Transcultural Turbulences

Author : Christiane Brosius,Roland Wenzlhuemer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 364218393X

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Transcultural Turbulences by Christiane Brosius,Roland Wenzlhuemer Pdf

Today, hardly anything moves as fast across the globe as images and media. This fact opens new avenues to explore social and cultural change, but also poses new theoretical challenges of how to grasp and better understand these changes and flows. Moreover, such movements across geophysical and cultural borders have a historical depth that enables us to explore globalisation and localisation in new ways. Transculturality is still a relatively new field of research in the Humanities through which we sharpen our competence and ‘literacy’ to come to terms with the complexity of globalised cultures. This volume ventures into new domains of research on the transculturality of images and addresses the need to develop new or modify established often ethno- and Eurocentric interpretations of what happens when images travel. It does so by bringing together cutting-edge research from fields such as art history, cultural anthropology, colonial history, Islamic studies, religious studies and literary criticism.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3642183948

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Transcultural Turbulences by Anonim Pdf

Author : Madeleine Herren,Martin Rüesch,Christiane Sibille
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9783642191961

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Transcultural History by Madeleine Herren,Martin Rüesch,Christiane Sibille Pdf

For the 21st century, the often-quoted citation ‘past is prologue’ reads the other way around: The global present lacks a historical narrative for the global past. Focussing on a transcultural history, this book questions the territoriality of historical concepts and offers a narrative, which aims to overcome cultural essentialism by focussing on crossing borders of all kinds. Transcultural History reflects critically on the way history is constructed, asking who formed history in the past and who succeeded in shaping what we call the master narrative. Although trained European historians, the authors aim to present a useful approach to global history, showing first of all how a Eurocentric but universal historiography removed or essentialised certain topics in Asian history. As an empirical discipline, history is based on source material, analysed according to rules resulting from a strong methodological background. This book accesses the global past after World War I, looking at the well known stage of the Paris Peace Conferences, observing the multiplication of new borders and the variety of transgressing institutions, concepts, actors, men and women inventing themselves as global subjects, but sharing a bitter experience with almost all local societies at this time, namely the awareness of having relatives buried in far distant places due to globalised wars.

Author : Irene Villaescusa Illán
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030515997

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Transcultural Nationalism in Hispano-Filipino Literature by Irene Villaescusa Illán Pdf

This book studies a selection of works of Philippine literature written in Spanish during the American occupation of the Philippines (1902-1946). It explores the place of Filipino nationalism in a selection of fiction and non-fiction texts by Spanish-speaking Filipino writers Jesús Balmori, Adelina Gurrea Monasterio, Paz Mendoza Guazón, and Antonio Abad. Taking an interdisciplinary approach that draws from Anthropology, History, Literary Studies, Cultural Analysis and World Literature, this book offers a comparative analysis of the position of these authors toward the cultural transformations that have taken place as a result of the Philippines' triple history of colonization (by Spain, the US, and Japan) while imagining an independent nation. Engaging with an untapped archive, this book is a relevant and timely contribution to the fields of both Filipino and Hispanic literary studies.

Author : Vaclav Brezina,Robbie Love,Karin Aijmer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351975728

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Corpus Approaches to Contemporary British Speech by Vaclav Brezina,Robbie Love,Karin Aijmer Pdf

Featuring contributions from an international team of leading and up-and-coming scholars, this innovative volume provides a comprehensive sociolinguistic picture of current spoken British English based on the Spoken BNC2014, a brand new corpus of British speech. The book begins with short introductions highlighting the state-of-the-art in three major areas of corpus-based sociolinguistics, while the remaining chapters feature rigorous analysis of the research outcomes of the project grounded in Spoken BNC2014 data samples, highlighting English used in everyday situations in the UK, with brief summaries reflecting on the sociolinguistic implications of this research included at the end of each chapter. This unique and robust dataset allows this team of researchers the unique opportunity to focus on speaker characteristics such as gender, age, dialect and socio-economic status, to examine a range of sociolinguistic dimensions, including grammar, pragmatics, and discourse, and to reflect on the major changes that have occurred in British society since the last corpus was compiled in the 1990s. This dynamic new contribution to the burgeoning field of corpus-based sociolinguistics is key reading for students and scholars in sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, pragmatics, grammar, and British English.

Author : Ivan Sablin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317358930

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Governing Post-Imperial Siberia and Mongolia, 1911-1924 by Ivan Sablin Pdf

The governance arrangements put in place for Siberia and Mongolia after the collapse of the Qing and Russian Empires were highly unusual, experimental and extremely interesting. The Buryat-Mongol Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic established within the Soviet Union in 1923 and the independent Mongolian People’s Republic established a year later were supposed to represent a new model of transnational, post-national governance, incorporating religious and ethno-national independence, under the leadership of the coming global political party, the Communist International. The model, designed to be suitable for a socialist, decolonised Asia, and for a highly diverse population in a strategic border region, was intended to be globally applicable. This book, based on extensive original research, charts the development of these unusual governance arrangements, discusses how the ideologies of nationalism, socialism and Buddhism were borrowed from, and highlights the relevance of the subject for the present day world, where multiculturality, interconnectedness and interdependency become ever more complicated.

Author : Laila Abu-Er-Rub,Christiane Brosius,Sebastian Meurer,Diamantis Panagiotopoulos,Susan Richter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 669 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429771842

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Engaging Transculturality by Laila Abu-Er-Rub,Christiane Brosius,Sebastian Meurer,Diamantis Panagiotopoulos,Susan Richter Pdf

Engaging Transculturality is an extensive and comprehensive survey of the rapidly developing field of transcultural studies. In this volume, the reflections of a large and interdisciplinary array of scholars have been brought together to provide an extensive source of regional and trans-regional competencies, and a systematic and critical discussion of the field’s central methodological concepts and terms. Based on a wide range of case studies, the book is divided into twenty-seven chapters across which cultural, social, and political issues relating to transculturality from Antiquity to today and within both Asian and European regions are explored. Key terms related to the field of transculturality are also discussed within each chapter, and the rich variety of approaches provided by the contributing authors offer the reader an expansive look into the field of transculturality. Offering a wealth of expertise, and equipped with a selection of illustrations, this book will be of interest to scholars and students from a variety of fields within the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Author : Elisabetta Tollardo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349950287

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Fascist Italy and the League of Nations, 1922-1935 by Elisabetta Tollardo Pdf

This book analyses the relationship between Fascist Italy and the League of Nations in the interwar years. By uncovering the traces of those Italians working in the organization, this volume investigates Fascist Italy’s membership of the League, and explores the dynamics between nationalism and internationalism in Geneva. The relationship between Fascist Italy and the League of Nations was contradictory, shifting from active collaboration to open disagreement. Previous literature has not reflected this oscillation in policy, focusing disproportionally on the problems Italy caused for the League, such as the Ethiopian crisis. Yet Fascist Italy remained in the League for more than fifteen years, and was the third largest power within the institution. How did a Fascist dictatorship fit into an organization espousing principles of liberal internationalism? By using archival sources from four countries, Elisabetta Tollardo shows that Fascist Italy was much more concerned with, and involved in, the League than currently believed.

Author : Shazia Sadaf,Aroosa Kanwal
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000936926

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Contemporary Pakistani Speculative Fiction and the Global Imaginary by Shazia Sadaf,Aroosa Kanwal Pdf

As the first book-length study of emergent Pakistani speculative fiction written in English, this critical work explores the ways in which contemporary Pakistani authors extend the genre in new directions by challenging the cognitive majoritarianism (usually Western) in this field. Responding to the recent Afro science fiction movement that has spurred non-Western writers to seek a democratization of the broader genre of speculative fiction, Pakistani writers have incorporated elements from djinn mythology, Qur'anic eschatology, "Desi" (South Asian) traditions, local folklore, and Islamic feminisms in their narratives to encourage familiarity with alternative world views. In five chapters, this book analyzes fiction by several established Pakistani authors as well as emerging writers to highlight the literary value of these contemporary works in reconciling competing cognitive approaches, blurring the dividing line between "possibilities" and "impossibilities" in envisioning humanity’s collective future, and anticipating the future of human rights in these envisioned worlds.

Author : Gwyn McClelland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429560989

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Dangerous Memory in Nagasaki by Gwyn McClelland Pdf

On 9th August 1945, the US dropped the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki. Of the dead, approximately 8500 were Catholic Christians, representing over sixty percent of the community. In this collective biography, nine Catholic survivors share personal and compelling stories about the aftermath of the bomb and their lives since that day. Examining the Catholic community’s interpretation of the A-bomb, this book not only uses memory to provide a greater understanding of the destruction of the bombing, but also links it to the past experiences of religious persecution, drawing comparisons with the ‘Secret Christian’ groups which survived in the Japanese countryside after the banning of Christianity. Through in-depth interviews, it emerges that the memory of the atomic bomb is viewed through the lens of a community which had experienced suffering and marginalisation for more than 400 years. Furthermore, it argues that their dangerous memory confronts Euro-American-centric narratives of the atomic bombings, whilst also challenging assumptions around a providential bomb. Dangerous Memory in Nagasaki presents the voices of Catholics, many of whom have not spoken of their losses within the framework of their faith before. As such, it will be invaluable to students and scholars of Japanese history, religion and war history.

Author : Axel Michaels
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190262631

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Homo Ritualis by Axel Michaels Pdf

'Homo Ritualis' describes and analyzes various forms of Hindu rituals and examines conceptual components such as framing, formality modality and theories of meaning. Presenting a Hindu theory of rituals, the book asks how indigenous terms and notions of ritual contribute to ritual theory.

Author : Elena V. Shabliy
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498554350

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Representations of the Blessed Virgin Mary in World Literature and Art by Elena V. Shabliy Pdf

This interdisciplinary study explores Marian imagery and representations in world literature and art throughout the centuries, demonstrating the widespread deep veneration of the image of the Blessed Virgin Mary in various countries and different Christian traditions.

Author : Zlatko Skrbis,Ian Woodward
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781446283035

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Cosmopolitanism by Zlatko Skrbis,Ian Woodward Pdf

Cosmopolitanism: Uses of the Idea offers an illuminating and dynamic account of an often confusing and widespread concept. Bringing together both historical and contemporary approaches to cosmopolitanism, as well as recognizing its multidimensional nature, Zlatko Skrbis and Ian Woodward manage to show the very essence of cosmopolitanism as a theoretical idea and cultural practice. Through an exploration of various social fields, such as media, identity and ethics, the book analyses the limits and possibilities of the cosmopolitan turn and explores the different contexts cosmopolitanism theory has been, and still is, applied to. Critical, diverse and engaging, the book successfully answers questions such as: How can we understand cosmopolitanism? What is the relationship between cosmopolitanism and ethics? What is the relationship between cosmopolitanism and identity? How do cosmopolitan networks come into being? How do we apply cosmopolitanism theory to contemporary, digital and mediated societies? This comprehensive and authoritative title is a must for anyone interested in cultural consumption, contemporary citizenship and identity construction. It will be especially useful for students and scholars within the fields of social theory, ethics, identity politics, cultural diversity and globalisation.

Author : Mrinal Pande
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000604641

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Popular Hinduism, Stories and Mobile Performances by Mrinal Pande Pdf

This book addresses the recent transformations of popular Hinduism by focusing upon the religious cum artistic practice of Ramkatha, staged narratives of the Ramcharitmanas. Focusing on the sensory and media experiences, the author examines the aesthetics and dynamics of the Ramkatha ethnoscape through participant-observation in everyday practices, and how it particularly, translates politics from the realm of religion. Besides being socially constructed, the Ramkatha heavily relies on technologies for its production and continuation. Negotiated through a telling of Hindu religious stories, the mediated voice of Morari Bapu, a former school-teacher turned narrator, is a major medium of performance transposed into multiple media such as theatre, stage, music and spectacle. The book engages with voice as a vehicle of meaning to scrutinize its discursive production, imagination and re-production across mobile contexts. It investigates how the transnationally disseminated practices re-contextualize religious subjectivities of an affective community enmeshed in spatio-sensorial modes. The book will be of interest to academic audiences in the fields of South Asian Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, as well as Performance Studies and Religious Studies.

Author : Jacqueline Millner,Catriona Moore
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000404302

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Contemporary Art and Feminism by Jacqueline Millner,Catriona Moore Pdf

This important new book examines contemporary art while foregrounding the key role feminism has played in enabling current modes of artmaking, spectatorship and theoretical discourse. Contemporary Art and Feminism carefully outlines the links between feminist theory and practice of the past four decades of contemporary art and offers a radical re-reading of the contemporary movement. Rather than focus on filling in the gaps of accepted histories by ‘adding’ the ‘missing’ female, queer, First Nations and women artists of colour, the authors seek to revise broader understandings of contemporary practice by providing case studies contextualised in a robust art historical and theoretical basis. Readers are encouraged to see where art ideas come from and evaluate past and present art strategies. What strategies, materials or tropes are less relevant in today’s networked, event-driven art economies? What strategies and themes should we keep hold of, or develop in new ways? This is a significant and innovative intervention that is ideal for students in courses on contemporary art within fine arts, visual studies, history of art, gender studies and queer studies.