A study of water at the intersection of landscape and infrastructure in Paris, Berlin, Lagos, Mumbai, Los Angeles, and London.
Water lies at the intersection of landscape and infrastructure, crossing between visible and invisible domains of urban space, in the tanks and buckets of the global South and the vast subterranean technological networks of the global North. In this book, Matthew Gandy considers the cultural and material significance of water through the experiences of six cities: Paris, Berlin, Lagos, Mumbai, Los Angeles, and London. Tracing the evolving relationships among modernity, nature, and the urban imagination, from different vantage points and through different periods, Gandy uses water as a lens through which to observe both the ambiguities and the limits of nature as conventionally understood.
Gandy begins with the Parisian sewers of the nineteenth century, captured in the photographs of Nadar, and the reconstruction of subterranean Paris. He moves on to Weimar-era Berlin and its protection of public access to lakes for swimming, the culmination of efforts to reconnect the city with nature. He considers the threat of malaria in Lagos, where changing geopolitical circumstances led to large-scale swamp drainage in the 1940s. He shows how the dysfunctional water infrastructure of Mumbai offers a vivid expression of persistent social inequality in a postcolonial city. He explores the incongruous concrete landscapes of the Los Angeles River. Finally, Gandy uses the fictional scenario of a partially submerged London as the starting point for an investigation of the actual hydrological threats facing that city.
Автор: Brueck Laura R. Название: Writing Resistance: The Rhetorical Imagination of Hindi Dalit Literature ISBN: 0231166052 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780231166058 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 29570.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: Laura R. Brueck emphasizes the sociopolitical perspectives and literary strategies of a range of contemporary Dalit (low caste) writers working in Hindi, exploring what makes Dalit literature "Dalit," why it is important, and where it opposes or intersects with other bodies of Indian literature. She follows the debate among Dalit writers as they establish a specific literary critical approach, underscoring the significance of the Dalit literary sphere as a "counterpublic" generating contemporary Dalit social and political identities. Brueck then performs close readings of contemporary Hindi Dalit short stories, focusing on the aesthetic and stylistic strategies deployed by writers whose class, gender, and geographic backgrounds shape their distinct voices. By reading Dalit literature as literature, this study unravels its aesthetic innovations as well as the complexities of its sociopolitical and identity-based origins.
Автор: Barbas-Rhoden, Laura Название: Ecological imaginations in Latin American fiction ISBN: 0813035465 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813035468 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 65470.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: From the rainforests of Costa Rica and the Amazon to the windswept lands of Tierra del Fuego, Laura Barbas-Rhoden discusses the natural settings within contemporary Latin American novels as they depict key moments of environmental change or crisis in the region from the nineteenth-century imperialism to the present.
Автор: ONeill Maggie Название: Transgressive Imaginations ISBN: 0230577849 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230577848 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 83850.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book focuses upon the breaking of rules and taboos involved in `doing crime`, including violent crime as represented in fictive texts and ethnographic research. It includes chapters on topics of urgent contemporary interest such as asylum seekers, sex work, serial killers, school shooters, crimes of poverty and understandings of `madness`.
Автор: KING, ROSAMOND S Название: Island Bodies: Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination ISBN: 0813049806 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813049809 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 82230.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In Island Bodies, Rosamond King examines sexualities, violence, and repression in the Caribbean experience. She analyses the sexual norms and expectations portrayed in Caribbean and diaspora litera¬ture, music, film, and popular culture to show how many individuals contest traditional roles by manoeuvring within and/or trying to change their society’s binary gender systems. She skilfully demon¬strates that these transgressions better represent Caribbean culture than the “official” representations perpetuated by governmental elites and often codified into laws that reinforce patriarchal, hetero¬sexual stereotypes.Unique in its breadth and its multilingual and multidisciplinary approach, Island Bodies addresses homosexuality, interracial rela¬tions, transgender people, and women’s sexual agency in Dutch, Francophone, Anglophone, and Hispanophone works of Caribbean literature.Ultimately King reveals that despite the varied national specificity, differing colonial legacies, and linguistic diversity across the islands, there are striking similarities in the ways Caribglobal cultures at¬tempt to restrict sexuality and in the ways individuals explore and transgress those boundaries.
Автор: Fassbinder, Rainer Werner Название: Anarchy of the imagination ISBN: 0801843693 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780801843693 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 27990.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The writing in this volume-nearly all presented here for the first time in English-are an essential part of Fassbinder`s legacy, the remarkable body of work in which present-day German reality finds brilliant expression.
Автор: Byrne, Ruth M.j. Название: Rational imagination ISBN: 0262524740 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780262524742 Издательство: MIT Press Рейтинг: Цена: 28210.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
The human imagination remains one of the last uncharted terrains of the mind. This accessible and original monograph explores a central aspect of the imagination, the creation of counterfactual alternatives to reality, and claims that imaginative thoughts are guided by the same principles that underlie rational thoughts. Research has shown that rational thought is more imaginative than cognitive scientists had supposed; in The Rational Imagination, Ruth Byrne argues that imaginative thought is more rational than scientists have imagined.
People often create alternatives to reality and imagine how events might have turned out "if only" something had been different. Byrne explores the "fault lines" of reality, the aspects of reality that are more readily changed in imaginative thoughts. She finds that our tendencies to imagine alternatives to actions, controllable events, socially unacceptable actions, causal and enabling relations, and events that come last in a temporal sequence provide clues to the cognitive processes upon which the counterfactual imagination depends. The explanation of these processes, Byrne argues, rests on the idea that imaginative thought and rational thought have much in common.
Автор: Greene, Maxine. Название: Releasing the imagination : ISBN: 0787900818 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780787900816 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 47520.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The author believes that it is imagination that opens our eyes to worlds beyond our experience - enabling us to create, care for others, and envision social change. A presentation of the critical role of imagination in cognitive and other models of learning is presented in this text.
Автор: Poole Janet Название: When the Future Disappears: The Modernist Imagination in Late Colonial Korea ISBN: 0231165188 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780231165181 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 65470.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Writing Korea`s late colonial essayists, fiction writers, poets, and philosophers into the history of global modernism and their experience of colonialism into the history of fascism.
Автор: Trousdale Rachel Название: Nabokov, Rushdie, and the Transnational Imagination ISBN: 1137346744 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137346742 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 37260.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Using Vladimir Nabokov and Salman Rushdie`s work, this study argues that transnational fiction refuses the simple oppositions of postcolonial theory and suggests the possibility of an inclusive global literature.
Автор: Hirano, Katsuya. Название: The politics of dialogic imagination : ISBN: 022606056X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226060569 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 26400.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Seeks to understand why, with its seemingly unrivaled power, the Tokugawa shogunate of early modern Japan tried so hard to regulate the ostensibly unimportant popular culture of Edo (present-day Tokyo) - including fashion, leisure activities, prints, and theater.
Автор: Williams Название: Klein, Sartre and Imagination in the Films of Ingmar Bergman ISBN: 1137471972 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137471970 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 74530.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book explores connections between the diverse ideas of Melanie Klein, Jean-Paul Sartre and Ingmar Bergman. These ideas are explored in relation to their shared focus on imagination and through detailed readings of a number of Bergman`s key films.
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