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In Migrancy, Culture, Identity, Iain Chambers unravels how our sense of place and identity is realised as we move through myriad languages, worlds and histories. The author explores the uncharted impact of cultural diversity on today's world, from the 'realistic' eye of the painter to the 'scientific' approach of the cultural anthropologist or the critical distance of the historian; from the computer screen to the Walkman and 'World Music'. Migrancy, Culture and Identity takes us on a journey into the disturbance and dislocation of culture and identity that faces all of us to explore how migration, marginality and homelessness have disrupted the West's faith in linear progress and rational thinking, undermining our knowledge, history and cultural identity.
Series Information: Comedia
First published in 1990, Border Dialogues explores some of the
territories of contemporary culture, philosophy and criticism. It
touches on arguments surrounding Nietzsche and Italian 'weak
thought', the mysteries of being 'British', and with more immediate
concerns such as computers, fashion, gender and ethnicity. The
chapters explore how such different strands are joined together,
and how this can lead to a reassessment of contemporary cultural
criticism. This innovative and interesting reissue will be of
particular interest to students of critical theory, cultural
studies, radical philosophy and deconstruction.
First published in 1990, Border Dialogues explores some of the
territories of contemporary culture, philosophy and criticism. It
touches on arguments surrounding Nietzsche and Italian 'weak
thought', the mysteries of being 'British', and with more immediate
concerns such as computers, fashion, gender and ethnicity. The
chapters explore how such different strands are joined together,
and how this can lead to a reassessment of contemporary cultural
criticism. This innovative and interesting reissue will be of
particular interest to students of critical theory, cultural
studies, radical philosophy and deconstruction.
Culture After Humanism asks what happens to the authority of traditional western modes of thought in the wake of postmodernist theories of language and identity. Drawing on examples from music, architecture, literature, philosophy and art, Iain Chambers investigates moments of tension, interruptions which transform our perception of the world and test the limits of language, art and technology. In a series of interlinked essays ranging from Susan Sontag's novel The Volcano Lover to the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, Jimi Hendrix and Baroque architecture and music, Chambers weaves together a critique of western humanism, exploring issues of colonisation and migration, language and identity. Culture After Humanism offers a new approach to cultural history, a 'Post-humanist' perspective which challenges our sense of a world in which the subject is sovereign, language the transparent medium of its agency, and truth the product of reason.
Culture After Humanism asks what happens to the authority of traditional western modes of thought in the wake of postmodernist theories of language and identity. Drawing on examples from music, architecture, literature, philosophy and art, Iain Chambers investigates moments of tension, interruptions which transform our perception of the world and test the limits of language, art and technology. In a series of interlinked essays ranging from Susan Sontag's novel The Volcano Lover to the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, Jimi Hendrix and Baroque architecture and music, Chambers weaves together a critique of western humanism, exploring issues of colonisation and migration, language and identity. Culture After Humanism offers a new approach to cultural history, a 'Post-humanist' perspective which challenges our sense of a world in which the subject is sovereign, language the transparent medium of its agency, and truth the product of reason.
This text brings together critical voices to respond to the
questions raised by the concept of the "post-colonial". The
contributors move from imperial histories to today's hybrid
metropolitan youth cultures, from African-American writings to
uneasy mixtures of nationalisms and religion in the post-colonial
city. Together they expolore the diverse cultures and disparate
narratives which are shaping an increasingly volatile global
future. In confronting the concept and condition of
postcoloniality, the contributors move beyond overworked metaphors
of integration, the melting pot and multiculturalism. Instead, they
represent a plurality of voices, populations and histories coming
from "elsewhere" to disrupt the Euro-American sense of where the
"centre" lies. The collection includes a new piece of fiction by
Hanif Kureishi.
First published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
Series Information: Studies in Culture and Communication
This book examines how we can conceive of a 'postcolonial museum'
in the contemporary epoch of mass migrations, the internet and
digital technologies. The authors consider the museum space,
practices and institutions in the light of repressed histories,
sounds, voices, images, memories, bodies, expression and cultures.
Focusing on the transformation of museums as cultural spaces,
rather than physical places, is to propose a living archive formed
through creation, participation, production and innovation. The aim
is to propose a critical assessment of the museum in the light of
those transcultural and global migratory movements that challenge
the historical and traditional frames of Occidental thought. This
involves a search for new strategies and critical approaches in the
fields of museum and heritage studies which will renew and extend
understandings of European citizenship and result in an inevitable
re-evaluation of the concept of 'modernity' in a so-called
globalised and multicultural world.
This book examines how we can conceive of a 'postcolonial museum'
in the contemporary epoch of mass migrations, the internet and
digital technologies. The authors consider the museum space,
practices and institutions in the light of repressed histories,
sounds, voices, images, memories, bodies, expression and cultures.
Focusing on the transformation of museums as cultural spaces,
rather than physical places, is to propose a living archive formed
through creation, participation, production and innovation. The aim
is to propose a critical assessment of the museum in the light of
those transcultural and global migratory movements that challenge
the historical and traditional frames of Occidental thought. This
involves a search for new strategies and critical approaches in the
fields of museum and heritage studies which will renew and extend
understandings of European citizenship and result in an inevitable
re-evaluation of the concept of 'modernity' in a so-called
globalised and multicultural world.
The cultural theorist Iain Chambers is known for his historically
grounded, philosophically informed, and politically pointed
inquiries into issues of identity, alterity, and migration, and the
challenge postcolonial studies poses to conventional Western
thought. With Mediterranean Crossings, he challenges insufficient
prevailing characterizations of the Mediterranean by offering a
vibrant interdisciplinary and intercultural interpretation of the
region’s culture and history. The “Mediterranean” as a
concept entered the European lexicon only in the early nineteenth
century. As an object of study, it is the product of modern
geographical, political, and historical classifications. Chambers
contends that the region’s fundamentally fluid, hybrid nature has
long been obscured by the categories and strictures imposed by
European discourse and government.In evocative and erudite prose,
Chambers renders the Mediterranean a mutable space, profoundly
marked by the linguistic, literary, culinary, musical, and
intellectual dissemination of Arab, Jewish, Turkish, and Latin
cultures. He brings to light histories of Mediterranean
crossings—of people, goods, melodies, thought—that are rarely
part of orthodox understandings. Chambers writes in a style that
reflects the fluidity of the exchanges that have formed the region;
he segues between major historical events and local daily routines,
backwards and forwards in time, and from one part of the
Mediterranean to another. A sea of endlessly overlapping cultural
and historical currents, the Mediterranean exceeds the immediate
constraints of nationalism and inflexible identity. It offers
scholars an opportunity to rethink the past and present and to
imagine a future beyond the confines of Western humanistic thought.
Postcolonial Interruptions, Unauthorised Modernities is a
ground-breaking work that revaluates the cultural and political
understandings of the world today from the perspective of the
south. Largely located in the Mediterranean, and in understandings
of a 'southern question' that extends beyond local and national
confines, the arguments and perspectives proposed seek to explore
the historical formation and political configurations of a multiple
modernity. Drawing upon the interdisciplinary lines of thought
developed within cultural and postcolonial studies, the work
develops a concept of heritage beyond the concerns and obsessions
of the Anglo-American world. It offers a counter-hegemony
construction of the figure of the migrant and 'other' as a
disruptive force in the construction of the idea of the West. It
proposes a rethinking of the geo-political economies of knowledge
and power, lived and viewed from elsewhere. This accessibility
written book should be of interest to anyone interested in the
construction of modernity and the future of postcolonial studies.
Postcolonial Interruptions, Unauthorised Modernities is a
ground-breaking work that revaluates the cultural and political
understandings of the world today from the perspective of the
south. Largely located in the Mediterranean, and in understandings
of a 'southern question' that extends beyond local and national
confines, the arguments and perspectives proposed seek to explore
the historical formation and political configurations of a multiple
modernity. Drawing upon the interdisciplinary lines of thought
developed within cultural and postcolonial studies, the work
develops a concept of heritage beyond the concerns and obsessions
of the Anglo-American world. It offers a counter-hegemony
construction of the figure of the migrant and 'other' as a
disruptive force in the construction of the idea of the West. It
proposes a rethinking of the geo-political economies of knowledge
and power, lived and viewed from elsewhere. This accessibility
written book should be of interest to anyone interested in the
construction of modernity and the future of postcolonial studies.
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