Visibility Interrupted

Author : Carly Thomsen
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452965102
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visibility Interrupted written by Carly Thomsen and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A questioning of the belief in the power of LGBTQ visibility through the lives of queer women in the rural Midwest Today most LGBTQ rights supporters take for granted the virtue of being “out, loud, and proud.” Most also assume that it would be terrible to be LGBTQ in a rural place. By considering moments in which queerness and rurality come into contact, Visibility Interrupted argues that both positions are wrong. In the first monograph on LGBTQ women in the rural Midwest, Carly Thomsen deconstructs the image of the rural as a flat, homogenous, and anachronistic place where LGBTQ people necessarily suffer. And she suggests that visibility is not liberation and will not lead to liberation. Far from being an unambiguous good, argues Thomsen, visibility politics can, in fact, preclude collective action. They also advance metronormativity, postraciality, and capitalism. To make these interventions, Thomsen develops the theory of unbecoming: interrogating the relationship between that which we celebrate and that which we find disdainful—the past, the rural, politics—is crucial for developing alternative subjectivities and politics. Unbecoming precedes becoming. Drawing from critical race studies, disability studies, and queer Marxism, in addition to feminist and queer studies, the insights of this book will be useful to scholars theorizing issues far beyond sexuality and place and to social justice activists who want to move beyond visibility.

Author : Timothy G. McLellan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501773348
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science Interrupted written by Timothy G. McLellan and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-15 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science Interrupted examines how scientists in China pursue environmental sustainability within the constraints of domestic and international bureaucracies. Timothy G. McLellan offers a theoretical framework for analyzing the formal procedural work of Chinese bureaucracy—work that is overlooked when China scholars restrict their gaze to the informal and interpersonal channels through which bureaucracy is often navigated. Homing in on an agroforestry research organization in southwest China, the author takes the experiences of the organization's staff in navigating diverse international funding regimes and authoritarian state institutions as entry points for understanding the pervasiveness of bureaucracy in contemporary science. He asks: What if we take the tools, sensibilities, and practices of bureaucracies seriously not only as objects of critique but as resources for re-thinking scientific practice? Extending a mode of anthropological research in which ethnography serves as source of theory as well as source of data, Science Interrupted thinks with, and not only against, bureaucracy. McLellan shows that ethnographic engagement with bureaucracy enables us to imagine more democratic and more collaborative modes of scientific practice.

Author : Graham Ward
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441182047
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Visibility of Religion written by Graham Ward and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2008-10-09 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the late 1980s sociologists have been drawing our attention to an international surge in the public visibility of religion. This has increasingly challenged two central aspects of modern western European culture: first, the assumption that as we became more modern we would become more secularised and religion would disappear; and secondly, that religion and politics should occupy radically differentiated spheres in which private conviction did not exert itself within the public realm. The new visibility of religion is not simply a matter of what Keppel famously called 'The Revenge of God', that is, the resurgence of Christian, Islamic and Jewish fundamentalism. Religion is permeating western culture in many different forms from contemporary continental philosophy, the arts and the media, to the rhetoric of international politicians. This collection of essays brings together a unique collection of voices from theology, aesthetics, social and political science, philosophy and cultural theory in an exploration of four major aspects of this new visibility of religion: the revision of the secularisation thesis, the relationship between religion and violence, the new re-enchantment of reality and the return of metaphysics. The exploration is conducted through essays by and interviews with figures at the forefront of reflecting upon this major cultural shift and its implications. It is distinctively multidisciplinary, examining the phenomenon of the rise of religion in Western Europe from a number of interrelated perspectives.

Author : United States. Weather Bureau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 804 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Climatological Data, National Summary written by United States. Weather Bureau and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Weather Bureau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 786 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Climatological Data written by United States. Weather Bureau and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Climatological Data for the United States by Sections written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of the monthly climatological reports of the United States by state or region, with monthly and annual national summaries.

Author : Alan I. Weinstein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Projected Interruptions in Airport Runway Operations Due to Fog written by Alan I. Weinstein and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hourly surface weather observations are combined with air traffic records to calculate the percentage interruption in airport runway operations due to fog that can be expected at 25 Air Force bases in the United States (17) and Europe (8). It is projected that approximately 1 to 2 percent of the flights in an average year can be expected to be affected by fog at bases in the United States. In Europe, the figures rise to 2 to 4 percent. During heavily fog plagued years, the projections can be expected to double. Persistence times are approximated. Empirical equations to allow calculation of percent mission interruption and duration of the interruption are presented that allow estimates to be made for bases other than the 25 selected for this investigation.

Author : United States. Federal Highway Administration. Offices of Research and Development
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Report No. FHWA-RD. written by United States. Federal Highway Administration. Offices of Research and Development and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kalpana Kannabirān
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415523109
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tools of Justice written by Kalpana Kannabirān and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores possibilities of using the constituting power of the constitution to posit a dynamic interpretation of non-discrimination in the law. Stressing the links between non-discrimination and the right to liberty, it suggests that interpretation is not the exclusive preserve of courts but may be crafted by people's movements.

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Publisher : Frontline Books
ISBN 13 : 1399011693
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Naval Battles of the Pacific War written by and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2022-06-20 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The key naval battles against Imperial Japan in the Pacific during the Second World War have been described many times by numerous diligent and skilful historians. Such histories are, of course, the products of many years, even decades, of accumulated knowledge, but also of a received consensus of how the war played out to its, seemingly, inevitable conclusion. That of course is not how it was perceived at the time. Hindsight, as we know, gives us 20/20 vision. The accounts here, compiled for and on behalf of the Admiralty, were written either during or immediately after the end of the war before historians had begun to give their assessments of these momentous events. These accounts were written for internal consumption, to guide and instruct naval officers. It was never intended that they would be released to the general public. As such, there was no jingoistic drum beating, no axes to grind, no new angles to try and find. The authors of these accounts relate each battle, move by move, as they unfolded, accurately and dispassionately. This makes these accounts so invaluable. They read almost like a running commentary, as action follows action, minute follows minute. This sensation is magnified by the absolute impartiality of the authors, their sole attempt being to provide a thorough but very clear and comprehensible record so that others in the future could understand precisely how each battle was fought. These accounts can never be superseded and never replaced. Written by naval officers of the time for naval officers of the future, they are the permanent record of the great victories, and the sobering defeat in the Java Sea, during the struggle for control of the Pacific which, for many months, hung precariously in the balance.