The Race for Theory

Christian, Barbara

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“…For a discussion and critique of poststructuralist approaches that remain relatively apolitical, see Christian (1989). 4.…”

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The AIDS Memorial Quilt as Cultural Resistance for Gay Communities

Krouse

1994

Critical Sociology

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The AIDS Memorial Quilt, an historic fabric monument to many who have died of AIDS, originated within the gay community of San Francisco in 1987. This paper explores the quilt's inception as a response to discourses that developed with the appearance of the AIDS epidemic, discourses that promoted the further stigmatization and marginalization of gay men. I demonstrate that the images evoked within the quilt can be seen to counter and resist the condemning images of gay men constructed specifically within biomedical discourse about AIDS. The quilt's implications for certain gay communities are also discussed, including it's tendency to draw gay men out of physical and social isolation into a collective experience where the positive reconstruction of gay identity becomes possible.The NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt is an historic community-based art project that was begun in San Francisco when it seemed that no other form of expression could allow for movement beyond the devastation, paralysis, and isolation caused by the AIDS epidemic. The quilt was conceptualized by Cleve Jones, a gay activist and protege of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay supervisor of San Francisco whose term in office ended in assassination. Jones fashioned the first quilt panel in February of 1987 to memorialize his best friend, actor Marvin Feldman, who had died of AIDS four months earlier. By that time, more than a thousand San Franciscans had died of AIDS, many of whom had lived in the heavily gay-populated Castro area.

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“…For a discussion and critique of poststructuralist approaches that remain relatively apolitical, see Christian (1989). 4.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The AIDS Memorial Quilt as Cultural Resistance for Gay Communities

Krouse

1994

Critical Sociology

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“…Famed literary feminist Barbara Christian (1988) has pronounced theory largely unhelpful to the practicing writer, citing as her rationale the occupation of theory by an association of intellectually sanctimonious critics who "are no longer concerned with literature but with other critics' texts, for the critic yearning for attention has displaced the writer and conceived of herself or himself as the center" (p. 67). Overarchingly, Christian's critical work in African-American and women's literatures reflects a certain skepticism regarding the legitimacy of academic discourse-and a particular suspicion of discourse that looks inward for confirmation, appearing to preclude or discourage cross-cultural conference.…”

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Codifying the Creative Self: Conflicts of Theory and Content in Creative Writing

Iamarino

2015

TPLS

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Abstract-This paper explores the embattled territory of academic creative writing-and most focally, the use of critical theory in the teaching and structuring of creative practice. It places creative writing in contemporary social, cultural, and otherwise anthropological contexts, and evaluates conventional creative writing pedagogies based on how well they serve the updated needs of increasingly diverse student congregations. With continued emphasis on student-centered learning, this paper compares theoretical to practical applications of discipline-specific knowledge, examining and critiquing theory in terms of its relevance, accessibility, and whether or not it is both actionable and beneficial in the creative writing classroom.

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“…Burch does indeed seek balance in her analysis and she does present a wide-ranging, interesting analysis of the promotion of the private over the public in American education. I just think there is more to learn about how this happens via deeper, richer, thicker portraits of those involved in creating and enacting the policies that we sometime rush to critique before we understand how they got there in the first place (Christian 1987;Goodman 1998).…”

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Hidden markets: the new education privatization

Ball

Thrupp

Forsey

2010

British Journal of Sociology of Education

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Privatization is a key feature of global education policy in the twenty-first century. It is a growing policy trend, in one form or another, in countries with very diverse cultural and political histories and economic positions. Indeed the spread of privatization in education is isomorphic with the form of capital it represents -the transnational corporation. The fast and massive expansion of private-sector participation in public-sector education is driven of course from both sides of the exchange relation, supply and demand. Privatization is attractive to governments and to multi-lateral agencies as 'solutions' to the 'problem' of public-sector reform (with the promise of increasing productivity, introducing innovations and reducing costs) and is a new (and relatively safe) profit opportunity for capital (large and small) particularly at a time when other areas of business activity are in recession. Public services markets involve huge expenditures, and governments are usually reliable payers. In education, the incursion of private providers is evident now across sectors, and through all aspects of assessment, curriculum, pedagogy and organization. Given this the odd thing is that so little attention has been given to privatization within the sociology of education. With a very few exceptions and the occasional rhetorical aside, most research in the sociology of education continues with business as usual with the effect of rendering invisible the processes of privatization of state education and their effects on and in schools, colleges and universities.

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The Race for Theory

Cited by 550 publications

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The AIDS Memorial Quilt as Cultural Resistance for Gay Communities

The AIDS Memorial Quilt as Cultural Resistance for Gay Communities

Codifying the Creative Self: Conflicts of Theory and Content in Creative Writing

Hidden markets: the new education privatization

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