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Posthumanist Research and Writing as Agentic Acts of Inclusion:
Knowledge Forced Open looks at the true value and possibilities of
'learning' and knowledge within the emerging field of New Public
Governance by examining, through a posthumanist lens and other
perspectives, the paradoxical knowledge situation we are in today.
This book addresses the constitution of knowledge as an uncertain
process, understanding text as spaces for entanglements of
knowledge – knowledge not as certainty but as uncertainty – and
writing as the act and art of engaging with these entanglements.
Through examining research from multiple perspectives, text,
stories as narrative are constructed as data – showing
ethnographic engagements between writers, readers and texts. The
authors show how to construct messy entanglements of continual,
always already constant thinking and becomings, through the art and
science of research and writing as knowledging processes. Suitable
for scholars of posthumanist thinking in Education and the social
sciences, this book challenges the academy to look at new ways of
thinking with and through knowledge and showing the importance of
such processes.
Posthumanist Research and Writing as Agentic Acts of Inclusion:
Knowledge Forced Open looks at the true value and possibilities of
'learning' and knowledge within the emerging field of New Public
Governance by examining, through a posthumanist lens and other
perspectives, the paradoxical knowledge situation we are in today.
This book addresses the constitution of knowledge as an uncertain
process, understanding text as spaces for entanglements of
knowledge – knowledge not as certainty but as uncertainty – and
writing as the act and art of engaging with these entanglements.
Through examining research from multiple perspectives, text,
stories as narrative are constructed as data – showing
ethnographic engagements between writers, readers and texts. The
authors show how to construct messy entanglements of continual,
always already constant thinking and becomings, through the art and
science of research and writing as knowledging processes. Suitable
for scholars of posthumanist thinking in Education and the social
sciences, this book challenges the academy to look at new ways of
thinking with and through knowledge and showing the importance of
such processes.
* This ground-breaking book binds together a contemporary
understanding of sleep and brain injury. * It pairs empirical
understanding through clinical practice with extensive up-to-date
research. * The author discusses the neuroanatomy and architecture
of sleep, including the need for sleep, definitions of good sleep
and what can go wrong with sleep. * The focus then moves to the
neuroanatomical damage and dysfunction from brain injury, and the
resultant functional effects. * The author then adroitly fuses the
two streams of coverage together, focusing on the neurobiological,
neurochemical, and functional aspects of both sleep and brain
injury to offer new insights as to how they interrelate. * The book
then looks towards the applied aspects of treatment and
rehabilitation, bringing further thoughts of how, because of this
new understanding, we can potentially offer novel treatments for
brain injury recovery and sleep problems. * In this final practical
section four sleep foundations are given, necessary to optimize the
three most common sleep problems and their treatments after brain
injury. * This new approach highlights how sleep can affect the
specific functional effects of brain injury and how brain injury
can exacerbate some of the specific functional effects of sleep
problems, thus having the potential to transform the field of
neurorehabilitation. * It is essential reading for professionals
working with brain injury and postgraduate students in clinical
neuropsychology.
Edges of Transatlantic Commerce in the Long Eighteenth Century
examines and challenges the boundaries of the Atlantic in the
eighteenth century, with a particular focus on commerce. Commerce
as a keyword encompasses a wide range of documented and
undocumented encounters that invoke topics such as shared or
conflicting ideas of value, affective experiences of the emerging
global system, and development of national economies, as well as
their opponents. By investigating what gets exchanged, created, or
obscured on the peripheries of transatlantic commercial relations
and geography in the eighteenth century, the chapters in this
collection reimagine the edge as a liminal space with a potential
for an alternative historical and aesthetic knowledge. To ground
this inquiry in a more material dimension, the chapters engage
specifically with what is being exchanged, sold, or communicated
across the Atlantic by exploring ideas that are being shaped,
concealed, undermined, or exploited through intricate exchanges.
With its contributions from multiple contexts and disciplinary
perspectives, Edges of Transatlantic Commerce offers insights into
relatively neglected aspects of the transatlantic world to
cultivate the value that the edges allow us to conceive.
This new volume revisits diversity resistance 10 years later,
examining the fluidity of diversity resistance in workplaces.
Top-notch contributors provide insight about the motivations to
resist diversity and inclusion as well as offer strategies for
preventing and derailing diversity resistance and enhancing
inclusion in organizations. The current edition broadens the
conversation about diversity resistance by demonstrating methods of
counter-resistance and how diversity resistance manifests in
everyday lives, as well as how it presents itself and limits the
careers and lives of various stigmatized groups. Chapters also
consider why, despite the often expressed value for diversity and
inclusion, diversity resistance continues to persist. Contributors
demonstrate the persistence of diversity resistance across time,
context and for a variety of targets. For example, this volume
addresses topics as well as marginalized groups not previously
discussed in the first edition such as intersectionality, workers
living with mental illness, gender identity, trans workers and the
systemic resistance experienced by gay couples. This volume will be
of interest to scholars and practitioners as well as minoritized
workers. It will function as a framework for understanding the
continuum of exclusion, harassment and discrimination that occurs
within organizational settings and the impact upon individual and
organizational performance. Practitioners will find examples and
cases for how diversity resistance manifests, but more importantly
strategies and recommendations for derailing diversity resistance
and enhancing inclusion.
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The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing
from a variety of angles and approaches. The essays in this volume
continue the Journal's tradition of groundbreaking
interdisciplinary work. The volume opens with a survey of the
discipline of medieval clothing and textiles, written by founding
editor Gale R. Owen-Crocker. The range of the other essays extends
chronologically from the early Middle Ages through the fifteenth
century and covers a variety of disciplines. Topics include the
conception of the author as a "wordweaver" in the literatures of
Anglo-Saxon England; intertextual literary identities established
through clothing in the Nibelungenlied and the Voelsunga Saga; the
historical record of clothing and textiles at the court of King
John of England; medallion silks, their use in Western Europe, and
their representation in art; the vestments of Beguines and other
penitential movements in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries;
and a depiction of heraldic textile weaving inlate-medieval art.
Contributors: Tina Anderlini, Joanne W. Anderson, Maren Clegg Hyer,
Alejandra Concha Sahli, Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Elizabeth M. Swedo,
Hugh Thomas
* This ground-breaking book binds together a contemporary
understanding of sleep and brain injury. * It pairs empirical
understanding through clinical practice with extensive up-to-date
research. * The author discusses the neuroanatomy and architecture
of sleep, including the need for sleep, definitions of good sleep
and what can go wrong with sleep. * The focus then moves to the
neuroanatomical damage and dysfunction from brain injury, and the
resultant functional effects. * The author then adroitly fuses the
two streams of coverage together, focusing on the neurobiological,
neurochemical, and functional aspects of both sleep and brain
injury to offer new insights as to how they interrelate. * The book
then looks towards the applied aspects of treatment and
rehabilitation, bringing further thoughts of how, because of this
new understanding, we can potentially offer novel treatments for
brain injury recovery and sleep problems. * In this final practical
section four sleep foundations are given, necessary to optimize the
three most common sleep problems and their treatments after brain
injury. * This new approach highlights how sleep can affect the
specific functional effects of brain injury and how brain injury
can exacerbate some of the specific functional effects of sleep
problems, thus having the potential to transform the field of
neurorehabilitation. * It is essential reading for professionals
working with brain injury and postgraduate students in clinical
neuropsychology.
Many critical analyses of disability address important 'macro'
concerns, but are often far removed from an interactional and
micro-level focus. Written by leading scholars in the field, and
containing a range of theoretical and empirical contributions from
around the world, this book focuses on the taken-for-granted,
mundane human activities at the heart of how social life is
reproduced, and how this impacts on the lives of those with a
disability, family members, and other allies. It departs from
earlier accounts by making sense of how disability is lived,
mobilised, and enacted in everyday lives. Although broad in focus
and navigating diverse social contexts, chapters are united by a
concern with foregrounding micro, mundane moments for making sense
of powerful discourses, practices, affects, relations, and
world-making for disabled people and their allies. Using different
examples - including learning disabilities, cerebral palsy,
dementia, polio, and Parkinson's disease - contributions move
beyond a simplified narrow classification of disability which
creates rigid categories of existence and denies bodily variation.
Disability, Normalcy, and the Everyday should be considered
essential reading for disability studies students and academics, as
well as professionals involved in health and social care. With
contributions located within new and familiar debates around
embodiment, stigma, gender, identity, inequality, care, ethics,
choice, materiality, youth, and representation, this book will be
of interest to academics from different disciplinary backgrounds
including sociology, anthropology, humanities, public health,
allied health professions, science and technology studies, social
work, and social policy.
This new volume revisits diversity resistance 10 years later,
examining the fluidity of diversity resistance in workplaces.
Top-notch contributors provide insight about the motivations to
resist diversity and inclusion as well as offer strategies for
preventing and derailing diversity resistance and enhancing
inclusion in organizations. The current edition broadens the
conversation about diversity resistance by demonstrating methods of
counter-resistance and how diversity resistance manifests in
everyday lives, as well as how it presents itself and limits the
careers and lives of various stigmatized groups. Chapters also
consider why, despite the often expressed value for diversity and
inclusion, diversity resistance continues to persist. Contributors
demonstrate the persistence of diversity resistance across time,
context and for a variety of targets. For example, this volume
addresses topics as well as marginalized groups not previously
discussed in the first edition such as intersectionality, workers
living with mental illness, gender identity, trans workers and the
systemic resistance experienced by gay couples. This volume will be
of interest to scholars and practitioners as well as minoritized
workers. It will function as a framework for understanding the
continuum of exclusion, harassment and discrimination that occurs
within organizational settings and the impact upon individual and
organizational performance. Practitioners will find examples and
cases for how diversity resistance manifests, but more importantly
strategies and recommendations for derailing diversity resistance
and enhancing inclusion.
Nominated for the Foundation of Sociology of Health and Illness
Book Prize 2018 In the UK and beyond, Down's syndrome screening has
become a universal programme in prenatal care. But why does
screening persist, particularly in light of research that
highlights pregnant women's ambivalent and problematic experiences
with it? Drawing on an ethnography of Down's syndrome screening in
two UK clinics, Thomas explores how and why we are so invested in
this practice and what effects this has on those involved. Informed
by theoretical approaches that privilege the mundane and micro
practices, discourses, materials, and rituals of everyday life,
Down's Syndrome Screening and Reproductive Politics describes the
banal world of the clinic and, in particular, the professionals
contained within it who are responsible for delivering this
programme. In so doing, it illustrates how Down's syndrome
screening is 'downgraded' and subsequently stabilised as a
'routine' part of a pregnancy. Further, the book captures how this
routinisation is deepened by a systematic, but subtle, framing of
Down's syndrome as a negative pregnancy outcome. By unpacking the
complex relationships between professionals, parents, technology,
policy, and clinical practice, Thomas identifies how and why
screening is successfully routinised and how it is embroiled in
both new and familiar debates surrounding pregnancy, ethics,
choice, diagnosis, care, disability, and parenthood. The book will
appeal to academics, students, and professionals interested in
medical sociology, medical anthropology, science and technology
studies (STS), bioethics, genetics, and/or disability studies.
For more than a century, skin lighteners have been a ubiquitous
feature of global popular culture-embraced by consumers even as
they were fiercely opposed by medical professionals, consumer
health advocates, and antiracist thinkers and activists. In Beneath
the Surface, Lynn M. Thomas constructs a transnational history of
skin lighteners in South Africa and beyond. Analyzing a wide range
of archival, popular culture, and oral history sources, Thomas
traces the changing meanings of skin colour from precolonial times
to the postcolonial present. From indigenous skinbrightening
practices and the rapid spread of lighteners in South African
consumer culture during the 1940s and 1950s to the growth of a
billiondollar global lightener industry, Thomas shows how the use
of skin lighteners and experiences of skin color have been shaped
by slavery, colonialism, and segregation, as well as consumer
capitalism, visual media, notions of beauty, and protest politics.
In teasing out lighteners' layered history, Thomas theorises skin
as a site for antiracist struggle and lighteners as a technology of
visibility that both challenges and entrenches racial and gender
hierarchies.
Nominated for the Foundation of Sociology of Health and Illness
Book Prize 2018 In the UK and beyond, Down's syndrome screening has
become a universal programme in prenatal care. But why does
screening persist, particularly in light of research that
highlights pregnant women's ambivalent and problematic experiences
with it? Drawing on an ethnography of Down's syndrome screening in
two UK clinics, Thomas explores how and why we are so invested in
this practice and what effects this has on those involved. Informed
by theoretical approaches that privilege the mundane and micro
practices, discourses, materials, and rituals of everyday life,
Down's Syndrome Screening and Reproductive Politics describes the
banal world of the clinic and, in particular, the professionals
contained within it who are responsible for delivering this
programme. In so doing, it illustrates how Down's syndrome
screening is 'downgraded' and subsequently stabilised as a
'routine' part of a pregnancy. Further, the book captures how this
routinisation is deepened by a systematic, but subtle, framing of
Down's syndrome as a negative pregnancy outcome. By unpacking the
complex relationships between professionals, parents, technology,
policy, and clinical practice, Thomas identifies how and why
screening is successfully routinised and how it is embroiled in
both new and familiar debates surrounding pregnancy, ethics,
choice, diagnosis, care, disability, and parenthood. The book will
appeal to academics, students, and professionals interested in
medical sociology, medical anthropology, science and technology
studies (STS), bioethics, genetics, and/or disability studies.
Edges of Transatlantic Commerce in the Long Eighteenth Century
examines and challenges the boundaries of the Atlantic in the
eighteenth century, with a particular focus on commerce. Commerce
as a keyword encompasses a wide range of documented and
undocumented encounters that invoke topics such as shared or
conflicting ideas of value, affective experiences of the emerging
global system, and development of national economies, as well as
their opponents. By investigating what gets exchanged, created, or
obscured on the peripheries of transatlantic commercial relations
and geography in the eighteenth century, the chapters in this
collection reimagine the edge as a liminal space with a potential
for an alternative historical and aesthetic knowledge. To ground
this inquiry in a more material dimension, the chapters engage
specifically with what is being exchanged, sold, or communicated
across the Atlantic by exploring ideas that are being shaped,
concealed, undermined, or exploited through intricate exchanges.
With its contributions from multiple contexts and disciplinary
perspectives, Edges of Transatlantic Commerce offers insights into
relatively neglected aspects of the transatlantic world to
cultivate the value that the edges allow us to conceive.
Since the increased attention toward diversity in the workplace,
the concepts of "diversity initiatives" and "diversity management"
have become a common place in many conversations among academics
and practitioners alike. The diversity movement in the workplace
originated from the increased avocation for equal treatment of
minority groups due to the dynamic composition of the modern
workforce. Many organizations were forced to face these changes and
the dilemma of how to respond to group differences to maintain
and/or increase organization effectiveness and productivity. This
volume will present new research on the colorblindness versus
multiculturalism debate, assist in broadening the diversity
ideology conversation, share this conversation across social
science domains including industrial/organizational psychology,
social psychology, and law and public policy, and highlight how the
nature of diversity ideology may be fluid and therefore be
different depending on the diversity dimension discussed.
This volume is a history of economics - as it was interpreted,
discussed and established as a discipline - in the 20th century. It
highlights the pluralism of the discipline and brings together
leading voices in the field who reflect on their lifelong work. The
chapters draw on a host of traditions of economic thought,
including pre-classical, classical, Marxian, neoclassical,
Sraffian, post-Keynesian, Cantabrigian and institutionalist
traditions in economics. Further, the volume also looks at the
history of economics in India and its evolution as a discipline
since the country's independence. This book will appeal to
students, researchers and teachers of economics and intellectual
history, as well as to the interested general reader.
A series which is a model of its kind. Edmund King, History This
volume demonstrates the vitality and range of studies in the area.
It begins with an appropriately timely chapter on the Magna Carta,
the Allen Brown Memorial Lecture, given by John Hudson. Further
topics include seals; English towns and urban society after the
Norman Conquest; the records of Barking Abbey; the Bayeux Tapestry;
monastic writing; and medical practitioners in Normandy.
Contributors: Anna Sapir Abulafia, Casey Beaumont, Elma Brenner,
Giles Gasper, Kate Hammond, John Hudson, Alan Murray, Jean-Francois
Nieus, Jonathan Paletta, Susan Raich, Luigi Rosso, Miri Rubin, Hugh
Thomas.
First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
This book looks at the foundations of school self-evaluation from a
scientific as from a practical perspective. Planning concepts,
restructuring of education systems, organizational theory on
schools, evaluation methodology and models of school effectiveness
and school improvement are discussed as contributing to the overall
conceptualization of school self-evaluation. A broad range of
approaches is presented and methodological requirements are
discussed. School self-evaluation contains controversial issues
that reflect tension between the need for objectivity in a context
that is permeated by values and potential conflicts of interests.
Similar tensions may be seen to exist with respect to the static
and "reductionist" aspects of available data collection procedures
in a complex and dynamic situation and the appeal for external
accountability on the one hand and improvement oriented
self-refection on the other. The mission of the book is to clarify
these tensions and offer ways to deal with them in practical
applications. The school effectiveness knowledge base is offered as
a substantive educational frame of references that serves an
important function in selecting relevant factors for data
collection and the use of the evaluation results.
This book meticulously recreates the most important episodes in
Czech-German relations in what is now the Czech Republic. Drawing
on extensive archival research, Stephen M. Thomas depicts the
formation of the Czechoslovak Republic from the ruined
Austro-Hungarian empire and examines political and public life
between world wars via the ethnic rivalry between Germans and
Czechs. He questions the nature, legitimacy and political viability
of the nation state, and especially its relationship to ethnic
minorities, such as the Slovaks. Confrontational nationalism and
the use of ethnicity as a political tool are no less common today
than they were in the 20th century. This book's radical
contribution to studies of nationalism and ethnicity is that it
juxtaposes German and Czech perspectives of power and oppression as
part of the same story. This framework allows us to appreciate new
complexities regarding the creation of Czechoslovakia and ponder
them in 21st century terms.
Combining insider and outsider perspectives, Women in Lebanon looks
at Christian and Muslim women living together in a multicultural
society and facing modernity. While the Arab Spring has begun to
draw attention to issues of change, modernity, and women's
subjectivity, this manuscript takes a unique approach to examining
and describing the Lebanese "alternative modernities" thesis and
how it has shaped thinking about the meaning of terms like
evolution, progress, development, history, and politics in
contemporary Arab thought. The author draws on extensive
ethnographic research, as well as her own personal experience.
This book illuminates the central role played by international
nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) in the emergence and
development of a comprehensive world polity. The contributors argue
that the enormous proliferation of INGOs since 1875--including
international environmental organizations, human rights groups,
bodies formed to regulate technical standards, and economic
development organizations, among others--both reflects and
contributes to the spread of global institutions and cultural
principles based on models of rationality, individualism, progress,
and universalism. The contributors contrast this world-polity
perspective to other approaches to understanding globalization,
including realist and neo-realist analyses in the field of
international relations, and world-system theory and interstate
competition theory in sociology.
The volume considers transnational organizing as a historical
process of the creation of global rules and norms, changing over
time, that have identifiable effects on social organization at the
national and local levels. The chapters provide empirical support
for this approach, identifying specific mechanisms that translate
global cultural assumptions and prescriptions into local social
activity, such as the creation of state agencies, the formulation
of government policies, and the emergence of social movements. The
first part of the book deals with social movement INGOs, including
environmental groups, women's rights organizations, the Esperanto
movement, and the International Red Cross. The second part treats
technical and economic bodies, including the International
Organization for Standardization, population policy groups,
development organizations, and international professional science
associations.
Combining insider and outsider perspectives, Women in Lebanon looks
at Christian and Muslim women living together in a multicultural
society and facing modernity. While the Arab Spring has begun to
draw attention to issues of change, modernity, and women's
subjectivity, this manuscript takes a unique approach to examining
and describing the Lebanese "alternative modernities" thesis and
how it has shaped thinking about the meaning of terms like
evolution, progress, development, history, and politics in
contemporary Arab thought. The author draws on extensive
ethnographic research, as well as her own personal experience.
Molecular microbiology is a rapidly expanding area of contemporary
science: the application of molecular biology has opened up the
microbial world in many remarkable ways. The attraction of microbes
is that they are self-contained and that they offer complete
solutions to understanding the phenomenon of life.
This book provides a concise introduction to current research in
the field. Four major areas are introduced and explained:
- Bacterial Biochemistry
- Bacterial Genomes
- Gene Expression
- Microbial Cell Biology
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