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Affective Cartographies: Affinities and Affects in Arts, Research, and Pedagogies
by Sara Victoria Carrasco Segovia Fernando Hernández Hernández Juana María Sancho-GilThis book focuses on cartographies as epistemology and visual strategy, highlighting three major axes: corporeal, affective, and nomadic learning. Based on the onto-episte-methodological and ethical displacement from reductive approaches, the book emphasizes new ways of understanding arts, research, teaching and learning processes at the university and beyond. Contributions highlight practices focused on dialogue, sharing, readings and philosophical discussions which allow educators to move away from what is typically thought of as ‘correct’, and reinforce the importance of a decolonized approach to learning and knowledge, understanding the (re)search process as an imperfect journey in becoming.
Affective Communities in World Politics
by Emma HutchisonEmotions underpin how political communities are formed and function. Nowhere is this more pronounced than in times of trauma. The emotions associated with suffering caused by war, terrorism, natural disasters, famine and poverty can play a pivotal role in shaping communities and orientating their politics. This book investigates how 'affective communities' emerge after trauma. Drawing on several case studies and an unusually broad set of interdisciplinary sources, it examines the role played by representations, from media images to historical narratives and political speeches. Representations of traumatic events are crucial because they generate socially embedded emotional meanings which, in turn, enable direct victims and distant witnesses to share the injury, as well as the associated loss, in a manner that affirms a particular notion of collective identity. While ensuing political orders often re-establish old patterns, traumatic events can also generate new 'emotional cultures' that genuinely transform national and transnational communities.
Affective Communities: Anticolonial Thought, Fin-de-Siècle Radicalism, and the Politics of Friendship
by Leela Gandhi"If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country. " So E. M. Forster famously observed in his Two Cheers for Democracy. Forster's epigrammatic manifesto, where the idea of the "friend" stands as a metaphor for dissident cross-cultural collaboration, holds the key, Leela Gandhi argues in Affective Communities, to the hitherto neglected history of western anti-imperialism. Focusing on individuals and groups who renounced the privileges of imperialism to elect affinity with victims of their own expansionist cultures, she uncovers the utopian-socialist critiques of empire that emerged in Europe, specifically in Britain, at the end of the nineteenth century. Gandhi reveals for the first time how those associated with marginalized lifestyles, subcultures, and traditions--including homosexuality, vegetarianism, animal rights, spiritualism, and aestheticism--united against imperialism and forged strong bonds with colonized subjects and cultures. Gandhi weaves together the stories of a number of South Asian and European friendships that flourished between 1878 and 1914, tracing the complex historical networks connecting figures like the English socialist and homosexual reformer Edward Carpenter and the young Indian barrister M. K. Gandhi, or the Jewish French mystic Mirra Alfassa and the Cambridge-educated Indian yogi and extremist Sri Aurobindo. In a global milieu where the battle lines of empire are reemerging in newer and more pernicious configurations, Affective Communities challenges homogeneous portrayals of "the West" and its role in relation to anticolonial struggles. Drawing on Derrida's theory of friendship, Gandhi puts forth a powerful new model of the political: one that finds in friendship a crucial resource for anti-imperialism and transnational collaboration.
Affective Decision Making Under Uncertainty: Risk, Ambiguity and Black Swans (Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems #691)
by Donald J. BrownThis book is an exploration of the ubiquity of ambiguity in decision-making under uncertainty. It presents various essays on behavioral economics and behavioral finance that draw on the theory of Black Swans (Taleb 2010), which argues for a distinction between unprecedented events in our past and unpredictable events in our future. The defining property of Black Swan random events is that they are unpredictable, i.e., highly unlikely random events. In this text, Mandelbrot’s (1972) operational definition of risky random unpredictable events is extended to Black Swan assets – assets for which the cumulative probability distribution or conditional probability distribution of random future asset returns is a power distribution. Ambiguous assets are assets for which the uncertainties of future returns are not risks. Consequently, there are two disjoint classes of Black Swan assets: Risky Black Swan assets and Ambiguous Black Swan assets, a new class of ambiguous assets with unpredictable random future outcomes. The text is divided into two parts, the first of which focuses on affective moods, introduces affective utility functions and discusses the ambiguity of Black Swans. The second part, which shifts the spotlight to affective equilibrium in asset markets, features chapters on affective portfolio analysis and Walrasian and Gorman Polar Form Equilibrium Inequalities. In order to gain the most from the book, readers should have completed the standard introductory graduate courses on microeconomics, behavioral finance, and convex optimization. The book is intended for advanced undergraduates, graduate students and post docs specializing in economic theory, experimental economics, finance, mathematics, computer science or data analysis.
Affective Dimensions of Fieldwork and Ethnography (Theory and History in the Human and Social Sciences)
by Thomas Stodulka Samia Dinkelaker Ferdiansyah ThajibThis book illustrates the role of researchers’ affects and emotions in understanding and making sense of the phenomena they study during ethnographic fieldwork. Whatever methods ethnographers apply during field research, however close they get to their informants and no matter how involved or detached they feel, fieldwork pushes them to constantly negotiate and reflect their subjectivities and positionalities in relation to the persons, communities, spaces and phenomena they study. The book highlights the idea that ethnographic fieldwork is based on the attempt of communication, mutual understanding, and perspective-taking on behalf of and together with those studied. With regard to the institutionally silenced, yet informally emphasized necessity of ethnographers’ emotional immersion into the local worlds they research (defined as “emic perspective,” “narrating through the eyes of the Other,” “seeing the world from the informants’ point of view,” etc.), this book pursues the disentanglement of affect-related disciplinary conventions by means of transparent, vivid and systematic case studies and their methodological discussion. The book provides nineteen case studies on the relationship between methodology, intersubjectivity, and emotion in qualitative and ethnographic research, and includes six section introductions to the pivotal issues of role conflict, reciprocity, intimacy and care, illness and dying, failing and attuning, and emotion regimes in fieldwork and ethnography. Affective Dimensions of Fieldwork and Ethnography is a must-have resource for post-graduate students and researchers across the disciplines of social and cultural anthropology, medical anthropology, psychological anthropology, cultural psychology, critical theory, cultural phenomenology, and cultural sociology.
Affective Feminisms in Digital India: Intimate Rebels
by Meena T PillaiThis book studies digital feminist activism in contemporary India. It provides a close and comprehensive analysis of the postmillennial digital moment in India which has given rise to new modes of women’s digital dissent. The volume examines how anti-rape narratives, Feminichy scandals, #MeToo movements, and menstrual activisms, amongst a host of other performative feminist dissent and their discursive medialities create ‘affective digital feminisms’ which both break with and continue the residual and emergent practices within feminisms in India. It looks at digital womanspeak from India and focuses on vernacular forms of dissent, through which the author aims to decolonize feminist imaginaries from their moorings in the West. The author explores new digital, cultural, and social geographies where politically untamed women use their precarity to unsettle deep sexist structures and mount a gendered critique of the political economy of the nation state. An important contribution to the study of feminism in India, the volume will be useful for students and researchers of gender and women’s studies, cultural studies, digital sociology, intersectional feminism, transnational feminism, digital humanities, and South Asian studies. It will also be appeal to readers interested in the history of women’s dissent in India.
Affective Formation of Publics: Places, Networks, and Media (Routledge Studies in Affective Societies)
by Birgitt Röttger-Rössler Margreth LünenborgThis book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of current formations of publics that is informed by in-depth knowledge of affect and emotion theory. Using empirical case studies from contexts as diverse as India, Pakistan, Tanzania, and the Americas as well as Europe, the book challenges dichotomous distinctions between private and public. Instead, publics are understood as a relational structure that encompasses both people and their physical and mediatized environment. While each kind of public is affectively constituted, the intensity of its affective attunement varies considerably. The volume is aimed at academic readers interested in understanding the dynamic and fluid forms of contemporary formation of publics—be it digital or face-to-face encounters as well as in the intersection of both forms. This includes researchers from media and communication studies, social anthropology, theatre or literary studies. It is aimed at advanced students of these disciplines who are interested in the unfolding of contemporary publics.
Affective Geographies and Narratives of Chinese Diaspora (Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies)
by Robert T. Tally Jr. Melody Yunzi LiIn various ways, Chinese diasporic communities seek to connect and re-connect with their “homelands” in literature, film, and visual culture. The essays in Affective Geographies and Narratives of Chinese Diaspora examine how diasporic bodies and emotions interact with space and place, as well as how theories of affect change our thinking of diaspora. Questions of borders and border-crossing, not to mention the public and private spheres, in diaspora literature and film raise further questions about mapping and spatial representation and the affective and geographical significance of the push-and-pull movement in diasporic communities. The unique experience is represented differently by different authors across texts and media. In an age of globalization, in “the Chinese Century,” the spatial representation and cultural experiences of mobility, displacement, settlement, and hybridity become all the more urgent. The essays in this volume respond to this urgency, and they help to frame the study of Chinese diaspora and culture today.
Affective Governmentality: Neoliberal Education Advertisements in Singapore (Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education #9)
by Andrew Joseph PereiraThis book investigates the subjectivities in education arising from the triumphant mobilisation of care as portrayed in educational advertisements, and provides a novel theory of affective governmentality based on empirical research on affect, neoliberalism, and governmentality. It also takes the bold step of encouraging the re-imagination of the central and pressing question of school marketisation in Singapore, and problematises the seemingly innocuous portrayals of care in light of neoliberal governmentality seeking to perform cultural work on preferred identities and subjectivities. Using a judicious selection of media artefacts, the book scrutinises the creation of emotional technologies through an ethic of caring, harnessing vulnerabilities and triumphalism. As such it not only equips readers to understand the role of emotional technologies but also offers a critical and alternative view of hope and aspirations for transforming society.
Affective Inequalities in Intimate Relationships (Routledge Research in Gender and Society)
by Tuula Juvonen Marjo KolehmainenRaising to the challenge of how to grasp such forms of inequalities that are mediated affectively, Affective Inequalities in Intimate Relationships focuses on subtle inequalities that are shaped in everyday affective encounters. It also seeks to bridge a gap between affect theory and empirical social research by providing ideas and inspiration of how to work with affect in research practice. Presenting cutting-edge empirical studies on affect and intimate relationships, the collection - introduces alternative and novel ways of conceptualizing the workings of affect in intimate relationships - provides tools for tackling the subtle ways in which affectivity connects with power relations in intimate relations - develops innovative methodologies that provide better access to affect as an embodied experience A fascinating contribution to the interdisciplinary field of affect studies, Affective Inequalities in Intimate Relationships will appeal to advanced undergraduates and postgraduates interested in fields such as gender studies, queer studies and cultural studies.
Affective Relations
by Carolyn PedwellExploring the ambivalent grammar of empathy where questions of geo-politics and social justice are at stake - in popular science, international development, postcolonial fiction, feminist and queer theory - this book addresses the critical implications of empathy's uneven effects. It offers a vital transnational perspective on the 'turn to affect'.
Affective Societies: Key Concepts (Routledge Studies in Affective Societies)
by Jan Slaby Christian Von ScheveAffect and emotion have come to dominate discourse on social and political life in the mobile and networked societies of the early 21st century. This volume introduces a unique collection of essential concepts for theorizing and empirically investigating societies as Affective Societies. The concepts promote insights into the affective foundations of social coexistence and are indispensable to comprehend the many areas of conflict linked to emotion such as migration, political populism, or local and global inequalities. Adhering to an instructive narrative, Affective Societies provides historical orientation; detailed explication of the concept in question, clear-cut research examples, and an outlook at the end of each chapter. Presenting interdisciplinary research from scholars within the Collaborative Research Center "Affective Societies," this insightful monograph will appeal to students and researchers interested in fields such as affect and emotion, anthropology, cultural studies, and media studies.
Affective-Discursive Practice in Online Medical Consultations in China: Emotional and Empathic Acts, Identity Positions, and Power Relations (The Humanities in Asia #11)
by Yu ZhangThis book provides readers with the latest research on the affective aspect of online interactions between doctors and e-patients in the context of China from a poststructuralist discourse analysis perspective. At the heart of this book is the presentation of four chapters which address (1) indirect negative emotional acts by e-patients and empathic acts by doctors (constituting “affective practice”), (2) the interactional discursive features involved in the affective practice, (3) discursive positions of e-patients and doctors within the affective practice context, and (4) power relations that are reflected in the positionings. This book sheds light on the importance of examining the affective facet of medical consultation, when it comes to identifying non-traditional positions and power relations in doctor-patient communication. It also provides the implication that e-healthcare platforms, especially those with an e-commercialized model for healthcare services, have potential to produce a type of neo-liberal discourse—the e-commercialized medical consultation discourse—in which patients and caregivers, who are acknowledged as the less powerful group in the traditional healthcare activities, are empowered and privileged.
Affectivity and Learning: Bridging the Gap Between Neurosciences, Cultural and Cognitive Psychology
by Pablo Fossa Cristian Cortés-RiveraThis book presents an interdisciplinary approach to the study of affectivity and human learning by bridging the gap between neuroscience, cultural and cognitive psychology. It brings together studies that go beyond the focus on cognitive-intellectual variables involved in learning processes and incorporate the study of the role played by affectivity and emotions in learning not only at educational settings but in all processes of transformation and human development, thus presenting affectivity as a catalyst and mediator of all daily learning processes.Chapters brought together in this contributed volume present both theoretical contributions and results of empirical research from different disciplines, such as neuroscience, cognitive psychology, cultural psychology, educational psychology, developmental psychology and philosophy, and are grouped into five thematic sections. The first part of the book brings together chapters discussing different aspects of the role played by affectivity in learning processes from the perspectives of cultural, educational and developmental psychology. The second part is dedicated to the role of affectivity for teachers during their training as educators and during their pedagogical practice in diverse contexts. The third part focuses on the relationship between affectivity and learning from a neuroscientific point of view. The fourth part discusses affectivity and learning in therapeutic and clinical contexts. Finally, the fifth part brings together chapters about affectivity and learning in everyday life.By bringing together this rich interdisciplinary collection of studies, Affectivity and Learning: Bridging the Gap Between Neurosciences, Cultural and Cognitive Psychology will be a valuable resource for researchers in the fields of psychology, neuroscience and education, as well as for educators and teachers interested in knowing more about the relationship between affectivity and human learning.
Affectivity and the Social Bond: Transcendence, Economy and Violence in French Social Theory (Rethinking Classical Sociology)
by Tiina ArppeAffectivity and the Social Bond offers a fresh and original perspective on the relationship between affectivity and transcendence in nineteenth and twentieth century French social theory. Engaging in a conceptual analysis of the works of Comte, Durkheim, Bataille and Girard, this book exposes a major transformation brought about by the sociological gaze in understandings of affectivity and its relationship to both sociality and transcendence in nineteenth century social thought: the ambivalence between the transcendence of the social and the immanence of affective experience. Revealing the manner in which questions of violence and economy are intertwined in the sociological analysis of affectivity, Affectivity and the Social Bond reflects upon the problem of controlling affectivity, alongside the political implications and possible dangers of a sociological model which seeks the roots of the social bond first and foremost in the affective realm. A rigorous engagement with the classics of French social theory, their treatment of human affectivity and its relationship to social integration and regulation, this book will appeal not only to sociologists and social theorists, but also to those with interests in social and political philosophy and the history of ideas.
Affekt, Kalkulation und soziale Relation: Ungewissheitsarrangements der Finanzmarktpraxis
by Markus LangeFinanzmarktpraxis ist ein wesentlicher Bereich gegenwärtiger kapitalistischer Dynamiken. Zu ihren inhärenten Eigenschaften gehört, dass sie sich permanent mit einer unbekannten Zukunft auseinandersetzt, um hierüber Profite zu generieren. Ermöglicht sie dadurch gegenwärtige Absicherungen vor zukünftigen Ereignissen, so können ihre Übersetzungen einer unbekannten Zukunft in bekannte Preise von Finanzinstrumenten auch scheitern. Dies markiert ihre beständige Krisenanfälligkeit. In dem Buch wird der Frage nachgegangen, wie Finanzmarktpraxis vor dem Hintergrund dieser Vehemenz von Zukunft hervorgebracht wird. Der Vorschlag besteht darin, dass die integrative Betrachtung von Affekt, Kalkulation und sozialer Relation ein adäquateres soziologisches Verständnis dieses zentralen wirtschaftlichen Bereichs freilegt. Erfasst als Ungewissheitsarrangement(s) bestehend aus diesen drei Elementen, werden analytische Verknüpfungen, gemeinsame Wirksamkeiten und letztendlich unterschiedliche Konfigurationen zwischen ihnen erschlossen. Dies geschieht auf der Grundlage einer qualitativen Feldforschung im deutschen Finanzsektor.
Affektive Medienpraktiken: Emotionen, Körper, Zugehörigkeiten im Reality TV
by Margreth Lünenborg Claudia Töpper Laura Sūna Tanja MaierDas Buch liefert eine affekttheoretisch informierte Analyse des Reality TV. Dabei wird das komplexe Affektgeschehen zwischen Fernsehsendung, Medientechnologie und den Körpern der Zuschauenden empirisch zugänglich und sichtbar. Eine multiperspektivische Analyse zeigt auf, welche Strategien und Muster der Erzeugung von Affekten und Emotionen Fernsehproduzent*innen nutzen, wie Inklusion und Exklusion im audiovisuellen Medientext für Zuschauende körperlich spürbar wird und welche Spuren Affekte in den Körpern und den Diskursen des Publikums hinterlassen. Auf den Ebenen Körper, Diskurse und Praktiken werden auf diese Weise affektive Dynamiken der Aushandlung von Zugehörigkeiten analysiert. Die Studie leistet damit einen methodisch wie auch theoretisch innovativen Beitrag zur Affekt- und Emotionsforschung in der Kommunikationswissenschaft.
Affektivität und Lernen: Ein Brückenschlag zwischen Neurowissenschaften, Kultur- und Kognitionspsychologie
by Pablo Fossa Cristian Cortés-RiveraDieses Buch zeigt einen interdisziplinären Ansatz zur Untersuchung der Affektivität beim menschlichen Lernen und überbrückt dabei die Kluft zwischen Neurowissenschaften, Kultur- und Kognitionspsychologie. Es vereint Studien, die über den Fokus auf kognitiv-intellektuelle Variablen, die in Lernprozesse involviert sind, hinausgehen und die Untersuchung der Rolle von Affektivität und Emotionen beim Lernen nicht nur in Bildungssettings, sondern in allen Prozessen der Transformation und der menschlichen Entwicklung einbeziehen. Dazu wird Affektivität als Katalysator und Vermittler von täglichen Lernprozessen kritisch hinterfragt und im interkulturellen Diskurs betrachtet.Die Kapitel dieses Beitragswerkes präsentieren sowohl theoretische wie auch empirische Forschung aus verschiedenen Disziplinen wie Neurowissenschaften, kognitiver Psychologie, Kulturpsychologie, pädagogischer Psychologie, Entwicklungspsychologie und Philosophie und sind in fünf thematische Abschnitte gegliedert. Der erste Teil des Buches enthält Kapitel, in denen verschiedene Aspekte der Affektivität bei Lernprozessen aus der Sicht der Kultur-, Bildungs- und Entwicklungspsychologie erörtert werden. Der zweite Teil widmet sich der Affektivität in Bezug auf Lehrkräfte während ihrer Ausbildung und während ihrer pädagogischen Praxis in verschiedenen Kontexten. Der dritte Teil befasst sich mit der Beziehung zwischen Affektivität und Lernen aus neurowissenschaftlicher Sicht. Der vierte Teil befasst sich mit Affektivität und Lernen in therapeutischen und klinischen Kontexten. Der fünfte Teil fasst Kapitel über Affektivität und Lernen im Alltag zusammen.Durch die Zusammenstellung dieser reichhaltigen interdisziplinären Sammlung von Studien wird Affektivität und Lernen: Der Brückenschlag zwischen Neurowissenschaften, Kultur- und Kognitionspsychologie eine wertvolle Quelle für Forscher in den Bereichen Psychologie, Neurowissenschaften und Bildung sowie für Erzieher und Lehrer, diemehr über die Beziehung zwischen Affektivität und menschlichem Lernen erfahren möchten.Die Übersetzung wurde mit Hilfe von künstlicher Intelligenz durchgeführt. Eine anschließende menschliche Überarbeitung erfolgte vor allem in Bezug auf den Inhalt.
Affektivität und Sozialität: Phänomenologie und Soziologie des Affektiven
by Claudia Peter Marc Strotmann Moritz Von StettenAffekte bestimmen unser soziales Zusammenleben. In Form von Empfindungen, Stimmungen und Sensibilitäten sind sie Ausdruck unserer Berührbarkeit und Empfänglichkeit, sie schärfen unsere Aufmerksamkeit, lenken unsere Wahrnehmung oder treffen uns in unserer Verletzlichkeit. Über sie und mit ihnen erschließen wir uns selbst, andere und die Welt. Die affektiven Dimensionen des Sozialen sind infolge des affective turn Gegenstand neuerer interdisziplinärer Forschung. Anliegen des Buches ist es, das Potential der Phänomenologie innerhalb der Affektforschung anhand theoretischer und empirischer Fallstudien aufzuzeigen. Der Band versammelt Beiträge aus der Philosophie und Soziologie, die unter anderem an phänomenologische Ansätze von Husserl, Scheler, Merleau-Ponty, Patočka, Levinas, Waldenfels, Schmitz und Ratcliffe anknüpfen. Damit ermutigen die Texte des Bandes zu einem verstärkten Dialog zwischen philosophischer Reflexion und empirischer Sozialforschung.
Affektregister der Gegenwart: Soziologisch-philosophische Reflexionen
by Dietmar J. WetzelAffekte, Emotionen und Gefühle sind allgegenwärtig. Sie bestimmen nicht nur unseren Alltag, sie sagen auch viel darüber aus, wer wir sind, beziehungsweise wer wir zu sein glauben. Ein «Affektregister der Gegenwart» klärt exemplarisch-systematisch über gegenwärtige und historisch gewachsene Gefühlslagen respektive affektive Zustände der Gesellschaft auf. Um dies zu veranschaulichen, werden zahlreiche Affekte und Emotionen einzeln, aber auch in ihrer Wechselwirkung soziologisch-philosophisch analysiert. Dies geschieht im Sinne einer interdisziplinär ausgerichteten Ab- und Aufklärung über die Befindlichkeiten, Erregtheiten und Ansteckungsverhältnisse, die von Affekten und Emotionen nicht nur beeinflusst, getragen und gesteuert, sondern auch von diesen erzeugt und verbreitet werden. Eine Aufarbeitung und Einsicht in unser Affektregister (und deren Manifestationen) ist unerlässlich, um zu verstehen, wie Menschen und Gruppen in bestimmten Konstellationen und Situationen empfinden, was sie zu sozialen Praktiken (unbewusst) motiviert und wie Menschen mit den dabei entstehenden Gefühlslagen bei sich und bei anderen produktiv umgehen.
Affirmation, Care Ethics, and LGBT Identity
by Tim R. JohnstonIn this book, Johnston argues that affirmation is not only encouragement or support, but also the primary mechanism we use to form our identities and create safe spaces. Using the work of feminist care ethics and the thinking of French philosopher Henri Bergson to examine responses to school bullying and abuses faced by LGBT older adults, he provides the theoretical analysis and practical tools LGBT people and their allies need to make all spaces, public and private, spaces in which we can live openly as members of the LGBT community. With its combination of philosophical theory and on-the-ground activist experience, this text will be useful to anyone interested in philosophy, women's and gender studies, psychology, aging, geriatrics, and LGBT activism.
Affirmative Action And Equal Opportunity: Action, Inaction, Reaction
by Nijole V. BenokraitisThe affirmative action program has engendered a hostile reaction in many quarters. Originating in presidential executive orders and civil rights legislation, the program is intended to combat institutional race and sex discrimination by encouraging public and private organizations to go beyond the mere cessation of formal discriminatory practices—to enact their own programs to end unfair practices. In contrast to the passive nondiscrimination of equal opportunity, affirmative action means that employers must act positively, affirmatively, and aggressively to remove all barriers, however informal or subtle, that prevent minorities and women from having equal access to all levels of the nation's educational, industrial, and government institutions. Is affirmative action, in fact, geared to equal opportunity? Or has it resulted in greater inequality for white males? The authors of this book empirically examine employment in government, industry, and higher education and enrollment in colleges and universities to determine the current status of women and minorities as employees and students. They also describe the machinery of affirmative action, its budget and staff problems, the compliance and enforcement processes, and the results of the program. Their final chapter includes a theoretical explanation for the very apparent resistance to affirmative action and expresses their pessimism about the program's ability to accomplish its goals, especially in light of recent efforts to weaken its already limited power. They close with a discussion of the future of affirmative action and the likelihood of achieving equal opportunity in employment.
Affirmative Action and Black Student Success: The Pursuit of a "Critical Mass" at Historically White Universities
by David J. LukeDavid J. Luke’s Affirmative Action and Black Student Success is a concrete and comprehensive exploration into diversity programs on college campuses and their impact on Black student success and outcomes. Viewed over the span of 12 years, three large, public universities in the United States and Canada provide dynamic settings for this book’s comparative focus on diversity initiatives. The author identifies key regional and national differences between these settings, as well as differences in the way diversity is framed and understood to illustrate how diversity programs and policies are shaped and the extent and ways in which these programs and policies then shape student experiences and outcomes. The values and meanings organizations ascribe to diversity, inclusion, and equity are frequently in transition, and the book’s compelling analysis conveys the importance of race in these contexts—when racism is presumed to be in decline, as is the case in colorblindness and demonstrations of multiculturalist ideals, racial inequalities are concealed and remain unnoticed. The author makes a range of practical recommendations and argues that clear and explicit goals about race and representation are integral in the expansion and preservation of inclusive institutional environments. Unflinching in its critique and pragmatic with its recommendations, this book offers invaluable analysis for university leaders, diversity officers, and student affairs professionals, as much as it provides new insights for scholars and educators of racism, higher education, diversity, and organizational culture.
Affirmative Action for Economically Weaker Sections and Upper-Castes in Indian Constitutional Law: Context, Judicial Discourse, and Critique
by Asang WankhedeThis book examines the controversial 103rd Constitutional Amendment to the Indian Constitution that introduced an income and asset ownership-based new constitutional standard for determining backwardness marking a significant shift in the government’s social and public policy. It also analyses state level policies towards backwardness recognition of upper-caste dominant groups through case studies of Maharashtra, Haryana, and Gujarat. It provides an analytical and descriptive account of the proliferation of reservation policy in India and critiques these interventions to assess their implication on constitutional jurisprudence. Further, it assesses the theoretical and empirical challenges such developments pose to the principle of substantive equality and scope of affirmative action policies in Indian constitutional law and general discrimination law theory. The monograph shows how opening up of reservations for dominant upper-caste groups and general category will have implications for the constitutional commitment to addressing deeply entrenched marginalisation emanating from the traditional social hierarchy and the understanding of substantive equality in Indian Constitutional law. Further, it highlights key contradictions, incoherence, and internal tension in the design of the reservations for Economically Weaker Sections Critical, comprehensive, and cogently argued, this book will contribute and shape ongoing constitutional policy and judicial debates. It will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of law, Indian politics, affirmative action, social policy, and public policy.
Affirmative Acts: Political Essays
by June JordanAffirmative Acts: Political Essays marks the twenty-fifth book in the celebrated career of poet, essayist, activist, and professor June Jordan. The recipient of the Lila Wallace Reader's Digest and the PEN West Freedom to Write Awards, Jordan has created a widely influential and groundbreaking body of work over several decades. With the same clear-sighted passion found in her classic essay collections Civil Wars and Living Room, in Affirmative Acts Jordan writes brilliantly about controversial, critical, and timely issues that are currently at the center of American debate. Whether discussing the tragic dismantling of affirmative action; ruminating on the combustible intersections of race, class, gender, and injustice; reflecting on the palpable hatred that infuses American society; or speaking out against worldwide suffering, June Jordan paints, as in her previous works, what she calls "an intimate face of universal struggle."