Kerry Bystrom and Joseph R. Slaughter (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780823277872
- eISBN:
- 9780823280490
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823277872.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
Despite the rise in transatlantic, oceanic, hemispheric, and regional studies that followed postcolonial and Third World studies in pursuing new frameworks and methods for examining South-South ...
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Despite the rise in transatlantic, oceanic, hemispheric, and regional studies that followed postcolonial and Third World studies in pursuing new frameworks and methods for examining South-South connections, the South Atlantic has not yet emerged as a “site” that captures the general imagination or the scholarly attention it deserves—particularly in literature and cultural studies. The Global South Atlantic traces literary exchanges, socio-historical linkages, networks of communication and exchange, and overlapping investments (financial, political, social, cultural, and libidinal) among Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean that remain largely invisible to an Atlantic Studies still primarily inclined toward the North. Bringing together scholars working in Lusophone, Francophone, Hispanophone, and Anglophone contexts, as well as researchers working across other languages (such as Arabic) that are important components of a Global South Atlantic, the chapters in this volume demonstrate many important ways in which people, governments, political movements, social imaginaries, cultural artefacts, goods, and markets do (and sometimes do not) cross the South Atlantic. Combined, they help to reveal complex and intermeshed webs of cultural, material, and social relations that begin to make visible a multi-textured version of a South Atlantic system that is neither singular nor stable. As a region made up of multiple intersecting regions, as a vision made up of complementary and competing visions, the South Atlantic can only be understood comparatively. Exploring the Atlantic as an effect of structures of power and knowledge that issue from the Global South (as much as from Europe and North America), The Global South Atlantic seeks to rebalance global literary studies by shifting perspectives on transatlantic flows and charting overlooked routes of comparison.Less
Despite the rise in transatlantic, oceanic, hemispheric, and regional studies that followed postcolonial and Third World studies in pursuing new frameworks and methods for examining South-South connections, the South Atlantic has not yet emerged as a “site” that captures the general imagination or the scholarly attention it deserves—particularly in literature and cultural studies. The Global South Atlantic traces literary exchanges, socio-historical linkages, networks of communication and exchange, and overlapping investments (financial, political, social, cultural, and libidinal) among Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean that remain largely invisible to an Atlantic Studies still primarily inclined toward the North. Bringing together scholars working in Lusophone, Francophone, Hispanophone, and Anglophone contexts, as well as researchers working across other languages (such as Arabic) that are important components of a Global South Atlantic, the chapters in this volume demonstrate many important ways in which people, governments, political movements, social imaginaries, cultural artefacts, goods, and markets do (and sometimes do not) cross the South Atlantic. Combined, they help to reveal complex and intermeshed webs of cultural, material, and social relations that begin to make visible a multi-textured version of a South Atlantic system that is neither singular nor stable. As a region made up of multiple intersecting regions, as a vision made up of complementary and competing visions, the South Atlantic can only be understood comparatively. Exploring the Atlantic as an effect of structures of power and knowledge that issue from the Global South (as much as from Europe and North America), The Global South Atlantic seeks to rebalance global literary studies by shifting perspectives on transatlantic flows and charting overlooked routes of comparison.
Russell K. Skowronek, M. James Blackman, and Ronald L. Bishop
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780813049816
- eISBN:
- 9780813050232
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813049816.001.0001
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Historical Archaeology
This volume contains a wealth of new information on the production, supply, and exchange of pottery in Alta California, which will be useful for years to come. Using the framework of World Systems ...
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This volume contains a wealth of new information on the production, supply, and exchange of pottery in Alta California, which will be useful for years to come. Using the framework of World Systems Theory and Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis, the authors have demonstrated the widespread production of both plain and glazed ceramics in Spanish California and the supply of other ceramic tablewares from Mexico. When situated with the other contributions to this book, the nuanced story of ceramics, the people who made them, and the nuclear and other scientists who studied them reveals a sophistication that far surpasses the wildest dreams of mission-era archaeology.Less
This volume contains a wealth of new information on the production, supply, and exchange of pottery in Alta California, which will be useful for years to come. Using the framework of World Systems Theory and Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis, the authors have demonstrated the widespread production of both plain and glazed ceramics in Spanish California and the supply of other ceramic tablewares from Mexico. When situated with the other contributions to this book, the nuanced story of ceramics, the people who made them, and the nuclear and other scientists who studied them reveals a sophistication that far surpasses the wildest dreams of mission-era archaeology.
Georgi Derluguian
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780804798457
- eISBN:
- 9781503600102
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804798457.003.0011
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics
Georgi Derluguian helps explain why Ukraine wound up with this oligarch problem in the first place, identifying the cause as a Ukraine’s peripheral position in the world economy and the failure of ...
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Georgi Derluguian helps explain why Ukraine wound up with this oligarch problem in the first place, identifying the cause as a Ukraine’s peripheral position in the world economy and the failure of its elites to cooperate for a larger good during the critical moment of the USSR’s collapse. Here a comparison with China proves useful. Derluguian argues that China succeeded because its relatively simple state allowed its leaders to work together to orient the country toward the needs of the global economy, while the complexity of Soviet institutions (including its division into multiple federal units) made such cooperation much more challenging. After the USSR collapsed, various “violent entrepreneurs” were able to take advantage of the resulting chaos to their own advantage, becoming oligarchs or state-based predators that have vested individual interests in subverting reforms.Less
Georgi Derluguian helps explain why Ukraine wound up with this oligarch problem in the first place, identifying the cause as a Ukraine’s peripheral position in the world economy and the failure of its elites to cooperate for a larger good during the critical moment of the USSR’s collapse. Here a comparison with China proves useful. Derluguian argues that China succeeded because its relatively simple state allowed its leaders to work together to orient the country toward the needs of the global economy, while the complexity of Soviet institutions (including its division into multiple federal units) made such cooperation much more challenging. After the USSR collapsed, various “violent entrepreneurs” were able to take advantage of the resulting chaos to their own advantage, becoming oligarchs or state-based predators that have vested individual interests in subverting reforms.
Nick Wilding
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780226166971
- eISBN:
- 9780226167022
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226167022.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
This chapter delves behind the literary figure of Sagredo created by Galileo as an interlocutor in his two final masterpieces, the Dialogo (1632) and Discorsi (1638), to explore the historical ...
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This chapter delves behind the literary figure of Sagredo created by Galileo as an interlocutor in his two final masterpieces, the Dialogo (1632) and Discorsi (1638), to explore the historical reality visible through traces in archives and museums. Although most of the correspondence between Galileo and Sagredo is lost, three portraits of Sagredo by Leandro and Gerolamo Bassano, and much personal and official archival material has here been located. One of these portraits, now in the Ashmolean Museum, is particularly rich iconographically, featuring the Pharos of Alexandria, a Persian kilim presented to Sagredo by Shah Abbas, and a Venetian commissione dogale. These discoveries, it is argued, are important as much for their testimony of the dissolution of a historical persona as their ability to reconstruct a faded aura.Less
This chapter delves behind the literary figure of Sagredo created by Galileo as an interlocutor in his two final masterpieces, the Dialogo (1632) and Discorsi (1638), to explore the historical reality visible through traces in archives and museums. Although most of the correspondence between Galileo and Sagredo is lost, three portraits of Sagredo by Leandro and Gerolamo Bassano, and much personal and official archival material has here been located. One of these portraits, now in the Ashmolean Museum, is particularly rich iconographically, featuring the Pharos of Alexandria, a Persian kilim presented to Sagredo by Shah Abbas, and a Venetian commissione dogale. These discoveries, it is argued, are important as much for their testimony of the dissolution of a historical persona as their ability to reconstruct a faded aura.
Paul Morris and Bob Adamson
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- May 2013
- ISBN:
- 9789888028016
- eISBN:
- 9789888180257
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888028016.003.0002
- Subject:
- Education, Educational Policy and Politics
Drawing on the notions of rational and conflict perspectives, this chapter focuses on how curriculum decisions are made and who the key agencies are, which have a role in the formal process of ...
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Drawing on the notions of rational and conflict perspectives, this chapter focuses on how curriculum decisions are made and who the key agencies are, which have a role in the formal process of educational policymaking in Hong Kong.Less
Drawing on the notions of rational and conflict perspectives, this chapter focuses on how curriculum decisions are made and who the key agencies are, which have a role in the formal process of educational policymaking in Hong Kong.
Andrew Milner and J.R. Burgmann
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- January 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781789621723
- eISBN:
- 9781800341180
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Discontinued
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781789621723.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
Despite the occasional upsurge of climate change scepticism among Anglophone conservative politicians and journalists, there is still a near consensus among climate scientists that current levels of ...
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Despite the occasional upsurge of climate change scepticism among Anglophone conservative politicians and journalists, there is still a near consensus among climate scientists that current levels of atmospheric greenhouse gas are sufficient to alter global weather patterns to disastrous effect. The resultant climate crisis is simultaneously both a natural and a socio-cultural phenomenon and in this book Milner and Burgmann argue that science fiction occupies a critical location within this nature/culture nexus. Science Fiction and Climate Change takes as its subject matter what Daniel Bloom famously dubbed ‘cli-fi’. It does not, however, attempt to impose a prescriptively environmentalist aesthetic on this sub-genre. Rather, it seeks to explain how a genre defined in relation to science finds itself obliged to produce fictional responses to the problems actually thrown up by contemporary scientific research. Milner and Burgmann adopt a historically and geographically comparatist framework, analysing print and audio-visual texts drawn from a number of different contexts, especially Australia, Britain, Canada, China, Finland, France, Germany, Japan and the United States. Inspired by Raymond Williams’s cultural materialism, Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology of culture and Franco Moretti’s version of world systems theory, the book builds on Milner’s own Locating Science Fiction to produce a powerfully persuasive study in the sociology of literature.Less
Despite the occasional upsurge of climate change scepticism among Anglophone conservative politicians and journalists, there is still a near consensus among climate scientists that current levels of atmospheric greenhouse gas are sufficient to alter global weather patterns to disastrous effect. The resultant climate crisis is simultaneously both a natural and a socio-cultural phenomenon and in this book Milner and Burgmann argue that science fiction occupies a critical location within this nature/culture nexus. Science Fiction and Climate Change takes as its subject matter what Daniel Bloom famously dubbed ‘cli-fi’. It does not, however, attempt to impose a prescriptively environmentalist aesthetic on this sub-genre. Rather, it seeks to explain how a genre defined in relation to science finds itself obliged to produce fictional responses to the problems actually thrown up by contemporary scientific research. Milner and Burgmann adopt a historically and geographically comparatist framework, analysing print and audio-visual texts drawn from a number of different contexts, especially Australia, Britain, Canada, China, Finland, France, Germany, Japan and the United States. Inspired by Raymond Williams’s cultural materialism, Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology of culture and Franco Moretti’s version of world systems theory, the book builds on Milner’s own Locating Science Fiction to produce a powerfully persuasive study in the sociology of literature.
M. Nicolás Caretta and Manuel Dueñas García
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780813066349
- eISBN:
- 9780813058566
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813066349.003.0009
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Historical Archaeology
In many ways, the state of Aguascalientes in Mexico is unknown territory in terms of understanding its Pre-Hispanic cultures. Recent research at the archaeological site of Cerro de Santiago shows a ...
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In many ways, the state of Aguascalientes in Mexico is unknown territory in terms of understanding its Pre-Hispanic cultures. Recent research at the archaeological site of Cerro de Santiago shows a population with characteristics that link them to their southern neighbors and provides evidence of certain Mesoamerican canons in the creation of their material culture. This chapter draws on data from field surveys and excavations to present diagnostic cultural features and their implications for the dynamics of macro-regional social interaction in Epiclassic Mesoamerica (ca. AD 600–900). These data not only illuminate the Pre-Hispanic occupation of the site, but also augment archaeological understanding of the processes of interaction that took place throughout the expansive north-central border of Greater Mesoamerica involving regional societies at the time. The authors depart from a World Systems Theory, which allows for a more nuanced understanding of regional history, as well as the nature of cultural changes in Late Classic times. The chapter concludes that change during this period was due to an increased economic interaction and a labor reorganization in the different political units that participated in such interactions.Less
In many ways, the state of Aguascalientes in Mexico is unknown territory in terms of understanding its Pre-Hispanic cultures. Recent research at the archaeological site of Cerro de Santiago shows a population with characteristics that link them to their southern neighbors and provides evidence of certain Mesoamerican canons in the creation of their material culture. This chapter draws on data from field surveys and excavations to present diagnostic cultural features and their implications for the dynamics of macro-regional social interaction in Epiclassic Mesoamerica (ca. AD 600–900). These data not only illuminate the Pre-Hispanic occupation of the site, but also augment archaeological understanding of the processes of interaction that took place throughout the expansive north-central border of Greater Mesoamerica involving regional societies at the time. The authors depart from a World Systems Theory, which allows for a more nuanced understanding of regional history, as well as the nature of cultural changes in Late Classic times. The chapter concludes that change during this period was due to an increased economic interaction and a labor reorganization in the different political units that participated in such interactions.
Corey Tazzara
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780198791584
- eISBN:
- 9780191833946
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198791584.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, European Early Modern History, Cultural History
Chapter 6 offers a quantitative examination of the commercial development of Livorno, showing how it plugged local and regional exchange networks into the currents of global commerce. Livorno was at ...
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Chapter 6 offers a quantitative examination of the commercial development of Livorno, showing how it plugged local and regional exchange networks into the currents of global commerce. Livorno was at the epicenter of the reorganization of maritime trade in the Tyrrhenian and throughout the Mediterranean. Despite dense connections between north-central Italy and the free port, however, international commerce did not substantially affect productive relations in the hinterland. North-central Italy remained an autonomous region; rather than a colonial outpost subservient to northern capitalism, Livorno was a large marketplace connecting otherwise distinct economies. The Tuscan city’s success in organizing trade eventually provoked a competitive response by neighboring ports.Less
Chapter 6 offers a quantitative examination of the commercial development of Livorno, showing how it plugged local and regional exchange networks into the currents of global commerce. Livorno was at the epicenter of the reorganization of maritime trade in the Tyrrhenian and throughout the Mediterranean. Despite dense connections between north-central Italy and the free port, however, international commerce did not substantially affect productive relations in the hinterland. North-central Italy remained an autonomous region; rather than a colonial outpost subservient to northern capitalism, Livorno was a large marketplace connecting otherwise distinct economies. The Tuscan city’s success in organizing trade eventually provoked a competitive response by neighboring ports.
Andrew Milner and J.R. Burgmann
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- January 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781789621723
- eISBN:
- 9781800341180
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Discontinued
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781789621723.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
The chapter opens with a discussion of two early instances of global warming cli-fi, Arthur Herzog’s Heat and George Turner’s The Sea and Summer, and argues that both are more or less oblivious to ...
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The chapter opens with a discussion of two early instances of global warming cli-fi, Arthur Herzog’s Heat and George Turner’s The Sea and Summer, and argues that both are more or less oblivious to the wider world beyond their respective national frontiers. It proceeds to elaborate an account of the place of SF in the world literary system, understood in Wallerstein and Moretti’s terms as comprising a core, semi-periphery and periphery. This model is then applied more specifically to cli-fi, distinguishing between structural and conjunctural determinants of the evolution of the sub-genre. The main structural determinant, it argues, will be the world SF system. But this may be either countered or reinforced by one or more of three main conjunctural factors: the degree of perceived vulnerability to extreme climate change of any particular national political economy; the salience of Green politics within any particular national polity; and the salience of climate change within broader environmentalist discussions in any particular national culture. The chapter concludes with critical accounts of Kim Stanley Robinson’s Science in the Capital trilogy, Frank Schätzing’s Der Schwarm, Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy and Antti Tuomainen’s Parantaja.Less
The chapter opens with a discussion of two early instances of global warming cli-fi, Arthur Herzog’s Heat and George Turner’s The Sea and Summer, and argues that both are more or less oblivious to the wider world beyond their respective national frontiers. It proceeds to elaborate an account of the place of SF in the world literary system, understood in Wallerstein and Moretti’s terms as comprising a core, semi-periphery and periphery. This model is then applied more specifically to cli-fi, distinguishing between structural and conjunctural determinants of the evolution of the sub-genre. The main structural determinant, it argues, will be the world SF system. But this may be either countered or reinforced by one or more of three main conjunctural factors: the degree of perceived vulnerability to extreme climate change of any particular national political economy; the salience of Green politics within any particular national polity; and the salience of climate change within broader environmentalist discussions in any particular national culture. The chapter concludes with critical accounts of Kim Stanley Robinson’s Science in the Capital trilogy, Frank Schätzing’s Der Schwarm, Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy and Antti Tuomainen’s Parantaja.