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Affective Images

Marietta Kesting
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Author : Marietta Kesting
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781438467863

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Explores intervisual case studies in relation to migration, xenophobia, and gender. Affective Images examines both canonical and lesser-known photographs and films that address the struggle against apartheid and the new struggles that came into being in post-apartheid times. Marietta Kesting argues for a way of embodied seeing and complements this with feminist and queer film studies, history of photography, media theory, and cultural studies. Featuring in-depth discussions of photographs, films, and other visual documents, Kesting then situates them in broader historical contexts, such as cultural history and the history of black subjectivity and revolves the images around the intersection of race and gender. In its interdisciplinary approach, this book explores the recurrence of affective images of the past in a different way, including flashbacks, trauma, “white noise,” and the return of the repressed. It draws its materials from photographers, filmmakers, and artists such as Ernest Cole, Simphiwe Nkwali, Terry Kurgan, Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi, Adze Ugah, and the Center for Historical Reenactments. Marietta Kesting is Junior Professor for Media Theory at the CX Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, Germany.

Defiant Maids and Stubborn Farmers

Donald Cosentino
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Author : Donald Cosentino
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1982-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0521241979

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The domei is a popular narrative art form among the Mende people of Sierra Leone. Although it is a traditional form, the narratives are not remembered or retold, but on each occasion the performers recreate out of a common stock of characters and plots domeisia, which are singular and sometimes brilliant expressions of a singular, and often brilliant, culture. In this book Donald Cosentino presents a large selection of these narratives, as he collected them in dramatic performance on the verandahs and around the cooking fires of a Mende village. The domei is told to please, and Dr Cosentino details the various elements that constitute the pleasure of an oral performance. But beneath the surface glitter of these ironic, horrifying, bawdy and haunting narrative performances, there is an intellectual hardness of argument and debate which shines through the domeisia included here. Dominating these performances, and emblematic of the entire artistic tradition, are the 'everywoman' figure of the Defiant Maid, Yombo, and the 'everyman' Stubborn Farmer, Kpana.

Getting the Picture

Jason E. Hill,Vanessa R. Schwartz
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Author : Jason E. Hill,Vanessa R. Schwartz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-09
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781000211320

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Powerful and often controversial, news pictures promise to make the world at once immediate and knowable. Yet while many great writers and thinkers have evaluated photographs of atrocity and crisis, few have sought to set these images in a broader context by defining the rich and diverse history of news pictures in their many forms. For the first time, this volume defines what counts as a news picture, how pictures are selected and distributed, where they are seen and how we critique and value them. Presenting the best new thinking on this fascinating topic, this book considers the news picture over time, from the dawn of the illustrated press in the nineteenth century, through photojournalism’s heyday and the rise of broadcast news and newsreels in the twentieth century and into today’s digital platforms. It examines the many kinds of images: sport, fashion, society, celebrity, war, catastrophe and exoticism; and many mediums, including photography, painting, wood engraving, film and video. Packed with the best research and full colour-illustrations throughout, this book will appeal to students and readers interested in how news and history are key sources of our rich visual culture.

Defiant Images

Darren Newbury
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Author : Darren Newbury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Apartheid
ISBN : 1868885232

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"Photography is often believed to witness history or reflect society, but such perspectives fail to account for the complex ways in which photographs get made and seen, and the variety of motivations and social and political factors that shape the vision of the world that photographs provide. This book develops a critical historical method for engaging with photographers to try and understand how they viewed the work they were doing, and examines the place of photography in a post-apartheid era. Based on interviews with photographers, editors and curators, and through the analysis of photographs held in collections and displayed in museums, this research addresses the significance of photography in South Africa during the second half of the twentieth century"--Cover

Unsettled History

Leslie Witz,Gary Minkley,Ciraj Rassool
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Author : Leslie Witz,Gary Minkley,Ciraj Rassool
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472053346

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Unsettled History by Leslie Witz,Gary Minkley,Ciraj Rassool Pdf

An engrossing look at how history has been produced, contested, and unsettled in South Africa from Mandela's release to 2010.

Photo Archives and the Idea of Nation

Costanza Caraffa,Tiziana Serena
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Author : Costanza Caraffa,Tiziana Serena
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783110390032

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The question of the (photographic) construction and representation of national identity is not limited to the ‘long 19th century’, but is a current issue in the post-colonial, post-global, digital world. The essays by international contributors aim at studying the relationship between photographic archives and the idea of nation, yet without focusing on single symbolic icons and instead considering the wider archival and sedimental dimension.

Using Photographs in Social and Historical Research

Penny Tinkler
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Author : Penny Tinkler
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781446275573

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Sophisticated, original and comprehensive, this book investigates photographic research practices and the conceptual and theoretical issues that underpin them. Using international case studies and ′behind the scenes′ interviews, Penny Tinkler sets out research practices and explores the possibilities, and challenges, of working with different methods and photographic sources. The book guides the reader through all aspects of doing photographic research including practical issues and ethical considerations. Key topics include: - Working with images - Generating photos in research - Managing large archives and digital databases - Reviewing personal photos - Photo-elicitation interviews Written in a clear, accessible style, this dynamic book is essential reading for students and researchers working with photographs in history and the social sciences.

African Migration, Human Rights and Literature

Fareda Banda
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Author : Fareda Banda
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509938360

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This innovative book looks at the topic of migration through the prism of law and literature. The author uses a rich mix of novels, short stories, literary realism, human rights and comparative literature to explore the experiences of African migrants and asylum seekers. The book is divided into two. Part one is conceptual and focuses on art activism and the myriad ways in which people have sought to 'write justice.' Using Mazrui's diasporas of slavery and colonialism, it then considers histories of migration across the centuries before honing in on the recent anti-migration policies of western states. Achiume is used to show how these histories of imposition and exploitation create a bond which bestows on Africans a “status as co-sovereigns of the First World through citizenship.” The many fictional examples of the schemes used to gain entry are set against the formal legal processes. Attention is paid to life post-arrival which for asylum seekers may include periods in detention. The impact of the increased hostility of receiving states is examined in light of their human rights obligations. Consideration is paid to how Africans navigate their post-migration lives which includes reconciling themselves to status fracture-taking on jobs for which they are over-qualified, while simultaneously dealing with the resentment borne of status threat on the part of the citizenry. Part two moves from the general to consider the intersections of gender and status focusing on women, LGBTI individuals and children. Focusing on their human rights and the fictional literature, chapter four looks at women who have been trafficked as well as domestic workers and hotel maids while chapter five is on LGBTI people whose legal and literary stories are only now being told. The final substantive chapter considers the experiences of children who may arrive as unaccompanied minors. Using a mixture of poetry and first person accounts, the chapter examines the post-arrival lives of children, some of whom may be citizens but who are continually made to feel like outsiders. The conclusion follows, starting with two stories about walls by Hadero and Lanchester which are used to illustrate the themes discussed in the book. Few African lawyers write about literature and few books and articles in Western law and literature look at books by or about Africans, so a book that engages with both is long overdue. This book provides fascinating reading for academics, students of law, literature, gender and migration studies, and indeed the general public.

Ecological Thinking

Lorraine Code
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Author : Lorraine Code
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780195159431

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Arguing that ecological thinking can animate an epistemology capable of addressing feminist, multicultural, and other post-colonial concerns, this book critiques the instrumental rationality, hyperbolized autonomy, abstract individualism, and exploitation of people and places that western epistemologies of mastery have legitimated. It proposes a politics of epistemic location, sensitive to the interplay of particularity and diversity, and focused on responsible epistemic practices. Starting from an epistemological approach implicit in Rachel Carson's scientific projects, the book draws, constructively and critically, on ecological theory and practice, on (post-Quinean) naturalized epistemology, and on feminist and post-colonial theory. Analyzing extended examples from developmental psychology, from medicine and law, and from circumstances where vulnerability, credibility, and public trust are at issue, the argument addresses the constitutive part played by an instituted social imaginary in shaping and regulating human lives. The practices and examples discussed invoke the responsibility requirements central to this text's larger purpose of imagining, crafting, articulating a creative, innovative, instituting social imaginary, committed to interrogating entrenched hierarchical social structures, en route to enacting principles of ideal cohabitation.

Visual Methods in Social Research

Marcus Banks,David Zeitlyn
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Author : Marcus Banks,David Zeitlyn
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781473926813

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The Second Edition of this popular text confirms the book’s status as an important forerunner in the field of visual methods. Combining the theoretical, practical and technical the authors discuss changing technologies, the role of the internet and the impact of social media. Presenting an interdisciplinary guide to visual methods they explore both the creation and interpretation of visual images and their use within different methodological approaches. This clear, articulate book is full of practical tips on publishing and presenting the results of visual research and how to use film and photographic archives. This book will be an indispensable guide for anyone using or creating visual images in their research.

Black British Cultural Studies

Houston A. Baker (Jr.),Manthia Diawara,Ruth H. Lindeborg
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Author : Houston A. Baker (Jr.),Manthia Diawara,Ruth H. Lindeborg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1996-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 0226144801

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Black British Cultural Studies by Houston A. Baker (Jr.),Manthia Diawara,Ruth H. Lindeborg Pdf

Black British Cultural Studies has attracted significant attention recently in the American academy both as a model for cultural studies generally and as a corrective to reigning constructions of Blackness within African-American studies. This anthology offers the first book-length selection of writings by key figures in this field. From Stuart Hall's classic study of racially structured societies to an interview by Manthia Diawara with Sonia Boyce, a leading figure in the Black British arts movement, the papers included here have transformed cultural studies through their sustained focus on the issue of race. Much of the book centers on Black British arts, especially film, ranging from a historical overview of Black British cinema to a weighing of the costly burden on Black artists of representing their communities. Other essays consider such topics as race and representation and colonial and postcolonial discourse. This anthology will be an invaluable and timely resource for everyone interested in cultural studies. It also has much to offer students of anthropology, sociology, media and film studies, and literary criticism.

Appearances Matter

Tim Allender,Inés Dussel,Ian Grosvenor,Karin Priem
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Author : Tim Allender,Inés Dussel,Ian Grosvenor,Karin Priem
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110631715

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Appearances Matter by Tim Allender,Inés Dussel,Ian Grosvenor,Karin Priem Pdf

The visual turn recovers new pasts. With education as its theme, this book seeks to present a body of reflections that questions a certain historicism and renovates historiographical debate about how to conceptualize and use images and artifacts in educational history, in the process presenting new themes and methods for researchers. Images are interrogated as part of regimes of the visible, of a history of visual technologies and visual practices. Considering the socio-material quality of the image, the analysis moves away from the use of images as mere illustrations of written arguments, and takes seriously the question of the life and death of artifacts – that is, their particular historicity. Questioning the visual and material evidence in this way means considering how, when, and in which régime of the visible it has come to be considered as a source, and what this means for the questions contemporary researchers might ask.

Scoping the Amazon

Stephen Nugent
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Author : Stephen Nugent
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781315420400

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The Amazon Indian is an icon that straddles the world between the professional anthropologist and the popular media. Presented alternately as the noble primitive, the savior of the environment, and as a savage, dissolute, cannibalistic half-human, it is an image well worth examining. Stephen Nugent does just that, critiquing the claims of authoritativeness inherent in visual images presented by anthropologists of Amazon life in the early 20th century and comparing them with the images found in popular books, movies, and posters. The book depicts the field of anthropology as its own form of culture industry and contrasts it to other similar industries, past and present. For visual anthropologists, ethnographers, Amazon specialists, and popular culture researchers, Nugent's book will be enlightening, entertaining reading.

Landscapes between Then and Now

Nicola Brandt
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Author : Nicola Brandt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781000213256

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In Landscapes Between Then and Now, Nicola Brandt examines the increasingly compelling and diverse cross-disciplinary work of photographers and artists made during the transition from apartheid to post-apartheid and into the contemporary era. By examining specific artworks made in South Africa, Namibia and Angola, Brandt sheds light on established and emerging themes related to aftermath landscapes, embodied histories, (un)belonging, spirituality and memorialization. She shows how landscape and identity are mutually constituted, and profiles this process against the background of the legacy of the acutely racially divisive policies of the apartheid regime that are still reflected on the land. As a signpost throughout the book, Brandt draws on the work of the renowned South African photographer Santu Mofokeng and his critical thinking about landscape. Landscapes Between Then and Now explores how practitioners who engage with identity and their physical environment as a social product might reveal something about the complex and fractured nature of postcolonial and contemporary societies. Through diverse strategies and aesthetics, they comment on inherent structures and epistemologies of power whilst also expressing new and radical forms of self-determinism. Brandt asks why these cross-disciplinary works ranging from social documentary to experimental performance and embodied practices are critical now, and what important possibilities for social and political reflection and engagement they suggest.

Image-based Research

Jon Prosser
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Author : Jon Prosser
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780750707060

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This text covers an image-based approach to qualitative research theory, and the research process and provides practical examples of how image-based research is applied in the field.