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Wagon Trains And Rhizomes: Metaphors Of Globalization And Their Implications For Religion, Dave Mills
Wagon Trains And Rhizomes: Metaphors Of Globalization And Their Implications For Religion, Dave Mills
David M. Mills
Francis Fukuyama's “wagon train” metaphor expresses a view of globalization widely held in the West. It assumes that every country or economy is heading for the same destination, but some are more developed than others. This metaphor does not adequately equip us to face the challenges generated by our globally interconnected economies, political systems, and religions. The metaphor of the expansive and heterogeneous rhizome, as explained by philosopher Gilles Deleuze, offers a more accurate interpretation of global realities. Religions, as hybrid and indigenizing transnational entities, are uniquely positioned to form principled connections in a rhizomatic paradigm.
Suspicious Silence: Walking Out On John Cage, Clark Lunberry
Suspicious Silence: Walking Out On John Cage, Clark Lunberry
English Faculty Research and Scholarship
2012 marked what would have been the composer and writer John Cage’s 100th birthday, offering a nice round numbered moment to commemorate and reevaluate Cage’s lasting legacy. And it is a rich and still, astonishingly, controversial legacy, bringing forth bold assessments of Cage that range, as they have for decades, from worshipful acclaim, to ridiculing rejection. It seems with Cage, still, that it’s either black or white, love or hate; that he is either a saintly prophet of new sounds, new silences, or a foolish charlatan leading anarchically astray.
The Sound Of Racial Melancholia: Listening To And Performing Rock Music In Asian America, Wendy Hsu
The Sound Of Racial Melancholia: Listening To And Performing Rock Music In Asian America, Wendy Hsu
Wendy Hsu
No abstract provided.
Transforming Diaspora: The Kominas’ Translocal Socio-Musical Geography, Wendy Hsu
Transforming Diaspora: The Kominas’ Translocal Socio-Musical Geography, Wendy Hsu
Wendy Hsu
No abstract provided.
Wonder Woman Wears Pants: Wonder Woman, Feminism And The 1972 'Women's Lib' Issue., Ann Matsuuchi
Wonder Woman Wears Pants: Wonder Woman, Feminism And The 1972 'Women's Lib' Issue., Ann Matsuuchi
Publications and Research
This article originally appeared in a special issue of Colloquy, Tights and Tiaras: Female Superheroes and Media Cultures. -- The history of the Wonder Woman comic book character is full of events and personalities as dramatic as the tales detailed in the text. The origins and development of this iconic female superhero demonstrate how competing ideas of what womanhood meant were reflected in popular culture. In this essay, the focus is on a particular issue of the Wonder Woman comic book, with a story by writer and literary critic Samuel R. Delany in 1972. In this issue Wonder Woman takes …
A Myth Of Transformation, Transformed Again, Julie A. Sparks
A Myth Of Transformation, Transformed Again, Julie A. Sparks
Faculty Publications, English and Comparative Literature
No abstract provided.
A Myth Of Transformation, Transformed Again, Julie A. Sparks
A Myth Of Transformation, Transformed Again, Julie A. Sparks
Julie A. Sparks
No abstract provided.
Alternative Perspectives On Conflict History: On The Methodology Of Peace Education And Dialogue, Tatsushi Arai
Alternative Perspectives On Conflict History: On The Methodology Of Peace Education And Dialogue, Tatsushi Arai
Tatsushi Arai
This essay, written in Japanese, is an attempt to construct an integrated framework for analyzing and engaging multi-faceted meanings of history that correspond to different communal experiences of social conflict. The concept of conflict history is introduced to describe a worldview of a conflict party in search of a coherent explanation of the conflict’s origin, evolution, and significance. Four interconnected approaches to conflict history – orthodox, different, mediative, and alternative – are explored to link the factual to the counterfactual, the manifest to the potential in an attempt to expand the scope of historical inquiry. This exercise of theory-building draws …