ISBN:
9781429456463
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1429456469
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (188 p.)
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ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Thamyris intersecting 1381-1312 no. 12
Series Statement:
Thamyris intersecting no. 12
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Metaphoricity and the politics of mobility
DDC:
304.6
Keywords:
Population geography Political aspects
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Population geography
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Transnationalism
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Process philosophy
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Culture and globalization
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Metaphor
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Movement, Psychology of
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Place (Philosophy)
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Population geography Political aspects
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Culture and globalization
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Metaphor
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Movement, Psychology of
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Place (Philosophy)
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Population geography
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Population geography ; Political aspects
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Process philosophy
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Transnationalism
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Demography
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Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
Introduction: Theorizing Metaphoricity, Reconceptualizing Politics; Part I: Metaphoricity and Postmodern Theory; Mobile Concepts, Metaphor, and the Problem of Referentiality in Deleuze and Guattari; The State of Territory under Globalization: Empire and the Politics of Reterritorialization; Part II: Mobilizing the Politics of Theory; Making up Chinese-Americans: Moral Geographies of Immigration in the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) and The Peopling of America Theme Study Act (2001); Land to Light On? Making Reparation in a Time of Transnationality.
Abstract:
Relocating the Idea of Europe: Keith Piper's Other HeadingsPart III: Mobilizing the Theory of Politics; Ambient Fears; On the Road with Lamerica: Immigrants, Refugees and the Poor; Metaphoring: Making a Niche of Negative Space; List of Figures; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.
Abstract:
This collection of essays investigates the convergence between the postmodern politics of mobility and a politics of metaphor, a politics, in other words, in the context of which the production and displacement of meaning(s) constitute the major stakes. Ranging from discussions of re-territorialization, multiculturalism, "digisporas" and transnational politics and ethics, to September 11th, the Pentagon's New Map, American legislation on Chinese immigration, Gianni Amelio's film Lamerica, Keith Piper's online installations and Doris Salcedo's Atrabiliarios, the collection aims to follow thre
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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