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Book Resituating Culture

Download or read book Resituating Culture written by Gavan Titley and published by Council of Europe. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Translation and Identity

Download or read book Translation and Identity written by Michael Cronin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Cronin looks at how translation has played a crucial role in shaping debates about identity, language and cultural survival in the past and in the present. He explores how everything from the impact of migration on the curricula for national literature courses, to the way in which nations wage war in the modern era is bound up with urgent questions of translation and identity. Examining translation practices and experiences across continents to show how translation is an integral part of how cultures are evolving, the volume presents new perspectives on how translation can be a powerful tool in enhancing difference and promoting intercultural dialogue. Drawing on a wide range of materials from official government reports to Shakespearean drama and Hollywood films, Cronin demonstrates how translation is central to any proper understanding of how cultural identity has emerged in human history, and suggests an innovative and positive vision of how translation can be used to deal with one of the most salient issues in an increasingly borderless world.

Book Contesting British Chinese Culture

Download or read book Contesting British Chinese Culture written by Ashley Thorpe and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first text to address British Chinese culture. It explores British Chinese cultural politics in terms of national and international debates on the Chinese diaspora, race, multiculture, identity and belonging, and transnational ‘Chineseness’. Collectively, the essays look at how notions of ‘British Chinese culture’ have been constructed and challenged in the visual arts, theatre and performance, and film, since the mid-1980s. They contest British Chinese invisibility, showing how practice is not only heterogeneous, but is forged through shifting historical and political contexts; continued racialization, the currency of Orientalist stereotypes and the possibility of their subversion; the policies of institutions and their funding strategies; and dynamic relationships with transnationalisms. The book brings a fresh perspective that makes both an empirical and theoretical contribution to the study of race and cultural production, whilst critically interrogating the very notion of British Chineseness.

Book Loud and proud

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hilary Pilkington
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 2016-04-29
  • ISBN : 1526114011
  • Pages : 271 pages

Download or read book Loud and proud written by Hilary Pilkington and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC) open access license. Loud and proud is an ethnographic study of grassroots activists in the English Defence League (EDL). Setting the findings within contemporary debates on race and racism, Islamophobia, social movements and the far right, the author draws on interviews, informal conversations and extensive observation at EDL events to explore and explain the gap between the public image of the movement as a violent Islamophobic and racist organisation and individual activists' understanding of it as 'one big family'. Presenting them neither as duped by a charismatic leader nor working class anti-heroes, this book introduces EDL activists as individuals with real lives whose diverse trajectories in and out of activism are embedded in personal life stories. The book will be of value to those researching or studying in the disciplines of sociology, political science and anthropology as well as those with an interest in contemporary political issues and the populist and radical right.

Book Diversity Youth Forum Report

Download or read book Diversity Youth Forum Report written by Alessio Surian and published by Council of Europe. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Diversity Youth Forum was organized at the European Youth Center within the framework of the "All Different -All Equal" European youth Campaign for Diversity, Human Rights and Participation. The forum identified key issues and objectives related to diversity, human rights and participation from the point of view of young people. The forum participants issued a Final Declaration with the conclusions and recommendations of the participants. This report documents the presentations and results of the debates during the four days of the activity.--Publisher's description.

Book Hybrid Cultures     Nervous States

Download or read book Hybrid Cultures Nervous States written by Ulrike Lindner and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2010 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary Material -- Encounters Over the Border: The Shaping of Colonial Identities in Neighbouring British and German Colonies in Southern Africa /Ulrike Lindner -- The Colonial Order Upside Down?: British and Germans in East African Prisoner-of-War Camps During World War I /Michael Pesek -- Jack, Peter, and the Beast: Postcolonial Perspectives on Sexual Murder and the Construction of White Masculinity in Britain and Germany at the Turn of the Twentieth Century /Eva Bischoff -- Decolonization of the Public Space?: (Post)Colonial Culture of Remembrance in Germany /Joachim Zeller -- “Setting the Record Straight”?: Imperial History in Postcolonial British Public Culture /Elizabeth Buettner -- (Trans)National Consumer Cultures: Coffee as a Colonial Product in the German Empire /Laura Julia Rischbieter -- Transcultural Tea Times: An Overview of Tea in Colonial History /Christine Vogt-William -- Döner Kebab and West German Consumer (Multi-)Cultures /Maren Möhring -- A Cultural Politics of Curry: The Transnational Spaces of Contemporary Commodity Culture /Peter Jackson -- Knowledges of (Un)Belonging: Epistemic Change as a Defining Mode for Black Women's Activism in Germany /Maureen Maisha Eggers -- “I ain't British though / Yes you are. You're as English as I am”: Staging Belonging and Unbelonging in Black British Drama Today /Deirdre Osborne -- Muslims, the Discourse on (Failed) Integration in Britain, and Kenneth Glenaan's Film Yasmin /Silke Stroh -- The Current Spectacle of Integration in Germany: Spatiality, Gender, and the Boundaries of the National Gaze /Markus Schmitz -- Works Cited -- Notes on Editors and Contributors -- Index.

Book Antiracism Education In and Out of Schools

Download or read book Antiracism Education In and Out of Schools written by Aminkeng A. Alemanji and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how antiracism theories can be translated into practice within formal education, as well as in other educational programs outside schools, as very often racism occurs outside the school environment. Combating racism both in and out of school therefore increases the chances of overcoming issues of racism. As racism continues to plague the world, efforts to combat it deserve more attention and diversification across all walks of life. In education, such efforts benefit from being modeled within the framework of antiracism education, rather than simpler multicultural and intercultural theorization and understanding which have proved popular. As such, this book critiques integration and multicultural programs, and instead highlights the advantages of grounding such programs within an antiracist framework. This book demonstrates why and how antiracism education is key to challenging issues of racial injustice at a time when multiculturalism and interculturalism have being proclaimed “dead”. It will be highly relevant to researchers and students working in the areas of Education and Sociology, particularly those with an interest in antiracism methodologies.

Book Re Situating Public Theatre in Contemporary France

Download or read book Re Situating Public Theatre in Contemporary France written by Ifigenia Gonis and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-05-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the dynamics of the relational and spatial politics of contemporary French theatrical production, with a focus on four theatres in the Greater Paris region. It situates these dynamics within the intersection of the histories of the public theatre and theatre decentralization in France, and the dialogues between live performances and the larger frameworks of artistic direction and programming as well as various imaginations of the “public”. Understanding these phenomena, as well as the politics that underscore them, is key to understanding not only the present status of the public theatre in France, but also how theatre as a publicly funded institution interacts with the notion of the plurality, rather than the homogeneity, of its publics.

Book Competing Climate Cultures in Germany

Download or read book Competing Climate Cultures in Germany written by Sarah Kessler and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2024-03-31 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite frequent protests and abounding discussions about the subject, climate action measures to counter human-made climate change have so far remained largely ineffective. By identifying profound climate-cultural differences, Sarah Kessler offers an explanation to this issue and shows that conventional assumptions of an implicit consensus on the need to prioritise climate action should be reconsidered. She uncovers climate-cultural variations in (implicit and explicit) denial of climate change and thus challenges existing approaches that treat the German public as a unified entity waiting to be activated by the right kind of rationally convincing information.

Book Indigenous Youth in Brazilian Amazonia

Download or read book Indigenous Youth in Brazilian Amazonia written by Pirjo K. Virtanen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-11-09 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do Amazonian native young people perceive, question, and negotiate the new kinds of social and cultural situations in which they find themselves? Virtanen looks at how current power relations constituted by ethnic recognition, new social contacts, and cooperation with different institutions have shaped the current native youth in Amazonia.

Book Re framing the Transnational Turn in American Studies

Download or read book Re framing the Transnational Turn in American Studies written by Winfried Fluck and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2011 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the state of American studies in the twenty-first century?

Book Transglobal Sounds

    Book Details:
  • Author : João Sardinha
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2016-10-20
  • ISBN : 1501311972
  • Pages : 250 pages

Download or read book Transglobal Sounds written by João Sardinha and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a transnational, comparative and multi-level approach to the relationship between youth, migration, and music, the aesthetic intersections between the local and the global, and between agency and identity, are presented through case studies in this book. Transglobal Sounds contemplates migrant youth and the impact of music in diaspora settings and on the lives of individuals and collectives, engaging with broader questions of how new modes of identification are born out of the social, cultural, historical and political interfaces between youth, migration and music. Thus, through acts of mobility and environments lived in and in-between, this volume seeks to articulate between musical transnationalism and sense of place in exploring the complex relationship between music and young migrants and migrant descendant's everyday lives.

Book The Crises of Multiculturalism

Download or read book The Crises of Multiculturalism written by Alana Lentin and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2011-08-12 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across the West, something called multiculturalism is in crisis. Regarded as the failed experiment of liberal elites, commentators and politicians compete to denounce its corrosive legacies; parallel communities threatening social cohesion, enemies within cultivated by irresponsible cultural relativism, mediaeval practices subverting national 'ways of life' and universal values. This important new book challenges this familiar narrative of the rise and fall of multiculturalism by challenging the existence of a coherent era of 'multiculturalism' in the first place. The authors argue that what we are witnessing is not so much a rejection of multiculturalism as a projection of neoliberal anxieties onto the social realities of lived multiculture. Nested in an established post-racial consensus, new forms of racism draw powerfully on liberalism and questions of 'values', and unsettle received ideas about racism and the 'far right' in Europe. In combining theory with a reading of recent controversies concerning headscarves, cartoons, minarets and burkas, Lentin and Titley trace a transnational crisis that travels and is made to travel, and where rejecting multiculturalism is central to laundering increasingly acceptable forms of racism.

Book Critical Race Theory in Higher Education  20 Years of Theoretical and Research Innovations

Download or read book Critical Race Theory in Higher Education 20 Years of Theoretical and Research Innovations written by Dorian L. McCoy and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical race theory (CRT) was introduced in 1995 and for almost twenty years, the theory has been used as a tool to examine People of Color’s experiences with racism in higher education. This monograph reviews the critical race literature with a focus on race and racism’s continued role and presence in higher education, including: • legal studies and history, • methodology and student development theory, • the use of storytelling and counterstories, and • the types of and research on microaggressions. The goal of the editors is to illuminate CRT as a theoretical framework, analytical tool, and research methodology in higher education. As part of critical race theory, scholars and educators are called upon to extend their commitment to social justice and to the eradication of racism and other forms of oppression. This is the 3rd issue of the 41st volume of the Jossey-Bass series ASHE Higher Education Report. Each monograph is the definitive analysis of a tough higher education issue, based on thorough research of pertinent literature and institutional experiences. Topics are identified by a national survey. Noted practitioners and scholars are then commissioned to write the reports, with experts providing critical reviews of each manuscript before publication.

Book The Power of Teacher Talk

Download or read book The Power of Teacher Talk written by Deborah Bieler and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2018-11-23 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Whereas most studies of either teacher retention or student drop outs focuses on big-picture policy implications, The Power of Teacher Talk makes the case that the most important factor for keeping teachers and students in school is the everyday interactions between teacher and student, recognizing the key role of classroom teachers in addressing both problems"--

Book Student Development in College

Download or read book Student Development in College written by Lori D. Patton and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-02-03 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE ESSENTIAL STUDENT DEVELOPMENT REFERENCE, UPDATED WITH CUTTING-EDGE THEORY AND PRACTICE Student Development in College is the go-to resource for student affairs, and is considered a key reference for those most committed to conscious and intentional student affairs practice. This third edition includes new chapters on social class, disability, and emerging identity theories, with expanded coverage of faith and gender identity. A new framework provides guidance for facilitating dialogues about theory, teaching theory, and the importance of educators as consumers of theory. Discussion questions conclude each chapter and vignettes are woven throughout to provide practical context for theory. Learning activities in the appendix promote comprehension and application of theory. Get updated on the latest in student development theory and application Consider both the psychosocial and cognitive aspects of identity Learn strategies for difficult dialogues, and the importance of reflection Adopt an integrated, holistic approach to complex student development issues Student Development in College is the ideal resource for today's multifaceted student affairs role. "With five new or expanded chapters and critical updates throughout the text, this third edition expertly presents the complex, multifaceted, and continually evolving nature of the theories that inform scholars and professionals in their research and practice with college students. These authors, consummately aware of the needs of emerging and continuing student affairs professionals, have crafted a text that will be both eminently practical and intellectually engaging for graduate students, professionals, and faculty alike." —Dafina-Lazarus Stewart, associate professor, higher education and student affairs, Bowling Green State University "This third edition of Student Development in College beautifully presents the theoretical terrain of student development by honoring the foundational theories upon which the field was developed and foregrounding newer theories with brand new content and fresh perspectives. The result is a text that is comprehensive, sophisticated, and accessible—and one that is attuned to the contemporary realities of the complexities of student development." —Susan R. Jones, professor, higher education and student affairs, The Ohio State University

Book Eco Translation

Download or read book Eco Translation written by Michael Cronin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-01-06 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecology has become a central question governing the survival and sustainability of human societies, cultures and languages. In this timely study, Michael Cronin investigates how the perspective of the Anthropocene, or the effect of humans on the global environment, has profound implications for the way translation is considered in the past, present and future. Starting with a deep history of translation and ranging from food ecology to inter-species translation and green translation technology, this thought-provoking book offers a challenging and ultimately hopeful perspective on how translation can play a vital role in the future survival of the planet.