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Creative resistance
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ISBN: 3839440696 9783837640694 3837640698 9783839440698 Year: 2020 Publisher: Bielefeld

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During the uprisings of the Arab Spring between 2010 and 2012, oppositional movements used political humor to criticize political leaders or to expose the absurdities of the socio-political conditions. These humorous expressions in various art forms such as poetry, stand-up comedy, street art, music, caricatures, cartoons, comics and puppet shows were further distributed in the social media. This first comprehensive study of political humor in the uprisings explores the varieties and functions of political humor as a creative tool for resistance. It analyzes humorous forms of cultural expression and their impact on socio-political developments in different countries of the Middle East and North Africa with a special focus on the changing modes of humor.


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Primary sources and Asian pasts

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This conference volume unites a wide range of scholars working in the fields of history, archaeology, religion, art, and philology in an effort to explore new perspectives and methods in the study of primary sources from premodern South and Southeast Asia. The contributions engage with primary sources (including texts, images, material artefacts, monuments, as well as archaeological sites and landscapes) and draw needed attention to highly adaptable, innovative, and dynamic modes of cultural production within traditional idioms. The volume works to develop categories of historical analysis that cross disciplinary boundaries and represent a wide variety of methodological concerns. By revisiting premodern sources, Asia Beyond Boundaries also addresses critical issues of temporality and periodization that attend established categories in Asian Studies, such as the “Classical Age” or the “Gupta Period”. This volume represents the culmination of the European Research Council (ERC) Synergy project Asia Beyond Boundaries: Religion, Region, Language and the State, a research consortium of the British Museum, the British Library and the School of Oriental and African Studies, in partnership with Leiden University.


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Limits of horror
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ISBN: 1781701903 1847794505 9781847794505 9780719077548 0719077540 0719083656 Year: 2008 Publisher: Manchester New York

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Horror isn't what it used to be. Nor are its Gothic avatars. The meaning of monsters, vampires and ghosts has changed significantly over the last two hundred years, as have the mechanisms (from fiction to fantasmagoria, film and video games) through which they are produced and consumed. Limits of horror, moving from gothic to cybergothic, through technological modernity and across a range of literary, cinematic and popular cultural texts, critically examines these changes and the questions they pose for understanding contemporary culture and subjectivity.Re-examining key concepts such as the u


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India in the world since 1947 : national and transnational perspectives
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ISBN: 3653016436 Year: 2012 Publisher: Frankfurt, Germany : Peter Lang,

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In recent years, India has become a favorite metaphor to describe developments and phenomena considered characteristic of globalization. Rapid economic and population growth, environmental degradation, geostrategic rivalries, mega cities, global cultural production: India has it all. A transnational perspective on the 65 years of India's independence has much to offer and some to add to existing studies. The argument is based on the observation that India has a rich history of transnational connections and exchanges, and that it is important to contextualize India's current developments in its


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American communities : between the popular and the political
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ISBN: 3823391518 Year: 2017 Publisher: Tübingen Narr Francke Attempto Verlag

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Given the political relevance of the topic of community and the apparent volatility of its meanings, it is necessary to take time and create spaces for contemplation. How can theories of community be usefully applied to various forms of cultural Production? How do notions of communitas affect representations as well as critiques of society and social developments? Based on a selection of papers given at the biennial Conference of the Swiss Association for North American Studies in late 2016, this collection approaches discourses on literary texts and other cultural Products from such angles as age studies, popular seriality, sustainability, and ecocriticism.


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Radikale Wirklichkeiten : Festivalarbeit als performatives Handeln
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ISBN: 3839458889 3837658880 Year: 2021 Publisher: Bielefeld transcript Verlag

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In den Theaterwissenschaften entwickelt sich das Forschungsfeld der »festivals studies« stetig weiter. Die Beiträger*innen des Bandes rücken erstmals die Arbeit an Festivals in den Fokus der Betrachtung und diskutieren sie hinsichtlich ihres performativen Potenzials in praxisorientierten Gesprächen, Essays und Aufsätzen. Diese bilden im Zusammenspiel einen Ansatz für eine radikale und ganzheitliche Betrachtung von Theaterfestivals und zeigen das Wechselspiel zwischen Ästhetik, Ökonomie und Kulturproduktion auf.


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Repopulating the eighteenth century : second-tier writing in the German Enlightenment
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ISBN: 1787444376 1640140190 Year: 2018 Publisher: Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer,

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In essays that examine particular non-canonical works and writers in their wider cultural context, this volume re-populates "the German Enlightenment."

The arc and the machine
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ISBN: 1781700907 1847791611 9781847791610 9781781700907 0719073421 9780719073427 1847796494 Year: 2007 Publisher: Manchester Manchester University Press

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The Arc and the machine is a timely and original defence of narrative in an age of information. Stressing interpretation and experience alongside affect and sensation it convincingly argues that narrative is key to contemporary forms of cultural production and to the practice of contemporary life. Re-appraising the prospects for narrative in the digital age, it insists on the centrality of narrative to informational culture and provokes a critical re-appraisal of how innovations in information technology as a material cultural form can be understood and assessed.The book offers a careful explo

Envisioning power: ideologies of dominance and crisis
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ISBN: 1283382156 9786613382153 0520921720 0585289379 9780520921726 9780585289373 9780520215368 0520215362 0520215362 0520215826 Year: 1999 Publisher: Berkeley (Calif.) University of California Press

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With the originality and energy that have marked his earlier works, Eric Wolf now explores the historical relationship of ideas, power, and culture. Responding to anthropology's long reliance on a concept of culture that takes little account of power, Wolf argues that power is crucial in shaping the circumstances of cultural production. Responding to social-science notions of ideology that incorporate power but disregard the ways ideas respond to cultural promptings, he demonstrates how power and ideas connect through the medium of culture. Wolf advances his argument by examining three very different societies, each remarkable for its flamboyant ideological expressions: the Kwakiutl Indians of the Northwest Pacific Coast, the Aztecs of pre-Hispanic Mexico, and National Socialist Germany. Tracing the history of each case, he shows how these societies faced tensions posed by ecological, social, political, or psychological crises, prompting ideological responses that drew on distinctive, historically rooted cultural understandings. In each case study, Wolf analyzes how the regnant ideology intertwines with power around the pivotal relationships that govern social labor. Anyone interested in the history of anthropology or in how the social sciences make comparisons will want to join Wolf in Envisioning Power.

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