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NUEVO ARTÍCULO CIENTÍFICO SCOPUS: Historical and Social Studies on Collective Trauma. Revisiting the Effects of Political Violence in Latin American Contexts. https://lnkd.in/ei7aTuTn #ProductividadUCM #BibliotecasUCM #TuUniversidad
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📚 Reflecting on Literary Masterpieces: Revisiting Margaret Atwood’s Vision 🌍📖 We're excited to bring attention to an insightful publication in the International Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation: "Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale as a Dystopian Novel" by @Daisy Gogoi D.H.S.K. College. Margaret Atwood’s "The Handmaid’s Tale" is more relevant today than ever, providing a stark depiction of a dystopian society where freedom and individuality are extinguished by an authoritarian regime. This comprehensive analysis explores the profound themes of oppression, ideological control, and the systematic erosion of personal rights through the eyes of Offred and her fellow handmaids. 🔍 Key Insights: Deep dive into dystopian themes and societal control mechanisms. Exploration of the extreme subjugation and loss of autonomy faced by women. Critical examination of the psychological and social impacts of living under a repressive regime. This article not only sheds light on Atwood’s cautionary tale but also invites readers to reflect on the implications of such a society in today’s world. 📖 Access the full article: https://lnkd.in/gGFh6-xY We encourage academics, researchers, and literary enthusiasts to delve into this analysis and contribute their own research to the International Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation. Join us in continuing the dialogue on literature’s role in illuminating societal issues. #MargaretAtwood #TheHandmaidsTale #DystopianLiterature #LiteraryAnalysis #HumanRights #PsychosocialRehabilitation #AcademicResearch #LiteratureStudies #ResearchCommunity #SocialJustice
Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale as a Dystopian Novel
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Pleased to receive word that the journal "Political Theology" has published my article "The Liturgical Transformation of Political Community". The article is open access, so do check it out: https://lnkd.in/gFZ7U7mc #awkwardasiantheologian
The Liturgical Transformation of Political Community
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“Look at this, Willem, he admits he doesn’t know the law and at the same time insists he’s innocent.” - is a profound quote from Franz Kafka's "The Trial". The absurdity of the human condition and the subsequent dehumanization the protagonist goes through within this text is a seething reminder of the minority treatment across cultures. Literature makes this oppression visible, it calls it out. The lack of legal knowledge not only stems from ignorance but also from passive rejection to impart that said knowledge to select communities. It is the epistemic gap through which state systems assert their power. The reading of literature connects you to this knowledge which is glossed over like a token without conveying its nuances. "The Trial" becomes a crucial text to understand how the epistemic gap is used as a weapon to strip you of your basic rights, to make you feel helpless and unsupported, where the possibility of death becomes as futile as life itself. The growing field of Human Rights Literature, which I am currently working on asks these fundamental social-political questions, especially bearing important insights while the world is dealing with a global humanitarian crisis. #phdscholar #research #literarystudies #culturalstudies #humanrightsliterature #thesis #humanities #globalppolitics
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Have you read Body Becoming: A Path to Our Liberation by Dr. Roberto Che Espinoza? I did and can HIGHLY recommend grabbing a copy- Here’s a short review of why I liked it to help convince you!
Deconstruction Book Review of Body Becoming: A Path to Our Liberation
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Retired Nashville, Tennessee lawyer. A "follower" of Roger Scruton's "small front porch world" and notions of the Good, the True and the Beautiful.
Pedro Blas Gonzalez writes : “because ours is a totalitarian milieu, what was formerly the grassroots, organic organization of society is now managed through the coercion of a totalitarian ideology hell-bent on the messianism of the here and now.” “... What postmodernism disparaging calls narratives [the BIG STORIES of the Judeo-Christian heritage and Western civilization versus the small stories postmodernism embraces and canoodles, like the sex life of Toulouse-Lautrec - you get the picture] is itself a backdoor validation of the hegemony of Marxism to annihilate the values and metaphysical scaffolding of Western civilization.” “Living in the Post-Rational Age, Part II.” By Pedro Blas Gonzalez. From Voegelin View. https://lnkd.in/eRw5KrCg
Living in the Post-Rational Age, Part II - VoegelinView
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https://lnkd.in/eJWXNye6 Here Mark Solms speaks about his 30-year-long project revising and adding to the translation of Sigmund Freud's complete works in English (56 added papers). The upshot, in his own words? " I don't want to become a Freud scholar, and to end there. I want to take what Freud has left to us seriously... and to integrate it with what others have left for us... And build upon it all so we can have a better science of mind, and a better therapeutic armentarium to help people in distress." Well worth listening to.
The New Adventures of Old Freud: An Interview w/ Psychoanalyst & Translator Dr. Mark Solms (7/26/24)
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Professor at Oklahoma City Community College; State Commissioner of the Oklahoma Commission on the Status of Women; Member of the Oklahoma Governor's International Team; Member of the Oklahoma Humanities Board of Trustee
My concentration on the lives of my maternal grandparents in two of my five books, by no means, trivializes the historicity of the events in which they were major players. Given my relationship with the subjects, I didn’t even consider deploying fictional methods or creating imaginary episodes. I am of the opinion that uncorroborated psychic disturbances, emotional upheavals, and imaginary conversations are best left to fictional works and biopics. The narratives are not journalistic biographies either. Scandal-mongering doesn’t interest me. I borrow, I hasten to add, some of the techniques of fiction to set the tone of voice, which is sympathy and respect for my subject. Although the narratives are shadowed by my respect for my subjects, they are not works of pious memorialization. In my books, I accentuate the overlap between the personal and the political. I have also interspersed my memories with descriptions of historical and political events in which my grandparents were principal political personages. My recollections remove the abstraction of seemingly impersonal political and historical occurrences.
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"The truth is not a product of addition but of subtraction. That is to say, the truth is our ability to see what was already there by sorting through and removing the distortions that blurred our vision; it is our perception that changes, not the objects we are perceiving. These objects were always there to be seen. Before arriving at the truth, we were unable to see them for what they were. Thus, “seeing” the truth is really just a peeling away of the distortions that once blocked our sight so the true object can finally be perceived for what it is and not what we want it to be." (Excerpt from Masters of Society, p. 30) Are masters necessary in society? How can the citizens check those masters? How do the masters keep their power and control? Who controls the morals of a society? How can citizens be free if the masters have the power and control? These questions (and more) are discussed in detail in this book, Masters of Society, from the series The Sage and the Seeker. GET YOUR COPY TODAY at https://lnkd.in/g6efuQQp. #norsequill #mastersofsociety #truth #distortions #blurredvision #perception #reality #masters #slaves #stoic #stoicism
The Sage and the Seeker: Masters of Society
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