Search Results - "Subjectivity"

Media practices and protest politics how precarious workers mobilise / by Mattoni, Alice, 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Theoretical reflections on the study of grassroots political communication -- The discursive context and contentious field of precarity in Italy -- The construction of precarious subjects in mobilisations against precarity -- Reflections in the mirror. media knowledge practices -- Surfing media diversity. relational media practices -- The construction of public identities. media representations of protest -- Conclusions. the circuit of grassroots political communication.…”
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Folded selves : colonial New England writing in the world system / by Burnham, Michelle

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : colonial folds and the space of dissent -- Investment : uncertain certainty and the economic subject -- Merchants : William Bradford and plain style -- Inflation : Thomas Morton and trading-post pastoral -- Vent : Anne Hutchinson and antinomian selfhood -- Equivalence : Roger Williams and the typology of trade -- Debt : Salem witchcraft and paper money -- Epilogue : economies of possession and dissent.…”
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Difficult women on television drama : the gender politics of complex women in serial narratives / by Pinedo, Isabel Cristina, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…. -- Female Sexual Pleasure and Freedom: Outlander and Westworld -- Violence Against Women and Women Who Kill: Big Little Lies, Orange is the New Black, and Wentworth -- Intersectionality: Beyond the White Female Subject -- Conclusion.…”
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Rural women in urban China gender, migration, and social change / by Jacka, Tamara, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: From the "margins" to the "center" -- The subject -- Between "rural idiocy" and "urban modernity" -- Assembling working sisters -- Place -- In and out of place -- The place of desire -- People -- Relationships -- Identifications -- Time -- Narrative, time, and agency -- Appendix 1. …”
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American elegy the poetry of mourning from the Puritans to Whitman / by Cavitch, Max

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: leaving poetry behind -- Legacy and revision in eighteenth-century Anglo-American elegy -- Elegy and the subject of national mourning -- Taking care of the dead: custodianship and opposition in antebellum elegy -- Elegy's child: Waldo Emerson and the price of generation -- Mourning of the disprized: African Americans and elegy from Wheatley to Lincoln -- Retrievements out of the night: Whitman and the future of elegy.…”
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The liquidation of exile studies in the intellectual emigration of the 1930s / by Kettler, David

Table of Contents: “…The study of intellectual exile: a paradigm -- Self-knowledge and sociology: Nina Rubinstein's exile studies -- A German subject to recall: Hans Mayer as internationalist, cosmopolitan, outsider and/or exile -- Exile as process: the case of Franz L. …”
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Empire's wake postcolonial Irish writing and the politics of modern literary form / by Quigley, Mark

Table of Contents: “…Rerouting Irish modernism: postcolonial aesthetics and the imperative of cosmopolitanism -- Modernity's edge: speaking silence on the blaskets -- Seán O'Faoláin and the end of republican realism -- Unnaming the subject: Samuel Beckett and postcolonial absence -- Postmodern blaguardry: Frank McCourt, the celtic tiger, and the ashes of history -- Conclusion. …”
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Theory of international law / by Kolb, Robert

Table of Contents: “…History and characteristics of International law -- Foundation, sources and structural principles of International law -- The subjects of International law -- Questions of method and the structure of rules in International law -- The 'Lotus Rule' on residual state freedom -- The effectiveness of International law -- International society or International community? …”

The international legal system: documentary supplement / by O'Connell, Mary Ellen, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to the international legal system -- The sources and evidence of international law -- Subjects of international law -- Jurisdiction and immunities -- Human rights -- Earth law : common spaces and the protection of the environment -- International economic and development law -- State responsibility -- International dispute resolution -- International law and the use of force -- International law in national and regional systems -- International law for the future.…”

Ergodic control of diffusion processes by Arapostathis, Ari, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Controlled diffusions with partial observations; Appendix; References; Index of symbols; Subject index.…”
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The Hirschfeld Archives : Violence, Death, and Modern Queer Culture / by Bauer, Heike

Table of Contents: “…From fragile solidarities to burnt sexual subjects: at the Institute of Sexual Science -- 5 Lives that are spoken for: queer in exile -- Coda.…”
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Sovereign bodies citizens, migrants, and states in the postcolonial world /

Table of Contents: “…Territorializing the nation and "integrating the Indian": "Mestizaje" in Mexican official discourses and public culture / Ana Maria Alonso -- Violence, sovereignty, and citizenship in postcolonial Peru / Finn Stepputat -- Sovereign violence and the domain of the political / Partha Chatterjee -- Confinement in the imagination: sovereignty and subjectivity in a quasi-state / Yael Navaro-Yashin -- Naturing the nation: aliens, apocalypse, and the postcolonial state / Jean Comaroff and John L. …”
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Bits of life feminism at the intersections of media, bioscience, and technology /

Table of Contents: “…methodologies as thinking technologies : interview with Donna Haraway / Nina Lykke, Randi Markussen, and Finn Olesen -- Fluid ecologies : changing hormonal systems of embodied difference / Celia Roberts -- Parenthood and kinship in IVF for humans and animals : on traveling bits of life in the age of genetics / Amade M'charek and Grietje Keller -- From Rambo sperm to egg queens : two versions of Lennart Nilsson's film on human reproduction / Mette Bryld and Nina Lykke -- Screening the gene : Hollywood cinema and the new genetic imaginary / Jackie Stacey -- Mylifebits : the computer as memory machine / José van Dijck -- Tunnel vision : inner, outer, and virtual space in science fiction films and medical documentaries / Anneke Smelik -- What if Frankenstein('s monster) was a girl? reproduction and subjectivity in the digital age / Jenny Sundén -- Living in a posthumanist material world : lessons from Schrödinger's cat / Karen Barad -- The politics of life as bios/zoe / Rosi Braidotti.…”
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The end of journalism news in the twenty-first century /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: resistance is useless / Alec Charles -- Objectivity and the end of journalism / Andrew Calcutt and Philip Hammond -- Three cheers for subjectivity: or the crumbling of the seven pillars of traditional journalistic wisdom / Ivor Gaber -- YouTube if you want to: new media, investigative tele-journalism and social control / Jon Silverman -- Mobile journalism: a snapshot of current research and practice / David Cameron -- An alternative to "fortress journalism"? …”
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Rebranding Islam : piety, prosperity, and a self-help guru / by Hoesterey, James Bourk, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : authority, subjectivity, and the cultural politics of public piety -- Branding Islam : autobiography, authenticity, and religious authority -- Enchanting science : popular psychology as religious wisdom -- Ethical entrepreneurs : Islamic ethics and the spirit of capitalism -- Prophetic cosmopolitanism : the Prophet Muhammad as psycho-civic exemplar -- Shaming the state : pornography and the moral psychology of statecraft -- Sincerity and scandal : the moral and market logics of religious authority -- Conclusion : figuring Islam : popular culture and the cutting edge of public piety.…”
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Tactics of the Human Experimental Technics in American Fiction / by Shackelford, Laura

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The Queer Limit of Black Memory : Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution by Richardson, Matt

Table of Contents: “…CHAPTER 4 "Make It Up and Trace It Back": Remembering Black Trans Subjectivity in Jackie Kay's TrumpetCHAPTER 5 What Grace Was: Erotic Epistemologies and Diasporic Belonging in Dionne Brand's In Another Place, Not Here; EPILOGUE Grieving the Queer: Anti-Black Violence and Black Collective Memory; Notes; Index; Series…”
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The Mathematical Imagination : On the Origins and Promise of Critical Theory / by Handelman, Matthew

Table of Contents: “…Infinitesimal Calculus: Subjectivity, Motion, and Franz Rosenzweig's Messianism; 4. …”
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Psychodynamic psychotherapy in South Africa : contexts, theories and applications /

Table of Contents: “…SECTION 1: Subjectivity and identity -- 1. Naming and otherness: South African intersubjective psychoanalytic psychotherapy and the negotiation of racialised histories / Sally Swartz -- 2. …”
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Globalizing tobacco control anti-smoking campaigns in California, France, and Japan / by Reid, Roddey, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Global and local strategies: state and NGO initiatives, community mobilization, and social marketing -- The dynamics of collaboration and community input in the media campaign -- The campaign against secondhand smoke: family, ethical subjects, and the social body -- Revising late modernity: smoking as icon of industrialism and the cold war in public health and media culture -- France: unexceptional exceptionalism? …”
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