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Charlotte Smith, The Historical Society of South Fayette; Foreword by John L Kosky
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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.
While challenges to authority are generally perceived as
destructive to legal order, this original collection of essays,
with Magna Carta at its heart, questions this assumption. In a
series of chapters concerned with different forms of challenges to
legal authority - over time, geographical place, and subject
matters both public and private - this volume demonstrates that
challenges to authority which seek the recognition of rights
actually change the existing legal order rather than destroying it.
The chapters further explore how the myth of Magna Carta emerged
and its role in the pre-modern world; how challenges to authority
formed the basis of the recognition of rights in particular areas
within England; and how challenges to authority resulted in the
recognition of particular rights in the United States, Canada,
Australia and Germany. This is a uniquely insightful thematic
collection which proposes a new view into the processes of legal
change.
While challenges to authority are generally perceived as
destructive to legal order, this original collection of essays,
with Magna Carta at its heart, questions this assumption. In a
series of chapters concerned with different forms of challenges to
legal authority - over time, geographical place, and subject
matters both public and private - this volume demonstrates that
challenges to authority which seek the recognition of rights
actually change the existing legal order rather than destroying it.
The chapters further explore how the myth of Magna Carta emerged
and its role in the pre-modern world; how challenges to authority
formed the basis of the recognition of rights in particular areas
within England; and how challenges to authority resulted in the
recognition of particular rights in the United States, Canada,
Australia and Germany. This is a uniquely insightful thematic
collection which proposes a new view into the processes of legal
change.
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.
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.
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."
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