Neil Websdale
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- May 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195315417
- eISBN:
- 9780199777464
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195315417.003.006
- Subject:
- Social Work, Children and Families, Crime and Justice
Chapter 6 explores the interrelationships between modern figurations of feeling, familial atmospheres of feeling, and the emotional styles of perpetrators as means of making sense of familicide. One ...
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Chapter 6 explores the interrelationships between modern figurations of feeling, familial atmospheres of feeling, and the emotional styles of perpetrators as means of making sense of familicide. One of the hallmarks of modern life is the increasing value attached to controlling one's emotions and one's interactions with others. Such self-control was particularly emphasized among the ranks of bourgeois men. The chapter commences with a discussion of these cultural imperatives toward self-control and emotional restraint. The author underscores the prominent place of anxiety, shame and anger among familicidal hearts, using this analysis as segue into a discussion of the relationship between modernity, emotional styles, hegemonic masculinity, and familicide. Of particular importance is the fact that familicide is gendered, reflecting the greater social disconnection and isolation of men in modern times.Less
Chapter 6 explores the interrelationships between modern figurations of feeling, familial atmospheres of feeling, and the emotional styles of perpetrators as means of making sense of familicide. One of the hallmarks of modern life is the increasing value attached to controlling one's emotions and one's interactions with others. Such self-control was particularly emphasized among the ranks of bourgeois men. The chapter commences with a discussion of these cultural imperatives toward self-control and emotional restraint. The author underscores the prominent place of anxiety, shame and anger among familicidal hearts, using this analysis as segue into a discussion of the relationship between modernity, emotional styles, hegemonic masculinity, and familicide. Of particular importance is the fact that familicide is gendered, reflecting the greater social disconnection and isolation of men in modern times.
Ned Schantz
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780195335910
- eISBN:
- 9780199868902
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195335910.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, Film, Media, and Cultural Studies, Women's Literature
This chapter considers what our fantasies of the telephone have to do with our fantasies at the movies. It calls out the Classical Hollywood Telephone, the quiet object whose smooth transmission of ...
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This chapter considers what our fantasies of the telephone have to do with our fantasies at the movies. It calls out the Classical Hollywood Telephone, the quiet object whose smooth transmission of narrative information bolsters the routine operations of genre and the stable meanings of crime and romance. Exposing this dormant telephone to coincidence makes it possible to chart a path of increasing deviation from the Classical norm, moving from pat disavowals, on through generic confusion (with a long look at the disguised gothic dynamics of Pillow Talk), finally to uncanny nightmares of disconnection and exposure.Less
This chapter considers what our fantasies of the telephone have to do with our fantasies at the movies. It calls out the Classical Hollywood Telephone, the quiet object whose smooth transmission of narrative information bolsters the routine operations of genre and the stable meanings of crime and romance. Exposing this dormant telephone to coincidence makes it possible to chart a path of increasing deviation from the Classical norm, moving from pat disavowals, on through generic confusion (with a long look at the disguised gothic dynamics of Pillow Talk), finally to uncanny nightmares of disconnection and exposure.
Nina Eliasoph
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691147093
- eISBN:
- 9781400838820
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691147093.003.0004
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Stratification, Inequality, and Mobility
This chapter portrays the Community House's possibly mismatched time lines, and shows how participants align them by focusing on future potential. Sometimes this temporal leapfrog works, but ...
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This chapter portrays the Community House's possibly mismatched time lines, and shows how participants align them by focusing on future potential. Sometimes this temporal leapfrog works, but sometimes this focus on future potential comes at the expense of any focus on the past or present. The chapter indicates other temporal disconnections as well, as illustrated in how organizers try to “build community” by “drawing on community,” “build leadership by drawing on leadership,” by treating “the community,” “leadership,” “good choices,” and other potentials “simultaneously as diagnosis and cure.” This chapter shows how even with these mismatched time frames, people still manage to coordinate everyday action.Less
This chapter portrays the Community House's possibly mismatched time lines, and shows how participants align them by focusing on future potential. Sometimes this temporal leapfrog works, but sometimes this focus on future potential comes at the expense of any focus on the past or present. The chapter indicates other temporal disconnections as well, as illustrated in how organizers try to “build community” by “drawing on community,” “build leadership by drawing on leadership,” by treating “the community,” “leadership,” “good choices,” and other potentials “simultaneously as diagnosis and cure.” This chapter shows how even with these mismatched time frames, people still manage to coordinate everyday action.
Philippe Cullet
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199546237
- eISBN:
- 9780191705519
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199546237.003.0007
- Subject:
- Law, Public International Law, Environmental and Energy Law
This chapter builds on the critical analysis of ongoing water law reforms undertaken in the previous two chapters and suggests some alternatives. It emphasizes some possible new conceptual bases for ...
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This chapter builds on the critical analysis of ongoing water law reforms undertaken in the previous two chapters and suggests some alternatives. It emphasizes some possible new conceptual bases for water law, such as the principle of common heritage. It proposes a different understanding of already accepted notions such as the human right to water. It also suggests that a different understanding of key concepts, such as conservation and participation, is necessary to ensure that water laws adopted today can contribute to socially equitable and environmentally sustainable outcomes. It further argues that the adoption of a framework water legislation at the state or union level is necessary.Less
This chapter builds on the critical analysis of ongoing water law reforms undertaken in the previous two chapters and suggests some alternatives. It emphasizes some possible new conceptual bases for water law, such as the principle of common heritage. It proposes a different understanding of already accepted notions such as the human right to water. It also suggests that a different understanding of key concepts, such as conservation and participation, is necessary to ensure that water laws adopted today can contribute to socially equitable and environmentally sustainable outcomes. It further argues that the adoption of a framework water legislation at the state or union level is necessary.
Vincent Azoulay
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691154596
- eISBN:
- 9781400851171
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691154596.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, Ancient History / Archaeology
This chapter examines two contradictory aspects of eros in Pericles' life. In the Greek world, eros did not correspond to any romantic sentiment, nor did it bear any similarity to the wishy-washy ...
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This chapter examines two contradictory aspects of eros in Pericles' life. In the Greek world, eros did not correspond to any romantic sentiment, nor did it bear any similarity to the wishy-washy notion nowadays conjured up by “love.” Whether homosexual or heterosexual, eros was first and foremost a connective force or, at times, a disconnective one. As a connective force, eros linked individuals together. As a force for disconnection, it was capable of turning the normal functioning of social life upside down. The chapter explains how Pericles' life combined eros's power of connection and disconnection. It shows that Pericles was an ardent defender of a veritable civic eroticism and that his story testifies to the subversive power of eros. It also considers the erotic dimension of Pericles' authority, his behavior in matters of sexual love, and his relationship with Aspasia.Less
This chapter examines two contradictory aspects of eros in Pericles' life. In the Greek world, eros did not correspond to any romantic sentiment, nor did it bear any similarity to the wishy-washy notion nowadays conjured up by “love.” Whether homosexual or heterosexual, eros was first and foremost a connective force or, at times, a disconnective one. As a connective force, eros linked individuals together. As a force for disconnection, it was capable of turning the normal functioning of social life upside down. The chapter explains how Pericles' life combined eros's power of connection and disconnection. It shows that Pericles was an ardent defender of a veritable civic eroticism and that his story testifies to the subversive power of eros. It also considers the erotic dimension of Pericles' authority, his behavior in matters of sexual love, and his relationship with Aspasia.
Ashley Carse
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780262028110
- eISBN:
- 9780262320467
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262028110.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
This book traces the water that flows into and out from the Panama Canal to explain how global shipping is entangled with Panama’s cultural and physical landscapes. By following container ships as ...
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This book traces the water that flows into and out from the Panama Canal to explain how global shipping is entangled with Panama’s cultural and physical landscapes. By following container ships as they travel downstream along maritime routes and tracing rivers upstream across the populated watershed that feeds the canal, it explores the politics of environmental management around a waterway that links faraway ports and markets to nearby farms, forests, cities, and rural communities. The book draws on a wide range of ethnographic and archival material to show the social and ecological implications of transportation across Panama. The canal moves ships over an aquatic staircase of locks that demand an enormous amount of fresh water from the surrounding region. Each passing ship drains 52 million gallons out to sea—a volume comparable to the daily water use of half a million Panamanians. The book argues that infrastructures like the Panama Canal do not simply conquer nature; they rework ecologies in ways that serve specific political and economic priorities. Interweaving histories that range from the depopulation of the US Canal Zone a century ago to road construction conflicts and water hyacinth invasions in canal waters, the book illuminates the human and nonhuman actors that have come together at the margins of the famous trade route. Beyond the Big Ditch calls us to consider how infrastructures are simultaneously linked to global networks and embedded in places, giving rise to political ecologies with winners and losers who are connected across great distances.Less
This book traces the water that flows into and out from the Panama Canal to explain how global shipping is entangled with Panama’s cultural and physical landscapes. By following container ships as they travel downstream along maritime routes and tracing rivers upstream across the populated watershed that feeds the canal, it explores the politics of environmental management around a waterway that links faraway ports and markets to nearby farms, forests, cities, and rural communities. The book draws on a wide range of ethnographic and archival material to show the social and ecological implications of transportation across Panama. The canal moves ships over an aquatic staircase of locks that demand an enormous amount of fresh water from the surrounding region. Each passing ship drains 52 million gallons out to sea—a volume comparable to the daily water use of half a million Panamanians. The book argues that infrastructures like the Panama Canal do not simply conquer nature; they rework ecologies in ways that serve specific political and economic priorities. Interweaving histories that range from the depopulation of the US Canal Zone a century ago to road construction conflicts and water hyacinth invasions in canal waters, the book illuminates the human and nonhuman actors that have come together at the margins of the famous trade route. Beyond the Big Ditch calls us to consider how infrastructures are simultaneously linked to global networks and embedded in places, giving rise to political ecologies with winners and losers who are connected across great distances.
Ashley Carse
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780262028110
- eISBN:
- 9780262320467
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262028110.003.0013
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Thisfinal chapter argues that infrastructures like the Panama Canal have given rise to highly demanding environments. Technological marvels have not universally freed humans from the environment, but ...
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Thisfinal chapter argues that infrastructures like the Panama Canal have given rise to highly demanding environments. Technological marvels have not universally freed humans from the environment, but bound people more tightly and contentiously to landscapes and waterscapes of our own making. Without constant maintenance, infrastructures crack, rust, and crumble and the political projects, promises, and aspirations they carried dissipate. Places once connected can be disconnected and landscapes that once appeared developed can revert to nature and be redeployed in newprojects. The transformation of the environment through infrastructure construction, maintenance, and decay has uneven consequences—both winners and losers. Thus, depending on who, where, and when you are, global infrastructures may produce experiences of environmental control or vulnerability.Less
Thisfinal chapter argues that infrastructures like the Panama Canal have given rise to highly demanding environments. Technological marvels have not universally freed humans from the environment, but bound people more tightly and contentiously to landscapes and waterscapes of our own making. Without constant maintenance, infrastructures crack, rust, and crumble and the political projects, promises, and aspirations they carried dissipate. Places once connected can be disconnected and landscapes that once appeared developed can revert to nature and be redeployed in newprojects. The transformation of the environment through infrastructure construction, maintenance, and decay has uneven consequences—both winners and losers. Thus, depending on who, where, and when you are, global infrastructures may produce experiences of environmental control or vulnerability.
Roger Brownsword
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199276806
- eISBN:
- 9780191707605
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199276806.003.0006
- Subject:
- Law, Intellectual Property, IT, and Media Law
This chapter begins with a discussion of the problem of disconnection (and the process of re-connection). It introduces three key distinctions: one between ‘descriptive’ and ‘normative’ ...
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This chapter begins with a discussion of the problem of disconnection (and the process of re-connection). It introduces three key distinctions: one between ‘descriptive’ and ‘normative’ disconnection, a second between ‘productive’ and ‘unproductive’ disconnection, and a third between ‘intelligent’ and ‘unintelligent’ purposive re-connection. It then reviews the way in which the English courts have recently responded to disconnection — with particular reference to the rapidly developing technologies of cell nuclear replacement (CNR), pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), and pre-implantation tissue-typing (PTT) — by seeking to reconnect the regulatory framework (namely, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990). It is argued that where interpreters face a case that is not straightforwardly one of unproductive descriptive disconnection, there is a danger that reconnection effected through purposive interpretation might not only fall foul of the principle of congruence but also hinder the need for a reconsideration of the law.Less
This chapter begins with a discussion of the problem of disconnection (and the process of re-connection). It introduces three key distinctions: one between ‘descriptive’ and ‘normative’ disconnection, a second between ‘productive’ and ‘unproductive’ disconnection, and a third between ‘intelligent’ and ‘unintelligent’ purposive re-connection. It then reviews the way in which the English courts have recently responded to disconnection — with particular reference to the rapidly developing technologies of cell nuclear replacement (CNR), pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), and pre-implantation tissue-typing (PTT) — by seeking to reconnect the regulatory framework (namely, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990). It is argued that where interpreters face a case that is not straightforwardly one of unproductive descriptive disconnection, there is a danger that reconnection effected through purposive interpretation might not only fall foul of the principle of congruence but also hinder the need for a reconsideration of the law.
Giorgio Bertellini
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252038891
- eISBN:
- 9780252096853
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252038891.001.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
Emir Kusturica is one of Eastern Europe's most celebrated and influential filmmakers. Over the course of a thirty-year career, Kusturica has navigated a series of geopolitical fault lines to produce ...
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Emir Kusturica is one of Eastern Europe's most celebrated and influential filmmakers. Over the course of a thirty-year career, Kusturica has navigated a series of geopolitical fault lines to produce subversive, playful, often satiric works. On the way he won acclaim and widespread popularity while showing a genius for adjusting his poetic pitch—shifting from romantic realist to controversial satirist to sentimental jester. This book divides Kusturica's career into three stages—dissention, disconnection, and dissonance—to reflect both the historic and cultural changes going on around him and the changes his cinema has undergone. The book uses Kusturica's Palme d'Or winning Underground (1995)—the famously inflammatory take on Yugoslav history after World War II—as the pivot between the tone of romantic, yet pungent critique of the director's early works and later journeys into Balkanist farce marked by slapstick and a self-conscious primitivism. Eschewing the one-sided polemics that Kusturica's work often provokes, the book employs balanced discussion and critical analysis to offer a fascinating and up-to-date consideration of a major figure in world cinema.Less
Emir Kusturica is one of Eastern Europe's most celebrated and influential filmmakers. Over the course of a thirty-year career, Kusturica has navigated a series of geopolitical fault lines to produce subversive, playful, often satiric works. On the way he won acclaim and widespread popularity while showing a genius for adjusting his poetic pitch—shifting from romantic realist to controversial satirist to sentimental jester. This book divides Kusturica's career into three stages—dissention, disconnection, and dissonance—to reflect both the historic and cultural changes going on around him and the changes his cinema has undergone. The book uses Kusturica's Palme d'Or winning Underground (1995)—the famously inflammatory take on Yugoslav history after World War II—as the pivot between the tone of romantic, yet pungent critique of the director's early works and later journeys into Balkanist farce marked by slapstick and a self-conscious primitivism. Eschewing the one-sided polemics that Kusturica's work often provokes, the book employs balanced discussion and critical analysis to offer a fascinating and up-to-date consideration of a major figure in world cinema.
Harris Beider
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781447313953
- eISBN:
- 9781447331094
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447313953.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Public Policy
This book seeks to extend our understanding of white working class perspectives on multiculturalism and change. By integrating fieldwork data and critically reviewing secondary sources the book ...
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This book seeks to extend our understanding of white working class perspectives on multiculturalism and change. By integrating fieldwork data and critically reviewing secondary sources the book highlights the gap between policy framing and political rhetoric with the lived reality of white working class communities. Starting with recognition that both white and working class are complex and problematic terms means care needs to be taken in ascribing fixed and collective positions to this group. Moving beyond crude reductionism that frames the group as hostile to immigration, social change and multiculturalism the book calls for greater nuance and understanding by politicians and policy makers alike. Recognising the limitations of defining whiteness and class in terms of culture or occupation, the book instead opts for discussing white working class communities and multiculturalism by considering interpretation through screen and music as well as in comparison with different countries. Though evidence from fieldwork confirms white working class disconnection with politics and political elites this does not necessarily mean that policy makers need to marginalise multiculturalism, restrict immigration and adopt a tougher stance on integration. Instead of devising national policies that further risk alienating communities, government could take a facilitative role and enable communities to build grassroots coalitions across ethnicity.Less
This book seeks to extend our understanding of white working class perspectives on multiculturalism and change. By integrating fieldwork data and critically reviewing secondary sources the book highlights the gap between policy framing and political rhetoric with the lived reality of white working class communities. Starting with recognition that both white and working class are complex and problematic terms means care needs to be taken in ascribing fixed and collective positions to this group. Moving beyond crude reductionism that frames the group as hostile to immigration, social change and multiculturalism the book calls for greater nuance and understanding by politicians and policy makers alike. Recognising the limitations of defining whiteness and class in terms of culture or occupation, the book instead opts for discussing white working class communities and multiculturalism by considering interpretation through screen and music as well as in comparison with different countries. Though evidence from fieldwork confirms white working class disconnection with politics and political elites this does not necessarily mean that policy makers need to marginalise multiculturalism, restrict immigration and adopt a tougher stance on integration. Instead of devising national policies that further risk alienating communities, government could take a facilitative role and enable communities to build grassroots coalitions across ethnicity.
Harris Beider
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781447313953
- eISBN:
- 9781447331094
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447313953.003.0004
- Subject:
- Political Science, Public Policy
Despite differences in population, politics and ideology, the narratives of white working class loss, grievance about immigration and social change and political disconnection have been played out in ...
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Despite differences in population, politics and ideology, the narratives of white working class loss, grievance about immigration and social change and political disconnection have been played out in many parts of Europe the United States. This chapter will consider the politics of white working class communities in the context of countries that are becoming ethnically diverse as a result of immigration. Sweden is regarded as a progressive and inclusive country with a tradition of a generous welfare state. Yet it has witnessed the emergence and growth of the extreme right anti-immigration party, the Sweden Democrats based on winning support from white working class communities. In the US, the Tea Party has become increasingly influential in national and local politics based on a mix of low taxes, extreme conservative and evangelical Christian positions on topical issues such as abortion, guns and immigration.Less
Despite differences in population, politics and ideology, the narratives of white working class loss, grievance about immigration and social change and political disconnection have been played out in many parts of Europe the United States. This chapter will consider the politics of white working class communities in the context of countries that are becoming ethnically diverse as a result of immigration. Sweden is regarded as a progressive and inclusive country with a tradition of a generous welfare state. Yet it has witnessed the emergence and growth of the extreme right anti-immigration party, the Sweden Democrats based on winning support from white working class communities. In the US, the Tea Party has become increasingly influential in national and local politics based on a mix of low taxes, extreme conservative and evangelical Christian positions on topical issues such as abortion, guns and immigration.
Harris Beider
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781447313953
- eISBN:
- 9781447331094
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447313953.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, Public Policy
Based on the two substantive research projects conduced in in four different locations across England this is the first of two chapters that provide a grassroots perspective on multiculturalism and ...
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Based on the two substantive research projects conduced in in four different locations across England this is the first of two chapters that provide a grassroots perspective on multiculturalism and change that appears to be at odds with the commonly held view that white working class communities are collectively supporters of extreme right wing politics and opposed to multiculturalism. The chapter shows that the far larger theme of disconnection at both national and local levels. Politics and politicians had failed to provide public goods and services in the wake of troubling economic times. Jobs had been lost, housing was difficult to access and unaffordable, and public sector cuts had been made to local services. Immigration was not a consistent factor in these grassroots conversations. On occasions it was raised as an issue that compounded challenges experienced by white working class communities. People were proud to belong to multicultural communities and spoke about their own family histories of ethnic diversity as well as the lived experienced of working and living alongside different types of groups.Less
Based on the two substantive research projects conduced in in four different locations across England this is the first of two chapters that provide a grassroots perspective on multiculturalism and change that appears to be at odds with the commonly held view that white working class communities are collectively supporters of extreme right wing politics and opposed to multiculturalism. The chapter shows that the far larger theme of disconnection at both national and local levels. Politics and politicians had failed to provide public goods and services in the wake of troubling economic times. Jobs had been lost, housing was difficult to access and unaffordable, and public sector cuts had been made to local services. Immigration was not a consistent factor in these grassroots conversations. On occasions it was raised as an issue that compounded challenges experienced by white working class communities. People were proud to belong to multicultural communities and spoke about their own family histories of ethnic diversity as well as the lived experienced of working and living alongside different types of groups.
Ja’Dell Davis
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781501746888
- eISBN:
- 9781501746895
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501746888.003.0005
- Subject:
- Education, Higher and Further Education
This chapter provides an intersectional perspective on gendered racial-ethnic identities (a gender identity that is racialized and a racial-ethnic identity that is gendered), with a focus on ...
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This chapter provides an intersectional perspective on gendered racial-ethnic identities (a gender identity that is racialized and a racial-ethnic identity that is gendered), with a focus on experiences of intellectual invalidation. Black women were the most likely to report these alienating campus experiences, and many responded with identity-protection coping strategies that led them to disconnect from campus life or limit their engagement to activities that affirmed their gendered racial-ethnic identity. This chapter illustrates the benefits and costs of certain Black interviewees' conscious decisions to disconnect from general college life. One approach was blanket rejection, while another involved severely narrowing the range of spaces and people that incorporated into the college experience. A third and more extreme form of disconnecting highlights the role that counterspaces play in making the disconnection from college life sustainable.Less
This chapter provides an intersectional perspective on gendered racial-ethnic identities (a gender identity that is racialized and a racial-ethnic identity that is gendered), with a focus on experiences of intellectual invalidation. Black women were the most likely to report these alienating campus experiences, and many responded with identity-protection coping strategies that led them to disconnect from campus life or limit their engagement to activities that affirmed their gendered racial-ethnic identity. This chapter illustrates the benefits and costs of certain Black interviewees' conscious decisions to disconnect from general college life. One approach was blanket rejection, while another involved severely narrowing the range of spaces and people that incorporated into the college experience. A third and more extreme form of disconnecting highlights the role that counterspaces play in making the disconnection from college life sustainable.
Carolyn Slaughter
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780190458997
- eISBN:
- 9780190459024
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190458997.003.0016
- Subject:
- Social Work, Health and Mental Health
Ernest Hemingway was plagued all his life by sexual arousal linked to associations developed in early childhood. In his letters and writing, Hemingway does not easily use “I” or “you.” From Paris, he ...
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Ernest Hemingway was plagued all his life by sexual arousal linked to associations developed in early childhood. In his letters and writing, Hemingway does not easily use “I” or “you.” From Paris, he writes to his boyhood friends as simply a male: “Bring a male up to date.” Psychoanalysts have given us a full range of Hemingway’s mental disabilities: latent homosexuality, posttraumatic stress disorder, bipolar disorder, narcissism, gender-identity issues, self-image issues, domestic abuse, alcoholism, and sexual inadequacy. His most profound disability might perhaps have been his disconnection from himself and others. His deepest longing was to dissolve with another in a way that did not require him to be a separate, individual person. Ultimately, Hemingway’s desire for dissolution led to self-murder, even as the chaos, rage, and agony of his bipolar mind brought with it an astonishing blessing: stark, intense, and magnificent prose.Less
Ernest Hemingway was plagued all his life by sexual arousal linked to associations developed in early childhood. In his letters and writing, Hemingway does not easily use “I” or “you.” From Paris, he writes to his boyhood friends as simply a male: “Bring a male up to date.” Psychoanalysts have given us a full range of Hemingway’s mental disabilities: latent homosexuality, posttraumatic stress disorder, bipolar disorder, narcissism, gender-identity issues, self-image issues, domestic abuse, alcoholism, and sexual inadequacy. His most profound disability might perhaps have been his disconnection from himself and others. His deepest longing was to dissolve with another in a way that did not require him to be a separate, individual person. Ultimately, Hemingway’s desire for dissolution led to self-murder, even as the chaos, rage, and agony of his bipolar mind brought with it an astonishing blessing: stark, intense, and magnificent prose.
Michael S. Gazzaniga
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199228768
- eISBN:
- 9780191696336
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199228768.003.0009
- Subject:
- Psychology, Cognitive Psychology
This chapter looks at developments in the split-brain studies during the past fifty years from a personal perspective. It describes experiments in split-brain research and the discovery of the ...
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This chapter looks at developments in the split-brain studies during the past fifty years from a personal perspective. It describes experiments in split-brain research and the discovery of the effects of callosal disconnection. It highlights major findings in split-brain research that relate to the problem of consciousness and suggests that it is important to understand that the problem is constantly evolving and new dimensions are continually presenting themselves.Less
This chapter looks at developments in the split-brain studies during the past fifty years from a personal perspective. It describes experiments in split-brain research and the discovery of the effects of callosal disconnection. It highlights major findings in split-brain research that relate to the problem of consciousness and suggests that it is important to understand that the problem is constantly evolving and new dimensions are continually presenting themselves.
George Toles
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252040368
- eISBN:
- 9780252098789
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252040368.003.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter describes a considered, thematic, and stylistic account of the viewing experiences of three films by Paul Thomas Anderson and their backgrounds—Punch-Drunk Love (2002), There Will Be ...
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This chapter describes a considered, thematic, and stylistic account of the viewing experiences of three films by Paul Thomas Anderson and their backgrounds—Punch-Drunk Love (2002), There Will Be Blood (2007), and The Master (2012). Writer Geoffrey O'Brien, in his essay on The Master, captures the feel of Anderson's recurring landscape of disconnection. He goes on to speak of the expressionist treatment of milieu in the films, as though in each narrative there is an attempt both to acknowledge the claims of material reality and at the same time to reconfigure the real. The chapter also examines the contradictory pressures at work in the avowedly autobiographical, densely verbal Magnolia, which may have necessitated a change in Anderson's method and technique in the films that followed.Less
This chapter describes a considered, thematic, and stylistic account of the viewing experiences of three films by Paul Thomas Anderson and their backgrounds—Punch-Drunk Love (2002), There Will Be Blood (2007), and The Master (2012). Writer Geoffrey O'Brien, in his essay on The Master, captures the feel of Anderson's recurring landscape of disconnection. He goes on to speak of the expressionist treatment of milieu in the films, as though in each narrative there is an attempt both to acknowledge the claims of material reality and at the same time to reconfigure the real. The chapter also examines the contradictory pressures at work in the avowedly autobiographical, densely verbal Magnolia, which may have necessitated a change in Anderson's method and technique in the films that followed.
Patrick Magee and Mark Tooley
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- November 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780199595150
- eISBN:
- 9780191918032
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780199595150.003.0015
- Subject:
- Clinical Medicine and Allied Health, Anesthesiology
The World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiology (WFSA) adopted standards relating to the safe practice of anaesthesia in 1992 and such standards had already been ...
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The World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiology (WFSA) adopted standards relating to the safe practice of anaesthesia in 1992 and such standards had already been proposed by a number of countries in order to cut the morbidity due to anaesthesia itself. In the modern era it is easy to forget that historically anaesthesia and surgery did indeed have associated morbidity and mortality and there was very little assistance from technology to monitor patients. The evolution of these standards is based on two main requirements of monitoring. The first is to record anticipated deviations from normal values, which require accurate measurement to ensure patient safety. The second is to warn of unexpected, life-threatening events that, by definition, occur without warning, and could affect the fit, young patient as easily as the old and infirm. All international standards stress the importance of the continual presence of a fully trained and accredited anaesthetic person, and one Australian study demonstrated that many mishaps occur in the absence of such a person [Runciman 1988]. This applies to general and regional anaesthesia, sedation and recovery. Because perceptions of safety and standards vary throughout the world, despite the presence of an International Standards Organisation, debate about the minimum requirements for monitoring continue. Central to the maintenance of these standards is the quality of persons entering the specialty, the quality of training programmes, and the continuing education of specialists throughout a professional lifetime [Sykes 1992]. It is difficult to determine with certainty the effect that additional technological monitoring has on safety. One clear example is the inability of the trained human eye to detect cyanosis, this human failure occurring maximally at 81–85% oxygen saturation. Clearly, the pulse oximeter has improved the quality of cyanosis detection. Numerous studies all over the world have shown that mortality due to anaesthesia itself fell significantly between the 1950s and the 1980s, by which time extensive technological monitoring was being introduced, and training programmes had been very much improved. Utting [1987] reviewed 750 cases of death and cerebral damage reported to the British General Medical Council between 1970 and 1982 that were thought to be the result of errors in technique.
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The World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiology (WFSA) adopted standards relating to the safe practice of anaesthesia in 1992 and such standards had already been proposed by a number of countries in order to cut the morbidity due to anaesthesia itself. In the modern era it is easy to forget that historically anaesthesia and surgery did indeed have associated morbidity and mortality and there was very little assistance from technology to monitor patients. The evolution of these standards is based on two main requirements of monitoring. The first is to record anticipated deviations from normal values, which require accurate measurement to ensure patient safety. The second is to warn of unexpected, life-threatening events that, by definition, occur without warning, and could affect the fit, young patient as easily as the old and infirm. All international standards stress the importance of the continual presence of a fully trained and accredited anaesthetic person, and one Australian study demonstrated that many mishaps occur in the absence of such a person [Runciman 1988]. This applies to general and regional anaesthesia, sedation and recovery. Because perceptions of safety and standards vary throughout the world, despite the presence of an International Standards Organisation, debate about the minimum requirements for monitoring continue. Central to the maintenance of these standards is the quality of persons entering the specialty, the quality of training programmes, and the continuing education of specialists throughout a professional lifetime [Sykes 1992]. It is difficult to determine with certainty the effect that additional technological monitoring has on safety. One clear example is the inability of the trained human eye to detect cyanosis, this human failure occurring maximally at 81–85% oxygen saturation. Clearly, the pulse oximeter has improved the quality of cyanosis detection. Numerous studies all over the world have shown that mortality due to anaesthesia itself fell significantly between the 1950s and the 1980s, by which time extensive technological monitoring was being introduced, and training programmes had been very much improved. Utting [1987] reviewed 750 cases of death and cerebral damage reported to the British General Medical Council between 1970 and 1982 that were thought to be the result of errors in technique.
Christel J Bejenke
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- November 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780199577286
- eISBN:
- 9780191917912
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780199577286.003.0023
- Subject:
- Clinical Medicine and Allied Health, Anesthesiology
Intraoperative awareness (IOA) represents a range of heterogeneous experiences and is a topic of considerable relevance, not only to anaesthetists, but to ...
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Intraoperative awareness (IOA) represents a range of heterogeneous experiences and is a topic of considerable relevance, not only to anaesthetists, but to all theatre staff. This chapter focuses on communications that the anaesthetist may find helpful in ameliorating or preventing adverse sequelae associated with IOA. This is a well-described, infrequent complication of general anaesthesia which can have serious long-term psychological consequences. First recognized as a medical complication in 1846, there have been numerous reports since the 1950s. Considerable research has been devoted to its understanding and prevention over the past two decades. IOA has increasingly come to the attention of clinicians, patients and the media. It is also a medico-legal issue and high compensation awards have been made. The ASA practice advisory for anaesthesiologists states that, ‘Intraoperative awareness occurs when a patient becomes conscious during a procedure performed under general anaesthesia and subsequently has recall of these events.’ This may include: sensations of weakness; inability to communicate, move or scream; auditory and tactile perceptions; feelings of helplessness; acute fear, panic and pain; believing to have been abandoned and betrayed; and being dead, or about to die. Explicit awareness (declarative memory) permits conscious recall of intraoperative events such as auditory, visual and tactile experiences, paralysis and pain. There is a striking similarity of experiences among patients, but only a minority (35 % ) may inform their anaesthetists. Explicit awareness has been the subject of the majority of investigations related to IOA and is the main topic of this chapter. Implicit awareness (non-declarative memory): information can be recollected but cannot be recalled or consciously retrieved. There is strong evidence for auditory information-processing of material relevant to the patient’s well-being, whether beneficial or threatening. The overall incidence of IOA varies, but has been reported to be between 0.1 and 0.9 % with 30 000–40 000 cases annually in the USA. However, the true incidence of recall is probably underestimated. According to a 2010 report by the ASA closed claims project, IOA occurs in less than 1 in 700 cases. Causes were largely attributed to light anaesthesia and anaesthetic delivery problems.
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Intraoperative awareness (IOA) represents a range of heterogeneous experiences and is a topic of considerable relevance, not only to anaesthetists, but to all theatre staff. This chapter focuses on communications that the anaesthetist may find helpful in ameliorating or preventing adverse sequelae associated with IOA. This is a well-described, infrequent complication of general anaesthesia which can have serious long-term psychological consequences. First recognized as a medical complication in 1846, there have been numerous reports since the 1950s. Considerable research has been devoted to its understanding and prevention over the past two decades. IOA has increasingly come to the attention of clinicians, patients and the media. It is also a medico-legal issue and high compensation awards have been made. The ASA practice advisory for anaesthesiologists states that, ‘Intraoperative awareness occurs when a patient becomes conscious during a procedure performed under general anaesthesia and subsequently has recall of these events.’ This may include: sensations of weakness; inability to communicate, move or scream; auditory and tactile perceptions; feelings of helplessness; acute fear, panic and pain; believing to have been abandoned and betrayed; and being dead, or about to die. Explicit awareness (declarative memory) permits conscious recall of intraoperative events such as auditory, visual and tactile experiences, paralysis and pain. There is a striking similarity of experiences among patients, but only a minority (35 % ) may inform their anaesthetists. Explicit awareness has been the subject of the majority of investigations related to IOA and is the main topic of this chapter. Implicit awareness (non-declarative memory): information can be recollected but cannot be recalled or consciously retrieved. There is strong evidence for auditory information-processing of material relevant to the patient’s well-being, whether beneficial or threatening. The overall incidence of IOA varies, but has been reported to be between 0.1 and 0.9 % with 30 000–40 000 cases annually in the USA. However, the true incidence of recall is probably underestimated. According to a 2010 report by the ASA closed claims project, IOA occurs in less than 1 in 700 cases. Causes were largely attributed to light anaesthesia and anaesthetic delivery problems.
Michael Taussig
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- January 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780226684581
- eISBN:
- 9780226698700
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226698700.003.0020
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Anthropology, Theory and Practice
The author introduces the question of environmental collapse, the problem of connection and disconnection, and the notions of "dark surrealism" and the "mastery of non-mastery."
The author introduces the question of environmental collapse, the problem of connection and disconnection, and the notions of "dark surrealism" and the "mastery of non-mastery."
Susan J. McWilliams
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780813169910
- eISBN:
- 9780813174761
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813169910.003.0004
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics
This chapter examines those works of Baldwin’s, both fiction and nonfiction, which are concerned with American citizenship and its complicity with a growing sense of a fractured nationality, reaching ...
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This chapter examines those works of Baldwin’s, both fiction and nonfiction, which are concerned with American citizenship and its complicity with a growing sense of a fractured nationality, reaching beyond explicit white and black racial tension. This work also incorporates Baldwin’s internationalism, exploring his frequent choice to reside in other countries. As the essay suggests, Baldwin’s own disconnection from America allowed him to see its internal disconnection more clearly.Less
This chapter examines those works of Baldwin’s, both fiction and nonfiction, which are concerned with American citizenship and its complicity with a growing sense of a fractured nationality, reaching beyond explicit white and black racial tension. This work also incorporates Baldwin’s internationalism, exploring his frequent choice to reside in other countries. As the essay suggests, Baldwin’s own disconnection from America allowed him to see its internal disconnection more clearly.