Constitutive Visions


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Constitutive Visions


Constitutive Visions
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Author : Christa J. Olson
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2015-06-13

Constitutive Visions written by Christa J. Olson and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-13 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.


In Constitutive Visions, Christa Olson presents the rhetorical history of republican Ecuador as punctuated by repeated arguments over national identity. Those arguments—as they advanced theories of citizenship, popular sovereignty, and republican modernity—struggled to reconcile the presence of Ecuador’s large indigenous population with the dominance of a white-mestizo minority. Even as indigenous people were excluded from civic life, images of them proliferated in speeches, periodicals, and artworks during Ecuador’s long process of nation formation. Tracing how that contradiction illuminates the textures of national-identity formation, Constitutive Visions places petitions from indigenous laborers alongside oil paintings, overlays woodblock illustrations with legislative debates, and analyzes Ecuador’s nineteen constitutions in light of landscape painting. Taken together, these juxtapositions make sense of the contradictions that sustained and unsettled the postcolonial nation-state.



American Magnitude


American Magnitude
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Author : Christa J. Olson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-12-09

American Magnitude written by Christa J. Olson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-09 with categories.


Analyzes how imagery and rhetoric of pan-American grandeur from 1845 to 1950 used Latin America as a foil for creating US national identity and a particular American way of feeling.



Psychoanalysis Phenomenological Anthropology And Religion


Psychoanalysis Phenomenological Anthropology And Religion
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Author : Antoine Vergote
language : en
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Release Date : 1998

Psychoanalysis Phenomenological Anthropology And Religion written by Antoine Vergote and has been published by Leuven University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Philosophy categories.




Grand Visions


Grand Visions
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Author : Olagbenro Michael Oladipo
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023

Grand Visions written by Olagbenro Michael Oladipo and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with categories.


This dissertation, Grand Visions: Nationhood and Citizenship in Postcolonial Nigeria, investigates the postcolonial dynamics of citizenship and nation-building in Nigeria. In Grand Visions, I argue that Britain, Nigeria's colonizers, invented Nigeria to be a corporation, not a nation; and because of this, postcolonial Nigerian leaders have to devise malleable strategies to imagine a nation and constitute citizenship from the invention they inherited from Britain. One of those strategies, I argue, is the production and circulation of grand discourses of nationhood and belonging through investments in mega infrastructures and foreign policy interventions. This strategy enables Nigerian leaders to constitute a modern nation out of Nigeria and project it as the "hope of the black race" in the mind of Nigerians and the world. On the other hand, I examine discourses in vernacular spaces that Nigerians employ to (re)negotiate and resist their leaders' visions of the nation. Chapter One ("Building Babel...") and Chapter Two ("Conceptual Clarifications...") introduce the concepts and theories that underpin this project. In Chapter Three, "Giant of Africa...," I foreground how Nigeria leverages its geographic and demographic size to produce and circulate "mega rhetoric" of giantness and leadership of Nigeria as the destined leader of the black race. The chapter builds on scholarship in constitutive rhetoric to examine "constitutive visions" of nationhood in Nigeria's postcolonial foreign policy. By focusing on foreign policy, I extend the tools of constitutive rhetorical analysis to an often-ignored (in rhetorical studies) but commonplace domain of nation-building: foreign policy. Furthermore, by investigating the dynamics of national identity formation in postcolonial Nigeria, I propose a rethink of "constitutive invitation." I argue that identity-constituting discourses (such as foreign policy statements) in heterogenous societies like Nigeria are not always targeted at "subjects" with a "shared history, motives, and a telos," as it is often imagined by rhetorical scholars. Chapter Four, "Constitutive Development..." highlights the fascination with developmental rhetoric in postcolonial Nigeria and underscores how the desire to create a national identity often translates into grand visions of development and infrastructure. This chapter argues that development in postcolonial Nigeria is both a metaphor and material to suggest progress and modernity. The chapter builds on the analysis of the built environment and speeches from Nigerian leaders. Here, I conclude that built spaces are rhetorical, especially in the work of postcolonial nation-building and defining notions of citizenship, because they have the communicative power to trigger a social imaginary of the nation as one in people's minds-spaces have the power to make people believe that they are a part of something bigger. Chapter Five, "(Un)making the Giant...," investigates constitutive identification and disidentification. Specifically, it examines the alternative spaces (pirate radios, Internet, protest grounds, etc.) where citizens respond to and renegotiate state-owned narratives about what it means to be a Nigerian. Here, I analyze the rhetorical practices of Nigerians in alternative spaces to reveal how they are questioning and renegotiating state-owned notions of nationhood and citizenship. This chapter also highlights how the Nigerian State identifies individuals and groups that resist the dominant narratives of nationhood. This chapter ultimately argues that alternative spaces that are out of state control enable Nigerians to perform citizenship in their own way and resist government ideas of the nation. Ultimately, in Grand Vision, I make two contributions to rhetorical studies and citizenship studies. First, I extend the conversations on the need for rhetoricians to expand the breadth of the field by applying the tools of rhetoric to realities in non-western rhetorical traditions. Second, I note that for postcolonial societies like Nigeria with huge ethnic and geographic diversity, the process of defining citizenship and nation-building is a difficult one. Such a process often contradicts popular notions of citizenship and nation-building and relies on the plasticity of rhetoric. This plasticity, I conclude, affords postcolonial African states and their citizens opportunities to re/imagine notions of citizenship and nationhood.



Ancient Relativity


Ancient Relativity
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Author : Matthew Duncombe
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2020-02-13

Ancient Relativity written by Matthew Duncombe and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-13 with Philosophy categories.


Ideas about relativity underlie much ancient Greek philosophy, from Protagorean relativism, to Plato's theory of Forms, Aristotle's category scheme, and relational logic. In Ancient Relativity Matthew Duncombe explores how ancient philosophers, particularly Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, and Sextus Empiricus, understood the phenomenon and how their theories of relativity affected, and were affected by, their broader philosophical outlooks. He argues that ancient philosophers shared a close-knit family of views referred to as 'constitutive relativity', whereby a relative is not simply linked by a relation but is constituted by it. Plato exploits this view in some key arguments concerning the Forms and the partition of the soul. Aristotle adopts the constitutive view in his discussions of relativity in Categories 7 and the Topics and retains it in Metaphysics Delta 15. Duncombe goes on to examine the role relativity plays in Stoic philosophy, especially Stoic physics and metaphysics, and the way Sextus Empiricus thinks about relativity, which does not appeal to the nature of relatives but rather to how we conceive of things as correlative.



Visions Of African Unity


Visions Of African Unity
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Author : Matteo Grilli
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-02-09

Visions Of African Unity written by Matteo Grilli and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-09 with History categories.


This collection of essays analyzes different iterations of African unity, exploring the political and cultural visions that informed projects aimed at African unification. It explores the cultural, economic and non-state aspects of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) as the principal institution dedicated to the cooperation of African states, from its establishment in 1963 to its transformation into the African Union (AU) in 2000, as well as how ideas of African unity shaped the Cold War and African liberation struggles. Bringing together contributors from a diverse range of disciplinary backgrounds across Africa, Europe and the US, this book investigates the ideological origins and historiography of Pan-African and unification projects, and considers how African intellectuals, leaders and populations engaged with these ideas.



Civic Virtues


Civic Virtues
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Author : Richard Dagger
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1997

Civic Virtues written by Richard Dagger and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Citizenship categories.


Dagger argues for a republican liberalism that, while celebrating the liberal heritage of autonomy and rights, solidly places these within social relations and obligations, which while ubiquitous, are often obscured and forgotten.



Constitutive Criminology


Constitutive Criminology
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Author : Stuart Henry
language : en
Publisher: SAGE Publications Limited
Release Date : 1996-04-10

Constitutive Criminology written by Stuart Henry and has been published by SAGE Publications Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-04-10 with Business & Economics categories.


Innovative and timely, Constitutive Criminology offers an affirmative, holistic approach to the study of crime. Taking as its starting point that humans not only shape the world but are shaped by it, this volume asserts that the behaviors of individuals who break laws and victimize others cannot be understood in isolation from the society of which they are a part. Instead of setting out to identify factors that cause offending, authors Stuart Henry and Dragan Milovanovic examine the coproduction of crime by human subjects and by the social and organizational structures that humans develop. Using a context of prevailing modernist and postmodernist analysis, the authors first deconstruct crime as a recursive process and then attempt reconstruction with the goal of preventing recurrence of crime. This volume challenges readers to compare affirmative postmodernist assumptions to the assumptions of existing modernist theories--and thus build a new criminological theory--through the exploration of familiar themes, including human nature, society and social order, the role of the law, definitions of crime, crime causation, and justice policy and practices. An original and interdisciplinary study for those seeking a new approach to understanding and explaining crime, Constitutive Criminology is essential reading for students and academics in criminology, criminal justice, the sociology of law and sociology, as well as for professionals in criminal justice fields.



Imagining Climate Engineering


Imagining Climate Engineering
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Author : Jeroen Oomen
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-05-03

Imagining Climate Engineering written by Jeroen Oomen and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-03 with Nature categories.


This book highlights the increasing attention for climate engineering, a set of speculative technologies aimed to counter global warming. What is the future of the global climate? And who gets to decide—or even design—this future? Imagining Climate Engineering explores how and why climate engineering became a potential approach to anthropogenic climate change. Specifically, it showcases how views on the future of climate change and climate engineering evolved by addressing the ways in which climate engineers view its respective physical, political, and moral domains. Tracing the intellectual and political history of dreams to control the weather and climate as well as the discovery of climate change, Jeroen Oomen examines the imaginative parameters within which contemporary climate engineering research takes place. Introducing the analytical metaphor ‘ways of seeing’ to describe explicit or implicit visions, understandings, and foci that facilitate a particular understanding of what is at stake, Imagining Climate Engineering shows how visions on the knowability of climate tie into moral and political convictions about the possibility and desirability of engineering the climate. Marrying science and technology studies and the environmental humanities, Oomen provides crucial insights for the future of the climate change debate for scholars and students.



The Benefit Of Broad Horizons


The Benefit Of Broad Horizons
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2010-10-25

The Benefit Of Broad Horizons written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-25 with Social Science categories.


More than perhaps anybody else in the world, the Swedish social scientist Björn Wittrock has contributed - both on the intellectual and institutional level - to making a truly global science possible. This book is devoted to an appreciation of his contributions.