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Child Activist Literature at the Turn of the 2020s
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 155

Child Activist Literature at the Turn of the 2020s

Child Activist Literature at the Turn of the 2020s: From Kids You Read About to Kids You Read looks at how today’s child activists are not just followers in their forekids’ footsteps, but blazers of new pathways, employing sophisticated rhetorical strategies that invert and subvert conventional thinking on the roles of children in politics. These young activists situate their work within a dense web of texts—the ones they read, the ones they write, and the ones that they expect adults to deploy to dismiss them. Nance-Carroll analyzes texts authored by child activists alongside narratives of youth activism in literature and media and the stories activists tell about themselves and their work, exploring issues of influence, inspiration, and authorship in child activist literature, as a growing body of work challenges not just adults’ assumptions about children and politics, but also some fundamental disciplinary tenets of children’s and young adult literature.

Reception of Northrop Frye
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 735

Reception of Northrop Frye

The Reception of Northrup Frye takes a thorough accounting of the presence of Frye in existing works and argues against Frye's diminishing status as an important critical voice.

Ethics and Children's Literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 309

Ethics and Children's Literature

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-05-13
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Exploring the ethical questions posed by, in, and about children’s literature, this collection examines the way texts intended for children raise questions of value, depict the moral development of their characters, and call into attention shared moral presuppositions. The essays in Part I look at various past attempts at conveying moral messages to children and interrogate their underlying assumptions. What visions of childhood were conveyed by explicit attempts to cultivate specific virtues in children? What unstated cultural assumptions were expressed by growing resistance to didacticism? How should we prepare children to respond to racism in their books and in their society? Part II ta...

Bad Island
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 176

Bad Island

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-03-18
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  • Publisher: Unknown

A wild seascape, a distant island, a full moon. Gradually the island grows nearer until we land on a primeval wilderness, rich in vegetation and huge, strange beasts. Time passes and things do not go well for the island. Civilization rises as towers of stone and metal and smoke, choking the undergrowth and the creatures who once moved through it. This is not a happy story and it will not have a happy ending. Working in his distinctive, monochromatic linocut style, Stanley Donwood carves out a mesmerising, stark parable on environmentalism and the history of humankind.

Your Post Has Been Removed
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 295

Your Post Has Been Removed

This open access monograph argues established democratic norms for freedom of expression should be implemented on the internet. Moderating policies of tech companies as Facebook, Twitter and Google have resulted in posts being removed on an industrial scale. While this moderation is often encouraged by governments - on the pretext that terrorism, bullying, pornography, "hate speech" and "fake news" will slowly disappear from the internet - it enables tech companies to censure our society. It is the social media companies who define what is blacklisted in their community standards. And given the dominance of social media in our information society, we run the risk of outsourcing the definitio...

Children's Literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 210

Children's Literature

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-10-18
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Children’s Literature is an accessible introduction to this engaging field. Carrie Hintz offers a defining conceptual overview of children’s literature that presents its competing histories, its cultural contexts, and the theoretical debates it has instigated. Positioned within the wider field of adult literary, film, and television culture, this book also covers: Ideological and political movements Children’s literature in the age of globalization Postcolonial literature, ecocriticism, and animal studies Each chapter includes a case study featuring well-known authors and titles, including Charlotte’s Web, Edward Lear, and Laura Ingalls Wilder. With a comprehensive glossary and further reading, this book is invaluable reading for anyone studying Children’s Literature.

NIH Advisory Committees
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 528

NIH Advisory Committees

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1988-10
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  • Publisher: Unknown

"This publication presents in convenient form the authority, structure, functions, frequency of meetings, and membership of the NIH advisory committees." Arranged under Institute and Division served. Alphabetical indexes of public advisory groups and of members.

Violence and Social Orders
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 345

Violence and Social Orders

This book integrates the problem of violence into a larger framework, showing how economic and political behavior are closely linked.

Families and Food in Hard Times
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 288

Families and Food in Hard Times

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-05-24
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  • Publisher: UCL Press

Food is fundamental to health and social participation, yet food poverty has increased in the global North. Adopting a realist ontology and taking a comparative case approach, Families and Food in Hard Times addresses the global problem of economic retrenchment and how those most affected are those with the least resources. Based on research carried out with low-income families with children aged 11-15, this timely book examines food poverty in the UK, Portugal and Norway in the decade following the 2008 financial crisis. It examines the resources to which families have access in relation to public policies, local institutions and kinship and friendship networks, and how they intersect. Thro...

NIH Public Advisory Groups
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 556

NIH Public Advisory Groups

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1988
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Vols. for 1970- include Roster of members, formerly issued separately.