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  • Reading Memory Sites Through Signs

    Hiding into Landscape

    Edited by Cristina Demaria, Patrizia Violi ...
    Series series Heritage and Memory Studies
    What can space tell us about our past? Which stories do memory sites narrate? Which memories do they transmit? And, more importantly, how can we read their meanings? Semiotics can provide us with a homogeneous, shareable and theoretically sound methodology to analyse space within a comparable and common frame of reference for scholars of memory studies and traumatic heritage, as well as for ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Landscapes of Memory

    Trauma, Space, History

    by Patrizia Violi ...
    Series Book 7 - Cultural Memories
    Since Auschwitz, and more and more frequently today, places that were theatres of mass suffering and other atrocities are becoming common features of our cultural landscape. What should we do with these places? Keep them as they were, to remind us of what actually took place there, as ideal museums of past evils? Or should we transform them and, if so, into which forms and according to which ... Read more

    $59.49 USD

  • Questioning Traumatic Heritage

    Spaces of Memory in Europe and South America

    Edited by Ihab Saloul, Patrizia Violi, Anna Lorusso, Cristina Demaria ...
    Series series Heritage and Memory Studies
    This book takes as its object of investigation an array of traumatic heritage sites and spaces of memory, including museums, former detention camps, and sites of commemoration, in Europe, Argentina, and Colombia, to investigate how various traumatic pasts can be preserved and transmitted through space, and which kind of actions might be taken both to improve knowledge of the past and to serve as ... Read more

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  • Manifesto Now!

    Instructions for Performance, Philosophy, Politics

    Edited by Laura Cull, Will Daddario ...
    Manifesto Now! maps the current rebirth of the manifesto as it appears at the crossroads of philosophy, performance and politics. While the manifesto has been central to histories of modernity and modernism, the editors contend that its contemporary resurgence demands a renewed interrogation of its form, its content and its uses. Featuring contributions from trailblazing artists, scholars and ... Read more

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  • The Body in Crisis

    New Pathways and Short Circuits in Representation

    by Christine Greiner, Cristina Fernandes Rosa ...
    Translated by Christopher Larkosh, Grace Holleran ...
    Series series Studies in Dance: Theories and Practices
    The Body in Crisis introduces the English-speaking world to the work of leading Latin American dance scholar and philosopher of the body, Christine Greiner. The book offers an innovative set of tools with which to examine the role of moving bodies and bodily actions in relation to worldwide concerns, including identity politics, alterity, migration, and belonging. The book places the concept of ... Read more

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  • Geographies of Psychoanalysis

    Encounters between Cultures in Tehran

    by Aa. Vv. ...
    Can psychoanalytical hypotheses have a universal value? Can they describe the same – or a similar – psychic dynamic for any human, regardless of the historical, social and cultural context? Can psychoanalysis help with mental suffering in different realities? In our times, the questions psychoanalysis has to face are very complex. The modern world is dominated by technology that subverts the ... Read more

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  • Affect and Realism in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction

    by Karl Erik Schollhammer ...
    Series series Anthem Brazilian Studies
    This book is about contemporary Brazilian fiction from the past two decades and concerned with the possibilities of literary intervention in the reality of the historical moment. Thus, an understanding of the actual role of literature is strategic in the definition of the contemporary, and the book shows an optimism among current writers and artists with respect to the aesthetic, ethical, and ... Read more

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  • Is Art History Global?

    Edited by James Elkins ...
    Series series The Art Seminar
    This is the third volume in The Art Seminar, James Elkin's series of conversations on art and visual studies.Is Art History Global? stages an international conversation among art historians and critics on the subject of the practice and responsibility of global thinking within the discipline. Participants range from Keith Moxey of Columbia University to Cao Yiqiang, Ding Ning, Cuautemoc Medina, ... Read more

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  • Rare Tongues

    The Secret Stories of Hidden Languages

    by Lorna Gibb ...
    An enthralling tour of the world’s rarest and most endangered languagesLanguages and cultures are becoming increasingly homogenous, with the resulting loss of a rich linguistic tapestry reflecting unique perspectives and ways of life. Rare Tongues tells the stories of the world’s rare and vanishing languages, revealing how each is a living testament to human resilience, adaptability, and the ... Read more

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  • Travelling Concepts in the Humanities

    A Rough Guide

    by Mieke Bal ...
    Series series Green College Thematic Lecture Series
    Attempting to bridge the gap between specialised scholarship in the humanistic disciplines and an interdisciplinary project of cultural analysis, Mieke Bal has written an intellectual travel guide that charts the course 'beyond' cultural studies. As with any guide, it can be used in a number of ways and the reader can follow or willfully ignore any of the paths it maps or signposts.Bal's focus for ... Read more

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  • On the Trail of the Indo-Europeans: From Neolithic Steppe Nomads to Early Civilisations

    by Harald Haarmann ...
    For more than 3000 years, Indo-European languages have been spoken from India through Persia and into Europe. Where are the origins of this language family? How and when did its different linguistic branches emerge? The renowned historical linguist Harald Haarmann provides a graphic account of what we know today about the origins of Indo-European languages and cultures and how they came to be so ... Read more

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