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"The price we pay for our modern desire to control the world"-- The driving cultural force of that form of life we call ‘modern’ is the desire to make the world controllable. Yet it is only in encountering the uncontrollable that we really experience the world – only then do we feel touched, moved and alive. A world that is fully known, in which everything has been planned and mastered, would be a dead world. Our lives are played out on the border between what we can control and that which lies outside our control. But because we late-modern human beings seek to make the world controllable, we tend to encounter the world as a series of objects that we have to conquer, master or exploit. And precisely because of this, ‘life,’ the experience of feeling alive and truly encountering the world, always seems to elude us. This in turn leads to frustration, anger and even despair, which then manifest themselves in, among other things, acts of impotent political aggression. For Rosa, to encounter the world and achieve resonance with it requires us to be open to that which extends beyond our control. The outcome of this process cannot be predicted, and this is why moments of resonance are always concomitant with moments of uncontrollability. This short book – the sequel to Rosa’s path-breaking work on social acceleration and resonance – will be of great interest students and scholars in sociology and the social sciences and to anyone concerned with the nature of modern social life

Social change. --- Progress. --- Control (Psychology) --- Civilization, Modern. --- Social aspects. --- 130.2 --- filosofie --- sociologie --- cultuurfilosofie

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In 1981, Rebecca Solnit rented a studio apartment in San Francisco that would be her home for the next twenty-five years. There, she began to come to terms with the epidemic of violence against women around her, the street harassment that unsettled her, and the authority figures that routinely disbelieved her. That violence weighed on her as she faced the task of having a voice in a society that preferred women to shut up or go away. Set in the era of punk, of growing gay pride, of counter culture and West Coast activism, during the latter years of second wave feminism, Recollections of My Non-Existence is the foundational story of an emerging artist struggling against patriarchal violence and scorn. Recalling the experience of living with fear, which Solnit contends is the normal state of women, she considers how oppression impacts on creativity and recounts the struggle to find a voice and have it be heard. Place and the growing culture of activism liberated her, as did the magical world of literature and books. And over time, the clamour of voices against violence to women coalesced in the current feminist upheaval, a movement in which Solnit was a widely audible participant. Here is an electric account of the pauses and gains of feminism in the past forty years; and an extraordinary portrait of an artist, by a seminal American writer.

Women authors, American --- Authors, American --- Feminism --- cultuurfilosofie --- politiek --- activisme --- feminisme --- 130.2 --- gender studies --- American women authors --- Solnit, Rebecca

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'Afropean' is an on-the-ground documentary of areas where Europeans of African descent are juggling their multiple allegiances and forging new identities. Here is an alternative map of the continent, taking the reader to places like Cova Da Moura, the Cape Verdean shantytown on the outskirts of Lisbon with its own underground economy, and Rinkeby, the area of Stockholm that is eighty per cent Muslim. Johny Pitts visits the former Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow, where West African students are still making the most of Cold War ties with the USSR, and Clichy Sous Bois in Paris, which gave birth to the 2005 riots, all the while presenting Afropeans as lead actors in their own story.

Africans --- sociologie --- cultuursociologie --- cultuurfilosofie --- migratie --- Europa --- Afrika --- geschiedenis --- eenentwintigste eeuw --- postkolonialisme --- racisme --- urbanisme --- fotografie --- 130.2 --- Ethnology --- Social conditions --- Identity --- Europe --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Race relations. --- Social conditions. --- Sociology of minorities

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What can a reclining marble sculpture, conceived through a myth in Greek antiquity, tell us today about the fluidity of our gender construction? What has been the role of aesthetic and historical canons in the construction of the female and male genders? Is ‘the sleeping Hermaphrodite’ really asleep? Or has she/he been induced to a long lethargic state, punished and confined by the history of gender normalization?

kunst --- cultuurfilosofie --- Cycladen --- Hermaphroditus --- hermafroditisme --- gender studies --- beeldhouwkunst --- transseksualiteit --- 73.032 --- 7.032.6 --- 130.2 --- Oudheid --- Griekenland --- 7.041 --- Filosofie ; Cultuurfilosofie --- Iconografie ; de mens, portretten --- Kunstgeschiedenis ; Oud-Griekse kunst --- Identité de genre --- Sexualité --- Antiquité grècque

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Being (Imposed Upon) is een tijdloze liefdesbrief en handleiding van en voor zwarte vrouwen. Dit boek is een collectie van reflecties over vrouw- én zwart-zijn in België. In de twee landstalen Nederlands en Frans verenigen wij, zwarte vrouwen, non-fictie essays, literaire beschouwingen, poëzie, activistische en academische teksten rond onze zoektocht naar vrijheid. Dit boek is een eerbetoon aan onze ouderen, onze heldinnen en onze zusters. Nous sommes des Femmes Noires, poétesses, militantes, universitaires, littéraires et essayistes engagées dans des causes afroféministes, antiracistes et décoloniales. Nous sommes ces Afro-belges néerlandophones et francophones indignées par des siècles d?esclavages coloniaux, de violences et de discriminations raciales. Nous sommes ces Afrodescendantes qui marquent ici le refus des diverses formes d'impositions qu?elles subissent structurellement et quotidiennement. Nous sommes ces Femmes aux identités Tierces que l?on oppresse et qui pourtant, à l?aune de l?érosion du pouvoir des bourreaux sur nos corps, nos âmes et nos esprits, réfléchissent à leur condition et travaillent à leur empowerment. Nous sommes ces Africaines stigmatisées, invitées à rejeter nos origines et qui pourtant vous livrent ici une lettre d?amour intemporelle à toutes les Femmes Noires, à celles qui ont peur et celles luttent. Nous sommes ces immortelles qui rendront hommage à nos aînées, nos héroïnes, à notre filiation de Résistances. Ce manuel d?émancipation trace les chemins de notre liberté et de notre résilience ; par nous, pour nous ! Impose our freedom. - Mireille-Tsheusi Robert Auteurs: Joëlle Sambi Nzeba, Olave Nduwanje, Emmanuelle Nsunda, Sabrine Ingabire, Aline Bosuma W?Okungu Bakili, Heleen Debeuckelaere, Mireille-Tsheusi Robert, Munganyende Hélène Christelle, Modi Ntambwe, Emma-Lee Amponsah, Djia Mambu, Shari Aku Legbedje & Anissa Boujdaini, Gia Abrassart, Melat Gebeyaw Nigussie, Anne Wetsi Mpoma, Lisette Ma Neza Let op: dit boek bevat Nederlandse en Franse teksten.

Sociology of minorities --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Colonisation. Decolonisation --- women's studies --- #breakthecanon --- anno 2000-2099 --- Belgium --- België. --- Verhalen. --- Zwarte vrouwen. --- vrouwen. --- zwarten. --- kunst --- Afrika --- postkolonialisme --- België --- 130.2 --- cultuurfilosofie --- literatuur --- Essays --- Identity --- Racism --- Women --- Blackness --- Black feminism --- Book --- Decolonization