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  • Performed Ethnography and Communication

    Improvisation and Embodied Experience

    by D Soyini Madison ...
    Performed Ethnography and Communication explores the relationships between these three key terms, addressing the impact of ethnography and communication on the cutting edge of performance studies. Ranging from digital performance, improvisation and the body, to fieldwork and staged collaboration, this volume is divided into two main sections:"Embodied technique and practice," which addresses ... Read more

    Was $57.99 USD Now $51.99 USD

  • Critical Ethnography

    Method, Ethics, and Performance

    by D. Soyini Madison ...
    "Critical Ethnography is a rare and beautiful synthesis of deft theorizing and principled pragmatics. The complexities of ethnography demand a grasp of both theory and practice, but rarely have they come together so clearly and completely as in this passionately written text. I especially appreciate the thoughtful attention to the intellectual roots of the critical tradition in ethnography, and to ... Read more

    $87.29 USD

  • Acts of Activism

    Human Rights as Radical Performance

    by D. Soyini Madison ...
    Series series Theatre and Performance Theory
    This book was first published in 2010. Madison presents the neglected yet compelling and necessary story of local activists in South Saharan Africa who employ modes of performance as tactics of resistance and intervention in their day-to-day struggles for human rights. The dynamic relationship between performance and activism are illustrated in three case studies: Act One presents a battle between ... Read more

    $41.89 USD

  • The SAGE Handbook of Performance Studies

    by D. Soyini Madison, Judith A. Hamera ...
    The SAGE Handbook of Performance Studies brings together, in a single volume, discussions of the major research in performance studies and identifies directions for further investigation. It is the only comprehensive collection on the theories, methods, politics, and practices of performance relating to life and culture. Edited by D. Soyini Madison and Judith Hamera, this Handbook serves artists, ... Read more

    $140.39 USD

  • African Dress

    Fashion, Agency, Performance

    Edited by Karen Tranberg Hansen, D. Soyini Madison ...
    Series series Dress, Body, Culture
    Dress and fashion practices in Africa and the diaspora are dynamic and diverse, whether on the street or on the fashion runway. Focusing on the dressed body as a performance site, African Dress explores how ideas and practices of dress contest or legitimize existing power structures through expressions of individual identity and the cultural and political order.Drawing on innovative, ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • Dancing Transnational Feminisms

    Ananya Dance Theatre and the Art of Social Justice

    by Piya Chatterjee ...
    Series series Decolonizing Feminisms
    Through empowered movement that centers the lives, stories, and dreams of marginalized women, Ananya Dance Theatre has revealed how the practice of and commitment to artistic excellence can catalyze social justice. With each performance, this professional dance company of Black, Brown, and Indigenous gender non-conforming women and femmes of color challenges heteronormative patriarchies, white ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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  • The Routledge Companion to Art and Politics

    Edited by Randy Martin ...
    Series series Routledge Art History and Visual Studies Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Art and Politics offers a thorough examination of the complex relationship between art and politics, and the many forms and approaches the engagement between them can take.The contributors - a diverse assembly of artists, activists, scholars from around the world – discuss and demonstrate ways of making art and politics legible and salient in the world. As such the 32 ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Stylish Academic Writing

    by Helen Sword ...
    Elegant ideas deserve elegant expression. Sword dispels the myth that you can’t get published without writing wordy, impersonal prose. For scholars frustrated with disciplinary conventions or eager to write for a larger audience, here are imaginative, practical, witty pointers that show how to make articles and books enjoyable to read—and to write. ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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  • Explaining Creativity

    The Science of Human Innovation

    by R. Keith Sawyer ...
    In the last 50 years, psychologists, anthropologists, and sociologists have increasingly turned to studying creativity, so we now know more about it than ever before. However, until about a decade ago, creativity researchers focused only on highly valued activities, such as creating masterpieces in art and making highly significant discoveries in science. In Explaining Creativity, R. Keith Sawyer ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Black Looks

    Race and Representation

    by bell hooks ...
    In the critical essays collected in Black Looks, bell hooks interrogates old narratives and argues for alternative ways to look at blackness, black subjectivity, and whiteness. Her focus is on spectatorship—in particular, the way blackness and black people are experienced in literature, music, television, and especially film—and her aim is to create a radical intervention into the way we talk ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Creative Destruction

    How Globalization Is Changing the World's Cultures

    by Tyler Cowen ...
    "Argued neatly . . . cultural products that [we] think of as indigenous owe their existence to the cultural exchange brought about by trade." — Wall Street JournalA Frenchman rents a Hollywood movie. A Thai schoolgirl mimics Madonna. Saddam Hussein chooses Frank Sinatra's "My Way" as the theme song for his fifty-fourth birthday. It is a commonplace that globalization is subverting local culture. ... Read more

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  • Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed

    Educating for the Virtues in the Age of Truthiness and Twitter

    by Howard Gardner ...
    From ancient times, philosophers, theologians, and artists have attempted to describe and categorize the defining virtues of civilization. In Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed, renowned education authority Howard Gardner explores the meaning of the title's three virtues in an age when vast technological advancement and relativistic attitudes toward human nature have deeply shaken our moral ... Read more

    $11.99 USD