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Selections from the prison notebooks of Antonio Gramsci

TL;DR: The first selection published from Gramsci's Prison Notebooks to be made available in Britain, and was originally published in the early 1970s as discussed by the authors, was the first publication of the Notebooks in the UK.
Abstract: Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks, written between 1929 and 1935, are the work of one of the most original thinkers in twentieth century Europe. Gramsci has had a profound influence on debates about the relationship between politics and culture. His complex and fruitful approach to questions of ideology, power and change remains crucial for critical theory. This volume was the first selection published from the Notebooks to be made available in Britain, and was originally published in the early 1970s. It contains the most important of Gramsci's notebooks, including the texts of The Modern Prince, and Americanism and Fordism, and extensive notes on the state and civil society, Italian history and the role of intellectuals. 'Far the best informative apparatus available to any foreign language readership of Gramsci.' Perry Anderson, New Left Review 'A model of scholarship' New Statesman
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors call for a much richer critique of the ways in which China itself is articulated, drawing particularly from Bell's (2008) scrutiny of Confucian orientations to the world and from Nyiri's (2006) examination of declarative agency of and over tourism.
Abstract: In recent years, tourism has been increasingly posited as not just that set of ordinary promotional processes by which destinations are projected to visitors from afar (and by which those holiday-makers/trippers are managed there) but also as that mix of political and aspirational activities through which institutions and interest groups variously collaborate and contend to solidify particular visions of their supposed culture, heritage, and nature for not only distant/external others but for their own proximal/internal selves Working from these later/broader perspectives, this article calls for a much richer critique of the ways in which China itself is articulated Drawing particularly from Bell's (2008) scrutiny of Confucian orientations to the world and from Nyiri's (2006) examination of declarative agency of and over tourism, this article calls for deeper and more sustained critique of the conceivable “soft power” normalizations of China through tourism today

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TL;DR: This paper examined the origins and development of social work in South Africa and found that socio-political and economic dynamics are formative of societal conditions and social work, which in turn has a role in shaping these dynamics.
Abstract: The task of examining the origins and development of social work is fraught with competing narratives. In South Africa individualist, liberal, colonial, masculine and “white” discourses prevail. The dialectical-historical perspective, rather than chronological “progress”, shows how socio-political and economic dynamics are formative of societal conditions and of social work, which in turn has a role in shaping these dynamics. The fiction of purely historical records of progress and freedom of choice is challenged, and hegemonic and counter-hegemonic discourses uncovered. Social workers are urged to be engaged with the full complexity of events emerging from the class and race-based antagonisms of South African society.

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TL;DR: In this article, a group of male teachers from Proyecto Bilingue, a professional development master's degree program for bilingual teachers, were asked to negotiate their identities in a gendered profession.
Abstract: This article focuses on a group of male teachers from Proyecto Bilingue, a professional development master’s degree program for bilingual teachers. The study is guided by one broad research question: How do Latino male bilingual teachers negotiate their identities in a gendered profession? Specifically the study addresses: What spaces for authoring gender identities do Latino male teachers provide in elementary schools? Social practice theory of self and identity was used to identify two themes. The first theme highlights the hegemonic masculinities that men were asked to adopt in elementary schools. The second theme illustrates how Latino teachers presented their students with a space to question rigid gendered positions and imagine more flexible boundaries for gender expression via children’s literature.

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TL;DR: In this article, the role of science in teaching about diversity in schools and among pre-service teachers is explored, driven by the ubiquitous presence of scientific innovation and global intersec...
Abstract: This investigation explores the role of science in teaching about diversity in schools and among pre-service teachers. Driven by the ubiquitous presence of scientific innovation and global intersec...

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Cites background from "Selections from the prison notebook..."

  • ...The organic researcher and teacher intellectual, who seeks neither to hold nor to profess universal ‘Truths’, is so positioned to confront and dismantle social apparatuses of systemic oppression and related truth claims to power from within the institution (Fischman & McLaren, 2005; Giroux, 1988; Gramsci, 1971)....

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  • ...…and teacher intellectual, who seeks neither to hold nor to profess universal ‘Truths’, is so positioned to confront and dismantle social apparatuses of systemic oppression and related truth claims to power from within the institution (Fischman & McLaren, 2005; Giroux, 1988; Gramsci, 1971)....

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01 Jan 2016
TL;DR: Maulod et al. as mentioned in this paper explored how participants acquire children and construct forms of relatedness in a country where homosexuality has yet to be decriminalized and social reproductive policies heavily restrict citizens, especially women, from pursuing non-traditional paths to family, that the state defines as being legally married, and raising children in a stable family unit.
Abstract: Maulod, Nur ‘Adlina. PhD, Purdue University, August 2016. Exiles of Heteronormativity: Queer Reproduction and Female Same-Sex Families in Singapore. Major Professor: Evelyn Blackwood In Singapore, same-sex desires and practices are treated as antithetical to the Family. This dissertation challenges the rhetorical monolith of the traditional family by documenting intimate stories of alternative reproduction from the experiences of female citizens who have been treated as exiles of heteronormative kinship. My ethnographic research delves into the rich narratives of fourteen Singaporean Malay and Chinese queer and cisgender women and five Malay masculine-identified female-bodied (butch) individuals who are presently co-parenting, planning to have children or have raised children with a same-sex partner. I explore how participants acquire children and construct forms of relatedness in a country where homosexuality has yet to be decriminalized and social reproductive policies heavily restrict citizens, especially women, from pursuing non-traditional paths to family, that the state defines as being legally married, and raising children in a stable family unit. I found three distinct patterns of alternative reproduction among my research participants: a) Heterogendered families of working-class masculine-identified Malay butch fathers who partner with feminine, and often, heterosexual-identified unwed or divorced mothers, b) Middleclass Chinese lesbian co-mothers who acquire motherhood through Assisted Reproduction Technologies (ART) and c) Malay and Chinese lesbian/bisexual women who are either raising or planning to raise biological children in single-mother households. Participants’ diverse routes to achieving parenthood suggest the significance of race, class as well as gendered sexual subjectivities in assembling particular “chosen” family forms. This dissertation intervenes in contemporary queer scholarship on lesbian-led households which tends to focus on sexuality as the primary mode of organizing non-normative family life. I demonstrate how same-sex families experience multiple and intersectional forms of reproductive

27 citations