Cultural studies Books
Palgrave Macmillan Cultural Policy and Cultural Industries in Africa
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£104.49
Palgrave Macmillan Home and Homeland in Asian Diaspora
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£999.99
Springer Rural Built Heritage Preservation and Development
Book SynopsisLiterature review.- Case study definition and methodology.- Case study analysis.- Conclusion and discussions.- Appendices.
£123.49
Springer Tracing Intangible Cultural Migrant Heritage in the UK
Book SynopsisChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Whose Heritage? Ethics, Frameworks, and the UK’s ICH Landscape.- PART I: Ideologies and Identities: Migration, Belonging, and the Negotiation of Intangible Cultural Heritage.- Chapter 3. Living Heritage: Migrant and Local Perspectives on Identity and Change in the UK.- Chapter 4. Securing Values: Religious Tolerance and The British-Turkish Community.- Chapter 5. The Impact of Collective Capital on Construction of Migrant Identity: The Case of Polish Mothers in the UK.- PART II: Celebrating Heritage: Social Practices, Rituals, and Festive Traditions in Migrant Lives.- Chapter 6. Cultural Heritage In/As Performance: the development of British Bhangra and the Belfast Mela.- Chapter 7. New Year Festivities Away from Home: Nowruz as a Celebration of Memory and Belonging.- Chapter 8. Memories of Snow. Intangible Cultural Dimensions of Death and Legacy.- PART III: Creative Expressions: Migrant Heritage through Literature and Visual Culture.- Chapter 9. Unsettled Writing: Tracing the Literary Heritage of Irish Travellers.- Chapter 10. Near This Place: The Liverpool Irish Famine Trail in Visual Art.- Chapter 11. What is photo-entanglement? Re-Imagining Romanian Culture from Afar Through Photographic Images of Myths, Feelings and Personal Stories.- PART IV: Heritage in Flux: Sustaining Identity Amid Migration and Change.- Chapter 12. Healing Across Generations: The Role of Traditional Syrian Medicine in Shaping Modern Practice.- Chapter 13. Home Atmosphere Transmission through Intangible and Material Culture: Saudis Living in the UK.- Chapter 14. Displaced Knowledge: Safeguarding Migrant Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Context of Climate Change.
£107.99
Springer Inhabiting Ustopia Science Fiction in Film Performing Arts and Digital Media
Book SynopsisChapter 00. Introduction - Aparajita Nanda and Lucia-Mihaela Grosu-Radulescu.- Part I. Performing an Ustopian Future.- Chapter 1. Back to the Future or Forward to the Past? Futurism, Transhumanism, and Transmedia in Two Ustopian Operas by Gian Carlo Menotti and Tod Machover - Alina Bottez.- Chapter 2. Beyond Self-Identity and Toward Alter Ego. Transcendence in Contemporary Japanese Theater - Iryna Kastylianchanka.- Chapter 3. Trans Identity and Neurodiversity in Dramatic Literature: Diego Casado Rubio’s millones de segundos - Lynn Deboeck.- Part II. Crafting Ustopian Ecosystems.- Chapter 4. Inventing the Enemy: Popular Science Fiction on Screen as Political Parables -Siddhartha Biswas.- Chapter 5. The end of the world is always a local event’: Dystopian Futures and Utopian Resistance in Contemporary Irish Fiction and Film - Simon Workman.- Chapter 6. Fast-forward into the Future: Socioeconomic Change and Spatial Reconfigurations in Years and Years (Russell T. Davies, 2019) - Pablo Gómez-Muñoz.- Chapter 7. Mis-Leading Meritocracies. Segregation and Biopolitics in Brazilian Ustopias - Olivia E. Holloway.- Chapter 8. Black Evermore. Racial Subjectivity, World-Building at Play, and Charting a Path from the Harlem Renaissance to Videogames through George Schuyler’s Black No More - Jalin Niamke Jackson.- Chapter 9. The Art of Being Governed? On Failings of the Utopic Imagination - Nefeli Forni Zervoudaki.- Chapter 10. Inhabiting Ustopia: Indian Science Fiction Films, PK and Anukul.- Chapter 11.- Beyond Stereotypes: Ms. Marvel and the Representation of Muslim Superheroine in Ustopian Narratives - Shaista Irshad.- Chapter 12. Choice, Compatibility and Consent in “Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya” - Mukta Sharangpani.- Part III. The Future is now: Contemporary Ustopians.- Chapter 13. Technologies of Survivance. The Indigenous Futurist Work of Cannupa Hanska Luger and Skawennati - Preston Taylor Stone.- Chapter 14. Between Ustopia and the Affective Heterotopia: Vtubing and its Fandom - Alice Teodorescu.- Chapter 15. Ustopians of Today: From Fantasy to Reality, Female Cosplay in Romania - Lucia-Mihaela Grosu-Radulescu.
£116.99
Palgrave Macmillan Public Narratives of Decolonization and Racial InJustice in Central and Southeast Europe
Book SynopsisChapter 1: Introduction: Race and civilisation in hybrid affective contexts and histories of post-socialist semi-peripheries.- Chapter 2: Stop Calling Me the M-Word: A history of one picture.- Chapter 3: Black Czech Arts in the Making?: Disrupting racial profiling.- Chapter 4: Roma Lives Matter: (Mis)Representations, missing data, and failed dialogue about structural injustice in the Romanian literary scene: Chapter 5: The Czech George Floyd?: Roma Lives Matter, neoliberal policing, and the construction of intersectional marginal identities on Facebook.- Chapter 6: Mediating and Lifeworlds: BDS Slovenija and Gibanje za pravice Palestincev.- Chapter 7: Historical Storytelling in the Hungarian Culture Wars.- Chapter 8: Right-wing Decoloniality?: How memory wars against spectral anti-communism reshape decolonial thought in Bulgaria.- Chapter 9: “We Belong to the West”: Crypto-colonial civilisational discourse in the Czech public sphere.
£107.99
Palgrave Macmillan An Ecocritical Study of Puerto Rican Culture
Book Synopsis.- Introduction.- Chapter One. Ecophobia and Ecophilia.- Chapter Two. Ecoblind Nation-Building Views of a Serene Landscape.- Chapter Three. Climate Anxiety, Trauma, and Infrastructure.- Chapter Four. Post-Maria Representations of Disaster, Testimony, Decolonizing Resilience and Reconstruction.- Conclusion.- Appendix. Catalogue of Disasters and Major Works of Puerto Rican Culture.
£98.99
Springer Multicultural Religious Interactions in Ancient Central and South Asia
Book SynopsisChapter 1. Introduction (Lakshminarayanan and Mendoza).- Part 1. Central Asia.- Chapter 2. Textual Archaeology: On sacred groves in Hellenised Central Asia (Mendoza).- Chapter 3. Making Space for Buddhism: Early Buddhist Practice in Hellenistic Central Asian Religious Spaces (Ross).- Chapter 4. The merging of Theravadin and Mahasa?ghika traditions in the decoration of Ha??a monasteries (Vanleene).- Chapter 5. Power through religion and religion through power. Royal agency and local cults in Hellenistic Central Asia and Northwest India (Coloru).- Part 2. South Asia.- Chapter 6. Representation of Gandhara as a multireligious place in Vita Apollonii by Philostratus (Kubica).- Chapter 7. Dance around the Buddha: Multicultural Performances in Gandharan Art (Lakshminarayanan).- Chapter 8. Jaina and Virasaiva Interactions in South India: Archaeological Evidence for Dependencies and Mutual Exchange (Hegewald).- Chapter 9. “Protector of all Practices”: The Religious Endowments of a Hoysa?a Queen (Gururaja).- Chapter 10. Conclusions (Lakshminarayanan and Mendoza).
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De Gruyter Cultural Ways of Worldmaking: Media and Narratives
Book SynopsisTaking as its point of departure Nelson Goodman’s theory of symbol systems as delineated in his seminal book “Ways of Worldmaking”, this volume gauges the possibilities and perspectives offered by the worldmaking approach as a model for the study of culture. Its main objectives are to explore the usefulness and scope of the approach for the study of culture and to supplement Goodman’s philosophy of worldmaking with a number of complementary disciplinary perspectives, literary and cultural approaches, and new questions and applications. It focuses on three key issues or concepts which illuminate ways of worldmaking and their interdisciplinary relevance and ramifications, viz. (1) theoretical approaches to ways of worldmaking, (2) the impact of media on ways of worldmaking, and (3) narratives as ways of worldmaking. The volume serves to demonstrate how specific media and narratives affect the worlds that are created, and shows how these worlds are established as socially relevant. It also illustrates the extent to which ways of worldmaking are imbued with cultural values, and thus inevitably implicated in power relations.
£18.00
de Gruyter Mode Kleidung Textil
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£84.96
de Gruyter Passfotos Unter Zwang
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£51.74
de Gruyter Kannibalismus Und Eucharistie
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£67.46
Walter de Gruyter Competing Memories of Enslavement Emancipation and Indentureship
£73.80
£27.54
BÃhlau Verlag Wien Mehr Kultur in der Politik
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£38.25
BÃhlau Verlag Wien Empowerment
Book SynopsisDie BeitrÃge des Bandes fragen nach MÃglichkeiten, wie es zu einer gleichberechtigteren Teilhabe an Kunst und Politik kommt.
£22.79
BÃhlau Verlag Wien Transmedia Festivals
Book SynopsisEvents zwischen Musik und Kunst, Audiosoziale Gemeinschaften zwischen kÃnstlerischem Experiment und Ãkonomisierung
£58.89
BÃhlau Verlag Wien ErzÃhlte Erregung
Book SynopsisDas Buch entwickelt anhand von Fallstudien aus Film, Medien und bildender Kunst eine Theorie fÃr den Zusammenhang von MedialitÃt und GenderperformativitÃt im Prozess der ErzÃhlung.
£38.69
Springer International Publishing AG Carbon Capitalism and Communication: Confronting Climate Crisis
Book SynopsisThis volume examines the role of communication in contributing to and contesting the current climate crisis. There is now widespread agreement that even if increases in carbon emissions are kept to the current international target the climate crisis will continue to intensify. This book brings together, for the first time, state-of-the-art research with activists’ interventions to place debate around climate crisis within the wider conversation about the changing relations between communications and contemporary capitalism. Contributors include; Naomi Klein, Michael Mann, Alan Rusbridger, Vincent Mosco, Jodi Dean, and leading figures in Greenpeace and 350.org.Table of Contents1: Introduction: Carbon, Capitalism, Communication by Graham Murdock.- Section One: Communication and Carbon Capitalism: Contested Futures .- Chapter 2: Fighting for science against climate change deniers’ propaganda By Professor Michael Mann, Pennsylvania State University.- Chapter 3: Naomi Klein Talks about Capitalism Vs. The Climate, An interview with Naomi Klein by Professor Christopher Wright, University of Sydney.- Section Two: Toxic Technologies: Media Machines and Ecological Crisis. - Chapter 4: Digital technology and the environment: Challenges for green citizenship and environmental organizations, By Professor Richard Maxwell, Queens College and Professor Toby Miller, University of Loughborough.- Chapter 5: Digital desires: Mediated consumerism and climate crisis by Professor Justin Lewis, Cardiff University.- Chapter 6: From “waste village” to “urban circular economic system”: The changing landscape of waste in Beijing by Professor Xin Tong, Peking University.- Chapter 7: Big data, open data and the climate risk market By Jo Bates, University of Sheffield.- Chapter 8: The next Internet By Emeritus Professor Vincent Mosco, Queen’s University.- Section Three: Corporate Captures: PR Strategies and Promotional Gambits.- Chapter 9: Greenwashing in the experience of the Greenwashing Index, An interview with Kim Sheehan, University of Oregon.- Chapter 10: Spin and propaganda: The fossil fuel industry in Australia By David McKnight, University of New South Wales and Mitchell Hobbs, University of Sydney.- Chapter 11: Bearing witness and the logic of celebrity in the struggle over Canada’s oil/tar Sands By Patrick McCurdy, University of Ottawa.- Chapter 12: Nothing but truthiness: public discourses on the Adani Carmichael mine in Australia By Benedetta Brevini, University of Sydney and Terry Woronov, University of Sydney.- Section Four: Communications and Campaigning: Oppositions and Refusals.- Chapter 13: The anamorphic politics of climate change By Professor Jodi Dean, Hobart and William Smith Colleges.- Chapter 14: Journalism, climate communication and media alternatives By Professor Robert A. Hackett, Simon Fraser University and Shane Gunster, Simon Fraser University.- Chapter 15: “Keep it in the Ground” An interview with Alan Rusbridger, former editor The Guardian by Benedetta Brevini, University of Sydney.- Chapter 16: Mobilising on climate change: the experience of Greenpeace An interview with David Ritter, President Greenpeace Australia by Benedetta Brevini, University of Sydney.- Chapter 17: Green campaigns: challenges, opportunities and 350.org An interview with Blair Palese, CEO of 350.org Australia.- Chapter 18: Conclusion One Month in the Life of the Planet -Carbon Capitalism and the Struggle for the Commons.
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Springer International Publishing AG Locating Nordic Noir: From Beck to The Bridge
Book SynopsisThis book is a comprehensive study of Nordic Noir television drama from the 1990’s until today. The authors introduce the history of contemporary Nordic Noir from the perspective of place, production and location studies. The chapters include readings of well-known television crime dramas such as Beck, The Killing, Trapped and The Bridge as well as a range of other important Nordic Noir cases. The authors position the development of Nordic Noir in the global market for popular television drama and place the international attention towards Nordic crime dramas within regional development of drama production in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Iceland. Consequently, Nordic Noir is read as both a transnational financial and creative phenomenon and as a local possibility for community building. Offering a comprehensible, scholarly and methodologically original approach to the popularity of Nordic television crime dramas, this volume is aimed at readers with an interest in crime drama as well as scholars and students of television drama.Trade Review“An important resource for scholars in multiple disciplines, the book brings together in one place a great deal of important information. … The primary audience is those interested in television and film production: the book provides data and firsthand accounts and synthesizes that information into a persuasive narrative of development and forecast.” (Rosemary Erickson Johnsen, Scandinavian Studies, Vol. 91 (3), 2019)Table of Contents1. Introduction: Where is Nordic Noir?.- 2. Part I: Local colour and location studies - Local colour and places on screen.- 3. Location studies: a topography of Nordic noir.- 4. Four perspectives on the Nordic region.- 5. Part II: From bestsellers to blockbusters - Stieg Larsson and Scandinavian crime literature as a stepping stone.- 6. Beck and character adaptations.- 7. Funding models and increasing transnationalism.- 8. Part III: Written for the Danish screen - The Killing and DR’s Danish model.- 9. Norskov and Danish commercial public service drama.- 10. The Team, Danish transnationalism and the local colour of Europe.- 11. Part IV: Written for the Nordic screen - Blue Eyes and the rise of the Swedish original.- 12. Trapped and original Noir from Iceland and Norway.- 13. The Bridge, transnational co-productions and screen tourism.- 14. Conclusion: Nordic Noir beyond the Nordic.
£89.99
Springer International Publishing AG Immersive Theatre and Audience Experience: Space,
Book SynopsisThis book is the first full-length monograph to focus on Punchdrunk, the internationally-renowned theatre company known for its pioneering approach to immersive theatre. With its promises of empowerment, freedom and experiential joy, immersive theatre continues to gain popularity - this study brings necessary critical analysis to this rapidly developing field. What exactly do we mean by audience “immersion”? How might immersion in a Punchdrunk production be described, theorised, situated or politicised? What is valued in immersive experience - and are these values explicit or implied? Immersive Theatre and Audience Experience draws on rehearsals, performances and archival access to Punchdrunk, providing new critical perspectives from cognitive studies, philosophical aesthetics, narrative theory and computer games. Its discussion of immersion is structured around three themes: interactivity and game; story and narrative; environment and space. Providing a rigorous theoretical toolkit to think further about the form’s capabilities, and offering a unique set of approaches, this book will be of significance to scholars, students, artists and spectators.Table of Contents1. Immersive theatre, immersive experience.- 2. Interactivity and immersion: theoretical approaches.- 3. Interactivity and immersion in The Drowned Man.- 4. Fan interactivity: communicating immersive experience.- 5. Follow the story: narrative and immersion.- 6. Exploring multi-stories: narrative, immersion and chronology.- 7. Play the story: an approach to narrative in immersive theatre.- 8. Environment and site-specificity: space, place and immersion.- 9. Conclusion.
£104.49
Bohlau Verlag Weiße Umhüllungen – Weiße Verblendungen: Zur
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Bohlau Verlag Naturpark Barnim von Berlin bis zur Schorfheide:
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£27.54
Bohlau Verlag Die Fränkische Schweiz: Traditionsreiche
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Bohlau Verlag Harte Währung Beton: Eine Kulturgeschichte des
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Deutscher Kunstverlag Sigmar Polke am Gaspelshof
£23.80
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Lasst unsere Kinder spielen!: Der Schlussel zum
Book SynopsisNeurobiological findings prove the importance of the psychological effect of the game on the development of the brain. Not only systematic support, but also play plays an important role in early childhood development. What does this mean for the education of children? How does play affect relation to attention and learning? Can you learn anything about the next stage of development from the children's game? And how does play relate to thinking and perception? André Frank Zimpel addresses these key questions and shows how children develop the ability to imagine things while playing and how they can be supported effectively. The imagined game situations are heralds of developing mental abilities, without which life in our society would not be conceivable.
£25.64
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Caesar, Der Gallische Krieg: Ein Comic als
Book SynopsisReading Caesar's text in Latin classes at school is often the source of great frustration. But that need not be the case: This text of Caesar's work defuses the problem and motivates pupils at the same time without distorting the original text.The text is set up on facing pages: The comic version provides the reader with an initial understanding of the text and lightens up some of the more difficult passages, making work with the original text considerably easier to manage.
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Lumina Nova - Arbeitsheft
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Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH Die 5 Dysfunktionen eines Teams
Book SynopsisNach ihren ersten zwei Wochen als neuer CEO von DecisionTech fragte sich Kathryn Petersen angesichts der dortigen Probleme, ob es wirklich richtig gewesen war, den Job anzunehmen. Sie war eigentlich froh über die neue Aufgabe gewesen. Doch hatte sie nicht ahnen können, dass ihr Team so fürchterlich dysfunktional war und die Teammitglieder sie vor eine Herausforderung stellen würden, die sie niemals zuvor so erlebt hatte ... In "Die 5 Dyfunktionen eines Teams" begibt sich Patrick Lencioni in die faszinierende und komplexe Welt von Teams. In seiner Leadership-Fabel folgt der Leser der Geschichte von Kathryn Petersen, die sich mit der ultimativen Führungskrise konfrontiert sieht: die Einigung eines Teams, das sich in einer solchen Unordnung befindet, dass es den Erfolg und das Überleben des gesamten Unternehmens gefährdet. Im Verlauf der Geschichte enthüllt Lencioni die fünf entscheidenden Dysfunktionen, die oft dazu führen, dass Teams scheitern. Er stellt ein Modell und umsetzbare Schritte vor, die zu einem effektiven Team führen und die fünf Dysfunktionen beheben. Diese Dysfunktionen sind: - Fehlendes Vertrauen, - Scheu vor Konflikten, - Fehlendes Engagement, - Scheu vor Verantwortung, - Fehlende Ergebnis-Orientierung. Wie in seinen anderen Büchern hat Patrick Lencioni eine fesselnde Fabel geschrieben, die eine wichtige Botschaft für alle enthält, die danach streben, außergewöhnliche Teamleiter und Führungskräfte zu werden.Trade Review... Ein erstklassiger Kursus in punkto Konfliktmanagement und Teamführung - eingebettet in eine Rahmengeschichte, die sich täglich in ähnlicher Form auch in unzähligen deutschen Konferenzräumen abspielt. Empfehlenswert! (Management-Journal) Table of ContentsInhalt Einleitung 9 Glück gehabt 15 DIE FABEL Teil I SCHWACHE LEISTUNG Vorgeschichte 19 Kathryn 20 Die Gründe 22 Murren 23 Beobachtungen 24 Der Stab 25 Teil II INITIALZÜNDUNG Erste Bewährungsprobe 33 Kleiner Dienstweg 35 Grenzen ziehen 37 Napa 39 Die Ansprache 40 Rückschlag 44 Eintritt in die Gefahrenzone 47 Sich nackig machen 49 Mehr in die Tiefe 50 Am Swimmingpool 53 Wiederaufnahme 54 Bewusstsein 56 Ego 62 Ziele 67 Tiefengewebe 70 Attacke 75 Präsentation 76 Film noir 83 Anwendung 87 Teil III SCHWERSTARBEIT Wieder im Hause 97 Feuerwerk 103 Undichte Stellen 108 Externer Workshop Nummer zwei 109 Weiterackern 114 Verantwortung 119 Einzelkämpfer 123 Das Gespräch 124 Letztes Gefecht 127 Unter Beschuss 129 Schwerstarbeit 130 Aufschwung 134 Teil IV DIE MASSNAHMEN BEGINNEN ZU GREIFEN Ertrag 139 Charaktertest 142 An die Arbeit 145 DAS MODELL Übersicht über das Modell 151 Team-Selbsteinschätzung 153 Die fünf Dysfunktionen verstehen und überwinden 157 Ein Hinweis zum Thema Zeit: Kathryns Methoden 179 Würdigung eines besonderen Falls von Teamwork 181 Danksagungen 183 Über den Autor 185
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Gefühlstechniken
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Springer VS Ausdruck Form und Arbeit
Book SynopsisDesignforschung als Kulturwissenschaft.- Vom ‚sprachlichen Wesen der Dinge‘. Prolegomenon zu einer Design-Ästhetik des Ausdrucks.- Wesensform und Funktionswert. Metaphysik und kritische Theorie des Designs.- Kommunikationsdesign, Ethik und Aufklärung.- Überlegungen zu einer kritischen Hermeneutik der visuellen Kommunikation: Zeichen, Sprache und Bild bei Barthes und Baudrillard.- ‚Zukunftsbau‘ und Digitalisierung.- Repräsentation, Semiotisierung und Indizienparadigma. Aspekte einer Theorie der Zeichen.- The Endeavour to Make Ourselves More Perfect. Ambivalences of Optimization.- Freiheit, Autonomie und Gerechtigkeit im Kontext von Arbeit. Sozialphilosophische und ethische Aspekte.- Thesen über Tabu, Fetisch und kulturelle Praxis.
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Hirmer Verlag 125th Street: Photography in Harlem
Book SynopsisHarlem’s 125th Street is a marker of 20th century urban experience, a thoroughfare that encapsulates powerful stories of business and consumption, real estate and gentrification, glamour and entertainment, and political uprising. The book explores works and themes from a large roster of photographers and performance artists who have engaged with the constant mutation of this street-life. The photographs in this book represent narratives of resilience and poems of survival against a rapid and sweeping movement of history across 125th street, where buildings and communities are periodically destroyed and built anew. The works shape a sense of belonging and identity that goes against the stereotyping and mystification of this neighborhood. It contributes to the writing of a new history of photography that is collective and collaborative. Among the artists featured are Dawoud Bey, Khalik Allah, Kwame Brathwaite, Jamel Shabazz, Hiram Maristany, Ming Smith, Ruben Natal San Miguel, Isaac Diggs & Edward Hillel, Lorraine O’Grady, and William Pope.L. Artists include: Berenice Abbott, Khalik Allah, Alice Attie, Dawoud Bey, Kwame Brathwaite Isaac Diggs & Edward Hillel, Lola Flash, Hiram Maristany, Ozier Muhammad, Katsu Naito Marilyn Nance, Ruben Natal-San Miguel, Lorraine O’Grady, Gordon Parks, Pope.L, Jamel Shabazz, Coreen Simpson, Beuford Smith, Ming Smith, Morgan and Marvin Smith, Shawn Walker Hai Zhang.
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Hirmer Verlag Lost Horizons: Udo Rein
Book SynopsisUdo Rein (b. 1960) is a video artist and painter and lives in Munich. In his work he examines social and cultural contrasts worldwide. His pictorial language starts out from documentary film sequences and builds on fractal constructions and deconstructions which he translates into collages of film stills and oil and acrylic paints on wood panels. Our society frequently presents us with polished surfaces and clear structures. These serve as the starting point for Udo Rein, whose pictorial compositions then lead us deep into the back streets and abysses of our worldviews. Looking beneath the veneer opens up perspectives in a multi-faceted but also contradictory world which is both erotic and mysterious. The lavishly illustrated volume is the first comprehensive monograph on the artist’s impressive oeuvre.
£29.75
Hirmer Verlag Catching the Moment: Contemporary Art from the
Book SynopsisThe catalogue highlights the diversity and relevance of the exceptional collection acquired from St. Louis collectors Ted L. and Maryanne Ellison Simmons. The artworks address a broad array of contemporary cultural issues and participate in many discourses of art from the 1960s to the present. Rounding the Bases: The Ted L. and Maryanne Ellison Simmons Collection highlights 100 stellar examples from the 833 works in a St. Louis collection recently acquired by the Saint Louis Art Museum. The diverse collection of contemporary art, made mostly by artists active in the U.S., includes prints, drawings, and photographs as well as sculptures and a painting. The book traces the Simmonses’ focus on art and artists of their own time, and on the broader social, political, art historical, and technical issues that have engaged both the artists and the collectors. Artists featured: Mike Bidlo, Enrique Chagoya, Bruce Conner, Damon Davis, Tony Fitzpatrick, Helen Frankenthaler, Jane Hammond, Tom Huck, Peter Hujar, Jasper Johns, Bruce Nauman, Liliana Porter, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Kiki Smith, Paul Thek, Kara Walker, H. C. Westermann, and David Wojnarowicz, among others.
£32.30
Hirmer Verlag The Other Kabul: Remains of the Garden
Book SynopsisKabul was once famous as a city of blossoming gardens. What once was, can one day become again, wrote the political scientist Ekkehart Krippendorff. In line with this motto, some twenty artists from Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Iran, Turkey, the United States and Switzerland reflect on a different Kabul, without ignoring the past and present crises. Whether with a reference to the locality or starting out from intuition and imagination – the volume assembles newly created artworks which reflect on the Afghan garden as a microcosm of the entire world. It contains the life of humans with animals and plants in all its wonder and beauty. Contributions on the gardens of Kabul, the garden as a symbol of generosity and friendship and the history of a private garden near Teheran amplify the forward-looking vision.
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Lit Verlag Haitian Refugees Forced to Return:
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Lit Verlag (Anti-)Americanisms
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Lit Verlag Russian Intellectual Culture in Transition: The
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Lit Verlag Crossing Boundaries: African American Inner City
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Waxmann Verlag GmbH Memories of Diversity Diversity of Memory.
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Transcript Verlag Sentimental States
Book SynopsisThe word state has a double meaning, signifying both a condition and a political entity. Starting from this observation, the contributors to this volume provide a cross-cultural and cross-media discussion of the role of the sentimental in political culture. In their case studies from all over the world, they focus on sentimental politics of order and belonging in processes and constellations of community building, addressing sentimental encodings used in symbolic interactions ranging from foundational narratives and state-orchestrated public rituals to existential crisis management; from supposedly individual emotion-focused coping strategies to collective displays of public feelings.
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transcript Verlag War Migration Memory
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V&R unipress Neue Urbanität Konzepte zur Stadt der Zukunft
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£68.00
V&R unipress ÃsterreichStudien im 21. Jahrhundert
Book SynopsisAktuelle kultur- und literaturwissenschaftliche Ãsterreich-Studien der Austrian Studies Association
£47.69
V&R unipress Countering Anthropocentrism
Book SynopsisProfound multidisciplinary de-anthropocentric analysis of the most popular 21st century narrative
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V&R unipress Heritage â between and beyond Nature Culture and Agency
Book SynopsisHeritage as an entangled, more-than-human phenomenon
£52.19
V&R unipress The Unheard
Book SynopsisA multidisciplinary analysis of marginalized people in various contexts
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