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26 produkter
Border Interrogations
Questioning Spanish Frontiers
Av Benita Samperdro Vizcaya, Simon Doubleday
Häftad, 2011
527 kr
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Under the current cartographies of globalism, where frontiers mutate, vacillate, and mark the contiguity of discourse, questioning the Spanish border seems a particularly urgent task. The volume engages a wide spectrum of ambivalent regions—subjects that currently are, or have been seen in the …
Women and Men in Love
European Identities in the Twentieth Century
Häftad, 2012
618 kr
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It has often been assumed that Europeans invented and had the exclusive monopoly over courtly and romantic love, commonly considered to be the highest form of relations between men and women. This view was particularly prevalent between 1770 and the mid-twentieth century, but was challenged in the …
Grassroots Memorials
The Politics of Memorializing Traumatic Death
Av Peter Jan Margry, Cristina Sánchez-Carretero
Inbunden, 2011
2186 kr
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Grassroots memorials have become major areas of focus during times of trauma, danger, and social unrest. These improvised memorial assemblages continue to display new and more dynamic ways of representing collective and individual identities and in doing so reveal the steps that shape the national …
Tuff City
Urban Change and Contested Space in Central Naples
Av Nick Dines
Inbunden, 2012
2123 kr
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This is an important book. In a whole series of ways this study of contemporary Naples will set a bench-mark for urban studies and the way urban history is carried out. It is a book about Naples and thus about the particularities and peculiarities of that specific city. However, this is also a book …
Rethinking the Informal City
Critical Perspectives from Latin America
Av Felipe Hernández, Peter Kellett m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
543 kr
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Latin American cities have always been characterized by a strong tension between what is vaguely described as their formal and informal dimensions. However, the terms formal and informal refer not only to the physical aspect of cities but also to their entire socio-political fabric. Informal cities …
Cultural Encounters
European Travel Writing in the 1930s
Av Charles Burdett, Derek Duncan
Häftad, 2003
594 kr
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The 1930s were one of the most important decades in defining the history of the twentieth century. It saw the rise of right-wing nationalism, the challenge to established democracies and the full force of imperialist aggression. Cultural Encounters makes an important contribution to our …
Images of Power
Iconography, Culture and the State in Latin America
Av Jens Andermann, William Rowe
Inbunden, 2004
1921 kr
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In Latin America, where even today writing has remained a restricted form of expression, the task of generating consent and imposing the emergent nation-state as the exclusive form of the political, was largely conferred to the image. Furthermore, at the moment of its historical demise, the new, …
Journeys Through Fascism
Italian Travel-Writing between the Wars
Inbunden, 2007
2006 kr
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During the twenty years of Mussolini’s rule a huge number of travel texts were written of journeys made during the interwar period to the sacred sites of Fascist Italy, Mussolini’s newly conquered African empire, Spain during the Civil War, Nazi Germany, Communist Russia and the America of the New …
Art of the Project
Projects and Experiments in Modern French Culture
Av Johnnie Gratton, Michael Sheringham
Inbunden, 2005
1861 kr
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The idea of the ‘project’ crosses generic, disciplinary and cultural frontiers. At a time when writers and artists are increasingly describing their practices as ‘projects’, remarkably little critical attention has been paid to the actual idea of the ‘project’. This collection of essays responds to …
Cultural Encounters
European Travel Writing in the 1930s
Av Charles Burdett, Derek Duncan
Inbunden, 2002
2140 kr
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The 1930s were one of the most important decades in defining the history of the twentieth century. It saw the rise of right-wing nationalism, the challenge to established democracies and the full force of imperialist aggression. Cultural Encounters makes an important contribution to our …
Silence, Screen, and Spectacle
Rethinking Social Memory in the Age of Information
Av Lindsey A. Freeman, Benjamin Nienass m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
1880 kr
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In an age of information and new media the relationships between remembering and forgetting have changed. This volume addresses the tension between loud and often spectacular histories and those forgotten pasts we strain to hear. Employing social and cultural analysis, the essays within examine …
Tuff City
Urban Change and Contested Space in Central Naples
Av Nick Dines
Häftad, 2015
582 kr
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During the 1990s, Naples’ left-wing administration sought to tackle the city’s infamous reputation of being poor, crime-ridden, chaotic and dirty by reclaiming the city’s cultural and architectural heritage. This book examines the conflicts surrounding the reimaging and reordering of the city’s …
Narratives in Motion
Journalism and Modernist Events in 1920s Portugal
Inbunden, 2016
1979 kr
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Interwar Portugal was in many ways a microcosm of Europe's encounter with modernity: reshaped by industrialization, urban growth, and the antagonism between liberalism and authoritarianism, it also witnessed new forms of media and mass culture that transformed daily life. This fascinating study of …
Silence, Screen, and Spectacle
Rethinking Social Memory in the Age of Information
Av Lindsey A. Freeman, Benjamin Nienass m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
511 kr
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In an age of information and new media the relationships between remembering and forgetting have changed. This volume addresses the tension between loud and often spectacular histories and those forgotten pasts we strain to hear. Employing social and cultural analysis, the essays within examine …
Narratives in Motion
Journalism and Modernist Events in 1920s Portugal
Häftad, 2022
543 kr
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Interwar Portugal was in many ways a microcosm of Europe’s encounter with modernity: reshaped by industrialization, urban growth, and the antagonism between liberalism and authoritarianism, it also witnessed new forms of media and mass culture that transformed daily life. This fascinating study of …
Images of Power
Iconography, Culture and the State in Latin America
Av Jens Andermann, William Rowe
Häftad, 2006
527 kr
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In Latin America, where even today writing has remained a restricted form of expression, the task of generating consent and imposing the emergent nation-state as the exclusive form of the political, was largely conferred to the image. Furthermore, at the moment of its historical demise, the new, …
Locating Memory
Photographic Acts
Av Annette Kuhn, Kirsten Emiko McAllister
Inbunden, 2006
1979 kr
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As a visual medium, the photograph has many culturally resonant properties that it shares with no other medium. These essays develop innovative cultural strategies for reading, re-reading and re-using photographs, as well as for (re)creating photographs and other artworks and evoke varied sites of …
Locating Memory
Photographic Acts
Av Annette Kuhn, Kirsten Emiko McAllister
Häftad, 2006
307 kr
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As a visual medium, the photograph has many culturally resonant properties that it shares with no other medium. These essays develop innovative cultural strategies for reading, re-reading and re-using photographs, as well as for (re)creating photographs and other artworks and evoke varied sites of …
Intersected Identities
Strategies of Visualisation in 19th and 20th Century Mexican Culture
Av Erica Segre
Inbunden, 2007
1916 kr
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There has always been an important visual element to the construction and questioning of national identity in post-Independence Mexico, though one that has not always been given its due, outside of the celebrated and much-studied muralists. Ranging from the early nineteenth century to the present – …
Fetishes and Monuments
Afro-Brazilian Art and Culture in the 20<SUP>th</SUP> Century
Av Roger Sansi
Inbunden, 2007
1979 kr
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One hundred years ago in Brazil the rituals of Candomble were feared as sorcery and persecuted as crime. Its cult objects were fearsome fetishes. Nowadays, they are Afro-Brazilian cultural works of art, objects of museum display and public monuments. Focusing on the particular histories of objects, …
Border Interrogrations
Questioning Spanish Frontiers
Av Benita Samperdro Vizcaya, Simon Doubleday
Inbunden, 2008
1921 kr
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Under the current cartographies of globalism, where frontiers mutate, vacillate, and mark the contiguity of discourse, questioning the Spanish border seems a particularly urgent task. The volume engages a wide spectrum of ambivalent regions-subjects that currently are, or have been seen in the …
Women and Men in Love
European Identities in the Twentieth Century
Inbunden, 2008
2123 kr
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It has often been assumed that Europeans invented and had the exclusive monopoly over courtly and romantic love, commonly considered to be the highest form of relations between men and women. This view was particularly prevalent between 1770 and the mid-twentieth century, but was challenged in the …
Indispensable Eyesores
An Anthropology of Undesired Buildings
Inbunden, 2009
1921 kr
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Collapsing concrete colossuses, run-down overgrown skeletons, immutable architectural misfits: the outcasts from our built environment, which we are dying to dispose of — and yet cannot do without — have inspired many ghost stories, crime novels and urban legends. Such narratives reveal the …
Rethinking the Informal City
Critical Perspectives from Latin America
Av Felipe Hernández, Peter Kellett m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
1916 kr
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Latin American cities have always been characterized by a strong tension between what is vaguely described as their formal and informal dimensions. However, the terms formal and informal refer not only to the physical aspect of cities but also to their entire socio-political fabric. Informal cities …
Fetishes and Monuments
Afro-Brazilian Art and Culture in the 20th Century
Av Roger Sansi
Häftad, 2009
543 kr
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One hundred years ago in Brazil the rituals of Candomblé were feared as sorcery and persecuted as crime. Its cult objects were fearsome fetishes. Nowadays, they are Afro-Brazilian cultural works of art, objects of museum display and public monuments. Focusing on the particular histories of objects, …
Journeys Through Fascism
Italian Travel-Writing between the Wars
Häftad, 2010
543 kr
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During the twenty years of Mussolini’s rule a huge number of travel texts were written of journeys made during the interwar period to the sacred sites of Fascist Italy, Mussolini’s newly conquered African empire, Spain during the Civil War, Nazi Germany, Communist Russia and the America of the New …
