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    Not Like a Native Speaker : On Languaging as a Postcolonial Experience (2014)
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    ISBN: 9780231151450
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (249 p)
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als Chow, Rey, 1957 - Not like a native speaker
    DDC: 306.44
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    Schlagwort(e): Sociolinguists - History ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Postkolonialismus ; Spracherwerb ; Fremdsprachenlernen ; Sprachpolitik ; Sprachgebrauch
    Kurzfassung: Although the era of European colonialism has long passed, misgivings about the inequality of the encounters between European and non-European languages persist in many parts of the postcolonial world. This unfinished state of affairs, this lingering historical experience of being caught among unequal languages, is the subject of Rey Chow''s book. A diverse group of personae, never before assembled in a similar manner, make their appearances in the various chapters: the young mulatto happening upon a photograph about skin color in a popular magazine; the man from Martinique hearing himself name
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Epigraphs; Contents; Note on Non-English Sources; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Skin Tones-About Language Postcoloniality, and Racialization; 1. Derrida''s Legacy of the Monolingual; 2. Not Like a Native Speaker: The Postcolonial Scene of Languaging and the Proximity of the Xenophone; 3. Translator, Traitor; Translator, Mourner (or, Dreaming of Intercultural Equivalence); 4. Thinking With Food, Writing Off Center: The Postcolonial Work of Leung Ping-Kwan and MA Kwok-Ming; 5. The Sounds and Scripts of a Hong Kong Childhood; Notes; Index
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    Mad Mothers, Bad Mothers, and What a Good Mother Would Do : The Ethics of Ambivalence (2014)
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    ISBN: 9780231166751
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (267 p)
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    Paralleltitel: Print version Mad Mothers, Bad Mothers, and What a ""Good"" Mother Would Do : The Ethics of Ambivalence
    DDC: 306.874/3
    Schlagwort(e): Ambivalence ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: When a mother kills her child, we call her a bad mother, but, as this book shows, even mothers who intend to do their children harm are not easily categorized as ?mad" or ?bad." Maternal love is a complex emotion rich with contradictory impulses and desires, and motherhood is a conflicted state in which women constantly renegotiate the needs mother and child, the self and the other. Applying care ethics philosophy and the work of Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Simone de Beauvoir to real-world experiences of motherhood, Sarah LaChance Adams throws the inherent tensions of mother
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Mad Mothers, Bad Mothers, and What a "Good" Mother Would Do; 2. The Mother as Ethical Exemplar in Ethics; 3. Motherhood's Janus Head; 4. Maternity as Vulnerability in the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas; 5. Maternity as Dehiscence in the Flesh in the Philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty; 6. Maternity as Negotiating Mutual Transcendence in the Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir; Conclusion: The Stranger of My Flesh-an Existential Phenomenological Ethics; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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    Boundaries of toleration (2014)
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    ISBN: 9780231536332
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 Online-Ressource (IX, 316 Seiten) , Illustrationen
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    Serie: Religion, Culture, and Public Life
    Paralleltitel: Print version Boundaries of Toleration
    DDC: 179.9
    Schlagwort(e): Toleration - Philosophy ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: How can people of diverse religious, historical, ethnic, and linguistic allegiances and identities live together without committing violence, inflicting suffering, or oppressing each other? Western civilization has long understood this dilemma as a question of toleration, yet the logic of toleration and the logic of multicultural rights entrenchment are two very different things.In this volume, contributors suggest we also think beyond toleration to mutual respect, practiced before the creation of modern multiculturalism in the West. Salman Rushdie reflects on the once mutually tolerant Sufi-H
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Table of Contents; Introduction, by Alfred Stepan and Charles Taylor; Religion and the Imagination, by Salman Rushdie with Gauri Viswanathan; Part 1. Classical Western Approaches to Toleration; A Form of Liberty and Indulgence: Toleration as a Layered Institution, by Ira Katznelson; How to Define Secularism, by Charles Taylor; Secularism: Its Content and Context, by Akeel Bilgrami; Half-Toleration: Concordia and the Limits of Dialogue, by Nadia Urbinati; Part 2. Before and Beyond Classical Approaches to Toleration
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Beyond Toleration: Civility and Principled Coexistence in Asokan Edicts, by Rajeev BhargavaEmpire and Toleration: A Comparative Sociology of Toleration Within Empire, by Karen Barkey; Modernity, State, and Toleration in Indian History: Exploring Accommodations and Partitions, by Sudipta Kaviraj; Muslims and Toleration: Unexamined Contributions to the Multiple Secularisms of Modern Democracies, by Alfred Stepan; Contributors; Index
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    Foundations of the Earth : Global Ecological Change and the Book of Job (2014)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 0231537697 , 9780231537698
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 Online-Ressource (590 pages)
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als Shugart, H.H Foundations of the Earth
    DDC: 304.2
    Schlagwort(e): Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc ; Bible ; Human ecology Religious aspects ; Environmental degradation Religious aspects ; Ecology Religious aspects ; Natural history Religious aspects ; Religion and science ; Bible and science ; RELIGION ; Biblical Criticism & Interpretation ; General ; SCIENCE ; Environmental Science ; Bible and science ; Ecology ; Religious aspects ; Environmental degradation ; Religious aspects ; Human ecology ; Religious aspects ; Natural history ; Religious aspects ; Religion and science ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: 8. Making the Ground Put Forth Grass: The Relationship Between Climate and VegetationClimate and Vegetation; Climate-Vegetation Relationships in a Changing World; Concluding Comments; 9. Feeding the Lions: The Conservation of Biological Diversity on a Changing Planet; On the Conservation of the Bright and Beautiful, Big and Dangerous; The Megafaunal Extinctions at the End of the Pleistocene; Conserving Diversity on a Changing Planet; Concluding Comments; 10. Making Weather and Influencing Climate: Human Engineering of the Earth; Making Weather; Geoengineering: Climate Modification.
    Kurzfassung: ?Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?" God asks Job in the?Whirlwind Speech," but Job cannot reply. This passage?which some environmentalists and religious scholars treat as a?green" creation myth?drives H.H. Shugart's extraordinary investigation, in which he uses verses from God's speech to Job to explore the planetary system, animal domestication, sea-level rise, evolution, biodiversity, weather phenomena, and climate change. Shugart calls attention to the rich resonance between the Earth's natural history and the workings of religious feeling, the wisdom of
    Kurzfassung: Concluding Comments11. Conclusion: Comprehending the Earth; Notes; Index.
    Kurzfassung: Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1. Introduction; On Job and the Whirlwind Speeches; The Whirlwind Speech; The Whirlwind Speech as an Account of Planetary Creation and Function; The Antiquity of the Job Text; Questions to Job from the Whirlwind; 2. Laying the Foundation of the Earth; The Origin of the Earth; Laying the Foundation of the Earth; Concluding Comments; 3. Taming the Unicorn, Yoking the Aurochs: Animal and Plant Domestication and the Consequent Alteration of the Surface of the Earth; The Unicorn; The Wild Ox; The Domestication of Animals.
    Kurzfassung: The Ordinances of the Heavens and Their Rule on EarthBiological and Ecological Timing; Knowing When the Mountain Goats Give Birth; Migration: When Birds Turn Their Wings Toward the South; Concluding Comments; 7. The Dwelling of the Light and the Paths to Its Home: Winds, Ocean Currents, and the Global Energy Balance; Föhns and Chinooks: Physical Processes Behind the Pattern; Tropical Cyclones, Hurricanes, and Typhoons; The Hadley Circulation: The Paths to Home; Winds and Ocean Gyres; Light's Pathway Home: The Global Radiation Balance; Concluding Comments.
    Kurzfassung: The Dog as the First Domesticated AnimalYoking the Aurochs; Changing Regional Land Cover; Concluding Comments; 4. Freeing the Onager: Feral and Introduced Animals; The Onager; The Onager as a Draft Animal; Humans as a Keystone Species; Introduced Species; Ecosystems and Anthro-Ecosystems on a Human-Dominated Planet; Concluding Comments; 5. Bounding the Seas, Freezing the Face of the Deep: When the Sea Is Loosed from Its Bonds; The Tides; Past Sea Levels; Future Sea Level Rise; Concluding Comments; 6. The Ordinances of the Heavens and Their Rule on Earth: Adaptation and the Cycles of Life.
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    The Resurrected Skeleton : From Zhuangzi to Lu Xun (2014)
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    ISBN: 9780231165044
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (345 p)
    Serie: Translations from the Asian Classics
    Paralleltitel: Print version The Resurrected Skeleton : From Zhuangzi to Lu Xun
    DDC: 895.109351
    Schlagwort(e): Zhuangzi -- In literature ; Chinese literature -- History and criticism ; Resurrection in literature ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: The Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi (369?286 B.C.E.) encountered a skull that later in a dream praises the pleasures of death over the toil of living. This anecdote became popular with poets in the second and third centuries and found renewed significance with the founders of Quanzhen Daoism. These philosophers turned the skull into a skeleton, a metonym for death and a symbol of the refusal of enlightenment. Popular throughout the Ming dynasty (1368?1644) and reenvisioned by the fiction writer Lu Xun (1881?1936), the legend echoes transformations in Chinese philosophy and culture. The first book
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 2. One Late Ming Play; 3. One Youth Book; 4. One Precious Scroll; 5. One Modern Parody; Appendix 1. Three Rhapsodies; Appendix 2. Twenty-One Lyrics; Appendix 3. Ten Skeletons; Character List; Bibliography; Index
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    The Assault on Social Policy (2014)
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    ISBN: 9780231160070
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (259 p)
    Paralleltitel: Print version The Assault on Social Policy
    DDC: 303.3
    Schlagwort(e): Business and politics -- United States ; Corporations -- Political activity -- United States ; United States -- Social policy -- 1993- ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: 〈div〉A number of groups have intensified their attack on social policy over the past ten years, and this revised textbook reflects these developments, along with new research on the hotly contested policy areas of poverty, welfare, disability, social security, and health care. This edition also considers the recent, ongoing effects of globalization and economic challenges on social policy and includes a new chapter on education.〈/div〉
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Table of Contents; Foreword, by Senator Bernard Sanders; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Policy; 2. Corporations; 3. Poverty; 4. Welfare; 5. Disability; 6. Social Security; 7. Health; 8. Children; 9. Education; 10. Outsiders; 11. Democratic Change; Notes; Index
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    Spatial Social Thought : Local Knowledge in Global Science Encounters (2014)
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    ISBN: 9783838265261 , 3838265262
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online Ressource (333 pages)
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 301
    Schlagwort(e): Sociology History ; 21st century ; Sociology History 21st century ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; General ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Regional Studies ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Sociology ; General ; Sociology ; History ; Electronic books ; Electronic books History ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Kurzfassung: Chapter 15 -- How to Overcome "Oriental" Sociology?Authors.
    Kurzfassung: Chapter 10 -- Culture as a Dimension in International Social Science EncountersChapter 11 -- The Manifestation of Scientific Cultures: A Sociophilosophical Study of Islamic Scientific Tradition; Chapter 12 -- The Study of Culture within Alternative Vision; Section IV: Globalizing Local Social Thought; Chapter 13 -- The Transformation Processes in Global Social Knowledge; Chapter 14 -- Can Peripheries Talk Back? Alternative Intellectual Trends in Tamil Nadu and their Possible Lessons for Knowledge-Making Practices outside Intellectual Power Centers.
    Kurzfassung: Section II: Spatialized Thought and Local Knowledge ProductionChapter 5 -- Michel Foucault and the Postcolonial African Theory: A Critical Essay; Chapter 6 -- Knowledge Production: A Perspective from the Periphery; Chapter 7 -- Civilizational Encounter, Cultural Translation, and Social Reflexivity: A Note on the History of Sociology in Japan; Chapter 8 -- The community of sociologists in Morocco facing the internationalization of knowledge; Chapter 9 -- Internationalization of Research in Lebanon: The case of the American University of Beirut; Section III: Culture in Global Knowledge Encounters.
    Kurzfassung: Table of Contents; Foreword; Section I: Global Social Thought; Chapter 1 -- Concepts that Hinder the Progress of Sociological Research: Identity as an Epistemological Obstacle; Chapter 2 -- Isn't Anthropology Already a Multiversalist Discipline?Assessing the Status of Anthropology in Asia; Chapter 3 -- Indigenised while Internationalised?Tensions and Dilemmas in China's Modern Transformation of Social Sciences in an Age of Globalisation; Chapter 4 -- 'Academic Dependence': The World Social Science Arena-a Battlefield among Parochial Thought?
    Kurzfassung: This volume presents perspectives on spatially construed knowledge systems and their struggle to interrelate. Western social sciences tend to be wrapped up in very specific, exclusionary discourses, and Northern and Southern knowledge systems are sidelined. Spatial Social Thought reimagines the social sciences as a place of encounter between all spatially bound, parochial knowledge systems
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    Survivors of Slavery : Modern-Day Slave Narratives (2014)
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    ISBN: 0231535759 , 9780231535755
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 Online-Ressource (345 pages)
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als Murphy, Laura Survivors of Slavery : Modern-Day Slave Narratives
    DDC: 306.3/620905
    Schlagwort(e): Slavery History 21st century ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; Slavery ; LAW / Criminal Law / General ; History ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: Appendix C: Suggestions for Further Reading and ViewingNotes; Index.
    Kurzfassung: Slavery is not a crime confined to the far reaches of history. It is an injustice that continues to entrap twenty-seven million people across the globe. Laura Murphy offers close to forty survivor narratives from Cambodia, Ghana, Lebanon, Macedonia, Mexico, Russia, Thailand, Ukraine, and the United States, detailing the horrors of a system that forces people to work without pay and against their will, under the threat of violence, with little or no means of escape. Representing a variety of circumstances in diverse contexts, these survivors are the Frederick Douglasses, Sojourner Truths
    Kurzfassung: Table of Contents; Foreword by Kevin Bales and Minh Dang; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Allure of Work; 2. Slaves in the Family; 3. Case Study: Interviews from a Brothel; 4. Painful Defiance and Contested Freedom; 5. Community Response and Resistance; 6. Case Study: Mining Unity; 7. The Voice and the Silence of Slavery; 8. Becoming an Activist; 9. Case Study: Coalition Against Slavery and Trafficking, Survivor Advisory Caucus; Epilogue: Twenty-First-Century Abolitionists-What You Can Do to End Slavery; Appendix A: Antislavery Organizations; Appendix B: Signs of Enslavement.
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    Creating a Learning Society : A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social Progress (2014)
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    ISBN: 9780231152143
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (677 p)
    Serie: Kenneth Arrow Lecture Series
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    Paralleltitel: Print version Creating a Learning Society : A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social Progress
    DDC: 300
    Schlagwort(e): Social learning ; Social learning ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: It has long been recognized that most standard of living increases are associated with advances in technology, not the accumulation of capital. Yet it has also become clear that what truly separates developed from less developed countries is not just a gap in resources or output but a gap in knowledge. In fact, the pace at which developing countries grow is largely determined by the pace at which they close that gap. Therefore, how countries learn and become more productive is key to understanding how they grow and develop, especially over the long term. In Creating a Learning Society, Josep
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 1: Creating a Learning Society: A New Paradigm for Development and Social Progress: Basic Concepts; 1. The Learning Revolution; 2. On the Importance of Learning; 3. A Learning Economy; 4. Creating a Learning Firm and a Learning Environment; 5. Market Structure, Welfare, and Learning; 6. The Welfare Economics of Schumpeterian Competition; Part 2: Analytics; 7. Learning in a Closed Economy-the Basic Model; 8. A Two-Period, N-Good Model with Endogenous Labor Supply; 9. Learning with Monopolistic Competition
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 10. Long-Term Growth and Innovation11. The Infant-Economy Argument for Protection: Trade Policy in a Learning Environment; Part 3: Policies for a Learning Society; 12. The Role of Industrial and Trade Policy in Creating a Learning Society; 13. Financial Policy and Creating a Learning Society; 14. Macroeconomic and Investment Policies for a Learning Society; 15. Intellectual Property; 16. Social Transformation and the Creation of a Learning Society; 17. Concluding Remarks; Part 4: Commentary and Afterword; 18. Introductory Remarks for the First Annual Arrow Lecture, by Michael Woodford
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 19. Further Considerations, by Joseph E. Stiglitz and Bruce C. Greenwald20. Commentary: The Case for Industrial Policy, by Philippe Aghion; 21. Commentary, by Robert Solow; 22. Commentary, by Kenneth Arrow; Afterword: Rethinking Industrial Policy, by Philippe Aghion; Notes; References; Notes on Contributors; Index
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    Aristotle's Ladder, Darwin's Tree : The Evolution of Visual Metaphors for Biological Order (2014)
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    ISBN: 9780231537667
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (257 pages)
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als Archibald, J. David Aristotle's ladder, Darwin's tree
    DDC: 306.09
    Schlagwort(e): Imagery (Psychology) ; Imagery (Psychology) ; Electronic books ; Interpretation ; Evolution ; Phylogenetische Systematik ; Geschichte
    Kurzfassung: Leading paleontologist David Archibald explores the rich history of visual metaphors for biological order from ancient times to the present and their influence on human beings' perception of their place in nature. Specifically, Archibald focuses on ladders and trees, and the first appearance of trees to represent seasonal life cycles. Their use in ancient Roman decorations and genealogies was then appropriated by the early Christian Church to represent biblical genealogies. The late eighteenth century saw the idea of a tree reappropriated to visualize relationships in the natural world, sometimes with a creationist view, but in some instances suggesting evolution. Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859) exorcised the exclusively creationist view of the tree of life." His ideas sparked an explosion of trees, mostly by younger acolytes in Europe. Although Darwin's influence waned in the early twentieth century, by midcentury his ideas held sway once again in time for another and even greater explosion of tree building, generated by the development of new theories on how to assemble trees, the birth of powerful computing, and the emergence of molecular technology. Throughout his far-reaching study, and with the use of many figures, Archibald connects the evolution of tree of life" iconography to our changing perception of the world and ourselves, offering uncommon insight into how we went from standing on the top rung of the biological ladder to embodying just one tiny twig on the tree of life.
    Kurzfassung: Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Blaming Aristotle -- 2. The Roots of the Tree of Life -- 3. Competing Visual Metaphors -- 4. Deciphering Darwin's Trees -- 5. The Gilded Age of Evolutionary Trees -- 6. The Waning and Waxing of Darwinian Trees -- 7. Three Revolutions in Tree Building -- 8. The Paragon of Animals -- References -- Index.
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    When Stereotype Meets Prejudice : Antiziganism in European Societies (2014)
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    ISBN: 9783838266886
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 Online-Ressource (249 pages)
    Paralleltitel: Print version Agarin, Timofey When Stereotype Meets Prejudice : Antiziganism in European Societies
    DDC: 305.8914970409049
    Schlagwort(e): Romanies -- Civil rights -- Europe ; Romanies -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Europe ; Romanies ; Civil rights ; Europe.. ; Romanies ; Legal status, laws, etc ; Europe ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: Antiziganism is a widespread phenomenon in all European societies. Poor or rich, postcommunist' or traditional', North or South, with lean' or thick' welfare systems?all European societies demonstrate antiziganist prejudice. All across Europe Romanis are among the poorest, most destitute, and most excluded communities. Widespread prejudice and stereotypical representations of Romani individuals limit their chances for participation in democratic decision making processes and their access to services. Unable to counteract majority stereotypes systematically, more often than not they remain on the fringes of society. This edited volume asks where these stereotypes and prejudices come from, why they are ubiquitous to all societies, and how pertinent their impact on antiziganist attitudes found in European societies really is
    Kurzfassung: Contents -- Note on contributors -- Introduction -- The Emergence of a Reasonable Anti-Gypsyism in Europe -- It is in their DNA: Swedish Police, Structural Antiziganism and the Registration of Romanis -- Antiziganism as a Structure of Meanings: The Racial Antiziganism of an Austrian Nazi -- The Road to Empowerment: A Multi-Level Governance Approach -- Roma as a Pan-European Minority? Opportunities for Political and Legal Recognition -- The Subtlety of Racism: From Antiziganism to Romaphobia -- Moral Exclusion and Blaming the Victim: The Delegitimising Role of Antiziganism -- Antiziganism as Cultural Racism: Before and After the Disintegration of Yugoslavia -- The Root Cause of Romani Exclusion and the European National Roma Integration Strategies
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    Beyond Sinology : Chinese Writing and the Scripts of Culture (2014)
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    ISBN: 9780231164528
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (297 p)
    Serie: Global Chinese Culture
    Paralleltitel: Print version Beyond Sinology : Chinese Writing and the Scripts of Culture
    Paralleltitel: Druckausg. Bachner, Andreas Beyond sinology
    DDC: 495.1/11
    Schlagwort(e): Chinese in art ; Chinese characters -- History ; Chinese in literature ; Chinese in motion pictures ; Chinese language -- Writing -- History ; Inscriptions, Chinese -- History and criticism ; Mass media and language -- China ; Chinese in art ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; China ; Kulturelle Identität ; Chinesische Schrift
    Kurzfassung: New communication and information technologies remain challenging for the Chinese script, which, unlike alphabetic or other phonetic scripts, relies on multiple signifying principles. In recent decades, this multiplicity has generated a rich corpus of reflection and experimentation in literature, film, visual and performance art, and design and architecture, both within China and different parts of the West. Approaching this history from alternative theoretical perspectives, this volume pinpoints the phenomena binding languages, scripts, and medial expressions to cultural and national identity
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; A Note on Characters, Romanization, Translations and Images; Acknoledgments; Introduction: Script Politics; 1. Corpographies; Death and the Sinograph; National Calligraphies; 2. Iconographies; Poetics of Visuality; On (Not) Writing Chinese; 3. Sonographies; Muteness Envy; Sinographic Glossolalia; 4. Allographies; Crypto-Chinese; Graphic Parasites; 5. Technographies; Radical Design; Under E(rasure); Conclusion: Beyond Sinology; Sinographic Dilemmas; Sinographic Mimicry; Beyond Si(g)nology; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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    Our Broad Present : Time and Contemporary Culture (2014)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (184 p)
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    Serie: Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
    Paralleltitel: Print version Our Broad Present : Time and Contemporary Culture
    DDC: 190
    Schlagwort(e): Civilization, Modern - 21st century ; Civilization, Modern - 21st century ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: Considering a range of present-day phenomena, from the immediacy effects of literature to the impact of hypercommunication, globalization, and sports, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht notes an important shift in our relationship to history and the passage of time. Although we continue to use concepts inherited from a ?historicist" viewpoint, a notion of time articulated in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the actual construction of time in which we live in today, which shapes our perceptions, experiences, and actions, is no longer historicist. Without fully realizing it, we now inhabit a new, unn
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Cover; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Tracking a Hypothesis; 1. Presence in Language or Presence Achieved Against Language?; 2. A Negative Anthropology of Globalization; 3. Stagnation: Temporal, Intellectual, Heavenly; 4. "Lost in Focused Intensity": Spectator Sports and Strategies of Re-Enchantment; 5. Steady Admiration in an Expanding Present: On Our New Relationship with Classics; 6. Infinite Availability: About Hypercommunication (and Old Age); In the Broad Present; Notes; Index; Series List
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    Exemplary Women of Early China : The Lienü zhuan of Liu Xiang (2014)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (385 p)
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    Serie: Translations from the Asian Classics
    Paralleltitel: Print version Exemplary Women of Early China : The Lienü zhuan of Liu Xiang
    DDC: 920.051
    Schlagwort(e): Women - China - Conduct of life ; Women - China - Conduct of life ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: When should a woman disobey her father, contradict her husband, or shape the policy of a ruler? According to the Lienü zhuan, or Categorized Biographies of Women, it is not only appropriate but necessary for women to offer counsel when fathers, husbands, sons, and rulers stray from virtue. The earliest Chinese text devoted to the moral education of women, the Lienü zhuan was compiled by Liu Xiang (79?8 B.C.E.) at the end of the Han dynasty (202 B.C.E.?9 C.E.) and recounts the deeds of both virtuous and wicked women. Informed by early legends, fictionalized historical accounts, and formal speec
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chronology; 1. The Maternal Models; 2. The Worthy and Enlightened; 3. The Sympathetic and Wise; 4. The Chaste and Compliant; 5. The Principled and Righteous; 6. The Accomplished Rhetoricians; 7. The Depraved and Favored; 8. Supplemental Biographies; Notes; Works Cited; Index
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    Wombs in Labor : Transnational Commercial Surrogacy in India (2014)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 9780231169912
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (443 p)
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    Serie: South Asia Across the Disciplines
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als Pande, Amrita Wombs in labor
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    Schlagwort(e): Surrogate motherhood - India ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Indien ; Leihmutter
    Kurzfassung: Surrogacy is India's new form of outsourcing, as couples from all over the world hire Indian women to bear their children for a fraction of the cost of surrogacy elsewhere with little to no government oversight or regulation. In the first detailed ethnography of India's surrogacy industry, Amrita Pande visits clinics and hostels and speaks with surrogates and their families, clients, doctors, brokers, and hostel matrons in order to shed light on this burgeoning business and the experiences of the laborers within it. From recruitment to training to delivery, Pande's research focuses on how repr
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Cover ; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents ; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: Wombs in Labor; 2. Pro-natal Technologies in an Anti-natal State; 3. When the Fish Talk About the Water; 4. Manufacturing the Perfect Mother-Worker; 5. Everyday Divinities and God's Labor; 6. Embodied Labor and Neo-eugenics; 7. Disposable Workers and Dirty Labor; 8. Disposable Mothers and Kin Labor; 9. Conclusion: Aporia of Surrogacy; Epilogue: Did the "Sperm on a Rickshaw" Save the Third World?
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Appendix A: Selected Clauses from the Assisted Reproductive Technologies (Regulation) Draft Bill, 2010Appendix B: Consent Form to Be Signed by Surrogates; Appendix C: Descriptive Tables; Notes; Works Cited; Index; Series List
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    Love and War : How Militarism Shapes Sexuality and Romance (2014)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (241 p)
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    Paralleltitel: Print version Love and War : How Militarism Shapes Sexuality and Romance
    DDC: 155.3
    Schlagwort(e): Militarism - Social aspects ; Militarism - Social aspects ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: Ideas of masculinity and femininity become sharply defined in war-reliant societies, resulting in a presumed enmity between men and women. This so-called battle of the sexes intensifies in tandem with dispositions to fight actual wars. These are among the fascinating discoveries Tom Digby shares in Love and War, which describes the making and manipulation of gender in both militaristic and nonmilitaristic societies and the consequences for men and women in their personal, romantic, sexual, and professional lives. Drawing on cross-cultural comparisons and examples from popular media, including
    Kurzfassung: Ideas of masculinity and femininity become sharply defined in war-reliant societies, resulting in a presumed enmity between men and women. This so-called battle of the sexes intensifies in tandem with dispositions to fight actual wars. These are among the fascinating discoveries Tom Digby shares in Love and War, which describes the making and manipulation of gender in both militaristic and nonmilitaristic societies and the consequences for men and women in their personal, romantic, sexual, and professional lives. Drawing on cross-cultural comparisons and examples from popular media, including
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Battle of the Sexes: Why Is Heterosexual Love So Hard?; 2. Let's Make a Deal: The Heterosexual Economy Falls Off a Cliff; 3. How to Make a Warrior: Misogyny and Emotional Toughness in the Construction of Masculinity; 4. Keeping the Battle of the Sexes Alive: Faith and Fantasy; 5. Can Men Rescue Heterosexual Love? More Faith and Fantasy; 6. Gender Terrorism, Gender Sacrifice: Getting Beyond Zero-Sum Heterosexuality; 7. The Degendering of War: War Loses Its Sex; 8. The Demilitarizing of Gender: A Truce in the Battle of the Sexes?; Notes; Index
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    Asian and Feminist Philosophies in Dialogue : Liberating Traditions (2014)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (336 p)
    DDC: 305.4201095
    Schlagwort(e): Electronic books ; Online-Publikation
    Anmerkung: In English
    DOI: 10.7312/mcwe16624
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    Baby Boomers of Color : Implications for Social Work Policy and Practice (2014)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 9780231163019
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (293 p)
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    Paralleltitel: Print version Baby Boomers of Color : Implications for Social Work Policy and Practice
    DDC: 305.2
    Schlagwort(e): Minority older people ; Minority older people ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Online-Publikation
    Kurzfassung: Because researchers often treat baby boomers of color as belonging to one group, quality data on the individual status of specific racial populations is lacking, leading to insufficiently designed programs, policies, and services. The absence of data is a testament to the invisibility of baby boomers of color in society and deeply affects the practice of social work and other helping professions that require culturally sensitive approaches. Melvin Delgado rectifies this injustice by providing a comprehensive portrait of the status and unique assets of boomers of color. Using specific data, h
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Table of Contents; Preface; Part 1. Setting the Context; 1. Overview; 2. Two Perspectives on Baby Boomers; 3. Baby Boomer Demographic Profile and Trends; 4. A Demographic Focus on Baby Boomers of Color; 5. Health Needs; 6. Financial Indicators; Part 2. Cultural Assets; 7. Baby Boomer Assets: A Conceptual Foundation; 8. Family-Focused Assets; 9. Neighborhood/Community-Focused Assets; Part 3. Implications for Policy; 10. Classification of Asset-Driven Interventions; 11. Policy, Practice, and Research Implications; Epilogue; References; Index
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    Upsetting the Apple Cart : Black-Latino Coalitions in New York City from Protest to Public Office (2014)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 9780231149402
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (313 p)
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    Serie: Columbia History of Urban Life
    Paralleltitel: Print version Upsetting the Apple Cart : Black-Latino Coalitions in New York City from Protest to Public Office
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    Schlagwort(e): African Americans - New York (State) - New York - Relations with Hispanic Americans ; African Americans - New York (State) - New York - Relations with Hispanic Americans ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Online-Publikation
    Kurzfassung: Upsetting the Apple Cart looks at the history of black-Latino coalitions in New York City from 1959 to 1989. In those years, African American and Latino Progressives organized, mobilized, and transformed neighborhoods, workplaces, university campuses, and representative government in the nation's urban capital. The book makes new contributions to our understanding of protest movements and strikes in the 1960s and 1970s and reveals the little-known role of left-of-center organizations in New York City politics as well as the influence of Jesse Jackson's 1984 and 1988 presidential campaigns on
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; A Note on Sources; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Journeys: Black and Latino Relations, 1930-1970; 2. Upsetting the Apple Cart: Black and Puerto Rican Hospital Workers, 1959-1962; 3. Developing Their Minds Without Losing Their Souls: Black and Latino Student Coalition Building, 1965-1969; 4. Young Turks: Progressive Activists and Organizations, 1970-1985; 5. Coalition Politics, 1982-1984: The Chicago Plan; 6. Where the Street Goes, the Suits Follow: Coalition Politics, 1985-1988; 7. Latinos for Dinkins in 1989: The Coalition's Complicated Victory
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: ConclusionNotes; Index
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    Alienation. (2014)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (301 pages)
    Serie: New Directions in Critical Theory
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 302.544
    Schlagwort(e): Self psychology ; Self psychology ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: A bold defense of a neglected concept and its relevance for critical social theory.
    Kurzfassung: Intro -- Table of Contents -- Foreword, by Axel Honneth -- Translator's Introduction, by Frederick Neuhouser -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Part 1. The Relation of Relationlessness: Reconstructing a Concept of Social Philosophy -- 1. "A Stranger in the World That He Himself Has Made": The Concept and Phenomenon of Alienation -- 2. Marx and Heidegger: Two Versions of Alienation Critique -- 3. The Structure and Problems of Alienation Critique -- 4. Having Oneself at One's Command: Reconstructing the Concept of Alienation -- Part 2. Living One's Life as an Alien Life: Four Cases -- 5. Seinesgleichen Geschieht or "The Like of It Now Happens": The Feeling of Powerlessness and the Independent Existence of One's Own Actions -- 6. "A Pale, Incomplete, Strange, Artificial Man": Social Roles and the Loss of Authenticity -- 7. "She but Not Herself": Self-Alienation as Internal Division -- 8. "As If Through a Wall of Glass": Indifference and Self-Alienation -- Part 3. Alienation as a Disturbed Appropriation of Self and World -- 9. "Like a Structure of Cotton Candy": Being Oneself as Self-Appropriation -- 10. "Living One's Own Life": Self-Determination, Self-Realization, and Authenticity -- Conclusion: The Sociality of the Self, the Sociality of Freedom -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.
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    Male Sex Work and Society (2014)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (545 p)
    Paralleltitel: Print version Male Sex Work and Society
    DDC: 306.74
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    Schlagwort(e): Male prostitutes - Social conditions ; Male prostitutes - Social conditions ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Online-Publikation
    Kurzfassung: This new collection explores for the first time male sex work from a rich array of perspectives and disciplines. It aims to help enrich the ways in which we view both male sex work as a field of commerce and male sex worker themselves.Leading contributors examine the field both historically and cross-culturally from fields including public health, sociology, psychology, social services, history, filmography, economics, mental health, criminal justice, geography, and migration studies, and more.Synthesizing introductions by the editors help the reader understand the implications of the findings
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction: Reframing Male Sex Work, by John Scott and Victor Minichiello; Male Sex Work in Sociohistoric Context; 1. Male Sex Work from Ancient Times to the Near Present, by Mack Friedman; 2. Male Sex Work in Modern Times, by Kerwin Kaye; 3. Representations of Male Sex Work in Film, by Russell Sheaffer; Marketing of Male Sex Work; 4. Advertising Male Sexual Services, by Allan Tyler; 5. Economic Analyses of Male Sex Work, by Trevon D. Logan; Social Issues and Cultures in Male Sex Work
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 6. Clients of Male Sex Workers, by John Scott, Denton Callander, and Victor Minichiello7. Regulation of the Male Sex Industry, by Thomas Crofts; 8. Public Health Policy and Practice with Male Sex Workers, by David S. Bimbi and Juline A. Koken; 9. Mental Health Aspects of Male Sex Work, by Juline A. Koken and David S. Bimbi; 10. Gay Subcultures, by Christian Grov and Michael D. Smith; 11. Health and Wellness Services for Male Sex Workers, by Mary Laing and Justin Gaffney; Male Sex Work in Its Global Context; 12. Male Sex Work in Southern and Eastern Africa, by Paul Boyce and Gordon Isaacs
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 13. Male Sex Work in China, by Travis S. K. Kong14. Male Sex Work in Post-Soviet Russia, by Linda M. Niccolai; 15. Male Sex Work from Latin American Perspectives, by Victor Minichiello, Tinashe Dune, Carlos Disogra, and Rodrigo Mariño; 16. Migrant Male Sex Workers in Germany, by Heide Castañeda; 17. Male Sex Work in the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland, by Paul J. Maginn and Graham Ellison; Conclusion: Future Directions in Male Sex Work Research, by Victor Minichiello and John Scott; Contributors; Glossary; Index
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    Video revolutions : on the history of a medium (2014)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 0231537751 , 9780231537759
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 Online-Ressource (138 pages) , illustrations
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als Newman, Michael Z Video revolutions
    DDC: 302.23
    Schlagwort(e): Video recordings History ; Video recordings ; PSYCHOLOGY ; Social Psychology ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Media Studies ; Video recordings ; History ; Electronic books ; Electronic book
    Kurzfassung: "Since the days of early television, video has been an indispensable part of culture, society, and moving-image media industries. Over the decades, it has been an avant-garde artistic medium, a high-tech consumer gadget, a format for watching movies at home, a force for democracy, and the ultimate, ubiquitous means of documenting reality. In the twenty-first century, video is the name we give all kinds of moving images. We know it as an adaptable medium that bridges analog and digital, amateur and professional, broadcasting and recording, television and cinema, art and commercial culture, and old media and new digital networks. In this history, Michael Z. Newman casts video as a medium of shifting value and legitimacy in relation to other media and technologies, particularly film and television. Video has been imagined as more or less authentic or artistic than movies or television, as more or less democratic and participatory, as more or less capable of capturing the real. Techno-utopian rhetoric has repeatedly represented video as a revolutionary medium, promising to solve the problems of the past and the present -- often the very problems associated with television and the society shaped by it -- and to deliver a better future. Video has also been seen more negatively, particularly as a threat to movies and their culture. This study considers video as an object of these hopes and fears and builds an approach to thinking about the concept of the medium in terms of cultural status"--Provided by publisher
    Kurzfassung: Three phases -- Video as television -- Video as alternative -- Video as the moving image -- Medium and cultural status.
    Anmerkung: Includes bibliographical references and index , In English
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    The Pariah problem : caste, religion, and the social in modern India (2014)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 0231537506 , 9780231537506
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 396 pages)
    Serie: Cultures of history
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als Viswanath, Rupa Pariah problem
    DDC: 305.5
    Schlagwort(e): Pariahs History ; Pariahs Social conditions ; Caste History ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Social Services & Welfare ; Caste ; Pariahs ; Social conditions ; History ; Electronic books ; India Social conditions ; India History ; India ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Online-Publikation
    Kurzfassung: "Once known as 'Pariahs, ' Dalits are primarily descendants of unfree agrarian laborers. They belong to India's lowest castes, face overwhelming poverty and discrimination, and continue to be a source of public anxiety. Drawing on a wealth of previously untapped sources, this book follows the conception and evolution of the 'Pariah problem' in public consciousness in the 1890s. It shows how high-caste landlords, state officials, and well-intentioned missionaries conceived of Dalit oppression and prevented substantive solutions to the 'Pariah Problem' with consequences that continue to be felt today. The book begins with a description of the everyday lives of Dalit laborers in the 1890s and highlights the systematic efforts made by the state and Indian elites to protect Indian slavery from public scrutiny. Protestant missionaries were the first non-Dalits to draw attention to their plight. However, their vision of the Pariahs' suffering as a result of Hindu religious prejudice obscured the fact that the entire agrarian political-economic system depended on Pariah labor. The Indian public as well as colonial officials came to share a view compatible with missionary explanations, which meant all subsequent welfare efforts directed at Dalits focused on religious and social transformation rather than on structural reform. Methodologically, theoretically, and empirically, this book breaks new ground to demonstrate how events in the early decades of state-sponsored welfare directed at Dalits laid the groundwork for the present day, where the postcolonial state and well-meaning social and religious reformers continue to downplay Dalits' landlessness, violent suppression, and political subordination"--Provided by publisher
    Kurzfassung: 1. Land Tenure or Labor Control? The Agrarian Mise-en-Scène -- 2. Conceptualizing Pariah Conversion: Caste, Spirit, Matter, and Penury -- 3. The Pariah-Missionary Alliance: Agrarian Contestation and the Local State -- 4. The State and the Cēri -- 5. Settling Land, Sowing Conflict, or, The Rise and Rise of Religious Neutrality -- 6. The Marriage of Sacred and Secular Authority: New Liberalism, Mission-State Relations, and the Birth of Authenticity -- 7. Giving the Panchama a Home: Creating "a Friction Where None Exists" -- 8. Everyday Warfare: Caste, Class, and the Public -- 9. The Depressed Classes, Rights, and the Embrace of the Social -- Conclusion: The Pariah Problem's Enduring Legacies.
    Anmerkung: Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-376) and index , English
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    Winnebago Nation : The RV in American Culture (2014)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (193 p)
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    Paralleltitel: Print version Winnebago Nation : The RV in American Culture
    DDC: 303.4832
    Schlagwort(e): Recreational vehicles - United States - History ; Recreational vehicles - United States - History ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: There are close to 8.5 million RVs on the U.S. highways and roads today, and if you are a man in your fifties, there is a good chance you have owned or are about to own a recreational vehicle. Winnebago Nation is a light-hearted look at the culture and industry behind the yearning to spend the night in one's car. For the young, the roadtrip is a coming-of-age ceremony; for those later in life, it is the realization of a lifelong desire to be spontaneous, nomadic, and free. James B. Twitchell recounts the RV's origins and evolution over the twentieth century; its rise, fall, and rebirth as a c
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Table of Contents; 1. Thoreau at 4.00 a Gallon: The Peculiar Place of the RV in American Culture; 2. At Home on the Road: A Fleeting History of the American Dream in RVs; 3. Wheel Escape: Consumption Communities on the Road; 4. Park It: From Kampgrounds of America to the Slabs; 5. The Rise and Fall and Rise and Fall and . . . of the RV in America; Acknowledgments; Index
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    Time and the other : how anthropology makes its object (2014)
    New York : Columbia University Press | New York, NY : JSTOR
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    Sprache: Englisch
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    DDC: 306.01
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    Schlagwort(e): Philosophische Anthropologie ; Zeit ; Anthropologie ; Ethnologie ; Electronic books
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    Drinking History : Fifteen Turning Points in the Making of American Beverages (2014)
    New York : Columbia University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 Online-Ressource (335 pages)
    Serie: Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History
    DDC: 394.120973
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    Schlagwort(e): Geschichte ; Getränk ; USA ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: A companion to Andrew F. Smith's critically acclaimed and popular Eating History: Thirty Turning Points in the Making of American Cuisine, this volume recounts the individuals, ingredients, corporations, controversies, and myriad events responsible for America's diverse and complex beverage scene. Smith revisits the country's major historical momentscolonization, the American Revolution, the Whiskey Rebellion, the temperance movement, Prohibition, and its repealand he tracks the growth of the American beverage industry throughout the world. The result is an intoxicating encounter with an often overlooked aspect of American culture and global influence. Americans have invented, adopted, modified, and commercialized tens of thousands of beverageswhether alcoholic or nonalcoholic, carbonated or caffeinated, warm or frozen, watery or thick, spicy or sweet. These include uncommon cocktails, varieties of coffee and milk, and such iconic creations as Welch's Grape Juice, Coca-Cola, root beer, and Kool-Aid. Involved in their creation and promotion were entrepreneurs and environmentalists, bartenders and bottlers, politicians and lobbyists, organized and unorganized criminals, teetotalers and drunks, German and Italian immigrants, savvy advertisers and gullible consumers, prohibitionists and medical professionals, and everyday Americans in love with their brew. Smith weaves a wild history full of surprising stories and explanations for such classic slogans as taxation with and without representation;" the lips that touch wine will never touch mine;" and rum, Romanism, and rebellion." He reintroduces readers to Samuel Adams, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and the colorful John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed), and he rediscovers America's vast literary and cultural engagement with beverages and their relationship to politics, identity, and health.
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    Video Revolutions : On the History of a Medium (2014)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 9780231169516
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (159 p)
    Paralleltitel: Print version Video Revolutions : On the History of a Medium
    DDC: 302.23
    Schlagwort(e): Video recordings - History ; Video recordings - History ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: Since the days of early television, video has been an indispensable part of culture, society, and moving-image media industries. Over the decades, it has been an avant-garde artistic medium, a high-tech consumer gadget, a format for watching movies at home, a force for democracy, and the ultimate, ubiquitous means of documenting reality. In the twenty-first century, video is the name we give all kinds of moving images. We know it as an adaptable medium that bridges analog and digital, amateur and professional, broadcasting and recording, television and cinema, art and commercial culture, and o
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Three Phases; 2. Video as Television; 3. Video as Alternative; 4. Video as the Moving Image; 5. Medium and Cultural Status; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index
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    Shanghai Homes : Palimpsests of Private Life (2014)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 9780231167178
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (281 p)
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    Serie: Global Chinese Culture
    Paralleltitel: Print version Shanghai Homes : Palimpsests of Private Life
    DDC: 392.3/60951132
    Schlagwort(e): Chinese - Dwellings - China - Shanghai ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: In the dazzling global metropolis of Shanghai, what has it meant to call this city home? In this accountpart microhistory, part memoirJie Li salvages intimate recollections by successive generations of inhabitants of two vibrant, culturally mixed Shanghai alleyways from the Republican, Maoist, and post-Mao eras. Exploring three dimensions of private lifeterritories, artifacts, and gossipLi re-creates the sounds, smells, look, and feel of home over a tumultuous century. First built by British and Japanese companies in 1915 and 1927, the two homes at the center of this narrative were locat
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; Dramatis Personae; Introduction; 1. Foothold; Foundations and Original Residents (1910s-1940s); After the Communist Revolution (1950s-1970s); A New Generation Comes of Age (1970s-1990s); Alleyway Homes as a Microhistorical Stage; 2. Haven; Domestic Artifacts as Historical Witnesses; Home Searches: The Cultural Revolution in the Alleyway; Petty Urbanites: Reinventing Privacy in the Reform Era; Thrift, Bricolage, and Nostalgia for the Alleyway; 3. Gossip; A Cultural Genealogy of Shanghai Gossip; Alleyway Space as a Milieu for Gossip
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Several Lifetimes to a Life: Women on the MarginsA Room of Her Own: The Whispers of Aunt Duckweed; 4. Demolition; Demolition Micropolitics; Ruins of the Old Neighborhood; Nail Houses and Rustless Bolts; Coda; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index
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    The Inner Life of the Dying Person (2014)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 9780231167857
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (283 p)
    Serie: End-of-Life Care: A Series
    Paralleltitel: Print version The Inner Life of the Dying Person
    DDC: 155.9
    Schlagwort(e): Terminally ill - Psychology ; Terminally ill - Psychology ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: This unique book recounts the experience of facing one's death solely from the dying person's point of view rather than from the perspective of caregivers, survivors, or rescuers. Such unmediated access challenges assumptions about the emotional and spiritual dimensions of dying, showing readers that?along with suffering, loss, anger, sadness, and fear?we can also feel courage, love, hope, reminiscence, transcendence, transformation, and even happiness as we die.A work that is at once psychological, sociological, and philosophical, this book brings together testimonies of those dying from term
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. In the Beginning . . .; 2. Suffering-Enduring the New Reality; 3. Fear-a Threat Observed; 4. Courage-Facing the Overwhelming; 5. Resistance-Facing the Choices; 6. Sadness and Anger-Facing Loss; 7. Hope and Love-Connection; 8. Waiting-In-between-ness; 9. Review and Reminiscence-Remembering; 10. Aloneness-Disconnection; 11. Transformation-Change, Change, Change; 12. Some Final Reflections; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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    Global Population : History, Geopolitics, and Life on Earth (2014)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 9780231147668
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (481 p)
    Serie: Columbia Studies in International and Global History
    Paralleltitel: Print version Global Population : History, Geopolitics, and Life on Earth
    DDC: 304.6
    Schlagwort(e): Population - Social aspects ; Population - Social aspects ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: Concern about the size of the world's population did not begin with the Baby Boomers. Overpopulation as a conceptual problem originated after World War I and was understood as an issue with far-reaching ecological, agricultural, economic, and geopolitical consequences. This study traces the idea of a world population problem as it developed from the 1920s through the 1950s, long before the late-1960s notion of a postwar ?population bomb." Drawing on international conference transcripts, the volume reconstructs the twentieth-century discourse on population as an international issue concerned wi
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Life and Earth; Part I: The Long Nineteenth Century; 1. Confined in Room: A Spatial History of Malthusianism; Part II: The Politics of Earth, 1920s and 1930s; 2. War and peace: Population, Territory, and Living Space; 3. Density: Iniverses with Definite Limits; 4. Migration: World Population and the Global Color Line; 5. Waste lands: Sovereignty and the Anticolonial History of World Population; Part III: The Politics of Life, 1920s and 1930s; 6. Life on Earth: Ecology and the Cosmopolitics of Population
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 7. Soil and Food: Agriculture and the Fertility of the Earth8. Sex: The Geoplitics of Birth Control; 9. The Species: Human Difference and Global Eugenics; Part IV. Between One World and Three Worlds, 1940s to 1968; 10. Food and Freedom: A New World of Plenty?; 11. Life and Death: The Biopolitical Solution to a Geopolitical Problem; 12. Universal Rights? Population Control and the Powers of Reproductive Freedom; Conclusion: The Population Bomb in the Space Age; Notes; Archival Collections; Index
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    Muslim identities : an introduction to Islam (2013)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 0231531923 , 9780231531924
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 Online-Ressource
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als Hughes, Aaron W Muslim Identities : An Introduction to Islam
    DDC: 306.697
    Schlagwort(e): Islam ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Islamic Studies ; RELIGION ; Islam ; General ; Islam ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: 2. The Making of the Last ProphetSources; Muhammad at Mecca; Muhammad at Medina; Muhammad and the Jews of Medina; Muhammad's Wives; The Return to Mecca and Death of Muhammad; The Making of the Last Prophet; Polemical Literature Against Muhammad; The Deeds and Sayings of Muhammad: The Genre of Hadith; Representing Muhammad; 3. The Quran: The Base Narrative; Overview; Traditional Accounts; The Critical View; The Linguistic Matrix of the Ancient Near East; Why Don't Muslims Have an "Old Testament"?; Messages and Contents; The Inimitability of the Quran; The Quran in Muslim Life
    Kurzfassung: Tafsir: Commentary on the QuranTaʼwil: Esoteric Interpretation of the Quran; Part II. Identity Formations; 4. Islam Beyond the Arabian Peninsula: A Historical Overview; The Death of Muhammad and the Seeds of Division; The Events at the Portico of the Banu Saʻida; The Four Rashidun; Abd al-Malik and the Creation of an Islamic Empire; Conversion to Islam in the Medieval Period; The Abbasid Caliphate; Al-Andalus, or Muslim Spain; Independent Emirates; The View from the Edge; The Ottoman Empire; 5. Early Sectarianism and the Formation of Shiʻism; Wilferd Madelung's The Succession to Muhammad
    Kurzfassung: The Events at the Portico of the Banu Saʻida: A Pro-Shiʻi ViewShiʻat Ali; The Events at Karbala; The Ghulat; The Importance of Jaʻfar al-Sadiq; The Role of the Imam; The Twelfth Imam; Shiʻi Dynasties; Twelver Shiʻism; Other Shiʻi Denominations; Distinctive Doctrines; 6. Legal Developments and the Rise of Sunni Islam; The Origins of Islamic Law: Two Approaches; Understanding the Concept of Law in Islam; "Hadith Folk" and the Emergence of Sunni Islam; The Importance of Muhammad al-Shafiʻi; Guardians of the Law: The Rise and Function of the Ulama; Sources of Ascertaining the Sharia; Qiyas; Ijma
    Kurzfassung: The Closing of the Gates of IjtihadThe Four Madhahib; Shiʻi Legal Schools; Al-Azhar: The Center of Sunni Learning Today; 7. Sufism; Locating Sufism; The Expansion-Asceticism Theory; Sources of the Ascetic Impulse; Geographic Diversity; Key Terms and Concepts; Tariqa; Nafs; Dhikr; The Stations of Progression; Tawakkul; Fana; "Sober" and "Intoxicated" Sufism; Some Key Figures; Institutional Sufism; Conservative Criticism of Sufism; Lived Sufism Today; Part III. Beliefs and Practices; 8. Constituting Identities: Beliefs and Schools; The Rise of Muslim Theology (Kalam)
    Kurzfassung: [ Contents ]; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction Religious Studies and the Academic Study of Islam; September 11 and the Quest for a Normative Islam; The Insider-Outsider Debate; The "Authenticity Debate" in Islamic Studies; Identity Formations; Islam and Muslim Identities; On Diversity; Part I. Origins; 1. Setting the Stage: Pre-Islamic Arabia; Pre-Islamic Arabia; Pre-Islamic Arabian Religions; Pre-Islamic Mecca; Monotheisms in Arabia; Later Muslim Accounts of Islamic Origins; Outsider and Skeptical Approaches to Islamic Origins; Islamic Origins: A Synthetic Approach
    Kurzfassung: Rather than focus solely on theological concerns, this well-rounded introduction takes an expansive view of Islamic ideology, culture, and tradition, sourcing a range of historical, sociological, and literary perspectives. Neither overly critical nor apologetic, this book reflects the rich diversity of Muslim identities across the centuries and counters the unflattering, superficial portrayals of Islam that are shaping public discourse today.Aaron W. Hughes uniquely traces the development of Islam in relation to historical, intellectual, and cultural influences, enriching his narrative
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    The Metamorphoses of Fat : A History of Obesity (2013)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (297 pages)
    Serie: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
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    DDC: 306.461
    Schlagwort(e): Body weight -- Social aspects -- History ; Obesity -- Social aspects -- History ; Body weight ; Social aspects ; History.. ; Obesity ; Social aspects ; History ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: Tracing the link between changing attitudes toward body size and modern conceptions of class, society, and self.
    Kurzfassung: Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART 1: THE MEDIEVAL GLUTTON -- 1. The Prestige of the Big Person -- Spontaneous Vigor -- What Insults? -- From Big to Very Big -- 2. Liquids, Fat, and Wind -- Matters of Fat -- The Deviations of Wind and Water -- Gout and Gout Sufferers -- The "Simplicity" of Evacuations -- 3. The Horizon of Fault -- The Clerical Model -- The Medical Model -- The Courtly Model -- 4. The Fifteenth Century and the Contrasts of Slimming -- The Ascendancy of Images -- A Social Distinction? -- Lifestyles and Conflicts -- The "Laborious" Place of Beauty -- PART 2: THE "MODERN" OAF -- 5. The Shores of Laziness -- Modern" Activity and Passivity -- From Private Insult to Pulic Code -- Resistances and Fascinations -- The Refusal of All Skinniness -- 6. The Plural of Fat -- Dramatizing the Threat -- Fear of Apoplexy -- Fat Talk, an Abstract Discourse -- Specifying Hydropsy -- Specifying the Excess of Gout -- 7. Exploring Images, Defining Terms -- Images and Realism of Features -- The Choice of Rubens -- The Power and Powerlessness of Words -- 8. Constraining the Flesh -- The Beginning of an Evaluation -- Only the "High" Size -- Drying Out -- Vinegar and Chalk -- Belts, Blades, and Corsets -- PART 3: FROM OAFISHNESS TO POWERLESSNESS: The Enlightenment and Sensibility -- 9. Inventing Nuance -- Tireless" Measuring and "Fruitless" Measuring -- Waist or Weight? -- Inventing the Means -- The First Specifications of Forms -- Masculine "Gravity" and Social "Gravity -- 10. Stigmatizing Powerlessness -- Introducing a New Word, Obesity -- The Bad Symptom: Insensitivity -- The Criticism of the Affluent -- The Big Bad Husband -- 11. Toning Up -- The Virtue of "Tonics" -- The Virtue of "Excitants" -- Electric Dreams -- The Nerve Regimen -- Plants or Meats? -- The Chemistry Revolution -- PART 4: THE BOURGEOIS BELLY -- 12. The Weight of Figures.
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    Gendering Global Conflict : Toward a Feminist Theory of War (2013)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (481 p)
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    Paralleltitel: Print version Gendering Global Conflict : Toward a Feminist Theory of War
    DDC: 303.6/601
    Schlagwort(e): Women and war ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: Laura Sjoberg positions gender and gender subordination as key factors in the making and fighting of global conflict. Through the lens ofgender, she examines the meaning, causes, practices, and experiences of war, building a more inclusive approach to the analysis of violent conflict between states.Considering war at the international, state, substate, and individual levels, Sjoberg's feminist perspective gives a number of causal variables significant standing in war decision-making. These include structural gender inequality, cycles of gendered violence, state masculine posturing
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The (Genderless) Study of War in International Relations; 2. Gender Lenses Look at War(s); 3. Anarchy, Structure, Gender, and War(s); 4. Relations International and War(s); 5. Gender, States, and War(s); 6. People, Choices, and War(s); 7. Gendered Strategy; 8. Gendered Tactics; 9. Living Gendered War(s); Conclusion: (A) Feminist Theory/ies of War(s); Notes; Index
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    Social Acceleration : A New Theory of Modernity (2013)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 9780231148344
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (513 p)
    Serie: New Directions in Critical Theory
    Paralleltitel: Print version Social Acceleration : A New Theory of Modernity
    DDC: 303.01
    Schlagwort(e): Time pressure ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: Hartmut Rosa advances an account of the temporal structure of society from the perspective of critical theory. He identifies three categories of change in the tempo of modern social life: technological acceleration, evident in transportation, communication, and production; the acceleration of social change, reflected in cultural knowledge, social institutions, and personal relationships; and acceleration in the pace of life, which happens despite the expectation that technological change should increase an individual's free time.According to Rosa, both the structural and cultural
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents; Illustrations; Translator's Introduction: Modernity and Time; In Place of a Preface; Introduction; PART 1: The Categorial Framework of a Systematic Theory of Social Acceleration; 1. From the Love of Movement to the Law of Acceleration: Observations of Modernity; 1. Acceleration and the Culture of Modernity; 2. Modernization, Acceleration, and Social Theory; 2. What Is Social Acceleration?; 1. Preliminary Considerations: Acceleration and Escalation; 2. Three Dimensons of Social Acceleration; 3. Five Categories of Inertia; 4. On the Relation Between Movement and Inertia in Modernity
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: PART 2: Mechanisms and Manifestations: A Phenomenology of Social Acceleration3. Technical Acceleration and the Revolutionizing of the Space-Time Regime; 4. Slipping Slopes: The Acceleration of Social Change and the Increase of Contingency; 5. The Acceleration of the ""Pace of Life"" and Paradoxes in the Experience of Time; 1. Objective Parameters: The Escalation of the Speed of Action; 2. Subjective Parameters: The Pressure and the Experience of Racing Time; 3. Temporal Structures and Self-Relations; PART 3: Causes
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 6. The Speeding Up of Society as a Self-Propelling Process: The Circle of Acceleration7. Acceleration and Growth: External Driving Forces of Social Acceleration; 1. Time Is Money: The Economic Motor; 2. The Promise of Acceleration: The Cultural Motor; 3. The Temporalization of Complexity: The Socio-Structural Motor; 8. Power, War, and Speed: The State and the Military as Key Institutional Accelerators; PART 4: Consequences; 9, Acceleration, Globalization, Postmodernity; 10. Situational Identity: Of Drifters and Players; 1. The Dynamization of the Self in Modernity
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 2. From Substantial A Priori Identity to Stable a Posteriori Identity: The Temporalization of Life3. From Temporally Stable to Situational Identity: The Temporalization of Time; 11. Situational Politics: Paradoxical Time Horizons Between Desynchronization and Disintegration; 1. Time in Politics - Politics in Time; 2. The Temporalization of History in the Modern Age; 3. Paradoxical Time Horizons: The Detemporalization of History in Late Modernity; 12. Acceleration and Rigidity: An Attempt to Redefine Modernity; Conclusion: Frenetic Standstill? The End of History; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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    Confronting Injustice and Oppression : Concepts and Strategies for Social Workers (2013)
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    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (181 p)
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    Serie: Foundations of Social Work Knowledge Series
    Paralleltitel: Print version Confronting Injustice and Oppression : Concepts and Strategies for Social Workers
    DDC: 303.372
    Schlagwort(e): Discrimination ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: More urgent than ever, David G. Gil's guiding text gives social workers the knowledge and confidence they need to change unjust realities. Clarifying the meaning, sources, and dynamics of injustice, exploitation, and oppression, and certifying the place of the social worker in combating these conditions, Gil promotes social change strategies rooted in the nonviolent philosophies of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King. He shares suggestions for transition policies intended to alleviate poverty, unemployment, and discrimination and examines modes of radical social work practice compatible
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface to the 2013 Reissue; Introduction: The Relevance of Injustice and Oppression for Social Work and Social Policy; PART 1: THEORETICAL AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES; 1. Injustice and Oppression: Meaning, Links, and Alternatives; 2. Injustice and Oppression: Origins, Evolution, Dynamics, and Consequences; 3. Social Change Strategies to Overcome Injustice and Oppression; 4. Dilemmas and Vicissitudes of Social Work; PART 2: IMPLICATIONS FOR POLICY, PRACTICE, AND ORGANIZING; 5. Transition Poicies Beyond Poverty, Unemployment, and Discrimination
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 6. Social-Change-Oriented ""Radical"" PracticeEpilogue; APPENDIX A: Franklin D. Roosevelt's Economic Bill of Rights; APPENDIX B: The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights; APPENDIX C: Framework for Analysis and Development of Social Policies; Works Cited
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    Human Trafficking Around the World : Hidden in Plain Sight (2013)
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    ISBN: 9780231161459
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (565 p)
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    Paralleltitel: Print version Human Trafficking Around the World : Hidden in Plain Sight
    DDC: 306.362
    Schlagwort(e): Human trafficking ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: This unprecedented study of sex trafficking, forced labor, organ trafficking, and sex tourism across twenty-four nations highlights the experiences of the victims, perpetrators, and anti-traffickers involved in this brutal trade. Combining statistical data with intimate accounts and interviews, journalist Stephanie Hepburn and justice scholar Rita J. Simon create a dynamic volume sure to educate and spur action.Hepburn and Simon recount the lives of victims during and after their experience with trafficking, and they follow the activities of traffickers before capture and their ou
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Table of Contents; Introduction; PART I: WORK VISA LOOPHOLES FOR TRAFFICKERS; 1. United States; 2. Japan; 3. United Arab Emirates; PART II: STATELESS PERSONS; 4. Thailand; 5. Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories; PART III: UNREST, DISPLACEMENT, AND WHO IS IN CHARGE; 6. Colombia; 7. Iraq; 8. Syria; PART IV: CONFLATION; 9. Canada; PART V: CONFLICTING AGENDAS; 10. Italy; 11. France; PART IV: GENDER APARTHEID; 12. Iran; PART VII: SOCIAL HIERARCHY; 13. India; 14. Niger; 15. China; PART VIII: MUTI MURDER; 16. South Africa; PART IX: HARD-TO-PROVE CRITERION AND A SLAP ON THE WRIST
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 17. Australia18. United Kingdom; 19. Chile; 20. Germany; PART X: TRANSPARENT BORDERS; 21. Poland; PART XI: FEAR FACTOR; 22. Mexico; PART XII: POVERTY AND ECONOMIC BOOM; 23. Russia; 24. Brazil; Conclusion; Notes; References; Index
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    Gender and Parenthood : Biological and Social Scientific Perspectives (2013)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (635 p)
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    Paralleltitel: Print version Gender and Parenthood : Biological and Social Scientific Perspectives
    DDC: 306.874
    Schlagwort(e): Husband and wife ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: The essays in this collection deploy biological and social scientific perspectives to evaluate the transformative experience of parenthood for today's women and men. They map the similar and distinct roles mothers and fathers play in their children's lives and measure the effect of gendered parenting on child well-being, work and family arrangements, and the quality of couples' relationships.Contributors describe what happens to brains and bodies when women become mothers and men become fathers; whether the stakes are the same or different for each sex; why, across history and cultures, women
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. How and Why Is Parenthood Gendered?; 1. The Dynamic Nature of the Parental Brain; 2. Family Life and Infant Care: Lessons from Cooperatively Breeding Primates; 3. Human Parenting from an Evolutionary Perspective; 4. Parenting × Gender × Culture × Time; 5. Gender Differences and Similarities in Parental Behavior; 6. Gender and Parenting Across the Family Life Cycle; Part II. Implications for Children, Couples, and Families; 7. Essential Elements of the Caretaking Crucible
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 8. Gendered Parenting's Implications for Children's Well-Being: Theory and Research in Applied Perspective9. Do Fathers Uniquely Matter for Adolescent Well-Being?; 10. No One Best Way: Work-Family Strategies, the Gendered Division of Parenting, and the Contemporary Marriages of Mothers and Fathers; 11. The Effect of Gender-Based Parental Influences on Raising Children: The Impact on Couples' Relationships; 12. Single Mothers Raising Children Without Fathers: Implications for Rearing Children with Male-Positive Attitudes; List of Contributors; Index;
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    The Birth of Chinese Feminism : Essential Texts in Transnational Theory (2013)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 9780231162913
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (325 p)
    Ausgabe: Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Serie: Weatherhead books on Asia
    Paralleltitel: Print version The Birth of Chinese Feminism : Essential Texts in Transnational Theory
    DDC: 305.420951
    Schlagwort(e): Feminism -- China -- History ; Feminists -- China -- Biography ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: He-Yin Zhen (1886?1920) was a female theorist who played a central role in the birth of Chinese feminism. Editor of a prominent feminist-anarchist journal in the early twentieth century and exponent of a particularly incisive analysis of China and the world. Unlike her contemporaries, He-Yin Zhen was concerned less with China's fate as a nation and more with the relationship among patriarchy, imperialism, capitalism, and gender subjugation as global and transhistorical problems. Her bold writings were considered radical and dangerous in her lifetime and gradually have been erased from the
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Chinese Dynasties and a Note on Translation; Introduction: Toward a Transnational Feminist Theory; The Historical Context: Chinese Feminist Worlds at the Turn of the Twentieth Century; He-Yin Zhen; Biography; "On the Question of Women's Liberation"-He-Yin Zhen (1907); "On the Question of Women's Labor"-He-Yin Zhen (1907); "Economic Revolution and Women's Revolution"- He-Yin Zhen (1907); "On the Revenge of Women" Part 1: Instruments of Men's Rule Over Women-He-Yin Zhen (1907); "On the Revenge of Women" Part 2: Atrocities of Men Against Women
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: "On Feminist Antimilitarism"-He-Yin Zhen (1907)"The Feminist Manifesto"-He-Yin Zhen (1907); Liang Qichao; Biography; "On Women's Education"-Liang Qichao (1897); Jin Tianhe; Biography; "The Women's Bell"-Jin Tianhe (1903); Preface; Part 1: Introduction; Part 2: Women's Morality; Part 3: Women's Character; Part 4: Women's Capabilities; Part 5: Methods for Educating Women; Part 6: The Rights of Women; Part 7: Women's Participation in Politics; Part 8: On the Evolution of Marriage; Part 9: Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
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    One Out of Three : Immigrant New York in the 21st Century (2013)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 9780231159371
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (352 p)
    Ausgabe: Online-Ausg.
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    Paralleltitel: Print version One Out of Three : Immigrant New York in the 21st Century
    DDC: 305.086
    Schlagwort(e): Minorities -- New York (State) -- New York ; Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York ; New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions ; New York (N.Y.) -- Emigration and immigration ; New York (N.Y.) -- Economic conditions ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: In this absorbing anthology, in-depth portraits of diverse ethnic populations, including the Chinese, Dominicans, Jamaicans, Koreans, Liberians, Mexicans, and Jews from the former Soviet Union reveal surprising new realities of immigrant life in twenty-first-century New York City. Contributors show how fifty years of massive inflows have transformed New York City's economic and cultural life and how the city has changed the lives of immigrant newcomers.Nancy Foner's introduction describes how New York is special as a gateway to America, and a demographic overview chapter details t
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: Immigrant's in New York City in the New Millennium; 2. A Portrait of New York's Immigrant Melange; 3. Immigration and Economic Growth in New York City; 4. Soviet Jews: The Continuing Russification of Jewish New York; 5. Chinese: Diverse Origins and Destinies; 6. Koreans: Changes in New York in the Twenty-First Century; 7. Jamaicans: Balancing Race and Ethnicity; 8. Liberians: Struggles for Refugee Families; 9. Dominicans: Community, Culture, and Collective Identity
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 10. Mexicans: Civic Engagement, Education, and Progress Achieved and Inhibited11. The Next Generation Emerges; Contributors; Index
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    The Land of the Five Flavors : A Cultural History of Chinese Cuisine (2013)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 9780231161862
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (217 p)
    Serie: Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History
    Paralleltitel: Print version The Land of the Five Flavors : A Cultural History of Chinese Cuisine
    DDC: 641.5951
    Schlagwort(e): Cookbooks ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: World-renowned sinologist Thomas O. Höllmann tracks the growth of Chinese food culture from the earliest burial rituals to today's Western fast food restaurants, detailing the cuisine's geographical variations and local customs, indigenous factors and foreign influences, trade routes, and ethnic associations. Höllmann describes the food rituals of major Chinese religions and the significance of eating and drinking in rites of passage and popular culture. He also enriches his narrative with thirty of his favorite recipes and a selection of photographs, posters, paintings, sketches, and images o
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents; Preface; 1. Rice Doesn't Rain from Heaven; 2. A Taste of Harmony; 3. Fire, Ice, and Flavor; 4. A Culinary Cosmos; 5. Heavenly Dew; 6. Regulations and Conventions; 7. The Tavern of Eternal Happiness; 8. Epilogue; Appendix: Tables from Chapters 2-4; Bibliography; Index
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    Beyond the Cyborg : Adventures with Donna Haraway (2013)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 9780231149297
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (217 p)
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    Paralleltitel: Print version Beyond the Cyborg : Adventures with Donna Haraway
    DDC: 305.42
    Schlagwort(e): Haraway, Donna Jeanne ; Feminists ; Feminist theory ; Feminist criticism ; Science -- Social aspects ; Technology -- Social aspects ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: Feminist theorist and philosopher Donna Haraway has substantially impacted thought on science, cyberculture, the environment, animals, and social relations. This long-overdue volume explores her influence on feminist theory and philosophy, paying particular attention to her more recent work on companion species, rather than her ?Manifesto for Cyborgs."Margret Grebowicz and Helen Merrick argue that the ongoing fascination with, and re-production of, the cyborg has overshadowed Haraway's extensive body of work in ways that run counter to her own transdisciplinary practices. Sparked
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Adventures with Haraway; 2. Natures; 3. Knowledges; 4. Politics; 5. Ethics; 6. Stories; Sowing Worlds: A Seed Bag for Terraforming with Earth Others by Donna Haraway; Appendix: Some Bibliometric Notes; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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    Interracial Couples, Intimacy, and Therapy : Crossing Racial Borders (2013)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 9780231132954
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (277 p)
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    Paralleltitel: Print version Interracial Couples, Intimacy, and Therapy : Crossing Racial Borders
    DDC: 306.84/6
    Schlagwort(e): Couples - Counseling of ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: Grounded in the personal narratives of twenty interracial couples with multiracial children, this volume uniquely explores interracial couples' encounters with racism and discrimination, partner difference, family identity, and counseling and therapy. It intimately portrays how race, class, and gender shape relationship dynamics and a partner's sense of belonging. Assessment tools and intervention techniques help professionals and scholars work effectively with multiracial families as they negotiate difference, resist familial and societal disapproval, and strive for increased intimacy. T
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Table of Contents; Acnowledgments; Introduction: What Interracial Couples Can Tell Us; Significance of the Book; Unpacking Basic Concepts: Race, Discrimination, and Miscegenation; Interracial in the Age of Obama: The Impact of Color-Blind and ""Postracial"" Discourses; The Politics of Voice: A Note from the Author; The Couples, the Interviews, and Analysis; 1. Racialized Bodies and Borders in the United States; Defining and Demarcating Borders; Interracial Borders from the Sixteenth Century to the Present; Trends in Black-White Intermarriage
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Race and Sex Differences in Marriage Rates: The ""Marriage Squeeze""Interrracial Mate-Selection Theories; Summary; 2. Crossing a Black-and-White Border: Choosing the Other; Attraction and Falling In Love; Partners' Reactions to Differences; Is There Any Difference?; Negotiating Differences in Axes of Power to Establish a Couple Identity; In Black and White: The Border of Race; He Said, She Said: The Border of Gender; Summary; 3. Crossing Community Borders: Families of Origin, Friends, and Society at Large; Social Support and Resistance to the Relationship; Strategies of Coping with Reactions
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Multiracial Couples and Social NetworksPartner Sensitivity to Racism: The Community Context; Summary; 4. A Nexus of Borders: The Next Generation, and Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender; The Next Generation and Their Opportunities; A Persistent Question: ""What About the Children?""; Intersections of Gender and Race; Intersections of Race and Class; White Male and Female Partners; About Difference: Social and Political Dimensions; Happy Together? Processes Contributing to Couple Identity Formation; Couple Identities and Negotiation Styles; Summary
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 5. Raising (adn Erasing) Difference: Dominant and Marginalized Discourses in Interracial Couples' NarrativesWhat Is Discourse Analysis?; The Discourse of Homogamy; The Discourse of Hypersensitivity; The Discourse of History's Insignificance; What These Findings Say About Multiracial Couples; An Overarching Discourse of ""No Race Talk""; Summary; 6. Systemic Interventions with Interracial Couples; The Art of Drawing Distinctions Instead of Conclusions; What Couples Said About Therapy; Couples Who Might Present for Therapy; Specific Assessments and Interventions
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: A Narrative Approach to Therapy with Multiracial CouplesSummary; 7. (Re)Presentations of Interracial Couples in Cinema, Literature, and Research; Cinema and Literature: Racial Logics and the Hegemonic Aesthetics of Intimacy; Interracial Couples' Own Depictions of Their Intimate Relations; Reflecting on the Research and the Researcher: Integrating the Interview Process; Are Interracial Couples Different from Intraracial Couples?; Salience of Identities: Under Which Conditions, and Which Identities; Appendix A: Summary of Participant Information; Appendix B: Assessment Inventories
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Appendix C: Directions for Scoring the Assessment Inventories
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    Are the Lips a Grave? : A Queer Feminist on the Ethics of Sex (2013)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 9780231164177
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (259 p)
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    Paralleltitel: Print version Are the Lips a Grave? : A Queer Feminist on the Ethics of Sex
    DDC: 306.7601
    Schlagwort(e): Ethics ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: Lynne Huffer's ambitious inquiry redresses the rift between feminist and queer theory, traversing the space of a new, post-moral sexual ethics that includes pleasure, desire, connection, and betrayal. She begins by balancing queer theorists' politics of sexual freedoms with a moralizing feminist politics that views sexuality as harm. Drawing on the best insights from both traditions, she builds an ethics centered on eros, following Michel Foucault's ethics as a practice of freedom and Luce Irigaray's lyrical articulation of an ethics of sexual difference.Through this theoretical l
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Claiming a Queer Feminism; 1. Are the Lips a Grave?; 2. There Is No Gomorrah: Narrative Ethics in Feminist and Queer Theory; 3. Foucalt's Fist; 4. Queer Victory, Feminist Defeat? Sodomy and Rape in Lawrence v. Texas; 5. One-Handed Reading; 6. Queer Lesbian Silence: Colette Reads Proust; 7. What If Hagar and Sarah Were Lovers?; 8. After Sex; Afterword: Queer Lives in the Balance; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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    Robert N. Butler, MD : Visionary of Healthy Aging (2013)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 9780231164429
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (289 p)
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    Paralleltitel: Print version Robert N. Butler, MD : Visionary of Healthy Aging
    DDC: 305.26092
    Schlagwort(e): Butler, Robert N., -- 1927-2010 ; Gerontologists -- United States -- Biography ; Gerontology -- United States ; Butler, Robert N. ; 1927-2010 ; Gerontologists ; United States ; Biography ; Gerontology ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: Robert Neil Butler (1927?2010) was a scholar, psychiatrist, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author who revolutionized the way the world thinks about aging. One of the first psychiatrists to engage with older men and women outside of institutional settings, Butler coined the term ?ageism" to draw attention to discrimination against older adults and spent a lifetime working to improve their status, medical treatment, and care.Early in his career, Butler seized on the positive features of late-life development?aspects he documented in his pathbreaking research on ?healthy aging" at the Na
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents; Preface: Rober Neil Butler, MD (January 21, 1927-July 4, 2010); Acknowledgments; 1. Life Review; 2. The Formative Years; 3. A Professional Apprentice; 4. Forging Washington Connections; 5. Butler at the National Institute on Aging; 6. Expanding the Scope of Geriatrics; 7. Recasting the New Gerontology Through the International Longevity Center; 8. America's Aging Visionary; Epilogue; Appendix: Prologue or Introduction to Life Review, by Robert N. Butler, 2010; References; Index
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    Social Acceleration : A New Theory of Modernity (2013)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 9780231519885
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (513 p.))
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    Serie: New Directions in Critical Theory
    Serie: EBL-Schweitzer
    Paralleltitel: Druckausg. Rosa, Hartmut, 1965 - Social acceleration
    DDC: 303.01
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    Schlagwort(e): Civilization, Modern - 21st century ; Civilization, Modern -- 21st century ; Social change ; Social change ; Time - Sociological aspects ; Time -- Sociological aspects ; Time perception ; Time perception ; Time pressure ; Time pressure ; Electronic books ; Sozialer Wandel ; Zeitwahrnehmung ; Beschleunigung
    Kurzfassung: Contents; Illustrations; Translator's Introduction: Modernity and Time; In Place of a Preface; Introduction; PART 1: The Categorial Framework of a Systematic Theory of Social Acceleration; 1. From the Love of Movement to the Law of Acceleration: Observations of Modernity; 1. Acceleration and the Culture of Modernity; 2. Modernization, Acceleration, and Social Theory; 2. What Is Social Acceleration?; 1. Preliminary Considerations: Acceleration and Escalation; 2. Three Dimensons of Social Acceleration; 3. Five Categories of Inertia; 4. On the Relation Between Movement and Inertia in Modernity
    Kurzfassung: PART 2: Mechanisms and Manifestations: A Phenomenology of Social Acceleration3. Technical Acceleration and the Revolutionizing of the Space-Time Regime; 4. Slipping Slopes: The Acceleration of Social Change and the Increase of Contingency; 5. The Acceleration of the ""Pace of Life"" and Paradoxes in the Experience of Time; 1. Objective Parameters: The Escalation of the Speed of Action; 2. Subjective Parameters: The Pressure and the Experience of Racing Time; 3. Temporal Structures and Self-Relations; PART 3: Causes
    Kurzfassung: 6. The Speeding Up of Society as a Self-Propelling Process: The Circle of Acceleration7. Acceleration and Growth: External Driving Forces of Social Acceleration; 1. Time Is Money: The Economic Motor; 2. The Promise of Acceleration: The Cultural Motor; 3. The Temporalization of Complexity: The Socio-Structural Motor; 8. Power, War, and Speed: The State and the Military as Key Institutional Accelerators; PART 4: Consequences; 9, Acceleration, Globalization, Postmodernity; 10. Situational Identity: Of Drifters and Players; 1. The Dynamization of the Self in Modernity
    Kurzfassung: 2. From Substantial A Priori Identity to Stable a Posteriori Identity: The Temporalization of Life3. From Temporally Stable to Situational Identity: The Temporalization of Time; 11. Situational Politics: Paradoxical Time Horizons Between Desynchronization and Disintegration; 1. Time in Politics - Politics in Time; 2. The Temporalization of History in the Modern Age; 3. Paradoxical Time Horizons: The Detemporalization of History in Late Modernity; 12. Acceleration and Rigidity: An Attempt to Redefine Modernity; Conclusion: Frenetic Standstill? The End of History; Notes; Bibliography; Index
    Kurzfassung: Hartmut Rosa advances an account of the temporal structure of society from the perspective of critical theory. He identifies three categories of change in the tempo of modern social life: technological acceleration, evident in transportation, communication, and production; the acceleration of social change, reflected in cultural knowledge, social institutions, and personal relationships; and acceleration in the pace of life, which happens despite the expectation that technological change should increase an individual's free time.According to Rosa, both the structural and cultural aspects of ou
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    Double agents : espionage, literature, and liminal citizens (2013)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 0231510098 , 9780231510097
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 Online-Ressource (353 p)
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als Carlston, Erin G Double Agents : Espionage, Literature, and Liminal Citizens
    DDC: 306.7662
    Schlagwort(e): Treason in literature ; Espionage History ; Liminality in literature ; Homosexuality and literature ; Jews in literature ; Communists in literature ; Literature and society ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Gay Studies ; LITERARY CRITICISM ; Semiotics & Theory ; Communists in literature ; Espionage ; Homosexuality and literature ; Jews in literature ; Liminality in literature ; Literature and society ; Treason in literature ; History ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Citizens, Aliens, and Traitors; 2. The Dreyfus Affair; 3. Secret Dossiers; 4. Truth Breathing Down the Neck of Fiction; 5. The Ganelon Type; 6. Strictly a Jewish Show; Conclusion; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index
    Kurzfassung: Why were white bourgeois gay male writers so interested in spies, espionage, and treason in the twentieth century? Erin G. Carlston believes such figures and themes were critical to exploring citizenship and its limits, requirements, and possibilities in the modern Western state. Through close readings of Marcel Proust's novels, W. H. Auden's poetry, and Tony Kushner's play Angels in America, which all reference real-life espionage cases involving Jews, homosexuals, or Communists, Carlston connects gay men's fascination with spying to larger debates about the making and contestation of
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    Global intellectual history (2013)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 0231534590 , 9780231534598
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 Online-Ressource (vi, 342 pages) , illustrations
    Serie: Columbia studies in international and global history
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als Global intellectual history
    DDC: 306.42
    Schlagwort(e): Civilization, Modern Philosophy ; Intellectual life Philosophy ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; HISTORY ; Essays ; Civilization, Modern ; Philosophy ; Intellectual life ; Philosophy ; Geistesleben ; Kultur ; Intellektuellt liv ; Filosofi ; Kulturhistoria ; Electronic books ; Online-Publikation ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: Approaches to global intellectual history / Samuel Moyn and Andrew Sartori -- Common humanity and cultural difference on the sedentary-nomadic frontier : Herodotus, Sima Qian, and Ibn Khaldun / Siep Stuurman -- Cosmopolitanism, vernacularism, and premodernity / Sheldon Pollock -- Joseph Banks's intermediaries : rethinking global cultural exchange / Vanessa Smith -- Global intellectual history and the history of political economy / Andrew Sartori -- Conceptual universalization in the transnational nineteenth century / Christopher L. Hill -- Globalizing the intellectual history of the idea of the "Muslim world" / Cemil Aydin -- On the nonglobalization of ideas / Samuel Moyn -- "Casting the badge of inferiority beneath Black peoples' feet" : archiving and reading the African past, present, and future in world history / Mamadou Diouf and Jinny Prais -- Putting global intellectual history in its place / Janaki Bakhle -- Making and taking worlds / Duncan Bell -- How global do we want our intellectual history to be? / Frederick Cooper -- Global intellectual history : meanings and methods / Sudipta Kaviraj.
    Kurzfassung: Where do ideas fit in historical accounts that take an expansive, global view of human movements and events? Teaching intellectual history scholars to incorporate transnational perspectives into their work, while also advising them how to handle the challenges and controversies that may arise, this original resource explains the concepts, practice, concerns, and promise of?global intellectual history," featuring essays from leading scholars on an array of approaches taking shape across the discipline. Contributors explore the different ways one can think about the production, diss
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    New Perspectives on International Migration and Development. (2013)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 9780231527491
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (369 pages)
    Serie: Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia: Challenges in Development and Globalization
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    DDC: 338.9
    Schlagwort(e): Emigration and immigration ; Emigration and immigration ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: Through pressing, current case studies, contributors examine the ubiquitous interplay among migration, development, culture, human rights, and government, all toward advancing more effective solutions to international migration issues.
    Kurzfassung: Intro -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART 1: Migration, Development, States, Culture, and Human Rights -- 1. Development and Migration: Historical Trends and Further Research -- 2. The Impact of Migration on Development: Explicating the Role of the State -- 3. Bringing Culture Back In: Opportunities and Challenges for the Migration-Development Nexus -- 4. Protecting the Rights of Migrant Workers -- PART 2: Migration, Development, Children, and Women -- 5. Family and School Reconfiguration: The Case of Ecuadorian Highland Migration to Spain -- 6. Women, Children, and Migration: Developmental Considerations -- PART 3: Migration and Development: Country Experiences -- 7. Migration and Development: Lessons from the Moroccan Experience -- 8. The Southern Crossroads: Human Mobility, Governance, and Development in South Africa -- 9. Migration Between the Asia-Pacific and Australia: A Development Perspective -- 10. Asian Migration to the United States: Development Implications for Asia -- 11. Indian Migrants to the Gulf: The Kerala Experience -- Notes -- Index.
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    The Problem with Pleasure : Modernism and Its Discontents (2013)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 9780231526463
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (305 pages)
    Serie: NONE
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    DDC: 306.09042
    Schlagwort(e): Modernism (Literature) ; Pleasure in literature ; Modernism (Literature) ; Pleasure in literature ; Electronic books ; Online-Publikation
    Kurzfassung: A revealing study of the sensual tensions powering the period's formal and ideological innovations.
    Kurzfassung: Intro -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Repudiation of Pleasure -- 1. James Joyce and the Scent of Modernity -- 2. Stein's Tickle -- 3. Orgasmic Discipline -- 4. Huxley's Feelies: Engineered Pleasure in Brave New World -- 5. The Impasse of Pleasure: Patrick Hamilton and Jean Rhys -- 6. Blondes Have More Fun: Anita Loos and the Language of Silent Cinema -- Coda: Modernism's Afterlife in the Age of Prosthetic Pleasure -- Notes -- Index.
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    Cinematic appeals : the experience of new movie technologies (2013)
    New York : Columbia University Press | Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 330 pages) , Illustrations (black and white).
    Serie: Film and culture
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    Schlagwort(e): Digitale Filmtechnik ; Motion picture audiences ; Technology in motion pictures ; Cinematography Technological innovations ; Digital cinematography ; Electronic books ; Online-Publikation
    Kurzfassung: This title looks at the effect of technological innovation on the cinema experience, specifically the introduction of widescreen and stereoscopic 3D systems in the 1950s, the rise of digital cinema in the 1990s and the transition to digital 3D since 2005. It explains how widescreen cinema promised to draw the viewer into the world of the screen, enabling larger-than-life close-ups of already larger-than-life actors. This study ultimately shows how cinematic technology and the human experience shape and respond to each other over time.
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    Crowds and Democracy : The Idea and Image of the Masses from Revolution to Fascism (2013)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (337 p)
    Ausgabe: Online-Ausg. 2013
    Serie: Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts
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    Kurzfassung: Between 1918 and 1933, the masses became a decisive preoccupation of European culture, fueling modernist movements in art, literature, architecture, theater, and cinema, as well as the rise of communism, fascism, and experiments in radical democracy. Spanning aesthetics, cultural studies, intellectual history, and political theory, this volume unpacks the significance of the shadow agent known as ?the mass" during a critical period in European history. It follows its evolution into the preferred conceptual tool for social scientists, the ideal slogan for politicians, and the chosen image
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; 1. INTRODUCING THE MASSES: Vienna, 15 July 1927; 1. Shooting Psychosis; 2 Not a Word About the Bastille; 3. Explaining the Crowd; 4. Representing Social Passions; 5. A Work of Madness; 6. Invincibles; 7. Mirror for Princes; 8. Workers on the Run; 9. Lashing; 2. AUTHORITY VERSUS ANARCHY: Allegories of the Mass in Sociology and Literature; 10. The Missing Chapter; 11. George Simmel's Masses; 12. In Metropolis; 13. The Architecture of Society; 14. Steak Tartare; 15. Delta Formations; 16. Alarm Bells of History; 17. Sleepwalkers; 18. I Am Mass
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 19. Rilke in the Revolution3. THE REVOLVING NATURE OF THE SOCIAL: Primal Hordes and Crowds Without Qualities; 20. Sigmund Freud Between Individual and Society; 21. Masses Inside; 22. In Love With Many; 23. Primal Hordes; 24. Masses and Myths; 25. The Destruction of the Person; 26. The Flaneur - Medium of Modernity; 27. Ornaments of the People; 28. Beyond the Bourgeoisie; 29. Shapeless Lives; 30. Organizing the Passions; 4. COLLECTIVE VISION: A Matrix for New Art and Politics; 31. Mass Psychosis and Photoplastics; 32. Johanna in the Revolution; 33. A Socialist Eye
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 34. The Secret Code of the Nineteenth Century35. Speaking Commodities; 36. Deus Ex Machina; 37. Democracy's Veil; 38. The Face of the Masses; 39. Learning to Hold a Camera; 40. The Gaze of the Masses; 41. Total Theater; 5. Coda: Remnants of Weimar; Notes; Index
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    Beyond Bruce Lee : Chasing the Dragon Through Film, Philosophy, and Popular Culture (2013)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (225 p)
    Ausgabe: Online-Ausg. 2013 Recurso electronico; Disponible via World Wide Web
    Paralleltitel: Print version Beyond Bruce Lee : Chasing the Dragon Through Film, Philosophy, and Popular Culture
    DDC: 306.48
    Schlagwort(e): Electronic books ; Biografie ; Biografie
    Kurzfassung: In order to understand Bruce Lee, we must look beyond Bruce Lee to the artist's intricate cultural and historical contexts. This work begins by contextualising Lee, examining his films and martial arts work, and his changing cultural status within different times and places. The text examines Bruce Lee's films and philosophy in relation to the popular culture and cultural politics of the 1960s and 1970s, and it addresses the resurgence of his popularity in Hong Kong and China in the twenty-first century. The study also explores Lee's ongoing legacy and influence in the West, considering h
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents; Preface; 1. Beyond Bruce Lee; 2. Bruce Lee Between Popular Culture and Cultural Politics; 3. Bruce Lee Beyond Pedagogy; 4. Bruce Lee FIlm in Cultural Translation; 5. Bruce Lee in the Post: Post-Colonial, Post-Modern, Post-Protestant, Post-Human; 6. Spectres of Bruce Lee; 7. Re-enter the Dragon, Beyond Bruce Lee; Bibliography; Index
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    Cut-Pieces : Celluloid Obscenity and Popular Cinema in Bangladesh (2013)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (269 p)
    Ausgabe: Online-Ausg. 2013
    Serie: South Asia Across the Disciplines
    Paralleltitel: Print version Cut-Pieces : Celluloid Obscenity and Popular Cinema in Bangladesh
    DDC: 302.2343095492
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    Schlagwort(e): Electronic books ; Online-Publikation
    Kurzfassung: Imagine watching an action film in a small-town cinema hall in Bangladesh, and in between the gun battles and fistfights, a short pornographic clip appears. This is known as a cut-piece, a strip of locally made celluloid pornography surreptitiously spliced into the reels of action films in Bangladesh. Exploring the shadowy world of these clips and their place in South Asian film culture, Lotte Hoek builds a rare, detailed portrait of the production, consumption, and cinematic pleasures of stray celluloid.Hoek's innovative ethnography plots the making and reception of Mintu the Mur
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents; Note on Transliteration, Translation, and Pseudonyms; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Before Minitu the Murderer; 1. Writing Gaps: The Script of Mintu the Murderer; 2. A Handheld Camera Twisted Rapidly: The Technology of Mintu the Murderer; 3. Actress/Character: The Heroines of Mintu the Murderer; 4. Cutting and Splicing: The Editor and Censor of Mintu the Murderer; 5. Noise: The Public Sphere of Mintu the Murderer; 6. Unstable Celluloid: The Exhibition of Mintu the Murderer; Conclusion: After Mintu the Murderer; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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    Burma Redux : Global Justice and the Quest for Political Reform in Myanmar (2012)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 9780231504249
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (303 pages)
    Serie: NONE
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    DDC: 305.42
    Schlagwort(e): Democracy - Burma ; Democracy - Burma ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: Contemporary Myanmar faces a number of political challenges, and no one is certain whether external forces should intervene. Prioritizing the opinions of local citizens and reading them against the latest scholarship on this issue, Ian Holliday affirms the importance of foreign interests in Myanmar's democratic awakening, yet only through committed, grassroots strategies of engagement encompassing foreign states, international aid agencies, and global corporations. Holliday defends his argument using the support of multiple sources and theories, particularly ones taking historical events, contemporary political and social investigations, and global justice literature into account, as well as studies that focus on the effects of democratic transition, the aid industry, and socially responsible corporate investing and sanctions. One of the only volumes to apply broad-ranging global justice theories to a real-world nation in flux, Burma Redux will appeal to professional researchers of Burma/Myanmar; political advisors and advocacy groups; nonspecialists interested in Southeast Asian politics and society and the local and international problems posed by pariah states; general readers who seek a richer understanding of the country beyond journalistic accounts; and the Burmese people themselves, both in the country and the diaspora. Burma Redux is also the sole book-length study on the nation to be completed after the contentious general elections of 2010.
    Kurzfassung: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Author's note -- Acronyms -- Introduction -- Naming a nation -- Framing a situation -- Analyzing a society -- Rebuilding a country -- 1 Dependence and Disintegration -- British Burma -- Liberal Burma -- Nationalist Burma -- Burma in flux -- 2 Dominion and dissent -- Democratic Burma -- Revolutionary Burma -- Socialist Burma -- Burma in revolt -- 3 Dictatorship and deadlock -- Political dispute -- Economic malaise -- Social control -- Government by junta -- 4 Democracy and deliberation -- Disciplined democracy -- Transitional process -- National reconciliation -- Transitional justice -- 5 Inattention and involvement -- Policy debate -- Engagement strategies -- Isolation strategies -- Political leverage -- 6 Injustice and implication -- Global justice -- Historical injustice -- Universal justice -- Demands of justice -- 7 Intervention and interaction -- Types of intervention -- Justifying intervention -- Deliberating intervention -- Interactive intervention -- 8Intercession and investment -- Interventionist options -- Interceding for change -- Investing in reform -- Interventionist strategy -- Conclusion -- Unmaking Myanmar -- Remaking Burma -- The world in Myanmar -- Burma in the world -- Notes -- Index.
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    Taking it Big : C. Wright Mills and the Making of Political Intellectuals (2012)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 276 pages)
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als Aronowitz, Stanley Taking it Big : C. Wright Mills and the Making of Political Intellectuals
    DDC: 302.12
    Schlagwort(e): Mills, C. Wright Political and social views ; Mills, C. Wright ; Social psychology ; Social structure ; PSYCHOLOGY ; Social Psychology ; HISTORY ; United States ; 20th Century ; Political and social views ; Social psychology ; Social structure ; United States ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: Charles Wright Mills (1916-1962) was a pathbreaking intellectual who transformed the independent American left in the 1940s and 1950s. Often challenging the established ideologies and approaches of fellow leftist thinkers, Mills was central to creating and developing the idea of the "public intellectual" in postwar America and laid the political foundations for the rise of the New Left in the 1960s. Written by Stanley Aronowitz, a leading sociologist and critic of American culture and history, "Taking it Big" reconstructs the making of this icon and the new dimension of American politics
    Kurzfassung: Mills's sociology and pragmatism -- Mills and the New York intellectuals -- On Mills's the new men of power -- White collar -- On social psychology and its historical contexts : the origin of psychology as an independent discipline -- The structure of power in American society -- What is a political intellectual? -- Taking it big -- Afterword: Mills today.
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    Transgender 101 : A Simple Guide to a Complex Issue (2012)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (193 p)
    Ausgabe: Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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    Paralleltitel: Print version Transgender 101 : A Simple Guide to a Complex Issue
    DDC: 306.76/8
    Schlagwort(e): Transgender people ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: Written by a social worker, popular educator, and transgender man, this well-rounded resource combines an accessible portrait of transgenderism with a rich history of transgender life and unique experiences of discrimination. The first guide to treat transgenderism as a distinct topic of study, this text moves beyond mere anecdote and recommendations for clinical practice to legitimatize transgenderism in society and culture.Chapters introduce transgenderism and its psychological, physical, and social processes. They describe the coming out process and its affect on family and friends; the re
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: CONTENTS; FOREWORD Jamison Green ix; INTRODUCTION Why This Book Was Written and How It Is Laid Out xiii; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xxi; CHAPTER ONE WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE TRANSGENDER?: An Introduction to the Term 1; CHAPTER TWO SEXUAL ORIENTATION VERSUS GENDER: What's the Difference? 14; CHAPTER THREE COMING OUT AS TRANSGENDER: When, Why, and How People Come Out 29; CHAPTER FOUR TRANSITION: The Social, the Emotional, and the Medical 45; CHAPTER FIVE THE HISTORY OF TRANSGENDERISM AND ITS EVOLUTION OVER TIME 62
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: CHAPTER SIX TRANSGENDERISM AS A MENTAL HEALTH ISSUE: The Controversy Over Transgender Identity as a Disorder 79CHAPTER SEVEN DISCRIMINATION: Exploring the Barriers That Transpeople Face 97; CHAPTER EIGHT LESSER-KNOWN TYPES OF TRANSGENDERISM: Understanding Cross-Dressers, Genderqueer People, Drag Queens, and More 114; APPENDIX A: Glossary 129; APPENDIX B: Resources for Readers 137; NOTES 141; BIBLIOGRAPHY 153; INDEX 161;
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    Imaginary Ethnographies : Literature, Culture, and Subjectivity (2012)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (239 p)
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    Paralleltitel: Print version Imaginary Ethnographies : Literature, Culture, and Subjectivity
    DDC: 306
    Schlagwort(e): Social science literature ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: Through readings of iconic figures such as the cannibal, the child, the alien, and the posthuman, Gabriele Schwab unpacks literary explorations at the boundaries of the human. Treating literature as a dynamic process that ?writes culture," makes the abstract particular and local, and situates us within the world, she pioneers a compelling approach to analyzing literary texts and their production of meaning, knowledge, and society.Schwab's interdisciplinary study draws on anthropology, philosophy, critical theory, and psychoanalysis to trace literature's profound impact on the cultural imaginar
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: WRITING, DESIRE, AND TRANSFERENCE; 1. Another Writing Lesson: Levi-Strauss, Derrida, and the Chief of the Nambikwara; 2. Traveling Literature, Traveling Theory: Imaginary Encounters Between East and West ; 3. Restriction and Mobility: Desire, Transference, and the Cultural Imaginary ; PART II: CANNIBALS, CHILDREN, AND ALIENS; 4. The Melancholic Cannibal: Juan Jose Saer's The Witness and Marianne Wiggins's John Dollar; 5. War Children in a Global World: Richard Powers's Operation Wandering Soul
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 6. Ethnographies of the Future: Personhood, Agency, and Power in Octavia Butler's XenogenesisPART III: CODA; Cosmographical Meditations on the Inhuman: Samuel Beckett's The Lost Ones ; Notes; Bibliography ; Index
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    Sinophone Studies : A Critical Reader (2012)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (473 p)
    Serie: Global Chinese Culture
    Paralleltitel: Print version Sinophone Studies : A Critical Reader
    DDC: 305.800951
    Schlagwort(e): Chinese - Foreign countries - Intellectual life ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: This definitive anthology casts Sinophone studies as the study of Sinitic-language cultures born of colonial and postcolonial influences. Its transnational and comparative essays by such authors as Rey Chow, Ha Jin, Leo Ou-fan Lee, Ien Ang, Wei-ming Tu, and David Wang address debates concerning the nature of Chineseness while introducing readers to essential readings in Tibetan, Malaysian, Taiwanese, French, Caribbean, and American Sinophone literatures. By placing Sinophone cultures at the crossroads of multiple empires, this anthology richly demonstrates the transformative power of mult
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: What Is Sinophone Studies?; PART ONE: ISSUES AND CONTROVERSIES; 1. Against Diaspora: The Sinophone as Places of Cultural Production; 2. On Chineseness as a Theoretical Problem; 3. Can One Say No to Chineseness? Pushing the Limits of the Diasporic Paradigm; 4. Sinophone/Chinese: ""The South Where Language Is Lost"" and Reinvented; 5. Post-Loyalism; 6. Exiled to English; PART TWO: DISCREPANT PERSPECTIVES; 7. Chineseness: The Dilemmas of Place and Practice; 8. Cultural China: The Periphery as the Center; 9. On the Margins of the Chinese Discourse
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 10. The Structure of Dual Domination: Toward a Paradigm for the Study of the Chinese Diaspora in the United StatesPART THREE: SITES AND ARTICULATIONS; 11. Intra-Local and Inter-Local Sinophone: Rhizomatic Politics of Hong Kong Writers Saisai and Wong Bik-wan; 12. Things, Common/Places, Passages of the Port City: On Hong Kong and Hong Kong Author Leung Ping-kwan; 13. Taiwan Fiction Under Japanese Colonial Rule, 1895-1945; 14. Sinophone Indigenous Literature of Taiwan: History and Tradition; 15. Writing Beyond Boudoirs: Sinophone Literature by Female Writers in Contemporary Taiwan
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 16. Of Guest and Host: Zhong Lihe, Hakka and Sinophone Hospitality17. On the Margins of Tibetanness: Three Decades of Modern Sinophone TIbetan Literature; 18. Danger in the Voice: Alai and th Sinophone; 19. Sinophone Malaysian Literature: An Overview; 20. Transcending Multiracialism: Kuo Pao Kun's Multilingual Play Mama Looking for Her Cat and the Concept of Open Culture; 21. Plantation and Rainforest: Chong Kuel-heing and a South Seas Discourse of Coloniality and Nature; 22. Inverted Islands: Sinophone New Zealand Literature
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 23. Beneath Two Red Banners: Lao She as a Manchu Writer in Modern China24. Found in Translation: Gao Xinjian's Multimedia Sinophone; 25. Generational Effects in Racialization: Representation of African Americans in Sinophone Chinese American Literature; 26. At the Threshold of the Gold Mountain: Reading Angel Island Poetry; 27. The Chinese Immigrant as a Global Figure in Lin Yutang's Novels; 28. Latin America and the Caribbean in a Sinophone Studies Reader?; Glossary of Sinitic Terms, Names, and Titles; Contributors; Index
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    The Art of Making Magazines : On Being an Editor and Other Views from the Industry (2012)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (195 p)
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    Serie: Columbia Journalism Review Books
    Paralleltitel: Print version The Art of Making Magazines : On Being an Editor and Other Views from the Industry
    DDC: 070.4/1
    Schlagwort(e): Journalism -- Editing ; Periodicals -- Publishing ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: From finding and cultivating authors to effectively incorporating art and design, from the importance of fact checking and copyediting to the critical relationship between advertising dollars and content, this anthology provides a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the making of a successful and influential magazine. It also engages with the industry's most pressing issues, such as the future of magazines in a digital environment and the increasing pressure of business interests on editorial decisions, acting as both a how-to and a how-to-be guide for a variety of readers.Top editors, writers, ar
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents; Introduction; 1. Talking About Writing for Magazines (Which One Shouldn't Do); 2. Magazine Editing Then and Now; 3. How to Become the Editor-in-Chief of Your Favorite Women's Magazine; 4. Editing a Thought-Leader Magazine; 5. Fact-Checking at The New Yorker; 6. A Magazine Needs Copyeditors Because. . .; 7. How to Talk to the Art Director; 8. Three Weddings and a Funeral; 9. The Simpler the Idea, the Better; 10. The Publisher's Role Crusading Defender of the First Amendment or Advertising Salesman?; 11. Editing Books Versus Editing Magazines; 12. The Reader is King; Acknowledgments;
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    Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers : A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America (2012)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    Sprache: Englisch
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    Paralleltitel: Print version Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers : A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America
    DDC: 306.76630973
    Schlagwort(e): Lesbianism - United States - History - 20th century ; Lesbians - United States - History - 20th century ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: Lesbian life in America continues to evolve. As Lillian Faderman writes, there are ?no constants with regard to lesbianism," except that lesbians prefer women.In this book, Faderman reclaims the story of lesbian life in twentieth-century America, tracing the evolution of lesbian identity and subcultures from early networks to today's diverse lifestyles. Faderman samples from journals, unpublished manuscripts, songs, media accounts, novels, medical literature, pop culture artifacts, and rich firsthand testimony with lesbians of all races, ages, and classes, uncovering a surprising narrative of
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents; Introduction 1; 1. "The Loves of Women for Each Other": "Romantic Friends" in the Twentieth Century 11; 2. A Worm in the Bud: The Early Sexologists and Love Between Women 37; 3. Lesbian Chic: Experimentation and Repression in the 1920s 62; 4. Wastelands and Oases: The 1930s 93; 5. "Naked Amazons and Queer Damozels": World War II and Its Aftermath 118; 6. The Love That Dares Not Speak Its Name: McCarthyism and Its Legacy 139; 7. Butches, Femmes, and Kikis: Creating Lesbian Subcultures in the 1950s and '60s 159
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 8. "Not a Public Relations Movement": Lesbian Revolutions in the 1960s through 1970s 1889. Lesbian Nation: Creating a Women-Identified-Women Community in the 1970s 215; 10. Lesbian Sex Wars in the 1980s 246; 11. From Tower of Babel to Community: Lesbian Life in the 1980s 271; Epilogue: Social Constructions and the Metamorphoses of Love Between Women 303; Notes; Index;
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    Islam Through Western Eyes (2012)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (273 p)
    Paralleltitel: Print version Islam Through Western Eyes
    DDC: 303.48/2176701821
    Schlagwort(e): East and West ; Europe -- Relations -- Islamic countries ; Islam -- 21st century ; Islam -- Public opinion ; Islamic countries -- Relations -- Europe ; Islamophobia -- Europe ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: Despite the West's growing involvement in Muslim societies, conflicts, and cultures, its inability to understand or analyze the Islamic world threatens to curb any prospect of East-West rapprochement. Impelled by one thousand years of anti-Muslim ideas and images, the West has failed to engage in any meaningful or productive way with the world of Islam. Formulated in the medieval halls of the Roman Curia and courts of the European Crusaders and perfected in the newsrooms of Fox and CNN, this anti-Islamic discourse determines what can and cannot be said about Muslims and their religion, trapp
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents; Acknowledgments; 1: War Without End?; 2: Foucault's Toolbox; 3: The Western Idea of Islam; 4: Islam and Science; 5: Islam and Violence; 6: Islam and Women; 7: What's Wrong with Us?; Notes; Bibliography
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    Electric Dreamland : Amusement Parks, Movies, and American Modernity (2012)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (257 p)
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    Serie: Film and culture
    Serie: Film and Culture Series
    Paralleltitel: Print version Electric Dreamland : Amusement Parks, Movies, and American Modernity
    DDC: 791.06/8730904
    Schlagwort(e): Amusement parks - United States - History - 20th century ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: More than two thousand amusement parks dotted the American landscape in the early twentieth century, thrilling the general public with the latest in entertainment and motion picture technology. Amusement parks were the playgrounds of the working class, combining numerous, mechanically-based spectacles into one unique, modern cultural phenomenon. Lauren Rabinovitz describes the urban modernity engendered by these parks and their media, encouraging ordinary individuals to sense, interpret, and embody a burgeoning national identity.As industrialization, urbanization, and immigration upended socie
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: Artificial Distractions; 2. Urban Wonderlands: The "Cracked Mirror" of Turn-of-the-Century Amusement Parks; 3. Thrill Ride Cinema: Hale's Tours and Scenes of the World; 4. The Miniature and the Giant: Postcards and Early Cinema; 5. Coney Island Comedies: Slapstick at the Amusement Park and the Movies; 6. Conclusion: The Fusion of Movies and Amusement Parks; Appendix; Notes; Films Cited; Selected Bibliograhy; Index;
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    Sex and World Peace (2012)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 9780231520096
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (317 p)
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    Paralleltitel: Print version Sex and World Peace
    DDC: 303.6/6
    Schlagwort(e): War - Social aspects ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: Sex and World Peace unsettles a variety of assumptions in political and security discourse, demonstrating that the security of women is a vital factor in the security of the state and its incidence of conflict and war.The authors compare micro-level gender violence and macro-level state peacefulness in global settings, supporting their findings with detailed analyses and color maps. Harnessing an immense amount of data, they call attention to discrepancies between national laws protecting women and the enforcement of those laws, and they note the adverse effects on state security of abnormal s
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: CONTENTS; LIST OF MAPS, FIGURES, AND TABLES ix; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi; 1. ROOTS OF NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 1; 2. WHAT IS THERE TO SEE, AND WHY AREN'T WE SEEING IT? 17; 3. WHEN WE DO SEE THE GLOBAL PICTURE, WE ARE MOVED TO ASK HOW THIS HAPPENED 54; 4. THE HEART OF THE MATTER: The Security of Women and the Security of States 95; 5. WINGS OF NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, PART ONE: Effecting Positive Change Through Top-Down Approaches 119; 6. WINGS OF NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, PART TWO: Effecting Positive Change Through Bottom-Up Approaches 157
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 7. TAKING WING 201APPENDIX A. OPERATIONALIZATIONS FOR DATA ANALYSIS IN CHAPTER 4, 211; APPENDIX B. DATA ANALYSIS RESULTS FOR CHAPTER 4, 215; NOTES 227; CONTRIBUTORS 271; INDEX 273
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    Moving Data : The iPhone and the Future of Media (2012)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (359 p)
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    Paralleltitel: Print version Moving Data : The iPhone and the Future of Media
    DDC: 004.16/7
    Schlagwort(e): Application software - Social aspects ; Application software - Social aspects ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: Less than two years after its 2007 release, the iPhone revolutionized not only how people communicate with each other and the world, but also how they consume and produce culture. Combining traditional and social media with mobile connectivity, the iPhone and other smart phones have redefined as well as expanded the dimensions of everyday life, allowing individuals to personalize media as they move and process constant flows of data. Today, millions of consumers love and live by their iPhones, but what are the implications of its special technology on society, media, and culture?Featuring an e
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents; Introduction; I Data Archaeologies; 1. With Eyes, With Hands: The Relocation of Cinema Into the iPhone; 2. Navigating Screenspace: Toward Performative Cartography; 3. The iPhone as an Object of Knowledge; 4. Media Archaeology, Installation Art, and the iPhone Experience; 5. Hard Candy; II Politics of Redistribution; 6. Personal Media in the Digital Economy; 7. Big Hollywood, Small Screens; 8. Pushing the (Red) Envelope: Portable Video, Platform Mobility, and Pay-Per-View Culture; 9. Platforms, Pipelines, and Politics: The iPhone and Regulatory Hangover
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 10. A Walled Garden Turned Into a Rain ForestIII The App Revolution; 11. The iPhone Apps: A Digital Culture of Interactivity; 12. Slingshot to Victory: Games, Play, and the iPhone; 13. Reading (with) the iPhone; 14. Ambient News and the Para-iMojo: Journalism in the Age of the iPhone; 15. Party Apps and Other Citizenship Calls; 16. The iPhone's Failure: Protests and Resistance; IV Mobile Lives; 17. I Phone, I Learn; 18. EULA, Codec, API: On the Opacity of Digital Culture; 19. The Back of Our Devices Looks Better than the Front of Anyone Else's: On Apple and Interface Design
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 20. Playing the iPhone21. Mobile Media Life; V Coda; 21. The End of Solitude; Bibliography; Contributors; Index;
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    Plato's Republic : A Dialogue in 16 Chapters (2012)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (409 p)
    Paralleltitel: Print version Plato's Republic : A Dialogue in 16 Chapters
    DDC: 321.07
    Schlagwort(e): Myth ; Plato. Republic ; Proclus, approximately 410-485. In Platonis Rem publicam ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: Plato's Republic is one of the best-known and most widely-discussed texts in the history of philosophy. But how might we get to the heart of this work today, 2,500 years after its original composition? Alain Badiou breathes life into Plato's landmark text and revives its universality. Rather than producing yet another critical commentary, he has instead worked closely on the original Greek and, through spectacular changes, adapted it to our times.In this innovative reimagining of Plato's work, Badiou has removed all references specific to ancient Greek societyfrom lengthy exchanges about mora
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Table of Contents; Introduction, by Kenneth Reinhard; Translator's Preface; Author's Preface to the English Edition; Preface; Characters; Prologue: The Conversation in the Villa on the Harbor (327a-336b); 1. Reducing the Sophist to Silence (336b-357a); 2. The Young People's Pressing Questions (357a-368d); 3. The Origins of Society and the State (368d-376c); 4. The Disciplines of the Mind: Literature and Music (376c-403c); 5. The Disciplines of the Body: Nutrition, Medicine, and Physical Education (403c-412c); 6. Objective Justice (412c-434d); 7. Subjective Justice (434d-449a)
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 8. Women and Families (449a-471c)9. What Is a Philosopher? (471c-484b); 10. Philosophy and Politics (484b-502c); 11. What Is an Idea? (502c-521c); 12. From Mathematics to the Dialectic (521c-541b); 13. Critique of the Four Pre-Communist Systems of Government. I: Timocracy and Oligarchy (541b-555b); 14. Critique of the Four Pre-Communist Systems of Government. II: Democracy and Tyranny (555b-573b); 15. Justice and Happiness (573b-592b); 16. Poetry and Thought (592b-608b); Epilogue: The Mobile Eternity of Subjects (608b-621d); Notes; Bibliography; Index
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    Gangs and Society : Alternative Perspectives (2012)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (369 p)
    Paralleltitel: Print version Gangs and Society : Alternative Perspectives
    DDC: 302.3
    Schlagwort(e): Gangs - United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: Compiled by three leading experts in the psychological, sociological, and criminal justice fields, this volume addresses timely questions from an eclectic range of positions. The product of a landmark conference on gangs, Gangs and Society brings together the work of academics, activists, and community leaders to examine the many functions and faces of gangs today. Analyzing the spread of gangs from New York to Texas to the West Coast, the book covers such topics as the spirituality of gangs, the place of women in gang culture, and the effect on gangs of a variety of educational programs and s
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Table of Contents; Introduction; Part 1: THEORY AND METHODOLOGY; 1. A Note on Social Theory and the American Street Gang; 2. Toward a Typology of Contemporary Mexican AmericanYouth Gangs; 3. The Negligible Role of Gangs in Drug Distribution in New YorkCity in the 1990s; 4. Marginal Youth, Personal Identity, and the Contemporary Gang:Reconstructing the Social World?; Part 2: GANGS AND POLITICS; 5. Gangs and the Contemporary Urban Struggle: An Unappreciated Aspect of Gangs; 6. Urban Street Activists: Gang and Community Efforts to BringPeace and Justice to Los Angeles Neighborhoods
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Part 3: GANGS, AGENCY, AND AT-RISK YOUTH7. The Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation and the Spiritualityof Resistance: Agency, Social Cohesion, and Liberating Ritualsin the Making of a Street Organization; 8. Education in the Reform of Street Organizations in New York City; Part 4: WOMEN AND GANGS; 9. Liberating Yet Limiting: The Paradox of Female Gang Membership; 10. Amor de Reina! The Pushes and Pulls of Group Membership among the Latin Queens; Part 5: GANGS AND SOCIAL CONTROL; 11. Gangs and the Law
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 12. The Gang Crackdown in the Prisons of Massachusetts:Arbitrary and Harsh Treatment Can Only Make Matters WorsePart 6: GANGS AND PHOTOGRAPHY; 13. On the Subject of Gang Photography; 14. From Civil War to Gang War: The Tragedy of Edgar Bolanos; 15. Snapshots of a Movement: The New York Latin Kings andQueens 1996-99; Contributors; Index;
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    Dissenting Bodies : Corporealities in Early New England (2012)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (291 p)
    Paralleltitel: Print version Dissenting Bodies : Corporealities in Early New England
    DDC: 974.402
    Schlagwort(e): Massachusetts - Race relations - History - 17th century ; Massachusetts - Race relations - History - 17th century ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: For the Puritan separatists of seventeenth-century New England, ""godliness,"" as manifested by the body, was the sign of election, and the body, with its material demands and metaphorical significance, became the axis upon which all colonial activity and religious meaning turned. Drawing on literature, documents, and critical studies of embodiment as practiced in the New England colonies, Martha L. Finch launches a fascinating investigation into the scientific, theological, and cultural conceptions of corporeality at a pivotal moment in Anglo-Protestant history. Not only were settlers forced
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Introduction: Embodying Godliness; 1. Massasoit's Stool and Wituwamat's Head: Body Encounters; 2. A Banquet in the Wilderness: Bodies and the Environment; 3. As on a Hill: Public Bodies; 4. The True and Visible Church: The Body of Christ; 5. As in a Mirror: Domestic Bodies; Notes; Index
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    The Star as Icon : Celebrity in the Age of Mass Consumption (2012)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (173 p)
    Paralleltitel: Print version The Star as Icon : Celebrity in the Age of Mass Consumption
    DDC: 302.23
    Schlagwort(e): Celebrities in mass media ; Celebrities in mass media ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: Princess Diana, Jackie O, Grace Kelly& mdash;the star icon is the most talked about yet least understood persona. The object of adoration, fantasy, and cult obsession, the star icon is a celebrity, yet she is also something more: a dazzling figure at the center of a media pantomime that is at once voyeuristic and zealously guarded. With skill and humor, Daniel Herwitz pokes at the gears of the celebrity-making machine, recruiting a philosopher's interest in the media, an eye for society, and a love of popular culture to divine our yearning for these iconic figures and the role they play in our
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1. The Candle in the Wind; 2. There Is Only One Star Icon (Except in a Warhol Picture); 3. Therefore Not All Idols Are American; 4. A Star Is Born ; 5. The Film Aura: An Intermediate Case; 6. Stargazing and Spying; 7. Teleaesthetics; 8. Diana Haunted and Hunted on TV; 9. Star Aura in Consumer Society (and Other Fatalities); Notes; Index
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    Everyday Reading : Poetry and Popular Culture in Modern America (2012)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 9780231530774
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (321 pages)
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.0973
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    Schlagwort(e): Poetry - Public opinion - History - 20thcentury ; Poetry - Public opinion - History - 20thcentury ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: Everyday Reading is the first full-length critical study of the culture surrounding American popular and commercial poetry in the twentieth century. Exploring poetry scrapbooks, old-time radio show recordings, advertising verse, corporate archives, and Hallmark greeting cards, among other unconventional sources, Mike Chasar casts American poetry as an everyday phenomenon consumed and created by a vast range of readers in different and complex ways. Capturing American poetry's truly diverse forms and appeal, Chasar shows how the genre helped set the stagebefore television, rock music, video games, and the Internetfor the dynamics of popular culture and mass media today. Chasar investigates twentieth-century American poetry's audience of millions and maps its range of aesthetics, cultural uses, relationship to canonical verse, and unexpected presence in many parts of modern life. Far from being a marginal art form read by a select group of educated individuals, poetry was part and parcel of American popular culture, spreading rapidly as the consumer economy expanded and companies such as Burma-Shave exploited the form's profit-making potential. Poetry also offered ordinary Americans a wealth of opportunities for creative, emotional, political, and intellectual expression, whether through scrapbooking, participation in radio programs, or poetry contests. By reenvisioning the uses of twentieth-century poetry, Chasar enables a richer understanding of the innovations of modernist and avant-garde poets and the American reading public's sophisticated powers of feeling and perception.
    Kurzfassung: Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Poetry and Popular Culture -- 1. Saving Poetry -- 2. Invisible Audiences -- 3. The Business of Rhyming -- 4. The Spin Doctor -- 5. Popular Poetry and the Program Era -- Epilogue: In Memoriam -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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    Shizi : China's First Syncretist (2012)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 9780231504171
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (259 pages)
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    DDC: 304.2
    Schlagwort(e): Philosophy, Chinese ; Intellectual life -- History ; Intellectual life ; History ; Philosophy, Chinese ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: By blending multiple strands of thought into one ideology, Chinese Syncretists of the pre-imperial period created an essential guide to contemporary ideas about society and government. Merging traditions such as Ruism, Mohism, Daoism, Legalism, and Yin-Yang naturalism into their work, Syncretists supported an integrated intellectual approach that contrasted with the exclusivist philosophies of Confucianism and Daoism. Presenting the first full English translation of the earliest example of a Syncretist text, this volume introduces Western scholars to both the brilliance of the syncretic method and a critical work of Chinese leadership. Written by Shi Jiao, China's first syncretic thinker, during the Warring States Period of 481 to 221 BCE, Shizi is similar to Machiavelli's The Prince in dispensing wisdom to would-be rulers. Its twin pillars of advice encourage self-cultivation and effective government, recommending that rulers maintain self-discipline, hire reliable people, delegate power consistently and transparently, and promote in orderly fashion. The people, in turn, would emulate their leader's detachment and objectivity, and the state would function justly and peacefully. Paul Fischer provides an extensive introduction and chapter by chapter summary and analysis, outlining the importance of syncretism in Chinese culture, along with the text's particular features, authorship, transmission, loss, and reconstruction over time. The Shizi set the stage for a long history of syncretic endeavor in China, and its study provides insight into the vital traditions of early Chinese philosophy. It also constructs a template for interpreting other well-known works, such as the Confucian Analects, the Daoist Laozi, the Mohist Mozi, and the Legalist Shang jun shu.
    Kurzfassung: Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Content -- Transmission -- Key Terms -- Annotated Translation -- 1. Exhortation to Learn -- 2. Honoring Words (of Good Advice) -- 3. Four Kinds of Proper Conduct -- 4. The Enlightenment Hall -- 5. Allocation -- 6. Emerging from Delusion -- 7. Consideration -- 8. Governing the World -- 9. Good Intentions -- 10. Broad-mindedness -- 11. Generous Fellows -- 12. Dwelling in the Way -- 13. Spiritous Enlightenment -- 14. Stopping the Chu Army -- 15. The Ruler's Governance -- Fragments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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    Under Suspicion : A Phenomenology of Media (2012)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 Online-Ressource (xxviii, 199 Seiten)
    Serie: Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
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    DDC: 302.2301
    Schlagwort(e): Art -- Philosophy ; Aesthetics, Modern -- 20th century ; Postmodernism ; Art ; Philosophy.. ; Aesthetics, Modern ; 20th century.. ; Postmodernism ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: Since the public generally regards the media with suspicion and distrust, the media's central concern is to regain that trust through the production of sincerity. Advancing the field of media studies in a truly innovative way, Boris Groys focuses on the media's affect of sincerity and its manufacture of trust to appease skeptics. Groys identifies forms of media sincerity and its effect on politics, culture, society, and conceptions of the self. He relies on different philosophical writings thematizing the gaze of the other, from the theories of Heidegger, Sartre, Mauss, and Bataille to the poststructuralist formulations of Lacan and Derrida. He also considers media states of exception" and their creation of effects of sincerity-a strategy that feeds the media's predilection for the extraordinary and the sensational, further fueling the public's suspicions. Emphasizing the media's production of emotion over the presentation (or lack thereof) of facts," Groys launches a timely study that boldly challenges the presumed authenticity of the media's worldview.
    Kurzfassung: Intro -- Contents -- Translator âs Preface: Dead Man Thinking -- Introduction -- I: Submedial Space -- 1: The Submedial Subject and the Flux of Signs -- 2: The Truth of the Medial and the State of Exception -- 3: Media-Ontological Suspicion and Philosophical Doubt -- 4: The Phenomenology of Medial Sincerity -- 5: The Gaze of the Other -- 6: The Medium Becomes the Message -- 7: The Case of Exception and the Truth of the Medial -- II: The Economy of Suspicion -- 8: Marcel Mauss: Symbolic Exchange -- or, Civilization Under Water -- 9: Claude Lévi-Strauss: Mana -- or, the Floating Signifi er -- 10: Georges Bataille: The Potlatch with the Sun -- 11: Jacques Derrida: The Lack of Time and Its Specters -- 12: Jean-FranÃois Lyotard:The Roller Coaster of the Sublime -- 13: The Time of Signs -- 14: Suspicion Is the Medium -- Notes -- Index.
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    The Global and the Intimate : Feminism in Our Time (2012)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (341 p)
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    Serie: Gender and Culture Series
    Paralleltitel: Print version The Global and the Intimate : Feminism in Our Time
    DDC: 305.42
    Schlagwort(e): Intimacy (Psychology) ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: Sixteen essays by prominent feminist scholars and authors establish new paths in the study of intimacy and globalization, challenging globalization's grand narratives and their representation of women as either victims of forced migration or local actors of limited influence.These essays intervene in grand narratives of global relations by focusing on the specific, the quotidian, the affective, and the eccentric. They scrutinize the frames we use to recognize and organize intimacy and analyze the global forces that undergird personal experience and exchange. Writing from multiple disciplinary
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Global and the Intimate; I THE ANATOMY OF INTIMACY; 1. Intimacy: A Useful Category of Transnational Analysis; 2. In the Interests of Taste and Place: Economies of Attachment; 3. Jamaica Kincaid's Practical Politics of the Intimate in My Garden (Book); 4. Widening Circles; II MEMORY, HISTORY, COMMUNITY; 5. Facing: Intimacy Across Divisions; 6. Objects of Return; 7. Narratives and Rights: Zlata's Diary and the Circulation of Stories of Suffering Ethnicity; 8. Letter from Argentina; III LEGISLATING INTIMACY
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: "Security Moms" in Twenty-First-Century U.S.A.: The Gender of Security in Neoliberalism10. "LIke a Family, Byt Not Quite": Emotional Labor and Cinematic Politics of Intimacy; 11. What We Women Talk About When We Talk About Interracial Love; 12. The Pedagogy of the Spiral: Intimacy and Captivity in a Women's Prison; IV GLOBAL FEMINISM AND THE SUBJECTS OF KNOWLEDGE; 13. Witnessing, Femicide, and a Politics of the Familiar; 14. Solidarity, Self-Critique, and Survival: Sangtin's Struggles with Fieldwork; 15. Tehran Kids; Contributors; Index;
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    Women in Iraq : Past Meets Present (2012)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 9780231158145
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (257 p)
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    Paralleltitel: Print version Women in Iraq : Past Meets Present
    DDC: 305.4209567
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    Schlagwort(e): Electronic books ; Online-Publikation
    Kurzfassung: This is clearly a very well researched, accessible and well written piece of important scholarship that fills a gap in the existing literature on the history of Iraq generally as well as the more specific history of Iraqi women's rights activism
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Historical Setting; 1: Occupation, Monarchy, and Customary Law: Tribalizing Women; 2: Family Law as a Site of Struggle and Subordination; 3: Politics, Election Law, and Exclusion; 4: Gender Discourse and Discontent: Activism Unraveled; 5: Challenging the Government's Gender Discourse; Epilogue: Past Meets Present; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
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    The Triangle of Representation (2012)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (217 p)
    Paralleltitel: Print version The Triangle of Representation
    DDC: 306
    Schlagwort(e): Culture ; Representation (Philosophy) ; Culture ; Representation (Philosophy) ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Online-Publikation
    Kurzfassung: Moving deftly among literary and visual arts, as well as the modern critical canon, Christopher Prendergast's book explores the meaning and value of representation as both a philosophical challenge (What does it mean to create an image that ""stands for"" something absent?) and a political issue (Who has the right to represent whom?).The Triangle of Representation raises a range of theoretical, historical, and aesthetic questions, and offers subtle readings of such cultural critics as Raymond Williams, Paul de Man, Edward Said, Walter Benjamin, and Hélène Cixous, in addition to penetrating inv
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. The Triangle of Representation; 2. Blurred Identities: Representing Modern Life; 3. Foundations and Beginnings: Raymond Williams And The Grounds Of Cultural Theory; 4. Circulating Representations: New Historicism And The Poetics Of Culture; 5. Representing (Forgetting) the Past: Paul De Man, Fascism, and Deconstruction; 6. Representing Other Cultures: Edward Said; 7. Representation or Embodiment? Walter Benjamin And The Politics Of CORRESPONDANCES; 8. God's Secret: Reflections On Realism; 9. Visuality and Narrative: The Moment Of History Painting
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 10. Literature, Painting, Metaphor: Matisse/Proust11. English Proust; Notes; Index
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    Active Social Capital : Tracing the Roots of Development and Democracy (2012)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (267 p)
    Paralleltitel: Print version Active Social Capital : Tracing the Roots of Development and Democracy
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    Schlagwort(e): Social aspects ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Online-Publikation
    Kurzfassung: The idea of social capital allows scholars to assess the quality of relationships among people within a particular community and show how that quality affects the ability to achieve shared goals. With evidence collected from 69 villages in India, Krishna investigates what social capital is, how it operates in practice, and what results it can be expected to produce. Does social capital provide a viable means for advancing economic development, promoting ethnic peace, and strengthening democratic governance? The world is richer than ever before, but more than a fifth of its people are poor and
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents; Preface; 1. Introduction: Can Social Capital Help Support Development and Democracy? ; 2. How Might Social Capital Matter? ; 3. Structre and Agency: New Political Entrepreneurs and the Rise of Village-Based Collective Action; 4. Measuring Social Capital ; 5. Understanding Economic Development: Why Do Some Villages Develop Faster than Others? ; 6. Examining Community Harmony: Why Are Some Villages Peaceful and Others Not? ; 7. Democratic Participation in Rural North India: Social Capital and New Political Entrepreneurs; 8. Conclusion; APPENDICES; A: Methodology
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: B: Details of 60 Villages in RajasthanC: Map of Village Balesariya; Notes; References; Index
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    Taking it Big : C. Wright Mills and the Making of Political Intellectuals (2012)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (289 p)
    Ausgabe: Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Paralleltitel: Print version Taking it Big : C. Wright Mills and the Making of Political Intellectuals
    DDC: 301.092
    Schlagwort(e): Mills, C. Wright - Political and social views ; Mills, C. Wright - Political and social views ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Online-Publikation
    Kurzfassung: Charles Wright Mills (1916?1962) was a pathbreaking intellectual who transformed the independent American left in the 1940s and 1950s. Often challenging the established ideologies and approaches of fellow leftist thinkers, Mills was central to creating and developing the idea of the ?public intellectual" in postwar America and laid the political foundations for the rise of the New Left in the 1960s. Written by Stanley Aronowitz, a leading sociologist and critic of American culture and history, Taking it Big reconstructs the making of this icon and the new dimension of American political life t
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: CONTENTS; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Introduction and Overview; 1: Mills's Sociology and Pragmatism; 2: Mills and the New York Intellectuals; 3: On Mills's The New Men of Power; 4: White Collar; 5: On Social Psychology and Its Historical Contexts: The Origin of Psychology as an Independent Discipline; 6: The Structure of Power in American Society; 7: What Is a Political Intellectual?; 8: Taking It Big; Afterword: Mills Today; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
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    Confronting Postmaternal Thinking : Feminism, Memory, and Care (2012)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (209 p)
    Paralleltitel: Print version Confronting Postmaternal Thinking : Feminism, Memory, and Care
    DDC: 306.874301
    Schlagwort(e): Electronic books ; Online-Publikation
    Kurzfassung: Public discourse maintains a deep cultural anxiety around expressions of maternalism and the application of maternal values to the society as a whole. In a policy context, postmaternalism is the priority given to women's claims as employees over their political claims as mothers. Julie Stephens moves beyond these policy definitions and advances a notion of postmaternal thinking to signal this growing unease with maternal forms of subjectivity and maternalist perspectives. In defining the contours of postmaternal thought, she details the elaborate processes of cultural forgetting that go hand
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. Unmothering; 2. Feminist Reminiscence; 3. Memory and Modernity; 4. Maternalism Reconfigured?; Conclusion: Toward a New Feminist Maternalism; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
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    The generation of postmemory : writing and visual culture after the Holocaust (2012)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 9780231156530 , 9780231526272 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: VIII, 305 S. , Ill.
    Ausgabe: Online-Ausg. Ann Arbor Proquest 2012 Online-Ressource ISBN 9780231526272
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    Serie: Gender and culture
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    Schlagwort(e): Judenvernichtung ; Generation 2 ; Erinnerung ; Vergangenheitsbewältigung ; Jüdische Kunst ; Jüdische Literatur ; Rezeption ; Kollektives Gedächtnis ; Erinnerung ; Vergangenheitsbewältigung ; Judenvernichtung ; Jüdische Literatur ; Jüdische Kunst ; Generation 2 ; Rezeption ; Kollektives Gedächtnis ; Online-Publikation ; Online-Publikation ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: Can we remember other people's memories? "The generation of postmemory" argues we can: that memories of traumatic events live on to mark the lives of those who were not there to experience them. Children of survivors and their contemporaries inherit catastrophic histories not through direct recollection but through haunting postmemories-multiply mediated images, objects, stories, behaviors, and affects passed down within the family and the culture at large. ...
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    Viewers Like You : How Public TV Failed the People (2012)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (299 p)
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    Paralleltitel: Print version Viewers Like You : How Public TV Failed the People
    DDC: 384.55
    Schlagwort(e): United States ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: How "public" is public television if only a small percentage of the American people tune in on a regular basis? When public television addresses "viewers like you," just who are you? Despite the current of frustration with commercial television that runs through American life, most TV viewers bypass the redemptive "oasis of the wasteland" represented by PBS and turn to the sitcoms, soap operas, music videos, game shows, weekly dramas, and popular news programs produced by the culture industries. Viewers Like You? traces the history of public broadcasting in the United States, questions its pri
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Cultural Contradictions of Public Television; 1. Oasis of the Vast Wasteland; 2. The Quest to Cultivate; 3. TV Viewing as Good Citizenship; 4. Something for Everyone; 5. Radicalizing Middle America; Epilogue: Public Television, Popularity, and Cultural Justice; Notes; Index;
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    Clash of Identities : Explorations in Israeli and Palestinian Societies (2012)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (453 p)
    Paralleltitel: Print version Clash of Identities : Explorations in Israeli and Palestinian Societies
    DDC: 305.80095694
    Schlagwort(e): Israel - Politics and government - Psychological aspects ; Israel - Politics and government - Psychological aspects ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: By revisiting the past hundred years of shared Palestinian and Jewish-Israeli history, Baruch Kimmerling reveals surprising relations of influence between a stateless indigenous society and the settler-immigrants who would later form the state of Israel. Shattering our assumptions about these two seemingly irreconcilable cultures, Kimmerling composes a sophisticated portrait of one side's behavior and characteristics and the way in which they irrevocably shaped those of the other.Kimmerling focuses on the clashes, tensions, and complementarities that link Jewish, Palestinian, and Israeli ident
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents; Preface; chapter one: A Model for Analyzing Reciprocal Relations Between the Jewish and Arab Communities in Mandatory Palestine; chapter two: Collective Identity as Agencyand Structuration of Society: The Israeli Example; chapter three: The Formation Process of Palestinian Collective Identities: The Ottoman and Colonial Periods; chapter four: Between Primordial and Civil Definitions of the Collective Identity: Eretz Israel or the State of Israel?; chapter five: State Building, State Autonomy,and the Identity of Society: The Case of the Israeli State
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: chapter six: Patterns of Militarism in Israelchapter seven: The Social Construction of Israel's National Security; chapter eight: Jurisdiction in anImmigrant-Settler Society: The Jewish and Democratic State; chapter nine: Exchanging Territories for Peace: A Macrosociological Approach; chapter ten: Nationalism, Identity, and Citizenship: An Epilogue to the Yehoshua-Shammas Controversy:A Non-Platonic Dialogue; chapter eleven: The Power-Oriented Settlement: PLO-Israel:The Road to the Oslo Agreement and Back?*; chapter twelve: Politicide: Ariel Sharon's Legacy and the Palestinians; Epilogue
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Chronology of Major EventsNotes; Index
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    The Secret of the Totem : Religion and Society from McLennan to Freud (2012)
    New York : Columbia University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    Sprache: Englisch
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    Schlagwort(e): Totemismus ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: Though it is now discredited, totemism once captured the imagination of Sigmund Freud, Émile Durkheim, James Frazer, and other prominent Victorian thinkers. In this lively intellectual history, Robert Alun Jones considers the construction of a theory and the divergent ways religious scholars, anthropologists, psychoanalysts, and cultural theorists drew on totemism to explore and define primitive and modern societies' religious, cultural, and sexual norms. Combining innovative readings of individual scholars' work and a rich portrait of Victorian intellectual life, Jones brilliantly traces the rise and fall of a powerful idea. First used to describe the belief systems of Native American tribes, totemism ultimately encompassed a range of characteristics. Its features included belief in a guardian spirit that assumed the form of an a particular animal; a prohibition against marrying outside the clan combined with a powerful incest taboo; a sacrament in which members of the totemic clan slaughtered a representative of the totemic species; and the tracing of descent through the female rather than the male. These attributes struck a chord with the late Victorian mentality and its obsession with inappropriate sexual relations, evolutionary theory, and gender roles. Totemism represented a set of beliefs that, though utterly primitive and at a great evolutionary distance, reassured Victorians of their own more civilized values and practices.Totemism's attraction to Victorian thinkers reflects the ways in which the social sciences construct their objects of study rather than discovering them. In discussing works such as Freud's Totem and Taboo or Frazer's The Golden Bough, Jones considers how theorists used the vocabulary of totemism to suit their intellectual interests and goals. Ultimately, anthropologists such as A. A. Goldenweiser, Franz Boas, and...
    Kurzfassung: Claude Lévi-Strauss argued that totemism was more a reflection of the concerns of Victorian theorists than of the actual practices and beliefs of "primitive" societies, and by the late twentieth century totemism seemed to have disappeared altogether.
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    The Lovelorn Ghost and the Magical Monk : Practicing Buddhism in Modern Thailand (2011)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    Sprache: Englisch
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    DDC: 306.6/94309593
    Schlagwort(e): Buddhism Social aspects ; History ; RELIGION ; General ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; Buddhism ; Social aspects ; Buddhismus ; Religionsausübung ; Ritual ; History ; Thailand ; Thailand ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: Monks and Kings -- Texts and Magic -- Rituals and Liturgies -- Art and Objects
    Kurzfassung: "Focusing on representations of the ghost and monk from the late eighteenth century to the present, Justin Thomas McDaniel builds a case for interpreting modern Thai Buddhist practice through the movements of these transformative figures ... Listening to popular Thai Buddhist ghost stories, visiting crowded shrines and temples, he finds concepts of attachment, love, wealth, beauty, entertainment, graciousness, security, and nationalism all spring from engagement with the ghost and the monk and are as vital to the making of Thai Buddhism as venerating the Buddha himself."--Jacket
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    Confidence Game : The Limited Vision of the News Gurus (2011)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    Sprache: Englisch
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    Paralleltitel: Print version Confidence Game : The Limited Vision of the News Gurus
    DDC: 302.231
    Schlagwort(e): Journalism ; Journalists ; Journalism.. ; Journalists ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: Dean Starkman takes on what has become a dominant perspective on the future of news in the digital age as personified by three well known media thinkers ? Jay Rosen, Clay Shirky, and Jeff Jarvis ? who have dominated the ""future of news"" debate. Starkman makes a powerful case that the perspective that these three represent, despite their many useful insights, is in the end corrosive to public-service journalism
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    A convergence of civilizations : the transformation of Muslim societies around the world (2011)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 0231527462 , 9780231527460
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online Ressource (xv, 134 p.) , ill., map.
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    Originaltitel: Rendez-vous des civilisations 〈English〉
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    DDC: 304.6091767
    Schlagwort(e): Demography ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Demography ; HISTORY ; Middle East ; General ; Demography ; Population ; Islamic countries Population ; Islamic countries ; Islamic countries Population ; Islamic countries ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: The Muslim countries in the movement of history -- Crises of transition -- The Arab family and the transition crisis -- Other Muslim women: East Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa -- At the heart of Islam: the Arab world -- The non-Arab greater Middle East -- After communism -- Matrilocal Asia -- Sub-Saharan Africa.
    Kurzfassung: We are told that Western/Christian and Muslim/Arab civilizations are on the verge of destroying each other. The demographics of one group remain sluggish, while the population of the other has exploded, widening the cultural gap and all but guaranteeing the outbreak of war. Leaving aside the media's sound and fury on this subject, measured analysis shows another reality taking shape: rapprochement between these two civilizations, benefitting from a universal movement guiding humanity since the Enlightenment. This book's historical and geographical sweep discredits the notion of a specific Islamic demography. The range of fertility among Muslim women, for example, is as varied as religious behavior among Muslims in general. Whether agnostics, fundamentalist Salafis, or al-Qaeda activists, Muslims are a diverse group that prove the variety and individuality of Islam. Youssef Courbage and Emmanuel Todd consider different degrees of literacy, patriarchy, and defensive reactions among minority Muslim populations, underscoring the spread of massive secularization throughout the Arab and Muslim world. In this regard, they argue, there is very little to distinguish the evolution of Islam from the history of Christianity, especially with Muslims now entering a global modernity. Sensitive to demographic variables and their reflection of personal and social truths, Courbage and Todd upend a dangerous meme: that we live in a fractured world close to crisis, struggling with an epidemic of closed cultures and minds made different by religion
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    Robert K. Merton : sociology of science and sociology as science (2011)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 9780231521840 , 0231521847
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online Ressource (xii, 320 p.) , ill.
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    DDC: 301.092
    Schlagwort(e): Merton, Robert King 1910-2003 ; Merton, Robert King ; Merton, Robert King 1910-2003 ; Merton, Robert King ; Sociologists United States ; Sociology United States ; Science Social aspects ; Science Philosophy ; Sociologists ; Sociology ; Science Social aspects ; Science Philosophy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; General ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Regional Studies ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Sociology ; General ; Science ; Philosophy ; Science ; Social aspects ; Sociologists ; Sociology ; United States ; Electronic book ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: "Robert K. Merton (1910-2003) was one of the most influential sociologists of the twentieth century, producing clear theories and innovative research that continue to shape multiple disciplines. Merton's reach can be felt in the study of social structure, social psychology, deviance, professions, organizations, culture, and science. Yet for all his fame, Merton is only partially understood. He is treated by scholars as a functional analyst, when in truth his contributions transcend paradigm
    Kurzfassung: Gathering together twelve major sociologists, Craig Calhoun launches a thorough reconsideration of Merton's achievements and inspires a renewed engagement with sociological theory. Merton's work addressed the challenges of integrating research and theory. It connected different fields of empirical research and spoke to the importance of overcoming divisions between allegedly pure and applied sociology. Merton realized the value of sociological methods that respect the institutional analysis of science and knowledge. By bringing together different aspects of his work in one volume, Calhoun illuminates the interdisciplinary & -and unifying & -dimensions of Merton's approach, while also advancing the intellectual agenda of an increasingly vital area of study."--Jacket
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    The Columbia anthology of Chinese folk and popular literature (2011)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 9780231153126 , 9780231153133 , 9780231526739
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (xvi, 640 p) , ill., maps
    Ausgabe: Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Serie: Translations from the Asian classics
    Paralleltitel: Print version The Columbia Anthology of Chinese Folk and Popular Literature
    DDC: 398.20951
    Schlagwort(e): Ethnic folklore ; Folklore ; Folk literature, Chinese Translations into English ; Ethnic folklore - China ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: In The Columbia Anthology of Chinese Folk and Popular Literature, two of the world's leading sinologists, Victor H. Mair and Mark Bender, capture the breadth of China's oral-based literary heritage. This collection presents works drawn from the large body of oral literature of many of China's recognized ethnic groups-including the Han, Yi, Miao, Tu, Daur, Tibetan, Uyghur, and Kazak-and the selections include a variety of genres. Chapters cover folk stories, songs, rituals, and drama, as well as epic traditions and professional storytelling, and feature both familiar and little-known texts, fro
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chinese Units of Measure; "I Sit Here and Sing for You" The Oral Literature of China -Mark Bender and Victor Mair; Chapter 1. Folk Stories and Other Spoken Traditions; A GINSENG TALE FROM JILIN; The Mother's Brother and His Sister's Son; A FOLK STORY OF THE DAUR; Mengongnenbo; FOLK STORIES FROM THE TAI LUE OF SIPSONGPANNA; Unclear Sight, but Skillful Hands; Obtaining Milk from the Deities; Two Friends; The Cow and the Tiger; Tale of the Two Rivers, Khong and Khorng; A FOLK STORY IN "FUNERAL LAMENT LYRICS" OF THE LUO PEOPLE, YUNNAN; The Red Silk-Cotton Tree
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: A STORY FROM THE NUOSU OF SICHUANCannibal Grandmother; TALES OF DRAGONS; February 2, the Dragon Raises His Head; Dragon-Print Stone of the West Mountains; A MOSUO STORY FROM LAKE LUGU; Goddess Gemu; A STORY OF THE PUMI OF YUNNAN; The Story of Zerijamu and Cuziluyi; FOLK STORIES OF THE UYGHUR; Growing Gold; Jingling Coins; Three Wise Maxims; Two Brothers Meet; Afrat Khan and His Nine Daughters; A TU FOLK STORY; The Qeo Family Girl; A TALE OF THE AMIS; The Egg Boy; STORIES OF TU RITUAL; The Origin of the God of Riches; A Snake Beats a Drum, a Donkey Rides a Person; A NAMZI TALE
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Brother Moon, Sister SunNAMZI RIDDLES; TIBETAN FLIRTING WORDS AND TONGUE TWISTERS; Flirting Words; Tongue Twisters; Chapter 2. Folk Song Traditions; FLOWER SONGS FROM NORTHWESTERN CHINA; KAZAKH MARRIAGE SONGS OF LAMENT AND SORROW; Songs of Lament; Songs of Sorrow; QING DYNASTY MOUNTAIN SONGS; A Smile; A Stare; Looking; On Fire (1); On Fire (2); On Fire (3); Studying Styles; Not Flirting; Expressing One's Feelings; Without a Lover (1); Without a Lover (2); Looking for My Lover; Making Excuses; Waiting (1); Make-Believe; Secondhand; Waiting (2); Temptation (1); Temptation (2); Deceiving Mother
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Hoodwinking MotherThe Torn Skirt; Watching the Stars; Hoodwinking People (1); Hoodwinking People (2); Hoodwinking People (3); Hoodwinking People (4); Pregnant (1); Pregnant (2); Pregnant (3); Pregnant (4); Pregnant (5); Not Pregnant; Untitled; Untitled; Untitled; FOLK SONGS FROM JIANGSU PROVINCE; Maiden Wu (verse 1); Yearning for a Beloved (Until Death Follows); Yearning for a Beloved Until Death Follows (fragment); At Sunset, the Western Mountains Gradually Turn Yellow; If You Sing Mountain Songs, You'll Find It Easy to Court; Untitled; Rippling Water, Clear and Bright; The Peddler
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: The Little CatHe Goes East, She Goes West; A Little Stream Separates Me from My Lass; The Girl Liu (fragment); Playing Cards at Night (fragment); The Girl's Breasts Are White and Fresh Like Milk (fragment); Breaking Up; If You Don't Walk the Path of True Love,You Will Lose Your Beloved; Cursing Song (fragment); On a Worn-Out Greasy Carrying Pole; Let Us Playfully Sing Mountain Songs to Ask a Question; Fourth Brother and Fifth Sister; SALTWATER SONGS OF HONG KONG; SONGS OF THE MINDONG SHE PEOPLE; Carrying Fish Goods on a Shoulder Pole; Field Song; Matchmaking Through Singing
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Song When Meeting Someone on the Road
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    The Lives of Transgender People (2011)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 9780231143073
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (249 p)
    Ausgabe: Online-Ausg. 2012 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Paralleltitel: Print version The Lives of Transgender People
    DDC: 306.76/80973
    Schlagwort(e): Transgender youth - United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: Responding to a critical need for greater perspectives on transgender life in the United States, Genny Beemyn and Susan (Sue) Rankin apply their extensive expertise to a groundbreaking survey-one of the largest ever conducted in the U.S.-on gender development and identity-making among transsexual women, transsexual men, crossdressers, and genderqueer individuals. With nearly 3,500 participants, the survey is remarkably diverse and representational, and with more than 400 follow-up interviews, the data offers limitless opportunities for research and interpretation
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Demographics of the Survey Participants; 2. Experiences of Trangender Identity; 3. The Climate for Transgender People; 4. Developmental Milestones of Different Transgender Groups; 5. Transgender Youth and Implications for Higher Education; Appendix A. Transgender Survey Instrument; Appendix B. Interview Protocol; Appendix C. Review of Stastical Analyses; Notes; References; Index;
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    Banished to the Homeland : Dominican Deportees and Their Stories of Exile (2011)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 9780231149358
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (385 p)
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    Paralleltitel: Print version Banished to the Homeland : Dominican Deportees and Their Stories of Exile
    DDC: 304.87307293
    Schlagwort(e): Deportation - Dominican Republic ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: The 1996 U.S. Immigration Reform and Responsibility Act has led to the forcible deportation of more than thirty thousand Dominicans from the United States, with little protest or even notice from the public. Since these deportees return to the country of their origin, many Americans assume repatriation will be easy and the emotional and financial hardships will be few, but in fact the opposite is true. Deportees suffer greatly when they are torn from their American families and social networks, and they are further demeaned as they resettle former homelands, blamed for crime waves, cultural an
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Study; 2. Setting and Sample; 3. Leaving for America; 4. Settlement; 5. Pathways to Crime; 6. Prison; 7. Deported; 8. Back in the Homeland: Part One; 9. Back in the Homeland: Part Two; 10. Back in the Homeland: Part Three; 11. The Return of the Deportees; 12. Conclusion; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; Appendix D; Notes; References; Index;
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    The Radical Luhmann (2011)
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    ISBN: 9780231153799
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (294 p)
    Paralleltitel: Print version The Radical Luhmann
    DDC: 301.01
    Schlagwort(e): Luhmann, Niklas, -- 1927-1998 ; Social systems -- Philosophy ; Sociology -- Philosophy ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: In The Radical Luhmann, Hans-Georg Moeller focuses on Luhmann's paradigm shift from philosophy to theory, which introduced new perspectives on the contemporary world. Boldly breaking with the heritage of Western thought, Luhmann denied the central role of humans in social theory, particularly the possibility of autonomous agency. In this way, after Copernicus's cosmological, Darwin's biological, and Freud's psychological deconstructions of anthropocentrism, he added a sociological "fourth insult" to human vanity. A theoretical shift toward complex system-environment relations helped Luhmann "a
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; I: Introduction; 1: The Trojan Horse: Luhmann's (Not So) Hidden Radicalism; 2: Why He Wrote Such Bad Books; II: From Philosophy To Theory; 3: The Fourth Insult: A Refutation of Humanism; 4: From Necessity to Contingency A Carnivalization of Philosophy: A Carnivalization of Philosophy; 5: The Last Footnote to Plato: A Solution to the Mind-Body Problem; 6: Ecological Evolution: A Challenge to Social Creationism; 7: Constructivism as Postmodernist Realism A Teaching of Differences: A Teaching of Differences
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 8: Democracy as a Utopia: A Deconstruction of Politics9: Conclusion: Nec spe nec metu: Neither Hope nor Fear; Appendix; Niklas Luhmann (1927-1998): A Short Intellectual Biography; Abbreviations; Notes; Index;
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    Craving earth : understanding pica ; the urge to eat clay, starch, ice, and chalk (2011)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 9780231146081
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (xiv, 228 p) , ill., map
    Ausgabe: Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Paralleltitel: Print version Craving Earth : Understanding Pica - The Urge to Eat Clay, Starch, Ice, and Chalk
    DDC: 613.2
    Schlagwort(e): Pica (Pathology) ; Pica - history ; Food Habits psychology ; Pica ethnology ; Pica history ; Pica - history ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: Humans have eaten earth, on purpose, for more than 2,300 years. They also crave starch, ice, chalk, and other unorthodox items of food. Some even claim they are addicted and "go crazy" without these items, but why?Sifting through extensive historical, ethnographic, and biomedical findings, Sera Young creates a portrait of pica, or nonfood cravings, from humans' earliest ingestions to current trends and practices. In engaging detail, she describes the substances most frequently consumed and the many methods (including the Internet) used to obtain them. She reveals how pica is remarkably prevale
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; PART ONE: All About Pica; CHAPTER 1. What on Earth?; CHAPTER 2. A Biocultural Approach: A Holistic Way to Study Pica; CHAPTER 3. Medicine You Can Walk On; CHAPTER 4. Religious Geophagy: Sacredness You Can Swallow; CHAPTER 5. Poisons and Pathogens; PART TWO: But Why?; CHAPTER 6. Dismissal and Damnation: A Historical Perspective on the Purported Causes of Pica; CHAPTER 7. Pica in Response to Food Shortage; CHAPTER 8. Pica as a Micronutrient Supplement; CHAPTER 9. Pica to Protect and Detoxify; CHAPTER 10. Putting the Pica Pieces Together
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: APPENDIX A: Notable Moments in the History of PicaAPPENDIX B: Prevalence of Pica Among Representative Populations of Pregnant Women (n=47) a; APPENDIX C: Prevalence of Pica Among Representative Populations of Children (n=11) a; APPENDIX D: Pica in Literature; APPENDIX E: Association Between Pica and Iron Deficiency and/or Anemia in Cross-Sectional Studies (n=28) a; APPENDIX F: Association Between Pica and Zinc Deficiency in Cross-Sectional Studies (n=6) a; APPENDIX G: Predictions; Notes; Glossary; Works Cited; Acknowledgments; Index
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    Why civil resistance works : the strategic logic of nonviolent conflict (2011)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 0231527489 , 9780231527484
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 296 pages) , illustrations
    Serie: Columbia studies in terrorism and irregular warfare
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als Chenoweth, Erica, 1980- Why civil resistance works
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als Chenoweth, Erica, 1980 - Why civil resistance works
    DDC: 303.6/1
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    Schlagwort(e): Civil disobedience ; Nonviolence ; Civil disobedience ; Nonviolence ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Violence in Society ; Electronic books ; Gewaltloser Widerstand ; Erfolg ; Islamische Revolution ; Widerstand ; Intifada ; EDSA-Revolution ; Birma Putsch
    Kurzfassung: For more than a century, from 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts in achieving their stated goals. By attracting impressive support from citizens, whose activism takes the form of protests, boycotts, civil disobedience, and other forms of nonviolent noncooperation, these efforts help separate regimes from their main sources of power and produce remarkable results, even in Iran, Burma, the Philippines, and the Palestinian Territories. Combining statistical analysis with case studies of specific countries and territories, Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan detail the factors enabling such campaigns to succeed and, sometimes, causing them to fail. They find that nonviolent resistance presents fewer obstacles to moral and physical involvement and commitment, and that higher levels of participation contribute to enhanced resilience, greater opportunities for tactical innovation and civic disruption (and therefore less incentive for a regime to maintain its status quo), and shifts in loyalty among opponents' erstwhile supporters, including members of the military establishment. Chenoweth and Stephan conclude that successful nonviolent resistance ushers in more durable and internally peaceful democracies, which are less likely to regress into civil war. Presenting a rich, evidentiary argument, they originally and systematically compare violent and nonviolent outcomes in different historical periods and geographical contexts, debunking the myth that violence occurs because of structural and environmental factors and that it is necessary to achieve certain political goals. Instead, the authors discover, violent insurgency is rarely justifiable on strategic grounds
    Kurzfassung: pt. I. Why civil resistance works. The success of nonviolent resistance campaigns -- The primacy of participation in nonviolent resistance -- Exploring alternative explanations for the success of civil resistance -- pt. II. Case studies. The Iranian revolution, 1977-1979 -- The first Palestinian intifada, 1987-1992 -- The Philippine people power movement, 1983-1986 -- Why civil resistance sometimes fails: the Burmese uprising, 1988-1990 -- pt. III. The implications of civil resistance. After the campaign: the consequences of violent and nonviolent resistance.
    Anmerkung: Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-278) and index
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    Nomadic subjects : embodiment and sexual difference in contemporary feminist theory (2011)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 9780231515269
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 Online-Ressource (334 Seiten)
    Serie: Gender and culture
    Serie: Gender and Culture Series
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als Braidotti, Rosi, 1954 - Nomadic subjects
    DDC: 305.4201
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    Schlagwort(e): Electronic books. -- local ; Feminist theory ; Human body -- Social aspects ; Sex differences ; Electronic books ; Feministische Theorie ; Feministische Philosophie ; Geschlechterdifferenz ; Körper ; Electronic books ; Geschlechterforschung ; Feminismus ; Kultur
    Kurzfassung: Over the past fifteen years, Nomadic Subjects has guided the discourse in continental philosophy and feminist theory. Exploring the constitution of contemporary subjectivity, especially the concept of difference within European philosophy and political theory, Rosi Braidotti introduced avenues for thinking freely, if not positively, about difference, affirmation, and the nomadic subject. Braidotti's creative style vividly renders what she sees as a productive crisis of modernity. From a feminist perspective, she recasts embodiment, sexual difference, and complex concepts in relation to technol
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; One: By Way of Nomadism; Two: Contexts and Generations; Three: Sexual Difference Theory; Four: On the Female Feminist Subject: From "She-Self" to "She-Other"; Five: Sexual Difference as a Nomadic Political Project; Six: Organs Without Bodies; Seven: Images Without Imagination; Eight: Mothers, Monsters, and Machines; Nine: Discontinuous BecomingsDeleuze on the Becoming-Woman of Philosophy; Ten: Envy and Ingratitude Men in Feminism; Eleven: Conclusion Geometries of Passion-A Conversation with Rosi Braidotti; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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    Audience evolution : new technologies and the transformation of media audiences (2011)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 9780231520942 , 0231520948
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online Ressource (xiii, 248 p.) , ill.
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    Paralleltitel: Print version Audience evolution
    DDC: 302.23
    Schlagwort(e): Mass media Audiences ; Digital media Technological innovations ; Digital media Technological innovations ; Mass media Audiences ; Mass media Audiences ; Digital media Technological innovations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Media Studies ; Mass media ; Audiences ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: "No longer beholden to the programming or publication schedules of media producers, today's consumers access media content through a number of unprecedented and increasingly prevalent platforms, and the development and overlap of television, the internet, and other outlets have fragmented media audiences more than ever, making the effort to reach them more complex. Building on his award-winning book, Audience Economics, Philip M. Napoli maps the landscape of our current media environment and describes its challenge to traditional conceptions of the audience. He also considers the changes that new approaches to audience measurement have produced, both politically and culturally. Napoli examines the ongoing redefinition of the industry-audience relationship by technologies that have moved the audience marketplace beyond traditional metrics. Today, media providers and audience measurement firms deploy new, more sophisticated tools to gather audience information, focusing on factors rarely considered before, such as appreciation, recall, engagement, and behavior. In doing so, the industry has tried to take advantage of new platforms as thoroughly as the consumers they hope to attract. Napoli traces the interplay between political and economic interests and their effect on audience evolution. He recounts battles between stakeholders over the assessment of media audiences and their efforts to restrict the functionality of new technologies, as well as their push to influence new measurements for television, radio, and the internet"--Provided by publisher
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: IntroductionContextualizing audience evolution -- The transformation of media consumption -- The transformation of audience information systems -- Contesting audiences -- The implications of audience evolution.
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    Landscape of the Mind : Human Evolution and the Archaeology of Thought (2011)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 9780231518482
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (281 pages)
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    DDC: 301
    Schlagwort(e): Human evolution ; Brain -- Evolution ; Thought and thinking ; Brain ; Evolution ; Human evolution ; Thought and thinking ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: John F. Hoffecker explores the origin and growth of the mind, drawing on information from the human fossil record, archaeology, and history. Hoffecker argues that, as an indirect result of bipedal locomotion, early humans developed a feedback relationship among their hands, brains, and tools, evolving the capacity to externalize thoughts in the form of shaped stone objects. When anatomically modern humans evolved a parallel capacity to externalize thought as symbolic language, individual brains within social groups were integrated into a neocortical internet, or super-brain, thus giving birth to the mind. Noting that archaeological traces of symbolism coincide with evidence for the ability to generate novel technology, Hoffecker contends that human creativity, as well as higher-order consciousness, is a product of the collective super-brain. Hoffecker equates the subsequent growth of the mind with human history, which began in Africa more than 50,000 years ago. As anatomically modern humans spread across the globe, adapting to a variety of climates and habitats, they redesigned themselves technologically and developed alternative realities via toolmaking, tool use, and artistic expression. Hoffecker connects the rise of civilization to a hierarchical reorganization of the super-brain, triggered by explosive population growth. According to him, subsequent history reflects the varying degrees to which rigid hierarchies of states and empires suppressed the creative powers of the mind, constraining the further accumulation of knowledge. The modern world emerged from the fragments of a collapsed empire after 1200 AD. In the final chapter, Hoffecker speculates on the possibility of artificial intelligence and a mind without biology.
    Kurzfassung: Intro -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1. Modernity and Infinity -- 2. Daydreams of the Lower Paleolithic -- 3. Modern Humans and the Super-Brain -- 4. The Upper Paleolithic as History -- 5. Mindscapes of the Postglacial Epoch -- 6. The Vision Animal -- Notes -- Bibliography -- index.
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    A Philosophical Retrospective : Facts, Values, and Jewish Identity (2011)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (216 pages)
    Serie: Columbia Themes in Philosophy
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als Montefiore, Alan A philosophical retrospective
    DDC: 305.8924
    Schlagwort(e): Jews -- Identity ; Identity (Philosophical concept) -- Social aspects ; Identity (Psychology) -- Social aspects ; Self-perception -- Social aspects ; Identity (Philosophical concept) ; Social aspects ; Identity (Psychology) ; Social aspects ; Jews ; Identity ; Self-perception ; Social aspects ; Electronic books ; Juden ; Selbstbild ; Ethnische Identität
    Kurzfassung: As a young lecturer in philosophy and the eldest son of a prominent Jewish family, Alan Montefiore faced two very different understandings of his identity: the more traditional view that an identity such as his carries with it, as a matter of given fact, certain duties and obligations, and an opposing view, emphasized by his studies in philosophy, in which there can be no rationally compelling move from statements of fact-whatever those facts may be-to "judgments of value." According to this second view, in the end it is up to individuals to determine their own values and obligations. In this book, Montefiore looks back on his attempts to come to a deeper understanding of this conflict and the misunderstandings it may engender, illustrating through personal experiences the practical implications of a characteristically philosophical issue. He finally settles on the following: while everyone has to accept that facts, including those of their own situation, are whatever they may be, both the 'traditional' assumption that individuals have to recognize certain values and obligations as rooted in those very facts and the contrary view that individuals are ultimately responsible for determining their own values are deeply embedded in differing conceptions of society and its relation to its members. Montefiore then examines the misunderstandings between those who view identity as a conceptual bridge connecting the facts of who and what a person may be to the value commitments incumbent upon them, and those for whom the very idea of such a bridge can be nothing but a confusion. Using key examples from the notoriously vexed case of Jewish identity and from his own encounters with its conflicting meanings and implications, Montefiore depicts the practical significance of these differing worldviews, particularly for those who must negotiate them.
    Kurzfassung: Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. FACTS AND VALUES? -- 2. IDENTITY, BELONGING, AND RESPONSIBILITY -- 3. JEWISH IDENTITY 1: "CHOOSING OUR IDENTITY"? -- 4. JEWISH IDENTITY 2: THE UNIVERSAL AND THE PARTICULAR -- 5. JEWISH IDENTITY 3: A PURELY SECULAR VERSION? -- 6..AN ATTEMPT AT PULLING TOGETHER SOME THREADS‚ AND AN INCONCLUSIVE CONCLUSION -- 7. SOME EXTENDED POSTSCRIPTS -- Notes -- Index.
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    Species Matters : Humane Advocacy and Cultural Theory (2011)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 9780231526838
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (241 pages)
    Paralleltitel: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306
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    Schlagwort(e): Speciesism ; Speciesism ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: The question of the animal has preoccupied an increasing number of humanities, science, and social science scholars in recent years, and important work continues to expand the burgeoning field of animal studies. However, a key question still needs to be explored: Why has the academy struggled to link advocacy for animals to advocacy for various human groups? Within cultural studies, in which advocacy can take the form of a theoretical intervention, scholars have resisted arguments that add "species" to race, class, gender, sexuality, disability, and other human-identity categories as a site for critical analysis. Species Matters: Humane Advocacy and Cultural Theory considers whether and why cultural studies-specifically cultural theory-should pay more attention to animal advocacy and whether or why animal studies should pay more attention to questions raised by cultural theory. The contributors to this volume focus on the "humane" treatment of animals and various human groups and the implications, both theoretical and practical, of blurring the distinction between "the human" and "the animal." This anthology addresses important questions raised by the history of representing humans as the only animal capable of acting humanely, providing a framework for reconsidering the nature of humane discourse, whether in theory, literary and cultural texts, or current advocacy movements outside of the academy.
    Kurzfassung: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Animality and Advocacy -- 1. Species Matters, Humane Advocacy: In the Promising Grip of Earthly Oxymorons -- 2. Humane Advocacy and the Humanities: The Very Idea -- 3. Consequences of Humanism, or, Advocating What? -- 4. Archaeology of a Humane Society: Animality, Savagery, Blackness -- 5. What Came Before The Sexual Politics of Meat: The Activist Roots of a Critical Theory -- 6. Compassion: Human and Animal -- 7. Down with Dualism! Two Millennia of Debate About Human Goodness -- Addendum to Down with Dualism! Two Millennia of Debate About Human Goodness (2010) -- 8. Avoid Being Abstract When Making Policies on the Welfare of Animals -- Contributors -- Index.
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    Politics of Culture and the Spirit of Critique : Dialogues (2011)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 9780231151870
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (217 p)
    Ausgabe: Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Serie: New Directions in Critical Theory
    Paralleltitel: Print version Politics of Culture and the Spirit of Critique : Dialogues
    DDC: 306.2
    Schlagwort(e): Social sciences - Philosophy ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Online-Publikation ; Online-Publikation
    Kurzfassung: The idea of "culture" has become central to intellectual debates since at least the end of the 1970s, with the reemergence of longstanding cultural issues becoming an indispensible part of moral and political critique. Additionally, the meaning of culture has expanded beyond its earlier, anthropological meaning to include issues of ethnicity, race, religion, gender, and sexual orientation. Whether informing arguments about a "clash of civilizations" or underscoring the importance of "mainstream multiculturalism," inflated notions of culture are ubiquitous, and their prevalence has generated ne
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Politics of Culture and the Spirit of Critique; 1. Critical Theory Today: Politics, Ethics, Culture - Opening Dialogue; 2. Concrete Universality and Critical Social Theory: Dialogue with Alfredo Gomez-Muller and Gabriel Rockhill; 3. Global Justice and the Renewal of the Critical Theory Tradition: Dialogue with Alfredo Gomez-Muller and Gabriel Rockhill; CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON CULTURAL POLITICS; 4. Accounting for a Philosophic Itinerary: Genealogies of Power and Ethics of Nonviolence: Dialogue with Alfredo Gomez-Muller and Gabriel Rockhill
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 5. The Present in the Light of the Longue Duree: Dialogue with Alredo Gomez-Muller and Gabriel Rockhill6. A Prisoner of Hope in the Night of the American Empire: Dialogue with Gabriel Rockhill; CULTURE AS CRITIQUE: The Limits of Liberalism?; 7. Liberalism: Politics, Ethics, and Markets - Dialogue with Alfredo Gomez-Muller and Ronan Sharkey; 8. Cultural Rights and Social-Democratic Principles: Dialogue with Alfredo Gomez-Muller and Gabriel Rockhill; EPILOGUE: Critical Theory and Recognition
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 9. The Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School and the Theory of Recognition: Dialogue with Olivier VoirolNotes; Contributors;
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    Protest with Chinese Characteristics : Demonstrations, Riots, and Petitions in the Mid-Qing Dynasty (2011)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 9780231525459
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 online resource (283 pages)
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    DDC: 303.48409510
    Schlagwort(e): China - Social conditions - 18th century ; China - Social conditions - 18th century ; Electronic books
    Kurzfassung: The origin of political modernity has long been tied to the Western history of protest and revolution, the currents of which many believe sparked popular dissent worldwide. Reviewing nearly one thousand instances of protest in China from the eighteen.
    Kurzfassung: Intro -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- TABLES -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. MARKET EXPANSION, STATE CENTRALIZATION, AND NEO-CONFUCIANISM IN QING CHINA -- 2. DOCUMENTING THE THREE WAVES OF MID-QING PROTEST -- 3. FILIAL- LOYAL DEMONSTRATIONS, 1740-1759 -- 4. RIOTS INTO REBELLION, 1776-1795 -- ILLUSTRATIONS OF CHINESE PROTEST FROM QING TIMES TO PRESENT -- 5. RESISTANCE AND PETITIONS, 1820-1839 -- 6. MID-QING PROTESTS IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE -- EPILOGUE: THE PAST IN THE PRESENT -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GLOSSARY -- INDEX.
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    Hindu Widow Marriage (2011)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 9780231156332
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (271 p)
    Paralleltitel: Print version Hindu Widow Marriage
    DDC: 294.5441
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    Schlagwort(e): Remarriage - India ; Remarriage - India ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Quelle ; Online-Publikation
    Kurzfassung: Before the passage of the Hindu Widow's Re-marriage Act of 1856, Hindu tradition required a woman to live as a virtual outcast after her husband's death. Widows were expected to shave their heads, discard their jewelry, live in seclusion, and undergo regular acts of penance. Ishvarchandra Vidyasagar was the first Indian intellectual to successfully argue against these cruelties. A Sanskrit scholar and passionate social reformer, Vidyasagar was a leading proponent of widow marriage in colonial India, urging contemporaries to reject a ban that caused countless women to suffer needlessly.Vidyasag
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Contents; Preface; A Word About the Translation; Hindu Categories for First-Time Readers; Chronology: Events Pertaining to the Widow Marriage Movement in Bengal; Introduction; A Short Life of Ishvarchandra Vidyasagar; Widow Marriage in Bengal; Hindu Widow Marriage as Modern-Day Commentary; The Real Significance of Hindu Widow Marriage; Hindu Widow Marriage: The Complete English Translation; Book One; Book Two; Glossary; Bibliography; Index of Sanskrit Passages; Index of Names and Terms;
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    A convergence of civilizations : the transformation of Muslim societies around the world (2011)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 9780231150026
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: Online-Ressource (xv, 134 p) , ill., maps
    Ausgabe: Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Originaltitel: Rendez-vous des civilisations. 〈engl.〉
    Paralleltitel: Print version A Convergence of Civilizations : The Transformation of Muslim Societies Around the World
    DDC: 304.60917/67
    Schlagwort(e): Demography ; Islamic countries - Population ; Islamic countries - Population ; Electronic books ; Islamic countries Population
    Kurzfassung: We are told that Western/Christian and Muslim/Arab civilizations are on the verge of destroying each other. The demographics of one group remain sluggish, while the population of the other has exploded, widening the cultural gap and all but guaranteeing the outbreak of war. Leaving aside the media's sound and fury on this subject, measured analysis shows another reality taking shape: rapprochement between these two civilizations, benefitting from a universal movement guiding humanity since the Enlightenment.This book's historical and geographical sweep discredits the notion of a specific Islam
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Introduction: Clash of Civilizations or Universal History?; 1: The Muslim Countries in the Movement of History; The Growth of Literacy and the Decline in Fertility; A "Disenchantment" of the Muslim World; 2: Crises of Transition; Literacy, Contraception, Revolution; Muslim Crises of Transition; Islamism and Forecasting the Future; The Question of Ideological Content; 3: The Arab Family and the Transition Crisis; Patrilinealism and Patrilocalism; The Shiite Law of Inheritance; Endogamy
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Psychological and Ideological Implications of EndogamyThe Shock of Modernization; 4: Other Muslim Women: East Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa; Malaysian and Indonesian Matrilocalism; The Mass Polygamy of Sub-Saharan Africa; Unprecedented Transition Crises?; 5: At the Heart of Islam: The Arab World; A Belated and Unexpected Transition: Literacy and Oil Wealth; France and the Acceleration of the Transition in the Maghreb; Backwardness and Division in Syria: Sunnis and Alawites; The Heterogeneity of the Arabian Peninsula; A European Lebanon?; The Palestinians: Occupation, War, and Fertility
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 6: The Non-Arab Greater Middle EastIran Ahead of Turkey; The Uncertain Role of the State; Demographic Transition and Nation-state; Religion, Demography, Democracy; The Pakistani Demographic Time Bomb; Demographic Normality and Political Threat; Afghan Parenthesis; Bangladesh: Overpopulation and Decline of the Fertility Rate; 7: After Communism; Accelerated Increase in Literacy; Un-Islamic Birth Control: Through Abortion …; … And Through Infant Mortality; Muslim Divergences in the Balkans; 8: Matrilocal Asia; A Normal Transition That Has Stopped; In Malaysia, Nationalism Rather Than Islam
    Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 9: Sub-Saharan AfricaRegional Differences in Fertility: Ethnic Groups and Religions; Muslim Girls Spared by Mortality; Conclusion; Appendix; Notes;
    Anmerkung: Includes bibliographical references and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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