Over the last decade, students of the welfare state have produced an impressive body of research on retrenchment, the dominant thrust of which is that remarkably few welfare states have experienced fundamental shifts. This article questions this now-conventional wisdom by reconsidering the post-1970s trajectory of the American welfare state, long considered the quintessential case of social policy stability. I demonstrate that although most programs have indeed resisted retrenchment, U.S. social policy has also offered increasingly incomplete risk protection in an era of dramatic social change. Although some of this disjuncture is inadvertent—an unintended consequence of the very political stickiness that has stymied retrenchment—I argue that the declining scope of risk protection also reflects deliberate and theoretically explicable strategies of reform adopted by welfare state opponents in the face of popular and change-resistant policies, a finding that has significant implications for the study of institutional change more broadly.

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Privatizing Risk without Privatizing the Welfare State: The Hidden Politics of Social Policy Retrenchment in the United States

The politics of life itself Biomedicine, power, and subjectivity in the twenty-first century

A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

Biotechnology: Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution

多元系統論 : Polysystem theory

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. World Literature: History, concept, paradigm 2. Shifting focal points in the international canon 3. Migrant writers and cosmopolitan culture 4. Ethics and aesthetics in traumatic literature Conclusion: Constellations as facts and experiments Notes References Appendix: World Literature by Georg Brandes Index.

Mapping World Literature: International Canonization and Transnational Literatures

Translation has gone from being the ‘poor relation’ in comparative literature to a key condition for meaningful engagement with world literature. Rather than focusing on what is lost in translation...

Translation and rewriting in the age of post-translation studies: by Edwin Gentzler, New perspectives in translation studies, edited by Michael Cronin. Abingdon and New York, Routledge, 2017, 250 pp., £105.00 (hardback), 978-1-138-66685-6, £28.99 (paperback), 978-1-138-66686-3, £26.09 (e-book), 978-1-315-61919-4

Starting in the late 1780s and moving chronologically to this decade, this reader presents articles and excerpts of books—some of them classics by now— which have addressed, more or less explicitly, the notion of World Literature. The contemporaneity of the majority of the contributions, with half of the authors writing since the 1980s onwards, attests for the growing academic interest in World Literature in the last decades—of which this volume is but a piece of evidence— including by now canonical texts responsible like Franco Moretti’s “Conjectures on World Literature” (2002), David Damrosch’s What is World Literature (2003) and Pascale Casanova’s “Literature as a World” (2005), as well as a representation of the most recent additions to the debate, coming from Nirvana Tanoukhi and Mariano Siskind. At the same time, by framing it in a historical itinerary, the editors seem to aim at contextualizing the present usage as a resurgence, rather than as a novelty, a contemporary avatar in a discontinuous but always existing interest in knowing and studying literature from a planetary perspective, and by doing so, to defuse the limitations of linguistic, cultural and political schemes to the study of literature.

World literature : a reader

Among the manifold takes on world literature, it is our goal to contribute to the discussion from a digital point of view by analyzing the representation of world literature in Wikipedia with its millions of articles in hundreds of languages. As a preliminary, we introduce and compare three different approaches to identify writers on Wikipedia using data from DBpedia, a community project with the goal of extracting and providing structured information from Wikipedia. Equipped with our basic set of writers, we analyze how they are represented throughout the 15 biggest Wikipedia language versions. We combine intrinsic measures (mostly examining the connectedness of articles) with extrinsic ones (analyzing how often articles are frequented by readers) and develop methods to evaluate our results. The better part of our findings seems to convey a rather conservative, old-fashioned version of world literature, but a version derived from reproducible facts revealing an implicit literary canon based on the editing and reading behavior of millions of people. While still having to solve some known issues, the introduced methods will help us build an observatory of world literature to further investigate its representativeness and biases.

World literature according to Wikipedia : introduction to a DBpedia-based framework

What might Humanities have to offer to the current big societal and technological challenges? The nine short position papers presented here were collected by Svend Erik Larsen from colleagues and members of the Academia Europaea Section for Literary and Theatrical Studies who have been actively involved in the changes within their discipline in the areas they introduce. They show emerging interdisciplinary fields, provide new insights, indicate significant cultural achievements and forge new collaborations in order to shape the outlines of the research landscape of the 21st century. Their main concern is not the future of Humanities, but the future with Humanities.

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Mads Rosendahl Thomsen

Papers

Mapping World Literature: International Canonization and Transnational Literatures

World literature : a reader

World literature according to Wikipedia : introduction to a DBpedia-based framework

No Future without Humanities: Literary Perspectives