Playgrounds And Battlefields

Author : Francisco Martínez, Klemen Slabina, Mihhail Lotman, Siobhan Kattago, Kevin Ryan, Tom Frost, Flo Kasearu, Marcos Farias-Ferreira, Jaanika Puusalu, Dita Bezdíčková, Emeli Theander, Patrick Laviolette, Alastair Bonnett, Oleg Pachenkov and Lilia Voronkova, Anne Vatén, Helena Holgersson, Patricia García Espín and Manuel García Fernández, Benjamin Noys, Kristina Norman, Madli Maruste, Pille Runnel and Ehti Järv, Alessandro Testa, Sean Homer, Tarmo Jüristo
Publisher : Tallinn University Press
ISBN 13 : 998558774X
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Playgrounds And Battlefields written by Francisco Martínez, Klemen Slabina, Mihhail Lotman, Siobhan Kattago, Kevin Ryan, Tom Frost, Flo Kasearu, Marcos Farias-Ferreira, Jaanika Puusalu, Dita Bezdíčková, Emeli Theander, Patrick Laviolette, Alastair Bonnett, Oleg Pachenkov and Lilia Voronkova, Anne Vatén, Helena Holgersson, Patricia García Espín and Manuel García Fernández, Benjamin Noys, Kristina Norman, Madli Maruste, Pille Runnel and Ehti Järv, Alessandro Testa, Sean Homer, Tarmo Jüristo and published by Tallinn University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores whether the metaphors of ‘playground’ and ‘battlefield’ might be analytically meaningful terms for understanding contemporary society. The duality of playgrounds and battlefields is presented as a space of continuous becoming, related to the recreation, domination and experience of a place, as well as to corresponding practices of excess, interaction and enjoyment. We believe that a discussion about engagement and responsibility in a modern social setting is possible only through new concepts that avoid binary formulations. Playgrounds and battlefields are thus used as a trigger enabling a fresh approach to a contemporaneity that is highly influenced by the way in which societies deal with their past and future. In this sense, the ‘Playgrounds and Battlefields’ volume is a thematic one, mapping the field and offering grammar of possibility.

Author : János Nyiri
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Battlefields and Playgrounds written by János Nyiri and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : János Nyíri
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Battlefields and Playgrounds written by János Nyíri and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Emily Gwynn Erwin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Playgrounds and Battlefields written by Emily Gwynn Erwin and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Steven L. Walker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781879924031
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Civil War Parks written by Steven L. Walker and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Piet van der Byl
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780869780022
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Playgrounds to Battlefields written by Piet van der Byl and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiography of South African polititican, Piet van der Byl. From playground to battlefields deals with his early life until the end of World War I.

Author : Jennifer M. Murray
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 1621900533
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On a Great Battlefield written by Jennifer M. Murray and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the more than seventy sites associated with the Civil War era that the National Park Service manages, none hold more national appeal and recognition than Gettysburg National Military Park. Welcoming more than one million visitors annually from across the nation and around the world, the National Park Service at Gettysburg holds the enormous responsibility of preserving the war’s “hallowed ground” and educating the public, not only on the battle, but also about the Civil War as the nation’s defining moment. Although historians and enthusiasts continually add to the shelves of Gettysburg scholarship, they have paid only minimal attention to the battlefield itself and the process of preserving, interpreting, and remembering the bloodiest battle of the Civil War. In On a Great Battlefield, Jennifer M. Murray provides a critical perspective to Gettysburg historiography by offering an in-depth exploration of the national military park and how the Gettysburg battlefield has evolved since the National Park Service acquired the site in August 1933. As Murray reveals, the history of the Gettysburg battlefield underscores the complexity of preserving and interpreting a historic landscape. After a short overview of early efforts to preserve the battlefield by the Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Association (1864–1895) and the United States War Department (1895–1933), Murray chronicles the administration of the National Park Service and the multitude of external factors—including the Great Depression, the New Deal, World War II, the Civil War Centennial, and recent sesquicentennial celebrations—that influenced operations and molded Americans’ understanding of the battle and its history. Haphazard landscape practices, promotion of tourism, encouragement of recreational pursuits, ill-defined policies of preserving cultural resources, and the inevitable turnover of administrators guided by very different preservation values regularly influenced the direction of the park and the presentation of the Civil War’s popular memory. By highlighting the complicated nexus between preservation, tourism, popular culture, interpretation, and memory, On a Great Battlefield provides a unique perspective on the Mecca of Civil War landscapes. Jennifer M. Murray, assistant professor of history at the University of Virginia’s College at Wise, is the author of The Civil War Begins. Her articles have appeared in Civil War History, Civil War Times, and Civil War Times Illustrated.

Author : Lilian Peters
Publisher : Dcaf
ISBN 13 : 9789292220273
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War is no Child's Play : Child Soldiers from Battlefield to Playground written by Lilian Peters and published by Dcaf. This book was released on 2005 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Russell, Wendy
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447330048
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Practice-Based Research in Children's Play written by Russell, Wendy and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2018-03-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been a growing awareness in recent years of the importance of play in children's learning and development--but that awareness has not been accompanied by sufficient scholarly attention, outside of conceptual studies and how-to textbooks. This collection fills that gap by bringing together scholars from a range of fields and methodological approaches to look at play from a practice-based perspective. Moving beyond the dominant voice of developmental psychology, the book offers a number of new ways of approaching children's play and the roles of adults in supporting it; as a result, it will be valuable to anyone working with or studying children at play.

Author : Jim Weeks
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400832543
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gettysburg written by Jim Weeks and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The site of North America's greatest battle is a national icon, a byword for the Civil War, and an American cliché. Described as "the most American place in America," Gettysburg is defended against commercial desecration like no other historic site. Yet even as schoolchildren learn to revere the place where Lincoln delivered his most famous speech, Gettysburg's image generates millions of dollars every year from touring, souvenirs, reenactments, films, games, collecting, and the Internet. Examining Gettysburg's place in American culture, this book finds that the selling of Gettysburg is older than the shrine itself. Gettysburg entered the market not with recent interest in the Civil War nor even with twentieth-century tourism but immediately after the battle. Founded by a modern industrial society with the capacity to deliver uniform images to millions, Gettysburg, from the very beginning, reflected the nation's marketing trends as much as its patriotism. Gettysburg's pilgrims--be they veterans, families on vacation, or Civil War reenactors--have always been modern consumers escaping from the world of work and responsibility even as they commemorate. And it is precisely this commodification of sacred ground, this tension between commerce and commemoration, that animates Gettysburg's popularity. Gettysburg continues to be a current rather than a past event, a site that reveals more about ourselves as Americans than the battle it remembers. Gettysburg is, as it has been since its famous battle, both a cash cow and a revered symbol of our most deeply held values.