Situating Strangeness: Exploring the Intersections between Bodies and Borders

Situating Strangeness: Exploring the Intersections between Bodies and Borders PDF Author: Vanessa Longden
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1848884176
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 114

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This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2016. Zygmunt Bauman, in his publication Liquid Modernity, described the meeting of strangers as a mismeeting – a brief encounter which had no past and the unlikely possibility of a future. This suggests a meeting which is free from expectation, but it also has the potential to fuel alienation and displacement. Being a stranger is not synonymous with distant geographies or borderlands, though it does include them: strangers and peculiar places can be found closer to home. Themes of alienation, strangeness and foreignness converge in the following accounts. The reader will migrate through unrecognisable narratives coming into contact with diasporic identities, stand-up comedians, English Language Educators, artists and photographers, to mention a few. These accounts are diverse but commonalities are tangled between webs of thought. Readers are invited to tug at the threads of this web, to find their own connections and chance upon unexpected revelations which come through picking the ends.

Situating Strangeness: Exploring the Intersections between Bodies and Borders

Situating Strangeness: Exploring the Intersections between Bodies and Borders PDF Author: Vanessa Longden
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1848884176
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 114

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Book Description
This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2016. Zygmunt Bauman, in his publication Liquid Modernity, described the meeting of strangers as a mismeeting – a brief encounter which had no past and the unlikely possibility of a future. This suggests a meeting which is free from expectation, but it also has the potential to fuel alienation and displacement. Being a stranger is not synonymous with distant geographies or borderlands, though it does include them: strangers and peculiar places can be found closer to home. Themes of alienation, strangeness and foreignness converge in the following accounts. The reader will migrate through unrecognisable narratives coming into contact with diasporic identities, stand-up comedians, English Language Educators, artists and photographers, to mention a few. These accounts are diverse but commonalities are tangled between webs of thought. Readers are invited to tug at the threads of this web, to find their own connections and chance upon unexpected revelations which come through picking the ends.

SITUATING STRANGENESS

SITUATING STRANGENESS PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789004374720
Category : Politics and culture
Languages : en
Pages :

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Sexual Predation and TEFL

Sexual Predation and TEFL PDF Author: Vaughan Rapatahana
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004713581
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 448

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Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) enables sexual predation across the wide range of activities and locales it encompasses, beyond schools and inclusive of voluntourist and aid programmes where EFL is taught. This predation is carried out not only by male Native-speaking English Teachers (NETs) on their students, peers, and members of local communities but also carried out on female NETs and EFL students by locals. Is TEFL inherently sexist, utilising gender-biased texts? This book is the first to examine in considerable detail such English language sexual imperialism and to suggest ways to curtail it.

The Erotic in Context

The Erotic in Context PDF Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1848880251
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2010.

Transgressive Womanhood: Investigating Vamps, Witches, Whores, Serial Killers and Monsters

Transgressive Womanhood: Investigating Vamps, Witches, Whores, Serial Killers and Monsters PDF Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1848882831
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 277

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This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2014. Despite the triumphs of the feminist movement, the cultural stereotype of the evil woman remains. Images of wanton, treacherous, malicious and monstrous females pervade art, literature, film, mythology, psychology and history. This eBook is a compilation of some of the papers presented at the 5th Global Conference on Evil, Women and the Feminine, and provides a collection of fresh perspectives on the construction of transgressive femininities. A core theme throughout many of the chapters is that the concept of evil is gendered, and what appears as a sinister action is often contingent on the gender of the perpetrator. While many behaviours are considered relatively unproblematic for a man, they are seen as evil when executed by a woman. The notion of female evil remains intimately tied to transgression and subversion of the norms regarding acceptable femininity.

The Global Trajectories of Queerness

The Global Trajectories of Queerness PDF Author: Ashley Tellis
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004217940
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 270

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The Global Trajectories of Queerness interrogates the term “queer” by closely mapping what space the theorizing of same-sex sexualities and sexual politics in the non-West inhabits. From theoretical discussions around the epistemologies of such conceptualizations of space in the Global South, to specific ethnographies of same-sex culture, this collection hopes to forge a way of tracking the histories of race, class, caste, gender, and sexual orientation that form what is called the moment of globalization. The volume, co-edited by Ashley Tellis and Sruti Bala, asks whether the societies of the Global South simply borrow and graft an internationalist (read Euro-US) language of LGBT/queer rights and identity politics, whether it is imposed on them or whether there is a productive negotiation of that language. Contributing Authors: Sruti Bala, Laia Ribera Cañénguez, Soledad Cutuli, Roderick Ferguson, Iman Ganji, Krystal Ghisyawan, Josephine Ho, Neville Hoad, Victoria Keller, Haneen Maikey, Shad Naved, Guillermo Núñez Noriega, Stella Nyanzi, Witchayanee Ocha, Julieta Paredes, Mikki Stelder, Ashley Tellis, and Wei Tingting

Frame Escapes: Graphic Novel Intertexts

Frame Escapes: Graphic Novel Intertexts PDF Author: Mikhail Peppas
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1848884486
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2016. The graphic narrative – in merging text with image – showcases an experiential panorama of visceral emotions for the users. Central to the format are considerations about the place of the image story in history and location. Both the comic and the graphic novel appropriate and are appropriated by diverse media in the enactment of individual, social and cultural identity. Intermediality morphs literature into pictures, films into graphic fiction, images into frames, and incorporates a host of flexible production values linked to high/low graphic arts. The structure of the graphic novel, city imaging, food fetishes, autographics, parallel worlds, Superhero guises, character patterning and shifting identities are explored in the eclectic volume by a range of authors using multimodal devices to analyse the composition, reading and interpretation of graphic narratives. The unstoppable momentum of holistic literature promises a converged means of expression that transcends the separation of print, digital and screen while transporting the dialogue about comics into a central scenario of popular culture. Throughout, the story stands strong in parallel with the probing of key concepts such as boundary transgression, moral searching, and the predictiveness of ‘frame-casting’ that allows feedback between the comic book frame and the silhouette of the future city.

The (Un)Certain Future of Empathy in Posthumanism, Cyberculture and Science Fiction

The (Un)Certain Future of Empathy in Posthumanism, Cyberculture and Science Fiction PDF Author: Elsa Bouet
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1848883366
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 175

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This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2015. This volume investigates the future of empathy as contemplated by posthumanism, cyberculture and science fiction. As humanity increasingly networks and communicates online, the reconfiguration of human communities through the removal and immediacy of the body challenges traditional notions of humanity and human capacity for empathy. The impact of cyberculture and posthumanism on humanity and its capacity for empathy is here assessed through research in literature, films, neuroscience, anthropology and philosophy. This volume addresses the centrality of the body to human interactions and assesses how intrinsic it is to the defining of the human. The exploration of posthuman narratives which display futuristic bodily modifications also engages with the anxieties and hopes for the future of human empathy. Research in dystopian narratives shows that these anxieties are also expressed without the tropes of bodily modifications and that ideological distancing creates the conditions necessary for a lack of empathy towards otherness.

Monstrous Geographies: Places and Spaces of the Monstrous

Monstrous Geographies: Places and Spaces of the Monstrous PDF Author: Sarah Montin
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004399437
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Preliminary Material /Sarah Montin and Evelyn Tsitas -- 'The Only Thing to be Deplored is the Extraordinary Mortality': Flinders Island and the Imagination of the British Empire /Tom Lawson -- Zombies in the Colonies: Imperialism and Contestation of Ethno-Political Space in Max Brooks' The Zombie Survival Guide /Robert A. Saunders -- The Perilous Sites of the Atlantikwall /Rose Tzalmona -- 'Monstrous Homes': How Private Spaces Shape Characters' Identities in 19th-Century Sensation Fiction /Christina Flotmann -- Enchanted Microcosm or Apocalyptic Warzone? Human Projections into the Bug World /Petra Rehling -- Monstrous Breeding Grounds: Creation, Isolation and Suffering at Noble's Island, Hailsham and Rankstadt /Evelyn Tsitas -- How the Earth Went Bad: From Wells' The War of the Worlds to the Zombie Apocalypse in the 21st Century /Simon Bacon -- 'Strange Outlandish Star': Spaces of Horror in the Poems and Memoirs of the War Poets /Sarah Montin -- Unsettling Empty Spaces, Displacing Terra Nullius /Thea Costantino -- Morgues, Museums and the Ghost of Errol Flynn /Erin Ashenhurst -- Architecture after Fukushima: Spaces of Bara Bara, Spaces of Reciprocity /Yutaka Sho.

How Trauma Resonates: Art, Literature and Theoretical Practice

How Trauma Resonates: Art, Literature and Theoretical Practice PDF Author: Mark Callaghan
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1848882394
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2014. What emerged from the 3rd Global Conference on Trauma Theory and Practice was a lively and informed view of the different ways our history, personal experiences, education, and forms of entertainment are shaped by trauma and its resultant interpretations. This volume comprises numerous academic papers concerning essential subjects in relation to trauma, from literary representations of and responses to war-related trauma, to the articulating of suffering and other traumatic legacies of colonialism. Key scholars, including Cathy Caruth and Ann E. Kaplan, are employed to develop these important research areas, as conference participants provide new insights into artistic representations of trauma and their subsequent analysis. Significant time is also dedicated to papers concerning post-traumatic growth and the role of psycho-spiritual transformation in the process, outcomes, and management of trauma. Using clinical examples, valuable research concerning the creation of safe learning environments for traumatized children is also discussed, along with additional research concerning Sandplay therapy and the theoretical and empirical aspects of time.