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  • Racionais MCs' Sobrevivendo no Inferno

    by Derek Pardue ...
    Series series 33 1/3 Brazil
    In 1997 the rap group Racionais MCs (the 'Rational' MCs) recorded the album Sobrevivendo no Inferno (Surviving in Hell), subsequently changing the hip-hop scene in São Paulo and firmly establishing itself as the point of reference for youth across Brazil. In an era when rappers needed to defend the very idea that their work was indeed music and a time when neighborhoods such as Capão Redondo, from ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Field Stories

    Experiences, Affect, and the Lessons of Anthropology in the Twenty-First Century

    by Denielle Elliott, Angela Glaros, Daniel Mains, Judith Pintar, Ida Fadzillah Leggett, William H. Leggett, Derek Pardue ...
    In Field Stories, William H. Leggett and Ida Fadzillah Leggett have pulled together a collection of ethnographic research and classroom experiences from around the world. Drawing on moments both unfamiliar and all too familiar to those accustomed to fieldwork, the contributors to this collection demonstrate in clear, relatable prose how intimate engagements with others in the field can present ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Living (Il)legalities in Brazil

    Practices, Narratives and Institutions in a Country on the Edge

    Edited by Sara Brandellero, Derek Pardue, Georg Wink ...
    Reflecting on some of Brazil’s foremost challenges, this book considers the porous relationship between legality and illegality in a country that presages political and societal changes in hitherto unprecedented dimensions.It brings together work by established scholars from Brazil, Europe and the United States to think through how (il)legalities are produced and represented at the level of ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Urban Nightlife and Contested Spaces

    Cultural Encounters After Dusk

    Edited by Sara Brandellero, Kamilia Krakowska Rodrigues, Derek Pardue ...
    Series series Cities and Cultures
    Urban Nightlife and Contested Spaces: Cultural Encounters after Dusk captures the multifarious nature of the urban night and how it is lived, structured, and reflected upon in diverse cultural and artistic expressions. The volume acknowledges the urban night as an often-overlooked key dimension necessary to understand the complexities of today's urban spaces, including the often-polarizing ... Read more

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  • Curatorial Dreams

    Critics Imagine Exhibitions

    by Erica Lehrer, Shelley Butler ...
    What if museum critics were challenged to envision their own exhibitions? In Curatorial Dreams, fourteen authors from disciplines throughout the social sciences and humanities propose exhibitions inspired by their research and critical concerns to creatively put theory into practice.Pushing the boundaries of museology, this collection gives rare insight into the process of conceptualizing ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Locating Imagination in Popular Culture

    Place, Tourism and Belonging

    Edited by Nicky van Es, Stijn Reijnders, Leonieke Bolderman, Abby Waysdorf ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
    Locating Imagination in Popular Culture offers a multi-disciplinary account of the ways in which popular culture, tourism and notions of place intertwine in an environment characterized by ongoing processes of globalization, digitization and an increasingly ubiquitous nature of multi-media.Centred around the concept of imagination, the authors demonstrate how popular culture and media are becoming ... Read more

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  • Slum Tourism

    Poverty, Power and Ethics

    Edited by Fabian Frenzel, Ko Koens, Malte Steinbrink ...
    Series series Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
    Slum tourism is a globalizing trend and a controversial form of tourism. Impoverished urban areas have always enticed the popular imagination, considered to be places of ‘otherness’, ‘moral decay’, ‘deviant liberty’ or ‘authenticity’. ‘Slumming’ has a long tradition in the Global North, for example in Victorian London when the upper classes toured the East End. What is new, however, is its ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Experimental Museology

    Institutions, Representations, Users

    Edited by Marianne Achiam, Michael Haldrup, Kirsten Drotner ...
    Experimental Museology scrutinizes innovative endeavours to transform museum interactions with the world. Analysing cutting-edge cases from around the globe, the volume demonstrates how museums can design, apply and assess new modes of audience engagement and participation.Written by an interdisciplinary group of researchers and research-led professionals, the book argues that museum ... Read more

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  • Spatializing Culture

    The Ethnography of Space and Place

    by Setha Low ...
    This book demonstrates the value of ethnographic theory and methods in understanding space and place, and considers how ethnographically-based spatial analyses can yield insight into prejudices, inequalities and social exclusion as well as offering people the means for understanding the places where they live, work, shop and socialize. In developing the concept of spatializing culture, Setha Low ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Alternative Art and Anthropology

    Global Encounters

    Edited by Arnd Schneider ...
    While the importance of the relationship between anthropology and contemporary art has long been recognized, the discussion has tended to be among scholars from North America, Europe, and Australia; until now, scholarship and experiences from other regions have been largely absent from mainstream debate.Alternative Art and Anthropology: Global Encounters rectifies this by offering a ground ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Towards a Metropolitan Public Space Network

    Lessons, Projects and Prospects from Lisbon

    Edited by João Rafael Santos, Maria Matos Silva, Ana Beja da Costa ...
    Series series Project Thinking on Design
    This book explores the hypothesis that public space – if conceptualised, imagined, and shaped at the metropolitan scale, through innovative territorial design approaches – offers the possibility to interconnect and integrate various systems in search for synergic responses to emerging societal challenges that impact large, urbanised landscapes.The book offers a multidimensional and multi ... Read more

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  • Sensing Cities

    Regenerating Public Life in Barcelona and Manchester

    by Monica Montserrat Degen ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Human Geography
    As cities globally re-design their urban landscapes, they produce a different urban aesthetic and create new experiential milieus. Urban regeneration processes generate radical physical, social and cultural changes in neighbourhoods that demand new conceptual frameworks to address their impact upon daily urban life.Sensing Cities investigates the reconfiguration of contemporary public space and ... Read more

    $70.99 USD