Defending Culture
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Defending Culture
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Author : Johan Fornäs
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-08-04
Defending Culture written by Johan Fornäs and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-04 with Social Science categories.
This book concerns the implications and interrelations of key concepts of culture, defending an updated communicative notion of culture as meaning-making against a series of current challenges. The first part of the book distinguishes four main concepts of culture, presenting their histories, uses, limitations and mutual contradictions, which else often tend to be neglected. The second part scrutinizes neomaterialist and posthumanist critics’ antihermeneutic efforts to escape the spirals of interpretation and meaning. Learning from such contestations, the third part summarizes the arguments and in five theses reconstructs a contemporary and comprehensive agenda for cultural studies, based on creative imagination and communicative mediation in the dynamic interface between meaning and materiality. This thus provides a survey of fundamental concepts and theories of culture for students and scholars in the humanities and social sciences, while simultaneously also serving as an introductory guide to the contemporary debate in this field.
The Cultural Defense
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Author : Alison Dundes Renteln
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023
The Cultural Defense written by Alison Dundes Renteln and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with Actions and defenses categories.
In what ways and to what extent should cultural background be taken into consideration in response to legal problems? The first book-length study of the topic, 'The Cultural Defense' provides a comprehensive overview of the debate surrounding the admissibility of cultural evidence in the courtroom.
To Defend The Revolution Is To Defend Culture
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Author : Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt
language : en
Publisher: PM Press
Release Date : 2015-09-01
To Defend The Revolution Is To Defend Culture written by Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt and has been published by PM Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-01 with History categories.
Grounded in painstaking research, To Defend the Revolution Is to Defend Culture revisits the circumstances which led to the arts being embraced at the heart of the Cuban Revolution. Introducing the main protagonists to the debate, this previously untold story follows the polemical twists and turns that ensued in the volatile atmosphere of the 1960s and ’70s. The picture that emerges is of a struggle for dominance between Soviet-derived approaches and a uniquely Cuban response to the arts under socialism. The latter tendency, which eventually won out, was based on the principles of Marxist humanism. As such, this book foregrounds emancipatory understandings of culture. To Defend the Revolution Is to Defend Culture takes its title from a slogan – devised by artists and writers at a meeting in October 1960 and adopted by the First National Congress of Writers and Artists the following August – which sought to highlight the intrinsic importance of culture to the Revolution. Departing from popular top-down conceptions of Cuban policy-formation, this book establishes the close involvement of the Cuban people in cultural processes and the contribution of Cuba’s artists and writers to the policy and praxis of the Revolution. Ample space is dedicated to discussions that remain hugely pertinent to those working in the cultural field, such as the relationship between art and ideology, engagement and autonomy, form and content. As the capitalist world struggles to articulate the value of the arts in anything other than economic terms, this book provides us with an entirely different way of thinking about culture and the policies underlying it.
The Cultural Defense Of Nations
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Author : Liav Orgad
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2015-11-05
The Cultural Defense Of Nations written by Liav Orgad and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-05 with Philosophy categories.
The Cultural Defense of Nations presents a timely, thought-provoking thesis on some of the most pressing issues of our time-global immigration, majority groups, and national identity. Never in human history has so much attention been paid to human movement. Global migration yields demographic shifts of historical significance, profoundly shaking up world politics-as has been seen in the refugee crisis, the Brexit referendum, and the 2016 U.S. election. The Cultural Defense of Nations addresses one of the greatest challenges facing liberalism today: is a liberal state justified in restricting immigration and access to citizenship in order to protect its majority culture? Liberal theorists and human rights advocates recognize the rights of minorities to maintain their unique cultural identity, but assume that majorities have neither a need for similar rights nor a moral ground for defending them. The majority culture, so the argument goes, "can take care of itself." However, with more than 250 million immigrants worldwide, majority groups increasingly seek to protect what they consider to be their national identity. In recent years, liberal democracies have introduced proactive immigration and citizenship policies that are designed to defend the majority culture. This book shifts the focus from the prevailing discussion of cultural minority rights and, for the first time, addreses the cultural rights of majorities. It proposes a new approach by which liberal democracies can welcome immigrants without fundamentally changing their cultural heritage, forsaking their liberal traditions, or slipping into extreme nationalism. Disregarding the topic of cultural majority rights is not only theoretically wrong, but also politically unwise. With forms of "majority nationalism" rising and the growing popularity of extreme right-wing parties in the West, time has come to liberally address the new challenge.
Defending Whose Culture
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Author : Jennifer Ching
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Defending Whose Culture written by Jennifer Ching and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Chinese American women categories.
The Judgment Of Culture
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Author : Lawrence Rosen
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018
The Judgment Of Culture written by Lawrence Rosen and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Attitude categories.
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I: Bringing culture into the law -- 1 Defending culture: The cultural defense and the law's theory of culture -- 2 Leave it to the experts? The anthropologist as expert witness -- 3 What's it like? Native Americans and the ambivalence of legal metaphors -- PART II: Nature and the family -- 4 Should we just abolish marriage? The uses of anthropology in law and policy -- 5 What's wrong with incest? Perception and theory in a shifting legal environment -- 6 Natural law or law naturalized? Nature v. culture in the U.S. Supreme Court -- PART III: Reaching out -- 7 Medicalizing the law: The debate over male circumcision -- 8 The incorporation of custom: The case of the flashing headlights -- 9 Is there a place for community? The Amish and the American romance of community -- Conclusion: "Secreted in the interstices"--Index
Being Cultured
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Author : Angus Kennedy
language : en
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
Release Date : 2014-04-09
Being Cultured written by Angus Kennedy and has been published by Andrews UK Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-09 with Art categories.
Today culture is everywhere as maybe never before. We read culture reviews, watch culture shows, live in Cities of Culture, and witness the Cultural Olympiad. Government, museums and arts councils worry that we are not getting enough culture and shape policy around notions of art and culture for all. Access and inclusion are in. Difficulty and exclusivity out. In "Being Cultured: in defence of discrimination" Angus Kennedy asks if this explosion of culture, and the breaking down of distinctions between high and low culture, has emancipated us or left us adrift without cultural moorings. Is it true that all cultures are equal? Is cultural diversity a good thing? Is it unacceptably elitist to insist on the highest standards of judgment? To argue that some cultural works stand the test of time and some don't? Can anyone dare to call themselves cultured anymore? Might it even be the case that culture no longer actually means anything much to us? That our nervousness about exercising discrimination and good taste - the erosion of cultural authority - might have left us with a culture that may be open to all, but lacking in depth? This provocative book strikes a blow for discrimination in culture and argues that there is a responsibility on each of us as individuals to always be becoming more cultured beings: our best selves. Kennedy revisits the tradition - from Cicero to Kant, Arnold to Arendt - of autonomy in culture: both in the sense of its intrinsic value and how it rests on our individual freedom - quite apart from state and society - to discriminate and judge. A freedom, without which, we risk a widening culture of consensus and conformity. But which is the constitutive element of a world in common.
The Responsibility To Defend
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Author : Bastian Giegerich
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-06-08
The Responsibility To Defend written by Bastian Giegerich and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-08 with Political Science categories.
The rise or resurgence of revisionist, repressive and authoritarian powers threatens the Western, US-led international order upon which Germany’s post-war security and prosperity were founded. With Washington increasingly focused on China’s rise in Asia, Europe must be able to defend itself against Russia, and will depend upon German military capabilities to do so. Years of neglect and structural underfunding, however, have hollowed out Germany’s armed forces. Much of the political leadership in Berlin has not yet adjusted to new realities or appreciated the urgency with which it needs to do so. Bastian Giegerich and Maximilian Terhalle argue that Germany’s current strategic culture is inadequate. It informs a security policy that fails to meet contemporary strategic challenges, thereby endangering Berlin’s European allies, the Western order and Germany itself. They contend that: Germany should embrace its historic responsibility to defend Western liberal values and the Western order that upholds them. Rather than rejecting the use of military force, Germany should wed its commitment to liberal values to an understanding of the role of power – including military power – in international affairs. The authors show why Germany should seek to foster a strategic culture that would be compatible with those of other leading Western nations and allow Germans to perceive the world through a strategic lens. In doing so, they also outline possible elements of a new security policy.
Defending The American Way Of Life
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Author : Kevin B. Witherspoon
language : en
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Release Date : 2018-12-01
Defending The American Way Of Life written by Kevin B. Witherspoon and has been published by University of Arkansas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-01 with Sports & Recreation categories.
The Cold War was fought in every corner of society, including in the sport and entertainment industries. Recognizing the importance of culture in the battle for hearts and minds, the United States, like the Soviet Union, attempted to win the favor of citizens in nonaligned states through the soft power of sport. Athletes became de facto ambassadors of US interests, their wins and losses serving as emblems of broader efforts to shield American culture—both at home and abroad—against communism. In Defending the American Way of Life, leading sport historians present new perspectives on high-profile issues in this era of sport history alongside research drawn from previously untapped archival sources to highlight the ways that sports influenced and were influenced by Cold War politics. Surveying the significance of sports in Cold War America through lenses of race, gender, diplomacy, cultural infiltration, anti-communist hysteria, doping, state intervention, and more, this collection illustrates how this conflict remains relevant to US sporting institutions, organizations, and ideologies today.
Promoting And Defending Economic Social And Cultural Rights
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Author : Allan McChesney
language : en
Publisher: Steve Parish
Release Date : 2000
Promoting And Defending Economic Social And Cultural Rights written by Allan McChesney and has been published by Steve Parish this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Commission on economic, social and cultural rights categories.
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