Cultural studies Books

Book SynopsisWhile cultural heritage practitioners and caretakers are often intimidated by best practices, Practical Approaches to Collections Care helps to alleviate those concerns, offering a stepped approach to preservation encompassing a variety of collections care programs.The author, drawing on over a decade of experience working in libraries, museums, archives, and other historic sites, and specifically building off of her work as a Preservation Specialist at the Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts, discusses realistic, efficient, and sustainable approaches to collection housing, space planning, environmental management, facilities care, emergency preparedness, and much more. Giving examples of implementation and easy-to-follow guides that will allow readers to start from scratch or improve an already existing program, Forsko demonstrates how preservation can become a component of any collections care program. Encouraging the reader to start by taking smaTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Intellectual Control; 3. Storage Enclosures and Artifact Housing; 4. Space Planning and Management; 5. Collections Care in Exhibitions; 6. Environmental Management; 7. Facilities Management; 8. Emergency Preparedness and Response; 9. Policies, Plans, and Procedures; 10. Conclusion Glossary

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Book SynopsisThis volume advocates a shift from the social constructivism found in the work of Thomas Luckmann and Peter Berger, to a communicative constructivism that acknowledges communication as an embodied form of action in its own right, according to which social actors, in engaging in communicative action, construct a material social reality that guides, delimits, and enables actions. A study of the importance of understanding the role of communication in an age in which digitization and mediatization have extended the reach of communication to a global level and brought about the emergence of the communication society, The Communicative Construction of Reality shows how communication society does not merely replace modern society and its hierarchical institutions, but complements it in a manner that continually results in conflicts leading to the refiguration of society. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology with interests in the sociology of knowledge, communication, anTable of ContentsI Introduction 1. Science and Theory 2. Scientific Language and Discourse 3. Theory II From Social to Communicative Construction 1. Social Action, Intersubjectivity and Communicative Lifeworld* Excursus on Phenomenology 2. From Language to Empirical Communication Research 3. "The Social Construction of Reality" and Its Critiques III. Social Theory: Communicative Action 1. Communicative Action 2. Reciprocity, Relationality and Positionality 3. Body, Sensuality and Affectivity 4. Working, Performance and Performativity 5. Objectivations, Objectifications and Signs 6. Signs and Communication 7. Social Reality, Communicative Lifeworld and Subjectivation IV. Theory of Society (A) Time and Sequentiality 1. Sequences of Communictative Action 2. Genres, Institutions and Communicative Forms 3. Social Structures 4. Discourse 5. Legitimations 6. The Other, Censorship and Social Power (B) Space and Media 1. Space 2. Presence, Situation und Mediation V. Diagnosis: Communication Society 1. From Discursivation to the Communication Society 2. Communicatization 3. Infrastructuring 4. Translocalization 5. Storage, De-Structuration and New Boundaries of Knowledge 6. Double Subjectivation VI. Conclusion: The Refiguration of Modernity 1. Beyond Modernity and Postmodernity 2. Figuration and Refiguration 3. Refigured Modernity

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Book SynopsisAn accessible introduction to the world of The Walking Dead, this book looks across platforms and analytical frameworks to characterize the fictional world of The Walking Dead and how its audiences make use of it.From comics and television to social media, apps, and mobile games, utilizing concepts derived from literary studies, media studies, history, anthropology, and religious studies, Matthew Freeman examines the functions and affordances of new digital platforms. In doing so, he establishes a new transdisciplinary framework for analyzing imaginary worlds across multiple media platforms, bolstering the critical arena of world-building studies by providing a greater array of vocabulary, concepts, and approaches.The World of The Walking Dead is an engaging exploration of stories, their platforms, and their reception, ideal for students and scholars of world-building, film and TV studies, new media, and everything in-between.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Beyond Literary and Media World-building 1. Comics and Television: Historiographical World-building 2. Augmented Television: Sociological World-building 3. Social Media: Religious World-building 4. Mobile Games: Philosophical World-building Conclusion: Towards a Transdisciplinary World-building Framework

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Book SynopsisInnovative Technology in Art Conservation provides one of the first ever critical assessments of innovation in conservation science and questions what role it should play in conservation and conservation ethics.Written in language understandable for the non-technical reader, the book begins with a brief history of so-called science-based conservation, which is based on chemistry, physics and engineering, and examines how it influences conservation ethics and conservation decisions. It considers the concepts of originality and original appearance, and how people see and perceive objects, looking in particular at the results of the relatively new technology of eye-tracking. Wei then moves on to critically examine advanced technologies such as colour modelling, hyperspectral imaging, texture mapping, virtual retouching and digital reproductions and considers what they offer for determining original appearance of artworks and other cultural heritage objects. The book concludes with some reflections on the future of conservation and science-based conservation, calling for more thoughtful consideration of what it is that conservation scientists are offering, and why and for whom it is being offered.Innovative Technology in Art Conservation is essential reading for academics and students working in conservation and conservation science. The book will also be of interest to the international community of conservators and cultural heritage professionals who must make decisions about whether to use advanced technologies in their practice.Table of ContentsI. Introduction – Conservation science and conservation ethics; II. Original appearance, perception and eye-tracking; III. Color; IV. Surface texture and appearance; V. Digitalization and reproduction technology; VI. The future – a new reality

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Book SynopsisThis Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of media geography, focusing on a range of different media viewed through the lenses of human geography and media theory. It addresses the spatial practices and processes associated with both old and new media, considering media not just as technologies and infrastructures, but also as networks, systems and assemblages of things that come together to enable communication in the real world. With contributions from academics specializing in geography and media studies, the Routledge Handbook of Media Geographies summarizes the recent developments in the field and explores key questions and challenges affecting various groups, such as women, minorities, and persons with visual impairment. It considers geographical aspects of disruptive media uses such as hacking, fake news, and racism. Written in an approachable style, chapters consider geographies of users, norms, rules, laws, values, attitudes, routines, customs, markets, anTable of Contents1. Introduction Part 1: Control and Access to Digital Media 2. Internet Censorship: Shaping the World’s Access to Cyberspace 3. Digital Divides 4. Hacking in Digital Environments 5. The Internet Media in China 6. Digital Media and Persons with Visual Impairment or Blindness Part 2: Mass Media 7. Newspapers: Geographic Research Approaches and Future Prospects 8. Fake News: Mapping the Social Relations of Journalism’s Legitimation Crisis 9. Film Geography 10. Approaches to the Geographies of Television 11. Geographical Analysis of Streaming Video’s Power to Unite and Divide Part 3: Mobile Media and Surveillance 12. Evolving Geographies of Mobile Communication 13. Moving: Mediated Mobility and Placemaking 14. Geographies of Locative Apps 15. Digital Surveillance and Place Part 4: Media and the Politics of Knowledge 16. Race, Ethnicity, and the Media: Absence, Presence, and Socio-Spatial Reverberations 17. Nationalism, Popular Culture, and the Media 18. Eurocentrism/Orientalism in News Media 19. Sex, Gender, and Media 20. Media, Biomes, and Environmental Issues

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Book SynopsisMuseums and Social Responsibility examines inherent contradictions within and effecting museum practice in order to outline a museological theory of how museums are important cultural practices in themselves and how museums shape the socio-cultural dynamics of modern societies, especially our attitudes and understandings about human agency and creative potential.Museums are libraries of objects, presenting thematic justification that dominant concepts of normativity and speciality, as well as attitudes of cultural deprecation. By sorting culture into hierarchies of symbolic value, museums cloak themselves in supposed objectivity, delivered with the passion of connoisseurship and the surety of scholarly research. Ulterior motives pertaining to socio-economic class, racial and ethnic othering, and sexual subjugation, are shrouded by that false appearance of objectivity. This book highlights how the socially responsive practitioner can challenge and subvert taken-for-grTrade Review"Kevin Coffee’s new book - Museums and Social Responsibility - is much needed by researchers, administrators and practitioners alike. Coffee tackles the hard problems of ideology and social responsibility in cogent, logical ways not often seen in museum reform critiques. A fundamental tenet ,with which I wholeheartedly agree, is that museums are not neutral organizations. Nor should we expect them to be. Coffee fearlessly tackles the ‘isms’ - racism, sexism and so on, as well as power and privilege in ways that make us sit up and re-think past stances in new ways."Doris Ash, Ph.D., Professor of Science Education, Emerita, University of California Santa Cruz"Kevin Coffee is a veteran scholar/practitioner having spent his career thoughtfully using method and theory to inform museum practice, and vice versa, with a critical assessment of its signs, symbols, values, and meaning. Museums are at a crossroads of accountability and relevance, and this book provides essential guidance in the transformation of museums as a learning experience." Robert R. Janes, Founder: Coalition of Museums for Climate Justice: https://cmcj.ca/Table of ContentsIntroduction; Chapter 1 Particularities and generalities; Chapter 2 The Agency of Ideology; Chapter 3 Museum knowing and learning; Chapter 4 Inclusion and Exclusion; Chapter 5 Praxis is Action; Chapter 6 How should we act?; References.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores themes around the Father, His absence in modern society and the decline of mental health. The nature of this decline can be uniquely psychoanalytically theorised, in both the corresponding ferocity of the internal object and exposure to the Real.The first part of this book underlines what psychoanalysis and psi-sciences continue to overlook: who now provides what Lacan called the narrow footbridge between anxiety and death? What terror(ism) must replace the father? How can reality be stabilised once more? The second part follows the atomised world as it turns towards extremism and utopian dreams: in Ireland via Hanaghan's radical psychoanalysis; in Levinasian ethics; in Gnostic belief in an evil world; and in the clinic of the death drive. The conclusion turns finally to the God beyond God, and the overwhelming evidence for God's presence in the world.Lacan in the End Times will be of interest to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists,Trade Review"Rob Weatherill asks questions based on his life’s work and research about contemporary culture and psychical organisation that few venture to ask. The provocations of this book will challenge, inspire and stimulate. Rob engages the reader with the most serious and consequential issues of our time. Read this and you will not emerge unmoved by Rob’s deep concerns about the state of our world." Dr Eve Watson, Psychoanalyst, Dublin; co-editor, Critical Essays on the Drive in Lacanian Theory and Practice (Routledge)"Through his books and lectures on psychoanalysis and the malaise of contemporary Western civilisation, Rob Weatherill has been among the key intellectual influences on my life. His books are frightening, urgent, dizzying in their range and erudition, and consistently willing to explore the bleakest, most harrowing corners of life in an atomised and apocalyptic culture. Moreover, by virtue of Weatherill’s insistence on the need for a moral and spiritual bulwark against the ravages of untrammelled capitalism on the psyche, his work is actively countercultural. There are precious few writers engaged with his themes and concerns."Rob Doyle, author, Threshold"I am delighted to recommend very warmly the new work of Rob Weatherill. I was very impressed with his previous work, The Anti-Oedipus, whose characteristic excellences the current work also displays. I found it illuminating in an intrepid way, courageous in an enlivening way, and wise in a discerning way. Weatherill trenchantly reminds us of ‘home-truths’ about the mess we have often made of things. That said, and not least, Weatherill, has something of the redeeming eye of the comic for our current self-incurred absurdities. Very warmly recommended." William Desmond, David Cook Chair in Philosophy, Villanova University, USA; Thomas A.F. Kelly Visiting Chair in Philosophy, Maynooth University, Ireland; Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven BelgiumTable of ContentsPart I 1. Do You Believe in Reality? 2. Where Have All the Fathers Gone? 3. Loving the Father into Life. 4. Being (not) in the World without a Father Part II 5. The Mystical Origins of Psychoanalysis in Ireland. 6. Hanaghan Returns. 7. Is it Righteous to Be? 8. Tired to Death in an Evil World. 9. The Irreducible Datum. Part III 10. The Evidence.

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Book SynopsisYouth Fiction and Trans Representation is the first book that wholly addresses the growth of trans and gender variant representation in literature, television, and films for children and young adults in the twenty-first century. Ranging across an array of mediaincluding picture books, novels, graphic novels, animated cartoons, and live-action television and feature filmsYouth Fiction and Trans Representation examines how youth texts are addressing and contributing to ongoing shifts in understandings of gender in the new millennium. While perhaps once considered inappropriate for youth, and continuing to face backlash, trans and gender variant representation in texts for young people has become more common, which signals changes in understandings of childhood and adolescence, as well as gender expression and identity. Youth Fiction and Trans Representation provides a broad outline of developments in trans and gender variant depictions for young people in the laTable of ContentsIntroduction: Transgender Studies and Children’s LiteratureChapter 1: Gender Nonconformity in Picture BooksChapter 2: Trans Children in Picture BooksChapter 3: Politicizing Gender in Young Adult Graphic NarrativesChapter 4: Show and Tell: Authoring the Trans Subject in Young Adult FictionChapter 5: Animating Gender: Subversive Gendering in Children’s CartoonsChapter 6: Loving and Hating Trans Youth in Adolescent TelevisionChapter 7: Manning Up and Womanning Down in Young Adult Gender-Disguise FilmsChapter 8: Embodying Difference: Gender and Race in Young Adult Body-Swap FilmsConclusion

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Book SynopsisThis book presents an innovative cross-disciplinary report on research across the humanities and social sciences about the relationship between pornography and its consumers.For policy makers and the wider public it can be difficult to obtain a clear understanding of the current state of knowledge on pornography and its relationships with audiences, due to the often-contradictory nature of research spanning the various and politically diverse academic disciplines. The cross-disciplinary expertise of the author team has engaged in an extensive examination of the findings of academic research in the area in order to explain, in a clear and accessible style, the most important conclusions about the relationship of pornography to Healthy Sexual Development.This short and accessible overview is suitable for students and scholars in Psychology, Sexual Health, Film Studies, Sex Education, Queer Theory, Gender Studies, Sexuality Studies, Sociology, Media Studies and Cultural Studies.Table of Contents1. Fifty years of academic research on pornography; 2. Method and approach; 3. Defining pornography; 4. Pornography and consent; 5. Learning from pornography; 6. Pornography and porn literacy; 7. Pornography and pleasure; 8. Recent academic research on pornography and healthy sexual development

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Book SynopsisDisrupting Mainstream Journalism in India offers a comprehensive and empirically-grounded analysis of the production of digital journalism by marginalized groups within Indian society.Drawing on in-depth interviews with practitioners as well as samples of news content, the author critically examines the way in which varied forms of digital alternative journalism provide socially, economically and politically disadvantaged groups with new and unprecedented opportunities to express their own perspectives, as well as offering alternatives to the hegemony of mainstream news narratives. These marginalized groups include women, Dalits and Muslims whose voices tend to be erased or misrepresented within the public sphere. By exploring these disruptions, Chadha offers insight into not only into the new media landscape of India but also its implications for journalism and democracy at large.Disrupting Mainstream Journalism in India is a valuable empirical resou

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Book SynopsisThis book argues that Halloween need not be the first nor the most influential youth slasher film for it to hold a special place in the history of youth cinema.John Carpenterâs 1978 horror hit was once considered the be-all, end-all of teen slasher cinema and was regarded as the first, the best, and the most influential American slasher film. Recent revisions in film history, however, have challenged Halloweenâs comfortable place in the canon of youth horror cinema. However, this book argues that the film, like no other, draws from the themes, imagery, and obsessions that fueled youth horror cinema since the 1950sâGothic atmosphere, atomic dread, twisted psychology, and alienated teenage monstersâand ties them together in the deceptively simple story of a masked killer on Halloween night. Along the way, the film delivers a savage critique of social institutions and their failure to protect young people. Halloween also depicts a cadre of compelling Table of ContentsChapter 1: I Was A Teenage Psycho Killer: Halloween and the History of Youth Horror CinemaChapter 2: Familial and Societal Failure: Reading Youth and Ideology in HalloweenChapter 3: A Triptych of Youth: Teenagers, Preadolescents, and Young Adults in HalloweenChapter 4: The Mise en Abyme of Youth: The Halloween Franchise

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Book SynopsisAn accessible introduction to understanding the current media environment and the culture it contains, this book provides an indispensable guide to dynamic media literacy in the digital environment.Katherine G. Fry draws from philosophies of technology and communication, from media ecology, critical cultural theory, and critical pedagogy to explain the dimensions of media environments. Fry introduces an essential dynamic media environment model that can be used as a framework for understanding global social challenges. The model extends media literacy education and practice by de-centering media messages, instead explaining media as environments as cultures created by and within our dominant form of communication. Exploring progressive education philosophies that advocate inclusion, independence, empathy, and critical thinking toward problem-solving in a rapidly changing world, this book includes media literacy examples, global case studies, exercises, and learning tools to Trade ReviewIn Dynamic Media Environments, Katherine G. Fry makes a compelling case for media literacy pedagogies and practices that embrace mediated environments and media ecologies. This text breaks important ground in evoking power, place and paradigms to bring critical media literacy practices into focus in formal and informal learning spaces. Fry's model reflects the media realities that guide daily life in local and global contexts and offers a series of media environment approaches to media education practice. This text is foundational for media studies, communication and media literacy educators around the world. - Paul Mihailidis, Professor, Civic Media & Journalism, Emerson College, Boston, USAIn Dynamic Media Environments, Katherine G. Fry, one of our leading media literacy scholars and practitioners, provides an important new approach to media education. By contextualizing media literacy through a synthesis with media ecology, the study of media as environments, she delivers a much-needed and long-awaited breakthrough, one that is nothing short of revolutionary. This book is essential reading for anyone concerned with understanding media, and especially anyone concerned with teaching about media in the 21st century. - Lance Strate, Professor of Communication and Media Studies, Fordham University, USATable of Contents1. Expanding the Scope of Media Literacy 2. Media as Environments 3. Content in the Dynamic Media Environment 4. Context in the Dynamic Media Environment 5. Power in the Dynamic Media Environment 6. Paradigms in the Dynamic Media Environment 7. Media Literacy Pedagogy Today 8. Applying the Dynamic Media Environment Model

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Book SynopsisThis collection of multi-disciplinary essays offers a fresh, perspective on Central Asian art and culture as it gains increased attention on both the local and international stage. Influenced by the golden ages of its history from the ancient Scythians, through the glory of the Persians and Turks, and shaped by the Russian and later Soviet imperial powers the region is revealed as exotic, dramatic, and universally topical. Contributions come from scholars and participants in the Central Asian cultural scene who specialise in different, often isolated, spheres. Their unifying theme is identity and its formation, including national, ethnic, cultural, religious and gender identities.Art and culture are shown to have active social roles representing, analysing, questioning and supporting social upheavals and change. Culture is seen as an intrinsic part of society; while being affected by the specific historical context, it does at times affect it in return. From major socio-ecTable of Contents1. Introduction: art and culture – actors or representatives? 2. Nation, religion and social heat: heritaging Uyghur mäshräp in Kazakhstan 3. The art of the Sixtiers in Soviet Kazakhstan, or how to make a portrait from a skull 4. Soviet architecture, Kazakh nationalist sentiments and the making of Soviet Kazakhstan, 1925–33: the cases of Kyzylorda and the House of Government of the Kazakh ASSR in Almaty 5. From Sufism to communism: incarnations of the Uyghur song ‘Imam Hüsäynim’ 6. Contesting convention: agency in Dushanbe’s contemporary art scene 7. Queer identity in the contemporary art of Kazakhstan

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Book SynopsisReflections on Critical Museology: Inside and Outside Museums offers a reflective and reflexive re-assessment of museum studies and the first wide-ranging account of critical museology. Drawing on an extensive range of examples from museums and across the museological literature, which are purposefully representative of very different cultural backgrounds, the book issues a plea for critical thinking in and about museums. The various institutions covered and the plural analytical standpoints offer a broad interdisciplinary approach by intermingling art history, anthropology, sociocultural theories and heritage studies. The result is not claimed as a universal or all-encompassing account but a subjective review produced by J. Pedro Lorente, an art critic and historian who has been writing extensively about critical museology' in different languages for many years. Lorente offers a fascinating synopsis of his ideas in this extremely valuable short book, looking Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1 Academic echoes of the label ‘critical museology’ and its referents; 2 Museums in question, self-questioning museums; 3 Variety and plurality in spatial and interpretive discourse; 4 Representations of historical legacies in times of self-reflexive museology; 5 Final considerations; Index.

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Book SynopsisLives in Motion celebrates dance in Thailand, focusing on the diversity of Thailand's dance cultures and their place in today's world. Giving voice to eminent artists and scholars on the complex roles that Thailand is pursuing for artful movement at home and abroad, the book provides key perspectives on Thai dance traditions and practitioners. It explores the many forms and meanings in contemporary dance, changing local traditions in the country, the evolution of Thai dance on the global stage, and hybrid features of the Thai dance world.The book examines how hybridity has been integral to dance cultures in Thailand and discusses how they have actively adapted and negotiated their knowledge in relation to modernity and globalization. Developing new models, standards and sites for dance, movement and theater, dance in Thai has been advancing in innovative ways, whether it is to include fresh forms of skilled bodily movement or to expand in new arenas like tourism and Table of ContentsList of Figures viiContributors xForeword xivAcknowledgments xvi1 Introduction: Dancing in Thailand 1PORNRAT DAMRHUNG AND LOWELL SKAR2 Remembering Contemporary Thai Dance with an Eye to Its Futures 17SURAPONE VIRULRAK3 Unseen Thailand: Exploring the Hidden Lives of Dance in Contemporary Thai Culture 31PORNRAT DAMRHUNG4 Lakhon Phanthang: Thai Hybrid Dance Drama on the International Stage in the Early 20th Century 47PAKAMAS JIRAJARUPAT5 Reimagining Classical Thai Dance for the 21st Century: The Evolution of Pichet Klunchun’s “No. 60” 65LOWELL SKAR6 A Glocalized Tradition: Worldly Currents of Nora in Southern Thailand 81KANIT SRIPAORAYA7 Made to Order: Corporeality and Community in the Contemporary Isan Dancing Body 97TANATCHAPORN KITTIKONG8 Preparing BFA Students for a Life in the World of Dance: Thai University Pedagogies 111SUPHANNEE BOONPENG9 Lanna Dance Now: Our Moves with Contemporary Northern Thai Performance Cultures 125SARAN SUWANACHOTE, RONNARONG KHAMPHA, AND WAEWDOW SIRISOOK10 B-Floor’s Moves on the Contemporary Stage 141JARUNUN PHANTACHAT11 My Improbable, Extraordinary West-East Dance Life 156BENJAMIN TARDIF12 Dance Dreams Realized: My Journey from a Bangkok Dance School to New York’s Dance Theater World (and Back Again) 171NAPAT RODBOON13 Artists’ Interviews 186LOWELL SKAR AND PORNRAT DAMRHUNG14 Glossary of Terms Relevant to Dance in Thailand 225PORNRAT DAMRHUNG AND LOWELL SKARIndex 237

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Book SynopsisThis edited collection examines art resulting from cross-cultural interactions between Australian First Nations and non-Indigenous people, from the British invasion to today. Focusing on themes of collaboration and dialogue, the book includes two conversations between First Nations and non-Indigenous authors and an historianâs self-reflexive account of mediating between traditional owners and an international art auction house to repatriate art. There are studies of âreverse appropriationâ by early nineteenth-century Aboriginal carvers of tourist artefacts and the production of enigmatic toa. Cross-cultural dialogue is traced from the post-war period to âAboriginalismâ in design and the First Nations fashion industry of today. Transculturation, conceptualism, and collaboration are contextualised in the 1980s, a pivotal decade for the growth of collaborative First Nations exhibitions. Within the current circumstances of political protest in photographic portraiture and againstTrade Review‘Truth-telling and reconciliation between First Nations and those who have since arrived has become the priority for all Australians, in all aspects of our lives and work. Awareness of this fact has been two centuries, and more, in the making. Indigenous art has been crucial to this development. It is a vivid evocation of a sovereign culture, an offering to fellow Australians and the wider world. Non-Indigenous artists, curators and critics have responded in a variety of ways. The complexities of these exchanges are explored in unprecedented depth and detail in this book. There are fascinating chapters on the experiences of first nations artists and curators, given in their own voices. A precise profile of the life and art of William Barak in Coranderrk in the 1880s and 1890s is woven into an account of the recent sale of one of his works in New York. Interactions between Conceptual artists and leading Papunya painters during the 1980s are explored as are several recent examples of collaborative art making, exhibition curating, and fashion design. The challenges, and the triumphs, of transcultural exchange are on vivid display.’Terry Smith, Emeritus Professor of Art History, University of Sydney, Australia.Table of ContentsIntroduction1. The Weight of Grief – Maree Clarke and Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll on Artist-centricity 2. On Working as an Aboriginal Museum Director and Curator of the Berndt Museum3. Price and Provenance: William Barak as an Artist in the Market4. The Duplicity of Emus and Kangaroos: Coats of Arms from the Australian Frontier5. The Toa of the Dieri6. ‘The Arts are where Cultures Meet’: A Cross-cultural Analysis of Aboriginal Art in Fashion and Textile Design7. Aesthetically Similar but Politically Far Apart: The Art and Designs of Bill Onus and Byram Mansell during the Assimilationist Era8. Shared Motives: New Art and Curatorial Collaborations in the 1980s9. Decolonisation and Conceptual Art: Collaboration, Appropriation, TransculturationIan McLean10. Widening the Aperture: Cross-cultural Collaboration – A Perspective from Borroloola11. Wrecking Culture: Australian Iconoclash 2020

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This book, the first of its kind, brings together leading scholars from multiple perspectives in a serious dialogue about continuity and change in global media production and content. Looking at a wide swath of the world, these authors show the emergence of transnational collaboration in global television and film production across national borders that seem to transcend national cultures and identities. At the same time, traditional class analysis of such phenomena is reframed within the rise of myriad social movements for equality, democracy, human rights, and defense of the environment. What are the effects of media, local or global? Does the West continue to dominate or is cultural imperialism waning? With original chapters written by leading scholars from a variety of disciplines, this book will appeal to students and scholars interested in global media communication, cultural studies, and international political economy.

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Book SynopsisAn accessible, engaging, and timely overview of the key debates surrounding the role of mobile media in today's society.Edited by Thilo von Pape and Veronika Karnowski, this volume includes contributions from a variety of geographical and disciplinary backgrounds, reflecting the diverse standpoints within the field of mobile media and communication. The collection explores perspectives from the micro-level of individual or small group appropriation of mobile media, to the uses and effects among larger communities, public spaces, and societies at large. The chapters address individual uses and effects of mobile media, such as problematic smartphone use, news consumption through mobile media, and mobile media as an empowerment tool for entrepreneurs. They also discuss the role of mobile media in private and professional social constellations (phubbing, personal mobile device use at work) and in struggles over personal empowerment, counter-power, and global develo

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Book SynopsisThis fourth edition of Women in Mass Communication addresses the myriad changes in media and mass communication disciplines in relation to women over the last five decades.This volume traces the history of diversity, equity, and inclusion for women in media, enabling greater understanding of global discourses and inequities, exploring transnational feminism, offering criticism of underlying structures, and calling for meaningful changes to media systems. With particular emphasis on educational and professional approaches to media communication, the book brings together a wide variety of specific topics and connects them through an intersectional feminist lens that values diversity, equity, and inclusion while exposing global systemic misogyny. The volume features 23 authors with a variety of backgrounds and perspectives from Australia, Germany, Ghana, Kenya, Korea, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, and the United States. This fourth edition focuses on marginalization practicesârace, ethnicity, LGBTQ+, social class, and in multiple societiesâproviding insight into identity and difference in a global context. An important text for students and scholars examining gender in relation to mass communication, media studies, and journalism, as well as those exploring wider issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion within these disciplines.Table of ContentsPart 1: Perspectives 1. Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, and Misogyny: Challenges in Mass Communication 2. Social Media and Misogyny: A Perilous Landscape 3. The Other: Identity and Difference in Global, Religious, and Gendered Context Part 2: Challenges in the Academy and Profession 4. Misogyny in Academia: The Irreparable Harm of Institutional Abuse 5. "All Your Tools Belong to Us": Feminist Uses of Media from the 19th to 21st Century 6. A Socio-Ecological Model of Influence: Pursuing Racial Equity and Inclusion in Public Relations 7. Incongruity of Gender Roles: Media Impact on Women in Science and Health Communication Part 3: Global Realities 8. Gender and Digital Communication in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Feminist Political Economy of Enduring Inequities 9. Social Media’s Gendered Affordances for Mobile Migrant Women in the Arabian Gulf 10. "Doing Gender": Cultural Differences in the Feminization of PR in Europe 11. Women Journalists and News: Lessons from New Zealand and Australia 12. Unraveling Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: The Role for Feminists and Media in Making Progress Last Part 4: Women in Mass Communication Celebration: Honoring Contributions of Colleagues

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Book SynopsisConspiracy Theories in the Time of Covid-19 provides a wide-ranging analysis of the emergence and development of conspiracy theories during the Covid-19 pandemic, with a focus on the US and the UK.The book combines digital methods analysis of large datasets assembled from social media with politically and culturally contextualised close readings informed by cultural studies. In contrast to other studies which often have an alarmist take on the infodemic, it places Covid-19 conspiracy theories in a longer historical perspective. It also argues against the tendency to view conspiracy theories as merely evidence of a fringe or pathological way of thinking. Instead, the starting assumption is that conspiracy theories, including Covid-19 conspiracy theories, often reflect genuine and legitimate concerns, even if their factual claims are wide of the mark. The authors examine the nature and origins of the conspiracy theories that have emerged; the identity and rationale of Trade Review"In this timely book, Birchall and Knight provide a much needed and nuanced account of Covid conspiracy theories. Combining both distant and close reading, they show what is new and what isn’t, and make a compelling argument that these conspiracy theories are often rooted in legitimate concerns and social anxieties."Michael Butter, Professor of American Studies, University of Tübingen, Germany"This essential and timely book by two leading scholars simultaneously provides a wonderful synthesis of scholarship on conspiracy theory and an insightful and informed account of the theories surrounding Covid. It’s a necessary corrective to simplistic assumptions about popular belief and disbelief and will remain relevant for decades."Mark Fenster, University of Florida, USA"A careful, nuanced overview of the way conspiracy theories help make—and unmake—the world we share, and how Covid-19 conspiracy theories have seamlessly become part of broader, much older narratives about power and control, freedom and paranoia."Anna Merlan, Author of Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to PowerTable of ContentsIntroduction: Pandemic, Plandemic, Infodemic 1. Deep Background: The Contexts of Conspiracy Theory 2. Infodemic: Metaphor, Measurement and Moral Panic 3. A Year of Covid-19 Conspiracy Theories: Part 1 4. A Year of Covid-19 Conspiracy Theories: Part 2 5. Coalitions of Distrust: Features of Coronavirus Conspiracy Theories 6. Conspiracy Entrepreneurs and Marketplace Bots 7. Infrastructural Design and Disinfo Capitalism Conclusion: Confronting Conspiracism

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Book SynopsisThis book engages with the changing ways in which we, as a society and culture, look upon and interact with animals, stressing how much animals differ among themselves. An invitation to appreciate the peculiar role of animals in telling important if uncomfortable truths about who we are and where we are heading namely, towards a world so much poorer in cultural, moral, and biological diversity as a result of the ongoing decimation of so many other species. Drawing on a variety of thought ranging from that of Midgley, Plumwood, and Murdoch to Levinas, Derrida, and Habermas, from ecophilosophers to conservation biologists, Animal Lives and Why They Matter asks how we have come to this, and what an alternative, less destructive approach to our now precarious coexistence with animals might look like. Spanning the disciplines of philosophy, psychology, and anthropology, this enquiry into various cross-species relationships and encounters will appeal to scholars and studenTable of Contents1. Animals make us human 2. Call and response, or eating and being eaten 3. A dog named Bobby: animals as agents and addressees 4. Encounters as experiences of conversion 5. Responsibility and grievability in the face of extinction

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Book SynopsisWine, Terroir and Utopia critically explores these three concepts from multi-disciplinary and intersecting perspectives, focusing on the ways in which they collide to make new worlds, new wines, new places and new peoples.Wine, terroir and utopia are all rooted in natural, spatial and temporal realities, yet all are unable to exist without purposeful human intervention. This edited volume highlights the theoretical and analytical lens of diverse scholars, who critically discuss a dazzling array of intersecting realities and imaginaries economic, political, cultural, social and geological and in doing this challenge many of our deeply-held responses to utopia. Drawing on an impressive range of international examples from South Africa to Bordeaux to New Zealand, the chapters adopt a range of theoretical and methodological approaches.This volume will be of great interest to upper level students, researchers and academics in the fields of Sociology, Geography, TTable of ContentsList of illustrations; List of Contributors; AcknowledgementsMaking new worlds: The utopian potentials of wine and terroir; 1. The four pillars of utopian wine: Terroir, viticulture, degustation and cellars; 2. To wash away a British stain: Class, trans-imperialism and Australian wine imaginary; 3. Liberty and order: Wine and the South Australian project; 4. Burgundy’s climats and the utopian wine heritage landscape; 5. Inventing tradition and terroir: The case of Champagne in the late nineteenth century; 6. Terroir wines in Champagne: Between ideology and utopia; 7. Ecotopian mobilities: Terroir-driven tourism and migration in British Columbia, Canada; 8. Certified utopia: Ethical branding and the wine industry of South Africa; 9. The commercial basis of terroir utopias in Calabria; 10. Ideals for sustainability in the Australian wine industry: Authenticity and identity; 11. Utopia regained: Nature and the taste of terroir; 12. Utopia is just up the road and toward the past: Young Australian winemakers return to ancient methods; 13. Deep terroir as utopia: Explorations of place and country in southeastern Australia; 14. Plain-sight utopia: Boutique winemakers, urbane vineyards and terroir-torial mooringsIndex

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Book SynopsisHistorical studies on the involvement of architecture in twentieth-century politics have overlooked its contribution to building Spain's democracy. This pioneering book seeks to fill that void. Between the late 1970s and early 1990s, Spain founded representative institutions, launched its welfare state, and devolved autonomy to its regions. The study brings forth the architectural incarnation of that threefold program as it deployed in the Valencian Country, a Catalan-speaking region on Spain's Mediterranean shores. There, social democratic authorities mobilized architects, planners, and graphic artists to devise a newly open public sphere and to recover a local identity that Franco's dictatorship had repressed for decades. The research follows the impetus of reform and its contradictions through urban projects, designs for cultural amenities, and the renovation of governmental and professional bodies. Architecture for Spain's Recovered Democracy contributes to current debateTable of ContentsList of Illustrations. Acknowledgements. Introduction. CHAPTER 1. Institutional Bases of a Democratic Architecture. CHAPTER 2. Urban Design and Regime Change: Túria River Park (1979–1991). CHAPTER 3. Between Cosmopolitanism and Localism: The Valencian Institute of Modern Art (1984–1989). CHAPTER 4. Recovering Heritage for the Welfare Age: The Roman Theatre at Sagunt (1984–1993). CONCLUSION. An Architecture for the Region. Bibliography and Archival Sources. Index.

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Book SynopsisIn view of the ever-increasing use of interactive and emerging technologies in museum spaces, Museums and Technologies of Presence rethinks the role of such technologies as potential facilitators of presence and as vehicles for offering new, immersive, and embodied visitor experiences.This edited collection presents theoretical approaches and case studies that explore how presence can be experienced in museum spaces and what role technology can play in visitor experiences. It considers the theoretical underpinnings of the concept âpresenceâ for museum spaces, offering a critical examination of how immersive and other emerging technologies can affect, diminish or enhance our sense of presence and embodiment. Through an international range of case studies and innovative projects, this volume considers emerging technologies â including virtual reality, augmented reality, interactive (multisensory) installations, and AI â alongside different aspects of presence, including Table of ContentsChapter 1 Presence, Museums and Immersive Technologies: An interdisciplinary exploration; Part I: Presence as Immersion, Embodiment, and Multisensory Experiences; Chapter 2 Simulated, Stimulated, and Emulated Presence in 3D Digital Museums; Chapter 3 Presence in immersive museum exhibitions: the role of agency, body-ownership and awareness; Chapter 4 Designing Cultural Experiences within Technosocial Systems; Chapter 5 Multisensory Visitor Engagement: an Analysis of Three Case Studies; Chapter 6 Reconfiguring the Viewer: Modes of Perception and Attention in Immersive Museum Experience; Part II: Affective Presence and Absence; Chapter 7 Affective Presence through 3D Printing: Some Considerations on Materiality, Temporality and Technological Modes of Production; Chapter 8 Technology and presence in a museum of trauma: Therapeutic effects of making danger real Chapter 9 Breathe: Bridging the personal and the planetary through augmented-reality experiences; Chapter 10 Museums and the Power of Absence: Agrippa (A Book of the Dead); Part III: Spatio-temporal Presence; Chapter 11 Digital sensory experiences in museums. Does space matter?; Chapter 12 Museological presence through deep mapping: the Atlas of Maritime Buddhism; Chapter 13 Interwoven Spaces with XR, AI and Robots: Merging Realities in Space and Time; Chapter 14 (Co)-Presence with the Past Using Emerging Technologies in Contemporary Art: Institutional Critique Re-envisioned

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a detailed exploration of the role social media plays in our daily lives and across a variety of contexts, from social networking sites, messaging applications, and enterprise communication platforms to virtual reality.Offering readers an introduction to the uses, effects, and central debates surrounding the subject of social media, this text is organized into three sections, each with a distinct focus. Part I provides an overview of social media, defining it through communication characteristics and exploring both theoretical and practical approaches to understanding it; Part II examines the impact of social media on individual users, including its effects on expression, health, and relationship management; and Part III investigates the wider social implications of social media, including its impact on politics, entertainment, marketing, and information consumption. Featuring key contemporary case studies and learner-centered exercises throughout, thiTable of ContentsPart 1 1. What is Social Media? 2. Social Media Users 3. Social Media Design and Affordance 4. Social Media Economy Part 2 5. Social Media and the Self 6. Social Media for Relationship Management 7. The Use of Social Media among Children and Older Adults 8. Social Media for Health and Fitness Part 3 9. Social Media for News and Information Sharing 10. Social Media for Social Movement and Political Campaign 11. Social Media Marketing 12. Social Media Entertainment and Well-being

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Book SynopsisThe Group Dimension presents a thorough exploration of the history and theory of the group dimension, particularly in the context of modern capitalist society.The book traces the development of capitalism from feudalism, where the first polis groups can be identified, and describes the growth of the power of the state prescribed by John Maynard Keynes to form neoliberalism. Bacha then explores the deep history of human groups, examines how our brains are built for and by multibody interactions and understandings, and provides an overview of our knowledge of groups, building on findings from group analysis. The book concludes by exploring how an understanding of groups, their facilitation and their consciousness redefines current individualistic and autistic 'freedom', to build the new world through dialogue.The Group Dimension will be essential reading for anyone involved in groups, as practitioners or clients. It will also be of interest to read

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Book SynopsisWinner of the RadomÃr LuÅa Prize, German Studies Association and The American Friends of the Documentation Center of Austrian Resistance, 2024Chosen for the George L. Mosse Annual Lecture in the History of Gender and Sexuality, 2024This book provides a historical analysis of one of Sigmund Freudâs least-studied cases, published in 1920 as The Psychogenesis of a Case of Homosexuality in a Woman.Scholars of sexuality often focus on Freudâs writings on male homosexuality, disregarding his views on homosexual women. This book serves as a corrective, renewing and reinvigorating interest in Freud, and demonstrating that his views on sexuality are as relevant today as ever. Part I introduces the case and explores Freudâs attitudes towards lesbianism, radical among his medical colleagues in the early twentieth century. It also puts Margarethe Csonka, the patient, at its centre. Michal Shapira considers Freudâs only treatment of a femalTrade Review'Michal Shapira’s brilliant close analysis of Sigmund Freud’s final published case study, his 1920 "The Psychogenesis of a Case of Homosexuality in a Woman," has been the least examined but perhaps one of the most relevant of his cases for our time. Shapira provides the first serious account of the circumstances and implications of his case study not only in the light of Freud’s complex dealing with racism and misogyny in his Vienna, but also the evolution of the notion of sexual perversions from the clinical and forensic psychiatry of the late 19th century through to the rise of psychoanalysis. Given the fact that the former have now reappeared on the right across the world, Shapira provides a guide to understanding their function and their political as well as personal ramifications. A book of true importance today.'Sander L. Gilman, author of Freud, Race, and Gender'Michal Shapira provides a lucid, vivid, and compelling new account of Freud’s least well-known case study. I thoroughly recommend this study to anyone interested in the history of psychoanalysis, or concerned with the vicissitudes of gender and sexuality, identity and politics in early twentieth-century Europe.'Daniel Pick, psychoanalyst, British Psychoanalytical Society; Professor of History, University of London'Michal Shapira’s latest book is a refreshing, original and revealing exploration of one of Freud’s most intriguing, misunderstood and neglected case studies, the case of the female homosexual, Margarethe Csonka, who also used the pseudonym, Sidonie Csillag. Michal Shapira has developed and filled out Freud’s rather short discussion of the case by illuminating his patient’s life and relationships in inter-war Vienna with historical research that fills in her world in rich detail. A remarkable book on a singular, resistant woman whose encounters with Freud changed the course of psychoanalysis and prefigured of our contemporary concepts of feminism, gay rights and queer theory.'Elizabeth Grosz, author of Jacques Lacan: A Feminist Introduction (Routledge, 1990)'A brilliant overview of early sexology and Freud’s relationship to the field. By situating Freud within the intellectual, political, and cultural context of his time, Shapira offers a provocative and nuanced take on Freud’s views of homosexuality. Shapira uniquely pairs a close reading of Freud’s long-overlooked 1920 case study on homosexuality in women with other records of the patient’s life and times, offering an innovative assessment of same-sex desire among women and the limits of psychoanalysis. A must-read for historians of sexuality.'Jen Manion, Ph.D, Professor of History and Sexuality, Women's & Gender Studies, Amherst College'A "fool who had a filthy imagination." Thus did the subject of Freud's sixth and final case describe him much later in life. But in Michal Shapira's discerning hands, the 1920 case of a "female homosexual" opens up a Viennese world of emancipation and daring: of glass bathtubs, love under Secessionist arches, commodious private telephone boxes – and a Freud who was much more radical than his critics often acknowledge.'Deborah Cohen, Northwestern University, Department of History 'Drawing on recent material, Shapira provides a many-tentacled, contextual approach to Freud’s 'Case of a Female Homosexual', linking sexology, criminal law, Jewish life and urban history to elaborate on Freud’s own radical ideas.'Lisa Appignanesi, Co-Author of Freud’s WomenTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Freud, the Medical Discourse and Female Homosexuality Part II: Margarethe Csonka/Sidonie Csillag (1900-1999): An Assimilated Jewish Female Homosexual in Modern Vienna Conclusion

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Book SynopsisChildrenâs Literature in Place: Surveying the Landscapes of Childrenâs Culture is an edited collection dedicated to individual, international, and interdisciplinary considerations of the places and spaces of childrenâs literature, media, and culture, from content to methodology, in fictional, virtual, and material settings. This volume proposes a survey of the changing landscapes of childrenâs culture, the expected and unexpected spaces and places that emerge as and because of childrenâs culture. The places and spaces of childrenâs literature are varied and diverse. By making place studies a guiding principle, this book builds on the impressive body of international research on place in childrenâs literature, media, and culture to bring together and provide a comprehensive overview of how to study place in childrenâs and young adult literature. This volume provides a wide range of approaches and international perspectives of place in childrenâs literature, media, and cultur

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Book SynopsisHeritage, Memory and Identity in Postcolonial Board Games is a unique edited collection that explores the interplay of heritage, memory, identity and history within postcolonial board games and their surrounding paratexts. It also examines critiques of these games within the gamer communities and beyond.Drawing on a range of international contributions, examples and case studies, this book shows how colonialism-themed games work as representations of the past that are influenced by existing heritage narratives and discourses. It also considers the implications of using colonial histories in games and its impact on its audience, the games' players.Heritage, Memory and Identity in Postcolonial Board Games will be relevant to scholars and postgraduate students in the fields of game studies, game design or development, heritage studies, postcolonial criticism, media studies, and history. It will also be beneficial to practicing game developers.Table of Contents1. An Introduction to Board Games in Postcolonial Game Studies; 2. "Two, Three… Many Vietnams". Anti-Colonial Struggle, Postcolonialism and Counterinsurgency in Historical Board Games; 3. Design Elements in Postcolonial Commercial Historical Board Wargames; 4. Colonialist and Anti-Colonialist Play in Spirit Island: A Ludo-Textual Analysis; 5. Unearthing Ancient Roots? Recognizing and Redefining Mexican Identity through Board Games; 6. The Brazilian (Gamer) Culture through the Lenses of Nostalgia: An Analysis of Brazil: Imperial; 7. Heritagisation and Heritage Conflict: The Finnish Afrikan tähti Board Game and its Change to Contested Heritage, 1951–2021; 8. No Meeples for Scramble for Africa. Online Debates on Playing Historical Trauma

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Book SynopsisConsent: Legacies, Representations, and Frameworks for the Future examines the conceptualisation of consent' across various historical periods, cultures, and disciplines to offer an expansive, pluralistic vision for future articulations of consent as it circulates throughout contemporary life in sexual encounters, medical contexts, and media representations.This volume is distinctive in its diverse conceptual scope and commitment to cross-disciplinary dialogue, accommodating perspectives on consent that are contextually sensitive and culturally diverse. The chapters examine a range of topics, from socio-cultural engagements with consent in Latin American music, feminist movements in Pakistan, and BDSM in Poland, to theoretical and pedagogical ones exploring alternative possibilities for framing and understanding consent through intersectional approaches and institutional curricula.Consent: Legacies, Representations, and Frameworks for the Future is of valTable of ContentsTable of Contents; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; PART I: Culture and Resistance 2. Could Briseis Consent? A Critical Comparison of Contemporary Women Writers’ Adaptations of Briseis’s Narrative 3. Stopping the Rapist in our Path: Resisting Rape Culture in Latin American Music and Performance Art 4. Mera Jism, Meri Marzi: Crisis of Consent and Digital Mediations in Pakistan 5. Do to Me What I Could Never Ask of You: Consensual Non-Consent in BDSM and the Limits of Affirmative Consent; PART II: Consent on Stage and Screen 6.‘You Have No Right to Do What You Like with Me’: Rape, Sexual Abuse, and Consent in African American Enslavement and its Afterlives 7. Without Consent or Memory: Consent in Michaela Coel’s I May Destroy You 8. Beyond ‘Yes, and...’: Consent in the Theatre Arts Curriculum, On-stage and Off; PART III: Lived Experience and (Authorial) Expressions 9. Re-establishing Identity through Testimony: The Rape Survival Narratives of Mary Hays’s The Victim of Prejudice (1799) and Mary Wollstonecraft’s Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman (1798) 10. ‘A Skin of One’s Own’: Decolonising Traumatic Testimony and the Poetics of Wholeness 11. ‘I wasn’t aware at the time, I could actually say “no”’: Intimacy, Expectations, and Consent in Queer Relationships; PART IV: Futures of Consent 12. Troubling Technologies for Sexual Consent 13. Sexual Offences and Defined Consent: Lessons from the Past and a Framework for the Future 14. Op-eds and Fashion Shows: The History and Future of Consent Education in Ireland 15. Consent Wars? Towards a Critical-Governmentality Approach to Consent in Post-Roe America 16. Afterword; Index

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Book SynopsisThis book presents new ways of understanding heritage and heritage work. It addresses the ways physical processes of creation, maintenance and decay are entangled with cultural and political processes of management, access and care. The book analyzes a critical practice of heritage work oriented to recognizing and collaborating with diverse knowledge holders and their practices of caring for heritage. This requires rethinking accepted heritage concepts, such as heritage management, artifact, site and the definition of heritage itself. The book presents an engaging and applied approach to this task through examples that include Majapahit statues and temples in Indonesia, skating in London, an online heritage movement, building bivouacs in Australia, First Nations advocacy for Country and batik collections in the Netherlands. Offering a new model for collaborative heritage research and analysis, this book will be of interest to researchers, students and practitioners. DrTable of ContentsIntroduction. Heritage, movement, and the care of precious thingsTod Jones1. Making bivouacs, sustaining heritage: how heritage is movement in configuration with an environmentTod Jones2. A response to skate heritageTod Jones3. Why heritage is movement in configuration with an environment. A framework for heritage based on flows rather than objectsTod Jones4. Scale and World Heritage on the Ningaloo Coast Roy Jones and Michael Hughes5. Residents and artefacts Adrian Perkasa6. Sites: reconstruction and resident relationships with Majapahit heritage Adrian Perkasa7. Settler colonial cultural landscapes: Badimia experiences of advocating for their sovereignty, community and Country Carol Dowling8. How social media changes heritage (and everything else)Transpiosa Riomandha and Hairus Salim9. Bol Brutu visits Cirebon. Reminiscences of a blusukan Transpiosa Riomandha, translated by Tod Jones10. Living cultures and heritage processes: heritagisation and batikTod JonesConclusionTod JonesAppendix 1: Information on research methods used in Heritage is movement

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Book SynopsisTelevision has a prime role to play in the formation of discursive domains in the everyday life of South Asian publics. This book explores various television media practices, social processes, mediated political experiences and everyday cultural compositions from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.With the help of country-specific case studies, it captures a broad range of themes which foreground the publics and their real-life experiences of television in the region. The chapters in this book discuss gendered television spaces, women seeking solace from television in pandemic, the taboo in digital TV dramas, television viewership and localizing publics, changing viewership from television to OTT, news and public perception of death, redefining the national', theatrical television and post-truth television news, among other key issues.Rich in ethnographic case studies, this volume will be a useful resource for scholars and researchers of media and communiTable of ContentsList of Figures viiList of Tables viiiList of Contributors ixAcknowledgements xiii1 Introduction: Imagining South Asian Television Publics 1S.M. Shameem Reza and Ratan Kumar RoyPART ITelevision Viewership and Localizing Publics 192 Social Realms of Audiences: Women’s Collective Viewing of Mega Teledramas in Sri Lanka 21Shashini Gamage3 The Dramatic Escape From Pandemic Life: Everyday Experience of Watching Television During the Lockdowns 38Rashmi Kumar4 Televised Sexuality and Public Perception: Voicing the Taboo in Pakistani TV Dramas 51Wajiha Raza Rizvi and Maheen Imran5 Indian Television and the Rise of the Local: Televised Realities of Localized Sociocultural Experience 74Raj Sony Jalarajan and Adith K. SureshPART IIConsumption and Construction of Reality 916 OTT-Based Digital Sociality: An Exploration of the Viewership Among Urban Youth in Bangladesh 93Moiyen Zalal Chowdhury7 Television News and Public Perception of Death in India: Case of Covid-19 Pandemic 111Deepu Pratheep8 Television Viewership and Engagement in Rural Kashmir: From Cathode Ray Tube to Smart TV 123Syed Aadil Hussain and Ruheela Hassan9 Emergence of Television Publics in Nepal: Intense Participation of Audiences as News Sources, Critics and Fans 137Harsha Man MaharjanPART IIIMediatizing Politics and Constructing Publics 15910 Live Public: Television and Mobilization in Post-Liberalization India 161Abhijit Roy11 The Everyday Nation of Indian News Television 178Maya Ranganathan12 Reproducing the Truth: Television News in Sri Lanka 195Pradeep N’ Weerasinghe13 From Public Turn to Publicness in Media: Notes on Media Public in India 220Biswajit Das and Ridhi KakkarIndex 242

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Book SynopsisThis book enquires from a sociological perspective into contemporary corporeal transformations brought about by exoskeletal devices.Challenging material boundaries of human bodies, their capacities, (in)abilities and skills, exoskeletal devices question social norms of corporeal deviance and extension. Through multi-sited ethnography, interviews and analyses of contemporary science and technology studies (STS), sociological literature and current approaches from the phenomenology of the body, this book shows how exoskeletons contribute to forging three contemporary corporeal worlds: impairment, ability and above-average ability.The text questions deeply held ideas about enhancement and augmentation, corporeal deviance and normality, in the three studied fields of rehabilitation, industry and the armed forces. It will appeal to scholars and advanced students across the social sciences and humanities, including from sociology, philosophy, body studies, and science and teTable of Contents1. Introduction: From science fictions to science facts Part I. Technological objects facing embodied subjects 2. Among bodies, exoskeletons and sites 3. Where exoskeletons aim to enter: Realms of human bodies Part II. Exoskeletons and their corporeal worlds 4. Impaired bodies 5. Able bodies Part III. What exoskeletons do to the body: Advancing corporealities6. New body shapes 7. Reinvesting corporeal capabilities: "Deviance" and "extension" redefined 8. Epilogue: Producing bodies while extending them

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Book SynopsisThis book situates the discourse on the gendered body within the rapidly transitioning South Asian socio-economic and cultural landscape. It critically analyzes gender politics from different disciplinary perspectives including psychoanalysis, post-structuralism, post-colonialism and law among others. Enriched by contributions from well-known South Asian feminist scholars, this book discusses themes such as democracy and dissent, citizenship and violence and how the female body has historically been used in these discussions as a shield and a weapon. It also focuses on technology and misogyny, the politics of veiling and unveiling, the body of the Muslim women in contemporary India as well as bodies which are marginalized or labelled transgressive or monstrous. The chapters in the volume showcase the complexities, convergences and divergences which exist in the conception and understanding of the gendered body, sexuality and gender roles in different socio-cultural spaces in Table of ContentsPart I: NEGOTIATION- 1 Wearing Multiple Bodies: Towards a Psychosocial Analysis of Women's Bodies in Globalized India- Rachana Johri 2 Mothering the Daugther's Body: Narratives from Two Muslim Mothers in India-Syeda Naghma Abidi 3 Conversations on the Covid 19 Pandemic Body: Violence and Touch-Krishna Menon, Deepti Sachdev and Rukmini Sen 4 The Politics of Un-Covering in India-Ambar Ahmad. Part II: STRUGGLE. 5 New Technologies and Gender Reproducing Bodies Resisiting Bodies. Bijayalaxmi Nanda 6 Bodily Integrity and the Politics of Tradition-Nayema Nasir 7 My Honor, My Crime- Aysha Baqir 8 Ghosts in search of Bodies- Shalini Masih Part III: RESISTANCE-9 Inside Girls Transgressing the hudd in Pakistani feminist poetry-Anu Aneja 10 The Yakshi as the Monstruous Feminine Some Representations from the Malayalam Speaking Region-Mamatha and Bindu 11 The Marginalised Tribal Body in Mahashweta Devi's Stories-Meenakshi Malhotra 12 The Body in Submission An Offering to Feminism- Jaya Sharma Part IV: PROTEST 13 Voicing Democracy and Reclaiming Citizenship: A Dialogic Conversation about Shaheen Bagh-Meenakshi Gopinath, Krishna Menon, Rukmini Sen and Niharika Banerjea 14 Campus Feminism and the Nation-State Women Students' Leadership of the Anti-CAA-NRC Uprising in India-Tamanna Basu 15 Rizia Rahman's Rokter Okshor Politics of Prostitution and the Consciousness of Civic Society in Bangladesh-Sohana Manzoor Part V: CRITIQUE 16 Disabled Body Pain and Vulnerability-Anita Ghai 17 Binarised Bodies Towards a Politics of Inarticulacy Instability and Anonymity- Giti Chandra 18 Knees and Feet Together Shoulders Back and Chest Out Embodying the Hidden Curriculum through Women's Girlhood Narratives- Aakansha D’Cruz Part VI: REPRESENTATIONS AND NEW DIRECTIONS 19 Fragments of Memory The Thoa Khalsa incident of 1947 in the Amritsar Partition Museum- Shuchi Kapila 20 Not an island unto themselves but a part of the main women voices from the Sri Lankan conflict- Simran Chadha 21 On Umasangit- Nilofer Kaul 22 Affirmative Multiplicities: Towards an Anthropocene Theory of Corporeality- Brijesh Rana

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Book SynopsisFemale Masculinity and the Business of Emotions in Tokyo investigates the novel emotion business of danso escorting as a phenomenon emerging between gender performativity and pop-culture, commodified relationships and the wish for self-expression.Fanasca documents the dreams, ambitions and fears of young crossdresser escorts negotiating their identity with and within the Japanese society, as well as those of crossdresser escorts' clients: women looking for the perfect man and the opportunity to experience emotions. Combining anthropological, sociological and gender studies theories with an ethnographic approach, Fanasca argues that danso crossdressing is the tool used by a sector of Japanese women to resist the heteronormative and patriarchal society and its expectations, while reinventing themselves and their identities looking for self-actualization.Female Masculinity and the Business of Emotions Tokyo is an interdisciplinarTable of ContentsIntroduction, 1. Gender Identity, Performativity and Fantasy: The Case of Dansō Escorting, 2. Walk Like a Man, Talk Like a Man: Working with Dansō in Akihabara, 3. Who are Dansō?, 4. Identity and Human Relationships, 5. The Customers' Perspective 6. Working with Emotions – The Negative Aspects of the Business, Conclusions

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Book SynopsisMusic as Agency: Diversities of Perspectives on Artistic Citizenship focuses on the concept, application, interpretation and manifestation of Artistic Citizenship in diverse contexts. The key concepts that the book tackles are: Cultural experience, artistic practice, musical identities, equity, democracy, community, activism, resistance and empathy.In giving an overview of aspects of the compound concept of artistic citizenship, Akuno and Westvall present the outcome of research and interrogation of practice by a global network of educator-researchers from Africa, the Americas, Asia and Europe. The book articulates notions of artistic citizenship, coming up with the term artizenship as a derivative of the composite term. It further explains and analyses practical ways of perceiving and relating to art spaces, art practices and arts objects towards belonging, being and becoming in a global space that is disparate, polarised and often alienating, and thus responding

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Book SynopsisDeconstructing the Feminine looks beyond impasses of binary thought and essentialist conceptions of women and the feminine from a contemporary perspective.With a multi-centred and complex approach and an ongoing dialogue with Freud, Leticia Glocer Fiorini addresses questions relating to love, sexual desire, maternity, beauty, and the passing of time by reconsidering the gender binary and underlying power relations. Glocer Fiorini's work highlights current debates concerning women, the feminine, and sexual difference, as well as discussing topics which have caused controversy throughout the history of the psychoanalytic movement. The updated and expanded edition distinguishes between the concept of sexual difference and the category of difference' as it applies at various heterogenous levels, and includes new approaches reflecting on the feminine enigma', hysteria, feminine masochism, and masculinity.Deconstructing the Feminine will be of great interest to

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Book SynopsisThis book offers Dimen's classic take on psychosexuality, drawing on relational theory, feminism and postmodernism, with a new foreword by Virginia Goldner and Velleda Ceccoli honouring the late Muriel Dimen and introducing a new audience to her profound legacy.For Dimen, the shift from dualism to multiplicity that has reshaped a range of disciplines can also be brought to bear on our thinking about sexuality. She urges us to return to the open-mindedness hiding between the lines and buried in the footnotes of Freud's writings, and to replace the determinism into which his thought has hardened with more fluid notions of contingency, paradox, and thirdness. By unveiling the colloquy among psychoanalysis, social theory, and feminism, Dimen challenges clinicians and academicians alike to rethink ideas about gender, eroticism, and perversion. She explores, among other topics, the relations between lust and libido; the limitations of Darwinian thought in theorizing homosexuTrade Review"This is a powerful book, an intimate book, a sexy book. Throughout, Dimen encourages us to think of the ambiguity and multiplicity of gender, the paradoxical hopefulness and hopelessness of desire, and the abject corporeality of the human condition. Serious and playful, sincere and ironic, pulling together the learned and the commonplace, she manages to guide us through some of the most challenging issues in psychoanalytic thinking today: the persistent presence of the sexual, the ineffability of the unconscious, the ambiguities of lust, the impossibility of desire"Karol Marshall, PhD. Contemporary Psychoanalysis. "Sexuality, Intimacy, Power is a remarkable document of recent Western intellectual and political histories. Via psychoanalysis, feminism and social theory, it attempts no less than to make some honest sense of what it is to be a person amongst peiople and how much we can know of such things. It is readable, brave, witty and in places, quite funny. Put simply, you'll struggle through shelves on these subjects to find anything better."James Taylor, PhD. Psychotherapy and Politics International. "Muriel Dimen, a prodigious reader and a sparkling writer, takes us on a journey of insight through all the central questions that have plagued and enlivened the conjunction of psychoanalyis and feminism in the last two decades. She has a rare gift for synthesizing a wide range of theoretical issues while balancing awareness of the complexity of clinical practice and the historical, cultural context. This is a book that enlightens, educates, and stimulates, speaking to readers from diverse worlds while illuminating their common, profound concerns."Jessica Benjamin, PhD. NYU PostDoctorol Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis."There is a scintillating populist intelligence to Dimen's thinking, conveyed by a wit and irony that seems deceptively light. For this is a robust and serious work, challenging and wide ranging in its scope: a sexual discourse, intimate and powerful."Christopher Bollas, PhD., British Psychoanalytical Institute"Muriel Dimen's book is an open and engaging treatment of psychoanalysis, feminism, and social theory. She offers an excellent overview of the debates, and reinvigorates hope that the tension among these fields will remain productive and alive. She coins new and suprising terms and ideas, and she works deftly to produce conversations among fields where there haven't been enough. Her work as a clinician and as a theorist come together in a humane, subtle, even joyous account of the complexity of gendered life."Judith Butler, Author. Gender Trouble. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Foreword Prologue: A Personal Journey from Dualism to Multipliicity Part 1: The Story So Far: Psychoanalysts, Feminism and Politics 1. The Engagement Between Psychoanalysis and Feminism: A Report from the Front 2. The Third Step: Freud, the Feminists, and Postmodernism Part 2: Mind, Body, Culture: Psychoanalytic Studies 3. On "Our Nature" or Sex and the Single Narrative 4. The Body as Rorschach 5. Between Lust and Libido: Sex, Psychoanalysis and the Moment Before 6. Deconstructing Difference: Gender, Splitting and Transitional Space Part 3: The Personal Is Political Is Theoretical: A Sampler 7. Power, Sexuality, and Intimacy 8. In the Zone of Ambivalence: A Feminist Journal of Competition 9. Perversion Is Us? Eight Notes Epilogue: Some Personal Conclusions

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Book SynopsisThis book analyzes the concepts of moral status and human dignity in African philosophy and applies them to the moral problems associated with death.The book first challenges the criticism and rejection of moral status in African philosophy and then continues to consider how moral personhood is defined in African ethical theories, investigating which entities have full moral status or moral personhood and are therefore worthy of full ethical consideration. It then applies this theory to the problems associated with death. In the medical context, will an African theory of moral status permit or forbid euthanasia? Do we have moral obligations towards dead human bodies? Overall, the book provides an important African axiological contribution to debates on global ethics and moral philosophy.Providing an important overview of the ethical problems associated with the biological fact of death, this book will be of interest to researchers across the fields of philosophy and AfTable of ContentsPart 1: African Moral Philosophy 1. Introduction to Moral Status and Death in African Ethics 2. A Defence of Moral Status in African Philosophy 3. Ubuntu Ethics, ubuntu and Moral Status 4. Ubuntu, Empathy and Moral Status Part 2: African Applied Ethics 5. Ubuntu Ethics and Voluntary Euthanasia 6. Ubuntu Ethics and the Moral Status of Dead Human Bodies

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Book SynopsisThis edited volume scrutinises the Nordic dimension within education and how this notion affects, frames and sets direction for school and education in policy, practice and educational research.The book interrogates what unites and divides Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden and analyses how the notion of the Nordic dimension has become conceptualised and institutionalised in different educational settings. Comparative studies of national education policies and practice across these five small North European countries and Scotland as a case beyond explore how the Nordic dimension relates to national, regional and transnational collaborations. Further, the book queries the degree to which what are typically considered Nordic approaches to social welfare, gender equality, diversity and international outlook have, in actual fact, affected education. Ultimately, the book explores the realities and myths associated with the idea of the Nordic dimension, and in relation

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This book explores Muslim communities in Southeast Asia and the integration of Islamic culture with the diverse ethnic cultures of the region, offering a look at the practice of cultural and religious coexistence in various realms.The volume traces the origins and processes of adoption, transmission, and adaptation of Islam by diverse ethnic communities such as the Malay, Acehnese, Javanese, Sundanese, the Bugis, Batak, Betawi, and Madurese communities, among others. It examines the integration of Islam within local politics, cultural networks, law, rituals, education, art, and architecture, which engendered unique regional Muslim identities.Additionally, the book illuminates distinctive examples of cultural pluralism, cosmopolitanism, and syncretism that persisted in Islamic religious practices in the region owing to its maritime economy and reputation as a marketplace for goods, languages, cultures, and ideas.As part of the Global Islamic Cultures series that

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Art, Culture and International Development offers a profound civilizational critique of contemporary predicament of development and presents us many important resources for development of a new culture of creativity. It challenges us to realize our manifold contemporary poverty in the midst of illusion of affluence on the part of a few—material, cultural and spiritual poverty—and urges us to strive for realizing ‘integral development’ in self and society in which arts in all their myriad manifestations—visual, crafts, literature, painting, and theatre—play an important role." – Ananta Kumar Giri, Madras Institute of Development Studies, India "John Clammer brings fresh air to the field of development. The author proposes art and its transformative potential as a way to improve the living conditions of the poorest. Therefore, art, once a stronghold of the elites, would become a powerful resource for development. Clammer reinstates the expressive and creative capacity of vulnerable groups as a means of exploring alternative paths to the longed, but rarely achieved "well-being". This perspective on development -a field still hegemonized by hard data, and the logics of economics-is optimistic, and especially humane." – Marian Moya, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina"Because of the provocative argument of including culture into holistic understandings of growth and wellbeing, this text is an inspirational account of what truly human approaches to social development can be and, alongside other texts in the ‘Rethinking Development’ series is a recommended reading for both seasoned practitioners and development studies students alike." – Jacqueline Priego-Hernandez, LSE Review of Books"The book serves the purpose of demonstrating the potential influence of re-imagining cultural expression through arts. The case studies and wide variety of empirical examples are suitable for advanced students and practitioners. It should also find a wide audience in those with an interest in global artistic production." – Margath A. Walker, Department of Geography and Geosciences University of Louisville, USATable of ContentsPreface 1. Art, Culture and Development: What Are the Connections? 2. Art as Social Enterprise: The Creative Sector in Relation to Poverty, Policy and Social Development 3. The Arts of Sustainability: Architecture, Design and Public Art 4. Performing Development: Theatres of the Oppressed and Beyond 5. Visualizing Development: Film, Photography, Representation 6. Writing Development: Literatures of Critique and Transformation 7. Arts Education for Development and Social Justice 8. Art, Culture and Integral Development

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Book SynopsisOffering readings of a range of texts, including work by Richard Selzer, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Gaston Leroux, Willa Cather, Natalie Kusz and Lucy Grealy, this book examines reactions to facially disfigured people on the basis of Emmanuel Levinas’ ethics of the face. Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Emmanuel Levinas; 2. Face Value; 3. Facial Disfigurement and Its Repairs; 4. Elephant People; 5. Narratives on Facial Disfigurement; Conclusion

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Book SynopsisWe frequently engage with that which we consciously perceive not to be real, yet fantasy, despite its pervasive presence and strong role in everyday life through its connection to identities, communities, desires, and meanings, has yet to be properly defined and researched. This book examines fantasy from a performance theory perspective. Drawing on multidisciplinary literature, it presents ethnographic and art-based research on live action role-playing games to explore fantasy as a bodily and negotiated phenomenon that involves various kinds of engagement with one's surroundings. Overall, this book is a study of various forms and roles that fantasy can take on as part of contemporary Western culture. The study suggests that fantasy emerges as a different type of interpretation of normalised performance and reality, and can thus provide individuals with the tools to wield agency in everyday life. The book will appeal to scholars of sociology, cultural and media studies, literature aTable of ContentsList of FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgements1. Introduction2. Perspectives on Fantasy3. Performance4. LARP Performance5. Fantasy Performance6. Types of Fantasy Performances7. ConclusionsReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisChina is a country that is rich in antiquities, but it is also a victim of looting that occurred during the period from the First Opium War to the end of the Japanese Occupation (18401945) when innumerable cultural objects were lost overseas. The Chinese Government insists on asserting its interest over its wrongfully removed cultural heritage and has sought for the return of lost cultural heritage by all means in accordance with relevant international conventions and Chinese laws. However, securing the return has been, and continues to be, problematic. Little research has been done regarding the question as to whether China has a legal basis for recovery, which is the first legal hurdle that China needs to get over. In addition, China does not have a legal basis for all cultural heritage taken during the period of 18401945. Claims for return without a legal basis are usually silenced or, at best, discussed only but very rarely facilitated.This book provides an answer Table of ContentsCONTENTSTable of Cases Table of Legislation, Conventions and TreatiesPreface and Acknowledgments Chapter One: Introduction Chapter Two: States of Origin and Cultural HeritageChapter Three: Availability of a Legal Basis for the Return of China’s Cultural HeritageChapter Four: Customary International LawChapter Five: Return of Cultural Heritage Looted during Armed ConflictsChapter Six: Return of Cultural Heritage Stolen and Illegally Exported in PeacetimeChapter Seven: Evolving Social and Ethical Norms: Practice of Individuals, Private Museums and Auction HousesChapter Eight: Return of Historically Removed Heritage Index

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Book SynopsisHeavy metal has developed from a British fringe genre of rock music in the late 1960s to a global mass market consumer good in the early twenty-first century. Early proponents of the musical style, such as Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Judas Priest, Saxon, Uriah Heep and Iron Maiden, were mostly seeking to reach a young male audience. Songs were often filled with violent, sexist and nationalistic themes but were also speaking to the growing sense of deterioration in social and professional life. At the same time, however, heavy metal was seriously indebted to the legacies of blues and classical music as well as to larger literary and cultural themes. The genre also produced mythological concept albums and rewritings of classical poems. In other words, heavy metal tried from the beginning to locate itself in a liminal space between pedestrian mass culture and a rather elitist adherence to complexity and musical craftsmanship, speaking from a subaltern position against the hegemonic discouTrade Review'Given that heavy metal has received less academic attention than other popular music forms, and that studies have often been biased towards heavy metal in the United States, the publication of Heavy Metal Music in Britain should be warmly welcomed. The essays in the collection focus largely on British heavy metal in the 1970s and 1980s, the period in which British heavy metal bands were crucial in defining the genre and spreading its popularity. The various contributions to the collection benefit from the different perspectives of authors from a variety of disciplines. They offer fascinating insights into heavy metal in Britain, situating the genre in its context and critically interrogating its complex aesthetics and politics.' Keith Kahn-Harris, Goldsmiths College, London, UK author of Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge (2006) 'It’s formulaic, it’s hypermasculine, it’s politically reactionary. Or is it? For too long cultural studies has bought into a few convenient myths about heavy metal, but ignored the music itself. This book energetically undermines those myths, and the results will inform and surprise anyone who thinks of heavy metal as a lost cause, and it will also please the fans who knew all along that metal and its subgenres were among the most rewarding cultural formations of the rock era.' Andrew Blake, University of East London, UK ’... proper leather-patches-on-tweed-jackets brainy stuff to get your teeth right into... you'll find a dazzling insight into why bands do what they do... certainly interesting. Who said metal's full of idiots?’ Kerrang! ’... a welcome - and overdue - contribution.’ International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) '... an important contribution to the literature... Cultural studies and English literature scholars, as well as mid- and larger-size colleges and universities, will want this volume in their libraries, as will teachers of rock and popular music at the upper-undergrTable of ContentsDoing Cultural Studies with Earplugs, Gerd Bayer; Part I Metal Commodities; Chapter 1 The Empowering Masculinity of British Heavy Metal, Deena Weinstein; Chapter 2 Metal Goes ‘Pop’: The Explosion of Heavy Metal into the Mainstream, Benjamin Earl; Chapter 3 The Brutal Truth: Grindcore as the Extreme Realism of Heavy Metal 1 A version of this paper was delivered as a talk at the Institute for Advanced Study, University of Minnesota on 2 April 2007. My thanks go to both Susannah L. Smith and John Mowitt who facilitated this presentation and provided me with invaluable resources. My thanks also to Gerd Bayer for his sterling editorial support and to both Ruth Barraclough and my daughter Una for their love and bemused tolerance of my passion for grindcore., Liam Dee; Part II The Literary and Mythological Heritage; Chapter 4 Demons, The Occult Devils and Witches: in Heavy Metal Music, Helen Farley; Chapter 5 Images of Human-Wrought Despair and Destruction: Social Critique in British Apocalyptic and Dystopian Metal, Laura Wiebe Taylor; Chapter 6 From Achilles to Alexander: The Classical World and the World of Metal 1 I would like to thank Simon Swift, Clare Sargent, Simon Hall, Dave Ling, Chris Martin and my wife Sam for all their help in getting this chapter written., Iain Campbell; Chapter 7 Elements of the Gothic in Heavy Metal: A Match Made in Hell, Bryan A. Bardine; Part III Heavy Metal Societies; Chapter 8 The Unmaking of the English Working Class: Deindustrialization, Reification and the Origins of Heavy Metal, Ryan M. Moore; Chapter 9 No Class? Class and Class Politics in British Heavy Metal, Magnus Nilsson; Chapter 10 Rocking the Nation: One Global Audience, One Flag?, Gerd Bayer;

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