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Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies
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.
Systems and Uses of Digital Sciences for Knowledge Organization is
a large-scale scientific work that brings together researchers and
R&D professionals to discuss ideas and actions in the
organization of knowledge. The main objective of this book is to
define collaborative strategies, use advanced technologies in
multiple research fields and outline applications of knowledge
organization and its cultural, education, economic and industrial
potential. The organization of knowledge and advanced technologies
(OCTA) asks the following questions: How can we strengthen
alliances between multi-disciplinary and trans-disciplinary
studies? How can we broaden our skills surrounding common objects
of study? How can we innovate the solutions found and propose
sustainable development to society confidently? This book is a
result of intensive and collaborative work between highly respected
scientific authors. The nine chapters that have been selected for
this book have been peer-reviewed by the OCTA program committee,
both as written submissions and when presented during the OCTA
multi-conference on organization.
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.
Young adult literature featuring LGBTQ characters is booming. In
the 1980s and 1990s, only a handful of such titles were published
every year. Recently, these numbers have soared to over one hundred
annual releases. Queer characters are also appearing more
frequently in film, on television, and in video games. This
explosion of queer representation, however, has prompted new forms
of longstanding cultural anxieties about adolescent sexuality. What
makes for a good "coming out" story? Will increased queer
representation in young people's media teach adolescents the right
lessons and help queer teens live better, happier lives? What if
these stories harm young people instead of helping them? In Queer
Anxieties of Young Adult Literature and Culture, Derritt Mason
considers these questions through a range of popular media,
including an assortment of young adult books; Caper in the Castro,
the first-ever queer video game; online fan communities; and
popular television series Glee and Big Mouth. Mason argues themes
that generate the most anxiety about adolescent culture - queer
visibility, risk taking, HIV/AIDS, dystopia and horror, and the
promise that "It Gets Better" and the threat that it might not -
challenge us to rethink how we read and engage with young people's
media. Instead of imagining queer young adult literature as a
subgenre defined by its visibly queer characters, Mason proposes
that we see "queer YA" as a body of transmedia texts with blurry
boundaries, one that coheres around affect - specifically, anxiety
- instead of content.
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.
This collection is an exploration of pop culture and sports that
takes a Klostermaniacal look at expectations, reality, media, and
fans. Some of Chuck's questions are these: Why does a given band's
most ardent fans always hate that band's most recent album? What
makes the game of football appear outwardly conservative while it
is inwardly radical? Why is pop culture obsessed with time travel?
What do Kurt Cobain and David Koresh have in common? Why do
artists, athletes, celebrities, and just about everyone else
respond when interviewed, even when they should keep their mouths
shut? What makes voyeurism so interesting, and what makes it so
boring? And, just what the hell is irony anyway? In Klosterman's
new collection, the answers are hilarious and entertaining, and the
way he gets to them even more so.
At a time when states are increasingly hostile to the international
rights regime, human rights activists have turned to non-state and
sub-state actors to begin the implementation of human rights law.
This complicates the conventional analysis of relationships between
local actors, global norms, and cosmopolitanism. The contributions
in this open access collection examine the "lived realities of
human rights" and critically engage with debates on gender,
sexuality, localism and cosmopolitanism, weaving insights from
multiple disciplines into a broader call for interdisciplinary
scholarship informed by practice. Overall, the contributors argue
that the power of human rights depends on their ability to be
continuously broadened and re-imagined in locales around the world.
It is only on this basis that human rights can remain relevant and
be effectively used to push local, national and international
institutions to put in place structural reforms that advance equity
and pluralism in these perilous times. The eBook editions of this
book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on
bloomsburycollections.com.
The political responsibility of artists in a globalized society is
debated in this collection of articles by authors from Africa,
Australia, South America, Europe, and Scandinavia. Bemoaning the
competition for tourist dollars among the world's great cities and
the commodification of cultural artifacts, these artists propose
real and imagined places where art might resist capitalism, such as
failed urban developments, among refugees, and in rural
outposts.
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In Power in the Balance: Presidents, Parties, and Legislatures in
Peru and Beyond, Barry S. Levitt answers urgent questions about
executive power in "new" democracies. He examines in rich detail
the case of Peru, from President Alan Garcia's first term
(1985-1990), to the erosion of democracy under President Alberto
Fujimori (1990-2000), through the interim government of Valentin
Paniagua (2000-2001) and the remarkable, if rocky, renewal of
democracy culminating in Alejandro Toledo's 2001-2006 presidency.
This turbulent experience with democracy brings into clear focus
the functioning of formal political institutions-constitutions and
electoral laws, presidents and legislatures, political parties and
leaders-while also exposing the informal side of Peru's national
politics over the course of two decades. Levitt's study of politics
in Peru also provides a test case for his regional analysis of
cross-national differences and change over time in presidential
power across eighteen Latin American countries. In Peru and
throughout Latin America, Levitt shows, the rule of law itself and
the organizational forms of political parties have a stronger
impact on legislative-executive relations than do most of the
institutional traits and constitutional powers that configure the
formal "rules of the game" for high politics. His findings, and
their implications for improving the quality of new democracies
everywhere, will surprise promoters, practitioners, and scholars of
democratic politics alike.
In this dazzling history of the imagination, Patrick Harpur links
together fields as far apart as Greek philosophy and depth
psychology, Renaissance magic and tribal ritual, Romantic poetry
and modern models of the Universe, to trace how myths have been
used to make sense of the world. In so doing he uncovers that
tradition which alchemists imagined as a Golden Chain of initiates,
who passed their mysterious 'secret fire' down through the ages. As
this inspiring book shows, the secret of this perennial wisdom is
of an imaginative insight: a simple way of seeing that re-enchants
our existence and restores us to our own true selves..."His
flame-like knowledge is central to the urgent seriousness of this
book; buy a copy before it vanishes." THE LONDON MAGAZINE ..."It
would be hard to overestimate the value of Harpur's book or to
praise it too highly." RESURGENCE MAGAZINE ..."Once we believed
that truth was 'out there', now we hold that it's 'in here', but if
Harpur is right then it lies in the line of vision between the two"
THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY ..."Mr. Harpur links together fields as
far apart as Greek philosophy and depth psychology, Renaissance
magic and tribal ritual, Romantic poetry and the ecstasy of the
shaman, to trace how societies over time have used myths to make
sense of the world. Harpur leads us through history's secret
chambers with such grace of language and insight that we forget the
hour. I would make Harpur's book required reading for every student
of philosophy, depth psychology, and history." DIANNE SKAFTE
The Lost History of Cosmopolitanism challenges our most basic
assumptions about the history of an ideal at the heart of
modernity. Beginning in antiquity and continuing through to today,
Leigh T.I. Penman examines how European thinkers have understood
words like 'kosmopolites', 'cosmopolite', 'cosmopolitan' and its
cognates. The debates over their meanings show that there has never
been a single, stable cosmopolitan concept, but rather a range of
concepts-sacred and secular, inclusive and exclusive-all described
with the cosmopolitan vocabulary. While most scholarly attention in
the history of cosmopolitanism has focussed on Greek and Roman
antiquity or the Enlightenments of the 18th century, this book
shows that the crucial period in the evolution of modern
cosmopolitanism was early modernity. Between 1500 and 1800
philosophers, theologians, cartographers, jurists, politicians,
alchemists and heretics all used this vocabulary, shedding ancient
associations, and adding new ones at will. The chaos of discourses
prompted thinkers to reflect on the nature of the cosmopolitan
ideal, and to conceive of an abstract 'cosmopolitanism' for the
first time. This meticulously researched book provides the first
intellectual history of an overlooked period in the evolution of a
core ideal. As such, The Lost History of Cosmopolitanism is an
essential work for anyone seeking a contextualised understanding of
cosmopolitanism today.
Framing Gotham City as a microcosm of a modern-day metropolis,
Gotham City Living posits this fictional setting as a hyper-aware
archetype, demonstrative of the social, political and cultural
tensions felt throughout urban America. Looking at the comics,
graphic novels, films and television shows that form the Batman
universe, this book demonstrates how the various creators of Gotham
City have imagined a geography for the condition of America, the
cast of characters acting as catalysts for a revaluation of
established urban values. McCrystal breaks down representations of
the city and its inhabitants into key sociological themes, focusing
on youth, gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity, class disparity
and criminality. Surveying comic strip publications from the
mid-20th century to modern depictions, this book explores a wide
range of material from the universe as well as the most
contemporary depictions of the caped crusader not yet fully
addressed in a scholarly context. These include the works of Tom
King and Gail Simone; the films by Christopher Nolan and Tim
Burton; and the Batman animated series and Gotham television shows.
Covering characters from Batman and Robin to Batgirl, Catwoman and
Poison Ivy, Gotham City Living examines the Batman franchise as it
has evolved, demonstrating how the city presents a timeline of
social progression (and regression) in urban American society.
This reference work covers the cuisine and foodways of India in all
their diversity and complexity, including regions, personalities,
street foods, communities and topics that have been often
neglected. The book starts with an overview essay situating the
Great Indian Table in relation to its geography, history and
agriculture, followed by alphabetically organized entries. The
entries, which are between 150 and 1,500 words long, combine facts
with history, anecdotes, and legends. They are supplemented by
longer entries on key topics such as regional cuisines, spice
mixtures, food and medicine, rites of passages, cooking methods,
rice, sweets, tea, drinks (alcoholic and soft) and the Indian
diaspora. This comprehensive volume illuminates contemporary Indian
cooking and cuisine in tradition and practice.
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. How can financial
services, such as credit, deposit accounts, financial transfers,
and insurance be provided to people in need? This challenging and
complex issue has been a topic of interest for the international
aid community for decades. Drawing on renowned experts in
microfinance and financial inclusion, this Research Agenda sheds
much-needed light on this multifaceted challenge and points the way
ahead for future research. Providing a critical and
multidisciplinary approach to research in microfinance and
financial inclusion, the authors provide a state-of-the-art
overview of current scholarly knowledge on the provision of
financial services to disadvantaged populations worldwide.
Reviewing the literature on the subject from the fields of
economics, management science and development studies, they discuss
the limitations and challenges of current research and chart
avenues for future developments. With its fascinating insights,
this Research Agenda will be of interest to students of finance and
economics, development, and business and management, as well as
researchers with a specific interest in microfinance and financial
inclusion. Contributors include: J. Bastiaensen, A. Cozarenco, B.
D'espallier, K.O. Djan, M. Duvendack, A. Garcia, J. Goedecke, I.
Guerin, V. Hartarska, B. Hathaway, N. Hermes, F. Huybrechs, R.
Lensink, R. Mersland, J. Morduch, S. Morvant, D. Nadolnyak, T.
Ogden, J.-M. Servet, T.W. Sommeno, A. Szafarz, G. Van Hecken, B.
Venet, L. Weill, T. Wry, S. Zamore
Tucked into the files of Iowa State University's Cooperative
Extension Service is a small, innocuous looking pamphlet with the
title Lenders: Working through the Farmer-Lender Crisis.
Cooperative Extension Service intended this publication to improve
bankers' empathy and communication skills, especially when facing
farmers showing "Suicide Warning Signs." After all, they were
working with individuals experiencing extreme economic distress,
and each banker needed to learn to "be a good listener." What was
important, too, was what was left unsaid. Iowa State published this
pamphlet in April of 1986. Just four months earlier, farmer Dale
Burr of Lone Tree, Iowa, had killed his wife, and then walked into
the Hills Bank and Trust company and shot a banker to death in the
lobby before taking shots at neighbors, killing one of them, and
then killing himself. The unwritten subtext of this little pamphlet
was "beware." If bankers failed to adapt to changing circumstances,
the next desperate farmer might be shooting.This was Iowa in the
1980s. The state was at the epicenter of a nationwide agricultural
collapse unmatched since the Great Depression. In When a Dream
Dies, Pamela Riney-Kehrberg examines the lives of ordinary Iowa
farmers during this period, as the Midwest experienced the worst of
the crisis. While farms failed and banks foreclosed, rural and
small-town Iowans watched and suffered, struggling to find
effective ways to cope with the crisis. If families and communities
were to endure, they would have to think about themselves, their
farms, and their futures in new ways. For many Iowan families, this
meant restructuring their lives or moving away from agriculture
completely. This book helps to explain how this disaster changed
children, families, communities, and the development of the
nation's heartland in the late twentieth century. Agricultural
crises are not just events that affect farms. When a Dream Dies
explores the Farm Crisis of the 1980s from the perspective of the
two-thirds of the state's agricultural population seriously
affected by a farm debt crisis that rapidly spiraled out of their
control. Riney-Kehrberg treats the Farm Crisis as a family event
while examining the impact of the crisis on mental health and food
insecurity and discussing the long-term implications of the crisis
for the shape and function of agriculture.
Throughout the twentieth century, scholars, artists and politicians
have accused each other of "historicism." But what exactly did this
mean? Judging by existing scholarship, the answers varied
enormously. Like many other "isms," historicism could mean nearly
everything, to the point of becoming meaningless. Yet the questions
remain: What made generations of scholars throughout the humanities
and social sciences worry about historicism? Why did even musicians
and members of parliament warn against historicism? And what
explains this remarkable career of the term across generations,
fields, regions, and languages? Focusing on the "travels" that
historicism made, this volume uses historicism as a prism for
exploring connections between disciplines and intellectual
traditions usually studied in isolation from each other. It shows
how generations of sociologists, theologians, and historians tried
to avoid pitfalls associated with historicism and explains why the
term was heavily charged with emotions like anxiety, anger, and
worry. While offering fresh interpretations of classic authors such
as Friedrich Meinecke, Karl Loewith, and Leo Strauss, this volume
highlights how historicism took on new meanings, connotations, and
emotional baggage in the course of its travels through time and
place.
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