Food and Cultural Studies Ashley, Bob; Hollows, Joanne; Jones, Steve ...
2004, 20040802, 2002, 2004-05-21, 2004-08-02, 20020101
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What and how we eat are two of the most persistent choices we face in everyday life. Whatever we decide on though, and however mundane our decisions may seem, they will be inscribed with information ...both about ourselves and about our positions in the world around us. Yet, food has only recently become a significant and coherent area of inquiry for cultural studies and the social sciences. Food and Cultural Studies re-examines the interdisciplinary history of food studies from a cultural studies framework, from the semiotics of Barthes and the anthropology of Levi-Strauss to Elias' historical analysis and Bourdieu's work on the relationship between food, consumption and cultural identity. The authors then go on to explore subjects as diverse as food and nation, the gendering of eating in, the phenomenon of TV chefs, the ethics of vegetarianism and food, risk and moral panics.
1. Food-Cultural Studies: Three paradigms 2. The Raw and the Cooked 3. Food, Bodies and Etiquette 4. Consumption and Taste 5. The National Diet 6. The Global Kitchen 7. Shopping for Food 8. Eating In 9. Eating Out 10. Food Writing 11. Television Chefs 12. Food Ethics and Anxieties
The Russian Cold Julia Herzberg, Andreas Renner, Ingrid Schierle / Julia Herzberg, Andreas Renner, Ingrid Schierle
08/2021, Letnik:
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Cold has long been a fixture of Russian identity both within and
beyond the borders of Russia and the Soviet Union, even as the
ongoing effects of climate change complicate its meaning and
cultural ...salience. The Russian Cold assembles fascinating
new contributions from a variety of scholarly traditions, offering
new perspectives on how to understand this mainstay of Russian
culture and history. In chapters encompassing such diverse topics
as polar exploration, the Eastern Front in World War II, and the
iconography of hockey, it explores the multiplicity and ambiguity
of "cold" in the Russian context and demonstrates the value of
environmental-historical research for enriching national and
imperial histories.
Teaching Haiti Accilien, Cécile; Orlando, Valérie K
08/2021
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This volume is the first to focus on teaching about Haiti's
complex history and culture from a multidisciplinary perspective.
Making broad connections between Haiti and the rest of the
Caribbean, ...contributors provide pedagogical guidance on how to
approach the country from different lenses in course curricula.
They offer practical suggestions, theories on a wide variety of
texts, examples of syllabi, and classroom experiences.
Teaching Haiti dispels stereotypes associating Haiti
with disaster, poverty, and negative ideas of Vodou, going beyond
the simplistic neocolonial, imperialist, and racist descriptions
often found in literary and historical accounts. Instructors in
diverse subject areas discuss ways of reshaping old narratives
through women's and gender studies, poetry, theater, art, religion,
language, politics, history, and popular culture, and they advocate
for including Haiti in American and Latin American studies
courses.
Portraying Haiti not as "the poorest nation in the Western
Hemisphere" but as a nation with a multifaceted culture that plays
an important part on the world's stage, this volume offers valuable
lessons about Haiti's past and present related to immigration,
migration, locality, and globality. The essays remind us that these
themes are increasingly relevant in an era in which teachers are
often called to address neoliberalist views and practices and
isolationist politics.
Contributors:
Cécile Accilien | Jessica Adams | Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken |
Anne M. François | Régine Michelle Jean-Charles | Elizabeth Langley
| Valérie K. Orlando | Agnès Peysson-Zeiss | John D. Ribó | Joubert
Satyre | Darren Staloff | Bonnie Thomas | Don E. Walicek | Sophie
Watt
In this first in-depth study of the ruling family of Tunisia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Kallander investigates the palace as a site of familial and political significance. Through ...extensive archival research, she elucidates the domestic economy of the palace as well as the changing relationship between the ruling family of Tunis and the government, thus revealing how the private space of the palace mirrored the public political space.
"Instead of viewing the period as merely a precursor to colonial occupation and the nation-state as emphasized in precolonial or nationalist histories, this narrative moves away from images of stagnation and dependency to insist upon dynamism," Kallander explains. She delves deep into palace dynamics, comparing them to those of monarchies outside of the Ottoman Empire to find persuasive evidence of a global modernity. She demonstrates how upper-class Muslim women were active political players, exerting their power through displays of wealth such as consumerism and philanthropy. Ultimately, she creates a rich view of the Husaynid dynastic culture that will surprise many, and stimulate debate and further research among scholars of Ottoman Tunisia.
An energetic and exhilarating account of the Victorian entertainment industry, its extraordinary success and enduring impact
The Victorians invented mass entertainment. As the nineteenth century's ...growing industrialized class acquired the funds and the free time to pursue leisure activities, their every whim was satisfied by entrepreneurs building new venues for popular amusement. Contrary to their reputation as dour, buttoned-up prudes, the Victorians reveled in these newly created 'palaces of pleasure'.
In this vivid, captivating book, Lee Jackson charts the rise of well-known institutions such as gin palaces, music halls, seaside resorts and football clubs, as well as the more peculiar attractions of the pleasure garden and international exposition, ranging from parachuting monkeys and human zoos to theme park thrill rides. He explores how vibrant mass entertainment came to dominate leisure time and how the attempts of religious groups and secular improvers to curb 'immorality' in the pub, variety theater and dance hall faltered in the face of commercial success.
The Victorians' unbounded love of leisure created a nationally significant and influential economic force: the modern entertainment industry.
A microcosm of exaggerated societal extremes—poverty and wealth, vice and virtue, elitism and equality—New Orleans is a tangled web of race, cultural mores, and sexual identities. Jennifer Spear's ...examination of the dialectical relationship between politics and social practice unravels the city’s construction of race during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Spear brings together archival evidence from three different languages and the most recent and respected scholarship on racial formation and interracial sex to explain why free people of color became a significant population in the early days of New Orleans and to show how authorities attempted to use concepts of race and social hierarchy to impose order on a decidedly disorderly society. She recounts and analyzes the major conflicts that influenced New Orleanian culture: legal attempts to impose racial barriers and social order, political battles over propriety and freedom, and cultural clashes over place and progress. At each turn, Spear’s narrative challenges the prevailing academic assumptions and supports her efforts to move exploration of racial formation away from cultural and political discourses and toward social histories.
Strikingly argued, richly researched, and methodologically sound, this wide-ranging look at how choices about sex triumphed over established class systems and artificial racial boundaries supplies a refreshing contribution to the history of early Louisiana.
Sexing the Caribbean Kempadoo, Kamala
2004, 20041201, 2004-12-01, 20040101
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This unprecedented work provides both the history of sex work in this region as well as an examination of current-day sex tourism. Based on interviews with sex workers, brothel owners, local ...residents and tourists, Kamala Kempadoo offers a vivid account of what life is like in the world of sex tourism as well as its entrenched roots in colonialism and slavery in the Caribbean.
Kamala Kempadoo is a Professor at York University in Ontario. She was the Acting Director and Lecturer at the Centre for Gender and Development Studies at the University of West Indies--Mona in Jamaica. She is the editor of Global Sex Workers (Routledge, 1998) and Sun, Sex and Gold (1999).
This article argues for an expansive understanding of home as an experience, and so pushes beyond the traditional bounds of (home) ownership - either freehold or leasehold ownership - as restricted ...to house. Home - the desired experience motivating the article - is a feeling of security, self-expression, and relationships and family. Laws, it is argued, must embody certain conditions for individuals to experience home in this way, and these are discussed. Overall, the article's contribution is to encourage future legal research into whether specific Australian laws are perpetuating an inferior experience of home for some individuals because they undermine conditions for home set out herein. However, the article recognises that home is a challenging concept. As such, an important qualification is that the arguments presented about what home is, and the conditions under which it is achieved, are informed but not definitive. The subjective experience of home will likely differ between individuals. That said, the discussion of home in this article has ample support in the literature.
Maadi DeVries, Annalise J. K
2021, 2021-03-23, 2021-03-02
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A fresh perspective on the global economic influences that shaped modern Egypt through the history of an affluent Cairo suburb, MaadiIn the early years of the twentieth century, a group of Egypt's ...real-estate and transportation moguls embarked on the creation of a new residential establishment south of Cairo. The development was to epitomize the latest in community planning, merging attributes of town and country to create an idyllic domestic retreat just a short train ride away from the busy city center. They called the new community Maadi, after the ancient village that had long stood on the eastern bank of the Nile.Over the fifty years that followed, this new, modern Maadi would be associated with what many believed to be the best of modern Egypt: spacious villas, lush gardens, popular athleticism, and, most of all, profitability. Maadi: The Making and Unmaking of a Cairo Suburb, 1878-1962 explores Maadi's foundation and development, identifying how foreign economic privileges were integral to fashioning its idyllic qualities. While Maadi became home to influential Egyptians, including nationalists and royalty, it always remained exclusive-too exclusive to appeal to the growing number of lower-income Egyptians making homes in the capital. Annalise DeVries shows how Maadi's history offers a fresh perspective on the global economic influences that shaped modern Egyptian history, as they helped configure not only the country's politics but also the social and cultural practices of the well-to-do.Ultimately the means of Maadi's appeal also paved the path for its undoing. When foreign tax and legal privileges were abolished, Maadi, too, became untethered from a vision for Egypt's future and instead appeared more and more as a figure of the country's past.
