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  • 1
    ISBN: 9781666944945
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (197 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Race and Education in the Twenty-First Century Series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.48896073
    Keywords: African American women in the professions ; Social justice
    Abstract: Wellbeing is essential for Black women professionals who are experiencing racial and gender battle fatigue within White spaces and beyond. Strategies for maintaining and thriving are presented not only for them, but for White institutions to become more aware and active in helping to address necessary change.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- PREFACE -- SPECIAL THANKS -- INTRODUCTION -- Alafia and the Wisdom of Our Ancestors -- Healing the Soul of Our Institutions -- Re/membering Myself -- The Unspoken Journey of Aging -- Being Beautifully Rooted is a Journey Toward Establishing Emotionally Healthy Spirituality -- Index -- ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS.
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  • 2
    ISBN: 9781666905519
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (163 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Lexington Studies in Health Communication Series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 302.23082
    Keywords: Communication in medicine ; Human body in mass media ; Polycystic ovary syndrome in mass media ; Women in mass media
    Abstract: This book examines media and clinical discourses and their impact on women with PCOS. Findings from the study reveal that while women with PCOS have limited agency in constructing and representing their identities and ontologies in traditional media, by networking in participatory new media, these women can reclaim their agency.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Hegemonic Institutions and Discourses and the Subjugation of the Female Body -- RHM Contributions, Edifications, and Feminist Positions about the Body -- Studying PCOS in Digital and Mass Media through the Feminist Communitarian Model -- Constructing, Representing, and Responding to PCOS in Mass Media -- Fulfilling Rhetorical Needs in Cyberspace -- Conclusion and Looking Toward the Future of PCOS Rhetorical Work -- ‌‌‌‌‌Appendix‌‌‌‌ -- Works Cited -- Index -- About the Author.
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  • 3
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    Lanham : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
    ISBN: 9781666935738
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (191 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 302.17
    Keywords: Collective behavior ; Fear ; Information technology-Political aspects ; Information technology-Psychological aspects ; Information technology-Social aspects ; Social psychology
    Abstract: The aim of this book is to examine digitalized mass society through the new collective behaviors of people connected by smartphones and other electronic devices. It departs from previous works by rethinking the plausibility of invisible crowds and digital swarms that form in cyberspace to become commercially and politically expedient.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Crowd after History -- The Power of Virality -- Smartphone Nation -- Sleepwalkers, Inc. -- The Data Imperative -- Fear, Terror, and Mass Hysteria -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- References -- Index -- About the Author.
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  • 4
    ISBN: 9781666925050
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (251 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.896073
    Keywords: Immigrants-Social conditions ; Race relations
    Abstract: This book explores the lived experiences of African immigrants in the United States in their pursuit of the fabled American dream. It examines and documents their travails, successes, and fate vis-à-vis the problematics of race, ethnicity, and anti-Black violence.
    Abstract: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Figures -- Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- African Immigrants, Race, and Anti-Black Violence -- Education and Pursuit of the American Dream -- Socioeconomic Portraits and Health and Well-being -- References -- Part I: African Immigrants, Race, and Anti-Black Violence -- Chapter 1: A Geographic, Demographic, and Socioeconomic Portrait of Recent African Immigrants to the United States -- Introduction -- Theoretical Framework for African Immigration to the United States -- Legal Basis for African Immigration to the United States -- Demographic, Social, and Economic Characteristics of African Immigrants in the United States -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2: "I want my father to tell me how I should deal with being Black in America": Disruption of Racial Socialization in Black African Immigrant Households -- Introduction -- Conceptual Framework and Literature Review -- Methodology -- Results -- Discussion and Conclusion -- Recommendation for Future Research -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Antiblackness and American Exceptionalism: African Immigrants Navigating the Racial Contours of American Life -- Introduction-Africans in the News -- Inheriting the Black American Nightmare: The Hardworking Victim and the Welfare Queen -- Antiblackness and the Dangerous Myth of US Exceptionalism -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Deadly Encounters with American Law Enforcement: African Immigrant Victims of Police Violence -- Introduction -- The Criminalization of Black Bodies in the United States -- African Immigrants Killed by Police without Just Cause -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II: Education and Pursuit of the American Dream.
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  • 5
    ISBN: 9781793642509
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (399 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.096
    Keywords: Social problems-Africa ; Social problems-Latin America ; Social problems-Caribbean Area ; Africa-Social conditions
    Abstract: This book uniquely employs interdisciplinary, multiple-region, and comparative foci to study social issues, ranging from unemployment and domestic violence to neoextractivism and gender roles across two world regions from the Global South.
    Abstract: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- List of Figures and Tables -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Theoretical Framework -- Part I: Economic Issues, Environment, and COVID-19 -- Part II: Suicide, Gender Roles, and Social Inequality -- Part III: Disputes and Contestations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Abbreviations -- Part I: Economic Issues, Environment, and COVID-19 -- Chapter 1: Permanent Crisis?: Poverty and Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean and Sub-Saharan Africa -- Latin America and the Caribbean -- Permanent Crisis in the LAC Region? -- Per-capita Income, Poverty, and Inequality in LAC -- Who Lives in Poverty in the LAC Region? -- Inequality in LAC -- Sub-Saharan Africa -- Poverty in SSA -- Inequality in SSA -- Conclusion and Discussion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: Unemployment among Youth in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean -- Impact of COVID-19 on Youth Unemployment -- Technology and Youth Employment -- Youth Unemployment in Africa -- Addressing Youth Unemployment in Africa -- Youth Unemployment in LAC -- Impact of COVID-19 on Youth Unemployment in LAC -- Addressing Youth Unemployment in LAC -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Smallholder Agriculture in Environmental Conservation and Rural Poverty Alleviation in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean -- Introduction -- Theoretical Framework -- Rural Poverty in the ALAC Region -- Poverty and Social Problems in the ALAC Region -- Agricultural Production Mechanism in ALAC Countries-Smallholder Agriculture (SA) versus Large-Scale, Mechanized, Industrialized Agriculture (LSMA) -- The Role of Smallholder Agriculture in Food Production -- The Typology of Smallholder Agriculture -- Catalyzing Rural Poverty Alleviation: Smallholder Agriculture versus Large-Scale Mechanized Agriculture.
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  • 6
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    Lanham : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
    ISBN: 9781666915358
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (255 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Lexington Studies in Modern Jewish History, Historiography, and Memory Series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.80094609031
    Keywords: Crypto-Jews ; Spain-History-Philip II, 1556-1598
    Abstract: This book offers an entangled narrative of Converso and Morisco history and examines how the groups' notions of honor and hispanidad shaped their socio-cultural identities during the time of the Alpujarras Rebellion.
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: On the Alliance of Violence, Memory and Collective Identities in Intergroup Conflicts -- Chapter One. Standard Stories about the Other -- Chapter Two. New Christian Perspectives: History, Culture, and Spanish Society -- Chapter Three. Not Religion but Regional Culture -- Chapter Four. Honour and Loyalty -- Chapter Five. Trust and Promises -- Chapter Six. Authority -- Conclusion: History as Political Tool -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
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  • 7
    ISBN: 9781666918267
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (351 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.0918229
    Keywords: Social values-Black Sea Region ; Group identity-Black Sea Region ; Black Sea Region-Social conditions
    Abstract: The book focuses on the nexus between geopolitical challenges and cultural framework in the Black Sea region. Employing an interdisciplinary approach and using survey research evidence, the volume demonstrates that the Black Sea region is a cultural area with shared domains and trends.
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. HISTORY, GEOPOLITICS, AND SECURITY IN THE BLACK SEA AREA -- 1. Black Sea Region in the Social Science and Humanities Literature -- 2. Regionalism, Regionalization, and the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation -- 3. Transitional Justice around the Black Sea: Unfulfilled Promises, Divergent Goals, and Missed Opportunities -- Part II. POLITICAL CULTURE AND IDENTITIES IN THE BLACK SEA AREA -- 4. Frontiers of National Identities in the Black Sea Countries: People's Views on their Ethnic, Civic, Local, and Regional Ties -- 5. Political Culture: Trust and Regime Support in the Black Sea Region -- 6. Demand for Populism in the Black Sea Region: A Cultural Values Approach to Populist Politics -- Part III. CULTURAL VALUES AND NORMS IN THE BLACK SEA AREA -- 7. Religious Change in the Black Sea Area: The History of the Path-Dependent Secularization -- 8. Morality and Moral Change in the Black Sea Region: A Longitudinal Perspective with a Special Focus on Romania, Russia, and Turkey -- 9. Gender Norms and Values in the Black Sea Region -- 10. (In)Tolerance in the Black Sea Region -- Part IV. VALUES AND IDENTITIES IN THE BLACK SEA REGION: NATIONAL CASE-STUDIES -- 11. Identity and Geopolitical Vector of Georgia -- 12. National Securitization against Cultural Diversity in Turkey: Relevant Data in the World Values Survey and What Lies Beyond -- 13. Support for Democracy in Ukraine -- Conclusion -- Index -- About the Editors and Contributors.
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  • 8
    ISBN: 9781666920185
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (289 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.9636213
    Keywords: Cowboys in popular culture-United States ; Cowboys-Mythology ; West (U.S.)-In popular culture
    Abstract: This volume offers new critical insights into the increasingly mythological figure of the American cowboy and "The West" in the 21st century while seeking to explain how these components of American identity continue to fit into our shared culture narrative.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- The Gaucho in a Globalized World -- The Philosophy of Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian -- Horse Sense -- "Should've Been a Cowboy" -- Can You Hear Me? -- "I Can't Go Back" -- "They Forgot to Put in the Quit" -- Slow Cowboys and New Men -- Rewriting the Western Myth -- The Lone Wolf and the Wild West -- Deadwood's Return to Authenticity -- Semiotic Landscapes and Fallen Heroes -- Graphic Evolutions -- Index -- About the Editor and Contributors.
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  • 9
    ISBN: 9781666903713
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (349 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.209
    Keywords: Civil society
    Abstract: Acephalous societies live in the rainforest or on prairies as nomadic pastoralists. The covenantal societies are acephalous; however, they inhabit the sedentary civilized world. This collection of up-to-date research focuses on the sociology, politics, justice administration, relations with hierarchies, successes, and failures of these societies.
    Abstract: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Opposition to Hierarchy -- Covenant -- Federative Network -- Justice Administration -- Assembly Government -- Elders -- Covenant and Constitutionalism -- Covenantal Failures -- Covenant, Living Law, and Jurisprudence -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 1: Nomadism and the Sociological Seed of Pre-Monarchic Israel -- Nomadism -- Interdisciplinary Approach -- Innovations -- Social Models -- Complexity -- Sedentarization -- Pre-monarchic Israel -- Sedentarization of Nomads or a Separation from Canaanite Culture -- Opposition to Hierarchy -- Covenant -- Federative Network -- Justice Administration -- Assembly Government -- Transition to Monarchy -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2: Power Structure within Autonomy in Roman Palestine -- Historical Background -- Sources -- The System of Government in The Roman Empire -- The Autonomous Government Power structure of Jewish Society -- The Rural Community -- The Fourth Tier: The Sages -- The Relationship between the Patriarch and the Sages -- Discussion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: Jewish Communities of the Diaspora -- Opposition to Hierarchy -- Covenant -- Federative Network -- Justice Administration -- Assembly Government -- Office Holders -- Institutions -- Synagogue -- Rabbi -- Other Community Institutions -- Resilience of Jewish Communities -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: Communal Society and the Societal "Dual System": Equality and Inequality in Carpathian Valleys -- Sociology Revisited: The Covenantal Society Paradigm -- Covenantal or Contractual Society? -- "Communal Villages" and "Dual System" -- From Communal Culture to the "Dual System": Fundamentals of H. H. Stahl's Sociology of Communal Societies -- Free Village and Communal Society.
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  • 10
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    Lanham : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
    ISBN: 9781666904796
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (143 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.70285
    Keywords: Sexting ; Computer sex
    Abstract: This book explores the feelings, beliefs, and concerns individuals have about sharing and receiving self-made sexually explicit content. Kathryn D. Coduto considers the specific technologies individuals use when sexting, the reasons why they share this content, and the range of future technologies for sexting.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- General Beliefs about Sexting -- Technology Beliefs about Sexting -- Privacy Concerns about Sexting -- Expectations for Sexting -- The Future of Sexting -- Conclusion -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- References -- Index -- About the Author.
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  • 11
    ISBN: 9781498586146
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (401 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Studies in Folklore and Ethnology: Traditions, Practices, and Identities Series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.89607309041
    Keywords: African Americans-Social conditions-19th century
    Abstract: A study in cultural politics, the book illustrates how nine black movements used competing interpretations of folklore to achieve racial identity and pursue equality in America during 50 years of Jim Crow, 1893-1943.
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Folklore in Pursuit of Identity and Survival -- 2. Folklore in Pursuit of Economic Equality -- 3. Folklore in Pursuit of a Cultural Education -- 4.Folklore in Pursuit of Political Equality -- 5. Folklore in Pursuit of Loyalty -- 6. Folklore in Pursuit of Nation-Building -- 7. Folklore in Pursuit of Social Equality -- 8. Folklore in Pursuit of Full Equality and Self-Determination -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
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  • 12
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    Lanham : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
    ISBN: 9781793630100
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (301 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.446
    Keywords: Tai-Kadai languages-Verb
    Abstract: By examining the development of "finish" morphemes in Sinitic and Zhuang Tai-Kadai through the interplay between grammaticalization and language contact, this book argues that Central Southern Guangxi constitutes a unique micro-linguistic area.
    Abstract: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Linguistic Terms -- Symbols -- Introduction -- Previous Studies -- Changing Languages -- Language Contact in China -- Language Contact in the Guangxi Region -- Some Methodological Issues -- Synchronic Variation: Describing the Polyfunctionality -- Quantification: Quantized Objects, States, and Events -- In the dynamic context, where the predicate is a dynamic/active verb: -- Grammaticalization -- Contact-Induced Grammaticalization: An Alternative Model -- Ordinary Contact-Induced Grammaticalization -- Replica Grammaticalization -- Linguistic Area: Setting the Scene -- Quantitative Parameter -- Criteria -- Weight Parameter -- Exclusive Parameter -- Time-Spread Parameter -- Geographic Parameter -- Sociohistorical Parameter -- Data and Sampling Procedure -- Summary -- Notes -- Chapter 1: Geographic and Historical Background -- Geography -- Historical Development: Economy and Society -- Migration and Ethnicity -- Languages in the Guangxi Region -- Chinese Dialects -- Yue Dialect -- Pinghua Dialect -- Mandarin -- Other Chinese Dialects -- Local Indigenous Languages -- Other Local Indigenous Languages in Guangxi -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Polyfunctionality of the Finish Verb in Nanning Yue -- Preliminary Background on 晒 /ɬai33/ in NNY -- Is there an Etymon for NNY 晒 /ɬai33/? -- The Main-Verb 晒 /ɬai33/ -- Postverbal Exhaustion Particle 晒 /ɬai33/ -- Postverbal Aspect Marker 晒 /ɬai33/ -- Activity -- Achievement -- Accomplishment -- Stative -- Conjunction 晒 /ɬai33/ -- Summary of NNY 晒 /ɬai33/ -- 晒 /sai33/ in Cantonese -- Cantonese 晒 /sai33/: An Ancestor -- Grammatical Functions of Cantonese 晒 /sai33/ -- [S-V晒-(O)] Configuration -- [S-V晒-(O)]/[V-得/唔-晒-(O)] Configuration -- [S-A-晒] Configuration.
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  • 13
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    Lanham : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
    ISBN: 9781666920673
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (267 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Environment and Society Series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 304.2
    Keywords: Sustainable living-Social aspects ; Environmental justice ; Political ecology ; Capitalism-Environmental aspects
    Abstract: Everyday life is a key space of socio-ecological transformation. This book, starting from an ethnographic journey, investigates trajectories of change and continuity in the context of crisis. The socio-material relationalities encountered are read as part of, and resisting to, capitalist logics of exploitation, appropriation, and waste.
    Abstract: Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Sustainability and Transitions "in Crisis" -- Chapter 1: Everyday Life and Socio-ecological Reproduction: Crisis and Environmental (In)Justice -- Everyday Life . . . in Crisis -- Environmental Justice -- Neoliberal Governmentality -- Practices -- Meanings and Subjectivities -- Assemblages of Desire and Subjectivity -- Epistemology and Qualitative Research, After All -- Notes -- Chapter 2: The Capitalist Organization of Life -- Labor -- Leisure -- Care -- The Self -- Notes -- Chapter 3: The Matters, Flows, and Beings of Everyday Life -- Energy -- Technology -- Nonhuman Animals -- Waste -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Alternatives -- Sufficiency -- Localizing Economies -- Environmental Moralities -- The Aesth-ethics of Desire -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Taking Stock -- Weaving Lines in and through the Crisis -- Observations in Context -- Limit and the Everyday as a Space of Radical Eco-social Change -- Materialism, After All . . . -- An-other Ecology of Desire -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
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  • 14
    ISBN: 9781666922868
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (367 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 302.2309669
    Keywords: Mass media-Nigeria
    Abstract: In this book, media professionals and scholars of media studies examine how the Nigerian media industry has changed in the era of globalization and digitization. They provide history on the Nigerian media industry and examine changes in media law, journalism, broadcasting, sports media, and digital news.
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  • 15
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    Lanham : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
    ISBN: 9781666927061
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (235 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Restivo, Sal P. The social brain
    DDC: 301.01
    Keywords: Sociology ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This book introduces the idea of the social brain networked in the world. The author's foundational thesis is that humans appear in evolution always, already, and everywhere social. We have social selves, social brains, and social genes.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- The Sociological Imagination -- Sociology Comes into View -- Evolution Invents the Social -- Individual and Society -- The Social Body in Society and Politics -- Genius Incorporated -- Improvisation Incorporated -- From the Matrix to Reality -- Robots, AI, Brains, and Bodies in the Information Age -- The Sociology of Consciousness -- The Social Life of the Brain -- The Social Brain in Health and Illness -- Final Considerations -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
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  • 16
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    Lanham : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
    ISBN: 9781498592314
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (191 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Feminist Strategies: Flexible Theories and Resilient Practices Series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.4201
    Keywords: Feminist theory
    Abstract: Kristen Hessler argues that philosophy can best contribute to understanding human rights by exploring the full range of their use in practice. Her approach emphasizes how human rights activism and adjudication can both reveal and dismantle unjust social hierarchies. The result is an innovative vision of interdisciplinary human rights scholarship.
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  • 17
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    Lanham : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
    ISBN: 9781666906394
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (153 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 302.23
    Keywords: Civilization, Modern
    Abstract: Media Representations of Retail Work in America examines the ways in which retail workers have been portrayed in popular culture texts from the early 20th century to the 21st century.
    Abstract: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Notes -- Chapter 1: Advertising the Empire: Selfridge Advertisements at the Turn of the Century -- Americanizing the Department Store -- Conspicuous Consumption -- Early Department Store Employees -- Harry Selfridge -- Selfridges Department Store -- Evoking the Empire -- Consumers as a Part of the British Empire -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Cinderella at the Palace of Consumption: Depictions of Retail on Film in the Early 20th Century -- Criteria for Choosing Films -- Indication of Class Status in Early Films -- Cross-Class Romances -- Cinderella and the Palace of Consumption -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 3: The White Stuff: Passing Narratives and the Department Store in Lovecraft Country's "A Strange Case" -- Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and the Passing Narrative -- Mid-century Department Stores and Jim Crow -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 4: The Oleson's Know Best: Little House on the Prairie's Reflection of Cultural Distrust in the 1970s -- Rise and Fall of the "Culturally Relevant" TV Show -- Little House-From Books to TV -- A Close Reading of the Television Series Little House on the Prairie -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 5: The Manchild Behind the Counter: Depictions of Retail on Film in the Late 20th and Early 21st Centuries -- The Evolution of Consumption as an Indicator of Changing Narratives -- Indication of Class Status and Stunted Growth -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 6: I Was a Retail Salesperson: An Examination of Two Memoirs about Working in Retail -- Nickel and Dimed and Malled -- Class Tourism -- Othering -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 7: Superstore: A Modern Working-Class Sitcom? -- Superstore -- History of the Working-Class Sitcom.
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  • 18
    ISBN: 9781666930665
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (197 Seiten)
    DDC: 305.242
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: In this book, contributors examine media and popular culture forms for and about millennials and Generation Z. Scholars of media studies, popular culture, and sociology will find this book of particular interest.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Millennial Femininity and Entrepreneurial Selfhood in Girlboss and The Girlfriend Experience -- Retrace Your Steps, Escape Your Past -- Transmediality, Agency, and Authenticity -- Food and the Next Generation -- Horrifying the Contemporary Audience -- The Influencer Generations -- Millennials and Democratic Socialism -- Boldly Shattering Millennial Stereotypes -- Studying Media Portrayals of Millennials and Generation Z Through the Lens of Critical -- Index -- About the Editors -- About the Contributors.
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  • 19
    ISBN: 9781793646972
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiv, 310 pages)
    Series Statement: Communication Perspectives in Popular Culture Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als One size does not fit all
    DDC: 128/.6
    Keywords: Human body in mass media ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This book explores how popular culture texts represent and focus on the body and how this focus exacerbates the potential for these representations to serve as a crucial social influence on audiences. Contributors examine a diverse set of bodies across the media spectrum and open the door for further research in this area.
    Abstract: Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- References -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- What to Expect -- References -- Part I: Lizzo -- Chapter 2: Auntie Sam Rocks the Vote! The Embodied Politics of Lizzo in the 2020 U.S. Election -- Dressed Bodies as Political -- The Vote Dress at the Billboard Music Awards -- Instagram Politics and Embodied Voting as Auntie Sam -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Feelin' Good as Hell?: The Influence of Cardi B. and Lizzo's Music Videos on College-Aged Women's Perceptions of Beauty, Sexism, and Sexualization -- Beauty Standards -- Sexism, Sexualization, and Self-Sexualization in the Media and Music Videos -- Music of the Rebel: Hip-Hop -- Cardi B.'s "Money" -- Lizzo's "Juice" -- Beauty and Self-Sexualization in Female-Led Hip-Hop Music Videos -- Method -- Participants -- Data Collection -- Procedure -- Data Analysis -- Findings -- Individual Perceptions of Beauty and Sexism -- Beauty in Everyday Life vs. the Media -- Sexism in Everyday Life -- Cardi B., Lizzo, and the Media's Influence -- Self-Sexualization, Empowerment, and Body Positivity in Female-Led Music Videos -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II: Social Media -- Chapter 4: "This is the Kind of Influencer We Want to See!": A Study of Body Representation among Instagram Influencers -- Visibility Labor and Personal Branding -- Gender Identity and Self-Presentation -- Micro-celebrity/Influencer Female Body and Body Positivity -- Anti-Fandom -- Method -- Research Design -- Ethical Considerations -- Analysis and Discussion of Findings -- Audience Perception of Reality over the Influencer Female Body -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5: Accidental Culture Jamming: Celeste Barber and the Juxtaposition between the Real and Ideal Body.
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  • 20
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    Lanham : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
    ISBN: 9781666915778
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 149 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Atar, Emrah Understanding the Syrian refugee crises in Turkey
    DDC: 362.8709569
    Keywords: Non-governmental organizations-Turkey ; Electronic books ; Türkei ; Syrer ; Flüchtling
    Abstract: The book delves into a data-driven apolitical perspective of the migration problem in Turkey with the challenges that the Turkish government and international NGOs have had to confront in providing public services; notably, education and health to Syrian refugees in camps, public schools and clinics around the country.
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    Lanham : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
    ISBN: 9781793618849
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (277 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Critical Perspectives on the Psychology of Sexuality, Gender, and Queer Studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.76
    Keywords: Safe spaces ; Sexual minorities Social conditions ; Sexual minorities Psychology
    Abstract: Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Note -- Acknowledgements -- Part I: Safe Spaces -- Chapter 1: A Framework for Interpretation -- Methodology -- Who This Book is For and How to Use It -- Chapter 2: Histories of Safe Spaces -- Public and Private Space -- Psychological Safety -- Cultural Safety -- Diversity and Inclusion -- Exclusive Spaces -- Containing (Those Who Count) -- Note -- Chapter 3: The Safety Trap -- Freedom -- Lampooning Safety: 'Snowflakes' in Popular Culture -- Free Speech, Hate Speech and the Phobias -- Trigger Warnings and Consent -- Paradoxes in Comfort and Critical Thinking -- Harm -- Microaggressions and Tone Policing -- Lateral Violence -- Emotional Labour -- Cancel Culture, No Platforming, Calling-Out -- Trap -- Conflict, Harm, Abuse -- Guaranteeing Safety -- Perpetuating Harm: A Marriage Act Case Study -- Breaking the Cycle: Moving from 'Safe' to 'Brave' -- Chapter 4: Bodies at Borders: Breaching the Binary -- Being Seen: Classified -- Searching: Gender Odyssey to a Transgender Archive -- Seeing: Non-binary, Middle-aged, White, Parent -- Surveillance: Being Watched and Practicing Passing -- Self-coding: Choosing our Fit -- Part II: Safe Enough in Practice -- Chapter 5: Devising 'Safe Enough' -- Constructing Pride -- Architectures of Safety -- Governance, for and with LGBTQI+ Communities -- Organizing Careful Rebellion -- Regarding Queer - in Art and Performance -- Infographics and Images -- Chapter 6: Intimate Encounters -- Holding the Line: Crisis Interventions -- Lubricating Consent: Intimacy Parties -- Hooking Up and Navigating Consent -- Reframing Scars: Tattooing Trauma -- Note -- Chapter 7: Mediated Storytelling -- Group Safety in Digital Storytelling -- Journeys of Heartache and Hope -- Rainbow Family Tree -- Social Media Storytelling.
    Abstract: When safe spaces are no longer safe enough, what does it take to be brave? Marginalized voices from the intersections of gender, sexuality, and race provide some insights, tips, and tricks for facilitation of and participation in diverse courageous spaces.
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    ISBN: 9781666923612
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (253 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.8
    Keywords: Loss (Psychology) ; Grief
    Abstract: In this book, autoethnographies reflect a wide range of perspectives on grief and loss to reflect the unique and individual experiences of each contributor's story while also analyzing broader cultural themes and discussing how we communicate about these experiences.
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  • 23
    ISBN: 9781978715134
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (209 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Scripturalization: Discourse, Formation, Power Series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.896
    Keywords: Black people-Social conditions
    Abstract: This book focuses on the hyper-scripturalization (or the persistent degradation) of Black flesh, with the phenomenon of masquerade conceptualized as analytical wedge that makes a compelling case for seeing how our ongoing modern realities, with mixed and too often devastating consequences, are constructed.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Scripturalectics and Masquerading Flesh -- Under the Sign of "The African" -- Within the Veil and Between the Masks -- Between the Veil and the Mirror -- Whose Flesh? -- "Relentlessly Pursu[ing] All Who Live in Darkness" -- Seeking Solace -- Toni Morrison and the Masquerade of Black Oral Imprint with a Meditation on the Preparation -- "There Remains Only Constant Struggle" -- Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa and Oluale Kossola or Cudjo Lewis -- Index -- About the Editor and Contributors.
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  • 24
    ISBN: 9781793644909
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (327 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.568
    Keywords: Marginality, Social
    Abstract: This volume offers an interdisciplinary re-thinking about what it means to be "the marginal" within society. Using a supple notion of liminality as its framework, this book concurrently challenges Turner's symbolic anthropology, while celebrating its continued influence and recasting into an interdisciplinary landscape.
    Abstract: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Mind the Gap: Betwixt and between Liminality and Marginality -- Critical Liminality -- Liminality without: Marginalized Communities -- Liminality within: Group Interaction within the Liminal Space -- Within and without: Liminality and Dialogue -- Liminality as an Agent of Change -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part I: Liminality without -- Chapter 1: Layers of Liminality and Marginality in the African Hebrew Israelite Community -- The History of the Community -- Marginalism and the "Power of the Weak" as a Religious Trope in Abrahamic Scripture -- Marginalization as a Tool of Power for the African Hebrew Israelites -- The Power to Define -- Conclusion: Eschatological Implications (What Happens to Those In-between?) -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: Liberating Liminality in the Contemporary Church of Algeria -- Why Liminality? -- Liminality and Identity Transition among Algerian Converts -- From Dehumanizing to Liberating Marginality -- Liberated and Liberating Liminality -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: "Neither here nor there": Border-Crossing and Liminal States in Rose Tremain's The Road Home -- Moving Forward, While Still Looking Backward -- Rites of Passage -- Border-Crossing and Liminality -- Living with the Others, as Other -- A New World, a New Self -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part II: Liminality within -- Chapter 4: Liminal Space and Liminal Place: The Medieval Church Porch -- Porches as Places -- Ritual Signs or Idle Hands -- Graffiti and Prayer-Making the Liminal Ritual -- The Ritual Construction and Maintenance of the Liminal Entrance -- Becoming a Liminal Space and a Liminal Place -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography.
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    Lanham : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
    ISBN: 9781793633378
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (207 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 302.30285
    Keywords: Women-Political activity-United States ; Berlant, Lauren Gail,-1957-2021 ; Liberals-United States-Psychology
    Abstract: With a focus on Twitter's BlueWave Resistance community of women, Cynthia A. Davidson argues, using rhetorical and political analysis, that political tweeting is an optimistic act--but frames this through engaging Lauren Berlant's claim in Cruel Optimism that what we most desire is also an impediment to our thriving.
    Abstract: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Note -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Reading Berlant as a Lens for Twitter Culture -- Chapter 1: An Introduction -- What Is The Resistance? -- The Twitter Resistance -- Berlant's Precarity Focus and Its Relationship to Web Writing/Multimodality -- Postscript: The Lessons of 2020 and 2021: Hyper-Precarity and Competing Cruelties (and Optimisms) -- Chapter 2: Attraction, Resistance, and Reconstituted Trauma on Twitter -- The Practice of Everyday Tweets -- Twitter as a Zone of Converging Histories in an Ever-Present Now -- Twitter as Problematic Object of Desire (Cruel Optimism Again) -- Living Online in a Historical Novel: Twitter as a Reconstituted Past in an Ever-Present Now -- Environment versus/and Events: Twitter as a Liminal Zone -- A Practice Driven by Desire for Optimism -- Chapter 3: Affective Exhaustion, Online "Gestures," and the Appeal of the Impasse -- The Precarious (Embodied Capitalism and Twitter, a Preface) -- Affective Exhaustion: Precarity and Emotional Persuasion -- Coping in the Impasse -- Propaganda and Political Manipulation on Twitter (Selectivity, Memes, and Shitposts) -- Hybrid Propaganda Systems: Mainstream and Social Media Mixing and the Polarization of the Mainstream -- Summary -- Chapter 4: The Noise and the Narratives -- Political Noise -- Feeding Trump's Noise and Narrative -- Counternoise: The BlueWave on Social Media -- Trump as Storyteller -- Political Narratives of BlueWave Twitter -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Women, Noise, and Narrative in the BlueWave Resistance -- Women's Voices and the Political Sphere -- Women's Voices and Political Noise -- Women and Narrative: Storytelling as a Feminist Strategy for Survival -- Women's Narratives in the BlueWave Resistance.
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    Lanham : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
    ISBN: 9781666939965
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (231 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.8423
    Keywords: Interpersonal relations ; Intimacy (Psychology) ; Non-monogamous relationships ; Sex customs
    Abstract: Most books on polyamory focus on people already in a multi-person relationship. This book's unique contribution is to consider the social and psychological processes involved in how someone makes the decision to transition from a monogamous to a consensually nonmonogamous relationship.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Decision to Open a Relationship -- Consensual Nonmonogamy -- Moral Reasoning -- Polynomics -- How Do We Make Decisions? -- Risk Tolerance and Affective Forecasting -- The Centrality of Relationships -- Relationship Variables and Consensual Nonmonogamy -- The Monogamy Myth and Infidelity -- Triad Dynamics -- Conclusion -- References -- Index -- About the Author.
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    Lanham : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
    ISBN: 9781666908121
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (187 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 302.35
    Keywords: Collective behavior ; Identity (Psychology) ; Self
    Abstract: Returning to the much-neglected work of George Herbert Mead, this book defines the self and links it to identity and collective action.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Theoretical Framework -- The Making of Marginalized Identities -- The Virtual Selves -- Self, Identity and Collective Action -- A Conversation with James Dalton -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
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    ISBN: 9781666923407
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (253 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 303.37209729
    Keywords: Social justice ; Human rights ; Caribbean Area-Social conditions-1945-
    Abstract: This publication addresses several contemporary issues impacting Social Justice in the Caribbean, including challenges related to industrial relations, governance systems, social protection, social dialogue, cooperatives and community empowerment, the future of education, migration and security, presenting national and regional perspectives.
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Securing Social Justice in Digital Transformation in the Caribbean -- 2. The Role of Cooperatives in the Enhancement of People's Empowerment: The Guyana Experience -- 3. The Impact of Venezuelan Migration on Trinidad and Tobago: Economic and Psychological Implications and Considerations -- 4. Reimagining the Integration of Indigenous Women in Icacos: Strengths- and Rights-Based Approaches to Rural Development in Trinidad and Tobago -- 5. Assuming Caribbean Educational Leadership in the Face of a Just Transition -- 6. From Pandemic to Endemic: Charting the Path Ahead for Higher Education -- 7. Human Rights Dimensions of Venezuelan Asylum Seekers in Trinidad and Tobago -- 8. Addressing Threats to Energy Security While Achieving Sustainable Development in the CARICOM/CSME Countries: Application of a Hexagon of Renewable Energy Industry Competitiveness -- 9. The State of Social Protection in Guyana: Findings from the 2019/2020 Multiple Indicators Cluster Survey (MICS) -- 10. Uncertain Prospects after Retirement: An Examination of National Insurance Pensions in Barbados and Jamaica -- 11. Energy Justice in an Era of Transition: A Necessary Component of the Clean Energy Transition -- Index -- About the Editors and Contributors.
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    Lanham : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781793642387
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (229 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: The Africana Experience and Critical Leadership Studies
    DDC: 305.486970973
    Keywords: Muslim women-United States ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Through untold stories of women in the social project of the Nation of Islam, this book reveals an activism of NOI women that sought to engage self-agency, despite classist, patriarchal, and sexist underpinnings.
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    ISBN: 9781666904642
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (257 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.26097291
    Keywords: Older people-Care-Cuba ; Older people-Cuba-Social conditions ; Intergenerational relations-Cuba ; Cuba-Social conditions-1990-
    Abstract: This book analyzes the evolution of the eldercare crisis in Cuba under the influence of advanced demographic aging, a prolonged economic crisis, and growing contradictions between the needs, values, and aspirations of the various generations.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Principal Characters1 -- Introduction -- Living and Cohabitating -- Generations and Revolution -- Consumption and Deprivation -- The Elderly's Care Work -- Aging Well -- Aging in the Family -- Who's Going to Take Care of Me? -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
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    ISBN: 9781793638120
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (125 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.874/3
    Keywords: Stigma (Social psychology)
    Abstract: In this book, Eryn N. Bostwick and Amy Janan Johnson argue stigmatization of adolescent parenthood serves as a filter influencing the way their children interpret family stories. Scholars of communication, sociology, and psychology will find this book of particular interest.
    Abstract: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- What Is Identity? -- Societal Messages, Interpersonal Messages, and Identity -- Why Those Born to Adolescent Parents? -- The Study and Resulting Data -- What to Expect -- Chapter 1: Perceptions of Adolescent Parenthood in the United States and the Influence of Stigmatization -- Perceptions in Society -- Historical and Political Context -- How Do Societal Beliefs About Adolescent Parenthood Influence the Treatment of Adolescent Parents? -- Negative Treatment in Healthcare Settings -- The Connection Between Societal Perceptions and Stigmatization -- The Influence of Stigmatization of Adolescent Parenthood on Identity -- Note -- Chapter 2: Family Conversations Surrounding Adolescent Parenthood: How Stigma and Storytelling Relate to Children's Identity -- Stigma and Family Conversations -- Discourse-Dependent Families, Stigma, and Family Stories -- Family Storytelling and Identity in Discourse-Dependent Families -- In Their Own Words: The Influence of Stories on the Identity of Those Born to Adolescent Parents -- Notes -- Chapter 3: The Burden Experienced by Those Born to Adolescent Parents -- The Importance of Parental Struggle -- Parental Struggle and Guilt -- The Relationship Between Struggle, Guilt, Self-Blame, and Story Interpretation -- Story Interpretation and Identity Development -- Feeling Like There Is Something to Prove -- Chapter 4: Overcoming One's Burden -- Interpretations of Stories Over Time -- Agency-Driven Attribution Shift -- Do All Children of Adolescent Parents Experience the Agency-Driven Attribution Shift? -- Chapter 5: Conclusions -- Bringing It All Together -- The Influence of the Stigmatization of Adolescent Parenthood -- The Importance of Storytelling.
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    Lanham : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
    ISBN: 9781666934687
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (125 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 307
    Keywords: Communities ; Social participation ; Online social networks
    Abstract: This book illustrates how community and connection have changed over time and how they are currently thriving in the online world. Brooke Dunbar-Treadwell offers support and examples from research, society, and pop culture to address how online spaces can bring us a sense of community if we choose connection.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Defining Community -- Revolutions, Innovation, and the Evolution of Community -- The Hyperpersonal and Connection -- Political Bunkers and Common Enemy Intimacy -- Community as a Place for Authenticity and Belonging -- The Case for Community in Online Spaces and Hope for the Future -- References -- Index -- About the Author.
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    Lanham : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
    ISBN: 9781666922981
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (305 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.89600922
    Keywords: Black people
    Abstract: In The Letter in Black Radical Thought, Tendayi Sithole analyzes the letters of Sylvia Wynter, Assata Shakur, George Jackson, Aìme Césaire, and Frantz Fanon. Each letter is taken as an important site where dehumanization is criticized by means of black radical thought which these figures advocate.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Framing the Letter -- Wynter's Epistemic Letter -- Shakur's Fugitive Letter -- George Jackson's Intramural Letters -- Césaire and Fanon's Resignation Letters -- Postscript: Folding the Letter -- References -- Index -- About the Author.
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    Lanham : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
    ISBN: 9781666928327
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (313 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 302.231
    Keywords: Internet-Social aspects ; Digital media-Social aspects ; Social media and society
    Abstract: This book examines the paradox of digital enhancement: we simultaneously desire to be governed by the logic of perfection and to be self-governed. Through genealogical and aesthetic critique, Sarah Bianchi questions the costs of our digital present and conceptualizes how to critically construct an enlightened agency.
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  • 35
    ISBN: 9781666925081
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (181 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.87409495
    Keywords: Parenting-Psychological aspects
    Abstract: Through the voices of 25 diverse individuals and their experiences, the authors examine childhood, parenting practices, traumatic incidents, generational and cultural disparities that influence family units in Greece and the Middle East, alongside significant literature to bring readers into the inimitable worlds of individuals and their stories.
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  • 36
    ISBN: 9781666921243
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (347 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Lexington Books Horror Studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 398
    Keywords: Fiction-History and criticism ; Folklore in literature ; Folklore in motion pictures ; Horror films ; Horror in literature
    Abstract: Future Folk Horror: Contemporary Anxieties and Possible Futures analyzes recent novels and films, to show that folk horror as a genre uniquely captures the anxieties of the twenty-first century and imagines visions of possible futures.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Framing the Past to Make the Present -- "Buried" -- The Folklore of British Folk Horror -- Secret Powers of Attraction -- A Battlefield in England -- Live Horror Theater, Nostalgia, and Folklore -- Frayed Strands Entwined -- America, Settlers, and Belonging -- Palimpsests and Other Texts -- "There's Some Weird Shit Going on in the Woods" -- Fae Fight Back -- Facing Backward While Looking Forward -- Cultural Positionings -- Early American Colonial Violence and Folk Horror -- Wendigo Tales -- A Locus of the Old and New in Australian Folk Horror Cinema -- A Multi-contextual Analysis of the Future of Folk Horror in Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth -- Who Makes the Hood? -- Identity -- Non-normativity in Female-Centered Folk Horror Literature -- (In)Visible Women -- Speculative Folk Horror and Reclaiming Monsters in Cherríe Moraga's The Hungry Woman -- ‌‌Religion and Rewilding in Michel Faber's Ecohorror -- Intersections and Futures -- "Nigh Is the Time of Madness and Disdain" -- A Horror Film for Our Times -- Future Shock Folk Horror in Terry Gilliam's The Zero Theorem -- Folk Horror in Inside No. 9 -- Index -- About the Editor and Contributors.
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    Lanham : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
    ISBN: 9781666921571
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (153 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Rhetoric, Race, and Religion Series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 302.208966073
    Keywords: Black nationalism in literature
    Abstract: In this book, Armondo R. Collins theorizes Black Nationalist rhetorical strategies as an avenue to better understanding African American communication practices. The author demonstrates how black rhetors use writing about God to create a language that reflects African Americans' shifting subjectivity within the American experience.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Proto-Black Nationalism -- Message to the Blackman in America -- Clarence 13x's Black God Ethos and the Rhetorical Challenge of the Five Percenters‌‌ -- The Black God Trope in the Novel -- Alice Walker's Womanist Black God Trope in The Color Purple -- The Black God Trope as Rhetorical Pedagogy -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
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    Lanham : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
    ISBN: 9781666919585
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (183 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: The Black Atlantic Cultural Series: Revisioning Artistic, Historical, Literary, Psychological, and Sociological Perspectives Series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.896073
    Keywords: African Americans-Race identity ; African Americans-History ; African Americans-Relations with Indians
    Abstract: By addressing the ways in which the singular narrative of "slavery" codifies identity, this work moves beyond binary racial classifications and proposes the possibility of utilizing holistic historical narratives to foster group and personal identity.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Timeline -- In Search of Identity -- The Imbedded Narrative -- So Much Moor, and More Than a Slave -- More Than One Narrative -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
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    ISBN: 9781793646286
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (299 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.10954
    Keywords: Motion pictures-India-History and criticism ; Motion picture actors and actresses-India ; Fans (Persons)
    Abstract: Devotional Fanscapes examines the practices and materiality of fans who worship film stars as divine figures. This book is an analysis of visual culture and star temples that bring cinema, fandom, religion, and politics into undocumented negotiations in national and transnational contexts.
    Abstract: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Note on Translation and Transliteration -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Dialectics of a Popular Sacred -- Making of Cinematic Deities -- Emergence of Star Temples -- Contours of "Publics of Fan-bhakti" -- The Arc of Divinity -- Role of Devotional Fandom in the Interplay between Cinema and Politics -- A "Trashy, Hocus-Pocus" Cinema -- Organization of the Book -- Notes -- Part I: Constructing Identity -- Chapter 1: "Sorry God, We Worship Amitabh More than You": Bollywood Deities and the "Publics of Fan-bhakti" -- When Fans Become Devotees -- Inventing a Cinematic Sacred and Publics of Fan-Bhakti -- Ritual Performance: Guru-God Fusion and Ideological Flexibility -- Amitabh Arati: Communities of Practice -- Cinematic Darshan -- Devotee-Fan Art -- Role of Media -- Expanded Cinematic Space and Marking the Sacred -- Bachchan Dham -- Epilogue: Re-Constructing the "Normal" -- Notes -- Chapter 2: "Star Murtis": Film Posters as Ritual Objects -- Printed Murtis: The Transformation of the Hindu God Image in the Twentieth Century -- Film Poster as a Murti -- "Star Murti": Mobilizing Cinematic Darshan -- Notes -- Part II: Materiality and Spatial Constructs -- Chapter 3: "Starring" Madhuri as Durga: The Madhuri Dixit Temple and the Performative Fan-bhakti of Pappu Sardar -- New Imaginations of Hindu Temples -- The Shop as a Temple -- The Museum Ethos and Performative Fan-Bhakti -- Exhibition and Popular Politics -- Exhibition Temple and Performative Fan-Bhakti -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Transforming the Object of Art: M. F. Husain and Devotional Fandom -- The Painting -- The Painting as a Ritual Object -- Notes -- Part III: Crossing Borders -- Chapter 5: Get Rajinified: India to USA, the "God of Style" and his Devotee-fans.
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    Lanham : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
    ISBN: 9781666934564
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (217 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Critical Perspectives on the Psychology of Sexuality, Gender, and Queer Studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.76809711
    Keywords: Dance-Social aspects
    Abstract: This book draws on interview and photographic data from a study with fourteen trans people from British Columbia. It exposes the restrictive choreography of reproductive healthcare, and documents the improvisational tactics used by trans people in their pursuit of care that is competent, safe, and affirming.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Theoretical Orientation -- On Who I Am and Why It Matters -- The Participants and the Process -- ‌‌Navigating Informational Erasure -- Navigating Institutional Erasure‌‌ -- Navigating Repronormative and Transnormative Logics -- Navigating Identity Disclosure and Concealment -- Conclusion -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- References -- Index -- About the Author.
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    ISBN: 9781666939392
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (287 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.48897072
    Keywords: Coordinadora Nacional de Mujeres Indígenas (Mexico) ; Indian women-Mexico-Social conditions ; Indian women-Political activity-Mexico ; Peace-building-Mexico ; Mexico-Social conditions
    Abstract: By focusing on the efforts of the National Coordination of Indigenous Women (CONAMI) to dismantle racism, sexism, ageism, and other forms of discrimination, this book challenges outdated assumptions about the roles of Indigenous people--especially women--in creating proactive, responsive, and socially progressive peace epistemologies.
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Acronyms -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Keys for Understanding CONAMI's Contribution to Peacebuilding -- 1. Participants' Political Genealogies -- 2. Methodological Routes with My Compañeras -- 3. Politicization of Indigenous Women's Identities -- 4. Reclaiming the Right to Live without Spiritual Violence -- 5. Enriching the Struggle of Indigenous Peoples for Their Collective Rights -- Final Remarks: A Continuous Process of Collective Reflection -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author and Contributors.
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    Lanham : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
    ISBN: 9781666922684
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (241 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.44/96658
    Keywords: Language policy-Cabo Verde ; Cape Verde Creole dialect-Cabo Verde ; Portuguese language-Cabo Verde
    Abstract: This book argues that the state in Cabo Verde is illegible since its operations, procedures, and processes are carried out through Portuguese, a language that most of the people do not understand. Consequently, the illegible state produces grave political consequences in overall political participation and the quality of democracy.
    Abstract: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Theoretical Framework: The Language-Politics Nexus -- A Note on the Methods -- The Choice of Cabo Verde as the Case Study -- Organization of the Book -- Notes -- Chapter 1: The Language and Politics Nexus (1890s-1980s) -- Modern Colonialism and the Language-Politics Nexus -- Anticolonialism and the Language Question -- The Language and Politics Nexus in the Postcolonial Period -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Contemporary Politics of Language Policy (1991-2022) -- The Politics of Language Policy and Planning since 1991 -- The Constitution and the Official Language Question -- Dimensions of the Language Ideological Debate in Cabo Verde -- Creole Societies and the Language-Politics Nexus -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 3: The International Politics of the Portuguese Language -- International Politics and Domestic Politics -- The Geopolitics of the Portuguese Language -- Imposing Portuguese Linguistic Hegemony: The Multilateral Dimension -- Imposing Portuguese Linguistic Hegemony: The Bilateral Dimension -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Diaspora and the Language and Politics Nexus -- The Politics of Diaspora -- A Brief History of the Cabo Verdean Diaspora -- The Homeland Dimension -- The Hostland Dimension -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 5: The Illegible State in Cabo Verde -- On the Concept of the Illegible State -- The Illegible State in Cabo Verde -- The Media, Auxiliary of the Illegible State -- The Illegibility of the State and Diminished Surveillatory Power -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 6: Language Policy and Political Participation -- The Politics of Ridicule -- The Politics of Inaudibility -- Silencing and Managing Citizens' Political Participation -- Blocking Initiatory Political Participation.
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  • 43
    ISBN: 9781666904581
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (319 Seiten)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Social justice and the modern athlete
    DDC: 306.483
    Keywords: Social movements ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Sportler ; Aktivismus ; Social Media ; Soziale Gerechtigkeit
    Abstract: Social Justice and the Modern Athlete: Exploring the Role of Athlete Activism in Social Change is an edited volume that illuminates the power athletes have to influence and rectify social injustices. It highlights athlete activism in the areas of politics, gender equity, nonviolent protest, mental health, and the online sphere.
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  • 44
    ISBN: 9781793643889
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (165 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Daley, Sean M., - 1973- The complexities of American Indian identity in the twenty-first century
    DDC: 305.897
    Keywords: Indians of North America-Tribal citizenship ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Drawing on data and stories from Native 24/7, a 5-year, 700-particpant social investigation of Indigenous identity, the authors document what Native people believe characterizes, constitutes, and contributes to contemporary Native identities.
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- C H A P T E R O N E Methods and Participants -- C H A P T E R T W O "So, What Should I Call You? Indian? Native? Something Else?" -- C H A P T E R T H R E E "They're Not On and Off Switches" -- C H A P T E R F O U R "Natives, We're Good Relatives" -- C H A P T E R F I V E "I'm Only Indian on Sunday" -- C H A P T E R S I X "A Necessary Evil" -- C H A P T E R S E V E N "Football and Mascots" -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Authors -- About the Contributors -- About the Research Team.
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  • 45
    ISBN: 9781666936513
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (261 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 303.48/40973
    Keywords: Protest movements History 21st century ; Social movements History 21st century ; African Americans Civil rights 21st century ; History ; Social justice History 21st century ; Two thousand twenty, A.D ; Social justice-United States-History-21st century
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- Prologue -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Space Between Grief and Gratitude -- Moving to the Left -- People Who Have Done Bad Things -- Sanctioned Murders -- Love-Love -- Better Late Than Never -- The Brotherhood Gone Viral -- "To Protect and To Serve" -- Fieldwork, Flowers, and the Force -- The Toll of Devaluing Black People's Humanity Is to Live in a Nation‌‌‌ That Will Feel Like Home t -- Apocalypse Rot -- "For B.R.E.A.T.H.E" and " . . . To You" -- The New Rent Party -- opus 132 free -- Worldstar's Poetica -- Index -- About the Editor and Contributors.
    Abstract: The Social Protests of 2020: Visceral Responses to Police Brutality, COVID-19, and Circumscribed Sexuality collects the reactions of Black intellectuals to police brutality, COVID-19, and the Supreme Court's handling of employment discrimination against LGBTQIA+ communities.
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  • 46
    ISBN: 9781666912050
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (299 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Communication, Globalization, and Cultural Identity Series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.4420091724
    Keywords: Language and culture-Developing countries ; Indigenous peoples Languages ; Social aspects ; Mass media and language Social aspects ; Language and culture ; Social change
    Abstract: Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Indigenous Mass Media and Health Communication -- Resistance, Resilience, Sustainability, and Identity in Indigenous Language Media -- Indigenous Language Radio and Music for Conflict Resolution and Social Change -- Final Remarks on the Book -- References -- Part I: Indigenous Mass Media and Health Communication -- Chapter 1: Xhosa/English (Xhoslish) Code-Switching in Radio Health Programming towards Communication for Development and Social Change: Analysis of Selected Radio Station in South Africa -- Definitions -- Theoretical Underpinnings to Code-Switching -- Radio and Health Messages -- Review of Literature -- Social and Cultural Factors to CS and CM -- Motivation and Reasons for Code-Switching/Code-Mixing -- Method -- Data Collection and Analysis -- Conversation Analysis -- Data Set 1: 13 March Disability #360 -- Data Set 2: 29 March Disability #360 -- Data Set 3: 05 April Disability #360 -- Data Set 4: 12 April Disability #360 -- Data Set 5: 17 May Disability #360 -- Data Set 6: 24 May Disability #360 -- Discussion -- Conclusion and Recommendations -- References -- Chapter 2: Critical Discourse Analysis of Traditional Medicine Outdoor Advertising and Public Health Issues in Northern Nigeria -- Interrogating Media Dimension of Advertisement -- Interrogating Trado-Medicine Communication -- Understanding Culture, Myths, and Medical Sciences -- Traditional Medicine in Nigeria -- Theoretical Framework -- Research Methods -- Selected Frames -- Religious Frames -- Cultural Emotions Frames -- Hope Lifting Frames -- Superiority Frames -- Economic Frames -- Findings -- Conclusion -- Recommendations -- References -- Chapter 3: Indigenous Language Status and the Threat to Transmission and Acquisition of Traditional Medical Knowledge (TMK).
    Abstract: This book captures contemporary debates around indigenous languages and social change communication. Contributors bring together voices from the margins to engage in dialogue about common social change issues in Latin America, Africa, and Asia.
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  • 47
    ISBN: 9781666921151
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (339 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Environment and Society Series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 304.2/8
    Keywords: Global environmental change Forecasting ; History ; Human ecology ; Nature Effect of human beings on ; Human ecology in literature ; Nature in literature
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Dialogues Between Times and Places -- Experience and Expectations: Hesiod on Work, Justice, and Environment -- Ancient Geographies of Health and Environmental Acumen -- The Past is a Foreign Environment -- Future Imperfect in Edmund Spenser's The Shepheardes Calender (1579) -- Retrospective Prophecy in Contemporary Maya Literature -- Extinction and Conservation -- Feeling Like a Species -- Anticipating Multispecies Thinking in Plutarch's Animal Treatises -- William Temple Hornaday's Haunting Vision of a Wildlife Apocalypse -- Anticipating Extinction -- Narrating Civilizational Collapse in the Anthropocene -- Urban Environments -- Sensing Noise, Sensing Space -- The Arcologies of Paolo Soleri -- Utopia's User Interface -- Climate(s) and Materialities -- Solastalgia, Future Memory, and Polluted Landscapes in Lucan's Bellum Civile 7 -- Nuclear Winter -- "Nature in Order" or Human Agency? Visions of the Future in the Long Nineteenth-Century Newspaper -- Explaining Climate Change and Predicting its Impacts -- Ecology in a Loop -- Index -- About the Contributors.
    Abstract: The volume examines forms and functions of fictional and factual anticipatory environmental (hi)stories from antiquity to the Anthropocene, offering a diachronic as well as cross-cultural perspective on how different authors and societies have imagined their respective future environments.
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  • 48
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    ISBN: 9781793637314
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (431 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 303.6
    Keywords: Urban violence
    Abstract: This book brings together political economy and vital materialism to set out an original conceptualization and genealogy of urban violence.
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Part I. FOUNDATIONS -- 1. Violence -- 2. Urban -- 3. Security -- Part II. INTERSECTIONS -- 4. Imaginary -- 5. Urbanisation -- 6. Atmosphere -- Part III. EXTENSIONS -- 7. Comfort -- 8. Smartness -- 9. Cum cura -- References -- Index of Names and Places -- About the Authors.
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  • 49
    ISBN: 9781666913521
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (257 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Stories of feminist protest and resistance
    DDC: 305.4201
    Keywords: Feminism History 21st century ; Mass media and women ; Social networks ; Mass media and women ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Stories of Feminist Protest and Resistance: Digital Performative Assemblies explores how digital feminists use the long-standing tactics of storytelling to counter the dominant narratives of white supremacy, colonialism, heteropatriarchy, and the intersecting oppressions that accompany such structures, both online and offline.
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  • 50
    ISBN: 9781793606402
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (103 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.800956
    Keywords: Minorities-Political activity-Middle East ; Ethnic groups-Political activity-Middle East ; Nationalism-Middle East ; Minorities Political activity ; Ethnic groups Political activity ; Nationalism
    Abstract: The author explores the process and outcome of ethnic identity on nation-building and ethnic conflict. It sheds light on the question of how minorities position and represent themselves during and after regime transitions and the dilemmas that minorities present for regime change and how social cleavages shape their preferences and identities.
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  • 51
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    ISBN: 9781666925890
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (161 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Emerging Perspectives in Pastoral Theology and Care Series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.48896073
    Keywords: Salvation-Christianity ; Womanist theology
    Abstract: A Womanist Holistic Soteriology is a construction of womanist holistic soteriology that is inclusive of many voices and perspectives and promotes communal responsibility. A soteriology which considers notions of personhood, theology, spirituality, and praxeology is one that is holistic, inclusive, and grace-filled.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Unfolding Stories, Entwining Strands -- Wesleyan Grace and the Ongoing Work of Salvation for Today -- Womanist Methodology -- Threads of Black Women's Theological and Philosophical Discourse in the Retrieval of Salvific Langu -- The Weaving Together of Voices and Practices -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
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    Lanham : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
    ISBN: 9781666914870
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (261 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305
    RVK:
    Keywords: Equality ; Human beings
    Abstract: This book investigates how Homo sapiens thrived in and nurtured a certain social condition that happened to abet our continual survival. This condition of individual autonomy shaped our species and led humans to demand social equality to this day.
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: The Normative Motivation Behind This Descriptive Investigation -- 1. How and Why Naturalism Can Aid Delineating What Equality Consists In -- 2. The Equality Debates: A Very Brief Sketch of the Philosophical History of Equality -- 3. The Natural History of Equality: What Philosophy Can Learn from Anthropology's Study of Egalitarian Societies -- 4. The Natural History of Equality: The Onset of Inequality -- 5. Equality and Justice: The Social Construction of Justice in theInegalitarian State -- 6. EqualityA, Autonomy, Freedom -- 7. Equality in the Contemporary Context -- References -- Index -- About the Author.
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  • 53
    ISBN: 9781666944495
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (295 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.420967
    RVK:
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    RVK:
    Keywords: Women-Africa, Sub-Saharan-Social conditions ; Sex role-Africa, Sub-Saharan ; Africa, Sub-Saharan-Social conditions-21st century ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This edited volume provides an interdisciplinary and balanced discussion on the changing dynamics of identities in Africa, with a focus on gender, ethno-cultural, and religious identity.
    Abstract: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Negotiating Identities in Contemporary Africa: Gender, Religion, and Ethno-cultural Identities -- 1. Sowing in the Wind Girls' Education in Kenya's Bungoma County -- 2. Gendered Political Institutions and Women's Career Identity Construction -- 3. To Have or Not to Have An African Perspective on Childlessness -- 4. Gender and Initiation Rites in Ejagham Land of Cameroon -- 5. Restoring Gender Knowledge in Kenya's Mau Mau War New Methods and Perspectives -- 6. Gender Inequality in the Peace-Building Process during the Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon -- 7. From Hapless Victims to Helpful Collaborators? The Contradictions of Boko Haram Female Suicide Bombers in Nigeria, 200 -- 8. A Comparative Study of the Influence of Modernization on Traditional Gender Roles of Men and Women in Lagos and Ogun S -- 9. Ethnocentrism, Democratization, and Nation Building in Africa The Nigerian Experience -- 10. Identity Dynamics in the Southern Tier of the Cameroon-Nigeria Frontier -- 11. Redefining Cultural Identity in Nigeria through Dramatic and Theatrical Arts -- 12. Black Identity, Diasporic Consciousness, and Nigeria's Ambivalence to Pan-Africanism -- 13. Sidis in India, and of India Too? An Exploratory Study into the Identity of the African Diaspora in the Western India -- Appendix Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education Results -- Index -- About the Editors and Contributors.
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  • 54
    ISBN: 9781666936933
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (175 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Lexington Studies in Health Communication Series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 304.666
    Keywords: Reproductive rights ; Reproductive rights Social aspects ; Reproductive rights Cross-cultural studies
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Promoting a "Domestic Supply of Infants" -- Whiteness as an Obstacle to Reproductive Justice -- Coscripted Autoethnographies of (Re)thinking the Current Reproductive Justice Discourse ‌‌ in the United States -- Barely Made It Out Alive -- The Experience of I n Vitro Fertilization ( IVF ) Treatment and the Need for Health Education -- Making It through the Maze -- Intersectional Rhetorics of Justice in Parenting Practices -- Day In, Day Out -- Evaluating the Value of Doula Advocacy ‌‌ in Mitigating Negative Birth and Health Outcomes -- Index -- About the Editors and Contributors.
    Abstract: This book focuses on reproductive justice through a culturally-centered and intersectional lens. The autoethnographic nature of each chapter allows contributors to unpack issues surrounding reproductive justice from their perspectives and allows readers to look towards understanding the issue from a personal and structural level.
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    Lanham : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
    ISBN: 9781666917543
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (195 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Studies in Urban-Rural Dynamics Series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 307
    Keywords: Rural-urban relations ; Communities
    Abstract: Fulkerson provides a contemporary, in-depth understanding of communities that is useful for research, planning, and development purposes. His approach incorporates and builds on the urban-rural dynamics approach centered on the urban-rural system concept, making it relevant to urban and rural scholars.
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  • 56
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    Lanham : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
    ISBN: 9781498585026
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (207 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 394.269435125
    Keywords: National socialism-Germany
    Abstract: In this study Erika L. Briesacher argues that festivals in Lübeck, Germany spanning 1920 to 1960 demonstrate interlocking economic, social, and cultural factors that contribute to local, national, and international identity formation.
    Abstract: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Background and Contexts -- Interpretive Frameworks -- Organization and Structure -- Notes -- Chapter 1: Finance, Festivals, and the Aftermath of the Great War -- To Hold or Not to Hold-The Early Stages of Planning -- Formulating the Festival -- Festival Planning in Cultural Context -- Notgeld and Nordische Woche -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Celebration, Culture, and Commerce: Nordische Woche 1921 -- The Lead-Up to Nordische Woche -- Staging Spaces -- Ads and Pricing -- Nordische Woche in Text -- Nordische Woche in Word and Deed -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Evolving Identity: The Nordische Gesellschaft, 1921-1938 -- The Early Nordische Gesellschaft, Identity, and Economic Tension -- The Interference of Hyperinflation -- The Rentenmark, Stabilization, and a Renewed Nordische Gesellschaft -- Outreach and Cultural Activities -- Polarizing German Society and the Turn of the Decade -- The Nazis, Gleichschaltung, and Early Nazi Policy -- Acceleration: the Nuremberg Laws to Kristallnacht -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Nazi Nordicism in War and Occupation -- Hamburg's Nordische Woche, 1938 -- Waging Total War -- The Final Days of War and Capitulation -- British Occupation and Preparing for the Nuremberg Trials -- Diplomacy, Law, and Local Concerns -- Denazification -- Notes -- Chapter 5: New Nordic Days -- Zonal Conflict, the Border, and Postwar Diplomacy -- The Centrality of Checkpoints -- West Germany Emergent and the Uneven Economic Miracle -- Nordische Tage 1953 -- Nordische Tage 1954 -- The Last Nordische Tage -- Leaving Nordische Tage Behind -- Notes -- Conclusion -- Note -- Bibliography -- Digital and Manuscript Sources -- Printed Primary Sources -- Secondary Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
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  • 57
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    ISBN: 9781666913552
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (373 pages)
    Edition: 3rd ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306/.0973
    Keywords: Violence-United States ; Equality-United States ; Capitalism-United States
    Abstract: While mass shootings make headlines, the more routine effects of corporate and government decisions on our well-being are downplayed. This book analyzes how economic and political inequalities lead to forms of violence that routinely cause harm.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Defining Violence-Types of Violence -- Explaining American Violence-Five Approaches -- Inequality in the United States -- Social Class and Organizational Power -- Political Inequality-Corporations and Government -- Organizational and Structural Violence Against Consumers and Communities -- Health Issues as Structural and Organizational Violence -- Violence Against Workers and the Unemployed -- Criminal Violence -- Experiencing Violence-Racial and Ethnic -- Gender Violence -- Militarism and Violence-Who Benefits? -- Militarism and Violence-Who Loses? -- Militarism-Structural and Interpersonal Violence -- Reducing the Casualties -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
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  • 58
    ISBN: 9781793634122
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (325 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.0973
    Keywords: United States-Civilization
    Abstract: This book examines how rival interpretations of the American Dream poignantly express conflicts over its very meaning, revealing the dialectical tension therein, and awakening us to the distance between the Dream and our reality, in the light of its continued deferment and its price.
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    ISBN: 9781793611376
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (185 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.89912
    Keywords: Kwoma (Papua New Guinean people)-Rites and ceremonies
    Abstract: This book is a study of the art of the Kwoma of the Sepik River region of New Guinea and how people in this society understand their art as a cultural phenomenon, including its origins in the spirit world.
    Abstract: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: Sources of Creativity in Art -- Introduction -- Kwoma and Other Sepik Art in International Collections -- Impact of New Guinea and Other Indigenous Art on the Development of Twentieth-Century Western Art -- Research on Sepik Art -- The Conditions of Fieldwork -- Background to the Kwoma -- Social Groups -- Social Change -- Notes -- Chapter 2: The Supernatural Origins of Men's Houses and Their Art -- Unique Features of Individual Men's Houses -- Constructing a Men's House -- The Supernatural Origins of Men's Houses and Their Art -- Wayipanal Men's House and Its Supernatural Origin (Bangwis Village) -- Wambon Men's House (Washkuk Village) -- Notes -- Chapter 3: The Supernatural Origins of Kwoma Ritual -- Kwoma Rituals in Historical Perspective -- Ritual Moieties -- The Sculptures -- The Ceremonies -- Interpreting the Ritual Art -- The Myth of Origin of the Yena, Minja and Nokwi Rituals and Their Art -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Cultural Implications of Kwoma Notions of Creativity in Art -- No Work of Art Unique Culturally -- Decaying Men's Houses Demolished or Abandoned -- Ceremonial Figures Replaced When They Began to Decay -- Repatriation of Artworks -- Memory of Who Produced Which Objects Quickly Forgotten -- The Names of the Great Artists of the Past Quickly Forgotten -- 'Anonymity' of Artists -- Technical Skill versus Creativity -- No Term Equivalent to 'Art' -- Notes -- Chapter 5: A Cross-Cultural Perspective -- Other Societies with a Similar Understanding of Art -- A New Understanding of Human Creativity -- Changes in Art -- The Emergence of the Modern Western Concept of Art -- Illustrations of the Way Conceptual Originality Is Recognized in the Renaissance and Beyond -- Negative Criticism -- Notes -- Chapter 6: Related Issues.
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  • 60
    ISBN: 9781793636195
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (353 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 302.2345
    Keywords: Television programs
    Abstract: The essays in this collection analyze a variety of contemporary television shows to argue for the role that TV plays in moral identity formation. Audiences take from television viewing a better sense of what matters to them, ways of relating to others, and a moral sense of the world they inhabit.
    Abstract: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Personal Viewing Habits -- From the Golden Age to Peak TV -- Sincerity Peaked -- The Plan of the Book -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Sleeping with Fishes and Talking with Horses: Animality, Identity, and Vegetarianism in The Sopranos -- Introduction: Woke Up This Morning -- The Pilot and "The Beast in Me" -- The Beast Is Me: Communitarianism and Liberalism -- Pass (Over) the Capocollo: Bada-Being What We Eat -- Conclusion: Don't Stop Believing -- Notes -- Bibliography -- The Bigger the Lie, the More They Believe: Morality and Ethics in The Wire -- Notes -- Bibliography -- The Two Walters: Walt Whitman's Poetry and the Moral Vision of Breaking Bad -- Walter White, Individualism, and Science -- Walt's Psychological Collapse -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Check Your Settings: Change to a Democratic Framework for Feminist Subtitles -- Breaking Bad -- Sons of Anarchy -- "Difficult Men" and the Persistence of Patriarchy -- Focusing through a Democratic Lens -- Notes -- Bibliography -- "The Lord of War and Thunder": The Morality of Nemesis and Retributive Justice within Justified -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Law and Loyalty in Hellcats -- The Routine: Hellcats' Story -- The Stunt: Law in Hellcats -- The Spotter: Marti's Dilemma -- The Flyer: Alice and the Ethics of Revenge -- The Captain: Savannah's Family and Self-Actualization -- Law and Loyalty -- Overlooked and Concluded -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Justice Is Served: Bryan Fuller's Hannibal and the Evolution of Cultural Morality -- A Moment of Silence -- Dungeons and Red Dragons -- The Novel Approach -- Of Death and Cancellation -- REACHING THE PEAK -- Notes -- Bibliography -- What Made the Devil Do It? -- Introduction -- Lucifer Morningstar -- Amenadiel -- Chloe Decker.
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    ISBN: 9781793626899
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (341 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.31
    Keywords: Masculinity
    Abstract: Rhetoric of Masculinity lends depth and global nuance to discourse associated with the masculinity concept as it bears on males' self-image, role in society, media representations of them, and the gender role stress/conflict they experience when they fail to measure up to social standards associated with what it means to be manly.
    Abstract: Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Male GRC/S as Viewed through Psychology and Communication Lenses -- Unit I MASCULINITIES IN NATURE OR NURTURE -- Chapter One Taking the Natural Red Pill Conflicting Gender Roles through Nature and Antiquity in the Manosphere -- Chapter Two Case Studies of Male Rhetorical Mediation of Sexual Violence and Gender Role Stress/Conflict in the #MeToo Era -- Chapter Three When Nothing Changes into Something Gender Role Stress/Conflict Among Asexual Viewers of BoJack Horseman -- Chapter Four Pulling Back the Curtain on Advertisers' Perceptions of Male Images in U. S. Ads -- Chapter Five Dirty Work Masculinity and Coping Strategies among Garbage Collectors -- Unit II MASCULINITY &amp -- SOCIAL IDENTITY INTERSECTIONALITIES -- Chapter Six Exploring Masculinities in Ancient and Up-and-Coming Sports in South East Asia -- Chapter Seven Masculinity, Identity, and Disabled Veterans How British Audiences Respond to Representations of Military Veterans on Prime-Time BBC Programmes -- Chapter Eight Nawaz Sharif The Rise and Fall of a Pakistani Sher (Big Cat) -- Chapter Nine The Machismo Conflict of Bad Bunny's Yo Perreo Sola in Reggaetón -- Unit III MASCULINITIES &amp -- EMOTIONALITY -- Chapter Ten "Bitch-Ass Pussy!" Perceptions of Abused Men Predicted by Media, Educational, and Experiential Topic Exposure -- Chapter Eleven It's Not Unusual, or Is It?Tom Jones' Unique Blend of Heteromasculine Emotionality -- Chapter Twelve Retire Like a Man Peyton Manning, Andrew Luck, and Competing Masculinities -- Chapter Thirteen A Critical Exploration of Pandemic Protection as a Threat to Masculinity Facemask Usage and Male Gender -- Chapter Fourteen New Media Masculinities How YouTube Influencers Incubate Masculine Ideologies and Mentor Males Through Gender Role Conflict/Stress.
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    ISBN: 9781793639028
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (169 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Philosophy of Race Series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.809
    Keywords: Ignorance (Theory of knowledge)
    Abstract: White Ignorance and Complicit Responsibility addresses the problem of white denial. Rejecting punitive moralities that reproduce white innocence and encourage absolution, Eva Boodman makes the case for a transformative whiteness that dismantles the moral, racial, political, and affective constructs that keep racial capitalism in place.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- White Ignorance Is Structural‌‌ -- Declarations and Absolutions -- Punitive Whiteness -- Complicit Responsibility and Transformative Whiteness -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
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  • 63
    ISBN: 9781793640529
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (131 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: The Black Atlantic Cultural Series: Revisioning Artistic, Historical, Literary, Psychological, and Sociological Perspectives Series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.896073
    Keywords: African Americans-Social conditions
    Abstract: Philosophy and the Modern African American Freedom Struggle: A Freedom Gaze analyzes the ways oppression and marginalization produced the philosophical space necessary for the development of a unique form of Black consciousness within the African Diaspora.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Struggling for Freedom Between Death (Slavery) and Life -- The New Negro's Negritude -- From Harlem to Paris (And Back) -- From Montgomery to West Africa -- From Freedom to Fragmentation through Liberalism -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
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    ISBN: 9781793645470
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (189 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Environment and Religion in Feminist-Womanist, Queer, and Indigenous Perspectives Series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.89742072
    Keywords: Mayas-Religion
    Abstract: Through practical theological and anthro/gynopological methods, Insurrectionist Wisdoms offers an analysis of the situation of working-class Maya mexicanas living in Yucatán, México, working on the assembly line of a multinational corporation.
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Agradecimientos (Acknowledgments) -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter One ¿Y qué crece en tu pueblo?(What Grows in Your Town?) -- Chapter Two From Milpa to Maquila, Mamá to Machine -- Chapter Three Primeramente Madre: The Life-Bearing Gospel -- Chapter Four La Ciencia de la Lucha: ¡Sí se puede! (The Science of the Struggle: Yes We Can!) -- Chapter Five Ma'alob (Goodbye and Hello) -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
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    ISBN: 9781793644725
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (225 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.4496
    Keywords: African languages-Social aspects
    Abstract: This book argues for centrality of language to address Africa's developmental challenges. It contends for the empowerment of African languages to serve in all domains, and it propagates ways to empower African languages for African socio-cultural and economic development in the twenty-first century.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- List of Maps -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Language in Africa -- Classifications of Languages in Africa -- Language, Ethnic Identity and Multilingualism in Africa -- A Panorama of Language Planning across Africa -- Language-Based Problems and National Development in Africa -- Empowering African Languages for Socio-Cultural and Economic Development‌‌‌ in the 21st Cent -- The Emergent Field of African Language Pedagogy in Western Europe and North America -- Language Variation and Ethnicity: Case of African American English -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
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    Lanham : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
    ISBN: 9781666918717
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (243 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 303.6
    Keywords: Social conflict ; Corporations-Political activity
    Abstract: This book examines the roots of hatred, genocide, and mass murder in psychology, history, politics, and economics, including the funding of destructive political campaigns. It provides solutions grounded in moral philosophy as well as possible legal measures.
    Abstract: Cover -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- 1 Definitions -- 2 Human Constants: Evolution and Conflict -- 3 Histories -- 4 Performing and Projecting Evil -- 5 Evil into Politics -- 6 Moralities -- 7 Sustaining Social Harmony -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Authors.
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  • 67
    ISBN: 9781666911039
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (171 pages)
    Series Statement: Environment and Religion in Feminist-Womanist, Queer, and Indigenous Perspectives Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Montgomery, Michelle, - 1972- Re-indigenizing ecological consciousness and the interconnectedness to indigenous identities
    DDC: 306.4/5
    Keywords: Indigenous peoples-Social conditions ; Electronic books
    Abstract: The authors of this book share the diversity and complexities of the Indigenous context of worldviews, examining relationships between humans and other living beings within an eco-conscious lens, showing that we belong not only to a human community, but to a community of all nature as well.
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  • 68
    ISBN: 9781666910346
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (287 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Critical Africana Studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.896072
    Keywords: Black people ; Intersectionality (Sociology) ; Women, Black
    Abstract: This book shows the challenges inherent to the AfroLatina experience with a focus on Black women. The authors argue the analytical power of Intersectionality while considering the hegemonic pressures on AfroLatinidad and the essentializing moves that an intersectional approach enables resisting systems of power.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Diasporic Rhythms and Visual Arts -- Opening Up Black Spaces, Female Spaces -- The Black Woman as Leader in the Bunde and Bullerengue -- No me llames trigueña, soy negra -- The Resistance in the Photographic Indexical Portrayal of Afro-Latina Women in Manuel González de -- Challenging Hegemonic Spaces -- Representing Candomblé in the Public Sphere -- The Invisible Women -- Writing and Activism -- Relearning Latin America Black Past and Present -- Repairing the Broken Strands of Afro-Latina History in Mayra Santos-Febres's Fiction -- Afro-Mexican Women in the Northern Frontier -- Blurring Genres, Blurring Borders -- Papi's Bridge -- Index -- About the Contributors.
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  • 69
    ISBN: 9781666925500
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (265 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Race and Education in the Twenty-First Century Series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.420973
    Keywords: Social justice and education
    Abstract: The Power and Freedom of Black Feminist and Womanist Pedagogy explores diverse perspectives on the liberating power of Black feminist and womanist pedagogical practices. The contributors boldly tell groundbreaking stories of their teaching experiences and their evolving relationships to Black feminist and womanist theory and criticism.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- "I Am" -- The Radical Work of Teaching for Justice -- Teaching as Liberatory Praxis -- Teaching Relationality -- I am that, too -- Education "as the Practice of Freedom" -- Still Becoming Me -- I Ain't No Damned Pedagogue -- You Poured Your Soul into This Work -- Teaching to Progress -- Black Male Radical (His)Stories -- Remembering Intersectional Interventions Teaching to Reclaim Human Rights Legacies -- Working Overtime -- A Pedagogical Awakening -- The Past and Future Diversities of HBCUs -- Postscript -- Index -- About the Contributors.
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  • 70
    ISBN: 9781666914481
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (221 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.42
    Keywords: Women-Political activity
    Abstract: This volume provides an in-depth analysis of global perspectives on advancing public and social gender policy worldwide.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- ‌‌‌‌‌‌‌Introduction -- Societal Effects on Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Fields -- Economic Instruments and Measures of Cultural Policy and Fair Practice -- Women's Participation in Peace Processes -- Alice Shalvi as a Feminist Leader -- Who Is Zofia Rosenstrauch, née Naomi Judkowski? -- The Gambia Gender Policy -- Inclusive Education and Impact on Girls -- Women's Political Inequality in the Arab World -- Do Gender Quotas Reduce Gender Inequality in the Political Decision-making Process? -- Conclusion -- Index -- About the Editors and Contributors.
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  • 71
    ISBN: 9781666907247
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (279 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 302.34092
    Keywords: Female friendship
    Abstract: The essays in this volume explore female emotional and social relationships in literary, cinematographic, and artistic contexts. These intimate unions offer a reflection on different historical and cultural milieus as well as the universal human need for friendship.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Female Friendship-A Foreword -- "Apt for Friendship" -- Politics and Pain of Women's Cross-Racial Friendships -- Fyrir innan stokk -- "Chloe likes Olivia" -- Subversive Seeing and Sisterhood in Céline Sciamma's‌‌‌ Portrait of a Lady on Fire (20 -- We: Women in a Traditional (Zapotec) World -- In the Shadows of a World Famous Twentieth-Century Relationship -- "Perfect Little Ladies" -- Proto-Feminist Friendship in Margherita Sarrocchi's Scanderbeide -- Female Friendship in the Middle English Romance Ywain and Gawain -- Dime con quién andas -- A Little Trail through the Silver Age of Russia -- Echoes of Larger Life -- Index -- About the Editors and Contributors.
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    ISBN: 9781666909265
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (281 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 303.4834
    Keywords: Multiverse
    Abstract: You live in the cyber meta-reality. You and your family probably spend more time in this reality than any other. This book will help anyone who lives in the cyber meta-reality to understand where they live, how this world is evolving, and how we will likely evolve along with it.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Cyber Meta-Reality -- Living in the Cyber Meta-Reality -- The Social Reality -- The Spiritual Reality -- The Information Reality -- Other Realities -- The Cyber Biome -- What is the Cyber Biome? -- Cyber Florae -- Cyber Faunae -- The Cyber Ecosystem -- The Cyber Microbiome -- Dark Web -- Living Archives -- Cyber Microorganisms -- Living Code -- Cyber DNA and Cyber "Junk" DNA -- The New World -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
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  • 73
    ISBN: 9781793643643
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (203 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 302.20973
    Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020--Social aspects-United States
    Abstract: This edited collection focuses on how the COVID-19 pandemic and responses to the pandemic have impacted human communication and the communication discipline as a whole. Contributors represent a diverse range of sub-disciplines within the communication field.
    Abstract: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Communication in the Time of COVID-19: Personal and Administrative Perspectives on the Pandemic -- Chapter 2: Explaining Turbulence, Coping, and Resilience in Romantic Relationships during the COVID-19 Pandemic -- Turbulence in Romantic Relationships as a Result of the COVID-19 Pandemic -- Resilience, Relationship Maintenance, and Communal Coping during COVID-19 -- The Role of the Communication Discipline in Shaping Research and Teaching in Response to the Pandemic -- Future Directions of Relationship Research during COVID-19 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Family Communication and the COVID-19 Pandemic -- COVID-19 Global Pandemic Impact on Families -- Theoretical Perspectives for Family Communication and the Pandemic -- Communication Privacy Management Theory -- Relational Turbulence Theory -- Theory of Resilience and Relational Load -- Relational Dialectics Theory -- Pandemic-Informed Family Diversity in Teaching and Research -- Teaching Suggestions -- Future Research on Family Communication and COVID-19 -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Nonverbal Artifacts for Protection: When Aesthetics Become Armor -- Nonverbal Communication -- Stigmatization and the Pandemic -- Types of Artifacts -- Artifacts as Self-Presentation via Physical Appearance -- Artifacts as Self-Presentation of Body Image -- Artifacts as Body Hair in Self-Presentation -- Artifacts as Hand Protection in Projecting Self-Presentation -- Use of Artifacts as Accessories or Additions -- Face Protection -- Comments on Teaching and Future Research -- Future Research -- Summary -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Health Communication, Relationships, and Medicine: Considerations for Transformation and Shifts in Understanding from COVID-19.
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  • 74
    ISBN: 9781793612519
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (373 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Gender and Activism Series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.42
    Keywords: Feminism
    Abstract: This book illustrates how third wave and contemporary forms of feminism function as "contained empowerment." The author investigates feminist, reproductive rights, and gender-based activisms of the1990s through the present and in contrast with anti-feminist, white supremacist, and structural repressions, including the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Theorizing Contained Empowerment -- Contained Empowerment -- The Contained Embodiment of Feminist Activism -- The Liminality of Feminist Waves -- The Contained Nature of US Third Wave Feminisms -- Metaphors of Containment -- Digital Activism as an Echo Chamber -- In/Visible Activism -- Contemporary Activisms, Polarizations, and Problematic Containments -- The Containment of Digital Celebrity and Fan Activisms -- Backlash and Mimicry as Carnivalesque Liminality -- Activism to Breach Containment -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
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    ISBN: 9781793612397
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (347 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.48896
    Keywords: Women politicians, Black
    Abstract: This book studies the manifestation of leadership as expressed, narrativized, and represented by women of African descent. It uses the language of "rights" and "power" to assert that Black women find strategic alternatives to the male-dominated leadership status quo and are the leaders of the future.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- ‌‌Introduction -- Assuming the Right to Leadership -- Feminist Literary Leadership in African Women's Writing -- Alternative President! Nomzamo Madikizela-Mandela's Challenge -- "Yes. We Want the Power!" -- Black Women Lead the Desire for a Transformed United States -- Advancing Global Leadership Paradigms from the Caribbean -- Marielle Franco and Black Left Feminist Leadership in Brazil -- From Cuba to Colombia: Challenges and Possibilities -- Selected Conversations with Black Women on Political Leadership -- Bibliography‌‌‌‌ -- Index -- About the Author.
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  • 76
    ISBN: 9781666902549
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (235 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.89
    Keywords: Divorce-Psychological aspects
    Abstract: This book offers a psychological approach to several forms of harassment often experienced in divorce cases in the justice system, including intimate partner aggression, sexual abuse of children, the unscientific parental alienation syndrome, and the weaponization of the legal system from aggressors seeking revenge.
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  • 77
    ISBN: 9781793609755
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (217 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 302
    Keywords: Ritual-Social aspects-United States
    Abstract: In 1965, 53 men died in a Titan II missile silo in rural Arkansas, the deadliest nuclear accident ever in a U.S. facility. This book provides an analysis of the event and post-disaster life for their children, who share stories on what went wrong and how they keep moving forward.
    Abstract: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Meet the Titans -- Banished to the Underworld -- The White Sands of Trinity -- Giants Sleeping Below -- Chapter 2: The Titan II -- We Have Liftoff -- Strategic Air Command -- Silo Construction -- Titan IIs in Arkansas -- Project Yard Fence -- Disaster at LC 373-4 -- Confronting Ghosts -- The Desire to Know More -- Chapter 3: Sociology of Ritual -- Sociology and Rituals -- Ritual and Everyday Life -- Structural Ritualization Theory -- Components of SRT -- Ritual Transmission and Transformation -- Other Determinations of SRT -- Recent Advances -- Rituals and the 53 Families -- Chapter 4: Sociology of Disaster -- Research and Definitions of Disaster -- Vulnerable Populations -- Normal Accidents and Recreancy -- The Dark side of Organizations -- Secondary Trauma -- Cultural Components -- SRT and Disasters -- Disaster and the 53 Families -- Chapter 5: Sociology of Sorrow -- A History of U.S. Death Rituals -- Psychological Grief and Sociological Considerations -- Other Issues of Sorrow and Death -- Sorrow and the 53 Families -- Chapter 6: Research Approach -- Case Studies -- Participant Characteristics and Interview Questions -- Chapter 7: Disruption -- Employment History and Family Concern -- The Incident and Perception of Cause -- Immediate Disruption -- Ongoing Disruption -- Summarizing Disruption -- Chapter 8: Deritualization -- Family Turmoil -- Personal Disturbances -- Intergenerational Dynamics -- Summarizing Deritualization -- Chapter 9: Reritualization -- Family Rituals -- Personal Rituals -- Summarizing Reritualization -- Chapter 10: Remembering the Titans -- The Disaster: What We Now Know -- Post-Disaster Ritual and Sorrow: What We Now Know -- Recommendations and Future Research -- Burying the Titan II -- Taking a Drive.
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  • 78
    ISBN: 9781666912203
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (585 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 302/.17
    Keywords: Collective behavior
    Abstract: This book focuses on how mass hysteria has emerged among people across the globe due to reactions to news media reports and policies instituted by governments to address the challenges emanating from the COVID-19 pandemic.
    Abstract: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: General Introduction -- Hysteria: A Theoretical Discussion -- Relevant Epidemiological Concepts of the COVID-2019 -- Assessing a Community's Health -- Making Individual Decisions -- Completing the Clinical Picture -- Searching for Causes and Public Health Surveillance -- Field Investigation, Analytic Studies, and Evaluation -- Case Definitions -- References -- Chapter 2: Coroeducation -- Theoretical Perspectives -- The State of University Education in Kenya -- Growth of University Education in Kenya -- Universities Closure and the Autonomy Question -- Crisis Management in University Education -- Universities' Responses to the COVID-2019 Threat and the Context -- Strategic Intervention: The Case of the United States International University-Africa -- Pressures at USIU-Africa​ -- Incremental Intervention: The Case of Mount Kenya University (MKU) -- Partial Paralysis: The Case of Kenyatta University -- Complete Paralysis: The Case of Technical University of Kenya -- Conclusions and Recommendations: Contextualizing Responses and Lessons Learned -- Context of Responses -- Lessons Learned and the Way Forward -- References -- Chapter 3: Coroexpertise -- Theoretical Framework: Theorizing Expertise -- Methodology -- Historical Background of the Virus -- Coronaviruses in Human Beings -- Case Study 1: Medical Science and COVID-2019: The Epidemiology of the Disease -- Coronavirus COVID-2019 Messaging and Its Effects on People -- Case Study 2: Traditional Medicine-Herbal and Homemade -- Remedies for COVID-2019 -- Case Study 3: Freelance Coro-experts: Social Media Messaging on COVID-2019 -- Some Recommendations on the Dissemination of Information on COVID-2019 -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Coroelitism -- Theoretical Discourse.
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  • 79
    ISBN: 9781666912029
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (311 pages)
    Series Statement: Communication, Globalization, and Cultural Identity Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Indigenous language for development communication in the Global South
    DDC: 302.2/3091724
    Keywords: Indigenous peoples ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This book brings together voices from the margins, within the context of indigenous languages and development communication, from underrepresented regions in terms of academic enterprise. The cases presented here serve as a starting point for multiple debates and seek to present a first glimpse of discussions within the disciplines.
    Abstract: Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Development Communication and Indigenous (Minority) Language Media -- From a New Model to Specific Cases of Development Communication -- Gender, Cultural, and Intersectional Issues in Indigenous Media Journalism -- Sustainable Development and Democracy -- Final Remarks on the Book -- References -- Part I: Indigenous Language Media and Development Communication -- Chapter 1: Toward a Model of Indigenous Language for Development Communication -- Introduction -- Language and Communication -- Mother Tongue as a Medium of Instruction -- The Model -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2: Rethinking the Role of Indigenous African Language Newspapers in Development Journalism: The Case of uMthunywa, Zimbabwe -- Introduction -- Research Context and Literature Review -- Development Journalism and Political Economy -- Methodology -- Findings and Discussion -- Tracing the Historical Content and Editorial Dynamics at uMthunywa -- The Period of Development Communication 1985-1988 -- Dumping Down: The Glory Years of Tabloidization 2004-2008 -- Declining Public Trust and the Slump Period 2009-2019 -- The COVID-19 Crisis and Online Migration -- Factors Constraining Development Journalism at uMthunywa -- Tabloidization -- Digitization -- Ownership and Control -- Commercial Imperative -- The Challenges of Development Journalism in Zimbabwe -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Enhancing Political Knowledge and Opinion through Indigenous Language Radio Programs in Oyo State, Nigeria -- Introduction -- Literature Review -- Methodology -- Findings -- Discussion of Findings -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Zimbabwe's African Language Press and Development Communication Nexus: The Missing Link -- Introduction.
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    ISBN: 9781666918595
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (231 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Kia, Ardi, - 1949- Artistic traditions of inner Eurasian cultures
    DDC: 306.470958
    Keywords: Art, Central Asian ; Asia, Central-Civilization ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This book examines the cultural heritage of Inner Eurasia (Central Asia) through the arts, from prehistoric times to the ancient and medieval golden ages. The manuscript features extensive analysis of multiple Inner Eurasian cultural groups, their artistic traditions, and the development thereof throughout the region's history.
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    Lanham : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
    ISBN: 9781666903805
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (281 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 304.8
    Keywords: Human beings Migrations ; Human evolution ; Human beings-Migrations
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Human Origins and Expansion -- Origins and Expansion of Speakers of Austronesian Languages and the Formation of the Indian Ocean -- Origin and Expansion of Speakers of Chadic Languages -- Origins and Expansion of Speakers of Bantu Languages -- Genesis and Expansion of Cattle Pastoralism in Africa -- Conclusion -- References -- Glossary -- Index -- About the Author.
    Abstract: This work explores the foundational nature of mobility for human beings and their societies. The author puts forward a parsimonious but comprehensive model based on Extended Evolutionary Synthesis (EES) rationales. The selected case studies range from the emergence and expansion of humans to cattle domestication and beyond.
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  • 82
    ISBN: 9781666904048
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (191 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 303.372
    Keywords: Belief and doubt
    Abstract: Using a survey of 977 US citizens, this book explores who? and why? individuals sometimes adopt conspiracy beliefs. The authors evaluate a three-step psychological sequence in which individuals experiencing intense life stressors, combined with powerlessness, have increased risk for extreme beliefs, which they argue is due to cognitive coping.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- ​​​​​​​List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Theoretical Perspectives on Conspiracy Beliefs -- Theoretical Perspectives on Conspiracy Beliefs -- Past Research on WHO? and Psychologically WHY? People Adopt Conspiracy Beliefs -- Conspiracy Theories in a Historical Context -- Conspiracy Theories in a Historical Context -- Contemporary Conspiracy Theories -- The Present Study -- Research Methodology -- Study Participants -- Survey Procedures -- Measurement of Study Variables -- Data Analysis and Results -- Demographics and Life Stressors -- Demographics and PTSD (Powerlessness) -- Demographics and Extreme Beliefs -- Life Stressors and PTSD (Powerlessness) -- Life Stressors and Extreme Beliefs -- Five Conspiracy Beliefs and Violent Ideation -- Does PTSD Mediate between Life Stressors and Extreme Beliefs? -- Do Demographics Moderate the Three-Variable Mediations? -- Summary and Conclusions -- Summary of Study Results -- Interpretation and Application of Study Results -- Study Limitations and Directions for Future Research -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Authors.
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    ISBN: 9781793612366
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (129 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 302.23096762
    Keywords: Mass media-Political aspects
    Abstract: Media, Ethnicity, and Electoral Conflicts in Kenya examines the interplay between the media, ethnicity, and electoral conflicts in Kenya. The author argues that politicians in Kenya and other deeply divided societies in Africa use mainstream and digital media to weaponize ethnicity as they invoke issues of belonging, inclusion, and exclusion.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- The Media and Elections -- The Political Economy of the Media and Elections in Kenya -- A Historical Analysis of Electoral Conflicts in Kenya -- Ethnicity and Electoral Conflicts in Kenya -- The Media, Ethnicity and Politics in Kenya -- Social Media as Amplifiers of Electoral Conflicts in Kenya -- Which Way Forward? Building Bridges through the Media to Promote Dialogue, Healing and Reconciliation -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
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    ISBN: 9781793633613
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (153 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.70973
    Keywords: College students-Sexual behavior-United States
    Abstract: The Current Collegiate Hookup Culture demonstrates how hookups differ based on how students meet their partners and identifies the emerging shifts in hook-up gender dynamics.
    Abstract: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Hookups: An Integral Part of the American College Experience -- Is the Moral Panic Surrounding Hookups Legitimate? -- Dating: Not What It Used To Be -- What Changed about Dating? -- Defining Hookups -- Hooking Up as a One-Time Event -- Hooking Up Only with Strangers -- Hooking Up Involving a Variety of Sexual Behaviors -- What Factors Affect Hookups? -- What Happens during Hookups? -- What Are the Consequences of Hooking Up? -- What Is Missing in Extant Literature? -- The Lure of Dating Apps among College Students -- Dating Apps as Venues to Meet Hookup Partners -- The Purpose of This Book -- Data Collection -- Chapter 2: Examining Sociodemographic and Psychological Correlates of College Student Hookups -- Gender -- Sexual Orientation -- Comparing Heterosexual and LGB College Students' Hookup Participation -- Race -- Religion -- Greek Life and Varsity -- Fraternities and Sororities -- Athletic Membership -- Academic Achievement and Career-Mindedness -- Sexual Permissiveness -- Current Study -- Implications of Results on Current Hookup Culture -- Main Takeaways -- Chapter 3: Meeting Context for Hookups: Parties, School, Dating Apps, and Work -- Shift from Offline to Online Meeting Contexts -- Online Spaces as Venues for Sex -- Online Dating Transforming the Online Space for Sex -- Who Hooks Up Online? -- Compensation, Recreation, and Rich-Get-Richer Hypotheses -- Current Study -- Perceived Benefits and Risks Associated with Meeting Contexts -- Benefits and Risks of Meeting Hookup Partners at School -- Benefits and Risks of Meeting Hookup Partners at Parties -- Benefits and Risks of Meeting Hookup Partners on Dating Apps -- Benefits and Risks of Meeting Hookup Partners through Work.
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  • 85
    ISBN: 9781793634061
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (157 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.73089
    Keywords: Interracial couples-United States ; Interracial dating-United States ; Interracial marriage-United States
    Abstract: Interracial Romance and Health: Bridging Generations, Race Relations, and Well-Being examines how the race of one's partner, and the couple's racial composition, can affect a person's lived experiences and health outcomes.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Bridging the Interracial Literature -- Bridging Racial Groups -- Bridging Health and Well-Being -- Bridging Family and Friends -- Building the Next Bridge -- Conclusion -- Index -- About the Author‌‌.
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  • 86
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    Online Resource
    Lanham : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
    ISBN: 9781666902518
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (159 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 302.231
    Keywords: Social media and society
    Abstract: Milestone Celebrations in the Age of Social Media traces the emergence and evolution of milestone celebrations in the digital era, from social media spectacles like promposals and gender-reveals to closure commemorations like divorce parties and living wakes.
    Abstract: Intro -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7.
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  • 87
    ISBN: 9781793622952
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (255 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.23082
    Keywords: Gender identity
    Abstract: With the tomboy figure currently operating in a liminal space between extinction and resurgence, this collection is an unabashed celebration of her rebellious, independent, and pioneering spirit. Reclaiming the Tomboy: The Body, Identity, and Representation pays tribute to tomboys of the past, present, and (hopefully) future.
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I A RETROSPECTIVE: THE TOMBOY IN HISTORY -- Rise of the Marketplace Tomboy -- The Momboy: Maternal Tomboys on Stage -- PART II THE WRITTEN WORD: THE TOMBOY IN LITERATURE -- Queer Epistemologies of the Tomboy in Stacey Waite's -- Reclaiming Female Power in Postcolonial Africa -- Tomboy Ethos in Children's Non-Fiction -- PART III THE SMALL SCREEN: THE TOMBOY ON TELEVISION -- "Whoever I Want to Be" Tomboy and/as Femme Fatale in Marvel's Agent Carter -- Tomboys, Annedroids,and the New Normal -- Misnomers and Contemporizations An Examination of the Tomboy Figure in the Duffer Brothers' Stranger Things -- PART IV THE VIRTUAL WORLD: THE TOMBOY IN VIDEO GAMES AND ON THE INTERNET -- Beyond Good and Evil … andGender and Humanism? ExploringJade as a Posthuman Protagonist -- How #Tomboy Instagram Reclaims the Tomboy from White, Middle-Class Straight Women -- Index -- About the Editors -- About the Contributors.
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  • 88
    ISBN: 9781666911930
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (165 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.8
    Keywords: Ethnology-Bibliography ; Human-animal relationships
    Abstract: This book extends the ethnographic approach to animals and animate and inanimate natures. The focus is on developing a method suitable for holistic and interdisciplinary research, and to fulfill this goal, elements of Human-Animal Studies and NaturesCultures are combined and Indigenous approaches are incorporated.
    Abstract: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- Human-Animal Relation -- Human-Nature Relation -- Human-Animal-Nature-Bond -- Transformative Multispecies Research -- Aim and Structure of this Book -- Notes -- Humans, Animals, and Nature in (Inter-)disciplinary Contexts -- 2.1 Humans, Animals, and Nature in Sociology -- 2.2 Humans, Animals, and Nature in Education -- Multispecies Education -- 2.3 Humans, Animals, and Nature in the Natural Sciences -- 2.4 Humans, Animals, and Nature in Veterinary Medicine -- 2.5 Humans and Animals in the Interdisciplinary Dialogue of Human-Animal Studies -- 2.6 Humans and Natures in the Interdisciplinary Dialogue of NaturesCultures -- Notes -- HumansAnimalsNaturesCultures -- Notes -- Multispecies Ethnography -- 4.1 History of Ethnography -- 4.2 Characteristics and Methods of Ethnographic Research -- 4.3 Theories of an Ethnographic Multispecies Research -- Symbolic Interactionism -- Actor-Network Theory -- Indigenous Theories -- 4.4 Basic Ideas, Opportunities, and Limitations of Multispecies Ethnography -- 4.5 (Indigenous) Characteristics of a Multispecies Ethnography -- 4.6 Types of Multispecies Ethnography -- (Classical) Autoethnography -- Multispecies Ethnography through Media Ethnography -- Multispecies Ethnography of the Senses -- Art-Based Methods -- Notes -- Research Design of a Multispecies Ethnography -- 5.1 Selection of the Sample and Role of the Researchers -- 5.2 Ethics of the Researchers -- 5.3 Conceptualization of the Research Question -- 5.4 Field Entry/Exit -- 5.5 Methodology of Multispecies Ethnography -- 5.6 Documentation of Ethnographic Multispecies Research -- 5.7 Evaluation -- Notes -- Quality Criteria of Multispecies Research -- Notes -- Conclusion -- Note -- Works Cited -- Index -- About the Author.
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  • 89
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    Online Resource
    Lanham : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
    ISBN: 9781978710214
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (205 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 301.01
    Keywords: Bauman, Zygmunt,-1925-2017
    Abstract: In Zygmunt Bauman and Pope Francis in Dialogue: The Labyrinth of Liquid Modernity, Zeger Polhuijs recounts the mutual exchanges between Zygmunt Bauman and Pope Francis and draws attention to the role this mutual influence has played in the developments of their social thought.
    Abstract: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Notes -- I: Zygmunt Bauman -- Chapter 1: The Sociologist of Liquid Modernity (2000-2012) -- Liquid Modernity -- Consumerism -- Inequality -- Hope and Hopelessness -- Notes -- Chapter 2: A Chance for Humanity (2013-2015) -- Pope Francis -- The Art of Dialogue -- Excursus: Bauman on Religion -- A Dialogue about Dialogue -- A Repertoire for a New Era -- Notes -- Chapter 3: The Future of Europe (2016) -- A New European Humanism -- Excursus: Bauman on Europe as an Unfinished Adventure -- New Walls Rising in Europe -- The Roots of Liquid Evil -- Globalization of Indifference Revisited -- Notes -- Chapter 4: A Light at the End of the Tunnel (2016-2017) -- Assisi -- A Global Dialogue -- Endspiel -- Notes -- Chapter 5: To Turn the Word into Flesh (2016-2017) -- Dialogue in the Age of Retrotopia -- Overcoming The Great Regression -- The Gift -- Notes -- II: Pope Francis -- Chapter 6: To Reconcile and Depolarize (1958-2015) -- The Social Thought of Jorge Mario Bergoglio -- Evangelii Gaudium and the Practice of Social Dialogue -- Notes -- Chapter 7: Pope Francis and Liquid Society (2016-2020) -- From Liquidity to Concreteness -- Liquid Society, Gaseous Society -- Fraternity in a Time of Uncertainty -- The Creative Tension of an Incomplete Thought -- Notes -- Afterword -- Notes -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
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  • 90
    ISBN: 9781666917482
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (257 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Gender and Sexuality in Africa and the Diaspora Series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.3096762
    Keywords: Women-Social conditions
    Abstract: This volume explores aspects of gender and sexuality in Kenya through the lens of humane scholarship, philosophies, politics, identities, cosmoses, literatures, languages, cultures, and more.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- Introduction‌‌ -- Feminist Biographies-Telling Our Stories -- "Beach-Boy Elders" and "Young Big-Men" -- Redefining the Female Body -- Still at a Crossroad -- Going on a Real Date -- Dimensions of Motherhood in an African World Sense -- When Adult Status Trumps Gender -- Twenty Years After -- Conclusion‌‌ -- Index -- About the Editors -- About the Contributors.
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  • 91
    ISBN: 9781793645265
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (283 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.896398096891
    Keywords: Cyberspace-Social aspects
    Abstract: This volume uses post-/de-colonial approaches to examine subalternity in online media representations, specifically the intersectional subalternity of Matabeleland. The editors argue that in online spaces the liberatory politics of Matabeleland emerges as trapped in coloniality.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Idea of Matabeleland in Cyberspace -- PART I: Conceptual and Theoretical Issues -- ‌‌Marginal Societies Online: A Critical Appreciation of Genocide and its Politics in Cyberspac -- ‌‌Counter-Memory, Ethno-Nationalism, and the Discursive Constructions of Matabeleland in Digit -- The Pitfalls of Matabeleland as a (Digital) Work of Memory -- Digital Storytelling as a Tool for Peacebuilding in Post-Conflict Matabeleland -- PART II: Minorities of Minorities -- ‌‌Hidden in Public: The Symbolic Annihilation of the Khoisan People in Zimbabwe's Public Spher -- The BaTonga Representations in Matabeleland Imaginations -- Kalanga Activism and the Imaginations of Matabeleland in Digital Spaces -- ‌‌Theorizing Online Female Journalism as Border Practices in the Case of Amakhosikazi Media, B -- PART III: Performing Subalternity in Digital Space -- ‌‌Performing Subalternity Online: A Critical Study of the Centre for Innovation and Technology -- ‌‌Interrogating Cybercultures and Critical Consciousness Development in Matabeleland -- The Communicative Construction of Ndebele Identity in Radio Mthwakazi -- PART IV: Ndebele Nationalism in Digital Spaces -- ‌‌Beyond Provincialising a Nation without a State: Representations of Matabeleland in uMthwaka -- ‌‌"The Colonized Mean Little to the Colonizer": The Digital Lives of Colonial Diplomacy -- The (Digital) Return of the Ndebele Monarchy? -- ‌‌Photographing the "Nation" in the Digital Age: A Case of Matabeleland Discourses on Social M -- Index -- About the Contributors.
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  • 92
    ISBN: 9781666902068
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (205 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.48414
    Keywords: Motherhood
    Abstract: Reclaiming Migrant Motherhood takes a critical look at the representations and lived experiences of migrant, refugee, and otherwise displaced mothers. This volume explores literature, film, and original ethnographic research about migrant motherhood through theoretical lenses including postcolonial theory, feminism, and critical refugee studies.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- ‌‌Introduction‌‌ -- Representations of Displacement -- "We were born from beauty" -- Domesticating Displacement, Encounters with Refugee Mothers -- Tracing the Impacts of War in Nadifa Mohamed's The Orchard of Lost Souls -- Writing about My Mother -- The Ghost Mother in Two Vietnamese American Refugee Novels -- Constructions of Identity and Belonging -- Embroidering Intergenerational Threads of a Roza -- Mothering on Enemy Land -- Guiding, Shaping, and Resisting -- Iraqi Mothers, Diasporic Sons -- (Un)inhabitable "homes" for mothers and daughters -- Index -- About the Contributors.
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  • 93
    ISBN: 9781666900620
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (277 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.87
    Keywords: Communication in families ; Communication and technology ; Technology-Social aspects
    Abstract: Communicating with Our Families explores the impact of communication technologies on family communication. The scholarship in this collection recognizes the peril and opportunity new communication technologies offer, while responding to questions about the impact of technologies on our families.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Continuity -- Zooming through Change -- Narrative Wisdom -- Rhetorical Constructions of the Reset -- The Role of Communication and Information Technology in Health Information Seeking -- With Great Power Comes Ethical Communication -- Interruption -- Cellular Television and the Reallocation of Familiar Attention -- Formative Media Consumption -- Motherhood and Loneliness -- Transformation -- "According To Science, This Is Who I Am" -- Family Communication Disrupted by Incarceration and the Role of Technology -- Strengthening Families through Web-Based Interventions -- Embracing the Transition to Social Media in Parent-Teen Communication -- Index -- About the Contributors.
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  • 94
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Lanham : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
    ISBN: 9781793635051
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (257 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Critical Perspectives on the Psychology of Sexuality, Gender, and Queer Studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.766080973
    Keywords: Intersectionality (Sociology)
    Abstract: In The Intersectional Other, Alex Riveraboldly argues for the individual and collective power of queer BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) who have historically existed in the racial and sexual margins in America. Through interviews and insightful commentary, Rivera reimagines the margins as capable of power, transformation, and change.
    Abstract: Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Power for the Intersectional Other -- The Reclamation of Language and Its Application to This Book -- Language as Resistance -- Queering Language -- Vocabulary -- Autoethnography and Author Positionalities -- Notes -- Chapter 1: Us Versus Them: The Historical Significance of Otherness and Power -- The Social and Cognitive Underpinnings of Othering -- The "Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes" Exercise -- Ingroup Favoritism and Outgroup Derogation -- Threat Theory and Its Contribution to Othering -- The Construction and Politicization of Otherness -- Defining Whiteness and Straightness against Otherness -- The Creation of "Whiteness" in the United States -- Critical Race Theory and the Expansion of Whiteness Studies -- White Supremacy's Hold on the United States -- White Supremacy and Police Brutality -- The Juxtaposition of Sexual Construction with Racial Construction -- Sexual Fluidity as a Challenge to Sexual Essentialism -- The Weaponization of Sexual Essentialism and Constructionism -- The Role of Eugenics in Constructing Otherness -- The Birth of Cultural Relativism -- Chapter 2: The Making of Intersectional Others -- A Comment on Erasure and Historical Memory -- A History of Legalized White, Straight Dominance and QBIPOC Criminalization -- The Naturalization Act -- The Civilization Fund Act -- The Chinese Exclusion Act and Panic of 1873 -- Sodomy Law and Sexuality -- The FBI and the "Lavender Scare" -- Homonationalism and the "Good White Gay" -- The (Unmistakably White) Early Homophile Movement -- Mattachine Society and the Shadow of Assimilationism -- The Daughters of Bilitis and "The Ladder" -- Exclusionary Practices in Gay Bars -- Rural Oppression and Resistance -- Spheres of Relative Cultural Autonomy -- "The Loop" -- The Tenderloin.
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  • 95
    ISBN: 9781498597692
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (211 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Anthropology of Well-Being: Individual, Community, Society Series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.461
    Keywords: Physician and patient
    Abstract: Clinical Anthropology 2.0 presents a new approach to applied medical anthropology that highlights how medical anthropologists can help to improve patient experience and medical education as members of interdisciplinary care teams in clinical settings.
    Abstract: Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Can There Be a Critical, Clinically Applied Medical Anthropology? -- Clinically Applied Anthropology -- CMA -- Applied Anthropology -- Developments in Medicine -- Physician Anthropologists -- Directions Forward -- Chapter 3: Working with Undergraduate Premedical and Anthropology Graduate Students -- Chapter 4: Challenges of Clinically Applied Anthropology Education and Research: Contributions by Emily Holbrook -- The Team -- University Support -- Hospital Administrative Support -- IRB, Hospital Compliance, and Student Credentialing -- QI and Applied Clinical Medical Anthropology -- Funding -- Scaling up -- Chapter 5: Expanding the Vision: Working with Residents and Medical Students -- Methods -- Results -- Chapter 6: The Leaflet Project: Contributions by Kilian Kelly -- Background -- Review of Other Leaflets -- Methods -- Results -- Contributions to the ED -- The Anthropological Difference -- Chapter 7: Multi-Visit Patients -- Background -- Methods -- Patient Interview -- Results -- Susan Smith -- Discussion and Contributions of Anthropology -- Chapter 8: Sickle Cell Disease: Contributions by Carlos Osorno-Cruz -- Background -- SCD -- SCD VOD, Pain, and Bias -- SCD, Patient Experience, Patient Satisfaction -- TGH ED Work with SCD Patients Prior to Work with Clinically Applied Anthropologists -- The Anthropological Difference -- SCD Patient Interview Results (From Carlos Osorno) -- Marvin -- Mary -- Healthcare Provider Interviews and Participant Observation by Carlos Osorno-Cruz -- Conclusion -- Chapter 9: Language, Pain, and Nontraditional Patient Treatment Spaces -- Background -- Methods -- LEP -- The Anthropological Difference -- Assessment of Nurses -- Assessment of Doctors.
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  • 96
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    Online Resource
    Lanham : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
    ISBN: 9781666900590
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (191 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.89610687
    Keywords: Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)-History-To 1795
    Abstract: The genre of microhistory has given Indigenous Khoikhoi individuals of modest status a voice and a place in South African historiography. This book examines the lived and everyday-life experiences of Khoikhoi characters in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century colonial South Africa.
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- Images -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- C H A P T E R O N E Love, Lust, and Loathing -- C H A P T E R T W O Master, Malcontent, and Murderer -- C H A P T E R T H R E E Jan Paerl c.1788-1851 -- C H A P T E R F O U R "Soil Once His Own": The Colonial and Christian World of Lebrecht Hans Ari -- C H A P T E R F I V E "Sketching the Khoikhoi" -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
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  • 97
    ISBN: 9781666905724
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (202 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: New Studies in Southern History Series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.896/073075
    Keywords: African Americans-Funeral customs and rites-Southern States ; African Americans-Death ; United States-History-Civil War, 1861-1865-Casualties
    Abstract: In this study the author examines how, in the Civil War-era South, newly freed African Americans used their experiences with death from war, disease, and racial violence to advance their own understanding of the meaning of freedom and to stake claims to citizenship, civil rights, and racial justice from the federal government.
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Let's Go to Buryin: African American Civilian Funeralsand Cemeteries in Freedom -- Chapter Two. To Repose with Their Comrades: African Americans and the Creation of National Cemeteries -- Chapter Three. The Widows and Families of the Heroic Dead: African American Kinship and Domestic Economy -- Chapter Four. The Invisible Army: African American Religious Life and Death -- Chapter Five. We Are Killed All the Day Long: Testifying and Writing About Death -- Conclusion: In the Cold Valley and Shadow of the South Land -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
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  • 98
    ISBN: 9781666915686
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (203 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 303.33
    Keywords: Tagore, Rabindranath,-1861-1941
    Abstract: This book examines the ethical standard of the obligations of power articulated by philosophers Rabindrinath Tagore and Amartya Sen. The author argues that Tagore and Sen focused on the need to diminish all states' capacity for violence, regardless of regime type.
    Abstract: Intro -- Part I -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- ‌‌‌Conclusion to Part I‌‌‌ -- Part II -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9.
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  • 99
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    Online Resource
    Lanham : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
    ISBN: 9781793630223
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (219 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.8987208272
    Keywords: Mapuche Indians-Argentina-Neuquén (Province)-Government relations
    Abstract: In Decolonizing Patagonia: Mapuche Peoples and State Formation in Argentina, Lucas Savino examines Indigenous efforts for self-determination, territorial autonomy, and decolonization in Northern Patagonia, Argentina.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- ‌‌Introduction -- Indigenous Peoples and the State -- Of Hopes and Shadows -- Pewmagen -- Accommodated Citizenship -- Territorial Autonomy in Times of Neoliberal Multiculturalism and Extractivism -- ‌‌Conclusion -- References -- Index -- About the Author.
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  • 100
    ISBN: 9781498582520
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (209 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Critical Perspectives on the Psychology of Sexuality, Gender, and Queer Studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.896071
    Keywords: Gay men
    Abstract: A thoughtful, compassionate look at how racism in Canadian GLBT communities affects gay men of color. Giwa highlights the strategies utilized by these resilient men in order to lead strong, effective lives. Racism and Gay Men of Color is required reading for scholars, students, and activists.
    Abstract: Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Racism and Gay Men of Color -- Reflexivity and Subjectivity in the Research -- Who Are the Gay Men of Color? -- Research and Data Collection Strategy -- Chapters Outline -- A Vision Forward -- Notes -- Chapter 1: Contextual and Conceptual Foundations of Racism in Gay Men's Communities: The Racism-Health-Coping Connection -- What's Racism Got to Do with Health and Well-Being? -- Impact of Racism on the Health of Racial and Ethnic Minorities -- The Nexus of Racism and Health and Well-Being for Gay Men of Color -- Identity -- Mental Health -- Physical Health -- Making Connections: An Integrated Conceptual Model Linking Racism With Coping Actions and Health Outcomes for Gay Men of Color -- Minority Stress: Accounting for Stress-Related Experiences of Racism -- Internalized Homophobia and Racism -- Perceived Stigma -- Discrimination and Violence -- Coping and Overcoming Adverse Effects of Racism -- Appraisal and Emotion -- Resilience -- Coping and Social Support -- The Knife Edge of Racism and Resilience -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Excavating Racism in Gay Men's Communities -- So, What Does GLBT Racism Look Like Anyway? -- Excluding Gay Men of Color: Institutional and Social Nuances -- Conscious and Unconscious Racism -- Invisibility or Exclusion from Institutional Venues and Media Cultural Productions -- Racial Stereotypes and Sexual Objectification of Gay Men of Color -- The New, Online Sexual Racism -- Looking Below the Surface of Racism -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Sociospatial Contexts of Racism in Gay Men's Communities in Ottawa -- Where and How Did the Gay Men of Color Experience Racism and Discrimination in the GLBT Community of Ottawa? -- General and Institutional Contexts of Racism.
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