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Humanities & Social SciencesOctober 2006Blair’s community
Communitarian thought and New Labour
by Sarah Hale, Chantal Hamill
Blair's community is an exciting and timely book which challenges the accepted wisdom about the role of communitarian thought in the development of New Labour under Tony Blair. From the mid-1990s there has been a widespread view that Labour policies have reflected, or even been influenced by, the work of communitarian writers like Amitai Etzioni and John Macmurray, and philosophers such as Alasdair MacIntyre and Michael Sandel. The book begins by establishing that such a view was widely, and frequently unquestioningly, held, in both popular and academic forums. It then identifies reasons for the persistence of this impression, the evidence on which it was based, and the understandings of communitarianism used by commentators. The book argues that existing accounts of 'New Labour's communitarianism' fail to present an accurate picture because they are - in some cases explicitly - working with a generic or composite conception of communitarianism which bears little relation to the work of the communitarian writers whose names have been associated with the party. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2018The Third Way and beyond
by Sarah Hale, Will Leggett, Luke Martell
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Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologiesJuly 2013The Third Way and beyond
by Edited by Sarah Hale, Will Leggett and Luke Martell
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The ArtsDecember 2010Chantal Akerman
by Marion Schmid, Diana Holmes, Robert Ingram
Chantal Akerman is widely acclaimed as one of the most original and important directors working in Europe today. A towering figure in women's and feminist film-making, she has produced a diverse and intensely personal body of work ranging from minimalist portraits of the everyday to exuberant romantic comedies, and from documentaries and musicals to installation art. This book traces the director's career at the crossroads between experimental and mainstream cinema, contextualising her work within the American avant-garde of the 1970s, European anti-naturalism, feminism and the post-modern aesthetics. While offering an in-depth analysis of her multi-faceted film style, it also stresses the social and ethical dimension of her work, especially as regards her representation of marginal groups and her exploration of exilic and diasporic identities. Particular attention is given to the inscription of the Holocaust and of Jewish memory in her films. ;
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The ArtsOctober 2007Theatre, education and the making of meanings
by Anthony Jackson, Chantal Hamill
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Humanities & Social SciencesDecember 2025Queer as folklore
The hidden queer history of myths and monsters
by Sacha Coward
A celebration of queer history like you've never seen it before. Queer as folklore travels across centuries and continents to reveal the unsung heroes and villains of storytelling, magic and fantasy. Featuring images from archives, galleries and museums around the world, each chapter investigates the queer history of different mythic and folkloric characters, both old and new. Leaving no headstone unturned, Sacha Coward takes you on a wild ride through the night from ancient Greece to the main stage of RuPaul's Drag Race, visiting cross-dressing pirates, radical fairies and the graves of the 'queerly departed' along the way. Queer communities have often sought refuge in the shadows and created safe spaces in underworlds. But these forgotten narratives tell stories of resilience that deserve to be heard. Join any Pride march and you will see a glorious display of papier-mâché unicorn heads, drag queens in mermaid tails and more fairy wings than you can shake a trident at. These are not just accessories: they are queer symbols with historic roots. To truly understand who queer people are today, we must confront the twisted tales of the past.
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The ArtsOctober 2007
Theatre, education and the making of meanings
by Anthony Jackson, Rebecca Mortimer, Chantal Hamill
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September 2016Mit dem Schlitten auf Wolke sieben
Roman
by Hale, Jenny / Übersetzt von Schilasky, Sabine
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March 2007Über das Politische
Wider die kosmopolitische Illusion
by Chantal Mouffe, Niels Neumeier
In westlichen Gesellschaften sind post-politische Konzepte des Dritten Weges derzeit en vogue. Sie propagieren eine konsensuelle Form von Demokratie jenseits der politischen Opposition von rechts und links. Chantal Mouffe kritisiert daran, daß diese Konzepte die antagonistische Dimension des Politischen und die Ambivalenz der menschlichen Natur leugnen. Nach einer Analyse des Begriffs des Politischen, die sich auf Carl Schmitt stützt, übt Mouffe Kritik an Habermas, Rorty, Giddens und Beck. Unter Bezug auf aktuelle Probleme wie den Terrorismus deckt sie Defizite und politische Gefahren post-politischer Konzepte auf und argumentiert zwingend gegen die Möglichkeit eines universalen rationalen Konsenses und für den antagonistischen Charakter von Politik. Über das Politische ist eine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit dem aktuellen Zustand und der Zukunft der Demokratie. Chantal Mouffe ist Professorin für Politische Theorie am Centre of the Study of Democracy an der Universität Westminster.
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The ArtsJune 2022Transmodern
An art history of contact, 1920–60
by Christian Kravagna, Marsha Meskimmon, Amelia Jones,
How can we reconfigure our picture of modern art after the postcolonial turn without simply adding regional art histories to the Eurocentric canon? Transmodern examines the global dimension of modern art by tracing the crossroads of different modernisms in Asia, Europe and the Americas. Featuring case studies in Indian modernism, the Harlem Renaissance and post-war abstraction, it demonstrates the significance of transcultural contacts between artists from both sides of the colonial divide. The book argues for the need to study non-western avant-gardes and Black avant-gardes within the west as transmodern counter-currents to mainstream modernism. It situates transcultural art practices from the 1920s to the 1960s within the framework of anti-colonial movements and in relation to contemporary transcultural thinking that challenged colonial concepts of race and culture with notions of syncretism and hybridity.
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The ArtsJune 2022Transmodern
An art history of contact, 1920–60
by Christian Kravagna, Marsha Meskimmon, Amelia Jones,
How can we reconfigure our picture of modern art after the postcolonial turn without simply adding regional art histories to the Eurocentric canon? Transmodern examines the global dimension of modern art by tracing the crossroads of different modernisms in Asia, Europe and the Americas. Featuring case studies in Indian modernism, the Harlem Renaissance and post-war abstraction, it demonstrates the significance of transcultural contacts between artists from both sides of the colonial divide. The book argues for the need to study non-western avant-gardes and Black avant-gardes within the west as transmodern counter-currents to mainstream modernism. It situates transcultural art practices from the 1920s to the 1960s within the framework of anti-colonial movements and in relation to contemporary transcultural thinking that challenged colonial concepts of race and culture with notions of syncretism and hybridity.
