A wedding ceremony in a Web-based virtual world. Online memorials commemorating the dead. A coffee klatch attended by persons thousands of miles apart via webcams. These are just a few of the ritual practices that have developed and are emerging in online settings. Such Web-base…
At the end of World War I, an eclectic group of Polish ""civilizers"" from border guards and urban planners to teachers and military settlers-descended upon a poor, war-torn, and multi-ethnic borderland that had previously been part of the Russian empire. On Civilization's Edge …
"In 1918, as Europe's continental empires were violently replaced with a patchwork of nominally post-imperial nation-states, elites in Poland drew on the global language of civilization to launch a state-building mission in the non-ethnically Polish, nationally contested, and wa…
"In 1918, as Europe's continental empires were violently replaced with a patchwork of nominally post-imperial nation-states, elites in Poland drew on the global language of civilization to launch a state-building mission in the non-ethnically Polish, nationally contested, and wa…
"El objetivo principal del libro es el análisis de las épocas más importantes del cine mexicano y su desarrollo tanto temático como formal centrando tal estudio en la cuestión de las identidades y de la construcción de la nationbuilding"--Publisher's description.
« L'identité s'est imposée comme une question politique centrale de notre époque, mais les débats qui s'y rapportent demeurent le plus souvent posés dans des termes caricaturaux. Pour les clarifier, Stuart Hall étudie ici la construction discursive de trois de ses formes princip…