OAPEN Library: Recent submissions
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(2022)This study explores the narration of existential feelings, or feelings of being in the world, in post-war Finnish prose fiction. The book presents five case studies which address modern individuals’ struggles in boundary ...
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(2022)Populist movements, parties and leaders have gained influence in many countries, disrupting long-established patterns of party competition, impugning the legitimacy of representative institutions and sometimes actively ...
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(2022)Beginning in 1948, Israeli paramilitary forces began violently displacing Palestinian Arabs from Palestine. Nakba and Survival tells the stories of Palestinians in Haifa and the Galilee during, and in the decade after, ...
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(2023)As previous research on the role of the radio in (post)colonial India has shown, radio broadcasting is deeply implicated in the narratives of empire and postcolonial nation-building. Radio thus becomes seemingly synonymous ...
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(2023)This chapter examines the choices made regarding film sound—music, sound, and noise—for creating a target-oriented image of Japan for the anticipated German audience in Atarashiki tsuchi (New Earth aka Die Tochter des ...
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(2023)Contemporary Japan is loud. Many scholars have argued that the Japanese have a cultural propensity to embrace urban noise. Yet little research has been done on the history of urban noise in Japan. Far from passively accepting ...
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(2023)In this brief introduction we highlight the importance of broadening the cartography of sound studies beyond the West. Over the last decade or so, the geographical range of sound studies has rapidly broadened at the ...
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(2023)This book examines the meanings, uses, and agency of voice, noise, sound, and sound technologies across Asia. Including a series of wide-ranging and interdisciplinary case studies, the book reveals sound as central to ...
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(2023)This book provides an overview of Irish gender history from the end of the Great Famine in 1852 until the foundation of the Irish Free State in 1922. It builds on the work that scholars of women’s history pioneered and ...
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(2022)Contingent Encounters offers a sustained comparative study of improvisation as it appears between music and everyday life. Drawing on work in musicology, cultural studies, and critical improvisation studies, as well as his ...
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(2022)The title of this book is not innocent, it condenses the communicative intention of editorial work. It offers critical perspectives on some of the problems of the societies of the continent and, at the same time, sets out ...
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(2022)At present, the interrelation of people, countries and cultures is undeniable. The advances in communications, the greater facility in the transfer of people, merchandise and capital; but also the supranational institutional ...
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(2022)The preparation of this book coincided with the end of two years of social coexistence in the midst of a global pandemic. This health reality has been thought, analyzed and addressed in the international literature through ...
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(2022)In order for the process of knowledge to confront its object in the integrity of its concrete determination, it is necessary to start from the simplest form of the object in question, and to reproduce it with thought by ...
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(2022)This work gives an account of the investigative work that has undertaken by teachers of schools and high schools in collaboration with male and female academics, who carry out their work in the southern part of Chile. The ...
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(2022)The great merit and originality of this book lies in the fact that it analyzes the process of the creation of the Marxist theory of dependency by investigating the writings of its founders, now deceased, and through the ...
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(2021)The ecommunitarian plural tendency, an indispensable guide for a new historical sense, shares A. Lincoln's definition of democracy: "government of the people, by the people and for the people", where intercultural experiences ...
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(2022)Between the years 2020-2022, various commemorative events of national, regional or local independence have been held, without a meeting that encompasses them. This was the objective of the International Seminar 200 years ...
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(2022)The artistic work, understood as a concept and a tangible object in any of its multiple technical and aesthetic categories, stands as an invaluable source of information, not only because of its intrinsic values, such as ...
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(2022)The meeting between America and Europe began a first historical period that would extend over three centuries, always marked by the differences between two different ways of understanding the relations of domination between ...
