Cultural studies Books
University of California Press Hidden Rhythms
Book SynopsisAn original and highly imaginative analysis of the role time schedule plays in social life. Focusing on social time, it provides a penetrating and profound analysis of the subtle and diverse significance of time in organizing our social relationships and lives.
£24.30
University of California Press Beyond the Cultural Turn
Book SynopsisNothing has generated more controversy in the social sciences than the turn toward culture, variously known as the linguistic turn, culturalism, or postmodernism. This book examines the impact of the cultural turn on two prominent social science disciplines, history and sociology.Table of ContentsCONTRIBUTORS: Richard Biernacki Caroline Bynum Steven Feierman Karen Halttunen Margaret C. Jacob Sonya O. Rose Jerrold Seigel William H. Sewell Jr. Margaret R. Somers Hayden White
£26.10
Westminster/John Knox Press,U.S. The Word
Book SynopsisBased on interviews with biblical scholars (Ched Myers, Walter Wink, Marcus Borg), ministers (Peter Gomes, Jim Forbes, Kay Arthur), and Bible study groups across the country, Monroe's book offers a literary mosaic of the Bible in American culture.
£31.20
Princeton University Press Guaranteed to Fail
Book SynopsisExplains how poorly designed government guarantees for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac led to the debacle of mortgage finance in the United States, weighs different reform proposals, and provides practical recommendations. This book unravels the dizzyingly immense, highly interconnected businesses of Fannie and Freddie.Trade Review"[Guaranteed to Fail] is more multi-dimensional and nuanced than most other books on the bloody crossroads where real estate and banking meet... [The] authors show convincingly that the GSEs' subprime lending was not a noble idea that eventually went wrong or drifted into excesses--it was a fool's errand from the beginning."--Financial Times "[A] valuable book on how two quasi-public companies became 'the world's largest and most leveraged hedge fund'... A balanced study, [Guaranteed to Fail] rises above a clash between partisans on the right--who call the companies 'ground zero' in the meltdown--and those on the left who blame deregulation and Wall Street excess... Part primer, part policy prescription, the text explains in simple language what these entities are, how they got so big, and why we must fix them."--James Pressley, Bloomberg News "In Guaranteed to Fail, a quartet of New York University professors from its Stern School of Business, focus on the 'debacle of mortgage finance' that Fannie and Freddie helped create, and offer a plan for reform. In clear language, and with plenty of data to support their arguments, the authors provide a concise but comprehensive history of the GSEs--which alone makes their book worth reading."--Barron's "Guaranteed to Fail: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Debacle of Mortgage Finance, stands out among all the others... [I]t is one of the very few books to focus squarely on the ultimate cause of the crisis: US government housing policy and the role of the two government-backed mortgage giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae in giving effect to that policy."--Stephen Kirchner, The Conversation (Australia) "[T]hought-provoking."--Gillian Tett, Financial Times "[T]he authors provide a detailed template for reform."--The Economist "No one can accuse the authors of failing to offer solutions to the problems they so thoroughly document... One can only hope that some trace of the constructive approach of Guaranteed to Fail will inform the ongoing debate in Washington on the vitally important question of the future structure of the U.S. mortgage market."--Martin S. Fridson, Financial Analyst Journal "This book should, without question, play an important role in the policy discussion of how to reform the mortgage market. Its accessible explanation of the GSEs' growth and behavior, and its detail and care in suggesting the direction for housing finance to go--and how to get it there--are its strengths. In terms of audience, the book seems more oriented toward policy discussions than academic ones... As a whole, it provides a useful overview of the rise and fall of the GSEs, and is a worthwhile read for those interested in understanding the recent crisis."--Daniel K. Fetter, Journal of Economic Literature "[T]he scholarly NYU tome focuses on policy mistakes and perverse incentives... The Stern School economists [highlight the] 'race to the bottom' among mortgage lenders ... [who] responded by 'moving down the credit curve of increasingly shaky mortgage loans.' ... Bad lending begat worse lending."--Robert J. Samuelson, Claremont Review of Books "They combine in an ideal way research and political consulting, resulting in an easy-to-read book that nevertheless has the necessary in-depth analysis. The book is rich with quotes from the past suggesting that everybody should have seen the imminent disaster."--Rico von Wyss, Financial Markets and Portfolio Management "Guaranteed to Fail is one of the more comprehensive and informative books on the financial crisis. In addition to its relevance to the policy debate on homeownership and government guarantees, the book has numerous pedagogical strengths. Each chapter is well-organized, contains numerous charts and graphs, and has incredible detail regarding legislation, announcements, and media reports that impacted the housing market since the 1930s. The appendix, with a timeline of US housing finance milestones and a 32-page blueprint for reform, highlight the great effort that went into the creation of this work."--Cynthia Bansak and Peter Carpenter, Eastern Economic Journal "The [authors] combine in an ideal way research and political consulting, resulting in an easy-to-read book that nevertheless has the necessary in-depth analysis. The book is rich with quotes from the past suggesting that everybody should have seen the imminent disaster."--Rico von Wyss, Swiss Society for Financial Market ResearchTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Prologue 1 CHAPTER ONE: Feeding the Beast 11 CHAPTER TWO: Ticking Time Bomb 31 CHAPTER THREE: Race to the Bottom 41 CHAPTER FOUR: Too Big to Fail 61 CHAPTER FIVE: End of Days 80 CHAPTER SIX: In Bed with the Fed 99 CHAPTER SEVEN: How Others Do It 115 CHAPTER EIGHT: How to Reform a Broken System 132 CHAPTER NINE: Chasing the Dragon 165 EPILOGUE 178 Appendix: Timeline of U.S. Housing Finance Milestones 183 Notes 187 Glossary 207 Index 211
£18.00
Hippocrene Books Inc.,U.S. Polish Customs Traditions Folklore
Book Synopsis“A richly detailed and well-informed month-by-month accounting of all the major Polish customs and traditions practiced over the centuries. Ms. Knab stirs and reawakens our ancestral memory.” ―The Kosciuszko Foundation Newsletter Now in a paperback edition with illustrations, historical black and white photographs, and color photographs throughout the book! This unique, well-researched reference is arranged by month, showing the various occasions, feasts and holidays prominent in Polish culture―beginning with December it continues through Holy Week Customs, superstitions, beliefs and rituals associated with farming, Pentecost, Corpus Christi, midsummer, harvest festival, wedding rites, Name Days, birth and death. There is also a chapter on Polish pastimes and games for children. Many of the customs and traditions described in the book have been lost even in today''s modern Poland. World wars, massive immigration, the loss of the oral tradition, urbanization and politics have changed the face of a once agrarian people and their way of life throughout the calendar year. The changes, however, have not been able to erase the memory of that way of life completely. Many communities of the Polish diaspora throughout the world still feel connected to Poland and choose to reenact harvest celebrations, reminding themselves of their ancestors'' reverence for the grains and gifts of bread. The sharing of opłatek, the Christmas Eve wafer, and the words of love while doing so, continue to bind family and friends together. Although the purpose and meaning may have been lost and forgotten, the oczepiny ceremony (the unveiling) is still the mainstay of almost every wedding where the bride declares Polish heritage. This invaluable resource is perfect for anyone who claims Polish ancestry, diligently practicing that which they learned at their parents'' and grandparents'' knees. It is for families who wish to teach Polish heritage and customs to their children, and for anyone seeking to learn more about their Slavic roots.
£17.09
Johns Hopkins University Press Imperial Projections Ancient Rome in Modern
Book Synopsis, Martin M. Winkler, and Maria WykeTrade ReviewAn excellent collection of essays... Among the best are Nicholas J. Cull's exploration of Carry On Cleo and its brilliant send up of the epic Cleopatra... and Margaret Malamud's careful look at the Broadway and cinema version of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum... The outstanding contribution to Imperial Projections is, however, Sandra Joshel's essay on I, Claudius. -- Mary Beard Times Literary Supplement This volume aids and abets a reader's own meditation on the empires of Britain, America, and Hollywood, and the ways in which the Roman empire has been an abiding vehicle for simultaneously manifesting, indulging, interrogating, and critiquing the ambitions of these more recent empires. -- Rebecca Resinski Key Reporter Imperial Projections is a terrific book. It successfully merges modern cultural critique with sound classical scholarship, and does so in a manner that is enjoyable to read and intellectually challenging. -- Kirk Ormand Bryn Mawr Classical Review An insightful exploration into how Imperial Rome, in its various popular guises, has provided a malleable and commercially viable mythos that has found special receptivity in modern America. -- Amy Henderson History: Reviews of New Books This engaging volume capitalizes on contemporary interest in the decadence and excess that characterizes Rome in the modern, as indeed in the ancient, imagination... Read it and enjoy! -- A. M. Keith New England Classical Journal 2003 An excellent example of what might be called the allegorical mode of cinematic interpretation, in which movies are understood as texts about the cultures that make and consume them. Scope: Online Journal of Film Studies Imperial Projections provides some intriguing new perspectives on such pop culture representations of Rome and the Romans. -- Catherine Colegrove Classical Outlook 2004Table of ContentsContents: Introduction by Sandra R. Joshel, Margaret Malamud, and Maria Wyke Chapter 1: "Oppositions, Anxieties, and Ambiguities in the Toga Movie" by William Fitzgerald Chapter 2: "The Roman Empire in American Cinema after 1945" by Martin Winkler Chapter 3: "Seeing Red: Spartacus as Domestic Economist" by Alison Futrell Chapter 4: "I, Claudius: Projection and Imperial Soap Opera" by Sandra R. Joshel Chapter 5: "'Infamy! Infamy! They've All Got It in for Me!': Carry on Cleo and the British Camp Comedies of Ancient Rome" by Nicholas Cull Chapter 6: "Brooklyn on the Tiber: Roman Comedy on Broadway and in Film" by Margaret Malamud Chapter 7: "Serial Romans" by Martha Malamud Chapter 8: "Shared Sexualities: Roman Soldiers, Derek Jarman's Sebastiane, and British Homosexuality" by Maria Wyke Chapter 9: "Living Like Romans in Las Vegas: The Roman World at Caesar's Palace" by Margaret Malamud and Donald T. McGuire, Jr. Bibliography Filmography
£43.20
Tuttle Publishing The Ancient Art of Tea
Book SynopsisThe Ancient Art of Tea is a delightful look at the philosophy, history, and culture of tea in China.The health benefits of tea, from green teas to white, oolong and black teas, are well known in our world today. How to create the perfect, healthy cup of tea is a process few people genuinely understand, making The Ancient Art of Tea a needed guide for tea lovers. Making a perfect cup of tea is a dynamic process that requires the right environment, clear spring water, a suitable fire to boil water, skill in steeping tea, and deep understanding of tea connoisseurship.From a variety of ancient tea books comes a broader perspective and deeper insight into the topics that surround the tea drinking experience. The ancient Chinese held tea and the various types of tea in high regard for its medicinal and rejuvenating properties. They prized the teas that grew high in the mountains, in crags and crevices in the rocks. They believed that tea was best Trade Review"This is a beautifully designed, affordable gift item for people with a love of history, ritual, and tea. […] It's a perfect anecdote for an over-digitalized, multi-tasking world." --New Age Retailer"It is my hope that this book will encourage others in the West to pick up where the ancients and the author left off and go out and search for sources of sweet water here in North America. … It is time for us to pick up the mantle and spread the word, Tea." --Dr. Eric Messersmith, Institute for Asian Studies, Florida International University"This is not a practical book about how to prepare tea in modern times, but a book about the development of tea culture. The book is aimed at people who love tea. Not only drinking tea but the artful process of making it." --Chinese Hacks blog
£12.34
The Catholic University of America Press Enquiries into Religion and Culture
Book SynopsisReflects on the relations of faith and culture. This book explores the contact between the spiritual life of the individual and the social and economic organization of modern culture. It focuses on the passing of industrialism, Catholic understanding of the human person, Islamic mysticism, and a Christian account of sexuality.
£23.96
The Catholic University of America Press Goal A Cultural and Social History of Modern
Book SynopsisCovers the history of the beautiful game from its origins in English public schools in the early 19th century to its current role as a crucial element of a globalized entertainment industry. The authors explain how football transformed from a sport at elite boarding schools in England to become a pastime popular with the working classes.Trade ReviewThis fascinating history of football in its social and cultural context offers many fresh insights. Grounded in sound scholarship, but written in an engaging and accessible style, it will be of considerable interest to football fans as well as being a core text for courses in sports history.""- Wyn Grant, University of Warwick and coeditor of The Transformation of European Football, blogs at Addicks Championship Diary and The Political Economy of Football.
£23.96
Wayne State University Press Hadha Baladuna
Book SynopsisThe first work of creative nonfiction in the field of Arab American literature that focuses entirely on the Arab diaspora in Metro Detroit, an area with the highest concentration of Arab Americans in the US. The book sheds light on the shifting position of Arab Americans in an era of escalating tension between the US and the Arab region.
£20.76
Syracuse University Press Haudenosaunee Portraits of the Firekeepers the
Book SynopsisThis is a photographic record of the Onondaga, the Native Indian people of Central New York for 15,000 years. The photographer has previously covered the Navajo and Zuni of the Southwest, the Shinnecock and Montauk Indians on eastern Long Island and the Pueblo people of New Mexico and Arizona.
£32.25
Syracuse University Press Cultural Conversions Unexpected Consequences of
Book SynopsisThe essays in this volume examine the unforeseen cultural conversions set in motion by Christian missionary activity in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia during the ninetennth and twentieth centuries.
£30.56
University of Arizona Press Dine Identity in a TwentyFirstCentury World
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£18.66
University of Georgia Press The Jekyll Island Cottage Colony
Book SynopsisThis text focuses on the Jekyll Island social club's members and the ""cottages"" they built near the clubhouse between 1888 and 1928. It tells the story of each home, the owners' connections with the island, and their interactions with one another.
£37.95
University of Pittsburgh Press Central Asia
Book SynopsisThis textbook offers the most comprehensive introduction to Central Asia available.
£71.92
University of Pittsburgh Press Seduced by Radium
Book SynopsisThe discovery of radium by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898 eventually led to a craze for radium products in the 1920s until their widespread use proved lethal for consumers, patients, and medical practitioners alike.
£36.32
Saqi Books Higher Education in the Gulf States
Book SynopsisNowhere in the world is university education expanding as rapidly as in the six-member state of the Gulf Cooperation Council. This study, with contributions by key decision makers, charts this dramatic development, exploring the challenges faced and placing the accomplishments within the social, economic and political context of the region.
£13.49
East European Monographs Confrontation in Kosova The AlbanianSerb
Book SynopsisThis important and timely collection of research papers on the Albanina-Serb struggle of the last thirty years focuses on the cultural, political, and socioeconomic factors that have led to the present Kosovo crisis. Wirtten by a leading student of Balkan international relations, Confrontation in Kosovo is an authoritative statement of the complex problems affecting the struggle.
£28.80
East European Monographs Hungary and the Hungarian Minorities Trends in
Book SynopsisThis volume of essays traces the historical-sociological background of minority policies in Hungary, along with nation's changing image and its immigration problems in the 20th century.Table of ContentsPreface to the Series and Acknowledgements Historical-Sociological Background New Paths and Goals for Minority Policies, by Ferenc Glatz Articificial Communities and an Unprotected Protective Power: The Trianon Peace Treaty and the Minorities, by Laszlo Szarka Changing Ethnic Patterns in the Carpatho-Pannonian Region (1989-2002), by Karoly Kocsis Historical Patterns of Public Thinking about the Hungarian Diaspora, by Pal Tamas The Changing Image of Hungary Minority Governance in Central and Eastern Europe (With Special View on the Autonomy Drafts of the Hungarian Minorities), by Kinga Gal Hungarians in the Voivodina: Communication with Hungary and Public Opinion about the Mother Country, by Karoly Mirnics The Changing Image of Hungary among the Hungarians of Sub-Carpathia, 1944-1991, by Kalman Soos Maintaining Relations and the Problem of Immigration Minorities, Communications and Integration into the Western World, by Herbert Kupper Summits and Everyday Life, by A. Zoltan Biro Why Just Hungary?, by Pal Peter Toth Xenophobia in Hungary in 1998, by Endre Sik Aspects of Analyzing the Minority Problem Aspects of Analyzing the Minority Problem, by Judit Toth The Concept of the Nation in the Late Twentieth Century: Aspects of an Analysis, by Laszlo Szarka Bibliography Contributors Biographies of Key Personalities Name Index Place Index Volumes Published in "Atlantic Studies on Society in Change"
£35.70
Griffith Institute Chariots and Related Equipment from the Tomb of
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Social Science Research Council Transitional Justice Culture and Society Beyond
Book SynopsisTransitional justice processes have a fundamental public dimension. Their impact depends in part on the social support they receive. For this reason, transitional justice bodies have increasingly implemented outreach programs. Beyond the role of outreach, however, other initiatives-such as media and cultural interventions-can strengthen, but also in some cases undermine, the public resonance of transitional justice. How can media and art be used to engage society in discussions about accountability and redress? How do media influence social perceptions and attitudes toward the legacy of the past? To what extent is social engagement in the public sphere necessary to advance the political transformation that transitional justice measures try to promote? Examining the roles that society and culture play in transitional justice contexts, the essays in this volume focus on the ways in which communicative practices can raise public awareness of and reflection on the legacies of mass abuse.Trade ReviewThe book addresses a long-standing gap in transitional justice between institutional interventions and the need to recognize and support the mechanisms of human interaction-what happens between people and between communities and the structures established to maintain them. This unique collection of essays addresses the breadth of communicative mechanisms-from traditional media to new media and from art to film to photography to literature. The beautifully crafted chapters bring alive the multidimensional nature of social engagement and describe how these societal processes can maim and destroy as well as contribute to survival and healing. This collection is the first in the transitional justice literature to recognize the need to move beyond top-down 'outreach' programs to support two-way communication in its multiple forms and to recognize that societies rebuild by utilizing social, psychological, historical, and cultural pathways that strengthen their commitment to change. The strength of this book lies in its attention to multiple forms of creation and its appreciation of societal energies in responding to the past and addressing the future. -- Harvey M. Weinstein, Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley The contributors examine various forms of outreach attempted after a transition-from official press releases to participatory theater to Sesame Street-to sort through what has and has not worked and why. Together, these pieces make a powerful argument that efforts to deal with the past will fail unless they are connected to society. -- Tina Rosenberg, author of The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After CommunismTable of ContentsPreface On Making the Invisible Visible: The Role of Cultural Interventions in Transitional Justice Processes Pablo de GreiffIntroduction Transitional Justice and the Public Sphere Clara Ramirez-Barat Part One: Outreach in Transitional JusticeChapter 1 Implementing an Engagement Model: Outreach at the Special Court for Sierra Leone Maya KarwandeChapter 2 Making Justice Visible: Bosnia and Herzegovina's Domestic War Crimes Trials Outreach Stephanie A. BarbourChapter 3 Reaching Out to Victims and Communities: The CAVR's Experiences in Timor-Leste Patrick Burgess and Galuh WanditaChapter 4 Between Protection and Participation: Involving Children and Youth in Transitional Justice Processes Virginie Ladisch and Clara Ramirez-BaratPart Two: Conflict, Media, and JusticeChapter 5 Democratization of Media in Post-Conflict Situations: Reporting on ICTY War Crimes Trials in Serbia Nidzara Ahmetasevic and Tanja MaticChapter 6 The Uses and Abuses of Media: Rwanda before and after the Genocide Timothy LongmanChapter 7 The Media's Potential in Developing Social Awareness for Justice: The Example of Interactive Radio for Justice Wanda E. HallChapter 8 Using Media to Foster Mutual Respect and Understanding among Children in a Post-Conflict Region: The Rruga Sesam/Ulica Sezam in Kosovo Charlotte F. Cole and June H. LeeChapter 9 "Friend" of the Court: New Media and Transitional Justice Camille CrittendenPart Three: Art, Culture, and Transitional JusticeChapter 10 From Tears to Energy: Early Uses of Participatory Theater in Afghanistan Nadia Siddiqui and Hjalmar Jorge Joffre-EichhornChapter 11 Reverberations of Testimony: South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Art and Media Catherine M. ColeChapter 12 Photography and Transitional Justice: Evidence, Postcard, Placard, Token of Absence Eduardo Gonzalez Cueva and M. Florencia LibrizziChapter 13 Visions of Justice and Accountability: Transitional Justice and Film Carolyn Patty BlumChapter 14 Memoryworks/Memory Works Louis BickfordChapter 15 Literature and Experiences of Harm Carlos Thiebaut Luis-AndreContributors
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory
Book SynopsisThis Companion addresses the contemporary transformation of critical and cultural theory, with special emphasis on the way debates in the field have changed in recent decades.Table of ContentsContributors ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction xviiImre Szeman, Sarah Blacker, and Justin Sully Part I Lineages 1 1 Frankfurt – New York – San Diego 1924–1968; or, Critical Theory 3Andrew Pendakis 2 Vienna 1899 – Paris 1981; or, Psychoanalysis 25James Penney 3 Paris 1955–1968; or, Structuralism 41Sean Homer 4 Birmingham – Urbana‐Champaign 1964–1990; or, Cultural Studies 59Paul Smith 5 Baltimore – New Haven 1966–1983; or, Deconstruction 73Michael O’Driscoll 6 Paris – Boston – Berkeley – the Mexico/Texas Borderlands 1949–1990; or, Gender and Sexuality 91Sarah Brophy 7 Delhi/Ahmednagar Fort – Washington, DC/Birmingham Jail – Pretoria/Robben Island 1947–1994; or, Race, Colonialism, Postcolonialism 115Neil ten Kortenaar 8 Petrograd/Leningrad – Havana – Beijing 1917–1991; or, Marxist Theory and Socialist Practice 129Peter Hitchcock 9 Chile – Seattle – Cairo 1973–2017?; or, Globalization and Neoliberalism 147Myka Tucker‐Abramson Part II Problematics 167 Section A: Living and Laboring 167 10 Subjectivity 173William Callison 11 Diaspora and Migration 191Ghassan Hage 12 Community, Collectivity, Affinities 205Miranda Joseph 13 Feminism 223Rosemary Hennessy 14 Gender and Queer Theory 243Amber Jamilla Musser 15 Social Divisions and Hierarchies 255Randy Martin 16 Work and Precarity 269Jason Read Section B: Being and Knowing 283 17 Religion and Secularism 287Jerilyn Sambrooke 18 Affect 301Marija Cetinić and Jeff Diamanti 19 Indigenous Epistemes 313Rauna Kuokkanen 20 The Everyday, Taste, Class 327Ben Highmore 21 Disability Studies 339Anna Mollow 22 Unsound 357Veit Erlmann 23 Screen Life 371Toby Miller 24 Digital and New Media 387Wendy Hui Kyong Chun 25 Science and Technology 403Priscilla Wald Section C: Structures of Agency and Belonging 419 26 Circulation 423Will Straw 27 Cultural Production 435Sarah Brouillette 28 Decolonization 449Jennifer Wenzel 29 Race and Ethnicity 465Min Hyoung Song 30 Humanism 477Nina Power 31 Nature 489Stephanie LeMenager 32 Scale 503Justin Sully 33 Narrative 517Marie‐Laure Ryan Index 531
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Macmillan US Hair Story Revised Edition Untangling the Roots
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£14.17
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Fashion Performance and Performativity
Book SynopsisIn the first comprehensive study of the interactions between fashion, performance and performativity, a group of international experts explore fashion as the ideal complex space' or, in other words, the ideal space where performance and performativity come together, according to the works of seminal theorists Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Andrew Parker.Bringing together western and non-western, historical and contemporary case studies and theories, the book explores the magazines, photography, exhibitions, global colonial divides, digital media, and more, which have become key markers of the fashion industry as we know it today.Using existing literature as a springboard and incorporating perspectives from fashion studies, art history, media studies and gender studies, as well as from artists and practitioners, Fashion, Performance, and Performativity is an innovative and essential work for students, scholars and practitioners across multiple disciplines.Trade ReviewFashion, Performance, and Performativity is one of those rare collections that provide radical new directions for a discipline. Kollnitz and Pecorari and their contributors show how fashion is an affective agent, revitalizing debates about the use and meaning of clothing in society. This timely book provides fashion scholars with new tools for analyzing sartorial activism. * Christopher Breward, Director, National Museums Scotland *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Andrea Kollnitz and Marco Pecorari Transformations and Translations 1. Leigh Bowery and Judith Butler: Between Performance and Performativity Francesca Granata 2. The Emirati burqa. ‘An Intimate Object’ from a Cultural, Historical and Contemporary Art Perspective. Karima Al Shomely 3. Written In The Voice: Tommy Roberts and the Oral History of British Fashion – a Case Study in Vocality, the Narratable Self, and Memory. Paul Jobling Stages and Places 4. In Store(d) Behaviors: Tsuneko Taniuchi’s Poetics of Clothed Performance. Emmanuel Cohen 5. The Fashioned Female Body, Performativity and the Bare Flaneuse. Jacki Willson 6. Colonies and Clothing: The Uses of Fashion in Interwar France and West Africa. Victoria L. Rovine 7. From Lil Miquela to Shudu: Digital Slavery and the 21st-Century Racialized Performance of Identity Politics. Jonathan Michael Square Models and Poses 8. The Utopian ‘No-Place’ of the Fashion Photograph. Karen de Perthuis 9. Italian Fashion Models. Rethinking the Discourse on National Identity. Gabriele Monti 10. Films with A Venegance: Lesbian Desire and Hyper-Violence in the Fashion Film, 2009-2012. Louise Wallenberg 11. Male Gender Performance and Regency Fashion Writing. Royce Mahawatte List of Contributors Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd An Introduction to New Media and Cybercultures
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive introduction explores the theories and new information and communication technologies that we now take to be-but often fail to really understand-as cyberculture.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments vi 1 “Reading” Cybercultures 1 2 Popular Cybercultures 30 3 Bodies 65 4 Subcultures 87 5 Gender and Sexualities 115 6 Public Spaces 136 7 Cybercultures: New Formations 157 Conclusion 173 Glossary 183 Bibliography 187 Index 214
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SAGE Publications Inc Cultures and Globalization
Book SynopsisIn the age of globalization we are no longer home alone. Migration brings other worlds into our own just as the global reach of the media transmits our world into the hearts and minds of others. Often incommensurate values are crammed together in the same public square. Increasingly we all today live in the kind of 'edge cultures' we used to see only on the frontiers of civilizations in places like Hong Kong or Istanbul. The resulting frictions and fusions are shaping the soul of the coming world order. I can think of no other project with the ambitious scope of defining this emergent reality than The Cultures and Globalization project. I can think of no more capable minds than Raj Isar and Helmut Anheier who can pull it off.- Nathan Gardels, Editor-in-Chief, NPQ, Global Services, Los Angeles Times Syndicate/Tribune Media This series represents an innovative approach to the central issues of globalization, that phenomenon of such undefinedTrade ReviewIn the age of globalization we are no longer home alone. Migration brings other worlds into our own just as the global reach of the media transmits our world into the hearts and minds of others. Often incommensurate values are crammed together in the same public square. Increasingly we all today live in the kind of ′edge cultures′ we used to see only on the frontiers of civilizations in places like Hong Kong or Istanbul. The resulting frictions and fusions are shaping the soul of the coming world order. I can think of no other project with the ambitious scope of defining this emergent reality than The Cultures and Globalization project. I can think of no more capable minds than Raj Isar and Helmut Anheier who can pull it offNathan GardelsEditor-in-Chief, NPQ, Global Services, Los Angeles Times Syndicate/Tribune Media This series represents an innovative approach to the central issues of globalization, that phenomenon of such undefined contoursLupwishi MbuyumbaDirector of the Observatory of Cultural Policies in Africa"Globalization has received considerable attention from the political and economic perspective. "The Cultures and Globalization Series" is intended to fill a gap in current research by studying the cultural consequences of globalization. This volume also includes cultural indicators with a visual representation of data relevant to culture and globalization. A variety of charts, graphs, and data tables add value. Summing up: Highly recommended." -- M.A. LaMagnaTable of ContentsAPPROACHES AND DEVELOPMENTS Globalization and Cultural Conflict - Beverly Crawford An Institutional Approach Dimensions of Conflict in Globalization and Cultural Practice - Rustom Bharucha A Critical Perspective Ethnicity and War in a World of Nation-States - Brian Min and Andreas Wimmer Resistance to Cultural Globalization - Laura Adams, Miguel Centeno, and Charles Varner A Comparative Analysis Cultural Expression in Globalized Conflict - Dragan Klaic Cause or Victim? Conflict and the Deliberate Destruction of Cultural Heritage - Dacia Viejo Rose REGIONAL REALITIES Cultures, conflict, and Globalization - Francis B. Nyamnjoh Africa Regional Realities in the Arab World - Ahmad S. Moussalli Globalization and Asian Values - Janadas Devan Globalization and the European Social Model - Anthony Giddens Latin America - Aníbal Ford Diversity, Invention and Crisis in Cultural Production Managing Cultural Conflicts - Yunxiang Yan State Power and Alternative Globalization in China Capitalism, Conflict and Churn - Ronnie D. Lipschutz How the American Culture War Went Global FAULT LINES: TENSIONS, VALUES AND MIGRATION Tensions Tensions between the North and South - Hugo Achugar The West versus the Arab World - Georges Corm Deconstructing the Divide Islam Between Religious-Cultural Practice and Identity Politics - Bassam Tibi Europe versus America: A Growing Clash within the West? - Nathan Gardels Values Value Patterns in Europe and the United States - Christian Welzel and Franziska Deutsch Is there a Transatlantic Rift? Why Religion Didn′t Disappear? - Ronald Inglehart and Pippa Noris Re-examining the Secularization Thesis Migration Migration, Security and Culture in the USA - Leo F. Estrada Migration - Alejandro Grimson the Experience of Argentina Migration, Conflict and Illegitimacy - Diana Wong A Malaysian Case Study CULTURE AS A TOOL OF CONFLICT PREVENTION AND RESOLUTION Creating Concord Organizations - Barbara J. Nelson, Kathryn A. Carver and Linda Kaboolian Institutional Design for Bridging Antagonistic Cultures Performance, Globalization and Conflict Promotion/Resolution - James Thompson Experiences from Sri Lanka Performing Gacaca in Rwanda - Ananda Breed Local Culture for Justice and Reconciliation From Violence to Discourse - Clemencia Rodriguez and Amparo Cadavid Conflict and Citizens′ Radio Stations in Columbia The Pedagogy of Drums - Silvia Ramos Culture Mediating Conflict in the Slums of Brazil INDICATOR SUITES Introducing cultural indicator suites - Helmut K. Anheier
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Johns Hopkins University Press Postcolonial Literary Studies
Book SynopsisIt not only highlights the development and transformation of postcolonial literary study but also, by mapping out new directions of study, considers its continual significance and expansion.Trade Review"The single best anthology for studying postcolonialism and literature." (Susan Strehle, Binghamton University)"Table of ContentsAcknowledgments The First Thirty Years of Postcolonial Literary Scholarship: The Continuing Importance of a DisciplinePart I: ParadigmsChapter 1. The Margin at the Center: On Testimonio (Testimonial Narrative)Chapter 2. Writing in the Shit: Beckett, Nationalism, and the Colonial SubjectChapter 3. Imperial Triangles: Mark Twain's Foreign AffairsChapter 4. Fiction and the Law: Recent Inscriptions of Gayness in South AfricaChapter 5. Decolonizing Culture: Toward a Theory for Postcolonial Women's TextsChapter 6. Re-Membering Hispaniola: Edwidge Danticat's The Farming of BonesChapter 7. Redefining Paris: Trans-Modernity and Francophone African Migritude FictionPart II: Postcolonial AfricaChapter 8. Smoke of the Savannah: Traveling Modernity in Sembène Ousmane's God's Bits of WoodChapter 9. Mourning the Postapartheid State Already? The Poetics of Loss in Zakes Mda's Ways of DyingChapter 10. Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Postnation: The Cultural Geographies of Colonial, Neocolonial, and Postnational SpaceChapter 11. Truth, Telling, Questioning: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Antjie Krog's Country of My Skull, and Literature after ApartheidChapter 12. The Pastoral Promise and the Political Imperative: The Plaasroman Tradition in an Era of Land ReformPart III: Postcolonial IndiaChapter 13. Leading History by the Nose: The Turn to the Eighteenth Century in Midnight's ChildrenChapter 14. The Feminist Plot and the Nationalist Allegory: Home and World in Two Indian Women's Novels in EnglishChapter 15. Memory, Identity, Patriarchy: Projecting a Past in the Memoirs of Sara Suleri and Michael OndaatjeChapter 16. Figures of Colonial ResistancePart IV: New DirectionsChapter 17. Introduction: Worldly EnglishChapter 18. Narrative in Prison: Stories from the Palestinian IntifadaChapter 19. Globalization, Postcoloniality, and the Problem of Literary Studies in The Satanic VersesChapter 20. National Narratives, Postnational NarrationChapter 21. Comic Visions and Revisions in the Work of Lynda Barry and Marjane SatrapiChapter 22. Tenderness: A Mediator of Identity and Gender Construction in PoliticsList of Contributors Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Textbook and the Lecture
Book SynopsisDrawing on wide-ranging scholarship in fields as diverse as media ecology and German-language media studies, Foucauldian historiography, and even archaeological research, The Textbook and the Lecture is a fascinating investigation of educational media.Trade ReviewThrough its multiple examples and case studies, The Textbook and the Lecture shows the philosophical assumptions underpinning longstanding debates and serves to inform and perhaps even empower educational workers by helping them understand why they do what they do.—LSEFriesen's book should be attractive to students and instructors of curriculum and instruction as well as instructional designers and educational technology professionals. Educational start-ups and entrepreneurs might fnd it particularly helpful in placing new products in the context of the longue durée of education history.—Donald Lankiewicz, Emerson College, Publishing Research QuarterlyTable of ContentsPrefacePart I1. No More Pencils, No More Books?2. Writing Instruction in the Twenty-First CenturyPart II3. Psychology and the Rationalist4. The Romantic Tradition5. Romantic versus Rationalist Reform6. Theorizing Media—by the BookPart III7. A Textbook Case8. From Translatio Studiorum to “Intelligences Thinking in Unison”9. The Lecture as Postmodern PerformanceConclusionNotesBibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Americas Gun Wars
Book SynopsisThis book examines the controversies surrounding gun control, which are less about whether it works and more about whether the nation should prioritize traditional values of rugged independence or newer values of communitarian interdependence.America''s Gun Wars contends that an understanding of America''s gun controversy cannot be found in statistics documenting the rise (or fall) of violent crime, or in examining trade-offs between societal needs and personal safety, or in following the political maneuvering of advocacy groups such as the National Rifle Association or Everytown for Gun Safety. At heart, the gun controversy is a values conflict involving how people see themselves and how they make sense of the world they live in. Understanding this controversy requires a deep analysis of the profoundly different cultures inhabited by pro- and anti-gun activists, lawmakers, and voters. Written by a social scientist who has spent his life exploring how values and self-percTable of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction: An American Controversy A Cultural Perspective Two Opposed Cultures Dimensions of Gun Control Organization and Approach Chapter 2 Origins of American Gun Culture Foundational Events: The English Experience Building a Culture: The American Experience The Cultural Growth of Bedrock America: 19th-Century Developments Restrictions and Limitations in Bedrock America Bedrock America's Iconic Embodiment: The Birth of the NRA Chapter 3 The Emerging Cultural Rift: 1910–1940 New York's Sullivan Act Cosmopolitan America's Cultural Emergence Contradictory State Regulations National Regulation Impact on American Gun Culture Chapter 4 Cultural Coexistence: 1940–1960 A Pro-Gun Resurgence Anti-Gun Sentiment: Muted but Present Assessing Cultural Coexistence Chapter 5 Cultural Upheaval: 1960–1970 JFK's Assassination and Gun Legislation Urban Riots The Assassination of Malcolm X Resurgence of Crime and Violence The Black Panthers Urban Upheavals II MLK and RFK Assassinations Chapter 6 The Rift Widens: 1970–1990 Taking Aim at Handguns Enter Federal Agencies and Other Organizations Radicalization of the NRA A New Wave of Assassination Headlines Legislative Developments Chapter 7 Further Rifting: 1990–2000 The Fight to Ban Assault Weapons Ruby Ridge, Waco, and Governmental Gun Violence Waiting Periods, Background Checks, and an Assault Weapons Ban Lawsuits, Liabilities, and the Firearms Business Trigger Locks and Gun Safety Chapter 8 Cultural Ascendancy: 2001–2016 The PLCAA: Saving the Firearms Business Supreme Court Appointments and Landmark Cases Background and Reactions to the Parker/Heller Case Clarifying the Second Amendment A Second Landmark Decision: McDonald v. City of Chicago Mass Shootings and Classroom Killers Chapter 9 Culture War Assessment: 2017–2018 Cosmopolitan America: Crime Prevention General Societal Safety Individual Personal Safety In Civilized Societies, Guns Are Illegitimate Bedrock America: Philosophical Foundations Constitutional Considerations Political Considerations Pragmatic Considerations Some Concluding Thoughts Notes Index
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Skyhorse Publishing The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
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Arsenal Pulp Press Judgement at Stoney Creek
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Smithsonian Books The Lawn: A History of an American Obsession
Book SynopsisLawns now blanket thirty million acres of the United States, but until the late nineteenth century few Americans had any desire for a front lawn, much less access to seeds for growing one. In her comprehensive history of this uniquely American obsession, Virginia Scott Jenkins traces the origin of the front lawn aesthetic, the development of the lawn-care industry, its environmental impact, and modern as well as historic alternatives to lawn mania.
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Interlink Publishing Group, Inc Prague: A Cultural and Literary History
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Orbis Books (USA) American Cultural Baggage: How to Recognise and
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New World Library The Wisdom of the Native Americans
Book SynopsisDistilling the best of Native American wisdom, these short quotes are accompanied by the writings of Ohiyesa, one of the great interpreters of Native American thought, as well as the three great speeches of Chiefs Joseph, Seattle and Red jacket.
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Random House USA Inc Did Somebody Step on a Duck?: A Natural History
Book SynopsisThis impolite, aromatic, and incredibly erudite flatulence compendium will astound you with:• The recent discovery of the world’s oldest joke, a proverb from the Old Babylonian period, that turned out to be—that’s right, folks—a fart joke.• A new reading of Emily Dickinson’s poetry that “reveals” the true meaning behind “They Have a Little Odor.”• A harrowing account of Apollo astronauts getting inner-space gas from hydrogen bubbles in their drinking water on their way to the moon.• The other Tiger Woods scandal—this one involving a mysterious cheek-squeak recorded while Tiger sized up an approach shot at the 2009 Buick Open. • A scientist who built the world’s biggest whoopee cushion and lived to tell about it . . . . . . and many more wacky but true tales from the fart historian who brought you the best-selling Who Cut the Cheese? and its combustible sequel, Blame It on the Dog. In this incomparable collection you’ll experience firsthand the Jungian implications of farting, the environmental import of “flatulence cards” in the carbon-offset market, and the brutally honest social commentary of a man whose office chair broadcasts his farts on Twitter. After reading this book you’ll proudly proclaim, “I fart, therefore I am.”
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Semiotext (E) Fatal Strategies, new edition
Book SynopsisAn early work in which Baudrillard became Baudrillard.When Fatal Strategies was first published in French in 1983, it represented a turning point for Jean Baudrillard: an utterly original, and for many readers, utterly bizarre book that offered a theory as proliferative, ecstatic, and hallucinatory as the postmodern world it endeavored to describe. Arguing against the predetermined outcomes of dialectical thought with his renowned, wry, ambivalent passion, with this volume Jean Baudrillard mounted an attack against the “false problems” posed by Western philosophy. If his Marxist days were firmly behind him, Baudrillard here indicated that metaphysics had also gone the way of sociology and politics: the contemporary world demanded nothing less than Pataphysics, Alfred Jarry's absurdist philosphy that described the laws of the universe supplementary to this one. In effect, with Fatal Strategies, Baudrillard became Baudrillard. In his extrapolationist manner, Baudrillard sought to replace Western philosophy's circular arguments with a ritualistic Theater of Cruelty. Using this line of thought developed in Fatal Strategies, Baudrillard went on, throughout the 1980s, to find new and shatteringly accurate ways of discussing American corporatocracy, arms build-up, and hostage taking. Fatal Strategies asserts a profound critique of American politics, and it is an important step towards his examination of evil.Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007) was a philosopher, sociologist, cultural critic, and theorist of postmodernity who challenged all existing theories of contemporary society with humor and precision. An outsider in the French intellectual establishment, he was internationally renowned as a twenty-first century visionary, reporter, and provocateur. His Simulations (1983) instantly became a cult classic and made him a controversial voice in the world of politics and art.
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age
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Smithsonian Books Remembering War the American Way
Book SynopsisWars do not fully end when the shooting stops. As G. Kurt Piehler reveals in this book, after every conflict from the Revolution to the Persian Gulf War, Americans have argued about how and for what deeds and heroes wars should be remembered.Drawing on sources ranging from government documents to Embalmer's Monthly, Piehler recounts efforts to commemorate wars by erecting monuments, designating holidays, forming veterans' organizations, and establishing national cemetaries. The federal government, he contends, initially sidestepped funding for memorials, thereby leaving the determination of how and whom to honor in the hands of those with ready money—and those who responded to them. In one instance, monuments to “Yankee heroes” erected by the Daughters of the American Revolution were countered by immigrant groups, who added such figures as Casimir Pulaski and Thaddeus Kosciusko to the record of the war. Piehler argues that the conflict between these groups is emblematic of the ongoing reinterpretation of wars by majority and minority groups, and by successive generations.Demonstrating that the battles over the Vietnam Veterans Memorial are not unique in American history, Remembering War the American Way reveals that the memory of war is intrinsically bound to the pluralistic definition of national identity.
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Lantern Books,US Defiant Daughters: 21 Women on Art, Activism,
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Regnery Publishing Inc How the West Won: The Neglected Story of the
Book SynopsisIn this page-turning, myth-busting history, acclaimed author Rodney Stark shows exactly why Western civilization triumphed over other cultures—and why we all should be thankful it did.Modernity developed only in the West—in Europe and North America. Nowhere else did science and democracy arise; nowhere else was slavery outlawed. Only Westerners invented chimneys, musical scores, telescopes, eyeglasses, pianos, electric lights, aspirin, and soap.The question is, Why?Unfortunately, that question has become so politically incorrect that most scholars avoid it. But acclaimed author Rodney Stark provides the answers in this sweeping look at Western civilization.Taking readers on a thrilling journey from ancient Greece to the present, Stark challenges much of the received wisdom about Western history. How the West Won shows, for example: Why the fall of Rome was the single most beneficial event in the rise of Western civilization Why the “Dark Ages” never happened Why the Crusades had nothing to do with grabbing loot or attacking the Muslim world unprovoked Why there was no “Scientific Revolution” in the seventeenth century Why scholars’ recent efforts to dismiss the importance of battles are ridiculous: had the Greeks lost at the Battle of Marathon, we probably would never have heard of Plato or Aristotle Stark also debunks absurd fabrications that have flourished in the past few decades: that the Greeks stole their culture from Africa; that the West’s “discoveries” were copied from the Chinese and Muslims; that Europe became rich by plundering the non-Western world.This bold, insightful book will force you to rethink your understanding of the West and the birth of modernity—and to recognize that Western civilization really has set itself apart from other cultures.
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Purdue University Press Design and Culture: A Transdisciplinary History
Book SynopsisDesign and Culture: A Transdisciplinary History offers an inclusive overview that crosses disciplinary boundaries and helps define the next phase of global design practice. This book examines the interaction of design with advances in technology, developments in science, and changing cultural attitudes. It looks to the past to prepare for the future and is the first book to offer an innovative transdisciplinary design history that integrates multidisciplinary sources of knowledge into a mindful whole. It shows design as a process that expresses goals through values and beliefs, functioning as a major factor in contemporary cultural life.Starting with the development of the Industrial Revolution, the book focuses on the evolution of design and culture in the twentieth century to predict where design will go in the future. Given the major social and political shifts currently unfolding across the globe, and the resulting changing demographics and environmental degradation, Design and Culture encourages collaboration and communication between disciplines to prepare for the future of design in a rapidly changing world.Table of Contents INTRODUCTION 1. INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION 1750–1870 2. STYLE ON SHOW 1871–1939 3. MODERNIZATION 1919–1967 4. CULTURAL REVOLUTION 1950s–2000 5. THE THIRD MILLENNIUM 2001–2050 NotesIndex
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University of Massachusetts Press Boston's Twentieth-Century Bicycling Renaissance:
Book SynopsisAt the end of the nineteenth century, cycling's popularity surged in the Boston area, but by 1900, the trend faded. Within the next few decades, automobiles became commonplace and roads were refashioned to serve them. Lorenz J. Finison argues that bicycling witnessed a renaissance in the 1970s as concerns over physical and environmental health coalesced. Whether cyclists hit the roads on their way to work or to work out, went off-road in the mountains or to race via cyclocross and BMX, or took part in charity rides, biking was back in a major way.Finison traces the city's cycling history, chronicling the activities of environmental and social justice activists, stories of women breaking into male-dominated professions by becoming bike messengers and mechanics, and challenges faced by African American cyclists. Making use of newspaper archives, newly discovered records of local biking organizations, and interviews with Boston-area bicyclists and bike builders, Boston's TwentiethCentury Bicycling Renaissance brings these voices and battles back to life.
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Pegasus Books Looking for the Hidden Folk: How Iceland's Elves
Book SynopsisIn exploring how Icelanders interact with nature—and their idea that elves live among us—Nancy Marie Brown shows us how altering our perceptions of the environment can be a crucial first step toward saving it.Icelanders believe in elves. Why does that make you laugh?, asks Nancy Marie Brown, in this wonderfully quirky exploration of our interaction with nature. Looking for answers in history, science, religion, and art—from ancient times to today—Brown finds that each discipline defines what is real and unreal, natural and supernatural, demonstrated and theoretical, alive and inert. Each has its own way of perceiving and valuing the world around us. And each discipline defines what an Icelander might call an elf.Illuminated by her own encounters with Iceland’s Otherworld—in ancient lava fields, on a holy mountain, beside a glacier or an erupting volcano, crossing the cold desert at the island’s heart on horseback—Looking for the Hidden Folk offers an intimate conversation about how we look at and find value in nature. It reveals how the words we use and the stories we tell shape the world we see. It argues that our beliefs about the Earth will preserve—or destroy it.Scientists name our time the Anthropocene: the Human Age. Climate change will lead to the mass extinction of numerous animal species unless we humans change our course. Iceland suggests a different way of thinking about the Earth, one that offers hope. Icelanders believe in elves— and you should, too.Trade Review"In Looking for the Hidden Folk, Brown overlays a glowing web of connections on Iceland’s folkloric — and literal — landscape of ice and fire, illuminating the answers to the many questions she poses. Her passionate defense of the huldufólk would gratify the most sensitive elf." -- New York Times Book Review, editor's choice“Ashtoningly in-depth” -- WBUR, Here and Now"A fascinating inquiry into the Icelandic belief in elves. This compelling and highly readable book offers a thought-provoking examination of nature of belief itself, drawing compelling conclusions among humans, storytelling, and the environment." -- Bookpage, starred review"Brown, a cultural historian, has traveled to and written about Iceland for over three decades, and her resulting book is a quirky and fascinating exploration, even a “mischievous guide,” that helps animate the Icelandic landscape and inspire its protection." -- Hakai Magazine"Haunting and enticing. The author's descriptions of the countryside are staggering — not just the images she conjures but the reactions they inspire in her. Ultimately, Brown seems to want to use Looking for the Hidden Folk to shake readers out of their comfort zones, encouraging us to slough off the protective layers of skepticism we have about the world. If we're open to it, we might catch a glimpse of something magical." -- Seven Days "Nancy Marie Brown’s “Looking for the Hidden Folk" occupies a nice middle ground between the scholarly and popular. She takes elves seriously as a cultural belief, and knows how to tell a story about them and their role in the history and lives of Icelanders." -- Iceland Review"Wherever readers stand on the elf question, they'll come away with a new appreciation for Iceland and its mysteries." -- Booklist"For decades, cultural historian Nancy Marie Brown has been fascinated by Iceland, a nation of natural and supernatural wonders. Her book Looking for the Hidden Folk is a mischievous guide to reclaiming sacred connections to places as a way of sparking environmentalist commitments. Brown delights in the fact that, in Icelandic, the word for home is the same as that for world: heima. An impish literary handbook, Looking for the Hidden Folk takes Iceland as a model of how to treat the whole world as a precious, aweinspiring home." -- Foreword Reviews"Nancy Marie Brown reveals to us skeptics how rocks and hills are the mansions of elves, or at least what it takes to believe so. Looking For the Hidden Folks evocatively animates the Icelandic landscape through Brown's past and present travels and busts some prevalent clichés and myths along the way -- this book is my reply to the next foreign reporter asking about that Elf Lobby." -- Egill Bjarnason, author of How Iceland Changed the World: The Big History of a Small Island"Using ideas and stories about the hidden folk in Iceland as a stepping stone into the human perception of our homes in the world where stories and memories breathe life into places, be it through the vocabulary of quantum physics or folklore, Nancy Marie Brown makes us realise that there is always more to the world than meets the eye. And that world is not there for us to conquer and exploit but to walk into and sense the dew with our bare feet on the soft moss, beside breathing horses and mighty glaciers in the drifting fog that often blocks our view." -- Gisli Sigurosson, Research Professor, The Arni Magnusson Institute, University of Iceland
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Sourcebooks The Danish Secret to Happy Kids
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press This Is Not a Hoax: Unsettling Truth in Canadian
Book SynopsisThis Is Not a Hoax shows how the work of some contemporary artists and writers intentionally disrupts the curatorial and authorial practices of the country's most respected cultural institutions: art galleries, museums, and book publishers. This first-ever study of contemporary Canadian hoaxes in visual art and literature asks why we trust authority in artistic works and how that trust is manifest.This book claims that hoaxes, far from being merely lies meant to deceive or wound, may exert a positive influence. Through their insistent disobedience, they assist viewers and readers in re-examining unquestioned institutional trust, habituated cultural hierarchies, and the deeply inscribed racism and sexism of Canada's settler-colonial history.Through its attentive look at hoaxical works by Canadian artists Iris Häussler, Brian Jungen, and Rebecca Belmore, photographer Jeff Wall, and writers and translators David Solway and Erin Mouré, this book celebrates the surprising ways hoaxes call attention to human capacities for flexibility, adaptation, and resilience in a cultural moment when radical empathy and imagination is critically needed.Trade ReviewA parlour game? A sly wink-and-nod? A cruel but usually harmless trick perpetrated on the unwary? All of my previous associations with the hoax have been overturned by this elegantly argued, deeply thoughtful, and passionately political book. Drawing on an abundance of examples from visual arts and literature produced in Canada, Heather Jessup shows us how these seemingly momentary glitches in the fabric of our deeply held assumptions and conventions have the interruptive power to turn our reflections towards the searing disruptions of colonization, genocide, and institutionally sanctioned cruelty. This is a rare, creative work of cultural scholarship. -- Lorraine York, Senator William McMaster Chair, Canadian Literatures and Cultures, McMaster UniversityHeather Jessup asks us to look closely at how, and why, we believe what we do. Often funny, sometimes heartbreaking, and always highly readable, This Is Not A Hoax is essential reading for all of us right now - artists, writers, teachers, activists, citizens - who wrestle with making, or unmaking, the distinctions between fiction and non-fiction, truth and lies. Jessup's smart, probing, entirely human study invites us to re-see and re-imagine our relationship to these categories, as well as to the hegemonic power structures implicit within every system of classification. -- Johanna Skibsrud, Author of The Sentimentalists, Winner of the Giller PrizeThe art forger concentrates on what our culture expects to see. Heather Jessup, in illuminating the lie, tells us some important truths about our personal, national, and earthly prejudices. This is Not a Hoax is an essential read in an era of fake news. -- Michael Winter, Author of The Death of Donna Whalen and Minister Without Portfolio, winner of the Writers' Trust Notable Author AwardIn this immensely readable book, Jessup makes the case for the necessity of disruption. This is Not a Hoax proves that our innate human gullibility can be a powerful tool for questioning the institutions and experiences that shape our lives. -- Mandy Len Catron, author of How to Fall in Love with Anyone: A Memoir in EssaysTable of Contents Introduction: Little Disrupters Part One: A Novel in Three Dimensions The Haptic Conceptual Artwork of Iris Häussler Haptic Conceptual Art The Museum Label's Pact Complicated Complicity: The Necessity of a Viewer With Open Eyes: Revising the Historical Tour Mistakenness and Disorientation: Responses to Iris Häussler's Hoax (Pissing?) On the Museum's Authority Part Two: Unsettling Images Decolonizing Ethnographies in the Artworks of Brian Jungen, Jeff Wall, and Rebecca Belmore Reverse Ethnography: Artistic Response to Colonialism and Classification Dubious Origins: Paul Kane's Nineteenth-Century Canadian Ethnographic Art The Reverse Ethnography of Brian Jungen's Sketches Solicited for Wall Drawings The Near-Documentary Photography of Jeff Wall Unsettling Acts of Remembrance: Rebecca Belmore's Wild and Vigil Part Three: Imagining the Author The Heteronyms of Fernando Pessoa, Erín Moure, and David Solway What Is a Heteronym? Metaphoric Possibilities: Translating the As If of a Portuguese Shepherd Collaborative Possibilities: The Interfering Theatrics of a Galacian Theatre Director Critical Possibilities: A Greek Fisherman Suffering from the ""Malady of Atwoodism"" Translational Possibilities: (Dis)comforts of the Mother Tongue Conclusion: The Art of Stumbling
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press Gorgeous War: The Branding War between the Third
Book SynopsisGorgeous War argues that the Nazis used the swastika as part of a visually sophisticated propaganda program that was not only modernist but also the forerunner of contemporary brand identity. When the United States military tried to answer Nazi displays of graphic power, it failed. In the end the best graphic response to the Nazis was produced by the Walt Disney Company. Using numerous examples of US and Nazi military heraldry, Gorgeous War compares the way the American and German militaries developed their graphic and textile design in the interwar period. The book shows how social and cultural design movements like modernism altered and were altered by both militaries. It also explores how nascent corporate culture and war production united to turn national brands like IBM, Coca-Cola, and Disney into multinational corporations that had learned lessons on propaganda and branding that were being tested during the Second World War. What is the legacy of apparently toxic signs like the swastika? The answer may not be what we hoped. Inheritors of the post-Second World War world increasingly struggle to find an escape from an intensely branded environment - to find a place in their lives that is free of advertising and propaganda. This book suggests that we look again at how it is our culture makes that struggle into an appealing Gorgeous War.Trade Review"Gorgeous War, a highly readable book, shows that the US of Walt Disney and the Third Reich of Goebbels were two variants not just of modernity but of hypermodernity, no matter how glaringly different their surface 'styles' and their human consequences. It shows we cannot afford to demonize and 'other' Nazism too hastily because there is greater affinity between Nazi Germany and aspects of modern America than we might like to admit to ourselves." - Roger Griffin, Oxford Brookes UniversityFor readers in cultural or media studies and those with advertising or marketing backgrounds, Gorgeous War will serve as a well-written text that should prompt questions about the motives of the advertising industry, specifically regarding the origins and uses of branding as a means of consumer enticement. -- Megan Moore Burns, Quill & Quire -- Megan Moore Burns -- Quill & Quire, 20191201
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press On the Other Side(s) of 150: Untold Stories and
Book SynopsisOn the Other Side(s) of 150 explores the different literary, historical and cultural legacies of Canada's sesquicentennial celebrations. It asks vital questions about the ways that histories and stories have been suppressed and invites consideration about what happens once a commemorative moment has passed.Like a Cubist painting, this modality offers a critical strategy by which also to approach the volume as dismantling, reassembling, and re-enacting existing commemorative tropes; as offering multiple, conditional, and contingent viewpoints that unfold over time; and as generating a broader (although far from being comprehensive) range of counter-memorial performances. The chapters in this volume are thus provisional, interconnected, and adaptive: they offer critical assemblages by which to approach commemorative narratives or showcase lacunae therein; by which to return to and intervene in ongoing readings of the past from the present moment; and by which not necessarily to resolve, but rather to understand the troubled and troubling narratives of the present moment. Contributors propose that these preoccupations are not a means of turning away from present concerns, but rather a means of grappling with how the past informs or is shaped to inform them; and how such concerns are defined by immediate social contexts and networks.Table of Contents Introduction: On the Other Side(s) of 150 - Linda M. Morra & Sarah Henzi Section One: Contemporary Counter Memories & Narratives 1. Recuperating Indigenous Narratives: Making Legible the Documenting of Injustices - Deanna Reder 2. 'I write this for all of you': Recovering the Unpublished RCMP 'Incident' in Maria Campbell's Halfbreed (1973) - Deanna Reder and Alix Shield 3. Telling Harm: Time, Redress, and Canadian Literature - Benjamin Authers 4. Modified Seeds and Morphemes: Going from Farm to Page - Laura Moss Section Two: Unbecoming Narratives 5. Landscape, Citizenship, and Belonging - Shani Mootoo 6. Untold Bodies: Failing Gender in Canada's Past and Future - Kit Dobson 7. Thresholds of Sustainability: Cassils and Emma Donoghue's Counter Narratives - Libe García Zarranz 8. Unsustainable: Lyric Intervention in Vivek Shraya's even this page is white - Erin Wunker 9. Untold Stories of Slavery: Performing Pregnancy and Racial Futurity in Beatrice Chancy - Kailin Wright 10. Authors and Archives: The Writers' Union of Canada and the Promulgation of Canadian Literary Papers - Erin Ramlo Section Three: Memories From Below and Beyond the Border 11. The Vietnam Resisters Who Shaped Canada's Ceramic Heritage - Mary Ann Steggles 12. Who Can Tell? Histories and Counter-Histories of Photography in Canada - Martha Langford 13. Who Gets Remembered? Gender, Art, & Canadian Identity in the Early 20th Century - Brian Foss and Jacques Des Rochers 14. German Internment Camps in the Maritimes: Another Untold Story in P.S. Duffy's The Cartographer of No Man's Land - Jennifer Andrews Section Four: Rhetorical Renegotiations 15. The Story Behind the Story, or the Untold Story?: John Coulter's Perceptions of a Canadian Tragic Hero, Louis Riel - Krisztina Kodó 16. Supra Legem Interruptio: Losing Louis Riel (and His Interruptive Return) - Gregory Betts 17. Thomas D'Arcy McGee (1825-1868) and Louis Riel (1844-1885): Minority Nationalists, Extreme Moderates - Margery Fee 18. Before Secret Path: Residential School Memoirs from the 1970s - Linda Warley Conclusion: Still Here - Kim Anderson and Rene Meshake Contributors Kim Anderson (Cree-Métis; University of Guelph, ON) Jennifer Andrews (University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB) Benjamin Authers (Flinders University) Gregory Betts (Brock University, St. Catherines, ON Jacques Des Rochers (Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, QC) Kit Dobson (Mount Royal University, Calgary, AB) Margery Fee (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC) Brian Foss (Carleton University, Ottawa, ON) Libe García Zarranz (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway) Sarah Henzi (Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC) Krisztina Kodó (Kodolányi University of Applied Sciences, Hungary) Martha Langford (Concordia University, Montreal, QC) Rene Meshake (Anishnaabe, Guelph, ON) Shani Mootoo (independent writer, Toronto, ON) Linda M. Morra (Bishop's University, Sherbrooke, QC) Laura Moss (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC) Erin Ramlo (McMaster University, Hamilton, ON) Deanna Reder (Cree-Métis; Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC) Alix Shield (Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC) Mary Ann Steggles (University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB) Kailin Wright (St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, NS) Linda Warley (University of Waterloo, ON) Erin Wunker (Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia)
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