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Journal articles on the topic "Productive ambivalence"
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Snyder, Greta Fowler. "Unambivalent about Ambivalence in the Politics of Mourning." Democratic Theory 5, no. 2 (December 1, 2018): 114–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/dt.2018.050210.
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What does a democratically-productive form of mourning look like in America? David McIvor’s Mourning in America and Simon Stow’s American Mourning argue that it entails the embrace of ambivalence about self and other. Democratically-productive mourning pushes against the tendencies toward idealization and demonization. Embracing ambivalence enables us to move to more effective political engagement in the context of both collaboration and conflict. It allows us to understand that the process of mourning must be ongoing both to protect us from political excesses to which we are prone and to push society toward justice.
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Petrović, Tanja. "Political Parody and the Politics of Ambivalence." Annual Review of Anthropology 47, no. 1 (October 21, 2018): 201–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-102215-100148.
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This article offers insight into the meanings of the unprecedented political potential of humor in the early twenty-first century by discussing three parodic forms of contemporary political humor: carnivalesque politics, parodic reworkings of political discourses, and political protests and satirical activism. Revealing how political parody both produces ambiguity and hinges on it, the article proposes a shift in attention from its effects and capacity to promote or hinder a political change, and from the domination versus resistance binary, toward ambivalent political subjectivities that unfold in the production and consumption of political parody. The ambiguity of political parody, its reflexivity, and its capacity to build or reconfigure affective communities are workings of political humor that enable individuals to embrace their own involvement and vulnerability and the ambiguous and unpredictable moral consequences of their complex positioning as an authentic and potentially productive form of engaging with political reality.
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Fraser, Ryan. "Underground Games: Surface Translation and the Grotesque." TTR 29, no. 2 (August 27, 2018): 99–128. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1051015ar.
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Referenced by theory for seemingly contradictory purposes, the practice of “surface translation” has an ambivalent status within Translation Studies. This is not surprising, as the principle of ambivalence informs both its composition and its conversation with its reader. Nevertheless, a positive step toward a more productive conception of surface translation was accomplished by Jean-Jacques Lecercle (1990), who defined it as a formin extremisof linguistic interference or mixing. Guided by this conception, I would argue here that the practice is in all respects identifiable with the Classical and Medieval ornamental style known by art history as the “grotesque.” This is the first study to identify surface translation with the grotesque. Five specific points of comparison are leveraged here: 1) Both surface translation and grotesque art are created through the proscribed mixing of incompatible materials; 2) Both are peripheral art forms involving play with margins; 3) Both aspire toward the “perverse,” “comic,” and/or “monstrous” in their mixes; 4) Both tend to be explained as the product of impulsive thinking; 5) The experience that these mixtures are designed to produce is “ambivalence.”
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GREHAN, HELENA. "Aalst: Acts of Evil, Ambivalence and Responsibility." Theatre Research International 35, no. 1 (January 27, 2010): 4–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307883309990332.
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Based largely on transcripts and documentary footage of the trial, the play Aalst recounts the brutal killing of two children by their parents in the Belgian town of Aalst in 1999. This article explores the ways in which this performance engages spectators as witnesses in a play of seduction and estrangement during which the concepts of ethical responsibility and judgment are destabilized and radically challenged. Drawing on the work of Hannah Arendt, Zygmunt Bauman, Arne Johan Vetlesen and Emmanuel Levinas a case is made for the importance of ambivalence as a productive mode of reading and responding to Aalst.
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Magagnoli, Paolo. "Moulène, Rancière and 24 Objets de Grève: Productive ambivalence or reifying opacity?" Philosophy of Photography 3, no. 1 (December 8, 2012): 155–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/pop.3.1.155_1.
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Leclerc, Catherine. "Ville hybride ou ville divisée : à propos du chiac et d’une ambivalence productive." Francophonies d'Amérique, no. 22 (2006): 153. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1005384ar.
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Crosbie, Thomas, and Jeffrey Guhin. "On the Ambivalence of the Aphorism in Sociological Theory." Sociological Theory 37, no. 4 (December 2019): 381–400. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0735275119888253.
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Sociologists have long been taken by certain pithy expressions from the founders of the discipline. We propose here both a new explanation for the endurance of these statements as well as an analysis of the power, limitations, and possibilities of aphorisms. By drawing from the critical scholarship concerned with aphorisms, we demonstrate that some of the allure of the classical sociological texts derives from their form, and particularly their reliance on the relative autonomy of the aphorism. Through examining Marx’s “opiate of the people,” Weber’s “iron cage,” and, briefly, two more contemporary sociological aphorisms, we suggest that aphorisms have an ambivalent role in sociological theory: they make claims memorable even as they potentially oversimplify complex arguments. Yet that very simplification can provide a point of focus for productive misreading and reinterpretation.
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Sealey, Kris. "Resisting the Logic of Ambivalence: Bad Faith as Subversive, Anticolonial Practice." Hypatia 33, no. 2 (2018): 163–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hypa.12404.
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This article critiques Homi Bhabha's proposal that mimicry, as a transgressive performance of ambivalence, disrupts the colonial violence of the stereotype, and as such, generates emancipatory conditions for postcolonial subjects. I am critical of this naming of mimicry as enabling a possible liberation from colonial violence not only because it fails to address the loss of belonging that significantly marks the experience of being so violated, but also because it seems to intensify this loss in the hybridity and fragmentation that it celebrates. Through the work of María Lugones and Mariana Ortega, I propose a reimagined sense of Sartrean bad faith as one that corrects for this failure. This account of bad faith—as subversive, anticolonial practice—legitimizes my longing for a stability made impossible by the violent ambivalence that pervades both the colonial and postcolonial condition. Lugones's accounts of multiplicity and ontological plurality, as well as Ortega's conception of hometactics, help me argue that this reimagined conception of bad faith ought to be considered productive when it comes to existential strategies that pursue the possibility of free black life.
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Rambe, Patient. "Social Media-Enhanced Phones for Productive Learning of South African Postgraduate Students." International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning 4, no. 2 (April 2012): 49–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jmbl.2012040104.
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Despite growing interest in knowledge sharing processes in informal spaces, there is a paucity of research on technology-mediated learning in these spaces. Yet the surge in student use of Social Media-enabled phones presents tremendous opportunities for augmenting learning in privileged, authoritative spaces. This study investigated the potential of Facebook-enabled mobiles to leverage learning in informal learning environments. Third Space Theory illuminated understanding of how students draw on potentially contradictory, multiple “funds of knowledge” in their meaning making and discourses. Twenty six students were interviewed to explore how they exchanged learning resources and collaborated on academic matters. Findings suggest that student appropriation of Facebook-enhanced phones enhances social learning, hones digital literacies, and affords the co-production of knowledge in learning communities. Paradoxically, these educational gains are undermined by the disruptive nature of Social Media and student ambivalence about the blurring of academic (professional) and social divides that creates complex, ‘collapsed contexts.’
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Murray, Piper. ""They are well together. Women are not": Productive Ambivalence and Female Hom(m)osociality inFefu and Her Friends." Modern Drama 44, no. 4 (December 2001): 398–415. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/md.44.4.398.
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Ravalde, Elisabeth Sarah. "Limiting Catholicism : ambivalence, scepticism and productive uncertainty in Eastern Uganda." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/22966.
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As the Catholic Church continues to expand in Uganda, this thesis offers an ethnographic study of engagement with Catholicism among the laity in a relatively new, rural parish in the Teso Region of eastern Uganda. Founded in the late 1990s, the creation of a new parish in the Sub-County of Buluya has brought people into closer proximity to the Catholic Church, its priests, and its doctrines, throwing into sharp relief some of the tensions between Catholic and local moral and spiritual frameworks. Based on 17 months of ethnographic and archival fieldwork, I examine the way in which people negotiate the challenges posed by this change, as they seek to balance the need to use the tools Catholicism offers for getting on in post-colonial Uganda with desires to protect older ways of seeing the world and acting in it. My central argument is that people respond to the Church’s attempts to embed itself as an all-encompassing presence and influence in the lives of its members, by engaging in processes of limiting this presence and influence. By remoulding and realigning some of its central concepts, by resisting wholeheartedly committing to its claims to spiritual knowledge and healing potential, and by isolating its moral and behavioural directives from certain aspects of their lives, the laity in Buluya rein in the Catholic Church’s attempts to permeate and dominate all aspects of their lives. I suggest that these limits go hand in hand with the pervasive religious uncertainty that underpins people’s engagement with the Church, arguing that these limiting practices serve to maintain their religious uncertainty as doors are left open to alternative ways of engaging with their social and spiritual surroundings. In turn, the productive potential of this religious uncertainty encourages these limits to be enacted and maintained. Limiting Catholicism, in essence, enables people in Buluya to commit to it.
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Costa, Tatiana da Silva Falcão. "A poética do encontro: uma percepção contemporânea do mundo através da poesia de Fernando Fiorese." Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), 2008. https://repositorio.ufjf.br/jspui/handle/ufjf/3384.
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Esta pesquisa procura compreender como se dá a percepção do mundo sob a perspectiva contemporânea. A via de acesso a esta percepção é a poesia do mineiro de Pirapetinga, Fernando Fábio Fiorese Furtado. Pretendemos i) ampliar nossos questionamentos sobre a atuação da poesia contemporânea na elaboração identitária individual (a priori) e a coletiva (a posteriori), ii) traçar um perfil da percepção contemporânea do mundo através desta poética do enconto. Para nós a construção identitária se dá sempre em relação.
This research looks for getting a better comprehension about a contemporary perception of the world through Fernando Fiorese’s poetry. He is a contemporary Brazilian poet from Pirapetinga, Minas Gerais. We intend i) to enlarge the possibilities of questions related to contemporary poetry performance in working out both individual identity (a priori) and colletive one (a posteriori); ii) to outline a contemporary perception of the world through this meeting poetry. We believe that the identity construction happens always in relation.
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Jörnesten, Anders. "Forskningens nytta : Om ambivalens i forskningspolitik och vardag." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala University, Department of Sociology, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-8356.
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One important issue in this dissertation is understanding the concept of ambivalence in academic settings. This is addressed in two empirical studies. The first is an interview study on Swedish sociologists, focusing on how they look at and understand their own research as well as their place within academia. The second study is based on political documents and offers two possible perspectives on the historical development of research policy. On the one hand it can be viewed as a linear development toward more commercialized science, and on the other hand it can be viewed as an ongoing struggle between traditionalists and non-traditionalists. An important perspective in the interpretation of the results is Pierre Bourdieu's theory of cultural fields. This theory is especially useful in pinpointing the issues of ambivalence in science, showing how both the sociologists and the political documents can be understandable through the concept of "positions". Another important issue in the dissertation is understanding what type of norms are connected ambivalence in relationship to academia. In the final part of the dissertation, Robert Merton's CUDOS norms and John Ziman's PLACE norms are used to explain both the ambivalence itself as well as what kind of norms are related to different "positions".
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Maugeri, Salvatore. "Transport routier de marchandise et EDI : des rationalisations productives à la polarisation économique : enquêtes sur les ambivalences du "post-fordisme"." Paris 10, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA100007.
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La recherche fait état depuis maintenant dix ans d'un mouvement de recomposition de l'économie industrielle autour de ce que l'on appelle le "post-fordisme". Dans le cadre de ces restructurations, ou le japon fait toujours figure de référence, les notions de variété, de flexibilité, de qualité et de flux tendu fédèrent la plupart des contributions. De plus en plus fréquemment, on leur trouve associée la notion de réticularité. A l'inverse des précédentes, cette dernière notion n'a pas encore fait l'objet d'investigations systématiques, malgré l'importance prise par la forme "réseau" dans l'économie contemporaine. Notre travail cherche à combler cette lacune, à partir de deux démarches complémentaires. La première partie, a caractère théorique et critique, entend mettre en exergue la valeur heuristique de la réticularité. Situe directement au niveau du fonctionnement "sociétal", le paradigme "réticulaire" parait remédier aux limites présentées par les approches classiques de la sociologie, en particulier de la "sociologie de l'entreprise", largement analysée au fil des chapitres. Conçue comme une illustration empirique des thèses défendues préalablement, la seconde partie est constituée de deux vastes monographies consacrées l'une au transport routier de marchandises, l'autre aux échanges de données informatises. En accord avec la première partie, les deux exemples retenus entendent souligner la polarisation des réseaux industriels actuels et la nécessité de leur évolution vers des formes plus "équipotentes"For a decade now research has reported a trend towards a recomposition of industrial economics around what is known as "post-Fordism". Within the framework of this restructuring where japan is still looked upon as a figure of reference, such notions as variety, flexibility, quality or just-in-time federate most contributions. Another notion referred to as "reticularity" is more and more frequently associated with those. Unlike the former, the latter notion has not been subjected to systematic investigations yet in spite of the growing importance network-like patterns has gained in current economics. Our work has consisted in an attempt to fill this gap through two complementary processes. The first part, of a mostly theoretical and critical nature, is meant to bring out the heuristic value of "reticularity". Being directly relevant to societal functioning, the reticular paradigm seems to remedy the shortcomings inherent in the standard approaches of sociology, more particularly French "entreprise sociology" widely analyzed through the following chapters. The second part is designed as an empirical illustration of theses defended beforehand and falls into two wide-ranging monographs one of which deals with road freight haulage whereas the other delves into electronic data interchange (edi). In accordance with the first part, both of examples which have been accorded our attention are meant to emphasize the polarization for current industrial networks and the need for their development towards more "equipotent" forms
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Khan, Mohd Golam Quader. "Marker-assisted selection in enhancing genetically male Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus L.) production." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/2980.
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All-male fry are preferred to prevent uncontrolled reproduction before harvest in intensive Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) aquaculture. Males also grow faster than females. An alternative approach to direct hormonal masculinisation of tilapia fry is to produce fry that are genetically male. However, sex determination system in tilapia is fairly complex. Recent developments have resulted in a linkage map and genetic markers that can be used to analyse the sex determination system. To analyse the genetic sex determination mechanism and to develop marker-assisted selection in the Stirling Nile tilapia population, a fully inbred line of clonal females (XX) was verified using test crosses and DNA markers (mostly microsatellites) to use as a standard reference line in sex determination studies. A series of crosses were performed involving this line of females and a range of males. Three groups of crosses were selected (each group consisted of three families) from progeny sex ratio distributions, and designated as type ‘A’ (normal XY males x clonal XX females), type ‘B’ (putative YY males x clonal XX females) and type ‘C’ (unknown groups of males x clonal XX females), for sex linkage study. For type ‘A’, inheritance of DNA markers and phenotypic sex was investigated using screened markers from tilapia linkage group 1 (LG1) to confirm the LG1-associated pattern of inheritance of phenotypic sex and the structure of LG1. Screened markers from LG1, LG3 and LG23 were used to investigate the association of markers with sex in families of type ‘B’ and ‘C’. In addition, a genome-wide scan of markers from the other 21 LGs was performed to investigate any association between markers and sex, in only families of cross type ‘B’. LG1 associated pattern of inheritance of phenotypic sex was confirmed by genotype and QTL analyses in families of cross type ‘A’. Analyses of genotypes in families of type ‘B’ and ‘C’ showed strong association with LG1 markers but no association with LG3 and LG23 markers. Genome wide scan of markers from all other LGs did not show any significant association between any markers and the sex. The allelic inheritance of two tightly linked LG1 markers (UNH995 and UNH104) in families of type ‘B’ and ‘C’ identified polymorphism in the sex determining locus: one of the alleles was associated mostly with male offspring whereas another allele was associated with both progeny (mostly males in type ‘B’ families, and approximately equal numbers in type ‘C’ families). This knowledge was used to identify and separate supermales (‘YY’ males) that should sire higher proportions of male progeny, reared to become sexually mature for use as broodstock. Two of them were crossed with XX females (one clonal and one outbred) to observe the phenotypic expression of the strongest male-associated allele in progeny sex. The observations of 98% male (99 males out of 101 progeny) and 100% male (N=75) from these two crosses respectively, suggest that a marker-assisted selection (MAS) programme for genetically male Nile tilapia production could be practical. This study also suggests that the departures from the sex ratios predicted using a “simple” XX/XY model (i.e., YY x XX should give all-male progeny) were strongly associated with the XX/XY system, due to multiple alleles, rather than being associated with loci in other LGs (e.g., LG3, LG23). This study also tentatively names the allele(s) giving intermediate sex ratios as “ambivalent” and emphasizes that the presence and actions of such allele(s) at the same sex-determining locus could explain departures from predicted sex ratios observed in some earlier studies in Nile tilapia.
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Robért, Georgiana Danet/Ida. "Datorisering av arbetsuppgifter : att understödja det viktiga eller det oviktiga?" Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för arbetsvetenskap och medieteknik, 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-1647.
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I den här rapporten presenterar vi vår argumentation angående datoriseringen av två arbetsuppgifter på Habiliteringen, Karlskrona har inneburit ett understöd av det direkta arbetet med patienter eller av det administrativa arbetet. De anställda anser att den direkta kontakten med patienten är det viktiga, medan dokumentering och det administrativa arbetet är det ”oviktiga”, aspekt som också framgår från vår empiriska undersökning. Det finns en ambivalens med datoriseringen av dessa arbetsuppgifter som vi beskriver i vår uppsats. Å ena sidan stödjer datoriseringen dokumenteringen och det administrativa arbetet, det oviktiga, medan å andra sidan användningen av dataprogrammen har en stor potential i att indirekt understödja huvudarbetet, det direkta arbetet med patienter, vilket är det viktiga. För att belysa de här aspekterna skildrar vi i vilket syfte de anställda använder dataprogrammen, på vilket sätt de använder datorn och dataprogram, och de olika problemen som har uppstått sedan datorn har införts. Vi föreslår ett antal förslag/förbättringar som kan leda till effektivisering av huvudarbetet (arbetet med patienter) och kollateralt av arbetssättet.Rapporten presenterar en argumentation angående datoriseringen av två arbetsuppgifter på Habiliteringen, Karlskrona har inneburit ett understöd av det direkta arbetet med patienter eller av det administrativa arbetet. De anställda anser att den direkta kontakten med patienten är det viktiga, medan dokumentering och det administrativa arbetet är det ”oviktiga”, aspekt som också framgår från vår empiriska undersökning. Vi har kommit fram till att även om de använda dataprogrammen är designade för att stödja dokumentering coh administrativt arbete, så finns det en stor potential i själva tekniken som kan göra möjligt en indirekt understödjning av huvutarbetet, som är den direkta kontakten med patienter.
Georgiana Danet E-post: mda00gda@student.bth.se E-post: georgiana_d@hotmail.com Ida Robért E-post: mda00iro@student.bth.se E-post: ida_robert@yahoo.com
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Clot, Jean. "Theodor Fontane. L’acte littéraire ou la réponse de Narcisse." Thesis, Paris 4, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA040010.
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Le présent travail propose une interprétation psychanalytique de l’œuvre de l’écrivain réaliste allemand Theodor Fontane (1819 1898). À la lumière de la théorie freudienne et des thèses de Béla Grunberger sur le narcissisme, nous montrons ce que sont les ressorts et les enjeux inconscients de la création littéraire, chez cet auteur, laquelle, dans son principe, reproduit le schème de la position fantasmatique régressive que ménageait la grande passion ludique de l’enfant, le jeu de cache cache selon un mode spécifique. Partant du constat de la structure obsessionnelle des romans, notre étude met en évidence, dans un premier livre, l’existence, « sous » la fable sociale récurrente de la liaison amoureuse illicite, sanctionnée (adultère et relations équivalentes), d’un singulier scénario s’articulant autour de la dynamique du « pseudo Œdipe », que décrit Grunberger (procédure d’évitement, à des fins de régression), et du mécanisme de la défense masochique. L’analyse de ce « mythe personnel » (Mauron), comme situation dramatique interne, nous amène à dégager les traits particuliers des éléments constitutifs de la personnalité psychique de Fontane (imagos et instances), puis à établir la genèse de sa position « pseudo œdipienne » et à faire ressortir le rapport qui la lie au processus de création (« rétablissement narcissique »). Les résultats acquis sont passés au révélateur de la vie de l’écrivain. Dans un second livre, nous nous penchons, tour à tour, sur les divers aspects essentiels de l’œuvre, réexaminés sous le nouvel éclairage apporté : fonctionnalité de l’ambivalence, conception du réalisme « poétique » (transfigurateur), recherche de la conciliation des principes contraires, écriture comme la pratique d’un jeu de cache cache (questions du dialogisme, de la stratégie narrative, du symbolisme). La dernière partie est consacrée à l’étude de la problématique cardinale de la régression narcissique, à laquelle tout mène, ici : instrumentalisation du complexe de la faute et de la sanction, à visée autodestructrice, dans une tension vers la mort fantasmée comme le retour à l’état de félicité du séjour au sein originelThis study offers a psychoanalytical interpretation of the works of Theodor Fontane (1819 1898), the German realist writer. In the light of the Freudian theory and of Béla Grunberger’s theses on narcissism, we show the unconscious motivations which gave rise to this author’s literary creation and what is at stake in this process for him. The act of writing is based here on the principle of reproducing the scheme of the fantastical regressive position which was generated by Fontane’s strong passion as a child for the game of hide and seek, which he played in his own specific way. Considering the obsessive structure of his novels, in our first book we demonstrate the existence — “beneath” the ever present social dictum of the forbidden love affair that is always to be punished (adultery and similar relationships) — of a particular scenario revolving around the dynamic of the “pseudo Oedipus”, as described by Grunberger (avoidance procedure aiming at regression) and the mechanism of masochistic defense. The analysis of this “personal myth” (Mauron), as an inner dramatic situation, leads us, first, to unearth the specific features of the elements which make up Fontane’s psychic personality (imagoes and agencies), and then to establish the genesis of his “pseudo oedipal” position and to highlight its link with the creative process (“narcissistic restoration”). Our results are substantiated through the writers’s biography. In the second book we deal with the essential aspects of Fontane’s work, which we re examine thanks to what we have brought to light: the functionality of ambivalence, the conception of transfigurating “poetic” realism, the attempt to reconcile opposite principles and writing as a game of hide and seek (dialogism, narrative strategy, symbolism). The last part of our study is devoted to the cardinal issue of narcissistic regression to which everything leads: mainly the instrumentation of the complex of guilt and retribution with a self destructing aim in a tropism towards death fantasized as a return to the original state of bliss in the womb
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Swanepoel, Pieter Johan. "Deconfigurations: the practice of repetition as confirmation of (re)productive (art)works." Diss., 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/870.
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This study will argue that visual art and the making of images share much
With other languages. If writing can be deoonstructed, visual Imagery can
be deconfigured, for figuring an image is much like structuring a sentence.
The process of deconfiguration however relies on repetition.
DeconflguratiOn therefore denies any claim of a primary creator. It will be
argued though that deconfiguratlon remains creative as it engages the
imagination in a process of transference and through association.
Moreover, deconfiguration shows how binary opposites are essential In the
making of artworks. The repetitive process takes place when the artwork
Is made and continues during the appreciation and/or interpretation of the
artwork. For the interpretation to really deconfigure, it would mean that
the image constituted by the artist has metaphorical, allegorical and even
symbolical implications. The interpreter will thus always remain a
partidpant in the creative process suggested by the artwork.Art History, Visual Arts & Musicology
M.A. (Visual Arts)
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Bowes, Matthew. "Influences of Social Norms, Habit and Ambivalence on Park Visitors’ Dog Leash Compliance for Protecting Wildlife." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/6392.
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Non-compliance with visitor regulations in national parks can have an impact on park conservation and the experience of other park visitors. Park management in Pacific Rim National Park Reserve located on the west coast of British Columbia, Canada is challenged by visitors’ non-compliant behaviour concerning regulations to keep dogs on the leash in the park. Dogs that run free (off-leash) on the beaches of the park disturb migratory shorebirds, and have the potential to habituate wolves to regard dogs as objects of prey. This study investigates why many visitors opt for non-compliance with regulations aimed at conservation. The goal of the study is to contribute new insights that may help park management find workable solutions to deliver the ‘dual mandate’ of managing protected areas both, for conservation and for nature-based tourism.
The study is grounded within the context of Lefebvre’s (1991) notions of the production of space, and recent work in animal geography that addresses the changing role of our canine companions in modern society. The methodology combines qualitative and quantitative research applying Fishbein & Ajzen’s (2010) theory of planned behaviour (TPB). The research is presented using a journal format, which unavoidably implies some repetition of information but allows for the different sections to be read as
stand-alone documents. The thesis starts with an introductory chapter. This is followed by a book chapter published in Domesticated Animals & Leisure (Carr, 2015 in press) that reports highlights from qualitative research exploring why park visitors appear reluctant to comply with on-leash rules. Results reveal the beach as a contested space, driven by a strong off-leash social norm. Chapter Three is a journal article format paper that reports on a quantitative survey based on the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) to identify beliefs that underlie visitor behaviour. Results indicate that habit, with respect to dog leashing when at home and on previous visits to the park, appear to impact the ability of the model to predict future behaviour. Chapter Four is a second journal article format paper where it is suggested that ambivalence, the presence of conflicting behavioural beliefs, influences the relation between behavioural beliefs and attitudes in the TPB, resulting in non-compliance behaviour. A concluding chapter summarizes how results presented in the three main chapters contribute to the body of knowledge on animal geography, compliance and research using the TPB, as well as suggesting techniques that park staff should consider for managing visitor behaviour under situations of apparent non-compliance.Graduate
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Bruxel, Laerson. "Democracia, Deliberação e Mídia na Esfera Pública Contemporânea: um Estudo sobre Experiênciasa Referendárias no Brasil e em Portugal." Doctoral thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/20165.
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Tese de doutoramento em Altos Estudos Contemporâneos, na especialidade de Ciência Política (História Política e Estudos Internacionais), apresentada à Faculdade de Economia da Universidade de CoimbraA presente investigação analisa e compara material publicado por dois jornais, – Folha de São Paulo, do Brasil, e Público, de Portugal -, sobre referendos realizados nos dois países, respectivamente, em 2005 e 2007. O objetivo é verificar se nesse material há falas com argumentos que possam ser considerados úteis para contribuir com um processo deliberativo, na perspectiva da democracia defendida por Jürgen Habermas. Ancorado numa sugestão de Simone Chambers, o material jornalístico é classificado como retórica plebiscitária ou retórica deliberativa. A retórica plebiscitária se caracteriza pela presença de mais elementos que não contribuem para a realização de uma deliberação pública, enquanto a deliberativa contém significativa presença de subsídios considerados importantes para o desenvolvimento desse processo. O reforço de alguns elementos no material jornalístico, – e a investigação avalia e quantifica quais elementos a mídia privilegia -, pode fazer com que se aproxime ou se distancie daquilo que é qualificado como importante para um debate público numa perspectiva habermasiana. A decisão de acionar mais um ou outro elemento está entre as opções que a mídia faz. Ao optar, ela sai de uma zona de fronteira, com várias possibilidades em aberto, e realiza um processo de demarcação. E, ao demarcar, ela estabelece limites, seja para um ou para outro processo. Considerando que a mídia tem potenciais ambivalentes, a investigação assume este pressuposto: não é possível definir a priori o papel que a mídia desempenha em eventos específicos de deliberação pública, como no caso dos referendos, isto porque em seu material comparecem todos os elementos da retórica, tanto os tendentes a favorecer como aqueles que prejudicam um processo deliberativo. Mas dada sua lógica de produção e divulgação, ela revela alguns dos seus limites que a impedem de complexificar os temas da agenda pública. E a hipótese que se assume nesta tese é que as escolhas da mídia privilegiam mais os elementos da retórica que se coadunam com a lógica da evidência, que é refratária a um processo argumentativo. Por acionar em maior número os elementos que são limitadores de um processo argumentativo, é temerário apontar a mídia como fórum central para a deliberação pública. E, se o seu poder de abrangência pode ser tomado como potencialmente útil para a realização de processos deliberativos nas democracias contemporâneas, a simples disponibilidade desse dispositivo não permite chegar à conclusão açodada de que sua prática contribua efetivamente para o desenvolvimento do debate público. Pelo seu potencial, e por permitir que em seu interior também circule material identificado como uma retórica deliberativa, até pode-se ver na mídia um ator capacitado a realizar um papel complementar, mas não central, no processo mais amplo da deliberação pública. E, nessa linha de análise, não se pode descartar por completo a possibilidade de o material produzido pela mídia ser desencadeador de um processo deliberativo na sociedade ao ser apropriado ou reinterpretado de diferentes maneiras pelos diversos atores da esfera pública.
Books on the topic "Productive ambivalence"
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Baumgärtner, Stefan. Ambivalent Joint Production and the Natural Environment. Heidelberg: Physica-Verlag HD, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57658-4.
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The aesthetics of ambivalence: Rethinking science fiction film in the age of electronic (re)production. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1992.
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1968-, BAUMGARTNER STEFAN. Ambivalent joint production and the natural environment: An economic and thermodynamic analysis. Heidelberg: Physica-Verlag, 2000.
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Bassi, Shaul, and Carol Chillington Rutter. The Merchant in Venice: Shakespeare in the Ghetto. Venice: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-503-2.
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This book records the landmark performance of The Merchant of Venice in the Venetian Ghetto in 2016, the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death and the 500th anniversary of the Jewish quarter that gave the world the word ‘ghetto’. Practitioners and critics discuss how this multi-ethnic production and its radical choice to cast five actors as Shylock provided the opportunity to respond creatively to Europe’s legacy of antisemitism, racism and difference. They observe how the place and play stand as ambivalent documents of civilization: instruments of intolerance but also sites of cultural exchange.
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Ahlgren, Angela K. Practicing Ambivalence. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199374014.003.0004.
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The chapter uses autoethnography and personal interviews to illustrate the experiences of white and black women in taiko. Given that a majority of taiko players in the United States are Asian American, taiko is a rare site in which white bodies are seen not as normal but rather as remarkable. Some black women, however, are seen as more American than their Asian and Asian American groupmates. In addition to the impact of racial identity, white and black women also experience taiko as open to a range of gender expressions and as an empowering art form. The chapter examines the ways white, black, and Asian American performers are triangulated and how taiko players experience whiteness and blackness as embodied, lived experience. The chapter traces the history of Iris Shiraishi’s song “Torii” to suggest that taiko has potential to forge productive cross-racial intimacies.
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Knox-Shaw, Peter. The Reconstrual of Imagination and Romance. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190689414.003.0007.
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Emma has often convincingly been assigned to the “quixotic” novel, a genre much favored by the long eighteenth century and admired on occasion by Jane Austen herself. But whereas novels of this type invariably end with a joint renunciation of imagination and romance in deference to a greater realism, Emma shows imagination to be integral to an apprehension of the real world, and to require, for its fidelity, a principle long enshrined by romance. Austen’s understanding of imagination as both necessary and all-pervasive—held in common with a number of contemporary philosophers who built on David Hume’s analysis of the “productive” and “magical” faculty that underlay all perception—in no way lessened her sense of its ambivalence, and Emma shows how its work of construction is constantly undermined by received stereotypes as well as by insidious subterfuges of the self. The novel celebrates an empirical habit of mind, fortified by the virtue of benevolence.
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Halabi, Zeina G. The Unmaking of the Arab Intellectual. Edinburgh University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474421393.001.0001.
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The Unmaking of the Arab Intellectual examines the figure of the intellectual as prophet, national icon, and exile in contemporary Arabic literature and film. Staging a comparative dialogue with writers and critics such as Elias Khoury, Edward Said, Jurji Zaidan, and Mahmoud Darwish, Halabi focuses on new articulations of loss, displacement, and memory in works by Rabee Jaber, Elia Suleiman, Rawi Hage, Rashid al-Daif, and Seba al-Herz. She argues that the ambivalence and disillusionment with the role of the intellectual in contemporary representations operate as a productive reclaiming of the 'political' in an allegedly apolitical context. The Unmaking of the Arab Intellectual invites us to engage in a practice of criticism that is inherently retrospective and evaluative, putting into question the very foundation of what constitutes the modern Arab intellectual legacy. It suggests a methodology to understand the evolving relations between intellectuals and power; authors and texts and generates a politics of reading that locates the political in the hitherto uncharted contemporary era.
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Ambivalent Joint Production and the Natural Environment: An Economic and Thermodynamic Analysis (Contributions to Economics). Physica-Verlag Heidelberg, 2000.
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Pingyuan, Chen. The Story of Literary History. Edited by Carlos Rojas and Andrea Bachner. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199383313.013.5.
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Starting with a reflection on Lu Xun’s ambivalence toward the writing of literary history, this chapter analyzes the emergence and importance of literary history as a discursive tool for structuring the production and transmission of knowledge about literature from the late Qing onward. In the context of China’s transition to a Western-style educational system in the early twentieth century, reinforced by a turn of intellectuals from literary revolution to “Rearranging the National Heritage” after 1919, literary history with its systemic approach replaced the traditional literary education focused on rhetoric, aesthetic taste, and composition. This crucial shift in discursive system and the concomitant lack of attention to literariness and creativity has had a profound and lasting influence on literary studies in China and continues to impact the production, analysis, and teaching of literature today.
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Hunt, Nancy Rose. Health and Healing. Edited by John Parker and Richard Reid. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199572472.013.0020.
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The ‘Health and Healing’ field emerged in the late 1970s as a way to focus more on vernacular healing practice and the politics of health. The essay covers an earlier generation of colonial anthropological work; key concepts like public healing, the social costs of production, drums of affliction, ambivalence, translation, debility, care, and therapeutic citizenship; and major themes, including colonial medicine, health workers, reproductive health, the psychiatric, experimentality, global health, and conjoined healing and harming dynamics. It argues that the field produced a now vibrant and quite presentist genre, ethnographic history; that the new STS-influenced work on materialities, memory, and war is vital; but that this field in African history is also worthy of robust research producing a deeper past.
Book chapters on the topic "Productive ambivalence"
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Stauffer, Jill. "Productive Ambivalence: Levinasian Subjectivity, Justice, and the Rule of Law1." In Essays on Levinas and Law, 76–91. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230234734_5.
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Zakariás, Ildikó. "The Production of Solidarity: A Case Study of Voluntary School Programs of Hungarian Ethnic Kin Support." In Die Ambivalenz der Gefühle, 145–69. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-01654-8_8.
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Baumgärtner, Stefan. "Ambivalent joint production: Putting the issues in perspective." In Contributions to Economics, 290–94. Heidelberg: Physica-Verlag HD, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57658-4_13.
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van der Weele, Cor. "How to Save Cultured Meat from Ecomodernism? Selective Attention and the Art of Dealing with Ambivalence." In The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics, 545–57. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63523-7_30.
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AbstractAs a highly technological innovation, cultured meat is the subject of techno-optimistic as well as techno-sceptical evaluations. The chapter discusses this opposition and connects it with arguments about seeing the world in the right way. Both sides not only call upon us to see the world in a very particular light, but also point to mechanisms of selective attention in order to explain how others can be so biased. I will argue that attention mechanisms are indeed relevant for dealing with the Anthropocene, but that dualism has paralysing effects. In a dualistic framework, cultured meat is associated with ecomodernist optimism, bold technological control over nature and alienation from animals. But interested citizens and farmers in focus groups rather envisioned the future of cultured meat through small scale production on farms combined with intensive relations with animals. Such scenarios, involving elements from both sides of the dualistic gap, depend on constructive ways of dealing with dualisms and ambivalence.
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Guidi, Lucilla. "A Groundless Place to Build: The Ambivalence of Production as a Chance of Action Between Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt." In From Conventionalism to Social Authenticity, 179–97. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56865-2_10.
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Stucki, Saskia. "(Certified) Humane Violence? Animal Production, the Ambivalence of Humanizing the Inhumane, and What International Humanitarian Law Has to Do with It." In Studies in Global Animal Law, 121–31. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-60756-5_11.
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Soyer, Michaela. "Losing Children." In Lost Childhoods, 83–96. University of California Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520296701.003.0007.
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Chapter 6 switches perspectives from the young men to their families. It focuses on how the incarceration of sons, nephews, or grandsons impacts families. This chapter emphasizes the ambivalence some parents feel toward the criminal and juvenile justice systems. Mothers may recognize that the systems offer immediate support, but they also know that incarceration leaves their sons unequipped to lead productive lives after reentry into society.
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Nacol, Emily C. "Adventurous Spirits and Clamoring Sophists." In An Age of Risk. Princeton University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691165103.003.0005.
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This chapter argues that Adam Smith's moral theory and political economy confront human ambivalence about risk, by now a permanent feature of the human condition. Smith's analysis of individuals, groups, institutions, and policies leads him to find that human beings have a risk-loving side, which drives them to take chances to pursue gain, but that they also clamor to secure themselves against possible loss. How well they balance these two impulses can, Smith argues, issue in productive or dangerous approaches to risk taking. Moreover, Smith's critique of monopolies and mercantile policies depends very much on his view that traders exploit risk badly, by redistributing or jettisoning loss. Smith argues that those who pursue highly uncertain profits by taking risks in the political economy must also be willing to brook loss.
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"The production and purposes of maternal ambivalence." In Mothering and Ambivalence, 27–46. Routledge, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203131015-6.
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Coffman, Chris. "Stein, Van Vechten and Modernism’s Queer Gaze." In Gertrude Stein's Transmasculinity, 251–94. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474438094.003.0008.
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This chapter offers a counterpoint to Stein’s and Hemingway’s mutual aggression by focusing on her queerly productive friendship with modernist impresario Carl Van Vechten. Van Vechten’s friendship with Stein and Toklas was flirtatious and never soured. Rather than deriding Stein’s writing—as Hemingway and Picasso occasionally did—Van Vechten helped place her manuscripts, edited her Selected Writings, organized her 1934-1935 lecture tour of the United States, and took photographs that furthered her celebrity image. To track the vicissitudes of their bond, this chapter reads Stein’s temporally warped account in The Autobiography of her first meeting with Van Vechten; examines her two word-portraits of him (“One Carl Van Vechten,” 1913, and “Van Or Twenty Years After,” 1923); and analyzes several of his photographs of her and the “Woojums” family of choice they formed with Toklas. In a circuit of masculine homosocial desire that was markedly different than those addressed in chapters Five and Six, Stein returned Van Vechten’s affection with verbal portraits that show none of the ambivalence at work in her writings about Picasso and Hemingway.
Conference papers on the topic "Productive ambivalence"
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Konovalova, Maria Evgenievna, and Anton Valerevich Larionov. "AMBIVALENCE OF THE PROCESS OF FORMING AN INTELLECTUAL COMPANY CAPITAL." In Russian science: actual researches and developments. Samara State University of Economics, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.46554/russian.science-2020.03-1-866/870.
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The article is devoted to the study of the process of formation and development of intellectual capital. It is proved that this process is immanent ambivalence, which, on the one hand the formation of new institutions as a result of accumulated intellectual capital, and with another - rulemaking process of intellectual production by using existing formal and informal institutions