scholarly journals The included outlaw

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (31) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingri Løkholm Ramberg
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literature And Medicine ◽  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
Social Categories ◽  
Erving Goffman ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
Complex Patient ◽  
Institutional Hierarchy ◽  
Patient Narrative

This article presents an analysis of Amalie Skram’s 1895 novel Professor Hieronimus, with an emphasis on the seclusion aspect of this patient narrative. In the article, I give a close reading of the novel where I make use of insights from theorists from different disciplines, such as Shoshana Felman, Erving Goffman and Giorgio Agamben. The intent of the analysis, is to show how Skram manages to expose the rigid social categories that characterize the total institution in which the novel’s protagonist, Else Kant, claims to be wrongfully lodged. Through a critical assessment of the institutional hierarchy, both social and medical, Amalie Skram makes her novel well-suited for the type of interdisciplinary readings that in the last couples of decades have expanded and become more accessible, thanks in part to the emergence of the field of literature and medicine. This development grants us the opportunity to revisit the works of the Scandinavian literary canon with a fresh theoretical perspective, where fiction bears the potential to articulate aspects of the patient experience that has yet to be encapsulated by theory. This article shows how this phenomenon includes studies that are not limited to this interdisciplinary field alone, meaning that a complex patient narrative such as Skram’s Professor Hieronimus is accessible to a broader theoretical material as well.

scholarly journals Organizational Communication and Conflict Management Systems

2010 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pekka Aula ◽  
Kalle Siira
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Management ◽  
Organizational Communication ◽  
Social Complexity ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Dual Function ◽  
Organizational Conflict ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Management Perspective ◽  
Mechanistic View

Abstract The purpose of the present article is to examine the prevailing model of systematic organizational conflict management from an organizational communicative perspective and to suggest directions for improvement. Particularly the model of conflict management system (CMS) is examined at the macro-level from the novel theoretical perspective of social complexity augmented with an interpretive view of organizational communication. Specifically two models – the dual function of communication and the arena model – are utilized to illustrate weaknesses and points of development in traditional CMS thinking. CMS was found to represent a rather limited vision of contemporary conflict management. It is rooted in a mechanistic view of organizational communication, which, we assert, is problematic from the organizational conflict management perspective, both theoretically and practically. The differences between CMS and social complexity approaches are identified, and a fresh framework for strategic conflict management is introduced.

scholarly journals Othering and Selfing: Reading Gender Hierarchies and Social Categories in Michel Houellebecq's Novel Soumission

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Wening Udasmoro
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
World Trade Center ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Social Categories ◽  
French Society ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Gender Hierarchies

In literature, questions of the self and the other are frequently presented. The identity politics that gained prominence after the attack on the World Trade Center in New York on 11 September 2001 has occupied considerable space in this debate throughout the globe, including in France. One example of a novel dealing with the self and other is Michel Houellebecq’s Soumission (2015). This article attempts to explore the processes of selfing and othering in this work. The politics of identity that seems to present Muslims and Islam as the other and French as the self is also extended to other identities and aspects involved in the novel. This article attempts to show, first, how the French author Houellebecq positions the self and other in Soumission; second, the type of self and other the novel focuses on; and third, how its selfing and othering processes reveal the gender hierarchy and social categorization of French society. It finds that the novel presents a hierarchy in its narrative through which characters are positioned based on their gender and sexual orientation, as well as their age and ethnic heritage.

What Happens in Vegas: Hunter S. Thompson's Political Philosophy

2012 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-170
Author(s):  
JASON VREDENBURG
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Las Vegas ◽  
State Of Exception ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
Homo Sacer ◽  
Hardt And Negri ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Antonio Negri ◽  
The Relationship

In the forty years since its publication, Hunter S. Thompson's most famous work, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, has received relatively little attention from scholars, in spite of its continuing popularity and acknowledged influence. Because the narrative is so thoroughly rooted in what Thompson called “this foul year of Our Lord, 1971,” the novel is generally approached (when it is discussed at all) as a historical artifact, a gonzo first draft of history, with its fortunes rising and falling with the counterculture of the 1960s. This article argues that Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, far from being merely an epitaph for the 1960s, actually anticipates the more recent work of political theorists Giorgio Agamben, Michael Hardt, and Antonio Negri. Thompson's work, like Agamben's, concerns the emergence of the state of exception and the homo sacer as new paradigms for the relationship between citizen and state; and, like Hardt and Negri, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas attempts to formulate a response to the emergence of global empire.

Aesthetics and the New Ethics: Theorizing the Novel in the Twenty-First Century

PMLA ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 124 (3) ◽  
pp. 896-905 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorothy J. Hale
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Contemporary Philosophy ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
The One ◽  
Anglophone World ◽  
Selection Of

In the introduction to a 2002 special issue of diacritics on ethics and interdisciplinarity, mark sanders asks us to consider, “What points of contact, if any, are there between the current investment in ethics in literary theory, and the elaboration of ethics in contemporary philosophy?” (3). Yet the question behind this question—the one that motivates his selection of essays for the issue—is why literary critics and theorists have drawn their ideas about ethics from Emmanuel Levinas, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, and Alain Badiou but have felt little or no need to consult past or present moral philosophers. As Sanders goes on to note, while “in North America and the Anglophone world generally, the tendency in ethics has been to bring moral reflection to bear on questions in political theory,” there “has been relatively little attention among literary theorists to developments in disciplinary philosophy” (4).

scholarly journals The Development of Latin Square Tasks. More Science Than Art?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johanna Hartung ◽  
Benjamin Goecke ◽  
Ulrich Schroeders ◽  
Florian Schmitz ◽  
Oliver Wilhelm
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Fluid Intelligence ◽  
Working Memory Capacity ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Latin Square ◽  
Memory Capacity ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Improve Measurement ◽  
Item Characteristics ◽  
Underlying Processes

In contrast to measures of working memory capacity, tests for fluid intelligence are elusive in their psychometric properties. Somewhat surprisingly, fluid intelligence is not as tractable as often conceived. We studied Latin Square Tasks (LSTs) as a group of indicators that supposedly can improve measurement of fluid intelligence. In four studies (N > 3,300), we compared competing theoretical accounts that differ in the cognitive processes proposed for successfully completing items. To this end, the cognitive demand was operationalized by two key requirements that decisively influence the task difficulty: a) processing of information with differing complexity and b) memorizing steps to the final solution. Confirming predictions, the underlying processes of LSTs are independent of stimulus type and rotation of the matrices. Relations with reasoning confirmed the validity of the novel Latin Square Tasks. Working memory capacity was a limiting resource that determined performance, however more precise predictions of item difficulties might be possible when further item characteristics will be considered. From a theoretical perspective, we discuss the superiority of a perspective on LSTs inspired by the binding hypothesis compared to relational complexity theory.

scholarly journals ISU PERUNDUNGAN DALAM LET’S SING WITH ME KARYA KKPK (KECIL-KECIL PUNYA KARYA)

ATAVISME ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-92
Author(s):  
Andarini Rani Probowati ◽  
Aquarini Priyatna ◽  
Hazbini Hazbini
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Social Categories ◽  
Narrative Strategy ◽  
Perpetrators And Victims ◽  
Victims Of Bullying

This paper aims to show the issues of bullyingin Let’s Sing With Me (2013) written by KKPK (Kecil-Kecil Punya Karya). The acts of bullying are conducted by female characters towards her female peers. The bullying caused by envious feeling among characters takes forms of discrediting, insulting, and name calling. Narrative strategy theories proposed by Mieke Bal (2009), Fludernik (1997), and Priyatna (2010) were used to discuss the issues of bullying. The focalisator’s analysis shows the existing issues of bullying represented through the attitudes of female characters as the perpetrators and victims of bullying. The results of this study indicate the presence of harassment that is portrayed specifically through female characters. The acts of bullying described are parts of the verbal, physical, and social categories of bullying. This research also found that the narrator takes neither  sides, the victims nor the perpetrators. Thus, it can be argued that the novel takes a passive stance against bullying in a way that it even lets bullying to occur.

scholarly journals Reminiscências da tradição em A vida inútil de José Homem, de Marlene Ferraz / Shadows of the Past in Marlene Ferraz’s A vida inútil de José Homem

2021 ◽  
Vol 41 (65) ◽  
pp. 181
Author(s):  
Valentina Figuera Martínez
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Literature ◽  
Italo Calvino ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
The Past ◽  
World Vision

Resumo: Este artigo discute alguns dos vestígios da tradição na literatura contemporânea, partindo das considerações de Giorgio Agamben (2009), bem como da influência de estilos,  reminiscências de escritores do cânone e da multiplicidade de experiências que se manifestam na produção do texto literário contemporâneo (CALVINO, 2002), procurando observar as incidências de obras canônicas, referencialidades intertextuais e autores convocados em A vida inútil de José Homem (2013), de Marlene Ferraz. Pretende-se mostrar a presença e o sentido da tradição no romance, a construção de códigos renovados com uma visão pluralista e multifacetada do mundo e a harmonia textual entre a história contada e os escritores convocados que busca propor um novo referente estético para olhar a contemporaneidade.Palavras-chave: tradição; romance português contemporâneo; Marlene Ferraz.Abstract: This article discusses traces of the past in contemporary literature, considering the work of Giorgio Agamben (2009) and Ítalo Calvino (2002), to present the influence of styles, vestiges of canonical writers and the multiplicity of experiences in contemporary literature, showing the incidence of canonical works, intertextual references and authors used in Marlene Ferraz’s A vida inútil de José Homem (2013). The importance and sense of the tradition in the novel, the construction of renewed codes with a plural and multifaceted world vision, as well as a textual harmony among the story told and the writers evoked to propose new esthetic references will be discussed as a means to analyze contemporary issues. Keywords: tradition; contemporary Portuguese novel; Marlene Ferraz.

scholarly journals The Ethics of Care in the No Fire Zone: Anuk Arudpragasam’s The Story of a Brief Marriage

2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-88
Author(s):  
Isabel Alonso-Breto ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Central Element ◽  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
International Community ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Sri Lankan ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Fire Zone ◽  
People’S Attitudes ◽  
Desperate Attempt

The ethics of care is a central element in the novel The Story of a Brief Marriage (2016), written by Anuk Arudpragasam in response to the slaughter which the Tamil community suffered in the final months of the Sri Lankan civil war in 2009. This article discusses the novel from this theoretical perspective, positing that care is played out as a strategy to enhance the jeopardised human condition of those involved. The narrative bears witness to the intense suffering of this community at a time when the situation was deadly for civilians, who were confined in the so-called “No Fire Zone.” Paradoxically, this area was systematically shelled, its conditions responding to what Achille Mbembe has described as necropolitics. In the midst of this horror, however, Arudpragasam’s novel finds a deeply moving ethics of care in people’s attitudes to one another, which signals a desperate attempt to keep the bereaved community together or at least maintain an essential sense of humanness. Care is also identified as intentio autoris since the novel becomes a powerful reminder of the huge toll of human lives and the immense pain that occurred in this dark episode, as well as the failure—or lack of interest—of the international community to intervene in order to save thousands of innocent lives.

scholarly journals Supply Chain Collaboration for Transparency

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 4429 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandro Brun ◽  
Hakan Karaosman ◽  
Teodosio Barresi
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Supply Chain Collaboration ◽  
Industrial Practice ◽  
Proactive Approach ◽  
The Status ◽  
Industrial Context

From an interdisciplinary theoretical perspective, this study uncovers how and to what extent building supply chain relations impacts supply chain transparency in an industrial context characterized by mistrust, complexity and privacy. By conducting a case study involving a multinational fashion group and an influential NGO, this study investigates how a fashion group forms supply chain relations that eventually influence their transparency performance. The fashion group under investigation initially started disclosing information about their supply chain actions in order to ensure legitimacy and protect the brand image. Nevertheless, the group started sharing more information about their supply chains, changing the perspective from a legitimacy driven reactive approach toward an ethics driven proactive approach. Particularly, supplier engagement, commitment and leadership appear to be antecedents to supply chain transparency. The study also reveals the novel influence of NGOs on supply chain transparency. Fashion Revolution has been substantial to drive fashion companies to obtain and disclose information about their supply chains. Supply chain visibility and stronger partnerships are required to overcome problems relating to supply chain complexity on the way toward transparency. Results suggest that supply chain engagement is fundamental for supply chain transparency, and that NGOs play a pivotal role to enhance transparency through knowledge sharing and awareness increasing. The results provide numerous implications that can help industrial practice and research improve the status quo.

scholarly journals Juvenile justice and punishment of girls in Brazil: knowledge production and research perspectives

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-290
Author(s):  
Jalusa Silva de Arruda ◽  
Natasha Maria Wangen Krahn
Keyword(s):  
Juvenile Justice ◽  
Juvenile Justice System ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Social Categories ◽  
Research Perspectives ◽  
The Social ◽  
El Sistema ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
Theses And Dissertations

This article presents a bibliographical review of research carried out within the scope of the Brazilian postgraduate programs that studied the execution of socio-educational measures on girls in the juvenile justice system and that adopted gender studies or feminist approaches as their theoretical perspective. Theses and dissertations that have been produced on the theme were identified and eventual gaps in these works were indicated, thus contributing to new possibilities of research on the subject in the country. We concluded that the studies developed in the scope of the postgraduate programs in addition to other studies on the subject give an overview of the situation of girls in the Brazilian socio-educational system, but that it is still necessary to further analyze modes of punishment that are especially applied to girls and interpret them considering the specificities of the Brazilian social reality, especially regarding the intersection between the social categories gender, race, class and generation. Este artículo presenta una revisión bibliográfica de las investigaciones realizadas en el ámbito de los programas de posgrado brasileños que abordaron la ejecución de medidas socioeducativas por parte de mujeres adolescentes en el sistema de justicia juvenil y que adoptaron los estudios de género o los enfoques feministas como su perspectiva teórica. Se identificaron las disertaciones y las tesis que se produjeron sobre el tema y se señalaron las posibles lagunas en estos trabajos, lo que aporta nuevas posibilidades de investigación sobre el tema en el país. Concluimos que las investigaciones desarrolladas en el ámbito de los programas de posgrado, además de otros estudios sobre el tema, dan una visión general de la situación de las mujeres adolescentes en el sistema socioeducativo brasileño, pero aún es necesario analizar más a fondo los modos de castigo que son Especialmente aplicado a las mujeres adolescentes e interpretarlas teniendo en cuenta las especificidades de la realidad social brasileña, especialmente en relación a la intersección entre las categorías sociales género, raza, clase y generación.

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