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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ipswich : EBSCO
    ISBN: 9781317420774
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (335 pages)
    Series Statement: Regions and Cities
    DDC: 378.1/982691
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    Keywords: Arbeitnehmer ; Migration ; Fachkraft
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781315634159
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (177 pages)
    Series Statement: Series in Critical Narrative
    DDC: 306.44
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    Keywords: Englisch ; Sprache ; Sprachverbreitung ; Hegemonie
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781135127510
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 329 Seiten)
    Edition: Third edition
    DDC: 305.800973
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1960-2013 ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; USA
    Abstract: Twenty years since the publication of the Second Edition and more than thirty years since the publication of the original book, Racial Formation in the United States now arrives with each chapter radically revised and rewritten by authors Michael Omi and Howard Winant, but the overall purpose and vision of this classic remains the same: Omi and Winant provide an account of how concepts of race are created and transformed, how they become the focus of political conflict, and how they come to shape and permeate both identities and institutions. The steady journey of the U.S. toward a majority nonwhite population, the ongoing evisceration of the political legacy of the early post-World War II civil rights movement, the initiation of the 'war on terror' with its attendant Islamophobia, the rise of a mass immigrants rights movement, the formulation of race/class/gender 'intersectionality' theories, and the election and reelection of a black President of the United States are some of the many new racial conditions Racial Formation now covers.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781134719747
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (760 pages)
    DDC: 306.46
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Frau ; Chicanos ; Feminismus ; Literatur ; USA
    Abstract: Chicana Feminist Thought brings together the voices of Chicana poets, writers, and activists who reflect upon the Chicana Feminist Movement that began in the late 1960s. With energy and passion, this anthology of writings documents the personal and collective political struggles of Chicana feminists.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781317917540
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (273 pages)
    Series Statement: Regions and Cities
    DDC: 303.440947
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    Keywords: Strukturpolitik ; Regionalentwicklung ; Postkommunismus ; Mitteleuropa ; Osteuropa
    Abstract: Across Europe there is a rapidly changing context for undertaking regional development. In the 20th century, development of the former planned economies (Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia), was defined by these countries differences, rather than their common ideological roots. These disparities altered over time and were marked by changing social structures. However, the ranking of regions has remained the same as core areas have strengthened their positions while the structural obstacles to the modernisation of peripheral areas have remained due to a lack of coherent regional policy. This book examines the specific regional development paths of Central and Eastern European countries and evaluates the effects of the determining factors of this process. Through analysis of the system of objectives, instruments and institutions used in different eras, and case studies of Hungary, East Germany and Germany, development models are established and compared with Western European patterns. The book summarises the experiences of Central and Eastern European regional cooperation and examines the basic nature of the cohesion problems of the Carpathian Basin trans-national macro region. It confirms by comparative historical analyses that the transformation was indeed unique. This book will make a welcome addition to the literature for students and academics interested in the broader picture of Central and Eastern European politics, future integration within the European Union and the history of regional development processes.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis
    ISBN: 9780815336549 , 9781135706586 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 305 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9781135706586
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    Series Statement: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
    DDC: 306.4709034
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1865 - 1920 ; Literatur ; Kunst ; Kulturkontakt ; Europa ; USA ; Electronic books
    Abstract: First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781317743873
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (431 pages)
    Series Statement: Iranian Studies
    DDC: 305.89
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    Abstract: Examining the rapid transition in Iran from a modernizing, westernizing, secularizing monarchy (1941-79) to a hard-line, conservative, clergy-run Islamic republic (1979-), this book focuses on the ways this process has impacted the Qashqa'i-a rural, nomadic, tribally organized, Turkish-speaking, ethnic minority of a million and a half people who are dispersed across the southern Zagros Mountains.Analysing the relationship between the tribal polity and each of the two regimes, the book goes on to explain the resilience of the people's tribal organizations, kinship networks, and politicized ethnolinguistic identities to demonstrate how these structures and ideologies offered the Qashqa'i a way to confront the pressures emanating from the two central governments. Existing scholarly works on politics in Iran rarely consider Iranian society outside the capital of Tehran and beyond the reach of the details of national politics. Local-level studies on Iran-accounts of the ways people actually lived-are now rare, especially after the revolution. Based on long-term anthropological research, Nomads in Postrevolutionary Iran provides a unique insight into how national-level issues relate to the local level and will be of interest to scholars and researchers in Anthropolgy, Iranian Studies and Middle Eastern Studies.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781134015160
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (455 pages)
    Series Statement: CRESC
    DDC: 303.3309
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    Keywords: Bergstraesser, Arnold ; Guardini, Romano ; Geschichte ; Macht ; Kolonialismus ; Sachkultur ; Materialismus ; Infrastruktur ; Großbritannien ; Frankreich ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This edited collection is a major contribution to the current development of a 'material turn' in the social sciences and humanities.  It does so by exploring new understandings of how power is made up and exercised by examining the role of material infrastructures in the organization of state power and the role of material cultural practices in the organization of colonial forms of governance.  A diverse range of historical examples is drawn on in illustrating these concerns - from the role of territorial engineering projects in seventeenth-century France through the development of the postal system in nineteenth-century Britain to the relations between the state and road-building in contemporary Peru, for example.  The colonial contexts examined are similarly varied, ranging from the role of photographic practices in the constitution of colonial power in India and the measurement of the bodies of the colonized in French colonial practices to the part played by the relations between museums and expeditions in the organization of Australian forms of colonial rule.  These specific concerns are connected to major critical re-examination of the limits of the earlier formulations of cultural materialism and the logic of the 'cultural turn'.The collection brings together a group of key international scholars whose work has played a leading role in debates in and across the fields of history, visual culture studies, anthropology, geography, cultural studies, museum studies, and literary studies.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781136295539
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (321 pages)
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Human Geography
    DDC: 362.1
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    Keywords: Umweltmedizin ; Gesundheitspolitik
    Abstract: Human health exists at the interface of environment and society. Decades of work by researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers has shown that health is shaped by a myriad of factors, including the biophysical environment, climate, political economy, gender, social networks, culture, and infrastructure. Yet while there is emerging interest within the natural and social sciences on the social and ecological dimensions of human disease and health, there have been few studies that address them in an integrated manner. Ecologies and Politics of Health brings together contributions from the natural and social sciences to examine three key themes: the ecological dimensions of health and vulnerability, the socio-political dimensions of human health, and the intersections between the ecological and social dimensions of health. The thirteen case study chapters collectively present results from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the United States, Australia, and global cities. Section one interrogates the utility of several theoretical frameworks and conventions for understanding health within complex social and ecological systems. Section two concentrates upon empirically grounded and quantitative work that collectively redefines health in a more expansive way that extends beyond the absence of disease. Section three examines the role of the state and management interventions through historically rich approaches centering on both disease- and non-disease-related examples from Latin America, Eastern Africa, and the United States. Finally, Section four highlights how health vulnerabilities are differentially constructed with concomitant impacts for disease management and policy interventions. This timely volume advances knowledge on health-environment interactions, disease vulnerabilities, global development, and political ecology. It offers theoretical and...
    Abstract: methodological contributions which will be a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners in geography, public health, biology, anthropology, sociology, and ecology.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781136300981
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (201 pages)
    Series Statement: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series
    DDC: 306.095
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    Keywords: Massenkultur ; Kulturwandel ; Sozialer Wandel ; Asien ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Asian Popular Culture in Transition examines contemporary consumption practices in South Korea, China, India, and Japan, and both updates and extends popular culture studies of the region. Through an interdisciplinary lens, this collection of essays explores how recent advances and shifts in information technologies and globalization have impacted cultural markets, fashion, the digital generation, mobile culture, femininity, matrimonial advertising, and a film actress' image and performance. Drawing upon a diverse range of sources and methods including historical research, content analysis, anthropological observation, textual analyses, and interviews, Asian Popular Culture in Transition makes a significant contribution to this growing area of research. Given its broad range of countries, theories, and approaches, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Asian studies, cultural studies, media and communication studies, and gender studies.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781136785207
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (767 pages)
    DDC: 305.4209
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    Keywords: Postkolonialismus ; Feminismus
    Abstract: Feminism and postcolonialism are allies, and the impressive selection of writings brought together in this volume demonstrate how fruitful that alliance can be. Reina Lewis and Sara Mills have assembled a brilliant selection of thinkers, organizing them into six categories: "Gendering Colonialism and Postcolonialism/Radicalizing Feminism," "Rethinking Whiteness," "Redefining the 'Third World' Subject," "Sexuality and Sexual Rights," "Harem and the Veil," and "Gender and Post/colonial Relations." A bibliography complements the wide-ranging essays. This is the ideal volume for any reader interested in the development of postcoloniality and feminist thought.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781136975707
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (336 pages)
    DDC: 305.235
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    Abstract: Young People, Place and Identity offers a series of rich insights into young people's everyday lives. What places do young people engage with on a daily basis? How do they use these places? How do their identities influence these contexts? By working through common-sense understandings of young people's behaviours and the places they occupy, the author seeks to answer these and other questions. In doing so the book challenges and re-shapes understandings of young people's relationships with different places and identities. The textbook is one of the first books to map out the scales, themes and sites engaged with by young people on a daily basis as they construct their multiple identities. The scales explored here include the body, neighbourhood and community, mobilities and transitions and urban-rural settings and how these all shape and are shaped by young people's identities. Each chapter explores how social identities (such as race, gender, sexuality, class, disability and religion) are constructed within particular contexts and influenced by multiple processes of inclusion and exclusion. These discussions are supported by details of the research methods and ethical issues involved in researching young people's lives. Drawing upon research from a range of contexts, including Europe, North America and Australasia, this book demonstrates the complex ways in which young people creatively shape, contest and resist their engagements with different places and identities. The range of issues, topics and case studies explored include: ethical and methodological issues in youth research; youth subcultures; experiences of home; territorialism; youth and crime; political engagement and participation; responses to global issues; engagements with different institutional contexts; negotiating public space; the transition to adulthood; drinking cultures.
    Abstract: The author explores these issues through blending together original empirical research, theory and policy. Individual chapters are supported by key themes, project ideas and suggested further reading. Details of key authors, journals and research centres and organisations are also included at the end of the book. This textbook will be pertinent for undergraduate and postgraduate students and academic researchers interested in better understanding the relationships between young people, places and identities.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781136743443
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (460 pages)
    DDC: 305.42091732
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    Keywords: Feminismus ; Stadtleben ; Stadtsoziologie ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: In Rethinking Feminist Interventions into the Urban, Linda Peake and Martina Rieker embark on an ambitious project to explore the extent to which a feminist re-imagining of the twenty-first century city can form the core of a new emerging analytic of women and the neoliberal urban. In a world in which the majority of the population now live in urban centres, they take as their starting point the need to examine the production of knowledge about the city through the problematic divide of the global north and south, asking what might a feminist intervention, a position itself fraught with possibilities and problems, into this dominant geographical imaginary look like. Providing a meaningful discussion of the ways in which feminism, gender and women have been understood in relation to the city and urban studies, they ask probing and insightful questions that indicate new directions for theory and research, illustrating the necessity of a re-formulation of the north-south divide as a critical and urgent project for feminist urban studies. Working through platforms as diverse as policy formulations and telling stories, the contributors to the book come from a range of disciplinary backgrounds and geographic locations ranging through the Caribbean, North America, Western Europe, South, East and South East Asia, the Middle East and Latin America. They identify a range of issues (such as care, work, violence, the household, mobility, intimacy and poverty) that they analytically address to make sense of and reanimate resistance to the contemporary urban through articulations of new grammars of gendered geographies of justice.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781136180897
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (305 pages)
    Series Statement: Global Institutions
    DDC: 304.82
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    Keywords: Migration ; Fluchthelfer ; Internationale Migration ; Illegale Einwanderung ; Fluchthilfe ; Kommerzialisierung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Migration has become business, big business. Over the last few decades a host of new business opportunities have emerged that capitalize both on the migrants' desires to migrate and the struggle by governments to manage migration. From the rapid growth of specialized transportation and labour immigration companies, to multinational companies managing detention centres or establishing border security, to the organized criminal networks profiting from human smuggling and trafficking, we are currently witnessing a growing commercialization of international migration.This volume claims that today it is almost impossible to speak of migration without also speaking of the migration industry. Yet, acknowledging the role the migration industry plays prompts a number of questions that have so far received only limited attention among scholars and policy makers. The book offers new concepts and theory for the study of international migration by bringing together cross-disciplinary theoretical explorations and original case studies. It also provides a global coverage of the phenomena under study, covering migrant destinations in Europe, the United States and Asia, and migrant sending regions in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781136201868
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (329 pages)
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Human Geography
    DDC: 307.76
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    Keywords: Stadtentwicklung ; Bürgerbeteiligung ; Slum ; Soziale Gerechtigkeit ; Südliche Hemisphäre ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Despite the fact that virtually all urban growth is occurring, and will continue to occur, in the cities of the Global South, the conceptual tools used to study cities are distilled disproportionately from research on the highly developed cities of the Global North. With urban inequality widely recognized as central to many of the most pressing challenges facing the world, there is a need for a deeper understanding of cities of the South on their own terms.Locating Right to the City in the Global South marks an innovative and far reaching effort to document and make sense of urban transformations across a range of cities, as well as the conflicts and struggles for social justice these are generating. The volume contains empirically rich, theoretically informed case studies focused on the social, spatial, and political dimensions of urban inequality in the Global South. Drawing from scholars with extensive fieldwork experience, this volume covers sixteen cities in fourteen countries across a belt stretching from Latin America, to Africa and the Middle East, and into Asia. Central to what binds these cities are deeply rooted, complex, and dynamic processes of social and spatial division that are being actively reproduced. These cities are not so much fracturing as they are being divided by governance practices informed by local histories and political contestation, and refracted through or infused by market based approaches to urban development. Through a close examination of these practices and resistance to them, this volume provides perspectives on neoliberalism and right to the city that advance our understanding of urbanism in the Global South. In mapping the relationships between space, politics and populations, the volume draws attention to variations shaped by local circumstances, while simultaneously elaborating a distinctive transnational...
    Abstract: Southern urbanism. It provides indepth research on a range of practical and policy oriented issues, from housing and slum redevelopment to building democratic cities that include participation by lower income and other marginal groups. It will be of interest to students and practitioners alike studying Urban Studies, Globalization, and Development.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781135090678
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (242 pages)
    Series Statement: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
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    Abstract: This volume pursues a new line of research in cultural memory studies by understanding memory as a performative act in art and popular culture. The authors take their cue from the observation that art and popular culture enact memory and generate processes of memory. They do memory, and in this doing of memory new questions about the cultural dimensions of memory arise: How do art objects and artistic practices perform the past in the present? What is their relationship to the archive? Does the past speak in the performed past (or do we speak to it)? To what purpose do objects "recall"? And for whom do they recollect? Here authors combine a methodological focus on memory as performance with a theoretical focus on art and popular culture as practices of remembrance. The essays in the book thus analyze what is at stake in the complex processes of remembering and forgetting, of recollecting and disremembering, of amnesia and anamnesis, that make up cultural memory.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781135121334
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (201 pages)
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
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    Abstract: Macao, the former Portuguese colony in southeast China from the 1550s until its return to China in 1999, has a long and very interesting history of cultural interaction between China and the West. As an entity with independent political power and a unique social setting and cultural development, the identity of Macao's people is not only indicative of the legacy and influence of the region's socio-historical factors and forces, but it has also been altered, transformed and maintained because of the input, action, interaction and stimulation of creative arts and literatures. Held together by racial accommodation and tolerance and active cultural interactions, Macao's phenomenon can be characterized as hybridization. This book is a presentation of the ongoing hybridization of Macao and is in itself a hybrid, covering a wide range of issues. Putting forward substantial new research findings, the book explores the nature of cultural interaction in Macao, and how the city has been constructed and perceived through literature and other art forms. It is a companion volume to Macao - The Formation of a Global City .
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781135936303
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (243 pages)
    Series Statement: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
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    Keywords: Englisch ; Postkoloniale Literatur ; Erzähltechnik ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This volume explores how postcolonial texts have determined the evolution or emergence of specific formal innovations in narrative genres. While the prominence of questions of cultural identity in postcolonial studies has prevented due attention to concerns of literary form and aesthetics, this book gives premium to the literary, aiming to delineate the evolution of specific narrative techniques as part of an emerging postcolonial aesthetics. Essays delineate elements of an emergent postcolonial narratology across a variety of seminal generic forms, such as the epic, the novel, the short story, the autobiography, and the folk tale, focusing on genre as a powerful tool for the historicizing of literature and orature within cultural discourses. Investigating the heuristic value of concepts such as mimicry, writing back, translation, negotiation, or subversion, the book considers the value of explanatory paradigms for postcolonial generic models. It also explores the status of postcolonial comparative aesthetics versus globalization studies and liberal concepts of the transnational, taking issue with the prominence of Western concepts of identity in discussions of postcolonial literature and the favoring of mimetic forms. This volume offers a unique contribution to the study of narrative genre in postcolonial literatures and provides valuable insight into the field of postcolonial studies on the whole.
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    ISBN: 9781135135768
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (220 pages)
    Series Statement: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
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    Abstract: William Blake's work demonstrates two tendencies that are central to social media: collaboration and participation. Not only does Blake cite and adapt the work of earlier authors and visual artists, but contemporary authors, musicians, and filmmakers feel compelled to use Blake in their own creative acts. This book identifies and examines Blake's work as a social and participatory network, a phenomenon described as zoamorphosis, which encourages - even demands - that others take up Blake's creative mission. The authors rexamine the history of the digital humanities in relation to the study and dissemination of Blake's work: from alternatives to traditional forms of archiving embodied by Blake's citation on Twitter and Blakean remixes on YouTube, smartmobs using Blake's name as an inspiration to protest the 2004 Republican National Convention, and students crowdsourcing reading and instruction in digital classrooms to better understand and participate in Blake's world. The book also includes a consideration of Blakean motifs that have created artistic networks in music, literature, and film in the twentieth and the twenty-first centuries, showing how Blake is an ideal exemplar for understanding creativity in the digital age.
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    ISBN: 9781135082550
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (264 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Heidentum ; Englisch ; Literatur ; Götter ; Mythos ; Großbritannien
    Abstract: Imagining the Pagan Past explores stories of Britain's pagan history. These tales have been characterised by gods and fairies, folklore and magic. They have had an uncomfortable relationship with the scholarly world; often being seen as historically dubious, self-indulgent romance and, worse, encouraging tribal and nationalistic feelings or challenging church and state. This book shows how important these stories are to the history of British culture, taking the reader on a lively tour from prehistory to the present. From the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, Marion Gibson explores the ways in which British pagan gods and goddesses have been represented in poetry, novels, plays, chronicles, scientific and scholarly writing. From Geoffrey of Monmouth to Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare to Seamus Heaney and H.G. Wells to Naomi Mitchison it explores Romano-British, Celtic and Anglo-Saxon deities and fictions. The result is a comprehensive picture of the ways in which writers have peopled the British pagan pantheons throughout history. Imagining the Pagan Past will be essential reading for all those interested in the history of paganism.
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    ISBN: 9781135094034
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (411 pages)
    Series Statement: Routledge Advances in Sociology
    DDC: 304.25
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    Keywords: Umweltschutz ; Soziologie ; Klimaänderung ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Climate change is widely agreed to be one the greatest challenges facing society today. Mitigating and adapting to it is certain to require new ways of living. Thus far efforts to promote less resource-intensive habits and routines have centred on typically limited understandings of individual agency, choice and change. This book shows how much more the social sciences have to offer.The contributors to Sustainable Practices: Social Theory and Climate Change come from different disciplines - sociology, geography, economics and philosophy - but are alike in taking social theories of practice as a common point of reference. This volume explores questions which arise from this distinctive and fresh approach:how do practices and material elements circulate and intersect? how do complex infrastructures and systems form and break apart? how does the reproduction of social practice sustain related patterns of inequality and injustice? This collection shows how social theories of practice can help us understand what societal transitions towards sustainability might involve, and how they might be achieved. It will be of interest to students and researchers in sociology, environmental studies, geography, philosophy and economics, and to policy makers and advisors working in this field.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (425 pages)
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    Keywords: Arbeitsmarkt ; Lebensbedingungen ; Arbeiter ; London
    Abstract: For decades the cities of the developed world were seen as problem-beset relics from times of low mobility and slow communications. But now, their potential to sustain creativity, culture and innovation is perceived as crucial to success in a much more competitive global ecomony. The vital requirement to secure and sustain this success is argued to be the achievement of social cohesion. Working Capital provides a rigorous but accessible analysis of these key issues taking London as its test case. The book provides the first substantial analysis of key economic, social and structural issues that the new London administration needs to deal with. In a wider context, its critical assessment of the bases of the new urbanism and of the global city thesis will raise questions both about the adequacy of urban thinking and about the capacity of new institutions alone to resolve the fundamental problems faced by cities.
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    Abstract: Providing concisely written entries on the most important current issues in Central Asia and Eurasia, this atlas offers relevant background information on the region's place in the contemporary political and economic world. Features include: Profiles of the constituent countries of Central Asia, namely Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan Profiles of Mongolia, western China, Tibet, and the three Caucasus states of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia Timely and significant original maps and data for each entry A comprehensive glossary, places index and subject index of major concepts, terms and regional issues Bibliography and useful websites section Designed for use in teaching undergraduate and graduate classes and seminars in geography, history, economics, anthropology, international relations, political science and the environment as well as regional courses on the Former Soviet Union, Central Asia, and Eurasia, this atlas is also a comprehensive reference source for libraries and scholars interested in these fields.
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    ISBN: 9781136290794
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (289 pages)
    Series Statement: Routledge Library Editions: Women, Feminism and Literature
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Englisch ; Soziale Situation ; Schriftstellerin ; Romanschriftstellerin ; Prestige ; Roman ; Soziologie ; Buchmarkt ; Verleger ; Romancier ; Großbritannien
    Abstract: Before about 1840, there was little prestige attached to the writing of novels, and most English novelists were women. By the turn of the twentieth century, "men of letters" acclaimed novels as a form of great literature, and most critically successful novelists were men. In the book, sociologist Gaye Tuchman examines how men succeeded in redefining a form of culture and in invading a white-collar occupation previously practiced mostly by women. Tuchman documents how men gradually supplanted women as novelists once novel-writing was perceived as potentially profitable, in part because of changes in the system of publishing and rewarding authors. Drawing on unusual data ranging from the archives of Macmillan and company (London) to an analysis of the lives and accomplishments of authors listed in the Dictionary of National Biography, she shows that rising literacy and the centralization of the publishing industry in London after 1840 increased literary opportunities and fostered men's success as novelists. Men redefined the nature of a good novel and applied a double standard in critically evaluating literary works by men and by women. They also received better contracts than women for novels of equivalent quality and sales. They were able to accomplish this, says Tuchman, because they were to a large extent the culture brokers - the publishers, publishers' readers, and reviewers of an elite art form. Both a sociological study of occupational gender transformation and a historical study of writing and publishing, this book will be a rich resource for students of the sociology of culture, literary criticism, and women's studies.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (526 pages)
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    Keywords: Klimaänderung ; Visualisierung
    Abstract: Carbon dioxide and global climate change are largely invisible, and the prevailing imagery of climate change is often remote (such as ice floes melting) or abstract and scientific (charts and global temperature maps).  Using dramatic visual imagery such as 3D and 4D visualizations of future landscapes, community mapping, and iconic photographs, this book demonstrates new ways to make carbon and climate change visible where we care the most, in our own backyards and local communities. Extensive color imagery explains how climate change works where we live, and reveals how we often conceal, misinterpret, or overlook the evidence of climate change impacts and our carbon usage that causes them.  This guide to using visual media in communicating climate change vividly brings to life both the science and the practical solutions for climate change, such as local renewable energy and flood protection. It introduces powerful new visual tools (from outdoor signs to video-games) for communities, action groups, planners, and other experts to use in engaging the public, building awareness and accelerating action on the world's greatest crisis.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (263 pages)
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    Abstract: This book discusses the resilience of communities in both developed and developing world contexts. It investigates the notion of 'resilience' and the challenges faced by local communities around the world to deal with disturbances (natural hazards or human-made) that may threaten their long-term survival. Using global examples, specific emphasis is placed on how learning processes, traditions, policies and politics affect the resilience of communities and what constraints and opportunities exist for communities to raise resilience levels.
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    ISBN: 9780203831489
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (331 pages)
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    Series Statement: Routledge Advances in Sociology
    DDC: 303.48/409
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    Abstract: As we play, we step away from stark reality to conjure up new possibilities for the present and our common future. Today, a new cohort of social activists are using it to create social change and reinvent democratic social relations. In contrast to work or routine, play must be free. To the extent that it is, it infuses a high-octane burst of innovation into any number of organizational practices and contexts, and invites social actors to participate in a low-threshold, highly democratic process of collaboration, based on pleasure and convivial social relations. Despite the contention that such activities are counterproductive, movements continue to put the right to party on the table as a part of a larger process of social change, as humor and pleasure disrupt monotony, while disarming systems of power.   Through this book, Shepard explores notions of play as a social movement activity, considering some of the meanings, applications and history of the concept in relation to social movement groups ranging from Dada and Surrealism to Situationism, the Yippies to the Young Lords, ACT UP to the Global Justice, anti-gentrification, community and anti-war movements of recent years.
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    ISBN: 9780203837252
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (246 pages)
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    Keywords: Volkskultur ; Gesellschaft ; Alltagskultur ; Kapitalismus ; Massenkonsum ; Ästhetik ; Massenkultur ; Massenmedien
    Abstract: This revised edition of a now classic text includes a new introduction by Henry Jenkins, explaining 'Why Fiske Still Matters' for today's students, followed by a discussion between former Fiske students Kevin Glynn, Jonathan Gray, and Pamela Wilson on the theme of 'Reading Fiske and Understanding the Popular'. Both underline the continuing relevance of this foundational text in the study of popular culture.Beneath the surface of the cultural artifacts that surround us - shopping malls, popular music, the various forms of television - lies a multitude of meanings and ways of using them, not all of them those intended by their designers. In Reading the Popular, John Fiske analyzes these popular "texts" to reveal both their explicit and implicit (and often opposite) meanings and uses, and the social and political dynamics they reflect.Fiske's "readings" of these cultural phenomena highlight the conflicting responses they evoke: Madonna may be promoted as a "boy toy", but young girls feel empowered by her ability to toy with boys; Chicago's Sears Tower may be a massive expression of capitalist domination, but it can also allow one to tower over the city. In each case it is the latter option that interests him, for this is where Fiske locates popular culture: it is the point at which people take the goods offered them by industrial capitalism (however oppressive they may seem) and turn them to their own creative, and even subversive, uses.Designed as a companion to Understanding Popular Culture, Reading the Popular gives the lie to theories that portray a mass audience that mindlessly consumes every product it is offered. Fiske's acute perception and lively wit combine to provide a truly democratic vision of popular culture, one that respects the awareness and the agency of the people who make it.
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    ISBN: 9780203835807
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (280 pages)
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    Series Statement: The Metropolis and Modern Life
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    Abstract: Urban Tourism and Urban Change: Cities in a Global Economy provides both a sociological / cultural analysis of change that has taken place in many of the world's cities. This focused treatment of urban tourism examines the implications of these changes for urban management and planning sense, for success and failure in metropolitan change. Uniquely suited for teaching purposes, Costas Spirou integrates numerous case studies of cities to illuminate the significant impact and promise of tourism on urban image and economic development.
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    ISBN: 9780203863190
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (233 pages)
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    Series Statement: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
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    Keywords: Massenmedien ; Gewaltdarstellung ; Psychisches Trauma ; Kollektives Gedächtnis ; Fotografie
    Abstract: This book provides the first comprehensive account of trauma as a critical concept in the study of modern visual media, from Freud to the present day, explaining how contemporary trauma studies emerged from research on Holocaust representation in which the audiovisual testimony of survivors was posed as an authentic alternative to popular television and film dramatizations. It argues that the media coverage of 9/11 and the subsequent 'war on terror,' however, has revealed how the formation of communities of witness and commemoration around 'traumatic events' can perpetuate violence and inequality. The book explains how Benjamin, Adorno and Barthes, drawing from psychoanalysis, analyzed the roles of fantasy, ideology and collective identification in mass media, and began to understand trauma as an authentic experience of modernity. It proposes that the insights of these earlier theorists, along with more recent arguments by Derrida, Agamben and Zizek, continue to provide important perspectives on today's politics of mediated shock and terror.
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    ISBN: 9780203864654
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (241 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
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    Keywords: Tourismus ; USA
    Abstract: The United States continues to provide opportunities for travel and tourism to domestic and international travellers. This is the first book to offer students a comprehensive overview of both tourism and travel in this region, paying specific attention to the disciplines of Geography, Tourism Studies and, more generally, Social Science. Tourism in the USA explains the evolution of tourism paying attention to the forces that shaped the product that exists today. The focus of the book includes the manner in which tourism has played out in various contexts; the role of federal, state, and local policy is also examined in terms of the effects it has had on the US travel industry and on destinations. The various elements of tourism demand and supply are discussed and the influence that transportation (especially Americans' high personal mobility rates and love affair with the auto) has had on the sector highlighted. The economics of tourism are fleshed out before focusing more narrowly on both the urban and rural settings where tourism occurs. A look into the manner in which the spatial structure of cities is transformed through tourism is also offered. Additionally, a brief examination of future issues in American tourism is presented along with explanations concerning the ascendancy of tourism as an economic development tool in various areas. The book combines theory and practice as well as integrating a range of useful student orientated resources to aid understanding and spur further debate, which can be used for independent study or in class exercises. These include: 'Closer Look' case studies with reflective questions to help show theory in practice and encourage critical thinking about tourism developments in this region 'Discussion Questions' at the end of each chapter encourage stimulating debates 'Further Reading' sections direct the readers...
    Abstract: to related book and web resources so that they can learn more about the topics covered in each chapter. Written in an engaging style and supported with visual aids, this book will provide students globally with an in-depth and essential understanding of the complexities of tourism and travel in the USA.
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    ISBN: 9780203894613
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (248 pages)
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    Series Statement: Cultural Spaces
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    Keywords: Rückwanderung ; Puerto Rico
    Abstract: In The Diaspora Strikes Back the eminent ethnic and cultural studies scholar Juan Flores flips the process on its head: what happens to the home country when it is being constantly fed by emigrants returning from abroad? He looks at how 'Nuyoricans' (Puerto Rican New Yorkers) have transformed the home country, introducing hip hop and modern New York culture to the Caribbean island. While he focuses on New York and Mayaguez (in Puerto Rico), the model is broadly applicable. Indians introducing contemporary British culture to India; New York Dominicans bringing slices of New York culture back to the Dominican Republic; Mexicans bringing LA culture (from fast food to heavy metal) back to Guadalajara and Monterrey. This ongoing process is both massive and global, and Flores' novel account will command a significant audience across disciplines.
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    ISBN: 9781317793700
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (568 pages)
    Edition: 2nd ed.
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    Keywords: Landschaft ; Geografie ; Landschaftsentwicklung ; Anthropogeografie ; Kulturlandschaftswandel ; USA ; Nordamerika
    Abstract: The only compact yet comprehensive survey of environmental and cultural forces that have shaped the visual character and geographical diversity of the settled American landscape. The book examines the large-scale historical influences that have molded the varied human adaptation of the continent's physical topography to its needs over more than 500 years. It presents a synoptic view of myriad historical processes working together or in conflict, and illustrates them through their survival in or disappearance from the everyday landscapes of today.
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    ISBN: 9780203876213
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (513 pages)
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    Series Statement: Routledge International Handbooks
    DDC: 304.2/5
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    Keywords: Klimaänderung ; Gesellschaft ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: As the time-scales of natural change accelerate and converge with those of society, Routledge Handbook of Climate Change and Society takes the reader into largely uncharted territory in its exploration of anthropogenic climate change. Current material is used to highlight the global impact of this issue, and the necessity for multidisciplinary and global social science research and teaching to address the problem. The book is multidisciplinary and worldwide in scope, with contributors spanning specialisms including agro-forestry, economics, environmentalism, ethics, human geography, international relations, law, politics, psychology, sociology and theology. Their global knowledge is reflected in the content of the text, which encompasses chapters on American, European and Chinese policies, case studies of responses to disasters and of the new technological and lifestyle alternatives that are being adopted, and the negotiations leading up to the Copenhagen conference alongside a preface assessing its outcomes. Starting with an initial analysis by a leading climatologist, key issues discussed in the text include recent findings of natural scientists, social causation and vulnerability, media and public recognition or scepticism, and the merits and difficulties of actions seeking to mitigate and adapt. This accessible volume utilizes a wealth of case studies, explains technical terms and minimises the use of acronyms associated with the subject, making it an essential text for advanced undergraduates, postgraduate students and researchers in the social sciences.
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    ISBN: 9780203844984
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (258 pages)
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    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Modern British History
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    Abstract: In mid-Victorian England there were new racial categories based upon skin colour. The 'races' familiar to those in the modern west were invented and elaborated after the decline of faith in Biblical monogenesis in the early nineteenth century, and before the maturity of modern genetics in the middle of the twentieth. Not until the early nineteenth century would polygenetic and racialist theories win many adherents. But by the middle of the nineteenth century in England, racial categories were imposed upon humanity. How the idea of 'race' gained popularity in England at that time is the central focus of The Victorian Reinvention of Race: New Racisms and the Problem of Grouping in the Human Sciences. Scholars have linked this new racism to some very dodgy thinkers. The Victorian Reinvention of Race examines a more influential set of the era's writers and colonial officials, some French but most of them British. Attempting to do serious social analysis, these men oversimplified humanity into biologically-heritable, mentally and morally unequal, colour-based 'races'. Thinkers giving in to this racist temptation included Alexis de Tocqueville when he was writing on Algeria; Arthur de Gobineau (who influenced the Nazis); Walter Bagehot of The Economist; and Charles Darwin (whose Descent of Man was influenced by Bagehot). Victorians on Race also examines officials and thinkers (such as Tocqueville in Democracy in America, the Duke of Argyll, and Governor Gordon of Fiji) who exercised methodological care, doing the hard work of testing their categories against the evidence. They analyzed human groups without slipping into racial categorization. Author Edward Beasley examines the extent to which the Gobineau-Bagehot-Darwin way of thinking about race penetrated the minds of certain key colonial governors. He further explores the hardening of the rhetoric...
    Abstract: of race-prejudice in some quarters in England in the nineteenth century - the processes by which racism was first formed.
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    ISBN: 9780203842249
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (459 pages)
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    Keywords: Politische Ökologie ; Globalisierung ; Umweltkatastrophe ; Umweltpolitik ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: The world is caught in the mesh of a series of environmental crises. So far attempts at resolving the deep basis of these have been superficial and disorganized. Global Political Ecology links the political economy of global capitalism with the political ecology of a series of environmental disasters and failed attempts at environmental policies. This critical volume draws together contributions from twenty-five leading intellectuals in the field. It begins with an introductory chapter that introduces the readers to political ecology and summarizes the books main findings. The following seven sections cover topics on the political ecology of war and the disaster state; fuelling capitalism: energy scarcity and abundance; global governance of health, bodies, and genomics; the contradictions of global food; capital's marginal product: effluents, waste, and garbage; water as a commodity, a human right, and power; the functions and dysfunctions of the global green economy; political ecology of the global climate, and carbon emissions. This book contains accounts of the main currents of thought in each area that bring the topics completely up-to-date. The individual chapters contain a theoretical introduction linking in with the main themes of political ecology, as well as empirical information and case material. Global Political Ecology serves as a valuable reference for students interested in political ecology, environmental justice, and geography.
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    ISBN: 9780203837177
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (231 pages)
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    Abstract: This revised edition of a now classic text includes a new introduction by Henry Jenkins, explaining 'Why Fiske Still Matters' for today's students, followed by a discussion between former Fiske students Kevin Glynn, Jonathan Gray, and Pamela Wilson on the theme of 'Reading Fiske and Understanding the Popular'. Both underline the continuing relevance of this foundational text in the study of popular culture.What is popular culture? How does it differ from mass culture? And what do popular "texts" reveal about class, race, and gender dynamics in a society? John Fiske answers these and a host of other questions in Understanding Popular Culture.When it was first written, Understanding Popular Culture took a groundbreaking approach to studying such cultural artifacts as jeans, shopping malls, tabloid newspapers, and TV game shows, which remains relevant today. Fiske differentiates between mass culture - the cultural "products" put out by an industrialized, capitalist society - and popular culture - the ways in which people use, abuse, and subvert these products to create their own meanings and messages. Rather than focusing on mass culture's attempts to dominate and homogenize, he prefers to look at (and revel in) popular culture's evasions and manipulations of these attempts.Designed as a companion to Reading the Popular, Understanding Popular Culture presents a radically different theory of what it means for culture to be popular: that it is, literally, of the people. It is not imposed on them, it is created by them, and its pleasures and meanings reflect popular tastes and concerns - and a rejection of those fostered by mass culture. With wit, clarity, and insight, Professor Fiske debunks the myth of the mindless mass audience, and demonstrates that, in myriad ways, popular culture thrives because that audience is more aware than anyone guesses.
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    ISBN: 9780203889046
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (220 pages)
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    Keywords: Klimaänderung ; Anpassung ; Strukturanpassung ; Umweltpolitik ; Soziale Anpassung
    Abstract: The impacts of climate change are already being felt. Learning how to live with these impacts is a priority for human development. In this context, it is too easy to see adaptation as a narrowly defensive task - protecting core assets or functions from the risks of climate change. A more profound engagement, which sees climate change risks as a product and driver of social as well as natural systems, and their interaction, is called for. Adaptation to Climate Change argues that, without care, adaptive actions can deny the deeper political and cultural roots that call for significant change in social and political relations if human vulnerability to climate change associated risk is to be reduced. This book presents a framework for making sense of the range of choices facing humanity, structured around resilience (stability), transition (incremental social change and the exercising of existing rights) and transformation (new rights claims and changes in political regimes). The resilience-transition-transformation framework is supported by three detailed case study chapters. These also illustrate the diversity of contexts where adaption is unfolding, from organizations to urban governance and the national polity. This text is the first comprehensive analysis of the social dimensions to climate change adaptation. Clearly written in an engaging style, it provides detailed theoretical and empirical chapters and serves as an invaluable reference for undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in climate change, geography and development studies.
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    ISBN: 9781135904807
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (224 pages)
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    Keywords: Englisch ; Sprachvariante ; Identität
    Abstract: Language and Identity in Englishes examines the core issues and debates surrounding the relationship between English, language and identity. Drawing on a range of international examples from the UK, US, China and India, Clark uses both cutting-edge fieldwork and her own original research to give a comprehensive account of the study of language and identity. Key features include: Discussion of language in relation to various aspects of identity, such as those connected with nation and region, as well as in relation to social aspects such as social class and race. A chapter on undertaking research that will equip students with appropriate research methods for their own projects An analysis of language and identity within the context of written as well as spoken texts With its accessible structure, international scope and the inclusion of leading research in the area, this book is ideal for any student taking modules in language and identity or sociolinguistics.
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    ISBN: 9780203131619
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (228 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Communication and Society
    DDC: 302.230973
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1900- ; Unterhaltungsliteratur ; Amerikanisches Englisch
    Abstract: Potboilers looks at the many forms of popular narrative - in print, film and TV. It considers the ways in they have been analysed in literary criticism, sociology, communications, media and cultural studies. The book introduces and summarizes two decades of debate about mass-produced fictions and their position within popular culture. It assesses the methods that have been used in these debates, focussing both on narrative analysis and the communications process. It explores generic conventions, the role of commercial strategies, and the nature of the audience with reference to crime fiction, soap opera, romance and TV sitcom. Distinctions between `high' and `low' culture have relegated many popular forms to the trash-can of `great' literature. This book takes stock of the methods and concepts used to analyse popular culture and argues for a non-elitist approach to the study of literature, film and television.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (180 pages)
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Cole, Mary Hill [Rezension von: Leahy, William, Elizabethan Triumphal Processions] 2006
    Parallel Title: Print version Leahy, William Elizabethan Triumphal Processions
    DDC: 394.5094209031
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    Abstract: Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction 'Triumphal Processions' -- 1 Theorising Processions -- 2 'Her spiritual, mystical, transforming power': Elizabeth on Procession and the Common Audience -- 3 'Tyme hath brought me hether': Readings of Elizabeth on Procession -- Conclusion 'The true picture of the past flits by': Re-reading a Procession Painting -- Appendix 1 Procession to St Paul's, 1588 -- Appendix 2 Lord Burleigh's Plan for the Entertainment of Queen Elizabeth at Theobalds, 1583 -- Bibliography -- Index.
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    Parallel Title: Print version Spohn, Willfried Collective Memory and European Identity : The Effects of Integration and Enlargement
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    Keywords: Memory - Social aspects ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- 1 National Identities and Collective Memory in an Enlarged Europe -- PART I: COLLECTIVE IDENTITIES IN EUROPE AND EUROPEAN IDENTITIES -- 2 European Self-Understanding in the Twentieth Century -- 3 East-European Historical Bequest en Route to an Integrated Europe -- 4 Global Diaspora? European Jewish Consciousness? Reflections on German Jewry and the Postmodern Debate -- PART II: EUROPE, NATIONAL IDENTITIES AND COLLECTIVE MEMORY IN WESTERN EUROPE
    Abstract: 5 Re-modelling the Boundaries in the New Europe: Historical Memories and Contemporary Identities in German-Polish Relations -- 6 Italy, EU-Enlargement and the 'Reinvention' of Europe: Between Historical Memories and Present Representations -- 7 Spain's 'Special Solidarity' with the East: The Influence of Collective Memory on Spanish Attitudes to EU-Enlargement -- PART III: EUROPE, NATIONAL IDENTITIES AND COLLECTIVE MEMORY IN EASTERN EUROPE -- 8 NATO and Hungarian Public Opinion -- 9 Troublesome Anniversary: The Rise of the Czechoslovak Republic and its European Fellows in Czech Collective Memory
    Abstract: 10 Converting History into 'Cultural Treasure' in Post-1991 Kaliningrad: Social Transitions and the Meaning of the Past -- THE ARGUMENT REVISITED -- 11 Remembering National Memories Together: The Formation of a Transnational Identity in Europe -- Index
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    ISBN: 9781351953993
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (237 pages)
    Parallel Title: Print version Blumenfeld, Warren J Butler Matters : Judith Butler's Impact on Feminist and Queer Studies
    DDC: 305.42
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    Abstract: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- PART I: INTRODUCTION -- 1 Introduction to the Collection -- 2 ' There is a Person Here': An Interview with Judith Butler -- 3 Becoming Butlerian: On the Discursive Limits (and Potentials) of Gender Trouble -- PART II: LANGUAGE, MELANCHOLIA, AND SUBJECTIVITY -- 4 When All That is Solid Melts into Language -- 5 Judith Butler and the Images of Theory -- 6 The Plague of the Subject: Subjects, Politics, and the Power of Psychic Life -- 7 Excitable Speech: Judith Butler, Mae West, and Sexual Innuendo -- PART III: BODY MATTERS: ARCHAEOLOGY, LITERATURE, AND PEDAGOGY -- 8 Past Performance: The Archaeology of Gender as Influenced by the Work of Judith Butler -- 9 Renaissance Body Matters: Judith Butler and the Sex That is One -- 10 Gender Trouble in the Literature Classroom: Unintelligible Genders in The Metamorphosis and The Well of Loneliness -- 11 Butler's Corporeal Politics: Matters of Politicized Abjection -- PART IV: AGENCY, POSTSTRUCTURALISM, AND PRAGMATISM -- 12 Strange Tempest: Agency, Poststructuralism, and the Shape of Feminist Politics to Come -- 13 Changing Signs: The Political Pragmatism of Poststructuralism -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9780203983263
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (245 pages)
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    Keywords: Lebensbedingungen ; Humanökologie ; Wüste ; Desertifikation ; Nigeria ; Sahel
    Abstract: This book looks at how people in the semi-arid conditions of the Sahel cope with their harsh environment. It draws on four years of field research with farmers in the Sahelian region and builds on work with these communities over several decades. Reporting on studies of four village communities, it shows how people work to achieve sustainable livelihoods and emphasises that there can be development without disaster.
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    ISBN: 9780203991053
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (266 pages)
    Series Statement: Cinema and Society
    DDC: 302.23430973
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1929-1939 ; Film ; Gesellschaft ; USA ; Film
    Abstract: First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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    ISBN: 9780203981382
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (260 pages)
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    Keywords: Umwelt ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung
    Abstract: Timescapes of Modernity explores the relationship between time and environmental and socio-cultural concerns. Using examples such as the BSE crisis, the Sea Empress oil pollution and the Chernobyl radiation Barbara Adam argues that environmental hazards are inescapably tied to the successes of the industrial way of life. Global markets and economic growth; large-scale production of food; the speed of transport and communication; the 24 hour society and even democratic politics are among the invisible hazards we face. With this unique 'timescape' perspective the author dislodges assumptions about environmental change, enables a rethinking of environmental problems and provides the potential for new strategies to deal with environmental hazards.
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    ISBN: 9780203997659
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (256 pages)
    Series Statement: Global Realities v.1
    DDC: 303.40994
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    Keywords: Globalisierung ; Australien
    Abstract: In this book Anthony Moran traces the development of contemporary Australian society in the global age, focusing on four major themes: settler/indigenous relations; economics and culture since the 1980s and their impact on national identity; the effects of increasing diversity fostered by globalization; and the transformation of Australian social space wrought by globalization.
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    ISBN: 9780203983966
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (309 pages)
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    Keywords: Mensch ; Natur ; Jahrtausendwende ; Anthropogener Einfluss ; Soziale Konstruktion ; Humanökologie ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This book rejects apocalyptic pronouncements that the end of the millenium represents the 'end' of nature as well. Remaking Reality brings together contributors from across the human sciences who argue that a notion of 'social nature' provides great hope for the future. Applying a variety of theoretical approaches to social nature, and engaging with debates in politics, science, technology and social movements surrouding race, gender and class, the contributors explroe important and emerging sites where nature is now being remade with considerable social and ecological consequences. The essays are organised around two themes: 'capitalising and envisioning nature' and 'actors, networks and the politics of hybridity'. An afterword by Neil Smith reflects on the problems and possibilities of future names. For critics and activists alike, Remaking Reality provides essential theoretical and political tools to rethink environmentalism and progressive social natures for the twenty first century.
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    ISBN: 9780203986615
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (241 pages)
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    DDC: 306.4408996
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    Keywords: Soziolinguistik ; Black English ; Subsaharisches Afrika ; Amerika ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Enslavement, forced migration, war and colonization have led to the global dispersal of Black communities and to the fragmentation of common experiences. The majority of Black language researchers explore the social and linguistic phenomena of individual Black communities, without looking at Black experiences outside a given community. This groundbreaking collection re-orders the elitist and colonial elements of language studies by drawing together the multiple perspectives of Black language researchers. In doing so, the book recognises and formalises the existence of a "Black Linguistic Perspective" highlights the contributions of Black language researchers in the field. Written exclusively by Black scholars on behalf of, and in collaboration with local communities, the book looks at the commonalities and differences among Black speech communities in Africa and the Diaspora. Topics include: * the OJ Simpson trial * language issues in Southern Africa and Francophone West Africa * the language of Hip Hop * the language of the Rastafaria in Jamaica With a foreword by Ngugi wa Thiong'o, this is essential reading for anyone with an interest in the linguistic implications of colonization.
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    ISBN: 9780203979488
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (210 pages)
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    Keywords: Fernsehen ; Zukunft ; Sozialer Wandel ; Europa
    Abstract: Worlds in Common? examines the newly emerging forms of language used in satellite television programmes, exploring a wide range of genres including twenty-four hour news broadcasting, culture channels, talk shows, local TV and European news. Focusing on the experiences of British and German viewers, the authors discuss these new forms of communication brought about by the technological and economic upheavals in Europe in the late 1990s. This interaction between media theories and media discourses, makes the book highly relevant for researchers in media and cultural studies as well as linguistics, and provides an important and innovatory link between these different approaches.
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    ISBN: 9781351947572
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (257 pages)
    Series Statement: The History of Retailing and Consumption
    DDC: 306.3094209034
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Konsumgesellschaft ; Verbraucherin ; Frau ; Straftat ; Großbritannien ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
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    ISBN: 9781351907637
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (142 pages)
    Parallel Title: Print version Valentine, Gill Public Space and the Culture of Childhood
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    Keywords: Public spaces - Social aspects - Great Britain ; Public spaces - Social aspects - Great Britain ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Childhood in Crisis? -- Chapter 2 Terror Talk: Geographies of Fear -- Chapter 3 Gender and Parenting Cultures -- Chapter 4 'I can handle it': Children and Competence -- Chapter 5 The Retreat from the Street -- Chapter 6 Contested Terrain: Teenagers in Public Space -- Chapter 7 Children and the Future of Public Space -- References -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781351950930
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (307 pages)
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Sherrill, Tawny [Rezension von: Richardson, Catherine, Clothing Culture, 1350-1650] 2006
    Series Statement: The History of Retailing and Consumption
    Series Statement: The History of Retailing and Consumption Ser.
    Parallel Title: Print version Richardson, Catherine Clothing Culture, 1350-1650
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    Keywords: Costume - History - Medieval, 500-1500 ; Costume - History - Medieval, 500-1500 ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- General Editor's Preface -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- Section One: Fabrics of Nation -- 2 The Cultural Significance of Costume Books in Sixteenth-Century Europe -- 3 A Question of Nation: Foreign Clothes on the English Subject -- 4 Tomb Effigies and Archaic Dress in Sixteenth-Century Ireland -- 5 The Formation of Russian Women's Costume at the Time before the Reforms of Peter the Great -- Section Two: Marking Distinctions -- 6 Clothing Courtesans: Fabrics, Signals, and Experiences -- 7 Clothing the Naked in Late Medieval East Kent -- 8 Dress, Nudity and Calvinist Culture in Sixteenth-Century France -- 9 Social Fabric in Thynne's Debate Between Pride and Lowliness -- Section Three: Material Movements -- 10 Clothing Distributions and Social Relations c.1350-1500 -- 11 Fashion, Finance, Foreign Politics and the Wardrobe of Henry VIII -- 12 Reworked Material: Discourses of Clothing Culture in Early Sixteenth-Century Greenwich -- Section Four: Discourse, Body, Gender -- 13 This one poore blacke gowne lined with white': The Clothing of the Sixteenth-Century English Book -- 14 'Havying nothing upon hym saving onely his sherte': Event, Narrative and Material Culture in Early Modern England -- 15 Rips and Slits: The Torn Garment and the Medieval Self -- 16 Speaking to Reveal: The Body and Acts of 'Exposure' in Early Modern Popular Discourse -- Bibliography -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781351873475
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (294 pages)
    Series Statement: Studies in European Cultural Transition v.25
    Series Statement: Studies in European Cultural Transition Ser. v.25
    Parallel Title: Print version Kushner, Tony We Europeans? Mass-Observation, Race and British Identity in the Twentieth Century : Mass-Observation, Race and British Identity in the Twentieth Century
    DDC: 305.8009410904
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    Abstract: Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- General Editors' Preface -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Part One: Contexts -- 1 Introduction: Mass-Observation, Difference and the Anthropology of 'Ourselves' -- 2 Mass-Observation, 'Race' and Nation -- Part Two: Praxis - From Fieldwork to Directive -- 3 Exploring Otherness: Mass-Observation in 'Darkest' Britain -- 4 Beyond the Opinion Poll? The Mass-Observation Directive -- Part Three: Of Ourselves, By Ourselves: The Mass-Observation Diaries -- 5 Mass-Observation and the Genre of Diary Writing -- 6 Racism With the Boots Off? From Individual Prejudice to Collective Violence in the Mass-Observation Diaries -- 7 'I am All Women who are Tortured': Persecuted Jews at Home and Abroad and the Mass-Observation Diaries -- 8 The Intimacy of Difference: Confronting Minorities in Everyday Life through the Mass-Observation Diaries -- Conclusion and Afterword: Reclaiming the Volvox -- Bibliography -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9780203017586
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (253 pages)
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    Keywords: Kulturwissenschaften ; Kultursoziologie ; Einführung
    Abstract: Cultural Studies: A Critical Introduction is a wide-ranging and stimulating introduction to the history and theory of Cultural Studies from Leavisism, through the era of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, to the global nature of contemporary Cultural Studies. Cultural Studies: A Critical Introduction begins with an introduction to the field and its theoretical history and then presents a series of short essays on key areas of Cultural Studies, designed to provoke discussion and raise questions. Each thematic section examines and explains a key topic within Cultural Studies. Sections include: * the discipline * time * space * media and the public sphere * identity * sexuality and gender * value.
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    ISBN: 9780203696989
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (251 pages)
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    Keywords: Europäische Union ; Englisch ; Sprachpolitik ; Verkehrssprache ; Europa
    Abstract: English-Only Europe? explores the role of languages in the process of European integration. Languages are central to the development of an integrated Europe. The way in which the European Union deals with multilingualism has serious implications for both individual member countries and international relations. In this book, Robert Phillipson considers whether the contemporary expansion of English represents a serious threat to other European languages. After exploring the implications of current policies, Phillipson argues the case for more active language policies to safeguard a multilingual Europe. Drawing on examples of countries with explicit language policies such as Canada and South Africa, the book sets out Phillipson's vision of an inclusive language policy for Europe, and describes how it can be attained.
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    ISBN: 9780203645918
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (270 pages)
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    DDC: 305.42/0941
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1880-1980 ; Frauenbewegung ; Internationalismus ; Rassenfrage ; Soziale Frage ; USA ; Großbritannien
    Abstract: This readable and informative survey, including both new research and synthesis, provides the first close comparison of race, class and internationalism in the British and American women's movements during this period. Sisterhood Questioned assesses the nature and impact of divisions in the twentieth century American and British women's movements. In this lucidly written study, Christine Bolt sheds new light on these differences, which flourished in an era of political reaction, economic insecurity, polarizing nationalism and resurgent anti-feminism. The author reveals how the conflicts were seized upon and publicised by contemporaries, and how the activists themselves were forced to confront the increasingly complex tensions. Drawing on a wide range of sources, the author demonstrates that women in the twentieth century continued to co-operate despite these divisions, and that feminist movements remained active right up to and beyond the reformist 1960s. It is invaluable reading for all those with an interest in American history, British history or women's studies.
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    ISBN: 9780203646359
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (289 pages)
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    DDC: 303.6/097281
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    Keywords: Stadt ; Gewalttätigkeit ; Guatemala ; Kolumbien
    Abstract: Latin America is both the world's most urbanized fastest developing regions, where the links between social exclusion, inequality and violence are clearly visible. The banal, ubiquitous nature of drug crime, robbery, gang and intra-family violence destabilizes countries' economies and harms their people and social structures. Encounters with Violence & Crime in Latin America explores the meaning of violence and insecurity in nine towns and cities in Columbia and Guatemala to create a framework of how and why daily violence takes place at the community level. It uses pioneering new methods of participatory urban appraisal to ask local people about their own perceptions of violence as mediated by family, gender, ethnicity and age. It develops a typology which distinguishes between the political, social, and economic violence that afflicts communities, and which assesses the costs of consequences of violence in terms of community cohesion and social capital. This gives voice to those whose daily lives and dominated by widespread aggression, and provides important new insights for researchers and policy-makers.
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    ISBN: 9780203643211
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (296 pages)
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    Series Statement: Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature
    DDC: 305.42
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1880-1930 ; Frau ; Identität ; Verbraucherverhalten ; Feminismus
    Abstract: Since the 1970s, the literary and cultural politics of the turn-of-the-century New Woman have received increasing academic attention. Whether she is seen as the emblem of sexual anarchy, an agent of mediation between mass market and modernist cultures, or as a symptom of the consolidation of nineteenth and early twentieth-century political liberation movements, the New Woman represents a site of cultural and socio-political contestation and acts as a marker of modernity. This book explores the diversity of meanings ascribed to the New Woman in the context of cultural debates conducted within and across a wide range of national frameworks including the UK, Canada, North America, Europe, and Japan. The key concept of 'hybridities' is used to elucidate the national and ethnic multiplicity of the 'modern woman' as well as to locate this figure both within international consumer culture and within feminist writing. The book is structured around four key themes. 'Hybridities' examines the instabilities of New Woman identities and discourses in relation to both national/ethnic contexts and the textual parameters of New Woman writings. 'Through the (Periodical) Looking Glass' is concerned with the periodical press and its production and circulation of New Woman images. 'Feminist Counter Cultures?' interrogates feminist efforts to influence and shape this process by mimicking or subverting dominant models of representation and by establishing alternative spaces for the articulation of New Woman subjectivities. 'Race and the New Woman' inspects white New Women's investment in hegemonic racial discourses, looking at the way in which black and non-Western women inserted liberationist discourses into the New Woman debate. This book will be essential reading for advanced students and researchers of American Studies, Women's Studies, and Women's History.
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    ISBN: 9780203491348
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (501 pages)
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    DDC: 305.896/073
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Schwarze ; Schwarze Frau ; Ethnische Identität ; Bildung ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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    ISBN: 9780203597569
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (294 pages)
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    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Physical Geography and Environment v.6
    DDC: 304.2095496
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    Abstract: In the 1970s and 1980s many institutions, agencies and scholars believed that the Himalayan region was facing severe environmental disaster, due primarily to rapid growth in population that has caused extensive deforestation, which in turn has led to massive landsliding and soil erosion. This series of assumptions was first challenged in the book: The Himalayan Dilemma (1989: Ives and Messerli, Routledge). Nevertheless, the environmental crisis paradigm still commands considerable support, including logging bans in the mountain watersheds of China, India, and Thailand, and is constantly being promoted by the news media. Himalayan Perceptions identifies the confusion of misunderstanding, vested interests, changing perceptions, and institutional unwillingness to base development policy on sound scientific knowledge. It analyzes the large amount of new research published since 1989 and totally refutes the entire construct. It examines recent social and economic developments in the region and identifies warfare, guerrilla activities, and widespread oppression of poor ethnic minorities as the primary cause for the instability that pervades the entire region. It is argued that the development controversy is further confounded by exaggerated reporting, even falsification, by news media, environmental publications, and agency reports alike.
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    ISBN: 9780203446317
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (247 pages)
    Edition: 2nd ed.
    Series Statement: Key Ideas
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    Keywords: Sozialstruktur ; Kultursoziologie ; Kultur
    Abstract: Culture is a concept that has remained on the top of the agenda within the social sciences for two decades. It incites controversy and debate and always appears fresh. This book, updated throughout and with new sections on visual culture, urban culture and subcultures, argues that to understand the concept we need to locate it within traditions of thought and appreciate its political and ideological bases. The book looks at the concept of culture in the context of idealism and materialism, examining its relation to the notion of social structure and assessing its once assumed monopoly within literary study. Culture remains stimulating throughout. A standard reference text for students on sociology and cultural studies courses, this second concise and student-friendly edition offers an overview over the sociology of culture in an accessible format.
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    ISBN: 9780203004883
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (325 pages)
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    Series Statement: Critical Geographies
    DDC: 304.2/7
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    Abstract: Animal Spaces, Beastly Places examines how animals interact and relate with people in different ways. Using a comprehensive range of examples, which include feral cats and wild wolves, to domestic animals and intensively farmed cattle, the contributors explore the complex relations in which humans and non-human animals are mixed together. Our emotions involving animals range from those of love and compassion to untold cruelty, force, violence and power. As humans we have placed different animals into different categories, according to some notion of species, usefulness, domesticity or wildness. As a result of these varying and often contested orderings, animals are assigned to particular places and spaces. Animal Spaces, Beastly Places shows us that there are many exceptions and variations on the spatiality of human-animal spatial orderings, within and across cultures, and over time. It develops new ways of thinking about human animal interactions and encourages us to find better ways for humans and animals to live together.
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    ISBN: 9780203622827
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (137 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Intertext
    DDC: 306.44
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    Keywords: Englisch ; Kommunikation ; Arbeitswelt ; Konversationsanalyse ; Textanalyse ; Lehrbuch
    Abstract: The Intertext series has been specifically designed to meet the needs of contemporary English Language Studies. Working with Texts: A Core Introduction to Language Analysis (second edition 2001) is the foundation text, which is complemented by a range of 'satellite' titles. These provide students with hands-on practical experience of textual analysis through special topics, and can be used individually or in conjunction with Working with Texts. The Language of Work: examines how language is used in business and the workplace, looking at a range of situations and data: from meetings to informal negotiations, promotional letters to emails explores representations of work in advertising, career magazines and workplace talk looks at the way people in business interact through small talk, politeness, customer care and management-employee relationships is illustrated with lively examples taken from the real world and includes a full index of terms features a useful section on entering the world of work, exploring job adverts and texts that give advice on CV writing and developing 'transferable skills'.
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    ISBN: 9780203647219
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (202 pages)
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    Series Statement: Routledge Research in Transnationalism
    DDC: 305.8
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    Keywords: Migration ; Globalisierung ; Multikulturelle Gesellschaft ; Anthropogeografie ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Social relations in our globalising world are increasingly stretched out across the borders of two or more nation-states. Yet, despite the growing academic interest in transnational economic networks, political movements and cultural forms, too little attention has been paid to the transformations of space that these processes both reflect and reproduce. Transnational Spaces takes a innovative perspective, looking at transnationalism as a social space that can be occupied by a wide range of actors, not all of whom are themselves directly connected to transnational migrant communities.
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    ISBN: 9780203458389
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (317 pages)
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    Series Statement: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
    DDC: 306.48
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    Abstract: Diasporas result from the scattering of populations and cultures across geographical space and time. Transnational in nature and unbounded by space, they cut across the static, territorial boundaries more usually deployed to govern tourism. In a vibrant inter-disciplinary collection of essays from leading scholars in the field, this book introduces the main features and constructs of diasporas, and explores their implications for the consumption, production and practices of tourism. Three sets of mutually reinforcing relationships are explored: experiences of diaspora tourists the settings and spaces of diaspora tourism the production of diaspora tourism. Addressing the relationship between diasporic groups and tourism from both a consumer and producer perspective, examples are drawn from a wide spectrum of diasporic groups including the Chinese, Jewish, Southeast Asian, Croatian, Dutch and Welsh. Until now, there has been no systematic and detailed treatment of the relationships between diasporas, their consumptions and the tourist experience. However, here, Coles and Timothy provide a unique navigation of the nature of these inter-connections which is ideal for students of tourism, sociology, cultural studies.
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    ISBN: 9780203491256
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (288 pages)
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    DDC: 307.0973
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    Keywords: Privatleben ; Nachbarschaft ; Isolation ; USA
    Abstract: First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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    ISBN: 9780203001448
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (189 pages)
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    Series Statement: New Accents
    DDC: 306
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    Keywords: Kultur ; Wirklichkeit ; Philosophie
    Abstract: What makes us the people we are? Culture evidently plays a part, but how large a part? Is culture alone the source of our identities? Some have argued that human nature is the foundation of culture, others that culture is the foundation of human identity. Catherine Belsey calls for a more nuanced, relational account of what it is to be human, and in doing so puts forward a significant new theory of culture. Culture and the Real explains with Professor Belsey's characteristic lucidity the views of recent theorists, including Jean-François Lyotard, Judith Butler and Slavoj Zizek, as well as their debt to the earlier work of Kant and Hegel, in order to take issue with their accounts of what it is to be human. To explore the human, she demonstrates, is to acknowledge the relationship between culture and what we don't know: not the familiar world picture presented to us by culture as 'reality', but the unsayable, or the strange region that lies beyond culture, which Lacan has called 'the real'. Culture, she argues, registers a sense of its own limits in ways more subtle than the theorists allow. This volume builds on the insights of Belsey's influential Critical Practice to provide not only an accessible introduction to contemporary theories of what it is to be human, but a major new contribution to current debates about culture. Taking examples from film and art, fiction and poetry, Culture and the Real is essential reading for those studying or working in cultural criticism, within the fields of English, Cultural Studies, Film Studies and Art History.
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    ISBN: 9780203646045
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (339 pages)
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    Series Statement: Worlds of Performance
    DDC: 394.26972983
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    Keywords: Karneval ; Trinidad
    Abstract: This beautifully illustrated volume features work by leading writers and experts on carnival from around the world, and includes two stunning photo essays by acclaimed photographers Pablo Delano and Jeffrey Chock. Editor Milla Cozart Riggio presents a body of work that takes the reader on a fascinating journey exploring the various aspects of carnival - its traditions, its history, its music, its politics - and prefaces each section with an illuminating essay. Traditional carnival theory, based mainly on the work of Mikhail Bakhtin and Victor Turner, has long defined carnival as inversive or subversive. The essays in this groundbreaking anthology collectively reverse that trend, offering a re-definition of 'carnival' that focuses not on the hierarchy it temporarily displaces or negates, but a one that is rooted in the actual festival event. Carnival details its new theory in terms of a carnival that is at once representative and distinctive: The Carnival of Trinidad - the most copied yet least studied major carnival in the world.
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    ISBN: 9780203491577
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (113 pages)
    Series Statement: Studies in Medieval History and Culture v.27
    DDC: 270.5/082
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1960-1995 ; Schwarze ; Geschlechterrolle ; Männlichkeit ; Literatur ; Mann ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This study examines partnerships between medieval women and scribes. Kimberly Benedict argues that medieval female visionaries often play prominent roles in collaboration while their male amanuenses serves as supports and foils.
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    ISBN: 9780203580240
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (291 pages)
    DDC: 307.1409421
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    Keywords: Stadtentwicklung ; London
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    ISBN: 9781351872324
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (285 Seiten)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1450-1700 ; Frau ; Politik ; Neuzeit ; Women - History - Renaissance, 1450-1600 ; England ; Konferenzschrift 2001
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    ISBN: 9781351934398
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (279 pages)
    Series Statement: Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
    Series Statement: Women and Gender in the Early Modern World Ser
    Parallel Title: Print version Berry, Helen Gender, Society and Print Culture in Late-Stuart England : The Cultural World of the Athenian Mercury
    DDC: 306.094209033
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    Keywords: Popular literature ; Popular literature ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction: Pressing Anxieties -- 2 Coffee Houses, Print Culture and the Public Sphere -- 3 Authenticity and Women Readers -- 4 The Community of Readers -- 5 Casuistry and the Ambiguity of Advice -- 6 Interpreting the Body -- 7 Courtship Dilemmas -- 8 Problems with Sex -- 9 Questioning Friendship -- 10 Conclusion -- Tables -- Bibliography -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9780203165270
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (281 pages)
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    Keywords: Geografie ; Cyberspace ; Kartografie ; Computerkartografie ; Virtuelle Realität
    Abstract: Mapping Cyberspace is a ground-breaking geographic exploration and critical reading of cyberspace, and information and communication technologies. The book: * provides an understanding of what cyberspace looks like and the social interactions that occur there * explores the impacts of cyberspace, and information and communication technologies, on cultural, political and economic relations * charts the spatial forms of virutal spaces * details empirical research and examines a wide variety of maps and spatialisations of cyberspace and the information society * has a related website at http://www.MappingCyberspace.com. This book will be a valuable addition to the growing body of literature on cyberspace and what it means for the future.
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    ISBN: 9780203131985
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (213 pages)
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    Series Statement: Comedia
    DDC: 306.40904
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    Keywords: Globalisierung ; Kultur ; Weltgesellschaft ; Kulturkontakt ; Internationalisierung
    Abstract: This work provides an account of culture in an age of globalization. Ulf Hannerz argues that, in an ever-more interconnected world, national understandings of culture have become insufficient. He explores the implications of boundary-crossings and long-distance cultural flows for established notions of "the local", "community", "nation" and "modernity" Hannerz not only engages with theoretical debates about culture and globalization but raises issues of how we think and live today. His account of the experience of global culture encompasses a shouting match in a New York street about Salman Rushdie, a papal visit to the Maya Indians; kung-fu dancers in Nigeria and Rastafarians in Amsterdam; the nostalgia of foreign correspondents; and the surprising experiences of tourists in a world city or on a Borneo photo safari.
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    ISBN: 9780203185995
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (289 pages)
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    Series Statement: Transformations
    DDC: 305.42
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    Keywords: Autobiografische Literatur ; Feminismus ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Featuring essays by leading feminist scholars from a variety of disciplines, this key text explores the latest developments in autobiographical studies. The collection is structured around the inter-linked concepts of genre, inter-subjectivity and memory. Whilst exemplifying the very different levels of autobiographical activity going on in feminist studies, the contributions chart a movement from autobiography as genre to autobiography as cultural practice, and from the analysis of autobiographical texts to a preoccupation with autobiography as method.
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    ISBN: 9780203006672
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (377 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.420941
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1640-1990 ; Geschlecht ; Macht ; Großbritannien
    Abstract: Gender and Power in Britain is an original and exciting history of Britain from the early modern period to the present focusing on the interaction of gender and power in political, social, cultural and economic life. Using a chronological framework, the book examines: * the roles, responsibilities and identities of men and women * how power relationships were established within various gender systems * how women and men reacted to the institutions, laws, customs, beliefs and practices that constituted their various worlds * class, racial and ethnic considerations * the role of empire in the development of British institutions and identities * the civil war * twentieth century suffrage * the world wars * industrialisation * Victorian morality.
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    ISBN: 9780203021217
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (266 pages)
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    DDC: 305.90816
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Architektur ; Körperbehinderung ; Stadtplanung
    Abstract: This book explains how space, place and mobility have shaped the experiences of disabled people both in the past and in contemporary societies. The key features of this insightful study include: * a critical appraisal of theories of disability and a new disability model * case studies to explore how the transition to capitalism disadvantaged disabled people * an exploration of the Western city and the policies of community care and accessibility regulation. Brendan Gleeson presents an important contribution to the major policy debates on disability in Western societies and offers new considerations for the broader debates on embodiment and space within Geography.
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    ISBN: 9780203463307
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (224 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1450-1600 ; Buchdruck ; Wissensorganisation ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: In the fifteenth century the printing press was the 'new technology'. The first ever information revolution began with the advent of the printed book, enabling Renaissance scholars to formulate new ways of organising and disseminating knowledge. As early as 1500 there were already 20 million books in circulation in Europe. How did this rapid explosion of ideas impact upon the evolution of new disciplines? The Renaissance Computer looks at the fascinating development of new methods of information storage and retrieval which took place at the very beginning of print culture. And it asks some crucial questions about the intellectual conditions of our own digital age. A dazzling array of leading experts in Renaissance culture explore topics of urgent significance today, including: * the contribution of knowledge technologies to state formulation and national identity *the effect of multimedia, orality and memory on education *the importance of the visual display of information and how search engines reflect and direct ways of thinking.
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    ISBN: 9780203005927
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (253 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: The Politics of Language
    DDC: 306.44941709
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1366-1922 ; Sprachpolitik ; Irland
    Abstract: For almost a thousand years language has been an important and contentious issue in Ireland but above all it reflects the great themes of Irish history: colonial, invasion, native resistance, religious and cultural difference. Collected here for the first time are texts on language from the date of the first legislation against the Irish: the Statute of Kilkenny, 1366, to the constitution of the Free State in 1922. Crowley's introduction connects these texts to current debates, giving The Belfast Agreement as a textual example and illustrating that the language debates continue today. Divided into six historical sections with detailed editor's introductions, this unique sourcebook includes familiar cultural texts such as essays and letters by Yeats along side less familiar writings including the Preface to the New Testament in Irish. (1602) Providing direct access to original texts, this is an historical resource book which can be used as a case study in the relations between language and cultural identity.
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    ISBN: 9781317875574
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (246 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Women And Men In History
    DDC: 303.60941
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    Keywords: Sozialgeschichte 1850-1950 ; Gewalt ; Geschlechtergeschichte ; Klassenkampf ; 20th century ; England ; Konferenzschrift 1999
    Abstract: The diverse violence of modern Britain is hardly new. The Britain of 1850 to 1950 was similarly afflicted. The book is divided into four parts.   'Getting Hurt' which looks at everyday violence in the home (including a chapter on infanticide).   'Uses and Rejections' two chapters on the use of violence within groups of men and women outside the home (for example, violence within youth gangs, and male violence centred around pubs).   'Going Public' three chapters on how violence was regulated by law and the professional agencies which were set up to deal with it.   'Perceptions and Representations' this final section looks at how violence was written about, using both fiction and non-fiction sources.   Throughout the book the recurring themes of gender, class, continuity and change, public/private, and experience, discourses and representations are highlighted.
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    ISBN: 9781317882503
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (279 pages)
    Series Statement: Women And Men In History
    DDC: 305.310942
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1660-1800 ; Mann ; Identität ; Großbritannien
    Abstract: This collection of specially commissioned essays provides the first social history of masculinity in the 'long eighteenth century'. Drawing on diaries, court records and prescriptive literature, it explores the different identities of late Stuart and Georgian men. The heterosexual fop, the homosexual, the polite gentleman, the blackguard, the man of religion, the reader of erotica and the violent aggressor are each examined here, and in the process a new and increasingly important field of historical enquiry is opened up to the non-specialist reader. The book opens with a substantial introduction by the Editors. This provides readers with a detailed context for the chapters which follow. The core of the book is divided into four main parts looking at sociability, virtue and friendship, violence, and sexuality. Within this framework each chapter forms a self-contained unit, with its own methodology, sources and argument. The chapters address issues such as the correlations between masculinity and Protestantism; masculinity, Englishness and taciturnity; and the impact of changing representations of homosexual desire on the social organisation of heterosexuality. Misogyny, James Boswell's self-presentation, the literary and metaphorical representation of the body, the roles of gossip and violence in men's lives, are each addressed in individual chapters. The volume is concluded by a wide-ranging synoptic essay by John Tosh, which sets a new agenda for the history of masculinity. An extensive guide to further reading is also provided. Designed for students, academics and the general reader alike, this collection of essays provides a wide-ranging and accessible framework within which to understand eighteenth-century men. Because of the variety of approaches and conclusions it contains, and because this is the first attempt to bring together a...
    Abstract: comprehensive set of writings on the social history of eighteenth-century masculinity, this volume does something quite new. It de-centres and problematises the male 'standard' and explores the complex and disparate masculinites enacted by the men of this period. This will be essential reading for anyone interested in eighteenth-century British social history.
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    ISBN: 9781317466796
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (254 pages)
    DDC: 306.362092
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    Keywords: Brown, John
    Abstract: First published in 1909, W.E.B. Du Bois's biography of abolitionist John Brown is a literary and historical classic. With a rare combination of scholarship and passion, Du Bois defends Brown against all detractors who saw him as a fanatic, fiend, or traitor. Brown emerges as a rich personality, fully understandable as an unusual leader with a deeply religious outlook and a devotion to the cause of freedom for the slave. This new edition is enriched with an introduction by John David Smith and with supporting documents relating to Du Bois's correspondence with his publisher.
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