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Border-Crossing and Comedy at the Théâtre Italien, 1716–1723

By: Matthew J. McMahan

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Border-Crossing and Comedy at the Théâtre Italien, 1716–1723

By: Matthew J. McMahan

How do nationalized stereotypes inform the reception and content of the migrant comedian’s work? How do performers adapt? What gets lost (and found) in translation? Border-Crossing and Comedy at the Théâtre Italien, 1716-1723 explores these questions in an early modern context. When a troupe of commedia dell’arte actors were invited by the French crown to establish a theatre in Paris, they found their transition was anything but easy. They had to learn a new language and adjust to French expectations and demands. This study presents their story as a dynamic model of coping with the challenges of migration, whereby the actors made their transnational identity a central focus of their comedy. Relating their work to popular twenty-first century comedians, this book also discusses the tools and ideas that contextualize the border-crossing comedian’s work—including diplomacy, translation, improvisation, and parody—across time.

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Springer Nature

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3030700712

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9783030700713

Negotiating Diversity

Culture, Deliberation, Trust

By: Matthew Festenstein

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Negotiating Diversity

Culture, Deliberation, Trust

By: Matthew Festenstein

Debates about cultural diversity have become an important, controversial and inescapable features of the politics of modern democracies. Negotiating Diversity offers a lucid and accessible analysis of the political theory of multiculturalism. It is an ideal text for students looking for an overview of the state of play in this area. The book explores the ways the concept of culture has been used in political theory, and critically evaluates contemporary liberal responses to multiculturalism, including the work of key political philosophers such as Will Kymlicka, Brian Barry and Chandran Kukathas, drawing on a range of real-world examples to illustrate its arguments. It provides critique of the tendency to reify cultural identity in political thinking, particularly through an examination of contemporary liberalism. In its place, the author develops a deliberative alternative, which views the politics of cultural diversity as a fallible process of negotiation, argument and compromise. He confronts objections that this alternative itself offers an unrealistic or oppressive vision of politics, and explores the fragility of trust in the politics of multicultural societies.

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216

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Polity

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0745624057

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9780745624051

Democratic Sovereignty

Authority, Legitimacy, and State in a Globalizing Age

By: Matthew S. Weinert

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Democratic Sovereignty

Authority, Legitimacy, and State in a Globalizing Age

By: Matthew S. Weinert

This new book argues that sovereignty, generally defined as the supreme authority in a political community, has a neglected democratic dimension that highlights the expansion of substantive individual rights and freedoms at home and abroad. Offering an historically based assessment of sovereignty that neither reifies the state nor argues sovereignty and the state are eroding under globalizing processes, the book maintains that sovereignty norms have continually changed throughout the history of the sovereign state. Matthew Weinert links international legal developments that restrict and coordinate sovereignty practices with an ethical undercurrent in International Relations, one such example is the creation of the International Criminal Court in 2002. Drawing on seven additional historical case studies, he outlines how campaigns informed by a commitment to the common good, or at the very least by opposition to harmful state policies, can be and have been efficacious in transforming the normative basis of sovereignty. Democratic Sovereignty will be of great interest to students working in the fields of sovereignty, international history, ethics, globalization and international relations.

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256

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Routledge

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1135982619

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9781135982614

Thinking About the Environment

Readings on Politics, Property and the Physical World

By: Matthew Alan Cahn,Rory O'Brien

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Thinking About the Environment

Readings on Politics, Property and the Physical World

By: Matthew Alan Cahn,Rory O'Brien

Underlying current controversies about environmental regulation are shared concerns, divided interests and different ways of thinking about the earth and our proper relationship to it. This book brings together writings on nature and environment that illuminate thought and action in this realm.

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304

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Routledge

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1317453700

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9781317453703

And Then... Darkness

By: Matthew Labo

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And Then... Darkness

By: Matthew Labo

Door to door census taking has it's ups and downs on any day. There's no way to know what lies behind each front door. On one afternoon, things take a particularly strange and hazardous turn for one census worker. One of the houses on the route holds dark secrets and triggers events that will never be forgotten. A short story from our Fingerprints line.

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Untreed Reads

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1611870798

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9781611870794

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Border-Crossing and Comedy at the Théâtre Italien, 1716–1723

Border-Crossing and Comedy at the Théâtre Italien, 1716–1723

Negotiating Diversity

Negotiating Diversity

Democratic Sovereignty

Democratic Sovereignty

Thinking About the Environment

Thinking About the Environment

And Then... Darkness

And Then... Darkness

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