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The Bureaucratization of the World in the Neoliberal Era
An International and Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Contemporary bureaucracy is a set of norms, rules, procedures, and formalities which includes administration, business, and NGOs. Where Max Weber meets Michel Foucault, Béatrice Hibou analyzes the political dynamics underlying this process. Neoliberal bureaucracy is a vector of discipline and control, producing social and political indifference.
Negotiating Europe
EU Promotion of Europeanness since the 1950s
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
The book explores the promotion of Europeanness, which aims to arouse feelings of belonging to the European Union. It demonstrates that the promotion of Europeanness at the EU level does not constitute an overarching identity policy that imposes a homogenous interpretation of European identity. Rather,...
by L. Dovey
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
Tracing the history of Africa's relationship to film festivals and exploring the festivals' impact on the various types of people who attend festivals (the festival experts, the ordinary festival audiences, and the filmmakers), Dovey reveals what turns something called a "festival" into a "festival experience" for these groups.
by S. Liu
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
In Shanghai in the early twentieth century, a hybrid theatrical form, wenmingxi, emerged that was based on Western spoken theatre, classical Chinese theatre, and a Japanese hybrid form known as shinpa. This book places it in the context of its hybridized literary and performance elements, giving it a definitive place in modern Chinese theatre.
Shakespearean Neuroplay
Reinvigorating the Study of Dramatic Texts and Performance through Cognitive Science
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Using Shakespeare's Hamlet as a test subject and cognitive linguistic theory of conceptual blending as a tool, Cook unravels the 'mirror held up to nature' at the center of Shakespeare's play and provides a methodology for applying cognitive science to the study of drama.
Modern Poetry and Ethnography
Yeats, Frost, Warren, Heaney, and the Poet as Anthropologist
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
This study maps a new approach to the works of W.B. Yeats, Robert Frost, Robert Penn Warren, and Seamus Heaney. Sean Heuston combines interdisciplinary analysis, specifically ethnography, with close reading, and in so doing argues provocatively for the intersection of modern poetry studies and contemporary ethnographic theory.
Stage Designers in Early Twentieth-Century America
Artists, Activists, Cultural Critics
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2012
By casting designers as authors, cultural critics, activists, entrepreneurs, and global cartographers, Essin tells a story about scenic images on the page, stage, and beyond that helped American audiences see the everyday landscapes and exotic destinations from a modern perspective.
Theorizing Fieldwork in the Humanities
Methods, Reflections, and Approaches to the Global South
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
This volume, the first of its kind, launches a conversation amongst humanities scholars doing fieldwork on the global south. It both offers indispensable tools and demonstrates the value of such work inside and outside of the academy. The contributors reflect upon their experiences of fieldwork,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
How do we conceptualize the relationship between suffering, art, and aesthetics from within the broader framework of social, cultural, and political thought today? This book brings together a range of intellectuals from the social sciences and humanities to speak to theoretical debates around the questions of suffering in art and suffering and art.
Cultivating National Identity through Performance
American Pleasure Gardens and Entertainment
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
As outdoor entertainment venues in American cities, pleasure gardens were public spaces where people could explore what it meant to be American. Stubbs examines how these venues helped form American identity and argues the gardens allowed for the exploration of what it meant to be American through performance, both on and off the stage.
Decolonizing the Body of Christ
Theology and Theory after Empire?
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
The first book in the new Postcolonialism and Religions series offers a preview of the series focus on multireligious, indigenous, and transnational scholarly voices. In this book, the once arch enemies of Religious studies and Postcolonial theory become critical companions in shared analysis of major postcolonial themes.
by D. Ohana
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
This book is a detailed and comprehensive work which reviews the origins of Israel's Mediterranean identity, starting with its Zionist ideological origins and tracing the path up to the present, as Israel struggles with what it means to be a post-ideological Mediterranean country.
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Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
This collection addresses royal motherhood across Europe, from both the medieval and Early Modern periods, including (in)famous and not-so-famous royal mothers. The essays in this collection reveal the complexities and the subtleties inherent in the role of royal mothers and challenges these traditional...
by S. Roncador
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Drawing from a variety of historical sources, theory, and fictional and non-fictional production, this book addresses the cultural imaginary of domestic servants in modern Brazil and demonstrates maids' symbolic centrality to shifting notions of servitude, subordination, femininity, and domesticity.