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  • Contemporary Street Arts in Europe

    Aesthetics and Politics

    by S. Haedicke ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Street theatre invades a public space, shakes it up and disappears, but the memory of the disruption haunts the site for audiences who experience it. This book looks at how the dynamic interrelationship of performance, participant and place creates a politicized aesthetic of public space that enables the public to rehearse democratic practices. ... Read more

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  • Performing Democracy

    International Perspectives on Urban Community-Based Performance

    Series series Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
    Performing Democracy explores aspects of a developing form of performance that works to change social conditions for marginalized groups or to preserve the traditions and cohesion of the community. The book combines critical analysis with field reports on specific projects and productions to explore the issues that confront community-based performance. The range of topics is impressive, and ... Read more

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  • Reading Richard Matheson

    A Critical Survey

    Richard Matheson (1926–2013) was a prolific author and screenwriter whose career helped shape the horror and fantasy genres in literature, film, and television for over sixty years. Matheson authored more than ninety short stories and dozens of novels, many of which—including I Am Legend, A Stir of Echoes, What Dreams May Come, The Shrinking Man, Hell House, and Bid Time Return—have been adapted ... Read more

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  • Pharmaceutical, Biological and Chemical Patents

    A Handbook

    The topic of pharmaceutical, biological and chemical patents is a special matter within European and German patent law. There are several structural alterations, like polymorphism and enantiomerism, leading to a derivative of a substance that is comprised in the prior art. This gives rise to the question under what circumstances such alterations can be novel and in which cases they are included in ... Read more

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  • Administering and Managing the U.S. Food System

    Revisiting Food Policy and Politics

    Food and the systems that produce, disrupt, prepare it are central to all human life. Yet, scholarly analysis of the food systems that support human life are highly fragmented across a variety of disciplines. Public administration, with its focus on the doing of public policy, would seem to be a logical home for analysis of food systems in action. However, food is largely ignored by public ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

  • Performing Farmscapes

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book argues that the performance-based work in the featured case studies contributes to the construction of food democracy where the public takes back decision-making in shaping the food system. It explores how contemporary artists translate scientific research about local and global agricultural issues into life stories that inform and engage their audiences and, in so doing, transform ... Read more

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  • Organizing Organic

    Conflict and Compromise in an Emerging Market

    Stakeholders in the organic food movement agree that it has the potential to transform our food system, and yet there is little consensus about what this transformation should look like.Tracing the history of the organic food sector, Michael A. Haedicke charts the development of two narratives that do more than simply polarize the organic debate, they give way to competing institutional logics. On ... Read more

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  • The New Politics of the Handmade

    Craft, Art and Design

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    Contemporary craft, art and design are inseparable from the flows of production and consumption under global capitalism. The New Politics of the Handmade features twenty-three voices who critically rethink the handmade in this dramatically shifting economy.The authors examine craft within the conditions of extreme material and economic disparity; a renewed focus on labour and materiality in ... Read more

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  • The Activist Humanist

    Form and Method in the Climate Crisis

    An argument that humanists have the tools—and the responsibility—to mobilize political power to tackle climate changeAs climate catastrophes intensify, why do literary and cultural studies scholars so often remain committed to the separation of aesthetic study from the nitty-gritty of political change? In this thought-provoking book, Caroline Levine makes the case for an alternative view, arguing ... Read more

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  • Rational Ritual

    Culture, Coordination, and Common Knowledge

    Why do Internet, financial service, and beer commercials dominate Super Bowl advertising? How do political ceremonies establish authority? Why does repetition characterize anthems and ritual speech? Why were circular forms favored for public festivals during the French Revolution? This book answers these questions using a single concept: common knowledge.Game theory shows that in order to ... Read more

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  • Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD): Looking Back to Look Forward (3rd Edition)

    In conversation with John McKnight about the heritage of ABCD and its place in the world today

    Asset Based Community Development (ABCD), Looking Back to Look Forward is a prelude to a longer book. It is framed as a conversation between Cormac Russell, who is a leader in the Asset Based Movement in Europe, and Director of ABCD Europe and Professor John McKnight the Co-Director of the ABCD Institute.This book provides a detailed background to Asset Based Community Development (ABCD), with a ... Read more

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