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Food and Media
Food is everywhere in contemporary mediascapes, as witnessed by the increase in cookbooks, food magazines, television cookery shows, online blogs, recipes, news items and social media posts about food. This mediatization of food means that the media often interplays between food consumption and everyday practices, between private and political matters and between individuals, groups, and societies. This volume argues that contemporary food studies need to pay more attention to the significance of media in relation to how we 'do' food. Understanding food media is particularly central to the diverse contemporary social and cultural practices of food where media use plays an increasingly important but also differentiated and differentiating role in both large-scale decisions and most people's everyday practices. The contributions in this book offer critical studies of food media discourses and of media users' interpretations, negotiations and uses that construct places and spaces as well as possible identities and everyday practices of sameness or otherness that might form new, or renew old food politics.
A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland
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Practising Empowerment in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Despite the promise and optimism surrounding the post-apartheid transition, South African society continues to be highly racialised in its discourses, identities and practices, even within the very strategies that aim to change power relations and heal racialised divisions. Renowned for its brutal past practices, the wine industry in South Africa has long been associated with white power and black exploitation, and remains dogged by continuing allegations of poor working conditions and labour abuses. Through in-depth, longitudinal fieldwork, this book considers how different ethics interact and draws attention to the positive changes and continuing development challenges faced in South Afric...
Geographies of Meat
With the ever rising demand for meat around the world, the production of meat has changed dramatically in the past few decades. What has brought about the increasing popularity and attendant normalization of factory farms across many parts of the world? What are some of the ways to resist such broad convergences in meat production and how successful are they? This book locates the answers to these questions at the intersection between the culture, science and political economy of meat production and consumption. It details how and why techniques of production have spread across the world, albeit in a spatially uneven way. It argues that the modern meat production and consumption sphere is th...
Geographies of Dance
This volume provides a theoretical and practical examination of the relationships between bodies, dance and space. Using ten case studies, it illustrates the symbolic power of dance that is crafted by choreographers and acted out by dancers. The book portrays a multitude of ways in which public and private spaces (stages, buildings, town squares as well as natural environments) are transformed and made meaningful by dance. Furthermore, it explores the meaning of dance as emotionally experienced by dancers, and examines how movement in certain spaces creates meaning without the use of words or symbols.
Moving through Conflict
Moving through Conflict: Dance and Politics in Israel is a pioneering project in examining the Israeli–Palestinian conflict through dance. It proposes a research framework for study of the social, cultural, aesthetic and political dynamics between Jews and Arabs as reflected in dance from late 19th-century Palestine to present-day Israel. Drawing on multiple disciplines, this book examines a variety of social and theatrical venues (communities, dance groups, evening classes and staged performances), dance genres (folk dancing, social dancing and theatrical dancing) and different cultural identities (Israeli, Palestinian and American). Underlying this work is a fundamental question: can the...
Alpha
After banishing Satan and the rebellious angels from heaven, God creates earth and Adam and Eve. When Satan notices the relationship between God and the human beings, whom God calls His greatest creation of all, he is enraged. In an effort to get back at God, Satan and his demons develop a plan to trick Adam and Eve into eating the forbidden fruit, therefore turning the earth into a battleground between the forces of good and evil. You may have heard the story of Creation before, but you¿ve never heard it quite like this! The author, Sarvarski Wilson, was prompted to write this book when he noticed the many problems in the world and realized that all of those problems could have been avoided if Adam and Eve had not disobeyed God. He hopes that readers can acquire from his book hope and inspiration from the fact that even though we messed up the perfect life we once had, we can still be forgiven and have a perfect life again one day¿if we receive God¿s redemption.
A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland
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Age of Concrete
Age of Concrete is a history of the making of houses and homes in the subúrbios of Maputo (Lourenço Marques), Mozambique, from the late 1940s to the present. Often dismissed as undifferentiated, ahistorical “slums,” these neighborhoods are in fact an open-air archive that reveals some of people’s highest aspirations. At first people built in reeds. Then they built in wood and zinc panels. And finally, even when it was illegal, they risked building in concrete block, making permanent homes in a place where their presence was often excruciatingly precarious. Unlike many histories of the built environment in African cities, Age of Concrete focuses on ordinary homebuilders and dwellers. ...
The Red Chill
The book is Base on a little Maine town that never has anything happen. One day a child is found dead and pull apart the locals fear a wild dog or something larger did it. The local cops and his friends hunt down this animal and almost a few time became the hunted. The book is made to keep you guessing right till the end and will get you thinking in many different ways. The main character Dannie falls in love with and man and she has dreams that are bugging her until she fines they are a calling from God to save the little town and its people. Lots for thrills and chills will make you sad, happy, angry. The book was fun to write and even made me want to read it more then once.
