This book establishes play as a mode of humanistic inquiry with a profound effect on art, culture and society. Play is treated as a dynamic and relational modality where relationships of all kinds are forged and inquisitive interdisciplinary engagement is embraced. Play cultivates reflection, connection, and creativity, offering new epistemological directions for the humanities. With examples f…
This book provides the first synthetic review of the literature on cultural roads and itineraries, providing a template for developing typologies and clarity on existing research. It additionally develops a unique conceptual framework for understanding the social, political, ethical, and spatial dynamics behind cultural roads and itineraries. The book takes the discussion on cultural roads in t…
Identifying scientism as religion’s secular counterpart, this collection studies contemporary contestations of the authority of science. These controversies suggest that what we are witnessing today is not an increase in the authority of science at the cost of religion, but a dual decline in the authorities of religion and science alike. This entails an erosion of the legitimacy of universall…
This book provides an overview of the recent progress in Francophone tourism geography. It focuses on the theoretical advances in social and cultural geography, whereby the symbolic dimensions of tourism and the creation of tourism worlds are key. It puts forward the tourist conceived as mobile, situated, skilled, reflexive inhabitant of places, which gives all its meaning to the expression “…
This edited book demonstrates a new multidimensional comprehension of the relationship between war, the military and civil society by exploring the global rise of paramilitary culture. Moving beyond binary understandings that inform the militarization of culture thesis and examining various national and cultural contexts, the collection outlines ways in which a process of paramilitarization is …
Indonesia merupakan negara hukum yang sebagaimana yang tertuang dalam Pasal 1 Ayat (3) Undang-Undang Dasar Republik Indonesia Tahun 1945. Salah satu aparat penegak hukum ialah seorang hakim yang diberi wewenang oleh undang-undang untuk menerima, memeriksa dan memutus suatu perkara pidana berdasarkan asas bebas, jujur dan tidak memihak di sidang pengadilan. Namun dalam perakteknya sering terjadi…
There is widespread acknowledgement among anthropologists, archaeologists, ethnobotanists, as well as researchers in related disciplines that specific foods and cuisines are linked very strongly to the formation and maintenance of cultural identity and ethnicity. Strong associations of foodways with culture are particularly characteristic of South American Andean cultures. Food and drink conve…
This book is the first comprehensive attempt to identify the deeper causes that have shaped contemporary behaviour patterns and motivations among football fans in Poland. Fan culture in Poland has long been based on a distinctively grassroots, spontaneous movements that ruled out any cooperation with local authorities and sports organizations. The activity of supporter groups has regul…
PT. Timah (Persero) Tbk Unit Laut Bangka merupakan perusahaan yang bergerak pada bidang penambangan bijih timah. Penelitian tugas akhir ini dilakukan di Kapal Isap Produksi (KIP) Timah 14. Pada penelitian ini dilakukan analisis serta evaluasi yang berhubungan langsung dengan proses pencucian. Adapun variabel yang mempengaruhi proses pencucian tersebut terdiri dari kecepatan aliran, panjang puku…
This book demonstrates how pop culture examples can be used to demystify complex social theory. It provides tangible, metaphorical examples that shows how it is possible to "do philosophy" rather than subscribe to a theorist by showing that each theorist intersects and overlaps with others. The book is embedded in the literary theory that tapping into background knowledge is a key step in h…
Indonesia has two seasons, namely the rainy season and the dry season. Rainfall is one of the important climate elements. Rainfall data is usually obtained from the BMKG station which still has gaps and data limitations, so it is compared with satellite rainfall data from the ECMWF station. The world climate meteorological phenomena that occur in affecting rainfall such as the Indian Ocean Dipo…
Research on mapping annual and interannual rainfall patterns in Indonesia has not been widely conducted. One of the obstacles is the existence of quite large rainfall diversity that occurs in almost all regions of Indonesia. The diversity of rainfall patterns in Indonesia is due to the influence of atmospheric dynamics (air circulation) on a global and regional scale, ocean dynamics, local cond…
Located on the equator and part of the maritime territory of Indonesia, Java Island is very vulnerable to the impacts of climate change based on the occurrence of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) phenomena. To analyze the level of extreme rainfall on the influence of ENSO and IOD in Central Java Province can be done by involving the RClimDex software. The d…
Penggunaan perangkat lunak dalam dunia konstruksi kini semakin berkembang pesat. Kemajuan teknologi semakin memudahkan kita untuk menganalisis struktur struktur dengan geometri yang rumit dan kondisi batas yang kompleks. Struktur box culvert merupakan salah satu konstruksi yang analisanya cukup rumit karena konstruksi tersebut berhubungan dengan mekanisme hidrolik, fungsi transportasi dan k…
If art, and especially music, has been framed in cultural sociology as a collective production relying on a variety of actors, technicians have been mostly framed as “support personnel” marginally impacting the meaning of a cultural production. This book analyzes sound technicians as technical intermediaries. They are autonomous actors of cultural production, and contribute in various ways …
This book shows how many previously contingent social processes have gradually been re-organised and transformed into entangled processes of ‘discontinuance’ and ‘continuance’ through the implementation of digital logic. Together with the necessary co-evolution of our collective digital literacy, this persistent process of transformation throughout modernity is theorised here as one of …
This book provides insight into the topic of place and territorial identity, which involves both the dimension of collective belonging and the politics of territorial planning and enhancement. It considers the social, economic and political effects of territorial identity representations among others in terms of mystification, spatial fetishism, and the creation of place and territorial stereot…
This book is an intervention into cultural studies' theoretical and methodological foundations. It addresses a crisis in conjunctural analysis: that there is no theorized method for conjunctural analysis as it pertains to recognizing a conjunctural shift or the emergence of an organic crisis. This crisis is connected to the belief that the definition of the conjuncture is ambiguous in Gramsci…
This book weaves together research on cultural change in Central Europe and Eurasia: notably, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine. Examining massive cultural shifts in erstwhile state-communist nations since 1989, the authors analyze how the region is moving in both freeing and restrictive directions. They map out these directions in such arenas as LGBTQ prot…
This book examines postsocialist transformations reflected in urban middle-class domestic spaces and in museums dedicated to socialism in Romania. It focuses on the significance and circulation of porcelain and crystal sets and ornaments during late socialism and after 1989, following the experiences of consumers, workers in the glassware and porcelain industry, and artists. By tracing the valu…
This book explores how to compose sounds and visualisations that represent psychedelic hallucinations and experiences of synaesthesia. Through a detailed discussion regarding compositional methodologies and technical approaches, the book aims to educate students, practitioners, and researchers working in related areas. It weaves together sound, visual design, and code across a range of media, p…
This book contributes to the scholarly debate on the forms and patterns of interaction and discourse in modern digital communication by probing some of the social functions that online communication has for its users. An array of experts and scholars in the field address a range of forms of social interaction and discourses expressed by users on social networks and in public media. Social funct…
This book describes three years of work by the Culture and Communities Mapping Project, a research project based in Edinburgh that uses maps as an object of study and also a means to facilitate research. Taking a self-reflexive approach, the book draws on a variety of iterative mapping procedures and visual methodologies, from online virtual tours to photo elicitation, to capture the voices of …