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Book SynopsisMaayan Amir is a Senior Lecturer in the Arts Department at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. As a practicing artist, her work has been exhibited at the New Museum, Centre Pompidou, Tate Modern, Jeu de Paume, and others, and includes the art project Exterritory, which received a UNESCO award. Among her academic work is Extraterritorialities in Occupied Worlds (co-edited with Ruti Sela in 2016). She was a member of the Forensic Architecture project, and in 2020 received the Early Career Researcher Prize? from the International Association for Visual Culture and the Journal of Visual CultureTrade Review"For the past decade, Maayan Amir has been developing a number of daring and fascinating projects with artist Ruti Sela. This book which builds on ideas emanating from them offers an extraordinary foray into the complexities of today’s politics over the use of imagery, and the ensuing struggle against dominant image regimes. The book opens new channels for understanding how images become entangled in armed conflicts, and paves the way to a new form of liberating image-activism." * Eyal Weizman, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK *"This book espouses a most original approach toward the study of the concept of extraterritoriality. It excels in sophistication and complexity when demonstrating the political significance of extraterritoriality in international relations, both from a historical and contemporary perspective. It illuminates the relations between law and the image, as well as governmental attempts to set borders to visual information, especially in the context of the Israeli- Palestinian conflict." * Cedric Ryngaert, Utrecht University, The Netherlands *"This work demonstrates the salience of the concept and practice of ‘extraterritoriality’. It shows why Wittgenstein was right when he spoke of family resemblance: the concept hosts a plurality of legal, political and geographical meanings. These meanings are rooted in affinities between practices that – like in a real family – may be at war with each other. The empty space of ‘the extraterritorial’ turns out to be crowded with attempts to weaponize the freedom it seems to harbour, and Maayan Amir unearths how it contributed to a lethal war over the images capable of captivating public imagination." * Mireille Hildebrandt, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium *Table of ContentsFigures Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Extraterritoriality: A Historical and Conceptual Overview 2. Extraterritorial Images: Background to the Gaza Freedom Flotilla 3. Extraterritorial Images in Action: The Gaza Freedom Flotilla 4. The Mavi Marmara Trial: From Absent Images to Absent Defendants 5. Images as Court Evidence 6. Epilogue: Extraterritorial Images Bibliography

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Book Synopsis'In quite a profound, high-modernist way, this succinct but comprehensive book deems its subject worthy of careful scholarly analysis. I applaud and recommend it for taking much of the nonsense out of McLuhan' - Topia Journal'Feted and reviled in his own lifetime, Marshall McLuhan has made a dramatic comeback in recent years. Marchessault gives a balanced and carefully considered appraisal of McLuhan's contribution to cultural theory, which may be even more pertinent now, in the early twenty-first century, than when he originally formulated it in the 1950s and '60s'Jim McGuigan, Professor of Cultural Analysis, Loughborough University Why is McLuhan important? What use can we make of his approach to the media today? In this insightful critical introduction, McLuhan's contribution is carefully explained and his reputation reassessed. The book: Explains McLuhan's key ideas Engages with critical issues in Trade Review′In quite a profound, high-modernist way, this succinct but comprehensive book deems its subject worthy of careful scholarly analysis. I applaud and recommend it for taking much of the nonsense out of McLuhan′ - Topia Journal ′Feted and reviled in his own lifetime, Marshall McLuhan has made a dramatic comeback in recent years. Marchessault gives a balanced and carefully considered appraisal of McLuhan′s contribution to cultural theory, which may be even more pertinent now, in the early twenty-first century, than when he originally formulated it in the 1950s and ′60s.′ Jim McGuigan, Professor of Cultural Analysis, University of LoughboroughTable of ContentsIntroduction McLuhan′s Project PART ONE: CAMBRIDGE Romantic Art New Criticism Catholicism PART TWO: AMERICA Early Media Studies and Mama′s Boys Experimental Seminar Innis, New Media and the University Galaxy Sacred Technologies, Historical Imagination PART THREE: GLOBAL THEATRE Project for Understanding Media Electronic Call Girl Murder by Television Globalization and Time

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Book Synopsis, Martin M. Winkler, and Maria WykeTrade ReviewAn excellent collection of essays... Among the best are Nicholas J. Cull's exploration of Carry On Cleo and its brilliant send up of the epic Cleopatra... and Margaret Malamud's careful look at the Broadway and cinema version of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum... The outstanding contribution to Imperial Projections is, however, Sandra Joshel's essay on I, Claudius. -- Mary Beard Times Literary Supplement This volume aids and abets a reader's own meditation on the empires of Britain, America, and Hollywood, and the ways in which the Roman empire has been an abiding vehicle for simultaneously manifesting, indulging, interrogating, and critiquing the ambitions of these more recent empires. -- Rebecca Resinski Key Reporter Imperial Projections is a terrific book. It successfully merges modern cultural critique with sound classical scholarship, and does so in a manner that is enjoyable to read and intellectually challenging. -- Kirk Ormand Bryn Mawr Classical Review An insightful exploration into how Imperial Rome, in its various popular guises, has provided a malleable and commercially viable mythos that has found special receptivity in modern America. -- Amy Henderson History: Reviews of New Books This engaging volume capitalizes on contemporary interest in the decadence and excess that characterizes Rome in the modern, as indeed in the ancient, imagination... Read it and enjoy! -- A. M. Keith New England Classical Journal 2003 An excellent example of what might be called the allegorical mode of cinematic interpretation, in which movies are understood as texts about the cultures that make and consume them. Scope: Online Journal of Film Studies Imperial Projections provides some intriguing new perspectives on such pop culture representations of Rome and the Romans. -- Catherine Colegrove Classical Outlook 2004Table of ContentsContents: Introduction by Sandra R. Joshel, Margaret Malamud, and Maria Wyke Chapter 1: "Oppositions, Anxieties, and Ambiguities in the Toga Movie" by William Fitzgerald Chapter 2: "The Roman Empire in American Cinema after 1945" by Martin Winkler Chapter 3: "Seeing Red: Spartacus as Domestic Economist" by Alison Futrell Chapter 4: "I, Claudius: Projection and Imperial Soap Opera" by Sandra R. Joshel Chapter 5: "'Infamy! Infamy! They've All Got It in for Me!': Carry on Cleo and the British Camp Comedies of Ancient Rome" by Nicholas Cull Chapter 6: "Brooklyn on the Tiber: Roman Comedy on Broadway and in Film" by Margaret Malamud Chapter 7: "Serial Romans" by Martha Malamud Chapter 8: "Shared Sexualities: Roman Soldiers, Derek Jarman's Sebastiane, and British Homosexuality" by Maria Wyke Chapter 9: "Living Like Romans in Las Vegas: The Roman World at Caesar's Palace" by Margaret Malamud and Donald T. McGuire, Jr. Bibliography Filmography

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Book SynopsisA stimulating appraisal of a crucial contemporary theme, this comprehensive analysis of globalizaton offers a distinctively cultural perspective on the social theory of the contemporary world.This perspective considers the world as a whole, going beyond conventional distinctions between the global and the local and between the universal and the particular. Its cultural approach emphasizes the political and economic significance of shifting conceptions of, and forms of participation in, an increasingly compressed world. At the same time the book shows why culture has become a globally contested issue - why, for example, competing conceptions of 'world order' have political and economic consequences.Trade Review`Nothing is as practical as a good theory, I was once taught, and those to adhere to this principle should read Globalization. Social Theory and Global Culture. The author is a sociologist with a special interest in the social function of religion, which colours his analysis . Originally published in 1992 it stresses the relative autonomy of culture but misses the later discussions on the economic globalization, which may explain the author′s criticism of the interpretation of globalization as an expression of the Western modernity project′ - New Routes `This is an ambitious book and a work of prodigious scholarship. Its aim is to reclaim culture for social theory.... this is an essential book′ - The Journal of International Communication `Is a good guide to the `globalization′ area... it is head and shoulders above any other text in the area′ - Stewart R Clegg, Asia Pacific Business Review `There is much in this book which is relevant to the contemporary condition which demands critical attention... This is a book which should appeal to a broad sociological readership′ - The Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management `Robertson′s approach to globalization is multidimensional, complex, well-grounded in soicological theory, and centred on culture - so often the stepchild in other approaches. His work on globalization is not nearly as well known as that of Giddens, probably because his articles have been scattered in difficult to find journals. This is remedied by this book, in which the common theme of globaliztion is developed in relation to such concerns as the cultural turn, world-systems theory, the civilizing process, modernity and postmodernity, nostalgia politics and fundamentalism. Robertson fruitfully contrasts his approach to that of Wallerstein, Elias and Giddens.... his contribution is in several respects original, probes deeply and is highly stimulating′ - Political Studies `Enormously fruitful.... impressive.... this volume manages to work very well and provides a good introduction to many of the questions that underlie the phenomenon of globalization while standing as a sustained and stimulating interpretive essay in its own right.... is impressive and highly readable and deserves to be widely read′ - International Affairs `In an era of increasing integration of economies and political systems and, concomitantly, the disintegration of former socialist planned economies, the discussion of global integration and order is timely and important. Robertson′s globalization theory attempts to discuss increasing global integration and interpenetration along four main dimensions: internationalization, societalization, indivdualization and humanization. His approach is voluntaristic and neofunctional and is pitched at both micro and macro levels. The world systems perspective, which is an alternative to globalization theory, comes under Robertson′s scrutiny, and his critique of this perspective is one of the more sophisticated non-Marxist ones to date... The book′s insightful theory can be used to examine macro and micro aspects of the current conditions. Its inherent comprehensive approach would be of interest not only to macrosociologists but also to those studying postmodernity, gender, ethnicity and identity′ - Contemporary SociologyTable of ContentsGlobalization as a Problem The Cultural Turn Mapping the Global Condition World-Systems Theory, Culture and Images of World Power Japanese Globality and Japanese Religion The Universalism-Particularism Issue ′Civilization,′ Civility and the Civilizing Process Globalization Theory and Civilization Analysis Globality, Modernity and the Issue of Postmodernity Globalization and the Nostalgic Paradigm ′The Search for Fundamentals′ in Global Perspective Concluding Reflections

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Book SynopsisArthur C. Danto traces the evolution of the concept of beauty during the 20th century and explores how it was removed from the definition of art.

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Book SynopsisAny observer of Dominican political and literary discourse will quickly notice how certain notions of hyper-masculinity permeate the culture. In this extraordinary work, Maja Horn argues that this common Dominican attitude became ingrained during the dictatorship (1930-61) of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, as well as through the US military occupation that preceded it.Trade Review“Provides an insightful look at the persistent power of masculinism in Dominican post-dictatorship politics and literature.”—Ignacio López-Calvo, author of God and Trujillo“The ideas about masculinization of power developed by Horn are important not only to Dominican scholarship but also to Caribbean and other Latin American students of the intersection of history, political power, and gendered practices and discourses.”—Emilio Bejel, author of Gay Cuban Nation""A novel and thoughtful analysis of the sexual gender relations and the construction of masculinity in contemporary Dominican culture. The Americas“A well-researched and rigorously historicized contribution to the field of Dominican cultural studies, moving elegantly between cultural and literary analyses.”—Modern Language Review

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Book SynopsisFor Italian city builders over the course of a thousand years, the urban realm was the great theater where their best aspirations were played out, the place where society said the most substantial things about who they were and what they longed for. In Timeless Cities , architect David Mayernik reveals how Venice, Rome, Florence, Siena, and Pienza emerged from the cultural ideas of humanism that characterized Italian society from late antiquity to the eighteenth century. Cities were literally designed to be models of the mind and images of heaven. Mayernik takes the reader on an architect''s tour of these five cities and describes the cultural beliefs and ideas behind the buildings. Not only a journey into the past, Timeless Cities also explains why these city-building ideas are relevant today. Whether travelling on holiday or appreciating the art and architecture of Italy from home, Mayernik helps bring the wonder and beauty of the Italian mind and its great cities a little closer.Trade Review"A thoughtful, passionate, learned and unexpected examination of cities past, present and ideal, written with conviction and humour." Ingrid Rowland "Erudite travelers will enjoy [Mayernik's] thoughtful meditations." Chicago Tribune "A thoughtful, passionate, learned, and unexpected examination of cities past, present, and ideal, written with conviction and humor." Ingrid Rowland"

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Book SynopsisA sociological study of public restroomsSo much happens in the public toilet that we never talk about. Finding the right door, waiting in line, and using the facilities are often undertaken with trepidation. Don't touch anything. Try not to smell. Avoid eye contact. And for men, don't look down or let your eyes stray. Even washing one's hands are tied to anxieties of disgust and humiliation. And yet other things also happen in these spaces: babies are changed, conversations are had, make-up is applied, and notes are scrawled for posterity.Beyond these private issues, there are also real public concerns: problems of public access, ecological waste, andin many parts of the worldsanitation crises. At public events, why are women constantly waiting in long lines but not men? Where do the homeless go when cities decide to close public sites? Should bathrooms become standardized to accommodate the disabled? Is it possible to create a unisex bathroom for transgendered peTrade ReviewThe politics of the loo, sexual as well as cultural, are taken up in a new book, Toilet: Public Restrooms and the Politics of Sharing, edited by Harvey Molotch and Laura Norén. It aims to tackle the language around toilets and open up debates that have gone on, so to speak, behind closed doors and that never get resolved * Irish Times *The 12 essays in Toilet make clear that public toilets are anything but neutral, and argue that, in fact, restrooms-not just their design but where and to whom they are available-are loaded with cultural insights into views on race, sex, ability, and class...Toilet imparts a lesson: Pay attention. Those issues that most quietly fall into the background, unquestioned and seemingly benign, may be the most loaded and deserving of scrutiny. * Bitch Magazine *Peeing is political. The authors of Toilet show us how. In provocative essays from a range of perspectives, we learn what toilets (and their lack) teach us—about hierarchy, inequality, the body, aesthetics and politics. Using toilets as social and cultural prisms, they analyze global collective (in)action, outlining the deeply personal consequences for us all. This is wickedly smart, pointed and passionate public interest scholarship at its best.. -- Lisa Duggan,author of Twilight of Equality: Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics and the Attack on DemocracyWhen Molotch and Norén let slip a few pissings or pees, the book becomes livelier, as is befitting of the subject. And the inclusion of essays from scholars of many different disciplines—gender studies, disability rights, architecture—makes this a toilet book not to be missed. * The New Yorker *Who could have imagined? A book that weaves cutting edge gender theory into urban planning policy by way of the lowly toilet? A wondrous compendium. -- Jane Mansbridge,Adams Professor in the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard UniversityRanging from studies of Roman latrines to quasi-ethnographic studies of contemporary restroom design projects, the authors rigorously and sometimes cleverly expose moral panics, gender ideologies, and contradictions of bathroom design, accessibility, and use. -- J.L. Croissant * Choice *We may not feel comfortable discussing them, but questions of where and how we do our business, particularly in public, have a tremendous impact on our everyday lives. Thats why Toilet: Public Restrooms and the Politics of Sharing, a new collection of academic essays, is so necessary. * Salon.com *In Toilet, academics from the field of sociology, law, urban planning, gender studies, archeology, and architecture ponder the meaning of a room some people can't even call by name. -- Kate Tuttle * The Boston Globe *This profound and surprising book takes up a subject usually kept private: the public restroom. These scholarly but mostly accessible new examinations of the topic provide fascinating insights on cultural notions of cleanliness and filth, public and private. -- Rachel Bridgewater * Library Journal *Toilet is full of such insightsthe prose is clear and readable. -- Kate Tuttle * Boston.com *Toilet opens the door to a profound and fascinating understanding of the way we use and are abused by public conveniences. -- Howard S. Becker,author of Outsiders: Studies In The Sociology Of DevianceAn incredibly smart book about the importance of the toilet, especially for urban dwellers. I will never look at a toilet the same again. -- Mitchell Duneier,author of Sidewalk[T]his book offers precise insights—want to keep a public bathroom clean? Stick some flowers there. And it often cleverly illuminates whats in plain sight—say, the reasons why New York has so few female cabbies—but is usually ignored or assiduously avoided * The Atlantic *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1 IntroductionHarvey MolotchRest Stop Part I2 Dirty SpaceRuth Barcan Rest StopBryan Reynolds3 Which Way to Look? Exploring Latrine Use in the Roman World Zena Kamash Rest Stop4 Potty TrainingIrus Braverman Rest StoPart I5 Only Dogs Are Free to PeeLaura Noren Rest Stop6 Creating a Nonsexist Restroom Clara Greed Rest Stop7 Sex SeparationTerry S. Kogan Rest Stop8 Pissing without PitDavid Serlin Rest StopPart III: Building in the Future9 The Restroom RevolutionOlga Gershenson Rest StopJonathan Head10 Why Not Abolish Laws of Urinary Segregation? Mary Anne Case Rest Stop11 Entangled with a UserBarbara Penner Rest Stop: Toilet Bloom @ Bryant Park 12 On Not Making HistoryHarvey MolotchNotes About the ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisA groundbreaking history that illuminates the foundations of the multibillion-dollar human growth hormone (HGH) industry. Drawing on medical and public health histories as well as on photography, film, music, prose, and other examples from popular culture, Aimee Medeiros tracks how the stigmatization of short stature in boys and growth hormone technology came together in the twentieth century.Trade Review“Heightened Expectations is an excellent treatment of a significant subject, the history of American ideas about height and medical approaches to issues of human growth, from the late 1800s onward. Medeiros’s treatment fits beautifully into the powerful and growing literature on the history of medicine, disability, gender, and the body.” —Amy Sue Bix, author of Girls Coming to Tech!: A History of American Engineering Education for Women and Inventing Ourselves Out of Jobs?: America’s Debate over Technical Unemployment, 1929–1981 “Heightened Expectations offers a lively and engaging discussion of how short stature became a ‘disease’ in need of medical treatment. It convincingly demonstrates that the pathology-making of short stature dates back to the nineteenth century and is intertwined with the rise of modern capitalism.” —Heather Munro Prescott, author of A Doctor of Their Own: The History of Adolescent Medicine and The Morning After: A History of Emergency Contraception in the United States""Heightened Expectations is a good solid piece of work on a topic of much interest. It intersects the new field of disability history and adopts the newer approach, discussing how long-standing issues have been managed rather than simply exposed, allowing fundamental cleavages in the social fabric."" — Alan I Marcus, senior series editor, neXus

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Book Synopsis1974 was a year of major changes around the world. The roots of many aspects of today's societies which we take for granted lie in the 1970s and particularly in this, the pivotal year of the decade....Trade ReviewBreezy and very readable canter through a seminal 12 months... a finely judged balance between conversational anecdote and genuine insight * Observer *Rennison proves a chatty and amiable guide [and] offers an enjoyable and evocative ramble down Memory Lane * Telegraph *Hugely entertaining... often wryly amusing... plenty of light entertainment and colourful anecdote -- Mail on SundayRennison makes an enjoyable and often wry case for that year being a key moment -- BBC History Magazine

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Book SynopsisThis Element seeks to characterize the scribal culture in ancient Egypt through its textual acts, which were of prime importance in this culture: writing, list-making, drawing, and copying.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Defining; 2. Writing; 3. (En)listing; 4. Drawing; 5. Copying; 6. Reading; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook of Gastronomic Tourism explores the rapid transformations that have affected the interrelated areas of gastronomy, tourism and society, shaping new forms of destination branding, visitor satisfaction, and induced purchase decisions. This edited text critically examines current debates, critical reflections of contemporary ideas, controversies and queries relating to the fast-growing niche market of gastronomic tourism. This comprehensive book is structured into six parts. Part I offers an introductory understanding of gastronomic tourism; Part II deals with the issues relating to gastronomic tourist behavior; Part III raises important issues of sustainability in gastronomic tourism; Part IV reveals how digital developments have influenced the changing expressions of gastronomic tourism; Part V highlights the contemporary forms of gastronomic tourism; and Part VI elaborates other emerging paradigms of gastronomic tourism.Combining the knowlTrade ReviewThis impressive collection brings together many of the leading researchers in gastronomy and tourism to provide a varied and interesting state of the art review. It should provide a rich reference source for researchers and students in the field. Greg Richards, Professor of Placemaking and Events, Breda University, the NetherlandsThis handbook will provide readers with an extensive overview of issues pertaining to gastronomic tourism, from its key sectors to its behavioural, sustainable, digital and theoretical facets. It should be a reference for any researcher working in gastronomic tourism and a key support for lecturers and students alike. It provides a clear, innovative, modern and analytical presentation of this sector that no other book has done before. Dr Isabelle Frochot, Savoie Mont Blanc University, FranceGastronomic tourism is now becoming important for travelers’ overall travel experience. This volume is a much awaited effort to offer specialised understanding to this arena. The handbook brings together the most recent international knowledge about Gastronomic Tourism. The selection of chapters and addition of global cases and theories give it an international outlook. I welcome this important handbook and recommend it as essential reading for practitioners and students alike. Professor Jon Sundbo, Roskilde University, DenmarkEXCERPTS OF BOOK REVIEWS PUBLISHED IN TOURISM JOURNALSThe Routledge Handbook of Gastronomic Tourism, Saurabh Kumar Dixit (ed.) (2019) Oxon: Routledge, 590 pp., ISBN 978-1-13855-155-8, h/bk, £195.00The book is an extensive, rich and diverse approach to the relationships between gastronomy and tourism through an impressive amount of cases that make this book a world referent in gastronomic tourism research. The book serves to students and academics, and also to practitioners who want to acquire food as a topic of interest in terms of analysing, discovering and understanding cultures, societies, landscapes, lifestyles, firms, and destinations. Also, the readers will gather insights from a wave of examples of best practices in operational, planning, management and marketing strategies based on food, cuisine and gastronomy.European Journal of Tourism Research, 23 (2019) by Francesc Fusté-Forné, Associate Professor, Faculty of Tourism, University of Girona, Catalonia, Spain The book with discussions on gastronomic framework, cultural integration, collaborative marketing, gastronomic visitor behaviour, gastronomic tourism forms and social media. There is, of course, a "avenues of future research" section that is very comprehensive, overall not a bad place to begin reading the book as it details its contents for the reader. Overall, the book is very comprehensive, and it offers food tourism "basics" with regard to best practices for those new to the discipline as well as advanced innovation for seasoned academics. It is a thorough handbook for any destination marketing organization.Anatolia, 30:3 (2019) by Bill J. Gregorash, Confederation College, Thunder Bay, CanadaThis handbook of gastronomic tourism edited by Saurabh Dixit is a bold attempt to study and experience other cultures through food. Since food has been an ecological need of humankind, it has been experimented with diverse forms of experiences in the gastronomy and culinary delights. The editor has cleverly selected contributors who are knowledgeable in the art of gastronomy and adept in other related disciplines – an inter-disciplinary approach. I enjoyed reading the book and I am sure the students of other disciplines would also like it for its exhaustive coverage and multidisciplinary nature. In fact, the book has rich stuff to be classed as a text book.Tourism Recreation Research, 44:3 (2019) by Tej Vir Singh, Centre for Tourism Research & Development, IndiaMy experience is that gastronomic researchers already have an innate passion for food and beverages. The hardest challenge is channelling that passion to develop a distinctive line of inquiry. This book helps early career researchers gain a holistic view of gastronomic tourism and covers the wide ranging aspects inherent in the discipline. The Handbook of Gastronomic Tourism provides an extensive reference to culinary tourism studies and outlines the major theoretical underpinnings on the subject. As Dixit explains, the goal is ‘developing a wider understanding of gastronomic tourism and its vibrant paradigms’. This book has accomplished its goal.Hospitality & Society, 10:1 (2020) by Susan L. Slocum, Associate Professor, George Mason University George, USATable of ContentsList of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Foreword by Erik Wolf; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Saurabh Kumar Dixit; Part I Gastronomic Tourism: An Insight; 1. Conceptual Foundation of Gastronomic Tourism; Saurabh Kumar Dixit; 2. Historical Evolution of Gastronomic Tourism; John Mulcahy; 3. Modern Gastronomy: The Science of Flavor and Tasting; Peter R. Klosse; 4. Gastronomy, Culture and Tourism in Ecuador; Thomas Lopez Guzman, Ana Lucía Serrano López, Jesús Claudio Pérez Gálvez and Augusto Tosi Vélez; 5. Building a tourism destination using gastronomy through creative collaboration; John Mulcahy; 6. Gastronomic tourism – opportunity to discover the diversity of local and regional cultures; Janez Bogataj; 7. The Role of Gastronomic Tourism in Rural Development; Bernadett Csurgó, Clare Hindley and Melanie Smith; 8. Transforming the Terroir into a Tourist Destination; Rebecca Mackenzie; 9. Marketing Destinations through Gastronomy: Nordic Perspectives; Xiang Ying Mei; 10. Exploring Additional Food and Beverage Activities of Wine Travelers; Roberta Garibaldi, Andrea Pozzi and Matthew J. Stone; 11. Having Your Cake and Eating It: The Problem with Gastronomic Tourism; Roy C. Wood; Part II Gastronomic Tourist Behavior; 12. Need Recognition and Motivation for Gastronomic Tourism; Brian Kee Mun Wong and Christy Yen Nee Ng; 13. Tourists’ Perceptions and Expectations for Gastronomic Experience; Mozard Mohtar and Thinaranjeny Thirumoorthi; 14. Service Quality and Gastronomy; Azni Zarina Taha and Christy Yen Nee Ng; 15. A Foodies Perspective on Gastronomic Tourism; Donald Getz and Richard N.S. Robinson; 16. Typologies of Gastronomic and Culinary Travelers; Matthew J. Stone; 17. Servicescape and Gastronomic Tourism; Fabrizio Ferrari; 18. Malaysian Gastronomic Tourism – Its Importance, Satisfiers, Dis-satisfiers and Delighters; Robert J. Harrington, Michael C. Ottenbacher and Byron Marlowe; 19. Gastronomic Trails as Service Ecosystems; Namita Roy, Ulrike Gretzel, Gordon Waitt and Venkata Yanamandram; 20. Gastronomic Performativities during Festivals in Sariaya, Philippines; Shirley V. Guevarra; 21. The Tourists’ Gastronomic Experience: An Embodied and Spatial Approach; Sandhiya Goolaup, Cecilia Solér and Robin Nunkoo; Part III Sustainability for Gastronomic Tourism; 22. Sustainable Gastronomic Tourism; Paolo Corvo and Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco; 23. Roles of Local Food in Sustainable Development – Evidence from Houston, TX, USA; Jungyoung Tiffany Shin and Melissa Baker; 24. Sustainable Supply Chains in Gastronomic Tourism; Jane Eastham; 25. Farmers’ markets in gastronomic tourism: Opportunities and Challenges; Michelle Thompson and Bruce Prideaux; 26. Community Development through Gastronomic Tourism; Silvia Aulet Serrallonga, Dolors Vidal-Casellas and Joaquim Majó; 27. Heritage and Authenticity in Gastronomic Tourism; Melissa Baker and Kawon Kim; 28. The roles of terroir, food and gastronomy in destination authenticity; Willy Legrand, Philip Sloan, Mirja Fett and Theresa Manten; 29. Local Knowledge Transfer in Hong Kong through Gastronomy, Agriculture and Tourism; Sidney C. H. Cheung; 30. Sustainable Restaurant System and Gastronomy; Paul Hellier; 31. Markets, Festivals and Shows: Sustainable Approaches to Gastronomic Tourism through Collaboration; Ann Hindley and Tony Wall; Part IV Gastronomic Tourism in the Digital Arena; 32. Tourists’ lifestyle and foodservice tendencies in social media; Sandra Maria Correia Loureiro and Eduardo Moraes Sarmento; 33. Online marketplaces / digital platforms for collaborative gastronomy; Marios D. Sotiriadis and Lesedi T. Nduna; 34. Marketing Decisions and Customer Reviews in Gastronomic Tourism; Sedigheh Mogavvemi and Brian Kee Mun Wong; 35. Culinary Mapping: A Gastronomic Tourism Planning Tool; Ingrid Booysen and Gerrie E du Rand; 36. Digital Marketing and Gastronomic Tourism; Thinaranjeney Thirumoorthi and Sedigheh Moghavvemi; 37. Mobile Applications to Promote Gastronomic Tourism; Dayna Ortner; 38. Online Reputation Management for Gastronomic Tourism; Velvet Nelson; 39. How do the gastronomic blogs effect the consumer’s decision?; Ivett Sziva and Oroslya Szakály; Part V Contemporary Forms of Gastronomic Tourism; 40. Slow Food Movement; Kuan -Huei Lee; 41. "Worlds Approach" to Gastronomic Tourism: The Case of Wine Tourism in Japan; Chuanfei Wang; 42. Food Trails, Routes and Tours; Brittany Dahl; 43. Organic Foods and Gastronomic Tourism; Ige Pirnar and Duygu Celebi; 44. Edible insect gastronomy; Melissa A. Baker, Tiffany Shin Legendre and Young Wook Kim; 45. Craft Drinks Tourism Worldwide and in Northern Ireland; Maria Teresa Simone-Charteris; 46. Street Food and Gastronomic Tourism; Joan C. Henderson; 47. Halal Food and Muslim tourists; Rafa Haddad, Salem Harahsheh and Ayman Harb; 48. Native foods and gastronomic tourism; Freya Higgins-Desbiolles, Gayathri Wijesinghe, Tricia Vilkinas and Stuart Gifford; 49. Symbolic and sociocultural interpretation of tea tourism in India; Ishan Singh and Péter Varga; 50. Senior Tourism: An Emerging Market Segment in Gastronomic Tourism; Adela Balderas - Cejudo, Ian Patterson and George W. Leeson; Part VI Futuristic Perspectives in Gastronomic Tourism; 51. Gastronomic Festivals and Events: Future Scenarios; Keith Mandabach and Wu Chuanbiao; 52. Wine tourism and gastronomy: a natural partnership in regional development; Marlene Pratt and Joan Carlini; 53. Intellectual Property Rights in Gastronomic Tourism; Trevor Jonas Benson; 54. Gastronomic Tourism and Media; Jennifer Laing and Warwick Frost; 55. Alternative Food Networks and Gastronomy; Maria del Pilar Leal Londoño; 56. Geographical Indications and Tourism Destinations: An Overview; Ciani Stefano, Mason Michela C. and Moretti Andrea; 57. Celebrity Chefs and Luxury Hotels: The Role and Influence of Personal Branding; Girish Prayag and Valentine de Celleryd’Allens; 58. Gastronomic Tourism Innovations; Dante Di Matteo; 59. Best Practices of Gastronomic Tourism: Synergies between Food, Wine, Culture and Tourism; Roberta Garibaldi; Conclusion: Building a Research Agenda for Global Gastronomic Tourism; Saurabh Kumar Dixit; Index

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Book SynopsisNew directions in queer theory continue to trouble the boundaries of both queerness and the classical, leading to an explosion of new work in the vastâand increasingly unchartedâintersection between these disciplines, which this interdisciplinary volume seeks to explore.This handbook convenes an international group of experts who work on the classical world and queer theory. The discipline of Classics has been involved with, and implicated in, queer theory from the start. By placing front and center the rejection of heteronormativity, queer theory has provided Classics with a powerful tool for analyzing non-normative sexual and gender relations in the ancient West, while Classics offers queer theory ancient material (such as literature, visual arts, and social practices) that challenges a wide range of modern normative categories. The collection demonstrates the vitality of this particular moment in queer classical studies, featuring an expansive array of methodologies applieTable of ContentsGeneral Introduction - Ella Haselswerdt, Sara H. Lindheim, and Kirk Ormand; Classics and Queer Theory: Beginnings; 1. How Did We Get Here? - Kirk Ormand; Queer Subjectivities; 2. 'Wild' Achilles and the Epistemology of the Ferox in Homer’s Iliad - Melissa Mueller; 3. Black[ened] Queer Classical: Cicero’s pro Archia poeta and Seneca’s Natural Questions (and Epistulae Morales 114) in Posthuman Perspective - Patrice Rankine; 4. Priapus Unlimited: Queer(ing) Identity, Agency, and Bodies without Boundaries in Roman Art - Linnea Åshede; 5. Tribad Philaenis and Lesbian Bassa: Queer Subjectivities in Martial - Kristin Mann; 6. Queering Divine Authority and Logical Consistency in Aeschylus’ Oresteia - Giulia Maria Chesi; 7. Catullus Beyond the Pleasure Principle: Between Freud and Foucault - Paul Allen Miller; 8. A Murky Unlearning: Sophocles and the Greek Art of Failure - Francesca Spiegel; Queer Times and Places; 9. Queer Musicality in Classical Texts - Tom Sapsford; 10. Encountering Absence: Queer Traces, Ghosts, and Performance Otherwise - Marcus Bell; 11. Queerly Beloved: Nemesis, Credula Spes, and Queer Temporalities in Tibullus Book 2 - Sara H. Lindheim; 12. Time and Punishment, or Terence’s Queer Pedagogy - David Youd; 13. Narcissus and the Happy Inch: Queering Social Reproduction in the Roman House - David Fredrick; 14. 'How Could a City Become Straight?:' Aristophanes and the Trans Foundations of the Comic State - Isabel Ruffell; Queer Kinships; 15. Hippocrates the 'Father'? Disturbing Attachment Genealogies in the History of Ancient Medicine - Nicolette D’Angelo; 16. Tamquam Favus: Queer Kinship and Monetary Value in Petronius’ Cena Trimalchionis - Elliott Piros; 17. Nonbinary Mercury and the Queer Arts of Astrology - Hannah Silverblank; 18. Queering Kinship against Genealogy: Crip Ancestorship, Chosen Families, Alternative Intimacies and Other Ways of Refusing the Classical Tradition - Marchella Ward; 19. Queer Kinship in Ancient Literature - Jay Oliver; 20. The Greatest Generation: Golden Age, Spontaneous Generation, and Queer Kinship in Vergil’s Georgics - Martin Devecka; Queer Receptions; 21. Queering Feminine Movement: Sappho, Hồ Xuân Hýõng and Vi Khi Nao - Kelly Nguyen; 22. Les Guérillères: Sappho and the Lesbian Body - Irene Han; 23. The Rise and Fall of the Queer Male Body in Mid-Century Muscle Photography - Alastair J.L. Blanshard; 24; Destiny’s Queer Scribblings: Greek Myth and Etiologies of HIV/AIDS - Emilio Capettini; 25. Socrates and Sedgwick: Ancient Greece in Epistemology of the Closet - Daniel Orrells; 26. Shedding Light, Casting Shadows: Queerness, Club Performances, and the Faux-Natural Narratives of Classical Reception - Eleonora Colli; Ancient Pasts/Queer Futures 27. Queer Philology - Shane Butler; 28. How to Do the History of Elagabalus - Zach Herz; 29. Queer Interspeciesism, or Oppian’s Wild Love - Mario Telò; 30. Sappho’s Body, Queer Abstraction, and Lesbian Futurity - Ella Haselswerdt; 31. Medea’s Ghosts: Cherríe Moraga and Queer Ecologies - Nancy Worman; 32. Speculation on classical reception: Queer Desire and N.K. Jemisin’s 'The Effluence Engine' - Mathura Umachandran.

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Book SynopsisThe Anthropocene concept draws attention to the various forms of entanglement of social, political, ecological, biological and geological processes at multiple spatial and temporal scales. The ensuing complexity and ambiguity create manifold challenges to widely established theories, methodologies, epistemologies and ontologies. The contributions to this volume engage with conceptual issues of scale in the Anthropocene with a focus on mediated representation and narrative. They are centered around the themes of scale and time, scale and the nonhuman and scale and space. The volume presents an interdisciplinary dialogue between sociology, geography, political sciences, history and literary, cultural and media studies. Together, they contribute to current debates on the (re-)imagining of forms of human responsibility that meet the challenges created by humanity entering an age of scalar complexity. Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open AcTable of Contents0 The Anthropocene as an Age of Scalar Complexity: IntroductionGabriele Dürbeck (University of Vechta) / Philip Hüpkes (Heinrich-Heine University)Section I: Scale and Time 1 Geomedia and Michael Madsen’s Into EternityDerek Woods (University of British Columbia) 2 Time Travel as a Tool for Promoting Trans-Scalar Thinking Axel Goodbody (University of Bath)3 Time Depth: Jean Epstein, Michel Serres, and Operational Model TimeChristoph Rosol (Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science, Berlin) Section II: Scale and the Nonhuman 4 Planetary Multiplicity, Earthly Multitudes: Interscalar Practices for a Volatile PlanetNigel Clark (Lancaster University) / Bronislaw Szerszynski (Lancaster University) 5 Plant Scale and the AnthropoceneHeather Sullivan (Trinity University, San Antonio, TX)6 Anthropomorphism and AlterityBernhard Malkmus (University of Newcastle)7 "We Have Lost Yardsticks by Which to Measure": Arendtian Ethics and the Narration of Scale in the AnthropoceneAdeline Johns-Putra (University of Surrey)8 Sound and Silence: Punk and the AnthropoceneJohn Parham (University of Worcester)Section III: Scale and Space9 On Being the Right Size: Scale, Democracy and the AnthropoceneAysem Mert (Stockholm University) and Dougald Hine (Plurality University Network)10 Cosmos vs. Anthropocene: Multi-Scalar Praxis for Socio-Environmental Justice with Adrienne Maree Brown’s Emergent Strategy (2017)Kathrin Bartha (Goethe University, Frankfurt/Monash University, Melbourne) 11 Google-Gaia. Feedback Loops for Action with Global Forest WatchLynda Olman and Birgit Schneider (Potsdam University)12 J Henry Fair: Art, Irony, and Scaling the Anthropocene (photo-artist/environmental activist J Henry Fair, New York City/Berlin, in Conversation with Gabriele Dürbeck and Philip Hüpkes)13 Afterword: On Scale and Deep History in the AnthropoceneDipesh Chakrabarty (University of Chicago)

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Book SynopsisThe first systematic, comprehensive and critical English-language study of radio in China, this book documents a historical understanding of Chinese radio from the early twentieth century to the present. Covering both public matters and private lives, Radio and Social Transformation in China analyses a range of themes from healthcare, migration and education, to intimacy, family and friendship. Through a concentrated and thorough scrutiny of a variety of new genres and radio practices in post-Mao China, it also investigates the interaction between radio and social change, particularly in the era of economic reform. Building on the core theoretical concept of compressed modernity', each of the radio genres explored is shown to embody China's efforts to achieve modernity, while simultaneously exemplifying radio's capacity to manage the challenges that have arisen from the country's distinctive and perhaps unique process of modernization. WritteTable of Contents1. Transforming Radio in China 2. Radio and a Revolutionary China 3. Radio News and the Articulation of One Voice 4. Late Night Talkback Radio 5. Health Infomercial Radio 6. Drive Radio and the Construction of Urban Middle-class Identities 7. Digital Soundwork in Contemporary China 8. Missed Opportunities and Future Challenges

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Book SynopsisThis book explores humananimal relations and species- based domination at the intersection of feminism with critique of our domination and exploitation of nonhuman animals, in conversation with power dynamics around coloniality and race, class, sexuality and embodiment. The collection demonstrates the continued vital importance of feminism conceptually and theoretically, methodologically and politically to the development of animal studies. Feminism has made an incisive critique of the ways in which gender and other intersecting differences and inequalities are constitutive of our destructive, exploitative and often violent relationships with nonhuman worlds. An international group of scholars and activists showcase new work, revisiting and extending established debates while negotiating new paths. Amongst the issues addressed in this collection will be questions of animal being and animal rights, caring relations, the relationships between activism and theory, interspeciesTrade Review"This is a brilliant, cutting-edge collection of writing by established and emerging Feminist voices. Working from the intersections of scholarship and activism and from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, the authors examine the shared roots of exploitation and violence against non-human animals and (human) social inequality and illuminate alternative ways of being and structuring relationships that are rooted in recognition and care. Highly readable and accessible, this timely book is an excellent text for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses and will be an indispensable resource for scholars working in Critical Animal Studies, Feminist Animal Studies, and related fields." Andrea Breen, University of Guelph"This is a vital collection which brings home just how significant feminist work, feminist passion and insight, has been and is to the field of Animal Studies. It outlines how feminist debates about care and non-hierarchical species differences have shaped an alternative vision of political progress for centuries, with feminist work relentlessly differentiating itself from universalising, anthropocentric abstractions. With a mix of established and new writers, the book is wide ranging in approaches and topics, from sexology to legal rights, vegan frictions to social media and sanctuaries, the collection traces the influences of "FAS", establishing its distinctiveness and priorities, both urgent and emerging."Fiona Probyn-Rapsey, University of Wollongong"This is a collection of trailblazing scholarship from writers in fields representing the rich and multidisciplinary character of contemporary feminist animal studies. Taken together the collection positions the field of feminist animal studies with both its own distinct scholarly identity and with a clear and pressing relevance and heritage within connate fields including mainstream and critical animal studies, ecofeminism as well as the breadth of disciplines now attending to the animal turn. Similarly, the collection is as rich in its historical pedigree as its contemporary relevance in a post covid world ready to specify and confront new and emerging challenges of scholarship and advocacy." Kate Stewart, University of East AngliaTable of ContentsIntroduction: Locating Feminist Animal Studies; PART 1 Engaging theory: Feminisms, species boundaries and intersections; ; 1 Animal rights without animal personhood? Implementing feminist legal reform for animals as legal beings; 2 What are good multispecies relations? An analysis through the concept of caring relations; 3 The movement of pain in opening and closing possibilities of ethical relations with nonhuman animals; 4 Activist-led theory? Navigating productive frictions across vegan theory and practice; PART 2 Practice: Doing feminist animal studies; 5 Loving and eating animals: a feminist dilemma; 6 Deadly contagions, vital contagions: Human-animal relationships in the new pandemic age. An Italian case-study.; 7 ‘She always looked after me’: Revisiting reproductive labour and matters of care with/in companion species; 8 For women’s pleasure? Interspecies sexual violence and (feminist) sex research; 9 ‘Well that’s it! I might as well just die now’. Animals and the reinforcement of stereotyped gender representation on social media; 10 A multispecies safe space? Mapping the rise of farmed bird sanctuaries; PART 3 Politics and activism: Feminist animal studies as praxis.; 11 Fattening solidarity beyond species: the rebellious (body) politics of fat veganism; 12 Votes, fur, women: An historical look into Irish ecofeminist veganism; 13 ‘Rescued and loved’: Women, animal sanctuaries and feminism; 14 Building a vegan feminist network in the professionalized digital age of Third Wave animal activism

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Book SynopsisWinner of the IAJS Book Award 2023 for ''Best Edited Book''Winner of the 2023 Gradiva Award for ''Best Edited Book''This volume explores Jung's theories in relation to the concept of Other and in conjunction with the lived experience of it, while examining current events and cultural phenomena through the lens of Jungian and post-Jungian psychology, sociology, literature, film and philosophy.The contributors examine global expressions of these various viewpoints, disciplines and life experiences and how cultural, political and sociological complexes evoke challenges as well as invitations to the idea of the Other from intersecting and convergent perspectives.The Spectre of the Other in Jungian Psychoanalysisis timely and important reading for Jungian and post-Jungian analysts, therapists, academics, students and creatives.Trade Review'The Spectre of the Other in Jungian Psychoanalysis could not be timelier nor more important. This superb collection of new research dissects Jung’s eurocentrism, diagnoses his racism and repositions his psychoanalysis as uniquely poised to bring transdisciplinary illumination to the Other in a twenty-first century of multiple crises. Drawing on indigenous, artistic, historical and psychological perspectives, The Spectre of the Other is an international volume extending clinical research into the collective. It thereby reinvigorates Jungian studies by enlarging the scope of the field. No serious scholar of psychology and othering can afford to miss it.'Susan Rowland, author of Jungian Arts-based Research and the Nuclear Enchantment of New Mexico (2021)'This bold volume gives flesh and blood specificity to the notion of the Other, a term which can easily feel like an all-purpose nostrum when applied indiscriminately. The insightful contributors to this finely differentiated book enable us to explore the Other as it appears in the creative arts, sociology, psychology and even the ultimate Other, the anus.'Thomas Singer, editor of the award-winning Cultural Complexes and The Soul of America'Open this marvellous book to any page, and you will discover another facet of that protean notion of the Other that you likely have not considered before. These chapters evoke the cultural complexes emergent from contributors from seven countries encompassing intrapsychic, sociocultural, historical and archetypal dimensions. The essential paradox of the Other, in eternal syzygy with the Self, is revealed as both the sine qua non of consciousness and unconscious shadow laden with destructive potential – and as that third which unites these seeming opposites. Illuminating, erudite and crucially relevant to our times, this book is a rich feast for mind, heart and soul.'Frances Hatfield, senior training analyst at the C. G. Jung Institutes of San Francisco and Santa Fe, poetry editor of Jung Journal: Culture and Psyche, and author of Rudiments of Flight'This ground-breaking collection of essays – expertly curated by Marybeth Carter and Stephen Farah – captures the archetypal valence of the pressing struggles and conflicts faced by humanity in the 21st century. No stone is left unturned, as the authors fearlessly tackle wide-ranging topics, detailing how alterity is constellated and expressed by the psyche. The key question readers are forced to ask is: what do we do when we are conscious of how processes of othering materialise? In this regard, The Spectre of the Other in Jungian Psychoanalysis: Political, Psychological and Sociological Perspectives practices what it preaches; it marks a paradigmatic shift in Jungian and post-Jungian studies. While the book explores topics and presents methods that are second nature to the field, it also unapologetically confronts, in equal measure, the very issues that have been ignored and banished to the fringes. By making that which is unconscious, conscious, the book’s ethos is completely aligned with the topic with which it so skilfully engages. Stated another way, this collection will stand the test of time, not only because of its vision and intersectional spirit, but also because it captures where our field has been and points to where it is going – indeed, where it needs to go.'Kevin Lu, PhD, Head of Department, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex 'This important and innovative collection of chapters inspired by the IAJS international conference held in Cape Town covers a wide range of in-depth perspectives that creatively examine the ever-prescient phenomenology of the Other through three parts: the Transpersonal Other; the Socio-Political Lives of Otherness and the Mythopoetic Other as explored through Film, Art and Literature. Each chapter, written by talented and experienced Jungian analysts, psychotherapists and academics, explores fresh perspectives on the theme of otherness, particularly during times of global crises where blame and scapegoating the Other becomes increasingly visible and open to complex, interdisciplinary and international scrutiny. 'Dr. Phil. Elizabeth Brodersen, accredited training analyst, supervisor and member of the research commission of the C.G. Jung Institute, Küsnacht, ZürichTable of ContentsEditor's Preface Foreword: Jung and the Other in Historical and Theoretical Perspectives Introduction: Sinking Like a Stone: Activism, Analysis and the Role of the Academy Part I: The Transpersonal Other: Dreams, Ancestors and the Psyche 1. Jung’s Fantasies of Africa and the Individuation Process, and Africa's Healing of Analytical Psychology 2. The Spectre and Its Movement: The Dynamic of Intra- and Transgenerational Influence 3. Satan's Mouth or Font of Magic: What Is It About the Anus? 4. My Kinky Shadow: The Poetics of the Sadomasochistic Other 5. The White Lion as Symbol of the Archetype of the Self and the Cannibalization of the Self in Canned Hunting Part II: Sociopolitical Lives of Otherness: Pain & Possibility 6. In Remembrance and Celebration of Other 7. Encountering the Other: The White Shadow 8. Sitting on the Impossible Bench: Reflections on the Bridge between Social and Analytic Justice 9. Jung’s Others: Society, Nationalism and Crowds 10. Picturing the Sámi and Participation Mystique Part III: The Mythopoetic Other through Film, Art and Literature 11. On Being an Other 12. The Freak: In Search of Jung’s Second Personality 13. ONE PIECE: Diversity and Borderlessness 14. What Is It about The Singing Ringing Tree?

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Book SynopsisNow in its third edition, Anthony Elliott's comprehensive, stylish and accessible introduction continues to be the indispensable guide to social theory. Fully revised and updated, the book examines the major theoretical traditions from the Frankfurt School to posthumanism, and from feminism and post-structuralism to globalization theory and beyond.Classical debates in social theory are given careful appraisal, as are the major contemporary theorists including Jurgen Habermas, Judith Butler, Anthony Giddens, Pierre Bourdieu, Julia Kristeva, Slavoj Žižek, Manuel Castells, Ulrich Beck, Zygmunt Bauman, Shoshana Zuboff and Bernard Stiegler. This edition includes a new chapter on the digital revolution, with consideration of how digital technologies in general and artificial intelligence in particular are reshaping societies.Like its predecessors, the third edition of Contemporary Social Theory combines stylish exposition with reflective social critique and original Trade ReviewPraise for previous editions‘This is the best contemporary social theory text currently on the market. It is highly accessible, explaining ideas in the clearest possible language without compromising depth and complexity. Accordingly, it is a book that would work well for students at all levels. Undergraduates with no background in social theory will be able to easily engage with this text, and this is something that cannot be said of any other contemporary social theory textbook that considers the range of theorists and complexity of ideas that this book does. More advanced students, including professional social theorists, will find that Elliott provides great clarity on some of the most difficult, yet most influential, ideas in contemporary social thought.’Professor Ann Branaman, Florida Atlantic University, USA‘It is very hard to write an outstanding introduction to any subject and particularly hard to do so for a subject as demanding as contemporary social theory. Anthony Elliott succeeds superbly. His book offers a reliable guide to the big debates in social theory while never glossing over the difficult questions.’Professor David Held, previously of the London School of Economics, UK‘Magnificent. Elliott visits a vast range of theorists and shows how they reveal the beautiful complexity of everyday social life. He makes social theory relevant and meaningful, simple, sexy and exciting.’Tom Inglis, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University College Dublin, Ireland‘No one I know is better able than Anthony Elliott to get to the heart of complex theories, then to write of them clearly yet critically. Contemporary Social Theory is exceptional for the range of the authors presented. Students and teachers will treasure this exciting travel guide through the thickets of social theory today.’Charles Lemert, Andrus Professor of Sociology at Wesleyan University and author of Thinking the Unthinkable, USA‘This is an amazingly fluent analysis of contemporary social theory. It should be widely read for its careful and insightful dissection of the main theories and of their particular strengths and weaknesses. It will be a must-read on many "theory" courses around the world.’John Urry, previously Distinguished Professor, Department of Sociology, Lancaster University, UK‘Intelligent and lucid, Anthony Elliott’s introduction to contemporary social theory provides a remarkably complete overview of thinkers and themes. In exploring the organizing question – what is society? – he skilfully guides the student through a galaxy of major figures, including such luminaries as Bauman, Butler, Chodorow, Foucault, Giddens, Habermas, Lacan and Lemert. Incorporating many valuable pedagogical aids, Elliott makes social theory highly accessible. Contemporary Social Theory bristles with insights into our troubled world.’Professor Bryan S. Turner, Australian Catholic University, Australia‘This is quite simply the best introduction to contemporary social theory that I have read. Profound and subtle in its judgements, yet very easy to read, Anthony Elliott has done much more than rehearse familiar debates or identify key thinkers. He has brought contemporary social theory to life by placing it within everyday experiences, troubles and dilemmas. And he has done so with a remarkable breadth of theoretical virtuosity covering everything from sexuality to globalization, language to political institutions and governance. This book will be invaluable to students and teachers alike.'Emeritus Professor Robert Holton, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland‘Anthony Elliott is without question one of the leaders in the younger generation of sociologists. Contemporary Social Theory provides an overview of various recent sociological theories and is an essential text for anybody interested in sociological theories, including Japanese students and faculty.’Professor Masataka Katagiri, Rissho University, Japan‘Here is the latest example of what Anthony Elliott does best: he brings his readers in on the key social, personal and political issues of our time. Always readable and interesting, Contemporary Social Theory: An Introduction includes a wide range of modern social thought, from structuralism, to feminism, to globalization, and engagingly demonstrates these theories’ relevance in our own lives. As importantly, Elliott provides us a way to think critically, making the reader a more thoughtful reader of social theory as well as a participant in contemporary social debates. A book that is stimulating to both teacher and student alike and that enlivens the classroom experience.’Professor Jeffrey Prager, Sociology, UCLA, USA‘Anthony Elliott has written a wide-ranging and appealing book, setting new standards for introductory texts in social theory. Contemporary Social Theory is clear in style and accessible in presentation. It is sure to stimulate students and beginners in the field whilst proving of considerable interest to their teachers. It will also strike sparks with those with a professional research interest in social theory.’Professor Paul du Gay, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark‘Extraordinary in scope, Contemporary Social Theory takes the reader on a world tour of social theory since the Second World War and offers the student clear and accessible guidance around what are often complex and obscure theoretical edifices. More than this, Anthony Elliott provides not just description but evaluation and critique, and the originality of his mind will make this a pleasure to read for all thoughtful people engaged with the politics of living.’Professor Paul Hoggett, University of the West of England, UK‘The renewal of the teaching of social theory can now take place! For in Anthony Elliott’s scholarly, thorough and limpid volume, teachers of theory have the perfect support text, one guaranteed to bring students fully into the exciting drama that it lays out: the drama of contemporary social life as social theorists from the Frankfurt School to Giorgio Agamben have mapped it out.’Professor John Lechte, Macquarie University, Australia‘Social theory gives us the building blocks to make sense of our lives and explore how they link to the processes which shape what we can do and how we live. But it takes a master of the craft to turn the blocks into a building in which it is possible to live and flourish. This book shows that Anthony Elliott is a master of the craft.The house that is built within the pages of this comprehensive book is one of many rooms, in which all students will find a place in which they can think and, moreover, in which they will be given in an exceptionally accessible and well-informed style the resources which that thinking needs if it is going to succeed.I have little doubt that thanks to its encyclopaedic spread, authoritative content and keen eye for the excellent illustration, this book will be valued highly by everyone who wants or needs to think – and live – with social theory. And ultimately that means all of us.’Professor Keith Tester, formerly of the University of Portsmouth, UK‘Elliott provides a sweeping survey that is both accessible and sophisticated. Organized in thematic chapters that make excellent use of vignettes from the lives of everyday people to draw the reader into the issues, Elliott elegantly summarizes the main points of each theorist’s work, provides some discussion that stretches the reader’s understanding, and rehearses the main criticisms. The book weaves together the disparate strands of social theory, including psychoanalysis, feminism, (post)structuralism and critical theory alongside the issues of globalization and postmodernity. This book will set the agenda for many university courses in contemporary social theory.’Professor Douglas Ezzy, University of Tasmania, Australia‘Here, in his new introductory text, Elliott returns with new insights to some of the classics of social theory and charts a path through the most interesting and important contemporary social theorists. I can think of few writers better equipped to carry off this task and Elliott has done it here magnificently. Elliott combines his deep knowledge of social theory, his lightly worn erudition and an engaging style that is a pleasure to read. The personal stories that begin most chapters are a highlight and manage to bring home what is at stake in the theories and ideas that follow. What he has achieved here should win over a generation of new students to social theory.’Anthony Moran, La Trobe University, Australia‘Covering an impressive range of theories and theorists, and presenting them in an accessible and elegant fashion, reading Anthony Elliott’s text is an ideal way to navigate the often complex terrain of modern social thought.’Professor David Inglis, University of Helsinki, Finland‘This is the best introduction to social theory we are ever likely to need. The writing is crystal clear, the arguments are complex but accessible and this is likely to become the best friend of every sociology undergraduate. This book has been especially written for those who want to know why social theory is so important to understanding the world right now. At last, we finally have a book we can recommend to our students with confidence.’Nick Stevenson, University of Nottingham, UKTable of Contents1. The textures of society 2. The contemporary relevance of the classics 3. The Frankfurt School 4. Structuralism 5. Post-structuralism 6. Theories of structuration 7. Contemporary critical theory 8. Feminism and post-feminist theory 9. Postmodernity 10. Networks, risks, liquids 11. Globalization 12. The digital revolution: posthumanism and beyond Afterword: social theory today and towards 2050

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Book SynopsisThis book provides an engaging and contextualised insight into a South African township-based arts centre that has survived the vicissitudes of steady militarisation in townships during some of the worst years of apartheid as well as the exhilaration of a new democratic policy while attempting to circumnavigate different policies and funding dispensations. Sibikwa provides arts centres across the world and especially those in decolonising countries with strategies for survival in tumultuous times. This multi-disciplinary book maps and co-ordinates wider historical, political, and social contextual concerns and events with matters specific to a community-based east of Johannesburg and provides an exploration and analysis by experts of authentic theatre-making and performance, dance, indigenous music, arts in education and NGO governance. It has contemporary significance and raises important questions regarding inclusivity and transformation, the function and future of arts centres, community-based applied arts practices, creativity, and international partnerships. This study will be of great interest to students and scholars in theatre and performance, indigenous music, dance, and South African history.

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Book SynopsisThis volume provides a state-of-the-art overview of the field of more-than-human studies, bringing together contemporary and essential content from leading authors across the discipline. With attention to the intellectual history of the field, its developments and extensions, its applications and its significance to contemporary society, it presents empirical studies and theoretical work covering long-established disciplines, as well as new writing on art, history, politics, planning, architecture, research methodology and ethics. An elaboration of the various dimensions of more-than-human studies, The Routledge International Handbook of More-than-Human Studies constitutes essential reading for anyone studying or researching in this field.Table of Contents1 The Separation? Part 1 Foundations 2 In the Thick of Things and the Politics of Becoming 3 When Species Meet 4 A Circumpolar Night’s Dream 5 Planetary Multiplicity and the Much More-than-Human Earth 6 A Multispecies Ontological Turn? 7 Politics, Space and the More-than-Human Condition 8 The 'Shuffle of Things' and the Distribution of Agency 9 The Technical and the Political 10 The More-than-Human City Part 2 Elaboration 11 Airports, Affect and Arctic Futures - More-than-Human Thinking of Connectivity and Dwelling12 Meeting and Mingling with Microbes: A More-than-Human Georgraphy of Hygiene, Holobionts and Hospitality 13 More-than-Human Reflections on Anthropause 14 The Virtual Animal in the Digital Anthropocene: Empowered or Subjugated? 15. Living with Unruly Waste Matter: On More-than-Human Relations 16. We Have Never Built Back Better: Using STS to Account for the Many Failures of Disaster Recovery 17. The More-than-Human Home 18. Wrapping Things Up: Making Plastic into a Political Material 19. Histories in, of and for More-than-Human Worlds 20. Making Time for, and with Honeybees 21. The Long Horizon: Temporal Imaginaries in the More-than-Human Arts 22. The Cosmopolitics of Urban Planning in a More-than-Human World Part 3 Methods 23. Nine Methodological Principles for the Posthumanities 24. Knives, the More-than-Human and Speculative Fabrication with/for the Cthulucene 25. The More-Than-Human Micropolitics of the Research Assemblage 26. Towards a More-than-Human Participatory Research 27. More-than-Human Ethics Part 4 Tracks 28. Walking into the Sunset…

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Book SynopsisIn this book, Patricia Alkolombre explores the desire for a child from a contemporary psychoanalytic perspective, and covers the questions raised in the face of new resources offered by reproductive medicine.This volume reviews traditional psychoanalytic conceptualisations from the perspective of gender theories and analyses theoretical hegemonies related to the desire and passion for a child. Alkolombre discusses how the passion to have a child' is a key aspect of motherhood, characterised by emotional intensity, persistence, and self-sacrificial aspects.The book is divided into three sections: Part One deals with the desire and passion to have a child, while Part Two focuses on the impact of reproductive techniques, as well as the ever-changing role of parenthood in the modern day. Throughout these fascinating chapters, clinical vignettes of both individual and couple analyses span topics such as mourning, the use of reproductive technology, the anonymity of gamete dTrade Review'In The Desire and The Passion for a Child, Patricia Alkolombre offers a deep dive into the implications of emerging reproductive technology for our understanding of a potential parent’s relationship to sexuality, the procreative body, and a child’s origin story. She portrays the necessity of mourning female and male infertility, a lost pregnancy, and altered experiences of self and intimate other. This is an important book for the psychoanalytic clinician who enters the contemporary biopsychosocial terrain where desire turns to passion. While new technology supports new family constellations, it also risks the creation of a child at any cost.'Harriet Wolfe, M.D., President, International Psychoanalytical Association'In this excellent book, Patricia Alkolombre offers us a contemporary psychoanalytic approach to current parenting. Clinical, theoretical, and ethical problems of assisted fertilization circulate throughout the text also grasping on the meanings of sterility in women and men. Key issues such as mourning, abortion, bodies, donation of gametes and surrogate maternity are focused framed in a biotechnological offer in vertiginous development. In this complex journey the author differentiates the desire for a child from the passion for a child, the latter as a search for narcissistic gratification that leads some women to resort without limit to assisted fertilization. This volume will enrich readers, whether psychoanalysts or not, interested in this crucial topic.'Leticia Glocer Fiorini M.D., Chair of Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies Committee, International Psychoanalytic Association IPATable of ContentsIntroduction PART I About the desire and the passion for a child 1 Revisiting desire for a child 2 When desire for a child becomes passion for a child PART II Techniques in the light of psychoanalysis 3 Into psychoanalytic clinical work 4 Psychoanalysis and reproductive techniques PART III Historical (in) fertility 5 First conceptions 6 Fertility myths and rituals

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Book SynopsisA Queer Praxis for Criminological Research provides an alternative research method, where researchers place themselves second to draw narratives from folx who are typically sought out by scholars because of their identity.Describing the authorâs use of queer praxis during a recent study, the chapters of this book demonstrate how the rigor of qualitative research was achieved by utilizing a queer methodology. It presents how the author interviewed trans folx about their experiences with the criminal legal system; explores their volunteer work with a local group in the trans community; and discusses how, before collecting any data, they spent eight months being a part of their lives and witnessing their everyday experiences. Based on these experiences, the book reveals how individual researchers can increase academic rigor and transparency and cultivate skills to complete qualitative criminological work. Using personal anecdotes, expert advice, applied examples from st

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Book SynopsisCreating Digital Exhibits for Cultural Institutions will show you how to create digital exhibits and experiences for your users that will be informative, accessible and engaging.Illustrated with real-world examples of digital exhibits from a range of GLAMs, the book addresses the many analytical aspects and practical considerations involved in the creation of such exhibits. It will support you as you go about: analyzing content to find hidden themes, applying principles from the museum exhibit literature, placing your content within internal and external information ecosystems, selecting exhibit software, and finding ways to recognize and use your own creativity. Demonstrating that an exhibit provides a useful and creative connecting point where your content, your organization, and your audience can meet, the book also demonstrates that such exhibits can provide a way to revisit difficult and painful material in a way that includes frank and enlightened analyses of iTable of Contents1. Introduction and Overview; 2. The Digital Exhibit: A Creative Meeting Place for Your Content, Your Organization, and Your Audience; 3. Connecting Your Exhibit to Your Audience and the Larger Information Ecosystem; 4. Big Ideas, Small Themes, and Everything In-Between; 5. Looking at These Principles in Action: Five Case Studies; 6. The Lifecycle of Your Exhibit: Propose, Market, Evaluate, and Retire; 7. The Nuts and Bolts of Your Exhibit: Metadata and Software Platforms; 8. Digital Exhibits, Creativity, & Originality.

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Book SynopsisBy encompassing the hagiographies of the first centuries, the most famous case of Joan of Arc, numerous chivalrous novels, and the overlooked accounts of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, this is the first study to consider cross-dressing for the entire medieval age.Cross-dressing is a thought-provoking practice in a world that, in theory, adheres to neat distinctions of the functions and attires of males and females in society; this volume demonstrates that only a long-term analysis can fully account for the phenomenon in its various facets. If dress is a gender marker, the argument that it also marks many other conditions beyond the manâwoman binary cannot be ignored. There is a dress for the cleric and one for the layman; there is the dress of the rich and that of the poor. In some cases, these other binary distinctions are intertwined with that of sex and gender, and this intersectional perspective is developed through a wide range of sources read with philological

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Book SynopsisWe are living in a world in which the existence of risk is constantly debated, misinformation and disinformation are rife and spread quickly and easily through online media, and where governments and institutions continue to avoid taking decisive action even when there is general agreement that a serious threat exists. Understanding how people, social groups and social organizations understand, respond to and act on threats, hazards and dangers is more important than ever. In Risk, Deborah Lupton asserts the ongoing importance of the analysis of risk in our age of permacrisis and mounting scepticism about experts and science, calling for a re-turn' to risk theory in the social sciences.The book outlines the three major approaches to risk in social and cultural theory, devoting a chapter to each. The first approach draws upon the work of Mary Douglas to articulate the cultural/symbolic perspective on risk. The second approach is that of the risk society perspective, basTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Theorizing risk 3. Risk and culture 4. Risk and reflexive modernization 5. Risk and governmentality 6. Risk and subjectivity 7. Risk and Otherness 8. Risk and pleasure 9. Risk misinformation and denial: the climate and COVID-19 crises

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Book SynopsisThrough an indigenous and new materialist thinking approach, this book discusses various examples in Africa where colonial public art, statues, signs and buildings were removed or changed after countriesâ independence.An African perspective on these processes will bring new understandings and assist in finding ways to address issues in other countries and continents. These often-unresolved issues attract much attention, but finding ways of working through them requires a deeper and broader approach. Contributors propose an African indigenous knowledge perspective in relation to new materialism as alternative approaches to engage with visual redress and decolonisation of spaces in an African context. Authors such as Frantz Fanon, Ngugi Wa Thiongâo and George Dei will be referred to regarding indigenous knowledge, decolonialisation and Africanisation, and Karen Barad, Donna Haraway and Rosi Braidotti regarding new materialism.The book will be of interest to scholars work

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Book SynopsisThis book theorizes the roles of optimism in anthropological thinking, research, writing, and practice. It sets out to explore optimism's origins and implications, its conceptual and practical value, and its capacity to contribute to contemporary anthropological aims. In an era of extensive ecological disruption and social distress, this volume contemplates how an optimistic anthropology can energize the discipline while also contributing to bettering the lives, communities, and environments of those we study. It brings together scholars diverse in background, career stage, and theoretical approach in a collective attempt to comprehend the myriad intersections of anthropology and optimism. The challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic have recently underscored the larger, longer-term catastrophes of climate change, ecosystemic collapse, social injustice, and antipathy toward scientific knowledge and those who produce it. In this context, exceedingly few anthropologists feel comfortable obTable of Contents1. A World Made Safe for (Future) Difference: Anthropology and Utopian Possibility 2. Vertiginous Optimism: Optimistic Orientations in a Field of Chronic Crisis 3. "Moving On and Moving Up": Productive Angles of Exploring Optimism 4. Where Have All the Flowers Gone?: Planting Optimism in a Disrupted Ecology 5. Indigenous Optimism in the Colonialcene 6. Putting the Pieces in Place: Optimistic Futuring in Transition Culture 7. Optimism at Scale: Exploring Everyday Activism in Atlanta’s Alternative Food Networks 8. Fusing Outrage and Hope into Acts of Resistance, Volunteerism, and Allyships 9. Optimistic Anthropology in the Work of Systems Changemakers 10. China 2060: Envisioning a Human-Centered Approach to Energy Transition 11. Doing Anthropology Forward: Emerging Technologies and Possible Futures

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Book SynopsisThis accessible introduction challenges fixed understandings of the geographical or conceptual origins of feminist performance, offering a fresh and open-ended guide to the moments and movements that have come to define this vital field. Designed for weekly use on performance studies courses, each of the book's ten chapters highlights the key works of feminist performance, including performance art, live art, body art, activism, and theater. These milestones are all linked to acts of rupture and political reanimation, as artists broke with dominant understandings of gender, art, and value, that were taken to be insurmountable and static. Milestones are a range of accessible textbooks, breaking down the need-to-know moments in the social, cultural, political, and artistic development of foundational subject areas.

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Book SynopsisThis important book offers a critical and timely reassessment of one of the cornerstones of analytical psychology, Jungâs concept of archetypes.Exploring not only Jungâs original writings but also the range of interpretations used by Jungian scholars today, the book argues that Jungâs conceptualization of archetype theory is not a single coherent theory; rather, it is four different theories which must be understood separately. Roesler goes onto deconstruct these four ideas: the biological, the anthropological, the transcendental and the psychological in context with contemporary insights from each of these disciplines. A thorough analysis of the state of knowledge in the respective disciplines (i.e. biology, anthropology, religious and mythological studies) makes clear that the claims archetype theory makes in these fields have no support and should be given up. Deconstructing Archetype Theory concludes by arguing that a universal process of psychological transformation is the only part of archetype theory which should be maintained, as it provides a map for psychotherapy.Rigorous and insightful, this is a book that will fascinate scholars and practitioners of analytical psychology, as well as anyone with an interest in Jungâs original work.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Definitions of archetype in Analytical Psychology 3. The theory of archetypes in Jung's work 4. Problems and criticism 5. Biology, genetics and inheritance 6. Anthropology 7, Religion 8. Prehistory 9. Mythology 10. Conclusion: The Core Theory- a theory of psychological transformation References

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Book SynopsisThis anthology contributes to creating awareness on how digital ageism operates in relation to the widely spread symbolic representations of old and young age around digital technologies, the (lack of) representation of diverse older individuals in the design, development, and marketing of digital technologies and in the actual algorithms and datasets that constitute them. It also shows how individuals and institutions deal with digital ageism in everyday life.In the past decades, digital technologies permeated most aspects of everyday life. With a focus on how age is represented and experienced in relation to digital technologies leading to digital ageism, digitalisationâs reinforcement of spirals of exclusion and loss of autonomy of some collectives is explored, when it could be natural for a great part of society and represent a sort of improvement.The book addresses social science students and scholars interested in everyday digital technologies, society and the power struggles about it, providing insights from different parts of the globe. By using different methods and touching upon different aspects of digital ageism and how it plays out in contemporary connected data societies, this volume will raise awareness, challenge power, initiate discussions and spur further research into this field.The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.

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Book SynopsisReflecting on the clash of civilizations as its point of departure, this book is based on a series of sixteen of the author's interconnected, thematically focused lectures and calls for new perspectives to resist imperialistic homogeneity. Situated within a neo-humanist context, the book applies interactive cognition from an Asian perspective within which China can be perceived as an essential other, making it highly relevant in the quest for global solutions to the many grave issues facing humankind today. The author critiques American, European, and Chinese points of view, highlighting the significance of difference and the necessity of dialogue, before, ultimately, rethinking the nature of world literature and putting forward interactive cognition as a means of reconciliation between cultures. Chinese culture, as a frame of reference endowed with traditions of harmony without homogeneity, may help to alleviate global cultural confrontation and even reconstruct the understaTrade Review"This splendid and deftly translated book gives us a deep understanding of the development of comparative literature as it learned to embrace the many literatures of the world, and it explores the role of Chinese culture in using Taoist insights to illuminate the critical issues of the ever-modernizing twenty-first century. It is sure to become an essential text in this still evolving discipline."Leo Damrosch, Professor of Harvard University"Professor Yue Daiyun is one of the founders and pioneering figures of contemporary Chinese comparative literature. Chinese Thought in a Multi-cultural World is an insightful selection of her essays written at the turn of the century which is characterized by her unique cross-cultural perspective and border-writing style. It has indeed witnessed and promoted the rise of the Chinese School of comparative literature in the international academic community."Wang Ning, Distinguished University Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University"Committed to cross-cultural quest with global vision, Professor Yue Daiyun has made the Chinese voice heard in the globalized, polyphonic world, and contributed enormously to the development of comparative literature in China."Ji Jin, Professor of Soochow University, China Table of Contents1. The Context of the Times: The Clash of Civilizations and the Future 2. The Neo-Humanism for the Twenty-first Century 3. The Transformation of the Post-Modernist Ethos and a New Platform for Literary Studies 4. The American, European, and Chinese Dreams: An Example of Cultural Transformation 5. Thoughts on Comparative Literature and World Literature 6. Interactive Cognition: The Case of Literature-Science Interaction 7. Interactive Cognition and Mutual Interpretation 8. Difference and Dialogue 9. Chinese Culture and the Reconstruction of World Culture 10. The Interpenetration of Sinology and Guoxue 11. The Three Phases of the Development of Comparative Literature 12. “The Death of Comparative Literature” and Its Regeneration 13. The Beginning and Early Development of Comparative Literature in China from 1900 to 1910 14. Where to, Where from, and When: The Quest of Wang Guowei 15. The Enquiries of Lu Xun in His Early Years 16. Zhu Guangqian and His Contribution to Comparative Literature in China

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Book SynopsisLesbian Porn Magazines and the Sex Wars re-examines the heated debates about the politics of sexuality known as the sex wars, investigating how they were fundamentally engaged in the complex intersections of gender, race, class, and sexuality. Groeneveld presents an accessible and fascinating framing of lesbian sex magazines as activist media texts engaged in education, community building, and dialogue, amplifying theories or writers and artists across the intersectional spectrum. Making use of archival material and a cohort of lesbian radical porn magazines, the book posits that collectively these magazines helped create and circulate new ideas about sex, power, and identity. The chapters cover lesbian public culture, trans self-representation, AIDS activism, and issues of consent. This is an essential intervention into sexuality studies and is suitable for students and scholars in gender and sexuality studies, sociology, media studies, literature, and culturTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction 1. Letters to the Editor as Frictional Space2. Micro-theorizing, Pedagogies of Pleasure, and the Sexual Imperative in Lesbian Sex Advice Columns 3. Black Feminist Sex Radical Theorizing 4. Small Activism: Trans Self-Representation in Lesbian Sex Magazines5. Making Lesbian/Trans Lifeworlds in Fiction and in Fact 6. AIDS Information Activism 7. Consent and Lesbian Porn MagazinesConclusion

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Book SynopsisBourdieusian Media Studies illustrates the merits of Pierre Bourdieu's cultural sociological approach in the field of media studies, explicating exactly what a Bourdieusian analysis of media would entail, and what new understandings of the digital media landscape would emerge from such an analysis.The author applies the Bourdieusian concepts of social field, capital, and habitus to understand the social conditions of media and cultural production, media users' practices and preferences, and the power dynamics entailed in social media networks. Based on a careful illumination of Bourdieu's concepts, epistemological assumptions, and methodological approach, the book presents a range of case studies covering television production, the field of media studies itself, media use, and social media networks.Illustrating the craft of Bourdieusian media studies and shedding new light on key dynamics of digital media culture, this book will appeal to scholars and students w

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Book SynopsisFeminist approaches to international law have been mischaracterised by the mainstream of the discipline as being a niche field that pertains only to women's lived experiences and their participation in decision-making processes. Exemplifying how feminist approaches can be used to analyse all areas of international law, this book applies posthuman feminist theory to examine the regulation of new and emerging military technologies, international environmental law and the conceptualisation of the sovereign state and other modes of legal personality in international law.Noting that most posthuman scholarship to date is primarily theoretical, this book also contributes to the field of posthumanism through its application of posthuman feminism to international law, working to bridge the theory and practice divide by using posthuman feminism to design and call for legal change. This interdisciplinary book draws on an array of fields, including philosophy, queer and feminist theoriesTrade Review"This important book explores critically the main intersections between International Law and the nonhuman in the contemporary world. Emily Jones’s bold interdisciplinary approach exposes the limitations of the Humanism and Anthropocentrism inherent to International Law, while re-asserting the Law’s commitment to face the challenges of the posthuman predicament. Foremost among them, the regulation of human-machine interaction in military technologies and the status of nature in Environmental Law.Pragmatic, but theoretically savvy, Jones combines critique with creativity by proposing alternative sources that many help overcome legal liberalism. Posthuman Feminism, Queering the Nonhuman, Indigenous Epistemologies, New Materialism, and the Rights of Nature movement are just some of the toolkits this remarkable book provides as a way forward. Emily Jones holds legal discourse accountable but also confirms its ability to change and construct more inclusive, sustainable and just worlds. A major work that will leave a mark." Rosi Braidotti, Distinguished Professor Emerita, Utrecht University, the Netherlands."Anchoring us in new possibilities, this impressive work explains what posthuman feminist perspectives offer to the urgent task of superseding international law’s deadly imperial anthropocentrism by fostering legal systems capable of sustaining life in all its forms. Drawing on a staggering array of interdisciplinary critical scholarship, Jones illustrates some of the paradigm shifts that are necessary if we, and the planet, are to survive (let alone flourish) in these posthuman times. To illustrate, she engages adeptly with current debates in two areas of international law – the regulation of lethal military technologies and international environmental law. Along the way Jones remains cognisant of the many tensions that can compromise or co-opt feminist efforts to change international law’s neoliberal humanist orientation from within, readily acknowledging that posthuman feminist change is also necessary outside the law and may even require a turning away from law." Dianne Otto, Melbourne Law School, Australia."In this meticulously researched and beautifully written book, Emily Jones draws on posthuman feminism to both highlight and question international law's constitutive boundaries: human/nature, human/technology and, perhaps above all, the boundaries imposed upon feminist legal theory in the field. By applying a radically egalitarian feminist framework to the laws of war and international environmental law, Jones reveals that some of the most urgent problems of our times, war, climate change and anti-feminist backlash, are much more interconnected than we might have thought." Ntina Tzouvala, Associate Professor, ANU College of Law, Australian National University.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Posthuman Feminism and International Law 1. International Law and the Nonhuman 2. Human and Machine: Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems 3. Regulating Military Technologies: Between Resistance and Compliance 4. Queering the Nonhuman: Engaging International Environmental Law 5. The Subjectivity of Matter: The Rights of Nature in International Law 6. Posthuman Feminism: Reworlding Exits from Liberal Legalism

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Book SynopsisThis volume discusses the nuances of cultural phenomena in the transforming urban landscape of Indian cities. It focuses on the role of globalization, transitioning economic patterns, National Urban policies in changing their urban landscape.

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Book SynopsisThis book is one of the rare collections where black magic, occult practices and witchcraft are recorded and academically analyzed.

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Book SynopsisThis volume is a long overdue contribution to the dynamic, but unevenly distributed study of fantasy and J.R.R. Tolkienâs legacy in Central Europe. The chapters move between and across theories of cultural and social history, reception, adaptation, and audience studies, and offer methodological reflections on the various cultural perceptions of Tolkienâs oeuvre and its impact on twenty-first century manifestations. They analyse how discourses about fantasy are produced and mediated, and how processes of re-mediation shape our understanding of the historical coordinates and local peculiarities of fantasy in general, and Tolkien in particular, all that in Central Europe in an age of global fandom. The collection examines the entanglement of fantasy and Central European political and cultural shifts across the past 50 years and traces the ways in which its haunting legacy permeates and subverts different modes and aesthetics across different domains from communist times through todayâs media-saturated culture.

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Book SynopsisPrecarious Empowerment: Sexual Labor in the Coffee Shops of Chileâs Santiago provides a textured and telling exploration into the lives and experiences of sex workers in Chile, their encounters with discrimination and economic precarity, and their empowered resistance.Set in and around âtinted cafesâ â spaces hidden from public view where women dance for their male clients and perform sexual services â within Chileâs capital city of Santiago, author Pilar Ortiz traces connections between sex work in the present day and the lasting legacies of colonialism and gender and sexual norms. Drawing on her careful ethnographic observations and in-depth interviews with the workers and their clients, the book reveals the many challenges women face at the intersection of class, racial, and gender inequalities. It also documents their resistance to stigma and stifling social norms and predetermined gender roles. In their practice of sexual labor, the book argues that women display

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Book SynopsisThis book engages with the concept queer battle fatigue, which is the everyday exhaustion that LGBTQIA+ people and communities often experience from anti-queer norms and values. Contributors express how this concept is often experienced across spaces and places, from schools to communities.Queer Battle Fatigue is one way to express the everyday exhaustion that LGBTQIA+ people and communities often feel that is a result sociopolitical and cultural anti-queer norms and values. In this volume, contributors think about how queer battle fatigue hits bodies and their multiple ways of being, knowing, and doing. Chapters describe how such violence flows from early childhood experiences to universities and across community spaces. Contributors also describe how people and communities resist and refuse anti-queer norms and values, carving out pathways to live, love, and have joy despite everyday oppressions. From calling on Black queer ancestors, to using STEM education as a safTable of Contents1. Anti-Queerness as Educational Norms: Tracing the Contours of Queer Battle Fatigue 2. Trans Faculty & Queer Battle Fatigue: Poetic (Re)Presentations of Navigating Identity Politics in the Academy 3. Embracing Queer Heartache: Lessons from LGBTQ+ Intergenerational Dialogues 4. Queer Black Joy in the Face of Racial and Queer Battle Fatigue 5. STEM as a Cover: Towards a Framework for Queer Emotions, Battle Fatigue, and STEM Identity 6. Curricula of Oppressions: Queering Elementary School Norms and Values 7. Embodied failure: Resisting gender and sexuality erasures in K-12 schools 8. Illegible and Illiterate in Honduras: Research in a Transnational Setting as a Queer from the Global North

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Book SynopsisThe texts presented in Proportion Harmonies and Identities (PHI) - INTELLIGENCE, CREATIVITY AND FANTASY were compiled with the intent to establish a multidisciplinary platform for the presentation, interaction and dissemination of research. The aim is also to foster the awareness and discussion on the topics of Harmony and Proportion with a focus on different visions relevant to Architecture, Arts and Humanities, Design, Engineering, Social and Natural Sciences, and their importance and benefits for the sense of both individual and community identity. The idea of modernity has been a significant motor for development since the Western Early Modern Age. Its theoretical and practical foundations have become the working tools of scientists, philosophers, and artists, who seek strategies and policies to accelerate the development process in different contexts.Table of ContentsPart I – Intelligence, Creativity and Fantasy. Part II – Architecture / Urbanism / Design. Part III – Arts. Part IV – Humanities. Part V – Social Sciences. Part VI – Sciences/Technologies. Part VII – Exhibtions.

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Book SynopsisThis collection is focused on the possibilities for unbinding people from gendered expectations in and around educational spaces, and accounts for the ways gender is reconstituted in and through education.This book presents a broad interpretation of gender, of what education might mean, and where educational experiences manifest. It explores more conventional schooling spaces to communally generated inclusive spaces, families and marginalised sites where gender is realised and contested. Alongside more familiar framings, the book incorporates decolonial and Indigenous contestations, theoretical innovations and methodological experiments that pry open the ways that gender binds and limits individuals. The chapters are organised in smaller conceptual clusters, offering multiple and overlapping reading paths according to the interests of the reader. A mapping of clusters and potential reading paths is included at the opening of the book, designed for instructors to expand course

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Book SynopsisIn this unique study, Stephen Glynn demonstrates that Kate Bush's work, in both sound and vision, has long been influenced and characterised by, and at times aimed at, film and television media.The volume explores in depth Bush's music of allusion' and analyses first the significance of film and television references throughout the lyrics and settings of her songs, beginning with her breakthrough hit Wuthering Heights'. It also surveys the shaping presence of film and television in the look, narrative and artistry of her music videos, including the examination of celebrated works such as Cloudbusting' and Hounds of Love'. Finally, the book assesses Bush's most intensive cinematic undertaking, her 1993 album The Red Shoes, with its evident homage to the 1948 film of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, and its concurrent visual reworking as Bush's sole film venture, The Line, The Cross & The Curve. Thus, with its deployment across music,

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the fascinating and complex histories of Islam and China. Meticulously researched and captivating, it provides a comprehensive history of the encounters and relationship between these two great civilizations, as well as the unique development and indigenization of Islam within China.The work looks at the early interactions between Arab Muslim traders and the Tang dynasty in the seventh century, shedding light on the establishment of the first Muslim communities in China. The narrative then progresses through subsequent dynasties, examining the ebbs and flows of Muslim influence, integration, and indigenization. It looks at the emergence of the Hui and other Muslim ethnic groups, who play a central role in the story of Chinese Islam. By delving into their customs, beliefs, and distinctive practices, the authors unveil the intricate process of indigenization, where Islam becomes deeply rooted in Chinese culture and society. One of the unique features o

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