Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
International Handbook of Semiotics
This book provides an extensive overview and analysis of current work on semiotics that is being pursued globally in the areas of literature, the visual arts, cultural studies, media, the humanities, natural sciences and social sciences. Semiotics—also known as structuralism—is one of the major theoretical movements of the 20th century and its influence as a way to conduct analyses of cultural products and human practices has been immense. This is a comprehensive volume that brings together many otherwise fragmented academic disciplines and currents, uniting them in the framework of semiotics. Addressing a longstanding need, it provides a global perspective on recent and ongoing semiotic research across a broad range of disciplines. The handbook is intended for all researchers interested in applying semiotics as a critical lens for inquiry across diverse disciplines.
Tradurre la tradizione
Nato dall’omonima tesi che nel 2002 ha ricevuto il “Premio Cavicchioli” presieduto da Umberto Eco, definita su Il Sole 24 Ore “emozionante e singolare” per la sua capacità di descrivere le tormentate identificazioni di un popolo attraverso una pratica come il ballo, Tradurre la tradizione torna in una versione completamente rivista e ampliata, corredata da una postfazione che ne situa i contenuti rispetto agli ultimi sviluppi della semiotica, dell’antropologia, degli studi culturali. La narrazione porta il lettore dentro un’inedita storia della coscienza il cui filo conduttore è su ballu, la danza rituale sarda, che mentre si offre come modello di un’intera cultura e luogo di formazione del senso della persona tramite il contatto corporeo, diviene lo strumento per rileggere sotto una nuova luce rivoluzioni, guerre, leader, istituzioni, media. Attraverso vertiginose prospettive incrociate – la politica attraverso il ballo, la tradizione attraverso la tv, il divenire della coscienza attraverso le crisi dei corpi – Tradurre la tradizione arriva al cuore di una storia di traduzioni che ha come motore il conflitto attorno all’esistenza della nazione sarda.
European Glocalization in Global Context
This book consists of a collection of essays that deal with glocalization in Europe, including the idea of Europeanization as glocalization. The contributors deal with a range of topics including migration, media, football, beauty, Christianity, democracy and the European Union.
Food for Thought
This volume offers new insights into food and culture. Food habits, preferences, and taboos are partially regulated by ecological and material factors - in other words, all food systems are structured and given particular functioning mechanisms by specific societies and cultures, either according to totemic, sacrificial, hygienic-rationalist, aesthetic, or other symbolic logics. This provides much “food for thought”. The famous expression has never been so appropriate: not only do cultures develop unique practices for the production, treatment and consumption of food, but such practices inevitably end up affecting food-related aspects and spheres that are generally perceived as objectively and materially defined. This book explores such dynamics drawing on various theoretical approaches and analytical methodologies, thus enhancing the cultural reflection on food and, at the same time, helping us see how the study of food itself can help us understand better what we call “culture”. It will be of interest to anthropologists, philosophers, semioticians and historians of food.
Eating the Other
Food represents an unalienable component of everyday life, encompassing different spheres and moments. What is more, in contemporary societies, migration, travel, and communication incessantly expose local food identities to global food alterities, activating interesting processes of transformation that continuously reshape and redefine such identities and alterities. Ethnic restaurants fill up the streets we walk, while in many city markets and supermarkets local products are increasingly complemented with spices, vegetables, and other foods required for the preparation of exotic dishes. Mass and new media constantly provide exposure to previously unknown foods, while “fusion cuisines” ...
Handbook of Culture and Glocalization
Discourse-based approaches to studying organizations have grown in significance over the last 25 years. This accessible and insightful book exemplifies how to use a discursive approach to study organizations. By drawing on her own empirical research, Cynthia Hardy aligns key theoretical assumptions with a range of case studies to demonstrate the value and adaptability of a discursive approach.
Images of Europe
This book deals with the fundamental semantics of images of Europe, which consist of valences, mirror beliefs and affectivities. This is why it relaunches the importance of the European discourse in its symbolic dimension. As such, it explores the many images of Europe, or rather the many images through which European discourse is actually constituted in daily life, in search of their enunciative responsibility in today’s world for determining the current “State of the Union”. The identity of the European continent is based on a millenary tension between universalism and particularism: images of Europe have in fact been alternately inspired, over the centuries, by a model of homogeneit...
Social Media Influencing in The City of Likes
Providing a much-needed de-Westernising perspectives of Dubai’s social media influencing industry within the broader context of global platform capitalism, Zoe Hurley offers an important contribution to the field of social media through illustrating visible economies in a city circuited by social media influencing.
Cultures and / of Globalization
This book explores the ways in which study of culture as the realm of meaning and identity can inform current debates about globalization and thus afford greater understanding of emergent globalities. By drawing on a range of disciplinary and sub-disciplinary expertise from across the social sciences and also promoting areas of cross-disciplinary research, the book contributes to the development of theory on globalization and also provides some significant illustrations of (cultural) globalization in practice through attention to novel empirical sites and issues. These include eminently cultural realms such as music, film and architecture and those that are invested with a strong cultural component, such as migration and education. Contributions emphasise the soft features of globalization and globality and most look to marry theoretical abstraction with everyday aspects of global processes, focusing on those routine and sometimes conscious connections and accommodations that make up daily life in a globalized world. In doing so, the book itself can be seen as a contribution to critical and multidimensional studies of globalization and as engaging in a form of global practice.
Isole
Isole di plastica che popolano i mari e l’immaginario. Isole che diventano il simbolo dell’umanità presa fra migrazioni, razzismo e solidarietà. Isole che sfidano continenti, Stati che si isolano, popoli che fanno arcipelago, potenti e persone comuni che sognano isole tutte per sé. Le isole non smettono di affascinare, di far mondo, di parlare ai nostri sensi e alle nostre coscienze. Per coglierne i significati e le voci bisogna addentrarsi in un arcipelago semiotico che ci riporta alle profondità del mito e alle trame della storia globale, alle utopie del passato e ai conflitti del presente, alle narrazioni fantastiche e alla concreta creatività culturale. Oggi più che mai per ritrovare senso è necessario perdersi in un mare di isole.
