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A Dictionary of Media and Communication (3 ed.)
... 1. The dependence of meaning (and/or identity ) on the specifics of particular sociohistorical, geographical, and cultural contexts , social and power relations , and philosophical and ideological frameworks, within which the multiple perspectives of social actors are dynamically constructed, negotiated, and contested. Such approaches are often perceived by realists as radical relativism . See also contextualization . 2. ( social situatedness ) the notion that the development of individual intelligence is dependent on its...
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A Dictionary of Animal Behaviour (2 ed.)
... A situated action is taken in the context of particular concrete circumstances and is dependent upon the situation at the time. For example, * collective behaviour is situated, because each individual responds to the environmental circumstances (the situation), there being no direct * communication between...
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A Dictionary of Geography (6 ed.)
... knowledge All knowledge is produced by people who have their own viewpoints, which reflect their time, place, and biases; their knowledge is situated . Knowledges are always situated, always produced by actors working in or between all kinds of locations, working up/on/through all kinds of research relationships. All of these affect what exactly gets done by whom; how and where it’s done; how it’s turned into a finished product, and for...
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A Dictionary of Critical Theory (2 ed.)
...them as ‘god-tricks’. Situated knowledge occupies the middle ground between these two extremes: it is at once historically contingent, deeply subjective, aware of its own meaning-making capabilities and potentialities, and committed to a faithful, no-nonsense (as Haraway puts it) account of the real world. Rather than trying to systematize the world and parcel it up and represent it as a machine, situated knowledge conceives the world as an earth-wide network of active connections and partial truths. Fundamental to the notion of situated knowledge is the idea...
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A Dictionary of Gender Studies
...situated knowledge A methodological concept, propagated in feminist studies as much as in fields such as anthropology, which suggests that any knowledge is informed by the location and position of the knower or knowledge producer. This notion, developed within feminist studies by Donna Haraway and Sandra Harding, challenges traditional assumptions about knowledge as uninvested and supposedly neutral to argue that knowledge is always partial and particular to...
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A Dictionary of Education (2 ed.)
...Thus, situated learning is neither a form of education nor a set of pedagogical practices , but is rather a way of framing the process of learning firmly within a context of lived experience, as something which takes place through participation in group involvement with daily life. It is a joint enterprise, engagement in which binds individuals into a social unit or ‘community’, one which develops, as do the individuals within it, over time. In practice, there is an argument for linking certain pedagogical practices or environments with situated learning....
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A Dictionary of Human Geography
... knowledge The idea that all forms of knowledge reflect the particular conditions in which they are produced, and at some level reflect the social identities and social locations of knowledge producers. The term was coined by historian of science Donna Haraway in Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: the Reinvention of Nature ( 1991 ) to question what she regarded as two dangerous myths in Western societies. The first was that it is possible to be epistemologically objective, to somehow be a neutral mouthpiece for the world’s truths if one adopts the ‘right’...
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Nationalism and Islam Reference library
Abū-L-‘Alā’ Mawdūdī
Islam in Transition: Muslim Perspectives (2 ed.)
...birth in some nation and in some country. Again, the Book of Laws which he would be given must necessarily be in the language of the country to which he has been deputed. Moreover, the sacred and holy places associated with the mission of that Rasūl [messenger, prophet] must be situated mostly in that particular country. But in spite of these limitations the truth and that divine teaching which a Rasūl brings from God, is not confined to one nation or country, it is intended for humanity at large. The entire human race is called upon to believe in that Rasūl...
25 The History of the Book in Switzerland Reference library
Lukas Erne
The Oxford Companion to the Book
...MSS from the 8 th century, and the Bibliotheca *Bodmeriana in Cologny near Geneva, founded by *Bodmer , contains a number of outstanding works, including the earliest dated MS ( 1308 ) of Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun’s Roman de la Rose . 2 The early modern period Situated on the borders of Germany and France, on the banks of the Rhine, Basle was ideally placed to become one of Europe’s early centres of book production. The Council of Basle ( 1431–49 ) brought about important traffic in books from abroad, and the foundation of the country’s oldest...
Henry VI Part 1 Reference library
Randall Martin and Anthony Davies
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (2 ed.)
...of Shakespeare’s professional career, while literary critics have missed the dramatic unity and aesthetic refinement they value in Shakespeare’s later histories. An exception to these negative assessments was made by 19th-century German critics such as A. W. Schlegel , who situated the play in the wider context of Shakespeare ’s histories as an epic national drama of political evolution from feudalism. In 1944 E. M. W. Tillyard ’s Shakespeare’s History Plays adopted this interpretation but emphasized a pattern of national transgression and...
4 Maccabees Reference library
David J. Elliott
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...candidate is Antioch. The most immediate indicator is the person of the arch-villain Antiochus IV Epiphanes, who naturally had a close connection with his capital city of Antioch. John Chrysostom testifies that the Christians believed the tomb of the Maccabean martyrs to be situated at Antioch, in the quarter of the Kerateion, near the synagogue ( Fourth Homily on the Maccabean Martyrs ). 3. Ignatius of Antioch sent seven epistles from Antioch enroute to Rome where he was martyred in 107 ce . He thought in the same sacrificial terms as the Jew...
Lands of the Bible Reference library
Oxford Bible Atlas (4 ed.)
...hill country of Ephraim (sometimes subdivided into Ephraim and Manasseh) is an area of rolling limestone hills and valleys, but east of the water‐parting the land is largely wilderness. The successive capitals of the northern Kingdom of Israel (Shechem, Tirzah, and Samaria) were situated in this area. To the south is the hill country of Judah, separated from the coastal plains by the foothills of the Shephelah; the name means ‘lowland’ so it must have been given from the perspective of the higher hill country. On the whole the region is more rugged than Ephraim,...
Stories of David and Solomon Reference library
Oxford Bible Atlas (4 ed.)
... Megiddo: A Case of Mistaken Identity? Megiddo (Tell el‐Muteselim) was an ancient city and a strategically important city. It was situated at a point where it guarded the ‘Way of the Sea’ (see on ‘The Lands of the Bible: Main Roads’) as it passed through the hills into the Plain of Megiddo or Esdraelon, and was the site of battles past and future. A famous battle was fought there in the time of Thutmose III...
