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By looking specifically into the contexts where collaborative projects are produced and shown, and into the dialogical relation to the people they engage with -in hospitals, in prisons, in working-class neighbourhoods, with indigenous people, refugees, women, persons experiencing homelessness, young people- the contributions from practitioners, scholars, and curators show participatory practices to create the conditions for building new subjectivities, or making visible a multiplicity of identities, thus opening up a new politics of visibility. Therefore, this book specifically addresses the political, counter-cultural dimension of collaborative projects, but also their subversiveness in relation to dominant practices within the field of photography: this includes a reinvention of the position of the photographer -in turns facilitator or project leader- of curating and exhibition models, of archiving methodologies, of photographic education and of market practices. ![]() Free Download Contemporary Museums: Tension between Universalist and Communitarian Approaches English | 2024 | ISBN: 1786307456 | 272 Pages | PDF, EPUB (True) | 17 MB At the center of current debates surrounding the social function of museums, questions concerning museum activities and the participation of both inhabitants and the public arise. In 2019, these questions were the subject of many heated debates at the 34th General Assembly of ICOM in Kyoto, which intended to propose a new definition of the museum. As the representations of the tensions between Universalist and Communitarian approaches are not only largely dependent on the historical and socio-political contexts of the various countries concerned, a generational angle must also be considered. It thus seems totally anachronistic to try to defend a dichotomous vision that is far too simplistic. ![]() Free Download Contemporary Chinese Poetry (Routledge Library Editions: Chinese Literature and Arts) by Robert Payne English | 2022 | ISBN: 1032245468 | 171 Pages | True PDF | 5.26 MB ![]() Free Download Contemporary Carioca: Technologies of Mixing in a Brazilian Music Scene By Frederick Moehn 2012 | 289 Pages | ISBN: 0822351552 | PDF | 3 MB The ethnomusicologist Frederick Moehn introduces a generation of Rio-based musicians who build on the música popular brasileira (MPB) of previous decades, but who have yet to receive scholarly attention. This generation, the "children of the dictatorship," reinvigorated Brazilian genres such as samba and maracatu through juxtaposition with international influences, including rock, techno, and funk. Moehn offers vivid depictions of Rio musicians as they creatively combine and reconcile local realities with global trends and exigencies.Brazilian popular music is widely celebrated for its inventive amalgams of styles and sounds. Cariocas, native residents of Rio de Janeiro, think of their city as particularly conducive to musical mixture, given its history as a hub of Brazilian media and culture. In Contemporary Carioca, the ethnomusicologist Frederick Moehn introduces a generation of Rio-based musicians who collaboratively have reinvigorated Brazilian genres, such as samba and maracatu, through juxtaposition with international influences, including rock, techno, and funk. Moehn highlights the creativity of individual artists including Marcos Suzano, Lenine, Pedro Luís, Fernanda Abreu, and Paulinho Moska. He describes how these artists manage their careers, having reclaimed some control from record labels. Examining the specific meanings that their fusions have in the Carioca scene, he explains that musical mixture is not only intertwined with nationalist discourses of miscegenation, but also with the experience of being middle-class in a country confronting neoliberal models of globalization. At the same time, he illuminates the inseparability of race, gender, class, place, national identity, technology, and expressive practice in Carioca music and its making. Moehn offers vivid depictions of Rio musicians as they creatively combine and reconcile local realities with global trends and exigencies. ![]() Free Download Contemporary Austrian Politics By Volkmar Lauber 1996 | 304 Pages | ISBN: 081332890X | PDF | 30 MB Tracing the disruption of the "post-war pattern" in Austria, this work explores the recent dramatic evolution in that country's formerly tranquil political system. The contributors follow the decline of the Socialist and Conservative parties and the rise of the "reformed" right-wing Freedom Party and newly-emerged Green and Liberal parties. Austria has also plunged into the international arena, abandoning its long-held neutrality and joining the European Union. Reflecting on the end of an era of tranquillity - and rigidity - the contributors assess the implications of sweeping changes on the country's polity, economy and society. ![]() Free Download Arthur Madigan S.J., "Contemporary Aristotelian Ethics: Alasdair MacIntyre, Martha Nussbaum, Robert Spaemann" English | ISBN: 0268207593 | 2024 | 284 pages | EPUB | 622 KB This volume provides a thorough introduction to three of the twentieth century's most influential proponents of Aristotle's moral philosophy. ![]() Free Download Consumer Behavior in Practice: Strategic Insights for the Modern Marketer English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031509463 | 430 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 3 MB The text examines the relevance of consumer behavior in such marketing topics as advertising and pricing, with topical chapters such as the sharing economy, luxury consumer behavior, and the ideological consumer. Each chapter includes boxes that highlight theory in greater depth; show how the concepts discuss "work" in actual practice; and the relevance of digital and social media marketing. ![]() Free Download Construction and Bio-Based Materials: Properties and Technologies English | 2022 | ISBN: 3036401865 | 264 Pages | PDF (True) | 28 MB The edition represents the results of scientific investigation and engineering analysis of materials' properties, possible conditions for their applications, and technologies for synthesis and processing. ![]() Free Download Constructing the User Interface with Statecharts By Ian Horrocks 1999 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 0201342782 | PDF | 6 MB "User Interface Software Design" teaches the reader how to design, implement and test high quality user interface software, rapidly, while using it with any Graphic User Interface (GUI) development tool. Code can be automatically generated from the designs, so vendors such as Microsoft, Borland, and Oracle could easily extend their development tools to support the designs. This book allows developers to work at the design level and never have to drop down the code. Technique can be extended to the design of the underlying software controlling web sites. The author provides design examples with a step by step look at the technique in action. ![]() Free Download Alison E. Rautman, "Constructing Community: The Archaeology of Early Villages in Central New Mexico" English | ISBN: 0816530696 | 2014 | 304 pages | PDF | 2 MB In central New Mexico, tourists admire the majestic ruins of old Spanish churches and historic pueblos at Abo, Quarai, and Gran Quivira in Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument. The less-imposing remains of the earliest Indian farming settlements, however, have not attracted nearly as much notice from visitors or from professional archaeologists. In Constructing Community, Alison E. Rautman synthesizes over twenty years of research about this little-known period of early sedentary villages in the Salinas region. |