Textures of Place

by Paul C. Adams
Textures of Place
Author: Paul C. Adams
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 500
Release: 2001
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780816637577
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A fresh and far-ranging interpretation of the concept of place, this volume begins with a fundamental tension of our day: as communications technologies help create a truly global economy, the very political-economic processes that would seem to homogenize place actually increase the importance of individual localities, which are exposed to global flows of investment, population, goods, and pollution. Place, no less today than in the past, is fundamental to how the world works. The contributors to this volume -- distinguished scholars from geography, art history, philosophy, anthropology, and American and English literature -- investigate the ways in which place is embedded in everyday experience, its crucial role in the formation of group and individual identity, and its ability to reflect and reinforce power relations. Their essays draw from a wide array of methodologies and perspectives -- including feminism, ethnography, poststructuralism, ecocriticism, and landscape ichnography -- to examine themes as diverse as morality and imagination, attention and absence, personal and group identity, social structure, home, nature, and cosmos.

Textures of Place

by Paul C. Adams
Textures of Place
Author: Paul C. Adams
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 504
Release: 2001
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780816637560
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Annotation A fresh and far-ranging interpretation of the concept of place, this volume begins with a fundamental tension of our day: as communications technologies help create a truly global economy, the very political-economic processes that would seem to homogenize place actually increase the importance of individual localities, which are exposed to global flows of investment, population, goods, and pollution. Place, no less today than in the past, is fundamental to how the world works. The contributors to this volume -- distinguished scholars from geography, art history, philosophy, anthropology, and American and English literature -- investigate the ways in which place is embedded in everyday experience, its crucial role in the formation of group and individual identity, and its ability to reflect and reinforce power relations. Their essays draw from a wide array of methodologies and perspectives -- including feminism, ethnography, poststructuralism, ecocriticism, and landscape ichnography -- to examine themes as diverse as morality and imagination, attention and absence, personal and group identity, social structure, home, nature, and cosmos.

Textures

by Tameka Ellington
Textures
Author: Tameka Ellington
Publisher: Hirmer Verlag GmbH
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2020-08
Genre: Hair
ISBN: 9783777435541
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"Artists: Hector Acebes, Derrick Adams, Karo Akpokiere, Deborah Anzinger, Keturah Ariel, April Bey, Charles Bohannah, Margaret Bowland, Nakeya Brown, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Tawny Chatmon, Sonya Clark, David Driskell, Sarah Duah, Andrew Esiebo, Joseph Eze, Amber Ford, Yrneh Gabon, Olaf Hajek, Nakazzi Hutchinson, Shara K. Johnson, Eric Lafforgue, Annie Lee, Delita Martin, Charlotte Mensah, Lebohang Motaung, Zanele Muholi, Althea Murphy-Price, Nontsikelelo Mutiti, Woodrow Nash, Sharon Norwood, Glenford Nuñez, Charly Palmer, Gordon Parks, Faith Ringgold, Lezley Saar, Augusta Savage, Ngozi Schommers, Devan Shimoyama, Mary Sibande, Lorna Simpson, Nelson Stevens, Ibrahima Thiam, James Van Der Zee, Lina Viktor, Nafis White, Kehinde Wiley, Masa Zodros (and dozens of unidentified artists across African and American people groups)."-- Publisher website.

Geographies of Media and Communication

by Paul C. Adams
Geographies of Media and Communication
Author: Paul C. Adams
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2009-03-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1405154136
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Geographies of Media and Communication From the invention of the telegraph to the emergence of the Internet, communications technologies have transformed the ways that people and places relate to each other. Geographies of Media and Communication is the first textbook to treat all aspects of geography’s variegated encounter with communication. Connecting geographical ideas with communication theories such as intertextuality, audience-centered theory, and semiotics, Paul C. Adams explores media representations of places, the spatial diffusion of communication technologies, and the power of communication technologies to transform places, and to dictate who does and does not belong in them.

Thinking Northern

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Thinking Northern
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9401204993
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Thinking Northern offers new approaches to the processes of identity formation which are taking place in the diverse fields of cultural, economic and social activity in contemporary Britain. The essays collected in this volume discuss the changing physiognomy of Northern England and provide a mosaic of recent thought and new critical thinking about the textures of regional identity in Britain. Looking at the historical origin of Northern identities and at current attitudes to them, the book explores the way received mental images about the North are re-deployed and re-contained in the ever-changing socio-cultural set-up of society in Northern England. The contributors address representation of Northernness in such diverse fields as the music scene, multicultural spaces, the heritage industries, new architecture, the arts, literature and film.

Gothic Pop Textures

by Vincenzo Sguera
Gothic Pop Textures
Author: Vincenzo Sguera
Publisher: Arkivia Books Srl
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: Design
ISBN: 9788888766072
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This book provides graphic designers, artists, stylists, and anyone in need of artistic inspiration with more than 100 ready-to-use designs. This work presents designs in the Gothic style - from Neo floral soft-coloured patterns to Liberty style black and white textures - that are suitable for textile fabrics, clothing, home furnishing, and wall papers. Created with unrivalled care, passion, and dedication, this stunning volume provides graphic designers, artists, stylists, and anyone in need of artistic inspiration with more than 100 free and ready-to-use designs. "Gothic Pop Textures" presents designs in the new Gothic style - from Neo floral soft-coloured patterns to Liberty style black and white textures - that are suitable for textile fabrics, clothing, home furnishing, wall and gift papers, and much more. Also included with this volume is a free Windows and Mac compatible CD that features all of the designs in high-resolution, full-colour, and 100 per cent size - ready to reproduced in perfect alignment. "It is not always possible for taste to follow a straight road, because it is linked to the social and political situations in which we live. Man's need to be more introspective, attracted by mysticism and non-rational figures, full of ancient, spiritual meaning, has produced a look ever-present after '68: the "dark" look which took several roads up to the present time. A gothic look, made up of involutions, forms that are complex, harsh, excessive, lacking colour and very stylised. This look has evolved into a "new liberty", lightening the original heaviness, for example bringing a skull to be associated with a spray of flowers. The gloominess of the times has felt the need to become lighter. I have synthetisised these stylistic features in Gothic Pop and the books of this series. Beginning with this volume, the signs, if essential, are intertwined with liberty, but they are also oriental, arabesque, but without frills, just an excuse to depict a flower or a butterfly. Modernisation in embroidery or the decoration of a gate or the rose window of a cathedral. Black and white with one more colour, or a soft colour to give elegance to these designs. Many designers and stylists have asked me for this sort of image because they were lacking on the market except perhaps in clothing collections, not yet gathered in a book on that theme. In this book you can find these images suitable for becoming textiles, wallpapers or ceramics, ready for use." Vincenzo Sguera AUTHOR Vincenzo Sguera, an Italian architect, has been working in the field of design, fashion, textiles and accessories, directing several creative studios and developing products for many companies at an international level since 1977. In 2003 he founded Arkivia Books and has since worked as an author and publisher. ILLUSTRATIONS 130 colour *

Materialities, Textures and Pedagogies

by Tara Fenwick
Materialities, Textures and Pedagogies
Author: Tara Fenwick
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2015-09-07
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317746937
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This book joins a developing tradition of ‘practice-based’ conceptions of learning, but with a special interest in foregrounding the materiality of educational processes. It challenges educational views that are preoccupied with developing a particular kind of human subject, and argues that relations among materials – including texts and technologies, embodiment, tools and natural forces - are key to understanding how learning and knowing emerge in collective activity. To critically examine materiality, the chapter authors draw from orientations associated with actor-network theory, but push forward these conceptions to create an important in-between place of inquiry in sociomaterial/STS studies and education. Most express concerns about visions of education that emphasise output driven learning, performativity, standardisation and representationalist forms of knowledge. They use sociomaterial approaches to make visible the everyday, particular micro-dynamics of education and learning. Their analyses reveal that power relations and the politics that infuse pedagogy are by no means confined to human interests and ideologies, but are created and sustained through materialising processes that are enmeshed with the social and semiotic. Ultimately, these sociomaterial analyses open new directions and vocabularies for reconceptualising what is taken to be pedagogy, where and how pedagogical processes occur, and what effects they have on culture and society. This book was originally published as a special issue of Pedagogy, Culture & Society.

Representing Place

by Edward S. Casey
Representing Place
Author: Edward S. Casey
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780816637157
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"You are here, a map declares, but of course you are not, any more than you truly occupy the vantage point into which a landscape painting puts you. How maps and paintings figure and reconfigure space--as well as our place in it--is the subject of Edward S. Casey's study, an exploration of how we portray the world and its many places. Casey's discussion ranges widely from Northern Sung landscape painting to nineteenth-century American and British landscape painting and photography, from prehistoric petroglyphs and medieval portolan charts to seventeenth-century Dutch cartography and land survey maps of the American frontier. From these culturally and historically diverse forays a theory of representation emerges. Casey proposes that the representation of place in visual works be judged in terms not of resemblance, but of reconnecting with an earth and world that are not the mere content of mind or language--a reconnection that calls for the embodiment and implacement of the human subject." -- Book jacket.

Terrific Textures

by Jackie Dodson
Terrific Textures
Author: Jackie Dodson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 120
Release: 1996
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780801985263
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Texturizing fabric is sewing at its best-fun, artistic, and easy. Instead of settling for drab, unadorned clothes and crafts, sewers can now add ribbons, buttons, layers of fabric, and other dimensional features with minimal time and effort.