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  • Contemporary Art from Cyprus

    Politics, Identities, and Cultures across Borders

    Edited by Elena Stylianou, Evanthia Tselika, Gabriel Koureas ...
    To what extent does locality influence contemporary art? Can any particular artistic practices be defined as uniquely Cypriot? And does art from Cyprus transcend Western boundaries once it enters the global art scene?This volume uses Cyprus as a case study for the exploration of notions of identity, regionalism, and the global and local in contemporary art practice; it is not, therefore, a ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

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    Cultural Capital of Europe?

    Edited by Deniz Göktürk, Levent Soysal, Ipek Tureli ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    Looking at the globalization, urban regeneration, arts events and cultural spectacles, this book considers a city not until now included in the global city debate.Divided into five parts, each preceded by an editorial introduction, this book is an interdisciplinary study of an iconic city, a city facing conflicting social, political and cultural pressures in its search for a place in Europe and on ... Read more

    $133.99 CAD

  • Cities' Identity Through Architecture and Arts

    Proceedings of the International Conference on Cities' Identity through Architecture and Arts (CITAA 2017), May 11-13, 2017, Cairo, Egypt

    Edited by Anna Catalani, Zeinab Nour, Antonella Versaci, Dean Hawkes, Hocine Bougdah, Adolf Sotoca, Mahmoud Ghoneem, Ferdinando Trapani ...
    Every city has its unique and valuable identity, this identity is revealed through its physical and visual form, it is seen through the eyes of its residents and users. The city develops over time, and its identity evolves with it. Reflecting the rapid and constant changes the city is subjected to, Architecture and Arts, is the embodiment of the cultural, historical, and economical characteristics ... Read more

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  • Art and Activism in the Age of Systemic Crisis

    Aesthetic Resilience

    Edited by Eliza Steinbock, Bram Ieven, Marijke de Valck ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Art and Politics
    This book examines how renewed forms of artistic activism were developed in the wake of the neoliberal repression since the 1980s.The volume shows the diverse ways in which artists have sought to confront systemic crises around the globe, searching for new and enduring forms of building communities and reimagining the political horizon. The authors engage in a dialogue with these artistic efforts ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • The SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory

    Edited by Greig Crysler, Stephen Cairns, Hilde Heynen ...
    "Offers an intense scholarly experience in its comprehensiveness, its variety of voices and its formal organization... the editors took a risk, experimented and have delivered a much-needed resource that upends the status-quo."- Architectural Histories, journal of the European Architectural History Network"Architectural theory interweaves interdisciplinary understandings with different practices, ... Read more

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  • Architectures of Transversality

    Paul Klee, Louis Kahn and the Persian Imagination

    by Shima Mohajeri ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Architecture
    Architectures of Transversality investigates the relationship between modernity, space, power, and culture in Iran. Focusing on Paul Klee’s Persian-inspired miniature series and Louis Kahn’s unbuilt blueprint for a democratic public space in Tehran, it traces the architectonics of the present as a way of moving beyond universalist and nationalist accounts of modernism. Transversality is a form of ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • The Spectacular State

    Culture and National Identity in Uzbekistan

    by Laura L. Adams, Laura L. Adams ...
    Series series Politics, History, and Culture
    Laura L. Adams offers unique insight into nation building in Central Asia during the post-Soviet era through an exploration of Uzbekistan’s production of national culture in the 1990s. As she explains, after independence the Uzbek government maintained a monopoly over ideology, exploiting the remaining Soviet institutional and cultural legacies. The state expressed national identity through ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • When Greeks think about Turks

    The View from Anthropology

    Edited by Dimitrios Theodossopoulos ...
    Series series South European Society and Politics
    Drawing upon anthropological studies that document culturally specific ways of perceiving ethic Others in Greece and Cyprus, this book explores the cultural boundaries of the categories ‘Greek’ and ‘Turk’, and compares views on what it means to be one of these ethnic groups or both. The contributors examine the opinions of diverse social groups, such as ordinary middle-class citizens, ... Read more

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  • Istanbul, Open City

    Exhibiting Anxieties of Urban Modernity

    by Ipek Türeli ...
    Urban theory traditionally links modernity to the city, to the historical emergence of certain forms of subjectivity and the rise of important developments in culture, arts and architecture. This is often in response to technological, economic and societal transformations in the nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries in select Euro-American metropolises. In contrast, non-Western cities in the ... Read more

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  • The Architecture of Home in Cairo

    Socio-Spatial Practice of the Hawari's Everyday Life

    by Mohamed Gamal Abdelmonem ...
    The hawari of Cairo - narrow non-straight alleyways - are the basic urban units that have formed the medieval city since its foundation back in 969 AD. Until early in the C20th, they made up the primary urban divisions of the city and were residential in nature. Contemporary hawari, by contrast, are increasingly dominated by commercial and industrial activity. This medieval urban maze of extremely ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Persian Carpets

    The Nation as a Transnational Commodity

    by Minoo Moallem ...
    Series series Routledge Series for Creative Teaching and Learning in Anthropology
    Persian Carpets: the Nation As a Transnational Commodity tracks the Persian carpet as an exotic and mythological object, as a commodity, and as an image from mid-nineteenth-century England to contemporary Iran and the Iranian diaspora. Following the journey of this single object, the book brings issues of labor into conversation with the politics of aesthetics. It focuses on the carpet as a ... Read more

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  • Transcultural Architecture

    The Limits and Opportunities of Critical Regionalism

    by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein ...
    Critical Regionalism is a notion which gained popularity in architectural debate as a synthesis of universal, 'modern' elements and individualistic elements derived from local cultures. This book shifts the focus from Critical Regionalism towards a broader concept of 'Transcultural Architecture' and defines Critical Regionalism as a subgroup of the latter. One of the benefits that this change of ... Read more

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