Moving Subjects, Moving Objects

Moving Subjects, Moving Objects
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Publisher : Berghahn Books
Total Pages : 296
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ISBN-10 : 9780857453242
ISBN-13 : 0857453246
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Book Synopsis Moving Subjects, Moving Objects by : Maruška Svašek

Download or read book Moving Subjects, Moving Objects written by Maruška Svašek and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years an increasing number of scholars have incorporated a focus on emotions in their theories of material culture, transnationalism and globalization, and this book aims to contribute to this field of inquiry. It examines how ‘emotions’ can be theorized, and serves as a useful analytical tool for understanding the interrelated mobility of humans, objects and images. Ethnographically rich, and theoretically grounded case studies offer new perspectives on the relations between migration, material culture and emotions. While some chapters address the many different ways in which migrants and migrant artists express their emotions through objects and images in transnational contexts, other chapters focus on how particular works of art, everyday objects and artefacts can evoke feelings specific to particular migrant groups and communities. Case studies also analyse how artists, academics and policy makers can stimulate positive interaction between migrants and non-migrant communities.

Moving Politics

Moving Politics
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 537
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ISBN-10 : 9780226305318
ISBN-13 : 0226305317
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Book Synopsis Moving Politics by : Deborah B. Gould

Download or read book Moving Politics written by Deborah B. Gould and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-12-15 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1980s, after a decade spent engaged in more routine interest-group politics, thousands of lesbians and gay men responded to the AIDS crisis by defiantly and dramatically taking to the streets. But by the early 1990s, the organization they founded, ACT UP, was no more—even as the AIDS epidemic raged on. Weaving together interviews with activists, extensive research, and reflections on the author’s time as a member of the organization, Moving Politics is the first book to chronicle the rise and fall of ACT UP, highlighting a key factor in its trajectory: emotion. Surprisingly overlooked by many scholars of social movements, emotion, Gould argues, plays a fundamental role in political activism. From anger to hope, pride to shame, and solidarity to despair, feelings played a significant part in ACT UP’s provocative style of protest, which included raucous demonstrations, die-ins, and other kinds of street theater. Detailing the movement’s public triumphs and private setbacks, Moving Politics is the definitive account of ACT UP’s origin, development, and decline as well as a searching look at the role of emotion in contentious politics.

In the Permanent Collection

In the Permanent Collection
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Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Total Pages : 78
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ISBN-10 : 9781574415544
ISBN-13 : 1574415549
Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Book Synopsis In the Permanent Collection by : Stefanie Wortman

Download or read book In the Permanent Collection written by Stefanie Wortman and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trying to make sense of a disordered world, Stefanie Wortman's debut collection examines works of art as varied as casts of antique sculpture, 19th-century novels, and even scenes from reality television to investigate the versions of order that they offer. These deft poems yield moments of surprising levity even as they mount a sharp critique of human folly. "These poems seem haunted by a mostly nameless melancholia. In The Permanent Collection, however, turns its grim geography of prisons, mortuaries, and tawdry suburbs into something close to classical elegy. 'In sunken rooms,' Wortman writes, 'on scratchy rugs, maybe we’ve never known happiness.' It’s that 'maybe'—the smart hedge—that renders her poems complex, often beguiling, but never without a gesture of redemption. This should be part of any serious poet’s permanent collection."— Chad Davidson, author of The Last Predicta and judge

The Accessory and Garage Journal

The Accessory and Garage Journal
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Total Pages : 1418
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ISBN-10 : NYPL:33433090757455
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Download or read book The Accessory and Garage Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Circles where the Head Should be

Circles where the Head Should be
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Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Total Pages : 83
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ISBN-10 : 9781574413090
ISBN-13 : 1574413090
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Circles where the Head Should be by : Caki Wilkinson

Download or read book Circles where the Head Should be written by Caki Wilkinson and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems in Circles Where the Head Should Be are full of objects and oddities, bits of news, epic catalogues, and a cast of characters hoping to make sense of it all. Underneath the often whimsical surface, however, lies a search for those connections we long for but so often miss, and a wish for art to bridge the gaps.

Proceedings of the City Council of the City of Minneapolis, Minnesota, ...

Proceedings of the City Council of the City of Minneapolis, Minnesota, ...
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Total Pages : 1652
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ISBN-10 : CHI:098225979
ISBN-13 :
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Book Synopsis Proceedings of the City Council of the City of Minneapolis, Minnesota, ... by : Minneapolis (Minn.). City Council

Download or read book Proceedings of the City Council of the City of Minneapolis, Minnesota, ... written by Minneapolis (Minn.). City Council and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Death of a Ventriloquist

Death of a Ventriloquist
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Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Total Pages : 96
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ISBN-10 : 9781574414479
ISBN-13 : 157441447X
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Book Synopsis Death of a Ventriloquist by : Gibson Fay-LeBlanc

Download or read book Death of a Ventriloquist written by Gibson Fay-LeBlanc and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects poems that explore the highs and lows of parenthood and personhood.