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Routledge Handbook of Interdisciplinary Research Methods

Routledge Handbook of Interdisciplinary Research Methods

The landscape of contemporary research is characterized by growing interdisciplinarity and disciplinary boundaries are blurring faster than ever. Yet while interdisciplinary methods and methodological innovation in general are often presented as the ‘holy grail’ of research there are few examples or discussions of their development and ‘behaviour’ in the field. This Routledge Handbook of Interdisciplinary Research presents a bold intervention by showcasing a diversity of stimulating approaches. Over 50 experienced researchers illustrate the challenges but also the rewards of doing and representing interdisciplinary research through their own methodological developments. Featured projects cover a variety of scales and topics from small art-science collaborations to the ‘big data’ of mass observations. Each section is dedicated to an aspect of data handling from collection classification validation to communication to research audiences. Most importantly Interdisciplinary Methods presents a distinctive approach through its focus on knowledge as process defamiliarising and reworking familiar practices such as experimenting archiving observing prototyping or translating. | Routledge Handbook of Interdisciplinary Research Methods

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Blood and Home in Early Modern Drama Domestic Identity on the Renaissance Stage

Blood and Home in Early Modern Drama Domestic Identity on the Renaissance Stage

In this volume the author argues that blood was crucially a means by which dramatists negotiated shifting contours of domesticity in 16th and 17th century England. Early modern English drama vividly addressed contemporary debates over an expanding idea of the domestic which encompassed the domus as well as sex parenthood household order the relationship between home and state and the connections between family honor and national identity. The author contends that the domestic ideology expressed by theatrical depictions of marriage and household order is one built on the simultaneous familiarity and violence inherent to blood. The theatrical relation between blood and home is far more intricate than the idealized language of the familial bloodline; the home was itself a bloody place with domestic bloodstains signifying a range of experiences including religious worship sex murder birth healing and holy justice. Focusing on four bleeding figures—the Bleeding Bride Bleeding Husband Bleeding Child and Bleeding Patient—the author argues that the household blood of the early modern stage not only expressed the violence and conflict occasioned by domestic ideology but also established the home as a site that alternately reified and challenged patriarchal authority. | Blood and Home in Early Modern Drama Domestic Identity on the Renaissance Stage

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Nationalising the Crusades Engaging the Crusades Volume Eight

Nationalising the Crusades Engaging the Crusades Volume Eight

Engaging the Crusades is a series of concise volumes (up to 50 000 words) which offer initial windows into the ways in which the crusades have been used in the last two centuries demonstrating that the memory of the crusades is an important and emerging subject. Together these studies suggest that the memory of the crusades in the modern period is a productive exciting and much needed area of investigation. Despite their ‘intrinsic internationalism’ the crusades have long been conscripted for nationalist ends. The last decade has seen an upsurge in usage of the crusades to justify and inspire violence played out within and across national contexts. This volume furthers study of nationalist uses of the crusades and crusading by broadening the focus of study beyond north-western Europe and by showcasing different approaches to illustrate how the memory of the crusades has been employed within and between nations. This takes the form of tightly focused case studies and broader overviews covering the ambivalent role of foreign crusaders in Portuguese commemorations of the battle of Lisbon in 1947 Russian holy war rhetoric and theology Zionist perceptions of the crusader castle of ‘Athlit the role of individuals as ‘cultural brokers’ of crusader heritage amidst European imperial competition and how crusading as a part of European medievalism was received and reflected in Japan in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book will be of interest to scholars and students considering national identity medievalism and religious violence and to those with specific interest in the contexts of each chapter. | Nationalising the Crusades Engaging the Crusades Volume Eight

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Landscape Construction Volume 3: Earth and Water Retaining Structures

Landscape Construction Volume 3: Earth and Water Retaining Structures

Landscape Construction Volume 1 deals with elements of landscape construction which are required to provide enclosure privacy demarcation of land shelter and security. The elements discussed include free-standing brick and stone walls fences gates and railings. Fittings and finishes are also covered. Each section describes the materials construction and constraints relevant to the subject and a large number of detailed figures and photographs supplement the text and help to illustrate the more important aspects. There is also a section on preservation treatment and painting. The current British Standard references are included. | Landscape Construction Volume 3: Earth and Water Retaining Structures

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The Cult of Saint Katherine of Alexandria in Late-Medieval Nuremberg Saint and the City

The Cult of Saint Katherine of Alexandria in Late-Medieval Nuremberg Saint and the City

Katherine of Alexandria was a major object of devotion within medieval Europe ranking second only to the Virgin Mary in the canon of female saints. Yet despite her undoubted importance relatively little is known about the significance and function of her cult within the German-speaking territories that stood at the heart of Europe. Anne Simon's study adds a welcome new interdisciplinary perspective to the study of Saint Katherine and the wider ecclesiastical landscape of a medieval Europe poised on the edge of religious change. Taking as a case study the wealthy and politically influential merchant city of Nuremberg this book draws on a wide variety of textual and visual sources to explore interrelated themes: the shaping of urban space through the cult of Saint Katherine; her role in the moulding and advertising patrician identity and alliances through cultural patronage; and patrician use of the saint to showcase the city's political economic cultural and religious importance at the heart of the Holy Roman Empire. Further the book reveals the construction of exemplarity in Saint Katherine's legend and miracles and their resonance within the context of the city and the Dominican Convent of Saint Katherine whose nuns came from the same status-aware confident patrician elite that so loyally supported successive Emperors. Filling a significant gap in current research the work has much to offer scholars of medieval history hagiography art history German studies cultural and urban studies. Hence it not only expands our understanding of Saint Katherine's importance in German-speaking territories but also adds to the picture of her cult in its European perspective. | The Cult of Saint Katherine of Alexandria in Late-Medieval Nuremberg Saint and the City

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Common Sense About the Common Market Germany and Britain in Post-War Europe

Common Sense About the Common Market Germany and Britain in Post-War Europe

The Common Market between France Western Germany Italy and the ‘Benelux’ counties was not merely a reshuffle of tariff rates and trade agreements but a political mile-stone in post-war history. Originally published in 1958 this book surveys the pre-history of the Common Market from the German Zollverein to the abortive customs union with Austria in 1931 and traces its roots amongst the tangled post-war politics of occupied Germany the Ruhr Authority and the Coal and Steel pool. The book provides a summary of post-war economic developments in Europe and examines the guiding principles of the famous Spaak Report comparing it with the text of the Rome Treaty. Finally the book deals with the challenge of the new developments to Great Britain. | Common Sense About the Common Market Germany and Britain in Post-War Europe

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Building from Tradition Local Materials and Methods in Contemporary Architecture

Building from Tradition Local Materials and Methods in Contemporary Architecture

Building from Tradition examines the recent resurgence of interest in the handmade building and the use of local and renewable materials in contemporary construction. In the past raw materials were shaped to provide shelter and to accommodate the cultural social and economic needs of individuals and communities. This is still true today as architects engineers and builders turn once again to local resources and methods not simply for constructing buildings but also as a strategy for supporting social engagement sustainable development and cultural continuity. Building from Tradition features global case studies that allow readers to understand how building practices—developed and refined by previous generations—continue to be adapted to suit a broad range of cultural and environmental contexts. The book provides: • a survey of historical and technical information about geologic and plant-based materials such as: stone earth reed and grass wood and bamboo; • 24 detailed case studies examining the disadvantages and benefits to using traditional materials and methods and how they are currently being integrated with contemporary construction practices. | Building from Tradition Local Materials and Methods in Contemporary Architecture

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Doors History Repair and Conservation

Doors History Repair and Conservation

In Doors: History Repair and Conservation readers are guided through the function history development care repair and conservation of doors by chapter authors who are experts in their field. This book offers depth and range of detail from dating and archaeology right through to the surveying recording engineering and curation of the door its furniture and the part of the building into which it is set. Doors vary from basic designs to exceptional and intricate masterpieces of craftmanship. Whether wood stone metal or glass throughout history doors have been vital barriers against weather and intruders providing those inside with protection privacy and comfort. Split into three sections this book covers history development identification and dating of doors maintenance and engineering of doors and door openings and materials of doors their furniture openings and surrounds. Throughout the book the authors provide detailed photographs drawings techniques and methodologies and the latest research available. Doors is the first major reference work devoted to the understanding of doors and doorways and the issues surrounding their repair and conservation. This comprehensive highly-illustrated full-colour study will provide professionals students and academics with a complete overview of door conservation that will inform both research and practice for years to come. | Doors History Repair and Conservation

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Lady Bird Self-Determination for a New Century

Lady Bird Self-Determination for a New Century

Examining the ideas philosophies and strategies that inform and enable a young woman’s self-determination for a new century this is a detailed insightful study of Greta Gerwig’s much-loved influential and critically acclaimed film. Drawing on Transcendentalism French feminist thought Californian art and the work of iconic American essayist Joan Didion Rob Stone approaches Lady Bird as a film about young women’s self-determination in relation to other women and waves of feminist history. Structured to emulate the evolving conscience and emerging consciousness of the film’s eponymous protagonist this new volume in the Cinema and Youth Cultures series provides an incisive portrait of a particular American youth subculture struggling to assert its identity between the shock of 9/11 in 2001 and the global financial crisis of 2008. It also sensitively examines tensions between Gerwig and Lady Bird and between Lady Bird being set in 2002 and made in 2017. Written by an expert on American independent cinema and the dynamics of World Cinema this volume explores strategies of self-determination that ignite in the friction between mothers and daughters and culminate in considerations of how the film’s form and aesthetics lead to reflections on its philosophy and politics. Situating Lady Bird in the genre of youth movies and feminist film practice and culture this book is ideal for students and researchers looking at wider dialogues and discourses about feminism philosophy gender genre and American independent filmmaking. | Lady Bird Self-Determination for a New Century

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Introduction to Geopolitics

Introduction to Geopolitics

This new updated edition presents the overarching themes of geopolitical structures and agents in an engaging and accessible manner which requires no previous knowledge of theory or current affairs. It helps readers understand the geopolitical implications of COVID-19 China’s pronounced role in the world the relative decline of the US and the Black Lives Matter movement. Using new pertinent case studies and guided exercises the title explains the contemporary global power of the United States and the challenges it is facing the changing foreign policy of China and other countries the persistence of nationalist conflicts migration cyberwar and cyberactivism terrorism energy geopolitics and environmental geopolitics. Expanded case studies of the South China Sea disputes and China’s Belt and Road Initiative emphasize the multi-faceted nature of conflict. The book raises questions by incorporating international and long-term historical perspectives and introduces readers to different theoretical viewpoints including feminist contributions. The new edition features fresh discussion of island geopolitics the Anthropocene age and geoeconomics. Introduction to Geopolitics will provide its readers with a set of critical analytical tools for understanding the actions of states as well as non-state actors acting in competition over resources and power. Both students and general readers will find this book an essential stepping-stone to a deeper and critical understanding of contemporary conflicts. The companion website will enable readers to apply the themes of the book to the constant shifts in current affairs to enable deeper understanding. It will provide access to weekly essays showing how the themes explain current events.

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A Vast Bundle of Opportunities An Exploration of Creativity in Personal Life and Community

A Vast Bundle of Opportunities An Exploration of Creativity in Personal Life and Community

The conventional view of religion is that the basic truths were settled long ago that all we have to do is to accept them and behave accordingly. Essentially then there is no room for originality. To be religious we have to be followers adherents to be convinced addicted to be in a position to say: we are right you are wrong. In A Vast Bundle of Opportunities originally published in 1975 Kenneth Barnes maintains that this is a sterile condition of mind. Religion is not a separate kind of experience; it includes our whole selves and all that we do. It follows that if art and science can be creative and originative so also must religion be if it is real. If it is the Christian religion we are thinking of then to try to ‘imitate’ Jesus is to kill him stone dead. To make him an ideal is to put him away. But to respond to him is to come alive as creators and originators. The writer as the founder of an unusual kind of boarding school – Wennington School Wetherby – knows what it is like to live in the midst of incessant enterprising activity; in his own life he knows what it feels like to be a scientist an artist a craftsman. He asks if there are ways we can deliberately choose by which we can become originators. He takes the philosophy of John Macmurrray to show what freedom could mean to us and the more recent writings of Arthur Koestler and Edouard de Bono to suggest that the obvious development of creativeness in science can be encouraged in the total approach to life and human problems. Life then becomes an experience of endless discovery a continual opening up of possibilities. | A Vast Bundle of Opportunities An Exploration of Creativity in Personal Life and Community

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