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Review: Media Discourse and the Yugoslav Conflicts. Representations of Self and Other
Pål Kolstø (Ed.)
Farnham, Burlington: Ashgate, 2009.
by Paul C. Bott
The relevance of mass media in conflicts has got much attention by the academia over the last years. The anthology edited by Pål Kolstø presents important findings of a research project conducted by The Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages at the University of Oslo [...]
Review: Political representation
Frank Ankersmit
Stanford: Stanford U Press, 2002
By Peter Csigo
In this book review, my aim is to present Frank Ankersmit’s aesthetic theory of democratic representation, as it has been deployed in his book ‘Political Representation’. The reason why I have undertaken the unconventional task of reviewing a seven years old work is my conviction that Ankersmit’s great [...]
Review: Screening sex
Linda Williams
Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2008
By Frederik Dhaenens
Linda William’s Screening Sex is undoubtedly indebted to the legacy of Michel Foucault. In 1976, he stressed that there is no essential truth and fixed meaning in relation to human sexuality. How one experiences and/or expresses sexual desires depends upon a specific time and place. He [...]
Review: Modes of Spectating
Alison Oddey and Christine White
Bristol and Chicago: Intellect, 2009
By Joke Beyl
Modes Of Spectating offers the reader a refreshing look on the way art and research can converge. Given the fact that most of the contributions originate from, on the one side, researchers who are also artistically active and, on the other side, artists who interweave [...]
Review: Defending critique and criticizing its defenders
Til Forsvar for Kritikken.
Willig, Rasmus
Copenhagen: Hans Reitzels Forlag, 2007.
By Tina Askanius
Sociology has neglected its primary duty as the critical watchdog in society and has been reduced to a fragmentized, shallow discipline lacking teeth as well as clout in the general public sphere. As a consequence, critical theory is left disarmed and individualized, incapable of delivering [...]
Leili Golafshani, ‘Iranian Exilic Memoir,’ A Review of Shirin Ebadi, Iran Awakening; Azar Nafisi, Reading ‘Lolita’ in Tehran; Azadeh Moaveni, Lipstick Jihad.
Shirin Ebadi. Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope. New York:Random House, 2006;
Azar Nafisi. Reading ‘Lolita’ in Tehran. New York: Random House, 2004;
Azadeh Moaveni. Lipstick Jihad: Growing Up Iranian in and American in . New York: Public Affairs, 2005.
Generally speaking, in the past decade or so, there has been an [...]
Marie Porter, ‘Motherwork: Complex, Frequently Ambiguous and Beyond the Control of the Mother,’ A Review of Andrea O’Reilly, Toni Morrison and Motherhood.
A Review of Andrea O’Reilly, Toni Morrison and Motherhood: A Politics of the Heart (Albany: SUNY Press, 2004).
Andrea O’Reilly is a well-known and influential scholar within the multidisciplinary area of maternal research. The work of Toni Morrison and her portrayal of motherhood, mothers, and mothering is the focus of this book, which is essential [...]
Elinor Jean, ‘The Innovation of Henryk Grossman’s Marxism,’ A Review of Rick Kuhn, Henryk Grossman and the Recovery of Marxism.
Rick Kuhn, Henryk Grossman and the Recovery of Marxism. (Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2007.)
In many ways, the second half of the title says it all: the recovery of Marxism.
Henryk Grossman (1881–1950) was a Marxist theorist and academic, who made an important contribution to the recognition and development of Marx’ economic theory. In addition, Kuhn’s [...]
Jena Woodhouse, ‘The Sapphic Mystique,’ A Review of Marguerite Johnson, Sappho.
Marguerite Johnson, Sappho. (Bristol Classical Press, 2007).
Who exactly was Sappho?
While sufficient data has yet to surface to provide a definitive answer to this question, Sappho, a lyric poet of Mytilene (Lesvos, which in Greek is spelt with ‘v’ not ‘b’) in the sixth century BCE, continues to exert an almost unprecedented fascination on [...]
Review: Social Philosophy after Adorno