In order to follow a baseball game one must understand what bat, hit, an inning, a left fielder, a squeeze play, a hanging curve, and. a tightened infield are. What happens to understanding when empathy disappears? Clifford Geertz (1983, p. 56) The story about the death of positivism is highly exaggerated. Anonymous In a seminal work, Geertz (1983) raised the important issue of the "native's po...

This article explores a variety of comparisons and contrasts between competing and conflicting notions of the body and of class composition, decomposition, and recomposition within contemporary Marxian theory. It focuses on the recent distinction drawn by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri between their concept of a nonunified and nonbodily multitude versus more traditional and organic notions of ...

The past decade has seen the gradual emergence of what might be called a postmodern perspective on nursing research. However, the development of a coherent postmodern critique of the modernist position has been hampered by some misunderstandings and misrepresentations of postmodern epistemology by a number of writers, leading to a fractured and distorted view of postmodern nursing research. Thi...

Dialogue is a much debated, contested, and interpreted idea that can be understood as a constitutive element of human experience spanning the radically subjective and phenomenological to the social, historical, and political. This article explores dialogue from the perspective of individuals within a small dialogue practice group with a focus on their conscious learning of the skill of proprioc...

In this article I share and discuss a poetic work of experimental sociological crime fiction titled “You Will Have Your Day in Court” (in Crockett Thomas, 2020c). it reimagine the “true crime” story “King Con” Paul Bint, who for period 2009 successfully impersonated Keir Starmer, then Director Public Prosecutions. first introduce my collaborative approach to writing fiction, connections poststr...

Since Greece’s 2008 economic collapse, four poetry anthologies on the financial crisis have been published. Editors, translators, publishers, and writers involved in production sale of for an Anglophone market benefit from construction this new literary category – be it financially or terms acquiring consolidating cultural capital. However, these function within a language landscape which Greek...

In the United States, the immigrant population explosion has been calling for increasing attention to English instruction for immigrant learners. In comparison with prolific literature on immigrant English language learners (ELLs) in K–12 educational settings, literature on English instruction for adult immigrant learners at non-profit organizations, especially through microanalysis of classroo...

This paper critically examines the centrality of intertextuality in the production and appreciation of Chinua Achebe’s fiction, mainly, his political novel about militarism, Anthills of the Savannah (1987). Intertextuality deals with relations among texts: no text is an island. The departure from monolithic, author-centred theory of literary criticism to unrestricted and diversified one, follow...

Literary studies and the cognitive sciences, pursuing common interests in language, mental acts, and linguistic artifacts, have developed markedly different approaches to similar phenomena of reading, imaginative involvement, and textual patterning. Until quite recently, the distance between them has drawn more attention than their possible convergence (Franchi and Güzeldere ). A number of ...