Northernness, Northern Culture and Northern Narratives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Northernness, Northern Culture and Northern Narratives write by Gabby Riches. This book was released on 2018-10-18. Northernness, Northern Culture and Northern Narratives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Northernness, Northern culture and Northern narratives are a common aspect of popular culture, and the North of England, like other Northernnesses in Europe, is a collection of narratives, myths, stereotypes and symbols. In politics and everyday culture, Northern culture is paradoxically a site of resistance against an inauthentic South, a source of working-class identity, and a source of elite marginalisation. This book provides a key to theorising about Northernness, and a platform to scholars working away at exposing the North in different aspects of culture. The aims of this book are twofold: to re-theorise ‘the North’ and Northern culture and to highlight the ways in which constructions of Northernness and Northern culture are constituted alongside other gender, racial and regional identities. The contributions presented here theorise Northernness in relation to space, leisure, gender, race, class, social realism, and everyday embodied practices. A main thematic thread that weaves the whole book together is the notion that Northernness and ‘the North’ is both an imagined discursive construct and an embodied subjectivity, thus creating a paradox between the reality of ‘North’ and its representation. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal for Cultural Research.
Northernness, Northern Culture and Northern Narratives
Northernness, Northern Culture and Northern Narratives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Northernness, Northern Culture and Northern Narratives write by Gabby Riches. This book was released on 2019-12-16. Northernness, Northern Culture and Northern Narratives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Northernness, Northern culture and Northern narratives are a common aspect of popular culture, and the North of England, like other Northernnesses in Europe, is a collection of narratives, myths, stereotypes and symbols. In politics and everyday culture, Northern culture is paradoxically a site of resistance against an inauthentic South, a source of working-class identity, and a source of elite marginalisation. This book provides a key to theorising about Northernness, and a platform to scholars working away at exposing the North in different aspects of culture. The aims of this book are twofold: to re-theorise 'the North' and Northern culture and to highlight the ways in which constructions of Northernness and Northern culture are constituted alongside other gender, racial and regional identities. The contributions presented here theorise Northernness in relation to space, leisure, gender, race, class, social realism, and everyday embodied practices. A main thematic thread that weaves the whole book together is the notion that Northernness and 'the North' is both an imagined discursive construct and an embodied subjectivity, thus creating a paradox between the reality of 'North' and its representation. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal for Cultural Research.
English Theatre and Social Abjection
English Theatre and Social Abjection - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook English Theatre and Social Abjection write by Nadine Holdsworth. This book was released on 2020-08-18. English Theatre and Social Abjection available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Focusing on contemporary English theatre, this book asks a series of questions: How has theatre contributed to understandings of the North-South divide? What have theatrical treatments of riots offered to wider debates about their causes and consequences? Has theatre been able to intervene in the social unease around Gypsy and Traveller communities? How has theatre challenged white privilege and the persistent denigration of black citizens? In approaching these questions, this book argues that the nation is blighted by a number of internal rifts that pit people against each other in ways that cast particular groups as threats to the nation, as unruly or demeaned citizens – as ‘social abjects’. It interrogates how those divisions are generated and circulated in public discourse and how theatre offers up counter-hegemonic and resistant practices that question and challenge negative stigmatization, but also how theatre can contribute to the recirculation of problematic cultural imaginaries.
Liminality, Transgression and Space Across the World
Liminality, Transgression and Space Across the World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Liminality, Transgression and Space Across the World write by Basak Tanulku. This book was released on 2024-03-05. Liminality, Transgression and Space Across the World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book analyses various forms of liminality and transgression in different geographies and demonstrates how and why various physical and symbolic boundaries create liminality and transgression. Its focus is on comprehending the ways in which these borders and boundaries generate liminality and transgression rather than viewing them solely as issues. It provides case studies from the past and present, allowing readers to connect subjects, periods, and geographies. It consists of theoretical and empirical chapters that demonstrate how borders and liminality are interconnected. The book also benefits from the power of several visual essays by artists to complete the theoretical and empirical chapters which demonstrate different forms of liminality without need of much words. The book will be of interest to researchers and students working in the fields of urban and rural studies, urban sociology, cities and communities, urban and regional planning, urban anthropology, political science, migration studies, human geography, cultural geography, urban anthropology, and visual arts.
European Modernity and the Passionate South
European Modernity and the Passionate South - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook European Modernity and the Passionate South write by . This book was released on 2022-12-19. European Modernity and the Passionate South available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the long nineteenth century, dominant stereotypes presented people of the Mediterranean South as particularly passionate and unruly, therefore incapable of adapting to the moral and political duties imposed by European civilization and modernity. This book studies, for the first time in comparative perspective, the gender dimension of a process that legitimised internal hierarchies between North and South in the continent. It also analyses how this phenomenon was responded to from Spain and Italy, pointing to the similarities and differences between both countries. Drawing on travel narratives, satires, philosophical works, novels, plays, operas, and paintings, it shows how this transnational process affected, in changing historical contexts, the ways in which nation, gender, and modernity were imagined and mutually articulated.
