Автор: Gienow Hecht Jessica CE Название: Searching for a Cultural Diplomacy ISBN: 1782380795 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781782380795 Издательство: Berghahn Рейтинг: Цена: 31970.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Recent studies on the meaning of cultural diplomacy in the twentieth century often focus on the United States and the Cold War, based on the premise that cultural diplomacy was a key instrument of foreign policy in the nation’s effort to contain the Soviet Union. As a result, the term “cultural diplomacy” has become one-dimensional, linked to political manipulation and subordination and relegated to the margin of diplomatic interactions. This volume explores the significance of cultural diplomacy in regions other than the United States or “western” countries, that is, regions that have been neglected by scholars so far—Eastern Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. By examining cultural diplomacy in these regions, the contributors show that the function of information and exchange programs differs considerably from area to area depending on historical circumstances and, even more importantly, on the cultural mindsets of the individuals involved.
Автор: Aparicio Yvette Название: Post-Conflict Central American Literature: Searching for Home and Longing to Belong ISBN: 1611485479 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781611485479 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 160930.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This is the first book-length study to consider the development and significance of Central American post-conflict poetry and to study poets such as Luis Chaves, Marta Leonor Gonzalez, Susana Reyes, and Juan Sobalvarro together with well-known short fiction writers Claudia Hernandez, Jacinta Escudos, and Salvador Canjura.
Автор: Mahony Sorcha Название: Searching for a Better Life: Growing Up in the Slums of Bangkok ISBN: 1789205352 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781789205350 Издательство: Berghahn Рейтинг: Цена: 31970.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Life in Bangkok for young people is marked by profound, interlocking changes and transitions. This book offers an ethnographic account of growing up in the city's slums, struggling to get by in a rapidly developing and globalizing economy and trying to fulfil one's dreams. At the same time, it reflects on the issue of agency, exploring its negative potential when exercised by young people living under severe structural constraint. It offers an antidote to neoliberal ideas around personal responsibility, and the assumed potential for individuals to break through structures of constraint in any sustained way.
Автор: Barbara Sundberg Baudot; William R. Moomaw Название: People and their Planet ISBN: 0333688112 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333688113 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 135090.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book brings together research on the relations between people and the planet`s living and non-living resources. Its three main foci include the methodological approaches to the study of relationships between people and land use, patterns of consumption, population trends and the availability of food and water resources;
Автор: Aparicio Yvette Название: Post-Conflict Central American Literature: Searching for Home and Longing to Belong ISBN: 161148703X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781611487039 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 88880.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This is the first book-length study to consider the development and significance of Central American post-conflict poetry and to study poets such as Luis Chaves, Marta Leonor Gonzalez, Susana Reyes, and Juan Sobalvarro together with well-known short fiction writers Claudia Hernandez, Jacinta Escudos, and Salvador Canjura.
Автор: Crawford-garrett, Katherine Название: Teach for america and the struggle for urban school reform ISBN: 1433123789 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781433123788 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 143610.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Traces the experiences of one cohort of Teach For America (TFA) corps members as they reconcile their hopes for their students with the reality of teaching in a district that favors compliance over compassion.
Автор: Christopher Schaberg Название: Searching for the Anthropocene ISBN: 1501351826 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501351822 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 24280.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание:
This book is a search for the elusive concept of the Anthropocene: the current geologic era defined by human impact on the planet, a concept that is embedding itself ever deeper into the humanities and across disciplines.
Searching for the Anthropocene follows a journey through an eclectic range of topics, texts, places, and events to examine how we relate to, travel across, and write about our environment. We live in a time of rampant consumerism and irresponsible disregard for the natural world. Still, we strive to find authentic interactions, something to counter the feeling of looming doom in which humans are inherently implicated, often searching for these in literature and art. The debates around the Anthropocene are in one sense an effort to reveal and work through these tensions.
Ranging from beech forests and beach fossils to jet engines and airport renovations, from snacks and snipers to fantasies of space travel and nightmares of cars on the streets, this book develops a wide-angle approach to environmental awareness. Blending personal narrative, cultural criticism, and ecological thought, Searching for the Anthropocene offers fresh ways to ponder literature and the humanities side-by-side with current conditions of environmental catastrophe, existential crisis, and social unrest.
Автор: Singer Barnett Название: Americanization of France ISBN: 1442221658 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781442221659 Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 118270.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This engaging, knowledgeable book traces the American path France has followed since resolving its searing Algerian conflict in 1962. Barnett Singer convincingly demolishes two pervasive cliches about modern France: first, that the country never has been fit to fight wars, including wars on terror; and second, that the French have always been and remain overwhelmingly anti-American. Drawing on a wealth of archival sources, Barnett Singer clearly demonstrates that a serious and organized France fought strongly until its own divisions, international pressures, and the actions of de Gaulle ended the conflict with tragic consequences. The outcome led to an important sea change, clearing the way for France to embrace American culture, especially rock 'n' roll, and more generally, an American-style emphasis on personal happiness. The author argues that today's France, wounded by the loss of traditions and stability, is increasingly pro-American, clinging to trends from across the Atlantic as to a lifeline.
Автор: Blum Beth Название: The Self-Help Compulsion: Searching for Advice in Modern Literature ISBN: 0231194927 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780231194921 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 31680.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The Self-Help Compulsion reveals the profound entanglement of modern literature and commercial advice from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Beth Blum explores popular reading practices in which people turn to literature in search of practical advice alongside modern writers` rebukes of such instrumental purposes.
Автор: Marcuse Peter Название: Searching for the Just City ISBN: 0415687616 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415687614 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 46950.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: If today`s cities are full of injustices, what would a `Just City` look like? Contributors to this volume including David Harvey, Peter Marcuse and Susan Fainstein define the concept, examining it from multiple angles in addition to questioning it and suggesting alternatives.
Автор: Capone Stefania, Stefania Capone Название: Searching for Africa in Brazil: Power and Tradition in Candomble ISBN: 0822346362 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780822346364 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 30870.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Searching for Africa in Brazil is a learned exploration of tradition and change in Afro-Brazilian religions. Focusing on the convergence of anthropologists’ and religious leaders’ exegeses, Stefania Capone argues that twentieth-century anthropological research contributed to the construction of an ideal Afro-Brazilian religious orthodoxy identified with the Nagô (Yoruba) cult in the northeastern state of Bahia. In contrast to other researchers, Capone foregrounds the agency of Candomblé leaders. She demonstrates that they successfully imposed their vision of Candomblé on anthropologists, reshaping in their own interest narratives of Afro-Brazilian religious practice. The anthropological narratives were then taken as official accounts of religious orthodoxy by many practitioners of Afro-Brazilian religions in Brazil. Capone draws on ten years of ethnographic fieldwork in Salvador de Bahia and Rio de Janeiro as she demonstrates that there is no pure or orthodox Afro-Brazilian religion.
Challenging the usual interpretations of Afro-Brazilian religions as fixed entities, completely independent of one another, Capone reveals these practices as parts of a unique religious continuum. She does so through an analysis of ritual variations as well as discursive practices. To illuminate the continuum of Afro-Brazilian religious practice and the tensions between exegetic discourses and ritual practices, Capone focuses on the figure of Exu, the sacred African trickster who allows communication between gods and men. Following Exu and his avatars, she discloses the centrality of notions of prestige and power—mystical and religious—in Afro-Brazilian religions. To explain how religious identity is constantly negotiated among social actors, Capone emphasizes the agency of practitioners and their political agendas in the “return to roots,” or re-Africanization, movement, an attempt to recover the original purity of a mythical and legitimizing Africa.
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