Cultural studies Books

Book SynopsisIn Baghdad, an enormous monument nearly twice the size of the Arc de Triomphe towers over the city. Two huge forearms emerge from the ground, clutching two swords that clash overhead. Those arms are enlarged casts of those of Saddam Hussein, showing every bump and follicle. The "Victory Arch" celebrates a victory over Iran (in their eight-year-long war) that never happened. This text is a study of the interplay between art and politics - of how culture, normally an unquestioned good, can play into the hands of a power with devastating effects. Kanan Makiya uses the culture invented by Saddam Hussein as a window into the nature of totalitarianism and shows how art can become the weapon of dictatorship. Under Saddam Hussein, culture connived in his evil - this text explains how. It should be useful reading for anyone concerned with the power of culture and the culture of power.Trade Review"Brilliant and moving. The kind of totalitarian propaganda discussed by Makiya is relevant not only to explain the grip of power of Saddam Hussein but to other Arab countries." -Peter Partner, The New York Review of Books "...elegantly savage critique of Saddam Hussein's architectural follies... His book deserves to rank with the classic analyses of Nazi and Stalinist art: superb, as a study of kitsch, a study of tyranny - and an account of why the latter always loves the former." -Boyd Tonkin, The Independent "The Monument provides an unusual and groundbreaking examination of the cultural control that Saddam Hussein exercised on his people, and the importance of his so-called artistic legacy... shows how art can become the weapon of dictatorship." -Fred Rhodes, The Middle East Magazine "Makiya writes stridently, but he is also capable of patient rational analysis unravelling what the Monument teaches about the abuse of art for political purposes." -Robert Hillenbrand, Times Literary Supplement

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Book SynopsisAnyone who deals with people from different cultures needs intercultural communication skills whether they are in the workplace, on a business trip overseas, dealing with foreign guests or simply socializing with friends. This is not just a matter of knowing how to bow in Japan or what gifts to give in Korea. Rather, it is necessary to understand the dynamics of different cultures and intercultural communication. Communicating with Asia is a comprehensive guide to cultural literacy for Australians who deal with Asians and vice versa. It is abundantly illustrated with examples from Japan, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and other countries.

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Book SynopsisIn this ground-breaking synthesis of evolutionary and cultural theory, Wendy Wheeler draws on the new field of complex adaptive systems and biosemiotics in order to argue that - far from being opposed to nature - culture is the way that nature has evolved in human beings. Her argument is that these evolutionary processes reveal the fundamental sociality of human creatures, and she thus rejects the selfish individualism that is implied both in the biological reductionism of much recent evolutionary psychology, and in the philosophies of neoliberalism. She shows, instead, that the complex structures of biosemiotic evolution have always involved a creativity which is born from the difficult but productive phenomenological encounter between the Self and its Others; and she argues that this creativity, in both the sciences and the humanities, is fundamental to human progress. In this major contribution to both cultural studies and ecocriticism, Wheeler shows how complexity and biosemiotics forge the link between nature and culture, and provide a new and better understanding of how 'the whole human creature' operates as both social and biological being.Trade Review'What a pleasure to read this book, which integrates biosemiotics into a wider argument about the material basis for human sociality. What struck me the is the political dimension which Wheeler brings to my work. When I began developing biosemiotics my old political friends didn't appreciate it because they didn't see how it connected to other issues. I was therefore extraordinarily pleased to see her drawing social consequences which I had had in mind from the outset. I am grateful to her for seeing that.' Jesper Hoffmeyer This book provides some really useful pathways to an important truth - that culture is natural. That obvious fact has been amazingly obscured of late by fashionable doctrines, and by the walls that now divide different learned specialities from each other. Wendy Wheeler helps us to break through these barriers and to see that we are indeed Whole Creatures. Mary Midgley

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Book SynopsisThe essays in this collection are a tribute to Stuart Hall, and to the outstanding contribution he has made to contemporary cultural, social and political thought. The central figure in the development of Cultural Studies, Hall's writing has influenced a whole generation of intellectuals. Some contributors reflect and comment on Hall's contribution; others continue to develop some of his key themes. But most share a focus on reconnecting his work with Jamaica - his birthplace - and the wider Caribbean.Table of ContentsContents * Brian Meeks Introduction: Return of a Native Son * Rex Nettleford The Caribbean and Cultural Studies * Michael Rustin Stuart Hall's Political Writing * Bill Schwarz Reading with the Grain * Gilane Tawadros The Revolution Stripped Bare * Avtar Brah Feminism, 'Race' and Stuart Hall's Diasporic Imagination * Grant Farred Locating the 'Popular Arts' in the Stuart Hall Oeuvre * Lawrence Grossberg Cultural Studies and the Philosophy of Conjuncturalism * Charles Mills Changing Representations of Race * Cecilia Green Thomas Thistlewood as Agent and Medium of Eighteenth-Century Jamaican Society * Obika Grey Civic Politics in Jamaica * Anthony Borgues Rethinking the Political in the Caribbean * Sonjah Stanley Niaah and Donna Hope The Body and Dancehall Performance * Percy Hintzen Diaspora, Globalisation and the Politics of Identity * Stuart Hall Through the Prism of an Intellectual Life

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Book SynopsisThis is the first in a series of "Soundings" books. It brings together a collection of the best of recent work on race and identity in Soundings, and includes a new introductory essay. Themes covered include multiculturalism and segregation; young people and gun crime; British identity and melancholia; conviviality; identity and belonging; and, cosmopolitanism and institutional racism. Contributors include: Zygmunt Bauman, Farhad Dalal, Paul Gilroy, Bilkis Malek, Tariq Modood, Roshi Naidoo, Amir Saeed, George Shire, Ejos Ubiribo, Patrick Wright, and Nira Yuval-Davis.

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Book SynopsisBased primarily on a former coal-mining village in Northeast England, this book explores practices of inhabitation, from moving in or being modernized to the daily accommodation of sleep and children. It provides a demonstration of what happens to consumption research when it comes home and is positioned not in sites of exchange but within the hom

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Book SynopsisIn a career spanning more than five decades the distinguished French psychoanalyst Jean Laplanche (1924 - 2012) elaborated a distinctive methodology for the reading of Freud's corpus and evolved, in connection with it, a radical new metapsychology - one that critically recast Freud's early 'seduction' theory of trauma and placed at the heart of psychic life a particular model of 'enigmatic signification'. Seductions and Enigmas is a volume dedicated to the implications of Laplanche's thought for reading and interpretation. It collects papers that elaborate Laplanche's unique method for the interpretation of Freud, with its attention to the decentering and recentering movements of thought that structure the psychoanalytic field, and explore how the metapsychological developments arising from the implementation of that method open up new horizons for the psychoanalytic reading of other texts and oeuvres in the cultural domain. The volume comprises essays by Laplanche as well as by clinicians and scholars whose work takes inspiration from his research. Authors variously establish, develop or consolidate Laplanche's critical methodology as such, or work through aspects of his major theoretical innovations as points of departure for the reading of cultural works of different kinds: fiction, drama, painting, visual and sound installations, and film. These theoretical innovations cover a breadth of topics including seduction, sublimation, gender, femininity, the functions of binding and unbinding, masochism and the role of the enigmatic. In their range, the texts brought together here are a testament to the vitality and fertility of Laplanche's theoretical endeavour, for anyone concerned with the re-reading of Freud or with continuing to recalibrate and advance the parameters of critical interpretation in light of Freud's legacy.Trade ReviewThis superb collection will be essential reading on Jean Laplanche, both for his analysis of Freud on interpretation, and for Laplanche's centrally important idea of seduction as 'the other in me'. New insights emerge in the exploration of its significance for understanding sexuality and gender, and for our experience of cultural works and their impact as 'enigmatic messages'. Elizabeth Cowie, Professor of Film Studies University of Kent This collection of important papers advances the vital project of bringing Laplanche's originality to the attention of Anglophone readers. What Laplanche offers to both clinicians and cultural critics is an account of interpretation that locates alterity and constitutive opacity at the heart of human relations. Happily this book is not opaque but admirably lucid in its exposition of key concepts and their potential for illuminating a range of aesthetic forms and cultural formations. Seductions and Enigmas is an extremely useful book. Tim Dean, Director of the Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture, SUNY-BuffaloTable of ContentsIntroduction; Seductions and Enigmas: Laplanche, Reading, Theory - John Fletcher and Nicholas Ray; Reading and Interpretation: Laplanche and the Case of Freud; Interpreting (with) Freud - Jean Laplanche; Exigency and Going-Astray - Jean Laplanche; Sublimation and/or Inspiration - Jean Laplanche; Seduction, Sexuality, Gender Primal Femininity - Jacques Andres; Seduction, Gender and the Drive - Judith Butler; Seductions, Enigmas, Literary Texts Culture, Cognition and Jean Laplanche's Enigmatic Signifier - Allyson Stack; Gothic's Enigmatic Signifier: the Case of J. Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla - Mike Davis; The Ides of March: from Mastery to Vampirism - Eric Toubiana; The Scenography of Trauma: a 'Copernican' reading of Sophocles' Oedipus the King - John Fletcher; Seduction and Infraction in the Visual and Aural Fields; Breast-Feeding as Original Seduction and Primal Scene of Seduction: Giorgione's La Tempesta - Jacqueline Lanouziere Femininity and Passivity in the Primal Scene: The Little Death of Sardanapalus - Jacques Andre Seduction, Receptivity and the 'Feminine' in Peter Greenaway's The Pillow Book - Nicholas Ray Bruce Nauman, Jean Laplanche and the Art of Helplessness - Josh Cohen

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the Kurds’ rise as new regional actors in the Middle East and the impact this is having on the regional order. Kurdish political activism has reached a new height in the beginning of the 21st Century with Kurdish movements in Iraq, Turkey and Syria establishing themselves as a significant force in the domestic politics of these states. The consolidation of Kurdish autonomy in Iraq and the establishment of a Kurdish de facto autonomous region within Syria is adding to the Kurds’ growing influence in the region and enabling Kurds to forge stronger relations with regional and international forces. The author analyses recent developments in the Kurdish question in Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria to understand the inter-connections and inter-dependencies that exist in the transnational Kurdish political space. The book's policy relevance is likely to attract strong interest from policy makers as well as from academics and students in the fields of Middle Eastern Politics and International Relations. Table of ContentsTable of Contents Abbreviations 4 Preface 6 Chapter 1: The Kurdish Resurgence in a Changing Middle East 8 1.1 – A Brief history of the Kurdish Question 12 1.2 – The Re-emergence of Kurdish Nationalism during the 1960s 17 1.3 – The Geopolitics of the Middle East and the Kurdish Question 23 Chapter 2: The Kurdish Conflict in Iraq: Towards a Sustainable Solution 37 2.1 – Historical Overview of the Kurdish Conflict in Iraq 38 2.2 – The Consolidation of Kurdish Autonomy and the KRI 46 2.3 – The KRI’s Challenges 52 Chapter 3: Turkey’s Kurdish Conflict: The Sudden Reversal of Gradual Progress 64 3.1 – Historical Overview of Turkey’s Kurdish Conflict 66 3.2 – Transformation in the conflict and Turkey’s democratic openings 72 3.3 – A New Violent Phase in the Conflict 79 Chapter 4: The Syrian Conflict and Kurdish Ascendency 93 4.1 – The Kurdish conflict in Syria: background and the main developments 95 4.2 – The Democratic Federation of Northern Syria (DFNS) 102 4.3 – The Challenges facing the DFNS 108 Chapter 5: The Transformation of Iran’s Kurdish Conflict 119 5.1 – Historical Overview of Iran’s Kurdish Conflict 120 5.2 The re-emergence of Kurdish political activism in Iran during 2000s and 2010s 125 5.3 The factors behind the revival of Iran’s Kurdish movement and its future prospects 130 Chapter 6: Kurdish Prospects in a Volatile Middle East 145 6.1 Opposition to Kurdish Aspirations 148 6.2 Kurdish Prospects in the Middle East 155 Index 171

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Book SynopsisThis book investigates what women enjoy about consuming, and in some cases producing, gay male erotic media–from slashfic, to pornographic texts, to visual pornography–and how this sits within their consumption of erotica and pornography more generally. In addition, it will examine how women’s use of gay male erotic media fits in with their perceptions of gender and sexuality. By drawing on a piece of wide-scale mixed methods research that examines these motivations, an original and important volume is presented that serves to explore and contribute to this under-researched area. Trade Review“Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys … is a sort of 50 shades of gay for the modern woman.” (The Sunday Times Style magazine, January 20, 2019)Table of ContentsChapter One: Welcome To The Freak Show.Chapter Two: Boys on Film.Chapter Three: The Joy of Slash.Chapter Four: Don't you know that it's different for girls.Chapter Five: Sometimes it's hard to be a woman.Chapter Six: ‘…Always should be someone you really love'.Chapter Seven: 'It's a Mixed Up Muddled Up Shook Up World'.Chapter Eight: 'You give me the sweetest taboo'.Chapter Nine: The times, they are a changin'.

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Book SynopsisRecent years have seen the increasing valuation and promotion of ‘creativity’. Future success, we are often assured, will rest on the creativity of our endeavours, often aligned specifically with ‘cultural’ activity. This book considers the emergence and persistence of this pattern, particularly with regards to cultural policy, and examines the methods and evidence deployed to make the case for art, culture and the creative industries. The origins of current practices are considered, as is the gradual accretion of a broad range of meanings around the term ‘creative’, and the implications this has for the success of the wider ‘Creativity Agenda’. The specific experience of the city of Liverpool in adopting and furthering this agenda both in the UK and beyond is considered, as is the persistence of a range of problematic, and often contradictory, assumptions and practices relating to this agenda up to the present day.Trade Review“A book highlighting the positive benefits of creativity that the sector could use for advocacy Purposes. … This book provides a fascinating context for contemporary cultural and creative policy, and the topics covered are incredibly well researched. It is both challenging and inspirational … .” (Andrew Garrad, ArtsProfessional, artsprofessional.co.uk, May 15, 2019)Table of Contents1. Introduction: 'Persistent Creativity'?.- 2. Presages of Persistent Creativity.- 3. The Creativity Agenda(s).- 4. Making the Case for Art and Culture: Persistent Challenges.- 5. The Persistent Case for the Creative Industries. - 6. Liverpool: A Case Study in Persistent Creativity.- 7. Clarifying the Creativity Agenda: More Persistent Challenges. - 8. Epilogue: Ever Decreasing Circles?

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores the recent ‘adolescent turn’ in contemporary Latin American cinema, challenging many of the underlying assumptions about the nature of youth and distinguishing adolescence as a distinct and vital area of study. Its contributors examine the narrative and political potential of teenage protagonists in a range of recent films from the region, acknowledging the distinct emotional registers that are at play throughout adolescence and releasing teenage subjectivities from restrictive critical and theoretical emphases on theories of childhood. As the first academic study to examine the figure of the adolescent in contemporary Latin American film, New Visions of Adolescence in Contemporary Latin American Cinema thus presents a timely and innovative analysis of issues of sexuality and gender, political and domestic violence and social class, and will be of significant interest to students and researchers in Latin American Studies, Cultural Studies, World Cinema and Childhood Studies.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Visualizing Adolescence in Contemporary Latin American Cinema: Gender, Class and Politics (Geoffrey Maguire and Rachel Randall)Part One: Gender and Sexuality 2. Visual Displeasure: Adolescence and the Erotics of the Queer Male Gaze in Marco Berger’s Ausente (Geoffrey Maguire) 3. (Re)Pairing Adolescent Masculinities: The Neo-Fraternal Social Contract and the Penal State in Hoje eu quero voltar sozinho and Beira-Mar (Ramiro Armas) 4.Sensorial Youths: Gender, Eroticism, and Agency in Lucrecia Martel’s Rey muerto (Inela Selimović) Part Two: Gender and Class 5. “Eu não sou o meu pai!”: Deception, Intimacy and Adolescence in (the) Casa grande (Rachel Randall) 6. Young, Male and Middle Class: Representations of Masculinity in Mexican Film (Georgia Seminet) 7. Beyond Pink or Blue: Portrayals of Adolescence in Latin American Animated Film (Milton Fernando González-Rodríguez) Part Three: Gender and Politics 8. Growing Pains: Young People and Violence in Peru’s Fiction Cinema (Sarah Barrow) 9. Tragic Adolescence in Michel Franco’s Heli and Amat Escalante’s Después de Lucía (Sophie Dufays) 10. From Girlhood to Adulthood: Colombian Adolescence in María, llena eres de gracia and La sirga (Carolina Rocha)

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Book SynopsisThis book relates stories of everyday life revolving around small-scale urban gardens in Central Havana and focusing particularly on that of Marcelo, a seventy-four-year-old revolutionary and gardener. The urban gardens are contested spaces: though monitored and controlled by Cuban state institutions, they also offer possibilities of crafting life in resistance. The experiences the authors narrate are not ‘thick descriptions,’ linked to larger political issues, but rather rhizomatic observations that highlight the relationships between humans and non-humans within the nature-culture debate. Using these experiences, the authors argue that ‘the political’ reaches beyond the affairs of state and governance and should be seen as an all-encompassing part of life. The authors thereby invite the social sciences to focus on the microscopic and the day-to-day to illuminate how the political affairs of lives can be imagined differently. Trade Review“The Urban Gardens of Havana offers an insightful, detailed, theoretically rigorous and imaginative account of the relationships between urban farmers, the state and nonhuman entities in Cuba … .” (Sahib Singh, LSE Review of Books, blogs.lse.ac.uk, November 8, 2019)Table of ContentsPrologue: Whose Planet is it Anyway?Chapter 1. Introduction: Step into my GardenAnthropological GardeningThe Map into the GardenChapter 2. Intervening, Correcting, RewardingHow It All BeganRevolutionary Fruits and Ideologized VegetalbesState CommunismThe Prettiest Garden in TownState Control of Society or Social Control of the State?ConclusionChapter 3. The GardenThe Politics of the GardenSmall, Big, Wide and Narrow: The Urban Gardens of HavanaIntimate ExperiencesNon-human PerformancesThe Human-Non-human RelationshipCaring Collaborations with PlantsChildren of the GardenlandA House is Not a HomeReverberating GardentsTangling Them TogetherChapter 4. Living in a Non-human's WorldThe Nature We Live ByBecoming the Garden(er)Freedom and Some Gentle ResistanceThe Intimate Quality of BeingBodily LearningGently, Contested, Entangled Freedoms?Stories of FreedomEntangling Concluding RemarksChapter 5. Conclusion: Finally, How Does Everything Grow Together?

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Book SynopsisAt a time of hyper-partisanship, media fragmentation and "fake news", the work of investigative journalism has never been more important. This book explores the history and art of investigative journalism, and explains how to deal with legal bullies, crooked politicians, media bosses, big business and intelligence agencies; how to withstand conspiracy theories; and how to work collaboratively across borders in the new age of data journalism. It also provides a fascinating first-hand account of the work that went into breaking major news stories including WikiLeaks and the Edward Snowden affair.Drawing on over 40 years of experience with world-leading investigative teams at newspapers including the Guardian and The Washington Post, award-winning journalist David Leigh provides an illuminating insight into some of the biggest news events of the 20th and 21st centuries. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the behind-the-scenes work of journalists and news organizations. It also acts as an essential practical toolkit for both aspiring and established investigative journalists.Table of Contents1. Introduction2. A Short History of Investigative Journalism3. Two Case Histories: Jonathan Aitken and BAe4. Investigative Journalists and their Bosses5. Journalists versus the Law6. Dealing with Spies and Spooks7. Conspiracy Theories8. Bad Practice and Good Practice9. Cross-border collaboration10. Fake News in Mainstream Journalism11. Trafigura – a Classic Investigation12. Conclusion: A Golden Age for Investigative Journalism?

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Book SynopsisThis volume engages new films and modes of scholarly research in Arab cinema, and older, often neglected films and critical topics, while theorizing their structural relationship to contemporary developments in the Arab world. The volume considers the relationship of Arab cinema to transnational film production, distribution, and exhibition, in turn recontextualizing the works of acknowledged as well as new directorial figures, and country-specific phenomena. New documentary and experimental practices are referenced and critiqued, while commercial cinema is covered both as an industrial product and as one of several instances of contestation. The volume thus showcases the breadth and depth of Arab film culture and its multilayered connections to local conditions, regional affiliations, and the tendencies and aesthetics of global cinema.Trade Review“One of the many merits of this volume is that it approaches cinema in its sociohistorical dimension, thus shedding as much light on the circumstances (social, historical, economic, etc.) under which films are produced and consumed as on the films themselves. … The contributions in this collection present a series of possibilities and case studies in how to approach a field that remains both understudied and oversimplified … .” (Giovanni Vimercati, Film Quarterly, Winter, 2020)Table of Contents

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the discourse by and about refugees and asylum seekers in relation to memory with a particular focus on the United Kingdom. A series of studies using different analytical approaches is undertaken, and together the studies shed light on this overlooked area of research. The studies or ‘facets’ presented in the monograph cover a range of contexts and discursive genres: a joint BBC/refugee-authored television documentary, refugees’ oral histories, creative life writing by asylum seekers, parliamentarians’ debates, a reworking of canonical texts and sites in a protest campaign, and non-fiction testimonies and fictional works by later generations of refugee background. The monograph introduces ‘facet methodology’ to memory studies, arguing that this approach could encourage interdisciplinary research in the field. Table of Contents1. A Dual Focus.2. Capturing Memories on Camera: Refugees and the BBC.3. Oral Histories: Voices of Kosovo in Manchester.4. 'Women Asylum Seekers Together' Life Writing.5. 'History' and Debating Refugees in Parliament.6. Memory Sites of the 'Refugee Tales' Project.7. Bhabha’s Temporality in Second and Third Generation Refugee/Immigrant Testimonies.8. Memory, Art and the Vietnamese Diaspora.9. Insights.

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Book SynopsisThis open access book provides a detailed exploration of the British media coverage of the press reform debate that arose from the News of the World phone hacking scandal and the Leveson Inquiry. Gathering data from a content analysis of 870 news articles, Ogbebor shows how journalists cover debates on media policy and illustrates the impact of their coverage on democracy. Through this analysis, the book contributes to knowledge of paradigm repair strategies; public sphere; gatekeeping theory; the concept of journalism as an interpretive community; political economy of the press; as well as the neoliberal and social democratic interpretations of press freedom. Providing insight into factors inhibiting and aiding the role of the news media as a democratic public sphere, it will be a valuable resource for the press, media reform activists, members of the public, and academics in the fields of journalism, politics and law. Table of Contents1. Introduction.- 2. Democracy, Theories of the Press and the Public Sphere.- 3. Metacoverage, Metajournalistic Discourse and the News Paradigm.- 4. The Press Reform Debate.- 5. British Press System: Press Regulation and Accountability.- 6. Investigating the Press Reform Debate.- 7. Paradigm Repair: Threat to the Paradigm and Historicization.- 8. Bad Apples, Self-Assertion and Minimization.- 9. Journalistic Metadiscourse: Access to the Media’s Public Sphere.- 10. Press Reform: Past, Current and Future.- 11. Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis insightful volume explores the experiences of ethnic migrants returning to Hong Kong, Singapore, and Israel. Return migrants who were exposed to the western culture and society undergo personal transformations that significantly impact their views on values such as gender, individualism, democracy, tradition, and individual autonomy. To evaluate how well these individuals are able to reintegrate back into their native countries, the authors conducted a thorough comparative study between returnees in the three research sites through in-depth interviews, ethnographic fieldwork, and analyses of government policies. Among the topics discussed: Family as a strategic middle ground between the individual and society The social psychology of coping and adaptation Public, outer historical, and macro forces that shape returnees’ experiences Comparisons and contrasts between two primarily Chinese societies, along with one racially and culturally different Western society Cost-and-benefit analyses of decision-making in migration Return Migrants in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Israel is a compelling new perspective on the migrant experience drawn from in-depth research on returnees across three countries and a variety of circumstances.Table of Contents Chapter 1 Introduction – Cost-and-Benefit Analysis: Decision-Making in Migration 1.1 Globalization, Public Policy and Assimilation of Return Migration 1.2 Public Policy Implications of International Migration for Global Governance 1.3 Migrant Transnationalism and Family-based Migration 1.4 Globalized Economic Space, Transnationalism and Translocality 1.5 Some Theoretical and Methodological Considerations 1.6 On a National Level and Public Policy 1.7 Migrant’s Coping Strategies as Responses to Policies 1.8 Ritual Process, Community Development and De-alienation in Chinese Diasporic Communities 1.9 Chinese Ritual Performance as De-alienation 1.10 Ethnic Chinese Community Development as De-alienation 1.11 Return Migration, Social Action and Public Policy 1.12 Analytic Procedure and Aims of Study Chapter 2 The Hong Kong Study 2.1 Research Methods and Demographic Characteristics of Returnee Respondents in Hong Kong 2.2 Vignettes of Four Returnees 2.3 Factors Associated with Return Migration 2.4 Plight and Blight of the Mobile Migrants: Hidden Injuries of Global Mobility 2.5 Adjustment to Local Environment 2.6 Migrant Coping Strategies as Responses to Immigration Policies: Migrant’s Cost-and-Benefit Analysis 2.7 Suggestions to Other Returnees: Looking Beyond the Horizons of Costs and Benefits 2.8 What Will the Future Hold? 2.9 Some Reflections 2.10 Policy Recommendations to the Hong Kong Government Chapter 3 The Singapore Study 3.1 Research Methods and Demographic Characteristics of Returnee Respondents in Singapore 3.2 Evolution of Government Policies and Programs: Cost-and-Benefit Calculation in Historical Perspective 3.3 Government Programs and Initiatives Targeted at Overseas Singaporeans: The Long Arm of Global Capital Accumulation 3.4 The Balance Sheet of Migrating 3.5 Reasons for Return —- Weighing the Costs and Benefits of Recouping a Socio-economic-financial Stake 3.6 Preparation for Return 3.7 Returnees’ Problems and Dilemmas 3.8 Returnees’ Personal and Collective Strategies for Coping as Responses to Government Policies 3.9 Will They Stay or Leave? Migration Decision-making within a Cost-and-Benefit Framework 3.10 Some reflections 3.11 Policy Recommendations to the Singaporean Government Chapter 4 The Israel Study 4.1 Human Capital and Economic Growth in Israel: Successes and Dilemmas 4.2 Brain Drain and Cost-accounting of Human Capital Accumulation 4.3 What Causes the Israeli Brain Drain and Loss of Human Capital? 4.4 Factors Influencing Israelis’ Decision to Return 4.5 Brain Drain from Non-academic Sector: Two Stories 4.6 Development of Migration Policies—Costs and Benefits of Human Capital Growth 4.7 Dilemmas and Challenges of Current Migration Policies: Costs and Benefits of Global Innovative Knowledge Transfer 4.8 Evaluation of Migration Policies: Legitimatizing the “Unholy” Alliance of Brain Strain, Brain Gain and Brain Drain in the Migration Drama 4.9 Some Reflections Chapter 5 Conclusion 5.1 Comparing Public Policies on Return Migration 5.2 Toward a Universal Policy on Return Migrants and their Re-integration 5.3 In Reflection: Thinking Back and Forth, Back and Forth

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Book SynopsisRobert De Niro at Work is the first critical study to examine how Robert de Niro, perhaps the finest screen actor of his generation, works with screenplays to imagine, prepare and denote his performance. In categorising the various ways in which De Niro works with a screenplay, this book will re-examine the relationship between actor and text. This book considers the screenplay as above all a working document and a material object, present at every stage of the filmmaking process. The working screenplay goes through various iterations in development and exists in many versions on set, each adapted and personalised for the specific use of the individual and their role. As the archive reveals, nobody works more closely with the script than the actor, and no actor works more on a script than De Niro. Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Chapter One: Literature Review & overview of De Niro’s Career.- Chapter Two: Research and Exegesis.- Chapter Three: Notation.- Chapter Four: Preparation.- Chapter Five: The Writer’s Voice.- Chapter Six: Case Studies.- Chapter Seven: Actor as Writer.- Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisEncouraging more – and different – people to attend the arts remains a vital issue for the cultural sector. The question of who consumes culture, and why, is key to our understanding of the arts. This book examines the relationship of audience development to cultural policy and offers a ground-breaking perspective on how the practice of audience development is connected to ideas of democratic access to culture. Providing a detailed overview of arts marketing, audience development and cultural democracy, the book argues that the work of audience development has been profoundly misunderstood by the field of arts management. Drawing from a rich range of interviews with key individuals in the audience development field, the book argues for a re-conceptualisation of audience development as an ideological function of cultural policy. Of importance for students, academics and researchers working in arts management and cultural policy, the book is also vital reading for anyone working in the arts, cultural and heritage sectors with an interest in understanding how our relationship with the audience has been constructed. Table of Contents​1 Introduction 2 Democratic Cultural Policy 3 Audience Development 4 The Development of Practice: Two Dilemmas 5 The Traditions of Audience Development 6 Characteristics of Audience Development 7 Audience Development and Democracy: Third Dilemma 8 Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis book presents studies on the management of the Brazilian world heritage and its international counterparts, relating its preservationist practices to the risks and alerts that run its maintenance in the face of so many challenges in the contemporary world. The book has encouraged scholars from a wide variety of disciplines to contribute their valuable knowledge to research on the management and risks of Brazil's world heritage. It is a bold initiative that brings together contemporary studies on management, alerts and risks of the Brazilian world heritage and some international examples. It stands out not only for its interdisciplinary approach, but above all for compiling a wide range of approaches that analyze various dimensions of world heritage management. Unique experience in the management of world heritage allocated to Brazilian territory, this book was written by prominent academics and heritage management professionals and includes national and international case studies. It is a comprehensive academic book in Brazilian world heritage management literature and can therefore be used as an authoritative reference source as well as a significant teaching tool. Table of ContentsRodrigo Christofoletti and Marcos Olender PRESENTATION: World heritage patinas: a metaphor to be understood Part 1 - Performance of national preservation organization Jurema Machado The Brazilian experience of World Heritage Sites Marcelo Brito Conservation actors: challenges and risks of safeguarding world heritage towns Nivaldo Andrade Challenges and risks on the conservation of the historic center of Salvador, Bahia Simone Scifoni World Heritage in Brazil: a reflection and critique Monica Lima When sensitive memories sites become heritage: the case of Valongo Wharf in Rio de Janeiro Raul Lanari and Hugo Rocha Afro-Brazilian religions and protected urban areas: the cases of Laranjeiras and São Cristóvão, Sergipe Luciana Rocha Féres and Leonardo Barci Castriota The modern Complex of Pampulha: reflections on the complexities and contradictions for the management of a world cultural landscape Ana Lúcia Goelzer Meira and Luisa Durán Rocca Reflections on tourism in Jesuit-Guarani missions Part 2 - International experiences in preserving the world heritage Marcos Olender Some genealogical notes on the notion of world heritage Maria Leonor Botelho and Lúcia Rosas The experience of managing the city of Porto as a world heritage site: how to teach and how to learn? Mario Ferrada Latin American world heritage sites; conservation and management under a values-based approach Joanes da Silva Rocha Immaterial heritage and the risk of forgetting: the case of the hidden Christians in Nagasaki Paulo Henrique Martinez Environmental history and cultural landscape in Israel (2003-2018) Part 3 - World heritage risks and threats Rodrigo Christofoletti and Vitória Acerbi Brazil in the circuit of international cultural relations: devolution and return of ethnographic goods Antônio Maria Claret de Gouveia, Giovana Martins Brito and Ana Elisa de Oliveira The risk of fire in the semi detached buildings of the historic center of Ouro Preto: world heritage Denismara Eugênia de Oliveira Nascimento Plunderers of Devotional Heritage Kathia Maurtua From works in favor of tourism to attacks against cultural heritage: a history of corruption and modernity in the case of Cusco Jeremy Dioses Campaña Modernity, Huacas and depredation of heritage on the Peruvian coast. the specific case of Chan Chan, 1986-2019 world heritage Hebe Mattos Memory of slavery as material and intangible heritage: the case of Valongo Wharf and the project Passados Presentes Part 4 - Legislation and ethnography in the preservation of world heritage sites Virgynia Corradi Lopes da Silva and Adriana Sanajotti Nakamuta Controlling the circulation of movable assets and operating in a network: perspectives for the inspection of cultural heritage Caroline dos Reis Lodi Legislation on the protection of cultural goods: a comparative study between Brazil and Italy Carolina Saporetti IPHAN looking outwards: international relations in the preservation of national heritage Élcio Rogério Secomandi Set of colonial fortifications in Brazil indicated for cultural world heritage Priscila Enrique Oliveira Indigenous culture as a heritage of humanity. Safeguarding intangible heritage through the experience of the Mbya Guarani of the indigenous land of Ribeirão Silveira (SP) Part 5 - World Heritage of Minas Gerais - disputes over power and memories Adriana Careaga Alonzo Heritage management, challenges and opportunities: a particular view at the Minas Gerais heritage Benedito Tadeu de Oliveira Ouro Preto: World Heritage Dalila Varela “After the festivities, the responsibilities”: urban conflicts in Ouro Preto after the nomination as World Heritage Flávio de Lemos Carsalade The Pampulha Modern Ensemble and its recognition as a UNESCO World Heritage Site Alexandre Costa Dispute of the social imaginary in the city of the prophets: conflicts, environment and heritage in Congonhas (1985-2019) Junno Marins da Matta Diamantina - world heritage and living monument

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the relevance of new sources, dimensions, and characteristics of knowledge for supporting creative and cultural organizations and initiatives.Special emphasis is placed on cultural heritage, participatory approaches, and entrepreneurship in the cultural and creative sector. The role of cultural heritage and contemporary culture as a source of economically effective, socially sustainable development is also discussed. The authors examine new ways of developing and testing new and innovative models of management for cultural heritage assets. In line with the participatory approaches in culture heritage governance promoted by the EU, the authors analyze participatory approaches to cultural and creative initiatives. The role of public and private actors, as well as the way they interact with each other in order to achieve collective outcomes, is of particular interest in this section of the book. With regard to cultural and creative entrepreneurship, the book adds an innovative view of cultural ventures, offering some clues from an entrepreneurial ecosystem perspective.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Connecting the dots: a proposal to frame the debate around cultural initiatives and sustainable development.Part I: The micro level of analysis.Chapter 2: Aligning Market Strategies, Digital Technologies, and Skills: Evidence from Italian Museums.Chapter 3: Exploring the Financial Strategies of Private Museums. The Case of the Opera Di Santa Maria Del Fiore in Florence.Chapter 4: Through the Public's Lens: Are Museums Active Members of Society? An Investigation During The COVID-19 Pandemic.Chapter 5: The Leadership Dance in a Performing Arts Organization.Chapter 6: Interpretive Innovation in the Performing Arts: The Role of Organization.Chapter 7: 'Start me up’. The challenge of sustainable cultural entrepreneurship for young cultural workers.Chapter 8: Organizing academic entrepreneurship drawing on cultural knowledge. The puntOorg experience.Part II: The meso level of analysis.Chapter 9: Promoting collaboration through creative networks. The Puglia music industry.Chapter 10: Change in Perspectives in Cultural Tourism: A Sustainable Managerial Model for Cultural Thematic Routes Creating Territorial Value.Chapter 11: Detecting the Social and Economic Impact of Cultural Initiatives: a Case Study of the Taormina Film Fest.Chapter 12: A struggle of capitals over the identity and the cultural offering of Festivaletteratura: the organizational impact of audience development.Chapter 13: Participatory event platforms in the urban context: the importance of stakeholders’ meaning of “participation”.Chapter 14: Cultural Heritage through the “youth eyes”: towards participatory governance and management of UNESCO sites.Chapter 15: Entrepreneurial cultural ecosystems in rural contexts: some insights from rural cultural centers in France.Part III: The macro level of analysis.Chapter 16: Culture Indicators for Sustainable Development.Chapter 17: The digitalisation of cultural heritage for sustainable development: the impact of Europeana.Chapter 18: The contribution of crowdfunding regulation to cultural entrepreneurship in a supportive ecosystem.

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Book SynopsisThis book undertakes a psychotropic analysis of texts that deal with the violence of drug trafficking and interdiction, especially in Mexico. While most critics of so-called narcoculture have either focused on an aesthetic “sobriety” in these works or discounted them altogether as exploitative and unworthy of serious attention, Drugs, Violence, and Latin America illuminates how such work may reflect and intervene in global networks of intoxication. Theorizing a “dialectics of intoxication” that illustrates how psychotropy may either solidify or destabilize the self and its relationship to the other, it proposes that these tendencies influence human behavior in distinct ways and are leveraged for social control within both licit and illicit economies. A consideration of a countercultural genealogy in Latin America provides a contrastive psychotropic context for contemporary novels that exposes links between narcoviolence and consumerism, challenging our addictions of thought and feeling about ourselves and our relationships to drugs and narco-violence. Trade Review“Patteson’s work makes a highly original and suggestive contribution to the study of drugs, intoxication, addiction and trafficking in Latin America. In particular, his work is a much-needed answer to the critical current, exemplified by Osvaldo Zavala and others, that is quick to discount works that supposedly do little to oppose narco-culture. ... it will certainly be required reading for anyone studying drugs, intoxication or drug trafficking going forward.” (Brandon P. Bisbey, Chasqui, Vol. 51 (1), May, 2022) Table of Contents1. Introduction2. A Dialectics of Intoxication3. Loaded and Exploded: Countercultural Travel and Its Colonialist Shadow4.From Flower Power to Les fleurs du mal: la Onda literaria5. High Crimes: Élmer Mendoza’s “Zurdo” Mendieta Series and the Psychotropic Economy6. Disturbing Innocence: Defamiliarizing Narco Violence Through Child Protagonists in Fiesta en la Madriguera and Prayers for the Stolen7. Escape Velocity: Narcossism, Contagion, and Consumption in Julián Herbert8. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis book advances the understanding and modelling of sensemaking and cultural processes as being crucial to the scientific study of contemporary complex societies. It outlines a dynamic, processual conception of culture and a general view of the role of cultural dynamics in policy-making, drawing three significant methodological implications: pluralism, performativity, and semiotic capital. It focuses on the theoretical and methodological aspects of the analysis of culture and its dynamics that could be applied to the developing of policymaking and, in general, to the understanding of social phenomena. It draws from the experience and data of a large-scale project, RECRIRE, funded by the H2020 program that mapped the symbolic universes across Europe after the economic crisis. It further develops the relationship between culture and policy-making discussed in two previous volumes in this series, and constitutes the ideal third and final element of this trilogy. The book is a useful tool for academics involved in studying cultural dynamics and for policy-oriented researchers and decision-makers attentive to the cultural dimensions of the design, implementation and reception of public policies.Table of ContentsPART I. Framework.- Chapter 1. The meaning of culture and the call for policies of cultural development.- Chapter 2. Cultural theories and Policies.- PART 2. Field explorations.- Chapter 3. What to do. Cultural and symbolic components of place-based policy for migrants' inclusion.- Chapter 4. Innovation and institutions: Reframing policies and the culture of local administration.- Chapter 5. Economic policies as a driver of cultural development.- Chapter 6.The dialectic between demand and supply in welfare domain. How does policies can survive in context of high personality intensity.- Chapter 7. How, where and when culture matters. A meta-analysis of the case studies.- Chapter 8. Conclusions: culture and the need to re-politicize policy making.- PART 3. Discussion.-Chapter 9. Commentary.

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Book SynopsisAmputation in Literature and Film: Artificial Limbs, Prosthetic Relations, and the Semiotics of “Loss” explores the many ways in which literature and film have engaged with the subject of amputation. The scholars featured in this volume draw upon a wide variety of texts, both lesser-known and canonical, across historical periods and language traditions to interrogate the intersections of disability studies with social, political, cultural, and philosophical concerns. Whether focusing on ancient texts by Zhuangzi or Ovid, renaissance drama, folktales collected by the Brothers Grimm, novels or silent film, the chapters in this volume highlight the dialectics of “loss” and “gain” in narratives of amputation to encourage critical dialogue and forge an integrated, embodied understanding of experiences of impairment in which mind and body, metaphor and materiality, theory and politics are considered as interrelated and interacting aspects of disability and ability.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Amputation and the Semiotics of “Loss”Part I: The Politics of Amputation2. “Lame Doings.” Amputation, Impotence, and Community in The Shoemaker’s Holiday and A Larum for London3. Complicating the Semiotics of Loss. Gender, Power and Amputation Narratives4. Stalin’s Samovars: Disabled Veterans in (Post-)Soviet LiteraturePart II. Amputations’s Intersections.5. “She Had Wept So Long and So Much on the Stumps”: Amputation and Embodiment in “The Girl Without Hands”.6. Defective Femininity and (Sur)Realist Empowerment: Benito Pérez Galdós’s and Luis Buñuel’s Tristana.7. “Even at This Late Juncture”: Amputation, Old Age, and Paul Rayment’s Prosthetic Family in J.M. Coetzee’s Slow Man.- Part III: Grief and Prosthetic Relations8. The Penalty in Novel and Film: Grieving with the Vengeful Amputee9. “The Blunt Remnant of Something Whole”: Living Stumps and Prosthetic Relations in Thomas Bernhard’s Die Billigesser and Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America10. “But the Damage … Lasted”: Phantom Pain and Mourning in Moritz’s Anton ReiserPart IV: Philosophy, Language, Disability11. Zhuangzi, Amputees, and Virtue (de)12. Speech—Amputation—Writing: Philomela’s Notalogy13. (In)complete Amputation: Body Integrity Identity Disorder and Maurice Blanchot

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Book SynopsisThis book explores how Jacques Lacan has influenced Black Studies from the 1950s to the present day, and in turn how a Black Studies framework challenges the topographies of Lacanianism in its understanding of race. David Marriott examines how a contemporary Black Studies perspective might respond to the psychoanalysis of race by taking advantage of the recent revitalization of Lacanianism in its speculative, metaphysical form. While the philosophical side of the debate makes a plea for a new universalism, this book proposes a Lacanian reassessment of the notion of race, a notion distinct from culture, language, religion, and identity. It argues that it is possible to re-establish the theoretical relation between capitalism, anti-blackness, and colonialism, by reassessing the links between Lacanian psychoanalysis and three main domains of black inquiry: mastery, knowledge, and embodiment. The book offers a strikingly original rereading of the place of Lacan in both Fanon Studies and Afro-pessimism. It will appeal to students and scholars of Black Studies, Cultural Studies, Critical Theory and Philosophy.Table of ContentsPart 1: Slave and Signifier.- Part 2: The X of X.- Part 3: Tell It Like It Is.

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Book Synopsis This open access book offers an interdisciplinary perspective and presents various case studies on music as ICH, highlighting the importance and functionality of music to stimulating social innovation and entrepreneurship. Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) covers the traditions or living expressions proposed by the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in five areas, including music. To understand the relationship between immaterial and material uses and inherent cultural landscapes, this open access book analyzes the symbolic, political, and economic dimensions of music. The authors highlight the continuity and current functionality of these artistic forms of expression as well as their lively and changing character in continuous transformation. Topics include the economic value and impact of music, strategies for social innovation in the music sector, music management, and public policies to promote cultural and creative industries.Table of ContentsPart I. Economic, cultural and social identity.- Chapter 1. Introduction. Music, from intangible cultural heritage to the music industry.- Chapter 2. The impact of the music industry in Europe and the business models involved in its value chain.- Chapter 3. The role of public policies in enhancing cultural and creative industries: an analysis of public policies related to music in Colombia.- Chapter 4. Soundcool: a business model for cultural industries born out of a research project.- Chapter 5. Breaking the gender gap in rap/hip-hop consumption.- Part II. Music and territory: the case of bands in the Valencian Region.- Chapter 6. The intangible cultural landscape of the Banda Primitiva de Llíria.- Chapter 7. Music for the Moors and Christians festivities as intangible cultural heritage: a specific genre for wind bands in certain Spanish regions.- Chapter 8. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on musical societies in the Valencian Region, Spain.- Chapter 9. Conclusions: music as an economic, social, cultural, creative and resilient activity

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