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Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given
area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject
in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of
travel. They are relevant but also visionary. Providing a critical
overview of cultural economics, this Research Agenda explores the
current state of affairs in the field, suggesting methods of
improvement for the coherency and progressiveness of future
research. Situating work in this area in its historical context,
Samuel Cameron draws together a range of international contributors
to explore the development of cultural economics. Undertaking a
thorough examination of matters of data quality, statistical
methodology and the challenge of new developments in technology,
chapters examine the different approaches to cultural economics.
The book explores the myriad ways in which the topic has been
neglected by mainstream economics, and examines reasons why it
needs to be considered, evaluated and explored in more detail in
our modern world. Current researchers in cultural economics, as
well as cultural policies and leisure studies will find this book
an invaluable read in exploring different ways to integrate
cultural economics into mainstream studies. This Research Agenda
will also be an invaluable aid for advanced students to create
discussions suitable for essay topics and dissertations.
Contributors include: S. Cameron, C. Peukert, J. Snowball, H.
Sonnabend, M. Zieba
In the early twentieth century, historical imaginings of Japan
contributed to the Argentine vision of "transpacific modernity."
Intellectuals such as Eduardo Wilde and Manuel Domecq GarcIa
celebrated Japanese customs and traditions as important values that
can be integrated into Argentine society. But a new generation of
Nikkei or Japanese Argentines is rewriting this conventional
narrative in the twenty-first century. Nikkei writers such as
Maximiliano Matayoshi and Alejandra Kamiya are challenging the
earlier, unapologetic view of Japan based on their own immigrant
experiences. Compared to the experience of political persecution
against Japanese immigrants in Brazil and Peru, the Japanese in
Argentina generally lived under a more agreeable sociopolitical
climate. In order to understand the "positive" perception of Japan
in Argentine history and literature, Samurai in the Land of the
Gaucho turns to the current debate on race in Argentina,
particularly as it relates to the discourse of whiteness. One of
the central arguments is that Argentina's century-old interest in
Japan represents a disguised method of (re)claiming its white,
Western identity. Through close readings of diverse genres (travel
writing, essay, novel, short story, and film) Samurai in the Land
of the Gaucho yields a multi-layered analysis in order to underline
the role Japan has played in both defining and defying Argentine
modernity from the twentieth century to the present.
Volume II of Africa's Radicalisms and Conservatisms continues the
broad themes of radicalisms and conservatisms that were examined in
volume I. Like volume I, the essays examine why the two "isms" of
radicalisms and conservatisms should not be viewed as mere
irreconcilable conceptual tools with which to categorize or
structure knowledge. The volume demonstrates that these concepts
are intertwined, have multiple and diverse meanings as perceived
and understood from different disciplinary vantage points, hence,
the deliberate pluralization of the terms. The twenty-two essays in
the volume show what happens when one juxtaposes the two concepts
and when different peoples' lived experiences of politics, pop
culture, democracy, liberalism, the environment, colonialism,
migration, identities, and knowledge, etc. across the length and
breadth of Africa are brought to bear on our understandings of
these two particularisms. Contributors are: Adesoji Oni, Admire M.
Nyamwanza, Akin Tella, Akinpelu Ayokunnu Oyekunle, Bamidele
Omotunde Alabi, Charles Nkem Okolie, Craig Calhoun, Diana Ekor
Ofana, Edwin Etieyibo, Folusho Ayodeji, Gabriel Akinbode, Godwin
Oboh, Joseph C. A. Agbakoba, Julius Niringiyimana, Lucky Uchenna
Ogbonnaya, Maxwell Mudhara, Muchaparara Musemwa, Nathan Osareme
Odiase, Obvious Katsaura, Okpowhoavotu Dan Ekere, Olaniran Olakunle
Lateef, Omolara V. Akinyemi, Owen Mafongoya, Paramu Mafongoya,
Philip Onyekachukwu Egbule, Rutanga Murindwa, Sandra Bhatasara,
Takesure Taringana, Tunde A. Abioro, Victor Clement Nweke, William
Muhumuza, and Zainab M. Olaitan.
In Frankenstein Was a Vegetarian: Essays on Food Choice, Identity,
and Symbolism, Michael Owen Jones tackles topics often overlooked
in foodways. At the outset he notes it was Victor Frankenstein's
"daemon" in Mary Shelley's novel that advocated vegetarianism, not
the scientist whose name has long been attributed to his creature.
Jones explains how we communicate through what we eat, the
connection between food choice and who we are or want to appear to
be, the ways that many of us self-medicate moods with foods, and
the nature of disgust. He presents fascinating case studies of
religious bigotry and political machinations triggered by rumored
bans on pork, the last meal requests of prisoners about to be
executed, and the Utopian vision of Percy Bysshe Shelley, one of
England's greatest poets, that was based on a vegetable diet like
the creature's meals in Frankenstein. Jones also scrutinizes how
food is used and abused on the campaign trail, how gender issues
arise when food meets politics, and how eating preferences reflect
the personalities and values of politicians, one of whom was
elected president and then impeached twice. Throughout the book,
Jones deals with food as symbol as well as analyzes the link
between food choice and multiple identities. Aesthetics, morality,
and politics likewise loom large in his inquiries. In the final two
chapters, Jones applies these concepts to overhauling penal
policies and practices that make food part of the pains of
imprisonment, and looks at transforming the counseling of diabetes
patients, who number in the millions.
"Reader in Religion and Popular Culture" is the classroom resource
the field has been waiting for. It provides key readings as well as
new approaches and cutting-edge work, encouraging a broader
methodological and historical understanding. It is the first
anthology to a trace broader themes of religion and popular culture
across time and across very different types of media. With a
combined teaching experience of over 30 years dedicated to teaching
undergraduates, Lisle Dalton and Eric Mazur have ensured that the
pedagogical features and structure of the volume are valuable to
both students and their professors: - Divided into a number of
units based on common semester syllabi- Provides a blend of
materials focussed on method with materials focussed on subject-
Each unit contains an introduction to the texts - Each unit is
followed by questions designed to encourage or enhance post-reading
reflection and classroom discussion- A glossary of terms from the
unit's readings is provided, as well as suggestions for further
reading and investigation- Online resource provides guidance on
accessing some of the most useful interesting resources available
onlineThe Reader is suitable as the foundational textbook for any
undergraduate course on religion and popular culture.
This book is comprised of enhanced, expanded, and updated versions
of articles previously published in the the International Journal
of Public and Private Perspectives on Healthcare, Culture, and the
Environment (IJPPPHCE). The chapters will highlight critical trends
focusing on the relationship between the public sphere, private
sector, medicine, environmental health and wellbeing, and society.
It covers critical topics such as environmental sustainability,
ethics and medicine, healthcare and administration, corporate
social responsibility, pollution and waste management, and related
topics, and how the public sector and private industries contribute
to these factors. This book will be interdisciplinary and
cross-disciplinary in its nature, as it is intended for a broad
audience with interests in Healthcare, Culture, or the Environment
or specifically professionals, policy makers, researchers, and
graduate-level students in the fields of sociology, environmental
science, public policy, healthcare administration, and business.
The sounds of spectators at football (soccer) are often highlighted
- by spectators, tourists, commentators, journalists, scholars,
media producers, etc. - as crucial for the experience of football.
These sounds are often said to contribute significantly to the
production (at the stadium) and conveyance (in televised broadcast)
of 'atmosphere.' This book addresses why and how spectator sounds
contribute to the experience of watching in these environments and
what characterizes spectator sounds in terms of their structure,
distribution and significance. Based on an examination of empirical
materials - including the sounds of football matches from the
English Premier League as they emerge both at the stadium and in
the televised broadcast - this book systematically dissects the
sounds of football watching.
In the early modern period, images of revolts and violence became
increasingly important tools to legitimize or contest political
structures. This volume offers the first in-depth analysis of how
early modern people produced and consumed violent imagery, and
assesses its role in memory practices, political mobilization, and
the negotiation of cruelty and justice. Critically evaluating the
traditional focus on Western European imagery, the case studies in
this book draw on evidence from Russia, China, Hungary, Portugal,
Germany, North America, and other regions. The contributors
highlight the distinctions among visual cultures of violence, as
well as their entanglements in networks of intensive transregional
communication, early globalization, and European colonization.
Contributors: Monika Barget, David de Boer, Nora G. Etenyi, Fabian
Fechner, Joana Fraga, Malte Griesse, Alain Hugon, Gleb Kazakov,
Nancy Kollmann, Ya-Chen Ma, Galina Tirnanic, and Ramon Voges.
Privacy is often considered a modern phenomenon. Early Modern
Privacy: Sources and Approaches challenges this view. This
collection examines instances, experiences, and spaces of early
modern privacy, and opens new avenues to understanding the
structures and dynamics that shape early modern societies. Scholars
of architectural history, art history, church history, economic
history, gender history, history of law, history of literature,
history of medicine, history of science, and social history detail
how privacy and the private manifest within a wide array of
sources, discourses, practices, and spatial programmes. In doing
so, they tackle the methodological challenges of early modern
privacy, in all its rich, historical specificity. Contributors:
Ivana Bicak, Mette Birkedal Bruun, Maarten Delbeke, Willem
Frijhoff, Michael Green, Mia Korpiola, Mathieu Laflamme, Natacha
Klein Kafer, Hang Lin, Walter S. Melion, Helene Merlin-Kajman, Lars
Cyril Norgaard, Anne Regent-Susini, Marian Rothstein, Thomas Max
Safley, Valeria Viola, Lee Palmer Wandel, and Heide Wunder.
Inspired by Raymond Williams' cultural materialism, H.F. Pimlott
explores the connections between political practice and cultural
form through Marxism Today's transformation from a Communist Party
theoretical journal into a 'glossy' left magazine. Marxism Today's
successes and failures during the 1980s are analysed through its
political and cultural critiques of Thatcherism and the left,
especially by Stuart Hall and Eric Hobsbawm, innovative publicity
and marketplace distribution, relationships with the national UK
press, cultural coverage, design and format, and writing style.
Wars of Position offers insights for contemporary media activists
and challenges the neglect of the left press by media scholars.
Essays explore an ontological theory of television and cultural
authorship, employing Heideggerian concepts to understand "the
Being" of television.
This volume resents key contributions to scholarship in biblical
studies that engages or is influenced by cultural studies. Robert
Seesengood selects on foundational pieces that are ordinarily hard
to locate and presents them in line with more recent studies,
situating and tracing the revolution in biblical studies that led
to the wealth of work in reception history and the study of
cultural engagements with the bible. As a result, this selection
provides a grounding in key theoretical perspectives, and history
of scholarship as well as an orientation to the discipline as it is
now. Beginning with a general introduction, as well as
introductions each section of the book, this collection explores
theoretical underpinnings, characters and passages in popular
culture, motifs and methods, film and television. These
introductions situate and frame the readings for readers and
researchers, and at the end of each section is an annotated
bibliography of further readings, which will prompt further
research and discussion.
The Spatial Practices series is premised on the observation that
places are inscribed with cultural meaning, not least of all in
terms of collective constructions of identity. Such space-based
constructions can manifest in material and immaterial, explicit and
implicit forms of heritage, and they are crucial factors in the
promotion of a group's wellbeing. It is this intersection of
spaces, heritage and wellbeing that the present volume takes at its
object. It considers ways in which institutional spaces in their
materiality as well as in their cultural inscriptions impact on the
wellbeing of the subjects inhabiting them and explores how heritage
comes to bear on these interrelations within specific institutions,
such as prisons, hospitals or graveyards.
In the nineteenth century, most American farms had a small orchard
or at least a few fruit-bearing trees. People grew their own apple
trees or purchased apples grown within a few hundred miles of their
homes. Nowadays, in contrast, Americans buy mass-produced fruit in
supermarkets, and roughly 70 percent of apples come from Washington
State. So how did Washington become the leading producer of
America's most popular fruit? In this enlightening book, Amanda L.
Van Lanen offers a comprehensive response to this question by
tracing the origins, evolution, and environmental consequences of
the state's apple industry. Washington's success in producing
apples was not a happy accident of nature, according to Van Lanen.
Apples are not native to Washington, any more than potatoes are to
Idaho or peaches to Georgia. In fact, Washington apple farmers were
late to the game, lagging their eastern competitors. The author
outlines the numerous challenges early Washington entrepreneurs
faced in such areas as irrigation, transportation, and labor.
Eventually, with crucial help from railroads, Washington farmers
transformed themselves into "growers" by embracing new technologies
and marketing strategies. By the 1920s, the state's growers managed
not only to innovate the industry but to dominate it. Industrial
agriculture has its fair share of problems involving the
environment, consumers, and growers themselves. In the quest to
create the perfect apple, early growers did not question the
long-term environmental effects of chemical sprays. Since the late
twentieth century, consumers have increasingly questioned the
environmental safety of industrial apple production. Today, as this
book reveals, the apple industry continues to evolve in response to
shifting consumer demands and accelerating climate change. Yet,
through it all, the Washington apple maintains its iconic status as
Washington's most valuable agricultural crop.
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On 14 April 1912, less than a week into a transatlantic trip from
Southampton to New York, the largest luxury cruise liner in the
world struck an iceberg off the coast of Labrador, causing the hull
to buckle. The massive 50,000 ton ship hailed as 'unsinkable' was
soon slipping into the cold Atlantic Ocean, the crew and passengers
scrambling to launch lifeboats before being sucked into the deep.
Of the 2,224 passengers and crew aboard, more than 1,500 died,
making the sinking one of the deadliest for a single ship up to
that time. The sinking has captured the public imagination ever
since, in part because of the scale of the tragedy, but also
because the ship represented in microcosm Edwardian society, with
the super-rich sharing the vessel with poor migrants seeking a new
life in North America. Other factors, such as why there were only
enough lifeboats to hold half the passengers, also caused
controversy and led to changes in maritime safety. In later years
many survivors told their stories to the press, and Titanic
celebrates these accounts. A final chapter examines the shipwreck
today, which has been visited underwater by explorers, scientists
and film-makers, and many artifacts recovered as the old liner
steadily disintegrates. Titanic offers a compact, insightful
photographic history of the sinking and its aftermath in 180
authentic photographs.
So much of what we know of clean water, clean air, and now a stable
climate rests on how fossil fuels first disrupted them. Negative
Ecologies is a bold reappraisal of the outsized role fossil fuels
have played in making the environment visible, factual, and
politically operable in North America. Following stories of
hydrocarbon harm that lay the groundwork for environmental science
and policy, this book brings into clear focus the dialectic between
the negative ecologies of fossil fuels and the ongoing discovery of
the environment. Exploring iconic sites of the oil economy, ranging
from leaky Caribbean refineries to deepwater oil spills, from the
petrochemical fallout of plastics manufacturing to the extractive
frontiers of Canada, Negative Ecologies documents the upheavals,
injuries, and disasters that have long accompanied fossil fuels and
the manner in which our solutions have often been less about
confronting the cause than managing the effects. This history of
our present promises to re-situate scholarly understandings of
fossil fuels and renovate environmental critique today. David Bond
challenges us to consider what forms of critical engagement may now
be needed to both confront the deleterious properties of fossil
fuels and envision ways of living beyond them.
The English translation of this bestselling graphic novel tells the
story of Nok, an old blind man who sells lottery tickets in
Bangkok, as he decides to leave the city and return to his native
village. Through reflections on contemporary Bangkok and flashbacks
to his past, Nok reconstructs a journey through the slums of
migrant workers, the rice fields of Isaan, the tourist villages of
Ko Pha Ngan, and the Red Shirt protests of 2010. Based on a decade
of anthropological research, The King of Bangkok is a story of
migration to the city, distant families in the countryside,
economic development eroding the land, and violent political
protest. Ultimately, it is a story about contemporary Thailand and
how the waves of history lift, engulf, and crash against ordinary
people.
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