Eurasian Matters

Author : Anna Grasskamp,Monica Juneja
Publisher : Springer
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319756417

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EurAsian Matters by Anna Grasskamp,Monica Juneja Pdf

The volume examines the mutually constitutive relationship between the materiality of objects and their aesthetic meanings. Its approach connects material culture with art history, curation, technologies and practices of making. A central dimension of the case studies collected here is the mobility of objects between Europe and China and the transformations that unfold as a result of their transcultural lives. Many of the objects studied here are relatively unknown or understudied. The stories they recount suggest new ways of thinking about space, cultural geographies and the complex and often contradictory association of power and culture. These studies of transcultural objects can suggest pathways for museum experts by uncovering the multi-layered identities and temporalities of objects that can no longer be labelled as located in single regions. It is also addressed to students of art history, of European and Chinese studies and scholars of consumer culture. « This eagerly awaited volume offers deep and extensive insights into the fast-growing field of material culture studies. Its fresh approach to Eurasian objects and materialities will serve as useful reading for all scholars interested in transcultural and global studies. A very helpful introductory essay. » Sabine du Crest, University of Bordeaux Montaigne, Former Fellow, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies.

Author : K. Santhanam
Publisher : Allied Publishers
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9788184246414

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Eurasian Security Matters by K. Santhanam Pdf

Papers presented at the International Conference on Changing Security Landscape of Eurasia : Role of Regional Groupings organised by Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies and the India-Central Asia Foundation, held at New Delhi during 27-29 May 2010.

Author : Stéphane A. Dudoignon
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783112400388

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Central Eurasian Reader by Stéphane A. Dudoignon Pdf

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Author : David Lane
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351870047

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The Eurasian Project in Global Perspective by David Lane Pdf

Regional associations have become major players in international politics and economics. The Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), composed of Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan, is considered as a player which will strengthen the international influence and international trade of the post-socialist countries. It is intended to become a parallel association to the European Union. This comprehensive volume considers the potential global role of the EEU. A major problem outlined is the balancing of relations between the EU and the West on the one hand, and China and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation on the other. The book explores the impact of the global crisis as well as a consideration of the EEU in the world system of states. It also examines the EEU’s relationship with other regional developments, in relation to the EU and to the outer circle of post-socialist states that joined neither the EU nor the EEU. It concludes by considering Eurasia in the Asian context, looking at the two central Asian countries (Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan), relations with China and the relationship between the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) and the EEU. This book was originally published as a special issue of European Politics and Society.

Author : Mehmet Huseyin Bilgin,Hakan Danis,Ender Demir
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030651473

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Eurasian Business and Economics Perspectives by Mehmet Huseyin Bilgin,Hakan Danis,Ender Demir Pdf

This book presents selected papers from the 30th Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) Conferences, held in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia). The theoretical and empirical papers gathered here cover diverse areas of business, economics and finance in various geographic regions, including not only topics from HR, management, finance, marketing but also contributions on public economics, political economy and regional studies.

Author : R. James Ferguson
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786433824

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China’s Eurasian Dilemmas by R. James Ferguson Pdf

Providing a timely analysis of China’s engagement with Eurasia, R. James Ferguson focuses on the challenges obstructing China’s path to becoming a sustainable global power. Engagement across Eurasia presents China, its leaders and policymakers with intensified contact with regional and national conflicts, posing environmental, developmental and strategic dilemmas.

Author : Harm de Blij
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780199977253

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Why Geography Matters by Harm de Blij Pdf

In recent years our world has seen transformations of all kinds: intense climate change accompanied by significant weather extremes; deadly tsunamis caused by submarine earthquakes; unprecedented terrorist attacks; costly wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; a terrible and overlooked conflict in Equatorial Africa costing millions of lives; an economic crisis threatening the stability of the international system. Is there some way we can get our minds around these disparate global upheavals, to grasp these events and their interconnections, and place our turbulent world in a more understandable light? Acclaimed author Harm de Blij answers this question with one word: geography. In this revised edition of the immensely popular and influential Why Geography Matters, de Blij tackles topics from the burgeoning presence of China to the troubling disarray of the European Union, from the dangerous nuclear ambitions of North Korea to the revolutionary Arab Spring. By improving our understanding of the world's geography, de Blij shows, we can better respond to the events around us, and better prepare ourselves to face the global challenges ahead. Peppering his writing with anecdotes from his own professional travels, de Blij expands upon his original argument, offering an updated work that is as engaging as it is eye-opening. Casual students of geography and professional policy-makers alike will benefit from this stimulating and crucial perspective on geography and the way it shapes our world's events. America, de Blij warns, has become the world's most geographically illiterate society of consequence. Indeed, despite increasing global interconnectivity and rapid change, Americans seem to be less informed and less knowledgeable about the rest of the world than ever. In this compelling volume, de Blij shows why this dispiriting picture must change, and change now.

Author : Leah R. Clark
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 745 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781009276207

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Courtly Mediators by Leah R. Clark Pdf

In Courtly Mediators, Leah R. Clark investigates the exchange of a range of materials and objects, including metalware, ceramic drug jars, Chinese porcelain, and aromatics, across the early modern Italian, Mamluk, and Ottoman courts. She provides a new narrative that places Aragonese Naples at the center of an international courtly culture, where cosmopolitanism and the transcultural flourished, and in which artists, ambassadors, and luxury goods actively participated. By articulating how and why transcultural objects were exchanged, displayed, copied, and framed, she provides a new methodological framework that transforms our understanding of the Italian Renaissance court. Clark's volume provides a multi-sensorial, innovative reading of Italian Renaissance art. It demonstrates that the early modern culture of collecting was more than a humanistic enterprise associated with the European roots of the Renaissance. Rather, it was sustained by interactions with global material cultures from the Islamic world and beyond.

Author : Özgür Tüfekçi,Husrev Tabak,Erman Akıllı
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Eurasia
ISBN : 9781443855112

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Eurasian Politics and Society by Özgür Tüfekçi,Husrev Tabak,Erman Akıllı Pdf

"Eurasian Politics and Society: Issues and Challenges studies the various outcomes of regional transformation, the ideology of Turkish Eurasianism, and the Eurasian Economic Union. In doing so, it looks at the power struggle in the South Caucasus, Kazakhstan's relations with Russia, Russia's sense of Eurasianism, and geopolitical awareness as a pattern of imperial self-perception for Putin's Russia. The book also provides a detailed analysis of the situation in Syria from a humanitarian perspective, and utilizes an innovative approach in exploring how the European Neighbourhood Policy resonates in Neo/Functionalism. As such, this volume represents a valuable resource for graduate and undergraduate students, academics and researchers in the areas of security, political economy, European studies, post-Soviet studies, and Eurasian studies." --

Author : Anita Sengupta
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789819702367

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India’s Eurasian Alternatives in an Era of Connectivity by Anita Sengupta Pdf

Author : Mehmet Huseyin Bilgin,Hakan Danis,Gökhan Karabulut,Giray Gözgor
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030403751

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Eurasian Economic Perspectives by Mehmet Huseyin Bilgin,Hakan Danis,Gökhan Karabulut,Giray Gözgor Pdf

This book presents selected papers from the 23rd Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) Conference, held in Madrid, Spain. While the theoretical and empirical papers presented cover diverse areas of economics and finance in different geographic regions, the main focus is on the latest research concerning international trade, public economics, and regional studies. The book also includes studies on the economics of innovation, inequality and tourism.

Author : Emma Tarlo
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1996-09
Category : Design
ISBN : 0226789764

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Clothing Matters by Emma Tarlo Pdf

What do I wear today? The way we answer this question says much about how we manage and express our identities. This detailed study examines sartorial style in India from the late nineteenth century to the present, showing how trends in clothing are related to caste, level of education, urbanization, and a larger cultural debate about the nature of Indian identity. Clothes have been used to assert power, challenge authority, and instigate social change throughout Indian society. During the struggle for independence, members of the Indian elite incorporated elements of Western style into their clothes, while Gandhi's adoption of the loincloth symbolized the rejection of European power and the contrast between Indian poverty and British wealth. Similar tensions are played out today, with urban Indians adopting "ethnic" dress as villagers seek modern fashions. Illustrated with photographs, satirical drawings, and magazine advertisements, this book shows how individuals and groups play with history and culture as they decide what to wear.

Author : Sophie Volpp
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231553223

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The Substance of Fiction by Sophie Volpp Pdf

Do the portrayals of objects in literary texts represent historical evidence about the material culture of the past? Or are things in books more than things in the world? Sophie Volpp considers fictional objects of the late Ming and Qing that defy being read as illustrative of historical things. Instead, she argues, fictional objects are often signs of fictionality themselves, calling attention to the nature of the relationship between literature and materiality. Volpp examines a series of objects—a robe, a box and a shell, a telescope, a plate-glass mirror, and a painting—drawn from the canonical works frequently mined for information about late imperial material culture, including the novels The Plum in the Golden Vase and The Story of the Stone as well as the short fiction of Feng Menglong, Ling Mengchu, and Li Yu. She argues that although fictional objects invite readers to think of them as illustrative, in fact, inconsistent and discontinuous representation disconnects the literary object from potential historical analogues. The historical resonances of literary objects illuminate the rhetorical strategies of individual works of fiction and, more broadly, conceptions of fictionality in the Ming and Qing. Rather than offering a transparent lens on the past, fictional objects train the reader to be aware of the fallibility of perception. A deeply insightful analysis of late Ming and Qing texts and reading practices, The Substance of Fiction has important implications for Chinese literary studies, history, and art history, as well as the material turn in the humanities.

Author : Robyn Dora Radway
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253066947

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Portraits of Empires by Robyn Dora Radway Pdf

In the late 16th century, hundreds of travelers made their way to the Habsburg ambassador's residence, known as the German House, in Constantinople. In this centrally located inn, subjects of the emperor found food, wine, shelter, and good company—and left an incredible collection of albums filled with images, messages, decorated papers, and more. Portraits of Empires offers a complete account of this early form of social media, which had a profound impact on later European iconography. Revealing a vibrant transimperial culture as viewed from all walks of life—Muslim and Christian, noble and servant, scholar and stable boy—the pocket-sized albums containing these curiosities have never been fully connected to the abundant archival records on the German House and its residents. Robyn Dora Radway not only introduces these objects, the people who filled their pages, and the house at the center of their creation, but she also presents several arguments regarding chronologies of exchange, workshop practices, the curation of social networks and visual collections based on status, and the purposes of these highly individualized material portraits. Featuring 162 fascinating color images, Portraits of Empires reconstructs the world of Habsburg subjects living in Ottoman Constantinople using a rich and distinctive set of objects to raise questions about imperial belonging and the artistic practices used to articulate it.

Author : Richard J. Oosterhoff,José Ramón Marcaida,Alexander Marr
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780822988465

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Ingenuity in the Making by Richard J. Oosterhoff,José Ramón Marcaida,Alexander Marr Pdf

Ingenuity in the Making explores the myriad ways in which ingenuity shaped the experience and conceptualization of materials and their manipulation in early modern Europe. Contributions range widely across the arts and sciences, examining objects and texts, professions and performances, concepts and practices. The book considers subjects such as spirited matter, the conceits of nature, and crafty devices, investigating the ways in which ingenuity acted in and upon the material world through skill and technique. Contributors ask how ingenuity informed the “maker’s knowledge” tradition, where the perilous borderline between the genius of invention and disingenuous fraud was drawn, charting the ambitions of material ingenuity in a rapidly globalizing world.