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Cultural Residues

Author : Nelly Richard

Publisher : U of Minnesota Press

Page : 231 pages

File Size : 10,33 MB

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ISBN : 1452904952

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A complex portrait of postdictatorial Chile by one of that country's most incisive cultural critics, this book uses memoirs, photographs, the plastic arts, novels, and other texts--the "residues" of a culture--to analyze the political-cultural Chilean landscape in the wake of Augusto Pinochet's seventeen-year military rule. Such residual areas reveal the flaws and lapses in Chile's transition from violent military dictatorship to electoral democracy. Nelly Richard's analysis ranges from an exploration of false memories of the recent past--especially memories of violence--to a discussion of the university under neoliberalism; from debates about the use of the word "gender" to an examination of refractory texts and cultural activities such as Diamela Eltit's "testimonio" of a schizophrenic vagabond, Eugenio Dittborn's use of photography in art installations, and transvestite performances. In "Cultural Residues, each instance becomes a suggestive metaphor for understanding a rapidly modernizing Chile attempting to redemocratize its public life.



Theatre and Residual Culture

Author : Christopher Collins

Publisher : Springer

Page : 307 pages

File Size : 29,88 MB

Release : 2016-06-29

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 1349948721

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This book considers the cultural residue from pre-Christian Ireland in Synge’s plays and performances. By dramatising a residual culture in front of a predominantly modern and political Irish Catholic middle class audience, the book argues that Synge attempted to offer an alternative understanding of what it meant to be “modern” at the beginning of the twentieth century. The book draws extensively on Synge’s archive to demonstrate how pre-Christian residual culture informed not just how he wrote and staged pre-Christian beliefs, but also how he thought about an older, almost forgotten culture that Catholic Ireland desperately wanted to forget. Each of Synge’s plays is considered in an individual chapter, and they identify how Synge’s dramaturgy was informed by pre-Christian beliefs of animism, pantheism, folklore, superstition and magical ritual.



Race, Class, and Culture

Author : Robert C. Smith

Publisher : SUNY Press

Page : 228 pages

File Size : 15,55 MB

Release : 1992-07-01

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 9780791409466

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Race is arguably the most profound and enduring cleavage in American society and politics. This book examines the sources and dynamics of the race cleavage in American society through a detailed analysis of intergroup and intragroup differences at the level of mass opinion. The ethclass theory, which examines the intersection of ethnicity and class, is used to analyze interracial differences in mass attitudes. This analysis yields three clusters of opinion that distinguish African Americans from whites — religiosity, interpersonal alienation, and political liberalism. The authors then examine the intragroup sources of these opinion differences among blacks in terms of class, gender, age, region, and religion. While the authors demonstrate an embryonic trend of more black middle class opinion agreement with whites, the book confirms the ethclass character of the black experience whereby race and race consciousness are still more significant than class in shaping black attitudes. Given the growing class bifurcation in black America and the continuing debate about its significance in shaping black attitudes and behavior, this book offers a refreshing new analysis of the homogeneity as well as heterogeneity of black mass public opinion.



Cultural Beings

Author : Yuval Lurie

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 234 pages

File Size : 39,40 MB

Release : 2021-12-28

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 9004494952

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Human beings are a cultural species. This predicament enables them to take on many different cultural identities, all of which transcend the bounds of natural behavior of other species. To contemplate this predicament through philosophy is to reflect on such questions as, What makes cultural forms of life possible? What is encompassed in them? What lies at their core? What distinguishes them from natural forms of life? What brings them about, sustains, and causes them to change? Philosophical answers to these questions predate abstract ways of thinking, as they are sometimes embedded in ancient mythical and religious narratives. Such is the story told in the first three chapters of the book of Genesis in the Bible, revealing how human beings became the cultural beings that they are. This study suggests how that ancient and most celebrated story in the literature of the West may be read as harboring insightful philosophical observations on the cultural nature of human beings. It first focuses on the very concept of cultural forms of life, revealing its complicated conceptual links to natural forms of life. It then offers an interpretive framework for reading mythical, symbolic narratives. Using these ideas, it provides a philosophical reading of the Biblical narrative, disclosing it to harbor a metaphysically oriented conception of nature and two insightful philosophical overviews of the cultural nature of human beings. Both overviews endow human beings with an ability to manipulate nature, but in different ways: the first by subjugating parcels of nature to human will; the second by subjugating human beings themselves to a value-laden conception of things and ethical forms of life. Thus, human beings are portrayed as natural creatures possessed of a cultural nature that enables them to transform nature and recreate themselves through their unique cultural predicament.



Academic Culture: An Analytical Framework for Understanding Academic Work

Author : Kazumi Okamoto

Publisher : Columbia University Press

Page : 309 pages

File Size : 42,97 MB

Release : 2016-10-11

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 3838269373

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That we live in a world ruled and confused by cultural diversity has become common sense. The social sciences gave birth to a new theoretical paradigm, the creation of cultural theories. Since then, social science theorizing applies to any social phenomenon across the world exploring cultural diversities in any social practice—except the social sciences and how they create knowledge, which is is off limits. Social science theorizing seemingly assumes that creating knowledge does not know such diversities. In this book, Kazumi Okamoto develops analytical tools to study academic culture, analyze how social sciences create and distribute knowledge, and the influence the academic environment has on knowledge production. She uses the academy in Japan as a case study of how social scientists interpret academic practices and how they are affected by their academic environment. Studying Japanese academic culture, she reveals that academic practices and the academic environment in Japan show much less diversity than cultural theories tend to presuppose.



J.J. Smolicz on Education and Culture

Author : Jerzy Jaroslaw Smolicz

Publisher : James Nicholas Publishers

Page : 335 pages

File Size : 45,36 MB

Release : 1999

Category : Cultural pluralism

ISBN : 1875408290

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This book contains a selection of major articles by the author and focuses on cultural diversity in Australia, core values and cultural interaction, case studies in Australian pluralism and the interplay between tradition, education and change.



Waste Valorization for Bioenergy and Bioproducts

Author : Hwai Chyuan Ong

Publisher : Elsevier

Page : 592 pages

File Size : 37,61 MB

Release : 2024-01-14

Category : Technology & Engineering

ISBN : 0443222169

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Waste Valorisation for Bioenergy and Bioproducts: Biofuel, Biogas, and Value-Added Products presents a comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art of waste valorization from solid, liquid, and gaseous waste streams. The book thoroughly examines the conversion of waste-to-energy from the following waste streams: • Commercial, institutional, and residential food wastes, particularly those currently disposed of in landfills. • Biosolids, organic-rich aqueous streams, and sludges from municipal wastewater treatment processes. • Manure slurries from concentrated livestock operations. • Organic wastes from industrial operations, including ,but not limited to, food and beverage manufacturing, biodiesel production, and integrated biorefineries, as well as other industries such as pulp and paper, forest products, and pharmaceuticals. • Biogas derived from any of the above feedstock streams such as landfill gas. Each chapter critically examines the challenges and opportunities in the production of waste-to energy processes, along with addressing the acceptability and marketability of transforming wastes into value-added products. The final chapters analyze the techno-economic viability and the sustainability dimensions of valorizing biological wastes. Waste Valorisation for Bioenergy and Bioproducts: Biofuel, Biogas, and Other Value-Added Products from Different Waste Streams is a one-stop resource for graduate students, researchers, and practicing engineers involved in waste-to-energy and waste management, and will be of interest to environmental, chemical, and process engineers involved in bioenergy and renewable energy - Presents the state-of-the-art of waste valorization strategies and emerging technologies that have the potential to revolutionize waste-to-energy - Examines the challenges and opportunities in scaling up production and improving acceptability and marketability of waste-to-energy technologies and conversion to value-added products - Evaluates a range of parameters, including the techno-economic viability and sustainability dimensions for the valorization of liquid, solid, and gaseous waste streams, providing a comparison of the medium to long term performance of relevant Waste-to-Energy technologies



Materializing Memory in Art and Popular Culture

Author : Laszlo Muntean

Publisher : Taylor & Francis

Page : 237 pages

File Size : 45,52 MB

Release : 2016-12-08

Category : Art

ISBN : 1315472163

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Memory matters. It matters because memory brings the past into the present, and opens it up to the future. But it also matters literally, because memory is mediated materially. Materiality is the stuff of memory. Meaningful objects that we love (or hate) function not only as aide-mémoire but are integral to memory. Drawing on previous scholarship on the interrelation of memory and materiality, this book applies recent theories of new materialism to explore the material dimension of memory in art and popular culture. The book’s underlying premise is twofold: on the one hand, memory is performed, mediated, and stored through the material world that surrounds us; on the other hand, inanimate objects and things also have agency on their own, which affects practices of memory, as well as forgetting. Chapters 1, 4, and 5 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 3.0 license.



Developing Cultures

Author : Lawrence E. Harrison

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 470 pages

File Size : 31,43 MB

Release : 2006-01-13

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 1135440352

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Developing Cultures: Case Studies is a collection of 27 essays by a group of leading internationals scholars on the role of culture and cultural change in the evolution of countries and regions around the world.



The European Culture Area

Author : Alexander B. Murphy

Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield

Page : 448 pages

File Size : 37,88 MB

Release : 2009

Category : History

ISBN : 9780742556720

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A sixth edition of this book is now available. Now in a fully updated fifth edition, this premier text has been thoroughly revised to reflect the sweeping changes the past decade has brought to Europe. Long hailed for its creativity and intellectual depth, the book is now further enriched by the expertise of a new lead author, noted geographer Alexander B. Murphy. In this edition, he has focused on Europe's role in the wider world and incorporated new research and teaching approaches in regional geography. The topical organization including environment, ethnicity, religion, language, demography, politics, industry, and urban and rural life offers students a holistic understanding of the diverse European culture area."