Daniela Sandler
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781501703164
- eISBN:
- 9781501706271
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501703164.003.0004
- Subject:
- Architecture, Architectural History
This chapter focuses on independent, nonprofit cultural and art centers. Cultural centers such as the Haus Schwarzenberg—the primary focus of this chapter—as well as Schokoladen and the defunct ...
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This chapter focuses on independent, nonprofit cultural and art centers. Cultural centers such as the Haus Schwarzenberg—the primary focus of this chapter—as well as Schokoladen and the defunct Tacheles may look similar to Hausprojekte at first glance, with a juxtaposition of graffiti and posters over eroded walls, odd sculptures, architectural fragments, grime, and overgrown ivy. However, these spaces are composed with more forethought and coordination, and undergo significant (but selective) repairs, refurbishment, and even preservation measures. These cultural centers also articulate the meaning of their dilapidation clearly and self-consciously in pamphlets, websites, and interviews. They demonstrate that counterpreservation can be premeditated and self-reflective, and not just an ad hoc, opportunistic tactic.Less
This chapter focuses on independent, nonprofit cultural and art centers. Cultural centers such as the Haus Schwarzenberg—the primary focus of this chapter—as well as Schokoladen and the defunct Tacheles may look similar to Hausprojekte at first glance, with a juxtaposition of graffiti and posters over eroded walls, odd sculptures, architectural fragments, grime, and overgrown ivy. However, these spaces are composed with more forethought and coordination, and undergo significant (but selective) repairs, refurbishment, and even preservation measures. These cultural centers also articulate the meaning of their dilapidation clearly and self-consciously in pamphlets, websites, and interviews. They demonstrate that counterpreservation can be premeditated and self-reflective, and not just an ad hoc, opportunistic tactic.
Megan Vaughan
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780197264775
- eISBN:
- 9780191734984
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197264775.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
This chapter looks at the history of romantic love in Sub-Saharan Africa. This text comes from a lecture given at the British Academy's 2009 Raleigh Lecture on History. This text attempts to explore ...
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This chapter looks at the history of romantic love in Sub-Saharan Africa. This text comes from a lecture given at the British Academy's 2009 Raleigh Lecture on History. This text attempts to explore some of the methodological and theoretical issues involved in an historical study of love in Africa. It argues that romantic love in Africa is not simply an extension of an imperialist cultural and political project and that emotional regimes cannot be divorced from economic circumstances. It explains that though the configurations of interest and emotion take specific forms in African societies, there is nothing peculiarly African about the evident need of individuals to balance realism and idealism in their emotional lives.Less
This chapter looks at the history of romantic love in Sub-Saharan Africa. This text comes from a lecture given at the British Academy's 2009 Raleigh Lecture on History. This text attempts to explore some of the methodological and theoretical issues involved in an historical study of love in Africa. It argues that romantic love in Africa is not simply an extension of an imperialist cultural and political project and that emotional regimes cannot be divorced from economic circumstances. It explains that though the configurations of interest and emotion take specific forms in African societies, there is nothing peculiarly African about the evident need of individuals to balance realism and idealism in their emotional lives.
Nick Higgett and Jenny Wilkinson
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781447345299
- eISBN:
- 9781447345343
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447345299.003.0005
- Subject:
- Sociology, Methodology and Statistics
This chapter explores the complexities of working on jointly funded digital cultural heritage projects and the challenges and benefits of partnership collaborations. In the Digital Building Heritage ...
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This chapter explores the complexities of working on jointly funded digital cultural heritage projects and the challenges and benefits of partnership collaborations. In the Digital Building Heritage project, researchers at De Montfort University worked with community partners in order to bring history back to life through the use of digital technologies in 3D computer animation, 3D printing, 3D modelling, and mobile geo-location. An evaluation of the researchers' experience of co-production and collaborative working highlights the importance of setting clear, feasible objectives and outcomes according to the resources available, including plans for user testing, maintaining regular communication, consideration of proposed digital product usage, and promotion. The chapter then considers the way in which this type of practice-based research can lead to academic outcomes suitable for audit programmes like the UK's Research Excellence Framework.Less
This chapter explores the complexities of working on jointly funded digital cultural heritage projects and the challenges and benefits of partnership collaborations. In the Digital Building Heritage project, researchers at De Montfort University worked with community partners in order to bring history back to life through the use of digital technologies in 3D computer animation, 3D printing, 3D modelling, and mobile geo-location. An evaluation of the researchers' experience of co-production and collaborative working highlights the importance of setting clear, feasible objectives and outcomes according to the resources available, including plans for user testing, maintaining regular communication, consideration of proposed digital product usage, and promotion. The chapter then considers the way in which this type of practice-based research can lead to academic outcomes suitable for audit programmes like the UK's Research Excellence Framework.
Vera John-Steiner
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780195307702
- eISBN:
- 9780199847587
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195307702.003.0001
- Subject:
- Psychology, Social Psychology
This book aims to understand the psycho-social dynamics of forming long-term collaborations and creative partnership—intellectual and artistic collaboration and co-construction of knowledge—that is ...
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This book aims to understand the psycho-social dynamics of forming long-term collaborations and creative partnership—intellectual and artistic collaboration and co-construction of knowledge—that is part of a broader grasp of a cultural-historical project in human sciences. Through general observations of long-term collaborations, interviews, Q-sort commentaries, and biographical information, the book has developed theoretical approaches and models explaining collaboration. In addition it is useful to identify emotional and cognitive collaborative dynamics or to undermine long-term success and to document how experienced thinkers engage in joint efforts in a societal culture geared towards individual achievement. In the context of the dynamic interdependence, the research in this book stresses on Vygotsky's culture-historical psychology and feminist theory.Less
This book aims to understand the psycho-social dynamics of forming long-term collaborations and creative partnership—intellectual and artistic collaboration and co-construction of knowledge—that is part of a broader grasp of a cultural-historical project in human sciences. Through general observations of long-term collaborations, interviews, Q-sort commentaries, and biographical information, the book has developed theoretical approaches and models explaining collaboration. In addition it is useful to identify emotional and cognitive collaborative dynamics or to undermine long-term success and to document how experienced thinkers engage in joint efforts in a societal culture geared towards individual achievement. In the context of the dynamic interdependence, the research in this book stresses on Vygotsky's culture-historical psychology and feminist theory.
M. B. Hackler (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781604734904
- eISBN:
- 9781621032540
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781604734904.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
Rebuilding in Louisiana and Mississippi after hurricanes Katrina and Rita presented some very thorny issues. Certain cultural projects benefited from immediate attention and funding while others, ...
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Rebuilding in Louisiana and Mississippi after hurricanes Katrina and Rita presented some very thorny issues. Certain cultural projects benefited from immediate attention and funding while others, with equal cases for assistance but with less attractiveness to future tourist dollars, languished. New Orleans and its surroundings contain a diverse mixture of Native Americans, African Americans, Creoles, Cajuns, Isleños with roots in the Canary Islands, and the descendants of Italian, Irish, English, Croatian, and German immigrants, among others. After 2005, much is now different for the people of the Gulf Coast, and much more stands to change as governments, national and international nonprofit organizations, churches, and community groups determine how and even where life will continue. This collection elucidates how this process occurs and seeks to understand the cultures that may be saved through assistance or which may be allowed to fade away through neglect. It examines the ways in which a wide variety of stakeholders — community activists, elected officials, artists, and policy administrators — describe, quantify, and understand the unique assets of the region. Contributors question the process of cultural planning by analyzing the language employed in decision making. They attempt to navigate between rhetoric and the actual experience of ordinary citizens, examining the long-term implications for those who call the Gulf Coast home.Less
Rebuilding in Louisiana and Mississippi after hurricanes Katrina and Rita presented some very thorny issues. Certain cultural projects benefited from immediate attention and funding while others, with equal cases for assistance but with less attractiveness to future tourist dollars, languished. New Orleans and its surroundings contain a diverse mixture of Native Americans, African Americans, Creoles, Cajuns, Isleños with roots in the Canary Islands, and the descendants of Italian, Irish, English, Croatian, and German immigrants, among others. After 2005, much is now different for the people of the Gulf Coast, and much more stands to change as governments, national and international nonprofit organizations, churches, and community groups determine how and even where life will continue. This collection elucidates how this process occurs and seeks to understand the cultures that may be saved through assistance or which may be allowed to fade away through neglect. It examines the ways in which a wide variety of stakeholders — community activists, elected officials, artists, and policy administrators — describe, quantify, and understand the unique assets of the region. Contributors question the process of cultural planning by analyzing the language employed in decision making. They attempt to navigate between rhetoric and the actual experience of ordinary citizens, examining the long-term implications for those who call the Gulf Coast home.
Catherine A. Stewart
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781469626260
- eISBN:
- 9781469628295
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469626260.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
This introductory chapter outlines the goals and challenges of the Federal Writers’ Project’s endeavor during the 1930s to collect the ex-slave narratives, and examines a ghost story one ex-slave ...
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This introductory chapter outlines the goals and challenges of the Federal Writers’ Project’s endeavor during the 1930s to collect the ex-slave narratives, and examines a ghost story one ex-slave told to a white FWP interviewer, as a means of illustrating ex-slaves’ use of the oral tradition of signifying. It contends that the WPA slave narratives are an important source for understanding how debates during the 1930s over African Americans’ civil rights, and competing memories of slavery and emancipation, impacted New Deal cultural projects and employment opportunities for African Americans, and shaped the narratives themselves. The project marked an important moment when the federal government invited African Americans to contribute to the historical record. Complicating this effort was the racial divide of Jim Crow segregation and competing perspectives on Civil War remembrance.Less
This introductory chapter outlines the goals and challenges of the Federal Writers’ Project’s endeavor during the 1930s to collect the ex-slave narratives, and examines a ghost story one ex-slave told to a white FWP interviewer, as a means of illustrating ex-slaves’ use of the oral tradition of signifying. It contends that the WPA slave narratives are an important source for understanding how debates during the 1930s over African Americans’ civil rights, and competing memories of slavery and emancipation, impacted New Deal cultural projects and employment opportunities for African Americans, and shaped the narratives themselves. The project marked an important moment when the federal government invited African Americans to contribute to the historical record. Complicating this effort was the racial divide of Jim Crow segregation and competing perspectives on Civil War remembrance.
Simon Featherstone
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748623655
- eISBN:
- 9780748651764
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748623655.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
This chapter introduces the concept of Englishness. It identifies the common expressions of the national question, and shows the growing interest of the English in ‘who they are’. It studies the ...
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This chapter introduces the concept of Englishness. It identifies the common expressions of the national question, and shows the growing interest of the English in ‘who they are’. It studies the academic approaches to the questions of Englishness, as well as England's invasion of popular nationalism. The chapter determines that while Englishness Studies remains to be a fantasy, there are other academic perspectives on England that can form an informal cultural project.Less
This chapter introduces the concept of Englishness. It identifies the common expressions of the national question, and shows the growing interest of the English in ‘who they are’. It studies the academic approaches to the questions of Englishness, as well as England's invasion of popular nationalism. The chapter determines that while Englishness Studies remains to be a fantasy, there are other academic perspectives on England that can form an informal cultural project.
Janet Newman
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781861346407
- eISBN:
- 9781447303206
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781861346407.003.0011
- Subject:
- Sociology, Organizations
This chapter reviews the contribution of the book to theorising the remaking of governance both in terms of the constitution of new governable subjects and new sites and possibilities of social ...
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This chapter reviews the contribution of the book to theorising the remaking of governance both in terms of the constitution of new governable subjects and new sites and possibilities of social agency. It argues that governance shifts are profoundly political in that they reshape the public realm of welfare-state provision and redraw citizenship rights and responsibilities. It offers novel ways of conceptualising the ‘people’ around imaginary unities of interest or identity. It also opens up the possibility of changing the terrain of political engagement and action. It suggests a politics of the social rather than a view of politics as separate from society. It explores how new tactics of governance rest on cultural projects concerned with reconstituting peoples and publics as governable entities, while also holding on to the idea that these cultural projects are subject to contestation, struggle, and dissent.Less
This chapter reviews the contribution of the book to theorising the remaking of governance both in terms of the constitution of new governable subjects and new sites and possibilities of social agency. It argues that governance shifts are profoundly political in that they reshape the public realm of welfare-state provision and redraw citizenship rights and responsibilities. It offers novel ways of conceptualising the ‘people’ around imaginary unities of interest or identity. It also opens up the possibility of changing the terrain of political engagement and action. It suggests a politics of the social rather than a view of politics as separate from society. It explores how new tactics of governance rest on cultural projects concerned with reconstituting peoples and publics as governable entities, while also holding on to the idea that these cultural projects are subject to contestation, struggle, and dissent.
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846311093
- eISBN:
- 9781846313332
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781846311093.003.0008
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter addresses the theoretical problem of the relationship between mimicry and mimesis. Although used interchangeably by many anthropologists, these two terms serve different functions when ...
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This chapter addresses the theoretical problem of the relationship between mimicry and mimesis. Although used interchangeably by many anthropologists, these two terms serve different functions when it comes to cultural studies. Their differences are studied through the cultural studies project, of which the goal is to redefine culture as an arena for the everyday practices of conflicting social groups and to turn the exoticist gaze of anthropology back on the viewer so that the study of culture might begin at home. Cultural studies, in moving between connected disciplines, emphasize both the relational nature of cultural production and the contingencies that affect all forms of cultural exchange. This chapter emphasizes the importance of anthropology to cultural studies because it offers an understanding of the global effects of cultural practices that cultural studies often lacks.Less
This chapter addresses the theoretical problem of the relationship between mimicry and mimesis. Although used interchangeably by many anthropologists, these two terms serve different functions when it comes to cultural studies. Their differences are studied through the cultural studies project, of which the goal is to redefine culture as an arena for the everyday practices of conflicting social groups and to turn the exoticist gaze of anthropology back on the viewer so that the study of culture might begin at home. Cultural studies, in moving between connected disciplines, emphasize both the relational nature of cultural production and the contingencies that affect all forms of cultural exchange. This chapter emphasizes the importance of anthropology to cultural studies because it offers an understanding of the global effects of cultural practices that cultural studies often lacks.
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- March 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226729459
- eISBN:
- 9780226729435
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226729435.003.0010
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Middle Eastern Studies
This chapter discusses the future of the National Museum of Iraq. The museum has been reduced from a repository into a prison for antiquities, with little prospect to reopen for years to come. There ...
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This chapter discusses the future of the National Museum of Iraq. The museum has been reduced from a repository into a prison for antiquities, with little prospect to reopen for years to come. There is no group showing interest to devote the resources needed to help Iraq salvage what remains of its archaeological heritage before it is entirely broken up and its jumbled remnants disappear altogether into warehouses, dealers' galleries, and the living rooms of the well-to-do. The U.S. government allocated $13 million for the Iraq Cultural Heritage Project but it focuses solely on professional development for conservators and other museum professionals and does not provide any funding to improve the security of archaeological sites.Less
This chapter discusses the future of the National Museum of Iraq. The museum has been reduced from a repository into a prison for antiquities, with little prospect to reopen for years to come. There is no group showing interest to devote the resources needed to help Iraq salvage what remains of its archaeological heritage before it is entirely broken up and its jumbled remnants disappear altogether into warehouses, dealers' galleries, and the living rooms of the well-to-do. The U.S. government allocated $13 million for the Iraq Cultural Heritage Project but it focuses solely on professional development for conservators and other museum professionals and does not provide any funding to improve the security of archaeological sites.
Luigi Tomba
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780801452826
- eISBN:
- 9780801455209
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801452826.003.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Asian Politics
This introductory chapter sets out the book's purpose, which is to examine the everyday practices of power in Chinese neighborhoods. The book brings into the discussion such issues as housing ...
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This introductory chapter sets out the book's purpose, which is to examine the everyday practices of power in Chinese neighborhoods. The book brings into the discussion such issues as housing privatization, hegemonic cultural projects connected practices, economic and social engineering, social conflicts, and the ideology of urban modernity to reveal the connection between changes in residential practices and China's overall modernization project. It identifies five different rationalities connected with this level of governance: social clustering, micro-governing, social engineering, contained contention, and exemplarism. The remainder of the chapter explains the meaning of the terms “neighborhood” and “neighborhood consensus.” An overview of the subsequent chapters is also presented.Less
This introductory chapter sets out the book's purpose, which is to examine the everyday practices of power in Chinese neighborhoods. The book brings into the discussion such issues as housing privatization, hegemonic cultural projects connected practices, economic and social engineering, social conflicts, and the ideology of urban modernity to reveal the connection between changes in residential practices and China's overall modernization project. It identifies five different rationalities connected with this level of governance: social clustering, micro-governing, social engineering, contained contention, and exemplarism. The remainder of the chapter explains the meaning of the terms “neighborhood” and “neighborhood consensus.” An overview of the subsequent chapters is also presented.
