Author: Elaine Scarry
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: representation, resisting
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 1994-09-29
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0195089642
ISBN-13: 9780195089646
Renowned scholar Elaine Scarry’s book, The Body in Pain, has been called by Susan Sontag "extraordinary...large-spirited, heroically truthful." The Los Angeles Times called it "brilliant, ambitious, and controversial." Now Oxford has collected some of Scarry’s most provocative writing. This collection of essays deals with the complicated problems of representation in diverse literary and cultural genres--from her beloved sixth-century philosopher Boethius, through the nineteenth-century novel, to twentieth-century advertising. qWe often assume that all areas of experience are eq
Author: Scott Schaffer
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: ethics, resisting
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2004-09-04
List price: $80.00
ISBN-10: 1403964432
ISBN-13: 9781403964434
Resisting Ethics is a new contribution to an ongoing debate on how the world can be improved. Starting with the notion that resistance and ethics are theoretically and practically intertwined, Scott Schaffer develops a new socially oriented ethics based on the practical experience of resistance and ethics. Borrowing from and extending the ideas of Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and Bourdieu, and using case studies of the Algerian Revolution and the Zapatista rebellion, Schaffer argues that existentialism can give us new insights into how we can and should act ethically in the world. Resisting Ethics
Author: Ruby Rohrlich
Publisher: Berg Publishers
Keywords: holocaust, resisting
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 1998-10-01
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 185973216X
ISBN-13: 9781859732168
Although much has been written about the resistance to the Holocaust, public discussion still almost exclusively focuses on the resistance of male non-Jews. This reader seeks to redress the imbalance by looking at resistance from the perspective of the victims, almost exclusively Jewish and, in some cases, female. Their resistance embraces a variety of actions and movements, passive and active, performed by individuals, groups and nations. Leading scholars from a wide range of disciplines - including anthropology, history, politics, and sociology - supply us with engrossing accounts of individ
Author: Lennard J. Davis
Publisher: Methuen
Keywords: fiction, ideology, novels, resisting
Number of Pages: 262
Published: 1987-05
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0416378307
ISBN-13: 9780416378306
Author: John Pilger
Publisher: Nation Books
Keywords: empire, resisting, time, freedom
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2007-05-15
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1568583265
ISBN-13: 9781568583266
World–renowned journalist John Pilger looks at five nations (Palestine, Diego Garcia, Afghanistan, Iraq, and South Africa) that have undergone long and painful struggles for freedom, yet are still waiting for its realization.
Author: Steven R. Wilso
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Keywords: influence, others, trying, people, resisting, compliance, seeking
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 2002-06-15
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 0761905235
ISBN-13: 9780761905233
Why do individuals say what they do during everyday face-to-face influence interactions? How do people seek or resist compliance in different relational, institutional, and cultural contexts? Linking theory and research to salient, real life examples and recent academic studies, Steven Wilson introduces the reader to the theories, systems of message analysis, complexities and nuances of interpersonal persuasion. Seeking and Resisting Compliance is the only single-authored, interdisciplinary text to explore compliance gaining and resistance from a message production perspective. This incisive,
Author: Christine Harold
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Pre
Keywords: culture, control, corporate, resisting, ourspace
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2009-04-24
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0816649553
ISBN-13: 9780816649556
When reporters asked about the Bush administration’s timing in making their case for the Iraq war, then Chief of Staff Andrew Card responded that “from an marketing point of view, you don’t introduce new products in August.” While surprising only in its candor, this statement signified the extent to which consumer culture has pervaded every aspect of life. For those troubled by the long reach of the marketplace, resistance can seem futile. However, a new generation of progressive activists has begun to combat the media supremacy of multinational corporations by using th
