Cultural studies Books
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Structuring People: The Myth of Participation and
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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Springer Wer sehen will, muss spüren: Warum uns manche
Book SynopsisWarum berühren uns Serien wie „Game of Thrones“, „Breaking Bad“, „Sex Education“ und Filme wie „Es“, „Sieben“, oder „Mamma Mia!“? Manchmal sind wir gefesselt von einem Film oder einer Serie und vergessen alles um uns herum. Und ein anderes Mal vergeht die Zeit einfach nicht und der Film langweilt uns zu Tode. Wieder andere Filme und Serien können wir gar nicht erst aushalten, weil Gewalt, Ekel, und Demütigungen von Figuren uns unangenehm vereinnahmen und geradezu einschnüren.In diesem Buch erfahren Sie, wie Filme und Serien uns emotional berühren - oder eben auch nicht. Anhand zahlreicher Beispiele lernen Sie, wie Langeweile, Freude, Angst, Empathie, Ekel, Nervosität, Scham, Schrecken oder Sehnsucht beim Film- und Serienschauen geradezu leiblich spürbar werden. Diese philosophischen Betrachtungen werden jeweils psychologisch eingeordnet, um einen umfassenden Blick auf das ‚Spüren beim Sehen‘ zu erlangen. .Der Inhalt Geschichten verbinden uns Geschichten berühren uns Katharsis nach Aristoteles Leibphänomenologie Das Phänomen Binge-Watching Geschichten wollen erinnert werden Entladung von Wut und Enttäuschung Entladung von Sehnsucht Geschichten lassen uns trotzdem manchmal kalt Geschichten verändern uns Die ZielgruppePersonen, die Filme und Serien schauen, Rezensionen/Kritiken lesen, im Alltag über ebenjene mit anderen sprechenTrade Review“... Medienpädagog*innen können die Erkenntnisse und Erfahrungen aus dem Fachbuch für Forschungsarbeiten und Projekte nutzen und weiterentwickeln. Zudem ist die Publikation für alle interessant, die gerne regelmäßig Filme oder Serien schauen. Sie bietet Erklärungen über die Hintergründe des Film- und Serienschauens und Begründungen zu unseren Gefühlen.” (merz - medien + erziehung, Jg. 67, Heft 2, April 2023) “... Die Autorin bedient sich der Konzepte aus der neuen Phänomenologie, um ihrer Leserschaft die Wirkungsweisen der audiovisuellen Erzählungen nahezubringen. Knapp und leicht verständlich macht Schwelgengräber diese Ansätze auch für Lesende ohne jegliches philosophisches Vorwissen zugänglich …” (Anna Gielas, in: Psychologie Heute, Heft 12, 2022)Table of ContentsEinleitung: Filme und Serien berühren uns - Empathie und die Lust daran erleben - Im Wechselbad der Gefühle: Facetten des Lachens und Weinens - Filme, die uns abstoßen – Filme, die wir aushalten - Flucht aus dem Alltag - Filme und Serien, die zu Ende sind - Der Sehnsucht nachspüren - Filme und Serien können uns verändern - Ein kleiner Ratgeber für das Sehen von Filmen und Serien
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Soziologie und Anthropologie 1 – Theorie der Magie / Soziale Morphologie: Herausgegeben und mit einem Vorwort von Cécile Rol
Book SynopsisDie in dieser zweibändigen Ausgabe zusammengefassten Aufsätze von Marcel Mauss haben nicht nur in der Soziologie zahlreiche Arbeiten maßgeblich beeinflusst. Der lange im Schatten seines Onkels Emile Durkheim stehende französische Sozialwissenschaftler ist heute weltweit so aktuell wie noch nie zuvor.Table of Contents
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Soziologie und Anthropologie 2 – Gabentausch, Todesvorstellung, Körpertechniken: Herausgegeben und mit einem Vorwort von Cécile Rol
Book SynopsisDie in dieser zweibändigen Ausgabe zusammengefassten Aufsätze von Marcel Mauss haben nicht nur in der Soziologie zahlreiche Arbeiten maßgeblich beeinflusst. Der lange im Schatten seines Onkels Emile Durkheim stehende französische Sozialwissenschaftler ist heute weltweit so aktuell wie noch nie zuvor.Table of ContentsDie Gabe. Form und Funktion des Austauschs in archaischen Gesellschaften.- Wirkliche und praktische Beziehungen zwischen Soziologie und Psychologie.- Über die physische Wirkung der von der Gemeinschaft suggerierten Todesvorstellung auf das Individuum (Australien und Neuseeland).- Die Techniken des Körpers.- Eine Kategorie des menschlichen Geistes: Der Begriff der Person und des »Ich«.
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Dialogkultur: Dialog sein – Dialog führen –
Book SynopsisDialog ist ein Wort, mit dem jeder etwas anfangen kann. Doch wann führen wir einen Dialog? Wie kann eine oft geforderte Dialogkultur beschrieben werden? Dieses Buch gibt durch die kategoriegeleitete Analyse verschiedenster Theorien und Dialogkonzepten eine Antwort auf diese Fragen. Dabei werden Ansätze der Philosophie genauso betrachtet wie jene der Organisationssoziologie, der Kommunikationswissenschaften, der Soziologie, der Psychologie oder der Theologie - von Martin Buber über Marshall Rosenberg und Schulz von Thun bis hin zu Pierpaolo Donati, Carl Rogers und Papst Franziskus. Dabei werden die Gemeinsamkeiten der Ansätze ebenso dargestellt, wie die jeweiligen Spezifika. Es werden nicht nur die Handlungsweisen beschrieben, welche einen Dialog ausmachen, sondern auch die dahinterstehenden Annahmen über den Dialog, das zugrundeliegende Menschenbild, Werte und Normen. So bietet das Buch einen guten Überblick über die Dialogkultur und einen guten Einstieg in die Thematik.Table of ContentsWir brauchen eine Dialogkultur.- Dialog– ein Definitionsversuch.- Definition Kultur.- Vom „drei-Ebenen-Modell“ zur Dialog-Kultur-Beschreibung.- Dialog-Kultur – eine erste Definition.- Martin Buber – Grundlagen des dialogischen Prinzips.- Die zwei Grundwortpaare: ICH-DU und ICH-ES.- Das dialogische Prinzip.- Das dialogische Prinzip – eine Dialogform?.- Dialogisches Prinzip = Dialogkultur? – der Beitrag Martin Bubers für die Entwicklung einer Dialogkultur.- Soziales Handeln.- Bohm, Dietz und Hartkemeyers – das dialogische Prinzip in Organisationsprozessen.- Dialog als Kommunikation – kommunikationstheoretische Ansätze.- Das Kommunikationsmodell von Marshall Rosenberg.- Der Beitrag Watzlawicks, Schulz von Thuns und Rosenbergs zur Dialogkultur.- Kommunikation und soziales Handeln – 2.Teil.- Soziale Beziehungen in den verschiedenen soziologischen Theorien.- Soziale Beziehungen nach Pierpaolo Donati.- Hilfreiche Beziehungen bei Carl Rogers.- Dialog – eine Form sozialer Beziehung?.- Dialog aus katholischer Sicht - Dialog als Mittel - Dialog als Lebensstil.- Dialogverständnis in Chiara Lubich.- Dialog – was ist das?.- Dialogkultur eine Beschreibung.- Abschlussbemerkungen.
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Schlüsselwerke der Emotionssoziologie
Book SynopsisEmotionen sind wichtig. Wissenschaftler debattieren disziplinenübergreifend über die Bedeutung von Emotionen in zentralen gesellschaftlichen Bereichen wie dem Finanz- und Wirtschaftsbereich, der Familie und der Religion, der Politik und der Kunst sowie den Medien und der Unterhaltungsindustrie. Der Band greift diesen „emotional turn“ auf und stellt die wichtigen Arbeiten der deutschen und der internationalen Emotionssoziologie und der philosophischen, psychologischen, neurowissenschaftlichen und sozialwissenschaftlichen Emotionsforschung vor. Klassische Autoren werden ebenso berücksichtigt wie zeitgenössische Positionen, theoretische Konzepte ebenso wie empirische Forschungen. Der Band möchte in einer systematischen Weise einen Überblick über den aktuellen Forschungsstand geben.Table of ContentsDie wichtigsten Werke von A-Z
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Mitarbeiterbefragungen in Kulturbetrieben –
Book SynopsisDieses essential vermittelt kompakt und praxisnah, wie Mitarbeiterbefragungen in Kulturbetrieben erfolgreich gelingen können. Die Autorinnen stellen hierfür die wichtigsten Formen und Methoden von Mitarbeiterbefragungen vor und beschreiben detailliert den Ablauf der einzelnen Phasen – von der Planung und Durchführung einer Mitarbeiterbefragung über die Kommunikation der Ergebnisse bis hin zur Evaluation der Follow-up-Maßnahmen. Aufbauend darauf diskutieren sie die Chancen und Risiken, die Mitarbeiterbefragungen für Kulturorganisationen bieten und zeigen auf, wie das Kulturpersonal möglichst partizipativ am Prozess der Mitarbeiterbefragung beteiligt werden kann. Ein besonderer Schwerpunkt dieses essentials liegt darauf, wie Mitarbeiterbefragungen in den aktuellen Organisationsentwicklungsprozessen von Kulturorganisationen wirksam und nachhaltig eingesetzt werden können.
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Andere Sichtweisen auf Intersektionalität:
Book SynopsisDas Buch hinterfragt die vermeintliche visuelle Evidenz von Kategorien menschlicher Ähnlichkeit und Differenz. Es bezieht Erkenntnisse aus den Sozial- und Kognitionswissenschaften sowie der Psychologie und Philosophie ein, um zu erklären, wie wir physische Unterschiede visuell wahrnehmen und zeigt, dass Wahrnehmung sowohl fehlbar als auch prozesshaft ist. Dazu bringen die Autorinnen Studien zur visuellen Kultur und künstlerische Forschung mit Ansätzen wie Gender, Queer und Trans Studies sowie postkolonialer Theorie miteinander ins Gespräch, um vereinfachte Vorstellungen von Identitätspolitik und kultureller Repräsentation zu verkomplizieren. Das Buch schlägt andere Sichtweisen auf Intersektionalität vor, um die Vorherrschaft von Kategorien der vermeintlich sichtbaren Differenz wie race und Geschlecht als analytische Kategorien infrage zu stellen.Table of ContentsAndere Sichtweisen auf Intersektionalität: Revisualising Intersectionality.- Wo Differenz beginnt.- Andere Sichtweise auf Intersektionalität: Konversationen.- Zweck und Grenzen von Sichtbarkeit.- Schluss: Intersektionalität anders gesehen.
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Photographien analysieren: Eine Einführung am
Book SynopsisDer vorliegende Band führt am Beispiel von drei vom Typus, vom Entstehungs- und vom Verwendungszusammenhang her unterschiedlichen Photos aus verschiedenen Forschungszusammenhängen detailliert in die objektiv-hermeneutische Analyse von Photographien ein. Dabei werden auch Konstitutionstheorie und Methodologie so dargestellt, dass die Arbeit mit der Forschungsmethode Objektive Hermeneutik und ihr Erlernen fundiert und fasslich möglich sind. Dem für die Methode zentralen Prinzip der Sachangemessenheit folgt der Band, indem bei der Auswertung der Photographien materiale Fragestellungen bearbeitet werden: (A) die Rekonstruktion neutraler Reziprozität (ähnlich der zivilen Unaufmerksamkeit gemäß Erving Goffman), (B) die Rekonstruktion der politischen Kommunikation via Selfies als eines eigenen Typus der Kommunikation und (C) die Rekonstruktion einer Praxis, von der Georges Didi-Huberman mit Recht sagt, dass sie alle Anthropologie übersteigt. Die Darlegung setzt bei der Planung der Forschung an, behandelt die Fragen der Fallauswahl, der Selektion des Datentypus und der Erhebung, die spezifischen Fragen der Analyse von Photographien und die besondere Form der Ergebnisdarstellung. Eine Liste publizierter objektiv-hermeneutischer Photographieanalysen und ein Glossar zu Begriffen der Objektiven Hermeneutik ergänzen die Darstellung.Mit Exkursen……zu Begriff und Terminus der Interpretation…zur Frage von Sichtbarkeit, Notation und Beschreibung…zum Begriff der strukturellen Reziprozität…zu den Begriffen der Normalität und der Normalisierung…zum Phänomen der BestattungTable of ContentsEinleitung.- Methodisches Vorgehen.- Fallanalysen.- „Civil inattention“ als neutrale Reziprozität.- Selbstinszenierung als Aufmerksamkeitslenkung.- Vita mundo absurdo perversa.- Reflexionen zum methodischen Vorgehen.- Epilog.- Glossar.
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Superschwache Beziehungen: Was unsere
Book SynopsisIn diesem Buch wird erklärt, wie wir voneinander lernen und wie die Menschen sich im Verhalten aneinander anpassen. Wir orientieren uns an anderen, indem wir beobachten, wie sich diese in bestimmten Situationen verhalten. Die Analyse von Beziehungen ist eigentlich das Metier der Netzwerkforschung. Dort werden bislang nur starke und schwache Beziehungen behandelt. Hier geht es aber um superschwache Beziehungen. Diese nehmen wir oft gar nicht wahr, denn deren Bedeutung entfaltet sich hinter dem Rücken von uns allen. Obwohl man kaum von Beziehungen im traditionellen Sinne sprechen kann, sind diese oft genauso wirksam wie stärkere Beziehungen. Die Orientierungswirkung entfaltet sich dann besonders gut, wenn Ähnlichkeiten hinsichtlich der Interessen und der Lage zwischen Beobachtern und Beobachteten bestehen. Ohne Übertragungen mit Hilfe von superschwachen Beziehungen fiele es schwer, zu kulturellen Gemeinsamkeiten in der Gesellschaft zu kommen.Table of ContentsWarum superschwache Beziehungen?.- Der Mensch im Geflecht der Beziehungen.- Komponenten der Wirkung superschwacher Beziehungen.- Superschwache Beziehungen: Die Ampel und die Oper.- Der schiefe Turm zu Pisa.- Wie superschwache Beziehungen auf die Mode wirken.- Schluss: Was superschwache Beziehungen so bedeutend macht.
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Internationale Wahrnehmung von Urheberrechten an
Book SynopsisDieses Open-Access-Buch adressiert die durch Globalisierung und Digitalisierung zunehmende Internationalisierung der Wahrnehmung von Urheberrechten. Musikverlage, aber auch Urheber sehen sich dabei zwar der Option einer selbstbestimmten internationalen Wahrnehmung ihrer Urheberrechte gegenüber. Gleichzeitig ist dieser Schritt aber mit großen betriebswirtschaftlichen, technischen und rechtlichen Herausforderungen und Unsicherheiten behaftet. Dieses Buch soll an der Schnittstelle zwischen Wissenschaft und Praxis die Grundlagen, Konzepte und Technologien internationaler Verwertung vermitteln. Dabei strukturiert es sich entlang des Lebenszyklus, beginnend mit der Mitgliedschaft bei Verwertungsgesellschaften, über Werk- und Nutzungsmeldungen bis hin zu Abrechnungsprüfungen und Reklamationen.Table of Contents1. Einleitung2. Verwertung von Urheberrechten an Musikwerken3. Mitgliedschaften4. Werkanmeldungen5. Tantiemen6. Controlling und Reklamationen7. Arbeiten mit den EDI-Formaten der CISAC8. Ist-Stand und Entwicklungspfade der Musikindustrie – Meinungsbilder aus drei Perspektiven9. Quo Vadis Musikindustrie – Verlage und Verwertungsgesellschaften und der Trend der Digitalisierung
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Soziologie der Würde: Eine Einführung in ihre
Book SynopsisDieses Studienbuch bietet eine soziologische Einführung in die konfliktreiche Welt der Menschenwürde. In Abgrenzung zum vorherrschenden normativen Verständnis von Würde wird diese als eine Achtung und Autonomie anstrebende individuelle Handlungsorientierung beschrieben, die interaktiv und institutionell geformt ist, und deren Erfolgschancen von den umfassenden gesellschaftlichen Verhältnissen abhängen. Da sich Würde im Alltag erst in Situationen der Bedrohtheit und Beschädigung als für Lebensführung und Identität unentbehrlich zu erkennen gibt, konzentriert sich auch die Darstellung ihrer Realität auf Risiken, Formen und zentrale Schauplätze ihrer Beeinträchtigung.Table of ContentsWas unter Würde im Alltagsleben verstanden wird.- Schauplätze von Würde und Würdeverletzung im Überblick.- Würde und Emotionalität.- Würdegefährdung als gesellschaftlicher Normalfall.- Wo die Missachtung unvermeidlich ist – exemplarische Entwürdigungsorte im Detail.- Problematische Folgen von Würdeverletzung und Würdeverlust.- Würdeverletzung als Präventionsgegenstand.
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Ethik und Kapitalismus – Zum Problem des
Book SynopsisUnter den sich mit der historischen Genese und der epochalen Eigenart des modernen Kapitalismus befassenden Studien kommt den kapitalismuskritischen Schriften von Max Scheler (1874-1928) ein besonderer Stellenwert zu. Scheler, der in den zwanziger Jahren des vergangenen Jahrhunderts zusammen mit Karl Mannheim die moderne Wissenssoziologie begründete, hatte sich in die um 1900 zwischen Lujio Brentano, Werner Sombart, Max Weber und Ernst Troeltsch geführte Debatte über die religiösen Wurzeln des „kapitalistischen Geistes“ in einer sehr produktiven, heute weitgehend vergessenen Weise eingemischt und dabei eine höchst eigenwillige, durch die katholische Soziallehre geprägte Position vertreten. Bezüglich der Entstehung der modernen Wirtschaftsethik war er ähnlich wie Max Weber vor allem am Ethos jenes Menschentypus interessiert, der als Bürger und Unternehmer dem modernen industriellen Kapitalismus zum Durchbruch verhalf.Table of ContentsEinleitung - Arbeit und Ethik - Der Bourgeois - Der Bourgeois und die religiösen Mächte - Die Zukunft des Kapitalismus - Prophetischer oder marxistischer Sozialismus? - Arbeit und Weltanschauung - Drucknachweise
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Schriftliche Besucherbefragungen im
Book SynopsisDieses essential erläutert fundiert und kompakt die schriftliche Besucherbefragung als Instrument im Kulturmarketing und Kulturtourismus. Nach einer Einführung in die wichtigsten Begriffe werden die beiden Methoden schriftlicher Befragungen (Paper-Pencil und Online) anwendungsbezogen vorgestellt und auf ihre Stärken und Schwächen untersucht. Hierauf aufbauend werden die einzelnen Phasen von schriftlichen Befragungen – von der Gestaltung eines Fragebogens und der Datenerhebung über die Datenaufbereitung und -auswertung bis hin zur Follow-up-Phase – skizziert. Die theoretischen Erläuterungen werden anhand vieler aktueller Beispiele aus der Praxis von Kultur und Tourismus illustriert. Table of ContentsBegriffsverständnis und Vor-/Nachteile schriftlicher Befragungen im Kulturmarketing und Kulturtourismus.- Befragungsmethoden und deren Spezifika: Paper-Pencil- und Online-Befragungen.- Phasen einer schriftlichen Besucherbefragung: Gestaltung eines Fragebogens, Datenerhebung, Datenaufbereitung und -auswertung, Follow-up-Phase.
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Die Theorien in der Kulturproduktion: Aspekte der Performativität von Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften
Book SynopsisKultur- und sozialwissenschaftliches Wissen hat über die letzten 50 Jahre eine beständige Verbreitung erfahren und wurde zu einem festen Bestandteil gegenwärtiger Gesellschaften. Dies bezieht sich allerdings nicht nur auf die Ergebnisse der Disziplinen, sondern trifft im besonderen Maße auf deren grundlegende theoretische Konzepte zu. In verschiedensten gesellschaftlichen Bereichen repräsentiert dieses Wissen eine Ressource für die Akteur*innen, um Produktionsprozesse anzuleiten. Die Theorien liefern daher nicht nur Beschreibungen des Sozialen, sondern sie wirken „performativ“. Diese Open-Access-Publikation fokussiert auf den Bereich der Kulturproduktion und zeigt auf, welche Bedingungen zur Verwendung der theoretischen Konzepte außerhalb der Wissenschaft geführt haben, wie die Theorien in Prozessen zur Anwendung kommen und welche Veränderungen daraus folgen. Hierzu wird zuerst ein konzeptioneller sowie methodologischer Rahmen präsentiert, bevor die empirische Studie einer Kulturwelt detaillierte Einblicke in die Wirkungsweisen ermöglicht. Anhand der so verdeutlichten Aspekte der Performativität von kultur- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Theorien lässt sich schlussendlich aufzeigen, wie Kulturproduktion in gegenwärtigen Gesellschaften eine zentrale Stellung einnehmen konnte.Table of ContentsEinleitung: Kulturproduktion als Zentrum gegenwärtiger Gesellschaften?.- Performativität und Valorisierung: Wertigkeitskonstruktion durch Theorien.- Konzepte zur Analyse von Performativität in der Kulturproduktion.- Methodologien und Methoden für die Analyse von Performativität.- Die Veränderung der Kulturproduktion.- Fazit: Änderungen in den Wertigkeiten von Kulturproduktion.- Literatur.
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Springer The Forgotten Subject: Subject Constitutions in
Book SynopsisThe volume provides a critical inventory of existing concepts of the subject in communication studies research. In addition, concepts are developed in order to be able to analyze subjectivity in the context of current theoretical debates (including media sociology, cultural studies, psychoanalysis, practice theory, science and technology studies) as well as social, cultural and technical developments (including digitalization, mediatization, mobility and networking). Since subject conceptions are of central importance for any communication and media analyses, the volume fills a central gap in communication and media studies.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- How does communicating constitute the human being?.- The subject of communicative action, subjectivity and subjectification.- From social interaction to digital networking.- Materiality, technology and the subject: elements of critical communication and media analysis.- Media use and psychoanalysis: theoretical and empirical perspectives.- Subjectification in datafied societies.- Narrative subject constructions in the sign of media and socio-cultural change. Narrative subject constructions in the sign of medial and socio-cultural change.- From subject to user, - and back?.- The history of media-based technologies of the self from Rousseau to Runtastic.- Subject enactment and communication power digital.- On the mediality of pedagogical relations and the medial side of education.- Memes as image-mediated subjectification practices.
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Springer VS Future in a Contested Time Regime
Book SynopsisIntroduction.- Present Futures and Time Regimes.- Climate Change as a Matter of Time.- Rationale: Documentaries in/as Narrative Discourse.- Procedure: From Typology to Final Scenes.- Four Types of Climate Documentary Film.- Exposition and Resolution in Climate Change Narration.- Figurations of Future.- Conclusion: Future-as-future.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Carl Dahlhaus: Briefe 1945-1989
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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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Rammsteins „Deutschland“: Pop – Politik – Provokation
Book SynopsisRammstein provozieren. In ihren Songs und Musikvideos spielt die Band mit Doppeldeutigkeiten rund um die deutsche Geschichte und testet die Grenzen des Sag- und Singbaren. Besonders deutlich wird das in ihrer Single „Deutschland“, einer (Anti?)Hymne auf die Nation. Im cineastisch-bombastischen Musikvideo präsentieren sich die Bandmitglieder unter anderem als KZ-Insassen und SS-Offiziere. Alles nur Spektakel? Oder doch politisch? Das Verhältnis von Politik und Pop zeigt sich bei Rammstein in seinen verschiedenen Dimensionen.Table of ContentsEinleitung.- Zitate, Bezüge und Verweise.- Mehrdeutigkeit.- Musik.- Geschichte.- Pop-Ästhetik.- Race & Gender.- Nation.- Gefühle.- Rezeption.- Live-Performance.- Schluss: Wie politisch ist Deutschland? oder: Wie ist Deutschland politisch?.- Anhang: Sequenzanalyse zu Rammsteins Deutschland.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG From La Strada to The Hours
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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Springer Verlag, Japan Recovery from the Indian Ocean Tsunami: A Ten-Year Journey
Book SynopsisDuring the past 10 years following the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, invaluable lessons have been learned and great changes have been observed. Immediately after the disaster, the second World Conference on Disaster Reduction was held in Kobe, Japan, and formulated the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA: 2005–2015). HFA provided a platform and framework for changes and innovations, many of which were part of the recovery programs in the different countries affected by the 2004 disaster. This book is a modest attempt to review the lessons learned through the recovery process in the affected region. The book has 31 chapters, drawing lessons from four countries: India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. There are five sections: Overview (10 chapters), Indonesia (8 chapters), India (6 chapters), Sri Lanka (5 chapters), and Thailand (2 chapters). The primary target groups for this book are students and researchers in the fields of disaster risk reduction, environment, and development. The book provides them with a good idea of the current research trends and lessons over the past decade of recovery initiatives. Another target group comprises practitioners and policy makers, who will be able to apply the knowledge collected here to establishing policy and making decisions.Table of ContentsTen years of recovery lessons from Indian Ocean Tsunami.- Institutional and legal arrangements and its impacts on urban issues in Post Indian Ocean Tsunami.- Environmental Recovery and Mangrove Conservation: Post Indian Ocean Tsunami Policy responses in South and Southeast Asia.- Lessons from the Recovery of the Education Sector after the Indian Ocean Tsunami.- Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning System (IOTWS).- Post-tsunami Urban Recovery Process and Current Conditions in Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Indonesia.- Critical Factors for Sustainable Post-Tsunami Resettlement: Cases from India and Sri Lanka.- Institutional arrangements for managing large-scale recovery: Key lessons from 2004 Tsunami.- When is too much money worse than too little? Giving, aid, and impact after the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004.- Social protection ten-years after the tsunami: the case of Indonesia and Thailand.- Reform amidst the Rubble.- Reconstruction through external support: key observation in Aceh.- Progress of coastal line rehabilitation after the Indian Ocean Tsunami around Banda Aceh Coasts.- Disaster Waste Management: Lessons Learnt from Banda Aceh, Indonesia.- Community-based housing reconstruction in Aceh, Indonesia.- Vulnerability assessment and Retrofitting of existing buildings in Aceh and Transfer of knowledge to the community.- Learning on the safety issues of reconstructed houses from the 2004 Great Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami in Aceh, Indonesia.- The Role of Islamic Teachings in Encouraging People to Take Tsunami Preparedness in Aceh and Yogyakarta Indonesia.- Rhetoric and Ground Reality of Institutionalizing Disaster Risk Reduction.- Role of GI Services in Emergency Response Management in India.- Healthy Ecosystems for Long Term Security and Sustainability of natural resource management: Case of India.- Listening to the communities.- mpowering Communities through Disaster Management Strategies: Are we on the right track?.- Impact of Higher Education in Enhancing the Resilience of Disaster Prone Coastal Communities- A Case Study in Nemmeli Panchayat, Tamil Nadu, India.- Reviewing Indian Ocean tsunami lessons learnt practices of Sri Lanka: in order to emphasize disaster risk reduction endeavours.- Capacity Gaps in Post Disaster Waste Management: Case study in Sri Lanka.- Housing and Resilience: Case Studies from Sri Lanka.- Ten Years of Resettlement in Eco-village, Sri Lanka.- How the Tsunami disaster triggered a change process in the education sector of Sri Lanka: Lessons learnt for introducing disaster safety education.- Change of Livelihoods and Living Conditions after the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami: The Case of the Post-Disaster Rehabilitation of the Moklen Community in Tungwa Village, Southern Thailand.- Post-Tsunami Recovery and Rehabilitation of Small Enterprises in Phang Nga Province, Southern Thailand
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Trivent Publishing 21st Century Medievalisms: Between The Global and
Book Synopsis21st Century Medievalisms: Between the Global and Individual is an edited volume consisting of 14 chapters by scholars interested in contemporary medievalisms across the world. It is a timely contribution to the growing scholarship on medievalisms offering chapters that consider both the individual experiences of medievalisms, as well as those of societies and cultures at large. The chapters of the book are grouped into three parts, the first explores stereotypes and myths in medievalisms; the second examines medievalisms that speak to particular communities and audiences; and the third studies how medievalisms are impacted by or stimulate conversations of politics and gender. These chapters all reflect a growing interest in medievalisms, and the appreciation of how they are present, materialise and evolve in different contexts and offers insights into medievalisms in politics, popular culture, social activism and more. Throughout the book, examples and case studies demonstrate how medievalisms in the modern age are at times individual experiences, at other times global phenomena and sometimes are in between. Therefore these medievalisms can speak to different audiences at the same time, showcasing how the Middle Ages and their memory continue to be a pertinent topic of study within the wider field of medieval studies.Table of Contents INTRODUCTION by Karl Christian Alvestad CHAPTER 1. Medievalist Comic Book Characters and Their Feminist Readers —Elizabeth Allyn Woock CHAPTER 2. Are Pigs Pink? Cinematic Perceptions of the Medieval Past —Francis Mickus CHAPTER 3. Re-imagining Historical Fighting: Knights in Medievalism —Jürg Gassmann CHAPTER 4. Dark Medieval Times: Violence and Darkness in Black-Metal Medievalism —Dario Capelli CHAPTER 5. Crusading as Damnation, Killing for Salvation Crusading Ideology and Ludonarrative Dissonance in Dante's Inferno —Juan Manuel Rubio Arévalo CHAPTER 6. French Cultural Exception: When King Arthur Does Not Cross the Borders —Justine Breton CHAPTER 7. The Witcher: Visions of a Shifting Europe —Meg Feller CHAPTER 8. Medieval Love Through Centuries from Far East to Far West in Romanesque, by Tonino Benacquista —Leticia Ding, Philippe Frieden, Stefania Maffei Boillat CHAPTER 9. Medievalism, Philosophers, and Medievalists in the Twenty-First Century in Peru: From the Forgotten Image to New Perspectives —Jean Christian Egoavil CHAPTER 10. The Use of Political Neomedievalism in Spain —Álvaro Garrote Pascual CHAPTER 11. The Black Veil of Freedom: Widows Beyond Westeros —Dawn A. Seymour Klos CHAPTER 12. The Frozen Middle Ages: Elsa as a Contemporary Joan of Arc? —Andrea Maraschi CHAPTER 13. Beyond the Bounds of Camelot and Hogwarts: The Medieval Quest Becomes Political Activism Through Harry Potter —Monica J. Stenzel, Josephine C. Stenzel CHAPTER 14. Memories of the Medieval in the Age of White Supremacy —Leland Renato Grigoli
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Trivent Publishing Beyond Cadfael: Medieval Medicine and Medical
Book SynopsisMedievalism and medieval medicine are vibrant subfields of medieval studies, enjoying sustained scholarly attention and popularity among undergraduates. Popular perceptions of medieval medicine, however, remain understudied. This book aims to fill that lacuna by providing a multifaceted study of medical medievalism, defined as modern representations of medieval medicine intended for popular audiences. The volume takes as its starting point the fictional medieval detective Brother Cadfael, whose observations on bodies, herbs, and death have shaped many popular conceptions of medieval medicine in the Anglophone world. The ten contributing authors move beyond Cadfael by exploring global medical medievalisms in a range of genres and cultural contexts. Beyond Cadfael is organized into three sections, the first of which engages with how disease, injury, and the sick are imagined in fictitious medieval worlds. The second, on doctors at work, looks at medieval medical practice in novels, films and television, and public commemorative practice. These essays examine how practitioners are represented and imagined in medieval and pseudo-medieval worlds. The third section discusses medicine designed for and practiced by women in the Middle Ages and today, with a focus on East Asian medical traditions. These essays are guided by the recognition that medieval medical practices are often in dialogue with contemporary medical practices that fall outside the norms of Western biomedicine.Table of Contents INTRODUCTION. Beyond Cadfael: Identifying and Defining Medical Medievalism —Lucy C. Barnhouse, Winston Black SECTION I. DISEASE, MEDICINE, AND THE IMAGINED MEDIEVAL CHAPTER 1. "Is It Lupus?" – The Wolf in a Disease, from Metaphor to Medicine — Luke Demaitre CHAPTER 2. "Have you Come Here to Play Jesus?": The Use and the Misuse of Medieval Leprosy in Modern Media —Courtney A. Krolikoski CHAPTER 3. The Fantasy of Medieval Medicine: Orientalizing Experiential and Textual Traditions in the Imagined Medieval Past —Robin S. Reich CHAPTER 4. Drinking the Word of God: Modern Science and Reconfigurations of Islamic Healing in Contemporary Egypt —Ana Vinea SECTION II. DOCTORS AT WORK IN MEDIEVAL WORLDS CHAPTER 5. Early Medieval Surgery: Challenging Popular Stereotypes with Archaeological Evidence —Claire Burridge CHAPTER 6. Avicenna, Prince of Physicians, and Modern Political Medievalism —Winston Black CHAPTER 7. Mysteries and Medicines: Medieval Medical Practitioners in Crime Fiction —Lucy C. Barnhouse SECTION III. WOMEN' MEDICINE, MEDIEVAL AND MODERN CHAPTER 8. How to Treat a Woman's Cold and Porous Body: Mugwort Fumigation for Fertility in Medieval and Modern Folk Medicine of Western and Asian Cultures —Minji Lee CHAPTER 9. For to Cause a Woman to Have Milk: Recipes to Promote Lactation for Medieval and Modern Women —Kristin Uscinski CHAPTER 10. The Art of Giving Birth in Middle Period China —Wee Siang Margaret Ng Bibliography Index
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Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo Manifestations of Male Image in the World′s
Book SynopsisManifestations of Male Image in the World's Cultures shows a single cultural phenomenon from a number of diverse perspectives. Methods used to analyze the titular male image range from Literary Studies and Cultural Studies to Media Studies. Thanks to the Authors' broad experience in various fields of academic research, the volume presents this highly layered theme in a truly interdisciplinary way. This multiauthored – and therefore "polyphonic" – collection as a truly original attempt to build a framework of humanistic thought that is based on clear theoretical and methodological criteria. Moreover, its open character allows the use and merging of a number of humanistic methods, such as the aforementioned Literary or Cultural Studies, with other inspirations that, layer by layer, add the depth and provide further insight into the relationship between the male image and broadly understood cultural practices.
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NIAS Press Ideas, Society and Politics in Northeast Asia and
Book SynopsisWestern scholars have long studied China, Japan and Korea (among other Asian countries). However, in recent years we have seen the study of western societies launched at certain Asian universities while an interesting new development is the establishment of Nordic studies in China, Japan and South Korea. Why is this? What possible interest could the low-tax, entrepreneurial countries of East Asia have in the high-tax, social welfare-oriented Nordic region on the opposite edge of Eurasia? In the past few decades, all three Asian countries have experienced rapid economic development and as a result their societies are becoming more complex to govern. Several issues related to public welfare - for instance, the need to deal with an ageing population, income redistribution and provision of social security - were not considered important even 25 years ago. Today, their resolution is seen as essential to the countries' continued, sustainable development. Such issues have long been in focus in the Nordic region and important lessons can be learnt from how they have been addressed. On the other hand, the Nordic countries are at risk of stagnation and have much to learn from the dynamism and flexibility found in East Asia. Meanwhile cultural and political differences between East and West pose challenges to mutual understanding and learning. However, the two regions are not uniformly distinct from each other; there are in fact distinct differences within the regions and interesting parallels between them. In short, this pattern of convergence and diversity makes a challenging point of reference for scholars and policy-makers from both regions. The exploration of how both regions have much to learn from each other is the focus of this intriguing volume of essays by both Eastern and Western scholars.Table of ContentsIntroduction (Ras Tind Nielsen and Geir Helgesen) 1. Duality or Polarity: Modes of Thought in East and West (Bent Nielsen) 2. New Demands, Obsolete Values? Global Challenges to National Education (Geir Sigurdsson) 3. Nordic Democracy as a Model-Building Concept (Johan Strang and Jussi Kurunmaki) 4. The Nordic and East Asian Welfare Models: On Converging Paths? (Stein Kuhnle) 5. Scandinavian Welfare Regimes in the Current Crisis: Reform or Retrenchment? (Peter Abrahamson) 6. Comparing the Nordic and South Korean Models: Labour-Market Regulation and Social Welfare in Times of Crisis (Johannes Dragsbak Schmidt) 7. Europeanization and the Nordic Models: Reforms for Welfare and Competitiveness (Inchoon Kim) 8. Human Rights and 'Values in Asia': Reflections on East - West Dialogues (Daniel A. Bell) 9. Aiming for Results: Preconditions for a Constructive Dialogue between North Korea and the World (Geir Helgesen) 10. Sunshine in a Barren Soil: Domestic Politics of Engagement and Identity Formation in South Korea (Jong Kun Choi) 11. Cooperation among Equals: Political Culture in the Nordic Countries (Uffe A stergard) Afterword (Ras Tind Nielsen and Geir Helgesen) Index.
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NIAS Press Hearing Southeast Asia: Sounds of Hierarchy and Power in Context: 2019
Book SynopsisThere is no moment of our waking life in which we do not experience sounds or make sounds. The human body is a sound-making organism. In densely peopled areas like many parts of Southeast Asia, then, the potential is for tumult, an infinity of different sounds competing to be heard. Pandemonium is not unheard of in Southeast Asia - not least in times of political unrest - but in everyday situations uproar is uncommon; cultural, social, political and personal factors (among others) work to calm, channel or even silence the tumult. Providing focus to this interdisciplinary volume on sound in SE Asia are detailed descriptions of the context of sounds and sound-making within the region's diverse socio-cultural semiotic frames of hierarchy and power. Drawing on examples from Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines, each author discusses some aspect of sound in relation to their ethnographic context. Sound examples are also found on a companion website. Varied approaches to understanding sound are offered but in some way each relates to hierarchy and power. All show the importance of sound for understanding the processual implementation of hierarchy (or its opposite) in the construction of the social environment and the role of sound in the efficacious engagement of power in a variety of religious and political form. This is a much-needed volume, long overdue, not only offers non-Western perspectives to a field that is firmly Eurocentric; it also goes beyond examining sound in isolation, considering this instead in relation to the other senses and to sociocultural constructions. In such ways, then, the volume offers new directions of study, an exciting prospect.Trade ReviewHumans are surrounded by sound day and night and yet very few scholars have studied our sonic environment. "Hearing Southeast Asia" breaks the silence at last. It is the first major volume to explore the soundscapes of insular and mainland Southeast Asia. The chapters cover the full range of sounds from the sound wars of noisy megacities to the quiet healing music or ritual whispering of tribal communities. The authors form the fine fleur of sonic studies, mostly using an ethnographic approach. "Hearing Southeast Asia" will remain the standard work on Southeast Asian soundscapes for a long time to come. (Freek Colombijn, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
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Aarhus University Press Meetings of Cultures: Between Conflicts &
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Unknown State and Minorities
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The Chinese University Press The Vision of China in the English Literature of
Book SynopsisThis monograph is the first study of the reception of China in English literature, and the first comprehensive study on the image of China in Western literature written by prominent Chinese scholars such as Qian Zhongshu, Fan Cunzhong and Chen Shouyi. It complements such studies on the literary reception of China as Pierre Martino's L'Orient dans la litterature francaise au XVIIe et au XVIIIe siecle (1906), Ursula Aurich's China im Spiegel der deutschen Literatur des 18. Jahrhunderts (1935), and E. Horst Tscharner's China in der deutschen Dichtung bis zur Klassik (1939).
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The Chinese University Press The Bilingual Essays of Lin Yutang
Book SynopsisLin Yutang's essays on Chinese society and culture were written in both Chinese and English and spanned the immensely influential decades of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s.In this collection of his seminal work, Yutang confronts the rapid cultural developments of the era and the role that a Chinese intellectual must assume as he shares and translates his native country to the West. Known best for introducing "humour" into Chinese literature and culture, Yutang was a writer of great scholarly and popular interest, reflected in these engaging, substantial, and inspiring works.
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The Chinese University Press Ming Erotic Novellas: Genre, Consumption, and
Book SynopsisBy analyzing a group of literary (wenyan) novellas, this study of late-Ming material culture focuses on an erotic fiction genre, the marketing and consuming strategies behind it, and the Daoist allegory contained within. Richard Wang examines these works and their significance in the development of Ming-Qing fiction in light of the sociology of literature and Ming cultural context. Specific features of the presentation of eroticism in these novellas include the legitimation of sexuality in cosmological thinking, the moralization and politicalization of sexuality, the medical discourse on sexuality, pleasure prescribed by ars erotica, and the religious dimension of sexuality.
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Sunway University Press Popular Music in East and Southeast Asia: Sonic
Book SynopsisPopular Music in East and Southeast Asia: Sonic (under) Currents and Currencies presents contemporary perspectives of the music discipline in East and Southeast Asia. It considers global influences, national industries, and regional genres with examples from Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Taiwan, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, and the United States.
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Ateneo de Manila University Press Ukkil: Visual Arts of the Sulu Archipelago
Book SynopsisShows, through research and documentation of artifacts and practices, how art pervades the everyday life of the people of the Sulu Archipelago, such that no divide exists between beauty and function, between artistry and utility.
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University of the West Indies Press Anansi's Journey: A Story of Jamaican Cultural
Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary study examines the cultural and historical significance of the Jamaican Anansi folktales.Anansi the spider is the trickster folk hero West African slaves transported to the Caribbean, who symbolises key aspects of Afro-Caribbean culture and is celebrated as a vital link with an African past. Anansi stories, in which the small spider turns the tables on his powerful enemies through cunning and trickery, are now told and published worldwide.Anansi survived a cultural metamorphosis and came to symbolise the resistance of the Jamaican people. This original book examines Anansi’s roots in Ghana, details the changes Anansi underwent during the Middle Passage and his potential for inspiring tactics of resistance in a plantation context, and analyses Anansi’s role in postcolonial Jamaica, illustrating how he is interpreted as a symbol of individualism and celebrated as an emblem of resistance.With its broad historical sweep, tracing Anansi from Ghana through to his contested position in contemporary Jamaica, this book makes an important contribution to the ongoing debate about whether the slave trade transmitted or destroyed the culture of the enslaved.Trade Review"A big question currently among historians is did the slave trade destroy or transmit African culture? Well - here, with Anansi's Journey, we have a clear answer." - Professor James Walvin
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University of the West Indies Press Citizenship Under Pressure: The 1970s in Jamaican Literature and Culture
Book SynopsisCitizenship Under Pressure: The 1970s in Jamaican Literature and Culture is the first book-length study of the interaction of culture, politics and society in Jamaica’s formative postcolonial moment, the years between 1972 and 1980.Through examining literary and other texts from and about the period, Rachel Mordecai argues that the 1970s were defined by the explosion into the public sphere of a long-simmering dispute over the substance and limits of Jamaican citizenship, in which citizenship claims and counter-claims were advanced and contested via the symbolic deployment and re-configuration of race, class, and gender identities.
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University of the West Indies Press Global Reggae
Book SynopsisThese plenary lectures from the “Global Reggae” conference convened at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica in 2008 eloquently exemplify the breadth and depth of current scholarship on Jamaican popular music. Radiating from the Jamaican centre, these illuminating essays highlight the “glocalization” of reggae – its global dispersal and adaptation in diverse local contexts of consumption and transformation. The languages of Jamaican popular music, both literal and metaphorical, are first imitated in pursuit of an undeniable “originality”. Over time, as the music is indigenized, the Jamaican model loses its authority to varying degrees. The revolutionary ethos of reggae music is translated into local languages that articulate the particular politics of new cultural contexts. Echoes of the Jamaican source gradually fade. But new hybrid sounds return to their Jamaican origins, engendering polyvocal, cross-cultural dialogue. From the inter/disciplinary perspectives of historical sociology, musicology, history, media studies, literature, anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, the creative/cultural industries and, above all, the metaphorical “life sciences”, the contributors to this definitive volume lucidly articulate a cultural politics that acknowledges the far-reaching creativity of small-islanders with ancestral memories of continents of origin. The globalisation of reggae music and its “wild child” dancehall is, indeed, an affirmation of the unquantifiable potential of the Jamaican people to reclaim identities and establish ties of affiliation that are not circumscribed by the Caribbean Sea: To the world!
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Innovations in Communication Theories: The Man Is
Book SynopsisThis book offers a novel approach to innovations in theories of communication and social development. It proposes that "the man is the message". It argues that communication is woven into the fabric of people’s daily lives, and a scholar with a keen eye, an open heart and an inquiring mind should be able to capture the ubiquitous phenomena of communication and turn them into theoretical observations and even innovations.Although most of the propositions in this book cannot be tested empirically, at least for now, owing to the limitations inherent in current research methods, they complement the empirical studies of communication based on measurement.With due understanding that Western social sciences, including communication studies, focus on analytical thinking and the fine division of disciplines, this book takes a more synthetic approach to analyzing communication, often integrating and contextualizing its various factors and channels and categories in analysis and writing. Providing a holistic picture of communication that features the crux of the matter—how to reach and capture the heart and soul of people without any attempt to manipulate their minds, it is more humanistic than many other books on communication studies. Although much of the thinking in the book is seemingly Chinese, it nevertheless has a universal appeal.Table of ContentsPreface to the English edition .- Introduction.- Create knowledge: Graduate education in communication theories and research.- Communication and our spiritual home.- The 3M model of dissemination of beliefs.- Re-defining media functions in China’s social development: Mediating between ideal and reality.- The man is the message.- The plight of mass culture: Impoverished abundance.- The one book that changes a life: Creation and communication of literary works.- Create a new man with a pure heart: literary communication.- Ice and fire: Dilemma of the effect or non-effect of contradictory messages.- One flower and the whole springtime: The magic effect of detail in communication.- Secrets of theoretical thinking in communication.- Is there an emperor in the new clothes? Research methods.- The fatalistic path of social scientific thinking.- Frame: The essence that remains despite all changes.- Epilogue.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Cross-Cultural Encounters in Modern and Premodern
Book SynopsisThis book presents an essential contribution to approaches in the studies of film, literature, performance, translation, and other art forms within the Chinese cultural tradition, examining East-West cultural exchange and providing related intertextual dialogue. The assessment of cultural exchange in the East-West context involves the original source, the adapted text, and other enigmatic extras incurred during the process. It aims to evaluate the linkage among, but not limited to, literature, film, music, art, and performance. The sections unpack how canonical texts can be read anew in modern society; how ideas can be circulated around the world based on translation, adaptation, and reinvention; and how the global networks of circulation can facilitate cultural interaction and intervention. The authors engage discussions on longstanding debates and controversies relating to Chinese literature as world literature; reconciliations of cultural identity under the contemporary waves of globalization and glocalization; Chinese-Western film adaptations and their impact upon cinematic experiences; an understanding of gendered roles and voices under the social gaze; and the translation of texts from intertextual angles. An enriching intellectual, intertextual resource for researchers and students enthusiastic about the adaptation and transformation process of different genres, this book is a must-have for Sinophiles. It will appeal to world historians interested in the global networks of connectivity, scholars researching cultural life in East Asia, and China specialists interested in cultural studies, translation, and film, media and literary studies.Table of ContentsPart 1: Reinvention of Tradition.- Chapter 1: Why must the Classics be “Confucian”? Some Reflections on Reading the “Confucian” Classics in the Contemporary World.- Chapter 2: A Strategic Universalism: An Interpretation of Chinese Cultural Conservatism through a Case Study of the Xueheng School.- Chapter 3: Yijing’s Evolution in Northern Europe: Gender Roles in the First Scandinavian Translations of the Book of Changes.- Part 2: Media and Mediation.- Chapter 4: The Prince is Going Astray in His Dream: Assonance or Dissonance in Adapting Shakespearean Plays to Cantonese Opera.- Chapter 5: Romantic Love, Self-Exaltation, and Social Rebellion: The Influence of Goethe’s Werther on Chinese Epistolary Novels in the 1920s and 1930s.- Chapter 6: At the Junction of Desire and Obligation: Analyzing Stefan Zweig’s Letter from an Unknown Woman and its Two Adaptations.- Chapter 7: Translating Western Girlhood: Laura M. White’s Chinese Translations of Sara Crewe (1888).- Part 3: Globality and Modernity.- Chapter 8: Approaching the Cultural Identity of Multimedia Performance in Taiwan – Launching from the Reflection on Confucian Notions of Qì.- Chapter 9: The East-West Interstices of Third Space: Charting Hong Kong as a Kaleidoscope of Heterotopic Narratives.- Chapter 10: Multidirectional Exchange: Mapping the Emergence of the Silk Road Idea as a Global Cultural Imaginary.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Interculturality Between East and West: Unthink,
Book SynopsisThis book urges readers to develop a radical capacity to unthink and rethink interculturality, through multiple, pluri-perspectival and honest dialogues between the authors, and their students. This book does not give interculturality a normative scaffolding but envisages it differently by identifying some of its polyphonic textures. China’s rich engagement with interculturality serves to support the importance of being curious about other ways of thinking about the notion beyond the ‘West’ only. As such, the issues of culture, identity, language, translation, intercultural competence and silent transformations (amongst others) are re-evaluated in a different light. This is a highly informative and carefully presented book, providing scientific insights for readers with an interest in interculturality.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- The idea of culture is worn out.- Language is not what we might think it is.- Facilitating interculturality by unthinking and rethinking our relation to language.- Translating is not treason.- Talking to each other about interculturality.- First steps towards interculturality.- Rethinking identity.- Listening to those who experience interculturality to learn about what it is and how to ‘do’ it.- Examining other ways of engaging with interculturality.- Silent transformations with China.- Debunking intercultural competence.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Journeys Towards Intercultural Capability in
Book SynopsisThis open access book presents an account of five teacher educators who, over a two-year period, undertook a research project with five teachers of languages other than English in pre-secondary schools in New Zealand. Their collaborative aim was to develop students’ intercultural capability in the context of learning a new language. The school participants were typical of many in New Zealand’s pre-secondary sector; the teachers had limited language-teaching experience and limited prior knowledge of how to develop the intercultural dimension in their language classrooms, and the students were largely at the beginning stages of learning a new language. The book discusses the findings obtained using a range of data collection methods, including classroom observations, reflective interviews with teachers, and focus groups with students. It documents instances of breakthrough and growth for teachers and students and reveals the problems and tensions. Lastly, it reflects on the lessons learned in the course of this project and speculates on the roles that teacher education needs to play if the goal of intercultural capability is to be better achieved in language classrooms, both in New Zealand and internationally. Of interest to a wide range of stakeholders in the area of education, the book allows readers to gain an understanding of the opportunities of working with teachers through an action–research model, alongside the challenges that this brings and ways in which intercultural capability may be strengthened.Table of ContentsBeginning the journeys towards intercultural capability.- Studies on the intercultural dimension across the globe.- The intercultural dimension in the New Zealand language teaching context.- Introducing the two-year study.- Journeys towards intercultural capability: The students’ voices.- Journeys towards intercultural capability: The teachers’ voices.- Journeys towards intercultural capability: The researchers’ voices.- Journeys towards intercultural capability: Retrospective reflections.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Studies on Tantra in Bengal and Eastern India
Book SynopsisThis book explores the tantric concept of Shakti, or the principal female cosmic entity and her pilgrimage sites. It offers a first-hand view of the multidimensional ways in which Shakti asserted its supremacy over existing Vaishnava and orthodox Brahmanical traditions in post mediaeval Bengal and India. The interdisciplinary chapters pave the way to understanding the intra-textual relationships between philosophical and conceptual ideas in literary texts and their oral transmission. Divided into three thematic sections: Cult Inclusiveness, Śakti Pithas, and the Śākta Philosophy, the book invites readers to explore a contested area of scholarship from unique perspectives, offering rich insights into the nature of negotiations between diverse religious streams. It also urges readers to examine the many innovative approaches and theoretical models on the goddess culture of East India. The book is of interest to students and scholars of religious textual studies, anthropology, pilgrimage studies, comparative religion, Sanskrit and Bengali languages, regional studies, South Asian cultures, goddess traditions and cultural history of mediaeval Bengal.Table of ContentsSection I: Cult Inclusiveness: Tantric Śākta and Vaiṣṇava Synthesis 1. The Making of Tāntric Rādhā: A Reading from the Śrī-Krṣṇayāmala Madhu Khanna 2. Prema and Śakti: VaiṣṇavaSahajiyā Appropriations of GauḍīyaVaiṣṇavism and Śāktism in the Ānandabhairava of Prema-dāsa Glen Hayes 3. Tantra from Below: Inclusivity, Secrecy and Non-Conceptual Yogas in the Bāul-Sahajiyā Traditions Kaustabh Das Section II: Śakti Pithas 4. Weaving the Body and the Cosmos: Yantric Homologies at a Goddess Temple in Northeastern India Frederique Appfel Marglin, Julia A. Jean 5. The Metamorphosis of the “Gāchh Tar Vālī ” and the Making of a Śakti-Pīṭha in Mithila (Pages: 27) Kamal Mishra 6. Power and Desire in the worship of the Goddess Kāmākhyā (Pages: 32) Brenda Dobia Section III: Śākta Philosophy 7. Gynocentric Cosmogony in the DevībhāgavataPurāṇa Arghya Dipta Kar 8. The Monistic Śākta Philosophy in the Guhyopaniṣad Sthaneshvar Timalsina
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Cultural Sustainability and Arts Education:
Book SynopsisThis book is based on the topics, questions and results of the international conference "Aesthetics of Transformation - Arts Education Research and the Challenge of Cultural Sustainability". It aims to foster and sharpen the understanding of the potential role of arts education and arts education research for cultural sustainability. In an ever more complex and interconnected world, culture is a valuable resource for sustainable development. Based on the thesis that the change towards sustainability has to be a change that starts with cultural practices of perception and knowledge, this book makes an important contribution to the broad discourse on cultural sustainability, which has begun to emerge in recent years.In this context, the volume first deals with Intangible Cultural Heritage and how aesthetic practices and certain forms of art are changing through cultural transformation processes. Subsequently, it focuses on issues such as arts and cultural education in times of neoliberalism, (post-)migration and post-coloniality as well as on arts and cultural education under conditions of digital transformation. These theoretical and empirical contributions are complemented by insights into field trips to institutions and exemplary places of practice, showing different representations of educational art practices, cultural heritage, and cultural sustainability. Against this background the book finally offers responses and commentaries that can form the starting point for a far reaching interactive dialogical process on the utmost importance of cultural, aesthetic and arts education as part of a global endeavor for sustainable development.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Intangible Cultural Heritage: A challenge to aesthetic and cultural education.- Part I Research.- Arts and Digital Technology: Exploring responses in times of change.- Making Creative and Entrepreneurial Selves in Education: The governing of life in contemporary times.- Storying [post]qualitative inquiries, methods and pedagogies in/for/as arts based educational research.- Critical Incidents as a Participatory Research Approach for Transformative Cultural Practices.- Transcultural Aesthetic Practices in the Classroom: Sounds, spaces, bodies.- Transformation of traditional arts forms in the evolving contexts: Cantonese opera in Hong Kong as an example.- The transformation of the popular song as a tool for arts education and sustainability.- Part II Practices.- Arts and cultural practices for social transformation towards a sustainable peace building.- Culture and sustainability in situations of conflict: Artistic practices in West Africa.- Let's chat.- Arts education and decolonization: Challenges and opportunities for cultural sustainability in the context of migration.- The transformation of museum exhibitions in the era of digital objects.- Museum and arts education: Interchange as practice in digital spaces.- Post-internet-art.- Part III Questions and Challenges.- Aesthetics of transformation: Questions to ask, Ideas to contemplate.- The Seoul agenda: A commentary.- Aesthetics, culture and transformation: An arts education perspective.- The autonomy of arts education: Perspectives of the council of cultural education.- Whose voices, bodies, objects and artefacts are we teaching, sustaining, learning of, asking students to practice in?.- The influence of neoliberalism on arts education.- Part IV Exploring transformations: Field trips.- Cultural education between processes of tradition and transformation: A theoretical introduction to the field-trip section.- From institution to subculture and back: A field trop to Komm/K4/Kunstlerhaus Nuremberg.- Commemorative culture in the age of globalization and (post-)migration?!.- Museum education in times of flight and (post)migration.- Field trip to the ;Villa Leon' and the children's museum.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Typology of Asian Societies: Bottom-Up
Book SynopsisThis book is about generating types of societies by the degree of individuals’ satisfaction with life domains, aspects, and styles via factor analysis. It adopts an evidence-based approach in typologizing and a bottom-up rather than a top-down perspective. Thus, the book’s position is against Hegel (freedom for one person), Marx (the Asiatic mode of production), Weber (Protestant ethics and the spirit of capitalism), Wittfogel (Asiatic autocracy), and Rostow (Western-led modernization). These classical and modern authors tend to see Asian societies with somewhat fixated eyes and categorize Asian societies in a top-down manner.When random-sampled respondents are questioned about their satisfaction with daily life in terms of life domains, aspects, and styles, public policy and institutions as well as survival and social relations are inevitably touched upon—the latter two being the key dimensions common to the World Values Survey and other cultural surveys. This book proposes a new mode of typologizing societies, Asian or non-Asian, not immediately familiar to human geographers, cultural anthropologists, or sociologists, but revealing many complex unknowns with the easy-to-learn typologizing method.Table of ContentsThe Need for a Bottom-Up Perspective about Asian Societies.- The Need for an Evidence-Based Approach to Asian Societies.- Two Methodological Issues.- Attending Holistically and Analytically.- Are Asian Societies One Type.- Choosing Indicators and Typologizing of Societies.- Factor Analysis Results.- Twenty-Nine Types of Asian Societies.- Strength and Weakness of the Proposed Typology.- Corroborative Analysis and Empirical Validation.- Conclusion.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Managing Disruption and Developing Resilience for a Better Southeast Asia
Book SynopsisThis open access book, stemming from the biennial Consortium for Southeast Asian Studies in Asia conference, confronts numerous contemporary issues in the Southeast Asia region, under the banner of the 2022 theme Managing Disruption, Developing Resilience for a Better Southeast Asia. Providing a platform for discussion and collaboration in the fields of sociology, education, population studies, cultural studies, public health, international relations, and other humanities and social science disciplines, the range of interdisciplinary chapters focus their critical analyses vis-à-vis the interpellation of economic, social, historical, artistic, cultural, religious, and political viewpoints. Organized into three sections, the first looks at new models of economic development, the challenges to education quality, the labor market in the digital era, and the demographic changes and critical issues facing both the young and elderly in the region. The second examines disasters as a future challenge for risk management, understandings of contemporary society and culture, the digital humanities, social development in the time of COVID-19, and identities in relation to religion, minorities, and social harmony. The final section addresses diaspora, migration, the region in the pandemic, citizenship and human security, democracy, and human rights, as well as foreign policy, diplomacy, and state sovereignty in Southeast Asia. As ASEAN comes of age, there has never been a more compelling need to provide region-based perspectives to complement the deepening economic, social, and cultural integration in the region. For scholars working on Southeast Asia, area matters in geopolitical, economic, intellectual, institutional, social, cultural, and affective terms, and so this book transports the study of Southeast Asia from the periphery to the center, so as to enable scholars who live in and research the region to bring their research to a global readership. Relevant to scholars, public intellectuals, policy-makers, and activists working in all areas of the social sciences and humanities, this comprehensive book presents the very latest research on, and from, Southeast Asia.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore An Inquiry into Women Representation in
Book SynopsisRecognizing that women managers are facing barriers in achieving top level of management positions in industries, it adopts unique methodology of involving men and women managers as respondents to understand the key issues of gender diversity, glass ceiling, glass walls, glass cliffs, and gender inequality in the Indian corporate scenario.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Application of Ergonomics in Handicraft: A
Book SynopsisThis book is about the application of ergonomics in handicraft manufacturing and design keeping in mind the two sets of users, craftsmen and customers buying handicraft items. Written in an easy to understand language and in a story telling format. It requires no prior knowledge of the subject nor any knowledge of science or technology for using this book and applying it in handicraft manufacturing and design. The book starts with an overview of the application of ergonomics in different aspects of craft manufacturing, touching upon tools, space, process and then moves into the aspects of ergonomics of craft packaging and displaying. Alongside the book also explains the ergonomic aspects of designing of handicraft products keeping the users of the products in mind, their dimensions, capacity, limitations etc. Each chapter starts with an "overview" and ends with "key points" and exercises to help the readers in applying the principles of ergonomics in handicraft. The last chapter is dedicated to exercises in different areas of handicraft and the ergonomic applications for them, followed by ergonomic design directions to solve them.Table of ContentsCraft The Bigger And Smaller Picture.- Traditional Ways Of Working With Hand Tools.- Dimensions and The Craft Workspace.- The Context of Craft Ergonomics.- Application of Ergonomics In Different Craft Products.- Exercises in Craft Ergonomics With Ergonomic Design Directions.
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The Chinese University Press Translation and Modernization in East Asia in the
Book SynopsisThe present volume is a collection of selected papers of the international conference on Translation and Modernization in East Asia in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries, organised by the Research Centre for Translation (RCT), The Chinese University of Hong Kong in May 2013. The conference aimed at studying the role played by translation in the modernisation process of the East Asian countries. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, many people saw the West as a model for modernisation and hence modernisation in East Asia was more often than not taken as a process of learning from or even imitating the West. In this process, translation played a crucial role, when efforts were made to import Western ideas, knowledge, concepts and practices. The articles in this volume study and explain the various translation phenomena in the modernisation process of China, Korea and Japan.
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NUS Press Javanese Performances on an Indonesian Stage:
Book SynopsisDuring the dramatic economic and social transformation of late twentieth-century Indonesia, theatre performances in Central Java featured a familiar cast of rulers, nobles, clown servants and ordinary people. However, these presentations were not a repetition of age-old cultural 'traditions'. Instead, by stretching the framework of Javanese theatrical convention, theatre troupes challenged dominant cultural and political values. As political pressures intensified in the final months of the New Order regime, their witty, critical performances drew enthusiastic, oppositionist crowds.The dismantling of repressive state control after the fall of Suharto in 1998 diminished interest in political critiques from the stage, and growing economic weakness caused patronage and sponsorship to dry up. By 2003-04, however, a revival was underway as performers engaged with the politics of regional autonomy and democratisation, and actors responded to the devastating Yogyakarta earthquake of 2006 by staging shows in the worst-affected areas to help sustain community spirit and pride in local culture.Barbara Hatley's account of more than thirty years of theatre activities and social change shows how performers and audiences have adapted, resisted, incorporated and survived. As Indonesian society evolves, Javanese performances continue to engage with ever-changing social contexts, expressing the dynamic resilience and sense of identity of those who stage and watch them.
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