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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
David Kuhl, Douglas Cave, Hilary Pearson, and Paul Whitehead
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780195383263
- eISBN:
- 9780199344871
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195383263.003.0014
- Subject:
- Social Work, Health and Mental Health
It is never easy to teach about renewal without experiencing it. This chapter is written with the intention of it actually being used and helping others. Our areas of expertise are associated with ...
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It is never easy to teach about renewal without experiencing it. This chapter is written with the intention of it actually being used and helping others. Our areas of expertise are associated with the House of Medicine and the focus in this chapter is on those who work there, not those who are patients. First we share a scenario about patient-provider interaction to provide a context for our work. Next we discuss the context of the work of the House, the extraordinary evidence of distress, and the irony of emotional disconnection. We pose four fundamental questions that guide the rest of the chapter. Later, when explaining the Centre for Practitioner Renewal, we discuss three major questions that guide what we do. In the last section we describe the common tools and methods used with individuals and groups with great success.Less
It is never easy to teach about renewal without experiencing it. This chapter is written with the intention of it actually being used and helping others. Our areas of expertise are associated with the House of Medicine and the focus in this chapter is on those who work there, not those who are patients. First we share a scenario about patient-provider interaction to provide a context for our work. Next we discuss the context of the work of the House, the extraordinary evidence of distress, and the irony of emotional disconnection. We pose four fundamental questions that guide the rest of the chapter. Later, when explaining the Centre for Practitioner Renewal, we discuss three major questions that guide what we do. In the last section we describe the common tools and methods used with individuals and groups with great success.
Sonia Livingstone and Julian Sefton-Green
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781479884575
- eISBN:
- 9781479863570
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479884575.003.0009
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
What opportunities for learning outside school were made available, pursued, and rejected by members of the class? Here we particularly focus on the ways that families from different kinds of social ...
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What opportunities for learning outside school were made available, pursued, and rejected by members of the class? Here we particularly focus on the ways that families from different kinds of social backgrounds—traditional middle-class, more bohemian, and highly educated families, along with desperately aspirational parents, especially those who had experienced some of the tragedies of enforced migration, as well as those who live their lives far more involved in community practices far away from the classrooms of London—provided for, encouraged, and defined learning for their offspring. We pay particular attention to forms of cultural capital, which is the kind of knowledge and expectations that stem from parental education and, of course, wealth. We describe how different homes construct opportunities for learning physically (how they arrange rooms and resources, especially technology), socially (how they establish habits and rhythms), and conceptually (how they see the purpose and nature of learning). The chapter concludes by setting these descriptions in the context of debates about whether and how digital media can be expected to overcome the more fundamental challenges faced by education in the risk society and by problematizing what connections between home and school mean in practice.Less
What opportunities for learning outside school were made available, pursued, and rejected by members of the class? Here we particularly focus on the ways that families from different kinds of social backgrounds—traditional middle-class, more bohemian, and highly educated families, along with desperately aspirational parents, especially those who had experienced some of the tragedies of enforced migration, as well as those who live their lives far more involved in community practices far away from the classrooms of London—provided for, encouraged, and defined learning for their offspring. We pay particular attention to forms of cultural capital, which is the kind of knowledge and expectations that stem from parental education and, of course, wealth. We describe how different homes construct opportunities for learning physically (how they arrange rooms and resources, especially technology), socially (how they establish habits and rhythms), and conceptually (how they see the purpose and nature of learning). The chapter concludes by setting these descriptions in the context of debates about whether and how digital media can be expected to overcome the more fundamental challenges faced by education in the risk society and by problematizing what connections between home and school mean in practice.
Sonia Livingstone and Julian Sefton-Green
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781479884575
- eISBN:
- 9781479863570
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479884575.003.0012
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
Our final chapter develops normative concerns, to ask what can be said about the prospects for connected living and learning in the digital age. Our portrait of young people’s lives is in many senses ...
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Our final chapter develops normative concerns, to ask what can be said about the prospects for connected living and learning in the digital age. Our portrait of young people’s lives is in many senses a heartening one—they are generally sensible, thoughtful, and optimistic; doing reasonably well at school; largely happy at home; and having fun with friends. Encouragingly, we find rather little evidence of the competitive individualism that critics of neoliberalism fear, although we do show how the school especially seeks to instill competition into school life. We find more evidence of an adherence to conservative structures and comfortable pleasures. Is this, inadvertently, sacrificing the potential for radical alternatives that could undermine the seeming straitjacket of social reproduction, reconfigure pedagogic possibilities, and open up more diverse connections and pathways to opportunity? We conclude with some futuristic thinking about how parents, teachers, governments and media organizations could help to build better futures for today’s children and young people.Less
Our final chapter develops normative concerns, to ask what can be said about the prospects for connected living and learning in the digital age. Our portrait of young people’s lives is in many senses a heartening one—they are generally sensible, thoughtful, and optimistic; doing reasonably well at school; largely happy at home; and having fun with friends. Encouragingly, we find rather little evidence of the competitive individualism that critics of neoliberalism fear, although we do show how the school especially seeks to instill competition into school life. We find more evidence of an adherence to conservative structures and comfortable pleasures. Is this, inadvertently, sacrificing the potential for radical alternatives that could undermine the seeming straitjacket of social reproduction, reconfigure pedagogic possibilities, and open up more diverse connections and pathways to opportunity? We conclude with some futuristic thinking about how parents, teachers, governments and media organizations could help to build better futures for today’s children and young people.
