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Remaking a World completes a triptych of volumes on social suffering, violence, and recovery. Social Suffering, the first volume, deals with sources and major forms of social adversity, with an emphasis on political violence. The second, Violence and Subjectivity, contains graphic accounts of how collective experience of violence can alter individual subjectivity. This third volume explores the ways communities "cope" with--endure, work through, break apart under, transcend--traumatic and other more insidious forms of violence, addressing the effects of violence at the level of local worlds, interpersonal relations, and individual lives. The authors highlight the complex relationship between recognition of suffering in the public sphere and experienced suffering in people's everyday lives. Rich in local detail, the book's comparative ethnographies bring out both the recalcitrance of tragedy and the meaning of healing in attempts to remake the world.
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The transition from socialism in Eastern Europe is not an isolated event, but part of a larger shift in world capitalism: the transition from Fordism to flexible (or neoliberal) capitalism. Using a blend of ethnography and economic geography, Elizabeth C. Dunn shows how management technologies like niche marketing, accounting, audit, and standardization make up flexible capitalism's unique form of labor discipline. This new form of management constitutes some workers as self-auditing, self-regulating actors who are disembedded from a social context while defining others as too entwined in social relations and unable to self-manage.
Privatizing Poland examines the effects privatization has on workers' self-concepts; how changes in "personhood" relate to economic and political transitions; and how globalization and foreign capital investment affect Eastern Europe's integration into the world economy. Dunn investigates these topics through a study of workers and changing management techniques at the Alima-Gerber factory in Rzeszow, Poland, formerly a state-owned enterprise, which was privatized by the Gerber Products Company of Fremont, Michigan.
Alima-Gerber instituted rigid quality control, job evaluation, and training methods, and developed sophisticated distribution techniques. The core principle underlying these goals and strategies, the author finds, is the belief that in order to produce goods for a capitalist market, workers for a capitalist enterprise must also be produced. Working side-by-side with Alima-Gerber employees, Dunn saw firsthand how the new techniques attempted to change not only the organization of production, but also the workers' identities. Her seamless, engaging narrative shows how the employees resisted, redefined, and negotiated work processes for themselves.
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Media and Male Identity: The Making and Remaking of Men
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Mass media portrayals of women have been identified as influential in shaping their self-image and self-esteem, as well as men's and societies' views of women. Comparatively few studies have examined mass media portrayals of men and male identity, and gender studies have often assumed these to be unproblematic. But, in a post-industrial era of economic, technological and social change, research shows mass media are projecting and propagating new images of male identity from Atlas Syndrome workaholics and 'deadbeat dads' to 'metrosexuals' and men with 'a feminine side', with potentially significant social implications. This book presents a landmark in-depth study of how mass media contribute to the making and remaking of male identity.
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Preserving Historic New England: Preservation, Progressivism, and the Remaking of Memory
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Boston's "Changeful Times": Origins of Preservation and Planning in America (Creating the North American Landscape)
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By the first years of the twentieth century the memory of old-time New England was in danger. What had once been a land of small towns populated by tradition-minded Yankees was now becoming almost unrecognizable with a floodtide of immigrants and the constant change of a modernizing society. At the same time, cities such as Boston, Portsmouth, and Salem were bursting at the seams with factories, high-rises, and uncontrollable growth. During a period when the Colonial Revival and progressive movements held sway, Yankees asserted their influence through campaigns to redefine the meaning of their Anglo-American forebears. As part of the reaction, the modern preservation movement was founded by William Sumner Appleton, Jr., a privileged, old-blooded Bostonian. Resisting not simply this avalanche of change but the amateurish romanticism of fellow antiquaries, Appleton founded the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities in 1910. While examining SPNEA in the context of progressivism, Preserving Historic New England focuses on its redefinition of preservation to fit the methodology of science, the economy of capitalism, and the aestheticism of architecture. In so doing, preservation not only became a profession defined by those male worlds, but remade Yankee memory to accord with the modern corporate order.
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Informative, but dull.......1998-12-08
Had this author been able to avoid the pitfalls of excessive jargon, this book would have been far more valuable to the layman. As it stands, the writing style is stilted and difficult to read, making it accessible only to those who care to plow through the repetitive phraseology.
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How does a democratic government conscript citizens, turn them into soldiers who can fight effectively against a highly trained enemy, and then somehow reward these troops for their service? In Doughboys, the Great War, and the Remaking of America, Jennifer D. Keene argues that the doughboy experience in 1917--18 forged the U.S. Army of the twentieth century and ultimately led to the most sweeping piece of social-welfare legislation in the nation's history -- the G.I. Bill.
Keene shows how citizen-soldiers established standards of discipline that the army in a sense had to adopt. Even after these troops had returned to civilian life, lessons learned by the army during its first experience with a mass conscripted force continued to influence the military as an institution. The experience of going into uniform and fighting abroad politicized citizen-soldiers, Keene finally argues, in ways she asks us to ponder. She finds that the country and the conscripts -- in their view -- entered into a certain social compact, one that assured veterans that the federal government owed conscripted soldiers of the twentieth century debts far in excess of the pensions the Grand Army of the Republic had claimed in the late nineteenth century.
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World War I Did Change American Society.......2001-11-21
Americans have largely forgoten the United States war effort during World War I. There are obvious reasons for this -- the larger role played during World War II, the failure of the politicians to live up to the rhetoric of lasting peace, the limited combat exposure and comparatively low casualties suffered by US troops, etc. But World War I did more than prepare the US for World War II, it fundamentaly changed a whole generation of Americans (Stein called Hemingway and company the lost generation because of World WarI) and as Keane effectively argues changed the way the Army works and the nature of the social contract between citizens and the government. Along the way Keane discusses changes in Army procedures and, somewhat disapointingly, the precarious nature race relations during the war. This book exposes little that is relavatory to those who study American history, but by skillfully aranging the facts and details that are known or obvious Keane carefully builds an air tight case in support of her thesis: The soldiers who served during World War I paved the way not only for the GI Bill but for a wider acceptance of government aid to those in need. The modern concept of Entightlements began with the veterans of the "War To End All Wars."
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With a remarkable blend of intensity and logic, Aftermath: Violence and the Remaking of a Self speaks directly to the heart of anyone involved in the recovery of life after trauma. Author Susan Brison, professor of philosophy, shares her survival of rape and attempted murder with depth and passion; you'll witness a personal struggle to survive coupled with the broader issue of coping with sudden violence as an unavoidable fact of life. This book was 10 years in the making, and Brison wisely left her earlier, angrier writings as they originally appeared, followed by calmer, more logical (yet still deeply felt) musings. The change in tone is one survivors will be familiar with.
In her search, Brison discusses public reaction to trauma, and the prescription to forget and move on that is so widely recommended. She covers rape, certainly, but also touches on many other types of violence--the acts of war, murder, and abuse that follow us in the headlines. Philosophers from Wittgenstein to Locke are referenced, up to her final comments: "Recovery no longer seems like picking up the pieces of a shattered self. It's facing the fact that there was never a coherent self there to begin with." --Jill Lightner
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On July 4, 1990, while on a morning walk in southern France, Susan Brison was attacked from behind, severely beaten, sexually assaulted, strangled to unconsciousness, and left for dead. She survived, but her world was destroyed. Her training as a philosopher could not help her make sense of things, and many of her fundamental assumptions about the nature of the self and the world it inhabits were shattered.
At once a personal narrative of recovery and a philosophical exploration of trauma, this book examines the undoing and remaking of a self in the aftermath of violence. It explores, from an interdisciplinary perspective, memory and truth, identity and self, autonomy and community. It offers imaginative access to the experience of a rape survivor as well as a reflective critique of a society in which women routinely fear and suffer sexual violence.
As Brison observes, trauma disrupts memory, severs past from present, and incapacitates the ability to envision a future. Yet the act of bearing witness, she argues, facilitates recovery by integrating the experience into the survivor's life's story. She also argues for the importance, as well as the hazards, of using first-person narratives in understanding not only trauma, but also larger philosophical questions about what we can know and how we should live.
Bravely and beautifully written, Aftermath is that rare book that is an illustration of its own arguments.
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Informative .......2007-04-17
As a dear friend of a rape victim. This book helped to view the impact that rape has on the victim. Susan allowed the reader to experience her pain and trauma through her words.. I can truly say this book helped me to more empathetic and understanding of rape and it's victim..I will never again question the victim of rape and their motives as if they have one..
Moving and Inpirational.......2005-04-16
In the book Aftermath: Violence and the Remaking of a Self, by Susan J. Brison, Brison really elucidates her thoughts. This really tells how she came to trauma and how she attempted to overcome it. She definately answered all of my questions about trauma. I've learned that it is not possible to overcome trauma, but you can try to move on with your life, while not trying to forget all about it. I believe that the best thing about this book is that it is a narrative. People, and especially me can understand things more when it is factual and comes from someone nonfictional. This book is very essential because it kept my attention. It was never a dull moment besides a few theoretical aspects of the book. Most of all I enjoyed this book because it showed Brison's strength. Not everyone can tell the horrid story of when they lost everything they respected. I envy her for that. This was an outstanding book and I am so glad that had the opportunity to read it. 4 stars to Susa J. Brison
outstanding.......2003-02-25
Brison's book is a beautifully written and extremely thoughtful account of surviving sexual violence. It raises and explores questions that would not even occur to people unacquainted with trauma. As a result, it is immensely helpful not only for her fellow survivors but also for their supporters.
A beautiful and important book.......2003-02-10
Susan Brison's Aftermath is a beautiful and important book. A professional philosopher, Brison was the victim of a near fatal assault. Aftermath details her attempts to recover from this experience, to put her self back together, and to make sense of it according to her philosophical training. The book seems to me unique in the way in which it combines the personal and the intellectual. Brison describes in moving detail not only her own reaction to trauma, her searching for ways to come to terms with what has happened, but also the experiences of other survivors. Hopefully few of her readers will suffer directly from such violence but almost all of us will have to grapple with some kind of acute loss in our own lives or those of the people we love. This wise and absorbing book offers no easy solutions but the best kind of companionship in such endeavours.
An assignment turning into a revelation.......2002-12-15
I started reading this book as an assignment for my college philosophy class. Not knowing exactly what to expect I started reading tentativly. In her book, Brison immediatly attaches you to her suffering and recovery. She takes you on a philosophical voyage of self discovery and awareness. Any one who has been affected by a traumatic experience or knows someone who has should read this book.
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REMAKING MEDIA: THE STRUGGLE TO DEMOCRATIZE PUBLIC COMMUNICATION (Communication and Society)
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This is a co-authored book of all new material on the topic of media democracy and activism.
The authors consider the ways in which media, particularly broadcast media is made by and for a narrow audience of white, middle-class, heterosexual, Westerners that conform to the ideal values of the governing body. They consider how certain demographics are denied representation in the news, how they are unable to afford new technologies (digitalization, the internet, broadband) and cannot afford the education in order to get employment in the media industries and thus gain equality in choosing content. The authors call this the democratic deficit of mainstream media and look at alternate forms of activism to redress the imbalance in the media. They consider ways in which new media like the internet could be used to allow multiple perspectives of the same event, rather than only one side of the story being broadcast, and then consider how this still negates the reason for the activism as the internet is not available to all.
The text considers the key concepts of political media theory. The main cast are all here: Gramsci, Bourdieu, Habermas, Baudrillard etc as well as the new activism groups - CPBF, Media Alliance, FAIR.
Freedom of speech and the importance of freedom of the media is more at debate now than ever before with the issuance of special journalism visas for British journalists to enter the USA and the whole BBC sexing up Iraq debacle, so the book will be quite topical if the authors deliver on time.
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Remaking American values: Challenge to a business society
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Remaking Society
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The Ecology Of Freedom: The Emergence And Dissolution Of Hierarchy
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Social ecology in a nutshell.......2007-03-12
This book summarizes the eco-anarchist "Social Ecology" that Bookchin developed towards the end of his life.
Bookchin argues against the anti-humanist and mystical tendencies in the modern environmental movemnent, making the claim that "nearly all ecological problems are social problems" that have arisen out of the hierarchy and domination that humans engage in over each other. He traces the emergence of hierarchy out of primitive tribal society-- through domination of tribes by elders, through the rise of warrior castes, cities, and finally the modern nation state and capitalism. He traces the parallel development of social structures of freedom that constantly emerged and were submerged as hierarchy took over-- from the Athenian polis to the city-state of the middle ages, millenarian Christian movements, and modern worker's movements up through the New Left of the 1960s.
He makes a powerful case for the possibility of a decentralized, directly democratic, and ecologically sustainable social order organized in a federated system of local "libertarian municipalities". Unfortunately, his vision of how to get "From Here to There" is fairly thin gruel-- a vague picture of the grassroots takeover of local governments through electoral organizing.
For a more robust vision of social change, I highly recommend Bookchin's earlier collection "Post-Scarcity Anarchism", a nuanced and searching look at modern possibilities for anarchist revolution.
Outstanding..........2006-12-04
I learned so much from this book, having a copy is an absolute necessity if you want to learn the history of society and social thought. Mr. Bookchin offers very different perspectives on some things that we take for granted in the history of humanity. Anyone interested in humanities or social theory or the environment would do well to read this book. Indispensible!
Disappointing.......2005-05-01
Reflecting on environmental issues in the light of social structures is a great idea. The author's approach, though, is very disappointing. Bookchin keeps on telling us what things are not, but rarely gets to the point. Long descriptions and lists are what he does best, and that annoys me a lot. After a hundred and fifteen pages, I couldn't take it anymore and I dropped the book.
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Work, Family and Religion in Contemporary Society: Remaking Our Lives
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Until recently, religious institutions have been organized to suit the traditional American family, where the wife stayed at home, caring for children.
Work, Family and Religion in Contemporary Society discusses how churches and synagogues today are beginning to adapt to the reality of the American family: dual-career marriages, high levels of divorce, interfaith marriages, partnerships that may not be marriages. Religious organizations must serve families that don't fall into the "Ozzie and Harriet" mold.
The first group of papers in this edited volume documents changing trends in the connection between religion, work, and the family. As families change, as more women enter the paid work force, and as more people advocate individualism and feminist principles, a barrier grows between families and organized religion. Traditional families still feel tied to conventional religious participation, but people committed to new patterns of family and work are looking for alternatives.
In the second part of the book, we see how changing families and flexible congregations are experimenting with new forms of religious life. Many religious organizations have started day care centers, are hospitable to women clergy, have changed to inclusive language, and alter their weekly schedules. African-American churches are tying work and family to religion, while dealing with both the "truly disadvantaged" and the black middle class which may feel alienated from the church. Other examples of special efforts include groups at the margins of institutional religious life: Catholics who meet without a priest, house church groups, and even further outside organized religion, Limina, a group of former Catholic women who draw on ancient rituals to celebrate women. In this book, we see how non-traditional families are turning away from religion as they have known it, but are creating new spiritual patterns.
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