Author: Harry Polkinhorn
Publisher: UABC
ISBN: 9789686260441
Category : Art
Languages : es
Pages : 174

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Author: Katherine G. Morrissey
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816537232
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 249

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Grounded in the borderlands and prompted by art, this book considers the connections between art, land, and people in a fraught binational region--Provided by publisher.

Author: Harry Polkinhorn
Publisher: UABC
ISBN: 9789686260892
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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Author: George Yúdice
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822385376
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 477

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The Expediency of Culture is a pioneering theorization of the changing role of culture in an increasingly globalized world. George Yúdice explores critically how groups ranging from indigenous activists to nation-states to nongovernmental organizations have all come to see culture as a valuable resource to be invested in, contested, and used for varied sociopolitical and economic ends. Through a dazzling series of illustrative studies, Yúdice challenges the Gramscian notion of cultural struggle for hegemony and instead develops an understanding of culture where cultural agency at every level is negotiated within globalized contexts dominated by the active management and administration of culture. He describes a world where “high” culture (such as the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain) is a mode of urban development, rituals and everyday aesthetic practices are mobilized to promote tourism and the heritage industries, and mass culture industries comprise significant portions of a number of countries’ gross national products. Yúdice contends that a new international division of cultural labor has emerged, combining local difference with transnational administration and investment. This does not mean that today’s increasingly transnational culture—exemplified by the entertainment industries and the so-called global civil society of nongovernmental organizations—is necessarily homogenized. He demonstrates that national and regional differences are still functional, shaping the meaning of phenomena from pop songs to antiracist activism. Yúdice considers a range of sites where identity politics and cultural agency are negotiated in the face of powerful transnational forces. He analyzes appropriations of American funk music as well as a citizen action initiative in Rio de Janeiro to show how global notions such as cultural difference are deployed within specific social fields. He provides a political and cultural economy of a vast and increasingly influential art event— insite a triennial festival extending from San Diego to Tijuana. He also reflects on the city of Miami as one of a number of transnational “cultural corridors” and on the uses of culture in an unstable world where censorship and terrorist acts interrupt the usual channels of capitalist and artistic flows.

Author: Kimberly Collins
Publisher: SCERP and IRSC publications
ISBN: 9780925613431
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 480

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Author: Linda Egan
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 0826516408
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329

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"A provocative and uncommon reversal of perspective."--Elena Poniatowska.

Author: Harry Polkinhorn
Publisher: UABC
ISBN: 9789687326191
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : es
Pages : 328

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Author: JulieF. Codell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351538756
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 314

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Examining colonial art through the lens of transculturation, the essays in this collection assess painting, sculpture, photography, illustration and architecture from 1770 to 1930 to map these art works' complex and unresolved meanings illuminated by the concept of transculturation. Authors explore works in which transculturation itself was being defined, formed, negotiated, and represented in the British Empire and in countries subject to British influence (the Congo Free State, Japan, Turkey) through cross-cultural encounters of two kinds: works created in the colonies subject over time to colonial and to postcolonial spectators' receptions, and copies or multiples of works that traveled across space located in several colonies or between a colony and the metropole, thus subject to multiple cultural interpretations.

Author: Harry Polkinhorn
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789687326436
Category : History
Languages : es
Pages : 660

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The latest publication in the excellent "Border Series" of Binational Press. This volume is devoted to narratives and essays of life along the Mexican-U.S. border, including Ramona Mejía, Emily Hicks, David Clayton, Leobardo Saravia and Gabriel Trujillo.

Author: Kristen Hill Maher
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197557228
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages :

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San Diego and Tijuana are the site of a national border enforcement spectacle, but they are also neighboring cities with deeply intertwined histories, cultures, and economies. In Unequal Neighbors, Kristen Hill Maher and David Carruthers shift attention from the national border to a local one, examining the role of place stigma in reinforcing actual and imagined inequalities between these cities. Widespread "bordered imaginaries" in San Diego represent it as a place of economic vitality, safety, and order, while stigmatizing Tijuana as a zone of poverty, crime, and corruption. These dualisms misrepresent complex realities on the ground, but they also have real material effects: the vision of a local border benefits some actors in the region while undermining others. Based on a wide range of original empirical materials, the book examines how asymmetries between these cities have been produced and reinforced through stigmatizing representations of Tijuana in media, everyday talk, economic relations, and local tourism discourse and practices. However, both place stigma and borders are subject to contestation, and the book also examines "debordering" practices and counter-narratives about Tijuana's image. While the details of the book are particular to this corner of the world, the kinds of processes it documents offer a window into the making of unequal neighbors more broadly. The dynamics at the Tijuana border present a framework for understanding how inequalities that manifest in cultural practices produce asymmetric borders between places.