The volume provides the first extensive analysis of Husserl's and Cassirer's approaches to the investigation of culture. It assembles contributions by leading international scholars and young researchers, offering an advanced comparison of the philosophies of culture in both thinkers
Introduction -- Unit Outline. Week 1 Introduction: Why Study Domestic Culture? ; Week 2 Gender, Class, and the Separation of Spheres ; Week 3 Working-class Domestic Life in the Nineteenth Century ; Week 4 The Garden and the Suburb ; Week 5 Gender, Class, and the Politics of Suburban Domesticity ; Week 6 Domestic Space as Workplace 1: Domestic Service and Domestic Labour ; Week 7 Domestic Space as Workplace 2: Housewives and Homemaking ; Week 8 Domestic Consumption ; Week 9 Representing Class and Domestic Culture ; Week 10 Feminism, Femininity, and Domestic Culture -- Assessment Options -- Further Reading -- Enrichment Materials.
Introduction -- Unit Outline. Week 1 Sensory Media: Eighteenth-Century Print Media Cultures ; Week 2 Sensory Media: "New" Media and Nineteenth-Century Urban Cultures ; Week 3 Sensory Media: Media and Experience in the Twentieth Century ; Week 4 Mass Communications and "Mass" Audiences in Interwar Britain ; Week 5 Domestic Consumption of Broadcasting in Interwar Britain ; Week 6 Media Representations of Everyday Life in Interwar Britain ; Week 7 Advertising, Consumer Culture, and National Identity in the Postwar Period ; Week 8 Media, Consumer Culture, and Generation: Childhood and Youth in the Postwar Period ; Week 9 Memory, "The Past," and Everyday Life on Screen -- Assessment Options -- Further Reading.
This book explores how cities are shaped by the lived experiences of inhabitants and examines the ways they develop strategies to cope with daily and unexpected challenges. It argues that migration, livelihood, and public health challenges result from inadequacies in the hard city—urban assets, such as land, infrastructure, and housing, and asserts that these challenges and escalating vulnerabilities are best negotiated using the soft city—social capital and community networks. In so doing, the authors criticise a singular knowledge system and argue for a granular, nuanced understanding of cities—of the interrelations between people in places, everyday urbanisms, social relationships, cultural practices, and histories. The volume presents perspectives from the Global South and the Global North and engages with city-specific cases from Africa, India, and Europe for a deeper understanding of resilience. Part of the Urban Futures series, it will be of great interest to students and researchers of urban studies, urban planning, urban management, architecture, urban sociology, urban design, ecology, conservation, and urban sustainability. It will also be useful for urbanists, architects, urban sociologists, city and town planners, policy makers, and those interested in a deeper understanding of the contemporary and future city
This book focusses on Russia's cultural statecraft in dealing with a number of institutional cultural domains such as education, museums and monuments, high arts and sport. It analyses to what extent Russia's cultural activities abroad have been used for foreign policy purposes, and perceived as having a political dimension. Building on the concept of cultural statecraft, the authors present a broad and nuanced view of how Russia sees the role of culture in its external relations, how this shapes the image of Russia, and the ways in which this cultural statecraft is received by foreign audiences. The expert team of contributors consider: what choices are made in fostering this agenda; how Russian state authorities see the purpose and limits of various cultural instruments; to what extent can the authorities shape these instruments; what domains have received more attention and become more politicised and what fields have remained more autonomous. The methodological research design of the book as a whole is a comparative case study comparing the nature of Russian cultural statecraft across time, target countries and diverse cultural domains. It will be of interest to scholars and students of Russian foreign policy and external relations and those working on the role of culture in world politics
Introduction -- Unit Outline. Lesson 1: Selfhood and Individualism ; Lesson 2: Education ; Lesson 3: The Self as a Work of Art ; Lesson 4: Women's Roles: Domesticity and/or Liberty? ; Lesson 5: Gender, Power, and Political Theory ; Lesson 6: Faith and Belief ; Lesson 7: Law and Politics ; Lesson 8: Popular Culture -- Assessment Options -- Further Reading.
The relationships between science and religion are about to enter a new phase in our contemporary world, as scientific knowledge has become increasingly relevant in ordinary life, beyond the institutional public spaces where it traditionally developed. The purpose of this volume is to analyze the relationships, possible articulations and contradictions between religion and science as forms of life: ways of engaging human experience that originate in particular social and cultural formations. Contributions use this theoretical and ethnographic research to explore different scientific and religious cultures in the contemporary world
With a diversity-sensitive and discrimination-critical view, the anthology addresses the significance of power relations within school cultures, structures, and practices. A variety of perspectives are presented in plain and simple language as well as in specialized language. The texts by authors with very different experiences of inclusion and exclusion in the field of education provide stimuli for reflection for lecturers and students in the context of teacher education, practicing teachers, (former) students, and all other interested parties. The volume is intended to encourage readers to engage in (language-)barrier-sensitive reflection and exchange on issues of power in the context of inclusive school development