Contesting Culture

Contesting Culture

Author: Gerd Baumann

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1996-04-26

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9780521555548

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A vivid 1996 ethnographic account of an aspect of contemporary British life, and a challenge to the conventional discourse of community studies.


Contesting British Chinese Culture

Contesting British Chinese Culture

Author: Ashley Thorpe

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-09-18

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 3319711598

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This is the first text to address British Chinese culture. It explores British Chinese cultural politics in terms of national and international debates on the Chinese diaspora, race, multiculture, identity and belonging, and transnational ‘Chineseness’. Collectively, the essays look at how notions of ‘British Chinese culture’ have been constructed and challenged in the visual arts, theatre and performance, and film, since the mid-1980s. They contest British Chinese invisibility, showing how practice is not only heterogeneous, but is forged through shifting historical and political contexts; continued racialization, the currency of Orientalist stereotypes and the possibility of their subversion; the policies of institutions and their funding strategies; and dynamic relationships with transnationalisms. The book brings a fresh perspective that makes both an empirical and theoretical contribution to the study of race and cultural production, whilst critically interrogating the very notion of British Chineseness.


National (un)Belonging: Bengali American Women on Imagining and Contesting Culture and Identity

National (un)Belonging: Bengali American Women on Imagining and Contesting Culture and Identity

Author: Roksana Badruddoja

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2022-07-18

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 9004514570

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In National (un)Belonging, Badruddoja focuses on the intersections of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, religion, citizenship, and nationalism among contemporary South Asian American women. Critiquing binary and hierarchical thinking prominent in cultural discourse, Badruddoja conveys the multidimensional nature of identity and draws a compelling illustration of why difference matters.


Contesting Cultural Authority

Contesting Cultural Authority

Author: Frank M. Turner

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1993-04-08

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9780521372572

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A volume of essays which constitutes a major overview of the Victorian intellectual enterprise.


Contesting Cultural Rhetorics

Contesting Cultural Rhetorics

Author: Margaret J. Marshall

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 9780472105366

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Taken together, these texts reveal the complicated public discussion of education in the 1890s - a period of transformation in culture, schooling, and the organization of knowledge. Moreover, they reveal the rhetorical structure of many of the questions Americans ask about education today: who should be educated, by whom, for what purposes, using what methods or materials? What of the past should we pass on to the future, and how? Contesting Cultural Rhetorics will be useful to readers interested in the history of education and nineteenth-century popular culture, as well as those involved in current debates on education and public policy.


Contesting Art

Contesting Art

Author: Jeremy MacClancy

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-08-27

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 1000323854

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Art is a major political weapon of our times. Today, peoples around the world use art to boost their own identity and to attack the ways others represent them. At a time of increasing intercultural exchange, art has become a primary means through which groups reinforce their challenged sense of culture.This pioneering book breaks with the tradition of the anthropology of art as the depoliticized study of aesthetics in exotic settings. Transcending artificial distinctions between the West and the Rest, it examines the increasingly significant relations among art, identity and politics in the modern world.Among the themes investigated by the contributors: - how African painters undermine racist stereotypes yet remain dominated by the Western art market - the role of anthropology museums in the perpetuation of the Western market in 'tribal art' - the internal and external political disputes underlying the 'repatriation' of cultural property.


Culture and Public Action

Culture and Public Action

Author: Vijayendra Rao

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 462

ISBN-13: 9780804747875

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Led by Amartya Sen, Mary Douglas, and Arjun Appadurai, the distinguished anthropologists and economists in this book forcefully argue that culture is central to development, and present a framework for incorporating culture into development discourse. For further information on the book and related essays, please visit www.cultureandpublicaction.org.


The Eurovision Song Contest as a Cultural Phenomenon

The Eurovision Song Contest as a Cultural Phenomenon

Author: Adam Dubin

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-07-08

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 1000614972

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Drawing from the wealth of academic literature about the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) written over the last two decades, this book consolidates and recognizes the ESC's relevance in academia by analysing its contribution to different fields of study. The book brings together leading ESC scholars from across disciplines and from across the globe to reflect on the intersection between their academic fields of study and the ESC by answering the question: what has the ESC contributed to academia? The book also draws from fields rarely associated with the ESC, such as Law, Business and Research Methodologies, to demonstrate the contest's broad utility in research, pedagogy and in practice. Given its interdisciplinary approach, this volume will be of interest to scholars and students working in cultural, media, and music studies, as well as those interested in the intersections between these areas and politics, law, education, pedagogy, and history.


Contesting the Frontiers

Contesting the Frontiers

Author: Ullamaija Kivikuru

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13:

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Gennem indledende refleksioner omkring medier, kultur og etnicitet efterfulgt af case studier, analyseres og identificeres nogle af de vilkår, hvorpå borgere i Danmark, Norge og Sverige forhandler, skaber og konstituerer deres historie, deres socialorden og deres kulturelle praksis