Subjectivity Transformed

Author : Thomas Vesting
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781509553372

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Subjectivity Transformed by Thomas Vesting Pdf

This book provides a historically informed reconstruction of the social practices that have shaped the formation of the modern subject from the early modern period to the present. The formal legal protections accorded to subjects are, and always have been, latent in social practices, norms, and language before they are articulated in formal legal orders. Vesting argues that in Western societies legal personhood is closely tied to three ideal types of social personhood – what he calls the gentleman, the manager, and Homo digitalis. By examining these three ideal types and their emergence in society, we can see that Western formal law does not bring these ideal types into being but, on the contrary, they arise from the social and cultural conditions that they generate and reflect. Correspondingly, Western legal personhood, or “legal subjectivity,” arises from the history and culture of Western nations, not the other way around. Therefore, signature features of Western formal law, particularly its valorization of the rights of persons (whether natural or nonnatural), come from the particular sociohistorical cultural developments that had already generated the strong ideas of social personhood inherent in the ideal types of the gentleman, the manager, and Homo digitalis. Subjectivity Transformed is a major contribution to legal and social theory and, with its original analysis of the formation of modern subjectivity, it will be of interest to students and scholars throughout the social sciences and humanities.

Author : Steve Pile,Nigel Thrift
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005-11-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134852284

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Mapping the Subject by Steve Pile,Nigel Thrift Pdf

Rejecting static and reductionist understandings of subjectivity, this book asks how people find their place in the world. Mapping the Subject is an inter-disciplinary exploration of subjectivity, which focuses on the importance of space in the constitution of acting, thinking, feeling individuals. The authors develop their arguments through detailed case studies and clear theoretical expositions. Themes discussed are organised into four parts: constructing the subject, sexuality and subjectivity, the limits of identity, and the politics of the subject. There is, here, a commitment to mapping the subject - a subject which is in some ways fluid, in other ways fixed; which is located in constantly unfolding power, knowledge and social relationships. This book is, moreover, about new maps for the subject.

Author : Margaret R. Hawkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135093181

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Framing Languages and Literacies by Margaret R. Hawkins Pdf

In this seminal volume leading language and literacy scholars clearly articulate and explicate major social perspectives and approaches in the fields of language and literacy studies. Each approach draws on distinct bodies of literature and traditions and uses distinct identifiers, labels, and constellations of concepts; each has been taken up across diverse global contexts and is used as rationale and guide for the design of research and of educational policies and practices. Authors discuss the genesis and historical trajectory of the approach with which they are associated; offer their unique perspectives, rationales, and engagements; and investigate implications for understanding language and literacy use in and out of schools. The premise of the book is that understanding concepts, perspectives, and approaches requires knowing the context in which they were created, the rationale or purpose in creating them, and how they have been taken up and applied in communities of practice. Accessible yet theoretically rich, this volume is indispensible for researchers, students, and professionals across the fields of language and literacy studies.

Author : Jeffrey Church
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780271050768

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Infinite Autonomy by Jeffrey Church Pdf

G. W. F. Hegel and Friedrich Nietzsche are often considered the philosophical antipodes of the nineteenth century. In Infinite Autonomy, Jeffrey Church draws on the thinking of both Hegel and Nietzsche to assess the modern Western defense of individuality&—to consider whether we were right to reject the ancient model of community above the individual. The theoretical and practical implications of this project are important, because the proper defense of the individual allows for the survival of modern liberal institutions in the face of non-Western critics who value communal goals at the expense of individual rights. By drawing from Hegelian and Nietzschean ideas of autonomy, Church finds a third way for the individual&—what he calls the &“historical individual,&” which goes beyond the disagreements of the ancients and the moderns while nonetheless incorporating their distinctive contributions.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004486416

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Deep hiStories by Anonim Pdf

Deep hiStories represents the first substantial publication on gender and colonialism in Southern Africa in recent years, and suggests methodological ways forward for a post-apartheid and postcolonial generation of scholars. The volume’s theorizing, which is based on Southern African regional material, is certain to impact on international debates on gender – debates which have shifted from earlier feminisms towards theorizations which include sexual difference, subjectivities, colonial (and postcolonial) discourses and the politics of representation. Deep hiStories goes beyond the dichotomies which have largely characterized the discussion of women and gender in Africa, and explores alternative models of interpretation such as ‘genealogies of voice’. These ‘genealogies’ transcend the conventional binaries of visibility and invisibility, speaking and silence. Works covering South Africa from the eighteenth to the twentieth century and Zimbabwe, Namibia and Cameroon in the twentieth include: • Colonial readings of Foucault • Ideologies of domesticity • Torture and testimony of slave women • Women as missionary targets • Gender and the public sphere • Race, science and spectacle • Male nursing on mines • Infanticide, insanity and social control • Fertility and the postcolonial state • Literary reconstructions of the past • Gender-blending and code-switching • De/colonizing the queer The collection includes diverse research on the body in Southern Africa for the first time. It brings new subtleties to the ongoing debates on culture, civility and sexuality, dealing centrally with constructions of race and whiteness in history and literature. It is an important resource for teachers and students of gender and colonial studies.

Author : David Benson,Kara Martin,Andrew Sloane
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666701586

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Transforming Vocation by David Benson,Kara Martin,Andrew Sloane Pdf

There has been an explosion of publishing in the faith-work movement in the last twenty years. Work is increasingly seen as the new frontier for Christian mission. However, the church and theological colleges have failed to keep up with the interest among, and needs of, workplace Christians. This book is the urgent corrective that is needed, moving past Theology of Work 101 to much deeper encounters with God's word as it relates to daily work. These twelve academic papers look at work through three different lenses: the workplace, the church, and theological education. It is prefaced by Mark Greene from the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity, reflecting on what work, church, and theological education would look like if there was no sacred-secular divide. In the concluding remarks, the editors imagine a future where each domain is transformed by the gospel, working dynamically together for the life of the world. While academic in terms of depth of thinking, quality of research, and referencing of crucial sources for further exploration, this book is never dry. Rather, it's life-giving and provocative for every vocation, asking fundamental questions of the reader: What is the work that God is calling you to do? How can the gospel transform your work? And how well-positioned are churches and colleges to be at the forefront of transforming vocation? With contributions from: Mark Greene James Pietsch Peter White Peter Docherty Gordon Preece Keith Mitchell David Fagg Ian Hussey Colin Noble Andrew Matthews Sarah Bacaller Samuel Curkpatrick Maggie Kappelhoff

Author : E. Imafidon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781137472427

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The Ethics of Subjectivity by E. Imafidon Pdf

Through the works of key figures in ethics since modernity this book charts a shift from dominant fixated, objective moral systems and the dependence on moral authorities such as God, nature and state to universal, formal, fallible, individualistic and/or vulnerable moral systems that ensue from the modern subject's exercise of reason and freedom.

Author : Jan Fook,Bob Pease
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781136849404

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Transforming Social Work Practice by Jan Fook,Bob Pease Pdf

Transforming Social Work Practice shows that postmodern theory offers new strategies for social workers concerned with political action and social justice. It explores ways of developing practice frameworks, paradigms and principles which take advantage of the perspectives offered by postmodern theory without totally abandoning the values of modernity and the Enlightenment project of human emancipation. Case studies demonstrate how these perspectives can be applied to practice.

Author : Umut Erel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317096634

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Migrant Women Transforming Citizenship by Umut Erel Pdf

Migrant Women Transforming Citizenship develops essential insights concerning the notion of transnational citizenship by means of the life stories of skilled and educated migrant women from Turkey in Germany and Britain. It interweaves and develops theories of citizenship, identity and culture with the lived experiences of an immigrant group that has so far received insufficient attention. By focusing on the British and German contexts, it introduces a much needed European and comparative perspective, whilst exploring the ways in which diverging concepts and policies of citizenship allow for a differentiated examination of ethnicity, gender, multiculturalism and citizenship in Europe. Presenting a significant and welcome contribution to our understanding of the complexities of multiculturalism it challenges Orientalist images of women as backward and oppressed. Through engagement with the changing realities of education, work, intimacy, family and social activism, this volume provides a situated account of how the concepts of citizenship, transnationality and culture play out in actual social relations. With its rich empirical material the book explores how migrant women create new practices and meanings of belonging across boundaries. Critiquing dominant multiculturalist and anti-multiculturalist accounts, this book suggests how citizenship debates can be reframed to be inclusive of migrant women as actors. As such it will appeal to those working across a range of social sciences, including sociology and the sociology of work, race and ethnicity; citizenship, cultural and gender studies, as well as anthropology and social and public policy.

Author : João Biehl,Byron Good,Arthur Kleinman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007-04-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780520247932

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Subjectivity by João Biehl,Byron Good,Arthur Kleinman Pdf

Talks about the ways personal lives are being undone and remade today. This book examines the ethnography of the modern subject, probes the continuity and diversity of modes of personhood across a range of Western and non-Western societies. It considers what happens to individual subjectivity when environments such as communities are transformed.

Author : EduCart
Publisher : Educart
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-28
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9789355611161

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Educart Term 2 Chemistry CBSE Class 12 Objective & Subjective Question Bank 2022 (Exclusively on New Competency Based Education Pattern) by EduCart Pdf

Educart Class 12 Chemistry Question Bank combines remarkable features for Term 2 Board exam preparation. Exclusively developed based on Learning Outcomes and Competency-based Education Pattern, this one book includes Chapter-wise theory for learning; Solved Questions (from NCERT and DIKSHA); and Detailed Explanations for concept clearance and Unsolved Self Practice Questions for practice. Topper’s Answers are also given to depict how to answer Questions according to the CBSE Marking Scheme Solutions.

Author : Lisa Cornell Bower
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Feminist theory
ISBN : STANFORD:36105060045643

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Transforming the Legal Field by Lisa Cornell Bower Pdf

Author : Osho
Publisher : Osho Media International
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-11
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780880504102

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Tantric Transformation by Osho Pdf

In the 'Tantric Transformation' we are introduced to the sacred and ancient tradition of Tantra by a contemporary Tantric master, Osho. We are given a detailed map of Tantra: inner man, inner woman; the meeting of man and woman; the transformation of energy through sex, love and meditation. Based on the Royal Song of Saraha, we are not just introduced to an Asian sex tradition but with Osho we enter the higher levels of transformation. Here we find Tantra as a door to freedom: freedom from all mind-constructs, mind games; freedom from all structures and freedom from the other. Love and meditation merge and provide a path to liberation.'Tantric Transformation' is a very alive, concrete book for exploration of our own energy, of our own inner space. You don't just read Osho, you undefine yourself.

Author : Anselm C. Hagedorn,Zeba A. Crook,Eric Clark Stewart
Publisher : Sheffield Phoenix Press Limited
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124078465

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In Other Words by Anselm C. Hagedorn,Zeba A. Crook,Eric Clark Stewart Pdf

Jerome H. Neyrey, Professor of New Testament at the University of Notre Dame since 1992, is widely recognized for his groundbreaking contributions to social-scientific criticism of the Gospels and the Epistles. In this Festschrift the contributors notably advance the cause of social-scientific New Testament study. David Aune writes on Christian beginnings and cognitive dissonance theory, Zeba Crook on constructing a model of ancient prayer, Craig deVos on good news to the poor in Luke, John H. Elliott on envy and the evil eye, Philip Esler on the development of a non-ethnic group identity in John, Bruce Malina and John Pilch on the wrath of God, Halvor Moxnes on masculinity and place in Luke, Douglas Oakman on coinage in the Judean temple system, Carolyn Osiek on motivation for the conversion of women in early Christianity, Eric Stewart on the city in Mark, and Gerd Theissen on early Christian communities and ancient organizations.

Author : Stephanie Hemelryk Donald,Christoph Lindner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780857736123

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Inert Cities by Stephanie Hemelryk Donald,Christoph Lindner Pdf

We usually associate contemporary urban life with movement and speed. But what about those instances when the forms of mobility associated with globalized cities - the flow of capital, people, labor and information - freeze, or decelerate? How can we assess the value of interruption in a city? What does valuing stillness mean in regards to the forward march of globalization? When does inertia presage decay - and when does it promise immanence and rebirth? Bringing together original contributions by international specialists from the fields of architecture, photography, film, sociology and cultural analysis, this cutting-edge book considers the poetics and politics of inertia in cities ranging from Amsterdam, Berlin, Beirut and Paris, to Beijing, New York, Sydney and Tokyo. Chapters explore what happens when photography, film, mixed media works, architecture and design intervene in public spaces and urban communities to disrupt speed and growth, both intellectually and/or practically; and question the degree to which mobility is aspirational or imaginary, absolute or transient. Together, they encourage a re-assessment of what it means to be urban in an unevenly globalizing world, to live in cities built around mythologies of perpetual progress.