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Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies
This edited volume advances knowledge of food security and food
sovereignty for students and researchers. The book analyses and
interprets field data and interrogates relevant literature, which
forms the basis for decisions on improving food security and
sovereignty in Africa. It deepens an understanding of food fraud,
and of multinational corporations' (MNCs) manipulations of food
quality to the detriment of consumers. It provides information to
advance new knowledge on the issue of international interdependency
of unequal exchange, and the inactions of governments against the
dumping and waste of food.
A collaboration of political activism and participatory culture
seeking to upend consumer capitalism, including interviews with The
Yes Men, The Guerrilla Girls, among others. Coined in the 1980s,
"culture jamming" refers to an array of tactics deployed by
activists to critique, subvert, and otherwise "jam" the workings of
consumer culture. Ranging from media hoaxes and advertising
parodies to flash mobs and street art, these actions seek to
interrupt the flow of dominant, capitalistic messages that permeate
our daily lives. Employed by Occupy Wall Street protesters and the
Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot alike, culture jamming
scrambles the signal, injects the unexpected, and spurs audiences
to think critically and challenge the status quo. The essays,
interviews, and creative work assembled in this unique volume
explore the shifting contours of culture jamming by plumbing its
history, mapping its transformations, testing its force, and
assessing its efficacy. Revealing how culture jamming is at once
playful and politically transgressive, this accessible collection
explores the degree to which culture jamming has fulfilled its
revolutionary aims. Featuring original essays from prominent media
scholars discussing Banksy and Shepard Fairey, foundational texts
such as Mark Dery's culture jamming manifesto, and artwork by and
interviews with noteworthy culture jammers including the Guerrilla
Girls, The Yes Men, and Reverend Billy, Culture Jamming makes a
crucial contribution to our understanding of creative resistance
and participatory culture.
What is milk? Who is it for, and what work does it do? This
collection of articles bring together an exciting group of the
world's leading scholars from different disciplines to provide
commentaries on multiple facets of the production, consumption,
understanding and impact of milk on society. The book frames the
emerging global discussion around philosophical and critical
theoretical engagements with milk. In so doing, various chapters
bring into consideration an awareness of animals, an aspect which
has not yet been incorporated in these debates within these
disciplines so far. This brand new research from scholars includes
writing from an array of perspectives, including jurisprudence,
food law, history, geography, art theory, and gender studies. It
will be of use to professionals and researchers in such disciplines
as anthropology, visual culture, cultural studies, development
studies, food studies, environment studies, critical animal
studies, and gender studies.
Based on consilia and decisiones, Wouter Druwe studies the
multinormative framework on loans and credit in the Golden Ages of
Antwerp and Amsterdam (c. 1500-1680). He analyzes the use of a wide
variety of legal financial techniques in the Low Countries, such as
money lending and the taking of interest, the constitution of
annuities, cession and delegation, bearer bonds, bills of exchange,
partnerships, and representation in financial affairs, as well as
the consequences of monetary fluctuations. Special attention is
paid to how the transregional European system of learned Roman and
canon law (ius commune) was applied in daily 'learned legal
practice'. The study also deals with the prohibition against usury
and with the impact of moral theology on legal debates.
This book enriches the discourse around Global Citizenship
Education in teacher education through the example of a teacher's
experience in a Canada-China Sister School reciprocal learning
landscape. Instead of positioning global citizenship teaching and
learning as a set of fixed goals to be attained by teachers alone,
this book approaches global citizenship teaching and learning as
unfinished lifework in progress and as situated curriculum problems
to be inquired together by university researchers, school teachers,
and students under the spirit of reciprocity and community. This
reimagination of narratives, theory, and action start from
collaborative and reciprocal learning partnerships among Chinese
and Canadian researchers and teachers in the practicality of
re-searching and re-enacting the purpose and meanings of
twenty-first century education in a Canada-China Sister School
setting.
From Revolution to Revolution (1973) examines England, Scotland and
Wales from the revolution of 1688 when William became King, to the
American Revolution of 1776. In this period lies the roots of
modern Britain, as it went from being underdeveloped countries on
the fringe of European civilization to a predominating influence in
the world. This book examines the union of the island, development
of an organized public opinion and national consciousness, as well
as Parliament and its factions, the landed and business classes.
Views on religion, art, architecture and the changing face of the
countryside are also examined, as is the tension between London and
the rest of the island. The important issues of colonial expansions
in Ireland, America, India and Africa are also analysed.
The Court and the Country (1969) offers a fresh view and synthesis
of the English revolution of 1640. It describes the origin and
development of the revolution, and gives an account of the various
factors - political, social and religious - that produced the
revolution and conditioned its course. It explains the revolution
primarily as a result of the breakdown of the unity of the
governing class around the monarchy into the contending sides of
the Court and the Country. A principal theme is the formation
within the governing class of an opposition movement to the Crown.
The role of Puritanism and of the towns is examined, and the
resistance to Charles I is considered in relation to other European
revolutions of the period.
A Nation of Change and Novelty (1990) ranges broadly over the
political and literary terrain of the seventeenth century,
examining the importance of the English Revolution as a decisive
event in English and European history. It emphasises the historical
significance of the English Revolution, exploring not only its
causes but also its long term consequences, basing both in a broad
social context and viewing it as a necessary condition of England's
having nurtured the first Industrial Revolution.
Reflections on the Puritan Revolution (1986) examines the damage
done by the Puritans during the English Civil War, and the enormous
artistic losses England suffered from their activities. The
Puritans smashed stained glass, monuments, sculpture, brasses in
cathedrals and churches; they destroyed organs, dispersed the
choirs and the music. They sold the King's art collections,
pictures, statues, plate, gems and jewels abroad, and broke up the
Coronation regalia. They closed down the theatres and ended
Caroline poetry. The greatest composer and most promising scientist
of the age were among the many lives lost; and this all besides the
ruin of palaces, castles and mansions.
A History of Political Thought in the English Revolution (1954)
examines the large range of political doctrines which played their
part in the English revolution - a period when modern democratic
ideas began. The political literature of the period between 1645,
when the Levellers first seized upon the revolution's wider
implications, and 1660, when Charles II restored the monarchy to
power, is here studied in detail.
Cromwell and Communism (1930) examines the English revolution
against the absolute monarchy of Charles I. It looks at the
economic and social conditions prevailing at the time, the first
beginnings of dissent and the religious and political aims of the
Parliamentarian side in the revolution and subsequent civil war.
The various sects are examined, including the Levellers and their
democratic, atheistic and communistic ideals.
Allegiance in Church and State (1928) examines the evolution of
ideas and ideals, their relation to political and economic events,
and their influence on friends and foes in seventeenth-century
England - which witnessed the beginning of both the constitutional
and the intellectual transition from the old order to the new. It
takes a careful look at the religious and particularly political
ideas of the Nonjurors, a sect that argued for the moral
foundations of a State and the sacredness of moral obligations in
public life.
Leveller Manifestoes (1944) is a collection of primary manifestoes
issued by the Levellers, the group which played an active and
influential role in the English revolution of 1642-49. This book
collects together rare pamphlets and tracts that are seldom
available, and certainly not in one place for ease of research.
Movies and Moral Dilemma Discussions: A Practical Guide toCinema
Based Character Development explores the values, attitudes, and
beliefs depicted on film. Since the beginning of the film industry
movie makers have depicted morals and values on the silver screen.
Teachers will find the book to be a valuable guide for infusing
character education and film into the classroom. The book includes
an overview of character education, a discussion of film pedagogy,
and explores utilizing film for educational purposes.
"Poetry has leapt out of its world and into the world" Poetry is
everywhere. From Amanda Gorman performing "The Hill We Climb"
before the nation at Joe Biden's Presidential inauguration, to
poems regularly going viral on Instagram and Twitter, more
Americans are reading and interacting with poetry than ever before.
Avidly Reads Poetry is an ode to poetry and the worlds that come
into play around the different ways it is written and shared.
Mixing literary and cultural criticism with the author's personal
and often intimate relationship with poetry, Avidly Reads Poetry
breathes life into poems of every genre-from alphabet poems and
Shakespeare's sonnets to Claudia Rankine's Citizen and Rupi Kaur's
Instapoetry-and asks: How do poems come to us? How do they make us
feel and think and act when they do? Who and what is poetry for?
Who does poetry include and exclude, and what can we learn from it?
Each section links a reason why we might read poetry with a type of
poem to help us think about how poems are embedded in our lives, in
our loves, our educations, our politics, and our social media,
sometimes in spite of, and sometimes very much because of, the
nation we live in. Part of the Avidly Reads series, this slim book
gives us a new way of looking at American culture. With the
singular blend of personal reflection and cultural criticism
featured in the series, Avidly Reads Poetry shatters the wall
between poetry and "the rest of us."
A raw, moving and uplifting memoir about courage, resilience and
the transformative power of love, from one of Australia's most
captivating personalities 'Powerful, heartbreaking and beautiful
... a story of incredible triumph fuelled by love and compassion'
Osher Gunsberg 'Brooke Blurton is an icon for people of all
generations and backgrounds. I love seeing her star shine.'
Clementine Ford My story is about the one thing that I never went
without. Love. Big love, that filled me up and made me feel like
there was a future for me. The kind of love that's unconditional,
and that lasts across time and space ... From the moment Brooke
Blurton appeared on Australian television, she dazzled audiences
with her authenticity, self-knowledge, generosity and honesty. As a
proud young Noongar-Yamatji woman, Brooke's connection to her
culture and country is deep, and as an openly queer woman, she
knows that love is simply love. Most of all Brooke knows the
importance of family, and the uplifting power of unconditional
connection. But behind the public persona Brooke presents to the
world is a story of epic proportions and awe-inspiring resilience -
she had to grow up fast from a very young age, surviving an
extremely challenging childhood and youth, and overcoming the
shocking legacy of intergenerational trauma, abuse and
homelessness. She's also had to defy labels and perceptions about
who she is, and her worth, all her life. But through it all, Brooke
didn't just survive, she found her voice and thrived, and in this
raw, heartbreaking, often funny and ultimately life-affirming
memoir, Brooke lays her journey bare about how she refused to allow
the past to define her and reclaimed her own identity - and
realised the power of love, for herself, for her family, and her
community.
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