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Author: Stephanie Wodianka Publisher: transcript Verlag ISBN: 3839433894 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 253
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Cultural encounters are often being stylized not only as experiences of uncontrollability and unpredictability par excellence, but also as challenges to planning and predicting. The history, the different forms and the consequences of this phenomenon are the main issues discussed in this volume. The contributions show that chaos and control are not mutually exclusive in the "contact zone" (Mary Louise Pratt); on the contrary, they stand in relation to each other - be it as a competence or as an interpretive scheme.
Author: Stephanie Wodianka Publisher: transcript Verlag ISBN: 3839433894 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 253
Book Description
Cultural encounters are often being stylized not only as experiences of uncontrollability and unpredictability par excellence, but also as challenges to planning and predicting. The history, the different forms and the consequences of this phenomenon are the main issues discussed in this volume. The contributions show that chaos and control are not mutually exclusive in the "contact zone" (Mary Louise Pratt); on the contrary, they stand in relation to each other - be it as a competence or as an interpretive scheme.
Author: Russell West-Pavlov Publisher: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag ISBN: 3823391437 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 360
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This book suggests that linguistic translation is one minute province of an immense process of creative activity that constitutes the world as an ongoing dynamism of unceasing transformation. Building upon the speculative quantum gravity theory, which provides a narrative of the push-pull dynamics of transformative translation from the very smallest scales of reality to the very greatest, this book argues that the so-called translative turn of the 1990s was correct in positing translation as a paradigmatic concept of transformation. More radically, the book stages a provocative provincialization of linguistic translation, so that literary translation in particular is shown to display a remarkable awareness of its own participation in a larger creative contact zone. As a result, the German language, literary translations in and out of German, and the German-language classroom, can be understood respectively as quantum contact zones. Russell West-Pavlov is Professor of Anglophone Literatures at the University of Tübingen and Research Associate at the University of Pretoria.
Author: Merle Schatz Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN: 3110659530 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 308
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The local experiences of foreigners in China in the 19th and early 20th centuries exemplify the often latent or tacit patterns of social encounters, individually or in groups, with certain cultural boundedness, stability, and homogeneity. This book takes into account virtual, mediated, imaginative contact zones and looks back at much slower and delimited times and focuses primarily on some selective experiences by Italians and Germans. In doing so it accounts for trajectories from individual and small groups with local, territorial, physical and fully sensual interfaces to fully programmed and highly steered contact zones in the 21st century.
Author: Lise Paulsen Galal Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3030428869 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 226
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This book explores a particular genre of intervention into cultural difference, used across the globe. Organised cultural encounters is an umbrella concept referring to face-to-face encounters that are organised across a wide variety of social arenas in order to manage and/or transform problems perceived to stem from cultural difference. The authors base their focus on empirical contexts either located in Denmark or related to a Danish organisation, investigating interfaith work, training sessions in diversity management, volunteer tourism, a youth diversity project called the Cultural Encounters Ambassadors, and a community dance project. Through different theoretical approaches, and careful analyses of the micro-level practices occurring within the time-space of specific encounters, Galal and Hvenegård-Lassen demonstrate how both the interactions and their outcomes are considerably more complex – and contradictory – than evaluative and instrumental accounts of success or failure may capture. This book will provide a valuable resource for practitioners and scholars of intercultural relations working in the fields of cultural geography, anthropology, cultural studies, and migration studies.
Author: Jan Awrejcewicz Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 3540776761 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 424
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This volume introduces new approaches to modeling strongly nonlinear behaviour of structural mechanical units: beams, plates and shells or composite systems. The text draws on bifurcation theory and chaos, emphasizing control and stability of objects and systems.
Author: Anna Boroffka Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN: 3110748010 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 456
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During the early modern period, regional specified compendia – which combine information on local moral and natural history, towns and fortifications with historiography, antiquarianism, images series or maps – gain a new agency in the production of knowledge. Via literary and aesthetic practices, the compilations construct a display of regional specified knowledge. In some cases this display of regional knowledge is presented as a display of a local cultural identity and is linked to early modern practices of comparing and classifying civilizations. At the core of the publication are compendia on the Americas which research has described as chorographies, encyclopeadias or – more recently – 'cultural encyclopaedias'. Studies on Asian and European encyclopeadias, universal histories and chorographies help to contextualize the American examples in the broader field of an early modern and transcultural knowledge production, which inherits and modifies the ancient and medieval tradition.
Author: Luciane Scarato Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000093360 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 251
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Drawing on diverse theoretical perspectives on conviviality, this book considers the ways in which Latin America, a continent marked by deep inequalities, has managed to afford, create, sustain, and contest forms of living together with difference across time and space. Interdisciplinary in approach and presenting studies from various nations across the continent – from the medieval period to the present day – it considers the ways in which Latin America might contribute to our understanding of the relationship between inequality, difference, diversity, and sociability. As such, it will appeal to scholars of history, sociology, geography, anthropology, development studies, postcolonial and social theory with interests in Latin American studies, and in the contingencies and contradictions of living together in profoundly unequal societies.
Author: Justin Carville Publisher: Leuven University Press ISBN: 9462702527 Category : Photography Languages : en Pages : 362
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Since the mid-nineteenth century photography has played a central role in cultural encounters within and between migrant communities in the United States. Migrant histories have been mediated through the photographic image, and the cultural practices of photography have themselves been transformed as migrant communities mobilise the photographic image to navigate experiences of cultural dislocation and the forging of new identities. Exploring photographic images and the cultural practices of photography as ‘contact zones’ through which cultural exchange and transformation takes place, this volume addresses the role of photography in migrant histories in the United States from the mid-nineteenth century to today. Taking as its focal point photography’s role in shaping migrant experiences of cultural transformation, and how migrant experiences have re-configured culturally differentiated practices of photography, case studies on migration from Europe, Central America, and North America position photography as entwined with cultural histories of migration and cultural transformation in the United States.
Author: Jan Awrejcewicz Publisher: World Scientific ISBN: 9814719714 Category : Mathematics Languages : en Pages : 576
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This book focuses on the computational analysis of nonlinear vibrations of structural members (beams, plates, panels, shells), where the studied dynamical problems can be reduced to the consideration of one spatial variable and time. The reduction is carried out based on a formal mathematical approach aimed at reducing the problems with infinite dimension to finite ones. The process also includes a transition from governing nonlinear partial differential equations to a set of finite number of ordinary differential equations. Beginning with an overview of the recent results devoted to the analysis and control of nonlinear dynamics of structural members, placing emphasis on stability, buckling, bifurcation and deterministic chaos, simple chaotic systems are briefly discussed. Next, bifurcation and chaotic dynamics of the Euler–Bernoulli and Timoshenko beams including the geometric and physical nonlinearity as well as the elastic–plastic deformations are illustrated. Despite the employed classical numerical analysis of nonlinear phenomena, the various wavelet transforms and the four Lyapunov exponents are used to detect, monitor and possibly control chaos, hyper-chaos, hyper-hyper-chaos and deep chaos exhibited by rectangular plate-strips and cylindrical panels. The book is intended for post-graduate and doctoral students, applied mathematicians, physicists, teachers and lecturers of universities and companies dealing with a nonlinear dynamical system, as well as theoretically inclined engineers of mechanical and civil engineering. Contents:Bifurcational and Chaotic Dynamics of Simple Structural Members:BeamsPlatesPanelsShellsIntroduction to Fractal Dynamics:Cantor Set and Cantor DustKoch Snowflake1D MapsSharkovsky's TheoremJulia SetMandelbrot's SetIntroduction to Chaos and Wavelets:Routes to ChaosQuantifying Chaotic DynamicsSimple Chaotic Models:IntroductionAutonomous SystemsNon-Autonomous SystemsDiscrete and Continuous Dissipative Systems:IntroductionLinear FrictionNonlinear FrictionHysteretic FrictionImpact DampingDamping in Continuous 1D SystemsEuler-Bernoulli Beams:IntroductionPlanar BeamsLinear Planar Beams and Stationary Temperature FieldsCurvilinear Planar Beams and Stationary Temperature and Electrical FieldsBeams with Elasto-Plastic DeformationsMulti-Layer BeamsTimoshenko and Sheremetev-Pelekh Beams:The Timoshenko BeamsThe Sheremetev-Pelekh BeamsConcluding RemarksPanels:Infinite Length PanelsCylindrical Panels of Infinite LengthPlates and Shells:Plates with Initial ImperfectionsFlexible Axially-Symmetric Shells Readership: Post-graduate and doctoral students, applied mathematicians, physicists, mechanical and civil engineers. Key Features:Includes fascinating and rich dynamics exhibited by simple structural members and by the solution properties of the governing 1D non-linear PDEs, suitable for applied mathematicians and physicistsCovers a wide variety of the studied PDEs, their validated reduction to ODEs, classical and non-classical methods of analysis, influence of various boundary conditions and control parameters, as well as the illustrative presentation of the obtained results in the form of colour 2D and 3D figures and vibration type charts and scalesContains originally discovered, illustrated and discussed novel and/or modified classical scenarios of transition from regular to chaotic dynamics exhibited by 1D structural members, showing a way to control chaotic and bifurcational dynamics, with directions to study other dynamical systems modeled by chains of nonlinear oscillators
Author: D. Lei Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1137061634 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 356
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In this study Lei focuses on the notion of 'performing Chinese' in traditional opera in the 'contact zones', where two or more cultures, ethnicities, and/or ideologies meet and clash. This work seeks to create discourse among theatre and performance studies, Asian and Asian American studies, and transnational and diasporic studies.
Author: Stephanie Wodianka
Author: Stephanie Wodianka
Author: Russell West-Pavlov
Author: Merle Schatz
Author: Lise Paulsen Galal
Author: Jan Awrejcewicz
Author: Anna Boroffka
Author: Luciane Scarato
Author: Justin Carville
Author: Jan Awrejcewicz
Author: D. Lei