Embodying Theory
«“It is rare, indeed, to discover a book on theory that excites. Embodying Theory: Epistemology, Aesthetics and Resistance is that rarity. It is dedicated to peaceable warriors, and I would add, to generations of future scholars who read imagery as fluently as words. Of its many unique features, Embodying Theory demystifies representation. On that basis alone, it is destined to become required reading across disciplines.” —Donna Alvermann, The Omer Clyde and Elizabeth Parr Aderhold Professor in Education and Distinguished Research Professor, Department of Language and Literacy Education, University of Georgia»
Embodying Theory: Epistemology, Aesthetics and Resistance takes a deep dive into representational spaces of social science theory and research, positioning post-structuralist frameworks as potent tools in ongoing fights against injustice and inequity. Les mer
Embodying Theory offers a series of writings and images to make theory walk, recasting major post-structural and deconstructive thought in order to explore spheres of action in the educational, the sociopolitical, the ethical, the aesthetic and the academic. This is an explicitly politicized approach to text creation, understood as both building theory and practice, to collaboratively design a textual experiment. This book reconceptualizes the text as an anti-moralistic response, as a non-violent battleground visually and textually. Embodying Theory uses the form of the book to demonstrate the always possible, to break open words and images. Through an interplay of light and language, the text foregrounds an affirmative stance against the nihilistic and the cynical. Embodying Theory interacts with core notions of "becoming" as key to understanding processes of subjects constructing their present and future.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Peter Lang Publishing Inc
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 102
- ISBN
- 9781433143328
- Utgivelsesår
- 2018
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
Anmeldelser
«“It is rare, indeed, to discover a book on theory that excites. Embodying Theory: Epistemology, Aesthetics and Resistance is that rarity. It is dedicated to peaceable warriors, and I would add, to generations of future scholars who read imagery as fluently as words. Of its many unique features, Embodying Theory demystifies representation. On that basis alone, it is destined to become required reading across disciplines.” —Donna Alvermann, The Omer Clyde and Elizabeth Parr Aderhold Professor in Education and Distinguished Research Professor, Department of Language and Literacy Education, University of Georgia»