This book positions stand-up comedy as a strategy for women’s empowerment, using new materialist concepts to explore the affective and atmospheric dimensions of laughter, play and performance.
This book positions stand-up comedy as a strategy for women’s empowerment, using new materialist concepts to explore the affective and atmospheric dimensions of laughter, play and performance.
'A history that somehow manages to be at once succinct and sweeping: essential reading for anyone interested in this most fascinating of countries' - Tom Holland'The perfect introduction to [Japan's] intriguing society is Christopher Harding s lively new A Short History of Japan.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2023 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: 1,0, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Neubiberg (Soziologisches Institut), Veranstaltung: Spezielle Soziologien - Kunst und Gesellschaft, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Kernthese dieser Arbeit besteht darin, dass interaktive und partizipative Kunstformen bildender Kunst die bestehenden Konventionen zum Verhältnis zwischen Produzierenden und Rezipierenden transzendieren.
The philosophy of Epictetus, a freed slave in the Roman Empire, has been profoundly influential on Western thought: it offers not only stimulating ideas but practical guidance in living one's life.
Recent trends in tourism have seen a decline in the traditional mass-consumption model, accompanied by a rise in a more segmented tourism to which local communities must adapt.
How did the Jerusalem high priests go from being cultic servants in the sixth century BCE to assuming political supremacy at some point during the third or second century?
The Eucharist, Poetics, and Secularization from the Middle Ages to Milton explains the astonishing centrality of the eucharist to poets with a variety of denominational affiliations, writing on a range of subjects, across an extended period in literary history.
John O'Kane delivers a gripping tale of a life dedicated to football violence and gives an unparalled insight into the reality of being a career hooligan.
Del aguacate a la espirulina: globalizacion, biodiversidad y descolonizacion alimentaria en Mexico constituye una nueva propuesta para escribir una historia de la alimentacion mexicana desde especies muy populares hasta otras menos conocidas.
A few years ago, the rhetoric of hope was all the rage, but the faith it expressed has been challenged by recent events and in recent political theory.
A few years ago, the rhetoric of hope was all the rage, but the faith it expressed has been challenged by recent events and in recent political theory.
Sarah Banet-Weiser complicates the standard feminist take on beauty pageants in this intriguing look at a hotly contested but enduringly popular American ritual.
Mock Ritual in the Modern Era explores the complex interrelations between ritual and mockery, the latter of which is not infrequently the unofficial face of claims to rationality.
Mock Ritual in the Modern Era explores the complex interrelations between ritual and mockery, the latter of which is not infrequently the unofficial face of claims to rationality.
An examination of how the unsustainable consumption of meat in seventeenth-century Rome both symbolized the extent of papal power and sparked the outbreak of civil warIn 1644 four norcini or pork butchers were accused of killing not pigs, but seven of their fellow citizens, stripping the meat from the bones, then combining it with pig to make sausages, which were then sold to Romans from their shop behind the Pantheon.
Best Books of 2024: Frerick's prose throughout is both direct and masterfully controlled, with every point supported by extensive references and notes.
Best Books of 2024: Frerick's prose throughout is both direct and masterfully controlled, with every point supported by extensive references and notes.
This analytical study explores the calculated rise of Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson, dissecting his 25 year journey through the lens of strategic conflict and narrative dominance.
It is not uncommon to hear that poor school performance, welfare dependancy, youth unemployment, and criminal activity result more from shortcomings in the personal makeup of individuals than from societal forces beyond their control.
The impact of Gilles Deleuze on critical thought in the opening decades of the twenty-first century rivals that of Jacques Derrida or Michel Foucault on critical thought in the closing decades of the twentieth.
The impact of Gilles Deleuze on critical thought in the opening decades of the twenty-first century rivals that of Jacques Derrida or Michel Foucault on critical thought in the closing decades of the twentieth.
Conservators as first responders in a world where our cultural heritage is increasingly at riskConservation can be understood as a form of knowing; conservators extract meaning about the past from what remains, while noting what is missing and sometimes repairing it.
The biggest challenge of the twenty-first century is to bring the effects of public life into relation with the intractable problem of global atmospheric change.
The biggest challenge of the twenty-first century is to bring the effects of public life into relation with the intractable problem of global atmospheric change.
In this sweeping chronicle of guarana glossy-leaved Amazonian vine packed with more caffeine than any other plantSeth Garfield develops a wide-ranging approach to the history of Brazil itself.
The first critical study of personal narrative by women with disabilities, Unruly Bodies examines how contemporary writers use life writing to challenge cultural stereotypes about disability, gender, embodiment, and identity.
Out on Assignment illuminates the lives and writings of a lost world of women who wrote for major metropolitan newspapers at the start of the twentieth century.
It is not uncommon to hear that poor school performance, welfare dependancy, youth unemployment, and criminal activity result more from shortcomings in the personal makeup of individuals than from societal forces beyond their control.
From the late nineteenth century through World War II, popular culture portrayed the American South as a region ensconced in its antebellum past, draped in moonlight and magnolias, and represented by such southern icons as the mammy, the belle, the chivalrous planter, white-columned mansions, and even bolls of cotton.
