Cultural studies Books
Massey University Press Tūrangawaewae: Identity and Belonging in Aotearoa
Book SynopsisWhat is a New Zealander? What does it mean to be a citizen of or a resident in this country? How do we understand what makes Aotearoa New Zealand complex and unique? And what creates a sense of belonging and identity, both here and in the world? Now's a critical time to be thinking about these sorts of things. With global pandemics and vaccine mandates, racial violence and growing inequality, easy slogans take the place of reasoning and reasonableness. Empathy is in retreat, and intolerance is on the march. History tells us that this is never a good mix.In this engaging book, experts direct their sharp analysis at these and other important issues. Written for university students, it will appeal to anyone interested in where we have come from and where we are headed. It's a book for active participants in Aotearoa New Zealand and in global society. The chapters dig deep and are discursive. As often as possible, cited print texts are reproduced in full, and links to audio and visual material are displayed at key places. Relevant and enriching, Turangawaewae will excite students to read widely and dig more deeply intellectually.
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Journeys in the Sun: Travel Literature and Desire
Book SynopsisThe Mediterranean and the Balearic Islands have always enticed the minds of British travellers. In the first years of the twentieth century, the tourist industry made the islands accessible for a wide number of visitors, who depicted them in pictures and words. In the following decades, however, the image of the islands shifted and developed considerably from a quiet and pastoral winter resort to a popular destination for pleasure-seeking tourists and "sea ‘n’ sun" tourism. Taking these last representations as a starting point, this book travels back in time to explain how, by whom and why these images were created/shifted/developed to articulate the ultimate place of leisure and pleasure signified in today’s Majorca and Ibiza. The depiction and the evolution of topics such as ‘travel’, ‘tourism’, ‘authenticity’, ‘landscape’, ‘South’, ‘North’, ‘margin’, ‘centre’, ‘exoticism’, ‘people’, ‘costumes’ and ‘customs’ are examined in order to establish their contribution to the formulation of the ‘Balearic paradise’ in the first third of the twentieth century. This book will help the reader to understand the imagery associated with the islands today.Table of ContentsTravel Writing in the South: On the Production of Other Places – Travellers and Tourists: Lost Tracks, Roads and Beaten Paths – Dreamed Landscapes and Real Playgrounds – People, Customs and Costumes
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Bohlau Verlag Beyond MAUS: The Legacy of Holocaust Comics
Book SynopsisBeyond Art Spiegelmanâs MAUS, there is a plethora of Holocaust comics that is waiting to be discovered.
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Transcript Verlag The Myths That Made America: An Introduction to
Book SynopsisThis essential introduction to American studies examines the core foundational myths upon which the nation is based and which still determine discussions of US-American identities today. These myths include the myth of "discovery," the Pocahontas myth, the myth of the Promised Land, the myth of the Founding Fathers, the melting pot myth, the myth of the West, and the myth of the self-made man. The chapters provide extended analyses of each of these myths, using examples from popular culture, literature, memorial culture, school books, and every-day life. Including visual material as well as study questions, this book will be of interest to any student of American studies and will foster an understanding of the United States of America as an imagined community by analyzing the foundational role of myths in the process of nation building.Trade Review"In its entirety, [the analysis offers] fascinating impressions of mentalities and ideals, prejudices and practices of cultural distinction present in the US-American society of the 19th and 20th century." Peter Andreas, Historische Zeitschrift [German bimonthly historical journal], 301 (2015)
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Transcript Verlag A New Thoughtfulness in Contemporary China –
Book SynopsisGlobalization euphoria and enthusiasm for the West are on the decline in contemporary China. Critical voices make themselves heard in artistic and cultural circles, turning towards their personal everyday lives to take stock. Their questions revolve around concrete experiences in the radical upheaval of lifeworlds, the continued significance of traditions after many of them have been thoroughly uprooted, and the paradoxes produced by the predominance of neo-liberalism. The 17 positions assembled in this volume provide a vivid illustration of such a "new thoughtfulness" in a wide variety of aspects ranging from aesthetics and art to theatre and photography.
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Transcript Verlag Partisans in Yugoslavia: Literature, Film, and
Book SynopsisThe ubiquitous Partisan narrative in Yugoslavia served well as founding myth of its newly united people. Its retrospective deconstruction has absorbed most of the academic attention for the Yugoslav Partisans since the break-up. This edition in contrast looks into the (hybrid) nature of partisanship itself as it appears in film, art, and literature. It explores the Partisans in Yugoslavia in Partisan novels, films, and songs, analyzes the - still ongoing - transformation process of the Partisan narrative, and reviews its transitions into popular (visual) culture.
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Transcript Verlag Spaces and Identities in Border Regions –
Book SynopsisSpatial and identity research operates with differentiations and relations. These are particularly useful heuristic tools when examining border regions where social and geopolitical demarcations diverge. Applying this approach, the authors of this volume investigate spatial and identity constructions in cross-border contexts as they appear in everyday, institutional and media practices. The results are discussed with a keen eye for obliquely aligned spaces and identities and relinked to governmental issues of normalization and subjectivation. The studies base upon empirical surveys conducted in Germany, France, Belgium and Luxembourg.Trade Review"The collaborative publication of the University of Luxembourg is [...] a remarkable scientific project." Peter Ulrich, PRAGREV, 5/1 (2017)
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Transcript Verlag Ageing and Technology: Perspectives from the
Book SynopsisThe booming increase of the senior population has become a social phenomenon and a challenge to our societies, and technological advances have undoubtedly contributed to improve the lives of elderly citizens in numerous aspects. In current debates on technology, however, the "human factor" is often largely ignored. The ageing individual is rather seen as a malfunctioning machine whose deficiencies must be diagnosed or as a set of limitations to be overcome by means of technological devices. This volume aims at focusing on the perspective of human beings deriving from the development and use of technology: this change of perspective - taking the human being and not technology first - may help us to become more sensitive to the ambivalences involved in the interaction between humans and technology, as well as to adapt technologies to the people that created the need for its existence, thus contributing to improve the quality of life of senior citizens.
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Transcript Verlag Imagineering Cultural Vienna: On the Semiotic
Book SynopsisMedia discourses always consider Vienna as a "cultural city". This study shows how such a perception is skilfully shaped by political constructions of cultural imaginaries in and of the city. The book unveils how simplistic cognitive interpretations of culture not only define an unquestioned, reductionist idea of the city's cultural character - it also explains how these imaginaries influence the recent urban development practice in one of Europe's globalizing cities.
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Transcript Verlag Video Theory: Online Video Aesthetics or the
Book SynopsisVideo is a part of everyday life, comparable to driving a car or taking a shower. It is nearly omnipresent, available on demand and attached to nearby anything, anywhere. Online Video became something vital and independent. With all the video created by the cameras around us, constantly uploading, sharing, linking, and relating, a blue ocean is covering our planet, an ocean of video. What might look as bluish noise and dust from the far outside, might embed beautiful and fascinating living scapes of moving images, objects constantly changing, re-arranging, assembling, evolving, collapsing, but never disappearing, a real cinema. Andreas Treske describes and theorizes these objects formerly named video, their forms, behaviours and properties.
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Transcript Verlag Digital Culture & Society: Vol. 2, Issue 2/2016 -
Book Synopsis"Digital Culture & Society" is a refereed, international journal, fostering discussion about the ways in which digital technologies, platforms and applications reconfigure daily lives and practices. It offers a forum for critical analysis and inquiries into digital media theory and provides a publication environment for interdisciplinary research approaches, contemporary theory developments and methodological innovation.The third issue "Politics of Big Data" edited by Mark Coté, Paolo Gerbaudo, and Jennifer Pybus, critically examines the political and economic dimensions of Big Data and thus details its contestation. The contributions focus on the materialities and processes which manifest Big Data and explore forms of value beyond the state and capital. These range from open data initiatives, social media metrics, machine learning algorithms, data visualisation to data dashboards, critical data analysis, and new modes of data action research and practice.
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Transcript Verlag Transnational Black Dialogues: Re-Imagining
Book SynopsisMarkus Nehl focuses on black authors who, from a 21st-century perspective, revisit slavery in the U.S., Ghana, South Africa, Canada and Jamaica. Nehl's provocative readings of Toni Morrison's A Mercy, Saidiya Hartman's Lose Your Mother, Yvette Christiansë's Unconfessed, Lawrence Hill's The Book of Negroesand Marlon James' The Book of Night Women delineate how these texts engage in a fruitful dialogue with African diaspora theory about the complex relation between the local and transnational and the enduring effects of slavery. Reflecting on the ethics of narration, this study is particularly attentive to the risks of representing anti-black violence and to the intricacies involved in (re-)appropriating slavery's archive.
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Transcript Verlag Medial Bodies Between Fiction and Faction –
Book SynopsisIn the past decades, developments in the fields of medicine, new media, and biotechnologies challenged many representations and practices, questioning the understanding of our corporeal limits. Using concrete examples from literary fiction, media studies, philosophy, performance arts, and social sciences, this collection underlines how bodily models and transformations, thought until recently to be only fictional products, have become a part of our reality. The essays provide a spectrum of perspectives on how the body emerges as a transitional environment between fictional and factual elements, a process understood as faction.
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Transcript Verlag Queer Turkey – Transnational Poetics of Desire
Book SynopsisBefore President Erdogan's repressive politics took hold, queer cultures were more visible than ever in Turkey. Queer Turkey offers a broad range of reflections on queer Turkish cultures within a transnational, Euro-American context. Based on his experience in Istanbul, Ralph J. Poole shares his impressions of queer desires between Muslim tradition and global pop, observes what goes on in the hamam, and wonders about Arabesk culture. The book features discussions of queer travel writers, poets, playwrights, and film directors. Their multifarious works manifest the subtle and subversive ways in which artists crisscross the cultural borders of East and West. With its many facets of Turkish-Euro-American cultural interactions, Queer Turkey outlines a kaleidoscope of transnational poetics.
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Transcript Verlag The PostColonial Museum
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Transcript Verlag Museums, Transculturality and the Nation State:
Book SynopsisWhile the nation-state gave rise to the advent of museums, its influence in times of transculturality and post-/decolonial studies appears to have vanished. But is this really the case? With case studies from various geo- and sociopolitical contexts from around the globe, the contributors investigate which roles the nation-state continues to play in museums, collections, and heritage. They answer the question to which degree the nation-state still determines practices of collection and circulation and its amount of power to shape contemporary narratives. The volume thus examines the contradictions at play when the necessary claim for transculturality meets the institutions of the nation-state. With contributions by Stanislas Spero Adotevi, Sebastián Eduardo Dávila, Natasha Ginwala, Monica Hanna, Rajkamal Kahlon, Suzana Milevska, Mirjam Shatanawi, Kavita Singh, Ruth Stamm, Andrea Witcomb.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Museum Narratives between Transculturality and the Nation-State; 'Come On Home'; Museums in Contemporary Educational and Cultural Systems [1971]; Remembering and Forgetting in the National Museums of South Asia; Repatriating Cultural Identity; Die Völker der Erde (People of the Earth); On the In-Betweenness of the Paintings of Jean Baptiste Vanmour (16711737) at the Rijksmuseum; Shameful Objects, Apologizing Subjects; Towards a Cosmopolitical Exhibition Practice; Visiting the Colección Poyón, or Indigeneity and the Nation-State in Guatemala; Contributors.
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Transcript Verlag Campus Medius: Digital Mapping in Cultural and
Book SynopsisCampus Medius explores and expands the possibilities of digital cartography in cultural and media studies. Simon Ganahl documents the development of the project from a historical case study to a mapping platform. Based on the question of what a media experience is, the concepts of the apparatus (dispositif) and the actor-network are translated into a data model. A time-space of twenty-four hours in Vienna in May 1933, marked by a so-called "Turks Deliverance Celebration" (Türkenbefreiungsfeier), serves as an empirical laboratory. This Austrofascist rally is mapped from multiple perspectives and woven into media-historical networks, spanning from the seventeenth century up to the present day.
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Transcript Verlag Music and Motion Interweaving Artistic Practice and Theory in Dance and Beyond
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Transcript Verlag Art Practices in the Migration Society –
Book SynopsisThe established cultural sector is facing a paradigm shift. At the center of this change is the demand to do justice to the diversity of the population. The handbook opens up strategies for implementing art practices that are critical of discrimination, and for reaching new dialogue groups. Successes in partnerships with unequal cultural institutions are analyzed, and concrete strategies for action are shown on the basis of eleven documented productions. Starting point are the insights from the artistic practice in Brunnenpassage Vienna, founded in 2007. The handbook sets practice-relevant impulses for cultural workers, artists, and cultural policy-makers.Table of ContentsKapitel-Übersicht; Frontmatter; Content; Brunnenpassage: Introduction; Thinking in Practice: Contextualizing Vienna's Brunnenpassage; Transformative Practice: Brunnenpassage's Artistic Concept; Navigating Change: Strategic Partnerships and Impulses for Cultural Policy; Promising Practices: A Concrete Guide to Action; Sharing Stories -- Speaking Objects; JUMP!STAR Simmering; Not a Single Story; Zeit.Geschichten; DJing at Brunnenpassage; State of Emergency: Being Human; StrassenKunstFest Street Arts Festival; Singing Projects at Brunnenpassage; Piknik; Between Neighbours; Cinemarkt; Manifesto on Artists' Rights; Short biographies; Colophon.
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Transcript Verlag Tangier/Gibraltar–A Tale of One City – An
Book SynopsisContemporary life is caught in prisons of identity. Public, academic, and political discourses do not seem to be possible without circling around the topos of identity, thereby creating an illusion of uniqueness, separation, difference, and conflict. By studying the relationship between the Moroccan city of Tangiers and the British overseas territory of Gibraltar, Dieter Haller shows how cross-boundary experiences, practices, and identifications create a sense of neighborhood beyond official discourses. Across the Straits of Gibraltar, local and regional relationships in different fields such as kinship, economy, and culture provide resources for post-Brexit common action and a future beyond the prison of identity.Table of ContentsTanGib -- Two Places, One City?; Myths, rhythms, senses; Theoretical accesses; Access methods; Common history until 1956; The loosening of Transboughazian bonds; An ethnology of multiple connections; Reordering borders, dynamization and a new rapprochement; Brexit: An ethnography of agony with hopeful glances to the other side of the Strait; Conclusion; References.
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Transcript Verlag 21st Century Retro – ′Mad Men′ and 1960s America
Book SynopsisNumerous contemporary televisual productions revisit the past but direct their energies towards history's non-events and anti-heroic subjectivities. Debarchana Baruah offers a vocabulary to discuss these, using Mad Men as a primary case study and supplementing the analysis with other examples from the US and around the world. She takes a fundamentally interdisciplinary approach to studying film and television, drawing from history, memory, and nostalgia discourses, and layering them with theories of intertextuality, paratexts, and actor-networks. The book's compositions style invites discussions from scholars of various fields, as well as those who are simply fans of history or of Mad Men.
£37.59
Transcript Verlag The Wealthy, the Brilliant, the Few – Elite
Book SynopsisHow does the US make sense of its elite educational system, given that it seems to be at odds with core American values, such as equality of opportunity or upward mobility? Sophie Spieler explores scholarly and journalistic investigations, self-representational texts, and fictional narratives revolving around the Ivy League and its peers in order to understand elite education and its peculiar position in American cultural discourse. Among the book's most surprising and groundbreaking insights is the tenacity and adaptability of meritocratic ideology across all three sub-discourses, despite its fundamental incompatibility with the American educational system.
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Transcript Verlag Culture^2 – Theorizing Theory for the
Book SynopsisHow to do cultural studies in the twenty-first century? This essay collection is not a handbook, encyclopedia, or a "state of the field" compendium. Instead, it is a reflexive exercise in cultural studies, featuring fifteen accessible essays on a selection of critical key works published since 2000. The contributors aim to provide readers with a fresh and engaging look at recent criticism, exploring the interdisciplinary traffic of theories, methods, and ideas within the field of cultural and literary studies. This book shows how the work of Lauren Berlant, Rita Felski, Fred Moten, Anna Tsing, and others can inspire new thinking and theorizing for the twenty-first century.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Critical by design? An introduction; Genealogies: What is a critical object? Design as «desubjugation» (after Foucault); The vitality of the negative: critical design between social philosophy and conceptual art; Ask what can be! Modal critique and design as drivers of accidence; What are the politics of ontological design? A critical reflection on the mutual becoming of «the human» and «the world»; Engaging in epistemic disobedience: on the decolonialization of design discourses; Unsettling individualized design practice through collaboration; «Ci concimiamo a vicenda»: building support structures as part of design practice; Re-visioning pelvic care through design; Trojan horses: ambiguity as a critical design strategy; Grey design: critical practices of design at the peripheries of the discipline; The ineliminable aesthetic dimension of art; Design culture as critical practice; What might be the speculative social?; Biased design, or the misery of neutrality; Undesign and understanding; Epilogue: The life and death of critical and speculative design: post-disciplinarity, post-truth, post-self and post-capital; Appendix: Critical by design? The book's design as SF figures; List of Figures & Tables; Biographies; Imprint.
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Transcript Verlag Resilience Stories – Individualized Tales of a
Book SynopsisBe resilient! Today, we hear this line in almost any context. The term resilience is among the most repeated buzzwords. But why, simply, do we need to be resilient? Hamideh Mahdiani presents answers to this question by challenging a reductionistic understanding of resilience from single disciplinary perspectives; by questioning the dominance of life sciences in defining an age-old concept; and by problematizing the neglected role of life writing in fostering resilience. In so doing, through a multidisciplinary frame of reference, the book works with various examples from life writing and life sciences, and testifies to the focal role of narrative studies in resilience research.
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Transcript Verlag Imaginaries of Migration – Life Stories of
Book SynopsisHow do Mexican migrants in Germany perceive themselves and their lives? Innovatively combining theories of interculturality and social imaginaries, Yolanda López García uses the anthropological method of life stories to investigate the understudied area of Mexican migration to Germany. She discusses areas such as quality of life as a motivation for migration, the role of banal nationalism in imaginaries, the dynamic subjective re-construction of Mexicanness, and the process of (imagined) "Germanisation". Yolanda López García ultimately argues that individuals, as social agents, engage with and construct new emerging imaginaries, which may be viewed as important engines of social change.
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Transcript Verlag Lexicon of Global Melodrama
Book SynopsisThis new go-to reference book for global melodrama assembles contributions by experts from a wide range of disciplines, including cultural studies, film and media studies, gender and queer studies, political science, and postcolonial studies. The melodramas covered in this volume range from early 20th century silent movies to contemporary films, from independent "arthouse" productions to Hollywood blockbusters. The comprehensive overview of global melodramatic film in the Lexicon constitutes a valuable resource for scholars and practitioners of film, teachers, film critics, and anyone who is interested in the past and present of melodramatic film on a global scale. The Lexicon of Global Melodrama includes essays on All That Heaven Allows, Bombay, Casablanca, Die Büchse der Pandora, In the Mood for Love, Nosotros los Pobres, Terra Sonâmbula, and Tokyo Story.Table of ContentsIntroduction; A Drunkard's Reformation (1909); Tom Gunning; Blind Husbands (1919); Applause (1929); Pandora's Box (Die Büchse der Pandora, 1929); The Blue Angel (Der blaue Engel, 1930); Ganga Bruta (1933); Masquerade in Vienna (Maskerade, 1934); Modern Times (1936); Bewitching Kisses (Besos brujos, 1937); Heimat (1938); Gone with the Wind (1939); Casablanca (1942); Mashenka (Машенька, 1942); Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du paradis, 1945); Nosotros los pobres (1948); Chains (Catene, 1949); Tokyo Story (東京物語, Tōkyō Monogatari, 1953); House of Ricordi (Casa Ricordi, 1954); The Night of the Hunter (1955); All that Heaven Allows (1955); The Word (Ordet, 1955); Violent Playground (1958); Hiroshima mon amour (1959); Imitation of Life (1959); Oyster Girl (蚵女,Ke nü, 1963); A Patch of Blue (1965); Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967); Dark of the Sun (1968); Love Story (1970); The Legend of the Red Lantern (红灯记, Hongdeng ji, 1970); Ariana (אריאנה, 1971); Insiang (1976); Amar Akbar Anthony (1977); The Smoking Fish (El pez que fuma, 1977); An Unmarried Woman (1978); The Marriage of Maria Braun (Die Ehe der Maria Braun, 1979); Ticket of No Return (Bildnis einer Trinkerin, 1979); Babylon (1980); Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press (Dorian Gray im Spiegel der Boulevardpresse, 1984); The Official Story (La historia oficial, 1985); Where Is the Friend's House? (Khane-ye doust kodjast, 1987); Little Vera (Маленькая Вера, Malen'kaia Vera, 1988); The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988); Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios, 1988); Coming Out (1989); Living in Bondage, Part I (1992) and II (1993); Farewell My Concubine (霸王別姬, Bawang bie ji, 1993); The Piano (1993); In the Heat of the Sun (陽光燦爛的日子, Yángguāng Cánlán De Rìzi, 1994); Bombay (1995); The Bridges of Madison County (1995); Kikujiro (菊次郎の夏, Kikujirō no natsu, 1999); Water Drops on Burning Rocks (Gouttes d'eau sur pierres brûlantes, 2000); Erin Brockovich (2000); In the Mood for Love (花樣年華, Fa yeung nin wa, 2000); Moulin Rouge! (2001); Sometimes Happy, Sometimes Sad (Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham, 2001); Devdas ( 2002); Destiny Has No Favorites (El destino no tiene favoritos, 2003); Monsieur Ibrahim (Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran, 2003); Osuofia in London, Part I (2003) and II (2004); Brokeback Mountain (2005); Rang De Basanti ( 2006); The Yacoubian Building ('Imārat Ya'qūbīān, 2006); Lust, Caution (色, 戒, Sè, Jiè, 2007); Shanghai Baby (2007); Sleepwalking Land (Terra Sonâmbula, 2007); The Blind Side (2009); Invictus (2009); The Secret in Their Eyes (El secreto de sus ojos, 2009); Jaffa ( כלת הים , Kalat Hayam, 2009); Pumzi (2009); Anchor Baby (2010); Even the Rain (También la Iluvia, 2010); Melancholia (2011); Laurence Anyways (2012); The Cut (2014); The Theory of Everything (2014); Eye in the Sky (2015); Masaan (2015); The Salesman (Forushandeh, 2016); Jackie (2016); The Nest of the Turtledove (Гніздо горлиці, Hnizdo horlytsi, 2016); Cold War (Zimna wojna, 2018); Mirja Lecke; Elevator Baby (2019); The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão (A vida invisível, 2019); Joker (2019); Hamilton (2020); No Hard Feelings/FUTUR DREI (2020); Suggestions for Further Reading; Contributors.
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Transcript Verlag Postdramatic Dramaturgies: Resonances between
Book SynopsisThis book compiles lectures by the world's leading practitioners of postdramatic theatre from East Asia and the German-speaking world, which were given at Asia's only dramaturgy degree program at The Central Academy of Drama in Beijing 2018/19. It includes first-time English-language scripts of the discussed plays. The material is complemented by contextualizing essays by the program founder Li Yinan and its co-developer Kai Tuchmann. Hans-Thies Lehmann contributes the foreword to this volume. This rare compilation enables the reader to gain a unique insider's impression of postdramatic theatre's artistic thinking and working methods and informs about its manifold manifestations. With contributions from Hans-Werner Kroesinger, Lee Kyung-Sung, Li Yinan, Boris Nikitin, Kai Tuchmann, Wang Mengfan, Wen Hui, Zhao Chuan and Zhuang Jiayun.Table of ContentsForeword; Introduction; Rethinking Theatricality; Hans-Thies Lehmann's Postdramatic Theatre and the New Aesthetics of Juchang; There is No Empty Space on Earth; How to Work With Things That Really Happened; STOLPERSTEINE STAATSTHEATER: Documentary Theatre; RED: A Documentary Performance; From the Red Detachment to the Women: A Postscript; Don't Be Yourself. Notes on the Impossibility of Documentary; HAMLET; Practice of Theatre: Rehearsal of Life; LOVE STORY; Shame and Power: A Critical Conversation on the Postdramatic Condition; Biographies; List of Figures and Online Resources.
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Transcript Verlag Biohacking, Bodies and Do-It-Yourself: The
Book SynopsisFrom self-help books and nootropics, to self-tracking and home health tests, to the tinkering with technology and biological particles - biohacking brings biology, medicine, and the material foundation of life into the sphere of "do-it-yourself". This trend has the potential to fundamentally change people's relationship with their bodies and biology but it also creates new cultural narratives of responsibility, authority, and differentiation. Covering a broad range of examples, this book explores practices and representations of biohacking in popular culture, discussing their ambiguous position between empowerment and requirement, promise and prescription.
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Transcript Verlag »Failed« Migratory Adventures?: Malian Men Facing
Book SynopsisThe effects of the intra-African and European deportation regimes brought about since the European Union's externalization of its migration and development policy by transferring it to countries of sub-Saharan Africa remain largely understudied - especially their effects on people's everyday life after forced returns. Based on extensive field research, Susanne U. Schultz's book analyses the supposedly "failed" migration of Malian men, the social situations in which they find themselves following deportation, and the implications of their "failure" for their social environment and broader society. This important ethnographic study creates empirical knowledge on key issues in migration research, policy, and practice in the context of a charged debate.Table of ContentsForeword; Introduction: Toward embedding "failed" migratory adventures in southern Mali; Contextualizing and historicizing deportations and situations post-deportation in Mali; Methodology in context; "The adventure is not easy." Narrating forms of suffering in deportation experiences; "It's [not] all about money." About returning with empty hands and relational (re)negotiations in the adventurer's drama of return; "On se débrouille." (Re)negotiating masculinities after deportation through everyday suffering, hard work, and (im)mobilities; "Si j'ai la chance." Final sense- and future-making of "failed" adventures post deportation; Conclusion; Glossary; Bibliography.
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Transcript Verlag Scale Matters: The Quality of Quantity in Human
Book SynopsisScale matters. When conducting research and writing, scholars upscale and downscale. So do the subjects of their work - we scale, they scale. Although scaling is an integrant part of research, we rarely reflect on scaling as a practice and what happens when we engage with it in scholarly work. The contributors aim to change this: they explore the pitfalls and potentials of scaling in an interdisciplinary dialogue. The volume brings together scholars from diverse fields, working on different geographical areas and time periods, to engage with scale-conscious questions regarding human sociality, culture, and evolution. With contributions by Nurit Bird-David, Robert L. Kelly, Charlotte Damm, Andreas Maier, Brian Codding, Elspeth Ready, Bram Tucker, Graeme Warren and others.
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Transcript Verlag Critical by Design?: Genealogies, Practices,
Book SynopsisIn its constructive and speculative nature, design has the critical potential to reshape prevalent socio-material realities. At the same time, design is inevitably normative, if not often violent, as it stabilises the past, normalises the present, and precludes just and sustainable futures. The contributions rethink concepts of critique that influence the field of design, question inherent blind spots of the discipline, and expand understandings of what critical design practices could be. With contributions from design theory, practice and education, art theory, philosophy, and informatics, "Critical by Design?" aims to question and unpack the ambivalent tensions between design and critique.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Critical by design? An introduction; Genealogies: What is a critical object? Design as «desubjugation» (after Foucault); The vitality of the negative: critical design between social philosophy and conceptual art; Ask what can be! Modal critique and design as drivers of accidence; What are the politics of ontological design? A critical reflection on the mutual becoming of «the human» and «the world»; Engaging in epistemic disobedience: on the decolonialization of design discourses; Unsettling individualized design practice through collaboration; «Ci concimiamo a vicenda»: building support structures as part of design practice; Re-visioning pelvic care through design; Trojan horses: ambiguity as a critical design strategy; Grey design: critical practices of design at the peripheries of the discipline; The ineliminable aesthetic dimension of art; Design culture as critical practice; What might be the speculative social?; Biased design, or the misery of neutrality; Undesign and understanding; Epilogue: The life and death of critical and speculative design: post-disciplinarity, post-truth, post-self and post-capital; Appendix: Critical by design? The book's design as SF figures; List of Figures & Tables; Biographies; Imprint.
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Transcript Verlag andererseits Vol. 9/10 (2020/21): Yearbook of
Book Synopsisandererseits provides a forum for research, commentary, and creative work on topics related to the German-speaking world and the field of German Studies. Works presented in the publication come from a wide variety of genres including book reviews, poetry, essays, editorials, forum discussions, academic notes, lectures, and traditional peer-reviewed academic articles. In addition, we welcome contributions by journalists, librarians, archivists, and other commentators interested in German Studies broadly conceived. By publishing such a diverse array of material, we hope to demonstrate the extraordinary value of the humanities in general, and German Studies in particular, on a variety of intellectual and cultural levels. This issue features contributions by Leo A. Lensing, Norman M. Klein, Jens M. Gurr, and Julia Faisst.
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Transcript Verlag Changing Time - Shaping World: Changemakers in
Book SynopsisA World of Changemakers - how can a hybrid arts lecture series concept in e-learning create attitudes and shape skills as a playful and critical thinking navigator in an uncertain world? To re-create meaning is an interdisciplinary cross-sectional task of our zeitgeist in a civil society. Our international guests represent key roles in relevant philosophical, technical or economic debates, non-university community art & design projects or companies.
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Transcript Verlag Affective Worldmaking: Narrative Counterpublics
Book SynopsisWhat makes up a public, what governs dominant discourses, and in which ways can counterpublics be created through narrative? This edited collection brings together essays on affect and narrative theory with a focus on the topics of gender and sexuality. It explores the power of narrative in literature, film, art, performance, and mass media, the construction of subjectivities of gender and sexuality, and the role of affect in times of crisis. By combining theoretical, literary, and analytical texts, the contributors offer methodological impulses and reflect on the possibilities and limitations of affect theory in cultural studies.Table of ContentsForeword; Introduction: Affective Worldmaking: Narrative Counterpublics of Gender and Sexuality; Selected Poems; Senses of Affective Worldmaking: Affective Assemblages: Queer Worldmaking as Critically Reparative Reading; What World is Made?: Gender and Affect in Three Life Moments; Why Our Knees Kiss; Affective Worldmaking in Times of Crisis: An Interview; Affective Be/Longing: Redefining Public Spheres: Textual Encounters of Hope and Be/Longing: Science Fiction and Trans Worldmaking; Labor of Love and Other Stories: Post-Yugoslav Feminist Narratives and Artbased Practices; Damir Arsenijević in Conversation with ejla ehabović; "We need to imagine a new kind of woman": Narrating Identity in Postwar Women's Magazines in Japan, 1945-1955; Notes on the Family Separation Narrative in American Literature: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, and Lost Children Archive; Counternarratives and Community Building; Recognizing Better Selves: A Reparative Reading of Contemporary Bosnian-Herzegovinian Queer Literature; Where are the Lesbian Rom-Coms? Building Reparative Narratives Through Fan Creativity; Shaping Gender and Kinship Relationships in Recent Croatian Satirical Fiction; Quick Media Feminisms and the Affective Worldmaking of Hashtag Activism; Mediated Narratives as Companions; "Plan B"; Gender, Affect, and Politics: A Three-Part Radio Series; Contributors; Index.
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Transcript Verlag Matter, Affect, AntiNormativity: Theory Beyond
Book SynopsisDualistic thinking has been questioned by some writers associated with the material, ontological, and affective turns. Yet, these and other writers linked to the "turns" have themselves reproduced dualistic theorising. Caroline Braunmühl also shows that there are dualistic patterns in significant contributions to queer theory as well as Foucauldian diagnoses of the present. From a perspective sympathetic to the critical efforts made by poststructuralist and related theorists, she analyses works by Sara Ahmed, Karen Barad, Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri, Michel Foucault, and others. The book suggests specific alternatives to dualistic as well as identitarian ways of framing conceptual pairs such as matter/mind, affect/discourse and negativity/affirmation.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Matter/Mind; Ontology/Epistemology; Affect/Discourse; Normalization/Normativity; Negativity/Affirmation; Bibliography.
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Transcript Verlag Playful Materialities: The Stuff that Games Are
Book SynopsisGame culture and material culture have always been closely linked. Analog forms of rule-based play (ludus) would hardly be conceivable without dice, cards, and game boards. In the act of free play (paidia), children as well as adults transform simple objects into multifaceted toys in an almost magical way. Even digital play is suffused with material culture: Games are not only mediated by technical interfaces, which we access via hardware and tangible peripherals. They are also subject to material hybridization, paratextual framing, and processes of de-, and re-materialization.
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Transcript Verlag Arab Berlin: Dynamics of Transformation
Book SynopsisBerlin is increasingly emerging as a hub of Arab intellectual life in Europe. In this first study of Arab culture to zoom in on the thriving metropolis, the contributors shed light on the dynamics of transformation with Arabs as agents, subjects, and objects of change in the spheres of politics, society and history, gender, demographics and migration, media and culture, and education and research. The kaleidoscopic character of the collection, embracing academic articles, essays, interviews and photos, reflects critical encounters in Berlin. It brings together authors from inter- and multidisciplinary fields and backgrounds and invites the readers into a much-needed conversation on contemporary transformations.
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Transcript Verlag Aging Experiments: Futures and Fantasies of Old
Book SynopsisThe sustained expansion of the life span and the attendant demographic changes in the West have fuelled the production of cultural texts that explore alternative representations of aging and old age. The contributors to this volume show how artists in science-fiction, fantasy and the avant-garde develop visions of late life transformation, improvisation and adaptation to new circumstances. The studies particularly focus on perspectives on aging that challenge the predominant narratives of decline as well as fantasies of eternal youth, as defined by neoliberal notions of health, able-bodiedness, agency, self-improvement, progress, plasticity and productivity.
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Transcript Verlag Programming Creativity: Semantics and
Book SynopsisWhat does "creativity" mean in the context of IT and what happens when IT acts in its name? Jan Sebastian Zipp examines the concept of creativity in large IT companies in times of digital change, including new ways of working or potential artificial creativity with no human interaction. Drawing on constitutive elements like Silicon Valley or its connection to counterculture, his analysis of the representation and organisation of creativity as a social practice provides insights into the inherent logic of the creativity narrative of IT. This study contributes vital foundations for a critical engagement with today's prevailing understanding of the concept of creativity.
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Transcript Verlag Sound Formations: Towards a Sociological
Book SynopsisIs it possible to work with sound in sociology rather than being about sound? Can there be a "sonic sociology"? Rémy Bocquillon reflects on the process-oriented character of sociology as an experimental science by including aesthetic practices of sounding and listening as constitutive for the making of sociological theory. Following new materialist and speculative philosophies, this study is thus a combination of sociological theory, philosophical thought and aesthetic practices, not understood as discrete fields of inquiry, but co-constituting each other. It also features an audio chapter, "feeding-back" the sonic experimentations at the core of the research in new and engaging ways.
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Transcript Verlag To the Last Drop - Affective Economies of
Book SynopsisThe romance of extraction underlies and partly defines Western modernity and our cultural imaginaries. Combining affect studies and environmental humanities, this volume analyzes societies' devotion to extraction and fossil resources. This devotion is shaped by a nostalgic view on settler colonialism as well as by contemporary ?affective economies?. The contributors examine the links between forms of extractivism and gendered discourses of sentimentality and the ways in which cultural narratives and practices deploy the sentimental mode (in plots of attachment, sacrifice, and suffering) to promote or challenge extractivism.
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transcript Verlag Shared Heritage Revisited
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transcript Verlag The Aesthetics of Collective Agency
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transcript Verlag Rethinking Infrastructure Across the Humanities
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transcript Verlag Cultures of Citizenship in the TwentyFirst
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transcript Verlag Translations and Participation
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transcript Verlag Entangled Future Immobilities
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Transcript Verlag The Sorting of Humanity
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