1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910464259503321

Autore

Cosgrove Serena <1963->

Titolo

Leadership from the margins [[electronic resource] ] : women and civil society organizations in Argentina, Chile, and El Salvador / / Serena Cosgrove

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2010

ISBN

1-283-38327-6

9786613383273

0-8135-5040-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Disciplina

305.42098

Soggetti

Women - Political activity - Latin America

Leadership in women - Latin America

Women in development - Latin America

Civil society - Latin America

Social movements - Latin America

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Women and Civil Society Leadership in Latin America -- 2. The Emergence of Civil Society in Argentina, Chile, and El Salvador -- 3. Argentina -- 4. Chile -- 5. El Salvador -- 6. Policy Implications of Women's Civil Society Leadership in Latin America -- Appendix: Organizations of Interviewees -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

Women have experienced decades of economic and political repression across Latin America, where many nations are built upon patriarchal systems of power. However, a recent confluence of political, economic, and historical factors has allowed for the emergence of civil society organizations (CSOs) that afford women a voice throughout the region. Leadership from the Margins describes and analyzes the unique leadership styles and challenges facing the women leaders of CSOs in Argentina, Chile, and El Salvador. Based on ethnographic research, Serena Cosgrove's analysis offers a nuanced account of the distinct



struggles facing women, and how differences of class, political ideology, and ethnicity have informed their outlook and organizing strategies. Using a gendered lens, she reveals the power and potential of women's leadership to impact the direction of local, regional, and global development agendas.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910463618703321

Titolo

A history of Russian literary theory and criticism : the Soviet age and beyond / / edited by Evgeny Dobrenko and Galin Tihanov

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

0-8229-7744-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (425 p.)

Collana

Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies

Disciplina

801/.950947

Soggetti

Criticism - Russia (Federation) - History - 20th century

Russian literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Criticism - Soviet Union - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents ""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Note on Transliteration""; ""Introduction: Toward a History of Soviet and Post-Soviet Literary Theory and Criticism - Evgeny Dobrenko and Galin Tihanov""; ""1. Literary Criticism during the Revolution and the Civil War, 1917-1921 - Stefano Garzonio and Maria Zalambani""; ""2. Literary Criticism and Cultural Policy during the New Economic Policy, 1921-1927 - Natalia Kornienko""; ""3. Literary Criticism and the Transformations of the Literary Field during the Cultural Revolution, 1928-1932 - Evgeny Dobrenko""

""4. Literary Theory in the 1920's: Four Options and a Practicum - Caryl Emerson""""5. Soviet Literary Criticism and the Formulation of the Aesthetics of Socialist Realism, 1932-1940 - Hans Genther""; ""6.



Soviet Literary Theory in the 1930's: Battles over Genre and the Boundaries of Modernity - Katerina Clark and Galin Tihanov""; ""7. Russian emigre Literary Criticism and Theory between the World Wars - Galin Tihanov""; ""8. Literary Criticism and the Institution of Literature in the Era of War and Late Stalinism, 1941-1953 - Evgeny Dobrenko""

""9. Literary Criticism during the Thaw - Evgeny Dobrenko and Ilya Kalinin""""10. Literary Criticism of the Long 1970's and the Fate of Soviet Liberalism - Mark Lipovetsky and Mikhail Berg""; ""11. Discoveries and Advances in Literary Theory, 1960's-1980's: Neoformalism, the Linguistic Model, and Beyond - William Mills Todd III""; ""12. Literary Criticism and the End of the Soviet System, 1985-1991 - Birgit Menzel and Boris Dubin""; ""13. The Alter Ego: emigre Literary Criticism from World War II to the End of the Soviet Union - Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy""

""14. Post-Soviet Literary Criticism - Ilya Kukulin and Mark Lipovetsky""""15. Post-Soviet Literary Studies: The Rebirth of Academism - Nancy Condee and Eugeniia Kupsan""; ""Appendix: Translated Titles of Russian Periodicals""; ""Notes""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

This volume assembles the work of leading international scholars in a comprehensive history of Russian literary theory and criticism from 1917 to the post-Soviet age. By examining the dynamics of literary criticism and theory in three arenas-political, intellectual, and institutional-the authors capture the progression and structure of Russian literary criticism and its changing function and discourse. The chapters follow early movements such as formalism, the Bakhtin Circle, Proletklut, futurism, the fellow-travelers, and the Russian Association of Proletarian Writers. By the cultural



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910797201803321

Titolo

Breaking boundaries : varieties of liminality / / edited by Agnes Horvath, Bjørn Thomassen, and Harald Wydra

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-78238-767-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.) : illustrations

Disciplina

302.1

302/.1

Soggetti

Liminality

Rites and ceremonies

Philosophical anthropology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Figures; Introduction; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Chapter 10; Chapter 11; Chapter 12; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Liminality has the potential to be a leading paradigm for understanding transformation in a globalizing world. As a fundamental human experience, liminality transmits cultural practices, codes, rituals, and meanings in situations that fall between defined structures and have uncertain outcomes. Based on case studies of some of the most important crises in history, society, and politics, this volume explores the methodological range and applicability of the concept to a variety of concrete social and political problems.



4.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910820809203321

Autore

Deese R. S. <1964->

Titolo

We are amphibians : Julian and Aldous Huxley on the future of our species / / R. S. Deese

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-520-95956-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (627 p.)

Disciplina

599.93/8

Soggetti

Human evolution

Human ecology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: "The Question of Questions for Mankind" -- 1. Late Victorians -- 2. Twilight of Utopias -- 3. Spiritual Biology -- 4. Ape and Essence -- 5. We Are Amphibians -- Epilogue: The Future of Our Species -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

We Are Amphibians tells the fascinating story of two brothers who changed the way we think about the future of our species. As a pioneering biologist and conservationist, Julian Huxley helped advance the "modern synthesis" in evolutionary biology and played a pivotal role in founding UNESCO and the World Wildlife Fund. His argument that we must accept responsibility for our future evolution as a species has attracted a growing number of scientists and intellectuals who embrace the concept of Transhumanism that he first outlined in the 1950's. Although Aldous Huxley is most widely known for his dystopian novel Brave New World, his writings on religion, ecology, and human consciousness were powerful catalysts for the environmental and human potential movements that grew rapidly in the second half of the twentieth century. While they often disagreed about the role of science and technology in human progress, Julian and Aldous Huxley both believed that the future of our species depends on a saner set of relations with each other and with our environment. Their common concern for ecology has given their ideas about the future of Homo



sapiens an enduring resonance in the twenty-first century. The amphibian metaphor that both brothers used to describe humanity highlights not only the complexity and mutability of our species but also our ecologically precarious situation.