The Humanities Reloaded (eBook, PDF)

Addressing Crisis
Redaktion: Tomaselli, Keyan G.; Frassinelli, Pier Paolo

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This volume examines the crisis of humanities narratives in the context of neoliberal capitalism and of the emergence and consolidation of the metrics-driven, corporate, managerial university. The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. März 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000847734
• Artikelnr.: 67317474

Autorenporträt

Keyan G. Tomaselli is Distinguished Professor in the Humanities Dean's Office at University of Johannesburg, South Africa. His other books on this topic include Cultural Tourism: Rethinking Indigeneity (2012), Writing in the San/d (2007), Where Global Contradictions are Sharpest (2005) and Encounters in the Kalahari (a Visual Anthropology special double issue, 1999, reprinted). Pier Paolo Frassinelli died in 2022 well before his time. He was on sabbatical leave and working on an African cinema project at the University of Stellenbosch. His home base was the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, and he retained his connections with colleagues in Italy. Frassinelli's research interests included cultural and media studies, critical and decolonial theory, and African cinema. His latest book titled Borders, Media Crossings and the Politics of Translation: The Gaze from Southern Africa was published by Routledge in 2019.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Humanities Reloaded. An Overview of this Volume 2. Crisis? Which Crisis?
The Humanities Reloaded 3. Humanities, Citations and Currency: Hierarchies
of Value and Enabled Recolonisation 4. Kind of Blue: Can Communication
Research Matter? 5. "Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me": Rethinking
the Humanities (in Times of) Crisis 6. Crossing Worlds: South-North
Collaborations as Creative Encounters with Arts, Humanities and Sciences 7.
Jessica Ramirez Goes to the Johannesburg Solstice Critical Theory Workshop
at the Institute of Critical Reasoning 8. Transformation of Cultural
Studies into Transdisciplinarity 9. Alter-egos: Cultural and Media Studies
10. Charles Taylor and the Pre-History of British Cultural Studies 11. Why
do Cultural Discourse Studies? Towards a Culturally Conscious and Critical
Approach to Human Discourses 12. In Search of a Real Freedom: Ubuntu and
the Media 13. Charles Taylor in the Archives 14. Neoliberalising Higher
Education: Language and Performing Purpose in Corporatised Universities 15.
They are Burning Memory 16. Cultural Studies under Mediterranean Skies 17.
Marx, Labour Economics and the Academy 18. Academic Managerialism in the
Art and Design School