part uses results from a qualitative research conducted in Germany to illustrate the dissonance between successful aging ideals and both negative and positive views on aging as well as aging preparation strategies inspired by precarity. Findings from this section provide a solid starting point for comparisons with countries that are both similar and different from Germany in terms of welfare regimes and aging policies. The final part of the book discusses the psychological implications of these findings within and beyond the German case study and outlines potential solutions for practice. This book provides health psychologists, gerontologists, sociologists, social workers, health professionals as well as students and aging individuals themselves with better understanding of the meaning of aging in precarious times and builds confidence about aging well despite precarity.

Author : Tadeusz Rachwał,Rolf Hepp,David Kergel
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783658273118

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Precarious Places by Tadeusz Rachwał,Rolf Hepp,David Kergel Pdf

The book offers a cross-disciplinary perspective on various aspects of precariousness in contemporary culture and society, concentrating on the topographical aspects of sources and causes of uncertainty and anxiety. Precariousness and precarity are themselves provisional and uncertain categories, though ones inviting to rethinking the scopes of precarity and precariousness from the perspective of locality and of places involved in their otherwise global range. The recent years have shown some ways in which precarity has changed its status and has become a strongly debated area not only in economic and political disputes, but also in philosophical debates and various fields of research related to cultural studies. The articles included in the volume address the spatial scope of anxieties and uncertainties involving numerous men and women affected by the several decades of the neoliberal insistence on various kinds of flexibility which, in turn, has put in motion numerous new mechanisms of exclusion and marginalization. Apart from this, a historical view on the making of precarious places is also offered in the pages of the book.

Author : Judith Butler
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781839763038

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Precarious Life by Judith Butler Pdf

In her most impassioned and personal book to date, Judith Butler responds in this profound appraisal of post-9/11 America to the current US policies to wage perpetual war, and calls for a deeper understanding of how mourning and violence might instead inspire solidarity and a quest for global justice.

Author : Mute
Publisher : Mute Publishing Ltd
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2000-09-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780955066405

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Precarious Reader by Mute Pdf

Contains texts on the politics of precarious labour. Concerning labour history, part-time freelance, unpaid employment and house work. The erosion of the welfare state, globalisation social precariousness and protest against this condition.

Author : A. Johnston
Publisher : Springer
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005-11-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781403976932

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Hegemony and Culture in the Origins of NATO Nuclear First-Use, 1945–1955 by A. Johnston Pdf

Johnston argues that the preemptive first-use of nuclear weapons, long the foundation of American nuclear strategy, was not the carefully reasoned response to a growing Soviet conventional threat. Instead, it was part of a process of cultural 'socialization', by which the United States reconstituted the previously nationalist strategic cultures of the European allies into a seamless western community directed by Washington. Building a bridge between theory and practice, this book examines the usefulness of cultural theory in international history.

Author : Norman K. Gottwald
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498292184

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Social Justice and the Hebrew Bible, Volume Two by Norman K. Gottwald Pdf

CONTENTS PART 1: THE ORIGINS OF ANCIENT ISRAEL Early Israel as an Anti-Imperial Community The Origins of Israel as a Textual Models for Envisioning Early Israel Triumphalist versus Anti-Triumphalist Versions of Early Israel: A Response to Articles by Lemche and Dever Historical Description versus Historical Representation and Symbol The Interplay of Religion and Ethnicity in Ancient Israel Proto-Globalization and Proto-Secularization in Ancient Israel Revisiting the Tribes of Yahweh after Twenty-five Years PART 2: THE POLITICS OF ANCIENT ISRAEL Religion and Politics: Early Israel and Judaism The Puzzling Politics of Ancient Israel The Role of Biblical Politics in Contextual Theologies PART 3: REVIEW AND REFLECTIONS Forward to Jeremy Young, The Violence of God and the War on Terror Reflections on R. S. Sugirtharajah’s Asian Biblical Hermeneutics and Postcolonialism. Contesting the Interpretations and The Bible and the Third Way: Precolonial, Colonial and Postcolonial Encounters Review of Stephen L. Cook, The Social Roots of Biblical Yahwism Review of Marty E. Stevens, Temples, Tithes, and Taxes: The Temple and the Economic Life of Ancient Israel Review of Philip R. Davies, The Origins of Biblical Israel Panel Presentation on Joshua A. Berman, Created Equal: How the Bible Broke with Ancient Political Thought

Author : Feyzi Baban,Suzan Ilcan,Kim Rygiel
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780228009184

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The Precarious Lives of Syrians by Feyzi Baban,Suzan Ilcan,Kim Rygiel Pdf

Turkey now hosts the largest number of Syrian refugees in the world, more than 3.6 million of the 12.7 million displaced by the Syrian Civil War. Many of them are subject to an unpredictable temporary protection, forcing them to live under vulnerable and insecure conditions. The Precarious Lives of Syrians examines the three dimensions of the architecture of precarity: Syrian migrants' legal status, the spaces in which they live and work, and their movements within and outside Turkey. The difficulties they face include restricted access to education and healthcare, struggles to secure employment, language barriers, identity-based discrimination, and unlawful deportations. Feyzi Baban, Suzan Ilcan, and Kim Rygiel show that Syrians confront their precarious conditions by engaging in cultural production and community-building activities, and by undertaking perilous journeys to Europe, allowing them to claim spaces and citizenship while asserting their rights to belong, to stay, and to escape. The authors draw on migration policies, legal and scholarly materials, and five years of extensive field research with local, national, and international humanitarian organizations, and with Syrians from all walks of life. The Precarious Lives of Syrians offers a thoughtful and compelling analysis of migration precarity in our contemporary context.

Author : María Porras Sánchez,Gerardo Vilches
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-26
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781000653861

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Precarious Youth in Contemporary Graphic Narratives by María Porras Sánchez,Gerardo Vilches Pdf

This volume explores comics as examples of moral outrage in the face of a reality in which precariousness has become an inherent part of young lives. Taking a thematic approach, the chapters devote attention to the expression and representation of precarious subjectivities, as well as to the economic and professional precarity that characterizes comics creation and production. An international team of authors, young and senior systematically examines the representation of precarious youth in graphic fiction and autobiographic comics, superheroes and precarity, market issues and spaces of activism and vulnerability. With this structure, the book offers a global perspective and comprehensive coverage of different aspects of a complex and multifaceted field of knowledge, with a special attention to minorities and liminal subjects. The comics analyzed function as examples of "ethical solicitation" that bear witness of the precarious existence younger generations endure, while at the same time creating images that voice their outrage and might move readers to act. This timely and truly interdisciplinary volume will appeal to comics scholars and researchers in the areas of media and cultural studies, modern languages, education, art and design, communication studies, sociology, medical humanities and more.

Author : Victor J. Seidler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134968848

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Rediscovering Masculinity by Victor J. Seidler Pdf

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Madeline Petrillo
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000879988

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Women, Trauma, and Journeys towards Desistance by Madeline Petrillo Pdf

Women, Trauma, and Journeys towards Desistance: Navigating the Labyrinth provides an examination of women’s desistance from crime from a gender-responsive, trauma-informed perspective. The book is based on the reflections of fifty-six women over a three-year period as they transition from custody to the community. With the women, the author examines how experiences of trauma, victimisation, and intersectional oppression constrain access to traditional desistance supporting processes, including supportive relationships, identity construction, the exercise of agency, and engagement with treatment and interventions, reframing these processes from trauma-informed perspective. The book joins together the women’s insights and experiences with principles of gender-responsive, trauma-informed principles in a framework through which criminal justice practitioners can support women in their efforts to leave crime behind. The framework for practice is a fusion of concepts from desistance theory, principles of gender-responsivity, and trauma-informed practice designed to help women understand the root causes of the problems they face in the present whilst building on their resilience and strengths to achieve their goals for their futures. This book is ideal reading for scholars and students of criminology and criminal justice, particularly rehabilitation, gender and crime, and feminist criminology. It will also be of interest to academics and practitioners of forensic psychology and social work, as well as probation officers, social workers and prison officers.

Author : Michael Argyle
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780202368993

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Social Interaction by Michael Argyle Pdf