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Political Literacy
Rhetoric, Ideology, and the Possibility of Justice
Häftad, 1994
556 kr
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Political Literacy confronts and responds to the question: What is required of the citizens of a democracy to ensure their individual and social rights? Exploring the rhetoric of legal interpretation, this book answers that citizens must be so educated as to have an intellectual awareness of the …
Photography, Vision, and the Production of Modern Bodies
Häftad, 1995
477 kr
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Examines photography and its contribution to changing notions of the body in modernity.Lalvani argues that modernity represents the powerful privileging of vision and the introduction of a paradigm of seeing that is historically distinctive. Taking the introduction of photography in the nineteenth …
Zones of Contention
Essays on Art, Institutions, Gender, and Anxiety
Av Carol Becker
Häftad, 1996
463 kr
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Addresses the questions: What might be the role of the artist in the 21st century? How essential is art to the psychic and political well-being of American society?This collection of essays by cultural critic Carol Becker plumbs particular areas of controversy to understand what information these …
Women Writing Culture
Av Gary A. Olson, Elizabeth Hirsh
Häftad, 1995
647 kr
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This collection of six interviews with internationally known scholars explores feminism, rhetoric, writing, and multiculturalism.Women Writing Culture is a collection of six interviews with internationally prominent scholars about feminism, rhetoric, writing, and multiculturalism. Those interviewed …
Out of Place
Homeless Mobilizations, Subcities, and Contested Landscapes
Häftad, 1997
504 kr
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Discusses the impact of inner city redevelopment programs and policies on the homeless and shows the methods used (civil protests, squatting, and legal advocacy) by the homeless to organize a tactical resistance to restructuring efforts. Presents case studies of two different types of homeless …
Recreational Terror
Women and the Pleasures of Horror Film Viewing
Häftad, 1997
365 kr
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Challenges the conventional wisdom that violent horror films can only degrade women and incite violence.In Recreational Terror, Isabel Cristina Pinedo analyzes how the contemporary horror film produces recreational terror as a pleasurable encounter with violence and danger for female spectators. …
Beclouded Visions
Hiroshima-Nagasaki and the Art of Witness
Av Kyo Maclear
Häftad, 1998
477 kr
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The trauma of Hiroshima and Nagasaki demonstrates the limits of dominant visual models, such as photography, for providing adequate historical memory. The author argues that collective traumas suggest the need for a prolonged gaze, such as can be provided by expressive art.Beclouded Visions is an …
Intellectuals at a Crossroads
The Changing Politics of China's Knowledge Workers
Av Zhidong Hao
Häftad, 2003
632 kr
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A survey of contemporary Chinese intellectuals.Zhidong Hao's fascinating book, Intellectuals at a Crossroads, examines groups of contemporary Chinese intellectuals, their successes, failures, identity contradictions, and ethical dilemmas. Three categories of intellectuals are studied: organic …
Queer Youth Cultures
Av Susan Driver
Inbunden, 2008
1595 kr
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Essays explore the contemporary contexts, activism, and cultural productions of queer youth and their communities.Engaging a wide range of cultural practices, including zine-making, drag performance, online chatting, music, gay porn, and organizing resistance, the essays in Susan Driver's Queer …
Political Literacy
Rhetoric, Ideology, and the Possibility of Justice
Inbunden, 1994
1087 kr
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Political Literacy confronts and responds to the question: What is required of the citizens of a democracy to ensure their individual and social rights? Exploring the rhetoric of legal interpretation, this book answers that citizens must be so educated as to have an intellectual awareness of the …
Order and Partialities
Theory, Pedagogy, and the "Postcolonial"
Av Kostas Myrsiades, Jerry McGuire
Häftad, 1995
437 kr
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Looks at the political and cultural issues involved in teaching postcolonial literatures and theories.Order and Partialities explores the complex and problematic relations among postcolonial literatures and theories, the people who teach them at the university level, and the institutions in which …
C.L.R. James
A Political Biography
Inbunden, 1995
1179 kr
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A fascinating, immensely readable biography of one of the most important radical intellectuals of the twentieth century.C. L. R. James: A Political Biography offers the first sustained account of the life and work of one of the twentieth-century's most important radical intellectuals.C. L. R. James …
C.L.R. James
A Political Biography
Häftad, 1995
361 kr
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A fascinating, immensely readable biography of one of the most important radical intellectuals of the twentieth century.C. L. R. James: A Political Biography offers the first sustained account of the life and work of one of the twentieth-century's most important radical intellectuals.C. L. R. James …
Teaching and Testimony
Rigoberta Menchu and the North American Classroom
Av Allen Carey-Webb, Stephen Benz
Häftad, 1996
422 kr
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Contains narratives of the experiences of teachers using the testimonial of Rigoberta Menchu, a Guatemalan Indian woman who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992. Includes background essays on Menchu and the role of her story in political correctness debates.By utilizing the testimonial narrative of …
Cultural Democracy
Politics, Media, New Technology
Av David Trend
Häftad, 1997
401 kr
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Follows the work of a range of public intellectuals like Aronowitz, Giroux, hooks, Mouffe, and West, and argues for a 'radical democracy' capable of subverting traditional divisions of 'left' and'right.'Following the work of a range of public intellectuals like Stanley Aronowitz, Henry Giroux, bell …
Reading, Writing, and Justice
School Reform as if Democracy Matters
Häftad, 1997
382 kr
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A book for teachers, parents, and other concerned citizens who care about public education, who want schools to be democratic in the best sense, and who seek argumentative ammunition for defending schools and for placing school issues within the larger framework of the long struggle to keep and …
Recreational Terror
Women and the Pleasures of Horror Film Viewing
Inbunden, 1997
1111 kr
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Challenges the conventional wisdom that violent horror films can only degrade women and incite violence.In Recreational Terror, Isabel Cristina Pinedo analyzes how the contemporary horror film produces recreational terror as a pleasurable encounter with violence and danger for female spectators. …
Interventions and Provocations
Conversations on Art, Culture, and Resistance
Av Glenn Harper
Inbunden, 1998
1144 kr
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A collection of interviews with some of the most provocative artists of the postmodern era, including Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Carrie Mae Weems, Carolee Schneemann, Andres Serrano, Karen Finley, and Kathy Acker. These sculptors, writers, filmmakers, activists, and performance artists have forged a new …
Interventions and Provocations
Conversations on Art, Culture, and Resistance
Av Glenn Harper
Häftad, 1998
370 kr
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A collection of interviews with some of the most provocative artists of the postmodern era, including Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Carrie Mae Weems, Carolee Schneemann, Andres Serrano, Karen Finley, and Kathy Acker. These sculptors, writers, filmmakers, activists, and performance artists have forged a new …
Democratic Artworks
Politics and the Arts from Trilling to Dylan
Inbunden, 1998
1120 kr
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Focusing on the political movements of the 1950s and 1960s, this book argues that the arts can strengthen democracy by politically educating citizens.Focusing on a period in which the meaning of democracy came to the forefront of public debate, the fifties and sixties, the author argues that the …
Democratic Artworks
Politics and the Arts from Trilling to Dylan
Häftad, 1998
413 kr
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Focusing on the political movements of the 1950s and 1960s, this book argues that the arts can strengthen democracy by politically educating citizens.Focusing on a period in which the meaning of democracy came to the forefront of public debate, the fifties and sixties, the author argues that the …
Beclouded Visions
Hiroshima-Nagasaki and the Art of Witness
Av Kyo Maclear
Inbunden, 1998
1120 kr
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The trauma of Hiroshima and Nagasaki demonstrates the limits of dominant visual models, such as photography, for providing adequate historical memory. The author argues that collective traumas suggest the need for a prolonged gaze, such as can be provided by expressive art.Beclouded Visions is an …
Drifting on a Read
Jazz as a Model for Writing
Häftad, 1999
413 kr
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For almost a century, writers such as Ralph Ellison, Michael Ondaatje, and Ishmael Reed have expressed an affinity for jazz, hearing the music as a model for writing. Jarrett examines their work and the work of others who have brought jazz into language, pushing "interpretation" into the realm of …
Performing Pedagogy
Toward an Art of Politics
Inbunden, 1999
1144 kr
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Examines performance art and the powerful implications it holds for teaching in the schools.Performing Pedagogy examines the theory and practice of performance art as an art of politics. It discusses the different ways in which performance artists use memory and cultural history to critique …
Words in the Wilderness
Critical Literacy in the Borderlands
Häftad, 2000
390 kr
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Blends vivid personal accounts and sophisticated theoretical analysis to make a compelling book about one teacher's experience teaching on an Athabascan Indian Reservation in Alaska.Winner of the 2001 W. Ross Winterowd Award Best book in composition theory presented by JAC and the Association of …
Whiteness Just Isn't What It Used To Be
White Identity in a Changing South Africa
Inbunden, 2001
1087 kr
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Narratively explores how the changes in South Africa's social and political structure are changing the white population's identity and sense of self.Winner of the 2002 Outstanding Book Award presented by the International and Intercultural Communication Division of the National Communication …
Whiteness Just Isn't What It Used To Be
White Identity in a Changing South Africa
Häftad, 2001
401 kr
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Narratively explores how the changes in South Africa's social and political structure are changing the white population's identity and sense of self.Winner of the 2002 Outstanding Book Award presented by the International and Intercultural Communication Division of the National Communication …
Working through Whiteness
International Perspectives
Inbunden, 2002
1111 kr
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Embraces the leading edge in critical race theory.What is whiteness? What is gained by claiming it as a critical perspective in anti-racism work? How do whiteness studies both redeem and assert the white subject? Working through Whiteness explores these questions through essays by Canadian, …
Working through Whiteness
International Perspectives
Häftad, 2002
373 kr
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Embraces the leading edge in critical race theory.What is whiteness? What is gained by claiming it as a critical perspective in anti-racism work? How do whiteness studies both redeem and assert the white subject? Working through Whiteness explores these questions through essays by Canadian, …
Intellectuals at a Crossroads
The Changing Politics of China's Knowledge Workers
Av Zhidong Hao
Inbunden, 2003
1111 kr
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A survey of contemporary Chinese intellectuals.Zhidong Hao's fascinating book, Intellectuals at a Crossroads, examines groups of contemporary Chinese intellectuals, their successes, failures, identity contradictions, and ethical dilemmas. Three categories of intellectuals are studied: organic …
