David B Downing
Biographic Data
| ID | 6529650 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David B Downing |
| GIVEN NAMES | David B |
| FAMILY NAME | Downing |
| SIGNATURE | DOWNING D B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Boston, MA, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
In “solidarity with the so-called ‘backward’” – On John Berger
The Covid Exposure
The pandemic exposes us all. The powerful links between disease, social class, healthcare, economics, and politics can no longer be concealed, so the underside of the American dream has been laid b
The Struggle Between Communality and Hierarchy: Lessons of the Paris Commune for the Twenty-first Century
Few events in the long history of capitalism have resonated with more symbolic significance than the two months from March 18 to May 21 of 1871 when the Paris Commune briefly came into being before
U.S. Higher Education and the Crisis of Care
This essay situates the fate of the humanities within the broad perspective of the geopolitical economy of neoliberal capitalism. This article adapts Nancy Fraser’s historical analysis of the three phases of the “crisis of care” to understand our latest phase (1975–2017) of the capitalist world system. With respect to higher education, the shift towards privatization has had devastating effects, especially for the humanities and social sciences. …
Narrative Exchange as Knowledge Transfer: The Rhetorical Construction of Opposition to GM Crops in SW England
The release of genetically modified organisms into the environment and food chain in the UK has produced one of the most visible and enduring controversies of recent times. Amid ongoing claim and counter-claim by actors on either side of the GM ‘debate’ over the salient ‘facts’ or balance of risks and benefits associated with the technology, this controversy can be fruitfully seen as a struggle between contested networks of knowledge. Drawing on …
Deconstruction's Scruples: The Politics of Enlightened Critique
Beyond Convention: The Dynamics of Imagery and Response in Hawthorne's Early Sense of Evil
vARLY in his career Hawthorne modeled his tales according to conventional literary structures. He combined the popular gothic and romantic conventions of his day with the more rigid doctrines of his cultural and familial ancestry, rooted in the Calvinist belief in the natural depravity of man. Puritan typology even offered itself as a kind of literary model: the minister's duty (like the writer's?) was to read and decode the sensible world as a s…
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Beyond Convention: The Dynamics of Imagery and Response in Hawthorne's Early Sense of Evil
vARLY in his career Hawthorne modeled his tales according to conventional literary structures. He combined the popular gothic and romantic conventions of his day with the more rigid doctrines of his cultural and familial ancestry, rooted in the Calvinist belief in the natural depravity of man. Puritan typology even offered itself as a kind of literary model: the minister's duty (like the writer's?) was to read and decode the sensible world as a s…
Deconstruction's Scruples: The Politics of Enlightened Critique
Narrative Exchange as Knowledge Transfer: The Rhetorical Construction of Opposition to GM Crops in SW England
The release of genetically modified organisms into the environment and food chain in the UK has produced one of the most visible and enduring controversies of recent times. Amid ongoing claim and counter-claim by actors on either side of the GM ‘debate’ over the salient ‘facts’ or balance of risks and benefits associated with the technology, this controversy can be fruitfully seen as a struggle between contested networks of knowledge. Drawing on …
U.S. Higher Education and the Crisis of Care
This essay situates the fate of the humanities within the broad perspective of the geopolitical economy of neoliberal capitalism. This article adapts Nancy Fraser’s historical analysis of the three phases of the “crisis of care” to understand our latest phase (1975–2017) of the capitalist world system. With respect to higher education, the shift towards privatization has had devastating effects, especially for the humanities and social sciences. …
The Struggle Between Communality and Hierarchy: Lessons of the Paris Commune for the Twenty-first Century
Few events in the long history of capitalism have resonated with more symbolic significance than the two months from March 18 to May 21 of 1871 when the Paris Commune briefly came into being before
The Covid Exposure
The pandemic exposes us all. The powerful links between disease, social class, healthcare, economics, and politics can no longer be concealed, so the underside of the American dream has been laid b
In “solidarity with the so-called ‘backward’” – On John Berger
Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · History (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Capitalism (2 works) · Economic history (2 works)