Cultural studies Books

Book SynopsisTrauma and Motherhood in Contemporary Literature and Culture repositions motherhood studies through the lens of trauma theory by exploring new challenges surrounding conception, pregnancy, and postpartum experiences. Chapters investigate nine case studies of motherhood trauma and recovery in literature and culture from the last twenty years by exploring their emotional consequences through the lens of trauma, resilience, and “working through” theories. Contributions engage with a transnational corpus drawn from the five continents and span topics as rarely discussed as pregnancy denial, surrogacy, voluntary or involuntary childlessness, racism and motherhood, carceral mothering practices, surrogacy, IVF, artificial wombs, and mothering through war, genocide, and migration. Accompanied by an online creative supplement, this volume deals with silenced aspects of embodied motherhood while enhancing a better understanding of the cathartic effects of storytelling.Table of Contents1. Trauma and Recovery New Challenges to Motherhood.- Part I: Pregnancy, Childbirth and Trauma.- 2. Understanding the Trauma of Pervasive Pregnancy Denial in L’enfant que je n’attendais pas.- 3. Salvaging the Bones Means Fighting for Reproductive Justice: Jesmyn Ward’s Literary Representations of the Trauma Produced by Attacks on Reproductive Rights, Comprehensive Sex Education, and Access to Maternal Health Care.- 4. Social Trauma and the Anti-Maternal Body in Diane a les épaule.- Part II: Trauma and Disrupted Mother-Child Bonds.- 5. Trauma Behind Bars: Maternal Dilemma in Rossella Schillaci’s Ninna nanna prigioniera.- 6. “Pour dire la souffrance des innocents?” Problematics of the Madonna-Son Trope in Representing Trauma in Philippe Aractingi’s Under the Bombs and Nadine Labaki’s Capernaum.- 7. Traumatic Memory and Narrative Healing in Contemporary Diasporic Chinese British Women’s Writing.- Part III. New Challenges with ART.- 8. Tragedy, In Vitro: The Function of Reproductive Science in Simon Stone’s Adaptation of Yerma.- 9. “I have an enterprise:” Transnational Surrogacy, Neoliberal Repropreneurship, and the Potential Trauma of Clinical Labor in Zippi Brand Frank’s Google Baby.- 10. No Trauma for Artificial Women: Monstrous, Cybernetics, and Anomalous Mothers in Current Latin American Science Fiction

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Book SynopsisIn Choreographing Agonism, author Goran Petrović Lotina offers new insight into the connections between politics and performance. Exploring the political and philosophical roots of a number of recent leftist civil movements, Petrović Lotina forcefully argues for a re-imagining of artistic performance as an instrument of democracy capable of contesting a dominant politics.Inspired by post-Marxist theories of discourse theory, hegemony, conflict, and pluralism, and using tension as a guiding philosophical, political, and artistic force, the book expands the politico-philosophical debate on theories of performance. It offers both scholars and practitioners of performance a thought-provoking analysis of the ways in which artistic performance can be viewed politically as ‘agonistic choreo-political practice,’ a powerful strategy for mobilising alternative ways of living together and invigorating democracy.Choreographing Agonism makes a bold and innovative contribution to the discussion of political and philosophical thought in the field of Performance Studies.Trade Review“Choreographing Agonism is a unique and timely addition to the intersecting fields of politico-philosophical thought and performance studies, offering new interdisciplinary connections between structures of thought underscored by a passionate political impulse.” (Tom Drayton, European Journal of Theatre and Performance, Issue 4, June, 2022)Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Constructing the people.- Chapter 3. The choreography of articulation.- Chapter 4. Political strategies and Performance Studies.- Chapter 5. Discourse theory and artistic performances.- Chapter 6. Tension: a guiding force in performance, philosophy, and politics.- Chapter 7. Drama: an encounter between the performance and the audience.- Chapter 8. Affects and opinion formation.- Chapter 9. Identifications.- Bibliography.- Index.

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Book SynopsisThese conference proceedings are the output of one of the first academic events of its nature happening globally, targeting fashion from a communication sciences perspective, including, in a broad sense, cultural heritage studies and marketing. The chapters present theoretical and empirical interdisciplinary work on how various communication practices impact the fashion industry and on societal fashion-related practices and values. The special focus of this volume is how digital transformation is changing the field and its utility to practitioners. Using these academic insights, practitioners can understand the core causes and reasons for trends and developments in the field of fashion communication and marketing.Table of ContentsPart I: Digitalization in Fashion.- Omni-channel Retailing in the Fashion Industry: Its Definition and Implementation.- Digital Fashion Competences: A Longitudinal Study.- Touch in Text. The Communication of Tactility in Fashion E-Commerce Garment Descriptions.- Symbolic “Entrance” Effects of IoT: Portable Cosmetics Commerce behind the Deep-Link of web.3.0—A Case Study of Social Media Platform Store.- Understanding the Internal and External Drivers and Barriers for Digital Servitization in the European Textile Manufacturing Industry.- Mediatization: Understanding the Rise of Fashion Exhibitions.- Part II: Fashion Communication Strategies.- Fashion Statements. Fashion Communication as an Expression of Artistic, Political, and Social Manifesto between Physical and Digital.- Virgil Abloh’s Contemporary Discourse: An Academic Approach to His Communication Strategies.- Advertising Format Evolution in Fashion Brands’ Communication: Contagious Case Study 2010–2020.- Millennials and Fashion: Branding and Positioning through Digital Interactions.- Digital Fashion Exhibition: Salvatore Ferragamo Museum and Google Arts & Culture.- Harper’s Bazaar en Español (1967): The Failed Attempt to Start a Spanish Edition of Harper’s Bazaar in the 1960s.- Part III: Communicating Sustainability.- Adolfo Domínguez: The Role of Sustainability on the Social Media Engagement in 2020.- Label Conscious: Communicating Verifiable Sustainable Impact by Labelling Garments with Smart Technology.- Building a Prosocial Communication Model in the Fashion Sector, Based on Sustainability and Artificial Intelligence, Derived from COVID-19.- Dressed in Words: Crafting Slow and Fast Fashion Hashtags.- 100 Years of Fashion Activism: From the Women’s Suffrage Movement to the US 2020 Elections.- Rallying Hashtags as a Tool for Societal Change in Fashion.- Intercultural Crisis Communication on Social Media: A Case from Fashion.- Intangible Heritage: The Change of Significance of Hungarian Embroidery over Time.- Part IV: Fashion Storytelling.- Grunig’s Two-Way Model in the Fashion Films of Chanel N̊ 5: The Film and the One that I Want.- The Revival of Heritage Fashion Houses: Brand Identity in the Digital Era.- Luxury Fashion Storytelling: Branding Performance on Instagram.- Fashion Stories in Rome: Place-Making Narratives Within Fashion Branded City Guides.

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Book SynopsisThis volume examines evolving trends and transnational perspectives on public interpretation of archaeological and cultural heritage, as well as levels of communication, from local to regional, national and international. It is presented in the context of the evolution of cultural heritage studies from the 20th century “expert approach” to the 21st century “people-centered approach,” with public participation and community involvement at all phases of the decision-making process. Our premise is not just about bringing in community members to be partners in decision making processes; some projects are being initiated by the community--not the heritage experts. In some instances, community members are central in initiating and bringing about change rather than the archaeologists or heritage specialists. In several cases in the book, descendants take the lead in changing heritage narratives.The book addresses several central questions: Do these actions represent new emphases, or more fundamental pedagogical shifts, in interpretation? Are they resulting in more effective interpretation in facilitating emotional and intellectual connections and meanings for audiences? Are they revealing silenced histories? Can they contribute to, or help mediate, dialogues among a diversity of cultures? Can they be shared experiences as examples of good practice at national and international levels? What are the interpretation and presentation challenges for the future? Cultural heritage, as an expression of a diversity of cultures, can be an important mediator between pasts and futures. In the past, people in power from the dominant ethnic, racial, socio-economic, gender, and religious groups determined the heritage message. Minorities were often silenced; their participation in the building and growth of a city, county, or nation’s history was overlooked. New philosophical/methodological trends in public interpretation are reshaping the messages delivered at archaeological/cultural heritage sites worldwide. The role of the experts, as well as the participatory engagement of audiences and stakeholders are being redefined and reassessed. This book explores these processes, their results and effects on the future.Table of ContentsChapter 1. The Role of Participatory Dialogue in Archaeological and Cultural Heritage Interpretation Worldwide; John Jameson.- Chapter 2. Reflections and Conclusions; Sherene Baugher.- Chapter 3. Emerging Heritage Education: Training the Next Interpreters and Heritage Community Mediators; Kristen Barry.- Chapter 4. Shifting the Narrative: Indigenous cultural heritage and Archaeology in Ontario; Dena Dorozenko.- Chapter 5. Inclusive archaeology. Scientific outreach among 'forgotten collectives’; Juan F. Gibaja et al.- Chapter 6. Interpretation of cultural heritage in World Heritage Sites in Albania. Why should it be included the participation of the local community?; Elisabeta Kodheli.- Chapter 7. Community Archaeology and Collaborative Interpretation at a Rosenwald School: Understanding Fairview’s Past through its Present; Sarah Love.- Chapter 8. On the Horns of an Archaeological Dilemma: Balancing Site Confidentiality and Public Interpretation Imperatives at Delaware State Parks; John McCarthy and Jonathan Wickert.- Chapter 9. Collaboration, Investigation, Interpretation: Collaborative Projects as Pathways for Research, Interpretation, and Meaning; Jennifer McKinnon et al.- Chapter 10. Jeanne Moe.- Chapter 11. Gold Rush vs. Heritage Preservation. Rosia Montana Case (Romania); Sergiu Musteata & Elena Cozma.- Chapter 12. Raquel Piqué and Oriol Vicente.- Chapter 13. Prehistoric and Current communities: new ways of understanding; Antoni Ferrer Rotger et al.- Chapter 14. Peter Schmidt.- Chapter 15. Adding value to heritage management: public involvement in monument designation; Jose Schreurs & Marjolein Verschuur.- Chapter 16. Unearthing the Trent House, Collaborative Community Archaeology in Action; Rich Veit.- Chapter 17. Revolutionary Narratives: Irish, Polish, and Haudenosaunee Crafting of Heritage Narratives of the Revolutionary War; Brant Venables.- Chapter 18. Decolonizing Fort Vancouver: Archaeology’s Role in Interpreting Colonial Heritage Sites; Doug Wilson et.al.

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Book SynopsisThis volume brings together work by authors who draw upon sociological and criminological methods, theory, and frameworks, to produce research that pushes boundaries, considers new questions, and reshape the existing understanding of "art crimes", with a strong emphasis on methodological innovation and novel theory application. Criminologists and sociologists are poorly represented in academic discourse on art and culture related crimes. However, to understand topics like theft, security, trafficking, forgery, vandalism, offender motivation, the efficacy of and results of policy interventions, and the effects art crimes have on communities, we must develop the theoretical and methodological models we use for analyses. The readership of this book is expected to include academics, researchers, and practitioners in the fields of criminology, sociology, law, and heritage studies who have an interest in art and heritage crime.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Part I: Methods.- Transiting Through the Antiquities Market.- Exploring Taste Formation and Performance in the Illicit Trade of Human Remains on Instagram.- #antiquitiesdealers.- Evaluating the transformative potential of Photovoice for research into the global illicit trade in cultural objects.- A New Method of Forensic Archaeology.- Part II: Theory.- Cuneiform exceptionalism?.- Crime, Material and Meaning in Art World Desirescapes.- Authentically Exotic and Authentically Beautiful.- “Blitzkrieg Against Black Magic”.- Art Crime and the Myth of Violence.- Part III: Data Applications.- Small Museums, Big Problems.- Guardians in the Antiquities Market.- More Than Just Money.- Offender Motivations and Expectations of Data in Antiquities Looting.- One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Clock.

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Book SynopsisThis open access collection deals with musical moments in film as one of the most pivotal and compelling issues of current film music research. Musical moments as defined by Amy Herzog occur when a musical number inverts the normal relationship between the image track and the soundtrack in a film in such a way that what we see is determined by what we hear. As one potential approach, this definition provokes a variety of perspectives to investigate the disruptive potential of these moments and numbers as a creative device in the production of audiovisual narratives. In this sense, the book responds to a need for an anthology that introduces students as well as scholars of cinema, musicology, media studies and cultural studies more broadly, to recent discourses in film music scholarship. The volume includes contributions by early career researchers as well as by established experts in the fields of musicology, film studies, media studies, and cultural studies, promoting cross-disciplinary collaboration in film music research. Table of Contents1. Introduction.- Part I. What the Musical Moment Can Do - Theoretical Approaches.- 2. The Musical Moment, Counter-Memory, Oblivion.- 3. The Crystal Song in four American Films from 2016 to 2018.- 4. Seriously Funny: Comedy, Performance and the Musical Moment in Toni Erdmann (2016).- 5. Experiencing Romance in Musical Moments.- Part II. How the Musical Moment was Created – Musical Numbers in Silent Cinema.- 6. Film’s First Musical Moment: The Dickson Experimental Sound Film, 1895.- 7. The Musical Moment in three Silent Films by Jacques Feyder: Narrative Vector or Emotional Catalyst?.- 8. A Waltz Dream: Musical Moments in Silent Operetta Films.- 9. Silent Movie Music(ians) on Screen: How Four Films Made Period Practices Audible and Visible.- Part III. Musical Dis/Placements – Musical Moments in Global Cinema.- 10. Musical Numbers in Bollywood Cinema's Homeland and Diaspora.- 11. Envisioning Chinese Musicals in the Era of Sound: Sound Cinema, the Songstress, and the Emergence of Mandarin Chinese Film Musicals, 1920s-1930s.- 12. De-Gendering Genre: Mayuzumi Toshirō's Avant-Garde Music in Popular Cinema.-13. Music in Nollywood Films: Schools of Thought and Performance Contexts.- 14. Redemption Songs: Musical Moments in Flora Gomes’s Nha Fala (2002) and Joseph Gaï Ramaka’s Karmen Geï (2001).- 15. “No hay nada que celebrar”: Migration, Violence, and Musical Moments in Luis Estrada’s El Infierno (2010).

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Book SynopsisRevisualising Intersectionality offers transdisciplinary interrogations of the supposed visual evidentiality of categories of human similarity and difference. This open-access book incorporates insights from social and cognitive science as well as psychology and philosophy to explain how we visually perceive physical differences and how cognition is fallible, processual, and dependent on who is looking in a specific context. Revisualising Intersectionality also puts into conversation visual culture studies and artistic research with approaches such as gender, queer, and trans studies as well as postcolonial and decolonial theory to complicate simplified notions of identity politics and cultural representation. The book proposes a revision of intersectionality research to challenge the predominance of categories of visible difference such as race and gender as analytical lenses. Table of Contents1 Introduction: Revisualising Intersectionality 2 Where Difference Begins 3 Revisualising Intersectionality: Conversations 4 The Ends of Visibility 5 Conclusion: Revising Intersectionality

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Book SynopsisThis book offers the first, full academic analysis of the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup. Adopting an international relations perspective, the authors critically interrogate the politics and controversy that has surrounded arguably the most controversial sports event ever. In doing so, this text offers up an imperative examination of Qatar’s desired objectives through their investment in global sport and sports events, as well as provides readers with an academic explanation on why major event hosts – such as Qatar – receive so much international scrutiny in the pre-event stage of the event hosting process. On the back of this international scrutiny, this text also provides the first full analysis on how such negative scrutiny has forced Qatar to implement various social-political changes at home. Table of ContentsChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: The State of Qatar: A BackgroundChapter 3: The Politics and Power of Small States: The 2022 World Cup and Qatar’s Global Sports Strategy Chapter 4: The Controversial Games: Responses to Qatar’s 2022 World CupChapter 5: Qatar in 2022 and Beyond: Changes, Opportunities, Challenges

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Book SynopsisReindeer have been an integral part of the lives of people in Northern Fennoscandia in prehistoric and historic times. Today, reindeer herding practices are changing fast due to climate change, land use pressures and new technologies. This book outlines recent advances in the archaeology of reindeer domestication and development of reindeer herding among the Sámi of Northern Fennoscandia, focusing especially on the identification and understanding of various reindeer herding tasks and practices through archaeological evidence and traditional knowledge of reindeer herders. Covering more than a thousand years of history of reindeer herding, the book explores how reindeer herding practices have always been dynamic and adapted to the changing social, economic and environmental pressures. While reindeer herding practices have changed, they have also retained memory and tradition. The continuity and adaptation of reindeer herding testifies of the resilience of reindeer herders and their animals, and the importance of their relationship in the changing Arctic. This book will be of interest to scholars interested in archaeology, anthropology, and history of the Arctic, as well as local communities and reindeer herders.Table of ContentsPart I: The history and biology of reindeer domestication.- Chapter 1. Introduction: Perspectives on the history and ethnoarchaeology of reindeer domestication and herding.- Chapter 2. Impact of human selection on the genetics and morphology of the reindeer.- Part II: Domestication and herding strategies.- Chapter 3. Castration as part of reindeer herd management.- Chapter 4. Working reindeer in past and present reindeer herding.- Chapter 5. Human-reindeer relationships and reindeer feeding: Perspectives from archaeology and reindeer herders’ knowledge.- Part III: Human-reindeer landscapes.- Chapter 6. Habitation sites and herding landscapes.- Chapter 7. Mobility in early reindeer herding.- Part IV: Social and cultural entanglements.- Chapter 8. Effects of reindeer domestication on society and religion.- Chapter 9. Conclusions: Past and present reindeer herding in dialogue.

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Book SynopsisPart 1. Introduction.- Chapter 1. CLIC EU Horizon2020 R&I Project: Circular models leveraging investments in cultural heritage adaptive reuse (Luigi Fusco Girard, Antonia Gravagnuolo).- Part 2: Theoretical Foundations.- Chapter 2. The circular human-centred adaptive reuse of cultural heritage: theoretical foundations (Luigi Fusco Girard).- Chapter 3.       Intangible Matters: cultural heritage as a driver for circular economy (Authors: Marco Acri, Xavier Greffe, Saša Dobricic).- Chapter 4.           The Intimate Circular Dimension of Heritage Conservation and Historic Urban Landscape (Saša Dobricic, Marco Acri, Jukka Jokilehto).- Part 3: Practices, experimentations and tools for the adaptive reuse of cultural heritage in the perspective of the circular economy model: evaluation tools.- Chapter 5.       In search of a circular model for cultural heritage adaptive reuse: building evidence-base (Antonia Gravagnuolo, Gabriella Monteleone, Luigi Fusco Girard).- Chapter 6.    A statistical model representation and analysis of cultural heritage adaptive reuse practices based on latent variables for circularity assessment  (Natale Carlo Lauro, Antonia Gravagnuolo, Luigi Fusco Girard, Immacolata Vellecco, Maurizio Lauro).- Chapter 7. Understanding best practices of cultural heritage adaptive reuse in the perspective of the circular economy: in-depth assessment of case studies (Francesca Buglione, Antonia Gravagnuolo, Mariarosaria Angrisano, Silvia Iodice, Martina Bosone, Pasquale De Toro, Luigi Fusco Girard).- Chapter 8. The CLIC multidimensional impacts assessment framework: criteria and indicators for circular human-centred adaptive reuse of cultural heritage (Antonia Gravagnuolo, Martina Bosone, Luigi Fusco Girard).- Chapter 9. A multicriteria and multi-scalar Decision Support System to implement circular economy in cultural heritage adaptive reuse (Simona Panaro, Salvatore Greco, Alessio Ishizaka).- Chapter 10. Social Sustainability Framework for measuring socio-cultural impacts of cultural heritage adaptive reuse (Agata Zbikowska, Magdalena Roszczynska-Kurasinska, Bartosz Slosarski, Anna Domaradzka).- Chapter 11. Grassroots Social Sustainability Framework and Intrinsic Value measures for cultural heritage adaptive reuse projects (Anna Domaradzka, Magdalena Roszczynska-Kurasinska).- Chapter 12. Multidimensional Spillovers of Cultural Heritage through Regional Development and Circular Economy (Christer Gustafsson, Jermina Stanojev).- Chapter 13. Towards participatory, dynamic, co-evolutionary evaluation for circular adaptive reuse of cultural heritage: the experimentation of Salerno Circular City of Health (Antonia Gravagnuolo, Martina Bosone, Serena Micheletti, Mariarosaria Angrisano, Luigi Fusco Girard).- Part 4. Barriers, bottlenecks and the need of a new governance.- Chapter 14. Adaptive reuse of cultural heritage: barrier assessment and policy-related recommendations (Deniz Ikiz Kaya, Nadia Pintossi, Caroline A.M. Koot).- Chapter 15. A New Approach for Cultural Heritage Adaptive Reuse: Circular Governance (Cristina Garzillo, Allison Wildman, Intza Balenciaga, Ane Izulain).- Part 5. Circular Business Models and Financial Instruments.- Chapter 16. Circular business model for cultural heritage adaptive reuse. An iterative journey (Ruba Saleh, Christian Ost).- Chapter 17. Business Models for Cultural Heritage Adaptive Reuse (Immacolata Vellecco, Assunta Martone).- Chapter 18. Key Learnings from the Kultur-Token Sustainable Business Modelling Case Study (Gillian Foster).- Chapter 19. Investment Leverage for Adaptive Reuse of Cultural Heritage (Tracy Pickerill).- Chapter 20. Circular financing mechanisms for Adaptive Reuse of Cultural Heritage (Aliona Lupu, Ivo Allegro).- Part 6.  Is it possible to incentivise creativity in the cultural heritage entrepreneurial sector?.- Chapter 21. Heritage-led entrepreneurial ecosystems: skills and role of startups and innovation (Antonia Gravagnuolo, Aliona Lupu, Jermina Stanojev, Valeria Catanese).- Part 6. Conclusions and some Guidelines.- Chapter 22. Conclusions and some guidelines (Luigi Fusco Girard, Antonia Gravagnuolo).

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Book SynopsisChapter 1. Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Anthropocene. Taking Stock of Initiatives across the World (Christoph Wulf).- Part I: Living Heritage as Initiator of Transition.- Chapter 2. Living Heritage A Contribution from UNESCO (Susanne Schnüttgen).- Chapter 3. Living Heritage as a Global Public Good and Sustainable Development (Pier Luigi Petrillo).- Chapter 4. Giving a Voice to the People: Intangible Cultural Heritage in Transformation and Structural Change (Marlen Meissner).- Chapter 5. World Heritage and Intangible Heritage What Connects it and what Differentiates it? (Marie-Theres Albert).- Chapter 6. UNESCO's World Heritage Convention, the Intangible Heritage Convention and the Masterpiece Programme. An Analysis of Mutual Relations, References and Distinctions (Thomas Schmitt).- Part II: Colonialism, Minorities, Inequalities, and the Struggle for Human Rights.- Chapter 7. Africa's Response to Intangible Cultural Heritage Convention (Michael Omolewa, Emmanuel Orihentare Eregare & Rose Eyefujinrin Ebohon).- Chapter 8. Notes Nobody Notes: Samba as Musical Heritage of African Ancestry in Brazil (Nina Graeff).- Chapter 9. Threats and Approaches in Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage. A View from the United States (Michelle L. Stefano).- Chapter 10. Controversial Intangible Heritage in Indonesia (Lydia Kieven & Christoph Antweiler).- Chapter 11. Intangible Heritage and the Complexities of Inequalities in the Politics of Belonging (Kristin Kuutma & Elo-Hanna Seljamaa).- Chapter 12. On Reaching a Consensus: A Paradigm for the Inscription of Elements on the UNESCO Lists of Intangible Cultural Heritage (Eva Kuminková, L'ubica Vol'anská, Martin Andrade Perez).- Part III: Identity Building, Participation, and Conflicts.- Chapter 13. Twenty Years of the UNESCO 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage: Experiences from the Implementation of the Convention in Poland (2011-2023) (Hanna Schreiber).- Chapter 14. Valleys Low, Mountains High. Embedding the 2003 Convention in Switzerland (Stefan Koslowski & Julien Vuilleumier).- Chapter 15. Expanding Cultural Participation through the 2003 UNESCO Convention in Germany's Multi-Level Governance System (Benjamin Hanke).- Chapter 16. Making Sense and Talking about Smell. Dynamics of the Implementation of the 2003 Convention in the Netherlands (Sophie Elpers).- Chapter 17. An Examination of the Developmental Process and Characteristics of the Korean Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection System (Hahm, Hanhee & Yong Gu Kim).- Chapter 18. The Special Way of Intangible Cultural Heritage Safeguarding in China and Some New Practice and Concepts (Anying Chen).- Chapter 19. What Contribution do Intangible Cultural Heritage Practices make to Identity? Global, Regional, National, and Local Perspectives. A Colombian Case Study (Viviana Polo-Flórez).- Chapter 20. Against All Odds: Keeping Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Arab World Vivant (Hani Hayajneh).- Part IV: Living Culture in Aesthetic Encounters.- Chapter 21. Music as Heritage (Tiago de Oliveira Pinto).- Chapter 22. Modern Dance Created in Germany. The Safeguarding and Creative Practice of Dance Heritage (Vicky Kämpfe).- Chapter 23. Intangible Cultural Heritage:  Challenges and Expectations.  (Christoph Wulf).- Chapter 24. Museums as Facilitators in the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage (Hartwig Lüdtke).- Chapter 25. The Glocal Self: Cultural Policy Concepts between Heritage and Future Using the Example of Berlin's Humboldt Forum (Julius Heinicke).- Chapter 26. From Communities of Belief to Artists in Performance: Clear Enigma' of Odin Teatret and the Pulluvas, or Three Transitions in Heritage (Sharmistha Saha).- Part V: Challenging Issues, Future Developments, and New Areas of Research.- Chapter 27. Cultural Economies of Intangible Cultural Heritage as Modalities of Care. The Wealth of Networks, Community-Based Value Chains and Commoning (Gertraud Koch, Julia Rausch & Anna Stoffregen).- Chapter 28. Deeply Entangled, Never Alone: Intangible Cultural Heritage Practices in Post-Digital and Digital Culture (Benjamin Jörissen & Leopold Klepacki).- Chapter 29. Threats to the Transmission of Living Heritage among Children and Youth. Social Media Use, Reflections and Suggestions from a decade of Capacity-building (Suzanne Ogge).- Chapter 30. Metaphors for the Study of Digital Heritage Cultures (Payal Arora).- Chapter 31. Anthropology as a Catalyst in Living Heritage World-Making Projects: The Case of the Voladores Ceremony in Mexico (Cristina Amescua-Chávez & Montserrat Patricia Rebollo Cruz).- Chapter 32. Intangible Heritage as a Factor of Cultural Resilience in Rural Areas of Germany (Manuel Trummer & Mirko Uhlig).- Chapter 33. Restoration of Intangible Cultural Heritage and Communities after Disasters: Cases of Soma Nomaoi and Obori Soma Yaki in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan (Tomo Ishimura).

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Book SynopsisIntroduction.- Final Memories, New Narratives: Ruptures and Continuities in the Dynamics of Brazilian Migratory Flows from the 19th to the 21st Century.- Bridging Communities for Change: Community Based Participatory Research in Tackling Homelessness and Mental Health.- Haitian cross border mobility in Brazil: kongo, vyewo and dyaspora. Territories and Frontiers of Alterity in Sao Paulo: Theoretical Considerations for the Study of Segregation Processes, Vulnerability, and Tensions Among Foreigners in the Metropolis.- Reflections on new epistemological, education and narrative horizons in Brazil: migration, refuge, multilingualism and interculturality.- Black women in Brazilian public universities: resisting to persist.- Deconstructing internalized hegemonic narratives: Intercultural Psychosocial Intervention.

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Book SynopsisSection 1. Enhance performance and reduce energy use in storage areas: two Belgian case studies; Cosaert, A.; Tijskens, A.; Bauwens, G.; De Bruyn, E.- Preventive conservation strategies at the Rijksmuseum showcases; Alvarez-Martin, A.; van Iperen, J.; Verhaar, G.; Creange, S.; van Bennekom, J.; Keune, K..- Sound-induced vibrations as a potential threat to museum artefacts; Alami, K.; Baars, C.; Pullin, R.; Grigg, S..- Your Building Management Systems: a treasure-trove for Collection Care ; Haddad, A.; Martins, A.; Rakush, I.; Stomber, R..- Revising and Developing the Environmental Policy for the British Library; Bradford, K.; Garside, P..- Risk Management and Environmental Monitoring: A Combined Approach to Preventive Conservation for the Coin Exhibition of the Dresden State Art Collections; Jeberien, A.; Pamer-Gatzsche, I.; Loether, T.; Mäder, M..- The Preventive Conservation Plan of the Alcazar of Seville; García Álvarez, J.; Tena Marín, M..- The Human Sensor: Supplementing Our Preventive Conservation Sensor Data with Observations; King, M..- Diverse collections, different contexts: risk management for the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation cultural heritage; de Araújo Pinheiro, M.J.; Teixeira Coelho, C.M.; Tartaglia, A.R..- Design of tables with unified criteria for the preliminary phases of the study of cultural heritage: risk indicators and priorities; Mastroiacovo, T.; Soriano Sancho, M.P.; Regidor Ros, J.L..- Storage, moving and re-storage of Municipal Oporto Collections; Aguiar, M.; Borges, I.; Barata, C.; Cabral, A..- Accommodating and Compromising Storage, Access, and Possible Repatriation. Rehousing the NTNU University Museum Sámi Collection; Peacock, E.E..- Museum lighting, Sustainable Development Goals, environmental impact, people-centred, intergenerational; Saunders, D..- Risk management of archaeo-paleontological collection from sierra de Atapuerca sites at CENIEH;De León-Verdasco, S.; Fernández-Colón, P.; Lorenzo-Cases, R..- Risk assessment applied to public-art collections: an integrated tool for programmed conservation; Gómez Ubierna, M.- Tailor-made protection of paintings against shock and vibration during transport; Verhoeff, G.; Kracht, K..- Section 2.- New premises, new challenges: Integrating Preventive Conservation at the National Library of Greece; Gkinni, Z..- Using Threat Landscapes as a Preventive Conservation Tool; Garside, P.; Bradford, K..- Use Image Recognition Combined with Environmental Sensing to Detect the Causes of Cultural Relics Deterioration; Hung, C.; Chang, C.; Min, F.; Lee, T.; Shao, C.; Wang.- Conservation of the archeological metallic heritage of Navarra; Balduz Azcárate, B.; Sánchez Delgado, A.C.; Usúa.- Building light risk categories for the musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac collection to prioritize its microfadotesting and formulate its lighting policy: whichcriteria to use? How to assess and select the best approach?; Pesme, C; Kissel, E..- Museum pollutants and preventive conservation: review and future perspectives.; De Tapol B.V; Alcayde, M.J..- Section 2. Predictive Analysis of Cultural Objects and Preventative Conservation.- Dynamic indoor climate conditions for sustainable preventive conservation; Kramer, R.; Neuhaus, E.- Painting-specific backing boards based on vibration testing and FEM simulation; Lipp, F.; Kracht, K..- The effect of prior light exposure on the lightfastness of synthetic dyes; Hagan, E.; Poulin, J..- 2D chemical imaging for the monitoring of the formation of metal soaps on oil-painted copper and zinc substrates; Russo, S.; Brambilla, L.; Thomas, J.B.; Joseph, E..- A Study of Three Modern Asian Lacquers Using Surface Metrology and Data Science/Analytics; Sheets, H.D.; Ravines, P.; Webb, M..- Proactive environmental control of storage and exhibition facilities for cultural heritage through machine learning; Kejser, U.B.; Hansen, B.V.; Ryhl-Svendsen, M.; Boesgaard.- Multi-scale hybrid model to predict degradation kinetics of cellulose acetate films; Al Mohtar, A.; Lopes, J.; Neves, A.; Nunes, S.; Zappi, D.; Varani, G.; Ramos, A.M.; Melo, M.J.; Wallaszkovits, N.; Lahoz Rodrigo, J.I.; Herlt.- Incorporation of MOF particles in polyurethane foams for VOC's adsorption in cellulose acetate cultural heritage; Freitas, c.; Al Mohtar, a.; Neves, m.; Pimenta, V.; Nouar,.- Refinements on Accelerated Corrosion Testing Development of Sustainable, Reproducible Indicator Plates and Reaction Vessels; Jeberien, A.; Alktash, N.; Schaffarczyk, S.; Szyszka, B..- Physico-chemical evaluation of corrosion processes in copper-based model samples for preventive conservation; Kepa, L.; Gasiorowska, I.; Trybula, M.; Turczyniak Surdacka, S.; Kalisz, M.; Donten, M.; Bulska, E.; Zschech, E..- Developing conservation-focused curriculum to advance analysis of temperature and relative humidity data; Beltran, V.L.; Linden, J.; Cosaert, A..- Measuring Object Deterioration Rates In-Situ; Thickett, D..- Monitoring environmental conditions inside display cases: challenges faced in two case studies; Bauwens, G.; Roels, S..- Supporting preventive conservation strategies for oil paintings with water transport modelling; Duivenvoorden, J.R.; Hermans, J.J.;Iedema, P.D.; Keune, K..- Hygro-mechanical modelling of wooden cultural objects for damage and risk assessment as a tool for preventive conservation; Stöcklein, J.; Grajcarek, G.; Oertel, S.; Schulze, A.; Mäder, M.; Kaliske.- New metal-organic frameworks for efficient adsorption of cellulose-damaging VOC in ambient conditions; Severino, M.I.; Al Mohtar, A.; Antunes da Silva, K.; Pimenta, V.; Nouar, F.; Pinto, M.L.; Serre, C..- Section 3. Connectivity, Sensing, and Cloud Computing Technologies.- Integrated sensing platform for combined relative humidity, temperature, and corrosiveness measurements; Pantzare, S.; Beni, V.; Becker, J.; Thierry, D.; Rioual, S.; Lescop, B.; Hurry, S.; Pongratz, H.; Krüger, M.; Grieco, D.; Chaumat.- More energy input = better collections care output?; Baars, C.; Jones, G.; Finnegan, S..- Monitoring the technical suitability of shelter for the preventive conservation os archaeological sites: a fuzzy logic system applied to Complutum, Spain; Cabello-Briones, C.: Prieto, A.J.; Ortiz, P.; Barrio, J..- Harnessing data science technology for environmental monitoring at the V&A; Shah, B..- Performance and reliability of LoRaWAN sub-GHz networks in cultural institutions, a real world study; McMinn, N..- Development of low cost RFID sensors dedicated to preventive conservation; Rioual, S.; Lescop, B.; Pellé, J.; De Alkmim Radicchi, G.; Chaumat, G.; Bruni, M.D.; Becker, J.; Thierry, D..- Investigating the possibility of using microchips (aq:bits) for safeguarding special collections; Aleksic, G.; Oreškovic, M.; Krstic, D..- Museum Monitoring (MuMo) Creating a LoRaWan Datalogger for ModeMuseum Antwerpen with Open Hard- and Software; Suls, A.D..

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Book SynopsisYouth politics and participation a general portrait and a research.- Biographical paths of participation.- Representations of society and meanings of participation.- Action topics goals activities organisational models.- The group the young activists in their own eyes.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1. Introduction: Navigating a Post-Oil Future (Mehan).- Part 1. Oil Heritage: Cultural and Social Perspectives.- Chapter 2. Crude Visions: Exploring Oil's Aesthetic Legacy in Iranian Contemporary Art (Resta).- Chapter 3. Cultural-Social Narratives of the Company's Station Compound from Past to Present (Mirzaei and Lakizadeh).- Chapter 4. The Postindustrial Landscape of Eastern Khuzestan after Oil: Case Study of Naft-Sefid (Ghomeshi).- Chapter 5.- The Embodied Spatial Experience in the Oil Industry’s Landscape through the Cinematic Lens of Michelangelo Antonioni (Georga).- Chapter 6. It’s a Gas: The Twilight of Oil Culture in American Photography (Relidzynska).- Part 2. Global Oil Frontiers: Opportunities and Challenges.- Chapter 7. Navigating Uganda's Oil Frontier: Understanding Potential, Addressing Challenges, and Annexing Opportunities (Shafik).- Chapter 8. Climate Justice Through Design: A Shift in Paradigm within the Gulf of Mexico (Mehan and Casey).- Chapter 9. Innovation in a Post-Oil City: Moving Design Away from Carbon Dependency (Rasouli).- Chapter 10. The Solarpunk Resiliency: An Alternative Approach to Transitioning Towards Post-Oil Urbanscapes (Sezer).- Chapter 11. Navigating the Post-Oil Landscape: A Case Study of Azerbaijan (Husar and Pashayeva).- Part 3. Petrochemical Industries: Legacies and Impacts.- Chapter 12. The Rise of Petrotopias in Bahrain: Nationalists, Oil Companies and the People (Tirupathi).- Chapter 13. The Impacts of the Petrochemical Industry in Latin America: The Argentinian and Mexican Cases (Loredo-Cansino).- Chapter 14. Mapping Toxic Legacies to Map Future Possibilities: Community-Based Experiences Toward Just Transitions in an Italian Risk Landscape (Privitera).- Part 4. Green Transition and Sustainable Futures.- Chapter 15. Upcycle and the Automobile: What to Do with All of the Clunkers During the Green Mobility Transition (Stiefel).- Chapter 16. Transforming the Construction Industry to Become More Resourceful: The Knowledge Gaps in Mass Timber Construction Systems (Lehmann). Chapter 17. Greening in Aridity: Navigating Industrial Growth and the Climate Crisis in Morocco (Tafrata).- Chapter 18. Urban Transitions and Industrial Heritage in the After-Oil Era: Lessons from Turin's Automotive Legacy (Mezzalama and Dinler).- Chapter 19.  From Soviet Oil Heritage to a European Energy Future in Ukraine (Zadorian and Hutson).- Part 5. Strategic Planning for Post-Oil Cities.- Chapter 20. Reimagining Jeddah's Urban Landscape: Transitioning Beyond Oil Dependence (Mohsen and Elkateeb).- Chapter 21. A Tactical Strategy for the Future City! The Architecture of a Blueprint Based on Scenario Planning (Yousefi and Ghorashi).- Chapter 22. Global Energy Transition influence in Urban Development: Digital Heritage Preservation Methods approaches (Alikhani and Ghiasi).- Part 6. Urban and Spatial Transformations Beyond Oil.- Chapter 23. Navigating Post-Oil Transitions and Spatial Justice: A Case Study of Cleveland, Ohio (Meshkani).- Chapter 24. The Complexities and Contradictions of Baghdad’s Social-Cultural, Political, and Urban Transformation during the Post-oil (Merie).- Chapter 25. Reinforcing “Chineseness” in the Central-Asian Borderland: Labor and Eco-Nationalism in the Making of Karamay's Oil Heritage (Yu).- Chapter 26. Oil in Los Angeles: Tenable Futures from Extractive Pasts (Sharma).- Part 7. Heritage and Cultural Shifts in Post-Oil Societies. Chapter 27. Oil, Medicine, and Modernization: The Evolution of Healthcare in Iran’s Oil Company Towns (1901–1979) (Seyedi et al.).- Chapter 28. Shifting Ideals: Energy and the American Dream After the 1973 Oil Crisis (Akhavan).- Chapter 29. Navigating the Post-Petroleum Era: A Comparative Study of Sustainable Urban Development Strategies in Oil-Reliant Cities in Iran and Singapore (Langaroudi et al.).

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Book Synopsis To what extent do minority writers feel represented by the literary canon of a nation and its body of "great works"? To what extent do they adhere to, or contest, the supposedly universal values conveyed through those texts and how do they situate their own works within the national tradition? Building on Edward W. Said’s contrapuntal readings and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s reflections on the voice of the subaltern, this monograph examines the ways in which Rafik Schami, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, and Feridun Zaimoglu have re-read, challenged, and adapted the German canon. Similar to other writers in postcolonial contexts, their work on the canon entails an inquiry into history and a negotiation of their relation to the texts and representations that define the "host" nation. Through close analyses of the works of these non-native German authors, the book investigates the intersection between politics, ethics, and aesthetics in their work, focusing on the appropriation and re-evaluation of cultural legacies in German-language literature. Opening up a rich critical dialogue with scholars of German Studies and Postcolonial Theory, Christine Meyer provides a fresh perspective on German-language minority literature since the reunification. Watch our talk with the editor Christine Meyer here: https://youtu.be/bIOn-8q5QIU

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Book SynopsisA critical reading of both literary and non-literary German texts published between 1490 and 1540 exposes a populist backlash against perceived social and political disruptions, the dramatic expansion of spatial and epistemological horizons, and the growth of global trade networks. These texts opposed the twin phenomena of pluralization and secularization, which promoted a Humanist tolerance for ambiguity, boosted globalization and spatial expansion around 1500, and promoted new ways of imagining the world. Part I considers threats to the political order and the protestations against them, above all a vigorous defense of the common good. Part II traces the intellectual and epistemological upheaval triggered by the spatial discoveries and the new methods of visual and verbal representation of space. Part III examines the nationalistic backlash triggered by the rising global trade and related abusive trading practices and by perceived undue foreign influences. It is the basic premise of this book that the texts examined here protested the observed disruptions of the status quo and sought to reestablish a stable imperial order in the face of political and social upheaval and of the felt cultural decline of the German nation.

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Book SynopsisThe eleven chapters in this international volume draw on a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to focus our attention on medieval and early modern things (ca. 700–1600). The range of things includes actual objects (the Altenburg Crucifixion, a copy of Hieronymus Brunschwig’s Liber de arte distillandi, a pilgrim’s letter), imagined objects (a prayed cloak for the Virgin Mary), and narrative objects in texts (the Alliterative Morte Arthure, the Ordene de Chevalerie, Hartmann von Aue’s Erec, Heinrich of Neustadt’s Apollonius of Tyre, Luís de Camões’s Os Lusíadas, and the vita of Saint Guthlac). Each in its own way, the papers consider how things do what they do in texts and art, often foregrounding the intersection between the material and the immaterial by exploring such questions as how things act, how they express power, and how texts and images represent them. Medieval and early modern things are repeatedly shown to be more than symbolic or passive, they are agentive and determinative in both their intra- and extradiegetic worlds. The things that are addressed in this volume are varied and are embedded, or entangled, in different contexts and societies, and yet they share a concerted engagement in human life.

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Book SynopsisTo British television viewers, the name ‘Patrick Moore’ has been synonymous with Astronomy and Space Travel since he first appeared on The Sky at Night in 1957. To amateur astronomers he has been a source of inspiration, joy, humour and even an eccentric role model since that time. Most people know that his 55 years of presenting The Sky at Night is a world record, but what was he really like in person? What did he do away from the TV cameras, in his observatory, and within the British Astronomical Association, the organisation that inspired him as a youngster? Also, precisely what did he do during the War Years, a subject that has always been shrouded in mystery? Martin Mobberley, a friend of Patrick Moore’s for 30 years, and a former President of the British Astronomical Association, has spent ten years exhaustively researching Patrick’s real life away from the TV cameras. His childhood, RAF service, tireless voluntary work for astronomy and charity and his endless book writing are all examined in detail. His astronomical observations are also examined in unprecedented detail, along with the battles he fought along the way and his hatred of bureaucracy and political correctness. No fan of Sir Patrick Moore can possibly live without this work on their bookshelf!Table of ContentsChapter 1: The Pre-War Years.- Chapter 2: The War Years.- Chapter 3: The Post War Years.- Chapter 4: The First Books and O’Neill’s Bridge.- Chapter 5:Desmond Leslie, Cedric Allingham and Science Fiction.- Chapter 6: The BBC.- Chapter 7: Encounters with Russians and George Alcock.- Chapter 8: some Classic 1960s Broadcasts.- Chapter 9: Back to the Lunar Section.- Chapter 10: The Move to Armagh.- Chapter 11: Meteorites, Pills, Saturn and the Leonids.- Chapter 12: St. Osyth, Two British Novae, Serpents Everywhere, and an OBE.- Chapter 13: Selsey and the Race to the Moon.- Chapter 14: Apollo 11.- Chapter 15: A Bestselling Author, Nutters and More Moon Landings.- Chapter 16: Mainly BAA and TLP.- Chapter 17: Back in Charge of the Lunar Section.- Chapter 18: A Telescope, a Comet and the Monte Umbe.- Chapter 19: Kohoutek Flops and This is Your Life.- Chapter 20: Not Enough Hours in the Day.- Chapter 21: A Naked Eye Nova and a Director Resigns.- Chapter 22: An End to Lunar Section Chores.- Chapter 23: Twenty Years on TV and a Fall in the Bath!- Chapter 24: Back in the TLP Driving Seat.- Chapter 25: Nursing Mother.- Chapter 26: A British Comet Marks the End of an Era.- Chapter 27: Musings on Planet 10; Life after Mother.- Chapter 28: Halley recovered as Patrick becomes President.- Chapter 29: Fifty Years in the BAA and Halley.- Chapter 30: Supernova 1987A, Politics and a New Magazine.- Chapter 31: Business as Usual at the BBC and the BAA.- Chapter 32: A 100th Birthday and Madness in Buenos Aires.- Chapter 33: A Nasty Accident and Shoemaker-Levy 9.- Chapter 34: The Caldwell Catalogue, Neptune and More Foreign Trips.- Chapter 35: Death of a Friend, Selsey’s Tornado and Serious Health Problems.- Chapter 36: The 1999 Total Solar Eclipse and Ailing Health.- Chapter 37: A Knighthood, a BAFTA and a Fellow of the Royal Society.- Chapter 38: A Biography, a Co-presenter, a Venus Transit and a Deadly Goose Egg.- Chapter 39: A New Magazine, a Pacemaker and BANG!- Chapter 40: 50 Years of The Sky At Night.- Chapter 41: Still Alive Despite All the Odds!- Chapter 42: Life, the Universe and Everything.- Epilogue: Patrick’s Legacy.- Appendix 1: Patrick’s Variable Stars.- Appendix 2: Patrick’s Voluntary BAA Roles.- Appendix 3: Total Solar Eclipse Trips Experienced by Patrick.- Appendix 4: Patrick’s 300+ Books and Other Media Offerings.

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Book SynopsisThis book is the first to explore and compare football governance, fandom culture and supporter engagement in Europe. With a specific focus on supporter activism and campaigning, the collection provides a comparative study of several European countries. The authors argue that supporters, despite being the pillar or the ‘lifeblood’ of their club, see their role in football governance marginalised. The volume is unique in that it challenges the widely accepted assumption that membership football clubs encourage the democratic participation of supporters.Covering football fandom in both the traditional ‘big five’ leagues and non-‘big five’ countries such as Portugal, Turkey, Croatia, Poland and Czech Republic, the volume will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including sociology, history, sport management, sport governance and political science.Trade Review“The book is structured simply but clearly. The individual contributions are well-written and up-to-date in terms of literature and material. … It is highly stimulating that the book also provides references to approaches of comparative politics that so far have not (or just to a minor extent) been attributed to sport studies.” (Jürgen Mittag, Moving the Social, Vol. 61, 2019)Table of ContentsIntroduction; Borja García and Jinming Zheng.- Part I: Football Governance and Supporter Activism in the ‘Big Five’ European leagues .- 1. The Great Transformation of the English Game: Karl Polanyi and the Double Movement ‘Against Modern Football’.- David M. Webber.- 2. ‘I love going to watch Norwich’: The Experiences of a Transgender Football Fan; Jayne Caudwell.- 3. The Italian Ultras: From Local Divisions to National Co-Operation; Mark Doidge.- 4. Football Supporters’ Trusts in Italy: A Horizontal Survey and the Case of Sambenedettese; Osvaldo Croci.- Well Governed? Fan Representation in German Professional Football Clubs; Daniel Ziesche.- 6. C.A. Osasuna: Identity, Ownership and Governance in Spanish Club Football; Jim O’Brien.- Part II: Football Governance and Supporter Activism outside the 'Big Five’ European leagues.- 7. Football Club Ownership Model in the Republic of Croatia – A Possible Model for Supporters' Inclusion in Football Governance in South-East Europe?; Siniša Petrović, Marko Ivkošić, Petar Ceronja.- 8. Beyond the Pattern: Corruption, Hooligans, and Football Governance in Croatia; Loïc Tregoures.- 9. Benfica TV: Taking Control of the Communication Process; Fernando Borges.- 10. Between Civic Engagement and Politics: A Case Study of Bohemians Prague 1905 Supporters’ Trust; Dino Numerato.- 11. From the Bottom to the Premiership: The Significance of Supporters’ Movement in the Governance of Football Clubs in Poland; Radosław Kossakowski.- 12. Supporter Ownership in Turkish Football; Emir Güney.- Conclusions: The rising importance of supporter activism in European football; Jinming Zheng and Borja García.

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