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Power, Love and Evil
Contribution to a Philosophy of the Damaged
Häftad, 2008
1006 kr
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Love and evil are real – they are substances of force fields which contain us as constituent parts. Of all the powers of life they are the two most pregnant with meaning, hence the most generative of what is specifically human. Love and evil stand in the closest relationship to each other: evil is …
Trauma and Meaning Making
Av Danielle Schaub, Elspeth McInnes
Häftad, 2023
623 kr
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Trauma and Meaning Making highlights multiple practices of meaning making after traumatic events in the lives of individuals and communities. Meaning making consists both in a personal journey towards a new way to exist and live in a world shattered by trauma and in public politics locating and …
Traffic
Media as Infrastructures and Cultural Practices
Häftad, 2015
1071 kr
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Traffic: Media as Infrastructures and Cultural Practices presents a collection of texts by distinguished international media and cultural scholars that addresses fundamental relationships between the logistic, symbolic, and infrastructural dimensions of media. The volume discusses the role of …
Dislocating Globality
Deterritorialization, Difference and Resistance
Häftad, 2015
1643 kr
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Dislocating Globality: Deterritorialization, Difference and Resistance offers a broad panorama of critical approaches to globalization, its effects, the critique of neoliberalism, and discusses various forms of resistance to its monocultural raison d’être. The authors in this volume address these …
Re-visiting Female Evil
Power, Purity and Desire
Av Melissa Dearey, Susana Nicolás m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
1001 kr
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Reflecting current trends in scholarly analysis of evil and the feminine, the chapters contained in Re-visiting Female Evil focus upon various ‘re-interpretations’ of evil femininities as a cultural signifier of agency, transgression and crisis, re-interpreting them through rewriting of ‘other’ …
Disgust and Desire
The Paradox of the Monster
Häftad, 2018
914 kr
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Monsters have taken many forms across time and cultures, yet within these variations, monsters often evoke the same paradoxical response: disgust and desire. We simultaneously fear monsters and take pleasure in seeing them, and their role in human culture helps to explain this apparent …
Exploring Empathy
Its Propagations, Perimeters & Potentialities
Häftad, 2017
886 kr
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Popular interest in empathy has surged in the past two decades. Research on its origins, uses and development is on the rise, and empathy is increasingly referenced across a wide range of sectors – from business to education. While there is widespread consensus about the value of empathy, however, …
Exploring Erotic Encounters
The Inescapable Entanglement of Tradition, Transcendence and Transgression
Av John T. Grider, Dionne van Reenen
Häftad, 2018
1084 kr
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Erotic encounters have assumed a myriad of shapes and forms throughout the histories of the world and, at many stages of those histories, have been understood as possessing the potential to take us closer to some ultimate mode of being that the everyday, in all of its artless modesty, seems unable …
Gender under Construction
Femininities and Masculinities in Context
Häftad, 2018
914 kr
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Gender performativity, its variances depending on their historical, social and cultural contexts, and the rituals, representations and institutions involved in gender performances are some of the issues the authors addressed in this collection. Gender under Construction takes a non-essentialist …
Perspectives on Forgiveness
Contrasting Approaches to Concepts of Forgiveness and Revenge
Av Susie DiVietro, Jordan Kiper
Häftad, 2018
914 kr
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Demands for forgiveness, even in the face of horrific crimes, were common to the late twentieth century and remain critical aspirations for persons and communities in the early twenty-first century. Research on forgiveness and revenge has nevertheless revealed that many people hold divergent moral …
Social Constructions and Experiences of Madness
Av Monika dos Santos, Jean-Francois Pelletier
Häftad, 2018
870 kr
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Over the course of the centuries the meanings around mental illness have shifted many times according to societal beliefs and the political atmosphere of the day. The way madness is defined has far reaching effects on those who have a mental disorder, and determines how they are treated by the …
Who Decides?
Competing Narratives in Constructing Tastes, Consumption and Choice
Av Nina Namaste
Häftad, 2018
914 kr
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How is the meaning of food created, communicated, and continually transformed? How are food practices defined, shaped, delineated, constructed, modified, resisted, and reinvented – by whom and for whom? These are but a few of the questions Who Decides? Competing Narratives in Constructing Tastes, …
Where To From Here? Examining Conflict-Related and Relational Interaction Trauma
Av Elspeth McInnes, Anka Mason
Häftad, 2019
1318 kr
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This work provides an inter-disciplinary exploration of the aftermath of trauma arising from social conflict and the wounds dealt through interpersonal relations of loss, abuse and torture. Contributing authors examine how individuals and societies come to terms with traumatic injuries and …
Intervening Spaces
Respatialisation and the Body
Häftad, 2018
914 kr
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Intervening Spaces examines the interconnectedness between bodies, time and space - the oscillating and at times political impact that occurs when bodies and space engage in non-conventional ways. Bodies intervene with space, creating place. Likewise, space can reconceptualise notions of the …
Disassembling the Celebrity Figure
Credibility and the Incredible
Av Jackie Raphael, Celia Lam m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
914 kr
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Disassembling the Celebrity Figure: Credibility and the Incredible questions the credibility of celebrity brands, exploring how fandoms depend on perceptions and representations of authenticity. It asks how authenticity is projected by global celebrities, and how fans consume these carefully …
Perspectives on Evil
From Banality to Genocide
Av Kanta Dihal
Häftad, 2019
1226 kr
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The question of evil is one of the oldest and most intensely studied topics in intellectual history. In fiction, legend and mythology the boundary between good and evil is often depicted as clear-cut, at least to the reader or listener, who is supposed to understand such tales as lessons and …
Time and Transformation in Architecture
Häftad, 2018
1105 kr
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Time and Transformation in Architecture, edited by Tuuli Lähdesmäki, approaches architecture and the built environment from an interdisciplinary point of view by emphasizing in its theoretical discussions and empirical analysis the dimensions of time, temporality, and transformation—and their …
(Extra)Ordinary?
The Concept of Authenticity in Celebrity and Fan Studies
Av Jade Alexander, Katarzyna Bronk
Häftad, 2018
914 kr
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Questioning what “makes” a celebrity and how celebrity is controlled, dispersed and received are aspects branching out of (Extra)Ordinary’s debate over celebrities as ordinary/extraordinary. Jade Alexander and Katarzyna Bronk, together with the authors whose chapters make up this inter-disciplinary …
Pathogenesis of Fear
Mapping the Margins of Monstrosity
Häftad, 2019
1031 kr
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The Pathogenesis of Fear gathers together diverse conversations about cultural constructions of the monstrous. Interdisciplinary essays map the margins of monstrosity as follows: the cannibalistic paradox in Kleist’s late-Romantic Penthesilea; intersections of the monstrous-feminine and the new …
Fashion and Contemporaneity
Realms of the Visible
Häftad, 2019
1163 kr
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This book represents the voices of scholars, fashion designers, bloggers and artists, who speak to the pervasive nature of fashion in matters of politics, history, economics, sociology, religion, culture, art and identity. Dialogically open, the volume offers a broad apprehension of visual matter …
Communication and Conflict in Multiple Settings
Häftad, 2018
1084 kr
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Communication decisively impacts upon all our lives. This inherent need to connect may either be soothing or painful, a source of intimate understanding or violent discord. Consequently, how it is brokered is challenging and often crucial in situations where those involved have quite different ways …
Culture at Play: How Video Games Influence and Replicate Our World
Häftad, 2020
1175 kr
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What is video game culture and video games as culture? Culture at Play avoids easy answers and deceitful single definitions. Instead, the collected essays included here navigate the messy and exciting waters of video games, of culture, and of the meeting of video games and culture, and do so from …
Pilgrimage as Transformative Process
The Movement from Fractured to Integrated
Av Heather A. Warfield, Kate Hetherington
Häftad, 2018
1061 kr
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The construct of transformation has emerged as a prominent theme in academic discourse. Based on the accepted notion that processes and living organisms are in an ongoing state of development, it is unsurprising that this concept of transformation would find resonance within literature on the …
Testimony and Trauma
Engaging Common Ground
Av Cristina Santos, Adriana Spahr m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
1354 kr
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This book offers a collection of reflective essays on current testimonial production by researchers and practitioners working in multifaceted fields such as art and film performance, public memorialization, scriptotherapy, and fictional and non-fictional testimony.The inter-disciplinary approach to …
Empathy: Emotional, Ethical and Epistemological Narratives
Häftad, 2019
1279 kr
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Empathy is sometimes –for unfathomable reasons– a surprisingly evasive emotion. It is indeed a problem open to discussion. It can be particularly problematic since, for one thing, it is in appearance the emotion responsible for stitching together a shared experience with our common fellow. It is …
Fluid Gender, Fluid Love
Av Deirdre Byrne, Wernmei Yong Ade
Häftad, 2018
1201 kr
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Gender and love are so intimately interconnected that it sometimes seems as though they bring each other into being. But their relationship is shifting as human society develops new understandings of identity, gender and the self. The chapters in this volume explore the convoluted and ever-changing …
Eight Faces of Revenge
Av Vibha S. Chauhan, Lily Halpert Zamir
Häftad, 2018
1061 kr
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Is revenge an expression of rage, pain, strength, frailty, justice, or sadism? A complex emotion, revenge defies simple definitions since it is infused with different social codes and ethics. It is this intricate connection between the idea of revenge and its connections with history, aesthetics, …
Sense and Sensibility of Madness
Disrupting Normalcy in Literature and the Arts
Av Doreen Bauschke, Anna Klambauer
Häftad, 2018
1084 kr
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This volume explores the intriguing ontological ambiguities of madness in literature and the arts. Despite its association with a diseased/abnormal mind, there can be much sense and sensibility in madness. Daring to break free from the dictates of normalcy, madwomen and madmen disrupt the status …
Engaging with Fashion
Perspectives on Communication, Education and Business
Av Federica Carlotto, Natalie McCreesh
Häftad, 2018
1593 kr
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This book is a modern exploration of how we engage with fashion today. Through a series of articles this book shows the ‘ways’ through which we can approach fashion. The articles are organized around the following six sections: marketing, consuming, educating, communicating, embodying and …
Perspectives on Happiness
Concepts, Conditions and Consequences
Av Søren Harnow Klausen, Bryon Martin m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
1175 kr
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Happiness is a challenging, multifaceted topic, which obviously calls for an interdisciplinary approach. This work is a collection of papers which explores the phenomenon of happiness from a variety of angles, and from both theoretical and practical perspectives. They deal with the general nature …
