Kulturstudier

"From a Washington Post critic and self-described meathead: a witty, incisive, poignant exploration of male body image, from the history of the gym to the politics of superheroes to the world of manfluencers"--

In the popular Alvarado style, these fun and sexy military pin-ups present a dynamic, new look at an old tradition.

The world's leading economist of inequality presents a short but sweeping and surprisingly optimistic history of human progress toward equality despite crises, disasters, and backsliding, a perfect introduction to the ideas developed in his monumental earlier books.It is easy to be pessimistic about inequality. We know it has increased dramatically in many parts of the world over the past two generations. No one has done more to reveal the problem than Thomas Piketty. Now, in this surprising and powerful new work, Piketty reminds us that the grand sweep of history gives us reasons to be optimistic. Over the centuries, he shows, we have been moving toward greater equality.Piketty guides us with elegance and concision through the great movements that have made the modern world for better and worse: the growth of capitalism, revolutions, imperialism, slavery, wars, and the building of the welfare state. It's a history of violence and social struggle, punctuated by regression and disaster. But through it all, Piketty shows, human societies have moved fitfully toward a more just distribution of income and assets, a reduction of racial and gender inequalities, and greater access to health care, education, and the rights of citizenship.Our rough march forward is political and ideological, an endless fight against injustice. To keep moving, Piketty argues, we need to learn and commit to what works, to institutional, legal, social, fiscal, and educational systems that can make equality a lasting reality. At the same time, we need to resist historical amnesia and the temptations of cultural separatism and intellectual compartmentalization. At stake is the quality of life for billions of people.We know we can do better, Piketty concludes. The past shows us how. The future is up to us.

In his final work, Richard Rorty provides the definitive statement of his political thought. Rorty equates pragmatism with anti-authoritarianism, arguing that because there is no authority we can rely on to ascertain truth, we can only do so intersubjectively. It follows that we must learn to think and care about what others think and care about.

Bogen tager udgangspunkt i de parisiske arbejdere og småborgeres oprettelse af det revolutionære folkestyre, Pariserkommunen, i 1871. I sin 72 dage korte levetid vedtoges en række reformer, der i samtiden fremstod nye og radikale. Bl.a. adskillelse af kirke og stat, gratis skolegang, forbud mod natarbejde og overtagelse af virksomheder, hvis ejere var flygtet. Målet var en føderativ og social republik baseret på nærdemokratisk kommunestyre. Men det endte i et blodigt nederlag, hvor 20-30.000 kommunarder mistede livet i kampen med regeringshæren og de efterfølgende massehenrettelser.Bogen er en antologi, hvis bidragydere har hver deres fokus. Bertel Nygaard undersøger f.eks. Kommunens karakter og dens efterliv i vor historieforståelse. Efterfølgende kan man læse kommunens program og dens forskellige dekreter.Med forord af Morten Thing gengives Karl Marx' samtidige artikel Borgerkrigen i Frankrig. I forlængelse heraf analyserer han de forskellige udkast til denne tekst.Hans Erik Avlund Frandsen undersøger og sammenligner Bertolt Brechts og Nordahl Griegs teaterstykker om Pariserkommunen. Og vurderer hvad de kan sige eller lære os i dagens samfund. I dansk perspektiv ser Kenn Schoop på samtidige holdninger til Kommunen. Udover diverse aviser møder man bl.a. Georg Brandes og socialisten Louis Pio samt Wilhelm Dinesen, som var førstehåndsvidne. Afsluttende er hele bladet Arbejderkunst fra 1932 genoptrykt. Her fortælles Pariserkommunens udvikling med samtidige tegninger og træsnit og hertil korte tekster.

This book gathers the peer-reviewed papers presented at the 13th International Conference on Structural Analysis of Historical Constructions (SAHC), held in Kyoto, Japan, on September 12-15, 2023. It highlights the latest advances and innovations in the field of conservation and restoration of historical and heritage structures. The conference topics encompass history of construction and building technology, theory and practice of conservation, inspection methods, non-destructive techniques and laboratory testing, numerical modeling and structural analysis, management of heritage structures and conservation strategies, structural health monitoring, repair and strengthening strategies and techniques, vernacular constructions, seismic analysis and retrofit, vulnerability and risk analysis, resilience of historic areas to climate change and hazard events, durability, and sustainability. As such the book represents an invaluable, up-to-the-minute tool, providing an essential overview of conservation of historical constructions, and offers an important platform to engineers, architects, archeologists, and geophysicists.Chapter Guidelines for Seismic Retrofitting of Earthen Historic Buildings in Peru and Latin America is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

This book retrieves from the archives people, places and perspectives normally overlooked to tell an original and expansive history of the Qatar Peninsula, paying close attention to landscape and the natural world. The arc of the book moves geographically through the landscape and chronologically through selected sources, drawing on digitised maps, manuscripts, hydrographic surveys, government records, traveller accounts, early photographs, archaeological and ethnographic reports. While these are standard sources recruited by Qatar to tell its own singular, streamlined history, this book is a subversive reading of those sources. It braids together elusive and precarious stories ¿ difficult to find, at risk of being lost, and never before brought together into a single volume ¿ to write a more complicated story of place. Through them, we can reimagine a place that, like many in the world, works hard to control a limited set of stories about itself. Readers who know something about Qatarwill be surprised by the book¿s nuances and details. Readers who know little or nothing will be drawn in to discover that, even in the most out-of-the-way and inhospitable places, deserts are never empty.

HALLOWEEN HEARTS: POETRY INSPIRED BY RAY BRADBURY AND EDGAR ALLAN POEAdele Gardner's Halloween Hearts is a welcome celebration of all things Halloween, whether they take place on October 31st or not. Disciples of All Hallows' Eve, enter of your own free will . . . haunted houses, trick-or-treaters, vampires, demonic foxes, witches and their familiars, revenants both longed-for and uninvited, and the creeping mists of autumn all have their place in these pages.Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe-icons of the American imagination, pilgrims of the nightside territories of the mind-have a special place in Gardner's works. The poetry in this volume is inspired by much of what makes each of these authors special to so many readers: Poe's sensitivity to loss and melancholia, and to horror and terror, and Bradbury's enthusiastic embrace of Halloween and other dark aspects of Americana, along with his refusal to allow death to be the final word in our relationship with our loved ones. With "Eureka" "Nevermore," "Poe's Prophets," and other poems, Gardner explores Poe's hallowed place in our haunted hearts. And in the title poem, which opens the book, Gardner lovingly celebrates Ray Bradbury and his unique alchemy of nostalgia, dread, and Halloween eternal.". . . this book has been a long time coming, with its black cats and witches, ghosts and the grave, vampires and writers that haunt the night. Whether their subjects are traditional to Halloween or on tangential themes, all these poems are Halloween to me-that season so melancholy and elegiac, yet also fierce, with shining teeth, pointy grins, and a cat's fang-filled mischief." -Adele Gardner, from the introductionWith a foreword by S. T. Joshi and an introduction by the authorIllustrated ¿ Featuring art by Gustave Doré and Dan Sauer

This timely volume offers an integrative approach and a culturally diverse view of love conceptions, experiences, and expressions, building on both individual and cultural typologies of love. It comprehensively presents cultural and cross-cultural studies on how culture affects love, and offers a systematic description of types and cultural models of love. The comprehensive reviews of methodology and findings provide a solid empirical basis for the creation of formal typologies.This book will be useful for researchers interested in cross-cultural studies of love across many disciplines. Its accessible language also makes it ideal for undergraduate and graduate students. Readers will gain a comprehensive understanding of: Cultural conceptions of love and methods for their research Multiple perspectives in the studies of love across world cultures Cultural models and typologies in an international perspectiveCultural models and typologies from an interdisciplinary scientific perspective

This book traces the beginnings of literary (narrative) journalism in Australia. It contributes to evolving international definitions of the form, while providing a glimpse into Australiäs early press history and development as a nation. The book comprises two parts. The first examines the forerunners of literary journalism before and during the establishment of a free press, including the letters, diaries and journals of the early colonists, as well as sketches published in the first magazines and newspapers. The book asks if these were ¿reporting¿ when there was no thriving press until well into the 19th century -- many were written by women and convicts whose voices otherwise went unheard. The second part examines the first expressions of literary journalism in forms more recognisable today, covering topics as varied as homelessness in Melbourne, the Queensland trade in Pacific Islander labour, and Australiäs involvement in overseas wars, particularly the Boer War. The resulting cultural history reveals important milestones in the development of Australiäs press and literature, while demonstrating the concerns unveiled in colonial literary journalism still resonate in Australia in the 21st century.

Meltdown Expected tells the story of how, both domestically and internationally, 1978 and 1979 saw a series of catastrophes that shook America’s confidence and hurtled the nation into the final phase of the Cold War. Covering everything from the Three Mile Island disaster to the Iran hostage crisis, it is a vivid portrait of a tumultuous time.

This book will take you deep into a world of fantasical, magical, religious, sci-fi adventure, criminal barbaric, terrible energies, entities, deities, divinities of the higher and highest levels of being bound, slavery, freedom, positive, endurance, negative, redemption, retribution. Staying defiant in the presence, might, will-power of the most fearsome adversary. Fiction, fantasy collides, fuses, distorts, bends, twist, curve and combined with reality, physically and meta-physically into one amazing, intriguing, awesome, tremendous, fascinating, thought provoking, heart-warming, adventure. Set deep into the depths of the multiverse, a distant galaxy, distant place, a parallel universe another earth another world, another domain, a different planet. something for you the master reader to engage with. Empowering, elevating, up-lifting,