Celia Hughes
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780719091940
- eISBN:
- 9781781708989
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719091940.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
Young Lives on the Left is a unique social history of the individual lives of men and women who came of age in radical left circles in the 1960s. Based on a rich collection of oral history ...
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Young Lives on the Left is a unique social history of the individual lives of men and women who came of age in radical left circles in the 1960s. Based on a rich collection of oral history interviews, the book follows in-depth approximately twenty individuals, tracing the experience of activist self-making from child to adulthood. Their voices tell a particular story about the shaping of the English post-war self. Championing the oppressed in struggle, the young activists who developed the personal politics of the early 1970s grew up in a post-war society which offered an ever-increasing range of possibilities for constructing and experiencing the self. Yet, for many of these men and women the inadequacy of the social, political and cultural constructions available for social identity propelled their journeys on the left. The creation of new left spaces represented the quest for a construction of self that could accommodate the range of contradictions concerning class, gender, religion, race and sexuality that young activists experienced growing up in the post-war landscape. An important contribution to the global histories of 1968, the book explores untold stories of English activist life, examining how political experiences, social attitudes and behaviour of this group of social actors (as teenagers, apprentices and undergraduates) were shaped in the changing social, educational and cultural landscape of post-war English society. The final chapters include attention to the social and emotional impact of Women’s Liberation on the left, as told from the perspective of women and men inside the early movement.Less
Young Lives on the Left is a unique social history of the individual lives of men and women who came of age in radical left circles in the 1960s. Based on a rich collection of oral history interviews, the book follows in-depth approximately twenty individuals, tracing the experience of activist self-making from child to adulthood. Their voices tell a particular story about the shaping of the English post-war self. Championing the oppressed in struggle, the young activists who developed the personal politics of the early 1970s grew up in a post-war society which offered an ever-increasing range of possibilities for constructing and experiencing the self. Yet, for many of these men and women the inadequacy of the social, political and cultural constructions available for social identity propelled their journeys on the left. The creation of new left spaces represented the quest for a construction of self that could accommodate the range of contradictions concerning class, gender, religion, race and sexuality that young activists experienced growing up in the post-war landscape. An important contribution to the global histories of 1968, the book explores untold stories of English activist life, examining how political experiences, social attitudes and behaviour of this group of social actors (as teenagers, apprentices and undergraduates) were shaped in the changing social, educational and cultural landscape of post-war English society. The final chapters include attention to the social and emotional impact of Women’s Liberation on the left, as told from the perspective of women and men inside the early movement.
Levi R. Bryant
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781474420570
- eISBN:
- 9781474453905
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474420570.003.0008
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Aesthetics
In this chapter, following his ontology that focuses on what it means to give an account of something, Levi R. Bryant not only defines building as a machine, but building as a void and an enclosure ...
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In this chapter, following his ontology that focuses on what it means to give an account of something, Levi R. Bryant not only defines building as a machine, but building as a void and an enclosure where architecture operates in, through and on it. After elaborating on his argument that all of being is composed of machines, calling this metaphysics or ontology ‘machine-oriented ontology’, he goes onto sketching the outlines of a machine-oriented architecture and the ways in which distributions of space operate on bodies, create subjectivities and form communities. He concludes by asking what a revolutionary enclosure would be to connect it with our ability to create enclosures that act upon us and potentially enhance our becoming and movement.Less
In this chapter, following his ontology that focuses on what it means to give an account of something, Levi R. Bryant not only defines building as a machine, but building as a void and an enclosure where architecture operates in, through and on it. After elaborating on his argument that all of being is composed of machines, calling this metaphysics or ontology ‘machine-oriented ontology’, he goes onto sketching the outlines of a machine-oriented architecture and the ways in which distributions of space operate on bodies, create subjectivities and form communities. He concludes by asking what a revolutionary enclosure would be to connect it with our ability to create enclosures that act upon us and potentially enhance our becoming and movement.
Arek Dakessian, Célia Hassani, and Sarah Shmaitilly
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- January 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781447340508
- eISBN:
- 9781447355113
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447340508.003.0004
- Subject:
- Education, Philosophy and Theory of Education
In this chapter we reflect on street art in Beirut during the October 17 revolutionary moment, when a decades-long accumulation of social, political and economic ills culminated in unprecedented and ...
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In this chapter we reflect on street art in Beirut during the October 17 revolutionary moment, when a decades-long accumulation of social, political and economic ills culminated in unprecedented and sustained protest across Lebanon. Through our engagement with a series of murals, stencils and graffiti that emerged on Beirut’s walls around October 17, as well as numerous scribbles by anonymous citizens around these more formal works of art and on random public surfaces, we argue that street art might have mediated the formation of citizen subjectivities by ‘making public’ conversations, contestations and reflections previously restricted to the private and intimate spaces of home and family.Less
In this chapter we reflect on street art in Beirut during the October 17 revolutionary moment, when a decades-long accumulation of social, political and economic ills culminated in unprecedented and sustained protest across Lebanon. Through our engagement with a series of murals, stencils and graffiti that emerged on Beirut’s walls around October 17, as well as numerous scribbles by anonymous citizens around these more formal works of art and on random public surfaces, we argue that street art might have mediated the formation of citizen subjectivities by ‘making public’ conversations, contestations and reflections previously restricted to the private and intimate spaces of home and family.
Kelly Underman
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- January 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781479897780
- eISBN:
- 9781479836338
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479897780.003.0007
- Subject:
- Sociology, Science, Technology and Environment
This chapter examines how patient empowerment seeks to train medical students to cultivate behaviors, attitudes, and values through disciplinary work done on physicians’ and patients’ affects. ...
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This chapter examines how patient empowerment seeks to train medical students to cultivate behaviors, attitudes, and values through disciplinary work done on physicians’ and patients’ affects. Because of the pelvic exam’s fraught history of rendering patients as passive objects prior to the intervention of the Women’s Health Movement, this exam serves as an interesting example to tease out threads of patient empowerment and professional authority. Patient empowerment is conceptualized as a technology comprised of discourses, knowledges, and practices that constitute patients as “partners”: fully informed subjects who are responsible for and obligated to participate in the maintenance of their own health.Less
This chapter examines how patient empowerment seeks to train medical students to cultivate behaviors, attitudes, and values through disciplinary work done on physicians’ and patients’ affects. Because of the pelvic exam’s fraught history of rendering patients as passive objects prior to the intervention of the Women’s Health Movement, this exam serves as an interesting example to tease out threads of patient empowerment and professional authority. Patient empowerment is conceptualized as a technology comprised of discourses, knowledges, and practices that constitute patients as “partners”: fully informed subjects who are responsible for and obligated to participate in the maintenance of their own health.
Alison Chand
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781474409360
- eISBN:
- 9781474427111
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474409360.003.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Scottish Studies
This chapter begins by discussing important theories of masculinity underlying the arguments in the book, before defining the policy of reservation in Second World War Britain and its implications. ...
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This chapter begins by discussing important theories of masculinity underlying the arguments in the book, before defining the policy of reservation in Second World War Britain and its implications. The geographical boundaries of the study are also defined here, with the areas understood as being incorporated into ‘Glasgow’ and ‘Clydeside’ discussed. The chapter also defines the notions of ‘lived’ and ‘imagined’ subjectivities, which centrally underpin the arguments made in the book, before considering the methodologies used in conducting the research involved, primarily oral history. The chapter moves on to look at uses of oral testimonies in previous historical research before examining the different kinds of oral testimony used for this study, including those held in existing oral history archives and newly conducted oral history interviews. Finally, the chapter examines other primary source materials used in this research, including cultural materials such as newspapers, novels and films.Less
This chapter begins by discussing important theories of masculinity underlying the arguments in the book, before defining the policy of reservation in Second World War Britain and its implications. The geographical boundaries of the study are also defined here, with the areas understood as being incorporated into ‘Glasgow’ and ‘Clydeside’ discussed. The chapter also defines the notions of ‘lived’ and ‘imagined’ subjectivities, which centrally underpin the arguments made in the book, before considering the methodologies used in conducting the research involved, primarily oral history. The chapter moves on to look at uses of oral testimonies in previous historical research before examining the different kinds of oral testimony used for this study, including those held in existing oral history archives and newly conducted oral history interviews. Finally, the chapter examines other primary source materials used in this research, including cultural materials such as newspapers, novels and films.
Maroona Murmu
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- April 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780199498000
- eISBN:
- 9780199098224
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780199498000.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, Indian History
By choosing two dissimilar genres in the form of Kailashbashini Debi’s diary Janaika Grihabadhur Diary and Saradasundari Debi’s dictated autobiography Atmakatha, the chapter shows how the unmediated ...
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By choosing two dissimilar genres in the form of Kailashbashini Debi’s diary Janaika Grihabadhur Diary and Saradasundari Debi’s dictated autobiography Atmakatha, the chapter shows how the unmediated (diary) and the highly mediated (autobiography) are still ‘relational’ outputs. These fulsomely reveal fragmented subjectivities, dismembered recollections, slippages, and gaps that are as much a product of their interactions with ‘men’ as they are of their own creation. While Saradasundari surpassed the ideological constriction of Hindu wifehood and sculpted a defiant identity only after the death of her husband, Kailashbashini invented herself through marital love and the ensuing freedom, position, and authority that empowered her to speak. Embedded in the history of nineteenth-century Bengal, these personal narratives are candid enough to critically appraise the times, critique social relations, assess the efficacy of social reforms, and appeal for sociocultural changes. Though their life witnessed ‘big events’ and ‘illustrious men’, these are made insignificant in both personal narratives. The chapter provides vignettes of women’s experiences—negotiations, resistances, rebellions—and a range of emotions—resentment, anger, joy, sadness, rage, melancholy and resignation—which weave a masterpiece of history of emotions in colonial India.Less
By choosing two dissimilar genres in the form of Kailashbashini Debi’s diary Janaika Grihabadhur Diary and Saradasundari Debi’s dictated autobiography Atmakatha, the chapter shows how the unmediated (diary) and the highly mediated (autobiography) are still ‘relational’ outputs. These fulsomely reveal fragmented subjectivities, dismembered recollections, slippages, and gaps that are as much a product of their interactions with ‘men’ as they are of their own creation. While Saradasundari surpassed the ideological constriction of Hindu wifehood and sculpted a defiant identity only after the death of her husband, Kailashbashini invented herself through marital love and the ensuing freedom, position, and authority that empowered her to speak. Embedded in the history of nineteenth-century Bengal, these personal narratives are candid enough to critically appraise the times, critique social relations, assess the efficacy of social reforms, and appeal for sociocultural changes. Though their life witnessed ‘big events’ and ‘illustrious men’, these are made insignificant in both personal narratives. The chapter provides vignettes of women’s experiences—negotiations, resistances, rebellions—and a range of emotions—resentment, anger, joy, sadness, rage, melancholy and resignation—which weave a masterpiece of history of emotions in colonial India.
