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Mediated Images of the South

The Portrayal of Dixie in Popular Culture

By: Alison Slade,Dedria Givens-Carroll,Amber J. Narro

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Mediated Images of the South

The Portrayal of Dixie in Popular Culture

By: Alison Slade,Dedria Givens-Carroll,Amber J. Narro

Mediated Images of the South: The Portrayal of Dixie in Popular Culture, edited by Alison F. Slade, Dedria Givens-Carroll and Amber J. Narro, is an anthology that explores the impact of the image of the Southerner within mass communication and popular culture. The contributors offer a contemporary analysis of the Southerner in the media. In most cases, previous literature situates these media images in the past, most notably through historic analyses of the Southerner during the Civil Rights movement. Mediated Images of the South breaks out of the box of the 1960s and 1970s by including the most recent and contemporary cultural examples of the Southerner. This book represents a long overdue analysis of those images, from both the past and the present. In addition, the discussions are not limited to one genre of media, but provide the reader with an opportunity to see how far-reaching the myth of the Southerner and the Southern image is in American society. While there is a long list of successful southern politicians, historical figures, businessmen and women, actors and actresses, sports figures and other national and world leaders, Slade, Givens-Carroll, and Narro find that there is still work to be done to present southerners as capable and educated.

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Lexington Books

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0739172654

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9780739172650

Philosophies of Place

An Intercultural Conversation

By: Peter D. Hershock,Roger T. Ames

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Philosophies of Place

An Intercultural Conversation

By: Peter D. Hershock,Roger T. Ames

Humanity takes up space. Human beings, like many other species, also transform spaces. What is perhaps uniquely human is the disposition to qualitatively transform spaces into places that are charged with distinctive kinds of intergenerational significance. There is a profound, felt difference between a house as domestic space and a home as familial place or between the summit of a mountain one has climbed for the first time and the “same” rock pinnacle celebrated in ancestral narratives. Contemporary philosophical uses of the word “place” often pivot on the distinction between “space” and “place” formalized by geographer-philosopher Yi-fu Tuan, who suggested that places incorporate the experiences and aspirations of a people over the course of their moral and aesthetic engagement with sites and locations. While spaces afford possibilities for different kinds of presence—physical, emotional, cognitive, dramatic, spiritual—places emerge as different ways of being present, fuse over time, and saturate a locale with distinctively collaborative patterns of significance. This approach to issues of place, however, is emblematic of what Edward S. Casey has argued are convictions about the primacy of absolute space and time that evolved along with the progressive dominance of the scientific imagination and modern imaginations of the universal. The recent reappearance of place in Western philosophy represents a turn away from abstract and a priori reasoning and back toward phenomenal experience and the primacy of embodied and emplaced intelligence. Places are enacted through the sustainably shared practices of mutually-responsive and mutually-vulnerable agents and are as numerous in kind as we are divergent in the patterns of values and intentions. The contributors to this volume draw on resources from Asian, European, and North American traditions of thought to engage in intercultural reflection on the significance of place in philosophy and of the place of philosophy itself in the cultural, social, economic, and political domains of contemporary life. The conversation of place that results explores the meaning of intercultural philosophy, the critical interplay of place and personal identity, the meaning of appropriate emplacement, the shared place of politics and religion, and the nature of the emotionally emplaced body.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824878620

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9780824878627

The Last Place I Want to Be

By: P. Buchanan

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The Last Place I Want to Be

By: P. Buchanan

When Amy is uprooted and moved across the country, she can't find stability at school or at home. With nowhere else to go, Amy turns to God for answers, but the answers she gets are surprising.

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178

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Kregel Publications

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0825498694

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9780825498695

Labour Politics in Small Open Democracies

Australia, Chile, Ireland, New Zealand and Uruguay

By: P. Buchanan,K. Nicholls

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Labour Politics in Small Open Democracies

Australia, Chile, Ireland, New Zealand and Uruguay

By: P. Buchanan,K. Nicholls

Paul G. Buchanan and Kate Nicholls explore the political and economic fortunes of organised labour in five small open democracies between 1975 and 2000. Of particular interest is the role of labour market institutions, organisational histories, and trade union ideologies in shaping outcomes under conditions of economic liberalisation. The book includes a theoretical and methodological introduction, followed by individual discussions of Australia and Chile, and New Zealand and Uruguay, grouped a cross-regional pairs, and Ireland as an extra-regional and atypical case.

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Palgrave Macmillan

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1349430315

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9781349430314

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Mediated Images of the South

Mediated Images of the South

Philosophies of Place

Philosophies of Place

The Last Place I Want to Be

The Last Place I Want to Be

Labour Politics in Small Open Democracies

Labour Politics in Small Open Democracies

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