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(Un)timely Crises explores how 'crisis'--as a narrative, concept, grammar, and experience--structures time and space. This collectively written volume extends Bakhtin's 'chronotope' to challenge mobilizations of crisis within neoliberal governmentality. The book explores how contemporary crises can trigger memories and traumas of earlier events as well as foster practices of resistance and alternative visions of the future. Drawing from across disciplines and geographical contexts, (Un)timely Crises reimagines the relation of 'crisis' with 'critique', proposing future trajectories for thinking and living in and through crisis.

Philosophy --- Cognitive psychology --- Mathematical control systems --- Mass communications --- Linguistics --- Literature --- geletterdheid --- communicatie --- filosofie --- literatuur --- geheugen (mensen) --- informatietheorie --- Crises --- Crises (Sciences sociales) --- Psychological aspects. --- Social aspects. --- Aspect psychologique --- Aspect social --- Crises in mass media. --- Crises in literature. --- Crises.

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The figure of the barbarian has captivated the Western imagination from Greek antiquity to the present. Since the 1990s, the rhetoric of civilization versus barbarism has taken center stage in Western political rhetoric and the media. But how can the longevity and popularity of this opposition be accounted for? Why has it become such a deeply ingrained habit of thought that is still being so effectively mobilized in Western discourses? The twenty essays in this volume revisit well-known and obscure chapters in barbarism's genealogy from new perspectives and through contemporary theoretical idioms. With studies spanning from Greek antiquity to the present, they show how barbarism has functioned as the negative outside separating a civilized interior from a barbarian exterior; as the middle term in-between savagery and civilization in evolutionary models; as a repressed aspect of the civilized psyche; as concomitant with civilization; as a term that confuses fixed notions of space and time; or as an affirmative notion in philosophy and art, signifying radical change and regeneration. Proposing an original interdisciplinary approach to barbarism, this volume includes both overviews of the concept's travels as well as specific case studies of its workings in art, literature, philosophy, film, ethnography, design, and popular culture in various periods, geopolitical contexts, and intellectual traditions. Through this kaleidoscopic view of the concept, it recasts the history of ideas not only as a task for historians, but also literary scholars, art historians, and cultural analysts.

Civilization --- Outsiders in art --- Outsiders in literature --- #SBIB:39A3 --- #SBIB:39A5 --- Antropologie: geschiedenis, theorie, wetenschap (incl. grondleggers van de antropologie als wetenschap) --- Kunst, habitat, materiële cultuur en ontspanning

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This collection rethinks crisis in relation to critique through the prism of various declared ‘crises’ in the Mediterranean: the refugee crisis, the Eurozone crisis, the Greek debt crisis, the Arab Spring, the Palestinian question, and others. With contributions from cultural, literary, film, and migration studies and sociology, this book shifts attention from Europe to the Mediterranean as a site not only of intersecting crises, but a breeding ground for new cultures of critique, visions of futurity, and radical imaginaries shaped through or against frameworks of crisis. If crisis rhetoric today serves populist, xenophobic or anti-democratic agendas, can the concept crisis still do the work of critique or partake in transformative languages by scholars, artists, and activists? Or should we forge different vocabularies to understand present realities? This collection explores alternative mobilizations of crisis and forms of art, cinema, literature, and cultural practices across the Mediterranean that disengage from dominant crisis narratives. Chapter 1 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Culture. --- Ethnology—Middle East . --- Ethnology—Europe. --- Global/International Culture. --- Middle Eastern Culture. --- European Culture. --- Cultural sociology --- Culture --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Social aspects --- Ethnology

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De lichtheid van literatuur is een warm pleidooi voor de maatschappelijke relevantie van literatuur. De auteurs betogen tegen de gangbare retoriek in dat literatuur een onmisbare rol kan spelen in het debat over de multiculturele samenleving en dat dankzij haar vermogen om complexiteit onder woorden te brengen. De gebruikelijke discussies over multiculturalisme draaien om versimpeling. Bepaalde thema's en retorische strategieën keren voortdurend terug: het thema van bedreiging en ondergang, het verlangen naar onschuld en culturele stereotyperingen, zoals de volksmens en de barbaar. Met behulp van internationale wetenschappelijke analyses geeft dit boek een inzicht in de achtergronden en effecten van die riskante denkwijzen. Is er dan een alternatief voor het hedendaagse populisme en de versimpeling? De auteurs van De lichtheid van literatuur menen van wel. Literatuur gebruikt namelijk een bijzondere taal om de multiculturele werkelijkheid te verbeelden, een taal die figuratief is en meervoudige betekenissen oplevert. Vanuit enkele literaire voorbeelden formuleren de auteurs een nieuwe visie op de multiculturele samenleving, waarin de complexiteit van taal, verbeelding en werkelijkheid centraal staan. Als docent werken de auteurs van dit boek dagelijks met jongeren die sterk geïnteresseerd zijn in literatuur en complexiteit.

#SBIB:309H515 --- #SBIB:316.7C213 --- #SBIB:39A5 --- Literatuurwetenschap, literatuursociologie --- Cultuursociologie: letterkunde, literatuur --- Kunst, habitat, materiële cultuur en ontspanning --- Thematology --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Literature

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