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The principal theme of this volume is the importance of the public use of human remains in a historical perspective. The book presents a series of case studies aimed at offering historiographical and methodological reflections and providing interpretative approaches highlighting how, through the ages and with a succession of complex practices and uses, human remains have been imbued with a plurality of meanings. Covering a period running from late antiquity to the present day, the contributions are the combined results of multidisciplinary research pertaining to the realities of the Italian peninsula, hitherto not investigated with a long-term and multidisciplinary historical perspective. From the relics of great men to the remains of patriots, and from anatomical specimens to the skeletons of the saints: through these case studies the scholars involved have investigated a wide range of human remains (real or reputed) and of meanings attributed to them, in order to decipher their function over the centuries. In doing so, they have traversed the interpretative boundaries of political history, religious history and the history of science, as required by questions aimed at integrating the anthropological, social and cultural aspects of a complex subject.
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2020, The Iconology of Abstraction: Non-Figurative Images and the Modern World [ed. Krešimir Purgar]
This book uncovers how we make meaning of abstraction, both historically and in present times, and examines abstract images as a visual language. The contributors demonstrate that abstraction is not primarily an artistic phenomenon, but rather arises from human beings' desire to imagine, understand and communicate complex, ineffable concepts in fields ranging from fine art and philosophy to technologies of data visualization, from cartography and medicine to astronomy.
2019, Christofis, Nikos (ed.): Erdoğan’s ‘New’ Turkey - Attempted Coup d’état and the Acceleration of Political Crisis (Routledge)
The coup attempt in 2016 emerged in the mid of a deep crisis. The efforts of the government to deal with the crisis by repressive means increasingly strained Turkey’s international reputation – which is crucial for the highly internationalised regulation of the Turkish economy. Nevertheless, AK Parti survived the coup attempt in July 2016. Employing a Gramscian understanding of hegemony and a Neogramscian approach on international relations, this chapter argues, that AK Parti survived the crisis and the coup attempt because there had been no alternative actor capable to politically organise bourgeois hegemony as AK Parti did it throughout the 2000’s. https://books.google.de/books?id=enm6DwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=de#v=onepage&q&f=false
2020, Routledge
GONÇALVES, Leandro Pereira. Plínio Salgado between Brazil and Portugal: Formation and transformation of Brazilian integralism. In: GALIMI, Valeria; GORI, Annarita. (Org.). Intellectuals in the Latin Space during the Era of Fascism: Crossing Borders. London and New York: Routledge, 2020, p. 85-106.
2020
2020, Structures of Protection? Rethinking Refugee Shelter
The article is concernig a massive semi-abandoned historical building, called the ‘Silos’, located in downtown Trieste (North-East Italy, on border area with Slovenia), few meters away the port and the central railwaystation, which constituted a gathering place for Jews and a reception centre for Italian exiles during WW2. Since 2014 Silos has become an informal shelter for refugees arriving via the Balkans: it is a useful place of anchorage and a free choice of ‘homing’ for migrants in transit. The ambivalence of this shelter is it serves as a protective and collective space, but also as a place where migrants are pushed back to the margins. Silos seems to be a porous filter that allows anchoring and mobility for refugees in the European threshold.
2020
This book is the first synthesis of European military history in several decades, embracing the greater part of the continent and the Mediterranean shores. It draws upon a wide range of international literature and contains much new material. Routledge ISBN 9781138368989
2020
This book explores the atmospheric dimensions of music and sound. With multidisciplinary insights from music studies, sound studies, philosophy and media studies, chapters investigate music and sound as shared environmental feelings. The contributions probe conceptual issues at the forefront of contemporary discussions on atmosphere and affect and extend the spatial and relational focus towards fundamentally temporal aspects of performance, process, timbre, resonance and immersion. Through examples from diverse musical traditions, the contributors pursue questions about music’s and sound’s capacity to imbue a situation with an ambient feeling and to modulate social collectives. In addition to original research, the volume features a first translation of an important text by German phenomenologist Hermann Schmitz, and a debate on affect and atmosphere between the philosophers Jan Slaby and Brian Massumi. This novel contribution to the field of music research provides a strong theoretical framework, as well as vibrant case studies, which will be invaluable reading for scholars and students of music, sound, aesthetics, media, anthropology and contemporary philosophy.
2019, The History of the Vespa. An Italian Miracle
2019, Andreas Leutzsch: Handing over memories: The transnationalisation of memorials and the construction of collective memory in post-war and postcolonial Hong Kong, in: Andreas Leutzsch (Ed.), Historical Parallels, Commemoration and Icons, Abingdon/New York 2019: Routledge, 115-164
In this contribution I analyse whether and how in Hong Kong’s case the move from one to another imagined community – from the British to the Chinese empire – has complicated the construction of a single historical narrative due to competing bottom-up and top-down initiatives to (re-)construct Hong Kong’s collective memory. I analyse the diachronic change of the collective memory especially but not exclusively as represented by initiatives to erect new or to transform already-existing memorials including, among others, the Cenotaph, the Sai Wan Bay War Cemetery memorial and the “Pillar of Shame” from 1945 to 1997/2017. The aim of this chapter is to contribute to a better understanding of the transformation of the political discourse in Hong Kong by using iconology to analyse Hong Kong’s collective memory and symbol politics.
2020, Making Art History in Europe After 1945, Edited by Noemi de Haro García, Patricia Mayayo, Jesús Carrillo, Routledge
The literature on the Venice Biennale has rarely addressed from a critical point of view the impact of the Italian politics on this institution and its structure. Reformed in 1932 by the Fascist dictatorship and controlled since then by the central government, still now-a-day the Venice Biennale depends from the political agenda of those parties governing the Democratic Republic of Italy. This essay aims to focus on two key years in the history of the institution, 1948 and 1968. In these dates, the political tensions among the major Italian parties determined a radical transformation in both the Biennale’s organisation and its artistic programme. Through the analysis of the politics of display employed in the 24th Venice Bienniale the first part of the essay [written by Stefano Collicelli Cagol] aims to unfold the influence on the Italian art historical discourse of the complex net of traumas, denials and reactions, which characterised Italy in its post-war years. Opened in 1948, the 24th edition was the first one since the end of the war and the collapsed of the Fascist dictatorship. Turning itself into a museum-like institution, the 1948 Biennial responded both to its uncomfortable recent Fascist past and to the international and Italian political turmoil of post 1945. The Biennale President, Giovanni Ponti – closely linked to the Christian Democratic Party at the time in government – invited some of the most prominent Italian art historians to define the artistic programme of the institution, setting a trend for the following twenty years. Avoiding an ideological reading of the works of art, the Biennale adopted a strategy of historicisation and de-politicisation of contemporary art display, strongly influenced by a pure-visibility approach on art. This approach lasted with different fortunes until 1973, when the events that unfolded around the Venice Biennale of 1968, forced the Italian Parliament to draft a new statute to replace the one in force, which dated from 1938. The new statute was the symbol of the cultural battle for all Italian institutions after the protest, consequently the Parliament left to the Biennale much autonomy and freedom justified by the particular social, political and cultural situation that followed ‘68. Under the aegis of Carlo Ripa di Meana, affiliated to the PSI – Socialist Italian Party, the rising new Italian political force of the 1980s, the Venice Biennale abandoned its festival structure to become an “institute of permanent culture”, openly ideological, participant in the social and political debate, a “public service”. Between 1974 and 1977, the new statute led to a model of cultural production and consumption that revolved around the political role of art, marking a departure in the traditional art historical framework characterising the institution since the Post-war years. The Biennale returned to the scene after ’68 with a theme-oriented exhibition format in line with the international new art practices expecting the start of an international debate and provided a test-bed for the new course of the PSI within the Italian politics. With the end of the 1970s, with their tensions and political engagement, the Bienniale further transformed itself to be aligned with the return to the private (stagione del riflusso), a return to a more hedonistic and disengaged period lasting through the 1980s and proposing since 1978 a series of thematic exhibitions with an art historical approach, thus merging the two critical models here analysed and developed by the institution since 1948.
2020, Van Helden D., Witcher R. (eds.), Researching the Archaeological Past through Imagined Narratives: A necessary fiction
Community archaeology often takes the form of outreach activities intended to communicate to the public the final results of archaeological research. Interaction between archaeologists and stakeholders, however, also offers opportunities for the creation and interpretation of archaeological knowledge. Analysis of two Italian case studies, Vignale and Pilastri, provides two examples of the intersection of public archaeology, archaeological interpretation and, specifically, fiction, in the form of a writing competition and a series of docudramas. In both cases, the interaction between archaeologists and stakeholders has produced fictional elements—stories, ideas and inspirations—that have served to reduce the distance between past and present, and to challenge established archaeological thinking. These emergent fictional narratives have proven to be a valuable resource for both projects. Here, the juncture of public archaeology, archaeological interpretation and fiction is framed and investigated within what we define as the ‘multiverse of fiction’.
2020, Routledge Handbook of Political Economy and Gouvernance of the Americas
A disaster is usually characterized by its suddenness, its short-onset timeframe, its disruptiveness for human communities, and by its material, environmental, and economic scope. The historical perspective on the study of disasters has shown, however, that the factors that make hazards disastrous for human societies, are in fact embedded in processes of socio-natural entanglement that evolve over time, and that materialize in specific ways in a specific space and time. In this perspective, natural hazards can act as triggers that often lay bare problematic societal structures. Clearly, disasters can be “natural” (i.e. caused by geological and/ or meteorological forces) or “human-made” (i.e. technical disasters, such as nuclear accidents, shipwrecks, oil spills, war etc.). In this chapter we will focus on “natural” disasters only, as the specific geographical, geological and climatic setting of the Americas makes them inherently hazard-prone landmasses – more so than the Eurasian continent. As we will show throughout this chapter, together with this hazard-prone setting of the Americas, specific indigenous mythologies and cultures of disaster have evolved over time.
This book uncovers how we make meaning of abstraction, both historically and in present times, and examines abstract images as a visual language. The contributors demonstrate that abstraction is not primarily an artistic phenomenon, but rather arises from human beings' desire to imagine, understand and communicate complex, ineffable concepts in fields ranging from fine art and philosophy to technologies of data visualization, from cartography and medicine to astronomy.
2020
In assessing the current state of feminism and gender studies, whether on a theoretical or a practical level, it has become increasingly challenging to avoid the conclusion that these fields are in a state of disarray. Indeed, feminist and gender studies discussions are beset with persistent splits and disagreements. This reader suggests that returning to, and placing centre-stage, the role of philosophy, especially critical realist philosophy of science, is invaluable for efforts that seek to overcome or mitigate the uncertainty and acrimony that have resulted from this situation. In particular, it claims that the dialectical logic that runs through critical realist philosophy is ideally suited to advancing feminist and gender studies discussions about broad ontological and epistemological questions and considerations, intersectionality, and methodology, methods, and empirical research. By bringing together four new and eight existing writings this reader provides both a focal point for renewed discussions about the potential and actual contributions of critical realist philosophy to feminism and gender studies and a timely contribution to these discussions. Purchase here: https://www.routledge.com/Critical-Realism-Feminism-and-Gender-A-Reader/Ingen-Grohmann-Gunnarsson/p/book/9781138083707 Google books preview here: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=e7fjDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT123&dq=critical+realism+feminism+gender+reader&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjd2eijvtvpAhWORhUIHZdTCEUQuwUILDAA#v=onepage&q&f=false
2019, Routledge
This book presents the Jesuit Figurists’ encounter with the Yijing in their mission in China. The author analyzes how Jesuit Figurists incorporated their intralingual translation of the Yijing, the classical and vernacular use of Chinese language and the imitation of Chinese literati’s format, and the divinization of Yijing numbers into their typological exegesis. By presenting the different ways in which Jesuit Figurists’ Christianized the Yijing and grafted a Chinese version of Jesus and Christian stories onto the Chinese classics, this book reveals the value of Jesuit missionary-translators. The Chinese manuscripts the Figurists left behind themselves became treasures which have been excavated and displayed in this book. These treasures reveal the other side of the story, the side not much shown in past scholarship on the Figurists. These handwritten manuscripts on the Christianized Yijing are a legacy which continues to impact the European understanding of Chinese history and civilization in later centuries. A first analysis of these manuscripts in Chinese, this book uncovers the Jesuits mystic theological interpretation in their trans-textual dialogue in the intra-lingual translation of the Book of Changes. The book will be of interest to scholars working on the history of Christianity in China and East Asian Religion and Philosophy.
Gibrán Cruz-Martínez, Eve Hayes de Kalaf, Joan Miguel Tejedor-Estupiñán, Alison Walsh, Pastor Badillo, Fabio Bertranou, Juan Jacobo Velasco, Lauri Heimo
2019, Routledge
Social protection serves as an important development tool, helping to alleviate deprivation, reduce social risks, raise household income and develop human capital. This book brings together an interdisciplinary team of international experts to analyse social protection systems and welfare regimes across contemporary Latin America. The book starts with a section tracking the expansion of social assistance and social insurance in Latin America through the state-led development era, the neoliberal era and the pink-tide. The second section explores the role played by local and external actors modelling social policy in the region. The third and final section addresses a variety of contemporary debates and challenges around social protection and welfare in the region, such as gender roles and the empowerment of CCT beneficiaries, and welfare provision for rural outsiders. The book touches on key topics such as conditional cash transfer programmes, trade union inclusionary strategies, transnational social policy, state-led versus market-led welfare provision, explanatory factors in the emerging dualism of social protection institutions, social citizenship rights as a consequence of changing social policy architecture and different poverty reduction strategies. This interdisciplinary volume will be of interest to economists, political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists and historians working on social protection in Latin America, or interested in welfare systems in the global south. Free preview (chapter 1): https://web.intranet.cchs.csic.es/sites/default/files/users/u4453/9780429471087_preview_1.pdf
2019, The Routledge Companion to Games in Architecture and Urban Planning Tools for Design, Teaching, and Research
The Routledge Companion to Games in Architecture and Urban Planning aims to identify and showcase the rich diversity of games, including: simulation games, game-like approaches, game scenarios, and gamification processes for teaching/learning, design and research in architecture and urban planning. This collection creates an opportunity for exchange and reflection on games in architecture and urban planning. Theoretical discussions, descriptive accounts, and case studies presenting empirical evidence are featured; combined with reflections, constructive critical analysis, discussions of connections, and various influences on this field. Twenty-eight international contributors have come together from eleven countries and five continents to present their studies on games in architecture and urban planning, pose new questions, and advocate for innovative perspectives.
Contributors from a variety of disciplines and institutions explore the work of museums from many perspectives, including cultural studies, religious studies, and visual and material culture. Most museums throughout the world – whether art, archaeology, anthropology or history museums – include religious objects, and an increasing number are beginning to address religion as a major category of human identity. With rising museum attendance and the increasingly complex role of religion in social and geopolitical realities, this work of stewardship and interpretation is urgent and important. Religion in Museums is divided into six sections: museum buildings, reception, objects, collecting and research, interpretation of objects and exhibitions, and the representation of religion in different types of museums. Topics covered include repatriation, conservation, architectural design, exhibition, heritage, missionary collections, curation, collections and display, and the visitor's experience. Case studies provide comprehensive coverage and range from museums devoted specifically to the diversity of religious traditions, such as the State Museum of the History of Religion in St Petersburg, to exhibitions centered on religion at secular museums, such as Hajj: Journey to the Heart of Islam, at the British Museum.
2020, In Ristic M. and Frank, S. (Eds.) Urban Heritage in Divided Cities. Oxon and New York, Routledge: 125–144
This paper uses Takia-Fateh-Shah in Amritsar (India) as a case study to illuminate an ongoing contestation process over urban land between a powerful state institution and a socioculturally marginalised community. It explores the role of two heritage sites, seven Sufi shrines and a military fort in the demarcation of urban territories and in shaping claims over land by the residents and the army, respectively. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, the chapter critically engages with the conflicting claims and discourses of the contestants and the role of urban heritage in this confrontation. It concludes that the question of what constitutes urban heritage and its preservation, reinvention and appropriation by contesting actors contributes not only to claim-making but also to the production of a sense of belonging and the construction of a collective identity that protects the community from ongoing caste-based exclusion and marginalisation.
2018
Silvia Bruzzi, Chaire d'Etudes Africaines Comparées (EGE Rabat) In Islam and Gender in Colonial Northeast Africa, Silvia Bruzzi provides an account of Islamic movements and gender dynamics in the context of colonial rule in Northeast Africa. The thread that runs through the book is the life and times of Sittī 'Alawiyya al-Mīrġanī (1892-1940), a representative of a well-established transnational Sufi order in the Red Sea region. Silvia Bruzzi gives us not only a social history of the colonial encounter in the Eritrean colony, but also a wider historical account of supra-regional dynamics across the Red Sea, the Ethiopian hinterland, and the Mediterranean region, using a wide range of fragmentary historical materials to make an important contribution towards filling the gap that currently exists in women's and gender history in Muslim societies. All interested in the social history of colonial Africa, the study of Islamic movements, and the broader subject of gender and religion.
Maarten Van Ginderachter, Xosé Manoel Núñez Seixas, Raúl Moreno Almendral, Joris Oddens, Martina Niedhammer, Raul Carstocea
2020, Routledge
This volume tackles one of the basic questions in nationalism studies as formulated by Katherine Verdery: How do people become national? To examine how the nation entered ordinary people’s ‘insides’, this book focuses on their affective lives. As such its objective is to bridge a double gap: the neglect of both emotions and the everyday realm in historical research on nationalism. On the one hand, Benedict Anderson’s question ‘why [do nations] command such profound emotional legitimacy’ , has long befuddled historians, who have been late-comers to the so-called 'affective turn'. On the other hand, historians have been taken to task for obsessing over the bells and whistles of nationalism and over-concentrating on the most articulate social groups. This collection of essays takes up the gauntlet. By analysing how nationalism harnesses, produces and feeds on emotions to pull ordinary people into its orbit, it refutes Anthony D. Smith’s critique that everyday nationalism research is necessarily imbued with an ‘ahistorical blocking presentism’. Using a variety of sources, methods and cases, ranging from Spain and the Netherlands during the age of Revolutions, nineteenth-century France and Belgium over interwar Italy, Germany and Romania, to war-torn Finland, and post-WWII Poland, this volume demonstrates that emotions are integral to understanding the everyday pull of nationalism on ordinary people.
2020, Chapter title: Approaching Aby Warburg and Digital Art History Thinking Through Images
The Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities and Art History offers a broad survey of cutting-edge intersections between digital technologies and the study of art history, museum practices, and cultural heritage. The volume focuses not only on new computational tools that have been developed for the study of artworks and their histories but also debates the disciplinary opportunities and challenges that have emerged in response to the use of digital resources and methodologies. Chapters cover a wide range of technical and conceptual themes that define the current state of the field and outline strategies for future development. This book offers a timely perspective on transdisciplinary developments that are reshaping art historical research, conservation, and teaching. This book will be of interest to scholars in art history, historical theory, method and historiography, and research methods in education. Kathryn Brown is a lecturer in art history and visual culture at Loughborough University, UK.
2019, Handbook of Research on Digital Research Methods and Architectural Tools in Urban Planning and Design
This chapter examines the problem of excessive similarity when designing new cities. It focuses on the generating of innovative ideas through urban design paradigms. The purpose of this work is to support the efforts of planners and designers toward the creation of new cities based on the concept of cities of singularity. This chapter is a bibliographic review of some conventional Western paradigms in urban planning and design. Based on this work, the three initial singularities of cities can be sketched as being architecturally singular (artwork-like/artistic and organic), societally singular (social, economic, and transcultural), or technologically and informationally singular (smart) in nature. The analytical reading depends on content analysis—which follows the potentiality of exploring the meaning of singularity and its characteristics, indicators, and principles. It collects the interrelationships of the old and new paradigms. The outcomes provide a framework for creating ‘cities of singularity' based on a crowdsourcing approach.
2020, Routledge
Kuala Lumpur is a diverse city representing many different religions and nationalities. Recent government policy has actively promoted unity and cohesion throughout the city; and the country of Malaysia, with the implementation of a programme called 1Malaysia. In this book, the authors investigate the aims of this programme – predominantly to unify the Malaysian society – and how these objectives resonate in the daily spatial practices of the city’s residents. This book argues that elements of urban infrastructure could work as an essential mediator ‘beyond community’, allowing inclusive social structures to be built, despite cultural and religious tensions existing within the city. It builds on the premise of an empirical study which explores the ways in which different communities use the same spaces, supported through the implementation of a theoretical framework which looks at both Western and Islamic conceptualisations of the notion of community. Through the analysis of Kuala Lumpur, this book contributes towards the creation of more inclusive places in multi-ethnic, multi-cultural and multi-religious communities across the world.
2018, Greek Monasticism in Southern Italy. The Life of Neilos in Context, ed. B. Crostini and I.A. Murzaku, Routledge, London – New York 2018 (ISBN: 9781-4724-3790-7), pp. 96-143
2019, Handbook of Research on Digital Research Methods and Architectural Tools in Urban Planning and Design
The livability standard still has not considered the chaos city that may stem from or lead to cities of hardship. This chapter rectifies this by making the phenomena of chaos and hardship the centerpiece of the analysis. It depends on the internally displaced persons (IDPs) to display the characteristics of liability and the hardship of living and be the indicators of chaos city. This chapter addresses the non- perceptible processes of the IDPs from outside and inside Cairo in Egypt. This internal displacement supposes the lead-in to chaotic changes in the lifestyles of the cities; it can even be said that they become cities of hardship. The theoretical reading depends on conventional and digital methods (content analysis and the internet of things) to follow these changes, which occur not only due to migrations but also due to ignoring decentralization. The outcomes provide an action plan to create cities free from hardship, displacement, and chaos.
2020
In recent years phenomenology has become a resource for reflecting on political questions. While much of this discussion has primarily focused on the ways in which phenomenology can help reformulate central concepts in political theory, the chapters in this volume ask in a methodological and systematic way how phenomenology can connect first-person experience with normative principles in political philosophy. The chapters are divided into three thematic sections. Part I covers the phenomenology of political experience. The chapters in this section focus on a variety of experiences that we come across in political practice. The chapters in Part II address the phenomenology of political ontology by examining the constitution of the realm of the political. Finally, Part III analyzes the phenomenology of political episteme in which our political world is grounded.
2019, Chapter 4 in "Social Movements Contesting Natural Resource Development", edited by John F. Devlin, London: Routledge.
The hospitality and tourism industry is one of the world's most important and also the most fragmented industries with large number of small businesses. Hence, all marketing strategies are at the heart of success of businesses that are vary from hotels, airlines companies, tour operators to travel agencies, food and beverage companies, etc. As one of the significant elements of the marketing mix, “promotion”, describes all marketing communication activities composed of informing target audiences on the features of particular products or services, developing attractive offers for target groups, raising customer awareness of a product or service, positioning company in a favorable light in the eyes of customers and generating sales and creating brand loyalty as a consequence. In this section, promotion has been examined with its’ concept, objectives and tools and practices applied in hospitality and tourism industry.
2018, Re-mapping Archaeology: Critical Perspectives, Alternative Mappings - Table of Contents (edited by Mark Gillings, Piraye Hacıgüzeller & Gary Lock; 2018, Routledge)
Re-thinking the Conversation: A Geomythological Deep Map. Deep-mapping is a process. It is a process that does not strive to either please or attain authority, it makes no claim on definitive opinion. Rather, deep maps are the structure within which a conversation, or conversations, can flourish between multiple perspectives. Fluid, fragile, flexible, they morph and absorb new inputs, provoking new insights as a by-product rather than as an intentional aim. In this way, the deep map can become a conduit for rethinking geomythological research and representation. Traditionally, geomythology has been the study of landscape stories through the purview of geoscience with little regard for myth’s own voice. Bounded in the epistemic bias of orthodox perspectives storytelling has been dismissed as an inferior feature in the landscape; a source to be critiqued or stood behind as a bridge for public engagement but not as a partner to be afforded equal value. It is, however, possible to challenge that stance, to suggest that an alternative is possible. For ‘the world as it is’ does not stand still, it does not pose for a portrait; it is forever in flux. To map a landscape is more than geography, it is to facilitate a palimpsest of cultural narrative which struggles to be contained within the rigid parameters of a conventionally academic bracket. This chapter introduces such an approach. It seeks to give voice to one stretch of coastline across time, space and disciplines with the aim of not compromising integrity and to re-establish the very foundation upon which normative perspectives reside.
2020
In this chapter, I will analyse the way in which focusing on same-sex attraction can shed new light on how we conceive love and desire in the late medieval and early modern period. Firstly, I will re-examine the extensive historiographical debate on the social and cultural history of homoeroticism in late medieval and early modern Europe through the lens of emotions. This perspective allows us to go beyond some of the conundrums in which historians of homosexuality working ʻfrom below’ have sometimes found themselves tangled. I will then analyse the diverse and often overlooked emotional lexicon contained in the judicial reports of trials against sodomites. From this vantage point, we can have a glimpse not only into what people felt for each other, but also into the way in which unconventional desires affected their self-perception and their positioning within society. In a diachronic perspective, I will examine how social control of sexual behaviours changed through time. The ways in which homoerotic feelings were perceived by common people and religious and civic institutions were indeed related to broader understandings of love and affection within the family. Conversely, I suggest that, by reflecting on transgressive affects, we can also see the history of marital love in the late Middle Ages and early modern period from a different perspective. Finally, I will point out how the increasing rigidity of sexual morality in the post-Reformation period stimulated forms of resistance from below. From then on, questioning the narrow-mindedness of Catholic and Protestant ʻemotional regimes’ played a crucial role in the broader political critique of the hypocrisy of institutionalized religions.
2017, Routledge
The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis: Expanding Approaches widens the scope of analytical approaches for popular music This study endeavors to create a new analytical paradigm for examining popular music by taking the perspective of developments in contemporary art music as a point of departure to open up multiple new paradigms. " Expanded approaches " for popular music analysis is broadly defined as any compositional, analytical, or theoretical concept outside the domain of common practice tonality that shapes the pitch-class structures, form, timbre, rhythm, or aesthetics of various forms of popular music. The essays in this collection investigate a variety of analytical, theoretical, historical, and aesthetic com-monalities popular music shares with 20th and 21st century art music. From rock and pop to hip hop and rap, dance and electronica, from the 1930s to present day, this companion explores these connections in five parts: With contributions by established scholars and promising emerging scholars in music theory and historical musicology from North America, Europe, and Australia, The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis: Expanding Approaches offers nuanced and detailed perspectives that address the relationships between concert and popular music.
This book offers the first comparative monograph on the management of elections. The book defines electoral management as a new, inter-disciplinary area and advances a realist sociological approach to study it. A series of new, original frameworks are introduced, including the PROSeS framework, which can be used by academics and practitioners around the world to evaluate electoral management quality. A networked governance approach is also introduced to understand the full range of collaborative actors involved in delivering elections, including civil society and the international community. Finally, the book evaluates some of the policy instruments used to improve the integrity of elections, including voter registration reform, training and the funding of elections. Extensive mixed methods are used throughout including thematic analysis of interviews, (auto-)ethnography, comparative historical analysis and, cross-national and national surveys of electoral officials. This text will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners interested and involved in electoral integrity and elections, and more broadly to comparative politics, public administration, international relations and democracy studies. Full book: https://www.routledge.com/Comparative-Electoral-Management-Performance-Networks-and-Instruments/James/p/book/9781138682412 Chapter 4 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license: https://tandfbis.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781138682412_oachapter04.pdf
2019
Perception of expression distinguishes our cognitive activity in a pervasive, significant and peculiar way, and manifests itself paradigmatically in the vast world of artistic production. Art and Expression examines the cognitive processes involved in artistic production , aesthetic reception, understanding and enjoyment. Using a phenomeno-logical theoretical and methodological framework developed by Rudolf Arnheim and other important scholars interested in expressive media, Alberto Argenton considers a wide range of artistic works, which span the whole arc of the history of western graphic and pictorial art. Argenton analyses the representational strategies of a dynamic and expressive character that can be reduced to basic aspects of perception, like obliqueness, amodal completion and the bilateral function of contour, giving new directions relative to the functioning of cognitive activity. Art and Expression is a monument to the fruitful collaboration of art history and psychology, and Argenton has taken great care to construct a meaningful psychological approach to the arts based also on a knowledge of pictorial gen-res that allows him to systematically situate the works under scrutiny. Art and Expression is an essential resource for postgraduate researchers and scholars interested in visual perception, art and Gestalt psychology.
2020
in R. Leenes/D. Hallinan/S. Gutwirth/P. De Hert (eds.), Privacy and Data Protection: Data Protection and Democracy, Hart Publishing (Oxford) 2020. *** When speaking of children’ s activities on the internet, the public focus has so far mostly been on online risks. However, the internet plays a paramount positive role in enhancing children’s participation in society and fulfilling their rights. Despite the pivotal relevance the digital environment has for children and the difficult balance between protection and participation components in an online setting, such topics have long been neglected. Finally, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has sparked an imperative public discussion on this issue. Against this background, the goal of this chapter is to highlight the new pathways opened by the regulation to concretely support the achievement of children’s rights in the digital environment. Despite lacking involvement from experts and children in its drafting and the reprehensible age requirement to give consent to data processing, the regulation does provide important normative tools to empower children online. To this end, its practical implementation – which needs to go beyond a merely legal approach – will be decisive. This chapter follows a multi-stakeholder approach, taking into account the different actors playing an important role in this regard, such as families, educational actors and civil society, business, public authorities, academia and research institutes. The author particularly advocates a stronger evidence-based cooperation among these actors and offers a few practical suggestions to achieve this.
This collection of essays offers a multi-faceted exploration of audiovisual translation, both as a means of intercultural exchange and as a lens through which linguistic and cultural representations are negotiated and shaped. Examining case studies from a variety of media, including film, television, and video games, the volume focuses on different modes of audiovisual translation, including subtitling and dubbing, and the representations of linguistic and stylistic features, cultural mores, gender, and the translation process itself embedded within them. The book also meditates on issues regarding accessibility, a growing concern in audiovisual translation research. Rooted in the most up-to-date issues in both audiovisual translation and media culture today, this volume is essential reading for students and scholars in translation studies, film studies, television studies, video game studies, and media studies.
The essay examines the genesis of the decree "Exivi de paradiso", adopted by the Councile of Vienne in 1312 and concerning the proper interpretation of the Franciscan rule. It analyse how the text tried to establish an effective equilibrium inside the Franciscan order between the conventuals and the spirituals.
Justice is a Virtue, not Some Static Thing The wisdom and relevance of this key Aristotelian insight is immense, but perhaps not so well appreciated, despite the fact that the virtue-nature of justice remained intact as the system was adopted and developed by the Stoics, Augustine, Aquinas, to the modern period. My own appreciation of what it means – that justice is a virtue – continues to grow even after two decades of studying ethics. I should have learned this more quickly from David Hollenbach, SJ; a teacher whose work on the common good concept certainly covered this material. He writes precisely this in his book, The Common Good and Christian Ethics: “For Aquinas, the premier moral virtue is justice, which directs a person’s actions toward the good of fellow human beings.” Hollenbach explains the synergetic dynamism between justice and the common good fostered by our authentic engagement with the “other” – persons of diverse backgrounds and visions of the common good. Engaging the other fosters justice (as a virtue). This engagement must be characterized by the more-than-detached tolerance that Hollenbach called for in his chapter on intellectual solidarity. In my case, conversations with Muslim colleagues about the centrality of essentially Aristotelian principles of justice and moderation in Islam and Christianity allowed us to together realize commonalities and deeper understanding about rightly ordered ethical action in difficult situations. I use this intercultural experience as a case study to demonstrate the central relevance of a proper understanding of justice in conflict situations.
2017
Spatial variation and patterning in the distribution of artefacts are topics of fundamental significance in Balkan archaeology. For decades, archaeologists have been classifying spatial clusters of artefacts into discrete “cultures”, which have been conventionally treated as bound entities and equated with past social (or even ethnic) groups. The need for an up-to-date and theoretically informed dialogue on group identity in Balkan prehistory is the point of departure for this volume. Thirteen case studies covering the beginning of the Neolithic to the Middle Bronze Age and written by archaeologists conducting fieldwork in the region, as well as by ethnologists with a research focus on material culture and identity, provide a robust foundation for exploring these issues. Each essay challenges long-established interpretations and provides a new, contextualised reading of the archaeological record. Bringing together the latest research (with an intentional focus on the central and western Balkans, i.e. former Yugoslavia), the chapters offer original perspectives on Balkan prehistory with relevance to the neighbouring regions of Eastern and Central Europe, the Mediterranean and Anatolia.
2019, Photography and Ontology: Unsettling Images
In this essay, I take photographs from the Stasi archive as a catalyst for thinking about the ontological conditions of photography as evidence, as pertaining to a certain, distinctive veritas or truth, or as witness to an event. I also consider the ways in which the Stasi archive, as a fluid repository—in terms of its ongoing formation via the repair of destroyed files— unsettles images and their meaning
2019, Architectural Energetics in Archaeology. Analytical Expansions and Global Explorations
In 733 BCE, a group of colonists from Corinth, located on the Peloponnese of modern Greece, landed in southeast Sicily at the island of Ortygia and formed the settlement of Syracuse. This would become the first step of a hegemonic expansion across the southeast corner of the island, lasting over a century and establishing four Syracusan colonies and other smaller sites. This process ended with the settlement of Kamarina on the southern coast in 599 BCE. Kamarina was established as an independent settlement, but was most likely intended to be dependent to a degree on Syracuse. Recent historiography of the region focuses broadly on the motivations (conquest, commerce, sociopolitics) behind the actions of Syracuse in the Archaic period (750–480 BCE), largely ignoring smaller aspects of colonial foundation and the interaction between Syracuse and its colonies. As an alternative or complement to this broad approach, examining certain features of the colonial process can lend insight into other macro-level factors present in the history of the area. Discussed here are two aspects of establishing a settlement: housing a population and constructing a defensive structure.
2019, Routledge
Since the 2008 financial crash the expansion of neoliberalism has had an enormous impact on nature-society relations around the world. In response, various environmental movements have emerged opposing the neoliberal restructuring of environmental policies using arguments that often bridge traditional divisions between the environmental and labour agendas. The Right to Nature explores the differing experiences of a number of environmental-social movements and struggles from the point of view of both activists and academics. This collection attempts to both document the social-ecological impacts of neoliberal attempts to exploit non-human nature in the post-crisis context and to analyse the opposition of emerging environmental movements and their demands for a radically different production of nature based on social needs and environmental justice. It also provides a necessary space for the exchange of ideas and experiences between academics and activists and aims to motivate further academic-activist collaborations around alternative and counter-hegemonic re-thinking of environmental politics. This book will be of great interest to students, scholars and activists interested in environmental policy, environmental justice, social and environmental movements.
2017, A Companion to Italian Cinema, ed. by Frank Burke, Wiley-Blackwell,