This book explores how camp challenges and at the same time celebrates a foundational cultural division, that between the dirty and the clean. In refocusing camp as a phenomenon of the dark underside as much as of the glamorous surface, the collection hopes to add to our understanding of the cultura..
This book is a bold and provocative re-thinking of identities, politics, philosophy, ethics and cultural practices. Consider Sue Golding's eight technologies: curiosity, noise, cruelty, appetite, skin, nomadism, contamination, dwelling...
This book is a bold and provocative re-thinking of identities, politics, philosophy, ethics and cultural practices. Consider Sue Golding's eight technologies: curiosity, noise, cruelty, appetite, skin, nomadism, contamination, dwelling...
Against the powerful image of Japan as a rising economic superpower, or even, in Ezra Vogel's influential formulation a deade ago, "Japan as number 1", this book explores the fragility, hubris and human and environmental costs of Japan's desperate drive for hyperdevelopment...
This work aims to show that Japan even at it's height of success, while the "successful version of capitalism" was "blighted at it's core, being unsustainable". This revised edition features n introduction which gives an analysis of Japan's contemporary crisis...
This work aims to show that Japan even at it's height of success, while the "successful version of capitalism" was "blighted at it's core, being unsustainable". This revised edition features n introduction which gives an analysis of Japan's contemporary crisis...
The book examines the processes through which public art museums, as modern Western institutions, were introduced to Japan in the late nineteenth century and how they subsequently developed distinctive national characteristics. Focusing on 'empty museums', one of the most distinctive forms of Japane..
With contributions from leading scholars in the field of journalism and mass communication, this handbook brings together reports on the status quo of media accountability in all EU members states, as well as key countries close to Europe, such as Turkey and Israel. Each chapter provides an up-to-da..
The Female Trickster presents a Post-Jungian engagement with the place of women in contemporary Western society and investigates the emergence of the energy of the female trickster through a review of popular culture...