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"American War Stories asks readers to contemplate what traditionally constitutes a "war story" and how that constitution obscures the normalization of militarism in American culture. The book claims the traditionally narrow scope of "war story," as by a combatant about his wartime experience, compartmentalizes war, casting armed violence as distinct from everyday American life. Broadening "war story" beyond the specific genres of war narratives such as "war films," "war fiction," or "war memoirs," American War Stories exposes how ingrained militarism is in everyday American life, a condition that challenges the very democratic principles the United States is touted as exemplifying"-- Provided by publisher

"Highlights the development of lived hybrid experiences, as users consistently shift between the world around them and the stimulation afforded by mobile digital technologies"-- Provided by publisher.

In this invitation to "concept-driven" sociology, defying the conventional split between "theory" and "methodology" (as well as between "quantitative" and "qualitative" research), Eviatar Zerubavel introduces a yet unarticulated "Simmelian" method of theorizing specifically designed to reveal fundamental, often hidden social patterns. Insisting that it can actually be taught, he examines the theoretico-methodological process (revolving around the epistemic and analytical acts of focusing, generalizing, "exampling, " and analogizing) by which concept-driven researchers can distill generic social patterns from the culturally, historically, and domain-specific contexts in which they encounter them empirically. Disregarding conventionally noted substantive variability in order to uncover conventionally disregarded formal commonalities, Generally Speaking draws on cross-cultural, cross-historical, cross-domain, and cross-level analogies in an effort to reveal formal parallels across disparate contexts. Using numerous examples from culturally and historically diverse contexts and a wide range of social domains while also disregarding scale, Zerubavel thus introduces a pronouncedly transcontextual "generic" sociology.
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In this invitation to "concept-driven" sociology, defying the conventional split between "theory" and "methodology" (as well as between "quantitative" and "qualitative" research), Eviatar Zerubavel introduces a yet unarticulated "Simmelian" method of theorizing specifically designed to reveal fundamental, often hidden social patterns. Insisting that it can actually be taught, he examines the theoretico-methodological process (revolving around the epistemic and analytical acts of focusing, generalizing, "exampling, " and analogizing) by which concept-driven researchers can distill generic social patterns from the culturally, historically, and domain-specific contexts in which they encounter them empirically. Disregarding conventionally noted substantive variability in order to uncover conventionally disregarded formal commonalities, Generally Speaking draws on cross-cultural, cross-historical, cross-domain, and cross-level analogies in an effort to reveal formal parallels across disparate contexts. Using numerous examples from culturally and historically diverse contexts and a wide range of social domains while also disregarding scale, Zerubavel thus introduces a pronouncedly transcontextual "generic" sociology.
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• Introduction, Gregory M. Walton & Alia J. Crum I. Education
• 1. A Growth Mindset about Intelligence, Carol S. Dweck & David S. Yeager
• 2. The Social-Belonging Intervention, Gregory M. Walton & Shannon T. Brady
• 3. Self-Affirmation Interventions, David K. Sherman, Mohini Lokhande, Tim Muller, & Geoffrey L. Cohen
• 4. The Utility-Value Intervention, Chris S. Hulleman & Judith M. Harackiewicz
• 5. Difference Education: Improving Disadvantaged Students' Academic Outcomes by Changing Their Theory of Difference, Nicole M. Stephens, MarYam G. Hamedani, & Sarah S. M. Townsend
• 6. The Pathways Intervention as a Model to Design Broader Systems of Equitable Student Support, Mesmin Destin & Ivan A. Hernandez
• 7. The Strategic Resource Use Intervention, Patricia Chen II. Health and Well-Being
• 8. Happiness Interventions, Kristin Layous
• 9. The Stress-Mindset Intervention, Alia J. Crum, Isaac J. Handley-Miner, & Eric N. Smith
• 10. Stress Reappraisal Interventions: Improving Acute Stress Responses in Motivated Performance Contexts, Jeremy P. Jamieson & Emily J. Hangen
• 11. Values-Alignment Interventions: An Alternative to Pragmatic Appeals for Behavior Change, Christopher J. Bryan
• 12. The Taste-Focused-Labeling Intervention: Emphasizing the Tasty and Enjoyable Attributes of Healthy Foods, Bradley P. Turnwald & Alia J. Crum III. Conflict and Relationships
• 13. The Incremental Theory of Personality Intervention, David S. Yeager & Hae Yeon Lee
• 14. The Empathic-Discipline Intervention, Jason Okonofua & Michael Ruiz
• 15. The Group-Malleability Intervention: Addressing Intergroup Conflicts by Changing Perceptions of Outgroup Malleability, Amit Goldenberg, James J. Gross, & Eran Halperin
• 16. The Couples Activity for Reappraising Emotions Intervention: A 7-Minute Marital Conflict Intervention Benefits Relational and Individual Well-Being, Erica B. Slotter & Laura B. Luchies
• 17. The Abstract Reframing Intervention: Helping Insecure Individuals Benefit from Romantic Partners' Positive Feedback, Denise C. Marigold IV. Sustainability
• 18. The Social Norms Approach: A Wise Intervention for Solving Social and Environmental Problems, Jessica M. Nolan, P. Wesley Schultz, Robert B. Cialdini, & Noah J. Goldstein
• 19. Dynamic Norm Interventions: How to Enable the Spread of Positive Change, Gregg Sparkman Author Index Subject Index .
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Precise shifts in the ways people make sense of themselves, others, and social situations can help people flourish. This compelling handbook synthesizes the growing body of research on wise interventions--brief, nonclinical strategies that are "wise" to the impact of social-psychological processes on behavior. Leading authorities describe how maladaptive or pejorative interpretations can undermine people's functioning and how they can be altered to produce benefits in such areas as academic motivation and achievement, health, well-being, and personal relationships. Consistently formatted chapters review the development of each intervention, how it can be implemented, its evidence base, and implications for solving personal and societal problems.
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This book explores an eminently human phenomenon: our capacity to engage with the possible, to go beyond what is present, visible, or given in our existence. Possibility studies is an emerging field of research including topics as diverse as creativity, imagination, innovation, anticipation, counterfactual thinking, wondering, the future, social change, hope, agency, and utopia. The Possible: A Sociocultural Theory contributes to this wide field by developing a sociocultural account of the possible grounded in the notions of difference, position, perspective, dialogue, action, and culture. This theory aims to offer conceptual, methodological, and practical tools for all those interested in studying human possibility and cultivating it in education, at the workplace, in everyday life, and in society.
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This book explores an eminently human phenomenon: our capacity to engage with the possible, to go beyond what is present, visible, or given in our existence. Possibility studies is an emerging field of research including topics as diverse as creativity, imagination, innovation, anticipation, counterfactual thinking, wondering, the future, social change, hope, agency, and utopia. The Possible: A Sociocultural Theory contributes to this wide field by developing a sociocultural account of the possible grounded in the notions of difference, position, perspective, dialogue, action, and culture. This theory aims to offer conceptual, methodological, and practical tools for all those interested in studying human possibility and cultivating it in education, at the workplace, in everyday life, and in society.
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• Introduction: Notes on a Scandal Part I: Scandals
• 1. The Big Reveal
• 2. Chaos and Novelty Part II: Foundations
• 3. Grounds for Annulment
• 4. Making Sense of Everything Part III: Creation
• 5. A Terrible Beauty
• 6. Wresting with the Impossible Part IV: Controversy
• 7. Brave New World
• 8. The Real Problem.
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We live in scandalous times. Every day some new controversy demands our attention, our emotional investment, and, ultimately, our judgment. Many of these routine transgressions will be understood in 'revelatory' terms, as peeling back the multiple layers of artifice and spin to reveal an underlying, and oftentimes disturbing, 'truth'. Otherswill be recognized as calculated marketing exercises that simply present the strategic face of contemporary capitalism. Yet these 'ordinary' scandals can themselves be seen to be largely derivative of another, altogether more fundamental-and fundamentally rare-form of disruption. Such is the real scandal that accompanies instances of authentic creation. Building on the philosophy of Alain Badiou, Scandalous Times not only argues the case for such 'real scandal', but also shows how it is today being abrogated and substituted through the increasing production of novel forms of state-sanctioned controversy. From Duchamp to Donald Trump, Scandalous Times explores the ways in which areas from art and advertising to politics and social media have come to actively contribute to this 'static' fabrication of controversy, all the while arguing for the need to rethink creativity as a radical exception to the state, and not its proxy.
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• Acknowledgments vii Introduction. Not It, or, The Abject Objection / Maggie Hennefeld and Nicholas Sammond
• 1
• 1. The Politics of Abjection / Sylvere Lotringer
• 33 Part I. Abject Performances: Subjectivity, Identity, Individuality
• 2. Popular Abjection and Gendered Embodiment in South Korean Film Comedy / Michelle Cho
• 43
• 3. Precarious-Girl Comedy: Issa Rae, Lena Dunham, and Abjection Aesthetics / Rebecca Wanzo
• 64
• 4. Abject Feminism, Grotesque Comedy, and Apocalyptic Laughter on Inside Amy Schumer / Maggie Hennefeld
• 86 Part II. Abject Bodies: Humans, Animals, Objects
• 5. The Animal and the Animalistic: China's Late 1950s Socialist Satirical Comedy / Yiman Wang
• 115
• 6. Anticolonial Folly and the Reversals of Repatriation / Rijuta Mehta
• 140
• 7. Between Technology and Toy: The Talking Doll as Abject Artifact / Meredith A. Bak
• 164
• 8. Absolute Dismemberment: The Burlesque Natural History of Georges Bataille / James Leo Cahill
• 185
• 9. Why, an Abject Art / Mark Mulroney
• 208 Part III. Abject Aesthetics: Structure, Form, System
• 10. A Matter of Fluids: EC Comics and the Vernacular Abject / Nicholas Sammond
• 217
• 11. Spit * Light * Spunk: Larry Clark, an Aesthetic of Frankness / Eugenie Brinkema
• 243
• 12. A Series of Ugly Feelings: Fabulation and Abjection in Shojo Manga / Thomas Lamarre
• 268
• 13. Powers of Comedy, or, The Abject Dialectics of Louie / Rob King
• 291 Contributors
• 321 Index.
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From the films of Larry Clark to the feminist comedy of Amy Schumer to the fall of Louis C. K., comedic, graphic, and violent moments of abjection have permeated twentieth- and twenty-first-century social and political discourse. The contributors to Abjection Incorporated move beyond simple critiques of abjection as a punitive form of social death, illustrating how it has become a contested mode of political and cultural capital-empowering for some but oppressive for others. Escaping abjection's usual confines of psychoanalysis and aesthetic modernism, core to theories of abjection by thinkers such as Kristeva and Bataille, the contributors examine a range of media, including literature, photography, film, television, talking dolls, comics, and manga. Whether analyzing how comedic abjection can help mobilize feminist politics or how expressions of abjection inflect class, race, and gender hierarchies, the contributors demonstrate the importance of competing uses of abjection to contemporary society and politics. They emphasize abjection's role in circumscribing the boundaries of the human and how the threats abjection poses to the self and other, far from simply negative, open up possibilities for radically new politics. Contributors. Meredith Bak, Eugenie Brinkema, James Leo Cahill, Michelle Cho, Maggie Hennefeld, Rob King, Thomas Lamarre, Sylvere Lotringer, Rijuta Mehta, Mark Mulroney, Nicholas Sammond, Yiman Wang, Rebecca Wanzo.
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• 1. Introduction--
• 2. Trump's Victory and Increased Agreement with Prejudiced Statements--
• 3. Acceptance of Trump's Sexist Rhetoric--
• 4. A Direct Test of the 'Trump Effect'--
• 5. How Elite Prejudice Alters Support for Norms--
• 6. Does Calling Out Prejudiced Rhetoric Work?--
• 7. Conclusion.
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What are the consequences when politicians make prejudiced statements? Theories about the suppression of prejudice argue that people are likely to express more prejudice when they believe that norms are more permissive than they may have otherwise assumed. Using a series of experiments carried out during and since the 2016 campaign, Brian Schaffner shows that being exposed to Donald Trump's prejudiced rhetoric causes people to express more prejudice themselves. Notably, this is not merely a 'Trump Effect; ' people's commitment to anti-prejudice norms is undermined even when exposed to prejudiced rhetoric attributed to unnamed politicians. These findings are consequential; if politicians increasingly feel at liberty to express explicit prejudice, then the mass public is likely to take cues from such behavior, leading them to express more prejudice themselves. This may lead to increasingly heightened inter-group tensions which could pose a threat to political and social stability in the United States.
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• Introduction: The problem with power
• When the curtain goes up. The truth about power: what it is, what it isn't, and why it matters
• The two faces of power. The art and science of playing power up ; The art and science of playing power down
• Taking the stage. Getting in character: how to be yourself without losing the plot ; Riding shotgun: how to act with power in a supporting role ; The shoe must go on: making an entrance and owning the spotlight
• Understand abuses of power, and how to stop them. When power corrupts (and when it doesn't) ; How to wrangle a bully: alternatives to playing the victim ; The bystander role and new ways to play it: how to stop bad actors from stealing the show ; How to use power while playing the lead

"Most of us tend to think that there are two kinds of people in world: those who have power, and those who don't. But in reality, says Stanford Business School professor Deborah Gruenfeld, we all have more power than we think. And success is not about how much power we have, but rather how we use it. It's often assumed that power flows to those with the highest rank, the loudest voice, or the most commanding presence in the room. But in fact, there exists a quieter, softer sort of power that's just as crucial to learn to wield as the forceful kind. In life just as on stage, sometimes the most powerful actor is the one in the supporting role rather than the lead"-- Provided by publisher

• Bibliometric analyses of the network clustering literature / Vladimir Batagelj, Anuška Ferligoj, and Patrick Doreian
• Clustering approaches to networks / Vladimir Batagelj
• Different approaches to community detection / Martin Rosvall, JeanCharles Delvenne, Michael T. Schaub, and Renaud Lambiotte
• Label propagation for clustering / Lovro Šubelj
• Blockmodeling of valued networks / Carl Nordlund and Aleš Žiberna
• Treating missing network data before partitioning / Anja Žnidar šič, Patrick Doreian, and Anuška Ferligoj
• Partitioning signed networks / Vincent Traag, Patrick Doreian, and Andrej Mrvar
• Partitioning multimode networks / Martin G Everett, and Stephen P Borgatti
• Partitioning linked networks / Aleš Žiberna
• Bayesian stochastic blockmodeling / Tiago P. Peixoto
• Structured networks and coarsegrained descriptions: a dynamical perspective / Michael T. Schaub, Jean-Charles Delvenne, Renaud Lambiotte, and Mauricio Barahona
• Scientific coauthorship networks / Marjan Cugmas, Anuška Ferligoj, and Luka Kronegger
• Conclusions and directions for future work / Patrick Doreian, Anuška Ferligoj, and Vladimir Batagelj.

Provides an overview of the developments and advances in the field of network clustering and blockmodeling over the last 10 years This book offers an integrated treatment of network clustering and blockmodeling, covering all of the newest approaches and methods that have been developed over the last decade. Presented in a comprehensive manner, it offers the foundations for understanding network structures and processes, and features a wide variety of new techniques addressing issues that occur during the partitioning of networks across multiple disciplines such as community detection, blockmodeling of valued networks, role assignment, and stochastic blockmodeling. Written by a team of international experts in the field, Advances in Network Clustering and Blockmodeling offers a plethora of diverse perspectives covering topics such as: bibliometric analyses of the network clustering literature; clustering approaches to networks; label propagation for clustering; and treating missing network data before partitioning. It also examines the partitioning of signed networks, multimode networks, and linked networks. A chapter on structured networks and coarsegrained descriptions is presented, along with another on scientific coauthorship networks. The book finishes with a section covering conclusions and directions for future work. In addition, the editors provide numerous tables, figures, case studies, examples, datasets, and more. Offers a clear and insightful look at the state of the art in network clustering and blockmodeling Provides an excellent mix of mathematical rigor and practical application in a comprehensive manner Presents a suite of new methods, procedures, algorithms for partitioning networks, as well as new techniques for visualizing matrix arrays Features numerous examples throughout, enabling readers to gain a better understanding of research methods and to conduct their own research effectively Written by leading contributors in the field of spatial networks analysis Advances in Network Clustering and Blockmodeling is an ideal book for graduate and undergraduate students taking courses on network analysis or working with networks using real data. It will also benefit researchers and practitioners interested in network analysis.
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• Bibliometric analyses of the network clustering literature / Vladimir Batagelj, Anuška Ferligoj, and Patrick Doreian
• Clustering approaches to networks / Vladimir Batagelj
• Different approaches to community detection / Martin Rosvall, JeanCharles Delvenne, Michael T. Schaub, and Renaud Lambiotte
• Label propagation for clustering / Lovro Šubelj
• Blockmodeling of valued networks / Carl Nordlund and Aleš Žiberna
• Treating missing network data before partitioning / Anja Žnidar šič, Patrick Doreian, and Anuška Ferligoj
• Partitioning signed networks / Vincent Traag, Patrick Doreian, and Andrej Mrvar
• Partitioning multimode networks / Martin G Everett, and Stephen P Borgatti
• Partitioning linked networks / Aleš Žiberna
• Bayesian stochastic blockmodeling / Tiago P. Peixoto
• Structured networks and coarsegrained descriptions: a dynamical perspective / Michael T. Schaub, Jean-Charles Delvenne, Renaud Lambiotte, and Mauricio Barahona
• Scientific coauthorship networks / Marjan Cugmas, Anuška Ferligoj, and Luka Kronegger
• Conclusions and directions for future work / Patrick Doreian, Anuška Ferligoj, and Vladimir Batagelj.

Provides an overview of the developments and advances in the field of network clustering and blockmodeling over the last 10 years This book offers an integrated treatment of network clustering and blockmodeling, covering all of the newest approaches and methods that have been developed over the last decade. Presented in a comprehensive manner, it offers the foundations for understanding network structures and processes, and features a wide variety of new techniques addressing issues that occur during the partitioning of networks across multiple disciplines such as community detection, blockmodeling of valued networks, role assignment, and stochastic blockmodeling. Written by a team of international experts in the field, Advances in Network Clustering and Blockmodeling offers a plethora of diverse perspectives covering topics such as: bibliometric analyses of the network clustering literature; clustering approaches to networks; label propagation for clustering; and treating missing network data before partitioning. It also examines the partitioning of signed networks, multimode networks, and linked networks. A chapter on structured networks and coarsegrained descriptions is presented, along with another on scientific coauthorship networks. The book finishes with a section covering conclusions and directions for future work. In addition, the editors provide numerous tables, figures, case studies, examples, datasets, and more. Offers a clear and insightful look at the state of the art in network clustering and blockmodeling Provides an excellent mix of mathematical rigor and practical application in a comprehensive manner Presents a suite of new methods, procedures, algorithms for partitioning networks, as well as new techniques for visualizing matrix arrays Features numerous examples throughout, enabling readers to gain a better understanding of research methods and to conduct their own research effectively Written by leading contributors in the field of spatial networks analysis Advances in Network Clustering and Blockmodeling is an ideal book for graduate and undergraduate students taking courses on network analysis or working with networks using real data. It will also benefit researchers and practitioners interested in network analysis.
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• Questionnaire design, development, evaluation, and testing : where are we, and where are we headed? / Gordon B. Willis
• Asking the right questions in the right way : six needed changes in questionnaire evaluation and testing methods / Don A. Dillman
• A framework for making decisions about question evaluation methods / Roger Tourangeau, Aaron Maitland, Darby Steiger, Ting Yan
• A comparison of five question evaluation methods in predicting the validity of respondent answers to factual items / Aaron Maitland, Stanley Presser
• Combining multiple question evaluation methods : what does it mean when the data appear to conflict? / Joanna d'Ardenne, Debbie Collins
• The role of question characteristics in designing and evaluating survey questions / Jennifer Dykema, Nora Cate Schaeffer, Dana Garbarski, Michael Hout
• Exploring the associations between question characteristics, respondent characteristics, interviewer performance measures and survey data quality / James M. Dahlhamer, Aaron Maitland, Heather Ridolfo, Antuane Allen, Dynesha Brooks
• Response burden : what is it and what predicts it? / Ting Yan, Scott Fricker, Shirley Tsai
• The salience of survey burden and its effect on response behavior to skip questions : experimental results from telephone and web-surveys / Frauke Kreuter, Stephanie Eckman, Roger Tourangeau
• A comparison of fully-labeled and top-labeled grid question formats / Jolene D. Smyth, Kristen Olson
• The effects of task difficulty and conversational cueing on answer formatting problems in surveys / Yfke Ongena, Sanne Unger
• A compendium of web and mobile survey pretesting methods / Emily Geisen, Joe Murphy
• Usability testing online questionnaires : experiences at the U.S. Census Bureau / Elizabeth Nichols, Erica Holmsted-Hawala, Temika Holland, Amy Anderson Riemer
• How mobile device screen size affects data collected in web surveys / Daniele Toninelli, Melanie Revilla
• Optimizing grid questions for smartphones : a comparison of optimized and non-optimized designs and effects on data quality on different devices / Trine Dale, Heidi Walsoe
• Learning from mouse movements : improving questionnaires and respondents' user experience through passive data collection / Rachel Horwitz, Sarah Brockhaus, Felix Henninger, Pascal J. Kieslich, Malte Schierholz, Florian Keusch, Frauke Kreuter
• Using targeted embedded probes to quantify cognitive interviewing findings / Paul Scanlon
• The practice of cognitive interviewing through web probing / Stephanie Fowler, Gordon Willis
• Optimizing questionnaire design in cross-national and cross-cultural surveys / Tom W. Smith
• A model for cross-national questionnaire design and pretesting / Rory Fitzgerald, Diana Zavala-Rojas
• Cross-national web probing : an overview of its methodology and its use in cross-national studies / Dorothee Behr, Katharina Meitinger, Michael Braun, Lars Kaczmirek
• Measuring disability equality in Europe : design and development of the European health and social integration survey questionnaire / Amanda Wilmot
• Regression-based response probing for assessing the validity of survey questions / Patrick Sturgis, Ian Brunton-Smith, Jonathan Jackson
• The interplay between survey research and psychometrics, with a focus on validity theory / Bruno Zumbo, Jose-Luis Padilla
• Quality driven approaches for managing complex cognitive testing projects / Martha Stapleton, Darby Steiger, Mary C. Davis
• Using iterative, small-scale quantitative and qualitative studies : a review of 15 years of research to redesign a major federal government survey / Joanne Pascale
• Contrasting stylized questions of sleep with diary measures from the American time user survey / Robin Kaplan, Brandon Kopp, Polly Phipps
• Questionnaire design issues in mail surveys of all adults in a household / Douglas Williams, J. Michael Brick, W. Sherman Edwards, Pamela Giambo
• Planning your multi-method questionnaire testing bento box : examples from the 2017 Census of agriculture testing / Jaki McCarthy
• Flexible pretesting on a tight budget : using multiple dependent methods to maximize effort-return trade-offs / Matt Jans, Jody L. Herman, Joe Viana, David Grant, Royce Park, Bianca D.M. Wilson, Jane Kil, Nicole Lordi, Sue Holtby.

A new and updated definitive resource for survey questionnaire testing and evaluation Building on the success of the first Questionnaire Development, Evaluation, and Testing (QDET) conference in 2002, this book brings together leading papers from the Second International Conference on Questionnaire Design, Development, Evaluation, and Testing (QDET2) held in 2016. The volume assesses the current state of the art and science of QDET; examines the importance of methodological attention to the questionnaire in the present world of information collection; and ponders how the QDET field can anticipate new trends and directions as information needs and data collection methods continue to evolve. Featuring contributions from international experts in survey methodology, Advances in Questionnaire Design, Development, Evaluation and Testing includes latest insights on question characteristics, usability testing, web probing, and other pretesting approaches, as well as: Recent developments in the design and evaluation of digital and self-administered surveys Strategies for comparing and combining questionnaire evaluation methods Approaches for cross-cultural and cross-national questionnaire development New data sources and methodological innovations during the last 15 years Case studies and practical applications Advances in Questionnaire Design, Development, Evaluation and Testing serves as a forum to prepare researchers to meet the next generation of challenges, making it an excellent resource for researchers and practitioners in government, academia, and the private sector. .
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• Acknowledgments Introduction Interlude One
• 1. Reading Black and Latina Embodiment in Miami
• 2. Sexual-Aesthetic Excess: Or, How Chonga Girls Make Class Burn
• 3. "Fine as Hell": The Aesthetic Erotics of Masculinity Interlude Two
• 4. Rococo Pink: The Power of Nicki Minaj's Aesthetics of Fakery Interlude Three
• 5. Encounters with Excess: Girls Creating Art, Theory, and Sexual Bodies Interlude Four Epilogue Notes References Index.
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Heavy makeup, gaudy jewelry, dramatic hairstyles, and clothes that are considered cheap, fake, too short, too tight, or too masculine: working-class Black and Latina girls and women are often framed as embodying "excessive" styles that are presumed to indicate sexual deviance. In Aesthetics of Excess Jillian Hernandez examines how middle-class discourses of aesthetic value racialize the bodies of women and girls of color. At the same time, their style can be a source of cultural capital when appropriated by the contemporary art scene. Drawing on her community arts work with Black and Latina girls in Miami, Hernandez analyzes the art and self-image of these girls alongside works produced by contemporary artists and pop musicians such as Wangechi Mutu, Kara Walker, and Nicki Minaj. Through these relational readings, Hernandez shows how notions of high and low culture are complicated when women and girls of color engage in cultural production and how they challenge the policing of their bodies and sexualities through artistic authorship.
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• Acknowledgments Introduction Interlude One
• 1. Reading Black and Latina Embodiment in Miami
• 2. Sexual-Aesthetic Excess: Or, How Chonga Girls Make Class Burn
• 3. "Fine as Hell": The Aesthetic Erotics of Masculinity Interlude Two
• 4. Rococo Pink: The Power of Nicki Minaj's Aesthetics of Fakery Interlude Three
• 5. Encounters with Excess: Girls Creating Art, Theory, and Sexual Bodies Interlude Four Epilogue Notes References Index.
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Heavy makeup, gaudy jewelry, dramatic hairstyles, and clothes that are considered cheap, fake, too short, too tight, or too masculine: working-class Black and Latina girls and women are often framed as embodying "excessive" styles that are presumed to indicate sexual deviance. In Aesthetics of Excess Jillian Hernandez examines how middle-class discourses of aesthetic value racialize the bodies of women and girls of color. At the same time, their style can be a source of cultural capital when appropriated by the contemporary art scene. Drawing on her community arts work with Black and Latina girls in Miami, Hernandez analyzes the art and self-image of these girls alongside works produced by contemporary artists and pop musicians such as Wangechi Mutu, Kara Walker, and Nicki Minaj. Through these relational readings, Hernandez shows how notions of high and low culture are complicated when women and girls of color engage in cultural production and how they challenge the policing of their bodies and sexualities through artistic authorship.
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• Reading Black and Latina Embodiment in Miami
• Sexual-Aesthetic Excess : Or, How Chonga Girls Make Class Burn
• "Fine as Hell" : The Aesthetic Erotics of Masculinity
• Interlude
• Rococo Pink : The Power of Nicki Minaj's Aesthetics of Fakery
• Interlude
• Encounters with Excess : Girls Creating Art, Theory, and Sexual Bodies
• Interlude

"Aesthetics of Excess examines how the bodies of women and girls of color are racialized through cultural discourses of aesthetic value that mark them as sexual "others," and how in turn, aesthetic value is generated through the presentation of their bodies. Hernandez employs participatory research with young women of color, critical readings of art and popular culture, and autoethnography to provide new frameworks for understanding the relationships between cultural production and racialized bodies that can be variously exploitative and socially transformative. The book is grounded in Hernandez's community arts work with Black and Latina girls through Women on the Rise!, an outreach project she established at the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami, Florida"-- Provided by publisher.

• Acknowledgements[-][-]Preface: Devisualize[-]Nicholas Mirzoeff[-][-]Introduction: The Aesthetics of Global Protest: Visual Culture and Communication[-]Aidan McGarry, Itir Erhart, Hande Eslen-Ziya, Olu Jenzen, and Umut Korkut[-][-]PART I: PERFORMANCE, ART AND POLITICS[-]
• Chapter 1: Queer Visual Activism in South Africa[-]Tessa Lewin[-]
• Chapter 2: The Use of Visibility in Contentious Events in Northern Ireland[-]Katy Hayward and Milena Komarova[-]
• Chapter 3: Maybe We Will Benefit From Our Neighbour's Good Fortune: An Exhibition on Collectivity, Community and Dialogue in Turkey[-]Isil Egrikavuk[-]
• Chapter 4: Political Street Art in Social Mobilization: A Tale of Two Protests in Argentina [-]Holly Eva Ryan[-]
• Chapter 5: Archiving Dissent: (Im)material Trajectories of Political Street Art in Istanbul and Athens[-]Julia Tulke[-]
• Chapter 6: The Introvert's Protest: Handwriting the Constitution and the Performance of Politics [-]Interview with Morgan O'Hara by Aidan McGarry[-][-]PART II: VISUAL ACTIVISM AND DIGITAL CULTURE[-]
• Chapter 7: Photography and protest in Israel/Palestine: The Activestills online archive[-]Simon Faulkner[-]
• Chapter 8: Drones, Cinema, and Protest in Thailand[-]Noah Viernes[-]
• Chapter 9: Bearing Witness to Authoritarianism and Commoning through Video Activism and Political Film-Making after the Gezi Protests[-] zge zd zen [-]
• Chapter 10: Music Videos as Protest Communication: The Gezi Park Protest on YouTube[-]Olu Jenzen, Itir Erhart, Hande Eslen-Ziya, Derya G demir, Umut Korkut, and Aidan McGarry [-]
• Chapter 11: The Activist Chroniclers of Occupy Gezi: Counterposing Visibility to Injustice [-]Dan Mercea and Helton Levy[-]
• Chapter 12: When Twitter got #woke: Black Lives Matter, DeRay McKesson, Twitter, and the Appropriation of the Aesthetics of Protest[-]Farida Vis, Simon Faulkner, Safiya Umoja Noble and Hannah Guy[-][-]PART III: CONCLUSION[-]
• Chapter 13 Conclusion: Reflections on Protest and Political Transformation since 1789[-]Jim Aulich[-][-]Index[-].
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Visual culture, protest, communication, performance, digital.
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• Acknowledgements
• Counting victims
• Rampage murders
• When mass shootings occurs on indian reservations : studies in contrast
• The typical aftermath of rampage murder : the outpouring of anger at the parents and family members
• Restorative justice in indigenous cultures
• Forgiveness
• Restorative justice and therapeutic jurisprudence today : how much can be borrowed?
• A time to heal : Recommendations for a way forward
• Conclusion
• Appendix I victims of mass shootings
• Appendix II Mass shootings in the U.S., 1982-2016
• Bibliography
• Index