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Individuals, consumer groups, nation states and supra-national bodies increasingly have interrogated the ethics of particular production and consumption relations such as GM foods. Flowing from and bound up with these political concerns is the growing interest in the mutual dependence of sites of (for example) production, distribution, retailing, design, advertising, marketing and final consumption. This timely volume draws together contributions concerned with the production, circulation and consumption of commodities. Not only do these case study examples seek to transcend older understandings of production and consumption, but they also explicitly tap into wider public debate about the meanings, origins and biographies of commodities. Taking a geographical approach to the analysis of links between producers and consumers, the book focuses upon the ways in which these ties increasingly are stretched across spaces and places. Critical engagements with the ways in which these spaces and places affect the economies, cultures and politics of the connections between producers and consumers are skilfully threaded through each section.
Individuals, consumer groups, nation states and supra-national bodies increasingly have interrogated the ethics of particular production and consumption relations such as GM foods. Flowing from and bound up with these political concerns is the growing interest in the mutual dependence of sites of (for example) production, distribution, retailing, design, advertising, marketing and final consumption. This timely volume draws together contributions concerned with the production, circulation and consumption of commodities. Not only do these case study examples seek to transcend older understandings of production and consumption, but they also explicitly tap into wider public debate about the meanings, origins and biographies of commodities. Taking a geographical approach to the analysis of links between producers and consumers, the book focuses upon the ways in which these ties increasingly are stretched across spaces and places. Critical engagements with the ways in which these spaces and places affect the economies, cultures and politics of the connections between producers and consumers are skilfully threaded through each section.
China has long been an object of fascination for the French, who celebrated theirannee de la Chine in 2004. Symptomatic of that fascination are the movements into China made by groups as diverse as the Jesuits, who arrived inL'Empire du Milieu in the late seventeenth century, and theTel Quel intellectuals, whose will to political pilgrimage took them to the People's Republic in 1974. Symptomatic, too, are the narrative and visual representations of China offered by such as Pierre Loti, Victor Segalen, Paul Claudel, Michel Leiris, Simone de Beauvoir, Andre Malraux, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Marc Riboud. In this penetrating study, Alex Hughes explores models of intercultural encounter between France and China elaborated in the modern French.
China has long been an object of fascination for the French, who celebrated their annee de la Chine in 2004. Symptomatic of that fascination are the movements into China made by groups as diverse as the Jesuits, who arrived in L'Empire du Milieu in the late seventeenth century, and the Tel Quel intellectuals, whose will to political pilgrimage took them to the People's Republic in 1974. Symptomatic, too, are the narrative and visual representations of China offered by such as Pierre Loti, Victor Segalen, Paul Claudel, Michel Leiris, Simone de Beauvoir, Andre Malraux, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Marc Riboud. In this penetrating study, Alex Hughes explores models of intercultural encounter between France and China elaborated in the modern French cultural arena. Locating forms of bodily experience as critical to that encounter, she reflects on its forms and foundations.
Orphenn is an orphan, and he was beginning to think that that was all he would ever be. So when a strange woman who calls herself his sister spirits him away and hurls him into another universe, he felt absolutely overwhelmed. Family, friends, and allies await him there-three things that were beyond an orphan's wildest dreams. Only afterward does he find the truth about his family: that his twin sisters began as triplets, and that the third sister, who had murdered their parents, was leading a comeback to conquer the world of Aleida. With their squadron, the White Herons, and Aleida's mutant army, Orphenn and his companions must overcome his sister's conquest and destroy her nation. But how can they destroy their own sibling? Separate dimensions, mutants, families, bonds, turncoats, rebellion, and betrayal-Enma is a riveting story of dreams and gifts. In this world of cliche vampires and overused werewolves, Hughes's world of conquest and romance is a breath of fresh air. In her unique, dramatic style, she writes of the hardships Orphenn and his newfound family must endure in a time of civil war, in a universe beside our own.
This book opens up the history of twentieth-century French cinema
from the silent era to the present day by exploring the key role of
gender and sexual politics. A much-needed sequel to Berg's
bestselling Gender and German Cinema, the volume tackles such
questions as:
Within the domain of French literary analysis, gender criticism has
until now focused primarily on women's writing and has drawn
largely on the writings of French feminist theorists, even though
male-authored texts provide an equally revealing window through
which to analyze gender. Except by mainly male critics working
predominantly in the field of gay and queer studies, the issue of
how 'maleness' informs the construction of the self and the
creative act more broadly has been virtually ignored. Further, even
though much more work has been done on women, it can be argued that
the construction of 'femaleness' is most profitably illuminated by
an approach that allows for a comparison between the sexes.
This interdisciplinary book responds to the explosion of gay and
lesbian creativity on modern-day France. Rather than attempting to
formalize a specifically 'gay' or 'lesbian' style or identity, the
authors seek to open up new 'homotextualities, ' understood here as
ongoing constructions and deconstructions of both homosexuality and
its environments. They investigate the work of (among others)
Violette Leduc, Tony Duvert, Renaud Camus, and Guy Hocquenghem; the
cinema of Josiane Balasko and Cyril Collard; the theoretical
writings of Leo Bersani, Luce Irigaray, and Monique Wittig.
Employing a range of methods, authors re-evaluate and contest both
the literary and theoretical canon and establish new convergences
between French and Gay Studies, in particular, queer theory. This
book provides the first proper assessment of the usefulness of this
approach when dealing with a literary and cultural tradition
notoriously discreet about the very concept of a gay writer.
This interdisciplinary book responds to the explosion of gay and
lesbian creativity on modern-day France. Rather than attempting to
formalize a specifically 'gay' or 'lesbian' style or identity, the
authors seek to open up new 'homotextualities, ' understood here as
ongoing constructions and deconstructions of both homosexuality and
its environments. They investigate the work of (among others)
Violette Leduc, Tony Duvert, Renaud Camus, and Guy Hocquenghem; the
cinema of Josiane Balasko and Cyril Collard; the theoretical
writings of Leo Bersani, Luce Irigaray, and Monique Wittig.
Employing a range of methods, authors re-evaluate and contest both
the literary and theoretical canon and establish new convergences
between French and Gay Studies, in particular, queer theory. This
book provides the first proper assessment of the usefulness of this
approach when dealing with a literary and cultural tradition
notoriously discreet about the very concept of a gay writer.
This fascinating study explores the pleasures and torments of love
and sexuality as depicted in the works of six important French
women writers: Rachilde, Colette, Leduc, Wittig, Cixous and Duras.
Historically, erotic literature has been dominated by male writers.
Feminist critics have argued that its central motifs of voyeurism,
sadomasochism, incest and violence to women's bodies are governed
by the unconscious fantasies and prejudices of a patriarchal
sociocultural order.
Postcolonial approaches to understanding economies are of increasing academic and political significance as questions about the nature of globalization, transnational flows of capital and workers and the making and re-making of territorial borders assume center stage in debates about contemporary economies and policy. Despite the growing academic and political urgency in understanding how "other" cultures encounter "the west," economics-oriented approaches within social sciences (e.g., Development Economics, Economic Geography, and the discipline of Economics itself) have been slow to engage with the ideas and challenges posed by postcolonial critiques. In turn, postcolonial approaches have been criticized for their simplistic treatment of "the economic" and for not engaging with existing economic analyses of poverty and wealth creation. Utilizing examples drawn from everywhere from India to Latin America, "Postcolonial Economies" breaks new ground in providing a space for nascent debates about postcolonialism and its treatment of "the economic," bringing together scholars in a range of disciplines, including Geography, Economics, Development Studies, History and Women's Studies.
Postcolonial approaches to understanding economies are of increasing academic and political significance as questions about the nature of globalization, transnational flows of capital and workers, and the making and re-making of territorial borders assume center stage in debates about contemporary economies and policy. Despite the growing academic and political urgency in understanding how "other" cultures encounter "the West," economics-oriented approaches within social sciences (e.g., Development Economics, Economic Geography, and the discipline of Economics itself) have been slow to engage with the ideas and challenges posed by postcolonial critiques. In turn, postcolonial approaches have been criticized for their simplistic treatment of "the economic" and for not engaging with existing economic analyses of poverty and wealth creation. Utilizing world-wide examples drawn from India to Latin America, "Postcolonial Economies" breaks new ground in providing a space for nascent debates about postcolonialism and its treatment of "the economic," bringing together scholars in a range of disciplines, including Geography, Economics, Development Studies, History, and Women's Studies.
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