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Though still a relatively young field, memory studies has undergone
significant transformations since it first coalesced as an area of
inquiry. Increasingly, scholars understand memory to be a fluid,
dynamic, unbound phenomenon-a process rather than a reified object.
Embodying just such an elastic approach, this state-of-the-field
collection systematically explores the transcultural,
transgenerational, transmedial, and transdisciplinary dimensions of
memory-four key dynamics that have sometimes been studied in
isolation but never in such an integrated manner. Memory Unbound
places leading researchers in conversation with emerging voices in
the field to recast our understanding of memory's distinctive
variability.
Though still a relatively young field, memory studies has undergone
significant transformations since it first coalesced as an area of
inquiry. Increasingly, scholars understand memory to be a fluid,
dynamic, unbound phenomenon-a process rather than a reified object.
Embodying just such an elastic approach, this state-of-the-field
collection systematically explores the transcultural,
transgenerational, transmedial, and transdisciplinary dimensions of
memory-four key dynamics that have sometimes been studied in
isolation but never in such an integrated manner. Memory Unbound
places leading researchers in conversation with emerging voices in
the field to recast our understanding of memory's distinctive
variability.
This book considers the ways in which contemporary American fiction
seeks to imagine a mode of 'planetary memory' able to address the
scalar and systemic complexities of the Anthropocene - the epoch in
which the combined activity of the human species has become a
geological force in its own right. Authors examine the recent
emergence of a literary and cultural imaginary of planetary memory,
an imaginary which attempts to give form to the complex
interrelations between human and non-human worlds, between local,
national, and global concerns, and, perhaps most importantly,
between historical and geological pasts, presents and futures.
Chapters highlight distinct regions and landscapes of the US - from
the Appalachians, to the South West, the Rust Belt, New York City,
Alaska, New Orleans and the Rocky Mountains - in order to examine
how the ecological, economic and historical specificity of these
environments is underpinned by their implication on networks of
planetary significance and scope. Overall, the collection aims to
study, develop, and recognise new models of cultural memory and
anxious anticipation as they emerge and evolve, thus opening new
conversations about practices of remembering and remembrance on an
increasingly fragile planet. This book was originally published as
a special issue of Textual Practice.
This book considers the ways in which contemporary American fiction
seeks to imagine a mode of 'planetary memory' able to address the
scalar and systemic complexities of the Anthropocene - the epoch in
which the combined activity of the human species has become a
geological force in its own right. Authors examine the recent
emergence of a literary and cultural imaginary of planetary memory,
an imaginary which attempts to give form to the complex
interrelations between human and non-human worlds, between local,
national, and global concerns, and, perhaps most importantly,
between historical and geological pasts, presents and futures.
Chapters highlight distinct regions and landscapes of the US - from
the Appalachians, to the South West, the Rust Belt, New York City,
Alaska, New Orleans and the Rocky Mountains - in order to examine
how the ecological, economic and historical specificity of these
environments is underpinned by their implication on networks of
planetary significance and scope. Overall, the collection aims to
study, develop, and recognise new models of cultural memory and
anxious anticipation as they emerge and evolve, thus opening new
conversations about practices of remembering and remembrance on an
increasingly fragile planet. This book was originally published as
a special issue of Textual Practice.
The disintegration of Indonesia's New Order regime in 1998 and the
fall of Soeharto put an end to the crude forms of centralised
authoritarianism and economic protectionism that allowed large
Chinese conglomerates to dom- inate Indonesia's private sector.
Contrary to all expectations, most of the major capitalist groups,
though damaged considerably by the Asian Crisis, managed to cope
with the ensuing monumental political and economic changes, and now
thrive again albeit within a new democratic environment. In this
book Christian Chua assesses the state of capital before, during,
and after the financial and political crisis of 1997/1998 and
analyses the changing relationships between business and the state
in Indonesia. Using a distinct perspective that combines cultural
and structural approaches on Chinese big business with exclusive
material derived from interviews with some of IndonesiaaEURO (TM)s
major business leaders, Chua identifies the strategies employed by
tycoons to adapt their corporations to the post-authoritarian
regime and provides a unique insight into how state-business
relationships in Indonesia have evolved since the crisis. Chinese
Big Business in Indonesia is the first major analysis of capital in
Indonesia since the fall of Soeharto, and will be of interest to
graduate students and scholars of political economy, political
sociology, economics and business administration as well as to
practitioners having to do with Southeast Asian business and
politics.
The disintegration of Indonesia's New Order regime in 1998 and the
fall of Soeharto put an end to the crude forms of centralised
authoritarianism and economic protectionism that allowed large
Chinese conglomerates to dom- inate Indonesia's private sector.
Contrary to all expectations, most of the major capitalist groups,
though damaged considerably by the Asian Crisis, managed to cope
with the ensuing monumental political and economic changes, and now
thrive again albeit within a new democratic environment. In this
book Christian Chua assesses the state of capital before, during,
and after the financial and political crisis of 1997/1998 and
analyses the changing relationships between business and the state
in Indonesia. Using a distinct perspective that combines cultural
and structural approaches on Chinese big business with exclusive
material derived from interviews with some of IndonesiaaEURO (TM)s
major business leaders, Chua identifies the strategies employed by
tycoons to adapt their corporations to the post-authoritarian
regime and provides a unique insight into how state-business
relationships in Indonesia have evolved since the crisis. Chinese
Big Business in Indonesia is the first major analysis of capital in
Indonesia since the fall of Soeharto, and will be of interest to
graduate students and scholars of political economy, political
sociology, economics and business administration as well as to
practitioners having to do with Southeast Asian business and
politics.
This edited collection makes a progressive intervention into the
interdisciplinary field of memory studies with a series of essays
drawn from diverse theoretical, practitional and cultural
backgrounds. The most seminal critical development within memory
studies in recent years has arguably been the turn towards
transculturalism. This movement engenders a series of methodologies
that posit remembrance as a fluid process in which commemorative
tropes work to inform the representation of diverse events and
traumas beyond national or cultural boundaries, transcending - but
not negating - spatial, temporal and ideational differences.
Examining a wide range of historical and cultural contexts, the
essays in this collection focus on the dialogues that shape
processes of remembrance between and beyond borders, critiquing the
problems and possibilities inherent in current discourses in
memorial practice and theory as they approach the challenge of
transculturalism.
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Trauma (Paperback)
Lucy Bond, Stef Craps
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R626
Discovery Miles 6 260
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Ships in 9 - 15 working days
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Trauma has become a catchword of our time and a central category in
contemporary theory and criticism. In this illuminating and
accessible volume, Lucy Bond and Stef Craps: provide an account of
the history of the concept of trauma from the late nineteenth
century to the present day examine debates around the term in their
historical and cultural contexts trace the origins and growth of
literary trauma theory introduce the reader to key thinkers in the
field explore important issues and tensions in the study of trauma
as a cultural phenomenon outline and assess recent critiques and
revisions of cultural trauma research Trauma is an essential guide
to a rich and vibrant area of literary and cultural inquiry.
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Trauma (Hardcover)
Lucy Bond, Stef Craps
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R2,984
Discovery Miles 29 840
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Trauma has become a catchword of our time and a central category in
contemporary theory and criticism. In this illuminating and
accessible volume, Lucy Bond and Stef Craps: provide an account of
the history of the concept of trauma from the late nineteenth
century to the present day examine debates around the term in their
historical and cultural contexts trace the origins and growth of
literary trauma theory introduce the reader to key thinkers in the
field explore important issues and tensions in the study of trauma
as a cultural phenomenon outline and assess recent critiques and
revisions of cultural trauma research Trauma is an essential guide
to a rich and vibrant area of literary and cultural inquiry.
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