Engaged humanities rethinking art, culture, and public life.

What is the role of the humanities at the start of 21st century? In the last few decades, the various disciplines of the humanities (history, linguistics, literary studies, art history, media studies) have encountered a broad range of challenges, related to the future of print culture, to shifts in...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: AMSTERDAM : AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY PR, 2022.
Edición:1ST ED.
Temas:
2000-2099
Humanities > 21st century.
History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -
Humanities.
Society and culture: general.
ART / History / Contemporary (1945-).
The arts: general issues.
Cultural and media studies.
Gender studies, gender groups.
Social and cultural history.
Humanities, cultural studies, media studies, cultural history, (art) history, gender studies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Foreword: Culture and Anarchy Revisited
  • Introduction: Engaged and Engaging Humanities
  • Part I Subjectivities and Communities
  • 1. "Literature as Equipment for Living" Parental Self-Fashioning in Full Circle Adoptions
  • 2. "Look! Look Now, So Beautiful" Collaborative Engagement with an Artistic Film Installation in Residential Dementia Care
  • 3. Examining Multilinguistic Practices in a Peripheral Region: Social Categorization and Belonging
  • 4. Hacking Rules: Facilitating Inclusivity in Hacker- and Makerspaces
  • Part II Engaging Narratives
  • 5. Generation War: Dissonant Perceptions of the Second World War and the Holocaust
  • 6. Revisiting a Vanished Shtetl A Reconstruction of the Everyday Life of the Jews of Interwar Grodzisko Dolne Based on Oral and Written Testimonies of Holocaust Survivors
  • 7. Minimalist Lifestyles and the Path to Degrowth: Towards an Engaged Mindfulness
  • Part III Collaborations
  • 8. Embedded, Embodied, Engaged: Studying and Valorizing Home Movie Dispositifs
  • 9. History in a Box: Bringing Families Together through Technology
  • 10. Bridging the Gaps between Theory and Practice through Cross-Institutional Collaboration in the Conservation of Contemporary Art
  • Part IV The Humanities Tradition: Pioneers and Longstanding Debates
  • 11. Between Female Hellenism and Suffrage: Jane Ellen Harrison's Feminist Engagement and the Early Performative Turn in the Study of Religion
  • 12. Educating for Democracy: Empathy, Reading, and Making Better Citizens in Martha Nussbaum's Public Education Project
  • List of Illustrations
  • Index

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