Kulturstudier

The book sets out to examine the concept of 'chav', providing a review of its origins, its characterological figures, the process of enregisterment whereby it has come to be recognized in public discourse, and the traits associated with it in traditional media representations. The author then discusses the 'chav' label in light of recent re-appropriations in social network activity (particularly through the video-sharing app TikTok) and subsequent commentary in the public sphere. She traces the evolution of the term from its use during the first decade of the twenty-first century to make sense of class, status and cultural capital, to its resurgence and the ways in which it is still associated with appearance in gendered and classed ways. She then draws on recent developments in linguistic anthropology and embodied sociocultural linguistics to argue that social media users draw on communicative resources to perform identities that are both situated in specific contexts of discourse and dynamically changing, challenging the idea that geo-sociocultural varieties and mannerisms are the sole way of indexing membership of a community. This volume contends that equating 'chav' with 'underclass' in the most recent uses of the concept on social networks may not be the whole story, and the book will be of interest to sociocultural linguistics and identity researchers, as well as readers in anthropology, sociology, British studies, cultural studies, identity studies, digital humanities, and sociolinguistics.

This is an informative guide that explores the potential health benefits of maize processing and the development of functional foods. The book provides insights into the various bioactive compounds present in maize, including dietary fiber, starch, protein, antioxidants, phenolics, carotenoids, tocopherols, phytosterols, minerals, and vitamins. These compounds have been shown to have numerous health benefits, ranging from improved glycemic control and weight management to enhanced cardiovascular health, cancer prevention, and immune system function. The book covers the different processing methods of maize, such as fermentation, extrusion, drying, milling, and fractionation, and how they can affect the levels of these bioactive compounds. The author also discusses the different parts of the maize kernel, such as the germ, bran, endosperm, and pericarp, and how they can be used to develop various functional foods such as grits, meal, flour, tortillas, snacks, breakfast cereals, noodles, breads, cookies, crackers, muffins, bars, beverages, emulsions, and encapsulations. In addition to highlighting the health benefits of maize processing, the book also addresses the important topic of food security. The author discusses how maize processing can contribute to sustainable food production, which is crucial for addressing global food insecurity. The book also covers the sensory analysis and shelf life of functional foods and how they can be improved through processing and packaging. Overall, this book is a valuable resource for food scientists, nutritionists, and researchers interested in the health benefits of maize processing and the development of functional foods. Book also offers a comprehensive understanding of the bioactive compounds in maize, their potential health benefits, and the different processing methods that can be used to develop functional foods with improved nutritional quality and shelf life.

In den Bänden dieser Reihe werden erstmalig detailliert die wichtigsten Strömungen und Themen der ungemein fruchtbaren Periode der Soziologie der Zwischenkriegszeit im deutschen Sprachraum dargelegt. Damit leisten diese Bände nicht nur einen eminent wertvollen Beitrag zur Aufarbeitung der Geschichte der Soziologie in theoretischer, empirischer und institutioneller Hinsicht, sondern vertiefen die eingehende Erörterung Spezieller Soziologien auch durch die Bezugnahme auf Nachbardisziplinen wie Sozial- und Ideengeschichte, Ökonomik, Psychologie und Ethnologie.

Even in the context of rapid material and social change in urban Morocco, women, and especially those from a low-income household, continue to invest a lot of work in preparing good food for their families. Through the lens of domestic food preparation, this book looks at knowledge reproduction on how we know cooking and its role in the making of everyday family life. It also examines a political economy of cooking that situates Marrakchi women's lived experience in the broader context of persisting poverty and food insecurity in Morocco.

The Time of My Life weaves together the sharp, incisive, wryly funny story of the making of a young feminist who found inspiration in an unexpected place, and the former teenage mambo queen who turned her love of dance, music, and social justice into an unlikely blockbuster hit about an illegal abortion: Dirty Dancing.

Kreativitet iscenesættes ofte som et individuelt arbejde. Når skuespilleren går på scenen, direktøren stiller sig på podiet, eller forskeren præsenterer nye resultater, står de ofte ene og alene og soler sig i rampelyset. Reelt udretter vi mennesker dog meget lidt alene.Virkeligheden er, at der altid foregår et stort arbejde i kulisserne. Et arbejde, der ofte overses. Det er måske hverken glamourøst eller håndgribeligt, men det har altid en enorm indflydelse på de kreative resultater, enkeltindivider har mulighed for at præsentere for verden.I en tid, hvor individualisering lægger et stort forventningspres på den enkelte, og samfundet står over for omfattende, globale udfordringer, bør vi se den kreative udvikling som et anliggende, vi har et fælles ansvar for.

Evaluation ¿ und in jüngster Zeit vor allem Wirkung bzw. Impact ¿ sind wichtige Instrumente für Kulturinstitutionen. Jedoch wird dies noch immer in vielen Fällen missverstanden, falsch genutzt oder eingesetzt, vielleicht sogar gefürchtet. Das vorliegende Buch will Kulturschaffenden und Institutionen diese Bedenken nehmen und durch Beispiele aufzeigen, welches Potential in Wirkungsmessungen liegen kann. Der Schwerpunkt liegt darauf, Evaluation als langfristigen Lerneffekt für alle Beteiligten zu betrachten. Aufbauend auf einer Definitionsdiskussion werden in dem Buch die Bereiche und Faktoren erarbeitet, die zu einer erfolgreichen Wirkungsmessung führen können. Dabei finden in der 3. Auflage auch Themen Beachtung, die im Zuge der Nachhaltigkeitsdiskussionen im Rahmen einer Gemeinwohlökonomie (wie circular economy und werteorientiertes Handeln) in der Kultur angekommen sind.

Das Buch beschäftigt sich mit der Architektur der unmittelbaren Nachkriegszeit als Gegenstand medialer Repräsentation. Dabei bewegt es sich im Spannungsfeld von Germanistik, Architekturgeschichte und Medienwissenschaft. Anhand von Radiohörspielen, Architekturzeitschriften und Filmen geht es der Frage nach, wie Architektur in Szene gesetzt wird. Dabei bezieht die Analyse mit ein, wie diese im Hinblick auf die Konstruktion und den Aufbau einer neuen Zukunft mit bestehenden Diskursen der Moderne in Verbindung gebracht wird und problematische Bezüge zur nationalsozialistischen Vergangenheit aufweist. In Werken von Günter Eich (Träume, 1951), Otto Renner (BAU. Zeitschrift für wohnen, arbeiten, sich erholen, 1947) und mit einem anonymen Städtefilm (Stein auf Stein. Ein Land baut auf, 1949) werden wenig bekannte Kurzformen aufgegriffen, um deren Verknüpfung mit neuen Medienverbunden und soziopolitischen Diskursen zu erforschen. Die detaillierten Analysen - von Eichs ¿Fünftem Traum¿ als Mediengeflecht von Text, Musik und Geräusch, der heute wenig bekannten, aber zu ihrer Zeit renommierten Architekturzeitschrift BAU als Medienverbund aus zirkulierenden und wiederaufbereiteten Fotografien, Zeichnungen, Texten und Typografie und dem Kurzfilm Stein auf Stein mit seinen intermedialen Bezügen u.a. zur Fotografie - stellen Querverbindungen zu vielen Figuren und Werken dieser Zeit her, in der die Architektur eine Neubewertung als vermittelnde Instanz zwischen Individuum und Gesellschaft erfährt.Davon ausgehend schließt die Autorin auf größere Problematiken, die die Öffentlichkeit in den frühen Nachkriegsjahren beschäftigten. Dabei weist sie Momente des Exzesses und der Überschreitung in den Werken auf, die in einer Zeit der Ressourcenknappheit, Medienregulierung und konfliktreicher Lizensierungspolitik entstanden sind. Auch der Umbruch im Mediengefüge durch die Einführung von Fernsehen und die moralisch aufgeladene Debatte über eine entnazifizierte Öffentlichkeit werden reflektiert. Das Buch geht auch ausführlich auf die Besatzungspolitik im teilautonomen Saarland ein und führt die französische Kolonialpolitik in Algerien indirekt über die Rezeption Le Corbusiers in den deutschen Diskurs ein.Das Buch richtet sich an Studierende und Forschende der Fachgebiete Literatur-, Medien- und Kulturwissenschaft, Kunstgeschichte und Architektur.

A book about Wales, a land rich with history.Find out what is so special about this small nation and meet some of the people who formed it and changed the world in doing so.The book is written for English learners at level CEFR B1

Mit dem Konzept des Ethischen Theaters wird ein ganzheitliches Zukunftsmodell vorgestellt. Ausgangspunkt ist die Analyse der gegenwärtigen Krisen und der Komplexität in den deutschsprachigen Theatern, um die Grundlagen für ihren Transformationsprozess zu entwickeln. Mit dem Ethischen Theater wird ein Ziel dieses Prozesses vorgestellt: das ganzheitliches Zukunftsmodell einer Theater-Organisation des 21. Jahrhunderts, in der ethische Überlegungen erstmals in allen Prozessen handlungsleitend sind. Das Modell ist kompatibel mit den Interessen der Stakeholder und den wichtigen Reformprozessen, es ermöglicht die anstehende strukturelle Modernisierung der Theaterbetriebe. Unterstützt wird es durch das Konzept des Ethischen Theatermanagements, das erstmals über die klassischen Funktionen hinaus auch Aspekte der Diversität, der Nachhaltigkeit, der Ethik und der Zukunftsfähigkeit adressiert. Mit den erweiterten Funktionen des ethischen Managements werden auch weitere Möglichkeitsräume für die Zukunft der Kultur-Organisationen eröffnet.

Discover the world's most significant events through a detailed, dynamic, book-long timeline of over 7 million years. When did Hannibal cross the Alps? What caused the War of Jenkins' Ear? Who was Rosa Parks? How did the Arab Spring unfold? Discover history's most decisive moments as and when they happened. Taking a chronological approach, History Year by Year invites you to explore momentous discoveries, ingenious inventions, and important events from around the world in the context of their time. Along the way, you'll meet charismatic leaders, brutal dictators, influential thinkers, and innovative scientists from around the globe. Follow in the steps of your human ancestors as they colonised the planet, developed tools, harnessed fire, and painted cave walls. Learn how their descendants established great civilisations, founded huge empires, domesticated animals, built pyramids, produced great art, authored epic poems, and even travelled into space. There are wars, rebellions, voyages of adventure and discovery, extraordinary technological developments, and incredible sporting feats. In this history book, you will find: -Maps, photography, facts and statistics about the timeline of the world for over 7 million years. -Chapters with information about the origin of humans, early civilisation, trade and invention, technology and more. -Detailed descriptions and information on significant moments in history that shaped life. Accessible to everyone, History Year by Year's combination of bite-sized information, eye-catching images, crystal-clear maps, and memorable stats will delight history lovers and make an ideal gift for trivia fans wanting facts at their fingertips. If you've ever wondered exactly what happened when - and where it all took place - then this is the book for you.

Infrastructure comprises a combination of sociotechnical, political, and cultural arrangements that provide resources and services. The contributors to this volume show, in their respective fields, how infrastructures are both generative forces and the materialized products of quotidian practices that affect and guide people's lives. Organized via shared conceptual foci, this volume demonstrates infrastructuralist perspectives as an important transdisciplinary approach within the humanities.

The Internet has penetrated material reality to such an extent that it is now often impossible to disentangle the material from the virtual. In this postdigital scenario, the encounter with ¿newness¿ becomes accessible at the touch of a button, 24/7. Learning becomes a lifewide experience which allows for the emergence of new culturalities. The contributors to this volume engage with cultural changes brought about by an intensified digitalization process in the context of formal education but also shed light on unexpected contexts in which informal learning experiences take place every day, strengthening diasporas, creating new connections and transforming ourselves and our societies.

After the failed Siege of Vienna of 1683, the Ottoman Empire gradually withdrew from Europe. Even so, monumental reminders of its former presence survived across the continent. The contributors to this volume show that the various successor states adopted substantially different approaches towards their Ottoman architectural inheritance. Even within the same countries, different policies appear to have been pursued in different periods, in keeping with differing circumstances. Case studies inquire from diverse vantage points how this heritage has been coped with discursively and materially. Importantly, readers will find that it is almost impossible to disentangle these two levels of action.

In the early twenty-first century, the concept of citizenship is more contested than ever. As refugees set out to cross the Mediterranean, European nation-states refer to 'cultural integrity' and 'immigrant inassimilability,' revealing citizenship to be much more than a legal concept. The contributors to this volume take an interdisciplinary approach to considering how cultures of citizenship are being envisioned and interrogated in literary and cultural (con)texts. Through this framework, they attend to the tension between the citizen and its spectral others - a tension determined by how a country defines difference at a given moment.

Volume III of Archerian Studies, which we now deliver to our readers, focuses on the question of culture. Despite the numerous motifs which were introduced to the discourse pertaining to Margaret S. Archer¿s concept, we see that some repeat here constantly. We hope that this way of depicting considerations inspired by the thought of prominent scholars will not only become an occasion for this scientific literary output to become widespread, but will also open new research perspectives in sociology.

"Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, the only book-length work to have been published during his lifetime, continues to generate interest and scholarly debate. This volume of new essays showcases contemporary ideas on how to interpret the Tractatus and throws new light on some of its most challenging passages"--

This book provides a multifaceted view on the relation between the old and the new in music, between tradition and innovation. This is a much-debated issue, generating various ideas and theories, which rarely come to unanimous conclusions. Therefore, the book offers diverse perspectives on topics such as national identities, narrative strategies, the question of musical performance and musical meaning. Alongside themes of general interest, such as classical repertoire, the music of well-established composers and musical topics, the chapters of the book also touch on specific, but equally interesting subjects, like Brazilian traditions, Serbian and Romanian composers and the lullaby. While the book is mostly addressed to researchers, it can also be recommended to students in musicology, ethnomusicology, musical performance, and musical semiotics.

This handbook offers a collection of scholarly essays that analyze questions of reproductive justice throughout its cultural representation in global literature and film. It offers analysis of specific texts carefully situated in their evolving historical, economic, and cultural contexts. Reproductive justice is taken beyond the American setting in which the theory and movement began; chapters apply concepts to international realities and literatures from different countries and cultures by covering diverse genres of cultural production, including film, television, YouTube documentaries, drama, short story, novel, memoir, and self-help literature. Each chapter analyzes texts from within the framework of reproductive justice in an interdisciplinary way, including English, Japanese, Italian, Spanish, and German language, literature and culture, comparative literature, film, South Asian fiction, Canadian theatre, writing, gender studies, Deaf studies, disability studies, global healthand medical humanities, and sociology. Academics, graduate students and advanced undergraduate students in Literature, Gender, Sexuality and Women¿s Studies, Cultural Studies, Motherhood Studies, Comparative Literature, History, Sociology, the Medical Humanities, Reproductive Justice, and Human Rights are the main audience of the volume.

In this book Kurt Buhring explores concepts of spirit(s) within various Black religions as a means to make a constructive theological contribution to contemporary Black theology in regard to ideas of the Holy Spirit, or pneumatology. He argues that there are rich resources within African and African-based religions to develop a more robust notion of the Holy Spirit for contemporary Black liberation theology. In so doing, Buhring offers a pneumatology that understands divine power and presence within humanity and through human action. The theology offered maintains the fundamental claim that God acts as liberator of the oppressed, while also calling for greater human responsibility and capability for bringing about liberation.

This book presents both a historical overview of the absorption of Heidegger's thought into English-language philosophical schools as well as a philosophical discussion of his thought provided by contemporary scholars. The text describes the ways in which a philosophical methodology and worldview seemingly so inhospitable to Anglophone academia has managed to find an unlikely home.This volume is roughly divided into two types of contributions: discussions of Heidegger's reception in the English-speaking world, and outstanding examples of English-language Heidegger scholarship. The first type includes both historiographical accounts of the encounters between Heidegger's thought and the Anglo-American world, as well as their philosophical expositions and critiques. The second group of chapters reveal the latest contemporary scholarship by contemporary Heideggerians writing in English. It is moreover the first volume to bring together thinkers from both genealogies of Anglo-American Heideggerianism appealing to students and researchers working in both of these camps.

Forgeries present a daunting problem to art historians, museums, galleries and curators who face challenges in determining the authenticity of paintings. Recent progress in science has led to the development of new methods for investigating works of art, and can provide new insights into the materials found in paintings. The rise in the value of paintings together with the knowledge and skills of forgers highlights the need to develop reliable scientific procedures to identify fakes. Given the complexity of materials in paintings and the convergence of various disciplines, a methodological approach for nvestigations of paintings is based on art historical, curatorial, aesthetic, technical and scientific evaluation. In this book sophisticated digital and analytical techniques are reviewed for the identification of materials (pigments, binders, varnishes, adhesives) and the physical characteristics of paintings such as brushstrokes, craquelure and canvas weaves. This book presents an updated overview of both non-invasive and micro-invasive techniques that enable the material characterization of paintings. The materials constituting a painting are reviewed, as are ways that changes in materials over time can provide insights into chronology and physical history. State-of the art digital metods including multi and hyper-spectral imaging and computational approaches to data treatment will be presented. Analytical techniques developed and optimized to characterize binders, varnishes, and pigments are reviewed, focusing on materials which can provide information on ageing or provenance. Case studies of applications of synchrotron-based methods and the analysis of paintings are given, as are chapters devoted to legal aspects related to authenticity. Chapter 1 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

In 'Loungefly Obsession', delve into the captivating world of Loungefly - the powerhouse behind some of today's most sought-after collectible bags.Exploring the intricate artistry and craftsmanship that goes into every design, this book charts the brand's meteoric rise and its unmistakable imprint on pop culture.The fervent fandom that eagerly awaits each release, discover how Loungefly has transcended mere fashion, becoming a symbol of self-expression and cultural cachet. Whether you're a seasoned collector or new to the allure of Loungefly, this book offers a captivating look at the phenomenon sweeping the fashion and pop culture landscapes.

Ray Troll’s newbook Spawn Till You Die: The Fin Art ofRay Troll is an exuberant plunge into the fantastic realities of seacreatures and prehistoric animals that come alive with scientific realism andhis quirky sense of humor.  For more than fourdecades, this celebrated Alaskan artist has been luring, hooking, and landingfans around the world with his mesmerizing renditions of the inhabitants ofPlanet Ocean, past and present. His art is featured in the nation’s majornatural history museums including the Smithsonian, in galleries, and in books,as well as on immensely popular T-shirts. Part natural history adventure andpart underground comic, his work depicts beautiful and accurately drawn fish ofall kinds, Northwest Coast totems, Freud and Darwin, fossils, resurrections ofextinct animals, and much more. Troll’s art is deeply thought provoking(pun intended) but also simply fun to experience and never far from an insidejoke he seems to be sharing with everyone. Some of his pieces are amusinglytongue-in-cheek, others are beautifully surrealistic and evocative of theinterconnectedness of life on Earth, and his grandly composed major pieces arebrilliant, inspiring panoramas of the natural world. His whimsy and attentionto detail in his renderings of fish and other aquatic creatures has earned hima devoted following of scientists, anglers, and people who just like a goodlaugh. Welcome to the fishy, funny, inspiring art of Ray Troll.