Tag: imaginaries

Free Download Lene M. Johannessen, "Emerging Aesthetic Imaginaries "
English | ISBN: 1498571999 | 2018 | 208 pages | EPUB, PDF | 38 MB + 2 MB

Free Download Andreas Immanuel Graae, "Drone imaginaries: The power of remote vision"
English | ISBN: 1526145936 | 2021 | 256 pages | PDF | 12 MB
There should no longer be any doubt: drones are here to stay. In civil society, they are used for rescue, surveillance, transport and leisure. And on the battlefield, their promises of remote protection and surgical precision have radically changed the way wars are fought. But what impact are drones having on our identity, and how are they affecting the communities around us?

Free Download Jeremy C.A. Smith, "American Imaginaries: Nations, Societies and Capitalism in the Many Americas "
English | ISBN: 1786609673 | 2022 | 236 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 2 MB
American Imaginaries examines the diverse societies and nations of the Western hemisphere as they have emerged across the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Exploring cities, capitalism, nations, nationalism, and politics from both comparative and transnational perspectives, the book develops a unique approach based on the paradigms of civilizational analysis and social imaginaries. In addition to providing a fresh perspective on the Americas, American Imaginaries gives proper analysis of multinational and intra-national regions and, crucially, the civilizational force of resurgent indigenous nations. The book also covers regions often underemphasized in histories of the hemisphere, such as Central America and the Caribbean.

Free Download Svalbard Imaginaries: The Making of an Arctic Archipelago by Mathias Albert, Dina Brode-Roger, Lisbeth Iversen
English | PDF (True) | 2023 | 303 Pages | ISBN : 303143840X | 5.3 MB
By drawing on a broad range of disciplinary backgrounds, this book illustrates the immense complexities of Svalbard as a place, point of reference, or social concept. It portrays the multiple, situated perspectives that characterize understandings and imaginings of Svalbard, and brings together contributions from academic fields that rarely interact with each other.

Free Download Scott Slovic University of Idaho, "Ecodisaster Imaginaries in India: Essays in Critical Perspectives "
English | ISBN: 1666936413 | 2023 | 258 pages | EPUB, PDF | 547 KB + 2 MB
Ecodisaster Imaginaries in India: Essays in Critical Perspectives is a volume of critical essays that discuss and debate the literary and cultural representations of ecological/environmental disaster in India from the perspectives that are integral to postcolonial disaster studies and the environmental humanities. The essays offer theoretically informed readings of environmental fiction, nonfiction, and poetry among other contemporary literary genres that open our eyes to today’s burning issues of global warming, climate change, pollution of air and water bodies, deforestation, and species extinction. The volume addresses the staunch ecological consciousness reflected in Rabindranath Tagore’s writings from the early twentieth century, indigenous responses to ecodisaster, and the portrayal of ecodisaster in selected Indian movies which raise questions of human rights violations in the face of manmade disaster and environmental crisis.

Free Download Professor James Farrer, "The Global Japanese Restaurant: Mobilities, Imaginaries, and Politics "
English | ISBN: 082489426X | 2023 | 390 pages | PDF | 4 MB
With more than 150,000 Japanese restaurants around the world, Japanese cuisine has become truly global. Through the transnational culinary mobilities of migrant entrepreneurs, workers, ideas and capital, Japanese cuisine spread and adapted to international tastes. But this expansion is also entangled in culinary politics, ranging from authenticity claims and status competition among restaurateurs and consumers to societal racism, immigration policies, and soft power politics that have shaped the transmission and transformation of Japanese cuisine. Such politics has involved appropriation, oppression, but also cooperation across ethnic lines. Ultimately, the restaurant is a continually reinvented imaginary of Japan represented in concrete form to consumers by restaurateurs, cooks, and servers of varied nationalities and ethnicities who act as cultural intermediaries.

Free Download Digital Habitus; A Critique of the Imaginaries of Artificial Intelligence
by Alberto Romele
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032509643 | 185 pages | True PDF | 8.48 MB