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A major contribution to the field, this ground-breaking book
explores design anthropology's focus on futures and future-making.
Examining what design anthropology is and what it is becoming, the
authors push the frontiers of the discipline and reveal both the
challenges for and the potential of this rapidly growing
transdisciplinary field.Divided into four sections - Ethnographies
of the Possible, Interventionist Speculation, Collaborative
Formation of Issues, and Engaging Things - the book develops
readers' understanding of the central theoretical and
methodological aspects of future knowledge production in design
anthropology. Bringing together renowned scholars such as George
Marcus and Alison Clarke with young experimental design
anthropologists from countries such as Denmark, Sweden, Austria,
Brazil, the UK, and the United States, the sixteen chapters offer
an unparalleled breadth of theoretical reflections and rich
empirical case studies.Written by those at the forefront of the
field, Design Anthropological Futures is destined to become a
defining text for this growing discipline. A unique resource for
students, scholars, and practitioners in design anthropology,
design, architecture, material culture studies, and related fields.
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Desmond (Paperback)
Charlotte Smith; Edited by Antje Blank, Janet Todd
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R879
Discovery Miles 8 790
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Desmond is a political novel about the French Revolution. It is
Charlotte Smith's only epistolary work, and it is her most
politically radical piece. Written in response to Edmund Burke's
Reflections on the Revolution in France, Smith's Desmond fuses
political discussion with romance, social satire and a suspenseful
plot revolving around a liberal hero desperately in love with a
woman who is married to a drunken anti-revolutionary. Whereas Burke
represented the French Revolution as a sentimental drama, Smith
draws out the parallel between political and domestic tyranny to
show how the disenfranchisement of British women under
eighteenth-century common law resembled the political tyranny of
the French absolutist monarchy.
Design is a key site of cultural production and change in
contemporary society. Anthropologists have been involved in design
projects for several decades but only recently a new field of
inquiry has emerged which aims to integrate the strengths of design
thinking and anthropological research.This book is written by
anthropologists who actively participate in the development of
design anthropology. Comprising both cutting-edge explorations and
theoretical reflections, it provides a much-needed introduction to
the concepts, methods, practices and challenges of the new field.
"Design Anthropology" moves from observation and interpretation to
collaboration, intervention and co-creation. Its practitioners
participate in multidisciplinary design teams working towards
concrete solutions for problems that are sometimes ill-defined. The
authors address the critical potential of design anthropology in a
wide range of design activities across the globe and query the
impact of design on the discipline of anthropology.This volume will
appeal to new and experienced practitioners in the field as well as
to students of anthropology, innovation, science and technology
studies, and a wide range of design studies focusing on user
participation, innovation, and collaborative research.
After years of literary neglect, Charlotte Smith (1749-1806) is now
being recognized as a major poet and modern figure whose Romantic
sensibility is an expression of a specifically female experience.
This selection provides an ideal introduction to the full range of
her work, from her influential sonnets and poems for children to
extracts from her French Revolution poem "The Emigrants" and the
full text of her astonishing masterwork "Beachy Head."
Immensely popular with contemporary readers, Smith's major poetic
works are foundational poetic texts of the Romantic period. Smith's
innovations in poetic form have also placed her at the forefront of
twenty-first century scholarship on the period. This edition
presents her three major poetic works - Elegiac Sonnets
(1784-1800), The Emigrants (1793), and Beachy Head (1807). They
also remain major texts for thinking through such questions as the
relationship between public and private; the ethical treatment of
refugees and other persecuted people; the position of women in a
patriarchal society; and the usefulness of science as a way of
making sense of a complex and ever-changing world. This Broadview
edition includes a new critical introduction which takes into
account the developments in scholarship on Smith's work and women's
writing over the past three decades, and it provides readers with a
wealth of contextual material for understanding the writer and the
social and literary environment within which she wrote, including
key works by her precursors and contemporaries, selections from her
letters, and reviews of her poetry.
In The Old Manor House (1794), Charlotte Smith combines elements of
the romance, the Gothic, recent history, and culture to produce
both a social document and a compelling novel. A "property
romance," the love story of Orlando and Monimia revolves around the
Manor House as inheritable property. In situating their romance as
dependent on the whims of property owners, Smith critiques a
society in love with money at the expense of its most vulnerable
members, the dispossessed. Appendices in this edition include:
contemporary responses; writings on the genre debate by Anna
Letitia Barbauld, John Moore, and Walter Scott; and historical
documents focusing on property laws as well as the American and
French revolutions.
Originally published as the second volume in Charlotte Smith's five
volume series of "The Letters of a Solitary Wanderer" in 1800, "The
Story of Henrietta" follows its heroine as her happy life with her
aunt and her beloved is quickly shattered by her tyrannical
father's cruelty. Henrietta's father, a slaveholder in Jamaica,
summons her to his plantation, where he plans to marry her off to a
man she despises. But when she tries to escape, she will encounter
other unexpected dangers, including capture by lascivious natives,
a slave rebellion, and a hermit with a mysterious and tragic
history This edition reprints the unabridged text of the 1800 first
edition with a new introduction and extensive annotations by Janina
Nordius. "The novella-length "Story of Henrietta" is among
Charlotte Smith's least known but most interesting works, for here
Smith leaves the ruins and castles of Europe behind to make a
significant foray into another, yet so far little explored field of
gothic terror and brutality. Setting her story in the British
colony of Jamaica, she expands her political concerns to embrace
also the controversial issue of colonial slavery, a system
supported by powerful financial interests in the metropolis but
also increasingly criticized there by the growing abolitionist
movement. In representing the slaveholding island as a location so
fraught with horrors and anxieties as to chill the blood of the
most seasoned gothic reader, Smith conjures up a parallel between
women's disempowerment and the situation of the enslaved, while at
the same time considerably radicalizing her critique of the West
Indian slave regimes already begun in her short novel "The
Wanderings of Warwick" (1794)." - From the Introduction by Janina
Nordius
For much of the 19th and 20th centuries, Melbourne's Little
Lonsdale Street - locally known as 'Little Lon' - was notorious as
a foul slum and brothel district, occupied by the itinerant and the
criminal. The stereotype of 'slumdom' defined 'Little Lon' in the
minds of Melbournians, and became entrenched in Australian
literature and popular culture.The Commonwealth Block, Melbourne
tells a different story. This groundbreaking book reports on almost
three decades of excavations conducted on the Commonwealth Block -
the area of central Melbourne bordered by Little Lonsdale,
Lonsdale, Exhibition and Spring streets. Since the 1980s,
archaeologists and historians have pieced together the rich and
complex history of this area, revealing a working-class and
immigrant community that was much more than just a slum. The
Commonwealth Block, Melbourne delves into the complex social,
cultural and economic history of this forgotten community.
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The Porter Family (Paperback)
Wendy Willis; Illustrated by Charlotte Smith
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