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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.
Arab Spring; Political Humor; Arab Cultural Production; Satire; Art; Popular Culture; Politics; Political Art; Globalization; Cultural Studies --- Arab countries --- Politics and government --- Arab Cultural Production. --- Art. --- Cultural Studies. --- Globalization. --- Political Art. --- Political Humor. --- Politics. --- Popular Culture. --- Satire.
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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.
RELIGION / Comparative Religion. --- Asia --- History --- Asian and Pacific Council countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Gupta age. --- Source criticism. --- cultural production. --- transdisciplinarity.
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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
Gothic revival (Literature) --- Horror tales --- Literary movements --- Revival movements (Art) --- Romanticism --- History and criticism. --- Gothic horror. --- abjection. --- cultural production. --- cybergothic. --- death drive. --- fantasmagoria. --- sublime. --- terror. --- uncanny. --- video games.
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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
Since 1900 --- India --- History --- Foreign relations --- 1947 --- Andreas --- Corinna --- economic growth --- geostrategic rivalries --- global cultural production --- Hilger --- Kalter Krieg --- megacities --- National --- Perspectives --- population growth --- Transnational --- Unger
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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.
theories of community --- forms of cultural production --- American Studies --- critiques of society --- critiques of development --- age studies --- popular seriality --- sustainability --- ecocriticis
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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.
Festival; Theater; Arbeit; Performativität; Ästhetik; Ökonomie; Kulturproduktion; Kultur; Kulturmanagement; Theatermanagement; Theaterwissenschaft; Kunstmanagement; Theatre; Work; Performativity; Aesthetics; Economy; Cultural Production; Culture; Cultural Management; Theatre Management; Theatre Studies; Art Management --- Aesthetics. --- Art Management. --- Cultural Management. --- Cultural Production. --- Culture. --- Economy. --- Performativity. --- Theatre Management. --- Theatre Studies. --- Theatre. --- Work.
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Community information services --- Information technology --- Community information services. --- Social aspects --- Social aspects. --- Information Technology --- Social Sciences --- Information Science and Systems --- Communities and Urban Planning --- Sociology --- information technology --- communication technology --- health --- cultural production --- civic management --- e-governance
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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."
German literature --- History and criticism. --- European backwater. --- German Enlightenment. --- Goethe. --- Kant. --- Klopstock. --- Lessing. --- Schiller. --- cultural production. --- diversity. --- fable. --- gender diversity. --- genres. --- historical drama. --- literary circles. --- literature. --- novel. --- polyvalent indigenous sexual expression. --- socio-political impact. --- thought.
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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
Digital media. --- Discourse analysis, Narrative. --- Narrative discourse analysis --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Electronic media --- New media (Digital media) --- Mass media --- Digital communications --- Online journalism --- age of information. --- cultural production. --- digital age. --- information technology. --- informational culture. --- interpretation. --- narrative. --- new media. --- sensation. --- techno-cultural writing.
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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.
Aztecs. --- Ideology. --- Kwakiutl Indians. --- National socialism. --- Power (Social sciences). --- academic. --- anthropology. --- argument. --- aztecs. --- case study. --- coastal. --- crisis. --- cultural production. --- cultural studies. --- culture. --- dominance. --- ecology. --- government. --- historian. --- historical. --- ideology. --- labor. --- mexico. --- nazi party. --- northwest. --- pacific coast. --- pacific northwest. --- political. --- politics. --- power. --- psychology. --- scholarly. --- social science. --- social studies. --- socialism. --- socialist germany. --- socialist. --- Power (Social sciences)
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