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Politics and the poetics of migration : narratives of Iranian women from the diaspora
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ISBN: 1459321375 1417588608 9781417588602 1551302721 9781551302720 9781459321373 9781551308401 1551308401 1551302720 Year: 2004 Publisher: Toronto : Canadian Scholars' Press,


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Figures of Memory : The Rhetoric of Displacement at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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ISBN: 1438460783 9781438460789 9781438460772 1438460775 Year: 2016 Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press,

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"Explores how the USHMM and other museums and memorials both displace and disturb the memories that they are trying to commemorate. Figures of Memory examines how the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in Washington, DC, uses its space and the design of its exhibits to 'move' its visitors to memory. From the objects and their placement to the architectural design of the building and the floor plan, the USHMM was meant to teach visitors about the Holocaust. But what Michael Bernard-Donals found is that while they learn, and remember, the Holocaust, visitors also call to mind other, sometimes unrelated memories. Partly this is because memory itself works in multidirectional ways, but partly it's because of decisions made in the planning that led to the creation of the museum. Drawing on material from the USHMM's institutional archive, including meeting minutes, architectural renderings, visitor surveys, and comments left by visitors, Figures of Memory is both a theoretical exploration of memory--its relation to identity, space, and ethics--and a practical analysis of one of the most discussed memorials in the United States. The book also extends recent discussions of the rhetoric of memorial sites and museums by arguing that sites like the USHMM don't so much 'make a case for' events through the act of memorialization, but actually displace memory, disturbing it--and the museum visitor--so much so that they call it into question. Memory, like rhetorical figures, moves, and the USHMM moves its visitors, figuratively and literally, both to and beyond the events the museum is meant to commemorate"--From publisher's website.


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Zombies in Western culture : a twenty-first century crisis
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ISBN: 9781783743308 9781783743315 1783743301 178374331X 9781783743322 1783743328 178374328X 9781783743285 2821897316 9782821897311 9781783743292 9781783743285 178374328X 1783743298 Year: 2017 Publisher: Open Book Publishers

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Why has the zombie become such a pervasive figure in twenty-first-century popular culture? John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro and Filip Miscevic seek to answer this question by arguing that particular aspects of the zombie, common to a variety of media forms, reflect a crisis in modern Western culture. The authors examine the essential features of the zombie, including mindlessness, ugliness and homelessness, and argue that these reflect the outlook of the contemporary West and its attendant zeitgeists of anxiety, alienation, disconnection and disenfranchisement. They trace the relationship between zombies and the theme of secular apocalypse, demonstrating that the zombie draws its power from being a perversion of the Christian mythos of death and resurrection. Symbolic of a lost Christian worldview, the zombie represents a world that can no longer explain itself, nor provide us with instructions for how to live within it. The concept of “domicide” or the destruction of home is developed to describe the modern crisis of meaning that the zombie both represents and reflects. This is illustrated using case studies including the relocation of the Anishinaabe of the Grassy Narrows First Nation, and the upheaval of population displacement in the Hellenistic period. Finally, the authors invoke and reformulate symbols of the four horseman of the apocalypse as rhetorical analogues to frame those aspects of contemporary collapse that elucidate the horror of the zombie. Zombies in Western Culture: A Twenty-First Century Crisis is required reading for anyone interested in the phenomenon of zombies in contemporary culture. It will also be of interest to an interdisciplinary audience including students and scholars of culture studies, semiotics, philosophy, religious studies, eschatology, anthropology, Jungian studies, and sociology.


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Displacement, revolution, and the new urban condition
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ISBN: 9789351501770 9351501779 9788132116608 8132116607 9351504204 9351507785 Year: 2014 Publisher: Thousand Oaks

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This title attempts to theorise the contemporary urban condition by arguing that displacement forms the central logic of urban exploitation. In order to theorise urban exploitation it is important to understand who is having to move and where, who is being resettled and how, and how is this process of displacing and resettling oppressive.

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