During the 1990s and early 2000s, working-class and poor neighborhoods in San Francisco underwent dramatic economic and racial changes. One of the most heavily gentrified neighborhoods was the Mission District. As a result of local politics, housing and rental policies, real estate speculation, and development, thousands of Latina/o families were displaced. Using oral historical and ethnographi...

We develop a model describing how certain American men, those men who have been described as emasculated by recent socioeconomic changes, construct themselves as masculine through their everyday consumption. We find that American mass culture idealizes the man-of-action hero—an idealized model of manhood that resolves the inherent weaknesses in two other prominent models (the breadwinner and th...

These words from Bernstein set the theoretical context of this paper, concerned with how interdisciplinarity is recontextualized in an undergraduate degree, where knowledge recontextualization is close to, and often operates in parallel with, knowledge production. This research is situated within a university undergoing dramatic curriculum change and its subject is the curriculum, both espoused...

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It is a sustained concern for Aristophanes studies to assess the political commitments expressed in comedic poet’s dramatic corpus. Though generally synoptic describing his critique of democracy, interpretations Aristophanes’s plays diverge justifying that as affirmative democratic principles. This essay argues considering Aristophanic external principles, on account its assertion demos’s basic...