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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.
In September 1941, a handful of isolationist senators set out to
tarnish Hollywood for warmongering. The United States was largely
divided on the possibility of entering the European War, yet the
immigrant moguls in Hollywood were acutely aware of the conditions
in Europe. After Kristallnacht (the Night of Broken Glass), the
gloves came off. Warner Bros. released the first directly anti-Nazi
film in 1939 with Confessions of a Nazi Spy. Other studios followed
with such films as The Mortal Storm (MGM), Man Hunt (Fox), The Man
I Married (Fox), and The Great Dictator (United Artists). While
these films represented a small percentage of Hollywood's output,
senators took aim at the Jews in Hollywood who were supposedly
"agitating us for war" and launched an investigation that resulted
in Senate Resolution 152. The resolution was aimed at both radio
and movies that "have been extensively used for propaganda purposes
designed to influence the public mind in the direction of
participation in the European War". When the Senate approved a
subcommittee to investigate the intentions of these films, studio
bosses were ready and willing to stand up against the government to
defend their beloved industry. What followed was a complete
embarrassment of the United States Senate and a large victory for
Hollywood as well as freedom of speech. Many works of American film
history only skim the surface of the 1941 investigation of
Hollywood. In Hollywood Hates Hitler! Jew-Baiting, Anti-Nazism, and
the Senate Investigation into Warmongering in Motion Pictures,
author Chris Yogerst examines the years leading up to and through
the Senate Investigation into Motion Picture War Propaganda,
detailing the isolationist senators' relationship with the America
First movement. Through his use of primary documents and lengthy
congressional records, Yogerst paints a picture of the
investigation's daily events both on Capitol Hill and in the
national press.
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.
Cultured Violence explores contemporary South African culture as a
test case for the achievement of democracy by constitutional means
in the wake of prolonged and violent conflict. The book addresses
key ethical issues, normally addressed from within the discourses
of law, the social sciences, and health sciences, through narrative
analysis. The book draws from and juxtaposes narratives of
profoundly different kinds to make its point: fictional narratives,
such as the work of Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee; public testimony,
such as that of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and Jacob
Zuma's (the former Deputy President's) 2006 trial on charges of
rape; and personal testimony, drawn from interviews undertaken by
the author over the past ten years in South Africa. These
narratives are analysed in order to demonstrate the different ways
in which they illuminate the cultural "state of the nation": ways
that elude descriptions of South African subjects undertaken from
within discourses that have a historical tendency to ignore
cultural dimensions of lived experience and their material
particularity. The implications of these lived experiences of
culture are underlined by the book's focus on the violation of
human rights as comprising practices that are simultaneously
discursive and material. Cases of such violations, all drawn from
the South African context, include humans' use of non-human animals
as instruments of violence against other humans; the constructed
marginalization and vulnerability of women and children; and the
practice of stigma in the context of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
This encyclopaedia showcases the explanatory power of Marxist
educational theory and practice. The entries have been written by
51 leading authors from across the globe. The 39 entries cover an
impressive range of contemporary issues and historical
problematics. The editor has designed the book to appeal to readers
within the Marxism and education intellectual tradition, and also
those who are curious newcomers, as well as critics of Marxism. The
Encyclopaedia of Marxism and Education is the first of its kind. It
is a landmark text with relevance for years to come for the
productive dialogue between Marxism and education for
transformational thinking and practice.
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.
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