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From powerful knowledge to capabilities: social realism, social justice, and the Capabilities Approach
Daniel Talbot
Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 59, Issue 2, April 2025, Pages 219–239, https://doi.org/10.1093/jopedu/qhae050
Published: 08 July 2024
... knowledge fosters certain centrally important capabilities. powerful knowledge Capabilities Approach Martha Nussbaum Michael Young social realism social justice The pages of this journal have engaged with both the Capabilities Approach as it applies to education ( Saito 2003 ; Hinchliffe 2007...
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Social Construction: The “Debunking” Project
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Sally Haslanger
Published: 11 October 2012
... arthritis essentialism experts natural scientists natural kind natural scientists scientific essentialism semantic externalism underclass water Hispanic social construction debunking Ian Hacking social realism critical realism gender widowhood object construction idea construction feminism...
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Exhuming the Beloved, Revising the Past: Lawlessness, Postmodernism, and Heterotopia
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Amy Motlagh
Published: 14 December 2011
...This chapter examines the changes in literature and works of fiction in Iran after the revolution in the 1970s. It describes how the works of writers such as Shahrnush Parsipur and Moniru Ravanipur utilized the sense of lawlessness to reexamine the conventions and ideals of the social realism...
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Conclusion
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Stephanie Brown
Published: 14 March 2011
... after the publication of the books discussed here, the protest form continues to cast a long shadow over African American fiction. While African American writers today produce an extraordinary range of work in a stunning array of genres, the novel of social realism retains an undeniable fascination...
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Rakhshan Banietemad’s Art of Social Realism: Bridging Realism and Fiction
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Maryam Ghorbankarimi
Published: 20 April 2021
... really see her artistic and critical approach to telling stories about ordinary people in society. auteur auteurship authorship auteurial documentary Farrokhzad Forugh Mehrjui Dariush poetic poeticism social realism The Cow 1969 The House is Black 1962 agency Bazin André Foucault Michel...
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Paper Bridges: Selected Poems of Kadya Molodowsky
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Kadya Molodowsky and Kathryn Hellerstein
Published: 01 November 2003
.... In her introduction, Hellerstein mentions that, according to Jewish legend, when the messiah comes, the Jews will cross into paradise over a paper bridge. Molodowsky's use of this folk motif as a theme in her poetry exemplifies its double character, which embraces both social realism and messianic...
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Social Realism, Indigenismo, and the Vindication of the Other
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María Begoña Pulido Herráez
Published: 21 June 2022
...Social realism spread in Latin American literature between the 1920s and 1950s in response to the great social transformations of that period. The characteristics of social realism are defined not only in terms of content (a novel that describes the experiences of displaced, exploited...
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Social Realism of the 1940s: Between Paternalistic Care and Dignifying Humanism
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Birger Langkjær
Published: 25 October 2021
...During the 1940s, social realism emerged in Danish cinema, making the trivialities of life into dramas of the everyday. The German occupation (1940-45) had boosted Denmark’s documentary output, with hundreds of state-commissioned short films informing the public about institutions and society...
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Published: 01 May 2012
...) and Eileen. It connects immediately to a contemporary sense of a hitherto unrepresented and socially extended reality—and thus to social realism. One of the main differences between Up the Junction and Cathy Come Home is that the latter has a single protagonist, around whom...
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Published: 01 May 2012
... Deep in the Heart Hollywood independent cinema US Shadow Makers aka Fat Man and Little Boy managed dissensus production social realism critical naturalism public discourses It was not only British television that was undergoing a period of upheaval; by the late 1960s, many of the tensions...
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Realism and censorship in the 1970s
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Alan Clarke
Published: 30 November 2011
... social realism’. Bukovsky Clarke Alan Love for Lydia Scum Thomson David Bresson Robert Shaw Don Sovereign's Company Wednesday Play The Philpott File The King and Country Losey Joseph Fast Hands Greengrass Paul Penda's Fen Shubik Irene Life is For Ever A Parker Tony Play for Today Bazin...
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Alan Clarke
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Dave Rolinson
Published online: 19 July 2012
Published in print: 30 November 2011
...The British television director Alan Clarke is primarily associated with the visceral social realism of such works as his banned borstal play, Scum , and his study of football hooliganism, The Firm . This book uncovers the full range of his work from the mythic...
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Iraq
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Haytham Bahoora
Published: 10 August 2017
... fiction, especially the novella; works that continued the expression of a critical social realism in the Iraqi novelistic tradition and the appearance of modernist aesthetics; and narratives that addressed dictatorship and war in Iraq. The chapter concludes with an overview of the novel genre in Iraq...
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“Dark Desire All Over the Pages” Race, Nation, and Sex in Home to Harlem
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Gary Edward Holcomb
Published: 01 May 2007
...This chapter focuses on McKay's novel, Home to Harlem , a dialogical act of Great
Migration ethos that verbalizes the diverse dialects of Marxist cultural work, different
sexuality, anti-imperialism and antiwar dissent, social realism, New Negro race work and
négritude. Created...
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Youth, Realism and Form
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Christopher Pullen
Published: 01 February 2016
...This chapter explores the straight girl and queer guy relationship in relation to the transgressive potential of social realism, and the context of youth. Initially Beautiful Thing (Hettie MacDonald 1996, UK) and The Way He Looks [Hoje eu quero voltar ...
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Published: 26 May 2023
..., are especially instructive. Because of the social realism underpinning Austen’s approach to the novel, her fictional narrative is suffused with punctilious attention to the place and time of her period. This chapter will discuss how Austen, in her novel Mansfield Park , sheds light on the state...
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“Living Poor” Representing the Global War on Poverty
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Sheyda F.A. Jahanbani
Published: 28 September 2023
... York Times San Francisco Chronicle St Louis Post Dispatch Little Brown & Company Mile Square Federation Simmons Robert Kennedy John F Newfield Jack Fallows James Great Society Peace Corps VISTA War on Poverty Office of Economic Opportunity poverty photographs documentary film social...
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Form
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David Archibald
Published: 01 November 2020
... soundtrack Cardullo Bert Fenton George Groundhog Day López Hernández Sofía Ken Loach Film Studies British Cinema Production Studies Film Directors Political Cinemas Radical Film Cinematography Soundtrack Social Realism When you’re young you pick ideas from all over the place, that’s inevitable...
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Team Loach
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David Archibald
Published: 01 November 2020
... Collaboration Social Realism … the cinema is quite simply becoming a means of expression, just as all the arts have been before it, and in particular painting and the novel. After having been successfully a fairground attraction, an amusement analogous to boulevard theatre, or a means of preserving...
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Wandering Kinopoetics
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Kevin Potter
Published: 17 October 2023
... knowledge desire Poon Angelia Duff Kim identity politics debt Graeber David propriety becoming Deleuze Gilles Guattari Félix intensities Braidotti Rosi Gilbert Jeremy destabilisation foreignness Urban spaces social realism kinopoetics vagabond criminality Literary representations...
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