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"I wondered if the party guests I'd photographed were just
re-enacting a nostalgic fantasy, an imaginary version of England
that already no longer existed." - Dafydd Jones Throughout the
1980s, award-winning photographer Dafydd Jones was granted access
to some of England's most exclusive upper-class events. Now, the
author of Oxford: The Last Hurrah presents this irreverent and
intimate portrait of birthday parties and charity balls, Eton
picnics and private school celebrations. With the crack of a
hunting rifle and a spray of champagne, these photos give an almost
cinematic account of high-society England at its most riotous and
its most vulnerable. Against the backdrop of Thatcher's Britain,
globalisation, the Falklands War, rising stocks and dwindling
inherited fortunes, Jones reveals the inner lives of the
established elite as they party long into the night-time of their
fading world. Praise for Oxford: The Last Hurrah 'Sublime vintage
photographs...' - Hermione Eyre, The Telegraph 'In The Last
Hurrah...we see familiar faces from British high society poised on
the brink of adulthood.' - Eve Watling, Independent
This volume represents the most comprehensive English-Welsh
dictionary ever compiled. It opens up the immense resources of a
language which not only carries a rich cultural heritage but is
changing and adapting to meet increasing use in public
administration, the media, education and commercial life. This
dictionary is indispensable for learners and first-language
speakers of Welsh alike and should find a place in homes, schools
and offices throughout Wales; also in libraries and universities
world-wide.
Dada formed in 1916, embedded in a world of rational appearances
that belied a raging confusion - in the middle of the First World
War, in the neutral centre of a warring continent, fundamentally at
the heart of Western art. This book sets out new coordinates in
revision of a formation that Western art history routinely exhausts
through its characterisation as a 'revolutionary movement' of
anarchic cultural dissent, and does so in order to contest the
perpetuated assumptions about Dada that underlie the popular myth.
Dada is difficult and the response to it is not easy, and what
emerge from the theoretical readings developed here are profoundly
rational bases to the Dada non-sense that pitted itself against its
civilised age, critically and implicitly to propose that Dada
courses as vitally today as it did in 1916. The Zurich Dada
formation initiated deliberate and strategic cultural engagements
that struggled then, as they do now, to cohere in any sense as a
'movement', extreme in their ranges as diametrically hostile
oppositionalities. Dada may be given art historically as
identifiable along a trajectory of sustained ruptures and seizures,
but it confounds all attempts at defined or definitive readings.
This book duly offers not a history of Dada in Zurich but
theoretical engagements of the emergencies and now the residue of
the years 1916-19 - from 'lautgedichte' to laughter, masks to
manifestos, chance to chiasmata - rounding to the 'permanent' Dada
by which the formation ultimately breaks the containment and deep
peace of art historical chronology.
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY licence. The
COVID-19 pandemic transformed the landscape of voluntary action.
Some volunteering projects had to be paused, while others were
delivered in different ways, but across all four UK nations large
numbers of people began volunteering for the first time. This book
provides an overview of the constraints and opportunities of
mobilising voluntary action across the four UK nations during the
pandemic. Sector experts and academics examine the divergent
voluntary action policy frameworks adopted, the state and non-state
supported volunteer responses, the changes in the profile of
volunteers and the plans to sustain their involvement. This book
addresses the urgent policy and practice need for evidence-based
considerations to support recovery from the pandemic and to prepare
for future emergencies.
Dada formed in 1916, embedded in a world of rational appearances
that belied a raging confusion - in the middle of the First World
War, in the neutral centre of a warring continent, fundamentally at
the heart of Western art. This book sets out new coordinates in
revision of a formation that Western art history routinely exhausts
through its characterisation as a 'revolutionary movement' of
anarchic cultural dissent, and does so in order to contest the
perpetuated assumptions about Dada that underlie the popular myth.
Dada is difficult and the response to it is not easy, and what
emerge from the theoretical readings developed here are profoundly
rational bases to the Dada non-sense that pitted itself against its
civilised age, critically and implicitly to propose that Dada
courses as vitally today as it did in 1916. The Zurich Dada
formation initiated deliberate and strategic cultural engagements
that struggled then, as they do now, to cohere in any sense as a
'movement', extreme in their ranges as diametrically hostile
oppositionalities. Dada may be given art historically as
identifiable along a trajectory of sustained ruptures and seizures,
but it confounds all attempts at defined or definitive readings.
This book duly offers not a history of Dada in Zurich but
theoretical engagements of the emergencies and now the residue of
the years 1916-19 - from 'lautgedichte' to laughter, masks to
manifestos, chance to chiasmata - rounding to the 'permanent' Dada
by which the formation ultimately breaks the containment and deep
peace of art historical chronology.
What is absence? What is presence? How are these two phenomena
related? Is absence merely not being present? This book examines
these and other questions relating to the role of absence and
presence in everyday politics. Absence and presence are used as
political tools in global events and everyday life to reinforce
ideas about space, society, and belonging. The Politics of Hiding,
Invisibility, and Silence contains six empirically-focussed
chapters introducing case study locations and contexts from around
the world. These studies examine how particular groups'
relationships with places and spaces are characterized by
experiences that are neither wholly present nor wholly absent. Each
author demonstrates the variety of ways in which absence and
presence are experienced - through silence, forgetting,
concealment, distance, and the virtual - and constituted - through
visual, aural, and technological. Such accounts also raise
philosophical questions about representation and belonging: what
must remain absent, and what is allowed to be present? Who decides,
and how? Whose voices are heard? Recognizing the complexity of
these questions, The Politics of Hiding, Invisibility, and Silence
provides a significant contribution in reconciling theorizations of
absence with everyday life. This book was published as a special
issue of Space and Polity.
"I had access to what felt like a secret world. It was a subject
that had been written about and dramatised but I don't think any
photographers had ever tackled before. There was a change going on.
Someone described it as a 'last hurrah' of the upper classes." -
Dafydd Jones Oxford University at the start of the eighties, rife
with black ties and ballgowns. A change was on its way - best
described by a newspaper as 'the Return of the Bright Young
Things'. At this time, Oxford University was synonymous with the
wealthy, the powerful and the privileged. Many of the young people
in these pictures moved on to have careers in the establishment
including Boris Johnson and David Cameron. In these photographs,
however, their youth is undeniable: teenagers in full suits
celebrate the rise of Thatcher in England and Reagan in America, in
between punting on the river, chasing romance and partying through
the night. "It was Thatcher's Britain, a period of celebration for
those that had money" - Dafydd Jones Oxford: The Last Hurrah shows
a world that has been written about and dramatised, yet never
photographed. Affectionate and critical, it pokes affectionate fun
at its subjects while celebrating English eccentricity. From the
architectural marvels of the colleges to misty mornings along the
river at dawn, this is Oxford at its most beautiful - and the
students of the 1980s at their most raw and honest.
What does it mean to exercise patience? What does it mean to
endure, to wait, and to persevere-and, on other occasions, to
reject patience in favor of resistance, haste, and disruptive
action? And what might it mean to describe God as patient? Might
patience play a leading role in a Christian account of God's
creative work, God's relationship to ancient Israel, God's
governance of history, and God's saving activity? The first
instalment of Patience-A Theological Exploration engages these
questions in searching, imaginative, and sometimes surprising ways.
Following reflections on the biblical witness and the nature of
constructive theological inquiry, its interpretative chapters
engage landmark works by a number of ancient, medieval, modern, and
contemporary authors, disclosing both the promise and peril of talk
about patience. Patience stands at the center of this innovative
account of God's creative work, God's relationship with ancient
Israel, creaturely sin, scripture, and God's broader providential
and salvific purposes.
What is absence? What is presence? How are these two phenomena
related? Is absence merely not being present? This book examines
these and other questions relating to the role of absence and
presence in everyday politics. Absence and presence are used as
political tools in global events and everyday life to reinforce
ideas about space, society, and belonging. The Politics of Hiding,
Invisibility, and Silence contains six empirically-focussed
chapters introducing case study locations and contexts from around
the world. These studies examine how particular groups'
relationships with places and spaces are characterized by
experiences that are neither wholly present nor wholly absent. Each
author demonstrates the variety of ways in which absence and
presence are experienced - through silence, forgetting,
concealment, distance, and the virtual - and constituted - through
visual, aural, and technological. Such accounts also raise
philosophical questions about representation and belonging: what
must remain absent, and what is allowed to be present? Who decides,
and how? Whose voices are heard? Recognizing the complexity of
these questions, The Politics of Hiding, Invisibility, and Silence
provides a significant contribution in reconciling theorizations of
absence with everyday life. This book was published as a special
issue of Space and Polity.
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Karl Barth and Liberation Theology
Paul Dafydd Jones, Kaitlyn Dugan; Edited by Kaitlyn Dugan, Paul Dafydd Jones
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R1,285
Discovery Miles 12 850
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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This volume puts Barth and liberation theologies in critical and
constructive conversation. With incisive essays from a range of
noted scholars, it forges new connections between Barth’s
expansive corpus and the multifaceted world of Christian liberation
theology. It shows how Barth and liberation theologians can help us
to make sense of – and perhaps even to respond to – some of the
most pressing issues of our day: race and racism in the United
States; changing understandings of sex, gender, and sexuality; the
ongoing degradation of the ecosphere; the relationship between
faith, theological reflection, and the arts; the challenge of
decolonizing Christian thought; and ecclesial and political life in
the Global South.
What does it mean to exercise patience? What does it mean to
endure, to wait, and to persevere-and, on other occasions, to
reject patience in favor of resistance, haste, and disruptive
action? And what might it mean to describe God as patient? Might
patience play a leading role in a Christian account of God's
creative work, God's relationship to ancient Israel, God's
governance of history, and God's saving activity? The first
instalment of Patience-A Theological Exploration engages these
questions in searching, imaginative, and sometimes surprising ways.
Following reflections on the biblical witness and the nature of
constructive theological inquiry, its interpretative chapters
engage landmark works by a number of ancient, medieval, modern, and
contemporary authors, disclosing both the promise and peril of talk
about patience. Patience stands at the center of this innovative
account of God's creative work, God's relationship with ancient
Israel, creaturely sin, scripture, and God's broader providential
and salvific purposes.
This volume puts Barth and liberation theologies in critical and
constructive conversation. With incisive essays from a range of
noted scholars, it forges new connections between Barth's expansive
corpus and the multifaceted world of Christian liberation theology.
It shows how Barth and liberation theologians can help us to make
sense of - and perhaps even to respond to - some of the most
pressing issues of our day: race and racism in the United States;
changing understandings of sex, gender, and sexuality; the ongoing
degradation of the ecosphere; the relationship between faith,
theological reflection, and the arts; the challenge of decolonizing
Christian thought; and ecclesial and political life in the Global
South.
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Screen Time (Hardcover)
Dafydd Jones
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R486
R386
Discovery Miles 3 860
Save R100 (21%)
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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"A little gem of a book chronicling that most gullible of all
species, the human being" - Craig Brown, Books of the Year 2019,
Mail on Sunday "Dafydd Jones has focused on one of the most
dominant elements of the social life of our times - how the
smartphone has taken us all over. It is a timely and rather
sobering look at this phenomenon, done with his usual eloquence as
a photographer." - Martin Parr. Almost everyone uses a smartphone,
and most of us are addicted. In this book, photographer Dafydd
Jones shows us just how pervasive our screen addiction has become.
In almost every social situation, he shows how the smartphone has
killed conversation and changed the way we look at the world. 'In
the eighties and nineties', says Jones, 'when I photographed young
people at parties or balls, I'd find them chatting each other up,
or smooching in corners. Now I see them sneaking looks on their
iPhones, checking on their Instagram feeds, or whatever it is
they're hooked on. They hardly talk to each other, or make eye
contact at all. And it's not just a generational thing - it
afflicts the oldies too. Who knows what impact it's having in the
bedroom. It's probably a race to see what will wipe out humanity
first - global climate change or screen-induced sexual
indifference.'
Drawing on the best English and German language scholarship to
date, this book offers a novel interpretation of Barth's mature
Christology. Examining the entirety of the Dogmatics, it provides a
nuanced analysis of Barth's treatment of the Chalcedonian
Definition, the enhypostasis/anhypostasis pairing, and various
Protestant scholastic Christological distinctions; an examination
of the co-inherence of Barth's doctrines of God and Christ, which
contributes to current debates about Barth's doctrine of election;
and a lengthy account of the Christology of Church Dogmatics IV
that foregrounds Barth's understanding of Christ's human
involvement in the drama of reconciliation. Throughout the text,
the author shows convincingly that Barth's emphasis on Christ's
divinity goes hand-in-hand with a dogmatically rich and often
startling account of Christ's humanity. The text does not confine
itself to the Church Dogmatics. It also situates Barth in the
context of the wider Christian tradition and modern western
philosophy of religion. Thus Barth is set in conversation with a
wide range of thinkers, including Anselm of Canterbury, Martin
Luther, John Calvin, Friedrich Schleiermacher, G. W. F. Hegel,
Gottfried Thomasius, and Harry Frankfurt. In addition, the text
makes a number of constructive gestures, showing a particular
interest in feminist and liberationist trajectories of thought. The
final chapter considers the standing of Barth's Christology today
and its pertinence for theological ethics and political theology.
Using the theological work of Karl Barth as a resource for
present-day inquiry, the contributors in this volume discuss the
complex interconnections between the religious and the political
designated by the term theo-politics. Speaking from various
political and cultural contexts (Germany, the United Kingdom, the
United States, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the People's Republic of
China) and different disciplinary perspectives (Protestant
Theology, Political Sciences, and Sociology), the contributors
address contemporary challenges in relating the religious and the
political in Western and Asian societies. Topics analyzed include
the impact of diverse cultural backgrounds on given theo-political
arrangements, theological assessments of political power, the
political significance of individual and communal Christian
existence and the place of Christian communities in civil
societies. In their nuanced discussions of these topics, the
contributors neither advocate for a privatized, apolitical
understanding of the Christian faith nor for a religious politics
seeking to overcome modern processes of differentiation and
secularization. Critically engaging Barth's theology, they examine
the Christian responsibility in and for the political sphere and
reflect on the practice of such responsibility in Western and Asian
contexts.
Drawing on the best English and German language scholarship to
date, this book offers a novel interpretation of Barth's mature
Christology. Examining the entirety of the Dogmatics, it provides a
nuanced analysis of Barth's treatment of the Chalcedonian
Definition, the enhypostasis/anhypostasis pairing, and various
Protestant scholastic Christological distinctions; an examination
of the co-inherence of Barth's doctrines of God and Christ, which
contributes to current debates about Barth's doctrine of election;
and a lengthy account of the Christology of Church Dogmatics IV
that foregrounds Barth's understanding of Christ's human
involvement in the drama of reconciliation. Throughout the text,
the author shows convincingly that Barth's emphasis on Christ's
divinity goes hand-in-hand with a dogmatically rich and often
startling account of Christ's humanity. The text does not confine
itself to the Church Dogmatics. It also situates Barth in the
context of the wider Christian tradition and modern western
philosophy of religion. Thus Barth is set in conversation with a
wide range of thinkers, including Anselm of Canterbury, Martin
Luther, John Calvin, Friedrich Schleiermacher, G. W. F. Hegel,
Gottfried Thomasius, and Harry Frankfurt. In addition, the text
makes a number of constructive gestures, showing a particular
interest in feminist and liberationist trajectories of thought. The
final chapter considers the standing of Barth's Christology today
and its pertinence for theological ethics and political theology.
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