Birmingham
Author: Carl Chinn
Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781781382479
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis new, factually rich and visually stunning publication is the first major history of Birmingham for more than four decades.
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Cultures of Empire
Author: Catherine Hall
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780415929066
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis reader collects together articles by key historians, literary critics and anthropologists on the cultures of colonialism in the British Empire in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is divided into three sections: theoretical, emphasizing approaches; the colonisers "at home"; and "away".
Religion and Everyday Life and Culture
Author: Vincent F. Biondo
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2010-03-25
Total Pages: 1197
ISBN-13: 0313342792
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis intriguing three-volume set explores the ways in which religion is bound to the practice of daily life and how daily life is bound to religion. In Religion and Everyday Life and Culture, 36 international scholars describe the impact of religious practices around the world, using rich examples drawn from personal observation. Instead of repeating generalizations about what religion should mean, these volumes examine how religions actually influence our public and private lives "on the ground," on a day-to-day basis. Volume one introduces regional histories of the world's religions and discusses major ritual practices, such as the Catholic Mass and the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca. Volume two examines themes that will help readers understand how religions interact with the practices of public life, describing the ways religions influence government, education, criminal justice, economy, technology, and the environment. Volume three takes up themes that are central to how religions are realized in the practices of individuals. In these essays, readers meet a shaman healer in South Africa, laugh with Buddhist monks, sing with Bob Dylan, cheer for Australian rugby, and explore Chicana and Iranian art.
Remaking Birmingham
Author: Liam Kennedy
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-04-15
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 1134442580
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe volume is multi-disciplinary in content, including contributions from specialists in architecture, public and community arts, photography and urban studies - their critical perspectives linked by interest in urban visual culture.
Climate and Culture
Author: Giuseppe Feola
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-10-03
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 1108422500
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscusses how culture both facilitates and inhibits our ability to address, live with, and make sense of climate change.
Layout, Making it Fit
Author: Carolyn Knight
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 1592530052
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFinding the right balance between content and space is a challenge every graphic designer faces. The cookie-cutter templates most layout books offer don't help, because every project has a different content-to-space ratio. Finally, here is a book that gets to the heart of challenging layout design. It offers general techniques for working with varying quantities of content and shows how designers can apply these techniques in their own work. The book focuses on the two most difficult layout issues: compacting a high volume of content onto a small area while maintaining beauty and readability; and applying a small volume of content to a large space without making it look "bare." From posters to logos and magazines to book covers, two veteran design consultants examine more than 150 projects and illustrate the methodologies and solutions that made each work. This invaluable resource reveals how to make content shine in any space.
The Enterprise Culture and the Inner City
Author: Nicholas Deakin
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-06-28
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 1134960301
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers a vigorous and critical investigation of government policy for inner city regeneration during the 1980s and 90s, and in light of Canary Wharf, presents a credible prediction for the future (or lack of) of the inner city.
Drugs and Popular Culture
Author: Paul Manning
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-01-11
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 1134012187
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe use of illegal drugs is so common that a number of commentators now refer to the 'normalisation' of drug consumption. It is surprising, then, that to date very little academic work has explored drug use as part of contemporary popular culture. This collection of readings will apply an innovatory, multi-disciplinary approach to this theme, combining some of the most recent research on 'the normalisation thesis' with fresh work on the relationship between drug use and popular culture. In drawing upon criminological, sociological and cultural studies approaches, this book will make an important contribution to the newly emerging field positioned at the intersection of these disciplines. The particular focus of the book is upon drug consumption as popular culture. It aims to provide an accessible collection of chapters and readings that will explore drug use in popular culture in a way that is relevant to undergraduates and postgraduates studying a variety of courses, including criminology, sociology, media studies, health care and social work.
Roots & Culture
Author: Eddie Chambers
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2016-12-18
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 178673074X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow did a distinct and powerful Black British identity emerge? In the 1950s, when many Caribbean migrants came to Britain, there was no such recognised entity as "Black Britain." Yet by the 1980s, the cultural landscape had radically changed, and a remarkable array of creative practices such as theatre, poetry, literature, music and the visual arts gave voice to striking new articulations of Black-British identity. This new book chronicles the extraordinary blend of social, political and cultural influences from the mid-1950s to late 1970s that gave rise to new heights of Black-British artistic expression in the 1980s. Eddie Chambers relates how and why during these decades "West Indians" became "Afro-Caribbeans," and how in turn "Afro-Caribbeans" became "Black-British" - and the centrality of the arts to this important narrative. The British Empire, migration, Rastafari, the Anti-Apartheid struggle, reggae music, dub poetry, the ascendance of the West Indies cricket team and the coming of Margaret Thatcher - all of these factors, and others, have had a part to play in the compelling story of how the African Diaspora transformed itself to give rise to Black Britain.
Culture, Participation and Policy in the Municipal Public Park
Author: Abigail Gilmore
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2024-02-13
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 3031442776
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book concerns the values and practices of participation in municipal public parks, and the connections they have with cultural policy, urbanism, and social life. Adopting a critical cultural policy lens, it identifies the park as a mundane but extraordinarily treasured place for the production and exchange of cultural values, regulation, resistance, and the practising of citizenship. Drawing on extensive mixed-methods research on everyday participation in diverse local cultural ecosystems in England and Scotland, the book examines the social lives of parks and their users, and the important public values that are generated through their common stewardship and usership. It presents case studies of parks and co-located museums as cultural public spheres, which promote both commoning and commodification. These are contextualized by histories of municipal parkmaking from the nineteenth century to the present and related to the making of local government and to other civic and cultural institutions. The book highlights contemporary issues of austerity, marketisation and de-municipalisation within local government in the context of urban development. It positions the public park as fundamental to democratic cultural governance and makes the case for the primacy of public trust, ownership, and park equity in safeguarding the right to the city.
