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The Restless Compendium. Interdisciplinary Investigations of Rest and its Opposites.
. Ed(S): Callard, Felicity; Wilkes, James
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Description for The Restless Compendium. Interdisciplinary Investigations of Rest and its Opposites.
Hardback. Editor(s): Callard, Felicity; Wilkes, James. Num Pages: 205 pages, 21 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: JFSR; JHBS; MBNH9; MBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 219 x 18. Weight in Grams: 416.
This book is open access under a CC BY license.
This interdisciplinary book contains 22 essays and interventions on rest and restlessness, silence and noise, relaxation and work. It draws together approaches from artists, literary scholars, psychologists, activists, historians, geographers and sociologists who challenge assumptions about how rest operates across mind, bodies, and practices. Rest’s presence or absence affects everyone. Nevertheless, defining rest is problematic: both its meaning and what it feels like are affected by many socio-political, economic and cultural factors. The authors open up unexplored corners and experimental pathways into this complex topic, with contributions ranging from ... Read more
This book is open access under a CC BY license.
This interdisciplinary book contains 22 essays and interventions on rest and restlessness, silence and noise, relaxation and work. It draws together approaches from artists, literary scholars, psychologists, activists, historians, geographers and sociologists who challenge assumptions about how rest operates across mind, bodies, and practices. Rest’s presence or absence affects everyone. Nevertheless, defining rest is problematic: both its meaning and what it feels like are affected by many socio-political, economic and cultural factors. The authors open up unexplored corners and experimental pathways into this complex topic, with contributions ranging from ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
205
Condition
New
Number of Pages
205
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319452630
SKU
V9783319452630
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About . Ed(S): Callard, Felicity; Wilkes, James
Felicity Callard is Director of Hubbub, The Hub at Wellcome Collection, UK and Professor in Social Science for Medical Humanities at Durham University, UK. Kimberley Staines is Project Coordinator at Hubbub, The Hub at Wellcome Collection, UK and an employee of Durham University, UK, with a background in law and publishing. James Wilkes is Associate Director of Hubbub, ... Read more
Reviews for The Restless Compendium. Interdisciplinary Investigations of Rest and its Opposites.
“This book … enables its readers to encounter or assemble a rich and compelling collage of rest as a multifaceted and many-threaded phenomenon, which may suggest new questions and modes of research. For those involved in or interested in interdisciplinary collaboration, the book serves as a open document of how a large interdisciplinary collaboration might be held together, both through ... Read more