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 Cultural Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Asia By Tiantian Zheng (editor) 2016 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 0824852966 | PDF | 4 MB In globalizing Asia, sexual mores and gender roles are in constant flux. How have economic shifts and social changes altered and reconfigured the cultural meanings of gender and sexuality in the region? How have the changing political economy and social milieu influenced and shaped the inner workings and micro-politics of family structure, gender relationships, intimate romance, transactional sex, and sexual behaviors?This volume offers up-to-date, grounded, critical analysis of the complex intersections of gender, sexuality, and political economy across a diverse array of Asian societies: China, Japan, Cambodia, Vietnam, India, Pakistan, Hong Kong, Thailand, and Taiwan. Based on intense ethnographic fieldwork, the chapters disentangle the ways in which gendered and sexual experiences are impinged upon by state policies, economic realities, cultural ideologies, and social hierarchies. Whether highlighting intimate relationships between elite businessmen and their mistresses in China; nightclub performances by Thai men in Bangkok; single women's views of romance, motherhood, and marriage in Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Tokyo; or male same-sex relationships in Pakistan―each chapter centers around the stories of the gendered subjects themselves and how they are shaped by outside forces. Taken together they provide a provocative entrée into the cultural politics of gender and sexuality in Asia.By foregrounding cross-cultural ethnographic research, this volume sheds light on how configurations of gender and sexuality are constituted, negotiated, contested, transformed, and at times, perpetuated and reproduced in private, intimate experiences. It will be of particular interest to students and scholars in anthropology, sociology, political science, and women's and LGBTQ studies.
 Kerry McCall Magan, "Cultural Participation: The perpetuation of middle-class privilege in Dublin, Ireland " English | ISBN: 3031187547 | 2022 | 150 pages | PDF | 3 MB This book provides a nuanced account of cultural competence, knowledge and skills illustrated in distinctive taste in the middle and upper classes in Dublin, Ireland (Bourdieu, 1984, 1986). It highlights how the development of cultural taste at a young age is linked to cultural participation in later life. Inspired by work that captures the textured social cartography of distinctive cultural taste (Bennett, Emmison & Frow, 1999; Bennett, Savage, Silva, Warde, Gayo-Cal & Wright, 2009), this research charts the changing nature of cultural participation in Dublin, Ireland and shows how cultural consumption has broadened from the narrow range of traditional high art forms towards one which grazes across the general register of culture. As elsewhere, this omnivorous, broad and pluralistic cultural palette has not altered patterns of distinction in cultural participation, rather it belies an emerging cultural capital profile - one where art form boundaries have collapsed but social boundaries and cultural distinction remains intact. Through interviews with two age cohorts (18-24yrs) and (45-54yrs) in Dublin in 2019, this research shows how the dominant class, through histories of cultural exposure have developed cultural taste and competence that is remarkably enduring. Reviewing available data on arts attendance and cultural participation in Ireland today, this text highlights how years of cultural familiarity allow individuals to exert a cultural dominance that facilitates class to be performed obliquely. It also demonstrates how existing surveys reinforce traditional ways of seeing with 'art' considered highbrow, formal and valued while culture is domestic, informal and less valued in the eyes of polity. This view informs Irish arts strategy and policy, ultimately reinforcing that 'ways of seeing' and policy perspectives, do matter (Berger, 1972).
 Abderrahmane Nitaj, "Cryptography, Codes and Cyber Security: First International Conference, I4CS 2022, Casablanca, Morocco, October 27-28, 2" English | ISBN: 3031232003 | 2022 | 134 pages | PDF | 4 MB This book constitutes the refereed First International Conference on Cryptography, Codes and Cyber Security, I4CS 2022, held in Casablanca, Morocco, during October 27-28, 2022.
 Critical Stylistics: The Power of English (Perspectives on the English Language) By Lesley Jeffries 2009 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 0333964497 | PDF | 3 MB We tend to think that politicians, copywriters and journalists can affect us by their use of language, but how does this happen, exactly? Critical Discourse Analysis provides us with general theories for explaining the impact texts can have, considering the social and political contexts in which texts are produced and read. Stylistics provides detailed tools of analysis for understanding how texts work. Critical Stylistics combines the strengths of these two approaches to uncover the deep-seated ideologies of everyday texts.Original and engaging, Critical Stylistics:* presents a new amalgamation of stylistics, critical discourse analysis and functional approaches to grammar* introduces a comprehensive set of tools to help explain and analyse the power of written texts* examines a wide variety of real texts and provides a wealth of practical worked examples  Sandy Stott, "Critical Hours: Search and Rescue in the White Mountains" English | 2018 | ISBN: 1512600407 | 304 pages | EPUB | 17.2 MB A misread map, a sudden storm, a forgotten headlamp - and suddenly a leisurely hike can become a treacherous endeavour. In the past decade, cheap but sophisticated navigation devices and mobile phones have led to shocking levels of overconfidence on the trail. On top of this worrisome trend, the increasing popularity of mountain terrain has led those seeking solitude - or adrenaline - into increasingly remote or edgy forays. Sandy Stott, the "Accidents" editor at the journal of the Appalachian Mountain Club, delivers both a history and a celebration of the search-and-rescue workers who save countless lives in the White Mountains - along with a plea for us not to take their steadfastness and bravery for granted. Filled with tales of astonishing courage and sobering tragedy, Critical Hours will appeal to outdoor enthusiasts and armchair adventurers alike.
 Punya Mishra, "Creative Provocations: Speculations on the Future of Creativity, Technology & Learning " English | ISBN: 3031145488 | 2022 | 243 pages | PDF | 4 MB This book explores the complex, yet critical, relationship between technology and creativity, specifically in educational contexts. Creativity is important for success in today's rapidly changing, radically contingent and hyperconnected world. This is even more relevant in the context of teaching and learning―where the psychological, sociological and cultural aspects of human learning confront the challenges of a rapidly changing, technologically saturated world.  Creative Product Design With Cultural Codes English | 2023 | ISBN: 9811967660 | 230 Pages | PDF (True) | 11 MB This book proposes new design and development models for local cultural and creative products, intended to improve the quality of these products and to preserve or enhance their local economic benefits. Building a knowledge base of design symbols and information gleaned from local history can be used to simplify the process of creative product design and increase the efficiency of product development. This book proposes a method for grasping the essential elements of symbols and culture so as to accelerate product development and capture the essence of culture in product design. In addition, it demonstrates that exhibitions applying scenario-oriented design can not only strengthen the representation of local culture, history and stories, but also support product consumption. As a result, the book offers a valuable asset for boosting the efficiency of creative product design and promoting the consumption of creative cultural products.  Randa Fattah, "Crashing Computers" English | 1999 | ISBN: 0590114255, 1407108336 | PDF | pages: 161 | 6.4 mb Get logged on with "Crashing Computers", the interactive story of the computer from its three ton inception to the palm-top that gets lost down the back of the sofa. This title provides information on everything you ever wanted to know, including if computers really are cleverer than you and why do computers crash?  Elizabeth S. Leet, "Contact Zones: Fur, Minerals, Milk, and Other Things" English | ISBN: 3031198514 | 2022 | 131 pages | PDF | 11 MB This book is based on the postmedieval journal special issue Contact zones: Fur, minerals, milk, and other things. It offers strategies for writing the companions of our humanity. Just as the book entails contact zones between scholars working across languages, periods, regions, and disciplines, we each envision contact zones between materials, bodies, and identities as multidirectional agentic exchanges that define and enact material-semiotic entanglements. Together, the chapters offer disanthropocentric readings of materiality that center the more-than-human agencies that impact human identities and embodiments across the medieval world. Previously published in  Confronting Saddam Hussein: George W. Bush and the Invasion of Iraq by Melvyn P. Leffler English | February 1st, 2023 | ISBN: 0197610773 | 368 pages | True EPUB | 4.72 MB A vivid portrayal of what drove George W. Bush to invade Iraq in 2003-an outcome that was in no way predetermined. |
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