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Moving Spaces and Places is about movement as a transformative
experience, showing how movement changes affect and percept of
spaces and place and solidifies space into meaningful places. The
cross-disciplinary contributions in this collection - brought
together by aesthetics and artistic practices and embodied and
participatory research approaches - illustrate how the physical act
of moving and the psychological experience of movement are
inextricably interwoven. Traversing the knowledge domains and
practices of culture, art, pedagogy, geography, architecture, and
city planning, the chapters reveal the diversity of the study of
movement in relation to space and place; as a way of setting things
in motion, as a psychological act of agency, and as a way to
reflect, instantiate, and eventually reconcile-and even
heal-relationships between people, spaces, and places. This
multi-layered investigation of movement takes temporal, physical,
and psychological transformation as its conceptual core, and
appeals to a myriad of readers ranging from architectural
practitioners and urban planners to activists, artists and
geographers.
The term 'kink' evokes a variety of cultural responses ranging from
curiosity and arousal to disgust and fear. Many of these responses
are based on assumptions about its practices and participants, due
to often inaccurate and ever-more-frequent representations in
popular culture. These selected authors challenge those assumptions
and emphasize how a number of non-normative sexual activities and
ways of being can be empowering and liberating rather than
deleterious or 'deviant', helping to bring the world of kink out of
the shadows. They illuminate past and present kinky phenomena by
exploring BDSM, experimentation, fetishism, gender bending,
performativity, and sexual role-playing, as experienced in a
variety of domains and represented in literature, film, and
television. Contributing to revised notions of inclusivity and
acceptance, this interdisciplinary work deftly identifies both
historical and current approaches to understanding and analyzing
kink, and pinpoints avenues for future research. It is an important
addition to the emergent areas of BDSM and kink studies.
While 'space' and 'place' appear as key concepts in the study of
culture, their complexity and mutability require ever-new
frameworks when approaching them critically. Including chapters by
authors from different fields, career stages, and geopolitical
backgrounds, the contributors in this edited collection scrutinize
the changing dynamics of space and place in relation to current
political, social, and environmental urgencies across the globe.
With chapters investigating both real and imaginary spaces and
places, the diversified discussions included in this collection
provide a cohesive study for disclosing latent understandings of
multiple phenomena characterizing the world in which we live. From
the protests in Egyptian and Turkish squares, to the power-related
narratives embedded in institutional buildings, from the
development of the commercial arena in Victorian and Edwardian
London, to the effects of current environmental concerns on the
evaluation of urban and rural locations, the volume ultimately
serves as a progressive connection of fields, minds, and outlooks
through an innovative, pluralistic vision. This interdisciplinary
focus not only emphasizes the centrality of spaces and places when
disentangling the complexities comprising our past and present, but
also suggests a more pluralistic approach for exploring fundamental
concepts in future spaces and places studies.
Circuses and film are a natural pairing, and the new essays making
up this volume begin the exploration of how these two forms of
entertainment have sometimes worked together to create a spectacle
of onscreen alchemy. The films discussed herein are an eclectic
group, ranging from early silent comedies to animated, 21st century
examples, in which circuses serve as liminal or carnivalesque
spaces wherein characters-and by extension audience members-can
confront issues as far-reaching as labor relations, sensuality,
identity, ethics, and more. The circus as discussed in these essays
encompasses the big top, the midway, the sideshow and the freak
show; it becomes backdrop, character, catalyst and setting, and is
welcoming, malicious or terrifying. Circus performers are family,
friends, foe or all of the above. And film is the medium that
brings it all together. This volume starts the conversation about
how circuses and film can combine to form productive, exciting
spaces where almost anything can happen.
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