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Granville Island Publishing Making Sense of Us: An Essay on Human Meaning
Book SynopsisIf we human beings are to participate knowingly in the continuing evolution of our species rather than unknowingly in its extinction. It is crucial that we understand that the sense we make depends on how we make it and on our being aware that it is we together who have to do it.
£14.39
University of Alberta Press Roundtrip: The Inuit Crew of the Jean Revillon
Book SynopsisStuck in the ice-pack during the winter of 1924-25, the Jean Revillon needed repair and a crew to make it back to its hauling location at Shelburne, Nova Scotia. And so, in 1925, Lionel Angotegoar, Athanasie Angutitaq, Louis Tapatai, and Savikataaq from the central Canadian Arctic manned the ship from Qamani''tuaq (Baker Lake), in contemporary Nunavut, to southern Canada. Having brought the ship to safe harbour, they spent the winter in the South and returned home the next spring. In relating their experience on their return they provided first-hand accounts of life in the South. Various points-of-view contribute to the broadest possible understanding of the journey, since the Inuit sailors, the Revillon family and the people associated with the shipbuilding industry or the fur trade were involved in the trip per se to various degrees.
£43.34
CCI Press Humanizing Security in the Arctic Occasional
Book SynopsisClimatic conditions, economic development strategies, health and education concerns, social relationships, and shifting political agendas all contribute to a sense of ongoing change in Arctic societies. This volume presents twenty-two chapters that address various forms and issues of (in)security in the Arctic. The work shows that the outcomes of resource scarcity or abundance are equally important to consider, that disparities in income as much as opportunities deserve our attention, and that the movement of populations to and from the Arctic is meaningful for those who leave as well as for those who stay.
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Murdoch Books When We Become Strangers
Book Synopsis'A timely warning shot over our collective bows...reminds us that awareness without action is worthless. A thought-provoking and challenging look into our future.' - Michael Carr-Gregg, psychologist and bestselling author 'Restores hope and gives simple, practical steps we can all take to feel safe and connected; as we build a new way of living and turn around the estrangement we all feel.' - Katrina Cavanough, CEO, The Kindness On Purpose MovementAfter decades of affluence, we're now busy renovating our homes, buffing and botoxing our bodies, and losing ourselves in passive entertainment and shopping, as depression and anxiety soars. And with the arrival of Netflix and Uber Eats, there's less and less incentive to leave home. Could our constant need for connection be messing with our brains? Is this why we're losing our ability to strike up a conversation with anyone we don't know? And given that so many of our kids lack one-on-one attention and regular touch, are we raising this new generation to be profoundly lonely?Right now, many of our relationships at home and at work, as well as in our communities are struggling. What, then, are the best ways back to belonging, and what might a more engaged community look like?Maggie Hamilton, author of What's Happening to Our Boys? and What's Happening to Our Girls? explores our growing loneliness and proposes practical solutions and an uplifting vision to combat the increasing social isolation in our families and communities.Trade Review'A timely warning shot over our collective bows...reminds us that awareness without action is worthless. A thought-provoking and challenging look into our future.' - Michael Carr-Gregg, psychologist and bestselling author 'As a therapist and social worker; I know firsthand the impact of estrangement on children, teenagers, families, communities and workplaces. Maggie restores hope and gives simple, practical steps we can all take to feel safe and connected; as we build a new way of living and turn around the estrangement we all feel.' - Katrina Cavanough, CEO, The Kindness On Purpose Movement'Maggie's Book encapsulates the workings of our modern world. It's an intuitive read examining issues of our time, consumerism, loneliness, social media fixation, greed and the rule of technology on our kids. It prompts the reader to behold the future with eyes wide open, enjoying a sense of wisdom and faith.' - Lisa Friedlander, Executive Coach & Facilitator'Maggie has again done what she does best; placed a microscope over modern society and looked closely at who, what and how we are. Her wisdom, research and interviews uncover the complex realities of life in the 2020s. But rather than being a tale of despair, Maggie's reflections and myriad strategies create a vision of hope... a book every human should read.' - Andrew Lines, The Rite Journey'An invaluable roadmap for envisioning a new society that builds connection back into community. It calls us to slow down, to rethink the frenzied pace, and reignite the power of the human spirit.' - Aimee Davies, author of Imperfect
£14.24
Arkbound Roofless
Book SynopsisRoofless is the new non-fiction book by Stewart Harvey, and is a series of real-life accounts and interviews given by people who have faced the brutal realities of homelessness at some point in their lives. Compiled by the charity First Stop Darlington, the true identities of the protagonists are kept secret, but their stories always make for difficult and bleak reading. Documenting both the successes and failures of people who attempt to make a life for themselves while battling homelessness, Roofless is a disturbing reality check for people who may often turn a blind eye to this ever-increasing issue. "...Harrowing and calling out for change, Roofless serves as a reminder that anyone can be homeless, especially in times of economic uncertainty and welfare cut-backs..."Trade Review`What does it mean to be without a home; to be living each day uncertain where you will be sleeping, in the shadow of near-constant abuse and danger?' Most of us take having a home for granted, even if it's just a house share or living with family, yet there are those who don't have these essential things. Few books succeed in capturing the first-hand accounts of people who have experienced homeless, let alone managing to present these accounts in a way that is both gripping and demanding action. This is what makes Roofless special. Written and compiled by a group of homeless people, the book imparts insights and experiences that most of us can only barely imagine. Roofless also raises serious questions raised as to why the UK, one of the richest countries in the world, is still seeing tens of thousands of people being homeless. It conveys with shocking depth how close all us can be to becoming homelessness, no matter what our situation. - Review by George Shiner
£7.99
Sold Out Publishing How May I Serve You
Book SynopsisHow May I Serve You is a collection of live-chat conversations with Saadia Abbasi and Malik Ayaz, two customer service agents based in Pakistan and outsourced by UK companies. It brings physicality to what we all experience during online interactions, putting participants in the position of the other and emphasizing the human and social elements of digital engagement. The discussions range from the structure of call centres and cubicles to online identity and the dynamic of technolonialism that arises from outsourcing systems.
£31.50
MACK Pleasure Gardens: Blackouts and the Logic of
Book SynopsisThis essay-led book project by Izabella Scott and Skye Arundhati Thomas examines ongoing land disputes, military occupation, and communication blackouts. Through an extended text and a selection of photo essays made in collaboration with photographers, the project gathers together records produced under daily surveillance and confrontation. It seeks a new register of writing and image to make visible the conditions of military occupation and the protracted violence of the blackout.
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BOBO BOOKS Tweaked Modernism
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Dynasty Press Ltd Postmodernity and the Creation of the
Book SynopsisThis book tells the story of human civilisation as a series of historical periods, from Prehistory to the present day, describing the way each evolved into the next. In so doing, it explains the reasons behind what happened in each period, in terms of their contribution to the whole. It describes the way the ideas process evolves along with society, and explains the myths, religions and philosophical ideas which developed in the Ancient world, and the way its great empires appeared. Then, according to new technology and principles, how the events of the Middle Ages led to the rediscovery of the Americas and took us into the Modern periods, where the industrial revolution gave rise to the Middle Classes, and a new type of politics featured more representative forms of government. However, after two world wars which redefined the era, Postmodernity emerged as a term for the structure of Cold War society, which gave rise to the success of digital technology, but also led to the new problem of terrorism. Hence, many questions have arisen over the direction of human society, how it has evolved out of history, and how we address its issues. What type of problems can we solve at each stage? Perhaps with computers we are now able to analyse data in a way which was not possible before and this will lead to the next era.
£22.49
Monash University Publishing A Handful of Sand: The Gurindji Struggle, After the Walk-off
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Text Publishing Snooze: The Lost Art of Sleep
Book SynopsisSnooze takes readers on a journey through the knowledge of the great Western thinkers, their fascinations and views on sleep, wakefulness and dreams.
£12.99
Spinifex Press Karu: Growing Up Gurindji
Book SynopsisGurindji country is located in the southern Victoria River in the Northern Territory of Australia. Gurindji people became well known in the 1960s and 1970s due to their influence on Australian politics and the Indigenous land rights movement. They were instrumental in gaining equal wages for Aboriginal cattle station employees and they were also the first Aboriginal group to recover control of their traditional lands. In Karu, Gurindji women describe their child-rearing practices. Some have a spiritual basis, while others are highly practical in nature, such as the use of bush medicines. Many Gurindji ways of raising children contrast with non-Indigenous practices because they are deeply embedded in an understanding of country and family connections. This book celebrates children growing up Gurindji and honours those Gurindji mothers, grandmothers, assistant teachers and health workers who dedicate their lives to making that possible.
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Spinifex Press Born Still: A Memoir of Grief
Book SynopsisHow did we move so far from love that a mother's grief became the vehicle with which to punish her? Losing a baby during childbirth is one of the most heartbreaking things imaginable. But to then be accused of causing that death is nothing short of soul-destroying. Janet Fraser's story shows what happens when private grief is turned into a public accusation against a woman who dared to exercise choice about how and were she gave birth. This sobering book demonstrates the penalties dished out to women who dare to question medical orthodoxy and to make decisions for themselves about their own bodies. When things go wrong in a hospital, it is seen as unavoidable, and no one is to blame, as the medical institutions are seen as the arbiters of decision-making. The layers of bureaucracy protect insiders. Yet if a baby dies in a home birth, the full weight of the law comes down upon the woman who dared to give birth outside a hospital. Janet Fraser is that woman and this is her story of injustice, loss and grief. This painful yet enlightening book shows that the patriarchy still wrestles for the control of women and their bodies -and punishes them with every tool in the legal handbook when they dare to contest the view that their bodies are public property.Table of ContentsIntroduction When Grief is Political The Witch's Double: The Mother the System Tried to Crush Chapter One Planning the Birth of a Child: Hope and Reality Rights of Women First Chapter Two Birthing at Home May 2009 Chapter Three Birthing My Daughter Chapter Four The Aftermath The Law Intervenes on Postmortem What Happens When a Baby is Stillborn? Betrayal Pathologising Women Chapter Five The Inquest Looking for the Witch Mark Feminism on Trial My Big Lies No End in Sight My Statement to the Court Submissions Chapter Six The Findings Conclusion Endnotes
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Great Plains Publications Ltd The Lucky Ones: African Refugees' Stories of
Book SynopsisIn The Lucky Ones: African Refugees' Stories of Extraordinary Courage, Anne Mahon presents a collection of personal accounts of heartbreaking loss, extraordinary bravery, and the resilience needed to begin again in a new country. Candidly told in their own words, the subjects reveal the uplifting truth of their unbreakable human spirit. A wide assortment of men and women ranging in age from four to 73 represent a variety of African countries and backgrounds. Their compelling stories span from experiences in their African birth countries to their new home in Manitoba. These inspiring insights challenge assumptions and encourage understanding. All author proceeds from the sale of this book will go to micro-lending opportunities and post-secondary scholarships for the African community of Manitoba.Trade Review"Anne Mahon faithfully captures refugees' voices with raw authenticity, imprinting their lives onto our collective memory." - Lisa Shannon, author of "A Thousand Sisters and founder of Run for Congolese Women""Canada has thousands of untold stories of the immigrant and refugee experience. Here is a well-selected and well-told sampling -- gripping accounts of what it's like to overcome horrific obstacles and to live the dream." -- Tom Denton, Director, Hospitality House Refugee Ministry"Reading this book will help us bridge the gap with the refugees - and will make us better Canadians - as we appreciate our good fortune at the accident of birth. This is priority reading as we live in an increasingly complex Canadian society." -- Art DeFehr, former representative of the UNHCR to Somalia"The book's shocking first-hand accounts of survival will cause readers to bristle the next time they hear someone cast refugees as 'fraudsters' or 'just someone here to take our jobs.' And reading about parents who were forced to run for the border without their children- let alone their passports - will cause people to question the government's dismissive terminology of bogus and illegal refugees." The Catalyst, Citizens for Public Justice Publication
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Heritage House Publishing Co Ltd Hoaxes and Hexes: Daring Deceptions and
Book SynopsisThe Canadian Oxford Dictionary defines hoax as a humorous or malicious deception, and hex as a magic spell. These stories of hoaxes and hexes illustrate our curious desire to believe in the impossible and explain the inexplicable. Portrayed here are accomplished hoaxers and swidnlders, including the flamboyant 19th-century financier known as Lord Gordon--Gordon; David Walsh, author of the horrendous Bre-X gold-mine hoax of the 1990s; and the eccentric Josef Papp, who claimed to have crossed the Atlantic in a homemade submarine.The persistent power of hexes is recorded in stories of cursed places--including a strange haunting in the Cypress Hills and a deadly Lake Superior lighthouse--and weird coincidences, such as the legendary Hollywood hex on Oscar-winning actresses. Whether humorous or malicious, real or imagined, hoaxes or hexes have entertained and ensnared us throughout history.
£10.44
World Encounter Institute/New English Review Press Out Into The Beautiful World
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Secant Publishing Dragged into the Light
Book SynopsisOhio housewife Sherry Shriner grew to prominence as a social media cult leader, flourishing in the era of conspiracy theories and the 9/11 Truther movement. She preached the virtues of mysterious orgone energy and Christian prayer as defensive shields against the forces of darkness, including: Lucifer and his demons; reptilian shapeshifters masquerading as human elites; the New World Order; cell phone towers; even hostile UFOs that flamed out over her home, visible only as shooting stars. Amazingly, she built a coterie of passionate devotees. The more outrageous the lie, the more fervent their belief. In 2017, she told follower Steven Mineo that his girlfriend, Barbara Rogers, was a witch who would kill him. A month later, Steven was dead, and Barbara was in jail charged with his murder. Steven's death proved Sherry's divinity to her followers, but in reality, he was just the latest casualty in a string of online trolling attacks that had left an earlier believer dead of suicide and still more cast into the outer darkness of cyberspace.
£23.79
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Society in America: Volume 1
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£15.07
Patrick Remy Studio Yearbook Volume 3 2024
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£49.50
Patrick Remy studio ECHO
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£29.70
RVB Books MOTS FLEUVES
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£49.50
Note Note Editions Inframundi
£26.10
Palais de Tokyo Rebreathing
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£14.25
BAI NV Turning 18: Anne-Catherine Chevalier
Book SynopsisDreams, fears, projects, desires. Turning 18, with your future in front of you: it's a special time, which the talented photographer, Anne-Catherine Chevalier, has tried to capture. Her sensitive lens is matched by the delicate writing of Geneviève Damas: the result is a selection of 50 exceptional portraits. Text in English, French and Dutch.
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La maison de Z Selfiers Sealed with Images
Book SynopsisFrom August to December 1982, five to six years after the downfall of the Gang of Four and the reform and opening-up policy in China, twopen pals who had never met found themselves connected through a photography magazine. Xu Lei, a university professor, and He Bo,military personnel specialized in artistic pursuits at the border, were eagerly practicing the novel photographic technique of self-portrait in the respective contexts of life and work. Ever since then, they started exchanging self-portraits and engaged in genuine discussions about their insights and experiences of self-portraits through letters.From August to December 2016, Xu Lei and He Bo, avid explorers of photography history and culture, recreated some staged group portraits from the 1970s and 1980s. They crudely superimposed their faces on to the faces in the original photographs. These forged images and textual evidence were later presented in exhibitions over the next few years, mostly taking the form of archival docu
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De Gruyter Soziologie - Sociology in the German-Speaking
Book SynopsisThis book provides the first systematic overview of German sociology today. Thirty-four chapters review current trends, relate them to international discussions and discuss perspectives for future research. The contributions span the whole range of sociological research topics, from social inequality to the sociology of body and space, addressing pressing questions in sociological theory and innovative research methods. TOC: Introduction Culture / Uta Karstein and Monika Wohlrab-Sahr Demography and Aging / François Höpflinger Economic Sociology / Andrea Maurer Education and Socialization / Matthias Grundmann Environment / Anita Engels Europe / Monika Eigmüller Family and Intimate Relationships / Dirk Konietzka, Michael Feldhaus, Michaela Kreyenfeld, and Heike Trappe (Felt) Body. Sports, Medicine, and Media / Robert Gugutzer and Claudia Peter Gender / Paula-Irene Villa and Sabine Hark Globalization and Transnationalization / Anja Weiß Global South / Eva Gerharz and Gilberto Rescher History of Sociology / Stephan Moebius Life Course / Johannes Huinink and Betina Hollstein Media and Communication / Andreas Hepp Microsociology / Rainer Schützeichel Migration / Ludger Pries Mixed-Methods and Multimethod Research / Felix Knappertsbusch, Bettina Langfeldt, and Udo Kelle Organization / Raimund Hasse Political Sociology / Jörn Lamla Qualitative Methods / Betina Hollstein and Nils C. Kumkar Quantitative Methods / Alice Barth and Jörg Blasius Religion / Matthias Koenig Science and Higher Education / Anna Kosmützky and Georg Krücken Social Inequalities―Empirical Focus / Gunnar Otte, Mara Boehle, and Katharina Kunißen Social Inequalities―Theoretical Focus / Thomas Schwinn Social Movements / Thomas Kern Social Networks / Roger Häußling Social Policy / Birgit Pfau-Effinger and Christopher Grages Social Problems / Günter Albrecht Social Theory / Wolfgang Ludwig Schneider Society / Uwe Schimank Space. Urban, Rural, Territorial / Martina Löw Technology and Innovation / Werner Rammert Work and Labor / Brigitte Aulenbacher and Johanna Grubner List of Contributors Index
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Georg Olms Verlag AG Nikephoros: Zeitschrift für Sport und Kultur im
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£60.79
Hansebooks Report of a Committee on the Royal Hospitals at
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Transcript Verlag Past and Present Energy Societies: How Energy
Book SynopsisAbundant, salutary, problematic - energy makes history. As a symbol, resource and consumer good, it shapes technologies, politics, societies and cultural world views. Focussing on a range of energy types, from electricity and oil to bioenergy, this volume analyzes the social, cultural and political concepts and discourses of energy and their implementation and materialization within technical systems, applications, media representations and consumer practice. By examining and connecting production, mediation and consumption aspects from an international and interdisciplinary perspective, the book offers an innovative view on how energy is imagined, discussed, staged and used.
£35.70
Transcript Verlag Spaces of the Poor: Perspectives of Cultural
Book SynopsisWhat do we know about the urban impoverished areas of the world and the living environment of its inhabitants? How did the urban poor cope with their surroundings? How did they interpret and adopt urban space in order to fight against their position at the periphery of society? This volume takes up these questions and investigates how far approaches of cultural sciences can contribute to overcome the "exoticization of the ghetto" (Loïc Wacquant) and instead to look at the heterogeneity and individuality behind the facades. It opens new perspectives for the research of poverty and inequalities that do not stop at collective categories.
£28.89
Transcript Verlag Actors and Networks in the Megacity – A Literary
Book SynopsisThis study is a concise introduction to Bruno Latour's Actor-Network Theory and its application in a literary analysis of urban narratives of the 21st century. We encounter well-known psycho-geographers such as Iain Sinclair and Sam Miller, and renowned authors, Patrick Neate and Suketu Mehta. Prachi More analyses these authors' accounts of vastly different cities such as London, Delhi, Mumbai, Johannesburg, New York and Tokyo. Are these urban narratives a contemporary solution to documenting an ever-evasive urban reality? If so, how do they embody "matters of concern" as Latour would have put it, laying bare modern-day "actors" and "networks" rather than reporting mere "matters of fact"? These questions are drawn into an inter-disciplinary discussion that addresses concerns and questions of epistemology, the sociology of knowledge as well as urban and documentary studies.
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Transcript Verlag Vital Village – Development of Rural Areas as a
Book SynopsisDue to global processes of transformation and the social challenges posed by demographic change, rural areas increasingly demand attention from politics and the public sphere. The contributions in this volume demonstrate how in different European countries it is mainly the cultural players who offer suggestions for an organization of the changing forms of communal life that is keeping with the times. The arts in particular have proven to be able of providing fresh impetus and new insights.This compendium of theory and practice combines outcomes of studies in cultural policy, introduces exemplary models and thus constitutes a first attempt at determining the position of innovative cultural work in rural areas. All essays both in English and German.Durch globale Transformationsprozesse und die gesellschaftlichen Herausforderungen des demographischen Wandels rücken ländliche Räume immer mehr in den Fokus von Politik und Öffentlichkeit. Die Beiträge des Bandes zeigen für verschiedene europäische Länder, dass vor allem Kulturakteure relevante Anregungen für die zeitgemäße Gestaltung des sich verändernden Zusammenlebens geben. Insbesondere die Künste stellen dabei einen Nährboden für weiterführende Impulse dar.Dieses Handbuch für Theorie und Praxis führt Ergebnisse der Kulturpolitikforschung zusammen, stellt beispielhafte Modelle vor und wagt somit erstmals eine Positionsbestimmung innovativer Kulturarbeit in ländlichen Räumen. Alle Beiträge sind in Englisch und Deutsch enthalten.
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Transcript Verlag Animal Labor – A New Perspective on Human–Animal
Book SynopsisDo animals work? Is it possible to work with animals without exploiting them? Might animals even be empowered through work? This provocative collection offers original answers to these questions and allows readers to think about human relationships with domestic animals beyond the well-trodden tropes of domination or animal welfare. To study animal work means to look at animals in new ways and to discover in them unsuspected skills and knowledge that open up new ethical and political horizons.Trade Review"'Animal Labor' provides a more sophisticated defense of employment of animals than anything I have found in the Anglo-American world." Boria Sax, Humanimalia, Herbst 2020 "At a time when more-than-human ontologies are on many disciplines agendas, "Animal Labor" is a thought-provoking volume that forges a path for a reconceptualization of human-animal interrelations and demonstrates that analyzing working animals is also one way to learn about ourselves as humans." Hélène B. Ducros, www.europenowjournal.org, 28.02.2020 "In the individual case studies [...] interesting and partly new perspectives on the human-animal relationship in the working context, but also on work in general, are developed and discussed." Ulrike Schwerdtner, http://tierbefreiungsarchiv.de, 3 (2020), translated from GermanTable of ContentsPreface; Animal labor; Elmo and Paro; Horses in the laboratory; Are screen animals actors?; For a new conservation para; Guide dogs; The wolf and the Patou dog; Military and police dogs; From desolation to the creation of a common world; Draft horses in viticulture; Authors.
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Transcript Verlag Theatre in Transformation – Artistic Processes
Book SynopsisAre artists seismographs during processes of transformation? Is theatre a mirror of society? And how does it influence society offstage? To address these questions, this collection brings together analyses of cultural policy in post-apartheid South Africa and actors of the performing arts discussing political theatre and cultural activism. Case studies grant inside views of the State Theatre in Pretoria, the Market Theatre in Johannesburg and the Baxter Theatre in Cape Town, followed by a documentation of panel discussions on the Soweto Theatre. The texts collected here bring to the surface new faces and voices who advance the performing arts with their images and lexicons revolving around topics such as patriarchy, femicide and xenophobia.Table of ContentsTheatre in Transformation. Foreword of the editors; Bibliography; Prologue: Time to take stock? The Role of Theatre in Transformation; Theatre in Transformation. The history; Arts and Culture in South Africa. Taking Centre Stage on the Globe from Colonialism, Fascism, Apartheid and Beyond; Pinholes against apartheid. A Brief History of Political Theatre in South Africa; Theatre of Resistance. The Funda Community College in South Africa from the 1980s to the 1990s; The Unequal Brothers. The controversial history of the two leading South African theatres; Transformation in Theatre. The discourse; The performing arts as a social force. South Africa's post-apartheid theatre in the process of transformation; "Taking meat to the knives". Report of the panel discussion "Political Power of Theatre - Cultural Policy for Theatre in South Africa"; Same old apartheid drama or new democratic play? Report of the panel discussion "The State of Theatre in Soweto"; Soul food. South Africa's theatre shows how the country is seeking its future role; Theatre for Protest. The political dimension; The State of the Nation's redress re-dressed. The new forms of protest in South African Theatre and the Theatre of Excess; Political Theatre and Cultural Activism in the Free State Province, South Africa. The vacuum lef t by the death of Thamsanqa Duncan Moleko; Ubulution! A re-imagining of protest and the public sphere in contemporary theatre; Artists as "Seismographs", Theatre as a "Mirror" of Society? Conversation with Cultural Activists: Yvette Hardie, Ismail Mahomed and Omphile Molusi about Social Transformation; Theatre for Young Audiences. The Art of Education; Between Traditional Practise and Contemporary Forms. Theatre for Young Audiences in (South-) Africa; The ideal of a Rainbow Nation 1. What Theatre Arts and Cultural Policy in Europe can learn from Southern Africa; Cradle of Creativity. Cape Town was the Capital of Theatre for Young Audiences; Who's saying what about whom? South Africa's next generation is on a quest for its own identity; Township Theatre Making. An Ethnographic Study about a Developmental Tool for Khayelitsha Youth; Freedom of Expression. Perspectives on the Performing Arts; From "Playing" to "Working". Arresting systemic labour regression in the creative economy of Theatre in South Africa; Staring Dispassionately into the Abyss. Director and Author Mpumelelo Paul Grootboom from Soweto; Theatre Development and Cultural Policy in Rural Areas. A grassroots perspective from North West Province, South Africa; Are we actually deeply enough with these socio-political questions in our theatres?; Scratching the Wounds of the Past. A Playwright-Director's Note on the Play - Silent Scars; Application of indigenous performance techniques in South African theatre. The case of Mmabana Arts Culture Sports and Foundation, North West Province; Unleashing the caged power of the Black girl. South Africa's sociological theatre landscape; Epilogue: Theatre and the post-apartheid condition; Authors List.
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Transcript Verlag The Production of Consumer Society –
Book SynopsisWith a novel quality theory of consumption which treats opulence and self-restraint in consumption styles symmetrically, Ernst Mohr shows how social distance and proximity are communicated by consumption and produced by communication. He positions fringe styles with those of the mainstream in an overall stylistic system of society and analyses their encounters. Rigorously derived, the approach casts fresh light on the cultural and social evolution as well as the business models of the consumer industry. It provides a coherent interdisciplinary access to the aesthetic turn of society that has so far been treated with contradictory paradigms.Table of ContentsPreface; Part 1: Culture of Dissimilarity Material; Style; Distant and Near Vision. Part 2: The Productive Consumer Introduction; Inside Culture's Sorting Plant; Social Volition and Cultural Prowess; Cultural Selection; Social Evolution. Part 3: The Stylish Present Day Introduction; Cultural Juxtaposition and Stylistic Fertilisation; Identity Industry; The Added Value of Becoming; Bibliography; List of Figures; Index.
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Transcript Verlag Big Screens, Small Forms: Visual Varieties in
Book SynopsisWe witness an era with more screens than ever before, and within each screen, a multitude of visual varieties. Lisa Gotto investigates this medial diversity as a field of tension between large and small forms of digital image culture. This includes, on the one hand, the immersive potential of large image arrangements, such as digital 3D cinema, and, on the other hand, the compactness of mobile image forms, such as those of the smartphone film or the media practices of Instagram. Weaving together a rich variety of examples and sources, this book presents a multifaceted collection of essays that explore the transformational potential of digital media culture, contextualize its media-technical conditions, and reflect on its social consequences.
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Transcript Verlag Video Conferencing: Practices, Politics,
Book SynopsisThe COVID-19 pandemic has reorganized existing methods of exchange, turning comparatively marginal technologies into the new normal. Multipoint videoconferencing in particular has become a favored means for web-based forms of remote communication and collaboration without physical copresence. Taking the recent mainstreaming of videoconferencing as its point of departure, this anthology examines the complex mediality of this new form of social interaction. Connecting theoretical reflection with material case studies, the contributors question practices, politics and aesthetics of videoconferencing and the specific meanings it acquires in different historical, cultural and social contexts.
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Transcript Verlag O My Friends, There is No Friend: The Politics of
Book SynopsisCan friendship as a political practice offer enough traction to imagine a borderless world? The startling contemporary rise in aggressive ethno-nationalism and end-times ecological crises have the same root: an inability to be together with humans as much as the natural world. Matt Hern and Am Johal suggest that porous renditions of being-together animated by friendship can spark a repoliticization of the political to surpass the foreclosures of the state, speak to a freedom of movement, and find renovated relationships with the more-than-human. This volume includes interviews with Jean-Luc Nancy, Leela Gandhi and Leanne Simpson.
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon The Euromaidan′s Effect on Civil Society – Why
Book SynopsisSophie Falsini presents a fascinating analysis of the current state and future prospects of Ukrainian civil society in light of the 20132014 events. Since then, the country has been shaken by both socio-political disorders and a deep humanitarian emergency, also exacerbated by the crisis of internally displaced people. Yet, it is under these same premises that civil society emerged as a main societal actor in post-Euromaidan politics, development, and reform. Through its war relief work and the endeavors to lead Ukraine towards democratization, civil society has, to a considerable degree, offset the lack of an efficient state administration and activated vital components of Ukrainian social capital. In respect to these achievements, Falsini explores the way and the extent to which the events occurring in Ukraine since late 2013 -- the Euromaidan revolution, the annexation of Crimea, and the war in the East -- have contributed to the growth of social capital as well as to the resulting change in the shape and in the structure of civil society in the country. Through a multidimensional approach, combining theoretical interpretation with empirical analysis, the study examines Ukraines transformed civil society in terms of its social relations, societal networks and resources, and collective action. Based on the theory of social capital after Lin Nan, the empirical analysis revolves around the case studies of 12 civil society organizations active in providing help to internally displaced people. Semi-structured interviews were conducted in Kiev, Dnipro, and Kharkiv aiming to confirm or discard the thesis of a post-Euromaidan civil society powered by increased levels of social capital. The collected data show that the 20132014 events did indeed contribute to the reshaping of the structure of Ukrainian civil society as they reversed peoples preference for informal and cross-level networks, mistrust towards the system, and disappointment with public institutions. Compared to the past, Ukraines civil society 2.0 saw the rise of grassroots and voluntary movements which triggered social mobilization, and a long-term investment of resources for the benefit of the public good. These developments have significantly contributed to an increase of the level of social capital in post-Euromaidan Ukraine.
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ibidem Die Spaltung Amerikas berlegungen zu einer
Book SynopsisA. M. Schlesinger Jr. (1917â2007), Sonderberater von John F. Kennedy, legte 1998 mit diesem Buch eine geradezu prophetische Langfrist-Diagnose fÃr die USA vor.
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon The Social Science of the Citizen Society –
Book SynopsisThe social sciences and humanities worldwide are discovering the necessity to self-critically reshape their theorizing: The first critique of social science theorizing calls for globalizing, the second, parallel critique, for de-colonizing social thought. In his highly topical book, Michael Kuhn discusses · why and how the globalization of social science theorizing introduces thinking through nation state perspectives as an up-to-date methodological must; · how the de-colonialization of social science theorizing with the critique of Eurocentrism and its thinking through space paves the way for the worldwide implementation of thinking through nation-state views, transforming the social science world into a multiplicity of provincialized theories; · with which odd argumentations the indigenization of thought produces contributions to the ideological armament of the new states in the so-called 3rd world after their transformation into the very society system of the former colonizers; · how these indigenized theories make discourses among de-colonized theories a matter of which provincialized theory manages to rule the worldwide creation of theories; · how the masterminds of globally de-colonized thinking present imperial thought as guiding theories for mankinds thinking; · what templates for the turn from anti-capitalist towards nationalistic thinking Historical Materialism has provided, and · what consequences all this has for the social sciences as a voice in political debates about the world.Table of ContentsForeword by J Paul Goode; Authors Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction; Theoretical Points of Orientation; Legitimizing Putin; Legitimacy through Othering; Challenges from Within; Challenges from Without; The Succession Issue; Conclusion; References.
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon On the Verge of History: Life Stories of Rural
Book SynopsisRural women have not had a formative role in the public histories of Central Eastern Europe. Izabella Agárdi aims to correct that by concentrating on their life stories and their connections to general histories. She investigates how Hungarian-speaking, ordinary women in rural contexts born in the 1920s and 1930s remember and talk about the twentieth century they have experienced, and how, through their stories, they articulate historical change and construct themselves as historical subjects. In her analysis, Izabella Agárdi traces the interactions between micro- and macro- narratives as well as the specific tools women of this generation appropriate to talk about personal memories of their often traumatic past. From these stories, a particular mnemonic community emerges, one that speaks from a highly precarious position 'on the verge of history'. It is up to future generations whether these women's experiences will be remembered or forgotten.
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ibidem Executing a Renaissance The Poetological Nation
Book SynopsisExecuting a Renaissance responds both to the poets, thinkers, and scholars who are again persecuted and executed by the Russian soldateska.
£19.99
ibidem The Wild West of Eastern Europe
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ibidem A Kind of Refugee
Book SynopsisWritten with a fierce love for Ukraine and its people, this is a testament to the courage of ordinary people committed to freedom while defending their homeland.
£18.00
ibidem THE ARTS OF WAR Ukrainian Artists Confront Russia
Book SynopsisThe Ukrainian response to the 2022 Russian invasion has inspired a new appreciation for their country both within and beyond Ukraine.
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V&R unipress GmbH Faces of Communities: Social Ties between Trust,
Book SynopsisWas hÃlt Gemeinschaften zusammen? Wie gehen sie mit BrÃchen um, wie schaffen sie Bindungen?
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V&R unipress GmbH The Ceremonial of Audience: Transcultural
Book SynopsisMonarchic representation in transcultural perspective
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