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ItemThe Arts Funding Divide: Would ‘Cultural Rights’ Produce a Fairer Approach?(Routledge, 2019-10-11)It seems that the funding of arts practice is always a contested domain, whatever political view or system is dominant. In some contexts, for example, there is no government support for the funding of arts practice, while in others there are different interpretations of what this entails. In most forms of government, several sectors of society (agriculture, mining, manufacturing and sport) receive government subsidies. In a capitalist state this is sometimes described as ‘welfare capitalism’. However, those opposed to the government funding of arts practice believe the arts should not be included in this framing because they are regarded as ‘non-essential’ (Bell and Oakley, 2015; Brabham, 2017; Brooks, 2001). Thus, in this framing the arts and cultural sector is not seen as a fundamental component of society and government support of the arts is seen as an indulgence and not a necessity.
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ItemWomen and Arts Leadership(Routledge, 2018)Women are the major consumers of most arts practices, yet they are generally less visible than men in arts leadership roles. This chapter explores the issues and challenges around women in the arts and in arts leadership in different artforms. Judy b. Rosener argues that the expectations of women and men in the workplace are different because of long-term social conditioning. Exploring issues around gender and arts leadership is important because it relates to cultural, economic and social issues connected with both art and society. The invisibility of women as leaders in the arts is evidenced by who are recognized as the leaders of arts practice and the leaders of major arts institutions across the globe. Women are certainly visible as leaders of small to medium arts organizations in various artforms, but as the organizations become bigger or more important, the presence of women at the top diminishes.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableFrom entanglement to equanimity: an application of a holistic healing approach into social work practice with infertile couples(Taylor & Francis, 2017-04-07)This international volume provides a comprehensive account of contemporary research, new perspectives and cutting-edge issues surrounding religion and spirituality in social work.
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ItemContinuous Flow Synthesis of Conjugated Polymers and Carbon Materials(WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH, 2017)The basic equipment associated with the synthesis of chemicals in the laboratory has remained essentially unchanged since the establishment of chemistry as a scientific discipline. Most techniques and apparatus are optimized for batch-by-batch processes. These traditional batch techniques have the benefit of familiar and time-tested methodology and low up-front cost, and therefore the shift to more modern apparatus requires some additional motivating factors. Continuous flow processing is a technique which involves a nontrivial initial investment of both time and finances, but which offers significant benefits to synthetic chemists. Continuous flow processing has been increasing in prominence in the research laboratory setting in the last decade, and a number of research groups now specialize in the development of methods for flow processing. This progress is buoyed by the commercial availability of the associated equipment, which can now be purchased from several vendors.
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ItemAggregation-induced emitters in light harvesting(Springer, 2019)Light harvesting is an integral part of energy conversion of sunlight into chemicals and electricity. In this chapter, the application of materials with aggregation-induced emission properties in artificial photosynthesis and photon refining technologies is summarized and discussed. In artificial photosynthesis, aggregation-induced emitters enable efficient energy transfer in self-assembled arrays. Thin film luminescent solar concentrators have also been made possible by aggregation-induced emitters as high concentrations of these chromophores can be used in such devices. Aggregates are also important in photon upconversion where proximity of chromophores enables efficient triplet energy transfer and triplet-triplet annihilation processes.
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ItemMoving Songs: Repatriating Audiovisual Recordings of Aboriginal Australian Dance and Song (Kimberley Region, Northwestern Australia)(Oxford University Press, 2019)Repatriation has become almost ubiquitous in ethnomusicological research on Australian Indigenous song. This article provides insights into processes of a repatriation-centered song revitalization project in the Kimberley, northwest Australia. Authored by an ethnomusicologist and two members of the Ngarinyin cultural heritage community, the article provides firsthand accounts of the early phases of a long-term repatriation-centered project referred to locally as the Junba Project. The authors provide a sample of narratives and dialogues that deliver insight into experiences of the work of identifying recordings “in the archive” and cultural negotiation and use of recordings “on Country.” The entanglement of local epistemological frameworks with past and present collection, archival research, repatriation, and dissemination for intergenerational knowledge transmission between spirits, Country, and the living, is explored, showing how recordings move song knowledge from community to archive to community and from generation to generation, and move people in present-day communities. The chapter considers how these “moving songs” allow an interrogation of the fraught endeavor of intercultural collaboration in the pursuit of revitalizing Indigenous song traditions. It positions repatriation as a method that can support intergenerational knowledge transmission and as a method to consider past and present intercultural relationships within research projects and between cultural heritage communities and collecting institutions.
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ItemNo Preview AvailablePainted Larnakes of the Late Minoan III Period: Funerary Iconography and the Stimulation of Memory(Peeters Publishers, 2019)
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ItemNo Preview AvailableSoutheast Asian oil paintings: supports and preparatory layers(Archetype Books, 2008)
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ItemNo Preview AvailableBeginning anew: Exceptional institutions and the politics of ritual(Routledge, 2017)This chapter makes a case for treating exceptional institutions as sui generis. It takes a critical look at exceptional institutions as 'transformative rituals' and reflects on how far the analogy between transition and revolution can to be pressed. Though the codification of the Nuremberg principles into international law has done a great deal to legitimate it retrospectively, the mist of arbitrariness surrounding the international criminal tribunal as an institution has never quite lifted and continues to plague subsequent iterations in Yugoslavia and Rwanda. Looked at from a political perspective, this appropriation of the revolutionary notion of the 'new beginning' for transitional settings has an inherently ambiguous quality. The chapter argues that the injustices of the past live on after the 'transformative event' and require political communities to sustain a 'work of memory' – a work, that is, of continually sifting through the past and digesting its significance with respect to keeping faith with the promise of 'never again'.
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