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How is class depicted in Swedish contemporary literature, and what can it teach us about contemporary society? In Doing Class, literary scholar Åsa Arping tries new pathways into the broad, mainly realistic Swedish novels of recent decades. She finds class-coded actions, thoughts and emotions even outside the traditional working-class literature, and explores how the story of class deepens when it is put into dialogue with other categories, such as gender, age and ethnicity/racialization. Through reflections on the last twenty years of prose publishing, from Torbjörn Flygt's Underdog (2001) to Donia Saleh's Ya Leila (2020), the study shows how literature shapes and discusses the increasingly obscure class concept, where perceptions of work, identity, lifestyle and welfare state are rapidly changing.
Political economy --- Literary studies: general --- Psychology --- Sociology --- Donia Saleh --- Wanda Bendjelloul --- Evin Ahmad --- Negar Naseh --- Isabelle Ståhl --- Sara Kadefors --- Måns Wadensjö --- Jack Hildén --- Sara Beischer --- Kristina Sandberg --- Åsa Linderborg --- Torbjörn Flygt --- Susanna Alakoski --- Respectability --- Class --- Swedish contemporary fiction (2001–2020) --- Intersectionality --- Affect
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From the silent era to the present, film productions have shaped the way the public views campus life. Collaborations between universities and Hollywood entities have disseminated influential ideas of race, gender, class, and sexual difference. Even more directly, Hollywood has drawn writers, actors, and other talent from ranks of professors and students while also promoting the industry in classrooms, curricula, and film studies programs. In addition to founding film schools, university administrators have offered campuses as filming locations. In University Babylon, Curtis Marez argues that cinema has been central to the uneven incorporation and exclusion of different kinds of students, professors, and knowledge. Working together, Marez argues, film and educational institutions have produced a powerful ideology that links respectability to academic merit in order to marginalize and manage people of color. Combining concepts and methods from critical university studies, ethnic studies, native studies, and film studies, University Babylon analyzes the symbolic and institutional collaborations between Hollywood filmmakers and university administrators over the representation of students and, by extension, college life more broadly.
College life films. --- Racism in motion pictures. --- Racism in higher education. --- campuses as filming locations. --- examination of film and race politics. --- film and educational institutions. --- film productions and campus life. --- hollywood filmmakers and university administrators. --- links respectability to academic merit. --- marginalizes people of color. --- produced powerful ideology. --- representation of college life in films.
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Cultivating Community explores women's critical involvement in agricultural fairs' growth and prosperity in Ontario throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Examining women's roles as society members, exhibitors, performers, volunteers, and fairgoers, the book shows how women used fairs to present different versions of rural womanhood.
Agricultural exhibitions. --- Women in agriculture. --- 4-H. --- OAAS. --- Ontario association. --- agricultural societies. --- art. --- baking. --- biography. --- community service. --- competition. --- cooperation. --- domesticity. --- entertainment. --- exhibitions. --- fall fairs. --- fancywork. --- farming. --- femininity. --- feminism. --- food. --- gardening. --- household economy. --- improvement. --- industry. --- leadership. --- lesiure. --- livestock. --- manufactures. --- material culture. --- recreation. --- refinement. --- respectability. --- rural women. --- voluntary organizations. --- womanhood.
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On an August evening in 1933, in a quiet, working-class neighborhood in Paris, eighteen-year-old Violette Nozière gave her mother and father glasses of barbiturate-laced "medication," which she told them had been prescribed by the family doctor; one of her parents died, the other barely survived. Almost immediately Violette's act of "double parricide" became the most sensational private crime of the French interwar era-discussed and debated so passionately that it was compared to the Dreyfus Affair. Why would the beloved only child of respectable parents do such a thing? To understand the motives behind this crime and the reasons for its extraordinary impact, Sarah Maza delves into the abundant case records, re-creating the daily existence of Parisians whose lives were touched by the affair. This compulsively readable book brilliantly evokes the texture of life in 1930's Paris. It also makes an important argument about French society and culture while proposing new understandings of crime and social class in the years before World War II.
Women murderers --- Murder --- Women --- Social conditions --- Nozière, Violette, --- Paris (France) --- 1930s. --- class. --- crime. --- criminology. --- detective. --- europe. --- fascism. --- female murderers. --- feminism. --- france. --- gender and sexuality. --- gender studies. --- history. --- imprisonment. --- insanity defense. --- insanity. --- interwar paris. --- law and society. --- madness. --- matricide. --- media studies. --- mental illness. --- murder. --- mystery. --- nonfiction. --- paris. --- parricide. --- patricide. --- poison. --- politics. --- poverty. --- prison. --- respectability. --- scandal. --- sensation. --- social class. --- social history. --- transgression. --- trials. --- true crime. --- violence. --- working class. --- Noziere, Violette,
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"In July 1939, at the Royal Courts of Justice in London, fifty-nine-year-old Beatrice Alexander was found incapable of managing her own property and affairs. Although Alexander and those living with her insisted that she was perfectly well, the official solicitor took control of her home and money, evicted her "friends," and hired a live-in companion to watch over her. Alexander remained legally incapable for the next thirty years. In the mid-twentieth century, Alexander was one of about thirty thousand people in England and Wales who were, at any time, legally "incapable" and under the auspices of what is now the Court of Protection. Focusing on the period between the 1920s and the 1960s, Looking After Miss Alexander explains the workings of the court, using Alexander's unusual case to consider the complexities of this aspect of mental health law. Drawing on Court of Protection archives--some of which were made publicly available for the first time in 2019--and micro-historical methods, Janet Weston also highlights the role of chance, subjectivity, and uncertainty in shaping how events unfolded then, and the stories we tell about those events today. An engaging and accessible history of mental capacity law, Looking After Miss Alexander examines ideas of citizenship and welfare, gender and vulnerability, care and control, and the role of the state. It also offers reflections on historical research and writing itself."--
Mental health law. --- British Union of Fascists. --- Dorset. --- Lunacy Office. --- Official Solicitor. --- autonomy. --- capacity. --- care. --- carers. --- chance. --- citizenship. --- common law. --- competence. --- control. --- dementia. --- disability. --- elder abuse. --- exploitation. --- financial abuse. --- friendship. --- gender. --- guardianship. --- homecare. --- imagination. --- incapacity. --- indeterminacy. --- informal care. --- interwar. --- legal history. --- lunacy law. --- mental defect. --- mental health law. --- mental illness. --- microhistory. --- nursing. --- respectability. --- retirement. --- small history. --- social policy. --- socio-legal history. --- subjectivity. --- vulnerability. --- welfare state. --- welfare.
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This book focuses on seven of the most important formal methods used to interpret the New Testament today. Several of the chapters also touch on Old Testament/Hebrew Bible interpretation. In line with the multiplicity of methods for interpretation of texts in the humanities in general, New Testament study has never before seen so many different methods. This situation poses both opportunities and challenges for scholars and students alike. The articles in this book introduce the latest methods and give examples of these methods at work. The seven methods are as follows: post-colonial, narrative, historical, performance, mathematical analysis of style; womanist; and ecological.
n/a --- anthropocentric --- John --- oral tradition --- Q Source --- literary criticism --- colonial --- communication --- rhetoric --- New Testament --- respectability --- own tradition --- word interval --- literary terms --- close reading --- hermeneutics --- narrative criticism --- interpunctions --- interpretation --- Revelation --- Double Tradition --- Gospel of Mark --- Matthew --- womanist --- Timothy --- memory --- sentences --- Suetonius --- Bible --- Mark --- New Criticism --- performance criticism --- Paul --- characters --- canonical Gospels --- vernacular hermeneutics --- Australian spirituality --- biblical interpretation --- relevance theory --- creation --- Acts --- ecotheology --- racism --- crucifixion --- hierarchical dualism --- race --- nature --- Luke --- words --- Gospels --- historical reliability --- Triple Tradition --- narratology --- intercontextuality --- environment --- Diaspora politics --- translation --- Life of Augustus --- reader-response criticism --- landscape --- statistics --- mercy --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Bible.
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Beginning with the simple question, "Why did audiences grow silent?" Listening in Paris gives a spectator's-eye view of opera and concert life from the Old Regime to the Romantic era, describing the transformation in musical experience from social event to profound aesthetic encounter. James H. Johnson recreates the experience of audiences during these rich decades with brio and wit. Woven into the narrative is an analysis of the political, musical, and aesthetic factors that produced more engaged listening. Johnson shows the gradual pacification of audiences from loud and unruly listeners to the attentive public we know today. Drawing from a wide range of sources--novels, memoirs, police files, personal correspondence, newspaper reviews, architectural plans, and the like--Johnson brings the performances to life: the hubbub of eighteenth-century opera, the exuberance of Revolutionary audiences, Napoleon's musical authoritarianism, the bourgeoisie's polite consideration. He singles out the music of Gluck, Haydn, Rossini, and Beethoven as especially important in forging new ways of hearing. This book's theoretical edge will appeal to cultural and intellectual historians in many fields and periods.
Music --- Music appreciation. --- Music appreciation --- Music, Dance, Drama & Film --- Music History & Criticism, General --- Analytical guides (Music) --- Appreciation of music --- Musical appreciation --- Musical analysis --- Music and society --- History and criticism. --- Social aspects. --- History and criticism --- Social aspects --- Analysis, appreciation --- Analytical guides --- Appreciation --- Instruction and study --- 18th century opera. --- aesthetic factors. --- attentive audience. --- beethoven. --- concert life. --- concerts. --- cultural history. --- engaged listening. --- entertainment. --- gluck. --- gradual pacification. --- haydn. --- hearing. --- imitation. --- intellectual history. --- jacobin ideology. --- musical authoritarianism. --- musical experience. --- napoleon. --- old regime. --- opera. --- paris. --- polite consideration. --- political factors. --- public concerns. --- respectability. --- revolutionary audiences. --- romantic era. --- romanticism. --- rossini. --- social duty. --- studies on the history of society and culture. --- thermidor.
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This multifaceted study of Syrian immigration to the United States places Syrians- and Arabs more generally-at the center of discussions about race and racial formation from which they have long been marginalized. Between Arab and White focuses on the first wave of Arab immigration and settlement in the United States in the years before World War II, but also continues the story up to the present. It presents an original analysis of the ways in which people mainly from current day Lebanon and Syria-the largest group of Arabic-speaking immigrants before World War II-came to view themselves in racial terms and position themselves within racial hierarchies as part of a broader process of ethnic identity formation.
Syrian Americans --- Ethnology --- Syrians --- Race identity --- History. --- Ethnic identity --- United States --- Race relations. --- Race question --- History of North America --- anno 1800-1899 --- anno 1900-1909 --- anno 1910-1919 --- anno 1920-1929 --- anno 1930-1939 --- anno 1940-1949 --- Syria --- 20th century american culture. --- american immigration policy. --- arab immigration. --- arab settlement. --- arabs. --- diaspora. --- diasporic nationalism. --- emergent arabism. --- ethic identity formation. --- global disaster. --- historical. --- history. --- immigration and immigrants. --- immigration restriction. --- internal migration. --- international migration. --- jim crow south. --- lebanon. --- lynching. --- marginalized groups. --- marriage. --- political. --- race in america. --- racial formation. --- respectability. --- syria. --- syrian americans. --- syrian immigration. --- united states of america.
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The story of the rise of radicalism in the early nineteenth century has often been simplified into a fable about progressive social change. The diverse social movements of the era-religious, political, regional, national, antislavery, and protemperance-are presented as mere strands in a unified tapestry of labor and democratic mobilization. Taking aim at this flawed view of radicalism as simply the extreme end of a single dimension of progress, Craig Calhoun emphasizes the coexistence of different kinds of radicalism, their tensions, and their implications. The Roots of Radicalism reveals the importance of radicalism's links to preindustrial culture and attachments to place and local communities, as well the ways in which journalists who had been pushed out of "respectable" politics connected to artisans and other workers. Calhoun shows how much public recognition mattered to radical movements and how religious, cultural, and directly political-as well as economic-concerns motivated people to join up. Reflecting two decades of research into social movement theory and the history of protest, The Roots of Radicalism offers compelling insights into the past that can tell us much about the present, from American right-wing populism to democratic upheavals in North Africa.
Radicalism --- Social movements --- Social change --- Change, Social --- Cultural change --- Cultural transformation --- Societal change --- Socio-cultural change --- Social history --- Social evolution --- Movements, Social --- Social psychology --- Extremism, Political --- Ideological extremism --- Political extremism --- Political science --- History --- Radicalisme --- Mouvements sociaux --- Changement social --- Histoire --- tradition, radical, politics, social movements, 19th century, religion, nation, abolition, slavery, temperance, labor, democracy, mobilization, protest, activism, community, journalism, respectability, right wing, populism, africa, class, place, industrial revolution, workers, artisans, industrialization, england, france, french, rebellion, public sphere, collective action, conflict, craftsmen, marx, proletariat, free speech, classic liberalism, nonfiction, history, sociology, philosophy, political science.
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From BlackPlanet to #BlackGirlMagic, 'Distributed Blackness' places blackness at the very center of internet culture. Andre Brock Jr. claims issues of race and ethnicity as inextricable from and formative of contemporary digital culture in the United States. 'Distributed Blackness' analyzes a host of platforms and practices (from Black Twitter to Instagram, YouTube, and app development) to trace how digital media have reconfigured the meanings and performances of African American identity. Brock moves beyond widely circulated deficit models of respectability, bringing together discourse analysis with a close reading of technological interfaces to develop nuanced arguments about how "blackness" gets worked out in various technological domains. 0As Brock demonstrates, there's nothing niche or subcultural about expressions of blackness on social media: internet use and practice now set the terms for what constitutes normative participation. Drawing on critical race theory, linguistics, rhetoric, information studies, and science and technology studies, Brock tabs between black-dominated technologies, websites, and social media to build a set of black beliefs about technology. In explaining black relationships with and alongside technology, Brock centers the unique joy and sense of community in being black online now.
African Americans --- African Americans and mass media. --- Online social networks --- Internet --- DARPA Internet --- Internet (Computer network) --- Wide area networks (Computer networks) --- World Wide Web --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Blacks --- Electronic social networks --- Social networking Web sites --- Virtual communities --- Social media --- Social networks --- Sociotechnical systems --- Web sites --- Afro-Americans and mass media --- Mass media and African Americans --- Mass media --- Communication. --- Intellectual life --- Social aspects --- Black Twitter. --- Black culture. --- Black cyberculture. --- Black digital practice. --- Black discursive identity. --- Black identity. --- Black kairos. --- Black memetic subculture. --- Black online identity. --- Black pathos. --- Black respectability politics. --- Black technocultural matrix. --- Man Crush Monday. --- Western technoculture. --- Woman Crush Wednesday. --- appropriate technology use. --- black technoculture. --- call-out culture. --- colored people time. --- critical discourse analysis. --- critical race theory. --- critical technocultural discourse analysis. --- ctda. --- digital practice. --- discourse analysis. --- dogmatic digital practice. --- double consciousness. --- information studies. --- interiority. --- internet studies. --- intersectionality. --- invention. --- libidinal economy. --- memes. --- mobile phones. --- modernity. --- networked counterpublics. --- online community. --- online identity. --- post-present. --- race and the digital. --- racial battle fatigue. --- racial enactment. --- racial formation. --- ratchet digital practice. --- reflexive digital practice. --- respectability as hygiene. --- rhetorical frame. --- satellite counterpublic. --- science and technology studies. --- social network. --- sociality. --- technoculture. --- weak tie racism. --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES --- Linguistics.
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