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Author Archives: Anne Galloway

CFP: Gender Cultures and Reality Television

Monday, June 20, 2011

Research Symposium: Gender Cultures and Reality TV
University of Auckland
Auckland, New Zealand
December 2-3, 2011
CALL FOR PAPERS
The aim of this symposium is to take advantage of our Asia-Pacific location by raising questions about gender and reality TV from a comparative, cross-cultural perspective. We are particularly interested in critical investigations of the intersections between gender, culture and [...]

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Book Review: Milieu and human identity: Notes towards a surpassing of modernity

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Augustin Berque. Milieu et identité humaine. Notes pour un dépassement de la modernité (Milieu and human identity: Notes towards a surpassing of modernity). 2010. Paris: Editions Donner Lieu. 148 pp. ISBN 978-2-9532093-3-4.
Reviewed by Andrea Mubi Brighenti, Department of Sociology, University of Trento (IT)
After the catastrophic events that hit Japan, and particularly in the aftermath of [...]

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Book Review: Action and Agency in Dialogue: Passion, Incarnation and Ventriloquism

Thursday, May 12, 2011

Cooren, François. Action and Agency in Dialogue: Passion, Incarnation and Ventriloquism. 2010. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. 206 pp. ISBN 978-90-272-1023-4.
Reviewed by Patrick McLane, Department of Sociology, University of Alberta (CA)
François Cooren’s masterfully synthetic Action and Agency in Dialogue brings Bruno Latour’s actor-network-theory together with Jacques Derrida’s deconstruction to generate a unique perspective on discourse [...]

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New Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Announcing new online journal Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies/Revue d’études interculturelles de l’image.
Imaginations is an open-access online peer-reviewed journal born out of research and developments in cross-cultural and intersecting epistemological fields that have at their root a determined focus on the role and power of the image in contemporary culture and in cultural [...]

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Book Review: Pigeon Trouble: Bestiary Biopolitics in a Deindustrialized America

Thursday, January 6, 2011

Hoon Song. Pigeon Trouble: Bestiary Biopolitics in a Deindustrialized America. 2010. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 262 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4242-3
Reviewed by Marcel LaFlamme, Department of Anthropology, Rice University (US)
On the first Monday of September, the townspeople of Hegins, Pennsylvania would assemble in the park to kill pigeons. Birds rounded up in the railyards [...]

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