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Representations of Violence
This unprecedented exhibition of viscerally potent art focuses on how Sierra Leonean Artists have documented the atrocities of war and how these representations of violence spur conscious action.
Stepping Across
Stepping Across: Four Interdisciplinary Studies of Education and Cultural Politics is a collection of four studies of education, privilege, and power - each of which explores relationships between formal schooling and larger cultural contexts. Representing some of Koza's most recent thinking, the studies examine interrelated constructs of race, gender, and social class as they materialize in local and specific settings. «No Hero of Mine: Disney, Popular Culture, and Education» (2001); «Rap Music: The Cultural Politics of Official Representation» (1994); «Unhappy Happy Endings: Cultural Politics in the Broadway Musical Hit Once on This Island» (1997, revised 2001); «To Shave or Not to Shave: The Hair Removal Imperative and Its Implications for Teachers and Teaching» (2001) comprise the collection.
Green Consumption
Green lifestyles and ethical consumption have become increasingly popular strategies in moving towards environmentally-friendly societies and combating global poverty. Where previously environmentalists saw excess consumption as central to the problem, green consumerism now places consumption at the heart of the solution. However, ethical and sustainable consumption are also important forms of central to the creation and maintenance of class distinction. Green Consumption scrutinizes the emergent phenomenon of what this book terms eco-chic: a combination of lifestyle politics, environmentalism, spirituality, beauty and health. Eco-chic connects ethical, sustainable and elite consumption. It ...
Curriculum, Culture, and Art Education, Second Edition
A general broadening of content and methods, a renewed emphasis on student interests, and diverse critical perspectives can currently be seen internationally in art curricula. This book explores ways that visual culture in education is helping to move art curricula off their historical foundations and open the field to new ways of teaching, learning, and prefiguring worlds. It highlights critical histories and contemporary stories, showing how cultural milieu influences and is influenced by the various practices that make up the professional field inside and outside of institutional borders. This book shows students how contemporary art educators are responding, revising, and re-creating the field.
The Asante World
The Asante World provides fresh perspectives on the Asante, the largest Akan group in Southern Ghana, and what new scholars are thinking and writing about the "world the Asante made." By employing a thematic approach, the volume interrogates several dimensions of Asante history including state formation, Asante-Ahafo and Bassari-Dagomba relations in the context of Asante northward expansion, and the expansion to the south. It examines the role of Islam which, although extremely intense for just a short time, had important ramifications. Together the essays excavate key aspects of Asante political economy and culture, exemplified in kola nut production, the kente/adinkra cloth types and their...
Facing the Mask
Facing the Mask uses the mask, a central element for many African societies, as a marvelous point of entry into Africa, its arts, its diverse cultures, and its richly varied traditions.
