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Old Futures
Author | : Alexis Lothian |
Publsiher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2018-09-25 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781479803439 |
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Traverses the history of imagined futures from the 1890s to the 2010s, interweaving speculative visions of gender, race, and sexuality from literature, film, and digital media Old Futures explores the social, political, and cultural forces feminists, queer people, and people of color invoke when they dream up alternative futures as a way to imagine transforming the present. Lothian shows how queer possibilities emerge when we practice the art of speculation: of imagining things otherwise than they are and creating stories from that impulse. Queer theory offers creative ways to think about time, breaking with straight and narrow paths toward the future laid out for the reproductive family, the law-abiding citizen, and the believer in markets. Yet so far it has rarely considered the possibility that, instead of a queer present reshaping the ways we relate to past and future, the futures imagined in the past can lead us to queer the present. Narratives of possible futures provide frameworks through which we understand our present, but the discourse of “the” future has never been a singular one. Imagined futures have often been central to the creation and maintenance of imperial domination and technological modernity; Old Futures offers a counterhistory of works that have sought––with varying degrees of success––to speculate otherwise. Examining speculative texts from the 1890s to the 2010s, from Samuel R. Delany to Sense8, Lothian considers the ways in which early feminist utopias and dystopias, Afrofuturist fiction, and queer science fiction media have insisted that the future can and must deviate from dominant narratives of global annihilation or highly restrictive hopes for redemption. Each chapter chronicles some of the means by which the production and destruction of futures both real and imagined takes place: through eugenics, utopia, empire, fascism, dystopia, race, capitalism, femininity, masculinity, and many kinds of queerness, reproduction, and sex. Gathering stories of and by populations who have been marked as futureless or left out by dominant imaginaries, Lothian offers new insights into what we can learn from efforts to imaginatively redistribute the future.
Ancient Futures
Author | : Helena Norberg Hodge |
Publsiher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2013-03-31 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781448176236 |
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Ladakh, or 'Little Tibet', is a wildly beautiful desert land up in the Western Himalayas. It is a place of few resources and an extreme climate. Yet for more than a thousand years, it has been home to a thriving culture. Traditions of frugality and cooperation, coupled with an intimate and location-specific knowledge of the environment, enabled the Ladakhis not only to survive, but to prosper. Everyone had enough to eat; families and communities were strong; the status of women was high. Then came 'development'. Now in the modern sector one finds pollution and divisiveness, inflation and unemployment, intolerance and greed. Centuries of ecological balance and social harmony are under threat from pressures of Western consumerism. Ancient Futures is much more than a book about Ladakh. Passionately argued, it raises important questions about the whole notion of progress, and explores the root causes of the malaise of industrial society. At the same time, the story of Ladakh serves as a source of inspiration for our own future. It shows us that another way is possible, and points to some of the first steps towards kinder, gentler patterns of living.
The Futures of Old Age
Author | : John A Vincent,Chris Phillipson,Murna Downs |
Publsiher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2006-05-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781446240045 |
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What is the future of old age? How will families, services, and economies adapt to an older population? Such questions often provoke extreme and opposing answers: some see ageing populations as having the potential to undermine economic growth and prosperity; others see new and exciting ways of living in old age. The Futures of Old Age places these questions in the context of social and political change, and assesses what the various futures of old age might be. Prepared by the British Society of Gerontology, The Futures of Old Age brings together a team of leading international gerontologists from the United Kingdom and United States, drawing on their expertise and research. The book′s seven sections deal with key contemporary themes including: population ageing; households and families; health; wealth; pensions; migration; inequalities; gender and self; and identity in later life.
Report on Economic Effects of Grain Exchange Actions Affecting Futures Trading During the First Six Months of 1946
Author | : United States. Federal Trade Commission |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1947 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105219394256 |
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Commitments of Traders in Commodity Futures
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 682 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Commodity exchanges |
ISBN | : MINN:31951D03258003D |
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Commitments of Traders in Commodity Futures Chicago and New York
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 854 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Commodity exchanges |
ISBN | : MINN:31951T00116509U |
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Commitments of Traders in Commodity Futures
Author | : United States. Commodity Futures Trading Commission |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : UIUC:30112018464369 |
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Includes data for cotton, frozen concentrated orange juice, potatoes, wool, and imported frozen fresh boneless beef.
Commitments of Traders in Commodity Futures with Market Concentration Ratios
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 1981-04 |
Genre | : Commodity exchanges |
ISBN | : MINN:31951T001165141 |
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Includes data for wheat, corn, oats, soybeans, soybean oil, soybean meal, coconut oil, crude palm oil, eggs, cattle, frozen pork bellies, and live hogs.