At the interface : : continuity and transformation in culture and politics / / edited by Joss Hands & Eugenia Siapera.

• Superior document: At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 20
• TeilnehmendeR: Hands, Joss,; Siapera, Eugenia,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam, Netherlands ;, New York, New York : : Rodopi,, [2004]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Series: At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 20.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

In a world increasingly characterised by perpetual re-invention through the dynamic flows of capital, persons and ideas, understanding change and transformation is an imperative. The purpose of this book is a first step in a project to engage the dynamics of transformation at the interface of culture and politics, through contextualisation, reflection and a sharing of intellectual resources. Bringing together the work of academics from a range of disciplines, who share an overarching aim to map such transformations, the volume covers themes ranging from popular culture, the Internet, to film and cinema. Casting a contemporary gaze on cultural phenomena, the contributors all seek to trace trajectories of change and continuity from within their own specific field, using a range of approaches from theoretical reflection to empirical case studies. Of general interest to students of the humanities and social sciences, and of particular interest for students of cultural studies and communication at all levels, this volume constitutes a unique opportunity to reflect on recent transformations but also on the persistence of certain cultural and political practices.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Eugenia Siapera and Joss Hands -- Cultural Politics -- The Edge of Reason: the Myth of Bridget Jones / Stephen Maddison and Merl Storr -- Representing Gender Benders: Consumerism and the Muting of Subversion / Sofie Van Bauwel -- Politics, the Papacy and the Media / Maria Way -- Political Cultures -- The Nigerian Press and the Politics of Difference: An Analysis of the Newspaper Reports of the Yoruba/Hausa Ethnic clash of 1st - 3rd February 2002 / Kale Azuka Omenugha -- The Role of the Alternative Afrikaans Media in the Political Transformation Process in South Africa / Abraham G. van der Vyver -- Internet Regulation A La Turque : Historical and Contemporary Problem Analyses of the Internet Environment in Turkey / Asli Tunç -- Asylum Politics in Cyberspace / Eugenia Siapera -- Living With E-Utopia: Camus, Habermas and the Politics of Virtual Dissent / Joss Hands -- At the Interface -- The Conflicted Significance of Racial Controversies in Major League Baseball and American History / Shane Aaron Lachtman -- Transformation of Trauma Without Rehabilitating Failure: The Dual Attempt at Reshaping America's Memory of the War in Viet Nam in Mel Gibson's We Were Soldiers (2002) / R. C. Lutz -- Popular History and Re-membering the Nation / Emine Onculer -- Notes on Contributors.