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  • Literary Translation Lifecycles

    The Vital Networks Behind the Circulation of Dutch Literature

    Edited by Jack McMartin, Paola Gentile, Elisa Nelissen ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Literary Translation
    This collection examines how translated books come into being and circulate across languages, cultures, and book markets.Using Dutch as a case study of a source language at the margins of the world literary system, the volume sets out an innovative conceptual framework for understanding the making of translated literature, covering discovery, selection, acquisition, translation, production, ... Read more

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  • Aesthetic Journalism

    How to Inform Without Informing

    by Alfredo Cramerotti ...
    As the art world eagerly embraces a journalistic approach, Aesthetic Journalism explores why contemporary art exhibitions often consist of interviews, documentaries and reportage. This new mode of journalism is grasping more and more space in modern culture and Cramerotti probes the current merge of art with the sphere of investigative journalism. The attempt to map this field, here defined as ... Read more

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  • Unsettling Translation

    Studies in Honour of Theo Hermans

    Edited by Mona Baker ...
    This collection engages with translation and interpreting from a diverse but complementary range of perspectives, in dialogue with the seminal work of Theo Hermans. A foundational figure in the field, Hermans’s scholarly engagement with translation spans several key areas, including history of translation, metaphor, norms, ethics, ideology, methodology, and the critical reconceptualization of the ... Read more

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  • From Museum Critique to the Critical Museum

    by Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius, Piotr Piotrowski ...
    Since the late nineteenth century, museums have been cited as tools of imperialism and colonialism, as strongholds of patriarchalism, masculinism, homophobia and xenophobia, and accused both of elitism and commercialism. But, could the museum absorb and benefit from its critique, turning into a critical museum, into the site of resistance rather than ritual? This book looks at the ways in which ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Crisis and Communitas

    Performative Concepts of Commonality in Arts and Politics

    Edited by Dorota Sajewska, Małgorzata Sugiera ...
    This book is a critical, transdisciplinary examination of a broad range of philosophical ideas, theoretical concepts, and artistic projects of community in the 20th and 21st century in the context of global/local social and political changes.This volume opens new vitas by focusing on carefully selected instances of multipronged crises in which existing concepts of commonality are questioned, ... Read more

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  • European Planning History in the 20th Century

    A Continent of Urban Planning

    Edited by Max Welch Guerra, Abdellah Abarkan, María A. Castrillo Romón, Martin Pekár ...
    The history of Europe in the 20th century is closely tied to the history of urban planning. Social and economic progress but also the brute treatment of people and nature throughout Europe were possible due to the use of urban planning and the other levels of spatial planning. Thereby, planning has constituted itself in Europe as an international subject. Since its emergence, through intense ... Read more

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  • Cultural Change in Post-Migrant Societies

    Re-Imagining Communities Through Arts and Cultural Activities

    Edited by Wiebke Sievers ...
    Series series IMISCOE Research Series
    This open access book links the artistic and cultural turn in migration studies to the larger struggle for narrative and cultural change in European migration societies. It proposes theoretical and methodological approaches that highlight how ideas of change expressed in artistic and cultural practices spread and lead to wider cultural change. The book also looks at the slow processes of change in ... Read more

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  • Popular Music and the Rise of Populism in Europe

    Edited by Mario Dunkel, Melanie Schiller ...
    Series series Music and Politics
    This book focuses on the role of popular music in the rise of populism in Europe, centring on the music-related processes of sociocultural normalisation and the increasing prevalence of populist discourses in contemporary society. In its innovative combination of approaches drawing from (ethno)musicology, sociology, and political science, as well as media and cultural studies, this book develops a ... Read more

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  • The Cultural Construction of Safety and Security

    Imaginaries, Discourses and Philosophies that Shaped Modern Europe

    Edited by Gemma Blok, Jan Oosterholt ...
    This volume analyses cultural perceptions of safety and security that have shaped modern European societies. The articles present a wide range of topics, from feelings of unsafety generated by early modern fake news to safety issues related to twentieth-century drug use in public space. The volume demonstrates how ‘safety’ is not just a social or biological condition to pursue but also a ... Read more

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  • Language Contacts and Discourses in the Far North

    Edited by Maria Frick, Tiina Räisänen, Jussi Ylikoski ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book sheds light on 21st-Century multilingualism in the Far North of Europe – Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Estonia – an area with multifaceted contacts between many Uralic and Indo-European languages. These contacts are taking new forms as migration and English as the lingua franca are changing the linguistic situation remarkably. The national languages dominate the life of most ... Read more

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  • Monumental cares

    Sites of history and contemporary art

    by Mechtild Widrich ...
    Series series Rethinking Art's Histories
    Monumental cares rethinks monument debates, site specificity and art activism in light of problems that strike us as monumental or overwhelming, such as war, migration and the climate crisis. The book shows how artists address these issues, from Chicago and Berlin to Oslo, Bucharest and Hong Kong, in media ranging from marble and glass to postcards, graffiti and re-enactment. A multidirectional ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Computational Engineering of Historical Memories

    With a Showcase on Afro-Eurasia (ca 1100-1500 CE)

    by Andrea Nanetti ...
    Nanetti outlines a methodology for deploying artificial intelligence and machine learning to enhance historical research.Historical events are the treasure of human experiences, the heritage that societies have used to remain resilient and express their identities. Nanetti has created and developed an interdisciplinary methodology supported by practice-based research that serves as a pathway ... Read more

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