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  • Writing Borderless Histories of Art

    Human Exceptionalism and the Climate Crisis

    by Claire Farago ...
    Writing Borderless Histories of Art is an aspirational, historical, and critical project that offers a fundamental rethinking of the relationship of humans to the rest of nature.Social justice, Indigeneity, abuses of power, and the environmental crisis are the burning issues of today. A transcultural approach calls for abandoning structures of domination that are built into the academic ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

  • Transcultural Histories of Art and Artisanal Epistemologies

    Knowledge to Be Made

    Edited by Claire Farago, Susan Lowish, Jens Baumgarten ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
    This edited volume de-familiarizes European conceptions of artistry and thinks its history anew. It represents a rethinking on a global stage of some of the most fundamental assumptions in what were once arguably helpful methodological tools in art history.As chapters in this book demonstrate, the category of artisanal knowledge opens up the history of culture, allowing discourse to be freed from ... Read more

    $80.99 CAD

  • Grasping the World

    The Idea of the Museum

    Edited by Donald Preziosi, Claire Farago ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 2004, this volume recognises that there is much more to museums than the documenting, monumentalizing, or theme-parking of identity, history and heritage. This landmark anthology aims to make strange the very existence of museums and to plot a critical, historical and ethical understanding of their origins and history. A radical selection of key texts introduces the reader to ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Art Is Not What You Think It Is

    by Donald Preziosi, Claire Farago ...
    Series Book 73 - Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos
    Art Is Not What You Think It Is utilizes original research to present a series of critical incursions into the current state of debate on the idea of art, making manifest what has been largely missing or unsaid in those discussions.Links museology, history, theory, and criticism to the realities of contemporary social conditions and shows how they have structurally functioned in a variety of ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

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  • The Power of Place (RLE Social & Cultural Geography)

    Bringing Together Geographical and Sociological Imaginations

    Edited by John Agnew, James Duncan ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Social and Cultural Geography
    Reflecting the revival of interest in a social theory that takes place and space seriously, this book focuses on geographical place in the practice of social science and history. There is significant interest among scholars from a range of disciplines in bringing together the geographical and sociological ‘imaginations’. The geographical imagination is a concrete and descriptive one, concerned ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Gender

    by Ivan Illich ...
    The break with the past, which has been described by others as the transition to a capitalist mode of production, I describe here as the transition from the aegis of gender to the regime of sex.' Ivan Illich insists that we survey attitudes to male and female in both industrial society and its antecedents in order to recover a lost 'art of living'. 'While under any reign of gender women might be ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cultural Hybridity

    by Peter Burke ...
    The period in which we live is marked by increasingly frequent and intense cultural encounters of all kinds. However we react to it, the global trend towards mixing or hybridization is impossible to miss, from curry and chips – recently voted the favourite dish in Britain – to Thai saunas, Zen Judaism, Nigerian Kung Fu, ‘Bollywood’ films or salsa or reggae music. Some people celebrate these ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Writing History in the Global Era

    by Lynn Hunt ...
    Leading historian Lynn Hunt rethinks why history matters in today’s global world and how it should be written.Globalization is emerging as a major economic, cultural, and political force. In Writing History in the Global Era, historian Lynn Hunt examines whether globalization can reinvigorate the telling of history. She looks toward scholars from the East and West collaborating in new ways as they ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Art and its global histories

    A reader

    Edited by Diana Newall ...
    Series Book 5 - Art and its Global Histories
    The reader Art and its global histories represents an invaluable teaching tool, offering content ranging from academic essays and excerpts, new translations, interviews with curators and artists, to art criticism.The introduction sets out the state of art history today as it undergoes the profound shift of a 'global turn'. Particular focus is given to British India, which represents a shift from ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Assembly

    by Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri ...
    Series series Heretical Thought
    In recent years "leaderless" social movements have proliferated around the globe, from North Africa and the Middle East to Europe, the Americas, and East Asia. Some of these movements have led to impressive gains: the toppling of authoritarian leaders, the furthering of progressive policy, and checks on repressive state forces. They have also been, at times, derided by journalists and political ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Subversive Spiritualities

    How Rituals Enact the World

    by Frederique Apffel-Marglin ...
    Series series Oxford Ritual Studies
    In this book, Frederique Apffel-Marglin draws on a lifetime of work with the indigenous peoples of Peru and India to support her argument that the beliefs, values, and practices of such traditional peoples are ''eco-metaphysically true.'' ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Comparative Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Ben Hutchinson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Comparative Literature is both the past and the future of literary studies. Its history is intimately linked to the political upheavals of modernity: from colonial empire-building in the nineteenth century, via the Jewish diaspora of the twentieth century, to the postcolonial culture wars of the twenty-first century, attempts at 'comparison' have defined the international agenda of literature. But ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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