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The University of Chicago Press Dinner with Darwin
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A] fascinating celebration of the green world upon which all human life depends."--Richard Wrangham, author of Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human "New Scientist, Best Books of the Year, on Silvertown's An Orchard Invisible" "A gem. . . . Read it as a gardener, scientist, food aficionado, historian, botanist, or naturalist, and you'll not be disappointed."--Richard Wrangham, author of Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human "Times Higher Education, on Silvertown's An Orchard Invisible" "A science-informed tour of the table, showing how our fare comes to us courtesy of natural selection--and, of course, survival of the fittest. . . . Silvertown delves in with gusto. . . . His accessible discussion ranges from shellfish gathering to bread-making to gardening, from issues of food security . . . to the genetic basis for taste and genetic variability among populations of food plants. . . . A tasty nibble for the bookish, science-inclined foodie."-- "Kirkus Reviews" "A series of beautifully plated amuse-bouche, raising tantalizing and rich ideas. . . . The book left me feeling as if I had attended a dinner party, where foodies, historians, and scientists mingled, sharing vignettes on various food-related topics. Each 'bite' . . . left me contemplating the relationships between genetic changes, speciation, and, at times, even the future of our planet."--Mari-Vaughn V. Johnson, US Department of Agriculture "Science" "As pleasurable to read as it is informative."--Richard Wrangham, author of Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human "Library Journal, on Silvertown's An Orchard Invisible" "Deserves a spot on any natural history lover's bedside bookstand. . . . It is simply a delight to read."--Richard Wrangham, author of Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human "Natural History, on Silvertown's An Orchard Invisible" "In a nutshell, I will never look at seeds the same way again, whether teeny poppy seeds or mammoth coconuts. . . . [A] delicious little book."--Richard Wrangham, author of Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human "Australian, on Silvertown's An Orchard Invisible" "Silvertown breaks down the sociology, selective breeding, and nutritional evolution behind each contemporary dietary staple. . . . This tour--from animal to vegetable to beer--will give even the most ambitious foodie something to chew on."-- "Scientific American" "The Darwinian dining served up by evolutionary ecologist Silvertown in this delectably erudite study is all about tracing the impact of natural selection on foods. We learn that mussels helped to fuel the hominin exodus from Africa; rye is a weed domesticated by accident; carnivory and tapeworms are intimately linked; and Penicillium camemberti mold evolved in soft cheeses. We even examine engastration--stuffing one animal into another before cooking--as a status-led manifestation of the need to share food. This intricate scientific banquet is a marvelous read: bon appetit."--Barbara Kiser "Nature" "From the opening course of oysters to the final swill of wine, Silvertown's account of the evolution of our diet is a sumptuous experience. Dinner with Darwin combines natural history, biography, archaeology, and biology into food stories that will enlighten any meal."--Richard Wrangham, author of Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human "Washington Independent Review of Books" "Dinner with Darwin ranges far more widely--and offers vastly more substance--than the common horde of food books. This is not a candlelit foodie memoir or a 'breakthrough' weight-loss manual. Dinner with Darwin is a wide-ranging natural history of our diet, crafted at a pitch-perfect level for the science buff and the general reader alike. Silvertown is also a wonderful writer: erudite, informative, and thoroughly entertaining."--Bob Duffy "Washington Independent Review of Books"Table of Contents1. An Invitation to Dinner 2. A Cooking Animal 3. Shellfish—Beachcombing 4. Bread—Domestication 5. Soup—Taste 6. Fish—Flavor 7. Meat—Carnivory 8. Vegetables—Variety 9. Herbs and Spices—Piquancy 10. Desserts—Indulgence 11. Cheese—Dairying 12. Wine and Beer—Intoxication 13. Feasting—Society 14. Future Food Acknowledgments Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press Black White and in Color Essays on American
Book SynopsisThis collection of major essays spans Hortense Spiller's work from the early 1980s, in which she pioneered a broadly poststructuralist approach to African American literature.
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Contesting Performance Global Sites of Research Performance Interventions
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Principles of Economics Palgrave Classics in
Book SynopsisSiân Lincoln considers the use, role and significance of private spaces in the lives of young people. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research, she explores the place of 'the private' in youth cultural discourses, both historically and contemporarily, that until now have remained largely absent in youth cultural research.Trade Review'In Youth Culture and Private Space, Sian Lincoln presents an informed, incisive and thoroughly absorbing analysis of the role of bedrooms as 'identity spaces' for young people. Marshalling a wealth of original research, she shows how personal and private spaces are crucial sites for the articulation of individual and collective identities, and the book is likely to be a key text for anyone interested in studying, teaching or researching contemporary youth culture.' - Bill Osgerby, Professor in Media, Culture and Communications, London Metropolitan University, UK 'Sian Lincoln's study on young people's bedroom culture is innovative and personal. She uncovers the bedroom as a shrine of pleasure, celebration, contemplation, communication and experimentation. Her excellent ethnography points out the dual public and private space of the bedroom where identities are forged. Youth Culture and Private Space is an essential book for researchers, teachers and students.' - Shane Blackman, Reader in Cultural Studies, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK 'This ethnographic study gives a fascinating insight into the meanings of an under-researched aspect of domestic culture. The book also provides an invaluable corrective to research on youth subcultures that overwhelmingly locate debates about youth and identity in relation to the public sphere and demonstrates how home spaces play a key role in the negotiation and experience of young people's identities. Strongly recommended to anyone interested in either young peoples identities or contemporary home cultures.' - Joanne Hollows, Reader in Media and Cultural Studies, Nottingham Trent University, UKTable of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgements Foreword by Andy Bennett Introduction Exploring the Private in Traditional Youth Cultural Theory and Beyond Researching Young People's 'Private' Space The Role of Private Space in Contemporary Youth Culture Young People, Bedrooms and Materiality Mediating Young People's Bedrooms: 'Zoning' Bedroom Cultures Mediating Young People's Bedrooms: The 'Virtual Bedroom'? Conclusion: Youth Culture and Private Space Notes Bibliography Index
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Palgrave Macmillan Memory in Culture
Book SynopsisAcknowledgements PART I: INTRODUCTION: WHY 'MEMORY'? Why 'Memory'? Why Now? What Is Meant by 'Memory'? Memory, Remembering, or Forgetting? Goals and Structure of this Book PART II: THE INVENTION OF CULTURAL MEMORY: A SHORT HISTORY OF MEMORY STUDIES Maurice Halbwachs: Mémoire collective Aby Warburg: Mnemosyne Pathos Formulas and a European Memory of Images Pierre Nora's Lieux de mémoire - and Beyond Aleida and Jan Assmann: The Cultural Memory PART III: THE DISCIPLINES OF MEMORY STUDIES Historical and Social Memory Material Memory: Art and Literature Mind and Memory: Psychological Approaches PART IV: MEMORY AND CULTURE: A SEMIOTIC MODEL Metaphors - Productive, Misleading, and Superfluous, or: How to Conceive of Memory on a Collective Level Material, Social, and Mental Dimensions of Memory Culture Autobiographical, Semantic, and Procedural Systems of Cultural Memory Related Concepts: Collective Identity and Cultural Experience PART V: MEDIA AND MEMORY Media and the Construction of Memory Trade Review"This is groundbreaking work that provides one of the most thorough, sophisticated and challenging overviews of the area to date. Memory studies has been waiting for some time for the book that will provide a comprehensive account of its origins, development and current state: this is that book. This will be a pivotal reference point for researchers for some time to come." - Steven Brown, University of Leicester, UKTable of ContentsAcknowledgements PART I: INTRODUCTION: WHY 'MEMORY'? Why 'Memory'? Why Now? What Is Meant by 'Memory'? Memory, Remembering, or Forgetting? Goals and Structure of this Book PART II: THE INVENTION OF CULTURAL MEMORY: A SHORT HISTORY OF MEMORY STUDIES Maurice Halbwachs: Mémoire collective Aby Warburg: Mnemosyne Pathos Formulas and a European Memory of Images Pierre Nora's Lieux de mémoire - and Beyond Aleida and Jan Assmann: The Cultural Memory PART III: THE DISCIPLINES OF MEMORY STUDIES Historical and Social Memory Material Memory: Art and Literature Mind and Memory: Psychological Approaches PART IV: MEMORY AND CULTURE: A SEMIOTIC MODEL Metaphors - Productive, Misleading, and Superfluous, or: How to Conceive of Memory on a Collective Level Material, Social, and Mental Dimensions of Memory Culture Autobiographical, Semantic, and Procedural Systems of Cultural Memory Related Concepts: Collective Identity and Cultural Experience PART V: MEDIA AND MEMORY Media and the Construction of Memory The History of Memory as the History of Media Medium of Memory: A Compact Concept Functions of Media of Memory Concepts of Media Memory Studies PART VI: LITERATURE AS A MEDIUM OF CULTURAL MEMORY Literature as a Symbolic Form of Cultural Memory Literary Text and Mnemonic Context: Mimesis Literature as a Medium of Collective and Individual Memory PART VII: AFTERWORD: WHITHER MEMORY STUDIES? Index
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Childhoods at the Intersection of the Local and
Book SynopsisIntroduction; A.Twum-Danso Imoh & R.Ame The Convention on the Rights of the Child: A Product and Facilitator of a Global Childhood; A.Twum-Danso Imoh Universalizing Early Childhood: History, Forms, and Logics; M.Tag Early Child Development Policy: The Colonization of the World's Childrearing Practices?; K.Monaghan The Rhetoric and Realities of Early Childhood Programmes Promoted by the World Bank; H.Penn The Construction of the Child in Ghanaian Welfare Policy; S.Laird 'This is how we do it here'. The Persistence of the Physical Punishment of Children in Ghana in the Face of Globalizing Ideals; A.Twum-Danso Imoh Making Gender and Generation: Between the Local and the Global in Africa; K.Wells Caught up in Between Change and Continuity: Challenging Contemporary Childhood in Saudi Arabia; H.Khalifa The Rites of the Child: Global discourses of Youth and Reintegrating Child soldiers in Sierra Leone; S.Shepler Conclusion; R.Ame & A.Twum-Danso ImohTrade Review"This book provides an interesting mix of theory, history and case studies all of which concern the ways that childhoods are changing in response to globalisation. Its international focus and emphasis on the full age range of childhood will make it invaluable for those in Development Studies, Early Years, as well as those with a more general interest in Childhood Studies." - Children & SocietyTable of ContentsIntroduction; A.Twum-Danso Imoh & R.Ame The Convention on the Rights of the Child: A Product and Facilitator of a Global Childhood; A.Twum-Danso Imoh Universalizing Early Childhood: History, Forms, and Logics; M.Tag Early Child Development Policy: The Colonization of the World's Childrearing Practices?; K.Monaghan The Rhetoric and Realities of Early Childhood Programmes Promoted by the World Bank; H.Penn The Construction of the Child in Ghanaian Welfare Policy; S.Laird 'This is how we do it here'. The Persistence of the Physical Punishment of Children in Ghana in the Face of Globalizing Ideals; A.Twum-Danso Imoh Making Gender and Generation: Between the Local and the Global in Africa; K.Wells Caught up in Between Change and Continuity: Challenging Contemporary Childhood in Saudi Arabia; H.Khalifa The Rites of the Child: Global discourses of Youth and Reintegrating Child soldiers in Sierra Leone; S.Shepler Conclusion; R.Ame & A.Twum-Danso Imoh
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Columbia University Press Chinas Transition Study of the East Asian Institute
Book SynopsisThe text provides an introduction to the intricate web of contemporary Chinese politics - and China's changing place in the global system. It discusses China and democracy, human rights issues, and the move to integrate China into the international economy.Trade ReviewReading this excellent work by Andrew Nathan on the potential for a Chinese transition to democracy compels one to probe one's own unexamined presuppositions and unconscious cultural prejudices. -- Edward Friedman, University of Wisconsin-Madison Philosophy East & West Such rich, thoughtful, and rigorous analysis makes China's Transition an important book in the study of contemporary Chinese politics. It represents a remarkable methodological achievement that should be the envy of all students of Chinese politics. -- Minxin Pei, Princeton University Political Science Quarterly [A] deeply perceptive and eloquent collection of essays... What distinguishes Nathan's approach is that he takes up the political question of how to negotiate with Beijing about human rights. New York Review of Books Glitters with refreshing analyses on a wide range of literary, political, and ideological issues in recent PRC history... Packed with great insights and excellent analyses, it should be considered indispensable reading for any serious student of contemporary Chinese politics. Journal of Oriental StudiesTable of Contents1. China Bites Back 2. A History of Cruelty 3. Mao and His Court 4. Maoist Institutions and Post-Mao Reform 5. Chinese Democracy: The Lessons of Failure 6. The Democratic Vision 7. The Decision for Reform in Taiwan 8. Electing Taiwan's Legislature (written with with Helena V.S. Ho) 9. The Struggle for Hong Kong's Future 10. Is Chinese Culture Distinctive? 11. Cultural Requisites for Democracy in China (written with Tianjian Shi) 12. Left and Right in Deng's China (written with Tianjian Shi) 13. The Place of Values in Cross-Cultural Studies 14. The Chinese Volcano 15. The Constitutionalist Option 16. Human Rights and American China Policy
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Columbia University Press The Death of Idealism Development and
Book SynopsisWhy do Peace Corps volunteers often return having lost their idealism? In The Death of Idealism, Meghan Elizabeth Kallman details the combination of social forces and organizational pressures that depoliticizes Peace Corps volunteers, channels their idealism toward professionalization, and leads to cynicism or disengagement.Trade ReviewWith no places to discuss their potentially life-changing experiences with fellow volunteers, and with many rules to follow and forms to fill out, volunteers in the Peace Corps often encounter an organizational void where their political imaginations and hopes might have bloomed. The Death of Idealism confronts the consequences of this void, and makes important contributions to theories of organizations, the history of American volunteering, and the history of the Peace Corps in particular. -- Nina Eliasoph, author of Making Volunteers: Civic Life After Welfare's EndProfessionalization is typically seen as universally good in the worlds of government, nonprofit, and development organizations. Meghan Elizabeth Kallman shows in her insightful study of the U.S. Peace Corps how it can kill idealism and lead to the failure of development. This is a must-read for anyone interested in public service and civic engagement. -- Angela M. Eikenberry, coeditor of Reframing Nonprofit Organizations: Democracy, Inclusion, and Social ChangeA fascinating account of the conflict between professionalization and idealism in the Peace Corps. Kallman presents an important lesson in how organizational practices affect people’s ideas and values in ways that have long lasting consequences for their lives, professional careers, and, in this case, the trajectory of international development practice in the United States. -- Jennifer E. Mosley, coeditor of Human Service Organizations and the Question of ImpactIs a must-read for all those who have a keen interest in international development and fighting poverty since the two are interdisciplinary in the contemporary world. * Voluntas *This strong critique of the program is also a powerful endorsement of the critical ways that volunteering, in this program and more generally, can shape individuals and their lives. * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Peace Corps and Its Volunteers2. The Development of Development: The Peace Corps and USAID3. Ethical and Procedural Professionalization Among Peace Corps Staff4. Volunteers in the Field5. Home Again: Political, Civic, and Occupational Consequences of VolunteeringConclusionAppendix: Book MethodologyNotesIndex
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Penguin Books Ltd The Sky is Falling
Book Synopsis''You''ll never look at your favourite movies and TV shows the same way again. And you shouldn''t'' Steven Soderbergh ''Insanely readable'' Slavoj Zizek''Your book was ... like a bag of pot, with me saying, ''I''m not gonna smoke.'' But I was insatiable'' Quentin Tarantino on Easy Riders, Raging BullsIn The Sky is Falling! bestselling cultural critic Peter Biskind takes us on a dizzying ride across two decades of pop culture to show how the TV and movies we love - from Game of Thrones and 24 to Homeland and Iron Man - have taught us to love political extremism. Welcome to a darkly pessimistic, apocalyptic world where winter has come, the dead are walking, and ultra violence, revenge and torture are all in a day''s work. Welcome to the new normal.Trade ReviewA Sunday Times Book of the Year * - *Compulsively readable ... a thoughtful, entertaining and occasionally profound critical study of the texts that entertain, move and, sometimes, shape us * Spectator *Excellent critical writing ... Biskind's pastiche of right-wing paranoia is spot on * Irish Times *Biskind's wide-ranging arguments offer considerable food for thought * London Review of Books *The Sky is Falling! is not only insanely readable, it demonstrates how the way for Trump and all kinds of fundamentalists was paved years ago by apparently apolitical popular culture. This is a book about the seismic change at the very heart of today's society, and a book for all those who want to know exactly what a mess we're in. -- Slavoj ŽižekPeter Biskind's kaleidoscopic deep dive into the symbiotic relationship between the narratives of popular entertainment and our political culture had me talking out loud to myself. You'll never look at your favorite movies and TV shows the same way again. And you shouldn't. -- Steven SoderberghFunny, intelligent and frightening ... What happens when pop turns to pulp? When "nothing entertains but disaster?" When "democracy has all but dissolved in the acid rain of money?" Read this marvellous book and find the answers -- Michael WoodA breathless compendium of storylines and audacious analysis ... touching on worthwhile questions about how film and TV shape our sense of history and how the world works. Pop culture has become pulp culture... which superhero will come to our rescue? * Times *The only thing better than seeing a good movie is reading what Peter Biskind has to say about it. Who else can explicate the hidden politics of movies and make you laugh out loud at the same time? -- Barbara EhrenreichThe great chronicler of Hollywood in the late twentieth century turns his critical eye to the cinema and television of the twenty first. Essential reading -- Colin MacCabeA bold, witty, and brilliantly argued analysis of the role pop culture has played in the rise of American extremism -- Ruth ReichlYour book was . . . like a bag of pot, with me saying, 'I'm not gonna smoke.' But I was insatiable -- Quentin Tarantino on EASY RIDERS, RAGING BULLS
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MIT Press Ltd Culture Is Not Always Popular Fifteen Years of
Book SynopsisA collection of writing about design from the influential, eclectic, and adventurous Design Observer.Founded in 2003, Design Observer inscribes its mission on its homepage: Writings about Design and Culture. Since its inception, the site has consistently embraced a broader, more interdisciplinary, and circumspect view of design's value in the world—one not limited by materialism, trends, or the slipperiness of style. Dedicated to the pursuit of originality, imagination, and close cultural analysis, Design Observer quickly became a lively forum for readers in the international design community. Fifteen years, 6,700 articles, 900 authors, and nearly 30,000 comments later, this book is a combination primer, celebration, survey, and salute to a certain moment in online culture. This collection includes reassessments that sharpen the lens or dislocate it; investigations into the power of design idioms; off-topic gems; discussions of design ethics; and ex
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Yale University Press Of Africa
Book SynopsisSeeks to understand how the Africa's history is entwined with the histories of others, while exploring Africa's truest assets: "its humanity, the quality and valuation of its own existence, and modes of managing its environment - both physical and intangible (which includes the spiritual)".
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Yale University Press Culture in Nazi Germany
Book SynopsisA fresh and insightful history of how the German arts-and-letters scene was transformed under the NazisTrade Review“Absorbing, chilling study of German artistic life under Hitler.”—Max Hastings, The Sunday Times“While providing a chronology for understanding the creeping totalitarianism, Kater shines most when discussing individual artists and their work, displaying a thoroughness and texture unrivalled by any other scholar.”—Jonathan Petropoulos, Art Newspaper“A much-needed study of the aesthetics and cultural mores of the Third Reich, with often surprising turns . . . in a narrative rich in detail and documentation. . . . ‘The relation between culture and tyranny is a complex one,’ Kater concludes. Indeed, and his book does much to make it comprehensible.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review“Kater in this richly researched, fluently written book sets out to recast the story of Hitler’s Germany.” —Roger Boyes, Times (UK)“Incorporating both official art and that cast out of German public life, the range of cultural forms considered is similarly ambitious, including literature, music, architecture, fine art, radio, the press, film and theatre”— Lucy Wasensteiner, Times Literary Supplement“There is no greater authority on the culture of the Nazi period than Michael Kater, and his latest, most ambitious work gives a comprehensive overview of a dismally complex history, astonishing in its breadth of knowledge and acute in its critical perceptions.”—Alex Ross, music critic at the New Yorker and author of The Rest Is Noise
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Little, Brown Book Group Only in Naples Lessons in Food and Famiglia
Book SynopsisA Radio 4 Book of the Week''See Naples and die'', said Goethe. But Katherine Wilson saw Naples and started to live. Katherine is fresh out of college when she arrives in Naples to intern at the US Consulate. There she meets handsome, studious Salvatore, and finds herself enveloped by his family - in particular by his elegant mother, Raffaella, who begins her real education: never eat the crust of a pizza first, always stand up and fight for yourself and your loved ones, and remember that mealtimes are sacred. Immersed in Neapolitan culture, tradition and cooking, slowly and unexpectedly falling for Salvatore, and basking in Raffaella''s company and guidance, Katherine discovers how to prepare meals that sing, from rich ragù to pasta al forno, with bacon, béchamel and four kinds of cheese. Through courtship, culture clashes, Sunday Mass, marriage and motherhood, Katherine slowly comes to appreciate carnale, the quintessentially NeapTrade ReviewA glorious memoir celebrating the holy trinity of Italian life: love, food and family. Her keen eye and sense of humor takes you through the winding streets of Naples at a clip, on a ride you hope will never end. If you love Italy, or the idea of it, you will love this book. And, if you ever plan to visit Naples, tuck this in your suitcase, it's the best primer I've ever read as a guide to this bustling, vibrant southern Italian port city -- Adriana Trigiani, New York Times bestselling author of The Shoemaker's Wife Deliciously entertaining Sunday Mirror You won't be able to put down this book that's chock block full of titbits from Neapolitan culture, tradition and cuisine.Read if you enjoyed: Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert Hello This warm, witty biography made me yearn for (and eat) quite a lot of pasta Red
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) The World of Goods Routledge Classics
Book SynopsisIt is well-understood that the consumption of goods plays an important, symbolic role in the way human beings communicate, create identity, and establish relationships. What is less well-known is that the pattern of their flow shapes society in fundamental ways. In this book the renowned anthropologist Mary Douglas and economist Baron Isherwood overturn arguments about consumption that rely on received economic and psychological explanations. They ask new questions about why people save, why they spend, what they buy, and why they sometimes-but not always-make fine distinctions about quality.Instead of regarding consumption as a private means of satisfying oneâs preferences, they show how goods are a vital information system, used by human beings to fulfill their intentions towards one another. They also consider the implications of the social role of goods for a new vision for social policy, arguing that poverty is caused as much by the erosion of local communities and networks as it is by lack of possessions, and contrast small-scale with large-scale consumption in the household. A radical rethinking of consumerism, inequality and social capital, The World of Goods is a classic of economic anthropology whose insights remain compelling and urgent.This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by Richard Wilk.Forget that commodities are good for eating, clothing, and shelter; forget their usefulness and try instead the idea that commodities are good for thinking. â Mary Douglas and Baron IsherwoodTrade Review"A pioneering work of the anthropology of consumption" - The Guardian "The most widely read British social anthropologist of her generation" - The Guardian "A master at discerning order in unexpected forms and surprising places" - The New York TimesTable of ContentsForeword to the Routledge Classics Edition Richard Wilk Introduction Part 1: Goods as an Information System 1. Why People Want Goods 2. Why They Save 3. The Uses of Goods 4. Exclusion, Intrusion 5. The Technology of Consumption 6. Consumption Periodicities Part 2: Implications for social policy 7. Separate Economic Spheres in Ethnography 8. International Comparisons 9. Consumption Classes 10. Control of Value Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Future of Digital Data Heritage and Curation
Book SynopsisThe Future of Digital Data, Heritage and Curation critiques digital cultural heritage concepts and their application to data, developing new theories, curatorial practices and a more-than-human museology for a contemporary and future world. Presenting a diverse range of case examples from around the globe, Cameron offers a critical and philosophical reflection on the ways in which digital cultural heritage is currently framed as societal data worth passing on to future generations in two distinct forms: digitally born and digitizations. Demonstrating that most perceptions of digital cultural heritage are distinctly western in nature, the book also examines the complicity of such heritage in climate change, and environmental destruction and injustice. Going further still, the book theorizes the future of digital data, heritage, curation and the notion of the human in the context of the profusion of new types of societal data and production processes driven by theTrade Review'In this highly prescient and original account, Fiona Cameron interrogates the vexed future custodianship of digital data. By bringing her incisive cultural heritage studies knowledge to bear on our rapidly increasing entanglement with the born-digital archive of objects, data and media, The Future of Digital Data, Heritage and Curation advances a powerful conceptual framework for the curation and conservation of potentially every utterance of our private and public worlds: "Strikingly, digital data as heritage is not just the new fabric of human life, it is radically embedded in the vast and sprawling ecological circumstances of life itself."' Hannah Lewi, The University of Melbourne, Australia"This book offers an innovative new approach to digital cultural heritage. This is a fast moving but under-examined topic, but Fiona Cameron’s approach is different, focusing right in on central contemporary issues, using an up to the minute conceptual framework, engaging closely with museum theory and practice, and enlivened by lots of illustrations, examples, case studies and useful applications, everything from AI, Trump’s tweets, and sex bots to digitisation, informatics and museum CMS. In contrast to old fashioned humanist, materialist, Eurocentric approaches, Cameron argues that we have to understand digital cultural heritage through a lens which is ecological, post-humanist, and ‘more than human’. The idea of ‘eco-curating’ is a striking environmentalist/relational/networked reformulation of conventional curating as we know it."Conal McCarthy, Victoria University of Wellington, New ZealandTable of Contents1. Introduction: Refiguring digital cultural heritage and curation; 2. The official birth of digital data as universal heritage; 3. Digital data as the heritage of the modern world; 4. Object concepts in digital cultural heritage; 5. From objects to ecological formations; 6. Digital data and artifactual production; 7. Curating inside the archive and out in the world; 8. The rise of more-than-human digital heritage in the Technosphere; 9. Conclusion: Framing a more-than-human digital museology
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Taylor & Francis Hybridity and Ideology
Book SynopsisHybridity and Ideology analyzes the structure, development, and significance of political perspectives that mix or fuse the distinct beliefs, practices, and identities found in other ideologiesâfor example, hybrid worldviews such as liberal nationalism, ecosocialism, and anarchafeminism.Employing concepts and methods drawn from ideology studies, discourse theory, and cultural studies, Leonard Williams and Benjamin Franks explore the meaning of hybridity, the processes by which ideologies hybridize, and the political implications of the blended ideologies that result. Their hybrid inquiry fashions a theoretical vocabulary and framework for understanding and studying ideological hybridization.Using examples from a broad spectrum of ideologies, the book discusses the characteristic patterns by which hybrids are constructed from parent ideologies. It explores the operations and processes that enable hybrids to emerge from other ideologies and develop within social
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Taylor & Francis Routledge Companion to Audiences and the
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Companion to Audiences and the Performing Arts represents a truly multi-dimensional exploration of the inter-relationships between audiences and performance.This study considers audiences contextually and historically, through both qualitative and quantitative empirical research, and places them within appropriate philosophical and socio-cultural discourses. Ultimately, the collection marks the point where audiences have become central and essential not just to the act of performance itself but also to theatre, dance, opera, music and performance studies as academic disciplines.This Companion will be of great interest to academics, researchers and postgraduates, as well as to theatre, dance, opera and music practitioners and performing arts organisations and stakeholders involved in educational activities.Table of ContentsThe Paradox of AudiencesMatthew Reason, Lynne Conner, Katya Johanson and Ben WalmsleyPart One: Histories, Theories and Questions of Social JusticeIntroductionLynne Conner1. Ellen Dissanayake in Conversation Ellen Dissanayake and Lynne Conner2. Histories of Audiencing: On Evidence, Mythology and NostalgiaHelen Freshwater3. Disrupting the Audience as MonolithLynne Conner4. Who? Why? and How?: The Contribution of Sociology to the Study of Arts Audiences and Where it Needs HelpLaurie Hanquinet5. The Future of Audiences and AudiencingJennifer Novak Leonard6. Which Global? Which Local?: Aucitya, Rasa, Development, Ase and other Demands on the Audience Glenn Odom and Giri Raghunathan7. Forced Experiences: Shifting Modes of Audience Involvement in Immersive PerformancesDoris Kolesch and Theresa SchützPart Two: Policies, Politics and PracticesIntroductionBen Walmsley8. Alan Brown in ConversationAlan Brown and Emma McDowell 9. Are We the Baddies?: Audience Development, Cultural Policy and Ideological PrecaritySteven Hadley10. At what cost? Working Class Audiences and the Price of Culture Maria Barrett11. A ‘Universal Design’ for Audiences with Disabilities?Bree Hadley12. Fans and Fandom in the Performing ArtsKirsty Sedgman13. The Role of the Audience in Forum and Interactive Theatre: Perspectives from BangladeshMeghna Guhathakurta14. Audience Engagement and the Production of Efficacious Theatre: Case Studies from GhanaAwo Mana Asiedu15. Critical Perspectives on Valuing Culture: Tensions and Disconnections between Research, Policy and PracticeBen Walmsley and Julian MeyrickPart Three: Methods, Methodologies and Understanding AudiencesIntroductionMatthew Reason16. Martin Barker in Conversation Martin Barker and Matthew Reason17. Mixing Methods in Audience Research Practice: A multi-method(ological) discussionEmma McDowell18. Quantifying the Dance Spectacle in the Audience’s Mind: A Methodological Quest for Neuroscience ResearchCorinne Jola19. Continuous and Collective Measures of Real-Time Audience EngagementL.S. Merritt Millman, Guido Orgs and Daniel Richardson20. Audience Interaction: Approaches to Researching the Social Dynamics of Live AudiencesPatrick G.T. Healey, Matthew T. Harris and Michael F. Schober21. Quantitative Measures of Audience ExperienceWing Tung Au, Zhumeng Zuo and Paton Pak Chun Yam22. The Benefits and Challenges of Large-Scale Qualitative ResearchStephanie Pitts and Sarah Price23. Creative Methods and Audience Research: Affordances and Radical PotentialMatthew Reason24. Ethics in Audience Research: By the Book or on the Hop? Katya Johanson and Hilary GlowPart Four: Shorts: Adventures in Thinking About AudiencesIntroductionKatya Johanson25. AffectLucy Thornett26. AgencyAstrid Breel27. Co-CreationMichael Pinchbeck and Rachel Baynton28. Covid-19Tully Barnett29. DataRishi Coupland30. DialogueMaddy Costa31. Integrated and InclusiveVipavinee Artpradid32. LabourMartin Young33. LanguageMichelle Loh34. LaughterNatalie Diddams35. MarginaliaHelen Yung36. MemoryElaine Faull37. One-to-OneRachel Gomme38. PantomimeRobert Marsden39. Post-HumanityFayen D’Evie40. Post-ShowDiane Ragsdale41. RehearsalAnja Ali Haapala42. RelaxedLauren Hall and Paul Wilshaw43. RiskElla de Búrca44. SicknessVerónica Rodríguez45. ThresholdsStefania Donini46. TouchElena S.V. FlysAfterword: Covid-19, Audiences, and the Future of the Performing ArtsMatthew Reason, Lynne Conner, Katya Johanson and Ben Walmsley
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Taylor & Francis Sexing the Animal in a PostHumanist World
Book SynopsisThis pioneering collection of essays unpacks the complex discursive and embodied relationships between humans and animals, contributing to a more informed understanding of both human-animal relations and the role of language in social processes. Focusing on the example of shark-human interactions, the book draws on forms of analysis from multimodality and critical discourse studies to examine the representations of this relationship across visual arts, popular media, and the natural sciences, each viewed through a critical feminist lens. The combined effect highlights the significance of the emergent turn to post-humanism in applied linguistics and its role in fostering more engaged discussions around broader contemporary social issues, including environmental degradation and climate change on the one hand, and resurgent feminism and challenges to normative heterosexuality on the other. Paving the way for new forms of writing and language for a post-anthropocentric age, this volume Table of Contents1. Introduction: Posthumanism and heteroanimality2. Sharks and Unloved Others: Why sharks?3. Shark Arts: Sea monsters, sirens, selkies, and sexualities4. Surfing with SharkS: Australian frontier masculinity5. Sharks in Science: Explaining sexuality, naturally6. Fantasy Sharks: Vagina dentate7. Predation: Baits, cages and cannibals8. Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Women and Age on the UK Stage
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WW Norton & Co On Lies Secrets Silence Selected Prose Reissue
Book SynopsisIn this collection of prose writings, one of America's foremost poets and feminist theorists reflects upon themes that have shaped her life and work.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Social History of Art Volume 3
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1951 Arnold Hausers commanding work presents an account of the development and meaning of art from its origins in the Stone Age through to the Film Age. Exploring the interaction between art and society, Hauser effectively details social and historical movements and sketches the frameworks in which visual art is produced.This new edition provides an excellent introduction to the work of Arnold Hauser. In his general introduction to The Social History of Art, Jonathan Harris asseses the importance of the work for contemporary art history and visual culture. In addition, an introduction to each volume provides a synopsis of Hausers narrative and serves as a critical guide to the text, identifying major themes, trends and arguments.Trade Review'Arnold Hausers Social History of Art - a very important and under-appreciated text.' - Whitney Davis, John Evans Professor of Art History, Northwestern University'It is no exaggeration to say that more than any other work Hauser's four volumes inspired my interest in art history.' - Alan Wallach, Ralph H Wark Professor of Art History, College of William and Mary'This work has great value in a contemporary context. I look forward to seeing what Jonathan has done with the introduction, but I cannot think of anyone better suited to the task.' - Johanna Drucker, Professor of Art History, Yale UniversityHausers extraordinary energy and subtlety wave a brilliant synthesis of the interaction between the aesthetic and societal, giving us at one and the same time a wealth of artistic detail and a consistent and fully elaborated exposition of the social process. - Albert Boime, UCLA, author of The Social History of Modern Art, 1750-1989Table of ContentsChapter 1 The dissolution of courtly art; Chapter 2 The new reading public; Chapter 3 The origins of domestic drama; Chapter 4 Germany and the enlightenment; Chapter 5 Revolution and art; Chapter 6 German and western romanticism;
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Taylor & Francis The Stars Down to Earth
Book SynopsisThe Stars Down to Earth shows us a stunningly prescient Adorno. Haunted by the ugly side of American culture industries he used the different angles provided by each of these three essays to showcase the dangers inherent in modern obsessions with consumption. He engages with some of his most enduring themes in this seminal collection, focusing on the irrational in mass culture - from astrology to new age cults, from anti-semitism to the power of neo-fascist propaganda. He points out that the modern state and market forces serve the interest of capital in its basic form. Stephan Crook's introduction grounds Adorno's arguments firmly in the present where extreme religious and political organizations are commonplace - so commonplace in fact that often we deem them unworthy of our attention. Half a century ago Theodore Adorno not only recognised the dangers, but proclaimed them loudly. We did not listen then. Maybe it is not too late to listen now.Trade Review'There is no question of the contemporary importance and relevance of these essays. T. W. Adorno is one of the great critics of the role of irrational authoritarianism in contemporary society.' Douglas Kellner'This collection demonstrates the continuing relevance of Adorno's work to the analysis and understanding of modern times. A brilliant contribution to the sociology of racism, anti-Semitism and popular culture.' - Bryan S. Turner, co-editor, The Penguin Dictionary of Sociology'Theodor Adorno returns from the grave to deliver this timely warning about the dangers of superstition.' ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction: Adorno and Authoritarian Irrationalisation1.The Stars Down to Earth: The Los Angeles Times Astrology Column 2.Theses Against Occultism 3.Research Project on Anti-Semitism: Idea of the Project 4. Anti-Semitism and Fascist Propaganda
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Studying British Cultures An Introduction New Accents
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Taylor & Francis Cultural Theory The Key Concepts
Book SynopsisNow in its second edition, Cultural Theory: The Key Concepts is an up-to-date and comprehensive survey of over 350 of the key terms central to cultural theory today. This second edition includes new entries on: colonialism cybercultur globalisation terrorism visual studies. Providing clear and succinct introductions to a wide range of subjects, from feminism to postmodernism, Cultural Theory: The Key Concepts continues to be an essential resource for students of literature, sociology, philosophy and media and anyone wrestling with contemporary cultural theory.Table of ContentsAesthetics. Cinema. Fundamentalism. Proletariat. Avant garde. Bureaucracy. Epistemology. Geneology. Holocaust. Dialectics. Globalisation. Intertextuality. Meritocracy. Subculture.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Fifty Key Postmodern Thinkers
Book SynopsisPostmodernism is an important part of the cultural landscape which continues to evolve, yet the ideas and theories surrounding the subject can be diverse and difficult to understand. Fifty Postmodern Thinkers critically examines the work of fifty of the most important theorists within the postmodern movement who have defined and shaped the field, bringing together their key ideas in an accessible format. Drawing on figures from a wide range of subject areas including literature, cultural theory, philosophy, sociology and architecture those covered include: John Barth Umberto Eco Slavoj Zizek Cindy Sherman John Cage Jean-Francois Lyotard Charles Jencks Jacques Derrida Homi K. Bhabha Quentin Tarantino Each entry examines the thinkers' career, key contributions Trade ReviewA joy to read, Sim's cross-referenced critical commentary enables readers to perceive transdisciplinary conceptual constellations, chart major and minor theoretical trajectories, and orient postmodernism in relation to current real-world debates about surveillance, neoliberalism, fundamentalism, and the global financial crisis. Intelligently designed, this informative book will not induce information overload. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers. -- E. D. Rasmussen, University of Stavanger in CHOICETable of ContentsIntroduction A-Z Key Thinkers Chronology Bibliography
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Power Without Responsibility Press Broadcasting
Book SynopsisPower Without Responsibility attacks the conventional history of the press as a story of progress; offers a critical defence and history of public service broadcasting; provides a myth-busting account of the internet; and surveys key debates about the role and politics of the media. Trade Review‘This is the book that changed everything in media studies.’Sally Young, University of Melbourne‘This is a brilliant seminal history of broadcasting, press and the new media, vividly and insightfully told, with sharp vignettes of political interference and policy challenges. It is a powerful reminder of why public service broadcasting and truthful communication is vital to our democracy.’Baroness Helena Kennedy, President of Mansfield College, Oxford ‘This skillfully revised and updated edition of Curran and Seaton’s magnificent history is just as fresh and relevant now as it has been over the decades.’ David Hesmondhalgh, Leeds University‘The pleasure of a classic that just keeps redelivering. Power Without Responsibility proves itself yet again as the go-to source for analysis of the British media at their best and worst.’Barbie Zelizer, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania‘If I was able to suggest one book about the history of journalism – whether to a student, a journalist or someone who simply wanted to know more about the role of the news media in our democracy – it would be Power Without Responsibility. Much of our understanding of the past is altered by the present, so we are all indebted to James Curran and Jean Seaton for this excellent new edition. There has been no shortage of controversies and debates about the news media in recent years: this book guides us through them with a sharp eye, a clear head, and the wisdom that comes from a formidable sense of history. Packed with eloquently delivered information, it is analytical but jargon-free, critical without ever being doctrinaire.’Justin Lewis, Cardiff UniversityTable of ContentsPart IPress historyJames Curran Press history as political mythology The struggle for a free press Janus face of reform Industrialization of the press Era of the press barons Press under public regulation Post-war press: fable of progress Press and the remaking of Britain Rise of the neo-liberal Establishment Moral decline of the press Part II Broadcasting history Jean Seaton Reith and the denial of politics Broadcasting and the Blitz Public service commerce: ITV, new audiences and new revenue Foreign affairs: the BBC, the world and the government Class, taste and profit Managers, regulators and broadcasters Public service under attack Broadcasting roller-coaster Part III Rise of new media New media in Britain – James Curran History of the internet – James Curran Sociology of the internet – James Curran Social media: making new societies or polarization – Jean Seaton Part IV Theories of the media Jean Seaton Metabolising Britishness Global understanding Broadcasting and the theory of public service Part V Politics of the media Industrial folklore and press reform – James Curran Contradictions in media policy – James Curran and Jean Seaton Media reform: democratic choices – James Curran BibliographyIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Outside in the Teaching Machine
Book SynopsisGayatri Chakravorty Spivak is one of the most pre-eminent postcolonial theorists writing today and a scholar of genuinely global reputation. This collection, first published in 1993, presents some of Spivak's most engaging essays on works of literature such as Salman Rushdie''s controversial Satanic Verses, and twentieth century thinkers such as Jacques Derrida and Karl Marx. Spivak relentlessly questions and deconstructs power structures where ever they operate. In doing so, she provides a voice for those who can not speak, proving that the true work of resistance takes place in the margins, Outside in the Teaching Machine. Trade Review'Outside in the Teaching Machine is a necessary guide to responsible reading and teaching. Whether literary texts such as Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses and Coetzee’s Foe, philosophy, or films, Spivak’s indefatigable in her questioning of contemporary pieties and in insisting that it is the study of culture that "can help us chart the production of versions of reality".' – Jean Franco, Columbia UniversityTable of Contents1. In a Word: Interview 2. More on Power/Knowledge 3. Marginality in the Teaching Machine 4. Woman in Differnce 5. Limits and Openings of Marx in Derrida 6. Feminism and Deconstruction, Again: Negotiations 7. French Feminism Revisited 8. Not Virgin Enough to Say That [S]he Occupies the Place of the Other 9. The Politics of Translation 10. Inscriptions: Of Truth to Size 11. Reading The Satanic Verses 12. Sammy and Rosie Get Laid 13. Scattered Speculations of the Question of Culture Studies
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University of California Press Death Without Weeping
Book SynopsisWhen lives are dominated by hunger, what becomes of love? When assaulted by daily acts of violence and untimely death, what happens to trust? Set in the lands of Northeast Brazil, this is an account of the everyday experience of scarcity, sickness and death that centres on the lives of the women and children of a hillside favela.Trade Review"Makes a case for ethnography as an art form. . . . A compelling, if deeply disturbing, account of women in a Brazilian shantytown." * New York Times *"Hauntingly beautiful. . . . [The] richly detailed qualitative analysis has thoroughly convinced this reader, at least, of her arguments linking maternal behavior and child death." * American Anthropologist *"Simply breathtaking. Its controversial theme—that mother love as conventionally understood is a luxury for those who can reasonably expect, as poor women in Brazil cannot, that their infants will live—is, in the best sense, illuminated by deconstructionist and feminist thought. The author's understanding of these lives on the edge is at times sympathetic, passionate, and sophisticated. But what makes the book as exciting to read as a good novel is her long-term interaction with a group of people that she clearly loves and the complete lack of the sense of the "other" that is so often found in anthropological writing. This work should have as much influence on studies of the relationship of women and children as did Margaret Mead's Growing Up in Samoa (1936) on the shaping of adolescence or Oscar Lewis's The Children of Sanchez (1961) on the cultural effects of poverty. Highly recommended." * Library Journal *"The compelling narrative investigates the everyday tactics of survival that people use to stay alive in a culture of institutionalized dependency ravaged by sickness, scarcity, feudal working conditions and death-squad "disappearances." * Publishers Weekly *"A shattering portrayal of life among the impoverished inhabitants of Alto do Cruzeiro ('Hill of the Crucifixion'), a shantytown in the city of Bom Jesus da Mata in northeastern Brazil's Pernambuco Province. . . . A stimulating, consistently engrossing contribution to the scientific understanding of a complex and tragic situation." * Kirkus Reviews *“Difficult to stop reading.” * Horizons Magazine *Table of ContentsPrologue: Sugar House Introduction: Tropical Sadness Chapter 1: O Nordeste: Sweetness and Death Chapter 2: Bom Jesus: One Hundred Years Without Water Chapter 3: Reciprocity and Dependency: The Double Ethic of Bom Jesus Chapter 4: Delirio de Fome: The Madness of Hunger Chapter 5: Nervoso: Medicine, Sickness, and Human Needs Chapter 6: Everday Violence: Bodies, Death, and Silence Chapter 7: Two Feet Under and a Cardboard Coffin: The Social Production of Indifference to Child Death Chapter 8: (M)Other Love: Cultue, Scarcity, and Maternal Thinking Chapter 9: Our Lady of Sorrows: A Political Economy of the Emotions Chapter 10: A Knack for Life: The Everyday Tactics of Survival Chapter 11: Carnaval: The Dance Against Death Chapter 12: De Profundis: Out of the Depths Epilogue: Acknowledgments and Then Some Notes Glossary Bibliography Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Illusions of Postmodernism
Book SynopsisIn this brilliant critique, Terry Eagleton explores the origins and emergence of postmodernism, revealing its ambivalences and contradictions. Above all he speaks to a particular kind of student, or consumer, of popular brands of postmodern thought.Trade Review"Eagleton shows his firm grasp of political tactics and knowledge of history. It is exceptional" Steven Donovan Table of ContentsPreface. 1. Beginnings. 2. Ambivalences. 3. Histories. 4. Subjects. 5. Fallacies. 6. Contradictions. Notes. Index.
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British Museum Press Assyrian Palace Sculptures
Book SynopsisA superb visual introduction to what are undoubtedly some of the greatest works of art from the ancient world, showcasing a series of specially taken photographs of the British Museum's unrivalled collection of Assyrian sculptures.
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British Museum Press Chinese Love Poetry
Book SynopsisSelection of classical and modern Chinese love poems, illustrated with brushwork calligraphy and scenes from rarely exhibited paintings and prints in the collection of the British Museum.
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James Clarke & Co Ltd A A Draught of the South Land
Book SynopsisThe first complete account of the various attempts to map New Zealand prior to 1773, spanning continents, peoples, empires and professions.Trade ReviewThis comprehensive, engaging study highlights how curiosity and ambition drove the pioneering navigational achievements of two brilliant seamen, alongside the development of cartography as a strategic resource, an economic opportunity, and an emblem of western control. Moon reveals how Tasman and Cook gave New Zealand a name and a shape on the global map, while also local documenting local peoples' own methods of recording navigation, and their powerful sense of place. - Andrew Lambert FKC, Laughton Professor of Naval History, Kings College London The story of how our modern maps came to be is far more complicated and interesting than many suspect. Maps are the results of layers of knowledge, superimposed on one another; they are the results of political interest, editorial manipulation, courage, brutality and sympathy. Above all they are the result of cultures - often vastly different - colliding. Among all of these stories, that of the mapping of New Zealand is one of the finest, and here it is brilliantly told. - Sam Willis, Naval Historian and Television Presenter Paul Moon, who has been detailing the history of New Zealand Aotearoa for some years with a series of books, has now added to his oeuvre with one that neatly summarises the evolution of ideas about the location, size and shape of these islands from the theoretical ideas of sixteenth century European geographers to the charts produced by the likes of James Cook near the end of the eighteenth century. - John Robson, Quondam Map Librarian, University of Waikato Moon does not just dive into his topic; he sets the scene with chapters on the development of cartography, and one about the Dutch East India Company (known by the initials VOC from its Dutch name). Moon suggests that "Exploration has always been an appetite that grows with the eating", as states and companies sought to discover opportunities for expansion or commerce. "Maps", says Moon, "did not just plot the course of Dutch commercial expansion". He notes that they led the way. The early history of the mapping of New Zealand is entwined with the history of the VOC. Larry Robins in Cook's Log, Vol. 46, no. 4, pp.12-13 October (2023)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction 1. Cartography and the Age of Discovery 2. The VOC and Dutch Batavia 3. Abel Janszoon Tasman 4. 'The Intelligence Empire': Seventeenth-Century Dutch Exploration of the South Pacific 5. New Zealand on the Map 6. The Growth of Literacy and Mapmaking in England 7. 'To Add a Lustre to this Nation': Cook's Expedition 8. Mapping the East Coast of New Zealand 9. One or Two Islands Separated by a Strait? 10. North and South Islands Revealed 11. The End of Cook's First Journey to the Southern Hemisphere 12. Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Polity Press Nature Western Attitudes Since Ancient Times Themes in History
Book Synopsisaeo A lively, accessible introduction to the history of nature and the environment. aeo An outline of the major understandings of a naturea in the western world since classical times from nature as higher authority to its more recent meaning of a threatened form of life.Trade Review"Common green wisdom attributes modern treatment of the environment to all sorts of legacies from history, usually Western, Judaeo-Christian and capitalist. Peter Coates examines all the usual suspects, from the Ancient Greeks, to Renaissance man and the thinkers of the Enlightenment, and no less critically the usual eco-heroes, from St Francis and the Zen Buddhists to the American Indians. He places shifting ideas and attitudes in the full and proper context of their time, and rightly condemns the tendency to raid the past for handy quotations to legitimize the campaigns of the present. He shows us how landscapes in England and elsewhere are related to these ideas, particularly show pieces like National Trust properties and American National Parks, but they are often landscapes of dispossession as well as landscapes of conservation. He takes us into the immediate antecedents of modern environmentalism and shows us a green side to Engels and (alarmingly) to Himmler as well as to Wordsworth and William Morris. Always judicious, Peter Coates's book will prove the best possible guide to the history of environmental ideas. Anyone who seriously wants to find a way through the maze of the past and to judge how we have arrived at the present and who prizes scholarship above polemics, will need to read this book." Professor T. C. Smout, Institute for Environmental History, University of St Andrews "For some years it has struck me as intriguing that there is no good recent history of nature - though in a sense hardly surprising since one could not imagine a more daunting subject for a historian to tackle.... I am delighted to say that Peter Coates's text fills the bill particularly well: it is clear, cogent, comprehensive, and well organized.... This is a stunning book." Roy Porter, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine "I am very impressed with this book. It offers much more depth on most of the historical periods than any other book I've read.... and I couldn't stop reading it." Michael Barbour, University of California, "Peter Coates's Nature is an engaging book, written in a lucid and accessible style and enlivened by the author's wry humour." Professor Peter Burke, Emmanuel College, Cambridge "Coates' prose is lively and his critical perspactive engaging...students and general readers will find this an enjoyable and thought-provoking introduction to some of the key ideas and debates within environmental history." Andrea Gaynor, University of Western Australia 'Peter Coates's book is a welcome, updated introduction to environmental history. Presuming no prior knowledge of the field on the part of his readers, Coates confirms the discipline's "status as one of the most enthralling...pursuits within historical studies" (p.viii). Though faced with a monumental task of synthesis - even within a considerably narrowed scope - Coates succeeds admirably.' Journal of the History of the Behavioural SciencesTable of ContentsPreface. 1. The Natures of Nature. 2. Ancient Greece and Rome. 3. The Middle Ages. 4. The Advent of Modernity. 5. The World Beyond Europe. 6. Nature as Landscape. 7. Reassessments of Nature: Romantic and Ecological. 8. The Disunited Colours of Nature. 9. The Future of Nature. Notes. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Photography
Book SynopsisThe everyday practice of photography by millions of amateur photographers -- the family snapshots, the holiday prints, the wedding portraits -- may seem to be a spontaneous and highly personal activity. But Bourdieu and his associates show that few cultural activities are more structured and systematic than the social uses of this ordinary art.Trade Review"At his best Pierre Bourdieu observes the world like an acerbic novelist, and Photography is Bourdieu at his best - its insights into the popular use of the camera still offer the delights of recognition and a valuable reminder that cultural studies need the empirical and theoretical underpinnings provided by good, Durkheimian sociology." Simon Frith "Interesting ... in its scope and insights." The Guardian "Pathbreaking [and] intriguing." Times Higher Education SupplementTable of ContentsPreface. Introduction. Part I: . 1. The Cult of Unity and Cultivated Differences (Pierre Bourdieu). 2. The Social Definition of Photography (Pierre Bourdieu). Part II: . 3. Aesthetic Ambitions and Social Aspirations: The Camera Club as a Secondary Group (Robert Castel and Dominique Schnapper). 4. Mechanical Art, Natural Art: Photographic Artists (Jean-Claude Chamboredon). 5. Professional Men or Men of Quality: Professional Photographers (Luc Boltanski and Jean-Claude Chamboredon). Notes. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Love of Art European Art Museums and their
Book Synopsisaeo This book is a classic work in the sociology of culture, by a world leader in the field. aeo The book is one of the first systematic, comparative studies of European art museums and their publics.Trade Review"At last, this important book is available in translation. It is an essential component of Bourdieu's œuvre, and of his contribution to our knowledge and understanding of the social basis of High Culture. It also provides theorists of the arts with that rare but necessary critical tool: factual information about the world of the museum." Janet Wolff "This is vintage Bourdieu, showing how class generates culture, which in turn reinforces class." Museum AnthropologyTable of ContentsTranslators' Note. Preface. 1. Signs of the Times. 2. The Research Process. 3. The Social Conditions of Cultural Practice. 4. Cultural Works and Cultivated Disposition. 5. The Rules of Cultural Diffusion. 6. Conclusion. Appendices. 1. Timetable of Research. 2. The Questionnaires and the Sampling Method. 3. The Public of French Museums. 4. Verificatory Surveys. 5. Analysis of 250 Semi-directed Interviews. 6. The Public of European Museums. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Hypermodern Times
Book Synopsis* Lipovetsky is an important thinker in France and his ideas and responses to current intellectual debates surrounding modernity and postmodernity discussed in this book will travel well. * This book presents a highly original new way of thinking about modern society and the individual.Table of ContentsForeword Paradoxical individualism: An introduction to the thought of Gilles Lipovetsky, by Sébastien Charles 9 Time against time, or Hypermodern society 51 Notes 113 Stages in an intellectual itinerary: A conversation between Gilles Lipovetsky and Sébastien Charles 118 Bibliography of publications by Gilles Lipovetsky 142
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Symbolic Misery Volume 1
Book SynopsisIn this important new book, the leading cultural theorist and philosopher Bernard Stiegler re-examines the relationship between politics and aesthetics in our contemporary hyperindustrial age. Stiegler argues that our epoch is characterized by the seizure of the symbolic by industrial technology, where aesthetics has become both theatre and weapon in an economic war. This has resulted in a symbolic misery' where conditioning substitutes for experience. In today's control societies, aesthetic weapons play an essential role: audiovisual and digital technologies have become a means of controlling the conscious and unconscious rhythms of bodies and souls, of modulating the rhythms of consciousness and life. The notion of an aesthetic engagement, capable of founding a new communal sensibility and a genuine aesthetic community, has largely collapsed today. This is because the overwhelming majority of the population is now totally subjected to the aesthetic conditioning of marketTrade Review"In this decisive contribution to a critical understanding of contemporary life, Stiegler demonstrates how mass exclusion from cultural production constitutes a form of generalized impoverishment, threatening to reduce our existence to mere subsistence. Typically though, he also suggests how we might build alternatives to this 'symbolic misery'. This work forms a vital part of Stiegler's essential project." Martin Crowley, Queen�s College, University of Cambridge "Expanding on Deleuze�s idea of 'control societies', Bernard Stiegler provocatively diagnoses the 'misery' of contemporary society as a collective exclusion from the creation of symbols. A war is being waged, he argues: capitalistic marketing is the instrument of choice, the battleground is aesthetics and the fight is for the control of affect. Recommended for anyone interested in the contemporary cultural condition." N. Katherine Hayles, Duke UniversityTable of ContentsForeword Of Symbolic Misery, the Control of Affects, and the Shame that Follows As Though We Were Lacking or How to Find Weapons in Alain Resnais’s Same Old Song Allegory of the Anthill The Loss of Individuation in the Hyper-industrial Age Tiresias and the War of Time On a Film by Bertrand Bonello Afterword
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Participatory Culture in a Networked Era A
Book SynopsisIn the last two decades, both the conception and the practice of participatory culture have been transformed by the new affordances enabled by digital, networked, and mobile technologies. This exciting new book explores that transformation by bringing together three leading figures in conversation.Trade Review"Jenkins, Ito and boyd offer us all a wonderful gift in the form of this book — it’s as though one gets a chance to listen in on a great dinner party conversation between three brilliant scholars, reflecting on more than twenty years of trenchant scholarship on culture, play, identity, and the emergence of the digital world."John Palfrey, Phillips Academy"These authors practise what they preach! To unlock the promise of participatory culture, Jenkins, Ito and boyd invite us to join their intellectual conversation as they puzzle over the dilemmas, insights and challenges of living in a networked era. This is an exciting way to engage with a fast-developing field of research, knowledge and experience."Sonia Livingstone, London School of Economics"The idea of scholarship as dialogue is one that lies buried deep within the humanities. In the pages of this engaging and accessible book, Jenkins, Ito and boyd have brought the ethos of dialogue very much to the surface. Their conversation is an entirely apt technique for reflecting on what is by now a sustained history of collaboration on questions of informal learning, participation and power in the evolving digital media environment."Jean Burgess, Queensland University of Technology"Participatory Culture in a Networked Era is an instructive resource for students, researchers and academics alike while casual readers will also find it informative and engaging."ParticipationsTable of ContentsPreface Defining Participatory Culture Youth Culture, Youth Practices Gaps and Genres in Participation Learning and Literacy Commercial Culture Democracy, Civic Engagement, and Activism Reimagining Participatory Culture References
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Posthumanism
Book SynopsisThis timely book examines the rise of posthumanism as both a material condition and a developing philosophical-ethical project in the age of cloning, gene engineering, organ transplants and implants.Trade Review"Nayar has produced a clear and comprehensive survey and analysis of contemporary posthuman thought. He avoids the excessive reliance on jargon that often mars writing on this topic, and treats the competing views he discusses with an even and incisive hand."Robert Pepperell, Cardiff School of Art & Design"Posthumanism is a coming-of-age book for studies of science, technology, and culture. It brings together the most crucial considerations of current debates about the status of the posthuman and, in so doing, beautifully weaves together their political history and current relevance when thinking through this complex terrain."Andy Miah, University of the West of ScotlandTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgements 1. Revisiting the Human: Critical Humanisms Terms and Definitions Critical Humanisms and the Origins of Posthumanism 2. Consciousness, Biology and the Necessity of Alterity Cognition, Consciousness and Autopoiesis Biology, Systems and Systems Biology Dealing with/in Alterity 3. The Body, Reformatted Biomedia, the Body Mathematized and Postvital Life Other/ing Bodies The Body as Congeries, Assemblage and Interface 4. Absolute Monstrosities: The ‘Question of the Animal’ Monster Theory: Cultures of Otherness Animal Nature, Human Nature The Humanimal Speciesism 5. Life Itself: The View from Disability Studies and Bioethics Disability Studies and the Norms of the ‘Human’ Bioethics and Personhood 6. Posthuman Visions: Toward Companion Species Posthuman Biology Posthumanist Biology Companion Species Conclusion: Posthumanism as Species Cosmopolitanism Bibliography Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Understanding Disney
Book SynopsisTrade 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
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Invention of Creativity
Book SynopsisContemporary society has seen an unprecedented rise in both the demand and the desire to be creative, to bring something new into the world. Once the reserve of artistic subcultures, creativity has now become a universal model for culture and an imperative in many parts of society.In this new book, cultural sociologist Andreas Reckwitz investigates how the ideal of creativity has grown into a major social force, from the art of the avant-garde and postmodernism to the creative industries' and the innovation economy, the psychology of creativity and self-growth, the media representation of creative stars, and the urban design of creative cities'. Where creativity is often assumed to be a force for good, Reckwitz looks critically at how this imperative has developed from the 1970s to the present day. Though we may well perceive creativity as the realization of some natural and innate potential within us, it has rather to be understood within the structures of a very specifTrade Review"Whether you think you are creative or not, you should read on. In carefully dissecting the social and historical constitution of this concept, Andreas Reckwitz provides a compelling account of how creativity has become a defining feature of contemporary society."Elizabeth Shove, Lancaster University"Reckwitz’s The Invention of Creativity is not a "creative industries" book. It is instead a sociology that addresses not so much the aestheticization of society as the societalization of the aesthetic – of the pervasion of what Reckwitz, with Foucault, calls the aesthetic dispositif. Neither a dismissal nor a celebration, the book is instead a genealogy of creativity – of how homo economicus has metamorphosed into homo aestheticus."Scott Lash, Goldsmiths, University of London "An impressive study." Die Zeit"With great intelligence and an argument grounded in scholarship, cultural sociologist Andreas Reckwitz shows just why we perceive creativity as a 'natural' human ability, and one that we feel is absolutely essential in order for us to develop and grow as individuals." Frankfurter Rundschau"A fascinating and ambitious book with a provocative thesis."Times Literary Supplement Table of ContentsContents Preface to the English edition Introduction: The Inevitability of Creativity 1. Aestheticisation and the creativity dispositif: The social regime of aesthetic novelty 2. Artistic creation, the genius and the audience: The formation of the modern artistic field 3. Centrifugal art: Dissolving the boundaries of art practices 4. The rise of the aesthetic economy: Permanent innovation, creative industries and the design economy 5. The psychological turn in creativity: From the pathological genius to the normalisation of the self as resource 6. The Genesis of the star system: The mass media construction of expressive individuality 7. Creative cities: Culturalising urban life 8. Society of creativity: Structures, dissonance, alternatives Notes Index
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Edinburgh University Press A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory
Book SynopsisThis new take on Queer Theory explores the ways in which sexuality, subjectivity and sociality have been discursively produced in various historical and cultural contexts.Trade ReviewThe book provides comprehensive coverage of the relevant issues within Queer Theory and incorporates provocative and highly contentious debates around sadomasochism, fetishism, and transgenderism. -- Linnell Secomb, Department of Gender Studies, University of Sydney A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory is a book I will be keeping on my shelves, and I would recommend it to students new to queer theory and queer textual analysis as a reference point from whence to begin their own explorations. -- Jenny Alexander, Department of Media and Film, University of Sussex Sexualities: Studies in Culture and Society The book provides comprehensive coverage of the relevant issues within Queer Theory and incorporates provocative and highly contentious debates around sadomasochism, fetishism, and transgenderism. A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory is a book I will be keeping on my shelves, and I would recommend it to students new to queer theory and queer textual analysis as a reference point from whence to begin their own explorations.Table of ContentsContents; Introduction; 1 The Social Construction of Same-Sex Desire: Sin, Crime, Sickness; 2 Assimilation or Liberation, Sexuality or Gender?; 3 Queer: A Question of Being, or A Question of Doing?; 4 Queer Race; 5 Performance, Performativity, Parody and Politics; 6 Transsexual Empires and Transgender Warriors; 7 Queering 'Straight' Sex; 8 Community and Its Discontents; 9 Sadomasochism as Resistance?; 10 Fetishism(s) and Political Perversion; 11 Queering Popular Culture; Bibliography.
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SAGE Publications Ltd The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Analysis
Book SynopsisA genuine one-stop reference point for the many, many differing strands of cultural analysis. This isn't just one contender among many for the title of 'best multidisciplinary overview'; this is a true heavyweight. - Matt Hills, Cardiff UniversityAn achievement and a delight - both compelling and useful. - Beverley Skeggs, Goldsmiths, University of LondonWith the 'cultural turn', the concept of culture has assumed enormous importance in our understanding of the interrelations between social, political and economic structures, patterns of everyday interaction, and systems of meaning-making. In The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Analysis, the leading figures in their fields explore the implications of this paradigm shift. Part I looks at the major disciplines of knowledge in the humanities and social sTrade ReviewTwo of the most significant theorists in the study of culture bring together a range of influential and engaging writers, not just to define and map areas, but also to set the agenda for the future investigation of culture. This handbook is an achievement and a delight - both compelling and useful. -- Professor Beverley SkeggsExamining theoretical frameworks, policy issues, and research approaches, Bennett and Frow′s pre-eminent collection robustly defends the importance of the ′cultural turn′, and richly deserves attention and analysis in its own right. Taking in a far broader sweep than the allegiances of cultural studies, and ranging far wider than a focus on cultural theory alone, this Handbook offers a genuine one-stop reference point for the many, many differing strands of cultural analysis. This isn′t just one contender among many for the title of ′best multidisciplinary overview′; this is a true heavyweight. -- Matt HillsTable of ContentsIntroduction: Vocabularies of Culture PART ONE: FRAMEWORKS OF ANALYSIS Anthropology and Culture - Eric Gable & Richard Handler Cultural Geography: An Account - Kay Anderson Psychology and Cultural Analysis - Valerie Walkerdine & Lisa Blackman Sociology and Culture - Tony Bennett Cultural History - Peter Burke Literary Studies - James F. English Culture and Music - Tia DeNora Visual Analysis - Mieke Bal Film Studies - Tom Gunning Broadcasting - Toby Miller Cultural Studies - Ien Ang Feminism and Culture: theoretical perspectives - Griselda Pollock Material Culture - Daniel Miller Culture: Science Studies, and Technoscience - Andrew Pickering PART TWO: CURRENT ISSUES Culture and Nation - David McCrone Culture and Modernities - Joel S. Kahn Globalization and Cultural Flows/Networks - Diana Crane Colonialism and Culture - Christopher Pinney Indigenous Culture: The Politics of Vulnerability and Survival - Tim Rowse Cultural Property - John Frow Culture and Economy - Timothy Mitchell Culture, Class and Classification - Mike Savage Analysing Multiculturalism Today - Ghassan Hage Culture and Identity - Simon Clarke Culture, Sex and Sexualities - Elspeth Probyn & Gilbert Caluya Cultural and Creative Industries - David Hesmondhalgh Cultural Technologies - Celia Lury Cyberculture and New Media - Tiziana Terranova PART THREE: RESEARCH THEORY AND PRACTICE Ethnography - Johannes Fabian & Vincent de Rooij Visual Anthropologies - Sarah Pink Thinking by Numbers: Cultural Analysis and the Use of Data - Justin Lewis Discourse Analysis - Lilie Chouliaraki Cultural Activism - Pepi Leistyna
£142.50
SAGE Publications Inc Identity
Book SynopsisIdentity provides an essential resource of key statements drawn from cultural studies, sociology, and psychoanalytic theory, and includes three editorial essays, which place the readings in their theoretical and historical context. Divided into three parts: Language, Ideology and Discourse; Psychoanalysis and Psycho-Social Relations; and Identity, Sociology and History, this book invites readers to compare and contrast cultural studies approaches with psychoanalytic and historical and sociological accounts of identity formation.The Identity Reader will be an essential sourcebook for students of cultural studies, gender studies, social psychology, and sociology.The key statements are from the work of:Louis Althusser, Jessica Benjamin, Emile Benveniste, Homi K Bhabha, Pierre Bourdieu, Judith Butler, Ian Craib, Jacques D[ac]errida, Norbert Elias, Frantz Fanon, Michel Foucault, Anthony Giddens, Stuart Hall, Pierre Hadot, Melanie KleiTrade Review`This ability to raise so many interesting themes and questions is precisely one of the strengths of this Reader. Another is a choice of contributions based on an historical perspective that enables us to trace some of the main threads in the debate over identity in a variety of disciplines in the last fifty years. In conclusion: an invaluable tool for scholars in the field′ - Discourse & Society" ‘Identity’ is one of the most overused but least considered terms in the lexicon of the contemporary humanities and social sciences. This volume brings together many of the key texts that will contribute to a more thoughtful understanding of the many issues involved in this elusive and deceptively difficult concept. The editors are not merely innocent anthologisers, however. They bring a sharp critical eye and a polemical editorial line to their task." -- James DonaldTable of ContentsGeneral Introduction - Paul du Gay, Jessica Evans and Peter Redman PART ONE: THE SUBJECT OF LANGUAGE, IDEOLOGY AND DISCOURSE Introduction - Peter Redman Who Needs `Identity′? - Stuart Hall Ideology Interpellates Individuals as Subjects - Louis Althusser Subjectivity in Language - Emile Benveniste The Mirror Stage - Jacques Lacan Feminine Sexuality - Jacqueline Rose Revolution in Poetic Language - Julia Kristeva Suture - Kaja Silverman The Cinematic Model Diff[ac]erance - Jacques Derrida Interrogating Identity - Homi K Bhabha The Post Colonial Prerogative Domain - Michel Foucault Critically Queer - Judith Butler PART TWO: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND PSYCHOSOCIAL RELATIONS Introduction - Jessica Evans Notes on Some Schizoid Mechanisms - Melanie Klein Mirror-Role of Mother and Family in Child Development - D W Winnicott Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena - D W Winnicott Social Systems as a Defense against Anxiety - Isabel Menzies Lyth Psychoanalysis, Racism and Anti-Racism - Michael Rustin The Negro and Psychopathology - Frantz Fanon The Narcissistic Personality of Our Time - Christopher Lasch The Oedipal Riddle - Jessica Benjamin The Trajectory of the Self - Anthony Giddens What′s Happening to Mourning? - Ian Craib PART THREE: IDENTITY/SOCIOLOGY/HISTORY Introduction - Paul du Gay Homo Clausus and the Civilizing Process - Norbert Elias The Biographical Illusion - Pierre Bourdieu A Note on `Status′ - T H Marshall Identity, Genealogies, History - Nikolas Rose A Category of the Human Mind - Marcel Mauss The Notion of ′Person′; The Notion of ′Self′ The Profession and Vocation of Politics - Max Weber Introduction to `The Use of Pleasure′ - Michel Foucault Reflections on the Idea of the `Cultivation of the Self′ - Pierre Hadot Persons and Personae - Am[gr]elie Okensberg Rorty
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SAGE Publications Ltd Simmel on Culture
Book SynopsisThe German sociologist and philosopher Georg Simmel (1858-1918) is recognized as a leading early twentieth-century European social theorist. This collection enables the reader to engage with the full range of Simmel's dazzling contributions to the study of culture. It opens with Simmel's basic essays on defining culture, its changes and its crisis. These are followed by more specific explorations of: the culture of face-to-face interactions; spatial and urban culture; leisure culture; the culture of money and commodities; the culture of belief; and the politics of female culture.Table of ContentsIntroduction to the Texts Defining Culture Culture and Crisis Culture of Interaction Spatial and Urban Culture Fashion, Adornment and Style Leisure Culture Money and Commodity Culture Politics of Culture Beliefs and Culture
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Taylor & Francis Museum Activism
Book SynopsisOnly a decade ago, the notion that museums, galleries and heritage organisations might engage in activist practice, with explicit intent to act upon inequalities, injustices and environmental crises, was met with scepticism and often derision. Seeking to purposefully bring about social change was viewed by many within and beyond the museum community as inappropriately political and antithetical to fundamental professional values. Today, although the idea remains controversial, the way we think about the roles and responsibilities of museums as knowledge based, social institutions is changing. Museum Activism examines the increasing significance of this activist trend in thinking and practice.At this crucial time in the evolution of museum thinking and practice, this ground-breaking volume brings together more than fifty contributors working across six continents to explore, analyse and critically reflect upon the museum's relationship to activism. Including contTrade Review'Museums have woken from their slumber. Here is a clarion call to leave behind the "immorality of inaction" and confront a troubled world, a threatened planet, and threats to cultural diversity, equality and justice. This volume documents the extraordinary range of ways in which museum activism, as an integral and necessary part of contemporary museum practice, is at work in the 21st century. Janes and Sandell marshal an impressive line-up of authors across the globe who are using the "civic resource" of the museum to bring about environmental, social and political change. The book is a handbook for this urgent task. Read it and join the struggle!'- Conal McCarthy, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand'Are museums shrines to the past, hubs of engagement for the present, or shapers of the future? Assembling dozens of contributions by leading and new voices in museum studies, Museum Activism targets the core values and principles guiding museum practice today with the aim of transforming the way we think about the social role of museums. This book offers a deep reflection on the limits and potential for museum activism at a time of deepening economic inequality and environmental collapse, a bold call for action for the international museum community, and a field guide to museum activism in practice. Slaying the zombie myth of institutional neutrality that excuses institutional complacency and inaction, it argues for a vision of the museum as an ally and agent of change. Activists around the world are calling on museums to leverage their cultural power to help shape the future for the common good. This book is an insider’s guide to making it happen.'- Beka Economopoulos, Founding Director of The Natural History Museum, USA, a traveling museum and museum transformation project'Janes and Sandell have assembled a powerful volume of essays that encourages museums to transform themselves from precious vaults into active agents of social justice. Museum Activism is a collective call for museums to become more mindful, moral, and courageous places of conscience. These timely essays challenge museums to become more aware of the toxic legacies and current devastation of colonialism, imperialism, xenophobia, homophobia, racism and sexism and to become unafraid in "addressing the big problems and the big questions" that confront us globally. This publication provides a needed wake-up call, a radical re-imagining of museums and a range of practical strategies for action!'- Jennifer Scott, Director & Chief Curator of Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, University of Illinois at Chicago, USAMuseum Activism features 34 essays by 50 authors from 14 countries on six continents that look at how museums are working as activists on issues, such as climate change, decolonization, sustainability, the Holocaust, the refugee crises, feminism, politics and queer activism, human rights and poverty.-Rob Alexander, Rocky Mountain OutlookThe 53 authors involved in this book did a fabulous job in translating their engagement and research into language for an academic publication that is understandable and able to convey the reasons behind their personal engagement. As the editors stated in the introduction, a book with such a big topic can only be “partial and particular” but the book is an valuable orientation within the discourse and will provide many points of reference for future research. I found this book comforting as I resonated with many of the frustrations shared in the chapters and it did make me hopeful to be reminded that there is a whole community out there doing important work.-Anabel Roque Rodríguez, Anabel Roque Rodríguez BlogThe book is a strong collection of essays on activist museum practices around the world and it deserves a wide readership, not just by museum workers, but also by people who are unconvinced by claims that museums are entitled to and worthy of support[...] The world is full of racists, homophobes, misogynists and climate breakdown deniers. They continue to resist the notion that museums can never be, and should stop pretending to be, neutral[...] But resistance is rendered far more difficult as a result of the existence of this book. -David Fleming, Museums Journal "This publication is vital reading for those arts managers who are interested in progressing their own activist ideas or activism within their organisations. It is primarily suitable those working in the museums and heritage sectors, but as many of the case studies touch on wider fields, it is also highly relevant for those working in arts, community learning and science engagement settings...Altogether, it is an excellent publication providing theoretical and practical examples of how museums can embrace activism and be harnessed as a force for good."- Arts Management, 2019"Bringing together a well-selected collection of current and best practice activism by and at museums across a global community spanning six continents, Museum Activism builds upon existing linkages between social protest and reform movements and transformations within museum scholarship and practice"- Kylie Message & Eleanor Foster, Museum Management and Curatorship"Museum Activism is undoubtedly the most influential scholarly book I’ve read in recent times. It is a book that demands multiple readings, a resource that discloses new meanings every time it is consulted, a body of reference that untangles the complex interpretations of a concept which is still uncomfortable for many of us working in the museum field." - Andrea Bandelli, Executive Director, Science Gallery InternationalTable of ContentsList of Colour Plates; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Posterity Has Arrived: The Necessary Emergence of Museum Activism Robert R. Janes and Richard Sandell; Part 1 Nurturing Activism; 2 Detoxing and Decolonising Museums Sara Wajid and Rachael Minott; 3 Growing an Activist Museum Professional Elizabeth Wood and Sarah A. Cole; 4 Dividing Issues and Mission-driven Activism: Museum Responses to Migration Policies and the Refugee Crisis Maria Vlachou; 5 Access as Activism: Bringing the Museum to the People Catherine Kudlick and Edward M. Luby; 6 Fossil Fuel Sponsorship and the Contested Museum: Agency, Accountability and Arts Activism Paula Serafini and Chris Garrard; 7 The Activist Role of Museum Staff Victoria Hollows; 8 From the Ground Up: Grassroots Social Justice Activism in American Museums Laura-Edythe S. Coleman and Porchia Moore; 9 Spectacular Defiance Julie McNamara; 10 ‘I’m Gonna Do Something’: Moving Beyond Talk in The Museum Bernadette Lynch; 11 Feminism and the Politics of Friendship in the Activist Museum Viv Golding; Part 2 Activism in Practice; 12 Memory Exercises: Activism, Symbolic Reparation, and Non-repetition in Colombia’s National Museum of Memory Cristina Lleras, Michael Andrés Forero Parra, Lina María Díaz and Jennifer Carter; 13 Auto Agents: Inclusive Curatorship and its Political Potential Jade French; 14 Museums as Public Forums for 21st Century Societies: a Perspective from the National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe Njabulo Chipangura and Happinos Marufu; 15 Museums in the Climate Emergency Steve Lyons and Kai Bosworth; 16 Activism, Objects and Dialogues: Re-engaging African Collections at the Royal Ontario Museum Silvia Forni, Julie Crooks and Dominique Fontaine; 17 Museological Activism and Cultural Citizenship: Collecting the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement Selina Ho and Vivian Ting; 18 Museums in the Age of Intolerance Sharon Heal; 19 Activist Practice Through Networks: A Case Study in Museum Connections Mercy McCann; 20 Whose Memories for Which Future? Favela Museums and the Struggle for Social Justice in Brazil Marcelo Lages Murta; 21 From Vision to Action: The Journey Towards Activism at St Fagans National Museum of History Sioned Hughes and Elen Phillips; 22 Inside out/outside in: Museums and communities activating change Moya McFadzean, Liza Dale-Hallett, Tatiana Mauri and Kimberley Moulton; 23 Quiet is the New Loud? : On Activism, Museums and Changing the World Åshild Andrea Brekke; 24 Heritage and Queer Activism Sean Curran; Part 3 Assessing Activism; 25 The Activist Spectrum in United States Museums Dina A. Bailey; 26 Up Against It: Contending with Power Asymmetries in Museum Work Kevin Coffee; 27 Taking a Position: Challenging the Anti-authorial Turn in Art Curating Lynn Wray; 28 Memory Activism and the Holocaust Memorial Institutions of the 21st century Diana I. Popescu; 29 Advocacy and Activism: A Framework for Sustainability Science in Museums Sandra L. Rodegher and Stacey Vicario Freeman; 30 Narratives of Transformation: Stories of Impact from Activist Museums Jennifer Bergevin; 31 Memorial Museums at the Intersection of Politics, Exhibition and Trauma: A study of the Red Terror Martyrs Memorial Museum Bridget Conley; 32 ‘I Attack this Work of Art Deliberately’: Suffragette Activism in the Museum Nicola Gauld; 33 Museums, Activism and Social Media (or, how Twitter challenges and changes museum practice) Jennie Carvill Schellenbacher; 34 Unprecedented Times? Shifting Press Perceptions on Museums and Activism Jenny Kidd; Index
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Duke University Press Beyond the Body Proper
Book SynopsisIncludes nine sections organized around themes such as everyday life, sex and gender, and science. This title features articles and book excerpts focused on bodies using tools and participating in rituals, on bodies walking and eating, and on the female circumcision controversy, as well as pieces on medical classifications, and spirit possession.Trade Review“This discerning collection offers a highly creative reading of the development of modern social thought about bodies as means of life in the world. Beyond the Body Proper will be an invaluable classroom companion across a wide range of disciplines in the human sciences.”—Jean Comaroff, Bernard E. and Ellen C. Sunny Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago“[E]xpansive and provocative. . . . This volume offers an indispensable resource for scholars and an excellent reader for courses on medical anthropology, anthropology of the body, and social theory.” -- Sarah Pinto * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsNotes on the Format of the Book ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction / Judith Farquhar and Margaret Lock 1 I. An Emergent Canon, or Putting Bodies on the Scholarly Agenda Introduction 19 On the Part Played by Labor in the Transition from Ape to Man / Friedrich Engels 25 The Pre-eminence of the Right Hand: A Study in Religious Polarity / Robert Hertz 30 Right and Left in China / Marcel Granet 41 Techniques of the Body / Marcel Mauss 50 Symbols in Ndembu Ritual / Victor Turner 69 The Social Skin / Terence S. Turner 83 II. Philosophical Studies, or Learning How to Think Embodiment Introduction 107 Opposition of the Materialist and Idealist Outlook / Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels 113 On the Mimetic Faculty / Walter Benjamin 130 from The Phenomenology of Perception / Maurice Merleau-Ponty 133 Making Up People / Ian Hacking 150 from Bodies That Matter / Judith Butler 164 Do You Believe in Reality? / Bruno Latour 176 III. Fundamental Processes, or Denaturalizing the Given Introduction 187 Time and Space / E. E. Evans-Pritchard 193 Women Mystics and Eucharistic Devotion in the Thirteenth Century / Caroline Walker Bynum 202 On Breath / Kristofer M. Schipper 213 Some Speculations on the History of “Sexual Intercourse” during the “Long Eighteenth Century” in England / Henry Abelove 217 Human Body Parts as Therapeutic Tools: Contradictory Discourses and Transformed Subjectivities / Margaret Lock 224 Meratus Embryology / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing 232 IV. Everyday Life, or Exploring the Body’s Times and Spaces Introduction 241 Walking in the City / Michel de Certeau 249 Tactility and Distraction / Michael Taussig 259 The City: The Sewer, the Gaze, and the Contaminating Touch / Peter Stallybrass and Allon White 266 Medicinal Meals / Judith Farquhar 286 Rereading as a Woman: The Body in Practice / Nancy K. Miller 297 V. Colonized Bodies, or Analyzing the Materiality of Domination Introduction 307 Remembering Amal: On Birth and the British in Northern Sudan / Janice Boddy 315 National Bodies, Unspeakable Acts: The Sexual Politics of Colonial Policy Making / Susan Pedersen 330 The Zoot Suit and Style Warfare / Stuart Cosgrove 347 Cooptation and Control: The Reconstruction of Inuit Birth / Patricia Leyland Kaufert and John D. O’Neil 359 Dosic Bodies/Docile Bodies / Jean Langford 376 VI. Desires and Identities, or Negotiating Sex and Gender Introduction 383 Men, Beasts, and “Nature” / John Boswell 389 Cartographies of Desire: Male-Male Sexuality in Japanese Discourse / Gregory M. Pflugfelder 400 The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles / Emily Martin 417 We Always Make Love with Worlds / Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari 428 VII. Bodies at the Margin, or Attending to Distress and Difference Introduction 435 The Woman beneath the Skin: A Doctor’s Patients in Eighteenth-Century Germany / Barbara Duden 443 Memory within the Body: Women’s Narrative and Identity in a Southern Italian Village / Mariella Pandolfi 451 Nervoso / Nancy Scheper-Hughes 459 Somatization: The Interconnections in Chinese Society among Culture, Depressive Experiences, and the Meanings of Pain / Arthur Kleinman and Joan Kleinman 468 Jarring Bodies: Thoughts on the Display of Unusual Anatomies / Alice Domurat Dreger 475 VIII. Capitalist Production, or Accounting the Commodification of Bodily Life Introduction 489 Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism / E. P. Thompson 495 The Production of Possession: Spirits and the Multinational Corporation in Malaysia / Aihwa Ong 512 Constructing a “Good Catch,” Picking a Winner: The Development of Technosemen and the Deconstruction of the Monolithic Male / Matthew Schmidt and Lisa Jean Moore 550 Alienation of Body Parts and the Biopolitics of Immortalized Cell Lines / Margaret Lock 567 IX. Knowing Systems, or Tracking the Bodies of the Biosciences Introduction 587 Pulse Diagnosis in the Greek and Chinese Traditions / Shigehisa Kuriyama 595 Real-Time Fetus: The Role of the Sonogram in the Age of Monitored Reproduction / Rayna Rapp 608 Quit Sniveling, Cryo-Baby, We’ll Work Out Which One’s Your Mama! / Charis Thompson 623 Bodyworlds: The Art of Plastinated Cadavers / Jose van Dijck 640 Inventing the Heterozygote: Molecular Biology, Racial Identity, and the Narratives of Sickle-Cell Disease, Tay-Sachs, and Cystic Fibrosis / Keith Wailoo 658 Bibliography 673 Citations for Text Selections 679 Index 685
£27.90
University of Pittsburgh Press Swarms Viral Writing and the Local
Book SynopsisA new addition to the University of Pittsburgh Press Composition, Literacy, and Culture series.
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