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Knowledge versus Knowledge : Louis Althusser on the Autonomy of Science and Philosophy from Ideology
Graduate dress code: How undergraduates are planning to use hair, clothes and make-up to smooth their transition to the workplace
This article explores the relationship between studentsâ identities, their ideas about professional appearance and their anticipated transition to the world of work. It is based on a series of semi-structured interviews with 13 students from a vocationally-focused university in England. It was found that participants viewed clothing and appearance as an important aspect of their transition to the workplace. They believed that, if carefully handled, their appearance could help them to fit in and satisfy the expectations of employers, although some participants anticipated that this process of fitting in might compromise their identity and values. The article addresses studentsâ anticipated means of handling the tension between adapting to a new environment and âbeing themselvesâ. It is argued that the way this process is handled is intertwined with wider facets of identity â most notably those associated with gender.The article is based on research funded by the University of Derby. © 2015 IP Publishing Ltd. ((http://www.ippublishing.com). Reproduced by permission
'When I click "ok" I become Sassy â I become a girl.' Young people and gender identity: Subverting the âbodyâ in massively multi-player online role-playing games
This article is available open access through the publisherâs website through the link below. Copyright @ 2012 Taylor & Francis.This article explores young people's practices in the virtual spaces of online gaming communities. Based on a five-year ethnographic study of virtual worlds, it considers how young people construct and maintain identities within virtual social systems. In particular, the article discusses digital gender practices and considers the potential that these games offer for their young users to engage in alternate gender identities. We argue that these digital spaces offer spaces for the imagination and can enhance agency and, potentially, resistance. However, digital identity is simultaneously no âliberated spaceâ and it incorporates norms and practices that often mirror those of the material world. We argue that this âporosityâ is an important tool through which young people come to understand gender identity
The Production of Hospitable Space: Commercial Propositions and Consumer Co-Creation in a Bar Operation
This paper examines the processes through which a commercial bar is transformed into a hospitable space. Drawing on a study of a venue patronized by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual/transgender consumers, it considers how social and commercial forms of hospitality are mobilized. The paper argues that hospitable space has an ideological, normative and situational dimension. More specifically, it suggests the barâs operation is tied to a set of ideological conceptions, which become the potential basis of association and disassociation among consumers. It examines the forces and processes that shape who participates in the production and consumption of hospitality and how. Finally, it considers the situational, emergent nature of hospitality and the discontinuous production of hospitable space. Rather than focusing exclusively on host-guest or provider-customer relations, which dominates existing work on hospitality, the paper examines how consumersâ perceptions, actions and interactions shape the production of hospitality. By doing so the paper offers an alternative approach to understanding queer spaces, bar operation as well as hospitality
Sharing a different voice: Attending to stories in collaborative writing
Through three stories, we hope to reveal how sometimes contradictory or unrecognizable aspects of our lives, selves, and stories can create tensions in the collaborative writing endeavor. We begin with a story that illuminates some of the narrative tensions that surface during a decade of writing collaboratively. In an effort to navigate these tensions, we explore two further stories in dialogue as a way to reveal how dominant narratives shape our lives and the stories we might tell. One aim of sharing these stories is to reveal how problematic ways of being are often inseparable from oneâs cultural legacy. Making previously obscured narratives visible paves the way for imaginary leaps that are necessary for change. We hope these insights are useful for other writers and collaborators and those who seek caring, responsive, and nurturing writing relationships yet realize this journey can be problematic
Can the Experience of Participatory Development Help Think Critically about âPatient and Public Involvementâ in UK Healthcare?
The expansion of spaces for âpatient and public involvementâ (PPI) in health systems in the UK is a relatively recent phenomenon, and yet âparticipationâ as a principle for planned interventions in international development is well established as a field of practice and controversy. Development workers and scholars have passed through moments of enchantment and disenchantment with the idea that the true source of innovation, expertise and workable (and sustainable) solutions is to be found not in the professionals but in communities of experience. Making âlocal knowledgeâ the basis of interventions has proved unexpectedly problematic. How could incommensurable forms of knowing, across steep gradients of power be bridged? This article describes a decade-long experiment in participatory development in a remote Adivasi (tribal) region of western India in order to suggest the relevance of this experience for the very different context of PPI in healthcare settings. In particular, it highlights some general points about knowledge practices at the interface, and the human tendency to adjust, mirror, mimic, loop and in other ways make the âpatient-professionalâ interface itself hard to navigate. The article suggests that self-reflective insight into these social processes is necessary for effective âengagementâ by professional and lay actors alike
Subjectivation and performative politicsâButler thinking Althusser and Foucault: intelligibility, agency and the raced-nationed-religioned subjects of education
Judith Butler is perhaps best known for her take-up of the debate between Derrida and Austin over the function of the performative and her subsequent suggestion that the subject be understood as performatively constituted. Another important but less often noted move within Butlerâs consideration of the processes through which the subject is constituted is her thinking between Althusserâs notion of subjection and Foucaultâs notion of subjectivation. In this paper, I explore Butlerâs understanding of processes of subjectivation; examine the relationship between subjectivation and the performative suggested in and by Butlerâs work, and consider how the performative is implicated in processes of subjectivation â in =whoâ the subject is, or might be, subjectivated as. Finally, I examine the usefulness of understanding the subjectivating effects of discourse for education, in particular for educationalists concerned to make better sense of and interrupt educational inequalities. In doing this I offer a reading of an episode of ethnographic data generated in an Australian high School. I suggest that it is through subjectivating processes of the sort that Butler helps us to understand that some students are rendered subjects inside the educational endeavour, and others are rendered outside this endeavour or, indeed, outside student-hood
Evidence for Planet-induced Chromospheric Activity on HD 179949
We have detected the synchronous enhancement of Ca II H & K emission with the
short-period planetary orbit in HD 179949. High-resolution spectra taken on
three observing runs extending more than a year show the enhancement coincides
with phi ~ 0 (the sub-planetary point) of the 3.093-day orbit with the effect
persisting for more than 100 orbits. The synchronous enhancement is consistent
with planet-induced chromospheric heating by magnetic rather than tidal
interaction. Something which can only be confirmed by further observations.
Independent observations are needed to determine whether the stellar rotation
is sychronous with the planet's orbit. Of the five 51 Peg-type systems
monitored, HD 179949 shows the greatest chromospheric H & K activity. Three
others show significant nightly variations but the lack of any phase coherence
prevents us saying whether the activity is induced by the planet. Our two
standards, tau Ceti and the Sun, show no such nightly variations.Comment: 10 pages, 6 figures. Submitted to Ap
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