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    London, England : Anthem Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781839988790
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vi, 251 pages)
    DDC: 325.3
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    Keywords: Verteilungsgerechtigkeit ; Intersektionalität ; Entkolonialisierung ; Ausländischer Arbeitnehmer ; Migration ; Einwanderung ; Auswanderung ; Tod ; Trauerarbeit ; Diskriminierung ; Rassismus ; Frauenmord ; Gleichbehandlung ; Geselligkeit ; Solidarität ; Decolonization ; Grief Political aspects
    Abstract: This book is the product of an endless individual and collective process of mourning. It departs from the author's mourning for her parents, their histories and struggles in Germany as Gastarbeiter, while it also engages with the political mourning of intersectional feminist movements against feminicide in Central and South America; the struggles against state and police misogynoir violence of #SayHerName in the United States; the resistance of refugees and migrantized people against the coloniality of migration in Germany; and the intense political grief work of families, relatives, and friends who lost their loved ones in racist attacks from the 1980s until today in Germany. Bearing witness to their stories and accounts, this book explores how mourning is shaped both by its historical context and the political labor of caring commons, while it also follows the building of a conviviality infrastructure of support against migration-coloniality necropolitics, dwelling toward transformative and reparative practices of common justice.
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    Cambridge, United Kingdom | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781009265515
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 242 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in comparative politics
    DDC: 323.18612
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    Keywords: Indigenes Volk ; Recht ; Konflikt ; Indians of South America Ethnic identity ; Indians of South America Civil rights ; Identity politics ; Ethnic conflict ; Anden ; Andes Region Ethnic relations
    Abstract: This pioneering work explores a new wave of widely overlooked conflicts that have emerged across the Andean region, coinciding with the implementation of internationally acclaimed indigenous rights. Why are groups that have peacefully cohabited for decades suddenly engaging in hostile and, at times, violent behaviours? What is the link between these conflicts and changes in collective self-identification, claim-making, and rent-seeking dynamics? And how, in turn, are these changes driven by broader institutional, legal and policy reforms? By shifting the focus to the 'post-recognition,' this unique study sets the agenda for a new generation of research on the practical consequences of the employment of ethnic-based rights. To develop the core argument on the links between recognition reforms and 'recognition conflicts', Lorenza Fontana draws on extensive empirical material and case studies from three Andean countries - Bolivia, Colombia and Peru - which have been global forerunners in the implementation of recognition politics.
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    ISBN: 9781009261340
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 290 pages)
    DDC: 305.800941
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    Keywords: Demokratie ; Politik ; Rassismus ; Politische Beteiligung ; Multikulturelle Gesellschaft ; Migration ; Integration ; Minorities Political activity ; Race Political aspects ; Political participation Social aspects ; Multiculturalism Political aspects ; Great Britain Race relations ; Political aspects ; Great Britain Ethnic relations ; Political aspects ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration ; Political aspects
    Abstract: The Unfinished Politics of Race argues that the past few decades have seen important transformations in the politics of race. Contending that existing accounts have focused narrowly on the mainstream political sphere, this study argues that there is a need to explore the role of race more widely. By exploring the mainstream as well as transitional and alternative spheres of political mobilisation the authors stress the need to link the analysis of both local and national processes in order to make sense of the changing contours of racialised politics. The underlying concern of this study is to outline both a theoretical frame for an analysis of racial politics, and detailed empirical accounts of different arenas of political mobilisation. By exploring the unfinished politics of race, this study provides a timely reminder that the position of racial and ethnic minorities in political institutions remains deeply contested.
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    Cambridge : Intersentia Uitgevers NV | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781839703874
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 299 pages)
    Series Statement: Series on Transitional Justice volume 29
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    Keywords: Transitional Justice ; Konflikt ; Diktatur ; Friede ; Friedenskonsolidierung ; Zivilgesellschaft ; Transitional justice ; Truth commissions ; Amnesty ; Indigenous peoples Crimes against ; Democratization ; Brasilien
    Abstract: After a period of authoritarian regime like those in Latin America during the 70's and 80's, a transition to democracy usually raises questions such as 'Who will be held accountable?', and 'Who deserves reparations?'. At the same time, in the foreground of the debate is the threat to the stability of the regime: 'How can we balance competing moral imperatives, reconcile legitimate claims for justice with equally legitimate claims for stability and social peace, and foster the relationship between justice for crimes of the past and a democratic order?'...
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781009169400
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 304.2
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    Keywords: Nachhaltigkeit ; Entwicklung
    Abstract: Decisions by individuals, organisations, and nations shape the well-being of humans and other species, the environment, and sustainability. Decisions for Sustainability examines how we can make better decisions concerning our future. It incorporates sociological, psychological, and economic perspectives to highlight our strengths and weaknesses in decision-making, and suggest strategies to influence both individual and societal decisions. Sustainability challenges – from local land use and toxic contamination to climate change and biodiversity loss – illustrate how we can improve decision making and what factors lead to conflict. How we use science in the face of uncertainty is also examined, and a range of ethical criteria for good decisions are proposed. Emphasizing the need for diversity in decision making and clarifying the relationship between reform and societal transformation, this book provides a comprehensive view of what we know about decision-making, and how we can do better in the face of sustainability challenges.
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    Rochester : University of Rochester Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781800109520
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 252 pages)
    Series Statement: Eastman/Rochester studies in ethnomusicology 13
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    Keywords: Kolonialismus ; Unterdrückung ; Rassismus ; Diaspora ; Musikethnologie ; Tanz ; Ethnologie ; Ethnomusicology ; Music Performance ; Social aspects ; Intimacy (Psychology) ; Africans Music ; History and criticism ; African Americans Music ; History and criticism ; Music History and criticism ; Music History and criticism ; Music and race ; Afrika ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Offers expansive and intersecting understandings of erotic subjectivity, intimacy, and trauma in performance, in ethnography, and in institutional and disciplinary settings.
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    Johannesburg : Wits University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781776147250 , 9781776147267
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 300.968
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    Keywords: Anthropologie ; Rassismus ; Forschung ; Physical anthropology ; Racism in anthropology ; Racism in the social sciences ; Südafrika
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108780704
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 302.231
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781009039130
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 292 pages)
    DDC: 980
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    Keywords: Vor- und Frühgeschichte ; Mochė ; Inka ; Military art and science History To 500 ; Südamerika ; Andenstaaten ; Chimú ; Andes Region Antiquities ; Andes Region Politics and government ; Andes Region Civilization
    Abstract: Warfare in the pre-Columbian Andes took on many forms, from inter-village raids to campaigns of conquest. Andean societies also created spectacular performances and artwork alluding to war - acts of symbolism that worked as political rhetoric while drawing on ancient beliefs about supernatural beings, warriors, and the dead. In this book, Elizabeth Arkush disentangles Andean warfare from Andean war-related spectacle and offers insights into how both evolved over time. Synthesizing the rich archaeological record of fortifications, skeletal injury, and material evidence, she presents fresh visions of war and politics among the Moche, Chimú, Inca, and pre-Inca societies of the conflict-ridden Andean highlands. The changing configurations of Andean power and violence serve as case studies to illustrate a sophisticated general model of the different forms of warfare in pre-modern societies. Arkush's book makes the complex pre-history of Andean warfare accessible by providing a birds-eye view of its major patterns and contrasts.
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    Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781009193474
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 231 pages)
    Series Statement: The International African Library 68
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    Keywords: Wasser ; Geschlecht ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Politik ; Entwicklung ; Water resources development ; Water-supply ; Women in development ; Sustainable development ; Moçambique
    Abstract: Analysing how water development projects unfolded in five rural communities in Mozambique, Emily Van Houweling offers an alternative perspective on water and the politicised nature of water management in the region. Using a hydro-social cycle framework, she demonstrates how water is tied to everyday life in matrilineal Nampula and how social relations, gender roles, and local politics were reconfigured during the project. While centring the experience of community members, Van Houweling also includes the perspectives of project implementers, showing how project plans were translated and negotiated as they worked their way down to the community. Employing the concept of organisational culture, Van Houweling reveals the tensions that resulted from different actors' decision-making processes and motivations, and illuminates possible explanations for the gaps between policy and practice. Exploring women's empowerment, community ownership, and participation, this book facilitates innovative ways for thinking about evaluation, sustainability, and gender-water relations.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108879170
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 332 pages)
    Series Statement: SSRC anxieties of democracy
    DDC: 339.20973
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    Keywords: Demokratie ; Sozialer Wandel ; Unsicherheit ; Income distribution 21st century ; Political culture 21st century ; Polarization (Social sciences) 21st century ; Equality 21st century ; USA
    Abstract: The authors of this timely book, Who Gets What?, harness the expertise from across the social sciences to show how skyrocketing inequality and social dislocation are fracturing the stable political identities and alliances of the postwar era across advanced democracies. Drawing on extensive evidence from the United States and Europe, with a focus especially on the United States, the authors examine how economics and politics are closely entwined. Chapters demonstrate how the new divisions that separate people and places-and fragment political parties-hinder a fairer distribution of resources and opportunities. They show how employment, education, sex and gender, and race and ethnicity affect the way people experience and interpret inequality and economic anxieties. Populist politics have addressed these emerging insecurities by deepening social and political divisions, rather than promoting broad and inclusive policies.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108765961
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 403 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.0973
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    Keywords: Nachkriegszeit ; Soziale Schichtung ; Soziale Probleme ; USA
    Abstract: The social sciences underwent rapid development in postwar America. Problems once framed in social terms gradually became redefined as individual with regards to scope and remedy, with economics and psychology winning influence over the other social sciences. By the 1970s, both economics and psychology had spread their intellectual remits wide: psychology's concepts suffused everyday language, while economists entered a myriad of policy debates. Psychology and economics contributed to, and benefited from, a conception of society that was increasingly skeptical of social explanations and interventions. Sociology, in particular, lost intellectual and policy ground to its peers, even regarding 'social problems' that the discipline long considered its settled domain. The book's ten chapters explore this shift, each refracted through a single 'problem': the family, crime, urban concerns, education, discrimination, poverty, addiction, war, and mental health, examining the effects an increasingly individualized lens has had on the way we see these problems.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108776899
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 330 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in economics, choice, and society
    DDC: 330.9
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    Keywords: Internationale Migration ; Gesellschaft ; Wirtschaft ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung
    Abstract: Economic arguments favoring increased immigration restrictions suggest that immigrants undermine the culture, institutions, and productivity of destination countries. But is this actually true? Nowrasteh and Powell systematically analyze cross-country evidence of potential negative effects caused by immigration relating to economic freedom, corruption, culture, and terrorism. They analyze case studies of mass immigration to the United States, Israel, and Jordan. Their evidence does not support the idea that immigration destroys the institutions responsible for prosperity in the modern world. This nonideological volume makes a qualified case for free immigration and the accompanying prosperity.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108623711
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxvii, 936 Seiten) , Diagramme, Karten
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    DDC: 956.6/7
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Kurden ; Kurds History ; Kurds Politics and government ; Kurdistan History ; Middle East Ethnic relations ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: The Cambridge History of the Kurds is an authoritative and comprehensive volume exploring the social, political and economic features, forces and evolution amongst the Kurds, and in the region known as Kurdistan, from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century. Written in a clear and accessible style by leading scholars in the field, the chapters survey key issues and themes vital to any understanding of the Kurds and Kurdistan including Kurdish language; Kurdish art, culture and literature; Kurdistan in the age of empires; political, social and religious movements in Kurdistan; and domestic political developments in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Other chapters on gender, diaspora, political economy, tribes, cinema and folklore offer fresh perspectives on the Kurds and Kurdistan as well as neatly meeting an exigent need in Middle Eastern studies. Situating contemporary developments taking place in Kurdish-majority regions within broader histories of the region, it forms a definitive survey of the history of the Kurds and Kurdistan.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108886932
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vii, 159 pages)
    DDC: 828/.9208
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    Abstract: In this exploration of the meaning of home, Annie Zaidi reflects on the places in India from which she derives her sense of identity. She looks back on the now renamed city of her birth and the impossibility of belonging in the industrial township where she grew up. From her ancestral village, in a region notorious for its gangsters, to the mega-city where she now lives, Zaidi provides a nuanced perspective on forging a sense of belonging as a minority and a migrant in places where other communities consider you an outsider, and of the fragility of home left behind and changed beyond recognition. Zaidi is the 2019/ 2020 winner of the Nine Dots Prize for creative thinking that tackles contemporary social issues. This title is also available as Open Access.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108595247
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 516 pages)
    Series Statement: New directions in sustainability and society
    DDC: 304.2
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    Abstract: In this book, Sander Van der Leeuw examines how the modern world has been caught in a socio-economic dynamic that has generated the conundrum of sustainability. Combining the methods of social science and complex systems science, he explores how western, developed nations have globalized their world view and how that view has led to the sustainability challenges we are now facing. Its central theme is the co-evolution of cognition, demography, social organization, technology and environmental impact. Beginning with the earliest human societies, Van der Leeuw links the distant past with the present in order to demonstrate how the information and communications technology revolution is undermining many of the institutional pillars on which contemporary societies have been constructed. An original view of social evolution as the history of human information-processing, his book shows how the past offers insight into the present, and can help us deal with the future. This title is also available as Open Access.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108890960
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    Series Statement: SSRC Anxieties of Democracy
    DDC: 302.23/1
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    Abstract: Over the last five years, widespread concern about the effects of social media on democracy has led to an explosion in research from different disciplines and corners of academia. This book is the first of its kind to take stock of this emerging multi-disciplinary field by synthesizing what we know, identifying what we do not know and obstacles to future research, and charting a course for the future inquiry. Chapters by leading scholars cover major topics - from disinformation to hate speech to political advertising - and situate recent developments in the context of key policy questions. In addition, the book canvasses existing reform proposals in order to address widely perceived threats that social media poses to democracy. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108185875
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 359 pages)
    DDC: 305.896/073
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    Keywords: Walker, David ; Afroamerikanismus ; Politisches Denken ; USA
    Abstract: In Black Political Thought: From David Walker to the Present, Sherrow O. Pinder has brought together the writings and discourses central to black political thought and African American politics, compiling a unique anthology of speeches and articles from over 150 years of African American history. Providing in-depth examinations and critical analyses of topics such as slavery, reconstruction, race and racism, black nationalism and black feminism - from a range of perspectives - students are equipped with a comprehensive and informative account of how these issues have fundamentally shaped and continue to shape black political thinking. Each of the six thematic parts is framed by an introduction written by black scholars working in the field, and a list of further readings. Individual chapters are then enhanced by end-of-chapter questions and author biographies. Written for the interdisciplinary field of black studies, and other social science and humanities disciplines, this textbook offers a unique resource for political scientists, sociologists, historians, feminists, and the general reader of black political thought.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316841211
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 266 pages)
    Series Statement: New approaches to Asian history
    DDC: 909/.04951
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    Abstract: Chinese Diasporas provides a concise and compelling new history of internal and external Chinese migration from the sixteenth century to the present day. Steven B. Miles places Chinese migrants and their families at the center of his narrative through a series of engaging case studies taking readers from the heart of Ming China to the global property markets of the twenty-first century. The focus on individual migrants and their descendants reveals the ways in which the 'Chinese diaspora' has consisted of distinct paths of migration from specific emigrant communities to targeted destinations both within China and abroad. This is essential reading for those interested in the history of the Chinese diaspora and the overseas Chinese, and for those interested in the role of migration in the making of the modern world.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108773706
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 318 pages)
    Series Statement: Global and international history
    DDC: 335/.830972909034
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1890- ; Anarchismus ; Karibik ; USA
    Abstract: Anarchists who supported the Cuban War for Independence in the 1890s launched a transnational network linking radical leftists from their revolutionary hub in Havana, Cuba to South Florida, Puerto Rico, Panama, the Panama Canal Zone, and beyond. Over three decades, anarchists migrated around the Caribbean and back and forth to the US, printed fiction and poetry promoting their projects, transferred money and information across political borders for a variety of causes, and attacked (verbally and physically) the expansion of US imperialism in the 'American Mediterranean'. In response, US security officials forged their own transnational anti-anarchist campaigns with officials across the Caribbean. In this sweeping new history, Kirwin R. Shaffer brings together research in anarchist politics, transnational networks, radical journalism and migration studies to illustrate how men and women throughout the Caribbean basin and beyond sought to shape a counter-globalization initiative to challenge the emergence of modern capitalism and US foreign policy whilst rejecting nationalist projects and Marxist state socialism.
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    Bristol : Bristol University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781529201413
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 374 pages)
    Series Statement: Public sociology series
    DDC: 301.072
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    Keywords: Soziologie ; Wissenschaftskommunikation ; Sociology Case studies Study and teaching ; Critical pedagogy
    Abstract: Leading academics take a distinctive new approach to the understanding of public sociology education in this perceptive new resource. Through pedagogical case studies and inter-contributor dialogues, they develop and challenge thinking in the field. Divided into three sections on the publics, knowledges and practices of public sociology education, it looks beyond the boundaries of academia to deliver fresh responses to key disciplinary questions including the purposes and targets of sociological knowledge. For students, academics and practitioners, it is a timely and thought-provoking contribution to debate about public sociology education.
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    Bristol : Policy Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781447355540
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 203 pages)
    Series Statement: Civil society and social change
    DDC: 300
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    Keywords: Geistige Behinderung ; Sozialvertrag ; Civil society ; Families
    Abstract: The relationship between the family and civil society has always been complex, with the family often regarded as separate from, or even oppositional to, civil society. Taking a fresh empirical approach, Muddiman, Power and Taylor reveal how such separation underestimates the important role the family plays in civil society. Considering the impact of family events, dinner table debates, intergenerational transmission of virtues and the role of the mother, this enlightening book draws on survey data from 1000 young people, a sample of their parents and grandparents, and extended family interviews, to uncover how civil engagement, activism and political participation are inherited and fostered within the home.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108683524
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (390 pages)
    Edition: 4th ed.
    Series Statement: New approaches to European history 41
    DDC: 305.4094
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1500-1800 ; Frau ; Geschlechterrolle ; Europa
    Abstract: This fourth edition of Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks's prize-winning survey features significant changes to every chapter, designed to reflect the newest scholarship. Global issues have been threaded throughout the book, while still preserving the clear thematic structure of previous editions. Thus readers will find expanded discussions of gendered racial hierarchies, migration, missionaries, and consumer goods. In addition, there is enhanced coverage of recent theoretical directions; the ideas, beliefs, and practices of ordinary people; early industrialization; women's learning, letter writing, and artistic activities; emotions and sentiments; single women and same-sex relations; masculinities; mixed-race and enslaved women; and the life course from birth to death. With geographically broad coverage, including Russia, Scandinavia, the Ottoman Empire, and the Iberian Peninsula, this remains the leading text on women and gender in Europe in this period. Accompanying this essential reading is a completely revised website featuring extensive updated bibliographies, web links, and primary source material.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108672214
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 319 pages)
    Edition: Second edition.
    Series Statement: New approaches to African history 13
    DDC: 960.32
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1940-2018 ; Kolonialismus ; Entkolonialisierung ; Postkolonialismus ; Decolonization History 20th century ; Decolonization History 21st century ; Afrika ; Africa Politics and government 1945-1960 ; Africa Politics and government 1960- ; Africa Colonial influence ; Africa History 20th century ; Africa History 21st century
    Abstract: Africa since 1940 is the flagship textbook in Cambridge University Press' New Approaches to African History series. Now revised to include the history and scholarship of Africa since the turn of the millennium, this important book continues to help students understand the process out of which Africa's position in the world has emerged. A history of decolonisation and independence, it allows readers to see just what political independence did and did not signify, and how men and women, peasants and workers, religious and local leaders sought to refashion the way they lived, worked and interacted with each other. Covering the transformation of Africa from a continent marked by colonisation to one of independent states, Frederick Cooper follows the 'development question' across time, seeing how first colonial regimes and then African elites sought to transform African society in their own ways. He shows how people in cities and villages tried to make their way in an unequal world, through times of hope, despair, renewed possibilities, and continued uncertainties. Looking beyond the debate over what or who may be to blame, Cooper explores alternatives for the future.
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    Woodbridge, Suffolk : James Currey | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781787444300
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Western Africa series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als African women in the Atlantic world
    DDC: 305.42096
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1660-1880 ; Schwarze Frau ; Sklavenhandel ; Atlantischer Raum ; Afrika ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: An innovative and valuable resource for understanding women's roles in changing societies, this book brings together the history of Africa, the Atlantic and gender before the 20th century. It explores trade, slavery and migration in the context of the Euro-African encounter.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108659284
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 360 pages)
    Series Statement: African studies series
    DDC: 364.1532096875
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Kolonisation ; Vergewaltigung ; Kolonialismus ; Gewalt ; Xhosa ; Frau ; Südafrika ; Provinz Ostkap
    Abstract: Elizabeth Thornberry uses historical evidence to shed light on South Africa's contemporary epidemic of sexual violence. Drawing on over a thousand cases from a diverse set of courts, Thornberry reconstructs the history of rape in South Africa's Eastern Cape, from the precolonial era to the triumph of legal and sexual segregation, and digs deep into questions of conceptions of sexual consent. Through this process, Thornberry also demonstrates the political stakes of disputes over sexual consent, and the ways in which debates over the regulation of sexuality shaped both white and black politics in this period. From customary authority to missionary Christianity and humanitarian liberalism to segregationism, political claims implied theories of sexual consent, and enabled distinctive claims to control female sexuality. The political history of rape illuminates not only South Africa's contemporary crisis of sexual violence, but the entangled histories of law, sexuality, and politics across the globe.
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    ISBN: 9781108614856
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    Abstract: For decades a bitter civil war between the Colombia government and armed insurgent groups tore apart Colombian society. After protracted negotiations in Havana, a peace agreement was accepted by the Colombian government and the FARC rebel group in 2016. This volume will provide academics and practitioners throughout the world with critical analyses regarding what we know generally about the post-war peace building process and how this can be applied to the specifics of the Colombian case to assist in the design and implementation of post-war peace building programs and policies. This unique group of Colombian and international scholars comment on critical aspects of the peace process in Colombia, transitional justice mechanisms, the role of state and non-state actors at the national and local levels, and examine what the Colombian case reveals about traditional theories and approaches to peace and transitional justice.
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    Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9789048544677
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (304 Seite)
    Series Statement: Heritage and memory studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: Ostdeutsches Kuratorium von Verbänden ; Geschichte 1990-2019 ; Kollektives Gedächtnis ; Nostalgie ; Deutschland
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Wits University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781776143115
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    Keywords: Rasen ; Südafrika
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108611091
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 291 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in law and society
    DDC: 346.04/32
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    Abstract: Indigenous Water Rights in Law and Regulation responds to an unresolved question in legal scholarship: how are (or how might be) indigenous peoples' rights included in contemporary regulatory regimes for water. This book considers that question in the context of two key trajectories of comparative water law and policy. First, the tendency to 'commoditise' the natural environment and use private property rights and market mechanisms in water regulation. Second, the tendency of domestic and international courts and legislatures to devise new legal mechanisms for the management and governance of water resources, in particular 'legal person' models. This book adopts a comparative research method to explore opportunities for accommodating indigenous peoples' rights in contemporary water regulation, with country studies in Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, Chile and Colombia, providing much needed attention to the role of rights and regulation in determining indigenous access to, and involvement with, water in comparative law.
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    Rochester, New York : Camden House | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781787445628
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vi, 392 pages)
    Series Statement: Women and gender in German studies
    DDC: 305.420943
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Geschichte 1700-2019 ; Frau ; Macht ; Geschlechterverhältnis ; Aktivismus ; Politikerin ; Politische Führung ; Deutsch ; Literatur ; Weibliche Führungskraft ; Widerstand ; Deutschland ; Deutsches Sprachgebiet
    Abstract: A collection of essays achieving a deeper understanding of the historical roots and theoretical assumptions that inform the realities and fantasies of German female leadership.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108763530
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 226 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in law and society
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    Abstract: Everyday Justice clearly demonstrates the value of revitalizing the category of justice in ethnographic work by revealing how both justice and injustice are woven into everyday life in manifold and widely differing ways. The contributors account for this complexity across multiple particular social relations, places, and times, such that concepts and experiences of justice are made analytically visible without essentializing the construal of justice both as an idea and in practice. In the best scholarly tradition, Everyday Justice provides theoretical readings of justice and injustice, justice and law, and relational justice, each designed to cut through the specificity of myriad social, political, and legal conjunctures in a clarifying way. One outcome is to suggest future research possibilities to readers by highlighting theoretically distinctive yet ethnographically specific questions about justice. Everyday Justice will be essential reading for anyone interested in justice in theory and practice.
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    ISBN: 1108427308 , 9781108427302 , 1108446051 , 9781108446051
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 269 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten , 24 cm
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Publications of the German Historical Institute
    DDC: 305.8943504309045
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1961-1990 ; Türkischer Einwanderer ; Soziale Integration ; Zugehörigkeit ; Deutschland
    Abstract: Zusammenfassung: "As the largest national group of guest workers in Germany, the Turks became a visible presence in local neighbourhoods and schools and had diverse social, cultural, and religious needs. Focussing on West Berlin, Sarah Thomsen Vierra explores the history of Turkish immigrants and their children from the early days of their participation in the post-war guest worker program to the formation of multi-generational communities"--(Provided by publisher.)
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Settling in at work -- At home in Almanya -- Around the neighborhood -- Learning to belong -- Making space for religion -- Belonging in reunified Germany -- Conclusion : integration as history, reciprocity, and space.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108560672
    Language: English , English
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    Uniform Title: Organisation und Entscheidung
    DDC: 302.3/5
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    Keywords: Organisation ; Entscheidung ; Systemtheorie ; Soziales System ; Autopoiese ; Kommunikation
    Abstract: Translated into English for the first time, Luhmann's modern classic, Organization and Decision, explores how organizations work; how they should be designed, steered, and controlled; and how they order and structure society. Luhmann argues that organization is order, yet indeterminate. In this book, he shows how this paradox enables organizations to embed themselves within society without losing autonomy. In developing his autopoietic perspective on organizations, Luhmann applies his general theory of social systems by conceptualizing organizations as self­reproducing systems of decision communications. His innovative and interdisciplinary approach to the material (spanning organization studies, management and sociology) is integral to any study of organizations. This new translation, edited by one of the world's leading experts on Luhmann, enables researchers and graduate students across the English-speaking world to access Luhmann's ideas more readily.
    Note: Translation from the German language edition: Organisation und Entscheidung by Niklas Luhmann, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Copyright © Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, Wiesbaden 2011 , Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 26 Oct 2018)
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108555722
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 262 pages)
    DDC: 363.5/10973
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    Keywords: Rassendiskriminierung ; Segregation ; Wirtschaftssoziologie ; USA
    Abstract: Segregation by Design draws on more than 100 years of quantitative and qualitative data from thousands of American cities to explore how local governments generate race and class segregation. Starting in the early twentieth century, cities have used their power of land use control to determine the location and availability of housing, amenities (such as parks), and negative land uses (such as garbage dumps). The result has been segregation - first within cities and more recently between them. Documenting changing patterns of segregation and their political mechanisms, Trounstine argues that city governments have pursued these policies to enhance the wealth and resources of white property owners at the expense of people of color and the poor. Contrary to leading theories of urban politics, local democracy has not functioned to represent all residents. The result is unequal access to fundamental local services - from schools, to safe neighborhoods, to clean water.
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    London : Anthem Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780857281883
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 210 pages)
    DDC: 301.09
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    Keywords: Tarde, Gabriel de
    Abstract: ‘The Anthem Companion to Gabriel Tarde’ offers the best contemporary work on Gabriel Tarde, written by the best scholars currently working in this field. Original, authoritative and wide-ranging, the critical assessments of this volume will make it ideal for Tarde students and scholars alike. ‘Anthem Companions to Sociology’ offer authoritative and comprehensive assessments of major figures in the development of sociology from the last two centuries. Covering the major advancements in sociological thought, these companions offer critical evaluations of key figures in the American and European sociological tradition, and will provide students and scholars with both an in-depth assessment of the makers of sociology and chart their relevance to modern society.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108551410
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    Series Statement: New approaches to economic and social history
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Zwart, Pim The origins of globalization
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1500-1800 ; Globalisierung ; Welthandel ; Weltwirtschaft
    Abstract: For better or for worse, in recent times the rapid growth of international economic exchange has changed our lives. But when did this process of globalization begin, and what effects did it have on economies and societies? Pim de Zwart and Jan Luiten van Zanden argue that the networks of trade established after the voyages of Columbus and Da Gama of the late fifteenth century had transformative effects inaugurating the first era of globalization. The global flows of ships, people, money and commodities between 1500 and 1800 were substantial, and the re-alignment of production and distribution resulting from these connections had important consequences for demography, well-being, state formation and the long-term economic growth prospects of the societies involved in the newly created global economy. Whether early globalization had benign or malignant effects differed by region, but the world economy as we now know it originated in these changes in the early modern period.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108596237
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 210 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in contentious politics
    DDC: 303.48/40973
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    Keywords: Solidarität ; Soziales Engagement ; Politisches Handeln ; Protestbewegung ; USA
    Abstract: Cross-border solidarity has captured the interest and imagination of scholars, activists and a range of political actors in such contested areas as the US-Mexico border and Guantanamo Bay. Chandra Russo examines how justice-seeking solidarity drives activist communities contesting US torture, militarism and immigration policies. Through compelling and fresh ethnographic accounts, Russo follows these activists as they engage in unusual and high risk forms of activism (fasting, pilgrimage, civil disobedience). She explores their ideas of solidarity and witnessing, which are central to how the activists explain their activities. This book adds to our understanding of solidarity activism under new global arrangements, and illuminates the features of movement activity that deepen activists' commitment by helping their lives feel more humane, just and meaningful. Based on participant observation, interviews, surveys and hundreds of courtroom statements, Russo develops a new theorization of solidarity that will take a central place in social movement studies.
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    Bristol, UK : Policy Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781447335924
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 230 pages).)
    Series Statement: Ageing in a global context.
    DDC: 305.26
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    Keywords: Aging ; Older people Conduct of life
    Abstract: What does it mean to age in an ageist society? Applying interdisciplinary perspectives about everyday life to vital issues in older people's lives, this is a critical guide to inform thinking and planning our ageing futures.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108602341
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    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in economics, choice, and society
    DDC: 338.5/1
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    Keywords: Sharing Economy ; Transaktionskostenansatz
    Abstract: With the growing popularity of apps such as Uber and Airbnb, there has been a keen interest in the rise of the sharing economy. Michael C. Munger brings these new trends in the economy down to earth by focusing on their relation to the fundamental economic concept of transaction costs. In doing so Munger brings a fresh perspective on the 'sharing economy' in clear and engaging writing that is accessible to both general and specialist readers. He shows how, for the first time, entrepreneurs can sell reductions in transaction costs, rather than reductions in the costs of the products themselves. He predicts that smartphones will be used to commodify excess capacity, and reaches the controversial conclusion that a basic income will be required as a consequence of this new 'transaction costs revolution'.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139424721
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 225 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge Middle East studies 50
    DDC: 956.9104/22
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1970-2015 ; Politik ; Gewalt ; Bürgerkrieg in Syrien ; Syrien
    Abstract: Over much of its rule, the regime of Hafez al-Asad and his successor Bashar al-Asad deployed violence on a massive scale to maintain its grip on political power. In this book, Salwa Ismail examines the rationalities and mechanisms of governing through violence. In a detailed and compelling account, Ismail shows how the political prison and the massacre, in particular, developed as apparatuses of government, shaping Syrians' political subjectivities, defining their understanding of the terms of rule and structuring their relations and interactions with the regime and with one another. Examining ordinary citizens' everyday life experiences and memories of violence across diverse sites, from the internment camp and the massacre to the family and school, The Rule of Violence demonstrates how practices of violence, both in their routine and spectacular forms, fashioned Syrians' affective life, inciting in them feelings of humiliation and abjection, and infusing their lived environment with dread and horror. This form of rule is revealed to be constraining of citizens' political engagement, while also demanding of their action.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316481400
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 279 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in economics, choice, and society
    DDC: 001
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    Keywords: Expertise ; Fehler ; Wissenssoziologie
    Abstract: The humble idea that experts are ordinary human beings leads to surprising conclusions about how to get the best possible expert advice. All too often, experts have monopoly power because of licensing restrictions or because they are government bureaucrats protected from both competition and the consequences of their decisions. This book argues that, in the market for expert opinion, we need real competition in which rival experts may have different opinions and new experts are free to enter. But the idea of breaking up expert monopolies has far-reaching implications for public administration, forensic science, research science, economics, America's military-industrial complex, and all domains of expert knowledge. Roger Koppl develops a theory of experts and expert failure, and uses a wide range of examples - from forensic science to fashion - to explain the applications of his theory, including state regulation of economic activity.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139381581
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxv, 359 pages)
    DDC: 302.2
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    Keywords: Ethnologie ; Empirische Linguistik ; Kommunikation
    Abstract: James M. Wilce's new textbook introduces students to the study of language as a tool in anthropology. Solidly positioned in linguistic anthropology, it is the first textbook to combine clear explanations of language and linguistic structure with current anthropological theory. It features a range of study aids, including chapter summaries, learning objectives, figures, exercises, key terms and suggestions for further reading, to guide student understanding. The complete glossary includes both anthropological and linguist terminology. An Appendix features material on phonetics and phonetic representation. Accompanying online resources include a test bank with answers, useful links, an instructor's manual, and a sign language case study. Covering an extensive range of topics not found in existing textbooks, including semiotics and the evolution of animal and human communication, this book is an essential resource for introductory courses on language and culture, communication and culture, and linguistic anthropology.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316848128
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 336 Seiten)
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    Keywords: Ökonomische Anthropologie ; Kooperation ; Soziale Evolution ; Kulturelle Evolution ; Gruppendynamik ; Ritual ; Evolutionäre Spieltheorie
    Abstract: How do people living in small groups without money, markets, police and rigid social classes develop norms of economic and social cooperation that are sustainable over time? This book addresses this fundamental question and explains the origin, structure and spread of stateless societies. Using insights from game theory, ethnography and archaeology, Stanish shows how ritual - broadly defined - is the key. Ritual practices encode elaborate rules of behavior and are ingenious mechanisms of organizing society in the absence of coercive states. As well as asking why and how people choose to co-operate, Stanish also provides the theoretical framework to understand this collective action problem. He goes on to highlight the evolution of cooperation with ethnographic and archaeological data from around of the world. Merging evolutionary game theory concepts with cultural evolutionary theory, this book will appeal to those seeking a transdisciplinary approach to one of the greatest problems in human evolution.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316681350
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 212 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in law and society
    DDC: 296.7/4
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    Keywords: Judentum ; Recht ; Familienrecht ; Vertragsrecht ; Jüdisches Recht
    Abstract: Traditional Jewish family law has persevered for hundreds of years and rules covering marriage, the raising of children, and divorce are well established; yet pressures from modern society are causing long held views to be re-examined. The Jewish Family: Between Family Law and Contract Law examines the tenets of Jewish family law in the light of new attitudes concerning the role of women, assisted reproduction technologies, and prenuptial agreements. It explores, through interdisciplinary research combining the legal aspects of family law and contract law, how the Jewish family can cope with both old and modern obstacles and challenges. Focusing on the nexus of Jewish family law and contract law to propose how 'freedom of contract' can be part of how family law can be interpreted, The Jewish Family will appeal to practitioners, activists, academic researchers, and laymen readers who are interested in the fields of law, theology, and social science.
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    ISBN: 9781108115971
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 196 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge Latin American studies 104
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    Abstract: Tetzcoco was one of the most important cities of the pre-Hispanic Aztec Empire. When the Spaniards arrived in 1519, the indigenous hereditary nobles that governed Tetzcoco faced both opportunities and challenges, and were forced to adapt from the very moment of contact. This book examines how the city's nobility navigated this tumultuous period of conquest and colonialism, and negotiated a place for themselves under Spanish rule. While Tetzcoco's native nobles experienced a remarkable degree of continuity with the pre-contact period, especially in the first few decades after conquest, various forces and issues, such as changing access to economic resources, interethnic marriage, and intra-familial conflict, transformed Tetzcoco's ruling family into colonial subjects by the century's end.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316882702
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 201 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in contentious politics
    DDC: 962.05/5
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    Keywords: Geschichte 2011-2014 ; Arabischer Frühling ; Ägypten
    Abstract: This book considers the diverse forms of mass mobilization and contentious politics that emerged during the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 and its aftermath. Drawing on a catalogue of more than 8,000 protest events, as well as interviews, video footage and still photographs, Neil Ketchley provides the first systematic account of how Egyptians banded together to overthrow Husni Mubarak, and how old regime forces engineered a return to authoritarian rule. Eschewing top-down, structuralist and culturalist explanations, the author shows that the causes and consequences of Mubarak's ousting can only be understood by paying close attention to the evolving dynamics of contentious politics witnessed in Egypt since 2011. Setting these events within a larger social and political context, Ketchley sheds new light on the trajectories and legacies of the Arab Spring, as well as recurring patterns of contentious collective action found in the Middle East and beyond.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316771341
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    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in international relations 143
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    Keywords: Convention on the rights of the child ; Informationsfreiheit ; Rechtsstaatsprinzip ; Guatemala
    Abstract: To what extent are global rule-of-law norms, which external actors promote in post-conflict states, localized? Who decides whether global standards or local particularities prevail? This book offers a new approach to the debate about how the dilemma between the diffusion of global norms and their localization is dealt with in global politics. Studying the promotion of children's rights, access to public information, and an international commission against impunity in Guatemala, Lisbeth Zimmermann demonstrates that rule-of-law promotion triggers domestic contestation and thereby changes the approach taken by external actors, and ultimately the manner in which global norms are translated. However, the leeway in local translation is determined by the precision of global norms. Based on an innovative theoretical approach and an in-depth study of rule-of-law translation, Zimmermann argues for a shift in norm promotion from context sensitivity to democratic appropriation, speaking to scholars of international relations, peacebuilding, democratization studies, international law, and political theory.
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    Suffolk : James Currey | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781787440517
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 364 pages)
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    Keywords: Alltag ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Politische Ökonomie ; Afrika ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: What are the fundamental issues, processes, agency and dynamics that shape the political economy of life in modern Africa? In this book, the contributors - experts in anthropology, history, political science, economics, conflict and peace studies, philosophy and language - examine the opportunities and constraints placed on living, livelihoods and sustainable life on the continent. Reflecting on why and how the political economy of life approach is essential for understanding the social process in modern Africa, they engage with the intellectual oeuvre of the influential Africanist economic anthropologist Jane Guyer, who provides an Afterword. The contributors analyse the political economy of everyday life as it relates to money and currency; migrant labour forces and informal and formal economies; dispossession of land; debt and indebtedness; socio-economic marginality; and the entrenchment of colonial and apartheid pasts. Wale Adebanwi is the Rhodes Professor of Race Relations at the University of Oxford. He is author of Nation as Grand Narrative: The Nigerian Press and the Politics of Meaning (University of Rochester Press). ...
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316584187
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 319 pages)
    Series Statement: The International African Library [51]
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    Keywords: Hoernlé, Winifred ; Wilson, Monica ; Hellmann, Ellen ; Richards, Audrey I. ; Kuper, Hilda ; Krige, Eileen Jensen ; Ethnologin ; Feldforschung ; Hochschulunterricht ; Südafrika
    Abstract: Focusing on the crucial contributions of women researchers, Andrew Bank demonstrates that the modern school of social anthropology in South Africa was uniquely female-dominated. The book traces the personal and intellectual histories of six remarkable women through the use of a rich cocktail of new archival sources, including family photographs, private and professional correspondence, field-notes and field diaries, published and other public writings and even love letters. The book also sheds new light on the close connections between their personal lives, their academic work and their anti-segregationist and anti-apartheid politics. It will be welcomed by anthropologists, historians and students in African studies interested in the development of social anthropology in twentieth-century Africa, as well as by students and researchers in the field of gender studies.
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    ISBN: 9781316344057
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 299 pages)
    Series Statement: Studies in North American Indian history
    DDC: 979.004/9725
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    Abstract: As a definitive study of the poorly understood Apaches de paz, this book explains how war-weary, mutually suspicious Apaches and Spaniards negotiated an ambivalent compromise after 1786 that produced over four decades of uneasy peace across the region. In response to drought and military pressure, thousands of Apaches settled near Spanish presidios in a system of reservation-like establecimientos, or settlements, stretching from Laredo to Tucson. Far more significant than previously assumed, the establecimientos constituted the earliest and most extensive set of military-run reservations in the Americas and served as an important precedent for Indian reservations in the United States. As a case study of indigenous adaptation to imperial power on colonial frontiers and borderlands, this book reveals the importance of Apache-Hispanic diplomacy in reducing cross-cultural violence and the limits of indigenous acculturation and assimilation into empires and states.
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    ISBN: 9781139049283
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 390 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1750-1850 ; Seemann ; Sprachgebrauch ; USA
    Abstract: Anyone could swear like a sailor! Within the larger culture, sailors had pride of place in swearing. But how they swore and the reasons for their bad language were not strictly wedded to maritime things. Instead, sailor swearing, indeed all swearing in this period, was connected to larger developments. This book traces the interaction between the maritime and mainstream world in the United States while examining cursing, language, logbooks, storytelling, sailor songs, reading, images, and material goods. To Swear Like a Sailor offers insight into the character of Jack Tar - the common seaman - and into the early republic. It illuminates the cultural connections between Great Britain and the United States and the appearance of a distinct American national identity. The book explores the emergence of sentimental notions about the common man - through the guise of the sailor - appearing on stage, in song, in literature, and in images.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316761366
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 202 Seiten)
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    Keywords: Politik ; Wahl ; Wahlkampf ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Subsaharisches Afrika
    Abstract: Why do ethnic politics emerge in some ethnically diverse societies but not others? Focusing on sub-Saharan Africa, Dominika Koter argues that the prevailing social structures of a country play a central role in how politicians attempt to mobilize voters. In particular, politicians consider the strength of local leaders, such as chiefs or religious dignitaries, who have historically played a crucial role in many parts of rural Africa. Local leaders can change the electoral dynamics by helping politicians secure votes among people of different ethnicities. Ethnic politics thus can be avoided where there are local leaders who can serve as credible electoral intermediaries between voters and politicians. Koter shows that there is widespread variation in the standing of local leaders across Africa, as a result of long-term historical trends, which has meant that politicians have mobilized voters in qualitatively different ways, resulting in different levels of ethnic politics across the continent.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139021814
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 319 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Stadt ; Stadtsoziologie ; Verstädterung ; Stadtleben ; Gruppenidentität ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Südafrika ; Südafrika
    Abstract: Focusing on South Africa's three main cities - Johannesburg, Cape Town, and Durban - this book explores South African urban history from the late nineteenth century onwards. In particular, it examines the metropolitan perceptions and experiences of both black and white South Africans, as well as those of visitors, especially visitors from Britain and North America. Drawing on a rich array of city histories, travel writing, novels, films, newspapers, radio and television programs, and oral histories, Vivian Bickford-Smith focuses on the consequences of the depictions of the South African metropolis and the 'slums' they contained, and especially on how senses of urban belonging and geography helped create and reinforce South African ethnicities and nationalisms. This ambitious and pioneering account, spanning more than a century, will be welcomed by scholars and students of African history, urban history, and historical geography.
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    ISBN: 9781139524414
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 261 pages)
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    Keywords: Rasse ; Ethnizität ; Einführung
    Abstract: Taking a comparative approach, this textbook is a concise introduction to race. Illustrated with detailed examples from around the world, it is organised into two parts. Part I explores the historical changes in ideas about race from the ancient world to the present day, in different corners of the globe. Part II outlines ways in which racial difference and inequality are perceived and enacted in selected regions of the world. Examining how humans have used ideas of physical appearance, heredity and behaviour as criteria for categorising others, the text guides students through provocative questions such as: what is race? Does studying race reinforce racism? Does a colour-blind approach dismantle, or merely mask, racism? How does biology feed into concepts of race? Numerous case studies, photos, figures and tables help students to appreciate the different meanings of race in varied contexts, and end-of-chapter research tasks provide further support for student learning.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139031202
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 224 pages)
    Series Statement: Key topics in sociology
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    Keywords: Menschenrecht ; Politische Soziologie
    Abstract: The language of human rights is the most prominent 'people-centred' language of global justice today. This textbook looks at how human rights are constructed at local, national, international and transnational levels and considers commonalities and differences around the world. Through discussions of key debates in the interdisciplinary study of human rights, the book develops its themes by considering examples of human rights advocacy in international organisations, national states and local grassroots movements. Case studies relating to specific organisations and institutions illustrate how human rights are being used to address structural injustices: imperialist geopolitics, authoritarianism and corruption, inequalities created by 'freeing' markets, dangers faced by transnational migrants as a result of the securitization of borders, and violence against women.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 324 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1790-2012 ; Andamanen und Nikobaren
    Abstract: This innovative, multidisciplinary exploration of the unique history of the Andaman Islands as a hunter-gatherer society, colonial penal colony, and state-engineered space of settlement and development ranges across the theoretical, conceptual and thematic concerns of history, anthropology and historical geography. Covering the entire period of post-settlement Andamans history, from the first (failed) British occupation of the Islands in the 1790s up to the year 2012, the authors examine imperial histories of expansion and colonization, decolonization, anti-colonialism and nationalism, Japanese occupation, independence and partition, migration, commemoration and contemporary issues of Indigenous welfare. New Histories of the Andaman Islands offers a new way of thinking about the history of South Asia, and will be thought-provoking reading for scholars of settler colonial societies in other contexts, as well as those engaged in studies of nationalism and postcolonial state formation, ecology, visual cultures and the politics of representation.
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    ISBN: 9781316227671
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 284 pages)
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    Abstract: Security is a vital subject of study in the twenty-first century and a central theme in many social science disciplines. This volume provides a comparative analysis of the ways in which the concept of security is theorized and studied across different disciplines. The book has two objectives: first, to explore the growing diversity of theories, paradigms, and methods developed to study security; and, second, to initiate a multidisciplinary dialogue about the ontological, epistemological, paradigmatic, and normative aspects of security studies in social sciences. Readers across nine fields are invited to reflect on their conceptualizations of security and to consider how an interdisciplinary dialogue can stimulate and enrich the understanding of security in our contemporary world. Analytically sharp yet easy to read, this is a cutting-edge volume exploring what security is and what it means in today's world.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139649728
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 346 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in contentious politics
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    Keywords: Schwarze ; Protestbewegung ; USA
    Abstract: How do social movements die? Some explanations highlight internal factors like factionalization, whereas others stress external factors like repression. Christian Davenport offers an alternative explanation where both factors interact. Drawing on organizational, as well as individual-level, explanations, Davenport argues that social movement death is the outgrowth of a coevolutionary dynamic whereby challengers, influenced by their understanding of what states will do to oppose them, attempt to recruit, motivate, calm, and prepare constituents while governments attempt to hinder all of these processes at the same time. Davenport employs a previously unavailable database that contains information on a black nationalist/secessionist organization, the Republic of New Africa, and the activities of authorities in the US city of Detroit and state and federal authorities.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316181607
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 251 pages)
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    Keywords: Sozialpolitik ; Wohlfahrtsstaat ; Einkommensverteilung ; Gleichheit ; USA
    Abstract: How does political party control determine changes to social policy, and by extension, influence inequality in America? Conventional theories show that Democratic control of the federal government produces more social expenditures and less inequality. Welfare for the Wealthy re-examines this relationship by evaluating how political party power results in changes to both public social spending and subsidies for private welfare - and how a trade-off between the two, in turn, affects income inequality. Christopher Faricy finds that both Democrats and Republicans have increased social spending over the last forty-two years. And while both political parties increase federal social spending, Democrats and Republicans differ in how they spend federal money, which socioeconomic groups benefit, and the resulting consequences for income inequality.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107709386
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 363 pages)
    Series Statement: Studies in North American Indian history
    DDC: 970.004/97
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1880-1930 ; Indianer ; Intellektueller ; Ethnische Identität ; Weiße ; Kultur ; USA
    Abstract: In the United States of America today, debates among, between, and within Indian nations continue to focus on how to determine and define the boundaries of Indian ethnic identity and tribal citizenship. From the 1880s and into the 1930s, many Native people participated in similar debates as they confronted white cultural expectations regarding what it meant to be an Indian in modern American society. Using close readings of texts, images, and public performances, this book examines the literary output of four influential American Indian intellectuals who challenged long-held conceptions of Indian identity at the turn of the twentieth century. Kiara M. Vigil traces how the narrative discourses created by these figures spurred wider discussions about citizenship, race, and modernity in the United States. Vigil demonstrates how these figures deployed aspects of Native American cultural practice to authenticate their status both as indigenous peoples and as citizens of the United States.
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    Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781580468879
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 219 pages)
    Series Statement: Rochester studies in african history and the diaspora
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    Keywords: Geschichtsschreibung ; Historiography ; Äthiopien ; Eritrea ; Ethiopia Historiography ; Eritrea Historiography ; Ethiopia Intellectual life ; Eritrea Intellectual life
    Abstract: Comprehensively surveys Ethiopia and Eritrea's rich and dynamic tradition of historical writing, from the ancient Aksumite era to the present day.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139854573
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 341 pages)
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    Abstract: Over one billion people under the age of eighteen live in territories affected by armed conflict. Despite this, scholars and practitioners often lack a comprehensive knowledge of how children both struggle within and shape conflict zones. Children and Global Conflict provides this understanding with a view to enhancing the prospects of conflict resolution and peacebuilding. This book presents key ideas and issues relating to children's experiences of war, international relations and international law. The authors explore the political, conceptual and moral debates around children in these contexts and offer examples and solutions based on case studies of child soldiers from Vietnam, child forced migrants in Australia, young peace-builders in post-conflict zones, youth in the international justice system, and child advocates across South Asia and the Middle East.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139021708
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 330 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge companions to culture
    DDC: 909/.0974927
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1800-2011 ; Kultur ; Arabien ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Dwight F. Reynolds brings together a collection of essays by leading international scholars to provide a comprehensive and accessible survey of modern Arab culture, from the early nineteenth to the twenty-first century. The chapters survey key issues necessary to any understanding of the modern Arab World: the role of the various forms of the Arabic language in modern culture and identity; the remarkable intellectual transformation undergone during the 'Nahda' or 'Arab Renaissance' of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the significant role played by ethnic and religious minorities, and the role of law and constitutions. Other chapters on poetry, narrative, theatre, cinema and television, art, architecture, humour, folklore, and food offer fresh perspectives and correct negative stereotypes that emerge from viewing Arab culture primarily through the lens of politics, terrorism, religion, and economics.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316422335
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 237 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in comparative politics
    DDC: 320.8096
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    Keywords: Häuptling ; Demokratie ; Entwicklungsprojekt ; Entwicklungszusammenarbeit ; Gemeindeverwaltung ; Sambia
    Abstract: The Paradox of Traditional Chiefs in Democratic Africa shows that unelected traditional leaders can facilitate democratic responsiveness. Ironically, chiefs' undemocratic character gives them a capacity to organize responses to rural problems that elected politicians and state institutions lack. Specifically, chiefs' longer time horizons encourage investment in local institutions that enable the provision of local public goods. This is the paradox of traditional chiefs in democratic Africa: elected politicians can only effectively respond to rural constituents through institutions constructed and maintained by local leaders who are not worried about electoral terms. Furthermore, the critical role played by chiefs in brokering local development projects forces us to reassess how we understand the basis of their political influence during elections. The book examines the effects of traditional leaders on the electoral connection in Africa through a multi-method approach that combines qualitative research, surveys, and experiments, with particular attention to the Zambian case.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139149334
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 215 pages)
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    Keywords: Regierungschef ; Staatspräsident ; Politische Führung ; Internationale Politik ; Internationale Krise ; Militärpolitik ; Krieg ; Internationaler Konflikt ; Politisches Feld ; Politische Entscheidung ; Einstellung ; Akteur ; Erde
    Abstract: The history of political events is made by people. From wars to elections to political protests, the choices we make, our actions, how we behave, dictate events. Not all individuals have the same impact on our world and our lives. Some peoples' choices alter the pathways that history takes. In particular, national chief executives play a large role in forging the destinies of the countries they lead. Why Leaders Fight is about those world leaders and how their beliefs, world views, and tolerance for risk and military conflict are shaped by their life experiences before they enter office - military, family, occupation, and more. Using in-depth research on important leaders and the largest set of data on leader backgrounds ever gathered, the authors of Why Leaders Fight show that - within the constraints of domestic political institutions and the international system - who ends up in office plays a critical role in determining when and why countries go to war.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139017633
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 337 pages)
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    Abstract: The burgeoning field of 'visual social science' is rooted in the idea that valid scientific insight into culture and society can be acquired by observing, analyzing and theorizing its visual manifestations: visible behavior of people and material products of culture. Reframing Visual Social Science provides a well-balanced, critical-constructive and systematic overview of existing and emerging modes of visual social and cultural research. The book includes integrated models and conceptual frameworks, analytical approaches to scrutinizing existing imagery and multimodal phenomena, a systematic presentation of more active ways and formats of visual scholarly production and communication, and a number of case studies which exemplify the broad fields of application. Finally, visual social research is situated within a wider perspective by addressing the issue of ethics; by presenting a generic approach to producing, selecting and using visual representations; and through discussing the specific challenges and opportunities of a 'more visual' social science.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316159927
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 213 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in law and society
    DDC: 956.95/3044
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    Keywords: Palästinafrage ; Nahostkonflikt ; Besetzte Gebiete ; Palästinenser ; Alltag ; Überwachung ; Gewalt ; Ideologie ; Besatzung ; Israel
    Abstract: This examination of Palestinian experiences of life and death within the context of Israeli settler colonialism broadens the analytical horizon to include those who 'keep on existing' and explores how Israeli theologies and ideologies of security, surveillance and fear can obscure violence and power dynamics while perpetuating existing power structures. Drawing from everyday aspects of Palestinian victimization, survival, life and death, and moving between the local and the global, Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian introduces and defines her notion of 'Israeli security theology' and the politics of fear within Palestine/Israel. She relies on a feminist analysis, invoking the intimate politics of the everyday and centering the Palestinian body, family life, memory and memorialization, birth and death as critical sites from which to examine the settler colonial state's machineries of surveillance which produce and maintain a political economy of fear that justifies colonial violence.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139839174
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 285 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in law and society
    DDC: 305.6/97094
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    Keywords: Muslim ; Integration ; Assimilation ; Mitgliedsstaaten ; Öffentliche Einrichtung ; Rechtsstellung ; Politik ; Soziale Situation ; Europa ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This book responds to the often loud debates about the place of Muslims in Western Europe by proposing an analysis based in institutions, including schools, courts, hospitals, the military, electoral politics, the labor market, and civic education courses. The contributors consider the way people draw on practical schemas regarding others in their midst who are often categorized as Muslims. Chapters based on fieldwork and policy analysis across several countries examine how people interact in their everyday work lives, where they construct moral boundaries, and how they formulate policies concerning tolerable diversity, immigration, discrimination, and political representation. Rather than assuming that each country has its own national ideology that explains such interactions, contributors trace diverse pathways along which institutions complicate or disrupt allegedly consistent national ideologies. These studies shed light on how Muslims encounter particular faces and facets of the state as they go about their lives, seeking help and legitimacy as new citizens of a fast-changing Europe.
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    Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781782042662
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 282 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2013 ; Kulturerbe ; Historische Stätte ; Kunst ; Denkmalpflege
    Abstract: The origins and use of conservation principles and practice from the nineteenth century to the present day are charted in this volume. Written from the perspective of a practitioner, it examines the manner in which a single, dominant mode of conservation, which held sway for many decades, is now coming under pressure from a different and more democratic heritage management practice, favouring diversity, inclusion and difference.The author blends case studies from Ireland, Cyprus and England with examples from current practice, community heritage initiatives and political policy, highlighting the development and use of international charters and conventions. Central to the main argument of the book is that the sacred cows of conservation - antiquity, fabric and authenticity - have outlived their usefulness and need to be rethought. Dr Keith Emerick is an English Heritage Inspector of Ancient Monuments in York and North Yorkshire; he is also a Research Associate at the University of York.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139342872
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Cambridge handbooks in language and linguistics
    DDC: 306.44
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    Keywords: Ethnolinguistik ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: The field of linguistic anthropology looks at human uniqueness and diversity through the lens of language, our species' special combination of art and instinct. Human language both shapes, and is shaped by, our minds, societies, and cultural worlds. This state-of-the-field survey covers a wide range of topics, approaches and theories, such as the nature and function of language systems, the relationship between language and social interaction, and the place of language in the social life of communities. Promoting a broad vision of the subject, spanning a range of disciplines from linguistics to biology, from psychology to sociology and philosophy, this authoritative handbook is an essential reference guide for students and researchers working on language and culture across the social sciences.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107295230
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 247 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge intellectual property and information law 25
    DDC: 346.04/8089
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    Keywords: Indigenes Volk ; Tradition ; Umweltbewusstsein
    Abstract: After colonization, indigenous people faced an extractive property rights regime for both their land and knowledge. This book outlines that regime, and how the symbolic function of international intellectual property continues today to assist states to enclose indigenous peoples' knowledge. Drawing on more than 200 interviews, Peter Drahos examines the response of indigenous people to the colonizer's non-developmental property rights. The case studies reveal how they have adapted to the state's extractive order through a process of regulatory bricolage. In order to create a new developmental future for themselves, indigenous developmental networks have been forged - high trust networks that include partnerships with science. Intellectual Property, Indigenous People and their Knowledge argues for a developmental intellectual property order for indigenous people based on a combination of simple rules, principles and a process of regulatory convening.
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    ISBN: 9781107273672
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 321 pages)
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    Abstract: This book explores a mode of democracy that is culturally relevant and socially practicable in the contemporary pluralistic context of historically Confucian East Asian societies, by critically engaging with the two most dominant theories of Confucian democracy - Confucian communitarianism and meritocratic elitism. The book constructs a mode of public reason (and reasoning) that is morally palatable to East Asians who are still saturated in Confucian customs by reappropriating Confucian familialism and using this perspective to theorize on Confucian democratic welfarism and political meritocracy. It then applies the theory of Confucian democracy to South Korea, arguably the most Confucianized society in East Asia, and examines the theory's practicality in Korea's increasingly individualized, pluralized, and multicultural society by looking at cases of freedom of expression, freedom of association, insult law, and immigration policy.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139061148
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 266 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1861-1865 ; Sklaverei ; Befreiung ; Schwarze ; Emanzipation ; USA
    Abstract: For a century and a half, Abraham Lincoln's signing of the Emancipation Proclamation has been the dominant narrative of African American freedom in the Civil War era. However, David Williams suggests that this portrayal marginalizes the role that African American slaves played in freeing themselves. At the Civil War's outset, Lincoln made clear his intent was to save the Union rather than free slaves - despite his personal distaste for slavery, he claimed no authority to interfere with the institution. By the second year of the war, though, when the Union army was in desperate need of black support, former slaves who escaped to Union lines struck a bargain: they would fight for the Union only if they were granted their freedom. Williams importantly demonstrates that freedom was not simply the absence of slavery but rather a dynamic process enacted by self-emancipated African American refugees, which compelled Lincoln to modify his war aims and place black freedom at the center of his wartime policies.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107323629
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vii, 280 pages)
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    Abstract: The Small Arms Survey 2014 considers the multiple roles of women in the context of armed violence, security, and the small arms agenda. The volume's thematic section comprises one chapter on violence against women and girls - with a focus on post-conflict Liberia and Nepal - and another on the recent convergence of the small arms agenda with that of women, peace and security. Complementing these chapters are illustrated testimonies of women with experience as soldiers, rebels and security personnel. The 'weapons and markets' section assesses the potential impact of the Arms Trade Treaty, presents the 2014 Transparency Barometer and an update on the authorised small arms trade, and analyses recent ammunition explosions in the Republic of the Congo. Additionally, it examines ammunition circulating in Africa and the Middle East, maps the sources of insurgent weapons in Sudan and South Sudan, and evaluates crime gun records in the United States.
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1880-1914 ; Sexualverhalten ; Sexualethik ; Sozialer Wandel ; Politik ; Deutschland
    Abstract: This is a study of the intense, complex, and escalating debate over sexuality and sexual morality that roiled politics in Germany between 1880 and 1914. That debate was grounded in the rapid evolution and growing complexity of German society - the multiplication of cultural groupings, professional associations, and social movements; the emergence of new social groups, social milieus, and professions; the rapid development of the media and commercial entertainments; and so on. All parties involved understood it to be a debate over the most fundamental question of modern political life: how to secure both national power and individual freedom in the context of rapid social and cultural change.
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    Bristol, UK : Policy Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781447313557
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 211 pages)
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    Keywords: Europäische Union ; Sozialstatistik ; Population geography Maps ; Human geography Maps ; Population geography ; Human geography ; Europe Maps Social conditions ; Europe Maps Population ; Europe Social conditions ; Europe Population ; Atlas
    Abstract: CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE 2015 Many of us think of European countries as discreet entities their own languages, cultures, food, and economies squarely contained within their national boundaries. But in fact Europe is at once a unified place and a sophisticatedly fragmented one, and national boundaries rarely reflect its social and economic realities. The social atlas of Europe is the first atlas to map Europe according to these realities, from the perspective of human geography rather than simply a political one. Using innovative full-color visualization methods, it reconsiders European identity through its many different facets: economy, culture, history, and human and physical geography, visualizing Europe and its people in a more fluid way, in some cases using maps without artificial national boundaries. It utilizes the latest available demographic, social, and economic data through state-of-the-art geographical information systems and new cartography techniques. Through these new visualizations, this highly illustrated book offers fresh perspectives on a range of topics, including social values, culture, education, employment, environmental footprints, health and well-being, and social inequalities and cohesion. It is a bold rethinking of Europe as we know it and will be of interest to anyone who wants to understand the continent in its truest form.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139029476
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxvi, 851 Seiten)
    Series Statement: The Cambridge history of music
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    Keywords: Weltmusik ; Folk music ; Globalisierung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Scholars have long known that world music was not merely the globalized product of modern media, but rather that it connected religions, cultures, languages and nations throughout world history. The chapters in this History take readers to foundational historical moments – in Europe, Oceania, China, India, the Muslim world, North and South America – in search of the connections provided by a truly world music. Historically, world music emerged from ritual and religion, labor and life-cycles, which occupy chapters on Native American musicians, religious practices in India and Indonesia, and nationalism in Argentina and Portugal. The contributors critically examine music in cultural encounter and conflict, and as the critical core of scientific theories from the Arabic Middle Ages through the Enlightenment to postmodernism. Overall, the book contains the histories of the music of diverse cultures, which increasingly become the folk, popular and classical music of our own era.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139236034
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 273 pages)
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    Abstract: The concepts of power and democracy have been extensively studied at the global, national and local levels and within institutions including states, international organizations and political parties. However, the interplay of those concepts within social movements is given far less attention. Studies have so far mainly focused on their protest activities rather than the internal practices of deliberation and democratic decision-making. Meeting Democracy presents empirical research that examines in detail how power is distributed and how consensus is reached in twelve global justice movement organizations, with detailed observations of how they operate in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and the UK. Written by leading political scientists and sociologists, this work contributes significantly to the wider literature on power and deliberative democracy within political science and sociology.
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    Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781782040873
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 253 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1840-2010 ; Politik ; Häuptling ; Stadt ; Staat Südsudan
    Abstract: South Sudan became Africa's newest nation in 2011, following decades of armed conflict. Chiefs - or 'traditional authorities' - became a particular focus of attention during the international relief effort and post-war reconstruction and state-building. But 'traditional' authority in South Sudan has been much misunderstood. Institutions of chiefship were created during the colonial period but originated out of a much longer process of dealing with predatory external forces. This book addresses a significant paradox in African studies more widely: if chiefs were the product of colonial states, why have they survived or revived in recent decades? By examining the long-term history of chiefship in the vicinity of three towns, the book also argues for a new approach to the history of towns in South Sudan. Towns have previously been analysed as the loci of alien state power, yet the book demonstrates that these government centres formed an expanding urban frontier, on which people actively sought knowledge and resources of the state. Chiefs mediated relations on and across this frontier, and in the process chiefship became central to constituting both the state and local communities. Cherry Leonardi is a Lecturer in African History at the University of Durham, a former course director of the Rift Valley Institute's Sudan course, and a member of the council of the British Institute in Eastern Africa. Published in association with the British Institute in Eastern Africa.
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    Johannesburg : Wits University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781868146253
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 236 Seiten)
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    Keywords: Bourdieu, Pierre ; Rezeption ; Südafrika ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) is the most influential sociologist of our time. His works take in education, culture, sport, literature, painting, class, philosophy, religion, law, media, intellectuals, methodology, photography, universities, colonialism, kinship, schooling and politics. Not much remains outside Bourdieu's sociological eye. His works are widely read across disciplines and he was one of the most prominent public intellectuals in France. Conversations with Bourdieu presents the first comprehensive attempt at a critical engagement with Bourdieu's theory as a totality. Michael Burawoy constructs a series of imaginary conversations between Bourdieu and his nemesis - Marxism - from which he silently borrowed so much. Starting with Marx, and proceeding through Gramsci, Fanon, Freire, de Beauvoir, and Mills, Burawoy takes up the challenge Bourdieu presents to Marxism, simultaneously developing a critique of Bourdieu and a reconstruction of Marxism. Karl Von Holdt, in turn, brings these conversations to South Africa, showing the relevance of Bourdieu's ideas to a country he never visited. Armed with Bourdieu, Von Holdt takes up some of the most pressing social and political issues of contemporary South Africa: the relation between symbolic and real violence, the place of intellectuals in public life, the intervention of gender in politics, the grappling with race, the critique of education, the importance of habitus, the history and future of class mobilisation, and the legacy of the liberation struggle. Conversations with Bourdieu pioneers a distinctive approach to doing social theory that is neither a combat sport nor an artificial synthesis, but a way of pushing theory to its limits through dialogue - dialogue between theorists and dialogue between theory and the world it represents. The book is distinctive too in pointing towards a new global sociology consciously rooted in a dialogue between the social realities and theoretical perspectives of North and South. The conversations were first presented as Mellon Lectures at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg in 2010...
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    ISBN: 9781571138378
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 225 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1960-1980 ; Presse ; Mörderin ; Terroristin ; Berichterstattung ; Frauenbild ; Medien ; Weibliche Kriminelle ; Westdeutschland ; Deutschland
    Abstract: As the controversy surrounding the release of Uli Edel and Bernd Eichinger's 2008 feature film ‘The Baader Meinhof Complex’ demonstrates, West Germany's terrorist period, which reached its height in the ‘German autumn’ of 1977, is still a fascinating - and troubling - subject. One of the most provocative aspects, still today, is the high proportion of women involved in terrorism, most notoriously Ulrike Meinhof. That the film concentrates on the trajectory of Meinhof's life and mobilizes established and hence reassuring paradigms of femininity in its representation of her (as ‘mother’ and ‘hysterical woman’) suggests that the combination of women and violence is still threatening and that there is still mileage to be had from feminizing the discourse. The present study returns to the West German print media of the 1960s and 1970s and raises questions about the continuing preoccupation with this period. Looking at publications from the right-wing ‘Bild’ to the liberal ‘Der Spiegel’, it explores how violent women - not only terrorists but also others such as the convicted murderer and media femme fatale Vera Brühne - were represented in text and image. This is the first book to explore print-media representations of German terrorism from an explicitly gendered perspective, and one of very few books in English to address the period in Germany at all, despite steadily increasing interest in the UK and the US. Clare Bielby is Lecturer in German Studies at the University of Hull.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139094696
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 445 Seiten)
    Series Statement: The Jacobs Foundation series on adolescence
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    Keywords: Einwanderer ; Generation 2 ; Jugend ; Soziale Situation ; Akkulturation ; Gruppenidentität ; Children of immigrants Congresses Social conditions ; Children of immigrants Congresses Economic conditions ; Children of immigrants Congresses Education ; Assimilation (Sociology) Congresses ; Group identity Cross-cultural studies ; Congresses ; Westliche Welt ; Konferenzschrift 2009
    Abstract: The well-being and productivity of immigrant youth has become one of the most important global issues of our times as a result of mass migration and resettlement. In this unique volume, leading scholars from multiple nations and disciplines provide a state-of-the-art overview of contemporary research on immigrant youth and delineate the most promising future directions for research on their success, suggesting implications for policy and interventions that will benefit host societies as well as immigrant youth. The contributors to Realizing the Potential of Immigrant Youth include many of the leading international experts on migration, acculturation, intergroup issues and immigrant youth development, with contributions from the fields of child development, demography, economics, education, immigrant mental health, social psychology and sociology.
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    ISBN: 1139224719 , 1139057537 , 9781139224710 , 9781139057530
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Griffin, Ben Politics of gender in Victorian Britain
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    Keywords: Masculinity History ; Feminism History ; Women's rights History ; HISTORY ; Europe ; Great Britain ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Feminism & Feminist Theory ; Feminism ; Masculinity ; Politics and government ; Women's rights ; Frauenbewegung ; Politische Kultur ; Männlichkeit ; Politik ; historia ; Storbritannien ; 1800-talet ; viktorianska tiden ; Medborgarskap ; politisk aktivitet ; reformer ; Kvinnorörelsen ; feminism ; Manlighet ; Samhällsutveckling ; Manlighet ; historia ; Storbritannien ; Feminism ; historia ; Storbritannien ; History ; Great Britain Politics and government 1837-1901 ; Great Britain ; Storbritannien ; politik och förvaltning ; historia ; 1800-talet ; Großbritannien
    Abstract: "This groundbreaking history of Victorian politics, feminism and parliamentary reform challenges traditional assumptions about the development of British democracy and the struggle for women's rights and demonstrates how political activity has been shaped by changes in the history of masculinity. From the second half of the nineteenth century Britain's all-male parliament began to transform the legal position of women as it reformed laws that had upheld male authority for centuries. To explain these revolutionary changes, Ben Griffin looks beyond the actions of the women's movement alone and shows how the behaviour and ideologies of male politicians were fundamentally shaped by their gender. He argues that changes to women's rights were not simply the result of changing ideas about women but also changing beliefs about masculinity, religion and the nature of the constitution and, in doing so, demonstrates how gender inequality can be created and reproduced by the state"--
    Abstract: 'Feminism' and the history of women's rights -- The domestic ideology of Victorian patriarchy -- Class, liberalism and the erosion of Victorian domestic ideology -- Religious change and the transformation of domestic ideology -- The politics of paternity -- Performing masculinities in the House of Commons -- Classes, interests and parliamentary reform -- The instability of the 1867 settlement, the secret ballot and women's suffrage -- Redefining 'fitness': from the educated voter to household suffrage -- The road to democracy, 1885-1906 -- Conclusion.
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511921314 , 1139078046 , 9781139078047 , 9780511921315
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 320 pages) , illustrations
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Analytical sociology and social mechanisms
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    Keywords: Sociology ; Sociology Methodology ; Social systems ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Sociology ; General ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Regional Studies ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; General ; Social systems ; Sociology ; Sociology ; Methodology ; Analytische Soziologie ; Methodologie ; Electronic book ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: "Mechanisms are very much a part of social life. For example, we can see that inequality has tended to increase over time, and that cities can become segregated. But how do such mechanisms work? Analytical sociology is an influential approach to sociology which holds that explanations of social phenomena should focus on the social mechanisms that bring them about. This book evaluates the major features of this approach, focusing on the significance of the notion of mechanism. Leading scholars seek to answer a number of questions in order to explore all the relevant dimensions of mechanism based explanations in social sciences. How do social mechanisms link together individual actions and social environments? What is the role of multi agent modeling in the conceptualization of mechanisms? Does the notion of mechanism solve the problem of relevance in social sciences explanations?"--
    Abstract: "Mechanisms are very much a part of social life. For example, we can see that inequality has tended to increase over time and that cities can become segregated. But how do such mechanisms work? Analytical sociology is an influential approach to sociology which holds that explanations of social phenomena should focus on the social mechanisms that bring them about. This book evaluates the major features of this approach, focusing on the significance of the notion of mechanism. Leading scholars seek to answer a number of questions in order to explore all the relevant dimensions of mechanism-based explanations in social sciences. How do social mechanisms link together individual actions and social environments? What is the role of multi-agent modelling in the conceptualization of mechanisms? Does the notion of mechanism solve the problem of relevance in social sciences explanations?"--
    Abstract: Introduction /Pierre Demeulenaere --Part I.Action and Mechanisms:1.Ordinary rationality: the core of analytical sociology /Raymond Boudon;2.Indeterminacy of emotional mechanisms /Jon Elster;3.A naturalistic ontology for mechanistic explanations in the social sciences /Dan Sperber;4.Conversation as mechanism: emergence in creative groups /R. Keith Sawyer --Part II.Mechanisms and Causality:5.Generative process model building /Thomas J. Fararo;6.Singular mechanisms and Bayesian narratives /Peter Abell;7.The logic of mechanismic explanations in the social sciences /Michael Schmid;8.Social mechanisms and explanatory relevance /Petri Ylikoski;9.Causal regularities, action and explanation/Pierre Demeulenaere --Part III.Approaches to Mechanisms:10.Youth unemployment: a self-reinforcing process? /Yvonne Åberg and Peter Hedström;11.Neighborhood effects, causal mechanisms, and the social structure of the city /Robert J. Sampson;12.Social mechanisms and generative explanations : computational models with double agents /Michael W. Macy with Damon Centola, Andreas Flache, Arnout van de Rijt and Robb Willer;13.Relative deprivation in Silico: agent-based models and causality in analytical sociology /Gianluca Manzo.
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    Keywords: Maori ; Ethnologie ; Ethnohistorie ; Mündliche Literatur
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    Series Statement: Cambridge library collection. Travel and exploration
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    Keywords: Indigenes Volk ; Feldforschung ; Ethnologie ; Sierra Madre Occidental
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    ISBN: 9781846159923
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 192 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1966-1980 ; Frau ; Widerstand ; Simbabwe
    Abstract: A Zimbabwe-specific study, focusing on the lives of women in a small locale (Chiweshe) during the anti-colonial insurgency, this book is also a challenge to established and still current modes of thought and research orientations which over-simplify the complex realities women face in the full range of violent conflicts, both past and present. By contextualizing the voices of women of Chiweshe, not only is an important and under-developed aspect of Zimbabwean and African history revealed, but a new approach to comprehending the highly-tensioned lives of women in war is presented, which is characterized here as Gendered Localised Resistance. This is examined through the prism of life in the Protected Villages in Chiweshe experienced in everyday social relations, revolutionary roles, and food security. It traces how women forged strategies of survival and resistance in the middle of guerrilla warfare pitted between the forces of the state and the revolutionary resistance movements. The book can be read as a unique and richly detailed account of the lives of women during the Zimbabwe civil war and liberation struggle; as a wider argument about how researchers can approach and incorporate lived experience into accounts of larger dynamics (war/revolution); and as a substantial and important contribution to feminist historiography and writings on women and war. Eleanor O' Gorman is Senior Associate at the Gender Studies Centre and a Research Associate at the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge; an independent consultant who has advised the UN, the UK Government (DFID and FCO), the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs, the European Commission, and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
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    ISBN: 9780511976131
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 357 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge concise histories
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Kolonialismus ; Karibik ; Kuba ; Haiti
    Abstract: A Concise History of the Caribbean presents a general history of the Caribbean islands from the beginning of human settlement about seven thousand years ago to the present. It narrates processes of early human migration, the disastrous consequences of European colonization, the development of slavery and the slave trade, the extraordinary profits earned by the plantation economy, the great revolution in Haiti, movements toward political independence, the Cuban Revolution, and the diaspora of Caribbean people. Written in a lively and accessible style yet current with the most recent research, the book provides a compelling narrative of Caribbean history essential for students and visitors.
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    Amsterdam : IIAS / Amsterdam University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9789048508112
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (336 pages)
    Series Statement: IIAS publications series. Edited volumes 4
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    Keywords: Darstellende Kunst ; Musik ; Ozeanien ; Südostasien ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: 〈div〉〈p〉In Austronesia' the region that stretches from Madagascar in the west to Easter Island in the east-music plays a vital role in both the construction and expression of social and cultural identities. Yet research into the music of Austronesia has hitherto been sparse. Drawing together contemporary cultural studies and musical analysis, 〈i〉Austronesian Soundscapes〈/i〉 will fill this research gap, offering a comprehensive analysis of traditional and contemporary Austronesian music and, at the same time, investigating how music reflects the challenges that Austronesian cultures face in this age of globalization.〈/p〉〈/div〉...
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    ISBN: 9780511781360
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    Keywords: Soziobiologie ; Sozialverhalten ; Evolution ; Ökologie ; Genetik
    Abstract: Humans live in large and extensive societies and spend much of their time interacting socially. Likewise, most other animals also interact socially. Social behaviour is of constant fascination to biologists and psychologists of many disciplines, from behavioural ecology to comparative biology and sociobiology. The two major approaches used to study social behaviour involve either the mechanism of behaviour - where it has come from and how it has evolved, or the function of the behaviour studied. With guest articles from leaders in the field, theoretical foundations along with recent advances are presented to give a truly multidisciplinary overview of social behaviour, for advanced undergraduate and graduate students. Topics include aggression, communication, group living, sexual behaviour and co-operative breeding. With examples ranging from bacteria to social mammals and humans, a variety of research tools are used, including candidate gene approaches, quantitative genetics, neuro-endocrine studies, cost-benefit and phylogenetic analyses and evolutionary game theory.
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    ISBN: 9780511840357
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 530 pages)
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    Abstract: We are destroying our natural environment at a constantly increasing pace, and in so doing undermining the preconditions of our own existence. Why is this so? This book reveals that our ecologically disruptive behaviour is in fact rooted in our very nature as a species. Drawing on evolution theory, biology, anthropology, archaeology, economics, environmental science and history, this book explains the ecological predicament of humankind by placing it in the context of the first scientific theory of our species' development, taking over where Darwin left off. The theory presented is applied in detail to the whole of our seven-million-year history. Due to its comprehensiveness, and in part thanks to its extensive glossary and index, this book can function as a compact encyclopædia covering the whole development of Homo sapiens. It would also suit a variety of courses in the life and social sciences. Most importantly, Too Smart for our Own Good makes evident the very core of the paradigm to which our species must shift if it is to survive. Anyone concerned about the future of humankind should read this groundbreaking work.
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    ISBN: 9781846158100
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 205 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Grenze ; Bevölkerung ; Somalihalbinsel ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: State borders are more than barriers. They structure social, economic and political spaces and as such provide opportunities as well as obstacles for the communities straddling both sides of the border. This book deals with the conduits and opportunities of state borders in the Horn of Africa, and investigates how the people living there exploit state borders through various strategies. Using a micro level perspective, the case studies, which include the Horn and Eastern Africa, particularly the borders of Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, focus on opportunities, highlight the agency of the borderlanders, and acknowledge the permeability but consequentiality of the borders. DEREJE FEYISSA, Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany; MARKUS VIRGIL HOEHNE, Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany.
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    ISBN: 9780511763021
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 323 pages)
    Series Statement: Critical perspectives on empire
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    Keywords: Kulturkontakt ; Freundschaft ; Ozeanien ; Großbritannien
    Abstract: When Louis Antoine de Bougainville reached Tahiti in 1768, he was struck by the way in which 'All these people came crying out tayo, which means friend, and gave a thousand signs of friendship; they all asked nails and ear-rings of us.' Reading the archive of early contact in Oceania against European traditions of thinking about intimacy and exchange, Vanessa Smith illuminates the traditions and desires that led Bougainville and other European voyagers to believe that the first word they heard in the Pacific was the word for friend. Her book encompasses forty years of encounters from the arrival of the Dolphin in Tahiti in June 1767, through Cook's and Bligh's voyages, to early missionary and beachcomber settlement in the Marquesas. It unpacks both the political and emotional significances of ideas of friendship for late eighteenth-century European, and particularly British, explorations of Oceania.
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511658265 , 0511656408 , 0511654456 , 0511700415 , 0511656033 , 0511804660 , 9780511654459 , 9780511658266 , 9780511700415 , 9780511656033 , 9780511804663 , 9780511656408
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 271 pages) , illustrations
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Cultural mobility
    DDC: 306.01
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    Keywords: Culture ; Social change ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; Culture ; Social change ; Kulturwandel ; Kultur ; Mobilität ; Exil ; Kolonialismus ; Kulturkontakt ; Migration ; changement (sociologie) ; culture ; études diverses ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: "Cultural Mobility is a blueprint and a model for understanding the patterns of meaning that human societies create. Drawn from a wide range of disciplines, the essays collected here under the distinguished editorial guidance of Stephen Greenblatt share the conviction that cultures, even traditional cultures, are rarely stable or fixed. Radical mobility is not a phenomenon of the twenty-first century alone, but is a key constituent element of human life in virtually all periods. Yet academic accounts of culture tend to operate on exactly the opposite assumption and to celebrate what they imagine to be rooted or whole or undamaged. To grasp the shaping power of colonization, exile, emigration, wandering, contamination, and unexpected, random events, along with the fierce compulsions of greed, longing, and restlessness, cultural analysis needs to operate with a new set of principles. An international group of authors spells out these principles and puts them into practice"--Provided by publisher
    Abstract: Cultural mobility: an introduction / Stephen Greenblatt -- "The Wheel of Torments": mobility and redemption in Portuguese colonial India (sixteenth century) / Ines G. Županov -- Theatrical mobility / Stephen Greenblatt -- World literature beyond Goethe / Reinhard Meyer-Kalkus -- Cultural mobility between Boston and Berlin: how Germans have read and reread narratives of American slavery / Heike Paul -- Struggling for mobility: migration, tourism, and cultural authority in contemporary China / Pál Nyíri -- Performativity and mobility: Middle Eastern traditions on the move / Friederike Pannewick -- A mobility studies manifesto / Stephen Greenblatt.
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    Johannesburg : Wits University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781868149414
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 198 pages)
    DDC: 820.9968
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    Keywords: Kultur ; Südafrika
    Abstract: This original book is a much needed and far reaching exploration of post-apartheid South African life worlds. Entanglement aims to capture the contradictory mixture of innovation and inertia, of loss, violence and xenophobia as well as experimentation and desegregation, which characterises the present. The author explores the concept of entanglement in relation to readings of literature, new media forms and painting. In the process, she moves away from a persistent apartheid optic, drawing on ideas of sameness and difference, and their limits, in order to elicit ways of living and imagining that are just starting to take shape and for which we might not yet have a name. In the background of her investigations lies a preoccupation with a future-oriented politics, one that builds on largely unexplored terrains of mutuality while being attentive to a historical experience of confrontation and injury.
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    Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9789812308221
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 322 pages)
    DDC: 306.8430959
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    Keywords: Mischehe ; Südostasien ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: "This is an excellent and rare exploration of a sensitive religious issue from many perspectives legal, cultural and political. The case studies from Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand portray the important and exciting, yet very difficult, negotiation of Islamic teachings in the changing realities of Southeast Asia, home to the majority of Muslims in the world. Interreligious marriage is an important indicator of good relations between communities in religiously diverse countries. This book will also be of great interest to students and scholars of religious pluralism in a Southeast Asian context, which has not been studied adequately." -Zainal Abidin Bagir, Executive Director, Center for Religious and Cross-cultural Studies (CRCS), Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia...
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    Johannesburg : Wits University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781868146345
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 528 pages)
    DDC: 939.78
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Äthiopienbild ; Afrikabild
    Abstract: The First Ethiopians explores the images of Africa and Africans that evolved in ancient Egypt, in classical Greece and imperial Rome, in the early Mediterranean world, and in the early domains of Christianity. Inspired by curiosity regarding the origins of racism in southern Africa, Malvern van Wyk Smith consulted a wide range of sources: from rock art to classical travel writing; from the pre-Dynastic African beginnings of Egyptian and Nubian civilisations to Greek and Roman perceptions of Africa; from Khoisan cultural expressions to early Christian conceptions of Africa and its people as 'demonic'; from Aristotelian climatology to medieval cartography; and from the geo-linguistic history of Africa to the most recent revelations regarding the genome profile of the continent's peoples. His research led to a startling proposition: Western racism has its roots in Africa itself, notably in late New Kingdom Egypt, as its ruling elites sought to distance Egyptian civilisation from its African origins. Kushite Nubians, founders of Napata and Meroë who, in the eighth century BCE, furnished the black rulers of the twenty-fifth Dynasty in Egypt, adopted and adapted such Dynastic discriminations in order to differentiate their own 'superior' Meroitic civilisation from the world of 'other Ethiopians'. In due course, archaic Greeks, who began to arrive in the Nile Delta in the seventh century BCE, internalised these distinctions in terms of Homer's identification of 'two Ethiopias', an eastern and a western, to create a racialised (and racist) discourse of 'worthy' and 'savage Ethiopians'. Such conceptions would inspire virtually all subsequent Roman and early medieval thinking about Africa and Africans, and become foundational in European thought. The book concludes with a survey of the special place that Aksumite Ethiopia - later Abyssinia - has held in both European and African conceptual worlds as the site of 'worthy Ethiopia', as well as in the wider context of discourses of ethnicity and race.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511596667
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 514 pages)
    DDC: 304.25
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    Keywords: Klimaänderung ; Umweltpolitik ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Adapting to climate change is a critical problem facing humanity. This involves reconsidering our lifestyles, and is linked to our actions as individuals, societies and governments. This book presents top science and social science research on whether the world can adapt to climate change. Written by experts, both academics and practitioners, it examines the risks to ecosystems, demonstrating how values, culture and the constraining forces of governance act as barriers to action. As a review of science and a holistic assessment of adaptation options, it is essential reading for those concerned with responses to climate change, especially researchers, policymakers, practitioners, and graduate students. Significant features include historical, contemporary, and future insights into adaptation to climate change; coverage of adaptation issues from different perspectives: climate science, hydrology, engineering, ecology, economics, human geography, anthropology and political science; and contributions from leading researchers and practitioners from around the world.
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511508158 , 0511506406 , 9780511508158 , 9780511506406
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 192 pages)
    Edition: [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library 2011 Electronic reproduction
    Series Statement: Cambridge cultural social studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Nicholson, Linda J Identity before identity politics
    DDC: 305.48/896073
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    Keywords: Group identity History ; Identity politics History ; Women Identity ; History ; African Americans Race identity ; History ; Women's rights History ; Civil rights movements History ; African Americans ; Race identity ; Civil rights movements ; Group identity ; Identity politics ; Women ; Identity ; Women's rights ; Identität ; Rassische Identität ; Frauenbewegung ; Gruppenidentität ; Frau ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Women's Studies ; History ; United States ; USA ; Schwarze
    Abstract: "In the late 1960s identity politics emerged on the political landscape and challenged prevailing ideas about social justice. These politics brought forth a new attention to social identity, an attention that continues to divide people today. While previous studies have focused on the political movements of this period, they have neglected the conceptual prehistory of this political turn. Linda Nicholson's book situates this critical moment in its historical framework, analyzing the concepts and traditions of racial and gender identity that can be traced back to late eighteenth-century Europe and America. She examines how changing ideas about social identity over the last several centuries both helped and hindered successive social movements, and explores the consequences of this historical legacy for the women's and black movements of the 1960s. This study will be of particular interest to students and scholars of political history, identity politics and US history."--Jacket
    Abstract: The politics of identity : race and sex before the twentieth century -- Freud and the rise of the psychological self -- The culture concept and social identity -- Before black power : constructing an African American identity -- Women's identity/women's politics.
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