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Published: 01 November 2009
...This chapter contrasts articulations of difference in Asian American cultural studies with Pierre Bourdieu's model of relational analysis between field and capital. Although both of these concepts consider social relations as a dynamic system of negative differences, they vary extremely regarding...
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Cultural Politics in Polybius's Histories
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Craige Champion and William Joseph Sanders (ed.)
Published online: 22 March 2012
Published in print: 23 August 2004
...Polybius was a Greek statesman and political prisoner of Rome in the second century bce . His Histories provide the earliest continuous narrative of the rise of the Roman Empire. This study, informed by recent work in cultural studies and on ethnicity, demonstrates...
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Introduction: Radio Fields
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Lucas Bessire and Daniel Fisher
Published: 19 November 2012
... of radio technology and social relations. This introductory chapter discusses the unique relationship between radio and anthropology, other disciplinary approaches to the study of radio, the emergence of radio studies as a field, how radio's relationship to place is addressed in cultural studies and in art...
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Astronomy’s Romantic Landscapes
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Elizabeth A. Kessler
Published: 01 November 2012
... Hubble Space Telescope astronomy art history visual culture cultural studies American studies History of science Media studies Sublime aesthetics A dark cloud against a background of orange and blue reaches upward, stretching nearly to the top of the frame that contains it. Brightly backlit...
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From Unknown Frontiers to Familiar Places
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Elizabeth A. Kessler
Published: 01 November 2012
... and digital image processing Bann Stephen Carina Nebula de Certeau Michel Hubble Deep Field Hubble Ultra Deep Field Tuan Yi Fu Adams Ansel digital imaging adoption of reason astronomers’ confidence in senses and the agreeable Hubble Space Telescope astronomy art history visual culture cultural...
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What I Believe and Why
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Vincent B. Leitch
Published: 18 September 2012
... with post-Marxist cultural studies. First, he criticized the taboo on extrinsic criticism promulgated by the American New Critics and tacitly conveyed to him by most of his professors. Second, he sketched his own program by working through faults with the 1980s critical projects of Wayne Booth (liberal...
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Introduction: Corridoricity
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Kate Marshall
Published: 01 June 2013
... media modernism American literature architecture infrastructure naturalism systems theory cultural studies materiality The corridor figures prominently in the most familiar texts of literary modernism. Virginia Woolf famously described her idea of the structure...
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Infrastructural Modernity
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Kate Marshall
Published: 01 June 2013
... tunnel systems Massumi Brian time Colomina Beatriz Kittler Friedrich Martin Reinhold buses and bus stations synecdoche elevators escalators railroads Schivelbusch Wolfgang channels media modernism American literature architecture infrastructure naturalism systems theory cultural...
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Corridors of Power
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Kate Marshall
Published: 01 June 2013
... enclosure s exteriors images cinematic masks social relations soul corridor to Stezaker John mediation narrative s reproduction identification identity personhood Winesburg Ohio Anderson media modernism American literature architecture infrastructure naturalism systems theory cultural...
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Epilogue: Open Plan
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Kate Marshall
Published: 01 June 2013
... observation philosophy postmodernism sociality translation media modernism American literature architecture infrastructure naturalism systems theory cultural studies materiality An architect of communication in the modern novel loves walls, partitions, and channels that organize vectors...
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Introduction: A Sense of Urban Africa
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Ryan Thomas Skinner
Published: 01 June 2015
... agency vita activa Williams Raymond Sartre Jean Paul Africa idea of Négritude Simone AbdouMaliq Nuttall Sarah Whitehouse Bruce Mali Music Ethics Afropolitanism African Studies Cultural Studies Postcolonial Studies Ethnomusicology This book is about the morality and ethics ...
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Ethics and Aesthetics
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Ryan Thomas Skinner
Published: 01 June 2015
... Orchestra Afropolitanism Mbembe Achille Mali Music Ethics Afropolitanism African Studies Cultural Studies Postcolonial Studies Ethnomusicology Music, like identity, is both performance and story, describes the social in the individual and the individual in the social, the mind in the body ...
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Practicing Atheism: Culture, Media, and Ritual in the Contemporary Atheist Network
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Hannah K. Scheidt
Published online: 17 June 2021
Published in print: 01 July 2021
... and tensions of contemporary atheism (its in-b etween- ness ) to provide insight into the mutual arising and co-c onstitution of atheism and religion. A Snapshot of Atheist Culture This book is a cultural study of contemporary atheism. My sources are not the works of the literary giants of New Atheism...
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Idylls (and Horrors)
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John Scott and Zoe Staines
Published: 11 January 2023
... of Falseá Golding W Lord of the Flies Melanesia racism social experimentation Stevenson R L empire Island idyll Island horror Interpretivism Cultural studies Space and place Islandness Spatial criminology Looking down on the islands and the expanse of water of the carceral archipelago, we...
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Thinking the Molecular
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Ben Spatz
Published: 28 July 2023
... race and racism TallBear Kim technology ways of knowing gender identity language semiotics Aristotle Chen Mel Y female bodies meaning Preciado Paul sexuality transgender anthropology arts Black bodies Blackness body colonialism cultural studies Dash Julie decolonization...
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Iconic Burns: A Shape Shifting ‘Sign’ of the Times
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Josephine Dougal
Published: 22 February 2024
... Robert Burns. Approaching Burns from a cultural studies perspective, it reveals how this long-established cultural icon is undergoing a twenty-first-century makeover in spheres such as graphic design, fashion and art, events and tourism, commodities and advertising, museum display, and social media...
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Does (and Should) Hosea Matter Still?
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Carol J. Dempsey
Published: 21 March 2024
.... New biblical hermeneutical approaches, especially cultural studies, have produced a shift away from what the text meant in its originating context to readers, grounded in their social locations, as creators of meanings. This essay highlights why the book of Hosea has been important to scholars...
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Performance Studies: Brazilian Identity Politics and the Performance of Commensality
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Scott Alves Barton
Published: 26 March 2024
... Fire up in My Bones African diaspora Candomblé women’s work enskilled labor performativity cultural studies food and faith identity politics My multidisciplinary scholarship focusing on African diaspora food-ways as a location of culinary knowledge resides at the confluence of my academic work...
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Epilogue
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Robert Kelz
Published: 15 February 2020
... The Miser comedies agitprop theater Brecht Bertolt Deutsche La Plata Zeitung newspaper German identity German theaters German-speaking immigrants migrant groups Argentina German theater cultural studies There can be no question that from the 1930s through the 1960s Buenos Aires was a volatile...
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Introduction
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Frances R. Aparicio
Published: 01 October 2019
... local US Navy cultural studies Faulkner Sandra Gray Ann De Certeau Michel feminism Gilligan Carol stereotypes Way Niobe ethnography Potowski Kimberly Elena first generation Intralatina os horizontal hierarchies Mariana South Side area of Chicago Catholicism Colombianidad Jehovah’s...