International Handbook of Virtual Learning Environments

International Handbook of Virtual Learning Environments

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  • Author: Joel Weiss
  • Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
  • ISBN: 1402038038
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 1611

The International Handbook of Virtual Learning Environments was developed to explore Virtual Learning Environments (VLE’s), and their relationships with digital, in real life and virtual worlds. The book is divided into four sections: Foundations of Virtual Learning Environments; Schooling, Professional Learning and Knowledge Management; Out-of-School Learning Environments; and Challenges for Virtual Learning Environments. The coverage ranges across a broad spectrum of philosophical perspectives, historical, sociological, political and educational analyses, case studies from practical and research settings, as well as several provocative "classics" originally published in other settings.


An Analysis of Donna Haraway's A Cyborg Manifesto

An Analysis of Donna Haraway's A Cyborg Manifesto

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  • Author: Rebecca Pohl
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISBN: 0429818718
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 129

Haraway’s ‘A Cyborg Manifesto’ is a key postmodern text and is widely taught in many disciplines as one of the first texts to embrace technology from a leftist and feminist perspective using the metaphor of the cyborg to champion socialist, postmodern, and anti-identitarian politics. Until Haraway’s work, few feminists had turned to theorizing science and technology and thus her work quite literally changed the terms of the debate. This article continues to be seen as hugely influential in the field of feminism, particularly postmodern, materialist, and scientific strands. It is also a precursor to cyberfeminism and posthumanism and perhaps anticipates the development of digital humanities.


A Cyborg Manifesto : Science, Technology, and Socialist-feminism in the Late Twentieth Century

A Cyborg Manifesto : Science, Technology, and Socialist-feminism in the Late Twentieth Century

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  • Author: Donna Haraway
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  • Languages : en
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Manifestly Haraway

Manifestly Haraway

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  • Author: Donna J. Haraway
  • Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
  • ISBN: 145295013X
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 309

Electrifying, provocative, and controversial when first published thirty years ago, Donna Haraway’s “Cyborg Manifesto” is even more relevant today, when the divisions that she so eloquently challenges—of human and machine but also of gender, class, race, ethnicity, sexuality, and location—are increasingly complex. The subsequent “Companion Species Manifesto,” which further questions the human–nonhuman disjunction, is no less urgently needed in our time of environmental crisis and profound polarization. Manifestly Haraway brings together these momentous manifestos to expose the continuity and ramifying force of Haraway’s thought, whose significance emerges with engaging immediacy in a sustained conversation between the author and her long-term friend and colleague Cary Wolfe. Reading cyborgs and companion species through and with each other, Haraway and Wolfe join in a wide-ranging exchange on the history and meaning of the manifestos in the context of biopolitics, feminism, Marxism, human–nonhuman relationships, making kin, literary tropes, material semiotics, the negative way of knowing, secular Catholicism, and more. The conversation ends by revealing the early stages of Haraway’s “Chthulucene Manifesto,” in tension with the teleologies of the doleful Anthropocene and the exterminationist Capitalocene. Deeply dedicated to a diverse and robust earthly flourishing, Manifestly Haraway promises to reignite needed discussion in and out of the academy about biologies, technologies, histories, and still possible futures.


Simians, Cyborgs, and Women

Simians, Cyborgs, and Women

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  • Author: Donna Haraway
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1135964769
  • Category : Art
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 313

Simians, Cyborgs and Women is a powerful collection of ten essays written between 1978 and 1989. Although on the surface, simians, cyborgs and women may seem an odd threesome, Haraway describes their profound link as "creatures" which have had a great destabilizing place in Western evolutionary technology and biology. Throughout this book, Haraway analyzes accounts, narratives, and stories of the creation of nature, living organisms, and cyborgs. At once a social reality and a science fiction, the cyborg--a hybrid of organism and machine--represents transgressed boundaries and intense fusions of the nature/culture split. By providing an escape from rigid dualisms, the cyborg exists in a post-gender world, and as such holds immense possibilities for modern feminists. Haraway's recent book, Primate Visions, has been called "outstanding," "original," and "brilliant," by leading scholars in the field. (First published in 1991.)


Kurdish Women’s Stories

Kurdish Women’s Stories

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  • Author: Houzan Mahmoud
  • Publisher: University of Alberta
  • ISBN: 1772125369
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 233

"From all four parts of Kurdistan and across the diaspora, Kurdish women from different geographical, political, and educational backgrounds pick up a pen, reflect, and remember. Going beyond exoticising stereotypes and patriarchal representations, Kurdish Women's Stories gives 25 women authorial freedom to write about their own lived experiences. With contributors ranging from 20 to 70 years of age, we hear stories of imprisonment, exile, disappearances of loved ones, gender-based violence, uprisings, feminist activism, and armed resistance, including first-hand accounts of political moments from the 1960s to today. Conceived as part of Culture Project's self- writing program, this book is essential reading for anyone who wants to better understand the struggle of Kurdish women through their own words. Contributors: Diba Alikhani, Kobra Banehi, Khanda Hameed, Nazanin Hasan, Nafia Aysi Hasso, Deejila Haydar, Zhala Hussein, Ruken Isik, Seveen Jimo, Lanja Khawe, Nahiya Khoshkalam, Hero Kurda, Khanda Rashid Murad, Rozhgar Mustafa, Dashne Nariman, Bayan Nasih, Avan Omar, Nasrin Ramazanali, Mother Sabria, Bayan Saeed, Bayan Salman, Farah Sharefi, Susan Shahab, Simal (Anonymous), Shahla Yarhussein"--


How Like a Leaf

How Like a Leaf

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  • Author: Donna Haraway
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 113668669X
  • Category : Art
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 208

The author of four seminal works on science and culture, Donna Haraway here speaks for the first time in a direct and non-academic voice. How Like a Leaf will be a welcome inside view of the author's thought.


Black Trans Feminism

Black Trans Feminism

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  • Author: Marquis Bey
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • ISBN: 1478022426
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 195

In Black Trans Feminism Marquis Bey offers a meditation on blackness and gender nonnormativity in ways that recalibrate traditional understandings of each. Theorizing black trans feminism from the vantages of abolition and gender radicality, Bey articulates blackness as a mutiny against racializing categorizations; transness as a nonpredetermined, wayward, and deregulated movement that works toward gender’s destruction; and black feminism as an epistemological method to fracture hegemonic modes of racialized gender. In readings of the essays, interviews, and poems of Alexis Pauline Gumbs, jayy dodd, and Venus Di’Khadijah Selenite, Bey turns black trans feminism away from a politics of gendered embodiment and toward a conception of it as a politics grounded in fugitivity and the subversion of power. Together, blackness and transness actualize themselves as on the run from gender. In this way, Bey presents black trans feminism as a mode of enacting the wholesale dismantling of the world we have been given.


The Ship Who Sang

The Ship Who Sang

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  • Author: Anne McCaffrey
  • Publisher: Del Rey
  • ISBN: 0425287114
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 278

Helva had been born human, but only her brain had been saved—saved to be schooled, programmed, and implanted into the sleek titanium body of an intergalactic scout ship. But first she had to choose a human partner—male or female—to share her exhilirating excapades in space! Her life was to be rich and rewarding . . . resplendent with daring adventures and endless excitement, beyond the wildest dreams of mere mortals. Gifted with the voice of an angel and being virtually indestructable, Helva XH-834 antipitated a sublime immortality. Then one day she fell in love!


The Haraway Reader

The Haraway Reader

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  • Author: Donna Jeanne Haraway
  • Publisher: Psychology Press
  • ISBN: 9780415966894
  • Category : Literary Collections
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 372

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.