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Book SynopsisThis collected volume is based on the proceedings of a symposium held in 2018 at York University, Canada, which was held to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Israel. This symposium highlighted contemporary Jewish identity, Israel-Diaspora relations, and how Jewish life has been transformed in light of various types of antisemitism. The book considers the diasporic Jewish experiences through examining the intersections between various Jewish communities sociologically, historically, and geographically.The text covers world Jewry in general, and each of the diaspora and Israeli Jewries more specifically in the context of mutual responsibility, but also focuses on areas of tension concerning values and political matters. The challenges of antisemitism, racism, and nationalism are explored in terms of the relationship of the Jewish diasporas to their host countries. This text also covers antisemitism, which may take the form of traditional antisemitism or of the new antisemitism in the era of anti-Israel activity related to the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement. The latter movement is especially prevalent on university campuses and has an impact on students, faculty, and staff. This volume is unique in its international perspective in examining issues of Jewish identity, Israel-diaspora relations, and antisemitism and will appeal to students and researchers working in the field.Table of ContentsIsrael at 70 and World Jewry: One People or Two?.- Israel-Diaspora Relations in the 21st Century: Continuities and Discontinuities.- The Evolution of North American Jews’ Relations with Israel from Adolescence to Adulthood: The Bar/Bat Mitzvah Class of 1994-95 (5755).- The COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Potential Impact on Jewish Young Adults’ Relationship to Israel and Jewish Identity.- Segmented and Transnational Identity Formation in the Israeli Diaspora.- Keeping the Flame Alive: The Formation of Transnational Identities among Jewish Emigrants from Israel.- Holocaust, Memory, Migration: The Burden of Catastrophe among Israelis in Germany.- The Faculty Assault on Academic Freedom (USA).- Antisemitism, Anti-Israelism, and Canada in Context.- Jewish Students’ Experiences in the Era of BDS: Exploring Jewish Lived Experience and the New Antisemitism on Canadian Campuses.- Is Anti-Israelism Antisemitism? Evidence from Great Britain.- The BDS Movement in Australia.- Epilogue: Summary, Discussion, and Looking Beyond.

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Book SynopsisListening to Sicarios presents new insights into the lives of paid assassins of Mexico’s drug trafficking syndicates from the perspectives of the assassins themselves. Based on an extraordinary series of ethnographic interviews carried out in the wake of the record levels of narcoviolence experienced in Ciudad Juárez between 2008 and 2012, this study analyzes the ways in which these young men interpret their actions across four key thematic axes: border infrastructures, youth and responsibility, masculinity and sentiment, and ethics: good vs. evil.It argues that sicarios follow a career path within a criminal corporate infrastructure that is especially robust in Mexican border cities. It also explores how sicarios understand youthful innocence in relation to adult accountability in the realm of violence that is frequently meted out by young men on other young men. It then analyzes sicarios’ expressions of feelings of power that may boost their sense of virility, as well as feelings of fear and regret that imply weakness. Finally, it examines how sicarios defend their personal integrity in the face of a public discourse that views their acts as savage.Table of Contents1. Deadly Employment within the Border Industrial Complex2. Youthful Murders: Innocence and Professionalism3. Sicario Masculinities: Feeling Reckless and Respectful4. Fury at the Limits of Good and Evil

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Book SynopsisThis book proposes a new way for scholars in, for example, Education, Literary Studies, and Philosophy to approach texts and other phenomena through the concept and practice of translation. Its interdisciplinary perspective makes the book of value for graduate students and scholars in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The unique take on translation as related to the notion of aporia is applied to a number of seminal and classical texts within literature, poetry, and philosophy, which gives the reader new understandings of the workings of language and what happens within and between languages, as well as within and between disciplines, when some form of interpretation or analysis is at work. Importantly, the book develops the notion of aporias of translation as a way to learn and develop our understanding of texts and phenomena, and thus functions as a pedagogical process, which helps us come to terms with the boundaries of language and academic disciplines.Table of ContentsFor proposal stage:1. Introduction: Aporias of TranslationThe three main fields of study, education, literature, and philosophy, are introduced in relation to the notion aporias of translation. A brief history of each of the two basic concepts of the book, aporia and translation, is given. These histories provide the reader with the relevant previous research on the two concepts, and also stake out the paths that the studies in the book will follow in relation to aporias of translation. The introduction, moreover, outlines the way aporias of translation as a practice relates to education and pedagogy. Relevant research on education is addressed and accounted for. Important secondary literature on the main themes and fields of study is described and related to the argument of the book. The introduction concludes with short summaries of the seven chapters (including the Coda) which make up the main studies in the book. 2. The Education of DeathThe chapter consists of an analysis of what the notion of an education of death, as suggested in Thomas Bernhard’s novel Gargoyles (Verstörung), might entail. The primary texts of the chapter are, besides Bernhard’s novel, a passage from Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit (Phänomenologie des Geistes), and Jacques Derrida’s Aporias (Apories). The translations of the primary texts are addressed and problematized, in order to highlight the aporetic character of translation, and how the aporias of translation, further, relates to an education of death. Specifically, when it comes to the notion of aporia, the chapter provides an analysis of Derrida’s thinking concerning aporia and death, which have a direct bearing on the notion of an education of death. The chapter concludes with a return to Bernhard’s Gargoyles in light of the previous analysis of the education of death, and suggests that a possible education of death points beyond the instrumentalism of formal education toward a notion of experience and Bildung developed through the confrontation with death and aporia. 3. Translation and Aporia in Censorship, Critique, and EducationThe main texts of this chapter are the censored chapter “At Tikhon” in Dostoevsky’s novel Demons, Derrida’s chapter “Vacant Chair: Censorship, Mastery, Magisteriality” in Eyes of the University: Rights to Philosophy 2, and Rodolph Gasché’s book The Honor of Thinking: Critique, Theory, Philosophy, especially the chapter on Heidegger’s notion of Auseinandersetzung (“Toward an Ethics of Auseinandersetzung”). These three textual encounters set the stage for rethinking ethics in relation to education, critique, and censorship. The chapter begins with a reading of “At Tikhon,” and the correlation between the Dostoevsky and his protagonist in Demons, Stavrogin, concerning censorship. The reading also broaches the relationship between education and censorship, more precisely a certain pedagogical movement discernable in Tikhon’s treatment of Stavrogin, which borders on censorship. The chapter continues with an analysis of Derrida’s deconstruction of censorship in Kant. As Derrida notes in “Vacant Chair,” censorship is not limited to state sanctioned intellectual violence (Gewalt) as Kant would have it, but applies to any act to limit free expression. The chapter concludes by proposing an alternative way of doing critique which tries to address the inevitable censorship of any critique, but in a manner that poses an ethical alternative in the form of Heidegger’s notion of Auseinadersetzung, proposed by Rodolph Gasché. In sum, the chapter poses the question if not translation, in fact, is a form of censorship. How, for example, can we come to terms with the gaps and omissions in the English translation of Demons? These absences, it is argued, are aporetic moments that can enrich our reading of the novel. Moreover, and by extension, the chapter probes the question of censorship also in relation to critique as an academic genre and to education as an academic discipline. 4. Sensitive Readings: Literature and the Discourse of Critical ThinkingThe chapter has a twofold aim: 1) To explore how the analysis of works of literature relate to the concept of what is called “critical thinking.” What characterizes a reading of a literary work that at the same time displays what within higher education discourse is defined as “critical thinking”? To address this question student undergraduate theses in literature are analyzed using Tim Moore’s seven criteria of “critical thinking” from his 2013 article “Critical thinking: seven definitions in search of a concept.” 2) The chapter, moreover, exposes the reduction of literary scholarship into simple instrumentalism by certain proponents of critical thinking, exemplified by arguments by critical thinking scholar Marin Davies, and Jon Elster’s criticism of what he calls the “obscuritanism” of humanities scholarship. The chapter, to counter these arguments, suggests that an important aspect of a literary analysis and literary scholarship is to be able to endure uncertainty. It is in uncertainty and undecidability, that is, in moments of aporia, which sensitive readings are performed. This is something completely different from the kind of “obscuritanism” with which Elster wants to characterize literary and humanities scholarship. 5. The (Ir)responsibilty of Teaching: Deconstructing DiversityThe chapter consists of a critical review of the discourse of diversity, and also proposes, as an alternative, to consider the aporia of responsibility in relation to the “wholly other(s)” as in Derrida’s formula “tout autre est tout autre,” as he conceives of it in his book The Gift of Death. The chapter, furthermore, sets out to examine the different conceptions of difference and “the Other” which the discourses on diversity often refer to as a point of departure for a theoretization of diversity. The wholly other and the aporia of responsibility is then related to education, specifically to teaching as an act of addressing the other as altogether other. Key thinkers that figure in the chapter are Terry Eagleton, Alain Badiou, Emmanuel Levinas, and Jacques Derrida. In line with Derrida’s notion of the wholly other(s), the chapter proposes a perspective on education and teaching which takes into consideration the impossibility of a formalized responsibility in relation to diversity, since as soon as responsibility is formalized and thematized according to certain determined principles, responsibility reveals a fundamental irresponsibility which it cannot escape. Every notion of responsibility, in other words, rests on a simultaneous irresponsibility; that is, the concept of responsibility is caught in an unsolvable aporia. This aporia of responsibility has consequences for teaching, since in teaching one has to address and respond to the other as wholly other. The responsiveness of teaching, moreover, beyond any kind of retribution or compensation, brings with it the necessity to translate, more specifically, to translate the aporia so that those involved will have to read and translate, in their turn, what it means to remain in the aporetic pedagogical situation that every instance of teaching and learning constitutes. Teaching as such has the possibility to be, as Derrida states of responsibility, “a dissident and inventive rupture with respect to tradition, authority, orthodoxy, rule, or doctrine.” 6. Translation and Poetry: Reading John AshberyThe chapter considers, first, John Ashbery’s practice of translation in relation to his poetry, which builds the foundation for a reading of Ashbery’s poetry in its own right. As Rosanne Wasserman and Eugene Richie suggest in their introduction to Ashbery’s Collected French Translations – Prose: “Not only does translation transform a poet’s original work, but also the poet can offer us translations “closer to the originals than the originals themselves,” (note 43) [Ashbery, Selected Prose, 86] as the intuitive, interpretive alchemy of translation enhances and deepens our sense of a text, bringing out the best of its original” (36-37). This assertion is the point of departure for the analysis of translation and poetry in the chapter. To achieve this aim, Ashbery’s poetry is related to the aporetic character of the concept of translation by reading a selection of his poems, such as “Soonest Mended,” “And Ut Pictura Poesis Is Her Name, “ “The New Spirit,” and “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror.” The chapter centers on a reading of “Soonest Mended” with the expressed notion in the poem of learning as a delusion and the eternal recurrence of the same, the return of time. This theme provides the basis for invoking a “process of awareness,” namely what Ashbery calls the “experience of experience,” that is, a poetics of process (Silverberg, p. 115), which can be connected to the process of translation. The reading of Ashbery’s poems shows how an aporia is revealed and enacted when “meaning” becomes secondary and understanding must turn toward experiencing the event of translation as a process of language. This is where “learning / Is a delusion” (“Soonest Mended”) because what is learned is temporary and changes, transforms as soon as it has happened, so that “Tomorrow would alter the sense of what had already been / Learned” (“Soonest Mended”) and is thus undone. The chapter, in this way, points to translation as a pedagogical practice that “enhances and deepens our sense of a text,” to echo Wasserman and Richie’s introduction to Ashbery’s translations.7. Translation and the Aporias of “Words”The chapter employs the developed notion of the aporia of translation to analyze Martin Heidegger’s essay “Words” (Das Wort, GA 12). Already a comparison between the original German title of the essay and the translated English title reveals a discrepancy which leads to an aporia; e.g. why did the English translator, Joan Stambaugh, choose to translate the German “das Wort” with the English “words”? What connotations do the English expression “the word” have that make it an inappropriate translation of the German das Wort? Another significant detail is that Heidegger’s essay carries the same title as the poem that is the main focus in his text, namely Stefan George’s “Das Wort” (“The Word”). This, then, is another reason to ask why the translator of Heidegger’s essay have chosen to render the title of the essay as “Words.” Taking this preliminary instance of an aporia of translation as a stepping stone, the chapter continues by invoking Paul Natorp’s conceptions “gewortete Wort” and “wortenden Wort,” that is, the “worded word” and the “wording word,” as developed in his Philosophische Systematik, to analyze Heidegger’s thinking regarding the mystery or secret (Geheimnis) of the word. Furthermore, by way of Heidegger’s translation of the Greek λόγος as “saying” as well as “Being,” the analysis invokes the translation of λόγος as “the Word” in John 1:1; that is, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God,” and the debates on its translation. Given the complications of translation analyzed in the chapter, it concludes with a reflection on translation and education, and how translation can serve as a means to approach, not only languages, but also literature, poetry, and philosophy. J. Hillis Miller’s essay “Border Crossings, translating Theory: Ruth” is a significant essay which the chapter addresses regarding translation, theory, and the reading of biblical texts. Important Heidegger scholarship that is addressed in the book is, for example, Richard Capobianco’s Engaging Heidegger and Heidegger’s Way of Being, Markus Joachim Brach’s Heidegger-Platon: Vom Neukantianismus zur existentiellen Interpretation des “Sofistes,” and Jussi Backman’s essay “The Transitional Breakdown of the Word: Heidegger and Stefan George’s Encounter with Language.”8. Coda: Aporia and the Excess of Translation and Education The Coda consists in an analysis of a number of conceptions and translations of excess; such as, for example, excess as Überschuß (Husserl), Übermaß, Überfluss (Heidegger), the exorbitant (l’exorbitant) (Derrida), sûrcroit (Marion), expenditure (dépense), excess (excédant, excès, surabondance) (Bataille). The excess of translation, it is argued, is an excess inherent in an aporia, that is, the insoluble character of aporia gives rise to an excess that cannot be contained in a single concept, theory, method, discourse, etc. Each system or discipline, then, such as a philosophical system, a system of ethics, a theory of education, or the academic discipline of Education itself, by defining and determining itself, opens up unto aporia, which means the system, theory, or discipline is always already in excess of itself. Examples from the previous chapters are revisited in order to sum up the main argument of the book, namely the educational and pedagogical possibilities of the theoretical concept aporias of translation, as well as its performative consequences.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the “battles” of words, songs, poetry, and performance in Africa and the African Diaspora. These are usually highly competitive, artistic contests in which rival parties duel for supremacy in poetry composition and/or its performance. This volume covers the history of this battle tradition, from its origins in Africa, especially the udje and halo of the Urhobo and Ewe respectively, to its transportation to the Americas and the Caribbean region during the Atlantic slave trade period, and its modern and contemporary manifestations as battle rap or other forms of popular music in Africa. Almost everywhere there are contemporary manifestations of the more traditional, older genres. The book is thus made up of studies of contests in which rivals duel for supremacy in verbal arts, song-poetry, and performance as they display their wit, sense of humor, and poetic expertise. Table of Contents1. Introduction.—Tanure Ojaide.Part I: African Origins.2. Battle by All Means: Udje as Oral Poetry and Performance—Tanure Ojaide.3. Halo: The Ewe Battle Tradition of Music, Songs, and Performance—Honore Missihoun.4. Poetry and Ping-Pong: Auto/Biographical Verbal Duels in Yoruba Polygamous Households—Adetayo Alabi 5. Shairi and Malumbano: The Tradition of Verbal Warfare in Swahili Literature—Mwenda Mbatiah.6. Moral Authority of Shona Women’s Battlesongs: Revising Customary Law in the Context of Performance Within African Indigenous Knowledge System—Beauty Vambe.Part II: Diaspora Manifestation7. Battles, Raps, Cappin’, The Dozens: African-American Oral Traditions of Insult—Michele Randolph and Maliek Lewis.8. Black Greek Step Shows—Debra Smith.9. Battle Rap: An Exploration of Competitive Rhyming in Hip Hop —Matthew Oware 10. Fighting Words: Songs of Conflict, Censure, and Cussout in Trinidad and Tobago Carnival—Funso Aiyejina.11. Oral Tradition and Cultures in Dialogue: Ondjango Angolano and Jongo da Serrinha— Tonia Leigh Wind.12. Stanzas and Sticks: Poetic and Physical Challenges in the Afro-Brazilian Culture of the Paraíba Valley, Rio de Janeiro—Matthias RohrigAssuncao.Part III: New Transformations.13. Yabis, A Nigerian Genre of Insult—Enajite Eseoghene Ojaruega. 14. Epistemic Recuperation and Contemporary Reconfiguration of the Verbal Battle Tradition in the Poetry of Tanure Ojaide and Kofi Anyidoho—Mathias IroroOrhero.15. The Creativity of Abuse: Power, Song and the ‘Authority of Insults’ in Zimbabwean Music, Post 2017—Maurice TaonezviVambe.16. Bongo Fleva: Its Lyrics, “Inappropriate” Content, Source, and Possible Harm—Dunlop Ochieng.

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Book SynopsisThis book was written by Kenneth M. Heilman, a neurologist with a long and productive clinical and academic career, including being a researcher and teacher.  Based on his experiences and achievements, as well as his frustrations and failures, he examines the challenges of healthcare, including what problems exist and how these problems may be improved.  Each chapter in this book focuses on integral areas of medicine, including research, creativity, career development, patient-physician relationship, wellness, medications, social considerations such as race, and medicine''s future.   Changes in Medicine offers a unique view to the rapidly evolving field of neurology and practicing medicine.

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Book SynopsisThis is a history of the Centre William Rappard, the first building designed to house an international organization in Geneva, and its art treasures. For nearly a century, these works of art and decorations offered by governments and institutions encouraged smooth diplomacy and fluent international negotiations in the fields of labour, trade and human rights. On occasions hidden, removed and forgotten, and then recovered and restored, the history of the artworks in the Centre William Rappard represents the confrontation between art as diplomatic device and aesthetic experience, between representation and represented, between censorship and free expression. Even before its opening in 1926, the building started receiving works from the International Labour Organization member governments. Some pieces, such as the Geneva Window by Harry Clarke, never arrived in Geneva since it was censored by the Irish government. The Spanish Pygmalion by Eduardo Chicharro y Agüera was latter covered for its female nudity and remained hidden during decades. Later in the 1970s the secretariat of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade occupied the building and requested the removal of other major works. This was reversed in the 2010s by its successor the World Trade Organization, when many artworks were rediscovered, restored and placed in their original locations. However, new values in the world scene contributed to further changes in the building art, including the removal of Claude Namy’s caricature In GATT We Trust from public view in 2019. Art in the Centre William Rappard continues to speak to the viewer after waves of positive reception, censorship and recovery. Table of ContentsChapter 1: The Art Paradox: Between Love and Fear of the Image.Chapter 2: 1926 – Metaphors of Hope. Chapter 3: 1930 – “Sex and drunkenness and, yes, sin”: The Geneva Window that never arrived in Geneva.Chapter 4:1937 – “He wishes that it be removed”: Hiding Pygmalion.Chapter 5: 1977 – “Profane, almost sentimentalist, almost human”: The GATT Secretariat in the Centre William Rappard.Chapter 6: 2013 – Fresh Air: Rediscovering and Restoring Artworks.Chapter 7: 2020 – The end of humour.Chapter 8: Ars celare artem

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Book SynopsisThis book draws on a variety of substantive examples from science, technology, medicine, literature, and popular culture to highlight how a new technoscientifically mediated and modified phase and form of technosleep is now in the making – in the global north at least; and to discuss the consequences for our relationships to sleep, the values we accord sleep and the very nature and normativities of sleep itself.The authors discuss how technosleep, at its simplest denotes the ‘coming together’ or ‘entanglements’ of sleep and technology and sensitizes us to various shifts in sleep–technology relations through culture, time and place. In doing so, it pays close attention to the salience and significance of these trends and transformations to date in everyday/night life, their implications for sleep inequalities and the related issues of sleep and social justice they suggest. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Technosleep: Frontiers, Fictions, Futures.- Contextualising sleep.- Tracking sleep.- Transforming sleep?.- Machinic ‘sleep’.- Technosleep in/as science fiction.- Stratified technosleep futures.- Conclusions: Technosleep, frontiers, fictions and futures.

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Book SynopsisThis book is an exploration of the intellectual resources offered by the hybridisation of sociology and cinema: practicing sociology, or other human sciences, through images and sound. In the age of the image, the book invites sociological research, not only through the discipline's approach, but also through the joint learning of techniques (shooting and sound recording, derushing, editing, etc.) and film writing. Using concrete examples, the authors analyse what it means to think through the image, explain the different phases of making a sociological documentary, and question, through sociological film, the representations of reality and, more specifically, what remains invisible in the social world. The result is a reflective look at the theories and practices presented, to better equip the sociologist-filmmaker. Illustrated with numerous photographs that mark the history of documentary photography and film, the book is intended for both teachers-researchers and students in all disciplines of the humanities and social sciences who practice video and photography or wish to discover their uses. Students in documentary and film schools, as well as students on information and communication programs will also benefit from the book.Table of Contents

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the historical linguistic panorama of Western South America, focusing on the minor languages that were partially or fully replaced by the expansion of the Quechuan family through the region.The author presents a coherent and generally applicable framework for studying prehistoric language shift processes and reconstructing earlier linguistic landscapes before significant language spreads ousted former patterns of linguistic diversity. This framework combines toponymic evidence with the analysis of substrate contact effects, and, in some cases, extralinguistic evidence, to create an integrated if incomplete of extinct and undocumented languages. In an authoritative exploration of case studies, concerning Aymara in parts of Southern Peru, Cañar in Ecuador, and Chacha in Northern Peru, the book shows how the identities of lost languages and earlier linguistic panoramas can be reconstructed.Table of Contents1. Linguistic stratigraphy, or how to recover traces of lost languages2. The Central Andean linguistic landscape through time and the Quechuan language family2.1. The ever-changing cultural and linguistic landscapes of the Central Andes2.2. Quechua today2.3. The classification of Quechua2.4. The Quechua expansion2.5. The non-Quechua linguistic diversity3. Evidence and methods for investigating substratal languages3.1. Introduction3.2. Toponyms and anthroponyms3.3 Substrate influence3.4 Substrate vocabulary3.5. Extralinguistic evidence3.6. Summary4. The Aymara presence in Southern Peru4.1. Introduction4.2. Toponymy4.3. Substrate effects4.4. Substrate vocabulary4.5. Perspectives from outside linguistics4.6. Summary5. The Barbacoan languages and the southern Ecuadorian highlands5.1. Introduction5.2. Toponymy5.2.1. Characteristic toponymy of Cañar and Azuay5.2.2. Continuous northward extensions of Cañar and Azuay toponymic endings5.2.3. Noncontinuous northward extensions of Cañar and Azuay toponymic endings to the Ecuadorian-Colombian border5.2.4. Northward extensions of phonological characteristics of Cañar and Azuay toponyms5.3. Substrate effects5.4. Substrate vocabulary5.5. Summary6. Chachapoyas6.1. Introduction6.2. Toponymy6.3. Substrate effects6.4. Substrate vocabulary6.5. Perspectives from outside linguistics6.6. Summary7. Synopsis and conclusionReferences

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Book SynopsisThis book engages with current debates around refugeedom by examining cultural production that represents and interrogates the construction of refugees and the refugee experience on the borders of contemporary Europe. The refugee subject is produced by discursive regimes and border practices inherited from colonial projects that construct the diametrically opposed concepts of citizen and refugee, and their attendant administrative sub-categories. In the early twenty-first century these categories have been strengthened by the politicisation of forced migration and the hardening of ‘Fortress Europe’. While the predominant response to the increasing numbers of refugees seeking asylum in Europe has been to harden the borders (regime), on the one hand, or to stress the common humanity of those displaced (refuge), on the other, this volume argues that both approaches result in refugees becoming objectified, othered, and abstracted as vectors of exile. It explores what recent cultural production can achieve in engaging with and representing issues of dispossession, detention and resettlement, and probes the limits of artistic potential to mediate the refugee experience. It examines transnational approaches to cultural production that both occupy and exceed the borders of Europe, with a focus on borderscapes, spaces of detention, and (neo-)colonialism. Bringing together original contributions from an international range of scholars, it analyses contemporary textual and visual representations of forced migration to argue that other forms of solidarity and hospitality towards refugees in Europe and beyond must be possible.Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Fiona Barclay (University of Stirling) and Beatrice Ivey (University of Sheffield), European Border Regimes and RefugeSection 1: Representing Refugees: Theory and Concept2. Claire Launchbury (University of Leeds), "How am I supposed to talk to you, or with you, or about you?" Transcultural memory border concepts and the refugee3. Hella Wiedmer-Newman (Hauser & Wirth gallery, Zurich), Unsettled: Narrativity and Documentation in George Drivas’s Laboratory of Dilemmas4. Asha Varadharajan (Queen’s University, Canada), “Gimme Shelter”: Identity, Habitation and Affect in Narratives of MigrationSection 2: Representing Detention5. Stephanie Hemelryk Donald and Kaya Davies Hayon (University of Lincoln), A Green Hell: Representations of Detention from Manus to Morton Hall6. Helen Brewer (Goldsmiths, University of London), Carceral Witnessing and the Spatial ImaginationSection 3 : Public Discourses of Refugeedom7. Béatrice Blanchet (Lyon Catholic University) Remapping the borderlands of Britain: the Calais “Jungle” and the enduring legacy of imperial frontier policing8. Terri Tomsky (University of Alberta) Dispossession in children’s storybooks: Visualizing experiences of migration9. Peter Arnds (Trinity College Dublin) Making Monsters out of Myths: Animal Metaphors in Populist Discourse on Forced Migration10. Siobhan Brownlie (University of Manchester) Discourses of Memory and Refugees/Asylum Seekers

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Book SynopsisNineteenth-century outlaw Ned Kelly is perhaps Australia's most famous historical figure. Ever since he went on the run in 1878 his story has been repeated time and again, in every conceivable medium. Although the value of his memory has been hotly contested – and arguably because of this – he remains perhaps the main national icon of Australia. Kelly's flamboyant crimes turned him into a popular hero for many Australians during his lifetime and far beyond: a symbol of freedom, anti authoritarianism, anti imperialism; a Robin Hood, a Jesse James, a Che Guevara. Others have portrayed him as a villain, a gangster, a terrorist. His latest incarnation has been as WikiLeaks founder and fellow Australian "cyber outlaw" Julian Assange. Despite the huge number of representations of Kelly – from rampant newspaper reporting of the events, to the iconic Sidney Nolan paintings, to a movie starring Mick Jagger, to contemporary urban street art – this is the first work to take this corpus of material itself as a subject of analysis. The fascinating case of this young outlaw provides an important opportunity to further our understanding of the dynamics of cultural memory. The book explains the processes by which the cultural memory of Ned Kelly was made and has developed over time, and how it has related to formations and negotiations of national identity. It breaks new ground in memory studies in the first place by showing that cultural memories are formed and develop through tangles of relations, what Basu terms memory dispositifs. In introducing the concept of the memory dispositif, this volume brings together and develops the work of Foucault, Deleuze, and Agamben on the dispositif, along with relevant concepts from the field of memory studies such as allochronism, colonial aphasia, and multidirectionality, the memory site – especially as developed by Ann Rigney – and Jan Assmann's figure of memory. Secondly, this work makes important headway in our understanding of the relationships between cultural memory and national identity, at a time when matters of identity appear to be more urgent and fraught than ever. In doing so, it shows that national identities are never purely national but are always sub- and transnational. The Ned Kelly memory dispositif has made complex and conflicting contributions to constructions of national identity. Ever since his outlawry, the identities invested in Kelly and those invested in the Australian nation have, in a two-way dynamic, fused into and strengthened each other, so that Kelly is in many ways a symbol for the national identity. Kelly has come to stand for an anti-establishment, working class, subaltern, Irish-inflected national identity. At the same time he has come to represent and enforce the whiteness, hyper-heterosexual masculinity and violence of "Australianness". Basu shows that Kelly has therefore always functioned in both radical and conservative ways, often both at once: a turbulent, Janus-faced figure.

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Book SynopsisIn a work that casts philosophical and theological reflections against a backdrop of personal experience, Leon Wiener Dow offers a learned discourse that elucidates the telos of Jewish law and the philosophical-theological commitments that animate it. To the reader gazing upon the halakha from the outside, this book offers a glimpse of its central, orienting concepts. To the reader who lives amidst the rigor of halakha, this book bestows an insightful glance at the law’s orienting ethos and higher aspirations that often remain opaque.Trade Review“In its depth and breadth, this work is theologically stunning. … Its erudition, sophistication, and verve testify that halakhah is neither only an object of study nor a paved highway but, rather, a path that, in its being traveled, is constantly redirected in view of divine command and human experience.” (Yonatan Y. Brafman, Journal of Jewish Ethics, Vol. 5 (2), 2019)Table of Contents1. Beginnings2. Saying, Writing, Doing3. Shared Spacetime: Community4. The IneffableEpilogue. Parting ways

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Book SynopsisNeurobiological findings prove the importance of the psychological effect of the game on the development of the brain. Not only systematic support, but also play plays an important role in early childhood development. What does this mean for the education of children? How does play affect relation to attention and learning? Can you learn anything about the next stage of development from the children's game? And how does play relate to thinking and perception? André Frank Zimpel addresses these key questions and shows how children develop the ability to imagine things while playing and how they can be supported effectively. The imagined game situations are heralds of developing mental abilities, without which life in our society would not be conceivable.

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Book SynopsisReading Caesar's text in Latin classes at school is often the source of great frustration. But that need not be the case: This text of Caesar's work defuses the problem and motivates pupils at the same time without distorting the original text.The text is set up on facing pages: The comic version provides the reader with an initial understanding of the text and lightens up some of the more difficult passages, making work with the original text considerably easier to manage.

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Book SynopsisCiceros Reden gegen Verres gehören zur Standardlektëre im Lateinunterricht - und das mit gutem Grund: Die Geschichte ist spannend und interessant; der Leser erfährt viel darëber, wie Politik und Gesellschaft in Rom funktionierten. Die Reden sind rhetorisch ausgefeilt und brillant und vermitteln einen lebendigen Eindruck von Ciceros Redekunst.Die Texte sind mit Hilfen und Anregungen versehen und eignen sich gut fër die Erst- und Mittelstufenlektëre.

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Book Synopsis"People at the Well" investigates habits, practices, and meanings of water through case studies from around the world. With its wide range and impressive diversity, this volume explores water practices in different cultures and shows that water is much more than a commodity, a resource, or a substance - it is a focal point that reflects local culture. By providing close scrutiny, the contributors explore and discover the fundamental differences and dynamics of various water-related practices and cultural phenomena.

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Book SynopsisIn dem interdisziplinär besetzten Sammelband wird die sozialstrukturelle Zusammensetzung des Publikums, das wechselseitige Verhältnis von Oper und Gesellschaft und die Zukunft der Oper diskutiert. Die Erwartungen und das Erleben des Opernpublikums sind ebenso ein Thema wie Inszenierungsstile und neue Vermittlungsformen in Form von Open-Air-Veranstaltungen.Trade Review“... Das Buch ist für Kulturmanager im Opernbereich zu empfehlen, die sich für die rare Kombination aus historisch gewachsenen Rezeptionsbedingungen und einer Anwendung deskriptiver Methodik interessieren. ... Die Befunde des Bandes zur Attestierung gesellschaftlicher Relevanz von „Oper“ sind ein profunder Einstieg für diejenigen, die im eigenen Haus das Rezeptionsverhalten ihrer Besucher erforschen möchten.” (Laura Bettag, in: Kulturmanagement Network, kulturmanagement.net, 28. September 2018)“... Ein vielseitiges Buch, dass nicht nur viele Fakten bietet, sondern auch sehr unterschiedliche Meinungen zu Wort kommen lässt, so dass der Leser aufgefordert wird, sich selbst ein Bild von Wesen und Überlebensaussichten der Gattung Oper zu machen. Reichhaltige Literaturlisten und ein umfangreicher kritischer Apparat erhöhen den Wert des Buches zusätzlich.” (Ingrid Wanja, in: deropernfreund.de, Jg. 50, 2018)“… Es ist ein anspruchsvolles, differenziertes Buch, das diejenigen mit Gewinn lesen werden, die mehr über die Oper in der Gesellschaft wissen möchten.” (Gernot Wojnarowicz, in: dasorchester.de, Heft 5, 2018)“... bietet das Werk zum einen einen Beitrag zur sozialkulturellen Wissenschaftsdiskussion, und zum anderen handfeste empirische Erkenntnisse für im Bereich Schaffende und Verantwortliche, "Ihr Publikum" besser einschätzen zu können.” (M. Lehmann-Pape, in: Buch und Hörbuch Rezensionen, rezensions-seite.de, 2018)Table of ContentsDer klassische Opern- und Musikbetrieb im Umbruch - Das Opernpublikum in Vergleich zu anderen Kulturpublika - Soziale und kulturelle Einflüsse auf den Opernbesuch - Soziale und kommunikative Aspekte des Opernbesuchs - Erwartungen des Publikums und Vermittlungsformen

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Book SynopsisParticipation has become an orthodoxy in the field of development, an essential element of projects and programmes. This book analyses participation in development interventions as an institutionalised expectation – a rationalized myth – and examines how organisations on different levels of government process it. At least two different objectives of participation are appropriate and legitimate for international organisations in the field: the empowerment of local beneficiaries and the achievement of programme goals. Both integrate participatory forums into the organisational logic of development interventions. Local administrations react to the institutionalised expectation with means-ends decoupling, where participatory forums are implemented superficially but de facto remain marginalised in local administrative processes and activities. The book furthermore provides a thick description of the organisationality of participation in development interventions. Participatory forums are shown to be a form of partial organisation. They establish an order in the relationship between administrations and citizens through the introduction of rules and the creation of a defined membership. At the same time, this order is found to be fragile and subject to criticism and negotiation.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Theoretical Framework.- Methodological Framework.- Responding to the myth of participation through interpretation and decoupling.- Organising civil society by building membership.- Organising civil society by setting rules.- Discussion and Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisMit der kommentierten Auswahl der Briefe und Notizen von Carl Dahlhaus (1928–1989) wird die Korrespondenz eines der bedeutendsten Musikwissenschaftler des 20. Jahrhunderts erstmals in breiter Form zugänglich. Sie wirft neues Licht auf die Entwicklung der Musikwissenschaft in dieser Zeit. Zudem gestattet sie einen fesselnden Einblick in den Lebensweg und den (Arbeits-)Alltag eines bundesrepublikanischen Intellektuellen mit Wissenschaftlern wie Theodor W. Adorno, Peter Szondi, Reinhart Koselleck und Hans Robert Jauß oder den Komponisten György Ligeti und Hans Werner Henze. Ihre sprachliche und stilistische Verve verleiht nicht wenigen von Dahlhaus’ Briefen und Notizen zugleich genuin literarische Qualitäten.Trade Review“... Die Edition samt durchweg klugem Anmerkungs-«Apparat» verdient höchstes Lob und viel Resonanz.” (Rainer Peters, in: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, Heft 1, 2023) “... Die Herkulesaufgabe, aus dem gigantischen Quellenmaterial ein spannendes Lebensbild entstehen zu lassen, das neben Streiflichtern auf die Person Einblicke in die Werkstatt des Autors gestattet, darf - mit den Einschränkungen zur Textgestalt als geglückt bezeichnet werden. Dank der durchgängig sprachlichen und stilistischen Brillanz kommen nicht nur Dahlhaus-Schüler und -kenner auf ihre Kosten - in den Briefen entfaltet sich ein Panorama des Geisteslebens des alten Westdeutschlands bis zur Wende.” (Rüdiger Albrecht, in: info-netz-musik, info-netz-musik.bplaced.net, 9. Dezember 2022)Table of ContentsBriefe.- Notizen.- Adressaten und Personen aus dem Umfeld.- Personenregister

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Book SynopsisThe book covers a wide range of cinematic femininities: It starts with Marilyn Monroe's cool phrase We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle, which self-confidently marked her profession - with a wink, because she did not say to sparkle. The (self-) staging of women also ironically plays its being tailored to the male gaze. In this section we discuss movies like Some like it hot, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Cet obscur objet du désir and Le Mépris - with a notable chapter by Laura Mulvey. Moreover, some fifty films later, the book ends with a section on Self-Empowerment and Identity, featuring films like Thelma & Louise, The Hours, Blue Valentine and Carol. Are women in film really just those who are seen and displayed? Where are the ones who see and who point to something themselves? Where are the women in the audience, behind the camera? If, as feminist psychoanalytical film criticism rightly observes, the stars and starlets, especially in Hollywood mainstream cinema, are suppo

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Book SynopsisIf data is the greatest collective treasure of a digital society, basic material for business and politics: Why are the places where it is stored still so invisible? Niklas Maak, architectural critic and Professor for Architecture at Städelschule Frankfurt, explores this question in his new publication and envisions radical solutions for the future.

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Book SynopsisHarlem’s 125th Street is a marker of 20th century urban experience, a thoroughfare that encapsulates powerful stories of business and consumption, real estate and gentrification, glamour and entertainment, and political uprising. The book explores works and themes from a large roster of photographers and performance artists who have engaged with the constant mutation of this street-life. The photographs in this book represent narratives of resilience and poems of survival against a rapid and sweeping movement of history across 125th street, where buildings and communities are periodically destroyed and built anew. The works shape a sense of belonging and identity that goes against the stereotyping and mystification of this neighborhood. It contributes to the writing of a new history of photography that is collective and collaborative. Among the artists featured are Dawoud Bey, Khalik Allah, Kwame Brathwaite, Jamel Shabazz, Hiram Maristany, Ming Smith, Ruben Natal San Miguel, Isaac Diggs & Edward Hillel, Lorraine O’Grady, and William Pope.L. Artists include: Berenice Abbott, Khalik Allah, Alice Attie, Dawoud Bey, Kwame Brathwaite Isaac Diggs & Edward Hillel, Lola Flash, Hiram Maristany, Ozier Muhammad, Katsu Naito Marilyn Nance, Ruben Natal-San Miguel, Lorraine O’Grady, Gordon Parks, Pope.L, Jamel Shabazz, Coreen Simpson, Beuford Smith, Ming Smith, Morgan and Marvin Smith, Shawn Walker Hai Zhang.

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Book SynopsisIn 1991, the town of Pulheim initiated the Stommeln Synagogue art project, a permanent process of examination of this historically significant location. Since then it has continued to make a contribution to a culture of remembrance. A wide-ranging overview of remarkable works is being assembled on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the synagogue. Far from the day-to-day business of culture, international artists have repeatedly taken up the challenge of developing works for the silent building in a remote setting and its remarkable historical context. Virtually all the works were specially designed for the location with its architecture and history; the overview publication shows how they enter into a close inter-relationship, how they define the space and are equally themselves defined by its field of tension. The synagogue in the Stommeln district of Pulheim is one of the few ynagogues in Germany that was not destroyed during the pogroms of 1938 and that did not fall victim to the wave of demolitions that took place after the war.

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Book SynopsisUdo Rein (b. 1960) is a video artist and painter and lives in Munich. In his work he examines social and cultural contrasts worldwide. His pictorial language starts out from documentary film sequences and builds on fractal constructions and deconstructions which he translates into collages of film stills and oil and acrylic paints on wood panels. Our society frequently presents us with polished surfaces and clear structures. These serve as the starting point for Udo Rein, whose pictorial compositions then lead us deep into the back streets and abysses of our worldviews. Looking beneath the veneer opens up perspectives in a multi-faceted but also contradictory world which is both erotic and mysterious. The lavishly illustrated volume is the first comprehensive monograph on the artist’s impressive oeuvre.

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Book SynopsisThe catalogue highlights the diversity and relevance of the exceptional collection acquired from St. Louis collectors Ted L. and Maryanne Ellison Simmons. The artworks address a broad array of contemporary cultural issues and participate in many discourses of art from the 1960s to the present. Rounding the Bases: The Ted L. and Maryanne Ellison Simmons Collection highlights 100 stellar examples from the 833 works in a St. Louis collection recently acquired by the Saint Louis Art Museum. The diverse collection of contemporary art, made mostly by artists active in the U.S., includes prints, drawings, and photographs as well as sculptures and a painting. The book traces the Simmonses’ focus on art and artists of their own time, and on the broader social, political, art historical, and technical issues that have engaged both the artists and the collectors. Artists featured: Mike Bidlo, Enrique Chagoya, Bruce Conner, Damon Davis, Tony Fitzpatrick, Helen Frankenthaler, Jane Hammond, Tom Huck, Peter Hujar, Jasper Johns, Bruce Nauman, Liliana Porter, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Kiki Smith, Paul Thek, Kara Walker, H. C. Westermann, and David Wojnarowicz, among others.

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Book SynopsisKabul was once famous as a city of blossoming gardens. What once was, can one day become again, wrote the political scientist Ekkehart Krippendorff. In line with this motto, some twenty artists from Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Iran, Turkey, the United States and Switzerland reflect on a different Kabul, without ignoring the past and present crises. Whether with a reference to the locality or starting out from intuition and imagination – the volume assembles newly created artworks which reflect on the Afghan garden as a microcosm of the entire world. It contains the life of humans with animals and plants in all its wonder and beauty. Contributions on the gardens of Kabul, the garden as a symbol of generosity and friendship and the history of a private garden near Teheran amplify the forward-looking vision.

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Book SynopsisWhile the nation-state gave rise to the advent of museums, its influence in times of transculturality and post-/decolonial studies appears to have vanished. But is this really the case? With case studies from various geo- and sociopolitical contexts from around the globe, the contributors investigate which roles the nation-state continues to play in museums, collections, and heritage. They answer the question to which degree the nation-state still determines practices of collection and circulation and its amount of power to shape contemporary narratives. The volume thus examines the contradictions at play when the necessary claim for transculturality meets the institutions of the nation-state. With contributions by Stanislas Spero Adotevi, Sebastián Eduardo Dávila, Natasha Ginwala, Monica Hanna, Rajkamal Kahlon, Suzana Milevska, Mirjam Shatanawi, Kavita Singh, Ruth Stamm, Andrea Witcomb.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Museum Narratives between Transculturality and the Nation-State; 'Come On Home'; Museums in Contemporary Educational and Cultural Systems [1971]; Remembering and Forgetting in the National Museums of South Asia; Repatriating Cultural Identity; Die Völker der Erde (People of the Earth); On the In-Betweenness of the Paintings of Jean Baptiste Vanmour (16711737) at the Rijksmuseum; Shameful Objects, Apologizing Subjects; Towards a Cosmopolitical Exhibition Practice; Visiting the Colección Poyón, or Indigeneity and the Nation-State in Guatemala; Contributors.

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Book SynopsisScale matters. When conducting research and writing, scholars upscale and downscale. So do the subjects of their work - we scale, they scale. Although scaling is an integrant part of research, we rarely reflect on scaling as a practice and what happens when we engage with it in scholarly work. The contributors aim to change this: they explore the pitfalls and potentials of scaling in an interdisciplinary dialogue. The volume brings together scholars from diverse fields, working on different geographical areas and time periods, to engage with scale-conscious questions regarding human sociality, culture, and evolution. With contributions by Nurit Bird-David, Robert L. Kelly, Charlotte Damm, Andreas Maier, Brian Codding, Elspeth Ready, Bram Tucker, Graeme Warren and others.

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Book SynopsisBerlin is increasingly emerging as a hub of Arab intellectual life in Europe. In this first study of Arab culture to zoom in on the thriving metropolis, the contributors shed light on the dynamics of transformation with Arabs as agents, subjects, and objects of change in the spheres of politics, society and history, gender, demographics and migration, media and culture, and education and research. The kaleidoscopic character of the collection, embracing academic articles, essays, interviews and photos, reflects critical encounters in Berlin. It brings together authors from inter- and multidisciplinary fields and backgrounds and invites the readers into a much-needed conversation on contemporary transformations.

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Book SynopsisThe romance of extraction underlies and partly defines Western modernity and our cultural imaginaries. Combining affect studies and environmental humanities, this volume analyzes societies' devotion to extraction and fossil resources. This devotion is shaped by a nostalgic view on settler colonialism as well as by contemporary ?affective economies?. The contributors examine the links between forms of extractivism and gendered discourses of sentimentality and the ways in which cultural narratives and practices deploy the sentimental mode (in plots of attachment, sacrifice, and suffering) to promote or challenge extractivism.

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