Leslie J Miller
Biographic Data
| ID | 3660033 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leslie J Miller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leslie J |
| FAMILY NAME | Miller |
| SIGNATURE | MILLER L J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Calgary |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A Discursive Analysis of Cultural Resistance: Indigenous Constructions of Blackfoot Superiority
Politicizing Aboriginal Cultural Tourism: The Discourse of Primitivism in the Tourist Encounter
Le tourisme cultural amérindien est un secteur de L'industrie touristique canadienne potentiellement en forte croissance, qui connaît un vif succès auprès des visiteurs européens, surtout les Allemands. Le présent article recourt à L'analyse du discours pour examiner les rencontres touristiques qui se déroulent dans les différents lieux touristiques amérindiens du sud de L'Alberta. Il analyse la construction de L'«indianite» et de la culture amér…
The Poverty of Truth-Seeking: Postmodernism, Discourse Analysis and Critical Feminism
In this article I examine one of the thorniest aspects of the relationship between feminism and postmodernism, in order to see what a discursive analytic approach can contribute to this important debate. The problem I refer to concerns the threat that the postmodern turn-despite its benefits-is said to pose for a politically committed feminism. I begin with a brief recapping of the postmodernist challenge to the tenets of social science. I then a…
Strategically Speaking: The Problem of Essentializing Terms in Feminist Theory and Feminist Organizational Talk
The Transformation of Intimacy: Sexuality, Love and Eroticism in Modern Societies
Violent Families and the Rhetoric of Harmony
Observing that the violent realities of family life belie the social rhetoric of harmony, most sociologists recommend 'demythologizing' the family. This paper challenges that view, arguing that social rhetoric must be analysed rather than debunked. The sense-making activities of actors who engage in violent family events are identified as a strategic site for such an analyses. The paper explores the ways in which the rhetoric of family harmony is…
Gittins, Diana, the Family in Question: Changing Households and Familiar Ideologies
Uneasy Alliance: Women as Agents of Social Control
Intervention for What? The Question of Paternalism
One of the curious features of paternalism is that, while no one will support it, many are drawn to it as a topic of interest. The two volumes under discussion are in important ways about paternalism. Especially, they remind us that paternalism is a slippery form of au thority-slippery in the primordial character of its appeal; slippery in the ways it fails to deliver what it promises. Reading these texts, one is confirmed in the feeling that pat…
Violent Families and the Rhetoric of Harmony
Observing that the violent realities of family life belie the social rhetoric of harmony, most sociologists recommend 'demythologizing' the family. This paper challenges that view, arguing that social rhetoric must be analysed rather than debunked. The sense-making activities of actors who engage in violent family events are identified as a strategic site for such an analyses. The paper explores the ways in which the rhetoric of family harmony is…
Politicizing Aboriginal Cultural Tourism: The Discourse of Primitivism in the Tourist Encounter
Le tourisme cultural amérindien est un secteur de L'industrie touristique canadienne potentiellement en forte croissance, qui connaît un vif succès auprès des visiteurs européens, surtout les Allemands. Le présent article recourt à L'analyse du discours pour examiner les rencontres touristiques qui se déroulent dans les différents lieux touristiques amérindiens du sud de L'Alberta. Il analyse la construction de L'«indianite» et de la culture amér…
Strategically Speaking: The Problem of Essentializing Terms in Feminist Theory and Feminist Organizational Talk
Uneasy Alliance: Women as Agents of Social Control
Intervention for What? The Question of Paternalism
One of the curious features of paternalism is that, while no one will support it, many are drawn to it as a topic of interest. The two volumes under discussion are in important ways about paternalism. Especially, they remind us that paternalism is a slippery form of au thority-slippery in the primordial character of its appeal; slippery in the ways it fails to deliver what it promises. Reading these texts, one is confirmed in the feeling that pat…
Uneasy Alliance: Women as Agents of Social Control
Gittins, Diana, the Family in Question: Changing Households and Familiar Ideologies
Violent Families and the Rhetoric of Harmony
Observing that the violent realities of family life belie the social rhetoric of harmony, most sociologists recommend 'demythologizing' the family. This paper challenges that view, arguing that social rhetoric must be analysed rather than debunked. The sense-making activities of actors who engage in violent family events are identified as a strategic site for such an analyses. The paper explores the ways in which the rhetoric of family harmony is…
The Transformation of Intimacy: Sexuality, Love and Eroticism in Modern Societies
Strategically Speaking: The Problem of Essentializing Terms in Feminist Theory and Feminist Organizational Talk
The Poverty of Truth-Seeking: Postmodernism, Discourse Analysis and Critical Feminism
In this article I examine one of the thorniest aspects of the relationship between feminism and postmodernism, in order to see what a discursive analytic approach can contribute to this important debate. The problem I refer to concerns the threat that the postmodern turn-despite its benefits-is said to pose for a politically committed feminism. I begin with a brief recapping of the postmodernist challenge to the tenets of social science. I then a…
Politicizing Aboriginal Cultural Tourism: The Discourse of Primitivism in the Tourist Encounter
Le tourisme cultural amérindien est un secteur de L'industrie touristique canadienne potentiellement en forte croissance, qui connaît un vif succès auprès des visiteurs européens, surtout les Allemands. Le présent article recourt à L'analyse du discours pour examiner les rencontres touristiques qui se déroulent dans les différents lieux touristiques amérindiens du sud de L'Alberta. Il analyse la construction de L'«indianite» et de la culture amér…
A Discursive Analysis of Cultural Resistance: Indigenous Constructions of Blackfoot Superiority
Sociology (8 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (2 works) · Economics (2 works)