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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814669203321

Titolo

Creativity in transition : politics and aesthetics of cultural production across the globe / / edited by Marus̆ka Svas̆ek and Birgit Meyer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, [New York] ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-78533-182-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (366 pages)

Collana

Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement

Disciplina

306.4/7

Soggetti

Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) - Social aspects

Originality (Aesthetics)

Material culture - Social aspects

Culture and globalization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Creativity and Innovation in a World of Movement -- 1 African Lace: Agency and Transcontinental Interaction in Textile Design -- 2 Heads Against Hands and Hierarchies of Creativity: Indian Luxury Embroidery Between Craft, Fashion Design and Art -- 3 THE SOCIAL LIFE OF KOTTAN Baskets: Craft Production, Consumption and Circulation in Tamil Nadu, India -- 4 Art and the Making of the Creative City of Chennai, India -- 5 Approximation as Interpretative Appropriation: Guaraní-Inspired Ceramics in Misiones, Argentina -- 6 Positioned Creativity: Museums, Politics and Indigenous Art in British Columbia and Norway -- 7 ‘We Paint Our Way and the Christian Way Together’ Transforming Yolngu and Ngan’gi Art through Creative Ancestral-Christian Practice -- 8 Undoing Absence through Things: Creative Appropriation and Affective Engagement in an Indian Transnational Setting -- 9 ‘The Eye Likes It’ National Identity and the Aesthetics of Attraction Among Sri Lankan Tamil Catholics and Hindus -- 10 Narratives, Movements, Objects: Aesthetics and Power in Catholic Devotion to Our Lady of Aparecida, Brazil -- 11 The Art of Imitation: The (Re)Production and Reception of Jesus Pictures in Ghana --



Afterword: Creativity in Transition -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In an era of intensifying globalization and transnational connectivity, the dynamics of cultural production and the very notion of creativity are in transition. Exploring creative practices in various settings, the book does not only call attention to the spread of modernist discourses of creativity, from the colonial era to the current obsession with ‘innovation’ in neo-liberal capitalist cultural politics, but also to the less visible practices of copying, recycling and reproduction that occur as part and parcel of creative improvization.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910158951803321

Autore

Zellem USN LCDR Edward B

Titolo

Clausewitz And Seapower

Pubbl/distr/stampa

San Francisco : , : Tannenberg Publishing, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

9781782899952

1782899952

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (47 pages)

Disciplina

997.11

Soggetti

Sea-power

Military operations, Naval

Clausewitz, Carl von, 1780-1831

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Abstract -- Chapter 1 - Introduction -- Criticizing Clausewitz -- The Falkland Islands Case Study -- Chapter 2 - Historical Background -- Territorial Disputes -- Other Interests -- Argentina in 1981 -- Chapter 3 - The Conflict Begins -- Deception and Surprise at South Georgia -- The Main Invasion at Stanley -- Argentina's Force Capabilities -- British Force Capabilities -- Chapter 4 - British Operational Objectives and the War's Conduct -- Objective 1: Sea Blockade -- Objective 2: Recapture of South Georgia -- Objective 3: Sea and Air Supremacy -- Naval



Engagements -- Air Engagements -- Objective 4: Recapture of the Falkland Islands -- Chapter 5 - Clausewitz Applied -- War as a Continuation of Politics -- Qualities of the Commanders -- The Trinity -- Surprise and Deception -- Correlation of Means and Ends -- Offensive and Defensive -- Center of Gravity -- Numerical Superiority -- Friction -- Unit Spirit -- Chapter 6 - Conclusion -- Review of Research Question -- Conclusions -- Bibliography.

Sommario/riassunto

This paper explores the hypothesis that although Clausewitz has been criticized for not specifically addressing naval warfare in his seminal work On War, Clausewitzian principles are in fact not only applicable, but highly relevant to the modern conduct of war at sea. The 1982 Falkland Islands conflict between Great Britain and Argentina will be used as the framework to examine this hypothesis. As the largest and most significant series of naval engagements since World War II, the Falklands War provides a rich database of both traditional and non-traditional lessons learned about the conduct of war at sea. This paper begins with a brief discussion of critiques of Clausewitz and his apparent lack of focus on the naval element of warfare. It will be followed by a historical review of significant events leading up to, and during the Falkland Islands War. Key events in the war will then be reviewed and examined within a framework of Clausewitzian principles. The motives, key assumptions, military strategy, and tactics of Great Britain and Argentina will be discussed within the context of the Clausewitzian dictum that war is the continuation of politics by other means. Selected specific events in the campaign will then be addressed in terms of Clausewitzian principles of war to determine their relevance or irrelevance to modern naval strategy and campaigning.