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The chapters in this book reflect on the practice of using narratives to understand individual and social reality. They all reveal dimensions of the same concrete reality: contemporary society of Central South Africa. Except for two, all the chapters originated from research in the program The Narrative Study of Lives, situated in the Department of Sociology at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa. Each chapter opens a window on an aspect of everyday life in Central South Africa. Each window displays the capacity of the narrative as a methodological tool in qualitative research to open up better understandings of everyday experience. The chapters also reflect on the epistemological journey towards unwrapping and breaking open of meaning. Narratives are one of many tools available to sociologists in their quest to understand and interpret meaning. But, when it comes to deep understanding, narratives are particularly effective in opening up more intricate levels of meaning associated with emotions, feelings, and subjective experiences.

Sociology --- Emotions --- Belonging --- Enslavement --- Liberation --- Transformation --- Female Beauty --- Hair Discourses --- Creative Process --- Social Networking --- Interactions --- Relationships --- Online Gamers --- Lived Experiences --- Overcoming the Divide --- Group Identity --- Groupness --- Sangoma --- Healthcare Center --- Physical Disability --- Mother-Daughter Communication --- Intimate Relationships --- Stranger --- Experiencing Boundaries --- Insurgent Citizenship --- Sustained Resistance --- Local Taxi Association

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Hailed as a means to transform cultural norms and change lives, violence prevention programs signal a slow-rolling policy revolution that has reached nearly two-thirds of young people in the United States today. Max A. Greenberg takes us inside the booming market for programming and onto the asphalt campuses of Los Angeles where these programs are implemented, many just one hour a week for 12 weeks. He spotlights how these ephemeral programs, built on troves of risk data, are disconnected from the lived experiences of the young people they were created to support. Going beyond the narrow stories told about at-risk youth through data and in policy, Greenberg sketches a vivid portrait of young men and women coming of age and forming relationships in a world of abiding harm and fleeting, fragmented support. At the same time, Greenberg maps the minefield of historical and structural inequalities that program facilitators must navigate to build meaningful connections with the youth they serve. Taken together, these programs shape the stories and politics of a generation and reveal how social policy can go wrong when it ignores the lives of young people.

At-risk youth --- At-risk youth --- Youth and violence --- Services for --- Counseling of --- abiding harm. --- at risk youth. --- coming of age. --- fleeting support. --- forming relationships. --- generation. --- historical inequalities. --- lived experiences. --- los angeles. --- meaningful connections. --- policy revolution. --- politics. --- program facilitators. --- programming. --- programs. --- risk data. --- serving youth. --- social policy. --- structural inequalities. --- support. --- united states. --- violence prevention. --- young men and women. --- young people.

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In this series of intricately related texts, internationally known poet, critic, and performance artist David Antin explores the experience of time-how it's felt, remembered, and recounted. These free-form talk pieces-sometimes called talk poems or simply talks-began as improvisations at museums, universities, and poetry centers where Antin was invited to come and think out loud. Serious and playful, they move rapidly from keen analysis to powerful storytelling to passages of pure comedy, as they range kaleidoscopically across Antin's experiences: in the New York City of his childhood and youth, the Eastern Europe of family and friends, and the New York and Southern California of his art and literary career. The author's analysis and abrasive comedy have been described as a mix of Lenny Bruce and Ludwig Wittgenstein, his commitment to verbal invention and narrative as a fusion of Mark Twain and Gertrude Stein. Taken together, these pieces provide a rich oral history of and critical context for the evolution of the California art scene from the 1960's onward.

Arts --- Performance art --- Arts, Fine --- Arts, Occidental --- Arts, Western --- Fine arts --- Humanities --- Arts, Modern --- Happenings (Art) --- Performing arts --- California --- Civilization. --- Arts, Primitive --- 1960s. --- 20th century. --- analysis. --- art and literature. --- comedy. --- concept of time. --- contemporary poetry. --- experience of time. --- famous poets. --- freeform poetry. --- improvised poetry. --- literary criticism. --- literary critics. --- lived experiences. --- memory. --- modern poets. --- museums. --- new york. --- oral history. --- performance art. --- poetry centers. --- poetry collection. --- poets. --- southern california. --- talk poems. --- temporal states. --- thinking out loud. --- time. --- universities. --- verbal invention. --- verbal poems.

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The work of a fan takes many forms, such as following a celebrity on Instagram or creating fan art as homages to adored characters. While feelings of like and love are commonly understood, examined less frequently are the equally intense, but opposite feelings. Disinterest. Disgust. Hate. This is anti-fandom. It is visible in many of the same spaces where you see fandom: in the long lines at Comic-Con, in our politics, and in numerous online forums like Twitter, Tumblr, Reddit, and the ever-dreaded comments section. This is where we love to hate. Anti-fandom, a collection of fifteen original and innovative essays, provides a framework for future study through theoretical and methodological exemplars that examine anti-fandom in the contemporary digital environment. Engaging a number of contemporary issues from hatewatching Girls and enduring hated Tyler Perry films to online expressions of hate for a range of celebrities, characters and genres, these chapters ground the emerging area of anti-fan studies with a productive foundation. The book demonstrates the importance of constructing a complex knowledge of emotion and media in fan studies. Its focus on the pleasures, performances, and practices that constitute anti-fandom will generate new perspectives for understanding the impact of hate on our identities, relationships, and communities

Berühmte Persönlichkeit --- Hate crime --- Cyber-Mobbing --- Verbalaggression --- Verunglimpfung --- Fan --- Fans (Persons) --- Social media. --- Hate. --- Subculture. --- Celebrities --- Attitudes. --- Public opinion. --- BDSM. --- Doctor Who. --- Fifty Shades of Grey. --- Glee Equality Project. --- ambivalence. --- ante-fandom. --- anti-fan studies. --- audiences relationships. --- audiences. --- bad objects. --- black images. --- black women. --- cancellation. --- carnivalesque. --- celebrities. --- characters. --- childhood. --- complaining. --- counterhegemonic. --- creativity. --- criticizing. --- cultural hierarchies. --- digital environments. --- digital media culture. --- digital media. --- disliking. --- disparaging. --- dissatisfaction. --- dumbing down. --- emotion. --- engagement. --- exploitainment. --- fan community. --- fan fiction. --- fan object. --- fan studies. --- fan text. --- fan. --- fantipathy. --- favorite team. --- frustration. --- gatekeepers. --- gender relations. --- gender. --- generations. --- hate speech. --- hatewatching. --- hegemonic. --- lived experiences. --- mainstream. --- media consumption. --- media texts. --- mediated dislike. --- misogyny. --- mob attacks. --- moral compass. --- nationality. --- online conversations. --- paratextual role. --- political antagonism. --- populist forces. --- programing strategy. --- public service broadcasting. --- race. --- rejection discourse. --- rhetorical functions. --- self-narrative. --- social media. --- social phenomenon. --- socialized fandom. --- strong ties. --- subcultural capital. --- television quality. --- television.