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    Western folklore (1947-)
    Long Beach, CA : Western States Folklore Society | Berkeley : University of California Press | Los Angeles, Calif. : California Folklore Society ; 6.1947 -
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    ISSN: 2325-811X , 0043-373x
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource
    Dates of Publication: 6.1947 -
    Additional Information: In Literature online
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Western folklore
    Former Title: Vorg.: California folklore quarterly
    DDC: 390
    Keywords: Volkskultur ; USA Weststaaten ; Zeitschrift ; Zeitschrift ; Elektronische Publikation ; Zeitschrift ; Zeitschrift ; USA Weststaaten ; Volkskultur ; Zeitschrift ; Elektronische Publikation
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    Soldiers, citizens and civilians : experiences and perceptions of the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, 1790-1820 (2009)
    Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780230583290
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: War, culture and society, 1750-1850
    DDC: 303.6609409034
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    NO 4200
    Keywords: Napoleonische Kriege ; Soldat ; Bürger ; Koalitionskriege ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars affected millions of people's lives across Europe and beyond. Yet the extent to which the constant warfare of the period 1792-1815 shaped everyday experience has been little studied. This volume of essays discusses the formative experience of these wars for men and women, as soldiers, citizens and civilians.
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  • 3
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    Familienpolitik : Nationale und Internationale Perspektiven (2009)
    Leverkusen-Opladen : Budrich UniPress | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9783863881078
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (168 pages)
    Series Statement: Familienforschung - Schriftenreihe des Österreichischen Instituts Für Familienforschung (ÖIF) Ser. v.20
    DDC: 306.8509436
    RVK:
    MS 1900
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    MG 33920
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    QX 300
    Keywords: Familienpolitik ; Internationaler Vergleich ; Österreich ; Aufsatzsammlung
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    Doing Families in Hong Kong (2009)
    Boston : BRILL | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9789047429111
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (317 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Social Transformations in Chinese Societies v.4
    DDC: 303.40951
    Abstract: The annual is a venue of publication for sociological studies of Chinese societies and the Chinese all over the world. The main focus is on social transformations in Hong Kong, Taiwan, the mainland, Singapore and Chinese overseas.
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    Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail : Geographies of Race in Black Liverpool (2009)
    Princeton : Princeton University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781400826414
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (325 pages)
    DDC: 305.8961/0427/53
    Abstract: The port city of Liverpool, England, is home to one of the oldest Black communities in Britain. Its members proudly date their history back at least as far as the nineteenth century, with the global wanderings and eventual settlement of colonial African seamen. Jacqueline Nassy Brown analyzes how this worldly origin story supports an avowedly local Black politic and identity--a theme that becomes a window onto British politics of race, place, and nation, and Liverpool's own contentious origin story as a gloriously cosmopolitan port of world-historical import that was nonetheless central to British slave trading and imperialism. This ethnography also examines the rise and consequent dilemmas of Black identity. It captures the contradictions of diaspora in postcolonial Liverpool, where African and Afro-Caribbean heritages and transnational linkages with Black America both contribute to and compete with the local as a basis for authentic racial identity. Crisscrossing historical periods, rhetorical modes, and academic genres, the book focuses singularly on "place," enabling its most radical move: its analysis of Black racial politics as enactments of English cultural premises. The insistent focus on English culture implies a further twist. Just as Blacks are racialized through appeals to their assumed Afro-Caribbean and African cultures, so too has Liverpool--an Irish, working-class city whose expansive port faces the world beyond Britain--long been beyond the pale of dominant notions of authentic Englishness. Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail studies "race" through clashing constructions of "Liverpool.".
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    Culture, 1922 : The Emergence of a Concept (2009)
    Princeton : Princeton University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781400825226
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (234 pages)
    DDC: 306.01
    Abstract: Culture, 1922 traces the intellectual and institutional deployment of the culture concept in England and America in the first half of the twentieth century. With primary attention to how models of culture are created, elaborated upon, transformed, resisted, and ignored, Marc Manganaro works across disciplinary lines to embrace literary, literary critical, and anthropological writing. Tracing two traditions of thinking about culture, as elite products and pursuits and as common and shared systems of values, Manganaro argues that these modernist formulations are not mutually exclusive and have indeed intermingled in complex and interesting ways throughout the development of literary studies and anthropology. Beginning with the important Victorian architects of culture--Matthew Arnold and Edward Tylor--the book follows a number of main figures, schools, and movements up to 1950 such as anthropologist Franz Boas, his disciples Edward Sapir, Ruth Benedict, and Zora Neale Hurston, literary modernists T. S. Eliot and James Joyce, functional anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski, modernist literary critic I. A. Richards, the New Critics, and Kenneth Burke. The main focus here, however, is upon three works published in 1922, the watershed year of Modernism--Eliot's The Waste Land, Malinowski's Argonauts of the Western Pacific, and Joyce's Ulysses. Manganaro reads these masterworks and the history of their reception as efforts toward defining culture. This is a wide-ranging and ambitious study about an ambiguous and complex concept as it moves within and between disciplines.
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    The Athenian Nation (2009)
    Princeton : Princeton University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781400824663
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (283 pages)
    DDC: 306/.09495/12
    Abstract: Challenging the modern assumption that ancient Athens is best understood as a polis, Edward Cohen boldly recasts our understanding of Athenian political and social life. Cohen demonstrates that ancient sources referred to Athens not only as a polis, but also as a "nation" (ethnos), and that Athens did encompass the characteristics now used to identify a "nation." He argues that in Athens economic, religious, sexual, and social dimensions were no less significant than political and juridical considerations, and accordingly rejects prevailing scholarship's equation of Athens with its male citizen body. In fact, Cohen shows that the categories of "citizen" and "noncitizen" were much more fluid than is often assumed, and that some noncitizens exercised considerable power. He explores such subjects as the economic importance of businesswomen and wealthy slaves; the authority exercised by enslaved public functionaries; the practical egalitarianism of erotic relations and the broad and meaningful protections against sexual abuse of both free persons and slaves, and especially of children; the wide involvement of all sectors of the population in significant religious and local activities. All this emerges from the use of fresh legal, economic, and archaeological evidence and analysis that reveal the social complexity of Athens, and the demographic and geographic factors giving rise to personal anonymity and limiting personal contacts--leading to the creation of an "imagined community" with a mutually conceptualized identity, a unified economy, and national "myths" set in historical fabrication.
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    Uncouth Nation : Why Europe Dislikes America (2009)
    Princeton : Princeton University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781400827299
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (199 pages)
    Series Statement: The Public Square
    DDC: 303.48
    RVK:
    NK 7050
    Keywords: Antiamerikanismus ; Europa
    Abstract: No survey can capture the breadth and depth of the anti-Americanism that has swept Europe in recent years. From ultraconservative Bavarian grandmothers to thirty-year-old socialist activists in Greece, from globalization opponents to corporate executives--Europeans are joining in an ever louder chorus of disdain for America. For the first time, anti-Americanism has become a European lingua franca. In this sweeping and provocative look at the history of European aversion to America, Andrei Markovits argues that understanding the ubiquity of anti-Americanism since September 11, 2001, requires an appreciation of such sentiments among European elites going back at least to July 4, 1776. While George W. Bush's policies have catapulted anti-Americanism into overdrive, particularly in Western Europe, Markovits argues that this loathing has long been driven not by what America does, but by what it is. Focusing on seven Western European countries big and small, he shows how antipathies toward things American embrace aspects of everyday life--such as sports, language, work, education, media, health, and law--that remain far from the purview of the Bush administration's policies. Aggravating Europeans' antipathies toward America is their alleged helplessness in the face of an Americanization that they view as inexorably befalling them. More troubling, Markovits argues, is that this anti-Americanism has cultivated a new strain of anti-Semitism. Above all, he shows that while Europeans are far apart in terms of their everyday lives and shared experiences, their not being American provides them with a powerful common identity--one that elites have already begun to harness in their quest to construct a unified Europe to rival America.
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  • 9
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    Networked Wilderness : Communicating in Early New England (2009)
    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780816670499
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (250 pages)
    DDC: 302.209746/09032
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    AP 19830
    Keywords: Geschichte 1600-1700 ; Kommunikation ; Indianer ; Neuengland
    Abstract: In The Networked Wilderness, Matt Cohen examines communications systems in early New England and finds that, surprisingly, struggles over information technology were as important as theology, guns, germs, or steel in shaping the early colonization of North America. Colonists in New England have generally been viewed as immersed in a Protestant culture of piety and alphabetic literacy. At the same time, many scholars have insisted that the culture of the indigenous peoples of the region was a predominantly oral culture. But what if, Cohen posits, we thought about media and technology beyond the terms of orality and literacy?Reconceptualizing aural and inscribed communication as a spectrum, The Networked Wilderness bridges the gap between the history of the book and Native American systems of communication. Cohen reveals that books, paths, recipes, totems, and animals and their sounds all took on new interactive powers as the English negotiated the well-developed informational trails of the Algonquian East Coast and reported their experiences back to Europe. Native and English encounters forced all parties to think of each other as audiences for any event that might become a kind of "publication." Using sources ranging from Thomas Morton's Maypole festival to the architecture of today's Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center, Cohen shows that the era before the printing press came to New England was one of extraordinary fertility for communications systems in America.
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    Beyond the Market : The Social Foundations of Economic Efficiency (2009)
    Princeton : Princeton University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781400825448
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (334 pages)
    DDC: 306.3
    RVK:
    QC 130
    Keywords: Wirtschaftstheorie ; Rationalprinzip ; Kritik ; Wirtschaftssoziologie ; Handlungstheorie
    Abstract: Beyond the Market launches a sociological investigation into economic efficiency. Prevailing economic theory, which explains efficiency using formalized rational choice models, often simplifies human behavior to the point of distortion. Jens Beckert finds such theory to be particularly weak in explaining such crucial forms of economic behavior as cooperation, innovation, and action under conditions of uncertainty--phenomena he identifies as the proper starting point for a sociology of economic action. Beckert levels an enlightened critique at neoclassical economics, arguing that understanding efficiency requires looking well beyond the market to the social, cultural, political, and cognitive factors that influence the coordination of economic action. Beckert searches social theory for the components of an alternative theory of action, one that accounts for the social embedding of economic behavior. In Durkheim and Parsons he finds especially useful approaches to cooperation; in Luhmann, a way to understand how people act under highly contingent conditions; and in Giddens, an understanding of creative action and innovation. Together, these provide building blocks for a research program that will yield a theoretically sophisticated understanding of how economic processes are coordinated and the ways that markets are embedded in social, cultural, and cognitive structures. Containing one of the most fully informed critiques of the neoclassical analysis of economic efficiency--as well as one of the most thoughtful blueprints for economic sociology--this book reclaims for sociology the study of one of the most important arenas of human action.
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    American Mythos : Why Our Best Efforts to Be a Better Nation Fall Short (2009)
    Princeton : Princeton University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781400827022
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (235 pages)
    DDC: 303.3
    Abstract: America was built on stories: tales of grateful immigrants arriving at Ellis Island, Horatio Alger-style transformations, self-made men, and the Protestant work ethic. In this new book, renowned sociologist Robert Wuthnow examines these most American of stories--narratives about individualism, immigration, success, religion, and ethnicity--through the eyes of recent immigrants. In doing so, he demonstrates how the "American mythos" has both legitimized American society and prevented it from fully realizing its ideals. This magisterial work is a reflection and meditation on the national consciousness. It details how Americans have traditionally relied on narratives to address what it means to be strong, morally responsible individuals and to explain why some people are more successful than others--in short, to help us make sense of our lives. But it argues that these narratives have done little to help us confront new challenges. We pass laws to end racial discrimination, yet lack the resolve to create a more equitable society. We welcome the idea of pluralism in religion and values, yet we are shaken by the difficulties immigration presents. We champion prosperity for all, but live in a country where families are still homeless. American Mythos aptly documents this disconnect between the stories we tell and the reality we face. Examining how cultural narratives may not, and often do not, reflect the reality of today's society, it challenges readers to become more reflective about what it means to live up to the American ideal.
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    Citizenship in the Arab World : Kin, Religion and Nation-State (2009)
    Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9789048506293
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (191 pages)
    Series Statement: IMISCOE Research
    DDC: 301
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    MS 1245
    Keywords: Bürgerliche Gesellschaft ; Ethnische Identität ; Politische Identität ; Religiöse Identität ; Arabische Staaten ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: The book is the fruit of five years of on-site research on citizenship in the Arab world. It takes a broader legal perspective to the multifaceted reality of nationality and citizenship. The methodology employed builds on the interdisciplinary approach of comparative legal studies, and brings in theories, concepts and insights from anthropology, political science, Arab and Islamic studies, linguistics and sociology. The work relies on a broad range of Western and Arab references, and all sources and documents were directly accessed in their original languages; this is particularly relevant for Arab legislation (all in-text reference has been translated by the author, and the original has been inserted using scientific transliteration).
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    Racial Culture : A Critique (2009)
    Princeton : Princeton University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781400826308
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (200 pages)
    DDC: 305.8/00973
    Abstract: What is black culture? Does it have an essence? What do we lose and gain by assuming that it does, and by building our laws accordingly? This bold and provocative book questions the common presumption of political multiculturalism that social categories such as race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality are defined by distinctive cultural practices. Richard Ford argues against law reform proposals that would attempt to apply civil rights protections to "cultural difference." Unlike many criticisms of multiculturalism, which worry about "reverse discrimination" or the erosion of core Western cultural values, the book's argument is primarily focused on the adverse effects of multicultural rhetoric and multicultural rights on their supposed beneficiaries. In clear and compelling prose, Ford argues that multicultural accounts of cultural difference do not accurately describe the practices of social groups. Instead these accounts are prescriptive: they attempt to canonize a narrow, parochial, and contestable set of ideas about appropriate group culture and to discredit more cosmopolitan lifestyles, commitments, and values. The book argues that far from remedying discrimination and status hierarchy, "cultural rights" share the ideological presuppositions, and participate in the discursive and institutional practices, of racism, sexism, and homophobia. Ford offers specific examples in support of this thesis, in diverse contexts such as employment discrimination, affirmative action, and transracial adoption. This is a major contribution to our understanding of today's politics of race, by one of the most distinctive and important young voices in America's legal academy.
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    Legitimacy and Power Politics : The American and French Revolutions in International Political Culture (2009)
    Princeton : Princeton University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781400825417
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (215 pages)
    Series Statement: Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
    DDC: 306.209
    Abstract: This book examines the causes and consequences of a major transformation in both domestic and international politics: the shift from dynastically legitimated monarchical sovereignty to popularly legitimated national sovereignty. It analyzes the impact of Enlightenment discourse on politics in eighteenth-century Europe and the United States, showing how that discourse facilitated new authority struggles in Old Regime Europe, shaped the American and French Revolutions, and influenced the relationships between the revolutionary regimes and the international system. The interaction between traditional and democratic ideas of legitimacy transformed the international system by the early nineteenth century, when people began to take for granted the desirability of equality, individual rights, and restraint of power. Using an interpretive, historically sensitive approach to international relations, the author considers the complex interplay between elite discourses about political legitimacy and strategic power struggles within and among states. She shows how culture, power, and interests interacted to produce a crucial yet poorly understood case of international change. The book not only shows the limits of liberal and realist theories of international relations, but also demonstrates how aspects of these theories can be integrated with insights derived from a constructivist perspective that takes culture and legitimacy seriously. The author finds that cultural contests over the terms of political legitimacy constitute one of the central mechanisms by which the character of sovereignty is transformed in the international system--a conclusion as true today as it was in the eighteenth century.
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    The Changing Realities of Work and Family (2009)
    Hoboken : Wiley | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781444305289
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (316 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Blackwell/Claremont Applied Social Psychology Series
    DDC: 306.3/6
    Abstract: Changing Realities of Work and Family is an interdisciplinary volume that examines the multiple realities of work and family from academic, commercial, and political perspectives. The book Brings together works by an extraordinary list of contributors, including Jane Swift, former governor of Massachusetts; practitioners from industry; the leading attorney in discrimination against mothers and pregnant women; and outstanding academics from psychology, business, economics, and human relations Examines work and family in the political arena, gay and lesbian workers, work and family as it relates to age, single mothers, and the role of culture and community Includes original empirical articles written expressly for this work, in which the most current research on the field of work and family will be presented Provides "real world" examples of the intersection of work and family in such fields as business, government, and the law.
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    Tourism, Performance and the Everyday : Consuming the Orient (2009)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203873939
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (235 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
    DDC: 306.4819095
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    QQ 900
    Abstract: Tourism has become increasingly 'exotic', a process made possible by low-cost charter tourism and cheaper air tickets. Faraway and evermore 'exotic' holidays are becoming widespread and within reach as destinations make their entry into the mass tourism market. Strolls through the bazaars of Istanbul and cruises on the Nile are packaged into the sea, sand and sun culture of traditional forms of organized mass tourism. At the same time new technologies weave the fabric of tourism and everyday life even closer, circulating images, information, and objects between them. Taking off from this observation, Tourism, Performance and the Everyday invites readers to follow the flow's of tourist desires, objects, meanings, photographs, fears, dreams and memories weaving together the spaces of and between Western Europe, Turkey and Egypt. Tourism, Performance and the Everyday carefully analyzes the cultural and social impacts of mass-tourist experiences of 'exotic' places on the wider aspects of everyday life. It treats mass-tourism as a cultural phenomenon that feeds into the practices and networks of peoples' everyday lives rather than as an isolated, trivial or 'exotic' event. It traces how these impacts are mediated by various mobilities between home and away through innovate mobile and ethnographic research methods at tourist destinations and the home of tourists. The book contains analysis of diaries, photographs, blogs and photo web sharing sites, participant observation of performing tourists and 'home ethnographies' of the afterlife tourist photographs, souvenirs and memories. In doing this, the book traces out the multiple interconnections and mobilities between everyday spaces and leisure spaces as well as the multiple ways in which the Orient is consumed on holiday and at home. The book appeals to a wide audience among students, researchers and...
    Abstract: educators within the social and cultural sciences studying, researching and teaching theories and methods of tourism, Orientalism and cultural encounters as well as broader issues of leisure, consumption and everyday life.
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    Social and Moral Theory in Casework (Routledge Revivals) (2009)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203092279
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (71 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Revivals
    DDC: 302.5
    Abstract: First published in 1970, the aim of the book is to 'map the logical geography' of an important set of concepts which enter into the theory of social casework - those concerning the individual and society. Concepts examined include the individually orientated values of 'self-direction' and 'acceptance', and those of 'role', 'adjustment' and 'integration', which express the individual's relation to society. The author's main concern is to see whether a coherent theory of the relationship between individual and society can be given in terms of these concepts and to argue that such a theory is fundamental to casework discussion. Mr Plant also discusses what, if any, social or political commitments the activity of casework presupposes, and evaluates the view that casework is 'apolitical'.
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    World Cinemas, Transnational Perspectives (2009)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203882795
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (385 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: AFI Film Readers
    DDC: 302.23/43
    RVK:
    AP 59700
    Keywords: Film ; Geopolitik ; Transnationalisierung ; Globalisierung ; Transnationale Politik ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: SCMS Award Winner "Best Edited Collection" The standard analytical category of "national cinema" has increasingly been called into question by the category of the "transnational." This anthology examines the premises and consequences of the coexistence of these two categories and the parameters of historiographical approaches that cross the borders of nation-states. The three sections of World Cinemas, Transnational Perspectives cover the geopolitical imaginary, transnational cinematic institutions, and the uneven flow of words and images.
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    Language Testing, Migration and Citizenship : Cross-National Perspectives on Integration Regimes (2009)
    London : Bloomsbury Publishing | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781441188144
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (279 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Advances in Sociolinguistics
    DDC: 306.449
    Abstract: What is required to achieve civic integration and citizenship in nation states across the world?  Should language testing be a part of it? This book addresses the urgent need to develop a fuller conceptual and theoretical basis for language testing than is currently available, to enable widespread discussion of this theme and the concomitant linguistic and cultural requirements. The policy proposals for civic integration have so far been conducted almost entirely at a national level, and with little regard for the experiences of a countries with long traditions of migration, such as the USA, Canada, the UK or Australia.  At the same time, EU enlargment and the ongoing rise in the rate of migration into and across Europe suggest that these issues will continue to grow in importance. This book raises the level of discussion to take account of international developments and to promote a more coherent and soundly based debate.  It will appeal to researchers and academics working in sociolinguistics and language education, as well as those working on language policy. Â.
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    The Rise of Multicultural America : Economy and Print Culture, 1865-1915 (2009)
    Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780807887967
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (368 pages)
    DDC: 305.800973
    Abstract: Between the Civil War and World War I the United States underwent the most rapid economic expansion in history. At the same time, the country experienced unparalleled rates of immigration. In The Rise of Multicultural America, Susan Mizruchi examines the convergence of these two extraordinary developments. No issue was more salient in postbellum American capitalist society, she argues, than the country's bewilderingly diverse population. This era marked the emergence of Americans' self-consciousness about what we today call multiculturalism. Mizruchi approaches this complex development from the perspective of print culture, demonstrating how both popular and elite writers played pivotal roles in articulating the stakes of this national metamorphosis. In a period of widespread literacy, writers assumed a remarkable cultural authority as best-selling works of literature and periodicals reached vast readerships and immigrants could find newspapers and magazines in their native languages. Mizruchi also looks at the work of journalists, photographers, social reformers, intellectuals, and advertisers. Identifying the years between 1865 and 1915 as the founding era of American multiculturalism, Mizruchi provides a historical context that has been overlooked in contemporary debates about race, ethnicity, immigration, and the dynamics of modern capitalist society. Her analysis recuperates a legacy with the potential to both invigorate current battle lines and highlight points of reconciliation.
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    Memories of Class (Routledge Revivals) : The Pre-history and After-life of Class (2009)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203857205
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (176 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Revivals
    DDC: 305.509
    Abstract: First published in 1982, Professor Bauman's discussion of the mechanism of class formation and institutionalisation of class conflict argues that our understanding of changes in social and political structure has been hindered by the freezing of concepts of class in the ice-age of industrial society. He investigates the impact of historical memory on the early transformation of rank into a class society, and on the current confusion in the analysis of the 'crisis of late-industrial society'. The book traces the formation of a class society back to the patterns of 'surveillance power' and control, and shows how these patterns preceded and made possible the industrial system. Subsequently 'economised' into the industrial system, these same patterns of control have now proved to be inadequate under social conditions brought about by this economisation of the power conflict.
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    Responding to the West : Essays on Colonial Domination and Asian Agency (2009)
    Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9789048508204
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (161 pages)
    Series Statement: ICAS Publications Series
    DDC: 306
    Abstract: An insightful account of the depth and breadth of the Asian colonial experience throughout the ages up to and including decolonisation.
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    Culture and Explosion (2009)
    Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9783110218473
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (195 pages)
    Series Statement: Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC] v.1
    DDC: 302.2
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Kultursemiotik ; Russisch ; Literatur ; Literatursemiotik
    Abstract: Culture and Explosion is the English translation of the final book written by legendary semiotician Juri Lotman. The volume demonstrates, with copious examples, how culture influences the way that humans experience "reality". Lotman's renowned erudition is showcased in a host of well-chosen illustrations from history, literature, art and right across the humanities. Now appearing in English for the very first time, the volume is made accessible to students and researchers in semiotics, cultural/literary studies and Russian studies worldwide, as well as anyone with an interest in understanding contemporary intellectual life.
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    Globalization and Language in Contact : Scale, Migration, and Communicative Practices (2009)
    London : Bloomsbury Publishing | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781441125149
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (296 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Advances in Sociolinguistics
    DDC: 306.44
    Abstract: This book examines the impact of globalization on languages in contact, including the study of linkages between the global and local, and transnational and situated communication. It engages with social theory and social processes while grappling with questions of language analysis raised by globalized language contact. Drawing on case studies from North America, Europe and Africa, the volume makes three important contributions to contemporary sociolinguistics by: * arguing that concepts of scale and space are essential for understanding contemporary sociolinguistic phenomena * showing that the transnational flows and movements of peoples highlight the problem and work of identity in relation to both place and time * addressing methodological challenges raised by different approaches to the study of globalization and language contact.à This cutting-edge monograph featuring research by renowned international contributors will be of interest to academics researching sociolinguistics, and language and globalization.
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    Climate Change and Armed Conflict : Hot and Cold Wars (2009)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203872208
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (193 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution
    DDC: 303.485
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    Keywords: Klimaänderung ; Bewaffneter Konflikt
    Abstract: This book examines the evolution of the relationship between climate change and conflict, and attempts to visualize future trends. Owing to the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, current trends in climate change will not appreciably alter over the next half century even if drastic action is taken now. Changes in climate will produce unique types and modes of conflict, redefine the value of important resources, and create new challenges to maintaining social order and stability. This book examines the consequences of climate change and argues that it has and will produce two types of different types of conflict: 'cold wars' and 'hot wars'. Cold wars will occur in northern and southern latitudes as warming draws countries into possible conflict due to expanding interests in exploiting new resources and territories (inter-state conflict). Hot wars will break out around the equator as warming expands and intensifies dry areas, increasing competition for scarce resources (intra-state conflict). Conflict is not inevitable, but it will also be a consequence of how states, international institutions and people react to changes in climate. Climate change and conflict have always shaped human experiences. This book lays out the parameters of the relationship, shows its history, and forecasts its trends, offering future conditions and opportunities for changing the historical path we are on. This book will be of great interest for students of climate change and environmental security, peace and conflict studies, and IR/security studies in general. James R. Lee is a Professor in the School of International Service, American University, Washington, DC and Associate Director of American University's Center for Teaching Excellence. He is author of several books on international relations, including, most recently, Exploring the Gaps: Vital...
    Abstract: Links Between Trade, Environment and Culture (2000).
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    Audience, Agency and Identity in Black Popular Culture (2009)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203866573
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (159 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Studies in African American History and Culture
    DDC: 305.896/07300904
    Keywords: Schwarze ; Massenkultur ; USA
    Abstract: Audience, Agency and Identity in Black Popular Culture analyses black cultural representations that appropriate anti-black stereotypes. Using examples from literature, media, and art, Worsley examines how these cultural products do not rework anti-black stereotypes into seemingly positive images. Rather, they present anti-black stereotypes in their original forms and encourage audiences not to ignore, but to explore them. Shifting critical commentary from a need to censor these questionable images, Worsley offers a complex consideration of the value of and problems with these alternative anti-racist strategies in light of stereotypes' persistence. This book furthers our understanding of the historical circumstances that are influencing contemporary representations of black subjects that are purposefully derogatory and documents the consequences of these images.
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    Marriage in Contemporary Japan (2009)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203871188
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (175 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
    DDC: 306.810952
    Abstract: The phenomenon of bankonka - 'postponement of marriage' - is increasingly reported in contemporary Japanese media, clearly illustrating the changing patterns of modern lifestyles and attitudes towards marriage, personal obligation and ambition. This is the first book in recent years to explore the contemporary state of marriage in Japanese society. Setting out the different perceptions and expectations of marriage in today's Japan, the book discusses how economic issues and the family impact on marital behaviour. Contrary to the views of some feminists that young women have no interest in improving their status and position, this book argues that, by delaying marriage and childrearing, young women can be seen as 'rebels' challenging Japanese patriarchal society. Unlike many other studies, it gives equal attention to male gender roles and masculinity, exploring what constitutes being a 'real man' in Japan - through the analysis of mainstream and non-mainstream conceptions of masculinity that co-exist in contemporary Japan, and considers the implications of such different roles for the institution of marriage. It investigates the roles of wife and mother, articulating why the strict division of labour defining men as breadwinners and women as homemakers became popular. Moreover, it describes the changing character of courtship relationships, explaining why the norm has shifted from arranged marriages pre-1945 to love marriages after that period. Finally, it puts the Japanese experience into cross-cultural, international context with a series of comparisons with marriage elsewhere both in Asia - including in Korea and Hong Kong - and in western countries such as France, Sweden, Italy and the United States.
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    Power, Resistance and Conflict in the Contemporary World : Social movements, networks and hierarchies (2009)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203869383
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (337 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
    DDC: 303.6/401
    Abstract: This book examines issues of organisation in resistance movements, discussing topics including the integration of the world system, the intersection of networks with discourses of identity, and the possibility of social transformation. Drawing on a number of theorists including Deleuze and Guattari, authors Athina Karatzogianni and Andrew Robinson seek to reinterpret World Systems Theory in order to engage with issues of power, resistance, and conflict in the contemporary world. Discussing contemporary scholarship in global politics, the authors consider new and developing concepts including: global cities, bifurcations, hegemonic transitions, the relationship between capitalism and the state, the position of East Asia, and active and reactive network movements. Their analysis includes a very rich pool of empirical examples covering more than fifty countries and thirty resistance groups. Power, Resistance and Conflict in the Contemporary World will be of interest to students and scholars looking for a comprehensive new theorization of the forces at work in global politics. The book provides a framework which crosses the boundaries between international relations, international political economy, comparative politics, conflict studies, social movement studies and critical theory, producing a study of a highly interdisciplinary scope.
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    Place of Play : Toys and Digital Cultures (2009)
    Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9789048507962
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (153 pages)
    Series Statement: MediaMatters, 3 v.No. 3
    DDC: 306.481
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    Abstract: A fascinating, eclectic analysis of the changing geographies of play in contemporary society.
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    Chinese New Migrants in Suriname : The Inevitability of Ethnic Performing (2009)
    Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9789048511471
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (478 pages)
    DDC: 301
    Abstract: This book covers various aspects of New Chinese Migration in Suriname in the 1990s and early 2000s.
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    Ecological Intelligence : Rediscovering Ourselves in Nature (2009)
    Golden : Fulcrum Publishing | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781555918866
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (256 pages)
    DDC: 304.2
    Abstract: A best seller in Africa, Ecological Intelligence defines a new way of thinking about the unprecedented environmental pressures of our day. McCallum offers a compelling argument that we must think differently about ourselves and the earth if we are to take seriously the survival of wilderness areas, wild animals, and the human race. Ecological Intelligence explores the relationship between humans and nature from both a biological and poetic perspective, arguing that understanding and reinforcing the evolutionary bonds that connect all life will lead to a greater sense of our place in the world. The notion of ecological intelligence is a wild and ethical imperativean urgent reminder that we are inextricably linked to the land, that the history of every living creature is within us, that we are, above all, a mindful species that must not be the creatures of our own undoing.
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    Clio in the Classroom : A Guide for Teaching U.S. Womens History (2009)
    New York : Oxford University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780199717767
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (556 pages)
    DDC: 305.4071/073
    Abstract: Part I: Three Eras of U.S. Women's History. 1. Women in Colonial and Revolutionary America, Carol Berkin (Baruch College and the CUNY Graduate Center). 2. Women in Nineteenth Century America, Cindy Lobel (Lehman College). 3. Women in Twentieth Century America, Barbara Winslow (Brooklyn College). Part Two: Conceptualizing Issues in U.S. Women's History. 4. Conceptualizing U.S. Women's History through the History of Medicine, Rebecca Tannenbaum (Yale University). 5. Conceptualizing U.S. Women's History through the History of Sexuality, Christy Regenhardt (George Washington University). 6. Conceptualizing Citizenship in U.S. Women's History, Christine Compston (Western Washington University). 7. Conceptualizing U.S. Women's History through Consumerism, Jennifer Scanlon (Bowdoin College). 8. Conceptualizing U.S. Women's History in Medicine, Law, and Business, The Challenge of Success: Virginia Drachman (Tufts University). 9. Conceptualizing the Intersectionality of Race, Class, and Gender in U.S. Women's History, Erica Ball (California State University, Fullerton). 10. Conceptualizing the Female World of Religion in U.S. Women's History, Barbara Welter (Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center). 11. Conceptualizing Radicalism in U.S. Women's History, Ronald G. Walters (Johns Hopkins University). 12. Thinking Globally about US Women's History, Mary Frederickson (Miami University of Ohio). Part Three: Teaching and Learning Women's History: Strategies and Resources. 13. Re-designing the U.S. Women's History Survey Course Using Feminist Pedagogy, Educational Research, and New Technologies, Michael Lewis Goldberg (University of Washington, Bothell). 14. Teaching Women's History with Visual Images, Tracy Weis (Millersville University). 15. History You Can Touch: Teaching Women's History through Three- Dimensional Objects, Anne Derousie and Vivien Rose...
    Abstract: (Women's Rights National Historical Park). 16, Teaching Women's History through Oral History. Margaret S. Crocco (Teachers College, Columbia University). 17. Who is Teaching Women's History? "Insight," "Objectivity," and Identity, Nicholas Syrett (University of Northern Colorado). Part Four: What We Know (and Don't Know) about Teaching Women's History. 18. What Educational Research Says about Teaching and Learning Women's History, Linda Levstik (University of Kentucky). Additional Resources.
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    No Place Like Home : Relationships and Family Life among Lesbians and Gay Men (2009)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780226094847
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (287 pages)
    Series Statement: Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture
    DDC: 306.84/8
    Abstract: In this rich, surprising portrait of the world of lesbian and gay relationships, Christopher Carrington unveils the complex and artful ways that gay people create and maintain both homes and "chosen" families for themselves. "Carefully separating stereotype from reality, Carrington investigates family in the gay and lesbian community. Relying upon interviews and observation, the author analyzes the loves and routings of 52 diverse lesbian, gay, and bisexual couples in the Bay area. . . . [He] closes the work with a discussion of the raging same-sex marriage debate and posits an enlightened solution to this dilemma." -Library Journal.
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    Dealing with Differences : Dramas of Mediating Public Disputes (2009)
    Cary : Oxford University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780199745012
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (241 pages)
    DDC: 303.6/9
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    Keywords: Politische Planung ; Bürgerbeteiligung ; Mediation ; Öffentliche Meinung
    Abstract: Conflict and dispute pervade political and policy discussions. Moreover, unequal power relations tend to heighten levels of conflict. In this context of contention, figuring out ways to accommodate others and reach solutions that are agreeable to all is a perennial challenge for activists, politicians, planners, and policymakers. John Forester is one of America's eminent scholars of progressive planning and dispute resolution in the policy arena, and in Dealing with Differences he focuses on a series of 'hard cases'--conflicts that appeared to be insoluble yet which were resolved in the end. Forester ranges across the country--from Hawaii to Maryland to Washington State--and across issues--the environment, ethnic conflict, and HIV. Throughout, he focuses on how innovative mediators settled seemingly intractable disputes. Between pessimism masquerading as 'realism' and the unrealistic idealism that 'we can all get along,' Forester identifies the middle terrain where disputes do actually get resolved in ways that offer something for all sides. Dealing with Differences serves as an authoritative and fundamentally pragmatic pathway for anyone who has to engage in the highly contentious worlds of planning and policymaking.
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    Ethnographies Revisited : Constructing Theory in the Field (2009)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203876503
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (377 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.8/00723
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    Keywords: Ethnologie ; Forschung ; Methodologie ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Ethnographies Revisited provides first-hand accounts of how leading qualitative researchers crafted key theoretical concepts found in their major book-length ethnographies. Great ethnographic research lies not in the rigid execution of prescribed methodological procedures, but on the unrelenting cultivation of theoretical ideas. These contributors focus squarely on this neglected topic, providing reflexive accounts of how research decisions were made in light of emerging theoretical questions. The continuous generation of creative concepts is arguably the most important skill in developing powerful results in field research, since the originality of the ideas produced is how the study is ultimately judged. Yet, this topic is often taken for granted, treated rigidly and artificially, or is entirely absent from existing qualitative research manuals. In contrast, this volume offers candid insights of how leading ethnographers generated their initial questions, chose their research sites, made theoretical and methodological adjustments, and oriented their research to maximize the conceptual payoff, leading to such successful research contributions. This provides a fresh approach to the topic of qualitative research, by linking practical decisions in the field to the dynamic features of theory in the making, told through the first-hand experiences of some of the best ethnographers in our field.
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    China into Africa : Trade, Aid, and Influence (2009)
    New York, NY : Brookings Institution Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780815701750
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (351 pages)
    DDC: 303.48/25106
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    Keywords: Außenpolitik ; China ; Afrika ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: A Brookings Institution Press and World Peace Foundation publication Africa has long attracted China. We can date their first certain involvement from the fourteenth century, but East African city-states may have been trading with southern China even earlier. In the mid-twentieth century, Maoist China funded and educated sub-Saharan African anticolonial liberation movements and leaders, and the PRC then assisted new sub-Saharan nations. Africa and China are now immersed in their third and most transformative era of heavy engagement, one that promises to do more for economic growth and poverty alleviation than anything attempted by Western colonialism or international aid programs. Robert Rotberg and his Chinese, African, and other colleagues discuss this important trend and specify its likely implications. Among the specific topics tackled here are China's interest in African oil; military and security relations; the influx and goals of Chinese aid to sub-Saharan Africa; human rights issues; and China's overall strategy in the region. China's insatiable demand for energy and raw materials responds to sub-Saharan Africa's relatively abundant supplies of unprocessed metals, diamonds, and gold, while offering a growing market for Africa's agriculture and light manufactures. As this book illustrates, this evolving symbiosis could be the making of Africa, the poorest and most troubled continent, while it further powers China's expansive economic machine. Contributors include Deborah Brautigam (American University), Harry Broadman (World Bank), Stephen Brown (University of Ottawa), Martyn J. Davies (Stellenbosch University), Joshua Eisenman (UCLA), Chin-Hao Huang (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute), Paul Hubbard (Australian Department of the Treasury),Wenran Jiang (University of Alberta), Darren Kew (University of Massachusetts Boston),...
    Abstract: Henry Lee (Harvard University), Li Anshan (Peking University), Ndubisi Obiorah (Centre for Law and Social Action, Nigeria), Stephanie Rupp (National University of Singapo.
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    Reframing Singapore : Memory - Identity - Trans-Regionalism (2009)
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    ISBN: 9789048508211
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (258 pages)
    Series Statement: ICAS Publications Series
    DDC: 301
    Abstract: This book explores fresh perspectives and offers new themes in the study of Singapore through the use of theoretical tools derived from various disciplines within the humanities and social sciences.
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    Reading Contemporary Indonesian Muslim Women Writers : Representation, Identity and Religion of Muslim Women in Indonesian Fiction (2009)
    Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9789048508167
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (220 pages)
    Series Statement: ICAS Publications Series
    DDC: 305.409
    Abstract: The first study to discuss the construction of gender and Islamic identities in the works of contemporary Indonesian Muslim female writers.
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    Cookies, Coleslaw, and Stoops : The Influence of Dutch on the North American Languages (2009)
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    ISBN: 9789048510429
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (326 pages)
    DDC: 306
    Abstract: From Santa Claus and his sleigh to a dumbhead talking poppycock, the contributions of the Dutch language to American English are indelibly embedded to some of our most vernacular terms and expressions.
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    Aging and the Indian Diaspora : Cosmopolitan Families in India and Abroad (2009)
    Bloomington : Indiana University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780253003607
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (363 pages)
    Series Statement: Tracking Globalization
    DDC: 306.3/808991411
    Abstract: The proliferation of old age homes and increasing numbers of elderly living alone are startling new phenomena in India. These trends are related to extensive overseas migration and the transnational dispersal of families. In this moving and insightful account, Sarah Lamb shows that older persons are innovative agents in the processes of social-cultural change. Lamb's study probes debates and cultural assumptions in both India and the United States regarding how best to age; the proper social-moral relationship among individuals, genders, families, the market, and the state; and ways of finding meaning in the human life course.
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    Feminist Research Methodology : Making Meanings of Meaning-Making (2009)
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    ISBN: 9780203867327
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (230 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Research on Gender in Asia Series
    DDC: 305.4095493
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    Keywords: Frauenforschung ; Methodologie ; Sri Lanka
    Abstract: This book focuses on feminist research methodology, exploring and analysing its constituting methods, theory, ontology, epistemology, ethics and politics, and research issues relating to women, gender and feminism in Sri Lanka. The book examines ways of meaning-making for the political, ideological and ethical purposes of promoting individual and social change, and constructs an example of feminist research praxis. Using this South Asian country as a case study, the author looks at the means by which researchers in this field inhabit, engage with and represent the multiple realities of women and society in Sri Lanka. In analysing what constitutes feminist research methodology in a transitional country, the book links local research practices with Western feminist approaches, taking into account the commonalities, distinctions and specificities of working in a South Asian context. Engaging with and re-conceptualising three traditionally different types of research - women's studies, gender studies and feminist studies - from a methodological perspective, Feminist Research Methodology provides a framework for researching feminist issues. Applicable at both a local and global level, this original methodological framework will be of value to researchers working in any context.
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    Virtual Social Identity and Consumer Behavior (2009)
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    ISBN: 9781317452577
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (230 pages)
    DDC: 306.3
    Abstract: The creation and expression of identity (or of multiple identities) in immersive computer-mediated environments (CMEs) is rapidly transforming consumer behavior. The various social networking and gaming sites have millions of registered users worldwide, and major corporations are beginning to attempt to reach and entice the growing flood of consumers occupying these virtual worlds. Despite this huge potential, however, experts know very little about the best way to talk to consumers in these online environments. How will well-established research findings from the offline world transfer to CMEs? That's where "Virtual Social Identity and Consumer Behavior" comes in. Written by two of the leading experts in the field, it presents cutting-edge academic research on virtual social identity, explores consumer behavior in virtual worlds, and offers important implications for marketers interested in working in these environments. The book provides special insight into the largest and fastest growing group of users - kids and teens. There is no better source for understanding the impact of virtual social identities on consumers, consumer behavior, and electronic commerce.
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    Theology as an Empirical Science (2009)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781134050192
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (293 pages)
    Series Statement: Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion
    DDC: 302.23
    Abstract: Investigating the question 'can theology, description of the divine reality, be made truly scientific?', this book addresses logic and human knowledge alongside experimental religion. An important philosophic work by a prolific theologian also known for his later court case regarding conscientious objection, this book describes how it is possible to relate theological theory with religious experience of the divine the way that the sciences relate to human acquaintance with things and people in social experience.
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    Indonesian Economic Decolonization in Regional and International Perspective (2009)
    Leiden : BRILL | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9789004253780
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (222 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde v.267
    DDC: 390
    Abstract: This collection of essays provides insights into the complex process of economic decolonization in Indonesia from a variety of perspectives. The emancipation from Dutch colonialism in the economic sphere is linked to the unique features of the new nation-state emerging in newly independent Indonesia. This included a key role in business for the military. A key part was also played by indigenous Indonesian business firms that were shaped by the Japanese occupation and the Indonesian Revolution.
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    Beyond a Border : The Causes and Consequences of Contemporary Immigration (2009)
    Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781452222691
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (278 pages)
    Series Statement: Sociology for a New Century Series
    DDC: 304.8
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    LB 48000
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    MS 3600
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    QU 400
    Keywords: Einwanderer ; Soziale Situation ; Soziale Integration ; Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
    Abstract: The most up-to-date analysis of today's immigration issues As the authors state in Chapter 1, "the movement of people across national borders represents one of the most vivid dramas of social reality in the contemporary world." This comparative text examines contemporary immigration across the globe, focusing on 20 major nations. Noted scholars Peter Kivisto and Thomas Faist introduce students to important topics of inquiry at the heart of the field, including Movement: Explores the theories of migration using a historical perspective of the modern world. Settlement: Provides clarity concerning the controversial matter of immigrant incorporation and refers to the varied ways immigrants come to be a part of a new society. Control: Focuses on the politics of immigration and examines the role of states in shaping how people choose to migrate. Key Features Provides comprehensive coverage of topics not covered in other texts, such as state and immigration control, focusing on policies created to control migratory flow and evolving views of citizenship Offers a global portrait of contemporary immigration, including a demographic overview of today's cross-border movers Offers critical assessments of the achievements of the field to date Encourages students to rethink traditional views about the distinction between citizen and alien in this global age Suggests paths for future research and new theoretical developments.
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    Effects of the Financial Crisis on Public-Private Partnerships (2009)
    Washington : International Monetary Fund | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781451917208
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (26 pages)
    Series Statement: IMF Working Papers
    DDC: 302.1
    Abstract: The paper investigates the impact of the global financial crisis on public-private partnerships (PPPs) and the circumstances under which providing support to new and existing projects is justified. Based on country evidence, cost of and access to finance are found to be the main channels of transmission of the financial crisis, affecting in particular pipeline PPP projects. Possible measures to help PPPs during the crisis include contract extensions, output-based subsidies, revenue enhancements and step-in rights. To limit government's exposure to risk, while preserving private partner's efficiency incentives, intervention measures should be consistent with the wider fiscal policy stance, be contingent on specific circumstances, and be adequately costed and budgeted. Governments should be compensated for taking on additional risk.
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    The International Encyclopedia of Gambling [2 volumes] (2009)
    Santa Barbara : ABC-CLIO | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781598842265
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (815 pages)
    Series Statement: Non-Series
    DDC: 306.4/8203
    Abstract: Covers new gambling venues and operations in the Western Hemisphere, as well as venues in Europe, Africa, and Asia, including Asia Minor and Asia Pacific lands Offers an extensive entry on Internet gambling and a new section on films about gambling Includes biographies of leading figures in the gambling world.
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    Will of the Many : How the Alterglobalisation Movement Is Changing the Face of Democracy (2009)
    London : Pluto Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781849644273
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (296 pages)
    Series Statement: Anthropology, Culture and Society
    DDC: 303.482
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    MR 5600
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    MS 1170
    Keywords: Antiglobalisierungsbewegung ; Demokratie
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    Face Perception (2009)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781135845728
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (489 pages)
    DDC: 302.22440973
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    CP 2500
    Keywords: Gesicht ; Visuelle Wahrnehmung ; Mimik ; Wahrnehmung
    Abstract: Human faces are unique biological structures that convey a complex variety of important social messages. Even strangers can tell things from our faces - our feelings, our locus of attention, something of what we are saying, our age, sex and ethnic group, whether they find us attractive. In recent years there has been genuine progress in understanding how our brains derive all these different messages from faces and what can happen when one or other of the structures involved is damaged. Face Perception provides an up-to-date, integrative summary by two authors who have helped develop and shape the field over the past 30 years. It encompasses topics as diverse as the visual information our brains can exploit when we look at faces, whether prejudicial attitudes can affect how we see faces, and how people with neurodevelopmental disorders see faces. The material is digested and summarised in a way that is accessible to students, within a structure that focuses on the different things we can do with faces. It offers a compelling synthesis of behavioural, neuropsychological and cognitive neuroscience approaches to develop a distinctive point of view of the area. The book concludes by reviewing what is known about the development of face processing and re-examines the question of what makes faces 'special'. Written in a clear and accessible style, this is invaluable reading for all students and researchers interested in studying face perception and social cognition.
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    Gendered Media : Women, Men, and Identity Politics (2009)
    Blue Ridge Summit : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781442201040
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (131 pages)
    Series Statement: Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
    DDC: 305.3
    Abstract: Karen Ross provides the necessary historical context against which to read recent sex- and gender-based media phenomena such as Big Brother, Terminator, girls' use of mobile phones, women news editors, the Wonderbra generation, the Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin phenomena, and so on.
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    Media Management and Economics Research in a Transmedia Environment (2009)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781135969349
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (295 pages)
    Series Statement: Electronic Media Research Series
    DDC: 331.12
    Abstract: This landmark work centers on media management and economics within a diverse, international, historical and constantly changing environment. The chapters herein reflect the current state of research and present directions for future study. Developed at the 2012 Research Symposium in conjunction with the annual convention of the Broadcast Education Association, it represents the most current theory and research in the area.
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    Leading Change in Multiple Contexts : Concepts and Practices in Organizational, Community, Political, Social, and Global Change Settings (2009)
    Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781483300047
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (348 pages)
    DDC: 303.48/4
    Abstract: Using a consistent framework throughout for understanding and applying concepts and practices of leading change this text contains application and reflection exercises that allow readers to apply what they learn.
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    Pierre Bourdieu : The Last Musketeer of the French Revolution (2009)
    Lanham, MD : Lexington Books | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780739142776
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (146 pages)
    DDC: 301.092
    Keywords: Bourdieu, Pierre ; Sozialphilosophie ; Politische Philosophie
    Abstract: This book provides an innovative cultural analysis of Pierre Bourdieu's oeuvre. Surpassing prior introductory presentations and critical discussions of his work, the book keenly exposes Bourdieu's overarching political commitment to the French Revolution and to the ideals of the Enlightenment. It is a must read for those interested in Bourdieu and for those seeking an understanding of the interplay between culture and social theory.
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    Limits to Globalization : North-South Divergence (2009)
    London : Routledge | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203872796
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (211 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Rethinking Globalizations Ser. v.21
    DDC: 337
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    QM 520
    Keywords: Globalisierung ; Nord-Süd-Konflikt ; Weltwirtschaft ; Entwicklungsländer
    Abstract: In the post-Cold War era, economic globalization has loomed, at least for some, as the world system's next crisis carrier, creating winners and losers and trampling on the distinctiveness of local cultures. Yet the liberal assumption is that if the market does its job, the poor will catch up to the rich via trade-driven growth and the economies of developed and less developed countries will gradually converge. Investigating the processes of economic globalization, this book explores whether it is truly a "global" process. It examines how globalization is experienced around the world, comparing its intensity and impact in both the global North and South. Using a world systems approach and developing a theoretical analysis that builds on the leadership long-cycle approach to global political economy, this book seeks to dispel some of the myths widely propagated regarding economic development. Through a focus on the issues of technological diffusion, debt, conflict, and democratisation, the authors demonstrate how and why the asymmetries that have characterized the global North and South in the past and present are growing more acute. This important book will be of interest to students and scholars of international political economy, globalisation, international trade and development.
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    Het Nederlandse toneelbestel van 1945 tot 1995 (2009)
    Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9789048512492
    Language: Dutch
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (425 pages)
    DDC: 306;792
    Keywords: Theater -- Netherlands -- History -- 20th century. ; Performing arts -- Netherlands -- History -- 20th century ; Electronic books
    Abstract: A history and analysis of the structure of Dutch theatre since the second world war. (in Dutch).
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    Transitions and Learning Through the Lifecourse (2009)
    Florence : Routledge | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203867617
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (241 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 374/.941
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    DU 2000
    Abstract: Like many ideas that inform policy, practice and research, 'transition' has many meanings. Children make a transition to adulthood, pupils move from primary to secondary school, and there is then a movement from school to work, training or further education. Transitions can lead to profound and positive change and be an impetus for new learning for some individuals and be unsettling, difficult and unproductive for others. Transitions have become a key concern for policy makers and the subject of numerous policy changes over the past ten years. They are also of interest to researchers and professionals working with different groups. Transitions and Learning Through the Lifecourse examines transitions across a range of education, life and work settings. It explores the claim that successful transitions are essential for educational inclusion, social achievement, and economic prosperity and that individuals and institutions need to manage them more effectively. Aimed primarily at academic researchers and students at all levels of study across a range of disciplines, including education, careers studies, sociology, feminist and cultural studies, this book is the first systematic attempt to bring together and evaluate insights about educational, life and work transitions from a range of different fields of research. Contributions include: The transition between home and school The effects of gender, class and age Transitions to further and higher education Transitions for students with disabilities Transitions into the workplace Learning within the workplace Approaches to managing transitions.
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    Minority Languages, Education and Communities in China (2009)
    London : Palgrave Macmillan UK | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780230234406
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (254 pages)
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities Ser.
    DDC: 306.44951
    Keywords: Nationale Minderheit ; Sprachpolitik ; Bildungspolitik ; Linguistic minorities -- China ; Language and education -- China ; Language policy -- China ; China ; Electronic books
    Abstract: The book outlines the evolution and role of minority languages locally and nationally; it investigates current educational language policies in minority areas; and it assesses the social and economic outcomes of language change for communities in contemporary China.
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    The Politics of Heritage Tourism in China : A View from Lijiang (2009)
    London : Routledge | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203873687
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (223 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Contemporary China Ser.
    DDC: 915.1/35
    RVK:
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    Keywords: Tourismus ; Lijiang
    Abstract: This volume unravels the politics surrounding behind China's hegemonic project of heritage tourism development in Lijiang.  It provides a compelling study of the dialectical relationships between global and domestic capital, the state, tourists and locals as they collude, collaborate and contest one another to ready Lijiang for tourist consumption. Using rich material from insightful interviews and quantitative data, the authors show how complex tourism development can be even as it strives to do good for the community.  Su and Teo investigate the practices of contestation and negotiation of identity within Lijiang; analyze the negotiations that transform material and vernacular landscapes; and suggests strategies that will enable sustained tourism interest in this location. Linking Gramsci's theory on hegemony to the cultural politics of space, this book has two major strengths: it establishes a theoretical framework to conceptualize power relations in tourism space and provides critical insights into the rapidly shifting socio-political landscape of contemporary China. Comparisons with other Chinese heritage sites are also provided. By addressing the power struggles inevitable in the process of tourism development, The Politics of Heritage Tourism in China provides an innovative understanding of China's dynamic politics in a period of transition. As such, it will address the needs of students and academic scholars working in the fields of China studies, tourism, cultural studies, urban studies, sociology, geography, political science and heritage studies.
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    Gender and Mission Encounters in Korea : New Women, Old Ways: Seoul-California Series in Korean Studies, Volume 1 (2009)
    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780520943780
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (305 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Seoul-California Series in Korean Studies v.1
    DDC: 305.43266023
    Abstract: This book vividly traces the genealogy of modern womanhood in the encounters between Koreans and American Protestant missionaries in the early twentieth century, during Korea's colonization by Japan. Hyaeweol Choi shows that what it meant to be a "modern" Korean woman was deeply bound up in such diverse themes as Korean nationalism, Confucian gender practices, images of the West and Christianity, and growing desires for selfhood. Her historically specific, textured analysis sheds new light on the interplay between local and global politics of gender and modernity.
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    Cultures Merging : A Historical and Economic Critique of Culture (2009)
    Princeton : Princeton University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781400827114
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (163 pages)
    Series Statement: The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
    DDC: 306.301
    Abstract: "Economists agree about many things--contrary to popular opinion--but the majority agree about culture only in the sense that they no longer give it much thought." So begins the first chapter of Cultures Merging, in which Eric Jones--one of the world's leading economic historians--takes an eloquent, pointed, and personal look at the question of whether culture determines economics or is instead determined by it. Bringing immense learning and originality to the issue of cultural change over the long-term course of global economic history, Jones questions cultural explanations of much social behavior in Europe, East Asia, the United States, Australia, and the Middle East. He also examines contemporary globalization, arguing that while centuries of economic competition have resulted in the merging of cultures into fewer and larger units, these changes have led to exciting new syntheses. Culture matters to economic outcomes, Jones argues, but cultures in turn never stop responding to market forces, even if some elements of culture stubbornly persist beyond the time when they can be explained by current economic pressures. In the longer run, however, cultures show a fluidity that will astonish some cultural determinists. Jones concludes that culture's "ghostly transit through history" is much less powerful than noneconomists often claim, yet it has a greater influence than economists usually admit. The product of a lifetime of reading and thinking on culture and economics, a work of history and an analysis of the contemporary world, Cultures Merging will be essential reading for anyone concerned about the interaction of cultures and markets around the world.
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    Sovereign Bodies : Citizens, Migrants, and States in the Postcolonial World (2009)
    Princeton : Princeton University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781400826698
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (306 pages)
    DDC: 306.2
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    MK 2700
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    MS 9350
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    Keywords: Politische Anthropologie ; Postkolonialismus ; Kulturvergleich ; Gewalt ; Politik ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: 9/11 and its aftermath have shown that our ideas about what constitutes sovereign power lag dangerously behind the burgeoning claims to rights and recognition within and across national boundaries. New configurations of sovereignty are at the heart of political and cultural transformations globally. Sovereign Bodies shifts the debate on sovereign power away from territoriality and external recognition of state power, toward the shaping of sovereign power through the exercise of violence over human bodies and populations. In this volume, sovereign power, whether exercised by a nation-state or by a local despotic power or community, is understood and scrutinized as something tentative and unstable whose efficacy depends less on formal rules than on repeated acts of violence. Following the editors' introduction are fourteen essays by leading scholars from around the globe that analyze cultural meanings of sovereign power and violence, as well as practices of citizenship and belonging--in South Africa, Peru, India, Mexico, Cyprus, Norway, and also among transnational Chinese and Indian populations. Sovereign Bodies enriches our understanding of power and sovereignty in the postcolonial world and in "the West" while opening new conceptual fields in the anthropology of politics. The contributors are Ana María Alonso, Lars Buur, Partha Chatterjee, Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff, Oivind Fuglerud, Thomas Blom Hansen, Barry Hindess, Steffen Jensen, Achille Mbembe, Aihwa Ong, Finn Stepputat, Simon Turner, Peter van der Veer, and Yael Navaro-Yashin.
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    Living with History (2009)
    Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780807887868
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (245 pages)
    DDC: 305.4071/1073
    Keywords: Lerner, Gerda ; Frauenforschung ; Frau ; Geschichte ; Autobiographie ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This stimulating collection of essays in an autobiographical framework spans the period from 1963 to the present. It encompasses Gerda Lerner's theoretical writing and her organizational work in transforming the history profession and in establishing Women's History as a mainstream field.Six of the twelve essays are new, written especially for this volume; the others have previously appeared in small journals or were originally presented as talks, and have been revised for this book. Several essays discuss feminist teaching and the problems of interpretation of autobiography and memoir for the reader and the historian. Lerner's reflections on feminism as a worldview, on the meaning of history writing, and on problems of aging lend this book unusual range and depth. Together, the essays illuminate how thought and action connected in Lerner's life, how the life she led before she became an academic affected the questions she addressed as a historian, and how the social and political struggles in which she engaged informed her thinking. Written in lucid, accessible prose, the essays will appeal to the general reader as well as to students at all levels. Living with History / Making Social Change offers rare insight into the life work of one of the leading historians of the United States.
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    Those About Him Remained Silent : The Battle over W. E. B. Du Bois (2009)
    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780816670420
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (232 pages)
    DDC: 303.48/4092
    Keywords: Du Bois, William E. B. ; Biographie
    Abstract: On the eve of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 March on Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois died in exile in Ghana at the age of 95, more than a half century after cofounding the NAACP. Five years after his death, residents of Great Barrington, the small Massachusetts town where Du Bois was born in 1868, proposed recognizing his legacy through the creation of a memorial park on the site of his childhood home. Supported by the local newspaper and prominent national figures including Harry Belafonte and Sydney Poitier, the effort to honor Du Bois set off an acrimonious debate that bitterly divided the town. Led by the local chapter of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, opponents compared Du Bois to Hitler, vilifying him as an anti-American traitor for his communist sympathies, his critique of American race relations, and his pan-Africanist worldview.In Those About Him Remained Silent, Amy Bass provides the first detailed account of the battle over Du Bois and his legacy, as well as a history of Du Bois's early life in Massachusetts. Bass locates the roots of the hostility to memorialize Du Bois in a cold war worldview that reduced complicated politics to a vehement hatred of both communism and, more broadly, anti-Americanism. The town's reaction was intensified, she argues, by the racism encoded within cold war patriotism. Showing the potency of prevailing, often hidden, biases, Those About Him Remained Silent is an unexpected history of how racism, patriotism, and global politics played out in a New England community divided on how-or even if-to honor the memory of its greatest citizen.
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    Social Theories of Risk and Uncertainty : An Introduction (2009)
    Hoboken : Wiley | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781444301496
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (264 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 302/.12
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    Keywords: Risiko ; Soziologie ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Written by leading experts in the field, Social Theories of Risk and Uncertainty is an introduction to mainstream theorizing on risk and uncertainty in sociology. Provides an overview of the historical developments and conceptual aspects of risk Identifies why theorizing on risk is necessary and highlights specific sociological contributions to this field of research Explores key topics including risk society and reflexive modernization, culture and risk, governmentality and risk, systems theory and risk, and edgework and voluntary risk taking Offers a comprehensive look at the promises, pitfalls, and perspectives of risk theorizing.
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    The Jewish-Arab City : Spatio-politics in a mixed community (2009)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203879696
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (160 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies on the Arab-Israeli Conflict
    DDC: 305.80095694/8
    RVK:
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    Keywords: Nahostkonflikt ; Juden ; Palästinenser ; Interaktion ; Geopolitik ; Stadtplanung ; Friedensbemühung
    Abstract: Mixed city is a term widely used in Israel to describe areas occupied by both Jewish and Arab communities. In a critical examination of such cities, the author shows how a clear spatial and mental division exists between Arabs and Jews in Israel, and how the occurrence of such communities is both exceptional and involuntary. Looking at Jewish-Arab relations in Israel in the context of the built environment, it is argued that there are complex links between socio-political relations and the production of contested urban space. The case study of one particular Jewish-Arab "mixed city", the city of Lod, is used as the platform for wider theoretical discussion and political analysis. This city has great significance in the present global context, as more and more cities are becoming polarized, ghettoized, and fragmented in surprisingly similar ways. This book examines the visible planning apparatuses and the "hidden" mechanisms of social, political, and cultural control involved in these processes. Focusing on the spatialities of power, this book brings to the fore a critical discussion of the urban processes that shape Jewish-Arab "mixed cities" in Israel, and will be of interest to students and scholars of Urban Studies, Middle East Studies and Politics in general.
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    Urbanism in the Preindustrial World : Cross-Cultural Approaches (2009)
    Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780817380977
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (460 pages)
    Edition: 2nd ed.
    DDC: 307.76
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Stadt ; Landflucht ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: A baseline study of the growth of preindustrial cities worldwide. This work employs a subset of preindustrial cities on many continents to answer questions archaeologists grapple with concerning the populating and growth of cities before industrialization. It further explores how scholars differently conceive and execute their research on the population of cities. The subject cities are in Greece, Mesoamerica, the Andes, Italy, Egypt, Africa, United States, Denmark, and China. This broad sample provides a useful framework for answers to such questions as "Why did people agglomerate into cities?" and "What population size and what age of endurance constitute a city?" The study covers more than population magnitude and population makeup, the two major frameworks of urban demography. The contributors combine their archaeological and historical expertise to reveal commonalities, as well as theoretical extrapolations and methodological approaches, at work here and outside the sample. Urbanism in the Preindustrial World is a unique study revealing the variety of factors involved in the coalescing and dispersal of populations in preindustrial times.
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    Production Studies : Cultural Studies of Media Industries (2009)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203879597
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (264 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 302.23
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    Keywords: Medienwirtschaft ; Fernsehwirtschaft ; Filmwirtschaft ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: "Behind-the-scenes" stories of ranting directors, stingy producers, temperamental actors, and the like have fascinated us since the beginnings of film and television. Today, magazines, websites, television programs, and DVDs are devoted to telling tales of trade lore-from on-set antics to labor disputes. The production of media has become as storied and mythologized as the content of the films and TV shows themselves. Production Studies is the first volume to bring together a star-studded cast of interdisciplinary media scholars to examine the unique cultural practices of media production. The all-new essays collected here combine ethnographic, sociological, critical, material, and political-economic methods to explore a wide range of topics, from contemporary industrial trends such as new media and niche markets to gender and workplace hierarchies. Together, the contributors seek to understand how the entire span of "media producers"-ranging from high-profile producers and directors to anonymous stagehands and costume designers-work through professional organizations and informal networks to form communities of shared practices, languages, and cultural understandings of the world. This landmark collection connects the cultural activities of media producers to our broader understanding of media practices and texts, establishing an innovative and agenda-setting approach to media industry scholarship for the twenty-first century. Contributors: Miranda J. Banks, John T. Caldwell, Christine Cornea, Laura Grindstaff, Felicia D. Henderson, Erin Hill, Jane Landman, Elana Levine, Amanda D. Lotz, Paul Malcolm, Denise Mann, Vicki Mayer, Candace Moore, Oli Mould, Sherry B. Ortner, Matt Stahl, John L. Sullivan, Serra Tinic, Stephen Zafirau.
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    Little Saigons : Staying Vietnamese in America (2009)
    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780816670307
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (256 pages)
    DDC: 305.895
    Keywords: Vietnamesen ; Ethnische Identität ; USA
    Abstract: With a comparative and race-cognizant approach, Karin Aguilar-San Juan shows how places like Little Saigon and Fields Corner are sites for the simultaneous preservation and redefinition of Vietnamese identity. Intervening in debates about race, ethnicity, multiculturalism, and suburbanization as a form of assimilation, she elaborates on the significance of place as an integral element of community building and its role in defining Vietnamese American-ness.
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    Erotic City : Sexual Revolutions and the Making of Modern San Francisco (2009)
    Cary : Oxford University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780199703395
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (303 pages)
    DDC: 306.77097946
    Keywords: Geschichte ; Sexualverhalten ; Soziokultureller Wandel ; Sexuelle Revolution ; San Francisco, Calif.
    Abstract: Since the 1960s, San Francisco has been America's capital of sexual libertinism and a potent symbol in its culture wars. In this highly original book, Josh Sides explains how this happened, unearthing long-forgotten stories of the city's sexual revolutionaries, as well as the legions of longtime San Franciscans who tried to protect their vision of a moral metropolis. Ultimately, Sides argues, one cannot understand the evolution of postwar American cities without recognizing the profound role that sex has played.
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    German Myth of the East : 1800 to the Present (2009)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780191567698
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (313 pages)
    Series Statement: Oxford Studies in Modern European History
    DDC: 303.48/243047
    Abstract: Over the last two centuries and indeed up to the present day, Eastern Europe's lands and peoples have conjured up a complex mixture of fascination, anxiety, promise, and peril for Germans looking eastwards. Across the generations, a varied cast of German writers, artists, philosophers, diplomats, political leaders, generals, and Nazi racial fanatics have imagined (often in very different ways) a special German mission in the East, forging a frontier myth that paralleled the American myths of the 'Wild West' and 'Manifest Destiny'. Through close analysis of German views of the East from 1800 to our own times, The German Myth of the East reveals that this crucial international relationshiphas in fact been integral to how Germans have defined (and repeatedly redefined) themselves and their own national identity. In particular, what was ultimately at stake for Germans was their own uncertain position in Europe, between East and West. Paradoxically, the East came to be viewed as both anattractive land of unlimited potential for the future and as a place undeveloped, dangerous, wild, dirty, and uncultured. Running the gamut from the messages of international understanding announced by generations of German scholars and sympathetic writers, to the violent racial utopia envisaged by the Nazis, German imaginings of the East represent a crucial, yet unfamiliar, part of modern European history, and one that remains fundamentally important today in the context of an expanded European Union.
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    Researching Violence, Democracy and the Rights of People (2009)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203863602
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (269 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 303.601
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    Abstract: Violence, democracy and rights are issues that are not fully addressed in research methodology literatures, yet violence is of vital interest in substantive and theoretical debates across the social sciences, education, philosophy, politics and cultural studies. Methodology needs to be informed by, and be relevant to, the debates and practices within and across these perspectives on the worlds of everyday life. Research is fundamentally entwined with the political, the ethical and the legal. When it presumes the neutrality of method and ignores its radical roots of inquiry, it is in danger of being politically co-opted and ethically naïve. Research that reveals what is at stake politically, ethically and legally is typically open to accusations of being partisan and therefore political. It cannot avoid being political in the broadest sense of the word, and consequently the researcher cannot escape - through some mystical notion of being 'objective' - the political, ethical and legal consequences of undertaking research. Research is vital to the construction of public spaces for debate, decision making and action. Hence, there is a close relationship between methodological practices, research design and the conditions under which violence, democracy and rights can be addressed. Researching Violence, Democracy and the Rights of People explores what is at stake methodologically (both theoretically and practically) for researchers seeking to expand opportunities for people to become visible upon the public stages of debate, decision making and action, and thus make audible their experiences of wrongs and injustices, express their rights, and engage democratically in processes of change. Drawing on international contributions and contexts, this book introduces readers to the complex realities of real research and the substantive issues that their...
    Abstract: methodological approaches strive to deal with. It will benefit undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as post-doctoral and experienced researchers across a range of cultural and social science disciplines, as well as educational and sociological researchers. Its aim is to explore and contribute to the development of innovatory approaches to engaging in research that make a difference in the lives of people.
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    Digital Material : Tracing New Media in Everyday Life and Technology (2009)
    Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9789048506668
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (297 pages)
    Series Statement: MediaMatters, 2 v.No. 2
    DDC: 100
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    Keywords: Neue Medien ; Alltag ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: A compelling study of the often controversial role and meaning of the new media and digital cultures in contemporary society.
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    URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-273298
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    Internationalizing Media Studies : Impediments and Imperatives (2009)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203877388
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (335 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Internationalizing Media Studies
    DDC: 302.23071
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    Keywords: Massenmedien ; Globalisierung
    Abstract: The explosion of transnational information flows, made possible by new technologies and institutional changes (economic, political and legal) has profoundly affected the study of global media. At the same time, the globalization of media combined with the globalization of higher education means that the research and teaching of the subject faces immediate and profound challenges, not only as the subject of enquiry but also as the means by which researchers and students undertake their studies. Edited by a leading scholar of global communication, this collection of essays by internationally-acclaimed scholars from around the world aims to stimulate a debate about the imperatives for internationalizing media studies by broadening its remit, including innovative research methodologies, taking account of regional and national specificities and pedagogic necessities warranted by the changing profile of students and researchers and the unprecedented growth of media in the non-Western world. Transnational in its perspectives, Internationalizing Media Studies is a much-needed guide to the internationalization of media and its study in a global context.
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    Community and Ideology (Routledge Revivals) : An Essay in Applied Social Philosphy (2009)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203092347
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (82 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Revivals
    DDC: 307
    Abstract: Initially published in 1974, this is a work of applied social and political philosophy which relates the philsophical analysis to various forms of community work theory and practice. Raymond Plant emphasizes that 'community' has a wide range of both descriptive meanings and evaluative connotations, linking this dual role of the word in the description and evaluation of social experience to its history in ideological confrontations. The book takes account of some liberal criticisms of the community ideal, and finally seeks to re-state a theory of community compatible with a liberal ideology.
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    Improving Effectiveness and Outcomes for the Poor in Health, Nutrition, and Population : An Evaluation of World Bank Group Support Since 1997 (2009)
    Herndon : World Bank Publications | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780821379516
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (228 pages)
    Series Statement: Independent Evaluation Group Studies
    DDC: 306.461
    Abstract: This study evaluates the effectiveness of the World Bank Group's support for health, nutrition, and population (HNP) in developing countries from 1997 to 2008 - totaling more than 17 billion - and distills lessons for greater impact in the future. It finds that the Bank Group now funds a smaller share of global support for HNP than a decade ago, but its support remains substantial and adds considerable value. About two-thirds of the Bank's HNP support has had satisfactory outcomes, often in difficult environments. But in a number of country settings, particularly in Africa, it has not performed well, in part due to high complexity and weak capacity. Only half of HNP support had a pro-poor focus, while support to reduce high fertility and promote family planning has dwindled. The evaluation highlights the contribution of investments in water supply, sanitation, and hygiene to improving the health of the poor and the lessons from support for sector-wide approaches, communicable disease control, and health reform. Moving forward, the World Bank needs to improve the performance of its HNP support and the Bank and IFC need to take actions to ensure their support reaches the poor and contributes greater social benefits, respectively.
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    Social Class in Europe : An introduction to the European Socio-economic Classification (2009)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203930588
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (353 Seiten)
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Studies in European Sociology
    DDC: 305.507204
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    Keywords: Soziale Klasse ; Soziale Schichtung ; Electronic books ; Europeans -- Economic conditions -- Classification ; Europeans -- Social conditions -- Classification ; Social classes -- Europe -- Classification ; Social stratification -- Europe -- Classification ; Europa ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This timely volume introduces a new social class schema, the European Socio-economic Classification (ESeC), which has been specifically developed and tested for use in EU comparative research. Social Class in Europe aims to introduce researchers to the new classification and its research potential. Since socio-economic classifications are so widely used in official and academic research, this collection is essential reading for all users of both government and academic social classifications. While primarily aimed at researchers who will be using the ESeC, the book's contents will also have a wider appeal as it is suitable for students taking substantive courses in European studies or as a supplementary text for undergraduates studying the EU, Sociology and Economics. Because of its inherent methodological interest, the book should prove a valuable tool for undergraduate and graduate courses that discuss how social scientists construct and validate basic measures. It will also be required reading for policy makers and analysts concerned with social inequality and social exclusion across Europe.
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    Intra-Jewish Conflict in Israel : White Jews, Black Jews (2009)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203870358
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (313 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics
    DDC: 305.80095694
    RVK:
    MH 84968
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    Keywords: Aschkenasim ; Juden ; Soziale Situation ; Minderheitenfrage ; Israel ; Orient
    Abstract: This is the first book in English to examine the Mizrahi Jews (Jews from the Muslim world) in Israel, focussing in particular on social and political movements such as the Black Panthers and SHAS. The book analyses the ongoing cultural encounter between Zionism and Israel on one side and Mizrahi Jews on the other. It charts the relations and political struggle between Ashkenazi-Zionists and the Mizrahim in Israel from post-war relocation through to the present day. The author examines the Mizrahi political struggle and resistance from early immigration in the 1950s to formative events such as the 1959 Wadi-As-Salib rebellion in Haifa; the 1970s Black Panther movement uprising; the 'Ballot Rebellion' of 1977; the evolution and rise of the SHAS political party as a Mizrahi Collective in the 1980s, and up to the new radical Mizrahi movements of the 1990s and present day. It examines a new Mizrahi discourse which has influenced Israeli culture and academia, and the nature of the political system itself in Israel. This book will be of great interest to those involved in Middle East Studies and Politics, Jewish and Israeli Studies and Race and Ethnic Studies.
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    Making Transnational Feminism : Rural Women, NGO Activists, and Northern Donors in Brazil (2009)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203869888
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (253 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Perspectives on Gender
    DDC: 305.42
    Abstract: This ethnographic study examines the transnational relations among feminist movements at the end of the twentieth century, exploring two differently situated women's organizations in the Northeast Brazilian state of Pernambuco. The conventional narrative of globalization tells the story of inexorable forces beyond the capacity of individuals to mute or transcend. But this study tells a different story, one of social actors purposefully weaving cross-border relationships. From this vantage point, global social forces are not immaculately conceived. Instead, they are constituted by human actors with their own interests and identities, located in particular social contexts.  Making Transnational Feminism takes what some have called "global civil society" as its object, moving beyond both dire predictions and euphoric celebrations to understand how transnational political relationships are constructed and sustained across social and geographical divides. It also provides a compelling case study for use in advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in globalization, gender studies, and social movements.
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    The Routledge International Handbook of the Sociology of Education (2009)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203863701
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (447 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge International Handbooks of Education
    DDC: 306.43
    Abstract: This collection brings together many of the world's leading sociologists of education to explore and address key issues and concerns within the discipline. The thirty-seven newly commissioned chapters draw upon theory and research to provide new accounts of contemporary educational processes, global trends, and changing and enduring forms of social conflict and social inequality. The research, conducted by leading international scholars in the field, indicates that two complexly interrelated agendas are discernible in the heat and noise of educational change over the past twenty-five years. The first rests on a clear articulation by the state of its requirements of education. The second promotes at least the appearance of greater autonomy on the part of educational institutions in the delivery of those requirements. The Routledge International Handbook of the Sociology of Education examines the ways in which the sociology of education has responded to these two political agendas, addressing a range of issues which cover three key areas: perspectives and theories social processes and practices inequalities and resistances. The book strongly communicates the vibrancy and diversity of the sociology of education and the nature of 'sociological work' in this field. It will be a primary resource for teachers, as well as a title of major interest to practising sociologists of education.
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    Documentary Testimonies : Global Archives of Suffering (2009)
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    ISBN: 9780203883419
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (292 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: AFI Film Readers
    DDC: 070.18
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    AP 49400
    Keywords: Dokumentarfilm ; Leid ; Zeugenaussage ; Audiovisuelle Medien ; Augenzeugenbericht ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Documentary Testimonies examines documentary films that compel us to bear witness, move us to anger or tears, and possibly mobilize us to action. Comprising ten new essays and a substantive introduction, this interdisciplinary volume examines audiovisual testimonial practices, forms, and institutions. Topics include: technologies of capture, storage and circulation; problems of historical veracity/frail memory; generation of video archives--official, renegade, and ephemeral; limits and potentialities of documentary as public record; architectonics of memory; ethics of witnessing and commemoration; human rights and activist publics. The essays provide in-depth analysis of archives of social suffering tied to particular locales: Cambodia, Chiapas, Darfur, India, Indonesia, Korea, New Orleans, Norway, Rwanda, South Africa, and Washington, DC. The contributors focus on the generation and use of testimony by public administrators and institutions, human rights activists, documentary filmmakers, and others with interest in environmental justice, human rights, social advocacy, and the commemoration/prevention of genocide. Thus, this volume aims to investigate, from a critical and translocal perspective, testimony as social practice.
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    The Logics of Globalization : Case Studies in International Communication (2009)
    MD : Lexington Books | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780739132524
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (246 pages)
    DDC: 302.23
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    Keywords: Massenmedien ; Globalisierung ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: The Logics of Globalization provides students and scholars of international communication a critical language through which to interrogate the flow of global media culture. Drawing on transnational cultural studies, the book offers analysis of popular culture_focusing on film, video games, music, sports, cell phones, and performance.
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    The Routledge Handbook of Sociolinguistics Around the World : A Handbook (2009)
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    ISBN: 9780203869659
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (449 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 306.44
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    ES 100
    Keywords: Soziolinguistik ; Internationaler Vergleich
    Abstract: Drawing on examples from a wide range of languages and social setting, The Routledge Handbook of Sociolinguistics Around the World is the first single-volume collection surveying current and recent research trends in international sociolinguistics. With over 30 chapters written by leading authorities in the region concerned, all continents and their respective regions are covered. The book will serve as an important tool to help widen the perspective on sociolinguistics to readers of English. Divided into sections covering: The Americas, Asia, Australasia, Africa and the Middle East, and Europe, the book provides readers with a solid, up-to-date appreciation of the interdisciplinary nature of the field of sociolinguistics in each area. It clearly explains the patterns and systematicity that underlie language variation in use, as well as the ways in which alternations between different language varieties mark personal style, social power and national identity. The Routledge Handbook of Sociolinguistics around the World is the ideal resource for all students on undergraduate sociolinguistics courses and researchers involved in the study of language, society and power. English Language and Linguistics / Sociolinguistics.
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    Identity in Crossroad Civilisations : Ethnicity, Nationalism and Globalism in Asia (2009)
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    ISBN: 9789048510511
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (210 pages)
    Series Statement: ICAS Publications Series
    DDC: 301
    Abstract: Based on multi-disciplinary studies conducted in Asia (India, Bhutan, China, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, New Zealand), this volume on Identity in Crossroad Civilisations: Ethnicity, Nationalism and Globalism in Asia demonstrates how identity is defined, negotiated and conceptualised in response to increasing globalisation in the region. Asian expressions of identity reflect, in many ways, their adaptability to the changing economic, political and social climates and at the same time question Samuel Huntington's popular yet controversial thesis on the clash of civilisations. This book also engages Benedict Anderson's idea of 'imagined communities' and shows how its operation impacts on both community and individual identity in an environment that is increasingly characterised by border crossings and transnationalism. Contemporary Asian realities, as examined in the essays, demonstrate the need to rethink previous notions of identity and nationalism.
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    In The Vernacular : A Generation of Australian Culture and Controversy (2009)
    Saint Lucia : University of Queensland Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780702241161
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (335 pages)
    DDC: 306.071094
    Abstract: Collecting important works from one of Australia's leading scholars of media, culture, and policy, this study brings sharper focus upon both historical and industrial contexts. Engaging with the global debate on multiethnic societies by focusing on creativity at the margins," this survey argues that industrial and social trends in media, communications, and culture are outstripping the academic frameworks that were erected to deal with them.
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    The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You (2009)
    Vancouver : Arsenal Pulp Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781551523514
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (116 pages)
    DDC: 306.768
    Abstract: Essays on queer and trans life by the author of Butch is a Noun.
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    Advances in Military Sociology, 12B : Essays in Honor of Charles C. Moskos (2009)
    Bradford : Emerald Group Publishing Limited | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781848558939
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (595 pages)
    Series Statement: Contributions to Conflict Management, Peace, Economics and Development v.v. 12B
    DDC: 306.27
    Abstract: There could be no better homage to recently deceased sociologist Charles C. Moskos than dedicating to him this selection of the papers presented at RC01's international conference in Seoul (July 2008). It offers an up-to-date view of the panorama of social studies on armed forces and conflict resolution in a context of fast-moving change that renders many preceding theoretical previsions obsolete. Just to cite two aspects of this change, one can point first of all to how the presented studies move beyond the very concept of globalization, after which the conference had been named.
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    Staring : How We Look (2009)
    New York : Oxford University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780199716760
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (255 pages)
    DDC: 302.5
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    CP 2500
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    EC 2410
    Keywords: Kulturwissenschaften ; Literatur ; Aussehen
    Abstract: From a very young age we are told not to stare, and one hallmark of maturation is the ability to resist (or at least hide) our staring behavior. And yet, rarely do we master the impulse. Despite the complicated role it plays in our development, and its unique brand of visual enticement, staring has not been considered before as a suitable object for socio-cultural analysis. What is it about certain kinds of people that makes it impossible to take our eyes off them? Why are some visual stimuli irresistible? Why does staring produce so much anxiety? Drawing on examples from art, media, fashion, history and memoir, Garland-Thomson defines staring, explores the factors that motivate it, and considers the targets and the effects of the stare. A bodily inventory then enumerates how stares actually operate in daily life. A section on "Bodies" focuses on the question of size and scale as key indicators of normalcy, while certain body parts show themselves to be disproportionately arresting, as passages on "Faces" "Hands" and "Breasts" reveal. A concluding chapter on "Beholding" considers the frisson at play between starer and staree and offers an alternative way of understanding visual communication between people. Featuring over forty illustrations, Staring captures the stimulating combination of symbolic, material and emotional factors that make staring so irresistible while endeavoring to shift the usual response to staring, shame, into an engaged self-consideration. Elegant and provocative, this book advances new ways of thinking about visuality and the body that will appeal to readers who are interested in the overlap between the humanities and human behaviors.
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    Clash or Cooperation of Civilizations? : Overlapping Integration and Identities (2009)
    Abingdon : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780754695516
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (243 pages)
    Series Statement: The International Political Economy of New Regionalisms Series
    DDC: 303.48/261056
    RVK:
    MS 1290
    Keywords: Kulturkonflikt ; Politische Kooperation ; Westliche Welt ; Islamische Staaten ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: For decades North Africa and the Middle East have experienced overlapping identities and integration processes. With the exception of Morocco, the countries of North Africa have supported the re-launch of pan-Africanism in the form of the African Union and its growing institutionalization; but they also share an Arab identity and are members of the Arab League. Islamism commands wide support among the regions of North Africa and the Middle East, and the impact of European integration can increasingly be seen in varying forms.This comprehensive volume focuses on overlapping identities and integration processes in the Mediterranean basin and queries to what extent these various identities and integration processes are compatible or in conflict. Incorporating both theoretical and empirical material, it unites contributions from a variety of countries, thus exploring these issues from different perspectives.
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    Youth and Nation-Building in Cameroon. A Study of National Youth Day Messages and Leadership Discourse (1949-2009) : A Study of National Youth Day Messages and Leadership Discourse (1949-2009) (2009)
    Bamenda : Langaa RPCIG | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9789956717521
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (212 pages)
    DDC: 305.23096711
    Keywords: Jugend ; Politik ; Kamerun
    Abstract: This meticulous and comprehensive documentation of Cameroonian Youth Day Messages and leadership discourse on youth from 1949 - 2009 is a gold mine for researchers, historians and anyone interested in studying youth, politics and society in Africa. The book presents and explores themes and content of Youth Day Messages: how these messages tied in with, or veered away from, key events and issues of the time; how they served as a platform for West Cameroon governments, and the Ahidjo and Biya regimes to articulate their political vision, justify their policies, sell their respective ideologies to the youth; and what lessons could be drawn from them on competing, conflicting and complementary perspectives on youth agency in Cameroon and Africa. Churchill links the Youth Day to ongoing discussions in Africa about the role and place of youths as agents of development in Africa. Most significantly, he finally puts Cameroon's controversial Youth Day in its appropriate historical context - not as a political device created by the Francophone politicians to distort Cameroonian history and erase 'plebiscite day' from the collective memory as Anglophone nationalists claim, but as a British Cameroons colonial legacy, successfully sold to the Ahidjo regime as a day to be commemorated throughout the federation, by leaders of the federated state of West Cameroon. Churchill Ewumbue-Monono, a senior career diplomat, is Minister Counsellor in the Cameroon Embassy in Moscow. A graduate of the International Higher School of Journalism, and the International Relations Institute of Cameroon in the University of Yaounde, he was a 1991-92 Fellow in Public Diplomacy in Boston University, USA. He has served in Cameroon in various professional capacities. Ewumbue-Monono has written extensively on Cameroon's political history, and his books include Men of Courage, published...
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    Going to Extremes : How Like Minds Unite and Divide (2009)
    New York : Oxford University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780199703210
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (204 pages)
    DDC: 303.48/40973
    Keywords: Radikaler ; Radikalismus ; USA
    Abstract: Why do people become extremists? What makes people become so dismissive of opposing views? Why is political and cultural polarization so pervasive in America? Why do groups of teenagers, investors, and corporations take unnecessary risks? What leads groups to engage in such destructive acts as terrorism and ethic cleansing?. In Going to Extremes, renowned legal scholar and best-selling author Cass Sunstein offers startling insights into why and when people gravitate toward extremism. Sunstein marshals an abundance of evidence that shows that when like-minded people talk to one another, they tend to become more extreme in their views than they were before. This point applies to such diverse groups as religious organizations, corporate boards, investment clubs, and White House officials. Sunstein introduces original research to show that when liberals are brought together to debate climate change, they end up more alarmed about climate change, while conservatives brought together to discuss same-sex unions become skeptical about same-sex unions. In courtrooms, radio stations, and chatrooms, enclaves of like-minded people are breeding ground for extreme movements. Sunstein shows that a good way to create an extremist group, or a cult of any kind, is to separate members from the rest of society, either physically or psychologically. This disturbing finding casts new light on the dangers that arise whenever people self-select into niche groups of the like-minded. Sunstein's findings help to explain such diverse phenomena as political outrage on the Internet, unanticipated "blockbusters" in the film and music industry, the success of the disability rights movement, ethnic conflict in Iraq and former Yugoslavia, and Islamic terrorism. Providing a wealth of real-world examples--sometimes entertaining, sometimes alarming-- Sunstein offers a fresh...
    Abstract: explanation of why partisanship has become so bitter and debate so rancorous in America and abroad--and of what concrete steps citizens and nations might take to halt the drift towards unjustified extremism.
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    Examining Identity in Sports Media (2009)
    Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781483302096
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (224 pages)
    DDC: 306.4/83
    Keywords: Sport ; Massenmedien ; Geschlechtsidentität ; Soziale Identität ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Cutting edge and interdisciplinary investigation of how various identity groups are framed, treated, affected, and shaped by a ubiquitous sports media.
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    The Courageous Follower : Standing Up to and for Our Leaders (2009)
    Oakland : Berrett-Koehler Publishers | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781605092744
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (214 pages)
    Edition: 3rd ed.
    DDC: 302.35
    Abstract: Many significant failures-from FEMA's response to Hurricane Katrina to the recent economic collapse-could have been prevented or mitigated if those lower in the hierarchy were successful at communicating to leaders the risks they saw in the system. Ira Chaleff's Courageous Follower model has facilitated healthy upward information flow in organizations for over 15 years. The Harvard Business Review called Chaleff a pioneer in the emerging field of followership-this new edition shares his latest thinking on an increasingly vital topic. The updated third edition includes a new chapter, "The Courage to Speak to the Hierarchy." Much of Chaleff's model is based on followers having access to the leader. But today, followers can be handed questionable policies and orders that come from many levels above them-even from the other side of the world. Chaleff explores how they can respond effectively, particularly using the power now available through advances in communications technology. Everyone is a follower at least some of the time. Chaleff strips away the passive connotations of that role and provides tools to help followers effectively partner with leaders. He provides rich guidance to leaders and boards on fostering a climate that encourages courageous followership. The results include increased support for leaders, reduced cynicism and organizations saved from serious missteps.
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    Iranian Media : The Paradox of Modernity (2009)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203876411
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (264 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies
    DDC: 302.230955
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    Abstract: The post-revolutionary state in Iran has tried to amalgamate 'Sharia with electricity' and modernity with what it considers as 'Islam'. While sympathetic to private capital, through quasi anti-capitalist politics, the state began to restrict market-relations, confiscate major assets of sections of the Iranian bourgeoisie, and nationalize major aspects of Iran's industry, including its communications system. Since the end of war with Iraq and the start of the process of 'reconstruction', market-driven development and economic policies have been key aims of the state.
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    Media Globalization and the Discovery Channel Networks (2009)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203872949
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (237 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies
    DDC: 302.2345
    Abstract: This book is about the relationship between media and globalization, explored through the unique study of the global expansion of Discovery Communications, spearheaded by the Discovery Channel, one of the world's largest providers of factual television programming and media content. The book argues that the study of Discovery's relationship with globalization provides both a specific and a more general practical and theoretical understanding of how the processes of increased linking and interweaving of media and communications unfold and develop, as well as some of the consequences of this.
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    International Media Communication in a Global Age (2009)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203881286
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (489 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Communication Series
    DDC: 302.2
    Keywords: Auslandsberichterstattung ; Massenmedien ; Internationale Kommunikation ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This volume provides a comprehensive examination of key issues regarding global communication, focusing particularly on international news and strategic communication. It addresses those news factors that influence the newsworthiness of international events, providing a synthesis of both theoretical and practical studies that highlight the complicated nature of the international news selection process. It also deals with international news coverage, presenting research on the cross-national and cross-cultural nature of media coverage of global events, in the interdisciplinary context of research on political communication, war coverage, new technologies and online communication. The work concludes with a focus on global strategic communications: in the age of globalization, global economies and cross-national media ownership, chapters here provide readers with some of the most up-to-date research on international advertising, public relations and other key issues in international communications. With contributions from many of the leading scholars in the field of international media communication research, this collection presents a valuable resource for advancing knowledge and understanding of the complicated international communication phenomenon. It will be of value to upper-level undergraduates and graduate students in mass media and communication programs, and to scholars whose research focuses on global communication research.
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    Primer in Social Choice Theory : (Revised Edition) (2009)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780191569876
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (308 pages)
    Series Statement: London School of Economics: Perspectives in Economic Analysis
    DDC: 302/.1301
    Abstract: This introductory text explores the theory of social choice. This text is an important starting point for students grappling with the complexities of social choice theory. Rigorous yet accessible, with new chapter exercises, it avoids the use of technical language and provides an up-to-date discussion of this rapidly developing field. - ;Processes of collective decision making are seen throughout modern society. How does a government decide on an investment strategy within the health care and educational sectors? Should a government or a community introduce measures to combat climate change and CO2 emissions, even if others choose not too? Should a country develop a nuclear capability despite the risk that other countries may follow their lead? This introductory text explores the theory of social choice. Social choice theory provides an analysis of collective decision making. The main aim of the book is to introduce students to the various methods of aggregating the preferences of all members of a given society into some social or collective preference. Written as a primer suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduates, this text will act as an important starting point for students grappling with the complexities of social choicetheory. With all new chapter exercises this rigorous yet accessible primer avoids the use of technical language and provides an up-to-date discussion of this rapidly developing field. -.
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    Towards the Sociology of Truth (2009)
    London : Bloomsbury Publishing | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781441100139
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (177 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 306.43
    Abstract: This innovative monograph is concerned with a set of inter-related problems associated with the nature of knowledge, how it is produced within intellectual fields and the implications of those things for education and the transmission of knowledge in the classroom. It covers issues in the sociology of knowledge, the educational system and policy, social differences in educational attainment, educational research and teaching. At various points it critically engages with the ideas of major thinkers such as Durkheim, Bernstein and Bourdieu and others and draws on contributions representing an emerging new approach in the sociology of education associated with recent work by John Beck, Karl Maton, Johan Muller, Michael F.D. Young and others. This provocative and challenging book will undoubtedly stimulate debate among educationists across the world.
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    Institutions and Ideology (2009)
    Bradford : Emerald Group Publishing Limited | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781848558670
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (320 pages)
    Series Statement: Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 27 v.27
    DDC: 658.1
    RVK:
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    MN 1000
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    Keywords: Ideologie ; Institution ; Institutionenökonomie ; Neoinstitutionalismus ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This volume contributes to the literature on the sociology of organizations and management, especially to sociological institutionalism, by attempting to fill an important gap in institutional research. Our starting point is the conviction that organizational institutionalims is the conceptual and empirical venue to study ideology, both in its symbolic and material dimension and this volume represents an effort to refocus and revitalize these issues. The ten chapters of this volume engage directly and critical with several North American and European institutional traditions. Apart from organizational institutionalism's own classic and current research, they draw on a wide variety of theoretical legacies to make sense of the relationship between institutions and ideology: Weber, Foucault, Heidegger, Bourdieu, Archer, Wuthnow, critical discourse analysis, or Kuhn's discussion of paradigm shifts as ideological changes. Empirical areas covered range from technology and software development, the brewing industry, custodial facilities to the organization of birthing.
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    The Search for Social Entrepreneurship (2009)
    New York, NY : Brookings Institution Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780815701590
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (313 pages)
    DDC: 303.4
    Abstract: Research on social entrepreneurship is finally catching up to its rapidly growing potential. In The Search for Social Entrepreneurship, Paul Light explores this surge of interest to establish the state of knowledge on this growing phenomenon and suggest directions for future research. Light begins by outlining the debate on how to define social entrepreneurship, a concept often cited and lauded but not necessarily understood. A very elemental definition would note that it involves individuals, groups, networks, or organizations seeking sustainable change via new ideas on how governments, nonprofits, and businesses can address significant social problems. That leaves plenty of gaps, however, and without adequate agreement on what the term means, we cannot measure it effectively. The unsatisfying results are apple-to-orange comparisons that make replication and further research difficult. The subsequent section examines the four main components of social entrepreneurship: ideas, opportunities, organizations, and the entrepreneurs themselves. The copious information available about each has yet to be mined for lessons on making social entrepreneurship a success. The third section draws on Light's original survey research on 131 high-performing nonprofits, exploring how they differ across the four key components. The fourth and final section offers recommendations for future action and research in this burgeoning field.
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    Out in the Country : Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America (2009)
    New York : NYU Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780814733103
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (294 pages)
    Series Statement: Intersections
    DDC: 306.76/608350973091734
    RVK:
    HD 475
    Keywords: Jugend ; Homosexualität ; Ländlicher Raum ; Kentucky
    Abstract: Winner of the 2009 Ruth Benedict Prize for Outstanding Monograph from the Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists Winner of the 2010 Distinguished Book Award from the American Sociological Association, Sociology of Sexualities Section Winner of the 2010 Congress Inaugural Qualitative Inquiry Book Award Honorable Mention From Wal-Mart drag parties to renegade Homemaker's Clubs, Out in the Country offers an unprecedented contemporary account of the lives of today's rural queer youth. Mary L. Gray maps out the experiences of young people living in small towns across rural Kentucky and along its desolate Appalachian borders, providing a fascinating and often surprising look at the contours of gay life beyond the big city. Gray illustrates that, against a backdrop of an increasingly impoverished and privatized rural America, LGBT youth and their allies visibly-and often vibrantly-work the boundaries of the public spaces available to them, whether in their high schools, public libraries, town hall meetings, churches, or through websites. This important book shows that, in addition to the spaces of Main Street, rural LGBT youth explore and carve out online spaces to fashion their emerging queer identities. Their triumphs and travails defy clear distinctions often drawn between online and offline experiences of identity, fundamentally redefining our understanding of the term 'queer visibility' and its political stakes. Gray combines ethnographic insight with incisive cultural critique, engaging with some of the biggest issues facing both queer studies and media scholarship. Out in the Country is a timely and groundbreaking study of sexuality and gender, new media, youth culture, and the meaning of identity and social movements in a digital age.
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