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Vulnerability in Scandinavian Art and Culture

Author : Adriana Margareta Dancus,Mats Hyvönen,Maria Karlsson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030373825

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Vulnerability in Scandinavian Art and Culture by Adriana Margareta Dancus,Mats Hyvönen,Maria Karlsson Pdf

In this open access book, seventeen scholars discuss how contemporary Scandinavian art and media have become important arenas to articulate and stage various forms of vulnerability in the Scandinavian welfare states. How do discourses of privilege and vulnerability coexist and interact in Scandinavia? How do the Scandinavian countries respond to vulnerability given increased migration? How is vulnerability distributed in terms of margin and centre, normality and deviance? And how can vulnerability be used to move audiences towards each other and accomplish change? We address these questions in an interdisciplinary study that brings examples from celebrated and provocative fiction and documentary films, TV-series, reality TV, art installations, design, literature, graphic art, radio podcasts and campaigns on social media.

Vulnerability in Scandinavian Art and Culture

Author : Adriana Margareta Dancus,Mats Hyvönen,Maria Karlsson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1013276906

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Vulnerability in Scandinavian Art and Culture by Adriana Margareta Dancus,Mats Hyvönen,Maria Karlsson Pdf

In this open access book, seventeen scholars discuss how contemporary Scandinavian art and media have become important arenas to articulate and stage various forms of vulnerability in the Scandinavian welfare states. How do discourses of privilege and vulnerability coexist and interact in Scandinavia? How do the Scandinavian countries respond to vulnerability given increased migration? How is vulnerability distributed in terms of margin and centre, normality and deviance? And how can vulnerability be used to move audiences towards each other and accomplish change? We address these questions in an interdisciplinary study that brings examples from celebrated and provocative fiction and documentary films, TV-series, reality TV, art installations, design, literature, graphic art, radio podcasts and campaigns on social media. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

Vulnerability in Scandinavian Art and Culture

Author : Adriana Margareta Dancus,Mats Hyvönen,Maria Karlsson
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 3030373819

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Vulnerability in Scandinavian Art and Culture by Adriana Margareta Dancus,Mats Hyvönen,Maria Karlsson Pdf

In this open access book, seventeen scholars discuss how contemporary Scandinavian art and media have become important arenas to articulate and stage various forms of vulnerability in the Scandinavian welfare states. How do discourses of privilege and vulnerability coexist and interact in Scandinavia? How do the Scandinavian countries respond to vulnerability given increased migration? How is vulnerability distributed in terms of margin and centre, normality and deviance? And how can vulnerability be used to move audiences towards each other and accomplish change? We address these questions in an interdisciplinary study that brings examples from celebrated and provocative fiction and documentary films, TV-series, reality TV, art installations, design, literature, graphic art, radio podcasts and campaigns on social media.

Embodied VulnerAbilities in Literature and Film

Author : Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández,Miriam Fernández-Santiago
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000956177

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Embodied VulnerAbilities in Literature and Film by Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández,Miriam Fernández-Santiago Pdf

Embodied VulnerAbilities in Literature and Film includes a collection of essays exploring the ways in which recent literary and filmic representations of vulnerability depict embodied forms of vulnerability across languages, media, genres, countries, and traditions in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The volume gathers 12 chapters penned by scholars from Japan, the USA, Canada, and Spain which look into the representation of vulnerability in human bodies and subjectivities. Not only is the array of genres covered in this volume significant— from narrative, drama, poetry, (auto)documentary, or film— in fiction and nonfiction, but also the varied cultural and linguistic coordinates of the literary and filmic texts scrutinized—from the USA, Canada, Spain, France, the Middle East, to Japan. Readers who decide to open the cover of this volume will benefit from becoming familiar with a relatively old topic— that of vulnerability— from a new perspective, so that they can consider the great potential of this critical concept anew.

Terrorizing Images

Author : Charles Ivan Armstrong,Unni Langas
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110694031

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Terrorizing Images by Charles Ivan Armstrong,Unni Langas Pdf

It is broadly accepted that “terrorizing” images are often instrumentalized in periods of conflict to serve political interests. This volume proposes that paying attention to how images of trauma and conflict are described in literary texts, i.e. to the rhetorical practice known as “ekphrasis”, is crucial to our understanding of how such images work. The volume’s contributors discuss verbal images of trauma and terror in literary texts both from a contemporary perspective and as historical artefacts in order to illuminate the many different functions of ekphrasis in literature. The articles in this volume reflect the vast developments in the field of trauma studies since the 1990s, a field that has recently broadened to include genres beyond the memoir and testimony and that lends itself well to new postcolonial, feminist, and multimedia approaches. By expanding the scholarly understanding of how images of trauma are described, interpreted, and acted out in literary texts, this collected volume makes a significant contribution to both trauma and memory studies, as well as more broadly to cultural studies.

Precarity in European Film

Author : Elisa Cuter,Guido Kirsten,Hanna Prenzel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783110707816

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Precarity in European Film by Elisa Cuter,Guido Kirsten,Hanna Prenzel Pdf

This volume brings together renowned scholars and early career-researchers in mapping the ways in which European cinema —whether arthouse or mainstream, fictional or documentary, working with traditional or new media— engages with phenomena of precarity, poverty, and social exclusion. It compares how the filmic traditions of different countries reflect the socioeconomic conditions associated with precarity, and illuminates similarities in the iconography of precarious lives across cultures. While some of the contributions deal with the representations of marginalized minorities, others focus on work-related precarity or the depictions of downward mobility. Among other topics, the volume looks at how films grapple with gender inequality, intersectional struggle, discriminatory housing policies, and the specific problems of precarious youth. With its comparative approach to filmic representations of European precarity, this volume makes a major contribution to scholarship on precarity and the representation of social class in contemporary visual culture.

Humanitarian Shame and Redemption

Author : Heidi Mogstad
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781805392279

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Humanitarian Shame and Redemption by Heidi Mogstad Pdf

Following the 2015 ‘refugee crisis,’ many different actors emerged to contest or mitigate the EU’s border policies. This book explores the birth and trajectory of a Norwegian volunteer organisation A Drop in the Ocean, established by a mother-of-five with no prior experience in humanitarian work. Drawing on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork, Heidi Mogstad examines the organisation’s shifting and contested efforts to ‘fill humanitarian gaps’ in Greece while witnessing and shaming the Norwegian public and politicians into action. Moving beyond existing critiques of humanitarian sentiments like pity and compassion, the book focuses specifically on the work of shame and other ‘negative’ emotions.

Podcast Journalism

Author : David Dowling
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780231559829

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Podcast Journalism by David Dowling Pdf

Podcasting’s stratospheric rise has inspired a new breed of audio reporting. Offering immersive storytelling for a binge-listening audience as well as reaching previously underserved communities, podcasts have become journalism’s most rapidly growing digital genre, buoying a beleaguered news industry. Yet many concerns have been raised about this new medium, such as the potential for disinformation, the influence of sponsors on content, the dominance of a few publishers and platforms, and at-times questionable adherence to journalistic principles. David O. Dowling critically examines how podcasting and its evolving conventions are transforming reporting—and even reshaping journalism’s core functions and identity. He considers podcast reporting’s most influential achievements as well as its most consequential ethical and journalistic shortcomings, emphasizing the reciprocal influences between podcasting and traditional and digital journalism. Podcasting, both as a medium and a business, has benefited from the blurring of boundaries separating news from entertainment, editorial from advertising, and neutrality from subjectivity. The same qualities and forces that have allowed podcasting to bypass the limitations of traditional categories, expand the space of social and political discourse, and provide openings for marginalized voices have also permitted corporations to extend their reach and far-right firebrands to increase their influence. Equally attentive to the medium’s strengths and flaws, this is a vital book for all readers interested in how podcasting has changed journalism.

The Routledge Handbook of Architecture, Urban Space and Politics, Volume I

Author : Nikolina Bobic,Farzaneh Haghighi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 619 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000774115

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The Routledge Handbook of Architecture, Urban Space and Politics, Volume I by Nikolina Bobic,Farzaneh Haghighi Pdf

For architecture and urban space to have relevance in the 21st Century, we cannot merely reignite the approaches of thought and design that were operative in the last century. This is despite, or because of, the nexus between politics and space often being theorized as a representation or by-product of politics. As a symbol or an effect, the spatial dimension is depoliticized. Consequently, architecture and the urban are halted from fostering any systematic change as they are secondary to the event and therefore incapable of performing any political role. This handbook explores how architecture and urban space can unsettle the unquestioned construct of the spatial politics of governing. Considering both ongoing and unprecedented global problems – from violence and urban warfare, the refugee crisis, borderization, detention camps, terrorist attacks to capitalist urbanization, inequity, social unrest and climate change – this handbook provides a comprehensive and multidisciplinary research focused on the complex nexus of politics, architecture and urban space. Volume I starts by pointing out the need to explore the politics of spatialization to make sense of the operational nature of spatial oppression in contemporary times. The operative and active political reading of space is disseminated through five thematics: Violence and War Machines; Security and Borders; Race, Identity and Ideology; Spectacle and the Screen; and Mapping Landscapes and Big Data. This first volume of the handbook frames cutting-edge contemporary debates and presents studies of actual theories and projects that address spatial politics. This Handbook will be of interest to anyone seeking to meaningfully disrupt the reduction of space to an oppressive or neutral backdrop of political realities.

Public Criminology

Author : Debbie Jones,Mark Jones,Kate Strudwick,Anthony Charles
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031421679

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Public Criminology by Debbie Jones,Mark Jones,Kate Strudwick,Anthony Charles Pdf

This book discusses the role and impact of ‘Public Criminology’. It brings together a collection of key scholars who have been at the fore of empirical and practice work in relation to understanding how ‘Public Criminology’ can engender academic activism. Split into two parts, it focusses on academic activism and research methodologies, and public criminology and pedagogical practice. It includes chapters on a range of topics including Inside-Out teaching, it discusses the role of social scientists and stepping outside of established research practices, and how students, the public and children can be engaged in criminological learning and issues to become agents of social change. It includes a reflection on how ‘Public Criminology’ has developed both in the UK and USA. It speaks to students, researchers and academics alike involved in teaching and learning within the discipline of Criminology and those who wish to evaluate practice and ensure their interventions have impact on commissioners and policymakers.

Migration, Recognition and Critical Theory

Author : Gottfried Schweiger
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030727321

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Migration, Recognition and Critical Theory by Gottfried Schweiger Pdf

This book brings together philosophical, social-theoretical and empirically oriented contributions on the philosophical and socio-theoretical debate on migration and integration, using the instruments of recognition as a normative and social-scientific category. Furthermore, the theoretical and practical implications of recognition theory are reflected through the case of migration. Migration movements, refugees and the associated tensions are phenomena that have become the focus of scientific, political and public debate in recent years. Migrants, in particular refugees, face many injustices and are especially vulnerable, but the right-wing political discourse presents them as threats to social order and stability. This book shows what a critical theory of recognition can contribute to the debate. The book is suitable for researchers in philosophy, social theory and migration research. "A profound examination of how states and societies struggle to recognize migrants as fellow human beings in all their fullness. The contributions are exceptional for combining astute philosophy and social theory with a discussion of actual politics and real lives." Dr. Hugo Slim (Senior Research Fellow at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford and formerly Head of Policy at the International Committee of the Red Cross) “This impressive and timely volume offers an innovative way of understanding the issues of migration and integration by using a critical theory of recognition. Recognition theory has rich potential for effectively responding to the issues of autonomy, identity, integration, and empowerment that are at the core of the current public debates on mass migration, displacement, and the refugee crisis. By examining the normative and policy implications of recognition as they apply to migration, the book offers a pathbreaking look at the human dimension of the debate.” Dr. Helle Porsdam (Professor of Law and Humanities and UNESCO Chair in Cultural Rights University of Copenhagen)

New Millennium Woes and Livelihood Struggles in Africa

Author : Peter Thomas,Ngonidzashe Marongwe
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789956552009

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New Millennium Woes and Livelihood Struggles in Africa by Peter Thomas,Ngonidzashe Marongwe Pdf

One of the oldest survival pursuits undertaken by the weak and the downtrodden people across the world has been begging. Going back to the ancient Christian biblical times up to the present epoch as well as across varying spatial settings, in situations of trouble and tribulations, parts of various communities have resorted to beggary to either overcome immediate adversities or longer term calamities. Drawing on insights from two polar theoretical lenses of Social Constructionism and Social Deconstructionism, and guided by a pithy study of the begging across the African continent especially by Zimbabweans, this book troubles the various contours related to the subject of begging. Inter alia, the book considers the concept of begging, the causes of the prevalence of begging across the world and particularly among Zimbabweans, the challenges and benefits associated with the pursuit of alms, the impact of begging in foreign lands as well as some of the strategies that beggars employ to maximize their collections and/ or profits. What can be discerned from the book is that for many, begging is one of the last resort undertakings with low pickings. However, from a utilitarian perspective, begging has helped to sustain the impoverished livelihoods of Zimbabweans, both inside and outside the borders of the country since the advent of a debilitating crisis experienced from the turn of the new millennium. On the whole, this book seeks to provoke further researches on an important socio-economic area that affects many African communities but has so far been scantily researched. The book is handy for students and practitioners in economic history, African studies, economics, risk and disaster management, social anthropology, political science, and development studies.

Nostalgia and Hope: Intersections between Politics of Culture, Welfare, and Migration in Europe

Author : Ov Cristian Norocel,Anders Hellström,Martin Bak Jørgensen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030416942

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Nostalgia and Hope: Intersections between Politics of Culture, Welfare, and Migration in Europe by Ov Cristian Norocel,Anders Hellström,Martin Bak Jørgensen Pdf

This open access book shows how the politics of migration affect community building in the 21st century, drawing on both retrogressive and progressive forms of mobilization. It elaborates theoretically and shows empirically how the two master frames of nostalgia and hope are used in local, national and transnational settings, in and outside conventional forms of doing politics. It expands on polarized societal processes and external events relevant for the transformation of European welfare systems and the reproduction of national identities today. It evidences the importance of gender in the narrative use of the master frames of nostalgia and hope, either as an ideological tool for right-wing populist and extreme right retrogressive mobilization or as an essential element of progressive intersectional politics of hope. It uses both comparative and single case studies to address different perspectives, and by means of various methodological approaches, the manner in which the master frames of nostalgia and hope are articulated in the politics of culture, welfare, and migration. The book is organized around three thematic sections whereby the first section deals with right-wing populist party politics across Europe, the second section deals with an articulation of politics beyond party politics by means of retrogressive mobilization, and the third and last section deals with emancipatory initiatives beyond party politics as well.

The Power of Vulnerability

Author : Anu Koivunen,Katariina Kyrölä,Ingrid Ryberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Affect (Psychology)
ISBN : 1526133091

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The Power of Vulnerability by Anu Koivunen,Katariina Kyrölä,Ingrid Ryberg Pdf

This book is available as an open access ebook under a CC-BY-NC-ND licence.This book investigates the new language of vulnerability that has emerged in feminist, queer and antiracist debates on media, taking a particular interest in the historical legacies and contemporary forms and effects of this language. Contributors such as Jack Halberstam and Sara Ahmed examine how vulnerability has become a battleground, how affect and vulnerability have turned into a politicised currency both for addressing and obscuring asymmetries of power, and how media activism and state policies address so-called vulnerable groups. Taking on such heated topics as trigger warnings and diversity policies, the book will be of interest to scholars and students in media and cultural studies, affect theory, gender studies, queer theory and critical race studies.

Design for Inclusivity

Author : Magda Mostafa,Ruth Baumeister,Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen,Martin Tamke
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 799 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783031363023

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Design for Inclusivity by Magda Mostafa,Ruth Baumeister,Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen,Martin Tamke Pdf

The book provides new perspectives from leading experts examining the role of architects and urbanists in designing for inclusivity in our built environment. By focusing on themes of gender, race and ethnicity, ability, neurodiversity, age, poverty and socio-economy and the non-human, the book tackles the complex challenges that designers and scholars encounter and need to address in their works. The volume offers a diverse compilation of peer-reviewed papers related to architecture for inclusivity in various different formats, ranging from visual essays, argumentative papers and scholastic texts. It presents the notion of "availability", a concept which works to challenge the "othering" inherent in notions of inclusion and accessibility. In its introduction it presents a critical discourse around the challenges and potentials lying in the design for availability targeted towards a systemic change of our societies. The book is part of a series of six volumes that explore the agency of the built environment in relation to the SDGs through new research conducted by leading researchers. The series is led by editors Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen and Martin Tamke in collaboration with the theme editors: - Design for Climate Adaptation: Billie Faircloth and Maibritt Pedersen Zari - Design for Rethinking Resources: Carlo Ratti and Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen (Eds.) - Design for Resilient Communities: Anna Rubbo and Juan Du (Eds.) - Design for Health: Arif Hasan and Christian Benimana (Eds.) - Design for Inclusivity: Magda Mostafa and Ruth Baumeister (Eds.) - Design for Partnerships for Change: Sandi Hilal and Merve Bedir (Eds.)