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Channel View Publications Ltd Cultural Heritage and Tourism: An Introduction
Book SynopsisCultural heritage is one of the most important tourism resources in the world. This book provides a comprehensive theoretical overview and applied knowledge of the issues, practices, current debates, concepts and management concerns associated with cultural heritage-based tourism. The second edition has been updated to include timely and emerging topics such as geopolitics, conflict, solidarity tourism, overtourism and climate change. It also expands on important areas such as environmental change, technology, social media, heritage economics, Indigenous knowledge and co-created experiences. This edition includes up-to-date data, statistics, references, case material, figures and pedagogical tools. It remains an important and accessible text for undergraduate and postgraduate students of cultural and heritage tourism, cultural resource management, and museum management.Trade ReviewProfessor Dallen Timothy is one of the world’s most eminent scholars in the field of cultural heritage tourism. Using an articulate but accessible style, he covers a comprehensive range of pertinent themes from the basics of heritage management to complex issues of authenticity and the interpretation of the contested past. This book provides invaluable material for Cultural Tourism and Heritage Management courses at all levels. * Melanie Kay Smith, Budapest Metropolitan University, Hungary *This thought-provoking, comprehensive book, written by ‘unashamedly, a self-proclaimed heritage fanatic’ will assist students, scholars and practitioners to understand, conceptualize and effectively and responsibly manage cultural heritage. Those interested in participating in the academic discussion about cultural heritage tourism, recognizing it as a complex multidimensional phenomenon, must read this clear, well-structured and readable book. * Yaniv Poria, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel *Dallen Timothy's second edition of Cultural Heritage and Tourism is a must-read book on heritage, given the accessible style and breadth and depth with which the topic is dealt. The book is an up-to-date synthesis of key thinking on this area, written by an acknowledged expert on heritage tourism. * Stephen J. Page, University of Hertfordshire, UK *In compiling the second edition, Dallen J. Timothy successfully devotes space for emerging topics such as the sustainable use of cultural/heritage resources and technology […] Going forward, as the globe struggles to overcome the Covid-19 pandemic, this new edition will conceptually and practically offer a holistic platform for developing transformative/restorative heritage tourism, devoted to moral values, replenishment, and the wellbeing of humanity, for better times, so that it can remain resilient and thriving during catastrophic events. -- Deepak Chhabra, Arizona State University, USA * Journal of Heritage Tourism, Vol 16 No 5 *Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables List of Plates Preface 1. Cultural Heritage and Tourism Part 1 2. Consumption of Culture: Heritage Demand and Experience 3. The Heritage Supply: Attractions and Services 4. Spatial Perspectives and Heritage Resources 5. Looking for Something Real: Heritage, Tourism and Elusive Authenticity 6. Tourism and the Politics of Heritage 7. The Need to Conserve the Past: The Impacts of Tourism 8. Protective Legislation and Conservation Organizations 9. Protecting the Past for Today: Heritage Conservation and Tourism 10. Telling the Story: Interpreting the Past for Visitors 11. Planning Principles, Sustainability and Cultural Heritage Destinations 12. Marketing the Past for Today 13. Raising Revenue and Managing Visitors Part 2 14. Museums: Keepers of the Past 15. Archaeological Sites and Ancient Monuments 16. Landscapes of the Elite and the Ordinary 17. The Industrial Past 18. Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage 19. Diasporas, Roots and Personal Heritage Tourism 20. Living Heritage, Intangible Culture and Indigenous People 21. Dark Tourism: Atrocity and Human Suffering 22. Conclusions: The Future of the Past References Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Contested Knowledge: A Guide to Critical Theory
Book SynopsisThis is the most accessible and wide-ranging introduction to critical theory currently available. Providing a comprehensive overview of the practice, role and importance of theory across the humanities and social sciences, the book not only maps a notoriously complex area, but it also enables the reader to take the arguments and apply them in practice. Starting with an explanation of how theory relies on implicit assumptions that inform interpretations, the book moves on to depict the long-term philosophical problems that have fed into much twentieth century thinking and also more recent debates. The philosophical grounds of contemporary thought are traced from Plato through Descartes to the work of Heidegger and Freud and on to recent developments in structuralism and deconstruction that critically revise many of the previous terms of debate. The individual sections treat key concepts in detail and may be read independently. Sections that provide a thorough grounding in notions like the critical, theory, the political and modernity pave the way for in-depth accounts of the basic arguments of structuralism, psychoanalytic theory and deconstruction. Attention is paid to ensuring clarity throughout the book; the critical theory described is demonstrated via readings of verbal and visual texts. A serious guide to the practicalities of the use of critical theory in the humanities today this book should be on the shelves of all students of literature, cultural studies and social science.Trade Review'The great advantage of Contested Knowledge is that it is a genuinely critical guide to critical theory. Phillips explores theory since Kant, and is himself prepared to be appropriately critical of it. Yet he neither excludes those with no knowledge of theory or alienates those already familiar with its fundamentals. Contested Knowledge is thus a text which deserves to be strongly recommended.' Macdonald Daly, University of NottinghamTable of Contents How to Use This Book Part I: Introduction to Critical Theory 1. CriticalCritical, Metaphysics, Man, Crisis, Critique, Critical Theory, Postmodernism and Critical theory 2. RepresentationsBooks and Life, Truth, In between, To be, "Is" and "Ing" 3. Theory The Empirical and the Transcendental, What theory is and why it is necessary, Object and Concept, Analogy, Economy, Objects, Summary Part II: Philosophical Impossibilities 1. The AncientsPhilosophy, Deception, Socratic Dialogue, Plato's Theatre, Nous (Mind), Allegory, Contingency, Plato's Cave, Ideal Objects, Technology, The Visible and the Invisible, Analogy, The Divided Line, The Empirical and the Transcendental 2. Greek/Jew: Closure and Opening Greek, Binary Oppositions, Empirical/Transcendental Difference, Jew, The Law, Dogmatism and Criticism, Singularity and Plurality, Opening and Closure 3. Modernity Empiricism, Rationality, Freedom, Progress, Centrism, Ethnocentrism, Androcentrism, Phonocentrism, Logocentrism, Descartes' Judgement, Otherness, infinity and difference, How to not define the other Summary Cogito Ergo Sum, Frontiers, The Subject in Crisis, Authority and Enlightenment, Architectural Metaphors, Responsibility Part III: The Political 1. BeingRhetoric, The Being of Things, Being and Beings 2. The Political 3. False ConsciousnessFalse Consciousness, Figurative Language, Graven Images, Fetish, Logocentrism, Nomos, Access to the Transcendental Part IV: Structuralism 1. Saussure What is Structuralism? Where does structuralism come from? The Course in General Linguistics, Why "general", The Sign Signifier/Signified System and Utterance Difference' "To a Certain Extent", System and Difference, Developments in Structuralism, How Structuralism Works, An Exercise in Structuralism, Synchrony/Diachrony, System/Process, Paradigm/Syntagm 2. Levi-Strauss Structural Linguistics and Anthropology, Necessary Laws, Kinship Relations, Second Order First, The Elementary Unit of Kinship, Uncles with Attitude, The Incest Taboo-woman as symbol of exchange, The Structural Analysis of Myth, The Algorithm of Myth 3. JakobsonTwo Types of Aphasia, The Similarity Disorder, The Contiguity Disorder, Metaphor and Metonymy, The Map on the Wall Part V: Derrida and Deconstruction 1. The Text "Text", Derrida's work, Presence and Absence, The Way We Think, Structure, Play, The way of the text, Bricoleur and Engineer, Supplementarity, Radical Empiricism, "Something Missing" 2. Difference The Same, Différance, Difference a priori, A commentary on "Differance", What to Look for 3. Exemplification Deconstruction, Repetition and Writing, Superfluity and Writing, Alterity and Transcendence, Writing and Interpretation, Transcendental Contraband, Exemplification Part VI: Psychoanalysis 1. Freud and The Dreamwork Psychoanalysis and Critical Theory, The Unconscious since Freud, Dreams, Interpretation, The Dream Work, Condensation, Displacement, Overdetermination, Considerations of Representability, Kettle Logic 2. Lacan, Freud and Sexuality Lacan and Language, The Unconscious is the Discourse of the Other, The Unconscious is structured like a Language, Metaphor and Metonymy, Sexuality and Sexual Difference, Deferred Action, Sexuality, Oedipus, Sexual Difference, Cinema: Pleasure and Drive, The Ring 3. The Return to Melanie Klein Acquiring Knowledge, The Ruined World, Kleinian Scientificity, Armageddon, Soldier, Problems, The Knowledge Concluding Remarks
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Inside Subculture: The Postmodern Meaning of
Book SynopsisWhat motivates people to dress in a manner that marks them out as different to the conventional norm? Is it true that, with dress, 'anything goes' in our mix-and-match postmodern culture? Have easily recognizable, authentic subcultures imploded in a glut of ironic revivals and stylistic fragmentation? Does this supposed 'post-subcultural' generation actively celebrate ephemerality, transience and disposability, merely casting off and trying on one alternative identity after another in an ever-accelerating fashion frenzy? This exciting book is a considered sociological examination of such questions. By listening to the voices of the subcultural stylists themselves - their subjective perceptions of their style and the ideas that lie behind them - the author provides original insights into issues of subjectivity and identity. Situating an empirical case study within a wider consideration of postmodernism and cultural change, the author rejects cultural studies perspectives that attempt to 'read' subcultures as texts. Drawing on extensive interviews with people who dress in what might be deemed a stylistically unconventional manner, he seeks instead to establish whether contemporary subcultures display modern or postmodern sensibilities and forms. He argues persuasively that they do both - a stress on postmodern hyperindividualism, fluidity and fragmentation runs alongside a modernist emphasis on authenticity and underlying essence. He concludes that a Romantic libertarianism has permeated working-class culture and that the distinction between 'individualistic' middle-class countercultures and 'collectivist' working-class subcultures has been over-emphasized.Trade Review'Highly recommended for academic libraries.' Library Journal 'Interview excerpts provide powerful illustrations of some of the points made on identification and dress style, and the book is also commendably thorough in its fieldwork details; the interview schedule in particular makes it a book that could be recommended as background reading to students on research methods courses as well.' Times Higher Education Supplement
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Windows on the Sixties: Exploring Key Texts of
Book SynopsisContributors focus on such key media texts of the 1960s as The Avengers, This Sporting Life, Panorama, The Apartment and Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, demonstrating what close textual investigation can reveal about the great social and cultural transformation of the decade.Table of ContentsIntroduction - locating key texts amid the distinctive landscape of the 60s, Arthur Marwick; a walk on the wilder side -"The Apartment" as social commentary, Daniel J. Leab; defining the parameters of "quality" cinema for "the permissive society" - the British Board of Film Censors and "This Sporting Life", Anthony Aldgate; "The Avengers" - television and popular culture during the "high 60s", James Chapman; "Seven Days in May" - history, prophecy and propaganda, Michael Coyne; "nothing like any previous musical, British or American" - the Beatles' film "A Hard Day's Night", Rowana Agajanian; three Alison Lurie novels of the long 60s, Arthur Marwick; the brilliant career of "Sgt. Pepper", Allan F. Moore; "Panorama" in the 60s, Robert Rowland; conclusion, Arthur Marwick.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Writing the Feminine: Women in Arab Sources
Book SynopsisBased on original sources, this book questions the conventional wisdom that Mediterranean Muslim women are passive people subjected to the tyranny and misogyny of religion, society and male relatives. Encompassing everything from medieval love poetry to popular literary sources these studies bear witness to the fact that individual women of all social classes play pivotal roles in both the private domains of sociey and in the public realm.
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Reaktion Books A History of Writing
Book SynopsisFrom the earliest scratches on stone and bone to the languages of computers and the internet, "A History of Writing" offers an investigation into the origin and development of writing throughout the world. Commencing with the first stages of information storage knot records, tally sticks, pictographic storytelling the book then focuses on the emergence of complete writing systems in Mesopotamia in the fourth millennium BC, and their diffusion to Egypt, the Indus Valley and points east, with special attention given to Semitic writing systems and their eventual spread to the Indian subcontinent. Also documented is the rise of Phoenician and its effect on the Greek alphabet, generating the many alphabetic scripts of the West. Chinese, Korean and Japanese writing systems and scripts are dealt with in depth, as is writing in pre-Colombian America. Also explored are Western Europe's medieval manuscripts and the history of printing, leading to the innovations in technology and spelling rules of the 19th and 20th centuries. Illustrated with numerous examples, this book offers a global overview in a form that everyone can follow.The author also reveals his own discoveries made since the early 1980s, making it a useful reference for both students and specialists as well as the general reader.Trade ReviewAn authoritative account ... if you're intrigued with writing's past, Fischer's book is well worth a read ... a brilliant book New Scientist It is wonderful ... to see a subject that embraces so much of human civilisation handled with the wide knowledge and breadth of vision it deserves Nature
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Auckland University Press Bloomsbury South
Book SynopsisFor two decades in Christchurch, New Zealand, a cast of extraordinary men and women remade the arts. In this book, Simpson tells the remarkable story of the rise and fall of this 'Bloomsbury South' and the arts and artists that made it. Simpson brings to life the individual talents and their passions, but he also takes us inside the scenes that they created together: Bethell and her visiting coterie of younger poets; Glover and Bensemann's exacting typography at the Caxton Press; the yearly exhibitions and aesthetic clashes of the Group; McCahon and Baxter's developing friendship; the effects of Brasch's patronage; Marsh's Shakespearian re-creations at the Little Theatre. Simpson recreates a Christchurch we have lost, where a group of artists collaborated to create a distinctively New Zealand art which spoke to the condition of their country as it emerged into the modern era.
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Auckland University Press Teenagers
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CB Editions Finish Off with Finland: A Miscellany
Book SynopsisFourth and final volume in a series documenting Anglo-Finnish relations and acclaimed by the TLS as 'a fascinating prism through which to view modern Finland'.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Regarding Manneken Pis: Culture, Celebration and
Book SynopsisThis book examines how the 'Manneken Pis' statue has come to symbolize the Brussels city and focuses on the multiplicity of interpretations to which the statue has been subjected. It explores that celebratory uses of the statue and ones which articulate the conflicts in society are related.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Telling Stories 2. Locating Manneken Pis 3. Ceremony and Celebration 4. Contested Images 5. Afterword
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Owl Publishing, LLC The Tale of the Tee
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Interrogating the Neoliberal Lifecycle: The
Book SynopsisIn this timely collection, contributors from a number of disciplines discuss neoliberal visions of success, and the subsequent effects they have on the construction of the lifecycle. Frequently mentioned in popular political discourse, the notion of neoliberalism is often deployed as shorthand for the consensus that austerity is necessary and the hard-working individual can survive it. This volume unpicks and interrogates the term by engaging with the interface between the political ubiquity of neoliberal forms and its lived experience in neoliberal societies, cutting across a multiplicity of factors including gender, age, and access to education. Impressive in its wide scope and analysis, Interrogating the Neoliberal Lifecycle presents an informed discussion not only of the limits of the neoliberal paradigm but also of possible alternatives. Trade Review“This edited volume makes for an important contribution in the fields of gerontology, sociology, philosophy, and psychology, the main focus of this volume was the first world. … this volume would benefit both academics as well as policymakers from a range of disciplines as it provides various alternative perspectives to the ‘good and successful life’ … .” (Jagriti Gangopadhyay, Anthropology & Aging, Vol. 42 (1), 2021)Table of Contents
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Indigenous Life Projects and Extractivism: Ethnographies from South America
Book SynopsisExploring indigenous life projects in encounters with extractivism, the present open access volume discusses how current turbulences actualise questions of indigeneity, difference and ontological dynamics in the Andes and Amazonia. While studies of extractivism in South America often focus on wider national and international politics, this contribution instead provides ethnographic explorations of indigenous politics, perspectives and worlds, revealing loss and suffering as well as creative strategies to mediate the extralocal. Seeking to avoid conceptual imperialism or the imposition of exogenous categories, the chapters are grounded in the respective authors’ long-standing field research. The authors examine the reactions (from resistance to accommodation), consequences (from anticipation to rubble) and materials (from fossil fuel to water) diversely related to extractivism in rural and urban settings. How can Amerindian strategies to preserve localised communities in extractivist contexts contribute to ways of thinking otherwise?Trade Review“The volume … is one of the latest works within the growing body of literature on extractivism and indigeneity in the region. Clearly written and yet rich in always surprising ethnographic material, this volume is essential reading for scholars and students interested in both Amerindian anthropology and political ecology in general.” (Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 93 (2), 2020)Table of Contents1. Introduction Part 1. Flows, Wealth and Access2. Controlling Abandoned Oil Installations: Ruination and Ownership in Northern Peruvian Amazon3. Extractive Pluralities: The Making of Life-worlds where Oil Wealth and Informal Gold Mining Intersect in Venezuelan Amazonia4. In the Spirit of Oil: Unintended Flows and Leaky Lives in Northeastern Ecuador5. Translating Wealth in a Globalised Extractivist Economy: Contrabandistas and Accumulation by DiversionCecilie Vindal ØdegaardPart 2. Extractivism, Land, Ownerships6. Water as Value and Being: Extractivist MegaProjects and Ownership in Peru7. Indigenous Land Ownership in an Extractivist Context: Conflicting Compositions of the Environment in Cañaris (Peruvian Andes)8. Carbon and Biodiversity Conservation as Resource Extraction: Enacting REDD+ Across Cultures of Ownership in AmazoniaPart 3. Indigeneity, Activism and the Politics of Nature9. Symbols of Resistance: Translating Nature, Indigeneity, and Place in Mining Activism10. Performing Indigeneity in Bolivia: The Struggle over the TIPNIS
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Televising Restoration Spain: History and Fiction in Twenty-First-Century Costume Dramas
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Mass-Market Fiction and the Crisis of American Liberalism, 1972–2017
Book SynopsisMass-Market Fiction and the Crisis of American Liberalism, 1972–2017 tracks the transformation of liberal thought in the contemporary United States through the unique lens of the popular paperback. The book focuses on cultural shifts as they appear in works written by some of the most widely-read authors of the last fifty years: the idea of love within a New Economy (Danielle Steel), the role of government in scientific inquiry (Michael Crichton), entangled political alliances and legacies in the aftermath of the 1960s (Tom Clancy), the restructured corporation (John Grisham), and the blurred line between state and personal empowerment (Dean Koontz). To address the current crisis, this book examines how the changed character of American liberalism has been rendered legible for a mass audience.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Popular Paperbacks and the Transformation of American Liberalism Part I. The Neoliberal Turn 2. The Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic of Mass-Market Fiction 3. Danielle Steel and New Home Economics 4. Michael Crichton and the Heritage of Invention Part II: Conjunctures 5. Tom Clancy and the Liberal Family Tree 6. John Grisham and the New Economy Thriller 7. Dean Koontz and the Problem with Power
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Religion and Identity in the Post-9/11 Vampire: God Is (Un)Dead
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Nantgarw and Swansea Porcelains: An Analytical Perspective
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Neo-liberalism and the Architecture of the Post Professional Era
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Media Logic(s) Revisited: Modelling the Interplay between Media Institutions, Media Technology and Societal Change
Book SynopsisThis volume provides new approaches to the concept of media logics – developed by Altheide and Snow – by drawing on theoretical and empirical perspectives from international scientists working in the field of communications, media, political science, and sociology. In an increasingly digitized and globalized world, powerful media structures and technologies influence our daily lives in many respects. It is not only mass media but ‘poly media channels’ that become more and more contextualized in everyday lives. Therefore, it is necessary to revisit the theory of media logics, which focuses on the strong intercorrelation of media technologies, media institutions and media power. Media Logic(s) Revisited attends to this by critically reflecting on the idea of media logic, a much needed input in light of current developments and strong cultural embedding of media in various social contexts.Trade Review“The work is handsomely illustrated, with many line drawings, maps and sections, charts and colour images on all scales from the continental to the microscopic, including samples, outcrops and mines. This book is very worthwhile, most notably for its description of the mineral endowment of India, the mining sector in the country, and the social context and regulatory framework in which mines operate across India.” (Graham C. Wilson, Mineralium Deposita, Vol. 53, 2018)Table of Contents1. General Introduction: Media logic or media logics? An introduction to the field; Caja Thimm, Mario Anastasiadis, Jessica Einspänner-Pflock.- 2. The Media Syndrome and Reflexive Mediation; David L. Altheide.- 3. Media Logic and the Mediatization Approach: A good Partnership, a Mésalliance or a Misunderstanding?; Friedrich Krotz.- 4. The logics of the media and the mediatized conditions of social interaction; Stig Hjarvard.- 5. Mediatization as structural couplings: Adapting to media logic(s); Mikkel Fugl Eskjær.- 6. Media technology and media logic(s): The media grammar approach; Caja Thimm.- 7. Media Logic as (Inter)Action Logic. - Interaction Interdependency as an Integrative Meta-Perspective; Katrin Döveling & Charlotte Knorr.- 8. On the Media Logic of the State; Jens Schröter.- 9. Media logic revisited. The concept of social media logic as alternative framework to study politicians’ usage of social media during election times; Evelien Dheer.- 10. Perceived Media Logic: A Point of Reference for Mediatization; Daniel Nölleke & Andreas M. Scheu.- 11. News Media Logic 2.0 – Assessing commercial news media logic in cross-temporal and cross-channel analysis; Maria Karidi.- 12. New(s) Challenges! - Old Patterns? Structural Transformation and TV News in a Mediatized World; Mirko Liefke.- 13. Algorithms and digital media: measurement and control in the mathematical projection of the real; Tales Tomaz.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Independent Television Production in the UK: From Cottage Industry to Big Business
Book SynopsisThis book is the first authoritative account of the UK’s independent television production sector, following the creation of Channel 4 in 1982. It examines the rise of a global industry, increasingly interconnected through format development, distribution, ancillary sales and rights. Drawing on case studies, interviews and policy analysis; the author considers the cultural politics behind the growth of the ‘indies’, the labour conditions for workers in this sector, and some of the key television programmes that have been created within it. Filling an important gap in our understanding, this book constitutes a comprehensive account of this vital cultural industry for students, academics and researchers working in the areas of the cultural and creative industries, media and cultural policy and television studies. Table of Contents1. Chapter 1: Introduction: Situating Independent Television in the cultural economy.- 2. Part I: Independent transformations. The politics of independence: Contextualising independent television production in the UK - Chapter 2. The creation of the independent sector in the UK.- 3. Chapter 3. Creative Industries policy and the rise of the ‘mega-indies’; Independent television production in the age of New Labour.- 4. Part II: Working in independent television - Chapter 4: Creative labour and social change.- 5. Chapter 5 Working in the Indies: Precarity, value and burnout.- 6. Chapter 6 Networks, social capital and the burden of performativity.- 7. Part III: Cultural Value - Chapter 7 Independent Creativity.- 8. Chapter 8: Commercialisation, consolidation and cultural value: The restructuring of the British independent television industry, and the implications for production.- 9. Chapter 9. Conclusion: towards a moral economy of independent television production.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Spain After the Indignados/15M Movement: The 99% Speaks Out
Book SynopsisSpain After the Indignados/15M Movement explores how the aftershocks of the 2007 Great Recession restructured Spain’s political sphere and political imaginary. It brings together a representative sample of Spain’s leading progressive voices, including two of the five founding members of the Podemos party. The essays herein explore the areas of economics, politics, ecology, social change, media, and cultural politics in order to present a broad, critical account of contemporary Spain, with a special emphasis on emerging forms of sociopolitical contestation, self-organizing, democratic participation, and radical politics. The edited volume argues that Spanish cultural studies—which originally gravitated toward celebratory accounts of capitalist modernization, the cultural Movida and the advent of a postmodern Spain—must continue to build a new cultural politics that not only challenges the accepted narrative of the Spanish Transition to democracy, but that is committed to confronting the civilizatory challenges currently faced.Table of ContentsPart I. A New Cultural Politics for Spain1. Introduction: A New Cultural Politics for Spain; Óscar Pereira-Zazo and Steven L. TorresPart II. Political Crisis2. 15-M and Indignant Democracy: Legitimation Problems within Neoliberal Capitalism; Juan Carlos Monedero3. ‘Populism’ as the Task of Constructing a People for Change; Luis Alegre Zahonero4. Podemos in Spain: Limits and Possibilities for Change; Santiago Alba RicoPart III. Economic Failure5. Speculation and Corruption in the DNA of the Spanish Economy; José Manuel Naredo6. The 15-M and the Financialization of Spanish Society; Armando Fernández-Steinko7. Basic Income: A Rational Proposal Guaranteeing the Material Existence of the Population; Daniel Raventós and Julie WarkPart IV. Environmental Crossroads8. Feminism and Environmentalism in Dialogue with the 15-M and the New Political Cycle in Spain; Yayo Herrero9. The Podemos Phenomenon and the Crisis of Civilization; Emilio Santiago-Muiño10. Toward a Postindustrial Left in Spain: Political Parties and Social Movements Facing the Collapse of Civilization; Manuel Casal-LodeiroPart V. Media Control11. Media Control and Emancipation: The Public Sphere in Post-15-M Spain; Sebastiaan Faber and Bécquer Seguín12. The Press is Dead… Long Live the Press; Pascual Serrano13. Breaking the Walls of the Palace. The 15-M Facing the Mass Media and the Culture Industry; César Rendueles and Jorge SolaPart VI. Social Mobilization14. From the Politicization of Life to the New Politics; Marina Garcés15. Post-15-M Grassroots Interventions in and for Public Space—Resurgence in Everyday Forms of Control and Resistance; Megan Saltzman16. PAH; Jordi Mir-GarciaPart VII. Culture in Transition17. Cultura a la Contra: Toward Alternatives to the Civilizational and Ecological Crisis; Palmar Álvarez-Blanco18. Reasons to Celebrate; Alberto San Juan19. Ending the Culture of Fear Once and for All: Notes on NegraBlanca and Other Forms of Post-15-M Empowerment; Luis Moreno-Caballud and Helena de Llanos20. Broken Authorities; Belén Gopegui21. A Specter Is Haunting the Recent Spanish Novel; David Becerra-Mayor
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Empire, the British Museum, and the Making of the
Book SynopsisSince the modern period, the field of biblical studies has relied upon libraries, museums, and archives for its evidentiary and credentialing needs. Yet, absent in biblical scholarship is a thorough and critical examination of the instrumentality of the discipline’s master archives for elite power structures. Addressing this gap in biblical scholarship lies central to this book. Interrogated here is a premier repository or master archive of the discipline: the British Museum. Using an assemblage of critical theories from archival discourse to postcolonial studies, space theory to governmentality studies, the focal point of this book is at the intersections of the Museum’s rise to scientific prominence, the British Empire, and the conferring of scientific authority to modern biblical critics in the nineteenth century. Gregory L. Cuéllar initiates a season of historicization of the master archives of biblical studies and archival criticism.Trade Review“Cuéllar’s work is incisive, persuasive, and important. … Cuéllar’s task in Empire, the British Museum, and the Making of the Biblical Scholar in the Nineteenth Century is hermeneutically-minded and immanently relevant to the shifting tides of biblical criticism in the twenty-first century.” (Erin J. Beall, Horizons in Biblical Theology, Vol. 44 (1), 2022)Table of Contents 1. Introduction: Historicizing the Master Archive 2. Mastering Biblical History in the British Museum 3. Books and Bodies in the British Museum Reading Room 4. The Biblical Critic as Collector 5. Biblical Scholar as Imperial State Agent 6. Epilogue: Contextualizing a Museum of the Bible
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG The Palgrave Handbook of African Oral Traditions and Folklore
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Mosul after Islamic State: The Quest for Lost
Book SynopsisThe book examines the destruction of the architectural heritage in Mosul perpetrated by Islamic State between 2014 and 2017. It identifies which structures were attacked, the ideological rationale behind the destruction, and the significance of the lost monuments in the context of Mosul’s urban development and the architectural history of the Middle East. This methodologically innovative work fills an important gap in the study of both current radical movements and the medieval Islamic architecture of Northern Iraq.Table of Contents1. A City Destroyed. 2. A City Explored. 3. A City Contextualized. 4. Epilogue: A City Resurrected?.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG A Cultural History of Spanish Speakers in Japan
Book SynopsisBeginning in 1990, thousands of Spanish speakers emigrated to Japan. A Cultural History of Spanish Speakers in Japan focuses on the intellectuals, literature, translations, festivals, cultural associations, music (bolero, tropical music, and pop, including reggaeton), dance (flamenco, tango and salsa), radio, newspapers, magazines, libraries, and blogs produced in Spanish, in Japan, by Latin Americans and Spaniards who have lived in that country over the last three decades. Based on in-depth research in archives throughout the country as well as field work including several interviews, Japanese-speaking Mexican scholar Araceli Tinajero uncovers a transnational, contemporary cultural history that is not only important for today but for future generations.Trade Review Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction To The Historical And Cultural Links Between The Spanish Speaking World And Japan.Chapter 2 Intellectuals.Chapter 3 Media.Chapter 4 Music, Dance, Festivals & Associations.Chapter 5 Literature And Libraries.Chapter 6 Blogs And Other Emerging Digital And Physical Intersections Between The Spanish Speaking World And Japan
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG The Aesthetics and Politics of the Online Self: A
Book SynopsisThis volume investigates our dissonant and exuberant existences online. As social media users we know we’re under surveillance, yet we continue to click, like, love and share ourselves online as if nothing was. So, how do we overcome the current online identity regime? Can we overthrow the rule of Narcissus and destroy the planetary middle class subject? In this catalogue of strategies, the reader will find stories on hacker groups, gaming platforms in the occupied territories, art objects, selfies, augmented reality, Gen Z autoethnographies, love and life. The authors of this anthology believe we cannot simply put vanity aside and a rational analysis of platform capitalism is not going to convince the youngs on TikTok nor liberate us from Zuckerbergian indentured servitude. Do we really need to wade through the subjective mud and ‘learn more’ about online aesthetics? The answer is yes.Writing by Wendy Chun, Franco Berardi “BIFO”, Julia Preisker, Katherine Behar, Rebecca Stein, Fabio Cristiano, Emilio Distretti, Natalie Bookchin, Ana Peraica, Mitra Azar, Donatella Della Ratta, Gabriella Coleman, Marco Deseriis, Alberto Micali, Daniel de Zeeuw, Giovanni Boccia Artieri, Jodi Dean.Table of Contents1. Introduction.- 2. Authentic Actions Within Network Algorithms.- 3. Can the Dividual Self Be Organized?.- 4. The Divided Subject – New Forms of the Online Self Regarding “Hate Speech”.- 5. Personalities Without People.- 6. Art Entr’acte I.- 7. Militant Proximity: Digital Cameras and State Violence in Israel/Palestine.- 8. Observations on Potency and Self.- 9. Aesthetics by Algorithms: Sovereignty and Disappearance in Palestine.- 10. Selfies as Augmentation of Reality.- 11. Perspective Collectives of the Shared Self.- 12. Art Entr’acte II.- 13. Saving Anonymous.- 14. Anyone-subjectivity and the Grotesque Media Body: Alternative Configurations of the Online Self on the Deep Vernacular Web.- 15. Selfie Communism.- 16. Networked Participation: Selfie Protest and Ephemeral Public Spheres.- 17. Heretical Facial Machines, or the Ambivalence of Faciality in the Politics of Digital Dissent of Anonymous.- 18. Art Entr’acte III.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Coping Rituals in Fearful Times: An Unexplored
Book SynopsisThis collection of articles reveals ritual to be a unique and powerful asset in healing trauma and broken relationships. Each contribution offers insights on how, in the face of uncertainty, threat and dislocation, human beings feel compelled to 'do something’, usually with or for others, to alleviate their anxiety, fears and sense of powerlessness. The editor and authors demonstrate how the imaginative processes at the heart of ritualmaking contribute to self- and group regulation by healing and mitigating the negative impact of trauma on individuals, collective groups, and even global systems. The authors are a group of remarkable scholars, researchers and practitioners who represent a diverse range of disciplines and subfields, including archaeology, Chinese studies, digital culture, ecological science, philosophy, psychology, psychotherapy, the politics of memory and the preservation of cultural heritage in wartime, ritual anthropology, social research, physics, research on traumatic stress, and peace studies. Students and researchers across the social and behavioural sciences will find this volume useful.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction: Ritual, Dignity, and the Fragility of Life (Jeltje Gordon-Lennox).- Part I: Trauma and Ritual in Other Times and Places.- Chapter 2. Deeply Human: Archaeological Traces of Rituals for Coping with Death, Adversity, and Trauma (Liv Nilsson Stutz and Aaron Jonas Stutz).- Chapter 3. Ancient Rituals, Contemplative Practices, and Vagal Pathways (Stephen W. Porges).- Chapter 4. Coping with Social Trauma in Ancient China: The Healing Power of Meditation, Ritual, and Music (Ori Tavor).- Chapter 5. Processions and Masks: Facing Hardship in Ancient Europe (Matthieu Smyth).- Part II: The Role of Ritual in Healing Trauma.- Chapter 6. At the Sharp End of Medical Care: Healing and Reconnecting Through Ritual (Robin Karr-Morse).- Chapter 7. Dinka Community Case Study: Healing Post-Conflict Trauma Through Ritual (Alex N. Kamwaria).- Chapter 8. Memory Boxes: Ritualising Memory in Transitional Justice (Sophia Milosevic Bijleveld).- Chapter 9. Networked Solidarity: Online Rituals of Mourning Following Public Death Events (Sasha A.Q. Scott).- Part III: Global Threat, Trauma, and Ritual.- Chapter 10. Challenging Global-Dislocation Through Local Community and Ritual (Bruce K. Alexander).- Chapter 11. Ritual in an Age of Terror: From Taliban to Trump (Lisa Schirch).- Chapter 12. Nuclear Disaster, Trauma, and the Rituals of Scientific Method (Mae-Wan Ho).- Chapter 13: ‘Dead Land Dead Water’ – Nowhere Left to Go (Jeltje Gordon-Lennox).
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Therapeutic Cultural Routines to Build Family
Book SynopsisSocial workers and Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health (IECMH) helpers need practical, relationship-based clinical tools to support families experiencing stress, separation, and loss. Research reveals key parenting behaviors occur during hair combing interaction (HCI) – lively verbal interaction, sensitive touch, and responsiveness to infant cues. This book explores how the simple routine of combing hair serves as an emotionally powerful, trauma-informed, culturally valid therapeutic tool for use by mental health helpers. HCI offers a low-cost opportunity for IECMH helpers to engage families and sustain attachment relationships. In this book, case studies illustrate the use of HCI with diverse families of color. Each chapter includes questions for reflective supervision to understand sociocultural factors that may shape behaviors during HCI. Topics included in the text: The Observing Professional and the Parent’s Ethnobiography Introduction to Reflective Supervision: Through the Lens of Culture, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion A Case Study in Cross-Racial Practice and Supervision: Reflections in Black and White Tools to Disrupt Legacies of Colorism: Perceptions, Emotions, and Stories of Childhood Racial Features Therapeutic Cultural Routines to Build Family Relationships: Talk, Touch & Listen While Combing Hair© is a unique resource for counselors, psychologists, psychiatrists, home visiting nurses, early childhood educators, and family therapists who work with military families or multiracial families with bi-racial children.“This book provides practical insights useful for professionals and parents. The authors share compelling experiences using strength-based and rich cultural approaches guided by reflective practice. It deserves to be widely read and become a classic resource.” Robert N. Emde, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, University of Colorado School of MedicineTable of ContentsFront matterENDORSEMENTSFOREWORDPREFACEACKNOWLEDGMENTSABOUT THE BOOKEDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORSSANKOFA Body matter PART I: Talk, Touch & Listen While Combing Hair 1. Childhood Experiences of Racial Acceptance and Rejection 2. A Social Worker’s Story: How Can I Help This Young Mother and Her Little Children? 3. The Interactive Stages of Hair Combing: Routines and Rituals 4. The Observing Professional and the Parent’s Ethnobiography 5. Cultural Routines and Reflections: Building Parent-Child Connections – Hair Combing Interaction as a Cultural Intervention PART II: Reflective Supervision and Practice: Experiences Shared by Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Practitioners6. Introduction to Reflective Supervision: Through the Lens of Culture, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion 7. Summoning Angels in the Nursery with Hair Combing Interactions 8. The Tilted Room of Colorism 9. Infant Mental Health Practice and Reflective Supervision: Who We Are Matters10. A Case Study in Cross-Racial Practice and Supervision: Reflections in Black and White PART III: Reflections on Community-Based Interventions11. If Her Hair Isn’t Right, then I’m Not a Good Mother: Reflections on the San Diego Caregiver-Child Connections Community Counseling Project 12. Reflections on the Talk, Touch & Listen Facilitator Learning Community: Braiding the Personal, the Professional, and Liberation 13. PsychoHairapy Through Beauticians and Barbershops: The Healing Relational Triad of Black Hair Care Professionals, Mothers, and Daughters 14. Reflections on Experiences in a Community-Based Parent Support Group: Parent Whisperers 15. Culture, Creativity, and Helping: Using the Afrocentric Perspective in Community Healing PART IV: Tools for Observation, Assessment, and Intervention16. Tools to Disrupt Legacies of Colorism: Perceptions, Emotions, and Stories of Childhood Racial Features17. Guidelines to Identify Child-Endangering Hair Styling Practices: Medical, Legal, and Psychosocial Perspectives18. Conclusions Back matterAppendix A: Glossary of Hair Combing Interaction Terms Appendix B: Childhood Experiences of Racial Acceptance and Rejection (CERAR) Interview Questions & FAMILY COLORGRAMAppendix C: Tender-Headed Rating Scale© (TRS)Appendix D: The ‘Neck-Up’ Exercise© Index
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Emotions in Korean Philosophy and Religion:
Book SynopsisThis pioneering book presents thirteen articles on the fascinating topic of emotions (jeong 情) in Korean philosophy and religion. Its introductory chapter comprehensively provides a textual, philosophical, ethical, and religious background on this topic in terms of emotions West and East, emotions in the Chinese and Buddhist traditions, and Korean perspectives. Chapters 2 to 5 of part I discuss key Korean Confucian thinkers, debates, and ideas. Chapters 6 to 8 of part II offer comparative thoughts from Confucian moral, political, and social angles. Chapters 9 to 12 of part III deal with contemporary Buddhist and eco-feminist perspectives. The concluding chapter discusses ground-breaking insights into the diversity, dynamics, and distinctiveness of Korean emotions.This is an open access book.Trade Review“This new volume … in Korean philosophy and religion will, without doubt, significantly contribute to the widening dialogue on the importance of Confucian ideals for our current global age. … the text is an interesting compilation that covers many important aspects of Korean philosophies and religions.” (Lehel Balogh, Religious Studies Review, Vol. 49 (3), September, 2023)Table of Contents Table of Contents Preface (vii) Acknowledgments (ix) Note on Transliteration, Translation, and Citation Style (xii) ________________ Chapter 1: Introduction (p. 1) Edward Y. J. Chung and Jea Sophia Oh (editors) “Emotions (Jeong/Qing 情) in Korean Philosophy and Religion” 1. emotions in general, East and West 2. emotions (jeong/qing 情) in the Chinese tradition: textual, philosophical, ethical, and religious 3. emotions in the Buddhist tradition 4. emotions (jeong) in Korean philosophy and religion Part I: Confucian Perspectives Chapter 2: Bongrae Seok (p. 136) “Moral Psychology of Emotion (Jeong/Qing 情) in Korean Neo-Confucianism and Its Philosophical Debates on the Affective Nature of the Mind” Chapter 3: Suk Gabriel Choi (p. 170) “The Idea of Gyeong/Jing 敬 in Yi Toegye’s Korean Neo-Confucianism and Its Availability in Contemporary Ethical Debate” Chapter 4: Edward Y. J. Chung (p. 200) “Yi Yulgok on the Role of Emotions in Self-Cultivation and Ethics: A Modern Korean Neo-Confucian Interpretation” Chapter 5: Don Baker (p. 235) “Dasan Jeong Yagyong on Emotions and the Pursuit of Sagehood” Part II: Comparative Perspectives Chapter 6: Joseph Harroff (p. 262) “Thinking through the Emotions with Korean Confucianism: Philosophical Translation and the Four-Seven Debate” Chapter 7: Hyo-Dong Lee (p. 298) “Jeong (情), Civility, and the Heart of a Pluralistic Democracy in Korea” Chapter 8: Iljoon Park (p. 327) “Korean Social Emotions: Han (恨), Heung (興), and Jeong (情)” Part III: Contemporary Perspectives Chapter 9: Hyekyung Lucy Jee (p. 355) “Hanmaum, One Mind: The Buddhist Philosophical Basis of Jeong (情).” Chapter 10: Chungnam Ha (p. 383) “Resentment and Gratitude in Korean Won Buddhism.” Chapter 11: Sharon A. Suh (p. 408) “Jeong and the Interrelationality of Self and Other in Korean Buddhist Cinema.” Chapter 12: Jea Sophia Oh (p. 431) “Emotions (Jeong 情) in Korean Confucianism and Family Experience: An Ecofeminist Perspective.” _______________ Chapter 13: Conclusion (p. 457) Edward Y. J,. Chung and Jea Sophia Oh “The Diversity, Dynamics, and Distinctiveness of Korean Jeong”
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the
Book SynopsisWriting Plague: Language and Violence from the Black Death to COVID-19 brings a holistic and comparative perspective to “plague writing” from the later Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. It argues that while the human “hardware” has changed enormously between the medieval past and the present (urbanization, technology, mass warfare, and advances in medical science), the human “software” (emotional and psychological reactions to the shock of pandemic) has remained remarkably similar across time. Through close readings of works by medieval writers like Guillaume de Machaut, Giovanni Boccaccio, and Geoffrey Chaucer in the fourteenth century, select plays by Shakespeare, and modern “plague” fiction and film, Alfred Thomas convincingly demonstrates psychological continuities between the Black Death and COVID-19. In showing how in times of plague human beings repress their fears and fantasies and displace them onto the threatening “other,” Thomas highlights the danger of scapegoating vulnerable minority groups such as Asian Americans and Jews in today’s America. This wide-ranging study will thus be of interest not only to medievalists but also to students of modernity as well as the general reader.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Language and Violence from the Black Death to COVID-19.2. The Pardoner, the Prioress, and the Pandemic: Jews and Other Scapegoats in Fourteenth-Century European Culture.3. Death and the Maiden: Mourning and Melancholy in Pearl and the Late Medieval European Elegy.4. The Plague’s The Thing: Pandemic and Religious Politics in Shakespeare’s Drama.5. The Brown Plague and the White Sickness: Fascism and the Crisis of Democracy in Twentieth-Century Plague Fiction and Film.6. Conclusion.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Welsh Armorial Porcelain: Nantgarw and Swansea Crested China
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Springer International Publishing AG Comparative Politics of Southeast Asia: An
Book SynopsisThis textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the political systems of all ASEAN countries and Timor-Leste from a comparative perspective. It investigates the political institutions, actors, and processes in eleven states, covering democracies as well as autocratic regimes. Each country study includes an analysis of the current system of governance, the party and electoral system, and an assessment of the state, its legal system, and administrative bodies. Students of political science and area studies also learn about processes of democratic transition and autocratic resilience, as well as how civil society and the media influence the political culture in each country. This second edition features revised and updated versions of all country studies and a new chapter that discusses the trends of democratization and autocratization in Southeast Asia in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Table of ContentsChapter 1. Government and Political Regimes in Southeast Asia: An Introduction.- Chapter 2. Brunei Darussalam: Malay Islamic Monarchy and Rentier State.- Chapter 3. Cambodia: From UN-Led Peace-Building to Post-genocidal Authoritarianism.- Chapter 4. Indonesia: Challenges of Conflict and Consensus in the Era of Reformasi.- Chapter 5. Laos: The Transformation of Periphery Socialism.- Chapter 6. Malaysia: Competitive Authoritarianism in a Plural Society.- Chapter 7. Myanmar: Political Conflict and the Survival of the Praetorian State.- Chapter 8. Philippines: People's Power and Defective Elite Democracy.- Chapter 9. Singapore: Contradicting Conventional Wisdom About Authoritarianism, State and Development.- Chapter 10. Thailand: The Vicious Cycle of Civilian Government and Military Rule.- Chapter 11. Timor-Leste: Challenges of Creating a Democratic and Effective State.- Chapter 12. Vietnam: The Socialist Party-State.- Chapter 13. Comparing Governments and Political Institutions in Southeast Asia.- Chapter 14. Democracy and Dictatorship in Southeast Asia – Retrospective and Prospective.
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Springer International Publishing AG The Geography of Uzbekistan: At the Crossroads of the Silk Road
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Springer International Publishing AG Moveable Designs, Liminal Aesthetics, and
Book SynopsisThe book explores the liminal aesthetics of U.S. cultural and literary practice. Interrogating the notion of a presumptive unity of the American experience, Moveable Designs argues that inner conflict, divisiveness, and contradiction are integral to the nation’s cultural designs, themes, and motifs. The study suggests that U.S. literary and cultural practice is permeated by ‘moveable designs’—flexible, yet constant features of hegemonial practice that constitute an integral element of American national self-fashioning. The naturally pervasive liminality of U.S. cultural production is the key to understanding the resilience of American culture. Moveable Designs looks at artistic expressions across various media types (literature, paintings, film, television), seeking to illuminate critical phases of U.S. American literature and culture—from the revolutionary years to the movements of romanticism, realism, and modernism, up to the postmodern era. It combines a wide array of approaches, from cultural history and social anthropology to phenomenology. Connecting an analysis of literary and cultural texts with approaches from design theory, the book proposes a new way of understanding American culture as design. It is one of the unique characteristics of American culture that it creates—or, rather, designs—potency out of its inner conflicts and apparent disunities. That which we describe as an identifiable ‘American identity’ is actually the product of highly vulnerable, alternating processes of dissolution and self-affirmation. Table of Contents1 Introduction: Welcome to the Twilight Zone.Moveable Fictions—Cultural (Dis)Unity and Boundary Transgression. The Designs of Literary and Cultural Practice. Design Thinking and the Cultural Field of ‘America’. The Longue Durée of Moveable Designs in American Cultural History. Part I Theoretical Framework. 2 Moveable Designs: Liminal Aesthetics and Cultural Production. Designing Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast. America as Fiction—Literature as Performance. Liminal Aesthetics and Liquid Modernity. Culture as Design—The (Not So) Secret Lives of Aesthetic Objects. Part II Contexts. 3 TransAmerica: Cultural Hybridity and Transgendered Desire from the Colonial Era to Modernity. Introduction: Heterogeneity and Transgendered Desire. The Making of ‘America’: From the Colonial Era to the Nation State. Revolutionary Compacts: Transgendered Imagery and the Invention of ‘Columbia’. Conclusion: From Transnational America to Transnation. 4 The ‘American in Chains’: (Cons)Piracy and the Specter of North Africa in U.S. Barbary Captivity Narratives. Introduction: North Africa in the Early U.S. Cultural Imagination. The Specter of Algiers in Barbary Captivity Narratives. Algiers as a Counter-Image to the Early U.S. Republic in The Algerine Spy in Pennsylvania. Spaces of Imperialism in Slaves in Algiers and The Algerine Captive. Conclusion: U.S. Exceptionalism and the Birth of the Orient as America’s Other. 5 Open Doors, Closed Spaces: The Transatlantic Imaginary in American Urban Writing from the Post-Revolutionary Era to Modernism. Introduction: Toward an Aesthetics of Cross-Atlantic Mapmaking. From Open City to Shrinking City. The Labyrinthine Aesthetics of the Walking City. Open Doors and Walled Streets: Atlantic Cities as Imagined Landscapes. Conclusion: Shades of the Open City in U.S. Transatlantic Writing. Part III Case Studies. 6 White Bo(d)y in Wonderland: Cultural Alterity and Sexual Desire in Tod Browning’s Where East Is East (1929). Introduction: Essentialist Topographies—Where East Is East, and West Is West. The Codes of Colonial Discourse. Economies of Stereotyping. Metonymic Displacement and Ethnic Masquerade. Metaphysical Condensation and Animal Imagery. Fetishization of the Orient. Allegories of (De-)Historicization. Comic Ethnicity and Explosive Body Language. Conclusion: The Uses and Abuses of Orientalist Imagery. 7 Cinematic Literature: Intermedial Aesthetics, Juvenile Rebellion, and Carnal Subjectivity in J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye. Introduction: J.D. Salinger—An Undercover Story. The Catcher in the Rye as a Cinematic Text. Juvenile Rebellion and the Rhetoric of Disgust. Conclusion: Carnal Identification and Cinematic Fiction. 8 Animal Laughter: Carnivalesque Humor and the Aesthetics of Dehierarchization in Mister Ed. Introduction: The Sitcom Genre and Carnivalesque Humor. Rendering the ‘Impossible’ Possible: Postcolonial Theory and the Animal Subaltern. Bestial Ambivalence and the Aesthetics of Shapeshifting. Pushing the Boundaries of Human and Non-human: Mister Ed as a Liminal Animal Denizen. Conclusion: Empowering the Subjugated Other. Part IV State of Affairs and Outlook. 9 Astronautic Subjectivity: Postmodern Culture and the Embodiment of Space in American Science Fiction. Introduction: Fashioning the Astronautic Subject. Postmodern Subjectivity and the Body Without Organs. The Gender of Astronauts. Man as Mother, Or, Gender Trouble in Space. The Astronautic Subject as Cultural Figuration. Transsexual Galaxies: The Mechanics of Engenderneering. Conclusion: Burning Bridges, Engendering New Selves. 10 Coda: Thinking ‘America’ in the Age of the Liminal. Works Cited and Consulted.
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Springer International Publishing AG Media and Communication Theory in Africa
Book Synopsis This contributed volume explores theories of media and communication and focuses on providing African perspectives on global conversations. Using broad cases relating to media and communication theories, this book explores socio-cultural issues affecting most modern African societies, providing a conceptual and empirical framework for explicating the potential place of media techniques and structures in Africa. As a good template for understanding and applying communication theories and approaches in the African context, the volume is a priceless asset for Media and Communication scholars.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Normative press theories and the revisiting of media roles in Africa’s changing socio-economic and political contexts.- Chapter 2: Theorizing African Journalism: The reportage of China’s maritime Silk road initiative in four Afrian newspapers.- Chapter 3: Legislative Control and Native Metaphors in Social Media Interactions in Africa: Making liberal press theories functional in the continent.- Chapter 4: Understanding Critical and Cultural theories: An African perspective.- Chapter 5: Towards an alternative model: Theorising newspaper review as Secondary Gatekeeping by Broadcast Stations in Africa.- Chapter 6: Theories from the Communication Field: A Family Communication Perspective.- Chapter 7: Media and Public Opinion in West Africa: An interplay of Agenda Setting, Agenda Building and Framing theories.- Chapter 8: Exploring ‘omniscience theory’ as a theoretical framework in journalism practice.- Chapter 9: Application of theories in film techniques and productions in Africa.- Chapter 10: Espousing a Multi-Sieve Model for Conflict Sensitive Reporting in Africa.- Chapter 11: Theorizing the power of celebrities in the media landscape of Africa.- Chapter 12: Health communication models, theories and their applications in Africa.- Chapter 13: The role of the media in the management of pandemics in Africa: Apllication of selected health communication theories.- Chapter 14: Contextualizing the Technology Acceptance Model for Application in Health Communication in Africa.
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Springer International Publishing AG African Battle Traditions of Insult: Verbal Arts,
Book SynopsisThis book explores the “battles” of words, songs, poetry, and performance in Africa and the African Diaspora. These are usually highly competitive, artistic contests in which rival parties duel for supremacy in poetry composition and/or its performance. This volume covers the history of this battle tradition, from its origins in Africa, especially the udje and halo of the Urhobo and Ewe respectively, to its transportation to the Americas and the Caribbean region during the Atlantic slave trade period, and its modern and contemporary manifestations as battle rap or other forms of popular music in Africa. Almost everywhere there are contemporary manifestations of the more traditional, older genres. The book is thus made up of studies of contests in which rivals duel for supremacy in verbal arts, song-poetry, and performance as they display their wit, sense of humor, and poetic expertise. Table of Contents1. Introduction.—Tanure Ojaide.Part I: African Origins.2. Battle by All Means: Udje as Oral Poetry and Performance—Tanure Ojaide.3. Halo: The Ewe Battle Tradition of Music, Songs, and Performance—Honore Missihoun.4. Poetry and Ping-Pong: Auto/Biographical Verbal Duels in Yoruba Polygamous Households—Adetayo Alabi 5. Shairi and Malumbano: The Tradition of Verbal Warfare in Swahili Literature—Mwenda Mbatiah.6. Moral Authority of Shona Women’s Battlesongs: Revising Customary Law in the Context of Performance Within African Indigenous Knowledge System—Beauty Vambe.Part II: Diaspora Manifestation7. Battles, Raps, Cappin’, The Dozens: African-American Oral Traditions of Insult—Michele Randolph and Maliek Lewis.8. Black Greek Step Shows—Debra Smith.9. Battle Rap: An Exploration of Competitive Rhyming in Hip Hop —Matthew Oware 10. Fighting Words: Songs of Conflict, Censure, and Cussout in Trinidad and Tobago Carnival—Funso Aiyejina.11. Oral Tradition and Cultures in Dialogue: Ondjango Angolano and Jongo da Serrinha— Tonia Leigh Wind.12. Stanzas and Sticks: Poetic and Physical Challenges in the Afro-Brazilian Culture of the Paraíba Valley, Rio de Janeiro—Matthias RohrigAssuncao.Part III: New Transformations.13. Yabis, A Nigerian Genre of Insult—Enajite Eseoghene Ojaruega. 14. Epistemic Recuperation and Contemporary Reconfiguration of the Verbal Battle Tradition in the Poetry of Tanure Ojaide and Kofi Anyidoho—Mathias IroroOrhero.15. The Creativity of Abuse: Power, Song and the ‘Authority of Insults’ in Zimbabwean Music, Post 2017—Maurice TaonezviVambe.16. Bongo Fleva: Its Lyrics, “Inappropriate” Content, Source, and Possible Harm—Dunlop Ochieng.
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Springer International Publishing AG Cultural Participation: The perpetuation of
Book SynopsisThis book provides a nuanced account of cultural competence, knowledge and skills illustrated in distinctive taste in the middle and upper classes in Dublin, Ireland (Bourdieu, 1984, 1986). It highlights how the development of cultural taste at a young age is linked to cultural participation in later life. Inspired by work that captures the textured social cartography of distinctive cultural taste (Bennett, Emmison & Frow, 1999; Bennett, Savage, Silva, Warde, Gayo-Cal & Wright, 2009), this research charts the changing nature of cultural participation in Dublin, Ireland and shows how cultural consumption has broadened from the narrow range of traditional high art forms towards one which grazes across the general register of culture. As elsewhere, this omnivorous, broad and pluralistic cultural palette has not altered patterns of distinction in cultural participation, rather it belies an emerging cultural capital profile - one where art form boundaries have collapsed but social boundaries and cultural distinction remains intact. Through interviews with two age cohorts (18-24yrs) and (45-54yrs) in Dublin in 2019, this research shows how the dominant class, through histories of cultural exposure have developed cultural taste and competence that is remarkably enduring. Reviewing available data on arts attendance and cultural participation in Ireland today, this text highlights how years of cultural familiarity allow individuals to exert a cultural dominance that facilitates class to be performed obliquely. It also demonstrates how existing surveys reinforce traditional ways of seeing with 'art' considered highbrow, formal and valued while culture is domestic, informal and less valued in the eyes of polity. This view informs Irish arts strategy and policy, ultimately reinforcing that 'ways of seeing' and policy perspectives, do matter (Berger, 1972).Table of Contents1. Introduction.2. Sociological Questions Of Culture.3. Ireland.4. Researching Culture, Class And Distinction In Dublin, Ireland.5. A Nation Highly Engaged.6. Emerging Cultural Capital.7. Policy Implications And Recommendations.
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Springer International Publishing AG Canada Through American Eyes: Literature and
Book SynopsisThis book explores how Canada is imagined primarily by US writers, and what readers and scholars on both sides of the Canada-US border can learn from these recent depictions by examining a selection of US-authored fiction from 9/11 to the present. The novels — and occasionally paintings, films, and musicals — that are the subject of the book provide a deliberately varied set of case studies to probe how US texts, along with works of art produced on both sides of the Canada-US border, uncover moments in Canadian historical and literary studies that have been buried or occluded to protect Canada's self-representation as an exceptional nation. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Laying the Groundwork: Canada’s (In)visibility.Chapter 1: The Missionary Position: The American Roots of Northrop Frye’s Peaceable Kingdom.Chapter 2: Evangeline’s Revisioning: Reading Ben Farmer’s Post-9/11 Evangeline: A Novel. Chapter 3: German Internment Camps in the Maritimes: Another Untold Story in P.S. Duffy’s The Cartographer of No Man’s Land.Chapter 4: Becoming Bird(ie): Exposing Canadian Government Complicity with Forced Adoptions in Christina Sunley’s The Tricking of Freya.Chapter 5: Playing The Odds: Fleeing to Canada in Stewart O’Nan’s Novel.Chapter 6: Turning Away, Going South and West: The Receding Promise of Canada in Future Home of the Living God and The Underground Railroad.Chapter 7: The Limits of Canadian Exceptionalism: Bowling for Columbine, Come From Away, and Nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up.
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Springer International Publishing AG The Parthenon Marbles and International Law
Book SynopsisThe Parthenon marbles case is the most famous international cultural heritage dispute concerning repatriation of looted antiquities, the Parthenon marbles in the British Museum’s ‘Elgin Collection’. The case has polarised observers ever since Elgin had the marbles hacked out of the ancient temple at the turn of the 19th century in Ottoman-occupied Athens. In 1816, a debt-stricken Elgin sold the marbles to the British government, which subsequently entrusted them to the British Museum, where they have remained since then.Much ink has been spilled on the Parthenon marbles. The ethical and cultural merits of their repatriation have been fiercely debated for years. But what has generally not been considered are the legal merits of their return in light of contemporary international law. This book is the first in legal scholarship to provide an international law perspective of the cause célèbre of international cultural heritage disputes and, in doing so, to clarify the new customary international law on the return of cultural property unlawfully removed from its original context.The book, which includes a foreword by Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, is a unique reference work on the legal case for the return of the Parthenon marbles and the new normative framework for the protection of cultural heritage.Trade Review“In The Parthenon Marbles and International Law, Catharine Titi … examines how the marbles were acquired, the question of good title, and the various legal mechanisms that may or may not be employed to secure their return to Greece. … There is nothing like the regimented examinations of one trained in law. … thorough recital … .” (Eleni Vassilika, The Art Newspaper, theartnewspaper.com, September 29, 2023)“This gem of a book … a very strong and formidable text … . The Parthenon Marbles and International Law is both a tour de horizon and a tour de force on the law. Marvelously written and with a keen eye for both detail and nuance, Professor Catharine Titi informs as much as she provokes thought on the nature of international law ... . It is a must read for anyone interested in this area of international law.” (Michael G. Karnavas, michaelgkarnavas.net/blog, August 2, 2023)”Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Part One: The Facts.- The Parthenon.- Elgin and the Marbles.- The Acquisition of the Marbles by the UK Government.- Greek Demands for Return.- The British Museum and the Marbles.- Part Two: Access to Dispute Settlement.- What Method of Dispute Settlement?.- Issues of Jurisdiction and Admissibility.- Part Three: The Law Applicable to the Substance of the Dispute.- Treaty Law.- Customary International Law.- Part Four: Time Future.- Conclusion: Homecoming.- Annex.
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Springer International Publishing AG Philosophy of Race: An Introduction
Book SynopsisPhilosophy of Race: An Introduction provides plainly written access to a new subfield that has been in the background of philosophy since Plato and Aristotle. The second edition is updated to include contemporary developments such as digital racisms, metaphysical othering and metaphysical racism, and the rise of populist movements. Its focus has also been expanded to address non-white racial groups in the Americas, Europe, and beyond, such as the Roma and Uighur people. Part I provides an overview of ideas of race and ethnicity in the philosophical canon, egalitarian traditions, race in biology, and race in American and Continental Philosophy. Part II addresses race as it operates in life through colonialism and development, social constructions and institutions, racism, political philosophy, gender, and populist movements. This book constructs an outline that will serve as a resource for students, nonspecialists, and general readers in thinking, talking, and writing about philosophy of race. Table of ContentsPart I Ideas and Realities of Human Race.1 Ideas of Race in the Canonical History of Philosophy.2 Egalitarian Spiritual and Legal Traditions.3 Race According to Biological Science.4 Ideas of Race in Twentieth-Century American and Continental Philosophy.5 Ethnicity and Related Forms of Race.6 Social Construction and Racial Identities.Part II Relations, Practices, and Theories of Race in Society.7 Racism and Neo-racisms.8 Metaphysical Racism, Crimes against Humanity, and Reparations.9 Race in Contemporary Life.10 Political Philosophy, Law, and Public Policy.11 Feminism, Gender, and Race.12 Political Racism and Populist Movements.
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Springer International Publishing AG The Beatles and the Beatlesque: A
Book SynopsisThe Beatles and the Beatlesque address a paradox emanating from The Beatles’ music through a cross-disciplinary hybrid of reflections, drawing from both, musical practice itself and academic research. Indeed, despite their extreme stylistic variety, The Beatles’ songs seem to always bear a distinctive identity that emerges even more in similar works by other artists, whether they are merely inspired, derivative or explicitly paying homage. The authors, a musicologist and music producer, emphasize the importance of record production in The Beatles' music in a way that does justice not only to the final artifacts (the released songs) but also to the creative process itself (i.e., the songs "in the making").Through an investigation into the work of George Martin and his team, as well as The Beatles themselves, this text sheds light on the role of the studio in shaping the group's eclectic but unique sound. The chapters address what makes a song “Beatlesque”, to what extent production choices are responsible for developing a style, production being understood not as a mere set of technicalities, but also in a more conceptual way, as well as the aesthetics, semiotics and philosophy that animated studio activity. The outcome is a book that will appeal to both students and researchers, as well as, of course, musicophiles of all kinds.Table of ContentsPreface1. Introduction: a short history of The Beatles in the studio1.1 Recording strategies, tricks and effects1.2 Instrumentation and recurrent techniques1.3 The centrality of the studio2. Style and sound2.1 Sound and musical competence2.2 The roots of The Beatles sound2.3 Later influences3. On (the difficulty of) defining The Beatles style3.1. Vocals3.2. Harmonic solutions3.3. Melodic solutions3.4. Rhythmic solutions3.5. Instruments3.6. Dynamics3.7. Sound3.8. Endings3.9. Lyrics4. Crossdisciplinary reflections: production seen from the perspective of multimodality studies, narratology and film studies.4.1. Visual and literary components in Lennon-McCartney 4.1.1. Lennon or McCartney 4.1.2. Lennon and McCartney4.2. Production as multimodality4.3. Production and diegesis4.3.1. Diegesis, non-diegesis, formality, non-formality4.3.2. Hybrid forms and metadiegesis4.4. Case-study: feedbacks, false starts and blisters4.4.1. Redefining the spatial/temporal dimension of a song4.5. Production as montage4.5.1. Martin vs. Spector (and Lynne)4.5.2. Types of production as types of montage4.6. Case-study: The Fool on the Hill4.6.1. Creation and production4.6.2. What kind of fool was the fool on the hill?4.6.3. The authorial context4.6.4. Themes, structure and imagery4.6.5. Musical strategies4.7. Foreshadowing strategies5. Birth and fortune of the “Beatlesesque”: Transmission of creativity and legacy5.1 A little survey5.2 Stylistic features in a nutshell5.3 Another little survey5.4 Intrinsically-Beatlesesque features5.4.1 Different approaches5.4.2 Most referenced production elements5.5 ConclusionsReferencesIndex of namesIndex of songs/albums
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Springer International Publishing AG Music, Words, and Nationalism: National Anthems
Book SynopsisMusic, Words and Nationalism: National Anthems and Songs in the Modern Era considers the concept of nationalism from 1780 to 2020 through anthems and national songs as symbolic and representative elements of the national identity of individuals, peoples, or collectivities. The volume shows that both the words and music of these works reveal a great deal about the defining features of a nation, its political and cultural history, and its self-perception. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach that provides a better understanding of the role of national anthems and songs in the expression of national identities and nationalistic goals. From this perspective, the relationship between hymns and political contexts, their own symbolic content (both literary and musical) and the role of specific hymns in the construction of national sentiments are surveyed. Table of Contents1. Introduction.- Section I: General Perspectives.- “National Anthems in the Nineteenth-Century: Honor Anthems vs. Revolutionary Anthems”.- 2. “What to Sing? Anthems and the Problems of National Building”.- 3. “A Connected History of Republican Anthems: Independence, Decolonization and Nationalism”.- 4. “The Voices of the Nation. The Form and Content of National Anthems”.- 5. “Resounding Nations: Anthems in Europe at War (1936-1945)”.- 6. “Songs of Redemption: A Comparison of the Anthems of European Substate Nationalisms in the Long Twentieth Century”.- Section II Case Studies.- “The National Anthem’s Moment”.- 7. “Globalization of the National Anthem: The Case of Japan and the Japanese Empire in Asia.- 8. “Displaced national anthems: An Example from Iran”.- 9. “Anthems in Schools: Negotiating National and Youth Identities in a Bilingual Florida Elementary School”.
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Springer Frans Hals or not Frans Hals
Book Synopsis1. FRANS HALS CONNOISSEURSHIP.- 2. SUPPLEMENTING THE EYE: THE TECHNICAL ANALYSIS OF FRANS HALS'S PAINTINGS AND INSIGHTS FROM 17th- CENTURY SOURCES.- 3. THE DIGITALLY ENHANCED EYE: CONNOISSEURSHIP AND SMART TOOLS.- 4. EPILOGUE.
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Springer International Publishing AG Indigenous Storytelling and Connections to the
Book SynopsisThis book builds on the perspective that, for Indigenous peoples, relations to the land are familial, intimate, intergenerational, spiritual, instructive, and life nourishing, and it is these relations that Western societies sought to destroy as part of their colonial projects of territorial conquest and exploitation of resources. Positioning storytelling as a research methodology and a model of decolonial practice, this edited collection seeks to explore the following key questions: how does Indigenous storytelling contribute to understanding Indigenous identity and the crucial role of the land in Indigenous ways of life? How can Indigenous storytelling subvert colonial narratives of the land? How can Indigenous storytelling contribute to addressing colonial exploitations of the land and its resources? Can Indigenous storytelling become a rich mode for the investigation of current climate crises? And, finally, how does storytelling assist Indigenous peoples in restoring their intimate relations to the land and its natural gifts? Through critical analysis of a unique range of Indigenous storytelling practices, including fiction, performative art, new media platforms, archaeological findings and personal live-experienced stories, this collection aims to examine the interplay between colonialism and current environmental challenges, and to expose the impacts past, present, and future of Western worldviews on Indigenous connections to the land, whilst simultaneously bringing to the fore Indigenous ethos of care and land custodianship.
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Palgrave Macmillan The Aesthetics of Conspiracy Theory
Book SynopsisChapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Conspiracy, affect, and aesthetic.- Chapter 3: Conspiracy and theory.-Chapter 4: Conspiracy and stigmatization.- Chapter 5: Conspiracy and the Gnostic.- Chapter 6: Conspiracy and the potential for change.
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Springer International Publishing AG Empathetic Space on Screen: Constructing Powerful Place and Setting
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Springer International Publishing AG The Sociology of Sports-Talk Radio
Book SynopsisThe Sociology of Sports-Talk Radio is the latest sports-media scholarship from the author of How Postmodernism Explains Football and Football Explains Postmodernism, winner of the 2017 Outstanding Book Award from the National Communication Association ’s Communication and Sport Division. The book provides a descriptive analysis of the social interaction transpiring in what the author has conceptualized as the “the hyper-mediated marketplace of sports narratives.” It examines the social structures and processes that make sports-talk radio such a vibrant societal milieu, and seeks to identify the essential sociological dynamics that make all that endless chatter so vital to listeners. A qualitative, descriptive analytical focus on this remarkable platform—where people come together to interact insistently, colorfully, and often with stunning ferocity—highlights key processes by which human communicators construct meaning.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Why the Sociology of Sports-Talk Radio Matters2. National Sports Talk3. More Intensity in Major Regional Talk4. Small Talk and a Perfect Example of Contested Narratives5. Talk From Beyond the Male Gaze6. Conclusion: What Matters Most Sociologically
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Springer International Publishing AG Mixed Reality and Gamification for Cultural
Book SynopsisThis volume on virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) and gamification for cultural heritage offers an insightful introduction to the theories, development, recent applications and trends of the enabling technologies for mixed reality and gamified interaction in cultural heritage and creative industries in general. It has two main goals: serving as an introductory textbook to train beginning and experienced researchers in the field of interactive digital cultural heritage, and offering a novel platform for researchers in and across the culturally-related disciplines.To this end, it is divided into two sections following a pedagogical model developed by the focus group of the first EU Marie S. Curie Fellowship Initial Training Network on Digital Cultural Heritage (ITN-DCH): Section I describes recent advances in mixed reality enabling technologies, while section II presents the latest findings on interaction with 3D tangible and intangible digital cultural heritage. The sections include selected contributions from some of the most respected scholars, researchers and professionals in the fields of VR/AR, gamification, and digital heritage.This book is intended for all heritage professionals, researchers, lecturers and students who wish to explore the latest mixed reality and gamification technologies in the context of cultural heritage and creative industries. It pursues a pedagogic approach based on trainings, conferences, workshops and summer schools that the ITN-DCH fellows have been following in order to learn how to design next-generation virtual heritage applications, systems and services.Table of ContentsDigital Heritage & Virtual Archaeology: an approach through the framework of international recommendations.- Data Acquisition for the Geometric Documentation of Cultural Heritage.- Autonomous Mapping of the Priscilla Catacombs.- Acceleration of 3D mass digitization processes: recent advances and challenges.- Intangible Cultural Heritage and New Technologies: Challenges and Opportunities for Cultural Preservation and Development.- 3D Digital Libraries in Cultural Heritage and their contribution in the documentation of the past.- Enriching and Publishing Cultural Heritage as Linked Open Data.- Digital memory and integrated data capturing: innovations for an inclusive Cultural Heritage in Europe through 3D semantic modelling.- 5D Model of the Holy Aedicule of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre through an innovative and interdisciplinary approach.- Historic BIM for mobile VR/AR applications.- Data collection for estimation of resilience of cultural heritage assets.- Virtual Reconstruction of Historical Architecture as Media for Knowledge.- Gamified AR/VR character rendering and animation enabling technologies.- Experiencing the multisensory past.- Multimodal Serious Games Technologies for Cultural Heritage.- Modelling life through time: cultural heritage case studies.- Preservation and gamification of traditional sports.- Deployment of robotic guides in museum contexts.- Digital cultural heritage experience in Ambient Intelligence.- Storytelling and Digital Epigraphy-based narratives in Linked Open Data.- Additive Manufacturing (AM) based evaluation, reconstruction and improvement of cultural heritage artifacts and human structures.- The Willing Suspension of Disbelief: The Tangible and the Intangible of Heritage Education in E-learning and Virtual Museums.- 4D Modeling of Static and Moving Objects: Digitizing Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage.
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