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Gesture, Gender, Nation

Author : Mary M. Doi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 031307402X
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Book Synopsis Gesture, Gender, Nation by : Mary M. Doi

Download or read book Gesture, Gender, Nation written by Mary M. Doi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-11-30 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The national dancers of Uzbekistan are almost always female. In a society that has been Muslim for nearly seven hundred years, why and how did unveiled female dancers become a beloved national icon during the Soviet period? Also, why has their popularity continued after the Uzbek republic became independent? The author argues that dancers, as symbolic girls or unmarried females in the Uzbek kinship system, are effective mediators between extended kin groups, and the Uzbek nation-state. The female dancing body became a tabula rasa upon which the state inscribed, and reinscribed, constructions of Uzbek nationalism. Doi describes the politics of gender in households as well as the dominant kinship idioms in Uzbek society. She traces the rise of national dance as a profession for women during the Soviet period, prior to which women wore veils and kept purdah. The final chapter examines emerging notions of Uzbek, as regional and national groups contest the notion through debates about what constitutes authentic Uzbek dance. Doi concludes with a comparative discussion of the power of marginality, which enabled Uzbeks to maintain a domain where Uzbek culture and history could be honored, within the Russocentric hegemony of the Soviet state.

Gesture, Gender, Nation

Author : Mary M. Doi
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gesture, Gender, Nation written by Mary M. Doi and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2002 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the social domain of "national" dances and dancing in the former Soviet Central Asian republic of Uzbekistan from 1924-1994.

Mainstreaming Gender, Democratizing the State?

Author : Shirin Rai
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719059780
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (597 download)

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Book Synopsis Mainstreaming Gender, Democratizing the State? by : Shirin Rai

Download or read book Mainstreaming Gender, Democratizing the State? written by Shirin Rai and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in association with the United Nations, this book builds on the existing body of literature on gender and democratization by looking at the relevance of national machineries for the advancement of women. It considers the appropriate mechanisms through which the mainstreaming of gender can take place, and the levels of governance involved; defines what the interests of women are, and how and by what processes these interests are represented to the state policy making structures. Global strategies for the advancement of women are considered, and how far these have penetrated at national level, illuminated by a series of case studies - gender equality in Sweden and other Nordic countries, the Ugandan ministry of Gender, Culture and Social services, gender awareness in Central and Eastern Europe, and further examples from South Korea, the Lebanon, Beijing and Australia.

Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings

Author : Juana María Rodríguez
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814762727
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Book Synopsis Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings by : Juana María Rodríguez

Download or read book Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings written by Juana María Rodríguez and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2014-07-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Alan Bray Memorial Book Prize presented by the GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language Association Finalist for the 2015 LGBT Studies Award presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures and Other Latina Longings proposes a theory of sexual politics that works in the interstices between radical queer desires and the urgency of transforming public policy, between utopian longings and everyday failures. Considering the ways in which bodily movement is assigned cultural meaning, Juana María Rodríguez takes the stereotypes of the hyperbolically gestural queer Latina femme body as a starting point from which to discuss how gestures and forms of embodiment inform sexual pleasures and practices in the social realm. Centered on the sexuality of racialized queer female subjects, the book’s varied archive—which includes burlesque border crossings, daddy play, pornography, sodomy laws, and sovereignty claims—seeks to bring to the fore alternative sexual practices and machinations that exist outside the sightlines of mainstream cosmopolitan gay male culture. Situating articulations of sexual subjectivity between the interpretive poles of law and performance, Rodríguez argues that forms of agency continually mediate among these various structures of legibility—the rigid confines of the law and the imaginative possibilities of the performative. She reads the strategies of Puerto Rican activists working toward self-determination alongside sexual performances on stage, in commercial pornography, in multi-media installations, on the dance floor, and in the bedroom. Rodríguez examines not only how projections of racialized sex erupt onto various discursive mediums but also how the confluence of racial and gendered anxieties seeps into the gestures and utterances of sexual acts, kinship structures, and activist practices. Ultimately, Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings reveals —in lyrical style and explicit detail—how sex has been deployed in contemporary queer communities in order to radically reconceptualize sexual politics.

The Routledge Companion to the Anthropology of Performance

Author : Lauren Miller
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000907910
Total Pages : 755 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to the Anthropology of Performance written by Lauren Miller and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 755 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to the Anthropology of Performance provides a cutting-edge, comprehensive overview of the foundations, epistemologies, methodologies, key topics and current debates, and future directions in the field. It brings together work from the disciplines of anthropology and performance studies, as well as adjacent fields. Across 31 chapters, a diverse range of international scholars cover topics including: Ritual Theater Storytelling Music Dance Textiles Land Acknowledgments Indigenous Identity Visual Arts Embodiment Cognition Healing Festivals Politics Activism The Law Race and Ethnicity Gender and Sexuality Class Religion, Spirituality, and Faith Disability Leisure, Gaming, and Sport In addition, the included Appendix offers tools, exercises, and activities designed by contributors as useful suggestions to readers, both within and beyond academic contexts, to take the insights of performance anthropology into their work. This is a valuable reference for scholars and upper-level students in anthropology, performance studies, and related disciplines, including religious studies, art, philosophy, history, political science, gender studies, and education.

#identity

Author : Abigail De Kosnik
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472125273
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Book Synopsis #identity by : Abigail De Kosnik

Download or read book #identity written by Abigail De Kosnik and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2019-04-18 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its launch in 2006, Twitter has served as a major platform for political performance, social justice activism, and large-scale public debates over race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and nationality. It has empowered minoritarian groups to organize protests, articulate often-underrepresented perspectives, and form community. It has also spread hashtags that have been used to bully and silence women, people of color, and LGBTQ people. #identity is among the first scholarly books to address the positive and negative effects of Twitter on our contemporary world. Hailing from diverse scholarly fields, all contributors are affiliated with The Color of New Media, a scholarly collective based at the University of California, Berkeley. The Color of New Media explores the intersections of new media studies, critical race theory, gender and women’s studies, and postcolonial studies. The essays in #identity consider topics such as the social justice movements organized through #BlackLivesMatter, #Ferguson, and #SayHerName; the controversies around #WhyIStayed and #CancelColbert; Twitter use in India and Africa; the integration of hashtags such as #nohomo and #onfleek that have become part of everyday online vernacular; and other ways in which Twitter has been used by, for, and against women, people of color, LGBTQ, and Global South communities. Collectively, the essays in this volume offer a critically interdisciplinary view of how and why social media has been at the heart of US and global political discourse for over a decade.

Gender, Nation and Popular Film in India

Author : Sikata Banerjee
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317226119
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Book Synopsis Gender, Nation and Popular Film in India by : Sikata Banerjee

Download or read book Gender, Nation and Popular Film in India written by Sikata Banerjee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interpretations of manhood have unfolded in India within a middle class cultural milieu shaped by an assertive self-confidence fuelled by liberalisation, a process by which India has been integrated into the global political economy and the prominence of Hindutva or Hindu nationalist politics. This book unpacks a particular gendered vision of nation in the modern Indian context by drawing on popular films. This muscular nationalism is an intersection of a specific vision of masculinity with the political doctrine of nationalism. The idea of nation is animated by an idea of manhood associated with martial prowess, muscular strength and toughness, but coupled with the image and construct of virtuous woman – a gendered binary of martial man and chaste woman. The author skilfully and convincingly draws together issues of political economy, including globalization and neoliberalism with majoritarian politics and popular culture, thus showing how disparate strands intersect and build on each other. Using interpretive methodologies and popular media, the book presents new interpretations of Bollywood films through the lenses of gender, masculinity and nationalism. It will be of interest to scholars of South Asian politics and culture, in particular Indian nationalism, popular culture, media and gender studies.

Gender, Nation and Women Politicians in Serbia and Kosovo

Author : Gordana Subotić
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000566137
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Book Synopsis Gender, Nation and Women Politicians in Serbia and Kosovo by : Gordana Subotić

Download or read book Gender, Nation and Women Politicians in Serbia and Kosovo written by Gordana Subotić and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-30 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the ways women politicians in Serbia and Kosovo have imagined, constructed, and politicised national identity and gender while engaging with politics in the context of the democratisation process. The first book to focus on the work of women inside political structures, it draws on participant observation and interview material to answer the question of how women in positions of power and influence deal with their national identity and gender in societies deeply divided along ethnic lines. Based on close studies of the work of a small number of women from different ethnic backgrounds, the author offers comparative analyses of the ways in which women politicians of different ethnicities respond to similar events in their everyday work. An original political ethnography that considers engagement of women in formal politics, this volume will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in political structures and political participation, particularly as these relate to questions of gender, nation and ethnicity.

Women’s Dance Traditions of Uzbekistan

Author : Laurel Victoria Gray
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350249483
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Book Synopsis Women’s Dance Traditions of Uzbekistan by : Laurel Victoria Gray

Download or read book Women’s Dance Traditions of Uzbekistan written by Laurel Victoria Gray and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-21 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive work in English on the three major regional styles of Uzbek women's dance – Ferghana, Khiva and Bukhara – and their broader Silk Road cultural connections, from folklore roots to contemporary stage dance. The book surveys the remarkable development from the earliest manifestations in ancient civilizations to a sequestered existence under Islam; from patronage under Soviet power to a place of pride for Uzbek nationhood. It considers the role that immigration had to play on the development of the dances; how women boldly challenged societal gender roles to perform in public; how both material culture and the natural world manifest in the dance; and it illuminates the innovations of pioneering choreographers who drew from Central Asian folk traditions, gestures and aesthetics – not Russian ballet – to first shape modern Uzbek stage dance. Written by the first American dancer invited to study in Uzbekistan, this book offers insight into the once-hidden world of Uzbek women's dance.

Current Debates in History & Politics

Author : M. Ali Sağlam
Publisher : IJOPEC
ISBN 13 : 1912503352
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book Current Debates in History & Politics written by M. Ali Sağlam and published by IJOPEC. This book was released on 2018 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the history section, the subject of health was handled with two of the studies focusing on the war period and the other focusing on Antique Greece period. In this context, while war as a political instrument and attitudes of social groups towards its influences were handles, the field of institutional construction was also simultaneously focused by one of the articles. The article, which deals with the Antique Greece period, alongside the place of the god, goddesses, mythological characters and medicus in the social structure of Greece society, their positions in the sphere of health were being handled. Within the section of politics, there are seven different articles investigates such different subjects as political parties, the importance of the gender roles, religion and identity matters relating with the Turkish right, govermentality regarding to genetic knowledge and urbanization, and terror typologies. Consequently, the papers in the book draw attention to different aspects of history and politics. We believe that such studies would contribute to the development of debates in social sciences and encourage interdisciplinary approaches.

Nationalism in Central Asia

Author : Nick Megoran
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822982390
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Nationalism in Central Asia written by Nick Megoran and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2017-10-04 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nick Megoran explores the process of building independent nation-states in post-Soviet Central Asia through the lens of the disputed border territory between Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. In his rich "biography" of the boundary, he employs a combination of political, cultural, historical, ethnographic, and geographic frames to shed new light on nation-building process in this volatile and geopolitically significant region. Megoran draws on twenty years of extensive research in the borderlands via interviews, observations, participation, and newspaper analysis. He considers the problems of nationalist discourse versus local vernacular, elite struggles versus borderland solidarities, boundary delimitation versus everyday experience, border control versus resistance, and mass violence in 2010, all of which have exacerbated territorial anxieties. Megoran also revisits theories of causation, such as the loss of Soviet control, poorly defined boundaries, natural resource disputes, and historic ethnic clashes, to show that while these all contribute to heightened tensions, political actors and their agendas have clearly driven territorial aspirations and are the overriding source of conflict. As this compelling case study shows, the boundaries of the The Ferghana Valley put in succinct focus larger global and moral questions of what defines a good border.

Domestic Violence in Postcommunist States

Author : Katalin FÃ¡biÃ¡n
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 025300473X
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Book Synopsis Domestic Violence in Postcommunist States by : Katalin FÃ¡biÃ¡n

Download or read book Domestic Violence in Postcommunist States written by Katalin FÃ¡biÃ¡n and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-16 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Domestic violence has emerged as a significant public policy issue of transnational character and mobilization in the postcommunist era in Europe and Eurasia, as global forces have interacted with the agendas of governments, local and international women's groups, and human rights activists. The result of extensive collaboration among scholars and activist-practitioners -- many from postcommunist countries -- this volume examines the development of state policies, changes in public perceptions, and the interaction of national and international politics.

Culture and Customs of the Central Asian Republics

Author : Rafis Abazov
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313056188
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Book Synopsis Culture and Customs of the Central Asian Republics by : Rafis Abazov

Download or read book Culture and Customs of the Central Asian Republics written by Rafis Abazov and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-12-30 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Central Asian Republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan won their independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. Now they are emerging from the shadow of dominance and are subjects of intense interest from the West. The modern culture and customs of the various peoples in these geopolitical hotspots, straddling the far reaches of Europe into Asia, are revealed to a general audience for the first time. This will be the must-have volume for a broad, authoritative overview of these traditional civilizations as they cope with globalization.

Constructing the Uzbek State

Author : Marlene Laruelle
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498538371
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Constructing the Uzbek State written by Marlene Laruelle and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past three decades, Uzbekistan has attracted the attention of the academic and policy communities because of its geostrategic importance, its critical role in shaping or unshaping Central Asia as a region, its economic and trade potential, and its demographic weight: every other Central Asian being Uzbek, Uzbekistan’s political, social, and cultural evolutions largely exemplify the transformations of the region as a whole. And yet, more than 25 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, evaluating Uzbekistan’s post-Soviet transformation remains complicated. Practitioners and scholars have seen access to sources, data, and fieldwork progressively restricted since the early 2000s. The death of President Islam Karimov, in power for a quarter of century, in late 2016, reopened the future of the country, offering it more room for evolution. To better grasp the challenges facing post-Karimov Uzbekistan, this volume reviews nearly three decades of independence. In the first part, it discusses the political construct of Uzbekistan under Karimov, based on the delineation between the state, the elite, and the people, and the tight links between politics and economy. The second section of the volume delves into the social and cultural changes related to labor migration and one specific trigger – the difficulties to reform agriculture. The third part explores the place of religion in Uzbekistan, both at the state level and in society, while the last part looks at the renegotiation of collective identities.

International Handbook of Research in Arts Education

Author : Liora Bresler
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402029985
Total Pages : 1568 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis International Handbook of Research in Arts Education by : Liora Bresler

Download or read book International Handbook of Research in Arts Education written by Liora Bresler and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-01-26 with total page 1568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a distillation of knowledge in the various disciplines of arts education (dance, drama, music, literature and poetry and visual arts), this essential handbook synthesizes existing research literature, reflects on the past, and contributes to shaping the future of the respective and integrated disciplines of arts education. While research can at times seem distant from practice, the Handbook aims to maintain connection with the live practice of art and of education, capturing the vibrancy and best thinking in the field of theory and practice. The Handbook is organized into 13 sections, each focusing on a major area or issue in arts education research.

The Museum at the End of the World

Author : Alexia Bloch
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812237993
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (379 download)

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Download or read book The Museum at the End of the World written by Alexia Bloch and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropologists Alexia Bloch and Laurel Kendall tell the story of their journey retracing the nineteenth-century Jesup North Pacific Expedition to the remote easternmost extension of Siberia and the northwest coast of North America.

When Men Dance:Choreographing Masculinities Across Borders

Author : Jennifer Fisher
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199739463
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Book Synopsis When Men Dance:Choreographing Masculinities Across Borders by : Jennifer Fisher

Download or read book When Men Dance:Choreographing Masculinities Across Borders written by Jennifer Fisher and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-07 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While dance has always been as demanding as contact sports, intuitive boundaries distinguish the two forms of performance for men. Dance is often regarded as a feminine activity, and men who dance are frequently stereotyped as suspect, gay, or somehow unnatural. But what really happens when men dance? When Men Dance offers a progressive vision that boldly articulates double-standards in gender construction within dance and brings hidden histories to light in a globalized debate. A first of its kind, this trenchant look at the stereotypes and realities of male dancing brings together contributions from leading and rising scholars of dance from around the world to explore what happens when men dance. The dancing male body emerges in its many contexts, from the ballet, modern, and popular dance worlds to stages in Georgian and Victorian England, Weimar Germany, India and the Middle East. The men who dance and those who analyze them tell stories that will be both familiar and surprising for insiders and outsiders alike.