Описание: How money, guts, and greed built the Warriors dynasty -- and then took it apart The Golden State Warriors dominated the NBA for the better part of a decade. Since the arrival of owner Joe Lacob, they won more championships and sold more merchandise than any other franchise in the sport. And in 2019, they opened the doors on a lavish new stadium. Yet all this success contained some of the seeds of decline. Ethan Sherwood Strauss's clear-eyed expos reveals the team's culture, its financial ambitions and struggles, and the price that its players and managers have paid for all their winning. From Lacob's unlikely acquisition of the team to Kevin Durant's controversial departure, Strauss shows how the smallest moments can define success or failure for years. And, looking ahead, Strauss ponders whether this organization can rebuild after its abrupt fall from the top, and how a relentless business wears down its players and executives. The Victory Machine is a defining book on the modern NBA: it not only rewrites the story of the Warriors, but shows how the Darwinian business of pro basketball really works.
Автор: Achim Miruna, Deans-Smith Susan, Rozental Sandra Название: Museum Matters: Making and Unmaking Mexico`s National Collections ISBN: 081653957X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780816539574 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 6521.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This is a book about objects. Stones, ruins, bones, mummies, mannequins, statues, photographs, fakes, instruments, and natural history specimens all formed part of Mexico’s National Museum complex at different moments across two centuries of collecting and display.Museum Matters traces the emergence, consolidation, and dispersal of this national museum complex by telling the stories of its objects. Objects that have been separated over time are brought back together in this book in order to shed light on the interactions and processes that have forged things into symbols of science, aesthetics, and politics. The contributors to this volume illuminate how collections came into being or ceased to exist over time, or how objects moved in and out of collections and museum spaces. They explore what it means to move things physically and spatially, as well as conceptually and symbolically.Museum Matters unravels the concept of the national museum. By unmaking the spaces, frameworks, and structures that form the complicated landscape of national museums, this volume brings a new way to understand the storage, displays, and claims about the Mexican nation’s collections today.Contributors: Miruna Achim, Christina Bueno, Laura Ch?zaro, Susan Deans-Smith, Frida Gorbach, Hayde? L?pez Hern?ndez, Carlos Mondrag?n, Bertina Olmedo Vera, Sandra Rozental, Mario Rufer.
Автор: Chatty Dawn Название: Syria: The Making and Unmaking of a Refuge State ISBN: 0190876069 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190876067 Издательство: Oxford Academ Цена: 6104.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The dispossession and forced migration of nearly 50 per cent of Syria's population has produced the greatest refugee crisis since World War II. This new book places the current displacement within the context of the widespread migrations that have indelibly marked the region throughout the last 150 years. Syria itself has harbored millions from its neighboring lands, and Syrian society has been shaped by these diasporas. Dawn Chatty explores how modern Syria came to be a refuge state, focusing first on the major forced migrations into Syria of Circassians, Armenians, Kurds, Palestinians, and Iraqis. Drawing heavily on individual narratives and stories of integration, adaptation, and compromise, she shows that a local cosmopolitanism came to be seen as intrinsic to Syrian society. She examines the current outflow of people from Syria to neighboring states as individuals and families seek survival with dignity, arguing that though the future remains uncertain, the resilience and strength of Syrian society both displaced internally within Syria and externally across borders bodes well for successful return and reintegration. If there is any hope to be found in the Syrian civil war, it is in this history.
Автор: Jorgensen Darren, McLean Ian Название: Indigenous Archives: The Making and Unmaking of Aboriginal Art ISBN: 1742589227 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781742589220 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 7355.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In recording and ordering documents considered important, the archive is a source of power. It takes control of the past, deciding which voices will be heard and which won't, how they will be heard and for what purpose. Indigenous communities understood the power of the archive well before the European Enlightenment arrived and began recording information about the people they colonized. For these Indigenous people, colonialism has been a struggle over archives as much as anything else. The eighteen essays by twenty authors, seven of whom are Indigenous, investigate different aspects of this struggle in Australia, from Indigenous uses of traditional archives and the development of new ones to the deconstruction and appropriation of European archives by contemporary artists as acts of cultural empowerment. Indigenous Archives also examines the uses of archives that were developed for other reasons, but can be used as a means to reconstruct the lives of artists and the meanings of their art, such as the use of rainfall records to interpret early Papunya paintings. This book is the first overview examining the role of archives in the production and understanding of Indigenous culture. Wide-ranging in its scope, it reveals the lively state of research into Indigenous histories and culture in Australia. Subject: Art History, Cultural Studies, Indigenous Studies, Sociology]
Описание: In fascist Spain, Francoism – like German and Italian fascism – produced its own particular brand of kitsch. Deploying religious and historical iconography drawn from Spain’s centuries-long struggle against Islam, Francoist ideologues created a kitsch interpretation of Spain’s historical past designed to replace more complex and nuanced accounts, where religious and historical iconography combined with kitsch aesthetics to project a picturesque, cliched image of Spain. The ultimate goal of this vast production of Francoist kitsch was to produce a submissive subject who, by identifying with Francoist aesthetics, would identify with state ideology. This book engages with the making and unmaking of Francoist kitsch aesthetics through the analysis of Spanish cinema. It examines five highly influential Francoist films produced from 1938 until 1964 and three later films by critically acclaimed directors Luis Bunuel, Guillermo del Toro, and Alex de la Iglesia that attempt to undermine Francoist aesthetics by re-imagining its visual and narrative cliches.
Автор: James Dorson, Florian Sedlmeier, MaryAnn Snyder-Korber, Birte Wege Название: Anecdotal Modernity: Making and Unmaking History ISBN: 3110629534 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110629538 Издательство: Walter de Gruyter Цена: 18586.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Anglia Book Series (ANGB) offers a selection of high quality work on all areas and aspects of English philology. It publishes book-length studies and essay collections on English language and linguistics, on English and American literature and culture from the Middle Ages to the present, on the new English literatures, as well as on general and comparative literary studies, including aspects of cultural and literary theory.
Описание: Chapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. Anthropology of Borders and Borderlands in Turkey 2.1. Studies on Borders and Borderlands in Turkey 2.1.1. Economy and Trade in the Turkish Border Regions 2.1.2. Border Determination, Management and Security 2.1.3. Society, History and Memory Chapter 3. The Making 3.1. Political Borders in Turkish State Discourses 3.2. The First Signifiers: Border Markers 3.3. Barbed Wire 3.4. Landmines 3.5. Watch Towers 3.6. Gendarmerie Stations and Soldiers 3.7. Border Gates Chapter 4. The Unmaking 4.1. Local Knowledge and Landscape 4.2. Border Crossings4.2.1. Smuggling 4.2.2. Rite of Passage4.2.3. Networks4.2.4. Fear, Death and Destiny 4.3. Women, Mined Zone and Daily Life 4.4. Landmine and the Body 4.5. Caper Plant: Healing or Slaying? 4.6. Grass and GameChapter 5. The Final Phase: The Turkish Security Wall 5.1. The Idea of the Security Wall 5.2. The Making of the Wall 5.3. The Unmaking: Underground TunnelsChapter 6. Concluding Remarks
Winner of the Grawmeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order, 2018 Winner of the Joseph Lepgold Prize Winner of the Best Books in Conflict Studies (APSA) Winner of the Best Book in Human Rights (ISA)
In Making and Unmaking Nations, Scott Straus seeks to explain why and how genocide takes place—and, perhaps more important, how it has been avoided in places where it may have seemed likely or even inevitable. To solve that puzzle, he examines postcolonial Africa, analyzing countries in which genocide occurred and where it could have but did not. Why have there not been other Rwandas? Straus finds that deep-rooted ideologies—how leaders make their nations—shape strategies of violence and are central to what leads to or away from genocide. Other critical factors include the dynamics of war, the role of restraint, and the interaction between national and local actors in the staging of campaigns of large-scale violence.
Grounded in Straus's extensive fieldwork in contemporary Africa, the study of major twentieth-century cases of genocide, and the literature on genocide and political violence, Making and Unmaking Nations centers on cogent analyses of three nongenocide cases (C?te d'Ivoire, Mali, and Senegal) and two in which genocide took place (Rwanda and Sudan). Straus's empirical analysis is based in part on an original database of presidential speeches from 1960 to 2005. The book also includes a broad-gauge analysis of all major cases of large-scale violence in Africa since decolonization. Straus's insights into the causes of genocide will inform the study of political violence as well as giving policymakers and nongovernmental organizations valuable tools for the future.
Автор: Namakkal Jessica Название: Unsettling Utopia: The Making and Unmaking of French India ISBN: 0231197691 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780231197694 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 3960.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: After India achieved independence from the British in 1947, France retained control of five scattered territories until 1962. Unsettling Utopia presents a new account of the history of twentieth-century French India to show how colonial projects persisted beyond formal decolonization.
Описание: Chapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. Anthropology of Borders and Borderlands in Turkey 2.1. Studies on Borders and Borderlands in Turkey 2.1.1. Economy and Trade in the Turkish Border Regions 2.1.2. Border Determination, Management and Security 2.1.3. Society, History and Memory Chapter 3. The Making 3.1. Political Borders in Turkish State Discourses 3.2. The First Signifiers: Border Markers 3.3. Barbed Wire 3.4. Landmines 3.5. Watch Towers 3.6. Gendarmerie Stations and Soldiers 3.7. Border Gates Chapter 4. The Unmaking 4.1. Local Knowledge and Landscape 4.2. Border Crossings4.2.1. Smuggling 4.2.2. Rite of Passage4.2.3. Networks4.2.4. Fear, Death and Destiny 4.3. Women, Mined Zone and Daily Life 4.4. Landmine and the Body 4.5. Caper Plant: Healing or Slaying? 4.6. Grass and GameChapter 5. The Final Phase: The Turkish Security Wall 5.1. The Idea of the Security Wall 5.2. The Making of the Wall 5.3. The Unmaking: Underground TunnelsChapter 6. Concluding Remarks
Автор: Birte Wege, Florian Sedlmeier, James Dorson, MaryAnn Snyder-Korber Название: Anecdotal Modernity: Making and Unmaking History ISBN: 3110665735 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110665734 Издательство: Walter de Gruyter Рейтинг: Цена: 18586.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
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Modernity is made and unmade by the anecdotal. Conceived as a literary genre, a narrative element of criticism, and, most crucially, a mode of historiography, the anecdote illuminates the convergences as well as the fault lines cutting across modern practices of knowledge production. The volume explores uses of the anecdotal in exemplary case studies from the threshold of the early modern to the present.
A reassessment of how the legacy of ancient philosophy functioned in early modern Europe In his Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle affirms that despite his friendship with Plato, he was a better friend of the truth. With this statement, he rejected his teacher's authority, implying that the pursuit of philosophy does not entail any such obedience. Yet over the centuries Aristotle himself became the authority par excellence in the Western world, and even notorious anti-Aristotelians such as Galileo Galilei preferred to keep him as a friend rather than to contradict him openly. In Early Modern Aristotle, Eva Del Soldato contends that because the authority of Aristotle—like that of any other ancient, including Plato—was a construct, it could be tailored and customized to serve agendas that were often in direct contrast to one another, at times even in open conflict with the very tenets of Peripatetic philosophy. Arguing that recourse to the principle of authority was not merely an instrument for inculcating minds with an immutable body of knowledge, Del Soldato investigates the ways in which the authority of Aristotle was exploited in a variety of contexts. The stories the five chapters tell often develop along the same chronological lines, and reveal consistent diachronic and synchronic patterns. Each focuses on strategies of negotiation, integration and rejection of Aristotle, considering both macro-phenomena, such as the philosophical genre of the comparatio (that is, a comparison of Aristotle and Plato's lives and doctrines), and smaller-scale receptions, such as the circulation of legends, anecdotes, fictions, and rhetorical tropes ("if Aristotle were alive . . ."), all featuring Aristotle as their protagonist. Through the analysis of surprisingly neglected episodes in intellectual history, Early Modern Aristotle traces how the authority of the ancient philosopher—constantly manipulated and negotiated—shaped philosophical and scientific debate in Europe from the fifteenth century until the dawn of the Enlightenment.
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