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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Taylor & Francis | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9781003331643 , 9781000812145 , 9781032316956 , 9781032363806
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (423 p.)
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Religion
    DDC: 305.69609421
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1990-2020 ; Juden ; Muslim ; Religion & beliefs ; Comparative religion ; London ; Amsterdam ; bilateral relations;conflict;cooperation;Jewish-Muslim;religion;religious studies
    Abstract: This book focuses on the development of bilateral Jewish-Muslim relations in London and Amsterdam since the late-1980s. It offers a comparative analysis that considers both similarities and differences, drawing on historical, social scientific, and religious studies perspectives. The authors address how Jewish-Muslim relations are related to the historical and contemporary context in which they are embedded, the social identity strategies Jews and Muslims and their institutions employ, and their perceived mutual positions in terms of identity and power. The first section reflects on the history and current profile of Jewish and Muslim communities in London and Amsterdam and the development of relations between Jews andMuslims in both cities. The second section engages with sources of conflict and cooperation. Four specific areas that cause tension are explored: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; antisemitism and Islamophobia; attacks by extremists; and the commemoration of wars and genocides. In addition to ‘trigger events’, what stands out is the influence of historical factors, public opinion, the ‘mainstream’ Christian churches and the media, along with the role of government. The volume will be of interest to scholars from fields including religious studies, interfaith studies, Jewish studies, Islamic studies, urban studies, European studies, and social sciences as well as members of the communities concerned, other religious communities, journalists, politicians, and teachers who are interested in Jewish-Muslim relations.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : transcript Verlag | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9783839454138 , 9783837654134
    Language: English
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    Keywords: Schwarze ; Kollektives Gedächtnis ; Antirassismus ; Aktivismus ; Postkolonialismus ; European history ; Europa ; History ; Europe
    Abstract: Black communities have been making major contributions to Europe's social and cultural life and landscapes for centuries. However, their achievements largely remain unrecognized by the dominant societies, as their perspectives are excluded from traditional modes of marking public memory. For the first time in European history, leading Black scholars and activists examine this issue - with first-hand knowledge of the eight European capitals in which they live. Highlighting existing monuments, memorials, and urban markers they discuss collective narratives, outline community action, and introduce people and places relevant to Black European history, which continues to be obscured today.
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    ISBN: 9781789906769
    Language: English
    DDC: 303.4833
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    Keywords: Informationstechnik ; Soziologie ; JFFP ; Digital skills; ICT literacy; Socioeconomic status inequality; Educational inequality; Primary school; Secondary school; Digital divide; Germany
    Abstract: Information and communications technology (ICT) skills are crucial for labour market success and full participation in society. Socioeconomic status (SES) inequality in the development of ICT skills would prevent disadvantaged children from reaping the benefits of the digital age. Besides, the digital divide in ICT literacy might add to the already well-documented large and persistent SES inequality in ‘hard’ skills—like math, reading, and science. This chapter studies the roots, evolution, and drivers of SES inequality in ICT literacy from age 8 to 15 in Germany. Drawing from the German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS), we highlight five main findings: (1) SES gaps in ICT literacy exist as early as age 8 (grade 3) and are similar in size compared to SES gaps in hard skills; (2) like hard skills, SES gaps in ICT literacy remain stable over primary and tracked lower secondary schooling; (3) ICT access and use at home and school do not substantially explain SES gaps in ICT literacy at any age; (4) selection into school tracks seems a critical pathway, although not necessarily a causal one, leading to SES inequality in secondary school; (5) SES gaps in ICT literacy are not observed among children with similar levels of hard skills. We discuss the implications of these findings for the interdisciplinary literature on social stratification, skill formation, and the digital divide.
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    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9781789906769
    Language: English
    DDC: 303.4833
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    Keywords: Informationstechnik ; Soziologie ; JFFP ; Digital campaigning; Political parties; Political campaigns; Campaigning; Data-driven campaigning; Digital parties; Platforms; Public arena
    Abstract: Digital media have become important elements of political parties and campaign organizations all over the world. Examples from U.S. presidential campaigns dominate the public imagination of digital campaigning. At the same time, it is important to recognize that the uses of digital media in politics vary considerably depending on campaign contexts and resources. This makes necessary the analysis of the use of digital media by parties and campaign organizations in varying temporal and international contexts instead of expecting the examples from the U.S. to apply globally. The chapter will proceed by a discussion of some of the dominant theoretical and empirical approaches to the study of digital campaigning. Following this, the chapter will use a framework focused on campaign functions for the discussion of digital campaigning: The impact of digital media on organizational structures and work routines, resource collection and allocation, achieving presence in communication spaces and reach to audiences of interest, and the use of digital media as a symbol for professionalism and innovation of parties and their candidates.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : University of Michigan Press | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9780472076383 , 9780472056385
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (217 Seiten)
    DDC: 306.09561
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    Keywords: Informelle Institution ; Politics & government ; Political structure & processes ; International institutions ; institutional theory, informal institutions, typology of informal institutions, symbiotic informal institutions, superseding informal institutions, layered informal institutions, subversive informal institutions, religious marriage, the Cem courts, religious minority holidays, multilingual municipalism, civil law, conflict resolution, minority rights, local governance, ethnic and religious minorities, Kurdish movement, Alevi minority, non-Muslims, survey research, interviews, focus groups
    Abstract: In How Informal Institutions Matter, Zeki Sarigil examines the role of informal institutions in sociopolitical life and addresses the following questions: Why and how do informal institutions emerge? To ask this differently, why do agents still create or resort to informal institutions despite the presence of formal institutional rules and regulations? How do informal institutions matter? What roles do they play in sociopolitical life? How can we classify informal institutions? What novel types of informal institutions can we identify and explain? How do informal institutions interact with formal institutions? How do they shape formal institutional rules, mechanisms, and outcomes? Finally, how do existing informal institutions change? What factors might trigger informal institutional change? In order to answer these questions, Sarigil examines several empirical cases of informal institution as derived from various issue areas in the Turkish sociopolitical context (i.e., civil law, conflict resolution, minority rights, and local governance) and from multiple levels (i.e., national and local).
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    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9781800377509
    Language: English
    DDC: 304.82
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    Keywords: Illegale Einwanderung ; Migration ; Flüchtlingspolitik ; Internationaler Vergleich ; JFFN ; Sanfei; China; Residence registration; Immigration policy; Placemaking; Law enforcement
    Abstract: This chapter explores the fuzzy boundaries of who is an irregular migrant in China, and how the latent threat of being cast as irregular influences the lives of migrants. The shorthand for irregular migration in China is "three illegals” (san fei), which comprises unlawful entry, residence, and work. Drawing upon data about different groups of migrants in China, including traders, students, marriage migrants, and returnees, the chapter discusses how foreigners in China are continuously at risk of having their status changed from “legal” to “illegal”. This transition can result from national or local changes in law enforcement or from idiosyncratic events, such as residents reporting migrants in the wake of, for example, conflicts between migrant tenants and landlords or international students and university administrators. Policies and enforcement practices to regulate international migration in the People's Republic of China today build on past and current methods to control internal migration.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Leuven University Press | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9789461665102
    Language: English
    DDC: 305.697094
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    Keywords: Islamfeindlichkeit ; Radikalisierung ; Medien ; Social discrimination & inequality ; Europa ; Kanada ; Social discrimination & equal treatment
    Abstract: Foundations and mechanisms of Islamophobia in the WestIslamophobia as a Form of Radicalisation discusses the scope and fragmented boundaries of Islamophobia as a concept and a sociopolitical reality. The fifteen chapters of this collection cover and connect interdisciplinary research, media content analysis, media discourse analysis, ethnographic research, intersectoral advocacy work, and action research conducted in Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Poland, Portugal, and Spain. Confronted with an Islamophobia that is growing as a symptom of broader societal malaise in the West, a resistance against it is also arising. It is now a question of better understanding the foundations and mechanisms of this metasolidarity and resistance. Islamophobia as a Form of Radicalisation offers recommendations for urgent consideration by Muslim citizens of Canada and Europe, media professionals, civil society and academic stakeholders, policymakers at the municipal, provincial and federal levels.Contributors: Abdelwahed Mekki-Berrada (Laval University), Alexander Van Leuven (KU Leuven), Alfonso Corral (San Jorge University), Alfredo Brant (Catholic University of Portugal), Anna Flora Machado (Catholic University of Portugal), Anabelle Vanier-Clément (SHERPA University Institute), Ann Trappers (Foyer VZW), Ans De Nolf (KU Leuven), Antonio Prieto-Andrés (San Jorge University), Ashley S. Montgomery (Concordia University), Camila Arêas (University of Reunion), Cayetano Fernández (San Jorge University), Cécile Rousseau (McGill University), Colin Robineau (University of Reunion), David De Coninck (KU Leuven), Erkan Toguslu (KU Leuven), Helena Cruz Ventura (University Institute of Lisbon), Jennifer A. Selby (Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador), Jihène Hichri (Université du Québec à Montreal), Joanna Sozańska (Warsaw School of Economics), Katarzyna Górak-Sosnowska (Warsaw School of Economics), Leen d’Haenens (KU Leuven), Luis Manuel Hernández Aguilar (European University Viadrina Frankfurt Oder), Rawda Harb (Concordia University), Salam El-Majzoub (McGill University), Sobia Shaheen Shaikh (Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador), Stefan Mertens (KU Leuven), Vivek Venkatesh (Concordia University)Ebook available in Open Access.This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).
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    ISBN: 9781789906769
    Language: English
    DDC: 303.4833
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    Keywords: Informationstechnik ; Soziologie ; JFFP ; Digital inequalities; Digital divides; Adolescence; Well-being and mental health; Socioeconomic background; Gender; Cross-national comparison
    Abstract: This chapters addresses digital inequalities in young people’s daily lives and well-being. The chapter examines how adolescents’ digital engagement differs across family socioeconomic status (SES) and gender, and how it relates to their mental health outcomes. Analyses use longitudinal data from the Growing Up in Ireland study from age 9 to 18, combined with cross-national data from the Health Behaviour in School-Aged survey on adolescents aged 11-15 across 35 industrialised countries. Longitudinal analyses reveal that low-SES adolescents and girls experience higher mental health problems as they increase their time using digital devices, compared to high-SES adolescents and boys. Cross-national analyses indicate that, while boys spend more time in digital activities, girls are at higher risks of experiencing mental health problems from engaging with digital activities. However, the magnitude of these gendered patterns differs markedly across national contexts. Cross-country comparisons on SES yield mixed results: in some countries low-SES adolescents are mentally more harmed by their digital engagement (i.e., Switzerland, Austria, Norway), but in other countries high-SES adolescents are those at higher mental health risks from using digital devices (i.e., Portugal, Czech Republic, Bulgaria). The chapter findings are discussed within the existing literature on digital inequalities and young people’s well-being.
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    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9781789906769
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    Keywords: Informationstechnik ; Soziologie ; JFFP ; Digital trace data; Computational social science; Big data; Process generated data; Social media
    Abstract: Digital data on human behaviour and social interactions are a seemingly abundant and valuable resource of the twenty-first century, promising deep insights into the social processes generating them. Such data - commonly referred to as digital trace data, process-generated data, or digital behavioural data - are increasingly available to us, but the goal of unlocking their potential remains elusive despite the emergence of specialized fields such as computational social science, which has produced an ample body of research based on this resource. Achieving that goal requires revisiting the foundations of research based on this data type, a thorough understanding of its unique characteristics, overcoming access barriers, understanding data generating processes, and rethinking the role of theory at the intersection between computer science and social science. This chapter discusses the origin and characteristics of such data, as well as the interdisciplinary challenges researchers face in accessing, understanding, and using it for research.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : University of Michigan Press | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9780472903771 , 9780472076383
    Language: English
    DDC: 306.09561
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    Keywords: Informelle Institution ; Politics & government ; Political structure & processes ; International institutions ; Political Science ; Middle East Studies ; International Relations
    Abstract: In How Informal Institutions Matter, Zeki Sarigil examines the role of informal institutions in sociopolitical life and addresses the following questions: Why and how do informal institutions emerge? To ask this differently, why do agents still create or resort to informal institutions despite the presence of formal institutional rules and regulations? How do informal institutions matter? What roles do they play in sociopolitical life? How can we classify informal institutions? What novel types of informal institutions can we identify and explain? How do informal institutions interact with formal institutions? How do they shape formal institutional rules, mechanisms, and outcomes? Finally, how do existing informal institutions change? What factors might trigger informal institutional change? In order to answer these questions, Sarigil examines several empirical cases of informal institution as derived from various issue areas in the Turkish sociopolitical context (i.e., civil law, conflict resolution, minority rights, and local governance) and from multiple levels (i.e., national and local).
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    Leuven : Leuven University Press | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9789461665096 , 9789462703698 , 9789461665102 , 9789462701588
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (273 p.)
    DDC: 305.697094
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    Keywords: Islamfeindlichkeit ; Radikalisierung ; Medien ; Social discrimination & inequality ; Islam ; Media studies ; Europa ; Kanada ; Islamophobia;radicalisation;racism;discrimination;hate speech;semantics;safe spaces;education;media;securitisation;collective anxiety ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Foundations and mechanisms of Islamophobia in the West. Islamophobia as a Form of Radicalisation discusses the scope and fragmented boundaries of Islamophobia as a concept and a sociopolitical reality. The fifteen chapters of this collection cover and connect interdisciplinary research, media content analysis, media discourse analysis, ethnographic research, intersectoral advocacy work, and action research conducted in Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Poland, Portugal, and Spain. Confronted with an Islamophobia that is growing as a symptom of broader societal malaise in the West, a resistance against it is also arising. It is now a question of better understanding the foundations and mechanisms of this metasolidarity and resistance. Islamophobia as a Form of Radicalisation offers recommendations for urgent consideration by Muslim citizens of Canada and Europe, media professionals, civil society and academic stakeholders, policymakers at the municipal, provincial and federal levels.
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    London : UCL Press | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9781800085039 , 9781800085046 , 9781800085053 , 9781800085060 , 9781787355279 , 9781787356184 , 9781787357778 , 9781800081185
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (235 p.)
    DDC: 956.910423
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    Keywords: Unruhen ; Aufruhr ; Diskontinuität ; Wandel ; Gesellschaft ; Politik ; Populismus ; Umsturz ; Gewalt ; Terrorismus ; Sociology ; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography ; Social issues & processes ; Political control & freedoms ; Political activism ; Political corruption ; revolution;migration;Syria;ethnography;Assad regime;displacement ; Konferenzschrift University College London 2017
    Abstract: Waiting for the Revolution to End explores the Syrian revolution through the experiences of citizens in exile. Based on more than three years of embedded fieldwork with Syrians displaced in the border city of Gaziantep (southern Turkey), the book places the Syrian revolution and its tragic aftermath under ethnographic scrutiny. It charts the evolution from peaceful uprising (2011) to armed confrontation (2012), descent into fully fledged conflict (2013) and finally to proxy war (2015), to propose an understanding of revolution beyond success and failure. While the Assad regime remains in place, the Syrian revolution (al-thawra) still holds a transformational power that can be located on intimate and world-making scales. Charlotte Al-Khalili traces the unintended consequences of revolution and its unexpected consequences to reveal the reshaping of Syrian life-worlds and exiles’ evolving theorizations, experiences and imaginations of al-thawra. She describes the in-between spatio-temporal realm inhabited by Syrians displaced to Turkey as they await the revolution’s outcomes, and maps the revolution’s multidimensional and multi-scalar effects on their everyday life. By following the chronology of events inside Syria and Syrians’ geography of displacement, the book makes the relation between revolution and displacement its centerpiece, both as an ethnographic object and an analytical device. Praise for Waiting for the Revolution to End 'Waiting for the Revolution to End is essential reading for scholars and students wanting to understand the temporal and affective orientations at play in the aftermath of the Syrian revolution. Al-Khalili presents a lucid ethnography of revolutionary hopes, defeat, and displacement hereby offering a sustained theoretical engagement with the social, political and religious forces that undergird Syrian existence.' Andreas Bandak, University of Copenhagen 'Although so much has been said about the Syrian revolution, surprisingly little has been written about what it did to the selves, hopes, and lives of those who joined it but were defeated. Waiting for the Revolution to End is a very important and urgently needed contribution that tells the story of the revolution as it is understood by ordinary Syrians who turned into revolutionaries by participating in the uprising from its beginnings in 2011 and 2012, when the possibility of a non-violent overcoming of a violent regime still appeared within reach. Writing through the experience of living among displaced Syrians in Gaziantep, Al-Khalili tells us something that political analyses from above so often miss: the transformational power of participation in the revolution, and the cosmogonic change it effected in the minds and lives of people while they were tragically defeated. Speaking of defeat rather than failure of Syrian revolutionaries, Waiting for the Revolution to End *weaves a rich, emphatic, convincing, tragic yet also hopeful story of the possibility of dignity.' Samuli Schielke, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient 'Charlotte Al-Khalili’s stunning and moving ethnography is a landmark in the study of revolution, social change and mobility. Through an extraordinary portrayal of the lives, hopes and fears of Syria’s exiled revolutionaries in their “capital”, Al-Khalili transforms understandings of how migration shapes revolutionary subjectivity, how grassroots revolutionary activists theorize revolutionary outcomes, and how revolutionaries reorganize families and networks to keep ideals of social transformation alive.’ Alice Wilson, University of Sussex...
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Taylor & Francis | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9780367724276 , 9780367724306
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (20 p.)
    DDC: 302.30285
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    Keywords: Industrial arbitration & negotiation ; Migration, immigration & emigration ; Migration; labour market; Russia; China
    Abstract: This chapter focuses on one Russian province, the Irkutsk Oblast, which due to its location has become a trans-shipment point for legal and illegal migration of the Chinese, as well as a place of their settling, permanent residence and business activities. It asks how new social networks, namely WeChat, help to attract Chinese workers. Using the concept of migration infrastructure, the chapter accounts for the features of the WeChat social organisation, which prevents the political/social integration of the diaspora in general, but strengthens informal practices and, most importantly, 'containerises' the flow of Chinese labour.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Taylor & Francis | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9781003154754 , 9780367724276 , 9780367724306
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    Keywords: Industrial arbitration & negotiation ; Migration, immigration & emigration ; Migration; labour market; Russia; China
    Abstract: WeChat (the international version of Weixin), launched in 2012, has rapidly become the most favoured Chinese social media. Globally available, equally popular both inside and outside China and widely adopted by Chinese migrants, WeChat has fundamentally changed the ways in which Mandarin-speaking migrants conduct personal messaging, engage in group communication and community business activities, produce and distribute news, and access and share information. This book explores a wide range of issues connected to the ways in which WeChat works and is used, across the world among the newest members of the Chinese diaspora. Arguing that digital/social media afford a great degree of individual agency, as well as a collective capacity for sustaining an ‘imagined community’, the book shows how WeChat’s assemblage of infrastructure and regulatory frameworks, technical capabilities, content and sense of community has led to the construction of a particular kind of diasporic Chinese world, at a time marked both by China’s rise, and anxiety about Chinese influence in the West.
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    ISBN: 9783037772454
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (155 p.)
    Series Statement: Gender Issues
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    Keywords: Geschlechterforschung ; Geschlecht ; Gewalt ; Widerstand ; Sociology ; Violence, resistance, gender
    Abstract: Violence is a persistent element of modern history and it always has been gendered. Today’s violent times have politicized and mobilized new publics, generated creative forms of resistance, incited the most unlikely coalitions, and emboldened to live life differently. The systemic use of rape as a strategy in war fare, nationalism, and settler colonialism, the persistency of intimate partner violence, and the increasingly open racist, sexist, transphobic, and homophobic discrimination are just a few examples of violence’s omnipresent gender dimension. The contributions of this volume analyse violence and multiple forms of resistance from an interdisciplinary gender perspective. They show that violence is not just a central and powerful structuring principle of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, race, and class, but that it is also part of the fabric of nation states and structures all social relations. In addition, the contributions depict manifold strategies and tactics of confronting gendered violence.
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    Cambridge : The MIT Press | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9780262369138 , 9780262046770
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (280 p.)
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    Keywords: Gay & Lesbian studies ; Advertising & society ; Gay and Lesbian studies / LGBTQ studies ; Media studies
    Abstract: An exploration of how heteronormative bias is deeply embedded in the internet, hidden in algorithms, keywords, content moderation, and more. In The Digital Closet, Alexander Monea argues provocatively that the internet became straight by suppressing everything that is not, forcing LGBTQIA+ content into increasingly narrow channels—rendering it invisible through opaque algorithms, automated and human content moderation, warped keywords, and other strategies of digital overreach. Monea explains how the United States' thirty-year “war on porn” has brought about the over-regulation of sexual content, which, in turn, has resulted in the censorship of much nonpornographic content—including material on sex education and LGBTQ+ activism. In this wide-ranging, enlightening account, Monea examines the cultural, technological, and political conditions that put LGBTQ+ content into the closet. Monea looks at the anti-porn activism of the alt-right, Christian conservatives, and anti-porn feminists, who became strange bedfellows in the politics of pornography; investigates the coders, code, and moderators whose work serves to reify heteronormativity; and explores the collateral damage in the ongoing war on porn—the censorship of LGBTQIA+ community resources, sex education materials, art, literature, and other content that engages with sexuality but would rarely be categorized as pornography by today's community standards. Finally, he examines the internet architectures responsible for the heteronormalization of porn: Google Safe Search and the data structures of tube sites and other porn platforms. Monea reveals the porn industry's deepest, darkest secret: porn is boring. Mainstream porn is stuck in a heteronormative filter bubble, limited to the same heteronormative tropes, tagged by the same heteronormative keywords. This heteronormativity is mirrored by the algorithms meant to filter pornographic content, increasingly filtering out all LGBTQIA+ content. Everyone suffers from this forced heteronormativity of the internet—suffering, Monea suggests, that could be alleviated by queering straightness and introducing feminism to dissipate the misogyny.
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9780197267080
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (215 p.)
    Series Statement: British Academy Monographs
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Migration ; Teilhabe ; Vigilantism Citizen participation in policing Securitisation Social reaction to migration Anti-migrant groups Far-right social movements Calais Dover Neighbourhood watches ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFH Migration, immigration and emigration ; thema EDItEUR::5 Interest qualifiers::5P Relating to specific groups and cultures or social and cultural interests::5PB Relating to peoples: ethnic groups, indigenous peoples, cultures and other groupings of people::5PBC Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFG Refugees and political asylum
    Abstract: Towards a Vigilant Society sheds light on the emergence of a new society of vigilance, in particular the actions of anti-migrant groups around Dover and Calais. Based on field research on both sides of the channel, it studies the dynamics of these groups – midway between a social movement and vigilantism – at these two key points in the international migration route between the European Union and the United Kingdom. In recent years, a series of anti-migrant groups have been mobilising on both sides of the Channel to counter migrations. Their actions range from demonstrations, to violence against migrants. And by staging their actions on social media, which is an extraordinary sounding board, these groups can build an online community and a mass audience, influencing public opinion and even the migration policies of states.
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    Cambridge : The MIT Press | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9780262368865 , 9780262046664
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (200 p.)
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    Keywords: Advertising & society ; Machine learning ; Algorithms & data structures ; Media studies ; Artificial intelligence ; Algorithms and data structures ; Electronic books
    Abstract: A proposal that we think about digital technologies such as machine learning not in terms of artificial intelligence but as artificial communication. Algorithms that work with deep learning and big data are getting so much better at doing so many things that it makes us uncomfortable. How can a device know what our favorite songs are, or what we should write in an email? Have machines become too smart? In Artificial Communication, Elena Esposito argues that drawing this sort of analogy between algorithms and human intelligence is misleading. If machines contribute to social intelligence, it will not be because they have learned how to think like us but because we have learned how to communicate with them. Esposito proposes that we think of “smart” machines not in terms of artificial intelligence but in terms of artificial communication. To do this, we need a concept of communication that can take into account the possibility that a communication partner may be not a human being but an algorithm—which is not random and is completely controlled, although not by the processes of the human mind. Esposito investigates this by examining the use of algorithms in different areas of social life. She explores the proliferation of lists (and lists of lists) online, explaining that the web works on the basis of lists to produce further lists; the use of visualization; digital profiling and algorithmic individualization, which personalize a mass medium with playlists and recommendations; and the implications of the “right to be forgotten.” Finally, she considers how photographs today seem to be used to escape the present rather than to preserve a memory.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : transcript Verlag | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9783839454336
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    Keywords: Diskurs ; Fleischverbrauch ; Fleischwirtschaft ; Verhaltensmodifikation ; Ernährungsgewohnheit ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Praxis ; Political science & theory ; Political structures: democracy ; Environmental policy & protocols ; Political Science ; History & Theory ; Political Science ; Political Ideologies ; Democracy ; Political Science ; Public Policy ; Environmental Policy ; Hochschulschrift
    Abstract: Social practice theories help to challenge the often hidden paradigms, worldviews, and values at the basis of many unsustainable practices. Discourses and their boundaries define what is seen as possible, as well as the range of issues and their solutions. By exploring the connections between practices and discourses, Minna Kanerva develops a conceptual approach enabling purposive change in unsustainable social practices. Radical transformation towards new meatways is arguably necessary, yet complex psychological, ideological, and power-related mechanisms currently inhibit change.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Taylor & Francis | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9780429024160 , 9780367109844 , 9780367685102 , 9780429024160
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    Keywords: Military history ; Politics & government ; International relations ; actors; bodies; discourses; feminism; gender; institutions; peace
    Abstract: "This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of feminist approaches to questions of violence, justice, and peace. The volume argues that critical feminist thinking is necessary to analyse core peace and conflict issues and is fundamental to thinking about solutions to global problems and promoting peaceful conflict transformation. Contributions to the volume consider questions at the intersection of feminism, gender, peace, justice, and violence through interdisciplinary perspectives. The handbook engages with multiple feminisms, diverse policy concerns, and works with diverse theoretical and methodological contributions. The volume covers the gendered nature of five major themes: • Methodologies and genealogies (including theories, concepts, histories, methodologies) • Politics, power, and violence (including the ways in which violence is created, maintained, and reproduced, and the gendered dynamics of its instantiations) • Institutional and societal interventions to promote peace (including those by national, regional, and international organisations, and civil society or informal groups/bodies) • Bodies, sexualities, and health (including sexual health, biopolitics, sexual orientation) • Global inequalities (including climate change, aid, global political economy). This handbook will be of great interest to students of peace and conflict studies, security studies, feminist studies, gender studies, international relations, and politics."...
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    Leuven : Leuven University Press | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9789461663993 , 9789058679062 , 9789461661258
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (199 p.)
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    Keywords: Migration ; Society & culture: general ; Migration, immigration & emigration ; Afrika ; Naher Osten ; migration; imaginations; expectations; motivations ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: "Although contemporary migration in and from Africa can be understood as a continuation of earlier forms of interregional and international migration, current processes of migration seem to have taken on a new quality. This volume argues that one of the main reasons for this is the fact that local worlds are increasingly measured against a set of possibilities whose referents are global, not local. Due to this globalization of the personal and societal horizons of possibilities in Africa and elsewhere, in many contexts migration gains an almost inevitable attraction while, at the same time, actual migration becomes increasingly restricted. Based on detailed ethnographic accounts, the contributors to this volume focus on the imaginations, expectations, and motivations that propel the pursuit of migration. Decentring the focus of much of migration studies on the ‘receiving societies', the volume foregrounds the subjective aspect of migration and explores the impact which the imagination and practice of migration have on the sociocultural conditions of the various local settings concerned. that happens between text and context when works of children’s literature are translated. What contexts of production and reception account for how translated children’s books come to be made and read as they are? How are translated children’s books adapted to suit the context of a new culture? Spanning the disciplines of Children’s Literature Studies and Translation Studies, this book brings together established and emerging voices to provide an overview of the analytical, empirical and geographic richness of current research in this field and to identify and reflect on common insights, analytical perspectives and trajectories for future interdisciplinary research. This volume will appeal to an interdisciplinary audience of scholars and students in Translation Studies and Children’s Literature Studies and related disciplines. It has a broad geographic and cultural scope, with contributions dealing with translated children’s literature in the United Kingdom, the United States, Ireland, Spain, France, Brazil, Poland, Slovenia, Hungary, China, the former Yugoslavia, Sweden, Germany, and Belgium."...
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Taylor & Francis | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9780367109844 , 9780367685102
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    Keywords: Military history ; Politics & government ; International relations ; Peace studies & conflict resolution ; Political control & freedoms ; Warfare & defence ; Feminism & feminist theory ; Gender studies, gender groups ; actors; bodies; discourses; feminism; gender; institutions; peace
    Abstract: "This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of feminist approaches to questions of violence, justice, and peace. The volume argues that critical feminist thinking is necessary to analyse core peace and conflict issues and is fundamental to thinking about solutions to global problems and promoting peaceful conflict transformation. Contributions to the volume consider questions at the intersection of feminism, gender, peace, justice, and violence through interdisciplinary perspectives. The handbook engages with multiple feminisms, diverse policy concerns, and works with diverse theoretical and methodological contributions. The volume covers the gendered nature of five major themes: • Methodologies and genealogies (including theories, concepts, histories, methodologies) • Politics, power, and violence (including the ways in which violence is created, maintained, and reproduced, and the gendered dynamics of its instantiations) • Institutional and societal interventions to promote peace (including those by national, regional, and international organisations, and civil society or informal groups/bodies) • Bodies, sexualities, and health (including sexual health, biopolitics, sexual orientation) • Global inequalities (including climate change, aid, global political economy). This handbook will be of great interest to students of peace and conflict studies, security studies, feminist studies, gender studies, international relations, and politics."...
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    London : University of Westminster Press | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9781914386015 , 9781914386022 , 9781914386039 , 9781914386008
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (261 p.)
    DDC: 114
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    Keywords: Anthropozän ; Insel ; Anthropology ; Critical care surgery ; Environmental factors ; Human geography ; Northern Scotland, Highlands & Islands ; Human growth & development ; Epistemology ; Ontology ; Entanglements ; Relationality ; Islands ; Anthropocene
    Abstract: A must read … a new analytical agenda for the Anthropocene, coherently drawing out the power of thinking with islands.' – Elena Burgos Martinez, Leiden University ‘This is an essential book. [The] analytics they propose … offer both a critical agenda for island studies and compass points through which to navigate the haunting past, troubling present, and precarious future.’ – Craig Santos Perez, University of Hawai’i, Manoa ‘All academic books should be like this: hard to put down. Informative, careful, sometimes devasting, yet absolutely necessary - if you read one book about the Anthropocene let it be this. You will never think of islands in the same way again.’ – Kimberley Peters, University of Oldenburg ‘ … a unique journey into the Anthropocene. Critical, generous and compelling’. — Nigel Clark, Lancaster University The island has become a key figure of the Anthropocene – an epoch in which human entanglements with nature come increasingly to the fore. For a long time, islands were romanticised or marginalised, seen as lacking modernity’s capacities for progress, vulnerable to the effects of catastrophic climate change and the afterlives of empire and coloniality. Today, however, the island is increasingly important for both policy-oriented and critical imaginaries that seek, more positively, to draw upon the island’s liminal and disruptive capacities, especially the relational entanglements and sensitivities its peoples and modes of life are said to exhibit. Anthropocene Islands: Entangled Worlds explores the significant and widespread shift to working with islands for the generation of new or alternative approaches to knowledge, critique and policy practices. It explains how contemporary Anthropocene thinking takes a particular interest in islands as ‘entangled worlds’, which break down the human/nature divide of modernity and enable the generation of new or alternative approaches to ways of being (ontology) and knowing (epistemology). The book draws out core analytics which have risen to prominence (Resilience, Patchworks, Correlation and Storiation) as contemporary policy makers, scholars, critical theorists, artists, poets and activists work with islands to move beyond the constraints of modern approaches. In doing so, it argues that engaging with islands has become increasingly important for the generation of some of the core frameworks of contemporary thinking and concludes with a new critical agenda for the Anthropocene.
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    London : Open Humanities Press | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9781785420962 , 9781785420979
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    Keywords: Theosophy & Anthroposophy ; The environment ; hyposubjects ; anthropocene
    Abstract: The time of hypersubjects is ending. Their desert-apocalypse-fire-and-death cults aren’t going to save them this time. Meanwhile the time of hyposubjects is just beginning. This text is an exercise in chaotic and flimsy thinking that will possibly waste your time. But it is the sincere effort of two reform-minded hypersubjects to decenter themselves and to help nurture hyposubjective humanity. Here are some of the things we say in this book: 1) Hyposubjects are the native species of the Anthropocene and are only just now beginning to discover what they might be and become. 2) Like their hyperobjective environment, hyposubjects are also multiphasic and plural: not-yet, neither here nor there, less than the sum of their parts. They are, in other words, subscendent (moving toward relations) rather than transcendent (rising above relations). They do not pursue or pretend to absolute knowledge or language, let alone power. Instead they play; they care; they adapt; they hurt; they laugh. 3) Hyposubjects are necessarily feminist, colorful, queer, ecological, transhuman, and intrahuman. They do not recognize the rule of androleukoheteropetromodernity and the apex species behavior it epitomizes and reinforces. But they also hold the bliss-horror of extinction fantasies at bay, because hyposubjects’ befores, nows, and afters are many. 4) Hyposubjects are squatters and bricoleuses. They inhabit the cracks and hollows. They turn things inside out and work miracles with scraps and remains. They unplug from carbon gridlife; they hack and redistribute its stored energies for their own purposes. 5) Hyposubjects make revolutions where technomodern radars can’t glimpse them. They patiently ignore expert advice that they do not or cannot exist. They are skeptical of efforts to summarize them, including everything we have just said.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : University of Washington Press | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9780295749600 , 9780295749617
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    Keywords: Küste ; Klimaänderung ; Entwicklung ; Lebensbedingungen ; Climate change ; Bangladesch ; climate change; development; Coastal Bangladesh
    Abstract: "Open access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295749624 Perilously close to sea level and vulnerable to floods, erosion, and cyclones, Bangladesh is one of the top recipients of development aid earmarked for climate change adaptation. Yet, to what extent do adaptation projects address local needs and concerns? Combining environmental history and ethnographic fieldwork with development professionals, rural farmers, and landless women, Misreading the Bengal Delta critiques development narratives of Bangladesh as a “climate change victim.” It examines how development actors repackage colonial-era modernizing projects, which have caused severe environmental effects, as climate-adaptation solutions. Seawalls meant to mitigate against cyclones and rising sea levels instead silt up waterways and induce drainage-related flooding. Other adaptation projects, from saline aquaculture to high-yield agriculture, threaten soil fertility, biodiversity, and livelihoods. Bangladesh’s environmental crisis goes beyond climate change, extending to coastal vulnerabilities that are entwined with underemployment, debt, and the lack of universal healthcare. This timely book analyzes how development actors create flawed causal narratives linking their interventions in the environment and society of the Global South to climate change. Ultimately, such misreadings risk exacerbating climatic threats and structural inequalities. Misreading the Bengal Delta is available in an open access edition through the Sustainable History Monograph Pilot, thanks to the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation."...
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    New York : Oxford University Press | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9780190077150 , 9780190077167
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    Keywords: Feminismus ; Intersektionalität ; Sociology ; Feminism ; Race ; Religion ; France ; Québec ; Feminist Ethic
    Abstract: For more than two decades Islamic veils, niqabs, burkinis, forced and arranged marriages, polygamy and Sharia rules concerning women have been the object of intense public scrutiny and legal regulations in many Western countries, especially in Europe, and feminists have been actively engaged on both sides of the debates. In Feminist Trouble, Eléonore Lépinard draws on extended fieldwork with numerous women’s organizations in France and Quebec. Giving voice to women of color, Lépinard dissects hierarchies of privilege in feminist politics, grappling with Islam and Islamic veiling debates to understand how these changes have transformed contemporary feminist movements, intersectional politics, and the feminist collective subject. A critical look at feminism, its divisions, and its future, Feminist Trouble argues that feminism should not be centered around an identity—women—but should instead focus on a feminist ethic of responsibility that requires women to prioritize their ethical responsibility to the feminist project...
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Pluto Press | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9781786805607
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    Keywords: Verbraucherverhalten ; Erlebnisgesellschaft ; Behavioural economics ; Business & Economics ; Consumer Behavior
    Abstract: Airbnb, gaming, escape rooms, major sporting events: contemporary capitalism no longer demands we merely consume things, but that we buy experiences. This book is concerned with the social, cultural and personal implications of this shift. The technologically-driven world we live in is no closer to securing the utopian ideal of a leisure society. Instead, the pursuit of leisure is often an attempt to escape our everyday existence. Exploring examples including sport, architecture, travel and social media, Steven Miles investigates how consumer culture has colonised 'experiences', revealing the ideological and psycho-social tensions at the heart of the 'experience society'. The first critical analysis of the experience economy by a UK sociologist sheds light on capitalism's ever more sophisticated infiltration of the everyday.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Duke University Press | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
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    Keywords: Klimaänderung ; Stadtentwicklung ; Umweltpolitik ; Feldforschung ; Urban communities ; Human geography ; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography ; Manchester ; Social Science ; Sociology ; Urban ; Social Science ; Human Geography ; Social Science ; Anthropology ; Cultural & Social
    Abstract: In Thinking Like a Climate Hannah Knox confronts the challenges that climate change poses to knowledge production and modern politics. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among policy makers, politicians, activists, scholars, and the public in Manchester, England—birthplace of the Industrial Revolution—Knox explores the city's strategies for understanding and responding to deteriorating environmental conditions. Climate science, Knox argues, frames climate change as a very particular kind of social problem that confronts the limits of administrative and bureaucratic techniques of knowing people, places, and things. Exceeding these limits requires forging new modes of relating to climate in ways that reimagine the social in climatological terms. Knox contends that the day-to-day work of crafting and implementing climate policy and translating climate knowledge into the work of governance demonstrates that local responses to climate change can be scaled up to effect change on a global scale.
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    ISBN: 9780429279317 , 9781000036398 , 9781032174556 , 9780367233266
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (310 p.)
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Development, Mobilities and Migration
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    Keywords: Flüchtling ; Einwanderer ; Soziale Situation ; Ethik ; Migration, immigration & emigration ; Politics & government ; Europa ; Migration, immigration and emigration ; Politics and government
    Abstract: This book explores how the rising numbers of refugees entering Europe from 2015 onwards played into fears of cultural, religious, and ethnic differences across the continent. The migrant, or refugee crisis, prompted fierce debate about European norms and values, with some commentators questioning whether mostly Muslim refugees would be able to adhere to these values, and be able to integrate into a predominantly Christian European society. In this volume, philosophers, legal scholars, anthropologists and sociologists, analyze some of these debates and discuss practical strategies to reconcile the values that underpin the European project with multiculturalism and religious pluralism, whilst at the same time safeguarding the rights of refugees to seek asylum. Country case studies in the book are drawn from France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom; representing states with long histories of immigration, countries with a more recent refugee arrivals, and countries that want to keep refugees at bay and refuse to admit even the smallest number of asylum seekers. Contributors in the book explore the roles which national and local governments, civil society, and community leaders play in these debates and practices, and ask what strategies are being used to educate refugees about European values, and to facilitate their integration. At a time when debates on refugees and European norms continue to rage, this book provides an important interdisciplinary analysis which will be of interest to European policy makers, and researchers across the fields of migration, law, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, and political science. The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429279317, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license...
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Verlag Barbara Budrich | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9783847420248
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    Keywords: Stadt ; Gesellschaft ; Toleranz ; Politische Beteiligung ; Protest ; Refugees & political asylum ; Gentrification;Refugees and Migration;Protest Movements ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: How is tolerance reflected in urban space? Which urban actors are involved in the practices and narratives of tolerance? What are the limits of tolerance? The edited volume answers these questions by considering different forms of urban in/exclusion and participatory citizenship. By drawing together disparate yet critical writings, Doing Tolerance examines the production of space, urban struggles and tactics of power from an interdisciplinary perspective. Illustrating the paradoxes within diverse interactions, the authors focus on the conflict between heterogeneous groups of the governed, on the one hand, and the governing in urban spaces, on the other. Above all, the volume explores the divergences and convergences of participatory citizenship, as they are revealed in urban space through political, socio-economic and cultural conditions and the entanglements of social mobilities.
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    Manchester : Manchester University Press | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9781526146830
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (248 p.)
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    Keywords: Refugees & political asylum ; Immigration law ; Social welfare & social services ; Sociology ; refugees ; welfare state ; bureaucracy ; violence ; Sweden ; Denmark ; Germany ; UK ; Norway ; power
    Abstract: Given the significant similarities and differences between the welfare states of Northern Europe and their reactions to the perceived 'refugee crisis' of 2015, the book focuses primarily on the three main cases of Denmark, Sweden and Germany. Placed in a wider Northern European context – and illustrated by those chapters that also discuss refugee experiences in Norway and the UK – the Danish, Swedish and German cases are the largest case studies of this edited volume. Thus, the book contributes to debates on the governance of non-citizens and the meaning of displacement, mobility and seeking asylum by providing interdisciplinary analyses of a largely overlooked region of the world, with two specific aims. First, we scrutinize the construction of the 2015 crisis as a response to the large influx of refugees, paying particular attention to the disciplinary discourses and bureaucratic structures that are associated with it. Second, we investigate refugees’ encounters with these bureaucratic structures and consider how these encounters shape hopes for building a new life after displacement. This allows us to show that the mobility of specific segments of the world’s population continues to be seen as a threat and a risk that has to be governed and controlled. Focusing on the Northern European context, our volume interrogates emerging policies and discourses as well as the lived experiences of bureaucratization from the perspective of individuals who find themselves the very objects of bureaucracies.
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    ISBN: 9780262359030 , 9780262539173
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (338 p.)
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    Keywords: Humankapitaltheorie ; Technologie ; Soziales Kapital ; Techniksoziologie ; Ungewissheit ; Unternehmensgründung ; Economic history ; Business ethics & social responsibility ; Impact of science & technology on society ; Economic history ; Impact of science and technology on society ; Business ethics and social responsibility ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: How the asset—anything that can be controlled, traded, and capitalized as a revenue stream—has become the primary basis of technoscientific capitalism. In this book, scholars from a range of disciplines argue that the asset—meaning anything that can be controlled, traded, and capitalized as a revenue stream—has become the primary basis of technoscientific capitalism. An asset can be an object or an experience, a sum of money or a life form, a patent or a bodily function. A process of assetization prevails, imposing investment and return as the key rationale, and overtaking commodification and its speculative logic. Although assets can be bought and sold, the point is to get a durable economic rent from them rather than make a killing on the market. Assetization examines how assets are constructed and how a variety of things can be turned into assets, analyzing the interests, activities, skills, organizations, and relations entangled in this process. The contributors consider the assetization of knowledge, including patents, personal data, and biomedical innovation; of infrastructure, including railways and energy; of nature, including mineral deposits, agricultural seeds, and “natural capital”; and of publics, including such public goods as higher education and “monetizable social ills.” Taken together, the chapters show the usefulness of assetization as an analytical tool and as an element in the critique of capitalism. Contributors Thomas Beauvisage, Kean Birch, Veit Braun, Natalia Buier, Béatrice Cointe, Paul Robert Gilbert, Hyo Yoon Kang, Les Levidow, Kevin Mellet, Sveta Milyaeva, Fabian Muniesa, Alain Nadaï, Daniel Neyland, Victor Roy, James W. Williams...
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    ISBN: 9780367257859
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (302 p.)
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    Keywords: Frauenbewegung ; Homosexuellenbewegung ; LGBT ; Soziale Bewegung ; Intersektionalität ; Feminism & feminist theory ; Gender studies, gender groups ; Sociology ; feminism ; gender studies ; sociology
    Abstract: Examining the ways in which feminist and queer activists confront privilege through the use of intersectionality, this edited collection presents empirical case studies from around the world to consider how intersectionality has been taken up (or indeed contested) by activists in order to expose and resist privilege. The volume sets out three key ways in which intersectionality operates within feminist and queer movements: it is used as a collective identity, as a strategy for forming coalitions, and as a repertoire for inclusivity. The case studies presented in this book then evaluate the extent to which some, or all, of these types of intersectional activism are used to confront manifestations of privilege. Drawing upon a wide range of cases from across time and space, this volume explores the difficulties with which activists often grapple when it comes to translating the desire for intersectionality into a praxis which confronts privilege. Addressing inter-related and politically relevant questions concerning how we apply and theorise intersectionality in our studies of feminist and queer movements, this timely edited collection will be of interest to students and scholars from across the social sciences and humanities with an interest in gender and feminism, LGBT+ and queer studies, and social movement studies.
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    ISBN: 9780190842475 , 9780190842475
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    Keywords: Soziologie ; Körper ; Geschlecht ; Gesundheit ; Medien ; Mind, Body, Spirit ; body, embodiment, methodology, sociological research, marginalization, norms, institutions, personal
    Abstract: The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Body and Embodiment challenges the view that bodies belong to the category of “nature” and are biological, essential, and pre-social. It argues instead that bodies both shape and get shaped by human societies. As such, the body is an appropriate and necessary area of study for sociologists. The Handbook works to clarify the scope of this topic and display the innovations of research within the field. The volume is divided into three main parts: Bodies and Methodology; Marginalized Bodies; and Embodied Sociology. Sociologists contributing to the first two parts focus on the body and the ways it is given meaning, regulated, and subjected to legal and medical oversight in a variety of social contexts (particularly when the body in question violates norms for how a culture believes bodies “ought” to behave or appear). Sociologists contributing to the last part use the bodily as a lens through which to study social institutions and experiences. These social settings range from personal decisions about medical treatment to programs for teaching police recruits how to use physical force, from social movement tactics to countries’ understandings of race and national identity. Many chapters throughout the book offer extended methodological reflections, providing guidance on how to conduct sociological research on the body and, at times, acknowledging the role the authors’ own bodies play in developing their knowledge of the research subject.
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    ISBN: 9780367027247 , 9780429398186
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    Additional Information: Enthalten in Secrecy and Methods in Security Research
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    Keywords: Sicherheit ; Geheimdienst ; Geheimhaltung ; Forschung ; Wissenschaftsfreiheit ; Forschungsmethode ; Military history ; International relations ; Political control & freedoms ; Espionage & secret services ; Warfare & defence ; Ethical issues & debates ; Central government policies ; Social research & statistics ; fieldwork ; guide ; methods ; qualitative ; research ; secrecy ; security ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This book analyses the challenges of secrecy in security research, and develops a set of methods to navigate, encircle and work with secrecy. How can researchers navigate secrecy in their fieldwork, when they encounter confidential material, closed-off quarters or bureaucratic rebuffs? This is a particular challenge for researchers in the security field, which is by nature secretive and difficult to access. This book creatively assesses and analyses the ways in which secrecies operate in security research. The collection sets out new understandings of secrecy, and shows how secrecy itself can be made productive to research analysis. It offers students, PhD researchers and senior scholars a rich toolkit of methods and best-practice examples for ethically appropriate ways of navigating secrecy. It pays attention to the balance between confidentiality, and academic freedom and integrity. The chapters draw on the rich qualitative fieldwork experiences of the contributors, who did research at a diversity of sites, for example at a former atomic weapons research facility, inside deportation units, in conflict zones, in everyday security landscapes, in virtual spaces, and at borders, bureaucracies and banks. The book will be of interest to students of research methods, critical security studies and International Relations in general.
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    ISBN: 9781350223776 , 9781786994943 , 9781786994950 , 9781786998965 , 9781786999009 , 9781786998996 , 9781786998989 , 9781780325330 , 9781780325323 , 9781780325316 , 9781780325309 , 9781780325347 , 9781780325798 , 9781780325804 , 9781780325767 , 9781780325781 , 9781780325774 , 9781786994127 , 9781786994097 , 9781786994110 , 9781780324111 , 9781780324074 , 9781780324104 , 9781780324081 , 9781780324098 , 9781783603442 , 9781783603473 , 9781783603480 , 9781783603466 , 9781783603459 , 9781786994967 , 9781786994929
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    Keywords: Umweltpolitik ; Globalisierung ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Solidarische Ökonomie ; Kollektives Handeln ; Soziale Verantwortung ; Sustainability ; Development studies ; Environmental policy & protocols ; Urban & municipal planning ; An Urban Politics of Climate Change ; Habitat III ; Making cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable ; new urban agenda ; Participatory Planning for Climate Compatible Development ; sustainability ; Sustainable Development Goal 11 ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Urban Sustainability and Justice presents an innovative yet practical approach to incorporate equity and social justice into sustainable development in urban areas, in line with the commitments of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda. This open access work proposes a feminist reading of just sustainabilities' principles to reclaim sustainability as a progressive discourse which informs action on the ground. This work will help the committed activist (whether they are on the ground, working in a community, in a non-governmental organization (NGO), in a business, at a university, in any sphere in government) to connect their work to international efforts to deliver environmental justice in cities around the world. Drawing on a comparative, international analysis of sustainability initiatives in over 200 cities, Castán Broto and Westman find limited evidence of the implementation of just sustainabilities principles in practice, but they argue that there is considerable potential to develop a justice-oriented sustainability agenda. Highlighting current successes while also assessing prospects for the future, the authors show that just sustainabilities is not merely an aspirational discourse, but a frame of reference to support radical action on the ground. The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The University of Sheffield.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Taylor & Francis | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9780367027247
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (312 p.)
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    Keywords: Sicherheit ; Geheimdienst ; Geheimhaltung ; Forschung ; Wissenschaftsfreiheit ; Forschungsmethode ; Central government policies ; security research ; security ; guide ; fieldwork ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This book analyses the challenges of secrecy in security research, and develops a set of methods to navigate, encircle and work with secrecy. How can researchers navigate secrecy in their fieldwork, when they encounter confidential material, closed-off quarters or bureaucratic rebuffs? This is a particular challenge for researchers in the security field, which is by nature secretive and difficult to access. This book creatively assesses and analyses the ways in which secrecies operate in security research. The collection sets out new understandings of secrecy, and shows how secrecy itself can be made productive to research analysis. It offers students, PhD researchers and senior scholars a rich toolkit of methods and best-practice examples for ethically appropriate ways of navigating secrecy. It pays attention to the balance between confidentiality, and academic freedom and integrity. The chapters draw on the rich qualitative fieldwork experiences of the contributors, who did research at a diversity of sites, for example at a former atomic weapons research facility, inside deportation units, in conflict zones, in everyday security landscapes, in virtual spaces and at borders, bureaucracies and banks. The book will be of interest to students of research methods, critical security studies and International Relations in general.
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    ISBN: 9781787356184
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    Keywords: Unruhen ; Aufruhr ; Diskontinuität ; Wandel ; Gesellschaft ; Politik ; Populismus ; Umsturz ; Gewalt ; Terrorismus ; Social issues & processes ; Sociology & anthropology ; Political science & theory ; anthropology ; ruptures ; turmoil ; Konferenzschrift University College London 2017
    Abstract: Ruptures brings together leading and emerging international anthropologists to explore the concept of ‘rupture’. Understood as radical and often forceful forms of discontinuity, rupture is the active ingredient of the current sense of a world in turmoil, lying at the heart of some of the most defining experiences of our time: the rise of populist politics, the corollary impulse towards protest and even revolutionary change, as well as moves towards violence and terror, and the responses these moves elicit. Rupture is addressed in selected ethnographic and historical contexts: images of the guillotine in the French revolution; reactions to Trump’s election in the USA; the motivations of young Danes who join ISIS in Syria; ‘butterfly effect’ activism among environmental anarchists in northern Europe; the experiences of political trauma and its ‘repair’ through privately sponsored museums of Mao’s revolution in China; people’s experience of the devastating 2001 earthquake in Gujarat; the ‘inner’ rupture of Protestant faith among Danish nationalist theologians; and the attempt to invent ex nihilo an alphabet for use in Christian prophetic movements in Congo and Angola.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Duke University Press | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9781478002505
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (216 p.)
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    Keywords: Urban communities ; Urban communities
    Abstract: Over the last twenty-five years, garbage infrastructure in Dakar, Senegal, has taken center stage in the struggles over government, the value of labor, and the dignity of the working poor. Through strikes and public dumping, Dakar's streets have been periodically inundated with household garbage as the city's trash collectors and ordinary residents protest urban austerity. Often drawing on discourses of Islamic piety, garbage activists have provided a powerful language to critique a neoliberal mode of governing-through-disposability and assert rights to fair labor. In Garbage Citizenship Rosalind Fredericks traces Dakar's volatile trash politics to recalibrate how we understand urban infrastructure by emphasizing its material, social, and affective elements. She shows how labor is a key component of infrastructural systems and how Dakar's residents use infrastructures as a vital tool for forging collective identities and mobilizing political action. Fleshing out the materiality of trash and degraded labor, Fredericks illuminates the myriad ways waste can be a potent tool of urban control and rebellion.
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    ISBN: 9781315474052 , 9781138202399
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Homosexuellenbewegung ; LGBT ; Politischer Protest ; Gleichstellung ; Society & culture: general ; Politics & government ; Political structure & processes ; Social Movements ; LGBT Politics ; Pride Movement ; Pride Parade ; Comparative Politics ; European Politics ; Sexuality Studies ; Social Movement Theory ; Party Politics ; Protest ; Civil Society ; New Social Movements ; Ronald Holzhacker ; Mattias Wahlström ; Magnus Wennerhag
    Abstract: The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781315474052, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license Today, Pride parades are staged in countries and localities across the globe, providing the most visible manifestations of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer and intersex movements and politics. Pride Parades and LGBT Movements contributes to a better understanding of LGBT protest dynamics through a comparative study of eleven Pride parades in seven European countries – Czech Republic, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK – and Mexico. Peterson, Wahlström and Wennerhag uncover the dynamics producing similarities and differences between Pride parades, using unique data from surveys of Pride participants and qualitative interviews with parade organizers and key LGBT activists. In addition to outlining the histories of Pride in the respective countries, the authors explore how the different political and cultural contexts influence: Who participates, in terms of socio-demographic characteristics and political orientations; what Pride parades mean for their participants; how participants were mobilized; how Pride organizers relate to allies and what strategies they employ for their performances of Pride. This book will be of interest to political scientists and sociologists with an interest in LGBT studies, social movements, comparative politics and political behavior and participation.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9783837974447 , 9783837974447
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    Keywords: Intersektionalität ; Queer-Theorie ; Rassismus ; Sexualpolitik ; Kapitalismus ; Homophobie ; Deutschland
    Abstract: Anti-racist and queer politics have tentatively converged in the activist agendas, organizing strategies and political discourses of the radical left all over the world. Pejoratively dismissed as »identity politics«, the significance of this cross-pollination of theorizing and political solidarities has yet to be fully countenanced. Even less well understood, coalitions of anti-racist and queer activisms in western Europe have fashioned durable organizations and creative interventions to combat regnant anti-Muslim and anti-migrant racism within mainstream gay and lesbian culture and institutions, just as the latter consolidates and capitalizes on their uneven inclusions into national and international orders. The essays in this volume represent a small snapshot of writers working at this point of convergence between anti-racist and queer politics and scholarship from the context of Germany. Translated for the first time into English, these four writers and texts provide a compelling introduction to what the introductory essay calls »a Berlin chapter of the Queer Intersectional«, that is, an international justice movement conducted in the key of academic analysis and political speech which takes inspiration from and seeks to synthesize the fruitful concoction of anti-racist, queer, feminist and anti-capitalist traditions, movements and theories.With contributions by Judith Butler, Zülfukar Çetin, Sabine Hark, Daniel Hendrickson, Heinz-Jürgen-Voß, Salih Alexander Wolter and Koray Yılmaz-Günay...
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Pretoria University Law Press (PULP) | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9781920538828
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (306 p.)
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    Abstract: What is Africanness: Contesting nativism in culture, race and sexualities, by Charles Ngwena, Professor of Law at the Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, is a peer-reviewed monograph aiming to contribute to the ongoing scholarly conversation in and beyond South Africa about who is African and what is African. It aims to implicate a reductive sameness in the naming of Africans (‘nativism’) by showing its teleology and effects; and offers an alternative understanding of how Africans can be named or can name themselves. The book develops an epistemology for constructing the hermeneutics of Africanness today, long after the primal colonial moment and its debasing racialising ideology. It interrogates the making of Africa in colonial discourses and the making of an African race and African culture(s) and sexuality(ies) in ways that are not just historically conscious but also have a heuristic capacity to contest nativism from the outside as well as from within. The arguments in this book go beyond problematising African identity by addressing an existential gap in theory for explicating African social identity. The book develops an interpretive method – a hermeneutics – for locating and deciphering African identifications in ways that are historically conscious and conjunctural. The hermeneutics look to the present and the future in addition to the past, so that African identifications are not nailed to a mast but remain invested with mobility and the capacity to mutate radically and make new and unexpected beginnings.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Amsterdam University Press | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
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    Keywords: Fan ; Affektive Bindung ; Intermedialität ; Film theory & criticism ; Fandom ; inter/transmediality ; media ethnography ; affect ; subcultures
    Abstract: This book offers a media ethnography of the digital culture, conventions, and urban spaces associated with fandoms, arguing that fandom is an area of productive, creative, and subversive value.
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    Durham, NC : Duke University Press | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9781478002505
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    Keywords: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography ; Anthropology ; Waste ; Infrastructure ; Citizenship ; Neoliberalism ; Materiality ; Islam
    Abstract: Over the last twenty-five years, garbage infrastructure in Dakar, Senegal, has taken center stage in struggles over government, the value of labor, and the dignity of the working poor. Through strikes and public dumping, Dakar's streets have been periodically inundated with household garbage as the city's trash collectors and ordinary residents protest urban austerity. Often drawing on discourses of Islamic piety, garbage activists have provided a powerful language to critique a neoliberal mode of governing-through-disposability and assert rights to fair labor. In Garbage Citizenship Rosalind Fredericks traces Dakar's volatile trash politics to recalibrate how we understand urban infrastructure by emphasizing its material, social, and affective elements. She shows how labor is a key component of infrastructural systems and how Dakar's residents use infrastructures as a vital tool for forging collective identities and mobilizing political action.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Pluto Books | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9781786802453 , 9780745337081
    Language: English
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    Keywords: Soziale Ungleichheit ; Ausbeutung ; Sociology ; Großbritannien ; Sociology
    Abstract: Social class remains a fundamental presence in British life in the twenty-first century. It is woven into the very fabric of social and political discourse, undiminished by the end of mass industry; unaugmented despite the ascendancy of 'ordinary working people' and other substitute phrases. Absent from this landscape, however, is any compelling Marxist expression or analysis of class. In Class Matters, Charles Umney brings Marxist analysis out of the 19th century textiles mill, and into the call centres, office blocks and fast food chains of modern Britain. He shows how core Marxist concepts are vital to understanding increasing pay inequality, decreasing job security, increasing routinisation and managerial control of the labour process. Providing a critical analysis of competing perspectives, Umney argues that class must be understood as a dynamic and exploitative process integral to capitalism - rather than a descriptive categorisation - in order for us to better understand the gains capital has made at the expense of labour over the last four decades.
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    London : Bloomsbury Academic | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9781350222861 , 9781783604562 , 9781783604555 , 9781783601332 , 9781783601325 , 9781783601349 , 9781783601356 , 9781783601363 , 9781848139695 , 9781848139688 , 9781848139671 , 9781848139664 , 9781780324746 , 9781780329970 , 9781783600014 , 9781783600007 , 9781780329994 , 9781780329987 , 9781783601158 , 9781783601127 , 9781783601134 , 9781783601141 , 9781783601165 , 9781780321462 , 9781848134607 , 9781848134584 , 9781848134591 , 9781780321479 , 9781848136090 , 9781780326542 , 9781848134942 , 9781780326191 , 9781848134980 , 9781780326214 , 9781780323091 , 9781848135406 , 9781780320793 , 9781780325828 , 9781848134614 , 9781848136281 , 9781780326115 , 9781848138360 , 9781848138377 , 9781848138391 , 9781848138384 , 9781780324180 , 9781783602469 , 9781783602438 , 9781783602476 , 9781783602445 , 9781783602452 , 9781783603695 , 9781783603718 , 9781783603732 , 9781783603701 , 9781783603725 , 9781848136397 , 9781780322445 , 9781842776391 , 9781842776384 , 9781848131309 , 9781780327792 , 9781848136564 , 9781780321059 , 9781780321042 , 9781780323862 , 9781848137240 , 9781780326993 , 9781780323831 , 9781780323824 , 9781780323848 , 9781780323855 , 9781848137868 , 9781780327266 , 9781783604579 , 9781783604548 , 9781783604531 , 9781780323466 , 9781780323459 , 9781780323480 , 9781780323497 , 9781780323473 , 9781780323114 , 9781780323138 , 9781780323107 , 9781780323121 , 9781780324203 , 9781780327310 , 9781848137981 , 9781848137936 , 9781780327297 , 9781848135017 , 9781780326245
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (288 p.)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1990-2012 ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Drogenhandel ; Protestbewegung ; Politischer Wandel ; Erdölproduktion ; Erdölwirtschaft ; Politischer Konflikt ; Außenwirtschaftspolitik ; Internationale Finanzpolitik ; Debt Management ; Soziale Situation ; Kakaobaum ; Exportgut ; Cashcrops ; Fairer Handel ; Politische Reform ; Elite ; Armut ; Soziale Wahrnehmung ; Soziale Ungleichheit ; Landnahme ; Agrobusiness ; Lebensmittelindustrie ; Development economics & emerging economies ; Development studies ; Taxation ; Afrika ; Subsaharisches Afrika ; China ; Westafrika ; Demokratische Republik Kongo ; Entwicklungsländer ; Adair Turner ; Africa:Why Economists Get It Wrong ; african arguments ; Andrew Brooks ; Between Debt and the Devil ; Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism? ; corruption ; Doughnut Economics ; Ebenezer Obadare ; Ebola ; extraction industry ; good governance ; international development ; Kate Raworth ; Mariana Mazzucato ; Morten Jerven ; Pablo Yanguas ; Paul Richards ; Pentecostal Republic ; policy reform ; Robert Kuttner ; social justice ; tax evasion ; taxation ; The End of Development ; The Looting Machine ; The Value of Everything ; Tom Burgis ; Why We Lie About Aid ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Taxation has been seen as the domain of charisma-free accountants, lawyers and number crunchers – an unlikely place to encounter big societal questions about democracy, equity or good governance. Yet it is exactly these issues that pervade conversations about taxation among policymakers, tax collectors, civil society activists, journalists and foreign aid donors in Africa today. Tax has become viewed as central to African development. Written by leading international experts, Taxing Africa offers a cutting-edge analysis on all aspects of the continent’s tax regime, displaying the crucial role such arrangements have on attempts to create social justice and push economic advancement. From tax evasion by multinational corporations and African elites to how ordinary people navigate complex webs of ‘informal’ local taxation, the book examines the potential for reform, and how space might be created for enabling locally-led strategies. The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC 3.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.
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    ISBN: 9781315177274
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (22 p.)
    Additional Information: Enthalten in Doing Excellent Social Research with Documents
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    Keywords: Qualitative Sozialforschung ; Dokument ; Textanalyse ; Research & information: general ; Society & culture: general ; elicitation interviews ; visual methods ; author ; meaning ; narrative analysis ; elicitation interviews ; visual methods ; author ; meaning ; narrative analysis ; Climate change (general concept) ; El Niño–Southern Oscillation ; Weather forecasting
    Abstract: Elicitation interviews are where participants are either shown items or asked to bring items to the interview in order to shape the direction of the conversation. This approach is often referred to as being part of ‘visual methods’. The chapter focuses in particular on when participants are asked to either bring everyday documents, such as photographs, or when they are asked to create a new document, with both sources serving as a ‘topic guide’ during interviews, which are directed by the participant. The advantage of this method over many documentary analysis methods is the presence of the author and the ability for the researcher to ask the author questions. This allows us to more easily establish meaning than in participant-absent documentary analysis. A detailed case study is presented of the research that aimed to understand health behaviours, such as smoking and drinking alcohol, during pregnancy. Ten women from deprived areas living on low incomes took part in elicitation interviews. Techniques of elicitation included life-history timelining (drawing a timeline of their life), collaging or using a paper template with thought bubbles to describe what it was like being pregnant, and sandboxing (that is, creating an image or scene using sand and a range of everyday items). Data was analysed using a narrative analysis, which is used to consider change over time. Guidance is provided on how to undertake narrative analysis. The findings highlighted a wide range of barriers and facilitators to abstain from alcohol and smoking during pregnancy, which were related to life circumstances. The key challenges of using such a method, including the ethical implications, are discussed. An exercise with additional data is provided to consolidate learning.
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    ISBN: 9781138038660
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (194 p.)
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    Keywords: Qualitative Sozialforschung ; Dokument ; Textanalyse ; Research & information: general ; Society & culture: general ; written content and images ; documents ; society ; social research ; data
    Abstract: In today’s society we increasingly create and consume written content and images. This includes a range of sources, from social media posts to records held within organisations, and everything in between, including news articles, blogs, shopping lists and official government documents. Critically reading these ‘documents’ can help us to understand a huge amount about society. Doing Excellent Social Research with Documents includes guidance on how to ‘read between the lines’, and provides an overview of six research projects which use documents as data.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : The MIT Press | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9780262533904
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource ( p.)
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    Keywords: Wissens- und Technologietransfer ; Innovation ; Technik ; Wissenschaftsforschung ; Lokales Wissen ; Wissenschaftsentwicklung ; Wissenschaftstransfer ; Technologietransfer ; Afrika
    Abstract: Clapperton Mavhunga's collection of essays about science, technology, and innovation (STI) from an African perspective opens with the idea, "Things do not (always) mean the same from everywhere; when we insist that only ‘our’ meaning is the meaning, we silence other people’s meanings." Mavhunga and his contributors argue that our contemporary definitions of STI are those of countries and cultures that have acquired their dominance of others through global empires, and as a counter to that, Mavhunga seeks to put the concepts of STI into question, exploring what the technological, scientific, and innovative might mean from Africa in lieu of outside introductions or influences. We strongly feel that this book is suited to the Knowledge Unlatched program because of the difficulty of reaching markets and readers in Africa with print books. We feel unlatching would go a long way toward helping Mavhunga reach an important audience for this work that we have been previously unable to reach...
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Verlag Barbara Budrich | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9783847411062
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    Keywords: Migration ; Hochqualifizierter Beruf ; Hochschulbildung ; Qualifikation ; Soziale Mobilität ; Tschechischer Einwanderer ; Akademiker ; Berufslaufbahn ; Transnationalisierung ; Migration, immigration & emigration ; Deutschland ; Tschechien ; Sociology ; migration ; social mobility ; biographical research
    Abstract: The landscape of European migration has changed considerably over the past decades, in particular after the fall of the iron curtain and again after the EU enlargement to the east. The author researches the phenomenon of highly qualified migration using the example of migration between the Czech Republic and Germany. The book reveals diverse strategies migrants use to respond to the possible de-valuation of their qualification, e.g. by making use of their language skills, starting new studies or using transnational knowledge. Anna Guhlich investigates the role of migration within the biographies, the shifts of social positions, as well as the ways migrants negotiate their skills, qualification and knowledge across the borders. Based on biographical narrative interviews, she investigates the migration pathways and the processes of social mobility. The study investigates the influence developments within the Czech society have on migration decisions and transnational spaces as well as o...
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (720 p.)
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    Abstract: This chapter describes the ‘Sex and History’ project which uses objects from the past as the basis for discussions with young people about sexuality, as part of sexuality education. The chapter outlines key aspects of a methodology in which historical and cultural distance, coupled with striking familiarities in concerns about sex throughout history, bring contemporary expectations and norms into sharper focus and encourage young people to re-consider them critically. This chapter considers the different contexts within which this methodology can be applied and the challenges of trying to embed it into mainstream UK education. It describes how the project responds to international calls for a multidisciplinary approach to young people’s healthy development and the importance of non-biological dimensions to sexuality education, such as consent, gender, body image and the impact of pornography.
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    ISBN: 9783839439562 , 9783839439562
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    Keywords: Darstellung ; Ganzheit ; Literatur ; Erde ; Kulturwissenschaften ; Cultural studies ; Erde ; Sociology ; Ecocriticism ; Media ; Literature ; Earth ; Culture ; Home Planet ; Religion ; Mythology ; Utopia ; Nature ; Cultural Theory ; Cultural Studies ; General Literature Studies ; Ecology
    Abstract: While concepts of Earth have a rich tradition, more recent examples show a distinct quality: Though ideas of wholeness might still be related to mythical, religious, or utopian visions of the past, ''Earth'' itself has become available as a whole. This raises several questions: How are the notions of one Earth or our Planet imagined and distributed? What is the role of cultural imagination and practices of signification in the imagination of ''the Earth''? Which theoretical models can be used or need to be developed to describe processes of imagining Planet Earth? This collection invites a wide range of perspectives from different fields of the Humanities to explore the means of imagining Earth.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Brill | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9789004356368
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (368 p.)
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    Keywords: Jugend ; Politisches Engagement ; Globalization ; Afrika ; Globalization ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: What Politics? Youth and Political Engagement in Africa examines the diverse experiences of being young in today’s Africa. It offers new perspectives to the roles and positions young people take to change their life conditions both within and beyond the formal political structures and institutions.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Amsterdam University Press | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9789462981690
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (264 p.)
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    Keywords: Globalisierung ; Neoliberalismus ; Protestbewegung ; Gruppenidentität ; Political activism ; social movements ; protests ; contentious politics ; democracy ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Recent years have seen a new development in the growth and spread of popular protest: protests that began as local, homogeneous events-such as Occupy Wall Street or the protests of the Arab Spring-quickly left their original locations and local specificity behind and became global. This book looks at the development of this wave of protests, with an eye on protests against austerity and neoliberal economic policies, and offers a global view, covering events in Turkey, Brazil, Venezuela, South Africa, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, and other locations.
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    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9780472130412
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (353 p.)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1800-2000 ; Juden ; Weltbürgertum ; Deutsches Sprachgebiet ; Sociology
    Abstract: Cosmopolitanisms and the Jews adds significantly to contemporary scholarship on cosmopolitanism by making the experience of Jews central to the discussion, as it traces the evolution of Jewish cosmopolitanism over the last two centuries. The book sets out from an exploration of the nature and cultural-political implications of the shifting perceptions of Jewish mobility and fluidity around 1800, when modern cosmopolitanist discourse arose. Through a series of case studies, the authors analyze the historical and discursive junctures that mark the central paradigm shifts in the Jewish self-image, from the Wandering Jew to the rootless parasite, the cosmopolitan, and the socialist internationalist. Chapters analyze the tensions and dualisms in the constructed relationship between cosmopolitanism and the Jews at particular historical junctures between 1800 and the present, and probe into the relationship between earlier anti-Semitic discourses on Jewish cosmopolitanism and Stalinist rhetoric.
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1700-2010 ; Zwangsarbeit ; Kontraktarbeit ; Kulturvergleich ; General & world history ; History ; Labour ; Colonialism ; Migration ; History ; Culture ; Globalization ; Postcolonialism ; Work ; Global History ; History of Colonialism ; Social History ; Ethnology ; Konferenzschrift 2014
    Abstract: Parallel to the abolition of Atlantic slavery, new forms of indentured labour stilled global capitalisms need for cheap, disposable labour. The famous coolie trade – mainly Asian labourers transferred to French and British islands in the Indian Ocean, Australia, Indonesia, South Africa, the Caribbean, the Americas, as well as to Portuguese colonies in Africa – was one of the largest migration movements in global history. Indentured contract workers are perhaps the most revealing example of bonded labour in the grey area between the poles of chattel slavery and free wage labour. This interdisciplinary volume addresses historically and regionally specific cases of bonded labour relations from the 18th century to sponsorship systems in the Arab Gulf States today.
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    Basingstoke : Springer Nature | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9781137400338
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (23 p.)
    Additional Information: Enthalten in The Palgrave Handbook of Sexuality Education
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    Keywords: History ; Sex ; History
    Abstract: The project responds to issues identified by the health and education sector in the UK and internationally, particularly relating to the widely attested difficulty for teachers of opening up conversations around important topics such as consent and pornography.
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    ISBN: 9789004307148 , 9789004307131 , 9789004307148
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    Keywords: Antisemitismus ; Jewish studies ; USA ; Kanada ; Religious groups ; Jewish studies ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: In Antisemitism in North America, leading scholars offer a wide variety of perspectives on why the Jews in North America have sometimes faced considerable bigotry but have, in general, found a home far more hospitable than the ones they left behind in Europe. ; Readership: Those who are interested in a scholarly understanding of prejudice antisemitism, Jewish studies, hate studies, religious studies, cultural studies, Holocaust and genocide studies, social psychology and social sciences.
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    Uppsala; London : The Nordic Africa Institute and Zed Books (Bloomsbury) | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9781350251168 , 9781783607150 , 9781783607136 , 9781783607143 , 9781783607167 , 9781783607174
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (219 p.)
    Series Statement: Africa Now
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    Keywords: Mittelstand ; Sozialer Aufstieg ; Sozioökonomischer Wandel ; Lebensstandard ; Politics & government ; Development economics & emerging economies ; Africa ; Subsaharisches Afrika ; Middle class ; Social classes ; Social change ; Economic development ; Human development ; Case studies ; Africa ; Kenya ; Nigeria ; Angola ; Mozambique ; Tanzania
    Abstract: Across Africa, a burgeoning middle class has become the poster child for the 'Africa rising' narrative. Ambitious, aspirational and increasingly affluent, this group is said to embody the values and hopes of the new Africa, with international bodies ranging from the United Nations Development Programme to the World Bank regarding them as important agents of both economic development and democratic change. This narrative, however, obscures the complex and often ambiguous role that this group actually plays in African societies. Bringing together economists, political scientists, anthropologists and development experts, and spanning a variety of case studies from across the continent, this collection provides a much-needed corrective to the received wisdom within development circles, and provides a fresh perspective on social transformations in contemporary Africa.
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    Basingstoke : Springer Nature | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9781137400338
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (720 p.)
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    Keywords: Gender studies, gender groups ; Gender ; education ; sexuality education
    Abstract: This authoritative, state-of-the-art Handbook provides an authoritative overview of issues within sexuality education, coupled with ground-breaking discussion of emerging and unconventional insights in the field. With 32 contributions from 12 countries it definitively traces the landscape of issues, theories and practices in sexuality education globally. These rich and multidisciplinary essays are written by renowned critical sexualities studies experts and rising stars in this area and grouped under four main areas: Global Assemblages of Sexuality Education Sexualities Education in Schools Sexual Cultures, Entertainment Media and Communication Technologies Re-animating What Else Sexuality Education Research Can Do, Be and Become Importantly, this Handbook does not equate sexuality education with safer sex education nor understand this subject as confined to school based programmes. Instead, sexuality education is understood more broadly and to occur in spaces as diverse as community settings and entertainment media, and via communication technologies. It is an essential and comprehensive reference resource for academics, students and researchers of sexuality education that both demarcates the field and stimulates critical discussion of its edges. Chapter 2 is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license via link.springer.com.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : University of North Carolina Press | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9781469624976 , 9781469624983 , 9781469624969
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    Series Statement: David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1910-2012 ; Mexikaner ; Soziale Situation ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Ethnic studies ; History of the Americas ; Migration, immigration & emigration ; USA Südstaaten ; American Studies ; Latin American Studies ; History ; Sociology
    Abstract: When Latino migration to the U.S. South became increasingly visible in the 1990s, observers and advocates grasped for ways to analyze "new" racial dramas in the absence of historical reference points. However, as this book is the first to comprehensively document, Mexicans and Mexican Americans have a long history of migration to the U.S. South. Corazon de Dixie recounts the untold histories of Mexicanos' migrations to New Orleans, Mississippi, Arkansas, Georgia, and North Carolina as far back as 1910. It follows Mexicanos into the heart of Dixie, where they navigated the Jim Crow system, cultivated community in the cotton fields, purposefully appealed for help to the Mexican government, shaped the southern conservative imagination in the wake of the civil rights movement, and embraced their own version of suburban living at the turn of the twenty-first century. Rooted in U.S. and Mexican archival research, oral history interviews, and family photographs, Corazon de Dixie unearths not just the facts of Mexicanos' long-standing presence in the U.S. South but also their own expectations, strategies, and dreams.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Liverpool University Press | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9781781381717 , 9781781384633
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource ( p.)
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    Keywords: Kreolisierung ; Migration ; Transnationalisierung ; Postkolonialismus ; Europa ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Creolizing Europe critically interrogates creolization as the decolonial, rhizomatic thinking necessary for understanding the cultural and social transformations set in motion through trans/national dislocations. Exploring the usefulness, transferability, and limitations of creolization for thinking post/coloniality, raciality and othering not only as historical legacies but as immanent to and constitutive of European societies, this volume develops an interdisciplinary dialogue between the social sciences and the humanities. While not all the contributions in this volume explicitly address Edouard Glissant’s approach to creolization, they all engage with aspects of his thinking. All of the chapters explore the usefulness, transferability, and limitations of creolization to the European context. As such, this edited collection offers a significant contribution and intervention in the fields of European Studies, Postcolonial Studies, and Cultural Studies on two levels...
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Taylor & Francis | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9781315743424 , 9781317589099 , 9781138821231 , 9781138821248
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (200 p.)
    Series Statement: Routledge Environmental Humanities
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    Keywords: Umweltveränderung ; Mensch ; Philosophische Anthropologie ; Umweltethik ; Anthropogener Einfluss ; Umweltkrise ; Anthropogene Klimaänderung ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Development economics & emerging economies ; Applied ecology ; Environmental policy & protocols ; Alf Hornborg ; Biodiversity ; Bronislaw Szerszynski ; Bruno Latour ; Christophe Bonneuil ; Climate Change ; Conservation ; Dipesh Chakrabarty ; ENVIRONMENTAL REFLEXIVITY ; Environmental economics ; Environmental policy ; Environmental studies ; François Gemenne ; Hornborg ; Ingolfur Blühdorn ; Isabelle Stengers ; Jean-Baptiste Fressoz ; Luc Semal ; Michael Northcott ; meta-narrative ; nature ; Sustainability ; Sustainable development ; Virginie Maris ; Yves Cochet ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: The Anthropocene, in which humankind has become a geological force, is a major scientific proposal; but it also means that the conceptions of the natural and social worlds on which sociology, political science, history, law, economics and philosophy rest are called into question. The Anthropocene and the Global Environmental Crisis captures some of the radical new thinking prompted by the arrival of the Anthropocene and opens up the social sciences and humanities to the profound meaning of the new geological epoch, the ‘Age of Humans’. Drawing on the expertise of world-recognised scholars and thought-provoking intellectuals, the book explores the challenges and difficult questions posed by the convergence of geological and human history to the foundational ideas of modern social science. If in the Anthropocene humans have become a force of nature, changing the functioning of the Earth system as volcanism and glacial cycles do, then it means the end of the idea of nature as no more than the inert backdrop to the drama of human affairs. It means the end of the ‘social-only’ understanding of human history and agency. These pillars of modernity are now destabilised. The scale and pace of the shifts occurring on Earth are beyond human experience and expose the anachronisms of ‘Holocene thinking’. The book explores what kinds of narratives are emerging around the scientific idea of the new geological epoch, and what it means for the ‘politics of unsustainability’.
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    Nairobi : Africae | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9782957305810 , 9789987082971
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii-484 p.)
    Series Statement: Africae Studies
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Inder ; Nationale Minderheit ; Pakistaner ; Landeskunde ; General studies ; Ostafrika ; identity ; minorities ; Tanzanian society ; Indian communities ; Kenyan society ; Ugandan society ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania have minorities from the Indian sub-continent amongst their population. The East African Indians mostly reside in the main cities, particularly Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar, Mombasa, Kampala; they can also be found in smaller urban centres and in the remotest of rural townships. They play a leading social and economic role as the)’ work in business, manufacturing and the service industry, and make up a large proportion of the liberal professions. They are divided into multiple socio-religious communities, but united in a mutual feeling of meta-cultural identity. This book aims at painting a broad picture of the communities of Indian origin in East Africa, striving to include changes that have occurred since the end of the 1980s. The different contributions explore questions of race and citizenship, national loyalties and cosmopolitan identities, local attachment and transnational networks. Drawing upon anthropology, history, sociology and demography, Indian Africa depicts a multifaceted population and analyses how the past and the present shape their sense of belonging, their relations with others, their professional and political engagement. This book is a must-read for contemporary researchers, students, policy practioners as well as the general reader.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Purdue University Press | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9781612494258
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (160 p.)
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    Keywords: Sephardim ; Juden ; Soziale Situation ; Identität ; Religious groups: social & cultural aspects ; USA ; Orient ; Social groups: religious groups & communities
    Abstract: Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews in America includes academics, artists, writers, and civic and religious leaders who contributed chapters focusing on the Sephardi and Mizrahi experience in America. Topics will address language, literature, art, diaspora identity, and civic and political engagement. When discussing identity in America, one contributor will review and explore the distinct philosophy and culture of classic Sephardic Judaism, and how that philosophy and culture represents a viable option for American Jews who seek a rich and meaningful medium through which to balance Jewish tradition and modernity. Another chapter will provide a historical perspective of Sephardi/Ashkenazi Diasporic tensions. Additionally, contributors will address the term “Sephardi” as a self-imposed, collective, “ethnic” designation that had to be learned and naturalized—and its parameters defined and negotiated—in the new context of the United States and in conversation with discussions about Sephardic identity across the globe. This volume also will look at the theme of literature, focusing on Egyptian and Iranian writers in the United States. Continuing with the Iranian Jewish community, contributors will discuss the historical and social genesis of Iranian-American Jewish participation and leadership in American civic, political, and Jewish affairs. Another chapter reviews how art is used to express Iranian Diaspora identity and nostalgia. The significance of language among Sephardi and Mizrahi communities is discussed. One chapter looks at the Ladino-speaking Sephardic Jewish population of Seattle, while another confronts the experience of Judeo-Spanish speakers in the United States and how they negotiate identity via the use of language. In addition, scholars will explore how Judeo-Spanish speakers engage in dialogue with one another from a century ago, and furthermore, how they use and modify their language when they find themselves in Spanish-speaking areas today.
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    ISBN: 9781315867762 , 9780415718967
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    Keywords: Society & culture: general ; ignorance
    Abstract: Once treated as the absence of knowledge, ignorance today has become a highly influential topic in its own right, commanding growing attention across the natural and social sciences where a wide range of scholars have begun to explore the social life and political issues involved in the distribution and strategic use of not knowing. The field is growing fast and this handbook reflects this interdisciplinary field of study by drawing contributions from economics, sociology, history, philosophy, cultural studies, anthropology, feminist studies, and related fields in order to serve as a seminal guide to the political, legal and social uses of ignorance in social and political life.
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    ISBN: 9781469624976 , 9781469624983 , 9781469624969
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1910-2012 ; Mexikaner ; Soziale Situation ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Hispanic & Latino studies ; History of the Americas ; Migration, immigration & emigration ; USA Südstaaten ; Latinos in the South ; Mississippi Delta ; Arkansas Delta ; New Orleans ; Vidalia, Georgia ; Mexican Immigration ; Racialization ; Charlotte, North Carolina ; Mississippi Hot Tamales ; Bracero Program in Arkansas ; anti-immigrant movements ; whiteness ; black-Mexican relations ; Hispanics in the South ; black-Latino relations ; black-Hispanic relations ; immigration to the U.S. South ; Hispanics in Mississippi ; Hispanics in Arkansas/ Hispanics in Georgia ; Hispanics in North Carolina ; Hispanics in New Orleans ; Hispanics in Louisiana ; Latinos in Mississippi ; Latinos in Arkansas/ Latinos in Georgia ; Latinos in North Carolina ; Latinos in New Orleans ; Latinos in Louisiana ; H-2A workers ; Mexican consuls ; Mexicans in Mississippi ; Mexicans in Arkansas/
    Abstract: When Latino migration to the U.S. South became increasingly visible in the 1990s, observers and advocates grasped for ways to analyze "new" racial dramas in the absence of historical reference points. However, as this book is the first to comprehensively document, Mexicans and Mexican Americans have a long history of migration to the U.S. South. Corazon de Dixie recounts the untold histories of Mexicanos' migrations to New Orleans, Mississippi, Arkansas, Georgia, and North Carolina as far back as 1910. It follows Mexicanos into the heart of Dixie, where they navigated the Jim Crow system, cultivated community in the cotton fields, purposefully appealed for help to the Mexican government, shaped the southern conservative imagination in the wake of the civil rights movement, and embraced their own version of suburban living at the turn of the twenty-first century. Rooted in U.S. and Mexican archival research, oral history interviews, and family photographs, Corazon de Dixie unearths not just the facts of Mexicanos' long-standing presence in the U.S. South but also their own expectations, strategies, and dreams.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : transcript Verlag | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9783837624984 , 9783839424988
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    Keywords: Wirtschaft ; Regionale Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Alternative Wirtschaft ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: The volume entails a collection of contributions by leading scholars (Raymond Bryant, Michael K. Goodman, Benjamin Huybrechts, Andrew E. G. Jonas, Roger Lee, Peter North, and Katinka Weber) concerned with alternative modes of economic and social exchange. The cases addressed in these contributions – including credit unions, alternative currencies, sustainable consumption, and social enterprises – deliver valuable insights into how such alternatives are performed at various scales and spaces in relation to and beyond the economic mainstream. In sum, the collection provides vital grounds for both a transition of the economic system towards a more sustainable one, and a reconceptualisation of the economic itself in our scholarly thinking and everyday lives...
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : transcript Verlag | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9783837622164 , 9783839422168
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1960-1970 ; Kulturaustausch ; USA ; Europa
    Abstract: This collection brings together new and original critical essays by eleven established European American Studies scholars to explore the 1960s from a transatlantic perspective. Intended for an academic audience interested in globalized American studies, it examines topics ranging from the impact of the American civil rights movement in Germany, France and Wales, through the transatlantic dimensions of feminism and the counterculture movement. It explores, for example, the vicissitudes of Europe's status in US foreign relations, European documentaries about the Vietnam War, transatlantic trends in literature and culture, and the significance of collective and cultural memory of the era...
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    ISBN: 9783837624731 , 9783839424735
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1850-2012 ; Slum ; Armut ; Marginalität ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: What do we know about the urban impoverished areas of the world and the living environment of its inhabitants? How did the urban poor cope with their surroundings? How did they interpret and adopt urban space in order to fight against their position at the periphery of society? This volume takes up these questions and investigates how far approaches of cultural sciences can contribute to overcome the 'exoticization of the ghetto' (Loïc Wacquant) and instead to look at the heterogeneity and individuality behind the facades. It opens new perspectives for the research of poverty and inequalities that do not stop at collective categories...
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Taylor & Francis | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9781315426570 , 9781315426563 , 9781611322927 , 9781611322934
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (159 p.)
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    Keywords: Indigenes Volk ; Forschungsmethode ; Quantitative Methode ; Anthropology ; Kanada ; Australien ; chris ; islander ; methodologies ; methodology ; peoples ; quantitative ; research ; researchers ; strait ; torres
    Abstract: In the first book ever published on Indigenous quantitative methodologies, Maggie Walter and Chris Andersen open up a major new approach to research across the disciplines and applied fields. While qualitative methods have been rigorously critiqued and reformulated, the population statistics relied on by virtually all research on Indigenous peoples continue to be taken for granted as straightforward, transparent numbers. This book dismantles that persistent positivism with a forceful critique, then fills the void with a new paradigm for Indigenous quantitative methods, using concrete examples of research projects from First World Indigenous peoples in the United States, Australia, and Canada. Concise and accessible, it is an ideal supplementary text as well as a core component of the methodological toolkit for anyone conducting Indigenous research or using Indigenous population statistics.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Oxford University Press | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9780199602315
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (314 p.)
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    Keywords: Wirtschaftliche Elite ; Politische Elite ; Identität ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: It has been widely acknowledged that the process of European integration and unification was started and is still pursued as an elite project, designed to put an end to debilitating conflicts and rivalries by consolidating a common power base and by pooling Europe’s economic resources. Nevertheless elites have remained the known unknowns of the European integration process. The present volume is designed to change this. Based on surveys of political and economic elites in 18 European countries, it is a comprehensive study of the visions, fears, cognitions, and values of members of national parliaments and top business leaders underlying their attitudes towards European integration. It also investigates political and economic elites’ embeddedness in transnational networks and their ability to communicate in multicultural settings. Our book strongly supports the view of an elitist character of the process of European integration on the one hand, while challenging the idea that European national elites have merged or are even merging into a coherent Eurelite on the other. As the 11 chapters of this book show, the process of European integration is much more colourful and even contradictory than concepts of a straightforward normative and structural integration suggest. In particular this process is deeply rooted in and conditional on the social and political settings in national contexts. The empirical basis for this book is provided by the data of the international IntUne project, which has for the first time created a comprehensive database combining coordinated surveys of Europe-related attitudes at the elite and general population level.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Amsterdam University Press | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (416 Seiten)
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    Keywords: Einwanderer ; Generation 2 ; Soziale Integration ; Europa
    Abstract: Integration of newcomers is a foremost challenge for contemporary Europe. The 'second generation' - children born of immigrant parentage - is crucial in this process, for they constitute a growing and increasingly vocal segment of the metropolitan youth. This book offers an unprecedented look at the real-life place and position of the European second generation in education, labour, social relations, religion and identity formation. Using data collected by the TIES survey in fifteen cities across eight European countries, the authors paint a vivid picture of how the children of immigrants from Turkey, Morocco and former Yugoslavia are progressing. Their findings and cross-national comparisons are demographically compelling and at times revelational. De kinderen van nieuwkomers in Europa vormen een snel groeiende en vaak opvallende groep jongeren, maar toch is er nauwelijks vergelijkend onderzoek naar gedaan. Voor dit boek werd op grote schaal informatie verzameld op het gebied van onderwijs, werk, sociale relaties, religie en identiteitsvorming. Daardoor ontstaat een helder beeld van de positie van de kinderen van immigranten uit Turkije, Marokko en voormalig Joegoslavië in 15 Europese steden. Een vergelijking tussen deze steden biedt daarbij inzicht in de sterke en zwakke punten van sociaal en integratiebeleid...
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    ISBN: 9780814798379 , 9780814723920
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    Abstract: While the term “culture wars” often designates the heated arguments in the English-speaking world spiraling around race, the canon, and affirmative action, in fact these discussions have raged in diverse sites and languages. Race in Translation charts the transatlantic traffic of the debates within and between three zones—the U.S., France, and Brazil. Stam and Shohat trace the literal and figurative translation of these multidirectional intellectual debates, seen most recently in the emergence of postcolonial studies in France, and whiteness studies in Brazil. The authors also interrogate an ironic convergence whereby rightist politicians like Sarkozy and Cameron join hands with some leftist intellectuals like Benn Michaels, Žižek, and Bourdieu in condemning “multiculturalism” and “identity politics.” At once a report from various “fronts” in the culture wars, a mapping of the germane literatures, and an argument about methods of reading the cross-border movement of ideas, the book constitutes a major contribution to our understanding of the Diasporic and the Transnational.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Amsterdam University Press | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9789048513611 , 9789089642851
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    Series Statement: IMISCOE Research
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    Keywords: Geschlecht ; Familie ; Migration ; Politics & government ; Comparative politics ; Central government policies ; Political Science ; Sociology ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Family-related migration is moving to the center of political debates on migration, integration, and multiculturalism in Europe. Still, strands of academic research on family migrations and migrant families remain separate from-and sometimes ignorant of-each other. This volume seeks to bridge the disciplinary divide. Collectively, the authors address the need to better understand the diversity of family-related migration and its resulting family forms and practices, to question simplistic assumptions about migrant families in public discourse, to study family migration from a mix of disciplinary perspectives, and to acknowledge the state's role in shaping family-related migration, practices, and lives.
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    Abstract: One fifth of the population of the United States belongs to the immigrant or second generations. While the US is generally thought of as the immigrant society par excellence, it now has a number of rivals in Europe. The Next Generation brings together studies from top immigration scholars to explore how the integration of immigrants affects the generations that come after. The original essays explore the early beginnings of the second generation in the United States and Western Europe, exploring the overall patterns of success of the second generation. While there are many striking similarities in the situations of the children of labor immigrants coming from outside the highly developed worlds of Europe and North America, wherever one looks, subtle features of national and local contexts interact with characteristics of the immigrant groups themselves to create variations in second-generation trajectories. The contributors show that these issues are of the utmost importance for the future, for they will determine the degree to which contemporary immigration will produce either durable ethno-racial cleavages or mainstream integration. Contributors: Dalia Abdel-Hady, Frank D. Bean, Susan K. Brown, Maurice Crul, Nancy A. Denton, Rosita Fibbi, Nancy Foner, Anthony F. Heath, Donald J. Hernandez, Tariqul Islam, Frank Kalter, Philip Kasinitz, Mark A. Leach, Mathias Lerch, Suzanne E. Macartney, Karen G Marotz, Noriko Matsumoto, Tariq Modood, Joel Perlmann, Karen Phalet, Jeffrey G. Reitz, Rubén G. Rumbaut, Roxanne Silberman, Philippe Wanner, Aviva Zeltzer-Zubida, andYe Zhang.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Amsterdam University Press | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9789048512669 , 9789089642387
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    Keywords: Transnationale Politik ; Diaspora ; Theorie ; Migration ; Einwanderung ; Nationale Minderheit ; Sociology ; Sociology ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Diaspora and transnationalism are widely used concepts in academic as well as political discourses. Although originally referring to quite different phenomena, they increasingly overlap today. Such inflation of meanings goes hand in hand with a danger of essentialising collective identities. This book therefore analyses diaspora and transnationalism as research perspectives rather than as characteristics of particular social groups. The contributions focus on conceptual uses, theoretical challenges and methodological innovations in the study of social ties that transcend nation and state boundaries. This volume brings together authors from a wide range of fields and approaches in the social sciences, as studying border-crossing affiliations also requires a crossing of disciplinary boundaries. This title is available in the OAPEN Library - http://www.oapen.org.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : University of Michigan Press | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9780472070855 , 9780472050857
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    Keywords: Humanities ; Digital Media--Social Aspects
    Abstract: The world of communication media has undergone massive changes since the mid-1980s. Along with the extraordinary progress in technological capability, it has experienced stunning decreases in costs; a revolutionary opening up of markets (a phenomenon exemplified by but not limited to the rise of the Internet); the advent of new business models; and a striking acceleration in the rate of change. These technological, regulatory, and economic changes have attracted the attention of a large number of researchers, from industry and academe, and given rise to a substantial body of research and data. Significantly less attention has been paid to the people who use new media—whose own rate of adoption and assimilation often lags notably behind the technologies themselves. When Media Are New addresses this research and publishing gap by investigating the human factors involved in technological change and their implications for current and future media. It will find a broad audience ranging from media and communication scholars to historians and organizational theorists to industry professionals.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : University of Michigan Press | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9780472070824 , 9780472050826
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    Abstract: In Media, Technology, and Society, some of the most prominent figures in media studies explore the issue of media evolution. Focusing on a variety of compelling examples in media history, ranging from the telephone to the television, the radio to the Internet, these essays collectively address a series of notoriously vexing questions about the nature of technological change. Is it possible to make general claims about the conditions that enable or inhibit innovation? Does government regulation tend to protect or thwart incumbent interests? What kinds of concepts are needed to address the relationship between technology and society in a nonreductive and nondeterministic manner? To what extent can media history help us to understand and to influence the future of media in constructive ways? The contributors' historically grounded responses to these questions will be relevant to numerous fields, including history, media and communication studies, management, sociology, and information studies.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Pluto Press | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9780745329482 , 9781849645515
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (224 p.)
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    Keywords: Ethnische Identität ; Multikulturelle Gesellschaft ; Ethnizität ; Lateinamerika
    Abstract: For over ten years, Race and Ethnicity in Latin America has been an essential text for students studying the region. This second edition adds new material and brings the analysis up to date.Race and ethnic identities are increasingly salient in Latin America. Peter Wade examines changing perspectives on Black and Indian populations in the region, tracing similarities and differences in the way these peoples have been seen by academics and national elites. Race and ethnicity as analytical concepts are re-examined in order to assess their usefulness.This book should be the first port of call for anthropologists and sociologists studying identity in Latin America.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Taylor & Francis | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9780203856147 , 9780415999304
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (312 p.)
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    Keywords: Society & culture: general ; Astronomy, space & time ; transgender people ; gender identity ; identity ; sociology
    Abstract: Transgender Identities: Towards a Social Analysis of Gender Diversity emerges from, and speaks to, recent sociological considerations of ‘transgender.’ The term ‘transgender’ denotes a range of gender experiences, subjectivities and presentations that fall across, between or beyond stable categories of ‘man’ and ‘woman.’ ‘Transgender’ includes gender identities that have, more traditionally, been described as ‘transsexual,’1 and a diversity of genders that call into question an assumed relationship between gender identity and presentation and the ‘sexed’ body.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Waxmann Verlag | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9783830973751 , 9783830923756
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (296 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Cultural Encounters and the Discourses of Scholarship 2
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Sklaverei ; Zwangsarbeit ; Literary theory ; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography ; Transdisciplin ; Slavery ; Christian Slavery ; Europes Colonizing Mission ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift 2008
    Abstract: Slavery – the subjection of some human beings to a state of bondage by other, more powerful, people – has been an accepted social institution since ancient times. It is less well known that slavery has also produced cultural contact zones in forcing members of different cultures into sharing the same places – whether in private households, on plantations, in mines and quarries, or indeed the same imaginative sites in works of art and public memory. The recent commemorations of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade by Britain (1807) and the United States (1808), as well as the rise of Black Atlantic Studies as a new academic field, have drawn new attention to this topic. In spite of these recent trends and the prominent position of slavery studies in British and American historiography, slavery’s implications for the study of cultural encounters remain a scholarly desideratum. This volume seeks to contribute to a better understanding of different forms of human bondage in cultural contact zones. The essays in this collection represent a wide spectrum of the scholarship on slavery, as well as illustrating the vast range of conceptual approaches to the topic. They bring together research from several different disciplines and critical angles addressing, for example, archaeological reconstructions of labor camps in ancient Palestine, the moral significance of early Christian slavery, the ambivalent aestheticization of black bodies within the colonial culture of taste, Enlightenment discourses about black revolution, the significance of mythical narratives in African-American slave culture, the musical mourning for lynching victims, and the blindness toward the presence of slave laborers in Nazi Germany. Most essays collected here are concerned with the cultural and human aspects of slavery as well as with establishing an understanding for the stark differences between various forms of slavery throughout history, stretching from antiquity into the twentieth century.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Berghahn Books | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9781845454807 , 9781785336621 , 9780857453136
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (272 p.)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1871-1918 ; Ledige Frau ; Stereotyp ; Frauenbewegung ; Deutschland
    Abstract: The first German women’s movement embraced the belief in a demographic surplus of unwed women, known as the Frauenüberschuß, as a central leitmotif in the campaign for reform. Proponents of the female surplus held that the advances of industry and urbanization had upset traditional marriage patterns and left too many bourgeois women without a husband. This book explores the ways in which the realms of literature, sexology, demography, socialism, and female activism addressed the perceived plight of unwed women. Case studies of reformers, including Lily Braun, Ruth Bré, Elisabeth Gnauck-Kühne, Helene Lange, Alice Salomon, Helene Stöcker, and Clara Zetkin, demonstrate the expansive influence of the discourse surrounding a female surfeit. By combining the approaches of cultural, social, and gender history, The Surplus Woman provides the first sustained analysis of the ways in which imperial Germans conceptualized anxiety about female marital status as both a product and a reflection of changing times.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Amsterdam University Press | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9789048504176 , 9789053568668
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    Series Statement: IMISCOE Research
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    Keywords: Internationale Migration ; Sociology ; Europa ; Sociology
    Abstract: A fundamental issue in society today, migration has been undergoing a new dynamic transformation, calling for new policy approaches. This new dynamic is not yet understood clearly, let alone that adequate policy answers for 'the managing' of these new migration processes and the consequences for receiving and sending societies are within. This comprehensive overview of migration research conducted throughout the IMISCOE network of European research analyses the influx of various types of immigrants in Western Europe post World War II, mostly to large cities, as well as the reactions of the native populations and governments to the changes and pressures brought about by immigration. This title is available in the OAPEN Library - http://www.oapen.org.
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    ISBN: 9789048504244 , 9789053568835
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1880-2004 ; Migration ; Integration ; Einwanderer ; Humanities ; Sociology ; Westeuropa ; Sociology ; History ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Why do some migrants integrate quickly, while others become long-term minorities? What is the role of the state in the settlement process? To what extent are experiences in the past different from the present? Are the recent migrants really integrating in another way than those in the past? Is Islam indeed an obstacle to integration? These are some of the burning questions, which dominate the current politicized debate on immigration in Western Europe. In this book, leading historians and social scientists analyze and compare a variety of settlement processes in past and present migration to Western Europe. Identifying general factors in the process of adaptation of new immigrants, the contributors trace social changes effected by recent European immigration, and the parallels with the great American migration of the 1880s-1920s. The history of migration to Western Europe and the way these migrants found their place in the receiving societies, is not only essential to understand the way nations deal with newcomers in the present, but also constitutes a highly interesting laboratory for different paths of integration now and then. By analyzing and comparing a wealth of settlement processes both in the past and in the present this book is both a bold interdisciplinary endeavor, and at the same time the first attempt to identify general factors underlying the way migrants adapt to their new surroundings, as well as how societies change under the influence of immigration. The chapters in the book both look at specific groups in various periods, but also analyses the structure of the state, churches unions and other important organized actors in Western European nation states. Moreover, the results are embedded in the more theoretical American literature on the comparison of old and new migrants. All chapters have an explicit comparative perspective, either by comparing different groups or different periods, whereas the general conclusion ties together the various outcomes in a systematic way, highlighting the main answers to the central questions about the various outcomes of settlement processes. This title is available in the OAPEN Library - http://www.oapen.org.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Taylor & Francis | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9780203641019 , 9780415348768
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    Keywords: Geography ; Human geography ; social ; capital ; cultural ; turn ; michael ; watts ; thinking ; economy ; bolivian ; musicians
    Abstract: Using recent research on development projects around the world, this book argues that culture has become an explicit tool and framework for development discourse and practice. Providing a theoretical and empirically informed critique, this informative book includes conceptual overviews and case studies on topics such as: development for indigenous people natural resource management social capital and global markets for Third World music post-apartheid South Africa cultural difference in the USA’s late capitalism. The editor concludes by evaluating the outcomes of development’s ‘cultural turn’, proposing a framework for future work in this field. By combining case studies from both ‘Third World’ and ‘First World’ countries, the book, ideal for those in the fields of geography, culture and development studies, raises innovative questions about the ‘transferability’ of notions of culture across the world, and the types of actors involved.
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    New York : New York University Press | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9780814728598 , 9780814727454
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    Keywords: Einwanderung ; Auswanderung ; USA ; New York ; Großbritannien ; London ; Sociology ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology
    Abstract: 2007 Choice Outstanding Academic Title A comparative analysis of the U.S.'s contemporary immigrants to those who arrived a century ago According to the 2000 census, more than 10% of U.S. residents were foreign born; together with their American-born children, this group constitutes one fifth of the nation's population. What does this mass immigration mean for America? Leading immigration studies scholar, Nancy Foner, answers this question in her study of comparative immigration. Drawing on the rich history of American immigrants and current statistical and ethnographic data, In a New Land compares today’s new immigrants with the past influxes of Europeans to the United States and across cities and regions within the United States. Foner looks at immigration across nation-states, and over different periods of time, offering a comprehensive assessment and analysis. This original approach to the study of recent U.S. immigration focuses on race and ethnicity, gender, and transnational connections. Centering her analysis on the groups that have come through and significantly shaped New York City, Foner compares today’s Latin American, Asian, and Caribbean newcomers with eastern and southern European immigrants a century ago and with immigrants in other major U.S. cities. Looking beyond the United States, Foner compares West Indian immigrants in New York with those in London. And, more generally, the book views the process of immigrants’ integration in New York against other recent immigrant destinations in Europe. Drawing on a wealth of historical and contemporary research, and written in a clear and lively style, In a New Land provides fresh insights into the dynamics of immigration today and the implications for where we are headed in the future.
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    New York : New York University Press | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9780814729229 , 9780814782682
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    Keywords: Social discrimination and equal treatment ; Human rights, civil rights ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFA Social discrimination and social justice ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPV Political control and freedoms::JPVH Human rights, civil rights
    Abstract: After Race pushes us beyond the old "race vs. class" debates to delve deeper into the structural conditions that spawn racism. Darder and Torres place the study of racism forthrightly within the context of contemporary capitalism. While agreeing with those who have argued that the concept of "race" does not have biological validity, they go further to insist that the concept also holds little political, symbolic, or descriptive value when employed in social science and policy research. Darder and Torres argue for the need to jettison the concept of "race," while calling adamantly for the critical study of racism. They maintain that an understanding of structural class inequality is fundamentally germane to comprehending the growing significance of racism in capitalist America.
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    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9780472904068 , 9780472033621
    Language: English
    DDC: 791.086930943
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1945-1990 ; Künste ; Kulturwandel ; Sexualität ; Kultur ; Rassenfrage ; Ethnizität ; Gender studies, gender groups ; Deutschland ; German Studies ; Cultural Studies ; Theater and Performance ; History
    Abstract: The Holocaust is considered a singularly atrocious event in human history, and many people have studied its causes. Yet few questions have been asked about the ways in which West Germans have "forgotten," unlearned, or reconstructed the racial beliefs at the core of the Nazi state in order to build a democratic society. This study looks at ethnic drag as one particular kind of performance that reveals how postwar Germans lived, disavowed, and contested "Germanness" in its complex racial, national, and sexual dimensions.
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    ISBN: 9780203984611 , 9780415187688
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    Keywords: Stadtökologie ; Lokale Agenda 21 ; Globalisierung ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Umweltverträglichkeit ; Geography ; Human geography ; ecologically ; sustainable ; development ; rio ; declaration ; ecological ; modernisation ; conference ; sustainability ; global
    Abstract: This book is about cities as engines of consumption of the world's environment, and the spread of policies to reduce their impact. It looks at these issues by examining the impact of the Rio Declaration and assesses the extent to which it has made a difference. Consuming Cities examines this impact using case studies from around the world including: the USA, Japan, Germany, the UK, China, India, Sweden, Poland, Australia and Indonesia The contributors all have direct experience of the urban environment and urban policies in the countries on which they write and offer an authoritative commentary which brings the urban 'consumption' dimension of sustainable development into focus.
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    ISBN: 9780814707821 , 9780814706404
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    Series Statement: Critical America
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    Keywords: Ethnic studies ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies
    Abstract: Tackling the ugly secret of unconscious racism in American society, this book provides specific solutions to counter this entrenched phenomenon.
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    New York : New York University Press | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9780814788806 , 9780814780008
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    Series Statement: Reappraisals Jewish Social History
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    Keywords: Juden ; Integration ; Identität ; USA ; Ethnic studies ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies ; Konferenzschrift 1991
    Abstract: How did Judaism, a religion so often defined by its minority status, attain equal footing in the trinity of Catholicism, Protestantism, and Judaism that now dominates modern American religious life? THE AMERICANIZATION OF THE JEWS seeks out the effects of this evolution on both Jews in America and an America with Jews. Although English, French, and Dutch Jewries are usually considered the principal forerunners of modern Jewry, Jews have lived as long in North America as they have in post- medieval Britain and France and only sixty years less than in Amsterdam. As one of the four especially creative Jewish communities that has helped re-shape and re-formulate modern Judaism, American Judaism is the most complex and least understood. German Jewry is recognized for its contribution to modern Jewish theology and philosophy, Russian and Polish Jewry is known for its secular influence in literature, and Israel clearly offers Judaism a new stance as a homeland. But how does one capture the interplay between America and Judaism? Immigration to America meant that much of Judaism was discarded, and much was retained. Acculturation did not always lead to assimilation: Jewishness was honed as an independent variable in the motivations of many of its American adherents- -and has remained so, even though Jewish institutions, ideologies, and even Jewish values have been reshaped by America to such an degree that many Jews of the past might not recognize as Jewish some of what constitutes American Jewishness. This collection of essays explores the paradoxes that abound in the America/Judaism relationship, focusing on such specific issues as Jews and American politics in the twentieth century, the adaptation of Jewish religious life to the American environment, the contributions and impact of the women's movement, and commentaries on the Jewish future in America.
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    ISBN: 9780253069092 , 9780253324818
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1700-1800 ; Frau ; Aufklärung ; Gender studies, gender groups ; Frankreich ; history ; world ; social science ; women's studies ; gender studies ; women and girls
    Abstract: French Women And The Age Of Enlightenment presents a stimulating portrait of women at the most crucial and paradoxical moment in French and world history. Not until the present century have French women been as influential and prolific as they were in the Age of the Enlightenment.
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    ISBN: 9780203976883 , 9780415067041
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    Keywords: Education ; Health systems & services ; Nursing & ancillary services ; women ; west ; indian ; woman ; hilda ; girl ; girls ; pupils ; families ; labour
    Abstract: Young black women bear all the hallmarks of a fundamentally unequal society. They do well at school, contribute to society, are good efficient workers yet, as a group they consistently fail to secure the economic status and occupational prestige they deserve. This book presents a serious challenge to the widely held myth that young black women consistently underachieve both at school and in the labour market. In a comparative study of research and writig from America, Britain and the Caribbean Young, Female and Black re-examines our present understanding of what is meant by educational underachievement, the black family and, in particular, black womanhood in Britain.
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    ISBN: 9781501721366 , 9780801426971 , 9781501727788 , 9781501721373
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (296 p.)
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    Keywords: Urban communities ; Black & Asian studies ; Migration, immigration & emigration ; Social and cultural anthropology ; History of the Americas ; Migration, immigration and emigration
    Abstract: By focusing on the social and cultural life of post-1965 Taiwan immigrants in Queens, New York, this book shifts Chinese American studies from ethnic enclaves to the diverse multiethnic neighborhoods of Flushing and Elmhurst. As Hsiang-shui Chen documents, the political dynamics of these settlements are entirely different from the traditional closed Chinese communities; the immigrants in Queens think of themselves as living in "worldtown," not in a second Chinatown. Drawing on interviews with members of a hundred households, Chen brings out telling aspects of demography, immigration experience, family life, and gender roles, and then turns to vivid, humanistic portraits of three families. Chen also describes the organizational life of the Chinese in Queens with a lively account of the power struggles and social interactions that occur within religious, sports, social service, and business groups and with the outside world.
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    ISBN: 9780253069139 , 9780253325334
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    Keywords: Bara ; Verwandtschaft ; Sozialstruktur ; Geschlechterrolle ; Gender studies, gender groups ; Madagaskar ; Gender ; Madagascar
    Abstract: This is a theoretical and ethnographic essay on sexuality and the social order using the Bara material as a vehicle for demonstrating important universal features of human social life. In this sense the style of exposition and organization is modeled after some of the famous essays of the Année sociologique on issues such as bodily polarity, secondary burial, and seasonal variations, all of which drew on limited ethnographic material to pursue general features of humanity.
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