Encountering Craft

Encountering Craft
Author: Chandan Bose
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2023-06-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000864316

This book reflects on the methodological challenges and possibilities encountered when researching practices that have been historically defined and classified as ‘craft.’ It fosters an understanding of how methodology, across disciplines, contributes to analytical frameworks within which the subject matter of craft is defined and constructed. The contributions are written by scholars whose work focuses on different craft practices across geographies. Each chapter contains detailed case study material along with theoretical analysis of the research challenges confronted. They provide valuable insight into how methodologies emerge in response to particular research conditions and contexts, addressing issues of decolonization, representation, institutionalization, and power. Informed by anthropology, art history and design, this volume facilitates interdisciplinary discussion and touches on some of the most critical issues related to craft research today.

Encountering the Nigerian State

Encountering the Nigerian State
Author: W. Adebanwi
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2010-07-05
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0230109632

Thisvolume advances extant reflections on the state constituted as the Ur-Power in society, particularly in Africa.It analyzes how various agents within the Nigerian society'encounter' the state - ranging from the most routine form of contact to thespectacular. While many recent collections have reheated the old paradigms - of the perils of federalism; corruption; ethnicity etc, our focus here is on encounter , that is, the nuance and complexity of how the state shapes society and vice-versa.Through this, wedepart from the standard state versus society approach that proves so limiting in explaining the African political landscape.

Studies in Religion and the Everyday

Studies in Religion and the Everyday
Author: Farhana Ibrahim
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2024-07-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0198902786

Studies in Religion and the Everyday is a collection of essays addressing the contours of religious beliefs and practices in the context of everyday life in India. Events and processes in contemporary India--especially post the 1990s--have contributed to distinct modes of articulating religious practices. This volume is an attempt to historicize--and problematize--the categorization of religion as a universally held and analytically distinct feature of human life and seeks to understand the conditions--historical, political, discursive--and processes of authorization under which a particular set of practices, values, and dispositions constitutes the 'religious' at a specific point in time. By bringing together studies that draw from diverse methodological and epistemological approaches, the book will serve as a useful introduction to religion in India for the general reader and as an indispensable resource for students and researchers. The volume presents fresh perspectives on existing fields of study such as the city, capital, minorities, secularization, and the state--no longer seen as distinct from religion but actively co-produced with religion in the context of the theoretical rubric of the everyday--thereby marking a departure from approaching the question of religion solely through the lens of identity and conflict.

Encountering Difference: New Perspectives on Genre, Travel and Gender

Encountering Difference: New Perspectives on Genre, Travel and Gender
Author: Gigi Adair
Publisher: Vernon Press
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2020-03-03
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1622738705

This edited collection poses crucial questions about the relationship between gender and genre in travel writing, asking how gender shapes formal and thematic approaches to the various generic forms employed to represent and recreate travel. While the question of the genre of travel writing has often been debated (is it a genre, a hybrid genre, a sub-genre of autobiography?), and recent years have been much attention to travel writing and gender, these have rarely been combined. This book sheds light on how the gendered nature of writing and reading about travel affect the genre choices and strategies of writers, as well as the way in which travel writing is received. It reconsiders traditional and frequently studied forms of travel writing, both European and non-European. In addition, it pursues questions about the connections between travel writing and other genres, such as the novel and films, minor forms including journalism and blogging, and new sub-genres such as the ‘new nature writing’; focusing in particular on the political ramifications of genre in travel writing. The collection is international in focus with discussions of works by authors from Europe, Asia, Australia, and both North and South America; consequently, it will be of great interest to scholars and historians in those regions.

Approach

Approach
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 596
Release: 1988
Genre: Aeronautics
ISBN:

Drink the Pacific Northwest

Drink the Pacific Northwest
Author: Neil Ratliff
Publisher: Cider Mill Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2024-01-31
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1646434587

The Pacific Northwest has been trasformed into a heavenly playground for the connoisseur, thanks to a band of ingenious folks who have managed to turn the region's diverse terrain and bountiful produce into a host of distinctive beverages. Industry insider Neil Ratliff serves as your tour guide for this exhilarating journey through the booming craft beverage industry in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and British Columbia, uncovering the best of the regions's breweries wineries, cideries, and distilleries. From back cover.

Craft Shaping Society

Craft Shaping Society
Author: Lindy Joubert
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2022-05-31
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9811694729

This book focusses on the role of craft as a continuing cultural practice and the revival of disappearing skills in contemporary society. It includes twenty-five essays by highly regarded artisans, academics, technologists, entrepreneurs, businesspeople, curators, and researchers from many countries representing a wide range of global craft traditions and innovations. The authors explain their professional practices and creative pathways with knowledge, experience, and passion. They offer insightful analyses of their traditions within their culture and in the marketplace, alongside the evolution of technology as it adapts to support experimentation and business strategies. They write about teaching and research informing their practice; and they explain the importance of their tools and materials in function and form of the objects they make. The essays reveal a poignant expression of their successes, disappointments, and opportunities. This book offers case studies of how artisans have harnessed the traditions of the past alongside the latest design technologies. The authors reveal how global craft is not only a vehicle for self-expression and creativity, but also for being deeply relevant to the world of work, community and environmental sustainability. The book makes the vital link between skills, knowledge, education, and employment, and fills a much-needed niche in Technical, Vocational Education and Training TVET.

Encountering the Pacific in the Age of the Enlightenment

Encountering the Pacific in the Age of the Enlightenment
Author: John Gascoigne
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 644
Release: 2014-03-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107729017

The Pacific Ocean was the setting for the last great chapter in the convergence of humankind from across the globe. Driven by Enlightenment ideals, Europeans sought to extend control to all quarters of the earth through the spread of beliefs, the promotion of trade and the acquisition of new knowledge. This book surveys the consequent encounters between European expansionism and the peoples of the Pacific. John Gascoigne weaves together the stories of British, French, Spanish, Dutch and Russian voyages to destinations throughout the Pacific region. In a lively and lucid style, he brings to life the idealism, adventures and frustrations of a colourful cast of historical figures. Drawing upon a range of fields, he explores the complexities of the relationships between European and Pacific peoples. Richly illustrated with historical images and maps, this seminal work provides new perspectives on the significance of European contact with the Pacific in the Enlightenment.