Tag: Reflexivity

Free Download Tim May, "Reflexivity: The Essential Guide"
English | ISBN: 1446295168 | 2017 | 248 pages | EPUB | 1040 KB
Reflexivity―the critical examination of how we see the world―is integral to good research practice. From this state-of-the-art, accessible tour of its history and contemporary relevance, readers will learn of its importance to social research and to society generally. The text introduces a host of influential thinkers and their key ideas on reflexivity, and incorporates examples from a range of disciplines and research settings. Drawing on the authors’ extensive experience of real research settings, this book:

Free Download Ingerid S. Straume, "How Does a Society Change?: Reflexivity in Politics and Education "
English | ISBN: 178661152X | 2023 | 158 pages | EPUB, PDF | 789 KB + 2 MB
One of the most challenging questions of today concerns how human activities threaten the conditions for our very own existence. With one crisis leading into the next, the need for socio-political change is necessary and desirable, yet so hard to imagine in practice. At the heart of the matter is a deeper crisis of the socio-political imagination.

Free Download Erika Fülöp, "Fictionality, Factuality, and Reflexivity Across Discourses and Media (Narratologia) "
English | ISBN: 3110720892 | 2021 | 290 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 115 MB
Concerned with the nature of the medium and the borders between fact and fiction, reflexivity was a ubiquitous feature of modernist and postmodernist literature and film. While in the wake of the post-postmodern "return to the real" cultural criticism has little time for discussions of reflexivity, it remains a key topic in narratology, as does fictionality. The latter is commonly defined opposition to the real and the factual, but remains conditioned by historical, cultural, discursive, and medium-related factors. Reflexivity blurs the boundaries between fact and fiction, however, by giving fiction a factual edge or by questioning the limits of factuality in non-fictional discourses. Fictionality, factuality, and reflexivity thus constitute a complex triangle of concepts, yet they are rarely considered together. This volume fills this gap by exploring the intricacies of their interactions and interdependence in philosophy, literature, film, and digital media, providing insights into a broad range of their manifestations from the ancient times to today, from East Asia through Europe to the Americas.