Identitats ???queer', cossos i sexualitat en les narratives f??lmiques de la inf??ncia de Kore-eda Hirokazu

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Afectes, visualitat i pedagogia queer, entre perversi?? i censura

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Cuerpos queer/ Queer Bodies: una propuesta discursiva para un “mundo de vida” queer en Quito, Ecuador

La presente tesis trata de cuerpos reales y cuerpos discursivos. El propósito es identificar qué significa tener o ser un cuerpo “diferente” en la sociedad quiteña, y cuáles han sido los múlitples discursos de silencio que han sido implementados por la hegemonía e internalizados por sus ciudadanos que han hecho que estos cuerpos “diferentes” experimenten diferentes formas de discriminación. Específicamente, la presente tesis hace una distinción entre el cuerpo del hombre gay, y el cuerpo queer. El cuerpo gay es el cuerpo de la marginalidad, el cuerpo que está forzado a llevar una “doble vida” debido a los discursos arraigados socio y culturalmente del machismo y de la masculinidad. Este cuerpo está en una constante lucha para mantener su apariencia como “hombre” por fuera, y poder ser quien se es por dentro. El cuerpo queer, en cambio, se define por no definirse. En otras palabras, su meta es estar siempre reinventándose según sus propios conceptos de placer, identidad y prácticas sexuales. Es una lucha identitaria con fuertes componentes políticos también, una decisión de no caber dentro del sistema, como intenta a hacer el cuerpo gay. Para aclarar estas distincciones, esta tesis contiene un análisis de cuatro cuerpos: el discursivo, el colectivo, el “oficial” y el performativo. El cuerpo discursivo se pregunta por la posibilidad de la existencia de un cuerpo fuera del lenguaje, y utiliza como respaldo la teoría queer. El cuerpo colectivo es un esfuerzo para esbozar la experiencia de la homosexualidad aquí en el Ecuador. El cuerpo “oficial” hace referencia a la visión burocrática y hegemónica del cuerpo, y distingue entre el “cuerpo sano” y el “cuerpo enfermo” (del homosexual). El último cuerpo se basa en un estudio de caso de una discoteca gay en Quito, y contiene una mezcla de la teoría de carnaval de Bakhtin y extractos de experiencias personales de varias noches de goce en esta misma discoteca. Representa, al final, el esfuerzo de la autora para romper la brecha que ella argumenta existe inecesariamente entre la epistemología (los discursos académicos) y lo personal. Al final, este ensayo es un esfuerzo para romper algunos de estos silencios, y para decir lo que nunca se ha dicho.

Forum theorizing in the context of professional practice: The case for middle-range theories

This commentary seeks to complement the contribution of the Building Research & Information special issue on 'Developing Theories for the Built Environment' (2008) by highlighting the important role of middle-range theories within the context of professional practice. Middle-range theories provide a form of theorizing that lies between abstract grand theorizing and atheoretical local descriptions. They are also characterized by the way in which they directly engage with the concerns of practitioners. In the context of professional practice, any commitment to theorizing should habitually be combined with an equivalent commitment to empirical research; rarely is it appropriate to neglect one in favour of the other. Any understanding of the role that theory plays in professional practice must further be informed by Schon's seminal ideas on reflective practice. Practitioners are seen to utilize theories as inputs to a process of continuous reflection, thereby guarding against complacency and routinization. The authors would challenge any assumption that academics alone are responsible for generating theories, thereby limiting the role of practitioners to their application. Such a dichotomized view is contrary to established ideas on Mode 2 knowledge production and current trends towards co-production research in the context of the built environment.

An experimental comparison between rival theories of rapid automatized naming performance and its relationship to reading

Two studies investigated the degree to which the relationship between rapid automatized naming (RAN) performance and reading development is driven by shared phonological processes. Study 1 assessed RAN, phonological awareness, and reading performance in 1010 7- to -10 year-olds. Results showed that RAN deficits occurred in the absence of phonological awareness deficits. These were accompanied by modest reading delays. In structural equation modeling, solutions where RAN was subsumed within a phonological processing factor did not provide a good fit to the data, suggesting that processes outside phonology may drive RAN performance and its association with reading. Study 2 investigated Kail’s proposal that speed of processing underlies this relationship. Children with single RAN deficits showed slower speed of processing than did closely matched controls performing normally on RAN. However, regression analysis revealed that RAN made a unique contribution to reading even after accounting for processing speed. Theoretical implications are discussed.

Queer sex in the metropolis? Place, subjectivity and the Second World War

The strong links between cities and queer culture and its expression have occupied numerous scholars, including Henning Bech and Matt Houlbrook. Indeed, London has been viewed as a focal point of British queer urban culture for over 200 years and, as this article demonstrates, the advent of the Second World War did not preclude this centrality but ensured that the city became a focal point for service personnel on leave. Yet, the emphasis placed on the metropolises in analysing space and queer expression has rendered invisible the use of more transient spaces outside of the city. This article seeks to examine these ‘alternative’ or opportunistic sites of expression, using oral testimony from queer men who served with the British Armed Forces during the Second World War. The memories of these servicemen and the significance they place on space/locations demonstrate the need to engage with subjective sites or ‘geographies’ of queerness both inside and outside of the city between 1939 and 1945.