Tag: Encounters

Free Download Shiho Satsuka, "Nature in Translation: Japanese Tourism Encounters the Canadian Rockies"
English | 2015 | pages: 281 | ISBN: 0822358808, 0822358670 | PDF | 2,6 mb
Nature in Translation is an ethnographic exploration in the cultural politics of the translation of knowledge about nature. Shiho Satsuka follows the Japanese tour guides who lead hikes, nature walks, and sightseeing bus tours for Japanese tourists in Canada’s Banff National Park and illustrates how they aspired to become local "nature interpreters" by learning the ecological knowledge authorized by the National Park. The guides assumed the universal appeal of Canada’s magnificent nature, but their struggle in translating nature reveals that our understanding of nature-including scientific knowledge-is always shaped by the specific socio-cultural concerns of the particular historical context. These include the changing meanings of work in a neoliberal economy, as well as culturally-specific dreams of finding freedom and self-actualization in Canada’s vast nature. Drawing on nearly two years of fieldwork in Banff and a decade of conversations with the guides, Satsuka argues that knowing nature is an unending process of cultural translation, full of tensions, contradictions, and frictions. Ultimately, the translation of nature concerns what counts as human, what kind of society is envisioned, and who is included and excluded in the society as a legitimate subject.

Free Download Willard Bohn, "Marvelous Encounters: Surrealist Responses To Film, Art, Poetry, And Architecture"
English | 2005 | ISBN: 0838756115 | PDF | pages: 252 | 42.8 mb
The concept of poesie critique – poetry that possesses both a poetic and a critical function – has an extensive history in modern literature. Written in response to another work of art, be it a painting, a film, a poem, or a piece of music, the critical poem comments on the latter in various ways but refuses to abandon its poetic mission. Marvelous Encounters examines surrealist poets writing in French, Spanish, and Catalan who experimented with this intriguing genre. The first three chapters are concerned with the French surrealists, who began to cultivate critical poetry toward the end of World War I. Chapter 2 considers how Louis Aragon and Philippe Soupault appropriated the critical poem, as they reviewed books of poetry and films starring Charlie Chaplin. Chapter 3, which examines how Benjamin Peret and Paul Eluard conceived of critical poetry, analyzes their response to poems by Tristan Tzara and paintings by Giorgio de Chirico and Joan Miro. Chapter 4 is devoted entirely to Andre Breton.

Free Download Carolien Stolte, "Eurasian Encounters: Museums, Missions, Modernities "
English | ISBN: 9089648836 | 2017 | 262 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The essays in this volume explore crucial intellectual and cultural exchanges between Asia and Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. Examining the increased mobility of people and information, scientific advances, global crises, and the unravelling of empires, Eurasian Encounters demonstrates that this time period saw an unprecedented increase in a transnational flow of politically and socially influential ideas. Together, the contributors show how the two ends of Eurasia interacted in artistic, academic, and religious spheres using new international and cosmopolitan approaches.

Free Download Jutta Ahlbeck, "Encounters and Practices of Petty Trade in Northern Europe, 1820-1960: Forgotten Livelihoods"
English | ISBN: 3030980790 | 2022 | 367 pages | PDF | 17 MB
This open access book uncovers one important, yet forgotten, form of itinerant livelihoods, namely petty trade, more specifically how it was practiced in Northern Europe during the period 1820-1960. It investigates how traders and customers interacted in different spaces and approaches ambulatory trade as an arena of encounters by looking at everyday social practices. Petty traders often belonged to subjugated social groups, like ethnic minorities and migrants, whereas their customers belonged to the resident population. How were these mobile traders perceived and described? What goods did they peddle? How did these commodities enable and shape trading encounters? What kind of narratives can be found, and whose? These questions pertaining to daily practices on a grass-root level have not been addressed in previous research.

Free Download Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, "Brief Encounters with the Enemy: Fiction"
English | 2013 | pages: 240 | ISBN: 0812993586 | EPUB | 1,8 mb
The first short story collection from a writer who calls to mind such luminaries as Denis Johnson, George Saunders, and Nathan Englander

Free Download A Month by the Sea: Encounters in Gaza By Dervla Murphy
2013 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 1906011478 | EPUB | 1 MB
Over the Summer of 2011, Dervla Murphy spent a month in the Gaza Strip. She met liberals and Islamists, Hamas and Fatah supporters, rich and poor. Through reported conversations she creates a vivid picture of life in this coastal fragment of self-governing Palestine. Bombed and cut-off from normal contact with the rest of the world, life in Gaza is beset with structural, medical, and mental health problems, yet it is also bursting with political engagement and underwritten by an intense enjoyment of family life. During her month by the sea, Dervla develops an acute eye for the way in which isolation has shaped this society. ""The light she sheds on one of the world’s greatest humanitarian crises is as moving as it is invaluable.""–Booklist Sept. 15, 2013

Free Download Mary Elene Wood, "Life Writing and Schizophrenia: Encounters at the Edge of Meaning (Clio Medica: Perspectives in Medical Humanities)"
English | 2013 | pages: 362 | ISBN: 9042036842 | PDF | 2,1 mb
This book examines work in several genres of life writing-autobiography, memoir, case history, autobiographical fiction-focused either on what it means to live with schizophrenia or what it means to understand and ‘treat’ people who have received that diagnosis.

Free Download Jon Stewart, "Encounters With Nineteenth-Century Continental Philosophy: Discussions and Debates "
English | ISBN: 9004689443 | 2023 | 305 pages | PDF | 3 MB

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Free Download Eric Leake, "Difficult Empathy and Rhetorical Encounters "
English | ISBN: 1032321717 | 2023 | 166 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Difficult Empathy takes up the question of empathy as fundamentally a rhetorical concern, focusing on the ways we encounter and understand one another in what we read and write, hear and say. The book centres around the argument that empathy as a rhetorical event occurs not simply in the minds of individuals but as a product of the rhetorical situations, practices, cultures, and values in which we engage. Rather than identifying empathy as a cure-all, or jettisoning the concept altogether, the author acknowledges empathy’s potential as well as its limitations by focusing on what makes empathy a hard and ultimately worthwhile practice. This nuanced and original study will interest scholars working at the intersection of rhetoric and composition with empathy, as well as those studying empathy in fields such as critical and cultural theory, politics, media analysis, social psychology, and the cognitive humanities.

Free Download Chris Salter, "Alien Agency: Experimental Encounters with Art in the Making"
English | ISBN: 0262028468 | 2015 | 328 pages | PDF | 4 MB
An investigation into what happens in creative practice when the materials of art and research behave and perform in ways beyond the creators’ intentions.