Images of power and the power of images
In: Social analysis 54.2010,2
In: Special issue
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In: Social analysis 54.2010,2
In: Special issue
In: Social analysis: journal of cultural and social practice, Band 54, Heft 2, S. 1-8
ISSN: 1558-5727
In: Social analysis: journal of cultural and social practice, Band 54, Heft 2
ISSN: 1558-5727
In: Social analysis: journal of cultural and social practice, Band 51, Heft 1, S. 1-12
ISSN: 1558-5727
In: Social analysis: journal of cultural and social practice, Band 51, Heft 1
ISSN: 1558-5727
In: Social analysis: journal of cultural and social practice, Band 48, Heft 3
ISSN: 1558-5727
In: Curriculum inquiry: a journal from The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto, Band 16, Heft 1, S. 5-31
ISSN: 1467-873X
In: Curriculum inquiry: a journal from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Band 16, Heft 1, S. 5-31
ISSN: 0362-6784
In: The journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Band 4, Heft 4, S. 840
ISSN: 1467-9655
In: Global Issues v.3
In: Space and Place 7
Real places and events are constructed and used to symbolize abstract formulations of power and authority in politics, corporate practice, the arts, religion, and community. By analyzing the aesthetics of public space in contexts both mundane and remarkable, the contributors examine the social relationship between public and private activities that impart meaning to groups of people beyond their individual or local circumstances. From a range of perspectives—anthropological, sociological, and socio-cultural—the contributors discuss road-making in Peru, mass housing in Britain, an unsettling traveling exhibition, and an art fair in London; we explore the meaning of walls in Jerusalem, a Zen garden in Japan, and religious themes in Europe and India. Literally and figuratively, these situations influence the ways in which ordinary people interpret their everyday worlds. By deconstructing the taken for- granted definitions of social value (democracy, equality, individualism, fortune), the authors reveal the ideological role of imagery and imagination in a globalized political context
In: Ethnos, Band 54, Heft 3-4, S. 231-260
ISSN: 1469-588X