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  1. Highlight from our digital collection:

    "Rethinking Gender Inequalities in Organizations"

    🔗 elgaronline.com/monobook-oa/bo

    This book questions traditional perspectives on gender inequality. By melding post-structuralist thought with process ontology, it offers a fresh conceptual framework for reconsidering gender disparities in organizational and managerial contexts.

    #gender #inequality #SocialConstruction #SocialSciences #organizations #discourse #identity #power #business #management #OpenAccess

  2. Highlight from our digital collection:

    "Rethinking Gender Inequalities in Organizations"

    🔗 elgaronline.com/monobook-oa/bo

    This book questions traditional perspectives on gender inequality. By melding post-structuralist thought with process ontology, it offers a fresh conceptual framework for reconsidering gender disparities in organizational and managerial contexts.

    #gender #inequality #SocialConstruction #SocialSciences #organizations #discourse #identity #power #business #management #OpenAccess

  3. Colette for my Ages project.

    Ages is a joyful reframing of age and a protest against ageism. Ageist images and notions festishise the younger and brand the old as ugly.

    More info at starshumansnests.com/phil-pool where you will also find links to the participants.

    #photoMonday #fotoMontag #BlackAndWhitePhotoghraphy #monochrome #nakedPlanet #naked #FuckThePatriarchy #FuckAgeism #ageism #ageist #socialConstruction #BodyFreedom #NudeOutdoors

  4. Colette for my Ages project.

    Ages is a joyful reframing of age and a protest against ageism. Ageist images and notions festishise the younger and brand the old as ugly.

    More info at starshumansnests.com/phil-pool where you will also find links to the participants.

    #photoMonday #fotoMontag #BlackAndWhitePhotoghraphy #monochrome #nakedPlanet #naked #FuckThePatriarchy #FuckAgeism #ageism #ageist #socialConstruction #BodyFreedom #NudeOutdoors

  5. Another wonderful person added to my Ages project, the 22nd person. Hopefully a couple more this week. starshumansnests.com/ages/

    Much as each individual story is interesting and, hopefully the images are good too, they are all part of a wider project. It is about the social construction of age, which is largely harmful. Each participant is another example of someone, whatever age they happen to be, just being present - who and how they are just now. Do read what they have to say, the photos are vital of course, but they are only part of the process.

    I'm hoping to gather more people and to stretch the age range of the participants and the diversity of body types. Get in touch if you'd like to join.

    #human #blackandWhitePhotography #nakedProtest #ageism #ages #equality #bodyfreedom #bodyPositive #artprotest #fuckThePatriarchy #socialConstruction #socialConstructionOfAge #monochrome

  6. Another wonderful person added to my Ages project, the 22nd person. Hopefully a couple more this week. starshumansnests.com/ages/

    Much as each individual story is interesting and, hopefully the images are good too, they are all part of a wider project. It is about the social construction of age, which is largely harmful. Each participant is another example of someone, whatever age they happen to be, just being present - who and how they are just now. Do read what they have to say, the photos are vital of course, but they are only part of the process.

    I'm hoping to gather more people and to stretch the age range of the participants and the diversity of body types. Get in touch if you'd like to join.

    #human #blackandWhitePhotography #nakedProtest #ageism #ages #equality #bodyfreedom #bodyPositive #artprotest #fuckThePatriarchy #socialConstruction #socialConstructionOfAge #monochrome

  7. Another wonderful person added to my Ages project, the 22nd person. Hopefully a couple more this week. starshumansnests.com/ages/

    Much as each individual story is interesting and, hopefully the images are good too, they are all part of a wider project. It is about the social construction of age, which is largely harmful. Each participant is another example of someone, whatever age they happen to be, just being present - who and how they are just now. Do read what they have to say, the photos are vital of course, but they are only part of the process.

    I'm hoping to gather more people and to stretch the age range of the participants and the diversity of body types. Get in touch if you'd like to join.

    #human #blackandWhitePhotography #nakedProtest #ageism #ages #equality #bodyfreedom #bodyPositive #artprotest #fuckThePatriarchy #socialConstruction #socialConstructionOfAge #monochrome

  8. Another wonderful person added to my Ages project, the 22nd person. Hopefully a couple more this week. starshumansnests.com/ages/

    Much as each individual story is interesting and, hopefully the images are good too, they are all part of a wider project. It is about the social construction of age, which is largely harmful. Each participant is another example of someone, whatever age they happen to be, just being present - who and how they are just now. Do read what they have to say, the photos are vital of course, but they are only part of the process.

    I'm hoping to gather more people and to stretch the age range of the participants and the diversity of body types. Get in touch if you'd like to join.

    #human #blackandWhitePhotography #nakedProtest #ageism #ages #equality #bodyfreedom #bodyPositive #artprotest #fuckThePatriarchy #socialConstruction #socialConstructionOfAge #monochrome

  9. Ohhh, Rest In Probability Ian Hacking, who passed away yesterday aged 87 - one of the absolute best historian/philosophers of probability, statistics, mental illness and of science in general, his new Introduction to the 50th Anniversary Edition of Thomas Kuhn's classic The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is especially worth reading.
    #STS
    #HistoryOfScience
    #SocialConstruction
    #ThomasKuhn
    #Philosophy

    dailynous.com/2023/05/10/ian-h

  10. Ohhh, Rest In Probability Ian Hacking, who passed away yesterday aged 87 - one of the absolute best historian/philosophers of probability, statistics, mental illness and of science in general, his new Introduction to the 50th Anniversary Edition of Thomas Kuhn's classic The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is especially worth reading.
    #STS
    #HistoryOfScience
    #SocialConstruction
    #ThomasKuhn
    #Philosophy

    dailynous.com/2023/05/10/ian-h

  11. Ohhh, Rest In Probability Ian Hacking, who passed away yesterday aged 87 - one of the absolute best historian/philosophers of probability, statistics, mental illness and of science in general, his new Introduction to the 50th Anniversary Edition of Thomas Kuhn's classic The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is especially worth reading.
    #STS
    #HistoryOfScience
    #SocialConstruction
    #ThomasKuhn
    #Philosophy

    dailynous.com/2023/05/10/ian-h

  12. Ohhh, Rest In Probability Ian Hacking, who passed away yesterday aged 87 - one of the absolute best historian/philosophers of probability, statistics, mental illness and of science in general, his new Introduction to the 50th Anniversary Edition of Thomas Kuhn's classic The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is especially worth reading.
    #STS
    #HistoryOfScience
    #SocialConstruction
    #ThomasKuhn
    #Philosophy

    dailynous.com/2023/05/10/ian-h

  13. Ohhh, Rest In Probability Ian Hacking, who passed away yesterday aged 87 - one of the absolute best historian/philosophers of probability, statistics, mental illness and of science in general, his new Introduction to the 50th Anniversary Edition of Thomas Kuhn's classic The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is especially worth reading.
    #STS
    #HistoryOfScience
    #SocialConstruction
    #ThomasKuhn
    #Philosophy

    dailynous.com/2023/05/10/ian-h

  14. @ceruleanarc

    Really interesting post - and quite a rare one! I'm pleased to find it!

    Age is a social construction. Discussions or references (they are endless and ever present) are far less often about how many years a person has been alive. What it's nearly all about is how we are expected to be - what is right/wrong at a certain age and it's mostly judgemental or putting others done or ourselves down.

    It's nearly all negative... It's that way for people in their later teens and 20s trying to be taken seriously and being judged (and judging) about their appearance against absurd standards based on a model of 'beauty' that is shown continually but, in reality, is rare. It applies to people in our 40s to 60s being classed as having mid-life crises, to older people being seen as old or all right wing.

    I'm sick of younger people feeling like they need to say they are older to gain respect and older people feeling pressure to look younger so as not to be treated as ugly or over the hill. There's far more to it than that obviously.

    It's all bullshit.

    I'm doing a photo project about it starshumansnests.com/ages/

    I've set out some of these views and, sort of to illustrate them, I'm gradually adding photo sets of participants and their accounts of how/who they are right now. I'm hoping to get representatives of every year of life from 20 to 120.

    It's revealing as I've asked people also to show how they present themselves and to show what their naked bodies happen to look like - there's far too few images of what most people actually look like. But it's not just the photos, it's their words too.

    Thanks for your post.

    #Age #Ageism #BodyPositive #AgePositive #FuckThePatriarchy #Equality #SocialConstruction #SocialConstructionOfAge #NakedProtest #SocialJustice

  15. @ceruleanarc

    Really interesting post - and quite a rare one! I'm pleased to find it!

    Age is a social construction. Discussions or references (they are endless and ever present) are far less often about how many years a person has been alive. What it's nearly all about is how we are expected to be - what is right/wrong at a certain age and it's mostly judgemental or putting others done or ourselves down.

    It's nearly all negative... It's that way for people in their later teens and 20s trying to be taken seriously and being judged (and judging) about their appearance against absurd standards based on a model of 'beauty' that is shown continually but, in reality, is rare. It applies to people in our 40s to 60s being classed as having mid-life crises, to older people being seen as old or all right wing.

    I'm sick of younger people feeling like they need to say they are older to gain respect and older people feeling pressure to look younger so as not to be treated as ugly or over the hill. There's far more to it than that obviously.

    It's all bullshit.

    I'm doing a photo project about it starshumansnests.com/ages/

    I've set out some of these views and, sort of to illustrate them, I'm gradually adding photo sets of participants and their accounts of how/who they are right now. I'm hoping to get representatives of every year of life from 20 to 120.

    It's revealing as I've asked people also to show how they present themselves and to show what their naked bodies happen to look like - there's far too few images of what most people actually look like. But it's not just the photos, it's their words too.

    Thanks for your post.

    #Age #Ageism #BodyPositive #AgePositive #FuckThePatriarchy #Equality #SocialConstruction #SocialConstructionOfAge #NakedProtest #SocialJustice

  16. @ceruleanarc

    Really interesting post - and quite a rare one! I'm pleased to find it!

    Age is a social construction. Discussions or references (they are endless and ever present) are far less often about how many years a person has been alive. What it's nearly all about is how we are expected to be - what is right/wrong at a certain age and it's mostly judgemental or putting others done or ourselves down.

    It's nearly all negative... It's that way for people in their later teens and 20s trying to be taken seriously and being judged (and judging) about their appearance against absurd standards based on a model of 'beauty' that is shown continually but, in reality, is rare. It applies to people in our 40s to 60s being classed as having mid-life crises, to older people being seen as old or all right wing.

    I'm sick of younger people feeling like they need to say they are older to gain respect and older people feeling pressure to look younger so as not to be treated as ugly or over the hill. There's far more to it than that obviously.

    It's all bullshit.

    I'm doing a photo project about it starshumansnests.com/ages/

    I've set out some of these views and, sort of to illustrate them, I'm gradually adding photo sets of participants and their accounts of how/who they are right now. I'm hoping to get representatives of every year of life from 20 to 120.

    It's revealing as I've asked people also to show how they present themselves and to show what their naked bodies happen to look like - there's far too few images of what most people actually look like. But it's not just the photos, it's their words too.

    Thanks for your post.

    #Age #Ageism #BodyPositive #AgePositive #FuckThePatriarchy #Equality #SocialConstruction #SocialConstructionOfAge #NakedProtest #SocialJustice

  17. @ceruleanarc

    Really interesting post - and quite a rare one! I'm pleased to find it!

    Age is a social construction. Discussions or references (they are endless and ever present) are far less often about how many years a person has been alive. What it's nearly all about is how we are expected to be - what is right/wrong at a certain age and it's mostly judgemental or putting others done or ourselves down.

    It's nearly all negative... It's that way for people in their later teens and 20s trying to be taken seriously and being judged (and judging) about their appearance against absurd standards based on a model of 'beauty' that is shown continually but, in reality, is rare. It applies to people in our 40s to 60s being classed as having mid-life crises, to older people being seen as old or all right wing.

    I'm sick of younger people feeling like they need to say they are older to gain respect and older people feeling pressure to look younger so as not to be treated as ugly or over the hill. There's far more to it than that obviously.

    It's all bullshit.

    I'm doing a photo project about it starshumansnests.com/ages/

    I've set out some of these views and, sort of to illustrate them, I'm gradually adding photo sets of participants and their accounts of how/who they are right now. I'm hoping to get representatives of every year of life from 20 to 120.

    It's revealing as I've asked people also to show how they present themselves and to show what their naked bodies happen to look like - there's far too few images of what most people actually look like. But it's not just the photos, it's their words too.

    Thanks for your post.

    #Age #Ageism #BodyPositive #AgePositive #FuckThePatriarchy #Equality #SocialConstruction #SocialConstructionOfAge #NakedProtest #SocialJustice

  18. @ceruleanarc

    Really interesting post - and quite a rare one! I'm pleased to find it!

    Age is a social construction. Discussions or references (they are endless and ever present) are far less often about how many years a person has been alive. What it's nearly all about is how we are expected to be - what is right/wrong at a certain age and it's mostly judgemental or putting others done or ourselves down.

    It's nearly all negative... It's that way for people in their later teens and 20s trying to be taken seriously and being judged (and judging) about their appearance against absurd standards based on a model of 'beauty' that is shown continually but, in reality, is rare. It applies to people in our 40s to 60s being classed as having mid-life crises, to older people being seen as old or all right wing.

    I'm sick of younger people feeling like they need to say they are older to gain respect and older people feeling pressure to look younger so as not to be treated as ugly or over the hill. There's far more to it than that obviously.

    It's all bullshit.

    I'm doing a photo project about it starshumansnests.com/ages/

    I've set out some of these views and, sort of to illustrate them, I'm gradually adding photo sets of participants and their accounts of how/who they are right now. I'm hoping to get representatives of every year of life from 20 to 120.

    It's revealing as I've asked people also to show how they present themselves and to show what their naked bodies happen to look like - there's far too few images of what most people actually look like. But it's not just the photos, it's their words too.

    Thanks for your post.

    #Age #Ageism #BodyPositive #AgePositive #FuckThePatriarchy #Equality #SocialConstruction #SocialConstructionOfAge #NakedProtest #SocialJustice

  19. CW: Aging and non-sexual nudity

    Age - age is a social construction more than it is the number of years we've been alive. We need to notice that, question it, and challenge it - be the people we want to be.

    The social constructions of race and gender are well studied, if not that commonly understood. But there is a lack of perspectives about age as a construction. A good, but itself ageing (oops) assessment is set out in "Old Age - Constructions and Deconstructions" by Haim Hazan. It's very interesting but not very accessible (to me at least) consideration of how age, as a way of defining people, especially older people, occurs and is understood.

    About it the author says "The social image of the entire phenomenon of ageing has been transformed into a pathology." P19 and - "The aged are conceived as a mass of needs bound together by the stigma of age. Stripped of their personalities and distinctive identities, first and foremost they are treated as old." P21

    The focus is on the mass stereotyping of 'the old' into a group such that we all, more or less, know what I mean when I say 'the old' when, in fact, we also all know that those caught up in that label are far from homogeneous.. they are representatives of every possible aspect of life with only one thing in common, which is that they have not yet been killed by something.. they (perhaps we) will die of old age.

    Lumped together and not engaged with, segregated from other areas of life, the old are a very poorly described bunch of folks and we tend to think of them mainly as a problem.. that is not a healthy perspective!

    However, the social construction of age applies to any category of age - the young, the middle-aged, boomers, millennials etc. Not one of those categories is mostly positive. All define the members, people only linked by accident of the years of their birth, by a set of characteristics and measure them against a set of standards that is mostly critical and often harmful.

    The young are measured against standards of 'youthful beauty' and a 'perfect' body type that we see constantly that, in reality, is rare. In our middle ages we are mocked for having crises, for clinging on to that youthful desire (we probably never met that 'standard' anyway) and, in older age we are defined more by perceptions of what we can't do, and by discussions about us, not with us, about what's wrong with us (applies to us disabled people too).

    None of it is good. Question - re-evaluate - challenge.

    I'm gathering real life accounts of how people actually are at a moment in their lives, whatever number of years of life they've had. It's intentionally exposing - naked, and clothed, open and honest.

    You can find out more at - which contains naked people - not explicit starshumansnests.com/ages/

    #Age #Ageism #SocialConstruction #BodyImage #BodyPositive #AgePositive #SociologyOfAge #Naked #NakedInNature #NakedProtest #Equality #Discrimination