Contested Representations

Author : Shelly R. Butler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134390069

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Contested Representations by Shelly R. Butler Pdf

The controversy surrounding the significant "Into the Heart of Africa" exhibit at the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada is explored in this compelling and analytical text. The exhibit has become an international, controversial touchstone for issues surrounding the politics of visual representation, such as the challenges to curatorial and ethnographic authority in multicultural and postcolonial contexts. Asking why the museum's exhibit failed so many people, the author examines such issues as institutional politics, the broad political and intellectual climate surrounding museums, the legacies of colonialism and traditions of representation of Africa, and the politics of irony. By drawing upon anthropological and cultural criticism, the book offers a unique account of the ways in which an ambiguous exhibit about colonialism became the site of an expansiveInto the Heart of Africa."

Author : Shelly R. Butler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134390137

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Contested Representations by Shelly R. Butler Pdf

The controversy surrounding the significant "Into the Heart of Africa" exhibit at the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada is explored in this compelling and analytical text. The exhibit has become an international, controversial touchstone for issues surrounding the politics of visual representation, such as the challenges to curatorial and ethnographic authority in multicultural and postcolonial contexts. Asking why the museum's exhibit failed so many people, the author examines such issues as institutional politics, the broad political and intellectual climate surrounding museums, the legacies of colonialism and traditions of representation of Africa, and the politics of irony. By drawing upon anthropological and cultural criticism, the book offers a unique account of the ways in which an ambiguous exhibit about colonialism became the site of an expansiveInto the Heart of Africa."

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Architecture and society
ISBN : UIUC:30112082834505

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Multiple Voices/contested Representations by Anonim Pdf

Author : Claudia Landwehr,Thomas Saalfeld,Armin Schäfer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781009267724

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Contested Representation by Claudia Landwehr,Thomas Saalfeld,Armin Schäfer Pdf

This volume analyses the crisis of democratic representation in liberal democracies and offers reforms for representative institutions.

Author : Dhananjay Rai
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781666901344

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Contested Representation by Dhananjay Rai Pdf

Popular Hindi cinema has become a significant signpost of contemporaneity due to its construction of social language. Generally, Hindi cinema has been understood through internal (auteur or genre or cinéma verité) and external aspects (consumption spheres and moviegoers’ complex response in the form of catharsis or everydayness mimesis). However, cinema also needs a new way of discerning with respect to ‘Dalit Representation’. The study needs to look at the construction and meaning of the social language of Hindi cinema. Construction refers to exploring factors beyond the film industry responsible for shaping the social language. Meaning entails the exhibition of social language in the form of messages. Herein, relational exploration becomes crucial. The relationship between factors of social language of Hindi cinema and Dalits must be unraveled for understanding the meaning of social language for Dalits. Contested representation encompasses the nature of absence and presence of Dalits in Hindi cinema.

Author : Nik Brown,Brian Rappert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351949002

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Contested Futures by Nik Brown,Brian Rappert Pdf

In a unique volume, Contested Futures brings together a group of scholars to examine the relationships between social action and the future. Rather than speculating upon what the future might bring, the volume interrogates the metaphors and practices through which the future is mobilized as an object of present day action and agency. The book shifts the analytical gaze from looking into the future to looking at the future as a sociological phenomenon in its own right. Futures are thus contested in as much as they register differences of interest, time frame or organizational and political form. Contestation is also evident in the ascendancy of certain discourses, languages and metaphors which foreclose some futures whilst facilitating others. But futures are far from being simply linguistic abstractions, and in fact can often be seen to harden into material entrenchment as expectations become scripted into 'path dependency' and 'lock in'. Contested Futures is an invaluable analysis for both academics and policy actors seeking a better understanding of the ubiquity of futures-discourse in the context of today’s uncertainties.

Author : Louise Purbrick,J. Aulich,Graham Dawson
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007-06-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123368271

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Contested Spaces by Louise Purbrick,J. Aulich,Graham Dawson Pdf

War creates brutal landscapes of control and domination that embed historical differences, creating physical legacies of inequality and denial. Contested Spaces is a global study of sites of conflict, places of loss, fear, resistance and pilgrimage where the materiality of violence forcibly brings the past into the present. The collection draws together scholars from cultural history, cultural geography, art history, architecture, archaeology, media studies, international relations and American studies to examine a series of internationally significant sites and how they are inhabited, represented, witnessed and visited.

Author : Michael C. Hall,Hazel Tucker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004-09-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134329663

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Tourism and Postcolonialism by Michael C. Hall,Hazel Tucker Pdf

Due to its centrality to the processes of transnational mobilities, migration and globalization, tourism studies has the potential to make a significant contribution to understanding the postcolonial experience. Drawing together theoretical and applied research, this fascinating book illuminates the links between tourism, colonialism and postcolonialism. Significantly, it creates a space for the voices of authors from postcolonial countries. Chapters are integrated and examined through concepts taken from the wider postcolonial literature, which identify tourism not only as an international industry but also as a postcolonial cultural form, which by its very nature is based on past and present day colonial structural relationships. The first book to explicitly explore the contribution tourism can make to the postcolonial experience, this book is an essential read for students of tourism, cultural studies and geography.

Author : Jennifer Lynn
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781805394174

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Contested Femininities by Jennifer Lynn Pdf

In this comprehensive, long-view study on the concept of the Neue or Moderne Frau (New or Modern Woman) that spans the Weimar Republic, Third Reich, post-war period, and a divided Germany, Contested Femininities explores how different political and social groups constructed images of women to present competing visions of the future. It takes the highly contested representations of women presented in the illustrated press and examines how they emerged as crucial markers of modernity. In doing so it reveals the surprising continuity of these images across political periods and reflects on how debates over paid work, the gender division of labor in the household, the politics of the body, and consumption, played a central role in how different German regimes defined the Modern Woman.

Author : Julie Burelle
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810138988

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Encounters on Contested Lands by Julie Burelle Pdf

In Encounters on Contested Lands, Julie Burelle employs a performance studies lens to examine how instances of Indigenous self-representation in Québec challenge the national and identity discourses of the French Québécois de souche—the French-speaking descendants of white European settlers who understand themselves to be settlers no more but rather colonized and rightfully belonging to the territory of Québec. Analyzing a wide variety of performances, Burelle brings together the theater of Alexis Martin and the film L'Empreinte, which repositions the French Québécois de souche as métis, with protest marches led by Innu activists; the Indigenous company Ondinnok's theater of repatriation; the films of Yves Sioui Durand, Alanis Obomsawin, and the Wapikoni Mobile project; and the visual work of Nadia Myre. These performances, Burelle argues, challenge received definitions of sovereignty and articulate new ones while proposing to the province and, more specifically, to the French Québécois de souche, that there are alternative ways to imagine Québec's future and remember its past. The performances insist on Québec's contested nature and reframe it as animated by competing sovereignties. Together they reveal how the "colonial present tense" and "tense colonial present" operate in conjunction as they work to imagine an alternative future predicated on decolonization. Encounters on Contested Lands engages with theater and performance studies while making unique and needed contributions to Québec and Canadian studies, as well as to Indigenous and settler-colonial studies.

Author : Daniel J. Walkowitz,Lisa Maya Knauer
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822391425

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Contested Histories in Public Space by Daniel J. Walkowitz,Lisa Maya Knauer Pdf

Contested Histories in Public Space brings multiple perspectives to bear on historical narratives presented to the public in museums, monuments, texts, and festivals around the world, from Paris to Kathmandu, from the Mexican state of Oaxaca to the waterfront of Wellington, New Zealand. Paying particular attention to how race and empire are implicated in the creation and display of national narratives, the contributing historians, anthropologists, and other scholars delve into representations of contested histories at such “sites” as a British Library exhibition on the East India Company, a Rio de Janeiro shantytown known as “the cradle of samba,” the Ellis Island immigration museum, and high-school history textbooks in Ecuador. Several contributors examine how the experiences of indigenous groups and the imperial past are incorporated into public histories in British Commonwealth nations: in Te Papa, New Zealand’s national museum; in the First Peoples’ Hall at the Canadian Museum of Civilization; and, more broadly, in late-twentieth-century Australian culture. Still others focus on the role of governments in mediating contested racialized histories: for example, the post-apartheid history of South Africa’s Voortrekker Monument, originally designed as a tribute to the Voortrekkers who colonized the country’s interior. Among several essays describing how national narratives have been challenged are pieces on a dispute over how to represent Nepali history and identity, on representations of Afrocuban religions in contemporary Cuba, and on the installation in the French Pantheon in Paris of a plaque honoring Louis Delgrès, a leader of Guadeloupean resistance to French colonialism. Contributors. Paul Amar, Paul Ashton, O. Hugo Benavides, Laurent Dubois, Richard Flores, Durba Ghosh, Albert Grundlingh, Paula Hamilton, Lisa Maya Knauer, Charlotte Macdonald, Mark Salber Phillips, Ruth B. Phillips, Deborah Poole, Anne M. Rademacher, Daniel J. Walkowitz

Author : Jeffrey S. Ravel
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501724626

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The Contested Parterre by Jeffrey S. Ravel Pdf

In the playhouses of eighteenth-century France, clerks and students, soldiers and merchants, and the occasional aristocrat stood in the pit, while the majority of the elite sat in loges. These denizens of the parterre, who accounted for up to two-thirds of the audience, were given to disruptive behavior that culminated in full-scale riots in the last years before the Revolution. Offering a commoner's eye view of the drama offstage, this fascinating history of French theater audiences clearly demonstrates how problems in the parterre reflected tensions at the heart of the Old Regime.Jeffrey S. Ravel vividly depicts the scene in the parterre where the male spectators occupied themselves shoving one another, drinking, urinating, and confronting the actors with critiques of the performance. He traces the futile efforts of the Bourbon Court—and later its Enlightened opponents—to control parterre behavior by both persuasion and force. Ravel describes how the parterre came to represent a larger, more politicized notion of the public, one that exposed the inability of the government to accommodate the demands of French citizens. An important contribution to debates on the public sphere, Ravel's book is the first to explore the role of the parterre in the political culture of eighteenth-century France.

Author : Louise Amoore
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0719060966

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Globalization Contested by Louise Amoore Pdf

This exciting book, available in paperback for the first time, provides an illuminating account of contemporary globalisation that is grounded in actual transformations in the areas of production and the workplace. It reveals the social and political contests that give 'global' its meaning, by examining the contested nature of globalisation as it is expressed in the restructuring of work.Rejecting conventional explanations of globalisation as a process that automatically leads to transformations in working lives, or as a project that is strategically designed to bring about lean and flexible forms of production, this book advances an understanding of the social practices that constitute global change. Through case studies that span from the labour flexibility debates in Britain and Germany, to the strategies and tactics of corporations and workers, the author examines how globalisation is interpreted and experienced in everyday life. Contestation, she argues, is about more than just direct protests and resistances. It has become a central feature of the practices that enable or confound global restructuring.This book offers students and scholars of international political economy, sociology and industrial relations an innovative framework for the analysis of globalisation and the restructuring of work.

Author : Carol Hardy-Fanta,Pei-te Lien,Dianne Pinderhughes,Christine Marie Sierra
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521196437

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Contested Transformation by Carol Hardy-Fanta,Pei-te Lien,Dianne Pinderhughes,Christine Marie Sierra Pdf

This book provides the first in-depth look at male and female elected officials of color using survey and other empirical data.

Author : Sean Eedy
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781800730014

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Four-Color Communism by Sean Eedy Pdf

As with all other forms of popular culture, comics in East Germany were tightly controlled by the state. Comics were employed as extensions of the regime’s educational system, delivering official ideology so as to develop the “socialist personality” of young people and generate enthusiasm for state socialism. The East German children who avidly read these comics, however, found their own meanings in and projected their own desires upon them. Four-Color Communism gives a lively account of East German comics from both perspectives, showing how the perceived freedoms they embodied created expectations that ultimately limited the regime’s efforts to bring readers into the fold.