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Counterculture. --- Social norms. --- France --- Intellectual life
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"This ... collection uses bohemia as a novel lens for reconsidering more traditional views of the South. Exploring wide-ranging locales, such as Athens, Austin, Black Mountain College, Knoxville, Memphis, New Orleans, and North Carolina's Research Triangle, each essay challenges popular interpretations of the South, while highlighting important bohemian sub- and countercultures. The bohemian South provides [a] perspective in the new South as an epicenter for progress, innovation, and experimentation"--
Counterculture --- Bohemianism --- Manners and customs --- Hippies --- Counter culture --- Countercultures --- Culture --- Subculture --- Southern States --- Civilization.
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Avant garde (Aesthetics) --- Counterculture --- Avant-garde (Architecture) --- Contre-culture --- History --- Histoire --- Florence (Italy) --- Florence (Italie) --- Intellectual life --- Vie intellectuelle
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Westerners have long imagined the Himalayas as the world's last untouched place and a repository of redemptive power and wisdom. Beatniks, hippie seekers, spiritual tourists, mountain climbers-diverse groups of people have traveled there over the years, searching for their own personal Shangri-La. In Far Out, Mark Liechty traces the Western fantasies that captured the imagination of tourists in the decades after World War II, asking how the idea of Nepal shaped the everyday cross-cultural interactions that it made possible. Emerging from centuries of political isolation but eager to engage the world, Nepalis struggled to make sense of the hordes of exotic, enthusiastic foreigners. They quickly embraced the phenomenon, however, and harnessed it to their own ends by building tourists' fantasies into their national image and crafting Nepal as a premier tourist destination. Liechty describes three distinct phases: the postwar era, when the country provided a Raj-like throwback experience for rich Americans; Nepal's emergence as an exotic outpost of hippie counterculture in the 1960s; and its rebranding into a hip adventure destination, which began in the 1970s and continues today. He shows how Western projections of Nepal as an isolated place inspired creative enterprises and, paradoxically, allowed locals to participate in the global economy. Based on twenty-five years of research, Far Out blends ethnographic analysis, a lifelong passion for Nepal, and a touch of humor to produce the first comprehensive history of what tourists looked for-and found-on the road to Kathmandu.
Tourism --- Hippies --- Youth --- Public opinion --- History. --- Travel --- Nepal --- Foreign public opinion. --- Nepal. --- adventure tourism. --- counterculture. --- encounter. --- hippie. --- modernity. --- representation. --- tourism.
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Han pasado cuarenta años de las elecciones de 1977 y el mito de la transición se ha desmoronado. Pero, ¿sabemos lo que ocultaba? Este libro plantea que, entre 1968 y 1986, existió una ciudanía que luchaba por una democracia real más allá del Estado y los partidos, y cuyas ideas, a veces, recuerdan a las del 15M. Política y cultura se unían radicalmente en la contracultura, y la democracia era una nueva sensibilidad que lo afectaba todo: el amor, el trabajo, los cuerpos, el espacio público y el privado. Aquella creatividad fue reprimida y cooptada: lo polítoco y lo cultural se dividieron e institucionalizaron mediante la Constitución de 1978 y La Movida de los ochenta. Sólo en el ámbito cotidiano, la ruptura con el franquismo fue más nítida. Aunque hemos olvidado los elevados costes personales y sociales de aquellas luchas contraculturales, que llevaron a la marginación de la juventud democrática (suicidios, cárceles, sida, heroína), hay una deuda de memoria con sus sueños que este libro estudia a partir de las voces de sus protagonistas y usando la literatura coma guía de una democracia por venir.
Politics and culture --- Counterculture --- Political culture --- Democratization --- History --- Spain --- Politics and government --- Counterculture. --- Democratization. --- Political culture. --- Politics and culture. --- Politics and government. --- 1900-1999. --- Spain. --- Politics and culture - Spain - History - 20th century --- Counterculture - Spain - History - 20th century --- Political culture - Spain - History - 20th century --- Democratization - Spain - History - 20th century --- Spain - Politics and government - 20th century
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"Indépendant", "alternatif ", "indie", "underground", "avant-garde", "de création"... Depuis les années 1970, la revendication d'indépendance a pris une importance grandissante dans les univers de production culturelle. Qu'elle se rapporte à des contenus, des méthodes de travail ou des dispositifs de médiation, cette revendication propose une alternative à la domination des groupes et des productions mainstream. Son succès conduit cependant à s'interroger sur la cohérence même d'une notion progressivement transformée en label de qualité. A travers douze contributions traitant de l'édition, du cinéma, de la musique, des médias et de la vulgarisation scientifique, cet ouvrage montre en quoi l'indépendance relève d'une construction sociale tributaire de son environnement institutionnel et marchand. Des ondes aux écrans, de l'Europe aux Etats-Unis, des managers aux artistes, il met en évidence le balancement entre artisanat de création et recherche d'une structuration économique pérenne. En mettant à distance la dénonciation ritualisée de l'hégémonie des majors et autres "grands groupes" et en s'appuyant sur des terrains ancrés dans différents contextes nationaux, ce livre fait le pari d'une approche transversale pour mieux saisir la manière dont l'indépendance irrigue et structure des filières trop souvent envisagées de manière cloisonnée. Il éclaire ainsi une catégorie de référence des industries culturelles paradoxalement peu étudiée par les sciences sociales, et permet de saisir l'évolution des rapports de force dans des secteurs confrontés à une rationalisation économique et à des mutations technologiques de grande ampleur.
Cultural industries --- Mass media and culture --- Industries culturelles --- Médias et culture --- Sociological aspects --- Economic aspects --- Counterculture --- Independent films --- Maisons de disques indépendantes
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"From the events of May 1968 to the Arab Spring and Occupy, we have seen social movements develop spontaneously around the globe propelling thousands and, at times, millions of people into the streets to demand an end to oppression. ... However, even as the eros effect provides a valuable framework for understanding spontaneous global uprisings, Katsiaficas has acknowledged that the concept has remained underdeveloped. 'Spontaneous Combustions' provides an introduction to the eros effect along with a series of elaborations, applications, and critical rejoinders concerning its implications. A truly interdisciplinary venture, the book features contributions from cutting-edge scholars and activists on the frontlines of today's struggles." -- back cover.
Insurgency. --- Insurgent attacks --- Rebellions --- Civil war --- Political crimes and offenses --- Revolutions --- Government, Resistance to --- Internal security --- Counterculture. --- Love. --- Revolutions. --- Social change. --- Social movements.
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For the first 150 years of their existence, "natural foods" were consumed primarily by body builders, hippies, religious sects, and believers in nature cure. And those consumers were dismissed by the medical establishment and food producers as kooks, faddists, and dangerous quacks. In the 1980s, broader support for natural foods took hold and the past fifteen years have seen an explosion-everything from healthy-eating superstores to mainstream institutions like hospitals, schools, and workplace cafeterias advertising their fresh-from-the-garden ingredients. Building Nature's Market shows how the meaning of natural foods was transformed as they changed from a culturally marginal, religiously inspired set of ideas and practices valorizing asceticism to a bohemian lifestyle to a mainstream consumer choice. Laura J. Miller argues that the key to understanding this transformation is to recognize the leadership of the natural foods industry. Rather than a simple tale of cooptation by market forces, Miller contends the participation of business interests encouraged the natural foods movement to be guided by a radical skepticism of established cultural authority. She challenges assumptions that private enterprise is always aligned with social elites, instead arguing that profit-minded entities can make common cause with and even lead citizens in advocating for broad-based social and cultural change.
Food industry and trade --- Natural foods --- Counterculture --- History. --- Social aspects --- Economic aspects --- consumption. --- cultural authority. --- cultural change. --- health food. --- marginality. --- natural foods. --- private enterprise. --- social movements.
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Communism and culture --- Communism and culture --- Counterculture --- Cultural Revolution (China : 1966-1976) --- China --- China --- France --- History --- Influence. --- Foreign public opinion, French. --- Civilization --- Chinese influences.
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"What is a memory of the future? Is it a myth, a fiction of a severed arm, a post-human debate or a broken time machine? In an increasingly insecure future-world there is an urgency to consider and debate these questions. Memories of the Future : On Countervision addresses these concerns by speculating on the connections between memory and futurity in fields such as counter-histories, women's studies, science fiction, art and design, technology, philosophy and politics. Structured by three topics--'The Basis of Memories', 'The Re-conditioning of Time' and 'The Mechanical Future'--this book reveals how these subjects regenerate at the intersections of vision, counter-cultural production and the former present. The volume links the re-imaginings of memory into the present with topics such as the fever dream allegory of the adolescent social experience, soft technologies of future dress, reinventions of monetary exchange, rekindled subjectivities of school days, and technics and human progression. These countervisions argue against the homogenising status quo of the present in order to challenge the customs, traditions and conventions of the past and propositions of the future"--Provided by publisher.
Future, The --- Forecasting --- Memory --- Counterculture --- Intellectual life --- Arts and society --- Social aspects --- Political aspects --- Philosophy --- Study and teaching --- Counterculture. --- Intellectual life. --- Arts and society. --- Social aspects. --- Political aspects. --- Philosophy. --- Study and teaching. --- Future, The - Social aspects --- Future, The - Political aspects --- Future, The - Philosophy --- Future, The - Study and teaching --- Forecasting - Social aspects --- Memory - Social aspects
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