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Author : George E. Marcus
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520088474
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (884 download)
Download or read book The Traffic in Culture written by George E. Marcus and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1995-12-21 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Article by Myers annotated separately.
Author : Nicholas John Ward
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787432491
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (874 download)
Download or read book Traffic Safety Culture written by Nicholas John Ward and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-12 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides traffic safety researchers and practitioners with an international and multi-disciplinary compendium of theoretical and methodological concepts relevant to the research and application of Traffic Safety Culture aiming towards a vision of zero traffic fatalities.
Author : Harry Justin Elam
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472068401
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (684 download)
Download or read book Black Cultural Traffic written by Harry Justin Elam and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2005-12-02 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fresh takes on key questions in black performance and black popular culture, by leading artists, academics, and critics
Author : Charles R. Acland
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822331636
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (316 download)
Download or read book Screen Traffic written by Charles R. Acland and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-13 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Screen Traffic, Charles R. Acland examines how, since the mid-1980s, the U.S. commercial movie business has altered conceptions of moviegoing both within the industry and among audiences. He shows how studios, in their increasing reliance on revenues from international audiences and from the ancillary markets of television, videotape, DVD, and pay-per-view, have cultivated an understanding of their commodities as mutating global products. Consequently, the cultural practice of moviegoing has changed significantly, as has the place of the cinema in relation to other sites of leisure. Integrating film and cultural theory with close analysis of promotional materials, entertainment news, trade publications, and economic reports, Acland presents an array of evidence for the new understanding of movies and moviegoing that has developed within popular culture and the entertainment industry. In particular, he dissects a key development: the rise of the megaplex, characterized by large auditoriums, plentiful screens, and consumer activities other than film viewing. He traces its genesis from the re-entry of studios into the movie exhibition business in 1986 through 1998, when reports of the economic destabilization of exhibition began to surface, just as the rise of so-called e-cinema signaled another wave of change. Documenting the current tendency toward an accelerated cinema culture, one that appears to arrive simultaneously for everyone, everywhere, Screen Traffic unearths and critiques the corporate and cultural forces contributing to the “felt internationalism” of our global era.
Author : Fred R. Myers
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822329497
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (294 download)
Download or read book Painting Culture written by Fred R. Myers and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2002-12-16 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVThe history of the Australian Aboriginal painting movement from its local origins to its career in the international art market./div
Author : Reza Banakar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857728733
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)
Download or read book Driving Culture in Iran written by Reza Banakar and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-18 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iran has one of the highest rates of road traffic accidents worldwide and according to a recent UNICEF report, the current rate of road accidents in Iran is 20 times more than the world average. Using extensive interviews with a variety of Iranians from a range of backgrounds, this book explores their dangerous driving habits and the explanations for their disregard for traffic laws. It argues that Iranians' driving behaviour is an indicator of how they have historically related to each other and to their society at large, and how they have maintained a form of social order through law, culture and religion. By considering how ordinary Iranians experience the traffic problem in their cities and how they describe traffic rules, laws, authorities and the rights of other citizens, Driving Culture in Iran provides an original and valuable insight into Iranian legal, social and political culture.
Author : Chris Bruntlett
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1642831654
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (428 download)
Download or read book Curbing Traffic written by Chris Bruntlett and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives, mobility experts Melissa and Chris Bruntlett chronicle their experience living in the Netherlands and the benefits that result from treating cars as visitors rather than owners of the road. They weave their personal story with research and interviews with experts and Delft locals to help readers share the experience of living in a city designed for people. Their insights will help decision makers and advocates to better understand and communicate the human impacts of low-car cities: lower anxiety and stress, increased independence, social autonomy, inclusion, and improved mental and physical wellbeing. Curbing Traffic provides relatable, emotional, and personal reasons why it matters and inspiration for exporting the low-car city.
Author : Marion Näser-Lather
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004298770
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Traffic written by Marion Näser-Lather and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-10-14 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traffic: Media as Infrastructures and Cultural Practices presents texts by international media and cultural scholars that address the relationship between symbolic and infrastructural dimensions of media, analysing traffic in terms of media ecology, as epistemological principle, and as (trans-)formative power. Contributors are: Menahem Blondheim, Grant David Bollmer, Richard Cavell, Wolf-Dieter Ernst, Norm Friesen, Elihu Katz, Peter Krapp, Martina Leeker, Jana Mangold, John Durham Peters, Gabriele Schabacher, Michael Steppat, Wolfgang Sützl, Hartmut Winkler
Author : Simon Mackenzie
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315532190
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (155 download)
Download or read book Trafficking Culture written by Simon Mackenzie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trafficking Culture outlines current research and thinking on the illicit market in antiquities. It moves along the global trafficking chain from ‘source’ to ‘market’, identifying the main roles and routines involved. Using original research, the authors explore the dynamics of this ‘grey’ market, where legal and illegal goods are mixed and conflated. It compares and contrasts this illicit trade with other ‘transnational criminal markets’, such as the illegal trades in wildlife and diamonds. The analytical frames of organized crime and white-collar crime, drawn from criminology, provide a fresh perspective on a problem that has tended to be seen as archaeological, rather than criminological. Bringing insights from both disciplines together, this book represents a productive discourse between experts in these two fields, working together for several years to produce the evidence base that is reported here. Innovative forms of regulation are the most productive way to explore crime control in this field, and this book provides a series of propositions about practical crime reduction measures for the future. It will be invaluable to academics working in the fields of archaeology, criminology, art history, museum studies, and heritage. The book will also be a vital resource for professionals in the field of cultural property protection and preservation.
Author : Harry J. Elam
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472025457
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Black Cultural Traffic written by Harry J. Elam and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-02-11 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A shrewdly designed, generously expansive, timely contribution to our understanding of how 'black' expression continues to define and defy the contours of global (post)modernity. The essays argue persuasively for a transnational ethos binding disparate African and diasporic enactments, and together provide a robust conversation about the nature, history, future, and even possibility of 'blackness' as a distinctive mode of cultural practice." --Kimberly Benston, author of Performing Blackness "Black Cultural Traffic is nothing less than our generation's manifesto on black performance and popular culture. With a distinguished roster of contributors and topics ranging across academic disciplines and the arts (including commentary on film, music, literature, theater, television, and visual cultures), this volume is not only required reading for scholars serious about the various dimensions of black performance, it is also a timely and necessary teaching tool. It captures the excitement and intellectual innovation of a field that has come of age. Kudos!" --Dwight A. McBride, author of Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch "The explosion of interest in black popular culture studies in the past fifteen years has left a significant need for a reader that reflects this new scholarly energy. Black Cultural Traffic answers that need." --Mark Anthony Neal, author of Songs in the Key of Black Life "A revolutionary anthology that will be widely read and taught. It crisscrosses continents and cultures and examines confluences and influences of black popular culture -- music, dance, theatre, television, fashion and film. It also adds a new dimension to current discussions of racial, ethnic, and national identity." --Horace Porter, author of The Making of a Black Scholar
Author : Barbara Sebek
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Global Traffic written by Barbara Sebek and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2008-03-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkable collection investigates the relations between literature and the economy in the context of the unprecedented expansion of early modern England’s long distance trade. Studying a range of genres and writers, both familiar and lesser known, the essays offer a new history of globalization as a complex of unevenly developing cultural, discursive, and economic phenomena. While focusing on how long distance trade contributed to England’s economic growth and cultural transformation, the collection taps into scholarly interest in race, gender, travel and exploration, domesticity, mapping, the state and emergent nationalism, and proto-colonialism in the early modern period.
Author : Harry Justin Elam
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (994 download)
Download or read book Black Cultural Traffic written by Harry Justin Elam and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Melani McAlister
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520244993
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (449 download)
Download or read book Epic Encounters written by Melani McAlister and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-07-05 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how popular culture has shaped the ways Americans define their "interests" in the Middle East. Author McAlister argues that U.S. foreign policy, while grounded in material and military realities, is also developed in a cultural context. American understandings of the region are framed by narratives that draw on religious belief, news media accounts, and popular culture. This book skillfully weaves readings of film, media, and music with a rigorous analysis of U.S. foreign policy, race politics, and religious history.--From publisher description.
Author : Ross Bowden
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793611378
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)
Download or read book Art and Creativity in a New Guinea Society written by Ross Bowden and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-07-26 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kwoma, the subject of this book, are one of a number of peoples in the Sepik River region of northern Papua New Guinea who have created some of the most distinctive visual art in the Pacific. Through case studies of their painting, sculpture, architecture and ritual this book examines in detail how people in this society understand their art as a cultural phenomenon. This includes how they understand its origins in the spirit world, how they judge quality in art and how they understand artistic creativity. The book contrasts Kwoma beliefs with the radically different approach to art found in the modern West. The modern Western concept of art first emerged not in the eighteenth century in the Enlightenment, or even later, as anthropologists and art historians often assume, but several centuries earlier in the Renaissance. The book gives an account of radical changes that took place culturally in Europe between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries in the way human intellectual creativity was understood, and how this gave rise to a new concept of art, one that remains unchanged in the modern West today.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264255516
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (642 download)
Download or read book Road Infrastructure, Inclusive Development and Traffic Safety in Korea written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report combines empirical research on the relationship between road infrastructure, inclusive economic development and traffic safety with an assessment of policies and governance structures to help governments find ways to create effective, safe and inclusive transport infrastructures.
Author : Kirsti Salmi-Niklander
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000538982
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Reading Home Cultures Through Books written by Kirsti Salmi-Niklander and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-02-27 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging, comparative, and multidisciplinary collection addresses the significance of books in creating the idea of home. The chapters present cases that reveal the affective and sensory dimensions of books and reading in the practice of everyday life of individuals, in communities, and in society. The complex relationship of books, reading, and home is explored through American and European case studies both in bourgeois and middle-class homes, and in working-class and immigrant families and communities with limited possibilities for reading. The volume combines the conceptions and representations of domesticity, the materiality of reading, and library as a place, drawing on book history and material culture studies as well as anthropology and sociology of the home.
Author : Angie Schmitt
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1642830836
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (428 download)
Download or read book Right of Way written by Angie Schmitt and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2020-08-27 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The face of the pedestrian safety crisis looks a lot like Ignacio Duarte-Rodriguez. The 77-year old grandfather was struck in a hit-and-run crash while trying to cross a high-speed, six-lane road without crosswalks near his son’s home in Phoenix, Arizona. He was one of the more than 6,000 people killed while walking in America in 2018. In the last ten years, there has been a 50 percent increase in pedestrian deaths. The tragedy of traffic violence has barely registered with the media and wider culture. Disproportionately the victims are like Duarte-Rodriguez—immigrants, the poor, and people of color. They have largely been blamed and forgotten. In Right of Way, journalist Angie Schmitt shows us that deaths like Duarte-Rodriguez’s are not unavoidable “accidents.” They don’t happen because of jaywalking or distracted walking. They are predictable, occurring in stark geographic patterns that tell a story about systemic inequality. These deaths are the forgotten faces of an increasingly urgent public-health crisis that we have the tools, but not the will, to solve. Schmitt examines the possible causes of the increase in pedestrian deaths as well as programs and movements that are beginning to respond to the epidemic. Her investigation unveils why pedestrians are dying—and she demands action. Right of Way is a call to reframe the problem, acknowledge the role of racism and classism in the public response to these deaths, and energize advocacy around road safety. Ultimately, Schmitt argues that we need improvements in infrastructure and changes to policy to save lives. Right of Way unveils a crisis that is rooted in both inequality and the undeterred reign of the automobile in our cities. It challenges us to imagine and demand safer and more equitable cities, where no one is expendable.
