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Ilan Fisher papers, undated, circa 1964-2009.
No full textAuthor and photographer Ilan Fisher was born and lives in Sharon, Massachusetts, where he owned Great Impression, a company that provided event videography services. He also contributed columns to the Sharon Advocate and other local publications, and in 2002, his stories were collected in the book The Carnie Kid Tells All. Fisher’s papers primarily contain invitations from events Great Impression recorded, along with a small group of personal papers, much of which is from the 1960s and documents Fisher’s involvement with the Jewish Socialist-Zionist youth group Habonim.Published citations should take the following form: Identification of item, date (if known); Ilan Fisher Papers; P-1013; box number; folder number; American Jewish Historical Society, New York, NY, and Boston, MA.This collection is located at the American Jewish Historical Society located in Boston. For information on accessing collections at AJHS Boston please visit their website at: http://www.ajhsboston.org/index.htm.Donated by Ilan Fisher,Finding Aid available in Reading Room and on Internet
"The Translingual Sensibility: A Conversation Between Steven G. Kellman and Ilan Stavans"
No full textDialogue might be the most appropriate medium for reflections on translingualism. In a dialogue conducted by email over the course of ten days, Steven G. Kellman and Ilan Stavans consider the validity and implications of linguistic determinism. Their conversation examines whether some words that seem to embody the unique Weltanschaaung of a particular culture – such as Schadenfreude, duende, or mångata – can be appropriated, if not translated, into another culture. Pondering whether there are any inherent qualities that distinguish texts by monolingual writers such as Jane Austen and William Faulkner from work by authors who switch languages, such as Samuel Beckett and Vladimir Nabokov, they agree on the usefulness of thinking in terms of a translingual sensibility. Apart from the biographical circumstances of the author, a text possesses a translingual sensibility if it embodies an awareness of both the power and the limitations of its own verbal medium
[Book Review] "Understanding street culture: Poverty, crime, youth, and cool" by J. Ilan
No full textIn <i>Understanding Street Culture</i>, Jonathan Ilan analyzes one of the key areas of future concern for young people: how they engage in street culture and the links between street cultural practices and disparate forms of marginality, criminalization, poverty, transgression, and consumerism. Chapter 1 begins with an inquiry into street culture as concept and mode of theorization. The author contends that it is not “a form of ‘resistance’, but rather a posture of defiance” (21). The precise differences between these terms is not very clear, given that the definitions themselves tend to imply one another (resistance meaning refusal to comply and defiance meaning open resistance and disobedience). In the conclusion, however, Ilan does hint at how thinking about street culture as defiance is a more suitable conceptualization than as resistance, which ought to be “reserved for phenomena more overtly political in nature,” suggesting that “street culture generally channels the defiance of exclusion as opposed to practical action towards altering configurations of power” (174). Ilan’s analysis does not, however, elucidate precisely how defiance may be less political. Importantly, street culture is reconceptualized “as a spectrum running from stronger to weaker variants that ultimately provides a similar scheme for understanding the world” (23)
What Do You See in Your Bot? Lessons from KAS Bank
No full textThe introduction of robotic process automation (RPA) has created an opportunity for humans to interact with bots. While the promise of RPA has been widely discussed, there are reports suggesting that firms struggle to benefit from RPA. Clearly, interactions between bots and humans do not always yield expected efficiencies and service improvements. However, it is not completely clear what such human-bot interactions entail and how these interactions are perceived by humans. Based on a case study at the Dutch KAS Bank, this paper presents three challenges faced by humans, and consequently the perspectives humans develop about bots and their abilities to perform work. We then provide a set of five practices that are associated with the management of the interactions between humans and bots.Information and Communication Technolog
Habitat pour la réciprocité : les organismes de logement à la recherche de relations sociales justes entre des résidents diversifiés
No full textCette thèse comparative porte sur des programmes de logements abordables en Australie et en France, produits à destination des populations à bas revenus dans des zones urbaines centrales plutôt favorisées. Elle cherche à montrer comment ces initiatives, qui émanent à la fois d’associations et de bailleurs sociaux, proposent une alternative à la déségrégation résidentielle, plus juste pour les bénéficiaires que les approches dominantes des politiques de mixité sociale. Les gestionnaires de ces logements conçoivent en effet le mélange de groupes sociaux divers dans l’habitat sur la base du volontariat et dans la perspective d’une « réciprocité ». La thèse analyse les relations sociales dans ces cadres résidentiels en montrant qu’elles sont à l’inverse de la théorie des « role models » qui sous-tend l’objectif de mixité sociale et explore les types d’échanges mutuels entre les résidents différents socialement dans quatre programmes. Elle revient ensuite sur la manière dont ces analyses réinterrogent les différentes dimensions de la justice sociale et ouvrent sur la réciprocité comme alternative à une conception de la mixité sociale fondée sur l’idée que les valeurs et les modèles de comportement des classes moyennes pourraient valoriser l’ensemble du quartier. La ségrégation résidentielle structure des villes telles que Paris, en France, et Melbourne et Brisbane, en Australie, d'une manière qui non seulement sépare les résidents dans l'espace selon des critères socio-économiques, mais repousse également les résidents à faibles revenus à la périphérie des villes (Rhein 1998 ; Préteceille 2006, 2009 ; Blanc 2010 ; Pawson et Herath2015 ; Randolph et Holloway 2005 ; Baum et Gleeson 2010 ; Wiesel et al. 2018). La thèse s'appuie sur la théorie d'Iris Marion Young (2002) sur des formes d’injustice sociale générées par la séparation spatiale et résidentielles entre les habitants les plus aisés et les plus pauvres de la ville. Les réponses politiques à la ségrégation dans les villes occidentales consistent moins dans la création de logements accessibles pour les personnes à faibles revenus dans les centres-villes bien dotés en ressources, que dans la démolition à grande échelle du parc de logements sociaux dans les zones qui concentrent la pauvreté, afin de reconstruire des logements mixtes publics privés (Lelévrier 2013 ; Arthurson 2012). Bien que destinée à faciliter "les rencontres entre des personnes qui ne se rencontreraient pas autrement" (Mugnano et Palvarini 2013:418), la mixité sociale a été largement critiquée (Lelévrier 2013 ; Arthurson 2012). Outre les limites des politiques menées au nom de la mixité sociale et de leurs effets, les postulats sur lesquels repose la notion de mixité sociale restent en eux-mêmes problématiques. La justification du bienfondé de la mixité sociale se fonde en effet le plus souvent sur la notion de « role model » ; les quartiers qui concentrent la pauvreté pourraient être améliorés par l'arrivée de résidents plus aisés, qui servent de modèles de comportement pour leurs voisins plus pauvres.This thesis examines research on housing programs in Australia and France that provide lowincome housing within central, well-resourced urban areas. It argues that these models,conceived on the premise of reciprocity, offer a more just approach to residential desegregationthan mainstream “social mix” policy approaches employed within both the Australian and French contexts. It explores how framing social relations between socioeconomically diverse residents through the lens of reciprocity offers a conceptual and practical alternative to “rolemodel” thinking that underpins social mix, which assumes that the values and behaviours modelled by middle-class residents who, through large scale demolition and reconstructionprograms, move into areas that concentrate poverty, can “bring the neighbourhood up” (Bacquéet al. 2014). Reciprocity alternatively frames encounters across difference as mutually enriching exchanges between interdependent equals. Relations of reciprocity thus flow acrossa web of interconnected individuals, and flow across time.The thesis draws on research into programs run by four non-governmental housingorganisations—in Australia, mixed-tenured community housing in Ashwood, Melbourne andhomestay accommodation for people seeking asylum in Brisbane; and in France, studenthousing provided next to social housing estates in Paris’s 18th district and a mixed-tenured cohousing residence in Montreuil. It examines how these organisations conceive of reciprocityin their missions, and they operationalise these conceptions in their approaches to recruitment,partnerships, capacity building, accompaniment and housing design. It considers how theseapproaches shape social relations between residents, by exploring what and how residents arereciprocating in encounters across difference. Finally, it provides emerging examples of howthese encounters contribute to reducing inequalities and prejudice, and strengtheningcapabilities and solidarity. In doing so, it proposes a theoretical conceptualisation of reciprocitybased on a social ontology of interdependence and interconnectedness. It also argues that these cases offer insights into alternative approaches to social mix and demonstrate the value of elaborating new, more just models of residential desegregation
Appropriation in Comics as a Form of Political Commentary
No full text<p>Comics Censorship</p>
<p>With Ilan Manouach (GR) artist, curator and researcher, Xavier Löwenthal (BE), author and publisher. The talk moves from liberal laws for publishers in Belgium and how they permit the use of the right of parody for comment, to shine a critical light on commercial successes such as Peyot’s Black Smurfs or Art Spiegelman’s Maus.</p>
<p>https://drawingaslanguage.illustration-fiction.ch/</p>
A chamber of echo : on the post-comics of Ilan Manouach
No full textThis chapter presents the work and trajectory of conceptual comics artist Ilan Manouach. Focusing on points of convergence between theory, practice, and technology, it suggests that Manouach's work experiments with ways of 'withdrawing' or 'undrawing' the traditional author from the body of work in order to produce unsettling experiences that qualify as an expansion, extrapolation, or deviation from comics culture
Gen-X-trification? Generation shifts and the renewal of low-density housing in Sydney's suburbs
No full textThe State of Australian Cities (SOAC) national conferences have been held biennially since 2003 to support interdisciplinary policy-related urban research.
This paper was presented at SOAC 5held in Melbourne from 29 November – 2 December 2011.
SOAC 5 was hosted by the University of Melbourne, RMIT University, Monash University, Swinburne University of Technology and Latrobe University as well as the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute and the Grattan Institute, the Victorian State Government and the City of Melbourne.
Three plenary panels brought researchers from across the country to address ‘big issues’: place-based disadvantage, the design and form of Australian cities, and metropolitan governance. Over 175 papers, in 46 themed sessions, cover topics ranging from planning and governance for environmental sustainability, to housing affordability and adequacy in the context of an aging population. Healthy communities, better public transport, high quality open space, participatory planning, and issues affecting the peri-urban fringe are also strong sub-themes within this conference.
All published papers have been subject to a peer reviewing process
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