Manshurat Al Jamal was founded in 1983 by Khalid Al Maaly in Cologne ,in 2008 based in Beirut and a further branch in Bagdad .The program focus on :- Classic ,Modern Arab literature- Fiction short stories poems - Philosophy- Sociology Manshurat Al-Jamal is the publisher of a lot of authors: G.Grass O. Pamuk J. Habermas Robert Musil H.Qureishi G. Sinoue P. Celan W. Gombrowicz J. Derrida M. Horkheimer T. Adorno A. Kristof
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This book intends to explain the development of the knowledge of Mek Mulung, a dance drama that is based in Wang Tepus, Jitra Kedah using archival evidence and ethnographic research. Since its earliest known documentation through in the writings of Walter William Skeat published in 1900, very little of Mek Mulung was described comprehensively. This book describes Mek Mulung in five chapters. It begins with its overview, describing the beholders of the tradition, the performance style, new creative ideas and heritage revival activities integrated towards the idea of the performance. Readers of the book can also experience the music of Mek Mulung by listening to musical examples as well as interacting with the dance and movements through an augmented reality mobile phone application which accompanies the book. The integrated multi-sensory experience of this book aims to enrich and help readers to appreciate Mek Mulung as a heritage performance.
This book examines the links between major contemporary public sector reforms and neoliberal thinking. The key contribution of the book is to enhance our understanding of contemporary neoliberalism as it plays out in the public administration and to provide a critical analysis of generally overlooked aspects of administrative power. The book examines the quest for accountability, credibility and evidence in the public sector. It asks whether this quest may be understood in terms of neoliberal thinking and, if so, how? The book makes the argument that while current administrative reforms are informed by several distinct political rationalities, they evolve above all around a particular form of neoliberalism: constructivist neoliberalism. The book analyses the dangers of the kinds of administrative power seeking to invoke the self-steering capacities of society and administration itself.
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In this book, the complexity and the significance of the foods we eat are analysed from a variety of perspectives, by sociologists, economists, geographers and anthropologists. Chapters address a number of intriguing questions: how do people make judgments about taste? How do such judgments come to be shared by groups of people?; what social and organisational processes result in foods being certified as of decent or proper quality? How has dissatisfaction with the food system been expressed? What alternatives are thought to be possible? The multi-disciplinary analysis of this book explores many different answers to such questions. The first part of the book focuses on theoretical and conceptual issues, the second part considers processes of formal and informal regulation, while the third part examines social and political responses to industrialised food production and mass consumption. Qualities of food will be of interest to researchers and students in all the social science disciplines that are concerned with food, whether marketing, sociology, cultural studies, anthropology, human nutrition or economics.
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Ulla Berkéwicz hat Shakespeare, Calderón und Synge für das Theater übersetzt und bearbeitet. Nur Wir ist ihr erstes eigenes Theaterstück, ein poetischer Versuch, dem Thema Tod neue dramatische Bilder abzugewinnen. Nur Wir ist ein Todestraumspiel. Das Stück basiert in seinen Grundelementen auf einer realen Begebenheit, die vor fünfzehn Jahren durch die Zeitungen ging: Esther Albouy war das schlechte Gewissen eines Städtchens. Seitdem sie im Krieg wegen angeblicher Kollaboration mit den Deutschen öffentlich gebrandmarkt worden war, hatte sie ihr Elternhaus nicht mehr verlassen. Nach drei Jahrzehnten stürmten Gendarmen das Haus, fanden dort die anscheinend wahnsinnig gewordene Frau und ihren seit vielen Jahren toten Bruder. Nur Wir sind zwei Menschen, Schwester und Bruder, Sie und Er, die mit ihrem toten Bruder Klaus und den Erinnerungen an die Eltern leben, in ihrem Haus hausen, seit Jahr und Tag ihr Haus nicht mehr verlassen. Das Haus steht in einem Dorf, den Dorfbewohnern ist das Haus ein Totenhaus, ein Gespensterhaus, die Anwesenheit von Tod im Leben, die Bedrohung. Jeden Tag kommt der Postbote, der Bote aus der Außenwelt, wütet und droht, schlägt und tritt gegen Hauswände und verbarrikadiert Türen. Er und das Dorf, sie wollen das Totenhaus »abfackeln«, das Dach anzünden, die Wand hacken.Sie und Er, das sind, nach Walter Benjamin, »Figuren, die den Wahnsinn hinter sich haben«. Seit dem Tod der Eltern haben sie aufgegeben, das Leben zu leben. Da sie den Tod nicht begreifen, akzeptieren sie ihn nicht. Da sie den Tod nicht begreifen, begreifen sie das Leben nicht, und meinen, wenn man nicht lebt, kann einem der Tod nicht passieren. Das Haus wird zu einem Ort außerhalb der Welt. Im Dasein der beiden gilt einzig. Nur Wir. Als Leitmotiv und Kehrreim durchgehend von Anfang bis Ende steht die Frage: »Was ist gewesen? Was, wann?« Eine Frage, wie wir sie als Lebensbilanz auch bei Beckett finden, eine Fundamentalfrage, auf die es, als Signum des Daseins, keine Antwort gibt. Doch die Figuren von Nur Wir würden auch keine Antwort akzeptieren: »Wir dürfen spielen«, denn »es hängt von uns ab, was wirklich ist«. Und: »Es gibt noch ungeträumte Möglichkeiten.« Im letzten Bild stürmt der Postbote mit den Dorfleuten das Haus, doch Sie und Er mitsamt dem toten Bruder haben es verlassen: »Die Lösung des Rätsels des Lebens in Raum und Zeit« - so Wittgenstein - »liegt außerhalb von Raum und Zeit.« Die Figuren von Nur Wir nutzen die »noch ungeträumten Möglichkeiten«, steigen aus Raum und Zeit aus.In der Zeit vom 27. Oktober 1989 schrieb der Theaterkritiker Benjamin Henrichs über die gegenwärtige Theaterlandschaft: »...kein Weg führt weiter. man müßte umkehren, noch einmal von vorne beginnen und suchen, was man irgendwann unterwegs verloren hat: die Naivität. Das Theater ist eine intellektuelle Kunst und eine kindliche, und gut ist es nur, wenn es beides ist.« Benjamin Henrichs schloß, die Stückeschreiber »müssen das neue Theater herbeischreiben«. Hier ist ein solches Stück.
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This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This book is about science in theatre and performance. It explores how theatre and performance engage with emerging scientific themes from artificial intelligence to genetics and climate change. The book covers a wide range of performance forms from Broadway musicals to educational theatre, from Somali drama to grime videos. It features work by pioneering companies including Gob Squad, Headlong Theatre and Theatre of Debate as well as offering fresh analysis of global blockbusters such as Wicked and Urinetown. The book offers detailed description and analysis of theatre and performance practices as well as broader commentary on the politics of theatre as public engagement with science. Science in performance is essential reading for researchers, students and practitioners working between science and the arts within fields such as theatre and performance studies, science communication, interdisciplinary arts and health humanities.
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How and why did the Nazis seize power in Germany? Nearly seventy years on, the question remains heated and important discoveries continue to challenge long standing assumptions. Beginmning with an overview of the historical context within which Nazism grew, looking at the foreign relations, politics and society of Weimar and in particular at the role of the elites in the rise of Nazism. The book questions the anatomy of Nazism itself: What lent Nazi ideology its coherence and credibility? What distinguished the Nazi's programme from their competitors' and how did they project it so effectively? How was Hitler able to put together and fund an organisation so quickly and effectively that it could launch a sustained assault on Weimar? Who supported the Nazis and what were their motives? Where, precisely, does Nazism belong in the history of Europe?. Since the publication of the first edition, important new works have appeared and this new scholarship has been incorporated into the text. ;
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This collection brings together studies of popular performance and politics across the nineteenth century, offering a fresh perspective from an archivally grounded research base. It works with the concept that politics is performative and performance is political. The book is organised into three parts in dialogue regarding specific approaches to popular performance and politics. Part I offers a series of conceptual studies using popular culture as an analytical category for social and political history. Part II explores the ways that performance represents and constructs contemporary ideologies of race, nation and empire. Part III investigates the performance techniques of specific politicians - including Robert Peel, Keir Hardie and Henry Hyndman - and analyses the performative elements of collective movements.
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This work is a detailed examination of principal themes in the political history of late 18th- and early 19th-century Britain. It evaluates much recent research, links the politics of the elite with the politics of the people and seeks to explain significant developments with reference to both their long- and short-term causes. Among the issues addressed are the relative powers of crown, cabinet and parliament between 1760 and 1832; the impact on domestic politics of revolution and war abroad; the growth of radicalism and popular political activity; agitation for reform and the responses of government; the rise of party; the connections between extra-parliamentary pressure and instability; at the centre of power. ;
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Air empire is a fresh study of civil aviation as a tool of late British imperialism. The first pioneering flights across the British empire in 1919-20 were flag-waving adventures that recreated an era of plucky British maritime exploration and conquest. Britain's development of international air routes and services was approved, organised and celebrated largely in London; there was some resistance in and beyond the subordinate colonies and dominions. Negotiating the financing and geopolitics of regular commercial air service delayed its inception until the 1930s. Technological, managerial and logistical problems also meant that Britain was slow into the air and slow in the air. Propaganda concealed underperformance and criticism. The study uses archival sources, biographies, industry magazines and newspapers to chronicle the disputed progress toward air empire. The rhetoric behind imperial air service offers a glimpse of late imperial hopes, fears, attitudes and style. Empire air service had emotional appeal and symbolic value, but disappointed in practice.
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A compelling account of the project to transform post-war Manchester, revealing the clash between utopian vision and compromised reality. Urban renewal in Britain was thrilling in its vision, yet partial and incomplete in its implementation. For the first time, this deep study of a renewal city reveals the complex networks of actors behind physical change and stagnation in post-war Britain. Using the nested scales of region, city and case-study sites, the book explores the relationships between Whitehall legislation, its interpretation by local government planning officers and the on-the-ground impact through urban architectural projects. Each chapter highlights the connections between policy goals, global narratives and the design and construction of cities. The Cold War, decolonialisation, rising consumerism and the oil crisis all feature in a richly illustrated account of architecture and planning in post-war Manchester.
