The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context

The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context

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  • Author: Laura Savu Walker
  • Publisher: Lexington Books
  • ISBN: 1498522335
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 322

The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context brings together scholars working in the fields of the humanities and social sciences who critically examine the notion of the “good life,” understood in all of its dimensions—material, psychological, moral, emotional, and spiritual—and in relation to the greater good. In so doing, the authors provide interdisciplinary insights into what the good life means today and how a viable vision of it can be achieved to benefit not just individuals but our interdependent world as well.


Sustainability and the City

Sustainability and the City

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  • Author: Lauren Curtright
  • Publisher: Lexington Books
  • ISBN: 1498536603
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 346

This book rethinks cities’ relationships to sustainable development from a cultural studies perspective with social justice as its goal. Chapter authors are optimistic that cities can achieve sustainability, but insist that cities will if participation in the effort is inclusive of all groups.


Asian American Literature in Transition, 1965-1996: Volume 3

Asian American Literature in Transition, 1965-1996: Volume 3

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  • Author: Asha Nadkarni
  • Publisher: Asian American Literature in T
  • ISBN: 1108843859
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 437

This volume traces the formation of the Asian American literary canon and the field of Asian American Studies from 1965-1996. It is intended for an academic audience, ranging from advanced undergraduate students to scholars from a variety of disciplines, interested in the formation of Asian American literary studies from 1965-1996.


Prosperity in the Twenty-First Century

Prosperity in the Twenty-First Century

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  • Author: Henrietta L. Moore
  • Publisher: UCL Press
  • ISBN: 1800084455
  • Category : Business & Economics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 253

Prosperity in the Twenty-First Century sets out a new vision for prosperity in the twenty-first century and how it can be achieved for all. The volume challenges orthodox understandings of economic models, but goes beyond contemporary debates to show how social innovation drives economic value. Drawing on substantive research in the UK, Lebanon and Kenya, it develops new concepts, frameworks, models and metrics for prosperity across a wide range of contexts, emphasising commonalities and differences. Its distinctive approach goes beyond defining and measuring prosperity – addressing the debate about the failures of GDP – to formulating and describing what is needed to make prosperity a realisable proposition for specific people living in specific locales. Departing from general propositions about post-growth to delineate pathways to prosperity, the volume emphasises that visions of the good life are diverse and require empirical work co-designed with local communities and stakeholders to drive change. It is essential reading for policymakers who are stuck, local government officers who need new tools, activists who wonder what is next, academics in need of refreshment, and students and people of all ages who want a way forward.


Teacher Pioneers

Teacher Pioneers

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  • Author: Caroline C. Williams
  • Publisher: Lulu.com
  • ISBN: 136531815X
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 394

Teachers work with students, parents, administrators, coaches, camp counselors, education researchers, postsecondary institutions, teachers of other grades and other subjects-in short, teachers accomplish their daily miracles through collaboration by asking questions about what they don't know and sharing what they do. This book was written by teacher pioneers to share their collaborating, their designing, and their exploring.


Teaching Jewish American Literature

Teaching Jewish American Literature

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  • Author: Roberta Rosenberg
  • Publisher: Modern Language Association
  • ISBN: 1603294465
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 210

A multilingual, transnational literary tradition, Jewish American writing has long explored questions of personal identity and national boundaries. These questions can engage students in literature, writing, or religion; at Jewish, Christian, or secular schools; and in or outside the United States. This volume takes an expansive view of Jewish American literature, beginning with writing from the earliest colonies in the Americas and continuing to contemporary Soviet-born authors in the United States, including works that engage deeply with religious concepts and others that embrace assimilation. It invites readers to rethink the nature of American multiculturalism, suggests pairings of Jewish American texts with other ethnic American literatures, and examines the workings of whiteness and privilege. Contributors offer varied perspectives on classic texts such as Yekl, Bread Givers, and "Goodbye, Columbus," along with approaches to interdisciplinary topics including humor, graphic novels, and musical theater. The volume concludes with an extensive resources section.


American Revenge Narratives

American Revenge Narratives

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  • Author: Kyle Wiggins
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 3319937464
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 288

American Revenge Narratives critically examines the nation’s vengeful storytelling tradition. With essays on late twentieth and twenty-first century fiction, film, and television, it maps the coordinates of the revenge genre’s contemporary reinvention across American culture. By surveying American revenge narratives, this book measures how contemporary payback plots appraise the nation’s political, social, and economic inequities. The volume’s essays collectively make the case that retribution is a defining theme of post-war American culture and an artistic vehicle for critique. In another sense, this book presents a scholarly coming to terms with the nation’s love for vengeance. By investigating recent iterations of an ancient genre, contributors explore how the revenge narrative evolves and thrives within American literary and filmic imagination. Taken together, the book’s diverse chapters attempt to understand American culture’s seemingly inexhaustible production of vengeful tales.


Mobility Work in Composition

Mobility Work in Composition

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  • Author: Bruce Horner
  • Publisher: University Press of Colorado
  • ISBN: 1646420209
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 253

Mobility Work in Composition explores work in composition from the framework of a mobilities paradigm that takes mobility to be the norm rather than the exception to a norm of stasis and stability. Both established and up-and-coming scholars bring a diversity of geographic, institutional, and research-based perspectives to the volume, which includes in-depth investigations of specific forms of mobility work in composition, as well as responses to and reflections on those explorations. Eight chapters present specific cases or issues of this work and twelve shorter response chapters follow, identifying key points of intersection and conflict in the arguments and posing new questions and directions to pursue. Addressing matters of knowledge transfer and meaning translation, immigrant literacy practices, design pedagogy, academic career changes, student websites, research methodologies, school literacy programs, and archives, Mobility Work in Composition asks what mobility in composition means and how, why, and for whom it might work. It will be of broad interest to students and scholars in rhetoric and composition. Contributors: Anis Bawarshi, Elizabeth Chamberlain, Patrick Danner, Christiane Donahue, Keri Epps, Eli Goldblatt, Rachel Gramer, Timothy Johnson, Jamila Kareem, Carmen Kynard, Rebecca Lorimer Leonard, Andrea Olinger, John Scenters-Zapico, Khirsten L. Scott, Mary P. Sheridan, Jody Shipka, Ann Shivers-McNair, Scott Wible, Rick Wysocki


Women Writing Trauma in Literature

Women Writing Trauma in Literature

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  • Author: Laura Alexander
  • Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • ISBN: 1527589714
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 272

This collection features studies on trauma, literary theory, and psychoanalysis in women’s writing. It examines the ways in which literature helps to heal the wounded self, and it particularly concentrates attention on the way women explain the traumatic experiences of war, violence, or displacement. Covering a global range of women writers, this book focuses on the psychoanalytic role of literature in helping recover the voices buried by intense pain and suffering and to help those voices be heard. Literature brings the unconscious into being and focus, reconfiguring life through narration. These essays look at the relationship between traumatic experience and literary form.


Neo-Victorian Biofiction

Neo-Victorian Biofiction

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  • Publisher: BRILL
  • ISBN: 9004434356
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 403

Highlighting neo-Victorian biofiction’s crucial role in reimagining and augmenting the historical archive, this volume explores the complex ethical consequences of a creative movement of historiographic revisionism, combining biography and fiction in a dialectic tension of empathy and voyeuristic spectacle.