Trans Forming Utopia

Author : Elizabeth Russell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Utopias
ISBN : OCLC:428214260

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Trans-forming utopia by Elizabeth Russell Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Russell
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 303911347X

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Trans/forming Utopia by Elizabeth Russell Pdf

This book contains 15 essays which are the result of the 7th International Conference of Utopian Studies held in Spain in 2006, either debating the subject, or suggesting alternative readings to some of the theoretical ideas raised within utopian studies.

Author : Elizabeth Russell
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 3039113488

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Trans/Forming Utopia by Elizabeth Russell Pdf

Is the utopian project dead? Is it possible to imagine a utopian society or a utopian world in the aftermath of the collapse of ideologies? This book contains eighteen essays which are the result of the 7th International Conference of Utopian Studies held in Spain in 2006, either debating the subject, or suggesting alternative readings to some of the theoretical ideas raised within utopian studies. This volume focuses on the importance of narratives in utopian literature. They define the world we live in and the world we wish to live in. Through narratives of confession, and indeed through silence itself, the unconscious emerges and desire is articulated. The articles in this volume question and challenge the power of the word, the stability of meaning, and the relationship between thought and action in the construction of utopia and dystopia. They also point to the various literary frameworks of utopian and dystopian narratives, thus connecting stories from the past, present and future of both real and imaginary and communities.

Author : Janet C. Gornick,Marcia K. Meyers
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781844673254

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Gender Equality by Janet C. Gornick,Marcia K. Meyers Pdf

In the labor market and workplace, anti-discrimination rules, affirmative action policies, and pay equity procedures exercise a direct effect on gender relations. But what can be done to influence the ways that men and women allocate tasks and responsibilities at home? In Gender Equality, Volume VI in the Real Utopias series, social scientists Janet C. Gornick and Marcia K. Meyers propose a set of policies—paid family leave provisions, working time regulations, and early childhood education and care—designed to foster more egalitarian family divisions of labor by strengthening men’s ties at home and women’s attachment to paid work. Their policy proposal is followed by a series of commentaries—both critical and supportive—from a group of distinguished scholars, and a concluding essay in which Gornick and Meyers respond to a debate that is a timely and valuable contribution to egalitarian politics.

Author : Caterina Nirta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315406527

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Marginal Bodies, Trans Utopias by Caterina Nirta Pdf

Although over the last two decades there has been a proliferation of gender studies, transgender has largely remained institutionalised as an ‘umbrella term’ that encapsulates all forms of gender understandings differing from what are thought to be gender norms. In both theoretical and medical literature, trans identity has been framed within a paradigm of awkwardness or discomfort, self-dislike or dysfunctional mental health. Marginal Bodies, Trans Utopias is a multidisciplinary book that draws primarily from Deleuze and post-structuralism in order to reformulate the concept of utopia and ground it in the materiality of the present. Through a radically new conceptualisation of the time and space of utopia, it analyses empirical findings from trans video diaries on the Internet belonging to transgender individuals. In doing so, this volume offers new insights into the everyday challenges faced by these subjectivities, with case studies focusing on: the legal/social impact of the UK’s Gender Recognition Act 2004, boundaries of public and private as evidenced within public toilets, and the narrative of the ‘wrong body’. Contextualising and applying Deleuzian concepts such as ‘difference’ and ‘marginal’ to the context of the research, Nirta helps the reader to understand trans as ‘unity’ rather than as a ‘mind-body mismatch’. Contributing to the reading and understanding of trans lived experience, this book shall be of interest to postgraduates and postdoctoral researchers interested in fields such as Transgender Studies, Critical Studies, Sociology of Gender and Philosophy of Time.

Author : Schneider, Christoph
Publisher : KIT Scientific Publishing
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783731508052

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Opening digital fabrication: transforming TechKnowledgies by Schneider, Christoph Pdf

Author : John Barkley Rosser
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0262182343

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Comparative Economics in a Transforming World Economy by John Barkley Rosser Pdf

The second edition of an innovative undergraduate textbook in Comparative Economic Systems that goes beyond the traditional dichotomies.

Author : Tom Moylan,Raffaella Baccolini
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 303910912X

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Utopia Method Vision by Tom Moylan,Raffaella Baccolini Pdf

This collection addresses the ways in which the contributors approach their study of the objects and practices of utopianism (understood as social anticipations and visions produced through texts and social experiments) and of how, in turn, those objects and practices have shaped their intellectual work and research perspectives.

Author : Karl Mannheim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136120367

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Ideology and Utopia by Karl Mannheim Pdf

Ideology and Utopia argues that ideologies are mental fictions whose function is to veil the true nature of a given society. They originate unconsciously in the minds of those who seek to stabilise a social order. Utopias are wish dreams that inspire the collective action of opposition groups which aim at the entire transformation of society. Mannheim shows these two opposing elements to dominate not only our social thought but even unexpectedly to penetrate into the most scientific theories in philosophy, history and the social sciences. This new edition contains a new preface by Bryan S. Turner which describes Mannheim's work and critically assesses its relevance to modern sociology. The book is published with a comprehensive bibliography of Mannheim's major works.

Author : Melanie Smicek
Publisher : diplom.de
Page : 69 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783954898213

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American Dreams, Suburban Nightmares: Suburbia as a Narrative Space between Utopia and Dystopia in Contemporary American Cinema by Melanie Smicek Pdf

The suburban landscape is inseparable from American culture. Suburbia does not only relate to the geographical concept, but also describes a cultural space incorporating people’s hopes for a safe and prosperous life. Suburbia marks a dynamic ideological space constantly influenced and recreated by both the events of everyday life and artistic discourse. Fictional texts do not merely represent suburbia, but also have a decisive role in the shaping of suburban spaces. The widely held idealized image of suburbia evolved in the 1950s. Today, reality deviates from the concept of suburbs projected back then, due to e.g. high divorce rates and an increase of crime. Nevertheless, the nostalgic view of the suburbs as the “Promised Land" has survived. Postwar critics object to this perception, considering the suburbs rather as depressing landscapes of mass-consumption, conformity and alienation. This book exemplifies the dualistic representation of suburbs in contemporary American cinema by analyzing Pleasantville, The Truman Show and American Beauty. It examines how utopian concepts of suburbia are created culturally and psychologically in the films, and how the underlying anxieties of the suburban experience, visualized by the dystopian narratives, challenge this ideal.

Author : Ruth Levitas
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Utopian socialism
ISBN : 3039113666

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The Concept of Utopia by Ruth Levitas Pdf

Originally published: London: Philip Allan, 1990.

Author : Miranda Jefferson,Michael Anderson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781474232609

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Transforming Schools by Miranda Jefferson,Michael Anderson Pdf

Transforming Schools demonstrates how transformation is no longer an option in teaching and learning - it has become a necessity. Changes in the way we work and the challenges of issues such as climate change, poverty and migration mean that teaching and learning need to alter to incorporate capacities that will help us meet those challenges. The 4Cs: Creativity, Critical Reflection, Communication and Collaboration have long been present in education, but Transforming Schools demonstrates how schools can change teaching and leadership to embed and enact the 4Cs to make them central to dynamic and exciting learning. Miranda Jefferson and Michael Anderson demonstrate how a renewed approach to teaching that integrates the 4Cs can better equip today's learners. They draw on their own international research and experiences in school transformation in a variety of school settings, working in partnership with practitioners, researchers, students and the community. The authors consider how schools might reorganise themselves to become more relevant to their students and to the community. Practical strategies for transformation are included throughout the chapters to demonstrate how learning can be supported and how the 4Cs can be made explicit in schools. These examples will support school leadership teams and teachers to explicitly teach the 4Cs in relevant and challenging ways. This book is essential reading for those looking to transform schools and more effectively meet the needs of today's learners.

Author : Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401149006

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The Reincarnating Mind, or the Ontopoietic Outburst in Creative Virtualities by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka Pdf

Tymieniecka's phenomenology of life reverses current priorities, stressing the primogenital role of aesthetic enjoyment, rather than cognition, as typifying the Human Condition. The present collection offers clues to a crucial breakthrough in the perennial uncertainties about the powers and prerogatives of the human mind. It proposes human creativity as the pivot of the mind's genesis and its endowment. In the midst of the current defiance of the transcendental certainties of cognition, this turn to the creative act of the human being represents a radical reversion to an approach to human powers that is predominated by the aesthetic virtualities of the Human Condition. The collection lays down the foundations for a new discovery of the human mind, addressing the `plumbing' of the functional system that originates in the creative potentiality of the Human Condition, undercutting the currently prevalent empirical reductionism.

Author : José Esteban Muñoz
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814757284

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Cruising Utopia by José Esteban Muñoz Pdf

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Author : Caroline Edwards
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108498708

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Utopia and the Contemporary British Novel by Caroline Edwards Pdf

Explores how the experience of time in contemporary British novels reveals the persistence of the utopian imagination today.