Showing papers on "Theme (narrative) published in 2013"

Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism, and Racial Inequality in Contemporary America

Abstract: Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism, and Racial Inequality in Contemporary America. AUTHOR: EDUARDO BONILLA-SILVA ROWMAN & LLTTLEFLELD PUBLISHERS, 2010 PRICE: $28.95 ISBN: 978-1-4422-0218-4 The tome may be divided into six (6) parts or sections, grouping its ten (10) chapters by theme. The first part (consisting of Ch. 1, "The Strange Enigma of Race in Contemporary America," introduces the book's subject. The second part (Chs. 2-4) is dedicated to an explication of the conceptual and ideological system of colorblind racism. The third section (Chs. 5-7) deals with the limits of "the new racism" (of which colorblind racism is the operating system) as concerns black and white communities in the U.S. In the fourth section (Ch. 8, "E Pluribus Unum or the Same Old Perfume in a New Bottle? On the Future of Racial Stratification in the U.S."), the author poses his most provocative idea: that racism in the U.S. is becoming more and more like racism in Latin America, a process Bonilla-Silva dubs "Latin Americanization." The fifth section of the book (Ch. 9, "Will Racism Disappear in Obamerica? The Sweet (but Deadly) Enchantment of Color Blindness in Black Face") renders Bonilla- Silva's critical judgment of the U.S. President, a chapter added especially for this third edition. Finally, the sixth and last section (Ch. 10, "Conclusion: 'The (Color-Blind) Emperor Has No Clothes': Exposing the Whiteness of Color Blindness") offers the author's thoughts about the task of challenging colorblind racism. The principal virtues of the book are largely contained in its first three parts (i.e., Chs. 1-7). One such noteworthy virtue is Bonilla-Silva's identification of the frames, rhetorical styles, and stories of the new racism as expressed in colorblind racism. As an ideology, colorblind racism, the author maintains, like all ideologies, expresses "ideas in the service of power (25)." There are four (4) basic frames: abstract liberalism; naturalization; cultural racism; and the minimization of racism (26-30). An example of abstract liberalism is a belief in "equal opportunity" at the same time justifying racial inequality and opposing affirmative action as "preferential treatment." Naturalization is a frame which permits the U.S. white majority to reject any consideration of racial phenomena since these phenomena are simply "natural", not man-made, developments. Cultural racism finds expression in observations such as "Mexicans have too many children," and "Afro-Americans don't value education", in order to explain the subordinate position of people of color in American society. And, the minimization frame encourages the belief that racial discrimination is lessening, or has disappeared, in this country and, thus, forms no significant impediment to the social status and mobility of people of color in the U.S. (A brilliant work of exposition on the legal basis for whiteness in the U.S., which anticipates some of these points made by Bonilla-Silva--e.g., naturalization [though defined legally], transparency, identity through negation, the role of language in constructing white racial identity--is Ian Haney Lopez, White By Law: The Legal Construction of Race, New York University Press, 1996, 2006.) Complementing the basic frames of colorblind racism, according to Bonilla-Silva, are its characteristic rhetorical styles. Five (5) styles are prevalent, uncovered by the author's interview research: avoidance of direct language about racial matters; the use of "verbal parachutes" to escape difficult subjects (e.g., affirmative action); psychological projection; the use of diminutives; and, as a last resort when facing an extremely sensitive racial topic (e.g., interracial marriage), the retreat into total verbal incoherence. Woven into the styles of colorblind racism are also its typical stories, which are of two (2) kinds: story lines and testimonies. Story lines revolve around four (4) basic claims: "The past is the past"; "I didn't own any slaves"; "The Jews, Italians, and Irish made it, why not black people? …

What do Pictures Want

Abstract: As I browsed the many publications on display in the Artbook bookstore, some provocative language began to jump out at me. Several titles posed questions or challenges about the nature of photography that reflect, if not a crisis, a restlessness, a collective reevaluation of what images are and what we should do with them. I was inspired to use those titles here to help punctuate my summation of this weekend's conversations. Because I had some perspective from moderating the first Visual Studies Workshop (VSW) Photo-Bookworks Symposium in 2010, I couldn't help but reflect on the developments in the field in the two intervening years. What are we thinking about? What do pictures want us to do with them? The 2010 symposium was hardly the first time that a conversation about photobooks had taken place, especially at VSW. Scott McCarney reflected on his beginnings as a photobook artist in the early 1980s, when the photobook was the future of the medium; now we discuss the future of the photobook, not because it is threatened but rather because it is, in fact, increasingly essential, and we can't wait to see where it's headed. My sense from that first symposium was one of reaffirming the photo-bookwork as an integral, vital component of contemporary photographic practice. The artists and publishers who spoke then understood the history, as well as their roles in writing a new definition of what a photo-bookwork is. In my closing remarks two years ago, I wrote: The photobookwork, then, is a series of images--that is, a tightly knit, well-edited, organized group or set of images in a linear sequence presented in book form. Linearity is important because it gives the imagery its temporal quality. Events occur, stories unfold, things are shown and said; through the progression of the construct, we view the conditions of being in the world, the flow of time and experience. Now, I would say that definition has greatly expanded. As Valerio Spada mentioned, every contemporary photographer also shoots video; the technology facilitates it, and the pace of the internet demands it. At Rochester Institute of Technology, where I teach photography, we increasingly accommodate the push toward moving media--although, in private, we may wonder among ourselves: who is watching all of these videos? It is encouraging, therefore, for us still image aficionados, that all of the artists we've heard from this weekend are committed to the book object, although it is not without its complications, nor is it necessarily doing all the work itself. What emerged from these discussions was an intriguingly contemporary theme: "the photobook as performance." [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In his witty and evocative presentation of his recent book The Amnesia Pavilions, Nicholas Muellner challenged us to visualize, as another recent title suggests, Words without Pictures (by Charlotte Cotton and Alex Klein). Muellner sees the work in multiple forms; his perfectly paced dance between images and text, sometimes overlapping, alternating silence or darkness, is mirrored by the deliberate rhythms of his book design, yet Muellner readily acknowledges what he calls the "compromise of both forms"--writing and imagemaking--in his work. Through "performing" his book, Muellner has found a way to deliberately exploit and subvert the limitations of each medium. We all know about and some of us may have even experienced--Nan Goldin's The Ballad of Sexual Dependency as a slide show set to love songs, but I never understood it as a codependency between the forms; they are separate. As if to underscore Muellner's complex presentation, John DeMerritt, a fine art bookbinder, shut it down, as the kids say, showing us a pretty spectacular book he fabricated with LED screens embedded in the pages--a book that has been, not exhibited, but "performed," in two venues. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Muellner's sketchy diagram for his presentation (beginning > pathos > gay > ending) is, I think, also a useful framework for several of the books we've seen--all highly personal works--including Myra Greene's book project My White Friends (2007-present). …

‘Happy and a bit Nervous’: the experiences of children with autism in physical education

Abstract: Summary Twelve students with autistic disorder participated in interviews to reveal their perspective of physical education Inductive thematic analysis was undertaken to provide a comprehensive account of the data Three key themes emerged, each a compilation of a set of subthemes The first theme, individual challenges, was comprised of physical ability, sensory challenges and a fear of injury The second theme, peer interactions, encapsulated subthemes of initiation of friendship, camaraderie, social comparison and bullying The final theme that emerged from the data was exclusion, which attends to children’s experiences of being excluded by the teacher or as a result of activities being too difficult Most notably, however, this theme relates to children requesting to be excluded These findings are discussed in relation to research on the perspectives of students with and without disabilities Considerations for future research are also provided

Biological roles of cAMP: variations on a theme in the different kingdoms of life

Abstract: Work in my laboratory was supported by grant BFU2010-19628-CO2-02 from the Spanish ministry of Science and Innovation (MICINN).

Samuel Beckett : the critical heritage

Abstract: This set comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995.

Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy

Abstract: "Man and Superman" shows Shaw's wit at its most brilliant and his speculations at their boldest. The play, as Shaw explains in the preface, is on the Don Juan theme. Taking all the ingredients of the legend, as used by Mozart in "Don Giovanni," Shaw reordered them to write a four-act play in which, characteristically, he turned the story on its head so that Don Juan becomes 'the quarry instead of the huntsman'. While "Man and Superman" contains high comedy of the order of Congreve, it is also a powerful drama of ideas in which Shaw explores the role of the artist, the function of women in society and his theory of Creative Evolution, a theme to which he returned twenty years later in his great dramatic cycle "Back to Methuseleh."

China's environmental challenges

Abstract: Judith Shapiro, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2012, 200 pp., US$69.95 (hbk), ISBN 978-0-745-66090-5 This is the best and most up-to-date book on its theme. Shapiro, a professor in the Global Environment...

The Metanarrative of Blindness: A Re-reading of Twentieth-Century Anglophone Writing

Abstract: Although the theme of blindness occurs frequently in literature, literary criticism has rarely engaged the experiential knowledge of people with visual impairments The Metanarrative of Blindness counters this trend by bringing to readings of twentieth-century works in English a perspective appreciative of impairment and disability Author David Bolt examines representations of blindness in more than forty literary works, including writing by Kipling, Joyce, Synge, Orwell, H G Wells, Susan Sontag, and Stephen King, shedding light on the deficiencies of these representations and sometimes revealing an uncomfortable resonance with the Anglo-American science of eugenics What connects these seemingly disparate works is what Bolt calls “the metanarrative of blindness,” a narrative steeped in mythology and with deep roots in Western culture Bolt examines literary representations of blindness using the analytical tools of disability studies in both the humanities and social sciences His readings are also broadly appreciative of personal, social, and cultural aspects of disability, with the aim of bringing literary scholars to the growing discipline of disability studies, and vice versa This interdisciplinary monograph is relevant to people working in literary studies, disability studies, psychology, sociology, applied linguistics, life writing, and cultural studies, as well as those with a general interest in education and representations of blindness

What's So Special About Science (And How Much Should We Spend on It?)

Abstract: Scientific research probes the deepest mysteries of the universe and of living things, and it creates applications and technologies that benefit humanity and create wealth. This “Beauty and Benefits of Science” is the theme of this 2013 AAAS Annual Meeting. The subject of my address is a

Contextualizing the artistic dividend

Abstract: :Artists have been a central theme in recent debates about the causes of urban development. This article shifts attention to the question of context: in what sorts of places are artist conc...

Video interaction guidance: a relationship-based intervention to promote attunement, empathy and wellbeing

Abstract: I accepted this book review with some reservations, among which was the conviction that the theme uniting this collection of writings was something that occupied a small, and perhaps only marginall...

The Reflective Journal

Abstract: Introduction And How To Use This Journal PART I: MODELS AND TOOLS FOR REFLECTION Theme 1 - Beginnings 1.1. Starting Something New 1.2. The Metaphorical Mirror 1.3. 'Begin With The End In Mind' 1.4. Learning Styles Activities And Quotes Theme 2 - Starting To Write Reflectively 2.1. What Does It Mean To Write Reflectively? 2.2. The Role Of Writing In Reflection 2.3. Reflective Writing - How Do I Start? 2.4. A Structure For Reflective Writing Activities And Quotes Theme 3 - Learning From Experience 3.1. Driscoll's 'What' Model 3.2. Kolb's Experiential Learning Cycle 3.3. Do We Always Learn From Experience? Jarvis - Learning 3.4. Problematic Experiences Or Positive Ones? Activities And Quotes Theme 4 - The Practice Of Reflection 4.1. What Does It Mean To Be A Professional? 4.2. Reflection On Action And Reflection In Action 4.3. Critical Incident Analysis 4.4. Espoused Theories And Theories In Us Activities And Quotes Theme 5 - Learning From Feedback 5.1. What Makes Good Feedback? 5.2. Critical Friendship 5.3. The Johari Window 5.4. The Settings Where Feedback Can Occur Activities And Quotes Theme 6 - Feelings And Professional Practice 6.1. The Almond Effect 6.2. Transactional Analysis On Memories And Feelings 6.3. Gibbs' Reflective Cycle 6.4. Boud, Keogh And Walker On Attending To Feelings Activities And Quotes Theme 7 - Assumptions 7.1. Double Loop Learning 7.2. Reflection, Reflectivity And Reflexivity 7.3. Argyris' Ladder Of Inference 7.4. Mezirow's 7 Levels Of Reflection Activities And Quotes Theme 8 - Ethics And Values 8.1. Ethics And Values - What's The Difference? 8.2. Transactional Analysis Drivers 8.3. The Impact Of Values On Professional Work 8.4. Anti-Discriminatory Practice Activities And Quotes Theme 9 - Reflecting With Others 9.1. What Is Good Supervision? 9.2. Models Of Supervision 9.3. How To Engage Effectively With Supervision 9.4. The Reflective Conversation Activities And Quotes Theme 10 - Bringing It All Together And Moving Forward 10.1. Bassot's Integrated Reflective Cycle 10.2. Managing Change 10.3. From 'Doing Reflection' To 'Reflection As A Way Of Being' 10.4. Senge's Personal Mastery Activities And Quotes PART II: MORE SPACE FOR REFLECTION PART III: CV BUILDING AND CAREER DEVELOPMENT Further Reading

An In-Pharm-ative Educational Poster Anthology Highlighting the Therapeutic Agents That Chronicle Our Medicinal History

Abstract: Disease Focused Posters is a new, free, and readily accessible collection of graphical timelines that arrange the vast number of FDA approved pharmaceuticals according to a specific theme. Capitalizing on the elegance of structural imagery and the innovative functions of organic compounds, each poster (in its simplistic appearance) has the capacity to communicate a wealth of information that appeals to the educational desires of the public, from the non-scientist to the expert.

The Essays of Virginia Woolf

Abstract: The Essays of Virginia Woolf Volume 5: 1929 to 1932 Ed. Stuart N. Clarke (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2010) xxix + 705pp. The Essays of Virginia Woolf Volume 6: 1933 to 1941 Ed. Stuart N. Clarke (London: Hogarth Press, 2011) xxxi + 736pp. In 1904 Virginia Woolf inaugurated her life as a professional writer with a review of W. D. Howells' The Sons of Royal Langbrith (written, she claimed, in half an hour) and a personal account of her visit to the Bronte parsonage at Haworth (this took longer--somewhat under two hours--to write). The enviable facility of these first ventures was not to last, of course, nor did these fledgling efforts seem especially precocious. Still, they are worth revisiting for intimations of preoccupations that would last a lifetime. The Howells review opens by making a workmanlike distinction between the novel of thought and the novel of action; her "pilgrimage" to Haworth, which she found "dingy and commonplace," causes her to wonder "how far surroundings radically affect people's minds" (E1 5). Thus are introduced two of the major themes that will dominate the great essays to come: one I might call, in my own workmanlike way, the aesthetic theme, in which Woolf explores and ultimately champions the inventive forms, the psychological emphasis, the uncensored subject matter that give modern fiction its power and distinction; the other the socio-political theme, which examines and often laments how baleful environments can affect people's minds, by which she means both their hearts and their imagination. With the recent publication of the final two volumes of Woolf's collected and uncollected essays, reviews and occasional pieces, we at last have an indispensable chronological record of what and when Woolf thought what she did about art, about politics, about human character. Stuart N. Carke has taken over the editorial stewardship of this monumental project from Andrew McNellie, the impeccable, eloquent editor of the first four volumes. Clarke has proved a worthy successor, maintaining the same high standards and practices that made the previous volumes so pleasurable as well as informative to read and consult. Thanks to their exemplary work, we can survey Woolf's essays arrayed majestically from end to end and can appreciate anew and in greater depth how much the modern essay--at once relaxed and exacting--owes to her determination to record as honestly as she could her reactions to books, to social and political issues, to people and to places and to do so, moreover, while acknowledging the importance of mood--of bored or flagging spirits as much as exalted enthusiasms--in accounting for one's opinions, which were, she often reminded us, of the moment. The mood deepens, as does the gravity of her concerns, in the works that make up these last two volumes. Volume 5 includes all the essays written between 1929 and 1932, years following the exhausting labor of The Waves and the impressive polemical achievement of A Room of One's Own. The essays from these years predictably reflect her feminist values and continue her critical assault on the generic boundaries traditionally separating poetry and prose. She is ardent in her appreciation of the vigorous colloquialisms and new coinages of American fiction, which she praises for capturing the freshness and impertinence of contemporary reality. But she continues to be adept at taking the long view, as exemplified in The Common Reader: Second Series, reprinted here in its entirety, which begins with "The Strange Elizabethans" and concludes by attempting to answer the rather timeless question of how one should read a book. The sixth and last volume of the complete essays runs from 1933 to 1941, years that tested but failed to subdue her feminism and pacificism. Three Guineas belongs to this era, as do "Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid" and "The Leaning Tower." Although these essays were written during wartime and while she was battling the debilitating depression that would finally cause her to take her life, there is very little of an end-of-the-world feeling about them. …

Critical Heritage Studies

Abstract: This special issue, dedicated to the theme of ‘critical heritage studies’, is in part one of the outcomes of the inaugural conference of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies, which took pla...

People and the car: the expansion of automobility in urban Britain, c.1955–70

Abstract: In April 1960 Patrick Gordon Walker addressed the British House of Commons as part of a debate on road traffic. His theme was visionary. The car, Walker announced, is the major dynamic factor for s...

The Curricular Value of Teaching about Immigration through Picture Book Thematic Text Sets

Abstract: This article offers a contextual analysis of contemporary immigration issues impacting the institutions in the United States, in particular the school. It discusses the importance of addressing this theme in the classroom and presents its curricular value in the elementary and middle school social studies and interdisciplinary curricula. Using a picture book thematic text set on the topic of immigration allows for multiple curricular venues and connections through which teachers can address the complexities of immigration. Included is a recommended thematic text set annotated bibliography of twenty-three picture books of different reading levels about historical and mostly contemporary immigration issues. This annotated bibliography is a valuable curriculum resource for teachers because it supports the social studies’ curriculum and its integration with other subject areas, such as language arts and the arts. Each book's bibliographical information offers teachers suggested teaching focal themes and conte...

The Two Faces of Mutuality: Contemporary Themes in Anthropology

Abstract: The theme of mutuality has lately emerged in anthropology by the hand of some of our most influential contemporary thinkers. Yet they explore it in apparently unrelated guises: in the work of Johannes Fabian (2001, 2007) or of Michael Carrithers (2005), mutuality emerges as a methodological preoccupation in discussions about fieldwork ethics referring to the way in which anthropologist and informant are engaged in processes of co-responsibility1; by the hand of Marshall Sahlins (2011a), mutuality is a constitutive principle in personal ontogeny that allows for a theoretical re-founding of kinship studies. Are the two meanings simply unconnected or do they share something in common which may turn out to be of theoretical relevance for contemporary anthropology? In this essay, I aim to show that both meanings are indeed relevantly interrelated but, in order to do so, I find it necessary to explore further Marilyn Strathern's proposals concerning the intrinsic plurality of persons. Mutuality would be the movement between singularity produced out of plurality and plurality produced out of singularity-and that is why it implies "co-presence" to use Sahlins' term or "participation" to use Levy-Bruhl's.Ethnographic Mutuality in Fabian's WorkIn his well-known essay "Ethnographic Misunderstanding and the Perils of Context," Fabian provides us with one of the best definitions of ethnographic mutuality in the literature: "the promise of nontrivial understanding that is produced by researcher and researched together" (1995:47). In short, an unavoidable aspect of all fieldwork interaction would be the occurrence of a feeling of shared revelation. In our present world of almost instantaneous globalization, even more so than in the past, the ethnographer's presence in the field, as well as what she eventually comes to write about it, has an impact on the field but, more than that, it corresponds to processes of joint discovery. A superb example of this is provided by Michael Carrithers when he describes a conversation he had with a group of men during his fieldwork among Jains in India:they thought themselves independent, since they ran their own businesses and were not, as I was, subservient to an institution and to the will of others; I thought myself independent because I could pursue my research interests and not be bound to the drudgery and anxiety of Indian commerce. We never agreed, but we did understand for immediate purposes. We also managed, though with more strain and evasion on my part, to agree to differ about Western eating habits versus their vegetarianism, which for them touches very closely the selfevident practices of Jain living. But in either case it is the very conversation itself, with its mutual understanding and its differing views, that illustrates my point. Here is an ad hoc morality of mutual recognition, mutual trust, and mutual forbearance which arises more or less spontaneously in the course of interaction, in some part because of and in greater part despite our cultural differences. (2005:438)In passages such as this one, we can see how the typical preoccupation of the young ethnographer of being lied to by the informants soon gives way, in the more seasoned ethnographer, to what one might call a Rashomon fascination: the awareness that there is no end to interpretation and that we will ever be working on processes where absolutes play no role. Ambiguity will ever persist, as the ethnographic moment is part of the broader process of human communication and, thus, it is subject to what Donald Davidson (2001) calls the indeterminacy of interpretation.More than that, however, the traditional propensity of anthropology towards semiotic models of interaction, where conscious meaning is treated as the be-all and end-all of communication, has presently given way to more sophisticated understandings of the fieldwork context. We must find ways of approaching analytically the ethnographic gesture that do not disembody it; that preserve its physicality in a world where what we understand is as much communicated by others as it is understood with others. …

Entrepreneurial regions: Evidence from Oxfordshire and Cambridgeshire

Abstract: Understanding the growth of entrepreneurial regions and the extent to which the actors in the triple helix model are dominant at particular stages in development is the theme of this article. Both ...

Wisdom in James: An Argument for the Discourse Theme

Abstract: "Wisdom in James: An Argument for the Discourse Theme" Chiaen Liu McMaster Divinity College Hamilton, Ontario Master of Arts, 2013 There are many debates in the field of interpreting the book of James and there is no consensus among scholars. Some propose that this book is a paraenesis, whereas others argue for its inner coherence. On the basis of these disagreements, however, different scholars propose diverse themes for this book. This work attempts to view the book of James has a linguistic approach to identify its cohesion and its discourse theme. After providing a brief introduction to the understanding of cohesion based on the model of Systemic Functional Linguistics, this thesis represents a model of discourse analysis, seeking for the cohesion in this book and arguing that wisdom is the discourse theme of James through an analysis of the cohesive ties between James 3:13-18 and the rest of the discourses.

The Ability to Love – a Virtue-Based Approach

Abstract: Abraham Maslow (1954) was amazed of the scarcity of research on love. According to Maslow (1954, p. 235), it was surprising how little empiric sciences had to offer to the theme. Especially weird in his opinion was the silence of psychologists because studying love should have been their special responsibility. Maslow thought that the situation possibly originated in academic researchers’ besetting sin: they would rather do what is easy than what is necessary. Research on love and emotions has been taken with suspicious and even the facts that people behave in relation to other people and that people live in the net of human relationships from birth to death have not furthered the research (Berscheid, 2006).

Special theme section: the politics and aesthetics of commemoration: national days in southern Africa

Abstract: The contributions to the special section in this issue study recent independence celebrations and other national days in South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Madagascar and the Democratic Republic of Congo. They explore the role of national days in state-making and nation-building, and examine the performativity of nationalism and the role of performances in national festivities. Placing the case studies in a broader, comparative perspective, the introduction first discusses the role of the state in national celebrations, highlighting three themes: firstly, the political power-play and contested politics of memory involved in the creation of a country's festive calendar; secondly, the relationship between state control of national days and civic or popular participation or contestation; and thirdly, the complex relationship between regional and ethnic loyalties and national identifications. It then turns to the role of performance and aesthetics in the making of nations in general, and in national celebration...

Asexuality special theme issue editorial

Abstract: In the last decade, a growing number of individuals, self-identifying as asexual, have come together to form asexual communities. According to the largest asexual community, an asexual individual m...

Research Skills for the Future: Summary and Critique of a Comparative Study in Eight Countries

Abstract: With this article we introduce a new article category in the journal, as announced in this issue's editorial--Viewpoints & Discussion. Articles under this category are intended to provide authentic and qualified opinions on topics relevant to the journal. These articles and follow-up discussions will pass through an accelerated, mainly editorial, review process. We invite readers to respond to such articles by sharing their personal thoughts and experiences, as well as to initiate new discussions. We hope these contributions will make the journal a site for lively discussions on research practice. For this first "Viewpoint" we have selected a topic that should be of interest to many readers: What key research competencies will researchers and professionals need to have in the future? To introduce the topic, we look into a recent comparative study on this question that compares the situation in eight research-intensive countries. Reports on the study are available for free download, which can serve as a basis for discussion. In keeping with the idea of "Viewpoints & Discussion," no claim to offering a systematic and scholarly account of the topic is intended; the only aim is to throw a spotlight on a theme of current interest and to suggest a few pertinent conjectures and questions for discussion.

Difference and power in supervision: The case of culture and racism

Abstract: The centrality of power relations in the supervisory process is the main theme within this chapter, focusing on the case of culture and racism and how they can be addressed to enhance the effectiveness of supervision and psychological practice.

Beyond a Boundary: 50th Anniversary Edition

Abstract: This new edition of C. L. R. James's classic Beyond a Boundary celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of one of the greatest books on sport and culture ever written. Named one of the Top 50 Sports Books of All Time by Sports Illustrated " Beyond a Boundary . . . should find its place on the team with Izaak Walton, Ivan Turgenev, A. J. Liebling, and Ernest Hemingway."— Derek Walcott , The New York Times Book Review "As a player, James the writer was able to see in cricket a metaphor for art and politics, the collective experience providing a focus for group effort and individual performance. . . . [In] his scintillating memoir of his life in cricket, Beyond a Boundary (1963), James devoted some of his finest pages to this theme."— Edward Said , The Washington Post "A work of double reverence—for the resilient, elegant ritualism of cricket and for the black people of the world."— Whitney Balliett , The New Yorker " Beyond a Boundary isa book of remarkable richness and force, which vastly expands our understanding of sports as an element of popular culture in the Western and colonial world."— Mark Naison , The Nation "Everything James has done has had the mark of originality, of his own flexible, sensitive, and deeply cultured intelligence. He conveys not a rigid doctrine but a delight and curiosity in all the manifestations of life, and the clue to everything lies in his proper appreciation of the game of cricket."— E. P. Thompson , author of The Making of the English Working Class " Beyond a Boundary is . . . first and foremost an autobiography of a living legend—probably the greatest social theorist of our times."— Manning Marable , Journal of Sport & Social Issues "The great triumph of Beyond a Boundary is its ability to rise above genre and in its very form explore the complex nature of colonial West Indian society."— Caryl Phillips , The New Republic

The Poetics of Consent: Collective Decision Making and the Iliad

Abstract: "The Poetics of Consent" breaks new ground in Homeric studies by interpreting the Iliad's depictions of political action in terms of the poetic forces that shaped the Iliad itself. Arguing that consensus is a central theme of the epic, David Elmer analyzes in detail scenes in which the poem's three political communities - Achaeans, Trojans, and Olympian gods-engage in the process of collective decision making. These scenes reflect an awareness of the negotiation involved in reconciling rival versions of the Iliad over centuries. They also point beyond the Iliad's world of gods and heroes to the here-and-now of the poem's performance and reception, in which the consensus over the shape and meaning of the Iliadic tradition is continuously evolving. Elmer synthesizes ideas and methods from literary and political theory, classical philology, anthropology, and folklore studies to construct an alternative to conventional understandings of the Iliad's politics. "The Poetics of Consent" reveals the ways in which consensus and collective decision making determined the authoritative account of the Trojan War that we know as the Iliad.

Transitivity Analysis of A Rose for Emily

Abstract: Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) has been widely used by linguists and scholars to analyze linguistic phenomenon for many years. This paper adopts transitivity theory of SFL to study on the text of A Rose for Emily and analyze some processes in it and then explains their functions of constructing theme and shaping characters.

Aging Well and Gay in Rural America: A Case Study

Abstract: Using person–environment-fit theory as a theoretical framework, this qualitative case study examined, through in-depth interviews and thematic analysis, the lived experience of an older gay man who has lived solely in rural communities. An overarching theme of life satisfaction clearly emerged, along with themes regarding supportive social networks and disclosure management of his sexual orientation. The findings suggest that although it is important to understand the challenges faced by the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community in rural environments, it is equally important to shed light on the ways in which older adults age well within these communities.