Evicted From Eternity

Author : Michael Herzfeld
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0226329119

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Evicted from Eternity by Michael Herzfeld Pdf

Modern Rome is a city rife with contradictions. Once the seat of ancient glory, it is now often the object of national contempt. It plays a significant part on the world stage, but the concerns of its residents are often deeply parochial. And while they live in the seat of a world religion, Romans can be vehemently anticlerical. These tensions between the past and the present, the global and the local, make Rome fertile ground to study urban social life, the construction of the past, the role of religion in daily life, and how a capital city relates to the rest of the nation. Michael Herzfeld focuses on Rome’s historic Monti district and the wrenching dislocation caused by rapid economical, political, and social change. Evicted from Eternity tells the story of the gentrification of Monti—once the architecturally stunning home of a community of artisans and shopkeepers now displaced by an invasion of rapacious real estate speculators, corrupt officials, dithering politicians, deceptive clerics, and shady thugs. As Herzfeld picks apart the messy story of Monti’s transformation, he ranges widely over many aspects of life there and in the rest of the city, richly depicting the uniquely local landscape of globalization in Rome.

Author : Magdalena Buchczyk
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-20
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781350226746

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Weaving Europe, Crafting the Museum by Magdalena Buchczyk Pdf

Weaving Europe, Crafting the Museum delves into the history and the changing material culture in Europe through the stories of a basket, a carpet, a waistcoat, a uniform, and a dress. The focus on the objects from the collection of the Museum of European Cultures in Berlin offers an innovative and challenging way of understanding textile culture and museums. The book shows that textiles can be simultaneously used as the material object of research, and as a lens through which we can view museums. In doing so, the book fills a major gap by placing textile knowledge back into the museum. Each chapter focuses on one object story and can be read individually. Swooping from 19th-century wax figure cabinets, Nazi-era collections, Cold War exhibitions in East and West Berlin, and institutional reshuffling after German unification, it reveals the dramatically changing story of the museum and its collection. Based on research with museum curators, makers and users of the textiles in Italy and Germany, Poland and Romania, the book provides intimate insights into how objects are mobilised to very different social and political effects. It sheds new light on movements across borders, political uses of textiles by fascist and communist regimes, the objects' fall into oblivion, as well as their heritage and tourist afterlives. Addressing this complex museum legacy, the book suggests new pathways to prefigure the future. Featuring new archival and ethnographic research, evocative examples and images, it is an essential read for students of textile and material culture, museum and curatorial studies as well as anyone interested in history, heritage and craft.

Author : Stefania Lucamante
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487535094

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Righteous Anger in Contemporary Italian Literary and Cinematic Narratives by Stefania Lucamante Pdf

Righteous Anger in Contemporary Italian Literary and Cinematic Narratives analyses the role of passion – particularly indignation – and how it shapes intention and inspires the work of many contemporary Italian writers and filmmakers. Noting how art often holds the power to shed light on issues surrounding inequity, inequality, and injustice, the book explores the ethical function of art as a tool in resistance and sociopolitical protest, thereby validating the axiom that ethics and aesthetics can still collaborate in the creation of meaning. Drawing on a range of Italian novels and films and examining the works of artists such as Tiziano Scarpa, Simona Vinci, Paolo Sorrentino, and Monica Stambrini, the author shows that anger can be used constructively as a weapon of resistance against negative and oppressive forces.

Author : Clough Isabella Marinaro,Bjørn Thomassen
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253013019

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Global Rome by Clough Isabella Marinaro,Bjørn Thomassen Pdf

Delving into topics from immigration to sustainability, this is “an original, rich, and important contribution to the study of Rome” (H-Italy). Is twenty-first-century Rome a global city? Is it part of Europe’s core or periphery? This volume examines the “real city” beyond Rome’s historical center, exploring the diversity and challenges of life in neighborhoods affected by immigration, neoliberalism, formal urban planning, and grassroots social movements. The contributors engage with themes of contemporary urban studies—the global city, the self-made city, alternative modernities, capital cities and nations, urban change from below, and sustainability. Global Rome serves as a provocative introduction to the Eternal City and makes an original contribution to interdisciplinary scholarship.

Author : Katharine G. Young
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 711 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108418133

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The Future of Economic and Social Rights by Katharine G. Young Pdf

Captures significant transformations in the theory and practice of economic and social rights in constitutional and human rights law.

Author : Kaspar Thormod
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004394216

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Artistic Reconfigurations of Rome by Kaspar Thormod Pdf

In Artistic Reconfigurations of Rome Kaspar Thormod examines how visions of Rome manifest themselves in artworks produced by contemporary international artists who have stayed at the city’s foreign academies.

Author : Dom Holdaway
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317320616

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Rome, Postmodern Narratives of a Cityscape by Dom Holdaway Pdf

Until the mid-twentieth century the Western imagination seemed intent on viewing Rome purely in terms of its classical past or as a stop on the Grand Tour. This collection of essays looks at Rome from a postmodern perspective, including analysis of the city's 'unmappability', its fragmented narratives and its iconic status in literature and film.

Author : Michael Herzfeld
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226329079

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Evicted from Eternity by Michael Herzfeld Pdf

Modern Rome is a city rife with contradictions. Once the seat of ancient glory, it is now often the object of national contempt. It plays a significant part on the world stage, but the concerns of its residents are often deeply parochial. And while they live in the seat of a world religion, Romans can be vehemently anticlerical. These tensions between the past and the present, the global and the local, make Rome fertile ground to study urban social life, the construction of the past, the role of religion in daily life, and how a capital city relates to the rest of the nation. Michael Herzfeld focuses on Rome’s historic Monti district and the wrenching dislocation caused by rapid economical, political, and social change. Evicted from Eternity tells the story of the gentrification of Monti—once the architecturally stunning home of a community of artisans and shopkeepers now displaced by an invasion of rapacious real estate speculators, corrupt officials, dithering politicians, deceptive clerics, and shady thugs. As Herzfeld picks apart the messy story of Monti’s transformation, he ranges widely over many aspects of life there and in the rest of the city, richly depicting the uniquely local landscape of globalization in Rome.

Author : Qin Shao
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442211339

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Shanghai Gone by Qin Shao Pdf

Shanghai has been demolished and rebuilt into a gleaming megacity in recent decades, now ranking with New York and London as a hub of global finance. But that transformation has come at a grave human cost. This compelling book is the first to apply the concept of domicide—the eradication of a home against the will of its dwellers—to the sweeping destruction of neighborhoods, families, and life patterns to make way for the new Shanghai. Here we find the holdouts and protesters, men and women who have stubbornly resisted domicide and demanded justice. Qin Shao follows, among others, a reticent kindergarten teacher turned diehard petitioner; a descendant of gangsters and squatters who has become an amateur lawyer for evictees; and a Chinese Muslim who has struggled to recover his ancestral home in Xintiandi, an infamous site of gentrification dominated by a well-connected Hong Kong real estate tycoon. Highlighting the wrenching changes spawned by China’s reform era, Shao vividly portrays the relentless pursuit o

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Academic libraries
ISBN : UCSC:32106019978219

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Choice by Anonim Pdf

Author : Guy Lanoue
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351550604

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Rome Eternal by Guy Lanoue Pdf

What does 'Roman' mean? How does the mythical city touch people's identities, values and attitudes? In the long-established and official imaginary of the West, Rome is the citta dell'arte, the city of faith, an heirloom city inspired by the traces of ancient Empire, by the brooding aura of the Church, by Hollywood fairy-tale romance, and by the spicy tang of veiled decadence. But what of its contemporary residents? Are they now merely guides and waiters servicing throngs of tourists indifferent to the city's contemporary charms? Guy Lanoue, a former resident of Rome, explores how Romans live the modern myth of Rome Eternal. Since the 19th century, it has defined an important community, the fatherland, a home-spun society where the rules of everyday life become 'tradition': ways of eating, dressing, making and keeping friends and acquaintances, 'proper' ways of speaking and a hard to define but nonetheless tangible air of composure. Guy Lanoue is a Professor of Anthropology at the Universite de Montreal.

Author : Neil M. Gunn
Publisher : Souvenir Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780285640030

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Butcher's Broom by Neil M. Gunn Pdf

Butcher's Broom is one of Gunn's epic recreations of a key period in Scottish history, the Highland clearances of the nineteenth century. Gunn captures the spirit of Highland culture, the sense of community and tradition, in a manner that speaks to our own time. At the centre of the novel is Dark Mairi who embodies what is most vital and lasting in mankind, whose values encapsulate what was lost in Scotland to make way for progress while her land was cleared to make way for wintering sheep. The weaving of traditional ballads with the lives of Gunn's characters evokes the community that must be destroyed. Elie lost among strangers with her fatherless child while Seonaid defies the invaders, fighting them from the roof of her croft. This is among the most moving of Gunn's works and establishes the belief in a transcendent spirituality that would be so dominant in his later work.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1440 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1777
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IBNF:CF990987784

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A Dictionary of the English Language: in Wich the Words are Deduced from Their Originals, and Illustrated in Their Different Significations by Examples from the Best Writers ... By Samuel Johnson. In Two Volumes. Vol. 1. [-2.] by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015047364099

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Architectural Publications Index by Anonim Pdf

Author : C. Scott Littleton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0520024044

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The New Comparative Mythology by C. Scott Littleton Pdf