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"This intellectually vibrant volume is the first collection to deal with Australian celebrity in ways that account for both cultural and gendered specificities, demonstrating how gendered ways of imagining Australia are reinforced and contested in celebrity representations and self-presentations. Gender and Australian Celebrity Culture engages with celebrities across a diverse range of fields - actors, journalists, athletes, comedians, writers, and television personalities - and in doing so critically reflects upon different forms of Australian fame and the media platforms and practices that sustain them. Authors in this volume engage directly with pertinent issues relating to gender and sexuality, including celebrity feminism and the generative capacity of feminist rage; normative femininity and its instability; hegemonic masculinities; and queerness and its (in)visibility. Contributors also intervene in a number of ongoing debates in media and cultural studies more broadly, including those around the politics and affordances of digital media; whiteness and Australia's colonial histories; celebrity labour; and methodologies for celebrity studies. This timely collection urges scholars of celebrity to attend further both to the gendered nature of celebrity culture and to local conditions of production and consumption. This book will be of key interest to researchers and graduate students in cultural studies, television and film studies, digital media studies, critical race and whiteness studies, gender and sexuality studies, and literary studies"--

Introduction 1. Anglo-Japanese Relationship and Korea before the Imo Mutiny 2. The Imo Crisis and Its Aftermath, July 1882-April 1884 3. East Asian Crises, Phase One: May 1884-October 1885 4. East Asian Crises, Phase Two: November 1885-February 1887 5. The Post-Crises Order in East Asia, March 1887-July 1892 6. The Road to the First Sino-Japanese War, August 1892-July 1894 7. The First Sino-Japanese War and Anglo-Japanese Relations Conclusion

Introduction: What's in a word? -- Understanding engagement as transmedia -- Conversation vs captivation : the type of engagement -- Affect and affection : the form of engagement -- Calculating the cost : the cognitive and contextual work of engagement -- Engagement that's worth it : valuating engagement as economic and discursive commodity -- The temporal dynamics of engagement.

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Media language; 1 Semiotics: Roland Barthes; Concept 1: denotation and connotation; Concept 2: the media's ideological effect; 2 Structuralism: Claude Lévi-Strauss; Concept 1: binary oppositions; Concept 2: binary oppositions and ideological significance; 3 Narratology: Tzvetan Todorov; Concept 1: the three act ideal; Concept 2: the ideological effects of story structure; 4 Genre theory: Steve Neale; Concept 1: repetition and difference; Concept 2: industry effects on genre-driven content

Japanese and Chinese immigrants in the United States have traditionally been characterized as hard workers who are hesitant to involve themselves in labor disputes or radical activism. How then does one explain the labor and Communist organizations in the Asian immigrant communities that existed from coast to coast between 1919 and 1933? Their organizers and members have been, until now, largely absent from the history of the American Communist movement. Here, Josephine Fowler brings us the first in-depth account of Japanese and Chinese immigrant radicalism inside the United States and across the Pacific

In Gender Violence and the Transnational Politics of the Honor Crime, Dana M. Olwan examines how certain forms of violence become known, recognized, and contested across multiple geopolitical contexts—looking specifically at a particular form of gender-based violence known as the "honor crime" and tracing how a range of legal, political, and literary texts inform normative and critical understandings of this term. Although studies now acknowledge the complicated mobilizations of honor crime discourses, the ways in which these discourses move across different geographies and contexts remain relatively unexplored. This book fills that void by providing a transnational feminist examination of the disparate yet interconnected sites of the US, Canada, Jordan, and Palestine, showing how the concept travels across nations and is deployed to promote hegemonic agendas.

Diversity and Philanthropy at African American Museums is the first scholarly book to analyze contemporary African American museums from a multifaceted perspective. While it puts a spotlight on the issues and challenges related to racial politics that black museums collectively face in the 21st century, it also shines a light on how they intersect with corporate culture, youth culture, and the broader cultural world. Turning the lens to philanthropy in the contemporary era, Banks throws light on the establishment side of African American museums and demonstrates how this contrasts with their grassroots foundations. Drawing on over 80 in-depth interviews with trustees and other supporters of African American museums across the United States, this book offers an inside look at the world of cultural philanthropy. While patrons are bound together by being among the distinct group of cultural philanthropists who support black museums, the motivations and meanings underlying their giving depart in both subtle and considerable ways depending on race and ethnicity, profession, generation, and lifestyle. Revealing not only why black museums matter in the eyes of supporters, the book also complicates the conventional view that social class drives giving to cultural nonprofits. It also paints a vivid portrait of how diversity colors cultural philanthropy, and philanthropy more broadly, in the 21st century. Diversity and Philanthropy at African American Museums will be a valuable resource for scholars and practitioners engaged with African American heritage. It will also offer important insights for academics, as well as cultural administrators, nonprofit leaders, and fundraisers who are concerned with philanthropy and diversity.

"The objective of this book is to outline how a radically democratic politics can be reinvigorated in theory and practice through the use of the internet. The author argues that politics in its proper sense can be distinguished from anti-politics by analyzing the configuration of public space, subjectivity, participation, and conflict. Each of these terrains can be configured in a more or less political manner, though the contemporary status quo heavily skews them towards anti-political configuration. Using this understanding of what exactly politics entails, this book considers how the internet can both help and hinder efforts to move each area in a more political direction. By explicitly interpreting contemporary theories of the political in terms of the internet, this analysis avoids the twin traps of both technological determinism and technological cynicism. Raising awareness of what the word 'politics' means, the author develops theoretical work by Arendt, Rancière, Žižek and Mouffe to present a clear and coherent view of how in theory, politics can be digitized and alternatively how the internet can be deployed in the service of trulydemocratic politics."

"This book shows the challenges inherent to the AfroLatina experience with a focus on Black women. The authors argue the analytical power of Intersectionality while considering the hegemonic pressures on AfroLatinidad and the essentializing moves that an intersectional approach enables resisting systems of power"--

The United States and most European countries have experienced an economic-political crisis unmatched in severity since the Great Depression. The crisis discredits the thesis of a nexus between free markets, unending economic growth and liberal democracy. It is obvious that elites -- principal decision-makers in powerful public and private organizations at national and supranational levels : have been pivotal actors in this crisis. It has without doubt been the hour of elites. What do elites' responses to the crisis reveal? How are elites altered by it? In whose interests have they acted? Although the authority of elites is always subject to dispute, has the crisis damaged it irreparably? What do decisive actions by non-elected elites and leaders in the Federal Reserve, European Central Bank, European Commission and other institutions mean for democracy? In analyses covering five years of crisis, from 2008 to mid-2013, leading scholars in the field address these questions in order to understand the role of elites in the transatlantic crisis.

Once America's "arsenal of democracy," Detroit has become the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of America's racial and economic inequalities, the author asks why Detroit and other industrial cities have become the sites of persistent racialized poverty. He challenges the conventional wisdom that urban decline is the product of the social programs and racial fissures of the 1960s. Weaving together the history of workplaces, unions, civil rights groups, political organizations, and real estate agencies, Sugrue finds the roots of today's urban poverty in a hidden history of racial violence, discrimination, and deindustrialization that reshaped the American urban landscape after World War II. This Princeton Classics edition includes a new preface by the author, discussing the lasting impact of the postwar transformation on urban America and the chronic issues leading to Detroit's bankruptcy

International audience ; Ce livre porte sur la production de savoirs en sciences sociales : il vise à éclairer la relation complexe entre les chercheurs académiques et la demande de savoirs émanant de divers acteurs, politiques, économiques, médiatiques…, ainsi que les conséquences de cette relation sur leur démarche et les résultats de leur recherche.Aboutissement d'un projet de recherche « Émergence » de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Paris-Saclay, cet ouvrage s'inscrit dans la continuité d'un autre, consacré à la vulnérabilité, qui soulevait, entre autres, le problème de l'efficacité des politiques publiques lorsqu'elles s'efforcent de répondre aux diverses crises et fragilités socio-économiques ou environnementales (Bresson Maryse, Geronimi Vincent & Pottier Nathalie (dir.), 2013. La Vulnérabilité, questions de recherche en sciences sociales, Fribourg, Academic Press Fribourg), et posait la question des savoirs qui peuvent éclairer leur action. Il élargit le questionnement en prenant en compte, à côté de la demande de savoirs des pouvoirs publics, celle du secteur privé, des associations, des groupes constitués, des citoyens et celle qui émane des chercheurs eux-mêmes. La tension qu'exerce cette demande multiforme est au cœur de la réflexion menée ici par des économistes et des sociologues de différents pays, avec pour fil conducteur l'idée que l'activité de recherche ne peut se réduire à l'expérience de contraintes (politiques, socioéconomiques, institutionnelles) insurmontables : réflexion riche car croisée entre des disciplines qui ne s'associent que rarement sur la recherche.De ce dialogue ouvert entre sociologues et économistes il ressort alors que, même lorsque la production de savoirs est strictement encadrée par des règles diverses, il reste toujours aux chercheurs la possibilité de s'interroger sur la marge de liberté dont ils disposent, d'en tirer les conséquences, et de développer des techniques de contournement. Par ailleurs, la demande peut être aussi celle d'utilisateurs directement ...