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15 produkter
Nomadic Identities
The Performance of Citizenship
Av May Joseph
Häftad, 1999
311 kr
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A look at citizenship through the lens of performance.In a modern world of vast migrations and relocations, the rights-and rites-of citizenship are increasingly perplexing, and ever more important. This book asks how citizenship is enacted when all the world’s the stage.Kung Fu cinema, soul music, …
Modernity at Large
Cultural Dimensions of Globalization
Häftad, 1996
252 kr
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Examines the role of imagination in the cultural development of our shrinking world.The world is growing smaller. Every day we hear this idea expressed and witness its reality in our lives-through the people we meet, the products we buy, the foods we eat, and the movies we watch. In this bold look …
Translation and Subjectivity
On Japan and Cultural Nationalism
Av Naoki Sakai, Meaghan Morris
Häftad, 2008
316 kr
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Hong Kong
Culture and the Politics of Disappearance
Av Ackbar Abbas
Häftad, 1997
280 kr
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A consideration of what the culture of Hong Kong tells us about the state of the world at the fin-de-siÈcle.On June 30, 1997, Hong Kong as we know it will disappear, ceasing its singular and ambiguous existence as a colonial holdover and becoming part of the People’s Republic of China. In an …
Spaces of Their Own
Women's Public Sphere in Transnational China
Häftad, 1999
287 kr
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An exploration of women’s public expression--in China and beyond.How are the public and political lives of Chinese women constrained by states and economies? And how have pockets of women’s consciousness come to be produced in and disseminated from this traditionally masculine milieu? The essays in …
Deep Mexico, Silent Mexico
An Anthropology of Nationalism
Häftad, 2001
287 kr
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In Mexico, as elsewhere, the national space, that network of places where the people interact with state institutions, is constantly changing. How it does so, how it develops, is a historical process-a process that Claudio Lomnitz exposes and investigates in this book, which develops a distinct …
Calibrations
Reading for the Social
Av Ato Quayson
Häftad, 2003
328 kr
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Proposes an entirely new socially and politically conscious way of readingAto Quayson explores a practice of reading that oscillates rapidly between domains-the literary-aesthetic, the social, the cultural, and the political-in order to uncover the mutually illuminating nature of these domains. He …
Metaculture
How Culture Moves Through the World
Av Greg Urban
Häftad, 2001
287 kr
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It is one thing to comprehend how culture makes its way through the world in those cases where something old is reproduced in the same physical shape-where, for example, a song is sung or a story retold. It is another thing altogether, as Greg Urban demonstrates, to think about cultural motion when …
Postnational Self
Belonging and Identity
Av Ulf Hedetoft
Häftad, 2002
287 kr
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A timely look at how our globalized era has reconfigured experiences of belonging.What happens to a sense of belonging when national and regional governments, religious organizations, community groups, political parties, and corporations become unstable and incoherent, as they have in these …
Abiding by Sri Lanka
On Peace, Place, and Postcoloniality
Av Qadri Ismail
Häftad, 2005
288 kr
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The lack of peace in Sri Lanka is commonly portrayed as a consequence of a violent, ethnonationalist conflict between the Sinhalese majority and the Tamil minority. Viewed in this light, resolution could be attained through conflict management. But, as Qadri Ismail reveals, this is too simplistic …
Modernity, Islam, and Secularism in Turkey
Bodies, Places, and Time
Av Alev Cinar
Häftad, 2005
274 kr
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What would an Islamic modernism look like? The question is a pressing one, as cultures rebel against modernity in its almost exclusively European forms. Alev Cinar's groundbreaking examination of contemporary Turkey, which stands at the threshold of East and West, of religious and secular …
Small Nation, Global Cinema
The New Danish Cinema
Av Mette Hjort
Häftad, 2005
288 kr
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Small Nation, Global Cinema engages the effects of globalization from the perspective of small nations. Focusing her study on the specific cultural context of the international film market, Mette Hjort argues that the New Danish Cinema presents an opportunity to understand the effects of …
Electronic Elsewheres
Media, Technology, and the Experience of Social Space
Av Chris Berry, Soyoung Kim m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
302 kr
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Media do not simply portray places that already exist; they actually produce them. In exploring how world populations experience "place" through media technologies, the essays included here examine how media construct the meanings of home, community, work, nation, and citizenship.Tracing how media …
Politics of Selfhood
Bodies and Identities in Global Capitalism
Häftad, 2003
302 kr
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Looks at the ways social change is expressed through debates over identities and bodiesIn bodies and selves, we can see politics, economics, and culture play out, and the tensions and crises of society made visible. The women’s movement, lobbies for the elderly, pro-choice and pro-life movements, …
Race and Reconciliation
Essays from the New South Africa
Häftad, 2003
273 kr
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A meditation on the lessons to be learned from South Africa’s transformation in the wake of apartheidJustice, truth, and identity; race, society, and law-all come into dramatic play as South Africa makes the tumultuous transition to a post-apartheid democracy. Seeking the timeless through the …
