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Relocations

Author : Karen Tongson
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814784089
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Relocations written by Karen Tongson and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What queer lives, loves and possibilities teem within suburbia’s little boxes? Moving beyond the imbedded urban/rural binary, Relocations offers the first major queer cultural study of sexuality, race and representation in the suburbs. Focusing on the region humorists have referred to as “Lesser Los Angeles”—a global prototype for sprawl—Karen Tongson weaves through suburbia’s “nowhere”spaces to survey our spatial imaginaries: the aesthetic, creative and popular materials of the new suburbia. Across southern California’s freeways, beneath its overpasses and just beyond its winding cloverleaf interchanges, Tongson explores the improvisational archives of queer suburban sociability, from multimedia artist Lynne Chan’s JJ Chinois projects and the amusement park night-clubs of 1980s Orange County to the imperial legacies of the region known as the Inland Empire. By taking a hard look at the cosmopolitanism historically considered de rigeur for queer subjects, while engaging with the so-called “New Suburbanism” that has captivated the national imaginary in everything from lifestyle trends to electoral politics, Relocations radically revises our sense of where to see and feel queer of color sociability, politics and desire.

The Legacies of Ursula K. Le Guin

Author : Christopher L. Robinson
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030828271
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book The Legacies of Ursula K. Le Guin written by Christopher L. Robinson and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-09-19 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Legacies of Ursula K. Le Guin explores how Le Guin’s fiction and essays have built a speculative ethical practice engaging indigenous knowledge and feminism, while crafting utopias in which human and other-than-human life forms enter into new relations. Her work also delineates new ways of making sense of the “science” of science fiction. The authors of this collection provide up-to-date discussions of well-known works as well as more experimental writings. Written in an accessible style, Legacies will appeal to any readers interested in literature, science fiction and fantasy, as well as specialists of science and technology studies, philosophy of science, ethics, gender studies, indigenous studies and posthumanism.

Contesting Secularism

Author : Anders Berg-Sorensen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131716024X
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Contesting Secularism written by Anders Berg-Sorensen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As we enter the twenty-first century, the role of religion within civic society has become an issue of central concern across the world. The complex trends of secularism, multiculturalism and the rise of religiously motivated violence raise fundamental questions about the relationship between political institutions, civic culture and religious groups. Contesting Secularism represents a major intervention into this debate. Drawing together contributions from leading scholars from across the world it analyses how secularism functions as a political doctrine in different national contexts put under pressure by globalisation. In doing so it presents different models for the relationship between political institutions and religious groups, challenging the reader to be more aware of assumptions within their own cultural context, and raises alternative possibilities for the structure of democratic, multi-faith societies. Through its inter-disciplinary and comparative approach, Contesting Secularism sets a new agenda for thinking about the place of religion in the public sphere of twenty-first century societies. It is essential reading for policymakers, as well as for scholars and students in political science, law, sociology and religious studies.

Nomadic Theory

Author : Rosi Braidotti
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231525427
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Nomadic Theory written by Rosi Braidotti and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-07 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rosi Braidotti's nomadic theory outlines a sustainable modern subjectivity as one in flux, never opposed to a dominant hierarchy yet intrinsically other, always in the process of becoming, and perpetually engaged in dynamic power relations both creative and restrictive. Nomadic theory offers an original and powerful alternative for scholars working in cultural and social criticism and has, over the past decade, crept into continental philosophy, queer theory, and feminist, postcolonial, techno-science, media, and race studies, as well as into architecture, history, and anthropology. This collection provides a core introduction to Braidotti's nomadic theory and its innovative formulations, which playfully engage with Deleuze, Foucault, Irigaray, and a host of political and cultural issues. Arranged thematically, essays begin with such concepts as sexual difference and embodied subjectivity and follow with explorations in technoscience, feminism, postsecular citizenship, and the politics of affirmation. Braidotti develops a distinctly positive critical theory that rejuvenates the experience of political scholarship. Inspired yet not confined by Deleuzian vitalism, with its commitment to the ontology of flows, networks, and dynamic transformations, she emphasizes affects, imagination, and creativity and the politics of radical immanence. Incorporating ideas from Nietzsche and Spinoza as well, Braidotti establishes a critical-theoretical framework equal parts critique and creation. Ever mindful of the perils of defining difference in terms of denigration and the related tendency to subordinate sexualized, racialized, and naturalized others, she explores the eco-philosophical implications of nomadic theory, feminism, and the irreducibility of sexual difference and sexuality. Her dialogue with technoscience is crucial to nomadic theory, which deterritorializes the established understanding of what counts as human, along with our relationship to animals, the environment, and changing notions of materialism. Keeping her distance from the near-obsessive focus on vulnerability, trauma, and melancholia in contemporary political thought, Braidotti promotes a politics of affirmation that has the potential to become its own generative life force.

Intimate Citizenships

Author : Elzbieta H. Oleksy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135853460
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Intimate Citizenships written by Elzbieta H. Oleksy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-03-23 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a focus on gender and sexuality studies, this edited collection documents how people's most private decisions and practices are intertwined with public institutions and state policies.

Nomadic Subjects

Author : Rosi Braidotti
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023151526X
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Nomadic Subjects written by Rosi Braidotti and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than fifteen years, Nomadic Subjects has guided discourse in continental philosophy and feminist theory, exploring the constitution of contemporary subjectivity, especially the concept of difference within European philosophy and political theory. Rosi Braidotti's creative style vividly renders a productive crisis of modernity. From a feminist perspective, she recasts embodiment, sexual difference, and complex concepts through relations to technology, historical events, and popular culture. This thoroughly revised and expanded edition retains all but two of Braidotti's original essays, including her investigations into epistemology's relation to the "woman question;" feminism and biomedical ethics; European feminism; and the possible relations between American feminism and European politics and philosophy. A new piece integrates Deleuze and Guattari's concept of the "becoming-minoritarian" more deeply into modern democratic thought, and a chapter on methodology explains Braidotti's methods while engaging with her critics. A new introduction muses on Braidotti's provocative legacy.

Translating Canada

Author : Luise von Flotow
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
ISBN 13 : 0776618547
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Translating Canada written by Luise von Flotow and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2007-10-25 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last thirty years of the twentieth century, Canadian federal governments offered varying degrees of support for literary and other artistic endeavour. A corollary of this patronage of culture at home was an effort to make the resulting works available for audiences elsewhere in the world. Current developments in the study of translation and its influence as cultural transfer have made possible new assessments of such efforts to project a national image abroad. Translating Canada examines cultural materials exported by Canada in addition to those selected for acquisition by German publishers, theatres, and other culture brokers. It also considers the motivations of particular translators and the reception by German reviewers of works by a wide variety of Canadian writers -- novelists and poets, playwrights and children's authors, literary and social critics. Above all, the book maps for its readers a number of significant, though frequently unsuspected, roles that translation assumes in the intercultural negotiation of national images and values. The chapters in this collection will be of value to students, teachers, and scholars in a number of fields. Informed lay readers, too, will appreciate the authors’ insights into the different ways in which translation has contributed to German reception of Canadian books and culture.

China, India and the Eastern World

Author : Martin Banham
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1847011462
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book China, India and the Eastern World written by Martin Banham and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2016 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extends the study of China's soft power into theatre studies and looks more widely at syncretic traditions evolving in other long-term historic exchanges between Asia and Africa.

Relocating Agency

Author : Olakunle George
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791487768
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Relocating Agency written by Olakunle George and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2003 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Combining a sustained critical engagement of Anglo-American theory with focused close-readings of major African writers, this book performs a long-overdue cross-fertilization of ideas among poststructuralism, postcolonial theory, and African literature. The author examines several influential figures in current theory such as Habermas, Althusser, Laclau and Mouffe, as well as the theorists of postcolonialism, and offers an extended reading of the Nigerian writers D.O. Fagunwa, Wole Soyinka, Amos Tutuola, and Chinua Achebe. He argues that contrary to what the purism and voluntarism common to postcolonial theory might suggest, one lesson of African letters is that significant agency can result from acts that are blind to their determinations. For George, African letters offer an instance of "agency-in-motion," as opposed to agency in theory.

War and Migration

Author : Alessandro Monsutti
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113548676X
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (354 download)

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Download or read book War and Migration written by Alessandro Monsutti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-10 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the case of the Hazaras, a population from central Afghanistan, this book shows how migration studies and transnationalism are at the heart of theoretical and methodological debates which animate anthropology.

Digital Mapping and Indigenous America

Author : Janet Berry Hess
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000367142
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Digital Mapping and Indigenous America written by Janet Berry Hess and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-31 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employing anthropology, field research, and humanities methodologies as well as digital cartography, and foregrounding the voices of Indigenous scholars, this text examines digital projects currently underway, and includes alternative modes of "mapping" Native American, Alaskan Native, Indigenous Hawaiian and First Nations land. The work of both established and emerging scholars addressing a range of geographic regions and cultural issues is also represented. Issues addressed include the history of maps made by Native Americans; healing and reconciliation projects related to boarding schools; language and land reclamation; Western cartographic maps created in collaboration with Indigenous nations; and digital resources that combine maps with narrative, art, and film, along with chapters on archaeology, place naming, and the digital presence of elders. This text is of interest to scholars working in history, cultural studies, anthropology, Native American studies, and digital cartography.

Land Acquisition and Relocation Assistance for Airport Development Projects

Author : United States. Federal Aviation Administration
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Land Acquisition and Relocation Assistance for Airport Development Projects written by United States. Federal Aviation Administration and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Proposed Relocation of the Panama City-Bay County International Airport

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1156 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Proposed Relocation of the Panama City-Bay County International Airport written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 1156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Relocations

Author : Imraan Coovadia
Publisher : Juta and Company (Pty) Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1775820793
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (758 download)

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Download or read book Relocations written by Imraan Coovadia and published by Juta and Company (Pty) Ltd. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 2009 and 2012, the Gordon Institute for the Performing and Creative Arts in Cape Town held the Great Texts/Big Questions public lecture series which became a celebrated part of Cape Town’s cultural landscape, demonstrating current intellectual and creative thinking in South Africa. These lectures gave audiences a chance to engage with transformative texts and questions, to hear thought leaders speak on the ideas, the books, the art, and the films that matter to them and to us. Relocations: Reading Culture in South Africa brings together a selection of these lectures by world-renowned artists, writers and thinkers in the form of essays, for the benefit of a wider readership, with a contemporary design which plays with words. The authors range from novelists André Brink and Imraan Coovadia (one of the collection’s editors), to poets Gabeba Baderoon and Rustum Kozain, to artist William Kentridge and social activist Zackie Achmat. The topics are as wide as Don Quixote, Marx and Lincoln, trout fishing, Hamlet, the 19th-century Russian writer Gogol and Nabokov’s novel Lolita. Today’s readers are increasingly interested in finding new ways to understand and live with great texts and the world of ideas. Books like this demonstrate that thinking about these texts does not have to be an inaccessibly academic pursuit.

Moving Images, Mobile Bodies

Author : Horea Avram
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527514951
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Moving Images, Mobile Bodies written by Horea Avram and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-27 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book comprises a series of contributions by international scholars and practitioners from different backgrounds researching in the fields of contemporary visual culture and performance studies. This collection addresses the issue of corporeality as a discursive field (which asks for a “poetics”), and the possible ways in which technology affects and is affected by the body in the context of recent artistic and theoretical developments. The common denominator of the contributions here is their focus on the relationship between body and image expressed as the connection between reality and fiction, presence and absence, private and public, physical and virtual. The essays cover a wide range of topics within a framework that integrates and emphasises recent artistic practices and current academic debates in the fields of performance studies, visual arts, new aesthetics, perception theories, phenomenology, and media theory. The book addresses these recent trends by articulating issues including the relationship between immediate experience and mediated image; performing the image; the body as fictional territory; performative idioms and technological expression; corporeality, presence and memory; interactivity as a catalyst for multimediality and remediation; visuality, performativity and expanded spectatorship; and the tensions between public space and intimacy in (social) media environments. The main strength of this volume is the fact that it provides the reader with a fresh, insightful and transdiciplinary perspective on the body–image relationship, an issue widely debated today, especially in the context of global artistic and technological transformations.

Relocating Cultural Studies

Author : Valda Blundell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134904231
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Relocating Cultural Studies written by Valda Blundell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume demonstrates how cultural studies has diffused from Britain into other English-speaking countries, and how its original concerns have been renegotiated and changed. It is an unrivalled guide to international cultural studies.

The New Island Relocation Guide

Author : Lee Mothes
Publisher : The Commonwealth of New Isl
ISBN 13 : 0976580403
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (765 download)

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Download or read book The New Island Relocation Guide written by Lee Mothes and published by The Commonwealth of New Isl. This book was released on 2005-03-15 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guidebook to an imaginary island-nation in the Indian Ocean.