"Kunst dient als wichtiges Mittel im Kampf gegen Diskriminierung und stereotype Zuschreibungen. So auch in der kulturellen Selbstbehauptung der Sinti und Roma: Künstlerinnen und Künstler haben zahlreiche Wege gefunden, kreativ auf Marginalisierung und Antiziganismus zu reagieren, sei es in der Fot
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ografie, in der bildenden Kunst, im Tanz, im Film oder in der Literatur. Das kulturelle Schaffen der Sinti und Roma entfaltete eine produktive Wechselwirkung mit der Bürgerrechtsbewegung, gleichermaßen spielt es eine wichtige Rolle in der Erinnerung an die Verfolgung und systematische Ermordung der Sinti und Roma durch das NS-Regime. Für das digitale Pionierprojekt RomArchive wurden zahlreiche wichtige Arbeiten von unterschiedlichen Künstlerinnen und Künstlern zusammengetragen. Diese zweisprachige Ausgabe (Deutsch/Romanes) versammelt zentrale Werke des Archivs und einordnende Begleittexte und spiegelt die Vielfalt des kulturellen Schaffens von Sinti und Roma wider." (Buchrückseite)
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"Branding Brazil examines a panorama of contemporary cultural productions including film, television, photography, and alternative media to explore the transformation of citizenship in Brazil from 2003 to 2014. A utopian impulse drove the reproduction of Brazilian cultural identity for local and glo
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bal consumption; cultural production sought social and economic profits, especially greater inclusion of previously marginalized people and places. Marsh asserts that three communicative strategies from branding-promising progress, cultivating buy-in, and resolving contradictions-are the most salient and recurrent practices of nation branding during this historic period. More recent political crises can be understood partly in terms of backlash against marked social and political changes introduced during the branding period. Branding Brazil takes a multi-faceted approach, weaving media studies with politics and cinema studies to reveal that more than a marketing term or project emanating from the state, branding was a cultural phenomenon." (Publisher description)
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"Indian Sound Cultures, Indian Sound Citizenship addresses the multifaceted roles sound plays in Indian cultures and media, and enacts a sonic turn in South Asian Studies by understanding sound in its own social and cultural contexts. "Scapes, Sites, and Circulations" considers the spatial and circu
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latory ways in which sound "happens" in and around Indian sound cultures, including diasporic cultures. "Voice" emphasizes voices that embody a variety of struggles and ambiguities, particularly around gender and performance. Finally, "Cinema Sound" make specific arguments about film sound in the Indian context, from the earliest days of talkie technology to contemporary Hindi films and experimental art installations." (Publisher description)
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"This study investigates how three young Arab influencers negotiate their identities in cyberspace. Abdallah Al Maghlouth, Abdulrahman Mohammed, and Laila Hzaineh were selected for this study because they were listed among the top MENA influencers by the Arab Social Media Summit (2015) or by Stepfee
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d.[1] The article draws on the cultural hybridity perspective to demonstrate how these influencers articulate cultural identity across three themes: human engagement, women’s empowerment, and cultural revivalism. Cultural hybridity gained prominence within a range of cultural and social theories beginning in the 1980s. Recently, it has come to be interchangeably used with Robertson’s notion of ‘glocalization’ (Robertson 2012). Hybridity is a dynamic process necessary for cultural co-existence, continuity and for reconciling global sets of values with local (dominantly Arab-Islamic) social norms. Identity is informed by aspects of belonging or not to social groups; cyberspace is a new frontier for shaping and renewing social identities in the Middle East, with the majority of the population under 25 years and great levels of internet penetration, it is important to examine emerging sense of self and groups amongst Arab youth in cyberspace." (Abstract)
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"Escuchar a los pueblos indígenas y a todas las comunidades que viven en la Amazonía, como los primeros interlocutores de este Sínodo, es de vital importancia también para la Iglesia universal. Para ello necesitamos una mayor cercanía. Queremos saber ¿Cómo imaginan su “futuro sereno” y el
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“buen vivir” de las futuras generaciones? ¿Cómo podemos colaborar en la construcción de un mundo que debe romper con las estructuras que quitan vida y con las mentalidades de colonización para construir redes de solidaridad e interculturalidad? y, sobre todo, ¿Cuál es la misión particular de la Iglesia hoy ante esta realidad? Este Documento Preparatorio está dividido en tres partes correspondientes al método “ver, juzgar (discernir) y actuar”. Al final del texto se presentan preguntas que permitan un diálogo y una progresiva aproximación a la realidad y expectativa regional de una «cultura del encuentro» (EG 220). Los nuevos caminos para la evangelización y el plasmar una Iglesia con rostro amazónico pasan por las veredas de esa «cultura del encuentro» en la vida cotidiana, «en una armonía pluriforme» (EG 220) y «feliz sobriedad» (LS 224-225), como contribuciones para la construcción del Reino." (Preámbulo, página 2-3)
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"Transborder Media Spaces offers a new perspective on how media forms like photography, video, radio, television, and the Internet have been appropriated by Mexican indigenous people in the light of transnational migration and ethnopolitical movements. In producing and consuming self-determined medi
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a genres, actors in Tamazulapam Mixe and its diaspora community in Los Angeles open up media spaces and seek to forge more equal relations both within Mexico and beyond its borders. It is within these spaces that Ayuujk people carve out their own, at times conflicting, visions of development, modernity, gender, and what it means to be indigenous in the twenty-first century." (Publisher description)
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"Historical photographs taken in Latin America have now become key sites for memory politics, ethnographic imagination, and the negotiation of identity. This volume opens up a set of questions relating to the contemporaneous agency of images as well as their current appropriation via new technologie
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s. Case studies of pictures taken in Mexico, Colombia, Peru and Brazil analyze these processes by tracing how the images have been resignified over time and space. The contributions examine photographs that have been recently rediscovered by such diverse actors as European museums, human rights organizations, anthropologists, shamans, local historians, and communities of internet users." (Publisher description)
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"With a focus on young Egyptian women, this article explores the different ways it becomes possible to reconcile a Muslim identity with a cosmopolitan openness towards the world. Informed primarily by transnational television, these women articulate a divine cosmopolitan imagination through which th
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ey form multiple allegiances to God, the nation and global culture simultaneously. Thus, a close analysis of their regular consumption of transnational television helps challenge linear and somewhat naturalized preconceptions of how Muslims articulate perceptions of self and others. In the articulation of both their cosmopolitan imagination and religious identities, young Egyptian women have become skilled negotiators, moving within and between mediated and non-mediated discourses. They move physically within a grounded place that sets the moral boundaries for bodily existence, yet shift subjectively between disembedded spaces of mediated representation, often providing new contexts for meaning and inclusivity. The result, for young Egyptian women, is a divine cosmopolitan imagination." (Abstract)
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"Frente a la ausencia de material educativo elaborado desde los valores y la cosmovisión de los pueblos indígenas de la Amazonía, este proyecto presenta una serie de cuentos y mitos amazónicos, al servicio de los procesos educativos interculturales -formales y no formales- en la ciudad de Lima-P
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erú." (Resumen)
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"Die Autorin geht der Frage nach, welche deutschen Fernsehsendungen nach China importiert und wie diese in einer Gesellschaft aufgenommen werden, die kulturell vollkommen anders geprägt ist als die deutsche. Der Fokus der Arbeit liegt auf der Herausarbeitung von Kriterien für die Auswahl von Ferns
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ehsendungen für den chinesischen Markt. Gleichzeitig werden die Besonderheiten in Adaption und Rezeption konkreter deutscher Fernsehsendungen wie etwa Wissen macht Ah!, Mein Mann kann und Knallerfrauen in China herausgestellt." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"In today's Africa racism and ethnicity have been implicated in serious conflicts - from Egypt to Mali to South Africa - that have cost lives and undermined efforts to achieve national cohesion and meaningful development. Racism, Ethnicity and the Media in Africa sets about rethinking the role of me
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dia and communication in perpetuating, reinforcing and reining in racism, absolute ethnicity and other discriminations across Africa. It goes beyond the customary discussion of media racism and ethnic stereotyping to critically address broader issues of identity, belonging and exclusion. Topics covered include racism in South African newspapers, pluralist media debates in Kenya, media discourses on same-sex relations in Uganda and ethnicised news coverage in Nigerian newspapers." (Publisher description)
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"The first part, “Fiction in the Ibero-American Space”, presents a comparative synthesis of fiction in the Obitel countries. This comparison is made from a quantitative and qualitative perspective that allows to observe the development of fiction in each country, highlighting their main producti
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ons, as well as the topic of the year, herein, “Social Memory and Television Fiction”. The second part, “Fiction in the Obitel Countries”, is composed by twelve chapters (one for each country), with a structure of fixed sections, though some are more specific than others [...] The third part is an “Appendix”, where are collected the top ten TV fictions in the Obitel countries with basic and necessary information about these productions." (Pages 19-20)
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"Chapters explore what happens in praxis when digital media are implemented across cultures and are contested and negotiated within complex local and political conditions. The book showcases interpretative and critical research from voices with diverse backgrounds, from locations around the world."
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