Download or read book Raqs in the City written by Heather D. Ward and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-07-26 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the city of Cairo, certain spaces bear strong historical associations with belly dance, belly dancers, and professional entertainment in general. Azbakiyah, Imad al-Din Street, and Muhammad Ali Street were all staging grounds for innovations in Egyptian belly dance, as well as in Egyptian music, song, and theater, at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and in the Egyptian popular imagination, these places continue to be linked to entertainment and entertainers. However, research reveals that the ties binding these spaces to entertainment extend much deeper: in some cases, this relationship can be traced back to the Fatimid era. The longstanding associations between belly dance and certain Cairene spaces demand a more in-depth investigation into the nature of this historical interconnection. In this work, the author examines the relationship between belly dance space and belly dancer in the Cairo landscape over the course of the city's history, relying on a theoretical framework informed by Pierre Bourdieu's theory of practice, Michel Foucault's concept of heterotopia, and Mikhail Bakhtin's notion of the carnivalesque. This analysis reveals the mutually constituting relationship between dance, dancers, and the Cairene landscape and explains why and how certain Cairo spaces have retained their centuries-long historical associations with belly dance and its professional practitioners.
Download or read book Egyptian Belly Dance in Transition written by Heather D. Ward and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-01-13 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raqs sharqi, the Egyptian dance form also known as belly dance, has for generations captured imaginations around the globe. Yet its origins have been obscured by misinformation and conjecture, rooted in Orientalist attitudes about the Middle East--a widely accepted narrative suggests the dance was created in response to Western influences and desires. Drawing on an array of primary sources, the author traces the early development of raqs sharqi in the context of contemporary trends in Egyptian arts and entertainment. The dance is revealed to be a hybrid cultural expression, emerging with the formation of Egyptian national identity at the end of the 19th century, when Egypt was occupied by the British.
Download or read book Terrains of Consciousness written by Zeno Ackermann and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TERRAINS OF CONSCIOUSNESS emerges from an Indian-German-Swiss research collaboration. The book makes a case for a phenomenology of globalization that pays attention to locally situated socioeconomic terrains, everyday practices, and cultures of knowledge. This is exemplified in relation to three topics: - the tension between 'terrain' and 'territory' in Defoe's 'Robinson Crusoe' as a pioneering work of the globalist mentality (chapter 1) - the relationship between established conceptions of feminism and the concrete struggles of women in India since the 19th century (chapter 2) - the exploration of urban space and urban life in writings on India's capital - from Ahmed Ali to Arundhati Roy (chapter 3).
Download or read book The Moving City written by Rashmi Sadana and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Moving City is a rich and intimate account of urban transformation told through the story of Delhi's Metro, a massive infrastructure project that is reshaping the city's social and urban landscapes. Ethnographic vignettes introduce the feel and form of the Metro and let readers experience the city, scene by scene, stop by stop, as if they, too, have come along for the ride. Laying bare the radical possibilities and concretized inequalities of the Metro, and how people live with and through its built environment, this is a story of women and men on the move, the nature of Indian aspiration, and what it takes morally and materially to sustain urban life. Through exquisite prose, Rashmi Sadana transports the reader to a city shaped by both its Metro and those who depend on it, revealing a perspective on Delhi unlike any other.
Download or read book The Gentrification of Nightlife and the Right to the City written by Laam Hae and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Hae explores how nightlife in NYC, long associated with various subcultures of social dancing, has been recently transformed as the city has undergone gentrification, and how this transformation has dampened urban inhabitants' rights to the uses of urban space and access to diverse urban cultures.
Download or read book Dance in the City written by Helen Thomas and published by Springer. This book was released on 1997-07-21 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exciting new and original collection locates dance within the spectrum of urban life in late modernity, through a range of theoretical perspectives. It highlights a diversity of dance forms and styles that can be witnessed in and around contemporary urban spaces: from dance halls to raves and the club striptease; from set dancing to ballroom dancing, to hip hop and swing, and to ice dance shows; from the ballet class, to fitness aerobics; and 'art' dance which situates itself in a dynamic relation to the city.
Download or read book Bandung Global History and International Law written by Luis Eslava and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 735 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1955 a conference was held in Bandung, Indonesia that was attended by representatives from twenty-nine developing nations. Against the backdrop of crumbling European colonies, Asian and African leaders forged a new alliance and established anti-imperial principles for a new world order. The conference captured the popular imagination across the Global South. Bandung's larger significance as counterpoint to the dominant world order was both an act of collective imagination and a practical political project for decolonization that inspired a range of social movements, diplomatic efforts, institutional experiments and heterodox visions of the history and future of the world. This book explores what the spirit of Bandung has meant to people across the world over the past decades and what it means today. Experts from a wide range of fields show how, despite the complicated legacy of the conference, international law was never the same after Bandung"--
Download or read book Clean Water Program for Greater San Diego Secondary Treatment System Associated Sludge Management Facilities Joint EIR EIS D 2v Technical Appendix Secondary Treatment System written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Global and Local Art Histories written by Celina Jeffery and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are now many books on postcolonial theory, yet relatively few of them gather together sustained, dynamic and insightful analyses of visuality, art and art history outside of hegemonic Euro-American themes and concerns. Global and Local Art Histories explores what it means to have a global and local experience of art. The 15 essays published here suggest ways of interpreting works of art from a broad range of cultural perspectives, many of them transcultural. Here are voices contesting concepts of history and culture, evaluating and exploring global and local identities in a changing world. Because of the variety of different approaches and cultural perspectives that Global and Local Art Histories brings together, the book presents a unique opportunity to question what we mean by that dangerously globalising category: “the work of art” and “art history” exploring “g-local” approaches that challenge such falsely universalising rubrics.
Download or read book Experimental Geography written by Nato Thompson and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A photo of a secret CIA prison. A map designed to help visitors reach Malibu’s notoriously inaccessible public beaches. Guidebooks to factories, prisons, and power plants in upstate New York. An artificial reef fabricated from 500 tons of industrial waste. These are some of the more than one hundred projects represented in Experimental Geography, a groundbreaking collection of visual research and mapmaking from the past ten years. Experimental Geography explores the distinctions between geographical study and artistic experience of the earth, as well as the juncture where the two realms collide (and possibly make a new field altogether). This lavishly illustrated book features more than a dozen maps; artwork by Francis Alÿs, Alex Villar, and Yin Xiuzhen; and recent projects by The Center for Land Use Interpretation, the Raqs Media Collective, and the Center for Urban Pedagogy. The collection is framed by essays by bestselling author Trevor Paglen, Jeffrey Kastner, and editor Nato Thompson.
Download or read book Cities Vocabularies The Influences and Formations written by Nabil Mohareb and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-01-23 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses several topics regarding different vocabularies, such as sacred architecture, heritage buildings, open spaces, landmarks, and street escapes, all of which have a direct influence on the city form. The city form is also affected by the indirect impact of the citizens themselves, for example their culture, which in turn depends on the arts, as can be seen and embodied in morals, paintings, media, digital art, and sculpture. The book also examines the fundamental elements that are responsible for the identity of the city. Presenting case studies that demonstrate the how implementing the concept of the responsibility of architecture and arts affects the development of our cities, the book offers a new approach that is based on the available features of a city and explores how planners and decision-makers can use these features to address the myriad problems that our cities are facing.
Download or read book Belly Dance Around the World written by Caitlin E. McDonald and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-07-05 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these essays, dancers and scholars from around the world carefully consider the transformation of an improvised folk form from North Africa and the Middle East into a popular global dance practice. They explore the differences between the solo improvisational forms of North Africa and the Middle East, often referred to as raqs sharki, which are part of family celebrations, and the numerous globalized versions of this dance form, belly dance, derived from the movement vocabulary of North Africa and the Middle East but with a variety of performance styles distinct from its site of origin. Local versions of belly dance have grown and changed along with the role that dance plays in the community. The global evolution of belly dance is an inspiring example of the interplay of imagination, the internet and the social forces of local communities. All royalties are being donated to Women for Women International, an organization dedicated to supporting women survivors of war through economic, health, and social education programs. The contributors are proud to provide continuing sponsorship to such a worthwhile and necessary cause.
Download or read book Turns of the Global The written by Anna Maria Guasch and published by Edicions Universitat Barcelona. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we talk about the geographical, ecological, ethnographic, historical, documentary, and cosmopolitan “turns” in relation to the work of practitioners of contempory art, what exactly do we mean? Are we talking about a “reading strategy”? About an interpretive model, as would be derived from the linguistic turn of the 1970s, or rather about a stratigraphic structure that could be read across multiple cultural practices? Do we wish to read one system by means of another system, in a way that one nurtures the other so that it can open us up to other forms of being? Or is it rather about a generative movement in which a new horizon emerges in the process, leaving behind the practice that was its point of departure? The recurrence of “turn” in place of “style”, “-ism”, or “tendency” would ultimately respond to a clear urgency of the contemporary global world: a movement characterised by aesthetic pluralism, by the simultaneousness of various modi operandi, and by a great multiplicity of languages that constantly change their state while having many features in common. And “turn” would also allow within the space of the contemporary — of here and now —, a great diversity of stories from all around the world that should be confronted simultaneously in an intellectual outlook that is continuous and disjunctive, essential to understanding the present as a whole.
Download or read book Regional Air Quality Strategy written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gendering Urban Space in the Middle East South Asia and Africa written by M. Rieker and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-05-26 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this book critically examine the ways in which gendered subjects negotiate their life-worlds in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African urban landscapes. They raise issues surrounding the city as a representative site of personal autonomy and political possibilities for women and/or men.
Download or read book Communicative Cities and Urban Space written by Scott McQuire and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities have long been recognized as key sites for fostering new communication practices. However, as contemporary cities experience major changes, how do diverse inhabitants encounter each other? How do cities remember? What is the role of the built environment in fostering sites for public communication in a digital era? Communicative Cities and Urban Space offers a critical analysis of contemporary changes in the relation between urban space and communication. This volume seeks to understand the situatedness of contemporary communication practices in diverse contexts of urban life, and to explore digitized urban space as a historically specific communicative environment. The essays in this book collectively propose that the concept of the ‘communicative city’ is a productive frame for rethinking the above questions in the context of 21st-century ‘media cities’. They challenge us to reconsider qualities such as openness, autonomy and diversity in contemporary urban communication practices, and to identify factors that might expand or constrict communicative possibilities. Students and scholars of communication studies and urban studies would benefit from this book.
Download or read book Body City written by Indira Chandrasekhar and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary India may be said to be in the throes of a transitionality that defines itself in terms of a challenge to earlier paradigms of nationhood and developmentalism. Rapid political, economic, social and cultural transformations that have taken place over the last two decades impelled by a world order that has seen the collapse of socialism and, attendant upon it, a reversal of the decolonization process and a globalizing neo-imperialism have set in motion new ways of looking at the past and positioning the present. In the sphere of culture and the arts, these new reflections manifest themselves as a series of questions: about how to rediscover domestic/indigenous spaces without dis-engaging from the world system or rejecting internationalism; about the assimilative inclusiveness yet alienating exclusion that accompanies changing contours of identity formation; about the tension between the private and the public in the artist s dual role as practitioner and citizen; about creative strategies/reinventions that simultaneously negotiate older cognitive frames and seek to transform these into fresh certitudes. The questions surface in various modes: some-times reflectively, sometimes oppositionally, sometimes in deflected stances, but always with a sense of responsibility and as sited interrogations, conscious of where they come from. These are the questions that underline the conceptual grid of this book.The book is divided into three main sections exposition body.city , frames , body.city figures that lead into each other but not sequentially, relying instead on the inter-connectivity of their textual and visual thematic concerns. The opening section is a set of four essays that explore the specific themes of the body and the city as these translate into modes of representation, performativity and placement. Jyotindra Jain, in Morphing Identities: Reconfiguring the Divine and the Political , discusses the role played by an eclectic range of popular imagery in constructing cultural, social and national identities. In subTerrain: artists dig the contemporary , Geeta Kapur extends the pun in her title to a reasoned-out proposition for locating the subversion of art practice in the interstices of urban spaces, to be excavated through the force of interpretation. Ravi Vasudevan, in Selves Made Strange: Violent and Performative Bodies in the Cities of Indian Cinema, 1974 2003 , explores the body space articulations of screen personas and city environments in the narrative space of today s cinema. In Actors Prepare , Anuradha Kapur s focus is the actor s body, the body in performance. She discusses performance styles in terms of how actors move between the abstract and the tangible and enter into a contract with their audiences by using different modes and by locating the body in different registers. The images reproduced in the book constitute a parallel visual narrative that reinforces the central themes. Interspersed with the text in the first two sections and coming together in the third section, these have a representational value of their own in the scheme of the book. The second section, frames , sets up a vantage point from which to view contemporary cultural practice and provides points of theoretical departure. These include: the notion of civil society in the third world (Sudipta Kaviraj); unfolding forms of collaboration and resistance in the new Indian metropolis (Partha Chatterjee); the shift away from secular, inclusive nationalisms to anti-modern, patriarchal particularisms that parade as nationalism (Pradip Kumar Datta, Kumkum Sangari); the re-imaging of the nation s geo-body through popular cartographic endeavours; and a look at identity formation through an exploration of literary texts (Susie Tharu, Amitav Ghosh).Indira Chandrasekhar is Managing Editor of Tulika Books, New Delhi.Peter C. Seel is Deputy Director of the House of World Cultures, Berlin.The editors of the volume make it clear that the project . . . is a deliberate attempt at distancing the act of enquiry itself from any easy, misleading glibness. It firmly and deliberately locates the critiques it produces within select urban centres . . . that happen to reflect the myriad relations between globalization, local traditions and newly designed living spaces in a particular way, consciously choosing the interface where the social and political conflicts that are central concerns in the artists works are at their most virulent .The Arts News Magazine of India
