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  • 1
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    Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH ; Volume 19 (2018)-
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    ISSN: 2627-1176 , 2627-1176
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource
    Dates of Publication: Volume 19 (2018)-
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als European history yearbook
    Former Title: Fortsetzung von Jahrbuch für europäische Geschichte
    Keywords: Zeitschrift
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    Hannover : Vincentz Network | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Basics Pflege und Betreuung
    DDC: 305.26
    Keywords: Gerontologie ; Alterssoziologie ; Altenpflege
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    Berkeley, CA : University of California Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9780520972032
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (288 p.)
    DDC: 780.955
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    Keywords: Musik ; Iran ; Electronic books
    Abstract: A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Iran's particular system of traditional Persian art music has been long treated as the product of an ever-evolving, ancient Persian culture. In Music of a Thousand Years, Ann E. Lucas argues that this music is a modern phenomenon indelibly tied to changing notions of Iran's national history. Rather than considering a single Persian music history, Lucas demonstrates cultural dissimilarity and discontinuity over time, bringing to light two different notions of music-making in relation to premodern and modern musical norms. An important corrective to the history of Persian music, Music of a Thousand Years is the first work to align understandings of Middle Eastern music history with current understandings of the region's political history.
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    Chicago : The University of Chicago Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9780226631806
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Chicago studies in ethnomusicology
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1635-2019 ; Antikolonialismus ; Postkolonialismus ; Volksmusik ; Gwoka ; Guadeloupe
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    Bielefeld : transcript-Verlag | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9783839447369
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (174 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Science Studies
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    Keywords: FabLab ; Innovation ; Prototyp ; Produktentwicklung ; Partizipation ; Gesellschaft ; Technisierung ; Crowdfunding ; Design ; Gesellschaft ; Makerspace ; Materiality ; Materialität ; Prototypen ; Prototypes ; Prototyping ; Science ; Social Practice ; Society ; Sociological Theory ; Sociology of Science ; Sociology of Technology ; Sociology ; Soziale Praxis ; Soziologie ; Soziologische Theorie ; Technik ; Techniksoziologie ; Technologisierung ; Technologization ; Technology ; Wissenschaft ; Wissenschaftssoziologie ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
    Abstract: Prototypen wandern aus den Werkstätten in die Gesellschaft. Sie gelten nicht länger als defizitäre, weil unvollständige Objekte. Vielmehr wird durch das Design des materiell Vorläufigen das gesellschaftliche Übermorgen gestaltet und technologisiert. Die Produktion und Rezeption verwandelt sich dabei von einer exklusiven Expertentätigkeit zu einer inklusiven sozialen Praxis: Prototypen werden in öffentlich zugänglichen Makerspaces produziert, in urbanen Eventformaten zelebriert und in Crowdfunding-Kampagnen präsentiert. Sascha Dickel zeigt, dass damit auch eine neue Form der Kritik einhergehen muss, die nicht gegen die Technologisierung des Sozialen opponiert, sondern Wege erschließt, in einer technologisch verbauten Welt alternative Technikzukünfte zu entwerfen.
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    Bielefeld : transcript-Verlag | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9783839443583
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Studien zur Popularmusik
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Unterhaltungsmusik ; Public Diplomacy ; Cultural History ; Diplomacy ; History of the 20th Century ; History ; International Relations ; Music ; Musicology ; Politics ; Pop Music ; Popular Culture ; Unterhaltungsmusik ; Public Diplomacy ; MUSIC / History & Criticism ; Electronic books
    Abstract: In the early years of the Cold War, Western nations increasingly adopted strategies of public diplomacy involving popular music. While the diplomatic use of popular music was initially limited to such genres as jazz, the second half of the 20th century saw a growing presence of various popular genres in diplomatic contexts, including rock, punk, reggae, and hip-hop.This volume illuminates the interrelation of popular music and public diplomacy from a transnational and transdisciplinary angle. The contributions argue that, as popular music has been a crucial factor in international relations, its diplomatic use has substantially impacted the global musical landscape of the 20th and 21st centuries.
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    Austin : University of Texas Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9781477319703
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: 2021
    DDC: 394.2
    Keywords: Hispanic American consumers ; Hispanic Americans Ethnic identity ; Hispanic Americans Social life and customs 21st century ; Quinceañera (Social custom) ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Hispanic American Studies
    Abstract: Quinceañera celebrations, which recognize a girl's transition to young womanhood at age fifteen, are practiced in Latinx communities throughout the Americas. But in the consumer-driven United States, the ritual has evolved from a largely religious ceremony to an elaborate party where social status takes center stage. Examining the many facets of this contemporary debut experience, Quinceañera Style reports on ethnographic fieldwork in California, Texas, the Midwest, and Mexico City to reveal a complex, compelling story. Along the way, we meet a self-identified transwoman who uses the quinceañera as an intellectual space in her activist performance art. We explore the economic empowerment of women who own barrio boutiques specializing in the quinceañera's many accessories and made-in-China gowns. And, of course, we meet teens themselves, including a vlogger whose quince-planning tips have made her an online sensation. Disrupting assumptions, such as the belief that Latino communities in the United States can't desire upward mobility without abandoning ethnoracial cultural legacies, Quinceañera Style also underscores the performative nature of class and the process of constructing a self in the public, digital sphere.
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    Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9789048543953
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (320 p.)
    Series Statement: MediaMatters
    DDC: 302.23
    Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung ; Electronic books.
    Abstract: Against the grain of the growing literature on screens, *Screen Genealogies* argues that the present excess of screens cannot be understood as an expansion and multiplication of the movie screen nor of the video display. Rather, screens continually exceed the optical histories in which they are most commonly inscribed. As contemporary screens become increasingly decomposed into a distributed field of technologically interconnected surfaces and interfaces, we more readily recognize the deeper spatial and environmental interventions that have long been a property of screens. For most of its history, a screen was a filter, a divide, a shelter, or a camouflage. A genealogy stressing transformation and descent rather than origins and roots emphasizes a deeper set of intersecting and competing definitions of the screen, enabling new thinking about what the screen might yet become.
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    Berkeley, CA : University of California Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9780520972230
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (215 p.)
    DDC: 306.4/846081109548
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.Impersonations: The Artifice of Brahmin Masculinity in South Indian Dance centers on an insular community of Smarta Brahmin men from the Kuchipudi village in Telugu-speaking South India who are required to don stri-vesam (woman's guise) and impersonate female characters from Hindu religious narratives. Impersonation is not simply a gender performance circumscribed to the Kuchipudi stage, but a practice of power that enables the construction of hegemonic Brahmin masculinity in everyday village life. However, the power of the Brahmin male body in stri-vesam is highly contingent, particularly on account of the expansion of Kuchipudi in the latter half of the twentieth century from a localized village performance to a transnational Indian dance form. This book analyzes the practice of impersonation across a series of boundaries-village to urban, Brahmin to non-Brahmin, hegemonic to non-normative-to explore the artifice of Brahmin masculinity in contemporary South Indian dance.
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    Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 3110643006 , 9783110643008
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (399 p)
    Series Statement: Dialectics of the Global volume 1
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    DDC: 303.48/2
    Keywords: Globalization ; Space Economic aspects ; HISTORY / Modern / General ; Globalization ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Contributions to this volume summarize and discuss the theoretical foundations of the Collaborative Research Centre at Leipzig University which address the relationship between processes of (re-)spatialization on the one hand and the establishment and characteristics of spatial formats on the other hand. Under the global condition spatial formats are products of collective negotiations on the most effective and widely acceptable balance between the claim for sovereignty and the need for interconnectedness
    Abstract: The Respatialization of the World as one of the Driving Dialectics under the Global Condition /Marung, Steffi / Middell, Matthias --Part I: Concepts and Historicity --Category of Spatial Formats: To What End? /Middell, Matthias --Spatiotemporal Fixes and Multispatial Metagovernance: The Territory, Place, Scale, Network Scheme Revisited /Jessop, Bob --Mapping the Toolbox: Assemblage Thinking as a Heuristic /Miggelbrink, Judith --Part II: Territories --Reclaiming Territory: The Spatial Contours of Empire in US History /Schumacher, Frank --Modern Territoriality, the Nation-State, and Nationalism /Breuilly, John --Part III: Portals --Disentangling the Colonial City: Spatial Separations and Entanglements inside Towns and across the Empire in Colonial Africa and Europe /Castryck, Geert --Hamburg, 8 Rothesoodstrasse: From a Global Space to a Non-place /Weiss, Holger --Visions of the World. Transnational Connections of the Panorama Industry in Leipzig at the Turn of the Twentieth Century /Dietze, Antje --Part IV: International Spaces --The International History of (International) Sovereignty /Sluga, Glenda --Monolith or Experiment? The Bloc as a Spatial Format /Marung, Steffi / Müller, Uwe / Troebst, Stefan --Regionalisms and Regional Organizations /Engel, Ulf --Dis/Articulating Agri-food Spaces: The Multifaceted Logics of Agro-investments /Ruth, Sarah / Böhme, Michaela --The Spatial Turn and Economics: Migration, Remittances, and Transnational Economic Space /Warnecke-Berger, Hannes
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    München : De Gruyter Oldenbourg | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9783110568318 , 9783110565645
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (139 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Zeitgeschichte im Gespräch 28
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1945- ; Geschichte ; Migration ; Soziale Integration ; Einwanderung ; Migrationspolitik ; Vertriebener ; Flucht ; Deutschland ; Deutschland ; Deutschland ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Die Geschichte Deutschlands seit 1945 ist auch eine Geschichte von Migration und Integration und bleibt unvollständig, wenn man sie nicht beachtet. Erinnert sei nur an Flucht und Vertreibung nach Kriegsende, an die massenhafte „Republikflucht" aus der DDR bis zum Bau der Berliner Mauer im August 1961, an die Anwerbung von „Gastarbeitern" während des sogenannten Wirtschaftswunders oder an die Spätaussiedler und Bürgerkriegsflüchtlinge der 1990er Jahre. Historiker und Juristen zeichnen ein facettenreiches Bild dieser oft vergessenen Geschichte und spannen dabei einen weiten Bogen von den Problemen der unmittelbaren Nachkriegszeit bis zu den Entwicklungen unserer Tage.
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    Berkeley, CA : University of California Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9780520972179
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (352 p.)
    Series Statement: Cinema Cultures in Contact 1
    DDC: 305.5/2
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    Keywords: Valentino, Rudolph ; Mussolini, Benito ; Geschichte 1920-1930 ; Öffentlichkeitsarbeit ; Massenmedien ; Politische Kommunikation ; Starkult ; Filmwirtschaft ; USA ; Electronic books
    Abstract: A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In the post-World War I American climate of isolationism, nativism, democratic expansion of civic rights, and consumerism, Italian-born star Rodolfo Valentino and Italy's dictator Benito Mussolini became surprising paragons of authoritarian male power and mass appeal. Drawing on extensive archival research in the United States and Italy, Giorgio Bertellini's work shows how their popularity, both political and erotic, largely depended on the efforts of public opinion managers, including publicists, journalists, and even ambassadors. Beyond the democratic celebrations of the Jazz Age, the promotion of their charismatic masculinity through spectacle and press coverage inaugurated the now-familiar convergence of popular celebrity and political authority. This is the first volume in the new Cinema Cultures in Contact series, coedited by Giorgio Bertellini, Richard Abel, and Matthew Solomon. This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)-a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries. Learn more at the TOME website, available at: openmonographs.org.
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    Berkeley, CA : University of California Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9780520971103
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (305 p.)
    DDC: 305.800971241/0905
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    Keywords: Konferenzschrift 2014 ; Konferenzschrift 2014 ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Multiculturalism as a distinct form of liberal-democratic governance gained widespread acceptance after World War II, but in recent years this consensus has been fractured. Multiculturalism in the British Commonwealth examines cultural diversity across the postwar Commonwealth, situating modern multiculturalism in its national, international, and historical contexts. Bringing together practitioners from across the humanities and social sciences to explore the legal, political, and philosophical issues involved, these essays address common questions: What is postwar multiculturalism? Why did it come about? How have social actors responded to it? In addition to chapters on Australia, Britain, Canada, and New Zealand, this volume also covers India, Malaysia, Nigeria, Singapore, and Trinidad, tracing the historical roots of contemporary dilemmas back to the intertwined legacies of imperialism and liberalism. In so doing it demonstrates that multiculturalism has implications that stretch far beyond its current formulations in public and academic discourse.
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    Bristol : Bristol University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9781529206197
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (154 p.)
    DDC: 305.9/069140944272
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    Abstract: Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. How can Archaeology help us understand our contemporary world? This ground-breaking book reflects on material, visual and digital culture from the Calais "Jungle" - the informal camp where, before its destruction in October 2016, more than 10,000 displaced people lived. LANDE: The Calais 'Jungle' and Beyond reassesses how we understand 'crisis', activism, and the infrastructure of national borders in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, foregrounding the politics of environments, time, and the ongoing legacies of empire. Introducing a major collaborative exhibit at Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum, the book argues that an anthropological focus on duration, impermanence and traces of the most recent past can recentre the ongoing human experiences of displacement in Europe today.
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    München : De Gruyter Oldenbourg | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9783110446791
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (221 p.)
    Series Statement: Schriften des Historischen Kollegs 89
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    Keywords: Konferenzschrift 20.10.2011-22.10.2011 ; Konferenzschrift 20.10.2011-22.10.2011
    Abstract: Sind Gewalt, Gewalterfahrungen, Gewalttaten und das Leben in den Städten eng aneinander gebunden? Phänomene kollektiver Gewalt wurden von der Geschichtswissenschaft bisher vor allem für die Zwischenkriegszeit in den Blick genommen. Der von Friedrich Lenger konzipierte und herausgegebene Band erweitert deutlich die Perspektive: Er schlägt den Bogen zur älteren Politik der Straße wie Demonstrationen, Lebensmittelunruhen oder Mieterstreiks und bezieht den europäischen Osten und Süden ein. Politische Gewalt wird nicht zuletzt konsequent in den Zusammenhang vermeintlich unpolitischer Protestformen einordnet.
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    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9781501731198
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    DDC: 306.3/6
    Abstract: What can we learn from looking at married partners who live apart? In Commuter Spouses: New Families in a Changing World, Danielle Lindemann explores how couples cope when they live apart to meet the demands of their dual professional careers. Based on the personal stories of almost one-hundred commuter spouses, Lindemann shows how these atypical relationships embody (and sometimes disrupt!) gendered constructions of marriage in the United States. These narratives of couples who physically separate to maintain their professional lives reveal the ways in which traditional dynamics within a marriage are highlighted even as they are turned on their heads. Commuter Spouses follows the journeys of these couples as they adapt to change and shed light on the durability of some cultural ideals, all while working to maintain intimacy in a non-normative relationship.Lindemann suggests that everything we know about marriage, and relationships in general, promotes the idea that couples are focusing more and more on their individual and personal betterment and less on their marriage. Commuter spouses, she argues, might be expected to exemplify in an extreme manner that kind of self-prioritization. Yet, as this book details, commuter spouses actually maintain a strong commitment to their marriage. These partners illustrate the stickiness of traditional marriage ideals while simultaneously subverting expectations.
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    Austin : University of Texas Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9781477319314
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: 2021
    DDC: 378.1981097285
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    Keywords: Student movements History 20th century ; Students Political activity 20th century ; Youth Political activity 20th century ; HISTORY / Latin America / South America
    Abstract: Students played a critical role in the Sandinista struggle in Nicaragua, helping to topple the US-backed Somoza dictatorship in 1979-one of only two successful social revolutions in Cold War Latin America. Debunking misconceptions, Students of Revolution provides new evidence that groups of college and secondary-level students were instrumental in fostering a culture of insurrection-one in which societal groups, from elite housewives to rural laborers, came to see armed revolution as not only legitimate but necessary. Drawing on student archives, state and university records, and oral histories, Claudia Rueda reveals the tactics by which young activists deployed their age, class, and gender to craft a heroic identity that justified their political participation and to help build cross-class movements that eventually paralyzed the country. Despite living under a dictatorship that sharply curtailed expression, these students gained status as future national leaders, helping to sanctify their right to protest and generating widespread outrage while they endured the regime's repression. Students of Revolution thus highlights the aggressive young dissenters who became the vanguard of the opposition.
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    Princeton : Princeton University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9780691184210
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
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    Keywords: Einkommensverteilung ; Familienerziehung ; Soziale Mobilität ; Soziale Ungleichheit ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Internationaler Vergleich
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    New York : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9781479869206
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 393 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: NOMOS : Yearbook of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy 61
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    Keywords: Legitimität ; Souveränität ; Konferenzschrift 2017
    Abstract: Essays on the political, legal, and philosophical dimensions of political legitimacy.Scholars, journalists, and politicians today worry that the world’s democracies are facing a crisis of legitimacy. Although there are key challenges facing democracy—including concerns about electoral interference, adherence to the rule of law, and the freedom of the press—it is not clear that these difficulties threaten political legitimacy. Such ambiguity derives in part from the contested nature of the concept of legitimacy, and from disagreements over how to measure it. This volume reflects the cutting edge of responses to these perennial questions, drawing, in the distinctive NOMOS fashion, from political science, philosophy, and law. Contributors address fundamental philosophical questions such as the nature of public reasons of authority, as well as urgent concerns about contemporary democracy, including whether “animus” matters for the legitimacy of President Trump’s travel ban, barring entry for nationals from six Muslim-majority nations, and the effect of fundamental transitions within the moral economy, such as the decline of labor unions. Featuring twelve essays from leading scholars, Political Legitimacy is an important and timely addition to the NOMOS series.
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    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9781479840571
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 6 black and white illustrations
    Series Statement: Religion and Social Transformation 7
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    Abstract: When the protests are over, a guide to creating long-lasting social change beyond the barricadesFrom the Women’s March in D.C. to #BlackLivesMatter rallies across the country, there has been a rising wave of protests and social activism. These events have been an important part of the battle to combat racism, authoritarianism, and xenophobia in Trump’s America. However, the struggle for social justice continues long after the posters and megaphones have been packed away. After the protests are heard, how can we continue to work toward lasting change? This book is an invaluable resource for anyone invested in the fight for social justice. Welch highlights examples of social justice work accomplished at the institutional level. From the worlds of social enterprise, impact investing, and sustainable business, After the Protests Are Heard describes the work being done to promote responsible business practices and healthy, cooperative communities. The book also illuminates how colleges and universities educate students to strive toward social justice on campuses across the country, such as the Engaged Scholarship movement, which fosters interactions between faculty and students and local and global communities. In each of these instances, activists work from within institutions to transform practices and structures to foster justice and equality. After the Protests Are Heard confronts the difficult reality that social change is often followed by spikes in violence and authoritarianism. It offers important insights into how the nation might more fully acknowledge the brutal costs of racism and the historical drivers of racial injustice, and how people of all races can contain such violence in the present and prevent its resurgence in the future. For many members of the social justice community, the real work begins when the protests end. After the Protests Are Heard is a must-read for everyone interested in social justice and activism – from the barricades and campuses to the breakrooms and cubicles.
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    Durham : Duke University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9781478007227
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (224 p.)
    Edition: 2019
    Series Statement: Theory in Forms
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    Keywords: Fanon, Frantz ; Entkolonialisierung ; Demokratie ; Postkolonialismus ; Krieg ; Philosophie ; Autoritärer Staat ; Feindschaft ; Gewalt ; Politische Philosophie ; Afrika
    Abstract: In Necropolitics Achille Mbembe, a leader in the new wave of francophone critical theory, theorizes the genealogy of the contemporary world, a world plagued by ever-increasing inequality, militarization, enmity, and terror as well as by a resurgence of racist, fascist, and nationalist forces determined to exclude and kill. He outlines how democracy has begun to embrace its dark side---what he calls its “nocturnal body”---which is based on the desires, fears, affects, relations, and violence that drove colonialism. This shift has hollowed out democracy, thereby eroding the very values, rights, and freedoms liberal democracy routinely celebrates. As a result, war has become the sacrament of our times in a conception of sovereignty that operates by annihilating all those considered enemies of the state. Despite his dire diagnosis, Mbembe draws on post-Foucauldian debates on biopolitics, war, and race as well as Fanon's notion of care as a shared vulnerability to explore how new conceptions of the human that transcend humanism might come to pass. These new conceptions would allow us to encounter the Other not as a thing to exclude but as a person with whom to build a more just world.
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    ISBN: 9781789200294
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (334 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Studies in German history 22
    DDC: 995/.00431
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1800-1914 ; Deutsche ; Wissenschaftler ; Missionar ; Kolonialismus ; Pazifischer Raum ; Aufsatzsammlung
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    Durham : Duke University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9781478005650
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (328 p.) , 19 illustrations
    Edition: 2019
    DDC: 305.8969/4
    Abstract: From their earliest encounters with Indigenous Pacific Islanders, white Europeans and Americans asserted an identification with the racial origins of Polynesians, declaring them to be racially almost white and speculating that they were of Mediterranean or Aryan descent. In Possessing Polynesians Maile Arvin analyzes this racializing history within the context of settler colonialism across Polynesia, especially in Hawai‘i. Arvin argues that a logic of possession through whiteness animates settler colonialism, by which both Polynesia (the place) and Polynesians (the people) become exotic, feminized belongings of whiteness. Seeing whiteness as indigenous to Polynesia provided white settlers with the justification needed to claim Polynesian lands and resources. Understood as possessions, Polynesians were and continue to be denied the privileges of whiteness. Yet Polynesians have long contested these classifications, claims, and cultural representations, and Arvin shows how their resistance to and refusal of white settler logic have regenerated Indigenous forms of recognition.
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    University Park, PA : Penn State University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9780271085623
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (248 p.)
    Edition: 2021
    Series Statement: Africana Religions 3
    DDC: 306.76
    Keywords: Homophobia ; Homosexuality and the arts ; Homosexuality Religious aspects ; Christianity ; Sexual minorities Religious aspects ; Christianity ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBT Studies / General
    Abstract: Popular narratives cite religion as the driving force behind homophobia in Africa, portraying Christianity and LGBT expression as incompatible. Without denying Christianity’s contribution to the stigma, discrimination, and exclusion of same-sex-attracted and gender-variant people on the continent, Adriaan van Klinken presents an alternative narrative, foregrounding the ways in which religion also appears as a critical site of LGBT activism.Taking up the notion of “arts of resistance,” Kenyan, Christian, Queer presents four case studies of grassroots LGBT activism through artistic and creative expressions—including the literary and cultural work of Binyavanga Wainaina, the “Same Love” music video produced by gay gospel musician George Barasa, the Stories of Our Lives anthology project, and the LGBT-affirming Cosmopolitan Affirming Church. Through these case studies, Van Klinken demonstrates how Kenyan traditions, black African identities, and Christian beliefs and practices are being navigated, appropriated, and transformed in order to allow for queer Kenyan Christian imaginations.Transdisciplinary in scope and poignantly intimate in tone, Kenyan, Christian, Queer opens up critical avenues for rethinking the nature and future of the relationship between Christianity and queer activism in Kenya and elsewhere in Africa.
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    Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9780674240827
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (520 p.)
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    Keywords: Wirtschaft ; Gesellschaft ; Wirtschaftssoziologie ; Soziologie ; Volkswirtschaft ; Wirtschaftsordnung ; Gesellschaftsordnung
    Abstract: Keith Tribe's new translation presents Economy and Society as it stood when Max Weber died. One of the world's leading experts on Weber's thought, Tribe has produced a clear and faithful translation that will become the definitive English edition of one of the few indisputably great intellectual works of the past 150 years.
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    New York, NY : Fordham University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9780823286539
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (320 p.) , 24
    DDC: 305.386970967623
    Abstract: This book considers the day-to-day lives of young Muslims on Kenya’s island of Lamu, who live simultaneously on the edge and in the center. At the margins of the national and international economy and of Western notions of modernity, Lamu’s inhabitants nevertheless find themselves the focus of campaigns against Islamic radicalization and of Western touristic imaginations of the untouched and secluded. What does it mean to be young, modern, and Muslim here? How are these denominators imagined and enacted in daily encounters? Documenting the everyday lives of Lamu youth, this ethnography explores how young people negotiate cultural, religious, political, and economic expectations through nuanced deployments of language, dress, and bodily comportment. Hillewaert shows how seemingly mundane practices—how young people greet others, how they walk, dress, and talk—can become tactics in the negotiation of moral personhood.Morality at the Margins traces the shifting meanings and potential ambiguities of such everyday signs—and the dangers of their misconstrual. By examining the uncertainties that underwrite projects of self-fashioning, the book highlights how shifting and scalable discourses of tradition, modernity, secularization, nationalism, and religious piety inform changing notions of moral subjectivity. In elaborating everyday practices of Islamic pluralism, the book shows the ways in which Muslim societies critically engage with change while sustaining a sense of integrity and morality.
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    Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9781474432702
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (400 p.) , 23 B/W illustrations 2 B/W line art
    Edition: 2022
    Series Statement: Edinburgh Studies on the Ottoman Empire : ESOE
    DDC: 306.09394
    Abstract: Winner of the 2020 SERMEISS Book Award for outstanding scholarship in Middle Eastern/Islamic StudiesExplores the transformation of the Kizilbash from a radical religio-political movement to a religious order of closed communitiesThe first comprehensive social history of the Kizilbash/Alevi communitiesCombines conventional sources with newly discovered ones generated within the Kizilbash-Alevi milieuArgues for a readjustment in focus from pre-Islamic Central Asia to the cosmopolitan Sufi milieu of the Middle East when exploring genealogies of popular Islam in AnatoliaOffers a critical assessment of the long-standing Köprülü paradigm in the field of religious and cultural history of AnatoliaProvides a new perspective on the Ottoman-Safavid conflict, and on Sunni-Shiʿi confessionalisation in the early modern periodOpens new avenues of research in the study of other 'heterodox' communities in the Islamic worldThe Kizilbash were at once key players in and the foremost victims of the Ottoman-Safavid conflict that defined the early modern Middle East. Today referred to as Alevis, they constitute the second largest faith community in modern Turkey, with smaller pockets of related groups in the Balkans. Yet several aspects of their history remain little understood or explored. This first comprehensive socio-political history of the Kizilbash/Alevi communities uses a recently surfaced corpus of sources generated within their milieu. It offers fresh answers to many questions concerning their origins and evolution from a revolutionary movement to an inward-looking religious order.
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    Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9781898823971
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (224 p.)
    Edition: 2022
    DDC: 305.5/1220952
    Abstract: At the heart of modern Japan there remains an intractable and divisive social problem with its roots in pre-history, namely the ongoing social discrimination against the D?wa communities, otherwise known as Buraku. Their marginalization and isolation within society as a whole remains a veiled yet contested issue. Buraku studies, once largely ignored within Japan's academia and by scholarly publishers, have developed considerably in the first decades of the twenty-first century, as the extensive bibliographies of both Japanese and English sources provided here clearly demonstrates. The authors of the present study published in Japanese in 2016 and translated here by the Oxford scholar Ian Neary, have been able to incorporate this most recent data. Because of its importance as the first Buraku history based on this new research, a wider readership was always the authors' principal focus. Yet, it also provides a valuable source book for further study by those wishing to develop their knowledge about the subject from an informed base. This history of the Buraku communities and their antecedents is the first such study to be published in English.
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    Bielefeld : transcript-Verlag | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9783839447239
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: UmweltEthnologie 2
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    Keywords: Ökotourismus ; Lachen ; Umweltschutz ; Indigenes Volk ; Kulturelle Identität ; Closeness To Nature ; Cultural Identity ; Economy ; Environmental History ; Ethnologie ; Ethnology ; Gender Research ; Genderforschung ; Globalisierung ; Globalization ; Human-nature Relationship ; Kulturelle Identität ; Kulturelle Repräsentation ; Mensch-Natur-Beziehungen ; Mexico ; Mexiko ; Migration ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Naturverbundenheit ; Social Fabric ; Sozialgefüge ; Sustainability ; Tourism ; Tourismus ; Translocality ; Translokalität ; Umweltgeschichte ; Wirtschaft ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General ; Oaxaca ; Mexiko ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift
    Abstract: Ökotourismus als ein »Zurück zur Natur« ist nicht nur Sache der Touristen, sondern betrifft speziell auch die bereisten indigenen Gemeinschaften. Am Beispiel eines gemeindebasierten Ökotourismusprojekts im südlichen Mexiko zeigt Saskia Walther, wie sich eine Gemeinde globale Diskurse um indigene Naturverbundenheit zu Nutze macht. Dabei folgt sie der Frage, welche Wirkmacht der Ökotourismus vor Ort entfaltet, und zeigt anhand ihres Konzeptes von »NaturEn«, wie eng die soziale und die natürliche Umwelt miteinander verbunden sind. So bedingt der neue Umgang mit der Natur Veränderungen im sozialen Gefüge der Dorfgemeinschaft, in den Geschlechterbeziehungen, den translokalen Zugehörigkeiten und der territorialen Wahrnehmung.
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    New York, NY : Fordham University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9780823285365
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (272 p.) , 14
    DDC: 306.3/6209749
    Abstract: James Collins Johnson made his name by escaping slavery in Maryland and fleeing to Princeton, New Jersey, where he built a life in a bustling community of African Americans working at what is now Princeton University. After only four years, he was recognized by a student from Maryland, arrested, and subjected to a trial for extradition under the 1793 Fugitive Slave Act. On the eve of his rendition, after attempts to free Johnson by force had failed, a local aristocratic white woman purchased Johnson’s freedom, allowing him to avoid re-enslavement. The Princeton Fugitive Slave reconstructs James Collins Johnson’s life, from birth and enslaved life in Maryland to his daring escape, sensational trial for re-enslavement, and last-minute change of fortune, and through to the end of his life in Princeton, where he remained a figure of local fascination.Stories of Johnson’s life in Princeton often describe him as a contented, jovial soul, beloved on campus and memorialized on his gravestone as “The Students Friend.” But these familiar accounts come from student writings and sentimental recollections in alumni reports—stories from elite, predominantly white, often southern sources whose relationships with Johnson were hopelessly distorted by differences in race and social standing. In interrogating these stories against archival records, newspaper accounts, courtroom narratives, photographs, and family histories, author Lolita Buckner Inniss builds a picture of Johnson on his own terms, piecing together the sparse evidence and disaggregating him from the other black vendors with whom he was sometimes confused.By telling Johnson’s story and examining the relationship between antebellum Princeton’s black residents and the economic engine that supported their community, the book questions the distinction between employment and servitude that shrinks and threatens to disappear when an individual’s freedom is circumscribed by immobility, lack of opportunity, and contingency on local interpretations of a hotly contested body of law.
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    Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9781898823995
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (166 p.)
    Edition: 2022
    DDC: 305.522092
    Abstract: Prior to becoming Crown Prince of Japan in 1989, following the death of his grandfather Emperor Showa, Prince Naruhito studied at Merton College, Oxford, from June 1983 to October 1985. His research topic was the River Thames as a commercial highway in the eighteenth century. This marked the first time that anyone in direct succession to the throne had ever studied outside Japan. In 1992, he published a record of his time at Oxford under the title Thames no tomo ni . The memoir, which includes a colour plate section incorporating photographs taken by the Prince, explores his daily life, studies and recreational experiences, including discovering beer and being banned from entering a disco because he was wearing jeans. The Thames and I is a remarkable record, not least because of its candour, but equally because it reveals the Crown Prince as an individual, including his personal charm and sense of humour. It will be of special interest to those wishing to know more about the future emperor of Japan.
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    Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9780691196220
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Princeton Legacy Library 5309
    DDC: 305.3/09495
    Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Women in contemporary Greek society have been conventionally depicted as oppressed and socially inferior, circumscribed in behavior and segregated from the world of men. In 1967 Ernestine Friedl's classic article, "The Position of Women: Appearnce and Reality," argued that this view was overly simplified and that in Greek villages women in fact exercise power in household decisions and in determining the economic and marital future of their children. Since that article, feminists and anthropologists have continued to discuss the appearances of prestige vs. the realities of power. In this volume scholars form a variety of backgrounds return the debate to the setting of Greece for the first time since Friedl's work. Introduced by Jill Dubisch, the book contains eight original essays and a republication of the Friedl article.Among other topics, the essays examine changes now occurring in Greek gender roles, the ways women deal with oppression and act as mediators between the domestic sphere and life outside the home, and the extension of the language and symbolism of gender beyond male and female roles. The contributors are Juliet du Boulay, Anna Caraveli, Muriel Dimen, Jill Dubisch, Michael Herzfeld, Robinette Kennedy, Elftherios Pavlides and Jana Hesser, and S.D. Salamone and J.B. Stanton.Jill Dubisch is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte.Originally published in 1986.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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    Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9780691198378
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Princeton Legacy Library 5473
    DDC: 304.2
    Abstract: A distinguished scholar and the well-known author of The Rise of the West and Plagues and Peoples, William McNeill has won widespread recgonition for his ideas on the role of disease in history. In this elegantly and incisively written work, originally delivered as the Bland-Lee Lactures at Clark University, he provides a provocative interpretation in world history using the concept of parasitism. By comparing the biological organisms that compete with human beings for food or feed directly upon them ("microparasites") with those people or groups who seize goods or compel services from other human beings ("macroparasites"), Professor McNeill shows how changes in the patterns of parasitism have affected human populations in different regions of the world throughout history.The author identifies three landmarks of human ecological history when systematic changes in the balances between microparasites and macroparasites occured: the advance of our ancestors to the apex of the food chain, the human penetration of the colder and dryer zones of the earth, and the establishment of the agriculture. In an espeically revealing discussion of this last landmark, he shows how human efforts to achieve successful farming increased human vulnerability to infection. Irrigation and the use of the plow created sewage and water supply problems that in turn brought on new and intensified forms of parasites. In addition, food harvested and store for use throughout the year became vulnerable to rats, mice, insects, and molds.These advances not only increased the number and variety of microparasites; they also opened the way for macroparasites, that is, the transfer of food by those who produce it to those who produce it to those who consume it without themselves having worked in the fields. What then began as a symbiotic relationship quickly became an exploitative one. As the author points out, the high yield and dependability of irrigation plowing tied farmers to the land quite effectually and made such populations easy targets for tax and rent collectors. Hence human society in its civilized form came to be fundamentally divided between hosts and parasites, the ruled and the rulers.Against this conceptual background of the enveloping balances between microparasites and macroparasites that have limited human access to food and energy, Profesor McNeill draws a new historical picture of the human condition. In doing so, he considers the development of command versus market economics in the mobilization of human and material resources, and speculates about the direction in which these resources are coordinated today.William H. McNeill is Robert A. Millikan Distinguished Service Professor of History at the University of Chicago.Originally published in 1980.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9781479841998
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Sexual cultures 30
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    Keywords: Schwarze ; Queer-Theorie ; Minderheit ; Massenmedien ; USA
    Abstract: A profound intellectual engagement with Afrofuturism and the philosophical questions of space and time Queer Times, Black Futures considers the promises and pitfalls of imagination, technology, futurity, and liberation as they have persisted in and through racial capitalism. Kara Keeling explores how the speculative fictions of cinema, music, and literature that center black existence provide scenarios wherein we might imagine alternative worlds, queer and otherwise. In doing so, Keeling offers a sustained meditation on contemporary investments in futurity, speculation, and technology, paying particular attention to their significance to queer and black freedom.Keeling reads selected works, such as Sun Ra’s 1972 film Space is the Place and the 2005 film The Aggressives, to juxtapose the Afrofuturist tradition of speculative imagination with the similar “speculations” of corporate and financial institutions. In connecting a queer, cinematic reordering of time with the new possibilities technology offers, Keeling thinks with and through a vibrant conception of the imagination as a gateway to queer times and black futures, and the previously unimagined spaces that they can conjure.
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    New York, NY : Fordham University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9780823283569
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (240 p.)
    Series Statement: Groundworks: Ecological Issues in Philosophy and Theology
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    Abstract: Habit rules our lives. And yet climate change and the catastrophic future it portends, makes it clear that we cannot go on like this. Our habits are integral to narratives of the good life, to social norms and expectations, as well as to economic reality. Such shared shapes are vital. Yet while many of our individual habits seem perfectly reasonable, when aggregated together they spell disaster. Beyond consumerism, other forms of life and patterns of dwelling are clearly possible. But how can we get there from here? Who precisely is the ‘we’ that our habits have created, and who else might we be? Philosophy is about emancipation—from illusions, myths, and oppression. In Reoccupy Earth, the noted philosopher David Wood shows how an approach to philosophy attuned to our ecological existence can suspend the taken-for-granted and open up alternative forms of earthly dwelling. Sharing the earth, as we do, raises fundamental questions about space and time, place and history, territory and embodiment—questions that philosophy cannot directly answer but can help us to frame and to work out for ourselves. Deconstruction exposes all manner of exclusion, violence to the other, and silent subordination. Phenomenology and Whitehead’s process philosophy offer further resources for an ecological imagination. Bringing an uncommon lucidity, directness, and even practicality to sophisticated philosophical questions, Wood plots experiential pathways that disrupt our habitual existence and challenge our everyday complacency. In walking us through a range of reversals, transformations, and estrangements that thinking ecologically demands of us, Wood shows how living responsibly with the earth means affirming the ways in which we are vulnerable, receptive, and dependent, and the need for solidarity all round.If we take seriously values like truth, justice, and compassion we must be willing to contemplate that the threat we pose to the earth might demand our own species’ demise. Yet we have the capacity to live responsibly. In an unfashionable but spirited defense of an enlightened anthropocentrism, Wood argues that to deserve the privileges of Reason we must demonstrably deploy it through collective sustainable agency. Only in this way can we reinhabit the earth.
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    ISBN: 9780823283774
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    Series Statement: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
    DDC: 303.6
    Abstract: Murderous Consent details our implication in violence we do not directly inflict but in which we are structurally complicit: famines, civil wars, political repression in far-away places, and war, as it’s classically understood. Marc Crépon insists on a bond between ethics and politics and attributes violence to our treatment of the two as separate spheres. We repeatedly resist the call to responsibility, as expressed by the appeal—by peoples across the world—for the care and attention that their vulnerability enjoins. But Crépon argues that this resistance is not ineluctable, and the book searches for ways that enable us to mitigate it, through rebellion, kindness, irony, critique, and shame. In the process, he engages with a range of writers, from Camus, Sartre, and Freud, to Stefan Zweig and Karl Kraus, to Kenzaburo Oe, Emmanuel Levinas and Judith Butler. The resulting exchange between philosophy and literature enables Crépon to delineate the contours of a possible/impossible ethicosmopolitics—an ethicosmopolitics to come.Pushing against the limits of liberal rationalism, Crépon calls for a more radical understanding of interpersonal responsibility. Not just a work of philosophy but an engagement with life as it’s lived, Murderous Consent works to redefine our global obligations, articulating anew what humanitarianism demands and what an ethically grounded political resistance might mean.
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    ISBN: 9781478004363
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (368 p.) , 1 illustration
    Edition: 2019
    DDC: 306.461
    Abstract: The extensively updated and revised third edition of the bestselling Social Medicine Reader provides a survey of the challenging issues facing today's health care providers, patients, and caregivers with writings by scholars in medicine, the social sciences, and the humanities.
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    Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9780691197531
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (248 p.) , 64 b/w illus. 8 tables. 6 maps
    Series Statement: Princeton Studies in Complexity 33
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    Abstract: Over the past two decades, anthropologist J. Stephen Lansing and geneticist Murray Cox have explored dozens of villages on the islands of the Malay Archipelago, combining ethnographic research with research into genetic and linguistic markers to shed light on how these societies change over time. Islands of Order draws on their pioneering fieldwork to show how the science of complexity can be used to better understand unstable dynamics in culture, language, cooperation, and the emergence of hierarchies.Complexity science has opened exciting new vistas in physics and biology, but poses challenges for social scientists. What triggers fundamental, discontinuous social change? And what brings stable patterns—islands of order—into existence? Lansing and Cox begin with an incisive and accessible introduction to models of change, from simple random drift to coupled interactions, phase transitions, co-phylogenies, and adaptive landscapes. Then they take readers on a series of journeys to the islands of the Indo-Pacific to demonstrate how social scientists can harness these powerful tools to discover out-of-equilibrium social dynamics. Lansing and Cox address empirical questions surrounding the colonization of the Pacific, the relationship of language to culture, the emergence and disappearance of male and female hierarchies, and more.Unlocking new possibilities for the social sciences, Islands of Order is accompanied by an interactive companion website that enables readers to explore the models described in the book.
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    ISBN: 9783839448182
    Language: German
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1648-2019 ; Vergangenheitsbewältigung ; Geschichtswissenschaft ; Politische Theorie ; Geschichtstheorie ; Geschichtspolitik ; Conflict ; Contemporary History ; Cultural History ; Deutsche Geschichte ; Gegenstände ; German History ; Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts ; Geschichtswissenschaft ; History of the 20th Century ; History ; Konflikt ; Kulturgeschichte ; Ontologie ; Ontology ; Political Theory ; Politics ; Politik ; Politische Theorie ; Systematik ; Zeitgeschichte ; HISTORY / Europe / Germany ; Europa ; Deutschland
    Abstract: Bewertung und Aufarbeitung vergangener Gewalt sind inzwischen feste Bestandteile operativer Politik und ideologischer Kämpfe. Doch trotz aller Bemühungen erscheint die Zahl heutiger Konflikte im historischen Vergleich unverändert hoch - ein Indiz dafür, dass die Voraussetzungen nachhaltiger Bewältigung noch immer nicht verstanden sind. Ebenfalls ist ungeklärt, was Vergangenheit überhaupt umfasst und in welchem Wirkungsverhältnis früher entstandene - gleichwohl andauernde - Prozesse, Strukturen und Muster zur jeweiligen Gegenwart stehen. Jürgen Reifenberger liefert eine systemische und umfassende politische Theorie, die die derzeit weit verbreitete punktuelle und oberflächliche Perspektive auf einzelne Symptome überwindet.
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    Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9780824859879
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 19 color, 75 b&w illustrations
    DDC: 302.23/430951
    Abstract: Chinese cinema has a long history of engagement with China's art traditions, and literati (wenren) landscape painting has been an enduring source of inspiration. Literati Lenses explores this interplay during the Mao era, a time when cinema, at the forefront of ideological campaigns and purges, was held to strict political guidelines. This is a particularly intriguing period for the study of landscape in film, for while a film's script was under constant and multifaceted scrutiny, its landscape, a silent backdrop in the final production, tended to slip past censorial eyes.Author Mia Yinxing Liu examines literati landscape through four films: Li Shizhen (1956), Stage Sisters (1965), Early Spring in February (1963), and Legend of Tianyun Mountain (1979). By close readings of these "problematic," even "poisonous" films (official criticisms from Party media), she sheds light on how landscape offered an alternative text that could operate beyond ideological constraints and provide a portal for smuggling interesting discourses into the film. On the one hand, allusions to pictorial traditions associated with a bygone era inevitably took on different significances and even transformative meanings in the context of Mao-era cinema. On the other, unlike derivative citations or reverent homages, cinematic engagement with literati landscape endowed films with creative and critical space, as well as political poignancy. Liu not only identifies and investigates how the conventions, motifs, topoi, and aesthetics of traditional literati landscape art are reinvented and mediated on multiple levels in cinema, but also explores how post-1949 Chinese filmmakers configure themselves as modern intellectuals in the spaces forged among the vestiges of the old. In the process, she deepens her analysis, illuminating notions of utopia, monumentality, history, memory, representation, and re-appropriation. Landscape, she suggests, can be seen as an allegory of human life, a mirror of the age, and a commentary on national affairs.
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    Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9781474423199
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (472 p.) , 21 B/W illustrations 1 B/W tables
    Edition: 2022
    Series Statement: Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture
    DDC: 305.30917/670902
    Abstract: The first comprehensive study of sexual politics in Medieval IslamStudies the military-political power of eunuchs and their relations with women under the Fatimid dynasty, and the appearance of first queen in Islamic historyInvestigates the power of the Turkmen women in the politics and how and why they introduced the unique post of atabegExamines the role of the first Sunni queen in Islam, Dayfa Khatun the Ayyubid in Aleppo, and how she paved the way for another queen, Shajar al-Durr in EgyptConsiders the impact of the Mongol invasion on the Muslim world, and the coming of queen Abish to power in Shiraz, aided by Mongol powerBased on original and previously unexamined sources, this book provides a critical and systematic analysis of the role of women, mothers, wives, eunuchs, concubines, qahramans and atabegs in the dynamics and manipulation of medieval Islamic politics.Spanning over 600 years, Taef El-Azhari explores gender and sexual politics and power: from the time of the Prophet Muhammad through the Umayyad and Abbasid periods to the Mamluks in the 15th century, and from Iran and Central Asia to North Africa and Spain.
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    Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9781474450324
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (456 p.) , 21 B/W illustrations 3 B/W tables 16 B/W line art
    Edition: 2022
    Series Statement: Plateaus - New Directions in Deleuze Studies : PLAT
    DDC: 194
    Abstract: A collection of essays from Barbara Glowczewski's 40 years of research with Aboriginal Australians in conversation with 20th-century philosophyBrings together 14 key pieces by a world-renowned ethnographer of Indigenous Australia and theoretical interlocutor of Guattari's thoughtEstablishes a direct relation between comparative Indigenous ethnography and Deleuze and Guattari's body of workForms a response to the ontological debate as popularized by Brazilian and Deleuzian anthropologist, Viveiros de Castro, and French anthropologists, Bruno Latour and Philippe DescolaA proposal to think Indigenous knowledge as a form of philosophy that has answers for contemporary planetary issues we face by the growing impact of gas emissions and climate changeOpens new avenues for research on environmental and social justice based on the value of difference and creative resistanceThis collection of essays charts the intellectual trajectory of Barbara Glowczewski, an anthropologist who has worked with the Warlpiri people of Australia since 1979. She shows that the ways Aboriginal people actualise virtualities of their Dreaming space-time into collective networks of ritualised places resonate with Guattarian and Deleuzian concepts. Inspired by the art and struggles of different Indigenous people and other discriminated groups, especially women, Glowczewski draws on her own conversations with Guattari, and her debates with various scholars to deliver an innovative agenda for radical anthropology.
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    Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9780691184388
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    Abstract: A guide to the latest research on how young people can develop positive ethnic-racial identities and strong interracial relationsToday's young people are growing up in an increasingly ethnically and racially diverse society. How do we help them navigate this world productively, given some of the seemingly intractable conflicts we constantly hear about? In Below the Surface, Deborah Rivas-Drake and Adriana Umaña-Taylor explore the latest research in ethnic and racial identity and interracial relations among diverse youth in the United States. Drawing from multiple disciplines, including developmental psychology, social psychology, education, and sociology, the authors demonstrate that young people can have a strong ethnic-racial identity and still view other groups positively, and that in fact, possessing a solid ethnic-racial identity makes it possible to have a more genuine understanding of other groups.During adolescence, teens reexamine, redefine, and consolidate their ethnic-racial identities in the context of family, schools, peers, communities, and the media. The authors explore each of these areas and the ways that ideas of ethnicity and race are implicitly and explicitly taught. They provide convincing evidence that all young people-ethnic majority and minority alike-benefit from engaging in meaningful dialogues about race and ethnicity with caring adults in their lives, which help them build a better perspective about their identity and a foundation for engaging in positive relationships with those who are different from them.Timely and accessible, Below the Surface is an ideal resource for parents, teachers, educators, school administrators, clergy, and all who want to help young people navigate their growth and development successfully.
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    ISBN: 9780231542586
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: 2020
    DDC: 306
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    Durham : Duke University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9781478003298
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (360 p.) , 8 illustrations
    Edition: 2019
    Series Statement: Radical Perspectives
    DDC: 305.5/509861
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    Abstract: In Makers of Democracy A. Ricardo López-Pedreros traces the ways in which a thriving middle class was understood to be a foundational marker of democracy in Colombia during the second half of the twentieth century. Drawing on a wide array of sources ranging from training manuals and oral histories to school and business archives, López-Pedreros shows how the Colombian middle class created a model of democracy based on free-market ideologies, private property rights, material inequality, and an emphasis on a masculine work culture. This model, which naturalized class and gender hierarchies, provided the groundwork for Colombia's later adoption of neoliberalism and inspired the emergence of alternate models of democracy and social hierarchies in the 1960s and 1970s that helped foment political radicalization. By highlighting the contested relationships between class, gender, economics, and politics, López-Pedreros theorizes democracy as a historically unstable practice that exacerbated multiple forms of domination, thereby prompting a rethinking of the formation of democracies throughout the Americas.
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    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9781501738371
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 6 b&w halftones, 5 maps
    Series Statement: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
    DDC: 305.8957/0509041
    Abstract: Sovereignty Experiments tells the story of how authorities in Korea, Russia, China, and Japan—through diplomatic negotiations, border regulations, legal categorization of subjects and aliens, and cultural policies—competed to control Korean migrants as they suddenly moved abroad by the thousands in the late nineteenth century. Alyssa M. Park argues that Korean migrants were essential to the process of establishing sovereignty across four states because they tested the limits of state power over territory and people in a borderland where authority had been long asserted but not necessarily enforced. Traveling from place to place, Koreans compelled statesmen to take notice of their movement and to experiment with various policies to govern it. Ultimately, states' efforts culminated in drastic measures, including the complete removal of Koreans on the Soviet side. As Park demonstrates, what resulted was the stark border regime that still stands between North Korea, Russia, and China today.Skillfully employing a rich base of archival sources from across the region, Sovereignty Experiments sets forth a new approach to the transnational history of Northeast Asia. By focusing on mobility and governance, Park illuminates why this critical intersection of Asia was contested, divided, and later reimagined as parts of distinct nations and empires. The result is a fresh interpretation of migration, identity, and state making at the crossroads of East Asia and Russia.
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    New York, NY : Columbia University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9780231548595
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    Series Statement: Ruth Benedict Book Series
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    Keywords: Religion ; Politische Religion ; Säkularismus ; Laizität ; Nationalstaat ; Rationalität ; Sprache
    Abstract: In Secular Translations, the anthropologist Talal Asad reflects on his lifelong engagement with secularism and its contradictions. He draws out the ambiguities in our concepts of the religious and the secular through a rich consideration of translatability and untranslatability, exploring the circuitous movements of ideas between histories and cultures.In search of meeting points between the language of Islam and the language of secular reason, Asad gives particular importance to the translations of religious ideas into nonreligious ones. He discusses the claim that liberal conceptions of equality represent earlier Christian ideas translated into secularism; explores the ways that the language and practice of religious ritual play an important but radically transformed role as they are translated into modern life; and considers the history of the idea of the self and its centrality to the project of the secular state. Secularism is not only an abstract principle that modern liberal democratic states espouse, he argues, but also a range of sensibilities. The shifting vocabularies associated with each of these sensibilities are fundamentally intertwined with different ways of life. In exploring these entanglements, Asad shows how translation opens the door for-or requires-the utter transformation of the translated. Drawing on a diverse set of thinkers ranging from al-Ghazālī to Walter Benjamin, Secular Translations points toward new possibilities for intercultural communication, seeking a language for our time beyond the language of the state.
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    Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9781618118967
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (270 p.)
    Series Statement: Jewish Identities in Post-Modern Society
    DDC: 303.48256940510904
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1890-2018 ; Geschichte 1948-2018 ; Juden ; China ; Israel
    Abstract: In the fascinating story of Israel-China relations, unique history and culture intertwine with complex diplomacy and global business ventures—some of which have reached impressive success. China and Israel is a living collage that addresses these issues from a point of view that combines the professional and the personal. This book paints a broad picture of China-Israel relations from an historical and political perspective and from the Jewish and Israeli angle. To tell this story, Shai relies on rare documents, archival materials and interviews with individuals who were active in forming the relationship between these two states. He profiles Morris Cohen who, according to some, served as Sun Yat-sen’s personal advisor; gynecologist Dr. Ya’akov Rosenfeld, who rose to the rank of general in the Chinese Red Army and ended his career as a family physician in Tel Aviv; and international business magnate Shaul Eisenberg, otherwise known as “the king of China,” who executed the first Sino-Israeli military contacts. Shai also covers the attempts of major Israeli companies and business people to enter China, and describes the opportunities and risks involved when China purchases companies that are part of Israel’s national infrastructure.
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    Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Multilingual Matters | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9781788924535
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    Series Statement: Language at Work
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    Abstract: What role do material objects play in the in-situ, embodied and spatial circumstances of interaction? How do people organize their embodied conduct with regard to such objects, and how is this consequential in and for their work practices? In this volume, contributors focus on these questions in terms of connections between ongoing courses of interaction within work practices, object materiality and mobility in space, bodily movement and manipulation of objects, and language. The chapters in this book address a broad range of settings and actions (including dressmaking, foreign language teaching, international business meetings and forklift driving) where a variety of objects become relevant.
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    Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Multilingual Matters | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9781788926676
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 306.44
    Abstract: This volume addresses the question ‘What role does religion play in the maintenance, revival and/or shift, of languages?’ The chapters in this volume explore the complex and dynamic relationship between religion and the maintenance, revival and/or shift of languages in different multilingual multicultural contexts, under diverse sociopolitical conditions, at different points in time. The 12 chapters cover data from Algeria, India, Israel, Malaysia, Nigeria, Singapore, UK, USA and Uganda and discuss the impact of context, ideology, identity and education on the following religions: Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Sikhism, and some religions closely associated with China such as Confucianism and Taoism, and their respective languages and varieties of language in these regions. The languages discussed by the writers in this volume include Arabic, English, Hebrew, Malay, Mandarin, Portuguese, Punjabi, Pali, Sanskrit, Tamazight and Yoruba. ...
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    ISBN: 9781789200171
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (190 p.)
    Series Statement: Explorations in Heritage Studies 1
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    Abstract: Critical Heritage Studies is a new and fast-growing interdisciplinary field of study seeking to explore power relations involved in the production and meaning-making of cultural heritage. Politics of Scale offers a global, multi- and interdisciplinary point of view to the scaled nature of heritage, and provides a theoretical discussion on scale as a social construct and a method in Critical Heritage Studies. The international contributors provide examples and debates from a range of diverse countries, discuss how heritage and scale interact in current processes of heritage meaning-making, and explore heritage-scale relationship as a domain of politics.
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    ISBN: 9781789201215
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (210 p.)
    DDC: 305.892/720569577
    Abstract: Petra, Jordan became a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1985, and the semi-nomadic Bedouin inhabiting the area were resettled as a consequence. The Bedouin themselves paradoxically became UNESCO Masterpieces of Oral and Intangible Heritage in 2005 for the way in which their oral traditions and everyday lives relate to the landscape they no longer live in. Being Bedouin Around Petra asks: How could this happen? And what does it mean to be Bedouin when tourism, heritage protection, national discourse, an Islamic Revival and even New Age spiritualism lay competing claims to the past in the present?...
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    ISBN: 9781789201543
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (218 p.)
    Series Statement: Protest, Culture & Society 26
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    Keywords: Soziale Bewegung ; Partei ; Politische Beteiligung
    Abstract: Across the West, the explosion of social movement activity since the late 1960s has constituted a "participatory revolution" that has posed profound challenges for formal political parties. Through an analysis of new interviews, institutional documents, and a host of other largely unexploited sources, Daniela R. Piccio provides a rich and empirically grounded exploration of the wide-ranging responses to these movements. Focusing on Italy and the Netherlands since the 1970s, Party Responses to Social Movements demonstrates how political parties have incorporated the demands of movements to a surprising extent, even as both have grappled with fundamental and inevitable tensions between their respective roles and aims.
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    ISBN: 9781785336737
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (348 p.)
    Series Statement: Loose Can(n)ons 2
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    Abstract: This provocative work offers an anthropological analysis of the phenomenon of political correctness, both as a general phenomenon of communication, in which associations in space and time take precedence over the content of what is communicated, and at specific critical historical conjunctures at which new elites attempt to redefine social reality. Focusing on the crises over the last thirty years of immigration and multiculturalist politics in Sweden, the book examines cases, some in which the author was himself involved, but also comparative material from other countries.
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    ISBN: 9781789201147
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (346 p.)
    DDC: 305.800917/569
    Abstract: Modern perceptions of race across much of the Global South are indebted to the Brazilian social scientist Gilberto Freyre, who in works such as The Masters and the Slaves claimed that Portuguese colonialism produced exceptionally benign and tolerant race relations. This volume radically reinterprets Freyre's Luso-tropicalist arguments and critically engages with the historical complexity of racial concepts and practices in the Portuguese-speaking world. Encompassing Brazil as well as Portuguese-speaking societies in Africa, Asia, and even Portugal itself, it places an interdisciplinary group of scholars in conversation to challenge the conventional understanding of twentieth-century racialization, proffering new insights into such controversial topics as human plasticity, racial amalgamation, and the tropes and proxies of whiteness.
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    ISBN: 9781789201987
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    Series Statement: European Anthropology in Translation 7
    DDC: 306.20945/7
    Abstract: The issue of patronage-clientelism has long been of interest in the social sciences. Based on long-term ethnographic research in southern Italy, this book examines the concept and practice of raccomandazione: the omnipresent social institution of using connections to get things done. Viewing the practice both from an indigenous perspective - as a morally ambivalent social fact - and considering it in light of the power relations that position southern Italy within the nesting relations of global Norths and Souths, it builds on and extends past scholarship to consider the nature of patronage in a contemporary society and its relationship to corruption.
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    ISBN: 9781789202045
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (174 p.)
    Series Statement: Loose Can(n)ons 4
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    Abstract: On the Geopragmatics of Anthropological Identification explores the discursive spaces of our speaking position, or what has routinely been referred to in the literature as the poetics and politics of writing culture. At issue here are its problematic underlying notions of cultural identity, authorial subjectivity and postcolonial critique. Contrary to the widespread assumption that cultural studies and the social sciences share a common discourse of culture and society, Allen Chun argues that 'modern' disciplinary practices and axioms have in fact produced inherently incompatible theories. Anthropology's ethical relativism has also created obstacles for a critical theory of culture and society.
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    ISBN: 9781789203073
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (386 p.)
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    Keywords: LGBT ; Kommune ; Kulturgut ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Significant historic and archaeological sites affiliated with two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer history in the United States are examined in this unique volume. The importance of the preservation process in documenting and interpreting the lives and experiences of queer Americans is emphasized. The book features chapters on archaeology and interpretation, as well as several case studies focusing on queer preservation projects. The accessible text and associated activities create an interactive and collaborative process that encourages readers to apply the material in a hands-on setting.
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    ISBN: 9781789202205
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (278 p.)
    Series Statement: CEDLA Latin America Studies 106
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    Keywords: Morales Ayma, Evo ; Geschichte 2006-2016 ; Soziale Bewegung ; Politik ; Bolivien
    Abstract: After a landslide electoral victory in 2006, Evo Morales became the first indigenous President of Bolivia. Morales's stunning ascent was mirrored by the rising fortunes of his political party, the leftist Movimiento al Socialismo, which today continues to challenge the status quo in Bolivian politics and implement ambitious social reforms. This study examines how the state and social movements have impacted democratization in Bolivia, along with other sectors such as NGOs and the media. Soledad Valdivia Rivera's analysis helps us to understand how the movement's relationships have come to transform the Bolivian political process as we know it.
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    ISBN: 9781789202977
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    Series Statement: Integration and Conflict Studies 20
    DDC: 305.89354067
    Abstract: The increased presence of Somalis has brought much change to East African towns and cities in recent decades, change that has met with ambivalence and suspicion, especially within Kenya. This volume demystifies Somali residence and mobility in urban East Africa, showing its historical depth, and exploring the social, cultural and political underpinnings of Somali-led urban transformation. In so doing, it offers a vivid case study of the transformative power of (forced) migration on urban centres, and the intertwining of urbanity and mobility. The volume will be of interest for readers working in the broader field of migration, as well as anthropology and urban studies.
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    Durham : Duke University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9781478004332
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (272 p.) , 28 illustrations
    Edition: 2018
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    Abstract: In Coca Yes, Cocaine No Thomas Grisaffi traces the political ascent and transformation of the Movement toward Socialism (MAS) from an agricultural union of coca growers into Bolivia's ruling party. When Evo Morales—leader of the MAS—became Bolivia's president in 2006, coca growers celebrated his election and the possibility of scaling up their form of grassroots democracy to the national level. Drawing on a decade of ethnographic fieldwork with coca union leaders, peasant farmers, drug traffickers, and politicians, Grisaffi outlines the tension that Morales faced between the realities of international politics and his constituents, who, even if their coca is grown for ritual or medicinal purposes, are implicated in the cocaine trade and criminalized under the U.S.-led drug war. Grisaffi shows how Morales's failure to meet his constituents' demands demonstrates that the full realization of alternative democratic models at the local or national level is constrained or enabled by global political and economic circumstances.
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    Austin : University of Texas Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9781477318195
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: 2021
    DDC: 398.9/61
    Keywords: Proverbs, Spanish Translations into English ; Proverbs, Spanish ; Spanish language Terms and phrases ; Spanish language Idioms ; FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Spanish
    Abstract: One of the most challenging-and entertaining-aspects of learning another language is the idiom. Those quirky phrases, steeped in metaphor and colorful cultural references, enliven conversation and make your cross-cultural communication familiar, fun, and meaningful. ¡Dichos! (Sayings) brings us a vibrant compendium of both age-old and brand-new expressions from across Latin America, compiled by the language enthusiast whose Breaking Out of Beginner's Spanish transformed thousands of readers' interactions with the Spanish language. ¡Dichos! is divided into thematic sections covering topics ranging from games and relaxation to politics, macho men, and Mondays. Spanish speakers can also use the book to identify the spot-on/best slangy English equivalent for a Spanish-language idiom. Packed with gems like La barba me huele a tigre, y yo mismo me tengo miedo (My beard smells of tiger, and I'm even afraid of myself) and Para todo mal, mezcal; para todo bien, también (For everything bad, mezcal; for everything good, likewise), this book is the ultimate tool for taking your language skills to the next level as you navigate nuance with humor and linguistic agility.
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    Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Multilingual Matters | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9781788922760
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Encounters
    DDC: 306.4409512/8
    Abstract: This book makes a novel contribution to the sociolinguistics of globalization by examining the dynamics between language and social change in the tourism destination of West Street, Yangshuo, China. The author makes use of multiple sources, including ethnographic interviews, tourist literature, public signage and policy documents, to examine how tourist mobilities are embedded in and interact with historical, geographical, social, cultural, economic and semiotic factors in the creation of a ‘global village’. The transformation of West Street is emblematic of changes in Chinese society under globalization, revealing new subjectivities, tensions and struggles inherent in this ongoing process of social change.
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    Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9780674239685 , 9780674239708 , 9780674239692
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 305.8009495/0902
    Abstract: Was there ever such a thing as Byzantium? Certainly no emperor ever called himself Byzantine. While the identities of eastern minorities were clear, that of the ruling majority remains obscured behind a name made up by later generations. Anthony Kaldellis says it is time for the Romanness of these so-called Byzantines to be taken seriously.
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    Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9780691185569
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: America in the World 38
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Lorenzini, Sara Global development
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    Keywords: Ost-West-Konflikt ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Globalisierung
    Abstract: In the Cold War, "development" was a catchphrase that came to signify progress, modernity, and economic growth. Development aid was closely aligned with the security concerns of the great powers, for whom infrastructure and development projects were ideological tools for conquering hearts and minds around the globe, from Europe and Africa to Asia and Latin America. In this sweeping and incisive book, Sara Lorenzini provides a global history of development, drawing on a wealth of archival evidence to offer a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a Cold War phenomenon that transformed the modern world.Taking readers from the aftermath of the Second World War to the tearing down of the Berlin Wall, Lorenzini shows how development projects altered local realities, transnational interactions, and even ideas about development itself. She shines new light on the international organizations behind these initiatives—examining their strategies and priorities and assessing the actual results on the ground—and she also gives voice to the recipients of development aid. Lorenzini shows how the Cold War shaped the global ambitions of development on both sides of the Iron Curtain, and how international organizations promoted an unrealistically harmonious vision of development that did not reflect local and international differences.An unparalleled journey into the political, intellectual, and economic history of the twentieth century, this book presents a global perspective on Cold War development, demonstrating how its impacts are still being felt today.
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    ISBN: 9781789201963
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (324 p.)
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    Abstract: Military-civilian encounters are multiple and diverse in our times. Contributors to this volume demonstrate how military and civilian domains are constituted through entanglements undermining the classic civil-military binary and manifest themselves in unexpected places and manners. Moreover, the essays trace out the ripples, reverberations and resonations of civil-military entanglements in areas not usually associated with such ties, but which are nevertheless real and significant for an understanding of the roles war, violence and the military play in shaping contemporary societies and the everyday life of its citizens.
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    Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9780748696956
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (400 p.)
    Edition: 2022
    DDC: 306.44
    Abstract: Exploring the roots of four keywords for our times: Europe, the citizen, the individual, and the peopleThe English keywords are shown to be European concepts with roots in French and parallel traditions in GermanPlaces keywords into their historical context, and shows how the existing Chinese words for people and person are transformed through contact with concepts of European originEstablishes a complex model of political diversity for Europe's cultures and traditions Adopts a combination of critical and analytical methods and corpus-based research Goes beyond a cold analysis of concepts to scrutinize the keywords that move people and get them excited about individual rights, personal destinies and the role of the peopleWith economic, political and cultural globalisation, our world is inseparable from the fates of other nations and peoples. But how far can we trust English to provide us with a reliable lingua franca to speak about our world? If our keywords reflect our cultures and form parts of specific cultural and historical narratives, they may well help trace the paths we take together into the future. This book seeks the roots of four keywords for our times: the people, the citizen, the individual, and Europe. By exploring these keywords in English and understanding stories related to 'equivalent keywords' in Chinese, German, French and Czech, this book helps us to understand how other languages are adapting to English words, and how their worldviews resist 'anglo-concepts' through their own traditions, stories and worldviews.
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    Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9781474437592
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (212 p.)
    Edition: 2022
    DDC: 325.3
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    Keywords: Postkolonialismus ; Siedlungspolitik
    Abstract: Explores the motivations behind contemporary (post-1960) settlement projects into occupied territoriesSettlement projects are sustained clusters of policies that allow states to strategically plan, implement and support the permanent transfer of nationals into a territory not under their sovereignty. Ehud Eiran explains why states launch settlement projects into occupied areas and introduces the international environment as an important enabling variable. By drawing comparisons between three such major projects - Israel in the West Bank and Gaza, Morocco in Western Sahara and Indonesia in East-Timor - Ehud Eiran classifies post-colonial settlement projects as a distinct cluster of cases that warrant a different analytical approach to traditional colonial studies.Built on a careful synthesis of existing principles in international relations theory and empirical research, the book advances a clearly formulated theoretical position on the launch of post-colonial settlement projects. The result yields a number of fresh insights into the relationship between conflict, territory and international norms.Key FeaturesExplains what motivates states to launch post-colonial settlement projects, against international trends and normsAnalyses three major post-colonial settlement projects (Israel, Morocco, Indonesia): one of the first books to place these projects in a comparative perspectiveAlso analyses three cases where states considered settlements but did not launch projects: India in Goa, Libya in Chad and Mauritania in Western SaharaArgues that post-colonial settlement projects should be treated as a distinct category of cases, breaking with current work that views them as traditional colonial projects...
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    Budapest : Central European University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9786155053146
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (246 p.)
    Edition: 2022
    DDC: 302.23/0943
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1980-1990 ; Kulturpolitik ; Mitteleuropa
    Abstract: While there are still occasional uses of it today, the term "Central Europe" carries little of the charge that it did in the 1980s and early 1990s, and as a political and intellectual project it has receded from the horizon. Proponents of a distinct cultural profile of these countries-all involved now in the process of Transatlantic integration-used "Central European", as a contestation with the geo-political label of Eastern Europe. This book discusses the transnational set of practices connecting journals with other media in the mid-1980s, disseminating the idea of Central Europe simultaneously in East and West. A range of new methodologies, including GIS-mapping visualization, is used, repositing the political-cultural journal as one central node of a much larger cultural system. What has happened to the liberal humanist philosophy that "Central Europe" once evoked? In the early years of the transition era, the liberal humanist perspective shared by Havel, Konrád, Kundera, and Michnik was quickly replaced by an economic liberalism that evolved into neoliberal policies and practices. The author follows the trajectories of the concept into the present day, reading its material and intellectual traces in the postcommunist landscape. She explores how the current use of transnational, web-based media follows the logic and practice of an earlier, 'dissident' generation of writers.
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    ISBN: 9781789201291
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (358 p.)
    DDC: 305.9/06914
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    Keywords: Einwanderung ; Flüchtling ; Sozialer Wandel ; Multikulturelle Gesellschaft ; Flüchtlingspolitik ; Zugehörigkeit ; Religiöser Pluralismus ; Soziokultureller Wandel ; Deutschland
    Abstract: The arrival in 2015 and 2016 of over one million asylum seekers and refugees in Germany had major social consequences and gave rise to extensive debates about the nature of cultural diversity and collective life. This volume examines the responses and implications of what was widely seen as the most significant and contested social change since German reunification in 1990. It combines in-depth studies based on anthropological fieldwork with analyses of the longer trajectories of migration and social change. Its original conclusions have significance not only for Germany but also for the understanding of diversity and difference more widely.
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    ISBN: 9781789203301
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (236 p.)
    DDC: 306.09
    Abstract: Colonial encounters between indigenous peoples and European state powers are overarching themes in the historical archaeology of the modern era, and postcolonial historical archaeology has repeatedly emphasized the complex two-way nature of colonial encounters. This volume examines common trajectories in indigenous colonial histories, and explores new ways to understand cultural contact, hybridization and power relations between indigenous peoples and colonial powers from the indigenous point of view. By bringing together a wide geographical range and combining multiple sources such as oral histories, historical records, and contemporary discourses with archaeological data, the volume finds new multivocal interpretations of colonial histories.
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    ISBN: 9781789204803
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (306 p.)
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; LGBT ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: With a focus on historic sites, this volume explores the recent history of non- heteronormative Americans from the early twentieth century onward and the places associated with these communities. Authors explore how queer identities are connected with specific places: places where people gather, socialize, protest, mourn, and celebrate. The focus is deeper look at how sexually variant and gender non-conforming Americans constructed identity, created communities, and fought to have rights recognized by the government. Each chapter is accompanied by prompts and activities that invite readers to think critically and immerse themselves in the subject matter while working collaboratively with others.
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    Bielefeld : transcript-Verlag | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9783839448458
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (234 Seiten)
    Series Statement: K'Universale - Interdisziplinäre Diskurse zu Fragen der Zeit 8
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    Keywords: Politik ; Gesellschaft ; Kultur ; Europagedanke ; Cultural Studies ; Cultural Theory ; European Politics ; Europäische Integration ; Europäische Politik ; Europäische Union ; Gesellschaft ; Krise ; Kultur ; Kultursoziologie ; Kulturtheorie ; Kulturwissenschaft ; Political Science ; Politics ; Politik ; Politikwissenschaft ; Sociology of Culture ; Werte ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture ; Europa ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Wenn das Konzept »Europa« derzeit grundlegende Fragen aufwirft, dann liegt darin zugleich auch die Chance, es neu zu diskutieren und neu zu definieren. Denn die Phase der Krise und des Umbruchs betrifft sowohl die politische Ebene der Europäischen Union, als auch die kulturellen Gemeinsamkeiten und gesellschaftlichen Bindekräfte Europas - und dabei spielt der Bezug auf europäische Werte, gemeinsame Wurzeln und verpflichtende Prinzipien eine wichtige Rolle. Die Beiträger_innen des Bandes beleuchten diese Herausforderung aus den unterschiedlichen Erfahrungsbereichen und Zugangsweisen ihrer Disziplinen, von den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften bis zum Journalismus und der Politik.
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    Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9780824873486
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 10 b&w illustrations, 3 color plates
    DDC: 305.4/2/0973
    Abstract: The overwhelming majority of tea practitioners in contemporary Japan are women, but there has been little discussion on their historical role in tea culture (chanoyu). In Cultivating Femininity, Rebecca Corbett writes women back into this history and shows how tea practice for women was understood, articulated, and promoted in the Edo (1603-1868) and Meiji (1868-1912) periods. Viewing chanoyu from the lens of feminist and gender theory, she sheds new light on tea's undeniable influence on the formation of modern understandings of femininity in Japan.Corbett overturns the iemoto tea school's carefully constructed orthodox narrative by employing underused primary sources and closely examining existing tea histories. She incorporates Pierre Bourdieu's theories of social and cultural capital and Norbert Elias's "civilizing process" to explore the economic and social incentives for women taking part in chanoyu. Although the iemoto system sought to increase its control over every aspect of tea, including book production, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century popular texts aimed specifically at women evidence the spread of tea culture beyond parameters set by the schools. The expansion of chanoyu to new social groups cascaded from commoner men to elite then commoner women. Shifting the focus away from male tea masters complicates the history of tea in Japan and shows how women of different social backgrounds worked within and without traditionally accepted paradigms of tea practice. The direct socioeconomic impact of the spread of tea is ultimately revealed in subsequent advances in women's labor opportunities and an increase in female social mobility. Through their participation in chanoyu, commoner women were able to blur and lessen the status gap between themselves and women of aristocratic and samurai status. Cultivating Femininity offers a new perspective on the prevalence of tea practice among women in modern Japan. It presents a fresh, much-needed approach, one that will be appreciated by students and scholars of Japanese history, gender, and culture, as well as by tea practitioners.
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    Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9789048536757
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 1 halftone, 3 line drawings
    Series Statement: Asian Borderlands
    DDC: 301
    Abstract: This book explores the modern transformation of state and society in the Indian Himalaya. Centred on three Rajput-led kingdoms during the transition to British rule (c. 1790-1840) and their interconnected histories, it demonstrates how border making practices engendered a modern reading of 'tradition' that informs communal identities to date. By revising the history of these mountain kings on the basis of extensive archival, textual, and ethnographic research, it offers an alternative to popular and scholarly discourses that grew with the rise of colonial knowledge. This revision ultimately points to the important contribution of borderland spaces to the fabrication of group identities.
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    Manchester : Manchester University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9781526147271
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 49 black & white illustrations
    Series Statement: Women, Theatre and Performance
    DDC: 305.309
    Abstract: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This book presents a collection of cutting-edge historical and cultural essays in the field of women, theatre and performance. The chapters explore women's networks of professional practice in the theatre and performance industries between 1900 and 1950, with a focus on women's sense and experience of professional agency in an industry largely controlled by men. The book is divided into two sections: 'Female theatre workers in the social and theatrical realm' looks at the relationship between women's work - on and off stage - and autobiography, activism, technique, touring, education and the law. 'Women and popular performance' focuses on the careers of individual artists, once household names, including Lily Brayton, Ellen Terry, radio star Mabel Constanduros and Oscar-winning film star Margaret Rutherford.
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    Bielefeld : transcript-Verlag | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9783839444108
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Postcolonial Studies 33
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Konsumgesellschaft ; Rassismus ; Geschlechterverhältnis ; Männlichkeit ; Weiblichkeit ; Bergsteiger ; Hausfrau ; Ideal ; Cultural Studies ; Gender Studies ; Kulturwissenschaft ; Nation ; Othering ; Postcolonialism ; Postkolonialismus ; Racism ; Rassismus ; Schweiz ; Switzerland ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies ; Schweiz
    Abstract: Auf welche Weise ist Kolonialität an der Herausbildung von Geschlecht beteiligt? Am Beispiel der Schweiz im 20. Jahrhundert richtet Patricia Purtschert den Blick auf zwei Figuren, die zentral sind für die Herstellung von Nation: die »Hausfrau« und den »Bergsteiger«. Sie zeichnet nach, wie die Hausfrau in ständiger Abgrenzung von rassifizierten Anderen als weiße Vorsteherin einer zivilisierten und konsumorientierten Häuslichkeit entsteht, während sich der Bergsteiger als Inbegriff weißer Männlichkeit im kolonialen Wettstreit um die höchsten Gipfel der Welt formiert. Koloniales Weiß-Machen erweist sich damit als grundlegendes Element einer zutiefst vergeschlechtlichten Nation.
    Abstract: National identity and patriarchal gender roles - in what ways are both intertwined with »colonization«? An examination that takes Switzerland as an example.
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    Bielefeld : transcript-Verlag | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9783839442968
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Urban Studies
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    Keywords: Sozialraum ; Hochhaus ; Nachbarschaft ; Trabantenstadt ; Architektur ; Wohnen ; Soziologie ; Alltag ; Wohnungsbau ; 1960er-Jahre ; 1960s ; 1970er-Jahre ; 1970s ; Architecture ; Architektur ; City ; Habitation ; High-Rise ; Hochhaus ; Nachkriegsarchitektur ; Post-War Architecture ; Raum ; Schweiz ; Social Geography ; Sociology ; Sozialgeographie ; Soziologie ; Space ; Stadt ; Switzerland ; Urban Studies ; Wohnen ; Schweiz
    Abstract: About living in high-rises built during the construction boom years, the potency of social marginalization and the resilience of neighborhoods.
    Abstract: Die Großwohnbauten, die während des Baubooms der 1960er- und 1970er-Jahre die schweizerische Siedlungslandschaft grundlegend veränderten, sind im Laufe der Jahre zunehmend in Verruf geraten. Doch wie gestalten sich - jenseits der weit verbreiteten Klischees - die Lebenswirklichkeiten in diesem Baubestand?Eveline Althaus richtet den Blick auf die Nachbarschaften von Hochhaussiedlungen in der Schweiz. Anhand von Hausbiografien untersucht sie die sozialräumlichen Dynamiken und beleuchtet, wie Vielfalt und Differenz im Wohnumfeld erfahren und (re-)produziert werden. Dadurch eröffnet sie neue Perspektiven auf den Umgang mit diesem gebauten Erbe und Formen des Zusammenlebens in heterogener werdenden Settings.
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    Bielefeld : transcript-Verlag | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9783839443064
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Aging Studies 15
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    Keywords: Kultur ; Literatur ; Erzähltheorie ; Geschlechterforschung ; Embodiment ; Körper ; Altern ; Krankheit ; Tod ; Krankheit ; Tod ; Sterben ; Ageism ; Aging Studies ; Body and Embodiment ; Body ; Cultural Studies ; Culture ; Decay ; Gender Studies ; General Literature Studies ; Health ; Literary Studies ; Literature ; Narrative Theory ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Do liminal embodied experiences such as illness, death and dying affect literary form? In recent years, the concept of embodiment has been theorized from various perspectives. Gender studies have been concerned with the cultural implications of embodiment, arguing to move away from viewing the body as a prediscursive phenomenon to regarding it as an acculturated body. Age studies have extended this view to the embodied experience of ageing, while drawing attention to the ways in which the ageing body, through its materiality and plasticity, restricts the possibilities of (de)constructing subjectivity. These current debates on embodiment find a strong counterpart in literary representation. The contributions to this anthology investigate how and to what extend physical borderline experiences affect literary form.
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    Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Multilingual Matters | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9781788922562
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Researching Multilingually
    DDC: 306.44072
    Abstract: This book explores the challenges and opportunities involved in conducting research with members of immigrant, refugee and other minoritized communities. Through first-hand reflective accounts, contributors explore community-based collaborative work, and suggest important implications for applied linguistics, educational research and anthropological investigations of language, literacy and culture. By critically reflecting on the power and limits of university-based research conducted on behalf of, or in collaboration with, members of local communities and by exploring the complicated relationships, dynamics and understandings that emerge, the chapters collectively demonstrate the value of reflecting on the possibilities and challenges of the research process, including the ethical and emotional dimensions of participating in collaborative research.
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    Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Multilingual Matters | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9781788923071
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Linguistic Diversity and Language Rights
    DDC: 306.44/9
    Abstract: Spanning Indigenous settings in Africa, the Americas, Aotearoa/New Zealand, Australia, Central Asia and the Nordic countries, this book examines the multifaceted language reclamation work underway by Indigenous peoples throughout the world. Exploring political, historical, ideological, and pedagogical issues, the book foregrounds the decolonizing aims of contemporary Indigenous language movements inside and outside of schools. Many authors explore language reclamation in their own communities. Together, the authors call for expanded discourses on language planning and policy that embrace Indigenous ways of knowing and forefront grassroots language reclamation efforts as a force for Indigenous sovereignty, social justice, and self-determination. This volume will be of interest to scholars, educators and students in applied linguistics, Ethnic/Indigenous Studies, education, second language acquisition, and comparative-international education, and to a broader audience of language educators, revitalizers and policymakers.
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    Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9789048538225
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 303.4833096
    Abstract: Despite issues associated with the digital divide, mobile telephony is growing on the continent and the rise of smartphones has given citizens easy access to social networking sites. But the digital divide, which mostly reflects on one's race, gender, socioeconomic status or geographical location, stands in the way of digital progress. What opportunities are available to tame digital disparities? How are different societies in Africa handling digital problems? What innovative methods are being used to provide citizens with access to critical information that can help improve their lives? Experiences from various locations in several sub-Saharan African countries have been carefully selected in this collection with the aim of providing an updated account on the digital divide and its impact in Africa.
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    ISBN: 9781785335990
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (466 p.)
    DDC: 305.309498
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    Keywords: Postkommunismus ; Kommunismus ; Geschlechtergeschichte ; Alltag ; Rumänien
    Abstract: Focusing on youth, family, work, and consumption, Ambiguous Transitions analyzes the interplay between gender and citizenship postwar Romania. By juxtaposing official sources with oral histories and socialist policies with everyday practices, Jill Massino illuminates the gendered dimensions of socialist modernization and its complex effects on women's roles, relationships, and identities. Analyzing women as subjects and agents, the book examines how they negotiated the challenges that arose as Romanian society modernized, even as it clung to traditional ideas about gender. Massino concludes by exploring the ambiguities of postsocialism, highlighting how the legacies of the past have shaped politics and women's lived experiences since 1989.
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    Durham : Duke University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9781478007470
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (200 p.) , 28 illustrations
    Edition: 2020
    Series Statement: Global Insecurities
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    Keywords: Grenzgebiet ; Grenze ; Illegaler Einwanderer ; Politische Anthropologie ; Sicherheitspolitik ; Grenzschutz ; Einwanderungspolitik ; Migrationspolitik ; USA ; Mexiko
    Abstract: Border walls permeate our world, with more than thirty nation-states constructing them. Anthropologists Margaret E. Dorsey and Miguel Díaz-Barriga argue that border wall construction manifests transformations in citizenship practices that are aimed not only at keeping migrants out but also at enmeshing citizens into a wider politics of exclusion. For a decade, the authors studied the U.S.-Mexico border wall constructed by the Department of Homeland Security and observed the political protests and legal challenges that residents mounted in opposition to the wall. In Fencing in Democracy Dorsey and Díaz-Barriga take us to those border communities most affected by the wall and often ignored in national discussions about border security to highlight how the state diminishes citizens' rights. That dynamic speaks to the citizenship experiences of border residents that is indicative of how walls imprison the populations they are built to protect. Dorsey and Díaz-Barriga brilliantly expand conversations about citizenship, the operation of U.S. power, and the implications of border walls for the future of democracy.
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    ISBN: 9781789202144
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (322 p.)
    Series Statement: Methodology & History in Anthropology 36
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    Abstract: Anthropologists have expressed wariness about the concept of evil even in discussions of morality and ethics, in part because the concept carries its own cultural baggage and theological implications in Euro-American societies. Addressing the problem of evil as a distinctly human phenomenon and a category of ethnographic analysis, this volume shows the usefulness of engaging evil as a descriptor of empirical reality where concepts such as violence, criminality, and hatred fall short of capturing the darkest side of human existence.
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    ISBN: 9781789202953
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (252 p.)
    DDC: 306.2709667
    Abstract: Based on unprecedented access to the Ghanaian military barracks and inspired by the recent resurgence of coups in West Africa, Agyekum assesses why and how the Ghana Armed Forces were transformed from an organization that actively orchestrated coups into an institution that accepts the authority of the democratically elected civilian government. Focusing on the process of professionalization of the Ghanaian military, this ethnography based monograph examines both historical and contemporary themes, and assesses the shift in military personnel from 'Buga Buga' soldiers - uneducated, lower-class soldiers, human rights abusers - to a more 'modern' fighting force.
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  • 87
    ISBN: 9781789203523
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (168 p.)
    DDC: 305.23096894
    Abstract: Growing up with social and economic upheaval in the peripheries of global neoliberalism, children in rural Zambia are presented with diverging social and moral protocols across homes, classrooms, church halls, and the streets. Mostly unmonitored by adults, they explore the ambiguities of adult life in playful interactions with their siblings and kin across gender and age. Drawing on rich linguistic-ethnographic details of such interactions combined with observations of school and household procedures, the author provides a rare insight into the lives, voices, and learning paths of children in a rural African setting.
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  • 88
    ISBN: 9781789204346
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (334 p.)
    Series Statement: Dislocations 27
    DDC: 338.476691420981
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    Abstract: Volta Redonda is a Brazilian steel town founded in the 1940s by dictator Getúlio Vargas on an ex-coffee valley as a powerful symbol of Brazilian modernization. The city's economy, and consequently its citizen's lives, revolves around the Companha Siderurgica Nacional (CSN), the biggest industrial complex in Latin America. Although the glory days of the CSN have long passed, the company still controls life in Volta Redonda today, creating as much dispossession as wealth for the community. Brazilian Steel Town tells the story of the people tied to this ailing giant - of their fears, hopes, and everyday struggles.
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  • 89
    ISBN: 9781789205404
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (158 p.)
    Series Statement: Studies in Social Analysis 9
    DDC: 304
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    Keywords: Natur ; Kultur ; Mensch ; Umwelt ; Anthropologie ; Gesellschaft ; Analyse ; Ontologie
    Abstract: Over time, the role of nature in anthropology has evolved from being a mere backdrop for social and cultural diversity to being viewed as an integral part of the ontological entanglement of human and nonhuman agents. This transformation of the role of nature offers important insight into the relationships between diverse anthropological traditions. By highlighting natural-cultural worlds alongside these traditions, Multiple Nature-Cultures, Diverse Anthropologies explores the potential for creating more sophisticated conjunctions of anthropological knowledge and practice.
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  • 90
    ISBN: 9781789200256
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (254 p.)
    Series Statement: Contemporary European History 23
    DDC: 303.48/243043809045
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Geschichte 1939-1990 ; Beziehung ; Versöhnung ; Katholik ; Journalismus ; Massenmedien ; Friedensarbeit ; Christentum ; Presse ; Polen ; Deutschland ; Deutschland
    Abstract: Although it was characterized by simmering international tensions, the early Cold War also witnessed dramatic instances of reconciliation between states, as former antagonists rebuilt political, economic, and cultural ties in the wake of the Second World War. And such efforts were not confined to official diplomacy, as this study of postwar rapprochement between Poland and West Germany demonstrates. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Peace at All Costs follows Polish and German non-state activists who attempted to establish dialogue in the 1950s and 1960s, showing how they achieved modest successes and media attention at the cost of more nuanced approaches to their national histories and identities.
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  • 91
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    Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9781789202021
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (212 p.)
    DDC: 306.4/60995
    Abstract: How does design and innovation shape people's lives in the Pacific? Focusing on plant materials from the region, How Materials Matter reveals ways in which a variety of people - from craftswomen and scientists to architects and politicians - work with materials to transform worlds. Recognizing the fragile and ephemeral nature of plant fibres, this work delves into how the biophysical properties of certain leaves and their aesthetic appearance are utilized to communicate information and manage different forms of relations. It breaks new ground by situating plant materials at the centre of innovation in a region.
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  • 92
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    Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9781789202229
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (216 p.)
    Series Statement: ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology 10
    DDC: 306.4/82099569
    Abstract: Gambling in Papua New Guinea, despite being completely absent prior to the Colonial era, has come to supersede storytelling as the region's main nighttime activity. Money Games is an ethnographic monograph which reveals the contemporary importance of gambling in urban Papua New Guinea. Rich ethnographic detail is coupled with cross-cultural comparison which span the globe. This anthropological study of everyday economics in Melanesia thereby intersects with theories of money, value, play, informal economy, social change and leadership.
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  • 93
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    Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9780674240728
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 302.23094309/05
    Abstract: Heidi Tworek's innovative history reveals how, across two devastating wars, Germany attempted to build a powerful communication empire-and how the Nazis manipulated the news to rise to dominance in Europe and further their global agenda. When the news became a form of international power, it changed the course of history.
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  • 94
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    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9781501736551
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 6 b&w line drawings, 4 maps, 11 graphs
    DDC: 303.6
    Abstract: The key to the impact of international election support is credibility; credible elections are less likely to turn violent. So argues Inken von Borzyskowski in The Credibility Challenge, in which she provides an explanation of why and when election support can increase or reduce violence. Von Borzyskowski answers four major questions: Under what circumstances can election support influence election violence? How can election support shape the incentives of domestic actors to engage in or abstain from violence? Does support help reduce violence or increase it? And, which type of support—observation or technical assistance—is better in each instance? The Credibility Challenge pulls broad quantitative evidence and qualitative observations from Guyana, Liberia, Kenya, Sierra Leone, and Bangladesh to respond to these questions. Von Borzyskowski finds that international democracy aid matters for election credibility and violence; outside observers can exacerbate postelection violence if they cast doubt on election credibility; and technical assistance helps build electoral institutions, improves election credibility, and reduces violence. Her results advance research and policy on peacebuilding and democracy promotion in new and surprising ways.
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  • 95
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    New York, NY : Columbia University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9780231551250
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
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    Keywords: Geistesgeschichte 21. Jh. ; Politik ; Regierung ; Intellektueller ; China ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: China’s increasing prominence on the global stage has caused consternation and controversy among Western thinkers, especially since the financial crisis of 2008. But what do Chinese intellectuals themselves have to say about their country’s newfound influence and power? Voices from the Chinese Century brings together a selection of essays from representative leading thinkers that open a window into public debate in China today on fundamental questions of China and the world—past, present, and future.The voices in this volume include figures from each of China’s main intellectual clusters: liberals, the New Left, and New Confucians. In genres from scholarly analyses to social media posts, often using Party-approved language that hides indirect criticism, these essayists offer a wide range of perspectives on how to understand China’s history and its place in the twenty-first-century world. They explore questions such as the relationship of political and economic reforms; the distinctiveness of China’s history and what to take from its traditions; what can or should be learned from the West; and how China fits into today’s eruption of populist anger and challenges to the global order. The fifteen original translations in this volume not only offer insight into contemporary China but also prompt us to ask what Chinese intellectuals might have to teach Europe and North America about the world’s most pressing problems.
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  • 96
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    München : De Gruyter Oldenbourg | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9783110644012
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (512 p.)
    Series Statement: Pariser Historische Studien 114
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    Keywords: Mouvement pour le Triomphe des Libertés Democratiques ; Ǧabhat at-Taḥrīr al-Qaumī ; Mouvement National Algérien ; Geschichte ; Algerischer Einwanderer ; Soziale Situation ; Algerienkrieg ; Politische Mobilisierung ; Lothringen ; Saarland ; Hochschulschrift
    Abstract: Die Studie befasst sich mit den Lebensbedingungen algerischer Migranten in Lothringen und im Saarland seit dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs bis zur Unabhängigkeit Algeriens. Der Fokus liegt auf der Frage, wie der Algerienkrieg (1954-1962) den Alltag vor Ort veränderte. Dazu werden insbesondere die Arbeitsbedingungen der Migranten, die Aktivitäten algerischer Untergrundorganisationen und die Kontrollmaßnahmen der Polizei und Gendarmerie beleuchtet.
    Abstract: The study examines the living conditions of Algerian immigrants in the Saarland-Lorraine border region from the end of World War II until Algerian independence. It focuses on how the Algerian War (1954–1962) affected their daily lives. Specifically, it examines working conditions, their involvement in Algerian underground organizations, and control measures undertaken by police and gendarmerie.
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  • 97
    ISBN: 9781785332470
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (216 p.)
    DDC: 305.8009517
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    Keywords: Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung ; Misstrauen ; Hexerei ; Mongolei
    Abstract: Set in a remote district of villagers and nomadic pastoralists in the northernmost part of Mongolia, this book introduces a local world where social relationships are cast in witchcraft-like idioms of mistrust and suspicion. While the apparent social breakdown that followed the collapse of state socialism in Mongolia often implied a chaotic lack of social cohesion, this ethnography reveals an everyday universe where uncertain relations are as much internally cultivated in indigenous Mongolian perceptions of social relatedness, as they are externally confronted in postsocialist surroundings of unemployment and diminished social security.
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    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    ISBN: 9781479882793
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 29 black and white illustrations
    Edition: 2019
    Series Statement: Critical Cultural Communication 13
    DDC: 302/.13
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)
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  • 99
    ISBN: 9780271084367
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (224 p.) , 10 color/6 b&w illustrations
    Edition: 2021
    Series Statement: Africana Religions 2
    DDC: 304.8096
    Keywords: African diaspora ; Africans Religion ; Blacks Religion ; Fasts and feasts Catholic Church ; RELIGION / Christianity / Catholic
    Abstract: This volume demonstrates how, from the beginning of the Atlantic slave trade, enslaved and free Africans in the Americas used Catholicism and Christian-derived celebrations as spaces for autonomous cultural expression, social organization, and political empowerment. Their appropriation of Catholic-based celebrations calls into question the long-held idea that Africans and their descendants in the diaspora either resignedly accepted Christianity or else transformed its religious rituals into syncretic objects of stealthy resistance.In cities and on plantations throughout the Americas, men and women of African birth or descent staged mock battles against heathens, elected Christian queens and kings with great pageantry, and gathered in festive rituals to express their devotion to saints. Many of these traditions endure in the twenty-first century. The contributors to this volume draw connections between these Afro-Catholic festivals—observed from North America to South America and the Caribbean—and their precedents in the early modern kingdom of Kongo, one of the main regions of origin of men and women enslaved in the New World. This transatlantic perspective offers a useful counterpoint to the Yoruba focus prevailing in studies of African diasporic religions and reveals how Kongo-infused Catholicism constituted a site for the formation of black Atlantic tradition.Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas complicates the notion of Christianity as a European tool of domination and enhances our comprehension of the formation and trajectory of black religious culture on the American continent. It will be of great interest to scholars of African diaspora, religion, Christianity, and performance.In addition to the editor, the contributors include Kevin Dawson, Jeroen Dewulf, Junia Ferreira Furtado, Michael Iyanaga, Dianne M. Stewart, Miguel A. Valerio, and Lisa Voigt.
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  • 100
    ISBN: 9781789201925
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (408 p.)
    DDC: 305.40943/09045
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Geschlechterverhältnis ; Sozialpolitik ; Frauenbild ; Feminismus ; Frauenbewegung ; Protestbewegung ; Geschlechtergeschichte ; Geschichtsschreibung ; Geschlechterrolle ; Deutschland ; Deutschland ; Deutschland ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Although "entanglement" has become a keyword in recent German history scholarship, entangled studies of the postwar era have largely limited their scope to politics and economics across the two Germanys while giving short shrift to social and cultural phenomena like gender. At the same time, historians of gender in Germany have tended to treat East and West Germany in isolation, with little attention paid to intersections and interrelationships between the two countries. This groundbreaking collection synthesizes the perspectives of entangled history and gender studies, bringing together established as well as upcoming scholars to investigate the ways in which East and West German gender relations were culturally, socially, and politically intertwined.
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