Based on more than a decade of ethnographic research, The Fourth Invasion examines an Ixil Maya community’s movement against the construction of one of the largest hydroelectric plants in Guatemala. The arrival of the Palo Viejo hydroelectric plant (built by the Italian corporation Enel Green Power) to the municipality of Cotzal highlighted the ongoing violence inflicted on Ixils by outsiders…
The original idea for this volume arose from a conference on entangled East-West histories that was held in February 2019 at the SAGAS Department of the University of Florence. Scholars from Chinese, Korean and Japanese universi-ties participated alongside colleagues from Western universities. To comple-ment the revised versions of some of those conference papers, several chapters explo…
Research in the fields of conversation analysis, ethnomethodology, and inter-actional linguistics is perhaps closest to the approach taken here, for a few rea-sons. One is that the empirical source of data is recordings of informal interaction.Another is that the units of analysis are not clauses or sentences but moves in con-versational sequences (Wootton 1981;1997;Lindström 2005;Vinkhuyzen &…
A practical easy-to-follow guide, which shows how to observe and draw portraits of children and adults - and how to capture a likeness.
This open access book gathers the contributions from the Design! OPEN International Conference, held in Parma, Italy in May 2022. The conference explored the multidisciplinary aspects of design starting from its dimensions: objects (design as focused on the object, on its functional and symbolic dimension, and at the same time on the object as a tool for representing cultures), processes (the d…
Today the demand for a sustainable clothing care system is higher than ever due to the continuous environmental impact caused by this system. When it comes to the environment (The State of Fashion 2020, 2020), the fashion industry record is well documented. Fashion accounts for 20 to 35 percent of microplastic flows into the ocean and outweighs the …