Initially, because of her subject matter alone, she was compared to Diane Arbus, who had made her name with photographs of so-called freaks and outsiders in the 1960s.
Most worrying, unemployment has soared, from an average of 8.3% in 2007 to 20.9% in May, the highest in the European Union (see chart).The source of Spain's egregiously high unemployment lies in the most pronounced division of all in its economy, that between insiders and outsiders in the labour market.
However, the ELSA → RRI metonymy also carries a risk: the envisioned merger of the ELSA-agenda (bent on promoting morally justified research) with innovation and industrial agendas may lead to silencing of critical, 'rogue' voices and outsiders in the debate, due to increased dependency on private sector parties and policy agendas.
To Americans, and outsiders in general, the new Toronto and its people can seem disconcertingly familiar and strange at the same time.
It was a quarter-century ago, with the publication of "Art Worlds" and "Outsiders" in France, that the strange second act of Becker's career began.
In recent years, Mrs. Roukema has become a target for the conservative wing of her party, which almost unseated her in two primary challenges, and an outsider in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives.
He laughs at being called a "beancounter" and an outsider in the advertising world; he bemoans being stereotyped as a north London Jew; he makes repeated, slightly awkward jokes about his short stature and later sends an email apologising again for turning up late.
And, ever the outsider in the computer business, he discussed what he thought was special about the industry, what was ordinary and what still irritates, even amuses, him about it.
And everything must be done by Iraqis and by outsiders, in the West and in neighbouring Arab and Muslim countries to give the new prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, a chance to stem the tide of chaos, to beat back the insurgency, and to give ordinary Iraqis a better life.
She seemed fractured and lost as an outsider in the movie business, after so many years of being deeply inside.
