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  • Sex Panic Rhetorics, Queer Interventions

    by Ian Barnard ...
    Series series Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique
    **Winner of the 2021 Conference on College Composition and Communication Lavender Rhetorics Award for Excellence in Queer ScholarshipAnalyzes the rhetoric of contemporary sex panics to expose how homophobia, heterosexism, and transphobia define public, political, and scholarly preoccupations with sexuality and gender**In Sex Panic Rhetorics, Queer Interventions, Ian Barnard makes the counter ... Read more

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    by Ian Barnard ...
    In Upsetting Composition Commonplaces, Ian Barnard argues that composition still retains the bulk of instructional practices that were used in the decades before poststructuralist theory discredited them. While acknowledging that some of the foundational insights of poststructuralist theory can be difficult to translate to the classroom, Barnard upends several especially intransigent tenets that ... Read more

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  • Imagined Borders/Lived Ambiguity

    Intersections of Repression and Resistance

    Imagined Borders/Lived Ambiguity: Intersections of Repression and Resistance examines the theoretical versatility of the concept of “borders.” The impulse to categorize, while present from antiquity in Western culture, has increased in intensity since the advent of the modern age with its corresponding political rise in the ideology of the sovereign nation-state. While immigration is the common ... Read more

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  • High Potential

    How to Spot, Manage and Develop Talented People at Work

    In today's competitive job market, can employers afford to spend large sums on recruitment, and then simply let talented people go?High Potential provides a practical framework for managers to create a strong, strategic vision for a high-performing, high-potential workforce.Updated to reflect more recent research in the area, the book presents an accessible guide to clearly understanding and ... Read more

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  • Identity

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    Questions about who we are, who we can be, and who is like and unlike us underpin a vast range of contemporary social issues. What makes our families so important to us? What do the often stark differences between how we self-identify and the way others see and define us reveal about our social world? Why do we attach such significance to 'being ourselves'?In this new edition of her popular and ... Read more

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