Dialogics of the Oppressed

Dialogics of the Oppressed
Author: Peter Hitchcock
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 271
Release: 1993-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0816621063

Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible to scholars, students, researchers, and general readers. Rich with historical and cultural value, these works are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. The books offered through Minnesota Archive Editions are produced in limited quantities according to customer demand and are available through select distribution partners.

Pacific Automobilism

Pacific Automobilism
Author: Gijs Mom
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 1002
Release: 2022-09-13
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 1800735642

The beginning of the 21st century has seen important shifts in mobility cultures around the world, as the West’s media-driven car culture has contrasted with existing local mobilities, from rickshaws in India and minibuses in Africa to cycling in China. In this expansive volume, historian Gijs Mom explores how contemporary mobility has been impacted by social, political, and economic forces on a global scale, as in light of local mobility cultures, the car as an ‘adventure machine’ seems to lose cultural influence in favor of the car’s status character.

Committed Theatre in Nigeria

Committed Theatre in Nigeria
Author: Segun Oyeleke Oyewo
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2020-06-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 149859381X

This book provides an overview of the full range of the teaching and practice of Committed Theatre and theatre of commitment in Nigeria for scholars in the arts and cultural studies. It is divided into four sections; Chapter 1: Theatre in Development Discourse, which is comprised of four papers that explore the theories of practice of theatre of commitment. Chapter 2 : Nigerian Theatre in Perspective discusses the trends, ethos of revolution, theatrical elements and communalistic/individualistic tendencies and the taboos theatre, drama and traditional theatre in Nigeria. In Chapter 3, the social, cultural and historical implications of Nigeria theatre, is examined in papers that focus on politics, theatre, and echoes of separatism in Nigeria and including an analysis of Aesthetagement of the Calabar Carnival in Nigeria. Chapter 4 performs a critical analysis of committed theatre practices from a global perspective. Interviews were conducted with committed artistes from Nigeria, Canada, Ethiopia, and Indonesia. Committed Theatre Perspectives in Teaching and Practice in Nigeria has the potential to impact the philosophy, teaching, and practice of theatre. The ideas contained in the book provide an excellent framework for understanding the importance and more importantly, the impact of theatre on society.

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Author: Paulo Freire
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2014-08-18
Genre: Education
ISBN: 150130531X

First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in English in 1970. The methodology of the late Paulo Freire has helped to empower countless impoverished and illiterate people throughout the world. Freire's work has taken on especial urgency in the United States and Western Europe, where the creation of a permanent underclass among the underprivileged and minorities in cities and urban centers is increasingly accepted as the norm. With a substantive new introduction on Freire's life and the remarkable impact of this book by writer and Freire confidant and authority Donaldo Macedo, this anniversary edition of Pedagogy of the Oppressed will inspire a new generation of educators, students, and general readers for years to come.

Globalizing Cultural Studies

Globalizing Cultural Studies
Author: Cameron McCarthy
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 580
Release: 2007
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780820486826

The contributors to Globalizing Cultural Studies: Ethnographic Interventions in Theory, Method, and Policy take as their central topic the problematic status of «the global» within cultural studies in the areas of theory, method, and policy, and particularly in relation to the intersections of language, power, and identity in twenty-first century, post-9/11 culture(s). Writing against the Anglo-centric ethnographic gaze that has saturated various cultural studies projects to date, contributors offer new interdisciplinary, autobiographical, ethnographic, textual, postcolonial, poststructural, and political economic approaches to the practice of cultural studies. This edited volume foregrounds twenty-five groundbreaking essays (plus a provocative foreword and an insightful afterword) in which the authors show how globalization is articulated in the micro and macro dimensions of contemporary life, pointing to the need for cultural studies to be more systematically engaged with the multiplicity and difference that globalization has proffered.

Class, Culture and Social Change

Class, Culture and Social Change
Author: J. Kirk
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2007-10-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0230590225

Drawing on the work of Raymond Williams, Valentin Volosinov and Mikhail Bakhtin, the book examines key issues for working-class studies including: the idea of the 'death' of class; the importance of working-class writing; the significance of place and space for understanding working-class identity; and the centrality of work in working-class lives.

The Experimental Self

The Experimental Self
Author: Judy Little
Publisher: SIU Press
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1996
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780809320615

Drawing on Bakhtin, Derrida, Foucault, Lyotard and, other modern thinkers, Little (English, Southern Illinois U.) challenges the notion that Western individuality is oppressive and destructive, and examines the political complexity of the self in the novels of 20th-century women. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR