Tag: Diversity

January 10, 2025

Decolonization and Diversity in Contemporary Photography

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Free Download Decolonization and Diversity in Contemporary Photography: The Dodge & Burn Interviews
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1138955922 | 312 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 111 MB
Who’s documenting the evolution of photography as it is happening now from an inclusive, transnational perspective? This is the challenge this book aims to address. The collection is the print manifestation of the Dodge and Burn art photography blog actively published from 2007 to 2018, including a selection of 35 interviews with photographers and art professionals from underrepresented communities―those of African, Asian, Latinx/é and Native American heritage. It captures fascinating accounts of artists of color and the broad range of their challenges and successes: aspirations, photo series and photobooks, earning a living, discrimination, photography education, photographic practice, socio-political conversations, and more.

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January 1, 2025

Gender Variances and Sexual Diversity in the Caribbean Perspectives, Histories, Experiences

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Free Download Marjan de Bruin, "Gender Variances and Sexual Diversity in the Caribbean: Perspectives, Histories, Experiences"
English | ISBN: 976640741X | 2020 | 182 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Gender Variances and Sexual Diversity in the Caribbean: Perspectives, Histories, Experiences is a collection of critical perspectives on fundamental questions of how sexual orientation and gender in Jamaica and the wider Caribbean are conceived, studied, discoursed and experienced. Bringing together and updating existing and in-progress scholarly work on minority genders and sexualities in the region, this collection seeks to provide a fresh set of lenses through which to examine the issues affecting people in the Caribbean who fall outside the traditional binary categories of heterosexual males or heterosexual females.

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December 25, 2024

Loose Space Possibility and Diversity in Urban Life

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Free Download Quentin Stevens, "Loose Space: Possibility and Diversity in Urban Life"
English | 2006 | pages: 318 | ISBN: 0415701163, 0415701171 | PDF | 7,2 mb
In cities around the world people use a variety of public spaces to relax, to protest, to buy and sell, to experiment and to celebrate. Loose Space explores the many ways that urban residents, with creativity and determination, appropriate public space to meet their own needs and desires. Familiar or unexpected, spontaneous or planned, momentary or long-lasting, the activities that make urban space loose continue to give cities life and vitality.

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December 23, 2024

Artificial Era Predictions, Problems, and Diversity in AI

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Free Download Artificial Era: Predictions, Problems, and Diversity in AI by Gissel Velarde
English | January 9, 2024 | ISBN: 0192869779 | 304 pages | MOBI | 2.13 Mb
Presenting a ground-breaking view of technology trends and their impact on our society, Artificial Era contributes to the current debate about the consequences of technological innovations. Alongside different viewpoints and statistics on the use of robots worldwide, productivity, and job displacement, Gissel Velarde identifies the particular problem of the lack of diversity in AI communities – and how that can exacerbate representation issues in employment, civil rights, gender, and education if no actions are taken.

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