1-12 of 12

Search Results for meritocracy

Follow your search
Access your saved searches in your account

Would you like to receive an alert when new items match your search?
Close Modal
Sort by
Book Chapter

By Christopher Newfield
Published: 31 December 2003
DOI: 10.1215/9780822385202-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8520-2
Book Chapter

By Matt Stahl
Series: Refiguring American Music
Published: 26 November 2012
DOI: 10.1215/9780822395775-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9577-5
Series: Experimental Futures
Published: 08 August 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478024460-008
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9375-6
... of the present for their potentials of (rational) absurdity and (technological) self-destruction. In this chapter, these issues are explored in the work of three different novelists. Daren Goh's The HDB Murders updates Michael Young's satirical The Rise of the Meritocracy, and deals with the competitive...
Published: 17 May 2019
DOI: 10.1215/9781478003250-008
EISBN: 978-1-4780-0325-0
Book Chapter

By Christopher B. Patterson, Tara Fickle
Series: Power Play: Games, Politics, Culture
Published: 05 April 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9396-1
... fighting games meritocracy play ...
Book Chapter

By Mimi Khúc
Published: 30 January 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2779-9
... academia university meritocracy faculty adjunct ...
Book Chapter

By Mimi Khúc
Published: 30 January 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027799-008
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2779-9
... This chapter examines unwellness in the university through the experiences of faculty in academia. It identifies the construction of the “Good Professor” and that construction’s investment in ableist meritocracy. The violence of meritocracy is most evident in the experiences of contingent...
Series: Power Play: Games, Politics, Culture
Published: 05 April 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059264-009
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9396-1
... the meritocratic structure of the game and the FGC work as trophies, something to be possessed only by defeating. fighting games meritocracy play ...
Book Chapter

By Judith Casselberry
Published: 14 April 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822372974-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7297-4
... confront the challenges of their existence in the worldly labor force, all the while bolstered by a religious community that demands full societal inclusion and an on-the-job meritocracy. As women carry out boundary-spanning emotion management, moving between supporting religiously based and resisting race...
Book Chapter

By Mimi Khúc
Published: 30 January 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027799-010
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2779-9
... This chapter reflects on the author’s approaches to teaching over the past decade and how the pandemic engendered a significant overhaul of these approaches. The chapter analyzes traditional teaching methods for their ableism, expressed in their investments in meritocracy, compulsory wellness...
Book Chapter

By Petra R. Rivera-Rideau
Published: 23 August 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059806-005
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5980-6
...—the idea that the United States is a meritocracy where anyone can succeed if they work hard enough. The brand frequently centers founder Beto Pùrez’s journey from impoverished Colombian immigrant to fitness celebrity and multimillionaire alongside other successful Zumba Fitness instructors...
Series: Power Play: Games, Politics, Culture
Published: 05 April 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9396-1
... structure of the game; and, third, how and why “Asian hands” within the meritocratic structure of the game and the FGC work as trophies, something to be possessed only by defeating. fighting games meritocracy play ...