Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 195 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 220 mm, Gewicht: 327 g
The Politics of Representation in a Globalized World
Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 195 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 220 mm, Gewicht: 327 g
Reihe: Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race
ISBN: 978-90-420-1144-1
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi
These are some of the questions that run through the ten essays in this collection. The combined effect of these essays is to participate in the contemporary project of subjecting the links between place, mobility, identity, representation and practice to critical interdisciplinary scrutiny. Such notions are not the property of particular disciplines. In the era of globalization, transnationalism and readily acknowledged cultural hybridity these links are more important than ever. They are important because of the taken-for-grantedness of: the universal impact of globalization; the receding importance of place and the centrality of mobile identities. This taken-for-grantedness masks the ways place continues to be important and ways in which mobility is differentiated by race, gender, ethnicity, nationality and many other social markers. This book is a concerted attempt to stop taking for granted these themes of the age. Material discussed in the essays include the creation of cultural routes in Europe, the video’s of Fiona Tan, artistic and literary representations of the North African desert, the production of indigenous videos in Mexico, mobile forms of ethnography, the film Existenz, Jamaica Kincaid’s writing on gardens, the video representation of sex tourism and ways of imagining the global.
Authors include: Tim Cresswell, Ginette Verstraete, Ernst van Alphen, Ursula Biemann, Laurel C. Smith, Nick Couldry, Isabel Hoving, Renée van de Vall, Inge E. Boer and Kevin Hetherington.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Globalisierung, Transformationsprozesse
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Weitere Infos & Material
Preface. Tim CRESSWELL: Introduction: Theorizing Place. Ginette VERSTRAETE: Heading For Europe: Tourism and the Global Itinerary of an Idea. Ernst VAN ALPHEN: Imagined Homelands: Re-mapping Cultural Identity. Ursula BIEMANN: Touring, Routing and Trafficking Female Geobodies: A Video Essay on the Topography of the Global Sex Trade. Laurel C. SMITH: The Search for Well Being: Placing Development with Indigenous Identity. Nick COULDRY: Being Elsewhere: The Politics and Methods of Researching Symbolic Exclusion. Isabel HOVING: Remaining Where You Are: Kincaid and Glissant on Space and Knowledge. Renée VAN DE VALL: Immersion and Distance in Virtual Spaces. Inge E. BOER: No-Man’s Land? Five Short Cases on Deserts and the Politics of Place. Kevin HETHERINGTON: Whither the World? Presence, Absence and the Globe. The Contributors. Index.