...This chapter discusses how membership in the UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN) presents opportunities and challenges for enhancing democratic participation in sustainable development focused on culture in urban areas. It presents a discourse analysis of documents from the 15-plus year history...

... in the middle of Chile’s most severe economic crisis (which reached a climax in 1982), and also how the prevailing precariousness determined both the discourses about the photographic field that was beginning to consolidate, as well as the materiality, themes, and formal aspects of the different initiatives...

... dwelling sites. These household landscapes are dynamic spaces connected to diverse discourses on the individual, local, regional, and global scales. In chapter 6, Fogle studies the impact of a nineteenth-century, proslavery agricultural reform discourse on enslaved households and their associated...

...This chapter examines the ways in which the teaching of the 2004 coup in Haiti allows for a deeper understanding of current Haitian politics and neo-imperialism. Critical discourse analysis and an examination of the role played by the French liberal press and intellectuals in justifying the coup...

..., this chapter contributes to the intersection between transness, dis/ability, and media in Latin America. transgender disability Colombian Press Colombia media neoliberalism necropolitics discourse healthcare intersectionality In 2016, Colombian filmmaker Jorge Caballero produced the 70-minute...

...This chapter explores Abdulrazak Gurnah's works. The European colonizer/African colonized discourse is explicitly complicated in Zanzibar, the birth place of Gurnah, by a set of circumstances which do not fit the Black Atlantic model. Two additional discourses in particular need to be factored...

... that it is the Revolution’s guerrilla origins, rather than its “militarism,” that partly explains its survival and the political authority of its leaders. Specifically, it is the promotion of a guerrilla ethos in the Revolution’s official, hegemonic discourse that, through the creation of a new political culture since 1959...

... of the official discourse during the “Battle of Ideas” moment at the turn of the millennium. Castro Fidel Cuban Democracy Act 1992 Cuban Revolution Democracy Economy Helms Burton Act 1996 Soviet Union Special Period United States–Cuban relations Guerrillerismo Tourism Youth Morale Speeches...

... of the guerrillero (guerrilla fighter) is revered and the past struggles are presented in the revolutionary historical narrative as both unfinished and guerrilla in their nature. Drawing on extensive analysis of official discourse across six decades, the book outlines a consistent, conscious promotion...

..., the two men communicated contradictory racial discourses as they disagreed about the proper place of the nation’s European and indigenous heritage within the official ideology. That said, both men’s work was pro-mestizo despite the fact that they conceived mixed-race identity in very...

.... For social change, these individual experiences have to be converted into a public discourse about structures. Inventions then materialize personal visions of society and become novel arguments in the public discourse. As people adopt them, they shift the course of their society. Inventions Structures...

.... Contemporary social conditions shape how we acknowledge our revulsion with histories like the Marion lynching, and some of the richest discourses on difficult heritage happen because these histories have the tangible materiality of place, powerful social symbolism rooted in materiality, and a persistent hold...

... of the structure, narrative style, and management of voices demonstrates how, for the beginning of his writing career, Joyce is a sophisticated rhetorician. His subtle handling of free indirect discourse, figurative language, chiasmus, anticlimax, and silence document his early experimentalism. Joyce's debt...

... his language of content, Stevens arranges poems like “The Pleasure of Merely Circulating” as screens to block or diffuse the associations of his poetic language with the ideas and discourses continuously broadcast over America's airwaves. His poems take up the work of restoring the intersubjective...

...Analysis of American abolitionists understanding of coercive sexual practices in the plantation South and the use of slave-breeding discourse in abolitionist politics. Abolition Anti slavery politicians and supporters Caribbean Plantation societies Slave breeding African American families...

...This chapter comprises an in-depth analysis of the revolutionary leadership’s discourse between 1959 and 1968, a year often pinpointed by external observers as heralding a move away from the guerrilla-style, empirical management of the Revolution towards a more structured, Soviet-inspired approach...

... discourse. In these wounded modernist bodies, she argues, we may find an emergent material-affective response to the failed ethics of a juridico-political rhetoric dependent on a closed model of mind and body. Van Wert concludes by theorizing an ecological body politic whose openness—affectively...

...This chapter analyzes the uses and appropriations of scientific discourse in Argentine magazines from the fin de siècle: a period in which literary modernism coincided with the development of spiritualisms that aspired to the status of science (or “occult sciences”) like Spiritism and Theosophy...

... traditional historical approaches even more rigorously by exposing the cultural meanings of gender during wartime. They have argued that ideas about masculinity and femininity shaped Civil War political discourse, social thought, and economic roles, ultimately affecting the nature and outcome of the war...

...Hugo Viera-Vargas elaborates the notion of a “sonic colonial discourse” on both islands, developed by U.S. travelers (including journalists and government officials) who often served as colonial agents, during the first three decades of the twentieth century. The author of this chapter argues...