Visibility Interrupted

Author : Carly Thomsen
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452965109

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Visibility Interrupted by Carly Thomsen Pdf

A questioning of the belief in the power of LGBTQ visibility through the lives of queer women in the rural Midwest Today most LGBTQ rights supporters take for granted the virtue of being “out, loud, and proud.” Most also assume that it would be terrible to be LGBTQ in a rural place. By considering moments in which queerness and rurality come into contact, Visibility Interrupted argues that both positions are wrong. In the first monograph on LGBTQ women in the rural Midwest, Carly Thomsen deconstructs the image of the rural as a flat, homogenous, and anachronistic place where LGBTQ people necessarily suffer. And she suggests that visibility is not liberation and will not lead to liberation. Far from being an unambiguous good, argues Thomsen, visibility politics can, in fact, preclude collective action. They also advance metronormativity, postraciality, and capitalism. To make these interventions, Thomsen develops the theory of unbecoming: interrogating the relationship between that which we celebrate and that which we find disdainful—the past, the rural, politics—is crucial for developing alternative subjectivities and politics. Unbecoming precedes becoming. Drawing from critical race studies, disability studies, and queer Marxism, in addition to feminist and queer studies, the insights of this book will be useful to scholars theorizing issues far beyond sexuality and place and to social justice activists who want to move beyond visibility.

Author : Timothy G. McLellan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781501773341

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Science Interrupted by Timothy G. McLellan Pdf

Science Interrupted examines how scientists in China pursue environmental sustainability within the constraints of domestic and international bureaucracies. Timothy G. McLellan offers a theoretical framework for analyzing the formal procedural work of Chinese bureaucracy—work that is overlooked when China scholars restrict their gaze to the informal and interpersonal channels through which bureaucracy is often navigated. Homing in on an agroforestry research organization in southwest China, the author takes the experiences of the organization's staff in navigating diverse international funding regimes and authoritarian state institutions as entry points for understanding the pervasiveness of bureaucracy in contemporary science. He asks: What if we take the tools, sensibilities, and practices of bureaucracies seriously not only as objects of critique but as resources for re-thinking scientific practice? Extending a mode of anthropological research in which ethnography serves as source of theory as well as source of data, Science Interrupted thinks with, and not only against, bureaucracy. McLellan shows that ethnographic engagement with bureaucracy enables us to imagine more democratic and more collaborative modes of scientific practice.

Author : Graham Ward,Michael Hoelzl
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441182043

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The New Visibility of Religion by Graham Ward,Michael Hoelzl Pdf

Since the late 1980s sociologists have been drawing our attention to an international surge in the public visibility of religion. This has increasingly challenged two central aspects of modern western European culture: first, the assumption that as we became more modern we would become more secularised and religion would disappear; and secondly, that religion and politics should occupy radically differentiated spheres in which private conviction did not exert itself within the public realm. The new visibility of religion is not simply a matter of what Keppel famously called 'The Revenge of God', that is, the resurgence of Christian, Islamic and Jewish fundamentalism. Religion is permeating western culture in many different forms from contemporary continental philosophy, the arts and the media, to the rhetoric of international politicians. This collection of essays brings together a unique collection of voices from theology, aesthetics, social and political science, philosophy and cultural theory in an exploration of four major aspects of this new visibility of religion: the revision of the secularisation thesis, the relationship between religion and violence, the new re-enchantment of reality and the return of metaphysics. The exploration is conducted through essays by and interviews with figures at the forefront of reflecting upon this major cultural shift and its implications. It is distinctively multidisciplinary, examining the phenomenon of the rise of religion in Western Europe from a number of interrelated perspectives.

Author : United States. Weather Bureau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Meteorology
ISBN : UOM:39015039374312

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Climatological Data, National Summary by United States. Weather Bureau Pdf

Author : United States. Weather Bureau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Meteorology
ISBN : IND:30000103774042

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Climatological Data by United States. Weather Bureau Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-04
Category : Meteorology
ISBN : UOM:39015073222849

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Climatological Data for the United States by Sections by Anonim Pdf

Collection of the monthly climatological reports of the United States by state or region, with monthly and annual national summaries.

Author : Alan I. Weinstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Airports
ISBN : UOM:39015095135789

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Projected Interruptions in Airport Runway Operations Due to Fog by Alan I. Weinstein Pdf

Hourly surface weather observations are combined with air traffic records to calculate the percentage interruption in airport runway operations due to fog that can be expected at 25 Air Force bases in the United States (17) and Europe (8). It is projected that approximately 1 to 2 percent of the flights in an average year can be expected to be affected by fog at bases in the United States. In Europe, the figures rise to 2 to 4 percent. During heavily fog plagued years, the projections can be expected to double. Persistence times are approximated. Empirical equations to allow calculation of percent mission interruption and duration of the interruption are presented that allow estimates to be made for bases other than the 25 selected for this investigation.

Author : United States. Federal Highway Administration. Offices of Research and Development
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015009808836

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Report No. FHWA-RD. by United States. Federal Highway Administration. Offices of Research and Development Pdf

Author : Kalpana Kannabirān
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780415523103

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Tools of Justice by Kalpana Kannabirān Pdf

This book explores possibilities of using the constituting power of the constitution to posit a dynamic interpretation of non-discrimination in the law. Stressing the links between non-discrimination and the right to liberty, it suggests that interpretation is not the exclusive preserve of courts but may be crafted by people's movements.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Frontline Books
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781399011693

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Great Naval Battles of the Pacific War by Anonim Pdf

The key naval battles against Imperial Japan in the Pacific during the Second World War have been described many times by numerous diligent and skilful historians. Such histories are, of course, the products of many years, even decades, of accumulated knowledge, but also of a received consensus of how the war played out to its, seemingly, inevitable conclusion. That of course is not how it was perceived at the time. Hindsight, as we know, gives us 20/20 vision. The accounts here, compiled for and on behalf of the Admiralty, were written either during or immediately after the end of the war before historians had begun to give their assessments of these momentous events. These accounts were written for internal consumption, to guide and instruct naval officers. It was never intended that they would be released to the general public. As such, there was no jingoistic drum beating, no axes to grind, no new angles to try and find. The authors of these accounts relate each battle, move by move, as they unfolded, accurately and dispassionately. This makes these accounts so invaluable. They read almost like a running commentary, as action follows action, minute follows minute. This sensation is magnified by the absolute impartiality of the authors, their sole attempt being to provide a thorough but very clear and comprehensible record so that others in the future could understand precisely how each battle was fought. These accounts can never be superseded and never replaced. Written by naval officers of the time for naval officers of the future, they are the permanent record of the great victories, and the sobering defeat in the Java Sea, during the struggle for control of the Pacific which, for many months, hung precariously in the balance.

Author : Krystale E. Littlejohn
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520396784

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Fighting Mad by Krystale E. Littlejohn Pdf

A fierce and galvanizing reminder that resistance is everywhere in the fight for abortion and reproductive justice in the United States. Fighting Mad is a book about what "reproductive justice" means and what it looks like to fight for it. Editors Krystale E. Littlejohn and Rickie Solinger bring together many of the strongest, most resistant voices in the country to describe the impacts of the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision on abortion access and care. The essayists and change agents gathered in Fighting Mad represent a remarkable breadth of expertise: activists and artists, academics and abortion storytellers, health care professionals and legislators, clinic directors and lawyers, and so many more. They discuss abortion restrictions and strategies to provide care, the impacts of criminalization, efforts to protect the targeted, shortcomings of the past, and visions for the next generation. Fighting Mad captures for the social and historical record the vigorous resistance happening in the early post-Roe moment to show that there are millions on the ground fighting to secure a better future.

Author : Margot Weiss
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478059400

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Unsettling Queer Anthropology by Margot Weiss Pdf

This field-defining volume of queer anthropology foregrounds both the brilliance of anthropological approaches to queer and trans life and the ways queer critique can reorient and transform anthropology.

Author : D'Lane R. Compton,Amy L. Stone
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479821532

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Outskirts by D'Lane R. Compton,Amy L. Stone Pdf

Celebrates diverse queer experiences on society’s margins Outskirts addresses the diverse and intricate aspects of the queer experience on the periphery of the social world. From the Korean spa to the Carnival krewe to new sexual identities, this volume asks important questions about the atypical places, spaces, and identities that are an important part of LGBTQ life in the United States. By bringing together scholars specializing in the less visible facets of queer culture, the book offers valuable insights that contribute to a deeper understanding of queer perspectives and their impact on the discipline of sociology. The volume challenges researchers to focus on diversity and complexity of the queer experience in the fringe to inform larger sociological questions and contribute to the field of sociology. Most simply put: what is it that we learn from studying at the margins? The essays in Outskirts focus on the influence of place, both physical and virtual, within institutional settings and in situations of placelessness. This attention to non-normative spaces and identities enriches the collective knowledge of LGBTQ experiences and offers a compelling narrative that pushes the boundaries of sociological inquiry and highlights the importance of queer voices on the fringes of society.

Author : Abbie E. Goldberg
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 2930 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-09
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781071891384

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The Sage Encyclopedia of LGBTQ+ Studies, 2nd Edition by Abbie E. Goldberg Pdf

The SAGE Encyclopedia of LGBTQ Studies, 2nd Edition will be a broad, interdisciplinary product aimed at students and educators interested in an interdisciplinary perspective on LGBTQ issues. This far-reaching and contemporary set of volumes is meant to examine and provide understandings of the lives and experiences of LGBTQ individuals, with attention to the contexts and forces that shape their world. The volume will address questions such as: What are the key theories used to understand variations in sexual orientation and gender identity? How do LGBTQ+ people experience the transition to parenthood? How does sexual orientation intersect with other key social locations (e.g., race) to shape experience and identity? What does LGBTQ+ affirmative therapy look like? How have anti-LGBTQ ballot measures affected LGBTQ people? What are LGBTQ+ people’s experiences during COVID-19? How were LGBTQ+ people impacted by the Trump administration? What is life like for LGBTQ+ people living outside the United States? This encyclopedia will be a unique product on the market: a reference work that looks at LGBTQ issues and identity primarily through the lenses of psychology, human development, and sociology, and emphasizing queer, feminist, and ecological perspectives on this topic. Entries will be written by top researchers and clinicians across multiple fields—psychology, human development, gender/queer studies, sexuality studies, social work, nursing, cultural studies, education, family studies, medicine, public health, and sociology—contributing to approximately 450-500 signed entries. All entries will include cross-references and Further Readings.

Author : Dominica DeGrandis
Publisher : IT Revolution
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781950508501

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Making Work Visible by Dominica DeGrandis Pdf

Today's workers are drowning: nonstop requests for time, days filled to the brim with meetings, and endless nights spent heroically fixing the latest problems. This churn and burn is creating a workforce constantly on the edge of burnout. In this updated edition, IT time management expert Dominica DeGrandis reveals the real crime of the century―time theft, one of the most costly factors impacting enterprises in their day-to-day operations. Through simple solutions that make work visible, DeGrandis helps people round up the five thieves of time and take back their lives with time-saving solutions. Chock-full of exercises, takeaways, real-world examples, colorful diagrams, and an easy-going writing style, readers will quickly learn effective practices to create high-performing workflows within an organization. And now, with this updated second edition, readers will get more exercises plus a new afterword from the author featuring new learnings from the past five years. The technology world―and indeed the whole business world―is moving at a pace faster than ever before, and it shows no signs of slowing down. Instead of consigning ourselves to the pressure cooker of the modern world, it's time to elevate how we work. It's time to level up our game. It's time to make work visible.