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Book SynopsisEveryone knows the great American Dream: that America is the land of free enterprise, offering men and women without inherited advantages the chance to get ahead through hard work and self-reliance. Yet The Great American Speech offers an alternative vision, one enshrined in the country's most memorable speeches.

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Book SynopsisThis compelling book offers a fresh and novel approach to study cultural and artistic expression from the perspective of 'the commons'. It demonstrates how identifying cultures as shared resources is useful in eliciting the main factors and social dilemmas affecting the production and evolution of cultural expression. Adopting the unifying perspective of 'the cultural commons', the chapters provide in-depth analysis of a wide range of cultural resources, including traditional cultural expression, heritage, gastronomy and cultural content in virtual worlds. Taking an interdisciplinary perspective and gathering contributions from economic, sociological and legal fields, this timely book proposes a new and complementary research agenda. Scholars and postgraduate students of cultural economics, cultural studies, and sociology of culture will find this authoritative and essential book invaluable. Contributors: C. Barrere, E. Bertacchini C. Bocchino, Q. Bonnard, P. Borrione, G. Bravo, A. Buzio, A. Carbone, V. Chossat, P. Fiorentino, M. Friel, X. Greffe, C. Hess, M. Marrelli, M. Murphree, A. Re, W. Santagata, A.J. Scott, M. Trimarchi, Y. ZhangTrade ReviewThe concept of the commons as a shared resource capable of yielding collective benefits to people is a well-established one in the social sciences, but its extension to jointly-owned cultural resources is relatively new. This pioneering book explores the idea of a cultural commons as it can be applied in a wide range of areas, including landscapes, art and design, gastronomy, heritage, the performing arts and the on-line world. Although the book's chapters are written mainly from the perspective of cultural economics, the scope of the volume is truly interdisciplinary. The book is more than just a comprehensive introduction to the topic. It is also a source of original ideas that will act as a stimulus to further research in the field. - --David Throsby, Macquarie University, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: Preface PART I: ENTERING THE FIELD 1. Defining Cultural Commons Enrico Bertacchini, Giangiacomo Bravo, Massimo Marrelli and Walter Santagata 2. Constructing a New Research Agenda for Cultural Commons Charlotte Hess 3. Cultural Commons and Cultural Evolution Giangiacomo Bravo PART II: FROM CULTURAL DISTRICTS TO CULTURAL COMMONS 4. The Cultural Economy of Landscape and Prospects for Peripheral Development in the Twenty-first Century: The Case of the English Lake District Allen J. Scott 5. Overlapping Cultural Commons and Districts in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area: Potentials for Local Economic Development Clara Bocchino and Michael Murphree 6. Structure and Evolution of Two Cultural Commons: Italian Futurism and Milanese Design Paola Fiorentino and Martha Friel 7. Food, Gastronomy and Cultural Commons Christian Barrère, Quentin Bonnard and Véronique Chossat PART III: UNDERSTANDING HERITAGE AS CULTURAL COMMONS 8. Heritage as Cultural Commons: Towards an Institutional Approach of Self-governance Yan Zhang 9. Cultural Commons and New Concepts Behind the Recognition and Management of UNESCO World Heritage Sites Aldo Buzio and Alessio Re PART IV: CULTURAL COMMONS IN THE VIRTUAL AND DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT 10. The Role of Mediated Communities in Producing and Sharing Digital Cultures Xavier Greffe 11. Virtual Worlds, Online Gaming Communities and Cultural Commons Enrico Bertacchini and Paola Borrione 12. Opera 2.0: Crowdsourcing the Stage Alessandra Carbone and Michele Trimarchi PART V: CONCLUSION 13. Cultural Commons: A New Perspective on the Production and Evolution of Cultures Enrico Bertacchini, Giangiacomo Bravo, Massimo Marrelli and Walter Santagata Index

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Book SynopsisThis timely book demonstrates how full account can be taken of the structure and method of private international law in its expanding relationship with cultural heritage law, identifying opportunities for keeping pace with the underpinning value judgments. Through a global lens, Roodt explores how value-rationality and mutuality can defeat the dogmatic underpinnings of conflicts and jurisdiction rules that frustrate the achievement of global solidarity in public policy decisions and the treatment of foreign public law.The satisfactory settlement of claims based on ownership and the restitution of art and cultural objects requires improvements in the approaches and methods of dispute resolution that prevail today. The author reveals hidden dimensions of private international law, which can help re-script these approaches and methods to better tailor them to the illicit trade in cultural objects, title laundering, the suppression of policy considerations and ethical concerns that support the restitution of Nazi spoliated art.International officials and policymakers will find this a unique and ethically comprehensive resource, addressing matters that impact the artistic, cultural and historical record and the safeguarding of cultural and heritage objects within the contemporary art market. Adjudicators, law enforcement officials and legal scholars will appreciate its fresh and inclusive treatment of issues including restitution, material heritage and provenance.Trade Review'This book provides the reader with a fresh perspective on cultural heritage law by focusing upon its relationship with principles of private international law. It discusses complex and important issues, such as the repatriation of Nazi spoliated art, in a manner which is engaging and commendably ambitious in scope.' --Janet Ulph, University of Leicester, UK'Dr Roodt offers a fresh exploration of the relationship between private international law and cultural heritage law, and provides an insightful account of the role that private international law can play in the protection of art and cultural objects. Private international law is an essential backdrop against which to consider restitution and spoliation claims, not only in terms of the determination of venue for dispute resolution, but also as regards the law to govern problems of ownership and compensation. This book is a welcome reassertion of the role of private international law in handling the morally and legally challenging problems which affect the international art and antiquities market.' --Janeen M. Carruthers, University of Glasgow'With its extensive footnoting and lists of cases from at least fourteen countries, this wide-ranging and detailed survey makes an important contribution to the growing body of literature and analysis surrounding this difficult and topical subject, as the bibliography of over 30 pages indicates. International lawyers as well as policy makers everywhere should consider this book an essential purchase.' --Phillip and Elizabeth Taylor, The Barrister MagazineTable of ContentsContents: 1. The Role of Private International Law in the Protection of Art and Cultural Objects 2. Restitution: Complexities and Opportunities Introduced by Private International Law 3. Taking a Full Turn – Both Inwards and Outwards 4. Adjudicatory Authority and its Limits 5. Title Laundering in Complex ‘Lock’ Jurisdictions 6. Deciding Claims for Restitution of Nazi Spoliated Art on their Merit: Towards Value Rationality 7. Towards the Equalisation of Claims Based on Public and Private Law 8. Realizing the Potential of Private International Law to Settle Claims to Art and Cultural Heritage Index

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Book SynopsisThis illuminating Handbook presents the state of the art in the scientific field of experience economy studies. It offers a rich and varied collection of contributions that discuss different issues of crucial importance for our understanding of the experience economy. Each chapter reflects diverse scientific viewpoints from disciplines including management, mainstream economics and sociology to provide a comprehensive overview.The Handbook is divided into three subsections to explore progression in the scientific field of experience economy studies. The first section focuses on fundamental debates surrounding the nature and importance of the experience economy. The second section presents more specific topics including innovation, networks and the design of experiences. Finally, the last section explores issues such as cultural events, cuisine, theatre and video games. Moreover, the Handbook gives an insight into how receivers react to experiential elements of experience economy studies.An innovative presentation of experience economics, this is a remarkable collection of new theory and analyses. This book will prove an invaluable resource to researchers and students in management, marketing, psychology and economics.Contributors: Å.E. Andersson, D.E. Andersson, J.O. Bærenholdt, A. Boswijk, L. Chalip, P. Cooke, B.E. Dale, M. Dixon, D. Eide, L. Fuglsang, J.H. Gilmore, B.C. Green, S. Gudiksen, M. Haldrup, G.W. Hallberg, A.H. Hansen, O. Harsløf, F. Holt, J.K. Jacobsen, C. Jantzen, J.F. Jensen, F. Lapenta, J. Larsen, Y.-C. Lin, A. Lorentzen, L. Mossberg, B.T. Nilsen, B.J. Pine II, G. Schulze, A. Snel, F. Sørensen, D. Sundbo, J. Sundbo, C. Svabo, T. Tschang, J. VangTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction to the Experience Economy Jon Sundbo and Flemming Sørensen PART I: EXPERIENCE FUNDAMENTALS 2. The Experience Economy: Past, Present and Future B. Joseph Pine II and James H. Gilmore 3. Post-industrial Growth: Experience, Culture or Creative Economies? Anne Lorentzen 4. Defining and Categorizing Experience Industries Berit T. Nilsen and Britt E. Dale 5. The Economic Value of Experience Goods David Emanuel Andersson and Åke E. Andersson 6. The Experience Market Gerhard Schulze 7. Experience as the DNA of a Changed Relationship between Firms and Institutions and Individuals Anna Snel 8. Experiencing and Experiences: A Psychological Framework Christian Jantzen 9. The Power of the Economy of Experiences: New Ways of Value Creation Albert Boswijk PART II: TOPICS 10. IT and Experiences: User Experience, Experience Design and User-experience Design Jens F. Jensen 11. Consumer Immersion: A Key to Extraordinary Experiences Ann H. Hansen and Lena Mossberg 12. Innovation in the Experience Sector Jon Sundbo, Flemming Sørensen and Lars Fuglsang 13. Towards More Intertwined Innovation Types: Innovation through Experience Design Focusing on Customer Interactions Dorthe Eide and Lena Mossberg 14. Entrepreneurship in the Experience Economy: Overcoming Cultural Barriers Lars Fuglsang and Flemming Sørensen 15. Networking in the Experience Economy: Scaffolded Networks between Designed and Emerging Regional Development Dorthe Eide and Lars Fuglsang 16. Experiencing Spatial Design Connie Svabo, Jonas Larsen, Michael Haldrup and Jørgen Ole Bærenholdt 17. The Essential Role of Community in Consumption of a Shared Experience: Lessons from Youth Sport Laurence Chalip, Yen-Chun Lin, B. Christine Green and Marlene Dixon 18. Volunteering and User Creation in Communities of Interests Sune Gudiksen PART III: APPLICATION FIELDS 19. The Social Experience of Cultural Events: Conceptual Foundations and Analytical Strategies Fabian Holt and Francesco Lapenta 20. From Creative Cluster to Innovation Platform: The Rise of the Doctor Who Experience in Creative City Cardiff Philip Cooke 21. Unpacking the Spatial Organization of the US Videogames Industry: Lessons for Research on Experience Industry Clusters Jan Vang and Ted Tschang 22. Concept Experiences and their Diffusion: The Example of the New Nordic Cuisine Jon Sundbo, Donna Sundbo and Jan K. Jacobsen 23. Experiencing Everyday Life Anew: Applied Theatrical and Performative Strategies Gry Worre Hallberg and Olav Harsløf 24. Radical Change in Health Care to Achieve Superior Patient Experience Albert Boswijk Index

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Book SynopsisCultural heritage is a complex and elusive concept, constantly evolving through time, and combining cultural, aesthetic, symbolic, spiritual, historical and economic values. The Handbook on the Economics of Cultural Heritage outlines the contribution of economics to the design and analysis of cultural heritage policies and to addressing issues related to the conservation, management and enhancement of heritage.The Handbook takes a multidisciplinary approach, using cultural economics as a theoretical framework to illustrate how crucial and stimulating cross-disciplinary dialogue actually is. Contributors scrutinize the co-existence of cultural and economic values as well as the new challenges that arise from changes brought about by technology, and relationships between the different actors engaged in the production, distribution and consumption of heritage services. The roles of public, private and non-profit organizations are also explored. Case studies underpin the discussion, demonstrating the clear and vital link between theory and practice.This highly unique Handbook will prove a fascinating and informative read for academics, researchers, students and policymakers with an interest in cultural economics.Contributors: M. Abdel-Kader, N. Agnew, G.J. Ashworth, V. Ateca Amestoy, H. Attala, F. Benhamou, L. Bonet, R.T. Carson, X. Castañer, F. Colbert, F. Cominelli, M.B. Conaway, L. Deloumeaux, M. Demas, V. Fernández-Blanco, M. Forte, B.S. Frey, V. Ginsburgh, K. Goto, X. Greffe, C. Guccio, L.C. Herrero, M.J. Holler, A. Klamer, F. Mairesse, I. Mazza, A. Mignosa, D. Mitroff Silvers, T. Navarrete, S. Navrud, D.S. Noonan, P. Paolini, A. Peacock, L. Petrova, J. Prieto-Rodríguez, N. Proctor, F. Revelli, I. Rizzo, E. Rojas, J.-M. Salaün, H. Samir, B.A. Seaman, J.D. Snowball, L. Steiner, J.H. Stubbs, D. ThrosbyTable of ContentsContents: Preface PART I: PUBLIC INTERVENTION AND POLICY ANALYSIS 1. Public Intervention for Cultural Heritage: Normative Issues and Tools Françoise Benhamou 2. Cultural Heritage: Public Decision-making and Implementation Manfred J. Holler and Isidoro Mazza 3. Cultural Heritage Policies: A Comparative Perspective Arjo Klamer, Anna Mignosa and Lyudmila Petrova PART II: PRIVATE ACTORS 4. Demand for Cultural Heritage Victoria Ateca Amestoy 5. The Role of the Private Sector in Cultural Heritage Bruce A. Seaman 6. Tax Incentives for Cultural Heritage Conservation Federico Revelli PART III: THE INTERNATIONAL DIMENSION 7. Issues in the International Market for Cultural Heritage Victor Ginsburgh and François Mairesse 8. World Heritage List Bruno S. Frey and Lasse Steiner 9. Current Challenges in Cultural Statistics: A Focus on Heritage Lydia Deloumeaux PART IV: MANAGEMENT: STRATEGIES AND TOOLS 10. Management Challenges of Cultural Heritage Organizations Xavier Castañer 11. The Marketing of Heritage Venues or Destinations François Colbert PART V: TECHNOLOGIES: ISSUES AND OPPORTUNITIES 12. Digital Cultural Heritage Trilce Navarrete 13. Technologies for Cultural Heritage Paolo Paolini, Dana Mitroff Silvers and Nancy Proctor 14. The Immeasurable Economics of Libraries Jean-Michel Salaün PART VI: CONSERVATION OF BUILT HERITAGE 15. Choices in Architectural Conservation John H. Stubbs 16. Conservation and Sustainable Development of Archaeological Sites Martha Demas and Neville Agnew 17. Market Effects of Historic Preservation Douglas S. Noonan PART VII: CULTURAL HERITAGE AND THE ECONOMY 18. Heritage and Local Development: A Reluctant Relationship Gregory J. Ashworth 19. Heritage Tourism Lluís Bonet 20. Why and How Intangible Cultural Heritage Should be Safeguarded Francesca Cominelli and Xavier Greffe PART VIII: VALUES AND EVALUATION 21. The Values of Cultural Heritage Arjo Klamer 22. The Economic, Social and Cultural Impact of Cultural Heritage: Methods and Examples Jen D. Snowball 23. Assessment of Value in Heritage Regulation David Throsby 24. Performance of Cultural Heritage Institutions Víctor Fernández-Blanco, Luis César Herrero and Juan Prieto-Rodríguez PART IX: CASE STUDIES 25. ‘Adam Smith has Returned to Live in Edinburgh’: A Case Study Alan Peacock 26. Virtual Worlds, Virtual Heritage and Immersive Reality: The Case of the Daming Palace at Xi’an (China) Maurizio Forte 27. Public Spending for Conservation in Italy Calogero Guccio and Ilde Rizzo 28. The Public Sector in the Preservation of Urban Heritage Sites: Lessons from Four Cities in Latin America Eduardo Rojas 29. The Aga Khan Multidisciplinary Experience in Cairo, Egypt: A Different View Hany Attalla, Mohamed Abdel-Kader and Haitham Samir 30. Policy for Intangible Cultural Heritage in Japan: How it Relates to Creativity Kazuko Goto 31. Preliminary Valuation of a Cultural Heritage Site of Global Significance: A Delphi Contingent Valuation Study Richard T. Carson, Michael B. Conaway and Ståle Navrud Index

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Book SynopsisChina is at the crux of reforming, professionalising, and internationalising its cultural and creative industries. These industries are at the forefront of China's move towards the status of a developed country. In this comprehensive Handbook, international experts including leading Mainland scholars examine the background to China's cultural and creative industries as well as the challenges ahead. The chapters represent the cutting-edge of scholarship, setting out the future directions of culture, creativity and innovation in China. Combining interdisciplinary approaches with contemporary social and economic theory, the contributors examine developments in art, cultural tourism, urbanism, digital media, e-commerce, fashion and architectural design, publishing, film, television, animation, documentary, music and festivals. Students of Chinese culture and society will find this Handbook to be an invaluable resource. Scholars working on topics related to China's emergence and its cultural aspirations will also find the themes discussed in this book to be of interest.Contributors: R. Bai, M. Cheung, Y. Chu, P. Chung, J. Dai, J. De Kloet, A.Y.H. Fung, L. Gorfinkel, M. Guo, E.C. Hendriks, C.M. Herr, V. Ho, Y. Huang, M. Keane, W. Lei, H. Li, W. Li, Y. Li, W. Lei, B. Liboriussen, T. Lindgren, R. Ma, L. Montgomery, E. Priest, Z. Qiu, X. Ren, F. Schneider, W. Sun, M.A. Ulfstjerne, J. Wang, Q. Wang, C. Hing-Yuk Wong, H. Wu, B. Yecies, L. Yi, N. Yi, X. Zhang, E.J. Zhao, J. ZhengTrade Review'Michael Keane has compiled an impressive collection of essays that offer the most up to date appraisal of the state of cultural and creative industries in China by both western and Chinese academics and commentators. A must read for anyone who is interested in keeping up with the ongoing transformation of China's cultural and creative sphere.' --Ying Zhu, Author of Two Billion Eyes: The Story of China Central Television'Local stakeholders ranging from government to corporate entities and individual operators have interacted to produce a distinctively Chinese way of doing and talking about cultural and creative industries. This rich collection of lucid essays steps up to the challenge, making it the perfect entry point for understanding the rhetoric and practices of this increasingly crucial sector of the Chinese economy.' --Chris Berry, King's College London, UKTable of ContentsContents: Foreword Stephanie Hemelryk Donald 1. Introduction Michael Keane PART I THE CULTURAL AND CREATIVE INDUSTRIES RECONSIDERED 2. Doing Chinese Cultural Industries: A Reflection on the Blue-book Syndrome and Remedy Paradigm Zitong Qiu 3. The Ten Thousand Things, the Chinese Dream and the Creative Cultural Industries Michael Keane 4. The Makers are Coming: China’s Long Tail Revolution Jing Wang 5. Balinghou and Qilinghou: Generational Difference and Creativity in China Bjarke Liboriussen 6. The Artyficial Paradise: Municipal Face-work in a Chinese Boomtown Michael Alexander Ulfstjerne PART II ADVICE TO GOVERNMENT, IDEOLOGY AND FUTURE CHALLENGES FACING THE CULTURAL INDUSTRIES IN CHINA 7. Editor’s Introduction Michael Keane 8. The Cultural Industries in China: A Historical Overview Xiaoming Zhang 9. The Challenges of China’s Culture ‘Going to the World’ Wuwei Li 10. Chinese Culture ‘Going Out’: An Overview of Government Policies and an Analysis of Challenges and Opportunities for International Collaboration Huailiang Li 11. Ethnic Cultural Industries and the ‘One Place, One Product Strategy’ Na Yi 12. Globalization and Ethnic Grounded Cultural Creativity in Yunnan Yan Li and Ying Huang 13. Cultural Organizations in China: Creating Digital Platforms for Success Marina Guo PART III TRADITIONAL CULTURAL AND CREATIVE INDUSTRY SECTORS IN FLUX 14. Editor’s Introduction Michael Keane 15. The Cultural Governance of Mass Media in Contemporary China Florian Schneider 16. The Regionalization of Co-Production in the Film Industries of Hong Kong SAR and Mainland China Peichi Chung and Lianyuan Yi 17. Chinese Transnational Cinema and the Collaborative Tilt Toward South Korea Brian Yecies 18. Chinese Documentary: Towards Commercialization Yingchi Chu 19. The Urban-Rural Divide in China’s Cultural Industries: The Case of Chinese Radio Wei Lei, Lauren Gorfinkel and Wanning Sun 20. Animation Industries in China: Managed Creativity or State Discourse? Anthony Y-H Fung and Vicky Ho 21. From ‘Nothing to My Name’ to ‘I am a Singer’: Market, Capital, and Politics in the Chinese Music Industry Qian Wang and Jeroen De Kloet 22. China’s Self-Help Industry: American(Ized) Life Advice in China Eric C. Hendriks PART IV ASSESSING DIGITAL LIVES, CONSTRUCTING CREATIVE FUTURES 23. Editor’s Introduction Michael Keane 24. Copyright in China’s Digital Cultural Industries Lucy Montgomery and Eric Priest 25. Commercial and Digital Transformation of Chinese Television Ruoyun Bai 26. Between Sustaining and Disruptive Innovation: China’s Digital Publishing Industry in the Age of Mobile Internet Xiang Ren 27. Getting Connected in China: Taming the Mobile Screen Elaine Jing Zhao 28. The E-commerce Revolution: Ensuring Trust and Consumer Rights in China Ming Cheung 29. Elderly People and the Internet: A Demographic Reconsideration Huan Wu PART V RECALIBRATING SPACE, TRADITION AND REGIONAL IDENTITY 30. Editor’s Introduction Michael Keane 31. Between Contemporary and Traditional: The Ongoing Search for a Chinese Architectural Identity Christiane M. Herr 32. Chinese Fashion Designers: Rebuilding from the Centre of the World Tim Lindgren 33. Spectacles, Showcases, Marketplaces (and Even Public Spheres): Chinese Film Festivals as Cultural Industries Ran Ma and Cindy Hing-Yuk Wong 34. Who is the Knowledge Gatekeeper in the Creative Cluster? A Case Study of Guangdong Industrial Design City Juncheng Dai and Michael Keane 35. A Comparative Perspective on the Industrialization of Art in the Republican Period in Shanghai and Today’s Creative Industry Clusters Jane Zheng Index

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Book SynopsisWorking the Aisles takes the reader on tumultuous driving trips across the United States and France, on phone sex escapades in San Francisco, on banking battles in Sweden, and many other adventures - including, of course, on trips to supermarkets, where the author has had to 'work the aisles'. Moving back and forth through time, like a novelist, indeed in something of a memoirist tour de force, the book develops the story of struggle, of poverty and depression, but also of gaiety and desire, of a will to live in spite of it all, and to keep working the aisles. It moves the reader through highs and lows, through episodes of ecstasy and thoughts about suicide, and tells how this particular Everyman ended up sane but sorry.Trade ReviewThis exploration of our desires, commercial and otherwise, and how we are manipulated by them and how we manipulate, reaches far beyond the shopping mall critique: Mr Appelbaum ranges from the highly intellectual social psychology and literary deconstruction to a highly personal narrative, with dramatic scenes of arrest and odd love encounters and vivid details from the United States, England, and France. Covering roughly 50 years, from 1960 till a few years ago, Working the Aisles paints a telling picture of the astounding economic and social changes of the half century. This is a very entertaining and at the same time melancholy and thoughtful novel-like trip into our ever-growing appetites. It should satisfy reading appetites of nearly everybody: rigorous scholars and those looking for a good and fresh story. Mr Appelbaum will keep you lively company for a couple of nights. You might even want to light a pipe. --Josip Novakovich, finalist for the Man Booker International Prize, author of April Fool's Day and Shopping for a Better Country

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Book SynopsisInvestigations into the cultural significance of that most familiar and charismatic group of animals, bears. Bears are iconic animals, playing a variety of roles in human culture. They have been portrayed as gods, monsters, kings, fools, brothers, lovers, and dancers; they are seen as protectors of the forest; symbols of masculinity; a comfort for children; and act as symbols for conservation and environmental issues. They also symbolise wilderness, reinforcing and maintaining our connection to the natural world. And stories abound of cultures that gathered berries in the same fields as bears and fished on the same rivers; consequently a wealth of myths, legends and folklore has informed us of our place in the world and the deep connection we have with bears. The essays collected here provide a rich selection of views on the human/bear relationships. They explore how bears are an influence in contemporary art, and how they are represented in the illustrations in children's literature and in museum exhibitions. The connection between bears and native peoples, and how contemporary society lives alongside these animals, provides an understanding of current attitudes and approaches to bear management and conservation. The history of captive bears is brought into contemporary relief by considering the fate of captive bears held in Asian countries for bile production. Other pieces look at how bears feature in gay culture, and are an intrinsic component to researchon the Yeti and Sasquatch. Together, these articles present an insight into the changing face of attitudes towards nature, species survival and the significance of conservation engagement in the twenty-first century. Biologists, historians, anthropologists, cultural theorists, conservationists and museologists will all find riches in the detail presented in this bear cornucopia. OWEN NEVIN is Associate Vice-Chancellor, Gladstone Region, CQUniversity, Australia; IAN CONVERY is Professor of Environment and Society at the University of Cumbria; PETER DAVIS is Emeritus Professor of Museology in the International Centre for Cultural and Heritage Studies at Newcastle University. Contributors: Philip Charles, Melanie Clapham, Ian Convery, Koen Cuyten, Elizabeth O Davis, Peter Davis, Sarah Elmeligi, Beatrice Frank, Barrie K. Gilbert, Jenny Anne Glikman, Tracy Ann Hayes, Mike Jeffries, Jón Jónsson, John Kitchin, Miha Krofel, Gareth Longstaff, Henry McGhie, Jeff Meldrum, Owen T. Nevin, Heather Prince, Lynn Rogers, Kristinn Schram, Bryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir, Russ Van Horn, Mark Wilson, Samantha Young.Trade Review[A]n interesting and informative scholarly volume * CHOICE *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Foreword: The Bear: A Cultural and Natural Heritage Barrie K. Gilbert Introduction: What is a Bear? Owen T. Nevin, Ian Convery, Peter Davis, John Kitchin and Melanie Clapham BEAR-PEOPLE INTERACTIONS The Spirit Bear Philip Charles Out of the Wild Wood and into our Beds: The Evolutionary History of Teddy Bears and the Natural Selection of Deadly Cuteness Mike Jeffries Bears within the Human Landscape: Cultural and Demographic Factors Influencing the Use of Bear Parts in Cambodia and Laos Elizabeth O Davis and Jenny Anne Glikman Bears in Gay Culture: Histories, Discourses and Anthropomorphism Gareth Longstaff Bears, Wildmen, Yeti and Sasquatch Jeff Meldrum Bears in Children's Literature Tracy Hayes, Heather Prince and Ian Convery Knowing Individual Bears Owen T. Nevin, Ian Convery and John Kitchin BEARS IN THE PUBLIC GAZE Bears Behind Bars: Captive Bears Throughout History Koen Cuyten and Ian Convery The Bear in the Museum Peter Davis Museum Polar Bears and Climate Change Henry McGhie On the Oblique Imperative: What Revealing Conceals and Concealing may Reveal Mark Wilson and Bryndis Snæbjörnsdóttir Visitations: The Social and Cultural History of Polar Bear Narratives in Iceland and the North Atlantic Kristinn Schram and Jón Jónsson BEAR BIOLOGY, MANAGEMENT AND CONSERVATION Chemical Signalling in Brown Bears Melanie Clapham, Owen T. Nevin and Ian Convery Reducing Uncertainty in Bear Management Sarah Elmeligi, Owen T. Nevin and Ian Convery Living with Bears in Europe Miha Krofel Citizen Science and Bears Sarah Elmeligi, Owen T. Nevin and Ian Convery Understanding Local Folklore and Attitudes in Apennine Brown Bear Conservation Jenny Anne Glikman and Beatrice Frank Reducing Human Impacts on Andean Bears in NW Peru Through Community-based Conservation Samantha A Young, Russell C Van Horn and Jenny Anne Glikman Afterword: 'It's Me Bear': Reflections on a Unique Career Working with Bears Lynn Rogers List of Contributors Index Previous titles

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Book SynopsisThe importance of the Anglo-Saxon past to England in the eighteenth century, politically and culturally, is here brought out. A valuable addition to both our understanding of Anglo-Saxonism, and of eighteenth-century culture. Eloquently written, the book will be the key reference for any future understanding of the way in which eighteenth-century culture received the Anglo-Saxon period. David Matthews, Professor of Medieval and Medievalism Studies, University of Manchester. Long before they appeared in the pages of Ivanhoe and nineteenth-century Old English scholarship, the Anglo-Saxons had become commonplace in Georgian Britain. The eighteenth century - closely associated with Neoclassicism and the Gothic and Celtic revivals - also witnessed the emergence of intertwined scholarly and popular Anglo-Saxonisms that helped to define what it meant to be English. This book explores scholarly Anglo-Saxon studies and imaginative Anglo-Saxonism during a century not normally associated with either. Early in the century, scholars and politicians devised a rhetoric of Anglo-Saxon inheritance in response to the Hanoverian succession, and participants in Britain's burgeoning antiquarian culture adopted simultaneously affective and scientific approaches to Anglo-Saxon remains. Patriotism, imagination and scholarship informed the writing of Enlightenment histories that presented England, its counties and its towns as Anglo-Saxon landscapes. Those same histories encouraged English readers to imagine themselves as the descendants of Anglo-Saxon ancestors - as did history paintings, book illustrations, poetry and drama that brought the Anglo-Saxon past to life. Drawing together these strands of scholarly and popular medievalism, this book identifies Anglo-Saxonism as a multifaceted, celebratory and inclusive idea of Englishness at work in eighteenth-century Britain.Trade Review[A] detailed portrait of eighteenth-century English medievalism [...]. -- SPECULUMTable of ContentsIntroduction: Anglo-Saxonism, Medievalism and the Eighteenth Century Chapter 1: Anglo-Saxonisms of the Early Eighteenth Century Chapter 2: Antiquaries and Anglo-Saxons Chapter 3: Anglo-Saxon History and the English Landscape Chapter 4: Imaging and Imagining Anglo-Saxonness Chapter 5: Anglo-Saxonist Politics and Posterity Conclusion: Sharon Turner's History of the Anglo-Saxons Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe phenomenon of women's entrepreneurship has gained significant momentum across the globe. Written by leading scholars from a wide range of countries, this book advances the understanding of women's entrepreneurship by drawing attention to the contexts they operate in. It is the fifth in the series of books produced in partnership with the Diana International Research Network.In this book, expert contributors explore female potential and how entrepreneurs make decisions within a multi-layered gendered context. As a rare and current overview of women's entrepreneurship, it presents evidence of the positive impact that achieving equality in gendered institutions would have, how to facilitate meso-institutions' impact and how to foster entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial initiative at the individual level. A crucial discussion of how women's entrepreneurship could benefit from a more comprehensive concept of innovation or implementing entrepreneurial policies focused on women is also included.With its focus on advancing knowledge about gender issues within the business realm, Women's Entrepreneurship in Global and Local Contexts will be of interest to researchers, faculty and students as well as policy-makers and practitioners.Contributors include: R. Aidis, L. Alexandre, G. Armannsdottir, T. Bijedic, A.M. Bojica, C. Brindley, S. Brink, C.G. Brush, S. Coleman, S. Cooper, L. De Vita, M. del Mar Fuentes, C. Díaz-García, K. Ettl, A. Ford, C. Foster, E.J. Gatewood, G. Gunay, B.R. Hernández-Sánchez, E.B. Kahraman, S. Kriwoluzky, J.V. León, M. Mari, D. Nziku, C. Pich, S. Poggesi, A. Robb, M. Ruiz-Arroyo, J.C. Sánchez-García, M. Tillmar, D. Uygur, F. Welter, D. WheatleyTrade Review'Research on women's entrepreneurship has moved from the focus of the individual women entrepreneurs and their challenges to a broader understanding of the context in which women's entrepreneurship is embedded. With contributions from a large variety of contexts, this book embraces this development. By promoting feminist perspectives, as well as including studies at the macro, meso and micro level, this book gives insights into the complex and context-dependent processes hindering, promoting and shaping women's entrepreneurship. The book serves as a celebration of scholarly research on women's entrepreneurship globally. I fully recommend it as an important addition to the entrepreneurship literature.' --Gry Agnete Alsos, Nord University Business School, Norway'This rich chapter collection makes a valuable contribution to building the cumulative body of research on women's entrepreneurship. It provides an important and timely reminder that a context-centric perspective is vital for more insightful analysis of female entrepreneurship. The book is expertly organized. The first section focuses on gendered institutional contexts and conceptualizations that help or hinder women's entrepreneurship, the second set of chapters fit around meso-organizational structures and gendered institutions of importance to women entrepreneurs and the final section highlights their embedded agency. Sections build together to provide a coherent contribution where the sum is greater than its parts. A must-read for anyone, including policy-makers, interested in female entrepreneurship.' --Anne de Bruin, Massey University, New Zealand'This carefully curated set of papers moves the gendered discussion of women's entrepreneurship from the micro to macro perspective while looking at critically important topics such as political empowerment, innovation and technology, industrial distribution, and, of course, access to capital. The book is especially important in looking at these issues across a variety of global environments. The papers are thoughtful and well-researched and provide a strong foundation for anyone looking to learn and advance this field.' --Patricia Greene, Babson CollegeTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: Women’s Entrepreneurship in Global and Local Contexts Cristina Díaz-García, Candida G. Brush, Elizabeth J. Gatewood and Friederike Welter P​ART​​ I ​INSTITUTIONAL FACTORS EXPLAINING WOMEN ENTREPRENEURSHIP 2. The​ ​Role of​ ​Gendered​ ​Institutional​ ​Contexts in the​ ​Rate and​ Type of​ ​Women’s​ ​Entrepreneurship​​ ​Across​ ​Countries Matilde Ruiz Arroyo, Maria del Mar Fuentes and Ana Maria Bojica 3. Business and Occupational Crowding: Implications for Female Entrepreneurship Development and Success Ruta Aidis 4. Innovation and Women’s Entrepreneurship – (Why) are Women Entrepreneurs Less Innovative? Teita Bijedić, Siegrun Brink, Kerstin Ettl, Silke Kriwoluzky, Friederike Welter 5. Strategies and Policies Influencing Entrepreneurial Start-Up Decisions: Evidence from Tanzanian Female Entrepreneurs Dina Nziku PART II MESO-ORGANSATIONAL STRUCTURES AND INSTITUTIONS INFLUENCING WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS 6. The Gendered Contextualization of SME Cooperation in Urban East Africa Malin Tillmar 7. Management in Small Firms Run by Women: A Case Study of Handicraft Exporters Janina V. León 8. Supporting Artisan Communities Through Social Entrepreneurship in Kenya: An Exploration of Soko Alanna Ford and Sarah Cooper 9. Empowering Women through Social Entrepreneurship with Innovative Business Models: Cases from Turkey Duygu Uygur, Elif Bezal Kahraman and Gonca Gunay 10. Financing High-Growth Women-Owned Enterprises: Evidence from the United States Susan Coleman and Alicia Robb PART III WOMEN ENTREPRENEURSHIP AS EMBEDDED AGENCY: ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENTION, FIRM CREATION AND MANAGEMENT 11. The Entrepreneurial Potential of Spanish University Women Based on a Psychosocial Model José C. Sánchez-García & Brizeida R. Hernández-Sánchez 12. Entrepreneurial Intention of Young Lebanese Students; An Overview of a Gender Study Laurice Alexandre 13. An Exploration of Icelandic Marketing Women Entrepreneurs Guja Armansdottir, Clare Brindley, Carley Foster, Daniel Wheatley and Christopher Pich 14. Women Entrepreneurs and Performance: Evidence from Italy Michela Mari, Sara Pogessi and Luisa De Vita Index

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Book SynopsisDon't Lose Track is a collection from the widely published arts and culture journalist, Jordannah Elizabeth. The book includes reviews, essays and interviews hand selected by Jordannah from a catalog of over 200 articles.

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Book SynopsisStephen Castles provides a deeper understanding of recent 'migration crises' in this fascinating and highly topical work. The book links theory and methodology to real-world migration experiences, with a truly global perspective and in-depth analysis of the links between economics, migration and asylum and refugee issues. Key features surrounding this complex and often controversial field are examined through five thematic sections: the sociological theories and methodologies most appropriate for understanding the migratory process, including the changing nature of international migration in an era of globalization analysis of contemporary types of migration and the cruciality of understanding migration as a dynamic social process - inability to do so may lead to policy failure and unintended consequences the relationship between migration and development asylum and refugees the effects of international migration on citizenship and identity, providing a critical perspective on the emergence of transnationalism. Migration, Citizenship and Identity will appeal to graduate students, senior undergraduates and lecturers in international migration, globalization, sociology, political science, demography and geography. Government officials, civil society activists, social workers, medical personnel, lawyers and other professional groups whose work is concerned with migrants and refugees will also find much to engage them.

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Book SynopsisAdopting a geographically diverse and theoretically rigorous approach, this Handbook on the Geographies of Creativity is a cutting-edge study of creativity as it has emerged in policy, academic, activist, and cultural discourse over the last two decades. A range of sectors are explored with in-depth engagement and understanding, including: dance, music, craft, visual art, circus arts and fashion. This Handbook departs from conventional modes of analysing creativity by industry, region or sector, and instead identifies key themes that thread through shifting contexts of the creative, namely creativity as imaginary, locality, mobility, labour, culture, intervention and method. By tracing the myriad spatialities of creativity, the chapters map its inherently paradoxical features: reinforcing persistent conditions of inequality even as it opens avenues for imagining and enacting more equitable futures. The conceptual framework proposed for critically appraising present debates and articulating future directions for creative and cultural industries will be useful for scholars and academics researching culture, media and design. Policy makers and professionals working in creative and cultural industries (CCIs) will find the wide range of case studies in this Handbook an essential tool for further understanding the field. Contributors include: S.T. Allison, S. Baker, J. Banfield, D. Bennett, S. Black, C. Brennan-Horley, A.R. Brown, P. Carter, S. Ching-Kiu Chan, K. Connell, A. de Dios, S. de Leeuw, O. Efthimiou, C. Gibson, S. Hannon, H. Hawkins, M. Keane, L. Kong, D. Leslie, S. Luckman, H. McLean, S. McQuire, J. O'Connor, N. Papastergiadis, J. Peck, N.M. Rantisi, A. Rogers, J. Smith, J. Wang, S. Warren, D. Wyatt, C. Veal, A. Yue, L. ZhangTrade Review'Two decades after the original promotion of creative industries, there is a period of global rethinking. With talk of a ''creative economy'' that goes beyond the traditional sectors, critiques of creative cities, and a stalling of three decades of economic globalization, it is a timely opportunity for critical work on geographies of creativity. This collection draws together a diverse and accomplished collection of scholars well equipped to undertake this important task.' --Terry Flew, Queensland University of Technology, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: Geographies of Creativity: Inherited Concepts, Revised Vistas ANJELINE DE DIOS AND LILY KONG PART I. Creativity as Imaginary 2. The Creative Imaginary: Cultural and Creative Industries and the Future of Modernity JUSTIN O’CONNOR 3. Culture Club: Creative Cities, Fast Policy, and the New Symbolic Order JAMIE PECK 4. From Cultural industries to Creative Industries and Back? Towards Clarifying Theory and Rethinking Policy LILY KONG PART II. Creativity as Locality 5. Creativity as Locality: The Role of Artists and Galleries in a Toronto Creative District DEBORAH LESLIE AND SHANNON BLACK 6. Beyond the ‘Buzz’: Locating Critical Geographies of Creativity CHRIS GIBSON AND CHRIS BRENNAN-HORLEY 7. The Role of Arts and Culture in Resilient Cities: Creativity and Place-Making AUDREY YUE PART III. Creativity as Mobility 8. The Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces at Work: Mobility of the Creative Workforce JUNE WANG AND LUYUE ZHANG 9. The Creative Mobilities of Cultural Identity: Transnational Tours of Philippine Performing Arts Ensembles ANJELINE DE DIOS 10. People, Places and Processes: Crafting Authenticity Through Situating the Local in the Global SUSAN LUCKMAN PART IV. Creativity as Labour 11. The Role of Heroic Creativity and Leadership in Creative Work DAWN BENNETT, OLIVIA EFTHIMIOU AND SCOTT T. ALLISON 12. The Rise and Fall of Professional Singers: A Typology of Creative Careers in the Performing Arts KATHLEEN CONNELL, ANDREW R. BROWN AND SARAH BAKER PART V. Creativity as Culture 13. Contemporary Cambodian Dance and Sites of National Culture: Chumvan Sodhachivy’s YouTube Page AMANDA ROGERS 14. Whose Culture? Spatialising Artful Institutions, Migration and Belonging in Manchester SASKIA WARREN 15. Ambient Culture: Making Sense of Everyday Participation in Open, Public Space NIKOS PAPASTERGIADIS, STEPHANIE HANNON, SCOTT MCQUIRE, DANIELLE WYATT AND PAUL CARTER PART VI. Creativity as Intervention 16. En/Acting Radical Change\: Theories, Practices, Places and Politics of Creativity as Intervention HEATHER MCLEAN AND SARAH DE LEEUW 17. Performing Alterity: Creative Practice as Intervention in Postcolonial Cultural Politics STEPHEN CHING-KIU CHAN 18. Cultures of Creativity and Innovation in Greater China MICHAEL KEANE 19. From Social ‘Integration’ to Transformation: Supporting the Emancipatory Potential of Circus Arts Creativity DEBORAH LESLIE, NORMA RANTISI AND JESSIE SMITH PART VII. Creativity as Method 20. Making as Geographical Method JANET BANFIELD 21. Creativity as Method: Exploring Challenges and Fulfilling Promises? CHARLOTTE VEAL AND HARRIET HAWKINS Index

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Book SynopsisConflicts, Religion and Culture in Tourism highlights the role of religious tourism and pilgrimage as a tool for improving cultural relations. Helping to form culture and society worldwide, faith plays a vital part in cross-cultural conflict resolution and opening dialogue across peoples. This book shows how faith and activism can respond to the common challenges of peace making and coexistence both within and among the world's many traditions. The book: - contains diverse empirical research insights on aspects of religious traditions, conflicts and challenges; - presents a range of contemporary case studies, across ancient, sacred and emerging tourist destinations as well as new forms of pilgrimage, faith systems and quasi-religious activities; - provides a global perspective, including contributions from Europe, Asia and the Americas. Conflicts, Religion and Culture in Tourism provides a timely assessment of the increasing linkages and interconnections between religious tourism and secular spaces on a global stage. Written from a multidisciplinary perspective, it provides an invaluable resource for those studying and researching religion, tourism and cultural management.Table of Contents1: Introduction to Conflicts Religion and Culture in Tourism Part I: Conflict, Religion, Culture and Tourism 2: Consciousness in Conflict 3: Defamation of Religion and Freedom of Speech 4: Imagining the Contours of Culture: is Religious Tourism a Precondition for Conflict? 5: The Essence of Community Cohesion through Religious Tolerance Part II: (re)Claiming Space - Modern Reinstatements of Religion and Pilgrimage 6: Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage in a Non-religious Country: the Czech Republic 7: Pilgrimage, cultural landscape, and tourism in the heritagization of Churches and Christian Sites in Nagasaki 8: Claiming territory: The role of pilgrimage in the struggle for a re-Christianisation of Sweden 9: Cuba and Its Christian Roots: A Case for Understanding Religious Tourism Part III: Understanding Other : Conflicts Challenges and Issues 10: Visiting Graves, Tombs and Shrines in Islamic Law 11: Religious Spaces as Discrete System: a case of Ayodhya, India 12: Halal Tourism: The Case of Turkey 13: Kosher Tourism. A Greek case study 14: War and Cultural Heritage: The case of religious monuments 15: Appendix - Discussion Points

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Book SynopsisHow are cultural identities, values and traditions challenged, appropriated and negotiated? What does 'being secure' mean? Is 'soft power' merely a continuation of imperialism? The Handbook of Cultural Security heightens our awareness of the interplay between 'culture' and 'society' in the age of globalization, and explores the emerging concept of cultural security.With chapters from leading experts providing case studies from across the world this timely and unique Handbook examines the relationship between society, culture, and security in a globalizing world. Providing a diverse examination of the topic, the contributors emphasise the role of 'non traditional' security and seek to define what 'being secure' means across a broad number of contexts. Chapters cover topics ranging from the politics of radical Islam, the global spread of gated communities, and cultures of security and surveillance to discussions of the concept soft power; the forms it takes, and the impacts of 'exporting' culture.This Handbook provides a platform for future debate in both academic and policy fields, and as such will be of interest for both students of public and social policy, international relations, and politics, as well as those engaged in shaping policy in these areas.Contributors include: A. Åkerlund, A. Anderson, A. Anisman, A. Azra, B.K. Blitz, E. Brogi, C. Ceniza Choy, A. Clarke, E. Eken, P. Gielen, J.L. Graves Jr., J. Guetzkow, F. Hartig, C.B. Huat, F. Izadi, J. Lai, G. Lee, A. Manguvo, O. McIvor, T. Monahan, M. Nyanungo, J. Pamment, A. Pande, S. Pandey, P.L. Parcu, A. Richter, J. Ruan, H. Saghaye-Biria, E. Sevin, S.J. Son, G. Sun, C. Webster, M. Wieviorka, A. Wojciuk, Y. WatanabeTrade Review'With a refreshingly original theoretical framework of ''cultural security'', Professor Watanabe offers a collection of 24 chapters by eminent scholars from all over the world. Taking up urgent contemporary issues, each article deliberates upon the question of cultural security in the global era as ''super modern'' with competing soft powers or the global era as ''postmodern'' when culture serves as the ''safety net'' of one's identity. It is a splendid contribution to academia as well as to the general public.' --Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, University of Wisconsin, USTable of ContentsContents Introduction Yasushi Watanabe PART I CULTURE AND HUMAN SECURITY 1. Cultural insecurity in a world of violence, fear and risk Michel Wieviorka 2. Islam’s moderation and radicalism: a special context to Southeast Asian Islam Azyumardi Azra 3. Neo-racism in the age of genomics Joseph L. Graves Jr 4. Intellectual property and indigenous culture Jessica C. Lai 5. Keeping our languages alive: strategies for Indigenous language revitalization and maintenance Onowa McIvor and Adar Anisman 6. Indigenous culture, HIV/AIDS and globalization in Southern Africa: towards an integrated sexuality education pedagogy Angellar Manguvo and Martha Nyanungo 7. Cultural security and Pentecostalism in the Global South Seung Jin Son and Allan H. Anderson 8. International adoption and cultural insecurity Catherine Ceniza Choy 9. Statelessness and cultural security Brad K. Blitz 10. Private gains and social costs of China’s gated communities Chris Webster, Jingjing Ruan and Guibo Sun 11. The image of the smart city: surveillance protocols and social inequality Torin Monahan 12. Arts, community empowerment and cultural security: a critical assessment of arts impact research Josh Guetzkow PART II CULTURE AND SOFT POWER 13. Soft power after Nye: the neoliberal international order and soft power learning Geun Lee 14. Americanizing soft power discourses and its discontents Foad Izadi and Hakimeh Saghaye-Biria 15. The role of the state in cultural diplomacy James Pamment and Andreas Åkerlund 16. Indian diaspora as an instrument of India’s soft power Amba Pande and Sanjay Kumar Pandey 17. Global indices and nation branding Efe Sevin and M. Evren Eken 18. Higher education as a soft power in international relations Anna Wojciuk 19. Cultural exchange, language competition, and China’s Confucius Institutes Falk Hartig 20. Pop culture and soft power competition in East Asia Chua Beng Huat 21. Safeguarding creativity: an artistic biotope and its institutional insecurities in a global market orientated Europe Pascal Gielen 22. Heritage diplomacy Amy Clarke 23. Pluralism and freedom of the media: a European perspective Elda Brogi and Pier Luigi Parcu 24. Cultural security of Ukraine in times of conflict: legal aspects Andrei Richter Index

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Book SynopsisGalician audio/visual culture has experienced an unprecedented period of growth following the process of political and cultural devolution in post-Franco Spain. This creative explosion has occurred in a productive dialogue with global currents and with considerable projection beyond the geopolitical boundaries of the nation and the state, but these seismic changes are only beginning to be the subject of attention of cultural and media studies. This book examines contemporary audio/visual production in Galicia as privileged channels through which modern Galician cultural identities have been imagined, constructed and consumed, both at home and abroad. The cultural redefinition of Galicia in the global age is explored through different media texts (popular music, cinema, video) which cross established boundaries and deterritorialise new border zones where tradition and modernity dissolve, generating creative tensions between the urban and the rural, the local and the global, the real and the imagined. The book aims for the deperipheralization and deterritorialization of the Galician cultural map by overcoming long-established hegemonic exclusions, whether based on language, discipline, genre, gender, origins, or territorial demarcation, while aiming to disjoint the center/periphery dichotomy that has relegated Galician culture to the margins. In essence, it is an attempt to resituate Galicia and Galician studies out of the periphery and open them to the world.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations viiIntroduction: Peripheries are not what they used to be 1Part 1 Roots and Routes: Remapping Galician Culture in the Global Age1 Peripheral Visions, Global Positions 192 Deterritorialization and Deperipheralization: Galician Studies atthe Global Crossroads 443 Sound and Vision: All Roads Lead to Santiago 74Part 2 Peripheral Visions4 Made in Galicia: Making the Invisible Visible 1035 Reimagining Galician Cinema: Utopian Visions? 1206 The Galician Magic Kingdom: Nation and Animation from theGlocal Forest 1427 A Peripheral Focus: The Rebirth of the Novo Cinema Galego 168Part 3 Global Sounds8 Peripheral Movidas: Cannibalizing Galicia 2099 Smells Like Wild Spirit: Galician Rock Bravú, Between theRurban and the Glocal 23910 Bagpipes, Bouzoukis, and Bodhráns: The Reinvention ofGalician Folk Music 266Coda: Leaving the Periphery Behind 294Works Cited 309Index 321

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Book SynopsisCaribbean Critique seeks to define and analyze the distinctive contribution of francophone Caribbean thinkers to perimetric Critical Theory. The book argues that their singular project has been to forge a brand of critique that, while borrowing from North Atlantic predecessors such as Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, and Sartre, was from the start indelibly marked by the Middle Passage, slavery, and colonialism. Chapters and sections address figures such as Toussaint Louverture, Baron de Vastey, Victor Schoelcher, Aimé Césaire, René Ménil, Frantz Fanon, Maryse Condé, and Edouard Glissant, while an extensive theoretical introduction defines the essential parameters of 'Caribbean Critique.'Trade Review'This is a very important and exciting book. Extending to the whole of the French Caribbean his previous work on the philosophical bases of the Haitian Revolution, Nesbitt has produced the first ever account of the region’s writing from a consistently philosophical, as distinct from literary or historical, standpoint.' Celia Britton'… the book fills an important gap in francophone Caribbean studies, which has always had a strong theoretical component but, arguably, has not previously been subject to such a rigorously philosophical critical treatment. … latest study will prove to be a landmark, indeed seminal, work in Caribbean Critique.' French Studies'Nesbitt’s book may be read as a survey, it also offers extremely succinct, complex, and compelling new perspectives on polemical issues that inhabit our work as professors, pedagogues, and intellectuals today…' Contemporary French Civilization'Nesbitt has made an important and highly original contribution to such debates.'New West Indian Guide Reviews 'A prodigiously researched and compelling conceptualisation of francophone Caribbean critical thought.' Gabriella Rodriguez, SX SalonTable of Contents Acknowledgements Preface Introduction: The Caribbean Critical Imperative I. Tropical Equality: The Politics of Principle . 1 Foundations of Caribbean Critique: From Jacobinism to Black Jacobinism . 2 Victor Schoelcher, Tocqueville, and the Abolition of Slavery . 3 Aimé Césaire and the Logic of Decolonization . 4 ‘Stepping Outside the Magic Circle’: The Critical Thought of Maryse Condé . 5 Édouard Glissant: From the Destitution of the Political to Antillean Ultra-leftism II. Critique of Caribbean Violence . 6 Jacobinism, Black Jacobinism, and the Foundations of Political Violence . 7 The Baron de Vastey and the Contradictions of Scribal Critique . 8 Revolutionary Inhumanism: Fanon’s On Violence . 9 Aristide and the Politics of Democratization III. Critique of Caribbean Relation . 10 Édouard Glissant: From the Poétique de la relation to the Transcendental Analytic of Relation . 11 Césaire and Sartre: Totalization, Relation, Responsibility . 12 Militant Universality: Absolutely Postcolonial . Conclusion: Aimé Césaire: The Incandescent I, Destroyer of Worlds Appendix: Letter of Jean-François, Belair, and Biassou/ Toussaint, July 1792 Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFrom Bataille to Badiou: Lignes: the preservation of Radical French Thought, 1987-2017 provides an exhaustive reading of the significant yet understudied intellectual review Lignes, from 1987 to 2017, to demonstrate how it has managed to preserve and develop the legacy of French radical thought often referred to as ‘French Theory’ or ‘la pensée 68’. Whilst many studies on intellectual reviews from the 1930s to the 1980s exist, this book crucially illuminates the shifting intellectual and political culture of France since the 1980s, filling a major gap in contemporary debates on the continued relevance of French intellectuals. This book provides a strong counter-narrative to the received account that, after the anti-totalitarian ‘liberal moment’ of the late 1970s, Marxism and structuralism were completely banished from the French intellectual sphere. It provides the historical context behind the rise of such internationally renowned thinkers such as Alain Badiou, Jacques Rancière Jean-Luc Nancy, whilst placing them within an intellectual genealogy stretching back to Georges Bataille and Maurice Blanchot in the 1930s. The book also introduces the reader to lesser known but nonetheless significant thinkers, including Lignes editor Michel Surya, Dionys Mascolo, Daniel Bensaïd, Fethi Benslama, Anselm Jappe and Robert Kurz. Through the review’s pages, a novel cultural history of France emerges as intellectuals respond to pressing contemporary issues, such as the fall of Communism, the European migrant crisis and rising nationalist tensions, the globalisation of financial capitalism and the 2008 economic crisis, scandals surrounding paedophilia and the return of religious thought to France, as well as debates on literature and the political value of art.Trade Review'This is an exciting, informative, well-written and engaging book. It will make a significant contribution to the field and will be useful for students and academics with an interest in French Studies and the contemporary moment, while also of interest for the general reader. [May] tells an exciting story, driven by a focused attention to the fortunes of radical critical debate and the different forms that resistance to political orthodoxy has taken in and around Lignes since the more explicit and well-known moment of the 1960 and 1970s.'Patrick ffrench, Kings College LondonReviews 'Up until this volume by May, no such monograph was available on this particular French intellectual review. However, Adrian May’s uncommon, very interesting, and even unique book gives a very good view of what they are missing.'Kristof K.P. Vanhoutte, Philosophy in ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsA Note on AbbreviationsA Note on TranslationsIntroduction: Lignes: An Intellectual Review after the Deaths of both Intellectuals and ReviewsChapter 1: French Thought between Liberalism and Fascism: Bataille and Blanchot in the 1930sChapter 2: The Communism of Thought: Reviews and Revolution in the 1960s with Blanchot and MascoloChapter 3: Immoral, Impure, Atheist Artists? Developing a neo-Nietzschean Critical Ethos for the Twenty-First CenturyChapter 4: Breaking the consensus: Immigration and la pensée uniqueChapter 5: Power without Politics: Domination Theory and the Crises of CapitalismChapter 6: Combatting the Crisis: Reconstructing Political Agency, from Rousset and Foucault to Rancière and BadiouChapter 7: Excluded from Thought? Lignes, Literary Conservatism and Identity PoliticsConclusion: Lignes: the Preservation of French Radical ThoughtAppendix 1: Lignes Editorial Board MembersAppendix 2: Lignes issue titlesLignes Articles CitedOther Works Cited

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Book SynopsisAn Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched.Anti-Empire explores how different writers across Lusophone spaces have engaged with imperial and colonial power at its various levels of domination, while imagining alternatives to dominant discourses pertaining to race, ethnicity, culture, gender, sexuality, and class. Guided by a theoretically eclectic approach ranging from Psychoanalysis, Deconstruction, Postcolonial Theory, Queer Theory, and Critical Race Studies, Empire is explored as a spectrum of contemporary global power inaugurated by European expansion and propagated in the postcolonial present through economic, cultural, and political forces. Through the texts analysed, Anti-Empire offers in-depth interrogations of contemporary power in terms of racial politics, gender performance, socio-economic divisions, political structures, and the intersections of these facets of domination and hegemony. By way of grappling with Empire’s discursive field and charting new modes of producing meaning in opposition to that of Empire, the texts read from Brazil, Cabo Verde, East Timor, Portugal, and São Tomé and Príncipe open new inquiries for Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies while contributing theoretical debates to the study of Lusophone cultures.Trade ReviewReviews 'Prof. Silva’s manuscript will fill an important gap in Lusophone and postcolonial studies. It is an original study that groups together an important group of texts and discusses them in relation to their critical positionality regarding colonialism and coloniality.'Antonio Luciano de Andrade Tosta, The University of Kansas‘This study is extremely relevant and of interest for anyone who researches about Lusophone countries literature and their political and historical contexts, as well as decolonial forms of knowledge. The book is enlightening, easy to understand and presented in a logical manner. In addition, it certainly provides an important contribution to the field of Lusophone studies and their post-colonial historical, cultural and economic issues.' Débora Zamorano, HispaniaTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Decolonizing Consumption and Postcoloniality: a Theory of Allegory in Oswald de Andrade’s Antropofagia2. Mário de Andrade’s Antropofagia and Macunaíma as Anti-Imperial Scene of Writing3. Toward a Multicultural Ethics and Decolonial Meta-Identity in the Work of Fernando Sylvan4. Untranslatable Subalternity and Historicizing Empire’s Enjoyment in Luís Cardoso’s Requiem para o Navegador Solitário5. Imperial Cryptonomy: Colonial Specters and Portuguese Exceptionalism in Isabela Figueiredo’s Caderno de Memórias Coloniais6. Spectrality as Decolonial Narrative Device for Colonial Experience in António Lobo Antunes’s O Esplendor de Portugal7. Decolonizing Hybridity through Intersectionality and Diaspora in the Poetry of Olinda Beja8. Transgendering Jesus: Mário Lúcio’s O Novíssimo Testamento and the Dismantling of Imperial CategoriesConclusionBibliography

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Book SynopsisOverseas department of France in Amazonia and ‘ultraperipheral region’ of the EU, Guyane (French Guiana) is at the juncture of Europe, the Caribbean and South America. This collection of essays explores historical and conceptual locations of Guyane, as a relational space characterised by dynamics of interaction and conflict between the local, the national and the global. Does Guyane have, or has it had, its own place in the world, or is it a borderland which can only make sense in relation to elsewhere: to France and its colonial history, for example, or to African and other diasporas, or as a ‘margin’ of Europe?This edited collection is the first volume to study Guyane from multiple perspectives. It subjects the enduring clichés and negative stereotypes regarding Guyane to critical examination, exploring how discourse on this DOM is, and has been, formed and how it may evolve. Chapters discuss geographical, literary and cultural ‘locations’ of Guyane, past and present, challenging its relegation to the ‘periphery’, whilst also historicizing the production of its marginal status. Finally, the collection aims to outline possible future challenges to the conceptual location of Guyane and possible directions for continued research.Trade Review'The book is a fascinating challenge to historiographies of Guyane as it peels off the layers of its changing relationships with France and other places in the world, detangles its history of contact, reveals the actors involved in its many transitions from place of forced exile to high-tech center, highlights the role its penal past has played in making it “periphery”, and explains what being Guyanais today entails in a globalized world of flows where local Kreyol traditions and Maroon narratives get reinvented and shaped in the context of cultural commercialism and global art markets.'Hélène B. Ducros, Europe Now Journal‘This valuable interdisciplinary volume offers wide-ranging essays that examine stereotypes about France’s Amazonian outpost that go beyond simple images of the country as a ‘green hell.' Robert Aldrich, French History ‘Overall, with Locating Guyana Wood and MacLeod have achieved a milestone in the study of French Guyana.’Fabio Santos, PERIPHERIE'English-language works on Guyane are comparatively few and far between, and Locating Guyane rectifies a lacuna in the wider scholarship by exploring what makes it distinct from its fellow “old colonies” of Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Réunion. Given the volume’s interdisciplinarity and the essays’ breadth, the short volume speaks to a wide range of academic disciplines, and consequently it serves as an excellent scholarly primer on Guyane, its colonial legacy, and its place in an increasingly global, modern world.' Christopher M. Church, H-France ReviewTable of ContentsIntroductionRichard Price, ‘The Oldest Daughter of Overseas France’Kari Evanson, ‘Grand Reporters in Guyane: Bringing the Exotic Back Home’Kathleen Gyssels, ‘Kor and Karnival, the carnal road of Léon-Gontran Damas: “Evidence of Things not Seen”’Silvia Espelt Bombín, ‘Frontier Politics: French, Portuguese and Amerindian Alliances between the Amazon and Cayenne, 1680–1697’Jonna Yarrington, ‘Producing the periphery’Edenz Maurice, ‘A school in Boniville Political skills and “Primitives’ in French Guiana (1930-1969)’Sarah Wood, ‘Reclaiming Félix Éboué: Departmentalisation and politics of commemoration in Guyane, 1944-2012’Antonia Cristinoi and François Nemo, ‘Palikur, a language between two worlds’Sally Price, ‘Maroon Art in Guyane: New Forms, New Discourses’Catriona MacLeod: ‘Performing and Parading Gender in Guyane’s Carnival’Bill Marshall, ‘Equality and Difference: Queering Guyane?’Conclusion: remaking Guyane?

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Book SynopsisPost-Migratory Cultures in Postcolonial France offers a critical assessment of the ways in which French writers, filmmakers, musicians and other artists descended from immigrants from former colonial territories bring their specificity to bear on the bounds and applicability of French republicanism, “Frenchness” and national identity, and contemporary cultural production in France. In mobilizing a range of approaches and methodologies pertinent to their specialist fields of inquiry, contributors to this volume share in the common objective of elucidating the cultural productions of what we are calling post-migratory (second- and third-generation) postcolonial minorities.The volume provides a lens through which to query the dimensions of postcoloniality and transnationalism in relation to post-migratory postcolonial minorities in France and identifies points of convergence and conversation among them in the range of their cultural production. The cultural practitioners considered query traditional French high culture and its pathways and institutions; some emerge as autodidacts, introducing new forms of authorship and activism; they inflect French cultural production with different ‘accents’, some experimental and even avant-garde in nature. As the volume contributors show, though post-migratory postcolonial minorities sometimes express dis-settlement, they also provide an incisive view of social identities in France today and their own compelling visions for the future.Table of ContentsI. Introduction: The Post-Migratory PostcolonialKathryn Kleppinger and Laura ReeckII. Generations and DesignationsDifference-Conscious Critical Media Engagement and the Communitarian QuestionJennifer FredetteBanlieue Writers: The Struggle for Literary Recognition through Collective MobilisationKaoutar HarchiFrancophone and Post-Migratory Afropeans Within and Beyond France TodayChristopher HogarthIII. Postmemory, or telling the past to the presentUn cinéma sans image: Palimpsestic Memory and the Lost History of Cambodian FilmLeslie BarnesVietnam by Removes: Storytelling and Postmemory in Minh Tran HuyCatherine H. NguyenMoving Beyond the Legacies of War in Second-Generation Harki NarrativesSusan IrelandIV. Urban Cultures/IdentitiesRedefining Frenchness through Urban Music and Literature: The Case of Rapper-Writers Abd Al Malik and DisizStève Puig‘Double discours’: Critiques of Racism and Islamophobia in French RapChong J. Bretillon‘Beyond Ethnicity’ or a Return to Type?: Bande de filles /Girlhood (Sciamma, 2014) and the Politics of Blackness in Contemporary French CinemaWill HigbeeV. Imaginings in Visual LanguagesSomebody or Anybody? Hip hop Choreography and the Cultural EconomyFelicia McCarrenMixed Couples in Contemporary French Cinema: Exploring New Representations of Diversity and Difference on the Big ScreenLeslie Kealhofer-Kemp‘Nos ancêtres n’étaient pas tous des Gaulois’: Post-migration and bande dessinéIlaria VitaliIdentity and ‘Difference’ in French Art: El Seed’s Calligraffiti from Street to WebSiobhán ShiltonVI. Afterword: A Long Road to TravelAlec G. Hargreaves and Mark McKinney

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Book SynopsisAn Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.Frères Ennemis focuses on Franco-American tensions as portrayed in works of literature from approximately the mid-nineteenth-century to the present. An Introduction is followed by nine chapters, each focused on a French or American literary text which shows the evolution/devolution of the relations between the two nations at a particular point in time. While the heart of the analysis consists of close textual readings, social, cultural and political contexts are introduced to provide a better understanding of the historical reality influencing the individual novels, a reality to which these novels are also responding. Chapters One through Five, covering a period from the mid-1870s to the end of the Cold War, discuss significant aspects of the often fraught relationship from the theoretical perspective of Roland Barthes’ theory of modern myth, described in his Mythologies. Barthes’ theory helps situate Franco-American tensions in a paradigmatic structure, while at the same time it is supple enough to allow for shifts and reversals within the paradigm. Subsequent chapters explore new French attitudes toward the powerful, potentially dominant influence of American culture on French life. In these sections I argue that recent French fiction displays more openness to the American experience than has existed in the past, and as such contrasts with the more static American approach to French culture.Trade Review'This book is a most original analysis of the ways in which both French and American writers have imagined, represented, resisted, and resembled their trans-Atlantic sibling. In a first-of-its-kind study, Cloonan assembles an original set of literary texts from the end of the Civil War to the present and provides a masterful close reading of a multitude of ever-shifting Franco-American tensions that always fascinate the reader.'Denis M. Provencher, University of Arizona'I have read with great pleasure Frères Ennemis which treats an original subject in a masterly way. [...] Bravo! I hope the exploration of Franco-American “literary diplomacy” is continued with a sequel on the Trump years.'Jean-Marc Moura'A generally informed and insightful discussion of nine representative novels and a score of similar works, all published between the 1870s and the present by French or American authors.' J. Gerald Kennedy (Louisiana State University), H-France Review'Cloonan’s book may not reconcile the French and the Americans with each other, but it clearly advances an appreciation of the ways in which story characters embody perceived ideals about their respective “national” identities' Hélène B. Ducros, EuropeNow'Early on, Cloonan points out that while the complicated relations of France and America have been analyzed in a variety of perspectives - historical, political, sociological, anthropological, cultural - his is the first study to consider that problem exclusively through the lens of literature.' Warren Motte, French ReviewReviews 'Offers a nuanced portrayal of Franco-American tensions through a striking gallery of portraits.' Xavier Kalck, CerclesTable of ContentsDedicationAcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroduction: A Clash of the ComparableChapter I: The Creation of the American in Paris: The AmericanChapter II: Splendor and Misery of the American Scientist: L’Ève futureChapter III: The American Woman and the Invention of Paris: The Custom of the CountryChapter IV: The Expatriate Idyll: The Sun Also RisesChapter V: Blindness and Insight: the Cold War in Les mandarinsChapter VI: Embracing American Culture: CherokeeChapter VII: An American Excursion into French Fiction: The Book of IllusionsChapter VIII: Rerouting: Ça n’existe pas l’AmériqueChapter IX: L’Américaine in Paris: Le DivorceConclusion: Stasis and MovementBibliography

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Book SynopsisAn Open Access edition of this work is available on Modern Languages Open (https://www.modernlanguagesopen.org)Postgrowth Imaginaries brings together environmental cultural studies and postgrowth economics to examine counterhegemonic narratives and radical cultural shifts sparked by the global financial crisis of 2008. A number of critical voices worldwide have emphasized that in the context of a finite biosphere, constant economic growth is a biophysical impossibility. The problem is not a lack of growth but rather the globalization of an economic system addicted to constant growth, which destroys the ecological planetary systems that support life on Earth while failing to fulfil its social promises. Post-2008 Spain offers an optimal context to investigate these cultural processes, and this book demonstrates that a transition toward what Prádanos calls ‘postgrowth imaginaries’—the counterhegemonic cultural sensibilities that are challenging the growth paradigm in manifold ways—is well underway in the Iberian Peninsula today. Specifically, this book explores how emerging cultural sensibilities in Spain—reflected in fiction and nonfiction writing and film, television programs, photographs and graphic novels, op-eds, web pages, political manifestos, and socioecological movements—are actively detaching themselves from the dominant imaginary of economic growth. By approaching the counterhegemonic cultures of the crisis through environmental criticism, Postgrowth Imaginaries uncovers a whole range of cultural nuances often ignored by Iberian cultural studies.Trade Review'[This work] constitutes an urgent, enlightening, and empowering reflection about a crucial subject of our time. Its main focus and virtue is to provide with sound intellectual tools to think about the fundamental danger that the growth paradigm (and particularly its capitalist version) means for humanity and planet Earth. It also opens the discussion about the possibility of a “post-growth” world. [...] The book takes a special interest in studying the academic and disciplinary implications of this debate: what does it mean for humanities, cultural studies, urban studies, and, particularly for Iberian studies to take seriously the ecological crisis and the threat that the growth paradigm means? The claim is not for just a change of subjects of study in these disciplines, but moreover for a change in the way we think.' Luis Moreno-Caballud, University of Pennsylvania'Prádanos's book will become a necessary reference for all those who will subsequently write about post-growth, environmental studies in the Spanish/Iberian context and related subjects.'Katarzyna Olga Beilin, University of Wisconsin'The book is sure to engage Iberian and other cultural scholars. [...] throughout the book Prádanos analyses an impressively wide array of cultural productions—from the habitual novels, films, and documentaries to graphic novels and cartoons, songs, and an “audiovisual experiment,” a website, a street mural in Madrid, and even an art installation made entirely of garbage—all of which call attention to the excesses and failures of the neoliberal growth fantasy.' Mònica Tomàs, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and EnvironmentReviews 'Postgrowth Imaginaries is a book particularly useful for Iberian scholars interested in incorporating environmental humanities in their research. It is also a book which topics have not been sufficiently explored in Spain and, therefore, it contributes to encourage new research avenues and to establish a theoretical base combining national and international perspectives.' Rivero Vadillo, Ecozone‘Despite the Earth’s dire situation, the book’s tone is hopeful in its proposal to foster and study new epistemologies that envision an ecojust postgrowth period.' Shanna Lino, STTCL: Studies in Twentieth & Twenty-First Century Literature ‘Postgrowth Imaginaries is essential reading for students and scholars of contemporary Spain as well as those who want to think through broader questions related to how we can imagine a more socially and ecologically just future.’ Micah McKay, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos‘With cogent theoretical explanations, lucid prose, autonomous chapters and an abundance of cultural texts, Postgrowth Imaginaries will translate well to the classroom and will be easily accessible for anyone interested in learning about the global generators of climate change, eco-cultural responses from Spain and possible alternatives.' Megan Saltzman, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I: Spanish Culture and Ecological EconomicsChapter 1: Toward an Ecocritical Approach to the Spanish Neoliberal CrisisPart II: Urban EcologiesChapter 2: Urban Ecocriticism and Spanish Cultural StudiesPart III: Waste, Disaster, Refugees, and Nonhuman AgencyChapter 3: Nonhuman Agency and the Political Ecology of WasteChapter 4: Disaster Fiction, the Pedagogy of Catastrophe, and the Dominant ImaginaryConclusion: The Global Rise of Postgrowth Imaginaries

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Book SynopsisThe look and feel of metropolitan France has been a notable preoccupation of French literary and visual culture since the 1980s. Numerous writers, filmmakers and photographers have been drawn to articulate France’s contrasting spatial qualities, from infrastructural installations such as roads, rail lines and ports, to peri-urban residential developments and isolated rural enclaves. In doing so, they explore how the country’s acute sense of national identity has been both asserted and challenged in topographic terms. This wide-ranging collection of essays explores how the contemporary concern with space in France has taken shape across a range of media, from recent cinema, documentary filmmaking and photographic projects through to television drama and contemporary fiction, and examines what it reveals about the state of the nation in a post-colonial and post-industrial age. The impact of global flows of capital, trade and migration can be mapped through attention to the specificities of place and topography. Investigation of liminal locations, from seaboard cities and abandoned industrial sites to refugee camps and peasant smallholdings, interrogates the assertion of a national territory (and, by extension, a national identity) through the figure of the hexagon, and highlights the fluidities, instabilities and lines of flight which render it increasingly unsettled.Trade Review'An invaluable contribution to French cultural studies [...] France in Flux provides an enlightening multi-faceted vision of issues affecting our understanding of contemporary French space and identity.' Carrie Tarr, Kingston University'With the increasing pace of globalization and the rising specter of climate change, this timely volume addresses a viewpoint that, in my opinion, will greatly benefit courses on contemporary France, literature, or cinema. [...] By examining how the French react to the rapid social, demographic, and changes via photography, film, literature, readers can better understand this France in flux.'Kory Olson, H-France'One realizes that opening our eyes to the importance of these apparently trivial, depressing, or monotonous spaces is precisely the point of this creatively-focused and thoughtfully-organized collection of essays. [...] I found in this apparently impoverished terrain a greatly enriched view of contemporary France. [...] The book as a whole delivers, richly, on the same vision. [...] This book is an essential read for anyone with a foundation in French studies. It will also be valuable to geographers, historians of photography and film, and scholars of literature and environment.'Suzanne Black, Studies in 20th & 21st Century LiteratureTable of ContentsIntroductionAri J. Blatt and Edward WelchChapter 1: Angels of History: Looking Back at Spatial Planning in the Mission photographique de la DATAREdward Welch, University of AberdeenChapter 2: Disuse and Affect: Post-Industrial Landscapes of France’s Labour LostDerek Schilling, Johns Hopkins UniversityChapter 3: Depth of Field: Farmland and Farm Life in Contemporary French DocumentaryAlison J. Murray Levine, University of VirginiaChapter 4: Sylvain George’s Minor Mode, or Cinema at the Margins of its Fragile CommunityAnna-Louise Milne, University of London Institute in ParisChapter 5: Girlhood Luminosities and Topographical Politics: 17 Filles (Delphine and Muriel Coulin, 2011) and Bande de filles (Céline Sciamma, 2014)Fiona Handyside, University of ExeterChapter 6: Les Revenants, Tignes, and the Return of Postwar ModernizationCatherine E. Clark, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Brian R. Jacobson, University of TorontoChapter 7: French Edgeland Poetics: Topography and Ecology in Jean Rolin’s Les ÉvénementsJoshua Armstrong, University of Wisconsin - MadisonChapter 8: Picturing a Nation of Local Places in the Observatoire photographique du paysage and France(s) territoire liquideAri J. Blatt, University of Virginia

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Book SynopsisReligion and Comparative Development is the first analytical endeavor on religion and government that incorporates microeconomic modeling of democracy and dictatorship as well as empirical linkages between religious norms and the bureaucratic provision of public goods within the framework of survey data analysis and public goods experiments. Moreover, it explores the rising significance of religion in Middle East and post-Soviet politics, as well as in current migration, security and party developments in the United States and Europe alike through these lenses. This book underscores the significance of religion as a crucial factor for political development and economic transformation, suggesting that all world religions can offer pathways to peace and development through different institutional channels. With a multiplicity of methods (statistical modeling, game theory, lab-in-the-field experiments, comparative historical analysis), the author observes how religion impacts political economy and international politics, and not always negatively. This demystification of religion goes beyond the classical discussion on the role of religion in the public sphere and sets the grounds for explaining why some economies are more likely to be democracies and others dictatorships. Researchers, graduate and undergraduate students of economics and social sciences, and faculty members who are interested in cutting-edge research on economics and culture will want this book in their collection. It insights will also be useful for policy-makers, administrators, historians, and civic organizations.Trade Review'Values and norms shape individual behaviour and collective results. And religion or its renunciation is arguably the single most important vehicle of values and norms. Therefore, the influence of religion on political development and economic performance is an important - and complex - topic in social science at least since Max Weber. Theocharis Grigoriadis' point of departure is that the big world religions differ in their valuation of collectivist vs. individualist features of institutions and that these differences matter for the incentives and possibilities of political leaders for modernization. The book brings together concepts and methods from history, political science, and economics and is therefore truly interdisciplinary. Drawing on a remarkable wealth of historical and institutional knowledge, game theoretic models, results from surveys conducted in Russia and Israel, and social lab-experiments in two Siberian cities, respectively, Grigoriadis pin down the role of religion for individual attitudes and decisions. In his foreword, he goes as far as claiming ''that all world religions can offer pathways to peace and development through different institutional channels''. Although my reading of this highly recommendable book did not fully corroborate this optimistic view, the findings certainly shed new and valuable light on the role of religion.' --Jurgen Jerger, University of Regensburg and Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies'The political economy of religion is a sorely neglected topic, especially in connection to understanding comparative economic development. Grigoriadis employs a rich and interdisciplinary variety of empirical and analytical tools to document the myriad ways that religious beliefs and institutions can influence government administrative structures, public good and modernization policies, and subsequent development paths. The focus on Eastern Orthodoxy, in particular, is a welcome addition to scholarship on long-run economic development in Eastern and Southeastern Europe.' --Steven Nafziger, Williams College, US'How have the values and institutions of the great world religions influenced public policy and its economic outcomes in different countries? In this book Theocharis Grigoriadis offers original concepts and new data for economists and economic historians. Focusing on Europe and the Middle East, the book locates religious cultures on the spectrum from collectivism to individualism, isolates their influences on the type of government, on the degree to which governments are committed to provide for society, and on central versus local provision. The findings break new ground in our ongoing search for the cultural and institutional roots of economic development around the world.' --Mark Harrison, University of Warwick, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Dimensionality of Religion 2. Religious Origins of Political Regimes 3. Religious Identity, Local Governance and Public Goods 4. The Political Economy of Russian Orthodoxy 5. Back to the Prussian Origins: Kulturkampf and Comparative Modernization References Conclusions Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.Providing a critical overview of cultural economics, this Research Agenda explores the current state of affairs in the field, suggesting methods of improvement for the coherency and progressiveness of future research. Situating work in this area in its historical context, Samuel Cameron draws together a range of international contributors to explore the development of cultural economics.Undertaking a thorough examination of matters of data quality, statistical methodology and the challenge of new developments in technology, chapters examine the different approaches to cultural economics. The book explores the myriad ways in which the topic has been neglected by mainstream economics, and examines reasons why it needs to be considered, evaluated and explored in more detail in our modern world. Current researchers in cultural economics, as well as cultural policies and leisure studies will find this book an invaluable read in exploring different ways to integrate cultural economics into mainstream studies. This Research Agenda will also be an invaluable aid for advanced students to create discussions suitable for essay topics and dissertations. Contributors include: S. Cameron, C. Peukert, J. Snowball, H. Sonnabend, M. ZiebaTrade Review'Exemplary in their commitment to pushing the field into the future, Cameron and colleagues take on many of the elephants in the room for cultural economics: global digital monopolies, technological change, new business models, and social media. Brave, probing, exciting work.' --Stuart Cunningham, Queensland University of Technology, Australia'This seminal work finds no fixed boundaries in cultural economics. Professor Cameron and cohorts plumb the impact on the field of digital technology, integrating metrics with other disciplines, the limits of pricing models and global tourism. It is essential reading for all associated with this important and exciting field.' --Robert Ekelund, Auburn University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Why do we need a Cultural Economics? History and Development of the Field Samuel Cameron 2. Contemporary Challenges to Cultural Economics Samuel Cameron 3. Individual Choice Behaviour Samuel Cameron 4. Flexible digital supply behaviour Christian Peukert, 5. Pricing Hendrik Sonnabend, 6. Government policy Jen Snowball 7. Global trade in cultural tourism services Marta Zieba 8. What is the agenda for cultural economics? Samuel Cameron Index

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Book SynopsisAnalysing the aural background of everyday spaces, this book explores the role and processes of sound in daily life in a range of contexts. Sounding Places questions how sound comes to be a meaningful ingredient in the microgeographies of place-making, how it contributes to shaping a variety of embodied and spatially situated experiences, and how such aspects can be harnessed methodologically. These topics contribute to broader debates on the relations between representation and the non- or more-than-representational that are taking place across the social sciences and humanities in the wake of the cultural turn. Using creative approaches, this multidisciplinary book brings together the work of international scholars to enrich our understanding of the more-than-representational registers of sound and sonic experiences. Social science scholars focusing on human geography, social psychology, music and cultural studies will find this to be a beneficial read. It will also prove to be a useful tool for urban planners and policy-makers interested in the use of sound and music in public environments.Trade Review'Sounding Places represents a significant theoretical and empirical moment in an emergent sonic geography. Through the lens of a more-than-representational theoretical approach, the volume presents an eclectic and dizzying array of sounds, places and experiences for the reader to savour - from the crashing of ocean waves, the sounds of airports, to breakdancing in Milan subways, to the spatial awareness of the visually impaired, to the geopolitical sounds of nations and the sonic atmospheres of dormitory rooms, this volume presents a truly compelling contribution to our understanding of the role of sound in the geographies of our everyday lives.' --Michael Bull, University of Sussex, UK'Sound is embodied and embedded in materials and processes which envelope, embrace and touch humans deeply, providing senses of temporality which animate place through vivid presents and intense memories. Exploring relationships between sound, music, body and environment, this collection makes an important contribution examining sonic places in all their richness.' --George Revill, The Open University, UKTable of ContentsContents 1. Sounding Places: An introduction Karolina Doughty, Michelle Duffy and Theresa Harada PART I Sound and place-making 2. Soundings: Sensing and encounters in/with/of place Michelle Duffy, Angela Campbell and Richard Chew 3. Exploring Inclusive Therapeutic Soundscapes Alexandra Kaley, Chris Hatton and Christine Milligan 4. Affective Relations of Bodies and Sound: The Constitution of ‘Ben Gurion International Airport 2000’ Planning Project Mor Shilon 5. Resounding heterotopias: breakdance, caporales and the re-appropriation of the city Fabio Bertoni 6. The call of the sea: how sound co-composes the place of the surfed wave Jon Anderson and Lyndsey Stoodley PART II The centrality of sound to the making of bodies 7. Voicing Waters; (Co-)Creative Reflections on Sound, Water, Conversations and Hydrocitizenship Owain Jones, Luci Gorell Barnes and Antony Lyons 8. Rural Sound-Space: A Restless Quiet and an Active Silence Sheryl-Ann Simpson 9. The sounds we make: environmental feedback and the entanglements of sonic presence Daniel Paiva and Herculano Cachinho 10. Sonic and tactile bodies: sound, haptic space and accessibility Karla Berrens 11. Encountering everyday linguistic diversity in public space in Antwerp Nesrin El Ayadi PART III Affective politics of sound 12. Sonifying the World Anja Kanngieser and Rory Gibb 13. Observations on Politics and Communication in Electronic Music Performances͛ Ryan Bird 14. Modes of Power and Sonic Affect: Urban encounters in Bangkok͛’s transport infrastructure Leonie Tuitjer 15. Rethinking musical cosmopolitanism as a visceral politics of sound Karolina Doughty 16. The echo of communal space: More-than-representational tourist encounters in hostel accommodation Kaya Barry PART IV Methodological approaches to utilizing sound 17. Musical Improvisation as Therapeutic Practice: An Interlude Candice P. Boyd 18. Embodied listening in research practice Theresa Harada 19. All about that Place: Tuning in to Community Radio - Listener Diary Accounts Catherine Wilkinson and Samantha Wilkinson Index

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Book SynopsisThis unique and insightful book provides a comprehensive examination of contemporary cultural policy and its discourses, influences, and consequences. It examines the factors that have led to a narrowing of cultural policy and suggests new ways of thinking about cultural policy beyond economics by reconnecting it with the practices of work, value, and the social. With a particular focus on Australia and the UK, and with reference to transnational bodies including UNESCO, this book identifies and examines influential national and international factors that have shaped cultural policy, including its implementation of an economic agenda. Deborah Stevenson retraces the foundations of contemporary cultural policy, with chapters exploring the hierarchies of legitimacy that form the basis of value and excellence, the increased hegemony of the economy within the art world complex, and the notions of class and gender as two key factors of social inequality that shape access to the arts. Analysing cultural value, work, and the social as important points of tension and potential disruption within contemporary cultural policy, this book will be essential reading for students and scholars of arts and cultural management, cultural policy studies, cultural sociology, economics, and leisure and urban studies. It will also be of interest to students, scholars, and practitioners across the humanities and the social sciences.Trade Review‘In a research field dominated by worthy activist polemics, Stevenson offers a cool-headed, clear, and thorough guide to the sociology of a policy struggle. Focused on the colonization of art and culture by economics and its reduction to “creative industries”, Stevenson’s book offers artists, institutions, policy makers and students – everyone in the art world complex in fact – an opportunity to grapple with the scale, complexity, and values of a much-needed policy change.’ -- Adrian Franklin, University of South Australia, Australia‘In a research field dominated by worthy activist polemics, Stevenson offers a cool-headed, clear, and thorough guide to the sociology of a policy struggle. Focussed on the colonisation of art and culture by economics and its reduction to “creative industries”, Stevenson’s book offers artists, institutions, policy makers and students – everyone in the Art World Complex in fact – an opportunity to grapple with the scale, complexity and values of a much-needed policy change.’ -- Adrian Franklin, University of South Australia, Australia‘Cultural Policy Beyond the Economy: Work, Value, and the Social is both an outstanding introduction to key issues in cultural policy, as well as a major contribution to the field. Thinking through issues of place, work, education, and value, Stevenson argues for a new vision of cultural policy grounded in the need to remember, and then to rethink, the social basis of culture.’ -- David O'Brien, University of Sheffield, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: culture is social 1. Understanding ‘art worlds’ 2. Art, excellence, market 3. Questions of value 4. Proxies, discourses, and contexts 5. The social art of engagement 6. Creativity, vocation, career Conclusion: culture, policy, and beyond Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisExploring the relationship between cultural heritage and local economic development, this book introduces the original idea that one possible mediator between the two can be identified as creativity. Using a strong theoretical and empirical framework, Silvia Cerisola explores how cultural heritage, creativity and economic development are inextricably linked. This book is a clear econometric demonstration of how cultural heritage, through its inspirational role on different creative talents, generates an indirect positive effect on local economic development. These positive results justify important new policy recommendations in the field of cultural heritage. Interpreting both creativity and cultural heritage in a novel way, the author offers a new reading of the long lasting debate on the topic, examining different roles and impacts on the welfare of the local community. Regional science scholars will greatly appreciate the original conceptual framework and the empirical foundations of the book, as well as the thorough explanation of different approaches to the measurement of creativity. Policy makers and stakeholders will also benefit from the case studies highlighting the importance of cultural heritage.Trade Review'This book is one of the very first to explore a perspective too often forgotten in the debates on the value of cultural heritage. It deals with the support of cultural heritage for creativeness and helps us understand heritage as an asset for the future, and not merely as a footprint of the past. Moreover this book combines theoretical and statistical perspectives, which makes a seminal contribution for both practitioners and academics.' --Xavier Greffe, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France'The invaluable effects of cultural heritage on society in terms of education, inspiration and identity are commonly acknowledged in the relevant literature, but have never been assessed in quantitative terms. This book does so in a rigorous and convincing way, through the role of another critical element, social creativity.' --Roberto Camagni, Politecnico di Milano, Italy'By attributing to cultural heritage an inspirational and creative value, this book provides a fascinating new insight on its relationship with regional development. The volume elegantly conceptualises and empirically tests the role of creativity as a mediator between cultural heritage and local performance.' --Roberta Capello, Politecnico di Milano, Italy and Past President of RSAI, PortugalTable of ContentsContents: 1. Setting the scene 2. From cultural heritage to local development 3. Creativity: definitions and measures 4. A new conceptual framework for the definition and measurement of creativity 5. From cultural heritage to creativity 6. From creativity to socio-economic development 7. From cultural heritage to development through creativity 8. Conclusions and policy implications References Index

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Book SynopsisCultural economics has become well established as a subject of interest for students and instructors of courses ranging from economics to arts administration as well as for policy-makers and practitioners in the creative industries. Digitization has had a tremendous impact on many areas of the creative economy and the third edition of this popular book fully reflects it. The Handbook of Cultural Economics is an acknowledged leading source for students, teachers and others interested in finding out about the subject. Cultural economics covers a wide range of topics and they are reflected in the many short and accessibly written chapters. Each chapter is written by a specialist in the subject and offers both suggestions for further reading and cross-references to other related chapters in the book. It therefore combines accessibility with depth of knowledge. The intention of the book is to introduce the reader to the various topics and to testify to the strength of economics in explaining the economic aspects of the world of the arts and creative industries. The third edition demonstrates the huge impact that digitization has had on production and consumption in the sector. While being accessible to any reader with a basic knowledge of economics, it presents a comprehensive study at the forefront of the field for students and teachers of economics, business economics, creative industries, and media and arts administration as well as for policy-makers. Contributors include: O. Ashenfelter, V. Ateca Amestoy, M. Bacache-Beauvallet, W. Baumol, P. Belleflamme, P.J. Benghozi, F. Benhamou, T. Bille, M. Blaug, K. Borowiecki, M. Bourreau, S. Cameron, D.C. Chisholm, F. Colbert, T. Cuccia, C. Dalla Chiesa, J. Denis, P. Di Caro, G. Doyle, J. Farchy, V. Fernandez-Blanco, B. Frey, O. Gergaud, V. Ginsburgh, M. Gómez-Vega, K. Graddy, A. Haddida, C. Handke, L.C. Herrero-Prieto, M. Hutter, W.M. Landes, M. Lavanga, Y.-H. Liu, I. Mazza, C. McAndrew, J. McKenzie, T. Navarrete, D. Netzer, J.W. O Hagan, T. Orme, M. Peitz, J. Prieto-Rodriguez, H. Ranaivoson, M. Rushton, G. Schulze, B. Seaman, S. Shin, J. Snowball, D. Throsby, R. Towse, O. Velthuis, R. Watt, J. Waldfogel, G. Withers, M. ZiebaTrade Review'Ruth Towse and Trilce Navarrete Hernandez are leading lights in cultural economics, and the third edition of the Handbook of Cultural Economics once again is the go-to source for research and wisdom in this area of research, impressive for both its depth and breadth.' --Tyler Cowen, George Mason University, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface xi Introduction 1 Ruth Towse and Trilce Navarrete Hernández 1 Application of welfare economics to the arts 9 William J. Baumol 2 Art auctions 19 Orley Ashenfelter and Kathryn Graddy 3 Art dealers 29 Olav Velthuis 4 Artificial intelligence 38 Joëlle Farchy and Juliette Denis 5 Artists’ labour markets 46 Trine Bille 6 Artists’ resale rights 56 Victor Ginsburgh and Clare McAndrew 7 Artists’ rights 66 Michael Rushton 8 Broadcasting 72 Glenn Withers 9 Business models 82 Pierre-Jean Benghozi 10 Contingent valuation 95 Tiziana Cuccia 11 Contract theory and information goods 106 Richard Watt 12 Copyright 116 William M. Landes 13 Cost of production 129 Víctor Fernández-Blanco and Juan Prieto-Rodríguez 14 Creative industries 137 Ruth Towse 15 Creativity 145 Karol Jan Borowiecki 16 Criticism 154 Samuel Cameron 17 Crowdfunding 158 Carolina Dalla Chiesa and Christian Handke 18 Cultural capital 168 David Throsby 19 Cultural districts 174 Mariangela Lavanga 20 Cultural diversity 183 Heritiana Ranaivoson 21 Cultural entrepreneurship 192 Mark Blaug and Ruth Towse 22 Cultural statistics 197 David Throsby 23 Cultural value 206 Jen D. Snowball 24 Demand 216 Jordi McKenzie and Sunny Y. Shin 25 Digital piracy 228 Jordi McKenzie 26 Digitization in the cultural industries 235 Joel Waldfogel 27 Economic impact of the arts 241 Bruce A. Seaman 28 Event cinema 254 Allègre L. Hadida 29 Festivals 262 Bruno S. Frey 30 Google Trends data 266 Olivier Gergaud and Victor Ginsburgh 31 Heritage 279 Françoise Benhamou 32 Information goods 287 Michael Hutter 33 Intangible cultural heritage 294 Tiziana Cuccia 34 Intermediaries 304 Paolo Di Caro, Luigi Di Gaetano and Isidoro Mazza 35 International trade 311 Günther G. Schulze 36 Marketing the arts 320 François Colbert 37 Media economics and regulation 329 Gillian Doyle 38 Motion-picture industry 339 Darlene C. Chisholm and Yu-Hsi Liu 39 Museums 349 Víctor Fernández-Blanco and Juan Prieto-Rodríguez 40 Music industry 358 Christian Handke 41 Music publishing 371 Ruth Towse 42 Non-profit organizations 379 Dick Netzer (updated by Bruce A. Seaman) 43 Orchestras 392 Luis César Herrero-Prieto and Mafalda Gómez-Vega 44 Participation 399 Victoria Ateca-Amestoy 45 Performance indicators 408 Trilce Navarrete Hernández 46 Performing arts 415 Ruth Towse 47 Platforms 421 Maya Bacache-Beauvallet and Marc Bourreau 48 Political economy 430 Isidoro Mazza 49 Pricing the arts 441 Michael Rushton 50 Public support 449 Bruno S. Frey Index

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Book SynopsisCosta Rica is a country known internationally for its eco-credentials, dazzling coastlines, and reputation as one of the happiest and most peaceful nations on earth. Beneath this façade, however, lies an exclusionary rhetoric of nationalism bound up in the concept of the tico, as many Costa Ricans refer to themselves. Beginning by considering the very idea of national identity and what this constitutes, this book explores the nature of the idealised tico identity, demonstrating the ways in which it has assumed a white supremacist, Central Valley-centric, patriarchal, heteronormative stance based on colonial ideals. Chapters two and three then go on to consider the literature and films produced that stand in opposition to this normative image of who or what is tico and their creation as vehicles of soft power which aim to question social norms. This book explores protest literature from the 1970s by Quince Duncan, Carmen Naranjo, and Alfonso Chase who narrate their experiences from the margins of society by virtue of their identity as Afro-Costa Rican, feminist, and homosexual authors. Cinema from the twenty-first century is then analysed to demonstrate the nuanced position chosen by national directors Esteban Ramírez, Paz Fábrega, Jurgen Ureña, and Patricia Velásquez to challenge the dominant nation-image as they reinscribe youth culture, a female consciousness, trans identity, and Afro-Costa Rica onto the fabric of the nation.Trade Review‘Throughout the book, Harvey-Kattou offers clear, concise readings on film and literature to articulate new models of Costa Rican belonging and national identity.’ Stephanie M. Pridgeon, Bulletin of Spanish StudiesTable of ContentsContentsIntroductionChapter One: The Creation of Tiquicidad and Theories of National IdentityChapter Two: Coded Messages: Costa Rican Protest Literature 1970–1985Chapter Three: Reflecting the Nation: Costa Rican Cinema in the Twenty–First CenturyConclusion

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Book SynopsisTransatlantic Studies: Latin America, Iberia, and Africa emerges from, and performs, an ongoing debate concerning the role of transatlantic approaches in the fields of Iberian, Latin American, African, and Luso-Brazilian studies. The innovative research and discussions contained in this volume’s 35 essays by leading scholars in the field reframe the intertwined cultural histories of the diverse transnational spaces encompassed by the former Spanish and Portuguese empires. An emerging field, Transatlantic Studies seeks to provoke a discussion and a reconfiguration of the traditional academic notions of area studies, while critically engaging the concepts of national cultures and postcolonial relations among Spain, Portugal and their former colonies. Crucially, Transatlantic Studies transgresses national boundaries without dehistoricizing or decontextualizing the texts it seeks to incorporate within this new framework.Trade ReviewReviews'This volume is, without a doubt, the first attempt to fully theorize the disciplinary practices associated with the umbrella term “transatlantic studies”. Furthermore, it promises to provincialize, once and for all, Iberian Studies as well as to open Latin American Studies to a more radical and cosmopolitan critical practice.'Luis Martín-Cabrera, UC San DiegoTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Cecilia Enjuto-Rangel, Sebastiaan Faber, Pedro García-Caro, Robert P. Newcomb — Transatlantic Studies: Staking Out the FieldTransatlantic Methodologies2. Francisco Fernández de Alba — Transatlantic Coloniality in Cuba: The Case of Virgilio Piñera and Wilfredo Lam3. Joan Ramon Resina — Transatlantic Studies: The Discipline That Thinks Itself Beyond Its Threshold4. Joseba Gabilondo — The Atlantic State of Violence: State of Exception, Colonial/Civil Wars, and Concentration Camps5. Mario Santana — Iberian Studies: The Transatlantic Dimension6. Abril Trigo — Transatlantic Studies and the Geopolitics of Hispanism7. Lisa Surwillo — Transatlantic Currents: Oceanic Crossings in Novás Calvo’s El negrero8. Zeb Tortorici — Iberian Atlantic Bodies, Commodities, and Texts9. Benita Sampedro — Inscribing Islands: From Cuba to Fernando Poo and backTransatlantic Linguistic Debates10. José Del Valle — Linguistic History and Language Academies in Transatlantic Perspective11. Lena Burgos-Lafuente — Los amarres de la lengua: Spanish Exiles, Puerto Rican Intellectuals, and the Battle Over Spanish, 1942-201612. Julio Ortega — The Transatlantic Trajectory13. Robert Newcomb — “Across the Waves”: The Luso-Brazilian Republic of Letters at the Fin de SiècleTransatlantic Displacement14. Aurélie Vialette — Rewriting the Colonial Past: Spanish Women Intellectuals as Agents of Cross-Cultural Literacy in the Mexican Press15. Christina Karageourgou-Bastea — Luis Cernuda’s “Historial de un libro,” A Travelogue16. Pedro García-Caro — Triangulating the Atlantic: Blanco White, Arriaza, and the London Debate over “Spain”Transatlantic Memory17. Cecilia Enjuto-Rangel — Children’s Gaze in Contemporary Cinema: A Transatlantic Poetics of Exile and Historical Memory18. Lisa DiGiovanni — Childhood Memories of Inner Exile in Spain and Chile19. Ana Corbalán — Ethical questions about human trafficking during times of dictatorship: Kidnapped children in Spain and Argentina20. James D. Fernández — Between Empires: Spanish Immigrants in the United States (1868-1945)21. Jennifer Duprey — The Exile as Disinherited: Pere Calders in Mexico22. Sebastiaan Faber — Rethinking Spanish Civil War Exile: The Curious Case of the Catalans23. Gina Herrmann — Transatlantic TrotskyTransatlantic Postcolonial Affinities24. Luis Fernández Cifuentes — Notions of Empire: Transatlantic Art at the Height of the Cold War (A Case Study)25. Antonio Gómez López-Quiñones — Transatlantic Film Studies in the Age of Neoliberalism: Towards a Post-National Cinema?26. Brad Epps — Looping the Loop: The African Vector in Hispanic Trans-Atlantic Studies27. Thomas Harrington — When the Mediterranean Moved West: Catalan Social Networks and the Construction of 19th and Early 20th Century Uruguayan Society and Culture28. Silvia Bermúdez — “Africa begins in…” Donato Ndongo’s and Francisco Zamora Loboch’s Transatlantic Cartographies29. Michelle Murray — Coerced Migration and Sex Trafficking: Transoceanic Circuits of Enslavement30. Marco Antonio Landavazo — The Good Monarchical Government: Popular Translations of Spanish Political Thought During Mexico’s IndependenceTransatlantic Influence31. Ignacio Sánchez-Prado — Alfonso Reyes, Hispanist Praxis and the Critique of Transatlantic Reason32. Lanie Millar — Nicolás Guillén and Lusophone Negritude33. Estela Vieira — Transatlantic Modernisms: Portugal and Brazil34. Vicente Cervera — Hispanisms in the Works of Pedro Henríquez Ureña35. Robert Wells — It’s Complicated -Ortega y Gasset’s Relationship with Argentina36. Enrique Cortez — Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo: The Colonial Matrix and the Latin American LiteraturesEpilogue37. Cecilia Enjuto-Rangel, Sebastiaan Faber, Pedro García-Caro, Robert P. Newcomb — The Future—If There Is One—Is Transatlantic

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Book SynopsisTransnational Russian Studies offers an approach to understanding Russia based on the idea that language, society and culture do not neatly coincide, but should be seen as flows of meaning across ever-shifting boundaries. Our book moves beyond static conceptions of Russia as a discrete nation with a singular language, culture, and history. Instead, we understand it as a multinational society that has perpetually redefined Russianness in reaction to the wider world. We treat Russian culture as an expanding field, whose sphere of influence transcends the geopolitical boundaries of the Russian Federation, reaching as far as London, Cape Town, and Tehran.Our transnational approach to Russian Studies generates new perspectives on the history of Russian culture and its engagements with, and transformation by, other cultures. The volume thereby simultaneously illuminates broader conceptions of the transnational from the perspective of Russian Studies. Over twenty chapters, we provide case studies based on original research, treating topics that include Russia’s imperial and postcolonial entanglements; the paradoxical role that language plays in both defining culture in national terms, and facilitating transnational communication; the life of things ‘Russian’ in the global arena; and Russia’s positioning in the contemporary globalized world. Our volume is aimed primarily at students and researchers in Russian Studies, but it will also be relevant to all Modern Linguists, and to those who employ transnational paradigms within the broader humanities.Contributors: Amelia M. Glaser, Cathy McAteer, Connor Doak, Dušan Radunović, Ellen Rutten, Galin Tihanov, Jeanne-Marie Jackson, Julie Curtis, Lara Ryazanova-Clarke, Marijeta Bozovic, Michael Gorham, Olga Maiorova, Philip Ross Bullock, Sergey Tyulenev, Stephen Hutchings, Stephen M. Norris, Tatiana Filimonova, Vera Tolz, Vitaly Nuriev and Vlad Strukov.Trade ReviewReviews ‘This book is a very sophisticated and accessible discussion of the issues involved with the concept of transnational. It is clear that the use of transnational throughout the volume is no trendy marketing ploy; it is meticulously woven throughout the book and discussed with great nuance and insight.' Brian James Baer, Kent State University‘This well-researched and thematically rich book is worth the attention of all who take an interest in what is currently an almost universally despised state, but one with a great cultural heritage.’ Arnold McMillin, Modern Language ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsContributorsTable of ContentsList of Figures and TablesIntroduction: Transnationalizing Russian StudiesAndy Byford, Connor Doak, and Stephen HutchingsPart I. Nation, Empire, and Beyond1. Transnational, Multi-National, or Imperial? The Paradoxes of Russia’s (Post-)colonialityVera Tolz2. Gogol'’s Other Coat: Transnationalism in Russia’s Literary BorderlandsAmelia M. Glaser3. The Empire Strikes East: Cross-Cultural Dynamics in Russian Central AsiaOlga Maiorova4. Where the Nation Ends: Transnationalism and Affective Space in Post-Soviet CinemaDušan Radunović5. Vladimir Sorokin’s Telluria: Post-Imperial Eurasia, Fragmented EuropeTatiana FilimonovaPart II. Beyond and Between Languages6. World Literature, War, Revolution: The Significance of Viktor Shklovskii’s A Sentimental Journey Galin Tihanov7. The Transnational Vladimir Nabokov, or the Perils of Teaching LiteratureMarijeta Bozovic8. Bringing Books across Borders: Behind the Scenes in Penguin BooksCathy McAteer9. ‘Sewing up’ the Soviet Politico-Cultural System: Translation in the Multilingual USSRSergey Tyulenev and Vitaly Nuriev10. The Politics of Theatre: ‘New Drama’ in Russian, across Post-Soviet Borders and BeyondJulie Curtis Part III. Cultures Crossing Borders11. A la russe, mais à l'étranger: Russian Opera AbroadPhilip Ross Bullock12. On Russian Cinema Going West (and East): Fedor Bondarchuk’s Stalingrad and Blockbuster HistoryStephen M. Norris13. Queer Transnational Encounters in Russian Literature: Gender, Sexuality, and National IdentityConnor Doak14. The Russian Novel of Ideas in Southern AfricaJeanne-Marie Jackson15. ‘Russian’ Imperfections? A Plea for Transcultural Readings of Aesthetic TrendsEllen RuttenPart IV. Russia Going Global16. Beyond a World with One Master: The Rhetorical Dimensions of Putin’s ‘Sovereign Internet’Michael Gorham17. RT and the Digital Revolution: Reframing Russia for a Mediatized WorldStephen Hutchings18. Meduza: A Russo-Centric Digital Media Outlet in a Transnational SettingVlad Strukov19. Transnational Self and Community in the Talk of Russophone Cultural Leaders in the UKLara Ryazanova-ClarkeIndex

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Book SynopsisThis collection of interviews is a diamond, remarkable in the way that it assembles so many of the major strains of Glissant’s thought, and stunning in the expansive erudition at work in the composition of that thought. Two structuring experiences inform the writer’s reflections on language and poetic engagement. On the one hand, there is the acculturation of his French intellectual ancestry, begun in the Martinican colonial system and continued in his mature student years in Paris, with the achievement of a Doctorate at the Sorbonne in 1980. On the other, there is his genetic heritage as an Antillean, nurtured in the Creole language of a people whose nearly forgotten history he will take pains to redeem. A lifelong interrogation of these two vital experiences of language are crucial to Glissant’s concept of Relation, viewed as a transformative and vital process intrinsic to the project of poetics. Relation reverberates throughout Glissant’s consideration of the many topics broached in this volume: medieval Europe and the creation of nation-states, the evolution of the epic and its global iterations, decolonization, creolization, landscapes and cultures, political engagement vs. the task of the writer, globality, questions of identity and Being. Absolutely the best introduction to Glissant’s thought.Trade Review"This book will be seen as the perfect introduction to Glissant’s works but it also stands on its own, as one crucial addition to Glissant’s corpus of works."Hugues Azérad, University of Cambridge'Far too much of [Eduard Glissant's] writing remained untranslated. This series aims to correct this error and to provide access to some important later essays, lectures and interviews. [...] These new translations illuminate in different ways Glissant's sense of place as nonreductive, nonexclusive, but like the rhizome, endlessly connecting with others. These three volumes give vibrant voice to these "flashes of light", setting out a provocative web of ideas and arguments for a Whole-world in which diverse places, identities and cultures matter in the creation of an unforeseeable but vital future.'Neil Campbell, Western American LiteratureTable of ContentsKey Signs and Key Things: An Introduction to Édouard Glissant’s EssaysForewordThe itinerariesThe interviewsSpumes, the day afterThe Mangrove Work

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Book SynopsisA cultural history of one of Paris’s most fascinating and variegated areas, whose history can be summarized as ‘from riches to rags and back again.’ The Marais was the beating heart of fashionable Paris from the Middle Ages through to the time of Louis XIV, when the court’s move to Versailles marked the start of a decline in its fortunes. Thereafter it became a working-class, largely Jewish area, sometimes described as a ‘ghetto’, and by the early twentieth century was in a parlous condition from which it was extricated by the Paris City Council and the 1960s restoration plan of André Malraux (which did not go without criticism and opposition). Its most recent avatar has been as the best-known gay quartier of the capital, though again this identity has not been a straightforward or always easily-accepted one. The stress throughout will be on representations – literary, cinematic, autobiographical, photographic and in graphic-novel form – as much as if not more than the unfolding of historical events.Trade Review'This book offers a rich and stimulating cultural topography of the Marais quarter of Paris, from the Middle Ages to the present day. The author nimbly synthesizes a wide range of historical research on the quarter. This in turn furnishes the context for the more original dimension of the project: the close reading of the ways in which the Marais figures in a range of cultural representations.'Douglas Smith, University College DublinTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter One’The poor and the well-to-do lived side by side in the same street’ : The Marais before the French RevolutionChapter Two ‘Grass grows, a passer-by is an event, and everybody knows everybody else’: the Revolutionary and Post-Revolutionary PeriodChapter Three‘This is why the Jews had their ghetto there’ : the Marais in the pre-Second War twentieth centuryChapter Four‘The Occupation robbed them of their childhood, their adolescence’: the Marais in the war years and the Fourth RepublicChapter Five‘The inhabitants are taken into account’ (?): the conservation of the MaraisChapter Six‘A different kind of ghetto’ : the gay Marais comes to dominate its Jewish predecessor

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Book SynopsisThis book pursues the specific case of Italian travel narratives in the Far East, through a focus on the experience of Japan in works by writers who visited the Land of the Rising Sun beginning in the Meiji period (1868-1912) and during the concomitant opening of Japan’s relations with the West. Drawing from the fields of Postcolonial and Transnational Studies, analysis of these texts explores one central question: what does it mean to imagine Japanese culture as contributing to Italian culture? Each author shares in common an attempt to disrupt ideas about dichotomies and unbalanced power relationships between East and West. Proposing the notion of ‘relational Orientalism,’ this book suggests that Italian travelogues to Japan, in many cases, pursued the goal of building imaginary transnational communities, predicated on commonalities and integration, by claiming what they perceived as ‘Oriental’ as their own. In contrast with a long history of Western representations of Japan as inferior and irrational, Searching for Japan identifies a positive overarching attitude toward the Far East country in modern Italian culture. Expanding the horizon of Italian transnational networks, normally situated within the Southern European region, this book reinstates the existence of an alternative Euro-Asian axis, operating across Italian history.Trade Review"Through a sophisticated close reading of a variety of yet untapped Italian literary sources, this thought-provoking volume sheds light on a fascinating and understudied aspect of Italian foreign relations and cultural diplomacy. An exciting read for anyone interested in Japan-Italy relations, Orientalism, and East-West relations."Rebecca Suter, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Japanese Studies, The University of SydneyTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Searching for Japan1. Cosmopolitan Possibilities in Translation. Views from the Russo-Japanese War2. Mussolini in Japan: Japanese Representations in the Age of Fascism3. Little Italy, Big Japan: Patterns of Continuity and Displacement among Italian Writers in Japan4. Madama Butterfly RevisedPostscript

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Book SynopsisThis collection of interviews is a diamond, remarkable in the way that it assembles so many of the major strains of Glissant’s thought, and stunning in the expansive erudition at work in the composition of that thought. Two structuring experiences inform the writer’s reflections on language and poetic engagement. On the one hand, there is the acculturation of his French intellectual ancestry, begun in the Martinican colonial system and continued in his mature student years in Paris, with the achievement of a Doctorate at the Sorbonne in 1980. On the other, there is his genetic heritage as an Antillean, nurtured in the Creole language of a people whose nearly forgotten history he will take pains to redeem. A lifelong interrogation of these two vital experiences of language are crucial to Glissant’s concept of Relation, viewed as a transformative and vital process intrinsic to the project of poetics. Relation reverberates throughout Glissant’s consideration of the many topics broached in this volume: medieval Europe and the creation of nation-states, the evolution of the epic and its global iterations, decolonization, creolization, landscapes and cultures, political engagement vs. the task of the writer, globality, questions of identity and Being. Absolutely the best introduction to Glissant’s thought.Trade Review"This book will be seen as the perfect introduction to Glissant’s works but it also stands on its own, as one crucial addition to Glissant’s corpus of works."Hugues Azérad, University of Cambridge'Far too much of [Eduard Glissant's] writing remained untranslated. This series aims to correct this error and to provide access to some important later essays, lectures and interviews. [...] These new translations illuminate in different ways Glissant's sense of place as nonreductive, nonexclusive, but like the rhizome, endlessly connecting with others. These three volumes give vibrant voice to these "flashes of light", setting out a provocative web of ideas and arguments for a Whole-world in which diverse places, identities and cultures matter in the creation of an unforeseeable but vital future.'Neil Campbell, Western American LiteratureTable of ContentsKey Signs and Key Things: An Introduction to Édouard Glissant’s EssaysForewordThe itinerariesThe interviewsSpumes, the day afterThe Mangrove Work

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Book SynopsisThe focus of this book is two-fold. First it traces the expansive geographical spread of the language commonly referred to as Spanish. This has given rise to multiple hybrid formations over time emerging in the clash of multiple cultures, languages and religions within and between great empires (Roman, Islamic, Hispano-Catholic), each with expansionist policies leading to wars, huge territorial gains and population movements. This long history makes Hispanophone culture itself a supranational, trans-imperial one long before we witness its various national cultures being refashioned as a result of the transnational processes associated with globalization today. Indeed, the Spanish language we recognise today was ‘transnational’ long before it was ever the foundation of a single nation state. Secondly, it approaches the more recent post-national, translingual and inter-subjective ‘border-crossings’ that characterise the global world today with an eye to their unfolding within this long trans-imperial history of the Hispanophone world. In doing so, it maps out some of the contemporary post-colonial, decolonial and trans-Atlantic inflections of this trans-imperial history as manifest in literature, cinema, music and digital cultures. Contributors: Christopher J. Pountain, L.P. Harvey, James T. Monroe, Rosaleen Howard, Mark Thurner, Alexander Samson, Andrew Ginger, Samuel Llano, Philip Swanson, Claire Taylor, Emily Baker, Elzbieta Slodowska, Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián, Henriette Partzsch, Helen Melling, Conrad James and Benjamin Quarshie.Trade Review“This book will be a welcome and important contribution to the ongoing re-shaping of Modern Languages in the UK, with an appeal and impact that goes far beyond.”Chris Harris, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool UniversityTable of ContentsTable of ContentsIntroductionSection 1: LanguageChapter 1 Christopher J. Pountain: Transnational dimensions in the history of SpanishChapter 2 L.P. Harvey: Arabic in the Iberian PeninsulaChapter 3 James T. Monroe: The First Chapter in Ibero-Romance Literatures: The ḫarja-s (kharjas)Chapter 4 Rosaleen Howard: Indigenous people of the Andes through languageSection 2: TemporalitiesChapter 5 Mark Thurner: The Names of Spain and Peru: Notes on the Global Scope of the HispanicChapter 6 Alexander Samson: Time, Empire and the Transnational in the Early Modern Spanish WorldChapter 7 Andrew Ginger: Modern, Modernity, Modernism, and the Transnational; Or, Goodbye to All That?Chapter 8 Samuel Llano: Flamenco as Palimpsest: Reading through hybriditySection 3: SpatialitiesChapter 9 Philip Swanson: The Where is Latin America?: Imaginary Geographies and Cultures of Production and ConsumptionChapter 10 Claire Taylor, Thea Pitman: Digital Culture and Post-Regional Latin AmericanismChapter 11 Emily Baker: From ‘Imagined’ to ‘Inoperative’ Communities: The Un-working of National and Latin American Identities in Contemporary FictionChapter 12 Elzbieta Slodowska: Post-Soviet (Re)collections: From Artifact to Artifice in the Wake of the ‘Special Period’ in CubaChapter 13 Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián: Amphibious Visualities: Transnational Archipelagos of Recent Latin American CinemaSection 4: SubjectivitiesChapter 14 Henriette Partzsch: The Transnational Space of Women’s Writing in Nineteenth-century SpainChapter 15 Helen Melling: Envisioning African-descent Confraternities in early nineteenth-century Lima, PeruChapter 16 Conrad James: Dominican Trans: Frank Báez’s Global PoeticsChapter 17 Benjamin Quarshie: ‘Signos y cicatrices comunes’: Queerness, Disability, and Pedro Lemebel’s Poetics and Politics of EmbodimentList of Contributors

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Book SynopsisThe focus of this book is two-fold. First it traces the expansive geographical spread of the language commonly referred to as Spanish. This has given rise to multiple hybrid formations over time emerging in the clash of multiple cultures, languages and religions within and between great empires (Roman, Islamic, Hispano-Catholic), each with expansionist policies leading to wars, huge territorial gains and population movements. This long history makes Hispanophone culture itself a supranational, trans-imperial one long before we witness its various national cultures being refashioned as a result of the transnational processes associated with globalization today. Indeed, the Spanish language we recognise today was ‘transnational’ long before it was ever the foundation of a single nation state. Secondly, it approaches the more recent post-national, translingual and inter-subjective ‘border-crossings’ that characterise the global world today with an eye to their unfolding within this long trans-imperial history of the Hispanophone world. In doing so, it maps out some of the contemporary post-colonial, decolonial and trans-Atlantic inflections of this trans-imperial history as manifest in literature, cinema, music and digital cultures. Contributors: Christopher J. Pountain, L.P. Harvey, James T. Monroe, Rosaleen Howard, Mark Thurner, Alexander Samson, Andrew Ginger, Samuel Llano, Philip Swanson, Claire Taylor, Emily Baker, Elzbieta Slodowska, Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián, Henriette Partzsch, Helen Melling, Conrad James and Benjamin Quarshie.Trade Review“This book will be a welcome and important contribution to the ongoing re-shaping of Modern Languages in the UK, with an appeal and impact that goes far beyond.”Chris Harris, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool UniversityTable of ContentsTable of ContentsIntroductionSection 1: LanguageChapter 1 Christopher J. Pountain: Transnational dimensions in the history of SpanishChapter 2 L.P. Harvey: Arabic in the Iberian PeninsulaChapter 3 James T. Monroe: The First Chapter in Ibero-Romance Literatures: The ḫarja-s (kharjas)Chapter 4 Rosaleen Howard: Indigenous people of the Andes through languageSection 2: TemporalitiesChapter 5 Mark Thurner: The Names of Spain and Peru: Notes on the Global Scope of the HispanicChapter 6 Alexander Samson: Time, Empire and the Transnational in the Early Modern Spanish WorldChapter 7 Andrew Ginger: Modern, Modernity, Modernism, and the Transnational; Or, Goodbye to All That?Chapter 8 Samuel Llano: Flamenco as Palimpsest: Reading through hybriditySection 3: SpatialitiesChapter 9 Philip Swanson: The Where is Latin America?: Imaginary Geographies and Cultures of Production and ConsumptionChapter 10 Claire Taylor, Thea Pitman: Digital Culture and Post-Regional Latin AmericanismChapter 11 Emily Baker: From ‘Imagined’ to ‘Inoperative’ Communities: The Un-working of National and Latin American Identities in Contemporary FictionChapter 12 Elzbieta Slodowska: Post-Soviet (Re)collections: From Artifact to Artifice in the Wake of the ‘Special Period’ in CubaChapter 13 Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián: Amphibious Visualities: Transnational Archipelagos of Recent Latin American CinemaSection 4: SubjectivitiesChapter 14 Henriette Partzsch: The Transnational Space of Women’s Writing in Nineteenth-century SpainChapter 15 Helen Melling: Envisioning African-descent Confraternities in early nineteenth-century Lima, PeruChapter 16 Conrad James: Dominican Trans: Frank Báez’s Global PoeticsChapter 17 Benjamin Quarshie: ‘Signos y cicatrices comunes’: Queerness, Disability, and Pedro Lemebel’s Poetics and Politics of EmbodimentList of Contributors

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Book SynopsisTransnational Portuguese Studies offers a radical rethinking of the role played by the concepts of ‘nationhood’ and ‘the nation’ in the epistemologies that underpin Portuguese Studies as an academic discipline. Portuguese Studies offers a particularly rich and enlightening challenge to methodological nationalism in Modern Languages, not least because the teaching of Portuguese has always extended beyond the study of the single western European country from which the language takes its name. However, this has rarely been analysed with explicit, or critical, reference to the ‘transnational turn’ in Arts and Humanities. This volume of essays from leading scholars in Portugal, Brazil, the USA and the UK, explores how the histories, cultures and ideas constituted in and through Portuguese language resist borders and produce encounters, from the manoeuvres of 15th century ‘globalization’ and cartography to present-day mega events such as the Rio Olympics. The result is a timely counter-narrative to the workings of linguistic and cultural nationalism, demonstrating how texts, paintings and photobooks, musical forms, political ideas, cinematic representations, gender identities, digital communications and lexical forms, may travel, translate and embody transcultural contact in ways which only become readable through the optics of transnationalism.Contributors: Ana Margarida Dias Martins, Anna M. Klobucka, Christopher Larkosh, Claire Williams, Cláudia Pazos Alonso, Edward King, Ellen W. Sapega, Fernando Arenas, Hilary Owen, José Lingna Nafafé, Kimberly DaCosta Holton, Maria Luísa Coelho, Paulo de Medeiros, Sara Ramos Pinto, Sheila Moura Hue, Simon Park, Susana Afonso, Tatiana Heise, Toby Green, Tori Holmes, Vivien Kogut Lessa de Sá and Zoltán Biedermann.Trade Review“This is easily the most complete collection produced to date to broach the issue of transnationalism in Lusophone culture and history and it will be an essential purchase for libraries where Portuguese is taught.”Stephanie Dennison, University of Leeds“Hilary Owen and Claire Williams’ volume is a superb contribution to the field of Portuguese Studies (a problematic signifier, as the editors point out in the introduction) at a time when the sometimes contentious intersections between the transnational and the global have caught the attention of scholars, students, and the reading public.”Peggy Sharpe, Florida State UniversityTable of ContentsIllustrations and TablesAcknowledgementsContributorsIntroductionHilary Owen and Claire Williams: Transnationalising Portuguese StudiesPart I: SPATIALITYChapter 1Zoltán Biedermann: Global Navigations and the Challenge of World-Making: Introducing the Study of Spatiality in the Portuguese EmpireChapter 2Anna M. Klobucka: Translational Travails of LusotropicalismChapter 3Vivien Kogut Lessa de Sá and Sheila Moura Hue: English Pirates in Brazil: Early Anglo-Portuguese Relations in the New WorldChapter 4Fernando Arenas: Soundtracks of the Lusophone and Creolophone Spheres: ‘Tanto’ by Aline Frazão (Angola), ‘Kreol’ by Mário Lúcio (Cabo Verde) and ‘N na nega bedju’ by José Carlos Schwarz (Guinea-Bissau)Chapter 5Maria Luísa Coelho: Transnational, Palimpsestic Journeys in the Art of Bartolomeu Cid dos SantosChapter 6Hilary Owen: ‘Becoming Portuguese’: New Europes for Old in Miguel Gomes’s Arabian NightsPart II: LANGUAGEChapter 7Toby Green and José Lingna Nafafé: Lusotopian or Lusophone Atlantics? The Relevance of Transnational African Diasporas to the Question of Language and CultureChapter 8Susana Afonso: Portuguese as a Transnational LanguageChapter 9Simon Park: Beyond Comprehension: Language, Identity and the Transnational in Gil Vicente’s TheatreChapter 10Sara Ramos Pinto: Dialects in Translation: Traveling in Space and Time in the Portuguese-Speaking World with Pygmalion and My Fair LadyChapter 11Tori Holmes: The Duality and Ambiguity of Mega-events in Rio de Janeiro: Local and Transnational Dimensions of Urban Transformations in the Webdocumentary Domínio PúblicoPart III: TEMPORALITYChapter 12Ellen W. Sapega: ‘Mining Memory's Archive: Two Portuguese Documentaries about the Second World War’Chapter 13Edward King: Disjunctive Temporalities of Migration in Photobooks from BrazilChapter 14Tatiana Heise: The National and the Transnational in Brazilian Postdictatorship CinemaChapter 15Ana Margarida Dias Martins: Remembering New Portuguese Letters Transnationally: Memory, Emotion, MobilityPart IV: SUBJECTIVITYChapter 16Cláudia Pazos Alonso: ‘Publish and be Damned’: Memórias da Minha Vida and the Politics of Exclusion in Nineteenth-century PortugalChapter 17Paulo de Medeiros: Transnational PessoaChapter 18Kimberly DaCosta Holton: Sound Travel: Fadocore in CaliforniaChapter 19Christopher Larkosh: ‘Can’t We All Just Be Queer?’ On Imagining Shared Translational SpaceChapter 20Claire Williams: International Departures and Transnational Texts in Contemporary Brazilian Literature: the ‘Amores Expressos’ SeriesIndex

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Book SynopsisTransnational Portuguese Studies offers a radical rethinking of the role played by the concepts of ‘nationhood’ and ‘the nation’ in the epistemologies that underpin Portuguese Studies as an academic discipline. Portuguese Studies offers a particularly rich and enlightening challenge to methodological nationalism in Modern Languages, not least because the teaching of Portuguese has always extended beyond the study of the single western European country from which the language takes its name. However, this has rarely been analysed with explicit, or critical, reference to the ‘transnational turn’ in Arts and Humanities. This volume of essays from leading scholars in Portugal, Brazil, the USA and the UK, explores how the histories, cultures and ideas constituted in and through Portuguese language resist borders and produce encounters, from the manoeuvres of 15th century ‘globalization’ and cartography to present-day mega events such as the Rio Olympics. The result is a timely counter-narrative to the workings of linguistic and cultural nationalism, demonstrating how texts, paintings and photobooks, musical forms, political ideas, cinematic representations, gender identities, digital communications and lexical forms, may travel, translate and embody transcultural contact in ways which only become readable through the optics of transnationalism.Contributors: Ana Margarida Dias Martins, Anna M. Klobucka, Christopher Larkosh, Claire Williams, Cláudia Pazos Alonso, Edward King, Ellen W. Sapega, Fernando Arenas, Hilary Owen, José Lingna Nafafé, Kimberly DaCosta Holton, Maria Luísa Coelho, Paulo de Medeiros, Sara Ramos Pinto, Sheila Moura Hue, Simon Park, Susana Afonso, Tatiana Heise, Toby Green, Tori Holmes, Vivien Kogut Lessa de Sá and Zoltán Biedermann.Trade Review“This is easily the most complete collection produced to date to broach the issue of transnationalism in Lusophone culture and history and it will be an essential purchase for libraries where Portuguese is taught.”Stephanie Dennison, University of Leeds“Hilary Owen and Claire Williams’ volume is a superb contribution to the field of Portuguese Studies (a problematic signifier, as the editors point out in the introduction) at a time when the sometimes contentious intersections between the transnational and the global have caught the attention of scholars, students, and the reading public.”Peggy Sharpe, Florida State UniversityTable of ContentsIllustrations and TablesAcknowledgementsContributorsIntroductionHilary Owen and Claire Williams: Transnationalising Portuguese StudiesPart I: SPATIALITYChapter 1Zoltán Biedermann: Global Navigations and the Challenge of World-Making: Introducing the Study of Spatiality in the Portuguese EmpireChapter 2Anna M. Klobucka: Translational Travails of LusotropicalismChapter 3Vivien Kogut Lessa de Sá and Sheila Moura Hue: English Pirates in Brazil: Early Anglo-Portuguese Relations in the New WorldChapter 4Fernando Arenas: Soundtracks of the Lusophone and Creolophone Spheres: ‘Tanto’ by Aline Frazão (Angola), ‘Kreol’ by Mário Lúcio (Cabo Verde) and ‘N na nega bedju’ by José Carlos Schwarz (Guinea-Bissau)Chapter 5Maria Luísa Coelho: Transnational, Palimpsestic Journeys in the Art of Bartolomeu Cid dos SantosChapter 6Hilary Owen: ‘Becoming Portuguese’: New Europes for Old in Miguel Gomes’s Arabian NightsPart II: LANGUAGEChapter 7Toby Green and José Lingna Nafafé: Lusotopian or Lusophone Atlantics? The Relevance of Transnational African Diasporas to the Question of Language and CultureChapter 8Susana Afonso: Portuguese as a Transnational LanguageChapter 9Simon Park: Beyond Comprehension: Language, Identity and the Transnational in Gil Vicente’s TheatreChapter 10Sara Ramos Pinto: Dialects in Translation: Traveling in Space and Time in the Portuguese-Speaking World with Pygmalion and My Fair LadyChapter 11Tori Holmes: The Duality and Ambiguity of Mega-events in Rio de Janeiro: Local and Transnational Dimensions of Urban Transformations in the Webdocumentary Domínio PúblicoPart III: TEMPORALITYChapter 12Ellen W. Sapega: ‘Mining Memory's Archive: Two Portuguese Documentaries about the Second World War’Chapter 13Edward King: Disjunctive Temporalities of Migration in Photobooks from BrazilChapter 14Tatiana Heise: The National and the Transnational in Brazilian Postdictatorship CinemaChapter 15Ana Margarida Dias Martins: Remembering New Portuguese Letters Transnationally: Memory, Emotion, MobilityPart IV: SUBJECTIVITYChapter 16Cláudia Pazos Alonso: ‘Publish and be Damned’: Memórias da Minha Vida and the Politics of Exclusion in Nineteenth-century PortugalChapter 17Paulo de Medeiros: Transnational PessoaChapter 18Kimberly DaCosta Holton: Sound Travel: Fadocore in CaliforniaChapter 19Christopher Larkosh: ‘Can’t We All Just Be Queer?’ On Imagining Shared Translational SpaceChapter 20Claire Williams: International Departures and Transnational Texts in Contemporary Brazilian Literature: the ‘Amores Expressos’ SeriesIndex

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Book SynopsisThis volume consists of a series of essays, written by leading scholars within the field, demonstrating the types of inquiry that can be pursued into the transnational realities underpinning German-language culture and history as these travel right around the globe. Contributions discuss the inherent cross-pollination of different languages, times, places and notions of identity within German-language cultures and the ways in which their construction and circulation cannot be contained by national or linguistic borders. In doing so, it is not the aim of the volume to provide a compendium of existing transnational approaches to German Studies or to offer its readers a series of survey chapters on different fields of study to date. Instead, it offers novel research-led chapters that pose a question, a problem or an issue through which contemporary and historical transcultural and transnational processes can be seen at work. Accordingly, each essay isolates a specific area of study and opens it up for exploration, providing readers, especially student readers, not just with examples of transnational phenomena in German language cultures but also with models of how research in these areas can be configured and pursued. Contributors: Angus Nicholls, Anne Fuchs, Benedict Schofield, Birgit Lang, Charlotte Ryland, Claire Baldwin, Dirk Weissmann, Elizabeth Anderson, James Hodkinson, Nicholas Baer, Paulo Soethe, Rebecca Braun, Sara Jones, Sebastian Heiduschke, Stuart Taberner and Ulrike Draesner.Trade Review‘Transnational German Studies offers a compelling contribution to the field of German Studies, offering both a clear account of its current identity in historical context and, crucially, a timely challenge to rethink the traditional boundaries of the discipline.’ Janet Stewart, Durham University‘This volume is a timely and important intervention in the field of German Studies. At a time when German Studies is perceived to be in crisis, with declining student numbers and the shrinking of university departments, it convincingly demonstrates how transnational perspectives offer to expand the discipline by imbuing it with critical new questions, and by encouraging reflection not only on what German Studies is today, but where it has come from, and where it may productively head.’ Anna Saunders, University of LiverpoolTable of ContentsIntroductionTransnationalizing German StudiesRebecca Braun and Benedict SchofieldSection OneLanguage: Local and Global Voices1. Translation, Transposition, Transmission: Low German and Processes of Cultural TransformationElizabeth Anderson2. Developing a Polyglot Poetics: The Power of Testimony and Lived Literary ExperienceUlrike Draesner3. German Writers from Abroad: Translingualism, Hybrid Languages, ‘Broken’ GermansDirk Weissmann4. Collaboration and Commitment: German-Language Books Across BordersCharlotte RylandSection TwoSpatiality: Mapping Nations, Mapping Networks5. Networks and World Literature: The Practice of Putting German Authors in their PlaceRebecca Braun6. Who is German? Nineteenth-Century Transnationalisms and the Construction of the NationBenedict Schofield7. Co-Producing World Cinema: Germany and Transnational Film ProductionSebastian Heiduschke8. Towards a Collaborative Memory: Networks and Relationality in German Memory CulturesSara JonesSection ThreeTemporality: Experiences of Time9. It’s About Time: The Temporality of Transnational StudiesAnne Fuchs10. Transnationalizing Faith: Re-imagining Islam in German CultureJames Hodkinson11. Transnational Imaginaries: Place of Palestine in Gershom Scholem, Franz Kafka, and Early CinemaNicholas Baer12. Securing the Archive: On the Transience of (Latin) American German IdentitiesPaulo SoetheSection FourSubjectivity: Ideology and the Individual13. Radical Germans and Their Anglophone Interpreters: Exploring and Translating ‘The Unconscious’ and PsychoanalysisAngus Nicholls14. Patterns of Global Exile: Exploring Identity through ArtBirgit Lang15. Representative Germans: Navid Kermani and the German Literary Tradition of Critical CosmopolitanismClaire Baldwin16. Contrite Germans?Stuart TabernerIndex

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Book SynopsisThe Culture of War explores the unexpected flourishing of literature both high and low during the Siege of Paris at the end of the Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871. When Prussian forces completely blockaded Paris, isolating the city from the outside world, Parisians turned to literature to resist the enemy, to fill the idle hours under siege, and to articulate their place in history. This cultural boom was a conscious effort on the part of literary institutions like newspapers, publishers, and theaters to ensure the viability of their industries during a period of political uncertainty. To do so, many publishers, editors, and directors sought legitimacy through populism, promoting literature written by anonymous and unknown authors or that spoke to populist ideas. A study of national tragedy on a local scale, The Culture of War goes beyond traditional narratives of communal or individual psychology, and studies institutional responses to financial and political instability, viewing literature as a product of economic and political forces.Trade Review"This book offers an original and intriguing look into the literature of the four-month period of the Siege (introducing some virtually unknown works to readers) as well as a novel exploration of the ways that literary institutions responded to this moment of turmoil.”Anne O'Neil-Henry, Georgetown University'Because the book shows the power of a patriotism which reactivates references to the French Revolution, to the people in arms, the work, although written by a specialist in literature, is also extremely careful to get out of textual analysis stricto sensu to question literature as a social activity, [...] gives new life to printers, publishers, owners of newspapers and theatres, who are the actors of this moment of exceptional creativity. [...] All in all, this stimulating book reinforces the value of a multidisciplinary approach to writing in times of war.'Odile Roynette, Contemporary TerritoriesTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsPart I: On StageChapter 1: The Boulevards Lose Their TheatersChapter 2: HugomaniaPart II: Off PressesChapter 3: The Feuilleton at WarChapter 4: The Dubious Battle of ReichshoffenPart III: At HomeChapter 5: Letters to No OneChapter 6: Historians of the PresentPart IV: In PrintChapter 7: De-Modernizing PublishingChapter 8: To Make the Past PublicCodaThe Siege and State ViolenceBibliography

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Book SynopsisAs a former British colony (1842–1997) and then a Special Administrative Region, Hong Kong has witnessed at all times how relations are formed, dissolved and refashioned amidst changing powers, identities and narratives, given the many names it possessed over the course of history, from ‘Barren Rock’, ‘Fragrant Harbour’, ‘Port of Incense’, ‘Pearl of the Orient’, ‘Asia’s World City’, ‘Vertical City’, ‘Floating City’ to ‘City at the End of Time’ among others. In the post-handover, post-hangover years, the circulation, reverberation and reception of cultural symbols, old and new, such as the King of Kowloon, Song Emperor’s Terrace, and Lion Rock have revealed the multifaceted appearances and connotations of Hong Kong’s ‘local’. At the intersections between real-life events, cultural production and consumption and multiple voices, the book extracts and examines the local relations between the inhabitants of the territory and the human and nonhuman agencies that stand or that have once stood for Hong Kong across time and through space. Via the lens of places, things and cultural icons, the book offers lessons to learn from Hong Kong by opening up manifold postcolonial, translocal and planetary perspectives to confront and interrogate the volatile experiences in the new millennia—unprecedented since the Cold War period of the twentieth century—shared by Hong Kong and other regions. After all, what does it mean, or take, to live in the contemporary world when the local, global and national are constantly given new meanings?Trade Review“This is a highly original and timely study in a field that is still developing, having been neglected in terms of its global cultural significance until very recently. Now Dr Wu’s book couldn’t be more topical.”Professor Michael Ingham, Lingnan University, Hong KongTable of ContentsINTRODUCTION: THE HANGOVER AFTER THE HANDOVERCHAPTER 1LOCAL RELATIONS AND THEIR POSTCOLONIAL OUTLOOKSCHAPTER 2HONG KONG’S LOCAL: (DE-)GENERATING LOCAL RELATIONSCHAPTER 3ALL HAIL THE KING OF KOWLOON! MEDIATING MALLEABLE MATERIALITYCHAPTER 4CONNECTING WITH THE LOCAL, OR NOT: THE SONG EMPEROR’S TERRACECHAPTER 5ANOTHER ROCK, ANOTHER HONG KONG STORY: LION ROCK FROM BELOW AND ABOVECONCLUSION: LOCAL AND TRANSLOCAL: LESSONS FROM HONG KONGBIBLIOGRAPHY

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Book SynopsisOver recent decades concerns at the increased scarcity and precarity of salaried employment have dominated political struggles, theoretical debates and cultural representations in France. This study argues that such concerns are evidence of a profound shift in contemporary French economy, culture and society. Engaging with work in political economy and sociology, the book sketches a new interpretative framework, the better to understand the nature and implications of these profound changes. It examines the challenges such changes have posed to fundamental French republican values, arguing they have opened up a rift between older notions of French republican citizenship and the precarious forms of subjectivity characteristic of post-Fordist labour. The book traces the symptoms of this rift in a range of cinematic and literary representations of the contemporary workplace, as these depict the dilemmas faced, the trajectories followed, and the geographical regions inhabited by French workers of different ages, sexes, social classes, and ethnicities.Trade Review“This is a well-written and clearly argued treatment of the implications of a post-Fordist regime of economic management on employment in France, as seen through literary and filmic representations."Nick Parsons, Cardiff UniversityTable of ContentsIntroductionPART ONE: THEORETICAL PRELIMINARIESChapter One: The Crisis of Fordism. Symptoms and DiagnosesChapter Two: Modulating Work and WelfarePART TWO: CHARACTER TYPES, TRAJECTORIES, UNEVEN GEOGRAPHIESChapter Three: Modulated masculinitiesChapter Four: Femmes FortesChapter Five: Doomed YouthChapter Six: Sans PapiersConclusionBibliography

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the phenomenon of work suicides in France and asks why, at the present historical juncture, conditions of work can push individuals to take their own lives. During the 2000s, France experienced what commentators have described as a ‘suicide epidemic’, whereby increasing numbers of workers in the face of extreme pressures of work, chose to kill themselves. The book analyses a corpus of testimonial material linked to 66 suicide cases across three large French companies during the period from 2005 to 2015. It aims to consider what the extreme and subjective act of self-killing, narrated in suicide letters, can tell us about the contemporary economic order and its impact on flesh and blood bodies. What do rising work-related suicides reveal about conditions of human labour in the twenty-first century? Does neoliberal economics condition a desire for suicide? How do suicidal individuals describe the causes and motivations of their act? Combining critical perspectives from sociology, history, testimony studies, economics, cultural studies and public health, the book raises critical questions about the human costs of the shift to a finance-driven neoliberal order and its everyday effects within the French workplace.Trade ReviewReviews'This book offers us an exhaustive and penetrating analysis of the questions posed by workplace suicide. Sarah Waters makes it an essential key to understanding not only the transformations of the French society but of any society.' Christophe Dejours, Directeur de l'Institut de Psychodynamique de TravailTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter One: Capitalism, work and suicideChapter Two: Suicide as TestimonyChapter Three: Going PostalChapter Four: Orange on the InsideChapter Five: Fast Cars and Vital ExhaustionConclusionBibliographyReferences

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Book SynopsisAbdelkébir Khatibi (1938–2009) is one of the greatest Moroccan thinkers, and one of the most important theorists of both postcolonialism and Islamic culture of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. This book introduces his works to Anglophone readers, tracing his development from the early work on sociology in Morocco to his literary and aesthetic works championing transnationalism and multilingualism. The essays here both offer close analyses of Khatibi’s engagements with a range of issues, from Moroccan politics to Arabic calligraphy and from decolonisation to interculturality, and highlights the important contribution of his thinking to the development of Western postcolonial and modern theory. The book acknowledges the legacy of one of the greatest African thinkers of the last century, and addresses the lack of attention to his work in the field of postcolonial studies. More than a writer, a sociologist or a thinker, Khatibi was a leading figure and an eclectic intellectual whose erudite works can still inform and enrich current reflections on the future of postcolonialism and the development of intercultural and transnational studies. The book also includes translated excerpts from Khatibi’s works, thus offering a multilingual perspective on his writing.Contributors: Assia Belhabib, Jasmina Bolfek-Radovani, Dominique Combe, Rim Feriani, Charles Forsdick, Olivia C. Harrison, Jane Hiddleston, Debra Kelly, Khalid Lyamlahy, Lucy McNeece, Matt Reeck, Alison Rice, Nao Sawada, Andy Stafford, Edwige Tamalet Talbayev, Alfonso de ToroTrade Review'It is difficult to overstate the importance of Abdelkebir Khatibi, not just for the postcolonial or francophone world but for literary and cultural studies in general. This volume will be a significant contribution to scholarship on the multifaceted and complex work of this original literary and cultural voice.'Nasrin Qader, Northwestern University'Jane Hiddleston and Khalid Lyamlahy’s hard-hitting collection of essays on Abdelkébir Khatibi represents the first major English-language publication devoted to the Moroccan thinker and his work.[...] In this sense, there can be no greater homage to, or recognition of, Khatibian destabilisation and instigation than the editors' thoughtful interfolding of elements of surprise into the collection’s structure. [...] This book is positioned to be of immense interest to students and scholars of postcolonialism who are invested in the complex intersections of politics, literature, language, and identity, both within and beyond the francosphere. One of the book’s most precious contributions to (francophone) postcolonialism is how it points to fecund crossovers with adjacent fields of scholarship, and gestures toward potentially trailblazing interventions.'Yasser Elhariry, Bulletin of Francophone Postcolonial Studies'There is also a useful overview of Khatibi scholarship, which in turn offers readers a chance to consider new avenues for research and enquiry. Particularly impressive is the way that this volume brings together many Khatibi scholars. [...] Hiddleston and Lyamlahy have done a laudable job of making the book accessible to a wide audience; whether one has just discovered Khatibi’s writings or spent a lifetime studying him, there is something in this collection for everyone.'Shannon K. Winston, French Studies'Abdelkébir Khatibi is quite properly characterized by the editors of this impressive collaboration as among the most important theorists of postcolonialism and contemporary Islamic culture. [...There are] fourteen individually fascinating and cumulatively compelling essays offered here, and which are valuably complemented by translations of substantial extracts from two of Khatibi’s major texts. [...] This absorbing introduction to his life and work deserves to be widely read and discussed.'Philip Dine, International Journal of French Studies'[Abdelkébir Khatibi: Postcolonialism, Transnationalism and Culture in the Maghreb and Beyond] stands as the most comprehensive account of Khatibi available in English to date. It presents insightful and authoritative readings on his relation to critical theory, poststructuralism, and postcolonial theory while integrating crucial but neglected aspects of his writing, notably his work in sociology, popular culture, and visual arts.' Matthew Brauer, Journal of North Africa StudiesTable of ContentsList of photographsAcknowledgementsIntroductionAbdelkébir Khatibi, At Home and AbroadJane Hiddleston and Khalid LyamlahyI. Critical Thinking: From Decolonisation to TransnationalismThe ‘Souverainement Orphelin’ of Abdelkébir Khatibi’s Early Writings: Sociology in the Souffles YearsAndy StaffordTireless Translation: Travels, Transcriptions, Tongues and the Eternal Plight of the ‘Étranger professionnel’ in the corpus of Abdelkébir KhatibiAlison RiceAbdelkébir Khatibi’s Mediterranean IdiomEdwige Tamalet TalbayevAbdelkébir Khatibi and the Transparency of LanguageAssia Belhabib (translated from the French by Jane Hiddleston)Performativity and Abdelkébir Khatibi, ‘From where to speak’: Living, Thinking and Writing with an ‘epistemological accent’Alfonso de ToroII. Cultural and Philosophical DialoguesKhatibi and the Transcolonial TurnOlivia C. HarrisonSegalen and Khatibi: Bilingualism, Alterity and the Poetics of DiversityCharles ForsdickDerrida and Khatibi: A ‘Franco-Maghrebian’ dialogueDominique Combe (translated from the French by Jane Hiddleston)Maghrebian Shadow: Abdelkébir Khatibi and Japanese CultureNao SawadaIII. Aesthetics and Art in the Islamic World and BeyondReading Signs and Symbols with Abdelkébir Khatibi: from the Body to the TextRim Feriani, Jasmina Bolfek-Radovani and Debra KellyAbdelkébir Khatibi: The Other Side of the MirrorLucy McNeeceThe Carpet as a Text, The Writer as a Weaver: Reading the Moroccan Carpet with Abdelkébir KhatibiKhalid LyamlahyThe Artist’s Journey, or, the Journey as Art: Aesthetics and Ethics in Pèlerinage d’un artiste amoureux and beyondJane HiddlestonIV. TranslationsExcerpts from Abdelkébir Khatibi, La Blessure du nom propre (Paris: Editions Denoël, 1974)Translated from the French by Matt ReeckExcerpts from Abdelkébir Khatibi and Jacques Hassoun, Le Même Livre (Paris: Editions de l’Eclat, 1985)Translated from the French by Olivia C. HarrisonV. Bibliography

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Book SynopsisAbsent the Archive is the first cultural history in English that is devoted to literary and visual representations of the police massacre of peaceful Algerian protesters. Covered up by the state and hidden from history, the events of October 17 have nonetheless never been fully erased. Indeed, as early as 1962, stories about the massacre began to find their way their way into novels, poetry, songs, film, visual art, and performance. This book is about these stories, the way they have been told, and their function as both documentary and aesthetic objects. Identified here for the first time as a corpus—an anarchive—the works in question produce knowledge about October 17 by narrativizing and contextualizing the massacre, registering its existence, its scale, and its erasure, while also providing access to the subjective experiences of violence and trauma. Absent the Archive is invested in exploring how literature and culture represent history by complicating it, whether by functioning as first responders and persistent witnesses; reverberating against reality but also speculating on what might have been; activating networks of signs and meaning; or by showing us things that otherwise cannot be seen, while at the same time provoking important questions about the aesthetic, ethical, and political stakes of representation.Trade Review“This is a ground-breaking volume that makes visible to readers the entangled histories and legacies of 17 October 1961 in the French cultural imaginary. It is an outstanding work of ethical scholarship, offering a creative analysis of ‘rogue’ cultural texts that been produced in response to a massacre in central Paris that continues to live in the shadows of French history."Claire Gorrara, Cardiff University'Impressive in scope and meticulous in detail, Absent the Archive will no doubt set the bar for future critical studies of the cultural afterlives of October 17.'Patrick Lyons, L'Esprit Créateur‘This compelling book is a sustained, scholarly, and deeply nuanced engagement with the cultural representations of the massacre and its afterlife… [Absent the Archive] speaks to its object and reminds us of the excitement of research and its ethical possibilities. When Jim House and Neil MacMaster published Paris 1961: Algerians, State Terror, and Memory in 2009 (Oxford: Oxford University Press), it was immediately recognized as a landmark achievement. Brozgal’s book is its complement within cultural studies.’ Patrick Crowley, French Studies‘Absent the Archive constitutes a brilliant contribution to the historiography of French colonialism, Algerian struggle for independence, and the attendant French colonial crimes… This book brushes away the myth of the French mission civilisatrice [civilizing mission] and provides new perspectives on the Algerian liberation struggle and French colonial violence.’ Mohamed Chamekh, Contemporary Review of the Middle East‘Groundbreaking’ Alex Tan, AsymptoteTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Scene of the Crime, The Crime of the SeenChapter 1: Excavating the Anarchive. An Archeaology of the CorpusChapter 2: Archive Stories, From Politics to RomancesChapter 3: Non-lieux de mémoire: Maps and Graffiti in the Scriptable CityChapter 4: The Seine’s Exceptional BodiesChapter 5: “How Lucky Were the Blond Kabyles”: Reading Race in the AnarchiveChapter 6: The Entangled Stories of October 17, Vichy, the Jews, and the HolocaustEpilogue: The Ends of the AnarchiveBibliography:The Anarchive – Primary sourcesSelected Secondary Sources

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