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Visions and re-visions: Women and time in Michèle Roberts's 'In the red kitchen'.
No full textThis essay argues that Michèle Roberts’ novel, In the Red Kitchen, is engaged in a similar project to that of Julia Kristeva’s essay ‘Women’s Time’. This essay understands both as attempting to grapple with Adrienne Rich’s challenge that women must reinterpret and ‘re-vision’ their own histories. Moving between Kristeva’s theoretical piece and Roberts’ fiction, the essay charts how both texts examine the slips and shifts of linear history, relating moments ‘out of time’ in the novel to Kristeva’s concept of women’s time. White proposes that historical writing in all its forms – autobiographical, biographical, fictional and factual – is partial and liable to be refracted in the light of alternative versions of the same story. In the Red Kitchen employs multiple narrative voices to indicate how historical truths can be hidden, erased and revealed. This multivalent narrative thus makes apparent the ways in which women’s history is ultimately and inevitably various, if only because of the range of women’s experience. This essay, like White’s article for Studies in the Literary Imagination, adds to a growing body of work on Roberts’ writing. Roberts belongs to a generation of contemporary British women writers in danger of being ignored or forgotten by literary academi
Self-Regulation by Associations: Collective Action Problems in European Environmental Regulation
Full text linkHow and to what effect do firms coordinate their actions in order to deal with the negative external effects of productive activity? Under which conditions do firm associations engage in environmental self-regulation and what kind of governance devices do they develop in order to tackle the specific regulatory challenges at stake? Is the 'shadow of hierarchy', the credible threat of legislation, executive intervention or court rulings, a necessary condition for associative action to emerge? Or is it only necessary if a redistributive problem is at stake? These are the questions discussed in this article. We will first develop the theoretical argument based on economic institutionalism, derive hypotheses and then submit the propositions to a first empirical assessment of associative self-regulation on waste recycling in the plastic and paper industry.governance; self-regulation; shadow of hierarchy; transaction cost theory.
New Modes of Governance in Europe: Policy Making without Legislating? IHS Political Science Series: 2002, No. 81
Full text linkThe article analyzes new modes of governance in Europe. Firstly, different types of new governance, the open coordination method and voluntary accords, and their individual elements are identified. The theoretical discussion about them points out the reasons of their emergence, their mode of operation and the links to the ‘classical’ forms of decision-making. Secondly the simple question of the relative importance of new modes of governance in European policy-making is raised. Looking at the policy measures from the beginning of 2000 until July 2001, the analysis found that only a minority of measures can be considered new modes of governance, defined in the above terms. A third question raised concerns political institutional capacity. Finally the question or instrumental capacity or effectiveness is raised
The Pleasure in Liberation — with adrienne maree brown
No full textadrienne maree brown is a writer. She is currently the writer-in-residence at the Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute.adrienne is the author of Grievers (the first novella in a trilogy on the Black Dawn imprint), Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation, We Will Not Cancel Us and Other Dreams of Transformative Justice, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds and the co-editor of Octavia\u27s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements and How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office. She is the cohost of the How to Survive the End of the World, Octavia\u27s Parables and Emergent Strategy podcasts. adrienne is rooted in Detroit. Resources: - adrienne\u27s website – https://adriennemareebrown.net/ - adrienne\u27s Twitter – https://twitter.com/Adriennemaree - Octavia\u27s Brood – https://www.akpress.org/octavia-s-brood.html - Pleasure Activism – https://www.akpress.org/pleasure-activism.html - Emergent Strategy – https://www.akpress.org/emergentstrategy.html - Audre Lorde\u27s "The Uses of the Erotic" essay — https://uk.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/upm-binaries/11881_Chapter_5.pdf - Public Reading and Dialogue on Octavia Butler and the Future https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSMZbgo0XZA
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