Cultural Practices, Political Possibilities - 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 Cultural Practices, Political Possibilities write by Rohee Dasgupta. This book was released on 2008. Cultural Practices, Political Possibilities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Culture has long been regarded as one of the most complicated concepts in the social sciences, possibly over theorized. Its ubiquity, tangled senses of particularity and the almost universal recognition of that assumed particularity require an extended vocabulary for framing the politics embedded in it. Cultural Practices, Political Possibilities attempts to explain the political significance and overlaps of cultural constructions as witnessed in global-local clashes, convergences of texts and contexts, within the state and community, identity and the self. Through various case-studies, concepts and interdisciplinary perspectives, the multinational group of authors from diverse academic backgrounds interprets cultural constructions of politics as factionalizing, identitarian, situational and particularistic in their links, affirmations and consequential divides. Each contribution, in its unique way explores the performative asymmetries and contradictions witnessed in diverse cultural interactions that shape new areas of political investigation. The book will be welcomed by students of international relations, environmental politics, sociology, anthropology and cultural studies.
The Politics of Cultural Practice
The Politics of Cultural Practice - 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 The Politics of Cultural Practice write by Rustom Bharucha. This book was released on 2000-10-27. The Politics of Cultural Practice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Refuting the notion that the West is everywhere, Rustom Bharucha draws on the emergent cultures of secular struggle in contemporary India to engage with the volatile global issues of intellectual property rights, cultural tourism, and the marking of minorities on the basis of religion, caste, language, gender, and sexuality.
Theatre and the World
Theatre and 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 Theatre and the World write by Rustom Bharucha. This book was released on 2003-09-02. Theatre and the World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this passionate and controversial work, director and critic Rustom Bharucha presents the first major critique of intercultural theatre from a 'Third World' perspective. Bharucha questions the assumptions underlying the theatrical visions of some of the twentieth century's most prominent theatre practitioners and theorists, including Antonin Artaud, Jerzsy Grotowski, and Peter Brook. He contends that Indian theatre has been grossly mythologised and taken out of context by Western directors and critics. And he presents a detailed dramaturgical analysis of what he describes as an intracultural theatre project, providing an alternative vision of the possibilities of true cultural pluralism. Theatre and the World bravely challenges much of today's 'multicultural' theatre movement. It will be vital reading for anyone interested in the creation or discussion of a truly non-Eurocentric world theatre.
The State as Cultural Practice
The State as Cultural Practice - 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 The State as Cultural Practice write by Mark Bevir. This book was released on 2010-04-08. The State as Cultural Practice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The State as Cultural Practice offers an original theory of the state. In place of the institutional state, Bevir and Rhodes argue for 'the stateless state', or for a focus on the contingent beliefs and practices of individuals. In short, they put the people back into the study of the state.
The State as Cultural Practice
The State as Cultural Practice - 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 The State as Cultural Practice write by Mark Bevir. This book was released on 2010-04-08. The State as Cultural Practice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The State as Cultural Practice offers a fully worked out account of the authors' distinctive interpretive approach to political science. It challenges the new institutionalism, probably the most significant present-day strand in both American and British political science. It moves away from such notions as 'bringing the state back in', 'path dependency' and modernist empiricism. Instead, Bevir and Rhodes argue for an anti-foundational analysis, ethnographic and historical methods, and a decentred approach that rejects any essentialist definition of the state and espouses the idea of politics as cultural practice. The book has three aims: · to develop an anti-foundational theory of the state · to develop a new research agenda around the topics of rule, rationalities, and resistance · by exploring empirical shifts and debates about the changing nature of the state to show how anti-foundational theory leads us to see them differently. Bevir and Rhodes argue for the idea of 'the stateless state' or the state as meaning-in-action. So, the state is neither monolithic nor a causal agent. It consists solely of the contingent actions of specific individuals; of diverse beliefs about the public sphere, about authority and power, which are constructed differently in contending traditions. Continuity and change are products of people inheriting traditions and modifying them in response to dilemmas. A decentred approach explores the limits to the state and seeks to develop a more diverse view of state authority and its exercise. In short, political scientists need to bring people back in to the study of the state.
