This subject of vision, the focalizer, is often used to stage the position of the outsider as photographer. That position is a condition of the production of the snapshot….This position matters; it is crucial for our understanding of the mode of vision at stake. (Bal 1996b, 142) Photographers, seen and imagined: everyone who took each […]
Месяц: Сентябрь 2015
THE TWO CULTURES TODAY
Now, in 1970, we are experiencing a major scientific breakthrough. The new physics, relativity, and the astro — physical theories of contemporary science had already been realized by the first part of this century. Now, in the latter part, we are arriving, with the help of the electron microscope and other new tools, at similar […]
Stereotypes and Aging
LEARNING OBJECTIVES • How does the content of stereotypes about aging differ across adulthood? • How do younger and older adults perceive the competence of the elderly? • How do negative stereotypes about aging unconsciously guide our behavior? M ark, a 70-year-old man, was getting ready to go home from a poker game at his […]
Do we react differently when a man and a woman fall to protect?
Remember when almost all the homeless were men? We called them bums. Then some women appeared. We called the women bag ladies When about 15 percent were women, we called them all homeless and we suddenly began to care. This distinaion — between bums and bag ladies — is only a metaphor for the difference […]
Expanding trade opportunities (1960-88)
When the ex-Italian-administered Somalia (the southern region) and the ex-British Somaliland (the northern region) attained independence in 1960 and formed the Somali Republic, new economic opportunities became available because of environmental differences between the two regions. Farming was prevalent in the south since it had the only permanent water sources (the Juba and Shabelle rivers). […]
Postmodernism
The men who fail to protect her: the homolots man
ITEM Ninety-six percent of the adult homeless л San Francisco are men.24 In other cities it is less — a median of 85 percent men.25 ITEM There are three times as many homeless men living on the streets by themselves as there are homeless children, adolescents, and adult women combined who are living on the […]
Queer theory and methods
The hysteria aroused in men like Davis and Hammersley by feminist methods is paralleled by the disquiet produced by critiques of old methods and proposals for emancipatory methods coming from other ‘outsiders’. The rise of the new men’s studies, gay and lesbian studies, queer theory, and critical race theory has led many men to raise […]
Historical Dynamic
Historicity and ‘Origins’ In 1984 the British government’s program of coal-pit closures provoked a national strike by mine workers, one of the bitterest industrial confrontations in recent times. As the struggle got under way with miners’ leaders and National Goal Board shaping up in best macho style, the media ran stories about how the miners’ […]
“I’m in There! I’m One of the. Women in That Picture!”
MARGOT LEIGH BUTLER1 [ 9 ] I’ll bet you’ve pictures of yourself, maybe images of yourself from throughout your life, photos lying loose in a box or pressed behind plastic sheets in spiral-bound albums. What if you received an invitation to donate one of your photos to an exhibition in honour of women who’d been […]