1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910458297003321

Autore

Barnett Robert <1953->

Titolo

Lhasa [[electronic resource] ] : streets with memories / / Robert Barnett

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Chichester, : Columbia University Press, 2010

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Collana

Asia perspectives

Disciplina

951.5

951/.5

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Lhasa (China) Description and travel

Lhasa (China)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; PREFACE; A NOTE ON HISTORY; A NOTE ON TERMINOLOGY; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PREAMBLE; 1THE UNITARY VIEW; 2. FOREIGN VISITORS, OSCILLATIONS, AND EXTREMES; 3. THE SQUARE VIEW AND THE OUT STRETCHED DEMONESS; 4. THE CITY, THE CIRCLE; 5. MONUMENTAL STATEMENTS AND STREET PLANS; 6. FROM CONCRETE TO BLUE GLASS; 7. THE NEW FLAMBOYANCE AND THE TIBETAN PALM TREE; 8. MESTIZO: TWO NARRATIVES CONVERGE; 9 .THE MULTILAYERED STREETS; NOTES; GLOSSARY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

There are many Lhasas. One is a grid of uniform boulevards lined with plush hotels, all-night bars, and blue-glass-fronted offices. Another is a warren of alleyways that surround a seventh-century temple built to pin down a supine demoness. A web of Stalinist, rectangular blocks houses the new  nomenklatura. Crumbling mansions, once home to noble ministers, famous lovers, nationalist spies, and covert revolutionaries, now serve as shopping malls and  faux-antique hotels. Each embodiment of the city partakes of the others' memories, whispered across time and along the city



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910476906903321

Autore

Scherrer Madeleine

Titolo

Fernbeziehungen : Diffraktionen zu Intimität in medialen Zwischenräumen / / Madeleine Scherrer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld : , : transcript-Verlag, , 2021

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (328 pages)

Collana

Sozialtheorie

Disciplina

302

Soggetti

Interpersonal relations - Psychological aspects

Interpersonal relations - Moral and ethical aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Fernbeziehungen reproduzieren nicht nur normalisierte Vorstellungen von Intimität, sondern stellen sie zugleich infrage. Madeleine Scherrer erforscht, wie Frauen in Fernbeziehungen von vergeschlechtlichten Erfahrungen und Erwartungen berichten. Anhand theoretischer Ansätze zu Raum und Medialität zeigt sie auf, wie Fernbeziehungen als produzierte und sich überlagernde mediale Zwischenräume fungieren. Mit Rückgriff auf Karen Barads Methode der Diffraktion dekonstruiert sie normalisierte Intimitätsvorstellungen und hegemoniale dualistische Denkweisen.