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Taylor & Francis Ltd Gender and the Law
Book SynopsisGender and the Law provides an ideal introduction to gender and feminist theory for students. Beginning with an overview of traditional notions of gender, the book establishes the key feminist and queer legal theories. It provides a basic structure and overview upon which students can build their understanding of some of the complex and controversial topics and debates around gender.Structured thematically, the book explores many fascinating and controversial legal issues, including issues of transgender rights; equal pay and equality in the workplace; societal changes and challenges within the regulation of personal relationships; the law surrounding consent and sexual offences; the role of gender norms in the criminal courts; legal regulation of prostitution and pornography; and the ways in which the law has responded to societal changes surrounding reproduction. With thinking points' and further reading' suggestions within each chapter, the authors encouragTable of Contents1: Introduction; 2: Legal theories; 3: Women’s Evolving Legal Status; 4: Beyond the gender binary?; 5: Employment; 6: Regulating Relationships; 7: Gender norms in the criminal courts; 8: Consent; 9: Sexual offences; 10: Reproductive Bodies; 11: Regulating pornography and prostitution;
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Decline of Established Christianity in the
Book SynopsisWhile Church attendance in the West is often cited as being in decline, it is argued that this applies primarily to the older established forms of Christianity. Other expressions of the faith are, in fact, stable or even growing. This volume provides multidisciplinary interpretations of and responses to one of the most complicated and controversial issues regarding the global transformation of Christianity today: the decline of established Christianity in the Western world. It also addresses the future of Christianity in the West after the decline.Drawing upon historical research, sociology, religious studies, philosophy and theology, an international panel of contributors provide new theoretical frameworks for understanding this decline and offer creative suggestions for responding to it. Established Christianity is conceptualized as historically, culturally, socially and politically embedded religion (with or without official established status).This isTrade Review"Paul Peterson has put together an excellent edited volume which comes as highly recommended, if not required reading. The contributions are concise, well-written, and profoundly informative. This book will be useful not only for scholars and students, but also for pastors and administrators who are concerned for the future viability of the Christian faith in the world today, established or otherwise." - David Andrew Gilland, Technische Universtität Braunschweig, GermanyTable of ContentsForeword, Robert J. Schreiter; 1 An Introduction to the Essays and to the Phenomenon of Established Christianity in the Western World, Paul Silas Peterson; Part 1: Background Issues and Theoretical Approaches; 2 Causes of the Decline: Historical, Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives, Paul Silas Peterson; 3 Analyzing Religious Decline: A Sociological Approach, Eva M. Hamberg; 4 Cultural Considerations in the Decline of Christianity, Neil Ormerod; 5 Interpretations of the Decline and Responses to it, Paul Silas Peterson; Part 2: Case Studies on Specific Regions and Groups; 6 More Than Just De-Christianization: Christian Mission in Face of Religious Indifference in East Germany, Eberhard Tiefensee; 7 Towards a Faithful Christian Community in Canada: A Missiological Response to Religious Change, Charles Fensham; 8 American Mainline Protestantism: On the History and Future of a Culture-Forming Confessional Identity, Richard R. Crocker; 9 An Evangelical Response to the Decline of Christendom, Timothy Larsen; 10 Going Big: Mega-Churches in the Midst of Declining Christianity in the West, Laceye Warner; Part 3: Perspectives from World Christianity and African Christianity; 11 An Opportunity to Foster Inter-Christian Reciprocity: The View from "World Christianity" and "the Next Christendom", Jorge Castillo Guerra; 12 Reframing our Experiences in the Light of the Cross: How African Christianity Sees the Decline, Esther E. Acolatse; Part 4: Contributions from Public Theology and the Philosophy of Religion; 13 Taking Sin Seriously Again: A Perspective from Theology and Public Life, Martyn Percy; 14 The Religion of Decline: A Perspective from the Philosophy of Religion, Olivier Abel; Part 5: Response and Outlook; 15 Christianity in the Western World after the Decline: Challenges, Opportunities and Outlooks, Paul Silas Peterson; 16 Exploring the Past for a Stronger Future: A Reflection on Meaning and Hope, Elizabeth Koepping
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Handbook of Reenactment Studies
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook of Reenactment Studies provides the first overview of significant concepts within reenactment studies. The volume includes a co-authored critical introduction and a comprehensive compilation of key term entries contributed by leading reenactment scholars from Europe, North America, and Australia. Well into the future, this wide-ranging reference work will inform and shape the thinking of researchers, teachers, and students of history and heritage and memory studies, as well as cultural studies, film, theater and performance studies, dance, art history, museum studies, literary criticism, musicology, and anthropology.Table of ContentsGeneral Introduction (Vanessa Agnew, Jonathan Lamb and Juliane Tomann) 1. Affect/Emotion (Martin Luecke and Juliane Brauer) 2. Art (Roger Benjamin) 3. Audience/Observers/ Participants (Nicolle Lamerichs) 4. Authenticity (Stephen Gapps) 5. Conjecture (Vanessa Agnew) 6. Corroboration (Jonathan Lamb) 7. Dance (Amanda Card) 8. Documentary (Stella Bruzzi) 9. Embodiment/Body (Amanda Card) 10. Evidence (Paul Pickering) 11. Experience (Anja Schwarz) 12. Experimentation (Anna Zalewska) 13. Expertise/Amateurism (Anna Braedder) 14. Gender (Jonathan Lamb) 15. Heritage (Donna Landry) 16. Historically informed music practice (Kate Bowan) 17. History of the Field (Ulf Otto) 18. Live Action Role Play (David Simkins) 19. Living History (David Dean) 20. Martyrdom (Martin Treml) 21. Material Culture/Objects (Stefanie Samida) 22. Materialization of the Past (Katrina Schlunke) 23. Mediality (Maria Muhle) 24. Memory/Commemoration (Juliane Tomann) 25. Mimesis (Kader Konuk) 26. Narrative (Inke Arns) 27. Nostalgia (Jonathan Schroeder) 28. Performance/Performativity (Katherine Johnson) 29. Pilgrimage (Kamila Baraniecka-Olszewska) 30. Practices of Reenactment (Alexander Cook) 31. Production of Historical Meaning (Scott Magelssen) 32. Realism (Jonathan Lamb) 33. Reenacting Indigeneity (Penny Edmonds) 34. Representation (Inke Arns) 35. Ritual (Anja Dreschke) 36. Subcultures (Mads Daugbjerg) 37. Suffering (Jonathan Lamb) 38. Tourism (Bodil Petersson)
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Communication
Book SynopsisCommunication: Embracing Difference, 5e, provides the fundamentals of communication theory in accessible terms and emphasizes the practical application of communication skills in interpersonal, small group, and public settings, which helps students become more confident and successful communicators. Designed for the hybrid class, this new edition offers an enhanced dual intercultural and career-based approach; new examples and breakout boxes throughout draw connections to communicating in the workplace, experiential learning, and communicating in a global society. Offering a foundation that readers can take beyond the classroom, this volume is designed to resonate with the diverse student populations that make up so many campuses today.Table of ContentsUnit I: The Process of Communication 1. An Overview of Communication 2. Perception 3. Listening 4. Verbal Communication 5. Nonverbal Communication Unit II: Interpersonal Communication 6. Understanding Ourselves and Others 7. Creating a Positive Communication Climate 8. Interviewing 9. Communicating in Small Groups 10. Solving Problems Using Small Groups Unit III: Public Communication 11. Selecting a Speech Topic and Adapting to the Audience 12. Researching and Using Supporting Material for Your Speech 13. Organizing Your Speech 14. Delivering Your Speech 15. The Informative Speech 16. The Persuasive Speech
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Taylor & Francis Routledge International Handbook of
Book SynopsisCosmopolitanism is about the extension of the moral and political horizons of people, societies, organizations and institutions. Over the past 25 years there has been considerable interest in cosmopolitan thought across the human social sciences.The second edition of the Routledge International Handbook of Cosmopolitanism Studies is an enlarged, revised and updated version of the first edition. It consists of 50 chapters across a broader range of topics in the social and human sciences. Eighteen entirely new chapters cover topics that have become increasingly prominent in cosmopolitan scholarship in recent years, such as sexualities, public space, the Kantian legacy, the commons, internet, generations, care and heritage.This Second Edition aims to showcase some of the most innovative and promising developments in recent writing in the human and social sciences on cosmopolitanism. Both comprehensive and innovative in the topics covered, the Routledge InternatiTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: The Field of Cosmopolitan Studies, Gerard DelantyPart I: Cosmopolitan Theory, History and Approaches1. Kant and Cosmopolitan Legacies, Garrett W. Brown2. Radical Cosmopolitanism and the Tradition of Insurgent Universality, James Ingram3. There is no Cosmopolitanism without Universalism, Daniel Chernilo4. Alt-Histories of Cosmopolitanism: Rewriting the Past in the Service of the Future, David Inglis5. World History and Cosmopolitanism, Bo Stråth6. Cosmopolitan Thought in Weimar Germany, Austin Harrington7. The Modern Cognitive Order, Cosmopolitanism and Conflicting Models of World Openness: Towards a Critique of Contemporary Social Relations, Piet Strydom8. The Idea of Critical Cosmopolitanism, Gerard Delanty and Neal Harris9. Border Thinking and Decolonial Cosmopolitanism: Overcoming Colonial/Imperial Differences, Walter D. Mignolo10. Cosmopolitanism and Social Research: Some Methodological Issues of an Emerging Research Agenda, Victor Roudometof11. Performing Cosmopolitanism. The Context and Object-dependency of Cosmopolitan Openness, Ian Woodward and Zlatko SkrbisPart II: Cosmopolitan Cultures12. Anthropology and the New Ethical Cosmopolitanism, Pnina Werbner13. Cosmopolitanism and ‘Civilization’: Social Theory and Political Programmes, Humeira Iqtidar14. Cosmopolitanism and Translation, Esperança Bielsa15. Third Culture Kids and Paradoxical Cosmopolitanism, Rachel Cason16. Festivals, Museums, Exhibitions: Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism in the Cultural Public Sphere, Monica Sassatelli17. Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism, Nikos Papastergiadis18. The Cosmopolitanism of the Sacred, Bryan S. Turner19. Imagining Cosmopolitan Sexualities for a 21st Century, Ken Plummer20. Themes in Cosmopolitan Education, Matthew J. Hayden21. Media Cultures and Cosmopolitan Connection, Alexa Robertson22. Interspecies Cosmopolitanism, Eduardo Mendieta23. Making Heritage Cosmopolitan, Jasper Chalcraft24. Bordering and Connectivity: Thinking about Cosmopolitan Borders, Chris Rumford and Anthony Cooper25. Cosmopolitan Public Space(s), Daniel Innerarity & Ander Errasti26. Cosmopolitanism in Cities and Beyond, Breda S. A. Yeoh and Weiqiang LinPart III: Cosmopolitics27. Seeking Global Justice: What Kind of Equality Should Guide Cosmopolitans?, Gillian Brock28. Cosmocitizens?, Richard Vernon29. Global Civil Society and the Cosmopolitan Ideal, Alexander Hensby and Darren J. O’Byrne 30. The Commons and Cosmopolitanism, Nick Stevenson31. The Idea of Cosmopolitan Solidarity, Robert Fine32. Humanitarianism and Cosmopolitanism, Iain Wilkinson33. A Deeper Framework of Cosmopolitan Justice: Addressing Inequalities in the Era of the Anthropocene, Tracey Skillington34. Cosmopolitan Care, Mihaela Czobor-Lupp35. The Internet and Cosmopolitanism, Oliver Hall 36. Cosmopolitanism and Migrant Protests, Tamara Caraus and Camil-Alexandru Parvu37. Cosmopolitan Diplomacy, Seckin Baris GulmezPart IV: World Varieties of Cosmopolitanism38. Cosmopolitanism in Latin America: Political Practices, Critiques, and Imaginaries, Aurea Mota39. Caribbean Cosmopolitanism: The View from Ethnography, Huon Wardle 40. Americans and Others: Historical Identity Formation in the United States, Andrew Hartman41. Cosmopolitanism in Asia, Baogang He and Kevin Brown42. Benedict Anderson’s Cosmopolitan Leanings and the Question of Southeast Asian Subjectivity, Pheng Cheah43. Unity in Diversity: The Indian Idea of Cosmopolitanism, Sudarsan Padmanabhan 44. Between Tianzia and PostSocialism: Contemporary Chinese Cosmopolitanism, Lisa Rofel45. Kyōsei: Japan’s Cosmopolitanism, Yoshino Sugimoto46. Immigration, Indigeneity and Identity: Cosmopolitanism in Australia and New Zealand, Keith Jacobs and Jeff Malpas47. Cosmopolitanism in a European context: Reflections on cosmopolitan order in Europe and the EU, Maurice Roche48. Cosmopolitan Europe: Postcolonial Interventions and Global Transitions, Sandra Ponzanesi49. Afropolitanism and the End of Black Nationalism, Sarah Balakrishnan50. Jews and Cosmopolitanism from the Early Modern Age to the Global Era, Michael L. Miller and Scott Urry
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Dalit Text
Book SynopsisThis book, companion to the much-acclaimed Dalit Literatures in India, examines questions of aesthetics and literary representation in a wide range of Dalit literary texts. It looks at how Dalit literature, born from the struggle against social and political injustice, invokes the rich and complex legacy of oral, folk and performative traditions of marginalised voices. The essays and interviews systematically explore a range of literary forms, from autobiographies, memoirs and other testimonial narratives, to poems, novels or short stories, foregrounding the diversity of Dalit creation. Showcasing the interplay between the aesthetic and political for a genre of writing that has change' as its goal, the volume aims to make Dalit writing more accessible to a wider public, for the Dalit voices to be heard and understood. The volume also shows how the genre has revolutionised the concept of what literature is supposed to mean and define. Effervescent first-person accounts,Trade Review"This book makes a critically important contribution to the growing, but still impoverished, field of Dalit literary studies in two key ways. First, the editors and contributors to Dalit Text refuse an engagement with Dalit literature’s politics in lieu of its aesthetics, and in so doing, rightfully reject the all-too-common sociological approach to Dalit literature that blinds us to the meaningful employment of innovative narrative strategies that has been at the core of Dalit literary production from its earliest stages. Second, the book makes a commitment to highlighting several new voices of Dalit literature and literary criticism, voices that will emerge for the first time in an edited volume that will have extensive transnational reach. Such a political commitment to representing a diversity of voices – in several different languages – from within Dalit literary and scholarly circles in India and its diaspora will play a critical role in contributing to the growth and sophistication of the field of Dalit literary studies. This volume is desperately needed, and most welcome." — Laura Brueck, Associate Professor of South Asian Languages and Cultures, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL USA"This contribution to the extant body of scholarship on Dalits, now a recognized area of academic attention world-wide, forcefully intensifies the field and begins to widen it. Necessary reading for anyone interested in justice in its various forms. This book goes a long way to study newer aspects of Dalit studies."— Aniket Jaaware, Professor, English Department, Shiv Nadar University, Delhi, India"A profound inquiry into the relation between the category ‘Dalit’ on the one hand and artistic and literary practice on the other, this landmark volume brings together writers, critics and translators to engage the force of Dalit writing in several Indian languages. The result of an international collaboration, this volume crucially brings questions of translation and universalization to the very untranslatability of the term ‘Dalit.’" —- Simona Sawhney, Associate Professor, Humanities & Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India"This book makes a critically important contribution to the growing, but still impoverished, field of Dalit literary studies in two key ways. First, the editors and contributors to Dalit Text refuse an engagement with Dalit literature’s politics in lieu of its aesthetics, and in so doing, rightfully reject the all-too-common sociological approach to Dalit literature that blinds us to the meaningful employment of innovative narrative strategies that has been at the core of Dalit literary production from its earliest stages. Second, the book makes a commitment to highlighting several new voices of Dalit literature and literary criticism, voices that will emerge for the first time in an edited volume that will have extensive transnational reach. Such a political commitment to representing a diversity of voices – in several different languages – from within Dalit literary and scholarly circles in India and its diaspora will play a critical role in contributing to the growth and sophistication of the field of Dalit literary studies. This volume is desperately needed, and most welcome." — Laura Brueck, Associate Professor of South Asian Languages and Cultures, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL USA"This contribution to the extant body of scholarship on Dalits, now a recognized area of academic attention world-wide, forcefully intensifies the field and begins to widen it. Necessary reading for anyone interested in justice in its various forms. This book goes a long way to study newer aspects of Dalit studies."— Aniket Jaaware, Professor, English Department, Shiv Nadar University, Delhi, India"A profound inquiry into the relation between the category ‘Dalit’ on the one hand and artistic and literary practice on the other, this landmark volume brings together writers, critics and translators to engage the force of Dalit writing in several Indian languages. The result of an international collaboration, this volume crucially brings questions of translation and universalization to the very untranslatability of the term ‘Dalit.’" —- Simona Sawhney, Associate Professor, Humanities & Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, IndiaTable of Contents1. Introduction: Aesthetics and Politics Re-Imagined Judith Misrahi-Barak, K. Satyanarayana and Nicole Thiara Part I Speaking Out 2. Manoranjan Byapari Sipra Mukherjee 3. Kalyani Thakur Charal Jayati Gupta 4. Cho. Dharman R. Azhagarasan and R. Arul 5. Des Raj Kali Rajkumar Hans Part II Writing from Within: Genre and Gender 6. Author’s Notes or Revisions? The Politics of Form in P. Sivakami’s Two Novels Kanak Yadav 7. Of Subjecthood and Form: On Reading Two Dalit Short Stories from Gujarat, India Santosh Dash 8 Janu and Saleena Narrating Life: Subjects and Spaces Carmel Christy K. J. 9 Mother as Fucked: Reimagining Dalit Female Sexuality in Sahil Parmar’s Poetry Gopika Jadeja 10 A Pox on Your House: Exploring Caste and Gender in Tulsi Ram’s Murdahiya Shivani Kapoor Part III Reading Across 11 Dalit Literature in Translation: A Symptomatic Reading of Sharankumar Limbale’s Akkarmashi in English Translation Arun Prabha Mukherjee 12 Translating Dalit Literature: Redrawing the Map of Cultural Politics Maya Pandit Part IV Looking Through 13 Notes on Questions of Dalit Art Deeptha Achar 14 (Re-)imaging Caste in Graphic Novels: A Study of A Gardener in the Wasteland and Bhimayana: Experiences of Untouchability Ruchika Bhatia and Devika Mehra 15 Dalits and the Spectacle of Victimhood in Telugu Cinema Chandra Sekhar
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Political Economy of SameSex Marriage
Book SynopsisSame-sex marriage is now legal in twenty-nine countries and the subject of continued debate around the world. The Political Economy of Same-Sex Marriage: A Feminist Critique considers this debate from a political economy perspective. Rather than engaging directly in the now well-rehearsed social-movement and academic for-and-against debates, this book focuses on processes of institutionalization of same-sex marriage and so-called rainbow families within (neo)liberal capitalist democracies. It examines how states and markets appropriate same-sex marriage and family to enhance their own political and symbolic capital, consolidating power and profit within existing systems of gendered and raced socioeconomic stratification. Taking a radical feminist, heterodox, qualitative and intersectional approach, this book investigates the political economy of same-sex marriage across three axes: same-sex marriage as institution; same-sex marriage and the market; and the politTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I (Same-sex) marriage as institution 1. Marriage and family as value in liberal capitalist societies 2. From subversive challenge to liberal rights 3. State rationales: Three case studies Part II Selling same-sex marriage 4. Rainbowing the workplace 5. Same-sex wedding tourism 6. Same-sex marriage intersectionally: Gender, class and race dynamics Part III The political economy of "rainbow families" 7. "Working families": Parenting, productivity and policy 8. "Caring families" and the (still) gendered privatisation of risk 9. Gay dads: The "queered" political economy of surrogacy Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd China and England
Book SynopsisThis book examines egalitarian social ideals and institutions that arose in preindustrial China and England, and in the process, uncovers China's forgotten role in the history of social justice debate and legislation during the eighteenth century. Drawing on a wide range of visual and documentary evidence, the author shows that many prominent individuals in both England and China adopted comparable strategies as a logical response to excesses of privilege and arbitrary power, with educated but non-noble persons taking advantage of print culture, a more literate population, an expanded art market, public spaces and other familiar early modern' developments to interrogate the system of inherited privilege and promote a more meritocratic society. This shared experience created common ground for transformative exchange between the two great traditions during the eighteenth century. By providing a more global account of what we call Western values, the book shows that early modern China Trade Review"Powers has written an extraordinary meditation on the labyrinths of thought, both European and Chinese, that have brought us to our present place in history. The great strength of the book lies in demonstrating that the history of liberty is not a closed Western project, but an aspect of human experience that can be calmly and logically approached as much from China as from anywhere else." - Timothy Brook, The University of British Columbia, Canada. Table of ContentsPrefaceGlossary1. Introduction2. Cultural Politics3. Political Authority4. The Polity5. The People: China6. The People: England7. Equality: China8. Equality: England9. Speech: China10. Speech: England11. Envisioning Speech12. A Common StruggleSelected BibliographyIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Emotion Affective Practices and the Past in the
Book SynopsisEmotion, Affective Practices, and the Past in the Present is a response to debates in the humanities and social sciences about the use of emotion. This timely and unique book explores the ways emotion is embroiled and used in contemporary engagements with the past, particularly in contexts such as heritage sites, museums, commemorations, political rhetoric and ideology, debates over issues of social memory, and touristic uses of heritage sites. Including contributions from academics and practitioners in a range of countries, the book reviews significant and conflicting academic debates on the nature and expression of affect and emotion. As a whole, the book makes an argument for a pragmatic understanding of affect and, in doing so, outlines Wetherell's concept of affective practice, a concept utilised in most of the chapters in this book. Since debates about affect and emotion can often be confusing and abstract, the book aims to clarify these debates andTrade Review'Emotion, Affective Practices, and the Past in the Present is a welcome addition to the literature about emotion and affect in heritage studies. The contributors set out to deconstruct theoretically how individuals respond when they encounter heritage in its various manifestations, and how they are affected and what they feel. Particularly helpful are those chapters which rely on visitor studies and move beyond the academy into the field to explore how people engage with the past and relate it to the present in an emotional and affective manner. Thus this book provides students and academics alike with useful insights into the ways in which the turn to emotion has engaged scholars of critical heritage studies, and it will be of use to all who wish to develop a greater understanding of heritage and its impact on individuals and society in general.'Sheila Watson, University of Leicester, UK'The objective of this book is to bring forward emotion and affectivity in museum and heritage institutions and studies. As a result, this collected edition is not only timely, it also covers an essential theme in Heritage Studies that has been largely left aside or remains, at best, an implicit element in many professional and academic works. Simply put, this is a collected edition that should be influential for years to come.'Jonathan Paquette, University of Ottawa, USATable of Contents1. Introduction: affective heritage practices Margaret Wetherell, Laurajane Smith, and Gary CampbellPart I: Commemoration and remembering 2. Labour of love and devotion? The search for the lost soldiers of Russia Johanna Dahlin3. Troubling heritage: intimate pasts and public memories at Derry/Londonderry’s ‘temple’Margo Shea4. Commemoration, affective practice, and the difficult histories of war Amy McKernan and Julie McLeod5. Constructing heritage through subjectivity: Museum of Broken Relationships Željka Miklošević and Darko Babić6. The Battle of Orgreave (1984) Toby JuliffPart II: Belonging and exclusion7. Apologising for past wrongs: emotion-reason rhetoric in political discourse Martha Augoustinos, Brianne Hastie and Peta Callaghan8. Experiencing mixed emotions in the museum: empathy, affect, and memory in visitors’ responses to histories of migration Rhiannon Mason, Katherine Lloyd, Areti Galani and Joanne Sayner9. Coming undone: protocols of emotion in Canadian human rights museology Jennifer Claire Robinson10. Touring the post-conflict city: negotiating affects during Belfast’s black cab mural tours Katie Markham11.. Performing affection, constructing heritage? Civil and political mobilisations around the Ottoman legacy in Bulgaria Ivo Strahilov and Slavka KarakushevaPart III: Learning, teaching and engaging12. Understanding the emotional regimes of reconciliation in engagements with ‘difficult’ heritage Michalinos Zembylas13. Affective practices of learning at the museum: children’s critical encounters with the past Dianne Mulcahy and Andrea Witcomb14. White guilt and shame: students’ emotional reactions to digital stories of race in a South African classroom Daniela Gachago, Vivienne Bozalek and Dick Ng’ambi15. Settler-Indigenous relationships and the emotional regime of empathy in Australian history school textbooks in times of reconciliation Angelique Stastny16. ‘Head and heart’ responses to treaty education in Aotearoa New Zealand: feeling the timeline of colonisation Ingrid Huygens17. Raw emotion: the Living Memory module at three sites of practice Celmara Pocock, Marion Stell and Geraldine MateIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Wedding Spectacle Across Contemporary Media
Book SynopsisThis book interrogates the hyper-visibility and stubborn endurance of the wedding spectacle across media and culture in the current climate.The wide-ranging chapters consider why the symbolic power of weddings is intensifying at a time when marriage as an institution appears to be in decline and they offer new insights into the shifting and complex gender politics of contemporary culture. The collection is a feminist project but does not straight-forwardly renounce the wedding spectacle. Rather, the diverse contributions offer close analyses of the myriad forms and practices of the wedding spectacle, from reality television and cinematic film to wedding videography and bridal boutiques. Drawing on feminist and queer theory, the chapters illuminate the paradoxes, contradictions, disappointments, cruelties and pleasures that are intimately bound up with the wedding spectacle. Written by leading and emerging feminist scholars, the chapters range across different nationalTrade ReviewThis fascinating collection significantly updates and expands our understanding of the popular cultures of weddings. Analyzing the wedding as a premiere site of spectacle, aspiration and the staging of social intimacy, it also unpacks its digitalization, globalization and complex affects and calls our attention to what we might think of as the growing distance between weddings and marriage.Diane Negra, Professor of Film Studies and Screen Culture, University College DublinGrounded in a critique of the class hierarchies and rampant inequalities of racialised heteropatriarchy, this book resists a straightforward dismissal of the mediated wedding spectacle. Instead, the plural feminist perspectives offer (com)passionate explorations of sites of resistance and ambivalence. They identify themes of identity, power, desire, consent, affect, camp, generation, while interrogating the mediated production of intimacies, connectivities and conflicts.Alison Winch, Lecturer in Media Studies, University of East AngliaTable of ContentsList of FiguresList of ContributorsAbstractsSomething Old, Something New: The Gender Politics of the Wedding SpectacleJilly Boyce Kay, Melanie Kennedy and Helen Wood The Bride Wore Dread: Dissent and Desire for the Wedding Spectacle in Sex and the City, from the Box to the Big-screen Deborah Jermyn Making a Spectacle of Yourself: British-Asian Wedding Videography as Alternative Archives of Belonging Jilly Boyce Kay and Kajal Nisha Patel Weddings, Anti-Heroines, and Postfeminist Cynicism Suzanne Leonard Say Yes to the Dress and the Affective Rhythms of Repetition and Reflection Natasha Whiteman and Helen Wood Big Fat Royal Weddings: Kate the "Commoner" Princess and Classed Moral Economies Laura Clancy "Time for all of us to Walk into the Sunshine Together": Glee, Same-sex Wedding Spectacle and the Imagining of Queer Futures Kate McNicholas Smith Tailored for Marriage, Ready for the Stage: Frames of the Family Regime on "The Marriage Show Feyza Akınerdem Keeping it Classy: Wedding Dresses and Distinctions Jenny Thatcher Tailor-made Suits and "Crappy Drag Queens": Constructing Gay and Lesbian Weddings in Reality TV Michael Lovelock Spectacular Virgins: Purity Porn and the Making Uncanny of the White Wedding Melanie Kennedy On Blushing Brides and the Compulsory Logics of Hetero-Femininity: The Glow in Transatlantic Media Culture Brenda R. WeberIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd On Insignificance
Book SynopsisFocusing on the anthropological consequences of the disappearing of materiality and sensory embodiment, On Insignificance highlights some of the most perturbing patterns of insignificance that have seeped into our everyday lives. Seeking to explain the semiotic causes of feelings of meaninglessness, Leone posits that caring for the singularities of the world is the most viable way to resist the alienating effects of the digital bureaucratization of meaning. The book will be of interest to scholars of anthropology, cultural studies, semiotics, aesthetics, communication studies, and social theory. Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Significance of Insignificance 1. Framing Insignificance: A Semiotic Typology of Meaningless 2. Trolling Insignificance: Disrupting the Digital Public Discourse 3. Contrarian Insignificance: Wars of Position in the Digitial Arena 4. Picturing Insignificance: The Utopia of Digital Perfection 5. Shopping Insignificance: Post-Material Temples 6. Assembling Insignificance: Post-Material Crowds 7. Eating Insignificance: Post-Material Meals 8. Recovering Significance: The Value of Singularity 9. Negotiating Significance: The Value of Compromise 10. Sharing Significance: the Value of Common Sense 11. Courting Significance: The Value of Interpretation 12. Conclusions: the Clash of Semiotic Civilizations
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Routledge Handbook of Identity Studies
Book SynopsisIn this comprehensive, accessible handbook, acclaimed social theorist Anthony Elliott brings together internationally distinguished and emergent scholars in the social sciences and humanities to review the major theoretical traditions, trends and trajectories in the hugely popular field of identity studies. The Routledge Handbook of Identity Studies set new standards for reference works when first published, such was the far-reaching sweep of topics discussed including identity studies reconfigured by feminism, post-structuralism and postmodernism, individualization theories, media and cultural studies, race and ethnicity, consumerism, environmentalism, post-colonialism, globalization and many more.This second edition of the handbook contains new contributions, including an updated general introduction from Anthony Elliott on the fast-changing conditions and contours of identity transformations in the global age. There are also new chapters on the emergeTable of ContentsPART 1: Theories of Identity 1. The Rise of Identity Studies: An Outline of Some Theoretical Accounts 2. A History of Identity: The Riddle at the Heart of the Mystery of Life 3. Feminism and Identity 4. Identity after Psychoanalysis 5. Foucauldian Approaches to the Self 6. The Fragmentation of Identity: Post-Structuralist and Postmodern Theories 7. Reflexive Identities 8. Individualization 9. Individualism, Identity, and Social Acceleration PART 2: The Analysis of Identity 10. Identity, Race and Ethnicity 11. Gendered Identities 12. Media and Identity 13. Virtual Identities: From Decentered to Distributed Selves 14. Consumer Identities 15. Identity, Mortality and Death 16. Digital Nomads and (Im)Mobile Identities 17. Posthuman Identities PART 3: Identity-Politics and its Consequences 18. Sexual Identity-Politics: Activism from Gay to Queer and Beyond 19. Environmentalism and Identity-Politics 20. Black Freedom Struggles and African American Identity 21. The Politics of Islamic Identities 22. Indigenous Identities: From Colonialism to Post-Colonialism 23. (Anti-)Globalization and Resistance Identities 24. Identity-Politics in the Global Age
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Oppressive Present
Book SynopsisMarking a departure from studies on history and literature in colonial India, The Oppressive Present explores the emergence of social consciousness as a result of and in response to the colonial mediation in the late nineteenth century. In focusing on contemporary literature in Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, and Marathi, it charts an epochal change in the gradual loss of the old pre-colonial self and the configuration of a new, colonized self. It reveals that the oppressive present' of generations of subjugated Indians remains so for their freed descendants: the consciousness of those colonized generations continues to characterize the modern educated Indian'. The book proposes ambivalence rather than binary categories such as communalism and nationalism, communalism and secularism, modernity and tradition as key to understanding the making of this consciousness.This cross-disciplinary volume will prove essential to scholars and students of modern and contemTrade Review‘[A]n important addition to the growing literature on the social and cultural history of British India . . . [the book] offer[s] a knowledgeable and sensitive account . . . [Its] discussion of nationalism and communalism is illuminating . . . notable for its command over literature in several languages, and . . . nuanced reading of texts.’ — The Journal of Asian Studies‘[A] very intelligent book . . . carefully researched.’ — American Historical Review‘[Sudhir Chandra] presents aspects of [the] ‘other’ history in his representations of native resistances to colonization in nineteenth- and twentieth-century India. [He] attempts to recover certain vernacular texts from nineteenth-century India and seeks to create an alternate space from which to represent literary studies in India.’ — Modern Fiction StudiesTable of ContentsPrologue to this Edition. Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. Crushed by English Poetry 2. Tradition: Orthodox and Heretical 3. Defining the Nation. Conclusion. Notes. About the Author. Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Companion to Mobile Media
Book SynopsisThe last decade has witnessed the rise of the cell phone from a mode of communication to an indispensable multimedia device, and this phenomenon has led to the burgeoning of mobile communication studies in media, cultural studies, and communication departments across the academy.The Routledge Companion to Mobile Media seeks to be the definitive publication for scholars and students interested in comprehending all the various aspects of mobile media. This collection, which gathers together original articles by a global roster of contributors from a variety of disciplines, sets out to contextualize the increasingly convergent areas surrounding social, geosocial, and mobile media discourses.Features include: comprehensive and interdisciplinary models and approaches for analyzing mobile media; wide-ranging case studies that draw from this truly global field, including China, Africa, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Latin ATrade Review"[C]hapter contributors address international politics, localization, globalization, cultural geographies, aging and age-related patterns of use, questions of gender and race, art, personal and cultural identity, comparative history, effects on social and kinship patterns, political activism, and economic and structural trends. This is an excellent resource for someone looking for ideas relating to and directions in which to explore mobile media. ... Summing Up: Highly recommended." --P. L. Kantor, Southern Vermont College, for CHOICE "[C]hapter contributors address international politics, localization, globalization, cultural geographies, aging and age-related patterns of use, questions of gender and race, art, personal and cultural identity, comparative history, effects on social and kinship patterns, political activism, and economic and structural trends. This is an excellent resource for someone looking for ideas relating to and directions in which to explore mobile media. ... Summing Up: Highly recommended." --P. L. Kantor, Southern Vermont College, in CHOICE "The constant developments in mobile media make it an exciting field of scholarship, and this book exploits these exciting energies." - Niall Flynn, LSE Review of Books Table of ContentsIntroduction: Mobile Media Research –– State of the Art Gerard Goggin and Larissa Hjorth Part 1: Fields of Mobile Media 1. Observing Multimedia Ilpo Koskinen 2. Understanding the Role of Mobile Media in Society: Models and Theories Leopoldina Fortunati 3. Theorizing Mobile Communication in the Intimate Sphere Rich Ling 4. Localizing Mobile Media: A Philippine Perspective Raul Pertierra 5. Mobile Locative Media: The Nexus of Mobile Phones and Social Media James E. Katz and Chih-Hui Lai
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Youth Homelessness and Survival Sex
Book SynopsisSurvival sex, commonly understood to be the exchange of sex for material support, is a practice that is associated with young homeless women. However, such a narrow definition of survival sex fails to recognise the multiple, complex, and coexisting motivations of young homeless women for engaging in intimate relationships in post-industrial capitalist society. In Youth Homelessness and Survival Sex, Watson's insightful analysis of personal narratives reveals how young homeless women are exposed to situations in which survival can be impeded or assisted by playing out specific gender roles. Indeed, in identifying and contesting the dominant social discourses that young homeless women draw upon to frame their experiences of intimate affairs, Watson challenges the reader to understand how gendered subjectivities are produced and performed through heteronormative relationships. This enlightening book is vital in showing that homelessness is not a gender-neutral phenomenon Trade ReviewYoung women’s homelessness is often hidden from view – not showing up in official statistics nor in popular representations of ‘rough sleepers’. In this important and original new study, Juliet Watson vividly illuminates young women’s experiences. In doing so she makes us question our understandings of both homelessness and of transactional sex, opening up nuanced ways of thinking about the intimate relationships women build in order to survive.Rosalind Gill, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, City University of London, UKIn Youth Homelessness and Survival Sex, Juliet Watson offers a compelling and confronting account of how young women face, understand, and manage the risks they face in homelessness. Through exceptional empirical research, deep theoretical expertise, and sensitive engagement with experiences of poverty, gendered violence, and social exclusion, Watson illuminates how these young women make strategic use of heteronormative femininity in their search for security, survival, and resources. This is an important and valuable book that reinforces the critical importance of gender analysis of precarious lives. JaneMaree Maher, Director, Centre for Women's Studies and Gender Research, Monash University, AustraliaIn this fascinating and disturbing book, Juliet Watson provides us with a scholarly yet unflinching examination of the reality of survival sex for young homeless women. She shines much needed light on a topic that is too often referred to in passing, and seldom given the in-depth consideration it deserves.Suzanne Fitzpatrick, Professor of Housing and Social Policy in the Institute for Social Policy, Housing, Environment and Real Estate (I-SPHERE), Heriot-Watt University, UKTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsChapter 1. Introduction: youth homelessness, gender, and the significance of survival sexIntroductionWhat is survival sex?Reconceptualising survival sexDefining homelessnessApplying a gendered lens to homelessness Conceptualising the home in relation to homelessness Constructing gendered subjectivitiesThe research projectThe significance of experience: a narrative approachChapter mapReferencesChapter 2. Young homeless women and the neoliberal subjectIntroductionNeoliberalismThe neoliberal subjectContemporary conditions of youth homelessnessDiscourse, power, and intersectionalityYouth transitions—locating young people in post-industrial capitalist societyIndividualisationHomelessness, individualisation, and classYoung women ‘at risk’PostfeminismPostfeminism as anti-feminismPostfeminism as a conceptual shift within feminismPostfeminist critical analysisConclusionReferencesChapter 3. Social capital, performativity, and gendered subjectivities in the homeless sphereIntroductionGender, homelessness, and subjectivitySocial capital theoryCapitalThe fieldHabitusEmbodimentSymbolic violence and romantic lovePerformativityFeminine capitalVicarious physical capitalConclusionReferencesChapter 4. Survival sex, stigma, and managing material conditions‘A butterfly’—Hayley’s storyIntroductionGender, homelessness, and stigma—‘Just a piece of meat’ (Hayley)Stigma and social capital—‘I was a junkie, slut, alcoholic person, or something’ (Nicki)Survival sex and vulnerability—‘He didn’t want me there once he found out that I had a boyfriend’ (Alice)Stigma and subjectivities—‘I’ve got standards and I’m a nice person’ (Jessie)Material support—‘It was just ’cause I’d seen the pretty side of things’ (Sarah)ConclusionReferencesChapter 5. Survival sex and gender-based violence‘My yo-yo life’—Jessie’s storyIntroductionViolence and homelessness—‘I’ve put myself in situations that I could’ve stayed away from’ (Jessie)Feminine capital and physical protection—‘I didn’t want to be by myself because I was scared’ (Hayley)Vicarious physical capital—‘I know people were scared of him’ (Hayley)Violence in intimate relationships—‘I don’t know what I was doing wrong’ (Jessie)Intimate relationships and the depletion of capital—‘No one wanted me at their place with him around’ (Nikita)Intimate relationships and romantic discourse—‘I say that "I love you" and everything’s OK again’ (Hayley)ConclusionReferencesChapter 6. Intimate relationships, social exclusion, and belonging‘The little black duck: at the end of day it does have a life’—Nikita’s storyIntroductionHomelessness and social exclusion—‘The word homeless does actually kill’ (Lexi)Social exclusion and performativity—‘You become inconsistent and everyone looks at you badly ’cause your performance is bad’ (Elle)Seeking stability and belonging from survival sex—‘I’ve got something, I’ve got a life. I’ve got a boyfriend. Look at me’ (Hayley)The pressures of homelessness on intimate relationships—‘There’s not really much happiness and joy’ (Nikita)Maintaining subjectivity stability through adversity—‘I think going through so much has made us so much stronger’ (Bianca)Intimate relationships in homeless spaces—‘In a normal society you’d be in your own home’ (Hayley)ConclusionReferencesChapter 7. Constructing authentic selves‘Searching for your identity’—Lexi’s storyIntroductionMaking the right choice, authenticity, and subject positions—‘When you know what you want, you will achieve it’ (Lexi)Postfeminism and choice—‘I don’t really think about it as feminism, I just think, tough chick’ (Angela)The choice to be single: necessity—‘Two people, it’s harder than one’ (Elle)The choice to be single: resistance—‘When the time is for me, then I’ll be settling down’ (Lexi)The choice to leave an abusive intimate relationship: refusing to be a victim—‘I got a backbone and I said "no more"’ (Sarah)The choice to leave an abusive intimate relationship: becoming a mother—‘Past the brink of had enough’ (Angela)The choice to leave an abusive intimate relationship: the importance of capital—‘They’d made me see things that I couldn’t see when I was in it’ (Nikita)Choosing intimate relationships—‘I don’t think it’s really homelessness that defines my relationship’ (Alice)ConclusionReferencesChapter 8. Conclusion: diversifying homelessnessIntroductionDestabilising discourses: making structures visibleYouth transitionsIndividualisationPostfeminismSubjectivity constructionManaging material conditionsManaging violenceManaging social exclusionNarratives of choiceFinal wordsReferencesAppendix: more storiesAlice—The shift from having my family as a family to having Chris as a familyAmina—Through high aspiration comes firm resolveAmy—My lifeAngela—The ‘how to’ and ‘how not to’ live life in MelbourneBianca—Life as a houseElle—The puzzleNicki—Crap lifePaige—How can you put a title on something like that?Pauline—My lifeSarah—Simple lifeIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Ovids Heroides
This volume offers up-to-date translations of all 21 epistles of Ovid's Heroides. Each letter is accompanied by a preface explaining the mythological background, an essay offering critical remarks on the poem, and discussion of the heroine and her treatment elsewhere in Classical literature. Where relevant, reception in later literature, film, music and art, and feminist aspects of the myth are also covered. The book also contains an introduction covering Ovid''s life and works, the Augustan background, the originality of the Heroides, dating, authenticity and reception. A useful glossary of characters mentioned in the Heroides concludes the book. This is a vital new resource for anyone studying the poetry of Ovid, Classical mythology or women in the ancient world.
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Companion to Media Sex and
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Companion to Media, Sex and Sexuality is a vibrant and authoritative exploration of the ways in which sex and sexualities are mediated in modern media and everyday life.The 40 chapters in this volume offer a snapshot of the remarkable diversification of approaches and research within the field, bringing together a wide range of scholars and researchers from around the world and from different disciplinary backgrounds including cultural studies, education, history, media studies, sexuality studies and sociology.The volume presents a broad array of global and transnational issues and intersectional perspectives, as authors address a series of important questions that have consequences for current and future thinking in the field. Topics explored include post-feminism, masculinities, media industries, queer identities, video games, media activism, music videos, sexualisation, celebrities, sport, sex-advice books, pornography and erotica, and social Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I Representing Sexualities 1. The Normal Body on Display: Public Exhibitions of the Norma and Normman Statues Elizabeth Stephens 2. Asexualities and Media Kristina Gupta and Karli June Cerankowski 3. Representing Trans Sexualities Eliza Steinbock 4. Representing lesbians in film and television Rebecca Beirne 5. Representing Gay Sexualities Sharif Mowlabocus 6. Fifty Shades of Ambivalence: BDSM representation in Pop Culture Ummni Khan 7. The Politics of Fluidity: Representing Bisexualities in 21st Century Screen Media Maria San Filippo 8. Heterosexual casual sex: from Free Love to Tinder Kath Albury 9. Representing Queer SexualitiesDion Kagan Part II Sex Genres 10. Erotica Catherine M. Roach 11. A History of Slash Sexualities: Debating Queer Sex, Gay Politics, and Media Fan CulturesKristina Busse and Alexis Lothian 12. Erotic Manga: Boys’ Love, Shonen-Ai, Yaoi and (MxM) Shotacon Anna Madill 13. Ways of Showing It: Feature and Gonzo in Mainstream Pornography Federico Zecca 14. From the Scene, for the Scene! Alternative Pornographies in Contemporary US ProductionGiovanna Maina 15. ‘Not On Public Display’: The Art/Porn Debate Gary Needham 16. User-generated pornography: amateurs and the ambiguity of authenticity Susanna Paasonen 17. Celebrity Sex Tapes Gareth Longstaff 18. The media panic about teen sexting Amy Adele Hasinoff 19. Sex advice books and self-help Meg John Barker, Rosalind Gill and Laura Harvey 20. Social Media Platforms and Sexual Health Paul Byron 21. Young people, sexuality education, and the media Anne-Frances Watson Part III Representing Sex 22. Videogames and Sex Ashley M.L. Brown 23. Sex and Celebrity Media Adrienne Evans 24. Sex and Music Video Diane Railton 25. ‘Too Much, Too Young?’: Debating representations of sexuality in advertising Despina Chronaki 26. Media Representations of Women in Action Sports: More Than ‘Sexy Bad Girls’on Boards Holly Thorpe 27. Sex and Horror Steve Jones 28. Sex in sitcoms: Unravelling the discourses on sex in Friends Frederik Dhaenens and Sofie Van Bauwel 29. Sex and reality TV: The pornography of intimate exposure Misha Kavka 30. It’s all about your sex appeal: Deconstructing the sexual contentin women’s magazines Claire Moran 31. The Invisibles: Disability, Sexuality and New Strategies of Enfreakment Niall Richardson Part IV Deconstructing Key Figures 32. The MetrosexualJohn Mercer and Feona Attwood33. The Sex Addict Barry Reay 34. The StripperAlison J Carr 35. The Pen is Mightier than the Whore: Victorian Newspapers and the Sex-Work Saviour Complex Kate Lister 36. The pornography consumer as Other Alan McKee 37. The Porn PerformerAngela Gabrielle White 38. The Dominatrix Danielle J. Lindemann 39. The Pervert Lauren Rosewarne 40. The Pornographer Neil Jackson
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Religion Sexuality and Spirituality
Book SynopsisThe field encompassed by this collection on Religion, Sexuality, and Spirituality' is a vast and controversial one. It encompasses both normative and non-normative sexual identities and behaviours in the so-called world religions' (Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism) and also such modes of being and conduct in the multitudinous indigenous religions, new religions and spiritualities, and smaller long-established traditions (for example, Zoroastrianism, Sikhism, Shinto, and so on).
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Routledge Library Editions Women and Religion
Book Synopsis RLE Women and Religion gathers in one place a collection of previously out-of-print titles from a variety of historic imprints. Encompassing a range of experiences, the set provides an essential reference source on some of the key points in the field of women and religion. 1. A Map of the New Country 2. Muslim Women 3. Passport to Heaven 4. Sex and God 5. Women's Religious Experience
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Masculinities in Contemporary American Culture
Book SynopsisMasculinities in Contemporary American Culture offers readers a multidisciplinary, intersectional overview of masculinity studies that includes both theoretical and applied lenses. Keith combines current research with historical perspectives to demonstrate the contexts in which masculine identities have come evolved. With an emphasis on popular culture -- particularly film, TV, video games, and music -- this text invites students to examine their gendered sensibilities and discuss the ways in which different forms of media appeal to toxic masculinity.Trade ReviewDr. Thomas Keith's new book is proof that there are a numerous amount of innovative ways to engage traditional material. In the tradition of James Loewen's "Lies My Teacher Told Me" and Cornel West & bell hooks "Breaking Bread" this is the new book that the academy will be talking about. Ironically it is a text book that never quite feels like one. With a philosopher's approach to unpacking complex material, yet through the lens of an ex-musician, Dr. Keith tells a profoundly lyrical story that feels like he himself authored the manual for making dysfunctional men, just so that he could tell us how to make repairs. He perhaps is never better in his unabashed and very personal analysis of men and their masculine representation in various forms of media.Dr. Keith invites us to travel with him as he systematically dismantles the rhyme and reason behind men's actions, both consciously and subconsciously. He paints a poignant picture of the problems visited upon men living and evolving in a patriarchal society, the crisis that accompany being boys, managing masculinity (in sports, as a father, within an organization, and even during the aging process) along the way to becoming men, and the difficulty in avoiding the inescapable violence, pornography, and misogyny inherent within too many romantic relationships.If you are interested in acquiring the tools to create conversations that lead to deeper understanding, personal epiphanies, and yes, revelations for men to self reflect and own the fact that we can actually be better, and more importantly, do better, then there is no better place to start your exploration than with Dr. Keith's intersectional approach. As a social justice educator for many years in as many educational environments I honestly know no better intellectual armament to wage war against the menace of masculinity than this ground breaking text. Open it, read it, and then see if you can avoid wanting to tell others about it. I seriously doubt you can or would want to.Dr. J.W. WileyChief Diversity Officer - SUNY PlattsburghLecturer, Philosophy & Interdisciplinary StudiesAuthor - The NIGGER In You: Challenging Dysfunctional Language, Engaging Leadership MomentsTable of ContentsChapter 1: Patriarchy, Male Privilege, and the Consequences of Living in a Patriarchal SocietyChapter 2: Men and the Nature - Nurture DebateChapter 3: Men's Movements and OrganizationsChapter 4: The Boy CrisisChapter 5: FatherhoodChapter 6: Men and Media I: The Construction of 'Normal'Chapter 7: Men and Media II: Advertising, Heteronormativity, and the Construction of Male InsecurityChapter 8: Music and MasculinityChapter 9: Boys, Men, and SportsChapter 10: Men, Anger, Violence, and CrimeChapter 11: Men, Sex, and PornographyChapter 12: Men, Health, and AgingPostscript: The Future of Masculinity
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Culture and Economy in the Age of Social Media
Book SynopsisUnderstanding social media requires us to engage with the individual and collective meanings that diverse stakeholders and participants give to platforms. It also requires us to analyse how social media companies try to make profits, how and which labour creates this profit, who creates social media ideologies, and the conditions under which such ideologies emerge. In short, understanding social media means coming to grips with the relationship between culture and the economy. In this thorough study, Christian Fuchs, one of the leading analysts of the Internet and social media, delves deeply into the subject by applying the approach of cultural materialism to social media, offering readers theoretical concepts, contemporary examples, and proposed opportunities for political intervention.Culture and Economy in the Age of Social Media is the ultimate resource for anyone who wants to understand culture and the economy in an era populated by social media platforms such as Trade Review"This book is a tour de force. Drawing on a comprehensive re-reading of Marx and critical theory, Christian Fuchs demonstrates how everyday activity on social media is integral to the system of global exploitation that is restructuring contemporary capitalism. His powerful critique of the promotional rhetorics surrounding the Internet and his call for action deserves to be read and debated by anyone seriously interested in the future directions of economic and cultural life." —Graham Murdock, Professor of Culture and Economy, Loughborough University"Drawing inspiration from Raymond Williams and Dallas Smythe, Christian Fuchs turns his critical eye and formidable talents to the deep connections between culture and economy in the age of social media. Rich in conceptual insights and supported with prodigious empirical detail covering labour and consumption in the West and in China, Culture and Economy in the Age of Social Media points the way to how we might retake public control of the digital world." —Vincent Mosco, author of To the Cloud: Big Data in a Turbulent World"Christian Fuchs’s excellent book demonstrates why social media must be analysed critically as both an economic and a cultural phenomenon, unlike the conservatism of idealist social science, which has much to say about communication yet is silent about the materiality of communications." —Jim McGuigan, author of Cool Capitalism"In presenting his analysis, Fuchs displays an extensive command of the literature of cultural analysis as well as an equally impressive familiarity with the work of Marx and those who analyze it. In short, this valuable book offers very insightful analysis into the nature of life in the contemporary world, which may offer some guidance for improving the condition of modern life." - M. Perelman, California State University, Chico, Highly Recommended Review in CHOICE"This book is a tour de force. Drawing on a comprehensive re-reading of Marx and critical theory, Christian Fuchs demonstrates how everyday activity on social media is integral to the system of global exploitation that is restructuring contemporary capitalism. His powerful critique of the promotional rhetorics surrounding the Internet and his call for action deserves to be read and debated by anyone seriously interested in the future directions of economic and cultural life." —Graham Murdock, Professor of Culture and Economy, Loughborough University"Drawing inspiration from Raymond Williams and Dallas Smythe, Christian Fuchs turns his critical eye and formidable talents to the deep connections between culture and economy in the age of social media. Rich in conceptual insights and supported with prodigious empirical detail covering labour and consumption in the West and in China, Culture and Economy in the Age of Social Media points the way to how we might retake public control of the digital world." —Vincent Mosco, author of To the Cloud: Big Data in a Turbulent World"Christian Fuchs’s excellent book demonstrates why social media must be analysed critically as both an economic and a cultural phenomenon, unlike the conservatism of idealist social science, which has much to say about communication yet is silent about the materiality of communications." —Jim McGuigan, author of Cool CapitalismTable of Contents1. Introduction Part I: Theoretical Foundations 2. Culture and Work (with Marisol Sandoval) 3. Communication, Ideology and Labour Part II: Social Media’s Cultural Political Economy of Time 4. Social Media and Labour Time 5. Social Media and Productive Labour Part III: Social Media’s Cultural Political Economy of Global Space 6. Social Media’s International Division of Digital Labour 7. Baidu, Weibo and Renren: The Global Political Economy of Social Media in China Part IV: Alternatives 8. Social Media and the Public Sphere 9. Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Companion to Media Studies and
Book SynopsisAlthough media studies and digital humanities are established fields, their overlaps have not been examined in depth. This comprehensive collection fills that gap, giving readers a critical guide to understanding the array of methodologies and projects operating at the intersections of media, culture, and practice. Topics include: access, praxis, social justice, design, interaction, interfaces, mediation, materiality, remediation, data, memory, making, programming, and hacking. Table of Contents1. Theory/Practice: Lessons Learned from Feminist Film StudiesTARA MCPHERSON2. #cut/paste+bleed: Entangling Feminist Affect, Action, and Production On and OfflineALEXANDRA JUHASZ3. Analog Girls in Digital Worlds: Dismantling Binaries for Digital Humanists Who Research Social MediaMOYA BAILEY AND REINA GOSSETT4. (Cyber)Ethnographies of Contact, Dialogue, Friction: Connecting, Building, Placing, and Doing ‘Data,’RADHIKA GAJJALA, ERIKA M. BEHRMANN, AND JEANETTE DILLON5. Of, By, and For the Internet: New Media Studies and Public ScholarshipAIMÉE MORRISON6. Women Who Rock: Making Scenes, Building Communities (Convivencia and Archivista Praxis for a Digital Era)MICHELLE HABELL-PALLÁN, SONNET RETMAN, ANGELICA MACKLIN, AND MONICA DE LA TORRE7. Decolonizing Digital Humanities in Theory and PracticeROOPIKA RISAM8. Interactive Narratives: Addressing Social and Political Trauma through New MediaISABEL CRISTINA RESTREPO ACEVEDO9. Wear and Care: Feminisms at a Long Maker TableJACQUE WERNIMONT AND ELIZABETH LOSH10. A Glitch in the Tower: Academia, Disability, and Digital HumanitiesELIZABETH ELLCESSOR11. Game Studies for Great JusticeAMANDA PHILLIPS12. Self-Determination in Indigenous GamesELIZABETH LAPENSÉEPART IIDesign, Interface, Interaction13. Making Meaning, Making Culture: How to Think about Technology and Cultural ReproductionANNE BALSAMO14. Contemporary and Future Spaces for Media Studies and Digital HumanitiesPATRIK SVENSSON15. Finding Fault Lines: An Approach to Speculative DesignKARI KRAUS16. Game Mechanics, Experience Design, and Affective PlayPATRICK JAGODA AND PETER MCDONALD17. Critical Play and Responsible DesignMARY FLANAGAN18. A Call to Action: Embodied Thinking and Human-Computer Interaction DesignJESSICA RAJKO19. Wearable Interfaces, Networked Bodies, and Feminist Sleeper AgentsKIM A. BRILLANTE KNIGHT20. Deep Mapping: Space, Place, and Narrative as Urban InterfaceMAUREEN ENGEL21. Smart Things, Smart Subjects: How the "Internet of Things" Enacts Pervasive MediaBETH COLEMANPART IIIMediation, Method, Materiality22. Approaching SoundTARA RODGERS23. Algorhythmics: A Diffractive Approach for Understanding ComputationSHINTARO MIYAZAKI24. Software Studies MethodsMATTHEW FULLER25. Physical Computing, Embodied PracticeNINA BELOJEVIC AND SHAUN MACPHERSON26. Turning Practice Inside Out: Digital Humanities and the EversionSTEVEN E. JONES27. Conjunctive and Disjunctive Networks: Affects, Technics, and Arts in the Experience of RelationANNA MUNSTER28. From ‘Live’ to Real Time: On Future Television StudiesMARK J. WILLIAMS29. ICYMI: Catching Up to the Moving Image OnlineGREGORY ZINMAN30. Images on the Move: Analytics for a Mixed Methods ApproachVIRGINIA KUHN31. Lost in the Clouds: A Media Theory of the Flight RecorderPAUL BENZON32. Scaffolding, Hard and Soft: Critical and Generative InfrastructuresSHANNON MATTERNPART IVRemediation, Data, Memory33. Obsolescence and Innovation in the Age of the DigitalKATHLEEN FITZPATRICK34. Futures of the BookJON BATH, ALYSSA ARBUCKLE, CONSTANCE CROMPTON, ALEX CHRISTIE, RAY SIEMENS, AND THE INKE RESEARCH GROUP35. Becoming a Rap Genius: African American Literary Studies and Collaborative AnnotationHOWARD RAMBSY II36. Traversals: A Method of Preservation for Born-Digital TextsDENE GRIGAR AND STUART MOULTHROP37. New Media Arts: Creativity on the Way to the ArchiveTIMOTHY MURRAY38. Apprehending the Past: Augmented Reality, Archives, and Cultural MemoryVICTORIA SZABO39. Experiencing Digital Africana Studies: Bringing theClassroom to LifeBRYAN CARTER40. Engagements with Race, Memory, and the Built Environment in South Africa: A Case Study in Digital HumanitiesANGEL NIEVES41. Relationships, Not Records: Digital Heritage and the Ethics of Sharing Indigenous Knowledge OnlineKIMBERLY CHRISTEN42. Searching, Mining, and Interpreting Media History’s Big DataERIC HOYT, ANTHONY TRAN, DEREK LONG, KIT HUGHES, AND KEVIN PONTO43. The Intimate Lives of Cultural ObjectsJEFFREY SCHNAPP44. Timescape and Memory: Visualizing Big Data at the 9/11 Memorial MuseumLAUREN F. KLEINPART VMaking, Programming, Hacking45. Programming as LiteracyANNETTE VEE46. Expressive Processing: Interpretation and CreationNOAH WARDRIP-FRUIN47. Building Interactive StoriesANASTASIA SALTER48. Reading Culture through CodeMARK MARINO49. Critical Unmaking, or Queer Computation as a Radical PracticeJACOB GABOURY50. Making Things to Make Sense of Things: DIY as Research and PracticeKAT JUNGNICKEL51. Environmental Sensing and ‘Media’ as Practice in the MakingJENNIFER GABRYS52. Approaching Design as Inquiry: Magic, Myth, and Metaphor in Digital FabricationDANIELA ROSNER
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Routledge Handbook of Chicanao Studies
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook of Chicana/o Studies is a unique interdisciplinary resource for students, libraries, and researchers interested in the largest and most rapidly growing racial-ethnic community in the United States and elsewhere which can either be identified as Chicano, Latino, Hispanic, or Mexican-American. Structured around seven comprehensive themes, the volume is for students of American studies, the Social Sciences, and the Humanities. The volume is organized around seven critical domains in Chicana/o Studies: Chicana/o History and Social Movements Borderlands, Global Migrations, Employment, and Citizenship Cultural Production in Global and Local Settings Chicana/o Identities Schooling, Language, and Literacy Violence, Resistance, and Empowerment International Perspectives The Handbook will stress the importance of the historical origins of the Chicana/o Studies field. StartingTable of ContentsIntroduction: Handbook of Chicana/o Studies, Francisco A. Lomelí, Denise A. Segura and Elyette Benjamin-LabarthePart I. Chicana/o History and Social MovementsIntroduction to Chicana/o History and Social Movements1. What is Aztlán?: Homeland, Quest, Female Place, David Carrasco2. Chicano History- A General Approach, Mario T. García3. Recent Chicana/o Historiography: Advances, Shortcoming, and Challenges, Alex M. Saragoza4. The Chicano Movement, Ramón A. Gutiérrez5. A Genealogy of Chicana History, the Chicana Movement, and Chicana Studies, Miroslava Chávez-García6. Bilingual Education: History, Policy, and Insights from Critical Race Theory, Grace P. McFieldPart II. Borderlands: Contested (Im)migrations, Culture and CitizenshipIntroduction to Borderlands: Contested (Im)migrations, Culture and Citizenship7. México y lo Mexicano in Aztlán: Transborder Economic, Cultural and Political Links, David R. Maciel and María Rosa García-Acevedo8. Immigration, Latinos, and the Media, Leo R. Chávez9. Mobilizing for Life: Illegality, Organ Transplants, and Migrant Biosociality, Jonathan Xavier Inda10. Discourses of Violence and Peace: About and On the U.S.-Mexico Border, María-Socorro Tabuenca 11. Reconstructing Home in the Borderlands, Patricia ZavellaPart III. Cultural Production in Local and Global SettingsIntroduction to Cultural Production in Local and Global Settings12. Colonial, De-colonial, and Transnational Choreographies in Ritual Danzas and Popular Bailes of Greater Mexico, Enrique R. Lamadrid13. The Challenge of Chicana/o Music, Steven Loza14. Chicana/o Literature’s Multi-Spatiotemporal Projections & Impacts; or Back to the Future, Frederick Luis Aldama15. From Don Juan to Dolores Huerta: Foundational Chicana/o Films, Catherine Leen16. Origins and Evolution of Homies as Hip Rasquache Cultural Artifacts: Taking the Homies Out of the Barrio or the Barrio Out of the Homies, Francisco A. LomelíPart IV. Indigeneity, Mestizaje, Postnationalism, and Transnationalism: Overarching Phenomena of InterdisciplinarityIntroduction to Indigeneity, Mestizaje, Postnationalism, and Transnationalism: Overarching Phenomena of Interdisciplinarity17. The Embodied Epistemology of Chicano Mestizaje, Rafael Pérez-Torres18. New Tribalism and Chicana/o Indigeneity in the Work of Gloria Anzaldúa, Domino Renee Pérez19. "Aztlán es una fábula": Navigating Postnational Spaces in Chicana/o Culture, Marc Priewe20. Regional Singularity and Decolonial Chicana/o Studies, Lene M. Johannessen21. Transnationalism Chicana/o Style, Karin IkasPart V. Chicana/o Identities and Political ExpressionsIntroduction to Chicana/o Identities and Political Expressions22. Narrative Identity and the Dialectics of Selfhood in Chicana/o Writing, Sophia Emmanouilidou23. The Challenge of Colorism in the Chicana/o Community, Margaret Hunter24. Bilingualism and Biculturalism: Spanish, English, Spanglish?, Cecilia Montes-Alcalá25. The Landscapes and Languaging of Chicana Feminisms, Aída Hurtado26. The Aesthetics of Healing and Love: An Epistemic Geneaology of Jota/o Aesthetic Traditions, William A. Calvo-QuirósPart VI. Violence, Resistance and EmpowermentIntroduction to Violence, Resistance and Empowerment27. The Art of Disruption: Chicana/o Art’s Politicized Strategies for Aesthetic Innovation, Guisela Latorre28. Resisting the Dominant Anglo-American Discourse: Political Activism and the Art of Protest, Astrid M. Fellner and Claire M. Massey29. Spanish Language Media: From Politics of Resistance to Politics of Pan-ethnicity, Xavier Medina Vidal and Federico Subervi-Vélez30. Transnational Incest: Sexual Violence and Migration in Mexican Families, Gloria González-LópezPart VII. International Perspectives on Chicana/o Studies: From Aztlán to Shores AbroadIntroduction to International Perspectives on Chicana/o Studies: From Aztlán to Shores Abroad31. Chicana/o Studies in France: Emergence and Development, Elyette Benjamin-Labarthe32. Chicano Studies and Inter-American Studies in Germany, Gabriele Pisarz-Ramírez33. Reception of Chicano Literature and Culture in Italy: A Survey, Erminio Corti34. A Trans-Atlantic Look at Chicano Culture and Literature from a Spanish Perspective, José Antonio Gurpegui
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Taylor & Francis Barthesâ Mythologies Today
This is Barthesâ seminal text reimagined in a contemporary context by contemporary academics. Through a revisiting of Mythologies, a key text in cultural and media studies, this volume explores the value these disciplines can add to an understanding of contemporary society and culture. Leading academics in media, English, education, and cultural studies here are tasked with identifying the new mythologies some fifty or so years on from Barthesâ original interventions. The contributions in this volume, then, are readings of contemporary culture, each engaging with a cultural event, practice, or text as mythological. These readings are then contextualized by an introduction which reflects on the âhowâ of these engaging responses and an essay at the back of the book which replaces Myth Today with a reflection on the contemporary provenance of both Barthes and his most famous book. Thus the book is at least two things at once whichever way you look: a ânewâ Mythologies and
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Routledge Handbook of Postcolonial Politics
Book SynopsisEngagements with the postcolonial world by International Relations scholars have grown significantly in recent years. The Routledge Handbook of Postcolonial Politics provides a solid reference point for understanding and analyzing global politics from a perspective sensitive to the multiple legacies of colonial and imperial rule. The Handbook introduces and develops cutting-edge analytical frameworks that draw on Black, decolonial, feminist, indigenous, Marxist and postcolonial thought as well as a multitude of intellectual traditions from across the globe. Alongside empirical issue areas that remain crucial to assessing the impact of European and Western colonialism on global politics, the book introduces new issue areas that have arisen due to the mutating structures of colonial and imperial rule. This vital resource is split into five thematic sections, each featuring a brief, orienting introduction: Points of departure PTrade Review"Although the format of a handbook inevitably carries with it canonical connotations, the fusion of horizons that prefiguratively mends together a world fractured by coloniality is ultimately one that carries with it a promise of a world of many worlds. That is, a postcolonial world."Lucas Van Milders, University of Kent Table of Contents Introduction 1. Postcolonial Politics: An Introduction Olivia U. Rutazibwa and Robbie Shilliam Section 1: Points of Departure 2. Introduction 3. Waiwai (Abundance) and Indigenous Futures Mary Tuti Baker 4. European Integration as a Colonial Project Peo Hansen and Stefan Jonsson 5. Securing the Postcolonial Pinar Bilgin 6. Social Struggles and the Coloniality of Gender Rosalba Icaza 7. Racism and ‘Blackism’ in a World Scale Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni Section 2: Popular Postcolonial Imaginaries 8. Introduction 9. The Imperial Sociology of the ‘Tribe’ Nivi Manchanda 10. Terrorism and the Postcolonial ‘State’ Swati Parashar 11. The Colonial Mediterranean, Anonymity and Migration Control Emilio Distretti 12. Violence, Hermeneutics and Postcolonial Diplomacy Deep Datta-Ray 13. Arab Feminism: Between Secular and Islamic Models Soumaya Mestiri 14. The Everyday Practices of Development Althea-Maria Rivas 15. LGBTIQ Rights, Development Aid and Queer Resistance Christine M. Klapeer Section 3: Struggles over the Postcolonial State 16. Introduction 17. The State: Postcolonial Histories of the Concept Gurminder K. Bhambra 18. Race, Ethnicity and the State: Contemporary Quilombos in a Historical Perspective Desiree Poets 19. The Revolution of Smiling Women: Stateless Democracy and Power in Rojava Dilar Dirik 20. The Postcolonial Complex in Okinawa Eiichi Hoshino 21.‘Too Simple and Sometimes Naïve’: Hong Kong, between China and the West Xin Liu Section 4: Struggles over Land 22. Introduction 23. 'Old wine in new bottles’: Enclosure, Neoliberal Capitalism and Postcolonial Politics A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi 24. Saltwater Archives: Native Knowledge in a Time of Rising Tides Joy Lehuanani Enomoto and D. Kealiʻi MacKenzie 25. Global Environmental Harm, Internal Frontiers, and Indigenous Protective Ontologies Ajay Parasram and Lisa Tilley 26. No Migration, Repatriation: Spiritual Visionings and Political Limitations of Rastafari Repatriation to Ethiopia Ijahnya Christian 27. Is a Decolonised University Possible in a Colonial Society? Andile Mngxitama Section 5: Alternative Global Imaginaries 28. Introduction 29. Wanda’s Dream: Daoist World Politics in Five Acts L.H.M. Ling 30. Civilizing Process or Civilizing Mission? Toward a Post-Western Understanding of Human Security Giorgio Shani 31. Dialogical International Relations: Gandhi, Tagore and Self-Transformation Aparna Devare 32. ‘Telling a Tale’: Gender, Knowledge and the Subject in Nepal Rahel Kunz and Archana Thapa 33. Du Bois, Ghana, and Cairo Jazz: The Geo-Politics of Malcolm X Hisham Aidi 34. Blesi Doub. Heridas Dobles. Dual Wounds. Re-writing the Island Alanna Lockward 35. African Violet: Hybrid of Circumstance Denize LeDeatte
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Global Culture Consciousness and Connectivity
Book SynopsisThe current discourse of globalization is overwhelmingly centred upon the interconnectedness, or connectivity, of the contemporary world; to the great neglect of the issues of global culture and global consciousness. With contemporary worldwide culture increasingly characterized by such themes as astronomy, cosmology, space travel and exploration, there is an increasing disjuncture between academic concern with connectivity, on the one hand, and culture and consciousness of the place of planet earth in the cosmos as a whole, on the other. This book addresses this deficiency from a variety of closely related perspectives, presenting studies of religion, science, sport, international organizations, global resistance movements and migrations and developments in East Asia. It brings together the latest theoretical empirical work from scholars in the US, UK, Australia, Japan, China and Israel on the significance of culture and global consciousness. As such, Global Culture: Consciousness andTrade Review’Robertson and Buhari-Gulmez have put together impressive analyses of the cultural dimensions of contemporary globalization, which has usually been seen in economic terms. The chapters creatively treat global homogenization as intertwined with local adaptation, often employing Robertson’s well-known concept glocalization. The book will be very useful for anyone concerned with worldwide cultural developments.’ John W. Meyer, Stanford University, USATable of ContentsIntroduction, Roland Robertson; Global culture and consciousness, Roland Robertson; Globalization and global consciousness: levels of connectivity, Paul James and Manfred B. Steger; Connectivity and consciousness: how globalities are constituted through communication flows, Barrie Axford; Globalization’s cultural consequences revisited, Robert J. Holton; Dynamics of world culture: global rationalism and problematizing norms, again, George M. Thomas; Rationalizing global consciousness: scientized education as the foundation of organization, citizenship, and personhood, Gili S. Drori; Jesuits, connectivity, and the uneven development of global consciousness since the sixteenth century, José Casanova; Glocalization and global sport, Richard Giulianotti; Global culture in motion, Peggy Levitt; China in the process of globalization: a primarily cultural perspective, Wang Ning; ‘America’ in global culture, Frank J. Lechner; Taking Japan seriously again: the cultural economy of glocalization and self-orientalization, Koji Kobayashi; Conclusion, Roland Robertson and Didem Buhari-Gulmez
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The European Handbook of Media Accountability
Book SynopsisIn recent years, the Leveson Inquiry in Great Britain, as well as the EU High-Level Group on Media Freedom and Pluralism, have stirred heated debates about media accountability and media self-regulation across Europe. How responsible are journalists? How well-developed are infrastructures of media self-regulation in the different European countries? How much commitment to media accountability is there in the media industry and how actively do media users become involved in the process of media criticism via social media?With contributions from leading scholars in the field of journalism and mass communication, this handbook brings together reports on the status quo of media accountability in all EU members states as well as key countries close to Europe, such as Turkey and Israel. Each chapter provides an up-to-date overview of media accountability structures as well as a synopsis of relevant research, exploring the role of media accountability instruments in each national sTable of ContentsList of ContributorsList of Figures and TablesChapter 1. IntroductionTobias Eberwein, Susanne Fengler & Matthias KarmasinChapter 2. Austria: Back on the Democratic Corporatist Road?Matthias Karmasin, Klaus Bichler & Andy KaltenbrunnerChapter 3. Belgium: Divided Along Language LinesKarin Raeymaeckers & François HeinderyckxChapter 4. Bulgaria: Regaining Media FreedomBissera Zankova & Michał GłowackiChapter 5. Croatia: Unfulfilled ExpectationsStjepan MalovićChapter 6. Cyprus: Behind Closed (Journalistic) DoorsDimitra L. Milioni, Lia-Paschalia Spyridou & Michalis KoumisChapter 7. Czech Republic: The Market GovernsTomáš TrampotaChapter 8. Denmark: Voluntary Accountability Driven by Political PressureMark Blach-Ørsten, Jannie Møller Hartley & Sofie FlensburgChapter 9. Estonia: Conflicting Views on Accountability PracticesUrmas Loit, Epp Lauk & Halliki Harro-LoitChapter 10. Finland: The Empire Renewing ItselfJari Väliverronen & Heikki HeikkiläChapter 11. France: Media Accountability as an Abstract Idea?Olivier Baisnée, Ludivine Balland & Sandra Vera ZambranoChapter 12. Germany: Disregarded DiversityTobias Eberwein, Susanne Fengler, Mariella Bastian & Janis BrinkmannChapter 13. Greece: Between Systemic Inefficiencies and Nascent Opportunities OnlineEvangelia Psychogiopoulou & Anna KandylaChapter 14. Hungary: Difficult Legacy, Slow TransformationAgnes UrbanChapter 15. Ireland: Moving from Courts to Institutions of AccountabilityRoderick FlynnChapter 16. Israel: Media in Political HandcuffsNoam Lemelshtrich LatarChapter 17. Italy: Transparency as an InspirationSergio SplendoreChapter 18. Latvia: Different Journalistic Cultures and Different Accountability Within One Media SystemAinars DimantsChapter 19. Lithuania: The Ideology of Liberalism and Its Flaws in the Democratic Performance of the MediaKristina Juraitė, Auksė Balčytienė & Audronė NugaraitėChapter 20. Luxembourg: Low Priority in a Confined MilieuMario HirschChapter 21. Malta: Media Accountability as a Two-legged ‘Tripod’Joseph Borg & Mary Anne LauriChapter 22. The Netherlands: From Awareness to RealizationHarmen Groenhart & Huub EversChapter 23. Norway: Journalistic Power Limits Media AccountabilityPaul BjerkeChapter 24. Poland: Accountability in the MakingBogusława Dobek-Ostrowska, Michał Głowacki & Michał KuśChapter 25. Portugal: Many Structures, Little AccountabilityNuno Moutinho, Helena Lima, Suzana Cavaco & Ana Isabel ReisChapter 26. Romania: Unexpected Pressures for AccountabilityMihai Coman, Daniela-Aurelia Popa & Raluca-Nicoleta RaduChapter 27. Russia: Media Accountability to the Public or the State? Elena Vartanova & Maria LukinaChapter 28. Slovakia: Conditional Success of Ethical Regulation via Online InstrumentsAndrej ŠkolkayChapter 29. Slovenia: The Paper Tiger of Media AccountabilityIgor Vobič, Aleksander Sašo Slaček Brlek & Boris ManceChapter 30. Spain: New Formats and Old CrisesSalvador Alsius, Ruth Rodriguez-Martinez & Marcel Mauri de los RiosChapter 31. Sweden: A Long History of Media Accountability AdaptionTorbjörn von KroghChapter 32. Switzerland: Role Model with GlitchesColin PorlezzaChapter 33. Turkey: Sacrificing Credibility for Economic Expediency and PartisanshipCeren SözeriChapter 34. United Kingdom: Post-Leveson, Media Accountability is All Over the PlaceMike Jempson, Wayne Powell & Sally ReardonChapter 35. Summary: Measuring Media Accountability in Europe – and BeyondTobias Eberwein, Susanne Fengler, Katja Kaufmann, Janis Brinkmann & Matthias KarmasinReferencesIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd What Holds Us Together: Popular Culture and
Book SynopsisFaced by the increasing divisiveness and volatility of electoral politics, and the rise of illiberal fundamentalisms, the social sciences may seem to lack the imagination necessary to make sense of the world. In this unusual book of political psychology, based on the idea that we hold ourselves together through a combination of restraint and release, Barry Richards draws on psychoanalysis and its creative interpretations of everyday experience to consider the current malaise of politics in relation to the huge vitality of popular culture. In a wide-ranging analysis, that links topics as diverse as our experience of public utilities, the rise of counselling, and the weakened impact of sexual scandal, he concludes with the proposal that a reconstruction of nationalism could make an important contribution to the renewal of democratic politics.Trade ReviewIn this groundbreaking work, Barry Richards demonstrates that burgeoning social change may have a healing and containing effect on the climate of fear wrought by the global deterioration of political life – a disquietude that threatens our connections to each other and the world around us. In a few pages, he tackles our unconsciously shared anxieties with a clarity and intelligence that is psychologically astute, culturally refreshing, and ultimately hopeful. This book inspires and informs, and I recommend it to anyone looking for a deeper understanding of the frightening times in which we live.’- Justin A. Frank, MD, author of Obama on the Couch, and the forthcoming Trump on the Couch‘Barry Richards provides another avenue to important questions of social psychology: How can we understand the internal psychic conditions of coping with the external world? How can we investigate what “holds societies together” in a deeper psychological sense – in a sense that doesn’t only analyse problematic forms of individual adaptation or damaging kinds of submission to social reality? To answer these questions the author concentrates mainly on what he formulates as a need to establish a containing relationship to the external world. Anyone involved in analysing the complex relationship between internal and external realities and between sociology and psychoanalysis will find inspiring new ideas in this interesting book.’- Vera King, Sigmund-Freud-Institut and Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany‘Popular culture and its political expression “populism” is a giant materialising out of the mists to haunt the elite and the intellectuals alike. It is best we get to know it. This book gives us a sketch map of the territory on which these new manifestations occur. It is a surprisingly hopeful read as it surveys the important dialectic of our own selves embedded within our collective world.’- R. D. Hinshelwood, fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society and professor in the Centre of Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex"Drawing on Freud’s pleasure principle, he argues that popular culture (football, popular music, consumer culture) offers a pleasurable libidinal and aggressive release that cannot escape social norms and values that must be adhered to in order to co-exist in society. As such, popular culture’s derivative is the id and society’s norms the superego, and, it is the tension between the two that makes popular culture containing.Although academic in tone and focus, the book indirectly highlights the significance of politics and popular culture in the therapy room, and how it can influence the client’s feeling of containment or fragmentation."-Marta Moe, Psychodynamic Practice JournalTable of Contents1. The popular disciplines of delight 2. The containing matrix of the social 3. The therapeutic culture hypothesis 4. Containment and compression: politics in the therapeutic age
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Technoculture: The Key Concepts
Book SynopsisWe live in a world where science and technology shape the global economy and everyday culture, where new biotechnologies are changing what we eat and how we can reproduce, and where email, mobiles and the internet have revolutionised the ways we communicate with each other and engage with the world outside us.Technoculture: The Key Concepts explores the power of scientific ideas, their impact on how we understand the natural world and how successive technological developments have influenced our attitudes to work, art, space, language and the human body. Throughout, the lively discussion of ideas is illustrated with provocative case studies - from biotech foods to life-support systems, from the Walkman and iPod to sex and cloning, from video games to military hardware. Designed to be both provocative and instructive, Technoculture: The Key Concepts outlines the place of science and technology in today's culture.Trade Review"The strengths of the book are many... Technoculture is a valuable contribution to the literature in this field of growing significance. - Melbourn Journal of Politics - Timothy Marjoribanks [An] admirably comprehensive, easy-to-read and wide-ranging introduction to a critical and often neglected aspect of understanding technology. Importantly, it provides a serious challenge to technological determinism, a position whose assumptions remain pervasive -- even in critical media and cultural studies scholarship. - Media International Australia Incorporating Culture and Policy - Gerard Goggin, University of Queensland [Technoculture] shows how much crossover there is between the fields, presenting STS from an easily approachable perspective that maintains its depth, while tying key theories back to elements of popular culture and difficult social, ethical, and political issues. Highly recommended. - CHOICE"Table of ContentsIntroduction: Technology and Social Realities1. Technoscience and Power 2. TechnoNature/Culture: 3. TechnoBodies 4. TechnoSpaces 5. TechnoAesthetics 6. TechnoLinguistics ConclusionGlossaryAnnotated Guide to Further ReadingNotesBibliography
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Bodies,
Book SynopsisAlternative therapies, once the province of the hippie counterculture, are now a mainstream phenomenon. But they are more than a medical and economic sensation. At once spiritual and bodily, medical and recreational, they are an enormously popular cultural practice bound up with the pleasure-seeking drive of consumer culture as well as with spiritual and neo-liberal values.Complementary and Alternative Medicine critically examines this phenomenon - which some denounce as the triumph of superstition over reason - by asking practitioners themselves what makes these therapies so appealing.Drawing on a wealth of interviews with Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) practitioners as well as on the author's longstanding participation in CAM culture, the book provides a much needed look from both the inside and the outside of the CAM phenomenon. This book is essential reading for students and scholars of cultural studies, anthropology, sensory studies and sociology.Trade Review"What a marvellous book this is - insightful, well-researched, critically-minded, yet also personal and empathic. Barcan helps us 'rethink the body' through a brilliant examination of practices in alternative medicine, viewed through the lens of cultural studies, the history of philosophy/psychology, and experiential accounts. The product is that rarest of things - a work of comprehensive scholarship that is also a compelling read. - Drew Leder, Professor of Philosophy, Loyola College, Maryland, US Ruth Barcan offers the first book-length ethnography of a subaltern or alternative sensorium. She describes in vivid detail the challenge to the dominant sensory model of Western society presented by the practitioners and consumers of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM), who differ - sometimes widely and often wildly - from the larger society regarding the values and uses of the senses ... Reading this book is to join in a profoundly liberating exercise in the education of the senses. - David Howes, Professor of Anthropology, Concordia University, Canada"Table of ContentsChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Vision: The Power of SightChapter 3: Sound: Good VibrationsChapter 4: Touch: Knowing Touch: BodyworkChapter 5: The Sixth Sense: IntuitionConclusionBibliographyIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Object Worlds in Ancient Egypt: Material Biographies Past and Present
Book SynopsisEgypt looms large in the Western imagination. Whether it is our attraction to pharaonic art, the pyramids or practices of mummification, Egypts unique understanding of materiality speaks to us across space and time. Is it because the ancient Egyptians fetishized material objects that we find their culture captivating today? And what exactly do Egyptian remains tell us about biography, embodiment, memory, materiality, and the self? Object Worlds in Ancient Egypt takes New Kingdom Egypt (1539-1070 BC) as its starting point and considers how excavated objects reveal the complex ways that ancient Egyptians experienced their material world. From life to death, the material world instantiated, reflected and influenced social life and existence for ancient Egyptians. Thus, in Meskells unique approach to the materiality and sensuousness of subjects and objects, we uncover the philosophical, spiritual and human meanings embedded in these cultural artefacts. Meskells book explores the fundamental existential questions that not only preoccupied ancient Egyptians, but continue to fascinate people today. What is the essence of persons and things? How might we understand the situated experiences of material life, the constitution of the object world and its shaping of human experience? How might objects successfully mediate between worlds? In the final analysis, Meskell moves forward through time and examines the consumption and appreciation of these Egyptian material objects in the contemporary world. Materiality is our physical engagement with the world, our medium for inserting ourselves into the fabric of that world and our way of constituting and shaping culture in an embodied and external sense. From that perspective it is very much the domain of anthropology and archaeology.Drawing on a wide range of objects, artefacts, and artwork, from Valley of the Kings through to Las Vegas, Meskell provides an elegant analysis of the aesthetics of ancient Egyptian material cultureTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1: Objects In The Mirror May Appear Closer Than They AreChapter 2: Taxonomy, Agency, BiographyChapter 3: Material Memories: Objects as AncestorsChapter 4: Statue Worlds and Divine ThingsChapter 5: On Hearing, Phenomenology and DesireChapter 6: Sketching Lifeworlds, Performing ResistanceChapter 7: Object Lessons from Modernity AcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1: Objects In The Mirror May Appear Closer Than They AreChapter 2: Taxonomy, Agency, BiographyChapter 3: Material Memories: Objects as AncestorsChapter 4: Statue Worlds and Divine ThingsChapter 5: On Hearing, Phenomenology and DesireChapter 6: Sketching Lifeworlds, Performing ResistanceChapter 7: Object Lessons from Modernity
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Amsterdam University Press Micro-foundations for Innovation Policy
Book SynopsisIn economics, business, and government policy, innovation policy requires the creation of new approaches based on insight in what happens in innovation processes, on the micro level of people, firms and interaction between them. In innovation policy it should also be recognized that innovation entails a whole range of activities beyond R&D, such as entrepreneurship, design, commercialization, organization, collaboration and the diffusion of knowledge and innovations . This edited volume explores the roles of individuals and organizations involved in the creation and application of innovations. Covering topics as diverse as the macro-economic importance of innovation, theories of knowledge and learning, entrepreneurship, education and research, organizational innovation, networks and regional innovation systems, Micro-Foundations for Innovation Policy provides critical insights into the development of innovation policy.Table of ContentsContents - 6 Preface - 12 Executive Summary - 14 Contributors - 16 1. Innovation, the Economy, and Policy - 18 2. Innovation and Macroeconomics - 54 3. Learning, Discovery and Collaboration - 76 4. Research, Higher Education, and Innovation - 104 5. Entrepreneurship an Innovation - 136 6. Barriers to Innovation - 174 7. Collaboration, Trust, and the Structure of Relationships - 200 8. Innovation and Organisation - 220 9. Innovation and Creativity in Organisations: Individual and Work Team Research Findings and Implications for Government Policy - 250 10. Inter-Organisational Networks and Innovation - 274 11. Regional Innovation Policy - 316 12. Conclusions for Innovation Policy: Opening in Fours - 344
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Amsterdam University Press European Cinema: Face to Face with Hollywood
Book SynopsisIn the face of renewed competition from Hollywood since the early 1980s and the challenges posed to Europe’s national cinemas by the fall of the Wall in 1989, independent filmmaking in Europe has begun to re-invent itself. European Cinema: Face to Face with Hollywood re-assesses the different debates and presents a broader framework for understanding the forces at work since the 1960s. These include the interface of “world cinema” and the rise of Asian cinemas, the importance of the international film festival circuit, the role of television, as well as the changing aesthetics of auteur cinema. New audiences have different allegiances, and new technologies enable networks to reshape identities, but European cinema still has an important function in setting critical and creative agendas, even as its economic and institutional bases are in transition.Table of ContentsTable of Contents - 6 Preface - 10 Introduction: European Cinema: Conditions of Impossibility? - 14 National Cinema: Re-Definitions and New Directions - 34 European Culture, National Cinema, the Auteur and Hollywood - 36 ImpersoNations: National Cinema, Historical Imaginaries - 58 Film Festival Networks: the New Topographies of Cinema in Europe - 83 Double Occupancy and Small Adjustments: Space, Place and Policy in the New European Cinema since the 1990s - 109 Auteurs and Art Cinemas: Modernism and Self-Reference, Installation Art and Autobiography - 132 Ingmar Bergman – Person and Persona: The Mountain of Modern Cinema on the Road to Morocco - 134 Late Losey: Time Lost and Time Found - 156 Around Painting and the “End of Cinema”: A Propos Jacques Rivette’s La Belle Noiseuse - 166 Spellbound by Peter Greenaway: In the Dark ... and Into the Light - 179 The Body as Perceptual Surface: The Films of Johan van der Keuken - 194 Television and the Author’s Cinema: ZDF’s Das Kleine Fernsehspiel - 213 Touching Base: Some German Women Directors in the 1980s - 220 Europe-Hollywood-Europe - 232 Two Decades in Another Country: Hollywood and the Cinephiles - 234 Raoul Ruiz’s Hypothèse du Tableau Volé - 252 Images for Sale: The “New” British Cinema - 256 “If You Want a Life”: The Marathon Man - 271 British Television in the 1980s Through The Looking Glass - 279 German Cinema Face to Face with Hollywood: Looking into a Two-Way Mirror - 300 Central Europe Looking West - 320 Of Rats and Revolution: Dusan Makavejev’s The Switchboard Operator - 322 Defining DEFA’s Historical Imaginary: The Films of Konrad Wolf - 326 Under Western Eyes: What Does ¿i¿ek Want? - 343 Our Balkanist Gaze: About Memory’s No Man’s Land - 357 Europe Haunted by History and Empire - 372 Is History an Old Movie? - 374 Edgar Reitz’ Heimat: Memory, Home and Hollywood - 385 Discourse and History: One Man’s War – An Interview with Edgardo Cozarinsky - 396 Rendezvous with the French Revolution: Ettore Scola’s That Night in Varennes - 408 Joseph Losey’s The Go-Between - 413 Games of Love and Death: Peter Greenaway and Other Englishmen - 421 Border-Crossings: Filmmaking without a Passport - 432 Peter Wollen’s Friendship’s Death - 434 Andy Engel’s Melancholia - 437 On the High Seas: Edgardo Cozarinsky’s Dutch Adventure - 441 Third Cinema/World Cinema: An Interview with Ruy Guerra - 445 Ruy Guerra’s Erendira - 462 Hyper-, Retro- or Counter-: European Cinema as Third Cinema Between Hollywood and Art Cinema - 465 Conclusion - 484 European Cinema as World Cinema: A New Beginning? - 486 European Cinema: A Brief Bibliography - 516 List of Sources and Places of First Publication - 532 Index of Names - 536 Index of Film Titles / Subjects - 550
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Amsterdam University Press Narratives of Place, Culture and Identity: Second-Generation Greek-Americans Return 'Home'
Book SynopsisChristou explores the phenomenon of ‘return migration’ in Greece through the settlement and identification processes of second-generation Greek-American returning migrants. She examines the meanings attached to the experience of return migration. The concepts of ‘home’ and ‘belonging’ figure prominently in the return migratory project which entails relocation and displacement as well as adjustment and alienation of bodies and selves. Furthermore, Christou considers the multiple interactions (social, cultural, political) between the place of origin and the place of destination; network ties; historical and global forces in the shaping of return migrant behaviour; and expressions of identity. The human geography of return migration extends beyond geographic movement into a diasporic journey involving (re)constructions of homeness and belongingness in the ancestral homeland.Table of ContentsTable of Contents - 8 Acknowledgements - 10 1 Introduction - 16 2 Situating and theorising national and ethnic expressions of place, vulture and identity - 32 3 The Greek-American experience: emigration, settlement, return and identity - 48 4 Ideologies of home and geographies of place - 66 5 Ideologies of return and geographies of culture - 122 6 Ideologies of self and geographies of identity - 166 7 Conclusions - 216 Notes - 232 Appendix - 242 Bibliography - 246
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Someone To Lend a Helping Hand: Women Growing Old
Book SynopsisBy providing descriptions of the experiences of thirty rural Minnesota women, often in their own words, this timely and topical book examines the expectations, beliefs and values of the women as they grow old in rural America. A lifecourse perspective fosters a better understanding of the aging process in terms of an individual's life experiences within the context of a cultural environment. To show how various elements shaped the women's lives in later years, and to give the fullest possible descriptions, the study combines both qualitative and quantitative research of the rural elderly in Minnesota. Through their stories, the women stress the cultural, familial and personal issues that continue to be important to them as they age. They explore the elements of continuity, as well as those of change, as a part of the lifecourse. Also detailed are their insights and experiences concerning interactions with different formal and informal support networks, as well as the more general topics. Table of Contents1. Formal and Informal Systems of Support: A Comparison of the United States and Denmark 2. Interpreting a Life 3. Looking to the Future 4. A Woman's Story 5. Patterns of Meaning: What Rural Lives Are Made Of 6. Someone to Lend a Helping Hand : Systems of Exchange and Support
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Pallas Publications Architecture and Elite Culture in the United Provinces, England and Ireland, 1500-1700
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