The Limits Of Identity

Author : Charles Hatfield
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781477307298

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The Limits of Identity by Charles Hatfield Pdf

The Limits of Identity is a polemical critique of the repudiation of universalism and the theoretical commitment to identity and difference embedded in Latin American literary and cultural studies. Through original readings of foundational Latin American thinkers (such as José Martí and José Enrique Rodó) and contemporary theorists (such as John Beverley and Doris Sommer), Charles Hatfield reveals and challenges the anti-universalism that informs seemingly disparate theoretical projects. The Limits of Identity offers a critical reexamination of widely held conceptions of culture, ideology, interpretation, and history. The repudiation of universalism, Hatfield argues, creates a set of problems that are both theoretical and political. Even though the recognition of identity and difference is normally thought to be a form of resistance, The Limits of Identity claims that, in fact, the opposite is true.

Author : Rebecca L. Torstrick
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0472111248

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The Limits of Coexistence by Rebecca L. Torstrick Pdf

Assesses the factors that will determine whether Jews and Palestinians can live together in peace

Author : Charles Hatfield
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781477305454

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The Limits of Identity by Charles Hatfield Pdf

The Limits of Identity is a polemical critique of the repudiation of universalism and the theoretical commitment to identity and difference embedded in Latin American literary and cultural studies. Through original readings of foundational Latin American thinkers (such as José Martí and José Enrique Rodó) and contemporary theorists (such as John Beverley and Doris Sommer), Charles Hatfield reveals and challenges the anti-universalism that informs seemingly disparate theoretical projects. The Limits of Identity offers a critical reexamination of widely held conceptions of culture, ideology, interpretation, and history. The repudiation of universalism, Hatfield argues, creates a set of problems that are both theoretical and political. Even though the recognition of identity and difference is normally thought to be a form of resistance, The Limits of Identity claims that, in fact, the opposite is true.

Author : Karen-edis Barzman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004331518

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The Limits of Identity: Early Modern Venice, Dalmatia, and the Representation of Difference by Karen-edis Barzman Pdf

This book examines the production of collective “Venetian-ness” in early modern representation before turning to the portrayal of populations in Venetian Dalmatia’s borderlands, where those in metropolitan Venice began to perceive difference and imaginings of belonging began to break down.

Author : Shane Phelan
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1991-08-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0877229023

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Identity Politics by Shane Phelan Pdf

"Lesbian feminism began and has fueled itself with the rejection of liberalism.... In this rejection, lesbian feminists were not alone. They were joined by the New Left, by many blacks in the civil rights movement, by male academic theorists.... What all these groups shared was an intense awareness of the ways in which liberalism fails to account for the social reality of the world, through a reliance upon law and legal structure to define membership, through individualism, through its basis in a particular conception of rationality." In tracing how lesbian feminism came to be defined in uneasy relationships with the Women’s Movement and gay rights groups, Shane Phelan explores the tension between liberal ideals of individual rights and tolerance and communitarian ideals of solidarity. The debate over lesbian sado-masochism—an expression of individual choice or pornographic, anti-feminist behavior?—is considered as a test case. Phelan addresses the problems faced by "the woman-identified woman" in a liberal society that presumes heterosexuality as the biological, psychological, and moral standard. Often silenced by laws defining their sexual behavior as criminal and censured by a medical establishment that persists in defining homosexuality as perversion, lesbians, like blacks and other groups, have fought to have the same rights as others in their communities and even in their own homes. Lesbian feminists have also sought to define themselves as a community that would be distinctly different, a community that would disavow the traditional American obsession with individual advancement in the world as it is. In this controversial study of political philosophy and the women’s movement, Phelan argues that "the failure to date to produce a satisfying theory and program for lesbian action is reflective of the failure of modern political thinking to produce a compelling, nonsuspect alternative to liberalism." In the series Women in the Political Economy, edited by Ronnie J. Steinberg.

Author : Charles Dean Hatfield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 1477305440

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Author : Rumena Filipova
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783838216492

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Constructing the Limits of Europe by Rumena Filipova Pdf

This comparative study harks back to the revolutionary year of 1989 and asks two critical questions about the resulting reconfiguration of Europe in the aftermath of the collapse of communism: Why did Central and East European states display such divergent outcomes of their socio-political transitions? Why did three of those states—Poland, Bulgaria, and Russia—differ so starkly in terms of the pace and extent of their integration into Europe? Rumena Filipova argues that Poland’s, Bulgaria’s, and Russia’s dominating conceptions of national identity have principally shaped these countries’ foreign policy behavior after 1989. Such an explanation of these three nations’ diverging degrees of Europeanization stands in contrast to institutionalist-rationalist, interest-based accounts of democratic transition and international integration in post-communist Europe. She thereby makes a case for the need to include ideational factors into the study of International Relations and demonstrates that identities are not easily malleable and may not be as fluid as often assumed. She proposes a theoretical “middle-ground” argument that calls for “qualified post-positivism” as an integrated perspective that combines positivist and post-positivist orientations in the study of IR.

Author : Asad Haider
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786637383

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Mistaken Identity by Asad Haider Pdf

A powerful challenge to the way we understand the politics of race and the history of anti-racist struggle Whether class or race is the more important factor in modern politics is a question right at the heart of recent history’s most contentious debates. Among groups who should readily find common ground, there is little agreement. To escape this deadlock, Asad Haider turns to the rich legacies of the black freedom struggle. Drawing on the words and deeds of black revolutionary theorists, he argues that identity politics is not synonymous with anti-racism, but instead amounts to the neutralization of its movements. It marks a retreat from the crucial passage of identity to solidarity, and from individual recognition to the collective struggle against an oppressive social structure. Weaving together autobiographical reflection, historical analysis, theoretical exegesis, and protest reportage, Mistaken Identity is a passionate call for a new practice of politics beyond colorblind chauvinism and “the ideology of race.”

Author : Thomas Pradeu
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780199775286

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The Limits of the Self by Thomas Pradeu Pdf

Immunology asserts that an individual can be defined through self and nonself. Thomas Pradeu argues that this theory is inadequate, because immune responses to self constituents and immune tolerance of foreign entities are the rule, not the exception.

Author : Ashley Jardina
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108475525

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White Identity Politics by Ashley Jardina Pdf

Amidst discontent over diversity, racial identity is a lens through which many US white Americans now view the political world.

Author : Eric Kaufmann
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 814 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781468316988

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Whiteshift by Eric Kaufmann Pdf

“This ambitious and provocative work . . . delves into white anxiety about the demographic decline of white populations in Western nations” (Publishers Weekly). “Whiteshift” is defined as the turbulent journey from a world of racially homogeneous white majorities to one of racially hybrid majorities. In this dada-driven study, political scientist Eric Kaufmann explores how these demographic changes across Western societies are transforming their politics. The early stages of this transformation have led to a populist disruption, tearing a path through the usual politics of left and right. If we want to avoid more radical political divisions, Kaufmann argues, we have to enable white conservatives as well as cosmopolitans to view whiteshift as a positive development. Kaufmann examines the evidence to explore ethnic change in North American and Western Europe. Tracing four ways of dealing with this transformation—fight, repress, flight, and join—he makes a persuasive call to move beyond empty talk about national identity. Deeply thought provoking, enriched with illustrative stories, and drawing on detailed and extraordinary survey, demographic, and electoral data, Whiteshift will redefine the way we discuss race in the twenty-first century.

Author : Dorothy Holland
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2001-03-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0674005627

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Identity and Agency in Cultural Worlds by Dorothy Holland Pdf

This text addresses the central problem in anthropological theory of the late 1990s - the paradox that humans are both products of social discipline and creators of remarkable improvisation.

Author : George A. Akerlof,Rachel E. Kranton
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781400834181

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Identity Economics by George A. Akerlof,Rachel E. Kranton Pdf

How identity influences the economic choices we make Identity Economics provides an important and compelling new way to understand human behavior, revealing how our identities—and not just economic incentives—influence our decisions. In 1995, economist Rachel Kranton wrote future Nobel Prize-winner George Akerlof a letter insisting that his most recent paper was wrong. Identity, she argued, was the missing element that would help to explain why people—facing the same economic circumstances—would make different choices. This was the beginning of a fourteen-year collaboration—and of Identity Economics. The authors explain how our conception of who we are and who we want to be may shape our economic lives more than any other factor, affecting how hard we work, and how we learn, spend, and save. Identity economics is a new way to understand people's decisions—at work, at school, and at home. With it, we can better appreciate why incentives like stock options work or don't; why some schools succeed and others don't; why some cities and towns don't invest in their futures—and much, much more. Identity Economics bridges a critical gap in the social sciences. It brings identity and norms to economics. People's notions of what is proper, and what is forbidden, and for whom, are fundamental to how hard they work, and how they learn, spend, and save. Thus people's identity—their conception of who they are, and of who they choose to be—may be the most important factor affecting their economic lives. And the limits placed by society on people's identity can also be crucial determinants of their economic well-being.

Author : Aaron P. Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107012738

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Religion and Identity in Porphyry of Tyre by Aaron P. Johnson Pdf

Examines Porphyry of Tyre's critical engagement with Hellenism in late antiquity, emphasizing philosophical translation as the key to his thought.

Author : Judith Butler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136783241

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Gender Trouble by Judith Butler Pdf

Since its initial publication in 1990, this book has become a key work of contemporary feminist theory, and an essential work for anyone interested in the study of gender, queer theory, or the politics of sexuality in culture. This is the text where the author began to advance the ideas that would go on to take life as "performativity theory," as well as some of the first articulations of the possibility for subversive gender practices. Overall, this book offers a powerful critique of heteronormativity and of the function of gender in the modern world.