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Presenting the depiction of migration through a variety of cinematic outlets, this volume explores film's depiction of human displacement in different geographic circumstances and probes the reasons why cinema so frequently evokes a stereotype of in-transit people. Techniques of affect and distance are revealed in the contributors' close film studies of wide-ranging matter which include works by the Dardenne brothers, transnational video artists Ghazel and Bouchra Khalili, and studies of Syrian films at Western festivals. Migrants' Perspective, Migrants in Perspective: World Cinema deciphers the semiotics of migration and its representation in cinema, exploring both the complications of shooting a migrant subject, and the challenges of including the migrants' point of view. Nicole Beth Wallenbrock is Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the City University of New York, Hostos Community College. Frank Jacob is Professor of Global History at Nord Universitet, Norway. Cover image: dyslexia 3, acrylic and ball point pen on paper, size 140 x 100cm, 2015 (c) ghazel Cover design: www.paulsmithdesign.com
Following a period of rapid political change, both globally and in relation to the Middle East and South Asia, this collection sets new terms of reference for an analysis of the intersections between global, state, non-state and popular actors and their contradictory effects on the politics of gender.
This collection of essays, by acknowledged experts in the field, provides valuable insight into one of the most exciting developments in Beckett Studies in recent years. Samuel Beckett and Translation explores the idea that at the core of Beckett's work there is no fixed centre but a constant movement between variants of French and English. This collection of newly commissioned edited essays opens up original lines of enquiry into this restless impulse and how it finds a resonance in Beckett's writing. Topics, including Beckett's self-translations, translations of other authors and poetics of translation, are discussed in an Introduction and thirteen chapters followed by a section of commentary from seasoned translators who have worked on Beckett's texts. In examining the full range of Beckett's literary genres, this book presents how the high voltage released by Beckett's bilingualism informs the intricacies of his literary production. José Francisco Fernández is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Almería, Spain Mar Garre García is a PhD researcher (Gerty Cori Fellow) at the University of Almería, Spain
Maps the ongoing changes in Salafi intellectual thought, dawa and jihad Starting in late 2017, Saudi Arabia embarked on a series of reforms reversing many socially restrictive policies long associated with Salafism. These developments have triggered critical questions about the future of Salafism, crucially: is this the end for the most influential puritanical Islamic reform movement of the 20th century? This book introduces the history of the rise and spread of Salafism during the 20th century as a global Islamic reform movement. It also explains Salafi tools of methodological reasoning: traditionally used to justify highly conservative positions, they now appear equally effective in defending more liberal life choices. The collection will help readers to appreciate the diversity of Salafi movements, as well as the significance of the ongoing socio-economic and political changes within Saudi Arabia and the wider Muslim world that are enabling shifts to this conservative Islamic scholarly tradition. Key Features - Examines the impact of reforms within Saudi Arabia on Salafi intellectual thought as well as on Salafi dawa movements and Jihadi groups - Explores the factors shaping social liberalisation within Saudi Arabia - Presents examples of reforms within Salafi intellectual thought - Shows dynamism and adaptability within Salafi dawa movements in different country contexts - Addresses the critical question of growing infighting within Salafi jihadi groups Masooda Bano is Professor of Development Studies in the Oxford Department of International Development and Senior Golding Fellow at Brasenose College, University of Oxford.
'Consistently challenging, informative, and enlightening, the essays in this volume make a major contribution in situating Agamben's thought in relation to existentialist thinkers and themes. They provide a bright new lens through which to view Agamben's work.' Kevin Attell, Cornell University Explores the philosophical relationship between Giorgio Agamben and the existentialist tradition While Giorgio Agamben's work has not previously been categorised as existentialist, his work creatively repackages important existentialist themes in a politico-theological context. This collection of essays offers creative new ways of considering Agamben's critique of the sovereign exception, as well as other existentialist themes, including feminism and postcolonialism. The international range of contributors each challenge, complicate or reimagine Agamben's reading of the sovereign exception, which appears among the writings of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Sartre, Heidegger, Beauvoir, Fanon, Kafka, Dostoevsky and others in both theistic and atheistic forms. Divided into three sections - Agamben and the Sovereign Exception, Agamben and the Death of God and Existentialist Themes in Agamben - this collection re-introduces Agamben as an unacknowledged existentialist philosopher who takes the major themes and concepts of existentialism in a startling new direction. Marcos Antonio Norris is a doctoral candidate and Crown Fellow at Loyola University Chicago. Colby Dickinson is Associate Professor of Theology at Loyola University Chicago. Cover image: (c) iStockphoto.com Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-7877-9 Barcode
Explores Beckett's engagement with various technologies throughout his artistic career. This collection of essays is the first comprehensive discussion of the role technology plays in shaping Beckett's trademark aesthetics. Samuel Beckett and Technology assembles an innovative and diverse range of scholarly approaches to the topic, which collectively renegotiate our understanding of his work in prose, theatre, film, radio and television. What emerges from these discussions is the centrality of technology for Beckett's creative imagination, a factor that is equally enabling as it is limiting. At the same time, the book reveals how theories of technology can yield new readings of the way Beckett responds to the conditions of technological modernity. As such, Beckett's work is examined in its relation to historical and contemporary technologies, discourses of technicity and technē, post-humanism and the digital age. Galina Kiryushina is a Doctoral Candidate and Researcher at the Centre for Irish Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University Prague. Einat Adar is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of South Bohemia. Mark Nixon is Associate Professor in Modern Literature at the University of Reading, where he is also the Co-Director of the Beckett International Foundation.
'This book offers a unique and wonderfully broad collection of essays that introduce the reader to an important and little-known trend in Shakespeare and theatre studies. The editors have included essays by leading theatre artists, playwrights, directors, actors and scholars who celebrate Shakespeare as seen through the multiple perspectives of Latinx Shakespeares as performance, as literature and as community-building through professional and community-based theatre companies from coast to coast.' Jorge Huerta, University of California San Diego A timely and exciting intervention at the intersection of Latinx and Shakespeare Studies Shakespeare and Latinidad is a collection of scholarly and practitioner essays in the field of Latinx theatre that specifically focuses on Latinx productions and appropriations of Shakespeare's plays. It is the first truly comprehensive treatment of this style of adaptation, bringing together the diverse voices working in this field today including leading academics, playwrights and theatre practitioners. This blend of essays and interviews reflects the transdisciplinary synthesis of scholarship, dramaturgy and pedagogy that shapes Latinx engagement with Shakespeare. Trevor Boffone is Lecturer in the Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program at the University of Houston. Carla Della Gatta is Assistant Professor of English at Florida State University. Cover image: Calaveraspeare (c) Jose Pulido Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-8848-8 Barcode
'Offering a comprehensive and highly original perspective, Cinema and Soft Power is a significant contribution to the field. Anyone seeking to understand the value of cinema as a soft power instrument in case studies beyond the "usual suspects" will appreciate both the breadth and depth of this collection of essays.' Gary Rawnsley, University of Nottingham Ningbo China 'The relationship between soft power and popular culture, especially cinema, has largely been overlooked in academic literature. Dennison and Dwyer's innovative collection admirably fills this gap: a very useful resource for students and researchers.' Daya Thussu, Professor of International Communication, Hong Kong Baptist University The apparent shift in power relations between the developed and developing world, along with the increasing emphasis that national and transnational organisations place on the role of 'soft power' in global foreign policy, has profound implications for global film culture. Focusing primarily on the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), this innovative collection examines the diverse and often competing ways the group as a whole engages with film as a medium of artistic expression, and as a 'soft power' resource. The contributors explore the wider implications for world cinema of its members' differing and dynamic positions in the global media landscape, and the book includes a comparative analysis by examining the post-imperial soft power of the UK at the time of Brexit. Stephanie Dennison is Professor of Brazilian Studies at the University of Leeds. Rachel Dwyer is Professor Emerita of Indian Cultures and Cinema at SOAS University of London. Cover image: Film Dangal, Beijing, China, 2017 (c) AP/Shutterstock ISBN: 978-1-4744-5627-2
This book examines Turkey's ethno-religious activism and power-related political strategies in the Balkans between 2002 and 2020, the period under the rule of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), to determine the scopes of its activities in the region.
Examines how the making, marketing and performance of new Islamic music genres relate to Islamic discourse and thought, through a case study of Awakening, an Islamic media company formed in London.
Incorporates the lessons learned from the 2011 Arab revolutions into democratic transition theory.
Ali Akbar examines the works of four noted scholars of Islam: Fazlur Rahman (Pakistan), Abdolkarim Soroush (Iran), Muhammad Mujtahed Shabestari (Iran) and Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd (Egypt).
Adriel M. Trott argues for an interdependent relationship of form and matter in Aristotle's metaphysics. Responding to feminist critiques from Judith Butler and Luce Irigary, she She finds resources for thinking the female's contribution and the female on its own terms and not as the contrary to form, or the male.
Exploring the religious cultures, beliefs and imperatives that shaped the Jacobite movement in ScotlandThe Revolution of 1688-90 was accompanied in Scotland by a Church Settlement which dismantled the Episcopalian governance of the church. Clergy were ousted and liturgical traditions were replaced by the new Presbyterian order. As Episcopalians, non-jurors and Catholics were side-lined under the new regime, they drew on their different confessional and liturgical inheritances, pre- and post-Reformation, to respond to ecclesiastical change and inform their support of the movement to restore the Stuarts. In so doing, they had a profound effect on the ways in which worship was conducted and considered in Britain and beyond.This book provides a fresh examination of the Jacobite movement based not on dynastic identification but on confessional and intellectual bases of support, focussing on the composite and nuanced traditions that sustained the Jacobite movement for seven decades beyond the Revolution of 1688-90.Allan I. Macinnes is Emeritus Professor of History, University of Strathclyde. Patricia Barton is Subject Leader in History, School of Humanities, University of Strathclyde. Kieran German is a Teaching Fellow at the University of Dundee.
Imagined States examines representations of the law in British and Nigerian high-brow, middle-brow and popular fiction and journalism. It reads works by Chinua Achebe, Joyce Cary, Cyprian Ekwensi and Edgar Wallace, together with a range of Nigerian market literature and journalism.
Russia increasingly emphasises the importance of 'soft power' for securing its foreign policy interests, but recent research has paid more attention to Russia's intentions rather than to the receiving end of its cultural and public diplomacy. This volume seeks to address this gap and explore the specifics of both Russian language promotion and its acceptance in a number of case and country studies, including Ukraine, Germany and Ireland. A range of scholars discuss the legal status and the practical use of Russian for communication or media use, both in the 'near' and the 'far abroad', examining the politics of the Russian language, the role of the Russian Federation in influencing these politics and the challenges that the promotion of Russian faces in particular contexts across the globe. Christian Noack is associate professor with the chair group of East European Studies at the University of Amsterdam, where he also served as director of the Amsterdam School for Regional, Transnational and European Studies between 2015 and 2019. Cover image: from the project Artconstitution, 2003, Alexander Sigutin, used with the permission of the artist and S.ART (Petr Vois gallery) Cover design: Michael Chatfield [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-6379-9 Barcode
Explores Elizabeth Bowen's significant contribution to twentieth-century literary theory From experiments in language and identity to innovations in the novel, the short story and life narratives, the contributors discuss the ways in which Bowen's work straddles, informs and defies the existing definitions of modernist and postmodernist literature which dominate twentieth-century writing. The eleven chapters present new scholarship on Bowen's inventiveness and unique writing style and its attachment to objects, covering topics such as queer adolescents, housekeeping, female fetishism, habit and new technologies such as the telephone. Jessica Gildersleeve is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Southern Queensland. Patricia Juliana Smith is Associate Professor of English at Hofstra University in New York.
Jan Bryant looks at the strategies visual artists and filmmakers are using to criticise the social and economic conditions shaping our historical moment. She then assesses how the world is being positively re-imagined through their work today. Located at the intersection of practice and theory, Bryant argues that an effective contemporary political aesthetics encompasses more than just analysis of a work's conceptual or aesthetic reality. It should also consider the impact the artwork has at the point of reception, the methods adopted by the artists and the relationships they engender with communities.
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