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Att göra klass : Nedslag i svensk samtidsprosa
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ISBN: 9170618801 917061380X Year: 2022 Publisher: Gothenburg Kriterium

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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.


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University Babylon : film and race politics on campus
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ISBN: 0520973194 Year: 2020 Publisher: Oakland, California : University of California Press,

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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.


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Cultivating community
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ISBN: 9780228009993 0228009995 0228010004 9780228010005 Year: 2022 Publisher: Montreal Kingston London Chicago

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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.


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Violette Nozière
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ISBN: 1283277840 9786613277848 0520948734 9780520948730 9781283277846 6613277843 9780520260702 0520260708 Year: 2011 Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. London, England University of California Press

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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.


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Looking After Miss Alexander : Care, Mental Capacity, and the Court of Protection in Mid-Twentieth-Century England
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ISBN: 0228015839 Year: 2023 Publisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press,

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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."--


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Current trends in New Testament study
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ISBN: 3039280279 3039280260 Year: 2020 Publisher: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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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.

Listening in Paris
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ISBN: 0585249733 0520918231 9780520918238 9780585249735 0520085647 0520206487 Year: 1996 Volume: 21 Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. University of California Press

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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.


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Between Arab and White : race and ethnicity in the early Syrian American diaspora
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ISBN: 1282360930 9786612360930 0520943465 9780520943469 0520255321 9780520255326 0520255348 9780520255340 9781282360938 6612360933 Year: 2009 Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. University of California Press

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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.


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The Roots of Radicalism
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ISBN: 1280126000 9786613529862 0226090876 9780226090870 9781280126000 9780226090849 0226090841 9780226090863 0226090868 Year: 2012 Publisher: Chicago, IL University of Chicago Press

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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.


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Distributed Blackness : African American cybercultures
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ISBN: 1479811904 1479820377 9781479811908 9781479820375 9781479829965 147982996X Year: 2020 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] NEW YORK University Press,

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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.

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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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