Uneven Moments

Author : Harry Harootunian
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231548779

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Uneven Moments by Harry Harootunian Pdf

Few scholars have done more than Harry Harootunian to shape the study of modern Japan. Incorporating Marxist critical perspectives on history and theoretically informed insights, his scholarship has been vitally important for the world of Asian studies. Uneven Moments presents a selection of Harootunian’s essays on Japan’s intellectual and cultural history from the late Tokugawa period to the present that span the many phases of his distinguished career and point to new directions for Japanese studies. Uneven Moments begins with reflections on area studies as an academic field and how we go about studying a region. It then moves into discussions of key topics in modern Japanese history. Harootunian considers Japan’s fateful encounter with capitalist modernity and the implications of uneven development, examining the combinations of older practices with new demands that characterized the twentieth century. The book examines the making of modern Japan, the transformations of everyday life, and the collision between the production of forms of cultural expression and new political possibilities. Finally, Harootunian analyzes Japanese political identity and its forms of reckoning with the past. Exploring the shifting relationship among culture, the making of meaning, and politics in rich reflections on Marxism and critical theory, Uneven Moments presents Harootunian’s intellectual trajectory and in so doing offers a unique assessment of Japanese history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004384736

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Cultures of Uneven and Combined Development by Anonim Pdf

Cultures of Uneven and Combined Development seeks to explore and develop Leon Trotsky’s concept of uneven and combined development. In particular, it aims to adapt the political and historical analysis which originated in Trotsky’s Russia for use within the contemporary field of world literature. As such, it draws together the work of scholars from both the field of international relations and the field of literature and the arts. This collection will therefore be of particular interest to anyone who is interested in new ways of understanding world literary texts, or interested in new ways of applying Trotsky’s revolutionary politics to the contemporary world order. Contributors: Alexander Anievas, Gail Day, James Christie, Kamran Matin, Kerem Nisancioglu, Luke Cooper, Michael Niblett, Neil Davidson, Nesrin Degirmencioglu, Robert Spencer, Steve Edwards.

Author : Jeffrey Yi-Lin Forrest
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781138026285

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A Systems Perspective on Financial Systems by Jeffrey Yi-Lin Forrest Pdf

This book is devoted to a systems-theoretical presentation of the main results of applying the systemic yoyo model and relevant analytical tools to the topics of money and financial institutions. The author presents the main concepts and results of the subject matter in the language of systems science, which has in the past century prompted revolutionary applicati ons of systems research in various subfields of traditional disciplines. This volume applies a brand new logic of reasoning to some of the unsett led problems in the area of money and banking. Due to the particular systemic approach employed, the reader will be able to see how different economic activities are implicitly related to each other and how financial decisions are holistically made in reference to seemingly unrelated events. That is, the learning of this particular subject matter takes place at a different, more elevated level, from which, among others, economies are respectively seen as both closed and open systems; their interactions emulate those of rotational pools of fluids. This book can be used as a textbook for researchers and graduate students in economics, finance, systems science, and mathematical / systems modeling. It will also be useful as a reference book for applied economists and various policy makers.

Author : Stephen Shapiro,Philip Barnard
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474238748

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Pentecostal Modernism: Lovecraft, Los Angeles, and World-Systems Culture by Stephen Shapiro,Philip Barnard Pdf

Bringing together new accounts of the pulp horror writings of H.P. Lovecraft and the rise of the popular early 20th-century religious movements of American Pentecostalism and Social Gospel, Pentecostal Modernism challenges traditional histories of modernism as a secular avant-garde movement based in capital cities such as London or Paris. Disrupting accounts that separate religion from progressive social movements and mass culture, Stephen Shapiro and Philip Barnard construct a new Modernism belonging to a history of regional cities, new urban areas powered by the hopes and frustrations of recently urbanized populations seeking a better life. In this way, Pentecostal Modernism shows how this process of urbanization generates new cultural practices including the invention of religious traditions and mass-cultural forms.

Author : Harry Harootunian
Publisher : Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-06
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 0231190204

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Uneven Moments by Harry Harootunian Pdf

Few scholars have done more than Harry Harootunian to shape the study of modern Japan. Uneven Moments presents a selection of Harootunian's essays on Japan's intellectual and cultural history from the late Tokugawa period to the present that span the many phases of his distinguished career and point to new directions for Japanese studies.

Author : Jozef Johannes Hubertus Brouwers
Publisher : Erik van Kemenade
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789038629384

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Stochastic Processes in Mechanical Engineering by Jozef Johannes Hubertus Brouwers Pdf

Author : Lynn Matluck Brooks,Joellen A. Meglin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134906451

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Preserving Dance Across Time and Space by Lynn Matluck Brooks,Joellen A. Meglin Pdf

Dance is the art least susceptible to preservation since its embodied, kinaesthetic nature has proven difficult to capture in notation and even in still or moving images. However, frameworks have been established and guidance made available for keeping dances, performances, and choreographers’ legacies alive so that the dancers of today and tomorrow can experience and learn from the dances and dancers of the past. In this volume, a range of voices address the issue of dance preservation through memory, artistic choice, interpretation, imagery and notation, as well as looking at relevant archives, legal structures, documentation and artefacts. The intertwining of dance preservation and creativity is a core theme discussed throughout this text, pointing to the essential continuity of dance history and dance innovation. The demands of preservation stretch across time, geographies, institutions and interpersonal connections, and this book focuses on the fascinating web that supports the fragile yet urgent effort to sustain our dancing heritage. The articles in this book were originally published in the journal Dance Chronicle: Studies in Dance and the Related Arts.

Author : Sharae Deckard,Nicholas Lawrence,Neil Lazarus,Graeme Macdonald,Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee,Benita Parry,Stephen Shapiro
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781781388792

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Combined and Uneven Development by Sharae Deckard,Nicholas Lawrence,Neil Lazarus,Graeme Macdonald,Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee,Benita Parry,Stephen Shapiro Pdf

Pioneering study offering a ‘new comparatism’ — a new world-systems’ approach to the ‘world’ in ‘world literature’.

Author : Ian Stronach
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135179571

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Globalizing Education, Educating the Local by Ian Stronach Pdf

Offers an account of how contemporary educational knowledge is put together and presented in the global knowledge economy, redefining the actors in the education process, including principally the child, pupil, and learner, but also the teacher, parent, inspector and policy-maker.

Author : Ian Balfour
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0804745064

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The Rhetoric of Romantic Prophecy by Ian Balfour Pdf

The Romantic era in England and Germany saw a sudden renewal of prophetic modes of writing. Biblical prophecy and, to a lesser extent, classical oracle again became viable models for poetry and even for journalistic prose. Notably, this development arose out of the new-found freedom of biblical interpretation that began in the mid-eighteenth century, as the Bible was increasingly seen to be a literary and mythical text. Taking Walter Benjamin’s thinking about history as a point of departure, the author shows how the model for Romantic prophecy emerges less as a prediction of the future than as a call to change in the present, even as it quotes, at key turns, texts from the past. After surveying developments in eighteenth-century biblical hermeneutics, as well as the numerous instances of prophetic eruption in Romantic poetry, the book culminates in close readings of works by Blake, Hölderlin, and Coleridge. Each of these writers interpreted the Bible in strong, variously radical and conservative ways, and each reworked prophetic texts in often startling fashion. The author’s reading of Blake focuses on the complex temporal and rhetorical dynamics at work in a prophetic tradition, with attention paid to the key mediating figure of Milton. The chapter on Hölderlin investigates the truth-claim of poetry and the consequences of Hölderlin’s insight into the necessarily figural character of poetry. The analysis of Coleridge correlates his theory of allegory and symbol with his theory and practice of political writing, which often relies on mobilizing prophetic authority. Together, the readings force us to reexamine the claims and practices of Romantic poets and thinkers and their ideas and ideologies, not without engendering some allegorical resonance with issues in our own time.

Author : Anne Allison
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478024415

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Being Dead Otherwise by Anne Allison Pdf

With an aging population, declining marriage and childbirth rates, and a rise in single households, more Japanese are living and dying alone. Many dead are no longer buried in traditional ancestral graves where descendants would tend their spirits, and individuals are increasingly taking on mortuary preparation for themselves. In Being Dead Otherwise Anne Allison examines the emergence of new death practices in Japan as the old customs of mortuary care are coming undone. She outlines the proliferation of new industries, services, initiatives, and businesses that offer alternative means---ranging from automated graves, collective grave sites, and crematoria to one-stop mortuary complexes and robotic priests---for tending to the dead. These new burial and ritual practices provide alternatives to long-standing traditions of burial and commemoration of the dead. In charting this shifting ecology of death, Allison outlines the potential of these solutions to radically reorient sociality in Japan in ways that will impact how we think about the end of life, identity, tradition, and culture in Japan and beyond.

Author : James Monaco
Publisher : Perigee Trade
Page : 1200 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000440987

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The Movie Guide by James Monaco Pdf

From The Big Sleep to Babette's Feast, from Lawrence of Arabia to Drugstore Cowboy, The Movie Guide offers the inside word on 3,500 of the best motion pictures ever made. James Monaco is the president and founder of BASELINE, the world's leading supplier of information to the film and television industries. Among his previous books are The Encyclopedia of Film, American Film Now, and How to Read a Film.

Author : Eduardo de Miranda Batista,Pedro Vellasco,Luciano Rodrigues Ornelas de Lima
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-23
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781315675497

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Tubular Structures XV by Eduardo de Miranda Batista,Pedro Vellasco,Luciano Rodrigues Ornelas de Lima Pdf

Tubular Structures XV contains the latest scientific and engineering developments in the field of tubular structures, as presented at the 15th International Symposium on Tubular Structures (ISTS15, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 27-29 May 2015). The International Symposium on Tubular Structures (ISTS) has a long-standing reputation for being the principal

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Life insurance
ISBN : UCR:31210018231397

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Scandinavian actuarial journal by Anonim Pdf

Includes section "Litteraturanmeldelser."

Author : Simone Tassani,Claudio Belvedere ,Juan Ramírez,Giorgio Davico
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9782832550106

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Cross-Disciplinary Approaches to Characterize Gait and Posture Disturbances in Aging and Related Diseases, volume II by Simone Tassani,Claudio Belvedere ,Juan Ramírez,Giorgio Davico Pdf

Aging introduces disturbances to the gait and posture of individuals. Such alterations can originate or result from a wide range of causes making it challenging to understand when modifications are related to pathological or physiological causes. Many disciplines come together to perform this kind of analysis (e.g. computational and experimental mechanics, image processing, medicine, biology, physiology, machine learning, and data science). Gait analysis is particularly sensitive to the interactions of different disciplines. This technique allows the study of human movements, but only through a multidisciplinary approach, it is possible to infer relations of causation. Narrow studies focusing on specific techniques are important to develop the fundamental tools required to study movement. In recent years, significant methodological advancements have been independently made in these fields. However, to cross the borders of current science and develop consistent results any new study needs to set interdisciplinary goals. An inclusive approach merging multiple aspects would be key in targeting pharmacological or rehabilitation interventions and improving patient care as a whole.