Cultural studies Books

Book SynopsisRefiguring the Archive at once expresses cutting-edge debates on `the archive' in South Africa and internationally, and pushes the boundaries of those debates. It brings together prominent thinkers from a range of disciplines, mainly South Africans but a number from other countries. Traditionally archives have been seen as preserving memory and as holding the past. The contributors to this book question this orthodoxy, unfolding the ways in which archives construct, sanctify, and bury pasts. In his contribution, Jacques Derrida (an instantly recognisable name in intellectual discourse worldwide) shows how remembering can never be separated from forgetting, and argues that the archive is about the future rather than the past. Collectively the contributors demonstrate the degree to which thinking about archives is embracing new realities and new possibilities. The book expresses a confidence in claiming for archival discourse previously unentered terrains. It serves as an early manual for a time that has already begun.Table of ContentsIntroduction; C. Hamilton, et al. The Power of the Archive and its Limits; A. Mbembe. The Archives and the Political Imaginary; B. Peterson. Archive Fever in South Africa; J. Derrida. Psychoanalysis and the Archive: Derrida's Archive Fever; S. van Zyl. A Shaft of Darkness: Derrida in the Archive; V. Harris. Colonial Archives and the Arts of Governance: On the Content in the Form; A.L. Stoler. 'Picturing the Past' in Namibia: The Visual Archive and its Energies; P. Hayes, et al. The Archival Sliver: A Perspective on the Construction of Social Memory in Archives and the Transition from Apartheid to Democracy; V. Harris. The Archive, Public History and the Essential Truth: The TRC Reading the Past; B. Harris. The Human Genome as Archive: Some Illustrations from the South: H. Soodyall, et al. `The History of the Past is the Trust of the Present': Preservation and Excavation in the Gay and Lesbian Archives of South Africa; G. Reid. `Living by Fluidity': Oral Histories, Material Custodies and the Politics of Archiving; C. Hamilton. Orality and Literacy in an Electronic Era; P. Mpe. Holdings: Refiguring the Archive; J. Taylor. Literature and the Archive: The Biography of Texts; S. Nuttall. Keeping the Self: The Novelist as (Self-)Archivist; R. Suresh Roberts. Electronic Record-keeping, Social Memory and Democracy; D. Bearman. Blackbirds and Black Butterflies; M. Hall. Biographical Notes. Index. Acknowledgments.

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Book SynopsisMURIEL MCCARTHY This volume originated from a seminar organised by Richard H. Popkin in Marsh's Library on July 7-8, 1994. It was one of the most stimulating events held in the Library in recent years. Although we have hosted many special seminars on such subjects as rare books, the Huguenots, and Irish church history, this was the first time that a seminar was held which was specifically related to the books in our own collection. It seems surprising that this type of seminar has never been held before although the reason is obvious. Since there is no printed catalogue of the Library scholars are not aware of its contents. In fact the collection of books by late seventeenth and early eighteenth century European authors on, for example, such subjects as biblical criticism, political and religious controversy, is one of the richest parts of the Library's collections. Some years ago we were informed that of the 25,000 books in Marsh's at least 5,000 English books or books printed in England were printed between 1640 and 1700.Table of ContentsIntroduction; M. McCarthy. 1. Two Treasures of Marsh's Library; R.H. Popkin. 2. Queen Christina's Latin Sefer-ha-Raziel Manuscript; S. Åkerman. 3. Henry More, Anne Conway and the Kabbalah: A Cure for the Kabbalistic Nightmare; S. Hutton. 4. Seventeenth-Century Christian Hebraists: Philosemites or Antisemites? A.P. Coudert. 5. The Prehistoric English Bible; D.S. Katz. 6. Apocrypha Canon and Criticism from Samuel Fisher to John Toland, 1650-1718; J.A.I. Champion. 7. `Liberating the Bible from Patriarchy': Poullain de la Barre's Feminist Hermeneutics; R. Whelan. 8. Faith and Reason in the Thought of Moise Amyraut; D.M. Clarke. 9. Descartes and Immortality; D. Berman. 10. Spinoza and Cartesianism; T. Verbeek. 11. La religion naturelle et révélée philosophie et théologie: Louis Meyer, Spinoza, Regner de Mansvelt; J. Lagrée. 12. Stillingfleet, Locke and the Trinity; G.A.J. Rogers. 13. `The Fighting of Two Cocks on a Dung-hill': Stillingfleet versus Sergeant; B.C. Southgate. 14. Limborch's Historia Inquisitionis and the Pursuit of Toleration; L. Simonutti. Index.

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Book SynopsisIn Jamaica, dancehall music and culture has become perhaps the most prominent expression of Jamaican popular culture. Taking its name from dance halls in which popular local recordings were played by sound systems, the concept of Dancehall as a cultural space has rapidly gained momentum in the last three decades as deejay stars enjoy unprecedented successes locally and internationally. Donna Hope builds on her earlier work on popular culture and theories of sexuality/gender to examine the process and progress of Jamaican masculinities. Man Vibes: Masculinities in Jamaican Dancehall explores Jamaican masculinity through the male-dominated dancehall space that is at once a celebration of the marginalized poor and also a challenge to social inequality. Using the major masculine debates that are articulated in dancehall music and culture, Hope explores the transition of Jamaican masculinity in the 21st century. The dancehall representations of Ole Dawg (promiscuity), Badman (violence), Chi Chi Man (anti-male homosexuality), Bling Bling (consumerist/consumptive) and Fashion Ova Style (stylized transgressions and homosexuality) are all used to evaluate the relationship between dancehall culture and the hegemonic standard of masculine. Man Vibes significantly advances the Cultural Studies agenda and acts as a contemporary reader by speaking not only to dancehall music and culture’s masculinities but to Jamaican and Black masculinities in general.

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Book SynopsisCaribbean Political Thought: The Colonial State to Caribbean Internationalisms uncovers, collects and reflects on the wealth of political thought produced in the Caribbean region. It traces the political thought of the Caribbean from the debate between Bartolomé de Las Casas and Ginés de Sepulveda on the categorization of Native people in the New World, through the Haitian Revolution, to the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. The ideas of revolutionaries and intellectuals are counterposed with manifestos, constitutional excerpts and speeches to give a view of the range of political options, questions, and immense choices that have faced the region's people over the last 500 years.Includes Contributions from: Laurent Dubois and John D. Garrius, Trevor Munroe, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Aviva Chomsky, Barry Carr and Pamela Maria Smorkaloff, Amy Jacques Garvey, Dantès Bellegarde, Jacques Roumain, W. Burghart Turner and Joyce Moore Turner Fidel Castro, Walter Rodney, Maurice Bishop, Sylvia Wynter, Gordon Lewis, Anthony Bogues, Hilary Beckles, Bechu, Roy Augier, David Scott, Anténor Firmin, José Martí , J.J. Thomas, Hubert Harrison, Marcus Garvey, Rhoda Reddock, Pedro Albizu Campos, George Padmore, Suzanne Césaire, Aimé Césaire, Claudia Jones, Cheddi Jagan, Lloyd Best, Frantz Fanon, C.L.R. James, Che Guevara, Lewis R. Gordon.

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Book SynopsisCaribbean Political Thought: Theories of the Post-Colonial State reckons with the vast body of radical work and thought on the post-colonial Caribbean state. It focuses on the period after the Second World War, when a significant number of Caribbean countries gained their independence, and the character of the region's post-colonial politics had become clear. The survey of political thought in this collection is divided into four sections: theories of the post-colonial state, theorizing post-colonial citizenship, Caribbean regionalism and political culture.Includes contributions from: Walter Rodney, Ernesto Sagás, Percy Hintzen, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Carl Stone, Brian Meeks, CY Thomas, George Danns, M. Jacqui Alexander Norman Girvan, George Belle, Eudine Barriteau, Hilbourne Watson, Tracy Robinson, Obika Gray, Patricia Mohammed, Charles Mills, C.L.R. James, Frantz Fanon, Stuart Hall, Edouard Glissant, Archie Singham, Eric Williams, Rupert Lewis, Jack Dahomay, George Lamming, Erna Brodber, Sylvia Wynter, Arthur Lewis, Patsy Lewis, Havelock R.H. Ross-Brewster.

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Book SynopsisCaribbean Cultural Thought: From Plantation to Diaspora presents a critical appraisal of the range of issues and themes that have been pivotal in the study of Caribbean societies. Written from the perspective of primarily Caribbean authors and renowned scholars of the region, it excavates classic texts in Caribbean Cultural Thought and places them in dialogue with contemporary interrogations and explorations of regional cultural politics and debates concerning identity and social change; colonialism; diaspora; aesthetics; religion and spirituality; gender and sexuality and nationalisms. The result is a reader that presents a distinctive Caribbean voice that emphasizes the long history of critical writings on culture and its intersection with political work in the Caribbean intellectual tradition from within the academy and beyond.

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Book SynopsisThis book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. Offering key insights into critical debates on the construction, management and destruction of heritage in Muslim contexts, this volume considers how Islamic heritages are constructed through texts and practices which award heritage value. It examines how the monolithic representation of Islamic heritage (as a singular construct) can be enriched by the true diversity of Islamic heritages and how endangerment and vulnerability in this type of heritage construct can be re-conceptualized. Assessing these questions through an interdisciplinary lens including heritage studies, anthropology, history, conservation, religious studies and archaeology, this pivot covers global and local examples including heritage case studies from Indonesia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Jordan, and Pakistan. Table of ContentsThe Making of ‘Islamic Heritages’: An overview of disciplinary interventions.- Islamic Heritage: The Intertwining of History and Heritage in Islamic Contexts.- Muslim Cultures and Pre-Islamic Pasts: Changing Perceptions of ‘Heritage’.- Reclaiming Heritage through the Image of Traditional Habitat.- Framing the Primordial: Islamic Heritage and Saudi Arabia.- Images of Piety or Power? Conserving the Umayyad Royal Narrative in Qusayr.- The Buddha Remains: Heritage Transactions in Taxila, Pakistan.

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Book SynopsisIntroduction.- Assumption of Francis L.K. Hsu' Theory.- Research Methods.- Psychosocial Homeostasis.- Hsu's dominant dyad hypothesis.- Secondary groups hypothesis.- Literate civilizations.- National behavior in China and the U.S.- Enlightenment on the construction of international relations theory.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1 Introduction: Transnational Identities, Cultures and Challenges in Southeast Asia.- Chapter 2 “South of Hong Kong, almost as big as Singapore”: Transnational Identity and International Visibility in Contemporary Anglophone Bruneian Novels.- Chapter 3 (Re)negotiating Jati Diri Melayu: A Reflection on Malay Transnational Identities and Linguistic Studies in the Malay World. Chapter 4 Language Shifts and Transnational Migration in the Belait Community: A Tale of Resilience and Adaptation. Chapter 5 Between the imaginary and reality of Dunia Melayu: MABBIM as a case study of transnational cooperation in language planning.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Various Kinds of Frustration Provoked by Aging.- Chapter 3. Coping with Aging Challenges.- Chapter 4. The Joy of Aging.- Chapter 5. Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisOral traditions and expressions.- Storytelling Tradition in India: With Special reference to Dastangoi.-  Traditional community life.- The Intangible Cultural Heritage of Tangkhul Tribe of Manipur.- Nachnis: the Life and Art of Subaltern Dancers of Bengal.- Sri Lankan Kaffir Community – Past and Present.- Traditional Performing arts.- Puppet Theatres in India and South-East Asia: the shared Cultural Heritage.- The Kurubas of Karnataka and their Dollu Kunithâ.- Traditional festivals.- A Case Study on Festivals of Baigas of Central India.- Unknown History and Tales of Thailand Festivals – an Amalgamation of Ancient Bharatiya Culture and Tradition in Thai Life.- Diwali Festival – The Victory of Light over Darkness in the Countries of South and South-east Asia.- Traditional cuisine.- Evolving Palates: Impact of Colonization and Famine on Bengal’s Cuisine.- Culinary tradition of Bengal: newer avenue for business.- Traditional industries.- Household Ceramics Utensils: A Decaying Cultural Tradition of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan.- Documentation of Some Almost Extinct Motifs, Weaving Techniques and Tools of Tangail Handloom Sari of Bangladesh.- Traditional Knowledge and practices.- Glimpses of Beliefs and Practices prevailed in India.- Indigenous Knowledge of Manuscript Preservation among the Jain Community in Maharashtra, India.- Tourism.- Visitor Perspectives on Perceived Experiences at Indigenous Vedda Community Tour in Sri Lanka: An Explorative Study of the Tripadvisor Reviews.- The Role of Youth for Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage: Tourism Perspective in Sri Lanka.- Traditional rituals.- Upanayana - a Traditional Initiation Ritual of the Hindus.- Goddess Durga: Matri Shakti in Myth and Tradition.

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Book SynopsisHeritage tourism in contemporary Asia: A review and research agenda.- A bibliometric analysis of tourism research on authenticity: A focus on cultural heritage tourism.- Preserving and promoting cultural heritage: Narrative inquiry from the young generation in Vietnam.- Networks for sustainable cultural heritage tourism: A case study of Hue, Vietnam.- Tourist satisfaction with heritage sites in Vietnam.- Heritagisation of colonial buildings in Ho Chi Minh City.- The influence of music video on domestic tourists’ heritage destination brand attachment.- Heritagisation, digitalisation and community involvement: The case of Phong Nha – Ke Bang National Park, Vietnam.- Bridging language, culture, and heritage: The VietABLL project's transformative approach to language education.- Singing in the South – An ethnography of domestic tourism in Vietnam.- The neocolonial expression of intangible heritage: A multiperspective analysis of the Michelin guide for Vietnam.- The COVID-19 pandemic and the opportunity of heritage tourism in Kampong Ayer (Water Village), Brunei Darussalam.

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Book SynopsisMedia Literacies.- The Proliferation of Disinformation in the Information and Communication Age: "News Literacy" as a Framework for Critical News Reception.- Media Literacy in News from World War I to the Artificial Intelligence Era: Reality and Challenges.- From Info Activism to Civil Inattention: Audience literacies within the digital (social media) literacies framework.- Evolution of Advertising Literacy: Individual and Society in the Digital Age.- Digital Literacy as a Catalyst for Sustainable Development.- Decoding The Green Narrative: Exploring the Interplay Between Media Literacy And Consumer Perceptions Of Greenwashing.- Infodemic Literacy: A Scoping Review.- Artificial Intelligence Literacy: Imperative for the Future or Optional Insight.

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