Tag: Representing

Free Download Mosaics of Knowledge: Representing Information in the Roman World (Classical Culture and Society) by Andrew M. Riggsby
English | August 22, 2019 | ISBN: 019063250X, 0197660622 | True PDF | 264 pages | 34.2 MB
Today’s information technology often seems to take on a life of its own, spreading into every part of our lives. In the Roman world things were different. Technologies were limited to small, scattered social groups.

Free Download Transnational Lampedusa: Representing Migration in Italy and Beyond by Jacopo Colombini
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 293 Pages | ISBN : 3031457331 | 20.9 MB
This book examines how Lampedusa, Italy’s southernmost island, has become a transnational symbol representing migration to Europe from the Global South. It analyses how three very different associations have used the name "Lampedusa" as a means of restoring a sense of subjectivity or agency to migrants themselves. Jacopo Colombini argues that the work of the Archivio delle Memorie Migranti (Rome), the self-organised refugee group Lampedusa in Hamburg, and the Lampedusa-based Collettivo Askavusa offers an alternative to the stereotypical, often racially connoted, public discussion of migrant presence in Italy and Europe. He also demonstrates, however, that the marginalisation of migrant and refugee voices in the public discourse is also partially and unavoidably reproduced in the cultural projects that wish to restore their agency.

Free Download Writing and Representing Qualitative Research
by Lahman, Maria K. E.
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1544348487 | 417 pages | True PDF | 9.26 MB

Free Download Figures of Ill Repute: Representing Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century France By Charles Bernheimer
1997 | 352 Pages | ISBN: 0822319470 | PDF | 52 MB
Ubiquitous in the streets and brothels of nineteenth-century Paris, the prostitute was even more so in the novels and paintings of the time. Charles Bernheimer discusses how these representations of the sexually available woman express male ambivalence about desire, money, class, and the body. Interweaving close textual analysis with historical anecdote and theoretical speculation, Bernheimer demonstrates how the formal properties of art can serve strategically to control anxious fantasies about female sexual power. Drawing on methods derived from cultural studies, psychoanalysis, social history, feminist theory, and narrative analysis, this interdisciplinary classic (available now for the first time in paperback) was awarded Honorable Mention in 1990 for the James Russell Lowell prize awarded by the Modern Language Association for the best book of criticism.

Free Download Theorizing Museums: Representing Identity and Diversity in a Changing World By Sharon Macdonald (editor), Gordon Fyfe (editor)
1996 | 244 Pages | ISBN: 0631201513 | PDF | 12 MB
Museums are key cultural loci of our times. They are symbols and sites for the playing out of social relations of identity and difference, knowledge and power, theory and representation. These are issues at the heart of contemporary anthropology, sociology and cultural studies. This volume brings together original contributions from international scholars to show how social and cultural theory can bring new insight to debate about museums. Analytical perspectives on the museum are drawn from the anthropology and sociology of globalization, time, space and consumption, as well as from feminism, psychoanalysis, experimental ethnography and literary theory. These perspectives are brought to bear on questions of museums′ changing role and position in the representation of the nation-state, of community, and of gender, class and ethnicity. The examples in this book are drawn from different kinds of museum around the world, and include significant controversial and experimental exhibitions; the Enola Gay at the Smithsonian; feminist exhibitions in Scandinavia; the National Museum of Sri Lanka; Victorian art at the Tate; the representation of race at Colonial Williamsburg and of colonialism and identity in Canada.

Free Download Someshwar Sati, "Reclaiming the Disabled Subject: Representing Disability in Short Fiction "
English | ISBN: 9354353355 | 2022 | 300 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Mired inside its rather archaic comprehension as a medical phenomenon, disability, for a long time now, has been ignored as a marker of identity. The world has only been busy in rectifying the absences that have, ostensibly "dis-abled", rather than accepting such impaired existences as human beings themselves. The volume intends to reclaim the representations of disability and present narratives that do not just use the figure of the disabled as a means to an end. It includes translation of 17 disability centric short stories from multiple Indian languages into English. Further it uses these stories as illustration to test and develop new theoretical formulations concerning disability and the disabled. What grants the proposed work its uniqueness is, in other words, not only the translations of the erstwhile lost stories of disability but also the use of these stories towards the formation of theoretical paradigms to move forward the project of Disability Studies.

Free Download Helen J. Swift, "Representing the Dead: Epitaph Fictions in Late-Medieval France "
English | ISBN: 1843844362 | 2016 | 354 pages | PDF | 27 MB
An examination of how the dead were memorialised in late medieval French literature.

Free Download Julie Singer, "Representing Mental Illness in Late Medieval France: Machines, Madness, Metaphor "
English | ISBN: 1843845121 | 2018 | 374 pages | PDF | 13 MB
An exploration of the medieval mind as a machine, and how it might be affected and immobiled, in textual reactions to the madness of Charles VI of France.

Free Download Representing the Rural on the English Stage: Performance and Rurality in the Twenty-First Century
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031264770 | 210 Pages | PDF (True) | 3 MB
This book explores how the English rural has been represented in contemporary theatre and performance. Exploring a range of plays, forms, and contexts of theatre production, Representing the Rural celebrates the lively engagement with rurality on English stages since 2000, constituting the first full study of theatrical representations of rural life. Interdisciplinary in its approach, this book draws on political philosophy and cultural geography in its definitions of rurality and Englishness, and works with key theoretical concepts such as nostalgia and ethnonationalism. Covering a range of perspectives from the country garden in Mike Bartlett’s Albion to agricultural labour in Nell Leyshon’s The Farm, the enclosure acts in D.C. Moore’s Common to Black rural history in Testament’s Black Men Walking, the book shows how theatre and performance can open up different ways of reading rural geographies, histories, and lives. While Representing the Rural is aimed at students and researchers of theatre and performance, its interdisciplinary scope means that it has wider appeal to other disciplines in the arts and humanities, including geography, politics, and history.

Free Download Caroline Williamson Sinalo, "Representing Gender-Based Violence: Global Perspectives"
English | ISBN: 3031134508 | 2023 | 331 pages | PDF | 8 MB
This book focuses on the politics, ethics and stereotypical pitfalls of representational practices surrounding Gender-Based Violence (GBV) from a global perspective. The originality of the volume is linked to its cross-disciplinary perspective as the topic of representing GBV is analyzed across the domains of philosophy/epistemology, fiction and the arts (including literature, film, television series and music) and non-fictional representations in the media (including broadcast media, online/print journalism, transmedia activism). The volume identifies contemporary representational practices and the theoretical and critical responses, examining various aspects of popular culture from around the world. In doing so, the editors put feminism in conversation with global trends to identify its cultural frontline. The volume will appeal to scholars working on gender and violence from diverse fields.