Author: Josephides
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Keywords: modernity, narrative, negotiating, odysseys, melanesian
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2008-07-01
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 1845455258
ISBN-13: 9781845455255

In a series of epic self-narratives ranging from traditional cultural embodiments to picaresque adventures, Christian epiphanies and a host of interactive strategies and techniques for living, Kewa Highlanders (PNG) attempt to shape and control their selves and their relentlessly changing world. This lively account transcends ethnographic particularity and offers a wide-reaching perspective on the nature of being human. Inverting the analytic logic of her previous work, which sought to uncover what social structures concealed, Josephides focuses instead on the cultural understandings that peop

Author: Griselda Pollock
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Keywords: encounters, arts, cultures, concepts, new, analysis, odysseys, passages, cultural, conceptual
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2008-02-15
List price: $89.00
ISBN-10: 1845115228
ISBN-13: 9781845115227

The "theoretical turn" within the arts and humanities in the 1970’s and 1980’s has, for many, had its day, with work produced under its rubric all too often feeling tired or even downright lazy. In its place -- whilst hazarding against an outright rejection of theory -- this book, introduced by Mieke Bal, presents work by a new generation of scholars responding directly to Bal’s idea of the "travelling concept". By taking a concept from one discipline and, with a genuine understanding of its origin, thoughtfully applying this in a new context, exciting new possibilities are open

Authors:Jorgen Ole Baerenholdt, Kirsten Simonsen,
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Keywords: relations, century, social, spatiality, odysseys, space
Number of Pages: 219
Published: 2004-12-31
List price: $120.00
ISBN-10: 0754643492
ISBN-13: 9780754643494

The nature of spatial imaginations has become central to a range of major social and political debates. Narratives on spatial inequality, from the North-South divide in global economic and political visions, to marginalisation and ’ghettoisation’ in Western cities, appear regularly in our daily newspapers. Such examples indicate that issues of space/spatiality are as crucial in our current societies as ever before. ’Space Odysseys’ brings together leading social scientists including John Urry and Derek Gregory to address a number of central issues in spatiality and soci

Authors:Kurt Burch, Robert A. Denemark, Kenneth P. Thomas, Ma
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: political, economy, global, routledge, ripe, studies, odysseys, issues, emerging, rethinking, unfolding
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2003-11-13
List price: $160.00
ISBN-10: 0415312930
ISBN-13: 9780415312936

The contributors to this volume present innovative approaches to fundamental issues in global political economy. Arguing from a variety of theoretical and normative points of view the chapters provide multiple avenues for rethinking our conceptions of the global political economy. In particular the authors survey the developments in political economy post-Cold war, provide analyses of capital and critically examine the negative aspects of globalization.