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"Second Changes" begins a narrative describing the events
surrounding the resettlement of German refugees throughout the
cosmos following World War II. Their patrons unwittingly unlease
the evil of Naziism, while at the same time establishing a new
Germania founded on the principles of peace and harmony.
Mentoring Away the Glass Ceiling in Academia: A Cultured Critique
is different in that it calls attention to the role mentoring has
played on the "glass ceiling" phenomenon in higher education.
Narratives by and about the experiences of women of diverse
backgrounds in the United States and beyond the borders of this
nation shed needed light on the ways in which mentoring influences
identity formation and internal coping mechanisms in environments
often characterized by marginalization. Through these narratives,
these women serve as "quasi mentors" and create spaces for other
women to survive and thrive within the educational arena. This text
honors and extends previous work on the experiences of women
academics from diverse backgrounds. Through this book, there is a
call for new ways of understanding the vital role that narratives
play in speaking truth to the power of mentoring. The insights
present an expose of the extent to which politics, policies, and
equity agendas for mentoring have supported or failed women.
Sitting prominently at the hearth of our homes, television serves
as a voice of our modern time. Given our media-saturated society
and television's prominent voice and place in the home, it is
likely we learn about our society and selves through these stories.
These narratives are not simply entertainment, but powerful
socializing agents that shape and reflect the world and our role in
it. Television and the Self: Knowledge, Identity, and Media
Representation brings together a diverse group of scholars to
investigate the role television plays in shaping our understanding
of self and family. This edited collection's rich and diverse
research demonstrates how television plays an important role in
negotiating self, and goes far beyond the treacly "very special"
episodes found in family sit-coms in the 1980s. Instead, the
authors show how television reflects our reality and helps us to
sort out what it means to be a twenty-first-century man or woman.
The chapters in this volume address a variety of issues surrounding
quotation, such as whether it is a pragmatic or semantic
phenomenon, what varieties of quotation exist, and what speech acts
are involved in quoting. Quotation poses problems for many
prevailing theories of language. One fundamental principle is that
for a language to be learnable, speakers must be able to derive the
truth-conditions of sentences from the meanings of their parts.
Another popular view is that indexical expressions like "I" display
a certain fixity -- that they always refer to the speaker using
them. Both of these tenets appear to be violated by quotation. This
volume is suitable for scholars in philosophy of language,
semantics, and pragmatics, and for graduate students in philosophy
and linguistics. The book will also be useful for researchers in
other fields that study quotation, including psychology and
computer science.
This study examines France's determination to remain aloof and
unaffected as the world economy threatens the French way of doing
business. Describing the difficulty in initiating change in French
organizations, the author tells of the obstacles he encountered in
attempting to modernize the working practices of a Paris firm. His
observations are based upon customs and habits peculiar to the
French, yet they apply equally to all foreign cultures. Management
methods, attitudes to the outside world, and the historic roots of
the French mentality are viewed and explained anecdotally, based on
the author's experience of living and working in France, and are
accompanied by humorous illustrations.
Intersectional Media: Representations of Marginalized Identities
analyzes media depictions of a variety of intersecting identities.
Through a study examining how components of identity such as race,
class, ethnicity, age, ability, class, and sexuality mesh and form
a unique worldview, contributors to this collection frame their
understanding of media intersectionality as complex and
multi-layered studies of identity. Rather than focusing on any one
component of marginalized identity, this book broadens the scope of
inquiry and encourages audiences to recognize the complexity of
media analysis when a combination of marginalized identities is
depicted. Contributors demonstrate their understanding of how
different components of identity combine and create new, original
components of identity, paving the way for new studies of both
media and identity. Scholars of media studies, identity studies,
cultural studies, minority studies, gender studies, race studies,
and sociology will find this book particularly useful.
When Guinean Muslims leave their homeland, they encounter radically
new versions of Islam and new approaches to religion more
generally. In Remaking Islam in African Portugal, Michelle C.
Johnson explores the religious lives of these migrants in the
context of diaspora. Since Islam arrived in West Africa centuries
ago, Muslims in this region have long conflated ethnicity and
Islam, such that to be Mandinga or Fula is also to be Muslim. But
as they increasingly encounter Muslims not from Africa, as well as
other ways of being Muslim, they must question and revise their
understanding of "proper" Muslim belief and practice. Many men, in
particular, begin to separate African custom from global Islam.
Johnson maintains that this cultural intersection is highly
gendered as she shows how Guinean Muslim men in Lisbon-especially
those who can read Arabic, have made the pilgrimage to Mecca, and
attend Friday prayer at Lisbon's central mosque-aspire to be
cosmopolitan Muslims. By contrast, Guinean women-many of whom never
studied the Qur'an, do not read Arabic, and feel excluded from the
mosque-remain more comfortably rooted in African custom. In
response, these women have created a "culture club" as an
alternative Muslim space where they can celebrate life course
rituals and Muslim holidays on their own terms. Remaking Islam in
African Portugal highlights what being Muslim means in urban Europe
and how Guinean migrants' relationships to their ritual practices
must change as they remake themselves and their religion.
Paul Ricoeur's first book, Freedom and Nature, introduces many
themes that resurface in various ways throughout his later work,
but its significance has been mostly overlooked in the field of
Ricoeur studies. Gathering together an international group of
scholars, The Companion to Freedom and Nature is the first
book-length study to focus exclusively on Freedom and Nature. It
helps readers to understand this complex work by providing careful
textual analysis of specific arguments in the book and by situating
them in relation to Ricoeur's early influences, including
Merleau-Ponty, Nabert, and Ravaisson. But most importantly, this
book demonstrates that Freedom and Nature remains a compelling and
vital resource for readers today, precisely because it resonates
with recent developments in the areas of embodied cognition,
philosophical psychology, and philosophy of the will. Freedom and
Nature is fundamentally a book about embodiment, and it situates
the human body at the crossroads of activity and passivity,
motivation and causation, the voluntary and the involuntary. This
conception of the body informs Ricoeur's unique treatment of topics
such as effort, habit, and attention that are of much interest to
scholars today. Together the chapters of this book provide a
renewed appreciation of this important and innovative work.
Mentoring Away the Glass Ceiling in Academia: A Cultured Critique
is different in that it calls attention to the role mentoring has
played on the "glass ceiling" phenomenon in higher education.
Narratives by and about the experiences of women of diverse
backgrounds in the United States and beyond the borders of this
nation shed needed light on the ways in which mentoring influences
identity formation and internal coping mechanisms in environments
often characterized by marginalization. Through these narratives,
these women serve as "quasi mentors" and create spaces for other
women to survive and thrive within the educational arena. This text
honors and extends previous work on the experiences of women
academics from diverse backgrounds. Through this book, there is a
call for new ways of understanding the vital role that narratives
play in speaking truth to the power of mentoring. The insights
present an expose of the extent to which politics, policies, and
equity agendas for mentoring have supported or failed women.
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