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Life as an enterprise: Ten ways through which neoliberalism is experienced on an emotional level
No full textThe definition of neoliberalism has changed over time to include not just economic theories but also social principles. But what does it mean to lead life in a neoliberal society? Based on empirical research, Christina Scharff outlines 10 ways through which neoliberalism affects us emotionally
Book review: Gender, subjectivity, and cultural work: the classical music profession, by Christina Scharff
Full text linkReview of: Gender, subjectivity, and cultural work: the classical music profession, by Christina Scharff. London: Routledge, 2018; ISBN: 9781138942561 (hbk) (£105), ISBN: 9781315673080 (ebk) (£35.99)Publisher PD
Christina and Me
No full textBestselling Maine author Christina Baker Kline tells the background story of why she chose to write her novel Christina\u27s World which is based on the relationship between Maine artist, Andrew Wyeth and his muse, Christina Olson
Christina Gillis, author of Writing on Stone: Scenes from a Maine Island Life,
No full textChristina Gillis, author of Writing on Stone: Scenes from a Maine Island Life, delves into old letters written by Maine writer Ruth Moore in the 1950s. Moore was selling her family\u27s Gotts Island house to Phyllis and Richard Strauss, Gillis\u27s sister and brother-in-law
Gender, Subjectivity, and Cultural Work
No full textWhat is it like to work as a classical musician today? How can we explain ongoing gender, racial, and class inequalities in the classical music profession? What happens when musicians become entrepreneurial and think of themselves as a product that needs to be sold and marketed?Gender, Subjectivity, and Cultural Work explores these and other questions by drawing on innovative, empirical research on the working lives of classical musicians in Germany and the UK. Indeed, Scharff examines a range of timely issues such as the gender, racial, and class inequalities that characterise the cultural and creative industries; the ways in which entrepreneurialism – as an ethos to work on and improve the self – is lived out; and the subjective experiences of precarious work in so-called ‘creative cities’. Thus, this book not only adds to our understanding of the working lives of artists and creatives, but also makes broader contributions by exploring how precarity, neoliberalism, and inequalities shape subjective experiences.Contributing to a range of contemporary debates around cultural work, Gender, Subjectivity, and Cultural Work will be of interest to scholars and students in the fields of Sociology, Gender and Cultural Studies
Religious intellectuals : the poetic gravity of Emily Brontë and Christina Rossetti
Full text linkThis thesis examines the writing of Emily Brontë and Christina Rossetti in terms of its
expression of religious culture and belief. It is my argument that Brontë and Rossetti
experienced religion as intellectuals, questioning and exploring doctrine and dogma neither
as sentimental lady Christians nor dismissive, secular critics. I contend that by close
reading their poetry, the genre both women privileged as most appropriate for the
consideration of religious matters, the reader may trace the sermons and theological works
they read. Moreover, their writing, I suggest, evinces their intellectual response to
theological, ecclesiological and ecclesiastical developments that took place in the
nineteenth century. I thus label Brontë and Rossetti 'religious intellectuals,' a phrase
suggestive of their intense understanding of, rather than their mild acquaintance with,
religious debate. Many women writing within the nineteenth century found that religion
granted them a field within which to freely read and research, but were denied the
professional title of 'theologian.' Brontë and Rossetti are thus examples of a wider
phenomenon wherein women encountered religion like scholars, one disregarded by current
criticism unable as it is to categorize a female activity simultaneously religious and
intellectual. I use Brontë and Rossetti as examples of what I call the 'religious intellectual'
because they represent different sides of this classification. Where Brontë struggled away
from her Methodist background, serving as a cultural commentator on its enthusiastic
belief-system, Rossetti forged a scholarly identity as a late member of the High Church
Oxford Movement. Both poets, I contend, wrote about religion in order to signal their
intellectual ability. I conclude that Brontë's interest in Methodism and Rossetti's
fascination with Tractarianism reveals the poets to be both independent of family pressures
and false consciousness, and fully engaged with a subject central to their age
Leonora Christina
No full textShort presentation of Danish author Leonora Christina and her main work
Class and Gender Inequalities in the Recruitment of Classical Musicians: Reflections on the Case of Italian Music Conservatoires
No full textAs legitimized organizations for the vocational training of musicians, Conservatoires are privi-leged sites for exploring inequalities and exclusions within the classical music profession. Drawing on the author’s research, this chapter discusses the case of Italian Conservatoires, first contextual-izing them in time and space, then focusing on the mechanisms adopted for student recruitment. Being virtually the only comprehensive opportunity for musical training within the Italian system of public education, for long time Conservatoires formally adopt meritocratic rules, but in practice they reproduce social inequalities naturalized over time within the classical canon. The data col-lected show the presence of a class divide in the selection process, taking the form of an urban-rural distinction, and of gender biases. In the recently reformed Conservatoires, placed within the tertiary level of education, these patterns of inequalities have weakened, while new ones have emerged; beyond issues of efficiency, all of these should be a matter of concern for educational in-stitutions, if they are to actively endorse more integrated and equitable labor markets and societies
New Femininities: Postfeminism, Neoliberalism and Subjectivity
No full textRosalind Gill & Christina Scharff (Eds.) (2011). New Femininities: Postfeminism, Neoliberalism and Subjectivity. 344 sayfa. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN: 1137339861, 9781137339867.Rosalind Gill & Christina Scharff (Eds.) (2011). New Femininities: Postfeminism, Neoliberalism and Subjectivity. 344 sayfa. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN: 1137339861, 9781137339867
Beyond cost savings: The value of OER and open pedagogy for student learning
Full text linkThis workshop was delivered by Dr. Christina Hendricks, from the University of British Columbia, for the 2018 Open Education Week Celebration at Mount Royal. The presentation outline approaches to open education - including OER, open pedagogy, and open educational practices
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