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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “simona stano”
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  • Social Media and Social Movements

    The Transformation of Communication Patterns

    by Chiara Livia Bernardi, Tommaso Gravante, Alice Poma, Kudus Adebayo, Abderrahim Chalfaouat, Dana Florentina Nicolae, Ilona Biernacka-Ligieza, Alan Steinberg, Simona Stano, Ana Viñals Blanco, Shahriar Kabir0, Magda Pischetola1, Carolina Duek2, Gastón Tourn3, Baris Çoban5 ...
    This book examines the increased utilization of social media in daily life and its impact on social movements. The contributors analyze “social media revolutions” such as the Arab Spring, the 15-M movement in Spain, the Occupy Nigeria movement, and the Occupy Gezi movement in Turkey. The contributors to this collection—academics, researchers, and activists—implement diverse methodological ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Food for Thought

    Nourishment, Culture, Meaning

    Edited by Simona Stano, Amy Bentley ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This volume offers new insights into food and culture. Food habits, preferences, and taboos are partially regulated by ecological and material factors - in other words, all food systems are structured and given particular functioning mechanisms by specific societies and cultures, either according to totemic, sacrificial, hygienic-rationalist, aesthetic, or other symbolic logics. This provides much ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Critique of Pure Nature

    by Simona Stano ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book challenges the Western contemporary “praise for Nature”. From food to body practices, from ecological discourses to the Covid-19 pandemic, contemporary imaginaries abound with representations of an ideal “pure Nature”, essentially defined according to a logic of denial of any artificial, modified, manipulated — in short, cultural — aspect.How should we contextualise and understand such ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

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    Justice Koolhaas's Essays on Modern Art are reproduced alongside at least one of each artist's works that she owned. Unusually, these works were discards; even more unusually, she obtained them on condition that each artist signed a statement disowning them as artworks.Her theory work, a refusenikism written in deliberate opacity, is inspired by her collection of art refuse. She unblinkingly ... Read more

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  • Loris Malaguzzi and the Schools of Reggio Emilia

    A selection of his writings and speeches, 1945-1993

    Edited by Paola Cagliari, Marina Castagnetti, Claudia Giudici, Carlina Rinaldi, Vea Vecchi, Peter Moss ...
    Series series Contesting Early Childhood
    Loris Malaguzzi was one of the most important figures in 20th century early childhood education, achieving world-wide recognition for his educational ideas and his role in the creation of municipal schools for young children in the Italian city of Reggio Emilia, the most successful example ever of progressive, democratic and public education.Despite Malaguzzi’s reputation, very little of what he ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • The Practice of Eating

    by Alan Warde ...
    This book reconstructs and extends sociological approaches to the understanding of food consumption. It identifies new ways to approach the explanation of food choice and it develops new concepts which will help reshape and reorient common understandings. Leading sociologist of food, Alan Warde, deals both with abstract issues about theories of practice and substantive analyses of aspects of ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Scenography Expanded

    An Introduction to Contemporary Performance Design

    by Professor Scott Palmer, Professor Scott Palmer, Joslin McKinney, Joslin McKinney, Stephen A. Di Benedetto ...
    Series series Performance and Design
    Shortlisted for the 2019 TaPRA Edited Collection PrizeScenography Expanded is a foundational text offering readers a thorough introduction to contemporary performance design, both in and beyond the theatre. It examines the potential of the visual, spatial, technological, material and environmental aspects of performance to shape performative encounters. It analyses examples of scenography as sites ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Food

    Food Cultures between Sharing and Exclusion Practices

    by Ugo E. M. Fabietti, Michela Badii, Silvia Barberani, Marinella Carosso, Federica Riva, Mauro Van Aken ...
    Series Book 11 - Quaderni
    Nutrition appears as one of those elements of human actions and thoughts through which human beings express ways and forms of collective existence. What we commonly refer to as the economic, political and symbolic spheres converge in nutrition, so much so that eating as a practice is a sort of “total social fact” or, in other words, a form of cultural expression tracing back to the very ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Porta Palazzo

    The Anthropology of an Italian Market

    by Rachel E. Black, Carlo Petrini ...
    Series series Contemporary Ethnography
    Porta Palazzo, arguably Western Europe's largest open-air market, is a central economic, social, and cultural hub for Italians and migrants in the city of Turin. Open-air markets like Porta Palazzo have existed for centuries in Europe; although their function has changed over time—traditional markets are no longer the primary place to buy food—they remain popular destinations. In an age of ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Collaborative Art in the Twenty-First Century

    Edited by Sondra Bacharach, Siv B. Fjærestad, Jeremy Neil Booth ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
    Collaboration in the arts is no longer a conscious choice to make a deliberate artistic statement, but instead a necessity of artistic survival. In today’s hybrid world of virtual mobility, collaboration decentralizes creative strategies, enabling artists to carve new territories and maintain practice-based autonomy in an increasingly commercial and saturated art world. Collaboration now ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Museum Gallery Interpretation and Material Culture

    Edited by Juliette Fritsch ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Museum Studies
    Museum Gallery Interpretation and Material Culture publishes the proceedings of the first annual Sackler Centre for Arts Education conference at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London. The conference launched the annual series by addressing the question of how gallery interpretation design and management can help museum visitors learn about art and material culture. The book features a ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Diversity and Super-Diversity

    Sociocultural Linguistic Perspectives

    by Jan Blommaert, Ruth Wodak, Markus Rheindorf, Elana Shohamy, Suresh Canagarajah, Fatma Said, Zhu Hua, Angela Creese, Adrian Blackledge0, Rachel Hu1, Elizabeth Miller2, Anastasia Nylund3, Betsy Rymes4, Geeta Aneja5, Andrea Leone-Pizzighella6, Mark Lewis7, Robert Moore8, Luisa Martin Rojo9, Christine Anthonissen0, Inmaculada García-Sánchez1, Virginia Unamuno2, Anna De Fina4 ...
    Series series Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics series
    Sociocultural linguistics has long conceived of languages as well-bounded, separate codes. But the increasing diversity of languages encountered by most people in their daily lives challenges this conception. Because globalization has accelerated population flows, cities are now sites of encounter for groups that are highly diverse in terms of origins, cultural practices, and languages. Further, ... Read more

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