Cultural studies Books
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Television and the Meaning of Live
Book SynopsisThis book is about the question of existence, the meaning of life'. It is an enquiry into the contemporary human situation as disclosed by television. The elementary components of any real-world situation are place, people and time. These are first examined as basic existential phenomena drawing on Heidegger's fundamental enquiry into the human situation in Being and Time. They are then explored through the technological and production care-structures of broadcast television which, routinely and exceptionally, display the situated experience of being alive and living in the world today. It shows routinely in the live self-enactments of persons being themselves and the liveness of their ordinary talk on television. It shows exceptionally in television coverage of great occasions and catastrophes as they unfold live and in real time. Case studies reveal the existential role of television in salvaging the possibility of genuine experience, and in revealing the world-hTrade Review“Television and the Meaning of Live is an important and exciting book, which helps one to see television, and media in general, in new ways. More than this, it is a book that can help one to see the world as a whole anew, as befits the task of ‘unconcealment’ that was Heidegger's goal. It cannot be recommended highly enough.” Critical Studies in Television ''Taking a refreshing phenomenological perspective, Paddy Scannell offers a thoughtful and compelling analysis of the way live radio and television capture and disclose the everyday human situation. A remarkable intellectual achievement by one of the most influential theorists of communication, this book will definitely enrich and deepen our understanding of the central role of broadcasting in our lived experience.'' Milly Buonanno, La Sapienza University of Roma, author of The Age of Television ''Can a phenomenology of « live » broadcasting illuminate the nature of everyday human situations? Paddy Scannell daringly answers : yes. The meaning of « Live » has much to tell us about the meaning of « Life » . Inspired by Heidegger’s Being and Time, this brilliant and provocative book challenges us to unlock media theory from the relentless embrace of sociologism.'' Daniel Dayan, Centre National de la Recherche scientifique & Institut d’études Politiques, Paris ''Using television, Paddy Scannell examines our situatedness in the world and carves out a strikingly fresh approach to media analysis. A seminal contribution--perceptive and humane.'' Carolyn Marvin, Annenberg School, University of PennsylvaniaTable of ContentsAcknowledgements vi Preface viii Part one: An introduction to the phenomenology of television Prologue: Heidegger's teacup 3 1. What is phenomenology? 5 2. Available world 14 3. Available self 27 4. Available time 39 5. Turning on the TV set 60 6. Television and technology 78 Part two: Television and the meaning of live 7. The meaning of live 93 8. How to talk – on radio 107 9. How to talk – on television 128 10. The moment of the goal – on television 153 11. Being in the moment: the meaning of media events 177 12. Catastrophe – on television 191 13. Television and history 209 Notes 225 References 245 Index 253
£17.09
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Communication and Social Change
Book SynopsisHow do the communication practices of governments, NGOs and social movements enhance opportunities for citizen-led change? In this incisive book, Thomas Tufte makes a call for a fundamental rethinking of what it takes to enable citizens' voices, participation and power in processes of social change. Drawing on examples ranging from the Indignados movement in Spain to media activists in Brazil, from rural community workers in Malawi to UNICEF's global outreach programmes, he presents cutting-edge debates about the role of media and communication in enhancing social change. He offers both new and contested ideas of approaching social change from below, and highlights the need for institutions governments and civil society organizations alike to be in sync with their constituencies. Communication and Social Changeprovides essential insights to students and scholars of media and communications, as well as anyone concerned with the practices and processes that leadTrade Review"Tufte brings the significance of social change to life with eclectic and compelling illustrations across global contexts. This will be a classic text in conversations considering the importance of communication and the role of citizens in strategic social change. It is time for the field of communication for social change to take seriously the connections suggested in this book toward a more comprehensive framework. The attention here to social movements and political protests offers a welcome contribution to our scholarship and our practice."Karin Gwinn Wilkins, University of Texas at Austin "The ever-relevant Tufte has reinvented himself. With sensitivity he has crafted a coruscating and masterly book. The tight post-disciplinary synthesis solidifies the claim that communication study has such a key role in the reinvention of the humanities. Anyone interested in communication, humanity, democracy and change must read this book!"Colin Tinei Chasi, University of Johannesburg"[Tufte's] book is one that deserves to be used as a textbook in the field as well as a refresher on existing ideas and perspectives."European Journal of CommunicationTable of ContentsForeword (Silvio Waisbord) Preface and Acknowledgements 1. Towards a New Social Thought in Communication and Social Change 2. Changing Contexts and Conceptual Stepping Stones 3. Participation: A Project of Transformation 4. Movements and Media, Communication and Change 5. Cultures of Governance: Enhancing Empowerment and Resilience 6. Communication Movements 7. Invited Spaces: Institutions Communicating for Social Change 8. Towards a New Paradigm and Praxis in Communication and Social Change References Index
£49.50
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Youth Cultures in China
Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to be young in a country that is changing so fast? What does it mean to be young in a place ruled by one Party, during a time of intense globalization and exposure to different cultures? This fascinating and informative book explores the lives of Chinese youth and examines their experiences, the ways in which they are represented in the media, and their interactions with old and, especially, new media. The authors describe and analyze complex entanglements among family, school, workplace and the state, engaging with the multiplicity of Chinese youth cultures. Their case studies include, among others, the romantic fantasies articulated by pop idols in TV dramas in contrast with young students working hard for their entrance exams and dream careers. This book will be essential reading for students and scholars of youth culture, the sociology of youth and China studies more broadly. By showing how Chinese youth negotiate these regimes by carving out their own temporary spaces from becoming a goldfarmer in a virtual economy to performing as a cosplayer this book ultimately poses the question: Will the current system be able to accommodate this rapidly increasing diversity?Trade Review“Using an innovative methodology including interviews and ethnographic studies, the authors have given us a complex study of youth cultures. They do an excellent job of examining important and understudied issues such as media representations of youth in contemporary popular and digital culture.”Stanley Rosen, University of Southern California “In this interrogation of the multiplicity of youth cultures in China, the authors ditch familiar stereotypes of China’s youth to explore how young urban people are charting challenging paths for China’s future. Based largely on ethnographic research, this book will appeal to non-specialist readers as well as students of contemporary Chinese culture and society.”Harriet Evans, University of Westminster "Jeroen de Kloet and Anthony Y. H. Fung provide a sophisticated and erudite account of how appropriations and localisations of international digital technologies, music trends and fashion styles enable Chinese youth to experiment with "spontaneous" and "unpredictable" identities and embodiments as they navigate through cultural spaces [… They] surmise that Chinese youth can think, feel and act imaginatively and critically so as to anticipate and aspire to a politics of the future as difference […] which could have political consequences in years to come."Journal of Contemporary AsiaTable of Contents Map Chronology Acknowledgements Introduction: Youth in China No More Revolution Youth Scapes Changing Youth Values The Chapters Creative Warfare Chapter 1: Youth and Power: Education, Family, and the State Introduction Political Values and Party Membership Family and Familism Pedagogy and Education Conclusion Chapter 2: Dressing up the Future: Chinese Youth Today Introduction Global Inauthenticities Fashion Styles Sonic Styles Digital Styles Conclusion Chapter 3: Localization of Regional Culture Introduction Localizing TV format from without Regional TV Formats and Class Re-imagination Running Man: The Turn to Gamification Popular Music and Fandom The Chinese AKB48: irrelevance to politics TFBoys and Korean Imagination Conclusion Chapter 4 Chinese Heteronormativity and Its Discontents Introduction Chinese Genders? Heteronormative Aspirations I: Survey Findings Heteronormative Aspirations II: Media Representations Unsettling Heteronormativity I: Romance Comedy Unsettling Heteronormativity II: Queer China Unsettling Heteronormativity III: Sex and Feminism Conclusion Chapter 5: Mobility, Marginalization and Desire Introduction Migrant Youth, Representation and Desire Migrant Youth as Media Producers Migrant Youth and New Media Technologies Gaming and Immaterial Labour Goldfarming versus Farming From Village to Art Village: New Spaces and Mobility Conclusion Conclusion: Youth and Hope References
£45.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Youth Cultures in China
Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to be young in a country that is changing so fast? What does it mean to be young in a place ruled by one Party, during a time of intense globalization and exposure to different cultures? This fascinating and informative book explores the lives of Chinese youth and examines their experiences, the ways in which they are represented in the media, and their interactions with old and, especially, new media. The authors describe and analyze complex entanglements among family, school, workplace and the state, engaging with the multiplicity of Chinese youth cultures. Their case studies include, among others, the romantic fantasies articulated by pop idols in TV dramas in contrast with young students working hard for their entrance exams and dream careers. This book will be essential reading for students and scholars of youth culture, the sociology of youth and China studies more broadly. By showing how Chinese youth negotiate these regimes by carving out their own temporarTrade Review“Using an innovative methodology including interviews and ethnographic studies, the authors have given us a complex study of youth cultures. They do an excellent job of examining important and understudied issues such as media representations of youth in contemporary popular and digital culture.”Stanley Rosen, University of Southern California “In this interrogation of the multiplicity of youth cultures in China, the authors ditch familiar stereotypes of China’s youth to explore how young urban people are charting challenging paths for China’s future. Based largely on ethnographic research, this book will appeal to non-specialist readers as well as students of contemporary Chinese culture and society.”Harriet Evans, University of Westminster"Jeroen de Kloet and Anthony Y. H. Fung provide a sophisticated and erudite account of how appropriations and localisations of international digital technologies, music trends and fashion styles enable Chinese youth to experiment with "spontaneous" and "unpredictable" identities and embodiments as they navigate through cultural spaces [… They] surmise that Chinese youth can think, feel and act imaginatively and critically so as to anticipate and aspire to a politics of the future as difference […] which could have political consequences in years to come."Journal of Contemporary AsiaTable of Contents Map Chronology Acknowledgements Introduction: Youth in China No More Revolution Youth Scapes Changing Youth Values The Chapters Creative Warfare Chapter 1: Youth and Power: Education, Family, and the State Introduction Political Values and Party Membership Family and Familism Pedagogy and Education Conclusion Chapter 2: Dressing up the Future: Chinese Youth Today Introduction Global Inauthenticities Fashion Styles Sonic Styles Digital Styles Conclusion Chapter 3: Localization of Regional Culture Introduction Localizing TV format from without Regional TV Formats and Class Re-imagination Running Man: The Turn to Gamification Popular Music and Fandom The Chinese AKB48: irrelevance to politics TFBoys and Korean Imagination Conclusion Chapter 4 Chinese Heteronormativity and Its Discontents Introduction Chinese Genders? Heteronormative Aspirations I: Survey Findings Heteronormative Aspirations II: Media Representations Unsettling Heteronormativity I: Romance Comedy Unsettling Heteronormativity II: Queer China Unsettling Heteronormativity III: Sex and Feminism Conclusion Chapter 5: Mobility, Marginalization and Desire Introduction Migrant Youth, Representation and Desire Migrant Youth as Media Producers Migrant Youth and New Media Technologies Gaming and Immaterial Labour Goldfarming versus Farming From Village to Art Village: New Spaces and Mobility Conclusion Conclusion: Youth and Hope References
£15.19
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Understanding Disney
Book SynopsisSince the 1930s, the Walt Disney Company has produced characters, images, and stories that have captivated audiences around the world. How can we understand the appeal of Disney products? What is it about the Disney phenomenon that attracts so many children, as well as adults? In this updated second edition, with new examples provided throughout,Janet Wasko examines the processes by which the Disney company one of the largest media and entertainment corporations in the world continues to manufacture the fantasies that enthrall millions. She analyses the historical expansion of the Disney empire into the twenty-first century, examines the content of Disney's classic and more recent films, cartoons and TV programs anddiscusseshow they are produced, considering how some of the same techniques have been applied to the Disney theme parks. She also discusses the reception (and sometimes, reinterpretation) of Disney products by different kinds of audiences.By looking at the Disney phenomenon from a variety of perspectives, she provides an updated and comprehensive overview of one of the most significant media and cultural institutions of our time. This important book by a leading scholar of the entertainment industries will be of great interest to students in media and cultural studies, as well as a broader readership of Disney fans.Trade Review"thorough and comprehensive"European Journal of CommunicationTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Introducing the Disney Multiverse Chapter 2: Disney History(ies) Chapter 3: The Disney Empire Chapter 4: Corporate Disney in Action Chapter 5: Analyzing the World According to Disney Chapter 6: Dissecting Disney’s Worlds Chapter 7: Disney and the World Chapter 8: Living Happily Ever After? Notes Index
£54.00
John Wiley & Sons Understanding Military Culture A Canadian
Book SynopsisExamines military culture from a theoretical and a practical point of view. This book focuses on the Canadian and American military cultures, and provides an examination of the culture of the Canadian Forces. It also compares their culture to that of the US armed forces.
£26.99
McGill-Queen's University Press Maps and Memes
Book SynopsisA critical introduction to Canadian cartography and counter-mapping in indigenous, legal, and educational contexts.Trade Review"A thought-provoking book, Maps and Memes adds to our understanding of the colonial legacies of cartography in indigenous Canada. Gwilym Eades makes the important argument that maps have shaped native reality by defining the pre-existing spatial structures of the land with imposed names and borders." Hans M. Carlson, author of Home is the Hunter: The James Bay Cree and Their Land
£27.90
McGill-Queen's University Press Art Education and Cultural Renewal
Book SynopsisWhat good is art? What is the point of a university education? Can philosophers contribute anything to social liberation? Such questions, both ancient and urgent, are the pulse of reformational philosophy. Inspired by the vision of the Dutch religious and political leader Abraham Kuyper, reformational philosophy pursues social transformation for the common good. In this companion volume to Religion, Truth, and Social Transformation, Lambert Zuidervaart presents a socially engaged philosophy of the arts and higher education. Interacting with the ideas of leading Kuyperian thinkers such as Calvin Seerveld and Nicholas Wolterstorff, Zuidervaart shows why renewal in the arts needs to coincide with political and economic transformation. He also calls for education and research that serve the common good. Deeply rooted in reformational philosophy, his book brings a fresh and inspiring voice to current discussions of religious aesthetics and Christian scholarship. Art, Education, and CulturalTrade Review" Art, Education, and Cultural Renewal will appeal to a wide range of readers - beyond those versed in Reformational philosophy - to include general Christian audiences interested in how art and education can contribute to the common good. The author' s personal commitment to this vision resonates through the entire book." Thomas Reynolds, University of Toronto
£32.40
University of British Columbia Press Japanese Historians and the National Myths
Book SynopsisThis is the first comprehensive study of modern Japanese historians and their relationship to nationalism and how they interpreted ancient myths of their origins.Trade ReviewThis work would constitute an excellent introduction to the modern history of the discipline of Japanese history up to the end of the Pacific war. -- Herman Ooms * Canadian Journal of History *Brownlee offers the first full treatment of historical perspectives on the central Japanese creation myth .... Soundly researched with a wealth of Japanese sources, this is an important book, useful to specialists and nonspecialists alike. -- C.A. Desnoyers * Choice *Brownlee is careful not to condemn historians working under different conditions at different times. ... Yet he convincingly demonstrates the pitfalls of state-controlled education. And he is concerned about his contemporary Japanese colleagues, warning that they ‘do not appreciate the perils of misstatement and of failure to speak out.’ His highly readable book is a vivid testimony that the history of history can be just as fascinating as history. -- Florian Coulmas * Japan Times *Table of ContentsPart I: The Tokugawa Period1 Hayashi Razan (1583-1657) and Hayashi Gaho (1618-80): Founders of Modern Historical Scholarship2 Dai Nihon Shi [History of Great Japan]3 Arai Hakuseki (1657-1725) and Yamagata Banto (1748-1821): Pure Rationalism4 Date Chihiro (1802-77): Taisei Santen Ko [Three Stages in the History of Japan]5 The Resistance of National ScholarsPart II: The Modern Century6 European Influences on Meiji Historical Writing7 The Beginnings of Academic History8 The Kume Kunitake Incident, 1890-29 The Development of Academic History10 The Southern and Northern Courts Controversy, 191111 Eminent Historians in the 1930s: The Betrayal of Scientific History12 The Commission of Inquiry into Historical Sites Related to Emperor Jinmu, 194013 Tsuda Sokichi (1873-1961): An Innocent on the LooseEpilogue: Historical Scholarship, Education, and Politics in Postwar Japan
£26.99
University of British Columbia Press Animals and Nature
Book Synopsis“No one tradition alone offers a sufficient respect for other species. Taken together, they may offer a prospect for saner human-animal relations.”Trade ReviewAn incredibly detailed documentation of western theory and practice of humanity’s relationship with nature and especially with animals. -- Diane Baltaz * Canadian Forum *Preece is a scholar of enormous intellect who makes the long-overdue case that western civilization need look no further than its own myths and traditions to justify the ethical treatment of animals. -- Terry Glavin * Georgia Straight *A new and surprising religious target, native Indian spirituality, is discovered in this groundbreaking book by Rod Preece. -- Douglas Todd * Vancouver Sun *No previous book offers nearly the breadth of Preece's erudite multidisciplinary work. A unique and valuable book, strongly recommended. -- W.P. Hogan * Choice *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Denigration of the West1 Advocacy Scholarship2 “Beastliness” and “Brutality”3 Animals All?4 Rationalism5 Alienation from Nature6 From the Great Chain of Being to the Theory of Evolution7 Aboriginal and Oriental Harmony with Nature8 Gaea and the Universal SpiritNotesSelect BibliographyIndex
£73.95
University of British Columbia Press Street Protests and Fantasy Parks
Book SynopsisThis volume focuses on two dimensions of globalization: the cultural and social realities of global connection and the uneasily shifting role of the state. Through a series of case studies, the editors assess the choices states have and the consequences of those choices for culture and society.Trade ReviewThe arguments editors and contributors do present ... are often forceful and compelling and warrrant our close attention, especially when speaking to the need for forward-looking policy. -- Jonathan Burston, University of Western Ontario * Global Media and Communication, Fall 2005 *Table of ContentsPreface 1. Street Protests and Fantasy Parks / David R. Cameron andJanice Gross Stein 2. The Global Entertainment Economy / John Hannigan 3. Transnationalism, Diasporic Communities, and Changing Identity:Implications for Canadian Citizenship Policy / Lloyd L.Wong 4. Civil Society Activism on the World Wide Web: The Case of theAnti-MAI Lobby / Ronald J. Deibert 5. Communication and Globalization: A Challenge for Public Policy /Marc Raboy 6. The State As Place amid Shifting Spaces / David R. Cameronand Janice Gross Stein Appendix A: Posting to the MAI-NOT Listserv Appendix B: Global Communication Policy Environment Bibliography Contributors Index
£73.95
University of British Columbia Press Being a Tourist
Book SynopsisWhat is meaningful about the experience of travelling abroad? What feeds the impulse to explore new horizons?Trade ReviewThe flavor is ethnographic and particularistic; Harrison provides many conceptual frames through which to view the experiences of her interviewees, yet their own voices come through. This retention of individuality makes the book unique, providing an unusual narrative depth. The author's command of the theoretical literature is impressive ... Highly recommended. -- C. Hendershott * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 Being a Tourist 2 Making Connections 3 The Tourist Aesthetic 4 Journeying Home 5 Colouring the World’s Map 6 Coming Back Notes Travellers’ Biographies References Cited Index
£26.99
University of British Columbia Press International Environmental Law and Asian Values
Book SynopsisA comprehensive assessment of relevant Asian policies and their applications in key areas in light of international environmental norms and practices.Trade ReviewThe author usefully makes a presentation of the case for the universality of international environmental law with pragmatic considerations for implementation. -- Ronald F. MacIsaac * The Barrister *It does, indeed, add up to an interesting story which Muskat to her great credit presents as one that cries out for explanation. -- Geoffrey Wandesforde-Smith, Professor of Political Science, University of California * Law and Politics Book Review *Table of ContentsForeword by Ved P. Nanda Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Culture and International Law 2 Cultural Relativism and the Asian Values Debate 3 Asian Values and Environmental Protection 4 A Regional Approach to International Environmental Norms? 5 Factors Affecting the Domestic Implementation of InternationalEnvironmental Law in the Asia Pacific Region 6 The Impact of International Trade 7 The Effects of Globalization on the Implementation ofInternational Environmental Law in the Asia PaciWc Region 8 Globalization of Norms and Regionalization of Implementation Conclusion Appendices Notes Index
£73.95
University of British Columbia Press Cultural Autonomy
Book SynopsisOffers a multifaceted perspective on how global changes in the organization of power have transformed the ability of individuals and communities to create their own meanings.Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1 Introduction: Cultural Autonomy, Politics, and Global Capitalism / William D. Coleman, Imre Szeman, and Petra Rethman2 Our Ways of Knowing: Globalization – The End of Universalism? / Arif Dirlik3 Bioeconomics, Culture, and Politics after Globalization / Eric Cazdyn4 Globalization, Postmodernism, and (Autonomous) Criticism / Imre Szeman5 The World, the Literary, and the Political / Peter Hitchcock6 Global Public Intellectuals, Autonomy, and Culture: Reflections Inspired by the Death of Edward Said / Neil McLaughlin7 The Politics of Indigenous Knowledge in Environmental Assessment: James Bay Crees and Hydroelectric Projects / Wren Nasr and Colin Scott8 Global Humanitarianism and Racial Autonomy in Roméo Dallaire’s Shake Hands with the Devil / Heike Härting9 Global Activism and the Visual Grammar of Nature / Petra Rethmann10 Making Big Noise: The Northern Resonance of Zapatismo / Alex Khasnabish11 Anti-Fascist Gluttons of the World Unite! The Cultural Politics of Slow Food / Susie O’Brien12 Autonomy on the Market: China and India Change Tracks / Anna Greenspan13 Dead-Stock Boards, Blown-Out Spots, and the Olympic Games: Global Twists and Local Turns in the Formation of China’s Skateboarding Community / Tim SedoNotes and Acknowledgments; Works Cited; Contributors; Index
£73.95
University of British Columbia Press Mixed Race Amnesia
Book SynopsisMixed Race Amnesia explores how contemporary “progressive” attitudes toward multiraciality actually serve to obscure complex diasporic family histories while reinforcing colonialism.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Disentangling Our Curious Affection with Multiraciality1 Mixed Race Mythologies: Toward an Anticolonial Mixed Race Studies2 Mixed Race Narcissism? Thoughts on the Interview Experience3 The Model Multiracial: Propping Up Canadian Multiculturalism through Racial Impotency4 Beyond the Passing Narrative: Multiracial Whiteness5 Mongrels, Interpreters, Ambassadors, and Bridges? Mapping Liberal Affinities among Mixed Race Women6 Mixed Race Scanners: Performing Race7 Present Tense: The Future of Critical Mixed Race StudiesReferencesIndex
£73.80
University of British Columbia Press Mixed Race Amnesia
Book SynopsisMixed Race Amnesia explores how contemporary “progressive” attitudes toward multiraciality actually serve to obscure complex diasporic family histories while reinforcing colonialism.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Disentangling Our Curious Affection with Multiraciality1 Mixed Race Mythologies: Toward an Anticolonial Mixed Race Studies2 Mixed Race Narcissism? Thoughts on the Interview Experience3 The Model Multiracial: Propping Up Canadian Multiculturalism through Racial Impotency4 Beyond the Passing Narrative: Multiracial Whiteness5 Mongrels, Interpreters, Ambassadors, and Bridges? Mapping Liberal Affinities among Mixed Race Women6 Mixed Race Scanners: Performing Race7 Present Tense: The Future of Critical Mixed Race StudiesReferencesIndex
£25.19
University of British Columbia Press Buying Happiness
Book SynopsisBuying Happiness explores the different ways that key public thinkers represented, conceptualized, and institutionalized new ideas about consumption, which shaped economic and social policy and influenced behaviour.Trade ReviewLiverant makes a complex and insightful argument for a deep but largely unmarked change of perspective. Her synthesis of recent work on consumerism in Canada is illuminating. In highlighting the role of intellectuals and historic publications in constructing and reconstructing the social narratives that Canadians rely on to think about and develop personal and national identities, she gently invites present-day writers to reconsider their impact, and a more general readership to question how and why certain stories are told. -- V. Michael Roberts, economist and author of The Long Depression * Prairie History *Buying Happiness should be required reading for students of twentieth-century Canada. -- Katharine Rollwagen * The Canadian Historical Review *The nearest dictionary to hand unhelpfully defines consumer as “one or that which consumes”. Bettina Liverant takes us beyond linguistic tautologies to give us a first-rate intellectual history of consumer society in Canada from late Victorian times to the post-war baby boom era. -- James Hull, University of British Columbia-Okanagan * Canadian Business History Association *In that it looks at the idea of consumer society, Buying Happiness offers a welcome addition to the study of consumption. As such, Buying Happiness helps scholars recognize their own possible prejudices that they bring to the study of consumption. -- Donica Belisle * American Review of Canadian Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 The Meaning Is in the Spending2 The Promise of a More Abundant Life3 Culturing Canadian Patriotism4 Moralizing the Economy5 Charting the Contours of Modern Society6 Regulating the Consumer7 Buying Happiness8 Academic EncountersConclusionNotes; Index
£62.90
University of British Columbia Press Buying Happiness
Book SynopsisBuying Happiness explores the different ways that key public thinkers represented, conceptualized, and institutionalized new ideas about consumption, which shaped economic and social policy and influenced behaviour.Trade ReviewLiverant makes a complex and insightful argument for a deep but largely unmarked change of perspective. Her synthesis of recent work on consumerism in Canada is illuminating. In highlighting the role of intellectuals and historic publications in constructing and reconstructing the social narratives that Canadians rely on to think about and develop personal and national identities, she gently invites present-day writers to reconsider their impact, and a more general readership to question how and why certain stories are told. -- V. Michael Roberts, economist and author of The Long Depression * Prairie History *Buying Happiness should be required reading for students of twentieth-century Canada. -- Katharine Rollwagen * The Canadian Historical Review *The nearest dictionary to hand unhelpfully defines consumer as “one or that which consumes”. Bettina Liverant takes us beyond linguistic tautologies to give us a first-rate intellectual history of consumer society in Canada from late Victorian times to the post-war baby boom era. -- James Hull, University of British Columbia-Okanagan * Canadian Business History Association *In that it looks at the idea of consumer society, Buying Happiness offers a welcome addition to the study of consumption. As such, Buying Happiness helps scholars recognize their own possible prejudices that they bring to the study of consumption. -- Donica Belisle * American Review of Canadian Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 The Meaning Is in the Spending2 The Promise of a More Abundant Life3 Culturing Canadian Patriotism4 Moralizing the Economy5 Charting the Contours of Modern Society6 Regulating the Consumer7 Buying Happiness8 Academic EncountersConclusionNotes; Index
£26.99
University of British Columbia Press Live at The Cellar Vancouvers Iconic Jazz Club
Book SynopsisLive at the Cellar tells the story of Vancouver’s iconic jazz club and other co-operative scenes during the 1950s and ’60s and the profound influence they had on the evolution of jazz in Canada.Trade ReviewGood books on jazz are filled with intriguing stories about the relationships that generate such an energizing art form. This book is that, and more. The more is a carefully considered framework for making sense of the social dynamics that create a jazz scene. Put the stories into the framework and you’ve got a must-read book. -- Brian Fraser, historian and minister * BC Lookbook/The Ormsby Review *Live at the Cellar deserves an audience beyond jazz aficionados: in a town that tends to endlessly reinvent the wheel, it tells how the first wheel was forged. -- Alexander Varty * The Georgia Straight *With verve and insight, Veronica Strong-Boag’s account of Laura Jamieson challenges many widely held myths. The book shows how a seemingly conformist, middle-class matron became an unstinting champion of social change – including women’s enfranchisement, birth control, and social democracy. The Last Suffragist Standing is a stunning accomplishment, notably for its fresh and compelling twist on Canadian political history. -- Stuart Derdeyn, art and entertainment reporter * Vancouver Sun *Jago’s book is a sparkler. It shows how a small group of believers can make real change and quietly kick ass to boot. Bless ’em all! ... This is Vancouver’s book of the year, hands down. -- Trevor Carolan * Subterrain, Issue 81 *Good books on jazz are filled with intriguing stories about the relationships that generate such an energizing art form. This book is that, and more. The more is a carefully considered framework for making sense of the social dynamics that create a jazz scene. Put the stories into the framework and you’ve got a must-read book. -- Brian Fraser * The Ormsby Review *Live at the Cellar does important work helping to tell the story of the music in Vancouver at this foundational moment in the city's history as well as drawing connections with other major Canadian scenes during the same period. -- Joe Sorbara * CAML Review *Marian Jago has performed a genuine service in capturing one of the places that did exist [in the early jazz scene], with a diligently researched and amiably written study of a unique time and place in Vancouver’s musical past. -- George Fetherling * Literary Review of Canada *[...]The way Jago sets the stage to explain how and why a musician-run, co-operative jazz venue emerged at this specific time in Vancouver, as in several other places, provides a fascinating window into Canadian history. -- Jill Wilson * Canada's History *Table of ContentsForeword by Don ThompsonPrefaceIntroductionPart 1 | Setting the Scene1 Are You In or Out? The Nature of the “Scene”2 Laying the Groundwork: The Early History of Jazz in CanadaPart 2 | The Vancouver Scene3 The Making of a Jazz Scene: Vancouver’s Cellar Club4 No Room for Squares: The Cellar as Artistic Hub5 In the Swing of Things: Growth, Maturation, and Mingus6 Altered Chords: New Blood and the End of an EraPart 3 | Other Canadian Scenes7 Co-ops from Coast to Coast: Edmonton, Calgary, HalifaxConclusionAppendices: Gigography for the Cellar, 1956–63; Canadian Jazz SourcesNotes; Selected Bibliography; Interviews; Index
£62.90
University of British Columbia Press Live at The Cellar
Book SynopsisLive at the Cellar tells the story of Vancouver's iconic jazz club and other co-operative scenes during the 1950s and '60s and the profound influence they had on the evolution of jazz in Canada.Trade ReviewGood books on jazz are filled with intriguing stories about the relationships that generate such an energizing art form. This book is that, and more. The more is a carefully considered framework for making sense of the social dynamics that create a jazz scene. Put the stories into the framework and you’ve got a must-read book. -- Brian Fraser, historian and minister * BC Lookbook/The Ormsby Review *Live at the Cellar deserves an audience beyond jazz aficionados: in a town that tends to endlessly reinvent the wheel, it tells how the first wheel was forged. -- Alexander Varty * The Georgia Straight *With verve and insight, Veronica Strong-Boag’s account of Laura Jamieson challenges many widely held myths. The book shows how a seemingly conformist, middle-class matron became an unstinting champion of social change – including women’s enfranchisement, birth control, and social democracy. The Last Suffragist Standing is a stunning accomplishment, notably for its fresh and compelling twist on Canadian political history. -- Stuart Derdeyn, art and entertainment reporter * Vancouver Sun *Jago’s book is a sparkler. It shows how a small group of believers can make real change and quietly kick ass to boot. Bless ’em all! ... This is Vancouver’s book of the year, hands down. -- Trevor Carolan * Subterrain, Issue 81 *Good books on jazz are filled with intriguing stories about the relationships that generate such an energizing art form. This book is that, and more. The more is a carefully considered framework for making sense of the social dynamics that create a jazz scene. Put the stories into the framework and you’ve got a must-read book. -- Brian Fraser * The Ormsby Review *Live at the Cellar does important work helping to tell the story of the music in Vancouver at this foundational moment in the city's history as well as drawing connections with other major Canadian scenes during the same period. -- Joe Sorbara * CAML Review *Marian Jago has performed a genuine service in capturing one of the places that did exist [in the early jazz scene], with a diligently researched and amiably written study of a unique time and place in Vancouver’s musical past. -- George Fetherling * Literary Review of Canada *[...]The way Jago sets the stage to explain how and why a musician-run, co-operative jazz venue emerged at this specific time in Vancouver, as in several other places, provides a fascinating window into Canadian history. -- Jill Wilson * Canada's History *Table of ContentsForeword by Don ThompsonPrefaceIntroductionPart 1 | Setting the Scene1 Are You In or Out? The Nature of the “Scene”2 Laying the Groundwork: The Early History of Jazz in CanadaPart 2 | The Vancouver Scene3 The Making of a Jazz Scene: Vancouver’s Cellar Club4 No Room for Squares: The Cellar as Artistic Hub5 In the Swing of Things: Growth, Maturation, and Mingus6 Altered Chords: New Blood and the End of an EraPart 3 | Other Canadian Scenes7 Co-ops from Coast to Coast: Edmonton, Calgary, HalifaxConclusionAppendices: Gigography for the Cellar, 1956–63; Canadian Jazz SourcesNotes; Selected Bibliography; Interviews; Index
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University of British Columbia Press Saving the Nation through Culture The Folklore
Book SynopsisSaving the Nation through Culture tells the little-known story of how a group of Chinese scholars attempted to use “low culture” to promote national unity during a long period of crisis.Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Seeking a Solution for the Nation: The Folklore Movement’s Origins at National Peking University2 Carrying on amidst Chaos: Establishment of Folklore Studies in South China3 Developing an Excellent Situation: The Spread of the Folklore Movement in China4 Breaking with the Past: The Folklore Movement in WartimeConclusionAppendices; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
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Jossey Bass Exploring Spirituality Culture in Adult Higher Education
Book SynopsisWritten by Elizabeth Tisdell, co-author of "Women as Learners" (ISBN: 0787909203), this book considers the connection between spirituality and culture and how it relates to developing culturally relevant approaches to adult and higher education.Trade Review"This should prove to be a groundbreaking volume. Every adult educator will benefit from engaging in the conversation." (PAACE Journal of Lifelong Learning, Summer 2004) "...this book makes an important contribution to a new and growing body of knowledge." (Journal of College Student Development, December 2003) "A Professor of Adult Education describes How Spirituality Can Be a Valuable Teaching Tool" (By Dana Sobyra in The Chronicle of Higher Education) "The work is an easy read, not overly laden with references but enough to give it authority." (TCRecord.org, 10/8/03)Table of ContentsPreface Part I: Breaking the Silence: Spirituality and Culture in Adult Meaning-Making and Education 1 1. Introduction: Culture, Spirituality, and Adult Learning 3 2. Breaking the Silence: Defining Spirituality in a Culturally Relevant Educational Context 25 3. Spirituality, Religion, and Culture in Lived Experience: Overlaps and Separations 45 4. Between the Cultural and the Universal: Themes and Variations of Spiritual Experience 67 Part II: Claiming a Sacred Face: Identity and Spiritual Development 89 5. The Great Spiral: Spiritual Development as a Process of Moving Forward and Spiraling Back 93 6. Gender, Culture, and Spiritual Identity in Midlife Integration 117 7. The Role of Spiritual Experience in Developing a Positive Cultural Identity 139 8. Searching for Wholeness: Crossing Culture, White Identity, and Spiritual Development 163 Part III: Spirituality in a Culturally Relevant and Transformative Teaching Practice 183 9. Approaching Transformative Teaching Grounded in Spirituality and Cultural Relevance 187 10. A Theory-in-Progress of a Spiritually Grounded, Culturally Relevant Pedagogy: Philosophical Underpinnings and New Directions 203 11. Stories from the Field: Spirituality and Culture in Adult Higher Education Classrooms 219 12. The Possibilities and Challenges of Spiritually Grounded, Culturally Relevant Teaching 235 Epilogue: Final Reflections 259 Appendix: Research Methodology 263 References 271 Index 285
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Johns Hopkins University Press National Culture and the New Global System
Book SynopsisSurveying recent cultural history and theory, Buell shows how our understanding of cultural production relates closely to transformations in models of the world order.Trade ReviewHis obvious erudition regarding a number of theorectical fields, including Marxism, postcolonialism, globalism, and Asian-American and Afican-American ethnic theory is impressive... Buell provides thorough and often illuminating readings of key works by several authors of fiction who are concerned with issues of globalism and various nationalisms, including most prominentely James Ngugi, Bharati Mukherjee, Tanizaki Junichiro, Maxine Hong Kingston, Mishima Yukio, and Nuruddin Farah. -- Harold K. Bush, Jr. College Literature In this comprehensive book, ranging in reference from nationalism in Japan to ethnicity in the United States, from world-system theory to diaspora, from interpretation of novels to readings in contemporary cultural theory, Buell patiently reflects on the ways culture has been conceived since World War II and is being reconceived today. As a literary critic and cultural theorist, Buell tries to show that we can see in culture, as much as in economics, 'globalization processes at work.' The value of the study is its perspective. -- Gregory Jusdanis International Migration Review National Culture does provide the energetic and persevering reader with a wealth of information on theoretical perspectives on global culture relationships... The penultimate chapter, 'Outside the Marxian Tradition' is particularly strong. -- Sarah M. Corse Contemporary Sociology
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Hopkins Fulfillment Service Comparative Literature in the Age of
Book SynopsisAnthony Appiah; Emily Apter; Charles Bernheimer; Peter Brooks; Rey Chow; Jonathan Culler; David Damrosch; Elizabeth Fox-Genovese; Roland Greene; Margaret R. Higonnet; Francoise Lionnet; Marjorie Perloff; Mary Russo; Tobin Siebers; Mary Louise Pratt; Michael Riffaterre; Arnold WeinsteinTrade ReviewCharles Bernheimer closes the 'Preface' to this collection with an appropriate, even if seemingly grand, claim for the success of the book after having outlined how quickly it was assembled: 'The result is a volume that offers an extraordinary range of passionate insights and engaged opinions about the theory and practice at the turn of the century' (xi). Rather than hyperbolic, this indeed is a fitting description for a very important and timely collection, that not only addresses the most pressing issues affecting the discipline of Comparitive Literature, but actually voices a remarkable number of intellectual and political confrontations affecting literary studies in general. Paulo de Medeiros, College Literature Offers an arresting look at a disipline in the process of reinventing itself in responce to these challenges. R. Lane Kauffman, Transculture This compelling book, designed to offer a thorough examination of the identity and goals of comparative literature in the age of multiculturalism, is both informative and insightful. Stephane Spoiden, Research in African Literatures This anthology brings together three American Comparative Literature Association reports (1965, 1975, and 1993) with three responses to the latest report at the Modern Language Association convention as well as thirteen position papers from various scholars in the humanities. Sensitive to the Eurocentrism of much comparative literature these essays map out the issues of integrating a serious multiculturalism into the field and how it portends to redefine completely the field. Recommended as a focused anthology on the issues of integrating multiculturalism into academic practice. Reader's Review The strength of this collection is that it provides no neat resolution to the current debates about the status of literature, the geographical scope of the field, and methods of reading. Instead it demonstrates how this lack of consensus can be a constructive and revitalizing force that will carry the discipline of comparative literature into the twenty-first century. -- Carrie Tirado Bramen Multicultural Review
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Hopkins Fulfillment Service Market a la Mode
Book SynopsisMackie's study makes clear that fashion publications, far from being commentaries on passing trends, assumed a leading role in defining women's legitimate sphere of activities as well as in the development of commerce as recreation.Trade ReviewThis book deserves the widest possible audience. Its ultimate goal is no less than the full excavation of the modern, gendered, bourgeois subject. After reading this book, it is impossible to shop, drink coffee, or even read the newspaper without critical reflection on how these activities contribute to our deepest sense of self. Rooted in the eighteenth century, Market a la Mode can show us who we are and how we came to be. -- Beth Kowaleski-Wallace Modern Philology Upper-division undergraduates through faculty will find... this thoughtful well-researched work... useful. Choice This is an impressive work of synthesis and argument, an important contribution to the burgeoning field of cultural materialism in eighteenth-century studies. -- Ros Ballaster Review of English Studies
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Johns Hopkins University Press Hypertext 30 Critical Theory and New Media in an
Book SynopsisThoroughly expanded and updated, this pioneering work continues to be the "ur-textof hypertext studies.Trade ReviewChallenges the reader... Because it invites (and nearly requires) readers to place themselves in more than one position: as a student of communication theory, as a student of computer science, as a student of academic publishing, or as a student of literature. -- Paul Baker Education PR Blog 2007Table of ContentsPreface: Why Hypertext 3.0?Acknowledgments1. Hypertext: An IntroductionHypertextual Derrida, Poststructuralist Nelson?The Definition of Hypertext and Its History as a ConceptVery Active ReadersVannevar Bush and the MemexForms of Linking, Their Uses and LimitationsLinking in Open Hypermedia Systems: Vannevar Bush Walks the WebHypertext without Links?The Place of Hypertext in the History of Information TechnologyInteractive or Ergodic?Baudrillard, Binarity, and the DigitalBooks Are Technology, TooAnalogues to the Gutenberg Revolution2. Hypertext and Critical TheoryTextual OpennessHypertext and IntertextualityHypertext and MultivocalityHypertext and DecenteringHypertext as RhizomeThe Nonlinear Model of the Network in Current Critical TheoryCause or Convergence, Influence or Confluence?3. Reconfiguring the TextReconfiguring the TextThe In MemoriamWebNew Forms of Discursive Prose—Academic Writing and WeblogsProblems with Terminology: What Is the Object We Read, and What Is a Text in Hypertext?Visual Elements in Print TextAnimated TextStretchtextThe Dispersed TextHypertextual Translation of Scribal CultureA Third Convergence: Hypertext and Theories of Scholarly EditingHypertext, Scholarly Annotation, and the Electronic Scholarly EditionHypertext and the Problem of Text StructureArgumentation, Organization, and RhetoricBeginnings in the Open TextEndings in the Open TextBoundaries of the Open TextThe Status of the Text, Status in the TextHypertext and Decentrality: The Philosophical Grounding4. Reconfiguring the AuthorErosion of the SelfHow the Print Author Differs from the Hypertext AuthorVirtual PresenceCollaborative Writing, Collaborative AuthorshipExamples of Collaboration in Hypertext5. Reconfiguring WritingThe Problematic Concept of DisorientationThe Concept of Disorientation in the HumanitiesThe Love of PossibilitiesThe Rhetoric and Stylistics of Writing for E-Space; or, How Should We Write Hypertext?Hypertext as Collage WritingIs This Hypertext Any Good? Or, How Do We Evaluate Quality in Hypermedia?6. Reconfiguring NarrativeApproaches to Hypertext Fiction—Some Opening RemarksHypertext and the Aristotelian Conception of PlotQuasi-Hypertextuality in Print TextsAnswering Aristotle: Hypertext and the Nonlinear PlotPrint Anticipations of Multilinear Narratives in E-SpaceNarrative Beginnings and EndingsMichael Joyce's afternoonStitching Together Narrative, Sexuality, Self: Shelley Jackson's Patchwork GirlQuibbling: A Feminist Rhizome NarrativeStoryworlds and Other Forms of Hypertext NarrativesComputer Games, Hypertext, and NarrativeDigitizing the Movies: Interactive versus Multiplied CinemaIs Hypertext Fiction Possible?7. Reconfiguring Literary EducationThreats and PromisesReconfiguring the InstructorReconfiguring the StudentLearning the Culture of a DisciplineNontraditional Students: Distant Learners and Readers outside Educational InstitutionsThe Effects of Hypermedia in Teaching and LearningReconfiguring Assignments and Methods of EvaluationA Hypertext ExerciseReconceiving Canon and CurriculumCreating the New Discursive WritingFrom Intermedia to the Web—Losses and GainsAnswered Prayers, or the Academic Politics of ResistanceWhat Chance Has Hypertext in Education?Getting the Paradigm RightThe Politics of Hypertext: Who Controls the Text? Can Hypertext Empower Anyone? Does Hypertext Have a Political Logic?The Marginalization of Technology and the Mystification of LiteratureThe Politics of Particular TechnologiesTechnology as ProsthesisThe Political Vision of Hypertext; or, the Message in the MediumHypertext and Postcolonial Literature, Criticism, and TheoryInfotech, Empires, and DecolonizationHypertext as Paradigm for PostcolonialityForms of Postcolonial AmnesiaHypertext as Paradigm inPostcolonial TheoryThe Politics of AccessWho Can Make Links, Who Decides What Is Linked?Slashdot: The Reader as Writer and Editor in a Multiuser WeblogPornography, Gambling, and Law on the Internet—Vulnerability and Invulnerability in E-SpaceAccess to the Text and the Author's Right (Copyright)Is the Hypertextual World of the Internet Anarchy or Big Brother's Realm?NotesBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Nature of Being Human From Environmentalism
Book SynopsisPhilosophical, critical, often personal, Fromm's sweeping, interdisciplinary, and sometimes combative essays will change the way you think about your place in the environment.Trade ReviewFromm's contrarian view is explored beautifully in 'Ecology and Ecstasy on Interstate 80,' declaring that 'everything human is technological' while driving through the Sierras. The closing essays examine more esoteric issues of free will and social evolution. Fans of nature writing will find Fromm's travels witty and engaging, and his analysis unblemished by typical academic pretension or abstraction. Publishers Weekly 2009 Perfect for classroom discussion and debate. Midwest Book Review 2009 Fromm, an erudite, prolific author of numerous works ranging from ecocritical commentary to self-reflective discourses, presents a compilation of essays that illuminate his views regarding why most Americans seem oblivious to the destruction of their environment. Choice 2009 Fromm's journey from victim, to campaigner, to pioneer of eco-criticism (that is, the study of literature from an ecological viewpoint) is documented here, alongside challenging analyses of man's place in nature, free will, our relationship with technology and more. Scholarly but engaging, Fromm is an environmentalist, but also a realist. Organic Gardener 2010 The Nature of Being Human is a lively, opinionated, impressively learned and always readable contribution to the current debate on the human and natural costs of the dogma of 'progress'. British Society for Literature and Science 2010 Fromm is most truly a literary scholar rather than a philosopher or scientist. Nonetheless, the journey that this book represents traverses all three realms of inquiry as well as showing an engaging and provocative intellectual trajectory, and it would be churlish to deny that it represents a real and enduring effort by an important thinker to grapple with a range of vital human and ecological issues. Organization & Environment 2010Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: From Environmentalism to ConsciousnessPart I: Ecology1. Awakening to the "Environment"2. On Being Polluted3. From Transcendence to Obsolescence: A Route Map4. Air and Being: The Psychedelics of Pollution5. Ecocriticism's Genesis6. Ecology and Ideology7. Aldo Leopold: Esthetic "Anthropocentrist"8. Postmodern Ecologizing: Circumference without a Center9. The "Environment" Is Us10. Ecology and Ecstasy on Interstate 8011. Full Stomach Wilderness and the Suburban Esthetic12. Coetzee's Postmodern AnimalsPart Two: "Nature" and Evolution13. My Science Wars14. O, Paglia Mia!15. A Crucifix for Dracula: Wendell Berry Meets Edward O. Wilson16. The New Darwinism in the Humanities17. Ecocriticism's Big Bang18. Overcoming the Oversoul: Emerson's Evolutionary Existentialism19. Back to Bacteria: Richard Dawkins' Fabulous BestiaryPart Three: Consciousness20. Muses, Spooks, Neurons, and the Rhetoric of "Freedom"21. John Searle and His Ghosts22. Daniel Dennett and the Brick Wall of Consciousness23. The Crumbling Mortar of Social ConstructionConclusion: My Life as a RobotNotesIndex
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University of Toronto Press Northrop Frye on Modern Culture
Book SynopsisEradicating once and for all the unfounded notion that Frye was not a political writer, this eleventh volume in the Collected Works of Northrop Frye gathers together all of Northrop Frye''s writings on politics, culture, the arts, history, literature, mass media, and music.Written between 1934 and 1986, these collected works illustrate the extent of Frye''s engagement with the unfolding events of twentieth-century political life, from the Great Depression to the Reagan / Thatcher / Mulroney era. The centrepiece of the volume, Frye''s learned and wide-ranging contribution to the Canadian confederation celebrations, The Modern Century (1967), is accompanied by pieces that reflect Frye''s observations on such diverse political events as the Oxford ''King and Country'' debate and the Vietnam war, revealing Frye the literary theorist as Frye the political entity.Jan Gorak''s extensive introduction and annotations serve to historicize Frye and situate him and his work
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University of Toronto Press Canadian Missionaries Indigenous Peoples
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MY - University of Toronto Press To the Past
Book SynopsisRecent years have witnessed a breakdown in consensus about what history should be taught within Canadian schools; there is now a heightened awareness of the political nature of deciding whose history is, or should be, included in social studies and history classrooms. Meanwhile, as educators are debating what history should be taught, developments in educational and cognitive research are expanding our understanding of how best to teach it. To the Past explores some of the political, cultural and educational issues surrounding what history education is, and why we should care about it, in the twenty-first century in Canada. Originally broadcast in the fall of 2002 on the CBC Radio program Ideas, the lectures that comprise this volume not only address how history is taught in Canadian classrooms, but also explore strands within larger discussions about the meaning and purposes of history more generally. Contributors show how Canadians are demonstrating a new
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University of Toronto Press Canadian Missionaries Indigenous Peoples
Book SynopsisCanadian Missionaries, Indigenous Peoples contributes greatly to the understanding of missionaries not only as purveyors of western religious values, but also as vehicles for cultural exchange between Native and non-Native Canadians, as well as between Canadians and the indigenous peoples of other countries.Trade ReviewThis interdisciplinary collection is a valuable contribution to the field of mission studies, and to the fields of native, religious, and cultural studies more broadly. -- Jennifer Bonnell, History of Education Program, Department of Theory and Policy Studies, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto H-net - www.h-net.msu.edu/Table of ContentsPART 1: THE HOME FIELDS * Jamie S. Scott, York University. 'Cultivating Christians in Colonial Canada'* Myra Rutherdale, Simon Eraser University. 'Mothers of the Empire: Maternal Metaphors in the Northern Canadian Mission Field'* Gail Edwards. University of British Columbia. 'The Picturesqueness of His Accent and Speech: Methodist Missionary Narratives and William Henry Pierce's Autobiography'* Susan Neylan. Wilfrid Laurier University. 'Eating the Angel's Food: Arthur Wellington Clah - An Aboriginal Perspective on Being Christian, 1857-1909' PART 2: OVER THE SEAS AND FAR AWAY * Alvyn Austin, University of Toronto. 'Wallace of West China: Edward Wilson Wallace and the Canadian Educational Systems of China, 1906-1927'* Margo Gewurtz, York University. 'Their Names May Not Shine: Narrating Chinese Christian Converts'* Ruth Compton Brouwer, King's College, University of Western 0ntario. 'Shifts in the Salience of Gender in the lnternational Missionary Enterprise During the lnterwar Years'* A. Hamish Ion, Royal Military College. 'Missions and Empires: A Case Study of Canadians in the Japanese Empire, 1895-1941' PART 3: BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME * France Lord. 'The Silent Eloquence of Things: The Missionary Collections and Exhibitions of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in Quebec'* Barbara Lawson, McGiil University and the Redpath Museum. 'Collecting Cultures: (Canadian Missionaries, Pacific Islanders, and Museums'* Arthur Smith, Royal Ontario Museum. 'Curios from a Strange Land: The Oceania Collections of the Reverend Joseph Annand'* Linfu Dong, 0cean University, Qingdao, China. 'Finding God in Ancient China.: James Mellon Menzies, Sinology and Missions'
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University of Toronto Press Canadian Communication Thought
Book SynopsisBabe examines the writings of ten major thinkers in the context of their physical and cultural environments and finds that there is indeed a mode of theorizing that is quintessentially Canadian.
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MY - University of Toronto Press Canadian Communication Thought
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University of Toronto Press War X
Book SynopsisWar X is an explosive introduction to the discussion of modern warfare and a timely consideration of industrial warfare. It is also a deliberation on the startling world of new weapon development, and the indescribable future of war that beckons.Trade ReviewTim Blackmore's War X is a groundbreaking, mind-altering book: an expose of runaway government and corporate militarism, and the dehumanising effect of military technology. With stunning clarity, energy, intelligence, technological mastery, human understanding, and expositional elegance, what Blackmore describes is not the future; it is the present - and the vision is both hypnotic and chilling. War X should be required reading for every citizen whose country participates in the global culture of militarism and twenty-first-century weapons development. I just can't say how much my own eyes were opened and my own mind was blown by this book.' Philip D. Beidler, Department of English, University of AlabamaTable of ContentsIntroduction: Why X 1. Crawling Flesh: The Infant Comes to Battle 2. Breathing Metal: Armour Suited for War 3. Heavy Tread: On Track for Battle 4. Rotor Hearts: The Helicopter as War's Pacemaker 5. Dead Slow: Loitering in Battlespace 6. Wastage: War after War
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University of Toronto Press Gramscis Politics of Language
Book SynopsisAntonio Gramsci and his concept of hegemony have permeated social and political theory, cultural studies, education studies, literary criticism, international relations, and post-colonial theory. The centrality of language and linguistics to Gramsci's thought, however, has been wholly neglected. In Gramsci's Politics of Language, Peter Ives argues that a university education in linguistics and a preoccupation with Italian language politics were integral to the theorist's thought. Ives explores how the combination of Marxism and linguistics produced a unique and intellectually powerful approach to social and political analysis.To explicate Gramsci's writings on language, Ives compares them with other Marxist approaches to language, including those of the Bakhtin Circle, Walter Benjamin, and the Frankfurt School, including Jürgen Habermas. From these comparisons, Ives elucidates the implications of Gramsci's writings, which, he argues, retained the explanatory power
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University of Toronto Press World Writing
Book SynopsisFollowing an introductory chapter by Mary Gallagher, which maps this conceptual terrain, the contributors investigate how globalization inflects the necessary relationship between poetics, culture, ethics, and politics.
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University of Toronto Press The Toronto School of Communication Theory
Book SynopsisThis collection not only represents a crucial step in defining the 'Toronto School,' it also provides close analysis of the ideas of its individual members.
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University of Toronto Press The Portuguese in Canada
Book SynopsisEssays examine the history of the Portuguese diaspora, the Portuguese presence in Newfoundland and its fisheries, language and identity, urban experiences (especially in Montreal and Toronto), and history and literature.
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University of Nebraska Press Chiricahua and Janos
Book SynopsisBorderlands violence, so explosive in our own time, has deep roots in history. Lance R. Blyth's study of Chiricahua Apaches and the presidio of Janos in the U.S.-Mexican borderlands reveals how no single entity had a monopoly on coercion, and how violence became the primary means by which relations were established, maintained, or altered both within and between communities. For more than two centuries, violence was at the center of the relationships by which Janos and Chiricahua formed their communities. Violence created families by turning boys into men through campaigns and raids, which ultimately led to marriage and also determined the provisioning and security of these families; acts of revenge and retaliation similarly governed their attempts to secure themselves even as trade and exchange continued sporadically. This revisionist work reveals how during the Spanish, Mexican, and American eras, elements of both conflict and accommodation coTrade Review"A thesis-driven book backed by detailed narratives."—Wayne E. Lee, American Historical Review "Chiricahua and Janos represents a valuable addition to the growing literature examining violence in zones of intercultural contact, both in the Americas and around the globe."—Paul Conrad, Journal of Interdisciplinary History "Built on solid archival research and making good use early on of Chiricahua oral tradition, Chiricahua and Janos adds to the growing body of United States–Mexico border lands studies focused on indigenous autonomy of action."—Jesús F. De La Teja, Hispanic American Historical Review“At a time when western historians have rediscovered the borderlands to great effect, Chiricahua and Janos presents a valuable new framework for thinking about Spanish-Indian relations in the American Southwest. It is a substantial contribution to the fields of Borderlands and Native American history.”—Karl Jacoby, author of Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History “Blyth is concerned with the nexus of violence and cultural relations and, similarly, has a keen eye for Indians’ perspectives….Blyth has given us another example of the violent peace that cultural differences and local goals can produce.” “This inaugural contribution to a new borderlands and transcultural series from the University of Nebraska Press provides a compelling microhistory while addressing big-picture questions about the region.”—Carla Gerona, Western Historical Quarterly"Blyth's argument, as well as his narrative and use of traditional and non-traditional sources, is impressive and provides a framework for understanding the permeating role of violence in two borderlands communities."—Brandon Jett, Southwestern American Literature "This is an intriguing and welcome addition to the literature on the conflict between Apaches, Spaniards, Mexicans, and Americans."—Robert K. Watt, Journal of Arizona History "Thoroughly researched and clearly and concisely written. . . . This book is recommended for anyone, even the more casual reader, interested in the earlier frontier history of the Greater Southwest."—Dennis Reinhartz, Terrae Incognitae“[An] example of the violent peace that cultural differences and local goals can produce.”—Robert C. Galgano, The Journal of American HistoryTable of Contents List of MapsPreface 1. Communities of Violence: Apaches and Hispanics in the Southwestern Borderlands2. Refugees and Migrants: Making Hispanic-Apache Communities, 1680-17503. Fierce Dancing and the Muster Roll: Campaigns, Raids, and Wives, 1750-17854. A Vigilant Peace: Families, Rations, and Status, 1786-18305. War, Peace, War: Revenge and Retaliation, 1831-18506. Border Dilemmas: Security and Survival, 1850-18757. Communities' End: Persecution and Imprisonment, 1875-1910Conclusion: Borderland Communities of Violence AcknowledgmentsNotesGlossaryBibliographyIndex
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University of Nebraska Press Female Citizens Patriarchs and the Law in Venezuela 17861904
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University of Nebraska Press Heres the Pitch
Book SynopsisExamines the connection between baseball and advertising, as both constructors and reflectors of culture. Roberta Newman considers the simultaneous development of both industries, paying particular attention to the ways in which advertising spread the gospel of baseball and baseball helped develop consumers ready for advertising.Trade Review"Whether you have an interest in baseball, advertising, history in general or pop culture Newman’s Here’s the Pitch: The Amazing, True, New, and Improved Story of Baseball and Advertising is both an informative and entertaining read."—Mark McGee, NINE"An excellent piece of historical research and sophisticated analysis."—Richard C. Crepeau, Aethlon"[Here's the Pitch] makes for entertaining reading for the serious fan interested in the nexus of the history of advertising and the national pastime."—Bob Komoroski, Inside Game"Advertising can be subliminal, but its underlying influence among consumers is as strong today as it was when Cobb and Ruth urged fans to buy the products they were endorsing."—Bob D'Angelo, Sport in American History“Here’s the Pitch is a delight on every page. Dr. Newman offers a fascinating mosaic of American culture through the frame of the ‘nearly conjoined twins’ of baseball and advertising. . . . Readers will learn, reminisce, and laugh. Fans of baseball, American history, or advertising will find this an accessible book to add to their libraries, but only after loaning it and recommending it to their friends and associates. . . . Highly recommended.”—Robert Bellamy, professor of media and sports at Duquesne University"Newman considers the role of product endorsements in the creation of the culture of celebrity, and of celebrity baseball players in particular, as well as the ways in which new technologies have impacted the intersection of the two industries."—Jason Schott, Brooklyn Fans"Nine out of ten doctors recommend that you don't leave home without Here's the Pitch. . . . Newman tells how these two industries were ideal mates in impacting the USA's collective consciousness."—John Vorperian, SABR Lajoie Chapter newsletter"Here’s the Pitch should be referenced in any study of the relationship between the grand old game and the world of consumer product promotion. It is a serious review of two industries that grew up together and remain important to each other."—Dennis Snelling, New York Journal of Books“Studying the history of baseball without studying the history of its advertising partnership is like trying to learn rocketry without understanding rocket fuel. Newman offers an insightful history of baseball’s alliance with advertising that is both entertaining and accessible. Her authoritative analysis is the go-to source on the symbiotic bond between two American obsessions.”—James R. Walker, author of Crack of the Bat: A History of Baseball on the Radio"You've got what's likely the definitive project dedicated to hardball and hawking, where "Mad Men" meet yesterday's Max Muncies."—Tom Hoffarth, fartheroffthewall.comTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Here’s the Pitch! 1. Hustlers, Hucksters, and Snake-Oil Salesmen: Two Industries Emerge 2. “It Pays to Be Personal”: Baseball and Endorsement Advertising in the First Golden Age 3. Breakfast of Champions: Tales of Depression-Era Baseball and Advertising 4. Pitching in Black and White: Baseball, Advertising, and the Color Line 5. Baseball, Hotdogs, Apple Pie, and Chevrolet . . . and Beer, Cigarettes, Cat Food, and Margarine: Tales of Television Advertising 6. “Let’s Just Say It Works for Me”: Major League Baseball, Viagra, and the Business of Pharmaceutical Advertising 7. Four Things We Love: Advertising, Identity, Big Papi, and the Image of the Afro-Latino Ballplayer 8. “Driven” to “RE2PECT”: Derek Jeter and the (Re)Branding of “All-American” Epilogue: Pitching in the Future Game Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Nebraska Press How to Reach Japan by Subway
Book SynopsisJapan’s official surrender to the United States in 1945brought to an end one of the most bitter and brutal military conflicts of the twentieth century. U.S. government officials then faced the task of transforming Japan from enemy to ally, not only in top-level diplomatic relations but also in the minds of the American public.Only ten years after World War II, this transformationbecame a successas middle-class American consumers across the country were embracing Japanese architecture, films, hobbies, philosophy, and religion. Cultural institutions on both sides of the Pacific along with American tastemakers promoted a new image of Japan in keeping with State Department goals. Focusing on traditions instead of modern realities, Americans came to view Japan as a nation that was sophisticated and beautiful yet locked harmlessly in a timeless “Oriental” past. What ultimately led many Americans to embrace Japanese culture was a desire to appear affluent and properly &Trade Review"Mettler's study does a fine job of bringing much nuance and texture to the place of Japan in postwar American life and culture."—Mari Yoshihara, Journal of American History"How to Reach Japan by Subway demonstrates the promises of mining the cultural archive of U.S. consumerism for a richer understanding of elite American imaginings of the other at the peak of U.S. global power."—Andrew C. McKevitt, American Historical Review“A wonderful contribution to our knowledge in the field of twentieth-century U.S. history, American studies, Asian American studies, and America in the world. It is a fun and exciting read.”—Hiroshi Kitamura, associate professor of history at the College of William and Mary “With elegant erudition, Meghan Warner Mettler explains why and how Americans found themselves embracing the culture of their recently defeated enemy. . . . A pleasure to read, Mettler’s book ultimately suggests that war and peacemaking also structure private, individual choices about taste in a consumer society.”—Naoko Shibusawa, associate professor of history at Brown University and author of America’s Geisha Ally: Reimagining the Japanese Enemy Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Humble Leaders of the Free World: Historical Context of the Shibui Aesthetic 2. Samurai at the Sure Seaters: 1950s “Highbrow” Japanese Movies in the United States 3. Friendship through Flowers: Americans’ Appreciation of Ikebana and Bonsai 4. How to Be American with Shibui Things: Japanese Aesthetics in the American Home 5. Satori in America: Intellectuals and Artists Discover Zen Buddhism 6. Zen Goes “Boom”: The Popularity of Zen Buddhism, Both Beat and Square 7. Japan for the Rest of Us: Non-Shibui Japanese Imports in the Postwar Era Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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Stanford University Press Culture Through Time
Book SynopsisRecent years have seen an exchange between anthropology and history, each field taking on a new dimension in consequence. These papers demonstrate the vitality, growth and promise in new challenges to a discipline no longer satisfied with approaches epitomized in the ethnographic present.Trade Review"Flowers That Kill is an impressive, wide-ranging feat of scholarship that illuminates a fascinating topic: the capacity of flowers to shift imperceptibly from benevolent symbols to harbingers of death and destruction. The deft but nuanced way in which Ohnuki-Tierney handles this sensitive material makes the book of crucial importance to academics and non-academics alike—really, to anyone still troubled by the horrors of World War II or by the human calamities of our times."—Peter Geschiere, University of Amsterdam, author of Perils of Belonging"Provides one of the best 'conjunctions' of history and anthropology we have."—Journal of Social History"Few contemporary anthropologists write with the emotional depth and complexity of thought as Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney. In Flowers That Kill Ohnuki-Tierney takes on a most difficult task, asking how symbolic meaning changes—how symbols that carry core values become politically opaque, often subverting their moral content in ways that also subvert human action. Flowers That Kill not only shows the power of what we take for granted, but offers a compassionate acceptance of perhaps the greatest challenge to our humanness."—A. David Napier, University College LondonTable of Contents1. Introduction: the historicization of anthropology Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney 2. The political economy of Grandeur in Hawaii from 1810 to 1830 Marshall Sahlins 3. Patterns of history: cultural schemas in the foundings of sherpa religious institutions Sherry B. Ortner 4. Enclosures: boundary maintenance and its representations over time in Asturian mountain villages (Spain) James W. Fernandez 5. The monkey as self in Japanese culture Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney 6. Constitutive history: genealogy and narrative in the legitimation of Hawaiian kingship Valerio Valeri 7. Shaping time: the choice of the national emblem of Israel Don Handelman and Lea Shamgar-Handelman 8. Aryan invasions over four millennia Edmund Leach 9. Form and meaning in recent Indonesian history: some reflections in light of H. G. Gadamer's philosophy of history James L. Peacock 10. Historians, anthropologists, and symbols Peter Burke Index.
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Stanford University Press Furrows
Book SynopsisA Stanford University Press classic.
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Stanford University Press Rediscovering History
Book SynopsisThis wide-ranging collection of essays on the cultural history of modern Europe is unified by a concern with how the relation between self and society finds expression in cultural production.Table of ContentsContributors; Introduction Michael S. Roth; Part I. Ideas, Institutions, Professions: 1. Psychopathologies of modern space: metropolitan fear from agoraphobia to estrangement Anthony Vidler; 2. Selective affinities: three generations of German intellectuals Harry Liebersohn; 3. The moral journey of the first Viennese psychoanalysts Louis Rose; 4. Psychoanalysis, sexual morality, and the clinical situation Peter Loewenberg; 5. Ideals and reality in the Austrian Universities, 1850-1914 Gary B. Cohen; 6. Freedon and death: Goethe's Faust and the Greek War of Independence William J. McGrath; 7. Experience without a subject: Walter Benjamin and the novel Martin Jay; Part II. Aesthetic Politics and Aesthetic Religion: 8. Weaving paintings: religious and social origins of Vincent van Gogh's pictorial labor Debora Silverman; 9. From princely collection to public museums: toward a history of the German art museum James J. Sheehan; 10. Musical historicism and the transcendental foundation of commuity: Medelssohn's Lobgesang and the 'Christian-German' cultural politics of Frederick William IV John Toews; 11. Broken vessels: aestheticism and modernity in henry James and Walter Benjamin Michael P. Steinberg; 12. 'Girls and crisis': the political aesthetics of the kickline in Weimar Berlin Peter Jalavich; Part III. Constructing the Self: 13. Gross David with the swoln cheek: an essay on self-portraiture T. J. Clark; 14. Facing the patriarch in early Davidian painting Thomas Crow; 15. Saying 'I': Victor Cousin, Caroline Angebert, and the politics of selfhood in nineteenth-century France Jan Goldstein; 16. Freud's use and abuse of the past Michael S. Roth; 17. The subjectivity of structure: individuality and its contradiciton in Levi-Strauss Jerrold Seigel; Part IV. Narrative, History, Temporality: 18. A reflecting story Pierre Bourdieu; 19. Fiction as historical evidence: a dialogue in Paris, 1646 Carlo Ginzburg; 20. The ephemeral and the eternal: reflections on history Patrizia Lombardo; 21. Cultural history and crisis: Burckhardt's Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy Lionel Gossman; Publications of Carel E. Schorske; Notes; Index.
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Stanford University Press At Odds with AIDS Thinking and Talking About a
Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to oppose AIDS, to be at odds with AIDS?... The author confronts these questions from a broad philosophical background that ranges from Kant, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, and Heidegger to contemporary thought concerning gay activism and AIDS research.Table of ContentsContents 1 2 3 4
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Stanford University Press Prehistories of the Future The Primitivist
Book SynopsisExamining the emergence of modernism from the fin-de-siecle primitivist project this volume shows how ethnographic materials shaped a variety of high and low discourses (ethnology, social theory, gender construction, classical scholarship, as well as travel photography) at the turn of the century. Illustrated with 98 photographs and drawings.Trade Review“This is an unusually rich, subtle, and rewarding collection that brings varied approaches to a crucial topic in modern cultural history. . . . The essays recognize the multi-faceted and complicated nature of the fin-de-siècle conundrum of modernism and primitivism.”—Michael P. Steinberg, Cornell UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction Elazar Barkan and Ronald Bush; Part I. Savage Anxieties: 1. The presence of the past: ethnographic thinking/literary politics Ronald Bush; 2. Savage crowds, modernism, and modern politics Robert Nye; 3. Victorian promiscuity: Greek ethics and primitive exemplars Elazar Barkan; Part II. Raw Anthropology: 4. The moment of prestidigitation: magic, illusion and mana in the thought of Emile Durkheim and Marcel Mauss Vincent Crapanzano; 5. Patterns of strangeness: Franz Boas, modernism, and the origins of anthropology Julia E. Liss; Part III. Victorian Vertigo: 6. In a glass darkly: photography, the premodern, and Victorian horror Joss Lutz Marsh; Part IV. (Ethno)graphic Images: 7. Manipulated images: European photographs of Pacific peoples Virgina-Lee Webb; 8. Travel engravings and the construction of the primitive Christopher B. Steiner; 9. Gauguin's French baggage: decadence and colonialism in Tahiti Nancy Perloff; 10. Modernism's African mask: the Stein-Pica sso collaboration Michael North; Part V. Culture and Displacements: 11. The kind of person you have to sound like to sing 'Alexander's Ragtime Band' Robert Dawidoff; 12. Primitive self: colonial impulses in Michel Leiris's L'Afrique fantome Marie-Denise Shelton; 13. Tolerance and taboo: modernist primitivisms and postmodernist pieties Marjorie Perloff; Part VI. Modernism Reconsidered: 14. Modernism, postmodernism and explanation Frank Kermode; Notes; Index.
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Stanford University Press Everyday Exchanges Marketwork and Capitalist
Book SynopsisArguing against the perception that the capitalist marketplace permits no alternatives, the author shows that a kind of economic "common sense" conditions how people organize their everyday lives and understand their powers as social agents within markets that are far from monolithic and uniform.Table of ContentsContents ONE TWO THREE FOUR FIVE
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