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Italy: the New Domestic Landscape
"During the last decade, the emergence of Italy as the dominant force in design has had a profound influence in Europe and the Americas. The phenomenon is important not only because of the high quality and diversity of the forms produced, but also because it has generated a lively debate on the sociocultural implications of product design, raising questions of vital concern to designers throughout the world. For many designers, the aesthetic quality of individual objects intended for private consumption have become irrelevant in the face of such pressing problems as poverty, urban decay, and the pollution of the environment now encountered in all industrialized countries. Consequently, they ...
Genetic Tales
Questo libro nasce dall'interesse di Andrea Branzi per il rapporto tra la genetica e il design, tra la produzione di serie e le varianti infinite del genere umano. A partire dal tema dell'evoluzione genetica, la ricerca di Andrea Branzi ha affrontato l'idea dell'infinito umano: in altre parole, il formarsi delle folle a partire dalla coppia. Parallelamente, il progetto si è concretizzato in una collezione di ventimila vasi per Alessi, decorati uno ad uno con il disegno di una faccia diversa. Le leggi che governano la diffusione di uomo e oggetto vengono qui implicitamente accostate: la possibilità di moltiplicare una "cosa" all'infinito - dimensione culturale, tecnicamente fuori dal mercato - appartiene infatti soltanto ad uno spazio mentale. La cultura produttiva moderna si è fermata all'idea della serie, ma l'infinito può essere una dimensione possibile nel momento in cui lo si lascia intendere, rivelando un frammento di una dimensione illimitata. E tuttavia, nell'umano come nell'oggettuale, all'interno del panorama indistinto dell'infinito il singolo conserva la sua propria identità, che lo individua e lo rende unico fra i molti.
Waterworlds
In one form or another, water participates in the making and unmaking of people’s lives, practices, and stories. Contributors’ detailed ethnographic work analyzes the union and mutual shaping of water and social lives. This volume discusses current ecological disturbances and engages in a world where unbounded relationalities and unsettled frames of orientation mark the lives of all, anthropologists included. Water emerges as a fluid object in more senses than one, challenging anthropologists to foreground the mutable character of their objects of study and to responsibly engage with the generative role of cultural analysis.
Kumba Africa
‘KUMBA AFRICA’, is a compilation of African Short Stories written as fiction by Sampson Ejike Odum, nostalgically taking our memory back several thousands of years ago in Africa, reminding us about our past heritage. It digs deep into the traditional life style of the Africans of old, their beliefs, their leadership, their courage, their culture, their wars, their defeat and their victories long before the emergence of the white man on the soil of Africa. As a talented writer of rich resource and superior creativity, armed with in-depth knowledge of different cultures and traditions in Africa, the Author throws light on the rich cultural heritage of the people of Africa when civilization...
Amnesty in the Age of Human Rights Accountability
This edited volume brings together well-established and emerging scholars of transitional justice to discuss the persistence of amnesty in the age of human rights accountability. The volume attempts to reframe debates, moving beyond the limited approaches of 'truth versus justice' or 'stability versus accountability' in which many of these issues have been cast in the existing scholarship. The theoretical and empirical contributions in this book offer new ways of understanding and tackling the enduring persistence of amnesty in the age of accountability. In addition to cross-national studies, the volume encompasses eleven country cases of amnesty for past human rights violations: Argentina, Brazil, Cambodia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Indonesia, Rwanda, South Africa, Spain, Uganda and Uruguay. The volume goes beyond merely describing these case studies, but also considers what we learn from them in terms of overcoming impunity and promoting accountability to contribute to improvements in human rights and democracy.
Homer's Daughter
In Homer's Daughter Robert Graves recreates the Odyssey. This bold retelling of the ancient epic imagines that its author was not the blind and bearded Homer of legend, but a young woman in Western Sicily who calls herself Nausicaä. In Robert Graves's words, Homer's Daughter is 'the story of a high-spirited and religious-minded Sicilian girl who saves her father's throne from usurpation, herself from a distasteful marriage, and her two younger brothers from butchery by boldly making things happen, instead of sitting still and hoping for the best.'
