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  • The Arts of Transitional Justice

    Culture, Activism, and Memory after Atrocity

    Edited by Olivera Simić, Peter D. Rush ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    The Art of Transitional Justice examines the relationship between transitional justice and the practices of art associated with it. Art, which includes theater, literature, photography, and film, has been integral to the understanding of the issues faced in situations of transitional justice as well as other issues arising out of conflict and mass atrocity. The chapters in this volume take up this ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • Globalization and Contemporary Art

    Edited by Jonathan Harris ...
    In a series of newly commissioned essays by both established and emerging scholars, Globalization and Contemporary Art probes the effects of internationalist culture and politics on art across a variety of media. Globalization and Contemporary Art is the first anthology to consider the role and impact of art and artist in an increasingly borderless world.First major anthology of essays concerned ... Read more

    $42.00 USD

  • Antinomies of Art and Culture

    Modernity, Postmodernity, Contemporaneity

    by Antonio Negri, Geeta Kapur, Rosalind Krauss ...
    In this landmark collection, world-renowned theorists, artists, critics, and curators explore new ways of conceiving the present and understanding art and culture in relation to it. They revisit from fresh perspectives key issues regarding modernity and postmodernity, including the relationship between art and broader social and political currents, as well as important questions about temporality ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • An Introduction to Multilingualism

    Language in a Changing World

    by Florian Coulmas ...
    Series series Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics
    This book offers an introduction to the many facets of multilingualism in a changing world. It begins with an overview of the multiplicity of human languages and their geographic distribution, before moving on to the key question of what multilingualism actually is and what is understood by terms such as 'mother tongue', 'native speaker', and 'speech community'. In the chapters that follow, ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • 'City of the Future'

    Built Space, Modernity and Urban Change in Astana

    by Mateusz Laszczkowski ...
    Series Book 14 - Integration and Conflict Studies
    Astana, the capital city of the post-Soviet Kazakhstan, has often been admired for the design and planning of its futuristic cityscape. This anthropological study of the development of the city focuses on every-day practices, official ideologies and representations alongside the memories and dreams of the city’s longstanding residents and recent migrants. Critically examining a range of approaches ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Postmodernism and China

    by Wang Ning, Anthony D. King, Abidin Kusno, Ping-Hui Liao ...
    Few countries have been so transformed in recent decades as China. With a dynamically growing economy and a rapidly changing social structure, China challenges the West to understand the nature of its modernization. Using postmodernism as both a global frame of periodization and a way to break free from the rigid ideology of westernization as modernity, this volume’s diverse group of contributors ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Social Construction of Man, the State and War

    Identity, Conflict, and Violence in Former Yugoslavia

    by Franke Wilmer ...
    The Social Construction of Man, the State, and War is the fist book on conflict in the former Yugoslavia to look seriously at the issue of ethnic identity, rather than treating it as a given, an unquestionable variable. Combining detailed analysis with a close reading of historical narratives, documentary evidence, and first-hand interviews conducted in the former Yugoslavia, Wilmer sheds new ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Anthropological Practice

    Fieldwork and the Ethnographic Method

    by Judith Okely ...
    Anthropologists are increasingly pressurised to formulate field methods for teaching. Unlike many hypothesis-driven ethnographic texts, this book is designed with the specific needs of the anthropology student and field researcher in mind, with particular emphasis on the core anthropological method: long term participant observation. Anthropological Practice explores fieldwork experiences unique ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Envisioning Taiwan

    Fiction, Cinema, and the Nation in the Cultural Imaginary

    by June Yip, Rey Chow, Harry Harootunian, Masao Miyoshi ...
    Series series Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
    In discussions of postcolonial nationhood and cultural identity, Taiwan is often overlooked. Yet the island—with its complex history of colonization—presents a particularly fascinating case of the struggle to define a “nation.” While the mainland Chinese government has been unequivocal in its resistance to Taiwanese independence, in Taiwan, government control has gradually passed from mainland ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Politics of Contemporary European Cinema

    by Mike Wayne ...
    How does contemporary European Cinema reflect the drive for political and economic integration and recent trends in globalisation, if at all? This book is a valuable excursion into the politics of European cinema and extensively addresses questions like this. Mike Wayne identifies some key themes pertinent to a study of the contemporary cultural and political dynamics of European cinema from the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Re-writing Culture in Taiwan

    Edited by Fang-Long Shih, Stuart Thompson, Paul Tremlett ...
    Series series Asia's Transformations
    This inter-disciplinary volume of essays opens new points of departure for thinking about how Taiwan has been studied and represented in the past, for reflecting on the current state of ‘Taiwan Studies’, and for thinking about how Taiwan might be re-configured in the future.As the study of Taiwan shifts from being a provincial back-water of sinology to an area in its own (albeit not sovereign) ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Ethnographies of the State in Central Asia

    Performing Politics

    by Madeleine Reeves, John Heathershaw, Eva-Marie Dubuisson, Aksana Ismailbekova, Alima Bissenova, Mateusz Laszczkowski, Ildiko Beller-Hann, Sarah Kendzior0, Tommaso Trevisani1, Morgan Yih-Yang Liu2, Cynthia Werner3, Kathleen Purvis-Roberts4 ...
    With fresh and provocative insights into the everyday reality of politics in post-Soviet Central Asia, this volume moves beyond commonplaces about strong and weak states to ask critical questions about how democracy, authority, and justice are understood in this important region. In conversation with current theories of state power, the contributions draw on extensive ethnographic research in ... Read more

    $9.99 USD