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One dimensional man
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Social Work in the US: Sociohistorical Context and Contemporary Issues
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors address the sociohistorical context of social work in the US and attempt to illustrate a correspondence between the current practices of Social Work and the context of its development, arguing that social work is currently dominated by a focus on the individual and an instrumental perspective that places cost considerations above all others.
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Political Transformations and the Practices of Cultural Negation in Contemporary Art Theory
TL;DR: The main art-theoretical texts which I select for examination are characterised by a suspicion of figures of identity, plenitude, or affirmation as mentioned in this paper, and I explore the borderlands between dialectical and nihilistic methodologies which these suspicions seem to provoke, and argue that the attention to negativity has a particular importance for considerations of art because of its implications for the question of representation.
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Adapting, defending and transforming ourselves: Conceptualizations of self practices in the social science literature
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the adaptive, defensive, and transformative uses of self-practice in the context of social science literature, and highlight three distinct conceptualizations: adaptive uses allow individuals to adjust their conduct to collective norms; defensive uses serve the maintenance and protection of self identity despite de-individualizing pressures; and transformative self practices target the development of alter...
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Gender in the neo-liberal research economy: an enervating and exclusionary entanglement?
TL;DR: The authors explored the complexities and contradictions of neo-liberal discourse and how it has become entangled with higher education in general, and with the research economy in particular, and concluded that it has reinforced male dominance of the research industry by valuing and rewarding the areas and activities in which certain men have traditionally succeeded.
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Staged Authenticity: arrangements of social space in tourist settings
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined accounts of travelers in terms of Erving Goffman's front versus back distinction and found that tourists try to enter back regions of the places they visit because these regions are associated with intimacy of relations and authenticity of experiences.
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Work, Self and Society: After Industrialism
TL;DR: Casey as discussed by the authors explored the effects of contemporary practices of work on the self and found that changes currently occuring in the world of work are part of the vast social and cultural changes that are challenging the meta trends of modern industrialism.
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What is critical urban theory
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors interpret critical urban theory with reference to four mutually interconnected elements: its theoretical character; its reflexivity; its critique of instrumental reason; and its emphasis on the disjuncture between the actual and the possible.
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Self-doubters, strugglers, storytellers, surfers and others: Images of self-identities in organization studies
TL;DR: The authors provide an overview of the key images of identity in organizations found in the research literature, including self-doubters, strugglers, surfers, storytellers, strategists, stencils and soldiers.