Suchergebnisse

How to do the sexuality of history -- Mapping sapphic modernity, 1565-1630 -- Fearful symmetries: the sapphic and the state, 1630-1749 -- The political economy of same-sex desire, 1630-1765 -- Rereading the "rise" of the novel: sapphic genealogies, 1680-1815 -- Sapphic sects and the rites of revolution, 1775-1800 -- "Sisters in love": irregular families, romantic elegies, 1788-1830 -- Coda: we have always been modern

This article argues that Barbara Harlow revised her critical commitments in the early 1990s as she sought to intervene at that political conjuncture. While retaining her established engagement with cultural production documenting the persistence of imperial violence and resistances to it, Harlow's position pivoted to meet the changing global conditions, marked by the collapse of the Soviet Union, the first US war in Iraq (Desert Storm), the Oslo Accords, the end of apartheid and negotiations in the North of Ireland and Central America. These major events, which came to be associated with the New World Order, signalled the eclipsing of the revolutionary modes of resistance that appeared in the 1960s and produced not only new cultural responses to neo-imperialism, but also a distinct critical perspective, which Harlow elaborated as she addressed the contextual constraints of that political conjuncture.

While the importance of the role of storytelling can hardly be overestimated, the impact of digitalization on this role is more ambivalent. In this second book-length publication of the programme Media and Education in the Digital Age – MEDA, the authors take a critical stance towards the alleged emancipative affordances of digital storytelling in education. The collection is inspired by the effort of making professional educators aware of the risks of the digital turn in educational storytelling but also of the opportunities and the conditions for critical engagements. Based on their research and field experience, fifteen scholars discuss in nine chapters these risks and opportunities, providing ideas, evidence, references and inspiration to educators and researchers.

Die Medien in Usbekistan stehen in hohem Maße unter der Kontrolle der Regierung. So schreibt das Gesetz über die Massenmedien von 1993 vor, daß unabhängige Zeitungen einer Registrierung bedürfen und der Inhalt jeder Ausgabe vom staatlichen Pressekomitee zu genehmigen ist. Oppositionellen Medien ist meist nur ein kurzes Leben beschieden. Ausländische Zeitungen fehlen. Auch auf dem Rundfunksektor nimmt der Staat eine Monopolposition ein. Hier wird gegenwärtig eine Politik der Uzbekistanisierung der Radio- und Fernsehsendungen betrieben. Auch die Sendungen ausländischer Stationen werden von der Regierung eingeschränkt. Darüberhinaus betreibt die Regierung eine Politik der Einschüchterung kritischer Journalisten. (BIOst-Wpt)

The character and style of a text describes and reflects the cultural structure and nature of the author's mind. This work attempts to describe social criticism and the interpretation of Hamka—the eminent Indonesian exegete—in the Al-Azhar (a fairly recent encyclopedic Quran commentary) of the verses which are legitimized as the verses of polygamy. This study finds that Hamka's interpretation of "polygamy verses" is influenced by the social dynamics of his birthplace, Minangkabau. Hamka criticized religious and adat leaders for the polygamy tradition in Minangkabau. Paradigmatically, Hamka contributed a unique tradition in the dynamics of the interpretation of the Quran in Indonesia where interpretation becomes a social critic. This study reaffirmed the statements that the contestation in interpreting texts is a reflection of social and political contestation and not merely theoretical contestation and that each product of text interpretation expresses empirically the socio-political conditions of the interpreters. This work offered the idea that the interpretation of the Quran with a social approach is to voice criticism of the application of the text to be an alternative to continue in contextualizing the Quranic messages.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1. Mirrors on Mirth: Making Sense of Humor -- 2. The Messages of Mirth: Humor and Communication Theory -- 3. The Problem of Laughter: Philosophical Approaches to Humor -- 4. The Rhetoric of Laughter: The Techniques Used in Humor -- 5. The Structure of Laughter: Semiotics and Humor -- 6. From Carnival to Comedy: Literary Theory and Humor -- 7. The Functions of Laughter: Sociological Aspects of Humor -- 8. The Politics of Laughter: A Cultural Theory of Humor Preferences -- 9. On Mind and Mirth: Psychology and Humor -- 10. Seeing Laughter: "Visual Aspects of Humor -- 11. After the Laughter: A Concluding Note -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- Subject Index -- Joke and Humorous Text Index