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  1. Colonialism, Culture, Whales : The Cetacean Quartet
    Author: Huggan, Graham
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Academic, London

    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Colonialism, Culture, Whales: The Cetacean Quartet explores how our attitudes to whales, whale hunting, and whale... more

     

    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Colonialism, Culture, Whales: The Cetacean Quartet explores how our attitudes to whales, whale hunting, and whale watching expose colonial attitudes to the natural world in modern Western culture. Foraging across the disciplines and moving between ideas and methods drawn from postcolonial criticism, animal studies, and environmental humanities, the book critically examines the colonial histories of whaling, their legacies in contemporary tourism from whale-watching excursions to the performing orcas at SeaWorld, and cultural representations of anxieties about extinction in recent literature, television, and film. Extensively researched and engagingly written, the four essays that comprise The Cetacean Quartet should appeal to scholars in a number of different fields as well as to general readers interested in finding out more about our enduring, guilt-ridden fascination with one of the world's most iconic living creatures, the whale.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781350010925; 9781350010901; 9781350150850
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    Subjects: Animals & society; Literary theory
    Other subjects: Literary Studies; African, Asian and Postcolonial Literatures (Lit Studies); Literature and the Environment (Lit Studies); Animals and Society (Anth); Monograph
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (152 p.)
  2. Ageing Masculinities, Alzheimer's and Dementia Narratives
    Contributor: Hartung, Heike (Publisher); Kunow, Rüdiger (Publisher); Sweney, Matthew (Publisher)
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Academic, London

    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by the ERA Gender-Net+ Project MASCAGE, the University of Graz (Center for Inter-American Studies) and the... more

     

    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by the ERA Gender-Net+ Project MASCAGE, the University of Graz (Center for Inter-American Studies) and the Government of Styria, Austria. Bringing together insights from masculinity studies and age studies, this volume focuses on the gendered and relational perspectives in cultural representations of Alzheimer's disease. Combining a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, the authors analyse the interrelations between masculinities and representations of dementia from a wide range of cultural contexts to explore it as an intensely gendered and cultural disease. They examine memoir, film, poetry and prose fiction, and look at work from a wide range of authors, including Anne Carson, Jonathan Franzen and Philip Roth, to provide new insights into established narratives of dementia and explore the complex ways that the disease resists representation and narration and questions traditional views of selfhood and human development.

     
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  3. The Trouble With Big Data : How Datafication Displaces Cultural Practices
    Author: Edmond, Jennifer; Horsley, Nicola; Lehmann, Jörg; Priddy, Mike
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Academic, London

    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Trinity College Dublin, DARIAH-EU and the European Commission. This book explores the challenges society... more

     

    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Trinity College Dublin, DARIAH-EU and the European Commission. This book explores the challenges society faces with big data, through the lens of culture rather than social, political or economic trends, as demonstrated in the words we use, the values that underpin our interactions, and the biases and assumptions that drive us. Focusing on areas such as data and language, data and sensemaking, data and power, data and invisibility, and big data aggregation, it demonstrates that humanities research, focussing on cultural rather than social, political or economic frames of reference for viewing technology, resists mass datafication for a reason, and that those very reasons can be instructive for the critical observation of big data research and innovation.

     
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  4. Marlene
    Dietrich Through the Lens
    Published: 2025
    Publisher:  ACC Art Books, Melton

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  5. Peter Zumthor 1985–2013
    Buildings and Projects
    Author: Zumthor, Peter
    Published: 2024
    Publisher:  Scheidegger & Spiess, Zürich

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  6. Lydia Courteille
    A Jeweller’s Odyssey
    Author: Rochefoucauld, Juliet Weir-de La
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  ACC Art Books, Melton

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  7. Raymond Cauchetier's New Wave
    Author: Cauchetier, Raymond
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  ACC Art Books, Melton ; ACC Editions

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  8. HR Giger
    The Oeuvre Before Alien 1961–1976
    Author: Arenas, Carlos; Billeter, Fritz; Bühler, Kathleen; Stutzer, Beat
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  Scheidegger & Spiess, Zürich

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  9. Werner Schmidt - Architekt - ecology craft invention, Ökologie, Handwerk, Erfindung
    Contributor: Bocco Guarneri, Andrea (Mitwirkender); Schmidt, Werner (Illustrator)
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Ambra|V, Wien

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