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In the Belly of the University
Universities’ historical legacies, power dynamics, and institutional norms continue to define who belongs, who succeeds, and whose knowledge is valued within higher education spaces. This edited volume explores the resultant embedded cultures shaping universities and their role in society. By examining the “belly” of the university — its inner workings, shadow structures and practices of normalisation — the volume illuminates how these cultures reproduce inequality and exclusion, even amidst transformation agendas. It also considers how academics, students, managers and administrators navigate, contest, and reimagine these spaces in pursuit of justice, equity, and deeper transformation. Combining insights from South Africa, Nigeria and the USA, the volume invites reflection on how universities can become socially nourishing institutions.
Women's Empowerment for a Sustainable Future
This edited volume focuses on women’s empowerment for a sustainable future. It takes cultural and transcultural and positive psychology perspectives into consideration and explores the topic of women’s empowerment from diverse stances, across social strata, cultural divides as well as economic and political divisions. It addresses the critique of the overly Western focus of positive psychology on this topic by adopting a transnational and transcultural lens, and by taking non-WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic) samples into in-depth consideration. The chapters therefore focus on women from diverse socio-cultural, political, socio-economic backgrounds and discuss t...
Linguistic intersections of language and gender
Linguists have been interested in the relation of language and gender for a long time, yet only recently has the field diversified extensively in both its research questions and its methods. However, few attempts have been made to bring together these diverse perspectives in a systematic exchange of ideas and approaches. This volume offers a collection of the latest empirical research on language and gender from a variety of linguistic perspectives. Among other questions, the studies in this volume investigate the processing of gendered forms in spoken and written language, examine their morphosyntactic properties, model their semantics and pragmatics, and engage with the discursive and orthographic patterns of gendered language. They apply a wide range of corpus linguistic, experimental, and computational methods to a diverse set of languages, including Portuguese, Italian, Georgian, German, and English. This volume is a valuable resource for all scholars interested in the current state of research on language and gender and a much-needed kick-off for interdisciplinary collaboration in this field that takes into account the bigger picture.
Lightness, Brightness and Transparency
First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Understanding Lightness and Brightness in Different Media
This thesis aimed to study how lightness and brightness perception relate to each other. We used a simple task to study whether observers perceive lightness and brightness to be different percepts and what cues they use to make these judgments. In Experiment 1, we used a custom-built apparatus to present two reflectance patches, each with independent illuminance. In the lightness and brightness conditions, observers judged which patch had a higher reflectance or luminance, respectively. In Experiment 2, we repeated the same procedure using a computer rendering of the apparatus on a monitor. Finally, we simulated computational models of lightness and brightness to evaluate their performance with respect to observer performance. We conclude that (a) lightness and brightness judgments are more similar than expected from previous work, (b) brightness is nothing like an estimate of luminance, and (c) current computational models can fail on even simple lightness and brightness judgments.
The Brightness
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