Communities and Museums in the 21st Century, Brown, Karen
Автор: Brown, Karen Название: Communities and Museums in the 21st Century ISBN: 1032288418 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781032288413 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6430.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Independent Museums and Culture Centres in Colonial and Post-colonial Zimbabwe presents case studies that grapple with the issue of `decolonising practice` in privately owned museums and cultural centres in Zimbabwe.
Описание: This edited volume brings together ten compelling ethnographic case studies from a range of global settings to explore how people build metalinguistic communities defined not by use of a language, but primarily by language ideologies and symbolic practices about the language.
Описание: Using data collected in fieldwork and surveys, Tang examines China`s clan (zongzu) system and local clan communities in rural Anhui.
Автор: Johnson Andrew Alan Название: Ghosts of the New City ISBN: 0824839390 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780824839390 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 9148.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Chiang Mai (literally, “new city”) suffered badly in the 1997 Asian financial crisis as the Northern Thai real estate bubble collapsed along with the Thai baht, crushing dreams of a renaissance of Northern prosperity. Years later, the ruins of the excesses of the 1990s still stain the skyline. In Ghosts of the New City, Andrew Alan Johnson shows how the trauma of the crash, brought back vividly by the political crisis of 2006, haunts efforts to remake the city. For many Chiang Mai residents, new developments harbour the seeds of the crash, which manifest themselves in anxious stories of ghosts and criminals who conceal themselves behind the city’s progressive veneer.Hopes for rebirth and fears of decline have their roots in Thai conceptions of progress, which draw from Buddhist and animist ideas of power and sacrality. Cities, Johnson argues, were centres where the charismatic power of kings and animist spirits were grounded; these entities assured progress by imbuing the space with sacred power that would avert disaster. Johnson traces such magico-religious conceptions of potency and space from historical records through present-day popular religious practice and draws parallels between these and secular attempts at urban revitalization.Through a detailed ethnography of the contested ways in which academics, urban activists, spirit mediums, and architects seek to revitalize the flagging economy and infrastructure of Chiang Mai, Johnson finds that alongside the hope for progress there exists a discourse about urban ghosts, deadly construction sites, and the lurking anxiety of another possible crash, a discourse that calls into question history’s upward trajectory. In this way, Ghosts of the New City draws new connections between urban history and popular religion that have implications far beyond Southeast Asia.
Автор: Ambar Saladin Название: Malcolm X at Oxford Union: Racial Politics in a Global Era ISBN: 0199975477 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199975471 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 8046.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Malcolm X at Oxford Union tells one of the great unknown stories from the Civil Rights era, capturing the powerful oratorical gifts of Malcolm X and the changing world of racial politics - all from the vantage point of an old debate hall on the campus of Oxford in 1964.
Автор: McKenzie Lisa Название: Getting by ISBN: 1447309952 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781447309956 Издательство: Marston Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 3760.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Lisa Mckenzie lived on the notorious St Ann`s estate in Nottingham for more than 20 years. Her `insider` status enables us to hear the stories of its residents, often wary of outsiders, to give a unique account of life in poor communities in contemporary Britain.
Автор: Jennifer Dailey-O`Cain Название: Trans-National English in Social Media Communities ISBN: 1137506148 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137506146 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 12196.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The analysis of these communities serves not only as a comparison of online language practices, but also as a close look at how globalization phenomena and `international English` play out in the practices of everyday life in different non-English-speaking countries.
Название: Communicating the city ISBN: 143313098X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781433130984 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 16701.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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How human meanings, practices and interactions produce and are produced by urban space is the focus of this timely and exciting addition to the study of urban communication.
Challenging notions of the ‘urban’ as physically, economically or technologically determined, this book explores key intersections of discourse, materiality, technology, mobility, identity and inequality in acts of communication across urban and urbanizing contexts. From leisure and media consumption among Chinese migrant workers in a Guangdong village to the diverse networks and communication infrastructures of global cities like London and Los Angeles, this collection combines a range of perspectives to ask fundamental questions about the significance and status of cities in times of intensified mediation and connectivity.
With case studies from Italy, Britain, Ireland, Russia, the United States and China, this international collection demonstrates that both empirical and critical knowledge on the relationship between communication and urban life has become vital across the humanities and social sciences.
Communicating the City will be essential reading for all scholars and students who desire to gain an in-depth understanding of the multiple roles that media and communication have in lived experiences of the city.
Company towns were the spatial manifestation of a social ideology and an economic rationale. The contributors to this volume show how national politics, social protest, and local culture transformed those founding ideologies by examining the histories of company towns in six countries: Argentina (Firmat), Brazil (Volta Redonda, Santos, FordlAndia), Canada (Sudbury), Chile (El Salvador), Mexico (Santa Rosa, RIo Blanco), and the United States (Anaconda, Kellogg, and Sunflower City).
Company towns across the Americas played similar economic and social roles. They advanced the frontiers of industrial capitalism and became powerful symbols of modernity. They expanded national economies by supporting extractive industries on thinly settled frontiers and, as a result, brought more land, natural resources, and people under the control of corporations. U.S. multinational companies exported ideas about work discipline, race, and gender to Latin America as they established company towns there to extend their economic reach. Employers indeed shaped social relations in these company towns through education, welfare, and leisure programs, but these essays also show how working-class communities reshaped these programs to serve their needs.
The editors' introduction and a theoretical essay by labor geographer Andrew Herod provide the context for the case studies and illuminate how the company town serves as a window into both the comparative and transnational histories of labor under industrial capitalism.
Автор: Orio Ciferri; Piero Tiano; Giorgio Mastromei Название: Of Microbes and Art ISBN: 1461369045 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781461369042 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 12196.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Proceedings of the International Conference on Microbiology and Conservation, held June 17-19, 1999, in Florence, Italy
Автор: Jowan Mahmod Название: Kurdish Diaspora Online ISBN: 1137513462 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137513465 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 14025.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The argument offered in this book is that new technology, as opposed to traditional media such as television, radio, and newspaper, is working against the national grain to weaken its imagined community.
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