Pre Occupied Spaces

Author : Teresa Fiore
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780823274345

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Pre-Occupied Spaces by Teresa Fiore Pdf

Runner Up Winner of the Edinburgh Gadda Prize - Established Scholars, Cultural Studies Category Winner of the American Association for Italian Studies Book Prize (20th & 21st Centuries) Honorable Mention for the Howard R. Marraro Prize By linking Italy’s long history of emigration to all continents in the world, contemporary transnational migrations directed toward it, as well as the country’s colonial legacies, Fiore’s book poses Italy as a unique laboratory to rethink national belonging at large in our era of massive demographic mobility. Through an interdisciplinary cultural approach, the book finds traces of globalization in a past that may hold interesting lessons about inclusiveness for the present. Fiore rethinks Italy’s formation and development on a transnational map through cultural analysis of travel, living, and work spaces as depicted in literary, filmic, and musical texts. By demonstrating how immigration in Italy today is preoccupied by its past emigration and colonialism, the book stresses commonalities and dispels preoccupations.

Author : Chiara Giuliani
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030750633

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Home, Memory and Belonging in Italian Postcolonial Literature by Chiara Giuliani Pdf

This book examines the meaning of home through the investigation of a series of public and private spaces recurrent in Italian postcolonial literature. The chapters, by respectively considering Termini train station in Rome, phone centres, the condominium, and the private spaces of the bathroom and the bedroom, investigate how migrant characters inhabit those places and turn them into familiar spaces of belonging. Home, Memory and Belonging in Italian Postcolonial Literature suggests “home spaces” as a possible lens to examine these specific places and a series of practices enacted by their inhabitants in order to feel at home. Drawing on a wide array of sources, this book focuses on the role played by memory in creating transnational connections between present and past locations and on how these connections shape migrants’ sense of self and migrants’ identity.

Author : Gyan Prakash,Kevin M. Kruse
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-02-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0691133433

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The Spaces of the Modern City by Gyan Prakash,Kevin M. Kruse Pdf

It historicizes the contemporary discussion of urbanism, highlighting the local and global breadth of the city landscape. This interdisciplinary collection examines how the city develops in the interactions of space and imagination. The essays focus on issues such as street design in Vienna, the motion picture industry in Los Angeles, architecture in Marseilles and Algiers, and the kaleidoscopic paradox of post-apartheid Johannesburg. They explore the nature of spatial politics, examining the disparate worlds of eighteenth-century Baghdad, nineteenth-century Morelia. They also show the meaning of everyday spaces to urban life, illuminating issues such as crime in metropolitan London, youth culture in Dakar, "memory projects" in Tokyo, and Bombay cinema.

Author : Charles Burdett,Loredana Polezzi
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781789627299

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Transnational Italian Studies by Charles Burdett,Loredana Polezzi Pdf

Transnational Italian Studies is specifically targeted at a student audience and is designed to be used as a key text when approaching the disciplinary field of Italian studies. It allows the study of Italian culture to be construed and practised not simply as the inquiry into a national tradition but as the study of the interaction of cultural practices both within Italy itself and in those parts of the world that have witnessed the extent of Italian mobility. The text argues that Italian culture needs to be considered in a transnational/transcultural perspective and that an understanding of linguistic and cultural translation underlies all approaches to the study of Italian culture in a global context. Contributions deploy a range of methodological approaches to understand and illustrate how language operates, how culture inhabits and constitutes public and private space, how notions of time operate within people’s lives, and the multiple ways in which people experience a sense of personhood. Chapters stretch from the medieval period to the present and demonstrate how transnational Italian culture can be critically addressed through the examination of carefully chosen examples. Contributors: Alessandra Diazzi, Andrea Rizzi, Barbara Spadaro, Charles Burdett, Clorinda Donato, David Bowe, Derek Duncan, Donna Gabaccia, Eugenia Paulicelli, Fabio Camilletti, Giuliana Muscio, Jennifer Burns, Loredana Polezzi, Marco Santello, Monica Jansen, Naomi Wells, Nathalie Hester, Serena Bassi, Stefania Tufi, Teresa Fiore and Tristan Kay.

Author : Luisa Del Giudice
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780823260652

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Sabato Rodia's Towers in Watts by Luisa Del Giudice Pdf

“A rich array of perspectives on the creative work of the eccentric immigrant laborer who created one of the most mysterious landmarks of Los Angeles.” —Donna Gabaccia, Professor of History, University of Minnesota The Watts Towers, wondrous objects of art and architecture, were created over the course of three decades by a determined, single-minded artist, Sabato Rodia, an Italian immigrant laborer who wanted to do “something big.” Now a National Historic Landmark and internationally renowned destination, the Watts Towers in Los Angeles are both a personal artistic expression and a collective symbol of Nuestro Pueblo—Our Town/Our People. Featuring fresh and innovative examinations, Sabato Rodia’s Towers in Watts revisits the man and his towers. In 1919, Rodia purchased a triangular plot of land in a multiethnic, working-class, semi-rural district. He set to work on an unusual building project in his own yard. By night, Rodia dreamed and excogitated, and by day he built. He experimented with form, color, texture, cement mixtures, and construction techniques. He built, tore down, and rebuilt. As an artist completely possessed by his work, he was often derided as an incomprehensible crazy man. Providing a multifaceted, holistic understanding of Rodia, the towers, and the cultural/social/physical environment within which the towers and their maker can be understood, this book compiles essays from twenty authors, offering perspectives from the arts, the communities involved in the preservation and interpretation of the towers, and the academy. Most of the contributions originated at two interdisciplinary conferences held in Los Angeles and in Italy, and the collection as a whole is a well-rounded tribute to one man’s tenacious labor of love. A portion of royalties will go to support the work of the Watts Towers Arts Center.

Author : Mabel Moraña
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000361445

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Liquid Borders by Mabel Moraña Pdf

Liquid Borders provides a timely and critical analysis of the large-scale migration of people across borders, which has sent shockwaves through the global world order in recent years. In this book, internationally recognized scholars and activists from a variety of fields analyze key issues related to diasporic movements, displacements, exiles, "illegal" migrants, border crossings, deportations, maritime ventures, and the militarization of borders from political, economic, and cultural perspectives. Ambitious in scope, with cases stretching from the Mediterranean to Australia, the US/Mexico border, Venezuela, and deterritorialized sectors in Colombia and Central America, the various contributions are unified around the notion of freedom of movement, and the recognition of the need to think differently about ideas of citizenship and sovereignty around the world. Liquid Borders will be of interest to policy makers, and to researchers across the humanities, sociology, area studies, politics, international relations, geography, and of course migration and border studies.

Author : Adam J. Barker
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774865432

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Making and Breaking Settler Space by Adam J. Barker Pdf

Five hundred years. A vast geography. Making and Breaking Settler Space explores how settler spaces have developed and diversified from contact to the present. Adam Barker traces the trajectory of settler colonialism, drawing out details of its operation that are embedded not only in imperialism but also in contemporary contexts that include problematic activist practices by would-be settler allies. Unflinchingly engaging with the systemic weaknesses of this process, he proposes an innovative, unified spatial theory of settler colonization in Canada and the United States that offers a framework within which settlers can pursue decolonial actions in solidarity with Indigenous communities.

Author : Daphné Crowther
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004639737

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Outlook on Space Law Over the Next 30 Years by Daphné Crowther Pdf

This book is neither a historical treatise on the genesis and development of space law, nor a survey of the corpus, nor even a work of legal makebelieve, but simply an essay pursuing a line of enquiry opened up by the members of the European Centre for Space Law. It sets out to chart future trends in the light of the emergence of space law as a branch of international law and of the development of space activities themselves (new activities, new players, interpenetration of space law and national laws), a branch in which the rules and forms of international cooperation acquire a new dimension, transcending the concept of `global' law. It is essentially prompted by a deep aspiration to see a rebirth - a revival - of that law.

Author : Harvey Goodwin (Bishop of Carlisle.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000583706

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Sermons Preached Before the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge by Harvey Goodwin (Bishop of Carlisle.) Pdf

Author : John Michael Kemp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Space law
ISBN : IND:32000005672490

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Evolution Toward a Space Treaty by John Michael Kemp Pdf

Author : Samuel Drew
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1829
Category : Immortality
ISBN : UCAL:B4921522

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An Original Essay on the Immateriality & Immortality of the Human Soul by Samuel Drew Pdf

Author : Rebecca Barr,Sarah-Anne Buckley,Laura Kelly
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443883078

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Engendering Ireland by Rebecca Barr,Sarah-Anne Buckley,Laura Kelly Pdf

Engendering Ireland is a collection of ten essays showcasing the importance of gender in a variety of disciplines. These essays interrogate gender as a concept which encompasses both masculinity and femininity, and which permeates history and literature, culture and society in the modern period. The collection includes historical research which situates Irish women workers within an international economic context; textual analysis which sheds light on the effects of modernity on the home and rising female expectations in the post-war era; the rediscovery of significant Irish women modernists such as Mary Devenport O’Neill; and changing representations of masculinity, race, ethnicity and interculturalism in modern Irish theatre. Each of these ten essays provides a thought-provoking picture of the complex and hitherto unrecognised roles gender has played in Ireland over the last century. While each of these chapters offers a fresh perspective on familiar themes in Irish gender studies, they also illustrate the importance and relevance of gender studies to contemporary debates in Irish society.

Author : Thomas Elsaesser
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9789053565940

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European Cinema by Thomas Elsaesser Pdf

'European Cinema in Crisis' examines the conflicting terminologies that have dominated the discussion of the future of European film-making. It takes a fresh look at the ideological agendas, from 'avante-garde cinema' to the high/low culture debate and the fate of popular European cinema.

Author : Michela Baldo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781137477330

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Italian-Canadian Narratives of Return by Michela Baldo Pdf

This book examines the concept of translation as a return to origins and as restitution of lost narratives, and is based on the idea of diaspora as a term that depicts the longing to return home and the imaginary reconstructions and reconstitutions of home by migrants and translators. The author analyses a corpus made up of novels and a memoir by Italian-Canadian writers Mary Melfi, Nino Ricci and Frank Paci, examining the theme of return both within the writing itself and also in the discourse surrounding the translations of these works into Italian. These ‘reconstructions’ are analysed through the lens of translation, and more specifically through the notion of written code-switching, understood here as a fictional tool which symbolizes the translational movements between different points of view. This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars of translation and interpreting, migration studies, and Italian and diasporic writing.

Author : Laura Di Bianco
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253064660

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Wandering Women by Laura Di Bianco Pdf

Wandering Women: Urban Ecologies of Italian Feminist Filmmaking explores the work of contemporary Italian women directors from feminist and ecological perspectives. Mostly relegated to the margins of the cultural scene, and concerned with women's marginality, the compelling films Wandering Women sheds light on tell stories of displacement and liminality that unfold through the act of walking in the city. The unusual emptiness of the cities that the nomadic female protagonists traverse highlights the absence of, and their wish for, life-sustaining communities. Laura Di Bianco contends that women's urban filmmaking—while articulating a claim for belonging and asserting cinematic and social agency—brings into view landscapes of the Anthropocene, where urban decay and the erasure of nature intersect with human alienation. Though a minor cinema, it is also a powerful movement of resistance against the dominant male narratives about the world we inhabit. Based on interviews with directors, Wandering Women deepens the understanding of contemporary Italian cinema while enriching the field of feminist ecocritical literature.