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Craftspeople and designer makers in the contemporary creative economy
This open access book explores the experience of working as a craftsperson or designer maker in the contemporary creative economy. The authors utilise evidence from the only major empirical study to explore the skills required and the challenges facing contemporary makers in an increasingly crowded marketplace. Drawing upon 180 interviews with peak organisations, established and emerging makers…
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- 9783030449797
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- xv, 259p.: ill.
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- -
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- 650.1 LUC c
Futures of the study of culture : interdisciplinary perspectives, global chal…
How can we approach possible but unknown futures of the study of culture? This volume explores this question in the context of a changing global world. The contributions in this volume discuss the necessity of significant shifts in our conceptual and epistemological frameworks. Taking into account changing institutional research settings, the authors develop pathways to future cultural resea…
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- 9783110669398
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- X, 310 p.
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- Concepts for the Study of Culture (CSC), 8
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- 306 FUT f
Cultural techniques : assembling spaces, texts & collectives
This volume presents the preliminary results of the work carried out by the interdisciplinary cultural techniques research lab at the University of Erfurt. Taking up an impulse from media studies, its contributions examine —from a variety of disciplinary perspectives—the interplay between the formative processes of knowledge and action outlined within the conceptual framework of cultural te…
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- 9783110647044
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- VI, 346 p.
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- 306 CUL c
Adult education and lifelong learning in Europe and beyond: comparative persp…
This volume presents comparisons of adult education and lifelong learning with a focus on educational policies, professionalization in adult education, participation in adult learning and education, quality in adult education, and educational guidance and counselling. The essays are based on comparisons discussed at the international Winter School «Comparative Studies in Adult and Lifelong Lea…
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- 9783653059731
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- 276 pages ; 24 cm.
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- Studies in pedagogy, andragogy, and gerontagogy ; Band 67
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- 374 EGE a
Accounting for culture : thinking through cultural citizenship
Many scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers in the cultural sector argue that Canadian cultural policy is at a crossroads: that the environment for cultural policy-making has evolved substantially and that traditional rationales for state intervention no longer apply.
The concept of cultural citizenship is a relative newcomer to the cultural policy landscape, and offers a potentially c…
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- 9780776605968
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- XVIII, 286 p.
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- Governance Series
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- 306.0971 AND a
Remapping knowledge : intercultural studies for a global age
The growing interdependence of the local and the global demand innovative approaches to human development. Such approaches, the author argues, ought to be based on the emerging ethics of global intelligence, defined as the ability to understand, respond to, and work toward what will benefit all human beings and will support and enrich all life on this planet. As no national or supranational aut…
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- 9781785336614
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- XVII, 209 p.
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- Making Sense of History
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- 306 SPA r
Metagestures
"What kinds of knowledge and understandings of the world can be generated – and shared – when we use para-academic techniques and sensibilities to decode or respond to relatively orthodox intellectual objects? And what worlds might be possible if we practiced scholarly work from a place of collaboration and pleasure, as joyful fellow explorers? In Metagestures, presented in a playful tête-…
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- 1st edition.
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- 9781950192267
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- x, 221p.:
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- -
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- 813.6 NAP m
Testing the margins of leisure : case studies on China, Japan, and Indonesia
This volume offers eight studies on different historical and present-day aspects of leisure in Asia. It critically engages with the predominant Eurocentric focus of leisure studies, bringing into the discussion a number of crucial issues such as the role of leisure as a transcultural contact zone. The volume engages with a field that has been rapidly growing due to the heightened role of leisur…
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- 9783947732753
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- VI, 310 p.
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- Heidelberg Studies on Transculturality, 6
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- 306 TES t
Anticapitalism and Culture
What does 'anticapitalism' really mean for the politics and culture of the twenty-first century? Anticapitalism is an idea which, despite going global, remains rooted in the local, persisting as a loose collection of grassroots movements and actions. Anticapitalism needs to develop a coherent and cohering philosophy, something which cultural theory and the intellectual legacy of the New Left ca…
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- 9781845202309
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- 303.482 GIL a
Ageing, diversity and equality: social justice perspectives
Current understandings of ageing and diversity are impoverished in three main ways. Firstly, with regards to thinking about what inequalities operate in later life there has been an excessive preoccupation with economic resources. On the other hand, less attention has been paid to cultural norms and values, other resources, wider social processes, political participation and community engagemen…
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- 9780415786690
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- xvi, 376 pages ; 25 cm.
- Series Title
- Routledge advances in sociology
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- 305.26 WES a
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