Freedom Is Power - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Freedom Is Power write by Lawrence Hamilton. This book was released on 2014-07-31. Freedom Is Power available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A novel, sophisticated and realistic account of freedom as power through political representation.
The Gospel of Freedom and Power
The Gospel of Freedom and Power - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Gospel of Freedom and Power write by Sarah E. Ruble. This book was released on 2012-09-17. The Gospel of Freedom and Power available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the decades after World War II, Protestant missionaries abroad were a topic of vigorous public debate. From religious periodicals and Sunday sermons to novels and anthropological monographs, public conversations about missionaries followed a powerful yet paradoxical line of reasoning, namely that people abroad needed greater autonomy from U.S. power and that Americans could best tell others how to use their freedom. In The Gospel of Freedom and Power, Sarah E. Ruble traces and analyzes these public discussions about what it meant for Americans abroad to be good world citizens, placing them firmly in the context of the United States' postwar global dominance. Bringing together a wide range of sources, Ruble seeks to understand how discussions about a relatively small group of Americans working abroad became part of a much larger cultural conversation. She concludes that whether viewed as champions of nationalist revolutions or propagators of the gospel of capitalism, missionaries--along with their supporters, interpreters, and critics--ultimately both challenged and reinforced a rhetoric of exceptionalism that made Americans the judges of what was good for the rest of the world.
Knowledge, Power, and Academic Freedom
Knowledge, Power, and Academic Freedom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Knowledge, Power, and Academic Freedom write by Joan Wallach Scott. This book was released on 2019-01-22. Knowledge, Power, and Academic Freedom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Academic freedom rests on a shared belief that the production of knowledge advances the common good. In an era of education budget cuts, wealthy donors intervening in university decisions, and right-wing groups threatening dissenters, scholars cannot expect that those in power will value their work. Can academic freedom survive in this environment—and must we rearticulate what academic freedom is in order to defend it? This book presents a series of essays by the renowned historian Joan Wallach Scott that explore the history and theory of free inquiry and its value today. Scott considers the contradictions in the concept of academic freedom. She examines the relationship between state power and higher education; the differences between the First Amendment right of free speech and the guarantee of academic freedom; and, in response to recent campus controversies, the politics of civility. The book concludes with an interview conducted by Bill Moyers in which Scott discusses the personal experiences that have informed her views. Academic freedom is an aspiration, Scott holds: its implementation always falls short of its promise, but it is essential as an ideal of ethical practice. Knowledge, Power, and Academic Freedom is both a nuanced reflection on the tensions within a cherished concept and a strong defense of the importance of critical scholarship to safeguard democracy against the anti-intellectualism of figures from Joseph McCarthy to Donald Trump.
Control and Freedom
Control and Freedom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Control and Freedom write by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun. This book was released on 2008-09-26. Control and Freedom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A work that bridges media archaeology and visual culture studies argues that the Internet has emerged as a mass medium by linking control with freedom and democracy. How has the Internet, a medium that thrives on control, been accepted as a medium of freedom? Why is freedom increasingly indistinguishable from paranoid control? In Control and Freedom, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun explores the current political and technological coupling of freedom with control by tracing the emergence of the Internet as a mass medium. The parallel (and paranoid) myths of the Internet as total freedom/total control, she says, stem from our reduction of political problems into technological ones. Drawing on the theories of Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault and analyzing such phenomena as Webcams and face-recognition technology, Chun argues that the relationship between control and freedom in networked contact is experienced and negotiated through sexuality and race. She traces the desire for cyberspace to cyberpunk fiction and maps the transformation of public/private into open/closed. Analyzing "pornocracy," she contends that it was through cyberporn and the government's attempts to regulate it that the Internet became a marketplace of ideas and commodities. Chun describes the way Internet promoters conflated technological empowerment with racial empowerment and, through close examinations of William Gibson's Neuromancer and Mamoru Oshii's Ghost in the Shell, she analyzes the management of interactivity in narratives of cyberspace. The Internet's potential for democracy stems not from illusory promises of individual empowerment, Chun argues, but rather from the ways in which it exposes us to others (and to other machines) in ways we cannot control. Using fiber optic networks—light coursing through glass tubes—as metaphor and reality, Control and Freedom engages the rich philosophical tradition of light as a figure for knowledge, clarification, surveillance, and discipline, in order to argue that fiber-optic networks physically instantiate, and thus shatter, enlightenment.
Social Power and Political Freedom
Social Power and Political Freedom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Social Power and Political Freedom write by Gene Sharp. This book was released on 1980. Social Power and Political Freedom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
