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Download this eBook (Un)timely Crises
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(Un)timely Crises


Maria Boletsi , Natashe Lemos Dekker , Kasia Mika , Ksenia Robbe


Un)timely Crises explores how ‘crisis’—as a narrative, concept, grammar, and experience—structures time and space. This collectively written volume extends Bakhtin’s ‘chronotope’ to challenge mobilizations of crisis within neoliberal governmentality. The book explores...

Publication date: 2021-08-09
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Download this eBook Wanghong as Social Media Entertainment in China
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Wanghong as Social Media Entertainment in China


David Craig , Stuart Cunningham , Jian Lin


In Chinese, the term wanghong refers to creators, social media entrepreneurs alternatively known as KOLs (key opinion leaders) and zhubo (showroom hosts), influencers and micro-celebrities.  Wanghong also refers to an emerging media ecology in which these creators...

Publication date: 2021-02-25
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Download this eBook Languages of Resistance, Transformation, and Futurity in Mediterranean Crisis-Scapes
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Languages of Resistance, Transformation, and Futurity in Mediterranean Crisis-Scapes


Maria Boletsi , Janna Houwen , Liesbeth Minnaard


This collection rethinks crisis in relation to critique through the prism of various declared ‘crises’ in the Mediterranean: the refugee crisis, the Eurozone crisis, the Greek debt crisis, the Arab Spring, the Palestinian question, and others. With...

Publication date: 2020-09-01
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Other Globes


Simon Ferdinand , Esther Peeren , Irene Villaescusa-Illán


This volume challenges dominant imaginations of globalization by highlighting alternative visions of the globe, world, earth, or planet that abound in cultural, social, and political practice. In the contemporary context of intensive globalization, ruthless geopolitics,...

Publication date: 2019-05-13
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Download this eBook Caring in Times of Precarity
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Caring in Times of Precarity


Chow Yiu Fai


Caring in Times of Precarity draws together two key cultural observations: the increase in those living a single life, and the growing attraction of creative careers. Straddling this historical juncture, the book focuses on one particular group of ‘precariat’: single...

Publication date: 2018-12-14
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Download this eBook Globalization and Latin American Cinema
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Globalization and Latin American Cinema


Sophia A. Mcclennen


Studying the case of Latin American cinema, this book analyzes one of the most public - and most exportable- forms of postcolonial national culture to argue that millennial era globalization demands entirely new frameworks for thinking about the relationship between...

Publication date: 2018-05-25
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Download this eBook Global Cultures of Contestation
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Global Cultures of Contestation


Robin Celikates , Jeroen De Kloet , Esther Peeren , Thomas Poell


This book guides the reader through the many complications and contradictions that characterize popular contestation today, focusing on its socio-political, cultural, and aesthetic dimensions. The volume recognizes that the same media and creative strategies can be used...

Publication date: 2017-11-30
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Download this eBook Narrating the Global Financial Crisis
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Narrating the Global Financial Crisis


Miriam Meissner


This book analyzes how the Global Financial Crisis is portrayed in contemporary popular culture, using examples from film, literature and photography. In particular, the book explores why particular urban spaces, infrastructures and aesthetics – such as skyline shots in...

Publication date: 2017-05-25
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Download this eBook Labor in Culture, Or, Worker of the World(s)
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Labor in Culture, Or, Worker of the World(s)


Peter Hitchcock


This book is a cultural critique of labor and globalization that considers whether one can represent the other. The cultural representation of labor is a challenge in how globalization is understood. Workers may be everywhere in the world but cultural correlatives are...

Publication date: 2017-03-29
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