Cultural studies Books
Liverpool University Press Moving Verses: Poetry on Screen in Argentine
Book SynopsisFrom Wild Tales to Zama, Argentine cinema has produced some of the most visually striking and critically lauded films of the 2000s. Argentina also boasts some of the most exciting contemporary poetry in the Spanish language. What happens when its film and poetry meet on screen? Moving Verses studies the relationship between poetry and cinema in Argentina. Although both the “poetics of cinema” and literary adaptation have become established areas of film scholarship in recent years, the diverse modes of exchange between poetry and cinema have received little critical attention. The book analyses how film and poetry transform each another, and how these two expressive media behave when placed into dialogue. Going beyond theories of adaptation, and engaging critically with concepts around intermediality and interdisciplinarity, Moving Verses offers tools and methods for studying both experimental and mainstream film from Latin America and beyond. The corpus includes some of Argentina’s most exciting and radical contemporary directors (Raúl Perrone, Gustavo Fontán) as well as established modern masters (María Luisa Bemberg, Eliseo Subiela), and seldom studied experimental projects (Narcisa Hirsch, Claudio Caldini). The critical approach draws on recent works on intermediality and “impure” cinema to sketch and assess the many and varied ways in which directors “read” poetry on screen.Trade Review‘Moving Verses: Poetry on Screen in Argentine Cinema breaks new ground in a relatively little-studied interdiscipline sitting at the nexus of poetry and film. It sheds significant light on the many pathways by which the two genres of practice intersect, with particular attention paid to what poetry affords to film.’ Rebecca Kosick, University of Bristol‘This is a thoroughly researched and original work, which presents detailed and persuasive studies of films that have not previously received sufficient attention from scholars. Through its rigorous focus on encounters between poetry and film, Bollig’s book makes a significant contribution to debates on intermediality and experimental cinema both in Latin America and elsewhere.’ Paul Merchant, University of Bristol‘Moving Verses is a thoughtful reflection on the interplay between film and poetry... an excellent read for anyone interested in Argentine cinema and poetry, experimental cinema, and more broadly, in the question of intermediality as it applies to film.’ Eduardo Ledesma, Bulletin of Spanish Studies‘Moving Verses is an excellent and original contribution to the study of cinema and the Argentine poetry of the last fifty years that also offers hermeneutic and methodological tools to those interested in exploring issues of intermediality in Latin America and beyond.’ Ignacio Aguiló, Hispanic Research Journal‘A highlight is Bollig’s discussion of Santiago Loza’s Rosa Patria on the heterodox life and work of Néstor Perlongher, who fiercely resisted identitary and gender/genre categorization… Bollig’s overarching argument, as well as his careful close readings of films, makes for a compelling and much-needed contribution to the field of intermedial studies.’ Erin Graff Zivin, Modern Language ReviewTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsThanks and AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter OneExperimental Cinema as Poetic Cinema. The “Grupo Goethe” and the Films of Hirsch and CaldinChapter TwoEliseo Subiela’s Dark Sides of the Heart: Poetry and Performance in “Old Argentine Cinema.”Chapter ThreeRegarding the Lives of Poets. On Biopics and Poetic DocumentariesChapter FourPoetry-Value-Film in the Cinema of Raúl PerroneChapter FiveEyes Already Open: Gustavo Fontán’s El limonero real and La deudaChapter SixThe Poet as Screenwriter: Landscape and Protagonism in Papu Curotto’s EsterosConclusionIntermediality and the Screening of DifferenceFilmographyBibliographyIndex
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Liverpool University Press Mother’s Milk and Male Fantasy in
Book SynopsisShould all mothers breast-feed their children? This question remains controversial in the twenty-first century. In an interview with the newspaper Liberation in 2010, feminist philosopher Elisabeth Badinter claimed that the pressure to breast-feed signified “a reduction of woman to the status of an animal species, as though we were all female chimpanzees.”The debate over maternal nursing held even more urgency before pasteurization provided a safe alternative in the early 1900s. While scholars of literary criticism and art history have described the abundance of breast-feeding imagery following the publication of Rousseau’s Emile in 1762, little has been written on its manifestations in the nineteenth century. Despite an ongoing propaganda campaign to encourage mothers to nurse, reflected in such diverse sources as medical theses, paintings, and fictional cautionary tales, French mothers continued to entrust their infants to wet nurses more often and for longer than was the norm in other European countries throughout the nineteenth century and well into the twentieth.This book examines representations of breast-feeding in French literature and culture from 1800 to 1900 and their apparent dissonance with the socio-historical realities of French mothers.Trade Review“This book guides us through a century of political propaganda, erotic fantasies, patriotism, and misogyny underpinning the depictions of the maternal breast and lactating mothers in French cultural productions from Chateaubriand to Zola.”Sayeeda H. Mamoon, Edgewood CollegeTable of ContentsACKNOWLEDGEMENTSINTRODUCTIONCHAPTER I: Nursing Mothers in Eighteenth-Century France: The Personal is PoliticalCHAPTER II: The Absence of the Breast in the Tale of the Romantic HeroCHAPTER III: Realism, Naturalism, and the Eroticization of Breast-FeedingCHAPTER IV: Breast-Feeding, Literature and Politics in the Third RepublicCONCLUSION
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Liverpool University Press Lamalif: A Critical Anthology of Societal Debates
Book SynopsisThe LAMALIF anthology presents a wide variety of articles from LAMALIF, Morocco’s longest-serving Francophone journal. Active between 1966 and 1988, LAMALIF covered the most critical periods of Moroccan history and engaged in crucial debates about democratization, feminism, culture, education, Third World relations, and decolonization. However, LAMALIF was not just a journal; it was a real school, where Morocco’s, North Africa’s, and the developing world’s emerging and established writers, artists, and thinkers found a space to disseminate their ideas and address readerships across different cultures and geographical areas in French. This anthology is the first comprehensive translation into English of a wide selection of LAMALIF’s articles covering literary and art criticism as well as critical theory, feminism, Islam, and emigration. In addition to making available to Anglophone readerships articles about transnational solidarities and connections between North Africa and the rest of the world, LAMALIF anthology historicizes this sociocultural and political project within the painful period of authoritarianism in Morocco and reveals how culture worked as a trenchant weapon in the struggle against repression and silence.Trade ReviewBrahim El Guabli and Ali Alalou… emphasise the significance of this two-volume anthology as a crucial archival source for understanding Morocco's Years of Lead.... The act of translation of these voices of sociopolitical opposition emerges as an act of memory in the age of post-Arab Uprisings... It is therefore an invaluable source not only for historical and historiographical insight, but also for cultural and sociological analysis.' Aomar Boum, The Journal of North African StudiesTable of ContentsList of FiguresIntroductionPart I: Feminism and Gender StudiesAdelmounaim Dyalmi: A Moroccan Fqīh and the Rights of Women in the Sixteenth CenturyTranslated by Kai KenrieckeThérèse Benjelloun: Cultural Contradictions of Maghrebi WomenTranslated by Steve FleckFatima Mernissi: A Future without Women?Translated by Naima HachadA. Cherkaoui: No Future without WomenTranslated by Lucy McNairFatima Mernissi: No Future without DialogueTranslated by Lucy McNairSouad Filal et Fadela Kanouni: The Hidden Labor of WomenTranslated by Lucy McNairFatima Mernissi: Democratic Technology and the Feminine FutureTranslated by Lucy McNairFattouma Benabdenbi et Souad Filal: Inquiry: Moroccan Women’s Quest for IdentityTranslated by Habiba BoumlikGhita el Khayat: Women Bound by Tradition: Evolving Medical and Psychological Aspects of Women’s Work in MoroccoTranslated by Naima HachadPart II: Morocco, Africa, Maghreb, MediterraneanKhalil Zniber: The OAU and MoroccoTranslated by Paraska Tolan SzkilnikNadir Yata: Morocco between African Hopes and Arab DisillusionsTranslated by Paraska Tolan-SzkilnikLamalif editors: The OAU Festival: A Celebration of Cultural LiberationTranslated by Paraska Tolan SzkilnikBen Messaoud: OAU: The Day after the FestivalTranslated by Paraska Tolan SzkilnikMohamed Bennouna: A Ready-Made MaghrebTranslated by Edwige Tamalet TalbayevZakya Daoud: Three Reasons for a Possible MaghrebTranslated by Edwige Tamalet TalbayevAhmed Zrikah: Challenges to Maghrebi Unity: Underlying CausesTranslated by Jill JarvisZakya Daoud: Maghreb: From Utopia to Bitter RealitiesTranslated by Edwige Tamalet TalbayevAhmed Zrikah: On the Limitations of Different Attempts to Unify the MaghrebTranslated by Jill JarvisBrahim Boutaleb: Morocco and the MediterraneanTranslated by Edwige Tamalet TalbayevAnouar Abdel-Malek: The Mediterranean at the Heart of the New Balance of Global PowerTranslated by Edwige Tamalet TalbayevPart III: Immigration: The Maghreb in FranceAhmed Lamghili: Investigation: The Moroccan Worker Population in FranceTranslated by Laura ReeckFarida Moha; Immigration: The “Beur” MarchTranslated by Laura ReeckGeorges Lapassade: Rockin’ Babouches: The New Culture of “Second-Generation” Maghrebis in FranceTranslated by Laura ReeckZakya Daoud: Immigrants: They Won’t Go BackTranslated by Laura ReeckMohamed Salaheddine: Immigrants in France: Jeha’s NailsTranslated by Laura ReeckMohamed Tozy: The Suburbs of IslamTranslated by Rebecca E. Monger
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Liverpool University Press Transnational East Asian Studies
Book SynopsisTransnational East Asian Studies demonstrates how transnationalism as a mode of intellectual enquiry has wide-ranging interdisciplinary potential and has immense value when examining the past, just as much as much as when examining the present. Artificially erected borders, which appear on maps and globes, fail to consider the ways people in diverse regions live and practice their everyday lives, existing beyond boundaries. The people of East Asia have always been on the move, they have never been homogeneous, and have evolved together, not apart. In this sense, people around the globe and also in East Asia have always been involved in a process of change and transformation. Hence, transnationalism is a way to overcome methodological nationalism, not only as a concept of identity and spatiality, but also as a concept temporally situated in the modern, because as a methodology, transnationalism does not take the national as a precondition. It allows us to move beyond and across borders, and to examine how ideas have been used and transformed in different contexts. This book thus underscores the complex interactions in the context of East Asia, past and present, while shaping the future of this complicated region.Table of ContentsIntroductionKevin N. CAWLEY and Julia C. SCHNEIDERPART ONE. CULTURES CROSSING BORDERSChapter 1. Confucianism and Becoming-in-the-World: A Transnational Modus VivendiKevin N. CAWLEYChapter 2. Diffusion and Transnationalism: Emplantation and the Crossing of Cultural BoundariesJames H. GRAYSONChapter 3. The Battle of Red Cliffs: From History to Transnational IdentityCarlotta SPARVOLIChapter 4: Translation beyond the Written Word: The Transnational Spread of The Journey to the West in East AsiaBarbara WALLPART TWO. NATION, EMPIRE AND BEYONDChapter 5. Postcolonial Theory in East Asian Studies: The Case of the Qing EmpireJulia C. SCHNEIDERChapter 6. Multilingualism as a Tool of Resistance Against Homogenising National Narratives: South Korean Female Subjectivities and Colonial Memory in Pak Sunnyŏ’s Ai rŏbŭ yu (I Love You, 1962)Nadeschda BACHEMChapter 7. Conjuring a Battling China: Willi Münzenberg and his International Popular FrontLei QINChapter 8. Fanxiang Toupiao 返鄉投票: Migrating Political Cleavages and Transnational Electoral Mobilisation in Vienna’s Taiwanese CommunityJulia MARINACCIOPART THREE. TRANSNATIONALISM IN POPULAR CULTURESChapter 9. Return Ticket to Pyongyang: Transnational Aspects in the Work of Film Maker Yang Yong-hiTill WEINGÄRTNERChapter 10. Re-Presenting Sino-Japanese relations through Flavors of YouthJamie COATES and Jennifer COATESChapter 11. Translation /Transplantation of Queer in South KoreaAllan SIMPSONChapter 12. A Transnational Approach in Understanding Japanese Colonial Influence in Taiwan: Manifestations in Taiwan’s Cinema and Popular MusicYu-Wen CHENPART FOUR. TRANSNATIONALISM IN GLOBAL EAST ASIAChapter 13. A Gateway to Exciting Opportunities? The Lives of African Migrants inside and outside Taiwan’s University CampusesSarah HANISCHChapter 14. Transnationalism and the Medical Cooperation in Family Planning in East Asia (1950s-70s)Aya HOMEIChapter 15. From Liberation to the Great Leap Forward: Ethnic Koreans and Assimilation in Northeast China, 1945-1962Adam CATHCARTChapter 16. The New Challenges of Transnational Security in Twenty-first Century East Asia: The Case of North KoreaMarco MILANI
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Liverpool University Press Postcolonial Realms of Memory: Sites and Symbols
Book SynopsisRecognized as one of the most influential studies of memory in the late twentieth century, Pierre Nora’s monumental project Les Lieux de mémoire has been celebrated for its elaboration of a ground-breaking paradigm for rethinking the relationship between the nation, territory, history and memory. It has also, however, been criticized for implying a narrow perception of national memory from which the legacy of colonialism was excluded. Driven by an increasingly critical postcolonial discourse on French historiography and fuelled by the will to acknowledge the relevance of the colonial in the making of modern and contemporary France, the present volume intends to address in a collective and sustained manner this critical gap by postcolonializing the French Republic’s lieux de mémoire. The various chapters discern and explore an initial repertoire of realms and sites in France and the so-called Outremer that crystalize traces of colonial memory, while highlighting its inherent dialectical relationship with firmly instituted national memory. By making visible the invisible thread that links the colonial to various manifestations of French heritage, the objective is to bring to the fore the need to anchor the colonial in a collective memory that has often silenced it, and to foster new readings of the past as it is represented, remembered and inscribed in the nation’s collective imaginary.Trade ReviewReviews'Written by recognized experts across a rich inter-disciplinary field, this is a hugely impressive survey of the problematic of postcolonial memory in both mainland France and les Outre-mer.'Alec G Hargreaves, Florida State University'This is an important and informative volume which will be a very useful addition to Francophone postcolonial studies.'Bill Marshall, University of Stirling‘An elegant yet accessible work, Postcolonial Realms of Memory not only exposes the colonial blind spot that left Pierre Nora’s Lieux de mémoire incomplete, but begins the long task of remedying it. This is a crucial intervention that the field has required for some time.’ Gemma King, Contemporary French Civilization'Postcolonial Realms of Memory is a rich, most welcome contribution to the debate. Three dozen short articles, preceded by a thoughtful introduction, present a series of fascinating reflections and additions to Pierra Nora’s [lieux-de-mémoire] project. [...] The editors have done a good job of selecting an intriguing set of lieux de mémoire and inviting imaginative authors to write about them.'Gert Oostindie, BRILL Table of ContentsIntroduction: Postcolonizing lieux de mémoireInstitutionsArchives (Oana Panaïté)L’École républicaine (Leon Sachs)La Sorbonne (Ruth Bush)The Clamart Salon (T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting)Literary Prestige (Claire Ducournau)TerritoryRegions/Province (Kate Marsh)Borders (Michael Gott)Banlieues (Hervé Tchumkam)17 October 1961(Michel Laronde)Marseille (Kathryn Kleppinger)The Mediterranean (Kathryn Kleppinger)MonumentsFort de Joux (Cilas Kemedjio)La Case créole (Julia Waters)Memorials and Museums (Robert Aldrich)Memorials in the Caribbean (Anny Dominique Curtius)The Memorial ACTe (Fabienne Viala)The Abolition of Slavery (Sophia Khadraoui-Fortune)Musée National de l’Histoire de l’Immigration (Patrick Crowley)Displacement/MobilityLe Bagne (Charles Forsdick)Rivesaltes (Susan Ireland)Ouvéa (Pim Higginson)BUMIDOM (H. Adlai Murdoch)Les Sans-papiers (Dominic Thomas)BodiesColonial Exhibitions (Nicolas Bancel and Pascal Blanchard)Les Tirailleurs sénégalais (David Murphy)Colonial heroes (Berny Sèbe)Jeanne Duval (Mireille Rosello)Women’s Rights (Françoise Vergès)Words and ImagesFrench Language (Cécile Van den Avenne)Anti-Colonialism (David Murphy)Children’s Literature (Philip Dine)Post and the Postage Stamp (David Scott)Colonial Photography (Xavier Guégan)The EverydayVine and Wine (Jacqueline Dutton)Couscous (Sylvie Durmelat)Toys (Elizabeth Heath)Bande dessinée (Mark McKinney)Sport (Philip Dine)
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Liverpool University Press Revisioning French Culture
Book SynopsisRevisioning French Culture brings together a remarkable group of leading intellectuals and scholars to explore new avenues of research in French and Francophone Studies. Covering the medieval period through the twenty-first century, this volume presents investigations into a vast array of subjects. Revisioning French Culture grapples with topics vital to the contemporary cultural landscape, including universalism, globalization, the idea of Francophonie, and religious and secular identity. This essay collection furthermore transcends and illuminates the contemporary by delving into matters that have long resonated in the humanities and letters, such as death, war, trauma, power and politics, notions of the truth, conceptions of the self, and modes of reading and writing. With contributions by a number of figures known across the humanities and the social sciences, Revisioning French Culture provides cultural, political, and historical context for the crisis facing democracy and liberalism around the world today. These essays were assembled in honor of Lawrence D. Kritzman, whose writing and editorial work in French studies inspired the wide-ranging themes examined here.Table of ContentsAndrew Sobanet, IntroductionI. France in Perspective: The Hexagon, Francophonie, EuropePierre Nora, The MetamorphosisMaurice Samuels, Historicizing French Universalism: The Case of Jewish EmancipationFrançoise Lionnet, Universalisms and FrancophoniesJulia Kristeva, A European Culture ExistsII. Visions of the World Wars, or L’Histoire avec sa grande hachePeter Brooks, Death Drives: Freud and ProustSusan Rubin Suleiman, Foreigners and Strangers: Jews in French Society and Literature between the Two World WarsGerald Prince, Bernard Frank and Patrick Modiano: Jewish WritersBarbara Will, Beckett’s French ResistanceIII. Refractions and ReflectionsNelly Furman, Between Acceptance and Betrayal: Sarah Kofman’s Rue Ordener, rue LabatRoxana Verona, In the Shadow of the Iron Curtain: The Photo Album and the Francophone (Dis)connectionHélène Cixous, Osnabrück Station to JerusalemIV. French Literature, RevisionedR. Howard Bloch, Mallarmé MédiévalStephen G. Nichols, What’s in a Word?: Language, Philosophy and Satire in Troubadour PoetryPierre Saint-Amand, Rousseau’s Late Botany: Living to the EndAlbert Sonnenfeld, Mallarmé's Gardens of Culinary DelightsWarren Motte, The Book, Inside and OutV. The Subject in FocusGeorges Vigarello, Internal Senses and the History of the Western SubjectFrançois Noudelmann, The Author's Afterlife: What is a Posthumous Truth?J. Hillis Miller, What Happens When I ReadVI. Philosophical LensesSouleymane Bachir Diagne, ‘African Philosophy’: The History of an ExpressionFrançois Hartog, Making History or Preventing the World from Destroying ItselfEtienne Balibar, Philosophy and Contemporary Reality: Beyond the Event?Brian J. Reilly, Jacques Derrida’s Pedagogical Imperative for the SciencesVII. CodaPierre NoraJulia Kristeva
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Liverpool University Press Revisionary Narratives: Moroccan Women’s
Book SynopsisRevisionary Narratives examines the historical and formal evolutions of Moroccan women’s auto/biography in the last four decades, particularly its conflation with testimony and its expansion beyond literary texts. The book analyzes life narratives in Arabic, colloquial Moroccan Darija, French, and English in the fields of prison narratives, visual arts, theater, and digital media. The various case studies highlight narrative strategies women use to relate their experiences of political violence, migration, displacement, and globalization, while engaging patriarchal and (neo)imperial norms and practices. Using a transdisciplinary interpretative lens, the analyses focus on how women authors, artists, and activists collapse the boundaries between autobiography, biography, testimony, and sociopolitical commentary to revise dominant conventions of authorship, transgress oppressive definitions of gender roles and relations, and envision change.Revisionary Narratives marks auto/biography and testimony as a specific field of inquiry within the study of women’s postcolonial cultural productions in the Moroccan and, more broadly, the Maghrebi and Middle Eastern contexts.Trade ReviewReviews‘This work presents an original study and critique of current cultural production by Moroccan women as a response to the repressive Years of Lead …The qualities of the work are exceptional and it will add a dimension to the studies on Moroccan women’s cultural production that has not been addressed before.'Valérie K. Orlando, University of Maryland'This book's central focus on auto/biography and testimony in works of cultural production by women of Morocco makes a valuable contribution to recent scholarship in life writing/life narratives critically departing from the mostly male-centred repertoire of the sovereign subject. By including photographic and accompanying artistic practices, Hachad extends the field of auto/biographical studies beyond the preoccupation with writing.'Norman Saadi Nikro, University of PotsdamTable of ContentsIntroduction: Moroccan Women’s Auto/biographical and Testimonial Acts in ContextChapter 1: The Rise of a Feminist Consciousness in Saïda Menebhi’s Prison WritingsChapter 2: (Re)writing the Woman Resister: Violence, Gender, and Legitimacy in Fatna El Bouih and Malika Oufkir’s TestimoniesChapter 3: Speaking for the Voiceless: Political and Ethical Considerations of Moroccan Women’s ‘Collective Testimonial Self’Chapter 4: Visual, Cultural, and Geopolitical Thresholds in Lalla Essaydi’s Depiction of Moroccan WomenChapter 5: Carolle Bénitah’s Photo-Embroidery: Remembering, Reframing, Disfiguring, and Embellishing the PastChapter 6: Modes of Feminine Resistance and Testimony in the Wake of the Mudawana reform and the Arab Uprisings: Contemporary Discourses of Contestation in Naïma Zitan’s play Daily and Fedwa Misk’s Webzine QandishaConclusion: The Future of Moroccan Women’s Auto/biography and TestimonyBibliography
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Liverpool University Press The Marais: The Story of a Quartier
Book SynopsisA cultural history of one of Paris’s most fascinating and variegated areas, whose history can be summarized as ‘from riches to rags and back again.’ The Marais was the beating heart of fashionable Paris from the Middle Ages through to the time of Louis XIV, when the court’s move to Versailles marked the start of a decline in its fortunes. Thereafter it became a working-class, largely Jewish area, sometimes described as a ‘ghetto’, and by the early twentieth century was in a parlous condition from which it was extricated by the Paris City Council and the 1960s restoration plan of André Malraux (which did not go without criticism and opposition). Its most recent avatar has been as the best-known gay quartier of the capital, though again this identity has not been a straightforward or always easily-accepted one. The stress throughout will be on representations – literary, cinematic, autobiographical, photographic and in graphic-novel form – as much as if not more than the unfolding of historical events.Trade Review'This book offers a rich and stimulating cultural topography of the Marais quarter of Paris, from the Middle Ages to the present day. The author nimbly synthesizes a wide range of historical research on the quarter. This in turn furnishes the context for the more original dimension of the project: the close reading of the ways in which the Marais figures in a range of cultural representations.'Douglas Smith, University College DublinTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter One’The poor and the well-to-do lived side by side in the same street’ : The Marais before the French RevolutionChapter Two ‘Grass grows, a passer-by is an event, and everybody knows everybody else’: the Revolutionary and Post-Revolutionary PeriodChapter Three‘This is why the Jews had their ghetto there’ : the Marais in the pre-Second War twentieth centuryChapter Four‘The Occupation robbed them of their childhood, their adolescence’: the Marais in the war years and the Fourth RepublicChapter Five‘The inhabitants are taken into account’ (?): the conservation of the MaraisChapter Six‘A different kind of ghetto’ : the gay Marais comes to dominate its Jewish predecessor
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Emerald Publishing Limited Greece in the 1940s
Book SynopsisThis edited volume brings together academics, researchers, and practitioners to investigate historical continuities and discontinuities in the public discourse and the creation of diverse sets of opinions around conflict in Greece and internationally.
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Liverpool University Press Habits of Distraction
Book SynopsisStarting with Walter Benjamin's idea of 'reception in a state of distraction' and looking briefly at some antecedents for Benjamin's thinking, this book develops a working model of distraction in interpretation. Examples are taken from film (Benjamin's test case), literature, music, painting and photography; the book closes with a 'distracted' reading of a classic work of concentration: Milton's Paradise Lost.
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Liverpool University Press Habits of Distraction
Book SynopsisStarting with Walter Benjamin's idea of 'reception in a state of distraction' and looking briefly at some antecedents for Benjamin's thinking, this book develops a working model of distraction in interpretation. Examples are taken from film (Benjamin's test case), literature, music, painting and photography; the book closes with a 'distracted' reading of a classic work of concentration: Milton's Paradise Lost.
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Liverpool University Press Caribbean Critique: Antillean Critical Theory
Book SynopsisCaribbean Critique seeks to define and analyze the distinctive contribution of francophone Caribbean thinkers to perimetric Critical Theory. The book argues that their singular project has been to forge a brand of critique that, while borrowing from North Atlantic predecessors such as Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, and Sartre, was from the start indelibly marked by the Middle Passage, slavery, and colonialism. Chapters and sections address figures such as Toussaint Louverture, Baron de Vastey, Victor Schoelcher, Aimé Césaire, René Ménil, Frantz Fanon, Maryse Condé, and Edouard Glissant, while an extensive theoretical introduction defines the essential parameters of 'Caribbean Critique.'Trade Review'This is a very important and exciting book. Extending to the whole of the French Caribbean his previous work on the philosophical bases of the Haitian Revolution, Nesbitt has produced the first ever account of the region’s writing from a consistently philosophical, as distinct from literary or historical, standpoint.' Celia Britton'… the book fills an important gap in francophone Caribbean studies, which has always had a strong theoretical component but, arguably, has not previously been subject to such a rigorously philosophical critical treatment. … latest study will prove to be a landmark, indeed seminal, work in Caribbean Critique.' French Studies'Nesbitt’s book may be read as a survey, it also offers extremely succinct, complex, and compelling new perspectives on polemical issues that inhabit our work as professors, pedagogues, and intellectuals today…' Contemporary French Civilization'Nesbitt has made an important and highly original contribution to such debates.'New West Indian Guide Reviews 'A prodigiously researched and compelling conceptualisation of francophone Caribbean critical thought.' Gabriella Rodriguez, SX SalonTable of Contents Acknowledgements Preface Introduction: The Caribbean Critical Imperative I. Tropical Equality: The Politics of Principle . 1 Foundations of Caribbean Critique: From Jacobinism to Black Jacobinism . 2 Victor Schoelcher, Tocqueville, and the Abolition of Slavery . 3 Aimé Césaire and the Logic of Decolonization . 4 ‘Stepping Outside the Magic Circle’: The Critical Thought of Maryse Condé . 5 Édouard Glissant: From the Destitution of the Political to Antillean Ultra-leftism II. Critique of Caribbean Violence . 6 Jacobinism, Black Jacobinism, and the Foundations of Political Violence . 7 The Baron de Vastey and the Contradictions of Scribal Critique . 8 Revolutionary Inhumanism: Fanon’s On Violence . 9 Aristide and the Politics of Democratization III. Critique of Caribbean Relation . 10 Édouard Glissant: From the Poétique de la relation to the Transcendental Analytic of Relation . 11 Césaire and Sartre: Totalization, Relation, Responsibility . 12 Militant Universality: Absolutely Postcolonial . Conclusion: Aimé Césaire: The Incandescent I, Destroyer of Worlds Appendix: Letter of Jean-François, Belair, and Biassou/ Toussaint, July 1792 Notes Bibliography Index
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Free Association Books Vision and Separation: Between Mother and Baby
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SPCK Publishing Guide to Contemporary Culture
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Reaktion Books Cairo: City of Sand
Book SynopsisCairo is a 1,400-year-old metropolis whose streets are inscribed with sagas, a place where the pressures of life test people's equanimity to the very limit. Virtually surrounded by desert, sixteen million Cairenes cling to the Nile and each other, proximities that colour and shape lives. Packed with incident and anecdote "Cairo: City of Sand" describes the city's given circumstances and people's attitudes of response. Apart from a brisk historical overview, this book focuses on the present moment of one of the world's most illustrious and irreducible cities. Cairo steps inside the interactions between Cairenes, examining the roles of family, tradition and bureaucracy in everyday life. The book explores Cairo's relationship with its 'others', from the French and British occupations to modern influences like tourism and consumerism. "Cairo" also discusses characteristic styles of communication, and linguistic memes, including slang, grandiloquence, curses and jokes. Cairo exists by virtue of these interactions, synergies of necessity, creativity and the presence or absence of power. "Cairo: City of Sand" reveals a peerless balancing act, and transmits the city's overriding message: the breadth of the human capacity for loss, astonishment and delight.Trade Reviewa magnificent, multidimensional, eloquent and, above all, intelligent portrait of one of the world's most enigmatic places. Sunday Times packed full of observations of enduring worth ... She writes with wit, immediacy, intimacy and humor. Times Literary Supplement I was half way through Golia's book when the enormity of the challenges faced by the ordinary Cairene ... struck me, a Cairene, full force. Al-Ahram Weekly, Cairo Is it possible for a foreigner living in Cairo, even for many years, to know the soul of this city? ... you will be astonished when you read Maria Golia's book. Sabah El-Kher magazine, Cairo the extent of Golia's insider status really shows ... not just regarding matters specific to Cairo, but to matters of Egyptian-ness in general. Beirut Daily Star astonishingly astute, skillfully critical and deeply empathetic. Daily Star, Egypt written with compassion and understanding in brisk descriptions sprinkled with shrewd insights. Middle East Journal
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Asia/Pacific Research Center, Div of The Institute for International Studies Being in North Korea
Book SynopsisIn 2010, while working on a PhD in South Korea, Andray Abrahamian visited the other Korea, a country he had studied for years but never seen. He returned determined to find a way to work closely with North Koreans. Ten years and more than thirty visits later, Being in North Korea tells the story of his experiences helping set up and run Choson Exchange, a non-profit that teaches North Koreans about entrepreneurship and economic policy.Abrahamian was provided a unique vantage into life in North Korea that belies stereotypes rampant in the media, revealing instead North Koreans as individuals ranging from true believers in the system to cynics wishing the Stalinist experiment would just end; from introverts to bubbly chatterboxes, optimists to pessimists. He sees a North Korea that is changing, invalidating some assumptions held in the West, but perhaps reinforcing others.Amid his stories of coping with the North Korean system, of the foreigners who frequent Pyongyang, and of everyday relationships, Abrahamian explores the challenges of teaching the inherently political subject of economics in a system where everyone must self-regulate their own minds; he looks at the role of women in the North Korean economy, and their exclusion from leadership; and he discusses how information is restricted, propaganda is distributed and internalized, and even how Pyongyang’s nominally illicit property market functions. Along with these stories, he interweaves the historical events that have led to today’s North Korea.Drawing on the breadth of the author’s in-country experience, Being in North Korea combines the intellectual rigor of a scholar with a writing style that will appeal to a general audience. Through the personal elements of a memoir that provide insights into North Korean society, readers will come away with a more realistic picture of the country and its people, and a better idea of what the future may hold for the nation.
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Arc Medieval Press Classic Readings on Monster Theory
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Arc Medieval Press Primary Sources on Monsters
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University of Nevada Press Through a Vegan Studies Lens: Textual Ethics and
Book SynopsisThis edited collection showcases an international mix of activist scholars who maintain that a vegan studies perspective is an important addition to the cultural studies landscape. Through a Vegan Studies Lens broadens the scope of vegan studies by engaging in a variety of texts and contexts and examines vegan pedagogical praxis and vegan publishing, as well as intersections between vegan theory, critical race theory, queer theory, postcolonial theory, and feminism.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Interrogating the Neoliberal Lifecycle: The
Book SynopsisIn this timely collection, contributors from a number of disciplines discuss neoliberal visions of success, and the subsequent effects they have on the construction of the lifecycle. Frequently mentioned in popular political discourse, the notion of neoliberalism is often deployed as shorthand for the consensus that austerity is necessary and the hard-working individual can survive it. This volume unpicks and interrogates the term by engaging with the interface between the political ubiquity of neoliberal forms and its lived experience in neoliberal societies, cutting across a multiplicity of factors including gender, age, and access to education. Impressive in its wide scope and analysis, Interrogating the Neoliberal Lifecycle presents an informed discussion not only of the limits of the neoliberal paradigm but also of possible alternatives. Trade Review“This edited volume makes for an important contribution in the fields of gerontology, sociology, philosophy, and psychology, the main focus of this volume was the first world. … this volume would benefit both academics as well as policymakers from a range of disciplines as it provides various alternative perspectives to the ‘good and successful life’ … .” (Jagriti Gangopadhyay, Anthropology & Aging, Vol. 42 (1), 2021)Table of Contents
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG When Music Takes Over in Film
Book SynopsisThis open access collection deals with musical moments in film as one of the most pivotal and compelling issues of current film music research. Musical moments as defined by Amy Herzog occur when a musical number inverts the normal relationship between the image track and the soundtrack in a film in such a way that what we see is determined by what we hear. As one potential approach, this definition provokes a variety of perspectives to investigate the disruptive potential of these moments and numbers as a creative device in the production of audiovisual narratives. In this sense, the book responds to a need for an anthology that introduces students as well as scholars of cinema, musicology, media studies and cultural studies more broadly, to recent discourses in film music scholarship. The volume includes contributions by early career researchers as well as by established experts in the fields of musicology, film studies, media studies, and cultural studies, promoting cross-disciplinary collaboration in film music research. Table of Contents1. Introduction.- Part I. What the Musical Moment Can Do - Theoretical Approaches.- 2. The Musical Moment, Counter-Memory, Oblivion.- 3. The Crystal Song in four American Films from 2016 to 2018.- 4. Seriously Funny: Comedy, Performance and the Musical Moment in Toni Erdmann (2016).- 5. Experiencing Romance in Musical Moments.- Part II. How the Musical Moment was Created – Musical Numbers in Silent Cinema.- 6. Film’s First Musical Moment: The Dickson Experimental Sound Film, 1895.- 7. The Musical Moment in three Silent Films by Jacques Feyder: Narrative Vector or Emotional Catalyst?.- 8. A Waltz Dream: Musical Moments in Silent Operetta Films.- 9. Silent Movie Music(ians) on Screen: How Four Films Made Period Practices Audible and Visible.- Part III. Musical Dis/Placements – Musical Moments in Global Cinema.- 10. Musical Numbers in Bollywood Cinema's Homeland and Diaspora.- 11. Envisioning Chinese Musicals in the Era of Sound: Sound Cinema, the Songstress, and the Emergence of Mandarin Chinese Film Musicals, 1920s-1930s.- 12. De-Gendering Genre: Mayuzumi Toshirō's Avant-Garde Music in Popular Cinema.-13. Music in Nollywood Films: Schools of Thought and Performance Contexts.- 14. Redemption Songs: Musical Moments in Flora Gomes’s Nha Fala (2002) and Joseph Gaï Ramaka’s Karmen Geï (2001).- 15. “No hay nada que celebrar”: Migration, Violence, and Musical Moments in Luis Estrada’s El Infierno (2010).
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Springer International Publishing AG British Muslims and Their Discourses
Book SynopsisThis book highlights the changing dynamics of Muslim identity and integration in Britain, focusing on the post-9/11 era. Historically, Muslims faced discrimination based on ethnicity rather than religion. However, contemporary discrimination against Muslims is rooted in different reasons, with events like the Rushdie affair significantly impacting multicultural relations. This study analyzes the evolving multicultural landscape in Britain, exploring the shift from predominantly assimilationist policies to a more mutual process of integration. It delves into the emergence of interfaith dialogue as well as the complexities surrounding the intersection of race, religion, gender, and identity. The research examines two key themes: the discursive positioning of Islam beyond integration and terrorism narratives, and the operationalization of identity by Muslims in various contexts. The study employs empirical methods and cultural studies theories to understand how individual and social practices intersect in this context. By doing so, it contributes to Islamic studies, socio-political studies, and cultural studies, shedding light on the discourses that shape and are shaped by Muslim lives in Britain. The analysis encompasses diverse perspectives, from macro-level societal discourses to micro-level individual actions, thus providing a comprehensive exploration of the multifaceted experiences of Muslims in Britain.Table of ContentsSection I. Engagement In Social DynamicsChapter 1. Muslim Political Agency In British PoliticsJan Dobbernack, University Of Lincoln, Nasar Meer, University Of Strathclyde & Tariq Modood, Bristol UniversityChapter 2. Believing And Belonging: Media Representations Of Islam And Muslims In Britain And Its Relationship To British Civil ReligionLaurens De Rooij, University Of ChesterChapter 3. Politics, Public Relations And Islam In The UK Public SphereClaire Forbes, University Of KentChapter 4. Social Representations And The Threat To Worldview: A Socio-Psychological Perspective On IslamophobiaSamuel Fairlamb And Marco Cinnirella, Royal Holloway, University Of LondonChapter 5. Creating Shia Spaces In British Society: The Role Of Transnational Twelver Shia Networks In North-West LondonOliver Scharbrodt, University Of BirminghamSection II. Expressions Of Personal IdentityChapter 6. British Muslims, Music And Religious Authority: The Contested Ground Of Discourse And PraxisCarl Morris, Central Lancashire UniversityChapter 7. Civilising Attempts In Art And Islam: Muslim Artistic Performance Facing Social Orders In The UKYolanda Van Tilborgh, University Of AmsterdamChapter 8. Challenging Terrorist Ideologies Through EducationAngela Quartermaine, University Of WarwickChapter 9. The Agency Of Muslim Women As Mothers And MotheredHengameh Ashraf-Emami, University Of Nottingham & Laurens De Rooij, University Of ChesterChapter 10. Online Dating For British Muslims, And The Relationship With Their Islamic IdentitiesLaurens De Rooij, University Of Chester
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Springer Nature Switzerland The Sustainability of Higher Education in
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Springer Frans Hals or not Frans Hals
Book Synopsis1. FRANS HALS CONNOISSEURSHIP.- 2. SUPPLEMENTING THE EYE: THE TECHNICAL ANALYSIS OF FRANS HALS'S PAINTINGS AND INSIGHTS FROM 17th- CENTURY SOURCES.- 3. THE DIGITALLY ENHANCED EYE: CONNOISSEURSHIP AND SMART TOOLS.- 4. EPILOGUE.
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transcript Verlag The Aesthetics of Collective Agency
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V&R unipress Neue Urbanität Konzepte zur Stadt der Zukunft
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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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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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Headline Publishing Group The Little Book of Weed: Smoke it up
Book SynopsisBill Hicks asks: 'Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally upon our planet. Doesn't the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit... unnatural?' The Little Book of Weed looks at marijuana use from its first ever references to parents naming their children after their favourite varietals and asks the same question. Ganja, weed, cannabis, Mary Jane, blunt, chronic. The list of nicknames for marijuana is as numerous and varied as the users it appeals to. Grown in fields and hotboxes around the world, weed's influence on culture is far beyond teenagers trying pot for the very first time or chronic hippies fully immersed in the lifestyle. Howlers from politicians struggling to balance reality with perception, hilarious stand-up comedians in smoke-filled clubs, musicians whose albums defined eras and movies that put it all on film owe much of their infamy to the infamous herb. So sit back, chill out and roll up roll up for the Little Book of Weed as it emblazons the leafs. 'Herb is the healing of the nation, alcohol is its destruction.' Television interview with Bob Marley. 'When I was a kid, I inhaled, frequently. That was the point.' Barack Obama, when running for president in 2008. 'After 25 years of being fake weed dealers, it feels nice to be real weed dealers.' Kevin Smith on the launch of three new varieties of 'Snoogans' weed ahead of the long-awaited launch of the Jay and Silent Bob sequel, The Hollywood Reporter, 2020. Table of ContentsThe Changing Face - Weed through the ages • Film - Cannabis and how it has been portrayed • Music - From hip-hop to hardcore and rock to reggae • Comedians - Funnymen who'll have you in fits of • Culture - Hippies, Rastas and medical • Politics - Those who admit inhaling and those who deny.
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Berghahn Books In the Meantime
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Lawrence & Wishart Ltd Feelbad Britain: How to Make it Better
Book SynopsisThe central thesis of Feelbad Britain is that after the decades of neoliberalism the institutions and social relations on which solidarity, trust and citizenship depend have been undermined. This has left contemporary British society in a troubled and dysfunctional state, without the cohesion or confidence needed if we are to escape from recession, combat climate change and restore faith in government. The authors put forward a theoretical framework for understanding contemporary politics; and they consider what is to be done to revitalise the British left, challenge neoliberal hegemony, and develop a political project aimed at creating a greener, fairer, happier, more democratic and less divided Britain.
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Watkins Media Limited How We Used Saint Etienne to Live
Book SynopsisDo you remember how we used to live? British indie favourites Saint Etienne do. But they also remember a load of other stuff that never happened, so maybe they aren’t the best people to ask. Saint Etienne have spent three decades making music out of memories for people who make memories out of music. How We Used Saint Etienne to Live is the story of that reciprocal process, told in the wrong order but the right time. It’s about the methods we use to remember, and what happens when those methods become outdated. It’s a tale that involves tape splicing, town planning, Now compilations and Saint Etienne’s 1995 UK singles chart peak, ‘He’s On The Phone’. Featuring original interviews with Bob Stanley, Pete Wiggs and Sarah Cracknell, How We Used Saint Etienne To Live shows Saint Etienne’s minds at work as they make and manipulate history and nostalgia. Expect to be shown the receipts. Expect selective recollections and shameless revisionism. Expect concrete facts and flights of fancy. Don’t expect it to be immediately clear which is which.Trade Review"A vivid collection of memories and lists about the savoir vivre of Saint Etienne — a wonderful book about a wonderful band.""An essential, loving read for Saint Etienne fans — an exploration that’s half Sherpa Tenzing in its commitment to the task, half sunshine girl in its loveliness.""How We Used Saint Etienne to Live beautifully negates the archetypal veteran band biography. Ramzy Alwakeel’s analytical account is insightful and poignant, and this book is a timely, anti-nostalgic reminder of why Saint Etienne have such a special place in so many hearts."
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Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH Die 5 Dysfunktionen eines Teams
Book SynopsisNach ihren ersten zwei Wochen als neuer CEO von DecisionTech fragte sich Kathryn Petersen angesichts der dortigen Probleme, ob es wirklich richtig gewesen war, den Job anzunehmen. Sie war eigentlich froh über die neue Aufgabe gewesen. Doch hatte sie nicht ahnen können, dass ihr Team so fürchterlich dysfunktional war und die Teammitglieder sie vor eine Herausforderung stellen würden, die sie niemals zuvor so erlebt hatte ... In "Die 5 Dyfunktionen eines Teams" begibt sich Patrick Lencioni in die faszinierende und komplexe Welt von Teams. In seiner Leadership-Fabel folgt der Leser der Geschichte von Kathryn Petersen, die sich mit der ultimativen Führungskrise konfrontiert sieht: die Einigung eines Teams, das sich in einer solchen Unordnung befindet, dass es den Erfolg und das Überleben des gesamten Unternehmens gefährdet. Im Verlauf der Geschichte enthüllt Lencioni die fünf entscheidenden Dysfunktionen, die oft dazu führen, dass Teams scheitern. Er stellt ein Modell und umsetzbare Schritte vor, die zu einem effektiven Team führen und die fünf Dysfunktionen beheben. Diese Dysfunktionen sind: - Fehlendes Vertrauen, - Scheu vor Konflikten, - Fehlendes Engagement, - Scheu vor Verantwortung, - Fehlende Ergebnis-Orientierung. Wie in seinen anderen Büchern hat Patrick Lencioni eine fesselnde Fabel geschrieben, die eine wichtige Botschaft für alle enthält, die danach streben, außergewöhnliche Teamleiter und Führungskräfte zu werden.Trade Review... Ein erstklassiger Kursus in punkto Konfliktmanagement und Teamführung - eingebettet in eine Rahmengeschichte, die sich täglich in ähnlicher Form auch in unzähligen deutschen Konferenzräumen abspielt. Empfehlenswert! (Management-Journal) Table of ContentsInhalt Einleitung 9 Glück gehabt 15 DIE FABEL Teil I SCHWACHE LEISTUNG Vorgeschichte 19 Kathryn 20 Die Gründe 22 Murren 23 Beobachtungen 24 Der Stab 25 Teil II INITIALZÜNDUNG Erste Bewährungsprobe 33 Kleiner Dienstweg 35 Grenzen ziehen 37 Napa 39 Die Ansprache 40 Rückschlag 44 Eintritt in die Gefahrenzone 47 Sich nackig machen 49 Mehr in die Tiefe 50 Am Swimmingpool 53 Wiederaufnahme 54 Bewusstsein 56 Ego 62 Ziele 67 Tiefengewebe 70 Attacke 75 Präsentation 76 Film noir 83 Anwendung 87 Teil III SCHWERSTARBEIT Wieder im Hause 97 Feuerwerk 103 Undichte Stellen 108 Externer Workshop Nummer zwei 109 Weiterackern 114 Verantwortung 119 Einzelkämpfer 123 Das Gespräch 124 Letztes Gefecht 127 Unter Beschuss 129 Schwerstarbeit 130 Aufschwung 134 Teil IV DIE MASSNAHMEN BEGINNEN ZU GREIFEN Ertrag 139 Charaktertest 142 An die Arbeit 145 DAS MODELL Übersicht über das Modell 151 Team-Selbsteinschätzung 153 Die fünf Dysfunktionen verstehen und überwinden 157 Ein Hinweis zum Thema Zeit: Kathryns Methoden 179 Würdigung eines besonderen Falls von Teamwork 181 Danksagungen 183 Über den Autor 185
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Taylor & Francis The Group Dimension
Book SynopsisThe Group Dimension presents a thorough exploration of the history and theory of the group dimension, particularly in the context of modern capitalist society.The book traces the development of capitalism from feudalism, where the first polis groups can be identified, and describes the growth of the power of the state prescribed by John Maynard Keynes to form neoliberalism. Bacha then explores the deep history of human groups, examines how our brains are built for and by multibody interactions and understandings, and provides an overview of our knowledge of groups, building on findings from group analysis. The book concludes by exploring how an understanding of groups, their facilitation and their consciousness redefines current individualistic and autistic 'freedom', to build the new world through dialogue.The Group Dimension will be essential reading for anyone involved in groups, as practitioners or clients. It will also be of interest to read
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Peepal Tree Press Ltd We Must Learn to Sit Down Together and Talk About
Book SynopsisThe beginnings of the anti-colonial struggle in Jamaica coincided with the childhood and early adolescence of Sylvia Wynter, providing the motivation for this, the first phase of her important body of work. The essays and articles collected here go beyond making an argument against colonialism, but set out to decolonize the nature of the discourse that legitimated the imperial order. At the time of their writing, Wynter was a practicing novelist, an innovative playwright, a scholar of Spanish Caribbean history, and an incisive literary critic with a gift for the liveliest kind of polemics. This intellectual virtuosity is evident in these wide-ranging essays that include an exploration of C.L.R. James's writings on cricket, Bob Marley and the counter-cosmogony of the Rastafari, and the Spanish epoch of Jamaican history (including a pioneering examination of Bernado de Balbuena, epic poet and Abbot of Jamaica 1562-1627).Across this varied range of topics, a coherent thread of argument emerges. In the vein of C. L. R. James, the imperative of her work has always been to reconceptualize the history of the region, and therefore of the modern world, from a world-systemic perspective; that is, no longer from the normative European perspective, but rather more inclusively, from the "gaze from below" of the neo-serf (i.e. Indian) and the ex-slave (i.e. Negro), which is "the ultimate underside of modernity."Strongly influenced by Marx, together with Black thinkers such as Aimé Césaire, Jean Price-Mars, W. E. B. Du Bois and Frantz Fanon, and with an appreciation of the insights brought by the New Studies of the Sixties (including that of Black feminism), Wynter's work has sought, from its beginnings, to find a comprehensive explanatory system able to integrate these knowledges born of struggle.
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Princeton University Press Equal Recognition The Moral Foundations of
Book SynopsisConflicting claims about culture are a familiar refrain of political life in the contemporary world. This book reasserts the case in favor of liberal multiculturalism by developing a new ethical defense of minority rights.Trade Review"Patten's book, well written, clear, and well argued, is now the best liberal case for recognition. It is also an important rethinking of the idea of liberal neutrality."--Jeff Spinner-Halev, The Review of PoliticsTable of ContentsPreface vii 1. Introduction: Liberalism and the Accommodation of Cultural Diversity 1 1.1. Competing Interpretations of Liberalism 1 1.2. Why the Case for Liberal Culturalism Needs to Be Restated 6 1.3. Four Distinctions, Plus One More 11 1.4. The Main Argument of the Book 27 1.5. Overview 34 2. Rethinking Culture: The Social Lineage Account 38 2.1. The Dilemma of Essentialism 38 2.2. The Critique of Essentialism 40 2.3. Cultural Continuity 45 2.4. The Social Lineage Account 50 2.5. Some Related Concepts 57 2.6. The Normative Significance of Culture: A First Glance 65 3. Why Does Culture Matter? 69 3.1. Options Disadvantage 69 3.2. Culture as Context of Choice 73 3.3. The Access Account 78 3.4. The Adequacy Account 92 3.5. Cultural Preservation versus Fair Treatment of Cultures 102 4. Liberal Neutrality: A Reinterpretation and Defense 104 4.1. An Unfashionable Idea 104 4.2. Neutrality as a Downstream Value 108 4.3. Conceptions of Neutrality 111 4.4. Institutions of Neutrality 119 4.5. The Fairness Justification of Neutrality 123 4.6. The Value of Self-Determination 131 4.7. Fairness and Neutral Treatment 137 5. Equal Recognition 149 5.1. Justice and Cultural Decline: Three Views 149 5.2. Recognition 156 5.3. Recognition and Justice 164 5.4. Equal Recognition versus Liberal Nationalism 171 5.5. The Objection from Expensive Tastes 177 5.6. Is Full Proceduralism Enough? 182 6. Equal Recognition and Language Rights 186 6.1. Linguistic Diversity and Language Rights 186 6.2. Three Kinds of Language Rights 188 6.3. Two Models: Nation Building and Language Preservation 192 6.4. The Equal Recognition Model 196 6.5. The Case for Equal Recognition 201 6.6. The Nation-Building Challenge 205 6.7. The Language Preservation Challenge--Weak Versions 210 6.8. The Language Preservation Challenge--Stronger Versions 216 6.9. Equal Recognition versus the Territoriality Principle 227 7. Democratic Secession from a Multinational State 232 7.1. Theories of Secession 232 7.2. The Failure-of-Recognition Condition 237 7.3. The Equal Recognition of National Identity 242 7.4. The Democracy Argument 256 7.5. The Confederal Alternative 261 7.6. Practical Implications 264 8. Immigrants, National Minorities, and Minority Rights 269 8.1. The Immigrant/National Minority Dichotomy 269 8.2. How Voluntary Is the Decision to Emigrate? 275 8.3. Are Cultural Rights Alienable? 281 8.4. Is the Receiving Society Acting Permissibly? 285 8.5. The Limits of Voluntary Acceptance 294 References 299 Index 311
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Taylor & Francis Planning Abu Dhabi
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Taylor & Francis Unfolding Narratives of Ubuntu in Southern Africa
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Taylor & Francis Rethinking GK Chesterton and Literary Modernism Parody Performance and Popular Culture
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Taylor & Francis Narrating Postcolonial Arab Nations
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Taylor & Francis The Cultural Imaginary of Terrorism in Public Discourse Literature and Film
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