Representing culture : essays on identity, visuality and technology

Representing culture : essays on identity, visuality and technology / edited by Claudia Alvares.

The essays collected in this volume are interdisciplinary in nature, defying the traditional boundaries that compartmentalise and contain knowledge within particular camps. Heir to the 'undisciplining' legacy of cultural studies, they attempt to transcend the restrictive frameworks of pre-...

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Other Authors: Alvares, Claudia
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars, 2008.
Subjects:
Culture.
Communication and culture.
Cultural studies.
Material culture.
Society & culture: general.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Communication and culture
Culture
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Table of Contents:
  • Undisciplining cultural criticism today / Claudia Alvares
  • Identity politics and the attack on knowledge / Daphne Patai
  • Feminist communitarianism : recuperating an ethics of care / Claudia Alvares
  • Constructing the Muslim other / Chris Weedon
  • Confronting whiteness : the performance of postassimilatory Jewish heroism / David Moscowitz
  • Our disgust will make us stronger : UK press representations of PoWs in the 2003 Iraq War / Katy Parry
  • Public frames : security, persuasion, and the visual construction of the international / Frank Möller
  • Heritage revisited : the cultural politics of heritage in Goodness gracious me / Ana Mendes
  • Its for you : the cellular phone as disciplinary technology / Joseph A. Tighe
  • The end of distance : the emergence of telematic culture / José Bragança de Miranda
  • Mnemosyne and The arcades : Warburg and Benjamin's legacy / Howard Caygill.

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