Regionalism And The Humanities

Author : Timothy R. Mahoney,Wendy J. Katz
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780803220461

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Regionalism and the Humanities by Timothy R. Mahoney,Wendy J. Katz Pdf

Although the framework of regionalist studies may seem to be crumbling under the weight of increasing globalization, this collection of seventeen essays makes clear that cultivating regionalism lies at the center of the humanist endeavor. With interdisciplinary contributions from poets and fiction writers, literary historians, musicologists, and historians of architecture, agriculture, and women, this volume implements some of the most innovative and intriguing approaches to the history and value of regionalism as a category for investigation in the humanities. In the volume’s inaugural essay, Annie Proulx discusses landscapes in American fiction, comments on how she constructs characters, and interprets current literary trends. Edward Watts offers a theory of region that argues for comparisons of the United States to other former colonies of Great Britain, including New Zealand, Australia, and Canada. Whether considering a writer's connection to region or the idea of place in exploring what is meant by regionalism, these essays uncover an enduring and evolving concept. Although the approaches and disciplines vary, all are framed within the fundamental premise of the humanities: the search to understand what it means to be human.

Author : Galia Press-Barnathan,Ruth Fine,Arie M. Kacowicz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351371377

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The Relevance of Regions in a Globalized World by Galia Press-Barnathan,Ruth Fine,Arie M. Kacowicz Pdf

This volume provides a unique open inter-disciplinary dialogue across the Humanities and Social Sciences to further our understanding of the phenomenon of regions and regionalism in a globalized world both at the theoretical and empirical levels. What comprises a region? What are the different regional dynamic processes that take place? What is the relationship between the regional and the global? What role does identity building play? Bringing together scholars from various disciplines within and across the Social Sciences and the Humanities to reflect on these questions, the book explores how regions are imagined, constructed, understood, and explained in different academic disciplines. Each chapter addresses these common questions and uses its own disciplinary lenses to answer them. In addition, the volume offers interesting reflections on the academic borders constructed in the study of regions, thus demonstrating the importance of obtaining insights from both social scientists and humanities scholars in order to better understand the relevance of regions in a complex and globalized world. An important work for scholars and postgraduate students in many fields, including political science, international relations, sociology, economics, geography, history and literature, as well as for those interested in regionalism and area studies.

Author : Michael C. Steiner,Clarence C. Mondale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Human geography
ISBN : UOM:49015000590969

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Region and Regionalism in the United States by Michael C. Steiner,Clarence C. Mondale Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Humanities
ISBN : PURD:32754071785665

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Implementation Grants for Regional Humanities Centers by Anonim Pdf

Author : Pía Riggirozzi,Diana Tussie
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789400726932

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The Rise of Post-Hegemonic Regionalism by Pía Riggirozzi,Diana Tussie Pdf

This book offers a timely analysis, and a novel and nuanced argument about post-neoliberal models of regional governance in non-European contexts. It provides the first in-depth, empirically-driven analysis of current models of regional governance in Latin America that emerged out of the crisis of liberalism in the region. It contributes to comparative studies of the contemporary global political economy as it advances current literature on the topic by analysing distinctive, overlapping and conflicting trajectories of regionalism in Latin America. The book critically explores models of transformative regionalism and specific dimensions articulating those models beyond neoliberal consensus-building. As such it contests the overstated case of integration as converging towards global capitalism. It provides an analytical framework that not only examines the 'what, how, who and why' in the emergence of a specific form of regionalism but sets the ground for addressing two relevant questions that will push the study of regionalism further: What factors enable or constrain how transformative a given regionalism is (or can be) with respect to the powers and policies of states encompassed by it? and: What factors govern how resilient a given regionalism is likely to be under changing political and economic conditions?

Author : Jenny Rice
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317700203

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Regional Rhetorics by Jenny Rice Pdf

Regionalism is a term that has been used to describe many different kinds of phenomena, including political, geographical, architectural, and literary. This collection examines "rhetorical regionalism," or the relationships we have to physical regions and the idea of regionality. Regional rhetorics are more than simply the fact of local conditions in certain spaces. They are the ways people produce feelings of belonging and discourses of normalcy within those spaces. The authors in this collection bypass familiar narratives of nationality and localism in order to imagine regions as interfaces that help us to negotiate everyday life. Regions are more than physical spaces, therefore. Regional rhetorics can provide different narratives in order to help us invent new kinds of connections to place and publics. They give us new descriptions of relationships, a power that merges together the tectonic (spatial) and the architectonic (discursive) impulses of rhetoric. The book was originally published as a special issue of Rhetoric Society Quarterly.

Author : Tanja A. Börzel,Thomas Risse
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 705 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199682300

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The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Regionalism by Tanja A. Börzel,Thomas Risse Pdf

A systematic and wide-ranging survey of the scholarship on regionalism, regionalisation, and regional governance. Unpacking the major debates, leading authors of the field synthesise the state of the art, provide a guide to the comparative study of regionalism, and identify future avenues of research.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Education, Humanistic
ISBN : UCBK:C069085159

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Humanities by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-10
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9789004385474

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Picturing America by Anonim Pdf

Picturing America argues that photography is a prevalent practice of making places, determining how we situate ourselves in the world. As a prime site of knowledge and change, it enacts our perception as well as transformative conception of American environments.

Author : Emily Dolmans
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : English literature
ISBN : 9781843845683

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Writing Regional Identities in Medieval England by Emily Dolmans Pdf

An examination of how regional identities are reflected in texts from medieval England.

Author : Wendy Griswold
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226309262

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Regionalism and the Reading Class by Wendy Griswold Pdf

Globalization and the Internet are smothering cultural regionalism, that sense of place that flourished in simpler times. These two villains are also prime suspects in the death of reading. Or so alarming reports about our homogenous and dumbed-down culture would have it, but as Regionalism and the Reading Class shows, neither of these claims stands up under scrutiny—quite the contrary. Wendy Griswold draws on cases from Italy, Norway, and the United States to show that fans of books form their own reading class, with a distinctive demographic profile separate from the general public. This reading class is modest in size but intense in its literary practices. Paradoxically these educated and mobile elites work hard to put down local roots by, among other strategies, exploring regional writing. Ultimately, due to the technological, economic, and political advantages they wield, cosmopolitan readers are able to celebrate, perpetuate, and reinvigorate local culture. Griswold’s study will appeal to students of cultural sociology and the history of the book—and her findings will be welcome news to anyone worried about the future of reading or the eclipse of place.

Author : Kevin R. McNamara
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108841962

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The City in American Literature and Culture by Kevin R. McNamara Pdf

This book examines what literature and film reveal about the urban USA. Subjects include culture, class, race, crime, and disaster.

Author : Jon Lauck
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781609384968

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From Warm Center to Ragged Edge by Jon Lauck Pdf

During the half-century after the Civil War, intellectuals and politicians assumed the Midwest to be the font and heart of American culture. Despite the persistence of strong currents of midwestern regionalism during the 1920s and 1930s, the region went into eclipse during the post–World War II era. In the apt language of Minnesota’s F. Scott Fitzgerald, the Midwest slid from being the “warm center” of the republic to its “ragged edge.” This book explains the factors that triggered the demise of the Midwest’s regionalist energies, from anti-midwestern machinations in the literary world and the inability of midwestern writers to break through the cultural politics of the era to the growing dominance of a coastal, urban culture. These developments paved the way for the proliferation of images of the Midwest as flyover country, the Rust Belt, a staid and decaying region. Yet Lauck urges readers to recognize persisting and evolving forms of midwestern identity and to resist the forces that squelch the nation’s interior voices.

Author : Deniz Bozkurt-Pekar
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110692471

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Imagining Southern Spaces by Deniz Bozkurt-Pekar Pdf

Identifying the antebellum era in the United States as a transitional setting, Imagining Southern Spaces ́investigates spatialization processes about the South during a time when intensifying debates over the abolition of slavery led to a heightened period of (re)spatialization in the region. Taking the question of abolition as a major factor that shaped how different actors responded to these processes, this book studies spatial imaginations in a selection of abolitionist and proslavery literature of the era. Through this diversity of imaginations, the book points to a multitude of Souths in various economic, political, and cultural entanglements in the American Hemisphere and the Circumatlantic. Thus, it challenges monolithic and provincial representations of the South as a provincial region distinct from the rest of the country.

Author : Futák-Campbell, Beatrix
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781529217162

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Globalizing Regionalism and International Relations by Futák-Campbell, Beatrix Pdf

Building on the recent initiative to truly globalize the field of international relations, this book provides an innovative interrogation of regionalism. The book applies a globalizing framework to the study of regional worlds in order to move beyond the traditional conception of regionalism, which views regions as competing blocs dominated by great powers. Bringing together a wide range of case studies, the book shows that regions are instead dynamic configurations of social and political identities in which a variety of actors, including the less powerful, interact and partake in regionalization processes and have done so through the centuries.