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Author |
: Uma Narayan |
Publisher |
: Indiana University Press |
Total Pages |
: 360 |
Release |
: 2000 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0253337372 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780253337375 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis Decentering the Center by : Uma Narayan
The essays in this volume bring to their focuses on philosophical issues the new angles of vision created by the multicultural, global, and postcolonial feminisms that have been developing around us. These multicultural, global, and postcolonial feminist concerns transform mainstream notions of experience, human rights, the origins of philosophic issues, philosophic uses of metaphors of the family, white antiracism, human progress, scientific progress, modernity, the unity of scientific method, the desirability of universal knowledge claims, and other ideas central to philosophy.
Author |
: Tobias Janz |
Publisher |
: transcript Verlag |
Total Pages |
: 375 |
Release |
: 2019-06-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783839446492 |
ISBN-13 |
: 383944649X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis Decentering Musical Modernity by : Tobias Janz
This collection investigates the concept of modernity in music and its multiple interpretations in Europe and East Asia. Through contributions by both European and East Asian musicologists it discusses how a decentered understanding of musical modernity could be matched on multiple historiographical perspectives while being attentive to the specificities of local music and their narratives in East Asia and Europe. The essays connect local, global and transnational history with sociological theories of modernity and modernization, making the volume an important contribution to overcoming the Eurocentric dichotomy between western music and world music within the field of historical musicology.
Author |
: Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht |
Publisher |
: Berghahn Books |
Total Pages |
: 422 |
Release |
: 2007-12-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781782387985 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1782387986 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis Decentering America by : Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht
"Decentering" has fast become a dynamic approach to the study of American cultural and diplomatic history. But what precisely does decentering mean, how does it work, and why has it risen to such prominence? This book addresses the attempt to decenter the United States in the history of culture and international relations both in times when the United States has been assumed to take center place. Rather than presenting more theoretical perspectives, this collection offers a variety of examples of how one can look at the role of culture in international history without assigning the central role to the United States. Topics include cultural violence, inverted Americanization, the role of NGOs, modernity and internationalism, and the culture of diplomacy. Each subsection includes two case studies dedicated to one particular approach which while not dealing with the same geographical topic or time frame illuminate a similar methodological interest. Collectively, these essays pragmatically demonstrate how the study of culture and international history can help us to rethink and reconceptualize US history today.
Author |
: Jesús A. Ramos-Kittrell |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 281 |
Release |
: 2019-12-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781498573184 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1498573185 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis Decentering the Nation by : Jesús A. Ramos-Kittrell
winner of the 2021 Ellen Koskoff Edited Volume Prize Decentering the Nation: Music, Mexicanidad, and Globalization considers how neoliberal capitalism has upset the symbolic economy of “Mexican” cultural discourse, and how this phenomenon touches on a broader crisis of representation affecting the nation-state in globalization. This book argues that, while mexicanidad emerged in the early twentieth century as a cultural trope about national origins, culture, and history, it was, nonetheless a trope steeped in ‘otherization’ and used by nation-states (Mexico and the United States) to legitimize narratives of cultural and socioeconomic development stemming out of nationalist political projects that are now under strain. Using music as a phenomenological platform of inquiry, contributors to this book focus on a critique of mexicanidad in terms of the cultural processes through which people contest ideas about race, gender, and sexuality; reframe ideas of memory, history, and belonging; and negotiate the experiences of dislocation that affect them. The volume urges readers to find points of resonance in its chapters, and thus, interrogate the asymmetrical ways in which power traverses their own historical experience. In light of the crisis in representation that currently affects the nation-state as a political unit in globalization, such resonance is critical to make culture an arena of social collusion, where alliances can restore the fiber of civil society and contest the pressures that have made disenfranchisement one of the most alarming features characterizing the complex relationships between the state and the neoliberal corporate system that seeks to regulate it. Scholars of history, international relations, cultural anthropology, Latin American studies, queer and gender studies, music, and cultural studies will find this book particularly useful.
Author |
: Doctor Meghana Nayak |
Publisher |
: Zed Books Ltd. |
Total Pages |
: 338 |
Release |
: 2013-04-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781848139169 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1848139160 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis Decentering International Relations by : Doctor Meghana Nayak
Decentering International Relations seeks to actively confront, resist, and rewrite International Relations (IR), a heavily politicized field that is deeply centered in the North/West and privileges certain perspectives, pedagogies, and practices. Is it possible to break the chain of signifiers that always leads IR studies back to the US and its European allies? Through engagement with a variety of theories (ranging beyond the usual 'mainstream' versus 'critical/alternative' binary), and conversations with scholars, activists, and students, the authors invite the reader to participate in an accessible yet provocative experiment to decentre the North/West when we learn, study and do IR. In particular, they examine how the pressing issues of 'human rights', 'globalization', 'peace and security', and 'indigeneity' are simultaneously normative inventions meant to sustain particular power structures and sites for insurgent and subversive attempts to live IR at the margins. Selbin and Nayak have written a remarkable and provocative re-envisioning of a globally important subject.
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: |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 307 |
Release |
: 2018-05-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004364530 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004364536 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis Decentering European Intellectual Space by :
Decentering European Intellectual Space challenges the conventional view of intellectual history as a debate over the interpretation of a limited number of texts produced by a small group of prominent scholars, writers, and intellectuals from the cultural centers of Europe. Addressing the question “What is European intellectual space?”, this collection of essays seeks to demonstrate how this space is shaped, ordered, and communicated between Europe’s fluctuating cores and peripheries. Focusing on the asymmetrical relations between large and small, centers and peripheries, cores and margins, in scholarly and other forms of interaction – and within Europe as well as globally – the volume brings forth a variety of trajectories and strategies developed by intellectuals outside the culturally dominant centers. Contributors are: David Cottington, Narve Fulsås, Tommaso Giordani, Marja Jalava, Zsófia Lórand, Łukasz Mikołajewski, Diana Mishkova, Stefan Nygård, Emilia Palonen, Manolis Patiniotis, Johanna Rainio-Niemi, Tore Rem, José María Rosales, and Johan Strang.
Author |
: Katrina Srigley |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 344 |
Release |
: 2018-05-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351123808 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351123807 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis Beyond Women's Words by : Katrina Srigley
Beyond Women’s Words unites feminist scholars, artists, and community activists working with the stories of women and other historically marginalized subjects to address the contributions and challenges of doing feminist oral history. Feminists who work with oral history methods want to tell stories that matter. They know, too, that the telling of those stories—the processes by which they are generated and recorded, and the different contexts in which they are shared and interpreted—also matters—a lot. Using Sherna Berger Gluck and Daphne Patai’s classic text, Women’s Words, as a platform to reflect on how feminisms, broadly defined, have influenced, and continue to influence, the wider field of oral history, this remarkable collection brings together an international, multi-generational, and multidisciplinary line-up of authors whose work highlights the great variety in understandings of, and approaches to, feminist oral histories. Through five thematic sections, the volume considers Indigenous modes of storytelling, feminism in diverse locales around the globe, different theoretical approaches, oral history as performance, digital oral history, and oral history as community-engagement. Beyond Women’s Words is ideal for students of oral history, anthropology, public history, women’s and gender history, and Women’s and Gender Studies, as well as activists, artists, and community-engaged practitioners.
Author |
: Janice Gassam Asare |
Publisher |
: Berrett-Koehler Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 209 |
Release |
: 2023-10-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781523005567 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1523005564 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis Decentering Whiteness in the Workplace by : Janice Gassam Asare
Your DEIJ efforts are stagnating because you continue to center whiteness. Creating a truly anti-racist organization requires learning how to identify and rectify the systemic, and often unconscious, centering of white culture and values in the workplace. Corporate America continues to struggle with racial equity in a post-George Floyd world. As the United States becomes more diverse and the public consciousness continues to shift, successful racial equity efforts in the workplace are needed now more than ever. Decentering Whiteness in the Workplace exposes the ways that white culture and expectations are centered in the modern American workplace and the fears within corporate spaces about talking candidly, openly, and honestly about whiteness, white supremacy, and anti-Blackness. Readers will discover: A direct and straightforward analysis about what white-centering is An evaluation of the different ways that whiteness is centered in the workplace, such as bereavement and holiday policies and dress codes A guide on how to recognize and decenter whiteness within oneself and at work Solutions for people to contribute individually and systemically to anti-oppression Decentering Whiteness in the Workplace provides a crucial guidebook with practical solutions for leaders, DEIJ practitioners, and anyone hoping to truly create an anti-racist workplace.
Author |
: Ming Tiampo |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 259 |
Release |
: 2011-03-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226801667 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226801667 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis Gutai by : Ming Tiampo
Gutai is the first book in English to examine Japan’s best-known modern art movement, a circle of postwar artists whose avant-garde paintings, performances, and installations foreshadowed many key developments in American and European experimental art. Working with previously unpublished photographs and archival resources, Ming Tiampo considers Gutai’s pioneering transnational practice, spurred on by mid-century developments in mass media and travel that made the movement’s field of reception and influence global in scope. Using these lines of transmission to claim a place for Gutai among modernist art practices while tracing the impact of Japan on art in Europe and America, Tiampo demonstrates the fundamental transnationality of modernism. Ultimately, Tiampo offers a new conceptual model for writing a global history of art, making Gutai an important and original contribution to modern art history.
Author |
: Jared E. Alcántara |
Publisher |
: InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages |
: 347 |
Release |
: 2015-10-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780830899029 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0830899022 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis Crossover Preaching by : Jared E. Alcántara
In our increasingly pluralistic and multicultural society, there is a need for preaching that is capable of crossing cultural boundaries and engaging multiple contexts. Jared Alcántara's exciting new work proposes an intercultural and improvisational account of preaching in conversation with the legacy of Gardner C. Taylor.