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Thomas, R. Murray. Explaining conversations: A developmental social exchange theory. Jason Aronson, 2012.
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1944-, Harrison Nigel, ed. Your German exchange. Yarker, 1997.
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author, Footman Jennifer 1942, James Candice 1948 author, Lever Bernice 1936 author, and Carson Louise 1957 author, eds. Dialogues, exchanges, conversations: Canadian women poets and their male mentors, 2013. The Feminist Caucus of the League of Canadian Poets, 2014.
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Qaddafi, Muammar. My vision: Conversations and Frank exchanges of views with Edmond Jouve. John Blake, 2005.
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Mendoza, Steven. The exchange grid: A repertory test instrument for conversational intervention into dyadic entanglement. Brunel University, 1988.
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Sheveleva, S. A. Vali͡u︡tno-obmennye operat͡s︡ii: Russko-angliĭskiĭ razgovornik-spravochnik. Izd-vo AO "Konsaltbankir", 1993.
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Goldberg, Sanford C. Conversational Pressure: Normativity in Speech Exchanges. Oxford University Press, 2020.
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Goldberg, Sanford C. Conversational Pressure. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198856436.001.0001.
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This book aims to explore the scope, sources, and nature of the normative expectations that are generated by participants in speech exchanges. Such expectations, I argue, are warranted by the performance of speech acts: the performance of these acts entitles an audience to expect certain things of the speaker, even as these performances also entitle the speaker to expect certain things of her audience. The account I propose postulates two fundamental types of normativity involved in these expectations: epistemic normativity, wherein subjects are expected to live up to certain epistemological standards, whether in the production of or in the reaction to speech acts; and interpersonal normativity, wherein subjects are expected to live up to certain standards of interpersonal conduct (including but not limited to the standards of ethics). In the course of defending the account, the book explores such topics as the normative significance of acts of address, the epistemic costs of politeness, the bearing of epistemic injustice on the epistemology of testimony, the normative pressure friendship exerts on belief, the nature of epistemic trust, the significance of conversational silence, and the evils of silencing.
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Rollins, Pamela Rosenthal. Developmental Pragmatics. Edited by Yan Huang. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199697960.013.6.
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This chapter traces the development of communicative intention, conversation, and narrative in early interaction from infancy to early childhood. True communicative intention commences once the infant acquires the social cognitive ability to share attention and intention with another. The developing child’s pragmatic understanding is reflective of his/her underlying motivations for cooperation and shared intentionality. As children begin to understand others’ mental states, they can take others’ perspectives and understand what knowledge is shared and with whom, moving from joint perceptual focus to more decontextualized communicative intentions. With adult assistance, the young child is able to engage in increasingly more sophisticated conversational exchanges and co-constructed narratives which influence the child’s autonomous capabilities.
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Bezuidenhout, Anne. Contextualism and Semantic Minimalism. Edited by Yan Huang. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199697960.013.31.
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The debate between contextualists and semantic minimalists about meaning/content is one that matters most to philosophers of language, even though the debate is not solely a philosophical one. There are at least three ways of casting the debate. Firstly, it can be cast as one about how and when semantic and pragmatic mental resources are used during ordinary conversational exchanges. This debate utilizes theories and methodologies from psychology. Secondly, it can be framed in terms of the logic of natural languages and how to incorporate context sensitivity into a formal, compositional model of natural-language sentence-level meaning. Thirdly, it can be approached from an analytic philosophy of language perspective, with the aim of clarifying various crucial concepts, such as the concepts of saying and implicating, using a priori methods. Ideally, these domains of research will produce outcomes that cohere with each other. This essay surveys recent progress in these three domains.
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Albert, Bressand, and Distler Catherine, eds. Strategic conversations on capital markets without borders. Prométhée, 2000.
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India's money monarchs: Conversations with leading investors. Capitalideasonline.com, 2005.
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Cloud, Dana L. Carrying the Memory of Agitation. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036378.003.0008.
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This chapter presents an exchange between the author and Keith Thomas, which both have referred to as a “postmortem” on Unionists for Democratic Change. The exchange was edited and compiled from two conversations: The first is a recorded interview between Cloud and Thomas in Wichita, Kansas, on July 17, 2001, the evening after a small demonstration at the union hall earlier that afternoon; the second source is a series of letters exchanged in summer 2006. Here Thomas complicates the author's arguments that mistakes and misdirected focus were to blame for the decline of the union democracy movement at Boeing. His observations will also encourage readers to understand the limitations of the movement in the contexts of the real lives of activists set against a renewed employer's offensive and a very powerful and change-resistant union bureaucracy.
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Foster, Susan Leigh. Valuing Dance. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190933975.001.0001.
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Because dance materializes through and for people, because we learn to dance from others and often present dance to others, the moment of its transmission is one of dance’s central and defining features. Valuing Dance looks at the occasion when dancing passes from one person to another as an act of exchange, one that is redolent with symbolic meanings, including those associated with its history and all the labor that has gone into its making. It examines two ways that dance can be exchanged, as commodity and as gift, reflecting on how each establishes dance’s relative worth and merit differently. When and why do we give dance? Where and to whom do we sell it? How are such acts of exchange rationalized and justified? Valuing Dance poses these questions in order to contribute to a conversation around what dance is, what it does, and why it matters.
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WTTW (Television station : Chicago, Ill.), ed. CEO exchange: In conversation with the world's most recognized CEOs. WTTW National Productions, 2000.
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Nelson, William R. The Info Exchange: A Communicative Guide to Natural English Conversation. BookSurge Publishing, 2006.
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Sher, George. Responsibility, Conversation, and Communication. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190660413.003.0009.
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It is natural to suppose that we should hold agents responsible for their acts when and because they are in fact responsible. However, inspired by Strawson’s landmark essay “Freedom and Resentment,” a number of philosophers have recently sought to reverse this ordering, arguing that agents are responsible when and because we do or should hold them responsible. In his book Conversation and Responsibility, Michael McKenna has tried to strike a middle ground between these views by exploiting an analogy between the ways in which we respond to wrongdoers (and the ways they respond to our responses) and the different moves in an unfolding conversation. The current chapter examines this analogy with an eye to clarifying the role that conventions and shared expectations play in the different stages of a responsibility exchange. Although the analogy is highly suggestive, the chapter argues that it does not support McKenna’s conclusion.
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Briggs, Andrew, Hans Halvorson, and Andrew Steane. A conversation about the themes. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198808282.003.0002.
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The chapter presents a conversation between the authors, looking into the themes of the book. The conversation is reported almost verbatim. It is an informal exchange, but one informed by the authors’ experience and reflection over an extended period (some decades). In this extract the first and third themes of the book are discussed: what it means to speak of God, and the observation that uncertainty is an inevitable part of this area of human life, as it is of many other areas. Questions about God’s existence are often best addressed by investigating whether the questioner is labouring under basic misconceptions about the very nature of God. Handling uncertainty is a necessary skill in commerce and business, as well as science and other walks of life.
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Moran, Richard. The Exchange of Words. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190873325.001.0001.
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The capacity to speak is not only the ability to pronounce words, but is the socially recognized capacity to make one’s words count in various ways. We rely on this capacity whenever we tell another person something and expect to be believed, and what we learn from others in this way is the basis for most of what we take ourselves to know about the world. The Exchange of Words is a philosophical exploration of human testimony, specifically as a form of intersubjective understanding in which speakers communicate by making themselves accountable for the truth of what they say. This account weaves together themes from philosophy of language, moral psychology, action theory, and epistemology, for a new approach to this fundamental human phenomenon. The account concentrates on the difference between what may be revealed in one’s speech (like a regional accent) and what we explicitly claim and make ourselves answerable for. Some prominent themes include the meaning of sincerity in speech, the nature of mutuality and how it differs from “mind reading,” the interplay between the first-person and the second-person perspectives in conversation, and the nature of the speech act of illocution as developed by philosophers such as J. L. Austin and Paul Grice. Ordinary dialogue is the locus of a kind of intersubjective understanding that is distinctive to the transmission of reasons in human testimony, and The Exchange of Words is an original and integrated account of this basic way of being informative and in touch with one another.
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Pomerantz, Anita. Asking and Telling in Conversation. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190927431.001.0001.
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The work contains nine published conversation analytic articles by Anita Pomerantz on asking and telling practices. Each paper explicates complexities involved when people ask or tell something. Asking and telling practices are used to exchange information, share evaluative reactions, offer compliments, and make accusations. The ways in which participants perform the actions reflect how they orient to those actions and to the matter asked about or reported. The timing of asking or telling within a sequence of actions and/or interactional project bears on how the talk and action are formed and understood. Implicit and explicit knowledge claims and expectations are foundational to asking and telling activities. Assumptions are associated with participants’ directly and indirectly seeking or providing information. Reporting or asking about praiseworthy or blameworthy matters implicates an attribution of responsibility. Moral orientations influence asking and telling activities. The conversation analytic papers included in this work range from Pomerantz’s earliest research on preference organization to her more recent work on asking and telling. For each article, there is a lead-in that identifies the research interests that drove the analysis and a commentary that provides her current sense of the analysis. The introductory and concluding chapters discuss the complexities of asking and telling in the light of the articles’ findings, and they illuminate the links the papers have to one another. Pomerantz shares her views about the program of conversation analytic research, a view that is reflected both in the studies and in her commentaries.
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Rosillo-López, Cristina. I Said, He Said. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198788201.003.0015.
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This chapter analyses Republican fragments of informal conversations. Elite informal conversations (frequently defined as sermo by the sources) were an everyday event in politics. Informal exchanges framed the way in which political deals were made, opinions were tentatively questioned, news circulated, and Roman senators looked for information. They constituted part of public speech and of political communication, although just at their limits and in a grey zone. There were no parties in Rome, and no stable political agreements either, but short-term alliances. Therefore, senators had to be constantly looking for new allies. In this context, informal conversations were crucial. This necessity of contacts was based on socialization, which provided the opportunity for meetings that allowed time to discuss politics. Therefore, the analysis of fragments of informal conversations illuminates the use of rhetoric in unofficial settings and moments, but also exposes how such informal meetings defined late Republican politics.
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L, Street R., and Cappella Joseph N, eds. Sequence and pattern in communicative behaviour. E. Arnold, 1985.
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Dali, Mohd Hasani, John Elliot, John Lam, et al. Intelectual discourse: Experience of group of PhD student and their supervisor. UUM Press, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.32890/9833282695.
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This paper takes the form of a conversation between a group of seven doctoral students and their supervisor Profesor John Elliott of the Centre for Applied Research in Education (CARE) at the University of East Anglia, United Kingdom. It was constructed through three rounds of e-mail exchanges between May and September 2004 and focuses on methodological issues surrounding the conduct of applied educational research for the purpose of producing a doctoral thesis.
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Kornicki, Peter Francis. The Oral Dimension. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198797821.003.0004.
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This chapter first examines the oral dimension of the dissemination of Sinitic texts in East Asia. Although a few individuals who had spent many years in China or who were of Chinese origin were able to read Chinese texts in some form of Chinese pronunciation, this was not the case even for most members of the elites, for few spent much time in China. In most societies, conventional pronunciations developed for Chinese characters and these conformed to local phonologies. The first stage of vernacularization, therefore, was in the oral domain. Conversely, however, since there was no common spoken language like Latin, opportunities for intellectual exchange with people from other societies were limited. The remainder of this chapter, therefore, examines the limited extent to which interpreters were trained and other people learned spoken foreign languages. The chapter concludes with an examination of brush conversation, a written substitute for oral conversation.
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Nir, Lilach. Disagreement in Political Discussion. Edited by Kate Kenski and Kathleen Hall Jamieson. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199793471.013.013.
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Normative theory extols the virtues of disagreement to democracy, but evidence to support these suppositions is somewhat mixed. This chapter reviews the empirical literature on exposure to disagreement that occurs in ordinary political conversations among citizens. After outlining conceptual distinctions and operational definitions in the literature, the main section highlights both the agreed-upon and contested findings on the consequences of disagreement, including opinion quality, political tolerance, attitudinal ambivalence, knowledge gains, polarization, and participatory outcomes. The concluding section points to unanswered questions and proposes several directions for future research on disagreement. These include exploring factors that shape receptivity to disagreement, such as individual differences, situational cues, the content of verbal exchanges, and cross-national differences in political institutions, media systems, or cultural preference for outspokenness.
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Brooks, Lisa. Intellectual History. Edited by Frederick E. Hoxie. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199858897.013.15.
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This chapter traces some of the routes of Native American intellectual exchange, a long, vibrant tradition of Native thinking and writing, which is only now being recovered, after centuries of suppression. It describes the Quiché Maya Popol Vuh and the Iroquois Great Law as important hubs in the network of an indigenous American intellectual tradition. This chapter provides an overview of Native American intellectual history and literature, focusing on the conversations and debates among indigenous writers, leaders, and activists over a wide geographic and temporal range. It also considers contributions and changes in the scholarship on Native American intellectual history and the relationship between intellectual labor and movements toward greater self-determination and decolonization.
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Mara, Gerald. Political Philosophy in an Unstable World. Edited by Sara Forsdyke, Edith Foster, and Ryan Balot. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199340385.013.39.
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For many readers, the perspectives of Plato and Thucydides are fundamentally incompatible. Plato’s authentic philosophers allegedly occupy an unchanging world of intellectual forms or ideas. Thucydides’ world is passionate and disrupted. If we agree with these assessments, we find two authors speaking such different languages that prospects for dialogue between them seem impossible. I want to challenge that conclusion by suggesting that we can read Thucydides and Plato more dialogically. I try to show how each author opens possibilities for dialogic engagement with his own text and then indicate areas of plausible exchange between them. This interactive reading avoids the binary frames of reference of abstract and illusory peace or ongoing and inescapable war, drawing attention to experiences in need of continued intellectual negotiation and opening spaces for practical improvement. Beyond expanding our understanding of these authors, such mutual readings help us to appreciate their contributions to conversational political theory.
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Dimas, Panos, Russell E. Jones, and Gabriel R. Lear, eds. Plato's Philebus. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198803386.001.0001.
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The Philebus is an extraordinarily creative and profound examination of what makes for a good human life, containing some of Plato’s most sophisticated discussions of moral psychology (especially of pleasure), knowledge, metaphysics, and philosophical methodology. This volume brings together leading scholars of ancient philosophy to take a fresh and comprehensive look at this important work. The essays comprising this volume are each focused on a relatively brief section of the Philebus and are arranged in the order of the passages they discuss. They originated in a week-long seminar, the first of the Plato Dialogue Project, in which the contributors were asked to offer an overview of the argument of their passage, focusing on issues of philosophical significance as they saw fit. The conversation continued over subsequent months, as the contributors and editors exchanged written comments on each other’s papers. The result is not and is not intended to be a commentary, nor does it aim to present a unified interpretation. It is instead a series of close, original philosophical examinations, often in conversation with each other, which together provide continuous coverage of the Philebus.
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Watson, Tim. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190852672.003.0001.
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The introduction summarizes the process of decolonization in the British and French Empires and the role of the United States. Anthropology became a more professionalized discipline, raising the barriers to interdisciplinary conversations between anthropologists and other intellectuals and making it less desirable for colonial intellectuals to choose anthropology, as a significant number had done earlier in the twentieth century. Nevertheless, exchanges continued between literature and anthropology. I argue that the literary-anthropological dynamics of the 1950s and 1960s were prefigured by three examples in the 1930s and 1940s: Zora Neale Hurston’s fieldwork among African Americans in the US South, Michel Leiris’s account of Marcel Griaule’s 1930s anthropological expedition from Dakar to Djibouti, and the establishment of the Mass-Observation program to document British everyday life. The introduction analyzes Claude Lévi-Strauss’s Tristes tropiques as a key text in the flourishing of a new literary anthropology in the 1950s.
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Mény, Yves. Republicanism. Edited by Robert Elgie, Emiliano Grossman, and Amy G. Mazur. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199669691.013.2.
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Republicanism, républicanisme: these apparently similar concepts hide substantial divergences on both sides of the Atlantic. While in the Anglo-American world the debate focuses on the historical tradition of liberty that republicanism is supposed to express best, the French historiography and the political discussion about republican values and myths tend to consider equality as the pivotal theme. This divergence has to do with the nature and development of the English, American, and French revolutions. While the conversation about the meaning and the implications of the concepts give rise to passionate debates among both scholars and policymakers, the exchanges between the two are quite scarce. In France, the republican ideal/ideology has had an overwhelming influence. Since the nineteenth century it has permeated all dimensions of public debate and the development of public institutions and policies. It is also an instrument for the exclusion of groups, parties, and movements that do not fully share this vision.
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Keir, Elam, and Cioni Fernando, eds. Una civile conversazione: Lo scambio letterario e culturale anglo-italiano nel Rinascimento = A civil conversation : Anglo- Italian literary and cultural exchange in the Renaissance. CLUEB, 2003.
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O'Gorman, Emily. Flood Country. CSIRO Publishing, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9780643106659.
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Floods in the Murray-Darling Basin are crucial sources of water for people, animals and plants in this often dry region of inland eastern Australia. Even so, floods have often been experienced as natural disasters, which have led to major engineering schemes. Flood Country explores the contested and complex history of this region, examining the different ways in which floods have been understood and managed and some of the long-term consequences for people, rivers and ecologies.
The book examines many tensions, ranging from early exchanges between Aboriginal people and settlers about the dangers of floods, through to long running disputes between graziers and irrigators over damming floodwater, and conflicts between residents and colonial governments over whose responsibility it was to protect townships from floods.
Flood Country brings the Murray-Darling Basin's flood history into conversation with contemporary national debates about climate change and competing access to water for livelihoods, industries and ecosystems. It provides an important new historical perspective on this significant region of Australia, exploring how people, rivers and floods have re-made each other.
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Massai, Sonia. Shakespeare With and Without Its Language. Edited by James C. Bulman. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199687169.013.23.
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This chapter considers the impact of ‘global Shakespeare’ on performance traditions associated with mainstream Shakespeare on the English stage with particular focus on productions which put Shakespeare in conversation with non-English theatrical conventions in order to unsettle the distinction between ‘English Shakespeare’ and ‘Foreign Shakespeare’. The main focus of the chapter is the work of a London-based theatre company, ‘Two Gents Productions’, formed by a German-born director from South Africa and two Zimbabwean actors, and the evolution of their ‘township theatre’ approach to Shakespearea from their launch production of The Two Gentlemen of Verona south London (Ovalhouse) in 2008 to their contribution to the Globe to Globe Festival in 2012. The uniquely intercultural, playful quality of their Shakespearean productions shows that intercultural performance need not involve cultural looting or an unequal exchange between participating cultures. It justifies an optimistic outlook for intercultural performance in increasingly globalized theatrical (and Shakespearean) geographies.
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Shea, C. Michael. Newman's Early Roman Catholic Legacy, 1845-1854. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198802563.001.0001.
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For the past several decades, scholars have stressed that the genius of John Henry Newman remained underappreciated among his Roman Catholic contemporaries, and in order to find the true impact of his work, one must look to the century after his death. This book takes direct aim at that assumption. Examining a host of overlooked evidence from England and the European continent, Newman’s Early Legacy tracks letters, recorded conversations, and obscure and unpublished theological exchanges to show how Newman’s 1845 Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine influenced a cadre of Catholic teachers, writers, and Church authorities in nineteenth-century Rome. The book explores how these individuals then employed Newman’s theory of development to argue for the definability of the new dogma of the Immaculate Conception of Mary during the years preceding the doctrine’s promulgation in 1854. Through numerous twists and turns, the narrative traces how the theory of development became a factor in determining the very language that the Roman Catholic Church would use in referring to doctrinal change over time. In this way, Newman’s Early Legacy uncovers a key dimension of Newman’s significance in modern religious history.
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Hammerschlag, Sarah. Broken Tablets. Columbia University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7312/columbia/9780231170598.001.0001.
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Over a span of thirty years, twentieth-century French philosophers Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida held a conversation across texts. Sharing a Jewish heritage and a background in phenomenology, both came to situate their work at the margins of philosophy, articulating this placement through religion and literature. Chronicling the interactions between these thinkers, Sarah Hammerschlag argues that the stakes in their respective positions were more than philosophical. They were also political. Levinas’s investments were born out in his writings on Judaism and ultimately in an evolving conviction that the young state of Israel held the best possibility for achieving such an ideal. For Derrida, the Jewish question was literary. The stakes of Jewish survival could only be approached through reflections on modern literature’s religious legacy, a line of thinking that provided him the means to reconceive democracy. Hammerschlag’s reexamination of Derrida and Levinas’s textual exchange not only produces a new account of this friendship but also has significant ramifications for debates within Continental philosophy, the study of religion, and political theology.
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Britain, Great. Exchange of notes amending the Headquarters agreement between the Government of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland and the North Atlantic Salmon Conversation Organisation, London, 20 December 2000 and Edinburgh, 4 January 2001 [The exchange of notesis not in force]. Stationery Office, 2001.
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Seitz, John C., and Christine Firer Hinze, eds. Working Alternatives. Fordham University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823288359.001.0001.
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Popular interest in the kinds of conditions that make work productive, growing media attention to the grinding cycle of poverty, and the widening sense that consumption must become sustainable and just, all contribute to an atmosphere thirsty for humanistic economic analysis. This volume offers such analysis from a novel and generative diversity of vantage points, including religious and secular histories, theological ethics, and business management. In particular, Working Alternatives brings modern Roman Catholic forms of engaging with economic questions—embodied in the evolving set of documents that make up the area of “Catholic social thought”—into conversation with one another and with non-Catholic experiments in economic thought and practice. Clustered not by discipline but by their emphasis on either 1) new ways of seeing economic practice 2) new ways of valuing human activity, or 3) implementation of new ways of working, the volume’s essays facilitate the necessarily interdisciplinary thinking demanded by the complexities of economic sustainability and justice. Collectively, the works gathered here assert and test a challenging and far-reaching hypothesis: economic theories, systems, and practices—ways of conceiving, organizing and enacting work, management, supply, production, exchange, remuneration, wealth, and consumption—rely on basic, often unexamined, presumptions about human personhood, relations, and flourishing.
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Watson, Tim. Culture Writing. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190852672.001.0001.
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Focusing on the 1950s and early 1960s, Culture Writing argues that the period of decolonization in Britain, the United States, France, and the Caribbean was characterized by dynamic exchanges between literary writers and anthropologists. As the British and French Empires collapsed and the United States rose to global power, and as intellectuals from the decolonizing world challenged the cultural hegemony of the West, some anthropologists began to assess their discipline’s complicity with imperialism and experimented with literary forms and techniques. The book shows that the “literary turn” in anthropology took place earlier than has conventionally been assumed, in the 1950s rather than the 1970s and 1980s. Simultaneously, some literary writers reacted to the end of modernist artistic experimentation by turning to ethnographic methods for representing the people and cultural practices of Britain, France, and the United States, bringing anthropology back home. The book discusses literary writers who had a significant professional engagement with anthropology and brought some of its techniques and research questions into literary composition: Barbara Pym (Britain), Ursula Le Guin and Saul Bellow (United States), Édouard Glissant (Martinique), and Michel Leiris (France). On the side of ethnography, there is analysis of works by anthropologists who adopted literary forms for their writing about culture: Laura Bohannan (United States), Michel Leiris and Claude Lévi-Strauss (France), and Mary Douglas (Britain). The book concludes with an afterword that shows how the literature–anthropology conversation continues into the postcolonial period in the work of the Indian author-anthropologist Amitav Ghosh and the Jamaican author-sociologist Erna Brodber.
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Bezzant, Rhys S. Edwards the Mentor. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190221201.001.0001.
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Among his many accolades, Jonathan Edwards was an effective mentor who trained many leaders for the church. Though his pastoral work is often overlooked, this book investigates the background, method, theological rationale, and legacy of his mentoring ministry. He does what mentors normally do—meeting with individuals to discuss ideas and grow in skills—but undertakes these activities in a distinctly modern or affective key. His correspondence is composed in an informal style, his understanding of friendship and conversation takes up the conventions of the great metropolitan cities of Europe of his day, his pedagogical commitments are surprisingly progressive, and his aspirations for those he mentors are bold and subversive. The practice of mentoring is presented in this book as the exchange between authority and agency, in which the more experienced person in the mentoring relationship empowers the one in the position of a learner, whose own character and competencies are nurtured. When Edwards explains his mentoring practice theologically, he expounds the theme of seeing God face to face, which recognizes that human beings learn through the example of friends as well as the exposition of propositions. The book is a case study in cultural engagement, for Edwards deliberately takes up certain features of the modern world in his mentoring and yet resists other pressures that the Enlightenment generated. If his world witnessed the philosophical evacuation of God from the created order, Edwards’s mentoring is designed to draw God back into an intimate connection with human experience.
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Allen, Nicholas, Nick Groom, and Jos Smith, eds. Coastal Works. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198795155.001.0001.
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In all the complex cultural history of the islands of Britain and Ireland, the idea of the coast as a significant representative space is critical. For many artists, coastal space has figured as a site from which to braid ideas of empire, nation, region, and archipelago. They have been drawn to the coast as a zone of geographical uncertainty in which the self-definitions of the nation founder; a peripheral space of vestigial wildness, of island retreats and experimental living; a network of diverse localities richly endowed with distinctive forms of cultural heritage; and a dynamically interconnected ecosystem, which is also the historic site of significant developments in fieldwork and natural science. This collection situates these cultures of the Atlantic edge in a series of essays that create new contexts for coastal study in literary history and criticism. The contributors frame their research in response to emerging conversations in archipelagic criticism, the blue humanities, and Island Studies, challenging the reader to reconsider ideas of margin, periphery, and exchange. These twelve case studies establish the coast as a crucial location in the imaginative history of Britain, Ireland, and the north Atlantic edge. Coastal Works will appeal to readers of literature and history with an interest in the sea, the environment, and the archipelago from the eighteenth century to the present. Accessible, innovative, and provocative, Coastal Works establishes the important role the coast plays in our cultural imaginary and suggests a range of methodologies to represent relationships between land, sea, and cultural work.