"Youth culture as a kind of transformative, counter-cultural philosophy, it has to be shaped by older people and invariably it's by students," he says.
Our purpose in this paper is to advance theoretical understanding of the transformative potential of counter accounts by examining how they mediate the suffering of oppressed groups and how that mediation could lead to public action.
We find that, in general terms, the transformative potential of counter accounts is associated with their ability to act as a form of moral and political education, by repeatedly suggesting to their audiences how to feel about, and act publicly on, the suffering of an oppressed group.
These efforts may counter feelings that gender-transformative programmes are pinning gender equality and health changes on the shoulders of already marginalised groups of men.
Sometimes considered as revolutionary beginnings of a new urban era or as expressions of contingent protests unable to adequately counter the neoliberal restructuring of urban space and scaling-up, the transformative and emancipatory potential of these collective actions remains contested (Monno 2014).
Scott Pactor, who owns Appellation Wine & Spirits in New York City, says drinking wine at the proper temperature is also transformative, which is why he just stocked his Chelsea store with sleek counter-top Cuisinart wine cellars with "pre-set" temperature control settings for up to 12 different bottles.
Every truly transformative period in the past century — the Progressive Era, the New Deal, the conservative counter-reformation — was driven by a President, never by Congress.
It's transformative technology.
Barnard was truly transformative.
Simple, yet transformative!
