Authentic Sarah Banet-Weiser
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Brands are everywhere. Branding is central to political campaigns and political protest movements; the alchemy of social media and self-branding creates overnight celebrities; the self-proclaimed ...greening of institutions and merchant goods is nearly universal. But while the practice of branding is typically understood as a tool of marketing, a method of attaching social meaning to a commodity as a way to make it more personally resonant with consumers, Sarah Banet-Weiser argues that in the contemporary era, brands are about culture as much as they are about economics. That, in fact, we live in a brand culture.Authentic(TM) maintains that branding has extended beyond a business model to become both reliant on, and reflective of, our most basic social and cultural relations. Further, these types of brand relationships have become cultural contexts for everyday living, individual identity, and personal relationships - what Banet-Weiser refers to as brand cultures. Distinct brand cultures, that at times overlap and compete with each other, are taken up in each chapter: the normalization of a feminized self-brand in social media, the brand culture of street art in urban spaces, religious brand cultures such as New Age Spirituality and Prosperity Christianity,and the culture of green branding and shopping for change.In a culture where graffiti artists loan their visions to both subway walls and department stores, buying a cup of fair-trade coffee is a political statement, and religion is mass-marketed on t-shirts, Banet-Weiser questions the distinction between what we understand as the authentic and branding practices. But brand cultures are also contradictory and potentially rife with unexpected possibilities, leading Authentic(TM) to articulate a politics of ambivalence, creating a lens through which we can see potential political possibilities within the new consumerism.
How Pee-wee and his playhouse help us reimagine our
relationships to technology I Know You Are, but What
Am I? explores the cultural legacy of Pee-wee Herman, the cult
television star of Pee-wee's ...Playhouse . This children's
show-that was also for adults-ran on network TV from 1986 to 1990
and starred comedian Paul Reubens as Herman, a queer man-boy whose
playhouse, the set for the show, was tricked out with a profusion
of animate computational toys and technologies.
Cait McKinney shows how three defining scenes from the show
inform, and even foretell and challenge, our present moment: the
playhouse as an alternative precursor to networked smart homes that
foregrounds caring and ethical relationships between humans and
technologies; a reparative retelling of Reubens's career-wrecking
1991 arrest for indecent exposure inside a Florida adult film
theater as part of an AIDS-phobic, antigay sting operation; and
worn-out, Talking Pee-wee dolls and their broken afterlives on eBay
and YouTube.
McKinney looks at how queer people who were children in the
1980s remember and relate to Pee-wee now, showing that the moral
panic about sexuality, gender, and children from the past can help
us refute anti-trans and anti-queer political movements organized
today.
Against Massacre looks at the rise of humanitarian intervention in the nineteenth century, from the fall of Napoleon to the First World War. Examining the concept from a historical perspective, ...Davide Rodogno explores the understudied cases of European interventions and noninterventions in the Ottoman Empire and brings a new view to this international practice for the contemporary era.
The treaties to suppress the slave trade were the subject of intense legal battles in the first half of the 19th century. This book explores the legal disputes about the Anglo Brazilian treaty to ...highlight the political importance of what initially looks like mere argumentative hurdles over the rules and proceedings regarding the search and capture of ships. It reveals the complex legal translations of state inequality, abolition and slavery, as well as war and peace.
<p class=MsoNormal style=text-align: justify; >La presente publicación es producto de las investigaciones
finalizadas durante el 2019 en el marco de La Cátedra Unesco Derechos
Humanos y violencia: ...gobierno y gobernanza de la Universidad Externado de
Colombia, la cual tuvo como temática el desplazamiento forzado, la restauración
de los vínculos sociales rotos y la construcción de políticas públicas desde
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<p class=MsoNormal style=text-align: justify; >Este libro, compuesto por doce capítulos, contribuye al
dialogo sobre la construcción de política pública sobre el desplazamiento
forzado y la garantía de los derechos de las víctimas del conflicto armado como
son la verdad, la justicia, la reparación y las garantías de no repetición,
desde una perspectiva local y participativa. Distintas experiencias
comunitarias sobre salud mental, seguridad alimentaria, educación, entre
otras, permiten contrastar la distancia que existe en el diseño e
implementación de las políticas públicas sobre el desplazamiento forzado que
se diseñan a nivel nacional frente a las necesidades concretas y realidades que
aparecen a nivel local. Esperamos que estas reflexiones sean un insumo para los
tomadores de decisiones y para todos los actores que participan en el proceso
de dignificación y garantía de los derechos de la población desplazada en
Colombia.
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<span style=color: blue; margin-bottom: 0px !important;>Cátedra Unesco Derechos humanos y violencia: gobierno y gobernanza
Au dix-neuvième siècle et au début du siècle suivant, des centaines de milliers de personnes quittent le Québec pour s’établir aux États-Unis. Elles cherchent alors à implanter la vie sociale et ...leurs institutions culturelles au sud de la frontière. Ces nouvelles communautés ethniques ne sont pas étanches. Un patient processus d’intégration mène ces immigrants à vivre leur citoyenneté étatsunienne. Afin d’être représentés dans les officines du pouvoir et pour défendre leurs intérêts, les Franco-Américains prennent leur place dans la turbulente arène politique de leur terre d’accueil. Peu à peu, des intérêts de classe en viennent à primer sur ceux, longtemps poursuivis, de la reconnaissance ethnique. Ce livre explore un aspect méconnu des communautés franco-américaines, celui de leur action politique. Attentive à la complexité de ces communautés et aux particularités locales, cette étude contribue à une plus grande connaissance de la rencontre de l’univers canadien-français aux États-Unis et des institutions de la société d’accueil.
Ossa Ostensa is the world's first comprehensive example of
how to teach and learn the Latin language using the unique teaching
system of the internationally recognized authority Reginald Foster.
...Laura Pooley - prize-winning graduate of the University of Oxford
and currently a supervisor at the University of Cambridge, brings
to life the year she spent in Rome studying Latin with Reginaldus.
His inspiring and transformative method of teaching combines with
Laura's twenty years of teaching experience to produce concise and
crystal-clear explanations of the language. The three 'experiences'
of Latin: beginners, intermediates and advanced, are divided
between three user-friendly workbooks. Each workbook comprises
around thirty lessons, where the language is presented in hand-out
form requiring very little modification by prospective teachers.
Each language area is then illustrated by translated reading
examples. After each lesson, Laura provides translation practice
targeted to the taught content. These Latin passages are divided
into Classical and Post-Classical literature, to appeal to the
interests of all Latin students. Not only that, but each passage is
accompanied by teaching questions and translation hints, the
mainstay of Reginaldus' classroom persona and pedagogy so famously
encapsulated in his Ludi . Students therefore can exercise
recent language content and develop deep and spontaneous fluency in
the Latin language. Enjoy continuing your experience of learning
with Reginaldus with book 2 of the Ossa Ostensa series,
where the significant language areas of participles and
subjunctives are met for the first time.
Centuries of intense and involuntary migrations deeply impacted the development of the creolised cultures on the Dutch Caribbean islands of Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao. This volume describes various ...forms of cultural heritage produced on these islands over time and whether these heritages are part of their ‘national’ identifications. What forms of heritage express the idea of a shared “we” (nation-building) and what images are presented to the outside world (nation-branding)? What cultural heritage is shared between the islands and what are some real or perceived differences? In this book, examples of cultural heritage on these three islands ranging from sports to questions of reparations, from museums to digital humanities, from archaeology to music, from language and literature to tourism, and from visual art to diaspora policies are compared to developments elsewhere in the Caribbean.
