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Renegotiating Agency with Climate Fiction: Human Agency in Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior and Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation
No full textThe traditional definition of agency as a sense of rational control and power to cause changes in the “external” world seems poorly equipped to capture the potential of human agency in the times of climate crisis. Many scholars have placed a lot of faith in the genre of climate fiction -“cli-fi”- as a tool to inspire better ways for humans to interact with their environments. In this paper, I suggest a re-thinking of the notion of human agency emerging from an agency-focused reading of two widely discussed climate fiction works, Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior and Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation. In an attempt to cross-fertilize literary analysis and post-psychological approach to agency, I present a categorization of human agencies that are to inspire further multidisciplinary thinking on how to best tackle the challenges of the Anthropocene
What is Fungal Turn? Explorations and Interview with Sherryl Vint and Alison Sperling: Special Issue interconnections: journal of posthumanism on the Fungal Turn
No full textIntroduction for the special issue
How Invitational Education Helped our Professional Learning Community Share Effective Scientific Concepts to Optimize Learners’ Success
No full textAdvocates of Invitational Education theory and practice believe consistent application of an ICORT mindset upon an institution’s people, places, policies, programs, and processes (5Ps) can optimize and sustain success for all stakeholders. Given a professional learning community (PLC) is impacted by and also influences all of an institution’s 5Ps, this reflective essay describes the benefit of applying IE principles prior to implementation of a PLC seeking to sustain student success and school effectiveness
Introduction
No full textIntroduction to dossier "Expressions du quotidien dans les littératures contemporaines de langue française"Introduction au dossier "Expressions du quotidien dans les littératures contemporaines de langue française
Voyageuses et féminisme(s) : les Notes d’une voyageuse en Turquie (1910) de Marcelle Tinayre
No full textCet article propose une analyse des Notes d’une voyageuse en Turquie (1910) de Marcelle Tinayre afin de montrer comment ce récit de voyage participe au discours féministe français du début du vingtième siècle. En mettant en valeur les capacités des Françaises, favorisées par les privilèges de l’impérialisme, Tinayre souligne ce dont elles sont capables. Grâce à ce récit de voyage, Tinayre acquiert aussi une plus grande légitimité dans sa carrière de femme de lettres
Entre fictions autobiographiques et réelles biographies : la mémoire de Tanger selon Elisa Chimenti (1883-1969), une voyageuse atypique
No full textPremière voix féminine de littérature maghrébine d’expression française, Elisa Chimenti (Naples 1883 – Tanger 1969), autrice polyvalente (enseignante, ethnologue, journaliste, écrivaine), a posé un regard rare sur la condition des femmes, les rapports entre Orient et Occident, l’histoire des mythes et légendes et la richesse du patrimoine immatériel marocain. Tangéroise d’adoption, elle a consacré sa vie à la sauvegarde et à la diffusion de ce patrimoine fragile afin de le faire connaître au-delà des préjugés et des frontières. Le roman inédit « Petits Blancs marocains » (1940-1960), à la fois récit historique, de voyage et de formation, illustre de quelle manière Chimenti s’émancipe des modèles de récit viatique au féminin, tout en les revisitant, dans une double autobiographie fictionnelle, où s’entremêlent voyages physiques dans la ville de Tanger et ses alentours et voyages mémoriels en lien avec un groupe d’exilés européens, appelés « Petits Blancs », invisibles ou oubliés, auxquels elle rend hommage à travers une série de portraits
Avis de rétractation
No full textRétractation de « Représentations de la mobilité dans le récit de soi contemporain au Canada francophone » par Adina Balin
The Unofficial University: Precarity and the Academic Profession
No full textThis essay challenges the prevailing consensus that the current depravations of the labor of the American university, primarily precarity and its associated ills, are the result of the neoliberal orthodoxy that dominated the late twentieth century. It offers an exploration of the influence of the nineteenth century German university on the formation of the then nascent U.S. system of higher education. Through this excavation it is shown that along with the foundational principle of wissenschaft as the indissoluble unity of teaching and research came the two-tier employment system of stable employment for some and precarious work lives for many. Understood as the “unofficial university” this analysis suggests that contingency is not a neoliberal virus imported from outside the university but instead a systemic employment feature present at its founding. The essay concludes by exploring the implications of this reassessment of neoliberalism for the burgeoning field of Critical University Studies as it reimagines the university for the twenty-first century as a locus for increasing social justice
Threats, Victims and Unimaginable Subjects of Rights: A Genealogy of Sex Worker Governance in Poland
No full textThis paper sketches the emergence of, and shifts within, the social, legal, and political figurations of sex workers in Poland. By adopting a genealogical perspective, I investigate how sex workers have been (re)constituted as subjects of governance and unimaginable social justice claimants in legislation, political debates, and law enforcement strategies. With a broad temporal scope, this article traces continuities, transformations, and disruptions within modes of sex work governance in Poland from the adoption of the first laws relating to sex work enacted during the early 19th century to the present day. Through analysis of policy documents, scholarly work on the history of sex work policies in Poland, and personal accounts by sex workers, I identify and examine two dominant discursive and legal figurations of a sex worker: as a threat, and as a victim in need of rescue and protection. While analysing the emergence of and interplay between these two figurations, this article demonstrates how these seemingly contradictory frames of recognition gradually conjoined within 20th-century Polish sex work governance strategies, rendering sex workers unimaginable subjects of rights and social justice claimants