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Book SynopsisThis book is the winner of the 2020 Joseph Levenson Pre-1900 Book Prize, awarded by the Association for Asian Studies. In Song Dynasty Figures of Longing and Desire, Lara Blanchard analyzes images of women in painting and poetry of China’s middle imperial period, focusing on works that represent female figures as preoccupied with romance. She discusses examples of visual and literary culture in regard to their authorship and audience, examining the role of interiority in constructions of gender, exploring the rhetorical functions of romantic images, and considering connections between subjectivity and representation. The paintings in particular have sometimes been interpreted as simple representations of the daily lives of women, or as straightforward artifacts of heteroerotic desire; Blanchard proposes that such works could additionally be interpreted as political allegories, representations of the artist’s or patron’s interiorities, or models of idealized femininity.Trade Review"Described by the Association for Asian Studies as a “triumph of intertextual and intervisual methods in gender studies,” Professor of Art and Architecture Lara Blanchard is the winner of the 2020 Joseph Levenson Pre-1900 Book Prize (China)." Please read more here. "...this is a book with many great achievements – one that opens a window onto a fascinating slice of Song dynasty culture, as viewed from the perspective of shifting norms and practices of visual representation. The author successfully shows the complex gender dynamics behind the production, transfer and appreciation of these intriguing female portraits, and her discussion gives much food for thought, not only regarding the dynamics of gender relationships in middle period Chinese history, but also about the meaning and fluid boundaries of gender more generally, and how these might play out in surprising ways in artistic expressions." -Curie Virág, University of Edinburgh, in Nan Nü, 21 (2019) 309-313.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments List of Figures Abbreviations Introduction 1 Gendered Subjectivity and Representing Interiority   Subjectivity and Authorship   Pictorial Representations of Inner Feelings   Courtly and Literati Audiences: Evidence from Commentaries 2 Political Interpretations of Desire   Handscrolls of Goddess of the Luo River   The Beijing Handscroll Night Revels of Han Xizai 3 Male Audience and Authorship: Projecting Desire and Longing onto the Female Figure   Huizong’s Court Ladies Preparing Newly Woven Silk   Mou Yi’s Pounding Cloth 4 The Female Audience: Modeling Idealized Femininity   Women and Fan Paintings   Ladies Adorning Their Hair with Flowers: A Bed-Screen? Conclusion: Interiority and the Value of Connection Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisTrans-afrohispanismos is an innovative approach to Afro-Hispanic studies. It focuses on the connections between peoples, territories, and media of expression at the confluence of Africa and the Hispanic world. Trans-afrohispanismos es una aproximación innovadora a los Estudios Afrohispánicos. Destaca las conexiones entre gentes, territorios y medios de expresión en la confluencia de África y el mundo hispánico.Table of ContentsAgradecimientos Lista de ilustraciones Notas biobibliográficas de los autores Introducción: ‘Trans-afrohispanismos’  Dorothy Odartey-Wellington Otros hispanismos / otras Áfricas: las fronteras de la afrohispanidad 1 Impresiones y conmociones culturales en el afrohispanismo africano  Justo Bolekia Boleká 2 El mestizaje lingüístico literario entre la lengua hassaniya o hasania y la lengua española hablada en la República del Sáhara Occidental  Bahia Mahmud Awah 3 La isla habitada: paisaje e insularidad  Antonio Becerra Bolaños 4 Afromexicanos: el caminar hacia el reconocimiento étnico  Gloria Lara Millán Diálogos intra- y transcontinentales: redes alternativas de comunicación y de comparación 5 El concepto de la corrupción en Adjá-Adjá y otros relatos de Maximiliano Nkogo Esono y El coronel no tiene quien le escriba de Gabriel García Márquez  Alain Lawo-Sukam 6 Límites poscoloniales – límites de lo poscolonial: ‘La higuera (o El ocaso del patriarca)’ del escritor hispanomarroquí Ahmed El Gamoun  Juliane Tauchnitz 7 El colonialismo y el patriarcado en la literatura afrohispana: los escritos de resistencia de Lehdia Dafa y María Nsue Angüe  Joanna Allan 8 El teatro afrohispano y la emergencia de una ciudadanía global: diálogos del Sur en espacios migratorios  Elisa Rizo 9 Tropos de transculturalidad en la obra de Agnès Agboton  Julia Borst Invenciones y reinvenciones identitarias: rimas y ritmos afro-globalizados 10 Tensiones y resistencia de una comunidad afroecuatoriana: la bomba del Chota  Nayra Pérez Hernández 11 La tradición oral y musical afroperuana, una aproximación  Milagros Carazas 12 La música de Concha Buika en el mercado cultural global: alianzas locales y transnacionales  Dosinda García-Alvite Universos trans-afrohispanos: traducciones, lenguas en contacto e interacciones digitales 13 ¿El nacimiento de una lengua afrohispana?: la influencia del español en el criollo inglés de Guinea Ecuatorial  Kofi Yakpo 14 Narradoras africanas en versión española: políticas editoriales y traducción  Maya García de Vinuesa 15 Temporalidades en red: representaciones artísticas de lo africano y lo afrodescendiente en la era digital  Eduard Arriaga 16 Ubuntu, cultura digital e identidad: literatura hispano-saharaui  Dorothy Odartey-Wellington Índice

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Book SynopsisQuestioning what “makes” a celebrity and how celebrity is controlled, dispersed and received are aspects branching out of (Extra)Ordinary’s debate over celebrities as ordinary/extraordinary. Jade Alexander and Katarzyna Bronk, together with the authors whose chapters make up this inter-disciplinary discussion, not only utilise the existing research on celebrity and fandom, but they also go beyond the often-quoted theorists to engage in multidirectional analyses of what it means to be a celebrity, and what influence they have on the consuming public. The present book provides an avenue for exploring not just what celebrity is as a discursive construction, but also how this involves a complex interplay between celebrities, the media and the audience.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Introduction: (Extra)Ordinary?  Jade Alexander and Katarzyna Bronk Part 1: Constructing Celebrity 1 “The Big Fellow Is Dead!”: Michael Collins as Celebrity and Nationalist Martyr  Amber Anna Colvin 2 Mediating Bieber in Canada: Authenticating Nation in Fame  Samita Nandy 3 Literary Celebrity, Politics and the Nobel Prize: The Nobel Lecture as an Authorial Self-Fashioning Platform  Sandra Mayer Part 2: (Re)Envisioning Stardom 4 Oscar Wilde’s Long Afterlife: Victorian Celebrity and Its Transformations in Modern Culture  Anna Fomichenko 5 Touching Fame: Exploring Interactional Dynamics between Local Celebrities and Fans in Sydney’s Roller Derby Scene  Jade Alexander 6 Celebrity Awards, Fan Communities and the Reconstruction of “High” and “Low” Cultures  Mira Moshe

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Book SynopsisEspañoles en Europa: Identidad y Exilio desde la Edad Moderna a nuestros días focuses on exile as a great identifier of modern times. It constitutes a highly comprehensive view of Hispanic exile through a systematic, transnational and trans-historical perspective. Españoles en Europea: Identidad y Exilio desde la Edad Moderna a nuestros días se concentra en el fenómeno del exilio como gran identificador de tiempos modernos, abordándolo sistemáticamente desde una innovadora perspectiva transnacional y transhistórica.Table of ContentsIntroducción  Yolanda Rodríguez Pérez y Pablo Valdivia 1 El discurso del destierro pre-nacional: el caso del Madrid del Siglo de Oro  Konstantin Mierau 2 Visiones del exilio en The Castilian (1829) de Telesforo Trueba y Cosío  María José González Dávila 3 El exilio republicano de 1939: historia de una confusión conceptual  Manuel Aznar Soler 4 Francisco Carrasquer, el exilio como resurrección  Isabel-Clara Lorda Vidal 5 ¿Hacia una crítica paratópica de la nación? Españoles fuera de España de Gregorio Marañón  Dagmar Vandebosch 6 Del éxodo hacia el futuro imperfecto: el caso de Medardo Fraile  Cristian Crusat 7 Exilio y malditismo, una pareja bien avenida. El caso de Juan Goytisolo  Fernando Díaz Ruiz 8 مقبرة : Espectros del Exilio Sexual Hispano-Árabe en la Metrópoli Franquista  Carlos Yebra López 9 Exilio e identidad en los escritores españoles en Francia: Jacques Folch-Ribas  Beatriz Calvo Martín 10 La construcción fílmica del exiliado republicano en el cine español. Las encarnaciones de Antonio Ferrandis y Fernando Fernán-Gómez como modelos antagónicos de representación  Manuel de la Fuente 11 Max Aub, Antonio Muñoz Molina y el periodista Jordi Évole: la configuración estratégica de la Historia y de la Historiografía Literaria Española del siglo XX  Kirsten Bakker 12 Exilio y memoria en la nueva novela gráfica española: Los surcos del azar (2013)  Jorge L. Catalá Carrasco 13 No nos vamos, nos echan: identidad, memoria y el nuevo ‘exilio económico’  Marije Hristova Index

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Book SynopsisIn Maternal Breast-Feeding and Its Substitutes in Nineteenth-Century French Art, Gal Ventura investigates the ideological concepts behind the endorsement of maternal breast-feeding in modern Western society. Using diverse visual and textual sources and surveying hundreds of artworks produced from the time of the French Revolution to the beginning of the twentieth century, Ventura reveals the historical, political, religious, and economic factors that shaped the representations of breast-feeding and its substitutes in French art. She thus sheds light on the changing attitudes toward maternal breast-feeding in nineteenth-century France, which have had a considerable impact on the glorification of breast-feeding in the Western world to this very day.Table of ContentsContents Preface List of Illustrations Part 1: Mothers, Wet Nurses and Feeding Bottles 1 The History of Breast-Feeding in France  1 The Return to Maternal Breast-Feeding  2 Images of Breast-Feeding Bourgeois Mothers  3 The Strengthening of the Institution of Wet-Nursing  4 Child-Care Manuals for Mothers  5 The Feeding Bottle and the Medicalization of Breast-Feeding Part 2: Death and Substitute Mothers 2 Breast-Feeding and Death  1 The Dead Mother in Flood Scenes  2 Death and Miraculous Salvation: The Dead Mother in Religious Art  3 Natural Disasters, Wars, Plagues, and Famine: The Dead Mother in Secular Art  4 From the Exotic to the Contemporary: Dying from Hunger in France 3 Breast-Feeding as Benevolence: Representations of Charity  1 “La Charité c’est moi!”: The Image of Charity from the French Revolution to the End of the Bourbon Restoration  2 Between Secularization and Religiosity: The Image of Charity during the July Monarchy  3 Charity as Obligation: The Image of Charity during the Second Republic  4 Christianity and Social Justice: The Image of Charity during the Second Empire  5 Christianity, Fertility and Nationalism: The Image of Charity During the Third Republic 4 From Sanctity to Promiscuity: The Wet Nurse  1 ‘La mère de lait et la mère de sang’: Wet-Nursing during the French Revolution  2 The Wet Nurse as a Second Mother: Wet-Nursing in Nineteenth-Century France  3 The Nourrice sur lieu and the Soldier: Sexuality and Low Class Part 3: Maternal Breast-feeding 5 Charity and Social Justice: Maternal Breast-Feeding among the Lower Classes  1 Socialism and Christian Generosity: Destitute Beggars Breast-Feeding Outdoors  2 Social Justice and Egalitarianism: Working-Class Mothers Breast-Feeding At Home 6 Fertility, Nature, and Work in the Fields: Maternal Breast-Feeding among the Peasantry  1 Serenity and Fertility: Peasants Breast-Feeding in the Fields  2 The Shattered Dream  3 Nostalgia and Pastorality 7 A Woman’s Virtue: Portrayals of Breast-Feeding among the Bourgeoisie  1 The Modern Madonna: Artists’ Spouses Breast-Feeding at Home  2 Religiosity and Allegory: Bourgeois Mothers Breast-feeding in the Garden  3 From the Personal to the Universal  4 The Feeding Bottle: Visual Silencing versus Historical Prominence Afterword  1 Lactivism: Breast-Feeding as an Ideology  2 Women and Breast-Feeding  3 Breast-Feeding in Art and Culture Today Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Pathogenesis of Fear gathers together diverse conversations about cultural constructions of the monstrous. Interdisciplinary essays map the margins of monstrosity as follows: the cannibalistic paradox in Kleist’s late-Romantic Penthesilea; intersections of the monstrous-feminine and the new Victorian psycho-physiology of consciousness in George Eliot’s early novels; the monster-formed citizens of Dickensian and later dystopias; the killing of African Americans targeted as monstrous entities in US cities; the post-human anguish of a television zombie-world; the monstrous mutilations of a Spanish horror film; psychosocial aberration in Martin Millar’s werewolf fiction; the demonization of the Other on the war-torn streets of Ireland; Derridean devouring sovereignty. Discursively correlated with different categories of body and mind, monstrosity, these essays argue, persists in taking many forms. Contributors are Elizabeth Hollis Berry, Niculae Gheran, Sarah Harris, Fiona Harris-Ramsby and Mubarak Muhammad, Michaela Marková, Kimberley McMahon Coleman, Judith Rahn, Cindy Smith and Marita Vyrgioti.Trade Review“The authors demonstrate a dazzling fluency with postmodern theory and deconstructionism, further strengthening the intellectual connections between their respective contributions.” — J. G. Matthews, Washington State University, CHOICE connect 57.1 (September 2019)Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Introduction Elizabeth Hollis Berry Part 1 Subjectivity and (Ab)use of Power 1 Devotion, Divergence and Desire: Anthropophagy as a Means of Cultural Formation Judith Rahn 2 Devouring: Deconstructing Sovereignty’s Omnipotence in Jacques Derrida’s Seminar ‘The Beast and the Sovereign’ Marita Vyrgioti 3 The Monster Factory: Monsterisation of Characters in Dystopias Niculae Liviu Gheran 4 ‘She Could Devour Him If She Wanted to’: Hunger, Scopophilia, and Power in The Skin I Live In Sarah D. Harris 5 Warning! Monster Metaphors and the Urban Black Body Fiona Harris-Ramsby and Mubarak Muhammad Part 2 Agency and Selfdom 6 Victorian Psychology, Monstrous Maidens, and George Eliot Elizabeth Hollis Berry 7 (De)Construction of the Monstrous in Contemporary Northern Irish Fiction Michaela Marková 8 Adolescence as Battleground for Identity Foundation: Martin Millar’s Wolf Girl Novels 149 Kimberley McMahon-Coleman 9 In The Flesh and the Administration of Posthuman Anguish Cindy Smith

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Book SynopsisThis anthology of essays, Northern Myths, Modern Identities, explores the various ways in which ancient mythologies have been cultivated in the cultural construction of ethnic, national and supra-national identities from 1800 to the present. How were Old Norse, Finno-Ugric and Frisian myths employed as rhetorical devices in national narratives? And how did (and do) these new interpretations convey a sense of ‘northernness’? This volume approaches these issues from an interdisciplinary and international perspective, and brings together case studies from Scandinavia, the Baltic region, Friesland, Britain, the United States and even Japan. Thus, it provides a unique insight into the reception history and uses of northern myths in the present, and their role in the creation of modern identities. Contributors are: Tim van Gerven, Gylfi Gunnlaugsson, Simon Halink, Sumarliði R. Ísleifsson, Otto S. Knottnerus, Joep Leerssen, Daisy Neijmann, Han Nijdam, Robert A. Saunders, Katja Schulz, Tom Shippey, Carline Tromp, and Kendra Willson.Table of Contents List of Figures and Tables  About the Authors  Northern Myths, Modern Identities: An Introduction  Simon Halink Part 1: Imagining the North  1The North: A Cultural Stereotype between Metaphor and Racial Essentialism  Joep Leerssen  2Within or Outside Europe? Modernists and Anti-modernists Visiting Iceland in the Mid-nineteenth Century  Sumarliði R. Ísleifsson  3Is Nordic Mythology Nordic or National, or Both? Competing National Appropriations of Nordic Mythology in Early Nineteenth-Century Scandinavia  Tim van Gerven Ancient Heritage, New Meaning  4Norse Myths, Nordic Identities: The Divergent Case of Icelandic Romanticism  Gylfi Gunnlaugsson  5Redbad, the Once and Future King of the Frisians  Han Nijdam and Otto S. Knottnerus  6Norse Mythology in Icelandic Fiction about the Second World War  Daisy L. Neijmann  7Of Gods and Men: Uses and Abuses of Neo-Paganism by Nationalist Movements in the “North”  Robert A. Saunders Part 3: Travelling Ideas and Artistic Expressions  8Heirs of Lönnrot: From Longfellow to Tolkien  Tom Shippey  9Kalevala in International Masks: A JapaneseAino and Kalevala dell’arte  Kendra Willson  10The Quest of Gangleri: Theosophy and Old Norse Mythology in Iceland  Simon Halink Part 4: Beyond the Nation?  11Crossing the Borders: Loki and the Decline of the Nation State  Katja Schulz  12Apocalypse Now: Norse Gods and the End of the Nation  Carline Tromp  Index of Names and Subjects

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Book SynopsisCommunication decisively impacts upon all our lives. This inherent need to connect may either be soothing or painful, a source of intimate understanding or violent discord. Consequently, how it is brokered is challenging and often crucial in situations where those involved have quite different ways of being in and seeing the world. Good communication is equated with skills that intentionally facilitate change, the realisation of desirable outcomes and the improvement of human situations. Withdrawal of communication, or its intentional manipulation, provokes misunderstanding, mistrust, and precipitates the decline into disorder. This international collection of work specifically interrogates conflict as an essential outworking of communication, and suggests that understanding of communication’s potency in contexts of conflict can directly influence reciprocally positive outcomes.

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Book SynopsisThe construct of transformation has emerged as a prominent theme in academic discourse. Based on the accepted notion that processes and living organisms are in an ongoing state of development, it is unsurprising that this concept of transformation would find resonance within literature on the pilgrimage phenomenon. Examples of transformational processes intersecting with pilgrimage are the movement from sickness to wellness, from grief to closure and from fractured to integrated. That the pilgrimage journey itself can be construed as a transformational quest was noted by Winkleman and Dubisch (2005), who stated “Life-transforming experiences are at the core of both ‘traditional’ and more contemporary forms of pilgrimage”. In the current volume, Warfield and Hetherington examine the transformational process of pilgrimage journeys. Contributors are Sharenda Holland Barlar, Anne M. Blankenship, Valentina Bold, Shirley du Plooy, Alexandria M. Egler, Miguel Tain Guzman, Kate Hetherington, Scott Libson, Chadwick Co Sy Su, Kip Redick, Roy Tamashiro and Heather A. Warfield.Table of ContentsList of Figures Notes on Contributors  Introduction: Pilgrimage as Transformative Process  Heather A. Warfield and Kate Hetherington Part 1: Transformation of Pilgrimage Perspectives 1 Substantive, Non-Substantive and Ontogenetic Perspectives on Pilgrimages  Shirley du Plooy 2 Pilgrimage as Religiously Educative  Alexandria M. Egler 3 From Existential to Ideological Communitas: Can Pilgrimage Connect and Transform the World?  Heather A. Warfield Part 2: Identity, Self and Wellbeing Transformation 4 Peace Pilgrimage as Transformative Learning and Identity Redefinition  Roy Tamashiro 5 Living and Letting Live, Reframing Atheist Travel into Understanding Cultural Differences  Chadwick Co SY SU 6 The Camino de Santiago and Wellbeing: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of the Pilgrimage Experiences of Australian Women  Kate Hetherington 7 Sensuous Encounter Where Journey and Festival Meet: A Phenomenology of Pilgrimage  Kip Redick Part 3: Historical and Communal Transformation 8 Modern Influences along an Ancient Way: Pilgrimage and Globalization  Sharenda Holland Barlar 9 The Iconography of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela: Types, Nationalities and Authors of the Views of the Basilica at the End of the Way of Saint James  Miguel Taín Guzmán 10 Pilgrimage to the Japanese American Incarceration Camps: Deploying Collective Memory for Social Justice and Communal Healing  Anne M. Blankenship 11 ‘Our Sacred Effort—Find Your Place in God’s Story’: Southern Baptist Global Missions and Evangelical Pilgrimage  Scott Libson 12 The Whithorn Way: Twenty-First Century Pilgrimage in Scotland  Valentina Bold

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Book SynopsisGathering scholars from five continents, this edited book displaces the elitist image of cosmopolitan as well as the blame addressed to aesthetic cosmopolitanism often considered as merely cosmetic. By considering aesthetic cosmopolitanism as a tool to understand how individuals and social groups appropriate the sphere of culture in a global world, the authors are concerned with its operationalization on two strongly interwoven levels, macro and micro, structural and individual. Based on the discussion of theoretical perspectives and empirically grounded research (qualitative and quantitative, conducted in many countries), this volume unveils new insights, on tourism and food, architecture and museums, TV series and movies, rock, K-pop and samba, by providing resources for making sense of aesthetic preferences in a global perspective. Contributors are: Felicia Chan, Vincenzo Cicchelli, Talitha Alessandra Ferreira, Paula Iadevito, Sukhmani Khorana, Anne Krebs, Antoinette Kujilaars, Franck Mermier, Sylvie Octobre, Joana Pellerano, Rosario Radakovich, Motti Regev, Viviane Riegel, Clara Rodriguez, Leslie Sklair, Yi-Ping Eva Shi, Claire Thoumelin and Dario Verderame.Trade ReviewAesthetic Cosmopolitanism and Global Culture offers a timely and compelling reminder that cosmopolitanism is not merely a remote geopolitical ideal but rather an embodied and everyday strategy for navigating our cultural differences alongside our common humanity. With impressive historical depth and geographical breadth, this collection illustrates in rich detail how the dynamics of globalization enter our domestic worlds through cultural forms ranging from architecture, artwork, food, and film to parenting styles, pop music, television, and dance. It should be read by anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the crucial role culture plays in a world that is both more connected and more conflicted than ever before. —Jennie Germann Molz, Professor of Sociology, College of the Holy Cross Cosmopolitanism is usually valorized as a worthy ideal but also dismissed an being incompatible with reality. This sparkling collection of essays tell a different story. By starting from the ground of everyday cultural encounters, or by tracing the new networks of artistic practices, this book provides a new approach for understanding the existence of aesthetic cosmopolitanism. Along this journey, the authors of this collection provide both an empirical justification and open up new methodological forays into a vital concept for our contemporary world. This book will be an invaluable resource in appreciating the plurality in cultural experience. —Nikos Papastergiadis, Director of the Research Unit of Public Cultures, University of Melbourne This is a great book which makes a very much welcome contribution to understand the opportunities that our contemporary World offers for a truly global culture. Working out a very accurate and smooth transition from theoretical debates to broad empirical evidence, the gathering of studies worldwide achieves by itself what the title promises, an excellent portrait of cosmopolitan aesthetics of our societies around the Globe. Anyone working and thinking about our World today should read it. —Dr. Modesto Guillermo Gayo, Universidad Diego PortalesTable of ContentsForeword to Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism  Mike Featherstone List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction: How Aesthetic Cosmopolitan Is Our Global World?  Vincenzo Cicchelli, Sylvie Octobre and Viviane Riegel Part 1 Doing Aesthetic Cosmopolitan Studies 1 The Condition of Cultural Cosmopolitanism  Motti Regev 2 The Seven Pillars of Aesthetico-Cultural Cosmopolitanism  Vincenzo Cicchelli and Sylvie Octobre 3 The ‘frame’, the ‘rhythm’, and the ‘imaginary’: Rethinking the Cosmopolitan Aesthetic Experience  Dario Verderame Part 2 Reshaping the Imaginaries of the World 4 The Politics of Cosmopolitan Architecture: Third World Modernism and the Enigmatic Signifier  Leslie Sklair 5 Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism in São Paulo: a Peripheral Perspective from a Global City  Viviane Riegel 6 Australians in Hanoi: When Street Food Tours are Safely Exotic  Sukhmani Khorana 7 Musical Cosmopolitanism: Analysis and Reflections on Cultural Consumption, Gender and Identities around K-pop in Argentina  Paula Iadevito Part 3 Reframing Boundaries through Aesthetics 8 Cosmopolitan Socialization: How I See Me, How They See Me  Clara Rodriguez 9 The Love for Cinema Undergoing Transformations: Internationalization and Cosmopolitanism Patterns of Uruguayan Cinephiles  Rosario Radakovich 10 The Globalization of Samba Percussion: the Reconfiguration of the Legitimate Ways of Playing  Antoinette Kuijlaars 11 Cosmopolitan Pleasures and Affects; or Why Are We Still Talking about Yellowface in Twenty-First-Century Cinema?  Felicia Chan Part 4 Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism as a Strategy 12 Redefining Cosmopolitanism: the Inter-Generational Transmission of Global Cultural Capital in Taiwan  Yi-Ping Eva Shih 13 Louvre Abu Dhabi: a Clash of Cosmopolitanisms?  Anne Krebs and Franck Mermier 14 São Paulo and the Brazilian Gastronomy: Field of Disputes within Globalization  Joana A. Pellerano and Talitha Alessandra Ferreira 15 Danish Television Series, a Cosmopolitan Artwork  Claire Thoumelin Afterword: A New Road toward Global Culture  Shujiro Yazawa Index

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Book SynopsisThis book focuses on one of the main issues of our time in the Humanities and Social Sciences as it analyzes the impact of current global migrations on new forms of living together and the formation of identities and homes. Using a transdisciplinary and transcultural approach the contributions shed fresh light upon key concepts such as ‘hybrid-performative diaspora’, ‘transidentities’,‘ hospitality’, ‘belonging’, ‘emotion’, ‘body,’ and ‘desire’. Those concepts are discussed in the context of Cuban, US-American, Maghrebian, Moroccan, Spanish, Catalan, French, Turkish, Jewish, Argentinian, Indian, and Italian literatures, cultures and religions.Table of ContentsNotes on the Contributors Introduction 1 Nomadic Places Cultures and Literatures in Movement ‘Hybrid-Performative Diasporas’ in the Ibero-American-Maghrebian-Morrocan Literature and Culture: the Case of Najat El Hachmi Alfonso de Toro 2 The Diasporic Identity of the Roma People Marta Segarra 3 Epistemological Difficulties in the Development of Civic Identities in Western Education Zvi Bekerman 4 A Discourse of Resistance: Hybridization of Identity and Textuality in Tedio, by Natalio Ohanna Daniel Blaustein 5 Federalism and Diaspora: The Feeling of Belonging and the Diaspora Identity in the Subnational Level of the Country Mauricio Dimant 6 Jewbans in Miami. A Particular Case of Hybrid-Performative Diaspora Sarah Moldenhauer 7 The “Good Migrants”: Issues of Hospitality and Belonging with regard to Sikhs in Mediterranean Europe Pierre Gottschlich 8 Feelings of Threat as a Problem of Religious Identity within Religiously Diverse Societies Gert Pickel and Alexander Yendell 9 The Problem of Belonging in Nina Bouraoui’s Garçon manqué Annegret Richter 10 Diasporic Topographies of Remembrance in New Autobiographical Sephardic Writing Susanne Ritschel 11 Settling In: Migration and Place in Sema Kiliçkaya’s Le royaume sans racines Annedith Schneider 12 Identity Questions in El diablo de Yudis by Ahmed Daoudi Juliane Tauchnitz 13 Writing in Movement: A Poetics of Undecidability? Abderrahman Tenkoul 14 The Berber Cultural Movement in the Maghreb Contemporary Issues in Transnationalism Moha Ennaji 15 The Mara: A Diaspora Sui Generis? Heidrun Zinecker 16 Towards Modes of Shared Emotion: Revisiting the Iberian Diasporas’ Trauma Through the “Captive’s tale” (Don Quixote I, 37–41) Ruth Fine Index

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a collection of reflective essays on current testimonial production by researchers and practitioners working in multifaceted fields such as art and film performance, public memorialization, scriptotherapy, and fictional and non-fictional testimony. The inter-disciplinary approach to the question of testimony offers a current account of testimony’s diversity in the twenty-first century as well as its relevance within the fields of art, storytelling, trauma, and activism. The range of topics engage with questions of genre and modes of representation, ethical and political concerns of testimony, and the flaws and limitations of testimonial production giving testament to some of the ethical concerns of our present age. Contributors are Alison Atkinson-Phillips, Olga Bezhanova, Melissa Burchard, Mateusz Chaberski, Candace Couse, Tracy Crowe Morey, Marwa Sayed Hanafy, Rachel Joy, Emma Kelly, Timothy Long, Elizabeth Matheson, Antonio Prado del Santo, Christine Ramsay, Cristina Santos and Adriana Spahr.Table of ContentsList of Illustration Notes on Contributors Introduction: Testimony and Trauma: Engaging Common Ground  Tracy Crowe Morey, Cristina Santos, and Adriana Spahr PART 1 Testimony, Time (In)Memorial 1 Material Testimony: Memorials Bearing Witness to Experiences of Loss and Trauma  Alison Atkinson-Phillips 2 Spanish Republicans in the Holocaust: Historical Rights and Testimonial Literature  Antonio Prado del Santo 3 Writing Spain’s Fraught History: Testimony or Fiction?  Olga Bezhanova PART 2 Suffer the Children 4 When the Personal Becomes Collective: a Mother’s Re-Membering of a Disappeared Daughter in Madre de Mendoza  Cristina Santos 5 Growing Up in Pain: Children of the Victims of the Argentinean Dictatorship  Adriana Spahr 6 Non-Standard Witness: Lessons from Working with/ for Traumatized Children  Melissa Burchard PART 3 Scripts and Performances of Testimony 7 Trauma and Healing in Izzeldin Abuelaish’s I Shall Not Hate  Marwa Sayed Hanafy 8 The ‘Piercing Breach of a Border’: Irish Cinema as a Mediator of Modern Trauma  Emma Kelly 9 Performing Witnesses: Frameworks of Memory in Contemporary Performing Arts  Mateusz Chaberski PART 4 Testimonial Embodiments 10 Sick: Negotiating Body Trauma through Visual Art Practice  Candace Couse 11 Very Becoming: Transforming Our Settler Selves in Occupied Australia  Rachel Joy PART 5 The Curatorial Turn: Objects, Space, and Frames of Testimony 12 Haunted Geographies in Atom Egoyan’s Calendar and Return to the Flock  Christine Ramsay 13 Atom Egoyan’s Auroras: a Chorus of Witnesses  Timothy Long 14 Immersive Space and the Place of the Witness  Elizabeth Matheson Index

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Book SynopsisGender and love are so intimately interconnected that it sometimes seems as though they bring each other into being. But their relationship is shifting as human society develops new understandings of identity, gender and the self. The chapters in this volume explore the convoluted and ever-changing nature of love, gender and identity from a variety of disciplines and perspectives, bearing testimony to the perennial appeal of this field of inquiry. There are chapters on the historical constructions of love and gender; the philosophical aspects; the faultlines in twenty-first-century heteronormativity; and the challenges of love from and within the margins. Gender and love are interdisciplinary and this volume will appeal to scholars from all disciplinary protocols.Trade Review“Byrne … and Ade … have assembled a fascinating and diverse collection of essays about cultural variations of gender, sexuality, and love.” — T. E. Adams, Bradley University, CHOICE connect 56.11 (July 2019)

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Book SynopsisThis volume examines the culture of Canadian Jews, with particular attention to their European roots. The essays address Yiddish literature, writings of authors working in French and English, as well as contemporary Jewish life. Cet ouvrage collectif examine la culture des juifs canadiens, originaires de l'Europe de l'Est. Les essais portent sur la littérature yiddish, l'écriture des juifs de langue française et anglaise ainsi que la vie juive contemporaine au Canada.

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Book SynopsisIs revenge an expression of rage, pain, strength, frailty, justice, or sadism? A complex emotion, revenge defies simple definitions since it is infused with different social codes and ethics. It is this intricate connection between the idea of revenge and its connections with history, aesthetics, socio-political constructs, racism, and religion that this volume attempts to explore. Moving across continents and cultures, the book examine a wide range of emotional and geographical terrains like the law of karma, gender violence, epic narratives, caste system, and cinema in India; the horror of the Holocaust and metaphysical revenge; witchcraft in Ghana, South Africa, and Namibia; Greek mythology; and sexual and emotional abuse of women by a Portuguese Brazilian slave holder.

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Book SynopsisBiological Time, Historical Time presents a new approach to 19th century thought and literature: by focussing on the subject of time, it offers a new perspective on the exchanges between French and German literary texts on the one hand and scientific disciplines on the other. Hence, the rivalling influences of the historical sciences and of the life sciences on literary texts are explored, texts from various scientific domains – medicine, natural history, biology, history, and multiple forms of vulgarisation – are investigated. Literary texts are analysed in their participation in and transformation of the scientific imagination. Special attention is accorded to the temporal dimension: this allows for an innovative account of key concepts of 19th century culture.Table of ContentsThe Authors Introduction  Niklas Bender and Gisèle Séginger Part 1: Rethinking the Order of Time From Biblical Time to Darwinian Time: Discourses on the Living World in the 18th and 19th Centuries  Pascal Duris Memory Strata, Geology and Change of Historical Paradigm in France around 1830  Paule Petitier Devilish Words: Pierre Boitard, “maître Georges” and the Advance of Nature  Claude Blanckaert From Biological Time to Historical Time: the Category of “Development” (Entwicklung) in the Historical Thought of Herder, Kant, Hegel, and Marx  Christophe Bouton “O man! wilt thou never conceive that thou art but an ephemeron?”: the Reception of Geological Deep Time in the Late 18th Century  David Schulz Part 2: Atavism and Heredity The Law of Progress, Atavism, and Prehistory in the Belle Époque  Arnaud Hurel Nietzsche, or Culture Put to the Test at the Timescale of Heredity  Emmanuel Salanskis Zola, Hereditability of Character and Hereditability of Deviation: After a Remark by Bergson in L’Évolution Créatrice  Arnaud François Life, Sex and Temporality in Zola’s La Faute de l’Abbé Mouret  Rudolf Behrens Part 3: Nature and Culture Time of History and Time of Nature in the Historical Novels of Victor Hugo  Niklas Bender Historical Time, Cultural Time, and Biological Time in Baudelaire  Thomas Klinkert Evolution and Time in the Chants de Maldoror  Frank Jäger Memory of the Body in Proust: Historical Time and Biological Time  Edward Bizub Part 4: Poetics of Time The Poetics of Restored Time: Balzac, His Age and the Figure of Cuvier  Hugues Marchal The Evolution of Social Species in Balzac’s Comédie humaine  Sandra Collet Time as Imagined in the Evolutionary Epic  Nicolas Wanlin Evolutionism and Successivity in Antediluviana, Poème géologique by Ernest Cotty (1876)  Yohann Ringuedé End of the World, End of Time: the Theory of Evolution and Its Fate in the Novel of Anticipation  Claire Barel-Moisan A Biologist Literary History: August Wilhelm Schlegel and the Franco-German Natural Sciences  Stefan Knödler Part 5: Biology and Ideology Evolutionary Time and Revolutionary Time (Michelet, Flaubert, Zola)  Juliette Azoulai Michelet and La Mer: Biology and the Philosophy of History  Gisèle Séginger “Il faut manger et être mangé pour que le monde vive”: the Zolian Belly amidst Evolution, Revolution, and Convolutions  Carine Goutaland Gobineau’s Heroes Are Ageless  Pierre-Louis Rey Darwinus anarchistus explodens: Science and the Legend of the Struggle for Life (Louise Michel)  Claude Rétat Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores the intriguing ontological ambiguities of madness in literature and the arts. Despite its association with a diseased/abnormal mind, there can be much sense and sensibility in madness. Daring to break free from the dictates of normalcy, madwomen and madmen disrupt the status quo. Yet, as they venture into unchartered or prohibited terrain, they may also unleash the liberatory and transformative potential of unrestrained madness. Contributors are Doreen Bauschke, Teresa Bell, Isil Ezgi Celik, Terri Jane Dow, Peter Gunn, Anna Klambauer, Rachel A. Sims and Ruxanda Topor.

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Book SynopsisHappiness is a challenging, multifaceted topic, which obviously calls for an interdisciplinary approach. This work is a collection of papers which explores the phenomenon of happiness from a variety of angles, and from both theoretical and practical perspectives. They deal with the general nature and conditions of happiness, methods and measures for studying happiness, the consequences of happiness policies and discourses and the significance of specific factors, like landscapes or educational environments, for happiness. Some of the papers investigate the thoughts of ancient, 19th-century or 20th-century philosophers. Others employ theories and techniques from contemporary psychology to get a firmer grip on the elusive phenomenon of happiness. Contributors include Ranjeeta Basu, Valeriu Budeanu, Sarah A. Bushey, Mustafa Cihan Camci, Emily Corrigan-Kavanagh, Carolina Escobar-Tello, Julia Hotz, Søren Harnow Klausen, Kathy Pui Ying Lo, Andrea-Mariana Marian, Bryon Martin, Andrew Molas, Sean Moran, Liza Ortiz, Shelomi Panditharatne, Sheila M. Rucki, Jane Russel-O’Connor and Marie Thomas.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Introduction Søren Harnow Klausen, Bryon Martin, Cihan Camci and Sarah Bushey 1 Happiness in the Routine of Everyday Life Cihan Camci 2 Against ‘Feeling Good’: Aristotle’s Concept of Happiness (eudaimonia) A. Erdem Çifçi 3 Utility, Liberty, and the State’s Duty to Promote Flourishing Andrew Molas 4 What Makes College Students Happy? A Day Reconstruction Study Ranjeeta Basu and Marie D. Thomas 5 Hegemonic Systems and the Politics of Happiness: the Fairy Tale as Ideology Sheila M. Rucki and Lisa Ortiz 6 Using Art Therapy Techniques to Explore Home Life Happiness Emily Corrigan-Kavanagh, Carolina Escobar-Tello and Kathy Pui Ying Lo 7 What Is the Good Life: an Overview of the ‘Good Life’ at the University of Florida Sarah Bushey 8 The Vocation Fulfilment: a Driver for Happiness at Work Andrea- Mariana Marian and Valeriu Budeanu 9 Classic Cars and Happiness: a Profile of Participants and Their Family, Community and Cultural Health Bryon Martin 10 Happiness and the Structure and Dynamics of Human Life Søren Harnow Klausen 11 Quo Vadis: Fullness or Emptiness in the Pursuit of Happiness? Robert D. Hermanson 12 Earthly Happiness and Heavenly Happiness Seán Moran 13 Happiness in Higher Education in Hong Kong: an Anthropology Study Kelly K. L. Chan 14 Re- Embracing Simplicity: An Exploration of Epicurean Happiness Julia Hotz 15 The Subjective Well- Being of Married Women In and Out of the Workforce in Sri Lanka Ann Shelomi Panditharatne 16 The Sublime Landscape Jane Russell-O’Connor Index

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Book SynopsisThe Daddies is a love letter to masculinity, a kaleidoscope of its pleasures and horrors. The question “Who’s your Daddy?” started showing up in mainstream cultural references during the 1990s. Those words can be spoken as a question, or a challenge, as a flirtation, a joke, or a threat. It’s all about inflection, intention, and who’s asking. Apparently, we have so much shared cultural meaning about “Daddy” the speakers and listeners can simply intuit meaning and proceed to laugh at the joke, or experience the shame, as appropriate. But who is Daddy in American culture? The Daddies aims to find out more than who – but how the process of knowing Daddy can prompt readers to know themselves and their society. This allegory about patriarchy unfolds as a kinky lesbian Daddy/girl love story. Daddy-ness is situated in all people, after all, and we each share responsibility for creating a fairer world. The Daddies can be used as a springboard for discussion in courses in sociology, gender and women's studies, cultural studies, sexuality studies and communication. As a work of fiction, The Daddies can also be enjoyed by general audiences.Trade Review"No one anywhere writes all the way through eros, power exchange, and sexuality more fiercely than Kimberly Dark. In The Daddies, Kimberly risks what most writers will not, opening up and asking how masculinity has woven through every realm of our existence, how it has seduced us, betrayed us, protected us, violated us, how it lives in men and women and every other gender and sexuality, how we are facing a reckoning. Kimberly Dark asks us to embrace and reimagine masculinity from the inside out and hold the embrace long enough to change the world." – Lidia Yuknavitch, author of Small Backs of Children and Chronology of Water "To say that The Daddies is an intensely textured, kaleidoscopic take on masculinity, Daddy-dom, and the pleasures, perils, and politics of femininity is only partly true. More accurately it is a hypersaturated, unrelenting Willy Wonka boat ride through a pulsating circulatory system of patriarchy, pain, and desire. Kimberly Dark has done something brave and difficult here, and I do not refer merely to the text." – Hanne Blank, author of Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality "Dark’s work is a multi-layered hybrid of fiction, poetry, non-fiction, autoethnography, biomythography, and collage, which explores the concepts of “Daddy” through social critique of news and pop culture. This is the very best of Dark – storytelling that highlights gendered interactions and what they tell us about erotic love and masculinity. This book caresses important things in social science that need focus and attention – sexual abuse, gendered expectations, and figuring out identity and desire in a patriarchal world. Dark’s panache for nuanced cultural analysis and story-telling makes this book the kind of medicine you can’t wait to take; you will want to buy a copy for all the people in your life." – Sandra L. Faulkner, Director Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Bowling Green State University, author of Writing the Personal and Knit Four, Frog One "About time someone wrote this book! And what good news that a writer and researcher as skilled as Kimberly Dark has taken it on." – Laurel Richardson, author of Why I Love Ernest “Feminist in its worldmaking, intellectual in its erotic poetry, and razor sharp in its depictions of contemporary American gender ideology, Kimberly Dark’s The Daddies is a complex and genre-bending contribution to the archive of queer feeling and to theorizing through storytelling. In this autoethnography of Daddy’s worlds, the girls who inhabit and work in them are allowed to examine pleasures and pains of power and contradiction. Taking a range of positions, Dark’s writing dares to interrogate the psychic structures and deep ambivalences of a queer desire and kinship form in ways that move us beyond simplistic ideas of perversion and subversion. The Daddies is a welcome addition to fem(me)inist sexual theory and a portrait of contemporary patriarchy by and for daddy’s girls, by an author who has lived and survived and dared to tell. Plus we learn more about what is at the root of #metoo and its perpetual reproductions from this book than many other contemporary sources.” – Ulrika Dahl, Professor of Gender Studies at Uppsala University, co-author of Femmes of Power: Exploding Queer Femininities “Daddy is a person with the kind of power that asks to be misused. This is an honest, disturbing, difficult confrontation with the uncontainable. A labor of truth-telling." – Sarah Schulman, author of The Cosmopolitans and Conflict is Not Abuse “In this intricate and robust account, Kimberly Dark explores the world of Daddies who repel and compel us. Dark reveals in story after story a masculine culture that garners consent and insists on resistance. For readers who think this is not their world, they may be surprised to find themselves. For readers who already live there, they will see themselves rendered with sensitivity, intelligence, and compassion. For all readers, they will feel they are in the trusted hands of a careful scholar and skilled writer. Pleasure waits for those who will allow Kimberly Dark to take charge from page one to the very last word.” – Ronald J. Pelias, University of Louisiana "The Daddies is an unforgettable book. Beautifully written, brutally honest, poignant – essential reading for anyone interested in the complexity of gender identity, relationships and sexuality, the forever affect of incest between daddy and daughter, as well as the importance of sharing our stories as part of the journey toward transformation and healing.” – Mary E. Weems, author of Blackeyed: Plays and Monologues “What a deep and moving work, with plenty of meat for the erotic imagination *and* our inner culture spelunker. Kimberly Dark's strong, nimble writing dances complexly – but so, so readably – through the mythic, the erotic, the sociopolitical, the pop-cultural. It invites us to take an insight-provoking journey through many kinds of gender, many kinds of sex, many kinds of love. Thank you, Kimberly, for refusing to whittle all this down to make it seem simple.” – Carol Queen, PhD, author of The Leather Daddy & the Femme and Real Live Nude GirlTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: The Daddies Part 1: Origins Chapter 1: Shooting and Spanking and Who’s Your Daddy?  Shooting Lessons  Spanking  The Etymology of Colloquy Chapter 2: The First Time Chapter 3: The President and the Metaphors  Presidential Daddy  Getting What I Want  Reviewing the Literature Chapter 4: Looking for Safety at Daddy’s House  What It Means to Know Everything  Formality  Mon Coeur est a Papa Chapter 5: Coming into My Room at Night Chapter 6: Daddies, Daughters and Strippers  Daddies, Daughters and Strippers  When Sex Is Absent Part 2: Actions Chapter 7: The First Time II Chapter 8: University Daddy Chapter 9: Daddy God  Daddy God  Out of the Woods Chapter 10: Daddy’s Territory  Two Points on a Map  Daddy’s Dinner Chapter 11: The Purity Ball  Ignoring the News  Daddy vs. Girl Purity Showdown Chapter 12: Confusion Hurts  Funny Business in the Broadmoor  Confusion Hurts Chapter 13: Abroad with Daddy  Daddy Gets a Passport  Daddy on Holiday Chapter 14: Playboy, Panties, Papi  Daddy Likes Playboy Magazine  Panties  Daddy in the News Chapter 15: Parenting Daddy  Parenting Daddy  Parenting Daddy Chapter 16: Self-Awareness  The List  Sexism Chapter 17: Loving Masculinity  My Lover’s Wounds  The Fight Chapter 18: Be Grateful for What You Have Chapter 19: Deliberate Power  Women and Wolves  Power  What Does a Girl Want from Daddy? Chapter 20: Keeping Daddy in Line  Mistrusting Daddy  Keeping Daddy in Line Chapter 21: Intergenerational Incest Family  True Pleasure  Chapter 22: Incest Culture Chapter 23: Do We Know Ourselves in Each Other’s Eyes?  Too Young  Dominating Daddy  Wrath Chapter 24: Knowledge Is King  The Most Powerful Position Possible  Daddy Sick Chapter 25: Don’t Make Me Leave You  Text Free Lover Chapter 26: Possibility  Incantation  Dollhouse Part 3: Transformation Chapter 27: The Turning  The Collapse of the Big Buildings  A Note to My Previous Daddy Chapter 28: Daddy’s Vessel Chapter 29: The End  Daddy’s Goodbye  The Blade Chapter 30: The Storyteller  Storyteller Me  One of the Oddities in the Curiosity Cabinet of Kimberly’s Psyche Chapter 31: My Father’s Time  Realizing  In the Reckoning Chapter 32: Pleasure  Pleasing Daddy Chapter 33: Choosing to Change  Why Should Daddy Change?  Beautiful Failure Chapter 34: Start with Salt Discussion Guide References About the Author

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Book SynopsisThe Daddies is a love letter to masculinity, a kaleidoscope of its pleasures and horrors. The question “Who’s your Daddy?” started showing up in mainstream cultural references during the 1990s. Those words can be spoken as a question, or a challenge, as a flirtation, a joke, or a threat. It’s all about inflection, intention, and who’s asking. Apparently, we have so much shared cultural meaning about “Daddy” the speakers and listeners can simply intuit meaning and proceed to laugh at the joke, or experience the shame, as appropriate. But who is Daddy in American culture? The Daddies aims to find out more than who – but how the process of knowing Daddy can prompt readers to know themselves and their society. This allegory about patriarchy unfolds as a kinky lesbian Daddy/girl love story. Daddy-ness is situated in all people, after all, and we each share responsibility for creating a fairer world. The Daddies can be used as a springboard for discussion in courses in sociology, gender and women's studies, cultural studies, sexuality studies and communication. As a work of fiction, The Daddies can also be enjoyed by general audiences.Trade Review"No one anywhere writes all the way through eros, power exchange, and sexuality more fiercely than Kimberly Dark. In The Daddies, Kimberly risks what most writers will not, opening up and asking how masculinity has woven through every realm of our existence, how it has seduced us, betrayed us, protected us, violated us, how it lives in men and women and every other gender and sexuality, how we are facing a reckoning. Kimberly Dark asks us to embrace and reimagine masculinity from the inside out and hold the embrace long enough to change the world." – Lidia Yuknavitch, author of Small Backs of Children and Chronology of Water "To say that The Daddies is an intensely textured, kaleidoscopic take on masculinity, Daddy-dom, and the pleasures, perils, and politics of femininity is only partly true. More accurately it is a hypersaturated, unrelenting Willy Wonka boat ride through a pulsating circulatory system of patriarchy, pain, and desire. Kimberly Dark has done something brave and difficult here, and I do not refer merely to the text." – Hanne Blank, author of Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality "Dark’s work is a multi-layered hybrid of fiction, poetry, non-fiction, autoethnography, biomythography, and collage, which explores the concepts of “Daddy” through social critique of news and pop culture. This is the very best of Dark – storytelling that highlights gendered interactions and what they tell us about erotic love and masculinity. This book caresses important things in social science that need focus and attention – sexual abuse, gendered expectations, and figuring out identity and desire in a patriarchal world. Dark’s panache for nuanced cultural analysis and story-telling makes this book the kind of medicine you can’t wait to take; you will want to buy a copy for all the people in your life." – Sandra L. Faulkner, Director Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Bowling Green State University, author of Writing the Personal and Knit Four, Frog One "About time someone wrote this book! And what good news that a writer and researcher as skilled as Kimberly Dark has taken it on." – Laurel Richardson, author of Why I Love Ernest “Feminist in its worldmaking, intellectual in its erotic poetry, and razor sharp in its depictions of contemporary American gender ideology, Kimberly Dark’s The Daddies is a complex and genre-bending contribution to the archive of queer feeling and to theorizing through storytelling. In this autoethnography of Daddy’s worlds, the girls who inhabit and work in them are allowed to examine pleasures and pains of power and contradiction. Taking a range of positions, Dark’s writing dares to interrogate the psychic structures and deep ambivalences of a queer desire and kinship form in ways that move us beyond simplistic ideas of perversion and subversion. The Daddies is a welcome addition to fem(me)inist sexual theory and a portrait of contemporary patriarchy by and for daddy’s girls, by an author who has lived and survived and dared to tell. Plus we learn more about what is at the root of #metoo and its perpetual reproductions from this book than many other contemporary sources.” – Ulrika Dahl, Professor of Gender Studies at Uppsala University, co-author of Femmes of Power: Exploding Queer Femininities “Daddy is a person with the kind of power that asks to be misused. This is an honest, disturbing, difficult confrontation with the uncontainable. A labor of truth-telling." – Sarah Schulman, author of The Cosmopolitans and Conflict is Not Abuse “In this intricate and robust account, Kimberly Dark explores the world of Daddies who repel and compel us. Dark reveals in story after story a masculine culture that garners consent and insists on resistance. For readers who think this is not their world, they may be surprised to find themselves. For readers who already live there, they will see themselves rendered with sensitivity, intelligence, and compassion. For all readers, they will feel they are in the trusted hands of a careful scholar and skilled writer. Pleasure waits for those who will allow Kimberly Dark to take charge from page one to the very last word.” – Ronald J. Pelias, University of Louisiana "The Daddies is an unforgettable book. Beautifully written, brutally honest, poignant – essential reading for anyone interested in the complexity of gender identity, relationships and sexuality, the forever affect of incest between daddy and daughter, as well as the importance of sharing our stories as part of the journey toward transformation and healing.” – Mary E. Weems, author of Blackeyed: Plays and Monologues “What a deep and moving work, with plenty of meat for the erotic imagination *and* our inner culture spelunker. Kimberly Dark's strong, nimble writing dances complexly – but so, so readably – through the mythic, the erotic, the sociopolitical, the pop-cultural. It invites us to take an insight-provoking journey through many kinds of gender, many kinds of sex, many kinds of love. Thank you, Kimberly, for refusing to whittle all this down to make it seem simple.” – Carol Queen, PhD, author of The Leather Daddy & the Femme and Real Live Nude GirlTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: The Daddies Part 1: Origins Chapter 1: Shooting and Spanking and Who’s Your Daddy?  Shooting Lessons  Spanking  The Etymology of Colloquy Chapter 2: The First Time Chapter 3: The President and the Metaphors  Presidential Daddy  Getting What I Want  Reviewing the Literature Chapter 4: Looking for Safety at Daddy’s House  What It Means to Know Everything  Formality  Mon Coeur est a Papa Chapter 5: Coming into My Room at Night Chapter 6: Daddies, Daughters and Strippers  Daddies, Daughters and Strippers  When Sex Is Absent Part 2: Actions Chapter 7: The First Time II Chapter 8: University Daddy Chapter 9: Daddy God  Daddy God  Out of the Woods Chapter 10: Daddy’s Territory  Two Points on a Map  Daddy’s Dinner Chapter 11: The Purity Ball  Ignoring the News  Daddy vs. Girl Purity Showdown Chapter 12: Confusion Hurts  Funny Business in the Broadmoor  Confusion Hurts Chapter 13: Abroad with Daddy  Daddy Gets a Passport  Daddy on Holiday Chapter 14: Playboy, Panties, Papi  Daddy Likes Playboy Magazine  Panties  Daddy in the News Chapter 15: Parenting Daddy  Parenting Daddy  Parenting Daddy Chapter 16: Self-Awareness  The List  Sexism Chapter 17: Loving Masculinity  My Lover’s Wounds  The Fight Chapter 18: Be Grateful for What You Have Chapter 19: Deliberate Power  Women and Wolves  Power  What Does a Girl Want from Daddy? Chapter 20: Keeping Daddy in Line  Mistrusting Daddy  Keeping Daddy in Line Chapter 21: Intergenerational Incest Family  True Pleasure  Chapter 22: Incest Culture Chapter 23: Do We Know Ourselves in Each Other’s Eyes?  Too Young  Dominating Daddy  Wrath Chapter 24: Knowledge Is King  The Most Powerful Position Possible  Daddy Sick Chapter 25: Don’t Make Me Leave You  Text Free Lover Chapter 26: Possibility  Incantation  Dollhouse Part 3: Transformation Chapter 27: The Turning  The Collapse of the Big Buildings  A Note to My Previous Daddy Chapter 28: Daddy’s Vessel Chapter 29: The End  Daddy’s Goodbye  The Blade Chapter 30: The Storyteller  Storyteller Me  One of the Oddities in the Curiosity Cabinet of Kimberly’s Psyche Chapter 31: My Father’s Time  Realizing  In the Reckoning Chapter 32: Pleasure  Pleasing Daddy Chapter 33: Choosing to Change  Why Should Daddy Change?  Beautiful Failure Chapter 34: Start with Salt Discussion Guide References About the Author

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Book SynopsisOur world has become inundated with images of a reality in which ‘evil’ thrives, and ‘good’ seems to be a naïve, utopian fantasy. ‘Good’ is reserved for superheroes and children’s stories, while the ‘real world’ is driven by greed, violence, and hatred. If we are so consumed with evil, then is there any point to writing about it? Perhaps the more important question is ‘why should we ever stop writing about it?’. Towards that end, this volume is intended to act as a catalyst to an ongoing destabilization of mental (philosophical) and social (political, historical) regimes of ‘evil’ in thought and practice. It is compiled with the intention of saying something new about a very old topic, as a reminder that this is an unfinished conversation which stretches back millennia and has a deeply tangible impact on the worlds within which we live today. Contributors are Peter Brian Barry, Lima Bhuiyan, Diedra L. Clay, Zachary J. Goldberg, Sophia Kanaouti, Stefanie Schnitzer Mills, Rallie Murray, Asli Tekinay and Claudio Vescia Zanini.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Politics and Philosophy in the Face of Evil Rallie Murray PART 1 (Re)Presentations of Evil in Media, Philosophy and Literature 1 Evil and the Subversion of Factual Discourse in Found Footage Films Claudio Vescia Zanini 2 The Arch of Pinteresque Drama: Power and Evil Aslı Tekinay 3 On the Possibility of Diabolical Action Peter Brian Barry 4 Exorcising Demons of Moral Philosophy: What Evil and Inescapable Wrongdoing Can Tell Us about Moral Interaction Zachary J. Goldberg PART 2 The Dangerous Ones: When Evil Was a Woman 5 Dionysus and the Feminine Dierdra L. Clay 6 The Belief in Evil and Its Redefinition During the Salem Witch Trials Stefanie Schnitzer Mills PART 3 Space/Times of Evil: Political Life and Social Worlds 7 Media ‘Heroes’: Evil Disinvested Sophia Kanaouti 8 Exploring the Banality of Bureaucracy in Carceral States Rallie Murray 9 The Justified Villain: Television, Terrorism, and Re-Examining Evil Lima Bhuiyan Index

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Book SynopsisIn Postsocialist Conditions: Idea and History in China’s “Independent Cinema,” 1988-2008, WANG Xiaoping offers a comprehensive survey and trenchant critique of China’s “Independent Cinema” by the sixth-generation auteurs. By showing the multi-valence of the postsocialist conditions in contemporary Chinese society, their films articulate a new cultural-political logic in postsocialist China, which is also the logic of the market in this era of neoliberal transformation, brought about by the forces of marketization since the late 1980s. The directors laudably show the spirits of humanism and the humanitarian concerns of the underclass, yet the shortage and repudiation of class analysis prohibits the artists from exploring the social contradictions and the cause of class restructuration.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction: Articulating the Logic of China’s Postsocialist Society in the Era of Neo-Liberal Transformation 1 China in Transition: Jia Zhangke’s “Hometown Trilogy” 2 Postmodern Anomie or Postsocialist Alienation? 3 Problematic Narration of the Historical Experience of Working Class 4 Portraying the Abject and the Sublime of the Subaltern 5 Exhibiting the Confusion and Melancholy of Artists 6 Women’s Changing Destiny in the Post-Revolutionary Fantasyland 7 In the Name of Love: Ideology of the Elite Class 8 Whither China? Wang Chao’s “China Trilogy” Conclusion: On the Historicity of the Sixth-Generation Auteurs and China’s “Independent” Cinema Filmography Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book provides an insight into research conducted by participants attending The Patient: Examining Realities: 5th Global Conference, held in Oxford, England, 14-16 September, 2016. These attendees and subsequent volume contributors include medical professionals and healthcare providers employed by reputable academic institutions, and who take a both scientific and practical interest in the healthcare industry and its practices. The book also includes discourses by academics with a more theoretical interest in health and the complex doctor-patient relationship. Research presented herein is both steeped in cultural traditions and reflective of new trends in certain countries across the globe. Theories, practices and trends highlighted in the book are ultimately universal in that they concern all of us on a global level.

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Book SynopsisThis book offers in-depth accounts of encounters between Chinese and African social and economic actors that have been increasing rapidly since the early 2000s. With a clear focus on social changes, be it quotidian behaviour or specific practices, the authors employ multi-disciplinary approaches in analysing the various impacts that the intensifying interaction between Chinese and Africans in their roles as ethnic and cultural others, entrepreneurial migrants, traders, employers, employees etc. have on local developments and transformations within the host societies, be they on the African continent or in China. The dynamics of social change addressed in case studies cover processes of social mobility through migration, adaptation of business practices, changing social norms, consumption patterns, labour relations and mutual perceptions, cultural brokerage, exclusion and inclusion, gendered experiences, and powerful imaginations of China. Contributors are Karsten Giese, Guive Khan Mohammad, Katy Lam, Ben Lampert, Kelly Si Miao Liang, Laurence Marfaing, Gordon Mathews, Giles Mohan, Amy Niang, Yoon Jung Park, Alena Thiel, Naima Topkiran.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements List of Contributors 1 Introduction: From Rejection to Social Change  Karsten Giese, Laurence Marfaing and Alena Thiel Part 1: Others in Distant Places: Opportunities for Social Mobility 2 Social Mobility of Chinese Migrants in Ghana: The Making of Chinese Entrepreneurs  Katy N. Lam 3 The Impact of Migration of the Chinese Women in Niamey on Gender and Family Relations  Naima Topkiran 4 African Cultural Brokers in South China  Gordon Mathews 5 Early Chinese Migrants in Sub-Saharan Africa: Contract Labourers and Traders  Yoon Jung Park Part 2: Encounters with the Other, Stimuli for Social Change 6 Grassroots Social Change Triggered by Africa-China Encounters in Urban China  Kelly Si Miao Liang 7 Business Partners and Employers: Chinese Traders as Facilitators of Grassroots Social Innovation in West Africa  Karsten Giese 8 A Transformative Presence? Chinese Migrants as Agents of Change in Ghana and Nigeria  Ben Lampert and Giles Mohan 9 The Chinese Factor in Senegal: Changing Entrepreneurial Dynamics, and Socio-Economic Restructuring  Amy Niang Part 3: The Products of Others: ‘Made in China’ as Imaginary and Opportunity 10 This “Made in China” that Gets Africa Moving: Chinese Motorcycles and Entrepreneurship in Burkina Faso  Guive Khan-Mohammad 11 “Made in China” and the African “China Dream”: An Alternative to the West?  Laurence Marfaing 12 Cheat Me in the Price, but Not in the Goods: Negotiating Imaginaries of Authenticity in Accra’s China Trade  Alena Thiel Index

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Book SynopsisPopular representations of teachers and teaching are easy to take for granted precisely because they are so accessible and pervasive. Our lives are intertextual in the way lived experiences overlap with the stories of others presented to us through mass media. It is this set of connected narratives that we bring into classrooms and into discussions of educational policy. In this day and time—with public education under siege by forces eager to deprofessionalize teaching and transfer public funds to benefit private enterprises—we ignore the dominant discourse about education and the patterns of representation that typify educator characters at our peril. This edited volume offers a fresh take on educator characters in popular culture and also includes important essays about media texts that have not been addressed adequately in the literature previously. The 15 chapters cover diverse forms from literary classics to iconic teacher movies to popular television to rock ‘n’ roll. Topics explored include pedagogy through the lenses of gender, sexuality, race, disability, politics, narrative archetypes, curriculum, teaching strategies, and liberatory praxis. The various perspectives represented in this volume come from scholars and practitioners of education at all levels of schooling. This book is especially timely in an era when public education in the United States is under assault from conservative political forces and undervalued by the general public. Contributors are: Steve Benton, Naeemah Clark, Kristy Liles Crawley, Elizabeth Currin, Mary M. Dalton, Jill Ewing Flynn, Chad E. Harris, Gary Kenton, Mark A. Lewis, Ian Parker Renga, Stephanie Schroeder, Roslin Smith, Jeff Spanke, and Andrew Wirth.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements List of Figures 1 A Loyalty Test for the American Educator, from Ichabod Crane to Erin Gruwell  Steve Benton 2 Schooling the State: Teachers and Democratic Dispositions on The West Wing  Stephanie Schroeder 3 Rethinking Student-Teacher Relationship Intimacy as Attachment  Andrew Wirth 4 Mr. Miller Goes to War: Saving Private Ryan and the Children Left Behind  Jeff Spanke 5 In Loco Parentis Redux: Bob and Linda Belcher at Wagstaff School  Elizabeth Currin 6 What’s a Nice White Lady to Do?: A Critical Literacy Lens on Teaching and Learning in Pop Culture Portrayals  Jill Ewing Flynn 7 The Dis-Education of Rock ‘n’ Roll  Gary Kenton 8 Promoted to Control?: School Office Culture in HBO’s Vice Principals  Chad E. Harris 9 The Insecure Teacher: How Issa Rae Has Normalized the Black Woman to Create TV Magic  Naeemah Clark 10 Contrasting the Archetypal Sage with the Mentor Coach in Young Adult Literature: Insights for Teacher Reflection  Ian Parker Renga and Mark A. Lewis 11 Saved by the Belles: Gender Roles in the Quintessential Teen Comedy  Elizabeth Currin and Stephanie Schroeder 12 “Good” Teacher on Her Own Terms: Miss Shaw in ABC’s The Wonder Years  Chad E. Harris 13 Liberatory Pedagogy in Action: The Embodied Performance of Community College Instructors in Film and Television  Kristy Liles Crawley 14 Q the Teacher. TV Lessons from the 24th Century: You Do Not have to Be an Omniscient Teacher, But It Helps  Roslin Smith 15 Speechless to Speechless: Nontraditional Teacher Characters in Recent Sitcoms  Mary M. Dalton Film Sources Television Sources

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Book SynopsisIn Engaging the Other: “Japan and Its Alter-Egos”, 1550-1850 Ronald P. Toby examines new discourses of identity and difference in early modern Japan, a discourse catalyzed by the “Iberian irruption,” the appearance of Portuguese and other new, radical others in the sixteenth century. The encounter with peoples and countries unimagined in earlier discourse provoked an identity crisis, a paradigm shift from a view of the world as comprising only “three countries” (sangoku), i.e., Japan, China and India, to a world of “myriad countries” (bankoku) and peoples. In order to understand the new radical alterities, the Japanese were forced to establish new parameters of difference from familiar, proximate others, i.e., China, Korea and Ryukyu. Toby examines their articulation in literature, visual and performing arts, law, and customs.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements A Word about Language List of Figures Introduction: Between Engagement and Imagination 1 Interlude: A Pair of Parables 2 Mapping the Margins: The Ragged Edges of State and Nation  1 Mapping Japan  2 Where Was Early-Modern “Japan?”  3 Reprise  4 Taxonomic Boundaries  5 Nishikawa Joken’s “Japan”  6 Terajima Ryōan and the Wakan sansai zue  7 Hayashi Shihei and the “Three Countries”  8 Margins and Maps  9 Coda 3 Imagining and Imaging “Anthropos”  1 Imaging Difference at Home  2 Brave New World: The Panopticon of Peoples in the Myriad Realms  3 The Encyclopedic Vision: Articulate Selves and Typed Others  4 Toward a Visual Ethnography of a Myriad Lands 4 Indianizing Iberia/Performing Portugal: Responses to the Iberian Irruption  1 Implicit Others and Manifest Men of Inde  2 Setting the Stage  3 Alter Others: Koreans, Okinawans, and Chinese in the Japanese Text  4 The Invasive Other: Fear of Foreigners and the Changing Iconographic Field  5 Performative Possibilities in the Age of Encounter  6 Disengagement and Code-Switching 5 Parades of Difference/Parades of Power  1 Parade Diplomacy  2 Watching the Watchers: Intersecting Gazes in Procession and Parade  3 Edo Culture as Parade  4 Alien Parades  5 The Internal Structure of an “Alien Parade”  6 A Documentary Painting is Not a Sketch  7 Parade in Review  8 How to Wrap a Parade  9 Why Wrap an Alien?  10 How to Watch a Diplomatic Parade  11 “‘Festival Chinamen’ Are More Convincing ‘Chinamen’”  12 Parade-Watching as Festival  13 The Spectator’s Condition  14 The Well-Tempered Spectator  15 Watching the Spectators  16 Seeing and Showing  17 Four Lines of Sight 6 The Birth of the Hairy Barbarian: Ethnic Slur as Cultural Marker  1 Initial Encounters and Radical Others  2 The First Hairy Barbarians  3 With a Flick of the Razor  4 Bearded Boundaries  5 Coxinga’s Pate/Chinese Bodies/Tatar Hair  6 Playing the Hairy Barbarian  7 Envisioning Hair  8 Tying Up Loose Ends 7 The Mountain That Needs No Interpreter: Mt. Fuji and the Foreign  1 National Symbols, Found and Made  2 The Rise of Mt. Fuji  3 On a Clear Day You Can See Forever: Mt. Fuji and the Ambit of the Gods  4 Universal Mt. Fuji as “Scientific” Truth  5 Mt. Fuji’s Growing Reach  6 If the Mountain Won’t Come…: Drawing the Other to Japan  7 Preserve and Protect  8 Kiyomasa Redux  9 Conclusion Epilogue: Antiphonals of Identity  1 One Costume/Many Scripts  2 Capturing “Korea” Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the intricacies of emergent sexual citizenship. Designed for academics and broader audiences alike, the collection covers the theorization of sexual citizenship, the exploration of case studies in law, the relationship between sexual citizenship and bio-politics, and finally the erotic dissidence of sexual outlaws. The borders of sexual citizenship are traced, as authors investigate what it means to be ‘inside,’ as erotic subjects, or outside, as ‘sexual outlaws.’ The issues of inclusion and exclusion are approached through diverse methodological and analytical lenses: some articles are theoretical and philosophical, others are empirically based, presenting the findings of sociological and ethnographic research projects; some are textual analyses, of religious texts, film texts, and of legal discourse. Contributors are Abidemi Fasanmi, René Hirsch, Elene Lam, Jaclyn Lanthier, Todd G. Morrison, Nick J. Mulé, Elly-Jean Nielsen, Serena Petrella, Olivia Schuman and Deww Zhang.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Erotic Subjects and Outlaws: Sketching the Borders of Sexual Citizenship. An Introduction  Serena Petrella 1 Evolving Sexual Citizenry: Developing Queer Liberation Theory  Nick J. Mulé 2 Broadening and Complicating Sexual Citizenship by Applying the ‘Post-Gay’ Third Way and the Minimal Marriage Model  Jaclyn Lanthier 3 Sexual Citizenship and Reproduction: Do Children Have a Right Not to Be Conceived via New Reproductive Technologies (NRTs)?  Olivia Schuman 4 Gender Procreative Roles in the First Codes of Law  René Hirsch 5 Micromanaging the Massage Parlour: How Municipal Bylaws Organize and Shape the Lives of Asian Sex Workers  Elene Lam 6 Kink and the DSM-5: Pathologisation, Regulation, Stigmatisation  Nick J. Mulé 7 Bio-Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa: Re-Examining Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission Strategies for HIV  Abidemi Fasanmi 8 Dungeon Lives and Daily Lies: Navigating the Vanilla World  Deww Zhang 9 Barebacking as a Form of Homosociality? Notes on Bottom  Elly-Jean Nielsen and Todd G. Morrison Index

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Book SynopsisThis collection of papers invites the reader to look deeply at traditional and contemporary forms of writing, their implications for teaching and pedagogy, and their use of space as a strategy and as an implied device. We explore the lives and times of great writers, how they use space and how space influenced them, and we unveil the patterns upon which writing, as an artistic act, may be influenced by the spaces experienced by the creator. Contributors are David W. Bulla, Nathan James Crane, Phil Fitzsimmons, Gail Hammill, Genevieve Jorolan-Quintero, Syeda Hajirah Junaid, Edie Lanphar, Esthir Lemi, Imogen Lesser Woods, Panagiota Mavridou, Sam Meekings, Barış Mete, Ekaterina Midgette, Sevil Nakisli, Layla Roesler, Yadigar Sanli and Shelley Smith.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors List of Images  Introduction  Esthir Lemi, Ekaterina Midgette and Jessie Seymour Part 1: Meeting the Student and the Self  1Writing Ghosty Spaces: Place as Palimpsest  Sam Meekings  2Finding My Writing Space: from Research to Storytelling  Genevieve Jorolan-Quintero  3Attachment or Antithesis? Middle School Children and Writing as Relational Consciousness  Phil Fitzsimmons and Edie Lanphar  4Breathing In; Breathing Out: Writing as a Spiritual Space  Gail Hammill  5Expression of Humour in Persuasive Writing: Developmental Trends and Pedagogical Implication  Ekaterina Midgette and Sevil Nakisli Part 2: Meeting the Master  6Gandhi, the Journalist: When, Where, How, and What He Wrote  David W. Bulla  7Challenges of Physical and Psychological Spaces Faced by Three Generations of Writers in the 20th and 21st Century in the Sub-Continent, South Asia, and in Pakistan  Syeda Hajirah Junaid  8Writing as the Philosopher: Murdoch and the Theory  Barış Mete  9Poetry as Place: the ‘Vrai Lieu’ in the Work of Yves Bonnefoy  Layla Roesler  10Timeless and Spaceless Writer: the Case of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi  Yadigar Sanli Part 3: Meeting the Artist  11In-Movement: Spatiotextual Inscriptions  Panagiota Mavridou  12At the Crossroads: Writing Spaces between Academia and Embodiment  Shelley Smith  13The Artist as a Writer  Esthir Lemi  14Exploring the Written Wor(l)d: Writing As a Spatial Practice  Nathan James Crane  15The Literary Spaces of Mervyn Peake’s The Gormenghast Trilogy Used as a Foundation for Architectural Exploration  Imogen Lesser Woods  Index

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Book SynopsisCritical stories are more than just anecdotes or tales. They are narratives that raconter, or recount, the author’s own experiences, situating them in broader cultural contexts. Just as the autoethnographer situates the self in relation to the “others” of which the self is both a part and from which it is distinct, the critical storyteller situates his or her story of conflict in relation to the broader reality from which the conflict arises. The key is the reality that is being related and the perspective from which it is being shared. In Critical Storytelling in Millennial Times, marginalized, excluded, and oppressed people share insights from their liminality and help readers learn from their perspectives and experiences. Examples of stories in this volume range from undergraduate perspectives on financial aid for college students, to narratives on first-hand police brutality, to heartbreaking tales about addiction, bullying, and the child sex trade in Cambodia. Undergraduate authors relate their stories and pose important questions to the reader about inciting change for the future. Follow along in their journeys and learn what you can do to make a change in your own reality. Contributors are: Ben Brawner, Dwight Brown, Bryce Cherry, Kaytlin Jacoby, Jimmy Kruse, Dean Larrick, Bric Martin, Kara Niles, Claire Parrish, Grace Piper, Claire Prendergast, Alexsenia Ralat, Alec Reyes, Stephanie Simon, S. H. Suits, Katy Swift, Morgan Vogels, and Brittany Walsh.Trade Review"For students to have a say in the world in which they live is a necessity. They give voice to specific challenges and hopes imposed or otherwise overlooked by those to whom we (too often uncritically) depend upon to narrate the world on our behalf. Future generations will look to stories of the past to help make sense of the world they’ve inherited. The contributors to Critical Storytelling in Millennial Times offer some critical insights to such a project that will be invaluable in the work of describing our "now" then. These undergraduates – by sharing their stories of struggle with identity, university demands, and how to cope – expertly take up the incredibly important work of telling their own rather than waiting for their stories to be told and, in the process, making history ...." – A. D. Carson, Assistant Professor of Hip Hop and the Global South, University of Virginia

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Book SynopsisCritical stories are more than just anecdotes or tales. They are narratives that raconter, or recount, the author’s own experiences, situating them in broader cultural contexts. Just as the autoethnographer situates the self in relation to the “others” of which the self is both a part and from which it is distinct, the critical storyteller situates his or her story of conflict in relation to the broader reality from which the conflict arises. The key is the reality that is being related and the perspective from which it is being shared. In Critical Storytelling in Millennial Times, marginalized, excluded, and oppressed people share insights from their liminality and help readers learn from their perspectives and experiences. Examples of stories in this volume range from undergraduate perspectives on financial aid for college students, to narratives on first-hand police brutality, to heartbreaking tales about addiction, bullying, and the child sex trade in Cambodia. Undergraduate authors relate their stories and pose important questions to the reader about inciting change for the future. Follow along in their journeys and learn what you can do to make a change in your own reality. Contributors are: Ben Brawner, Dwight Brown, Bryce Cherry, Kaytlin Jacoby, Jimmy Kruse, Dean Larrick, Bric Martin, Kara Niles, Claire Parrish, Grace Piper, Claire Prendergast, Alexsenia Ralat, Alec Reyes, Stephanie Simon, S. H. Suits, Katy Swift, Morgan Vogels, and Brittany Walsh.Trade Review"For students to have a say in the world in which they live is a necessity. They give voice to specific challenges and hopes imposed or otherwise overlooked by those to whom we (too often uncritically) depend upon to narrate the world on our behalf. Future generations will look to stories of the past to help make sense of the world they’ve inherited. The contributors to Critical Storytelling in Millennial Times offer some critical insights to such a project that will be invaluable in the work of describing our "now" then. These undergraduates – by sharing their stories of struggle with identity, university demands, and how to cope – expertly take up the incredibly important work of telling their own rather than waiting for their stories to be told and, in the process, making history ...." – A. D. Carson, Assistant Professor of Hip Hop and the Global South, University of Virginia

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Book SynopsisIn Time for Educational Poetics the author addresses a discussion in the context of today’s philosophy of education and educational research. Conceptually, educational poetics is not limited to a theoretical construction, but rather focuses on the creative, imaginative and poetic experience, to being recreated in the teaching-learning process. Educational poetics is rooted in the philosophical and aesthetic thought of South Asia, specifically in how contemplative and creative practices re-introduced by Rabindranath Tagore. Educational poetics is the convergence of research in creative contemplation and poetic creation, practices of conscious attention and mindfulness, and practices of peace education and philosophy of non-violence. This book leads to a perspective in thinking about the risks that jeopardize the future of young generations.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Part 1: Time for Educational Poetics: A Philosophy of Education for Our Time Chapter 1: The Basics of Educational Poetics  What Is Educational Poetics?  The Space between Two Rhythms: Unconventional Pedagogies Chapter 2: The Society of Predetermination Chapter 3: Poetics and Pedagogy of Freedom  Pedagogy for Freedom Part 2: Why We Care Now for Educational Poetics and a Philosophy of Responsible Innovation? Chapter 4: A Creative Contemplation Approach and Responsible Innovation  Prospective Philosophy of Education and Responsible Innovation  Demographics: Why Do We Care Now for Responsible Innovation  Reconsidering the Future: AI from an Outlook of Responsible Innovation  Future-Oriented Humanistic Perspective: Towards 2030  Educative Interventions to Nourish Responsible Innovation Chapter 5: The Value of Future: Infosphere and Conscious Attention  Notes for a Philosophy of Infosphere  Are We Instruments of Our Instruments?  Conscious Attention, Egocentrism and the Infosphere  A Call for Digital Ethics of Infosphere  Egocentrism, Selfish Gene and Conscious Attention  Future under Risk or Innovation with No Ethic Regulation  Our Daily Life in the Infosphere Chapter 6: A Claim for Non-Violence and Peace Education  Unemployment and Costs of Violence  Unemployment, Multifactorial Violence: The Claim for Ahimsa  Youth and Re-Approaching the Future through Non-Violence  Again Greek Êthos Part 3: Why Does the Future Need Educational Poetics? Chapter 7: Interpreting Poetics, Cognitions and Aesthetic Emotion  Educational Poetics Is Polysemic  Creative Improvisation  Harmony and Environmental Awareness Chapter 8: Creative Contemplation  How Are Tagore’s Educational Ideas Still Relevant in the Era of Hyperconnectivity?  Tagore, Creative Contemplation and Freedom  Creative Contemplation in Educational Poetics  Imagination and Recreation  Freedom and the Art of Movement Chapter 9: Conscious Attention and Philosophy of Non-Violence  Contemplation, Mindfulness and Meditation  Philosophy of Non-Violence for Young People Epilogue: Autumn Dissipates Index

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Book SynopsisPopular representations of teachers and teaching are easy to take for granted precisely because they are so accessible and pervasive. Our lives are intertextual in the way lived experiences overlap with the stories of others presented to us through mass media. It is this set of connected narratives that we bring into classrooms and into discussions of educational policy. In this day and time—with public education under siege by forces eager to deprofessionalize teaching and transfer public funds to benefit private enterprises—we ignore the dominant discourse about education and the patterns of representation that typify educator characters at our peril. This edited volume offers a fresh take on educator characters in popular culture and also includes important essays about media texts that have not been addressed adequately in the literature previously. The 15 chapters cover diverse forms from literary classics to iconic teacher movies to popular television to rock ‘n’ roll. Topics explored include pedagogy through the lenses of gender, sexuality, race, disability, politics, narrative archetypes, curriculum, teaching strategies, and liberatory praxis. The various perspectives represented in this volume come from scholars and practitioners of education at all levels of schooling. This book is especially timely in an era when public education in the United States is under assault from conservative political forces and undervalued by the general public. Contributors are: Steve Benton, Naeemah Clark, Kristy Liles Crawley, Elizabeth Currin, Mary M. Dalton, Jill Ewing Flynn, Chad E. Harris, Gary Kenton, Mark A. Lewis, Ian Parker Renga, Stephanie Schroeder, Roslin Smith, Jeff Spanke, and Andrew Wirth.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements List of Figures 1 A Loyalty Test for the American Educator, from Ichabod Crane to Erin Gruwell  Steve Benton 2 Schooling the State: Teachers and Democratic Dispositions on The West Wing  Stephanie Schroeder 3 Rethinking Student-Teacher Relationship Intimacy as Attachment  Andrew Wirth 4 Mr. Miller Goes to War: Saving Private Ryan and the Children Left Behind  Jeff Spanke 5 In Loco Parentis Redux: Bob and Linda Belcher at Wagstaff School  Elizabeth Currin 6 What’s a Nice White Lady to Do?: A Critical Literacy Lens on Teaching and Learning in Pop Culture Portrayals  Jill Ewing Flynn 7 The Dis-Education of Rock ‘n’ Roll  Gary Kenton 8 Promoted to Control?: School Office Culture in HBO’s Vice Principals  Chad E. Harris 9 The Insecure Teacher: How Issa Rae Has Normalized the Black Woman to Create TV Magic  Naeemah Clark 10 Contrasting the Archetypal Sage with the Mentor Coach in Young Adult Literature: Insights for Teacher Reflection  Ian Parker Renga and Mark A. Lewis 11 Saved by the Belles: Gender Roles in the Quintessential Teen Comedy  Elizabeth Currin and Stephanie Schroeder 12 “Good” Teacher on Her Own Terms: Miss Shaw in ABC’s The Wonder Years  Chad E. Harris 13 Liberatory Pedagogy in Action: The Embodied Performance of Community College Instructors in Film and Television  Kristy Liles Crawley 14 Q the Teacher. TV Lessons from the 24th Century: You Do Not have to Be an Omniscient Teacher, But It Helps  Roslin Smith 15 Speechless to Speechless: Nontraditional Teacher Characters in Recent Sitcoms  Mary M. Dalton Film Sources Television Sources

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Book SynopsisArts education research has increased significantly since the beginning of the new millennium. This peer-reviewed book, the first of two volumes, captures some of the exciting developments in Canada. There is geographical diversity represented from across this large country, as well as theoretical and methodological diversity in the chapters. There is also a sense of togetherness with those, and other, diversities. There are calls to action and calls to play. We hear voices of artists, researchers, and artist researchers. The life histories of others, and of the self, are presented. Perspectives on Arts Education Research in Canada, Volume 1: Surveying the Landscape provides a wide spectrum of current research by members of the Arts Researchers and Teachers Society (ARTS)/La societé des chercheurs et des enseignants des arts (SCEA), a Special Interest Group (SIG) within the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies (CACS), which is in turn, is a constituent association of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE). Contributors are: Bernard W. Andrews, Julia Brook, Susan Catlin, Genevieve Cloutier, Yoriko Gillard, Kate Greenway, Michael Hayes, Nané Jordan, Sajani (Jinny) Menon, Catrina Migliore, Kathryn Ricketts, Pauline Sameshima, and Sean Wiebe.Trade Review"This compendium offers critical perspectives utilizing various arts-based research methodologies reflective of the richness and diversity of the multicultural landscape of Canada. A must-read for all arts educators and researchers." – Rodger Beatty, Brock University "What a feast! This book presents a fascinating panoply of post-qualitative research in Canada. With a diverse range of methods, including a/r/tography, auto-ethnography, life history, embodied poetic narrative, historiographic poiesis, proestry, stitching a story cloth and more, artist/scholars leverage the power of the arts to explore, come to know, and represent. Addressing topics from disaster relief to Indigenous arts education to the tortures of teaching practice the authors evocatively demonstrate the enormous potential of researching with and through the arts to enliven understanding." – Benjamin Bolden, UNESCO Chair in Arts and Learning, Queen’s University “This compilation offers new directions in arts-based and arts-informed research with profound implications for pedagogy and practice. You will find in the pages of this book, engaging and thought-provoking ideas from arts education scholars in Canada. I felt inspired by each contribution and am convinced that this book provides timely and valuable insights for future research in arts education.” – Susan O’Neill, Dean, Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser UniversityTable of ContentsForeword  John J. Guiney Yallop Preface List of Figures Notes on Contributors 1 From Paris to Belfast: A Canadian Life Writing Journey Home  Nané Jordan 2 Imagination: The Generation of Possibility  Pauline Sameshima, Sean Wiebe and Michael T. Hayes 3 Creating Complex and Diverse Communities of Meaning Makers with Help from Remington  Kathryn Ricketts 4 Historiographic Poiesis and Adoption Ephemera: Journeys in Arts-Based Research  Kate Greenway 5 Arts-Based Methods, Transformation, and Possibilities in Interdisciplinary Arts-Based Research  Genevieve Cloutier 6 KIZUNA: A Creative Journey  Yoriko Gillard 7 A Story Cloth of Curriculum Making: Narratively S-t-i-t-c-h-i-n-g Understandings through Arts-Informed Work  Sajani (Jinny) Menon 8 Being and Becoming an Artist: Exploring the Life Histories of Five Indigenous Artists from the Northwest Territories  Julia Brook and Susan Catlin 9 Tensions in the Mentor-Mentee Relationship in Teacher Education: An Artistic Inquiry  Caterina Migliore 10 Responsive Inquiry: Employing a Musical Metaphor to Conceptualize an Arts-Based Research Strategy for the Electronic Field  Bernard W. Andrews

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Book SynopsisArts education research has increased significantly since the beginning of the new millennium. This peer-reviewed book, the first of two volumes, captures some of the exciting developments in Canada. There is geographical diversity represented from across this large country, as well as theoretical and methodological diversity in the chapters. There is also a sense of togetherness with those, and other, diversities. There are calls to action and calls to play. We hear voices of artists, researchers, and artist researchers. The life histories of others, and of the self, are presented. Perspectives on Arts Education Research in Canada, Volume 1: Surveying the Landscape provides a wide spectrum of current research by members of the Arts Researchers and Teachers Society (ARTS)/La societé des chercheurs et des enseignants des arts (SCEA), a Special Interest Group (SIG) within the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies (CACS), which is in turn, is a constituent association of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE). Contributors are: Bernard W. Andrews, Julia Brook, Susan Catlin, Genevieve Cloutier, Yoriko Gillard, Kate Greenway, Michael Hayes, Nané Jordan, Sajani (Jinny) Menon, Catrina Migliore, Kathryn Ricketts, Pauline Sameshima, and Sean Wiebe.Trade Review"This compendium offers critical perspectives utilizing various arts-based research methodologies reflective of the richness and diversity of the multicultural landscape of Canada. A must-read for all arts educators and researchers." – Rodger Beatty, Brock University "What a feast! This book presents a fascinating panoply of post-qualitative research in Canada. With a diverse range of methods, including a/r/tography, auto-ethnography, life history, embodied poetic narrative, historiographic poiesis, proestry, stitching a story cloth and more, artist/scholars leverage the power of the arts to explore, come to know, and represent. Addressing topics from disaster relief to Indigenous arts education to the tortures of teaching practice the authors evocatively demonstrate the enormous potential of researching with and through the arts to enliven understanding." – Benjamin Bolden, UNESCO Chair in Arts and Learning, Queen’s University “This compilation offers new directions in arts-based and arts-informed research with profound implications for pedagogy and practice. You will find in the pages of this book, engaging and thought-provoking ideas from arts education scholars in Canada. I felt inspired by each contribution and am convinced that this book provides timely and valuable insights for future research in arts education.” – Susan O’Neill, Dean, Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser UniversityTable of ContentsForeword  John J. Guiney Yallop Preface List of Figures Notes on Contributors 1 From Paris to Belfast: A Canadian Life Writing Journey Home  Nané Jordan 2 Imagination: The Generation of Possibility  Pauline Sameshima, Sean Wiebe and Michael T. Hayes 3 Creating Complex and Diverse Communities of Meaning Makers with Help from Remington  Kathryn Ricketts 4 Historiographic Poiesis and Adoption Ephemera: Journeys in Arts-Based Research  Kate Greenway 5 Arts-Based Methods, Transformation, and Possibilities in Interdisciplinary Arts-Based Research  Genevieve Cloutier 6 KIZUNA: A Creative Journey  Yoriko Gillard 7 A Story Cloth of Curriculum Making: Narratively S-t-i-t-c-h-i-n-g Understandings through Arts-Informed Work  Sajani (Jinny) Menon 8 Being and Becoming an Artist: Exploring the Life Histories of Five Indigenous Artists from the Northwest Territories  Julia Brook and Susan Catlin 9 Tensions in the Mentor-Mentee Relationship in Teacher Education: An Artistic Inquiry  Caterina Migliore 10 Responsive Inquiry: Employing a Musical Metaphor to Conceptualize an Arts-Based Research Strategy for the Electronic Field  Bernard W. Andrews

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Book SynopsisThe Cultural Political Economy of the Construction Industry in Turkey analyses the growth of the popularity of the ‘Justice and Development Party’ (official acronym: AK Parti or AKP) of Turkey’s president Erdogan, through the lens of the construction sector. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the question of hegemony and the electoral success of the AKP – despite frequent economic downturns and ferocious political conflicts including a coup d’état attempt and rekindled armed struggles. In this book, Ismail Doga Karatepe critically examines the AKP’s ability to satisfy the needs and wishes of different social classes and groups. By taking the construction sector as an example, the book analyses these in the context of the changes in the urban landscape of modern Turkey.

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Book Synopsis‘Quid est sacramentum?’ Visual Representation of Sacred Mysteries in Early Modern Europe, 1400–1700 investigates how sacred mysteries (in Latin, sacramenta or mysteria) were visualized in a wide range of media, including illustrated religious literature such as catechisms, prayerbooks, meditative treatises, and emblem books, produced in Italy, France, and the Low Countries between ca. 1500 and 1700. The contributors ask why the mysteries of faith and, in particular, sacramental mysteries were construed as amenable to processes of representation and figuration, and why the resultant images were thought capable of engaging mortal eyes, minds, and hearts. Mysteries by their very nature appeal to the spirit, rather than to sense or reason, since they operate beyond the limitations of the human faculties; and yet, the visual and literary arts served as vehicles for the dissemination of these mysteries and for prompting reflection upon them. Contributors: David Areford, AnnMarie Micikas Bridges, Mette Birkedal Bruun, James Clifton, Anna Dlabačková, Wim François, Robert Kendrick, Aiden Kumler, Noria Litaker, Walter S. Melion, Lars Cyril Nørgaard, Elizabeth Pastan, Donna Sadler, Alexa Sand, Tanya Tiffany, Lee Palmer Wandel, Geert Warner, Bronwen Wilson, and Elliott Wise.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors 1 Quid est sacramentum?: Introduction  Walter S. Melion Part 1: Representing the Sacraments 2 Counterfeiting the Eucharist in Late Medieval Life and Art  Aden Kumler 3 Vestments in the Mass  Lee Palmer Wandel 4 ‘In the Flesh a Mirror of Spiritual Blessings’: Calvin’s Defence of the Lord’s Supper as a Visual Accommodation  AnnMarie M. Bridges 5 ‘Mystery’ or ‘Sacrament’: Ephesians 5:32, the Sacrament of Marriage in Early Modern Biblical Scholarship, and Nicolas Poussin’s Visual Exegesis  Wim François 6 Hoc Est Corpus Meum: Whole-Body Catacomb Saints and Eucharistic Doctrine in Baroque Bavaria  Noria K. Litaker 7 Staging Sacramental Consolation in Vienna  Robert L. Kendrick Part 2: Sacramental Modes of Representation 8 Seeing beyond Signs: Allegorical Explanations of the Mass in Medieval Dutch Literature  Anna Dlabačová 9 Representing Architecture in the Altarpiece: Fictions, Strategies, and Mysteries  Elizabeth Carson Pastan 10 Orchestrating Polyphony at the Altar: Passion Altarpieces in Late Medieval France  Donna L. Sadler 11 God’s Design: Painting and Piety in the Vida of Estefanía de la Encarnación (ca. 1597–1665)  Tanya J. Tiffany 12 Amber, Blood, and the Holy Face of Jesus: the Materiality of Devotion in Late Medieval Bruges  Elliott D. Wise and Matthew Havili 13 Anchoring the Appearance of the Sacred: the Abbot of Choisy & His Translation of the Imitatio Christi (1692)  Lars Cyril Nørgaard 14 Spiritual and Material Conversions: Federico Barocci’s Christ and Mary Magdalene  Bronwen Wilson Part 3: Representing Divine Presence and the Mysteries of Faith 15 The Fine Art of Dying: Envisioning Death in the Somme le Roi Tradition  Alexa Sand 16 Christ Child Creator  David S. Areford 17 Lady Scripture’s Sacred Commitments: Dialogic Understanding in Dutch Religious Literature of the Late Fifteenth Century  Geert Warnar 18 Coemeterium Schola: the Emblematic Imagery of Death in Jan David, S.J.’s Veridicus Christianus  Walter S. Melion 19 The Limits of ‘Mute Theology’: Charles Le Brun’s Lecture on Nicolas Poussin’s Ecstasy of Saint Paul Revisited  James Clifton 20 A Private Mystery: Looking at Philippe de Champaigne’s Annunciation for the Hôtel de Chavigny  Mette Birkedal Bruun Index Nominum

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Book SynopsisCities are defined by their complex network of busy streets and the multitudes of people that animate them through physical presence and bodily actions that often differ dramatically: elegant window-shoppers and homeless beggars, protesting crowds and patrolling police. As bodies shape city life, so the city’s spaces, structures, economies, politics, rhythms, and atmospheres reciprocally shape the urban soma. This collection of original essays explores the somaesthetic qualities and challenges of city life (in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas) from a variety of perspectives ranging from philosophy, urban theory, political theory, and gender studies to visual art, criminology, and the interdisciplinary field of somaesthetics. Together these essays illustrate the aesthetic, cultural, and political roles and trials of bodies in the city streets.Trade Review"Shusterman and his colleagues launched a significant volume of essays about a new dimension of somaesthetics: bodies in the street. It shows somaesthetics' usefulness and ability to interpret every dimension of human life." - Alexander Kremer, University of Szeged, in: Pragmatism Today Vol. 11 (1/2020) "[D]oes somaesthetics provide a basis for critical assessment? Shusterman makes a strong case for the importance of the body and its role in all aspects of human experience. [...] The audience for this book may include aestheticians, but it offers potentially a much broader scope of interest, including the place of the body in urban studies, feminist theory, revolutionary politics, as well as literature and art." - Curtis L. Carter, Marquette University, in: The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Vol. 78 (issue 2/2020) "Si tratta, pertanto, di un volume importante e decisivo nello sviluppo della somaestetica proposta da Shusterman, una tappa che prelude a passi ulteriori ma che già fin da adesso rimodula ulteriormente e in modo efficace il cammino della somaestetica." - Leonardo Distaso, University of Naples, in: Aisthema, International Journal Vol. VI (2019) “[A] significant contribution in imposing somaesthetics as one of the most open and pluralist fields in contemporary philosophy.” - Stefano Marino, University of Bologna, in: The Journal of Somaesthetics 6:2 (2020).Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction: Bodies in the Streets and the Somaesthetics of City Life  Richard Shusterman Part I: The Soma, the City, and the Weather 1. Bodies in the Streets: The Soma, the City, and the Art of Living  Richard Shusterman 2. The Weather-Worlds of Urban Bodies  Mădălina Diaconu 3. White on Black: Snow in the City, Skiing in Copenhagen  Henrik Reeh Part II: Festival, Revolution, and Death 4. Body Politics: Revolt and City Celebration  Matthew Crippen 5. Bodies in the Streets of Eastern Europe: Rhetorical Space and the Somaesthetics of Revolution  Noemi Marin 6. From Dancing to Dying in the Streets: Somaesthetics of the Cuban Revolution in Memories of Underdevelopment and Juan of the Dead  Marilyn Miller Part III: Performances of Resistance, Gender, and Crime 7. “Street” is Feminine in Italian: Feminine Bodies and Street Spaces  Ilaria Serra 8. Bodies in Alliance and New Sites of Resistance: Performing the Political in Neoliberal Public Space  Federica Castelli 9. East End Prostitution and the Fear of Contagion: On Bodily Consciousness of the Ripper Case  Chung-jen Chen 10. Towards a Somaesthetic Conception of Culture in Iran: Somaesthetic Performances as Cultural Praxis in Tehran  Alireza Fakhrkonandeh Part IV: Bodies in the Streets of Literature and Art 11. “Terrae Incognitae”: The Somaesthetics of Thomas De Quincey’s Psychogeography  Evy Varsamopoulou 12. The Empty Spaces You Run Into: The City as Character and Background in William S. Burroughs’s Junky, Queer, and Naked Lunch  Robert Jones 13. Somaesthetics and the Sublime: Varanasi in Modern and Contemporary Indian Art  Pradeep Dhillon Name Index Subject Index

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Book SynopsisGender and Pop Culture provides a foundation for the study of gender, pop culture, and media. This newly updated edition is comprehensive and interdisciplinary, providing both text-book style introductory and concluding chapters written by the editor. The text includes eight original contributor chapters on key topics and written in a variety of writing styles, discussion questions, additional resources, and more. Coverage includes: – Foundations for studying gender and pop culture (history, theory, methods, key concepts). – Contributor chapters on social media, technology, advertising, music, television, film, and sports. – Ideas for activism and putting this book to use beyond the classroom. – Pedagogical features. – Suggestions for further readings on topics covered and international studies of gender and pop culture. Gender and Pop Culture was designed with students in mind, to promote reflection and lively discussion. With features found in both textbooks and anthologies, this sleek book can serve as a primary or supplemental reading in courses across disciplines.Trade Review"The timely, well-written pieces in Gender & Pop Culture manage to convey some of the intellectual excitement – and dare I say it, fun – that the best in media studies and feminism can stimulate. Students and scholars alike will appreciate how the wide-ranging chapters in this volume provide greater depth and context to some of the great debates of our time about the ‘effects of media’ that take place every day in university classrooms and around kitchen tables. This should be required reading for anyone who’s ever watched TV, gone to a movie or put on a pair of headphones!" - Jackson Katz, Ph.D., creator of Tough Guise 2: Violence, Manhood and American Culture and author of The Macho Paradox "An important addition to the fields of gender and media studies, this excellent compilation will be useful to students and teachers in a wide range of disciplines. The research is solid, the examples from popular culture are current and interesting, and the conclusions are original and illuminating. It is certain to stimulate self-reflection and lively discussion." - Jean Kilbourne, Ed.D., author, feminist activist and creator of the Killing Us Softly: Advertising’s Image of Women film series "An ideal teaching tool: the introduction is intellectually robust and orients the reader towards a productive engagement with the chapters; the contributions themselves are diverse and broad in terms of the subject matter covered; and the conclusion helps students take what they have learnt beyond the classroom. I can’t wait to make use of it." - Sut Jhally, Professor of Communication, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Founder & Executive Director, Media Education Foundation "Gender & Pop Culture takes no prisoners in describing the influences of patriarchy on a wide range of media. With up-to-date examples, strongly worded arguments, and ideas for resistance, these chapters are sure classroom conversation starters." - Lisa Wade, Founder of Sociological Images and Professor, Occidental CollegeTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction  Adrienne Trier-Bieniek 1. Streaming Transgender: Visualizing Continuity and Change in Transgender Media Representations  alithia zamantakis and J. E. Sumerau 2. Sexism, Sex, Media and Kids  Scott Richardson 3. Gender and Advertising  Patricia Arend 4. Lady Gaga, Lemonade, and Hamilton: The Impact of Music on Gender and Social Activism  Adrienne Trier-Bieniek and Amanda Pullum 5. “As Seen on TV”: Gender, Television, and Popular Culture  Jenn Brandt 6. Popular Movies That Teach: How Movies Teach about Schools & Genders  Kevin J. Burke and Adam J. Greteman 7. Gender, Sport, and Popular Culture  Emily A. Roper and Katherine M. Polasek 8. Gender and Technology: Women’s Usage, Creation and Perspectives  Cindy Royal 9. Going beyond the Classroom: What Now?  Adrienne Trier-Bieniek Further Reading Notes on Contributors

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Book SynopsisIn The Meaning of Color in Ancient Mesopotamia, Shiyanthi Thavapalan offers the first in-depth study of the words and expressions for colors in the Akkadian language (c. 2500-500 BCE). By combining philological analysis with the technical investigation of materials, she debunks the misconception that people in Mesopotamia had a limited sense of color and positions the development of Akkadian color language as a corollary of the history of materials and techniques in the ancient Near East. "...The Meaning of Color in Ancient Mesopotamia is a ground-breaking, methodologically innovative, and insightful work. It makes an important contribution to the fields of color studies, historical semantics, and to the history of technologies, enriching our current understanding of Mesopotamian worldviews, languages and material culture. The book will be a valuable resource not only to Assyriologists, but, due to its comparative perspective, also to historians, linguists, and readers interested in the interrelations between language, thought, and culture." -Ulrike Steinert, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Bryn Mawr Classical Review (2020) "The study particularly nuances the way biblical scholars and students should begin to interpret ancient colour categories which ultimately enriches our understanding of different ancient cultures; this, in turn, deserves wide readership." -Ellena Lyell, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 44.5 (2020)Trade Review“This thorough and enlightening study on the meaning of colour in ancient Mesopotamia is a revision of T.’s Yale PhD thesis (supervised by Benjamin Foster). (…) The study particularly nuances the way biblical scholars and students should begin to interpret ancient colour categories which ultimately enriches our understanding of different ancient cultures; this, in turn, deserves wide readership.” - Ellena Lyell, in Society for Old Testament Study Book List 2020Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Color Metalanguage, Signs and Convention Used List of Figures and Plates  1Color Semantics  1.1What is Color?  1.2Color Vision and Language: Gladstone, Magnus, Allen and the Puzzle of Color Vocabularies  1.3Color Categories and Names: Relativity and Universalism  1.4Scope and Nature of the Present Study  2Abstract Colors  2.1Talking about Color in Akkadian  2.2Abstract Color Words  2.3Aspects of Color  2.4Terminology for the Process of Coloring and the State of Being Colored   2.4.1 Bašalu   2.4.2 Šamatu   2.4.3 ?arapu   2.4.4 Tarapu  2.5Terminology for Abstract Color Terms   2.5.1 Arqu   2.5.2 Barmu   2.5.3 Da ?mu   2.5.4 Ebbu, namru (with ellu)   2.5.5 Eklu, e?û (with adru)   2.5.6 ?elû   2.5.7 ?/ruššû   2.5.8 Pelû   2.5.9 Pe?û   2.5.10 Samu   2.5.11 ?almu   2.5.12 Tarku  3Material Colors  3.1What are Material Colors?  3.2Materials and Colors in Parts of Speech and in the Archaeological Record  3.3Abstraction  3.4Colored Materials   3.4.1 Wool and Leather   3.4.2 Pigments   3.4.3 Glass   3.4.4 Metals  3.5Terminology for Fabrics, Stones and Glass   3.5.1 Argamannu and takiltu   3.5.2 Du?šu   3.5.3 ?a?artu   3.5.4 ?aš?uru/?at?uru   3.5.5 ?ašmanu   3.5.6 Kina??u   3.5.7 Makru   3.5.8 Šurat?u   3.5.9 Tabarru and nabasu   3.5.10 Tamk/qar?u   3.5.11 Uqnû  3.6Terminology for Dyes, Pigments and Colorants   3.6.1 ?i/enzuru, ?i/enzuribu, inzuratu   3.6.2 ?uratu   3.6.3 ?ur?uratu   3.6.4 Kalgukku   3.6.5 Kalû   3.6.6 Kasû   3.6.7 Šaršarru   3.6.8 Ur?û/uri?û   3.6.9 Zagindurû  3.7Terminology for Metals   3.7.1 ?ura?u  4Colorful Matter  4.1History of Scholarship on the North-West Palace  4.2The Polychromy Then and Now  4.3Museology   4.3.1 Acquisition and Display of the Assyrian Reliefs at Yale University   4.3.2 Conservation  4.4Egyptian Blue on the Assyrian Reliefs at Yale University: A Study by Visible-induced Luminescence Imaging   4.4.1 Egyptian Blue and VIL-imaging   4.4.2 VIL-imaging on the Yale Reliefs: Analysis and Discussion  4.5The ‘Colorful Matter’ of Assyrian Architecture  Epilogue: Making Sense of Color  Bibliography  Appendix A  Appendix B  Plates

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Book SynopsisLiving Culturally Responsive Mathematics Education with/in Indigenous Communities explores challenges and possibilities across international contexts, involving Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars, teachers and Elders responding to calls for improved education for all Indigenous students. Authors from Australia, New Zealand, United States, Micronesia, and Canada explore the nature of culturally responsive mathematics education. Chapters highlight the importance of relationships with communities and the land, each engaging critically with ideas of culturally responsive education, exploring what this stance might mean and how it is lived in local contexts within global conversations. Education researchers and teacher educators will find a living pathway where scholars, educators, youth and community members critically take-up culturally responsive teachings and the possibilities and challenges that arise along the journey. Contributors are: Dayle Anderson, Dora Andre-Ihrke, Jo-ann Archibald Q'um Q'um Xiiem, Maria Jose Athie-Martinez, Robin Averill, Trevor Bills, Beatriz A. Camacho, A. J. (Sandy) Dawson, Dwayne Donald, Herewini Easton, Tauvela Fale, Amanda Fritzlan, Florence Glanfield, Jodie Hunter, Roberta Hunter, Newell Margaret Johnson, Julie Kaomea, Robyn Jorgensen, Jerry Lipka, Lisa Lunney Borden, Dora Miura, Sharon Nelson-Barber, Cynthia Nicol, Gladys Sterenberg, Marama Taiwhati, Pania Te Maro, Jennifer S. Thom, David Wagner, Evelyn Yanez, and Joanne Yovanovich.Trade ReviewAdvance Praise "Given the insufficient amount of existing research that has been conceptualized from the perspectives of Indigenous peoples, this delightful collection of papers furthers our thinking about the strengths and competencies that students develop in their own contexts and how such assets can effectively serve as bridges to learning. This place-based perspective is particularly useful in diverse Indigenous contexts where indicators of success must extend to broader notions of self-determination and nation building. The complex elements that support learning demand innovative approaches, and the approaches presented here are fine models for others seeking transformative change in mathematics education." - Sharon Nelson Barber, Culture and Language in Education, WestEd. California, USA "This book highlights multiple ways to re-story both mathematics education (through culturally responsive pedagogies) and understandings of colonization, mathematics, and Indigenous knowledges. In doing so, the reader is introduced to the promises, possibilities and struggles in coming to critically understand how meaningful mathematics education for Indigenous students and communities must be rooted in political, social, historical, linguistic, and cultural realities. The community- and place-based research in this book not only nudges the reader out of a complacent, colonialist view that “there is a one way to know the world mathematically,” but it draws one into a "radical hope" for a mathematics that is respectful, responsive, sustaining and revitalizing. To me, reading this book is an act of decolonization; one that demands the reader to listen, listen well." - Kathleen Nolan, Professor, University of Regina, Saskatchewan, CanadaTable of ContentsForeword  Sharon Nelson-Barber Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 1. Introduction: Making a Difference with/in Indigenous Communities  Cynthia Nicol, Jo-ann Archibald Q’um Q’um Xiiem and Florence Glanfield 2. Being Guided by Kugann Jaad Mouse Woman for Culturally Responsive Mathematics Education  Cynthia Nicol, Jo-ann Archibald Q’um Q’um Xiiem and Joanne Yovanovich 3. “Remember the Time We Set up Our Tipi? It Had a Very Long Side, Long Poles, and It was a Small Tipi?” Relational Curriculum Design for Culturally Responsive Mathematics Education  Maria Jose Athie-Martinez 4. Understanding the Landscape of Culturally Responsive Education within a Community-Driven Mathematics Education Research Project  Florence Glanfield and Gladys Sterenberg (with Dwayne Donald) 5. Show Me Your Math: Mi’kmaw Community Members Explore Mathematics  Lisa Lunney Borden, David Wagner and Newell Johnson 6. Bicultural Mathematics Teacher Education and Research: Supports and Challenges  Robin Averill, Pania Te Maro, Dayle Anderson, Herewini Easton and Marama Taiwhati 7. Enacting Culturally Responsive or Socially Response-Able Mathematics Education  Roberta Hunter, Jodie Hunter and Trevor Bills 8. Culturally Responsive Pedagogy: Addressing “Shame” for Aboriginal Learners  Robyn Jorgensen (Zevenbergen) 9. Mathematics and Culture in Micronesia  A. J. (Sandy) Dawson, Beatriz A. Camacho, Tauvela Fale, Dora Borja Miura and Amanda Fritzlan 10. Hawaiian Math for a Sustainable Future: Envisioning a Conceptual Framework for Rigorous and Culturally Relevant 21st-Century Elementary Mathematics Education  Julie Kaomea 11. Symmetry and Body Proportional Measuring: Contributions of Yup’ik Elders to Mathematics Education  Jerry Lipka, Dora Andrew-Ihrke and Eva Evelyn Yanez 12. Bending an Ear in the Quest of “What Is It?”  Jennifer S. Thom 13. Conclusion: Culturally Responsive Pedagogies to Re-Storying Mathematics Education  Cynthia Nicol, Jo-ann Archibald Q’um Q’um Xiiem and Florence Glanfield Index

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Book SynopsisLiving Culturally Responsive Mathematics Education with/in Indigenous Communities explores challenges and possibilities across international contexts, involving Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars, teachers and Elders responding to calls for improved education for all Indigenous students. Authors from Australia, New Zealand, United States, Micronesia, and Canada explore the nature of culturally responsive mathematics education. Chapters highlight the importance of relationships with communities and the land, each engaging critically with ideas of culturally responsive education, exploring what this stance might mean and how it is lived in local contexts within global conversations. Education researchers and teacher educators will find a living pathway where scholars, educators, youth and community members critically take-up culturally responsive teachings and the possibilities and challenges that arise along the journey. Contributors are: Dayle Anderson, Dora Andre-Ihrke, Jo-ann Archibald Q'um Q'um Xiiem, Maria Jose Athie-Martinez, Robin Averill, Trevor Bills, Beatriz A. Camacho, A. J. (Sandy) Dawson, Dwayne Donald, Herewini Easton, Tauvela Fale, Amanda Fritzlan, Florence Glanfield, Jodie Hunter, Roberta Hunter, Newell Margaret Johnson, Julie Kaomea, Robyn Jorgensen, Jerry Lipka, Lisa Lunney Borden, Dora Miura, Sharon Nelson-Barber, Cynthia Nicol, Gladys Sterenberg, Marama Taiwhati, Pania Te Maro, Jennifer S. Thom, David Wagner, Evelyn Yanez, and Joanne Yovanovich.Trade ReviewAdvance Praise "Given the insufficient amount of existing research that has been conceptualized from the perspectives of Indigenous peoples, this delightful collection of papers furthers our thinking about the strengths and competencies that students develop in their own contexts and how such assets can effectively serve as bridges to learning. This place-based perspective is particularly useful in diverse Indigenous contexts where indicators of success must extend to broader notions of self-determination and nation building. The complex elements that support learning demand innovative approaches, and the approaches presented here are fine models for others seeking transformative change in mathematics education." - Sharon Nelson Barber, Culture and Language in Education, WestEd. California, USA "This book highlights multiple ways to re-story both mathematics education (through culturally responsive pedagogies) and understandings of colonization, mathematics, and Indigenous knowledges. In doing so, the reader is introduced to the promises, possibilities and struggles in coming to critically understand how meaningful mathematics education for Indigenous students and communities must be rooted in political, social, historical, linguistic, and cultural realities. The community- and place-based research in this book not only nudges the reader out of a complacent, colonialist view that “there is a one way to know the world mathematically,” but it draws one into a "radical hope" for a mathematics that is respectful, responsive, sustaining and revitalizing. To me, reading this book is an act of decolonization; one that demands the reader to listen, listen well." - Kathleen Nolan, Professor, University of Regina, Saskatchewan, CanadaTable of ContentsForeword  Sharon Nelson-Barber Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 1. Introduction: Making a Difference with/in Indigenous Communities  Cynthia Nicol, Jo-ann Archibald Q’um Q’um Xiiem and Florence Glanfield 2. Being Guided by Kugann Jaad Mouse Woman for Culturally Responsive Mathematics Education  Cynthia Nicol, Jo-ann Archibald Q’um Q’um Xiiem and Joanne Yovanovich 3. “Remember the Time We Set up Our Tipi? It Had a Very Long Side, Long Poles, and It was a Small Tipi?” Relational Curriculum Design for Culturally Responsive Mathematics Education  Maria Jose Athie-Martinez 4. Understanding the Landscape of Culturally Responsive Education within a Community-Driven Mathematics Education Research Project  Florence Glanfield and Gladys Sterenberg (with Dwayne Donald) 5. Show Me Your Math: Mi’kmaw Community Members Explore Mathematics  Lisa Lunney Borden, David Wagner and Newell Johnson 6. Bicultural Mathematics Teacher Education and Research: Supports and Challenges  Robin Averill, Pania Te Maro, Dayle Anderson, Herewini Easton and Marama Taiwhati 7. Enacting Culturally Responsive or Socially Response-Able Mathematics Education  Roberta Hunter, Jodie Hunter and Trevor Bills 8. Culturally Responsive Pedagogy: Addressing “Shame” for Aboriginal Learners  Robyn Jorgensen (Zevenbergen) 9. Mathematics and Culture in Micronesia  A. J. (Sandy) Dawson, Beatriz A. Camacho, Tauvela Fale, Dora Borja Miura and Amanda Fritzlan 10. Hawaiian Math for a Sustainable Future: Envisioning a Conceptual Framework for Rigorous and Culturally Relevant 21st-Century Elementary Mathematics Education  Julie Kaomea 11. Symmetry and Body Proportional Measuring: Contributions of Yup’ik Elders to Mathematics Education  Jerry Lipka, Dora Andrew-Ihrke and Eva Evelyn Yanez 12. Bending an Ear in the Quest of “What Is It?”  Jennifer S. Thom 13. Conclusion: Culturally Responsive Pedagogies to Re-Storying Mathematics Education  Cynthia Nicol, Jo-ann Archibald Q’um Q’um Xiiem and Florence Glanfield Index

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Book SynopsisIn A Need for Religion: Insecurity and Religiosity in the Contemporary World Francesco Molteni tries to answer one of the broadest questions for scholars of religion: why is religiosity declining in developed countries? He does so by inspecting all the different nuances of the insecurity theory, which links the feeling of security typical of modern societies with the diminished need for religion as source of reassurance, support and predictability. In this respect, he notes that much of the evidence is far less clear than expected and that secularization processes are at an advanced stage only in a rather small group of worldwide countries.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements List of Figures, Tables and Maps 1 Introduction  1 Why the Need to Study Insecurity and Religiosity?  2 A Guide for This Book  3 Methodology and Appendices 2 The Broad Frame of Secularization Theory  1 The Sociological Roots of Secularization Theory  2 Alternative Approaches  3 The Post-secularism  4 Modernity and Modernizations: How to Simplify the Complex  5 One Secularization, More Secularizations  6 Different Levels of Interpretation  7 Which Secularization? 3 Insecurity Theory in Sociological Literature  1 The Sociological Roots of Insecurity Theory  2 Insecurity Theory as a Macro-theory to Explain Religious Decline  3 Insecurity Theory as a Micro-theory to Explain Religious Change   3.1 Religiosity as a Social Buffer   3.2 Religiosity as an Economic Buffer   3.3 Religiosity as a Psychological or Cognitive Buffer  4 Religious Coping and Religious Resources 4 A Look at the World: The Empirical Bases of Insecurity Theory  1 Towards a More Robust Exploration  2 Steps in Modernization 5 Exploring Relations: Does Insecurity Matter?  1 Are Religious People Happier?  2 Does Religiosity Mitigate Losses in Life-satisfaction?  3 Are Insecure People More Likely to Be Religious?  4 Disentangling the Mechanisms: One Insecurity, More Insecurities 6 Bringing Back Individuals: Do Negative Events Foster Religiosity?  1 A Longitudinal Panel Study for Germany and the United Kingdom  2 Testing the Mechanisms of Individual Change  3 The (Non) Effect of Life-threatening Events 7 Moving into the Longitudinal: Changes in Insecurity and Secularization  1 Towards a Model for Explaining Religious Change  2 Conceptualizing Insecurity and Its Effect on Religiosity  3 Longitudinal Argumentations and Cross-sectional Data  4 Insecurity Theory: More Static Than Dynamic 8 Insecurity and Religious Change: Facts, Facets and Notes of Caution  1 Europe as Exception or Example?  2 Religious Evolution in Asia, Africa and South America   2.1 Asia   2.2 Africa   2.3 South America  3 Same Path, Different Positions 9 Conclusions: The Triggering Role of Insecurity  1 Insecurity and Religious Decline: What Do We Know and What Should We Know?  2 From Observation to Understanding  3 Final Remarks Appendix 1: Studying Religion with Quantitative Methods: A Toolbox  1 Globalization of Surveys  2 Individual and Aggregate Relations – Reasoning Multilevel  3 Causality and Associations  4 Cross-sectional and Longitudinal Relations  5 Multidimensionality Appendix 2: Data, Methods and Tables  1 The Surveys  2 The Techniques  3 The Tables Bibliography Author Index Thematic Index

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Book SynopsisThe Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries Since 1975 is the final volume of the four-volume series of cultural histories of the avant-garde movements in the Nordic countries. This volume carries the avant-garde discussion forward to present-day avant-gardes, challenged by the globalisation of the entertainment industries and new interactive media such as the internet. The avant-garde can now be considered a tradition that has been made more widely available through the opening of archives, electronic documentation and new research, which has spurred both re-enactments, revisions and continuations of historical avant-garde practices, while new cultural contexts, political, technological and ecological conditions have called for new strategies.Trade Review“A tour-de-force through 20th-century Nordic avant-garde and cultural history." [...] "[This] is a very focused volume, which, with the introduction and introductions to each individual section, educationally takes the reader by the hand through the various avant-garde activities documented. Add to this the fact that each individual article is well written, highly interesting and thought-provoking, and that each should lead to further study at various university levels (many deserving of their own PhD theses). [...] The editorial tour-de-force through 20th-century Nordic cultural history has also provided new perspectives on the second neo-avant-garde wave that cancels the dichotomy between center and periphery; instead it is shown that [...] the Nordic countries show power to constitute such centers in international cultural history.” -Per Bäckström, Edda, Volume 110, Issue 1, pp 62–66, 6 March 2023. “En tour-de-force genom 1900-talets nordiska avantgarde- och kulturhistoria." [...] "[Detta] är en mycket fokuserad volym, som med introduktionen och inledningar till varje enskild sektion, på ett pedagogiskt vis för läsaren vid handen genom de olika avantgardeaktiviteter som dokumenteras. Lägger man till detta att varje enskild artikel är välskriven, högst intressant och tankeväckande, och att var och en borde leda till vidare studier på olika universitetsnivåer (mycket förtjänar egna doktorsavhandlingar). [...] Redaktionens tour-de-force genom 1900-talets nordiska kulturhistoria har dessutom gett nya perspektiv på den andra neoavantgardevåg som upphäver dikotomin mellan centrum och periferi; istället visas att [...] de nordiska länderna uppvisar kraft att utgöra sådana centrum i den internationella kulturhistorien.” -Per Bäckström, Edda, Volume 110, Issue 1, pp 62–66, 6 March 2023.Table of ContentsPreface Contributors The Long Avant-Garde Tradition – Restaging, Resisting, Renewing  Tania Ørum and Laura Luise Schultz Section 1: Paradigmatic Cases Introduction to Section 1  Benedikt Hjartarson Appropriating the Past to Examine the Present – On Matias Faldbakken as Media Artist  Anders Skare Malvik Magma and Persona – Material Generativity in the Work of Björk Guðmundsdóttir  Holger Schulze DOGMA 95 and The Idiots – A Renewal of Avant-Garde Realism in Film  Bodil Marie Stavning Thomsen Feminist Avant-Garde Film of the 1970s as Gender Politics – The Example of Tornerose, by Jytte Rex and Kirsten Justesen  Camilla Skovbjerg Paldam Such Stuff as We Are Made of – Kirsten Dehlholm, Billedstofteater and Hotel Pro Forma  Laura Luise Schultz “An American Poet Only Writing in Finnish” – Leevi Lehto’s Seminal Role in Contemporary Finnish Poetry  Anna Helle and Martin Glaz Serup Section 2: The Promises of Technology Introduction to Section 2  Camilla Skovbjerg Paldam The Avant-Garde and the Computer Industry – Art and Technology Collaborations at Datasaab and IBM Sweden from the late 1960s to the 1990s  Anna Orrghen Miracle Machines – The Creative and Democratic Promise of the Photocopier: Danish Xerography 1979–1995 in an Avant-Garde Perspective  Lise Skytte Jakobsen Avant-Garde Anomalies and Transnational Trajectories – The Place and Time of Gunvor Nelson’s Collage Films of the 1980s  John Sundholm Art for Aliens – On Goodiepal’s Xenophile Posthumanism  Jacob Wamberg Erkki Kurenniemi – Life Is an Algorithm  Lars Bang Larsen Life in a Code – Mikael Brygger’s “NASDAQ 30.5.2010” as Found Poetry  Miikka Laihinen Section 3: The Performative Turn Introduction to Section 3  Laura Luise Schultz She Splits Phallic Cucumbers with a Knife – The Norwegian Vienna Activist that Art History Forgot  Susanne Christensen “Don’t Panic. Black, No Sugar is a New Way of Life!” – An Icelandic Street Theatre between Carnival and Disturbance  Magnús Þór Þorbergsson Two Different Perspectives on the Avant-Garde in Finnish Dance in the 1980s – Reijo Kela and Sanna Kekäläinen  Aino Kukkonen Hilarious Imperialists – Baktruppen’s Bad Family Photos from the World Tour  Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt Jessie Kleemann between Orsoq and Turpentine  David Winfield Norman Humour as an Avant-Garde Strategy in Three Generations of Feminist Art: Kirsten Justesen, Hanne Nielsen & Birgit Johnsen and Maja Malou Lyse  Camilla Skovbjerg Paldam Precarious Fiction and Precarious Spectatorship – The Artistic Practice of SIGNA as Theatrical Avant-Garde  Thomas Rosendal Nielsen Section 4: Intervention and Institutional Critique Introduction to Section 4  Laura Luise Schultz The Skinnebach Effect – Towards a Poetic Institutional Critique  Mathies G. Aarhus The Stunt Poets – A Literary Avant-Garde in the Neo-Liberal Age of Mass Media  Wenche Larsen We Are a Song the Band Doesn’t Play – Systematic Systemic Critique in Contemporary Swedish Poetry  Elisabeth Friis The Sámi Museum in Karasjok – A Story of Resistance  Hanna Horsberg Hansen S.L.Á.T.U.R. – The Obtrusive Composers’ Collective  Margrét Elísabet Ólafsdóttir The Guerrilla Paradigm or “Feminist-Avant-Garde” – Towards an Alternative Feminist Canon  Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir Section 5: Venues Introduction to Section 5  Benedikt Hjartarson J.O. Mallander and the Nordic Neo-Avant-Garde  Sami Sjöberg Was ist der Fall? What is the Case? Mr. Klein’s Last Moments (P)reconstructed by Mail  Peter van der Meijden Toward a Kinetic Icelandic Culture – Friðrik Þór Friðriksson, Suðurgata 7 and Experimental Film in Iceland  Benedikt Hjartarson Look Back, Dig Out, Mix Up, Think Forward – The Archival Activism of OEI  Thomas Hvid Kromann The Bergensbrag Generation – The Rise of Independent Literary Platforms in Norway, 2000–2005  Susanne Christensen Investigative Infrastructures – Nordic Small Presses of the Twenty-First Century  Ana Stanićević Locality and Literary Intervention – Ida Börjel’s Skåneradio  Marianne Ølholm Danish Children’s and Youth Television from an Avant-Garde Perspective  Christa Lykke Christensen The Ultima Festival in Oslo – Institutionalising the Avant-Garde?  Astrid Kvalbein Section 6: Subcultures Introduction to Section 6  Laura Luise Schultz The Copenhagen Punk Years – Art with No Future?  Marie Arleth Skov The Performance Group Værst’s Nine Performance Videos for Sort Sol’s Album Flow My Firetear  Magnus Kaslov Beyond the Borders – Elgaland-Vargaland and the Association for Temporary Art  Håkan Nilsson The Happy Antagonist – Pasi “Sleeping” Myllymäki’s Underground Super-8 Films  Tytti Rantanen Immigrant Film Co-Operatives in Sweden – The Most Typical Avant-Garde  Lars Gustaf Andersson and John Sundholm Specialists in Revolt – The Surrealist Group of Stockholm  Kristoffer Noheden “To Be Fully Subconscious” – On the Medúsa Group  Úlfhildur Dagsdóttir Home to Hell – Tóroddur Poulsen  Kinna Poulsen A “Cow-Napping” in Context: From the Scribble Board to Zero Tolerance – (Sub)Cultural Interventions in the Public Realms of Stockholm, 1968–2004  Jacob Kimvall “… because enmity and admiration go hand in hand” – Guy Maddin’s Tales from the Gimli Hospital  Kjartan Már Ómarsson Section 7: Postmodernism and Re-Enactments Introduction to Section 7  Camilla Skovbjerg Paldam Postmodern Avant-Garde in Theory and in Poetry in Finland at the End of the Twentieth Century  Harri Veivo Avant-Garde vs. “Avant-Garde” – Danish Artists of the 1980s as Successors to and Rebels against the 1960s Avant-Garde  Kamma Overgaard Hansen Traces of Avant-Garde Strategies in Danish Poetry of the 1980s  Marianne Ølholm Cecilie Løveid – Postmodern Recycling of the Avant-Garde  Wenche Larsen French Feminist Theory and Surrealism in Karin Moe’s Kjønnskrift (Sextext)  Gerd Karin Omdal “New. Fantastic. Different” – Mariaana Jäntti’s Amorfiaana (1986) and Monika Fagerholm’s Diva (1998) as Finnish Feminist Avant-Garde Prose Fiction  Kaisa Kurikka The Arctic Mongrel – Pia Arke’s Ethno-Aesthetics as Post-Colonial Avant-Gardism  Mette Sandbye Section 8: The End of the Avant-Garde? Introduction to Section 8  Tania Ørum Superflex and the End of Art  Solveig Gade A BIGamist Bricoleur – The Postmodern Avant-Gardism of Bjarke Ingels  Kasper Lægring Avant-Garde Design in Denmark – Four Cases Concerning Furniture  Peter Brix Søndergaard Avant-Garde and Post-Colonial? – How to Square the Circle in a Nordic Country with a Colonial Past  Anne Ring Petersen Constructing an Avant-Garde Canon in the Twenty-First Century – On the Icelandic Poetry Group Nýhil  Benedikt Hjartarson Precarious Life – Nielsen’s Search for a Life beyond Identity  Laura Luise Schultz A Contemporary Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries? Subversion or Subvention  Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen Index

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Book SynopsisIn Bourdieu in Question: New Directions in French Sociology of Art, Jeffrey A. Halley and Daglind E. Sonolet offer to English-speaking audiences an account of the very lively Francophone debates over Pierre Bourdieu’s work in the domain of the arts and culture, and present other directions and perspectives taken by major French researchers who extend or differ from his point of view, and who were marginalized by the Bourdieusian moment. Three generations of research are presented: contemporaries of Bourdieu, the next generation, and recent research. Themes include the art market and value, cultural politics, the reception of artworks, theory and the concept of the artwork, autonomy in art, ethnography and culture, and the critique of Bourdieu on literature. Contributors are: Howard S. Becker, Martine Burgos, Marie Buscatto, Jean-Louis Fabiani, Laurent Fleury, Florent Gaudez, Jeffrey A. Halley, Nathalie Heinich, Yvon Lamy, Jacques Leenhardt, Cécile Léonardi, Clara Lévy, Pierre-Michel Menger, Raymonde Moulin, Jean-Claude Passeron, Emmanuel Pedler, Bruno Péquignot, Alain Quemin, Cherry Schrecker, Daglind E. Sonolet.Trade Review“Based on a series of conferences, working groups, and translations of classic French texts on the matter until now unavailable to the English-speaking reader, the book sheds light on the context of origin of some of Bourdieu’s most important contributions to the sociology of the arts and culture—its legacy, its aporias, and its debates with contemporaries, disciples and dissenters alike. […] The volume should be of interest not only to those working in the sociology of arts and literature, but also to those who wish to read about new currents in the French sociology of culture and French social theory at large.” -- Claudio E. Benzecry, Northwestern University, in: Contemporary Sociology 48/6 (2019) "[...] the importance of the book. It is a contribution to the sociological literature on Bourdieu, the sociology of art, as well as French studies generally. It also fills a translation gap in bringing a large number of works to the Anglophone reader. Its strength lies in its attention to theoretical as well as empirical work, as well as its avoidance of intellectual partisanship by exposing the reader to a range of perspectives on Bourdieu’s sociology of art, some positive, others unfavorable." -- Marnia Lazreg, in Sociological Forum, Vol. 34, No. 1 (04 March 2019) "[...] ein in Sammelbänden eher seltenes Kunststück: die einzelnen Beiträge beziehen sich aufeinander und reflektieren einander. Dadurch werden beim Lesen viele Verknüpfungen hergestellt und man verfällt leicht in einen Lesefluss. Ein weiterer Pluspunkt ist auch die Autor*innenauswahl: Im Band vertreten sind viele im französischsprachigen Raum renommierte Autor*innen, wie unter anderem Raymonde Moulin, Jean-Claude Passeron, Jean-Louis Fabiani, Pierre-Michel Menger, Emanuel Pedler und Marie Buscatto, die nun auch nicht-französisch sprechende Leser*innen kennen lernen dürfen. [...] Nicht zuletzt besticht der Sammelband durch die Vielfalt seiner Themen. [...] Auch die Vielschichtigkeit des Bandes ist besonders hervorzuheben.So werden etwa in einer historisch-soziologischen Darstellung die Entwicklungslinien Bourdieus nachgezeichnet, weniger prominenten/unbekannteren Positionen Bourdieus wird Aufmerksamkeit geschenkt und auch vereinzelte missing links in seinen Theorien aufgezeigt." -- Tamara Schwertel, Soziologie Blog, 23 July 2018Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations List of Contributors 1 Introduction  Jeffrey A. Halley and Daglind E. Sonolet Part 1: Bourdieu’s Contemporaries: Raymonde Moulin, Howard S. Becker, Jean-Claude Passeron, Jacques Leenhardt 2 The Museum and the Marketplace: The Constitution of Value in Contemporary Art  Raymonde Moulin 3 The Anglophone Reception of French Sociology: The Case of Bourdieu and Subsequent Scholarship  Howard S. Becker 4 The Time Devoted to Observing Each Work of Art  Jean-Claude Passeron and Emmanuel Pedler 5 What is Literature? Notes on The Rules of Art by Pierre Bourdieu  Jacques Leenhardt Part 2: The Second Generation: Bruno Péquginot, Jean-Louis Fabiani, Pierre-Michel Menger, Nathalie Heinich, Martine Burgos, Yvon Lamy 6 The Issue of the Artwork: A Site under Construction in Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory  Bruno Péquignot 7 Theory and Practice in French Sociology after Pierre Bourdieu  Jean-Louis Fabiani 8 Inequalities in the Arts  Pierre-Michel Menger 9 Bourdieu’s Culture  Nathalie Heinich 10 Founding a Reading Group at a Library for the Young: The Story of Its Creation and Variations  Martine Burgos 11 On a Contemporary Principle of Public Classification: Heritage Conversion of Cultural Property  Yvon Lamy Part 3: The Next Generation: Emmanuel Pedler, Florent Gaudez, Alain Quemin, Laurent Fleury, Marie Buscatto, Clara Lévy and Cherry Schrecker, Cécile Léonardi 12 Musical Understanding and Cultural Misunderstanding: The Concert as a Site of Symbolic Confrontation  Emmanuel Pedler 13 Empiricity and the Process of Production in Literature: The Text as the Field of Socio-Anthropological Investigation  Florent Gaudez 14 How International is “International” Contemporary Art? An Empirical Survey of the Globalization of High Culture  Alain Quemin 15 The Work of the Institution: The Democratization of Culture in the Light of the Legacy of the Théâtre National Populaire  Laurent Fleury 16 Trying to Get in, Getting in, Staying in: The Three Challenges for Women Jazz Musicians  Marie Buscatto 17 In What Way (or Not) is Bourdieu Useful to the Sociology of Literature?  Clara Lévy, and Cherry Schrecker 18 The Art of Self-Reflecting  Cécile Léonardi Part 4: Editors’ Contributions 19 Mondo Vino: Rationalization, Resistance, and Taste in the Wine World  Jeffrey A. Halley 20 Literature and Modernity: Günther Anders, Hannah Arendt, and Theodor W. Adorno – Interpreters of Kafka  Daglind E. Sonolet Index of Subjects Index of Names

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Book SynopsisWe live in a globalized world in which a person in Burkina Faso can identify with Star Wars heroes, and in which a New York trader drinks the same Starbucks coffee as his Taiwanese counterpart. How are individuals socialized in Rome, Bombay, and Tokyo? To answer this question, a unique investigation has been carried out using two scales of analysis usually tackled separately by global studies: the scale of the cosmopolitan world and its global narratives, imaginaries, iconographies; as well as the scale of everyday life and socialization to otherness. This two-fold perspective constitutes the innovative approach of this volume that endeavors to address an operationalization of the cosmopolitan perspective and reacts to current debates and new research findings. With a Foreword by Natan Sznaider. This book was first published in 2016 as Pluriel et commun. Sociologie d'un monde cosmopolite by Les Presses de Sciences Po, Paris. Other editions: the book is also published in Italian as Plurale e comune. Sociologia di un mondo cosmopolita by Morlacchi editore, Perugia, 2018; and in Brazilian as Plural e comum. Sociologia de um mundo cosmopolita by Edições Sesc, Sao Paulo, 2018.Trade Review“Vincenzo Cicchelli’s ambitious new book Plural and Shared: The Sociology of a Cosmopolitan World is a timely and erudite addition to the wider debate on the possible contours of a sociology for cosmopolitan times.” — Camil-Alexandru Parvu, University of Bucharest, in: Sociétés Plurielles 3 (2019) [Full review] "The advance of globalization has never been smooth and always contested. At the same time, the clash between nationalism and internationalism, or national solidarity and cosmopolitanism, has reached new levels of intensity. Against this background, Vincenzo Cicchelli has written a new and much needed book. He explores people’s experiences of a shared and plural world, and the tangible, ordinary mechanisms of global society that are shaping the cultural imaginaries and the lives of individuals today. The focus is on how individuals experience the cosmopolitan world and become familiar with cultural difference. Plural and Shared is a major contribution to understanding the cultural shifts of our time and how cosmopolitanism may be understood in this context." — David Held, Professor of Sociology, Durham University "Timely and important, Plural and Shared is a well-written and meticulously researched monograph that stands as a major contribution to the growing body of literature on cosmopolitanism. It is a “must read” for anyone wanting to understand the historic and modern forces shaping our increasingly globalizing and cosmopolitan world." — Elijah Anderson, Professor of Sociology, Yale University "Professor Vincenzo Cicchelli has written a thought-provoking book about an important and timely topic: how can we come to terms with the cosmopolitan world, which we share but which is inherently plural, composed of different cultures and outlooks on life? To address that conundrum, the book lays foundations for a cosmopolitan sociology and shows how it can be applied to examining the cultural, subjective and experiential dimensions of global society. It is a must read for all interested in global studies and cosmopolitanism." — Pertti Alasuutari, Professor of Sociology, University of Tampere "Particulièrement riche en approfondissements théoriques, ce livre présente un apport certain quant aux définitions conceptuelles du cosmopolitisme. […] par la richesse du corpus théorique et la variété des outils méthodologiques présentés, constitue une base précieuse pour les futurs travaux de sociologie cosmopolite." — Robin Soyer, Vincenzo Cicchelli, Pluriel et commun. Sociologie d’un monde cosmopolite, bLectures [En ligne], 2016 "The author describes the value of an ongoing dialogue between universalism and particularism – the foundational elements of the cosmopolitanism spirit – for producing a sociological sensibility to interpret our contemporary world and its global dynamics […]." — Vulca Fidolini, International Sociology Reviews 32, no. 5 (2017): 639–641 "Its novelty is made evident in arguments in favour of a (revived) sociology of cosmopolitanism, especially in indicative calls for more empirical works, and a fresh heuristic typology […. Thanks to its sociological ambition and to its search for nuance and empirical indicators, pointing out the contemporary sociological complexities and limits of cosmopolitan ideals would be one of this book’s merits." — Jean-Francxois Laniel, European Journal of Sociology, 58, no. 3 (2017): 480–484 "Un ouvrage passionnant, qui devrait durablement figurer en bonne place dans la bibliothèque de l’honnête homme du XXIe siècle, pour les clés de compréhension qu’il donne de bien des sujets d’actualité. Et pour ses vertus pédagogiques, malgré l’érudition de son auteur." — Sylvain Allemand, Alternatives Economiques “Es preciso reconocer la originalidad del objeto de estudio y de la reflexión desarrollada en torno a un paradigma insuficientemente conocido, y el perfecto dominio de que hace gala el autor, tanto de la producción sociológica clásica y contemporánea como de la literatura en ciencias sociales y humanas, concretamente en antropología y filosofía. A su vez, la densidad de la obra no impide la solidez de la argumentación, la claridad de la exposición y la fluidez del estilo.” — Eguzki Urteaga, Universidad del País Vasco Reseñas, 54, no. 2 (2017): 565–587Table of ContentsForeword by Natan Sznaider Preface to the English Edition: Capturing Alterity: Cosmopolitan Socialization at Its Core Acknowledgements Prologue: Cosmopolitanism through Weal and Woe Introduction: the Cosmopolitan Imagination: Understanding a Shared and Plural World 1. The Matrices of Cosmopolitanism 2. The Words to Express it 3. Universalist Ethics and the Spirit of Cosmopolitanism 4. Two Tests Part 1. The Distinctive Characteristics of the Cosmopolitan World Introduction to Part 1 1. Scales of Interdependence 1. A Transnational Scalar Space 2. The Nation- State in the Cosmopolitan World 2 The Matrices of Singularity 1. The World as a Totality and Global Risks 2. Apprehending Cultural Facts in the Cosmopolitan World 3. Cosmopolitan Repertoires 3. The Place of Plurality 1. Contradictory Experiences 2. Threatened by Globalization 3. Promoting Cultural Identities 4. Hybridizations 5. Universalism from Plurality Conclusion to Part 1: The Universal and the Particular Tested by Globalization Part 2. Cosmopolitan Socialization Introduction to Part 2 4. Thinking Cosmopolitan Socialization 1. In search of Cosmopolitan Socialization  2. Two Axes of Socialization 3. Laying the Groundwork for a Hermeneutics of Alterity 5. What is a Cosmopolitan? 1. Controversies 2. An Alternative 6. The Elementary Forms of the Cosmopolitan Spirit 1. A Self- Reflexive Process  2. The Cosmopolitan Spirit in Everyday Life 3. Living as a Cosmopolitan: Four Fieldworks Conclusion to Part 2: Cosmopolitan Socialization and Ideal Human Types Conclusion: Cosmopolitan Sociology as a Project Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book engages with the experience of space and time in youth cultures across the world. Putting together contemporary case studies on young transnationalists, young glocals and young protesters in cities on the five continents, it analyzes new agoras and chronotopes in global cities. It is based on a selection of papers first presented to the International Sociological Association (ISA) Research Committee 34 session on Youth Cultures, Space and Time that took place during the ISA World Congresses of Sociology in Gothenburg, Sweden (2010), and in Yokohama, Japan (2014). The value of this volume for youth researchers worldwide is twofold. Firstly, the chapters exemplify innovative approaches to understanding the fluid and dynamic urban space-time dimension in which young people’s cultural and bodily practices are located. Secondly, the volume offers a transnational perspective. Chapter contributors come from countries across the world, and give account of very diverse youth culture phenomena. They represent both established researchers and new voices in youth research. Contributors are: Óscar Aguilera Ruiz, Ilenya Camozzi, Carles Feixa, Vitor Sérgio Ferreira, Liliana Galindo Ramírez, Elham Golpoush-Nezhad, Leila Jeolás, Jeffrey J. Juris, Hagen Kordes, Sofia Laine, Carmen Leccardi, Pam Nilan, Jordi Nofre, Ndukaeze Nwabueze, Luca Queirolo Palmas, Yannis Pechtelidis, Geoffrey Pleyers, José Sánchez García, Mahmood Shahabi. Youth, Space and Time is now available in paperback for individual customers.Table of ContentsList of Tables, Figures and Maps List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Chronotopes of Youth Carles Feixa, Carmen Leccardi and Pam Nilan PART I. YOUNG TRANSNATIONALISTS (AND COSMOPOLITANS) Foreword Carmen Leccardi 1. Young progressive activists in Europe: Scales, identity and agency Geoffrey Pleyers 2. Young people on the move: Cosmopolitan strategies in the transition to adulthood Ilenya Camozzi 3. Forming Agora chronotopes from young people's political participation in transnational meetings Sofia Laine 4. Atlantic Latino gangs. La Raza Latina, transnationalism and generations Luca Queirolo Palmas 5. Youth cultures in the new century: Cultural citizenship and cosmopolitanism Carmen Leccardi PART II. YOUNG GLOCALS Foreword Pam Nilan 6. Juvenilising cultures: Illegal and legal road racing in Londrina, Brazil Leila Jeolás and Hagen Kordes 7. The tattooed young body: A body still under suspicion? Vitor Sérgio Ferreira 8. Hip-hop culture and youth in Lagos: The interface of globalisation and identity crisis Ndukaeze Nwabueze 9. Rap music and youth cultures in Iran: Serious or light? Mahmood Shahabi and Elham Golpoush-Nezhad 10. Space, time and symbol in urban Indonesian schoolboy gangs Pam Nilan PART III. YOUNG PROTESTERS Foreword Carles Feixa 11. Occupying school buildings in the Greece of The Memorandum: Discursive formations around pupils' political activism Yannis Pechtelidis 12. From hara to midam: Public spaces of youth in Cairo José Sánchez García 13. Geographies of the European Spring: The case of #SpanishRevolution Jordi Nofre 14. Youth movements, politics of identity and battles for visibility in neoliberal Chile: Penguin Generations Óscar Aguilera Ruiz 15. The network as chronotope: Internet and political practices in the Colombian student movement MANE and Occupy São Paulo Liliana Galindo Ramírez 16. Reflections on #Occupy everywhere: Social media, public space, and emerging logics of aggregation Jeffrey J. Juris Postscript: Youthtopia and the Chronotopical Imagination Carles Feixa, Carmen Leccardi and Pam Nilan Afterword Michel Wieviorka Index

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Book SynopsisThe New Companion to the Libro de buen amor provides a platform for exploring current, innovative approaches to this classic poem. It is designed for specialists and non-specialists from a variety of fields, who are interested in investigating different aspects of Juan Ruiz’s poem and developing fruitful new paths for future research. Chapters in the volume show how the book engages with Christian, Jewish and Muslim cultures, and delve into its legacy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Part One sheds light on intersecting cultural milieux, from the Christian court of Castile, to the experience of Jewish and Muslim communities. Part Two illustrates how the poem’s meaning through time can be elucidated using an array of theoretical and interdisciplinary approaches. Contributors are Nora C. Benedict, Erik Ekman, Denise K. Filios, Ryan D. Giles, Michelle Hamilton, Carlos Heusch, José Manuel Hidalgo, Gregory S. Hutcheson, Veronica Menaldi, Simone Pinet, Michael R. Solomon. See inside the bookTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction  Ryan D. Giles and José Manuel Hidalgo PART 1 Cross-Cultural Contexts 1 A Poet in the Court of King Alfonso The Libro de Buen Amor in Its Courtly Context   Carlos Heusch br/> 2 Reading the Libro de Buen Amor Multiconfessionally   Gregory S. Hutcheson 3 Carnal, Carnival and Purim in the Libro de Buen Amor   Michelle Hamilton 4 Enchanting Go-Betweens  Mediated Love Magic in the Libro de Buen Amor and Iberian Grimoires   Veronica Menaldi 5 Figuring the Lamb and the Ram  Devotion and Magic in the Pitas Payas Episode of the Libro de Buen Amor   Erik Ekman PART 2 Theoretical and Cross-Disciplinary Approaches 6 The Parody of Translation and Representation of Space in the Libro de Buen Amor   Ryan D. Giles 7 For Love of Money  Rhetorical Economics in the Libro de Buen Amor   Simone Pinet 8 Isorhythmic Motets in the Libro de Buen Amor  Reading the Archpriest’s Adventures as a Musical Composition   Nora C. Benedict 9 Sermon, Story, Song  Reading and Performing the Libro de Buen Amor   Denise K. Filios 10 Remediating the Libro de Buen Amor  Immediacy, Authenticity, and the Pleasure of Mediatization   Michael Solomon Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWhat has been the significance of sport for the European avant-garde in the first half of the 20th century? From an international and interdisciplinary perspective we show the extent to which avant-garde art and culture was shaped by the dynamic encounter with modern sports. Our focus lies on avant-garde artists, groups, movements and institutions across Europe (including Cubism, Futurism, Vorticism, Purism, Expressionism, Dada, the Bauhaus, Constructivism in Central and Eastern Europe), thereby unfolding the diversity of avant-garde responses to modern sports. The book in front of you includes fascinating readings in the fields of aesthetics, visual cultures, cultural history and politics and highlights why specific kinds of sport such as cycling, boxing and football became important for avant-garde movements and artists.Table of ContentsList of Figures Introduction: Sport and the European Avant-Garde, 1900–1945  Andreas Kramer and Przemysaw Stroek 1 Vitalist Cubisms: The Biocultures of Virility, Militarism and La Vie Sportive  Fae Brauer 2 The Aesthetics and Ideology of Sport in Italian Futurism  Günter Berghaus 3 Outside the Vortex?: Vorticism and the English Avant-Garde’s Indifference to Sport  John Hughson 4 ‘Vive le sport!’ German Expressionism and Dada  Andreas Kramer 5 Sports and the Bauhaus: Bringing School to Life  Joann Skrypzak-Davidsmeyer 6 A New Pitch: Art, Sport and the Impact of the Avant-Garde in the Soviet Union in the 1920s  Mike O’Mahony 7 Worker Sport, Mountaineering and the Avant-garde Left in Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland: On Sporting Content in ReD, Munka and Dwignia  Przemysaw Stroek 8 After Purism: The Young Man’s Home at the 1935 Brussels Exhibition  Bernard Vere Index

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